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Date Sent: 2012-04-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, April 29, 2012 |
U.S. Amasses Stealth-Jet Armada Near Iran -- Virginia lawmakers agree to reject NDAA
Help For The Economy? Not From Debt-Bound Grads -- The Fed Has Gone Nuts -- We Need To Return To The Gold Standard -- Public Distrust Of The Media At All Time High -- If You Own A Cell Phone Or A Computer You May Be A Terrorist -- V.A. Threatens Veteran’s Benefits For Handing Out Bible Tracts & Dvd’s -- 13 Year Old Put On Sex Offender List -- Drone Warfare in Yemen -- Daring to Criticize Israel -- 4409: Si Señor -- The Value of Bradley Manning -- New
Particle Discovered with 'Higgs Boson' Machine -- The Last
Five Days Have Been Amazing for Ron Paul’s Campaign -- Merkel Says EU Leaders Have Growth
Agenda for June Summit -- Conga mine moves forward --
Bureaucratic tangle favors illegal logging -- Foxconn Workers
Threaten Suicide -- ID cards
for infants? Author of Arizona immigration law defends S.B. 1070 -- 20,000 Year Old
Atlantic Crossing Gains Support -- Piracy
vs Privacy: Obama may 'oppose' CISPA but still sign it like NDAA --
New York reinstates beer tax and brewers are hopping mad -- Fracked Up: The Boom of the Century, RV
Armies, Exploding Meth Labs, Parking Lot Rape and All --
Occupy Prepares For May Day: No Work, No School, No Banking --
Hundreds of Thousands Urge USDA to Stop 'Agent Orange Corn'
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News Link • Iran
U.S. Amasses Stealth-Jet Armada Near Iran
04-28-2012
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Wired
The U.S. Air Force is quietly assembling the world’s most powerful air-to-air fighting team at bases near Iran. Stealthy F-22 Raptors on their first front-line deployment have joined a potent mix of active-duty and Air National Guard F-15 Eagles, inc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • States' Rights
Virginia lawmakers agree to reject NDAA
04-28-2012
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http://rt.com
Four months after US President Barack Obama authorized the US military to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or trial, lawmakers in Virginia have voted to refuse to abidy by the provision of the NDAA.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Help For The Economy? Not From Debt-Bound Grads
04-29-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by NPR Staff
In a little more than 10 years, the total amount of student loan debt in this country has doubled to more than $1 trillion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
We're About To Have One Of The Biggest Weeks That Anyone Can Remember
04-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
We hope all of our readers have a very restful, relaxing weekend, because you need to be prepared:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Fed Has Gone Nuts -- We Need To Return To The Gold Standard
04-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, John Mauldin
There are times, my friends Michael Lewitt and Dr. Lacy Hunt agreed today at lunch, when the study of economics is best informed by a sound knowledge of history.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
If You Own A Cell Phone Or A Computer You May Be A Terrorist
04-29-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, John Pilger
You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Pepsi Isn’t The Only Company That Uses Aborted Fetal Cells As Flavor Enhancers
04-29-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, KipNews
Children of God for Life is calling on the public to boycott products of major food companies that are partnering with Senomyx, a biotech company that produces artificial flavor enhancers, unless the company stops using aborted fetal cell lines to te
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
V.A. Threatens Veteran’s Benefits For Handing Out Bible Tracts & Dvd’s
04-29-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Brian D. Hill
A normal 63 year old veteran, who could never have expected a confrontation with the VA Police, was threatened to lose his VA benefits and would have been possibly charged with a felony.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
13 Year Old Put On Sex Offender List
04-29-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, John Woods
Jamie was ten years old when he saw his first pornographic sex scene. During a sleepover, a classmate offered to show him ‘some funny pictures’ on his laptop.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
The Value of Bradley Manning
04-28-2012
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http://consortiumnews.com, By David Swanson
Chase Madar’s new book, The Passion of Bradley Manning, pulls together the essential facts that we should try to somehow deliver to television viewers and victims of our education system.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New Particle Discovered with 'Higgs Boson' Machine
04-28-2012
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http://www.theatlanticwire.com, Connor Simpson
Scientists running the Large Hadron Collider, aka the "big bang machine", announced Friday they've discovered a brand new particle during one of their experiments.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
How Good It Feels â€" The Last Five Days Have Been Amazing for Ron Paul’s Campaign
04-28-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Allan Stevo
I must offer my congratulations to the activists in the liberty movement and in Ron Paul’s campaign.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anonymous
Lacking a Corporate Outcry, CISPA Looks Likely to Pass
