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Date Sent: 2011-02-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 22, 2011 AM edition |
On the run: Gaddafi flees Tripoli as protesters set the Libyan parliament building alight
American Held in Pakistan Worked With C.I.A. -- Federal, state and local debt hits post-WWII levels -- Dim View of U.S. Posture Toward Bahraini Shiites Is Described -- Read Mises: Financial Crises are Predictable - and Preventable - by Ron Paul -- Psssst. Social Security. Can You Spare The Gov Another Trillion? -- Ron Paul confirmed speaker at American Policy Summit in Phoenix --
"The Ground Zero Mosque - Second Wave of the 911 Attacks" premiers in
New York -- Arizona SB1178 Moves Forward: Felony Charges for Federal
Agents -- Libya protests analysis: 'For Muammar Gaddafi it's kill or be
killed' -- Confusion over Suez ship crossing -- Alex Jones: Globalist
Manipulation Of Mass Protests -- Iran says its warships completed Suez
Canal crossing -- Retiring Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short
-- Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers -- Frivolous Lawsuits
Target Of New Congressional Caucus -- Continued Middle East Protests
and Violence -- Moody's Warns on Muni Debt (Sort Of) -- John Carney on the Dangers in the Muni Markets: Meredith Whitney Has Company
AZ: Ron Paul in
Phoenix, Feb. 25-27 for Tea Party
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
On the run: Gaddafi flees Tripoli as protesters set the Libyan parliament building alight
02-21-2011
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www.dailymail.co.uk
Protesters appear to have gained a foothold in Tripoli as banks and government buildings were looted while demonstrators have claimed they have taken control of the second city Benghazi.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
American Held in Pakistan Worked With C.I.A.
02-21-2011
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NY Times
The American arrested in Pakistan after shooting two men at a crowded traffic stop was part of a covert, C.I.A.-led team collecting intelligence and conducting surveillance on militant groups deep inside the country, according to American government
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Federal, state and local debt hits post-WWII levels
02-21-2011
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Washington Post
The daunting tower of national, state and local debt in the United States will reach a level this year unmatched just after World War II and already exceeds the size of the entire economy, according to government estimates.
But any similarity betw
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Dim View of U.S. Posture Toward Bahraini Shiites Is Described
02-21-2011
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NY Times
The United States military undermined efforts to improve relations with Bahrain’s Shiite majority and understated abuses by the Sunni royal family, according to one present and one former American government adviser and a Bahraini human rights advoca
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rick Santelli Puts Paid To Unemployment Numbers Tricks
02212011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Rick Santelli got into it with a fellow CNBC mate about the unemployment #'s - but why? Do you understand the 6 types of unemployment #'s the government reports? Do you know why these numbers often don't add up?
We answer this and more - check
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday Feb 21st 2011
02-21-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The Other Captive Nations - Big Mouth Dolts and the Tea Party, Gary North on the opponents of Ron Paul - TSA: Not Just Abusers Any More, The culture of corruption thrives - When a Greedy Government Destroys Your Business, Here's how to move it to ano
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Mississippi NIBS : HB 608
02-21-11
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The PPJ Gazette
by Lynn Swearingen/PPJ Gazette
For years many Americans have been concerned. How will the State know that the educational process has been effective? How will “stakeholders” and other “interested parties” such as The Mississippi Department of Human
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Social Security
Psssst. Social Security. Can You Spare The Gov Another Trillion?
02-21-11
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The PPJ Gazette
Desperate people are malleable people if you’re trying to sidestep a Constitution and force an elite-appointed global government on them.
Social Security enables working men or women to tell corporations when they approach retirement: “That’s it.
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Campaign for Liberty
Ron Paul confirmed speaker at American Policy Summit in Phoenix
02-21-2011
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Campaign for Liberty
Ron Paul is indeed a confirmed speaker at the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit this Saturday. The Summit is being held at the Phoenix Convention center and will run from 1pm on Friday 25th and culminate with a straw poll on Sunday 27th.
