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Date Sent: 2012-10-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 29, 2012 PM edition |
US detention of Imran Khan part of trend to harass anti-drone advocates
Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away -- 10-29-12 -- NJWeedman - James Babb - Ian Freeman - Gregg Tivnan (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- Great Crime of China -- Let the Markets Clear! - by Ron Paul -- VIDEO: Ian Arrested in Palmer MA for Recording in Town Hall -- Navy Replaces Admiral Leading Mideast Strike Group Because of Ongoing Investigation -- THC Ministry -- Obama cancels Florida campaign trip, returns to DC -- NJWeedman: I tried to send the Gov a fatty -- To vote or to waste vote? -- Parents and grandparents facing destitution from student loans -- DIY Drones on the Homestead -- Getting Married Is The Single Worst Thing A Young Marine Can Do --
Here's The Clutch Hit That Won The World Series For The Giants -- I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier - the first anti-war
hit record -- U.S. may soon become world's top oil producer --
When the Military Becomes the Police... -- Ben Swann and the
Media's NDAA Problem -- Obama’s 284 Drone Strikes in Pakistan
-- War, Children: It’s Just a Welfare Check Away -- How US drones forge as many foes as they kill -- US Drone Strike
Kills Four in Northern Yemen -- Lawsuit Aimed at Keeping Pima
County from Breaking Laws -- Ernest Hancock Endorsement Of Marc
J Victor For Senate || VictorForSenate.com -- Carbon nanotube
composite material could replace carbon fiber -- LiquidPiston
unveils 40-bhp X2 rotary engine with 75 percent thermal efficiency
-- UN Seeking Global Internet Surveillance for Terror,
Propaganda -- Obama's Disposition Matrix -- Remember Bani
Walid -- Does Your Pastor Serve God or the Global Elite? --
Micro-Drones Combined With DNA Hacking Could Create A Very Scary
Future -- U.S. stock, option markets to be closed Monday
RT to host final US presidential third-party debate Oct. 30th;
Here's where you can get some of those 'Vote For Nobody -
Leadership We Can Trust' Signs
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday; Election Night
Party - Hancock's - Libertarian Candidates & Activists Invited
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News Link • Government
US detention of Imran Khan part of trend to harass anti-drone advocates
10-29-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Glenn Greenwald
The vindictive humiliation of Pakistan's most popular politician shows the US government's intolerance for dissent
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News Link • Homeland Security
Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away
10-29-2012
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http://gizmodo.com,
Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Election Night Party - Hancock's - Libertarian Candidates & Activists Invited - 6:30-11 p.m.
10-26-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Nov 6, 2012 - Libertarian Candidates Attending: Marc J Victor - U.S. Senate; Powell Gammill - Congress, District 9; Michael Kielsky - Maricopa County Attorney; We will have the returns playing on several T.V.'s/Computers inside and out (not that we r
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
VIDEO: Ian Arrested in Palmer MA for Recording in Town Hall
10-29-2012
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www.freekeene.com
Here’s the arrest report from officer Raymond L. Tenczar. Compare his report to the reality of the uncut video, and you decide…
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Military
Navy Replaces Admiral Leading Mideast Strike Group Because of Ongoing Investigation
10-29-2012
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www.abcnews.go.com
In an unusual move, the Navy has replaced an admiral commanding an aircraft carrier strike group while it is deployed to the Middle East. The replacement was prompted by an Inspector General’s investigation of allegations of inappropriate leadership
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
THC Ministry
10-29-2012
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www.thc-ministry.org
Find out how to become a 'practitioner' of Cannabis sacrament and how to establish your religious defense.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Obama cancels Florida campaign trip, returns to DC
10-29-2012
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Associated Press
A strengthening Hurricane Sandy disrupted the campaign for the White House Monday, with President Obama rushing out of battleground Florida to get Air Force One safely back to Washington and monitor the storm from the White House.
