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Date Sent: 2010-04-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, April 19, 2010 |
US Troops See ‘Expanded Role’ in Pakistan -- France Is Next Up For A Sovereign Shakedown
DOJ abandons warrantless attempt to read Yahoo e-mail -- Goldman Sachs
finds $5bn for pay and bonuses amid fraud investigation -- US military warns oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 2015 -- Schools shot thousands of webcam images of students -- Powerful Video: Ron Paul at CPAC -- California Unemployment Hasn't Peaked Yet: 100,000 Lose Benefits in Days -- Airline carry-on fee: Where’s the free-market spirit? -- Richard I. Fine's Judicial Lynching - by Stephen Lendman -- Barry Ritholtz and William Black on the Goldman Sachs Fraud -- State Tax Revenues Likely Decline Record 6th Straight Quarter -- WaMu's Gruesome Autopsy -- Viacom's Legal Attack on YouTube Threatens Online Speech and Innovation -- Geithner Says China ‘Effectively Lets’ U.S. Set Interest Rates -- WA State Legislature Would Require Sex Offenders to be RFID Chipped -- WikiLeaks plans to post video showing US massacre of Afghani civilians -- Cops drop ‘corrupting youth’ charge against war protester’s mom
AZ: Last Chance to Stop National ID in Arizona. Monday 4/19. This is it! Take action now.
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News Link • Economy - International
If CDS Traders Are Right, France Is Next Up For A Sovereign Shakedown
04-18-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
France, with $781 billion in total claims. Should Greece topple the PIIGS dominoes, France will implode. And this is precisely what CDS traders are betting on now, taking advantage of absurdly tight France CDS levels.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
Climategate: A scandal that won't go away
04-18-2010
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The U.K. Telegraph
Of 18,531 references cited in the IPCC's 2007 report, nearly a thirdâ€"5,587â€"were not to peer-reviewed papers, but were actually newspaper articles, student theses, even propaganda leaflets and press releases from green activists and lobby groups.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Tea Party
'Tea parties' more wacky mavericks than extremist threat
04-18-2010
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The Washington Post
A liberal Washington Post columnist attends a DC Tea Party, but finds NO racism or violent tendencies.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Environment
Al Gore takes cash from chemical firm
04-18-2010
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The U.K. Independent
Al Gore has angered environmentalists after it was revealed his environmental group has taken money from Dow Chemical who was involved in the aftermath of one of the world's worst pollution disasters.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Silk brain implant could aid spinal injuries, epilepsy
04-18-2010
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Reuters
A brain implant made partly of silk can melt onto the surface of the brain, providing an "intimate" connection for recording signals. Such devices might help people with epilepsy, spinal cord injuries and even help operate artificial arms and legs,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Priest-Off
04-18-2010
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youtube (h/t Tyger)
Very politically offensive from National Banana.com ... The sexual abuse of children by ordained clergy can now be easily combated by using this simple spray repellent.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Goldman Sachs finds $5bn for pay and bonuses amid fraud investigation
04-18-2010
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UK Guardian
Goldman Sachs is expected to earmark about $5B for staff pay and bonuses this week, days after being accused of securities fraud by the US regulators, fueling the controversy over bankers' rewards in the teeth of the financial crisis.
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Reported by:
Trouser Chili
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News Link • Energy
US military warns oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 2015
04-18-2010
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UK Guardian
[and who do you think will get priority on the remaining oil?] The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with significant political impact.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Surveillance
Schools shot thousands of webcam images of students
04-18-2010
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CNN
School administrators at a suburban Philadelphia school district wrongly captured thousands of images of students using school-issued laptop computer cameras, according to a motion filed in a lawsuit involving one of those students.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Surveillance
DOJ abandons warrantless attempt to read Yahoo e-mail
04-18-2010
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CNET
[Did you even know this was happening?] The U.S. Justice Department has abruptly abandoned what had become a high-profile court fight to read Yahoo users' e-mail messages without obtaining a search warrant first.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Chemtrails
Chemtrails Raining Down on Farm Wars
04-18-2010
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Speak Truth 2 Power
If you have any doubts about the reality of chemtrails, take a look at these pictures. I snapped them outside my door. Look at the progression. The sky is now grey soup, and it was clear.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Common Plant Vector Injects Genes into Human Cells â€" A GMO Nightmare!
04-18-2010
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Farm Wars
A paper published earlier this year reports that T-DNA can be transferred to the chromosomes of human cancer cells.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Activism
Evan Nappen's "Get Out Of Jail Free Card"
04-17-2010
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www.LCLReport.com
We interview attorney Evan Nappen about how to handle police encounters and about his Magic Card. We as see a real life example in action.
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Conspiracies
"The CIA Recruited Obama"
04/18/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
CIA Columbia Obama Coverup. There is a trial scheduled for 5/14/10
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Volcanic Ash the H1N1 of European Air Travel
04-18-2010
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NY Times
Air Berlin Chief Executive Joachim Hunold declared himself ''amazed'' that the results of the German airlines' flights ''did not have any influence whatsoever on the decisions taken by the aviation safety authorities.''
