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Date Sent: 2013-12-22
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, December 22, 2013 |
Iran Sanctions Bill to Skip Committee; Hawks Promise Veto-Proof Majority
The Geopolitics of Geoengineering -- DoorBot Lets You Answer The Door
When You're Not Home -- How Jury Nullification Accelerates the Drug
War’s Demise -- Rubber Band Machine Gun || KickStarter. -- Jon Stewart:
‘Duck Dynasty’ turns Fox News into raving ‘free speech absolutists’ --
Reviewed: DJI Phantom 2 Vision Personal Drone -- ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Leak
Investigators Under Investigation for Leaks -- ‘Duck Dynasty’ creator
Scott Gurney starred in indie ‘gay porn’ film -- CIA’s ‘Colossal Flop’
-- Canada’s Supreme Court strikes down laws banning prostitution --
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a free man -- New Iran Sanctions Bill -- Making War, Not Peace, in Syria -- Political freedom doesn’t exist apart from spiritual
truth; The Murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko -- Lew Rockwell: The Truth
Shall Make Us Free
NV: Passport to Freedom - Las Vegas, NV - January
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News Link • Iran
Iran Sanctions Bill to Skip Committee; Hawks Promise Veto-Proof Majority
12-22-2013
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antiwar.com
Reid Allows Bill to Bypass Committees, Vote Likely in January
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
DoorBot Lets You Answer The Door When You're Not Home
12-22-2013
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http://www.fastcompany.com, Kenrya Rankin Naasel
The doorbell is getting made over as a digital doorman and surveillance camera.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
How Jury Nullification Accelerates the Drug War’s Demise
12-22-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
I recently had the privilege of joining three jury nullification heavyweights on a panel hosted by the International Drug Policy Reform Conference. The discussion focused on how strategic jury nullification can be used to dismantle the War on Drugs.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Inventions
Rubber Band Machine Gun || KickStarter.
12-22-2013
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youtube
Rubber Band Machine Gun with unique Fast Charger
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
Jon Stewart: ‘Duck Dynasty’ turns Fox News into raving ‘free speech absolutists’
12-22-2013
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Arturo Garcia
Even if he’s not a Duck Dynasty viewer, Jon Stewart said on The Daily Show on Thursday, he still empathized with the “free speech absolutists” over at Fox News in supporting suspended star Phil Robertson.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Reviewed: DJI Phantom 2 Vision Personal Drone
12-22-2013
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popsci.com
DJI's quadrotor flyer gets an onboard camera and smartphone integration.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Leak Investigators Under Investigation for Leaks
12-22-2013
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antiwar.com
Pentagon Moves Against Whistleblowing Unit
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
‘Duck Dynasty’ creator Scott Gurney starred in indie ‘gay porn’ film
12-22-2013
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http://www.rawstory.com, David Ferguson
The producer and creator of the A&E show “Duck Dynasty” once starred in a dark, homoerotic indie film about the gay porn industry called “The Fluffer.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Canada’s Supreme Court strikes down laws banning prostitution
12-22-2013
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http://www.rawstory.com, Agence France-Presse
Canada’s Supreme Court on Friday struck down key portions of a law that effectively criminalized prostitution by banning brothels and soliciting on the streets, declaring this disproportionate.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a free man
12-22-2013
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http://www.globalpost.com, Dan Peleschuk
Russia's outspoken billionaire arrived in Germany, hours after he was released from prison in a shock presidential pardon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
8 Facts About Food That Will Totally Creep You Out
12-22-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, BuzzFeedVideo
Don't eat a hot dog while you watch this.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Dieudonné hacker: 'Jews need to stop turning the other cheek'
12-21-2013
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i24 News
In an exclusive interview, man who hacked controversial French comedian's website explains motives
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Heroes
Political freedom doesn’t exist apart from spiritual truth; The Murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko
12-21-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
There is no such thing as political freedom unless there is the basis of spiritual truth or principle among persons.
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News Link • Geology
Volcanic lightning captured in a bottle
12-21-2013
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newscientist.com
It's a "build your own volcano" kit like no other. A team of geologists in Germany has built a model volcano that crackles with lightning as it erupts
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Religion: Believers
A Pope's Pointed Message
12-21-2013
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arclein
The full implementation of Obamacare matters. Raising the minimum wage matters. Reforming a financial system "which rules rather than serves," Francis noted, matters. Hearing the anguished voices of those left hopeless by poverty matters; answering
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Gypsies Pilgrimage and the Atlantean Tradition
12-21-2013
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arclein
If the name "Gitan" is given in France to all of the populations of gypsy origin, it legitimately only belongs to one sole group, by far the most numerous and the most established in Saintes Maries de la Mer. Spain had been for a long time their fa
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robert klein
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Doomsday Meme
12-21-2013
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arclein
We have very imaginative and creative minds, we humans. Driving a great deal of our imagination is the desire to pick up on what’s coming, especially with regard to the biggie: survival. We believe that if we know, we can fall in line with the right
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
New Pyramid Data
12-21-2013
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arclein
He began to question how they were really built up to 4,000 years ago. He says the traditional view, that hundreds of workers manoeuvred two million stone blocks, laying one every three minutes, is impossible.
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robert klein
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The future of whistleblowers is grim
12-19-2013
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www.tomdispatch.com
Leaked revelations will be as pointless as dusty old books in some attic if no one knows about them. What's the point if no one will be able to read it?
