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becomes even more dangerous their net worth. Even the most prices certainly have. all indicate the danger of the from the highest in the world to
with the creation of the Consumer responsible homeowners are Goldman Sachs’ chief U.S. Obama recession turning into the match Ireland at 12.5 percent so
Financial Protection Bureau seeing their money evaporate in a economist reported last week that Obama depression. A single that American companies can
(CFPB), which Dodd-Frank housing market distorted by bad Americans’ optimism about their external shock such as a Greek compete anywhere in the world.
created as a virtual appendage of government policy. future income is at its lowest point collapse, a natural disaster, or an 4. Adopt 100 percent expensing
the Federal Reserve. In the mold Job-Killing Policies Kill Jobs in 25 years. Less than 15 percent interruption in oil supply could so American companies can write
of Obama’s “czars,” it will be Another indication that the say they expect their family push this weak economy over the off new equipment to make sure
headed by presidential appointees economy is getting worse, not income to be higher a year from edge. Washington must act now to American workers are the most
and draws its funding from the better, was the jobs report last now than it is today. This get America growing again. productive in the world.
Federal Reserve, as opposed to Friday which showed that pessimism is the prospect millions Ronald Reagan took just 23 5. End the death tax
appropriations from Congress. unemployment jumped to 9.1% in of Americans face if the months to end the Carter permanently so family businesses
The CFPB will have wide-ranging May, with the economy adding a destructive policies of the Left are recession. In terms of today’s and farms can focus on job
authority to regulate financial paltry 54,000 jobs. (Morgan not reversed. economy the Reagan model creation.
institutions, yet remains Stanley has estimated that up to Crippling American Energy is a created the equivalent of 25 6. Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley to
essentially unaccountable to half of these—as many as 25,000- Job-Killing Policy million jobs over 7 years, free up new businesses to grow.
Congress. 30,000—could be new low-wage, When President Obama was increased per capita income by 7. Repeal the Dodd-Frank law
The cost of compliance with the temporary employees on the inaugurated in January 2009, the $8,800 per year, and raised which, as I wrote above, is killing
Dodd-Frank Act’s hundreds of payroll of McDonald’s, added average price for a gallon of government revenue without small banks and crippling small
pages of regulations, as well new during a big hiring spree after the gasoline was $1.84. Today, it is raising taxes. businesses and homeowners.
ones from the CFPB, will weigh April jobs report.) more than twice that at about If President Obama had followed 8. Adopt an American energy
significantly on large institutions The May jobs numbers reached $3.77 per gallon. During the time the successful Reagan model of program to keep the $500 billion
and disproportionately on small only a quarter of the 200,000 jobs in between, the president imposed low taxes, deregulation, a stable we spend on foreign oil each year
ones. The mandates the law per month economists estimate a lengthy moratorium on offshore dollar, and more American here in the U.S. putting
contains pose an existential threat are needed to start cutting the oil drilling, fought for a cap-and- energy, America would now be on Americans to work.
to community banks, which will unemployment rate, and was far trade bill that would have a path of strong and sustained 9. Repeal Obamacare to stop
struggle to comply with the lower than the Administration had wrecked the economy if it had economic growth. the destruction of small business
requirement to hold more capital expected. passed, and gave the It is not as though we don’t know jobs.
and the onslaught of additional It should not have been a Environmental Protection Agency how to solve the current economic With 9.1 percent unemployment,
rules. The law is already killing surprise. Job-killing policies kill unprecedented bureaucratic mess. We have replaced the housing prices in their worst
community banks and crippling jobs. authority to dictate energy policy destructive policies of the Left decline since the Great
loans to small businesses and This was the theme of my nationwide. (See my newsletters before, and we can do it today. Depression, and $4 per gallon
homeowners. newsletter one year ago this week, about the EPA here and here for As I said last week, there are at gasoline, it is time to end the
Dodd-Frank is terrible for the in the wake of yet another examples). least nine steps we should take Obama recession by replacing the
housing market, which is disappointing jobs report and in With gas prices climbing towards immediately following the president’s job-killing policies
dependent on the very lenders for the midst of unemployment over 9 $4 per gallon, it is critical that we Reagan model to get America with proven solutions for
whom Democrats have chosen to percent. A year later, the Left still remove the obstacles to greater working again: prosperity.
raise costs and uncertainty. The has not learned that big- American oil production and end 1. Repeal Obama's scheduled June Charity of the Month: Boy
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Monday and Tuesday. "Absolutely," Romney insisted. "I'm going to tell you that as a are less likely to back a Mormon China's new independents tap
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governor who is running for responsibility for guiding a nation treat all people with respect and frontrunner in many polls as the Christian Science Monitor
president was pressed about the or for guiding a state." dignity, and to – and to advance GOP presidential nominee. A About 80 independent candidates
polarizing issue this week but all Romney has affirmed his stance the rights people have to choose Tuesday Washington Post-ABC for local Peoples' Congresses are
Romney replied with was "nice a g a i n s t g a y m a r r i a g e . H e their own course in life." poll found Romney leading other using the power of social media in
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Submitted at 6/8/2011 12:09:28 PM consensus to boost output. realms by lavishing more And the Saudi oil minister just left Xinhua
For lots of people, this is petrodollars on citizens riled up the meeting in a huff, stymied by China floods kill 52 as 100000
By MarketWatch personal. It means no big break by the so-called Arab Spring. Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, flee homes
SAN F R A N C I S C O from high gasoline prices. It So for most OPEC members, Iraq, Libya and Venezuela’s AFP
(MarketWatch) — Well, that was means fewer miles in the car this $100 a barrel feels just about refusal to raise output. At its core, BEIJING — Floods triggered by
a waste of time. summer, which means fewer trips right. Even if the rest of the world this seven-member majority torrential rain in southern and
T h e O r g a n i z a t i o n o f t h e to the store and fewer stays in hates it, they know they can get it. includes the same old gang of central China have killed 52
Petroleum Exporting Countries, motels, something retailers and There had been high hopes ahead price hawks that has existed people and forced more than
gathered in Vienna, agreed the travel industry are painfully of this latest meeting that OPEC within OPEC for decades. 100000 to flee their homes, state
Wednesday to disagree on a new aware of. It also means net oil would agree to bump up So while the rest of the world’s media reported Wednesday.
set of production quotas, which importers like the United States production and bring us a little hopes were high ahead of OPEC’s Another 32 people were missing
means they’re leaving them right will continue to see crude blow a relief at the pump. But what’s the latest meeting, expectations were in the floods which have
where they are. huge hole in its balance of trade, likelihood emissaries for Libya’s pretty low. On that score, they inundated parts...
