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Date Sent: 2013-07-15
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, July 15, 2013 |
Syria Discovers Chemical Weapons Factory -- Mythbusters Not Allowed to Discuss RFID
Redflex Encourages Whistleblowers To Come Forward -- New studies: ‘Conspiracy theorists’ sane; government dupes crazy, hostile -- Goldman Sachs expected to reveal staff receiving 17% pay boost -- Ron Paul: Let the Market Solve the Organ Transplant Crisis -- Did
the Prosecution in the Zimmerman Trial Try to Use Reverse Jury
Nullification? -- New Michael Krieger Interview with Gold Money:
Tear Down Those Pyramids! (Video) -- George Orwell and the Cold War:
A Reconsideration -- David Stockman at Reason Magazine discussing
crony capitalism (Video) -- New virus discovered in stranded dolphin
-- 'Bath Salt' Drugs May Be More Addictive Than Meth -- Ancient
Graves, Pyramid Ruins Found in Mexico -- Tomorrow - by L. Neil Smith -- A Mind-Blowing Dome Made
by 6,500 Computer-Guided Silkworms -- The Deadly Science Of Force-Feeding -- What Does a
Currency Collapse Look Like? -- Harnessing Quantum Entanglement Is Humanity’s Secret
Weapon -- The White House is turning up the pressure on Moscow over
Snowden. Will it make any difference? -- Gitmo Force-Feeding
Continues Through Ramadan -- Snowden's Asylum Quest -- A Major Bank
Makes A Freudian Slip About The Dollar
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Busted! Mythbusters Not Allowed to Talk About RFID Chips
07-14-2013
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http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/07/13/bus
He put Discovery at risk due to his statements and arguably slandered Texas Instruments as well as the legal council for many major credit card companies. At the end of the day, we have to be our own judge on the matter as it is doubtful any of these
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Redflex Encourages Whistleblowers To Come Forward
07-14-2013
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The Newspaper
As a way to improve its image in the wake of a massive bribery scandal, Redflex Traffic Systems encourages employees to come forward and report wrongdoing at the second-largest provider of red light cameras and speed cameras.
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News Link • Conspiracies
New studies: ‘Conspiracy theorists’ sane; government dupes crazy, hostile
07-14-2013
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Press TV
Studies by psychologists and social scientists in the US and UK suggest that contrary to mainstream media stereotypes, those labeled “conspiracy theorists” appear to be saner than those who accept the official versions of contested events.
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Goldman Sachs expected to reveal staff receiving 17 per cent pay boost
07-14-2013
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http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article
Pay at Goldman Sachs rose by one sixth in the second quarter of the year, the investment bank is set to declare this week, setting its staff up for another bumper year and further fuelling public fury over bankers’ bonuses.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: Let the Market Solve the Organ Transplant Crisis
07-14-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
Ten-year old cystic fibrosis patient Sarah Murnaghan captured the nation’s attention when federal bureaucrats imposed a de facto death sentence on her by refusing to modify their rules governing organ transplants.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Did the Prosecution in the Zimmerman Trial Try to Use Reverse Jury Nullification?
07-14-2013
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The International Libertarian
The scary part is that one of the prosecutors, John Guy, in his rebuttal to the defense's closing arguments asked the jurors to disregard the lack of evidence and the lack of credibility of two key witnesses to find Zimmerman guilty.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"Khaybar"
07/09/2013
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Atlas Shrugs Weblog
-- blockbuster Mini-Series in the Muslim World: actors, writer describe its incitement against Jews
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News Link • TERRORISM
Lebanese March 14 Politician Compares Hizbullah to Nazism and Fascism
07/14/2013
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MEMRI
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News Link • Economy - International
New Michael Krieger Interview with Gold Money: Tear Down Those Pyramids! (Video)
07-14-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
There is absolutely zero reason to be afraid of the “New World Order.” It’s here already. It was set up behind our backs in the shadows, while most of us were firmly asleep in the matrix. The only thing we need to do now is focus our efforts on d
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News Link • Surveillance
George Orwell and the Cold War: A Reconsideration
07-14-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In a recent and well-known article, Norman Podhoretz has attempted to conscript George Orwell into the ranks of neoconservative enthusiasts for the newly revitalized cold war with the Soviet Union.[1] If Orwell were alive today, this truly “Orwellian
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
David Stockman at Reason Magazine discussing crony capitalism (Video)
07-14-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
An hour listening to David Stockman is almost always an hour well spent. “Political democracy… is very much at risk.”
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News Link • Activism
Tucson Weekly calls the NRA "Nutty Rightwing Assholes"!!!!
