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Date Sent: 2014-04-15
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, April 15, 2014 |
FBI to have 52 million photos in its NGI face recognition database by next year
Let a Thousand Home Businesses Bloom -- Real Americans Are Ready To Snap -- Israeli teenagers risk being sent to prison by refusing to join the army -- Window opens on secret camp within Guantanamo -- Trillion-Dollar Firms Dominating Bonds Prompting Probes in U.S. -- Lawmakers, Utah sheriffs want to rein in renegade BLM, Forest Service officers -- Leaked Memo Uncovers Obama Administration Land Grab -- Utah cops warrantlessly search prescription drug records of 480 emergency personnel -- More DCF Enslavement of Children, and “Transgender” Confusion -- Launching Pad is set for MaidSafe and safecoin April 22nd, 2014 Noon GMT -- Bundy Ranch: The Rules of Engagement have Changed -- Guy Buys Scale On Amazon, And Now Amazon Thinks He's A Drug Dealer -- The Netherlands Is Experimenting With Glow-In-The-Dark Roads -- Google Buys Drone Company Titan Aerospace -- Why Google Is Making Massive, Crazy Bets On Drones And Robots -- U.N. climate experts call for ‘near zero’ emissions, global taxes -- BLM Flip Flops: “No Deal” on Dropping Actions Against Bundy -- Oath Keeper Founder Stewart Rhodes, On Bunkerville: “We know it’s not over” -- Guardian, WaPo Win Pulitzer For Proving Millions Of Conspiracy Theorists Right -- White House Admits CIA Director Brennan Was "Secretly" In Kiev -- Disinformation sites, the Psychopaths who Run Them, and the Big Picture. Get the Truth. -- Navi Pillay: US Imperial Tool -- Pot vending machine to debut -- Why The Standoff At The Bundy Ranch
Is A Very Big Deal -- All The Presidents' Bankers: The World Bank
And The IMF -- SEC Planning 'Purge' Of High-Frequency Traders
-- Ukraine Mobilizes Military, Gives Separatists Ultimatum; Russia
Slams Escalation -- Are Capitol Police Justifying the Murder of
Miriam Carey? -- China Accelerates Thorium -- Space X to
resupply ISS, Launch some CubeSats and maybe a BIG SURPRISE (4:58 pm
today) -- More agents and equipment arriving at the Bundy Ranch -- Genetically Modified Organisms: Unleashing 21st Century
Frankenstein on the Natural World -- Agenda 21: wow, wow and wow -- Stem Cell Therapy Proven to Increase Memory -- We're All
Ukrainians Now -- Israeli State Terrorism
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine April 2014 Edition
RELEASED
AZ: Tempe General Plan 2040: Smart Growth in Your Town with
Patrick Woo, April 24, 6PM, Tempe
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News Link • Surveillance
FBI to have 52 million photos in its NGI face recognition database by next year
04-15-2014
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ars technica
The FBI is well on its way toward a fully operational face recognition database by this summer. The EFF received these records in response to our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for information on Next Generation Identification"the FBI’s massive b
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News Link • Economics: Agorism
Let a Thousand Home Businesses Bloom
04-15-2014
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by Wendy McElroy (FEE)
Imagine you’re out of work. But you’ve got capital in your talents, your home, and your family and friends. You might try to start a microbusiness at home to earn a little extra income and make ends meet. That is, unless you live in certain US states
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Real Americans Are Ready To Snap
04-15-2014
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The Founders endured 5 more years of British government criminality until 80 farmers and militiamen stood outnumbered on Lexington Green on April 19th, 1775 to confront an army of 700 British regulars on a mission to capture rebel leaders
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News Link • TERRORISM
Sealed With A Kiss (Update)
04-15-2014
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Simple Justice
The government occasionally reveals stories of its successes, but they tend to show less success and more manufacture of a success where no threat would exist if the government had kept its nose out of it.
