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Date Sent: 2009-01-12
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, January 12, 2009 |
It's Not Their Debt! - by Ernest Hancock -- Pentagon denies Israel arms shipment linked to Gaza
US rejected an Israeli request to attack Iran -- Israel says Gaza war nearing end as fighting rages -- Bush ordered ceasefire retreat at UN -- It Felt like “Martial Law” in Los Angeles! -- Reject Interventionism and Embrace Liberty - by Jacob Hornberger -- Peter Schiff: The Fed’s Bubble Trouble -- Ex-Gitmo guard who saw 'torture' calls co-workers 'psychotic' -- Bush says torture still necessary -- Obama: 'Everybody's Going to Have to Give' -- GOP urging restraint in stimulus debate -- 4th Q Earnings a disaster -- Flying Car getting ready for first takeoff -- China's internet 'spin doctors' -- Metro Transit Threatens Pamphleteers with Legal Action -- NOLA Cops Shoot Man 12 Times in the Back -- Israel Is Committing War Crimes -- Bush takes last Air Force One flight to honor dad -- Israel Tells Gazans to Brace for War Escalation
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
Giant plasma TVs face ban in battle to green Britain
01-11-2009
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www.independent.co.uk
The moves, which follow last week's withdrawal of the 100W incandescent lightbulb, are part of a drive to slow the rapid growth of electricity consumption in homes by phasing out wasteful devices and introducing more efficient ones.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
US rejected an Israeli request to attack Iran
01-11-2009
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RawStory.com
In an effort to sabotage Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, Israeli officials sent a secret request to the White House last year for specialized bombs to attack Iran's main nuclear complex, The New York Times reported.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Israel says Gaza war nearing end as fighting rages
01-11-2009
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RawStory.com
Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza's main city, sparking some of the fiercest battles yet of the 16-day-old war that Israel launched in response to rocket fire, but that has failed to completely stop the rockets.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
High Power Worker
01-11-2009
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YouTube
High power line workers are conveyed to high tension lines via helicopter. (Helllll No!)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
It Felt like “Martial Law” in Los Angeles!
01-11-2008
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Daily Paul September 14, 2008 via InfoWars.com
Thousands of cars and thousands of unsuspecting people are experiencing for the first time in their lives, the full impact of what a police state is all about this morning, folks! The freeway looks like a parking lot! (We reported this when it happen
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Bush ordered ceasefire retreat at UN
01-11-2009
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/b
Rice told to abstain in last-minute phone call from the White House Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, was forced to step back from voting in favor of the Gaza ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council after orders from Washington, di
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Reject Interventionism and Embrace Liberty
1-11-2009
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FFF / Jacob Hornberger
[An] initial intervention produces a crisis, which then leads public officials to call for a new intervention to address the crisis. That new intervention then produces a new crisis, which then leads to new interventions.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Political Theory
Renegade Nevada claims election bellwether status
1-11-2009
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AP
When it comes to voting in presidential elections, the maverick state is as mainstream as it gets. (Yet, the Ron Paul Revolution was perhaps strongest there. Hmmmmmmm.)
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Now Do You Believe?
1-11-2009
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YouTube
Tired of hearing from economic chicken-littles? Well maybe it would be easier to hear from this analyst who's credentials should be obvious to all.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Federal DEA Agent Shot In Roxborough
1-11-2009
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CBS3.com
The DEA agent was shot when an assisting Philadelphia police officer opened fire on a threatening dog inside the home. The bullet traveled through the animal, striking the agent in the left leg. [Bonus: ironic quote from spokes-bureaucrat]
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Gun Rights
Public Is Purchasing So Many Guns In Panic Over Obama & Economy That There Is A Shortage Of Gov'
1-11-2009
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www.ArizonaShooting.com
We've all heard that gun sales are up, and its not unexpected. But this is;...so many guns are being sold that the required federal paperwork filled out when buying from a licensed dealer is almost gone!!
