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Date Sent: 2013-04-06
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, April 6, 2013 |
North Korea Warns Embassies To Evacuate By April 10 -- As economy flails, debtors' prisons thrive
Justice Department Seeks To Keep Secret The Names Of Prosecutors Of Aaron Swartz -- The Colorado Shooter Was on Psycho Drugs -- Montreal Police Arrest Woman Over Instagram Photo -- Tiny Nuclear Reactions Inside Compact Fluorescent Bulbs? -- Question school security and get arrested for terrorism -- Whistleblower sues Rutgers in abusive coach case -- New York: Judge Rules Against Use Of X-Rays During Traffic Stops -- NHTSA To Bypass Public Comment, Adopt Rules Directly -- Italy pardons U.S. pilot convicted in CIA rendition case -- As cities lay off police, frustrated neighborhoods turn to private cops -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, April 7, 2013 Edition -- Banker
Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity [Paperback] -- Bank Of
England Admits "Stocks Don't Reflect Economic Reality" -- Bridgewater Asks "Could Italy Blow Up The Euro?" --
Japan's 13 Sigma Bond Swan -- 97% Of February Consumer Credit Is
Student And Car Loans -- The 21 Key Statistics About The Explosive
Growth Of Poverty In America -- People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million -- Q+A Ben Silbermann -- Here Comes Obama's Raid On YOUR Retirement -- BitTorrent Site IsoHunt Demands Jury Trial -- BITCOIN 101: A Beginner's Guide... -- Here’s the Coolest Photo Yet of SpaceShipTwo in Flight -- Government Took Gold in 1930, Now They’re Taking Bank Accounts -- Armed Citizens Protect Town From Criminal Drug Gangs -- A Homicide Detective Was Shot Dead In A Police Interrogation Room -- 7-Year-Old Boy Faces Felony Charges For Shooting BB Gun -- The Assault On Gold -- The Casey 'Downturn Millionaire's' Message: Why David Galland Is Answering His Broker' -- Interactive Tool Shows You How To Hide Your Millions Offshore -- Plan B Must Be Available OTC For Women And Girls Of All Ages, Federal Judge Rules
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine April 5th, 2013 Edition
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea Warns Embassies To Evacuate By April 10
04-05-2013
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worldordernews.com
The North Korean government warned Russian and European diplomats to evacuate Pyongyang by April 10, saying it cannot assure their safety “in the event of a conflict”.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
As economy flails, debtors' prisons thrive
04-05-2013
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CBS News
Thousands of Americans are sent to jail not for committing a crime, but because they can't afford to pay for traffic tickets, medical bills and court fees. If that sounds like a debtors' prison, that's because it is. And courts and judges in states
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice Department Seeks To Keep Secret The Names Of Prosecutors Of Aaron Swartz
04-05-2013
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Jonathan Turley
The Justice Department was once all too eager to announce its prosecution of Aaron Swartz and issue press releases on how they piled on additional counts against him. However, after Swartz committed suicide in response to its unrelenting prosecution,
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Colorado Shooter Was on Psycho Drugs
04-05-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
James Holmes, who dressed up as The Joker and shot up a movie theater full of people in Colorado, had been taking Zoloft, the same dangerous psychotropic drug that the Columbine killer, Eric Harris, had been taking along with a drug called
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Montreal Police Arrest Woman Over Instagram Photo
04-05-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Despite their guns, badges, batons, Tasers, handcuffs and pepper spray canisters, police continue to prove they are terrified of free expression " arresting a woman over an photo that sent shivers down the spine of a panic-stricken police
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News Link • Energy
Tiny Nuclear Reactions Inside Compact Fluorescent Bulbs?
