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Date Sent: 2013-06-13
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, June 13, 2013 |
Obama Crack Down On Hundreds Of Medical Marijuana Shops In California
Are the Gold Bugs Wrong? -- "Hassle Free Zone" for Americans --
Water Discus Hotel to be built in the Maldives -- Kyle Bass: Japanese
Bond Market Is Teetering on Epic Ruin -- Is the NSA list
.....confirmation of the long rumored red/blue/yellow lists? -- Supreme Court says naturally occurring human DNA can't be patented -- Medicaid expansion foes shift strategy -- As Japan seeks revival, hedge funds bet on horrifying bond bust --
We try to collect it all and hold it forever: Intel agencies cozy
relationship w/ academia/business -- Boycott these Monsanto-pandering
factory 'food' companies -- 06-13-13 -- Barry Hess - John Whitehead - Charles Goyette - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Precision Farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) -- Roaches, Mosquitoes, and Birds: The Coming Micro-Drone Revolution -- How to Control a Cockroach Using Your Smartphone -- Meet the Gallinippers: Huge Mosquitoes Spotted in Florida -- Japan Is Falling -- An Inconvenient Truth: Members of Congress Go Silent Over Prior False Testimony On Surveillance -- Quantum Computing Could Lead To A Gigantic Leap Forward -- James Bovard: The Reality of Feel-Good Government -- Blowback in Somalia -- The Libertarian Lessons of South Park -- Global shares drop, dollar slumps as rout gathers pace -- US
wildfires destroy scores of homes -- What Happens To Women When
They're Denied Abortions? -- Author John Whitehead Warns Against the Emerging American Police
State -- Challenging Unconstitutional Spying -- Turkey: Epicenter of
Police State Violence
AZ: Fundraiser raffle (tickets almost gone; June 15 drawing)
for Steve Porak's Cancer Treatment - 36" Ferret .50 BMG on an Olympic AR-15 Lower Receiver; Jordan Page coming to AZ Freedom Fest
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News Link • States' Rights
Feds Crack Down On Hundreds Of Medical Marijuana Shops In California
06-13-2013
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Business Insider
Federal prosecutors have sent dozens of letters warning medical marijuana shops in Los Angeles and Long Beach to shut down or risk potential criminal or civil action.
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News Link • Architecture
Water Discus Hotel to be built in the Maldives
06-13-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com
Polish architectural and deep-sea engineering company Deep Ocean Technology has inked a deal with Ridgewood Hotels and Suites Pvt. Ltd. to build its futuristic part-underwater Water Discus Hotel just off the shore of Kuredhivaru Island in the Maldive
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday June 13th 2013
06-13-2013
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LewRockwell.com
Anarchism, Minarchism, Ron Paul, and Me Walter Block makes distinctions / Torture, Imprisonment, and Even Death Paul Rosenberg on the penalty for telling the truth / The US Schemes To Be the World Government
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
Haast's Eagle Revisited
06-13-2013
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arclein
The researchers used modern instruments such as CAT scans to conclude that Haast’s eagle had a pelvis strong enough to deliver a killing blow while diving at speeds close to 80 kilometers per hour. Not only that, but the female eagle shared similar d
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mach 20 Scramjet
06-13-2013
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arclein
During the test, the WaveRider’s scramjet engine ignited high above the Pacific Ocean, thrusting the demonstrator to a speed of nearly 6,245 kilometers per hour (KPH), just over five times the speed of sound. Scramjet stands for supersonic combustion
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate Talks Collapse
06-13-2013
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arclein
When the UN climate talks opened in Bonn last week, Russia, joined by Ukraine and Belarus, blocked adoption of the agenda of the “Subsidiary Body for Implementation” (SBI). The SBI is the key negotiating track towards signing a UN climate treaty in P
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Tim Samaras's Last Storm Videos
06-13-2013
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nationalgeographic.com
June 3, 2013"Tim Samaras spent more than 30 years researching tornadoes. Samaras submitted this footage to National Geographic in the weeks leading up to his death, as part of his last storm-research expedition.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
The Surprising History and Science of Tear Gas
06-13-2013
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nationalgeographic.com
Technically a chemical weapon, tear gas is seeing heavy use in Turkish protests.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Kyle Bass: Japanese Bond Market Is Teetering on Epic Ruin
06-13-2013
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MoneyNews.Com
High-stakes hedge fund operator Kyle Bass is making a full-blown bet that Japan's bond market and its currency will spin out of control in a fresh financial earthquake.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Geology
Yosemite's Iconic El Capitan Mapped in High-Res 3-D
06-13-2013
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nationalgeographic.com
While many graduate students spend days in a lab or in front of a computer, Roger Putnam, a master's candidate at the University of North Carolina, spent up to three days at a time on the sheer face of a cliff, suspended thousands of feet above ....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Is the NSA list .....confirmation of the long rumored red/blue/yellow lists?