07-12-2013
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Real News Tucson
Thumbs up and subscribe! Take at look at what garbage The Tucson Weekly allows to put in their paper by some New World Order trash because he gives them money! The Tucson Weekly must support Gun Controll! I wonder what the people of tucson thinks abo
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
New virus discovered in stranded dolphin
07-14-2013
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http://www.bio-medicine.org,
Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues have identified a new virus associated with the death of a short-beaked dolphin found stranded on a beach in San Diego.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
'Bath Salt' Drugs May Be More Addictive Than Meth
07-14-2013
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http://www.livescience.com, By Bahar Gholipour
"Bath salts," the recently popular stimulant drugs made with synthetic chemicals, may be more addictive than methamphetamine, one of the most addictive drugs of abuse, a new study on rats suggests.
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient Graves, Pyramid Ruins Found in Mexico
07-14-2013
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http://www.livescience.com, By Megan Gannon
Construction work in eastern Mexico exposed an ancient settlement, including 30 skeletons and the ruins of a pyramid, believed to be up to 2,000 years old, archaeology officials announced.
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News Link • Inventions
Canadian Team Claims $250,000 Prize for Human-Powered Helicopter
07-14-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
The Canadian AeroVelo team has done what many thought impossible. The crew has officially claimed the American Helicopter Society’s Igor I. Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter Prize.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Here Are Your Best Vine Optical Illusions
07-14-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Christina Bonnington
Yesterday we asked you to send us your best optical illusions on Vine. Well, your 24 hours are up. Here we’ve collected our five top picks for you to enjoy.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Tomorrow
07-14-2013
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
I remember what the future used to look like. Maybe you do, too. It consisted of crowds of healthy, happy human beings, men, women, and children, colorfully but lightly dressed for their weather-controlled environment, inhabiting
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
After Asiana 214, Examining the Intricacies and Perils of Landing a Modern Airliner
07-14-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Jason Paur
Much of the speculation about why Asiana Airlines flight 214 crashed-landed in San Francisco, killing two people and injuring scores more, is focusing on the pilot’s experience and the equipment used.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Look at These Amazing Cross Sections of Bullets
07-14-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Kyle VanHemert
There’s a decent chance you know what’s going on inside a gun. You pull the trigger; the trigger releases the hammer; the hammer slaps the cartridge, and out the bullet fires. But what’s going on inside each of those cartridges?
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News Link • Inventions
A Mind-Blowing Dome Made by 6,500 Computer-Guided Silkworms
07-14-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
Your eyes are not deceiving you: The Silk Pavillion " an architectural experiment constructed at MIT, was “3-D printed” using 6,500 live silkworms.
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
The Deadly Science Of Force-Feeding
07-14-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Susie Neilson
We've all seen the video of Yasiin Bey, formerly Mos Def, undergoing the force-feeding procedure used at Guantanamo Bay Prison. Here's what such a procedure could do to your health.
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Reference Link • Currencies
What Does a Currency Collapse Look Like?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
When the currency collapses, a stock market crash is right on its heels. Glass-Steagall's repeal guarantees a banking collapse. Your life savings will be wiped out. The financial meltdown cascades like a roaring tsunami racing across the open ocean.
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News Link • China
The World's Largest Building Is Open For Business
07-14-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Shaunacy Ferro
It could fit 20 Sydney Opera Houses inside it and has its own artificial sun.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The White House is turning up the pressure on Moscow over Snowden. Will it make any difference?
07-13-2013
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Max Fisher, Washington Post
There are grey areas between shipping Snowden back to the United States and giving him a platform as a high-profile dissident in Moscow, of course. For example, Putin’s earlier offer to Snowden, asylum conditioned on ending the leaks, lets Putin save
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
A Major Bank Makes A Freudian Slip About The Dollar
07-13-2013
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http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/7/10/a-major-
The cognitive dissonance about the dollar never fails to amaze me. People know in their bones that their dollars will be worth a lot less in the future...yet they continue to trust and cling to the dollar as a store of value. They invest in things d
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, July 14, 2013 Edition
07-12-2013
John Semmens
President to Defy Congressional Cut to Syrian Arms Aid
Concerned over evidence that some of the weapons the US has been supplying to enemies of the Syrian government have fallen into the hands of jihadists inimical to US interests, both the House
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden seeks temporary asylum in Russia: Twitter post
07-12-2013
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Reuters
Former intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden will seek temporary political asylum in Russia, according to human rights groups that met him on Friday.
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
Bonuses Given To Bank Of America Employees For Home Foreclosures
07-12-2013
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zglap9p9toI&feature
Published on Jul 8, 2013
Former employees of Bank of America submitted sworn affidavits to a civil lawsuit claiming that the financial institution purposely stalled, delayed or denied home loan modifications. They also claimed that the bank enf
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News Link • Activism
Hacker Conference Asks Federal Agents to Keep Out
07-12-2013
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technewsdaily.com
There won't be any federal agents at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas this August.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Janet Napolitano to resign Homeland Security post
07-12-2013
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Washington Times
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who has led the embattled agency for the entirety of President Obama’s administration, said Friday she is resigning to run the University of California system.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Another Military Vet Stripped of Right to Own a Gun
07-12-2013
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offgridsurvival.com
It’s no secret that the government is doing everything they can to strip away your 2nd amendment rights to own and carry a weapon, but what just happened to a Vet in Texas highlights how idiotic these gun control laws really are.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Liberty And Art: How And Why Libertarians Have Failed
07-12-2013
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FreemansPerspective.Com
As I have noted in my “Failure of the Libertarian Movement article,” libertarians have generally limited their activities to marginally useful areas like politics and economics but have seldom used them to illuminate and free the human spirit.