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Powerful Video: Ron Paul at CPAC
04-17-2010
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Youtube
This was posted on DailyPaul. This is a very powerful video. If you love liberty this will give you hope and probably make you cry.
"There's a disconnect... the next generation feel like the burden is being dumped on their shoulders and I thin
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G Cone
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News Link • Currencies
Is your nickel worth more as scrap? Will the Treasury change its composition?
04-18-2010
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www.numismaster.com
The Treasury is still fishing for blanket authority to change compositions rather than asking the Congress to authorize a specific replacement composition as used to be done.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. households falls by 1.2 million between 2005 and 2008
04-18-2010
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MarketWatch.com/
More young people are living with their parents instead of moving out, postponing the creation of their own households. Meanwhile, more families are combining households for economic reasons, including the loss of a home due to foreclosure...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California Unemployment Hasn't Peaked Yet: 100,000 Lose Benefits in Days
04-18-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The Employment Development Department estimates that about 100,000 Californians will have exhausted their benefits by this weekend.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Iceland Volcano Eruption Forces Cancellation of 77% of Europe Flights
04-18-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Katla might only need a nudge. Effects of Katla's eruption would put the present air travel chaos in the shade, inflicting much greater economic losses upon Europe.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Racism
Cookbook pulped over 'ground black people' typo
04-18-2010
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AP
An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with "salt and freshly ground black people." [ah, those spell checkers...ouch!]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airline carry-on fee: Where’s the free-market spirit?
04-18-2010
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boston.com / Jeff Jacoby
Washington does not “have an obligation’’ to second-guess the fees charged by Spirit or any other private business. Absent evidence of fraud, theft, or coercion, airlines should be able to charge what they think the market will bear, free of governme
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Martial Law
Geneva Conventions Redefined â€" Part 4: Propaganda and Obfuscation
04-17-2010
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Lt. Eric Shine
The Coast Guard now owns and controls the National Driver Registry
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Israel's Declining Sperm Quality Tied to Depleted Uranium Exposure
04-17-2010
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Afterdowningstreet.org/
Israel's population is facing a dire threat: a drastic depopulation, from the use of weapons that leave behind Depleted Uranium (DU). Depleted Uranium leads to the word Omnicidal, as DU kills everything in the food chain, everywhere the wind blows.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Video: Barry Ritholtz and William Black on the Goldman Sachs Fraud
04-17-2010
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Ritholtz.com
This is a very good presentation of the facts and the level of criminality involved in the case against Goldman Sachs.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Tax Revenues Likely Decline Record 6th Straight Quarter
04-17-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
States’ personal income-tax revenue fell 7.1 percent in January and February from the same period in 2009, and there is a risk the slide will extend into this quarter...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Demographics 101: Impact of Changes in Household Size
04-17-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
During the '70s, the baby boomers started moving out of their parents' homes, and there was a dramatic decrease in the number of persons per household. And that lead to a huge demand for apartments (the surge in total starts).
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
FX Concepts' John Taylor Is The New Dr. Doom: "2011 Will Be Worse Than 2008"
04-17-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
This decline after the August peak should be far more serious and we believe it will be the start of a major market rout continuing into the middle of 2011, at a minimum. The deflationary recession that will accompany this market collapse...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Video: Strong is Wrong by Joni Mitchell
04-17-2010
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YouTube.com
This is a video based on the song "Strong is Wrong" from Joni Mitchell's 2007 CD "Shine". A video by Jack Gregson.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Common Myths About Constitutional Carry in Arizona
05/17/10
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AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
It’s almost as bad as the lies told about blacks during the civil rights era of the 1960s. Almost...
