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Date Sent: 2012-12-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 18, 2012 AM edition |
Bank For International Settlements: Beware a Crash -- More US lawmakers consider assault weapon ban
Britain: Police Say They Won’t Charge Hacker -- East Cost Bitcoin Summit 2012: Videos -- Smelling a Corporate Rat – The Move to Suppress Seralini GMO Study -- Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging - Full Movie -- When Can We Have an Honest Discussion on Mental Illness and the Way it is Treated? -- US pulls war fleet from Syrian water. Ahmadinejad cancels Turkey visit -- Jihadis bankroll aid efforts in Syria to win followers -- NRA Facebook Page Disappears -- Want To Know What's Behind U.S. Gun Legislation? Follow The Money -- 7 Shocking Ways States Have Loosened Their Gun Laws -- Petition:
Avoid the "Fiscal Cliff" by Forgiving the National Debt! -- Veteran Journalist Says The Media Is Totally Misreporting What's Happening In Syria -- This Chart Proves There Is Something Profoundly Wrong With How The US Handles Guns -- For The First Time, There Are Reports About Obama Blinking On Entitlements -- Obama, Boehner meet as hopes rise for "fiscal cliff" deal -- Syrian vice president says army can't win -- Treasure flight: Afghan’s baffling gold exodus -- Israel steps closer to 1,500 new settlements in East Jerusalem -- Russian volcano eruption attracts tourists, sparks 'apocalypse' fears
AZ: 2012 Doomsday/End of the World Party, Friday, 6:30PM-
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News Link • Economy - International
The Bank For International Settlements: Beware a Crash
12-17-2012
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The Daily Bell
Equity and fixed income prices have reached unusually high levels that don't reflect the current weakening in the global economy, according to the Bank of International Settlements, leading to concerns of a fresh credit bubble.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
More U.S. lawmakers consider curbing assault weapons
12-17-2012
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reuters.com
A growing number of lawmakers - including a leading pro-gun senator - called on Monday for a look at curbing assault weapons like the one used in a massacre at a Connecticut grade school, a sign that attitudes toward gun control could be shifting.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Britain: Police Say They Won’t Charge Hacker
12-17-2012
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AP
British authorities opted not to charge a computer hacker who waged a decade-long struggle to avoid a trial in the United States over accusations that he broke into military computers. The hacker was accused of one of the largest breaches
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
East Cost Bitcoin Summit 2012: Videos
12-15-2012
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Mike Salvi's World
On December 15, 2012, activist group Truth, Freedom, Prosperity hosted the East Coast Bitcoin Summit at Underground Arts in Philadelphia. The entire event was from 1pm-5pm. We were fortunate enough to have great speakers join us to help create a bett
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James Babb
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Smelling a Corporate Rat " The Move to Suppress Seralini GMO Study
12-17-2012
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Farm Wars
Monsanto moves to squash Seralini GMO study, which was conducted to generally higher scientific standards than the studies Monsanto does underlying GM food approvals. Biotech industry corruption exposed in detail.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Healthcare
Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging - Full Movie
12-17-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com
This video provides the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry. PUBLISHER RECOMMENDED
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Syria
US pulls war fleet from Syrian water. Ahmadinejad cancels Turkey visit
12-17-2012
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Prison Planet
Shortly before the deployment of two American Patriot missiles manned by 400 US servicemen for defending Turkey against Syria was announced Thursday, Dec. 13, Washington quietly recalled from Syrian waters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Jihadis bankroll aid efforts in Syria to win followers
12-17-2012
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Prison Planet
To keep his small charity afloat in Aleppo where the cost of supplies have doubled and tripled in recent months, Abu Ahmad must cobble together funding from a range of donors that includes everyone from wealthy Syrian expatriates to charities in Euro
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
Ed Schultz: Confiscate Guns and Kill the Second Amendment
12-17-2012
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Prison Planet
MSNBC liberal blowhard Ed Schultz is calling for the government to confiscate “assault weapons.” He made the comment over the weekend on a tweet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Is the End of the World Coming This Friday?
