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Date Sent: 2013-12-14
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Friday, December 13, 2013 |
Say what? Durham police: (handcuffed) teen shot self in head while in police car
Chinese Naval Vessel Tries to Force U.S. Warship to Stop in International Waters -- Feds set up another dimwit to suicide bomb Wichita airport -- Iran quits talks protesting US blacklist move -- 12-13-13 -- Erik Voorhees - Gregg Tivnan - Paul Rosenberg - (VIDEO LOADED) -- Government Forcing Private Email Services To Shut Down Because They Can't Read Them -- Lurid Subprime Scams Unveiled in Long-Running Fraud Trial - by Matt Taibbi -- BitCoin Myths, Questions, and the Future - Where Do I Start? --
Colleges Can’t Ban Guns, Rules Florida Court In Major 2nd Amendment
Victory -- Reducing crime
without more ‘gun control’ -- Making a Killing with
Cancer: A $124.6 Billion Dollar Industry -- Fidelity Bans IRA
Bitcoin Investments Days After Permitting Them -- How The "QE
Economy" Works (And Why It Doesn't) In One Giant Flowchart -- U.S. Government Nastygram
Shuts Down One-Man Bitcoin Mint -- The Top 40% Do Not Pay The
Most In Income Taxes — They Pay ALL The Income Taxes -- TESLA: We
Will Probably Reveal Our Mass Market Car At The 2015 Detroit Auto
Show -- This Map Of Al Qaeda In Iraq Is Alarming -- Judge
Napolitano on SC’s Anti Obamacare Bill: “If enough states do this,
it will gut Obamacare” -- Nelson Mandela Family Finally Gives Up Charade and Admits Mandela
Dead June of 2013 -- US Hawks Want War on Iran --
Venezuelan v. US Budget Priorities
AZ: John Stuart - Evidentiary Hearing TODAY - Friday Dec 13th, 2013, 2:30 p.m. - 175 W Madison
Downtown PHX; Christmas Party @ the Hancock's - tomorrow Sat
Dec 14th, 2013 - 5 p.m. til ??
NV: Passport to Freedom - Las Vegas, NV - January
23-25, 2014
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine December, 2013 Edition
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News Link • China
Chinese Naval Vessel Tries to Force U.S. Warship to Stop in International Waters
12-13-2013
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Washington Free Beacon
A Chinese naval vessel tried to force a U.S. guided missile warship to stop in international waters recently, causing a tense military standoff in the latest case of Chinese maritime harassment, according to defense officials.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Feds set up another dimwit to suicide bomb Wichita airport
12-13-2013
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NBC News
Feds say they've arrested a man who wanted to set off a suicide bomb at the Wichita airport. FBI had the suspect under constant surveillance and that undercover operatives, posing as like-minded individuals, had met with the suspect frequently.
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News Link • Iran
Iran quits talks protesting US blacklist move
12-13-2013
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AFP
Iran has quit nuclear talks with the major powers, accusing Washington on Friday of going against the spirit of a landmark agreement reached last month by expanding its sanctions blacklist.
