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Date Sent: 2013-06-08
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, June 8, 2013 |
Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
Urgency on debt fades with big issues unsolved -- FBI: Texas actress admits sending ricin-tainted letters to Obama, says husband made her do it -- CIA didn't always know who it was killing in drone strikes, classified documents show -- Former drone operator says he's haunted by his part in more than 1,600 deaths -- Yesterday's Huge Chinese Interest Rate Spike Has People Freaked Out -- Obama Blasts Media 'Hype' Over Secret Program, Calling Them
'Modest Encroachments On Privacy -- Ron Paul on Anderson Cooper 6/6/13
-- Microsoft buys Skype, Skype becomes datamine for NSA -- Dr. Ron
Paul: NSA Seizing Phone Records Symptom of Failure of The State
6/6/13 -- Bilderberg 2013: The Protests Begin (Videos) -- Would-Be
World’s Biggest Oil Merger Agreed at Bilderberg -- Florida Sheriff
Arrested After Defending Second Amendment -- Alex Jones Infiltrates
Bilderberg by Boat -- David Petraeus At Bilderberg to Craft “Big
Data” Spy Grid -- How to Protect Your Cash in Times of Crisis --
Orbital Sciences Hired To Build Stratolaunch Rocket -- Congressional
leaders: NSA data gathering is routine -- The Unknown Patriot Who
Exposed the Government's Verizon Spy Program -- What Would Antarctica Look Like If All
The Ice Melted? -- Green Light For Plan To Build World's Tallest Building At
Record Speed -- Is This Mysterious Silicon Valley Company Helping
The NSA Spy On Americans? -- Laws of Physics Say Quantum Cryptography Is Unhackable. It’s Not -- Suspicious’ fire at Kennedy
Library remains under investigation
AZ: 90th Birthday Party for Beryl Rousseau from the
Arizona Breakfast Club Today, Sat June 8th, 4 p.m. til
?? @ The Hancocks; Fundraiser raffle (tickets almost gone) for Steve
Porak's Cancer Treatment - 36" Ferret .50 BMG on an
Olympic AR-15 Lower Receiver; Bring Jordan Page to
AZ Freedom Fest
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine June 7th, 2013 Edition READY FOR DOWNLOAD!
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
06-07-2013
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by Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)
Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber-attacks, a top secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian reveals.
The 18-page Presidential P
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News Link • Secret Societies
Atlanta’s Pre-Civil War Mansion That Was Saved By an Apron
06-07-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
Just as it seemed hopeless for the Grant Mansion and that the estate was destined to be destroyed only 10 years after it was built, a Union forager found an apron with what appeared to be a Masonic symbol on it in the house, according to legend. Sher
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News Link • Bill of Rights
234 years later, NH slaves are granted freedom
06-07-2013
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AP
14 slaves who petitioned the New Hampshire Legislature for their freedom during the Revolutionary War were granted posthumous emancipation when the governor signed a LARGELY[?] symbolic bill that supporters hope will encourage
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News Link • Currencies
5 High-Denomination Bills Not Being Printed
06-07-2013
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There have been several bills printed that dwarf those wimpy $100s in your wallet. In fact, during the recent battle in Congress over extending the debt limit, one of the solutions proposed by academics and commentators to prevent default was
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Urgency on debt fades with big issues unsolved
06-07-2013
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Washington Post
After two years of harrowing confrontations in Washington, the national debt is no longer growing out of control and policymakers from President Obama to House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) have rushed to take credit.
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News Link • Obama Administration
FBI: Texas actress admits sending ricin-tainted letters to Obama, says husband made her do it
06-07-2013
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AP
A pregnant Texas actress who told the FBI her husband had sent ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, then allegedly said her husband made her mail the letters, was charged Friday with threatening t
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA didn't always know who it was killing in drone strikes, classified documents show
06-07-2013
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NBC News (video)
The CIA did not always know who it was targeting and killing in drone strikes in Pakistan over a 14-month period. About one of every four of those killed by drones in Pakistan between Sept. 3, 2010, and Oct. 30, 2011, were classified
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Former drone operator says he's haunted by his part in more than 1,600 deaths
06-07-2013
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NBC News (video)
A former Air Force drone operator who says he participated in missions that killed more than 1,600 people remembers watching one of the first victims bleed to death. Brandon Bryant says he was sitting in a chair at a Nevada Air Force base
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, June 9, 2013 Edition
06-07-2013
John Semmens
President Says Gov't Spying on Citizens “a Modest Encroachment on 4th Amendment Rights”
Reports this last week that the federal government is compiling records of every phone call made in America and securing copies of every email and Internet pos
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News Link • China
Yesterday's Huge Chinese Interest Rate Spike Has People Freaked Out
06-07-2013
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Business Insider
Chinese interbank rates surged ahead of the three-day Dragon Boat festival next week.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Obama Blasts Media 'Hype' Over Secret Program, Calling Them 'Modest Encroachments On Pri
06-07-2013
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Business Insider
President Barack Obama pushed back on what he called "hype" over reports detailing broad government surveillance, saying "modest encroachments on privacy" were necessary tradeoffs for security.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul on Anderson Cooper 6/6/13
06-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Will talk with @ronpaul about the secret government program collecting massive amounts of phone and Internet data @ac360 8/10pm
" Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) June 6, 2013
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News Link • Activism
Bilderberg 2013: The Protests Begin (Videos)
06-07-2013
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Prison Planet
The Bilderberg meeting is officially underway today, many protesters have arrived, as have reporters from the London Times, the BBC, and even members of the European Parliament.