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News Link • Israel
Israeli teenagers risk being sent to prison by refusing to join the army
04-15-2014
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The Telegraph
Dozens of Israeli teenagers face possible jail terms and blighted career prospects after declaring that they will not join the army because of its "war crimes" in the occupied Palestinian territories.Their stance is a wholesale rejection of
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News Link • Guantanamo Bay
Window opens on secret camp within Guantanamo
04-15-2014
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AP
The commander of Camp 7 is expected to testify at the hearing as are three military psychiatrists who have examined Binalshibh, according to a witness list disclosed Sunday. All will testify under pseudonyms at a proceeding
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Trillion-Dollar Firms Dominating Bonds Prompting Probes in U.S.
04-15-2014
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Bill Gross and Larry Fink manage a $3 trillion pile of bonds " an amount almost as big as Germany’s economy. Their firms, Pacific Investment Management and BlackRock Inc., doubled holdings since 2008, outpacing the market’s growth of 50%.
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News Link • Government
Lawmakers, Utah sheriffs want to rein in renegade BLM, Forest Service officers
04-15-2014
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Multiple rural county sheriffs from Utah testified on the abusive use of police power by Bureau of Land Management rangers or forest protection officers with the US Forest Service. They are asserting it is time to rein in the authority the agencies
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News Link • Property Rights
Leaked Memo Uncovers Obama Administration Land Grab
04-15-2014
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A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana to New Mexico, halting job- creating activities like ranching, forestry, mining and energy development.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
An Unholy Trinity
04-15-2014
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Simple Justice
There are 3 players in the school to conviction pipeline: the school. The police. The judge. When one of these demonstrates an element of objectivity and reasonableness, issues that arise with regard to students’ conduct manage to get handled
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News Link • Drug War
Utah cops warrantlessly search prescription drug records of 480 emergency personnel
04-14-2014
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ars technica
Utah law enforcement officials searched, without a warrant, the prescription drug records of 480 public paramedics, firefighters and other personnel to try to figure out who was stealing morphine from emergency vehicles.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Child Protective Services
More DCF Enslavement of Children, and “Transgender” Confusion
04-14-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
A Connecticut “transgender” 16-year-old has been thrown into an adult male prison, without charges, because the youth “assaulted” workers at a Massachusetts juvenile center to which the youth was transferred by Connecticut DCF.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
How & Where to Watch Tonight’s “Blood Moon” Lunar Eclipse
04-14-2014
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From Quarks to Quasars
Where to Watch from Home: If you live in North America, you will need to stay up a bit late in order to see the show. The eclipse will begin at 12:54 a.m. ET and last through 6:38 a.m ET. The moon will fall completely behind the Earth’s shadow betwe
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News Link • Police State
Bundy Ranch: The Rules of Engagement have Changed
04-14-2014
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Next News Network
The rules of engagement have changed - according to Mike Adams from Natural News who joins Gary Franchi to provide a comprehensive analysis of the series of events that transpired durring the Bundy Ranch Standoff.
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News Link • Internet
Guy Buys Scale On Amazon, And Now Amazon Thinks He's A Drug Dealer
04-14-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Caroline Moss
One Redditor who went to Amazon in search of a mini digital scale is now getting suggestions for drug-related paraphernalia.
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News Link • Transportation
The Netherlands Is Experimenting With Glow-In-The-Dark Roads
04-14-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Alyson Penn
The Netherlands has come up with a brilliant way to save money and energy on road lighting: glow-in-the-dark paint.
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News Link • Drones
Google Buys Drone Company Titan Aerospace
04-14-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay Yarow
Google has acquired drone maker Titan Aerospace, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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News Link • Drones
Why Google Is Making Massive, Crazy Bets On Drones And Robots
04-14-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Megan Rose Dickey
Google just bought drone company Titan Aerospace for an undisclosed amount.
