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Date Sent: 2014-05-25
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, May 25, 2014 |
FBI gag orders violate Constitution -- Meet the Ragtag Vigilantes at War With Mexico's Cartels
As Publishers Fight Amazon, Books Vanish -- Iran billionaire executed over $2.6B bank fraud -- Study: New Technology Development Pushed by Feds Allows for Data Collection on Every Child -- Cannes: Quentin Tarantino On Digital As The Death Of Cinema;... -- USDA warns of sticker shock on U.S. beef as grilling season starts -- Britains Discontent Lifts Populist Party to Even Stronger Vote Tally Than Expected -- America: First In Health Care Spending, Last In Life Expectancy -- The War on Americas Military Veterans, Waged with SWAT Teams, Surveillance and Neglect -- See No Evil -- For Todays Mad Men, Its Nerds Who Rule, Not Drapers -- Demand For Privacy Will Kill The Free Internet. Thank Goodness. -- This Map Shows All the Countries in Africa Where the U.S. Has Active Military Operations -- Coups and terror are the fruit of Nato's war in Libya -- A Response to Michael Kinsley -- The Window for WW III Is Between May 25 and June 8 -- US-Led NATO's War on Humanity -- Putin on Ukraine's Sham Election -- 'Gospel of Jesus's Wife' Looks More and More Like a Fake -- Strange New World of DIY Brain Stimulation -- How the 1964 Earthquake Rewrote Geology -- Treating Disease Doesn't Work -- Wall Street Journal Supports Putschist Oligarch Ukrainian Rule -- The year of living more dangerously: Obama's drone speech was a sham -- Activist Professor Denis Rancourt's Judicial Lynching -- Disgraceful Security Council Resolution on Syria
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News Link • Police State
Tech companies: FBI ‘gag orders’ violate Constitution
05-25-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Julian Hattem
Four tech companies claim that the FBI is ignoring their First Amendment rights by barring them from revealing what types of information they turn over to the government.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Mexico
Meet the Ragtag Vigilantes at War With Mexico’s Cartels
05-25-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Pete Brook
At first glance, Ross McDonnell’s ambrotypes resemble 19th century portraits of desperados.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
As Publishers Fight Amazon, Books Vanish
05-25-2014
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nytimes.com, By DAVID STREITFELD and MELISSA EDDY
Amazon’s power over the publishing and bookselling industries is unrivaled in the modern era. Now it has started wielding its might in a more brazen way than ever before.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Iran billionaire executed over $2.6B bank fraud
05-25-2014
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http://hosted.ap.org,
A billionaire businessman at the heart of a $2.6 billion state bank scam in Iran, the largest fraud case since the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution, was executed Saturday, state television reported.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Study: New Technology Development Pushed by Feds Allows for Data Collection on Every Child
05-25-2014
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http://www.breitbart.com, by Dr. Susan Berry
A new study released by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute finds that new technology development that has been encouraged through the use of federal grants has served to threaten children’s privacy by allowing the collection of data on every child.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Cannes: Quentin Tarantino On Digital As The Death Of Cinema;...
