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News Link Precious Metals
Mauritius Buys 2 Tons of Gold From IMF
11-17-2009
Bloomberg
Mauritius bought 2 metric tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund, underscoring a drive by central banks to boost holdings as the precious metal trades near a record and the dollar slumps. The $71.7 million sale to the
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News Link Healthcare
Canada's Obama Care: a True Story
11-17-2009
YouTube
This is the real story of Canadian Lin Gilbert, diagnosed with debilitating back pain, ignored for over 2 years, and then mercifully helped by a heroic doctor. If Obama Care passes, could Lin's story be yours?
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News Link WAR: About that War
Afghanistan a Success Time to Come Home!
11-17-2009
Karen Kwiatkowski for LewRockwell.com
Afghans were infuriated, not just at this past summers flawed and corrupted election, but also at the previous elections that confirmed US satrap Hamid Karzai
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News Link Arizona's Top News
5 taken into custody in Fort Huachuca protest; Both sides are smaller in this year's confrontati
11/17/2009
The Sierra Vista Herald
FORT HUACHUCA With five individuals taken into custody Sunday by fort law enforcement officers, the sixth annual protest against the post ended. For the Rev. Jerome Alexander Zawada, a Franciscan Roman Catholic priest from Tucson, Sunday was at le
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News Link Transportation
Kilometer tax avoiders face jail, fines
11-17-2009
Dutch News.nl
People without a working kilometer tax meter in their cars once the system is introduced in 2012 face six months in jail or a fine of up to 18,500, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday. People caught fiddling the meter can be jailed for up to four years
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News Link Politics: Republican Campaigns
Dobbs and Palin for President 2012: last gasps of obsolete GOP (Speculation)
11-17-2009
blog.pdamerica.org
But I digress. This is about Dobbs and Palin for 2012! Lou Dobbs just quit CNN, and Palins about to embark upon her Going Rogue book tour. Several outlets have reported Dobbs considering a Presidential bid, possibly as an independent, certainly hi
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News Link Economy - Economics USA
On the Edge (Max Keiser with Ellen Brown, "Web of Debt")
11-17-2009
http://maxkeiser.com
November 6th, 2009 by stacyherbert / Stacy Summary: First half got bumped by Obama press conference. Here is second half interview with Ellen Brown.
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News Link Economy - Economics USA
FRONTLINE - The Warning!
11-17-2009
PBS Frontline
Long before the economic meltdown, one woman tried to warn about the threat to the financial system... (Greenspan was too "libertarian" ???!)
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News Link Eugenics / Vaccinations
Aerosol Spraying, Weaponized Viruses, and Baxter
11-17-2009
Farm Wars
This would explain why BO declared a National Emergency here in the states Oct 29 likely the very day or day before the low-flying planes aerosol-sprayed the viral plague into the mountains around Kiev.
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News Link TAXES: Federal
More Than 14,700 Americans Disclose Secret Accounts (Update2)
11-17-2009
Bloomberg.com
We were flooded with people coming in during the final days of the program, Shulman told reporters on a conference call in Washington today as the U.S. and Swiss governments released a list of criteria used by Switzerland to screen American clients
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News Link Science, Medicine and Technology
Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer
11-17-2009
TED Talks
The mysteries of the mind can be solved. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.
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News Link Energy
A 25-Year Battery
11-17-2009
Technology Review
Batteries that harvest energy from the nuclear decay of isotopes can produce very low levels of current and last for decades without needing to be replaced. A new version of the batteries, called betavoltaics, is being developed by an Ithaca, NY-base
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News Link MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Lou Dobbs Suggests Senate Run "On My Mind"
11-17-2009
cbsnews.com
Lou Dobbs, who recently resigned from hosting a nightly show on CNN, said in his first interview since his resignation that he is "going to remain in the public arena."
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News Link The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
November 16, 2009: Law & Order: KSM (The Daily Show) 9/11 Terrorist on Trail
11-17-2009
The Daily Show
Law & Order: KSM
Samantha Bee fears the media won't be able to handle Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's trial if it's held in New York City.
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News Link Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Do Speedy Math in Your Head
11-17-2009
Wired
Arthur Benjamin is a wizard at math. He wows the crowd by multiplying big numbers quick, what's 57,682 squared? faster than you can use a calculator. Here he shares three cool tricks. (The answer, by the way: 3,327,213,124. See how easy it is?)
