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Date Sent: 2013-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, December 17, 2013
 
Judge: NSA’s collecting of phone records is likely unconstitutional

The 240th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party -- When Guns In Police Hands Spontaneously Fire Themselves -- Meet Christopher Onesti: Former Cop, Impenitent Welfare Parasite -- Zagmuk Conquers All! - by L.Neil Smith -- Jeh Johnson Confirmed By Senate As Secretary Of Homeland Security -- Last light: Final phaseout of incandescent bulbs coming Jan. 1 -- Iceland: Example for a new American Revolution -- We Can't Arrest Our Way to Safer Schools -- Swiss Propose Treating Bitcoin Like Any Other Foreign Currency -- Which Ammo to Stockpile? -- An Act of War: CIA Leak Gives “Incontrovertible Evidence” That 9/11... -- SpaceX to Lease Historic NASA Launch Pad -- Happy 100th Birthday To The Fed - Live Feed -- Victory for Self Defense as Judge Rules Students Can Keep Guns on College... -- Ben Swann Debates Gun Control On RT America... -- Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Laws on Gun Control -- 500 Innocent Americans Killed by Cops Each Year -- NSA officials consider Edward Snowden amnesty in return for documents -- Global warming? Satellite data shows Arctic sea ice coverage up 50 percent! -- Watch China’s Moon Lander Touch Down -- Boston Bomber Believed He Was a Victim of Mind Control -- Are too many kids taking antipsychotic drugs? -- California gun owners warily eye rifle, shotgun database requirement -- Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality -- Washington Drives the World Toward War -- Yemen Parliament Bans Drone Strikes -- Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds -- Kidney grown from stem cells by Australian scientists

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Judge: NSA’s collecting of phone records is likely unconstitutional News Link  •  Surveillance
Judge: NSA’s collecting of phone records is likely unconstitutional
12-16-2013  •  Ann E. Marimow & Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post 
A federal judge in Washington said Monday that the government’s widespread collection of telephone records of millions of Americans is likely unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon granted activist Larry Klayman's request for a prel  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins
The 240th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party News Link  •  History
The 240th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
12-16-2013  •  Lew Rockwell blog 
Today is the 240th anniversary of the act of civil disobedience against taxation, corporatism, and colonialism known as the Boston Tea Party. The economics of the situation that precipitated the event were quite complex, however, and about more than  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Breaking the silence News Link  •  Military
Breaking the silence
12-16-2013  • 
The Sun spoke with 7 former service members who say they were sexually assaulted while in uniform. Those attacks date from the 1970s to as recently as 2009. All described long-lasting impacts, including depression, anxiety, flashbacks,  Read Full Story
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When Guns In Police Hands Spontaneously Fire Themselves News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
When Guns In Police Hands Spontaneously Fire Themselves
12-16-2013  •  by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog) 
Krystal Barrows, a 35-year-old mother of three, was resting on the couch in her living room in Chillicothe, Ohio when her life was needlessly brought to a violent end by a police officer during a narcotics raid. Barrows was not a suspect.   Read Full Story
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Meet Christopher Onesti: Former Cop, Impenitent Welfare Parasite News Link  •  Crony Capitalism
Meet Christopher Onesti: Former Cop, Impenitent Welfare Parasite
12-16-2013  •  by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog) 
Somewhere, there is probably a “Wounded Heroes in Blue” roster that pays tribute to former New Jersey police officer Christopher Onesti, who retired on disability in 2006 following an on-duty incident in which he injured the ring finger of his left h  Read Full Story
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Zagmuk Conquers All! News Link  •  Religion: Believers
Zagmuk Conquers All!