Oil prices jumped on the news, which crude keeps chronically out besieged strongman Gadhafi, the didn’t disappoint. Who knows? China floods kill 52 people, more
with the July crude futures of balance. It also means no break arch-conservative Saudi King Agreeing to do nothing might just rain forecast in south Xinhua
contract heading back above $100 any time soon from the higher Abdullah and Iran’s firebrand be the best possible outcome. Flash floods claim lives in
a barrel in New York. It wasn’t a energy prices stoking the cost of President Ahmadinejad could — Jim Jelter southwest China Aljazeera.net
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Monday, Weiner tearfully tell-all book, entitled Staying with the women he contacted or easier to get into and harder to get world's largest consumer of
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Robert O’Hair filmed a video MPs mark Duke of Edinburgh's
frustration and shock.” additional baggage in their fees for our troops deploying to
onboard Flight 1625 and posted it 90th birthday
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They criticized Delta for the Prime Minister David Cameron
much do we need credit cards in being charged is enough to make here and waives the fees for
additional charges, complaining has paid tribute to the Duke of
Afghanistan,” he asked. “It was most servicemen and women to deploying troops.”
that the 34 soldiers were charged Edinburgh ahead of his 90th
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Radio. “Honestly, we were just proposed a "humble address"
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the trouble started Tuesday during David Cameron pays tribute to
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audience recognizes that any the mean should be somewhere gave was one he used when to the human brain’s strengths,
series is equally probable, so they close to the actual number. working in medical education. He and adjust how we present the
are more likely to put down all Instead, the two groups had wildly described the probabilities information. But there’s not a lot
heads or all tails. Subverting divergent means, with one half of associated with a breast cancer we can do if someone decides to
wisdom the audience answering well test: one percent of women tested intentionally target the brain’s
Although Tennenbaum clearly above the actual answer, the have the disease, and the test is 90 weak spots.
felt that our intuitive feel for second significantly below. percent accurate, with a nine Image: doug88888/Flickr
randomness was a positive How’d he manage this? Prior to percent false positive rate. With Source: Ars Technica
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physicist Leonard Mlodinow probability? Possibly not, but we cancer. The use of language Gun. time with the lady in his life,
showed how easy it is to have to be careful. That was the makes all the difference. Diane Kruger, in between filming,
manipulate a people’s answers to message of Gerd Gigerenzer, who In short, we’ve got a good idea of and the couple traveled to LA,
simple questions without doing helps train decision makers in some of the things that the human where they celebrated Memorial
anything overt. Mlodinow divided how to evaluate probabilities. brain does when when it comes to Day weekend with friends and
the audience in half, and asked Gigerenzer consistently noted that probabilities, and an even better were spotted riding around town
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Finds Miracle Day a Pain
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Submitted at 6/8/2011 11:00:00 AM
Mekhi Phifer
When conspiracies touch
Torchwood, no one is safe. But
this upcoming season, perhaps too
many people are safe.
When sci-fi series Torchwood: Meredith Vieira Gets Lip-Dub
Miracle Day premieres its fourth
season on Friday, July 8 at 10/9c
on Starz, we'll be introduced to a
'Don't Stop Believing' Send-
worldwide miracle: a day on
which no one dies. Sounds pretty
Off on 'Today' (VIDEO)
good, right? Nick Zaino (AOL TV) and then "Meredith" emblazoned
Check out the rest of today's Submitted at 6/8/2011 7:45:00 AM on the front. Vieira was led
news through the studio and eventually
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minutes of
deserted
gameplay
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)
Submitted at 6/8/2011 1:00:00 PM
Roy Skelton, Voice 'Teen Mom' If you want the full EA press
conference experience, put two
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Strength-Training
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Submitted at 6/8/2011 5:00:00 AM
Dept. of
Giant Monkey Invasion!!! (And Education sics
S.W.A.T. team
How To Build Your Own)
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) picture."
on woman who
defaulted on
We know the black-caped
Submitted at 6/7/2011 4:50:00 PM
monkey found a good home with student loans.
"It was May 11, 2011 - a day like Maniacmous. But what about the (The Feed)
most any other day," writes other two? "The green one is
Submitted at 6/8/2011 8:48:15 AM
wooter Maniacmous in his flying to Vegas and will be on
account of buying and opening tour at Zappos for an unspecified Via News 10:
Woot's most recent Bag O'Crap. length of time," Travis says. "The STOCKTON, CA – Kenneth
Little did Maniacmous know that red one will stay in Woot HQ for Wright does not have a criminal
clicking that big orange oval a while, but will most likely end record and he had no reason to
would set in motion a chain of up in a BoC." believe a S.W.A.T team would be
events that brought this So take heart, wooters. If you're breaking down his door at 6 a.m.
monumental visitor into his home. jealous of Maniacmous, lazier on Tuesday.
Read on for the story behind the than Travis, and don't work at “I look out of my window and I
Giant Woot Monkey Cut-Out, an Zappos, you could still experience see 15 police officers,” Wright
epic tale of vision, toil, and the giant monkey experience. To said.
plywood... get a shot at it, all you have to do Wright came downstairs in his
Woot's own Travis Moneta was is buy a future Bag O' Crap. Easy,
up for the 8x4 boards." little different about the monkey boxer shorts as a S.W.A.T team
the master builder who conceived right?
