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Date Sent: 2010-10-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, October 16, 2010 |
DHS Providing Fat "Drug War" Contracts for Board Members -- Cancer 'is purely man-made'
New Kind of Uranium Could Power Your Car -- 72 Hill staffers traded stocks in companies their bosses oversee -- US treats first patient with human embryonic stem cells -- DHS memo: Assassins headed to Arizona with orders to kill -- Is Our Economy Governed By Any Kind Of Rule Of Law? -- California Sheriff Taking Political Prisoners, Intimidating Voters Ahead of Ballot Measures -- The War on Information: "CYBERCOM" to Go Operational This Month -- US will enforce marijuana laws despite how Californians may vote -- John Williams Warns Of "Severe And Violent Sell-Off In Stocks" -- NPR tells employees to steer clear of Stewart/Colbert event -- Judge lets states' healthcare suit go forward -- Dollar tanks, stocks drop as Bernanke speech looms -- Pentagon bracing for release of 400,000 secret Iraq reports -- Soldier says he was ordered to delete Fort Hood videos -- Record-breaking Red
Bull Space Dive Grounded by Lawsuit -- Government reports $1.3 trillion
budget deficit -- Peter Schiff: "It's Scary How Clueless Bernanke Is"
-- Retail Sales Rise
More Than Forecast; Once Again I Ask "Really?" -- U.S. Troops To Deal
With Rioting Americans -- The Rot Within: A Culture of Financial Fraud
and the Anger of the Honest -- Will the New Debt Commission Back a
Value Added Tax? -- Dispatch: A Fresh NATO Incursion into Pakistan
(Video)
AZ: MEET UP - Tarrin Lupo - Wednesday October 20th 2010; Tom Woods Speaking in Phoenix, October 20; AZC4L Freedom Rally and Annual Convention Featuring Dr. Ron Paul
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News Link • Drug War
DHS Providing Fat "Drug War" Contracts for Board Members
10-15-2010
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FireDogLake.com
So the bottom line: the Department of Homeland Security is awarding fat contracts to people who serve on its Board of Directors. That’s the kind of stuff that will still raise eyebrows even among corrupt Wall Street oligarchs.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Cancer 'is purely man-made' say scientists
10-15-2010
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www.dailymail.co.uk
Scientists found no signs of cancer in their extensive study of mummies apart from one isolated case
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News Link • Transportation
New Kind of Uranium Could Power Your Car
10-15-2010
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ERIC BLAND via ABCNews.com
A newly discovered form of uranium could lead to a nuclear power plant small enough to fit in your car and eventually even power it.
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News Link • Corruption
72 Hill staffers traded stocks in companies their bosses oversee: WSJ
10-15-2010
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Sahil Kapur via The Raw Story
Perception among Americans is there's no shortage of corruption in Washington or on Wall Street, and new report finds possibly unseemly activities between Capitol Hill staffers and businesses their offices tasked with keeping honest
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News Link • Adult Stem Cell Technology
US treats first patient with human embryonic stem cells
10-15-2010
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Agence France-Presse via The Raw Story
US doctors have begun treating the first patient with embryonic stem cells as part of the first human study of the controversial treatment authorized by the government, the Geron Corporation said Monday.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
DHS memo: Assassins headed to Arizona with orders to kill
10/15/10
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AZ Family
PHOENIX " A recently leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security alerts law enforcement agencies that assassins are being hired by drug cartels in an effort to improve drug trafficking through Arizona.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Housing
Is Our Economy Governed By Any Kind Of Rule Of Law?
10-15-2010
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washingtonsblog.com/
The mortgage mess is making nonsense of claims that we have effective contract enforcement " in fact, the question is whether our economy is governed by any kind of rule of law.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: The Impact of Error From Securitization to Foreclosure
10-15-2010
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ritholtz.com
3. MERS: It appears that electronic mortgage filing was little more than a legal fiction, designed to save banks and securitizers a billion plus dollars in filing/transfer fees. The risk in doing these things down and dirty (aka on the cheap) is...
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure Nightmare - MERS - No Legal Foundation
10-15-2010
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Rense.com
The role of the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS) throughout the foreclosure furor is interesting-mostly because there is no legal basis for its role. It was created out of whole cloth by the investment bankers who brought us...
