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Date Sent: 2010-06-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, June 28, 2010 |
USS Carriers Eisenhower and Truman Are Off The Iranian Coast -- Gold eyes record peak
President Obama urges G-20 nations to spend; they say screw you -- U.S.
officials say Karzai aides are derailing corruption cases involving
elite -- The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Undercover Police engaged in Purposeful Provocation -- Obama won't charge Blackwater with violation of Sudan sanctions -- We Spend $1 Billion a Year Fighting Each al-Qaeda Member in Afghanistan -- Could BP 'toxic storm' make beach towns uninhabitable? -- Geithner Pleads With The G20 Not To Start Balancing Their Budgets --
Icelanders shout "theater" in midst of crowded fire -- If you're going
to beat someone with a nightstick on camera, then by God do it right --
Pentagon Spending Billions on PR to Sway World Opinion -- WHO to tax your Internet usage to fund vaccines in third-world countries -- "Nullification - Resisting Tyranny": The Book Washington D.C Is Afraid Of -- Independent Media Barred: Toronto in G20 Lockdown
-- Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Homeschooled to Avoid Unhealthy Respect
for Authority -- BP Takes a Page from the MythBusters, Hires a Turd
Polisher -- California Pension Plans $500 Billion in the Red -- John Mauldin: Here Comes The Recession -- Rosenberg: 13 Signs The US Economy Has Hit A Brick Wall -- Bruce Krasting: The G20 and the Dollar -- BP Well Technical Details
Tempe "Liberty on the Rocks" Tuesday
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News Link • Military
USS Carriers Eisenhower and Truman Are Off The Iranian Coast
06-27-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
They point out that according to Israel, it will not be in a position to launch a strike on Iran without using bases in Georgia and Azerbaijan due to the limited capabilities of its nuclear submarines stationed near the Iranian coast.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold eyes record peak
06-27-2010
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Reuters
Gold ticked higher on Monday, trading less than $10 shy of last week's record high, underpinned by worries about the global economy after the G20 summit and U.S. comments that Iran has fissile material for two atomic bombs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
President Obama urges G-20 nations to spend; they say screw you
06-27-2010
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Washington Post
President Obama warned the world economic recovery remains "fragile" and urged continued spending to support growth, an expansionist call at the end of a summit marked by an agreement among developed nations to halve their annual deficits within thre
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. officials say Karzai aides are derailing corruption cases involving elite
06-27-2010
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Washington Post
Top officials in President Hamid Karzai's government have repeatedly derailed corruption investigations of politically connected Afghans, according to U.S. officials who have provided Afghanistan's authorities with wiretapping technology and other as
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Police Arrest More Than 600 at Toronto Summit
06-27-2010
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AP
Police raided a university building and rounded up hundreds of protesters Sunday in an effort to quell further violence near the G-20 global economic summit site a day after black-clad youths rampaged through the city, smashing windows and torching p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
Nullification: Your Ticket to Freedom
06-27-2010
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Tenth Amendment Center
If we continue doing the same things we’ve been doing, the march to tyranny isn’t going to stop. Tom Woods' new book, Nullification, gives us the blueprint, and NullifyNow brings us together to make it happen.…
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Michael Boldin
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News Link • Police State
The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Undercover Police engaged in Purposeful Provocation
06-27-2010
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globalresearch.ca
Considerable evidence, including photographs, strongly suggests that once again the police are implanting "Black Bloc" rioters into the peaceful crowds--at taxpayer expense. Very interesting article. The photographs are rather conclusive. You may l
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Die Daily
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
What a huge tool; no, not Tony Hayward, one of Google's amazing disaster maps!