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News Link • Drug War
NJWeedman: I tried to send the Gov a fatty
10-29-2012
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www.njweedman.com
Forchion told the Philadelphia Inquirer's Matt Katz that he mails a gram of weed a month to Christie plus another 14 public officials, including the state attorney general. It sounds like a winning gesture:
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
RT to host final US presidential third-party debate
10-26-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, legalizeliberty
Libertarian Party candidate Gov. Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein will sound off once more before Election Day, with both presidential hopefuls now slated to debate live from RT’s Washington, DC studio on October 30.
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News Link • European Union
EU Nobel Prize
10-29-2012
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arclein
Would Greece, Spain and Portugal all have ended up as full democracies after overthrowing their old dictators, and in the latter two cases as relatively honest ones as well, if not for the changes they had to make to qualify for EU membership?
Wou
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News Link • China
Great Crime of China
10-29-2012
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arclein
But Bo Xilai’s fanaticism did not save him. He was eventually imprisoned and served five years, released in 1976 along with the other members of his family after the Cultural Revolution collapsed.
The cruelty Bo suffered in prison made him shady,
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Great Lakes Watershed Economic Ecology Zone
10-29-2012
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arclein
In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Christine Lagarde said that a failure by the leaders of the world’s largest economy to come up with a fiscal plan would have “dire economic consequences” " and is a major risk to a Canadian economy that has ou
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robert klein
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News Link • Voting and Elections
To vote or to waste vote?
10-29-2012
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Pravda.ru
In a 2004 episode of Comedy Central's South Park, an election was held to determine whether the mascot for the grade school would be a "giant douche" or a "turd sandwich." Confronted with these equally unpalatable choices, 1 child refused to vote at
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Surveillance
DIY Drones on the Homestead
10-29-2012
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www.survivalblog.com
Why should tyrannical, oppressive governments have all the fun with advanced technology? How many of you reading this knew that for about $1,000 (about the cost of a good AR-15) that you could buy all the parts you needed to build your own drones?
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News Link • Marriage
Getting Married Is The Single Worst Thing A Young Marine Can Do
10-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Garrett Anderson
Somewhere between the peak and the valley is the normal; where a human finds themselves most waking hours.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Here's The Clutch Hit That Won The World Series For The Giants
10-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Tony Manfred
Marco Scutaro was the World Series hero for the San Francisco Giants, hitting the clutch single with two outs in the 10th inning that put them up 4-3.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier - the first anti-war hit record
10-29-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by sharpsteve
Released in 1915, I Didn't Raise My Son to be a Soldier, sung here by the Peerless Quartet, was the first commercially successful anti-war record and featured prominently in the American anti-war movement opposing US entry in the first world war.
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News Link • Energy
U.S. may soon become world's top oil producer
10-29-2012
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http://www.fosters.com, By JONATHAN FAHEY
U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the United States could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest producer.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
When the Military Becomes the Police...
10-29-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com/260691/when-the-military-
My wife and I recently started watching Battlestar Galactica again after finishing it a couple of years ago.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Ben Swann and the Media's NDAA Problem
10-29-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by Ben Swann
Ben Swann talks about the problem of the media not holding President Obama accountable for his words and actions on the NDAA
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Cloud Atlas Extended Trailer #1
10-29-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, by movieclipsTRAILERS
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
‘Skyfall’ Opens #1 In 25 Overseas Markets; Grosses $77.7M And Smashes UK Records
10-29-2012
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deadline.com, By NIKKI FINKE AND NANCY TARTAGLIONE
Sony Pictures’ and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Skyfall, the 23rd film in the James Bond series, opened overseas in 25 markets and grossed a staggering $77.7 million, #1 everywhere.
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • World News
Why are Asians and Jews at the top?
10-29-2012
Menckens Ghost
The following article discusses the economic and academic success of Asian-Americans and Jewish-Americans. The article's author hints at one of the main reasons why these two groups are much more successful than the rest of America, but political co
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News Link • Government
War, Children: It’s Just a Welfare Check Away
10-29-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Thomas Knapp
When pundits name-check “the welfare-warfare state,” we usually mean, and are usually understood to mean, something along the lines of “bread and circuses at home, military adventurism abroad.”
