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Quote of the Day: "Even if you don't like drugs, you really, really don't like murder, rape, robbery, and so forth." - Ted Balaker

An important video by Reason.tv and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) succinctly addresses how the War on Drugs cripples police work and endangers children. DownsizeDC.org would like to express our gratitude to Reason's Ted Balaker and LEAP's Neill Franklin for laying out the facts.

We urge you to . . .

* Watch the video
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* And then tell Congress to watch it too, using our End the Mexican Civil War campaign

You may borrow from or copy this letter . . .

The Mexican government reports that its War on Drugs has killed 28,000 people over the past four years. This ongoing tragedy is undermining Mexico's stability, which is bad news for the United States.

But that's not the only way drug prohibition is hurting us. I urge you to watch this interview with Neill Franklin, the Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (under 9 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzOHQdKRANA

The video reveals that the Mexican drug cartels have expanded into 230 U.S. cities. Unsurprisingly, the overwhelming majority of police 911 calls are related to this illegal drug trade. And yet, as our police go from one drug-related 911 call to the next, most violent crimes go unsolved, including . . .

* 60% of rapes
* 73% of robberies
* 88% of auto thefts
* And 37% of murders

Whereas, in 1963, before the War on Drugs, only 9% of murders went unsolved!

Repealing drug prohibition would put an end to narcotics units and place more cops on the street to "do the work that is supposed to be done."

But unsolved crime is not the only danger caused by the Drug War. Our children are particularly at risk . . .

* Criminals don't ask for ID's to verify the age of their customers
* This means that powerful drugs are more available to kids than cigarettes and alcohol
* Criminals don't care about quality control, so the black market substances that lure our kids are more dangerous than they would be if prohibition didn't exist
* And urban, African-American children are at special risk. They are heavily recruited to the drug trade because juvenile offenders get lesser sentences

Whereas in Portugal, which legalized personal drug possession ten years ago . . .

* There was a double-digit drop in drug use by school-age children
* As well as a double-digit drop in AIDS cases
* The stigma has been removed for people seeking treatment
* And there is MORE MONEY for treatment

Even so, President Obama still wants to increase funding for the War on Drugs!

But the facts are clear. Drug prohibition doesn't work. Repeal the federal drug laws. Our communities will be safer and our children will be better off.

END LETTER

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James Wilson
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Quote of the Day: "I've been hearing that 40 is the new 20. I don't believe that. But I do believe that $40 is the new $20." - Jay Leno

First, the Federal Reserve created money out of thin air to buy so-called toxic assets. This action . . .

* Decreased the value of every dollar you hold by increasing the money supply
* Was taken without your consent
* Was dictatorial, in that it was subject to no outside check or balance by the electorate, or any other branch of government

Since then the Fed has been promising to withdraw the funny money it created to fund these bailouts, so as to protect you from inflation. This promise has not been kept. To be sure . . .

The Fed tells us it's still too early to re-absorb the funny money, because the economy is still weak. But the re-absorption may actually be harder once the economy recovers. To retire the funny money the Fed must be able to sell its assets back into the market, and then "destroy" the dollars it gets in return, but . . .

* People will have better things to do with their money when the economy is booming again
* The Fed may have to sell its assets at a steep discount in order to compete with these better investment alternatives
* These factors could make it very difficult to re-absorb the funny money

Sadly, the Fed has taken a step that will make things even worse. The Fed board voted on Tuesday to spend $10 billion buying government debt.

Just to be clear, it does NOT appear that the Fed is creating new funny money for this purpose. Rather, it has received some income on some of the "toxic" assets it purchased, and is using that money to buy government debt. Even so, this sends a bad message on several fronts. The Fed is . . .

* Signaling that it will not begin re-absorbing its funny money any time soon
* Trying to make it cheaper for the Federal government to borrow money, thereby encouraging more borrowing
* One small step away from doing something very bad -- creating new funny money to buy government debt

We think the Fed is moving in the wrong direction. It should be taking steps to protect the value of your dollars. Instead, it remains committed to policies that carry a high risk of future price inflation that could destroy the value of your savings. Please take action to protect yourself.

