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Date Sent: 2015-05-11
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, May 11, 2015 |
PunditFact just proved what most of us already knew: Fox News lies - a lot.
Libertarians Should Hope for Clinton Versus Bush in 2016 -- The World War I Anti-War Movement and The First Amendment -- Google's Military Robot Army Soon Ready for Terminator Assault on Humanity -- 3-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts the War Between Arms Control and Free Speech -- Charles Goyette on The Lapdog Press EMPIRE OF LIES: The Ron Paul Documentary -- The Right to Bear Virtual Arms -- A perfect storm brews in Macedonia -- NSA Spying Ruled Illegal, But Will Congress Save the Program Anyway? -- What the people who worked on Google Glass think of Microsoft's crazy new holographic computer -- How CISA Threatens Both Privacy and Cybersecurity -- Doug Casey: Most of the World's Banks Are Headed for Collapse -- Record snowfall in Flagstaff -- Jade Helm: Just The Beginning -- IMF Preparing Greek Default Contingency Plan -- In Jade Helm operation, Texas gives early lessons on the 'human domain' -- Edward Snowden Warns Australians Of Surveillance State -- Rand Paul Plays Down Comments on Military Exercise After Mockery -- The New York Times does its government's bidding: -- Kiev Demands Russia Pay $350 Billion for Destruction Its Own Aggression Caused in Donbass -- Political Prisoner Hassan Diab's Letters -- This is the self-driving sci-fi Chevy we've all been waiting for -- Your Body is Acidic. Here is what you NEED to Do -- Spooky Quantum Action Might Hold the Universe Together -- Jaywalking Tickets; Keeping You Safe After You Safely Cross the Road (VIDEO) -- Michael Gove to proceed with Tories' plans to scrap human rights act -- Buy Silver or You Will Die! -- A look at nations involved in Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen -- New Cafe Chain Allows Customers To Pay What They Want For Salvaged Food -- Plane View: Air Traffic Tracked in Real-Time from Satellites --
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News Link • Media: Television
PunditFact just proved what most of us already knew: Fox News lies - a lot.
05-11-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
A recently released analysis by PunditFact revealed that out of every statement made by a Fox News host or guest, over half of them were completely false.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Politics
Libertarians Should Hope for Clinton Versus Bush in 2016
05-11-2015
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http://reason.com
What could better illustrate the bankruptcy of the political system than that race?
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Free Speech
The World War I Anti-War Movement and The First Amendment
05-11-2015
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The National Constitution Center
In October 1917, Senator Robert La Follette delivered a blistering address in defense of free speech and dissent. "Since the declaration of war, the war press pursued those Senators and Representatives who voted against war
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Google's Military Robot Army Soon Ready for Terminator Assault on Humanity
05-09-2015
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com, NaturalNews
Google's android "Terminator" army is nearly ready for its assault on the human race.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
3-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts the War Between Arms Control and Free Speech
05-11-2015
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Wired.com
This week marks the two-year anniversary since Cody Wilson, the inventor of the world's first 3-D printable gun, received a letter from the State Department demanding that he remove the blueprints for his plastic-printed firearm from the internet.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Charles Goyette on The Lapdog Press
EMPIRE OF LIES: The Ron Paul Documentary
05-11-2015
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youtube
Charles Goyette on the treatment of Ron Paul--especially during his two GOP Presidential campaigns--by the corporate media. (video) And he discusses Ron Paul's new project "Empire of Lies"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Right to Bear Virtual Arms
05-11-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com
When is a gun not just a gun? When it's also constitutionally protected free speech.
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News Link • Martial Law
A perfect storm brews in Macedonia
05-11-2015
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Reuters
Pero Ilievski Street looked on Monday like it had been struck by a tsunami, cobblestones torn up and walls crushed by armored vehicles of a special anti-terrorist unit of the Macedonian police.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
NSA Spying Ruled Illegal, But Will Congress Save the Program Anyway?
05-11-2015
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http://www.thedailybell.com
This week the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSA's metadata collection program was not authorized in US law. The PATRIOT Act, under which the program began, was too vague, The court found.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
What the people who worked on Google Glass think of Microsoft's crazy new holographic computer
05-11-2015
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Business Insider
At the end of April, Microsoft wowed developers and the media with yet another demo of its new HoloLens headset.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
How CISA Threatens Both Privacy and Cybersecurity
05-11-2015
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http://reason.com
This May, Congress is expected to come together on a bill to protect private entities that secretly share user data with federal agencies.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - International
Doug Casey: Most of the World's Banks Are Headed for Collapse
05-11-2015
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caseyresearch.com
Banking has been fundamentally unsound ever since the first central bank was created. That's when bankers started making promises they couldn't keep.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Jade Helm: Just The Beginning
05-11-2015
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Prison Planet
Jade Helm is NOT a martial law takeover but it does prepare the military for civil unrest here in America.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF Preparing Greek Default Contingency Plan
05-11-2015
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zerohedge.com
The biggest slow motion trainwreck in history, one that everyone knows how it ends just not when (especially since the "when" is about 5 years overdue),......
