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Date Sent: 2010-03-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, March 8, 2010 |
US running intl. network of secret detentions -- Iceland Voters Rejects Plan to Repay British Invest
Police Abduction by Quota -- Homeland Security to Suppress Activism: Parachuting opiates of the masses -- Canada Freezes Spending to Be First in G-7 to Erase Deficit -- Fingerprints Now Required to Skateboard at park -- Open war over Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's master of the dark arts -- $437 Trillion in Interest Rate Swaps: Many Countries Face Sovereign Default -- 450 Full Body Screeners: Scanning Every Last Square Inch
-- Why Obama, Pelosi, and Reid Won't Quit Pushing Health Care Reform --
AL QAEDA TELLS FOLLOWERS TO LAUNCH ATTACKS ON ROYAL NAVY -- Sarah Palin and Wayne Allyn Root to Speak at Tea Party Express -- U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran -- Obama Plans 10MM Acre Land Grab
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
'US running intl. network of secret detentions'
03/07/2010
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Presstv.com
A United Nations report on the existence of secret detention facilities in countries around the world puts most of the blame on the US and its Central Intelligence Agency. The report says that the CIA, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, runs sc
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Economy - International
Iceland Voters Rejects Plan to Repay British Investors
03-06-2010
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news.bbc.co.uk
Voters in Iceland have overwhelmingly rejected proposals to pay the UK and the Netherlands in the wake of collapse of the Icesave bank.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron for President in 2012!!!!!
03-07-2010
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Lew Rockwell
Tom Woods recently asked Ron Paul a very important and incisive question. Tom couched it in a way cleverly designed to elicit an answer from Ron. But Congressman Paul, slippery mainstream politician that he is, managed to evade this ingenious query.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bashing Big Banks
03-07-2010
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Blog of Bile
So you don’t like big banks eh? Well this video might tickle your fancy. It offers some good advice but also has some bad implications. I’ll address them both. If you don’t like the fact that the skewed, government-muddled economy props up huge banks
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mortgaging Our Children’s Future
03-07-2010
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Blog of Bile
NPR’s Planet Money did an interesting segment this morning on the effects of high government spending. They found that high spending leads to low GDP per capita which means a lack of wealth available to educate children. We all know that our kids w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Tea Time in America: Naomi Wolf on teaparties.
03-07-2010
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Naomi Wolf
I hope that the Republican establishment does not succeed in co-opting the Tea Party " and that the Democratic establishment does not, either. And I hope that the movement captures the imagination of progressives, who are equally disgusted...
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Found Zero
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Abduction by Quota
03-07-2010
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Lew Rockwell
A few months ago, Zebulun and Elijah Colbourne were among 5 New York City teenagers arrested and held overnight in jail in order to fill an official quota. The citation claimed that the teenagers, who had been racing in the sidewalks,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security to Suppress Activism: Parachuting opiates of the masses
03-07-2010
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trueslant.com/
XM1063 “non-lethal personal suppression projectile,” an artillery shell that bursts in midair over its target, scattering 152 canisters over a 100,000-square-foot area, each dispersing a chemical agent as it parachutes down.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Why are the illegal aliens going marching in Washington on March 21st?
3/7/10
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Answers Yahoo
Illegal Aliens To Protest In Washington In March Against H.R. 4437 And For Open Borders
I'm really waiting for the day when one of these rally's praising the breaking of our laws is raided by authorities and they're all rounded up. Not only the
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Economy - International
Canada Freezes Spending to Be First in G-7 to Erase Deficit
03-07-2010
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Bloomberg
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, 60, released a C$281 billion ($273 billion) budget yesterday that forecasts the shortfall narrowing to C$49.2 billion in the 2010-11 fiscal year, down from a record C$53.8 billion last year.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
Ernie Hancock after the Missouri Libertarian Party Debate
03/06/10
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Chris Walter www.libertyrestorationproject.org
Ernie discusses The Libertarian Party and his contribution to activism in the movement, with Chris Walter and Catherine Bleish of the Liberty Restoration Project (Missouri) and Operation Defuse (nationwide).
