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Date Sent: 2010-05-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 21, 2010 |
Obama Sending 4 Carrier Groups to Iran -- Merkel: Market Plunge Guaranteed If Vote Fails Tomorrow
Calderon urges U.S. to reinstate assault weapons ban -- Asian stocks dive although euro edges up -- New York governor proposes new soda tax to raise $815 million -- Senate approves sweeping Wall St. reform bill -- Gold dips as stocks plunge, econ worry hurts PGMs
-- Wrong voting info sent to 191,000 Arizona homes -- National
intelligence director resigning -- Capitalism and Corporatism: The
Clash of Absolutes -- Oil Gush Responders Are Getting Sick ... Told
They Don't Need Safety Gear -- "Embedded Media Only" BP Will Not Allow A Free Press to View Oil Gusher -- Completely Synthetic Life Form -- The FDIC Is $20.7 Billion In The Hole -- UC Berkeley Requesting DNA Samples from Incoming Students -- Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 10 Miles of Empty Space -- Obama’s Iraq Drawdown a Virtual Impossibility -- Leaked CIA report on shoring up Afghan war support in Western Europe -- Anger at North Korea over 'sinking' -- Stocks Extend Weeklong Tumble, Euro Slides, Treasuries Rally -- Rand Paul hedges on support for 1964 Civil Rights Act -- Professor Estimates that 4 Million Gallons of Oil are Leaking Every Day -- Defaults and Housing Prices: A Radical Loss In Value May Still Lie Ahead -- Military Contractors and Security Firms Reap Huge Profits
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News Link • Iran
Obama Sending Up To 4 New Carrier Groups to the Coast of Iran
05-20-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
It will take place over the next three months, reaching peak level in late July and early August. By then, the Pentagon plans to have at least 4 or 5 US aircraft carriers visible from Iranian shores.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Merkel: Market Plunge Guaranteed If Critical German Vote Fails Tomorrow
05-20-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Just like two Thursdays ago the market plunged to give Europe a heads up on what will happen if the $1 trillion bail out contemplated that weekend is not passed...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Calderon urges U.S. to reinstate assault weapons ban
05-20-2010
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Reuters
Mexican President Felipe Calderon urged the U.S. Congress on Thursday to reinstate a ban on assault weapons to help cut cross-border gun smuggling and reduce drug gang violence for its southern neighbor.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China targets Tibet artists, intellectuals: report
05-20-2010
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Reuters
China is cracking down on Tibetan intellectuals and artists who have sought to open up discussion of the future of their region after unrest that spread across the area in Spring 2008, an overseas activist group said on Tuesday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian stocks dive although euro edges up
05-20-2010
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Reuters
Asian stock markets slid on Friday as worries about the euro zone and the flare-up in market volatility prompted investors to sell shares and keep cash until calm returns.
Trading was choppy in foreign exchange markets as the euro bounced back aga
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
New York governor proposes new soda tax to raise $815 million
05-20-2010
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Reuters
New York Governor David Paterson on Thursday proposed lifting the sales tax on diet soda, while adding a new "sugar tax" to full-calorie drinks, in a fresh bid to boost revenue for the cash-strapped state.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Senate approves sweeping Wall St. reform bill
05-20-2010
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Reuters
The U.S. Senate approved a sweeping Wall Street reform bill on Thursday night, capping months of wrangling over the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold dips as stocks plunge, econ worry hurts PGMs
05-20-2010
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Reuters
Spot gold fell more than 1 percent to two-week lows as investors sold to cover losses in other markets, especially as stocks dipped, while platinum group metals fell on worries euro zone debt crisis will sap industrial demand.
Asian stocks were do
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
A Time To Speak Out: Before the Guillotines Fall
05-20-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
When this things breaks the 99% of people on this planet that have been unwilling victims of a very small group of elitist political and corporate players and others will be so completely destroyed they are going to go after people and in a serious
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Wrong voting info sent to 191,000 Arizona homes
05-20-2010
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Arizona Republic
In 12 of 15 Arizona counties, voters received publicity pamphlets directing them to non-existent polling places. Proposition 100, the 1-cent per dollar sales-tax increase, passed. No one has suggested the error affected the outcome of the vote.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
National intelligence director resigning
05-20-2010
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AP
National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair is resigning under pressure from the White House, ending a tumultuous 16-month tenure marked by intelligence failures and spy agency turf wars.