12-16-2013  •  by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise) 
For the past few years, I have written several essays in response to various conservatives' false claim that America is a "Christian country". Rather than reiterate what I said, I would ask the curious reader to consult with Thomas Paine or Haym S  Read Full Story
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Jeh Johnson Confirmed By Senate As Secretary Of Homeland Security News Link  •  Homeland Security
Jeh Johnson Confirmed By Senate As Secretary Of Homeland Security
12-16-2013  •  The Huffington Post 
“Jeh has a deep understanding of the threats and challenges facing the United States,” Obama said. “As the Pentagon’s top lawyer, he helped design and implement many of the policies that have kept our country safe, including our success in  Read Full Story
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Last light: Final phaseout of incandescent bulbs coming Jan. 1 News Link  •  Government
Last light: Final phaseout of incandescent bulbs coming Jan. 1
12-16-2013  •  FOX News 
It’s lights out for the light bulb. On Jan. 1 it will become illegal to manufacture or import traditional 60-watt and 40-watt incandescent bulbs, thanks to a 2007 bill that set strict minimum efficiency standards " and effectively outlawed the ord  Read Full Story
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Iceland - Example for a new American Revolution News Link  •  Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Iceland - Example for a new American Revolution
12-16-2013  • 
Their message is that only turmoil and tribulation result from removing the heavy hand of oppression; that either anarchy or another even worse tyrant will result. But let’s “imagine,” for a moment, a peaceful revolution that worked.  Read Full Story
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We Can't Arrest Our Way to Safer Schools News Link  •  Education: Government Schools
We Can't Arrest Our Way to Safer Schools
12-16-2013  •  US News 
Hard cases make bad laws. Policymakers' overly punitive and police-centric response to high profile school shootings demonstrate this fact. But if you have doubts, ask the six-year-old child who was handcuffed to a chair as punishment after he  Read Full Story
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Ford, Nissan & Google Race to Build Self-Driving Cars News Link  •  Techno Gadgets
Ford, Nissan & Google Race to Build Self-Driving Cars
12-16-2013  •  http://chrisinmaryville.net/ 
Ford Corporation has released a new Fusion Hybrid that is more autonomously automatized out of visualizations for a future of driverless cars. Under the Blueprint for Mobility (BFM), by 2050 “75 percent of the world’s population is expected to liv  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chris Menke
Swiss Propose Treating Bitcoin Like Any Other Foreign Currency News Link  •  Bitcoin
Swiss Propose Treating Bitcoin Like Any Other Foreign Currency
12-16-2013  •  http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden 
While the ECB (and the Fed) continues to warn (danger of theft), threaten (asset-ize and tax it!), or de-bunk the idea of virtual currencies (despite two of the world's largest banks apparently seeing value in the idea), the Swiss Parliament is propo  Read Full Story
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Letter Re: Which Ammo to Stockpile? News Link  •  Prepping
Letter Re: Which Ammo to Stockpile?
12-16-2013  •  http://www.survivalblog.com,  
When stockpiling ammo, should one focus on FMJ and soft nose/hollow points or FMJ only? FMJ is a better value per bullet, plus it's supposed to be a lot more accurate and reliable than SP/HP, but of course, it sometimes comes at the cost of stoppi  Read Full Story
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An Act of War: CIA Leak Gives “Incontrovertible Evidence” That 9/11... News Link  •  911 / World Trade Center
An Act of War: CIA Leak Gives “Incontrovertible Evidence” That 9/11...