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News Link • Police State
How Justin Carter's Dad Felt When He Learned A Stranger Was Paying $500,000 To Free His Son
07-12-2013
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Business Insider
This morning, Justin Carter, his mother Jennifer, his father Jack, and his two attorneys Chad Van Brunt and Donald Flanary spoke with CNN's Kat Bolduan on News Day.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Will Adam Face Charges of Armed Sedition?
07-12-2013
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Shield Mutual
Here are some news updates for Adam Kokesh for July 11, 2013.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Edward Snowden Has Made An Appearance At Moscow's Airport, ....
07-12-2013
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Business Insider
National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden, who leaked a trove of agency secrets and sparked a debate over government surveillance, is meeting with human rights officials in the Moscow's Sheremetyevo international airport's transit zone.
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News Link • Currencies
Forget Bernanke, Here's The Real Reason Emerging Market Currencies Have Been Getting Crushed
07-12-2013
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Business Insider
As we get a breather in the indiscriminate sell-off, I think it is a good time to consider what it is that actually drives the faith of various emerging markets.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Nearly every scenario of Snowden flying out of Moscow could lead to his apprehension.
07-12-2013
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Hannah Allam and Matt Schofield / McClatchy Washin
Aviation experts say that even if Snowden accepts the tentative offers of Venezuela, Nicaragua or Bolivia to give him shelter, it's virtually impossible to chart a flight plan to those nations that doesn't include traveling over or refueling in a U.S
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News Link • Israel
NSA spying never catches Israelis - Why not?
07-12-2013
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Jim Dean, Press TV
How many Israeli Intel networks have the Western countries broken up since 911? The answer is zero. The Zionists have compromised these Western nations in a variety of ways, with the primary tool being political espionage as that is the pathway you u
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News Link • Syria
New front opens in Syria as rebels say al Qaeda attack means war
07-12-2013
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Reuters
The assassination of a top Free Syrian Army commander by militants linked to al Qaeda is tantamount to a declaration of war, FSA rebels on Friday, opening a new front between Western-backed forces and Islamists in Syria's civil war.
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News Link • Surveillance
Spread of DNA databases sparks ethical concerns
07-12-2013
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AP
You can ditch your computer and leave your cellphone at home, but you can't escape your DNA.
It belongs uniquely to you - and, increasingly, to the authorities.
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News Link • Police State
Eyeball-Scanning Is Now a Reality, Coming to a Middle School Near You
07-12-2013
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Like something straight out of Gattaca, scientists have developed iris-scanning technology to be deployed at schools, airports and banks, CNN.com reports.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Man Refuses To Comply With Internal Checkpoint; Border Patrol Smashes Their Way Into Vehicle
07-11-2013
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InfoWars
A man who recently refused to comply with an internal checkpoint in Pine Valley, Calif. filmed border patrol officers smashing their way into his vehicle while he was inside. He was detained for over 9 hours before being released without charge.
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
Chase Made Errors in Nine Percent of Credit-Card Collection Lawsuits, Internal Survey Finds
By Ma
07-11-2013
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblo
A piece in the Wall Street Journal dug up yet another damning fact about Jamie Dimon's J.P. Morgan Chase. This time, reporters got hold of an internal bank survey of its credit-card collections suits. It turns out that Chase's own survey found that
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News Link • Police State
Georgia Deputies Arrest Man for Video Recording, then Harass him for Speaking to Media
07-11-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Georgia deputies not only unlawfully arrested a man who was video recording from a public sidewalk, they blatantly harassed him as he was being interviewed by a local television crew about the initial incident.
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News Link • Obama Administration
US diplomats cry foul as Obama donors take over top embassy jobs
07-11-2013
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The Guardian
Former ambassador likens practice to 'selling of public office' as figures show average amount of cash raised is $1.8m per post.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Obama signs executive order to allow shut down of all US communications
07-11-2013
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Washington Examiner
The items of shut down include: wireline, wireless, satellite, cable, broadcasting, internet, and other information systems. Never has a president given himself the authority to shut down the entire nation and immobilize the citizenry.
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News Link • Government
Bug in Post Office computer system sends postmasters to prison
07-11-2013
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BBC News
The Post Office has admitted that software defects have occurred with a computer system at the center of a bitter dispute with some of its postmasters. More than 100 were wrongly prosecuted, lost their homes and a few went to prison.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
07-11-2013
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The Guardian
• Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism
• Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch
• Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls
• Company says it is legally compelled to comply
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