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Date Sent: 2010-04-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 23, 2010 |
The Largest Food Price Spike In 26 Years -- TSA Joins NYPD in Subway Baggage Screening
Smashing the State for Fun and Profit Since 1969 - by Brock Lorber --
Forgetting Fear in Light of the Great Correction - by Bill Bonner -- L. A. Closing Down Courts Because of Budget Crisis -- American Arrested in Mexico for Carrying 150 Gold Coins; Coins Seized -- James Bovard: The Slippery Definition of Extremism -- Bile Vs. the Department of Homeland Security -- Jim Rogers: Next Recession Will Be Much Worse --Statism: The Opiate of the Frightened Masses -- Bill Black on Lehman Failure -- Marc Faber: Governments Will 'Bankrupt Us' -- South Korea Finds Cheonan Ship Sunk by North Korean Submarine Torpedo -- Is This A Self-Sustaining Recovery? No, And Here's Why
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News Link • Military
Serving the Wrong Master
04-22-2010
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Ed Howes
If the military knew whom they serve and their Oath is a fraud, how many would continue their dishonorable behavior? Who will tell them the truth?
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"Not Evil Just Wrong" Screening
04-14-2010
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last meeting in April on Thursday, the 29th, Phoenix Objectivists will host a free screening of the documentary, "Not Evil Just Wrong".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Healthcare
Obamacare: Nearly 4 Million People Could Pay Without Health Coverage
04-22-2010
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finance.yahoo.com/news/
Nearly 4 million Americans -- the vast majority of them middle class -- will have to pay a penalty if they don't get insurance when President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law kicks in, according to congressional estimates released Thursday.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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Feature Article • Motivation
Two Choices
Thomas Costanzo
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offer
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News Link • Constitution
Join the Obamacare Class Action Lawsuit
04-22-2010
JOIN THIS LAWSUIT AND HAVE THIS ATTORNEY REPRESENT YOU AGAINST OBAMACARE.
So far, 19,408 concerned Americans have joined this real Class Action Lawsuit against Obamacare.
The purpose of this lawsuit is to reverse the Supreme Court precedent th
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Reaping the Whirlwind: L. A. Closing Down Courts Because of Budget Crisis
04-22-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
If you get the sense that a storm is swirling in the not too far off distance, you are correct. You have an edge, though, the people walking by you on the sidewalks for the most part don't have a clue. Cash is going to be king for awhile and then...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Chemtrails
VERY IMPORTANT chemtrail video! Evidence of aerosol operations already taking place!
04/22/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Look at the test results the people in this vid show from self taken samples in nature. This is really, really shocking and an outrageous attempt to destroy the ecosystem, control the weather and keep us in line by poisoning our minds and bodies by t
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Activism
Musicians 4 Freedom Performs at NORML/ASU 420 Fest
04-22-2010
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Sharlene Holt, Musicians for Freedom
NORML at ASU along with Devil’s Advocate, Students for Liberty, and other groups held a rally on 4/20/10 to reform Arizona marijuana laws. The all-day event included music from Sharlene Holt of Musicians for Freedom....
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Precious Metals
American Arrested in Mexico for Carrying 150 Gold Coins; Coins Seized
04-22-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Arnold appeared visibly nervous' prompting agents to run his suitcase through a scanner, which detected several containers inside, the Mexican Public Safety Secretariat said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Free Speech
James Bovard: The Slippery Definition of Extremism
04-22-2010
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CounterPunch.org
Prior to 2002, anyone who suggested that the U.S. government create a Total Information Awareness database of personal information on tens of millions of Americans would have been considered an extremist.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Mike Whitney: The Real State of the Housing Market
04-22-2010
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CounterPunch.org
"The trouble of course is the higher end, over $400,000 where investors can't buy with all cash and the mortgage market is closed. Zelman cites a 45 month supply of homes between $400-600,000.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America's Disneyland: Our "Neo-Feudalistic, Gulag Casino Economy"
04-22-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
One of my old colleagues who is from another country described America to me with the following statement: “it’s like “Disneyland.” I never fully understood what he meant until the last couple of years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • General Opinion
George W. Bush internet freedom fighter? Are you kidding me?