12-16-2013  •  http://www.shtfplan.com,  
An Act of War: CIA Leak Gives “Incontrovertible Evidence” That 9/11 Was State Sponsored  Read Full Story
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SpaceX to Lease Historic NASA Launch Pad News Link  •  Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX to Lease Historic NASA Launch Pad
12-16-2013  •  http://www.space.com, by Robert Z. Pearlman 
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, to lease a historic launch pad for the company's commercial rockets.   Read Full Story
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NASA testing lighter space suits for asteroid work News Link  •  Space Travel and Exploration
NASA testing lighter space suits for asteroid work
12-16-2013  •  http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy 
Sometimes you have to take a step back to take a step forward. NASA is carrying out initial tests on a new, lighter spacesuit for use by the crew of the Orion spacecraft that is currently under development.   Read Full Story
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Big Dog, Wild Cat And Cheetah: Meet Google's Brand New Robotic Zoo News Link  •  Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Big Dog, Wild Cat And Cheetah: Meet Google's Brand New Robotic Zoo
12-16-2013  •  http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden 
Big Dog, Wild Cat, Cheetah... all names one wouldn't associate with Google (if anything perhaps feline-named Apple operating systems).  Read Full Story
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Silver & Gold Surge On POMO; DeMark Tells Santelli News Link  •  Gold and Silver
Silver & Gold Surge On POMO; DeMark Tells Santelli "Big Move Coming"
12-16-2013  •  http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden 
Despite numerous "13s", infamous technical analyst Tom DeMark tells Rick Santelli, the Fed's liquidity pump has negated every one of these 'potential sell' signals and stocks have "unusually" kept going.   Read Full Story
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Happy 100th Birthday To The Fed - Live Feed
News Link  •  Federal Reserve
Happy 100th Birthday To The Fed - Live Feed
12-16-2013  •  http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden 
The Federal Reserve System was created on December 23, 1913, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law.   Read Full Story
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Precious Metals -- 2013 Year in Review News Link  •  Precious Metals
Precious Metals -- 2013 Year in Review
12-16-2013  •  http://www.survivalblog.com, by Steven Cochran  
This year saw a battle for the direction of precious metals waged between speculators and short-term “paper gold” traders in the West, against record-breaking physical demand in the East. That physical demand from Asia reached new highs in   Read Full Story
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Victory for Self Defense as Judge Rules Students Can Keep Guns on College... News Link  •  Justice and Judges
Victory for Self Defense as Judge Rules Students Can Keep Guns on College...
12-16-2013  •  http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo 
Victory for Self Defense as Judge Rules Students Can Keep Guns on College Campuses  Read Full Story
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Ben Swann Debates Gun Control On RT America... News Link  •  Gun Rights
Ben Swann Debates Gun Control On RT America...
12-16-2013  •  http://www.dailypaul.com, by chris cudnoski 
Ben Swann Debates Gun Control On RT America with Jill Stein and Richard Feldman. Abby Martin Moderates  Read Full Story
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Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Laws on Gun Control News Link  •  Gun Rights
Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Laws on Gun Control
12-16-2013  •  http://www.nytimes.com, By ERICA GOODE 
When Sheriff John Cooke of Weld County explains in speeches why he is not enforcing the state’s new gun laws, he holds up two 30-round magazines.  Read Full Story
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North America to Drown in Oil as Mexico Ends Monopoly News Link  •  Mexico
North America to Drown in Oil as Mexico Ends Monopoly
12-16-2013  •  bloomberg.com, Joe Carroll and Bradley Olson 
The flood of North American crude oil is set to become a deluge as Mexico dismantles a 75-year-old barrier to foreign investment in its oil fields.   Read Full Story
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500 Innocent Americans Killed by Cops Each Year News Link  •  Police Accountability Report
500 Innocent Americans Killed by Cops Each Year
12-16-2013  •  http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Lily Dane 
“Knock and announce” police raids are on the rise. They are estimated to occur as many as 40 " 50,000 per year. Back in the 1970s, military-style police raids used to be a rare event, occurring only a few hundred times per year.   Read Full Story
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NSA officials consider Edward Snowden amnesty in return for documents News Link  •  Government
NSA officials consider Edward Snowden amnesty in return for documents
12-16-2013  •  http://www.theguardian.com, Spencer Ackerman 
Key official tells CBS 'it's worth having a conversation' State Department and other key figures oppose deal  Read Full Story
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Global warming? Satellite data shows Arctic sea ice coverage up 50 percent! News Link  •  Climate Change
Global warming? Satellite data shows Arctic sea ice coverage up 50 percent!
