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The sun has gone quiet…solar cycle 24 continues to rank as one of the weakest cycles more than a century

Click here: Ten days ago, the sun was quite active and peppered with several large spots. Now the sun has gone quiet and it is nearly completely blank.

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Obituaries this week

Ralph J. Sherman, 76, of Sperry, died Thursday, July 10, 2014

Ermina Wilda Lind, 91, Mt. Pleasant, formerly West Burlington died Monday, July 14, 2014

Earl George Hopkins, 61, Corydon, formerly West Burlington, died Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Mary Elizabeth Barngrover, 89, West Burlington, died Thursday, July 17, 2014

Ralph L. Todd, 92, of Burlington, died Thursday, July 17, 2014

Marilyn Kay Vojcihoski, 66, Yarmouth, died Thursday, July 17, 2014

 

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Ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says high ranking whistleblower William Binney – that’s a ‘totalitarian mentality’

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World Economy More Fragile than 2007

Click here: The world economy is just as vulnerable to a financial crisis as it was in 2007, with the added danger that debt ratios are now far higher.

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Obama refers to self 199-times in speech vowing to Go It Alone

Click here: ‘I,’ ‘Me,’ ‘My’—Obama Uses First Person Singular 199 Times in Speech Vowing Unilateral Action

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Poll: 42% of Millennials say they prefer Socialism

Click here: Millennials have no first-hand memories of the Soviet Union or the Cold War. Forty-two percent say they prefer socialism as a means of organizing society but only 16% can define the term properly as government ownership of the means of production.
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38 journalism groups slam Obama’s ‘politically-driven suppression of news’

Click here: 38 journalism groups slam Obama’s ‘politically-driven suppression of news’

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Marc Faber: The asset bubble has begun to burst

“I think it’s a colossal bubble in all asset prices, and eventually it will burst, and maybe it has begun to burst already,” Faber said Tuesday on CNBC.
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Obituaries this week

Dorothy Ann Helmick, 68, Fairfield died Thursday, July 3, 2014

Wesley Dale Dunlap, 70, Burlington died Monday, July 7, 2014

Alma Stottmeister, 95, rural West Burlington died Saturday, July 5, 2014

Donald Guy Woods, 87, Burlington, died Monday, July 7, 2014

Sharon Kay Schoenewe, 66, Burlington, died Monday, July 7, 2014

Edward McDade, 85, Burlington, died Saturday, July 5, 2014

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Mississippi River Floods … Again

Photo by Dan Hockett It’s an all too common occurrence; the Mississippi River again floods Burlington’s riverfront.
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It’s an all too common occurrence; the Mississippi River again floods Burlington’s riverfront.
Photo by Dan Hockett Steam Engine 3003 is an island at Division St. & Main St. as the Mississippi River again floods Burlington’s riverfront.
Photo by Dan Hockett
Steam Engine 3003 is an island at Division St. & Main St. as the Mississippi River again floods Burlington’s riverfront.