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Date Sent: 2014-10-16
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Thursday, October 16, 2014 |
City of Houston demands pastors turn over sermons
Obama: Feds must tackle Ebola 'in a much more aggressive way' -- GOP senators who opposed Obama 'czars' now want one for Ebola -- Ex-cop Burge leaves prison, but his torture victim is left seeking reparations -- NY City Has Paid Half a Billion Dollars in NYPD-Related Settlements Over 5 Years -- How DARE They Adulterate Our Nationalist Idolatry?! -- Any resellers noticing a serious down turn stuff sold on craigslist and ebay? -- Denver jury: Deputies used too much force in death -- University officials threaten students passing out U.S. Constitution -- Vaccines: Penalizing the Unvaccinated? -- NSA's mass Internet surveillance 'impinges on the very essence' of the right to privacy -- The Secret Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons -- 'Sovereign citizen' gets 7 years for targeting judges, prosecutors with bogus $100B liens -- Semper Lie: Marine Corps Commandant James Amos padded resume -- Why China stays out of Islamic State fight, for now -- Canada's First Saffron Farm Expecting Excellent Crop -- Can Beijing Survive Hong Kong Fever? -- Mass Surveillance Destroys Freedom -- 10-15-14 -- Brandon Casten - Patrick Byrne - Ryan Gilbert -- (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED) -- Here They Come: Deficiency Judgements (Post-Forclosure Hell) -- Samsung announces super fast, 4.6 Gbps Wi-Fi technology -- White House pool reporters test own news distribution system -- Default Encryption: Apple and Google's Latest Marketing Ploy -- 2nd U.S. Health Care Worker Has Ebola
AZ: Jordan Page to play concert at the Hancock's in Phoenix on October 24th, 2014; PrepperFest Expo, October 24-26, 2014, Westworld in Scottsdale, AZ; Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – November 8-11, 2014
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
City of Houston demands pastors turn over sermons
10-15-2014
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Prison Planet
The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city's first openly lesbian mayor.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obamacare
Obama: Feds must tackle Ebola 'in a much more aggressive way'
10-15-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Trying to calm fearful Americans weeks from a election, Obama promised a "much more aggressive" federal government response to Ebola, including health care SWAT teams to help hospitals cope with any new cases
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
GOP senators who opposed Obama 'czars' now want one for Ebola
10-15-2014
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Yahoo! News blog
Republican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas was one of the first lawmakers to call on the Obama administration to appoint a czar to help coordinate the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis in Africa, along with a cluster of cases at home.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-cop Burge leaves prison, but his torture victim is left seeking reparations
10-15-2014
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On Thursday morning as disgraced former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge was released from federal prison to a Florida halfway house, one of his first torture victims, Anthony Holmes, stood at City Hall with tears in his eyes, recalling four decades of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NY City Has Paid Half a Billion Dollars in NYPD-Related Settlements Over 5 Years
10-15-2014
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New York City taxpayers shelled out $428 million in NYPD-related settlements over the last five years. That figure comes from numbers provided by the Law Department to MuckRock in response to a FOIL request.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
How DARE They Adulterate Our Nationalist Idolatry?!
10-15-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Nearly every weekday morning in this supposedly free country, schoolchildren are forced to make "Islam" â€" that is, submission â€" as part of a mandatory religious ritual. Oh, sure, in some jurisdictions they are promised that there is "no com
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Lockheed makes breakthrough on fusion energy project
10-15-2014
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Reuters
Lockheed has made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready for use in a decade.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Transportation
Every Man Should Know How to Drive Stick
10-15-2014
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http://www.artofmanliness.com
I can still remember the day I learned how to drive a stick shift. My dad and I were looking for a car for my sixteenth birthday. I had my eye on a red Isuzu Hombre (that's right, the make of my first car was the Spanish word for "Man").
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News Link • Transportation
ELON MUSK: In 5 To 6 Years, You'll Be Able To Get In Your Car, Go To Sleep, And Wake...
10-15-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
ELON MUSK: In 5 To 6 Years, You'll Be Able To Get In Your Car, Go To Sleep, And Wake Up At Your Destination.
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla Is Opening A New Branch In China And Plans To Build 200 Charging Stations
10-15-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
According to information gathered by Tencent Tech on October 9 from the Chongqing Foreign Trade & Economic Relations Commission's website, Tesla recently established a wholly-owned company in Chongqing called Tuosule Auto Sales Company Chongqing.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Any resellers noticing a serious down turn stuff sold on craigslist and ebay?
10-15-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Seriously for anyone wanting deals on furniture, antiques, or anything craigslist, it is definitely a buyers market.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Denver jury: Deputies used too much force in death
10-15-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
DENVER (AP) â€" A federal jury on Tuesday found five Denver sheriff's deputies used excessive force against a homeless street preacher who died in the city's downtown jail and awarded his family a record $4.65 million in damages, a verdict an attorne
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Vaccines: Penalizing the Unvaccinated?
