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Date Sent: 2011-04-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 15, 2011 PM edition |
NATO: War Until Gadhafi Leaves, but He’s ‘Not a Target’
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News Link • NATO
NATO: War Until Gadhafi Leaves, but He’s ‘Not a Target’
04-15-2011
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news.antiwar.com
NATO Still Insists Gadhafi Not a 'Target' of War
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News Link • Immigration
Georgia Follows Arizona in Passing Broader Immigration Law
04-15-2011
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bloomberg.com
Georgia passed a bill giving state law enforcement and businesses broader authority to identify undocumented immigrants, after a similar effort in Arizona was blocked by federal courts.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Obama Says Debt Increase Will Require Deal on Spending Cuts
04-15-2011
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bloomberg.com
President Barack Obama said congressional action to increase the government’s debt limit will require a compromise with Republicans on trimming the federal budget.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Carol Cain: Prostitution, pot legalization could make Detroit attractive, Fieger says
04-15-2011
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www.freep.com
Could Detroit be the new Amsterdam -- a city where prostitution and marijuana are both legalized to help attract young people and turn the troubled city’s prospects around?
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Obama: GOP tried to "sneak" agenda into budget
04-15-2011
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www.cbsnews.com
In what he thought was a private chat with campaign donors Thursday evening, President Obama offered the most revealing behind-the-scenes account to date of his budget negotiations with GOP leaders last week.
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News Link • World News
Qaddafi Forces Fire Cluster Bombs Into Civilian Areas
04-15-2011
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nytimes.com
Military forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who have surrounded this city and vowed to crush its anti-Qaddafi rebellion, have been firing into residential neighborhoods with heavy weapons, including cluster bombs that have been banned by much o
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News Link • Economy - International
Fast Growth and Inflation Threaten to Overheat Chinese Economy
04-15-2011
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nytimes.com
Wang Jianren, a 56-year-old retiree in this bustling city of 20 million, says that over the years China has benefited tremendously from rapid economic growth. But like so many people here, he complains that inflation is beginning to eat away at those
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
'Fake Weed' Crackdown: DEA Calls Chemicals Illegal
04-15-2011
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livescience.com
Five chemicals used to make fake weed, referred to as K2 and spice, just got an emergency designation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), making possession and sale of the substances or products containing them illegal in the United States.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain
04-15-2011
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livescience.com
Sturm's team is working to isolate the part of the brain in control of embarrassment. They've found that the feeling of embarrassment that comes with experiences such as hearing your own singing is isolated to a thumb-sized bit of tissue deep within
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Dr. Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist: Fukishima Daiichi Nuclear Facility is a "Ticking Time B
04-15-2011
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youtube.com
The Japanese government is trying to calm fears about radiation levels and food safety in the region around the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, even as it has raised the severity rating of the crisis to the highest possible
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
Jacob Appel - Bioethicist and Writer
04-15-2011
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bigthink.com
Appel contributed a Dangerous Idea to Big Think's "Month of Thinking Dangerously," advocating that we add trace amounts of lithium to our drinking water to help reduce the suicide rate.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
France Expects to Wipe Out Oldest Profession
04-15-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
Sex clients could be fined, jailed under proposed law ... Sex clients could be fined, jailed under proposed law. An association of French prostitutes has slammed a parliamentary report recommending that paying
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News Link • United Nations
Silent Coup: UN Takes Over Africa?
04-15-2011
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http://dailybell.ch/
UN Security Council urges Côte d'Ivoire to form all-inclusive government ... United Nations Security Council on Wednesday urged President of Côte d'Ivoire Alassane Ouattara
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News Link • Police State
The FBI Seizes The Three Biggest U.S. Poker Websites
04-15-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The U.S. Attorney for New York has indicted the founders the three largest online poker companies in the U.S. and seized their websites in a major crackdown on internet gambling.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republicans will make US a ‘Third World’ country: Obama
04-15-2011
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RawStory.com
US President Barack Obama accused his Republican foes of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country Thursday as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
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News Link • Economy - International
It’s a skill. You can learn it.
04-15-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
I’ll be in Paraguay again for the next week. This is a country that has quite a bit to offer… it’s incredibly cheap and they sell property for nothing. I’ve seen land in the Chaco region for as little as $25/acre.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Three Letters Re: Maps of Caves and Mining Districts
04-15-2011
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http://www.survivalblog.com/
Well, this is an area of knowledge where I do in fact have some expertise, being a caving professional. But, as an expedient shelter with a constant temperature they could have their uses.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
April 15, 2012: On The 100th Anniversary of The Titanic Sinking, The QE3 Capsizes
04-15-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The great ship Quantitative Easing 3 was sunk by a rogue wave of it's own making. Great loss of life!
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News Link • Events: America
Letter Re: It's The End Of The Welding As We Know It
04-15-2011
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http://www.survivalblog.com/
It is the "End Of The Welding As We Know It". For a while anyway... There was an accident at the Louisville, Kentucky plant which supplies most of the calcium carbide to North America.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Let's Talk About Trapping: North American Furbearers, by Jason L.
04-15-2011
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http://www.survivalblog.com/
My father introduced me to the art of trapping when I was just 10 years old. I remember walking the edges of rivers checking the sets that he had made and seeing him bring home red and gray fox.
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News Link • Government
America Has No Caesar!
04-15-2011
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chuckbaldwinlive.com
As with Romans chapter 13, Jesus’ instructions recorded in Matthew 22:21, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s,” are likewise much misinterpreted.
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News Link • Military
Fred Reed: The Mind Of The Career Military Recruit
04-15-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The career military attracts people who run from the merely abnormal to the frankly weird. For example, they place extreme value on ritual and ceremony, on ribbons and medals and colored things more appropriate to a Christmas tree...
