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Date Sent: 2012-09-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, September 21, 2012 |
David Petraeus: We Can't Leave Afghanistan Now, They Have Trillions of Dollars of Minerals
3D-Printable Gun Project Hits Its Fundraising Goal Despite Being
Booted Off Indiegogo -- Moving by Vehicle in High Threat Environments --
Houseboat builder turns his attention to tsunami survival pods --
09-21-12 -- Drew Phillips - Vijay Prashad - Paul Graham (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Silver Circle Movie interview. Download the Silver Calculator App
for your iPhone & Droid -- No - Till Helps Captures Snow and
Improve Water Distribution -- The OpenLuna Foundation aims to
return mankind to the moon through private enterprise -- Why
Presidents Love Foreign Affairs -- Gen. Politics is a Dangerous and Destructive Game; why are we playing
it? -- The mystery of the Syria
contact group -- "End The Fed" Silver Dime Cards, Home
Printing. -- Obama: ‘You Can’t Change Washington from the
Inside’ -- When Did Bare Breasts Become Taboo? -- Afghan
Judicial Panel Refuses To Accept Indefinite Detention Law...
-- Simpson On Capital Account (MUST WATCH!) -- The Federal
Reserve Is Systematically Destroying Social Security And The
Retirement Plans... -- Megan McArdle, a Covert Republican
Party Activist Trained by the Billionaire Koch Brothers -- ARE WE
HEADED TO A MIDEAST WAR? -- Pakistan anti-Islam film protest ends in
Islamabad -- The only surprise is there aren't more violent protests
in the Middle East -- Italy Court Upholds Convictions on CIA
Agents for Torture and Rendition Program -- McCain: US Should
Consider Leaving Afghanistan -- U.N. Conquers Texas -- Kucinich
Calls Out Monsanto: Americans Demand GMO Labeling -- Proposed
law in Uruguay gives government a monopoly on the marijuana industry
-- Big Sis: Obama Ready to Sign Surveillance Grid Executive Order -- The Revolution From Above -- As protests rage, Muhammad
satires keep coming -- Bailout Fraud and Unaccountability -
by Stephen Lendman
AZ: RALLY with GARY JOHNSON - Wed, Sept 26th, 2012 - 11am-1pm. ASU Tempe Campus, Hayden
Lawn; Marc J Victor Fundraiser - Wine and Hors
d’oevres Event Wednesday, Sept. 26th, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Atlas Shrugged II - Tickets on
Sale nationwide
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News Link • Afghanistan
Gen. David Petraeus: We Can't Leave Afghanistan Now, They Have Trillions of Dollars of Minerals
09-21-2012
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www.youtube.com
... Afghanistan is blessed with the presence of what are trillions, with an 'S' on the end, trillions of dollars worth of minerals if, and only if, you can get the extractive technology, the human capital operated, the lines of communication to enabl
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
3D-Printable Gun Project Hits Its Fundraising Goal Despite Being Booted Off Indiegogo
09-21-2012
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Forbes
A firearm anyone can download and print in their own home may be the most controversial application yet of consumer 3D printing. But some gunlovers, it seems, want to see it happen badly enough to put their wallets behind it.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Moving by Vehicle in High Threat Environments
09-21-2012
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www.thesurvivalistblog.net
The intent of this article is to act as an introduction with some thoughts and primers for moving your family or group in high threat environments...this is directed at those who find they have to move locations after a significant societal collapse
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News Link • How To
Houseboat builder turns his attention to tsunami survival pods
09-21-2012
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www.gizmag.com
Australian houseboat builder Matt Duncan was stunned when he saw footage of the Japanese tsunami on television. He was so taken aback, in fact, that he decided to do something to help people survive future tsunamis. The result is his Tsunami Survival
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday September 21st 2012
09-21-2012
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LewRockwell.com
Global Violence - It's only a precursor / The Dollar Is Vulnerable to a Massive Collapse / Prepare for the Massive Food Price Surge / The War on Vaccine Exemptions - Joseph Mercola / The Fallacy of Redistributionsim - Thomas Sowell
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Why Presidents Love Foreign Affairs
09-21-2012
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New York Times DANIEL W. DREZNER
Why do presidents campaign as economic wizards but govern as foreign policy leaders? The first thing to realize is that presidents are not doing this on purpose. Their focus on foreign policy actually reveals the constraints on the modern American pr
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Who are Mitt Romney's 47 percent? Breaking down the numbers
09-20-2012
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Associated Press
Each of those three groups - likely Obama voters, people who get federal benefits and people who don't pay federal income taxes - contains just under half of all Americans, in the neighborhood of 47 percent at a given moment.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Agriculture
No - Till Helps Captures Snow and Improve Water Distribution
09-21-2012
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arclein
at yield potential by 13 bushels per acre on ridge tops, six bushels per acre on south facing slopes, and three bushels per acre in valleys. As a result, regional farmers could increase their winter wheat profits by an average of $30 per acre and as
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The OpenLuna Foundation aims to return mankind to the moon through private enterprise
09-21-2012
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OpenLuna.Org
Initial goals focus on a stepped program of robotic missions coupled with extensive public relations and outreach. Following these purely robotic missions, a short series of manned missions will construct a small, approximately 8 person outpost based
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Internal Baking Soda Therapy into Clinical Trials
09-21-2012
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arclein
it is also a powerful buffer against radiation exposure, so everyone should be up to speed on its use. Everybody’s physiology is under heavy nuclear attack from strong radioactive winds that are circling the northern hemisphere.
