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Date Sent: 2012-12-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, December 2, 2012 |
Pentagon wants spy shop as big as CIA -- NY gov to rifle US taxpayers for $42B for Sandy
The U.S. implementing its usual subversion tactics in Bolivia -- Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase -- Hypersonic Flight ‘Breakthrough’ Could Have Us in Tokyo by Lunch -- General Electric Pitches an Industrial Internet -- How Hamas and Islamic Jihad Use Journalism as a Cover for Terrorism -- A Budding War Over Internet Economics -- ECUADOR Platform of a revolution in motion -- The plot against the Internet -- "Killing Them Softly": A Hitman Movie—That's Actually About the Financial Crash -- Corn ethanol may cost food service $3.2B a year -- Punishing Palestine -- Secret US Construction in Israel -- New Mexican president sworn in amid violent protests (VIDEO, PHOTOS) -- The Fiscal Cliff About To Expose Another Medicare Scam -- Is Fedzilla About to Pull Off a $3.5 Trillion Private Pension Heist?
AZ: Christmas Party at the
Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th, 2012 6:30 p.m. til ???; 2012
Arizona Activist Awards, Patriot Roast & Fundraiser Saturday
December 15th 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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News Link • Military
Pentagon wants spy shop as big as CIA
12-02-2012
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Washington Post
The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size, U.S. officials said.
The project is aimed at transforming the Defense Intelligence Agency, whic
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News Link • Welfare: Political
NY gov to rifle US taxpayers for $42B for Sandy
12-02-2012
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AP
An official in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration says the governor is headed to Washington on Monday to make his pitch for about $42 billion in federal aid to help the state recover from Superstorm Sandy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Report: Launch of CIA ‘cocaine coup’ turned on Romney win
12-02-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
For more than a year the CIA has been trafficking 300 kilos of cocaine a month from Ecuador to Chile for export on to Europe, according to recent credible media reports from Santiago, the Chilean capital.
Proceeds from the 300 kilo-a-month busines
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Government
The U.S. implementing its usual subversion tactics in Bolivia
12-02-2012
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http://www.granma.cu, Patricio Montesinos
AS Bolivia’s 2014 general elections draw closer, the United States is accelerating the implementation of its customary, largely unsuccessful, subversion strategies, well-known throughout Latin America and in Cuba, where they have been standard practi
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase
12-02-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Brandon Keim
If you could escape the human time scale for a moment, and regard evolution from the perspective of deep time, in which the last 10,000 years are a short chapter in a long saga, you’d say: Things are pretty wild right now.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Hypersonic Flight ‘Breakthrough’ Could Have Us in Tokyo by Lunch
12-02-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
Reaction Engines Limited says it has developed an engine, shown in this rendering of the firm’s Skylon aircraft, that would allow us to fly halfway around the world in a matter of hours.
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News Link • Internet
General Electric Pitches an Industrial Internet
12-02-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Jessica Leber
With more sensors and more data, GE wants to wring efficiency from industrial systems.
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News Link • TERRORISM
How Hamas and Islamic Jihad Use Journalism as a Cover for Terrorism
11/29/2012
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idfblog.com
Who is a Journalist?
Should a senior Islamic Jihad commander who paints “TV” on his car be considered a journalist?
Should a cameraman for a Hamas-owned and operated television network be considered a journalist?
Should a radio show host who
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Internet
A Budding War Over Internet Economics
12-02-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By David Talbot
Proposals for a “sender pays” policy will roil UN talks in Dubai.