04/22/2010
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vanversive.net
Well if things in this video are true, George W. Bush is now a freedom fighter against Internet tyranny. Russia today covers that are former president the one person who brought us the patriot act, the person that made torture to be the norm, the man
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Jason Van Gilder
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Goldman Sachs Fraud Roundup; The Story Has Just Begun
04-22-2010
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Mish Shedlock
It is already way to late to prevent a massive derivatives blowup of some sort. The only question is when that blowup happens. It could be next month or years from now.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Blackburn says nix to EPA pix
04-22-2010
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The Tennesseean
Rep. Marsha Blackburn has sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking that the Environmental Protection Agency drop a contest for citizens to produce a short video extolling the value of the federal rule making process.
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Daniel Lewis
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News Link • Homeland Security
Bile Vs. the Department of Homeland Security
04-22-2010
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Serf City
Manhattan Libertarian activist Antonio Musumeci, better known to the teeming masses by his nom de intertubes Bile, filed a lawsuit today challenging a government regulation that unconstitutionally restricts photography on federal property, including
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
75% of Americans still blame Bush for the economy, but…
04-22-2010
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RawStory.com
The poll shows a "significant uptick" since last July in the percentage of Americans blaming Obama at least a moderate amount (from 32% to 50%), but a decrease, however slight, for George W. Bush (from 80% to 75%).
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Running Scared: Ariz. immigration debate pressures McCain
04-22-2010
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap
Republican Sen. John McCain, who once championed a path to citizenship for the nation's roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants, is now pushing for a crackdown on illegals amid the toughest re-election fight of his career.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government
Trust In Government: NPR series explores root causes of the growing distrust of American government
04-18-2010
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Ron Elving, NPR
The Pew Research Center has released a poll on trust in government, finding, to no one's surprise, that there is precious little of it. Pew found distrust and dislike of government to be as high as at any time since pollsters began posing similar que
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
South Park episode censored after Muslim group’s warning
04-22-2010
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RawStory
At the South Park Studios website, a message was posted that notes, "After we delivered the show, and prior to broadcast, Comedy Central placed numerous additional audio bleeps throughout the episode. We do not have network approval to stream our ori
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government Waste
Obama and Biden to Celebrate Earth Day by Tying Up New York Air Traffic
04-22-2010
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NYCAviation
On a day when many Americans will be reflecting upon how they can reduce their impact on the environment, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will board separate jets in Washington on Earth Day morning to fly 250 miles up the east coa
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
When Life Flashes Before Your Eyes: A 15-Story Drop to Study the Brain's Internal Timewarp
04-22-2010
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PopSci.com
Why does time seem to slow down during a life-threatening situation? Our reporter falls 15 stories to find out
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Leonard Nimoy Hangs Up His Spock Ears
04-22-2010
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Space.com
Leonard Nimoy, the actor who has famously portrayed "Star Trek's" original alien Spock for over 40 years, has announced he's officially hanging up the pointy Vulcan ears for good.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Are Offshore Banks Safe from Hackers?
04-22-2010
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Technology Review
Offshore banks might be tax havens, but they're no havens in terms of network security, according to Andrew Hay, a security professional who worked in the offshore banking industry for some time.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Rogers: Next Recession Will Be Much Worse
04-22-2010
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Lew Rockwell
Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives his analysis on currency markets, inflation, and commodities, and provides solutions to the economic problems in the US.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Political Theory
Statism: The Opiate of the Frightened Masses
04-22-2010
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Lew Rockwell
Years of indoctrination in public schools tend to shape a person into a non-thinking, state-worshiping, sponge who absorbs "news" and information from the mainstream media and mistakes it for knowledge.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics
In Defense of Sedition
04-22-2010
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Lew Rockwell
Sedition, Joe Klein informed us (reading off of a napkin), is a threat to "the authority of the state." But the key question is: authority to do what?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hidden In The PPI Data Was The Largest Food Price Spike In 26 Years
04-22-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The big story in the March PPI was wholesale food prices, which rose 2.4%, matching the biggest gain in 26 years. Prices of fresh and dried vegetables soared 49.3%, the most in 16 years.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Goldman Sachs vs. SEC: 'Vampire squid' or 'doing God's work'?
