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Date Sent: 2013-11-15
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, November 15, 2013 |
Could You Please Speak Into The Ankle?
Staking out Twitter and Facebook, new service lets police poke perps -- Google transparency report curiously opaque, thanks to FBI gag order -- Fruitful Ties to a Member of China’s Elite: JPMorgan and Wen Jiabao -- Stop & Frisk: Did The Circus Leave Town? -- Virginia Police Under Investigation After Video Shows Man Being Tasered For 42 Consecutive Seconds -- Has the Fed Met Its Match? - by Jeffrey Tucker -- The New Silk Road -- In Praise of Looters: Harry Binswanger’s Defense of Goldman Sachs -- Meet Dark Wallet: How Crypto-Anarchists Will Store Their Bitcoins --
Against Medical Recommendations, FDA Approves Potent New Painkiller
-- Scientists Confirm World's Oldest Creature...But Kill it
Determining Its Age -- Secret Trade Pact Will Spread U.S.
Copyright Rules Abroad -- Why Iran Nuclear Talks Failed and
Why They Will Get Tougher -- NSA Transparency Hurts Americans’
Privacy, Feds Say With Straight Face -- Boeing: Biggest state
subsidy in U.S. history -- 8 Years Later, Google’s Book Scanning
Crusade Ruled ‘Fair Use’ -- Preventing War with Iran Is Top
Priority -- Attorney For Freedom Show: Jim Sharpe -- Opium
Cultivation in Afghanistan Soars to Record -- The Ideological
Roots of New Deal Statism -- Again: All US Talk on ‘Iran’s Nuclear
Program’ are OBVIOUS Lies -- Reports: Russia to Help Iran Build
Second Nuclear Reactor -- Pot vaporizer boom leads to secret
stoners -- Google says U.S. data requests have more than tripled
since 2009 -- Freedom and Federalism -- A Warning From
Anonymous: 9/11 Style Attack in LA in May Be Imminent --
Living on Two Paychecks or on Too Many Expectations? -- California lawmaker says he was asked to wear wire
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Could You Please Speak Into The Ankle?
11-14-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
An update on the creeping surveillance state: An alarming report out of Puerto Rico finds that some ankle bracelets given to suspects out on bail or parole may have the ability to listen to and record conversations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Staking out Twitter and Facebook, new service lets police poke perps
11-14-2013
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ars technica
Called Social Media Monitor, the cloud-based service will watch social networks for comments and activities that might offer clues to crimes in the physical world. With direct connections into a variety of social media services' feeds, it will help p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Google transparency report curiously opaque, thanks to FBI gag order
11-14-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
The semiannual report, which documents who is asking Google for information on its users, reveals a steady surge in government requests for Google users' data. The company received 12,539 requests in the last 6 months of 2009; in the first half of 20
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Fruitful Ties to a Member of China’s Elite: JPMorgan and Wen Jiabao
11-14-2013
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To promote its standing in China, JPMorgan turned to an obscure consulting firm run by a 32-year-old executive named Lily Chang. Ms. Chang’s firm, which received a $75,000-a-month contract from JPMorgan, appeared to have 2 employees.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Stop & Frisk: Did The Circus Leave Town?
11-14-2013
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Simple Justice
In a pair of rulings, the same 2d Circuit panel that announced that District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin “ran afoul of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges” announced, per curiam, they were only kidding.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Virginia Police Under Investigation After Video Shows Man Being Tasered For 42 Consecutive Seconds
11-14-2013
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Jonathan Turley
An investigation in Fredericksburg, Virginia after the posting of a YouTube clip show police tasering, Lantz Day, 36, for what appears to be 42 consecutive seconds. On the video below, you can hear what sounds like the taser and Day screaming
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
Has the Fed Met Its Match? - by Jeffrey Tucker
11-14-2013
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A fed researcher took a look at the prospects for market-based crypto-currency, especially Bitcoin. It concludes Bitcoin is not a viable replacement for the dollar. The report includes some dark hints that should it ever become so, it should be crush
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
The New Silk Road
11-14-2013
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There is no doubt that paranoia is warranted. Indeed, paranoia is the name of the game in the underground economy. When dealing in “crimes” that could get you locked away in a cage for years with no expectation of being treated as a human,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
In Praise of Looters: Harry Binswanger’s Defense of Goldman Sachs
11-14-2013
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Harry Binswanger’s 2011 praise of Goldman Sachs at Forbes.com ignores the context that the US does not have a free market economy. The US is a mixed economy, whose financial sector is monopolized by banking cartels.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bitcoin
Meet Dark Wallet " How Crypto-Anarchists Will Store Their Bitcoins
11/14/2013
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http://defdist.org/
Dark Wallet is a light browser wallet relying on an independent Bitcoin implementation with out-of-the-box security and privacy features. Release early 2014. Dark Wallet is a project of unSYSTEM and Defense Distributed that starts with simple premise
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Gunnar Standard
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News Link • Technology: Software
Cognitive Computing For All: IBM Releases a Legion of Watsons
11-14-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Erik Sofge
Watson is dead. IBM’s Jeopardy-winning computer, whose calculations resided on a custom-built bank of servers roughly the size of a master bedroom, is no more.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Against Medical Recommendations, FDA Approves Potent New Painkiller
11-14-2013
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popsci.com
The FDA's medical advisory board voted against approving Zohydro, an opioid painkiller drug with up to 10 times more hydrocodone than Vicodin.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Interactive Infographic: What Would A Hyperloop Nation Look Like?
