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Date Sent: 2012-11-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, November 20, 2012 AM edition |
Why Gaza? - by Justin Raimondo -- Israel Looks to ‘Significantly Expand’ Gaza War
Cleveland Cop Exposed as Cop Block Troll -- Karzai orders ‘full Afghanization’ of U.S.-run Bagram prison -- ‘Fiscal cliff’ threatens the national defense -- When Will our Email Betray Us? An Email Privacy Primer in Light of the Petraeus Saga -- Israeli Soldiers Breaking The Silence on the Occupation of Palestine -- Tylenol Mafia Whistleblower Scott Bartz speaks with WHDT World News (video) -- Secession: Are We Free To Go? - by Ron Paul -- Arizona Election Fraud: Pima County Issues Memo with Numerous Factual Errors -- Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Between Two Macroscopic Objects For The First Time -- YouTube Refuses to Yank Israeli Kill Video as Hamas Attacks Jerusalem -- Google’s Internet Service Might Actually Bring the U.S. Up to Speed -- Private Reusable Rocket Prototype Takes 2-Story Test Hop
AZ: 2012 Arizona Activists Patriot Roast & "Contempt of Cop"
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8th Annual 'National Ammo Day' Nov. 19th - BUY AT LEAST 100 ROUNDS
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Why Gaza? - by Justin Raimondo
11-19-2012
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AntiWar
The Israeli assault on Gaza was triggered Nov. 8 when the IDF crossed the border and murdered Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa, a 13-year-old boy playing football in his front yard: the official explanation for this action was an alleged weapons cache
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
8th Annual 'National Ammo Day' Nov. 19th - BUY AT LEAST 100 ROUNDS TODAY!
11-19-2012
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Ed/Ammoday.com/MeetUp.com
Every year people are encouraged to purchase ammunition, and this year some individuals are taking to the streets to let others know about the 'holiday'.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Hamas co-opts photos of injured Syrians
11-19-2012
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The Jerusalem Post
Hamas has posted photographs from other conflicts on social media in recent days, claiming they are victims of Israeli actions in Gaza.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cleveland Cop Exposed as Cop Block Troll
11-19-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Anonymity on the internet continues to be a thing of the past after a Cleveland cop was exposed as most likely being the same person leaving hate-filled comments to a writer of Cop Block then following it up with a hate-filled email.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai orders ‘full Afghanization’ of U.S.-run Bagram prison
11-19-2012
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Washington Post
President Karzai has ordered his aides to institute the “full Afghanization” of the U.S.-run prison at Bagram air base, charging Americans are continuing to detain Afghans despite a bilateral agreement in March to transfer all prisoners to Afghan aut
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
‘Fiscal cliff’ threatens the national defense
11-19-2012
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Washington Post OpEd
Democrats who talk of “going over the cliff” as a way to gain leverage over Republicans on taxes may not have fully considered what this could mean for the Defense Dept who could fire more 100,000 civilian workers in the first weeks of 2013
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News Link • Surveillance
When Will our Email Betray Us? An Email Privacy Primer in Light of the Petraeus Saga
11-19-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
While a small but increasing number of federal courts have found that the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for all email, the government claims ECPA only requires a warrant for email that is stored for 180 days or less.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli Soldiers Breaking The Silence on the Occupation of Palestine
11-19-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Former Israeli paratrooper Avner Gvaryahu, now an activist with Breaking The Silence explains how 850 former Israeli soldiers have given testimony about the gross injustices against the Palestinian people they have witnessed and made to participate i
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Smart Meter Fire " Just how safe are they again? (video)
11-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Beyond the dozens of reasons to avoid smart meters here is one more to show you the added threat to your safety!
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Tylenol Mafia Whistleblower Scott Bartz speaks with WHDT World News (video)
11-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Tylenol Mafia Whistleblower Scott Bartz speaks with WHDT World News in an interview by Gary Franchi regarding the Johnson & Johnson drug deaths
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Arizona Election Fraud: Pima County Issues Memo with Numerous Factual Errors
11-19-2012
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The Intercept
Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry's primary PR activity occurs through the construction of memo's addressed to various department heads within his own purview. These memos, of course, wind up in the hands of specific local press outlets.