12-16-2013  •  http://dailycaller.com, Michael Bastasch 
It was only five years ago in December that Al Gore claimed that the polar ice caps would be completely melted by now.   Read Full Story
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Watch China’s Moon Lander Touch Down News Link  •  China
Watch China’s Moon Lander Touch Down
12-16-2013  •  http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep 
A lander's eye view  Read Full Story
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4-year-old genius has same IQ as Einstein  News Link  •  Kids
4-year-old genius has same IQ as Einstein
12-16-2013  •  nydailynews.com, By Amanda Stringfellow  
Sherwyn Sarabi scored an IQ of 160, just like Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking. The British boy is already studying at the level of a 9-year-old and has read over 190 books.   Read Full Story
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Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots News Link  •  Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
12-16-2013  •  http://www.nytimes.com, By JOHN MARKOFF 
BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie.   Read Full Story
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Boston Bomber Believed He Was a Victim of Mind Control News Link  •  Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston Bomber Believed He Was a Victim of Mind Control
12-16-2013  •  http://www.infowars.com, Paul Joseph Watson 
Tamerlan Tsarnaev feared he had been brainwashed to act on trigger phrase  Read Full Story
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Wheat Belly News Link  •  Food
Wheat Belly
12-16-2013  •  http://www.lewrockwell.com 
A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 372 with William Davis, M.D.  Read Full Story
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Are too many kids taking antipsychotic drugs? News Link  •  Drugs and Medications
Are too many kids taking antipsychotic drugs?
12-16-2013  •  http://www.consumerreports.org,  
Use is climbing despite questions about how safe the drugs are and how well they work  Read Full Story
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California gun owners warily eye rifle, shotgun database requirement News Link  •  Gun Rights
California gun owners warily eye rifle, shotgun database requirement
12-16-2013  •  http://www.sacbee.com, By Jeremy B. White 
Neither Matt Dittmer nor the people he shoots with are happy about a new law that will preserve information about their gun purchases in a California state database. But he is resigned to it.  Read Full Story
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Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality News Link  •  Inventions
Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality
12-16-2013  •  http://www.wired.com, By Peter Rubin 
In May 2012, a programmer named John Carmack"who, as a cofounder of id Software and the man behind games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, is widely seen as the father of 3D gaming"tweeted a picture of what looked like steampunk bifocals made out of a bl  Read Full Story
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Washington Drives the World Toward War News Link  •  WAR: About that War
Washington Drives the World Toward War
12-16-2013  •  http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts 
Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings. These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and   Read Full Story
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Mandela News Link  •  History
Mandela " Terrorist or ‘Black Jesus?’
12-16-2013  •  http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric Margolis 
The “Black Jesus.” That’s what the late Nelson Mandela was called by many South Africans, who greeted his death last week with intense national mourning.   Read Full Story
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The Pope's Economics News Link  •  General Opinion
The Pope's Economics
12-16-2013  •  http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Thomas E. Woods Jr. 