11-14-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Katie Peek
If Elon Musk's mass-transit plan came to fruition, this is what it would mean for travel.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Scientists Confirm World's Oldest Creature...But Kill it Determining Its Age
11-14-2013
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breitbart.com
In 2006, climate change experts from Bangor University in north Wales found a very special clam while dredging the seabeds of Iceland.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Secret Trade Pact Will Spread U.S. Copyright Rules Abroad
11-14-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multi-national trade agreement the United States is negotiating in secret, seeks to export U.S.-styled intellectual-property rules abroad, according to a leaked chapter of the deal WikiLeaks published today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Why Iran Nuclear Talks Failed and Why They Will Get Tougher
11-14-2013
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truth-out.org
The chance for a first preliminary agreement between Iran and the six powers (US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China) to resolve the decade-long conflict over Iran's nuclear program was lost during the weekend because of a deliberate French policy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
NSA Transparency Hurts Americans’ Privacy, Feds Say With Straight Face
11-14-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
Adding limited public accountability to the NSA’s vast electronic spying programs would actually harm the privacy of Americans, Obama administration officials told a Senate hearing today.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Weird Nanophotonic Materials Bend and Trap Light to Make Crazy Colors
11-14-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Nadia Drake
Normally, the colors we perceive are determined by the wavelengths of light reflected by objects in the world around us. But not all surfaces reflect light the same way.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Boeing: Biggest state subsidy in U.S. history
11-14-2013
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blog.seattlepi.com
The Boeing Co. was the beneficiary of a deal to end all deals this past weekend, when the Washington Legislature voted to extend $8.7 billion in tax breaks to the aircraft manufacturer stretching out 27 years until 2040.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
8 Years Later, Google’s Book Scanning Crusade Ruled ‘Fair Use’
11-14-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Cade Metz
Eight years after a group of authors and publishers sued Google for scanning more than 20 million library books without the permission of rights holders, a federal judge has ruled that the web giant’s sweeping book project stayed within the bounds of
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Preventing War with Iran Is Top Priority
11-14-2013
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fff.org
The best way to keep Iran from building a nuclear bomb is for the Obama administration and its nuclear client Israel to stop threatening the Islamic Republic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A Neuroscientist’s Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious
11-14-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Brandon Keim
It’s a question that’s perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Marc Victor
Attorney For Freedom Show " Jim Sharpe
11-14-2013
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Attorney For Freedom Show
Jim Sharpe is our guest today on the Attorney For Freedom Show
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Food
See-Through Sushi, Anyone? 13 Insane Applications of In Vitro Meat
11-14-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Liz Stinson
In vitro technology is used to grow meat into a Meat Flower. This sweet and savory appetizer is consumed using chopsticks.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Opium Cultivation in Afghanistan Soars to Record
11-14-2013
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online.wsj.com
Surge Marks Setback to International Efforts to Combat Drug Trade
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Humor: Montana Releases Map Of All Gun Owners
11-14-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Mac Slavo
The State of Montana, inspired by the recent release of home addresses of gun owners in New York, has followed suit.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Syria
Quitting Over Syria
11-14-2013
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theamericanconservative.com
The release of the White House “Government Assessment” on August 30, providing the purported evidence to support a bombing attack on Syria, defused a conflict with the intelligence community that had threatened to become public through the mass .....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
The Ideological Roots of New Deal Statism
11-14-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Jeff Taylor
Woodrow Wilson may be the worst president in U.S. history, but his ideological heir, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was probably the most important president because he played such a pivotal role.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Noah' trailers: Russell Crowe fights natural disasters of biblical proportions -- VIDEO
11-14-2013
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insidemovies.ew.com
In Noah, director Darren Aronofsky’s Old Testament epic, Russell Crowe plays the titular biblical figure who must save his family from God’s impending wrath of natural disasters.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Again: All US Talk on ‘Iran’s Nuclear Program’ are OBVIOUS Lies
11-14-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Carl Herman
As US “leaders” threaten more unlawful war on Iran, the following three points document that the ongoing “reasons” to war-murder Iranians are known lies as they are being told.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Reports: Russia to Help Iran Build Second Nuclear Reactor
11-14-2013
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freebeacon.com
Deal comes as White House fights new sanctions
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Pot vaporizer boom leads to secret stoners
11-14-2013
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nypost.com
The 40th birthday party in the Catskills this past summer was full of adult entertainment: swimming, a pig roast and a few joints.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Google says U.S. data requests have more than tripled since 2009
11-14-2013
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Washington Post
Google's latest transparency report is out, and with it comes news that should be shocking to no one: Federal, state and local governments keep asking for more and more data.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Freedom and Federalism
