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Date Sent: 2013-12-20
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, December 20, 2013 |
Government Using NSA to Change Amount in Bank Accounts, Warns Panel
Navy investigator pleads guilty in international bribery scandal -- Mississippi school forced ‘pathetic dyke’ to use the boys’ bathroom -- How the vitamin industrial complex swindled America -- 'Green Bullets' Overtaking Lead Thanks to EPA, State Regs, Military -- The Davi Barker Deception? -- Judge orders sanity hearing for accused Sept. 11 plotter -- U.S. Air Force general drank too much, fraternized with foreign women in Moscow -- Google is Going to Blackmail You -- Edward Snowden doesn’t show up once in Google’s list of top 2013 searches -- Cuba opens up sale of new, used vehicles -- How Bitcoin Became the
Honey Badger of Money -- NSA's goal is elimination of individual privacy
worldwide - Greenwald to EU -- The Legend of the Phoenix -- Plant some flowers the macho way: from the end of a shotgun -- Record High in U.S. Say Big Government Greatest Threat -- Science moving closer to creating power through nuclear fusion -- Lincoln and His Legacy -- Scientists Manufacture Biofuel from Algae in Minutes -- Forced Savings Bait-and-Switch
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News Link • Government
Government Using NSA to Change Amount in Bank Accounts, Warns Panel
12-19-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Americans at risk of enforced Cyprus-style bail-in
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Navy investigator pleads guilty in international bribery scandal
12-19-2013
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AFP
John Bertrand Beliveau Jr., 44, a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, pleaded guilty to participating in a massive international fraud and bribery scheme. Specifically he admitted regularly searching NCIS databases for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Lawsuit: Mississippi school forced ‘pathetic dyke’ to use the boys’ bathroom
12-19-2013
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Rawstory
The anti-LGBT comments started after Holmes enrolled at Magnolia Junior High in 2011. Teachers would call her a “he/she” and she was forced to use the boys’ restroom. Students regularly referred to her as “dyke,” “lesbo” and “dyke-ass freak.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
How the vitamin industrial complex swindled America
12-19-2013
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"We believe that the case is closed " supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) mineral or vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and might even be harmful. These vitamins should not be used for chronic disease prevention.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
'Green Bullets' Overtaking Lead Thanks to EPA, State Regs, Military
12-19-2013
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Breitbart
Thanks to EPA regulations, state regulations, and military goals, traditional lead ammo is on its way out and "green bullets" are on their way in. EPA regulations led to the closing of the Herculaneam lead smelter in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Judge orders sanity hearing for accused Sept. 11 plotter
12-19-2013
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Washington Post
Binalshibh was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and whisked to a secret CIA prison, where he was subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques.” He and 13 other high-value detainees were transferred to Guantanamo Bay in September 2006.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
U.S. Air Force general drank too much, fraternized with foreign women in Moscow
12-19-2013
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Washington Post
An Air Force general in charge of nuclear weapons repeatedly drank too much and behaved like a boor last summer during an official trip to Moscow, where he insulted his Russian hosts and hung out with two suspicious women he met at a hotel bar,
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News Link • Internet
Eric Schmidt Tried To Get Google To Hide His Political Donation In Search Results
12-19-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matt Rosoff
Departing Google CEO Eric Schmidt was known for some of his bumbling public statements -- like saying that privacy didn't matter -- but apparently he made some internal blunders as well.
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News Link • Internet
Google is Going to Blackmail You
12-19-2013
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http://www.youtube.com, CollegeHumor
Google is trying harder than ever to force people to sign up for Google Plus. And now, they've discovered a new strategy to do this: either you join Plus, or they'll release your search history and all the private information they've learned about yo
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News Link • Media: Internet
Edward Snowden doesn’t show up once in Google’s list of top 2013 searches
12-19-2013
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Brian Fung
This year's National Security Agency revelations have created a firestorm of reports and debates about the state of U.S. surveillance technology and intelligence policy. It set off a brief international manhunt. Entire countries are now building coun
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Darpa’s Robotic Gladiators Will Battle on This Disaster Course
12-19-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Allen McDuffee
In a robotic twist on American Gladiators, 17 robots and their teams will descend upon Florida this week to see which ones have the greatest superhero potential.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
DARPA Robotics Challenge: 8 Tricky Tasks
12-19-2013
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http://www.space.com, By Denise Chow
This week, 17 teams and their robot creations will descend on Florida to compete in an ambitious robotics competition.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death
Scientists looking closer at what happens when body dies...
