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Date Sent: 2011-05-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, May 5, 2011 PM edition |
White House Sees Bin Laden Killing as Precedent -- Obama Floats Plan to Tax Cars by the Mile
The New York Times Company Is Still Insolvent -- West Bank, Gaza
Palestinians celebrate unity deal -- Central Banks Expand Gold Reserves
With $6 Billion in Purchases -- Silver deepens dive to 5-week low, gold slips --
What Has Bin Laden's Killing Wrought? -- Dr. Steve Pieczenik: Bin
Laden, The Oswald Like Patsy Died 10 Years Ago! Parts 1-7 VIDEOs -- Blackwater’s New Ethics Chief: John Ashcroft -- Expert: Grope Down Checkpoints Coming To Malls -- The Insurgency to Break Up the Ron Paul 2012 Campaign Has Begun -- Ultracapacitors to Boost the Range of Electric Cars -- Paul Craig Roberts: The Agendas Behind the bin Laden News Event
-- Fernando Antonio Salguero - Surviving -- The Mosab Yousef Saga: Did
Hamas ‘Defector’ Dupe All of Us? -- Terrorist Group Setting Up
Operations Near Border -- What The Empire Creates, It Can Also Destroy
-- Police State "Amerika" to Track Movements of Your Cars and Trucks
AZ: Ron Paul Debate Party @ Ernest
& Donna Hancock's house This afternoon and evning 05/05/11
- BYOB; Arizona Breakfast
Club this Saturday!!!!
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News Link • Transportation
Obama Floats Plan to Tax Cars by the Mile
05-05-2011
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prisonplanet.com
The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive.
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Sierra Hancock
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Opinion • TERRORISM
Ray McGovern: My Take
What Has Bin Laden's Killing Wrought?
05-05-2011
Ray McGovern
The U.S. might finally begin to wind down a near-decade-long war in Afghanistan, there is the countervailing prospect of the USA consolidating an official policy of assassination and violence as the way to impose Washington’s will on the Muslim world
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News Link • Obama Administration
MEMO to Barack bin Obama from Sir Thomas More
05-05-2011
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lewrockwell.com
From Robert Bolt's "A Man for All Seasons," this is Sir Thomas More's speech about the primacy of man's laws over God's laws. I feel this is especially relevant today in the torture debate and for those who would like to add the word "extralegal" to
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Two Letter Re: The SKS for Tight Budget Shooters
05-05-2011
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www.survivalblog.com
If you are on a tight budget, I highly recommend the SKS. I have several SKSes and AK-47s, along with the FN-FAL, CETME, and a couple of Colt AR-1s5.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Up With the Fed?
05-05-2011
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lewrockwell.com
When people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases, instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don't want us to understand.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • How To
Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning
05-05-2011
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Ted.com
At the INK Conference, Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build themselves -- while learning basic principles of science and design.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • How To
Suzanne Lee: Grow your own clothes
05-05-2011
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Ted.com
Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make clothing. The process is fascinating, the results are beautiful and the potential is simply stunning.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
West Bank, Gaza Palestinians celebrate unity deal
05-05-2011
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english.ahram.org
Thousands of Palestinians take to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza to celebrate the signing of a reconciliation deal between bitter rivals Hamas and Fatah
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Central Banks Expand Gold Reserves With $6 Billion in Purchases
05-05-2011
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http://www.bloomberg.com/
Mexico, Russia and Thailand added gold now valued at about $6 billion to their reserves in February and March as prices advanced to a record, the dollar weakened and Treasuries lost investors money.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Silver deepens dive to 5-week low, gold slips
05-05-2011
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Reuters
Silver tumbled to a 5-week low on Thursday, on track for its biggest weekly slide since 1983, caught up in a broader commodities sell-off and gold fell to its lowest in more than a week.
