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Date Sent: 2013-12-12
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
Russian diplomats accused of $1.5M Medicaid fraud
28 Fallacies about Fukushima -- NSA Also Spying on World of Warcraft, Xbox Live -- NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking -- Fake 'Signer' at
Mandela Memorial Outrages Deaf -- Fukushima continues to contaminate
environment; cleanup expected to take decades -- Hemp: the most versatile plant in the world
that is still prohibited from being grown -- It won’t be long
before you no longer have any rights in your own home --
IntellectualRevolution.TV Inspirational Quotes -- The Coalition for
Open Debates 2016 -- Rémi GAILLARD vs POLICE -- #HoodieTheHomeless
Lands in San Francisco -- The Pirate Bay resurfaces at a new
domain following seizure -- Best Military in the World,
Really? -- Taking a Stand: Resistance & Survival -- How To Buy
Bitcoins Completely Anonymously -- A US Spy Agency Came Up With The
Worst Possible Logo — And Jon Stewart Ripped It To Shreds -- Uruguay
Just Became The First Country To Legalize The Marijuana Trade --
What Is Happening To Alaska? Is Fukushima Responsible For The Mass
Animal Deaths? -- War Games: Making a Terminator II army a reality
-- Disturbing Obamacare Surprises -- AIPAC Pressure Threatens Iran
Nuclear Deal
AZ: Christmas Party @ the Hancock's - Sat
Dec 14th, 2013 - 5 p.m. til ??
NV: Passport to Freedom - Las Vegas, NV - January
23-25, 2014
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine December, 2013 Edition
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News Link • Healthcare
Russian diplomats accused of $1.5M Medicaid fraud
12-11-2013
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USA Today
Dozens of current or former Russian diplomats and their spouses enjoyed luxury vacations and spent tens of thousands of dollars on concert tickets, fine clothing and helicopter rides as they lied about their incomes to get the U.S. government to pay
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Natural Disasters
28 Fallacies about Fukushima
12-11-2013
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arclein
An article arguing that the West Coast is being “absolutely fried” by radiation also argues that the radiation won’t reach us until 2014.
“20. One recent study concluded that a very large plume of cesium-137 from the Fukushima disaster will start
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robert klein
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Also Spying on World of Warcraft, Xbox Live
12-11-2013
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Joe Coscarelli, New York Mag.
The government even has its eye on elves and orcs, according to the latest from Snowden's NSA leaks. ProPublica, reports that the NSA fears online games like World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Microsoft’s Xbox Live universe could serve as a “target-
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
12-10-2013
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Ashkan Soltani, Andrea Peterson, etc. Washington P
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Christmas Party @ the Hancock's - Sat Dec 14th, 2013 - 5 p.m. til ??
11-18-2013
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www.meetup.com/ArizonaLibertyR3VOLUTION
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and it's time to set aside the time for the annual Christmas Party - Please 'SAVE THE DATE': Saturday December 14th, 2013 from 5 p.m. til?? @ the Hancock's
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
GLPVCs TheRawFeedLive Wed Night Trifecta 3 hrs 3 shows 7-10pm est 12/11/13
12/11/2013
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http://therawfeedlive.com
7-8 pm est ISIS UNVEILING - w/guest Don Webb (Alistair Crowley)
*kingman arts tower of power will resume 1/1/14
8-10 pm est CE1 & Dr Acula - TheManCave 2 hour special *deer hunting*
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Quicksilver Demon
12-11-2013
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arclein
By that time, the contamination had spread across Minamata Bay, and it took 10 years and over $487 million (48.5 billion yen) to dredge its 1.5 million cubic meters of sludge. Nets preventing contaminated marine life from leaving the bay were in plac
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Comparing Vitamin, Mineral and Energy Content of GMO vs. Non-GMO
12-11-2013
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arclein
Most nations in the world have no GMO-Free platform to protect their citizens and although this is slowly changing, most nations are far behind places like Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Egypt, Russia and others who have GMO-Free or national bans on GMOs.
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robert klein
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Fake 'Signer' at Mandela Memorial Outrages Deaf
12-11-2013
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voanews.com
A fake sign language interpreter took to the stage during the memorial for anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, gesticulating gibberish before a global audience of millions and outraging deaf people across the world.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Fukushima continues to contaminate environment; cleanup expected to take decades
12-11-2013
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naturalnews.com
Cleanup efforts at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility were taken up a notch recently, as crews began hauling the spent fuel rods out of the infamous Reactor 4, which sustained terminal damage when the tsunami struck it back in 2011
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News Link • Books
Hemp: the most versatile plant in the world that is still prohibited from being grown ..
12-11-2013
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naturalnews.com
The original drafts of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written on paper derived from it.
