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Date Sent: 2014-08-09
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, August 9, 2014 |
US Sends Humanitarian Bombs to Iraq as it Warns Russia Against Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine
What If Democracy Is a Fraud? - by Judge Andrew Napolitano -- NSA Tried
To Delete Court Transcript In Lawsuit Over Deleting Evidence -- DOJ's
"Operation Choke Point" Strips Porn Stars of Bank Accounts -- Small-Town
Praetorianism: Barry Township Rejects Victor Pierce's Authoritarian
"Vision" -- Police officers have no constitutional 'right of privacy' in
records of their official misco -- Despite
Legalization, Colorado Teenagers Stubbornly Refuse to Smoke More Pot --
How Putin's Advisor Sees The Ukraine Crisis Playing Out -- Mish: "Small Price to Pay"
-- Hadar Goldin and the Hannibal Directive -- Norman Finkelstein on
Gaza conflict, Hamas goals and Iron Dome myth -- U.S. Suspected Israeli
Involvement in 1960s Missing Uranium -- Iraq: US Launches Air Strikes on
Islamic State Militants Killing 'Hundreds' -- Sneaking Back Into Iraq -- ZMapp: The Experimental Ebola Treatment
Explained -- The US Military and the Ebola Outbreak -- The dark
secrets of a surveillance state -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of
Recent News, August 10, 2014 Edition -- Experimental drug
compound found to reverse effects of Alzheimer's in mice -- Obama
Flashback: 'I Said I'd End the War in Iraq and I Ended It' -- Are
We Too Hard On Rand Paul? -- Want to Know What Martial Law
over Ebola Will Look Like?... -- Former Obamacare Boss Admits
She Deleted Emails Sought By Congress -- Paul added: "Some
people are purists, and I get grief all the time... -- The Silk
Road: The Rise and Fall of the World's Largest Online Black Market -- It Begins: Canada To Send Military Equipment To Ukraine -- Meanwhile,
Euroclear (Europe's DTCC) Warns That It, Too, Engages in Fractional
Resere Banking
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US Sends Humanitarian Bombs to Iraq as it Warns Russia Against Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine
08-09-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
US Ambassador to the UN, warned Russia, as US humanitarian bombs fell on Iraq, that further intervention in Ukraine, including under the pretense of delivering humanitarian aid, would be viewed as "an invasion of Ukraine."
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
What If Democracy Is a Fraud? - by Judge Andrew Napolitano
08-09-2014
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What if you were allowed to vote only because it didn't make a difference? What if no matter how you voted the elites always got their way? What if the concept of one person/one vote was just a fiction created by the government
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Tried To Delete Court Transcript In Lawsuit Over Deleting Evidence
08-09-2014
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The Daily Caller
The National Security Agency secretly tried to delete part of a public court transcript after believing one of its lawyers may have accidentally revealed classified information in a court case over alleged illegal surveillance.
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News Link • Police State
DOJ's "Operation Choke Point" Strips Porn Stars of Bank Accounts
08-09-2014
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Under "Operation Choke Point," the DOJ and its allies are going after legal but subjectively undesirable business ventures by pressuring banks to terminate their bank accounts or refuse their business. The very premise is chilling
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Small-Town Praetorianism: Barry Township Rejects Victor Pierce's Authoritarian "Vision"
08-09-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
BTPD, which has 4 full-time officers and operates out of a 1-room headquarters in nearby Delton, was provided with 4 armored vehicles through the Pentagon. As part of what Pierce calls a "visionary balance for the community,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police officers have no constitutional 'right of privacy' in records of their official misco
08-09-2014
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Washington Post
Several persons arrested for ticket scalping filed complaints the arresting officers appropriated the arrestee's money and World Series tickets. "internal affairs" disclosed a number of World Series tickets seized from arrestees were utilized
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Despite Legalization, Colorado Teenagers Stubbornly Refuse to Smoke More Pot
08-09-2014
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Reason
New survey data from Colorado indicate that marijuana legalization so far has not led to an increase in pot smoking by teenagers, as prohibitionists warned it would.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Obama Administration
How Putin's Advisor Sees The Ukraine Crisis Playing Out
08-09-2014
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zerohedge.com
"The point of a series of regional wars organized by the Americans, especially today's catastrophe in Ukraine, centers on the U.S. securing control over all of north Eurasia" to bolster "its position against China,"
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Mish: "Small Price to Pay"
08-09-2014
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Hadar Goldin and the Hannibal Directive
08-09-2014
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http://www.newyorker.com
Buried deep inside a Times report last weekend about Hadar Goldin, the Israeli soldier who was reported captured by Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip, and then declared dead, was the following paragraph:
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News Link • Israel
Norman Finkelstein on Gaza conflict, Hamas goals and Iron Dome myth
08-09-2014
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https://www.youtube.com
Norman Finkelstein on Gaza conflict, Hamas goals and Iron Dome myth.