12-19-2013
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http://www.newsnet5.com, By: Lee Bowman
Scientists looking closer at what happens when body dies; edge closer to new understanding
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News Link • Transportation
Cuba opens up sale of new, used vehicles
12-19-2013
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http://www.autonews.com,
A car sits outside the old Capital building in Havana, Cuba, in June 2012. The Cuban state still maintains a monopoly on the retail sale of cars.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists run eye cells through an inkjet printer
12-19-2013
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gizmag.com
Imagine if conditions that presently cause blindness could be treated by simply by fabricating new tissue, and using it to replace the defective part of the retina.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
It's a Jetsons World Public Miracles and Private Crimes
12-19-2013
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library.mises.org
Yes, there is a revolution afoot, one that is happening much more
quickly than the industrial revolution.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Her Imagines a World Where We Love Our Computers " Literally
12-19-2013
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Wired.com
About an hour into watching Spike Jonze’s latest film Her, I began thinking about another movie: Ted Demme’s Beautiful Girls.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
How Bitcoin Became the Honey Badger of Money
12-19-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
If you’ve driven on Santa Clara’s Lawrence Expressway sometime in the past six months, you may have seen the Bitcoin honey badger.
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News Link • How To
Open All Your Favorite Sites at Once Whenever You Launch Your Browser
12-19-2013
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Wired.com
Using a single site as your browser homepage seems so quaint. You probably have a long list of sites you check as soon as you get in front of a computer: Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Pinterest, and the Yahoo Answers page for “Can I take my cat ice skati
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Watch the World’s Largest Ship Take Float
12-19-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Damon Lavrinc
After 18 million man-hours of development and 14 months of construction, the world’s largest ship took to the water earlier this month, and Shell has put together a video of the Prelude’s maiden voyage.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
NSA's goal is elimination of individual privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU
12-19-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The NSA’s ultimate goal is to destroy individual privacy worldwide, working with its UK sidekick GCHQ, journalist Glenn Greenwald warned an EU inquiry, adding that they were far ahead of their rivals in their “ability to destroy privacy.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Tired of Boring Old Chess? Try Chess 2: The Sequel
12-19-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Ryan Rigney
Chess is one of the most enduring games in the world. Is it time for a sequel?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • History
Image of the Day: Fallen Astronaut
12-19-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Evan Ackerman
There is not a lot of art on the Moon. Astronauts have left behind flags and photographs, but almost nothing with the specific intention of placing an artistic object on the lunar surface. The one exception was this 3.5 inch tall aluminum statue of a
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The Legend of the Phoenix
12-19-2013
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http://www.unz.com, By Todd E. Pierce
It would seem the CIA has gone back into their archives, blown the dust off the Phoenix Program, and put it into play again as the “Drone War.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Plant some flowers the macho way: from the end of a shotgun
12-19-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Michael Trei
Like it or not, shotguns (and most guns) are designed for killing things, rather than as tools that can brings us life and joy. A company in Sweden wants to change that perception and get us to literally change our swords into plowshares, by loading
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News Link • Government
Record High in U.S. Say Big Government Greatest Threat
12-19-2013
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http://www.gallup.com, by Jeffrey M. Jones
Now 72% say it is greater threat than big business or big labor
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Science moving closer to creating power through nuclear fusion
12-19-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFadden
Nuclear fusion is pretty much the holy grail of power sources. In development for over 60 years already, the creation of electricity through nuclear fusion has been the goal of generations of scientists.
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News Link • American History
Lincoln and His Legacy
12-19-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
At this point it is probably futile to try to reverse the deification of Abraham Lincoln.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Biofuel
Geek Oil: Scientists Manufacture Biofuel from Algae in Minutes
12-19-2013
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by Warner Todd Huston
A new scientific discovery that takes algae and turns it into crude oil in minutes rather than millions of years could be the end of constant worries over "peak oil."
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News Link • Government
A Lot of Hope is Dangerous
12-19-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
President Snow: Seneca… why do you think we have a winner?
Seneca Crane: [frowns] What do you mean?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Gaia launches on cosmic census mission
12-19-2013
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gizmag.com
A cosmic census got under way this morning as ESA’s Gaia mission lifted off atop a Soyuz"Fregat from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 9:12:19 AM GMT (10:12:19 AM CET).
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin plummets as China's largest exchange blocks new deposits
12-19-2013
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http://www.theguardian.com, Alex Hern
Digital cryptocurrency has lost almost 50% of its value overnight after BTC China said it could no longer accept deposits in the Chinese currency
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News Link • World News
Italy's President Warns of "Widespread Social Tension and Unrest" but Offers No Soluti
12-19-2013
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Italy's President Warns of "Widespread Social Tension and Unrest" but Offers No Solutions; "Pitchfork Protest" Comments From Italy
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News Link • Environment
RADCON 5 Vegas: Will It Stay In Vegas?
