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Date Sent: 2011-04-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, April 25, 2011 PM edition |
Air strike flattens building in Gaddafi compound -- Ron Paul: The Day of Reckoning Is Coming
Second computer worm 'hits Iran' -- Righthaven Defies Court, Ignores
Domain Name Ruling -- From stockpiling to living off the grid, more
Colo. residents preparing for disasters -- Don't Like a Weak Dollar?
Might as Well Get Used to It -- Ron Paul on The View 04/25/11
-- Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi-American blogger and political analyst based
in Washington, DC. -- WIKILEAKS: 7 SHOCKING GITMO REVELATIONS --
Foreclosure-Gate Arizona: Rep Ms. McLain (R-3) Is A Putrid Viper -- Are
economists insane? These two pictures are worth 1000 words! -- March
Survey: Almost half of housing market is now distressed properties -- Jim Rogers: Short Treasuries and Buy Commodities, Particularly Natural Gas And Silver -- IMF Bombshell: "Age Of America Is Over" -- Taliban break more than 450 inmates out of Afghan prison --
Silver surges 5 percent on dollar and gold at record -- Collateral
Damage: Tenant Victims of Foreclosed Properties -- Chris Hedges: The
Corporate State Wins Again -- The Myriad Of Documents That President
Obama Has Refused to Release -- 2010 State Department Human Rights
Report on Haiti -- BP Stonewalling Compensation to Gulf Residents -- 24 statistics showing the downward spiral of the US economy that needs to be reversed! -- Guerrilla Jurors: Sticking it to Leviathan - by Don Doig and Stewart Rhodes --
Warning: Investors Still Confident in the US Bond Market -- Gold &
Silver Making Huge Moves, As China Makes Fresh Noises About Dumping The
Buck -- King David Petraeus Awaits His Coronation As President for Life
AZ: Individual Liberty and the
Freedom Philosophy awards ceremony at the
Freedom Library, Yuma, tomorrow, April 26th.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Air strike flattens building in Gaddafi compound
04-25-2011
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Reuters
NATO forces flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early on Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi's government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life.
Firefighters were still working to extinguish f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Second computer worm 'hits Iran'
04-25-2011
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http://www.breitbart.com/
Iran has been hit with new malicious software as part of cyber attacks against the country, a military officer told Mehr news agency on Monday without specifying the target.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Internet
Righthaven Defies Court, Ignores Domain Name Ruling
04-25-2011
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https://www.eff.org/
Last Friday, the Chief Judge of the federal court in Nevada, which is overseeing more than 200 Righthaven copyright cases, dismissed Righthaven's meritless claim to seize its victim's domain names
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Don't Like a Weak Dollar? Might as Well Get Used to It
04-25-2011
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www.cnbc.com
Weakness in the US dollar, which is causing everything to go up"including gas prices, food and stocks"is unlikely to go away soon as a selling frenzy hits the currency market.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday April 25th, 2011
04-25-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Be a Guerrilla Juror - Don Doig and Stewart Rhodes on serving justice and undermining Leviathan. / They Died in Vain - Laurence Vance on US troops. /
Investors Still Confident in the US Bond Market? - Warning, when it goes south, you could be looki
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
NSA recent UFO document release more interesting for what it “could” not find
04-25-2011
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http://www.examiner.com/
A recent UFO-related document release by the U.S. National Security Agency purportedly “in response to the numerous requests received by NSA on the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO)”
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Surprise man harnesses hydrogen fuel technology to combat rising gas prices
04-25-2011
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http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/
Monte Davis doesn’t look like a magician. The Surprise resident doesn’t carry a wand and prefers a ballcap to a top hat. He can’t pull a rabbit out of his hat.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • World News
WIKILEAKS: 7 SHOCKING GITMO REVELATIONS
04-25-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
A massive leak of more than 700 military documents, attributed to infamous transparency group WikiLeaks,
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • World News
Nationalization in Boliva
04-25-2011
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http://www.sovereignman.com/
Fortune smiles upon Santa Cruz. With abundant natural gas reserves that generate immense wealth for the local economy, some of the best weather in South America, and ....
