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Date Sent: 2011-04-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, April 9, 2011 |
Deal at Last Minute Averts Shutdown; $38 Billion in Cuts to Spending This Year
Israel: Spoiling for Another Fight? -- Powerful Aftershock Rocks Japan -- Oil prices hit highest level since 2008 -- Obama condemns “abhorrent violence” of Syrian government -- Assembly OK's concealed guns for four legislators -- Johnson & Johnson fined for bribing doctors -- Jurors vote to acquit alleged Cuban CIA terrorist -- Cascading earthquakes and the theory of global rupture -- The convergence of biometrics, location and surveillance -- This Is What Currency Failure Looks Like -- Robot troopers: America's future military force -- Gold
Is Sending A Signal That The Monetary System Is In Grave Danger --
Monsanto cash helped fund bill to stifle whistleblowers in
Iowa -- Stern: Undermining the gov.
is not terrorism -- Will the Patriot Act Target Gun
Owners? -- A Day In The Life Of A “Homegrown Terrorist” -- Toxic
Dollar—Why Nobody Seems to Want US Currency -- Foreclosure-Gate: The
Feds Are Caving To Wall Street On Foreclosures -- Highway To Hell:
First Person Trek Through A Radioactive Wasteland -- Foreclosure-Gate:
No More Joint Federal/State Attorney Mortgage Settlement Effort --
Fed's Lockhart Speaks: Ignore Reality, Inflation Is Transitory -- Ford
Mustang Sales Slammed By High Gas Prices: Plant Shuttered -- Mortgage
Lenders lay off workers as refinance activity declines rapidly -- Marc
Faber: QE Is How The Elites Are Getting Their Revenge On The Poor -- Justin
Raimondo: Unholy Alliance Neocons and "Progressives" -- Declaring An
Independent Palestinian State -- Fukushima Meltdown Confirmed -- Leaks
Plugged and Nitrogen Flooding Begins at Nuclear Plant
AZ: "Atlas Shrugged," pt. 1 in
less than one week!!!!
Adam Kokesh Announces New TV
Show: ADAM VS THE MAN -- starts Monday!!!!
FP is sad to report that
Philip Luty, "The Home Gunsmith," has died of cancer. Phil's
philosophy was if you can't buy it, build it. He was eager to show
people how easy it was to make your own gun. I guess the UK government finally found a final solution to their problem with Phil.
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Deal at Last Minute Averts Shutdown; $38 Billion in Cuts to Spending This Year
04-08-2011
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NY Times
After nightlong negotiations that ended before dawn on Friday yielded no agreement, Senator Reid went on the offensive. He told reporters and said on the Senate floor that Mr. Boehner, the Senate Democrats and Mr. Obama had essentially settled on $38
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News Link • Economy - International
Oil prices hit highest level since 2008
04-09-2011
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The Raw Story
World oil prices jumped on Friday to their highest levels in more than two years as the market was driven by simmering political tensions in the Arab world and concerns over elections in Nigeria.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
11th hour miracle: Congress strikes budget deal with minutes to spare before a shutdown
04-08-2011
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Sahil Kapur via The Raw Story
They agreed to cut spending $39 billion from existing levels and separately vote on the controversial policy riders blocking funding for Planned Parenthood.
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News Link • World News
Obama condemns “abhorrent violence” of Syrian government
04-08-2011
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The Raw Story
President Barack Obama sternly rebuked Syria on Friday about violence there in which sources said 22 pro-democracy protesters died.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Assembly OK's concealed guns for four legislators
04-08-2011
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http://blogs.sacbee.com
Assembly Chief Sergeant-at-Arms Ronald Pane has given four legislators permission to carry concealed weapons in the state Capitol, according to two senior Senate staff members who have been informed of the decision.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Washington nuclear plant evacuated after minor incident
04-08-2011
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The Raw Story
Washington state's only nuclear power plant evacuated about 25 workers after a small amount of hydrogen sprang from a pipe and ignited in a six-inch flash, plant officials said on Friday.