Blair, a retired Navy admiral, is the third director of nat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
New Ground Zero Neighbors: Two Mosques
05-20-2010
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Fox News
As controversy surrounds the construction of a 13-story mosque just two blocks from Ground Zero, FOX News has learned that an effort to place a second mosque close to the hallowed site in New York City is in its advanced stages.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"God on Trial" Lecture and Book Signing
05-13-2010
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last meeting in May, Phoenix Objectivists will host a book signing and lecture by attorney Richard Morris who will discuss his new book "God on Trial".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Politics
Exit Recession Now: The Functional Incoherence of the Left
05-20-2010
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www.drscoundrels.com
The other day, during a spirited conversation with Leslie Marshall, a self-identified liberal progressive radio host, I encountered yet another example of the Left’s functional incoherence. Ms. Marshall informed her listeners and me that the recessio
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Capitalism and Corporatism: The Clash of Absolutes Section I
05-20-2010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Capitalism thrives on certain essential components, each of which tends to regulate the other. At the core of capitalism is the relationship between supply and demand. Success is determined by mediating the relationship between the two: if you have t
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Census
Video: Just Say NO to the Census (and Government) - Round TWO
05-20-2010
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FreeKeene.com
A second census "enumerator" came to my house on Monday and I of course recorded the encounter. I only wish all government bureaucrats were as nice as Kathleen when you tell them you don't consent. She was really outstanding and courteous. If y
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Ian Freeman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
FDIC Lists 775 Problem Banks, But Has a Reserve Fund of - $ 20.7 Billion
05-20-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The FDIC released the Q1 Quarterly Banking Profile today. The FDIC listed 775 banks with $431 billion in assets as “problem” banks in Q1, up from 702 banks with $403 billion in assets in Q4, and 305 banks and $220 billion in assets in Q1 of 2009.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Sick Fishermen and Oily Smells on the Gulf Coast
05-20-2010
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Huffingtonpost.com/
Louisiana fishermen called a press conference to talk about the air. People complained of the oily smells when the wind is blowing off the water, and listed symptoms including headaches, nosebleeds, asthma attacks, cough, nausea, and vomiting.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Oil Gush Responders Are Getting Sick ... Told They Don't Need Safety Gear
05-20-2010
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BlackListedNews.com & Washingtonsblog.com
Local fishermen hired to work on BP's uncontrolled oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico are scared and confused. Fishermen here and in other small communities dotting the southern marshes and swamplands of Barataria Bay are getting sick...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
"Embedded Media Only" BP Will Not Allow A Free Press to View Oil Gusher
05-20-2010
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RawStory.com
As BP withholds information on impact of massive oil spill, Coast Guard says that 'embedded' media have been allowed to cover response effort
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Rebels with a Cause! The Real history of Moonshine and Pot in Appalachia.
05-16-10
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www.LCLReport.com
My documentary on the history of the Appalachia folk and their Scottish and Irish roots lead to their anti authority spirit. How some simple hill folk from the southern mountains have been living free for over 200 years without the letting the govern
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Reported by:
Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Flash Bulletin: Corexit is Killing the Gulf
05-20-2010
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J. Speer-Williams
Instead of using safe, non-toxic ways to gather up the rogue oil, this private Cartel of oligarchs is using an extremely toxic chemical dispersant (Corexit), with the approval of Obama, to drive the surface crude oil deeply underwater.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Activism
Bus Loads of SEIU Stormtroops Unload on Bank of America Executive’s Lawn
05-20-2010
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Mondo Frazier
14 school busloads of SEIU stormtroopers unload on the lawn of a Bank of America executive's lawn, terrorizing his teenage son, who was home alone. Will there be the same outrage that greeted peaceful demonstration in public places by the Tea Party?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Food
Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds
05-20-2010
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Truthout
The MPP has committed to burning Monsanto's seeds, and has called for a march to protest the corporation's presence in Haiti on June 4, for World Environment Day.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Completely Synthetic Life Form " Synthia is Alive … and Breeding: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?
05-20-2010
The J. Craig Venter Institute and Synthetic Genomics Inc announced the laboratory creation of the world’s first self-reproducing organism whose entire genome was built from scratch by a machine.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Science
Video: An Artificial Butterfly Takes Flight
05-20-2010
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Wired
Engineers Hiroto Tanaka and Isao Shimoyama of Harvard University and University of Tokyo, respectively, created the tiny butterfly to try to understand the biomechanics of butterfly flight.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Invention Awards: A Fish-Friendly Tidal Turbine
05-20-2010
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PopSci
Today's featured Invention Award winner is the ECO-Auger, which accesses tidal energy without harming marine life.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Benzene Gas: Plans to Evacuate the Population of The Gulf of Mexico?
05-20-2010
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gazbom.blogspot.com
Benzene, incredible amounts of Benzene are being released into the atmosphere and is a clear and present danger not only for the old and people with respiratory problems but the general Gulf population as a whole.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The FDIC Is $20.7 Billion In The Hole: Feel Safe?
