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Date Sent: 2013-10-07
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, October 7, 2013 |
A Suddenly Nervous China Tells The US To "Earnestly Take Steps" To Avoid A Default
Medical Tourism Could Be The Overseas Alternative To Obamacare -- How Shabab Repelled A Navy SEAL Assault -- New Smart Phone App Offers Stateless Solution to Peacekeeping and Emergency Response -- Crazy Horse To Celebrate Native American Day -- Epic fail: 99% of
Obamacare applications can’t be processed, ‘nightmare scenario’ coming
in January -- Feds close pull-offs to bar views of Mount Rushmore -- Russia planning 'near-total surveillance' of visitors, athletes at Sochi Winter Olympics -- As socialist dream crumbles, Venezuelans find Nicolas Maduro 'a bad
copy' of Chavez -- Black Market Friday -- ‘Sugar Daddy’ Dating Sites Say
Government Shutdown A Huge Boost To Sign-Ups -- Back in the USSR: The
Sovietization of American Life -- Bank Failures are “Inconceivable” under the Latest Neoclassical Fantasy - by William K. Black -- Empire Under Obama, Part 1: Political Language and the ‘Mafia Principles’ of International Relations -- Bill Black on Andrew Ross Sorkin and the Failure to Prosecute Big Bank Executives -- How A Florida Man is Using the Bush Doctrine to Acquit Himself of Murder Charges -- How the Pentagon Is Using Your Tax Dollars to Turn Italy into a Launching Pad -- Minnesota Bans Carcinogenic Formaldehyde in Children’s Products –
Except in Vaccines -- Could Prepping Become Illegal Here Too? Venezuelan Govt to
Detain “Hoarders” -- Bring It On: I Will Not Comply with Obamacare
-- Government Shutdown? 36 Facts Which Prove That Almost
Everything Is Still Running -- How close could we get to the
Sun in a spacecraft? -- Scientist wants to transplant a human head
-- Columbia, Tennessee votes to Remove Fluoride from Water Supply --
California Legalizes Industrial Hemp Use -- Just who Has Been
Killing Iran's Nuclear Scientists? -- 9% Have Considered Quitting
Their U.S. Citizenship -- Naked Juice Class Action Settlement Offers
Up to $75 Per Consumer -- Amnesty S744 bill: 2 million legal immigrants to be
imported annually -- Banana Republicans -- Capitol Punishment --
Power Really DOES Go to the Head -- About the Death of Miriam Carey
at the Hands of Washington D.C. and Capitol Police -- Jesse Ventura Calls For “American
Revolution” Against The “Corrupt System” -- Government Shutdown
Forces Private Property Owners From Homes -- America's Laziest Postman, Or What "Essential" Government Money Is
Spent On -- Now Mastercard Wants Your Fingerprints -- 4 US soldiers killed by Afghanistan bomb -- ATF tries to block whistleblowing agent’s ‘Fast and Furious’ book -- Wall Street Bosses Run America - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
A Suddenly Nervous China Tells The US To "Earnestly Take Steps" To Avoid A Default
10-07-2013
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zerohedge.com
While the world's largest hedge fund, the Fed, may not care about the performance of its "bad bank" assets, and thus is largely ambivalent if the US Treasury defaults on the $2 trillion in US paper held by Ben Bernanke, others don't have the luxury o
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Medical Tourism Could Be The Overseas Alternative To Obamacare
10-07-2013
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Business Insider
Open enrollment for federal health insurance exchanges for the Affordable Care Act is now in effect, and has already seen enough web traffic from Americans trying to compare plans that servers have experienced glitches in areas like Pennsylvania and
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Feature Article • Activism
Black Market Friday November 27th, 2015
Ernest Hancock
Next holiday season, let's show everyone the power of alternatives...November 27th, 2015We will be taking this next year to populate the Freedom's Phoenix Marketplace with many agorist, free-market, liberty loving businesses
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Lured By Heavy Web Traffic, Mainstream Brands Are Running Ads On Adult Sites
10-07-2013
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Business Insider
Last month, we told you how the food delivery service Eat24 used porn sites to advertise its offerings to the stay-at-home crowd without paying the higher advertising fees demanded by other publishers.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Peyton Manning Didn't Tell His Teammates What He Was Doing On The Touchdown ....