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Government
Guantánamo leaks lift lid on world's most controversial prison
04-25-2011
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www.guardian.co.uk
• Innocent people interrogated for years on slimmest pretexts
• Children, elderly and mentally ill among those wrongfully held
• 172 prisoners remain, some with no prospect of trial or release
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Military
Toll rises as army storms Syrian towns
04-25-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
More deaths and arrests reported as government sends tanks and heavy armour to Deraa to crack down on protests.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Military
Toll rises as army storms Syrian towns
04-25-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
More deaths and arrests reported as government sends tanks and heavy armour to Deraa to crack down on protests.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Syrian forces kill 25 in Deraa
04-25-2011
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english.alarabiya.net
Syrian forces reportedly shot and killed at least 25 anti-regime protestors in Deraa on a day when Syria closed all its land border crossings with neighboring Jordan, following the deployment of Syrian army tanks in the southern border city of Deraa
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Military
Military patrols start Friday night in downtown Columbus
04-25-2011
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www2.wrbl.com
Starting at 10 o'clock Friday, two senior non-commissioned officers from Fort Benning will be on courtesy patrol. The soldiers will be wearing arm bands that read, "Courtesy Patrol."
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO bombs flatten Gaddafi office as rebels advance
04-25-2011
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RawStory.com
NATO bombs destroyed Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's office in his immense Tripoli residence on Monday, while rebels pushed forward against the strongman's troops in the besieged city of Misrata.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science
NASA issues warning of solar superstorm 2012
04-25-2011
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Terrence Aym
Could a superstorm generated by the sun destroy civilization as we know it in 2012? No less than NASA thinks it's a distinct possibility. In a remarkable move the normally conservative US space agency has taken the extraordinary step of warning the
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Silver surges 5 percent on dollar and gold at record
04-25-2011
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Reuters
Spot silver surged more than 5 percent to top $49 ounce on Monday, moving closer to its 1980 all-time peak lifted by a weak dollar and strong physical demand in Asia that also sent gold to a record high for a seventh consecutive session.
Spot silv
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Short Treasuries and Buy Commodities, Particularly Natural Gas And Silver
04-25-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Rogers said the treasury market will collapse when QE2 ends on June 30. Soon enough Rogers says the Fed will return with QE3.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Warning: Investors Still Confident in the US Bond Market
04-24-2011
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LewRockwell.com
What do you do when you’re running the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme? Do you stop? Do you “wake up”?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold & Silver Making Huge Moves, As China Makes Fresh Noises About Dumping The Buck
04-24-2011
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businessInsider.com/
Gold and silver are on fire to start the week, and obviously that means the dollar is sagging hard.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
WikiLeaks discloses new details on whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11
04-24-2011
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Washington Post
On Sept. 11, 2001, the core of al-Qaeda was concentrated in a single city: Karachi, Pakistan.
At a hospital, the accused mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole was recovering from a tonsillectomy. Nearby, the alleged organizer of the 2002 b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
King David Petraeus Awaits His Coronation As President for Life
04-24-2011
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lewrockwell.com/politicaltheatre
A friend and long-time political observer predicts that the Republican establishment, terrified of the pygmy candidates and of Ron Paul, plans to introduce the armed neocon Gen. Petraeus into the presidential race.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bush Administration
ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team
04-24-2011
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AP
Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq. Freer to speak now than he was as an interna
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
The Banana Peel of Destiny
04-25-2011
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Kunstler.com
For those of you interested in the reality side of things, here's the scoop: The price of oil is going to go way up, and way down, and way up again, and way down again until everyone is too broke to ask for any, and companies are too ruined to...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic's Tourist Spaceship Makes Longest Test Flight Yet
04-24-2011
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Space
The suborbital Virgin Galactic spacecraft, called SpaceShipTwo, maneuvered through the skies over the Mojave Air and Space Port during the milestone test. Scaled Composites is overseeing flight testing of SpaceShipTwo and its WhiteKnightTwo carrier p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Little Bits of Junk
04-24-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
Watching an old National Geographic or Nova documentary on NetFlix the other day I was reminded all over again of how badly the English language has been mangled to achieve the objectives of collectivism.
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Cathy Smith
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Foreclosure-Gate Arizona: GOP Troika Kills Homeowners, and America's Hopes
04-24-2011
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Market-ticker.org
The Senate passed this bill, by the way, 28-2. But after it passed something odd happened - it disappeared!
