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Date Sent: 2010-05-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, May 1, 2010 |
Dems' immigration proposal creates national ID card, 'fingerprints every worker'
'Papers Please' to debate S.B. 1070 this Sunday -- Treasury Redeems A Gargantuan $643 Billion In Treasuries In April -- US Deficit Spending and Why Governments CAN Go Broke - by Bill Bonner -- Auto bill would require black boxes
-- Cop in famed cyclist-shoving incident acquitted of assault -- Leaked
memo details ICE media strategy to counter citizen activist groups -- After reporter's subpoena, critics call Obama's leak-plugging efforts Bush-like -- Obama Will Be Sending SWAT Teams To Oil Rigs -- House approves bill that could move Puerto Rico to statehood -- Arizona Has It Right - by Chuck Baldwin -- Fake Antivirus Software is 'Growing Threat' to Computer Users, Warns Google
-- $2 Trillion In 3 Year Funding Needs By the PIIGS -- Gold hits 2010
high as debt concerns linger -- Vietnam celebrates 35th anniversary of
war's end -- Afghans protest after U.S. military kills
parliamentarian's kin -- 20 Things You Will Need To Survive When The Economy Collapses --
Docs: Reagan admin 'hyped Soviet failures into threats' -- Abu Ghraib
Victims Ask Supreme Court to Hear Case Against Contractors
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this morning! See you there.; Phoenix Worldwide Marijuana March this evening
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News Link • Police State
Dems’ immigration proposal creates national ID card, ‘fingerprints every worker’
04-30-2010
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Rawstory
Civil liberties groups and even some die-hard supporters of the Democratic Party are raising the alarm over the Democrats' proposed immigration overhaul, which would see the creation of a national biometric ID card.
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club Today
Powell Gammill
Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday with LP Founder David Nolan, Barry Hess, Nick Coons who are running for office against John McCain, Jan Brewer and Harry Mitchell respectively. Hosted by FreedomsPhoenix' Powell Gammill and Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Pastor Anderson's Checkpoint Taser/Beating Trial (VIDEO)
04-30-2010
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YouTube
3 Segments of Marc J Victor in action. Pastor Anderson's Case was dismissed "With Prejudice" (can't refile),... but the state is still trying to challenge 'the dismissal' :)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Immigration
Illegal Means Illegal in Arizona Now
04-30-2010
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The Atlas Society
From his perch in Guatemala, the country of origin of many of America's illegals, William Thomas, The Atlas Society's director of programs, parses the immigration problem, which has caused such passionate divisions in the United States.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
'Papers Please' to debate S.B. 1070 this Sunday on KTAR
04-30-2010
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Papers Please
We’ll be on the Jay Lawrence Show on KTAR (92.3 FM) in Phoenix this Sunday, May 2nd, from 7-8 p.m. Arizona time (7-8 p.m. PDT, 4-5 p.m. EDT) to discuss and take calls on the new Arizona “immigration enforcement” law, S.B. 1070, and its implications f
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Immigration
The Believe System: Democrats Slip National ID Card Into Immigration Bill
04-30-2010
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thehill.com/
The national ID program would be titled the Believe System, an acronym for Biometric Enrollment, Locally stored Information and Electronic Verification of Employment.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Free State protest ties up police
04-30-2010
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Keene Sentinel
On most evenings, Keene police officers would have handled the accident, which resulted in minor injuries. But they were busy processing a dozen people who were accused of trespassing at the new Cheshire County jail in Keene.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Founding Fathers Not All Glenn Beck Made Them Out To Be!
4-30-2010
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Cracked.com / Lola C.
The good non-political people at Cracked.com put together an article several months ago but it deserves to be revisited. If you feel like this article is biased then think about why you feel that way.
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Concerned Patriot
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gerald Celente on Global Trends - Interview by Bill Meyer
04-30-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
"Median household income is below 1999 levels. What kind of imbecile is out there saying we have to raise taxes to keep things going more?"
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank Failure Friday: #58 to #63 Fall Into the Trembling Hands of the FDIC
04-30-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $11.4 million. ... BC National Banks is the 63rd FDIC-insured institution to fail in the nation this year, and the third in Missouri.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Treasury Redeems A Gargantuan $643 Billion In Treasuries In April
04-30-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Should the Treasury be unable to keep issuing shorter and shorter dated debt (and it already is skirting away from even the belly of the curve), it is for all intents and purposes game over.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
My interview with a constitutional candidate
april 30, 2010
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ME
When I moved up to Colorado I was not impressed with the political candidates from the Republican party. The same old War mongering, imperialists ideology along with a disdain for civil liberties.
