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Date Sent: 2010-07-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, July 19, 2010 PM edition |
US intelligence spending completely out of control -- Will the Stock Market Crash Before Elections?
When There is No Rule of Law - by Ron Paul -- How to Profit on the Road to National Serfdom -- “Masses of Worthless Paper” -- Noam Chomsky: The Antidote To So Many Lies -- 'Macondo' The Well MFrom Hell is Facing a Blow Out: The Seep Looks Ugly -- Modern Political Prisoners in America - by Szandor Blestman
-- US Military Says School Lunches are a Threat to National Security
-- Top Chinese Economist Calls For China To Ditch U.S. Treasuries and
Buy Gold -- Washington DC Named Highest Earning City While Rest of Country Struggles -- "Tea Parties" and the "kicking out" of "members" - by Call Me Oyate -- BP still a top fuel supplier to U.S. military -- Army suicides hit record number in June -- Dollar Weakens Most in 14 Months Versus Euro -- Alex Jones on RT: Government Cyber Invasion -- 3 Reasons The New Financial Regs Won’t Fix Anything -- US, NATO behind Iran bombings: MP
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US intelligence spending completely out of control
07-19-2010
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RawStory.com
Since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 top-secret intelligence gathering by the government has grown so unwieldy and expensive that no one really knows what it cost and how many people are involved, The Washington Post reported...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Secret Societies
Search Top Secret America’s Database of Private Spooks
07-19-2010
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Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman via WIRED
Figuring out exactly who’s cashing in on the post-9/11 boom in secret programs just got a whole lot easier.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Will the Stock Market Crash Before the Mid-Term Elections?
07-19-2010
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
As it stands, the Democrats face a potential wipeout in November. If the stock market crashes in July, August and September, that would seal a Democratic defeat of potentially epic proportions. If I were in the Fed, and my compliant political lackeys
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Washington Post Reveals 'Top Secret America'
07-19-2010
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Max Fisher
Washington Post has unveiled its comprehensive, alarming, and much-anticipated report on "Top Secret America." The dedicated site details the billions of dollars in private, for-profit intelligence operations that have emerged since Sept. 11, 2001, w
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Secret Societies
A hidden world, growing beyond control
07-19-2010
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Dana Priest and William M. Arkink Washingtion Post
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist withi
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Assessing Proposals for Preschool and Kindergarten
07-19-2010
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Darcy Olsen & Lisa Snell 5-1-2006 ReasonFoundation
Proposals for universal preschool and all-day kindergarten are an increasingly popular policy solution for everything from low academic achievement, to reducing crime, to lowering the dropout rate. Inception - the planting of ideas in young minds<
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Student Ingenuity: Palestinians build solar car from scratch
07-19-2010
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Guardian.co.uk/world
The product of an environmentally friendly project for Palestinian engineering students, the car is bedecked with banks of solar panels and doesn't manage to reach a speed much above 19mph (30kph) " but it is being lauded as a feat of creative...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Dems Start to Panic As Midterm Reality Sets In
07-19-2010
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time.com/time/politics
Under pressure, the Democrats are cracking. On both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, there is a realization that Nancy Pelosi's hold on the speakership is in true jeopardy; that losing control of the Senate is not out of the question...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Tea Party
Tea Party, NAACP & Hypocrisy
07/19/2010
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Uncommon Sense
Today, the NAACP, passed a resolution that condemns racism within the Tea Party movement. Convention delegates approved the resolution Tuesday during their annual convention in Kansas City.
NAACP President Ben Jealous has admonished Tea Party lead
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How to Profit on the Road to National Serfdom
07-19-2010
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Dan Amoss via Whiskey and Gunpowder
We’re fast approaching the critical 1,040 “support” on the S&P 500 " below which technical analysts tell us there is a dark abyss that includes a retest of the March 2009 lows.
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Feature Article • Government
When There is No Rule of Law - by Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
Last week ended with some promising news on finally stopping the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately, the administration still seems to believe that shutting down working oil wells is a higher priority than effectively dealing with the br
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News Link • Conspiracies
Gulf Oil Spill, Too many coincidences
07/19/2010
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Uncommon Sense
April 20: Deepwater Horizon explodes.
84 days later, the leak continues spewing a much debated number of gallons per day into the Gulf of Mexico (estimates range from 800,000 to 3 million gallons/day).
Speculation on the how’s, the who’s and
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Maestro Redux: Bringing in the Sheep
07-19-2010
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JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/
This cartoon is from a few years ago. I think it is not only relevant today, but will likely strike a stronger chord with more people since things are progressing in this direction.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA appears to no longer be shooting for the stars
07-19-2010
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Ralph Vartabedian via Los Angeles Times
The likely termination of the Constellation moon project points to the constraints on the once ambitious space program that accomplished so much in half a century.