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J.t. Waldron
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Prof. Murray Sabrin Addresses the State of the Union
11-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Interview of Prof. Murray Sabrin by Gary Franchi regarding our economy, free markets, debt and the role the Federal Reserves plays in creating it on http://NextNewsNetwork.com | Next News Network’s WHDT World News Program.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Currencies
Montana State Rep. Asks to Be Paid in Gold, Cites Threat of Dollar Collapse By Federal Reserve (Vide
11-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Ron Paul’s stance on sound money and the gold standard is resonating more and more among Americans. In a recent interview with Fox Business, State Rep. Jerry O’Neil, (R-Mont.), explains why he wants the state legislature to pay him in gold coins.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Acknowledging Freedom
11-19-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Liberty, freedom, and owning oneself are always good things. How humans lost the acknowledgement and community support of their unalienable right to exist on earth, and own themselves is probably lost in history. And yet, there were always people, th
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Replication Revolution: Best 3D-Printed Objects in Entertainment, Science and War
11-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
Amazing 3-D printed creations are starting to surface at an incredible rate, demonstrating the innovation potential that the technique holds for almost every industry.
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News Link • History
Trippy World’s Fair Structures Are Relics of Forgotten Utopias
11-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Pete Brook
Instead of cruising news feeds on your smartphone to learn about the latest technology, what if you had to wait years for the fair to come to town? For almost 150 years, that’s exactly how innovation came to much of the global public via the World’s
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News Link • Israel
YouTube Refuses to Yank Israeli Kill Video as Hamas Attacks Jerusalem
11-19-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Noah Shachtman
YouTube is rejecting calls to take down a video showing the assassination of Hamas’ military leader, despite the video-sharing service’s apparent ban on “graphic or gratuitous violence.”
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News Link • Books
Free Textbooks Spell Disruption for College Publishers
11-19-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Michael Fitzge
Startup companies offering knockoff textbooks are attracting students, and lawsuits.
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News Link • Bioterrorism
GM woes: no water, no birds, no butterflies, and we’re coughing at harvest time
11-19-2012
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Farm Wars
There’s plenty of water here. And there are no birds. Again, the only thing that’s changed is we’re surrounded by GM fields.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Internet
Google’s Internet Service Might Actually Bring the U.S. Up to Speed
11-19-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By David Talbot
In a radical departure from its core business, the search giant is installing high-speed fiber neighborhood by neighborhood.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Reusable Rocket Prototype Takes 2-Story Test Hop
11-19-2012
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http://www.space.com, Staff
A reusable rocket prototype built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX has made its highest flight yet, a two-story test hop, as part of an ambitious project to develop completely reusable rockets and spaceships.
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News Link • Science
Great Barrier Reef Collapse Triggered by Farm Run Off
11-19-2012
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arclein
And the extra nutrients in the water help seaweed move in afterwards, preventing coral from regenerating, Terry Done of the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, Queensland, said.
The researchers say their work showed the reefs had b
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News Link • History
Chinese Prehistory
11-19-2012
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arclein
. Huang-Di then begins his unification of China and is also credited with being a culture-hero, having brought traditional Chinese Medicine (including acupuncture) to the country. His wife taught the Chinese how to make silk. (this is consistent othe
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Baking Soda Gaining Medical Interest
11-19-2012
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arclein
remain in ignorance about the most basic substances and how they might affect the outcome of cancer. The American Cancer Society demonstrates on their website their lack of knowledge of bicarbonate and human physiology:
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robert klein
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Reference Link • Surveillance
The TSA Abuses the USA: The Final Solution
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is a cookie cutter version of the East German Stasi and because of the pot bellied perverts who work at the who expose the flying public to degradation, extreme violations of our bodies and lethal dose
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News Link • Military
Pentagon to be sued for censoring intelligence officer’s book
11-17-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
A former intelligence officer with the Department of Defense has been given the go-ahead by a federal judge to sue the Pentagon and the CIA for censoring his best-selling account of the war in Afghanistan.
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer can follow throu
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Food
The Battle for Control Over Our Plates
11-17-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The blame game could lead us down a number of avenues, all of which take us back to the same answers. Those who have money to be gained from illness and disease.
Now this is not some form of twisted joke, it is a real issue, and as hard as it may
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
JPMorgan, Credit Suisse settle with SEC for $417 million
11-17-2012
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By Aruna Viswanatha and Jonathan Stempel
JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN.VX) will pay a combined $416.9 million to settle U.S. civil charges that they misled investors in the sale of risky mortgage bonds prior to the 2008 financial crisis, regulators said on Fri
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News Link • Internet
Canadian Association... calls on government to approve U.S.-style internet surveillance
11-17-2012
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http://endthelie.com, By Madison Ruppert
Canadian Association of Police Chiefs calls on government to approve U.S.-style internet surveillance
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News Link • Secession
What does Texas secession mean to libertarians?