04-22-2010
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ChristianScienceMonitor.com
Is Goldman Sachs a breeding ground for speculative booms and busts that have harmed America, as critics assert? Or does the work of Goldman Sachs create a vital foundation for economic growth?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bill Black on Lehman Failure: We Need to Be Blunt
04-22-2010
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Daily Paul
Bill Black's eye-popping opening statement at House Financial Services hearing on Lehman Bros. failure.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA Joins NYPD in Subway Baggage Screening
04-22-2010
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dnainfo.com
The Administration has nicknamed the teams, which randomly screen passengers' bags using chemical swabs, "VIPR"s (pronounced viper): Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Art
Light Up LED Sheep Art
03-16-2009
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Youtube
Live art using sheep with LED harnesses
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G Cone
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News Link • Food
Hope Springs Eternal: Simple Ways to Sustain the Bees
04-22-2010
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SMCC
Are honey bees the canary in the coal mine? What are honey bees trying to tell us that we humans should be paying more attention to?”
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Corruption
The Fake Food Safety bills: Feeding America poison one law at a time
04-22-2010
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Marti Oakley
If you do not like what is happening to agriculture in your state you have only your state officials to blame; they entered into the contracts with the USDA and FDA and took bribe money to do it.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Marc Faber: Governments Will 'Bankrupt Us'
04-22-2010
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CNBC.com
"What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', (is that) they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is This A Self-Sustaining Recovery? No, And Here's Why
04-22-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
However, outstanding consumer credit in the US contracted another $11.5 billion in February, marking the twelfth decline in 13 months and demonstrating that the household sector is still undertaking balance sheet adjustments.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
South Korea Finds Cheonan Ship Sunk by North Korean Submarine Torpedo
04-22-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
If Seoul is overtly accusing North Korea, it can only mean that South Korea will demand direct or indirect retaliation against the North as its government has already come out looking like both incompetent and cowardly.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
OK Corral Documents Discovered in Cochise County Court Storeroom
04-22-2010
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news.bbc.co.uk
The yellowed pages, said to be as brittle as potato crisps, were discovered in a manila envelope by court staff assigned to clean out a storage room at Cochise County superior court in Bisbee, Arizona...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Photo Collection from Iceland
04-22-2010
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arclein
Go to this site for some great images.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
NASA Spectacular Images From Sun
04-22-2010
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arclein
http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2010/04/21/aia_cme_closeup_20100408-H0200-H0500_304-171.mp4
http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2010/04/21/hmi_magnetogram.mp4
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
LED Lighting
04-22-2010
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arclein
The answer was within the next year or two. But today GE announced that they'll have an LED bulb replacement using Cree's LEDs available by the end of 2010. Now, let's be clear, this joint project from Cree and GE isn't as bright or as technologi
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Tree Ring Release
04-22-2010
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arclein
In a landmark ruling, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office has ruled that Queen’s University Belfast must hand over data obtained during 40 years of research into 7,000 years of Irish tree rings to a City banker and part-time climate analyst, Dou
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Muslim Bloodlust
04-22-2010
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arclein
In Chapter 3, “How Terrorism Really Works,” I use the Stockholm syndrome to explain the inexplicable level of weakness and appeasement we continually see in the West toward Islam " for instance, in our disastrous failure to stop Nidal Malik Hasan be
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Movement to Publicly Owned Banks
04-22-2010
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arclein
Michigan, which has an unemployment rate of 14 percent, has been particularly hard hit by the economic downturn. Virg Bernero, mayor of Lansing, the state’s capital, and a leading Democratic candidate for governor, proposes to relieve the state’s eco
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robert klein
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