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Date Sent: 2010-03-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
Failed Banks to get Pension-Funds -- SEC Rips Gold, Pushes to End Individual Currency Traders
Congress, Ariz. school district sues taxpayers to stop questions -- U.S. Dept. of Education buying shotguns -- Nurses spend most of their time on paperwork -- Biometric ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan -- Paul B. Farrell: Collapse of the American Empire - Swift, Silent, Certain -- CAFR1 Trailer of "The Only Game in Town" -- Jesse Ventura: ‘I despise the two parties’ -- Denninger: Bank Of America To Stop Charging 31,200% Interest -- Iditarod Launches Drug Testing of Mushers -- State Tax Revenues Plummet By $87 Billion -- Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors -- Citibank exposes 600,000 customers' Social Security numbers
AZ: Breakfast Today with Officer Tony Ryan on Legalizing All Drugs; Rally at the Capitol to Oppose Immigration Law at noon today
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
FDIC is Insolvent: Failed Banks may get Pension-Fund cash
03-10-2010
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Bloomberg.com
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is trying to encourage public retirement funds that control more than $2 trillion to buy all or part of failed lenders, taking a more direct role in propping up the banking system...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
SEC Official Rips Gold: Pushing to End Individual Currency Traders, Now This
03-10-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Why do Bookstaber and Roubini want to kill gold so bad? What's up with the mixed message from Soros? Why does the CFTC head, the former Goldmanite, Gary Gensler, want to kill off futures currency trading for individuals?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
China Inflation Accelerates in February
03-10-2010
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AP
China's inflation spiked higher in February, adding to pressure on Beijing to prevent overheating and keep the recovery in the world's third-largest economy on track.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Evil Instrument of Control: Ron Paul on the New Biometric National I.D. Card
03-10-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Do you like to speak out on topics, with no malice intended against any specific group? Forget about it. You will be branded a speaker of "hate," and it will go on your card.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
New Times’ Feathered Bastard Interviews Morpheus & Vengeancia
03-10-2010
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Stephen Lemons
"Perennial Ron Paul activist "Morpheus" and fellow Ronulan Sharlene Holt were walking around with their Guy Fawkes masks on pimping a petition to end Phoenix's recently approved food tax...."
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Reported by:
Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Today begins the end of Sheriff Arpaio in Arizona
03-10-2010
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Daily Kos
"...That's rich! So Lipstick Joe and the Boyz totally thought they had destroyed all the evidence against them only to find out a 3rd party vendor had been backing all their city correspondence due to corruption in another matter.
So much corrupti
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Gun Rights
Another state to feds: Take your gun regs and stuff 'em
3/10/10
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Worldnet Daily
Local governments in massive revolt against rules ordered by Washington
Utah has become the third state to adopt a law exempting guns and ammunition made, sold and used in the state from massive federal regulations under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobac
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Congress, Ariz. school district sues taxpayers to stop questions
03/10/2010
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By Mark Flatten, Goldwater Institute
A handful of taxpayers in a small community north of Wickenburg, Arizona are being targeted by the local school district in a lawsuit that asks a judge to declare they have no right to request public records, sue the district, or complain to outside
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Social Security
SS Funding Down 5.84 Percent in 2010: 9.3 Million Fewer Contributing
03-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The raw numbers show clear acceleration of the deterioration in the Funds dynamics. They also give us some insights into the employment situation in the country. The conclusions are not good.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Kevin Spacey Film Sure to Anger Everyone
03-10-2010
Kevin Spacey seems like he was born to play Abramoff, a so-called devout Jew with a non-Jewish wife and very blonde little girls. “Casino Jack” isn’t necessarily good for the Jews but it’s not good for anyone else either, like the Christian right.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rail Traffic Declines Slightly in February
03-10-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, U.S. freight railroads originated 1,089,977 carloads in February 2010 " an average of 272,494 carloads per week. That’s down 1.5% from February 2009 (276,548 average) and down 15.6% from February 2008’s 323,047 ave
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fat Lady Sings: Feb. Deficit $220 Billion - 1 Year Projection $2.64 Trillion
03-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
What is wrong with this picture: the MTS just announced that the February budget deficit was $220.9 billion, after receipts of just $107.5 billion with vastly surpassed by outlays of $328.4 billion. This is a record.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Media: Internet
