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Date Sent: 2011-11-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, November 22, 2011 PM edition |
Pentagon’s War on Drugs Goes Mercenary -- Anonymous targets pepper-spraying policeman
Russia Threatens Use of Nuclear Weapons -- Florida school official calls police on kissing 12-year-olds -- December
court date set for Bradley Manning in WikiLeaks case -- Credit Suisse Goes For Broke: Predicts End Of Euro, Bank Runs -- Mystery of Dead Sea Scroll Authors Possibly Solved -- ‘Gaddafi son knows too much, will be silenced’ --
Will spike of violence in Egypt push US to act more forcefully? --
Scientists Weaponize Deadly Bird Flu, Consider Releasing Results
Necessary to Create Bioweapon -- IMF to Lend BIG Money for 6 months to... -- The New York Times Calls The Obama Deception "An Anti-government Film" -- White House and MSM Target Alex Jones & More: Infowars Nightly News -- Fukushima: “China Syndrome Is Inevitable” -- Spanish yields spike as crisis exits blocked -- Chinese TV Host Says Regime Nearly Bankrupt -- JP Morgan to buy MF Global's London Metals Exchange stake -- Big Selloff Hits Europe Bond Markets -- Soros Calls for ECB to Stop the Bond Run -- Obama Pushes Payroll Tax Cut After Debt Panel Fails -- What's Gone Wrong With America? Jesse Ventura on the list from Hell. -- The Latest Whitewash of JFK's Murder -- BofA warned by regulators to get stronger -- Harold Rodman, TSA worker, arrested for sexual assault -- Day to Day Weather Increasingly Erratic -- Islamic Persecution of Christians
AZ: Debate watching
party tonight, Nov 22nd,
2011 - 6 p.m. Hancock's (Glendale, AZ)
Nationwide:
Annual END THE FED Day Nov. 22nd Today
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News Link • Drug War
Pentagon’s War on Drugs Goes Mercenary
11-22-2011
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wired.com
An obscure Pentagon office designed to curb the flow of illegal drugs has quietly evolved into a one-stop shop for private security contractors around the world, soliciting deals worth over $3 billion.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Anonymous targets pepper-spraying policeman
11-22-2011
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yahoo.com
The online "hacktivist" group Anonymous published the personal contact details on Monday of a California university policeman who used pepper spray on protesters, and it urged supporters to flood him with phone calls and emails.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Debate watching party Tuesday, Nov 22nd, 2011 - 6 p.m. Hancock's (Glendale, AZ)
11-18-2011
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Meetup.com/Hancock
Another GOP presidential debate. This one is scheduled for Tues, Nov 22nd, 2011, and will be on Foreign Policy and National Defense once again. Presented by the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, it will be broadcast on CNN.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Annual END THE FED Day Nov. 22nd
11-21-2011
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End the Fed . ning and Dr. Ron Paul
Cities hosting events include Atlanta, Boise, Charlotte, Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, New York City, New Orleans, and St. Louis - that I know of. - Ed
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Florida school official calls police on kissing 12-year-olds
11-22-2011
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rawstory.com
Some people just aren’t cut out to work around kids. Take, for example, the recent experience of a hapless administrator at Orange River Elementary School in Fort Myers, Florida.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
December court date set for Bradley Manning in WikiLeaks case
11-22-2011
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rawstory.com
Bradley Manning, the US soldier alleged to have passed a trove of military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, will have a first hearing before a military court next month, the Pentagon said.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Food
Redefining the Natural
11-22-2011
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SMCC
In some places, the term "natural" is defined and enforced. In others, such as the United States, it has no meaning.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - International
Credit Suisse Goes For Broke: Predicts End Of Euro, Bank Runs
11-22-2011
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prisonplanet.com
“We seem to have entered the last days of the euro as we currently know it. That doesn’t make a break-up very likely, but it does mean some extraordinary things will almost certainly need to happen " probably by mid-January
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Mystery of Dead Sea Scroll Authors Possibly Solved
11-22-2011
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LiveScience
The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written, at least in part, by a sectarian group called the Essenes, according to nearly 200 textiles discovered in caves at Qumran, in the West Bank, where the religious texts had been stored.
