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Date Sent: 2010-06-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, June 26, 2010 |
G20 Summit cops get police-state powers -- Is Bernanke Preparing to Double the Money Supply?
Big banks escape toughest limits in new regulation bill -- World's
biggest gold coin fetches over 3 million euros -- Obama Must Convince
Public He’ll Cut Debt -- Police taser an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed for taking an "aggressive posture" -- New World Order Bars "We Are Change" From Covering G-20 in Canada -- Explosive Evidence at WTC Cited by Former CDI Employee --
2010 on path to having 4 million foreclosure filings -- Police State
Spying Powers Increase under Obama, Napolitano -- Methane and Martial
Law in the Gulf of Mexico -- Casino Gulag Economy: California welfare cards can be used in casino ATMs -- Propaganda: UMichigan Consumer Confidence Index At Laughable 76 -- Green" Army ammunition banned in the U.S. as too toxic is now going to Afghanistan?! -- Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm's oil rigs -- Ex-RI officer pleads guilty in case of beaten teen -- Supreme Court weakens key anti-corruption law -- Cuomo Accepts Millions From Interests He Assails -- ACLU: Consumers' privacy at risk in Internet tax case -- Fed Contemplating $5 Trillion Quantitative Easing Expansion?
-- Supreme Court deals setback to gay rights foes in ballot case --
Scientists Discover New Superheavy Element 117 -- Influx of ads for
military weapons throwing commuters for loop
Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 to Speak in Tucson Today (See bus ride offer); Tempe "Liberty on the Rocks" 6-29
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News Link • Police State
G20 Summit cops get police-state powers
06-25-2010
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www.p2pnet.net
Fortress city Toronto is under even fiercer police lockdown pending the arrival of guests to Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper’s billion-dollar G20 party.
Security forces already have potentially lethal weapons such as the ARWEN anti-riot rif
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Is Bernanke Preparing to Double the Money Supply?
06-25-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
But the situation needs to be monitored closely. Any indications that Bernanke is indeed conducting massive quantitative easing operations will mean that its time to get in aggressive inflation protection mode.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Big banks escape toughest limits in new regulation bill
06-25-2010
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McClatchy News
Lawmakers, narrowing the differences between legislation from the House of Representatives and the Senate, agreed to establish a Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection to address the shoddy lending and ineffective regulation that helped bring about
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Sheriff Arpaio can be called to hearing by Supervisors, judge rules
06-25-2010
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AP
Sheriff Joe Arpaio can be summoned by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for a hearing that could result in Arpaio being found in contempt, a judge has ruled.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Beating death in Egypt ignites protests over police brutality
06-25-2010
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McClatchy News
Thousands of Egyptians chanting "Down with Hosni Mubarak" demonstrated against their country's president Friday in Alexandria, demanding an investigation into the fatal beating of a young Egyptian businessman, allegedly at the hands of plainclothes p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Costner cleanup device gets high marks from BP
06-25-2010
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Yahoo! News blog
It was treated as an oddball twist in the otherwise wrenching saga of the BP oil spill when Kevin Costner stepped forward to promote a device he said could work wonders in containing the spill's damage. Marks a major breakthrough in spill cleanup tec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
World's biggest gold coin fetches over 3 million euros
06-25-2010
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Reuters
A Spanish precious metals trading company bought the world's largest gold coin for 3.27 million euros (3 million pounds), its exact material worth, from the estate of an insolvent investment firm at a rare auction in Vienna on Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama Must Convince Public He’ll Cut Debt
06-25-2010
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Roll Call
With the public debt due to reach 100 percent of gross domestic product next year " and heading toward record levels " Congress is making the pivot now, much to the distress of liberal economists and the Obama administration.
With unemployment sti
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Police taser an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed for taking an "aggresive posture"
06-25-2010
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www.courthousenews.com
Just when you think American cops can't get any more callous and brutal,...something like this leaves you wanting to kick someone in the nuts.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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Feature Article • Activism
Packing Packets at Freedoms Phoenix
Thomas Costanzo
We are packets of information that is going out the libertarians in the sunny state of Arizona. This is how the volunteers get together and put them together to get the 5000 of them ready for mailing. Thanks to everyone who assisted in this project.
