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Date Sent: 2013-02-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, February 7, 2013 AM edition |
JSoc: Obama's secret assassins - by Naomi Klein -- Federal Reserve hacked
Police Investigated After Unarmed Couple Killed In Hail Of 140 Bullets -- Terror Tots: 2nd Grade Student Suspended For Throwing Pretend Grenade -- Judge Investigated For Prosecutorial Misconduct That Led To 25 Years For Innocent Man -- Aaron Swartz's Girlfriend Explains 'Why Aaron Died' -- Jim Rogers on Fed Easing? ‘This is going to end very very badly’ -- Next News Network Interviews Jim Babka from DownSizeDC.com -- Is America a Police State Yet? - by Wendy McElroy -- Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law -- Boy Scouts of America versus Gay Scouts -- Two Parties Map Strategy on Automatic Budget Cuts -- 02-07-13 -- Ray McGovern - Derrick J - Dana Siegelman - LISTEN LIVE ON LRN.FM, 9-Noon EST -- Activist Funding Tool ChipIn Merged, Then Axed! -- Proliferation of drone tech - an alternate view -- Gold Miners vs the S and P – Surprising Conclusions -- Why Bruce Willis Is Against Gun Control -- A Mysterious Online Account Is Revealing Chinese President Xi Jinping's Every Move -- ACTIVISTS: A 'Patent Troll' Is Trying To Destroy All Podcasts -- 6th Graders Asked to Design “Communist” Flag -- TreasuryYield30Years (^TYX) -- When Will the Rest of Us Get Google Fiber? -- The American Lockdown State -- Obama Plans March Visit to Israel -- Ahmadinejad: Iran already a nuclear state, but has no intention of launching attack on Israel -- Jacob Hornberger: Guilt, Not PTSD, Is What Afflicts Iraq War Veterans -- Amazon Coins: Clever Monetary Stimulus for the Kindle Fire Content Ecosystem -- What’s the Shelf-Life of DNA? -- Tim Geithner Now a "Distinguished Fellow" at CFR -- Karl Rove's Super PAC Isn't Wasting Any Time Attacking Ashley Judd -- The Post Office Will Stop Delivering Mail on Saturdays Beginning in August -- Meet Rex: the $1m bionic man with working heart, set of lungs and human face -- Karl Rove's Super PAC Isn't Wasting Any Time Attacking Ashley Judd -- 02-06-13 -- Ernest Hancock FP HEADLINES - Robert Podolsky (anarchy-not chaos) (MP3/Video LOADED)
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News Link • Police State
JSoc: Obama's secret assassins - by Naomi Klein
02-06-2013
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The Guardian
They interview former JSoc assassins, who are shell-shocked at how the "kill lists" they are given keep expanding, even as they eliminate more and more people.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve hacked
02-06-2013
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The Guardian
The US Federal Reserve bank has confirmed one of its internal websites was broken into by hackers after the hacktivist group Anonymous was claimed to have stolen details of more than 4,000 bank executives.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Investigated After Unarmed Couple Killed In Hail Of 140 Bullets
02-06-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Police are investigating a bizarre case of police panic where 115 police officers may have been involved in a car chase and mass shooting incident where two unarmed individuals were killed in a hail of 140 bullets in Cleveland.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Terror Tots: 2nd Grade Student Suspended For Throwing Pretend Grenade
02-06-2013
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Jonathan Turley
In Loveland, Colorado, school officials at Mary Blair Elementary School have suspended a second grade student for throwing a make believe grenade. That’s right, an invisible, pretend grenade followed by a reported “pshhh” sound.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge Investigated For Prosecutorial Misconduct That Led To 25 Years For Innocent Man
02-06-2013
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Jonathan Turley
District judge Ken Anderson of Williamson County, Texas is now formally under investigation for his alleged role in a gross injustice as a prosecutor. It is an all-too-rare case where a former prosecutor is actually called to account for an injustice
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Aaron Swartz's Girlfriend Explains 'Why Aaron Died'
02-06-2013
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At the time of his death, Swartz was facing a potential conviction of 35 years and up to $1 million in fines for allegedly downloading thousands of scholarly articles from the online database JSTOR with a hidden computer connected to the MIT's networ
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Jim Rogers on Fed Easing? ‘This is going to end very very badly’
02-06-2013
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http://www.opencurrency.com
Jim discusses Germany’s repatriation of gold and the questionable response of and 8 year timeline by the United States to return the gold. Fed Easing and the effects on those who invested properly vs. those who benefit from printing money.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Next News Network Interviews Jim Babka from DownSizeDC.com
02-06-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(Video) Gary Franchi from NextNewsNetwork interviews Jim Babka from DownSizeDC.com. Topics discussed include proposed bills, Congress and Senate actions, the influences behind the decisions we see out of DC along with the need to fix the two party s
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
Is America a Police State Yet? - by Wendy McElroy
02-06-2013
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If you need to ask the question, then the answer is “yes”. Ayn Rand called it “the ultimate inversion...the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.”