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News Link • Propaganda
'Historic' deal to avoid government shutdown
04-08-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Obama hailed the deal as "the biggest annual spending cut in history." House Speaker John Boehner said that over the next decade it would cut government spending by $500 billion " and won an ovation from his rank and file, tea party adherents among t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Idaho gov. signs education overhaul into law, teachers gear up for fight
04-08-2011
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The Raw Story
The bill signed by Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter, a Republican, forces districts to equip high schools with mobile computing devices and potentially shifts funds from teacher pay to technology.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Johnson & Johnson fined for bribing doctors
04-08-2011
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The Raw Story
US authorities fined cosmetics and drugs giant Johnson & Johnson $70 million on Friday for bribing doctors in Europe and paying kickbacks for contracts under a UN relief program in Iraq.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Jurors vote to acquit alleged Cuban terrorist
04-08-2011
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The Raw Story
A Texas jury on Friday acquitted an 83-year-old anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative, considered an archfoe by Havana, of charges he lied to U.S. authorities about his role in bomb attacks against tourist areas in Cuba in 1997.
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News Link • Activism
Affidavit of Fear - Do Not Help Governments Appear Legitimate
04-08-2011
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Marc Stevens
If you file or report to the IRS and other tax agencies, send an affidavit of fear with the return. Let them know you are only complying out of a sense of terror, not because you think there is a legitimate obligation. You may comply, but you will
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Marc Stevens
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
How to Escape from Zip Ties (VIDEOS)
04-08-2011
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www.itstactical.com
In our How To Escape and Evade in an Urban Environment article, we briefly discussed escaping from zip ties. There are quite a few hasty methods of illegal restraint, and zip ties are a method that’s available to any would-be kidnapper.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Evacuations & Catastrophe
Cascading earthquakes and the theory of global rupture
04-08-2011
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Terrence Aym
What if a super-quake set off other super-quakes around the world in a cascading cacophony of catastrophe? Since the mega-thrust quake that struck northeastern Japan during March 2011, that question is on the lips of many. Some researchers believe th
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Surveillance
The convergence of biometrics, location and surveillance
04-08-2011
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radar.oreilly.com
Your iris, the colored part of your eye, is extremely easy to read and unique, even among twins. The shape of your ear, the way you walk, the size of your hands, your smell, the way you talk, and of course your face are all unique.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
This Is What Currency Failure Looks Like
04-08-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Somewhere, someone is furiously drafting the impeachment proceedings for Chairsatan Bernankebub and TurboTaxTinyTim.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
The drip, drip, drip of trickle down economics! (Video)
04-08-2011
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The Political Commentator
With the potential for higher interest rates in the U.S., higher commodity prices globally, a weaker dollar and manufacturing disruptions due to a shortage of components for products, the Japanese earthquake,/tsunami/nuclear crisis triple-play may wr
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Military
Robot troopers: America's future military force
04-08-2011
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Terrence Aym (From 2011)
The United States military has seen the future of warfare and that future is filled with robots. The growth curve of bots swelling the ranks of military ranks is nothing short of astonishing. From a few dozen autonomous robot aircraft ten years ago,
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Study: Electrothermal spaceships could make interplanetary travel cheap
04-08-2011
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Terrence Aym
Forget expensive chemical rockets, exotic fuels, and atomic spaceships. Water can transport us all to the planets. Mars, Titan, the rings of Saturn and Asteroid Belt…all are accessible just by using good old H2O. So says Brian McConnell, a software e
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Housing
18 Cities Where The Suburbs Are Rapidly Turning Into Slums
04-08-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
During past recessions, American cities became centers of poverty and crime. But this time, it was the suburbs that suffered.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Gold Is Sending A Signal That The Monetary System Is In Grave Danger
04-08-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
"When a country's public debt exceeds 90% of GDP, that is the magic number. You get to 90%, there is no way back, and that is the number that the U.S. is going through pretty much as we speak.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Astronomers: Unprecedented gamma ray burst may signal star's black hole death
04-08-2011
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Terrence Aym
Now NASA has detected an incredible cosmic blast in the center of a far distant galaxy located more than 3.8 billion light years away from Earth. A light year is the distance that light, traveling at 186,000 miles per second, travels in one year: nea
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Got Milk? Contamination detection
04-08-2011
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RadiationNetwork.com
Much focus lately has turned to the issue of possible contamination of water, milk, and food in the US, and how our network reporting of radiation levels relates to that. I have addressed this general issue at length in previous updates below, but b
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto cash helped fund bill to stifle whistleblowers in Iowa
04-08-2011
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Grist
Monsanto is playing a role in Iowa's proposed anti-whistleblower bill -- a bill focused primarily on agriculture. Should the bill pass, it will become illegal to produce undercover videos at various types of agricultural facilities.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • TERRORISM
Stern: Undermining the gov. is not terrorism
04-08-2011
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The Rocky Mountain Collegian
On March 18, 2011, the federal government fired another salvo in the war against their bankrupt, oligarchic, despotic, power-hungry, corrupt and failing organization.