12-17-2012
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Prison Planet
Are we living in the end times? For years, the fast approaching end of the Mayan calendar, calculated to end Friday, December 21, 2012 during the winter solstice has been hyped as an apocalyptic conclusion to life as we know it.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Get Ready…
12-17-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
Because here it comes.
The bodies weren’t cold before the slaughter perpetrated by a single homicidal maniac became the basis for calls to slaughter the rights of millions of non-maniacs.
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News Link • Death
Sympathy from the Devil
12-17-2012
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Lewrockwell.com
"They had their entire lives ahead of them " birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own," intoned the murderer of 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki as he began the liturgy of official mourning for the victims of the Newtown massacre.
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News Link • Internet
Amazon Proves It Is Hard-Core About Advertising
12-17-2012
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Wired.com
Amazon is more serious about the ad business than previously believed: The e-commerce giant has reportedly just built a lightning-fast platform to deliver highly targeted ads to shoppers who leave Amazon’s virtual selection to peruse other sites.
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News Link • Healthcare
Scorpion Protein Illuminates Brain Tumors for Surgeons
12-17-2012
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Technologyreview.com
A compound derived from a toxin from scorpion venom could help neurosurgeons differentiate between healthy and cancerous brain tissue.
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News Link • Energy
Bacteria Use Photosynthesis to Make Sugar for Biofuels
12-17-2012
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Technologyreview.com
Proterro has received $3.5 million in funding to scale up its low-cost approach.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Want To Know What's Behind U.S. Gun Legislation? Follow The Money
12-17-2012
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Business Insider
“Why did this happen and what can we do?” ask my fellow parents of young children this week. At school drop-off, in the kitchen, on social media. Anyplace slightly out of hearing of the kids.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Your iPhone Will Get Some Handy New Features Any Day Now
12-17-2012
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Business Insider
Apple is working on an update for iPhones and iPads that bring several new features to its latest mobile operating system, iOS 6.
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News Link • Internet
What It Was Like Being Ryan Lanza's Facebook Friend When The World Thought He Was A Killer
12-17-2012
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Business Insider
For a short period of time on Friday, as media outlets scrambled to get information about the Sandy Hook shooting, the wrong man was accused of murder.
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News Link • Gun Rights
7 Shocking Ways States Have Loosened Their Gun Laws
12-17-2012
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Business Insider
Friday’s deadly rampage at a Connecticut elementary school marked the 13th mass shooting in the United States this year.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Why Every Corporation Should Employ A Futurist
12-17-2012
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Business Insider
Most people and corporations are terrible at planning for the future, according to prominent futurist Dr. Peter Bishop of the University of Houston.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Petition: Avoid the "Fiscal Cliff" by Forgiving the National Debt!
12-17-2012
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Daily Paul
WHEREAS since the default of 1933 the the incorporated United States of America, doing business as the government has been operating on the private credit of the American People;
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WHEREAS the national debt is not a debt owed to any cor
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News Link • Syria
Veteran Journalist Says The Media Is Totally Misreporting What's Happening In Syria
12-17-2012
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Business Insider
Veteran war correspondent Patrick Cochborn of The Independent has been in Damascus for 10 days and says he is "struck by the fact that the situation in areas of Syria I have visited is wholly different from the picture given to the world both by fore
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News Link • Gun Rights
This Chart Proves There Is Something Profoundly Wrong With How The US Handles Guns
12-17-2012
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Business Insider
The United States has the highest gun ownership rates in the world and the second highest rate of gun deaths among industrialized nations.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
For The First Time, There Are Reports About Obama Blinking On Entitlements
12-17-2012
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Business Insider
Bloomberg is reporting that President Barack Obama is weighing a "Social Security concession" in negotiation of a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama, Boehner meet as hopes rise for "fiscal cliff" deal
12-17-2012
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reuters.com
President Barack Obama and top Republican John Boehner met at the White House on Monday as hopes rose that Washington will be able to head off steep tax hikes and spending cuts that could push the economy into recession next year.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Syrian vice president says army can't win
12-17-2012
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Associated Press
Syria's vice president has acknowledged that the army cannot defeat the rebel forces trying to topple the regime and called for a negotiated settlement to save the country from ruin.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
US-Iraq ties still evolving a year after war's end
12-17-2012
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Associated Press
