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Date Sent: 2013-12-29
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, December 29, 2013 |
Brave North Carolinian gets arrested as act of defiance to end cannabis prohibition
NYPD's prototype cruiser is the smartest cop car on the road -- The New New
Great Game: Geography, Energy, The Dollar And Gold -- Overstock CEO On
Bitcoins, Gold, Austrian Economics, And... Zombies -- Tracking IMF Money
Manipulation to Pakistan and Beyond -- Manipulations Rule the Markets -- Amid Detroit’s Bankruptcy, A
New Vibrancy Emerges -- No
Austerity for Military Budget in 2014 -- Kerry Offered Pollard Release
to Israel -- Debating Syria -- SEMI-NEWS: A
Satire of Recent News, Best of 2013 -- COMEX on verge of default -- Recently Early-Released Terrorist Samer al-Issawi Calls to Kidnap
IDF Soldiers -- GOP Civil War Rages in Iowa as Ron / Rand Paul
Supporter AJ Spiker Fights Establishment -- Ron Paul: The
Failure Of Government Is All Around Us (Video) -- Connecticut
media pushes propaganda as citizens ignore unconstitutional gun
registration law -- Super-yacht not big enough? 'Seasteads'
offer libertarians the vision of floating cities ... -- Obamacare
and Crony Capitalism: Is Washington Engineering an Insurance
Industry Bailout? -- Mediate: Greenwald Snarks at MSNBC -- Drone-spotting:
Survival Guide Informs on New Breed of Aerial Predators --
Peter Schiff: Interest Rates Headed Higher and the Economy is Too
Broke to Afford It! -- C-span Question: Is The U.S. A Police
State? Really! (Video) -- ObamaCare Summed Up In One Sentence
-- The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazytown Territory
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, Dave Hodges speaking, next Sat. Jan.
4, 2014
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan. 23-25, 2014
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News Link • Activism
Brave North Carolinian gets arrested as act of defiance to end cannabis prohibition
12-28-2013
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naturalnews.com
As the war on cannabis continues in most U.S. states, one brave North Carolinian who openly grows his own medical cannabis plants --
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News Link • Gold and Silver
COMEX on verge of default
12-28-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
Something dramatic MUST happen over the next 30 days. Either metal arrives into inventory or it doesn't. Either metal shows up or the COMEX will default. This is a pretty simple observation.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
NYPD's prototype cruiser is the smartest cop car on the road
12-29-2013
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dvice.com
The NYPD doesn't exactly have the easiest job in the world. In fact, successfully policing a city of over eight million people can seem practically impossible, and frequently is.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Overstock CEO On Bitcoins, Gold, Austrian Economics, And... Zombies
12-29-2013
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zerohedge.com
Patrick Byrne, the embattled CEO of Overstock.com, had plenty to say in a recent Fortune interview.
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News Link • Corruption
Tracking IMF Money Manipulation to Pakistan and Beyond
12-29-2013
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thedailybell.com
The Nation magazine recently posted a small articled entitled, "Pakistan gets second tranche of $553.5m from IMF."
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Manipulations Rule the Markets
12-29-2013
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thedailybell.com
The Federal Reserve's announcement on December 18 that beginning in January its monthly purchases of mortgage-backed financial instruments and US Treasury bonds would each be cut by $5 billion is puzzling, as is the financial press's account of the m
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News Link • Future Predictions
Top Ten Trends 2014: A Year of Extremes
12-29-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Gerald Celente
In 33 years of forecasting trends, the Trends Research Institute has never seen a new year that will witness severe economic hardship and social unrest on one hand, and deep philosophic enlightenment and personal enrichment on the other.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Spike S-512 could be the world's first supersonic business jet
12-29-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren Quick
With the Cessna Citation X set to receive FAA certification in early 2014 and knock the Gulfstream G650 off it's world's fastest civilian aircraft perch thanks to its maximum operating speed of Mach 0.935, Boston-based Spike Aerospace is looking to l
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Amid Detroit’s Bankruptcy, A New Vibrancy Emerges
12-29-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
For years the news media have revealed Detroit as nothing more than a dumping ground of endless ruin and “war-torn” neighborhoods abandoned by both businesses and residents.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Top 10 firms, firearms and technologies of 2013
12-29-2013
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guns.com
This year was rough. Really, for everyone it was just rough. Sometimes it feels like most of this 2013 was spent “debating” gun rights and gun control and the rest of the year just trying to find ammo.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
World's first cycle to the South Pole achieved
12-29-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
Shortly before Christmas, we heard about 35 year-old British adventurer Maria Leijerstam's planned attempt to ride to the South Pole on a recumbent fat-tired tricycle.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
No Austerity for Military Budget in 2014
12-29-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org
NDAA offers limited reforms to Guantánamo and military sexual assault policy, yet keeps 'war economy' dollars flowing
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Ovision takes the iPhone on a voyage to the bottom of the sea
12-29-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
If you want to snap some pics with your iPhone while snorkeling or scuba diving, there are already a number of polycarbonate underwater housings that will let you take your phone to a depth of 30 meters (100 ft) or so.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Report: Kerry Offered Pollard Release to Israel
12-29-2013
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antiwar.com
Officials: Obama Hadn't Approved of Idea
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Incredible Technology: How to Mine Water on Mars
12-29-2013
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http://www.space.com, by Tanya Lewis
The bone-dry desert of present-day Mars may seem like the last place you would look for water, but the Red Planet actually contains a wealth of water locked up in ice.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, Best of 2013
12-28-2013
John Semmens
President Says “Right of Conscience” Not Valid for Military Personnel
“I am the Commander-in-Chief,” Obama explained. “It is every soldier's duty to carry out my orders without hesitation or mental reservation. No religious dogma can be permitted
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff: Interest Rates Headed Higher and the Economy is Too Broke to Afford It!