04-28-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com, Alexander Reed Kelly
The hacking collective Anonymous is back with another pulse-pounding video
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Bolivian sex workers hunger strike to support doctors
04-28-2012
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http://rt.com
ÂSex workers in the Bolivian city of El Alto declared a hunger strike on Saturday, demanding that authorities find a solution to a month-long doctors’ strike there.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Merkel Says EU Leaders Have Growth Agenda for June Summit
04-28-2012
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http://www.bloomberg.com, By Rainer Buergin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said European Union leaders will discuss plans to bolster economic growth in the 27-nation bloc at their June summit.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Conga mine moves forward
04-28-2012
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http://lapress.org, Cecilia Remón
Government-appointed experts say changes needed, but opposition still alive.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Environment
Bureaucratic tangle favors illegal logging
04-28-2012
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http://lapress.org, Cecilia Remón
35 percent of exported cedar and mahogany comes from illegal sources.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Foxconn Workers Threaten Suicide
04-28-2012
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http://www.truthdig.com
Workers at a Chinese factory owned by the electronics manufacturer Foxconn threatened to leap from the roof of a building in Wuhan in a protest over wages and working conditions.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
The Mechanics of Prayer
04-28-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Adam Lanka
Prayer means many different things to many different people.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Anthropology
A new glimpse into ancient human history
04-28-2012
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http://www.bostonherald.com, By Eryn Brown
Analyzing DNA from four ancient skeletons and comparing it with thousands of genetic samples from living humans, a group of Scandinavian scientists reported that agriculture initially spread through Europe because farmers expanded their territory nor
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Smartphone games face new competition from social apps, says report
04-28-2012
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http://www.gamasutra.com, by Tom Curtis
Over the past 40 months, games have remained the dominant app category on smartphones, but according to new data from Flurry Analytics, social networking apps have recently narrowed the gap.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
New study unravels pigeons' GPS, bird's magnetic sense
04-28-2012
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http://www.alaskadispatch.com, Eoin O'Carroll
The next time someone calls you bird-brained, you should assume that you are being complimented on your sense of direction.
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News Link • Immigration
ID cards for infants? Author of Arizona immigration law defends S.B. 1070
04-28-2012
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http://rt.com
Arizona’s controversial immigration law is being discussed by the United States Supreme Court this week, but the top nine justices in America aren’t the only ones considering how to handle S.B. 1070.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food Recipes - Long Term Storage Foods
Taming Those Wild, Stinging Backyard Greens Into Dinner
04-28-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Larkin Page-Jacobs
On a chilly grey morning I come across a big, lush patch of nettles in a Pittsburgh park. Leah Lizarondo, the food writer who brought me here, has her hands wrapped in old plastic bread bags.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Fresh Food Advocate Links Farmers, Doctors, Low-Income Families
04-28-2012
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http://www.npr.org,
It must take a boatload of energy to be Michel Nischan. He owns a restaurant, writes cookbooks and lead the fast-growing non-profit Wholesome Wave, which connects low-income neighborhoods with local, farm fresh foods.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Occupy Prepares For May Day: No Work, No School, No Banking
04-28-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Allison Kilkenny
Occupy Wall Street hopes to capture headlines once again next week with the May 1 "General Strike", long-advertised by the group as an event that will prove to the public and media that OWS is currently experiencing a resurgence.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Slip Sliding Greenland Ice Sheet
04-28-2012
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arclein
Like snow sliding off a roof on a sunny day, the Greenland Ice Sheet may be sliding faster into the ocean due to massive releases of meltwater from surface lakes, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder-based Cooperative Instit
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robert klein
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Middle East Water Libel
04-28-2012
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arclein
Moreover, he interpolated a number of venomous inaccuracies into the report at the 11th hour without notifying his co-authors, all of whom disavowed his claims on reviewing the final text.