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law
02-06-2013
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Washington Times
President Obama's health care law will push 7 million people out of their job-based insurance coverage " nearly twice the previous estimate, according to the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Two Parties Map Strategy on Automatic Budget Cuts
02-06-2013
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New York Times
Congressional Democrats were closing in on legislation to temporarily head off deep across-the-board spending cuts, convinced that once federal furloughs and layoffs begin political pressure on Republicans to accept more tax increases will become irr
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Activist Funding Tool ChipIn Merged, Then Axed!
02-06-2013
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E-mail from Chip-In!
I know I would have never made it to Tampa for the RNC and Ron Paul had it not been for Chip-In and PayPal - now I get this in my inbox...
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Surveillance
Proliferation of drone tech - an alternate view
02-06-2013
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Center For A Stateless Society
If drones are here to stay,...is it all bad? Here's the case for it eventually turning in our favor.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • China
A Mysterious Online Account Is Revealing Chinese President Xi Jinping's Every Move
02-06-2013
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Business Insider
Since November, a Weibo-account strangely named "Study Xi Fan Group" has been revealing a lot about Chinese President Xi Jinping's life.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Activism
ACTIVISTS: A 'Patent Troll' Is Trying To Destroy All Podcasts
02-06-2013
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Business Insider
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties group, is declaring war on a company claiming it made the podcast possible.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Transportation
BMW Designed A 42-Wheel Car To Make A 4-Year-Old Boy Happy
02-06-2013
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Business Insider
Last week, Jalopnik writer Jason Torchinsky issued a call for readers to come up with a look for a car with some very unusual specs.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military
The US Is Launching Drone Strikes From A Secret Base In Saudi Arabia
02-06-2013
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Business Insider
The CIA drone strike that killed U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki originated from a secret base in Saudi Arabia, Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post report.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
When Will the Rest of Us Get Google Fiber?
02-06-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Google may choose to expand its service, but there’s little incentive for established players to come up to speed.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
$99 Ouya Game Console Will Hit Amazon, Target and More in June
02-06-2013
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Wired.com
Ouya, the $99, Android-powered game console, set Kickstarter records last August when it raised nearly $8.6 million in crowdfunding.