12-28-2013
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Daily Paul.com
“This bubble is too big to pop and the Fed knows it, so they’re going to keep supplying air.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
C-span Question: Is The U.S. A Police State? Really! (Video)
12-28-2013
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Daily Paul.com
"It is surprising that C-Span would ponder such a question."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Connecticut media pushes propaganda as citizens ignore unconstitutional gun registration law
12-28-2013
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bearingarms.com
Gun registration laws exist for one reason: to identify all gun owners and firearms for future confiscation efforts.
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News Link • Architecture
Super-yacht not big enough? 'Seasteads' offer libertarians the vision of floating cities ...
12-28-2013
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independent.co.uk
For (very) wealthy libertarians, seasteads " floating cities " might be the way forward, with their ambition of 'guaranteeing political freedom and enabling experimentation with alternative social systems'
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obamacare and Crony Capitalism: Is Washington Engineering an Insurance Industry Bailout?
12-28-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, ProudAmericanFirst
"The insurance and healthcare industries know how to play the game. In fact, the healthcare industry spent $243 million in 2013 to lobby for Obamacare"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Is the NSA's Spying Constitutional? It Depends On Which Judge You Ask
12-27-2013
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Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic
Two recent rulings draw diametrically opposed conclusions about the same set of facts.
This is why we have a justice system in which lower-court conflicts rise up for resolution by a single, supreme court. This is why the law can seem, at times, to
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Incoming Utah Attorney General Announces That He Will Appeal Sister Wives Ruling
12-27-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Incoming Utah Attorney General Reyes announced his office intends to appeal the ruling striking down the criminalization of cohabitation in the Sister Wives case. The decision will ultimately send the case to the US Court of Appeals.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Another twenty-six terrorists to walk free in "Goodwill Gesture" (Phase 3)
12-29-2013
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Shalom Bear for The Jewish Press
On December 30th, due to American governmental pressure, Israel is set to release a THIRD batch of terrorists and mass murderers to the 'Palestinian Authority'.
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • TERRORISM
Recently Early-Released Terrorist Samer al-Issawi Calls to Kidnap IDF Soldiers
12-27-2013
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The Algemeiner
Al-Issawi was sentenced to 26 years in prison in 2002 for his involvement in a series of shooting attacks targeting Israeli police cars and students at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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News Link • Science
Scientists Discover second DNA code
12-28-2013
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arclein
"Many DNA changes that appear to alter protein sequences may actually cause disease by disrupting gene control programs or even both mechanisms simultaneously."
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News Link • Energy
Scientists Discover Viable Alternative Fuel
12-28-2013
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arclein
The BGU team believe that the most logical approach would be to implement the changeover in stages, and they suggest “beginning with carbon dioxide, water and natural gas, biomass or bio-gas as the starting products and ultimately evolving into a tec
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News Link • Science
Coldest Place on Earth
12-28-2013
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arclein
Firstly, this temperature is so cold that it goes far beyond any discussions of extreme cold you'll likely find. Environment Canada's guide on this kind of weather stops at "-55 and below" with warnings like "Extremely High risk: exposed skin ca
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News Link • Obama Administration
Snowden Stole Everything
12-28-2013
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arclein
Another official from the NSA task force commissioned to assess the data stolen and leaked by Snowden said on television recently that granting Snowden amnesty is “worth having a conversation about” in order to secure any potential stolen data.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Civil War Rages in Iowa as Ron / Rand Paul Supporter AJ Spiker Fights Establishment
12-28-2013
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Daily Paul.com
The same rift between insurgent Republicans and old-line party establishment figures that is rattling Washington is also playing out in states such as Iowa, where open warfare has broken out between veteran ....