Though my feelings and thoughts on the federal government have been thoroughly
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Surveillance
Will the Patriot Act Target Gun Owners?
04-08-2011
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NewAmerican
The USA Patriot Act could be used to target law-abiding gun owners. Section 206 of the Act allows “John Doe” roving wiretaps, which authorize wide searches of people without even providing the name of the target to a court. The section merely require
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
A Day In The Life Of A “Homegrown Terrorist”
04-08-2011
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neithercorp.us/npress
If one examines the history of every modern country which eventually disintegrated into despotism, the definition of who the “enemy” is tends to become rather broad rather quickly. That is to say, the more criminal the leadership of a country...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Toxic Dollar"Why Nobody Seems to Want US Currency
04-08-2011
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CNBC.com
In 10 months, the Dollar Index has lost 14% because the world keeps accumulating dollars it doesn’t want and sells them. Asian central banks are key.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: The Feds Are Caving To Wall Street On Foreclosures
04-08-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The U.S. government surrendered. That’s the only conclusion to draw from reports that federal financial regulators have abandoned state legal officials negotiating a foreclosure settlement with Wall Street banks and instead struck their own deal.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Highway To Hell: First Person Trek Through A Radioactive Wasteland
04-08-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
An intrepid Japanese duo has decided to do the reverse Fukushima commute and in a stunning filmed expose, drives through cracked roads, herds of animals in city streets and ghost towns to measure the radiation from 30 km out to 1.5 km away
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: No More Joint Federal/State Attorney Mortgage Settlement Effort
04-08-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
We think that’s a good thing, since the state and federal law issues were so different that it made the idea of a grand global settlement seem a tad deranged...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed's Lockhart Speaks: Ignore Reality, Inflation Is Transitory
04-08-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
"As I've said before, my expectation is that commodity price increases that are now translating into accelerating headline inflation will be transitory.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ford Mustang Sales Slammed By High Gas Prices: Plant Shuttered
04-08-2011
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thecarconnection.com
That translates to bad news for production line workers at Ford's Flat Rock, Michigan, plant, where the Mustang is built. The facility will be shuttered this week in order to deplete overstocked inventory, and there's no word on Ford's...
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage Lenders lay off workers as refinance activity declines rapidly
04-08-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The San Francisco bank, the nation's No. 1 mortgage lender, has handed pink slips to about 1,900 workers who had processed loans generated both by Wells' mortgage unit and by independent brokers, a spokesman said Thursday. ..
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Marc Faber: QE Is How The Elites Are Getting Their Revenge On The Poor
04-08-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
By printing money, the earnings power of the proletariat is diminishing, while the assets held by the wealthy are going up. And at the same time, the wealthy are outsourcing more and more production to China, to further rob the masses.
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News Link • Military
US AFRICOM Commander: US ‘May Consider’ Ground Troops in Libya
04-08-2011
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AntiWar.com
General Carter Ham, the commander for US AFRICOM, told Congress today that the Obama Administration would consider sending ground troops into Libya to “aid the rebels,” though he insisted such a move was “not ideal.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • NeoCons
Justin Raimondo: Unholy Alliance
Neocons and "Progressives"
04-08-2011
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AntiWar.com
Neocons and "progressives" -- united at last over Libya, war powers, and the Constitution
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
New Mortgage Rules
04-08-2011
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arclein
The Dodd-Frank Act mandated that banks maintain at least a 5 percent threshold for risk on mortgage securities. But the law granted an exception for “qualified residential mortgages” while leaving regulators to decide what that meant. Bankers warned
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Renewables Power Grid Study for Israel
04-08-2011
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arclein
The paper is based on an hour-by-hour analysis of the country’s electricity consumption in 2006. Faiman’s group studied the baseline power, intermediate baseline and spinning reserves. Solar plants, without storage, could only generate around 3 perce
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Clean Tar Sand Separation Performed
04-08-2011
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arclein
Engineering at Penn State, and his group have spent the past 18 months developing a technique that uses ionic liquids (salt in a liquid state) to facilitate separation. The separation takes place at room temperature without the generation of waste pr
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Leaks Plugged and Nitrogen Flooding Begins at Nuclear Plant
04-08-2011
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arclein
fter notching a rare victory by stopping highly radioactive water from flowing into the Pacific on Wednesday, workers at Japan's flooded nuclear power complex turned to their next task: injecting nitrogen to prevent more hydrogen explosions.
Nucl
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