10-07-2013
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Business Insider
Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning scored his first rushing touchdown in five years in yesterday's 51-48 win over the Dallas Cowboys.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
How Shabab Repelled A Navy SEAL Assault
10-07-2013
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Business Insider
In the pre-dawn witching hours of Saturday morning, a team of Navy SEALs swam ashore at Barawe, a seaside town 110 miles south of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
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News Link • Technology: Software
New Smart Phone App Offers Stateless Solution to Peacekeeping and Emergency Response
10-07-2013
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thelibertybeat.com
A new stateless method of emergency protection is currently being developed by Peacekeeper fonder Cody Drummond.
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News Link • Native American
Crazy Horse To Celebrate Native American Day
10-07-2013
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keloland.com
The Crazy Horse Memorial plans to observe Native American Day on Oct. 14 with a weather-permitting mountain blast, a buffalo stew lunch and the season's final lighting of a special effects laser-and-light show on the mountain carving.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Epic fail: 99% of Obamacare applications can’t be processed, ‘nightmare scenario’ coming in January
10-07-2013
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Prison Planet
Obamacare is going to crash and burn from technical issues more than political concerns, it seems. You’ve probably already heard that virtually no one can sign up using the online Obamacare exchanges. The web forms are broken. The code is buggy. The
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News Link • Surveillance
Russia planning 'near-total surveillance' of visitors, athletes at Sochi Winter Olympics
10-07-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
Security measures at the Sochi winter Olympics will include such extensive electronic eavesdropping and surveillance that the US State Department has advised Americans headed to Russia to leave smart phones and laptops at home, an investigation has r
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
As socialist dream crumbles, Venezuelans find Nicolas Maduro 'a bad copy' of Chavez
10-07-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
Amid food shortages, rampant inflation and widespread electricity blackouts, many Venezuelans are wondering if Chavez chose the right heir to his revolution
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News Link • Seriously?
‘Sugar Daddy’ Dating Sites Say Government Shutdown A Huge Boost To Sign-Ups
10-07-2013
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washington.cbslocal.com
An online dating website which bills itself as “The World’s Largest Sugar Daddy Dating Website” says it has recorded a 50 percent jump in average daily sign-ups since the start of the government shutdown.
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News Link • Police State
Back in the USSR: The Sovietization of American Life
10-07-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Ilija Trojanov was at the airport in Brazil’s Salvador da Bahia, on September 30, checking in for his flight to the United States, when the person behind the American Airlines counter told him that the computer had issued a “Border Security Crossing”
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Bank Failures are “Inconceivable” under the Latest Neoclassical Fantasy - by William K. Black
10-7-2013
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http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/10/bank-fa
Contingent Capital: and The Princess Bride
A speaker whose talk I attended stated as a fact that it would be “inconceivable” for any bank to fail if banks adopted “contingent capital.” Under “contingent capital” the bank would sell debt instrument
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Empire Under Obama, Part 1: Political Language and the ‘Mafia Principles’ of International Relations
10-7-2013
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http://andrewgavinmarshall.com/2013/10/07/empire-u
In the first part of this essay series on ‘Empire Under Obama,’ I will aim to establish some fundamental premises of modern imperialism, or what is often referred to as ‘international relations,’ ‘geopolitics’, or ‘foreign policy.’ Specifically, I wi
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Bill Black on Andrew Ross Sorkin and the Failure to Prosecute Big Bank Executives
10-7-2013
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http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/bil
“Sorkin is wrong about incentives and quite wonderfully wrong,” Black told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview last week. “The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission emphasizes that the belief in self correcting markets was prevalent throughout the
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News Link • Justice and Judges
How A Florida Man is Using the Bush Doctrine to Acquit Himself of Murder Charges
10/7/2013
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Stateless Statements
A Florida man has attempted a rather unusual stance in court that should definitely be raising some eyebrows about the United States government's "legal" system and its standards of "justice." After allegedly sneaking up on three of his neighbo
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News Link • Police State
Alleged Silk Road Mastermind Appears in Court
10-07-2013
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www.wired.com
“Dread Pirate Roberts”, clean-cut Ross William Ulbricht wore jail-issued red shirt and pants and ankle restraints before a U.S. magistrate judge. He conferred with his court-appointed attorney, then scanned the packed courtroom gallery before facing
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Renewable Plastics
10-07-2013
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arclein
The sophisticated structures of natural materials could bring improvements in the properties of new polymers. Using the natural chemistry of renewable resources more cleverly has to be a future goal, for example with built-in degradation, improved ba
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Carl Higdon's Alien Encounbter
10-07-2013
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arclein
At about 4 p.m. Higdon was hunting south of Rawlins when his "experience" began to unfold. "I walked over this hill and saw 5 elk," Higdon said. "I raised my rifle and fired, but the bullet only went about 50 feet and dropped." He went over, go
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News Link • Government
Government Shutdown? 36 Facts Which Prove That Almost Everything Is Still Running
10-07-2013
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By Michael Snyder
All of this whining and crying about a "government shutdown" is a total joke.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Silk Road Died, Bitcoin Crashed. So why am I so happy?
