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Date Sent: 2010-02-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, February 18, 2010 |
Myth of the Iranian Nuke - by Patrick J. Buchanan -- TSA takes explosives screening to fliers
States Must Fill $1 Trillion Pension Gap -- U.S. Cracks Down on ‘Contractors’ as a Tax Dodge -- Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families -- US to compel Internet 2.0, killing off ISPs -- The Federal Reserve's Exit Strategy: Unlegislated Bailout of Fannie and Freddie -- DARPA's Mad Science? -- Now IPCC hurricane data is questioned -- Legal synthetic "fake" Marijuana slips through cracks of the drug war; popularity growing
-- Greece: What happens when a country loses it's economic sovereignty?
-- Judge Napolitano on the Basics: How The US Government is Supposed to
Work -- "Spiritual Wickedness In High Places" - by Chuck Baldwin -- Massive Shadow Inventory Of Troubled Mortgages -- Officers Won’t Face Federal Charges in Sean Bell Killing -- Nevada Tea Party Bolts the GOP and Glenn Beck -- Beck’s plan for captured Taliban leader: ‘Shoot him in the head’ -- Lone voice warns of debt threat to Fed -- CNN Has Lowest Viewer Night in 4 Years -- Drowning in Debt: What the Nation's Budget Woes Mean for You -- C.I.A or FEDS INFILTRATE WeAreChange Arizona -- CEO wears flag upside down!
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News Link • Propaganda
Myth of the Iranian Nuke
02-17-2010
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AmConMag / Patrick J. Buchanan
ISIS is saying Iran cannot make usable fuel for the nuclear power plant it is building, and Gibbs is saying Iran lacks the capability to make fuel rods for its research reactor. Which suggests Iran’s vaunted nuclear program is a busted flush.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA takes explosives screening to fliers
02-17-2010
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USA Today
WASHINGTON " Airport screeners for the first time will begin roving through airports taking chemical swabs from passengers and their bags to check for explosives, the Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: State
States Must Fill $1 Trillion Pension Gap
02-17-2010
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AP
States may be forced to reduce benefits, raise taxes or slash government services to address a $1 trillion funding shortfall in public sector retirement benefits, according to a new study that warns of even more debilitating costs if immediate action
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
U.S. Cracks Down on ‘Contractors’ as a Tax Dodge
02-17-2010
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NY Times
Federal and state officials, many facing record budget deficits, are starting to aggressively pursue companies that try to pass off regular employees as independent contractors.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
Feds allow prison phone jamming test
02-17-2010
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AP
Equipment that jams cell phones will get its first federally sanctioned test inside a prison in Maryland this week, as state officials try to show Congress how the technology can prevent inmates from using the contraband devices to commit crimes, a g
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families
02-17-2010
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AP
Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits"a "perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing," in one official's eye
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
US to compel Internet 2.0, killing off ISPs
02-17-2010
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PC Pro
The Federal Communications Commission has unveiled a plan that would require ISPs to offer minimum home transmission speeds of 100Mbits/sec to 100 million homes by a decade from now. "We couldn't afford it."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Activism
Tyranny in Mohave County, Arizona
Drew
One citizen, Mervin Fried, was arrested for "Trespassing" because he was entered the building carrying a pitchfork in protest of recent actions taken by Ron Walker, County Manager, and the Mohave County Board of Supervisors.
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News Link • Welfare: Political
Biden's Blooper
02/16/2010
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The Detroit News
Vice President Biden spoke in Saginaw, Michigan on February 16th promoting Pres. Obama's stimulus spending. He predicted America will be an economic force in the 20th Century. He has quite a crystal ball consider the 20th Century is long gone.
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Reported by:
Kenneth Rineer
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve's Exit Strategy: Unlegislated Bailout of Fannie and Freddie
02-17-2010
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Hussman funds
If one is alert, it is evident that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury have disposed of the need for Congressional approval, and have engineered a de facto bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, at public expense.
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Reported by:
Mike Dugger
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News Link • Climate Change
Now IPCC hurricane data is questioned
02-17-2010
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The UK Register
The IPCC may need to revise statements made in its report on hurricanes and global warming. A statistical analysis of the raw data shows that the claims that global hurricane activity has increased cannot be supported.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"Atlas Shrugged" 50th Anniversary Celebration Panel Discussion
02-17-2010
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last meeting in February, Phoenix Objectivists will watch a panel discussion hosted by The Atlas Society on DVD comemorating the 50th Anniversary of Ayn Rand's magnum opus "Atlas Shrugged".
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Science
DARPA's Mad Science?
02/16/2010
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NextGov.com
BioDesign eliminates the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement primarily by advanced genetic engineering and molecular biology technologies to produce the intended biological effect.