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Chris Walter
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News Link • World News
North Korea warns U.S. and South of nuclear build-up
03/07/2010
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By Jon Herskovitz, Reuters.com
(Reuters) - North Korea said on Sunday it will bolster its atomic arsenal and was no longer bound by the cease fire that ended the Korean War due to joint U.S.-South Korean military drills, which start this week. The comments come just days after a s
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Iran
Imagery of Construction of New Launch Site in Iran-With N. Korea's Help
03/06/2010
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IHS Inc. ,Scoop Independent News
LONDON Through the use of commercial satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, IHS Jane’s has revealed that a new launch pad is being constructed at Iran’s Semnan space centre that could ultimately launch Tehran’s next-generation Simorgh rocket
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Police State
Fingerprints Now Required to Skateboard at park
03-07-2010
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NBC San Diego
The city council voted in favor of the new high tech entry system Tuesday night. Skaters will have to press a thumb pad on a turnstile. If a scanner matches a skateboarder's print to the one given in a new, free registration process, they'll be allo
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Forty Four O Nine
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News Link • Obama Administration
Open war over Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's master of the dark arts
03-07-2010
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guardian.co.uk/world
The development has been remarkable for a man in Emanuel's job, which calls for him to adopt a behind-the-scenes role similar to that of a Mafia boss's consigliere, whispering advice in the ear of the president and then strong-arming political target
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Duration of Unemployment: Long Term Chart of the Day
03-07-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
What really makes the current period stand out is the number of people (and percent) that have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. In the early '80s, the 27 weeks or more unemployed peaked at 2.9 million or 2.6% of the civilian labor force.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
$437 Trillion in Interest Rate Swaps: Many Countries Face Sovereign Default
03-07-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
"Any credit event could trigger a cascading event, It does not have to be default; it could be a downgrade in swap contracts that would do the trick for a collateral call. Something is going to cause it to topple, whether it's a situation in Dubai, G
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
China's Communist Party Drops Bomb: No Loan Guarantees to Local Gov.
03-07-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
China just announced it is about to pull the rug out of the entire lending concept when it announces it is nullifying loan guarantees by all local governments. The total potential impact: $3.5 trillion smackers.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Treason in America: 911, the Wars & Our Broken Constitution
03-07-2010
This weekend, in Valley Forge, PA, Treason in America is holding a two-day non-partisan truth conference with speakers, movie clips & music discussing our current state of affairs and how we got here.
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Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fannie, Freddie Holders Shouldn’t Assume Guarantee (Update4)
03-07-2010
March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bondholders shouldn’t assume the government will make them whole on their investments as Congress disbands the companies, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said.
The public
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Postal Service Urged to Weigh Three-Days-a-Week Mail
03-07-2010
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businessweek.com/news/
The U.S. Postal Service, facing a $238 billion budget deficit by 2020, should consider cutting delivery to as few as three days a week as the agency attempts to pare costs, a consulting firm said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Fast evictions adding to pain of Phoenix home foreclosures
03-07-2010
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fwix.com/phoenix/
Last month, about 940 homes were bought at Valley foreclosure auctions, five times the number sold at auction a year ago. And one reason more homes are going to auction is because lenders are dropping prices so they don't have to take homes back...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
450 Full Body Screeners: Scanning Every Last Square Inch
03-07-2010
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reuters.com/
Airport officials on Friday showed off new X-ray scanning machines they will use to screen more passengers with full-body imaging as called for by security advocates, a step that has alarmed civil libertarians.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
The New Pinky Swear: The Mandatory Savings Plan
03-07-2010
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BlackListedNews.com
Worse, it would have increased the Social Security tax, disguised as a "mandatory savings tax." This added tax would be automatically withdrawn from your paycheck and deposited to a "Guaranteed Retirement Account" managed by the Social Security...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Serfs Out: CFTC to Shutdown Currency Trading for Individuals
03-07-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
It reminds me of FDR's move to confiscate gold held by individuals. After it was all confiscated and it was made illegal for individuals to hold gold, the insiders, including John Maynard Keynes and Bernard Baruch, loaded up on gold stocks.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Debt Slavery Revolution: Iceland celebrates after rejecting payback plan
03-07-2010
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news.bbc.co.uk
Voters in Iceland have been celebrating, after overwhelmingly rejecting proposals to pay the UK and the Netherlands in the wake of collapse of the Icesave bank.
With a third of results counted, 93% of voters said "No"...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Why Obama, Pelosi, and Reid Won’t Quit Pushing Health Care Reform
3/07/10
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Pajamas Media
Why Obama, Pelosi, and Reid Won’t Quit Pushing Health Care Reform
If they can impose government-run health care, they’ll establish the framework for Democratic do
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • World News
AL QAEDA TELLS FOLLOWERS TO LAUNCH ATTACKS ON ROYAL NAVY
3/07/10
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Express.co.uk
NUCLEAR weapons carried aboard Royal Navy warships are high on Al Qaeda’s hit list, it has emerged.