10-07-2013
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theburningplatform.com
You may have heard that Silk Road " the truly free online market " was taken down today, by the FBI. In response, the price of Bitcoin crashed 24%.
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News Link • General Opinion
Jesse Ventura Calls For “American Revolution” Against The “Corrupt System”
10-07-2013
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Prison Planet
The irony of Jesse Ventura calling for a new “American Revolution” in a conversation with Brit Piers Morgan is not lost on us but the former Governor of Minnesota asks some awkwardly open questions in this ‘colorful’ interview.
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News Link • Police State
About the Death of Miriam Carey at the Hands of Washington D.C. and Capitol Police
10-07-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
I am one who firmly believes that the difference between a genius and a totally crazed nutjob can sometimes be difficult to determine.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Government Shutdown Forces Private Property Owners From Homes
10-07-2013
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newsmax.com
Private-property owners on Nevada's Lake Mead have been kicked out of their homes by National Parks Service officials as part of the federal government shutdown, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Saturday.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Pope Francis From the Heart
10-07-2013
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arclein
"It is not a problem of Italy and Europe ... It is the consequence of a world choice, of an economic system that brings about this tragedy, an economic system that has at its centre an idol which is called money."
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX Now Has “All the Pieces” For Truly Reusable Rockets
10-07-2013
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arclein
Ground controllers at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., restarted the engines on both rocket stages after dropping off the satellites. The second stage booster failed to ignite as planned, but three of the nine engines on the first st
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
America's Laziest Postman, Or What "Essential" Government Money Is Spent On
10-07-2013
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zerohedge.com
After seeing this, it may be no wonder the rest of the non-mail-providing-public in the US goes "postal."...
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Life in the Year 2020: America With 20/20 Hindsight
10-07-2013
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Survivalblog.com
By the year 2020 we may be in the midst of (or in the early stages of recovery from) a major depression or perhaps even a full-blown socioeconomic collapse.
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News Link • Emmigration
9% Have Considered Quitting Their U.S. Citizenship
10-07-2013
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http://www.rasmussenreports.com,
Few Americans have ever thought about giving up their U.S. citizenship, but nearly half think U.S. citizens should be able to be citizens of more than one country.
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
Columbia, Tennessee votes to Remove Fluoride from Water Supply
10-07-2013
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http://thelibertybeat.com, By: Derrick Broze
The Power and Water Systems Board of Public Utilities in Columbia, Tennessee voted three to five to discontinue fluoridating the city’s water.
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News Link • Agriculture
California Legalizes Industrial Hemp Use
10-07-2013
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http://thelibertybeat.com, By: Derrick Broze
On Wednesday California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law that will allow farmers in the state to begin growing industrial hemp.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
How close could we get to the Sun in a spacecraft?
10-07-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Rebecca Boyle
Icarus (this guy) had nothing on Solar Probe Plus (SPP). The new solar spacecraft, planned for a 2018 launch, will fly closer to the Sun than any human-built object before it, sipping the Sun's corona. SPP won’t carry humans (or any other life forms)
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Feature Article • Adam vs The Man
Adam Kokesh: modern day Jesus Christ
Thomas Costanzo
2013-10-3 2:01:56 am Atomic time too. Been listening to Fall Out Boy Sugar We’re Going Down, several times and writing an important email to my mentor Cronus, contemplating exactly how I was going to write this and motivate as many people as possible
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
How the Pentagon Is Using Your Tax Dollars to Turn Italy into a Launching Pad...