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
In Jade Helm operation, Texas gives early lessons on the 'human domain'
05-11-2015
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Prison Planet
BASTROP -- The official slogan of Operation Jade Helm 15, "Master the Human Domain," is just one of many oddities surrounding the eight-week Pentagon training that's fomented anger and suspicion in Bastrop County and other rural parts of Texas
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Edward Snowden Warns Australians Of Surveillance State
05-11-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
This week, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the Australian government is actually guilty of some of the same privacy violations that the US government is now infamous for.
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News Link • Police State
Rand Paul Plays Down Comments on Military Exercise After Mockery
05-11-2015
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New York Times
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has been mocked by liberal pundits who accused him of fanning conspiracy theories about a military exercise along the Texas border, an event that some on the far right believe is a covert effort to impose martial law.
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News Link • Propaganda
The New York Times does its government's bidding:
05-11-2015
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salon.com
Here's what you're not being told about U.S. troops in Ukraine
U.S. troops are now operating openly in Ukraine. The "paper of record's" "coverage" is an embarrassment, per usual
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News Link • Transportation
This is the self-driving sci-fi Chevy we've all been waiting for
05-11-2015
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Business Insider
General Motors and its Chevrolet brand kicked off the 2015 Shanghai Auto Show in style with the introduction of the Chevrolet FNR Concept. According to GM, the FNR is an autonomous electric-driving concept that is meant to give us a glimpse of what m
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Your Body is Acidic. Here is what you NEED to Do
05-11-2015
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http://complete-health-and-happiness.com
Noble prize Winner Dr. Otto H Warburg , who discovered the real cause of cancer, has found that the root cause of cancer is oxygen deficiency.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Spooky Quantum Action Might Hold the Universe Together
05-11-2015
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http://www.wired.com
Brian Swingle was a graduate student studying the physics of matter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he decided to take a few classes in string theory to round out his education--"because, why not?" he recalled
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
Jaywalking Tickets; Keeping You Safe After You Safely Cross the Road (VIDEO)
05-11-2015
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CopBlock
The video was taken while I was out CopBlocking a checkpoint in Columbus, OH a few weeks ago. While getting some footage at the actual checkpoint, I was notified that my car would be towed from the Speedway parking lot I had parked in.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics
Michael Gove to proceed with Tories' plans to scrap human rights act
05-11-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Newly appointed justice secretary to follow through with pledge which would remove European court of human rights' leverage over UK's supreme court
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News Link • WAR: About that War
A look at nations involved in Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen
05-11-2015
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Associated Press
A Saudi-led coalition has been targeting Shiite rebels and their allies in Yemen in a campaign of airstrikes since March 26. The Sunni Arab countries involved in the fighting and others offering material support or backing the operation
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
New Cafe Chain Allows Customers To Pay What They Want For Salvaged Food
05-11-2015
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http://www.trueactivist.com
cafeThe Real Junk Food Project is a chain of cafes that allows customers to pay whatever they want, for well-prepared food that would have otherwise been sent to the landfill.
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News Link • Communications
Plane View: Air Traffic Tracked in Real-Time from Satellites
05-11-2015
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http://www.livescience.com
A stunning image of more than 15,000 airplane flights from around the world shows that satellite tracking of commercial aircraft is moving closer to reality.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Transportation
Need for Speed: 'Jet Bike' to Attempt Record-Breaking Feat
05-11-2015
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http://www.livescience.com
A jet-powered vehicle that can travel the length of a football field in the blink of an eye will attempt to break the world two-wheeled land speed record later this year.
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
How We Can Use Livestreaming Apps to Promote Justice
05-11-2015
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http://www.wired.com
Mobile livestreaming is enjoying a moment in the spotlight with the launch of apps like Meerkat and Twitter's Periscope.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Technology: Software
Find the Perfect Color Combos With This Addictive App
05-11-2015
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http://www.wired.com
There's no way Josef Albers could've known, way back in 1963, how easy it eventually would become to make a color palette.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Mad Max: What It Takes to Make the Most Intense Movie Ever
05-11-2015
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http://www.wired.com
Half a lifetime ago, George Miller unleashed 1979's Mad Max: a dirt-cheap, postapocalyptic Outback thriller starring Mel Gibson as a badass, leather-clad, hard-driving survivor.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Is Sanity Finally Returning to Terrorism Prevention?
05-11-2015
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http://reason.com
One lesson of American history is that in times of war or crisis, American presidents, lawmakers, and citizens often lose their minds.
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Capitalism for Me, Socialism for Thee; Progressive Capitalism?
05-11-2015
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
A self-proclaimed "progressive capitalist" (hypocrite) store owner in San Francisco complains about Proposition J which voters passed with a 77% approval rate hiking the minimum wage to $15.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Communities
"Fresno Police Focus on Building Relationships, not Making Arrests" - " Fact or Ficti
05-11-2015
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CopBlock
At a time when other cities were aggressively arresting people for minor crimes, a strategy known as "zero tolerance," officials in Fresno chose a different path. They embraced the softer community-policing ethos popularized under President Bill
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News Link • Surveillance
Lawmakers Introduce The End Warrantless Surveillance Of Americans Act
05-11-2015
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CopBlock
A bill introduced this week in the U.S. House of Representatives would require law enforcement agencies to obtain court-ordered warrants before searching electronic communications of U.S. citizens.