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News Link • United Nations
U.N. climate experts call for ‘near zero’ emissions, global taxes
04-14-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Cheryl K. Chumley
Climate change experts affiliated with the United Nations said the only way to turn back the clock on global warming-type disasters is to force all the nations of the world to keep all production and energy activities to a “near zero” carbon emission
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News Link • Events: America
Oath Keeper Founder Stewart Rhodes, On Bunkerville: “We know it’s not over”
04-14-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, The Daily Sheeple
This interview was recorded from the Bundy Ranch late this afternoon.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Guardian, WaPo Win Pulitzer For Proving Millions Of Conspiracy Theorists Right
04-14-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
After years of being mocked by the establishment and the majority of the herd, today millions of "conspiracy theorists" can pat themselves on the back because this Pulitzer's for you.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
White House Admits CIA Director Brennan Was "Secretly" In Kiev
04-14-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Late last night we asked if, as the Russian media had reported and only the Russian media, CIA director John Brennan had secretly visited Kiev over the weekend...
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News Link • Inventions
Self-healing polymer restores itself in minutes
04-14-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Dario Borghino
Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a self-healing polymer that can mend itself and fully restore its mechanical properties in just a few minutes when heated at low temperatures.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists give stem cells a performance boost ... by putting them on steroids
04-14-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben Coxworth
Stem cells are highly promising for the treatment of everything from HIV to leukemia to baldness. In many cases, however, a great number of them must be used in order have a noticeable effect, which makes treatments impractical or expensive.
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News Link • Drug War
Pot vending machine to debut
04-14-2014
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UPI.Com
The machine includes technology that requires users to swipe their driver's license to verify their identity and age. Multiple cameras attached to the machine make sure the person swiping the card is the same person depicted on the card.
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News Link • Government
Why The Standoff At The Bundy Ranch Is A Very Big Deal
04-14-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Michael Krieger
If you haven’t been following the unfolding drama at the Bundy Ranch about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas you need to start now.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
All The Presidents' Bankers: The World Bank And The IMF
04-14-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
The following is an excerpt from ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ BANKERS: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power by Nomi Prins (on sale April 8, 2014). Reprinted with permission from Nation Books. Nomi Prins is a former managing director at Goldman Sach
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
REPORT: SEC Planning 'Purge' Of High-Frequency Traders
04-14-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
The New York Post's John Aidan Byrne reports the SEC is planning a sweeping campaign against high-frequency traders in the wake of revelations about the extent of their impact published in Michael Lewis' book "Flash Boys."
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News Link • World News
Ukraine Mobilizes Military, Gives Separatists Ultimatum; Russia Slams Escalation...
04-14-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Ukraine Mobilizes Military, Gives Separatists Ultimatum; Russia Slams Escalation As "Criminal", Yanukovich Warns Of Civil War
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News Link • Police State
Are Capitol Police Justifying the Murder of Miriam Carey?
04-09-2014
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Next News Network
Yesterday we reported on the autopsy results of the mother who was shot dead on Capitol Hill last year. 34 year old dental hygienist Miriam Carey had driven off after being chased by police on Capitol Hill. As she stopped the car and managed to exi
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Can All Cancer Be Cured in Less Than 12 Weeks?
04-14-2014
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arclein
The medical curriculum was created by John D. Rockefeller over 100 years ago when he produced chemicals and didn’t know how to sell those chemicals. He produced sales people and called them MD’s. He produced the entire curriculum for the education o
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
China Accelerates Thorium
04-14-2014
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arclein
The deadline to develop a new design for thorium nuclear power plants has been brought forward by 15 years as the central government tries to reduce the nation's reliance on smog-producing coal-fired power stations.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Healing Energy of 432Hz, The Tone of Nature
04-14-2014
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arclein
432 Hz seems to work at the heart chakra, “the feeling”, and therefore could have a good influence on the spiritual development of the listener. Some people who are not able to distinguish the 8hz difference claim they can feel the music warmer due t
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
DMT in Classical Greece
04-14-2014
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arclein
This quotation requires some context. Hofmann had suggested three possible sources of ergot sclerotia which could have been incorporated into the kykeon potion: Claviceps purpurea from either barley (Hordeum vulgare) or darnel (Lolium temulentum), or
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News Link • Police State
More agents and equipment arriving at the Bundy Ranch
04-14-2014
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www.youtube.com
Published on Apr 13, 2014 - "There are more agents and equipment arriving at the Bundy Ranch It's NOT over. Let everyone know and get the word out."