"I then cut, sanded, painted the in red? Take it away, Travis: "I barged through his front door.
and built not one, but three such As always, share your BOC
wood and attached brackets," created a value-add side project Wright said an officer grabbed
works of art. "I first created a conquests and gawk at the
Travis continues. for the red caped monkey. I made him by the neck and led him
budget of $90 for all three and trophies of your fellow wooters in
The result is the trio you see a belt that displays one of 26 outside on his front lawn.
went to the store for supplies," he the discussion board below.
before you. Bask in their majesty. letters. Most people change the “He had his knee on my back and
says. "Upon my return from Photos by Travis Moneta and
C'mon, c'mon, make with the letter to the first letter of their first I had no idea why they were
Home Depot, I drew the monkey Maniacmous.
basking already. name before they put their face there,” Wright said. . .
on paper and put gridlines on it. I
But did you notice something a behind the monkey and take their Unbelievable.— Greg Pollowitz
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end their careers without a
Stanley Cup. [ The Good Point]
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South African middle-distance probably more important than first • Via Dirk Hoag, with the with his thoughts on Game 3:
“It’s going to be weird, but it runner Caster Semenya also is place.” Thrashers now gone from Atlanta,
should be good,” Bolt said. “I’m competing as she continues her Semenya faces a strong field that i t o p e n s u p a m a r k e t i n g
definitely going out there to run comeback from a long layoff for also includes Mariya Savinova of opportunity for the Nashville
hard and see what I need to gender test following her victory Russia, one of the athletes who Predators. [ Nashville Post]
improve more.” in the 800 at the 2009 worlds. called the South African’s gender • Looking at the future of Semyon
Bolt won the 100 at his first race Forced to sit out a year, Semenya into question at the last worlds.
of the year in a Diamond League
HASLETT
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event in Rome two weeks ago and but is starting to rediscover her Jepkosgei of Kenya, with a
is now aiming to take his recovery best form. personal best of 1:56.04, is guaranteed option bonus (which free agent signing of the Dan
up another notch after missing The 20-year-old said the episode another leading contender. they converted into a signing Snyder era (and boy howdy,
part of last season with Achilles’ placed her under huge mental The worlds run from Aug. 27 to bonus), and all the salary in his THAT's saying something) will be
and back problems. strain. Sept. 4 in South Korea. first two years was guaranteed. underachieving in a different
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the world championships.” minute, 58.88 seconds at the r e d i s t r i b u t e d . prohibitively expensive move.
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course
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Because it does so much we never have to chase, I decided hell rider. Not so. I found a setting on
always use it. -with-it, and coded it all the new Cyclemeter that has it notice
Finally last week I decided there way. So if you encounter a periods when I'm not moving, and
conference yesterday, albeit was something wrong with this callback that works differently it doesn't count that in the time.
Submitted at 6/8/2011 1:40:00 PM steered by Ubisoft game designer ancient piece of code. I've known than all the rest, that's why. So I've always been a bit faster
Andrea Zanini. So, given that, I it was wrong for a long time, but I The other ancient bit of code is than it seemed. And I take more
First and foremost, if you haven't haven't seen all that much more never got around to fixing it. At html.directory. It's the low-level rest stops that you might guess.
played Far Cry 2, you're a than what you saw yesterday. first I tried to add the new bit in a code underneath the directory You can see on the map that my
monster. Let's just get that out of What troubled me, however, was philosophically compatible way. feature in Manila, also circa 1999. average speed is much steadier at
the way up front. I note as much the conversation I had with That meant using the coding This code has been worked on, about 11.5 mph on the trail and
because it's with my deep-seated n a r r a t i v e l e a d J a s o n conventiones we used in 1999. special-cased, had things tacked not quite 10 mph on city streets.
l o v e o f F a r C r y 2 t h a t I V a n d e n B e r g h e p o s t d e m o . Problem is, those are no longer onto it, over and over. Some of
approached today's hands-off Gallery: Far Cry 3 (E3 2011)
presentation of Far Cry 3... and Continue reading Far Cry 3
came away kinda worried. preview: Wandering off course
To be clear, the game is early. As Far Cry 3 preview: Wandering
in, "It's coming out some time off course originally appeared on
next year" and that's all we know. Joystiq on Wed, 08 Jun 2011
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summer. That's what this result LIBRA collaboration," they say. would expect."
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claims to see. Collar said the team is still What does this mean for all of
A few years ago, the DArk
MAtter/Large sodium Iodide Bulk
working out whether their results
just barely exclude DAMA's
us? Physicists are getting ever
closer to nailing down the nature
ready to attack Libyan
for RAre processes (DAMA/ results or just barely agree with of dark matter, one of the greatest
LIBRA) experiment at Gran
Sasso, Italy, claimed to see the
them. Meanwhile, Hooper and
Kelso said another dark matter
mysteries in science.
Understanding dark matter will
rebels if needed
(The Feed)
same thing. But many physicists experiment, the CRESST help us understand the origin and should they take revenge on
have dismissed those findings. collaboration, is reporting evolution of the universe. With Submitted at 6/8/2011 11:21:31 AM towns and populations that have
Then in 2009, another experiment findings that are also roughly new, deeper mine detectors so far remained under Col
at the Soudan mine, the Cryogenic consistent with the purported ramping up their experiments, and Via Telegraph: Gaddafi’s control. . .