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Practical Asteroid Mining
04-28-2012
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arclein
Outside of NASA, Anderson and Diamandis are among the most likely candidates to realize such a dream. Space Adventures has sent seven private tourists to the International Space Station while the Ansari X Prize led to a spurt of non-governmental
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
20,000 Year Old Atlantic Crossing Gains Support
04-28-2012
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arclein
When the crew of the Virginia scallop trawler Cinmar hauled a mastodon tusk onto the deck in 1970, another oddity dropped out of the net: a dark, tapered stone blade, nearly eight inches long and still sharp.
Forty years later, this rediscovered p
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Kiwi Dairy Lessons
04-28-2012
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arclein
In the ensuing years, New Zealand’s government moved decisively to protect the country’s farmers from marketplace risks â€" supply fluctuations, declines in prices, foreign competition. It didn’t hurt that, as Mr. Lambie put it, almost every cabinet mi
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
One in Five Kids Report Hearing Voices
04-28-2012
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arclein
"Auditory hallucinations can vary from hearing an isolated sentence now and then, to hearing 'conversations' between two or more people lasting for several minutes.
"It may present itself like screaming or shouting, and other times it could so
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nanotube Arrays Alternative to platinum
04-28-2012
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arclein
Dyes absorb photons from sunlight and generate a charge in the form of electrons, which are captured first by a semiconducting titanium oxide layer deposited on a current collector before flowing back to the counter electrode through another current
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Polyurethane System Density Below Water
04-28-2012
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arclein
This compact material offers great design freedom for vehicle construction and can be used to make components with a Class A surface that are to be finished with a high-grade coating. It is processed using tried-and-tested RRIM technology.
(Reinfor
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
Piracy vs Privacy: Obama may 'oppose' CISPA but still sign it like NDAA
04-28-2012
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http://rt.com
The White House has officially announced that the Obama administration is opposed to the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, expected to go before Congress this week. But does it really matter?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: State
New York reinstates beer tax and brewers are hopping mad
04-28-2012
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http://rt.com
A lawsuit waged in New York by a Massachusetts brewery is ending with a change that will affect independent beer makers from Buffalo all the way to the Big Apple.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Born Into Cellblocks
04-28-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, Charles Bowden
In Nuevo Laredo, children do time with the cartels.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
What We Have Here: A Failure To Communicate
04-28-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Linton Weeks
is the weirdest thing. There are more ways than ever to communicate with people, yet it sometimes seems like it is more difficult to connect â€" and stay connected â€" with anyone.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
'The Art Of The Sale': Life's A Pitch
04-28-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by NPR Staff
Salesmen are rarely heroic figures in American culture. They're often shown as slick, unscrupulous charlatans like Ricky Roma in David Mamet's play Glengarry Glen Ross.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Unintended Consequences
Fracked Up: The Boom of the Century, RV Armies, Exploding Meth Labs, Parking Lot Rape and All
04-28-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
An up-close look at the roughnecks, puffnecks, strippers, truck drivers, lap dancers, man camps, meth labs, doubled housing prices, $25-an-hour waitresses and other gritty elements of the "new Big Rock Candy Mountain"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Hundreds of Thousands Urge USDA to Stop 'Agent Orange Corn'
04-28-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staff
Hundreds of thousands of individuals, organizations and farmers are pushing the USDA to stop the approval of Dow AgroSciences' 2,4-D-resistant corn, dubbed 'Agent Orange corn' by its opponents, who say the product poses a threat to public health and
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Pacific Reef Sharks Vanishing Near Populated Islands
04-28-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Stephanie Pappas
As many as 90 percent of reef sharks have disappeared from reefs near populated islands, a new study finds.
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