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Date Sent: 2012-06-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 27, 2012 PM edition |
Idaho GOP: End the Fed, bring back gold -- GOP lawmaker loses in Okla., Hatch wins in Utah
Bad Memories can be Neutralized -- Sustainable Meat With Joel Salutin -- Twist Dimension Wireless Protocol -- Vaccine Safety: Why Parents’ Alternative Immunization Schedules May Cause Harm -- Diego Garcia’s shameful history continues: Diego Garcia, now home to a US military base -- Our incredible predicament in America: the American Dream -- Dan
D'Amico getting groped at Manchester Airport -- 06-27-12 -- Nick
Saorsa - Carla Gericke - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- A lot at stake for U.S. gun lobby in contempt vote -- Judge halts
U.S. sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab -- Evidence suggests
anti-foreclosure laws may backfire -- A four-team football playoff is approved, but
don't expect the BCS presidents to expand it -- Advancing the Ball
for War on Syria -- Boland Amendment Redux -- Obama sounds
alarm over Romney campaign cash -- One One-Hundredth of a Second
Faster: Building Better Olympic Athletes -- Microsoft Pays $1.2B for
Corporate Facebook Mimic -- Apple Drops ‘We Don’t Get PC Viruses’
Schtick
AZ: Jackalope Freedom Festival in Arizona
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News Link • Currencies
Idaho GOP: End the Fed, bring back gold
06-27-2012
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The Daily Caller
Idaho joins close to ten other states in saying no to fiat currencies and yes to a precious metals backed dollar. The state lawmakers also are supporting an end to the Federal Reserve.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP lawmaker loses in Okla., Hatch wins in Utah
06-27-2012
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AP
Republican divisions resurfaced in congressional primaries, with 5-term Rep. John Sullivan falling to a tea party backed opponent in Oklahoma while Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch easily defeated a candidate backed by the insurgent group.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Jackalope Freedom Festival in Arizona
06-27-12
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www.jackalopefreedomfestival.com
Jackfest "The Jackalope Freedom Festival" Is where statism comes to die, and the free market comes to prevail. The festival will be held at the corner of Rim Road (260) and Forest Road 300 Sitgreaves National Forest, Forest Lakes Estates, AZ 85931.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bad Memories can be Neutralised
06-27-2012
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arclein
Cognition, reveals that individuals can be taught to forget personal feelings associated with an emotional memory without erasing the memory of the actual event.
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News Link • Climate Change
Greenland Core Exaggerates Magnitude of Dryas Chill
06-27-2012
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arclein
ice core drifts notably from other records of Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the Younger Dryas, a period beginning nearly 13,000 years ago of cooling so abrupt it's believed to be unmatched sinc
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News Link • Agriculture
Sustainable Meat With Joel Salutin
06-27-2012
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arclein
hat grass-grazing cows emit more methane than grain-fed ones. This is factually false. Actually, the amount of methane emitted by fermentation is the same whether it occurs in the cow or outside. Whether the feed is eaten by an herbivore or left to r
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Twist Dimension Wireless Protocol
06-27-2012
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arclein
The next task for Willner’s team will be to increase the OAM network’s paltry one-meter transmission distance to something a little more usable. “For situations that require high capacity… over relatively short distances of less than 1km, this approa
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Vaccine Safety: Why Parents’ Alternative Immunization Schedules May Cause Harm
06-27-2012
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TIME Magazine
Many parents have decided they know better than pediatricians: they're following their own vaccine schedules, but most children adhering to alternative models don't wind up fully immunized.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Imperialism
Diego Garcia’s shameful history continues: Diego Garcia, now home to a US military base
06-27-2012
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By Virgil Hawkins, New Internationalist
Diego Garcia became an important base for the US, particularly so in the 2000s, when it served as a hub from which long-range bombers attacked Afghanistan and Iraq. The base has been used by the CIA for so-called ‘extraordinary rendition’ flights, an
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
06-27-12 -- Nick Saorsa - Carla Gericke - (MP3 LOADED)
Nick Saorsa on his TSA experience getting home from Porcfest - Carla Gericke, Porcfest Organizer, about the event and future plans for the Free State Project.
Show is broadcasting live from State College, PA
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News Link • Gun Rights
A lot at stake for U.S. gun lobby in contempt vote
06-27-2012
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Reuters
The reason, the NRA said in its literature, was that the administration wanted to boost statistics about guns flowing into Mexico to support a push for new laws to regulate American gun dealers.
