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Date Sent: 2013-01-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 14, 2013 AM edition |
Indicted businessman: Sen. Harry Reid, Utah A.G. tied to bribery scheme
Robbery victim wants to thank Good Samaritans who came to his rescue -- Armed vigilante groups policing 2 Mexican towns -- Sweeping new gun laws proposed by influential liberal think tank -- Police shoot armed suspect inside San Diego theater -- City works on code change for controversial vegetable garden -- America’s $2.3 Trillion Dollar Foreign Aid is Mostly a Defense Contractor Subsidy -- Aaron Swartz Post-Mortem: So Now You Know (Update) -- RFK Jr: JFK Probe 'Shoddy,' Doesn't Believe Lone Gunman Theory -- Alex Jones Interviewed on HuffPost Live -- 4409: NAZI Checkpoint guards go nuts and KICK in car door -- Minnesota Based Mills Fleet Farm Takes a Stand on the Second Amendment -- Bartering Gets Popular -- US Govt.
Sprayed Toxic Chemicals on unsuspecting Americans -- Defense chiefs
prepare new plans to defend Falkland Islands -- Drones are fool's gold: they prolong wars we can't
win -- Sheriff's Office wants to fly drones over Orange County skies
-- Patriotic Group To Build Armed 'Defensible' Neighborhood Fortress
-- How to End the 'Gun Debate' Forever -- Permanent Afghanistan
Occupation Planned -- Flu Epidemic Hysteria
AZ Event Monday, January 14th, 2013 - SURVIVING SOCIALIZED
MEDICINE with Dana Cody
VA: Ron Paul speaks Tuesday at 6 pm at Washington and Lee in Lexington, Virginia open to the public at no charge.
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News Link • Corruption
Indicted businessman: Sen. Harry Reid, Utah A.G. tied to bribery scheme
01-13-2013
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Salt Lake Tribune
Embattled St. George businessman says the new Utah Attorney General helped broker a deal in 2010 in which he believed he was to pay Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid $600,000 to make a federal investigation into his company go away.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Robbery victim wants to thank Good Samaritans who came to his rescue
01-13-2013
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AZ Family TV-3 (BELO)
A couple of strangers came to the rescue when a man was robbed at gunpoint. Now, the victim wants to thank the Good Samaritans. Police believe the criminal canvassing a neighborhood had no idea what he was in for when he picked his target.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexico
Armed vigilante groups policing 2 Mexican towns
01-13-2013
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AP
Several hundred civilians have taken up arms in two towns in a southwestern Mexico state and are arresting people suspected of crimes and imposing a curfew, leading authorities to promise to reinforce security forces in the area.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sweeping new gun laws proposed by influential liberal think tank
01-13-2013
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Washington Post
With President Obama readying an overhaul of the nation’s gun laws, a liberal think tank with singular influence throughout his administration is pushing for a sweeping agenda of strict new restrictions on and federal oversight of gun and ammunition
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police shoot armed suspect inside San Diego theater
01-13-2013
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AP
Moviegoers at a San Diego theater ducked for cover as officers stormed in during a film screening and shot and critically wounded a gunman hiding in their midst. No one else was hurt in the shooting Saturday inside Reading Cinemas Carmel Mountain in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
City works on code change for controversial vegetable garden
01-13-2013
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The city of Orlando says it's trying to work with the couple whose front yard vegetable garden has sparked controversy nationwide by passing new regulations that would require changes to their garden....[seriously?!]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Aid
America’s $2.3 Trillion Dollar Foreign Aid is Mostly a Defense Contractor Subsidy
01-13-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Here’s a ‘Connecting the Dots Moment’ for Americans to ponder: It’s a well documented fact that Congress wiped out the Social Security Trust Fund over the decades to the tune of at least $2.5 trillion and left a worthless pile of IOU’s, here. It’s
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Internet
Aaron Swartz Post-Mortem: So Now You Know (Update)
01-13-2013
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Simple Justice
Aaron’s death is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and the US Attorney’s office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, for a crime that had no victims.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
RFK Jr: JFK Probe 'Shoddy,' Doesn't Believe Lone Gunman Theory
01-13-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes on the record stating that he does not believe in the Warren Commission's Lone Gunman Theory of the murder of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Neither did his father, nor his aunt,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray arrives with edges sharpened
01-13-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
The seventh generation of America’s most venerated sports car, sharpened in all dimensions by racing experience toward out-hustling the best sports cars in the world. The question will be whether it can outrun history.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Propaganda
Glenn Beck is Planning a $2 Billion Libertarian Commune in Texas
01-13-2013
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http://blogs.dallasobserver.com
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Alex Jones Interviewed on HuffPost Live
01-13-2013
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http://informationliberation.com
Alex Jones joins HuffPost Live to discuss his interview on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight," which Morgan called "a perfect advertisement for gun control."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Minnesota Based Mills Fleet Farm Takes a Stand on the Second Amendment " Open Video Letter
01-13-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
This is a video letter to Minnesota Congressman Rick Nolan, and Senators Amy Klobucher, and Al Franken. This video proves that a duck hunting shotgun is more destructive and lethal than a Huldra AR-15 modern sporting rifle.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - International
Bartering Gets Popular
01-13-2013
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Free Press Publications
Bartering and alternative currencies are gaining ground... at least in Greece. Are Greeks turning to gold & silver as those in Zimbabwe did?
