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Date Sent: 2013-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
Judge: NSA’s collecting of phone records is likely unconstitutional
The 240th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party -- When Guns In Police Hands Spontaneously Fire Themselves -- Meet Christopher Onesti: Former Cop, Impenitent Welfare Parasite -- Zagmuk Conquers All! - by L.Neil Smith -- Jeh Johnson Confirmed By Senate As Secretary Of Homeland Security -- Last light: Final phaseout of incandescent bulbs coming Jan. 1 -- Iceland: Example for a new American Revolution -- We Can't Arrest Our Way to Safer Schools -- Swiss Propose Treating Bitcoin Like Any Other Foreign Currency -- Which Ammo to Stockpile? -- An Act of War: CIA Leak Gives “Incontrovertible Evidence” That 9/11... -- SpaceX to Lease Historic NASA Launch Pad -- Happy 100th Birthday To The Fed - Live Feed -- Victory for Self Defense as Judge Rules Students Can Keep Guns on College... -- Ben Swann Debates Gun Control On RT America... -- Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Laws on Gun Control -- 500 Innocent Americans Killed by Cops Each Year -- NSA officials consider Edward Snowden amnesty in return for documents -- Global warming? Satellite data shows Arctic sea ice coverage up 50 percent! -- Watch China’s Moon Lander Touch Down -- Boston Bomber Believed He Was a Victim of Mind Control -- Are too many kids taking antipsychotic drugs? -- California gun owners warily eye rifle, shotgun database requirement -- Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality -- Washington Drives the World Toward War -- Yemen Parliament Bans Drone Strikes -- Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds -- Kidney grown from stem cells by Australian scientists
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News Link • Surveillance
Judge: NSA’s collecting of phone records is likely unconstitutional
12-16-2013
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Ann E. Marimow & Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post
A federal judge in Washington said Monday that the government’s widespread collection of telephone records of millions of Americans is likely unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon granted activist Larry Klayman's request for a prel
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News Link • History
The 240th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
12-16-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Today is the 240th anniversary of the act of civil disobedience against taxation, corporatism, and colonialism known as the Boston Tea Party. The economics of the situation that precipitated the event were quite complex, however, and about more than
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News Link • Military
Breaking the silence
12-16-2013
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The Sun spoke with 7 former service members who say they were sexually assaulted while in uniform. Those attacks date from the 1970s to as recently as 2009. All described long-lasting impacts, including depression, anxiety, flashbacks,
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
When Guns In Police Hands Spontaneously Fire Themselves
12-16-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Krystal Barrows, a 35-year-old mother of three, was resting on the couch in her living room in Chillicothe, Ohio when her life was needlessly brought to a violent end by a police officer during a narcotics raid. Barrows was not a suspect.
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Meet Christopher Onesti: Former Cop, Impenitent Welfare Parasite
12-16-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Somewhere, there is probably a “Wounded Heroes in Blue” roster that pays tribute to former New Jersey police officer Christopher Onesti, who retired on disability in 2006 following an on-duty incident in which he injured the ring finger of his left h
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Zagmuk Conquers All!
12-16-2013
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by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)
For the past few years, I have written several essays in response to various conservatives' false claim that America is a "Christian country".
Rather than reiterate what I said, I would ask the curious reader to consult with Thomas Paine or Haym S
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News Link • Homeland Security
Jeh Johnson Confirmed By Senate As Secretary Of Homeland Security
12-16-2013
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The Huffington Post
“Jeh has a deep understanding of the threats and challenges facing the United States,” Obama said. “As the Pentagon’s top lawyer, he helped design and implement many of the policies that have kept our country safe, including our success in
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News Link • Government
Last light: Final phaseout of incandescent bulbs coming Jan. 1
12-16-2013
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FOX News
It’s lights out for the light bulb.
On Jan. 1 it will become illegal to manufacture or import traditional 60-watt and 40-watt incandescent bulbs, thanks to a 2007 bill that set strict minimum efficiency standards " and effectively outlawed the ord
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Iceland - Example for a new American Revolution
12-16-2013
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Their message is that only turmoil and tribulation result from removing the heavy hand of oppression; that either anarchy or another even worse tyrant will result.
But let’s “imagine,” for a moment, a peaceful revolution that worked.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
We Can't Arrest Our Way to Safer Schools
12-16-2013
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US News
Hard cases make bad laws. Policymakers' overly punitive and police-centric response to high profile school shootings demonstrate this fact. But if you have doubts, ask the six-year-old child who was handcuffed to a chair as punishment after he
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Ford, Nissan & Google Race to Build Self-Driving Cars
12-16-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Ford Corporation has released a new Fusion Hybrid that is more autonomously automatized out of visualizations for a future of driverless cars.
Under the Blueprint for Mobility (BFM), by 2050 “75 percent of the world’s population is expected to liv
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News Link • Bitcoin
Swiss Propose Treating Bitcoin Like Any Other Foreign Currency
12-16-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
While the ECB (and the Fed) continues to warn (danger of theft), threaten (asset-ize and tax it!), or de-bunk the idea of virtual currencies (despite two of the world's largest banks apparently seeing value in the idea), the Swiss Parliament is propo
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News Link • Prepping
Letter Re: Which Ammo to Stockpile?