O
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Annette Freeman
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News Link • TERRORISM
"The Ground Zero Mosque - Second Wave of the 911 Attacks" premiers in New York
02-21-2011
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The Political Commentator
"The Ground Zero Mosque - Second Wave of the 911 Attacks" produced by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer
First an Introduction
Before I attended the screening and discussion last night in New York City I went back to read some of the articles a
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona SB1178 Moves Forward: Felony Charges for Federal Agents
02-21-2011
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Tenth Amendment Center
Late last week, the Arizona Senate passed Senate Bill 1178, the Intrastate Commerce Act. The bill provides that all services performed in the state, and all goods grown or made here for consumption within Arizona “are not subject to the authority of
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Michael Boldin
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Libya protests analysis: 'For Muammar Gaddafi it's kill or be killed'
02-21-2011
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www.guardian.co.uk
Libya's leader faces the worst unrest since he seized power, but no-one expects him to give up peacefully
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Confusion over Suez ship crossing
02-21-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
Iran media says two warships used the waterway to reach Mediterranean, a claim dismissed by an Egyptian official.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Alex Jones: Globalist Manipulation Of Mass Protests
02-21-2011
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PrisonPlanet.com
The protests that have rocked the Middle East have found their way to the Midwest, as problems from a bad global economy has sparked these demonstrations.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iran says its warships completed Suez Canal crossing
02-21-2011
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www.haaretz.com
Iran's state broadcaster says vessels reach Mediterranean, despite recent reports that the controversial crossing, the first since 1979, would only take place later this week.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
02-21-2011
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Farm Wars
Monsanto does not accept liability for damages from genetically modified crops by shifting it to the farmer, and requires the purchaser of a farmer's land to sign a Monsanto Technology Use Agreement.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • North American Union
Is there hope for Arizona Conservatives?
02-21-2011
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http://www.sonoranalliance.com
There appears to be at least one real conservative left on that blog... takin' the fake conservatives to task over their sellout of Arizonans on issues of national id and open borders.
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John Green
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Dictator on the run
02-21-2011
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www.dailymail.co.uk
Gaddafi may have fled Libya already and be on his way to Venezuela, says Foreign Secretary William Hague
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • American History
The Presidency as a Cosmic Joke
02-21-2011
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Becky Chandler
After getting along fine for ten years without any kind of executive officer, why did the thirteen original states think they needed a king, and not just any king? They got themselves an unprecedented king of unprecedented and dangerous power. It wa
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Frivolous Lawsuits Target Of New Congressional Caucus
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www.drscoundrels.com
Bob Goodlatte, VA, and Dan Boren, OK are two names that don’t get as much play in Congressional news as an Issa or Ryan for example, but it appears that they are listening to businesses and people who have been long complaining about an issue that co
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Moody's Warns on Muni Debt (Sort Of)
02-21-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Bottom line: Moody's sees the same dangers Meredith Whitney does. They are just not as clear and straightforward about their warning. Which means Charlie Gasparino won't be demanding their work product.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
John Carney on the Dangers in the Muni Markets: Meredith Whitney Has Company
02-21-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
John Carney has clearly been doing some heavy thinking about the muni market and has reached some important conclusions. Here's a series of tweets by Carney:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fluorescent Peptides Help Nerves Glow in Surgery
02-21-2011
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arclein
Nguyen and colleagues at the Moores Cancer Center developed and injected a systemic, fluorescently labeled peptide (a protein fragment consisting of amino acids) into mice. The peptide preferentially binds to peripheral nerve tissue, creating a disti
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Cold Weather Due to Iceland's Volcano?
02-21-2011
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arclein
If history is an example, it is quite possible that this season's arctic freeze in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as other weather patterns such as the cyclone in Australia, are results mainly of this recent volcanic event on Iceland. Indeed, this
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robert klein
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
An Israeli Prison to Tahrir Square
02-21-2011
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arclein
Sami’s political awakening came in 1980, when he was inducted into a highly organized, democratic community and, at the age of 18, began a program of serious study, reading hundreds of books including:
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Baldness Cured
02-21-2011
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arclein
Instead of looking for mice burdened with debt or in the process of moving house, for their research the researchers had been using mice that were genetically altered to overproduce a stress hormone called corticotrophin-releasing factor, or CRF. As
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robert klein
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
No Tax and Cut Spending Counter Demonstration
02-21-2011
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Facebook
US Uncut (http://www.usuncut.org/actions/12) is staging a pro tax rallies on Saturday across the US, including the one we're counter demonstrating in Philly. We need to send the opposite message, that taxes are theft and need to end. The US Uncut pe
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Internet
James Howard Kunstler: White Is The New Black
02-21-2011
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Kunstler.com
If the lands around the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea continue to fall apart politically, you can be sure that something required by the oil markets will get broken over there - whether it is an oil terminal, or a shipping channel, or a royal skull...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • General Opinion
'Two Golden Rules, One Epic Struggle' by Szandor Blestman
02-21-2011
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americanchronicle via e-mail from Szandor
"Humans can only stand so much before something snaps inside them. Events taking place in the world today show the consequences that occur when people are fed up and snap."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Activism
Libya: Protesters, security clash in capital
02-21-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Security Industry Recommends Biometrics Authentication for E-Verify Program
02-21-2011
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sourcesecurity.com/
A recent report from the (GAO) demonstrates that the federal E-Verify program needs a biometric component, according to the Security Industry Association (SIA). E-Verify is used by employers to determine if individuals are legal residents of the US..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
18 Facts That Prove The “Economic Recovery” Excludes The Middle Class
02-21-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The U.S. middle class is still being ripped to shreds. If there are those among your family and friends that are somehow convinced that the U.S. economy is recovering nicely, you might want want to show them the following 18 very sobering facts....