06-27-2010
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google.com
A google-maps site that tracks and predicts the development of the gulf oil disaster. Check the "YouTube Videos" box and view citizen reports as icons showing the uploader's location, like video tooltips. Active operations and impacted location
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Die Daily
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News Link • Activism
A True Story And a Lesson in Hope: How the Iron Curtain Fell in Rumania
06-27-2010
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SMCC
People lived in fear for their lives if they spoke up in any vocal way. But when it now came down to a choice between dying for speaking up, or freezing to death for not speaking up, the dynamic shifted.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Internet
OK, now I get why Obama has to shut down the Internet to keep me safe
06-27-2010
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The Vigilant Lens
[I love this blog!] When the smart apes start demanding money for war and the K Street owned Congressman start apologizing to British Petroleum…you’ll know someone is ready to install a kill switch on the internet.
Oh well shit look at that.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Obama won't charge Blackwater with violation of Sudan sanctions
06-26-2010
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Warren P. Strobel, J. S. Landay and Joseph Neff
Blackwater tried for 2 years to secure lucrative defense business in Sudan while the country was under U.S. economic sanctions, according to U.S. officials and many documents. . . The Obama administration, however, has decided not to bring charges.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Afghanistan
We Spend $1 Billion a Year Fighting Each al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan
06-27-2010
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FireDogLake.com
PANETTA: I think the estimate on the number of Al Qaeda is actually relatively small. I think at most, we’re looking at 50 to 100, maybe less. It’s in that vicinity. There’s no question that the main location of Al Qaeda is in the tribal areas...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Humor
Jon Stewart Rips Media Bimbos
06-27-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Something about having to make REALLY TOUGH decisions. Watch until the end...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
No skimmers in sight as oil floods into Mississippi waters
06-27-2010
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mcclatchydc.com/
“They’re paying all these boats to run around like headless chickens,” Taylor said, as reporters gathered to hear his assessment of the Sound.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Gulf Oil Gusher: Could 'toxic storm' make beach towns uninhabitable?
06-27-2010
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CSmonitor.com/
In the case of a hurricane hitting the 250-mile wide slick and pushing it over sand dunes and into beach towns, residents fear they’ll face not only mass evacuations, but potential permanent relocation.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Great Tropical Debt Depression
06-27-2010
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TheAutomaticEarth.blogspot.com
There are scores of hard-working well-meaning Americans who base their decisions on what they think is a neutral news source. What they don’t realize is that the Post, as well as most US economists, are merely part of a propaganda machine...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
It's Time to Join a Gang
06-27-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
In other words, our society has become a neighborhood where street-gangs"corporate entitites"battle one another for position. Even the Government is just another street gang.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Employment Probably Fell In June On Census Cutbacks
06-27-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Employment fell in June for the first time this year, reflecting a drop in federal census workers as the decennial population count began to wind down, economists said before a report this week.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Geithner Pleads With The G20 Not To Start Balancing Their Budgets
06-27-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
At the G20 this weekend, Europe and Japan are being warned not to cut back on economic stimulus, by Timothy Geithner.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bionic cat gets faux paws
06-27-2010
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AP
[I just could not resist the delicious headline.] Oscar the cat may have lost one of his nine lives, but his new prosthetic paws make him the world's first bionic cat.
After losing his two rear paws in a nasty encounter with a combine harvester
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
2011 W-2 Tax Forms--Surprise, surprise!
06/27/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
2011 W-2 Tax Forms and Obamacare If this doesn't get to you, then check your pulse. You may be a flat line...Should you want to verify this, go to http://www.thomas.gov/, enter "HR 3590" in the search box and look for "CRS Summaries." This is wh
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
If you're going to beat someone with a nightstick on camera, then by God do it right.
06-27-2010
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Live Leak
Now to be fair, the suspect did make a threatening move,...but once you've beat the guy into submission, it's time to stop.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Politics: Independent and Other Campaigns
Icelanders shout "theater" in midst of crowded fire; Elites tremble in silent impotence.