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Speedy trial issue lands before US Supreme Court
1-11-09
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
"This is going to become a bigger and bigger issue due to the economic crunch. The states are failing to fund these systems, causing these undue delays," she said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Peter Schiff: The Fed’s Bubble Trouble
1-11-09
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prisonplanet.com/
The downside of course, is that all of the demand for Treasuries is artificial. Treasuries are now in the hands of speculators looking to sell, not investors looking to hold. These players are analogous to the mid-decade condo-flippers who flocked to
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Boot Camp! China's Answer to Web Addiction
1-11-09
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abcnews.go.com/Technology/
A 6 a.m. wake-up call. Afternoon drills in military bearing and formations. And a grueling regime of push-ups and leg lifts before the 9:30 p.m. lights-out. Welcome to rehab for Internet addicts " People's Liberation Army (PLA) style.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Torture
Ex-Gitmo guard who saw 'torture' calls co-workers 'psychotic'
1-11-09
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Rawstory.com
"...This was the opportunity that they'd always wanted, to be violent and awful people...because they are genuinely psychotic. And for others, it's just a job," Arendt said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Torture
Bush says torture still necessary
1-11-09
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Rawstory.com
The president disagreed with notion that such tactics amount to torture.
"I firmly reject the word 'torture,'" Bush said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Free Trade
Prosperity & Peace - Freedom Works. Fear Does Not.
01-11-2009
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Christine Smith Blog
I do not fear unfettered commerce between nations as I do not fear reliance on any region of the world for resources, nor do I fear immigrants in the workforce. I’m glad for them all. Unregulated supply and demand works locally & globally.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama's Magic Speedometer
1-11-2009
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Bloody Mary Breakfast
Before you drive off the cliff do everyone a favor and make these macroeconomic policy experts show you the quality in their data. Make them satisfy you that their aggregates differentiate between tuna, tractors, and rolling mills.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Marriage
Le Monde Publishes Never-Before-Seen 1996 Interview With Obamas About Their Marriage
01-10-2009
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ABC News via DrudgeReport.com
"...everyone was talking about Barack. I’m more of the skeptical kind, I was thinking, 'Yeah, he’s probably an idiot, whatever.'"
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Environment
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches
01-11-2009
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DrudgeReport.com
Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"I Want My Bailout Money" - Song by Michael Adams
01-11-2009
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NaturalNews.com via e-mail from AUN
"I want my bailout money-Keep the bills coming-Sweet green cash just drippin like honey-I'm a new kind of thug with a Washington buzz 'cause-Dealing debt pays better than dealing drugs
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama Calls for 'Grand Bargain' on Economy: 'Everybody's Going to Have to Give'
1-11-2009
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ABC News
[change] Obama told me that fixing our economy over the long term will require sacrifice from every American and scaling back some of his campaign promises.
"Our challenge is going to be identifying what works and putting more money into that,
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GOP urging restraint in stimulus debate
1-11-2009
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AP
Out of power, Republicans appear to be retreating to familiar old ground. They're becoming deficit hawks again. GOP lawmakers didn't seem to mind enjoying the fruits of government largesse for the past eight years while one of their own was i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Budget Ax to Fall: Arizona facing 2010 budget deficit of $3 billion
1-11-09
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AZcentral.com/
And after wrestling this year's budget into balance, lawmakers must craft a balanced budget for next year, when the deficit is expected to be as much as $3 billion.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
4th Q Earnings: "There's nobody who believes this is going to be anything less than a disas
1-11-09
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CNBC.com
"It's generally showing that the deterioration of the economy has certainly spread. A couple of quarters ago, we saw it just in certain areas. Now we're seeing it in companies that have global exposure... You're seeing a whole gamet
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
Flying Car getting ready for first takeoff
1-11-2009
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London Times
Is it a car? Is it a plane? Actually it’s both. The first flying automobile, equally at home in the sky or on the road, is scheduled to take to the air next month. If it survives its first test flight, the Terrafugia Transition, which can transform i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
"This is John Galt speaking..." PART FOURTEEN
01-11-2008
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YouTube
Fourteenth section of an ongoing project to explore Galt's Speech from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand using images and video from current events. (Want to know what's coming to America?....)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hyperinflation
01-11-2008
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free.thebankaccounts.com
The definition used by most economists is "an inflationary cycle without any tendency toward equilibrium." A vicious circle is created in which more and more inflation is created with each iteration of the cycle.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Property Rights
America is on the verge of being refounded
01-11-2009
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Mark Yannone
America's freedom fighters have mourned their loss and are preparing to move on.