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News Link • Israel
U.S. Suspected Israeli Involvement in 1960s Missing Uranium
08-09-2014
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http://online.wsj.com
Officials Believed Ally Used Materials Lifted From Pennsylvania Toward a Weapons Program.
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq: US Launches Air Strikes on Islamic State Militants Killing 'Hundreds'
08-09-2014
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk
The US military has launched air strikes against militants of the Islamic State in northern Iraq, according to the Pentagon.
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News Link • Military
The US Military and the Ebola Outbreak
08-09-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com
I continue to suspect that the Ebola outbreak in western Africa may have been the result of U.S. military biowarfare research gone awry.
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News Link • Economy - International
"Small Price to Pay"
08-09-2014
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
In response to Russia Fires Back With More Sanctions: NASA, Pepsi, McDonald's, Autos in Spotlight a close friend responded "It's a small price to pay to counter naked aggression."
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Magnetic microhair material can change transparency, and make water flow uphill
08-09-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
What if your house's windows could automatically reduce the amount of hot sunlight passing through them, or your car's windshield could cause rain droplets to bead off to its edges?
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Stem cell stroke therapy shows promise after first human trial
08-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
A pilot study undertaken by researchers from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London has shown promise in rapid treatment of serious strokes.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
New Technology Is Shaking Up The World's Oldest Profession
08-08-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
For those seeking commercial sex in Berlin, Peppr, a new app, makes life easy. Type in a location and up pops a list of the nearest prostitutes, along with pictures, prices and physical particulars.
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News Link • How To
How to Throw a Tomahawk Like a Mountain Man
08-08-2014
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http://www.artofmanliness.com
It was the ambition of the boys to be able to throw a tomahawk with the skill and accuracy of our pioneer forebears, and the ability soon acquired by the boys in throwing hatchets at targets was really remarkable...
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, August 10, 2014 Edition
08-08-2014
John Semmens
Obama Eyes Emancipation Proclamation as Model for Amnesty Executive Order
Insiders say that President Obama will use President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation as the model for his anticipated Executive Order granting amnesty to millions of ill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Experimental drug compound found to reverse effects of Alzheimer's in mice
08-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
While there has been progress made in the fight against Alzheimer's, our understanding of the dispiriting disease remains somewhat limited, with a definitive cure yet to be found.
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News Link • Transportation
Google Street View Car In Wrong-Way Crash
08-08-2014
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com
AUGUST 7--A Google Street View car that was traveling in the wrong direction on a one-way street crashed into another vehicle last night as it attempted to make a U-turn, Arkansas police report.
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News Link • General Opinion
Are We Too Hard On Rand Paul?
08-08-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Rand Paul was interviewed by the New York Times in a magazine piece titled "Has the 'Libertarian Moment' Finally Arrived?" (a great read actually) and was quoted addressing the criticism he receives from Libertarian publications (including ours).
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News Link • Martial Law
Want to Know What Martial Law over Ebola Will Look Like?...
08-08-2014
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http://www.shtfplan.com
Want to Know What Martial Law over Ebola Will Look Like? Check Out What's Happening Right Now in Africa.
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News Link • Obamacare
Former Obamacare Boss Admits She Deleted Emails Sought By Congress
08-08-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com
On the bright side, Marilyn Tavenner - appointed by President Obama to take over CMS within the Department of Health and human Services in 2013 - did not suffer a hard-drive crash.
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News Link • Government
Paul added: "Some people are purists, and I get grief all the time...
08-08-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com
Paul added: "Some people are purists, and I get grief all the time ? all these libertarian websites hating on me because I'm not.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Football Fans Are Going To Hate The NFL's New On-Field Advertising
08-08-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
If you watched Thursday night's Ravens vs. 49ers preseason football game, you probably noticed the awful on-field advertising any time either team got in the end zone.
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News Link • Transportation
GIFs Show How 4 Popular Cars Have Changed Over The Years
08-08-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
From the bestselling Honda Accord, to a piece of Americana with the Ford Mustang, each vehicle has seen multigenerational design shifts. Here's how some of our favorite cars have evolved over the past 50 years.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Researchers Have Made A Computer 'Think' Like A Person
08-08-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com
IBM's latest brainlike computer chip may not be "smarter than a fifth-grader," but it can simulate millions of the brain's neurons and perform complex tasks using very little energy.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Brownsville, Texas named as site for SpaceX spaceport
08-08-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com
The office of Texas Governor Rick Perry has revealed that SpaceX has selected Brownsville, Texas as the site of a new launch facility for sending commercial satellites into orbit.