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News Link • Humor
Russell Brand Is Hot For Jennifer Lawrence - CONAN on TBS
12-28-2013
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youtube
From Jennifer Lawrence to Teresa Palmer, the "Brand X" host is spellbound by the beauty of Hollywood's ladies.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Mediate: Greenwald Snarks at MSNBC
12-28-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Journalist Glenn Greenwald appeared on MSNBC Thursday, one day after Edward Snowden delivered a Christmas address to television viewers in the UK and around the world from Russia.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Drone-spotting: Survival Guide Informs on New Breed of Aerial Predators
12-28-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Russia Today
A Drone Survival Guide with hints and tips on how to thwart the “robotic birds” has been published on the internet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Democrat Judge Protects Obama & NSA & Trashes Constitution, Charges Larry Klayman Of Freedom Watch
12-27-2013
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Sacramento Bee
Today, ruling in ACLU v. Clapper, (13-cv-3994) federal Judge Pauley of the District of New York found that the NSA's program that spies on over 300 million Americans " the entire populous " is consistent with the U.S. Constitution and that "[t]his bl
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazytown Territory
12-28-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
It is time to crank up the Looney Tunes theme song because Wall Street has officially entered crazytown territory. Stocks just keep going higher and higher, and at this point what is happening in the stock market does not bear any resemblance to wha
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Dogs recognize pictures of their owners
12-28-2013
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naturalnews.com
A young girl whose family had one dog and two cats asked her mother, a college graduate and wife of a college professor, "Mommie, do animals have feelings?" Mommie answered, "I don't know dear.
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Families to be investigated by the government before 'allowed' to homeschool their children
12-28-2013
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naturalnews.com
On December 3, 2013, Ohio state senator Capri Cafaro (D) introduced a bill that would require Ohio parents to be investigated by social services before being allowed to homeschool their children. It was called "Teddy's Law" ...
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Yet another vaccine researcher caught faking research;...
12-28-2013
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naturalnews.com
Yet another vaccine researcher has been caught faking research on a bogus AIDS vaccine, adding to the pattern of scientific fraud and criminality that characterizes the modern-day vaccine industry.
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Feature Article • Conferences
Passport to Freedom 2014
Donna Hancock
Join Ernest Hancock and learn how to protect your liberties and assets " before it’s too late…Ernest will be one of the featured speakers at the Passport to Freedom Event in Las Vegas, NV January 23-25th, 2014
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Reference Link • Prepping
Save Yourself While You Still Can
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Many websites focus on saving the ignorant sheep. It is time to focus on those who can be helped. But most of all, it is time to focus on saving yourself first and foremost while you are still able.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Indian Police Gang Rape Schoolgirl Almost 3 Months But Only One Faces Prosecution
12-25-2013
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Jonathan Turley
We have another outrage out of India in the rape of young girl . . . by police. Four officers of Chandigarh police were arrested but only one booked last week for raping, molesting and threatening a minor schoolgirl for two-and-a-half months.
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News Link • Surveillance
Public Education Works After All: A Nation of Double-Thinking Sheep
12-25-2013
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Strike The Root
So finally, even the White House admits that the NSA’s wide-ranging program of pervy-voyeurism and spying and prying and snooping and sniffing has had no significant impact on the so-called War on the World, otherwise known as the War on Terror.
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News Link • Drug War
North Carolina Appeals Court Allows HOAs To Arrest For DUI
12-25-2013
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The Newspaper
Rental cops hired by homeowners associations (HOA) can conduct traffic stops that would be unconstitutional if performed by an actual police officer, according to a ruling handed down last week by the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
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News Link • Internet
Feds indict three alleged Silk Road forum moderators and administrators
12-25-2013
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ars technica
Specifically, Jones and Davis were employed as site administrators, which entailed "monitoring user activity on Silk Road for problems, responding to customer service inquiries, and resolving disputes between buyers and vendors,”
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News Link • Surveillance
Four-star general screams at reporter working on Snowden documents
12-25-2013
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TechDirt
A four-star military officer known for his even keel seethed through one meeting alongside a reporter he knew to be in contact with Snowden. Before walking away, he turned and pointed a finger. “We didn’t have another 9/11,” he said angrily,
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News Link • Activism
Freed Pussy Riot punks reunite in Siberia, urging Sochi Olympics boycott
12-25-2013
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Rawstory
Tolokonnikova on her release showed she had no fear about wading into the most politicised of issues, calling on countries to boycott the Winter Olympic Games Russia is hosting in Sochi. “I appeal for a boycott, I appeal for honesty,” she said.
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