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News Link • Media: Internet
China's internet 'spin doctors'
1-11-2009
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BBC
China is using an increasing number of paid "internet commentators" in a sophisticated attempt to control public opinion. [Silly communists. In America, the party gets sheeple to do that for free.]
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • TERRORISM
Cheney Still Hopes to Catch bin Laden
1-11-2009
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RawStory
"We've got a few days left yet," Cheney told CNN when asked why bin Laden or Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri continue to elude US capture. The US military operation in the "war on terror" had other big priorities, he ad
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • World News
The infamous NASA Blue Beam Project and the NWO
01-11-2009
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http://uaff.us
The infamous NASA Blue Beam Project has four different steps in order to implement the new age religion with the Antichrist at its head. We must remember that the new age religion is the very foundation for the new world government, without which rel
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Police State
Metro Threatens Flex Your Rights with Legal Action, ACLU Defends
1-10-2009
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Flex Your Rights
The Washington Metro Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has threatened Flex Your Rights with legal action for the use of Metro's "M" logo on an informational flyer about refusing random searches.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NOLA Cops Shoot Man 12 Times in the Back
1-10-2009
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RawStory
A young, black man in New Orleans is dead, slain by police officers on New Year's Day, in an incident that has outraged a community and triggered protests over what family members are calling a "murder."
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Pentagon denies arms shipment to Israel linked to Gaza fighting
01-10-2009
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Haaretz
The US military has sought to hire a merchant ship to deliver ammunition to Israel this month, tender documents show, but the Pentagon said the shipment was not linked to the conflict in the Gaza Strip. (Then what is it for, other than killing)
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel Is Committing War Crimes
The Wall Street Journal
Israel's American-made F-16s and Apache helicopters have destroyed mosques, the education and justice ministries, a university, prisons, courts and police stations. These institutions were part of Gaza's civilian infrastructure. And when non
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Forty Four O Nine
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush takes last Air Force One flight to honor dad
1-10-2009
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Reuters
[Sweet use of our tax money...get back to work Serfs.] President George W. Bush took his last official Air Force One flight on Saturday to Virginia for a ceremony to place a warship named after his father into active duty.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel Tells Gazans to Brace for War Escalation
1-10-2009
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AP
Israel pounded rocket sites and tunnels while its planes dropped leaflets warning of an escalation, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas predicted a "waterfall of blood" unless all parties adhere to the U.N.'s call for a durable cease-f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Quakes shake loose fears about Yellowstone volcano
1-10-2009
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AP
Jessica Robertson, a Geological Survey spokeswoman in Reston, Va., said the Web page violated the USGS trademark and that the agency's attorneys were investigating whether a federal offense was committed.
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Environment
Michael Crichton on Applying Models to Complex Systems
Adventures of Citizen X
Just as the global warming crowd bases their climate predictions on the use of computer models, Keynesian economists try to explain economic activity using mathematical formulas. As Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman explains in his new book, The Retur
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Feature Article • Drug War
N.H. Pot Protester B-b-busted!
Found Zero
On December 6, 2008, James Andrew Carroll announced his intent to "possess marijuana as a protest against current drug laws". As of approximately 1:13 PM EST today he got busted.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
UK: Genetic tests for all - the new approach to preventive medicine?
1-10-09
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Timesonline.co.uk/
Embryo screening, which is licensed for certain serious conditions, such as Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis, continues to attract controversy, with claims that it is paving the way for the creation of “designer babies”.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
UK headline: Surprise rise in US jobless raises spectre of Great Depression
1-10-09
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Timesonline.co.uk/
Anxieties over the scale of the recession now gripping the whole Western economy were intensified by a further decline in European industry. Germany, Spain, Sweden and France joined Britain in reporting the worst collapse in their manufacturing secto
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Jack Gregson
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