06/13/2013
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http://godlikeproductions.com
al cuppett was a guest here at glpvc back in 2010 he talked about how he was found to be on one of those lists
al cuppet video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QNJk4heNDM
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court says naturally occurring human DNA can't be patented
06-13-2013
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Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled partially for Myriad Genetics Inc on the closely watched issue of whether human genes can be patented, deciding synthetically produced genetic material can be patented but naturally occurring DNA cannot.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
Medicaid expansion foes shift strategy
06-13-2013
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Arizona Republic
Two former state lawmakers and a Pima County Republican official are organizing a petition drive to have voters decide the Medicaid issue, which could postpone its implementation until after the November 2014 general election.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Economy - International
As Japan seeks revival, hedge funds bet on horrifying bond bust
06-13-2013
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Japan Times
Shock-and-awe monetary policies, announced in April, have sent Japanese government bonds, the nation’s equivalent of U.S. Treasury notes, into a whirl of volatility.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
We try to collect it all and hold it forever: Intel agencies cozy relationship w/ academia/business
06-10-2013
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Kim Sengupta, The Independent
An ODNI briefing paper stated that the philosophy had become: “We Can’t Spy … If We Can’t Buy!” By 2010 about 1,930 private companies worked on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence at more than 10,000 sites across
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Activism
Boycott these Monsanto-pandering factory 'food' companies
06-13-2013
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naturalnews.com
If Americans are truly serious about making real progress in the fight against genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), then we are going to have to take things to the next level by voting with our wallets, and boycotting every single factory food.....
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Surveillance
Roaches, Mosquitoes, and Birds: The Coming Micro-Drone Revolution
06-13-2013
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The Rutherford Institute
America will never be a “no drone zone.” That must be acknowledged from the outset. There is too much money to be made on drones, for one, and too many special interest groups...who have a vested interest in ensuring that drones are here to stay.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
An Inconvenient Truth: Members of Congress Go Silent Over Prior False Testimony On Surveillance
06-13-2013
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www.jonathanturley.org
The Republican and Democratic parties have achieved a bipartisan purpose in uniting against the public’s need to know about massive surveillance programs and the need to redefine privacy in a more surveillance friendly image. They have also united in
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Books
The Libertarian Lessons of South Park:
06-13-2013
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amazon.com/
The Libertarian Lessons of South Park: An Analysis of Libertarianism in South Park, How Ron Paul, Gary Johnson & South Park Created a New Generation of Libertarians & South Park Conservatives [Paperback]
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
WNBA debuts live high-definition 'Ref Cam'
06-13-2013
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dvice.com
The notion of wearing a cloud computer like Google Glass on your face has been met with varying degrees of enthusiasm and ridicule, but no one has denied the device's facility for capturing important moments in life from a first-person perspective.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Capture and release of individual cancer cells with fractal nanostructures
06-13-2013
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nanowerk.com
Fractals are structures built up from repeated sizings of a simple shape to make a complex one.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
The 5 Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation: 108 Movements to a Meditative Mind State
06-13-2013
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wakeup-world.com
just so happens that one of the quickest and simplest sets of meditative movements and one of the easiest to integrate as your own, is also one of the most powerful.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Global shares drop, dollar slumps as rout gathers pace
06-13-2013
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Reuters
World shares fell and the dollar slumped as a sell-off on global financial markets accelerated on concerns over whether central banks will continue the stimulus they have come to rely on. Stocks, bonds, commodities and the dollar were all
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Natural Disasters
US wildfires destroy scores of homes
06-13-2013
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youtube
High temperatures, gusty winds and bone-dry forests have fuelled wildfires in Colorado.Almost 100 homes have been burned and destroyed, and thousands of people have fled to safety.The army has been called in to the US state to prevent looting.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
The Energy Fix: Engineering Triumphs Over Wave And Tidal Forces
06-13-2013
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popsci.com
How water could be harnessed for roughly a third of U.S. annual electricity usage
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
The Astronomical Math Behind UPS’ New Tool to Deliver Packages Faster
06-13-2013
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Wired.com
In a sense, all business boils down to math. But some companies have tougher equations to solve than others.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Giant Balloon Launches Sun-Studying Telescope
06-13-2013
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space.com
A huge balloon lifted off from northern Sweden early Wednesday morning (June 12), carrying a telescope high into Earth's atmosphere to study the sun's magnetic field.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Goes 'Green': Next Spacecraft to Be Reusable