11-14-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Andrew P Napolitano
One of the bedrocks of our governmental infrastructure is federalism.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • False Flag Operations
A Warning From Anonymous " 9/11 Style Attack in LA in May Be Imminent
11-14-2013
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Prison Planet
The world renowned hacker activist group “Anonymous” issued one of their civic-minded warnings yesterday on behalf of the people of Los Angeles.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • 3D Printing
How NASA Will Use 3D Printers in Space (Video)
11-14-2013
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http://www.space.com, by Nola Taylor Redd
Starting next fall, astronauts on the International Space Station won't have to wait months for replacement parts to be launched from Earth.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
California lawmaker says he was asked to wear wire
11-14-2013
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AP
Embattled state Sen. Ron Calderon says federal authorities wanted him to wear a wire and record conversations with the Senate leader and another lawmaker. After he refused they tried to ruin his reputation by raiding his offices and leaking an affida
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
GAO says there is no evidence that a TSA program to spot terrorists is effective
11-13-2013
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Washington Post
A federal review concludes there’s no solid evidence that airport checkpoint personnel have a clue when they scan the approaching line for suspicious passengers....there is no evidence that it’s effective for TSA officers to scan the crowd
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Airport wants drivers to stop dodging the Dulles Toll Road
11-13-2013
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Washington Post
Drivers hopping on the Dulles Access Highway to avoid paying a toll are going to encounter a beefed up police presence, officials announced this week.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Prosecutors clash with D.C. attorney general over records in ongoing city corruption probe
11-13-2013
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Washington Post
Federal investigators are asking questions about the District’s decision two years ago to pay out millions of dollars to the former city contractor at the center of the ongoing probe into Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s 2010 campaign.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Air Force colonel acquitted in sex assault case
11-13-2013
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Washington Post
An Air Force colonel accused of assaulting a young woman outside a Crystal City bar this past spring has been acquitted by an Arlington jury. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, 42, was head of the Air Force’s sexual assault prevention branch when he was
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
US Refuses to Cooperate With Afghan Investigation Into War Crimes
11-13-2013
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http://antiwar.com, John Glaser
Last week, Matthieu Aikins at Rolling Stone shed light on evidence that U.S. forces committed war crimes against Afghans, including extra-judicial executions, torture, and disappearances of at least 17 men.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israel Announces Then Halts Plan for 24,000 New Settlement Homes
11-13-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com,
The Israeli government has been announcing major settlement expansions apace throughout the peace talks with the Palestinians, each time gambling that the Palestinians would complain but ultimately look the other way to keep the process going. Today,
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
A Deal With Iran -- or War With Iran?
11-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Which is exactly what Bibi wants.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ideas Created The Federal Reserve...Ideas Can Get Rid of It
11-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The Washington Post‘s Wonkblog, which can be counted on to defend every government mischief imaginable, reports on an “all-star economic conference” that took place in DC. Whenever you hear of an “economic conference” in DC, it can only mean trouble.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
America and Israel Created a Monster Computer Virus Which Now Threatens Nuclear Reactors Worldwide
11-13-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
In their obsession to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the U.S. and Israel created a computer virus (called “Stuxnet”) to take out Iran’s nuclear reactors.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Another U.S. city mulls bankruptcy due to soaring wages and pensions
11-13-2013
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com, By Tim Reid
A resort town in California warned on Tuesday that it will run out of money by March due to burdensome salary and pension costs and could join other U.S. cities that have recently filed for bankruptcy protection.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Russia to Deploy Long-Range Attack Drone by 2016
11-13-2013
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http://freebeacon.com, Bill Gertz
Altius-M is Moscow’s first missile-firing UAV
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Seattle Police Deactivate Wi-Fi Spy Grid After Privacy Outcry
11-13-2013
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Prison Planet
SPD admit mesh network was never turned off after DHS testing phase
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
School’s New Spy System Places Children Under Complete Surveillance
11-13-2013
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Prison Planet
“Gunshot detectors” in classrooms surpass Big Brother in 1984 and the real East German Stasi
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Steven Anderson - Checkpoint Arrest
Seattle Police Announce Temporary ‘Mesh Network’ Deactivation Following Major Document Leak
11-13-2013
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Prison Planet
The Seattle Police Department announced Tuesday evening that it will begin temporarily deactivating the city’s massive wireless mesh network following a major document release detailing the network’s expansive web of surveillance abilities.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Homemade fire bomb goes off outside Oregon courthouse
11-13-2013
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Reuters
A propane gas tank rigged up as a homemade bomb exploded in flames outside a courthouse before dawn on Wednesday in the southwestern Oregon town of Medford. No one was hurt and damage was minor, police said.
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