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Date Sent: 2012-12-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 11, 2012 PM edition |
How To Scrub GPS Data From Your Photos; Or, How To Be Smarter Than "Vice" magazine
12-11-12 -- Randall Wray - Scott Horton - Gene Kernon -
LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) -- Sleek Headband Reads Your Mind -- Anonymous May Attack UN Agency Over Internet Rules -- Judge Napolitano: "Tell the Orwellians at Verizon to Go Take a Hike" -- Feds remain AWOL as public pot smoking begins -- Former US president slams drone attacks -- "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." -- Fox News busted reporting drivers on Cannabis -- DOHA Didn't Do So Well But the Elites Will Surely Strike Again -- Is Government Really Necessary? (video) -- Air Force May Be Developing
Stealth Drones in Secret -- The Secret Weapons Behind The Japanese
Attack On Pearl Harbor -- Watch This Parrot Drive A Parrot-Sized Robot
Car -- Shapeshifting Metamaterial Could Revolutionize How We Treat
Wounds -- Latest Apple Maps Glitch Strands Motorists In Australian
Wilderness -- Watch A 10-Story Building Go Up In Two Days -- Defending the World, Bankrupting Ourselves -- Netanyahu: Hamas Speech Proves No Compromise Possible With
Palestinians -- Israeli Election Committee Nears Mass Bans on Arab
Candidates, Parties -- Food stamp use reaches another high in September: 47.7 million participants -- Chavez Names Loyalist Heir as Venezuela Eyes Succession -- Government investigating makers of cellphone apps -- Russia, China alliance wants greater govt voice in Internet oversight -- Bradley Manning wins Guardian's Person of Year 2012 -- Dollar Falls Before Fed Considers Added Monetary Stimulus -- Gerard Depardieu Is Latest Refugee From French Millionaire Tax; Escapes To Belgium -- EU War Council Meets to Plan Syria and Mali Invasions -- Hope and Change - by Howard Blitz
AZ: America's First Monument to the Bill of Rights - Arizona Dedication Ceremony, Saturday December 15th
10:00 am; 2012 Arizona Activist Awards, Patriot Roast &
Fundraiser Saturday December 15th 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
PA: East Coast Bitcoin Summit: Philadelphia, Dec. 15, 12:30 - 6PM
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
How To Scrub GPS Data From Your Photos; Or, How To Be Smarter Than Vice
12-11-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
You know, in case you're trying to conceal your location (or a murder suspect's).
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News Link • Bitcoin
East Coast Bitcoin Summit: Philadelphia
12-11-2012
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James Babb
East Coast Bitcoin Summit: Philadelphia
Free the currency. Free the people.
December 15, 2012 • 12:30 to 5:50 PM
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News Link • Inventions
Sleek Headband Reads Your Mind
12-11-2012
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, Staff
The latest mind-reading headband might be the best-looking yet. For now, however, there aren't many applications to go with it. Interested customers can order a headband, but it won't be ready for shipping for another six months.
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News Link • Anonymous
Anonymous May Attack UN Agency Over Internet Rules
12-11-2012
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http://www.technewsdaily.com, by Ben Weitzenkorn
A security expert thinks the hacktivist movement Anonymous is planning an imminent cyberattack against the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Letter Re: A Useful Free USGS Online Maps Web Site
12-11-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, Scott S.
Dear Jim, I have found an invaluable free tool for your pre- and post-SHTF operations that allows you detailed and accurate mapping for your location(s) within the U.S.
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News Link • Inventions
University Uses Tesla Technology to Wirelessly Charge Electric Bus
12-11-2012
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http://theintelhub.com, Utah State University
Utah State University presented a first-of-its-kind electric bus that is charged through wireless charging technology in a demonstration Nov. 15.
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News Link • Government
Amash, Huelskamp, Schweikert send letter to Boehner seeking answers
12-11-2012
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Tim Huelskamp, Justin Amash, David Schweikert
We write to request a full and complete written explanation of the rationale for removing us from our current committee assignments, including any "scorecards" presented to the Steering Committee to justify our removals.