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News Link Books
Google Submits Second Proposal for Library of the Future
11-17-2009
Wired
Google and a coalition of authors and publishers are hoping a second draft of a legal settlement will clear the way through a thicket of copyright laws to let Google to build the library of the future.
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News Link Environment
Himalayan Glaciers Not Melting
11-17-2009
Doug L. Hoffman for LewRockwell.com
The first is the 30-kilometer-long Gangotri glacier, source of the Ganges River. Between 1934 and 2003, the glacier retreated an average of 70 feet (22 meters) a year and shed a total of 5% of its length. But in 2004 and 2005, the retreat slowed to a
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News Link Precious Metals
Buy Gold, Not Miners: Jim Rogers
11-17-2009
Jim Rogers for LewRockwell.com
"Yes, I should be selling at the top, but I don't think this is the top. Gold, adjust it for inflation back in 1980, gold should be over $2k an oz. right now. In my view, in this bull market in commodities gold will make all new highs adjust for infl
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News Link MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Major Garrett Among White House Correspondents to Interview Pres. Obama Today
11-17-2009
via DRUDGE (of course :)
It's official. Fox News' Major Garrett will interview Pres. Obama at 9:20pmET tonight. He tweets:
I will interview POTUS on camera Wed am here in Beijing. 4 other networks will too. 10 mins per. Many had asked. Can say now.
Follow @MajoratW
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News Link Housing
Mortgage delinquencies hit another record in 3Q
11-17-2009
AP
The pace at which people fell behind on their mortgages slowed during the summer for the third consecutive quarter, but the overall delinquency rate hit another record.
For the 3 months ended Sept. 30, 6.25% of U.S. mortgage loans were 60 or more d
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News Link Energy
Modified Algae Produce Clean, Easy Hydrogen
11-17-2009
PopSi
Creating Hydrogen From Algae By isolating the photosynthesizing parts of a certain thermophilic blue-green algae and catalyzing it with light and platinum, researchers have produced clean, sustainable quantities of hydrogen that could one day power o
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News Link Space Travel and Exploration
Bubbling, Boiling Sun Photographed in Detail
11-17-2009
Space.com
The bubbling, roiling surface of the sun has been imaged in unprecedented detail, shedding light on the processes at work on the solar surface.
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News Link Police State
Health and safety snoops to enter family homes
11-17-2009
London Times
Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure parents are protecting their children from household accidents. Councils to "collect data" on properties where children are thought to be at "greatest risk
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News Link Education: Government Schools
Ten-year-old refuses to recite pledge until gays allowed to marry
11-17-2009
Rawstory
"I eventually, very solemnly -- with a little bit of malice in my voice -- said, 'Mam, with all due respect, you can go jump off a bridge," Will explained.
Seated next to the boy, his father covered his face, smiling.
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News Link Healthcare
Abortion clause raises problems for Obama
11-17-2009
Financial Times
The House of Representatives this month passed a healthcare reform bill that would sharply curtail access to abortion. Several Democrats in the Senate have said they want similar restrictions in their own bill.
Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in
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News Link Economy - Economics USA
Nouriel Roubini: The worst is yet to come---Unemployed Americans should hunker down
11-17-2009
NY Daily News
We can expect that job losses will continue until the end of 2010 at the earliest. If you are unemployed and looking for work you had better hunker down. All the economic numbers suggest this will take a while. Jobs are not coming back.
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News Link Economy - Economics USA
China questions costs of U.S. healthcare reform
11-17-2009
Reuters
The Chinese are curious about how President Obama's healthcare reform plans would impact Americas huge fiscal deficit. Government officials are using his Asian trip as an opportunity to ask the White House questions. Detailed questions.
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News Link Gun Rights
Gun sales shoot up amid Americas fear of rising crime and terrorism
11-17-2009
London Times
All over America demand for firearms and ammunition is rising amid concerns that rising unemployment, which passed 10 per cent this month, will lead inexorably to higher rates of crime. Fears of terrorism have also helped to lift demand, as have conc
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News Link WAR: About that War
Army tells its soldiers to 'bribe' the Taleban
11-17-2009
London Times
British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with bags of gold, according to a new army field manual published yesterday.
Army commanders should also talk to insurgent leaders with blood on their hands in order to hasten the end of
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News Link Politics: Independent and Other Campaigns
Hoffman 'unconcedes' in N.Y.-23 House race
11-17-2009
The Hill
Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has "unconceded" in New York's special House election after reports that the vote margin narrowed between him and Rep. Bill Owens (D).
Hoffman conceded the race on Election Night after learning he trailed
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