12-16-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com,
When stockpiling ammo, should one focus on FMJ and soft nose/hollow points or FMJ only? FMJ is a better value per bullet, plus it's supposed to be a lot more accurate and reliable than SP/HP, but of course, it sometimes comes at the cost of stoppi
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA testing lighter space suits for asteroid work
12-16-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
Sometimes you have to take a step back to take a step forward. NASA is carrying out initial tests on a new, lighter spacesuit for use by the crew of the Orion spacecraft that is currently under development.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Silver & Gold Surge On POMO; DeMark Tells Santelli "Big Move Coming"
12-16-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Despite numerous "13s", infamous technical analyst Tom DeMark tells Rick Santelli, the Fed's liquidity pump has negated every one of these 'potential sell' signals and stocks have "unusually" kept going.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Happy 100th Birthday To The Fed - Live Feed
12-16-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The Federal Reserve System was created on December 23, 1913, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law.
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News Link • Precious Metals
Precious Metals -- 2013 Year in Review
12-16-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by Steven Cochran
This year saw a battle for the direction of precious metals waged between speculators and short-term “paper gold” traders in the West, against record-breaking physical demand in the East. That physical demand from Asia reached new highs in
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Victory for Self Defense as Judge Rules Students Can Keep Guns on College...
12-16-2013
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http://www.shtfplan.com, Mac Slavo
Victory for Self Defense as Judge Rules Students Can Keep Guns on College Campuses
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ben Swann Debates Gun Control On RT America...
12-16-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by chris cudnoski
Ben Swann Debates Gun Control On RT America with Jill Stein and Richard Feldman. Abby Martin Moderates
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Laws on Gun Control
12-16-2013
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http://www.nytimes.com, By ERICA GOODE
When Sheriff John Cooke of Weld County explains in speeches why he is not enforcing the state’s new gun laws, he holds up two 30-round magazines.
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News Link • Mexico
North America to Drown in Oil as Mexico Ends Monopoly
12-16-2013
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bloomberg.com, Joe Carroll and Bradley Olson
The flood of North American crude oil is set to become a deluge as Mexico dismantles a 75-year-old barrier to foreign investment in its oil fields.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
500 Innocent Americans Killed by Cops Each Year
12-16-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Lily Dane
“Knock and announce” police raids are on the rise. They are estimated to occur as many as 40 " 50,000 per year. Back in the 1970s, military-style police raids used to be a rare event, occurring only a few hundred times per year.
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News Link • Government
NSA officials consider Edward Snowden amnesty in return for documents
12-16-2013
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http://www.theguardian.com, Spencer Ackerman
Key official tells CBS 'it's worth having a conversation'
State Department and other key figures oppose deal
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News Link • Climate Change
Global warming? Satellite data shows Arctic sea ice coverage up 50 percent!
12-16-2013
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http://dailycaller.com, Michael Bastasch
It was only five years ago in December that Al Gore claimed that the polar ice caps would be completely melted by now.
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News Link • China
Watch China’s Moon Lander Touch Down
12-16-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep
A lander's eye view
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News Link • Kids
4-year-old genius has same IQ as Einstein
12-16-2013
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nydailynews.com, By Amanda Stringfellow
Sherwyn Sarabi scored an IQ of 160, just like Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking. The British boy is already studying at the level of a 9-year-old and has read over 190 books.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston Bomber Believed He Was a Victim of Mind Control
12-16-2013
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http://www.infowars.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Tamerlan Tsarnaev feared he had been brainwashed to act on trigger phrase
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News Link • Food
Wheat Belly
12-16-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 372 with William Davis, M.D.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Are too many kids taking antipsychotic drugs?
12-16-2013
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http://www.consumerreports.org,
Use is climbing despite questions about how safe the drugs are and how well they work
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News Link • Gun Rights
California gun owners warily eye rifle, shotgun database requirement
12-16-2013
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http://www.sacbee.com, By Jeremy B. White
Neither Matt Dittmer nor the people he shoots with are happy about a new law that will preserve information about their gun purchases in a California state database. But he is resigned to it.
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News Link • Inventions
Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality
12-16-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Peter Rubin
In May 2012, a programmer named John Carmack"who, as a cofounder of id Software and the man behind games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, is widely seen as the father of 3D gaming"tweeted a picture of what looked like steampunk bifocals made out of a bl
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Washington Drives the World Toward War
12-16-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Paul Craig Roberts
Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings. These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and
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News Link • History
Mandela " Terrorist or ‘Black Jesus?’
12-16-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric Margolis
The “Black Jesus.” That’s what the late Nelson Mandela was called by many South Africans, who greeted his death last week with intense national mourning.