04-05-2013
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forbes
Harmless low-energy nuclear reactions may be taking place routinely inside of compact fluorescent lightbulbs, according to a physicist whose theories have NASA researchers abuzz with the prospect of cheap, non-polluting energy.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Question school security and get arrested for terrorism
04-05-2013
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He says he was making small talk with his physical therapist, complaining about what he considers to be lax security at his granddaughter’s school, when the therapist claimed Davis made a threatening comment about going into the school and opening fi
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Whistleblower sues Rutgers in abusive coach case
04-05-2013
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AP
A former Rutgers University employee who made public the video that led to the basketball coach's dismissal and the athletic director's resignation has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New York: Judge Rules Against Use Of X-Rays During Traffic Stops
04-05-2013
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The Newspaper
A motorist cannot have his car taken to a border station to be x-rayed based on a window tint violation, a federal judge ruled allowing a lawsuit to proceed in the wake of an traffic stop where motorists who had done nothing wrong were detained for 3
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
NHTSA To Bypass Public Comment, Adopt Rules Directly
04-05-2013
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The Newspaper
"NHTSA is proposing to use the direct final rulemaking process when the action to be taken is not anticipated to generate adverse comment, and therefore, providing notice and opportunity for comment would not be necessary," the rule states.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Italy pardons U.S. pilot convicted in CIA rendition case
04-05-2013
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Reuters
The clemency was granted because the United States and Italy are close allies that "share the common goals of promoting democracy and security" around the world, the president said. Abu Omar, was secretly flown to Egypt for 7 months of torture.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
As cities lay off police, frustrated neighborhoods turn to private cops
04-05-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
With cities cutting their police to balance budgets, some well-to-do neighborhoods are hiring private security, marking an expansion of unarmed guards beyond office parks and gated communities.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, April 7, 2013 Edition
04-05-2013
John Semmens
Administration Touts Obamacare as Jobs Engine
The complexities of the Affordable Health Care Act (aka Obamacare) are now being hailed as a stimulant for the economy by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
“The GOP has been trying to lampoon the Health
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News Link • Self-Defense
Double Barrel Shotgun vs. AR-15
04-05-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com,
Don't be outgunned in a home invasion situation, says Hickok45
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News Link • Books
Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity [Paperback]
04-05-2013
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http://www.amazon.com,
Stephen Lendman strikes to the heart of Wall Street/government collusion to protect the powerful and drive ordinary Americans into the Third World ditch.
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News Link • Economy - International
Bank Of England Admits "Stocks Don't Reflect Economic Reality"
04-05-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (BoEFPC) warns there is "evidence of the re-emergence of... behavior in financial markets not seen since before the financial crisis,"...
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News Link • European Union
Bridgewater Asks "Could Italy Blow Up The Euro?"
04-05-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Judging by the purchasing frenzy of Italian bonds today, most of it emanating out of Japan which after last night's epic snafu involving JGBs and the double halt of bond trading which may have spooked the "New BOJ-frontrunning Normal" Mrs Watanabe...
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan's 13 Sigma Bond Swan
04-05-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
For six months the Japanese jawboning has seen investors front-running the BoJ, selling JPY and buying whatever risk-asset is the most correlated that day - whether it is the Nikkei 225 or the S&P 500.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Jets and Drones Powered by a Mighty Wind
04-05-2013
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, by Elizabeth Palermo
Will tomorrow’s jets and drones be powered by the same technology currently used in toy hovercrafts?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The 21 Key Statistics About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America
04-05-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Michael Snyder
If the economy is getting better, then why does poverty in America continue to grow so rapidly? Yes, the stock market has been hitting all-time highs recently, but also the number of Americans living in poverty has now reached a level not seen since
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million
04-05-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million, Labor Force Participation Rate At 1979 Levels
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News Link • Internet
Q+A Ben Silbermann
04-05-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Tom Simonite
Pinterest’s CEO says that crowds of people are better than algorithms at
finding content that consumers care about.
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News Link • Internet
BitTorrent Site IsoHunt Demands Jury Trial
04-05-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt is demanding a federal appeals court grant it a jury trial, two weeks after the court declared it a massive copyright scofflaw and said it’s on the hook for what could be millions of dollars in
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News Link • Bitcoin
BITCOIN 101: A Beginner's Guide...