12-19-2013
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http://beforeitsnews.com,
RADCON 5 Alert’s have been issued for Las Vegas, Nevada as well as Idaho Falls, Idaho as shared in the screenshots from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center below.
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Feature Article • How to Help
CATO Hiring
Donna Hancock
The Cato Institute is seeking to hire a scholar to study and critique federal spending policies. The expert would examine particular spending programs and overall spending levels through studies, op-eds, blogs, media appearances, and contributions to
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights Inherently Usurped by Presidents " Shahid Buttar (Video)
12-18-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Every December 15th, people celebrate Bill of Rights Day. Although not a major holiday, liberty supporters and fans of American history make note of the anniversary each year.
The Bill of Rights was adopted in 1789, containing the first ten amendm
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News Link • Death
Death in the Amazon: Killing for Christmas
12-18-2013
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USA Today
The human cost of Christmas consumerism.
Worker killed at Amazon.com facility.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Amazon Makes Nice With Beijing, Expands Cloud Empire Into China
12-18-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Cade Metz
Amazon is expanding its cloud empire into China.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Who Owns the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Wallet? The FBI
12-18-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
Who owns the single largest Bitcoin wallet on the internet? The U.S. government.
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News Link • Iran
Must Iran Be Strangled to Protect Israel and Enlarge the American Empire?
12-18-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Michael S. Rozeff
Obama is negotiating with Iran. Now he encounters the neocon counterattack, seeking to stop the talks.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Stay Out of Petty Island Disputes in East Asia
12-18-2013
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antiwar.com
One of the most dangerous international disputes that the United States could get dragged into has little importance to U.S. security " the disputes nations have over small islands (some really rocks rising out of the sea) in East Asia.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed to taper bond buying by $10 billion a month
12-18-2013
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cnbc.com
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it would start to taper its aggressive bond-buying program to $75 billion a month beginning in January, propelling the market to a record close.
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News Link • Bitcoin
My Concerns About Bitcoin
12-18-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Glenn Jacobs
Within the liberty community, there is a raging debate about the merits and future of Bitcoin.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Devyani Khobragade: India-US row escalates over arrest of diplomat in New York
12-18-2013
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independent.co.uk
India summons US ambassador and announces that it is withdrawing a series of diplomatic privileges to US officials
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA orders urgent spacewalks on the ISS
12-18-2013
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
Christmas will be another work day for the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) this year.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Dad: 5-Year-Old Suspended For Making Gun Gesture With Hand
12-18-2013
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charlotte.cbslocal.com
A 5-year-old boy was reportedly suspended from school after making a gun gesture with his hand on the playground.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona police agencies use controversial tracking tool to locate cellphones
12-18-2013
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azcentral.com, By Jim Walsh and JJ Hensley
Phoenix police have had technology that allows officers to identify and locate cellphones since 2001, and while every investigative bureau has access to the systems, they are primarily used by the drug-enforcement bureau, said Sgt. Trent Crump, a dep
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News Link • Police State
Former Top NSA Official: “We Are Now In A Police State”
12-18-2013
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http://investmentwatchblog.com
32-year NSA Veteran Who Created Mass Surveillance System Says Government Use of Data Gathered Through Spying “Is a Totalitarian Process”
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
College Police Forces Increasingly Expand Reach
12-18-2013
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Officer.com
WASHINGTON (AP) " The police officers who patrol America's colleges are empowered these days to do far more than respond to campus emergencies.
Campus police around the country are increasingly expanding their jurisdiction beyond the school and
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space Suit for Asteroid Work
12-18-2013
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arclein
The biggest advance came when the Gemini astronauts started doing spacewalks and the suits had to be modified with more flexible joints and gauntlets, so the astronauts wouldn’t be floating around looking like crouching balloons, and could get in and
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
'Estate Recovery' via Obamacare and Medicaid?
12-18-2013
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healthydebates.com via Rense.com
"But there will be people caught unaware that their houses effectively belong to the government because the government forced them into Medicaid coverage."
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News Link • Activism
Billyrock's Statement About Arrest: All Charges Are FALSE
12-18-2013
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YouTube.Com
Police get newspapers from which to declare their false accusations against me. But thankfully we live in the day of the internet - my platform will take the truth further than their newspapers take their lies.
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News Link • Activism
See Agorist Alma at the NH Liberty Forum
12-18-2013
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BitcoinStarter
Alma will be activating an old plane ticket to get to NH. There will be a fee to reenact the ticket. Any help is appreciated.
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News Link • General Opinion
Pat Buchanan Tells The Truth About Vladimir Putin That American Conservatives Don't Want To Hear
12-18-2013
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Business Insider
"Is Vladimir Putin a paleo-conservative?" right wing commentator Pat Buchanan wrote in a column for Townhall yesterday. "In the culture war for mankind's future, is he one of us?"
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