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News Link • Science
How Ayahuasca can Revolutionize Psychotherapy
12-13-2013
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arclein
For the next four to five hours, those in the room did what many call "the work." Some took trips back into their childhood memories. Others had visions: of nature, of healers, of fireworks. Afterward, they would say that the tea offered an opportu
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News Link • History
Klaus Dona's Hidden History of Mankind
12-13-2013
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arclein
He has traveled the world in search of unique and unexplained findings. Intrepid and unrelenting, he is on a mission to bring to the eye of the public such finds as giant bones, crystal skulls, carvings and sculptures in forms that do not fit into th
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Magnesium Versus Statins
12-13-2013
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arclein
Scientists have long known the toxic effects of statin drugs, and multiple animal studies have proven an association between statins and various types of cancers. Experts at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, US, also found the ch
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Sloth Trail Cam Followup
12-13-2013
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arclein
ooney's analysis has been echoed by several other researchers, who also tend to favor the theory that the Viginia trail cam creature is a quadruped. We at Journal of the Bizarre also agree with this fact; however, we believe that the creature in qu
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News Link • Surveillance
Government Forcing Private Email Services To Shut Down Because They Can't Read Them
12-13-2013
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Infowars
GCHQ, the British counterpart and facilitator to the NSA, has forced a privacy focused email service to shut down because it could not effectively spy on the encrypted emails people were sending. Web security firm CertiVox was shut down
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Lurid Subprime Scams Unveiled in Long-Running Fraud Trial
By Matt Taibbi
12-13-2013
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblo
Lost amid the hoopla over JP Morgan Chase's record-setting $13 billion settlement this fall was news of another monster court resolution " a $2.46 billion judgment, the largest ever awarded after trial in a securities fraud class action case, handed
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News Link • Bitcoin
BitCoin Myths, Questions, and the Future - Where Do I Start?
12-13-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Allison Bricker
Hola my Daily Paul friends. I will be interviewing Mr. Steven Patterson from the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) this evening regarding the viability of BitCoin, persistent myths surrounding BitCoin and crypto-currencies in general, and what
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News Link • Gun Rights
Colleges Can’t Ban Guns, Rules Florida Court In Major 2nd Amendment Victory
12-13-2013
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, by ProudAmericanFirst
"The Florida appeals court ruling that the University of North Florida was violating state law when it prohibited a woman from storing a gun in her vehicle while she attended class will spill over to cities and counties statewide, an attorney said We
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News Link • Geology
Eddy Cartaya: My glacier cave discoveries
12-13-2013
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http://www.ted.com
Snow Dragon. Pure Imagination. Frozen Minotaur. These are the names Eddy Cartaya and his climbing partner Brent McGregor gave three glacier caves that they were the first to explore.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Reducing crime without more ‘gun control’
12-13-2013
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com, By Vin Suprynowicz
It’s the holiday season, when we’re reminded to give thanks. Indeed, we risk going into a tailspin if we concentrate only on our problems, without remembering to be thankful for health, for friends and loved ones, for living in a country where we can
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Little Known Chinese Herb & Iron Kill 98% of Cancer Cells in 16 Hours
12-13-2013
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http://naturalsociety.com, by Christina Sarich
According to studies that were published in an issue of Life Sciences, artemesinin " a derivative of the wormwood plant used in Chinese Medicine - can kill 98% of breast cancer cells in less than 16 hours.
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News Link • Military
How A Mig-31 Repelled The World's Fastest Spy Plane From Soviet Skies
12-13-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Even if no SR-71 was lost due to hostile actions during the entire Blackbird career, the Mach 3+ capable spyplane faced an adversary that could effectively intercept it: the MiG-31 Foxhound.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Making a Killing with Cancer: A 124.6 Billion Dollar Industry
12-13-2013
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by: Daisy Luther
If you had a business selling something that made you well over a hundred billion dollars per year, would you take steps to eradicate the need for your business? Or would you make every effort for that money continue rolling in?
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Family Rescued From Nevada Mountain Did Everything Right To Stay Alive
12-13-2013
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Business Insider
A couple and four young children missing in frigid weather since they went on an outing to play in the snow on Sunday were found alive in a remote mountain range in Nevada on Tuesday huddled in their overturned vehicle, a sheriff's dispatch superviso
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Norway to digitize entire contents of its national library
12-13-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Travis Andrews
Even among us tech lovers, a good old-fashioned book can still be heartwarming. Especially if it’s hanging upside down from a bookcase. But the e-book has its own special niche, one we don’t disparage.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists take first step towards growing brains in a lab
12-13-2013
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http://www.dvice.com, Robin Burks
Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could somehow re-grow limbs and organs as needed? That’s exactly what bioengineers specialize in. They’ve already successfully created things like tracheas and kidneys using stem cells, but the final frontier of their res
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News Link • Bitcoin
Fidelity Bans IRA Bitcoin Investments Days After Permitting Them
12-13-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Following what we can only imagine was uproar following our discussion of Fidelity "allowing self-directed IRA holders to 'invest' in Bitcoin," the company has very quickly reversed policy... As MarketWatch notes,
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News Link • Economy - International
How The "QE Economy" Works (And Why It Doesn't) In One Giant Flowchart
12-13-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
From liquidity-driven perception to the Keynesian endpoint economic reality... just follow the arrows...
