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News Link Police State
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
11-16-2009
The Washington Post
Volunteer veterans help California city use counterinsurgency strategy to stem gang violence - "It's a little laboratory," said retired Col. Hy Rothstein, the former Army career officer in Special Forces who heads the team of 15 faculty members an
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News Link WAR: About that War
New estimate for Afghan war: $1 million per soldier
11-16-2009
Rawstory
Senior administration officials reported budget projections for the war in Afghanistan will cost U.S. taxpayers at least $1 million per soldier, per year. The plan to add 40,000 American troops and greatly expand Afghan security forces, supported by
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News Link Legislative Mischief
In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists
11-16-2009
NY Times
In the official record of the House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. That was no accident. Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten by Washington lobbyists
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News Link China
China dissidents 'detained ahead of Obama visit'
11-16-2009
AFP
China has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of US President Barack Obama's much-anticipated first visit to the country, their relatives and close contacts told AFP Saturday.
Obama arrives in Shanghai on Sunday and moves onto Beijin
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News Link Foreign Policy
Obama Kowtowing Overseas Again
11-16-2009
LA Times
How low will the new American president go for the world's royalty? This photo will get Democrat President Obama a lot of approving nods in Japan this weekend. Very low bows like this are a sign of great respect and deference to a superior.
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News Link Homeland Security
Federal oversight of subways proposed
11-16-2009
Washington Post
The Obama administration will propose the federal government take over safety regulation of the nation's subway and light-rail systems, responding to what it says is haphazard and ineffective oversight by state agencies.
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News Link Pandemic
MILLION HIT BY 'PLAGUE WORSE THAN SWINE FLU' (Publisher: Expected?!!!)
11-16-2009
www.express.co.uk
A cocktail of three flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a single pneumonic plague, which it is believed may be far more dangerous than swine flu. The death toll has reached 189 and more than 1 million people have been infected
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News Link Precious Metals
Dollar falls, sending gold to record high
11-16-2009
AFP
The dollar fell on Monday as China accused the US of increasing protectionism and following unexpectedly strong Japanese economic growth figures, pushing gold prices to a record high point of $1,133.20 dollars an ounce.
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News Link Continental Congress 2009
Ed's Video Report - Day 5 - Part 2 Continental Congress 2009
11-16-2009
My Psychictaxi YouTube Channel
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News Link Continental Congress 2009
Ed's Video Report - Day 5 - Part 1 Continental Congress 2009
11-16-2009
My Psychictaxi YouTube Channel
For any Delegates watching - I am about to start up a "No Reservations Caucus" (My apologies to Anthony Boudain).
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News Link Science
Crypto Rex
11-16-2009
arclein
According to mainstream science, the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. According to cryptozoology and certain other branches of periphery science, a few dinosaurs might have survived much longer, or could even be around today. The most f
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News Link Agriculture
Future Food Fight
11-16-2009
arclein
Everybody wants to end hunger, but just how to do so is a divisive question that pits environmentalists against anti-poverty campaigners, big business against consumers and rich countries against poor.
The food fight takes place at a time when e
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News Link History
How to End War
11-16-2009
arclein
There is still and will always be a role for journalists, bloggers, authors, and pundits
to expose the abuses of any and all government officials, including the president. But the primary role of peace activists should have nothing to do with presi
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News Link Weird/Offbeat News
Man Forced to Sell Roaches Real Cheap
11-15-2009
Ginn
Have you seen this classified yet? "For sale, whole colony of Dubia Roaches! We are talking multiple 1000s not 100s of roaches, plus the tank they breed in, for only $150!!!!!"