10-07-2013
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com
How the Pentagon Is Using Your Tax Dollars to Turn Italy into a Launching Pad for the Wars of Today and Tomorrow
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News Link • Vin Suprynowicz's Columns Archive
Unintended Consequences
10-07-2013
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
In the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty’s father fails to follow the common-sense course " sending soldiers to arrest the evil fairy, warning her that if any harm comes to his daughter through that malevolent curse concerning sewing needles, said fairy wo
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Minnesota Bans Carcinogenic Formaldehyde in Children’s Products " Except in Vaccines
10-07-2013
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http://naturalsociety.com, by Christina Sarich
You know that the big pharmaceutical companies are to no good when a known chemical toxin is banned from children’s products, but is allowed in vaccines.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Raw Milk Power: Girl Uses Raw Milk to Reverse Own Lyme Disease
10-07-2013
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http://naturalsociety.com, by Paul Fassa
Most Lyme disease think they need to rely on antibiotics forever, but a few have jumped out of the Medical Mafia matrix and reversed the long term horrors of Lyme disease with various alternative choices without any pharmaceutical antibiotics, albeit
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News Link • Food
5 Tips on How to Avoid GMO Foods in the Grocery Store
10-07-2013
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http://naturalsociety.com, by Elizabeth Renter
But if you are in the United States, those labels won’t tell you if there are genetically modified ingredients inside.
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News Link • Prepping
Could Prepping Become Illegal Here Too? Venezuelan Govt to Detain “Hoarders”
10-07-2013
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http://www.theorganicprepper.ca, by: Daisy Luther
As people who spend a lot of time focusing on preparedness, we can learn a lot about our future by watching as the economies and civilizations of other Western countries crumble.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Naked Juice Class Action Settlement Offers Up to $75 Per Consumer
10-07-2013
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abcnews.go.com
Naked Juice fans who bought bottles of the beverage in the last six years could get up to $75 in payments from a $9 million class action settlement fund after plaintiffs questioned the company’s claims of “100 percent juice,” “all natural” .....
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News Link • Political Parties
Banana Republicans
10-07-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
“Banana Republicans,” sneered the Democrat’s leader, Senator Harry Reid. It’s not certain if Reid was comparing his conservative Republican opponents to monkeys or citizens of a Central American banana republic.
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News Link • Government
Power Really DOES Go to the Head
10-07-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Expert says that egos of Thatcher and Blair were reflected in their self-obsessed language
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
MP3 Player Lives In Your Ear, Controlled With Your Teeth
10-07-2013
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popsci.com
It stores up to 24 songs with four hours of battery life for completely hands-free jamming.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Letter Re: Living Off The Land: Delusions and Misconceptions About Hunting and Gathering
10-07-2013
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Survivalblog.com
Jim,
This letter is in response to your link to a post by Ross Gilmore: Living Off The Land: Delusions and Misconceptions About Hunting and Gathering. It's a well-written article and I'd like to expand upon it.
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News Link • Surveillance
Now Mastercard Wants Your Fingerprints
10-07-2013
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zerohedge.com
Earlier this week, USA Today reported that massive payment processor MasterCard had joined the FIDO alliance. FIDO is an acronym for Fast IDentity Online, and the group describes itself as:
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News Link • Humor
Miley Cyrus And 'SNL's' Take On The Government Shutdown Is Disturbing And NSFW
10-07-2013
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Business Insider
Female pop music star Miley Cyrus hosted this season's second episode of "Saturday Night Live."
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News Link • Conspiracies
GLPVC's TheRawFeedLive Team - Roundtable Discussion 10-7-2013 11pm edt
10/07/2013
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http://therawfeedlive.com
"roundtable discussion of hot conspiratorial news""
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News Link • Afghanistan
4 US soldiers killed by Afghanistan bomb
10-07-2013
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AP
A bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, American and Afghan officials said. They were the latest casualties in a 12-year conflict that shows no signs of slowing down despite a drawdown in foreign forces.
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News Link • Gun Rights
ATF tries to block whistleblowing agent’s ‘Fast and Furious’ book
10-07-2013
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Washington Times
The BATF is blocking the main whistleblower in the Fast and Furious case from publishing a book for pay, claiming his retelling of the Mexico “gun-walking” scandal will hurt morale inside the embattled law enforcement agency,
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