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News Link • Foreign Policy
How US drones forge as many foes as they kill
10-29-2012
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http://www.independent.co.uk,
World View: The enhanced use of unmanned attack planes is at the heart of American foreign policy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
US Drone Strike Kills Four in Northern Yemen
10-29-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Two Saudis Among Those Slain in Attack
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News Link • Propaganda
Lawsuit Aimed at Keeping Pima County from Breaking Laws
10-29-2012
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http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com, J.T. Waldron
When propaganda gets this obvious, we ultimately choose not to run away from it and prefer not to rely on the hopes that people will ignore it.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Ernest Hancock Endorsement Of Marc J Victor For Senate || VictorForSenate.com
10-29-2012
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http://www.youtube.com,
Publisher of FreedomsPhoenix.com Ernest Hancock endorses Marc J Victor for Us Senate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
90-year-old robbery victim sued by the burglar who shot him
10-29-2012
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http://rt.com
A World War II vet says he was tied up and shot twice during an attempted burglary earlier this year inside his California home.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Carbon nanotube composite material could replace carbon fiber
10-29-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com/cnt-composite-carbon-fiber-a
When people need a material that’s strong yet lightweight, they usually look to carbon fiber.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Study: Older Mice Given Blood From Younger Mice Increase Memory and Brain Cell Activity
10-29-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org, JONATHAN TURLEY
I will look at my students in a whole different light after reading this article of how older mice receiving the blood from younger mice had improved learning and memory.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inventions
LiquidPiston unveils 40-bhp X2 rotary engine with 75 percent thermal efficiency
10-29-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has had a remarkably successful century and a half.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
DARPA's Robotics Challenge gives birth to new humanoid robots
10-29-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Jason Falconer
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has published concept artwork depicting the robots that will compete in its ambitious DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC).
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News Link • Homeland Security
New Homeland Security Laser Scanner Reads People At Molecular Level
10-29-2012
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http://washington.cbslocal.com,
The Department of Homeland Security will soon be using a laser at airports that can detect everything about you from over 160-feet away.
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News Link • United Nations
UN Seeking Global Internet Surveillance for Terror, Propaganda
10-29-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Alex Newman
The United Nations and a broad coalition of its totalitarian-minded member governments are increasingly demanding that a global regulatory regime be imposed over the Internet, with supposed concerns about “terrorism” becoming just the most recent arg
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Watch Hurricane Sandy Live From Every Corner Of New York!
10-28-2012
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www.businessinsider.com/watch-hurricane-sandy-live
Climate Adaptation's Michael Cote has pulled together a list of webcams from around New York City, New Jersey, Long Island and Virginia Beach so we can watch Hurricane Sandy unleash her fury on roads, buildings and trees from the safety of our own ho
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. stock, option markets to be closed Monday
10-28-2012
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http://www.marketwatch.com
All U.S. stock and option trading will be closed on Monday because of Hurricane Sandy, with the move adding to earlier plans to close floor trading only.
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News Link • Police State
Micro-Drones Combined With DNA Hacking Could Create A Very Scary Future
10-28-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com
Sightings of insect-sized micro drones have been occurring for years, but combined with the direction of genome sequencing outlined in this Atlantic piece " the pair make for a futuristic and potentially deadly mix.
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Grand Central Terminal Is Completely Empty
10-28-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
Grand Central is empty. There are no trains on the departure board. The front door was locked after the last train left around 7 p.m. on Sunday
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
We Cannot Overstate How Epic The Coming Week Is Going To Be
10-28-2012
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www.businessinsider.com
The Frankenstorm that has consumed the media (in part because it's historic and in part because it's barreling straight for the center of the media) is going to be a story that dominates the first half of the week, at least.
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
How Did Christians Become Warmongers?