I was involved in the Republican party trying to ch
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Reported by:
Steve Freedom
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama, Vera Baker: Enquirer Uncorks Presidential Cheating Scandal
04-30-2010
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Mondo Frazier
The National Enquirer unloads its latest scandal: this one involves an overnighter between President Barack Obama and his former fundraiser/aide, Vera Baker.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The American Family's Financial Turmoil
04-30-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
This awesome chart/picture hybrid from VisualEconomics.com explains the underlying problems with American families and finance.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Auto bill draft would require black boxes, allow NHTSA to issue quick recalls
04-30-2010
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Washington Post
All new cars would have to be equipped with "black boxes" that record performance data and federal safety regulators would be granted the authority to order immediate recalls under newly proposed auto-safety legislation being considered by Congress.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
GM Alfalfa vs World Health " Update and Judicial Pep Talk!
04-30-2010
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Farm Wars
As we approach what will be a landmark decision for those of us in an agricultural belt whose main crop is alfalfa, I offer this one plea on behalf of reason, before the final verdict is in.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop in famed cyclist-shoving incident acquitted of assault
04-30-2010
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Rawstory
A police officer who became famous worldwide after a YouTube video showed him shoving a cyclist off his bike seemingly without provocation has been acquitted of assault. But Patrick Pogan, formerly of the New York Police Department, was found guilty
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Leaked memo details ICE media strategy to counter citizen activist groups
04-30-2010
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Rawstory
Call this a crash course in how federal agencies use the press to advance their own advocacy. A memo leaked from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is has immigration reform activist groups up in arms, calling the government's
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
After reporter's subpoena, critics call Obama's leak-plugging efforts Bush-like
04-30-2010
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Washington Post
The Justice Department's decision to subpoena a New York Times reporter this week has convinced some press advocates that President Obama's team is pursuing leaks with the same fervor as the Bush administration.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Not politics just food.
4-30-2010
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Cracked.com / Daniel O'Brien
Cracked.com brings us useful information from history to modern technology and delivers it in a humorous way.
Take some notes Oyate.
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Concerned Patriot
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News Link • Humor
New Disease Alert: Gonorrhea Lectim Treatment Available
04-30-2010
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RidesAPaleHorse
The CDC has issued an alert for a new strain of an old problem: The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim. (”Gonna re-elect ‘em”) The disease has infected large parts of the country, particularly urban areas. Thankfully, there effective treatment availa
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Events: Arizona
PHX Worldwide Marijuana March: Sat. May 1st 2010
04-30-2010
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WE MARCH THIS SATURDAY at 6:00pm on the 4 corners of Indian School Rd. & 7th St. Candlelight Vigil from 7:00-9:00pm.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Announces He Will Be Sending SWAT Teams To Oil Rigs (video)
04-30-2010
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Real Clear Politics
PRESIDENT OBAMA: "Earlier today, DHS Secretary Napolitano announced that this incident is of national significance and the Department of Interior has announced that they will be sending SWAT teams to the Gulf to inspect all platforms and rigs...."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • States' Rights
Bitter debate ensues as House approves bill that could move Puerto Rico to statehood
04/29/2010
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nydailynews.com
This article states that PR has 4 mil people. If they join the union, they will have reps in the HOR. For comparison, Kentucky has 4.3 mil people and 6 HOR reps. If PR decides for statehood, where will the HOR seats come from... we are mandated to re
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Nick Barnett
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News Link • Housing
American Idle: Home buyers spend more time researching vacations than mortgages
04-30-2010
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thetruthaboutmortgage.com/
That compares to two hours for a television, four hours for a computer, and 10 hours for a car, according to a new survey from Zillow, which offers mortgage rate shopping via its Mortgage Marketplace platform.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
More Than a Million in U.S. May Lose Jobless Benefits
04-30-2010
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Bloomberg.com
They are quietly drawing the line at 99 weeks of aid, a mark that hundreds of thousands of Americans have already reached. In coming months, the number of those who will receive their final government check is projected to top 1 million.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Fake Antivirus Software is 'Growing Threat' to Computer Users, Warns Google
04-30-2010
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telegraph.co.uk via Rense.com
Millions of computer users are being duped in to installing software they think will protect them online but actually leaves their computer vulnerable to hackers
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Housing
Morgan Stanley: Strategic Mortgage Defaults Reach 12%
04-30-2010
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Nakedcapitalism.com/
“There’s another big leg down,” he said. “You can’t have much of a rally when you’ve got this big overhang.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
1st Quarter GDP: Funhouse Mirrors in Propaganda Land
04-30-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