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News Link • Activism
Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Get Liberty Meet-up Space
07-31-2014
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Shire Liberty News
Portsmouth, New Hampshire is part of the Freecoast, a growing destination for entrepreneurs, families, and other stakeholders in the liberty movement. In September it's getting its own liberty meet-up space called the Praxeum. Exclusive interview.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Here's Why I Won't Be Lining Up for the Ebola Vaccine
08-08-2014
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http://www.theorganicprepper.ca, by: Daisy Luther
Yesterday, I wrote about my plans to safely isolate my family should the Ebola virus become pandemic in the United States. What I didn't touch on very much was the Ebola vaccine that is in the works.
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News Link • Drug War
Hey DEA ? No Link Between Medical Marijuana and Increased Crime, Study Says
08-08-2014
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http://naturalsociety.com, by Paul Fassa
The DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) refuses to consider the hundreds of independent international studies that prove cannabis or marijuana in various forms is a valid and safe medicine.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
A Letter to My Father
08-08-2014
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http://www.thedailybell.com, Wendy McElroy
There is an attempt to change the ground rules of libertarianism through introducing left-leaning attitudes and concepts. Two distinct approaches are in play within this attempt. I applaud one. I will leave the movement if the other prevails.
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News Link • General Opinion
The End of Oppression - Part 1: The Problem
08-08-2014
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https://www.youtube.com, Josie Outlaw
"The End of Oppression" is a six-part series of videos which show what it will take for humanity to finally outgrow and escape its long history of violence and oppression.
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News Link • Economy - International
Meanwhile, Euroclear (Europe's DTCC) Warns That It, Too, Engages in Fractional...
08-08-2014
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http://www.deepcapture.com, by Patrick Byrne
Meanwhile, Euroclear (Europe's DTCC) Warns That It, Too, Engages in Fractional Reserve Banking Without a Reserve Requirement
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News Link • Seriously?
Smiling Young White People Make App for Avoiding Black Neighborhoods
08-08-2014
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valleywag.gawker.com
there any way to keep white people from using computers, before this whole planet is ruined?
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News Link • Bitcoin
Whistleblower: Fed "Highly Alarmed" About Bitcoin Conquering Dollar System
08-07-2014
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Infowars.Com/Paul Joseph Watson
Internal report revealed cryptocurrency would supercede existing Fed monopoly within 12 years
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News Link • TERRORISM
Southeast Asia's top Islamic militant alive 2 years after US jubilantly declared his death
08-07-2014
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AFP
The Philippine military said one of Southeast Asia's top Islamic militants was alive, more than 2 years after jubilantly declaring he had been killed in a US-backed airstrike. With a $5-million US-government bounty on his head, is roaming the
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Wife of man who filmed alleged NYPD choke hold is charged with assault
08-07-2014
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Reuters
Police have arrested the wife of a NYC man who filmed an officer using a choke hold on a suspect who later died, authorities said, charging her with misdemeanor assault days after her husband was detained on unrelated gun charges.
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News Link • Police State
Snowden granted 3-yr residence permit - lawyer
08-07-2014
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RT.com
Edward Snowden has received a residence permit in Russia, which is valid for three years, starting on August 1, the former NSA contractor's lawyer announced.
Snowden's life in Russia: 'Much happier than be unfairly tried in US'.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The overcriminalization of American people
08-07-2014
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Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd "violations" as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
More New York Times Disinformation
08-07-2014
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Those in the US enthralled by relentless reports of the most demonic acts attributed to President Putin and the rebel Eastern Ukrainian federalists in the New York Times, NPR, ETC. should look at the track record of the "reporters"
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News Link • Surveillance
Former NSA Director Sold Classified Info For $1M Per Month
08-07-2014
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More directly, Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson accused Alexander Wednesday of disclosing "classified information to bank trade groups for monthly fees of up to $1,000,000."
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
A Cop's "Worst Nightmare": Accountability
08-07-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Now that the death of Garner ? who was not a "perpetrator" of any sort, but a man who had just broken up a fight ? has been ruled a homicide, the "career of those involved from the NYPD dangles from a thread," moans Cubby.
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
US firm says Russian gang stole 1.2 Billion Internet credentials -NYT
08-07-2014
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Reuters
A cybersecurity firm said it uncovered 1.2 Billion Internet logins and passwords and more than 500 million email addresses amassed by a Russian crime ring, the largest known collection of stolen data, stolen from 420,000 websites,
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