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Internet
Google Chrome's 'Wizard Of Oz' Adventure Is One Awesome Ad
02-06-2013
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popsci.com
Because it doesn't feel like an ad--it's a really fun, interactive adventure that fully exploits all the things modern web browsers can do.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Targeted Killing Document: If We Do It, It's Not Illegal
02-06-2013
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motherjones.com
If a high-ranking administration official does it, it's not illegal.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
The American Lockdown State
02-06-2013
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Antiwar.com
Post-Legal Drones, the Bin Laden Tax, and Other Wonders of Our American World
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens
02-06-2013
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The Guardian
The president's partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Ahmadinejad: Iran already a nuclear state, but has no intention of launching attack on Israel
02-06-2013
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Daily Paul.com
In interview with Al-Ahram on eve of Islamic Summit Conference in Cairo, Iranian president also says his country opposes outside intervention in Syria.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Jacob Hornberger: Guilt, Not PTSD, Is What Afflicts Iraq War Veterans
02-06-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Ex-military sniper Chris Kyle was killed last Saturday at the hands of another Iraq War veteran, Eddie Ray Routh.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Amazon Coins: Clever Monetary Stimulus for the Kindle Fire Content Ecosystem
02-06-2013
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slate.com
Amazon, the company that doesn't care if it makes money, has hit upon a really great alternative to making money"give it away to other people:
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Tim Geithner Now a "Distinguished Fellow" at CFR
02-06-2013
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slate.com
Aside from the (false) belief that he had a background working on Wall Street, perhaps the most widely held suspicion about Timothy Geithner is that he was headed to a Wall Street payday once he left the government.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Post Office Will Stop Delivering Mail on Saturdays Beginning in August
02-06-2013
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slate.com
The U.S. Post Office is expected to announce later this morning that it will end weekend mail delivery beginning this summer.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Books
Adolf Hitler novel tops German bestseller chart
02-06-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
A satirical novel about Adolf Hitler, set in the present day, has climbed to the top of Germany's bestseller charts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday February 6th 2013
02-06-2013
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LewRockwell.com
Ron Paul Quotes Jesus Christ / Welcome to the Immigration Police State, Ron Paul on what's ahead / US Declares War on Us / Inject Me! Dumbed-down populations accept outrageous vaccine lies / It's Open Season on Preppers / Take Our Guns?
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Immigration 'Reform' Will Turn the US Into a Police State
02-06-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
Whenever the federal government decides to reform something we can be fairly sure that the problem is about to get worse, especially if they call the plan bi-partisan.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
11 Crazy National Enquirer Stories That Turned Out To Be True
02-06-2013
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Business Insider
The National Enquirer recently made the crazy claim that Tiger Woods and his ex-wife Elin Nordegren were back together.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Surveillance
UK planning broad online domestic spying regime
02-06-2013
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RT.com
UK officials plan to monitor Britons' online activities by placing surveillance devices on the country's telecom networks, a Parliamentary report says.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Starting a Business Is a Huge Pain
02-05-2013
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Slate
I’ve been to three offices, filed five forms, spent $200, lost a day of work"and I’m not even close to getting the simple license I need.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Welfare, food stamp recipients could soon be required to get microchipped with RFID tags
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
For at least the past 15 years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been actively trying to develop new ways to decrease fraud in the federal food stamp program, which currently covers nearly 50 million Americans and adds more than 10,000 n
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Propaganda
Illinois High School To Stage ‘Active Shooter Drills’ With Simulated Gunfire
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
At the intersection of paranoia and random violence lies high school. CBS Chicago reports:
A school shooting drill planned on Wednesday in Chicago’s northwestern suburbs has many parents upset.
According to a letter from Cary-Grove High School
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gun Rights
Judge Napolitano: Second Amendment Was Written To Protect Right To Shoot Tyrants, Not Skeet Shooting
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(Video) Judge Napolitano discusses the Second Amendment and President Obama’s push for gun control on Fox Business Network’s The Tom Sullivan Show.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
FHP announces daytime driver license, vehicle inspection checkpoints
02-05-2013
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abc news
The Florida Highway Patrol will be setting up checkpoints in various countries in Florida. Our state reminds us that these checkpoints will keep us safe and are not intrusive at all.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Even The Savviest Finance Folk Have Never Heard Of This $17 Trillion Credit Market
02-05-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Walter Kurtz
It turns out that the biggest financing market is not in corporate bonds or even mortgages.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Economy - International
CITI: Cracks Are Starting To Appear In Europe, And One Market Is Particularly Concerning
02-05-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
The big rally in European risk assets like stocks took a breather late last week.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Nowhere to hide: New Facebook app to track offline users " report
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Those concerned about Facebook’s controversial privacy policies may have yet another reason to worry. The social network is reportedly developing a smartphone application which will track the location of its users " even when the app isn’t running.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Military
How Obama Transformed an Old Military Concept So He Can Drone Americans
02-05-2013
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Wired.com
"mminence” used to mean something in military terms: namely, that an adversary had begun preparations for an assault. In order to justify his drone strikes on American citizens, President Obama redefined that concept to exclude any actual adversary a
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Robert Lee
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