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News Link • World News
Media Matters: The right-wing rage machine unloads a frenzy of race-baiting
07-19-2010
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Simon Maloy via Media Matters
The summer months are typically when the quality of political discourse in this country reaches its yearly nadir. Washington tends to slow down from June to August, and people who hold moderate interest in the political process instead turn to barbec
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News Link • Government
“Masses of Worthless Paper”
07-19-2010
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Frederick Sheehan via The Daily Reckoning
We wince at congressional ineptitude but in one category legislative aptitude is improving: propaganda. The on-again, off-again finance bill (it’s on-again) was described by the Wall Street Journal as “the most extensive remapping of financial regula
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Rosenberg On The Specifics Of The ECRI Leading Index
07-19-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The economy is one sick puppy and we are seeing first hand now what it looks like once the crutch of government support is taken away.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Books
Noam Chomsky: The Antidote To So Many Lies
07-19-2010
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Johann Hari via CommonDreams.org
Noam Chomsky is one of the most hysterically abused figures in the world today. Even his critics have to concede that his work in the field of linguistics " beginning to decode the structure of how language is formed in the human brain " makes him on
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
'Macondo' The Well From Hell is Facing a Blow Out: The Seep Looks Ugly
07-19-2010
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FireDogLake.com
The federal government has ordered private company BP to unseal the cap on the Macondo well because of worries of underground leakage of oil that could grow into a bigger problem, but BP has refused to remove the cap...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
Why Israel is leaning on Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to nudge peace process
07-19-2010
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The Christian Science Monitor
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a staple of Mideast politics for more than 30 years, hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Cairo this weekend amid rising concerns about Mubarak's health.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Quick Observation on University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment
07-19-2010
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Ritholtz.com
The dive to 66.5 in the University of Michigan consumer sentiment for July takes the index back to August 2009 levels. Just awful. Even by November 2002 (12-months after the recession ended in 2001) consumer sentiment was at 84.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Rosenberg: 13 Signs The Recovery Has Hit The Skids
07-19-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Glushken Sheff economist Dave Rosenberg keeps finding more evidence for a double dip. July economic data has been soft -- and "this all follows a very bad May and June... so what we have is a downtrend in the making, not a blip."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Drooling Beast of War Is Forever Hungry
07-19-2010
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Arthur via BlogSpot.com
Let's consider a typical example of the nonstop propaganda onslaught that passes for "news" in the land of the free, which is also home to a gloriously free press, the noble, peace-loving United States.
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News Link • Drug War
Free Pot For Poor People in Berkeley: Medical Marijuana Measure on November Ballot
07-19-2010
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Ginn
In November voters in Berkeley, CA, will vote on a measure which deals with medical marijuana cultivation sites licensing and taxation. Part of the measure approved for the ballot by the Berkeley City Council: Companies who run pot cultivation sites
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Oil cap kept shut despite seepage near broken well
07-19-2010
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Colleen Long and Harry R. Weber via Yahoo! News
The federal government Monday allowed BP to keep the cap shut tight on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well for another day despite something seeping near the sea floor.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Murdoch's 'London Times' Pay Wall is Acting Like the Old Berlin Wall...
07-19-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
...no one wants in.
There have been only 15,000 paid subscribers plus another 12,500 iPad subscriptions to Murdoch's London Times.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Modern Political Prisoners in America by Szandor Blestman
07-19-2010
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Szandorblestman.com
"The federal government of the United States of America has declared war on its own civilians and the majority of those spending time in jail are prisoners of that war."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Housing
NAHB Home Builder Confidence Drops Again, Misses Expectations
07-19-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes declined for a second consecutive month in July to its lowest level since April of 2009, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index...
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US Military Says School Lunches are a Threat to National Security
07-19-2010
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Infowebs
A group of retired military officials recently expressed concern that school lunches are a threat to national security... the food being fed to children at schools is making them "too fat to fight", leaving a considerable gap in military recruitment.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Propaganda
Economic Propaganda: Time, MSNBC, Fortune All Proclaim CRE Recovery
07-19-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
John Reeder over at Marketwi.se warns us that this might be a reason to worry given the mainstream media’s track record of calling booms or busts at exactly the wrong times.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Top Chinese Economist Calls For China To Ditch U.S. Treasuries and Buy Gold
07-19-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
A former advisor to the Chinese central bank, and influential economist, has called for his nation to diversify away from U.S. treasury holdings.