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News Link • Propaganda
Florida Department of Environmental Protection: Loop Current Lies
06-25-2010
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InfoWars.com/
The state of affairs in the Gulf region is on the path to all out chaos and Martial Law. The anarchy may reach levels orders of magnitude higher than that of Katrina.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd After Bending Over The American Public
06-25-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The bottom line is that nothing has really changed ... the government is continuing to strengthen the parasite and poison the real economy. Congress is still continuing to pimp out the American people to Johns who have insatiable lusts
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
New World Order Bars "We Are Change" From Covering G-20 in Canada
06-25-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The G-8 and G-20 meetings are about to begin in Canada and Canadian border agents prevented WeAreChange and Infowars reporters from entering the country. Here is their story: 7 minute video.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Another Friday Morning at the B-e-a-utiful Freedom's Phoenix Workshop!
06-25-2010
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Ed Vallejo Productions LOL
All that, and a bag of chips!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Immigration
FAIR WARNING! Heavily-armed ??? Plans to Patrol Smuggling Corridor
06-25-2010
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KOLD News 13 Tucson via C.Y. (THANKS!)
"We're going to block off the narcoterrorists that come up through this area," said Mesa resident Jason "J.T." Ready, who is organizing the gathering.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • WAR: About that War
MOVIE: The Pat Tillman Story, coming to theatres this August
06-25-2010
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www.hulu.com
Looks like Gen. McChrystal, who was instrumental in the cover-up, got demoted out of the public eye just in time for this documentary's release.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Housing
A Record Year: 2010 on path to having 4 million foreclosure filings
06-25-2010
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MyBudget360.com
Since the collapse of the mortgage market 95+ percent of all loans are now “safe” government backed loans. Yet problems are still here. So doesn’t it seem unwise and downright illogical to try to get more people to buy if clearly wages...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Justifying Occupation: Afghanistan, the Saudi Arabia of Lithium?
06-25-2010
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CounterPunch.org
The Obama administration dredges up a new reason for staying in Afghanistan past the 2011 deadline, it appears that the old motivation of transforming Afghanistan into a Central Asian Saudi Arabia remains the real motivation underlying America’s war.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Police State Spying Powers Increase under Obama, Napolitano
06-25-2010
According to a June 18 AP article, Obama’s Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano has defended monitoring Internet communications as a "civil liberties trade-off the US must make to beef up national security." In addition, she said "it is wrong to
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Martial Law
Methane and Martial Law in the Gulf of Mexico
06-25-2010
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InfoWars.com/
“Plans are being put in place for the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Mandeville, Hammond, Houma, Belle Chase, Chalmette, Slidell, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pensacola, Hattiesburg, Mobile, Bay Minette, Fort Walton Beach, Panama City...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Casino Gulag Economy: California welfare cards can be used in casino ATMs
06-25-2010
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LAtimes.com
The cards, provided by the Department of Social Services to help recipients feed and clothe their families, work in automated teller machines at 32 of 58 tribal casinos and 47 of 90 state-licensed poker rooms, the review found.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
American Politics: John Wallace hosts show with Barb Peterson and Marti Oakley Today!
06-25-2010
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Farm Wars
Freedom and Liberty Activists Marti Oakley, and Barb Peterson from Farm Wars, nationally known Freedom and Liberty activists, who also host the new Truth Squad Radio Show are John Wallace's guests on this week’s show.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Kucinich Announces Right to Know Legislation in Wake of Alfalfa Supreme Court Ruling
06-25-2010
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Farm Wars
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement after the Supreme Court voted 7-1 to allow the experimental planting of genetically modified alfalfa seed before an environmental review is completed:
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Housing
Inane Thoughts: CNNMoney Article says "Housing Shortage is Coming"
06-25-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
"It is ironic, but there is a growing consensus that there may be a new housing shortage coming," said James Gaines, a real estate economist with Texas A&M.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ECRI Leading Economic Index Plunges At -6.9% Rate, Back To Dec. 2007 Levels
06-25-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
It's getting close: the fabled -10% annualized change (see David Rosenberg) which guarantees a recession is now just 3.1% away, which at this rate of collapse will be breached in two weeks. The ECRI is now at December 2007 levels...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Propaganda
Propaganda: UMichigan Consumer Confidence Index At Laughable 76
06-25-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The only thing worse than the oil flowing out of the GoM gusher, is the BS now openly flowing out of the government propaganda machine, which has jumped the shark beyond all semblance of credibility.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Anthropology
Learned Helplessness: In Dire Straits, Americans Whimper Instead
06-25-2010
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SmirkingChimp.com
The way out is obvious. If a two-party corpocracy beholden to gangster capitalism is ruining your life, get rid of it. Don't whimper. Bite.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm's oil rigs
06-25-2010
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Reuters
Venezuela will nationalize a fleet of oil rigs belonging to U.S. company Helmerich and Payne, the latest takeover in a push to socialism as President Hugo Chavez struggles with lower oil output and a recession.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-RI officer pleads guilty in case of beaten teen
06-25-2010
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AP
Douglas was indicted in December on charges of striking the teen in the Woonsocket police station after an arrest. An FBI investigation began after the teen showed up in juvenile court badly injured and said several officers had beaten him.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court weakens key anti-corruption law
06-25-2010
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AFP
The US Supreme Court set aside part of Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling's fraud conviction, saying it was "flawed" and unconstitutional. Also, they set aside the corporate fraud conviction of Anglo-Canadian media mogul Conrad Black and sent the case back
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Cuomo Accepts Millions From Interests He Assails
06-25-2010
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NY Times
As he delivered his announcement, Mr. Cuomo was sitting on millions in campaign cash from the very special interests whose influence he said he wanted to limit.
