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Date Sent: 2013-10-11
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, October 11, 2013 |
IRS Watchdog: $67 Million Missing from Obamacare Slush Fund
Chelsea Manning statement: 'I don't consider myself anti-war or a
conscientious objector' -- Avegant's Virtual
Retinal Display projects 3D onto your eyeballs -- Power Mad
Obama Offers Two Choices: Unconditional Surrender Or Default -- Extreme
Hypocrisy! Obama Orders Federal Workers To “Make Life As Difficult
For People As We Can” -- Health Care vs. Death Care: 20 Ways
to Stay Well (for Less Money than Obamacare) -- Winner! World Food
Prize Awarded For Breakthroughs In Mass Population Poisoning --
WATCH: Ron Paul Smacked the Crap Out of Tres. Sec. Jack
Lew's Testimony on CNBC! Epic! -- The Downside of America's New
Wave of Civil Disobedience -- Map of Europe from 1000 AD to
present with timeline -- How To Get A Job In The Booming Legal
Marijuana Business -- Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Presents His
10 Favorite Strips -- Amazon Wins Court Battle With IBM To Build
A $600 Million Game-Changing Cloud For The CIA --
Christian-Owned Forever 21 Is Selling An Ayn Rand Shirt -- The
immorality of ‘humanitarian’ warfare -- Here's A Smart
Explanation Of Why That Car Fire Is Not A Big Problem For Tesla -- China's Latest Move To Unwind A $2 Trillion Investment Product Is
Bad News For Chinese Banks -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Veterans
Arrested at Vietnam Memorial -- Attorney For Freedom Show -
Radley Balko
AZ: Grand Canyon Clean Up October Sundays 13th
& 20th -- Freedom Under the Stars! Jordan Page playing in
Tempe, AZ - Oct 18th, 2013; FREEDOM SUMMIT 2014
REGISTRATION Announcement
Upcoming March Against Monsanto to take place October 12
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS Watchdog: $67 Million Missing from Obamacare Slush Fund
10-10-2013
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prisonplanet.com, Americans For Tax Reform
The IRS is unable to account for $67 million spent from a slush fund established for Obamacare implementation, according to a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report released today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Chelsea Manning statement: 'I don't consider myself anti-war or a conscientious objector'
10-10-2013
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theguardian.com
US soldier convicted over WikiLeaks disclosures says she did not leak the documents because she was explicitly motivated by pacifism
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Sound waves create touch feedback without actual touch
10-10-2013
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dvice.com
In the realm of Tony Stark, computer displays appear spontaneously in mid-air on command, without any physical display device being required.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
U.S. military commissions real-life liquid armor Iron Man suit
10-10-2013
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dvice.com
Tony Stark, be jealous: the U.S. Army has just commissioned an Iron Man-like suit, called the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) that will be strong enough to withstand a barrage of bullets.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Self-healing metal discovered by MIT
10-10-2013
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dvice.com
MIT has played home to a number of off-the-wall discoveries, so it takes something truly unexpected to throw the researchers there for a loop.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Avegant's Virtual Retinal Display projects 3D onto your eyeballs
10-10-2013
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dvice.com
It might look like two circuit boards trapped inside some glasses, but Avegant's prototype Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) is not your run-of-the mill head-mounted display (HMD).
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What if you could feel what you see on touchscreens?
10-10-2013
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dvice.com
In life, there are a few rules we see as constants. Coke is better than Pepsi. Led Zepplin was the greatest band of all time.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Power Mad Obama Offers Two Choices: Unconditional Surrender Or Default
10-10-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Barack Obama is warning that if he does not get everything that he wants that he will force the U.S. government into a devastating debt default which will cripple the entire global economy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Extreme Hypocrisy! Obama Orders Federal Workers To “Make Life As Difficult For People As We Can”
10-10-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Why would the president of the United States try to purposely hurt the American people?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Health Care vs. Death Care: 20 Ways to Stay Well (for Less Money than Obamacare)
10-10-2013
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theorganicprepper
How about instead of paying for Obamacare, we just spend that extra money on living well and healthfully?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Winner! World Food Prize Awarded For Breakthroughs In Mass Population Poisoning
10-10-2013
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theorganicprepper
Monsanto and Sygenta have won the prestigious World Food Prize.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
WATCH: Ron Paul Smacked the Crap Out of Tres. Sec. Jack Lew's Testimony on CNBC! Epic!