11-17-2012
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http://www.examiner.com, By: Garry Reed
The Huffington Post reported Tuesday that a petition for Texas secession has qualified to receive a White House response because it has garnered over 25,000 signatures.
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
FEMA shelters in northeast resemble police state prison camps
11-17-2012
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by: J. D. Heyes
Doom, gloom and despair is growing in the Northeast in the weeks following Superstorm Sandy, as winter sets in with thousands of New Yorkers and New Jersey residents still reeling from the loss of their homes and property.
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News Link • Drug War
Marijuana Prohibition Will Die of 1,000 Cuts…So Look Out
11-17-2012
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http://www.strike-the-root.com, by Alex R. Knight
Of the 50 tax farms that comprise America, 16 have governments that will allow prescribed medical marijuana for use by patients suffering from such conditions as glaucoma, anorexia, or cancer.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Doug Casey on the Inconvenient Truths of US Foreign Policy
11-17-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, Interviewed by Louis James
Hola, Doug. Congrats on calling the election correctly. You got your wish: the global economy should exit the eye of the storm on Obama's watch. Hopefully, leftist ideas will get the blame they deserve this time.
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News Link • Government
Boise’s Proposed Thoughtcrime Ordinance
11-17-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
If government has no authority to criminalize private behavior between consenting adults, by what supposed authority can it punish people who withhold their consent from a commercial transaction?
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel launches scores of airstrikes into Gaza
11-17-2012
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AP
Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with nearly 200 airstrikes early Saturday, the military said, widening a blistering assault on Gaza rocket operations to include the prime minister's headquarters, a police compound and a vast network of sm
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Petraeus testifies CIA’s Libya talking points were changed, lawmaker says
11-17-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, FoxNews.com
Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified in a closed-door hearing Friday morning that his agency determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack that “Al Qaeda involvement” was suspected
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Hundreds of marijuana possession cases already dismissed in Washington
11-17-2012
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by: J. D. Heyes
There is a legal showdown brewing between the federal government and two states whose residents voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana earlier this month
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
PAUL: Ron Paul Revolution: GOP’s last best hope
11-17-2012
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http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Sen. Rand Paul
Party must recommit to ideals of liberty
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Video Update: Ron Paul on C-SPAN's Washington Journal
11-17-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Katniss Everdeen
Congressman Paul will discuss fiscal cliff negotiations in Congress as well as the latest developments in Libya.
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News Link • Political Parties
Judge Napolitano on Jon Stewart 11-15-12:
11-17-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Miguel
"I'm not of the right. I'm a libertarian. I'm the Ron Paul guy over there (at Fox)"
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Washington Post: Ron Paul's Most Memorable Moments
11-17-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, P.Au.L
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said farewell to Congress on Wednesday in a 48-minute speech on the House floor.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Sanctions: More Deadly than Nuclear Bombs. 2 minute video
11-17-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, jazzntoehead
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." -Orwell
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Revises Estimate: Taking Syria’s Weapons Requires 75,000 Troops
11-17-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
In August They Said 50,000 to 60,000 Would Be Enough
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News Link • China
China's New Leaders Will Push Land Reforms To Boost The Economy
11-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar
Along with abolishing China's one-child policy, privatizing rural land is said to be another top reform for China's new leaders.
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News Link • States' Rights
A Simple Constitutional Argument For Letting States Legalize Marijuana
11-17-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
Former federal prosecutor Mark Oslet wrote a CNN op-ed that presents a clear and concise argument as to why the U.S. federal government should honor state laws legalizing marijuana.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. running $34 billion deficit
11-16-2012
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Washington Post
The federal agency that insures pensions for 43 million Americans saw its deficit swell to $34 billion in the past year. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. blamed the growing shortfall on its inability to charge private employers adequate premiums fo
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News Link • European Union
KYLE BASS: Germany Could Exit The Euro In '3-4 Years'
11-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Lucas Kawa
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass was on Bloomberg’s Market Makers with Stephanie Ruhle talking about his bearish views on the E.U. and the status of the currency union as a whole.
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News Link • General Opinion
Who's Kidding Who, Elon Musk Is Businessperson Of The Year
11-16-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
Fortune Magazine named Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos its "Businessperson of the Year."
While Bezos did some cool stuff this year, we think Fortune got it wrong.
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