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News Link • Surveillance
Judge Napolitano: "Tell the Orwellians at Verizon to Go Take a Hike"
12-11-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by fonzdrew
Judge Napolitano: "Tell the Orwellians at Verizon to Go Take a Hike"
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News Link • Drug War
Feds remain AWOL as public pot smoking begins
12-11-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, By Scott Bomboy
A federal showdown with Washington state over its newly realized marijuana law has gone up in smoke, as people puffed pot in public this week with no repercussions.
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News Link • Drug War
Breaking The Taboo - Film
12-11-2012
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http://www.youtube.com, breakingthetaboofilm
Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman, "Breaking the Taboo" is produced by Sam Branson's indie Sundog Pictures and Brazilian co-production partner Spray Filmes and was directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen and Fernando Grostein Andrade.
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News Link • Military
Former US president slams drone attacks
12-11-2012
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http://www.thenews.com, From Web Edition
Former US President Jimmy Carter has slammed American assassination drone strikes in other countries, saying that killing civilians in such attacks would in fact nurture terrorism.
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News Link • Government
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."
12-11-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by DevinUp
An oldie but a goodie (a baddie?). I've been reading/watching about Obama's kill list, drones, indefinite detention, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, etc. lately and that quote kept popping into my head.
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News Link • Climate Change
Doha Didn't Do So Well But the Elites Will Surely Strike Again
12-11-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
The climate change meetings that took place recently at Doha proved difficult once again for the power elite " the one that wants to run the world and is using enforced scarcity to help it do so.
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News Link • Government
Is Government Really Necessary? (video)
12-09-2012
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The International Libertarian
The lively Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society discussion happened on December 9, 2012. (http://www.meetup.com/thinkingsociety/events/85461612/) Below is the description of the event on the Meetup page:
"Most discussions about government start
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
New Evidence of Voting Fraud with Prop 37 Initiative to Label GMO’s
12-11-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, theintelhub.com
After election day most of us heard that Prop 37, the initiative to label GMO foods failed to gather enough support to get a majority vote at the ballot box, and after that it more or less disappeared from the news altogether.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Toothpaste Blasts Kids with 5,000% More IQ-Crushing Fluoride than Heavily Fluoridated Areas
12-11-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Anthony Gucciardi
Fluoride exposure at typical water fluoridation levels is known to decrease IQ across the board and leading medical heads have confirmed it is fueling cancer and other disease as well, but what about fluoride levels around 5,000 times that found in m
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
The ten worst ways your children are being poisoned right now: vaccines, food, video games and more
12-11-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mike Adams
Modern children are being poisoned like never before in the history of human civilization.
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News Link • Syria
PlayStation-Controlled DIY Tank May Be the Wildest Weapon Yet in the Syria War
12-11-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert Beckhusen
Syria’s rebels may have taken the concept of a videogame a tad too far.
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News Link • Architecture
A Look Back at Oscar Niemeyer, Master of Curved Concrete
12-11-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Tim Maly
Oscar Niemeyer liked curves.
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News Link • Military
Air Force May Be Developing Stealth Drones in Secret
12-11-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Axe
The Air Force’s multi-billion-dollar drone fleets may have helped against the insurgents of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Harvard’s 3D-Printing Archaeologists Fix Ancient Artifacts
12-11-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
Indiana Jones practiced archaeology with a bull whip and fedora. Joseph Greene and Adam Aja are using another unlikely tool " a 3-D printer.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Secret Weapons Behind The Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor
12-11-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Krislyn Placide
Today marks 71 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor that catapulted the United States into World War II.
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News Link • Technology: Software
AirHarp, The Instrument You Play Without Touching Anything
12-11-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Krislyn Placide
Using a Leap Motion device, Adam Somers turned his computer monitor into a harp.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Watch This Parrot Drive A Parrot-Sized Robot Car
12-11-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
The benefits of living with an engineer
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Shapeshifting Metamaterial Could Revolutionize How We Treat Wounds
12-11-2012
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http://www.popsci.com,
"When a drug can flow into a cavity then conform to the shape of the cavity and stay there, it offers unprecedented opportunities [in the] delivery of drugs."
