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Date Sent: 2011-04-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 14, 2011 PM edition |
Countries Agree to Try to Transfer Some of Qaddafi’s Assets to Libyan Rebels
Pelosi Tells Students Elections Don’t Matter -- Where Will The Invasive Cameras Of Homeland Security Go Next? -- Roberts: Pentagon budget is the result of corruption -- You Will Submit: In The Name Of Security, TSA Plans To X-Ray Our Feet -- Become a multi-millionaire… as a tax snitch -- ‘Birther’ bill passed by Arizona Senate -- NATO struggles for consensus on Libya -- Goldman Sachs Accused By Senate Panel Of Misleading Clients, Manipulating Markets -- Disgruntled writer sues Huffington Post and AOL for piece of $315-million sale price -- Banks Face $3.6 Trillion 'Wall' of Debt: IMF -- Remembering the Real Ayn Rand -- 10 US Housing Markets
At Risk Of A Major Collapse -- Warm Water Induces Extra Cold
Winters -- Looking Inside the San Andreas -- Was Libya Targeted For It's Stand on Gold,
the Dollar, and the "BIS"? -- Earthquake Long Cycle -- Crustal
Uplift Mechanism Discovered --
Goldstone Commission Members Affirm Study Findings -- Voyager 1
poised to enter deep space -- Inflation and Deflation: What items are
rising, and which are falling -- Foreclosure-Gate:
Regulators Whitewash Mortgage Abuses -- Jobless Claims Huge Miss
To Expectations Of 380K, Print At 412K
Nationwide: "Atlas Shrugged" starts
tomorrow!!!
AZ: Boston Tea Party April 15 tax day protest at capital; FEE awards ceremony at the Freedom Library, Yuma, April 26th.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Countries Agree to Try to Transfer Some of Qaddafi’s Assets to Libyan Rebels
04-14-2011
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nytimes.com
NATO, Arab and African ministers agreed Wednesday “to work urgently” with the Libyan rebel leadership to set up a mechanism by which some frozen assets belonging to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and his family might be transferred to the rebel cause.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Pelosi Tells Students Elections Don’t Matter
04-14-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House, has spoken her mind on the nature of government and the farce we call elections. She says the latter don’t matter.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Where Will The Invasive Cameras Of Homeland Security Go Next?
04-14-2011
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TheNewAmerican.com/
The use of invasive cameras is expanding and becoming more readily accepted " the TSA having already broken ground with its naked body scanners at airports around the country, with other longstanding invasive plans still in the works.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
China Calls it a Western Plot
04-14-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Destabilizing China and attempting to overthrow a government of 1.3 billion people most certainly is a grievous act of war. Add to that operations unfolding across Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and South America and you have
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Roberts: Pentagon budget is the result of corruption
04-14-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Half a century ago, president Dwight Eisenhower issued a warning to the American nation about growing military industrial complexes being a threat to democracy, and now it seems as though Eisenhower’s warning has become reality.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
You Will Submit: In The Name Of Security, TSA Plans To X-Ray Our Feet
04-14-2011
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thedailytimes.com/
The Transportation Security Administration is soliciting new footwear-scanning technology so travelers can keep their laces tied and their heels strapped.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
Parents Say TSA Made It Clear
04-14-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Parents Say TSA Made It Clear “There Would Be Trouble” If They Refused To Allow 6-Year Old Daughter To Be Groped
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Become a multi-millionaire… as a tax snitch
04-14-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
Recently, a small town accountant tipped off the IRS that his employer was shorting the government on taxes. He was rewarded with a big fat check for $4.5 million (minus a 28% federal tax withholding, of course).
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday April 14th, 2011
04-14-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Keeping Capital in a Depression - Doug Casey on navigating the financial no-man's land. / Eat the Private Rich? - They are great social benefactors, says Walter Williams. / More 'Pre-Crime' Enforcement - Courtesy of the federal tax collectors. / Eat
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Arizona Laws and Arizona Founding Documents
‘Birther’ bill passed by Arizona Senate
04-14-2011
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RawStory.com
Legislation that requires presidential candidates to prove they are natural-born American citizens before their names can appear on the Arizona ballot was approved by the state Senate on Wednesday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • NATO
NATO struggles for consensus on Libya
04-14-2011
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english.aljazeera.net
NATO pledges "all necessary resources" but meeting exposes continuing disagreement over extent of support for rebels.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • History
How Dinosaurs Got So Huge
04-14-2011
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livescience.com
Among dinosaurs, the biggest of the big is Argentinosaurus. This long-necked, puny-headed creature is a member of a group of giants called sauropods. This particular extinct creature measured as much as 140 feet (43 meters) long and weighed up to 90
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
UPDATE 1-Geithner says Congress will pass debt limit increase
04-14-2011
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www.reuters.com
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that Congress will allow the country to borrow more by agreeing to increase the $14.3 trillion debt limit.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Goldman Sachs Accused By Senate Panel Of Misleading Clients, Manipulating Markets
04-14-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
In the most damning official U.S. report yet produced on Wall Street's role in the financial crisis, a Senate panel accused powerhouse Goldman Sachs of misleading clients and manipulating markets, while also condemning greed, weak regulation and conf
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Disgruntled writer sues Huffington Post and AOL for piece of $315-million sale price
04-14-2011
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latimesblogs.latimes.com
Jonathan Tasini, a social activist and commentator, is suing AOL and its newest purchase, the Huffington Post, over claims that he and other writers weren't paid appropriately for their work.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Banks Face $3.6 Trillion 'Wall' of Debt: IMF
04-14-2011
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www.cnbc.com
The world's banks face a $3.6 trillion "wall of maturing debt" in the next two years and must compete with debt-laden governments to secure financing, the IMF warned on Wednesday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
More Americans leaving the workforce
04-14-2011
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www.usatoday.com
The share of the population that is working fell to its lowest level last year since women started entering the workforce in large numbers three decades ago, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Jesse Ventura on Government Cover-Ups . . .