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News Link Precious Metals
Lessons from the London Gold Pool
11-15-2009
Anglo Far-East Buillion Company
The free market always wins. Eventually the free market process overrides the process of government interference. As government intervention and regulation of markets and money eventually fails, the free market again emerges, leading to a resurgenc
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News Link History
Money: DeGaulle v the Dollar
11-16-2009
Times Online
(This article is dated 2/12/65) Perhaps never had a chief of state launched such an open assault on the monetary power of a friendly nation. Nor had anyone of such stature made so sweeping a criticism of the international monetary system since its
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News Link Precious Metals
Black Rock says central banks to be net buyers of gold
11-16-2009
Reuters
Central banks will be net buyers of gold this year as they diversify away from the US dollar, marking a reversal of a decades-old trend, global commodities investment fund BlackRock said on Monday in comments that helped drive buillion to fresh recor
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News Link Criminal Justice System
Some Gitmo detainees finally get day in court
11-15-2009
AP
In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison....Complying with a Supreme Court ruling last year, 15 federal judges in the U.S. courthouse here are giving det
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News Link WAR: About that War
U.S. Asks More From Pakistan in Terror War
11-15-2009
NY Times
The Obama administration is stepping up pressure on Pakistan to expand and reorient its fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, warning that failing to do so would undercut the new strategy and troop increase for Afghanistan that President Obama is p
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News Link World News
Apology for Kids Shipped From Britain to Colonies
11-15-2009
NY Times
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued an historic apology Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home.
At a ceremony in the A
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News Link Obama Administration
MSNBC Presses Obama on Campaign Promises
11-15-2009
NY Times
The spectacle of Democrats sniping at one another is not new, but having a TV home for it is. MSNBC sometimes critically called the home team for supporters of Mr. Obama has even hit upon the theme with a promotional tagline, pushing back on t
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News Link Economy - Economics USA
Taxpayers on hook as some bailed-out firms prove frail
11-15-2009
Washington Post
A year ago, the financial system was tottering and government officials arranged a $2.3 billion emergency cash infusion into CIT Group, a troubled lender to small businesses.
Today, CIT is in bankruptcy court, and the taxpayers' investment is on t
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News Link Family
November Evocations of Christmas
11-15-2009
Christine Smith's Blog
Sharing this day with my regular readers.
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News Link Obama Administration
Obama kisses -- not kicks -- ass in Asia
11-15-2009
wendymcelroy.com/
I did a radio interview with Ernest Hancock of FreedomsPhoenix in which talk turned to the deepening crisis in the economy which I think will take a plunge in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of 2010. Several factors fuel my expectations -- e.g. a slew of mort
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News Link Health and Physical Fitness
Microwaved Water and Plants
11-15-2009
Below is a science fair project that my granddaughter did for 2006. In it she took filtered water and divided it into two parts. The first part she heated to boiling in a pan on the stove, and the second part she heated to boiling in a microwave.
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News Link Entertainment: Sports
NFL: The Long and Winding Road of NFL Franchise Relocations
11-15-2009
Mondo Frazier
When you think of the National Football League, the word stability comes to mind. But many of the NFLs franchises have been rolling stones. Which teams have moved the most and which have been paragons of stability?
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News Link Health and Physical Fitness
H1N1 Mutation Fears in Ukraine: Victims Lungs Black as Charcoal, Reminiscent of Spanish Flu
11-15-2009
Ginn
British scientists are testing a new extremely virulent super flu in the Ukraine which has killed over two hundred, and where some doctors have likened the symptoms to the 1918 Pandemic, or Spanish Flu. Some of the victims lung suffered total lun
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News Link Energy
The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff
11-15-2009
Seeking Alpha
Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), BP (BP), et al founded the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in 2000 to facilitate "dark pool" trading in the commodities markets. It is outside the US and operates free from the constraints of US laws.
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Michael Fink
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News Link Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police tase and arrest hero for stuttering
11-15-2009
Wendy McElroy
A man was tased by police, arrested, and jailed after risking his life and suffering second degree burns on his arms, head, and torso to run back into his burning house to make sure all of his guests were warned of the fire and assisting them to esca
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News Link Property Rights
The Supreme Court should roast in Hades over Kelo
11-15-2009
Wendy McElroy
The U.S. Supreme Court established a hideous precedent in 2005 ruling the city [state] gained the legal 'right' to confiscate homes and businesses owned by individuals in order to clear the way for 'development', including by private corporations.
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