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Reported by:
Kenneth Rineer
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama is a Plant
2/16/10
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The Patriots Flag
He was here to study and learn Constitutional law, not practice it. That is evident in his 500 billing hours at the law firm. He was to find loopholes. He did just that.
Remember, we didn’t know him, but I am finding out he is very well known in
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA to start hand swabbing for explosives at airports: Will You Submit?
02-17-2010
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AtlantaJournalConstitution
Hand swabbing "will be occurring on a more frequent basis," Allen said. "The enhanced use of this will occur everywhere."
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • NeoCons
Sarah Palin says Tea Partiers "need to pick a party".
02-17-2010
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Carribou Barbie via CBS
Sarah says "...we have a two-party system, they’re going to have to pick a party and run one or the other: ‘R’ or ‘D’." Meanwhile, most of the nation still doesn't know the popular vote doesn't select the president.
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Found Zero
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News Link • Drug War
Legal synthetic "fake" Marijuana slips through cracks of the drug war; popularity growing
02-17-2010
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AP
Some industrious marijuana users have seized on an obscure but easily accessible substance that mimics the drug's effects on the brain " creating a popular trade in legal dope.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Risk? What Risk? We Don't See No Stinkin' Risk..
02-17-2010
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JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/
Is this a 'set up' to separate the public from even more of their own money, using their own money? Perhaps.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Beware July
02-17-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
If there is one month to fear this coming year, it would have to be July. The financial sector is very unstable and all hell could break loose at anytime, but July has special problems.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Greece: What happens when a country loses it's economic sovereignty?
02-17-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The council of EU finance ministers said Athens must comply with austerity demands by March 16 or lose control over its own tax and spend policies altogether. It if fails to do so, the EU will impose cuts in what would amount to economic suzerainty.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • NeoCons
Bill O'Really attacks movement directly in Palin interview.
02-17-2010
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FauxNews
Palin plays right into it. Combined with other sources we see a pattern to marginalize us. We can expect the lead-attack dogs to be mostly familiar faces: O'Reilly, Beck, Limbaugh, Geraldo, Giuliani, the regulars.
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Reported by:
Found Zero
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama to establish fiscal commission
02-17-2010
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AFP
US President Barack Obama will sign an executive order establishing a bipartisan commission to find ways to reduce the gaping US budget deficit, a White House official said.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Sarah Palin 9/11 truther controversy makes hypocrite of Glenn Beck
02-17-2010
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Aaron Dykes & Alex Jones
This Alex Jones article will go viral and help to elect state sovereignty advocate Debra Medina. The Sarah Palin/Debra Medina/Glenn Beck 9/11 "truther" controversy is exploding just days after Glenn Beck ridiculed Texas Gubernatorial hopeful Medina.
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Reported by:
Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Surveillance
Rule of Law Removes Rise Up Radio Archive & Ends Program - Alex Jones Gun Show Story Gone
02-17-2010
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alexjonesmachine.com
The main topic of their report was a protest on January 25th in Austin, TX where a local gun show had been shut down.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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Opinion • Activism
Civil court is a sham.
02-17-2010
Nick Bravo
A couple months ago I got pulled over on my electric bicycle by nine squad cars and was written a ticket for not having insurance, no registration, and no license. I go to court again on the 19th to continue the charade in which the state violates it
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Rectal Rooter Cops trial comes to closing
02-17-2010
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NY Times
Lawyers defending 3 cops accused in a brutality case sought to blunt damage done by a fellow officer who had testified that he saw Officer Kern jab a baton between the buttocks of a 24-year-old body piercer who had been smoking marijuana
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient Arabic inscription found in Jerusalem
02-17-2010
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AP
Israeli archaeologists say a 1,100-year-old Arabic inscription was found during renovations in Jerusalem. The small fragment of a marble plaque dates to the 10th century, when thy were ruled from Baghdad by the Abbassid Empire.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
James Howard Kunstler: Euroland, the Horror Movie
02-17-2010
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Kunstler.com
As all this plays out, of course, the USA will be struggling with very similar problems of capital and economy, and as our states fall into bankruptcy one can easily imagine all kinds of political mischief here that would parallel the unravelings...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Massive Shadow Inventory Of Troubled Mortgages
02-17-2010
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Ritholtz.com
Loan modifications and the observed extension of time distressed loans remained as such may simply have delayed the inevitable, creating the demonstrated shadow inventory of troubled loans.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
The Latest Opponent of Health Care Bill is--Obama's Cousin?
