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Date Sent: 2011-01-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, January 22, 2011 |
N.Va. teen who was on no-fly list tells of his ordeal in Kuwait
Obama says Paul Volcker stepping down as adviser -- You Are The Resistance Against The DHS Occupation Of America -- Olbermann Gives Abrupt Goodbye To MSNBC Show -- State bankruptcy bill imminent, Gingrich says -- US Company Stops Making Key Death Penalty Drug -- Mars500 Crew All Set For Upcoming Fake Mars Landing, And Then Six More Months In A Metal Capsule -- Hawaii governor: record of Obama's birth 'exists but can't produce it -- California Court Rules Ammunition Ban AB962 Unconstitutional -- Foreclosure-Gate: MERS Taking On Water and CEO Is Jumping Ship -- Feds Probe Post-Flu Shot Seizures Among Kids -- Sharleen B. - Global "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" / Bob Templeton - Gun Shows -- Lawsuit Alleges Banksters Violated PATRIOT ACT -- Which Of The Currencies Of The World Is Going To Crash First? -- More Animal Deaths: 55 buffalo die mysteriously on southern Cayuga County farm -- New supernova may light up sky by 2012 -- ‘Large amount’ of weapons seized from blogger who cheered Tucson
shooting -- U.S. Warning to China Sends Ripples to the Koreas -- Risky SKorean raid
saves entire crew from pirates -- California Declares Fiscal Emergency -- States Seeking Ways To File Bankruptcy, Muni Bondholders
Screwed -- Lemmings & Propaganda: Existing Home Sales and
Foreclosures Up -- Foreclosure-Gate: Virginia Considering "Transfers In
Blank" -- More Evidence of Undercapitalization or Insolvency of Major
Banks -- Thickening Arctic Ice? -- State and City Default Crisis
Deepens --
Cold Fusion Protocol Twenty Times
Unity -- The Eight States Running Out of Homebuyers -- Internet ID
Allows Plantation Owners to Know What Your Thinking -- Barry Ritholtz:
Will We Have US State Bankruptcies? -- Let Aristide Return! --
Obama
Challenges China on Human Rights -- Rep.
Giffords Leaving Hospital Today,
Giffords discharged from hospital -- Arizona Guantanamo
activism
reported on NPR
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News Link • TERRORISM
N.Va. teen who was on no-fly list tells of his ordeal in Kuwait
01-21-2011
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NY Times
A Northern Virginia teenager who had been barred from flying home from Kuwait landed in Washington on Friday morning, four weeks after being detained, allegedly beaten by Kuwait authorities and questioned by FBI agents about possible terrorist connec
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama says Paul Volcker stepping down as adviser
01-21-2011
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Reuters
President Barack Obama announced Thursday that former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was stepping down from his role as head of an outside panel advising the White House on economic policy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
You Are The Resistance Against The DHS Occupation Of America
01-21-2011
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Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones via Prison Planet
Resistance V’s appeared all over the country….The V campaign meant ordinary people could feel they were doing something, however symbolic, to protest against the Occupation
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Slap to a Man’s Pride Set Off Tumult in Tunisia
01-21-2011
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NY Times
On the morning of Dec. 17, when other vendors say Ms. Hamdy tried to confiscate Mr. Bouazizi’s fruit, and then slapped him in the face for trying to yank back his apples, he became the hero " now the martyred hero " and she became the villain in a re
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Olbermann Gives Abrupt Goodbye To MSNBC Show
01-21-2011
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AP
Keith Olbermann, MSNBC's most successful and controversial personality for his outspoken liberal prime-time program Countdown, gave an abrupt goodbye to viewers and said Friday was his last show. It was not immediately known if he quit or was fired.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State bankruptcy bill imminent, Gingrich says
01-21-2011
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Reuters
Legislation that would allow U.S. states to file for bankruptcy will likely be introduced in Congress within the next month, Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives and a powerful Republican party figure, told Reuters on Fri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
US Company Stops Making Key Death Penalty Drug
01-21-2011
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AP
The sole U.S. manufacturer of a key lethal injection drug said Friday it is ending production because of death-penalty opposition overseas " a move that could delay executions across the United States.
Over the past several months, a growing short
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mars500 Crew All Set For Upcoming Fake Mars Landing, And Then Six More Months In A Metal Capsule
01-21-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
A band of make-believe space travelers locked in a steel capsule in Moscow is about to “land” on Mars, mission managers said Friday, nearly halfway through their 520-day mission
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hawaii governor: record of Obama's birth 'exists but can't produce it
01-21-2011
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Daily Mail
Pressure was mounting on Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie today amid increasing confusion over whether President Obama was born there.
Abercrombie said on Tuesday that an investigation had unearthed papers proving Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Third of Zimbabwe registered voters dead
01-21-2011
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AP
Nearly one-third of Zimbabwe's registered voters are dead, and others appear to be babies or up to 120 years old, researchers said Friday, calling for the list to be overhauled so that the upcoming election cannot be rigged.