Scholars are divide
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Libya
‘Gaddafi son knows too much, will be silenced’
11-22-2011
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prisonplanet.com
The National Transitional Council has since said it won’t hand him over to the Hague Tirbunal. Instead it’s vowed to try him at home for crimes against the Libyan people, that could result in the death penalty.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Will spike of violence in Egypt push US to act more forcefully?
11-22-2011
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Christian Science Monitor
Competing US demands for democracy and stability in Egypt have led to a stand-back policy approach. But a surge of deadly violence and signals from the Egyptian military may change all that.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Scientists Weaponize Deadly Bird Flu, Consider Releasing Results Necessary to Create Bioweapon
11-22-2011
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prisonplanet.com
It sounds like something out of a bizarre science fiction comic book, but scientists have weaponized the H5N1 bird flu virus, and are actually considering releasing the research.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Free Speech
The New York Times Calls The Obama Deception "An Antigovernment Film"
11-22-2011
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The Excavator
The Establishment media is at it again: Calling anti-treason and truth speech "anti-government."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Media: Internet
White House and MSM Target Alex Jones & More: Infowars Nightly News
11-22-2011
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prisonplanet.com
The latest on the NYT attempting to link Alex Jones to the alleged White House shooter and Forbes claiming Jones and trends forecaster Gerald Celente are attempting to instigate a run on banks
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Spanish yields spike as crisis exits blocked
11-22-2011
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reuters.com
Spain's short-term borrowing costs hit a 14-year high on Tuesday as political uncertainty over a solution to the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis hit another vulnerable southern European economy.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
Chinese TV Host Says Regime Nearly Bankrupt
11-22-2011
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www.theepochtimes.com
Larry Lang, chair professor of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that the Chinese regime is in a serious economic crisis"on the brink of bankruptcy. In his memorable formulation: every province in China is Greece.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Heroes
Q & A Chat at PatriotPolls.com Features Top Names!
11-22-2011
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patriotpolls.com via Adam Kokesh Tweet
Last night I chatted with Adam Kokesh and Danny Panzella - tonight it's Lee Wrights, Tom Woods, and David Nalle. Starts at 8:30 p.m. EST.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
JP Morgan to buy MF Global's London Metals Exchange stake
11-22-2011
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reuters.com
J.P. Morgan will soon announce it has bought a 4.7 percent stake in the London Metal Exchange (LME) from defunct U.S. brokerage MF Global, two people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday, making it the exchange's largest
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iran says new sanctions from West "in vain
11-22-2011
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reuters.com
Iran dismissed a new wave of sanctions Tuesday, saying the West's attempts to isolate its economy would only serve to unite Iranians behind their government's nuclear program.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Big Selloff Hits Europe Bond Markets
11-22-2011
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wallstreetjournal.com
Euro-zone bond markets suffered another sell-off Tuesday, with investors especially dumping short-term debt after Spain was forced to pay a heavy price to auction its latest brace of Treasury bills.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • European Union
Soros Calls for ECB to Stop the Bond Run
11-22-2011
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www.cnbc.com
Billionaire investor George Soros believes the euro bond market is facing a similar situation to the banking system in 2008 and wants the European Central Bank to step in to stop a self-fulfilling crisis of confidence. (Well Hell... if Soros says)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama Pushes Payroll Tax Cut After Debt Panel Fails
11-22-2011
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cnbc.com
President Barack Obama will challenge the U.S. Congress to preserve an expiring payroll tax cut on Tuesday as he travels to New Hampshire to seize the initiative in the wake of a collapsed effort to reduce the nation's budget deficit.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
So Deep an Evil?
11-22-2011
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thedailybell.com
The powers that be HATE gold. Money Power is derived from the central bank printing press. The idea that people on their own can go out and dig up money out of the earth means that the people STILL have the opportunity to better themselves independen
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The 2012 Presidential Primary Calendar (Republican and Democratic)
11-22-2011
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frontloading.blogspot.com
2012 Presidential Primary Calendar (California's big giant chunk of Delegates won't be allocated until June 5th, soooo, I suspect that this date will be moved up. Or 'they' will have to put up with Ron Paul at least until then :)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The MF Global Heist
11-22-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Cathy Cuthbert
I am a lucky, former MF Global client. Unfortunately, I’m not a multi-billionaire who got the memo. I had a modest account that was supplying me with a modest livelihood, when suddenly one Monday afternoon, my account was frozen, my livelihood was es
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
The Problems With Antibiotics: They Kill the Good Guys and Make You Fat
11-22-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Mark Sisson
We need them to function properly. It's a bit like bringing in an exterminator to kill the bugs infesting your house, and the guy ends up killing your dog and making your cat act funny, along with killing the insects.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
What's Gone Wrong With America? Jesse Ventura on the list from Hell.
