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Date Sent: 2013-05-16
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
Activist Adam Kokesh has history of rabble-rousing and self-promotion
Would You Fight Arizona Computer Vote Fraud for 7 Years? -- Pa. abortion doctor gets 3 life terms in baby murders -- Benghazi e-mails released by White House -- Acting director of IRS sacked -- Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Suffers Major Failure, NASA Says -- 05-16-13 -- Dr. Phranq Tamburri - Byron Templeton - Chris Fucci -
LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon -- Ernest Hancock on The Nomad
Capitalist Report (MP3 LOADED) -- Airware, A Startup That's
Helping Bring Drones To The Masses, Just Raised $10.7 Million -- How
To Let Employers Know You're Interested In A Job On LinkedIn Without
Applying -- Here's Why The Feds Seized Assets
From The World's Biggest Bitcoin Exchange -- Scientists Make Human
Stem Cells Through Cloning Human Embryos -- Buycott App: Scan the item in your
cart... and KNOW who is benefiting from your purchase. -- Shock
Video: California Police Break Into Home, Taze Victims -- 'Pumpkin'
Moonship for Private Manned Lunar Landings Passes Key Review --
Treading Carefully, Google Encourages Developers to Hack Glass --
Cornstarch Replaces Cyanide In Clean New Gold
Extraction Method -- What Information Can The Justice Department Get From Your Phone
Records? -- Russia Busts CIA ‘Spy’ and
His Gmail -- Unsung Heroes and
Enemies of Freedom - by Marc Victor -- The IRS wants YOU — to share everything -- We're All Going
To Die! - by Bill Bonner
Worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for May 25th
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News Link • Gun Rights
Activist Adam Kokesh has history of rabble-rousing and self-promotion
05-15-2013
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Washington Post
Activist Adam Kokesh has asked 1,000 people to march across the Potomac on July 4 carrying loaded rifles. He calls it a protest against “tyranny.” Suppose the D.C. police, as they have promised, block the marchers from crossing into Washington?
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Would You Fight Arizona Computer Vote Fraud for 7 Years?
05-15-2013
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World View Show
Denis Campbell shines a light on Arizona's struggle to restore election integrity through the "World View Show".
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Pa. abortion doctor gets 3 life terms in baby murders
05-15-2013
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Washington Post
Dr. Kermit Gosnell proved a serene but solitary figure in the courtroom during his long murder trial, in contrast to the chaotic life he built as an inner-city doctor, abortion provider and father of six.
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News Link • Libya
Benghazi e-mails released by White House
05-15-2013
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Washington Post
The Obama administration released 100 pages of emails Wednesday that reveal differences between intelligence analysts and State Department officials over how to describe the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. post in Benghazi, Libya.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Acting director of IRS sacked
05-15-2013
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Washington Post
President Obama on Wednesday demanded and accepted the resignation of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven T. Miller, as part of a multi-pronged effort to quell controversies that threaten to dominate his second term.
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News Link • Geology
Oldest Water on Earth Found Deep Underground
05-15-2013
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LiveScience
A pocket of water some 2.6 billion years old " the most ancient pocket of water known by far, older even than the dawn of multicellular life " has now been discovered in a mine 2 miles below the Earth's surface.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Suffers Major Failure, NASA Says
05-15-2013
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Space
The planet-hunting days of NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,700 potential alien worlds to date, may be over. The second of Kepler's 4 reaction wheels " devices that allow the observatory to maintain its
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Eric Holder Testimony To House Judiciary Committee: Live Webcast
05-15-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
We present today's main circus event: Eric Holder, Attorney General of the US, who will field questions from assorted members of the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Bob Goodlatte whose career donors can be found here broken down by industry.
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News Link • How To
7 Animated GIFs That Will Make You Instantly Understand Trigonometry
05-15-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Walter Hickey
Trigonometry is the branch of math that studies triangles, with a particular focus on the relationships between angles and the lengths of corresponding sides.
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News Link • Drones
Airware, A Startup That's Helping Bring Drones To The Masses, Just Raised $10.7 Million
05-15-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Alyson Shontell
Drones are spreading beyond military warfare and becoming the hot new thing in startups.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
How To Let Employers Know You're Interested In A Job On LinkedIn Without Applying
05-15-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Vivian Giang
According to a CareerBuilder study, 70% of employed people are actively looking for a job at any given time, but in the networking era, there are several tactics you can use to open career opportunities without explicitly verbalizing that you're look
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News Link • Transportation
What Everybody Got Wrong About Tesla
05-15-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
Tesla reported its first-ever profitable quarter last week, and its stock continues to go bonkers.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Here's Why The Feds Seized Assets From The World's Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
05-15-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Dylan Love
Ars Technica reports on the finer details of how the government was able to seize a bunch of cash from Mt. Gox, the world's largest Bitcoin exchange.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Make Human Stem Cells Through Cloning
05-15-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jennifer Welsh
Researchers announced Wednesday, May 15, in the journal Cell that they've been able to make stable colonies of embryonic stem cells by injecting the DNA from 'adult' human cells into a human egg cell emptied out of its genetic material.