05-30-2010
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telegraph.co.uk
Uploader's comment: The only thing that bugs me about Iceland's recent election, in which 87% (!!!?) of the population of Reykjavik turned out and elected "The Best Party", a 6-month old effort comprised exclusively of singers and entertainers
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Die Daily
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The Real Truth About BP and What is Happening in the Gulf
06-26-2010
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Kurt Nimmo
BP is engaged in criminal negligence. It only pretends to clean-up its mess when government officials arrive for photo-ops. BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Fox News / AP: Pentagon Spending Billions on PR to Sway World Opinion
06-26-2010
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Fox News
As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing the money it spends to win what it calls “the human terrain” of world public opinion. In the process, it is raising concerns of spreading propaganda at home in violation of f
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Medicine vending machines that dispense prescriptions 24 hours a day go on trial
06-26-2010
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Sean Poulter
For those who desperately need their prescription medicine, the notion of travelling miles to find a chemist open is only likely to add to their anxiety.
But a dispenser is to go on trial in the UK which will offer medicines at any time of the day o
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Dave Hodges
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Reference Link • New World Order
Food & Depopulation: Scams and Solutions
Cassandra Anderson
The Food & Depopulation series of articles has been written for people who think that conspiracies are mere theories, that the American government is working in our best interest and that the United Nations is benevolent
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News Link • Climate Change
Japanese told to go to bed an hour early to cut carbon emissions
06-26-2010
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Danielle Demetriou London Telegraph
The Japanese government has launched a campaign encouraging people to go to bed and get up extra early in order to reduce household carbon dioxide emissions.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
WHO to tax your internet usage to fund vaccines in third-world countries
06-26-2010
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Mike Adams Natural News
The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) is pushing hard to impose global consumer taxes to help fund its various programs, including a new proposal that would tax the internet in order to pay for vaccines and other pharmaceutical medicine
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Nullification - Resisting Tyranny: The Book Washington D.C Is Afraid Of
06-26-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
It seems there is little "the People" can do, with all three branches of government ganging up against them. Tom Woods, though, argues that there is something that can be done, and that something is nullification.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The Public Tells Rupert Murdoch "Hell No"
06-26-2010
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arstechnica.com
According to Hitwise's numbers, simply adding the registration barrier has cut traffic to the site almost in half. Prior to the change, The Times was seeing somewhere in the neighborhood of four to five percent of the traffic going to the print...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
The Nightmare Financial Regulatory Scheme
06-26-2010
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The International Libertarian
Senator Dodd (D- CT) revealed his plan for financial reform. It is nothing but a plan for a regulatory dictatorship.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • New World Order
Toronto G-20 Protests, Police Car On Fire, And More
06-26-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Nothing will change, and eventually, when the entire world has over 5 times its entire GDP encumbered in real cash debt (as opposed to the $1.2 quadrillion in pseudo-metaphysical debt), and interest payments alone account for well over 30%...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
Independent Media Barred: Toronto in G20 Lockdown
06-26-2010
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RawStory.com
Reporters from WeAreChange were detained for at least four hours by border officials before being denied entry. A reporter from the InfoWars news site was also denied entry. Two activists from CodePink were also barred from entering Canada.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
Sleep, Dreaming, and National Suicide
06-26-2010
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
When the reaction to the most mild challenges to power is irrational, hysterical violence, false imprisonments, frivolous lawsuits, IRS harassments, law changing at a whim, we know we can’t stop the system by pushing it...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Homeschooled to Avoid Unhealthy Respect for Authority
06-26-2010
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Brian Boyd, The Irish Times
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Humor
6 Objective Reasons The US Army Should Invade BP
6-26-2010
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Cracked.com
British Petroleum set off an unprecedented ecological disaster, bungled it and then their commander appeared on TV to exposit exactly what it is they're doing: that's not an industrial accident, that's a COBRA scheme running backwards and escaped
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Concerned Patriot
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News Link • Environment
A new low for Science and the NAS -- the "Black-List"
06-23-2010
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www.openmarket.org
