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Date Sent: 2010-11-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, November 26, 2010 |
Massive WikiLeaks leak to reveal corrupt world leaders -- NKorea warns region is on brink of war
Rep. Kucinich slams fake Afghan elections, fake withdrawal, fake Taliban -- Is America on the path to 'permanent war'? -- 3 teenagers survive 50 days adrift in Pacific -- HAS THE AMERICAN DREAM COME TO AN END? - by Frosty Wooldridge -- Electronic pickpocketing puts your credit cards at risk -- IRS to Jewish group: 'Does your organization support the existence of the land of Israel?' -- Homeland Security proxy installs 300 surveillance cameras in Houston -- Did TSA cave on scanners for Thanksgiving rush? -- 'Fourth generation' Internet arrives in Hong Kong -- Putin vs Bilderberg: Proposes Russian and EU Economic Union -- Body Scanners Coming to Trains, Subways and Boats, Homeland Security Chief Says -- China issues warning ahead of U.S.-South Korea drills --
Enhanced Airport Screening Controversy -- Trumping TSA: LA Woman Wears
Bikini To Airport -- Check Out Photos Of The Incredible Anti-Austerity
Student Riots In... ITALY -- Foreclosure-Gate: What Is a Wrongful
Foreclosure? -- Man Charged With Resisting Arrest for Covering Head During Beating -- Drug War: Land Forfeiture Gang Strikes Musical Festival Property -- The deadly health effects of TSA full body scanners -- German Vandals Throw Eggs At Houses That Opt Out Of Google Street View
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Massive WikiLeaks leak to reveal corrupt world leaders
11-26-2010
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Rawstory
The Obama administration warned that the next release of documents from whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks could damage relations between the US and foreign governments. Now, a report from Reuters offers an explanation as to why that may be.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
NKorea warns region is on brink of war
11-26-2010
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AP
North Korea warned Friday that U.S.-South Korean plans for military maneuvers put the peninsula on the brink of war, and appeared to launch its own artillery drills within sight of an island it showered with a deadly barrage this week.
The fresh a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Rep. Kucinich slams fake Afghan elections, fake withdrawal, fake Taliban
11-26-2010
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Rawstory
"The war in Afghanistan is taking place in a netherworld where facts and common sense have no place," Kucinich said. "Elections are fake. Our deadline to withdraw is a fake. Now, we learn that a fake Taliban leader has been leading us to believe that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Is America on the path to 'permanent war'?
11-26-2010
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CNN
When the president decided to send more troops to a distant country during an unpopular war, one powerful senator had enough.
He warned that the U.S. military could not create stability in a country "where there is chaos ... democracy where there
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Three teenagers survive 50 days adrift in Pacific
11-26-2010
Three teenage boys have been found alive after being lost in their boat in the Pacific Ocean for 50 days.
The boys, from the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand-administered territory in the South Pacific, had been given up for dead after an unsuccessf
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Freedom Summit
Freedom Summit - About Us
11-26-2010
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FreedomSummit 2010
"Socialism and other coercive centralized planning schemes have failed to improve, and indeed have worsened, the human condition. As such, the Freedom Summit does not encourage or promote any particular centralized plan to achieve freedom."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Electronic pickpocketing puts your credit cards at risk
11-26-2010
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WTSP TV10
If you had any doubt that someone could steal your credit card numbers by simply walking past you, a few minutes with Walt Augustinowicz will probably chance your mind. By simply using a credit card scanner attached to a battery pack, Augustinowicz s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS to Jewish group: 'Does your organization support the existence of the land of Israel?'
11-26-2010
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Politico
A Pennsylvania Jewish group claimed the Internal Revenue Service is targeting pro-Israel groups introduced in federal court a letter from an IRS agent that tax experts said was likely outside the usual or appropriate scope of an IRS inquiry.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Homeland Security proxy installs 300 surveillance cameras in Houston
11-26-2010
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Houston Chronicle
The city is installing 250 to 300 cameras at downtown intersections in an effort to prevent and fight terrorism and crime, part of a security initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Did TSA cave on scanners for Thanksgiving rush?