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News Link • Internet
Buycott App: Scan the item in your cart... and KNOW who is benefitting from your purchase.
05-15-2013
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http://ftp.dailypaul.com, by goldenequity
Whoa... this is a powerful little tool.
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News Link • Events: America
Shock Video: California Police Break Into Home, Taze Victims
05-15-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
In perhaps one of the most shocking police brutality videos of recent years, police in Cotati, California respond to a call about “domestic violence” by kicking down the door of a man’s home before tazing him and his wife as they scream in agony.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
'Pumpkin' Moonship for Private Manned Lunar Landings Passes Key Review
05-15-2013
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http://www.space.com, by Mike Wall
A private space exploration company's plans to build a novel moonship to return human explorers to the lunar surface has moved one step closer to reality.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Treading Carefully, Google Encourages Developers to Hack Glass
05-15-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Jessica Leber
Breaking its own restrictions, Google will show developers how to build any kind of app for Google Glass.
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News Link • Art
Liu Bolin: The invisible man
05-15-2013
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ted.com
Can a person disappear in plain sight? That’s the question Liu Bolin‘s remarkable work seems to ask. The Beijing-based artist is sometimes called “The Invisible Man” because in nearly all his art, Bolin is front and center " and completely unseen.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
10 of the Most Underrated Episodes of the Original Star Trek Series
05-15-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Wired Staff
Through multiple TV series, even more movies, and innumerable off-shoot properties and fan versions, Star Trek has become a cultural juggernaut and science fiction touchstone. But for all the canon that now exists, it still all goes back to the origi
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Watch a Caterpillar Morph Into a Butterfly in
3-D
05-15-2013
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Wired.com
For the first time, scientists have captured 3D images of caterpillars caught in the process of morphing into butterflies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Cornstarch Replaces Cyanide In Clean New Gold Extraction Method
05-15-2013
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http://www.popsci.com,
Scientists accidentally discover a new way to isolate gold that is much safer than existing processes, which use toxic cyanide.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Skylab: America’s First Home in Space Launched 40 Years Ago Today
05-15-2013
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Wired.com
With all the futuristic talk today about missions to Mars, lunar bases and asteroid mining, it's easy to forget that man has already been living off of the planet on and off for decades.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airbus Pulls Covers Off New Composite Airliner
05-15-2013
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Wired.com
Airbus pulled its newest airliner, the A350 XWB, out of the paint booth this week and may well be the big story at the upcoming Paris Air Show.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
What Information Can The Justice Department Get From Your Phone Records?
05-15-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
The U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed the Associated Press's telephone records. How much data will officials have access to?
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News Link • Heroes
Unsung Heroes and Enemies of Freedom
05-15-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
As Ariel Castro was paraded out before the judge for his first court hearing, a shocked and disgusted nation got its first live glimpse at the monster accused of kidnapping three women in Ohio and forcefully holding them captive, for a decade.
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News Link • Tea Party
The IRS wants YOU " to share everything
05-15-2013
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DAVID NATHER, TARINI PARTI and BYRON TAU
The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor rolls.It asked for printouts of Facebook posts. And it asked what books people were reading.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Two bald eagles in air battle crash-land at airport
05-15-2013
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http://www.grindtv.com, by David Strege
Fighting eagles lock talons and are unable to disengage, but both survive
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News Link • General Opinion
We're All Going To Die!
05-15-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Today, we interrupt our regular coverage of markets, morons and mush-head economics to give you a heads-up:
We may all be doomed!
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Time-Lapse Video: The Rising Slow-Motion Dance of the Eclipsed Sun and Moon
05-15-2013
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http://www.slate.com, By Phil Plait
Remember the amazing picture I posted last week of the squashed, eclipsed Sun rising into the Australian sky?
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Feature Article • Prepping
Karen Johnsons Arizona Freedom Fest
Thomas Costanzo
Former Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson and Dara are putting on the Arizona Freedom Fest in Show Low Arizona http://arizonafreedomfest.com/ June 14,15,16 2013 Come check out the private gun show. The speakers will be Chuck Baldwin, Joel Skousen,
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Feature Article • New World Order
HISTORIC LAWSUIT TO STOP UN AGENDA 21
Donna Hancock
We're working on a legal challenge to the huge 9 county 101 city regional plan here in the San Francisco Bay: One Bay Area. This regional plan is different from the others in the US and we believe it's a prototype for forced implementation of UN Age
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Opinion • Government
The Growing Threat of Smart Meters
05-14-2013
Tom Deweese
Sustainable Development is code for a policy designed to transform human society, essentially eliminating individual life decisions and replacing them with top " down, one-size-fits-all government control.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA agent nabbed in Moscow (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
05-14-2013
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Russia Today
Russia’s counterintelligence agency says it caught a CIA officer trying to flip a Russian operative.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) Public Relations Center announced that detained individual was Ryan Christopher Fogle, a career diplomat workin
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Opinion • Immigration
Immigration and Environmentalism
05-14-2013
Mike Renzulli
If one takes into account the activities of the present-day nativist movement, you can see the correlation between environmentalism and hatred of mankind in which a natural outgrowth is opposition to immigration.