The independent Zimbab
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
The Good Kind of Mass Destruction
01-21-2011
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Juliet Lapidos via Popsci.com
Sometimes the safest way out of a dangerous situation is to burn everything to the ground. From a house full of explosives to 134 tons of Mexican marijuana, here are nine instances when the best solution is controlled calamity
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News Link • Energy
Study: 100 percent renewable energy by 2030
01-21-2011
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Terrence Aym
A new study claims that 100 percent renewable energy can be achieved in America by 2030. No new technology needs to be created, claims Mark Delucchi, one of the authors of the study appearing in the journal Energy Policy. According to the data the te
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Gun Rights
California Court Rules Ammunition Ban AB962 Unconstitutional
01/18/2011
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Cheaper Than Dirt
Fresno Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Hamilton ruled that AB 962, the hotly contested statute that would have banned mail order ammunition sales and required all purchases of so called “handgun ammunition” to be registered, was unconstitutionally vague
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Michele Power
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: MERS Taking On Water and CEO Is Jumping Ship
01-21-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Is the biggest fraud in the history of the US housing market about to come unglued? If so, take our prediction of a $100 billion total in future BofA rep and warranty reserves and triple it.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold Standard Fully Supported By... Alan Greenspan!?
01-21-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
"We have at this particular stage a fiat money which is essentially money printed by a government and it's usually a central bank which is authorized to do so. Some mechanism has got to be in place that restricts the amount of money which...
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News Link • United Nations
MY HEROES OF THE WEEK ARE THE CARROLL COUNTY (MD) COMMISSIONERS - THEY VOTED TO WITHDRAW FROM ICLEI!
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www.varight.com
The Carroll County Commissioners saved taxpayers' money and followed the Constitution by withdrawing from the UN-blessed local government cartel ICLEI. Who'll be the next one? Liberty activists be encouraged! You can win!
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Feds Probe Post-Flu Shot Seizures Among Kids
01-21-2011
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cbsnews.com
Government officials are investigating an apparent increase in fever-related seizures in young children after they got a flu shot.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said there have been 36 confirmed reports of seizures this flu se
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lawsuit Alleges Banksters Violated PATRIOT ACT
01-21-2011
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Gene Kernan
Among Claims including malfeasance, statutory violations, and unfair business practices, a California team of attorneys is accusing the nation's largest lenders of violating “proof of funds” provisions of the USA PATRIOT ACT.
The law firms of Kramer
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Gene Kernan
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News Link • Technology: Software
New Imaging Method Opens a Long-Term Porthole Into the Deep Brain
01-21-2011
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popsci.com
Embedding minuscule glass tubes inside a mouse brain allows neuroscientists to monitor brain activity over long periods of time, watching neurons and tissue change with illness or aging.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Congress introduces bill to stop upcoming ban of incandescent light bulbs
01-21-2011
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prisonplanet.com
In 2007, the U.S. Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act which contains a subsection that bans the sale of incandescent light bulbs beginning in 2012.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
Which Of The Currencies Of The World Is Going To Crash First?
01-21-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Which of the currencies of the world is going to be the first to come crashing down? Well, let’s take a quick look at the yen, the euro and the dollar….
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
More Animal Deaths: 55 buffalo die mysteriously on southern Cayuga County farm
01-21-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Sempronius buffalo farmer Peter Head has lost 55 animals to a mysterious illness since October, but autopsies have shown no clear cause of death.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science
New supernova may light up sky by 2012
01-21-2011
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Terrence Aym
Astronomers are reporting that the super-massive star, Betelgeuse, located 1,300 light years from Earth in the Orion constellation, is rapidly losing mass and shrinking. When a star the size of this red super-giant begins collapsing it can only lead
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News Link • Bill of Rights
‘Large amount’ of weapons seized from blogger who cheered Tucson shooting
01-21-2011
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Rawstory
A blogger who declared "one down, 534 to go" after the shooting of Rep. Giffords had his gun license pulled and a "large amount" of weapons [11] removed his home. “It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot indiscriminately. Target only polit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Alan Korwin on CNN - Tucson Shooting
01-14-2011
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CNN
Added On January 11, 2011 - Arizona gun law expert Alan Korwin explores weapon, ammunition issues in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting rampage.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Myth of the Hero Gunslinger
01-21-2011
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opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
"It defies logic, as this case shows once again, that an average citizen with a gun is going to disarm a crazed killer. For one thing, these kinds of shootings happen far too suddenly for even the quickest marksman to get a draw."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
U.S. Warning to China Sends Ripples to the Koreas
01-21-2011
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NY Times
President Obama warned President Hu Jintao that if China did not step up its pressure on North Korea, the United States would have to redeploy its forces in Asia to protect itself from a potential North Korean strike on American soil, a senior admini
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News Link • World News
Risky SKorean raid saves entire crew from pirates
01-21-2011
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AP
At dawn, South Korean special forces packed into a small boat approached a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea. Commandos scrambled up a ladder onto the ship, where Somali pirates were armed with AK assault rifles and anti-tank missiles.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Sacha Baron Cohen to play Saddam Hussein
01-21-2011
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apnews.myway.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) - As if his portrayals of Borat and Bruno weren't outrageous enough, Sacha Baron Cohen's next role will be playing Saddam Hussein. The British comic will star in and co-write "The Dictator," which is scheduled for release in May 2012
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California Declares Fiscal Emergency
01-21-2011
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cnbc.com
Jerry Brown, California’s governor, declared a state of fiscal emergency on Thursday for the government of the most populous US state to press lawmakers to tackle its $25.4 billion budget gap.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Wallet Voting
Coinflation.com Coin Calculator
01-21-2011
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Coinflation.com
Find out what all of your new and old coins are worth in Silver at up to minute prices in Silver. Easy to use online calculator.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
States Seeking Ways To File Bankruptcy, Muni Bondholders Screwed
01-21-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
"Obviously what this means for equity investors in assorted muni investments is a complete wipe out is becoming a possibility, as Meredith Whitney's prediction, which everyone was quick to mock & ridicule, is about to come back with a vengeance
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Lemmings & Propaganda: Existing Home Sales and Foreclosures Up
01-21-2011
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thetruthaboutmortgage.com
NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun noted that home sales were on the “uptrend,” and said the pattern over the past six months clearly points to a housing recovery.