Spot silver fell more than 5 percent to $37.32 an ounce, dow
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Blackwater’s New Ethics Chief: John Ashcroft
05-05-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
The consortium in charge of restructuring the world’s most infamous private-security firm just added a new chief in charge of keeping the company on the straight and narrow.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Expert: Grope Down Checkpoints Coming To Malls
05-05-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Security consultant David Boehm said the future could include security check points entering all soft targets " like your local department store. Boehm said even with a police presence, the areas are vulnerable.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Ultracapacitors to Boost the Range of Electric Cars
05-05-2011
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http://www.technologyreview.com/
New energy-storage technology could surpass today's batteries in capacity and durability.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Initial Claims: 474,000 - Bring On QE3
05-05-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Jobless claims explode to 474K, beyond the worst economist expectation, far above consensus of 410K, and well above the previous (upward revised of course) number of 431K. This is the worst claims number since August 2010. Game over...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
It's Official: National Home Prices Double Dip
05-05-2011
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CNBC.com
Home prices have double dipped nationwide, now lower than their March 2009 trough, according to a new report from Clear Capital.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Paul Craig Roberts: The Agendas Behind the bin Laden News Event
05-05-2011
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LewRockwell.com
What kind of incompetence does it require to senselessly and needlessly kill the most valuable intelligence asset on the planet?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
The Mosab Yousef Saga: Did Hamas ‘Defector’ Dupe All of Us?
05-05-2011
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Pajamas Media
"Son of Hamas" author Mosab Hassan Yousef " the son of Sheik Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas " agreed to be an Israeli spy in 1996 but instead might be a double agent.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • TERRORISM
Terrorist Group Setting Up Operations Near Border
05-05-2011
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News 10 San Diego
Lebanese terrorist organization Hizbullah whose home base is in the Middle East has established a sattelite base across the border in Mexico.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Obama Administration
What The Empire Creates, It Can Also Destroy
05-05-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
The Kurds were promised support in the first Gulf War, but when it became expedient to forget the promises, then Saddam was allowed to slaughter them with his air power, until a few guilty consciences hit upon the "no fly zone" to limit...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Police State "Amerika" to Track Movements of Your Cars and Trucks
05-05-2011
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market-ticker.org & TheHill.com
Among other things, CBO suggested that a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax could be tracked by installing electronic equipment on each car to determine how many miles were driven; payment could take place electronically at filling stations.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
House progressives urge Obama to end Afghan war
05-05-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
WASHINGTON " House progressive leaders on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to swiftly end the war in Afghanistan, capitalizing on a burst of new momentum to conclude the 10-year occupation.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Conspiracies
Are Top Spymaster's Who Worked Under 5 US Presidents “Black Helicopter Fantasies”?
05-05-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Even as the Obama administration’s dubious account of the alleged capture and assassination of Obama Bin Laden begins to crumble, and Obama himself backs away from releasing a photo of Osama’s corpse,
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News Link • Government
Congress turns against Pakistan
05-05-2011
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http://www.politico.com/
Congress expressed fury at Pakistan Tuesday for its role in housing Osama bin Laden for the past several years...
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO Air Strike Kills 10 Guards for Own Supply Convoy in Ghazni
05-05-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
The latest in a growing series of embarrassing air strike incidents in Afghanistan came early today, when forces attacked their own supply convoy, killing 10 guards.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Bahrain Charges Shi’ite Doctors for Treating Protesters
05-05-2011
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http://news.antiwar.com/
The Bahraini regime has announced today that it intends to charge as many as 50 medical workers, including dozens of doctors, with “promoting efforts to bring down the government."
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Boehner says small US military force should remain in Iraq beyond end of year
05-05-2011
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/
WASHINGTON " House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday a small, residual U.S. force should remain in Iraq beyond the end of this year, the final drawdown date for the Americans.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Aviation Geeks Scramble to ID bin Laden Raid’s Mystery Copter
05-05-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
The May 2 raid on Osama bin Laden’s luxury compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, had it all: painstaking intelligence-gathering, a heroic Navy SEAL assault team, satellite and drone surveillance, and biometric forensics.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Sony Hack Probe Uncovers ‘Anonymous’ Calling Card
05-05-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
In the course of its investigation into the PlayStation Network security breach, Sony discovered a file that makes a clear reference to the “Anonymous” hacking group.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Obama Administration
Fed Up With the Fed?