05-25-2014
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http://www.deadline.com, By NANCY TARTAGLIONE
Ït's Rare to see a filmmaker who doesn’t have a movie here in Cannes do a press conference,” said Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Frémaux as he introduced Quentin Tarantino to journalists this afternoon.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
USDA warns of sticker shock on U.S. beef as grilling season starts
05-25-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com, By Ros Krasny
The Department of Agriculture has warned of sticker shock facing home chefs on the eve of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the unofficial start of the U.S. summer grilling season.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Britain’s Discontent Lifts Populist Party to Even Stronger Vote Tally Than Expected
05-25-2014
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By STEVEN ERLANGER and STEPHEN CASTLEMAY
Voters in Britain sent a forceful message of discontent to established political parties on Friday, as returns from local elections showed an even stronger following than expected for the anti-European Union, anti-immigration United Kingdom Independe
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Technology: Software
Review: Backblaze online backup service
05-25-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Will Shanklin
Backing up your data can save important documents, digital purchases and years of memories.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare
America: First In Health Care Spending, Last In Life Expectancy
05-25-2014
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www.lewrockwell.com, By Dr. David Brownstein
I was in Harrisburg, PA lecturing this weekend. I received the USA Today newspaper on Friday May 16, 2014 and on page 5A there was an article titled, “Life Expectancy Up; Japanese Females Living Longest of All.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
The War on America s Military Veterans, Waged with SWAT Teams, Surveillance and Neglect
05-25-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W. Whitehead
Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re once again being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians and corporations eager to go on record as being supportive of our veterans.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
See No Evil
05-25-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Peter Schiff
In this week’s release of the minutes from its April 29-30 meeting, Federal Reserve policymakers made clear that they see little chance of inflation moving past their 2% target for years to come.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
For Today’s ‘Mad Men,’ It’s Nerds Who Rule, Not Drapers
05-25-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Wired Staff
In the latest season of Mad Men, Don Draper and company are confronted by a computer.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
What Television Will Look Like in 2025, According to Netflix
05-25-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Issie Lapowsky
In the future, Netflix will know exactly what you want to watch, even before you do.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
17 of the Most Beautifully Bizarre Cars Ever Designed
05-25-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Alexander George
The history of automotive design is littered with bold attempts to create vehicles so different in how they look and how they work that they render obsolete everything that’s come before.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Demand For Privacy Will Kill The Free Internet. Thank Goodness.
05-25-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Scott Alexan
Paying for privacy in today's digital age
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Administration
This Map Shows All the Countries in Africa Where the U.S. Has Active Military Operations
05-25-2014
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http://www.policymic.com, By Zak Cheney Rice
President Barack Obama made headlines Wednesday when he deployed 80 American troops to Chad.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Libya
Coups and terror are the fruit of Nato's war in Libya
05-25-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com, Seumas Milne
The dire consequences of the west's intervention are being felt today in Tripoli and across Africa, from Mali to Nigeria
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bush Administration
A Response to Michael Kinsley
05-25-2014
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https://firstlook.org,
In 2006, Charlie Savage won the Pulitzer Prize for his series of articles in The Boston Globe exposing the Bush administration’s use of “signing statements” as a means of ignoring the law.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Archaeology
'Gospel of Jesus's Wife' Looks More and More Like a Fake
05-24-2014
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arclein
A Live Science investigation published last week revealed that Laukamp was co-owner of ACMB-American Corporation for Milling and Boreworks in Venice, Florida. The man listed as representative of Laukamp's estate in Sarasota County, Florida, Rene Ern
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Strange New World of DIY Brain Stimulation
05-24-2014
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arclein
Williams is one of its leaders. The treatments have made a huge difference in his life, he says. He retains more information from the tedious journal articles he has to read for work, and he feels more creative. On his blog, SpeakWisdom, he posts tec
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robert klein
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News Link • Geology
How the 1964 Earthquake Rewrote Geology
05-24-2014
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arclein
In 50 years, no earthquake since has matched the power of the March 27, 1964, Great Alaska earthquake. Now ranked a magnitude 9.2, the second-largest ever recorded, the earthquake radically transformed the young state. Important coastal ports, roads
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Treating Disease Doesn't Work
05-24-2014
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arclein
Well, once you work your way past all that and realize they’re just manipulating you to fill their bank accounts, put you in slavery, and control population growth you get to the point where you’re just sick of not feeling good. Then you start to mak
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
The year of living more dangerously: Obama's drone speech was a sham
05-23-2014
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Andrea J Prasow, The Guardian
We were promised drone memos. And a case for legal targeted killing. And no more Gitmo. We're still waiting
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Leon Felkins
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 25, 2014 Edition
05-23-2014
John Semmens
Kerry Says Obama Administration “Most Transparent and Accountable in History”
In a lightly publicized press conference, Secretary of State John Kerry told members of the Mexican media that “I believe President Obama will go down in history as the
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul, Charles Goyette #10 - Bitcoin, Crypto- and Digital-Currencies
05-23-2014
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Ron Paul, Charles Goyette
The Justice Department has broadened its investigation of Bitcoin. This week Ron Paul and Charles Goyette discuss digital currencies, competitive currencies, and the legal tender laws. How long will the State allow digital currencies to challenge i
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Police Use Cellphone Spying Device
05-23-2014
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myfoxny via rense.com
A stingray is a device that mimics a cell tower and thereby tricks all wireless devices on the same network into communicating with it. Erie County, New York has used one since 2008.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Libya
The Libyan ‘Coincidence’
05-22-2014
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antiwar
It’s just a coincidence that Gen. Khalifa Hifter launched his Libyan coup 4 days after the US deployed 200 troops to Sicily " a "crisis response team" sent at the State Department’s request. Another coincidence: US-backed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
The Guantánamo "Suicides" Revisited: Did CIA Torture Prisoners to Death?