REALITY REPORT #35 - Dissent is Terrorism, Bilderberg Nazi Roots, Ron Paul on the Census, Tobin take
03-10-2010
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RestoreTheRepublic.com
Does the federal government want the ability to arrest, detain and interrogate any American based solely upon suspected activity.? What does Ron Paul want you to write on your census forms? How does the IRS plan to track online payments? Was The Bild
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Survey shows nurses spend most of their time on paperwork
03-10-2010
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Healthcare IT News
A new survey of hospital nurses found that they estimate spending one quarter of their 12-hour shift on indirect patient care, with paperwork taking up much of the rest of their time.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Census
Christopher Walken: How to complete a census
03-10-2010
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Farm Wars
This is hilarious! I watch it over and over. I think you will like it too.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Let's all take a break and head to the snow
03-10-2010
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Meetup/Donna Hancock
For those that can go, we will carpool from Freedom's Phoenix workshop, Sunday 3/14/10, 9 a.m. to Flagstaff's Wing Mountain Snowplay Area - we all just need to take a day to chill out and have some fun.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Do You Want To Know What's Going On?
03/10/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Spend 9 minutes of your life and watch this video.
Mind blowing speech by Robert Welch in 1958 predicting Insiders plans to destroy America:
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
In Your Face: Obama Can't Argue His Way Out of Tax Withholding Data
03-10-2010
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Ritholtz.com
Matt Trivisonno no stranger to these pages. He has set up a new site to do “Real-Time Tracking of the US Economy Using Withholding Tax Revenue:”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Rally at the Capitol to Oppose Immigration; Law Enforcement; Safe Neighborhoods!
03-10-2010
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Sharlene Holt
As residents of Arizona, we need to urge Governor Brewer and state legislators to veto SB1070/HB2632, sponsored by Senator Russell Pearce (R-18) and Representative David Gowan (R-30).
This bill would cost Arizona millions to train government emplo
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • New World Order
Biometric ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan
03-10-2010
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BlackListedNews.com & WSJ.com
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Buddies facing year in jail after 'hitting' off-duty transit cop - with a snowball!
03-10-2010
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nydailynews.com/news
"When I was in Central Booking, people asked me what I was locked up for, and I said a snowball," said Johnathan Rodriguez, 22. "Everyone started laughing." The NYPD doesn't think it's a joke.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Paul B. Farrell: Collapse of the American Empire - Swift, Silent, Certain
03-10-2010
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InformationClearingHouse.info
Niall Ferguson, echoes Diamond's warning: "Imperial collapse may come much more suddenly than many historians imagine. A combination of fiscal deficits and military overstretch suggests that the United States may be the next empire...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
James Howard Kunstler: Then All At Once
03-10-2010
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Kunstler.com
Everything we know about it seems to indicate that human beings happily go along with the program -- whatever the program is -- until all of a sudden they can't, and then they don't.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Ventura: ‘I despise the two parties’
03-10-2010
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FOX News
Concerned about the erosion of freedom, one might think that Ventura has a lot in common with the Tea Parties but he sees a conspiracy behind the movement because they only began protesting after Barack Obama became president.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Empire Strikes Back: Obama Propaganda Campaign at Fever Pitch
03-10-2010
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Nakedcapitalism.com/
This strategy, of relying on propaganda to mask their true intent, has become inevitable, given the strategic corner the Obama Adminstration has painted itself in. And this campaign has become increasingly desperate as the inconsistency...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Fishermen’s fear: Public's 'right to fish' shifting under Obama
03-10-2010
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news.yahoo.com
The Obama administration has proposed using United Nations-guided principles to expand a type of zoning to coastal and even some inland waters. That’s raising concerns among fishermen that their favorite fishing holes may soon be off-limits for bait-
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Pelosi: Pass the health care bill so that you can find out what is in it
03-10-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
"We have to pass the health care bill so that you can find out what is in it." That unfortunately is the sad state of affairs, not just with healthcare, but with virtually any bill passed by Congress.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Economists to Intoxicated with Being Near the Seat of Power?