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News Link • Architecture
Watch A 10-Story Building Go Up In Two Days
12-11-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
This building is the latest super-quick tower brought to you by prefabrication.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor
12-11-2012
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http://mises.org, by Robert Higgs
Many people are misled by formalities. They assume, for example, that the United States went to war against Germany and Japan only after its declarations of war against these nations in December 1941.
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News Link • Government
Defending the World, Bankrupting Ourselves
12-11-2012
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http://reason.com,
After decades of American protection, our friends can form their own alliances to confront any adversary.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Netanyahu: Hamas Speech Proves No Compromise Possible With Palestinians
12-11-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com,
Insists Abbas' Lack of Comment Proves He Is an Enemy Too
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Election Committee Nears Mass Bans on Arab Candidates, Parties
12-11-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
High Court Seen Likely to Reverse Bannings
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News Link • Day of Reckoning
Russian residents buy up tinned goods and matches ahead of apocalypse
12-11-2012
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By Tom Parfitt
Russian residents have been buying up cereals, tinned meat and boxes of matches in anticipation of the pending apocalypse.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Food stamp use reaches another high in September: 47.7 million participants
12-11-2012
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http://dailycaller.com, Caroline May
Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, reached another high in September, according to new data released by the United Stated Department of Agriculture.
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News Link • World News
Chavez Names Loyalist Heir as Venezuela Eyes Succession
12-11-2012
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http://www.bloomberg.com, By Charlie Devereux
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez named a longtime ally with close ties to Cuba his heir apparent as the cancer-stricken leader prepares for a potential departure after almost 14 years in power.
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News Link • Government
Government investigating makers of cellphone apps
12-11-2012
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http://hosted.ap.org, By RICHARD LARDNER
The government is investigating whether software companies that make cellphone apps violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting personal information from mobile devices and sharing it with advertisers and data brokers, the Federal T
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News Link • World News
RPT-Russia, China alliance wants greater govt voice in Internet oversight
12-11-2012
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reuters.com, By Matt Smith and Joseph Menn
A Russia-led proposal calling for sweeping new governmental powers to regulate cyberspace could enable countries to block some Web locations and wrest control of allotting Internet addresses from a U.S.-based body.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Bradley Manning wins Guardian's Person of Year 2012
12-11-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, legalizeliberty
Bradley Manning has won the Person of the Year 2012 contest conducted by The Guardian with a landslide 70 percent of the votes.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Arizona Powerball Winner Takes The Lump Sum, Blames The Fiscal Cliff
12-11-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, AP
The second winner of the $587.5 million Powerball jackpot was identified Monday as Matthew Good, a married man in his 30s who moved to an affluent Phoenix suburb last year from Pennsylvania.
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News Link • Currencies
Dollar Falls Before Fed Considers Added Monetary Stimulus
12-11-2012
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http://www.bloomberg.com, By Allison Bennett
The dollar weakened against most its major counterparts amid better-than-forecast factory data from China and bets the U.S. central bank will add to monetary stimulus.
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Motor mutts pass doggie driving test with flying collars
12-11-2012
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http://www.france24.com, AFP
A pair of highly trained canines guided a modified car along a New Zealand race track Monday, passing their doggie driving tests with flying collars on live television, despite the odd off-road detour.
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News Link • States' Rights
Governor signs Amendment 64, marijuana officially legal in Colorado
12-11-2012
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http://kdvr.com, Will C. Holden and Thomas Hendric
Go ahead and bust out the Cheetos and Goldfish, Colorado. Marijuana is now legal in the Centennial State.
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News Link • World News
Gerard Depardieu Is Latest Refugee From French Millionaire Tax; Escapes To Belgium
12-11-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge
Three months ago many were angry and surprised (or not at all, as realistically this was a perfectly logical move), when Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH and the richest man in socialist France,decided he had had enough
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News Link • European Union
EU War Council Meets to Plan Syria and Mali Invasions
12-11-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
European Union apparatchiks convened in Brussels on Monday to plot moves against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and to plan for a “humanitarian” intervention in Mali.