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News Link • Corruption
New York Federal Court to Hear Wild Horse Case
10-15-10
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The PPJ Gazette
New York, NY (October 15, 2010)"A New York Federal District Court Judge will consider a request on October 20 to stop the federal government’s roundup and removal of Colorado’s North Piceance wild horse herd. Second-string contractors, hired by the B
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
MEET UP - Tarrin Lupo - Wednesday October 20th 2010
10-15-2010
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lclreport.podomatic.com
Tarrin Lupo will be in Phoenix, AZ at the Freedoms Phoenix Workshop. He will be hanging out there and doing some interviews. Come on down!!!!
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Egyptian mummies prove cancer is 'man-made'
10-15-10
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Terrence Aym
Cancer is the bane of the modern world. It kills millions of people annually. Yet the strange fact is, that there is almost no trace of the insidious killer among the remains of ancient peoples.This incredible epiphany rocked researchers on their hee
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Internet
The War on Information: "CYBERCOM" to Go Operational This Month
10-15-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/
The new US Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) is reportedly ready to go fully operational this month, in coordination with NATO, to create a global cyber warfare system that will involve all major branches of the US armed forces...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
US will enforce marijuana laws despite how Californians may vote
10-15-2010
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RawStory.com
"Attorney General Eric Holder says the federal government will enforce its marijuana laws in California even if the state's voters approve a ballot measure to legalize the drug," Pete Yost reports for the Associated Press.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Federal Deficit Hits Near-Record $1.3 Trillion In 2010
10-15-2010
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NPR.org/
That means the government had to borrow 37 cents out of every dollar it spent as tax revenues continued to lag while spending on food stamps and unemployment benefits went up...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
John Williams Warns Of "Severe And Violent Sell-Off In Stocks"
10-15-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Buying U.S. stocks because the Fed says it will proactively debase the U.S. dollar is like sitting on the beach in order to get a great view of an incoming tsunami. Any pleasure so derived should be short-lived, when the terror of underlying reality.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Meeting for Black Journalists Doesn’t Stay Off-The-Record for Long
10-15-2010
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mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com
The White House is usually quite good at keeping a muzzle on the media after one of its off-the-record sessions with President Obama and senior members of his administration.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
James Cameron Flirting With 3D 'Cleopatra'
10-15-2010
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www.deadline.com
James Cameron and Sony Pictures Entertainment are exploring the very real possibility that he will direct Angelina Jolie in a 3D version of Cleopatra
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News Link • Government
'Bandit' Obama billboard sparks storm in US city
10-15-2010
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news.yahoo.com
A billboard depicting Barack Obama as an Islamist suicide bomber, a gay and a Mexican bandit has triggered a storm of criticism in a western US city weeks ahead of crucial polls.
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News Link • Activism
NPR tells employees to steer clear of Stewart/Colbert event
10-15-2010
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rbr.com
Jon Stewart's “Rally to Restore Sanity” and Stephen Colbert's “March to Keep Fear Alive” are poised to make a big splash in Washington DC Saturday 10/30/10.
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News Link • Government
An American Experiment in Anarcho- Capitalism: The Not So Wild, Wild West
10-15-2010
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lewrockwell.com
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News Link • Healthcare
Judge lets states' healthcare suit go forward
10-15-2010
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www.reuters.com
U.S. states can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to overturn President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare reform law, a Florida judge ruled Thursday.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dollar tanks, stocks drop as Bernanke speech looms
10-15-2010
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news.yahoo.com
European and U.S. stock markets mostly fell Thursday as investors awaited a speech from the Federal Reserve chairman that is expected to give more clarity on what the central bank is planning to do to prop up the ailing U.S. economy.
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News Link • Housing
In the poison mortgage contagion, is this "Patient Zero"?