An analysis by The New York Times shows that of the estimated $7.1 million that the Cu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Each day, another way to define worst-case for oil spill
06-25-2010
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WashingtonPost.com/
"We're going to have to evacuate the gulf states," said Matt Simmons, founder of Simmons and Co., the unflagging source of end-of-the-world predictions. "Can you imagine evacuating 20 million people? . . . This story is 80 times worse than I thought.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Privacy Rights
ACLU: Consumers' privacy at risk in Internet tax case
06-25-2010
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McClatchy News
North Carolina's efforts to collect sales taxes from online retailers could lead to government snooping on consumers' online shopping habits. The N.C. Dept of Revenue's audit of Amazon.com seeks private customer information the government doesn't nee
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Contemplating $5 Trillion Quantitative Easing Expansion?
06-25-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Evans-Pritchard does a good job of recapping all the various reasons why Bernanke has now completely cornered himself, and facing a newly collapsing economy, is left with just one recourse: the printing of more, more, more paper.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Supreme Court deals setback to gay rights foes in ballot case
06-25-2010
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McClatchy News
Despite a near unanimous Supreme Court decision Thursday that Washington state can release the names of the roughly 138,000 people who signed ballot petitions to overturn a same-sex domestic partnership law, the case is far from over.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Militarism and Democracy: the Implications of the McChrystal Affair
06-25-2010
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Patrick Martin
The firing of McChrystal and his replacement by Petraeus represents . . the means by which Obama adapts to the demands of the military brass. McChrystal’s only crime"his “error in judgment”, in Obama’s parlance"was to express too bluntly the sentimen
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Food
Six Healthy Reasons to Eat Watermelon
06-25-2010
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arclein
Stay healthier Watermelon has lots of lycopene, a key plant antioxidant that is famous for fighting heart disease and prostate cancer. Tomatoes are usually considered the lycopene all-stars, but you have to cook them in a little oil to release it.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Prairie 'Terroir'
06-25-2010
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arclein
Mr. Dubé and his wife Josée Bourgoin raise bison on their ranch an hour from Batoche near Prince Albert. Inspired by farmers in France and the Charlevoix region northeast of Quebec City, they have applied for funding to establish an agricultural “ter
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
DEVap Air Conditioning Advance
06-25-2010
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arclein
The idea is to revolutionize cooling, while removing millions of metric tons of carbon from the air," NREL mechanical engineer Eric Kozubal, co-inventor of the Desiccant-Enhanced eVaporative air conditioner (DEVap), said.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Scientists Discover New Superheavy Element 117
06-25-2010
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arclein
Posters of the periodic table on the walls of science labs in schools around the world will need to be updated after the discovery of the newest superheavy element, element 117. With the temporary name of ununseptium, the temporary symbol Uus and the
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robert klein
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Influx of ads for military weapons throwing commuters for loop
06-25-2010
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Paul Farhi
Commuters seem puzzled by the ads appearing throughout Navy Yard Station. Lockheed has turned the station into a veritable Six Flags Over the Pentagon, plastering it with posters and billboards promoting its work on projects like the Littoral Combat
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Google Wins Viacom Copyright Lawsuit
06-24-2010
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wired.com Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Securit
Google-owned YouTube won a major victory Wednesday when a federal judge ruled the video-sharing site was protected under U.S. copyright law.
Viacom, which vowed an appeal, was seeking $1 billion in damages in a case testing the depths of copyright
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Thomas Costanzo
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