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Virginia Considering "Transfers In Blank"
01-21-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
I am told that these proposed changes would have the effect of authorizing transfers in blank in Virginia. That in turn would (in theory) allow banks to claim that an blank endorsement by the originator would allow the trust to assert ownership...
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News Link • Corruption
More Evidence of Undercapitalization or Insolvency of Major Banks
01-21-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” But the producers and top brass of the major financial firms found blowing up the global economy to be a hugely profitable..
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News Link • WAR: About that War
New Yorker's Hersh sparks anger, puzzlement with remarks on military 'crusaders'
01-20-2011
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Washington Post
Neoconservative advisers to President Bush took the attitude that " 'we're gonna change mosques into cathedrals,' " Hersh, a writer for the New Yorker magazine, said. "That's an attitude that pervades, I'm here to say, a large percentage of the Joint
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
House GOP group proposes deep spending cuts over next decade
01-20-2011
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Washington Post
Congressional conservatives on Thursday demanded far more dramatic reductions in government spending than House GOP leaders have recently proposed, in the first sign of a fissure between old-guard Republicans and tea-party-backed newcomers.
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News Link • Police State
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday Jan 21st 2011
01-21-2011
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LewRockwell.com
What Does China Want? - The CIA's 'Personality Transformation' Program - Thinking About Expatriation or Giving Up U.S. Citizenship? - Money Supply Firing on All Cylinders? - Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come for You?, and they're on steroids?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Climate Change
Thickening Arctic Ice?
01-21-2011
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arclein
US Navy PIPS data shows that the area of ice greater than 2.5 metres thick " has doubled since the same date in 2008.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State and City Default Crisis Deepens
01-21-2011
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arclein
The credit woes of state and municipal governments are a direct result of Wall Street’s malfeasance. Their borrowing costs first shot up in 2008, when the “monoline” bond insurers lost their own credit ratings after gambling in derivatives. The Fed’
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News Link • Science
Hanny's Voorwerp Illumination
01-21-2011
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arclein
A mysterious, glowing green blob of gas is floating in space near a spiral galaxy. Hubble uncovered delicate filaments of gas and a pocket of young star clusters in the giant object, which is the size of our Milky Way galaxy.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cold Fusion Protocol Twenty Times Unity
01-21-2011
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arclein
The amount of the reactant wasn’t clear, but it could be a few grams. According to Rossi, it is a complex mixture of nickel and one or two secret additives, which are the key for the energy emission. All the material is in the state of nano-particles
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News Link • Housing
The Eight States Running Out of Homebuyers
01-21-2011
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finance.yahoo.com
The devastation in some regions will never be repaired. Parts of Oregon, Georgia and Arizona have become progressively more deserted. Since jobless rates may never recover, there is little reason to hope that the populations in these areas will...
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News Link • Surveillance
Internet ID Allows Plantation Owners to Know What Your Thinking
01-21-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
The Obama administration is developing a “universal Internet ID” program that would watch, track, monitor and potentially control your activity on the Internet. These“trusted identities” are being touted as a way to increase safety and security on...
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News Link • Constitution
U.S. Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision: Constitution is Void
01/21/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that serves to allow judges to void the Constitution in their courtrooms. The decision was issued on January 18, 2011, and the Court did not even explain the decision (Docket No. 10-632, 10-633, and 1
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News Link • Politics
Rep. Giffords Leaving Hospital Today, Giffords discharged from hospital
01/20/2011
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therealnewsnow
Today, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is expected to leave the hospital she has been receiving medical care from. She will be transferred from the Arizona hospital she is currently staying in to a rehabilitation facility in Texas.
Since being shot in the
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News Link • Activism
Arizona Guantanamo activism reported on NPR
01-20-2011
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Allan Greenblatt
"That's what a Guantanamo inmate looks like," yells Thomas Mario Costanzo to a woman passing by. Costanzo was there to protest the U.S. prison camp in Cuba. Standing a few feet from the impromptu memorial to the shooting victims, Costanzo pointed to
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