10-10-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Ron Paul just totally de-bunked Jack Lew's scare tactics in House testimony.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Geography
Map of Europe from 1000 AD to present with timeline
10-10-2013
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Daily Paul.com
abkebab's Map of Europe 1000 AD to present with timeline
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
How To Get A Job In The Booming Legal Marijuana Business
10-10-2013
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Business Insider
Over the past several months, we've written a lot about the Colorado marijuana business.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Cartoons and Web Graphics
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Presents His 10 Favorite Strips
10-10-2013
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Business Insider
Dilbert, the well-known comic strip by cartoonist Scott Adams about the office everyman and his crew of incompetent colleagues, was the first syndicated comic that focused primarily on the workplace when it launched in 1989.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Amazon Wins Court Battle With IBM To Build A $600 Million Game-Changing Cloud For The CIA
10-10-2013
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Business Insider
In the legal fight between IBM and Amazon to build a private cloud for the CIA, Amazon has emerged the winner.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Christian-Owned Forever 21 Is Selling An Ayn Rand Shirt
10-10-2013
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Business Insider
Ayn Rand fans are incredulous about this t-shirt from retailer Forever 21.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The immorality of ‘humanitarian’ warfare
10-10-2013
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http://dailycaller.com, Bruce Fein
Benign motives are suspect. They intellectually disarm, when they should trigger heightened scrutiny.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Here's A Smart Explanation Of Why That Car Fire Is Not A Big Problem For Tesla
10-10-2013
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Business Insider
Since a Tesla Model S caught fire after crashing last week, the big question has been: Is this a major problem for the electric car company?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China's Latest Move To Unwind A $2 Trillion Investment Product Is Bad News For Chinese Banks
10-10-2013
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Business Insider
The Shanghai Composite fell 1% on Thursday, with Chinese brokerages taking the biggest hit.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Veterans Arrested at Vietnam Memorial
10-10-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, wearechange
Veterans Arrested at Vietnam Memorial
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Marc Victor
Attorney For Freedom Show - Radley Balko
10-10-2013
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Attorney For Freedom Show
Today on The Attorney For Freedom Show our guest is Radley Balko. We will be discussing his book, Rise of the Warrior Cop.
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Reported by:
Mike Wasdin
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Reference Link • Activism
Obama Is Trying to Provoke a Revolution
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The Government shutdown has revealed a very ugly side of Obama as he is attacking America's most vulnerable citizens. It is like he is trying to provoke a revolution, so he can assume total control.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Football Player Cleared After Charged With Rape, Scholarship Stripped, Expelled, And Ostracized
10-08-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Praise Martin-Oguike, 20, once had one of the most inspiring stories of a young Nigerian raised by a pastor father and poet mother who went to college in the United States and achieved acclaim on the football field for Temple.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Car in chase from White House was driving backward when officers opened fire
10-08-2013
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Washington Post
The 34-year-old Connecticut woman who led police on a chase last week from the White House to the U.S. Capitol was driving in reverse when officers opened fire on her car, killing her near a guard house, according to a search warrant
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Ireland Votes on Shutting Its Senate
10-08-2013
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New York Times
Ireland’s voters had a chance on Friday to accomplish what some American voters, with their government partly shut down, can only dream of: abolishing one house of the nation’s legislature. And the Irish were expected to vote to do so.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Egypt
U.S. to cut off military aid to Egypt
10-08-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
An unnamed U.S. official claims the United States will cut off military aid to Egypt in response the ousting of former President Mohamed Morsi. However, the White House was quick to deny the initial reports.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
New Corporate Tax Shelter: A Merger Abroad
10-08-2013
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New York Times
From New York to Silicon Valley, more and more large American corporations are reducing their tax bill by buying a foreign company and effectively renouncing their United States citizenship.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Undercover NYPD officer arrested for participating in SUV attack
10-08-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
An undercover police officer was arrested on charges of riot and criminal mischief after allegedly lying to police about his involvement in the Sept. 29 motorcycle mob and subsequent attack of an SUV driver in New York City.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Nicaragua’s Proposed Canal: A Man, A Plan " And Little Else
10-08-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, The Economist
Wang Jing, a Chinese telecommunications billionaire, has the rights to build a canal through Nicaragua.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
How A Lone Terrorist Smoking A Cigarette Foiled The Navy SEAL Raid In Somalia
10-08-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brian Jones
Members of the Navy's SEAL Team 6 usually accomplish their objectives. These are guys who executed the daring raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011.