02-17-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Dr. Milton Wolf was moved to start blogging to highlight his opposition to ObamaCare. Dr. Wolf wouldn’t be the first physician to oppose Obama’s attempted take-over of the U.S. health care system. But he would be the first physician in Obama’s family
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Reported by:
Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Officers Won’t Face Federal Charges in Sean Bell Killing
02-17-2010
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NY Times
Federal authorities said they would not bring a civil rights case against police involved in the killing of a 23-year-old black man who was shot by the police outside a strip club on his wedding day. "Neither accident, mistake, fear, negligence, nor
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Malaria Is a Likely Killer in King Tut’s Post-Mortem
02-17-2010
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NY Times
King Tutankhamen, the boy pharaoh, was frail and lame and suffered “multiple disorders” when he died at age 19 about 1324 B.C., but the most likely agents of death: a severe bout of malaria combined with a degenerative bone condition.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners
02-17-2010
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NY Times
Early humans, possibly even prehuman ancestors, appear to have been going to sea much longer than anyone had ever suspected. On the Greek island of Crete, stone tools are at least 130,000 years old, which is considered strong evidence for the earlies
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Nevada Tea Party Bolts the GOP and Glenn Beck
02-17-2010
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by Jane Hamsher for LewRockwell.com
But why would the Tea Party split from the GOP? Well, who knows. It’s probably been in the works for a while. But last week, after libertarian gubernatorial candidate Deborah Medina polled only 4 points behind Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Glenn Beck torped
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
Dennis Gartman Says the Euro Has Had It
02-17-2010
The euro has had it, and has a long way to go before it finds a bottom. He is urging investors to short the European currency and go long Canadian and Australian dollars against it. They may resolve Greece, but not Portugal, Spain, or Italy.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
LA Area Port Traffic Down in January
02-17-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Loaded inbound traffic was down 0.7% compared to January 2009. (down 4.2% compared to last year using three month average)
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Beck’s plan for captured Taliban leader: ‘Shoot him in the head’
02-17-2010
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RawStory
"If I were in charge, we'd be interrogating him," Beck replied. "And we'd interrogate him, and interrogate him, and interrogate him and then we'd shoot him in the head. ... Shoot him in the head before we all of a sudden release him into, what? Prima
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage Purchase Applications Decline
02-17-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 2.1 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. ...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lone voice warns of debt threat to Fed
02-17-2010
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Financial Times
Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, warned on Tuesday, adding a mounting deficit could spur inflation. Mr Hoenig said that rising debt was infringing on the central bank’s ability to fulfil its goals of maintaining pr
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
CNN Has Lowest Viewer Night in 4 Years; Lowest Demo Night in Nearly 9 Years
02-17-2010
And while all the cable news channels saw reduced viewing levels due to the massive audience that flocked to NBC -- only CNN saw its audience cut in half from Thursday night in both younger viewers and Total Viewers.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Drowning in Debt: What the Nation's Budget Woes Mean for You
02-17-2010
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ABC
"It keeps me awake at night, looking at all that red ink," said President Obama in Nashua, N.H., on Feb. 2.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: State
Oklahoma Senate Approves State Grocery Tax Repeal
02-16-2010
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The New York Times
An Oklahoma State Senate Committee approved a bill that would repeal the state's tax on groceries once state tax revenues return to where they were before the economic downturn.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Economy - International
Putin Tells Greece to Relax, US Debt is Worse: Why is Putin Smiling?
02-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Love him or hate him, Putin is right. While the media's attention remains on the Greek fiscal crisis, the bigger debt crisis is in the US, and the world is starting to take notice.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
A Winter of Highland Snows
02-17-2010
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arclein
This has been a Scandinavian winter and it isn’t over yet. The last week has been below zero at night, struggling to 3 or 4C by day under a weak sun. Here in the Highlands of Scotland we may be better prepared for snow and ice than further south, but
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Saving Capitalism
02-17-2010
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arclein
Pat Chaote has published a book titled ‘Saving Capitalism’. I heartily recommend it as mandatory reading for all Americans.
This is a short history of what has gone wrong over the past decade and also why. I have already posted that the cause of
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Archeology Begins on Atlantis Site
02-17-2010
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arclein
A team of researchers from Spain's Higher Council for Scientific Study (CSIC) are examining a marshy area of Andalusian parkland to find evidence of a 3,000-year-old settlement.
They believe that Tartessos, a wealthy civilization in southern Iber
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
C.I.A or FEDS INFILTRATE WeAreChange Arizona
02-17-2010
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???
I went to the Rudy Colin Laura event only to be accused of been an undercover agent by We Are Change Arizona,. The self proclaimed celebrity journalist even fabricated a story about seen me with men in balck suits and jumping into a black sedan... IT
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shane patrick
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