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
March Survey: Almost half of housing market is now distressed properties
04-25-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The HousingPulse DTI indicated that nearly half of the housing marketis now distressed properties. This trend is likely to continue as a backlog of foreclosures and mortgage defaults make their way through the housing pipeline.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Into The Economic Abyss
04-25-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
High energy costs hit every conceivable sector of the economy, from freight, to food, to vacations, to housing. People drive less when it costs them twice as much to do so, which means less shopping, fewer trips to Disney World...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Anatomy of a Crisis: 2011
04-25-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
There is a rising loss of faith in the conventional (i.e. propaganda) account of the U.S. economy. Readers tell me their local coin store has no silver coinage left, as the public has been buying with a vengeance.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
What Are They Smoking? - NAR Propaganda Just Fooled Bloomberg
04-25-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Barry Ritholtz observes how a flawed metric from an industry advocacy group has fooled major media organizations into printing ridiculous claims.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Foreclosure-Gate Arizona: Rep Ms. McLain (R-3rd) Is A Putrid Viper
04-24-2011
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Market-ticker.org
Only one question remains for Arizona residents: Are you going to sit for being screwed raw by this putrid viper or will you stand and do something about it?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Are economists insane? These two pictures are worth 1000 words!
04-25-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
Many economists will tell you that inflation is under control when you factor out the volatile components of food and energy. The fact of the matter is that these two components are for the most part all that we regular citizens are concerned with!
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
IMF Bombshell: "Age Of America Is Over"
04-25-2011
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ZeroHedge.com & MarketWatch.com
"According to the IMF forecast, whoever is elected U.S. president next year " Obama? Mitt Romney? Donald Trump? " will be the last to preside over the world’s largest economy." Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Taliban break more than 450 inmates out of Afghan prison
04-25-2011
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AP
Taliban militants dug a lengthy tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were Taliban fighters.
The massive overnight jailbreak in Afghanistan’s second-largest city underscores
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News Link • Books
500-year-old book surfaces in Utah
04-25-2011
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AP
"Late in the afternoon, a man sat down and started unwrapping a book from a big plastic sack, informing me he had a really, really old book and he thought it might be worth some money," he said. "I kinda start, oh boy, I've heard this before."
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News Link • Housing
Collateral Damage: Tenant Victims of Foreclosed Properties
04-25-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Preposterous rules in Florida do not allow renters to pay water bills of foreclosed landlords who have closed accounts. The result is many surprised tenants wake up one morning, find their water shut off, and have no way to get it turned back on.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Chris Hedges: The Corporate State Wins Again
04-25-2011
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TruthDig.com
We are politically demobilized and paralyzed. We do not question the state religion of patriotic virtue, the war on terror or the military and security state. We are herded like sheep through airports by Homeland Security and, once we get through...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Myriad Of Documents That President Obama Has Refused to Release
04-25-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
The president has refused to release his Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of...
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Why They Died in Vain
04-25-2011
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Laurence M. Vance
U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq died in vain. This means that their deaths were ineffectual, unsuccessful, and futile. Their deaths were without real significance, value, or importance. Their deaths were without effect, to no avail, and to no purpose.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
24 statistics showing the downward spiral of the US economy that needs to be reversed!
04-25-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
These statistics paint an ugly picture of the future for the US economy!
The statistics below range from a discussion of the US dollar, China, the credit worthiness of US treasury debt, a disappearing middle class, an evaporating jobs market, infl
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Environment
Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend
04-25-2011
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MSNBC
Earth Day co-founder Ira Einhorn who helped bring awareness to environmental issues and also preached against the Vietnam War " and any violence " had a secret dark side.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Heart Friendly Yellow Potatoes
04-25-2011
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arclein
Specifically, researchers recently sang the praises of potatoes with yellow flesh -- like Yukon Gold. In a small study of men, eating a cup of yellow potatoes every day for 6 weeks helped lower blood levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a compound that pr
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Periwinkle Brain Booster
04-25-2011
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arclein
I’m talking about the periwinkle - otherwise known as Vinca minor. It’s more than a source of beautiful blue in your garden - it’s the source of a miraculous brain-booster called vinpocetine.
Vinpocetine is high-octane fuel for your brain. It’s so
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Carbon Nanotube Aerogels
04-25-2011
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arclein
Researchers have created a new aerogel that boasts amazing strength and an incredibly large surface area. Nicknamed ‘frozen smoke’ due to its translucent appearance, aerogels are manufactured materials derived from a gel in which the liquid component
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Sauropod Food Digestion
04-25-2011
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arclein
Nothing in the dinosaur world was quite like the sauropods. They were huge, some unbelievably gigantic, the biggest animals ever to lumber across the land, consuming everything in sight. Their necks were much longer than a giraffe’s, their tails just
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News Link • Events: Arizona
15th ANNUAL RECOGNITION AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARD CEREMONY
04-14-2011
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www.freedomlibrary.org
Tuesday, April 26, Yuma, AZ, help our youth and others understand the real meaning of Individual Liberty and the Freedom Philosophy in order to make a better, more peaceful world for all of us.
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