One way to do that is to break the Fed's monopoly control over what you can use for money by passing Ron Paul's "Free Competition in Currency Act." Please send a letter to Congress asking for this.

You can copy or borrow from my sample letter . . .

I strongly object to the fact that the Federal Reserve is going to spend $10 billion buying government debt. This is wrong on many levels . . .

* The Fed should be re-absorbing the new money it created during the recent crisis. It should retire this $10 billion instead of spending it.
* The Fed should NOT be doing anything to encourage more borrowing by the Federal government. You guys have spent trillions already, so if the economy is still sluggish it should be perfectly clear that government spending isn't the cure.

But sadly, neither I nor you have an control over the Fed. You guys can't even manage to audit them, even when a majority in Congress favors legislation for that purpose. This makes two things clear to me . . .

* The Fed is a dictatorial institution, beholden to no one
* Congressional leaders control YOU, meaning that I cannot rely on you to represent me

I want you to provide me with evidence to the contrary on this last point. Instead of only doing what your party leaders want, how about doing something that I want, for a change. What do I want? I want it to be legal for me to do business with forms of money other than Federal Reserve Notes. Please break the chains that tie me to the Federal Reserve!

Please represent me. Please serve my interests. Please show a little independence by co-sponsoring the "Free Competition in Currency Act." And please know that I am paying close attention to what you do, and do not do.

END LETTER

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Perry Willis
Vice President
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Quote of the Day: "Politicians are worse than thieves. At least when thieves take your money, they don't expect you to thank them for it." -- Walter Williams

Congressional leaders are calling the House of Representatives back for a special session. They want to hold one vote on one bill on Tuesday, and then leave for recess again. What is this bill? It's another bailout -- a $26 billion bailout of wasteful, incompetent state governments.

It's also a pay-off to Democratic special interests like government employee unions (but please don't think for a minute that the Republicans aren't just as bad about this kind of thing).

This bill has already passed the Senate, but it isn't necessarily certain that it can pass the House. Many House Democrats are worried about their re-election prospects, and don't want to vote for another big spending bill. For instance, here's what Collin Peterson (D-Minn) says . . .

"I don’t know how they’re going to pass it. I haven’t really checked with people, but there are a lot of guys who aren’t going to vote for it.”

And, according to Politico, this kind of concern is starting to be a real roadblock for the Democratic spending orgy . . .

"Their fiscal-policy meltdown included the unprecedented failure to consider an annual budget resolution in its usual form and the approval of only two of the scheduled 12 appropriations bills prior to the August recess."

This means we have a real chance to defeat this bailout bill, but only if we register our disapproval now. Make Congress nervous about passing another bailout this close to the election. Send a letter to Congress using our No Bailouts campaign.

The hardwired message on this campaign says "No government money, whether borrowed or taxed, should ever be used to bail out private financial interests, or wasteful state governments."

You can copy or borrow from my sample letter for you own personal comments . . .

Please vote against the $26 billion bailout for state governments. The voters and politicians of these states will never learn to behave prudently if you bail them out. What they need to do instead is cut spending. They need to make choices, instead of expecting the rest of us to pay for their incompetence and irresponsibility. On top of which . . .

I have a strong suspicion that a heaping helping of this $26 billion is simply a pay-off to Democratic constituencies. Well, every member of Congress should remember lessons such as the Cornhusker Kickback. You aren't necessarily going to be loved for playing politics the way it used to be played. Voters in your district are very likely to punish you if you vote yes on this bill. So do yourself a favor . . .

VOTE NO!

END LETTER

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And please alert others about this issue. A vote will likely happen in the next 24 hours.

Jim Babka
President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.

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Remember when you were in grade school and you got a gold star for doing well on your test? Well the states that are Real ID compliant are moving forward with the same concept. Show us your papers, let us scan them, put them into a national database along with your biometric photograph that can be read from any face recognition tracking software and you get a gold star.

Whats the big deal? You get a gold star for being a good little sheeple even if you don't know it. Of course your state DMV will get an award for putting all that data into a national database as is the case for the state of Florida. You can see the gold star on the FL Drivers License if you have received one recently or see an example on the Florida DMV web site.