This comes after China cut its U.S. treasury holdings by $32.5 billion in May
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News Link • Drones
Washington DC Named Highest Earning City While Rest of Country Struggles
07-19-2010
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Mondo Frazier
While the rest of the country is watching their pennies, it's raining taxpayer money in the Imperial Capital. Washington DC was named the highest-earning city in the United States last week.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Obama Administration
Donald Berwick: The Medical Care Terminator
07-19-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Meet Donald Berwick, the man president Obama slipped into place at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through a recess appointment. Some readers may think Berwick is Jack Kevorkian's soulmate. Not true: Kevorkian asked permission before
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Investing"The New Rules: The Godfather Visits InvestoWorld
07-19-2010
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Rob Bennett
How is one to navigate the mean streets of InvestoWorld? Rob Bennett has the lowdown on the down-and-dirty in this week’s Investing: The New Rules.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Early Tests on Naval Laser
07-19-2010
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arclein
The Free Electron Laser will use a ship's electrical power to create, in effect, unlimited ammunition and provide the ultra-precise, speed-of-light capability required to defend U.S. naval forces against emerging threats, such as hyper-velocity crui
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News Link • Science
Malaria Proof Mosquitoes
07-19-2010
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arclein
In the study the researchers altered a gene that codes for a "signalling molecule".
This molecule, a protein, enables the mosquito's cells to communicate with each other, and is crucial for parasite development inside the mosquito.
The team was
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Superconducting Metamaterial
07-19-2010
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arclein
Metamaterials are typically constructed of “atoms” that have engineered electromagnetic response. The properties of the artificial atoms are often engineered to produce non-trivial values for the effective permittivity and effective permeability of a
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Heat Wave
07-19-2010
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arclein
And in just the past few weeks, many forces " from jet streams to weather blocks " have poured on more heat
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robert klein
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Gulf Oil Spill: Outrageous Methane levels causing Global Warming
07-18-2010
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The Real News
On April 21st 2010, the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), situated about 40 miles southeast of the Louisiana coast in the Macondo Prospect oil field, exploded. The blast killed 11 workers and injured 17 others.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
BP still a top supplier to U.S. military: total of 26 contracts valued at $2.2 billion
07-18-2010
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Ben Rooney
In fiscal 2009, the DLA granted BP a total of 26 contracts valued at $2.2 billion, or nearly 12% of overall fuel purchases, making it the military’s largest fuel supplier that year. DLA currently has no plans to replace BP as a supplier.
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News Link • Military
Army suicides hit record number in June
07-19-2010
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Liz Goodwin via Prison Planet.com
Thirty-two soldiers took their own lives last month, the most Army suicides in a single month since the Vietnam era. Eleven of the soldiers were not on active duty. Of the 21 who were, seven were serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Department of Defe
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
To retire comfortably, under-40 workers need to seriously bulk up savings
07-19-2010
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Jonathon Kern via Prison Planet.com
If your junior-high soundtrack was more Bangles or Britney than Beatles, I am going to try to scare some sense into you with three words about life in retirement, based on personal experience: The paychecks stop.
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News Link • Economy - International
Dollar Weakens Most in 14 Months Versus Euro on Signs of Economic Slowdown
07-19-2010
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Oliver Biggadike and Catarina Saraiva
The dollar fell the most against the euro in 14 months and dropped to the lowest level this year versus the yen as economic reports added to evidence that the U.S. recovery is losing momentum.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
McCain: Paying Teachers is Pork, But Let's Cut Taxes for Those Military Contractors!
07-18-2010
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Heather, Video Cafe
John McCain: Spending for teachers, it's pork, but we need to keep that military industrial complex going and make sure that the people "making those wonderful missiles"... the "job creators", have their taxes cut.
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News Link • Government
Alex Jones on RT: Government Cyber Invasion
07-19-2010
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Russia Today via Prison Planet.com
Is the United States government or outside forces the real threat to cyber security? Alex Jones says that the government is trying to silence free speech in America by expanding their reach on the internet. He also says his own personal sites have be
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
3 Reasons The New Financial Regs Won’t Fix Anything
07-19-2010
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Prison Planet.com
The financial reform bill currently working its way toward President Barack Obama’s desk for signing is being touted as the biggest overhaul of the banking and investment sectors since the Great Depression.
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News Link • NATO
US, NATO behind Iran bombings: MP
07-19-2010
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Press TV via Prison Planet.com
An Iranian lawmaker slams the recent bombings in the country’s southeast as a plot by Western military forces in the Middle East to spread terror on Iran’s borders.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax
07-19-2010
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Robert Pear via Prison Planet.com
When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’
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News Link • Obama Administration
Feds Ignore Due Process, First Amendment, Shut Down Thousands of Blogs
07-18-2010
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Kurt Nimmo via Prison Planet.com
Once again, the Obama administration has violated the Bill of Rights. Earlier this month, the feds took down a free Wordpress blogging platform and disabled more than 73,000 blogs. The action was completely ignored by the corporate media. The site, B
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News Link • Obama Administration
‘The Obama Deception’ Censored
07-18-2010
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Steve Watson via Prison Planet.com
A viral You Tube upload of one of Alex Jones’ most popular feature films ‘The Obama Deception’ has been censored following a spur of the moment campaign to elevate the movie to the top of the major Internet search engines.
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