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News Link • Communications
Judge halts U.S. sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab
06-27-2012
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Reuters
Apple has waged an international patent war since 2010 as it seeks to limit the growth of Google's Android system, the world's best-selling mobile operating platform. A decisive injunction in one of the U.S. legal cases could strengthen Apple's hand
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Evidence suggests anti-foreclosure laws may backfire
06-27-2012
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Reuters
A recent U.S. Federal Reserve study found that in states requiring a judicial review for foreclosure, delays associated with the process had no measurable long-term benefits and often prolonged the problems with the housing market.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
A four-team football playoff is approved, but don't expect the BCS presidents to expand it
06-27-2012
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AP
The long, slow march toward a major college football playoff is over. It has been approved.
Conference commissioners met with an oversight committee of university presidents and chancellors here Tuesday to approve the four-team seeded playoff, con
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama sounds alarm over Romney campaign cash
06-26-2012
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The Raw Story.com
US President Barack Obama, renowned as a champion fundraiser who piled up $750 million in 2008, warned supporters he would be outspent by his foe Mitt Romney in this year’s election.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
One One-Hundredth of a Second Faster: Building Better Olympic Athletes
06-26-2012
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Mark McClusky via WIRED.com
In the swampy heat of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lolo Jones peers at a line of approaching rain clouds. The rumble of thunder carries across the track at Louisiana State University, where Jones is training for her second run at an Olympic gold medal.
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News Link • Internet
Microsoft Pays $1.2B for Corporate Facebook Mimic
06-26-2012
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Caleb Garling via WIRED.com
Microsoft has agreed to purchase Yammer, a San Francisco startup that offers a Facebook-like social network designed specifically for businesses.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leaders sue to block receiver
06-26-2012
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Reuters
The City Council in Pennsylvania's capital of Harrisburg sued the state on Tuesday to halt work by a receiver overseeing the city's fiscal recovery plan.
The federal lawsuit challenges the state's takeover of Harrisburg, claiming that state lawmak
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News Link • Food
Case worker gives the inside scoop on US food stamps
06-26-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com
The American entitlement system has grown immensely since the founding of the country. Only 53% of Americans pay federal income tax and the amount of people on food stamps have hit record highs.
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News Link • Economy - International
Signs point towards a new global currency
06-26-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com,
With the extension of operation twist and and the inevitable QE3, continued volatility and devaluation of the USD is the in the near future.
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News Link • European Union
Forget The Election Results - Greece Is Still Doomed And So Is The Rest Of Europe
06-26-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
The election results from Greece are in and the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely. It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament, and Pasok (another pro-bailout party)
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News Link • China
Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American City To Be Owned By China?
06-26-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt.
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News Link • European Union
EU Officials Unveil Plan for Closer Union .
06-26-2012
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http://online.wsj.com, BY GABRIELE STEINHAUSER
A powerful European supervisor should be charged with overseeing the region's banks, and national budgets should be pre-approved by the rest of the bloc before euro-zone states take on responsibility for each others' finances....
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News Link • History
History is the enemy as 'brilliant' psy-ops become the news
06-26-2012
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http://www.johnpilger.com
Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20th century. Their terrible deformities were familiar. All along the Mekong river, where the forests were petrified and silent, smal
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
So You Think You Can Be a Hair Braider?
06-26-2012
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http://www.nytimes.com, By JACOB GOLDSTEIN
Jestina Clayton grew up in a village in Sierra Leone where every girl learns traditional African hair-braiding. Then, when she was 22, she moved to Centerville, Utah, a place where no one learns traditional African hair-braiding.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
What Is the Point of My Libertarian Anarchism?
06-26-2012
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http://www.voluntaryist.com, By Robert Higgs
After I began work as a professor, in 1968, I gravitated quickly from my collegiate New Leftism toward classical liberalism. As I learned more about Austrian economics, political economy, public choice, and history, I became increasingly libertarian
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News Link • Government
One World Government: Conspiratorial Fantasies or Reality Check?
06-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Nick Cohen over at the leftist UK Observer is declaiming against political paranoia. The putative target is Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame but the dissertation is far wider than that and basically damns paranoia generally as a response to what is t
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News Link • Police State
Iraq War vet faces 10 years in prison after photographing police
06-26-2012
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RT
After exercising his constitutional rights, Iraq war vet Antonio Buehler may be facing serious prison time for photographing cops possibly abusing an intoxicated woman while arresting her.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney brags to donors and Bill Kristol: I’m briefed by Israelis
06-26-2012
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The question must be asked, Why is Mitt Romney willing to adopt the most hawkish positions on Israel, now bragging about being briefed by Israeli officials on foreign policy?
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News Link • Syria
Furious Turkey mobilizes tanks, troops to Syrian border
06-26-2012
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“The rules of engagement of the Turkish Armed Forces have changed,” Erdogan said. “Any military element that approaches the Turkish border from Syria posing a security risk and danger will be regarded as a threat and treated as a military target.”