But the Real ID will certainly keep you safe from terrorists? If people really believe that then why didnt Michael Chertof the former Secretary of Homeland Security? He basically asserts that the only real good from Real ID will that it will stop college students who are underage from buying alcohol. I don't think it will even help that. A college student who wants to get alcohol will get alcohol.

It will stop illegal immigrants from getting drivers licenses.Wrong again Real Id has a provision that will allow states to issue Real ID compliant licenses to illegal immigrants.

My information is safe with the DMV...DMV has secure databases and their employees are screened to prevent theft of your birth date, mothers maiden name, social security number, address and medical information. You cannot honestly believe that.

Just visit the archives of this web site to see all of the hacked databases. visit www.epic.org and see all the database and record breaches that have happened since Real ID was enacted. Nearly 500 million and growing! Not to mention all of the abuses from police officers to DMV employees stealing and abusing your information. Hey times are tight and selling data is big business.

Check out some of the most recent headlines
DMV employees suspended, written up, retire
14 NC DMV Workers Disciplined For Accepting Gifts
Former deputy charged with computer crime still working with county computer system
FBI Investigating Mother, Son In Elderly Fraud Scheme

Those stories are all from the state of NC and there are hundreds and hundreds of these stories all around the country.

Well the Drivers Privacy Protection Act will help secure our private information. Wrong! This Act actully allows the DMV to sell, rent or lease all of your information to private corporations and a judge recently held that "Companies Can Buy Bulk DMV Records"

That's right, companies from the US and abroad can buy your information and do with it as they please. Guess what, it doesn't prevent companies form sharing your information overseas to places like India and other underdeveloped nations that have low paid staff.

The Real ID actully makes you more vulnerable to id theft and will only get worse as more DMV's central their data and share that information via internet connections with other state DMV's and the Federal Government.

Of course, many states have refused to accept the gold star and with good reason. More are expected to refuse compliance as the deadline moves forward.

Now in a twist or irony, the gold star was once used as an id system in Nazi Germany, each prisoner in the concentration camp received their star and color codes depending on the reason they were there. For example they would get the color red if they were Political enemies
or purple if they were Jehovah's Witnesses.

One of the companies that is creating the Real ID for the states like, Florida, Nevada (optional) and North Carolina is L-1 Identity solutions / Viisage.

The Real ID Act is completely voluntary, but those who refuse give up essential liberties and those who accept, give up their right to privacy and endanger their identities. You don't have to get a Real ID if you don't want one, but you will not be able to obtain healthcare, bank, shop or even get on the internet in the near future.

This seems to be the marketing plan for the company producing the Real ID Card in North Carolina and many other states. L1 Identity Solutions, the same company producing the National ID Card for China, is pushing this agenda.

In their 2007 investor’s package, they reveal just how much potential earnings there are for identifications like the Real ID and the number is in the billions.

They list potential uses for the Real ID well beyond law enforcement issues and Department of Homeland Security uses. They envision a future where you need your national ID card for Financial, Healthcare and Transportation.

Beyond that they show commercial uses for the identification such as m-commerce which means your cell phone, PDA and other handheld devices used to buy things on the web. Under those guidelines, if you do not have a Real ID, you cannot buy anything.

Likewise, they list e-commerce or shopping online from your home computer. But this isn’t enough. They also suggest you have a Real ID to access the internet.

Sounds bad, but wait there’s more. Their chart envisions a future, where you have to present your National ID Card for all transactions. No card, no gas, no food, no rights.

The chart below is taken from L-1 Identity Solutions 2007 Investors package and clearly shows what plans they suggest for their technology.

L-1 Identity Solutions / Viisage even suggests using your National ID / Real id as your voter id card with your party affiliation on it. Perhaps they will want you to list your religion as well, like the Communist Chinese do.

Both Democrats and Republicans have done nothing to stop this massive system form going into place in many states like North Carolina who will happily accept any monies the Federal Government will give them in order to enhance their system including 3-D imaging.

You can take the gold star if you want to, but many are refusing and risking everything by driving without a valid drivers license because they do not want to risk being put into a massive database, being tracked and living like prisoners in the land of the Free and Home of the Brave.

As for me, I will continue to work with politicians to get the National ID/ Real ID repealed.