Dark Matter Search, found the particle spotted by CoGeNT. a new dark matter detector in Britain has warned Libya’s rebels G i r d y o u r
heat signatures of possible But here's the rub: other space, the future of dark matter that Nato is prepared to used loins.— Greg Pollowitz
WIMPs. experiments, including one in the studies looks pretty bright. military force against the This entry passed through the
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represent a modulation consistent particles, their behavior in this would be unleashed on the rebels
with that reported by the DAMA/ halo, things seem to be what you
The first-ever
Super-Dense Forms of Carbon photos of a space
shuttle docked at
Could Out-Sparkle the Shiniest the International
Space Station -
Diamond
Clay Dillow (Popular Science - of them) might possibly be used
io9
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New Technology, Science to create superconductors that Submitted at 6/8/2011 5:43:28 PM
News, The Future Now) move electricity with nearly zero
resistance. Telegraph.co.uk
Submitted at 6/8/2011 12:42:15 PM
Diamonds They're forever. Such properties also make the The first-ever photos of a space
mnlamberson via Flickr materials good candidates for shuttle docked at the International
Girls might just have a new best other electronic materials. But Space Station
friend. Diamonds are commonly first we have to make them, and io9
known as one of the hardest (and that could be the difficult part. Lauren Davis — The space
shiniest) rocks on the planet, but The simulations show no clear shuttle Endeavour has taken its
new simulations show that three path to their manufacture, though final bow, but its last mission also
other stable forms of pure carbon with the right mix of temperature marks the first time a space
would sparkle even more than and pressure it might be possible shuttle has ever been
diamonds. If we knew how to to convert other carbon allotropes photographed while docked to the
synthesize them, that is. like graphite or amorphous carbon International Space Station.
Right now, these three into one of these novel materials. Endeavour returned from its final
configurations of carbon--named diamond, but they would be confined to the display case at flight...
Which means one of them may
hP3, tI12 and tP12--exist only in between 1.1 and 3.2 percent more Tiffany's. The sims also indicate Soyuz rocket launch, Rhode
someday become one of the
computer simulations. But these dense. That translates into a that all three of them possess band Island mill fire, Haiti landslide
craziest diamonds to ever shine
simulations show that they are higher refractive index, and thus a gaps, the necessary energy for and more in the... Washington
on.
stable enough to shine in actuality shinier shine and a sparklier electrons to jump from one energy Post
[ New Scientist]
if researchers could just figure out sparkle. level to the next. That's key for First-ever Photos Of Shuttle
exactly how to make them. None But the interesting properties of superconductivity, and could Docked At Space Station
would be quite as hard as a these three materials aren't mean that one of the three (or all RedOrbit
Photos: NASA releases new
portraits of docked shuttle, space
Xbox at E3: Top 6 Announcements station Houston Chronicle (blog)
Neon Tommy- The Epoch Times
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sickened more than 50,000 other foods. encouragement in the Food Safety people found guilty of food safety would shift the food safety burden
Americans last summer and One success story that keeps Modernization Act of 2010, violations that result in people to importers by requiring they
resulted in the recall of a half- officials optimistic is the sharp which gives the FDA "much dying, Xinhua reported. certify that their products meet
billion eggs— have gone up 76 decline in cases of a nasty bug needed authority" to regulate What can the U.S. do? Giving U.S. domestic food safety
percent over the past 15 years. called E. coli O157:H7. It can produce, recall contaminated FDA the tools to prevent standards. Assessing those
New Food and Drug cause intestinal bleeding, severe foods and key an eye on imports. contaminated imported foods certifications is going to take a
Administration rules governing anemia and kidney failure. "The The law is also supposed to from getting to the U.S. in the whole lot of training, both here
shell eggs may reduce that trend, societal cost of a single fatal case improve the CDC's surveillance of first place is one of the key and abroad, Taylor said.
but officials say it's too soon to ... has been estimated at $7 contaminated foods and capacity components of the Food Safety However, its not at all clear FDA
tell. million," the new report says. to investigate outbreaks. Modernization Act that became will get the money it says it needs
Another front in the salmonella Thanks largely to stiffer federal But Congress has yet to law late last year. to get the job done. Congress is
battle involves poultry. But one regulation of slaughterhouses, appropriate any money to "Congress has said we really do not in a spending mood. NTD TV
detail in the new report shows incidence of this E. coli infection implement the new law, and need to completely shift what is One of the latest food scandals in
how intractable the germ can be. has been cut in half since 1997. congressional Republicans want frankly an antiquated approach to China involves exploding
New federal standards that will go But other types of E. coli to cut the FDA budget. imports," Michael Taylor, FDA's watermelons.
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“well-defined goal” of protecting justification for the multination dressed like the videogame
civilians morphing into an endeavor. character Mario as he attends a
endgame of regime change, the Defending Libyans from a Nintendo media briefing during
promise to withhold ground The prolonged but restrained president not to deploy ground murderous tyrant is a noble aim. the Electronic Entertainment
t r o o p s n o l o n g e r s e e m s s o campaign presents both a public troops in Libya and demands a So is defending the Constitution. Expo, or E3, in Los Angeles June
sacrosanct. On Saturday, NATO relations and constitutional presidential explanation for the The process outlined by the 7,...
unleashed attack helicopters upon challenge for the president. legal basis of waging a war document that governs the U.S. E3: Photos from the convention
Muammar Qaddafi’s forces for The legal and publicity problems w i t h o u t c o n g r e s s i o n a l government delegates the power floor OCRegister
the first time since the campaign’s converged in Friday’s 268-145 a u t h o r i z a t i o n . to declare war not to a solitary Photos: 2011 E3 Gaming Expo at
launch on March 19. Russian v o t e i n t h e U . S . H o u s e o f Candidate Obama spoke
man but to the representatives of the Los Angeles Convention
deputy prime minister Sergei Representatives rebuking the u n a m b i g u o u s l y a b o u t t h e the people and the states. Just as Center Denver Post
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introduction of rotary-wing in launching Operation Odyssey to gain congressional approval i n i m i c a l t o s e n s e a n d t h e
aircraft into the NATO operation Dawn. “The President has failed before attacking a foreign nation. Constitution, so too is one man
as “one step before the land to provide Congress with a In an oft-quoted interview, he told deciding war and peace. One can
operation.” He explained this compelling rationale based upon the Boston Globe in December say the Founders were against
weekend at a military conference United States national security 2007: “The President does not unilateralism, too—albeit of a
in Singapore, “We consider that interests for current United States have power under the Constitution different sort.
