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AR - 15 (Chris Broughton) on the Libertarian Solution
11-20-2009
www.libertariansolution.com/
We had the pleasure to interview Chris Broughton, the gentleman who brought the AR-15 rifle to the Obama rally in Phoenix several months ago. He helps to clear up some of the myths that the media has portrayed against him, and we discuss the public
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News Link Economy - Economics USA
Ohio AG Sues Credit Agencies for Public Pensions
11-20-2009
AP
3 major credit ratings agencies gave mortgage-backed securities unjustifiably high ratings in return for lucrative fees, losing at least $457 million for 5 Ohio public employee pension and retirement funds, the state's AG alleged in a lawsuit.
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News Link Economy - International
Fears of Lost Decade Grow for British Economy
11-20-2009
NY Times
Britain may finally be emerging from recession, but many analysts warn it is a false dawn. They argue, the economy is so ravaged by growing debts and ruined banks it will be following in the steps of Japans lost decade of the 1990s.
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News Link Economy - Economics USA
With Fuel Demand Weak, Refineries Shutting Down
11-20-2009
AP
Refineries from New Mexico to New Jersey are under severe economic pressure because of falling demand for fuel, with a number of facilities shutting down in recent months.
Valero Energy Corp., which shuttered a major refinery over the summer, said
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News Link Religion: Believers
Researcher says text proves Shroud of Turin real
11-20-2009
AP
Frale, a researcher at the Vatican archives, said Friday that she used computers to enhance images of faintly written words in Greek, Latin and Aramaic scattered across the shroud.
She asserts the words include the name "Jesus Nazarene" in Greek,
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News Link Science, Medicine and Technology
New Experiment to Test Super Teflon in Space
11-20-2009
Space
Teflon-coated frying pans may scratch easily, but a souped-up version, a nanomaterial 10,000 times more durable than the ordinary non-stick stuff, is headed to space to see if it could coat the mechanical moving parts of spacecraft.
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News Link Archeology
B-Rex
11-20-2009
60 Minutes (CBS)
Lesley Stahl meets the inspiration for the lead character in the classic film Jurassic Park and reports on how famed dinosaur hunter Jack Horner is shaking up the paleontology world.
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News Link Food
Mad Science? Growing Meat Without Animals
11-20-2009
LiveScience
Winston Churchill once predicted it would be possible to grow chicken breasts and wings more efficiently without having to keep an actual chicken. Scientists have figured out how to grow tiny nuggets of lab meat and it will one day be possible to pro
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News Link Employee and Employer Relations
State, local budget cuts a "time bomb" for jobs
11-20-2009
Reuters
Budget shortfalls pose a direct threat to millions of US jobs, as state and local governments lay off workers and cut spending on contracts and other business services, a think tank said. Governments will have to raise taxes and
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News Link Economy - Economics USA
Glitch will cut jobless benefits for millions
11/20/2009
godlikeproductions.com
Its a horribly complicated system, and most people didnt pay attention, Mr. McDermott said of the need for quick Congressional renewal.
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News Link Corruption
Small SC county reels from corruption scandal
11-20-2009
AP
When federal officials descended on this small South Carolina town to investigate a kickback scheme that had caught up the mayor and another official, they stumbled across a web of corruption they believe is widespread through the county.
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News Link WAR: About that War
Pakistan: 8 militants killed in reported US strike
11-20-2009
AP
The CIA is believed to be behind the more than 40 missile strikes to have hit suspected targets over the last year. American officials do not acknowledge the attacks, which are unpopular among many here. A US drone fired 2 missiles
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News Link China
China tightens supervision of online games
11-20-2009
AFP
China has vowed to tighten supervision of its online games market, saying online games used "bloody, violent and obscene" content to attract players, hurting their "physical and psychological health", the culture ministry said.
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News Link World News
Who Fears a Free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?
11-20-2009
NY Times
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once his countrys richest man, has resided in "gulag lite," as he calls the Russian penal system under Vladimir Putin, for six years. Convicted of tax evasion and fraud in 2005, he now faces a fresh set of charges that add up t
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News Link Economy - International
India doubles billionaires; Mukesh Ambani tops list
11-20-2009
Reuters
With the [Indian] stock market having gained more than 75% this year and the economy growing at nearly 7%, the number of billionaires jumped to 52 in 2009 from 27 in the previous year, just 2 short of the record in 2007, according to the ranking.