04-05-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dylan Love
BITCOIN 101: A Beginner's Guide To The Unfakeable Digital Anarchist Currency Everyone's Obsessed With
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Here’s the Coolest Photo Yet of SpaceShipTwo in Flight
04-05-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has made its first flight in months, which is noteworthy both because they tested the nitrous system on board and because Sir Richard Branson’s PR people provided a really cool photo of the glider passing by the moon.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Government Took Gold in 1930, Now They’re Taking Bank Accounts
04-05-2013
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bullmarketthinking.com
“It’s been condoned [now] by the IMF, the European union, and everybody else in sight; that a government in need, can take assets. We all knew they could tax us…but this is the first time that I’m aware of, that they’ve gone in and taken bank account
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News Link • Self-Defense
Armed Citizens Protect Town From Criminal Drug Gangs
04-05-2013
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worldordernews.com
Mexicans have had enough and decided to take matters in their own hands since their corrupt police and government are allowing the criminals to operate with impunity in broad daylight. Hundreds of armed vigilantes in the Pacific coast state of Guerre
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
A Homicide Detective Was Shot Dead In A Police Interrogation Room
04-05-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Holbrook Mohr
Stunned police officials in Jackson, Miss., are trying to determine how a suspect was able to shoot and kill a homicide detective inside an interrogation room at police headquarters " and how the suspect himself ended up dead.
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News Link • Seriously?
7-Year-Old Boy Faces Felony Charges For Shooting BB Gun
04-05-2013
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worldordernews.com
Only in America: 7-year-old boy, Sam Grant finds himself facing two felony charges for shooting his BB gun. His parents say that he was shooting behind an abandoned building and some BBs managed to hit a few passing cars.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
The Assault On Gold
04-05-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Craig Roberts
For Americans, financial and economic Armageddon might be close at hand. The evidence for this conclusion is the concerted effort by the Federal Reserve and its dependent financial institutions to scare people away from gold and silver by driving dow
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News Link • Inventions
Tech Time Warp of the Week: Rad Ads for Ginormous ’80s Cellphones
04-05-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
The cellphone turned 40 this week. And it's a remarkable achievement. Really. It is.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes
04-05-2013
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Jon Gingerich
I’ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it’s a job that’s come with more frustration than reward. If there’s one thing I am grateful for " and it sure isn’t the pay " it’s that my work has allowed endless time to hone my craft to
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Interactive Tool Shows You How To Hide Your Millions Offshore
04-05-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
Stash your dough in the Bahamas, "invest" in diamonds, and spend your tax-free cash.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Plan B Must Be Available OTC For Women And Girls Of All Ages, Federal Judge Rules
04-05-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep
The Food and Drug Administration ordered to comply within 30 days
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News Link • Drones
This Iranian Drone Could Someday Save Your Life
04-05-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
Though still a concept, this robot lifeguard should be one robot people are grateful to see coming.
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News Link • Surveillance
Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance
04-04-2013
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c/Net
Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are "impossible to intercept," even with a warrant.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Veteran’s Guns Confiscated After Forced ‘Psychiatric Evaluation’
04-04-2013
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InfoWars
A US Navy veteran had his guns confiscated by police following a forced “psychiatric evaluation” in another purge of armed ex-servicemembers in accordance with a federal government demonization campaign labeling vets domestic terrorists.
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News Link • Gun Rights
"State Control": What the UN Firearms Treaty is All About
04-04-2013
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White House mouthpiece Jay Carney says the Obama administration will “conduct a thorough review” of the UN’s newly enacted gun control pact “to determine whether to sign the treaty.” The suspense is hardly unbearable, given that
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Changing Forensic Science Of Arson Is Freeing Innocent Convicts
04-04-2013
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Francie Diep via PopSci.com
A man who spent 42 years in prison walked free yesterday, released because the evidence that he had committed arson was faulty.