STAN UP, SPEAK UP, LIVE FREE

OBAMA NATION NEWS

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Tell Obama I am not afraid
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Obama fundraising, defending auto bailouts...Kagan confirmation vote
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POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

ALERT - S510 - Illegal To Grow, Share, Trade, Sell Homegrown Food
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Globalists Race To Enforce Criminal Carbon Tax
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Portland, OR Shuts Down Kids Lemonade Stand
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Federal Workers Pocketed 'Fraudulent' Social Security Payments, GAO Finds
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States respond in health care overhaul lawsuit
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Judge OK with government prying into personal information
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Kagan confirmed as Supreme Court justice
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South Carolina's Graham, DeMint part ways on Kagan
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Elena Kagan tied to Obama's birth certificate
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POLICE STATE NEWS

National Guard Man Faces 16 Years In Jail For Videotaping Police Officer
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Speed cameras have caused 28,000 accidents in a decade
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Ageing irises could confound biometric checks
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Police officers ’smashed OAP driver’s window and dragged him out of car’
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REAL ID & PRIVACY NEWS

Billionaire Donald Bren targeted in $1.4-million ID theft
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NC DMV worker accused of running loan scheme from work
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Real ID still on track - Its disliked by Real conservatives too
http://bit.ly/apiJW0

Man's Watch Robbed At Home; Finds Robber Wearing It At DMV Later
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Reality sets in for states on Real ID
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PUBLIC EDUCATION NEWS

Valedictorian Exposes Education Sham
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ECONOMIC NEWS

IRS To Withhold Indicator That Shows Refunds Owed To Taxpayers
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Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May
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Economic recovery falls to thrifty consumers
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Uninsured throng free clinic — a symptom of bad economy
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In an uncertain economy, shoppers are choosy again
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HEALTH NEWS

Junk food-addicted rats chose to starve themselves rather than eat healthy food
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Teenagers want fluoride-free water
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Poison Tap Water Exposed As Soft Kill Weapon
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MORAL DECLINE NEWS

Mom who starved son praised by judge
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Homestead dad held without bail after toddler beaten in 'boxing lesson'
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JUSTICE SERVED NEWS

Toyota Driver Freed From Prison, Prosecutor Drops Charges
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Hackers find a new target in payroll processing
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Google Denies 'Devil's Pact' With Verizon on Tiered Services
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FCC scraps Net neutrality talks
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On Facebook, wife learns of husband's 2nd wedding
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HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA NEWS

New campaign demanding 'gay' Prop 8 judge be booted
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SECOND AMENDMENT NEWS
U.S. Senate Confirms Anti-gun Radical to the Supreme Court
-- Time to help GOA hold the turncoats accountable
http://gunowners.org/a080510.htm

No no, just kidding. She did say that, but naturally the message that voters sent somehow isn’t the message that’s landed in her inbox. As she understands it, the message from last night is, “We’re still too ignorant and/or partisan to understand how great ObamaCare is.” Which fits right in with how she’s spun this boondoggle all along: It’s not the law itself that’s the problem, it’s the fact that Democrats “overpromised” on it. Poor liberals, forever having their ingenious policies tripped up by inept “messaging.”

Good news, though, I guess, for any Missouri voters who meant to signal that their opposition to ObamaCare shouldn’t be taken seriously: Your elected representative has heard you loud and clear.

McCaskill said she understood what Missouri voters had been trying to say about the healthcare reform law for which she had voted in the Senate. But the centrist senator downplayed the vote as a result of heavy Republican primary turnout and a lack of education about the effects of the law.

“I certainly noticed the vote on Prop C, the healthcare law, and: message received,” she said Wednesday in a conference call with state reporters.

“I think there has been … a lot of noise about the mandate that people have gotten so focused on that they don’t realize that there’s going to be more access and affordability and more choices,” she said.

High Republican turnout did contribute to the size of the landslide, but as both Ed and Michael Tanner explained this morning, even a unanimous vote on the GOP side couldn’t have gotten you to 71 percent overall. A lot of indies and Democrats — specifically, Democrats motivated enough to vote in a primary — had to be onboard to push past the supermajority threshold. No wonder Newsweek’s spinning as hard as it is to turn last night into some sort of grand defeat for tea partiers: When you’ve got enough bipartisanship on a core tea-party plank to crack 70 percent in a swing state, you’d better work overtime on the “messaging.”