11-26-2010
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Rawstory
News reports declared the National Opt-Out Day protest against TSA screening procedures a bus....But reports from travelers and local news sources suggest that at some of the busiest airports in the US the TSA has backed down and resorted to using th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
'Fourth generation' Internet arrives in Hong Kong
11-26-2010
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breitbart.com
"For a lot of people, this will be their first experience of the Internet. They are at a huge advantage to previous Internet generations because they are leapfrogging all those fixed line technologies.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Putin vs Bilderberg: Proposes Russian and EU Economic Union
11-26-2010
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Reuters.com & euobserver.com
"Can it be supposed that one day Russia will be in some joint currency zone with Europe? Yes, quite possible," Putin said in answer to a question on a visit to Berlin.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
Body Scanners Coming to Trains, Subways and Boats, Homeland Security Chief Says
11-25-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Brace yourselves, commuters " body scanners may be coming to trains, subways and boats, according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • China
China issues warning ahead of U.S.-South Korea drills
11-26-2010
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Reuters
China warned on Friday against military acts near its coastline ahead of U.S.-South Korean naval exercises that North Korea, days after shelling a South Korean island, said risked pushing the region toward war.
Beijing's warning came as the Seoul
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Trumping TSA: LA Woman Wears Bikini To Airport
11-26-2010
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Twirlit.com
A woman who planned on flying out of LAX airport decided she would try and avoid a pat-down by leaving little to the imagination in a tiny black bikini.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • European Union
Check Out Photos Of The Incredible Anti-Austerity Student Riots In... ITALY
11-26-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Italian students have been protesting the country's education reform since Wednesday. The most recent cuts "eliminate some areas of study and force schools that are running at deficit to close."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: What Is a Wrongful Foreclosure?
11-26-2010
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ProPublica.org
In a 2007 analysis of bankruptcy mortgage claims, University of Iowa law professor Katherine Porter found that about 40 percent of the time, banks didn’t provide the proper paperwork"specifically, the note"to enforce a mortgage claim...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Man Charged With Resisting Arrest for Covering Head During Beating
11-26-2010
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RawStory.com
"All he tried to do is cover his head, until he passed out. They beat him until he was unconscious, and they had to take him to Jackson [Memorial Hospital]," said Martinez-Cid.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
Drug War: Land Forfeiture Gang Strikes Musical Festival Property
11-26-2010
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LewRockwell.com
Under the Orwellian standards governing federal "civil asset forfeiture," Tebeau's property has already been found "guilty" of involvement in a crime. The agencies that seized it will be permitted to keep and divide it among themselves...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
Mountain Climatic Refugia
11-26-2010
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arclein
Swiss researchers studying the projected effects of climate change on alpine plant species have discovered that mountain ranges may represent a 'safer' place to live during changing climate conditions. The research, published in the Journal of Bioge
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Planetary Dust Tails
11-26-2010
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arclein
"As Earth orbits the sun, it creates a sort of shell or depression that dust particles fall into, creating a thickening of dust " the tail " that Earth pulls along via gravity," explains Werner. "In fact, the tail trails our planet all the way aro
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robert klein
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News Link • Environment
UN Urges Vegetarianism
11-26-2010
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arclein
Animal products cause more damage than [producing] construction minerals such as sand or cement, plastics or metals. Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels."