w h a t i s g o i n g o n i s e i t h e r activities regarding Libya,” the to unilaterally authorize a military
consciously or unconsciously J o h n B o e h n e r - s p o n s o r e d attack in a situation that does not
sliding towards a land operation.” resolution reads. It calls on the involve stopping an actual or
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problem of unemployment. aside other issues. It’s now June Union and its allies were dealt
Santorum: No need to pick
They’re not going to be able to
create jobs. This is the reality. So
but the U.S. government has still
not done anything on Syria at all.
with in the Cold War. It’s very
simple, and of course you have to
Romney when you can pick
what happens when, as is fully
predictable, Egypt’s government
Sanctions on Iran are leaking, and
we know the three main reasons
get into the details but they are
not going to do it. someone “you really like”
is unable to deliver on its why they are leaking—it’s China, SM: How should Israel respond? Tina Korbe (Hot Air » Top said it. Unfortunately, regardless
promises and the country will go Russia, and Turkey. And the U.S. BR: There are options in dealing Picks) of how sincerely and confidently
into crisis? What’s going to government is doing nothing with these threats. Israel can deal Submitted at 6/8/2011 11:05:16 AM he meant them, the comments still
happen? about that. In fact, it’s consciously with this to a large extent smack of insecurity. They’re also
SM: What’s your impression of permitting leaks to continue. successfully or as successfully as This is former Minnesota Gov. a l i t t l e i r o n i c : T h e n - S e n .
the West’s reaction to these So we are facing a serious crisis possible. The first thing, which is Tim Pawlenty’s “ We need to quit Santorum endorsed Romney in
changes taking place in the of what I might call the return to already happening, is the need to worrying about bus tours” plea all 2008, which seems to suggest he,
region? the 1970s with Islamists in place rebuild what in Israel is called the over again. Presidential hopeful at least, likes Romney.
BR: The things that I’m talking of Arab nationalists. And again all Southern Front, which is the and former Pennsylvania Sen. Somebody should say what
about are totally predicable of this is totally predictable. defense along the border with Rick Santorum last night said this Santorum said, though. If voters
things. And yes, they are being SM: How should we be Egypt. And that is going to cost a to a small house party in Des can’t pick the candidate they
ignored in the media. Now the approaching these issues? lot of money and people are going Moines, Iowa (via Politico): “really like” in the primaries,
new line is that the Muslim BR: What is needed is a strategy to have to do more reserve days, “[Romney]’s not a favorite in any w h e n c a n t h e y ? T h i n k t h e
Brotherhood are good guys and that recognizes that the principle but it can be done. kind of real political sense,” Limbaugh rule: Conservatives
moderates, the problem is these regional problem is the challenge Israel is going to have to deal Santorum said. might as well pick the most
radical jihadist Salafi groups. of revolutionary Islamism, and with the flotilla, which arrives in “You can pick anyone in the conservative candidate at this
Muslim Brotherhood is good; what is needed is for the United mid-June. And Israel is going to field,” he told about 40 listeners point. A liberal in conservative
jihadists are bad. But the Muslim States to take the lead in have to deal with any attempts of dressed in business attire in an c l o t h i n g m i g h t s e r v e u p
Brotherhood is a jihadist group developing an alignment that people to cross its border. And elegant Waukee living room. conservative rhetoric, but he
and is in an alliance with these brings together the U.S., the what Israel does or doesn’t offer “You can pick somebody who won’t enact conservative policies,
groups. It’s ridiculous to make Europeans, the relatively the PA in negotiation is pretty you really like, who you think is anyway. And what’s the end goal?
this distinction. moderate Arab regimes, and much one of the least important really good for the country. …. I This entry passed through the
So basically we are going into a Israel, a strategy that supports the issues for Israel now. I mean it is believe I’m that right person.” Full-Text RSS service — if this is
series of totally predictable crises oppositions in Turkey, Iran and not a central issue. It’s not an Santorum certainly has a point your content and you're reading it
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analysis of the problems, much enemies are Iran and Syria and n o t s e t t l e f o r t h e m o s t the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-
less the solutions, by the U.S. Hamas and Hezbollah and the recognizable candidate to be the only/faq.php#publishers. Five
government, media, experts, and Muslim Brotherhood and Iraqi party’s presidential nominee — Filters featured article: You
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And even those three crises leave in the manner that the Soviet whoever becomes the nominee — Gun.
but, at this point, he’s still close to
the last person who should have
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in developing nations with souped OpenMRS, Ushahidi, Google affordability, especially as mobile The microscopes are small, care workers in developing worlds
-up cellphones, and helping them Apps and HealthMap. phone penetration skyrockets in thanks to an innovative lens-free who shuttle from village to village
treat more patients, faster. Medic Medic Mobile serves 4.5 million developing countries. technology known as LUCAS — and see hundreds of patients can
Mobile people in 11 countries, including But Nesbit hopes this is only the Lensless Ultra-wide-field Cell provide an immediate diagnosis
As an international health and northeast Africa, Honduras, Nepal first of many Medic Mobile apps Monitoring Array platform based and plan of action right then and
bioethics student at Stanford, Josh and Colombia. But perhaps the that empower health care workers on Shadow imaging. The lensless there, and they can record data
Nesbit researched pediatric HIV most famous use of Medic Mobile and patients alike. He envisions design was made possible by and keep a record of the patient.
and wrote his thesis on treatment was in the aftermath of the Haiti applications that help patients recent advances in computer This level of organization and
initiation for HIV-positive kids in earthquake. Nesbit coordinated schedule appointments, access science and physics that allow efficiency doesn’t currently exist.
