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Date Sent: 2015-01-27
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, January 26, 2015 |
US Special Forces in Mariupol?
The B-52 gets upgraded weapons bay -- Warka Water promises to harness safe drinking water from the air -- NASA and Microsoft team up for virtual Mars exploration -- Alan Turing's "hidden" manuscript heads to auction -- Charlie Hebdo, A Free Press, And Social Security -- The Business of Civil Forfeiture -- Adios Cuba! -- Will Gold Be Part Of A New International Monetary System? -- Jason Rezaian and the crackdown on journalism -- Congress Seeks Netanyahu's Direction -- 'Operation Merlin': Another Self-Serving CIA Project -- Protest Wants Action for Man Shot Dead by Officer in Home Doorway -- Winklevoss twins look to legitimize Bitcoin with a regulated US exchange -- Bitcoin and the Digital-Currency Revolution
Help support John Bush's efforts to cover the Ross Ulbricht Trial
AZ: Join us to tour Tonopah Rob's All Natural Vegetable Farm Saturday January 31st, 2015; Superbowl Party @ the Hancock's Sun Feb 1st, 2015 3:30 p.m. til ??; Heirs of the Republic Constitutional Study Group - Larry Reed Speaker - 03/11/15 - Tucson, AZ; World Liberty Conference Bali 2015 - June 29 - July 3rd, 2015 (ISIL)
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Special Forces in Mariupol?
01-26-2015
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com-Mike S.
The rebel attack on Mariupol, Ukraine is underway as noted earlier today in Attack on Mariupol Begins; 7,000-8,000 Ukrainian Forces Nearly Encircled in Northern Cauldron; US Sends Army Trainers.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
RideOn ski goggles bring augmented reality to the slopes
01-26-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com-David Neild
Wearable technology is popping up in more and more areas of life -- and that includes the ski slopes.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Ridersmate calls for help if you wipe out in the wilderness
01-26-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com-Ben Coxworth
If you regularly take off into the hinterlands on a motorbike, mountain bike or horse, there are no doubt times when you wonder, "What happens if I crash and hurt myself, and no one knows where I am?".
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News Link • Inventions
Warka Water promises to harness safe drinking water from the air
01-26-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com-Adam Williams
As water shortage is a serious issue in many parts of the world, a means of efficiently harnessing safe drinking water from thin air without the need of expensive infrastructure could be a real lifesaver.
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News Link • History
Alan Turing's "hidden" manuscript heads to auction
01-26-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com-Ben Coxworth
Among his many achievements, British computer science pioneer Alan Turing created one of the first theoretical models of a general-purpose computer, helped develop the concept of artificial intelligence, and was in charge of breaking the German Enigm
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News Link • Police State
The Business of Civil Forfeiture
01-26-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com-National Motorists..
It's the highway hustle. The shakedown shuffle. It's civil forfeiture, and it's one of the most flagrant roadside abuses motorists face today.
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News Link • Cuba
Adios Cuba!
01-26-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com- Eric Margolis
It's taken over half a century for the US to finally figure out how to neutralize pesky Communist Cuba.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Will Gold Be Part Of A New International Monetary System?
01-26-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com-Koos Jansen
Anyone who has been paying attention to the global economy the past years can agree with me our central bankers have conducted miserable monetary policy and have taken the insufficient measures to fight crises.
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News Link • Military
Chris Hedges: Killing Ragheads for Jesus
01-26-2015
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truthdig.com
"American Sniper," like the films pumped out in Germany during the Nazi era to exalt deformed values of militarism, racial self-glorification and state violence, is a piece of propaganda, a tawdry commercial for the crimes of empire.
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News Link • Internet
Here's the Secret Silk Road Journal From the Laptop of Ross Ulbricht
01-26-2015
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http://www.wired.com-ANDY GREENBERG
As the saga of the Silk Road has unfolded over the last four years, everyone has had an opinion about the unprecedented, billion-dollar online narcotics bazaar, from press to politicians to prosecutors.
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News Link • Military
Bill Maher Calls Chris Kyle an American Psychopath
01-26-2015
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youtube.com
As American Sniper passes $200 million dollars in box office receipts, Bill Maher stated his opinion that chris Kyle loved killing savages, and that a talented director had glorified a psychotic killer. One panelist stated the Tea Party loves...
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin and the Digital-Currency Revolution
01-24-2015
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Wall Street Journal
Whether bitcoin survives or not, the technology underlying it is here to stay. In fact, that technology will become ever more influential as developers create newer, better versions and clones.