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News Link • Architecture
Diébédo Francis Kéré: How to build with clay... and community
12-11-2013
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ted.com
Diébédo Francis Kéré knew exactly what he wanted to do when he got his degree in architecture… He wanted to go home to Gando in Burkina Faso, to help his neighbors reap the benefit of his education.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Privacy Rights
It won’t be long before you no longer have any rights in your own home
12-11-2013
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The Rutherford Institute/John Whitehead
If the government can tell you what you can and cannot do within the privacy of your home, whether it relates to what you eat, what you smoke or whom you love, you no longer have any rights whatsoever within your home.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Inspiration
IntellectualRevolution.TV Inspirational Quotes
12-11-2013
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IntellectualRevolution.TV
Mark Twain, Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Dalai Lama, Robert Frost, Nelson Mandela
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics
The Coalition for Open Debates 2016
12-11-2013
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The Coalition for Open Debates 2016
The coalition is not about any one of us. The coalition is about all of us. All of us coming together regardless of political party or ideology under the common banner of having more open debates in 2016.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
#HoodieTheHomeless Lands in San Francisco
12-11-2013
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BitcoinNotBombs.Com
Bitcoin Not Bombs has completed our crowd-funding campaign to purchase 325 hoodies to be distributed to the homeless of San Francisco, CA on December 22, 2013.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Movies
The Pirate Bay resurfaces at a new domain following seizure
12-11-2013
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TheVerge
Can't keep them down!
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Agorist Alma
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News Link • Military
Best Military in the World, Really?
12-1-2013
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JOHN LaFORGE, CounterPunch
US aggression, occupation, torture of prisoners, massacres, drone attacks, offshore penal colonies and sexual assaults against our own service members, take the luster from our official self-image of ‘exceptionality.’
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Self-Defense
Taking a Stand: Resistance & Survival
12-11-2013
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East Valley JCC
Date: January 11, 2014Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm - Location: Chandler Center for the Arts - 250 North Arizona Ave.- Chandler, AZ 85225 USA
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
There's A New Social Network That's Already The Number One App On iPhone
12-11-2013
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Business Insider
One app dominating the top of the charts right now has devised a clever way to deliver important information you care about.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Couchsurfing’s Sex Secret: It’s The Greatest Hook-Up App Ever Devised
12-11-2013
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Business Insider
Riccardo G.’s profile on CouchSurfing.com, the website that partners intrepid wanderers with willing hosts, notes that he lives in the “best neighborhood to go out and have drinks,” .....
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News Link • Bitcoin
How To Buy Bitcoins Completely Anonymously
12-11-2013
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Business Insider
As Bitcoin is a decentralized monetary system, it has a certain appeal to hardcore libertarian types who'd prefer to keep their money out of the government's sight and reach.
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
A US Spy Agency Came Up With The Worst Possible Logo " And Jon Stewart Ripped It To Shreds
12-11-2013
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Business Insider
Last week The National Reconnaissance Office launched a new satellite called NROL-39 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and a lot of people noticed a picture of a massive octopus straddling the earth.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Uruguay Just Became The First Country To Legalize The Marijuana Trade
12-11-2013
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Business Insider
Uruguay became the first country to legalize the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana on Tuesday, a pioneering social experiment that will be closely watched by other nations debating drug liberalization.
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News Link • Environment
What Is Happening To Alaska? Is Fukushima Responsible For The Mass Animal Deaths?
12-11-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Why are huge numbers of dead birds dropping dead and washing up along the coastlines of Alaska? It is being reported that many of the carcases of the dead birds are “broken open and bleeding”. The photo of some of these dead birds at the top of thi
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
USAF Band Holiday Flash Mob at the National Air and Space Museum
12-11-2013
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youtube
The United States Air Force Band performed a flash mob at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Dec. 3, 2013.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Humor
MSNBC Outdoes the Onion
12-11-2013
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Daily Paul.com
MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry claims that the word "Obamacare" was conceived as a derogatory term by "wealthy white men" to bring down Obama.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
This Sports Car Costs Only $30,000 " But You Have To Build It Yourself
12-11-2013
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Business Insider
A Canadian firm by the name of Dubuc Super Light Car has come out with a kit car that offers fans of performance driving an affordable and lightweight sports model.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hagel Threatens to Revoke Pakistan Aid Over Anti-Drone Protests
12-10-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Pentagon Chief Gets 'Assurances' From Sharif
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
No tailgating at Super Bowl
12-10-2013
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http://espn.go.com, By Jane McManus
Jane McManus discusses the reasons given by Super Bowl committee CEO Al Kelly indicating that tailgating will not be allowed.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Seymour Hersh Alleges Obama Administration Lied on Syria Gas Attack
12-10-2013
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http://news.yahoo.com, By Adrian Lee
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has dropped yet another bombshell allegation: President Obama wasn't honest with the American people when he blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a sarin-gas attack in that killed hundreds of civ
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Cold dis-comfort: Antarctica set record of -135.8
12-10-2013
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http://bigstory.ap.org, By SETH BORENSTEIN
Feeling chilly? Here's cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for "soul-crushing" cold.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
The End of Private Property in the Era of the American Police State
12-10-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
If the government can tell you what you can and cannot do within the privacy of your home, whether it relates to what you eat, what you smoke or whom you love, you no longer have any rights whatsoever within your home.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
May the Odds Ever be in your Favor " The Reaping
12-10-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
“Human history seems logical in afterthought but a mystery in forethought. In every prior Fourth Turning, the catalyst was foreseeable but the climax was not.” - The Fourth Turning " Strauss & Howe " 1997
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News Link • Police State
The NFL’s Role In the Coming Martial Law
12-10-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Whatever happened to just playing football? When I used to watch an NFL game on television, I only wanted to watch the game.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Wikileaks Releases Another Set of Trans-Pacific Partnership Documents
12-10-2013
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thelibertybeat.com
Early Monday Wikileaks released a second set of documents related to the ongoing discussion regarding the controversial trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Ron Paul: BitCoin Could Go Down In History As Destroyer Of The US Dollar
12-10-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Former Rep. Ron Paul, (R-Texas), on the future of Bitcoins and the Federal Reserve.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • States' Rights
New Legislation Would Ban NSA From Arizona
12-10-2013
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usnews.com
State senator says 'the NSA isn't welcome in Arizona unless it follows the Constitution'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Barton: OCare Website Hidden Source Code Says Users "Have No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy*
12-09-2013
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youtube
Texas Rep. Joe Barton grills an ObamaCare Contractor during a House Hearing on why hidden source code on the ObamaCare Website says "Users have no reasonable expectation of privacy" on information they enter.