05-05-2011
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
When people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases, instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don't want us to understand.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Does Semen Act As an Antidepressant to the Recipient?
05-05-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Back in 2002, psychologists at the State University of New York at Albany published a study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior looking at the potential role of semen in alleviating depression in women.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The World’s First Multi-Speed Electric Motorcycles
05-05-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
These electric dirt bikes are equipped with six-speed gearboxes to make them faster and more powerful
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Other Hand Busy? Poke Your Smartphone With This Giant Nose-Extender Stylus
05-05-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
There are times when you can't operate your phone--when you're wearing gloves, when your hands are wet, or when you don't have hands.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
E Ink Shows Off Rollable, Scrunchable, and Video Screens
05-05-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
E Ink, the company that pioneered the electrophoretic displays used in gadgets like the Amazon Kindle, won't have a new fancy screen this year.
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News Link • Future Predictions
DARPA Solicits Ideas For Its Hundred-Year Starship Project
05-05-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Are you a space entrepreneur bored with the idea of four-minute suborbital flights? Why not design the 100-Year Starship instead? DARPA and NASA are looking for your ideas.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Intel to Mass-Produce New 3-D Transistors for Faster, More Efficient Computer Chips
05-05-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
In a move that could remake the microchip industry, Intel announced Wednesday it will start mass-producing the first three-dimensional silicon transistors.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
News Corp profit misses
05-05-2011
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http://www.reuters.com/
(Reuters) - News Corp missed Wall Street profit expectations on weaker movie box office output compared to a year ago and struggling newspapers despite a strong performance by its cable and television business.
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News Link • World News
West Bank, Gaza Palestinians celebrate unity deal
05-05-2011
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http://english.ahram.org.eg/
Thousands of Palestinians take to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza to celebrate the signing of a reconciliation deal between bitter rivals Hamas and Fatah
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The GOP and Tea Party Propitiate The Bankers
05-05-2011
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Market-ticker.org
Congress will find that, once again, the failure to focus on what's actually important - whether the government can deliver on what has been promised - has once again led it, like other "right wing" groups to veer off into Guns, Gays and God.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Metrics Institute: Does This Look Like An Economic Recovery?
05-05-2011
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consumerindexes.com/
The current economic contraction (blue line on the chart) started on January 15th, 2010, and is now hitting new lows as it approaches 480 days in length.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
All Hail Caligula: Some Ruminations on Children of Empire
05-05-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
For any of you familiar with Roman history we are now firmly in Caligula territory, 'taking out' whomever we please, age, sex, location or 'guilt', immaterial. Faithfully played to us citizens of Empire to the sounds of cheers and flags...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Jamie Dimon Says Banks Are Being Nice to You When They Take Your House
05-05-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
For real? It’s debt relief? Why not just go old school with “let them eat cake”?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Did The Debt Ceiling Battle Just End?
05-05-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
But anything fundamental -- Medicare, etc. -- would be pushed off until another time, until maybe when there's a GOP President and GOP Congress that can have carte blanche.
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News Link • Government
Dem lawmaker: GOP wants to put ‘big government in your bedroom’
05-05-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) said Wednesday that H.R. 3, the GOP’s “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act“, would put “big government in your bedroom.”
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Dems worry Budget Chair’s compromise plan could shift debate to the right
05-05-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
WASHINGTON " A new budget proposal being drafted by the top Democrat on the Senate budget committee has the party concerned that it could weaken their negotiating position and shift the debate to the right.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Non-Manufacturing ISM Plunges Below Prediction of All 73 Economists
05-04-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
The April 2011 Non-Manufacturing ISM plunged 4.5 points to 52.8 from 57.3 The drop was below expected range of all 73 economists in a Bloomberg ISM Survey.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
A White House Built Upon A Foundation Of Lies Can Not Stand
05-04-2011
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AntiWar.com
The report now is that bin Laden was successfully captured alive first and then summarily executed by the troops.
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