11-22-2011
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lewrockwell/Jesse Ventura
On each an every issue, ranging from Wall's Street's ownership of the political class, to the nation's descent into fascism, the destruction of individual rights and constitutional protection, the corruption of the two-party monopoly, Ventura states
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Positive News
A Thanksgiving Promise
11-22-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Karen Kwiatkowski
Exciting times are just beyond the bend for this country. As we gaze into the future, the lapping of the water at our feet is more agitated than usual, the waves subtly more insistent.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
US targets Iran's central bank as world takes aim at Iran's nuclear program
11-22-2011
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christiansciencemonitor.com
Secretary Clinton calls new US sanctions a 'significant ratcheting up of pressure on Iran.' Britain, France, and Canada also announce steps in wake of UN report citing 'deep concern' over Iran's nuclear program.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
BofA warned by regulators to get stronger: report
11-22-2011
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reuters.com
U.S. regulators have informed Bank of America's (BAC.N) board that the company could face public enforcement action if they are not satisfied with recent steps taken to strengthen the bank, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with th
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Harold Rodman, TSA worker, arrested for sexual assault
11-22-2011
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wjla.com
Police arrested Rodman on Nov. 20. He is charged with aggravated sexual battery, object sexual penetration, forcible sodomy and
abduction with intent to defile.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
In New Book, Trump Releases Finances, Doesn't Rule Out 2012 Run
11-22-2011
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foxnews.com
Trump also says he hasn't ruled getting into the race later, and recently added especially if Republicans choose the "wrong candidate."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The blue social model is collapsing. But the red state model is (also) broken
11-22-2011
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Michael Lind, Salon
The blue social model is collapsing. So proclaims Walter Russell Mead. . .In different ways, the rural and suburban red state model is as unsustainable as that of the liberal enclaves on the coasts.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Shhhhhh....Ron Paul could win California and therefore the nomination
11-22-2011
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www.examiner.com
Ron Paul is poised to pull an upset in Iowa, and finish strong in New Hampshire. This article is a good example of the kind of NERVOUS examination being undertaken by a STARTLED media.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Agriculture
Heritage Turkeys on Comeback
11-22-2011
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arclein
And, if you’re not old enough to remember a time before the Broad Breasted White, you may be surprised that the ALBC’s website calls turkeys “the quintessential American bird.” Indeed, Benjamin Franklin wanted to designate the turkey"indigenous to No
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Forest Edge Impact
11-22-2011
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arclein
When deforestation occurs, tree mortality at the edge of the remaining forest increases dramatically due to changes in temperature and microclimate. This in turn boosts carbon emissions when the biomass decomposes.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Day to Day Weather Increasingly Erratic
11-22-2011
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arclein
The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions has found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall affecting more than a third of the planet.
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Islamic Persecution of Christians
11-22-2011
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arclein
ore damning evidence continues to emerge: not only did Egypt’s military plan to massacre Christians to teach them a “lesson” never to protest again, but “death squads” were deployed up buildings the night before to snipe at protesters. Instead of tr
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robert klein
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Computerised contact lens will keep you up to date with news and texts
11-21-2011
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www.dailymail.co.uk
Prototype could create hands-free information - Was placed into a rabbit’s eye without causing any health problems - Inventor also looking to incorporate sensors to pick up important medical data - Meanwhile, Britons bionic eye which could end blindn
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
If There Is a Run on the Banks, Know Who To Blame
11-21-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Following our coverage last week of the fallout from the collapse of MF Global, Gerald Celente appeared on the Alex Jones Show numerous times to warn listeners that the only way to really ensure their money was protected was to withdraw it all from b
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