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News Link • Drones
DARPA WANTS DRONES TO HUNT IN PACKS
01-26-2015
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http://www.popsci.com,By Kelsey D. Atherton
MAKING FEWER AMOUNTS OF HUMANS RESPONSIBLE FOR GREATER AMOUNTS OF DRONES
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congress Seeks Netanyahu's Direction
01-26-2015
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https://consortiumnews.com,By Robert Parry
Showing who some in Congress believe is the real master of U.S. foreign policy, House Speaker John Boehner has invited Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session and offer a rebuttal to President Barack Obama's comments
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
'Operation Merlin': Another Self-Serving CIA Project
01-26-2015
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http://original.antiwar.com,by Gareth Porter
The jury is still out in the trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling for allegedly having leaked the story of "Operation Merlin" â€" the covert CIA effort to lure Iran into working on phony plans for a key component of a nuclear weapon â€" t
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News Link • Future Predictions
Gorbachev Interview: 'I Am Truly and Deeply Concerned'
01-26-2015
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http://www.spiegel,by Matthias Schepp and Britta S
In a SPIEGEL interview, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev discusses the dangers of poor relations between Russia and the West in the Ukraine crisis, saying there is a danger that things could get worse. Germany, he says, has a significant role t
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News Link • False Flag Operations
False Flagging the World towards War. The CIA Weaponizes Hollywood
01-26-2015
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http://www.globalresearch.ca,By Larry Chin
Almost all wars begin with false flag operations.
The coming conflicts in North Korea and Russia are no exception.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Winklevoss twins look to legitimize Bitcoin with a regulated US exchange
01-26-2015
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http://www.theverge.com,By Chris Welch
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss think they have the answer to Bitcoin's rocky 2014 and tumbling value: a "fully regulated" Bitcoin exchange based in the United States.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin and the Digital-Currency Revolution
01-26-2015
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By MICHAEL J. CASEY and PAUL VIGNA
For all bitcoin's growing pains, it represents the future of money and global finance.
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News Link • Drones
The First Drone Lawsuit Settled For Pennies
01-26-2015
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http://gizmodo.com,Chris Mills
Back in 2011, a man called Raphael Pirker 'recklessly' flew his five-pound foam airplane around the University of Virginia without hurting anyone, an act the FAA thought worthy of a $10,000 fine. A few years of wasted court time later, and both parti
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News Link • Military
DARPA's Revolutionary New Tank Focuses On Agility
01-26-2015
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https://www.youtube.com,GeoBeats News
Tanks aren't known for their agility, but DARPA's developing one that could change that.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
The Cubli: a cube that can jump up, balance, and 'walk'
01-26-2015
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https://www.youtube.com,Gajamohan Mohanarajah
The Cubli is a 15 × 15 × 15 cm cube that can jump up and balance on its corner. Reaction wheels mounted on three faces of the cube rotate at high angular velocities and then brake suddenly, causing the Cubli to jump up.
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News Link • Government
Sheldon Silver, Assembly Speaker, Took Millions in Payoffs, U.S. Says
01-26-2015
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By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and THOMAS KAPLAN
Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the New York Assembly, exploited his position as one of the most powerful politicians in the state to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, federal authorities said on Thursday as they announced his arrest
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News Link • General Opinion
The Rampant Oppression of Children (with film recommendation of Kes)
01-25-2015
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Christine Smith's Blog
Think this is some article about children being mistreated in some far-off land…not hardly. For in my opinion, some of the most oppressed grow up in the lands considered "prosperous" and "free."
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News Link • Transportation
No F*cks Given: Woman Gets Her BMW Booted And Drives Off Anyway!
01-23-2015
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World Star Hiphop
Park your car. Don't pay the meter. BWM gets the boot. Drive off with parking cop watching in disbelief. FU pal. The crowd cheers!!!!
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News Link • Gun Rights
Finally Obtained: David Gregory Arrest Warrant Affidavit
01-23-2015
This is likely the final chapter in the saga of our two-year long fight to obtain important documents regarding the non-prosecution of David Gregory for possessing on Meet the Press an illegal high-capacity ammunition magazine.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Just Another "Term of Art"
01-23-2015
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Simple Justice
It's not like this wasn't anticipated, but Judge O'Toole decided to plow ahead and the parties have to live with the consequences of his foolishness decision.
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News Link • Police State
France begins jailing people for ironic comments
01-23-2015
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The Iran Project
A 16-year-old high school student was taken into police custody on Thursday and indicted for "defending terrorism." His alleged crime? He posted on Facebook a cartoon "representing a person holding the magazine Charlie Hebdo,
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Aerial Photos Expose the American Prison System's Staggering Scale
01-23-2015
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Wired
There are some 2.2 million people behind bars in the United States. That's more people than there are in all of New Mexico. And there are more jails and prisons than colleges and universities in this country.
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News Link • Healthcare
Miss. doctor: The state wants to revoke my license because I treat the poor out of my car
01-23-2015
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Rawstory
Landrum refused to comply, saying the board is accusing him of incompetency. He also accused officials of investigating him only after discovering that he meets patients in vacant parking lots or drives to see them.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
A Bird In The Hand
01-23-2015
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Simple Justice
John expressed his displeasure at what the officer was doing by reaching his right arm outside the passenger side window and extending his middle finger over the car's roof.
