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Date Sent: 2014-09-01
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Monday, September 1, 2014 |
Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails to US Government
Deputy Suspended for Arresting Woman Recording Political Meeting Open to
Public -- Production Company Takes Swipe at Cop Watchers after Cops
Kill "COPS" Crew Member -- Sixth Circuit Overturns 16 Hate Crime
Convictions In Amish Case -- The Covert Origins of ISIS -- Ron Paul and
Peter Schiff Talk Iraq, Perry, Rand, Fed, IRS -- 25% Drop In
Prescription Drug Fatalities Thanks To Medicinal Marijuana -- Ohio "Open
Carry" Laws Could Spell Murder Charges for Cops who Shot Innocent Man
-- Schools offer $50 to ID students who don't belong in
district -- Cameron faces Ukip by-election bloodbath: Party set to win
first Commons seat after... -- Documents: Tacoma police using
surveillance device to sweep up cellphone data -- 2-part
investigation: Town 'addicted' to tickets -- The NATO expansion blunder?
-- NJ Town Introduces Ordinance to Ban Recording of Public Officials
After Embarrassing Video -- Govt OK's Growing Rice for Public Sale
Within Fukushima Contamination Zone -- The
Time Is Ripe For A False-Flag Attack On American Soil -- A Rare Glimpse
Inside The NY Fed's Favorite 'Quote-Stuffing' Hedge Fund: Citadel --
Corporations Join Droves Renouncing US Citizenship -- NATO planning rapid-deployment force of 10,000 troops
to counter Russia -- Top NSA Whistleblower: We Need a New 9/11
Investigation Into the Destruction of the WTC -- Screen Strain: Why The
TV Your Kids See Does Matter -- Two California Cities Are Giving Up The Mine-Resistant Vehicles Their
Police Departments Acquired -- Full Spectrum Dominance, the European
Press and the Impending Demise of the EU -- Bitcoin Is the Solution to
the Military Industrial Complex -- Fight against Militarized Police Is a Culture War Worth Having -- Where
in Constitution Is CIA Absolved of Its Multitude of Crimes? --
Why Is Kent Hovind in Jail? -- French President Says "There Is
Risk Of War" -- Myth of arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite
images show summer ice cap is thicker -- Mitch McConnell's campaign manager resigns after Iowa
bribery scandal deepens -- Rodney Dangerfield's First
Economics Class -- The Blueprint for World War III -- Judge
Hands Biotechnology Companies a Win by Ruling Against Hawaiian GMO
Regulations -- U.S. Hikes
Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422% -- George Takei Helps Beam
$650K to 'Star Trek' Fan Film -- Russia's Foreign Ministry on
Ukraine -- Collateral damage? U.S. destroys millions of dollars in
U.S.-made arms in Iraq -- Hard Truths on Ukraine MSM Suppress
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News Link • Government
Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails to US Government
08-31-2014
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http://windowsitpro.com, Paul Thurrott
Despite a federal court order directing Microsoft to turn overseas-held email data to federal authorities, the software giant said Friday it will continue to withhold that information as it waits for the case to wind through the appeals process.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Deputy Suspended for Arresting Woman Recording Political Meeting Open to Public
08-31-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The Deputy was wearing his badge, but working off-duty as a private security guard, acting on a request by the owner of the farm to have Tisdale shut her camera off. All because she recorded a GOP candidate make an unfavorable comment
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Production Company Takes Swipe at Cop Watchers after Cops Kill "COPS" Crew Member
08-31-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
In mourning his death, a television production company that specializes in pro-cop reality shows took a bizarre shot at citizens who record cops, accusing them of having "no good motive" and promising to "continue to stand with police officers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Sixth Circuit Overturns 16 Hate Crime Convictions In Amish Case
08-31-2014
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Jonathan Turley
A case of the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit on the limits of hate speech prosecutions. The court overturned the hate-crime convictions of 16 men and women in a bizarre series of attacks where Amish victims had their beards cut off.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
25% Drop In Prescription Drug Fatalities Thanks To Medicinal Marijuana
08-31-2014
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http://rinf.com
A new study reveals that states where medical marijuana is legal experience around one-quarter fewer deaths from prescription drug overdoses, signaling perhaps a small victory for proponents of pot's alleged pain-alleviating powers.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Ohio "Open Carry" Laws Could Spell Murder Charges for Cops who Shot Innocent Man
08-31-2014
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http://theantimedia.org
Beavercreek, Ohio ? The killing of John Crawford III by police inside Wal-Mart differs from other recent police killings in one substantial manner.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Bound Brook schools offer $50 to ID students who don't belong in district
08-31-2014
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The Bound Brook School District is offering a $50 gift card to anyone who helps it identify a student who isn't a legal resident of the borough or attending through an official school choice program
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Cameron faces Ukip by-election bloodbath: Party set to win first Commons seat after...