rural Malawi. His research with the DigiCel Command remote consultations and get in scientists to understand how light In Africa, one hospital might
inspired him to start Center on the ground in Haiti, and touch with health care workers interacts with various bacteria. So cover 1,800 kilometers — for a
FrontlineSMS:Medic out of his they created a 4636 database, during a medical emergency. lenses are replaced by algorithms health care worker on a
Stanford dorm room. It started where the 80,000 incoming texts “We’re getting close to that and computer codes that examine motorcycle, that’s a lot of terrain
with a pilot program in Malawi, in to the number “4636 were tagged Walmart-like efficiency that we’d how light plays off the cells in to cover and a lot of patients to
an area where two doctors were and mapped to help the rescue like to see in global health,” question. Using light, Ozcan’s treat. But MMS-diagnosis will
shuttling around to diagnose and effort. Nesbit says. team can detect “digital shadows” improve health care in remote
treat 250,000 people. Nesbit Aside from crisis situations, SMS To get even more mobile phones of cells and bacteria and then locations and circumvent having
provided Java-run $10 mobile messages are also in use by on the ground where they’re compare them to patterns that are to physically go to hospitals, and
phones to community health governments, ministries of health needed, Medic Mobile has stored in a library of images to yet hospitals will have far more of
workers to decentralize the care and NGOs like the Clinton Health partnered with HopePhones. You immediately detect TB, malaria, an impact on the lives of its
and create an “SMS patient Access Initiative, which tracks can donate new or used cell certain STDs, HIV and other patients by implementing mobile
coordination network.” In short, vaccines via mobile phone (see phones by clicking the “Donate diseases. technology that can diagnose and
the phones helped medical flow chart above). Facebook has phones” button on the website. “With this toolkit, the patient will treat at any distance.
workers efficiently gather health even jumped in the mobile health Just turn off and deactivate your give the blood and the technician “The concept of a hospital will
data and follow up with patients. care game and created a SIM app. phone, print a free shipping label will prepare the microscope slide diffuse away,” says Ozcan. It will
“In six months, our pilot in Nesbit hopes that’s only the and send the phone in. It will go with the patients red blood cells no longer be a central hub where
Malawi saved the clinical staff beginning. to Medic Mobile and its affiliates on it, and our microscopes will people come and go, but a central
1,200 hours of follow-up time and “It could be really exciting to around the world. Mobile quickly image it and enable database that offers affordable,
more than $3,000 in motorbike have those health worker- and Diagnostics remote and immediate diagnosis,” accessible and better quality
fuel,” Nesbit says. Further, it patient-focused apps developed so UCLA Professor Aydogan Ozcan explains. Not only is it fast, health care.
doubled the number of patients you can run them on $10 Nokia Ozcan, 32, is also using mobile but it’s also “remarkably cheap,” Ozcan’s research is funded by
who were treated for Tuberculosis phones,” Nesbit says. “On iPads technology to improve health care costing just 10 to 15 cents per test. millions of dollars from the NIH,
(TB). Once treated, patient follow and iPhones, the killer app is the in the developing world, but he’s The technology works on almost U.S. Office of Naval Research
-ups were completed by SMS cool app — but in public health, turning the phone into an actual any kind of phone. For a and the National Science
rather than an in-person exam, the cool app is the one that medical device. Ozcan is creating cameraphone, you can install an Foundation. But Ozcan’s group
which saved time, transportation everyone can use.” portable and lightweight attachment to make use of the focuses on perfecting the
and money. And to that end, Medic Mobile microscopes that affix to existing camera, or you can install technology, not manufacturing it
“We’re looking at how mobile just launched its first SIM app for cellphones, thus transforming a separate unit that uses the cell for market. However, it recently
phones can make the health care global health organization PSI. them into a platform for phone as a vehicle to transmit the received $400,000 from the NIH
system and the people working in Named Kuvela, it can operate on conducting microanalysis of MMS images via USB — the cell for commercialization, and it is
it more efficient, with the end 80% of the world’s phones, blood, bodily fluids and water phone essentially acts as an working with a startup whose
goal of saving more lives,” says whether it’s a $15 handset or an samples. In short, your cellphone intermediary between a patient main mission is to commercialize
Nesbit. FrontlineSMS:Medic is Android smartphone. This means can become a mobile medical lab and a central PC station in a Ozcan’s technology. Once it does
now known as Medic Mobile and data collection can reach a new that can diagnose life-threatening remote hospital. With the promise HOW page 86
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Cross calls
(Evening Standard - News) The announcement prompted Cross.
currently out for consultation.
Raising the issue in the
Commons, Mr Miliband said: "He
replied: "He is doing a superb job
and there is plenty more fuel in
the tank."
knows and the whole country Another critic, Shipley MP Philip
Submitted at 6/8/2011 8:05:26 AM calls from trade unions for the He said: "This is the start of a
knows he is in a total mess on his Davies, told Sky News' Boulton &
Government to step in and disaster for the residents as well
8 Jun 2011 sentencing policy, just like on all Co programme the Justice
provide financial support to the as a kick in the teeth for the staff.
The Government has come under company - but the Department of T h i s i s t h e t r i g g e r f o r t h e his other crime policies." Secretary had been wrecking the
more pressure to bail out Southern Health warned this was not its Government to step in with But Mr Cameron insisted: "What Tories' reputation as tough on
Cross Healthcare as the embattled problem to solve. we want is tough sentences for crime: "I hope that the Prime
immediate financial support to
care home operator revealed plans Southern Cross recently warned ensure that Southern Cross serious offenders. We produced a Minister has seen that this was
to cut 3,000 jobs. consultation paper that had doing massive damage to the
it was in a "critical financial continues to operate and continues
The proposed job losses are condition" as it unveiled a £311 to provide a home for 31,000 widespread support for many of government, to the Conservative
understood to include more than million loss in the six months to elderly and vulnerable residents the proposals that it made and in brand," he said. "Ken Clarke was
300 nurses, while 1,275 care staff, March 31. The company is looked after by 44,000 staff. the coming weeks we will be in danger of single handedly
700 catering posts, 440 domestic underpaying its rent by nearly a "The residents, their families and publishing our legislation." ruining the Conservative Party's
jobs and 238 maintenance roles third until the end of September in the staff demand immediate action The Labour leader pointed out reputation as the party of law and
could also go. that it was the second time in two order."
a move to buy it time to find a from Government."