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News Link • Currencies
Would-Be World’s Biggest Oil Merger Agreed at Bilderberg
06-07-2013
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Prison Planet
Despite countless examples that prove the contrary, detractors, debunkers and non believers continually argue that the Bilderberg group holds no power, and that it is just a talking shop for elite has-beens.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Florida Sheriff Arrested After Defending Second Amendment
06-07-2013
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Prison Planet
Sheriff Nicholas Finch said he “believed in Second Amendment rights” after releasing a man arrested on a gun charge.
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News Link • Activism
Alex Jones Infiltrates Bilderberg by Boat
06-07-2013
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Prison Planet
Alex and company take heat from boat police as he bullhorns the Bilderberg group from the latest tool in the fight against the globalists, the Bilder-barge.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Orbital Sciences Hired To Build Stratolaunch Rocket
06-07-2013
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space.com
Stratolaunch Inc., the Huntsville, Ala., company created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen seeking to develop a low-cost satellite launching system, has given Orbital Sciences Corp. a contract to build the world's largest air-launched space rocket.
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congressional leaders: NSA data gathering is routine
06-07-2013
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usatoday.com
The top lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee sought to tamp down the uproar over revelations that the National Security Agency swept up millions of Verizon telephone records, reminding their colleagues that Congress has approved laws granti
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News Link • Whistleblowers
The Unknown Patriot Who Exposed the Government's Verizon Spy Program
06-07-2013
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theatlantic.com
In praise of whistle-blowers whose risky disclosures of official wrongdoing make the nation stronger rather than weaker
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Architecture
Green Light For Plan To Build World's Tallest Building At Record Speed
06-07-2013
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popsci.com
The 220-story, 2,750-foot, 90-day Sky City construction project is a go.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
To Predict the Next Box Office Hit, Look at Google Movie Trailer Searches
06-07-2013
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Wired.com
No matter how much movie studios may wish for one, there is no crystal ball that will predict how much money a flick will make at the box office.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
Sweet Art: 3-D Printed Sugar Lattices Could Be the Future of Iron Chef
06-07-2013
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Wired.com
Don’t call them cubes; The Sugar Lab’s 3-D printed sugar sculptures are actually up to 10 inches high " way more than you want in your coffee "
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Laws of Physics Say Quantum Cryptography Is Unhackable. It’s Not
06-07-2013
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Wired.com
In the never-ending arms race between secret-keepers and code-breakers, the laws of quantum mechanics seemed to have the potential to give secret-keepers the upper hand
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Much Ado About Nothing
06-07-2013
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muchadomovie.com
Leonato (Clark Gregg), the governor of Messina, is visited by his friend Don Pedro (Reed Diamond) who is returning from a victorious campaign against his rebellious brother Don John (Sean Maher).
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
HiveBio is Working to Become Seattle's First Community Biology Lab (Video)
06-07-2013
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science.slashdot.org
HiveBio in Seattle is not the world's first community-based biology lab, but it may be the first one started by a high school student. Her name is Katriona Guthrie-Honea, and her co-founder is Bergen McMurray.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Suspicious’ fire at Kennedy Library remains under investigation
06-07-2013
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dotnews.com
Did a fast-moving fire at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum" which erupted around 3 p.m. Monday afternoon" have any connection to the deadly bomb attacks on Boylston Street that took place just minutes before?
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News Link • Future Predictions
Envisioning A Future Of Custom-Grown Meat
06-07-2013
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popsci.com
"Today's special meat is a chop of Grévy's zebra flank, fresh out of the exercise amplifier and seared in giant squid fat."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Holder: Justice ‘has not … and will not prosecute any reporter for doing his or her job’
06-06-2013
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The Ticket
In response to criticism of the Department of Justice's secret surveillance of and seizure of records from reporters, Eric Holder will testify that no reporters have been or will be prosecuted for doing their job during his service as attorney genera
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA Invests in Robotic Writers for Media Releases
06-06-2013
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Narrative Science has already proven that its robot writers can make sentences that are good enough for newspapers and internal company reports. Now they’re going to work for the CIA.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS official: Lavish conference followed IRS rules
06-06-2013
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AP
An Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the agency's latest scandal told lawmakers Thursday that an expensive conference held in 2010 conformed to existing rules, though he acknowledged it was not the best use of taxpayer money.
