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Date Sent: 2013-10-01
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, September 30, 2013 |
Telco exec who resisted NSA Joe Nacchio released after four years in jail
The NSA Deserves a Permanent Shutdown -- From NSA Spying to Domestic
Drones: A Round-Up of Police State Programs NOT Affected by a Shutdown
-- Matchstick-sized sensor can record your private chats -- IPCC
digested: Just leave the fossil fuels underground -- Robotics revolution
to replace most human workers in three generations -- Netanyahu in
Washington -- We've All Seen the Bait - Heeere Comes the Switch! -- Police to execute warrants in 15-ton-vehicle capable of withstanding
‘nuclear environment’ -- Korean scientists create gasoline producing
E. coli bacteria -- NSA built secret shadow
social network GETPRISM — and you’ve already joined it -- Missing
1933 Three Stooges film discovered in Australian garden shed --
NASA’s glowing plane improves the flow of aeronautic design -- Ron Paul: A Grand Bargain
for Liberty? -- Solar Fleecing: Lucrative Government Contract
Awarded to SolarCity -- Private Space Race: 2 Commercial Spaceships
Now Available for Space Station Deliveries -- Journalist becomes
first person charged under Operation Tuleta -- Smartphones and
3D films 'cause digital motion sickness' -- SHAPIRO: Lifting the
right to carry firearms -- Airlines’ newest fees pay for
legroom, better food -- The Government Is Spying Through Our PCs,
Phones, Cars, Buses. . .Mobile Scanners, Smart Meters, etc -- Close
the N.S.A.’s Back Doors -- Campaign to halt Peru cat-eating festival
-- What a Way to Run the Country -- NSA: Rogue Spying Writ Large
AZ: Scottsdale Healthcare is holding a Flu Vaccination
Drill Thursday, Oct 3; FREEDOM SUMMIT 2014 REGISTRATION
Announcement; Freedom Under the Stars! Jordan Page playing in
Tempe, AZ - Oct 18th, 2013
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News Link • Police State
Telco exec who resisted NSA Joe Nacchio released after four years in jail
09-30-2013
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Mr. Nacchio still believes his insider-trading prosecution was government retaliation for rebuffing requests in 2001 from the NSA to access his customers' phone records. His plans to use that belief as a defense at trial never materialized
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The NSA Deserves a Permanent Shutdown
09-30-2013
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Common Dreams
To the people in control of the Executive Branch, violating our civil liberties is an essential government service. So -- to ensure total fulfillment of Big Brother’s vast responsibilities -- the National Security Agency is insulated from any fiscal
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
From NSA Spying to Domestic Drones: A Round-Up of Police State Programs NOT Affected by a Shutdown
09-30-2013
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John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute
While a government shutdown will inevitably impact everything from Head Start, and key welfare services to national museums and IRS audits, the one area not impacted in the least will be the police/surveillance state and its various militarized agenc
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Energy
Voltaic Systems Debuts Redesigned Switch Solar Bag
09-30-2013
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earthtechling.com
In many cases, tablets have replaced laptops as the go-to portable computing device.
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News Link • Surveillance
Matchstick-sized sensor can record your private chats
09-30-2013
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newscientist.com
A sensor previously used for military operations can now be tuned to secretly locate and record any single conversation on a busy street
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Energy
IPCC digested: Just leave the fossil fuels underground
09-30-2013
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newscientist.com
Hundreds of thousands of words will be written about the latest report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Here, in 10 words, is the bottom line: we have to leave most fossil fuels in the ground. It really is that simple.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Viagra overdose forces man to have his penis amputated
09-30-2013
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naturalnews.com
Colombian man recently experienced the ultimate strike to his manhood following an overdose with the popular erectile dysfunction drug Viagra (sildenafil citrate).
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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Reference Link • Day of Reckoning
The Apocalypse Is Upon Us
www.thecommonseneshow.com
The total obliteration of the Constitution is at hand and the legal mechanisms and rules for living in a post-apocalyptic America are clearly in place. And it could all happen in the next 45 days
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Activism
TRUTH BE TOLD! Geo-Engineering/ Chemtrails
09-29-2013
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Chris Haskell
Round Two! The Truth is being told! Geo-Engineering / Chemtrails. Reporter Chris Haskell (Real News Tucson) Look at all the potential here! Namaste
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Chris Haskell
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Conspiracy Illusion of the Masters
09-30-2013
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arclein
“I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” "Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (1801"1809) and principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776), in a
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robert klein
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News Link • Environment
Old Concrete Can Protect Nature
09-30-2013
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arclein
We have shown that crushed concrete can bind up to 90 per cent of phosphorus, "says PhD student and environmental engineer, Melanie Sonderup, Department of Biology at the University of Southern Denmark.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
DCA Progress With Cancer
09-30-2013
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arclein
But this is unlikely to happen anytime soon, as there is currently no patent on DCA, and thus no incentive for private industry to research its potential benefits as a cancer treatment -- it's all about the money, after all, not public health. And g
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What if I Told You Carrots Cure Cancer?