Followers of Osama Bin Laden are being urged to track the Ark Royal, Illustrious and Invincible in what is being called the “battle of the masts”
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Healthcare
The Last Straw: HB 3200 pg 429, line 13-25: Govt to specify which doctors can write an end-of-life o
03-06-2010
So Much for Choice. Check it out for yourself. Population control
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Food
Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals
2/12/10
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Huffington Post
In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto's GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats.
Acc
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • New World Order
Bilderberg Founder: Dutch Prince Bernhard 'was member of Nazi party'
03-06-2010
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Telegraph.co.uk/finance/
The prince always denied having been a member of the Nazi party, although he admitted that he briefly had sympathised with Adolf Hitler's regime.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
Future Attribute Screening Technology: Coming to an airport near you
03-06-2010
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BlackListedNews.com
At about the 4 minute mark the screening process goes into the area of the International Copyright Treaty, because the guard starts asking the women about recording devices and illegal recording.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Wayne "Assless Chaps" Root
03-06-2010
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www.LCLReport.com
Jamie Crane from Wheels off Liberty asks Libertarian Vice President Wayne Allen Root if he would wear Assless Chaps with him at a gay pride Parade.
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Elizabeth Warren: The Global "Enron" - From Wall Street to Greece and Back
03-06-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
And much of that was about what happened to America’s middle class, how we have hollowed out America’s middle class. It will not save us if a handful of Wall Street banks prosper and the rest of America fails.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Gerald Celente: Neo-Survivalism
03-06-2010
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LewRockwell.com
During 90 seconds of violent quakes, they put into practice years of “wobble board” training: the art of maintaining balance while continuing to move forward no matter what is being thrown at you. Flying down 14 stories of convulsing, pitching stairs
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Long Hot Summer
03-06-2010
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theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/
Americans will become like Icelanders, who, to satisfy the governments of Britain and Holland, face a bill of $135 per person every single month for the next eight years. Think America is going to like that?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
FASCISM IN ACTION: Sheeps to the Slaughter in Nigeria
03/06/2010
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Youtube / Al Jazerra
What happens when you have tyranny and a population not only disarmed, but also disarmed and programmed not to resist? "Children" of "enemies" are openly executed in the streets, thats what. *WARNING, GRAPHIC*
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David Alpha
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Sarah Palin and Wayne Allyn Root to Speak at Tea Party Express
03-06-2010
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www.gambling911.com
Wayne Allyn Root, the Las Vegas-based nationally recognized Libertarian-conservative political leader, speaker, author television personality and frequent contributor to the Gambling911.com website
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran
03-06-2010
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JO BECKER and RON NIXON, NY Times
The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits over the past decade to foreign and multinational American companies while they were doing business in Iran, despite Washington’s efforts to dis
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • How To
The Self-Sustainer’s Herbal Garden
03-06-2010
While the birds, bees and butterflies are winging it over to your garden, perhaps you might enjoy cultivating an herbal garden to sustain yourself.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
The Free and Open Source Solution for Group Organizing
03-06-2010
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CiviCRM
CiviCRM is a free, libre and open source software constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. Integration with
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Property Rights
Obama Plans 10MM Acre Land Grab
03/06/2010
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Uncommon Sense
As I have warned in previous posts the agenda to “fundamentally transform America” is following the Cloward/Piven handbook of community organizing. While the attention of the nation is focused on the health care debate, the administration has multipl
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • Gun Rights
(Wyo) Firearms Freedom Act passes; governor to sign it
3-4-10
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Billings Gazette
"it states that any state or federal official who tries to enforce any federal gun law on a firearms made and sold in Wyoming could face a $2,000 fine and up to a year in prison."
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Steve Freedom
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ariz. Senate backs bill to restrict local gun laws
3-5-10
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KOLD news channel 13
PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Senate is poised to broaden the state's restrictions on local gun-control laws.
State law already generally pre-empts local ordinances on transportation, possession, sale or use of firearms and ammunition, but the law g
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Steve Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Once again just perusing the latest updates from the St. Louis Fed…
03-06-2010
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economicedge.blogspot.com
...in regards to debt, income is the only thing that really matters. Our Nation’s Income is crashing as shown in this chart expressed in year over year (yoy) change in Billions of dollars:
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Ernest Hancock
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