04-14-2011
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lewrockwell.com
9/11, the Reality of HAARP and Making Government Better / The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Jesse Ventura.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
BRICS demand global monetary shake-up, greater influence
04-14-2011
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finance.yahoo.com
The BRICS group of emerging-market powers kept up the pressure on Thursday for a revamped global monetary system that relies less on the dollar and for a louder voice in international financial institutions.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Events: Arizona
15th ANNUAL RECOGNITION AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARD CEREMONY
04-14-2011
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www.freedomlibrary.org
Tuesday, April 26, Yuma, AZ, help our youth and others understand the real meaning of Individual Liberty and the Freedom Philosophy in order to make a better, more peaceful world for all of us.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Mary Tillman: No Stanley McChrystal pick
04-14-2011
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Jennifer Epstein, Politico.com
The mother of a soldier killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan said she was “shocked” by President Barack Obama’s selection of retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal to play a role in a campaign highlighting the needs of military families.
McChrystal’s
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Archaeology
The London Stone and the Sword of Excalibur
04-14-2011
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Liberty Cap Press
If putting your shoe on something sacred or revered is a sign of disrespect, then what are we to make of the present location of the London Stone, upon which the safety of the City was once believed to rest? It now sits between a rusty iron grille an
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Tracy Twyman
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News Link • Housing
10 US Housing Markets At Risk Of A Major Collapse
04-14-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
6.7 million delinquent mortgages are waiting to flood the market around the country -- and with near-zero cure rates most of them will. Another 2 million homes in foreclosure are being held off the market by banks.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Goldman Sachs Chief Blankfein Could Face Criminal Prosecution For Role In Financial Crisis
04-14-2011
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William Alden, Huffingtonpost.com
Goldman Sachs executives deceived clients in order to profit off the brewing financial crisis and then misled Congress when asked to explain their actions, concluded a top lawmaker who led a two-year investigation into Wall Street's role in the melt
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Senate Investigates Wall Street and reports its findings.
04-14-2011
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Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations
Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse, Majority and Minority Report, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, U.S. Senate
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Kenneth Rineer
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News Link • Climate Change
Study: Marijuana Causes Global Warming
04-14-2011
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San Francisco Business Journal
A study published by Evan Mills, an energy analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, asserts that indoor pot cultivation contributes to global warming.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Political Theory
The Moorfield Storey Recipe for Libertarian Success
04-14-2011
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Becky Chandler
From time to time libertarian types will wonder why there is not more political support for them in America"after all when public opinion polls are conducted about half of Americans describe themselves as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. T
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bob Janjuah: Hard Landing in 2nd Half of 2011 Makes QE3 Unavoidable
04-14-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
We think QE3 will be both unavoidable and a grave policy mistake in the hard landing outcome.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Objectivism
Remembering the Real Ayn Rand
04-14-2011
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The Wall Street Journal
The author of "Atlas Shrugged" was an individualist, not a conservative, and she knew big business was as much a threat to capitalism as government bureaucrats.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Climate Change
Warm Water Induces Extra Cold Winters
04-14-2011
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arclein
If you're sitting on a bench in New York City's Central Park in winter, you're probably freezing. After all, the average temperature in January is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. But if you were just across the pond in Porto, Portugal, which shares New Yor
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Looking Inside the San Andreas
04-14-2011
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arclein
In a little more than an hour, they would start detonating their explosives, generating seismic waves that would be recorded by seismometers buried throughout these sandy hills and positioned on the floor of the Salton Sea.
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robert klein
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News Link • Bank of International Settlements
Was Libya Targeted For It's Stand on Gold, the Dollar, and the "BIS"
04-14-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
What do these seven countries have in common? In the context of banking, one that sticks out is that none of them is listed among the 56 member banks of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). That evidently puts them outside...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Earthquake Long Cycle
04-14-2011
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arclein
Take a look at this chart. What we have is a clear thirty year rise in earthquake activity starting around 1960 and then dropping of for a decade. The last decade it has returned to the secular uptrend and has now made up for any lost ground. Thus
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Crustal Uplift Mechanism Discovered
04-14-2011
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arclein
An invisible force is creating giant ripples in the Earth's crust " in a geological blink of an eye
BRYAN LOVELL likes to show his fellow geologists an image of a network of river valleys. "I ask them where they think this might be on Earth," h
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Voyager 1 poised to enter deep space
04-14-2011
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LAtimes.com
The information has come from Voyager 1, the spindly little spacecraft that rocketed from Florida more than 30 years before and is still traveling, farther from Earth than any human-made object ever has.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Inflation and Deflation: What items are rising, and which are falling
04-14-2011
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Ritholtz.com
Sure John Williams is a bit controversial, but he has been hammering on the “Official Data Understates Inflation” for decades now.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Regulators Whitewash Mortgage Abuses
04-14-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The current end run is apparently led by the Ministry of Bank Boosterism more generally known as the OCC and comes via consent decrees that were issued Wednesday...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jobless Claims Huge Miss To Expectations Of 380K, Print At 412K
04-14-2011
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ZeroHedge.com & Market-Ticker.denninger.org
The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 443,503 in the week ending April 9, an increase of 89,686 from the previous week.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
April 15 will be Feet to the Fire Day at the AZ Capitol
04-13-2011
The Arizona chapter of Americans for Prosperity, along with allied Tea Party groups and policy organizations, is hosting a giant Feet to the Fire Tea Party from 6:00 to 9:00 pm on the evening of April 15, 2011. The event will take place on the House
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Thomas Costanzo
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