Southern Cross, which employs longer-term solution to its woes. This entry passed through the days that Mr Cameron had This entry passed through the
44,000 staff, said the proposals to As well as uncertainty over the Full-Text RSS service — if this is stepped in to execute a policy Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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31,000 residents, said the move Paul Kenny, general secretary of Cannot Kill An Ideology With A p r o p o s a l s f o r i n c r e a s i n g Cannot Kill An Ideology With A
was essential to address "staff the GMB trade union, called for Gun. maximum sentence discounts Gun.
effectiveness" across its 750 f i n a n c i a l b a c k i n g f r o m t h e from a third to 50%, were quick to
homes. seize on his discomfort.
Government to support Southern
Philip Hollobone asked the
premier why, when magistrates
had to retire aged 70, the justice
88 Politics/ Curated News Edition
By Conor Friedersdorf
Jun 8 2011, 9:55 AM ET
Comment Human Events made
headlines this week when its sales
staff tried to sell a RedState
political endorsement. They've
done far worse.
In the conservative movement,
there is a tension between staying
loyal to the rank and file and
exploiting the fact that there's a lot
of money to be made selling them
stuff. Some institutions pull it off,
as when National Review readers
pay to go on a luxury cruise so
that they can meet writers and
editors. Other times, a guy like
Glenn Beck manipulates his
audience into buying marked up
gold.
An item Ben Smith published
Tuesday broke the latest news on
this beat:
make RedState the most endorsements are not for sale." I take obvious advantage of associate with my grandparents. I
The endorsement of Erick
influential conservative blog on believe him, because for several vulnerable people who trust them. think of them every time I get a
Erickson, the founder of the
Capitol Hill and across America," years now I've watched in horror Where to draw the line is message with a subject like,
conservative blog RedState and a
writes the account executive, as the Human Events Group anyone's guess, but for me, the "Conspiracy to suppress cure for
CNN contributor is for sale as part
Chris McIntyre, in a form email advertising staff revealed its Human Events advertising emails cancer." What does this
of an advertising package,
forwarded to POLITICO by two moral compass. To be clear, I I long received were obviously on advertisement targeting frightened
according to an email circulated
surprised conservatives. "Why not don't think a television network or the wrong side of it. It is old people with cancer say? That
by an account executive for The
put Erick's influence to work for a publishing company or a important to know that the a breakthrough in a foreign
Human Events Group-Eagle
your organization?" billboard owner implicitly publication is largely read by country means "the hellish cancer
Publishing, which recently
Erickson quickly responded, endorses every business to whom older Americans who feel as treatments Americans take for
purchased the site.
acknowledging that the sales pitch it sells advertising. But I do take though they've been betrayed and granted are now outdated."
"Erick Erickson's reputation along
in question was sent out, but exception when a company is lied to by the mainstream media.
with his rising profile, combine to FOR page 90
assuring his readers, "no, my especially complicit in ads that It inhabits a media world I
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By Michael Hirsh
Jun 8 2011, 11:42 AM ET
Comment
With the tea-party movement
dictating Washington's economic
policies, the Obama adviser
leaves behind a frustrating job
The oddest thing about the timing
is this: Austan Goolsbee had so
clearly won the power struggle.
( RELATED: Goolsbee to Leave
White House)
Marginalized by Larry Summers
in the first two years of the
Obama administration, Goolsbee
had come into his own in the
scant eight months since he
became chairman of the Council
of Economic Advisers. Summers
was gone, as was Goolsbee's
predecessor, Christina Romer.
Even more than most CEA
chairmen do, Goolsbee had
heeded Paul Volcker, the head of Volcker on the tougher regulation Republicans are also intent on percent unemployment, will have
emerged as the administration's
Obama's largely cosmetic of Wall Street and economist obstructing the Dodd-Frank to fend for itself.
chief economic voice, appearing
Economic Recovery Advisory Joseph Stiglitz and others on the regulatory legislation, meager Nor is Goolsbee's replacement -
regularly on the Sunday talk
Board -- the administration had need for much more stimulus. But though it already is. the CEA chairman is expected to
shows.
squandered its chance to do a "I didn't have much influence and The inmates have taken over the leave in August - likely to make
But therein lay a deeper problem:
deeper and more expansive neither did Austan," Volcker told asylum, in other words, and Mr. much of a difference. A White
the chief voice of what? Of
stimulus, which was so clearly National Journal on Tuesday. Goolsbee is simply ducking out House spokesman said on
policies that, frankly, no
needed. And the opportunity Today, all those hopes are gone the back door for his own safety. Tuesday that while names are still
economist worth his Ph.D. would
didn't come around again. with the wind of the tea-party The numbers on jobs, housing, being "sorted through," the choice
want to tout, occurring in an
Goolsbee's precise role in those movement. The GOP is in charge and manufacturing are scary, as "will most likely be an academic
intellectual vacuum in which good
early debates was not clear. What of the House and the tea partiers, are the "headwinds" from abroad, economist. I don't think it will be
economic thinking was no longer
is known is that Goolsbee, an despite being a minority faction of particularly Europe and Japan. a flagship name."