In what has to be one of the most disgraceful examples of political, unscientific attacks, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a report, “Expert credibility in climate change,” alleging to show that climate change “denier
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Die Daily
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Woman tests the limits of free speech
06-26-2010
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TriValley Central
She thought she was still well within her First Amendment rights to display an upside-down pentagram, a 5-pointed symbol. The judge was not amused, nor was he interested in debating the limits of her free speech and religious freedom rights.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Propaganda
BP Takes a Page from the MythBusters, Hires a Turd Polisher
06-26-2010
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FireDogLake.com & YouTube.com
In December 2008, MythBusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman took on the myth that says (as they most delicately phrased it) “you can’t polish a turd.” Using techniques borrowed from the ancient Japanese art of dorodungo...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California Pension Plans $500 Billion in the Red
06-26-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
So we're stuck with half a trillion dollars of unfunded promises to California's public sector workers, thanks to forecast assumptions so bogus that, rather than merely 'bad' forecasts, they border on being plain lies.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Tropical Storm Alex Heads For The Gulf Of Mexico
06-26-2010
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vuetoo.com/ & Rawstory.com
Weather forecasters had earlier said the storm by next week could head for the site of the huge oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico unleashed by the April 20 explosion of the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rosenberg: Here's 13 Signs The US Economy Has Hit A Brick Wall
06-26-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The truth of the matter is that we are nowhere near the recovery agencies like the Federal Reserve told us we were at back in April. Retail sales are falling, the housing market isn't even close to being fully recovered...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Eugenics
Ponies and Balloons: Gulf Resident Gives Behind the Scenes Account
06-26-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/ & Washington2.blogspot.com
BP is given advanced warning when an official is going to show up to any place where there is oil. All assets are deployed. As soon as the official leaves, 75-80% of the assets are removed. BP calls it a "pony and balloons" show.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
John Mauldin: Here Comes The Recession
06-26-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
When the 13-week annualized rate of change is used " shorter-term momentum " the decline in growth has fallen to a very weak -23.46%. The other times it has fallen this fast? All were either in recession or pointing to recession in short order...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Bruce Krasting: The G20 and the Dollar
06-26-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Obama and Geithner will be pushing for a growth package. It is likely that some of the other countries are going to give the US a thumbs down. America is going to be the only major country left that is continuing down the path of fiscal insanity.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Conspiracy Theory: Proof that Illuminati Conspiracy Theorists Not Crazy?
06-26-2010
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Mondo Frazier
A blog called Fellowship of the Mind posts a little exercise that makes one think that maybe those Illuminati conspiracy theorists might be on to something. A sure-fire conversation starter!
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
NanoCoax Solar Cells
06-26-2010
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arclein
Dubbed “nanocoax”, the cell features solar architecture that makes it thick enough to capture light while being sufficiently thin to promote a more effective elicitation of current. Using the coaxial concept initially conceived in the 1800’s, the Bos
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
BP Well Technical Details
06-26-2010
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arclein
As you have probably seen and maybe feel yourselves, there are several things that do not appear to make sense regarding the actions of attack against the well. Don’t feel bad, there is much that doesn’t make sense even to professionals unless you ta
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robert klein
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News Link • Afghanistan
Fare Thee Well Gen McCrystal
06-26-2010
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arclein
This is, after all, an administration that waited for months last year before acting on General McChrystal’s urgent request for 40,000 more troops, which he warned would be necessary to prevent the failure of the mission in Afghanistan. He got 30,000
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Setback for Tidal Power
06-26-2010
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arclein
The setback underscores how difficult it is to operate in the corrosive, storm-plagued marine environment. The $10 million, 1 MW project had hoped to show that a first-of-its-kind tidal plant could be built to supply as much as 25 percent of Nova Sco
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
Letter from Jon Voight to president Obama
6-25-2010
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Snopes.com
A letter written by actor Jon Voight to President Obama criticizing him for his handling of the situations in Arizona and Israel.
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Concerned Patriot
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