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Date Sent: 2013-07-26
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, July 26, 2013 |
US promises Russia protections for Snowden -- Tax reform proposals to be secret for 50 years
Are You Ready For ObamaCare? -- 07-26-13 -- Ernest LIVE from the ExtraOrdinary Tech Conf in Albuquerque, NM (MP3 LOADED) -- Worms Retain Memories Outside Brain -- Don’t Be Alarmed by the Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C. They’re Here to Stop Cruise Missiles -- Russia and China Prepare for Global War -- Northern Idaho mom sues president over government surveillance program -- Chris Christie Takes on the Libertarian Strain in National Security Politics -- Latest blowout highlights Gulf
drilling dangers -- Panic: your 3D printer could be poisoning you
while you sleep -- How Goldman Sachs Robbed You Of Five Billion
Dollars -- The hepatitis C study America never heard about - The Berkson
Clinical Study -- Obama's Way: Waging Financial War on Humanity -- Israeli/Palestinian
Peace Talks: Let the Charade Begin -- The Pentagon is spending
taxpayer dollars on what? -- Using fake names on Facebook,
Surveillance State, androids -- Feel-free fee: TSA will grope you
less for $85 -- Aaron Swartz: The Network Transformation (Video) --
It Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between The Last Financial
Crisis And Today
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News Link • Whistleblowers
U.S. pens letter to Russia promising protections for Snowden
07-26-2013
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Reuters
Former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden would not face the death penalty or be tortured and would have all the protections of the U.S. civilian court system if he were sent home...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Tax reform proposals to be secret for 50 years
07-26-2013
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CNN
Tax reform is apparently so treacherous for senators these days that they require the utmost protection from the public -- half a century's worth.
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Police State
The State of the Union
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The illusion of normalcy is almost in the rear view mirror in regard to our previous way of life in the US. Even those who have the most virulent cases of normalcy bias, will soon be beyond their self-deluded ability to deny what has happened to our
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News Link • Marc Victor
Are You Ready For ObamaCare?
07-26-2013
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Attorney For Freedom Show
Join Marc Victor, Mike Wasdin and David Dorn as they pull back the curtain on the big government nightmare known as "ObamaCare"
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
TCM Regulated in Australia
07-26-2013
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arclein
“The CMR Board of Victoria was the first statutory authority to regulate Chinese medicine in Australia. The Chinese Medicine Registration Act 2000 became fully operational in Victoria on 1 January 2002 and was later replaced by the Health Professions
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News Link • Science
Worms Retain Memories Outside Brain
07-26-2013
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arclein
hy this happens is still unclear. Planarians' brains control their behavior, but the researchers suggest that some of their memories might be stored elsewhere in their body. Alternatively, they suggest that the worms' original brain may have modifi
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News Link • Surveillance
Don’t Be Alarmed by the Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C. They’re Here to Stop Cruise Missiles
07-26-2013
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National Journal
Within a year, a pair of souped-up $2.7 billion blimps (price includes R&D) will be floated 10,000 feet above the District of Columbia and act as a 340-mile-wide eye in the sky, detecting incoming missiles and the like.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Northern Idaho mom sues president over government surveillance program
07-26-2013
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Washington Post
Anna Smith is a mother of two who lives in rural Idaho, works the night shift as a nurse and goes to the gym often. She rarely follows the news and knows little about the debate over government surveillance and privacy that has rocked Washington in r
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Halliburton to plead guilty to destroying evidence in BP spill
07-26-2013
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Washington Post
The oil services giant Halliburton agreed Thursday to plead guilty to destroying evidence during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in 2010, admitting to one count of criminal conduct and agreeing to pay the $200,000 maximum statutory fine....
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Chris Christie Takes on the Libertarian Strain in National Security Politics
07-26-2013
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The Atlantic Wire
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was dismissive of efforts to curtail the National Security Agency's surveillance systems. Christie excoriated the "strain of libertarianism that’s going through both parties," suggesting that people like
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Learning 52 Skills: Applying a Purchasing Plan Approach to Learning New Skills, by Seth T.