10-15-2010
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New York Times
Mrs. Bradbury's foreclosure file did not look right. The documents from the lender, GMAC Mortgage, were approved by an employee whose title was "limited signing officer," an indication to the lawyer that his knowledge of the case was effectively none
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon bracing for release of 400,000 secret Iraq reports
10-15-2010
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Wired
After a brief quiescence, the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks is about to explode again onto the global stage with the impending release of almost 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Soldier says ordered to delete Fort Hood videos
10-15-2010
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AP
A soldier who recorded the terror of last year’s deadly shooting rampage in Fort Hood using his cell phone was ordered by an officer to delete both videos. The footage could have been vital evidence at the military hearing to decide if Maj. Nidal Has
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Record-breaking Red Bull Space Dive Grounded by Lawsuit
10-15-2010
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LiveScience
A lawsuit on Earth has grounded plans by Red Bull energy drink to send an Austrian daredevil into the stratosphere in an attempt to break the world record for the highest skydive. The Red Bull Stratos mission was slated to kick off some time this yea
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Government reports $1.3 trillion budget deficit
10-15-2010
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AP
The federal deficit hit $1.3 trillion for the just-completed budget year. That means the government had to borrow 37 cents out of every dollar it spent as tax revenues continued to lag while spending went up as the economy pulled out of recession.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Peter Schiff: "It's Scary How Clueless Bernanke Is"
10-15-2010
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finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker
"What Bernanke is saying to Congress is ‘run up the deficits because I'm going to monetize it for you,'" Schiff says. "He is enabling the government to get bigger, which is going to make employment worse, not better. He's throwing gasoline on a fire.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate Quote of the Day: Robo-Signers
10-15-2010
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Ritholtz.com
Again, this is not about keeping deadbeat borrowers in homes, it is about the Rule of Law.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Retail Sales Rise More Than Forecast; Once Again I Ask "Really?"
10-15-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Unless consumers have gone on a tear in the third quarter (highly unlikely with renewed slowdown in housing as well as the recent Gallup survey above), these retail sales reports are simply not believable.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Martial Law
U.S. Troops To Deal With Rioting Americans
10-15-2010
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PrisonPlanet.com
U.S. troops now being trained to boss communities and run local governments are being readied to oversee a post-collapse America in which riots and civil unrest similar to that now exploding in Europe over austerity measures and pension cuts...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
The Rot Within: A Culture of Financial Fraud and the Anger of the Honest
10-15-2010
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Neoliberal Capitalism developed a solution for this paucity of natural windfalls: the partnership of the Financial Elites and the Central State. The Central State gathered powers of taxation and control which enable it to "enforce" the collection...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Spice of Life
10-15-2010
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arclein
Mahtab Jafari's research shows curry's main ingredient has more to offer than good flavor. It extended the lifespan of fruit flies by up to 20 percent, while improving locomotion and having tumor-prevention properties.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Sea Bed Mining Advancing
10-15-2010
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arclein
If just 3 percent of the dissolved minerals precipitate -- an estimate based on earlier studies -- the ocean floor would hold reserves vastly greater than those on land, Cathles said.
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News Link • Climate Change
APS & Hal Lewis Spat
10-15-2010
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arclein
We know that the existing 2007 APS Statement on Climate Change was developed literally over lunch by a few people, after the duly constituted Committee had signed off on a more moderate Statement.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hubble Observes Aftermath of Possible Asteroid Collision
10-15-2010
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arclein
We expected the debris field to expand dramatically, like shrapnel flying from a hand grenade," said astronomer David Jewitt of the University of California in Los Angeles, who is a leader of the Hubble observations. "But what happened was quite th
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Map Of The Day: Where The Labor Market Will Be Ugly For A Long Time
10-15-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
And here's how it looks on a state-by-state basis. Note that the dark green states are in the worst shape. (Arizona appears to be in serious trouble because of it's over dependence on home building, and real estate sales.)
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Will the New Debt Commission Back a Value Added Tax?
10-15-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/
A VAT is the most micro form of taxation on consumption that needs the most macro form of law enforcement, an even bigger, all consuming IRS.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke: More Heroin Please
10-15-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.org/
In a very real sense, Bernanke is throwing Granny and Grandpa down the stairs - on purpose. He is literally threatening those at the lower end of the economic strata, along with all who are retired, with starvation and death...
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke: I'm Going Nuclear
10-15-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
This is the most stunning speech that I am aware of that a central banker has ever given.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Mercury in vaccines causes autism
10-15-2010
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Brass Check TV
The science is clear. The government and the drug industry are lying. How the FDA helped drug makers hide the science.
Children of the current generation receive 24 mandatory vaccinations. A generation ago, only 10 or less were called for.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Dispatch: A Fresh NATO Incursion into Pakistan (Video)
10-12-2010
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Stratfor
Analyst Kamran Bokhari examines the implications of reports that a U.S. helicopter entered Pakistan in Balochistan province " new territory for NATO incursions.
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News Link • Healthcare
Psychiatric manual: Nonconformity and freethinking is now classified as a mental illness
10/15/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disor
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