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Date Sent: 2014-05-18
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, May 18, 2014 |
Wikileaks: Boko Haram A CIA Covert Operation -- Agriculture Dept. Orders Ballistic Body Armor
Illinois and Virginia CPS' Conspire to Steal and Sex Traffic Children -- Study: Fluoride May Lead to Kidney Stones -- Venus Express prepares for plunge into atmosphere -- Chinese Search Giant Baidu Hires Man Behind the “Google Brain” -- Both Left and Right are Guilty -- Book Review: Ron Paul's End the Fed Condenses a Lifetime of Wisdom and Experience -- British Military Seeks A Hack-Proof, Quantum Physics-Based GPS -- Russia to Ukraine: We’ll Talk Gas Discount If You Pay Off Debt -- Israel Is Serious About Spying -- Transmissions from the Timothy Leary Papers: Ron Paul for President -- These Men Are Training To Put You and Your Family In a FEMA Camp -- The Three-War Doctrine -- U.S. Intervention in Nigeria? -- Militarized Humanitarianism in Africa -- VIDEO: Glenn Greenwald on C-SPAN's Washington Journal -- No Place to Hide: A Conservative Critique of a Radical NSA -- Billions in U.S. aid may not keep lights on in Afghanistan, says government auditor -- Swiss to vote on $25 an hour minimum wage -- "Driver’s license" scheme already beginning in 2 states -- Russian regulator threatens to block Twitter -- Veterans scandal risks engulfing Obama -- Obama’s Internet ID Plot Being Tested in Two States -- Spying Is Meant to Crush Citizens’ Dissent, Not Catch Terrorists -- How the NSA & FBI made Facebook the perfect mass surveillance tool
AZ: [Tempe] March Against Monsanto: GMO Free Tempe Block Party May 24, 9am; Open Carry Picnic, Saturday, noon, May 24, 2014Â Phoenix
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Wikileaks: Boko Haram Is a CIA Covert Operation
05-17-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by concernedcitizen
"We have already been regaled with reports provided by the Wikileaks which identified the US embassy in Nigeria as a forward operating base for wide and far reaching acts of subversion against Nigeria which include but not limited to eavesdropping on
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News Link • Government
Dept. of Agriculture Orders Ballistic Body Armor
05-17-2014
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http://www.breitbart.com, by AWR Hawkins
A May 7th solicitation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeks "the commercial acquisition of ballistic vests, compliant with NIJ 0101.06 for Level IIIA Ballistic Resistance of body armor."
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Study: Fluoride May Lead to Kidney Stones
05-17-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, by Derrick Broze
A new study published in the Journal of Analytical Chemistry indicates that fluoride ions found in fluoridated water and toothpaste may lead to an increase in Urinary Stone Disease (USD).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Elon Musk, Buzz Aldrin Top List for LA Conference on Space Travel's Future
05-17-2014
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http://www.space.com, By Tariq Malik
Spaceflight industry experts and supporters have descended upon the City of Angels to discuss the future of human spaceflight this week during a conference featuring such luminaries as Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin and the billionaire founder of S
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Venus Express prepares for plunge into atmosphere
05-17-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
After eight years of study of the second planet in our Solar System, ESA’s Venus Express orbiter is winding up its science program in anticipation of a plunge into the Venusian atmosphere sometime in the next two months.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Chinese Search Giant Baidu Hires Man Behind the “Google Brain”
05-17-2014
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http://www.technologyreview.com,By Tom Simonite
Leading AI researcher Andrew Ng, previously associated with Google, will lead a new effort by China’s Baidu to create software that understands the world.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Both Left and Right are Guilty
05-17-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Walter E. Block
This is my attempt to help temper the rancor I currently see in the liberty community.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Book Review: Ron Paul's End the Fed Condenses a Lifetime of Wisdom and Experience
05-17-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Nathan Lewis
Ron Paul is now retired from professional politics, leaving a need for at least one Congressperson who you feel isn’t fundamentally BS-ing you.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
A Left-Right Convergence?