07-26-2013
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Survivalblog.com
It’s common for Preppers to run into a misallocation of resources. Some things are flashy (Read: Guns) and will attract a lot of attention.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Microfluidics device detects drugs in saliva fast
07-26-2013
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nanowerk.com
Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful analytical method that can detect trace amounts of substances, such as narcotics, toxins, and explosives.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Highly effective tumor targeting platform with nanoghosts
07-26-2013
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nanowerk.com
The field of drug discovery is growing at a remarkable pace, leading to the development of many new drugs, most of which are generally more potent than their predecessors, yet suffer from poor solubility and/or high toxicities.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Top Ten Healthy Reasons to Eat Chocolate
07-26-2013
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wakeup-world.com
Good news for all you chocolate lovers out there! New research has found this divine food has even more health boosting advantages than previously recognized.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Nutrition
600 Reasons Turmeric May Be The World’s Most Important Herb
07-26-2013
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wakeup-world.com
There is a medicinal spice so timelessly interwoven with the origins of human culture and metabolism, so thoroughly supported by modern scientific inquiry, as to be unparalleled in its proven value to human health and well-being.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
Vermiculture: How To Build A Worm Bin the Cheap and Easy Way
07-26-2013
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wakeup-world.com
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about using worms to create compost.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
6 must-download cool car apps
07-26-2013
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Mother Nature Network.com
With these free or cheap apps, you can drive safely, park your car without circling, find affordable gas, and even locate repair shops you can trust. Plus, we mention similar apps so you can pick and choose.
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News Link • Energy
Latest blowout highlights Gulf drilling dangers
07-26-2013
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Mother Nature Network.com
Workers fled the leaking natural gas well hours before it caught fire, once again shedding light on the Gulf of Mexico's risky relationship with offshore drilling.
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News Link • 3D Printing
Panic: your 3D printer could be poisoning you while you sleep
07-26-2013
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dvice.com
A study from the Illinois Institute of Technology, has shown that some 3D printers can emit serious amounts of toxic nanoparticles.
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
How Goldman Sachs Robbed You Of Five Billion Dollars
07-26-2013
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1an7j6cmjUw
Published on Jul 25, 2013
"The U.S. Department of Justice has started a preliminary probe into the metals warehousing industry following complaints that storage firms owned by Wall Street banks and major traders have inflated prices, sources famil
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • China
Construction on world's tallest building reportedly halted
07-26-2013
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dvice.com
Last year, news broke about China's bid to construct the world's tallest building. Its name for the structure, Sky City, sounded a lot like something Lando Calrissian might invest in.
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News Link • Healthcare
The hepatitis C study America never heard about - The Berkson Clinical Study
07-26-2013
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naturalnews.com
If someone were to take a look at the impressive credentials of Dr. Burton Berkson they would likely think that any study he conducted would easily find its way to publication - especially one which demonstrated remarkable success against chronic hep
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Ginseng found to help chemo cancer patients have more energy
07-26-2013
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naturalnews.com
What chemo- and radiation therapy take out of cancer patients, one simple compound - ginseng - puts back in, according to the results of a new study which extols further benefits of this root.
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News Link • Humor
The Weiner rules: Ten new laws to be enacted if Anthony Weiner becomes mayor (satire)
07-26-2013
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naturalnews.com
It's Friday and I've had an intense week, so for the sake of some public humor at the expense of someone who clearly deserves it, here are the top ten new laws you'll see in New York City if Anthony Weiner becomes mayor.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Pentagon is spending taxpayer dollars on what?
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
One of the biggest failings of conservatives over the years, and especially since the end of the Cold War, has been the failure to understand that the military is big government too. It is full of waste, and much larger than it should be.
Some wil
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
Using fake names on Facebook, Surveillance State, androids
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
File this one in the ever-burgeoning category of: how insane can legislators get?
Congress is now debating an update to the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Turns out it’s already a misdemeanor to “exceed authorized use” of a computer, but th
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Feel-free fee: TSA will grope you less for $85
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
If full-body scanners and TSA pat-downs make you feel uncomfortable, you now have an alternate option " making the agency like you and paying a fee of $85.
The Transportation Security Administration has launched an expansion to their program that
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Internet
Aaron Swartz " The Network Transformation (Video)
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Here Swartz describes the nature of the shift from centralized one-to-many systems, such as broadcast television, to the decentralized many-to-many topography of network communication. The end of scarcity in transmission capacity poses the question o
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
It Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between The Last Financial Crisis And Today
07-25-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
If our leaders could have recognized the signs ahead of time, do you think that they could have prevented the financial crisis of 2008? That is a very timely question, because so many of the warning signs that we saw just before and during the last
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Chris Menke
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Reference Link • Corruption
Why Was Michael Hastings Murdered?