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Opinion • Philosophy of Liberty
Hope and Change
12-10-2012
Howard Blitz
Hope and Change came to Yuma Tuesday night, December 4 in the form of Audrea Taylor and Luke Andersen of im2moro who were special guests of The Freedom Library at its Annual Constitution Forum held at Booth Machinery.
The Freedom Library awarded i
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Peter Schiff: Majority Doesn't "Have A Right To Steal My Money Just Because They Voted For
12-10-2012
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After the tax hikes go into effect, more than half of my total income is going to the government. What's fair about that when I'm paying half? I don't care what the majority voted to do, they don't have a right to steal my money just because they vot
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage Crisis Presents a New Reckoning to Banks
12-09-2012
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New York Times
The nation’s largest banks are facing a fresh torrent of lawsuits asserting that they sold shoddy mortgage securities that imploded during the financial crisis, potentially adding to the tens of billions of dollars banks have already paid to settle o
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
New evidence shows Pima Co SWAT Team murdered veteran then office lied
12-09-2012
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KPHO TV-5 CBS Phoenix
[How did I miss this?] Videotaped depositions made available to CBS 5 Investigates appear to show Pima County sheriff's detectives and SWAT members contradicting each other as they answer attorneys' questions about a search warrant raid
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
D'oh! Police Drone Crashes Into Police SWAT Team
12-09-2012
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Salon
A report expressed concern drones were being pushed into the domestic market before safety had been sufficiently addressed. The first police dept in the country to acquire an aerial drone crashed the $300,000 aircraft into its own SWAT team.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin, in deal with French financial firms, gets officially recognized under EU law as a "ban
12-10-2012
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BBC News
Under European laws, the deal means Bitcoin-Central becomes a Payment Services Provider (PSP) that has an International Bank ID number. This puts it on an equal footing with other payment networks such as PayPal and WorldPay.
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News Link • Government
How Ernest Hemingway’s cats became subject to federal oversight under the Commerce Clause
12-10-2012
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Christian Science Monitor
It is more than a bit ironic that Key West is also the location of a knock-down, drag-out fight over the federal government’s power under the US Constitution’s Commerce Clause to regulate… cats.
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News Link • Internet
Leaks from UN telecom conference show Orwellian proposals
12-10-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Leaked documents from a recent International Telecommunications Union meeting have exposed several disturbing examples of potential usages of the Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) standard, which was recently adopted by a UN conference in Dubai.
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News Link • Activism
Montgomery County, PA Libertarians Holiday Party 2012 (video)
12-07-2012
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The International Libertarian
The Montgomery County, PA libertarians gave out the Monty Awards for distinguished activism at their holiday party on December 7, 2012. Great acceptance speeches were given by Larken Rose, Betsy Summers, Lou Jasikoff, Mike Salvi, and Richard Schwarz.
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News Link • Intellectual Property
GOP sides with Mickey Mouse on copyright reform
12-09-2012
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Washington Examiner
The law and law enforcement around copyright has moved far beyond its purpose of promoting arts and sciences and has become a textbook case of collusion between big business and big government.
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News Link • TAXES: State
State mulls pay-by-mile gas tax in response to fuel-efficient cars
12-09-2012
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Drivers of fuel-efficient cars are spending less at the pump, which means they are paying less in gas tax while driving the same amount of miles. So the state is a considering a pay-by- mile tax to even the playing field since as it stands now,
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jumping Off the Fiscal Cliff
12-09-2012
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Free Press Publications
The federal government is nearing the edge of the “fiscal cliff.” The term is used to describe the simultaneous expiration of tax cuts, increase in tax rates and supposedly massive spending cuts. Some argue that allowing the federal budget to be cut
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US households already went off their fiscal cliff and breached their debt ceiling
12-09-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Few people realize that the debt ceiling is aligning right on track with the fiscal cliff. Total public outstanding debt is now at $16.369 trillion and is only $63 billion away from breaching the limit. Not a coincidence that the fiscal cliff is al
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ron Paul condemns "terrible treatment" of Bradley Manning from House Floor
12-09-2012
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Liberty Fight
Ron Paul: "If Congress really is concerned about the human rights of prisoners, perhaps they might take a look at the terrible treatment of US Army Private Bradley Manning while incarcerated and awaiting trial...."
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