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Darryl W. Perry
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Opinion • Self-Defense
From My Cold, Dead Hands!
01-13-2013
Larken Rose
I'm doing an informal, unscientific experiment, to see how many people will beg and whine, and how many people will disobey, when it comes to gun confiscation. Please spread this around to all the gun owners you know.
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News Link • How To
How to make an alcohol stove for 1 dollar!
01-13-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, Nick Van Leuven
This is an alcohol stove that I made from an aluminum water bottle that I picked up at the dollar store. It is pretty sturdy and works pretty well. It takes a little bit of time to fully ignite, but once it it going it is pretty efficient.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
US Govt. Sprayed Toxic Chemicals on unsuspecting Americans
01-13-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, TNSONSOFLIBERTY
During the Cold War, the United States Military conducted secret experiments in Corpus Christi, TX and St Louis Missouri during the 1950's and 60's.
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News Link • World News
Defence chiefs prepare new plans to defend Falkland Islands
01-13-2013
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http://www.telegraph.co, By Sean Rayment
Defence chiefs have drawn up new contingency plans designed to prevent hostile action by Argentina towards the Falkland Islands.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
Piers Morgan Death Wish Echoed By Supporters
01-13-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Gun grabbers claim to oppose violence yet advocate killing gun owners
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News Link • Gun Rights
Wyoming Bill Would Nullify Obama Gun Control, Jail Feds
01-13-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Alex Newman
As the Obama administration plots various assaults on gun rights by “executive order” and legislation, proposals described as “very extreme” even by some Democrats, state lawmakers in Wyoming have another idea.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Gun Rights
18 Facts That Prove That Piers Morgan Is Flat Out Lying About Gun Control
01-13-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Michael Snyder
Piers Morgan is getting on television every night and flat out lying to the American people about gun control.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Drones are fool's gold: they prolong wars we can't win
01-13-2013
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http://www.guardian.co, Simon Jenkins
New appointments in the White House hail an era of hands-free warfare. Yet these weapons induce not defeat, but retaliation
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News Link • Surveillance
Sheriff's Office wants to fly drones over Orange County skies
01-13-2013
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com, By Dan Tracy
The Orange County Sheriff's Office is experimenting with two surveillance drones that it hopes to turn loose over Metro Orlando skies this summer.
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News Link • Self-Defense
Patriotic Group To Build Armed 'Defensible' Neighborhood Fortress
01-13-2013
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http://cnsnews.com, By Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.
A group of like-minded patriots, bound together by pride in American exceptionalism, plan on building an armed community to protect their liberty.
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News Link • Gun Rights
How to End the 'Gun Debate' Forever
01-13-2013
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Activist Post via Rense.com
"The problem is homicide and violence in general - not merely the means with which a murder is committed."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • China
Chinese Military On “High Alert” After It Scrambles Fighter Jets To “Counter” Japanese Jets
01-12-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge
The one thing that most seem to forget in the epic 30 year old story (which has a very sad ending) that is the Japanese floundering economy, is that while the new Abe government may and will likely try everything to crush the Yen
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Banksters are dropping like flies. Over 300+ resigned.