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News Link • Aquaponics
A Koi-Fueled Nursery in New Orleans Yields Tasty Profits
12-16-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Cory Perkins
In New Orleans east, a collective of Vietnamese fishermen left jobless after the BP oil spill has found a new enterprise: growing upmarket produce in water laced with fish crud.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Water May Be Flowing On Mars Right Now
12-16-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Collin Lecher
Curiosity has uncovered ancient, once-wet lakebeds, but there might be some active streams, too.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Out in the Open: Cyberpunk Builds Bitcoin Wallet That Even Apple Can’t Ban
12-16-2013
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http://www.wired.com,By Klint Finley
Kyle Drake calls himself a professional cyberpunk. He spends his days on the net, writing computer code and trying to stick it to the man. His latest target: the global banking industry.
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News Link • Iraq
Journalist Among 37 Killed in Iraq, 62 More Wounded
12-16-2013
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Margaret Griffis
In Baghdad, a sticky bomb killed two people and wounded seven more on a bus in the Waziriya neighborhood.
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News Link • World News
32 million YR and 100 guns are given as compensation to victims’ families of the drone in Qaifah
12-16-2013
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http://nationalyemen.com, National Yemen Team
Yemeni authorities offered 32 million YR and 100 guns as compensation to victims’ families as a result of Air raid that took place in Qaifah in the al-Baida governorate, leaving 25 killed and wounded last Thursday.
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News Link • World News
Yemen Parliament Bans Drone Strikes
12-16-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
The Yemeni parliament has passed a resolution today banning all strikes by unmanned aerial drones.
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News Link • Iran
Iran FM: Talks Will Continue Despite US Sanctions
12-16-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Process 'Derailed But Not Dead'
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Climate change expert's fraud was 'crime of massive proportion,' say feds
12-16-2013
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investigations.nbcnews.com,By Michael Isikoff
The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change deserves to go to prison for at least 30 months for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job, say federal prosecuto
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Teen pot use could hurt brain and memory, new research suggests
12-16-2013
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http://www.nbcnews.com, Brian Alexander
Teenage pot smokers could be damaging brain structures critical to memory and reasoning, according to new research that found changes in the brains of heavy users.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Kidney grown from stem cells by Australian scientists
12-16-2013
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, Jonathan Pearlman
Australian scientists grow world's first kidney from stem cells in a breakthrough that could alleviate the demand for organ transplants
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News Link • Marriage
Federal Court Strikes Down Criminalization of Polygamy In Utah
12-13-2013
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Jonathan Turley
It is with a great pleasure this evening to announce that decision of United States District Court judge Clarke Waddoups striking down key portions of the Utah polygamy law as unconstitutional. The Brown family and counsel have spent years
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Georgia Cops Body Slam 70-year-old Woman While Intimidating Man From Recording
12-13-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
In the moments after Georgia cops body slammed a 70-year-old woman to the pavement, leaving her with a bloodied face, another cop stood in front of a man with a camera, telling him he was somehow invading the woman’s privacy by recording.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Student opens fire at Colorado high school, wounds two classmates, kills self
12-13-2013
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Reuters
A student armed with a shotgun and seeking to confront a teacher opened fire at a Colorado high school on Friday, wounding at least two classmates before apparently taking his own life, law enforcement officials said.
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News Link • Corruption
U.S. Navy official to plead guilty in contracting scandal
12-13-2013
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Reuters
A US Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent accused of leaking confidential information to a Singapore-based company at the heart of a Navy contracting scandal is scheduled to plead guilty in federal court next week, California media reported.
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News Link • Surveillance
By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private conversations
12-13-2013
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Washington Post
The cellphone encryption technology used most widely across the world can be easily defeated by the National Security Agency giving the agency the means to decode most of the billions of calls and texts that travel over public airwaves every day.
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News Link • Police State
White House to preserve controversial policy on NSA, Cyber Command leadership
12-13-2013
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Washington Post
The Obama administration has decided to preserve a controversial arrangement under which a single military official is permitted to direct both the National Security Agency and the military’s cyberwarfare command despite an external review panel’s re
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News Link • China
Chinese Naval Vessel Tries to Force U.S. Warship to Stop in International Waters
12-13-2013
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Washington Free Beacon
A Chinese naval vessel tried to force a U.S. guided missile warship to stop in international waters recently, causing a tense military standoff in the latest case of Chinese maritime harassment, according to defense officials.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Feds set up another dimwit to suicide bomb Wichita airport
12-13-2013
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NBC News
Feds say they've arrested a man who wanted to set off a suicide bomb at the Wichita airport. FBI had the suspect under constant surveillance and that undercover operatives, posing as like-minded individuals, had met with the suspect frequently.
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News Link • Iran
Iran quits talks protesting US blacklist move
12-13-2013
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AFP
Iran has quit nuclear talks with the major powers, accusing Washington on Friday of going against the spirit of a landmark agreement reached last month by expanding its sanctions blacklist.
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News Link • Surveillance
Government Forcing Private Email Services To Shut Down Because They Can't Read Them
12-13-2013
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Infowars
GCHQ, the British counterpart and facilitator to the NSA, has forced a privacy focused email service to shut down because it could not effectively spy on the encrypted emails people were sending. Web security firm CertiVox was shut down
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