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Fredy Riehl
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
WaMu's Gruesome Autopsy
04-17-2010
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Mother Jones
The beginning of the end, as the Senate's investigation suggests, came in 1999, when WaMu snapped up a subprime lender named Long Beach Mortgage Company.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
Viacom's Legal Attack on YouTube Threatens Online Speech and Innovation
04-17-2010
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Viacom and a variety of class action plaintiffs are suing YouTube, claiming that the online video service is liable for copyright infringements committed by its users.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Twitter Ads Test Billion-Dollar Valuation
04-17-2010
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Wired
Twitter, the net’s largest micro-publishing service, launched an advertising service Tuesday that will let advertisers â€" beginning with some of the world’s top brands such as Starbucks â€" have their tweets show up in the top of search results. It’s a
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Communications
Deliver the Perfect Presentation
04-17-2010
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Wired
A perfect presentation can be a powerful event, inspiring an audience to take action or change their way of thinking. The reverse is also true: a weak presentation can result in apathy, boredom, or a lost business opportunity.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Dennis Hong: My seven species of robot
04-17-2010
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TED
At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots -- like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
Geithner Says China ‘Effectively Lets’ U.S. Set Interest Rates
04-17-2010
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Bloomberg
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said China is likely to move toward a more flexible currency because its practice of pegging the yuan to the dollar limits the Asian nation’s ability to conduct monetary policy.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
WikiLeaks plans to post video showing US massacre of Afghani civilians
04-17-2010
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RawStory.com
The clip will show previously classified footage from US warplanes that had been tapped to bomb Taliban positions in Farah province, Afghanistan last year.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Cops drop ‘corrupting youth’ charge against war protester’s mom
04-17-2010
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RawStory.com
Police in Des Moines, Iowa, may have been trying to "scare" the peace movement when they ticketed the mother of an adolescent anti-war protester for corrupting her daughter, a law professor says.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • New World Order
Invisible Empire Special: A Call To Action
04-17-2010
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PrisonPlanet.com
This is a film for the everyman â€" crafted to slap average Americans out of their slumber and tear them away from the mundane concerns of their football team and their brainwashed default position of thinking their lives are meaningless and they can h
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
High School Inventors Design for the Future: 2010 Conrad Awards Winners
04-17-2010
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PopSci.com
This past weekend, high school students from all over the country gathered at California's NASA Ames Research Center to meet their brilliant peers, present their groundbreaking research -- and chat with interested venture capitalists on the side.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
British Scientists Create First-Ever Room-Temperature Magnetic Monopole
04-17-2010
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PopSci.com
Late last year, English scientists created the first real-world instance of spin ice, a long-hypothesized type of crystal that can behave as a magnet with only one pole.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Togolese Student Builds Humanoid Robot From Old TV Parts
04-17-2010
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PopSci.com
For Sam Todo, a student in the Togolese Republic in Africa, robotics is a way to put the outdated technology found in the garbage to new, innovative uses. In this video, Todo displays a humanoid robot he created almost entirely from discarded TV part
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
China's Internet Paradox
04-17-2010
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Technology Review
Will China's Web, like its larger economy, comfortably combine extraordinary growth with government repression?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
LewRockwell.com Today - April 17th 2010
04-17-2010
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LewRockwell.com
Ron Paul Can Be President - Austrian Economics Rising - The Next Supervolcano - Health Dangers Lurk in Everyday Products
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
NBC Reporter To Black Man At Tea Party: "Have You Ever Felt Uncomfortable?"
04-17-2010
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www.realclearpolitics.com
NBC News reporter Kelly O'Donnell questions a black man at the DC tax day tea party. "Have you ever felt uncomfortable?" He answered "No. These are my People,... Americans".
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tent City Residents Get A Reprieve
04-17-2010
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CBS3.com
Homeless people who built a community of campground tents just a few blocks from downtown Camden got a reprieve Thursday, allowing them to remain, at least for now, at the self-governing settlement in one of the nation's poorest cities.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Arizona to allow concealed weapons without permit
04-17-2010
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news.yahoo.com
PHOENIX â€" Favoring the constitutional right to bear arms over others' concerns about gun safety, Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill making Arizona the third state allowing people to carry a concealed weapon without requiring a permit.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Europe extends flight bans as ash cloud spreads
04-17-2010
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sg.news.yahoo.com
France decided to shut the three airports in the Paris area and others in the north of the country until 8:00 am (0600 GMT) on Monday due to the ash cloud that has caused the biggest airspace shutdown since World War II.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Liberty Activist Round-Up? Cops draw guns and enter house!
04-16-2010
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www.LCLReport.com
In the last 36 hours 3 well known Liberty activists were rounded up at their work and homes. Russel Kanning, Jim Johnson and Mike Tiner have all been rounded up and arrested. See the NEW footage of their arrests as well as their "crimes" . Peaceful
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Energy
Climate Scam of the Week
04-17-2010
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wendymcelroy.com
After press reports, it was established during inspections that several solar power plants were generating current and feeding it into the net at night. To simulate a larger installation capacity, the operators connected diesel generators.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Foreign Policy
The Rape of the Afghan Boys
04-17-2010
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AntiWar.com / Kelley B. Vlahos
Take a long look at the boys shackled in the prisons, the orphans in the streets, the blank resignation of the victims of rape â€" they will no doubt be history’s next mujahedin, and they will be coming for the devil’s consorts.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Police State
Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive -- ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to f
04-17-2010
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http://twitter.com/librarycongress/status/12169442
Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive -- ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US awards Dubai firm $2.2 bln contract - to provide food and support services to the U.S. military
04-17-2010
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Reuters
The U.S. government awarded Dubai-based ANHAM FZCO, Llc a $2.2 billion contract to provide food and support services to the U.S. military in Kuwait, Iraq and Jordan, the company said on Friday.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Afghan police-training deal faces troubles
04-16-2010
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Jessica Binsch - Medill News Service
. . .the U.S. has already spent more than $6 billion and is about to authorize more money, the Afghan police still face many of the same problems. Those include lack of leadership, low pay, corruption, insufficient training and a low retention rate.
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