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Part one of this series demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that Michael Hastings was murdered and his body was cremated to cover up the crime. This part tells why he was murdered.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Surveillance
Senator Wyden: 2 Patriot Acts, the one one can read and the “real” version which one can not
07-24-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
An effort is underway in the House (Thanks to Justin Amash, the Republican congressman from Michigan) to defund part of the NSA. Special interests within and around the agency are concerned. For pretty much forever the agency has been seen as untouch
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Oath Keepers Places Pro-Snowden Signs in DC Area, Encouraging More Whistle-blowers
07-24-2013
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Oath Keepers
Oath Keepers launches new campaign to place signs and billboards near Washington D.C. area defense and intelligence agencies, praising Edward Snowden for exposing the NSA spying on Americans and urging other government employees to follow Snowden’s e
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Treasury, presidential group seek comment on terrorism risk insurance
07-24-2013
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IFA Webnews
The PWG seeks comments so it can complete a report on long-term availability and affordability of insurance for terrorism risk before the current federal law expires.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Seriously?
Detroit council supports calls for federal investigation of possible civil rights charges
07-24-2013
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freep.com
The Detroit City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution calling for a federal investigation to see whether civil rights charges are warranted against George Zimmerman,
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
Guards Aided al-Qaeda in Iraq Prison Break
07-24-2013
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antiwar.com
Over 500 Detainees Escaped
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Chuck Hagel warns: Troops are ‘close to the breaking point’
07-24-2013
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politico.com
Moving forward, Hagel said, the armed services 'will require careful rebalancing
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
German Police To Experiment With 3-D Printed Guns
07-24-2013
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popsci.com
They aim to determine whether 3-D printed firearms present a real threat"and whether they can use the weapons for their own purposes.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The Messianic Character of American Education 50 Years Later
07-24-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
R.J. Rushdoony published The Messianic Character of American Education in 1963 as American troop levels were surging in Vietnam, Americans were digging bomb shelters in their backyards, hippies were experimenting with recreational drugs and .....
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Kafka’s America: Secret Courts, Secret Laws, and Total Surveillance
07-24-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
In a bizarre and ludicrous attempt at “transparency,” the Obama administration has announced that it asked a secret court to approve a secret order to allow the government to keep spying on millions of Americans, and the secret court has granted its
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News Link • Transportation
Billionaire Elon Musk Unveiling Mysterious 'Hyperloop' Transport System Next Month
07-24-2013
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space.com
How would you like to zip from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than 30 minutes, on the cheap and on your own schedule?
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News Link • Food
Pepsi’s Naked Juice ‘Exposed’, $9 Mil Deceptive Marketing Lawsuit Lost
07-24-2013
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http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/pepsis-naked-j
While it’s true that the juice does contain some fruits and vegetables, it is apparently anything but 100% fruit and/or vegetable juice or even remotely “all natural” considering it contains 11 chemical additives including a typically genetically mod
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News Link • Climate Change
Alps Nearly Ice Free During Roman Era
07-24-2013
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arclein
The Alps were largely ice-free 2000 years ago during the Roman Warming Period, demonstrated by wood finds in today's glacial alpine regions by Dr. Christian Schlüchter. Dr. Schlüchter is Professor of Quaternary and Environmental Geology at the Unive
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
King David-Era Palace
07-24-2013
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arclein
The IAA announced the finds as a seven-year long excavation at the site is wrapping up. The government agency and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority have halted the planned construction of a nearby neighborhood, hoping to make the site a national
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Ubuntu Forums Attacked, 1.8 Million Users' Data Exposed
07-24-2013
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technewsdaily.com
The usernames, passwords and email addresses of the Ubuntu Forums' more than 1.8 million users were exposed in a cyberattack that defaced the site's homepage Saturday (July 20) and caused administrators to temporarily suspend operations.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama, McCain, Schumer Form Menage a Trois
07-24-2013
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Politico
Obama has finally found The One he has been looking for: John McCain. “We have been looking literally for years for someone we can cut deals with, and finally someone has stepped up,” and we are talking with McCain roughly every other day.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Edward Snowden Is Now Free To Leave The Airport And Enter Russia
07-24-2013
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Business Insider
Former NSA whistleblower/leaker Edward Snowden has been granted documents that will allow him to leave a Moscow airport where he has been for the last month, Reuters and Russian media report.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Feinstein, Chambliss object to proposal to defund NSA mass phone surveillance
07-24-2013
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Rawstory
“The FISA business records program has contributed to disrupting numerous terrorist attacks against our nation. It has been reviewed and authorized by all 3 branches of government and is subject to strict controls,” Senate Intelligence Chairman
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