08-31-2014
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Cameron faces Ukip by-election bloodbath: Party set to win first Commons seat after shock poll reveals Farage's staggering 44-point lead over the Tories.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Documents: Tacoma police using surveillance device to sweep up cellphone data
08-31-2014
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The Tacoma Police Department apparently has bought ? and quietly used for six years ? controversial surveillance equipment that can sweep up records of every cellphone call, text message and data transfer up to a half a mile away.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
2-part investigation: Town 'addicted' to tickets
08-31-2014
A 9Wants to Know investigation reveals a tiny town in the Denver metro area dishes out more "obstructed view" citations than Denver, Aurora and Boulder combined.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
NJ Town Introduces Ordinance to Ban Recording of Public Officials After Embarrassing Video
08-31-2014
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Photography Is Not a Crime
It was an embarrassing moment for the New Jersey borough of Helmetta, a viral video showing one of their cops saying he doesn't have to follow the Constitution...Now the council introduced an ordinance forbidding photography and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Govt OK's Growing Rice for Public Sale Within Fukushima Contamination Zone
08-31-2014
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http://naturalsociety.com
Just recently, farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district previously designated as a 'no-plant zone' due to of radioactive fallout
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Rare Glimpse Inside The NY Fed's Favorite 'Quote-Stuffing' Hedge Fund: Citadel
08-31-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
As regular readers are well aware, when it comes to "more than arms length" equity market intervention in New Normal markets, the New York Fed's preferred "intermediary" of choice to, how should one say, boost investor sentiment aka "protect from a p
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News Link • Whistleblowers
NATO planning rapid-deployment force of 10,000 troops to counter Russia ? report
08-31-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
NATO is reportedly working towards the creation of an expeditionary force composed of 10,000 troops from seven different member states as a result of escalating tensions with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Screen Strain: Why The TV Your Kids See Does Matter
08-31-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kate Gammon
The grocery-line screen flashes its cooking tips, and my baby twists his neck, owl-style, to gawk at the chefs making crab cakes.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Tension high in Ukrainian border towns menaced by Russian forces
08-31-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com, Shaun Walker
Russian soldiers are nowhere to be seen in city captured by rebels, but locals insist that the Kremlin's troops led the advance
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Two California Cities Are Giving Up The Mine-Resistant Vehicles Their Police Departments Acquired
08-31-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Alex Dobuzinskis
Two Northern California cities have made plans to rid themselves of armoured vehicles built to withstand roadside bombs that their police got for free from the U.S. Defence Department, in a move that follows criticism of the police handling of protes
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Full Spectrum Dominance, the European Press and the Impending Demise of the EU
08-31-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Thomas Harrington
Last Saturday, Angela Merkel went to Kiev to pledge increased financial and political support for the coup-installed regime's war against separatist forces in the eastern and largely Russian-speaking part of Ukraine.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Is the Solution to the Military Industrial Complex
08-31-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Cory Massimino
The past 100 years has seen the advent and spread of the disease with the highest death count of all time: the military industrial complex.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Fight against Militarized Police Is a Culture War Worth Having
08-31-2014
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http://www.cato.org, By Gene Healy
Asked "whether it's proper to militarize the nation's city police forces," President Obama opined last week that "one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enf
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Where in Constitution Is CIA Absolved of Its Multitude of Crimes?
08-31-2014
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http://www.cato.org, By Nat Hentoff
t long last, after all these years, we have a defining question to We The People on our rule of law from libertarian Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation: "Why Not Simply Abolish the CIA?"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
James Bovard
08-31-2014
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http://scotthorton.org, James Bovard
James Bovard, author of Public Policy Hooligan, discusses Attorney General Eric Holder's hypocrisy on the Ferguson police shooting, and Holder's earlier role in covering up the Waco massacre.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Class Theory, Part 1: Modern Conservative Class Analysis
08-31-2014
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http://fff.org, by Anthony Gregory
Since the 2008 financial collapse, class rhetoric has arisen on both prevalent sides of the U.S. political spectrum.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Myth of arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker
08-31-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, David Rose
?Covers 1.7million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago?despite Al Gore's prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now
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News Link • Prepping
Amish as Prepper Role Models
08-31-2014
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http://survivalblog.com, by V.R.