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
DRAGON DAY Official Trailer
12-13-2013
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http://www.dragondaymovie.com,
Duke, an out-of-work NSA engineer, finds his family stuck in a small mountain town the day a devastating cyber-attack destroys the U.S. as we know it.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Letter Re: The Dragon Day Movie
12-13-2013
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http://www.survivalblog.com, Georgia Mom
We just received our copy of the movie Dragon Day - a new movie that went direct to DVD. The premise of the movie is that China comes to the USA to collect their debt, which we have defaulted on.
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News Link • Bitcoin
U.S. Government Nastygram Shuts Down One-Man Bitcoin Mint
12-13-2013
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Wired.Com
Mike Caldwell spent years turning digital currency into physical coins. That may sound like a paradox. But it’s true. He takes bitcoins " the world’s most popular digital currency " and then he mints them here in the physical world. If you added up a
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The Top 40% Do Not Pay The Most In Income Taxes " They Pay ALL The Income Taxes
12-13-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Buried inside a Congressional Budget Office report this week was this nugget: when it comes to individual income taxes, the top 40 percent of wage earners in America pay 106 percent of the taxes. The bottom 40 percent...pay negative 9 percent.
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News Link • Iraq
This Map Of Al Qaeda In Iraq Is Alarming
12-13-2013
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Business Insider
Al Qaeda militants are bombing strategic targets in parts of western Iraq as they seek to wreak havoc on security, bent on establishing an Islamic emirate.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Judge Napolitano on SC’s Anti Obamacare Bill: “If enough states do this, it will gut Obamacare”
12/13/2013
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http://godlikeproductions.com
Judge Andrew Napolitano said South Carolina has the Constitutional right to pass a bill that would essentially nullify or eliminate Obamacare. The bill, entitled “South Carolina Freedom of Health Care Protection Act,” was voted on and passed by a 65-
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News Link • World News
Nelson Mandela Family Finally Gives Up Charade and Admits Mandela Dead June of 2013
12/13/2013
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http://godlikeproductions.com
The Nelson Mandela family has finally given up their charade and admitted that Nelson Mandela is dead by announcing today that the former leader of South Africa is no longer with us. The charade began in June of 2013, and has maintained Mandela has b
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News Link • Police State
NSA seeks a few brave interns: Spy agency recruiting students as young as 15
12-11-2013
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Salon
If you are a college junior or senior with a 3.0 grade point average, a concentration in “writing, editing, journalism” you can land a job promoting “accurate and timely information” on the NSA’s “missions and accomplishments,”
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
From the “Proving Yet Again That Cops Are Gutless” Department
12-11-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
“Senior Cpl. Amy Wilburn” of Dallas’ Murderous Mercenaries-sorry, Police Dept. shot a 19-year-old guy suspected of car-jacking who already had his hands above his head. Why? Because “Officer Wilburn perceived [her victim] to be an imminent threat
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Welcome Back, Killer
12-11-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Lew Rockwell blog)
Welcome back " your badge was your ticket out…. Erick Gelhaus, the Sonoma County, California Sheriff’s Deputy who gunned down 13-year-old Andy Lopez on October 22, has returned to “duty.”