06-13-2013
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space.com
Since the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA has relied on Russian rockets to launch its astronauts to space. But the United States plans to have its own homemade spacecraft again soon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Author John Whitehead Warns Against the Emerging American Police State
06-13-2013
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The Rutherford Institute
In his new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State (SelectBooks, 2013), constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead paints a chilling portrait of a nation in the final stages of transformation into a police state, complete with
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News Link • Bill of Rights
U.S. disrupts al-Qaeda’s online magazine
06-11-2013
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Washington Post
U.S. intelligence operatives covertly sabotaged a prominent al-Qaeda online magazine last month in an apparent attempt to sow confusion among the group’s followers, according to officials.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Boulder woman disturbed by police policy to enter unsecured residences
06-11-2013
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Boulder residents who intentionally leave their doors open, may unintentionally be inviting a Boulder police officer in for a visit. Chrissy Smiley learned this fact in surprising fashion when she returned to her condo to find a card from a officer s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
JFK
06-11-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
After reading Jacob G. Hornberger's brilliant article, "JFK and the Deferentials," watch this YouTube clip of JFK Assassination researcher John Judge from the "JFK: Cinema as History" conference) which reveals more about "the why" of the JFK assassin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Spy center missed bomb suspect, watched JP peace activists
06-11-2013
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A controversial police spy agency overlooked the alleged Boston Marathon bombing mastermind, but kept secret files on local peace activists"possibly including marathon rescue hero Carlos Arredondo.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Former Dutch PM admits Holland has 22 American nukes
06-11-2013
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Daily Mail
Holland is harboring 22 'completely pointless' nuclear bombs belonging to the United States in secret underground bunkers, a senior Dutch politician has revealed. Former prime minister Ruud Lubbers broke a mysterious political omerta
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News Link • Religion: Believers
'Gay lobby' in the Vatican, says Pope Francis
06-11-2013
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http://www.telegraph.co, By Tom Kington, Rome
Pope Francis has admitted that a "gay lobby" exists within the Vatican's administration and is planning to take action about it, according to reports.
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News Link • Martial Law
Main Core: A List Of Millions Of Americans That Will Be Subject To Detention During Martial Law
06-11-2013
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Prison Planet
Are you on the list? Are you one of the millions of Americans that have been designated a threat to national security by the U.S. government
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News Link • Afghanistan
Bomb targets Afghanistan Supreme Court (0:45)
06-11-2013
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http://www.reuters.com,
June 11 - At least eight are dead after a car bomb detonates near buses carrying Supreme Court staff home for the day in the Afghan capital. Lindsey Parietti reports.
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News Link • Economy - International
Bond Market Tremors Get Louder
06-11-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
It appears the cracks in the armor of the central bankers created by an over-enthusiastic BoJ's impact on the quadrillion JPY JGB markets are now rippling through the global market place.
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News Link • Surveillance
Germany Demands Obama Explain "American-Style Stasi Methods"
06-11-2013
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zerohedge.com
When even Zee Germans are staring open-mouthed at what they call "American-style Stasi methods" you know things have got a little out of hand.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
Is The Eurozone Crisis Set To Flare Up?
06-11-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Submitted by Lance Roberts of Street Talk Live blog,
I have written in the past that all is not solved in the Euro-zone.
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News Link • Surveillance
The Evolution Of The NSA's Domestic Spying
06-11-2013
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popsci.com
The Electronic Frontier Foundation records happenings at the National Security Agency since September 11, 2001.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America
06-11-2013
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guardian.co.uk
Snowden's whistleblowing gives us a chance to roll back what is tantamount to an 'executive coup' against the US constitution
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Dr. Obamalove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love a Police State
06-11-2013
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jonathanturley.org
Below is my column in this week’s U.S. News & World Report, which is part of a debate over the question:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Humor
It's Not About the Nail
06-11-2013
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Jason Headley on Vimeo
"Don't try to fix it. I just need you to listen." Every man has heard these words. And they are the law of the land. No matter what. (Publisher: OMG... TRUTH!)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Agriculture
Farmers Sue Monsanto For Runaway Wheat Losses
06-11-2013
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arclein
Almost immediately, Japan and South Korea cancelled wheat purchase contracts from the United States, and more cancellations are expected to follow. The more countries reject U.S. wheat due to GMO contamination (genetic pollution), the lower w
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