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Books
It's a Jetsons World Public Miracles and Private Crimes
12-19-2013
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library.mises.org
Yes, there is a revolution afoot, one that is happening much more
quickly than the industrial revolution.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Her Imagines a World Where We Love Our Computers " Literally
12-19-2013
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Wired.com
About an hour into watching Spike Jonze’s latest film Her, I began thinking about another movie: Ted Demme’s Beautiful Girls.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
How Bitcoin Became the Honey Badger of Money
12-19-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
If you’ve driven on Santa Clara’s Lawrence Expressway sometime in the past six months, you may have seen the Bitcoin honey badger.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
NSA's goal is elimination of individual privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU
12-19-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The NSA’s ultimate goal is to destroy individual privacy worldwide, working with its UK sidekick GCHQ, journalist Glenn Greenwald warned an EU inquiry, adding that they were far ahead of their rivals in their “ability to destroy privacy.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Target Admits Massive Credit Card Breach; 40 Million Affected
12-19-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
Shoppers weren’t the only ones rooting through Target stores the week of Thanksgiving.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Of Poker and Plunder: Commissarina Olson Strikes Again
12-19-2013
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freedominourtime.blogspot.com
In spite of the fact that he has not committed a criminal act, Boise resident Skinner Anderson faces three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
Image of the Day: Fallen Astronaut
12-19-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Evan Ackerman
There is not a lot of art on the Moon. Astronauts have left behind flags and photographs, but almost nothing with the specific intention of placing an artistic object on the lunar surface. The one exception was this 3.5 inch tall aluminum statue of a
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The Legend of the Phoenix
12-19-2013
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http://www.unz.com, By Todd E. Pierce
It would seem the CIA has gone back into their archives, blown the dust off the Phoenix Program, and put it into play again as the “Drone War.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Record High in U.S. Say Big Government Greatest Threat
12-19-2013
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http://www.gallup.com, by Jeffrey M. Jones
Now 72% say it is greater threat than big business or big labor
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Science moving closer to creating power through nuclear fusion
12-19-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFadden
Nuclear fusion is pretty much the holy grail of power sources. In development for over 60 years already, the creation of electricity through nuclear fusion has been the goal of generations of scientists.
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News Link • American History
Lincoln and His Legacy
12-19-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
At this point it is probably futile to try to reverse the deification of Abraham Lincoln.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biofuel
Geek Oil: Scientists Manufacture Biofuel from Algae in Minutes
12-19-2013
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by Warner Todd Huston
A new scientific discovery that takes algae and turns it into crude oil in minutes rather than millions of years could be the end of constant worries over "peak oil."
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News Link • Government
A Lot of Hope is Dangerous
12-19-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
President Snow: Seneca… why do you think we have a winner?
Seneca Crane: [frowns] What do you mean?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Government Using NSA to Change Amount in Bank Accounts, Warns Panel
12-19-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Americans at risk of enforced Cyprus-style bail-in
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin plummets as China's largest exchange blocks new deposits
12-19-2013
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http://www.theguardian.com, Alex Hern
Digital cryptocurrency has lost almost 50% of its value overnight after BTC China said it could no longer accept deposits in the Chinese currency
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Italy's President Warns of "Widespread Social Tension and Unrest" but Offers No Soluti
12-19-2013
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Italy's President Warns of "Widespread Social Tension and Unrest" but Offers No Solutions; "Pitchfork Protest" Comments From Italy
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News Link • Science
How the Brain Creates Personality: A New Theory
12-19-2013
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arclein
People vary in the degree that they tend to rely on the top and bottom brain systems. This leads to four basic cognitive modes that underlie how a person approaches the world and interacts with other people.
To explain the Theory of Cognitive Mode
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News Link • Science
Researchers Solve Longtime Mystery Of How Marijuana Causes Memory Loss
12-19-2013
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arclein
But in a study of mice, researchers were surprised to find that THC increased the levels of an enzyme called cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in the hippocampus.
The COX-2 increase in the brain cells seems to turn down memory-making abilities by decreasi
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Gundersen: All of Japan IS Contaminated, Gov’t Covering Up
12-19-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, goldenequity
In this, the third installment in our short film series, Fairewinds Energy Education's Arnie Gundersen discusses sources of radiation the Japanese government is not taking into consideration when assessing the risk to it's people and the rest of the
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge: In Texas, Search Warrants Can Now Be Based on a "Prediction of a Future Crime"
12-19-2013
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http://blogs.dallasobserver.com, By Eric Nicholson
Police in Parker County had been watching Michael Fred Wehrenberg's home for a month when, late in the summer of 2010, they received a tip from a confidential informant that Wehrenberg and several others were "fixing to" cook meth.
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Feature Article • How to Help
CATO Hiring
Donna Hancock
The Cato Institute is seeking to hire a scholar to study and critique federal spending policies. The expert would examine particular spending programs and overall spending levels through studies, op-eds, blogs, media appearances, and contributions to
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News Link • Climate Change
Reddit bans comments from global warming skeptics
12-19-2013
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http://dailycaller.com, Giuseppe Macri
A content editor on Reddit’s science forum wrote Monday that the site has banned climate-change skeptics, and asks why more news outlets haven’t done the same.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China Confirms Near-Collision Of US, Chinese Warships, Accuses US Of "Deliberate Provocation'
12-19-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Last Friday we reported of a freak near-incident in the South China Sea, when a US warship nearly collided with a Chinese navy vessel, operating in close proximity to China's only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, although details were scarce.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists studying process for growing steel-strength veggies
12-19-2013
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dvice.com
A team of researchers working at Purdue University have just discovered what could be called the next big super-material. It could also be called a carrot.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Chinese Moon Display Contains Image of Europe Being Nuked
12-19-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Startling detail a sign of Beijing’s plan to militarize space?
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