05-20-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The FDIC's quarterly banking profile has been released. In between all the fluff we find that the deposit "insurance" agency has exactly negative $20.7 billion to satisfy any upcoming bank runs and liquidations. Thank god for that ongoing Treasury li
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 10 Miles of Empty Space
05-20-2010
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PopSci
Scientists in China have broken the record for quantum teleportation, achieving a distance of about 10 miles, according to a new study in Nature Photonics.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
UC Berkeley Requesting DNA Samples from Incoming Students
05-20-2010
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PopSci
First universities started using RFID chips to track students' attendance. Now they want their DNA.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Afghanistan
CIA report into shoring up Afghan war support in Western Europe, 11 Mar 2010
05-20-2010
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Wikileaks
This classified CIA analysis from March, outlines possible PR-strategies to shore up public support in Germany and France for a continued war in Afghanistan.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
Obama’s Iraq Drawdown a Virtual Impossibility
05-20-2010
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AntiWar.com
Gen. Odierno Still Claims Pullout 'On Track'
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Stocks Extend Weeklong Tumble, Euro Slides, Treasuries Rally
05-20-2010
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Bloomberg
A weeklong selloff in stocks deepened as reports in the U.S. raised doubts about the strength of the economic recovery and leaders in Europe struggled to contain the region’s debt crisis.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Anger at North Korea over 'sinking'
05-20-2010
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Al Jazeera
There has been angry reaction in Seoul and around the world after international investigators said there was overwhelming evidence that a submarine from North Korea sank a South Korean warship in March.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
What Does the Future Hold for Rand and Ron?
05-20-2010
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Yahoo News
Rand Paul will now have now have to appeal to a broader swath of voters than those who vote in Republican primaries. He'll have a real fight ahead of him but he has a good shot of winning his Kentucky Senate seat in November.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Clients Worried About Goldman’s Dueling Goals
05-20-2010
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New York Times
Goldman’s bets against WaMu, wagers that took place even as it helped WaMu feed a housing frenzy that Goldman had already lost faith in, are examples of conflicting roles that trouble its critics and some former clients.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Census
The 2010 Census... a couple of views on the subject
05-20-2010
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YouTube
2010 census time? Well if you're a criminal, illegal immigrant or sell kidneys on the black market you might want to think twice about standing up and being counted.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
It's Official, Oil Is In The Loop Current, Florida Braces For Impact
05-20-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Now Florida has just 10 days to prepare for the first signs of oil off its Gulf Coast, if NOAA's projections are correct.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Professor Estimates that 4 Million Gallons of Oil are Leaking Every Day
05-20-2010
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Washingtonsblog.com/
Purdue University mechanical engineering professor - Steven Wereley - testified to the House Committee on Commerce and Energy that 95,000 barrels a day are currently leaking into the Gulf. That's 3,990,000 gallons - just shy of 4 million gallons...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Geography
Ocean's Depth and Volume Revealed
05-20-2010
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LiveScience
The Earth's oceans are among the most mysterious places on the planet, but scientists now have at least figured out how deep the oceans are and just how much water they hold.
A group of scientists used satellite measurements to get new estimates o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Karl Denninger: The Roof Is On Fire
05-20-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
Worldwide governments have borrowed and spent huge percentages of their GDP in a puerile attempt to protect a criminal class that has looted the public and bribed the legislature - THE BANKS.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
Roman and Medieval Conformed in Himalayas
05-20-2010
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arclein
Bhattacharyya et al. report that their climatic reconstruction revealed a "warm and moist climate, similar to the prevailing present-day conditions," around AD 240 -- which would represent the last part of the Roman Warm Period -- as well as anothe
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Ron Walters on Slavery
05-20-2010
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arclein
With the monumental profits that were derived from the slave, although one can accede to the fact that Africans did participate in the transatlantic slave trade, one cannot equate that with European culpability for slavery.
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robert klein
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News Link • Geography
Frank Popper on Shrinking Cities
05-20-2-10
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arclein
It’s very clear that the industrial decline as it’s still unfolding is almost exactly parallel to the earlier rural decline in the United States. In rural areas, agriculture reached a high point in the late 19th century, and then it started going thr
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Aircraft Design 70% More Fuel Efficient.
05-20-2-10
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arclein
The MIT team met NASA’s challenge by developing two designs: the 180-passenger D “double bubble” series to replace the Boeing 737 class aircraft, currently used for domestic flights, and the 350 passenger H “hybrid wing body” series to replace the 77
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Defaults and Housing Prices: A Radical Loss In Value May Still Lie Ahead
05-20-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
What is wild is considering what will happen to real estate prices should mortgage failure gain greater momentum. Serious delinquencies are 30% greater today than a year ago.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
100,000 Greeks Go On Strike, Consider Storming Parliament Again
05-20-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The last time Greeks were shown to be storming their parliament on live TV, we got a 1,000 point drop on the Dow Jones. Today, another 100,000 protesters of austerity are expected to hit the streets as the entire country is essentially shut down.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Up, Up, and Away: 471,000 Americans File Claims for Jobless Benefits
05-20-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Initial jobless claims rose by 25,000 to 471,000 in the week ended May 15, exceeding the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News and the highest level in a month, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Spying for Dollars: Military Contractors and Security Firms Reap Huge Profits
02-14-2010
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Tom Burghardt
The "29 largest publicly traded defense contractors increased their use of offshore subsidiaries by 26 percent from 2003 to 2008." The "subsidiaries helped the contractors reduce taxes, in part by avoiding Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes"
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow Theorist Richard Russell: Sell Everything, You Won't Recognize America By End Of The Year
05-20-2010
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BusinessInsider.com
"Batten down the hatches" because there's a HARD RAIN coming. Get out of debt and sell anything you can sell (and don't need) in order to get liquid.
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Chip Saunders
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