A year after the last American troops rumbled out of Iraq, the two countries are still trying to get comfortable with a looser, more nuanced relationship as the young democracy struggles to cope with political upheaval and the legacy of war.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday December 17th 2012
12-17-2012
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/
How Convenient for Our Overseers, Another domestic mass shooting. Article by Butler Shaffer / Can Guns Really Be Banned in America? / Kill All Those Children in the Muslim World, No presidential crocodile tears for them, says Will Grigg
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Afghanistan
Treasure flight: Afghan’s baffling gold exodus
12-17-2012
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RT.com
Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, has reportedly seen travelers taking large quantities of gold out of the country, mostly to Dubai. Heroin money laundering and sanctions evasions by Iran are the rumored causes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Hacktivists strike Westboro Baptist Church over Newtown tragedy
12-17-2012
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RT.com
Hacktivists with the Anonymous movement and other online groups have waged a war on the Westboro Baptist Church following news that the group plans to demonstrate on the site of the Shady Hook Elementary School massacre.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israel steps closer to 1,500 new settlements in East Jerusalem
12-17-2012
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RT.com
Israel’s Interior Ministry committee has approved the construction of 1,500 houses on disputed territories in Jerusalem, amid UN condemnation. The approval follows the Palestinians UN status being upgraded.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Russian volcano eruption attracts tourists, sparks 'apocalypse' fears
12-17-2012
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RT.com
An erupting volcano in Russia's Far East has become a sightseeing hotspot for crowds of thrill-seeking tourists eager to see flows of lava and clouds of ash. Others, however, saw in the natural phenomenon an omen heralding the end of the world.
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Feature Article • Gun Rights
Ban all guns now!
Goshe King
Let us get rid of knifes, stones, and whatever it is that mankind has ever used to harm another human. That would solve it all. It is only common sense
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Reference Link • Internet
The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading Services
Lifehacker (h/t Claire Wolfe)
These days, everyone's out to violate your privacy. But even if you care about privacy, you probably don't want to leave the internet forever, so here are some of the best alternatives to major services that actually respect your privacy.
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Feature Article • TERRORISM
What would Muhammad do?
Goshe King
I thought long and hard about the title of this article and there was no simple answer. Some of my readers may already be wondering what this article is all about so I’ll cut to the chase, and in all honesty the question at hand is, what would Muhamm
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News Link • Gun Rights
School shooter Adam Lanza likely on meds; labeled as having ‘personality disorder’
12-15-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Adams
Gun control? We need medication control!
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News Link • Corruption
Too Big to Jail: Big Banks Can Finance Terrorists and Walk Away Scot-Free
12-15-2012
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http://www.alternet.org, By Lynn Stuart Parramore
HSBC receives get-out-of-jail-free card in a real-life game of Monopoly.
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News Link • Drug War
HSBC 'sorry' for aiding Mexican drugs lords, rogue states and terrorists
12-15-2012
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http://www.guardian.co, Dominic Rushe
Executive quits in front of US Senate as bank faces massive fines for 'horrific' lapses that resulted in laundering money for drugs cartels and pariah states
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News Link • Drug War
HSBC became bank to drug cartels, pays big for lapses
12-15-2012
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http://uk.reuters.com, By Carrick Mollenkamp
In February 2008, Mexican authorities told the CEO of HSBC Holdings Plc's Mexico unit that a local drug lord referred to the bank as the "place to launder money," U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday, as they announced a record $1.92 billion settlement w
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News Link • Gun Rights
Lanza reportedly tried to buy rifle, was denied
12-15-2012
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NBC News (video)
NBC's Pete Williams reports that Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza attempted to purchase a rifle earlier this week at a sporting goods store in Danbury, Conn.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Secretary of State Clinton faints, sustains concussion
12-15-2012
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AP
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who skipped an overseas trip this week because of a stomach virus, sustained a concussion after fainting. Aides do not expect her to testify as scheduled at congressional hearings into the Sept. 11 attack against
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Senate Republicans Are Splitting With House Over Taxes
12-15-2012
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New York Times
A split developing between House Republican leaders and Senate counterparts who are increasingly open to extending the expiring Bush-era tax cuts only for the middle class is adding to pressure on Speaker Boehner to cut a deficit reduction deal with
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Delta Airlines: ‘We failed’ double-amputee Marine on recent flight
12-15-2012
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Washington Post
Delta Airlines failed Marine Cpl. Christian Brown, the double amputee prevented by a flight crew from taking a first-class seat offered by strangers after he was clumsily wheeled down the length of the plane to the last row in coach.