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Pat's Product Reviews: MGI Hydra Modular Rifle
04-15-2011
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http://www.survivalblog.com/
As with many guns and calibers, there is a debate over which rifle is "better" - the AR-15 style or the AK-47. As I have said before, there is "no better" when it comes to certain guns and calibers.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The 15 Most Impoverished Countries In The Developed World
04-15-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
We ranked high-income OECD economies based on their poverty rate and culled historical data to give a bigger picture of poverty in member nations
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Here's the Setup for the Con of the Decade
04-15-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
The Financial Elites/Oligarchy raked in billions in private profit from the orgy of leverage, credit expansion, fraud, embezzlement and misrepresentation of risk that resulted in the Housing Bubble.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
China Net Seller Of US Treasurys For Fourth Consecutive Month
04-15-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
TIC data is notoriously flawed and always incorrect, with at least half UK purchases being attributed to China post annual revisions it could well turn out that China was the only country actually buying US paper.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Four Letters Re: Coffee in a Post-Collapse Society
04-15-2011
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http://www.survivalblog.com/
In the recent article Coffee in a Post-Collapse Society, the author is talking about Arabica coffee being only cultivated near the equator. Robusto green coffee can be grown in the southern states like Florida and south Texas.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Melting of Fukushima Nuclear Plant's Fuel Rods Confirmed
04-15-2011
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irishtimes.com/
Takashi Sawada, said yesterday that fuel rods in reactors 1 and 3 have melted and settled at the bottom of their containment vessels, confirming fears that the plant suffered a partial meltdown after last month’s huge earthquake and tsunami.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Prepping for Apartment Dwellers, by Anthony S.
04-15-2011
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www.survivalblog.com
Preparing for an uncertain future when living in an apartment or a condominium ("condo") can be a struggle. When the Lord has not chosen to give you land to work with, you work with what he has given you.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists warn future drugs will be designed to control human mind
04-15-2011
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BlackListedNews & NaturalNews.com/
It may sound like something out of a science fiction plot, but Oxford researchers say that modern conventional medicine is gradually developing ways to change the moral states of humans through pharmaceutical drugs, and thus control the way people...
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Atlas Shrugged - BY ROGER EBERT
04-15-2011
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rogerebert.suntimes.com
I suspect only someone very familiar with Rand’s 1957 novel could understand the film at all, and I doubt they will be happy with it. For the rest of us, it involves a series of business meetings in luxurious retro leather-and-brass board rooms
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News Link • Surveillance
Obama Administration Unveils Internet ID Plan
04/15/2011
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godlikeproductions.com
The White House unveiled a plan on Friday to create a national cyber-identity system intended to secure the privacy and confidentiality of consumers online.
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News Link • Agriculture
Crop Yields Improved on Solid Removal
04-15-2011
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arclein
Manure has long been used as a crop fertilizer, but the challenge of finding an efficient use of the nutrients found in manure is ever present. The ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus in manure is low in relation to the nutrient needs of most crops.
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News Link • Energy
High Temp Super Conductance is New Phase of Matter
04-15-2011
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arclein
Their results are the strongest evidence yet that the pseudogap phase, a mysterious electronic state peculiar to high-temperature superconductors, is not a gradual transition to superconductivity in these materials, as many have long believed.
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News Link • Economy - International
Chinese Salt Bubble
04-15-2011
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arclein
hina can blow bubbles faster and bigger than just about any other country, but the Extraordinary Salt Mania of March 2011 takes the cake for speed, size and bizarreness. The brief, dazed run on salt by investors following the March 11 tsunami demonst
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News Link • Science
Yellowstone Super Plume Enlarged
04-15-2011
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arclein
Variations in electrical conductivity reveal the volcanic plume of partly molten rock
But it shows the conductive part of the plume dipping more gently, at an angle of perhaps 40 degrees to the west, and extending perhaps 640 km (400 miles) from e
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News Link • TERRORISM
LAPD Using Intel Networks in Fight Against Terror
04-15-2011
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Officer.com
Police are using a combination of aggressive spy operations and community outreach to counter what Deputy Police Chief Michael P. Downing called the growing threat of Mumbai-style terrorist attacks - car bombings and small-arms-equipped suicide teams
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Details Emerge in Slaying of Arkansas Officer
04-15-2011
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Officer.com
A man [fatally shot] an Arkansas policeman during a traffic stop sounded like he was reciting a prayer as the young officer approached his car door, [said] a witness who was in the car[...].
"Tonight's the night. Tonight's the night," April Sw
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
If the federal budget was a pie, it would look like this. Don't use this recipe in your house!
04-15-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
Anyone who is responsible for balancing the checkbook or for the personal finances of their family, learn a valuable lesson from the federal government.
The lesson? Exactly how not to do things!
Imagine that you earned $40,000 a year and spent
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Brazilian Cops Get Augmented Eyeglasses That Can Pick Guilty Faces Out of a Crowd
04-14-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Taking a page from Officer Alex Murphy, police officers in Brazil will soon be adding a layer of cyborg tech to their law enforcement toolbox via glasses rigged with facial recognition tech.
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News Link • Military
Blending Wool and Kevlar Could Make Better, Lighter Body Armor
04-14-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Weaving wool into Kevlar improves the energy and water absorption of the synthetic textile, potentially making bulletproof vests more comfortable and more affordable, according to researchers in Australia.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New Washable RFID Chips Track Hotel Towels and Bathrobes
04-14-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tech has been employed in some pretty noble causes, like tracking timber to curb illegal logging and tagging animals for study and to better manage their habitats.
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