I agree that it is preposterous to call the Pope a Marxist.   Read Full Story
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The Water ‘Shortage’ News Link  •  History
The Water ‘Shortage’
12-16-2013  •  http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Murray N. Rothbard 
This first appeared in The Libertarian Forum, Volume X, NO.6, June, 1977  Read Full Story
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A Koi-Fueled Nursery in New Orleans Yields Tasty Profits News Link  •  Aquaponics
A Koi-Fueled Nursery in New Orleans Yields Tasty Profits
12-16-2013  •  http://www.wired.com, By Cory Perkins 
In New Orleans east, a collective of Vietnamese fishermen left jobless after the BP oil spill has found a new enterprise: growing upmarket produce in water laced with fish crud.   Read Full Story
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Water May Be Flowing On Mars Right Now News Link  •  Space Travel and Exploration
Water May Be Flowing On Mars Right Now
12-16-2013  •  http://www.popsci.com, By Collin Lecher 
Curiosity has uncovered ancient, once-wet lakebeds, but there might be some active streams, too.  Read Full Story
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Out in the Open: Cyberpunk Builds Bitcoin Wallet That Even Apple Can’t Ban News Link  •  Bitcoin
Out in the Open: Cyberpunk Builds Bitcoin Wallet That Even Apple Can’t Ban
12-16-2013  •  http://www.wired.com,By Klint Finley 
Kyle Drake calls himself a professional cyberpunk. He spends his days on the net, writing computer code and trying to stick it to the man. His latest target: the global banking industry.   Read Full Story
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Why neocons can’t cut News Link  •  Government Debt & Financing
Why neocons can’t cut
12-16-2013  •  http://dailycaller.com, Jack Hunter 
“We are not going to gut our military.” " Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, October 20, 2012  Read Full Story
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Journalist Among 37 Killed in Iraq, 62 More Wounded News Link  •  Iraq
Journalist Among 37 Killed in Iraq, 62 More Wounded
12-16-2013  •  http://original.antiwar.com, by Margaret Griffis 
In Baghdad, a sticky bomb killed two people and wounded seven more on a bus in the Waziriya neighborhood.   Read Full Story
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32 million YR and 100 guns are given as compensation to victims’ families of the drone in Qaifah News Link  •  World News
32 million YR and 100 guns are given as compensation to victims’ families of the drone in Qaifah
12-16-2013  •  http://nationalyemen.com, National Yemen Team 
Yemeni authorities offered 32 million YR and 100 guns as compensation to victims’ families as a result of Air raid that took place in Qaifah in the al-Baida governorate, leaving 25 killed and wounded last Thursday.   Read Full Story
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Yemen Parliament Bans Drone Strikes News Link  •  World News
Yemen Parliament Bans Drone Strikes
12-16-2013  •  http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz 
The Yemeni parliament has passed a resolution today banning all strikes by unmanned aerial drones.  Read Full Story
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Iran FM: Talks Will Continue Despite US Sanctions News Link  •  Iran
Iran FM: Talks Will Continue Despite US Sanctions
12-16-2013  •  http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz 
Process 'Derailed But Not Dead'  Read Full Story
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Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds News Link  •  Employee and Employer Relations
Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds
12-16-2013  •  investigations.nbcnews.com,By Michael Isikoff 
The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change deserves to go to prison for at least 30 months for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job, say federal prosecuto  Read Full Story
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Teen pot use could hurt brain and memory, new research suggests News Link  •  Drugs and Medications
Teen pot use could hurt brain and memory, new research suggests
12-16-2013  •  http://www.nbcnews.com, Brian Alexander 
Teenage pot smokers could be damaging brain structures critical to memory and reasoning, according to new research that found changes in the brains of heavy users.  Read Full Story
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Kidney grown from stem cells by Australian scientists News Link  •  Science, Medicine and Technology
Kidney grown from stem cells by Australian scientists
12-16-2013  •  http://www.telegraph.co.uk, Jonathan Pearlman 
Australian scientists grow world's first kidney from stem cells in a breakthrough that could alleviate the demand for organ transplants   Read Full Story
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US Supported Death Squads Massacre Syrian Civilians Opinion  •  Syria
US Supported Death Squads Massacre Syrian Civilians
December 17, 2013
Stephen Lendman
   Syria
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4409 -- ANOTHER handcuffed teen murdered in back of squad car Feature Article  •  Videos by 4409
4409 -- ANOTHER handcuffed teen murdered in back of squad car
Forty Four O Nine
   ( VIDEO ) DURHAM, N.C. " Officials in North Carolina are investigating how a teen allegedly shot himself in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser, reports CBS affiliate WNCT.