This one is so obvious, I can't believe that it hasn't already been written for SurvivalBlog. All that I know about the Old Order Amish is gained from association with individual families in a couple of Amish settlements in southeastern Minnesota.
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News Link • Government
Mitch McConnell's campaign manager resigns after Iowa bribery scandal deepens
08-31-2014
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http://www.kentucky.com, By Sam Youngman
Jesse Benton, the campaign manager for U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, will resign his post as a bribery scandal from the 2012 presidential campaign threatens to envelop Benton and become a major distraction for McConnell's campaign.
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News Link • Future Predictions
The Blueprint for World War III
08-31-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com, by Dave Hodges
This article is the first of a two part series which details the coming war. This war will not be a simple war of occupation such as what we saw in Iran and presently in Afghanistan. This war will be utterly devastating and has the potential to escal
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News Link • Agriculture
Judge Hands Biotechnology Companies a Win by Ruling Against Hawaiian...
08-31-2014
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http://thelibertybeat.com, by Derrick Broze
Judge Hands Biotechnology Companies a Win by Ruling Against Hawaiian GMO Regulations
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News Link • Inventions
First 4D rollercoaster to open in Texas in 2015
08-31-2014
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http://www.khou.com, Blair Shiff
Six Flags Fiesta Texas unveiled plans to debut the most exciting coaster in the park's 22-year history ? BATMAN: The Ride, premiering in 2015.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
How virtual reality could put us into news stories
08-31-2014
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http://www.bbc.com,
News events across from distant countries can feel so far away, it is difficult to grasp their importance.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
George Takei Helps Beam $650K to 'Star Trek' Fan Film
08-31-2014
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http://www.space.com, By Elizabeth Howell
With the backing of none other than Sulu, a fan-made production of a feature-length "Star Trek" film raised more than $650,000 to chronicle one of the U.S.S. Enterprise's adventures.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Market Basket was not a worker?s revolution
08-31-2014
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Free Press Publications
It began as an epic family feud with seemingly everyone in New England taking sides. CNN reports, ?The dispute began in June when the company?s board replaced [Arthur T.] Demoulas, who was beloved for his leadership but had long feuded with his cousi
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Collateral damage? U.S. destroys millions of dollars in U.S.-made arms in Iraq
08-26-2014
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Missy Ryan, Orlando Sentinel
Since the Obama admin. began strikes there on Aug. 8, U.S. fighter jets and drones have destroyed an estimated $3-$4 million worth of Iraqi military vehicles that were provided by the US and later seized by Islamists who now control a 1/3 of Iraq.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
The Server Needs To Die To Save The Internet - Article on MaidSafe
08-29-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Tip of the hat to Ernest Hancock, and the DP's Joη for this great article.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Kentucky: Lawsuit Restored Against Cop Caught Lying About Traffic Stop
08-29-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Video catches Kentucky State Trooper harassing motorist. US Court of Appeals rules cop can be sued for false arrest.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Citizen to Cop: "Sir, I'm gonna need your license and insurance please?
08-29-2014
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The Free Thought Project
Cop watcher, Jake D, was out conducting police officer accountability Sunday night when he came upon an Arlington, TX police officer double parked.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Ukraine Accuses Russia Of Launching Invasion, Then Promptly Retracts
08-29-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge
It has been a busy morning: following a substantial surge in Ukraine separatist activity in the past 24 hours...
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
ISIS Copies the CIA
08-28-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
The Washington Post reports ISIS waterboarded kidnapped Westerners. The CIA had no comment. A US official did say that "to suggest that there is any correlation between ISIL's brutality and past US actions is ridiculous and feeds
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Denied, With Extreme Prejudice (Update)
08-28-2014
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Simple Justice
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a judge, clothed in immunity, became so annoyed by an argument that he whipped out his Glock from under his robes and plugged the litigant between the eyes?
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Feds balk at court's order to explain no-fly list selection process
08-28-2014
The Obama administration is fighting a federal judge's order requiring it to explain why the government places US citizens who haven't been convicted of any violent crimes on its no-fly database.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Feds warn first responders of dangerous hacking tool: Google Search
08-28-2014
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ars technica
The Department of Homeland Security warned of a "malicious activity" that could expose secrets and security vulnerabilities in organizations' information systems. The name of that activity: "Google dorking."
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News Link • Syria
The Fun of Empire: Fighting on All Sides of a War in Syria
08-28-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Glenn Greenwald
It was not even a year ago when we were bombarded with messaging that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a Supreme Evil and Grave Threat, and that military action against his regime was both a moral and strategic imperative.
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