Actually it is no
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Live Mammoth Cells?
09-21-2012
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arclein
A hundred meters under the permafrost in the Ust-Yansky district of Sakha, an international expedition called Yana-2012 found soft tissue, fatty tissue, fur and bone marrow of mammoths, expedition leader and Northeast Federal University researcher Se
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Roundup Implicated in Long Term Rat Study
09-21-2012
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arclein
"Monsanto Roundup weedkiller and GM maize implicated in 'shocking' new cancer study" wrote The Grocery, a popular UK publication. (http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/technology-and-supply-chain/monsant...)
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Politics is a Dangerous and Destructive Game; why are we playing it?
09-21-2007
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Reparing the Scales of Justice
The political use of force has failed to achieve the desired results, yet we continue to irrationally utilize its various methods.
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H. Skip Robinson
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News Link • Syria
The mystery of the Syria contact group
09-21-2012
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www.atimes.com/Vijay Prashad
In late August, Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi proposed the formation of a regional initiative to stem the conflict in Syria. Five decades ago, Egypt and Syria were yoked together to form the United Arab Republic, an experiment that lasted less
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan Judicial Panel Refuses To Accept Indefinite Detention Law...
09-21-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org
Afghan Judicial Panel Refuses To Accept Indefinite Detention Law While Federal Court Allows It To Continue Under U.S. Law
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve Is Systematically Destroying Social Security And The Retirement Plans...
09-21-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com,
Last week the mainstream media hailed QE3 as the "quick fix" that the U.S. economy desperately needs, but the truth is that the policies that the Federal Reserve is pursuing are going to be absolutely devastating for our senior citizens.
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News Link • Media: Print
Megan McArdle, a Covert Republican Party Activist Trained by the Billionaire Koch Brothers
09-21-2012
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com
Project S.H.A.M.E.: Megan McArdle, a Covert Republican Party Activist Trained by the Billionaire Koch Brothers
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News Link • WAR: About that War
ARE WE HEADED TO A MIDEAST WAR?
09-21-2012
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http://ericmargolis.com, by Eric Margolis
The British used to call it the “cost of Empire:” occasional attacks on Her majesty’s troops and legations by enraged, sword and spear-wielding natives.
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News Link • Activism
Pakistan anti-Islam film protest ends in Islamabad
09-21-2012
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http://www.bbc.co.uk
Demonstrators who gathered outside the US embassy in Islamabad to protest against an amateur video mocking Islam have dispersed peacefully.
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News Link • Activism
The only surprise is there aren't more violent protests in the Middle East
09-21-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Seumas Milne
The Muslim eruption reflects a deep popular anger and blowback from US intervention in both Libya and Afghanistan
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Italy Court Upholds Convictions on CIA Agents for Torture and Rendition Program
09-21-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
The 23 Americans sentenced were not extradited, but were found guilty of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric in Milan
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News Link • Surveillance
DHS Enlists Citizen Spies Via New Smartphone App
09-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Encourages Americans to take photographs of “suspicious” persons & vehicles
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News Link • United Nations
U.N. Conquers Texas
09-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,
Infowars Nightly News reporters Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton investigate the local initiatives driving the spread of “sustainable communities,” now taking over Central Texas and driving its population into a containment grid under the guise of “sma
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News Link • Food
Kucinich Calls Out Monsanto: Americans Demand GMO Labeling
09-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, You Tube
“In 1992 the Food and Drug Administration decided that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are the functional equivalent of conventional foods. They arrived at this decision without testing GMOs for allergenicity, toxicity, anti-biotic resistance a
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News Link • Drug War
Proposed law in Uruguay gives government a monopoly on the marijuana industry
09-21-2012
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Raw Story
The government says the measure is necessary to combat rising drug-related crime, decrease health risks for users, and counter ineffective US policies on drugs. But within Uruguay, interest groups have labeled the legislation totalitarian...
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Obama Administration
Big Sis: Obama Ready to Sign Surveillance Grid Executive Order
09-21-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano told a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday that a blatantly unconstitutional Obama administration executive order is “still being drafted in the inter-agency process
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Revolution From Above
09-21-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Paul Craig Roberts
Today the Western peoples are experiencing the destruction of their well being that is comparable to what the one percent in Rome imposed on Roman citizens and conquered peoples.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Was QE3 Too Much Too Soon?