10-27-2012
Chuck Baldwin
Historically, Christians have always attempted to be"and have always publicly taught the importance of being"peacemakers. Have not Christians preached"and tried to practice"love and brotherhood? The early church was born in a baptism of love and unit
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Opinion • Economy - International
Will the USA continue to overcome its handicaps of racial diversity and size?
10-27-2012
Menckens Ghost
The 12 wealthiest nations and city states according to most sources are Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, the USA, Canada, and Singapore. (Excluded are the tiny monarchies of Monaco and
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Reference Link • Corruption
The Relentless Evil of Goldman Sachs
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The GMO poison food producer, Monsanto, and the great profiteer from all tragedies, Goldman Sachs, are engaged in their own special version of who is the most evil corporation on the face of the earth.
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Cesium levels in fish off Fukushima not dropping
10-26-2012
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AP
Radiation levels in most kinds of fish caught off the coast of Fukushima haven't declined in the year following Japan's nuclear disaster, it has emerged. Researchers believe that deposits of cesium on the seafloor or leakage from the damaged reactors
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News Link • Bailouts
Watchdog faults Treasury, Fed for Libor use, wants alternatives
10-26-2012
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Reuters
The U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve need to stop using the benchmark interest rate known as Libor in financial rescue programs, as it might not be reliable and could put taxpayer dollars at risk, a federal watchdog said on Thursday.
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News Link • Libya
EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say
10-26-2012
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FOX News
An urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the US consulate and subsequent attack hours later on the annex itself was denied by the CIA who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
No Charges for Officer in Submachine Gun Murder; Promised to 'Blow' Victim's 'Head O
10-26-2012
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Reason magazine
Officer Steve Gilley of the Downey Police Department will not face charges from the Los Angeles District Attorney's office for the October 2011 submachine gun death of Michael Nida in Downey, Calif. The prosecutor who investigated the killing said
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Boarding pass barcodes 'can be read by smartphones'
10-26-2012
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BBC News
A vulnerability in US domestic airline boarding pass barcodes could allow travelers to bring unauthorized items on board. The codes reveal what kind of airport checks a passenger will face and can be read by smartphones,
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News Link • Iran
Intelsat blocks Iranian channels in Europe
10-26-2012
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AFP
International satellite services provider Intelsat has blocked Iran’s official broadcast channels in Europe, a company spokesman said. But it would not confirm or deny an Iranian report that it did so at the order of the US government.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Detroit judge who sent nude photo upsetting to bailiff's husband censured
10-26-2012
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FOX News
Judge Wade McCree sent a naked picture of himself to a female court bailiff. Apparently she didn't mind, but her husband did, so he gave it to us and we gave it to you and now the Michigan Supreme Court has given it back to Judge McCree,
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News Link • Communications
FCC wants to control text message spam
10-26-2012
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The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday that it’s accepting comments on a petition that seeks to have Internet-to-phone text messaging declared a type of autodialing. The technology, which collects cell numbers without consent and then mes
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, October 28, 2012 Edition
10-26-2012
John Semmens
Defense Secretary Justifies Inaction in Benghazi Attack
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta explained that the US military commander for Africa, General Carter Ham, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, and himself
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News Link • Military
The USS Gerald Ford Is The Single Most Expensive Piece Of Military Hardware Ever Built
10-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
The USS Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive weapon ever created and will run about $11.5 billion, with three ships costing about $40.2 billion.
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News Link • World News
British ExxonMobil Oil Chief 'Assassinated' Outside This Restaurant In Brussels
10-26-2012
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Duncan Gardhan, Bruno Waterfield, Emily Godsen
Nicholas Mockford, a British executive for the oil company ExxonMobil has been shot dead in front of his wife in an assassination-style killing in Brussels.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Mississippi School Charged With Arresting Kids For Flatulence, Wrong Color Socks, Breaking Pencils
10-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Abby Rogers
The Justice Department is taking a stand against an educational policy in Mississippi that incarcerates kids for just being kids.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
10-26-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Glenn Greenwald
Complete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism " 'disposition matrix' " the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim
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