welcome. [See " Neo-Voodoo
empiricist, had usually aligned a minority party, are effectively But there simply is no room left The official reason for Goolsbee's
Economics," NJ, 5/21/11] During
himself with more progressive dictating Washington's economic for a real economic discussion announced resignation is that he
Goolsbee's obscure first two years
voices despite his tenure at the agenda, which is focused only on about remedies. The Treasury and wanted to retain his tenure at the
in Washington -- when he mainly
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served as spokesman for the little-
believed to have sided with wavering recovery. The economy, limping along with 9.1
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It goes on: everything," says one subject line. Get rich quick schemes are next any better example of an entity in
Incredible as it sounds, In case you missed the point it is most frequent. "How to turn 10K the conservative movement
Germany's top cancer doctors reiterated in the body of the into 351K in 151 days," says an thriving on the trust it enjoys
literally "cook" cancer out of your message: "These doctors today are email from last October. It among the rank and file, and then
body while you sleep - and you full of crap." Given the encourages readers to visit this selling out some of those very
wake up without any bad side demographic profile of the link. Judge for yourself if the same people? I can't say for
effects. Yes, you heard me right: readership, dubious health claims advertised returns are plausible. certain whether or not Erick
no bad side effects. No loss of are actually a big percentage of As an editor at a DC Web start- Erickson is being truthful when he
hair, no vomiting, and no nausea... these pitches. Another example: up called Culture11, I got rather contends that the Human Events
Yet the American medical "Slow your aging clock by 51 obsessed with these emails. My ad sales team offered to sell his
establishment hides the amazing percent... this space age pill can colleagues from those days will endorsement without so much as
German cancer cure from you. actually double your energy!" recall me ranting in the office, consulting him. I can only say that
If you've had a grandparent who Here's a visual: unsuccessfully trying to get I wouldn't put it past them. In my
is averse to doctors and actually And yet another example: Chairman of Eagle Publishing estimation, they've been complicit
dreading American cancer As you age, cells in your lungs Tom Phillips on the phone, and in much sketchier schemes in the
treatments... well, that ad just start to die off faster than you blogging about this subject to no past.
doesn't seem okay. Obviously, replace them - causing your lungs effect. Eventually my frequent Drop-down image credit: Human
there are a lot of misleading to shrink. That's bad news for complaints prompted conservative Events
pitches out there. But the fact that your strength, stamina and disease blogger Conn Carroll to write, This entry passed through the
this one is targeting elderly cancer -fighting power. And here's the "Conor is right that now is the Full-Text RSS service — if this is
victims in a way that plays on an kicker: The smaller your lungs, time for cleaning house in the your content and you're reading it
ideologically driven tendency to the greater your chance of dying - conservative movement. But he is on someone else's site, please read
mistrust the establishment... and is of ALL causes! But I have proof more self serving troll than true the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-
sent out by a publication whose that it's completely preventable... believer. Take his Human Events only/faq.php#publishers. Five
content encourages those same even reversible. YOU can make criticism. What is he trying to Filters featured article: You
ideological tendencies? It's among shrinking lungs -and shortened accomplish?" Cannot Kill An Ideology With A
the most abhorrent example of "healthspans" - a thing of the past! I didn't endear myself to the Gun.
selling out rank and file With just minutes a day - you can Human Events editorial team
conservatives that I know, and I use my technique to give you the either.
don't think it's mitigated by the lungpower of a 20-year-old. And Several months back I opted out
disclaimer: with all that EXTRA oxygen and of getting Human Events
There are too many other cardiovascular power, you'll advertising emails. They get
examples in my inbox to discuss REAWAKEN the energy and under my skin every time I see
them all. vitality you had years ago - even them. But I still think they
"Your doctor doesn't know if you're past retirement. deserve more attention. Is there
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within a year
Ed Morrissey (Hot Air » Top
weekend, significantly ramping
up NATO's operations. Ten
explosions shook the capital early
2008, only 38% expected another matter), but they did poll on Wednesday, a day after the
heed the advice they're given.
The next time the occupant of the
Oval Office, the opposition
leadership in Congress, or the
Picks) Great Depression, which rose to which issues matter most to those alliance's most intense wave of air Weekly Standard editorial board
Submitted at 6/8/2011 11:47:16 AM 41% in 2009 shortly after Obama voting for President in 2012. The s t r i k e s o f t h e t w o - m o n t h is agitating for war, it's worth
took office. In the two years of ratings for “extremely important” campaign. The intensified air recalling that America's ruling
A l t e r n a t e h e a d l i n e : G r e a t the Obamanomics recovery, it’s show 51% selecting that option strikes raise the question of class has been impressively
D e p r e s s i o n w o r r i e s g o jumped seven points — which for the economy, followed by a tie whether NATO is sticking rigidly consistent in its ability to
mainstream. I guess we can count shows just how effective people at 45% between unemployment to its U.N. mandate to protect underestimate the costs and
Barack Obama among the 51% believe Obamanomics to be. and health care. If 51% of people civilians." difficulty of its military
who aren’t worried about it, since His Osama bin Laden bounce has t h i n k t h a t t h e e c o n o m y i s Do you see what I see? campaigns. One might even say
he’s not even worrying about a d i s s i p a t e d , C N N ’ s a n a l y s i s extremely important for their vote Despite the differences in these America is unexceptional in this
double-dip recession. CNN’s concludes, especially among and 48% think we’re going to wars, all are proceeding in ways regard.
latest poll shows an almost even Republicans. Two weeks ago, enter a Great Depression before that were unanticipated by their Image credit: Reuters
split between Americans who 27% of Republicans approved of they have a chance to cast it, most prominent backers. In every This entry passed through the
expect a big collapse within a his performance, but that’s been that’s not exactly going to bode case, the unwelcome surprises are Full-Text RSS service — if this is
year, and, er, Americans who cut almost in half to 14%. well for Obama’s re-election so significant that they totally your content and you're reading it
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President Barack Obama’s peeling away, with a five point Maybe he needs to worry a little And had Americans had better the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-
overall approval rating has drop in the same period from 47% m o r e a b o u t t h e e c o n o m i c forecasts about what would only/faq.php#publishers. Five
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into another Great Depression result in May from CNN that adds Full-Text RSS service — if this is far more widespread.
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of error. Moreover, this is the approval ratings on the issues for Filters featured article: You lesson to elected officials and to
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