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News Link • United Nations
Agenda 21: wow, wow and wow.
04-14-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, RPtriber
THIS VIDEO lays out A21 in the most basic!, eloquent!, plain-speaking!, eye-opening!, ALL-encompassing!
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Stem Cell Therapy Proven to Increase Memory
04-14-2014
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http://www.drperlmutter.com
We’ve all come to accept the notion that our brain will continue to shrink as we age. Nowhere is this decline more impactful than in the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center, one of the primary brain areas that’s first to decline in Alzheimer’s dis
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News Link • Foreign Policy
$6 Billion Goes Missing at State Department
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The State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors. In a special “management alert” Inspector General Linick warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control has led to billions of unaccounted do
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Testing of Papyrus That Refers To Jesus’s Wife Shows No Evidence Of Forgery
04-11-2014
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Jonathan Turley
If you recall, there was a bit of a dust up 18 months ago when Harvard Professor Karen L. King released the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” that detailed the contents of the text of an ancient Egyptian papyrus referring to Jesus being married.
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News Link • Media: Print
Journalists who got Snowden docs arrive in US for first time in months
04-11-2014
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ars technica
On Friday, the two American journalists primarily responsible for publishing the Edward Snowden documents arrived safely in the United States. Many feared Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras had indictments under seal and might be detained
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Common Core Wants Children to Rewrite Bill of Rights
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A mother in Arkansas sparked it. Her daughter's 6th-grade homework required her to “prune two and add two amendments to the Bill of Rights.” The document was called “outdated” and so “may not remain in its current form any longer."
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News Link • Death Penalty
Tennessee Senate authorizes electric chair for executions
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The Senate has voted to allow the state to electrocute death row inmates if lethal injection drugs cannot be obtained.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Armed Federal Agents Taser Bundy Ranch Protesters
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Protesters have been gathering over the past few days in support of the Bundy Ranch. The video shows an incident where agents throw a woman to the ground and at least one man Clive Bundy’s son, is shot with a tazer several times after
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News Link • Government
Harry Reid's Connection to Bundy Ranch Siege - Updated
04-11-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by JO4RP
update: BLM attempted cover-up of Sen. Reid/Chinese gov’t takeover of ranch for solar farm
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News Link • NATO
NATO’s Russian troop build-up satellite images ‘show 2013 drills’
04-11-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,
The satellite images released by NATO that allegedly show a current build-up of Russian troops near Ukrainian border were taken in August 2013 amid military drills, a source in the General Staff of the Russian Army has said.
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA monitors WiFi on US planes ‘in violation’ of privacy laws
04-11-2014
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http://rt.com
Companies that provide WiFi on US domestic flights are handing over their data to the NSA, adapting their technology to allow security services new powers to spy on passengers. In doing so, they may be in violation of privacy laws.
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News Link • Police State
Cell Towers Shut Down at Bundy Ranch Siege
04/11/2014
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Next News Network
We're getting reports that the cell towers have been shut down in the area of the Cliven Bundy Ranch. We need your help in confirming these reports as we cannot reach our correspondents on the scene. Please leave your comments below if you are able
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, April 13, 2014 Edition
04-11-2014
John Semmens
State Department Priorities Debated
Prior to 2012's attack on Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens there were numerous rejected requests from the Ambassador for more security. Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed the repeated rejection of the
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
MEDICARE PAYMENTS DETAILED FOR FIRST TIME -- WHO GOT RICH?
04-10-2014
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Next News Network
Medicare made $77 billion dollars in payments to doctors during 2012. For the first time ever, information about these direct payments has been made available to the public.
The data shows a few doctors received millions of dollars in payments. S
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