10-15-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Slate has enthusiastically supported vaccinations and in particular, establishment talking points and narratives regarding them, as well as a particular focus on dismembering mainstream anti-vaccine views.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA's mass Internet surveillance 'impinges on the very essence' of the right to privacy
10-15-2014
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Rawstory
Emmerson's study poses a direct challenge to the claims of both governments that their bulk surveillance programs, which the barrister finds endanger the privacy of "literally every internet user," are proportionate to the terrorist threat and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
The Secret Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons
10-15-2014
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New York Times
The US had gone to war declaring it must destroy weapons of mass destruction. Instead, American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from long-abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
'Sovereign citizen' gets 7 years for targeting judges, prosecutors with bogus $100B liens
10-15-2014
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Rawstory
A federal judge sentenced a "sovereign citizen" who targeted court and law enforcement officials with bogus liens to seven years in prison â€" beyond what even prosecutors had recommended for "paper terrorism.".
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Semper Lie: Marine Corps Commandant James Amos padded resume
10-15-2014
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Washington Times
The Marine Corps is acknowledging that the retiring commandant, Gen. James Amos, did not attend the Corps' officers training school, though he told the Senate Armed Services Committee in a signed resume that he had graduated in 1972.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
The Sirius Conjecture Revisited.
10-15-2014
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arclein
The close proximity of stars to each other upon formation clearly involves a high probability for gravitational binding, assuming that astral formations aren't directly driven by binary interactions (which could very well be the case). Intellectuall
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robert klein
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News Link • China
Why China stays out of Islamic State fight, for now
10-15-2014
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arclein
China's rulers are reluctant to get more heavily involved for a number of reasons, say analysts here, ranging from their mistrust of American intentions to a fear of being sucked out of their depth into the Middle East maelstrom.
They are also d
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Canada's First Saffron Farm Expecting Excellent Crop
10-15-2014
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arclein
Denault says the saffron flower can be burned by the cold, so needs a thick snow cover to thrive.
The flower's biological clock works opposite to that of most crops.
The bulbs sprout in the fall, bloom into a fragrant purple flower which only la
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robert klein
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News Link • China
Can Beijing Survive Hong Kong Fever?
10-15-2014
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arclein
To allow students to block the city center and impede traffic shows weakness. Hong Kong's reputation as a financial center and tourist attraction will suffer. And Beijing cannot permit this to go on too long without risking supportive protests erupt
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robert klein
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Here They Come: Deficiency Judgements (Post-Forclosure Hell)
10-15-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Americans face post-foreclosure hell as accounts frozen, wages garnished, assets seized
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
3D-printed UAV now sports ducted fan motors
10-15-2014
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gizmag.com
Back in April, we first heard about a 3D-printed UAV airframe that could be fabricated within 24 hours.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Zap&Go portable charger fuels up in just 5 minutes
10-15-2014
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gizmag.com
An Oxford-based startup has turned to crowdfunding to help develop Zap&Go, a phone charger with an emphasis on speed and portability.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Samsung announces super fast, 4.6 Gbps Wi-Fi technology
10-15-2014
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gizmag.com
Samsung Electronics has developed a new Wi-Fi technology that it says will soon allow users to download a 1 GB movie in less than three seconds, or stream uncompressed high-definition videos from mobile devices to TVs in real-time.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Print
White House pool reporters test own news distribution system
10-15-2014
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washingtonpost.com
White House journalists are creating an alternative system for distributing their media "pool" reports in response to the Obama administration's involvement in approving and disapproving certain content in official reports.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
The simple power of hand-washing
10-15-2014
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ted.com
Myriam Sidibe is a warrior in the fight against childhood disease. Her weapon of choice? A bar of soap. For cost-effective prevention against sickness, it's hard to beat soapy hand-washing, which cuts down risk of pneumonia, diarrhea, cholera and w
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Pandemic
2nd U.S. Health Care Worker Has Ebola
10-15-2014
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thedailybeast.com
The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed Wednesday that a second health-care worker who treated the first U.S. Ebola patient has tested positive for Ebola.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Russian 'Sandworm' Hack Has Been Spying on Foreign Governments for Years
10-14-2014
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Wired.com
A cyberespionage campaign believed to be based in Russia has been targeting government leaders and institutions for nearly five years, according to researchers with iSight Partners who have examined code used in the attacks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Officially Killing Americans
10-14-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The Food and Drug Administration can make two types of errors. It can approve a drug that has dangerous unanticipated side effects, or it can reject or delay approval of a drug that is safe and effective.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Iraqi General Confession: How Mosul Really Fell
10-14-2014
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Next News Newtwork
How can 500 rogue jihad fighters take a city from the hands of 30 thousand American trained soldiers in just three short days? That seems to be the question plaguing the Pentagon after ISIS stormed Mosul, taking Iraq's second largest city as th
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Government
Pentagon Orders Secret Weapons
10-13-2014
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Next News Newtwork
Throughout history, institutions and governments all over the world have gone to great lengths to cover something up. It's not a new tactic. When you look to years past, you see agencies, governments, and politicians, working behind the scenes
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul and Charles Goyette â€" The Weekly Podcast - Jobs, the Deficit, and the Economy
10-14-2014
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Ron Paul, Charles Goyette
Are government reports and officials' talking points about the state of the economy designed to reveal or conceal? The unemployment rate is said to have dropped to 5.9 percent, but the percentage of people employed compared to the total population
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Concerns raised over traffic stop video with Buckeye officer
10-13-2014
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FOX News
Cop threatens to kill driver during traffic stop. I mean threatens to kill driver during traffic stop!