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News Link • Politics
Jeb Bush: I would have invaded Iraq
05-11-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
Presumed Republican presidential hopeful tells Fox News say Hillary Clinton would have signed off the 2003 invasion, too, though admits mistakes were made in the aftermath
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News Link • Obama Administration
Report: Obama lied about bin Laden raid
05-11-2015
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thehill.com
An expose published on Sunday alleges that President Obama deceived Americans with his narrative of the 2011 assassination of Osama bin Laden.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
TN Governor Signs Bill Giving Police Dogs Special Legal Protection
05-11-2015
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CopBlock
Governor Bill Haslam signed Aron's Law Friday, which was named in honor of a police dog killed in the line of duty 17 years ago.
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News Link • Housing
Trailer park king sued by residents in Texas for raising rents
05-11-2015
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http://www.theguardian.com
A multimillionaire trailer park landlord who boasts that he makes big profits by buying up cheap trailer parks and immediately increasing rents is being sued for allegedly doing just that.
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News Link • China
China To Build Military Base In Africa Next To Critical Oil Transit Choke Point
05-11-2015
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zerohedge.com
One year ago, we reported that while the west was scrambling to assure the world that it wasn't collapsing courtesy of record central bank debt monetization.....
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden just scored a big victory
05-11-2015
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Business Insider
A US appeals court has ruled that the NSA's dragnet of millions of Americans' phone calls is illegal, and Edward Snowden served as the catalyst for the decision.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Caught On Tape: Stunned Reporter Grills State Department...
05-09-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
In the past several weeks, not a day has passed without a new scandal surfacing revealing Clinton's lack of judgment whether it involves her abuse of email protocol, or some previously undisclosed financial relation between either Hillary Clinton or
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Attorney: Spy chief had 'forgotten' about NSA program when he misled Congress
05-09-2015
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http://thehill.com, By Julian Hattem
Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper wasn't lying when he wrongly told Congress in 2013 that the government does not "wittingly" collect information about millions of Americans, according to his top lawyer.
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Obama's Petulant WWII Snub of Russia
05-09-2015
Ray McGovern
President Barack Obama's decision to join other Western leaders in snubbing Russia's weekend celebration of the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe looks more like pouting than statesmanship, especially in the context of the U.S. mainstream med
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News Link • Surveillance
Victory: Federal Appeals Court Declares NSA Domestic Spying on Telephone Calls Illegal...
05-09-2015
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By John W. Whitehead
Victory: Federal Appeals Court Declares NSA Domestic Spying on Telephone Calls Illegal, 'Staggering' in Scope, and Unauthorized by USA Patriot Act
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News Link • Prepping
Emergency Items: What Will Disappear First
05-09-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Tess Pennington
Do you ever wonder if a major emergency situation occurred what would disappear first?
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News Link • History
The Real Victor of World War II in Europe
05-09-2015
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric Margolis
It was churlish for western leaders to boycott this week's Victory Parade in Moscow that commemorated the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany 70 years ago.
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News Link • Bitcoin
NY Backs Bitcoin Exchange. But It May Not Fly in California
05-09-2015
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http://www.wired.com, CADE METZ
BEN LAWSKY, NEW York's superintendent of financial services, trumpeted the news with a tweet.
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News Link • Government
"Government Wants to Control Your Car" and Prevent You From 'Tinkering' Under DMCA
05-09-2015
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
Think you own your car? Think again.
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News Link • Drones
Armed Drones Seen as Dogfight-Ready in (Not-Too-Distant) Future
05-09-2015
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http://www.bloomberg.com, by Thomas Black
As the fighter jet of the future rolls and climbs to outmaneuver an enemy plane and bore in for the kill, one thing will be missing: a pilot.
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News Link • Drones
This drone claims to be the world's smallest
05-09-2015
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http://www.cnet.com, by Anthony Domanico
Meet the Wallet Drone, a tiny quadcopter that tucks into its wallet-size controller so you can set the skies abuzz no matter where you happen to be.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Samsung's built-in sink washing machine now available
05-09-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
If you get a particularly nasty stain on a piece of clothing, chances are you'll want to give it a good spot-scrubbing in the sink before throwing it in the washing machine.
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News Link • China
China's Xi Jinping agrees $46bn superhighway to Pakistan
05-09-2015
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arclein
This marks a major advance in China's plans to boost its influence in Central and South Asia, correspondents say, and far exceeds US spending in Pakistan.PTV broadcast the historic signing and exchanging of agreements between the two countries
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News Link • Currencies
Developing Story: Dr. Ron Paul Reveals #1 Step to Prepare for America's Next Big Crisis
05-09-2015
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http://thecrux.com, BY Michael Palmer
This is a fascinating story with implications for every American…
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
An Emergency Hand Pump For A Well
05-09-2015
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http://survivalblog.com, by C.P.
After looking at various sources for deep well hand pumps for use in an emergency and noting that the price (some being over $1,000) was out of line for me, I decided to make my own unit.
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