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robert klein
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The deadly health effects of TSA full body scanners
11-26-2010
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Terrence Aym
Columbia University doctor: people will get cancer - David J. Brenner, an expert on the effects of radiation stated that it's quite likely the TSA scanners will cause cancer in some individuals. Brenner, whose Columbia's Center for Radiological Res
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Privacy Rights
German Vandals Throw Eggs At Houses That Opt Out Of Google Street View
11-25-2010
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Lizzie Schiffman via PopSci.com
Opting out of Google Maps’ Street View in Germany will blur image of your building on the photographic map, and make you hideously uncool. So says a group of vandals who egged homes in Essen that appear pixelated on the search engine’s map
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Onboard Converter Technology Harvests Auto Engine Exhaust to Generate Electricity
11-25-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Future cars may eat their own exhaust, converting heat from their emissions into electricity. The conversion can improve fuel economy by reducing an engine’s workload.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Investing in Farmland in Uruguay… An OU Quick Guide
11-25-2010
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www.olauruguay.com
Investment in hard assets such as agricultural land may provide stability in a world where the value of dollars and other currencies are in doubt. “Cash in the bank” used to be the ultimate expression of safely stored wealth"but not anymore. Internat
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Music Linking Site Raided By Dept. of Homeland Security / ICE
11-25-2010
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TorrentFreak
A large file-sharing link site dedicated to rap and hiphop music and news has been raided by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The servers of RapGodFathers, a site with close to 150,000 members, were seized
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Wants Behavior Scanners At Sports Events, Malls
11-25-2010
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InfoWars.com/
Big Sis is already beta-testing technology that goes even further, by forcing Americans to undergo a behavioral interrogation before they are allowed to enter sports events, rock concerts and shopping malls.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Bruce Krasting: The "Fixes"
11-25-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
It’s not just the Bush tax cuts that expire at the end of the year. The maximum lending limits at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA were set to expire. The Build America Bond (“BAB”) program is another. They both have been “fixed”. We kicked the can..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Video: The Day The Dollar Died
11-25-2010
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ZeroHedge.com & YouTube.com
An entertaining, and no holds barred fictional look at what America's post QE4 future may look like.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
The FHFA Confirms That The Housing Double Dip Is Here
11-25-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The new home sales report and the FHFA Index are confirming that housing is indeed double dipping. According to the latest new homes sales report median prices plunged -13.9% in October to $194,900. Average price fell -8% to $248,200.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA: "Airplane" Foresaw Naked Body Scanners Decades Ago
11-25-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
If this doesn't point out the absurdity of what's going on, nothing will.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: 50 State AG's Reject Idea of Global Settlement
11-25-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
This is really not hard to understand or get right. Foreclosures now are producing losses that exceed 70% of the mortgage balance on average. A deep principal mod for viable borrowers would be a win-win for everyone besides the servicer...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
Daniel Estulin: Bilderberg Group "Destroying Nation State Republics"
11-25-2010
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YouTube.com
In this Russia Today interview Daniel Estulin describes the role the Bilderberg Group is playing in the destruction of "Nation State Republics" in the west. The best part of the interview starts at the 4 minute mark.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rapid Building Assembly in China
11-25-2010
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arclein
And its probably a good thing that this is done this way. China has pioneered "thinking of how to use LARGE groups of people in parallel", or nearly so. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there were 40 workers, 24 hours a day, per floor. So, workin
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Lawyer: Emanuel Broke Residency Rule
11-25-2010
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AP
As he travels about the city, assuring Chicagoans that he is one of them, Rahm Emanuel must be asking himself why he just didn't leave his house vacant when he went off to work in the White House. Or rent it to a buddy or a relative.
That's becaus
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News Link • Science
Kayaker Surveys Water Sheds
11-25-2010
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arclein
o do this Dubé literally immerses herself into the problem. This summer she kayaked 700 km of the Yukon River, which gives its name to Canada's Yukon territory. At regular intervals she assessed various indicator chemicals of water quality, along wi
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robert klein
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Sealand Skull as Lemur Derivative?
11-25-2010
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arclein
The dominant factors of these early lemurs were derived from the western or later American group of the evolving life plasm. But before establishing the direct line of human ancestry, this strain was reinfor
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robert klein
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News Link • World News
SKorea's Defense Chief Resigns Over NKorea Attack
11-25-2010
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AP (video)
Skirmishes between the Korean militaries are not uncommon, but North Korea's heavy bombardment of Yeonpyeong Island was the first on a civilian area, raising fears of an escalation that could lead to a new war on the Korean peninsula. South Korean tr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fifty Year Electronics Speed Barrier Overcome
11-25-2010
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arclein
Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) diodes might just be the technology that allows electronics achieve the next big leap in processing speed. Research into diode design conducted at the Oregon State University (OSU) has revealed this week cheaper and easier
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
American Corporations Have Their Best Quarter Ever
11-24-2010
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Slate.com
There's good news and bad news on the economic front today. The good news is that corporate profits are through the roof, but the bad news is that it's because "companies have been able to make more with less,"
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