09-21-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com,
Here is Reuters configuring the conversation in terms of the desired dialectic. The question is not whether central banks have the right morally or even legally to print trillions of dollars at will but only when such events shall take place.
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News Link • Free Speech
As protests rage, Muhammad satires keep coming
09-21-2012
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CBS News
In light of recent publication of cartoons satirizing the Islamic prophet Mohammed in France and Germany, some Muslim clerics insist any depictions of their prophet are so blasphemous that the person who publishes or creates them deserves to die.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Atlas Shrugged II - Tickets on Sale
09-20-2012
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http://www.atlasshruggedmovie.com
811 Confirmed Theaters - 22 so far in Arizona - Below is a listing of U.S cities with confirmed play dates for Atlas Shrugged Part II. Select your state:
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
BofA speeds up plans to cut 16,000 jobs
09-20-2012
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Reuters
Bank of America Corp is speeding up planned job cuts as revenue continues to decline amid new regulations and a tepid economy. The second-largest U.S. bank intends to slash 16,000 jobs by year-end, putting it a year ahead of a plan to eliminate
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Tax penalty to hit nearly 6 Million uninsured middle-class people
09-20-2012
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AP
6 million Americans " significantly more than first estimated" will face a tax penalty under President Obama's health overhaul for not getting insurance, congressional analysts said. Most would be in the middle class.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. factories struggle, Europe and China slump
09-20-2012
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Reuters
U.S. manufacturing suffered its weakest quarter in three years and conditions at European businesses worsened, surveys showed on Thursday, while China's economy continued to lose momentum.
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News Link • Syria
Our Syrian rebels seize border crossing with Turkey
09-20-2012
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AP
Syrian rebels seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey on Wednesday, ripping down the Syrian flag as the rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad expand their control of the country’s north.
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News Link • Internet
California judge denies bid to remove anti-Islam film from YouTube
09-20-2012
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BBC News
Cindy Lee Garcia says she has received death threats over the film trailer, in a lawsuit against Google, which owns YouTube, and a man linked to the film. Garcia said she had been misled by the maker of the amateur movie and was unaware of its anti-M
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News Link • Activism
Michael Maresco Returns to American Underground Network Call With Update
09-20-2012
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http://www.aunetwork.tv
The 'Collective Consciousness' weekly conference call has been ongoing for the last five years, and Activist Michael Maresco will be on tonight!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brain's working Memory Tapped
09-20-2012
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arclein
how they used a piece of mouse brain tissue to form the necessary circuits to record a short-term declarative memory. This type of memory can be something like names, places and events.
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News Link • China
China's Ghost Steel
09-20-2012
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arclein
Chinese banks and companies looking to seize steel pledged as collateral by firms that have defaulted on loans are making an uncomfortable discovery: the metal was never in the warehouses in the first place.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
First 3-D Printing Store Opens In U.S.
09-20-2012
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http://www.popsci.com
MakerBot will open a 3-D printing shop on Sept. 20 in New York City. Inside, a new breed of machines prints out designs from the web. The hope: to make the hobby mainstream.
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News Link • Economy - International
John Embry - We’re Witnessing A Historic & Frightening End Game
09-20-2012
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King World News
Today John Embry gave a stunning interview to King World News. In it he made some rather frightening predictions. Embry believes, “... we are in the early stages of a global ‘Weimar’ event.”
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News Link • Government
The Government Will Never End the Fed but the Fed is Destined to Die Anyway
09-20-2012
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http://www.humblelibertarian.com, Judy Morris
Although the Republican controlled House of Representatives recently passed Audit the Fed, HR 459, Audit the Fed will never pass nor will the Fed ever be abolished legislatively.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Military Spending Cut Scare: The fearmongering is on.
09-18-2012
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David Swanson, OEN
The Pentagon's budget grew each year Bush was president and the first 3 years that Obama was president. If the mandated cuts go through, the Pentagon will still be spending next year more than it did in 2006 at the height of the Iraq war.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - International
Euro zone slump deepens and China still wilts
09-20-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Andy Bruce
Aggressive new policy from the European Central Bank has so far failed to boost ailing euro zone business, according to surveys that showed a widening chasm between sickly France and a more resilient Germany.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Geopolitics and the World’s Gold Holdings
09-20-2012
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www.globalresearch.ca, By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Both the US dollar and the Euro currency systems are in crisis.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Not Out of Largesse: Big Pharma's (Very Addictive) Wonder Drug
09-20-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
With the patent on OxyContin due to expire soon and almost $3 billion in sales at stake, Motherboard looks at the insidious ways that Purdue Pharma got America hooked
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Aerial pesticide spray to fight West Nile causes fear in cities
09-20-2012
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http://rt.com
Several state and city governments across the US say that the aerial spraying of pesticides has decimated the threat of West Nile Virus in certain locales.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA sued over drone killings
09-20-2012
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http://rt.com
The American Civil Liberties Union is taking the CIA to court for the agency’s refusal to comply with a FOIA request to hand over documents about the Obama administration’s “targeted killing” drone program.
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