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News Link WAR: About that War
How the US Funds the Taliban
11-20-2009
The Nation
Popal was more than just a former mujahedeen. In 1988, Popal was charged in the USA with conspiring to import more than a kilo of heroin. Flash forward to 2009, and Afghanistan is ruled by Popal's cousin President Hamid Karzai.
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News Link Climate Change
CO2 Myth Busted
11-20-2009
arclein
In short, if two hundred years of CO2 production had actually caused the observed uptrend and warmer climate, then increasing the amount of produced CO2 by fifty to one hundred percent over the next decade or more should produce an observable effect.
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News Link Free Speech
Pastor Manning Visited By CIA, Expects To Be Arrested (Video)
11/18/09
Youtube
Pastor James David Manning, one of President Obama's most vocal and outspoken critics, has just released a video in which he claims that on the afternoon of November 16th, 2009, while at his ATLAH World Missionary Church, he was visited by two CIA a
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News Link Science
Wind Turbines and Infrasound
11-20-2009
arclein
And then there are legitimate questions about wind-turbine noiseturbines do create sound after all, from both the gearbox (though this has grown much quieter in newer turbines) and from moving blades. Its no more harmful than the noise from new hig
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News Link Science
Chinese Challenge Out of Africa
11-20-2009
arclein
Jin Changzhu and colleagues of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, announced to Chinese media last week that they have uncovered a 110,000-year-old putative Homo sapiens jawbone from a cave in southern China'
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News Link Economy - Economics USA
STIMULUS WATCH: Did White House overplay job data?
11-19-2009
AP
The government watchdog overseeing economic stimulus spending said Thursday that, in its rush to take credit for saving hundreds of thousands of jobs, the Obama administration was overly confident in its job-counting and did not acknowledge significa
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News Link Vaccines and Vaccinations
Deaths not linked to H1N1 vaccine - WHO
11-19-2009
Reuters
The World Health Organisation said on Thursday the H1N1 vaccine had been cleared of blame for 41 deaths which health authorities worldwide had investigated after suspicions they might have been caused by the inoculation.
The U.N. agency reaffirmed
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News Link Obama Administration
Obama rewards big donors with plum jobs overseas
11-19-2009
Politico
He may have promised to change Washington, but President Barack Obama is continuing one of its most renowned patronage traditions: bestowing prized ambassadorships on big donors.
Of the nearly 80 ambassadorship nominations or confirmations since O
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News Link TERRORISM
U.S. Reviews Air Defenses to Thwart Terror From Skies
11-19-2009
NY Times
The commander of military forces protecting North America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another Sept. 11-style terrorism attack, an assessment aimed at determining whether the commitment of jet fighters, other ai
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News Link Legislative Mischief
Bank bill delayed in House, Senate divided
11-19-2009
Reuters
Progress toward tighter U.S. financial regulation faltered in the U.S. Congress on Thursday as a House committee postponed a pivotal vote and Republicans on a Senate committee aired stubborn opposition.
The setbacks came as lawmakers streamed out
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News Link Healthcare
Senate nears first healthcare vote
11-19-2009
Reuters
Democrats in the U.S. Senate geared up for a fierce battle over a new healthcare reform plan on Thursday as Republicans condemned the bill's price tag and tax hikes before the first crucial test vote on Saturday.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Rei
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News Link TERRORISM
Terrorists Inside U.S. Increase Attacks, Panel Hears
11-19-2009
Bloomberg
Terrorist incidents over the past 12 months show that Islamic extremists within the U.S. increasingly are launching attacks against targets such as military bases, anti-terrorist experts said. "The threat is now increasingly from within, from homegro
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News Link Healthcare
US Senators target plastic surgery in health overhaul
11-19-2009
AFP
Americans opting to have surgery to suck out fat, grow or shrink breasts, shape their nose or banish wrinkles may pay for a health care overhaul that US Senate Democrats unveiled. The White House-backed plan would impose a 5% tax on elective cosmetic
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News Link Healthcare Industry
Peru Cops Claim Gang Murdering Victims for Black Market Body Fat: The Mysterious Dr. Bittner and Lip
11-19-2009
Ginn
The title says it all?!?
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News Link Healthcare
Peter Schiff: Health care reform = socialized medicine
11/19/09
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