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News Link • World News
ECUADOR
Platform of a revolution in motion
12-02-2012
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http://www.granma.cu, Laura Bécquer Paseiro
THE Alianza PAÍS (AP) in Ecuador has officially nominated current President Rafael Correa as its candidate in the country’s February 17, 2013 presidential elections.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Creating Drinking Water from Air
12-02-2012
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science.the-environmentalist.org, by Patriot Daily
According to U.S. Government estimates, at least 36 states will face water shortages in the next five years, as available supplies decrease due to drought, rising temperatures, population and inefficient management.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Bella Gaia
12-02-2012
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http://world.the-environmentalist.org
A new and unforgettable video by director and composer, Kenji Williams, compiling views from NASA and other sources of the Bella Gaia, the beautiful Earth.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
The plot against the Internet
12-02-2012
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Politico
Bureaucrats from around the world will gather behind closed doors in Dubai next week to plot an end to the Internet as we know it " or so Washington would have you believe. Hill lawmakers warn that the 120-plus U.S. delegation needs to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"Killing Them Softly": A Hitman Movie"That's Actually About the Financial Crash
12-02-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Asawin Suebsaeng
Along with Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, Killing Them Softly is so far the best Great Recession movie to emerge out of the film industry.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Study: Corn ethanol may cost foodservice $3.2B a year
11-30-2012
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Paul Frumkin, NRN
The federal government’s policy of fostering the use of corn " the chief ingredient in U.S. livestock feed " as a source for ethanol in gasoline is artificially inflating corn prices and thereby driving other food chain commodity costs upward.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
5 Things You May Not Have Thought of When Planning for an Emergency
12-02-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Gaye Levy
One of the very first things I did when I adopted what I like to call the “Prepping Lifestyle” is do a walk around inventory.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Canadian Researchers Discover New Evidence That Vitamin D Shuts Down Cancer Cells
12-02-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Mae Chan
Researchers at McGill University have discovered a molecular basis for the cancer preventive effects of vitamin D, whereby its active form essentially shuts down cancer cells.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Top Healing Foods That Stop Ovarian Cancer in its Tracks
12-02-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Carolanne Wright
Ovarian cancer is one of the most deadly diseases out there. It is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women " an astounding 14,000 out of 23,000 diagnosed each year, die.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
30 Years of Breast Screening: 1.3 Million Wrongly Treated
12-02-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Sayer Ji
The breast cancer industry’s holy grail (that mammography is the primary weapon in the war against breast cancer) has been disproved. In fact, mammography appears to have CREATED 1.3 million cases of breast cancer in the U.S. population that were not
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inventions
This Is Cardboard. Also Entirely Recycled, Water and Fireproof, and Dirt Cheap.
12-02-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
After four years of tinkering based on the principles of origami, Israeli amateur inventor and bike freak Izhar Gafni has crafted the greenest transportation ever - a $20 bike made of recycled packaging cardboard, with recycled rubber wheels, treated
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Mexico
New Mexican president sworn in amid violent protests (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
12-01-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Protesters clashed with police outside the Mexican Congress in Mexico City on Saturday, as the country’s new president, Enrique Pena Nieto, took the oath of office.
Hundreds of demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails, firecrackers and rocks at secur
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Healthcare
The Fiscal Cliff About To Expose Another Medicare Scam
12-01-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Why would the fiscal cliff mean that doctors would suddenly take a thirty percent cut in their billing? Nothing was said about that last year when the deal was made. Part of the problem is that deal wasn’t made last year. It was made fifteen years ag
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Social Security
Is Fedzilla About to Pull Off a $3.5 Trillion Private Pension Heist?
12-01-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The alternate media and blogosphere are buzzing with very disturbing stories about how the government intends to steal/seize private retirement accounts.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Environment
Massive Sinkhole Still Growing " Ohio: 4 Football Fields Long, 30′ Deep Shuts Down 8 Mile Stre
12-01-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Another massive sinkhole has emerged, this time outside of Dover, Ohio. According to WTOV9, emergency crews have been forced to close down an 8-mile stretch along a road in Tuscarawas County because of the rapidly growing monster.
Officials said t
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Goose that Laid the Federal Reserve Note
12-01-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
This newly discovered, expanded version of Aesop’s most famous fable bears an eerie resemblance to the modern day and sheds new light on its tragic moral.
One day a countryman checking his goose’s nest found there an egg all green and flattened. W
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News Link • Archaeology
Sauron Named Big as T.Rex
12-01-2012
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arclein
hat fossil included only part the upper skull"including the eye socket, study leader Andrea Cau, of the Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini in Bologna, Italy, said by email.
"The idea of a predator that is physically known only as its fierce eye r
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News Link • Archaeology
Bronze Age Ax Heads Adulterated
12-01-2012
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arclein
An x-ray of the Bronze Age pot found in a Jersey field last month, carried out at the island’s airport, has found a further 21 axeheads in a discovery which could shed new light on the way people lived 3,000 years ago.
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News Link • Environment
Persistence or Extinction Calculated
12-01-2012
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arclein
Allee effect," the phenomenon by which a population's growth declines at low densities, is another key reason for perishing populations, and is an overriding feature of a paper published last month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
World's first manned flight with an electric multicopter
12-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, forschungsbuero
Our latest video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MivVSggIoCA
On October 21st, 2011, Thomas Senkel of e-volo made the first manned flight with an electric multicopter, the so called volocopter VC1, at an airstrip in the southwest of Germany.