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
The curse of negative home equity
02-21-2011
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miamiherald.com
As more than $113 billion worth of home equity has vanished from South Florida’s housing market in the past five years, the number of homeowners with mortgages that are larger than the values of their properties has become enormous.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
How Close Are We to a Nano-based Surveillance State?
02-21-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
As drone expert, P.W. Singer said, "At this point, it doesn't really matter if you are against the technology, because it's coming." According to Singer, "The miniaturization of drones is where it really gets interesting.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Petri Dish Beef: It's What's For Dinner
02-21-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
The growth of 'cultured' or in-vitro meat may be a vital step towards solving the global food crisis and fighting hunger in the future, Mr Mironov believes.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Codex Alimentarius: Vast Majority of Americans Are Ignorant and Gullible
02-21-2011
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Activistpost.com/
The ignorance of the vast majority of Americans toward Codex Alimentarius, unfortunately including most natural health advocates, is one reason Codex is not currently a major source of popular concern. However, another more disturbing reason is...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tremendous Pain For REIT's Seen In Change of Consumer Buying Habits
02-21-2011
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AZcentral.com
The pending closure of seven Ultimate Electronics stores, eight Borders locations and other stores in the future will add to the state's glut of vacant retail space. There are more than 300 so-called big boxes of 10,000 square feet or more sitting...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Should Employers Be Allowed to Ask for Your Facebook Login?
02-21-2011
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theatlantic.com
The Maryland Department of Corrections, requires that new applicants and those applying for recertifications give the government "their social media account usernames and personal passwords for use in employee background checks."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
“Roundup Ready” Genetically Modified Sugar Beets Labeled Safe by USDA
2/22/2011
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therealnewsnow
On Friday, the USDA made a decision to allow the commercial use of “Roundup Ready” genetically modified sugar beets. The decision comes a week after the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture approved the planting of a yet another genetically modified plant, alfa
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News Link • Agriculture
USDA tells farmers to plant genetically modified crops
2/22/2011
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therealnewsnow
In January, the USDA announced they would deregulate genetically modified alfalfa, allowing it to be planted without restriction. Just one week later, genetically modified sugar beets were deregulated as well.
The USDA’s move to completely deregul
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News Link • Agriculture
A Push for Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods
2/22/2011
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therealnewsnow
When I was a kid, I didn’t care to much about what I ate as long as it tasted good! In fact, I used to ride my bike to the corner store with my cousins on hot summer days to pick up juice, ice cream and gummy bears. Well, needless to say, times have
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News Link • Activism
Justin Raimondo: Nationalism, Democracy, and the Arab Awakening
02-20-2011
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AntiWar.com
The US government poses as the international champion of democracy and liberty, but the objective real-world consequences of its foreign policy of global intervention effectively hold back progress in this direction.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Gerald Celente on Wisconsin Protests
02/18/2011
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The Rob McNealy Program
Gerald Celente talks about the Wisconsin protests and the coming economic collapse.
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Rob Mcnealy
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News Link • Government
Belgium No. 1 in days without government
02-18-2011
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upi.com
Belgium has been without a government for 250 days -- breaking a modern-day record that was held by Iraq -- and some Belgians managed to joke about it.
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Ryan Gauger
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News Link • Foreign Policy
The Other Captive Nations
02-20-2011
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LewRockwell.com
One of the great shocks that has greeted Americans this year has been to discover, perhaps for the first time, that the US has long been running its own bloc of satellite dictatorships in many parts of the world. Just as the Soviet Union had...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
Corrupt DA met with Jewish influence peddler prior to filing charges on Muslims
02-20-2011
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LA County Libertarian Examiner
Orange County District Attorney Anthony Rackauckas held a closed door meeting with a Jewish Rabbi prior to filing criminal conspiracy charges against 11 Muslim students who dared to speak out against Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at UC Irvine last
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