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News Link • Drug War
More Drug Raid Collateral Damage
12-15-2012
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Huffington Post
Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong confirms Martoiya Lang, 32, died as a result of her injuries. She has been with the Memphis Police Department since June 2003. "We are asking that the city continue to keep her and her family in your prayers,
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News Link • Food
Food Subsidies vs. Junk Food Taxes
12-15-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Here's Penn & Teller on the cognitive dissonance of the government's HFCS subsidies to make food cheaper vs. the government's crusade to tax HFCS-loaded beverages to make them more expensive. WARNING: the usual profanity involved.
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News Link • Transportation
Concorde meets railgun " SpaceX founder's plan for future rapid transport
12-15-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Adam Williams
Taking to the stage at this year's Economist Innovation Awards, Elon Musk of SpaceX let slip a few more choice details about his "Hyperloop" high-speed transportation system
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
TechJect’s Dragonfly micro UAV flies like a bird and hovers like an insect
12-15-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren Quick
Given their impressive flight capabilities, it’s not surprising to see researchers turning to the world of flying insects for inspiration when developing new kinds of micro UAVs.
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News Link • Transportation
Optical camouflage turns car's back seat transparent
12-15-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
When you turn around to look behind your car as you’re reversing, what do you see?
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA training internet trolls.
12-14-2012
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Daily Paul.com
"According to Lynnae Williams, former CIA clandestine service trainee and DIA analyst, the FBI and CIA use trolls to monitor social media and interact with users to discredit information disseminated on the web.
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News Link • Economy - International
Greeks earning 42,000 Euros to be taxed at top rate under plan
12-14-2012
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myfoxny.com
Greeks earning more than €42,000 ($55,000) per year will now be taxed at a new top rate of 42 percent, under a major new tax reform bill submitted to the country's parliament late Thursday.
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News Link • Military
Double Tap Drones: What Has Happened to the United States?
12-14-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
What we call the Internet Reformation can be seen clearly in reports like this. A young man uses 'Net technology to track every drone strike and makes a horrible discovery.
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News Link • Economy - International
Europe In The News: Ominous Prospects
12-14-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by Michael F.
It appears as if there are some new developments going in on the Continent, that unfortunately appear to be old memes being resurrected for the 21st Century.
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News Link • World News
Knife-wielding man injures 22 children in China
12-14-2012
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http://www.courant.com
BEIJING (Reuters) - A knife-wielding man slashed 22 children and an adult at an elementary school in central China on Friday, state media reported, the latest in a series of attacks on schoolchildren in the country.
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News Link • Gun Rights
I am a gun owner (video)
12-14-2012
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JoePlummer.com
99.999% of legally armed American citizens will NEVER (never) go on a shooting rampage. Therefore, disarming them will reduce the chances of them engaging in mass murder by exactly ZERO.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
NDAA Indefinite Detention Opponents File Emergency Supreme Court Motion
12-14-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Ian56
Opponents of the post-9/11 use of indefinite military detention have filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to block a law they say allows innocent American citizens to be locked away without trial.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
The Fall of the House of Labor
12-14-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Patrick J. Buchanan
In 1958, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, his eye on the 1960 GOP nomination coveted by fellow Californian Richard Nixon, went home and declared for governor.
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