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News Link • Transportation
RYNO Motors Full Story
12-01-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, rynomotors1
This is a great story on the early days of RYNO Motors.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, December 2, 2012 Edition
11-30-2012
John Semmens
President's Laughable Fiscal Plan Called “Will of the People”
So-called negotiations to avert going over the “fiscal cliff” got off to an unpromising start when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's presentation of President Obama's “plan” generat
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Costco's Dividend Tax Epiphany
11-30-2012
Menckens Ghost
When President Obama needed a business executive to come to his campaign defense, Jim Sinegal was there. The Costco co-founder, director and former CEO even made a prime-time speech at the Democratic Party convention in Charlotte
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
11-30-12 -- Will Grigg - (MP3 & Video Loaded)
Will Grigg (award-winning investigative journalist, writer, producer) on the status of civil liberties in America, good cop vs. bad cop, freedom good...government bad
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Congress looks at doing away with the $1 bill
11-30-2012
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AP
American consumers have shown about as much appetite for the $1 coin as kids do their spinach. They may not know what's best for them, either. Congressional auditors say doing away with dollar bills entirely and replacing them with
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News Link • World News
Australian navy ship raided
11-30-2012
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Reuters
Intruders escape with weapons in a raid on an Australian navy vessel.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Only three major U.S. cities see economic recovery: study
11-30-2012
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Reuters
Retailers moving into old downtown buildings, an abundance of freshly planted greenspaces, and a stream of new jobs in Knoxville, Tennessee, are all signs to Mayor Madeline Rogero that for the last year prosperity has been blooming in her city.
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News Link • Economy - International
After a bashing, BOJ weighs "big bang" war on deflation
11-30-2012
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Reuters
Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa was feeling the heat in February when he was summoned to parliament five times to explain what he planned to do to get Japan out of its deflation doldrums.
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News Link • China
Chinese, U.S. soldiers complete disaster relief drill amid Asia tensions
11-30-2012
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Reuters
Chinese and American soldiers finished a week-long disaster rescue exercise on Friday, furthering military ties between the two countries even as military tensions rise between China and U.S. military allies in the Pacific region.
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News Link • China
ASEAN chief voices alarm at China plan to board ships in disputed waters
11-30-2012
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Reuters
China's plan to board and search ships that illegally enter what it considers its territory in the disputed South China Sea could spark naval clashes and hurt the region's economy, Southeast Asia's top diplomat warned on Friday.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
FAA: Drone Operators Have Zero Privacy Obligations
11-30-2012
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Prison Planet
In a response to questions from lawmakers, the Federal Aviation Authority admitted that surveillance drone operators have zero privacy obligations.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Assange to RT: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule
11-30-2012
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RT.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says all the necessary physical infrastructure for absolute totalitarianism through the internet is ready. He told RT that the question now is whether the turnkey process that already started will go all the way.
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News Link • Police State
CIA-Sponsored Trolls Monitor Internet & Interact With Users to Discredit Factual Information
11-30-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In July of this year it became apparent through a flood of mainstream media reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) was “desperate to hire new hacking talent to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure” yet the NSA is notorious for its su
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
U.N. Assembly, in Blow to U.S., Elevates Status of Palestine
11-29-2012
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New York Times
More than 130 countries voted on Thursday to upgrade Palestine to a nonmember observer state of the United Nations, a triumph for Palestinian diplomacy and a sharp rebuke to the United States and Israel.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
On Closest Planet to the Sun, NASA Finds Lots of Ice
11-29-2012
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New York Times
Mercury is as cold as ice. Indeed, Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, possesses a lot of ice " 100 billion to one trillion tons " scientists working with NASA’s Messenger spacecraft reported on Thursday.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
In pretrial hearing, Army private Bradley Manning tells court of harsh prison conditions
11-29-2012
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Washington Post
At Quantico, he said, he was isolated in a 6-by-8-foot cell, monitored constantly by guards and awakened periodically during the night. He called the intake process when he first arrived at Quantico “a shark-attack environment.”
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Penn State to pay over $2.4 million to president fired over Sandusky
11-29-2012
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Reuters
Former Penn State University President Graham Spanier, who was accused of covering up the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal and fired a year ago, will be paid more than $2.4 million in severance and compensation, the university said on Thursday.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama: More taxes, more spending ... bitches
11-29-2012
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Washington Post
President Obama offered Republicans a detailed plan for averting the year-end “fiscal cliff” that calls for $1.6 trillion in new taxes, $50 billion in fresh spending on the economy and an effective end to congressional control over the size of the na
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News Link • Military
The US Military Wants To 'Microchip' Troops
11-29-2012
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Business Insider
DARPA is at it again. This time, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced plans to create nanochips for monitoring troops health on the battlefield. Kate Knibbs at Mobiledia reports the sensors are targeted at preventing
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bid Farewell to Pennies and Nickels!
11-29-2012
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The penny has run out of luck, both in Canada and in the United States. Back in March, the Royal Canadian Mint announced that they were phasing out the penny due to “low purchasing power and rising production costs”, according to CBC News.
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News Link • Healthcare
Now sick babies go on death pathway in budget cutting UK
11-29-2012
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Daily Mail
Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’.
Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults.
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