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Chief Judge For 9th Circuit Cites "Epidemic" Of Prosecutor Misconduct
12-11-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
The dissent in U.S. v. Olsen from Alex Kozinski, the chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals, starts off with a bang: There is an epidemic of Brady violations abroad in the land. Only judges can put a stop to it. Brady is shorthand for the Supreme
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News Link • Gun Rights
New York City confiscating rifles and shotguns
12-11-2013
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The Daily Caller
“It appears you are in possession of a rifle or Shotgun that has an ammunition feeding device capable of holding more than 5 rounds of ammunition which is unlawful to possess in New York City. You have the following options," The letter states
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News Link • Whistleblowers
NZ judge: Kim Dotcom is likely still being spied upon
12-11-2013
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ars technica
In conclusion it can only be shown that interception/surveillance activities concerning Mr. Dotcom and his family are likely to have occurred but there is no direct evidence that the USA, its agencies or agents are involved. There is no evidence that
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
AT&T accused of violating privacy law with sale of phone records to CIA
12-11-2013
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ars technica
Consumer advocates have asked the Federal Communications Commission to declare that AT&T violated a privacy rule in the Communications Act by selling phone records to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Australia Wants Its Gold Back
12-11-2013
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Australia has 80 tonnes of gold which is managed by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) as part of its foreign reserves assets. The RBA’s PR department has stated that Australia’s 80 tonnes of Gold Reserves is stored at the Bank of England, in London
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan agrees on regional security pact with Iran
12-11-2013
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Russia Today
Concerned about foreign forces in the region, Iran and Afghanistan have decided to sign a joint cooperation agreement to boost “regional security” amid American efforts to force the Afghan president to seal a security pact with Washington.
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News Link • Drug War
Drug War "Justice" in Utah
12-11-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Utah resident Virginia Ward cried as she was sentenced to 90 days in jail " and 3 years of probation -- for drug trafficking. This meant that she would join the large and ever-growing population of prisoners she helped to create as a former Judge.
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Opinion • Surveillance
Ray McGovern: My Take
Obama Urged to Fire DNI Clapper
12-11-2013
Ray McGovern
Last March " before Edward Snowden revealed the NSA’s sweeping collection of phone and other data " Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said no such operation existed. Now, a group of ex-national security officials urge President Obama to
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Leon Panetta named as source of ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ scriptwriter’s information
12-11-2013
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www.washingtontimes.com, Cheryl K. Chumley
A Freedom of Information request filed by government watchdog Judicial Watch revealed that former CIA Director Leon E. Panetta was the source who gave up secret information to the scriptwriter of “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Hollywood movie about the raid
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News Link • Military
Russia Warns America ‘We Will Respond With Nukes’
12-11-2013
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infowars.com
Deputy PM says Moscow “preparing a response” to U.S. plans for missile shield in Europe
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Document Suggests U.S. Lied About Biological, Chemical Weapon Use in the Korean War
12-11-2013
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http://dissenter.firedoglake.com, Jeff Kaye
According to a CIA document declassified in March 2006, the U.S. government lied publicly about pushing for a United Nations “on-the-spot” investigation into Soviet, Chinese and North Korean charges of U.S. use of biological weapons (BW) during the K
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News Link • Obama Administration
Stay Out of Petty Island Disputes in East Asia
12-11-2013
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com, Ivan Eland.
One of the most dangerous international disputes that the United States could get dragged into has little importance to U.S. security -- the disputes nations have over small islands (some really rocks rising out of the sea) in East Asia.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai Slams US Threats, Demands End to Strikes on Civilians
12-11-2013
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antiwar.com
US Envoy Admits 'Nowhere Near' Deciding to Leave
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA Also Spying on World of Warcraft, Xbox Live
12-11-2013
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Joe Coscarelli, New York Mag.
The government even has its eye on elves and orcs, according to the latest from Snowden's NSA leaks. ProPublica, reports that the NSA fears online games like World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Microsoft’s Xbox Live universe could serve as a “target-
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