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Opinion • Guantanamo Bay
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo
05-13-2013
Ray McGovern
For more than a decade, the Guantanamo Bay prison has been a blot on America’s conscience. President Obama vowed to close it but acceded to congressional demands to keep it open. Now, an emerging humanitarian crisis " a mass hunger strike " is drawin
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police STEAL $160,000 from man during Traffic Stop
05-13-2013
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
A brand new "policing for profit" case -- a case that resulted in a New York man losing a $160,000 on a Tennessee interstate. Even more startling it exposes a major loophole around a new law that's supposed to crack down on such abuses.
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News Link • Obama Administration
John Kerry’s brother Cam is named acting Commerce Secretary
05-13-2013
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Washington Post
Commerce Department general counsel Cameron Kerry " brother of Secretary of State John Kerry " has been named acting secretary of Commerce when the outgoing acting secretary, Rebecca Blank, leaves at the end of this month.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Philadelphia Abortion Doctor Guilty of Murder
05-13-2013
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AP
A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of 3 babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Detroit emergency manager says city 'clearly insolvent'
05-13-2013
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Reuters
Detroit is clearly insolvent and could face a possible bankruptcy if talks with labor unions and creditors do not make substantial progress on easing the city's cash crunch, the city's emergency financial manager said on Monday.
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News Link • Surveillance
After Benghazi, IRS tea party probe: Govt seized AP phone records
05-13-2013
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The Ticket
On Monday, the Associated Press accused his administration of undermining that very pillar by secretly obtaining two months’ worth of telephone records of AP reporters and editors.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Saudi Man Traveling With Pressure Cooker Arrested
05-13-2013
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voanews.com
A Saudi man was arrested at the international airport in Detroit after authorities said he made a false statement about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker.
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News Link • Books
Former Nixon Aide Claims He Has Evidence L.B.J. Arranged John F. Kennedy's Assassination
05-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
A renowned Republican strategist and lobbyist has claimed that former president Lyndon B. Johnson set up John F. Kennedy’s assassination, which occurred on November 22, 1963.
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News Link • Syria
Syria Not Worth a Crisis With Russia
05-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The vicious Syrian civil war has put the world’s two biggest nuclear powers on a collision course over a small Levantine nation of no strategic interest to Washington. This cannot be allowed to go on.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi - by Ron Paul
05-13-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Republicans smell a political opportunity....Are we are supposed to be shocked by such behavior? Are we supposed to forget that this kind of whitewashing of facts is standard operating procedure when it comes to the US government?
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News Link • B.O.R.G.
Henry Kissenger to receive award - Defending Freedom & Democracy
05-13-2013
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rootsaction.org
It sounds like satire, and it would be funny if it weren't true.
The Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum in New York City is planning to give Henry Kissinger an award on May 23rd for "defending freedom and democracy."
No living American has don
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain, Portugal demand quick action on bank union
05-13-2013
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AP
The leaders of Spain and Portugal demanded that the 17-nation eurozone speed up efforts to create a banking union and complained that credit is frozen in their countries, preventing economic growth and crucial job creation.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
NY state's pension fund reaches record $160B
05-13-2013
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AP
The New York pension fund for state and local government workers has topped $160 billion after reporting a 10.4 percent return on investment for its last fiscal year, the state comptroller's office reported Monday.
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News Link • World News
Guatemala court finds former dictator guilty of genocide
05-13-2013
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youtube
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt has been found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. He's been sentenced to 80 years in prison.
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News Link • Intellectual Property
Supreme Court Backs Patents on Seeds (‘Self-Replicating’ Technology)
05-13-2013
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Wired.com
The Supreme Court on Monday for the first time backed patents for a self-replicating technology " Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” soybeans " along with its licensing agreement that allows farmers to use them only once.
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News Link • Police State
The Persecution of Rita Hutchens
05-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Sandpoint, Idaho resident Rita Hutchens is an opinionated 57-year-old quilt artist whose work has earned her international notoriety.
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News Link • Torture
Afghans Claim to Have Video of U.S. Special Forces Guy Torturing Civilians
05-13-2013
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Wired.com
Afghan officials say they’ve got video of a man overseeing the torture of Afghan civilians. Exactly who ordered the man to torture is a matter of fierce dispute " and also helps explain this year’s erosion of trust between Washington and Kabul.
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