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News Link • Government
EXCLUSIVE: Bronx woman, 67, says she was tossed in jail for calling 311 too much
01-23-2015
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New York Daily News
Arles Cepeda, who lives in Castle Hill Houses, will file a federal lawsuit Friday against the NYPD after she says she was arrested and thrown in a cell for calling 311 to report drug deals and building conditions. She called the city hotline 44 times
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
This is what happens when a civilian kills a cop during a no-knock drug raid
01-23-2015
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alternet
If, on the other hand, Americans shoot narcotics officers during militarized drug raids--perhaps believing that they are being robbed and are acting in self-defense--charges of first-degree murder are likely.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Oklahoma Cop Records Himself Shooting and Killing Fleeing Man
01-23-2015
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Photography Is Not a Crime
An Oklahoma cop wearing a body cam recorded himself shooting and killing a man who was running from him after the suspect stopped to pick up an object he had dropped during the pursuit before continuing fleeing.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE, January 25, 2015 Edition
01-23-2015
John Semmens
White House Outraged over Boehner Invitation to Netanyahu
The invitation House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) issued to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress has the Obama Administration in a state of apop
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Breaking Research On U.S. Military Actions, 1798 to 2015
01-23-2015
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fas.org
The bottom line is that this nation has been in an almost constant state of war from day one.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Heirs of the Republic Constitutional Study Group - Larry Reed Speaker - 03/11/15 - Tucson, AZ
01-23-2015
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FEE.Org
FEE president Lawrence W. Reed will be speaking on "Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy and Presidents and Poverty: Wisdom from 19th Century American Chief Executives" to the Heirs of the Republic, which is a community education and outreach gro
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
Liberty Church Project Update
01-23-2015
Chuck Baldwin
As faithful readers of this column know, last year, I launched the Liberty Church Project. For several years, patriot Christians around the country had corresponded with me about their frustration with not being able to find a patriot pastor or liber
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News Link • Police State
Texas Cops Jail Woman For 'Walking Without A License'
01-23-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Charges for driving without license and registration… while walking
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire's Sex Jet
01-23-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Nick Bryant
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the "Lolita Express"--the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein...
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News Link • Gun Rights
Video: Man Arrested for Assaulting Licensed Concealed Carry Holder Inside Walmart
01-23-2015
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Adan Salazar
Gun control advocate backs man who made erroneous tackle
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Dire State of Our Nation (What You Won't Hear from the Politicians)
01-23-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W. Whitehead
No matter what the politicians say about how great America is and how we, as a people, will always triumph, the fact is that the nation seems to be imploding.
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News Link • Economy - International
WOW Swiss and Chinese Central Banks Cut Deal for Chinese Currency Clearing...
01-23-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Robert Wenzel
WOW Swiss and Chinese Central Banks Cut Deal for Chinese Currency Clearing (A Serious Poke at the Dollar?)
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News Link • Economy - International
Switzerland Wins As Its Central Bank Surrenders
01-23-2015
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http://www.europac.net, By: Peter Schiff
Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the writer, and may or may not reflect those held by Euro Pacific Capital.
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News Link • Currencies
Jim Rogers: You must own real assets to avoid the dollar collapse
01-23-2015
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http://economiccollapsenews.com, By Andrew Moran
Soon after gloating to the Business Insider about how he was proven right last week when he warned in his 2013 book "Street Smarts" that the Swiss National Bank move would end in a crisis, Jim Rogers spoke with Investment Weekly discussing how
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News Link • Internet
FCC Commissioner Speaks Out Against Federal Regulation of Internet
01-23-2015
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http://www.cnsnews.com, By Rudy Takala
Federal Communications Commissioner (FCC) Michael O'Rielly criticized recent calls from the White House for the commission to begin federal regulation of Internet services.
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News Link • Internet
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: "The Internet Will Disappear"
01-23-2015
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com, by Georg Szalai
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted the end of the Internet as we know it.
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News Link • Racism
Selma, 50 Years On
01-23-2015
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan
On Martin Luther King Day, 2015, how stand race relations in America?
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
'Star Trek Communicator Startup' Sets Out to Build a World Powered by Voice
01-23-2015
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http://www.wired.com, By Cade Metz
OnBeep, the San Francisco startup that offers wearable hardware reminiscent of the iconic Star Trek Communicator, is no longer called OnBeep. On Wednesday, the company announced it will now be known as Orion.
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News Link • World News
Secret Journal Allegedly Shows Ross Ulbricht Planned a Silk Road Bank
01-23-2015
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http://www.wired.com, By Andy Greenberg
Silk Road, for its more than two and a half years online, was an unprecedented online narcotics emporium. But according to a journal found on the laptop of its alleged creator Ross Ulbricht, Ulbricht wanted it to be even more: a "brand" that exte
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