05-17-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan
Last summer, in this capital of gridlock, a miracle occurred.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
At Drone Conference, Bots That Bop
05-17-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, Kelsey Atherton
The latest in remotely piloted dance moves from the UAV industry's biggest event.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Russia to Ukraine: We’ll Talk Gas Discount If You Pay Off Debt
05-17-2014
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Energy Minister: Pay Everything Through April 1
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israel Is Serious About Spying
05-17-2014
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http://www.unz.com, By Philip Giraldi
But Not About Peace
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Never Forgetting a Face
05-17-2014
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http://www.nytimes.com, By NATASHA SINGER
Joseph J. Atick cased the floor of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington as if he owned the place.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
These Men Are Training To Put You and Your Family In a FEMA Camp
05-17-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by JO4RP
I have never received more vitriolic email since I ran the John Moore declaration about Russian commandos coming into this country.
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News Link • Propaganda
The Three-War Doctrine
05-17-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by John Feffer
Hyping threats from Russia, China, and the rest of the world, the U.S. War Party is gearing up to reassert American power.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
U.S. Intervention in Nigeria?
05-17-2014
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
The kidnapping of 260 schoolgirls in Nigeria provides another example of why it is in the interests of the American people to dismantle their Cold War national-security state apparatus, including America’s overseas military empire, its gigantic stand
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Militarized Humanitarianism in Africa
05-17-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Joeva Rock
As the world remains transfixed by the kidnapping of almost 300 Nigerian girls, there have been increasing calls for international intervention in the effort to rescue them. But what many people don’t know is that the U.S. military has been active in
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
No Place to Hide: A Conservative Critique of a Radical NSA
05-17-2014
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http://www.theatlantic.com, Conor Friedersdorf
Glenn Greenwald's new book is far more grounded in traditional American norms, laws, and values than the surveillance programs it is critiquing.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Billions in U.S. aid may not keep lights on in Afghanistan, says government auditor
05-17-2014
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http://www.foxnews.com, By Edmund DeMarche
American taxpayers have spent tens of billions of dollars to help build Afghanistan's infrastructure, but when the U.S. pulls out, the embattled nation will be lucky to keep the lights on, said the official in charge of inspecting the financial books
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Swiss to vote on $25 an hour minimum wage
05-17-2014
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http://www.usatoday.com, Helena Bachmann
A vote on Sunday to establish a minimum wage of $25 an hour would make mostly immigrants here in agriculture, housekeeping, and catering among the world's highest paid unskilled workforce.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Inside Medellin: How Pablo Escobar's hometown hopes to become South America's 'Silicon V
05-17-2014
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By Harriet Alexander
Medellin was once the world's most murderous city, famed for cocaine cartels and death squads. But now, writes Harriet Alexander, it is putting its business acumen to good use, and reinventing itself as a thriving tech hub
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
"Driver’s license" scheme already beginning in 2 states
05/17/2014
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http://therawfeedlive.com
A plot by the Obama administration to impose Internet IDs on Americans is now officially being rolled out, with pilot programs for the controversial online “driver’s license” scheme already beginning in both Michigan and Pennsylvania. According to th
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News Link • World News
Russian regulator threatens to block Twitter
05-17-2014
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http://www.ft.com, By Kathrin Hille
Russia’s internet regulator has threatened to block Twitter, in the most detailed warning on the options Moscow is considering in its efforts to tighten restrictions over the internet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Veterans scandal risks engulfing Obama
05-17-2014
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http://www.ft.com, By Geoff Dyer
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Team Phoenicia and RevUp Render Launch the Ultimate Dogecoin Competition...
05-17-2014
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http://www.prweb.com
The Dogecoin community is on its way to making "To the Moon" a reality.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 4409's videos
4409 Arrested... Again (details to follow...)
05-17-2014
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https://www.youtube.com
Published on May 16, 2014 - Get off the kings roads! Arizona un-uniformed police mob harass 4409 for freedom of speech. Www.Copblock.org
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
Why Science Does Not Disprove God
05-17-2014
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arclein
We know so much about how the Universe works, their authors claim, that God is simply unnecessary: we can explain all the workings of the Universe without the need for a “creator.”
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brazil Field Trial for Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
05-17-2014
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arclein
An aedes aegypti mosquito Amid criticism, Brazil this month gave the OK to its first commercial release of genetically modified mosquitoes in an effort to combat dengue fever.