09-30-2013
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arclein
a daily regimen of 5 pounds of juiced carrots (one quart to a quart and one-third daily). Ann juiced in the morning, drank a glass and then refrigerated the rest, which she finished off throughout the day. Ann faithfully continued juicin
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare
We've All Seen the Bait - Heeere Comes the Switch!
09-30-2013
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Weekly Standard Via Drudge
"Obamacare Website Quietly Deletes Reference to 'Free Health Care'"
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police to execute warrants in 15-ton-vehicle capable of withstanding ‘nuclear environment’
09-30-2013
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Rawstory
The MRAP “appears to be in good shape” and “runs good,” and is “[b]est described as a Dump Truck with a personnel carrier body.” It will be used, according to the memo, to “provide warrants execution”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Korean scientists create gasoline producing E. coli bacteria
09-30-2013
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Rawstory
Where the rubber hits the road is getting the fatty acids to convert to their corresponding gasoline alkanes, which the team achieved by introducing a new pathway while enhancing the culture environment.
The result is a gasoline solution or “broth
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA built secret shadow social network GETPRISM " and you’ve already joined it
09-30-2013
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Rawstory
Folks from Datacoup put together the very amusing GETPRSM website, which looks very much like the announcement of a new social network, but (the joke is) it's really the NSA scooping up all our data and making the connections.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Missing 1933 Three Stooges film discovered in Australian garden shed
09-30-2013
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The Guardian
A Three Stooges short previously thought lost in a 1967 fire has just received its first screening since being rediscovered in a garden shed in Australia. "Hello, Pop!," a 17-minute short made for MGM in 1933 featuring the Stooges alongside
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News Link • Agriculture
Can aquaponics feed the German capital?
09-30-2013
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smartplanet.com
At the furthest end of a century-old beer brewery yard in Berlin, a shipping container with a greenhouse on top hums with the gentle sound of pumping water.
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News Link • 3D Printing
NASA 3D printer: The next revolution in space?
09-30-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
NASA 3D printer could be used to make tools and spare parts for the International Space Station by next year, instead of shipping them up from Earth. NASA is working with Made in Space to produce a 3D printer.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Commercial Supply Ship Reaches Space Station
09-30-2013
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pddnet.com
NASA's newest delivery service pulled up at the International Space Station on Sunday after a week's delay, bringing more than a half-ton of meals and special treats to the astronauts who assisted in the high-flying feat.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul: A Grand Bargain for Liberty?
09-30-2013
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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
As I write this, it appears that the federal government is about to shut down because the House and Senate cannot agree on whether to add language defunding or delaying Obamacare to the “Continuing Resolution”.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Waste
Solar Fleecing: Lucrative Government Contract Awarded to SolarCity
09-24-2013
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Tucson Citizen
The U.S. government is now the country’s largest rooftop solar customer…and you’re paying for it. Recently, SolarCity, a California-based solar company, announced that it will lease solar units, a 5-year, $1 billion dollar plan to supply solar power
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Space Race: 2 Commercial Spaceships Now Available for Space Station Deliveries
09-30-2013
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space.com
Two private American companies are now responsible for hauling cargo to the International Space Station.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Journalist becomes first person charged under Operation Tuleta
09-30-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
A former Sun journalist has become the first person to be charged as part of Operation Tuleta, Scotland Yard’s investigation into allegations of computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Smartphones and 3D films 'cause digital motion sickness'
09-30-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
A form of motion sickness triggered by smartphones, 3D films and computer games could become increasingly commonplace as graphics get more realistic, it has been claimed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
SHAPIRO: Lifting the right to carry firearms
09-30-2013
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washingtontimes.com
Earlier this month, the Illinois Supreme Court struck down a state ban on carrying a firearm in public.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airlines’ newest fees pay for legroom, better food
09-30-2013
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washingtontimes.com
Want more legroom? Better flight food? Thanks to new airline policies going into effect this week, even coach fliers can now obtain these first-class luxuries " for a price.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
The Government Is Spying Through Our PCs, Phones, Cars, Buses. . .Mobile Scanners, Smart Meters, etc
09-23-2013
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WashingtonsBlog
The American government is in fact collecting and storing virtually every phone call, purchases, email, text message, internet searches, social media communications, health information, employment history, travel and student records, and virtually al
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Close the N.S.A.’s Back Doors
09-21-2013
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New York Times
Because modern cryptography can be so hard to break, even using the brute force of the agency’s powerful supercomputers, the agency prefers to collaborate with big software companies and cipher authors, getting hidden access built right into their sy
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Campaign to halt Peru cat-eating festival
09-20-2013
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AP
A Peruvian congressman has joined animal rights activists to try and halt the consumption of barbecued cat at an annual religious festival.