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William Poole
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Most Homeless Children In New York City Since The Great Depression
12-09-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
At a time when Wall Street is absolutely swimming in wealth, New York City is experiencing an epidemic of homelessness. According to the New York Times, the last time there was this many homeless children in New York City was during the days of the
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police used 'deadly force' on Kelly Thomas, retired FBI agent says
12-09-2013
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Los Angeles Times
As he watched a video of a homeless man being beaten by Fullerton police officers, a former FBI agent and use-of-force expert testified Monday that striking a suspect in the head with an impact weapon is considered deadly force and is not acceptable
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
18 Los Angeles sheriff's officials indicted, accused of abuse, obstruction
12-09-2013
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Los Angeles Times
The four grand jury indictments unsealed Monday and one criminal complaint allege that deputies beat jail inmates and visitors without justification, unjustly detained people and conspired to obstruct a federal investigation into misconduct at the Me
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News Link • Housing
Debt collecting machine
12-09-2013
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Washington Post
The firm that threatened to foreclose on hundreds of struggling D.C. homeowners is a mystery: It lists no owners, no local office, no Web site.
Aeon Financial is incorporated in Delaware, operates from mail-drop boxes in Chicago and is represe
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Mars rover finds evidence of life-friendly ancient lake
12-09-2013
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Reuters
Analysis of clays drilled out from two rock samples in the area known as Yellowknife Bay show the freshwater lake existed at a time when other parts of Mars were dried up or dotted with shallow, acidic, salty pools ill-suited for life.
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News Link • World News
Putin dissolves state news agency, tightens grip on Russia media
12-09-2013
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Reuters
President Vladimir Putin tightened his control over Russia's media on Monday by dissolving the main state news agency and replacing it with an organization that is to promote Moscow's image abroad.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
National Parks Could Close Again: Another Government Shutdown Set for Next Month
12-09-2013
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http://offgridsurvival.com, Rob Richardson
Only a couple of short months after the last government shutdown closed national parks around the country, it looks like our friends in government ready to do it again.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
U.S. exits GM stake, taxpayers lose $11 billion
12-09-2013
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Reuters
The U.S. government sold its last shares of General Motors Co (GM.N) on Monday, leaving taxpayers saddled with a total shortfall of about $10 billion on the automaker's 2009 bailout.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
U.S. senators plot to sabotage Iran deal
12-09-2013
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Reuters
Two U.S. senators are preparing legislation to impose new sanctions on Iran in six months if an interim deal on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program goes nowhere, penalties that Iran's foreign minister has said would kill the agreement.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Spies’ Dragnet Reaches a Playing Field of Elves and Trolls
12-09-2013
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New York Times
Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people acr
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
House and Senate Reach Compromise on Pentagon Bill
12-09-2013
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New York Times
House and Senate negotiators reached a final agreement on a Pentagon policy bill that would strengthen protections for military victims of sexual assault and keep the prison facility at Guantánamo Bay open over President Obama’s strenuous objections,
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News Link • Activism
Movement Rises to Kick 'Corporate Reform' Out of Public Schools
12-09-2013
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http://www.commondreams.org, Sarah Lazare
#ReclaimPublicEd: With actions in over 60 cities, parents, students, and teachers demand an end to "corporate reform" policies
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Life on bitcoin. A documentary.
12-09-2013
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http://lifeonbitcoin.com
Can a newly married couple survive when every living necessity can only be purchased with "cryptocurrency"?
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Agorist Alma
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Seizes Sock Monkey’s Toy Gun
12-09-2013
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Daily Paul
TSA agents in St. Louis, Missouri, disarmed Rooster Monkburn, a cowboy sock money, of his two-inch toy gun after a woman brought the stuffed monkey through security. Agents said that it posed a threat because it could be confused for a real gun, acco
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Surveillance
Cellphone data spying: It's not just the NSA
12-09-2013
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USA Today
Local police are increasingly able to scoop up large amounts of cellphone data using new technologies, including cell tower dumps and secret mobile devices known as Stingrays. Here's a closer look at how police do it.
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