The World Health Organization estimates that dengue, whose main vector
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Eat Right to Help Lower Your High Blood Pressure
05-17-2014
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arclein
Buy More Often...
Chicken and turkey (take off skin)
Fish
Lean cuts of meat
Skim or 1% milk, evaporated skim milk
Cheeses lower in fat and sodium (like low-fat cheddar, part- skim mozzarella)
Low-fat
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News Link • Archaeology
Science Validates Vedic history
05-17-2014
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arclein
The Indus script (which is a hieroglyphic script, like that of Mandarin) has largely been found to be inscribed on small seals that were probably used for trade and, some say, for inspirational quotes as well.
Akbar said, "What we have discovere
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robert klein
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
After 9/11: The Stories We Tell and the Stories We Don't (Publisher Recommended)
05-17-2014
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com
So much for Abramson; what about her successor, the managing editor Dean Baquet? Has Baquet had any relationship to the NSA stories at the New York Times or elsewhere? (YEP!)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s Internet ID Plot Being Tested in Two States
05-17-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by ProudAmericanFirst
A plot by the Obama administration to impose Internet IDs on Americans is now officially being rolled out, with pilot programs for the controversial online “driver’s license” scheme already beginning in both Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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News Link • Police State
Spying Is Meant to Crush Citizens’ Dissent, Not Catch Terrorists
05-16-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The Big Secret Behind the Spying Program
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Who Is Winning the Ukraine Social Media Wars?
05-16-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Monitoring and commenting on an unraveling US policy toward Russia over Ukraine today, I decided to show those interested some compelling news even the US State Department is not aware of.
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News Link • Surveillance
How the NSA & FBI made Facebook the perfect mass surveillance tool
05-16-2014
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venturebeat.com
The National Security Agency and the FBI teamed up in October 2010 to develop techniques for turning Facebook into a surveillance tool.
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News Link • Militia
Ukraine's Richest Man Mobilizes Private 'Army' After Assets Threatened
05-17-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Rinat Akhmetov - Ukraine's richest man with an estimated worth of $11.4 billion - has, as Reuters reports, acquired almost feudal status in the industrial hub of Donetsk in the past 20 years - but the separatist rebellions there have altered the dyna
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News Link • China
Moscow Says Massive "Holy Grail" Gas Deal With China Is 98% Ready
05-17-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
We have previously profiled the "holy grail" gas deal between Russia and China on several occasions...
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Backyard medicine cabinet: The sweet orange tree
05-17-2014
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http://thesurvivalmom.com,
I love my orange tree! (citrus sinensis) The blossoms in the spring are fragrant and inspiring. The fruit brings me joy during the chill of early winter. It is reasonably low maintenance and provides me with a wide variety of uses.
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla Plans to Start Building Its Gigafactory Next Month
05-17-2014
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Kevin Bullis
Elon Musk says he’s increasingly confident that a massive factory will lower battery costs enough for a mass-market electric vehicle.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Japanese beverage company unveils plan to put first ad on the moon
05-17-2014
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http://theweek.com,
A Japanese beverage company has an out-of-this-world advertising idea. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. said it's going to shoot a can filled with its beloved beverage Pocari Sweat and embossed with its logo to the moon.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cue lets users perform medical diagnostics at home
05-17-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Grant Banks
Not so long ago, self health monitoring was largely limited to weighing ourselves to see how a diet was going and sticking a thermometer under our tongue to see if we were getting sick
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News Link • Transportation
Yamaha's first electric bikes set for release "in the near future"
05-17-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Loz Blain
When Yamaha Motor published its annual report for the year 2013 last month, motorcycle blogs the world over picked up on a single line which read: "In sports motorcycles, we are working to create new value with EV sports motorcycles, which we aim to
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News Link • Internet
Australian telco demonstrates world's fastest LTE-A networking speeds...
05-17-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Australian telco demonstrates world's fastest LTE-A networking speeds of 450 Mbps
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 18, 2014 Edition
05-16-2014
John Semmens
Industry Group Warns Prescription Costs Will Rise under Obamacare
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) reports that a study comparing out-of-pocket costs under Affordable Care Act health insurance policies will likely e
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