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
St. Louis Police Quickly Turn a Peaceful Protest into a Rights Violating Brutality Theater
10-13-2014
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Despite the dozens of cameras pointed at them, St. Louis Police, dressed in full storm trooper gear, assaulted peaceful protesters and continued to pepper-spray independent journalists for filming it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ferguson demands high fees to turn over city files
10-13-2014
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Officials in Ferguson, Missouri, are charging nearly 10 times the cost of some of their own employees' salaries before they will agree to turn over files under public records laws about the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Chicago, Illinois Resists Short Yellow Refunds
10-13-2014
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The Newspaper
Chicago's camera vendors issued 5,009,831 red light camera tickets worth $520,289,186 since 2003. Redflex pocketed $126 million from this amount, only to be swept up in an ongoing federal bribery investigation. Xerox was called in to replace Redflex
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News Link • Economy - International
Saudi Arabia's Oil Price 'Manipulation' Could Sink The Russian Economy
10-13-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
The vice-president of Russia's state-owned oil behemoth Rosneft has accused Saudi Arabia of manipulating the oil price for political reasons.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club - October 4, 2014 - Sarara Corva - Dr. Phranq Tamburri, NMD
10-14-2014
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YouTube.Com/Terry Major
Monthly meeting of the Arizona Breakfast Club - Oct 4th, 2014 - Sarara Corva, Medical Marijuana Education Expert, and Dr. Phranq Tamburri, NMD speak on the marijuana for health/legalization issue, and the Medical Marijuana for Medical Professionals C
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Private donors supply spy gear to cops
10-13-2014
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ars technica
The LAPD could have used a small portion of its multibillion-dollar annual budget to purchase the software, but that would have meant going through a year-long process requiring public meetings, approval from the City Council, and, in some cases, com
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News Link • Government
The State as a Royal Scam
10-13-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
"I am from Windows Supportâ€"" "No, you're not," I told the Indian-accented fellow on the other end of the phone. "You're about the tell me that my computer is sending error messages on the internet, correct?" "Sir, your computer is
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News Link • Surveillance
Apple's iPhone Encryption Is a Godsend, Even if Cops Hate It
10-13-2014
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The issue for law enforcement is, as with all strong crypto, the encryption on the iPhone is secure even from the maker of the device. Apple itself can't access your files, which means the company can't help law enforcement officials access your
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
18 Sobering Facts About The Unprecedented Student Loan Debt Crisis In The United States
10-13-2014
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The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use "physical subversion" to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Bad Rules Make Bad Cops: Bart Wilson on The Economics of Civil Forfeiture
10-13-2014
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Reason Magazine
"When you give [police] the power of civil asset forfeiture, they've got to choose between themselves or the public," says experimental economist Bart Wilson. "Why do we want to put them in that position?"
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
In a first, TSA announces 7 Americans removed from no-fly list
10-13-2014
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ars technica
For the first time, the government is removing 7 Americans [out of 1.5 million] from the no-fly list to comport with a federal judge's ruling that the methods to challenge placement on the watch list were "wholly ineffective."
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News Link • Transportation
Meet The Preferred "Subprime" Cars: Ranking The Most Popular Car Loans And...
10-13-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
Meet The Preferred "Subprime" Cars: Ranking The Most Popular Car Loans And Leases By FICO Score.
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Astounding Conspiracy Theories of Wall Street Genius Mark Gorton
10-13-2014
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http://gawker.com
Mark Gorton is a prominent financier and a respected entrepreneur. He founded the music sharing site Limewire, and he runs Tower Research, a famed high-frequency trading firm.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online
10-13-2014
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Wired.com
No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world.
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Robert Lee
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