03-10-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
There is no school of economics (classical, Austrian, Keynesian, etc.) that says deficits of this magnitude for a decade or longer will not result in great economic hardship or worse. Greece, here we come.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Denninger: Bank Of America To Stop Charging 31,200% Interest
03-10-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
I cannot seem to find a reasonable answer to, is why we, the people, continue to allow both a Congress and Federal Reserve to sit in control of our government and financial system when they permit and endorse actions that constitute financial rape...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Will Be Embarking On A Tightening Cycle Like No Other In Its History"
03-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com (REPAIRED LINK)
From Brian P. Sack, Executive Vice President. Recall that Brian is the de-facto head of the Fed's "markets group" operation located on the 9th Floor of Liberty 33. If there is indeed a Plunge Protection Team, Brian is likely the PM who runs it.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Foreclosure-Prevention Plan Lagging: 67 Percent Failure Rate
03-10-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Only about a third of the homeowners who have successfully completed the trial period of the Obama administration's mortgage modification program have been offered permanent relief, according to new federal data obtained by the Huffington Post.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link •
The Resistance Radio with Jason Van Gilder
03/08/2010
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www.blogtalkradio.com/vanversive
Jason goes through the 50 page cyber-security bill, John McCains codex alimentarius bill, and the new McCain/lieberman bill.
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Jason Van Gilder
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News Link • Drug War
Iditarod Launches Drug Testing of Mushers
03-10-2010
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AP
Every human competitor now running the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will be tested for alcohol and illegal drugs on the trail for the first time in the history of the 1,100-mile race " a change defending champion Lance Mackey believes is directed at
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
What are your independent news reports like? (video)
03-10-2010
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AZ Family Ch. 3 TV (BELO)
Phoenix Columnist David Leibotwitz chimes in on the Arizona state legislature and what he says they do best' --- nothing. A bit risqué for the Arizona Family Network but I like it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Calling All Rebels
03/08/2010
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By Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com
There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into p
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Chevron cutting 2,000 jobs in refining restructuring
03/09/2010
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By Steve Gelsi, MarketWatch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Chevron Corp. said Tuesday it plans to cut 2,000 jobs this year as part of an effort to realize savings in its refining operations, as the oil major signals that recent woes in the business of making gasoline and diesel fuel
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Tax Revenues Plummet By $87 Billion, Biggest Year Over Year Decline In History; Record State T
03/08/2010
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By Tyler Durden, zerohedge.com
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released a report "State Tax Changes in Response to the Recession" in which the center notes that "national recession has had such a devastating effect on state finances that states took in $87 billio
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Citibank exposes 600,000 customers' Social Security numbers
03/09/2010
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Chicago Tribune, blacklistednews.com
Ralph Remakel received a Citibank letter postmarked Feb. 16 that notified him of a recent Citibank error. It turns out he wasn't the only one.
In late January, Citibank mailed year-end tax statements to 600,000 Citi customers via the U.S. Postal
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Social Security
Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors
03/08/2010
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by Ellen E. Schultz, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo
A little"noticed law could soon result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of the elderly and disabled who owe the U.S. money from defaulted loans and other debts more than a decade old. Social Security benefits are off"limits
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Economy - International
Mongolia Micro Finance
03-10-2010
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arclein
XacBank recognized this problem and its connection with poverty. Most families spend up to 40% of their incomes, roughly a $140 per month, in the winter time on heating fuel alone. This money most often comes from cuts in nutrition and health
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Maringa Tree Seed Water Clarification
03-10-2010
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arclein
A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world.
The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can p
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare
Romney Declares Obamacare 'Makes no sense at all"
03-10-2010
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arclein
He also asserts that President Obama’s policies have extended and deepened the recession, says his healthcare reform plan “makes no sense at all,” and declares that Sarah Palin is definitely qualified to become president.
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robert klein
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