The activists say at least 100 cats will be eaten at this weekend's festival of Santa Efigenia in La Quebrada
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media
09-28-2013
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The Guardian
Don't even get him started on the New York Times which, he says, spends "so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would" " or the death of Osama bin Laden. "Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie,
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News Link • Syria
McCain’s Moderates Join Al-Qaeda
09-27-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Senator John McCain was just sure he could pick moderates in Syria worth supporting. To prove his point he made a trip to Syria this spring to demonstrate how much the insurgents were just like us, struggling for democracy and equal rights for all.
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News Link • Surveillance
Clapper Returns To The Senate And Is Joined By Senators In Denouncing The Media and Snowden
09-27-2013
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Jonathan Turley
We have a Constitution that prohibits warrantless searches and seizures. We have a government " and a President " who previously misled us about the existence of such programs. We have Senators who knew of the prior deception
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News Link • Homeland Security
Don’t Pull in Front of a Fatherland “Security” Bureaucrat on a Highway . . .
09-27-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
. . . or he may follow you to a parking lot and fire a 40 caliber pistol into the side of your car, like this moron did in Boca Raton, Florida a few weeks ago. Fortunately, the round did not hit the 2-year-old boy who was in his car seat at the time
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News Link • Drug War
3 ex-soldiers accused of plot to kill DEA agent
09-27-2013
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AP
Two former American soldiers faced charges they plotted to kill a US drug enforcement agent and an informant for $800,000 in an assassination plan created by drug agents who wanted to catch trained snipers gone bad, authorities said.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Philly Transit Police Chief Surprised Witnesses did not call 911 to Report Cop getting Beat up
09-27-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Philadelphia transit police are upset that people witnessing an officer getting beat up by an alleged fare jumper inside the subway system just stood by and watched without calling 911, including one person who pulled out a phone to video record the
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News Link • Internet
California Decides It Rules the Interwebz
09-27-2013
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Simple Justice
The first, and most overarching, issue is who made California the ruler of the web? The internet knows no jurisdiction, but that didn’t stop California from deciding that it was large and in charge. Does California get to tell New York websites what
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, September 29, 2013
09-27-2013
John Semmens
Dems Assail GOP Opposition
In an interview with CNN, Senior White House Adviser Dan Pfeiffer asserted that House Republicans are “worse than suicide bombers. The damage done by a suicide bomber is normally confined to a few dozen. Even in the case
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
McCain Hires Disgraced Syria ‘Expert’ Elizabeth O’Bagy
John Glaser
09-27-2013
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http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/09/27/mccain-hires-di
O’Bagy is now disgraced, after it was revealed that her opinions on the rebels are not exactly objective since she was part of a pro-Syrian rebel lobbying group and often did not disclose this fact to people seeking her counsel on how awesome the reb
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News Link • Technology: Software
You cannot believe anything you see on TV. New tech creates fake footage in real time. STAR WARS
09-27-2013
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www.thatvideosite.com
WAG THE DOG just got digital and instantaneous!!
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Militia
As Az. Militia members take lower profile/higher security approach, news media seeks more alarm
09-27-2013
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KPHO CBS5 News
The militia movement is attracting a lot of combat vets and getting serious about OPSEC,...and that scares the MSM sheep.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate Scientists Issue Their Report. Now It’s Our Turn
09-27-2013
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Time.com
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases the first chapter of its new report on global warming. The findings are clear, but the politics remain murky
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Police Debut Stun Cuffs: Electroshock Restraints More Powerful Than Tasers
09-27-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kit Daniels
A Missouri Sheriff’s Department is testing electronic restraints called “Stun Cuffs,” which can deliver up to 80,000 volts to an inmate’s arm or leg by remote control.
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News Link • Government
WHOA! Gov Targets Private Bank Accounts...
09-27-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Mac Slavo
WHOA! Gov Targets Private Bank Accounts: Seizes Funds Of Innocent Americans Without Charge or Trial
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News Link • Currencies
...We're Witnessing One of the Greatest Failed Experiments in Economic History
09-27-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Adam Taggart
Jim Rickards: We're Witnessing One of the Greatest Failed Experiments in Economic History
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News Link • Climate Change
Global Warming Believers are Feeling the Heat
09-27-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By James Delingpole
On Friday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivers its latest verdict on the state of man-made global warming.
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News Link • Books
Ex-Spy Christopher Boyce on Snowden, WikiLeaks, and NSA Backdoors
09-27-2013
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Wired.com
A smart young dropout is welcomed into a promising career in the top secret world of U.S. defense contracting, but he’s quickly shocked to discover the deception practiced by America’s intelligence agencies at the highest levels.
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News Link • Government
12 True Tales of Creepy NSA Cyberstalking
09-27-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Kevin Poulsen
The NSA has released some details of 12 incidents in which analysts used their access to America’s high-tech surveillance infrastructure to spy on girlfriends, boyfriends, and random people they met in social settings.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War with Syria and Iran will be Hell on Earth-Gerald Celente
09-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Trends researcher Gerald Celente says President Obama’s handling of the Syrian conflict deeply damaged his credibility. Celente says, “It was the presidential amateur hour and reality show all rolled into one. I have never seen such poor performanc
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