In fairness to McCaskill, she did mention in passing on today’s conference call that there’s a lot of work to do on “the provisions of the law,” not just in making sure that the benighted doofuses who voted on Proposition C fully understand it. Exit question: Does that mean she’ll join the GOP next term in trying to repeal the mandate? Since, you know, the message has been received and all.

Source: hotair.com

IN THE NEWS
MILITARY ALERT

'Stop-loss' pay unclaimed by thousands of troops
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OBAMA NATION

Send Obama a "Dear John" Letter For His Birthday!
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Taxpayers shell out $700,000 for Obama's ad campaign to improve opinion of healthcare plan
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Thanks Obama: More Illinoisans on Food Stamps Than Ever
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Poll: Obama's approval among blacks dips
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Obama job rating sinks to record lows: Gallup Poll
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OBAMA CARE
McCaskill on Prop C passage: “message received”(But she still ignores voters)
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Virginia AG: Obamacare threat to nation
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POLICE STATE NEWS

Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images
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Group Says Body Scanners Can Store, Transfer Images
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Lawsuit challenges airport full-body scanners
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Congressman Wants Wikileaks Leaker Executed
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Ice-T 'Outraged' Over Arrest ... Wants to Sue DMV
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REAL ID & PRIVACY NEWS

Disasters and Your Privacy
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"One Subject at a Time Act" (OSTA)
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San Francisco Grand Jury Indicts Viola
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POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

New London man fasts to protest water bill
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Breitbart: Enemy of the left with a laptop
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BP: Blown-Out Gulf Well Is in 'Static Condition'
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Another incumbent down as Michigan Rep. loses
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ALERT Senate to Vote on Kagan -- Time for a last round of calls
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Kagan's Alarming Record: Military, Guns, Abortion, Immigration
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This Is Monumental! Private Citizen Sues The Feds
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Protesters hang Graham in effigy
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MIT WikiLeaks case turns spotlight on hacker culture
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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survives grenade attack on his convoy
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Iran denies reports of attack on President Ahmadinejad
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Intel Experts Warn Obama Israel May Bomb Iran This Month
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Fake Al Qaeda Actors EXPOSED!
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ECONOMIC NEWS

Rolling Firehouse Closures Begin In The City
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Focus on the Family trims workforce again
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HEALTH NEWS

Dangerous supplements What you don't know about these 12 ingredients could hurt you
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Patient sews up own leg after long E.R. wait
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Breast cancer test questioned as study finds only one life saved per 258 women screened
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Cancer cells slurp up fructose, U.S. study finds
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Army Suicide Report Ignores Role of Suicide-Inducing Drugs
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World Health Organization: Fluoridate Water-Supply Population-Specifically
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MORAL DECLINE

NC: DMV worker accused of inappropriate relationship with tee
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GLOBAL WARMING HOAX & WEATHER

Nasa scientists braced for 'solar tsunami' to hit earth
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Climate Scandals: List Of 94 Climate-Gates
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IMMIGRATION NEWS

Police: Illegal Immigrant Driving Drunk Kills Nun
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Virginia Attorney General Issues Immigration Directive
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Culture of child rape being imported by unchecked, illegal immigration
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TRADGEDY IN THE NEWS

Plane crashes into building in Phoenix, Arizona
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Six teens drown trying to save each other from Red River sinkhole
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Calif. agencies could keep tech weaknesses secret
http://bit.ly/9SEqGu

Hackers Targeting Vital Infrastructure, DHS Sends Special Teams to Fight Back
http://bit.ly/cWUFqB

Hackers demontsrate how attack can identify user's location
http://bit.ly/b0bKoT

Internet Security: Top 7 Tips for Creating and Managing Online Passwords
http://bit.ly/acC0jE

Hackers could enslave iPad, iPhone: security firms
http://bit.ly/9WTGZt

Criminals, spies swamp cyber world: experts
http://bit.ly/deSijy