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Federal Court Strikes Down Criminalization of Polygamy In Utah News Link  •  Marriage
Federal Court Strikes Down Criminalization of Polygamy In Utah
12-13-2013  •  Jonathan Turley 
It is with a great pleasure this evening to announce that decision of United States District Court judge Clarke Waddoups striking down key portions of the Utah polygamy law as unconstitutional. The Brown family and counsel have spent years  Read Full Story
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Georgia Cops Body Slam 70-year-old Woman While Intimidating Man From Recording News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Georgia Cops Body Slam 70-year-old Woman While Intimidating Man From Recording
12-13-2013  •  Photography Is Not a Crime 
In the moments after Georgia cops body slammed a 70-year-old woman to the pavement, leaving her with a bloodied face, another cop stood in front of a man with a camera, telling him he was somehow invading the woman’s privacy by recording.  Read Full Story
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Student opens fire at Colorado high school, wounds two classmates, kills self News Link  •  Gun Rights
Student opens fire at Colorado high school, wounds two classmates, kills self
12-13-2013  •  Reuters 
A student armed with a shotgun and seeking to confront a teacher opened fire at a Colorado high school on Friday, wounding at least two classmates before apparently taking his own life, law enforcement officials said.  Read Full Story
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U.S. Navy official to plead guilty in contracting scandal News Link  •  Corruption
U.S. Navy official to plead guilty in contracting scandal
12-13-2013  •  Reuters 
A US Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent accused of leaking confidential information to a Singapore-based company at the heart of a Navy contracting scandal is scheduled to plead guilty in federal court next week, California media reported.  Read Full Story
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By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private conversations News Link  •  Surveillance
By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private conversations
12-13-2013  •  Washington Post 
The cellphone encryption technology used most widely across the world can be easily defeated by the National Security Agency giving the agency the means to decode most of the billions of calls and texts that travel over public airwaves every day.  Read Full Story
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White House to preserve controversial policy on NSA, Cyber Command leadership News Link  •  Police State
White House to preserve controversial policy on NSA, Cyber Command leadership
12-13-2013  •  Washington Post 
The Obama administration has decided to preserve a controversial arrangement under which a single military official is permitted to direct both the National Security Agency and the military’s cyberwarfare command despite an external review panel’s re  Read Full Story
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SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, December 15, 2013 Edition Opinion  •  Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, December 15, 2013 Edition
12-13-2013
John Semmens
   Secretary Says Insurers Should Waive Premiums While the Government continues to struggle with what seem to be insurmountable problems with the Affordable Care Act's implementation, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urged insure
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Chinese Naval Vessel Tries to Force U.S. Warship to Stop in International Waters News Link  •  China
Chinese Naval Vessel Tries to Force U.S. Warship to Stop in International Waters
12-13-2013  •  Washington Free Beacon 
A Chinese naval vessel tried to force a U.S. guided missile warship to stop in international waters recently, causing a tense military standoff in the latest case of Chinese maritime harassment, according to defense officials.  Read Full Story
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Feds set up another dimwit to suicide bomb Wichita airport News Link  •  TERRORISM
Feds set up another dimwit to suicide bomb Wichita airport
12-13-2013  •  NBC News 
Feds say they've arrested a man who wanted to set off a suicide bomb at the Wichita airport. FBI had the suspect under constant surveillance and that undercover operatives, posing as like-minded individuals, had met with the suspect frequently.  Read Full Story
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Iran quits talks protesting US blacklist move News Link  •  Iran
Iran quits talks protesting US blacklist move
12-13-2013  •  AFP 
Iran has quit nuclear talks with the major powers, accusing Washington on Friday of going against the spirit of a landmark agreement reached last month by expanding its sanctions blacklist.  Read Full Story
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Government Forcing Private Email Services To Shut Down Because They Can't Read Them News Link  •  Surveillance
Government Forcing Private Email Services To Shut Down Because They Can't Read Them
12-13-2013  •  Infowars 
GCHQ, the British counterpart and facilitator to the NSA, has forced a privacy focused email service to shut down because it could not effectively spy on the encrypted emails people were sending. Web security firm CertiVox was shut down  Read Full Story
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