01-12-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Check out Drake at "66" it's 2 hours long but he explains the forces behind the banking resignations and how they will be brought to justice.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Constitution
CNN’s Piers Morgan Calls the Constitution ‘Your Little Book’
01-12-2013
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teaparty.org/piers-u-s-constitution-you
“You come in here, brandish your little book as if I don’t know what’s in there"”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
"Roadside safety checks are nothing but a revenue generating machine"
01-12-2012
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The International Libertarian
These comments on my video "Police State Checkpoint Nullification in Upper Moreland, PA" were so great and informative I had to share them. Great insight into the corrupt nature of policing in the US.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Shoot Blind Stroke Victim With Taser In Back In Fear His White Stick Was Sword
01-12-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Colin Farmer, 63, is a blind stroke victim who uses a standard white stick to walk. Farmer suddenly found himself on the ground after a police officer thought he was brandishing a samurai sword. He shot Farmer in the back with a 50,000-volt Taser stu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Louisiana Governor Jindal proposes ending state income tax
01-12-2013
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Reuters
Republican Governor Bobby Jindal said on Thursday he wants to eliminate all Louisiana personal and corporate income taxes to simplify the state's tax code and make it more friendly to business.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Florida Public Records Activists Come Down to Miami; Rabble-Rousing Ensues
01-12-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Last November, the Chandler brothers worked their way down to Miami from Tampa filing public records requests along the way. I joined them with my camera during visits to the Miami Police Department, the Coral Gables Police Department and the state-r
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
New Victims In The War On Painkillers
01-12-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
"OxyContin went from being the primary drug of abuse for 36% of prescription-drug misusers to just 13% about 21 months later." There were also some predictable negative consequences, like sending addicts back to street drugs like heroin.
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News Link • Healthcare
Braces for the Kids Just Got More Expensive: Obamacare Tax Hike Case Study
01-12-2013
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In 2013, the tax increases in Obamacare will increasingly conspire against kitchen-table family healthcare decisions.
As just one example, below are some of the taxes that will impact the purchase of dental braces:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin: Making Online Gambling Legal in the U.S.?
01-12-2013
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Bloomberg
Calgary-based Infiniti Poker, like several other new online gambling sites, plans to accept Bitcoin when it launches later this month. The online currency may allow American gamblers to avoid running afoul of complex U.S. laws
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News Link • Afghanistan
Why We Are in Afghanistan: What’s hidden below Afghanistan soil? (video)
01-12-2013
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Washington Post
[Boring first minute.] As President Obama announces a shift in the U.S. role in Afghanistan, we talk to the Woodrow Wilson Center's Michael Kugelman about a potential economy booster lying under the surface of the embattled country.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Senate Democrats urge Obama to bypass Republicans on the debt ceiling
01-12-2013
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Washington Post
Democratic leaders in the Senate urged President Obama to consider bypassing Congress to prevent the nation from defaulting on its spending obligations if lawmakers cannot agree to raise the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling next month.
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News Link • Environment
Tusks of Whimsical-Looking Whales Lead to Charges for 2 in a Maine Courtroom
01-12-2013
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New York Times
He is a collector of animal-related items. During Mr. Conrad’s [initial] arraignment, the federal magistrate judge, Margaret J. Kravchuk, asked if some of those assets could be liquidated to cover his legal costs.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Makers of Violent Video Games Marshal Support to Fend Off Regulation
01-12-2013
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New York Times
With the Newtown, Conn., massacre spurring concern over violent video games, makers of popular games like Call of Duty and Mortal Kombat are rallying Congressional support to try to fend off their biggest regulatory threat in two decades.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Judge Napolitano for POTUS
01-12-2013
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http://andrewnapolitano.com/
Judge Napolitano would be a candidate, perhaps the only candidate from within the Liberty Movement whom everyone in the Movement could rally round enthusiastically and who really could win the presidency on principle in 2016.
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News Link • Propaganda
Video on the Illusion of Choice. Featuring Ron Paul, Judge Nap, and the hilarious George Carlin
01-12-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com
We have the illusion of choice when it comes to our foods, the media, which gas station we chose, and worst of all, our vote... and our leaders.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
A National Digital ID, Courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service?
01-11-2013
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Bloomberg
The U.S. is .. slowly moving to a system where online personas are inextricably linked to real-world identities, an idea with huge privacy and security implications.
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Sheila Dean
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, January 13, 2013 Edition
01-11-2013
John Semmens
Veep Suggests Platinum Solution to Gun Control
In what he called a “stroke of genius,” Vice-President Joe Biden suggested that President Obama could bypass both Congress and the Constitution by using an Executive Order to solve the gun violence cr
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