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix police: Officer shoots man who punches him
06-26-2012
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Arizona Republic
A Phoenix police sergeant shot a man in south Phoenix after authorities said the man assaulted the officer in his car, officials said.
The sergeant was driving in an unmarked car
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/06/26/2012
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News Link • Activism
Profanity Rally Protesters Slam Town's Anti-Swearing Law
06-26-2012
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MSNBC
The protest rally was organized by Adam Kokesh, a libertarian who publishes podcasts online from a Virginia studio. He says police can "steal from you if they don't like what's coming out of your mouth."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stockton, Calif. to take up bankruptcy budget plan
06-26-2012
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Reuters
Stockton, California was poised to take a major step toward becoming the largest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy after talks with its creditors. Negotiations aimed at averting bankruptcy may press on informally
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA agent spills grandfather’s ashes in confrontation with passenger
06-26-2012
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Raw Story
A TSA agent opened a jar of ashes of a relative belonging to a passenger, proceeded to stick her finger in the ashes spilling them, and then laughed about it. Another example of the cream of the crap working for the Testicle Squeezing Authoritarians.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
The Fascist Threat
06-26-2012
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http://www.mises.org,
Everyone knows that the term fascist is a pejorative, often used to describe any political position a speaker doesn't like.
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News Link • Government
The ABCs Of State Liquor Control
06-26-2012
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http://jonathanturley.org,
We have previously discussed the socialistic nature of state liquor boards even in conservative states.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Hands-On Accountability for the Police Murder of Stanley Gibson
06-26-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by William Norman Grigg
Stanley Gibson, a disabled Gulf War veteran, was murdered in a Las Vegas parking lot last December 12. He was shot seven times in the back of the head, without provocation, by a stranger wielding an AR-15 rifle.
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News Link • Currencies
Moment in monetary history - bitcoin by vending machine at PorcFest 2012
06-26-2012
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http://www.youtube.com
Moment in monetary history - bitcoin by vending machine at PorcFest 2012
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News Link • Surveillance
40 Years of Growing Surveillance
06-26-2012
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http://www.cato.org, by Nat Hentoff
The Watergate legacy of disabling opponents by wiretaps and other suspensions of the Bill of Rights has since been protected by the current administration in federal court.
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News Link • Political Parties
Ron Paul’s Task: Build Up the Remnant
06-26-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com,by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Few people in public life ever stray from the three-by-five card of approved opinion.
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News Link • Drug War
Global leaders: Drug war ‘the main reason’ for continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic
06-25-2012
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Stephen C. Webster via The Raw Story.com
The Global Commission on Drug Policy, an assemblage of former national leaders, policy makers and experts, has issued a new report (PDF) that calls the war on drugs “the main reason” for the continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic around the world.
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News Link • Military
WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning wins battle over U.S. documents
06-25-2012
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The Raw Story.com
A US military judge ordered prosecutors Monday to share more documents with WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning after defense lawyers accused them of hiding information that could help their client’s case.
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News Link • Internet
UK hackers admit plotting attacks on CIA, firms
06-25-2012
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Reuters
Two British hackers pleaded guilty in a London court to plotting attacks against computers of international firms, law enforcement bodies and government agencies including the CIA, in a cyber crime spree that gained global attention.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Carter Is Correct " but Ignores the Growth of the Predatory State
06-25-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Finally, a prominent Democrat is speaking out about the Obama administration's drone murders and its sending of death squads around the world to assassinate people the president considers to be "enemies."
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
IL Supreme Court Upholds 8-Year Sentence for Taking Pictures of Legal Sex
06-25-2012
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Reason magazine
Both girls were above the age of consent for sex, they were below the federal age of consent for appearing in sexually explicit images"a two-year difference that resulted in a 15-year sentence for Rinehart.
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News Link • Economy - International
Moody's cuts Spanish banks on sovereign downgrade
06-25-2012
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Reuters
Moody's Investors Service on Monday downgraded the long-term debt and deposit ratings for 28 Spanish banks and two issuer ratings, following on the heels of a cut to Spain's sovereign rating to just above junk status earlier this month.
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News Link • TAXES: State
With No Vote, Taxpayers Stuck With Tab on Bonds
06-25-2012
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New York Times
Surprised local taxpayers from Stockton, Calif., to Scranton, Pa., are finding themselves obligated for parking garages, hockey arenas and other enterprises that can no longer pay their debts.
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News Link • Surveillance
Why Is the Government Collecting Your Biometric Data?
06-25-2012
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Tana Geneva
EFF's Jennifer Lynch discusses the expansion of biometric data collection, the growth of databases and the impact on increased surveillance.
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