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News Link • Government
... Creepy Billboards That Say 'Your Data Should Belong To The NSA'
10-08-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Aaron Taube
Here's Who Is Behind Those Creepy Billboards That Say 'Your Data Should Belong To The NSA'
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
New Air Force Planes Are Going Straight To The 'Boneyard'
10-08-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mike Hoffman
The clock has ticked to zero on the C-27J as the first 21 cargo aircraft were set to be retired by Oct. 1.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
I’m sorry (Publisher Recommended)
10-08-2013
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http://www.freemansperspective.com
Dear young people of America,
I’m sorry. You’re entering a world that has condemned you to slavery before you were even born.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
The Dread Pirate's Cash Stash is Still Safe
10-08-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Pater Tenebrarum
As a quick addendum to our recent post on the Silk Road bust and what it means for bitcoin (surprisingly little), here is something that strikes us as truly funny. (Publisher Recommended)
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Government
At Least Now It's Obvious Who's In Charge
10-08-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Simon Black
It’s clear to everyone by now that the government of the largest country in the world is careening towards default in just over 200 hours.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Central Banker is called a criminal and put on the hot seat repeatedly
10-08-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by PeacefulAnarchism
This is a Panel about the Regulation of Bitcoin from the European Bitcoin Convention.
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News Link • History
... New World was discovered by the CHINESE 70 years before Columbus?
10-08-2013
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http://www.dailymail.co, By Michael Zennie
Does this map from 1418 prove historian's controversial claim that the New World was discovered by the CHINESE 70 years before Columbus?
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Transforming America’s Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance
10-08-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
These days, it is far too easy to rattle off the outrageous examples of zero tolerance policy run amok in our nation’s schools.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA GOVERNMENT REFERENCES
Senate Report: Judges, Doctors Run Disability Scam
10-8-2013
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http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/10/senate-r
A group of corrupt judges, doctors and lawyers for years operated a scheme that approved bogus U.S. government disability benefits worth billions of dollars, according to an astonishing new report made public this week by Congress
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Supreme Owner Made a Billionaire Feeding U.S. War Machine
10-08-2013
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bloomberg.com
Chemical warfare and car bombings are just a few of the hazards working in war-torn countries such as Iraq and Syria. For Supreme Group BV, it’s the cost of doing business.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
'Gestapo' tactics meet senior citizens at Yellowstone
10-08-2013
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“We’ve become a country of fear, guns and control,” said Vaillancourt, who grew up in Lawrence. “It was like they brought out the armed forces. Nobody was saying, ‘we’re sorry,’ it was all like " ” as she clenched her fist and banged it against her f
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News Link • Surveillance
CMU Researchers Claim To Have Created Messaging App Even NSA Can’t Crack
10-08-2013
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CBS News
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a smartphone messaging app with security that not even the NSA can break. The app is called SafeSlinger, and is free on the iTunes store, and Google play store for Android phones.
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News Link • Drones
Why America Wants Drones That Can Kill Without Humans
10-08-2013
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Drones may have the technical ability to make lethal decisions autonomously: to respond to a programmed set of inputs, select a target and fire their weapons without a human reviewing or checking the result. Yet the idea is sparking controversy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Remember Obama’s 2006 thoughts on raising the Debt Ceiling?
10-08-2013
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The Blaze
As debates in D.C. continue to rage over the debt ceiling, and the continuing resolution to fund the government…we are reminded of the words of one Democratic Senator when a similar argument was taking place back in 2006.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
US adults are dumber than the average human
10-08-2013
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AP
It’s long been known that America’s school kids haven’t measured well compared with international peers. Now, there’s a new twist: Adults don’t either.
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