I don't like it folks. All the claims of "economic recovery" are in fact claims of "government is propping up 10% of final demand, and that propping up is disappearing into a black hole."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Slaughterhouse Five: $2 Trillion In 3 Year Funding Needs By the PIIGS
04-30-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
In case you missed it, the top two countries on the hook to fund the World bailout are the US and Japan, the two countries caught in the greatest deflationary throes since the great depression. Coincidence, or willful dollar(yen)slaughter: you decide
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Vietnam celebrates 35th anniversary of war's end
04-30-2010
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AP
Vietnam marked the 35th anniversary of the Communist victory in the Vietnam War with a grand military parade through the former Saigon, with the government basking more in its economic achievements than its historic military defeat of the United Stat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Gold hits 2010 high as debt concerns linger
04-30-2010
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Reuters
Gold hit a 2010 high above $1,180 an ounce in Europe on Friday, fueled by euro strength and investors continuing to embrace the metal's safe-haven properties on unease over euro zone sovereign debt levels.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghans protest after U.S. military kills parliamentarian's kin
04-30-2010
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McClatchy News
Irate demonstrators burned tires and blocked traffic in eastern Afghanistan after US-led forces killed an armed relative of an Afghan lawmaker during a night raid on her home. The confrontation was another setback for the American-led military coalit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
United, Continental Airlines merging
04-30-2010
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Reuters
UAL Corp's (UAUA.O) United Airlines and Continental Airlines Inc (CAL.N) are expected to announce that they are merging to form the world's largest airline on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
20 Things You Will Need To Survive When The Economy Collapses
04-30-2010
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BlackListedNews.com
Today, millions of Americans say that they believe that the United States is on the verge of a major economic collapse and will soon be entering another Great Depression. But only a small percentage of those same people are prepared...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hello, The Gulf Oil Spill Is Obama's Katrina
04-30-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
It's been argued that Hurricane Katrina was one of George W. Bush's biggest organizational failures, for the tragedy was allowed to fester on for way too long before his much-vaunted homeland security apparatus sprang into action.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • The Cold War
Reagan admin ‘hyped Soviet failures into threats,’ documents show
04-30-2010
In its efforts to keep Congress funding huge military budgets in the 1980s, the Reagan administration exaggerated the threat from the Soviet Union's military projects, newly published documents show. [The same for "terrorism" today? Nah.]
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Michael Krieger - This Is The Last Dance
04-30-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The really scary thing for me as an American is that the longer this goes on and the more empty cities and malls the Chinese create the greater their incentive and need to collapse the United States becomes.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Torture
Abu Ghraib Victims Ask Supreme Court to Hear Case Against Contractors CACI and L-3 (formerly TITAN)
04-27-2010
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press@ccrjustice.org
CCR asked the Supreme Court to take up the case against CACI and L-3 Services (formerly Titan), two corporations whose employees participated in the infamous torture of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science
Greece Sized Mat of Microbes
04-30-2010
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arclein
This genetic data has revealed that there might be as many as 100 times more microbe genera than researchers had assumed. One study conducted in the English Channel landed 7,000 new genera alone. Current estimates place the number of marine microbial
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Massive South Atlantic Current Discovered
04-30-2010
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arclein
"The current carries dense, oxygen-rich water that sinks near Antarctica to the deep ocean basins further north," says co-author Dr Steve Rintoul from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC and CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans Flagship.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Cattail Update
04-30-2010
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arclein
Water does not percolate into the ground water which is 100 feet below. The effluent is absorbed into the land and the plants take up the nitrogen as natural fertilizer.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Iowa Wind Turbines
04-30-2010
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arclein
Iowa now has over 25,000 wind turbines and doubled its proportion of wind-generated electricity from 7% to 14% in 2009, the biggest jump in the U.S. Estimates put the current 2010 percentage of Iowa's electricity coming from wind above 17%.
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robert klein
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News Link • Homeland Security
Obama: We'll use 'every single available resource' to contain oil slick
04/29/2010
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by David Jackson, USA Today
President Obama said his team would use "every single available resource" to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil slick, including dispatching teams from the Pentagon if necessary.
Officials from Homeland Security, the Interior Department and the Envi
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Climate Change
The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud
04/28/2010
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IBD Editorials, Investors.com
Cap-And-Trade: While senators froth over Goldman Sachs and derivatives, a climate trading scheme being run out of the Chicago Climate Exchange would make Bernie Madoff blush. Its trail leads to the White House.
Lost in the recent headlines was Al
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Lauren Roseman
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