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News Link • Torture
Britain to pay for colonial-era torture, denies liability
06-06-2013
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Reuters
Britain expressed regret for the abuse of Kenyans by colonial forces during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency and announced compensation for 5,228 survivors, but stopped short of apologizing. The deal, settled out of court after 3 elderly torture victims
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News Link • Government
Town mails discarded dog poop back to errant pet owners
06-06-2013
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The Sideshow
Volunteers have been enlisted to approach dog owners who leave their pet’s poop behind, and to strike up a conversation with the goal of finding out the name of the dog. "With the name of the dog and the breed it was possible to identify the owner
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News Link • Communications
CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher
06-06-2013
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Wired
More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Now FBI wants back door to all software
06-06-2013
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WND
The FBI is unhappy that there are communications technologies that it cannot intercept and wants to require that software makers and communications companies create a back door so they can listen in when they desire..
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches
06-06-2013
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CBS News
U.S. border agents should continue to be allowed to search a traveler’s laptop, cellphone or other electronic device and keep copies of any data on them based on no more than a hunch, otherwise it would prevent the U.S. from detecting child porn
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News Link • Surveillance
Phone Sex, Banks & Google for Emails: The NSA Spying Is Bigger Than Verizon
06-06-2013
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The Atlantic Wire
"It's the largest database ever assembled in the world" and the NSA wanted "to create a database of every call ever made" within U.S. territory. Likewise, ... "the agency now stores copies of all e-mails transmitted in America,
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS ranter slashes wrists outside 'Today' show in Rockefeller Plaza (VIDEO)
06-06-2013
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A deranged, suicidal man ranting against the government used knives to saw his wrists outside the “Today" show. He used broken English to tell anyone who would listen the Internal Revenue Service was corrupt and they had "ruined his life."
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News Link • Police State
NSA's Verizon Spying Order Specifically Targeted Americans, Not Foreigners
06-06-2013
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Forbes
The program is purely domestic,” says the ACLU’s National Security Project. ”This is also an indiscriminate dragnet. Say what you will about warrantless wiretapping, at least it targeted Al Qaeda. This includes every customer of Verizon"
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News Link • Technology: Software
Graffiti codes let you surf with a wave of your phone
06-06-2013
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newscientist.com
EVERYWHERE you look nowadays there seems to be a QR code. Those are the complicated square patterns that contain links to websites, for example, in a format smartphone cameras can read.
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News Link • Agriculture
In Defense of (Raw) Milk
06-06-2013
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arclein
“Certified raw milk” was endorsed by numerous physicians and supported by legislators and the public and the American Association of Medical Milk Commissions to protect and regulate the careful production and distribution of certified raw milk.
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News Link • Internet
A Password So Secret, You Don’t Consciously Know It
06-06-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Researchers work to develop passwords so secret that only your unconscious mind knows them.
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA spying revealed: Uncle Sam is watching you, and both Congress and the courts are complicit
06-06-2013
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People's Consortium
The UK Guardian published a previously secret court order authorizing dragnet surveillance of millions of Americans without any pretense of justification, confirming concerns raised by civil libertarians (including me) for years (Shahid Buttar)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Atoms' Quantum Spin Controlled in Odd Chilled Gas
06-06-2013
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technewsdaily.com
Physicists have revealed a new way to control the spins of atoms, an achievement that could open the way for new kinds of sensors while also shedding light on fundamental physics.
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News Link • Anthropology
North America Viking Voyage Discovered
06-06-2013
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livescience.com
Some 1,000 years ago, the Vikings set off on a voyage to Notre Dame Bay in modern-day Newfoundland, Canada, new evidence suggests.
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News Link • Drug War
Billionaire And (Ex) Mexican President Announce Plans To Open Retail Marijuana Stores Around World
05-31-2013
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dailypaul.com
Vincente Fox (of North American Union fame) and his billionaire buddy...
Corporations and Government... hmmmmm... What could possibly go wrong??
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Jack Spratt
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News Link • Technology: Software
Cars' Computers Hacked by Thieves - Police admit they're 'stumped' by mystery car th
06/06/2013
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today.com
here's a new wave of auto thefts that police can't figure out. So could you be at risk? TODAY National Investigative Correspondent Jeff Rossen looked into it.
This is a real mystery. You think when you lock your car and set the alarm, your car i
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Medical breakthrough for multiple sclerosis sufferers
06-06-2013
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Fox News
In a breakthrough discovery, researchers have discovered a treatment capable of reducing the debilitating autoimmune response that occurs in people suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS).
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily - revealed
06-05-2013
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by Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)
The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk " regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge Throws Out Verdict in Police Brutality Case
06-05-2013
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New York Times
When Sean Thomas sued 3 New York City police officers in 2009, claiming they had used excessive force against him, he appeared to have a strong case. After his arrest the previous year during a dispute with his girlfriend at her home in the Bronx
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