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News Link • Military
New Zealand troops begin withdrawal from Afghanistan
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
New Zealand troops began their withdrawal from Afghanistan Friday, with the lowering of the flag for the last time at their base in Bamiyan to mark the end of a 10-year involvement in the war.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Stocks Rise as Stimulus Efforts Overshadow Jobs Data
04-04-2013
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Bloomber.com
U.S. stocks rose, rebounding from the biggest selloff in more than a month for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, as central banks’ pledges on stimulus efforts overshadowed a rise in American jobless claims.
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News Link • Surveillance
Secret Service investigating hack of director's information
04-04-2013
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Reuters
The Secret Service was investigating the new Director Julia Pierson's personal information had been hacked and published on a website, another in a string of such incidents including first lady Michelle Obama and CIA Director John Brennan.
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stocks Rise, led by Japan, on Central Bank Stimulus
04-04-2013
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Adam Haigh via Bloomberg.com
Asian stocks rose, with Japanese shares surging toward the highest level in almost five years, after the Bank of Japan’s new governor announced unprecedented monetary easing to end two decades of economic stagnation.
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News Link • Syria
Syria says will support currency after plunge in value
04-04-2013
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Reuters
Syria announced on Thursday that it will take steps next week to support its currency after the pound plunged by nearly a quarter last month against the dollar, part of a two-year slide caused by a revolt and ensuing civil war.
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News Link • Corruption
Bribery scandals widen; assemblyman was informant since '09
04-04-2013
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A state assemblyman revealed he has been an informant since 2009 helpeing prosecutors in public-corruption cases " sending shock waves through Albany and leading to speculation that more lawmakers could be taken down in a widening probe.
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
No King But Caesar
04-04-2013
Chuck Baldwin
With the Easter message fresh on my mind, I am again reminded of what the Jewish leaders said to Pilate when they tried to coerce him to crucify Jesus. They said, “We have no king but Caesar.” Remember, these were the Jewish Pharisees, scribes, elder
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News Link • Economy - International
Bank of Japan 2% Inflation Goal Is Unrealistic, Gross Says
04-04-2013
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Susanne Walker via Bloomberg.com
Pacific Investment Management Co.’s Bill Gross said the Bank of Japan’s goal to reach a 2 percent inflation target in two years using its record bond-buying program may be “unrealistic.”
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Hackers attack North Korea news website
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
Activist hackers appeared Thursday to have infiltrated North Korea’s official news website and its accompanying Twitter and Flickr feeds, posting unflattering images of leader Kim Jong-Un.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Connecticut lawmakers pass sweeping gun control bill in wake of Newtown massacre
04-04-2013
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Stephen C. Webster via The RawStory.com
Lawmakers in Connecticut’s House voted in the early hours of Thursday morning to approve a bill that limits...
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Iowa’s mysterious ‘Project Catapult’ data center grows bigger
04-04-2013
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Slashdot via RawStory.com
There’s something mysterious happening in Iowa"a massive data center is going up, thought to be the home of a next-generation facility from Apple, Google, or another major provider.
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News Link • Activism
Italian priest arrested for 4 million-euro fraud on Vatican-linked hospital
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
Italian police on Thursday arrested a priest accused of defrauding a Vatican-linked hospital in Rome that he managed of four million euros ($5.1 million), part of which he used to buy an 18-room villa in Tuscany set on 23 hectares of land.
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News Link • Israel
Egypt’s navy ‘intercepts arms-laden ship from Israel’
04-04-2013
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The RawStory.com
Egypt’s navy on Thursday seized a weapons-laden ship and detained its crew who had set off from the Israeli port of Eilat en route to the African country of Togo, security officials said.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Texas demands its physical gold reserves be returned by the Fed
04-04-2013
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by J. D. Heyes
The seizure of privately held savings accounts by the government of Cyprus, in order to finance a European Union-led bailout, is having reverberations far beyond the shores of that bankrupt nation.
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