05-22-2014
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Recently discovered pages from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service suggest the men died not from suicide, but torture. The new evidence includes an eyewitness account of al-Zahrani on the night of his death which indicates
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
So, It’s Illegal To Feed The Homeless Now…
05-22-2014
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If the police will use force to stop charitable people from feeding hungry people, then there is literally nothing they will not do for their paychecks and pensions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Prosecutors release note of Boston bombing suspect, defend questioning
05-22-2014
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Christian Science Monitor
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was questioned for 36 hours without an attorney " and the defense wants his statements excluded as evidence. Prosecutors, defending the interrogation, cite a note Tsarnaev
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Trade
16 Reasons Why the United States is Going to Hell in a Handbasket
05-22-2014
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shtfplan.com
A couple of weeks a go after expressing an urgency to put our preps into high-gear, several readers asked why that I felt so strongly, about it, and why I felt the “the end” was getting close.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Hot On The Heels Of Its China Breakthrough, Russia Set To Build Eight Nuclear Power Plants In Iran
05-22-2014
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zerohedge.com
Before anyone suggests that all Russia is focusing on is China at any and all costs, consider that as we have been saying since 2012, perhaps just as important to Russia (and China) strategically is Iran....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congress Passes Gutted Beyond Recognition Anti-NSA Bill; Original Co-Sponsor Votes "No"
05-22-2014
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zerohedge.com
It’s shameful that the president of the United States, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the leaders of the country’s surveillance agencies refuse to accept consensus reforms that will keep our country safe whi
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
All That Is Wrong With The US Housing Market In One Chart
05-22-2014
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zerohedge.com
If there was one chart that shows best what is happening with the bifurcated US housing market, it is this NAR breakdown of sales by pricing bucket.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Existing Home Sales Miss; Worst Start To Year Since 2007
05-22-2014
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zerohedge.com
After 6 months of missed expectations, last month's fragile beat of dismal expectations ....
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Currencies
Europe's Soaring Revulsion Against "Europe" In One Chart
05-22-2014
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zerohedge.com
Mario Draghi may have lied to Zero Hedge when saying there was no European "Plan B" (or Z), but he was right when he said that there has been a "vast amount of political capital that has been invested into the Euro."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Free App Lets the Next Snowden Send Big Files Securely and Anonymously
05-22-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Andy Greenberg
When Glenn Greenwald discovered last year that some of the NSA documents he’d received from Edward Snowden had been corrupted, he needed to retrieve copies from fellow journalist Laura Poitras in Berlin.
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook Will Soon Detect What You’re Watching and Listening To
05-22-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Ryan Tate
Facebook will soon automatically identify the TV shows you’re watching and the music you’re listening to, making it easier to join online discussions involving your latest bit of entertainment.
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News Link • Seriously?
Here's What Happens When You Snort Powdered Alcohol
05-22-2014
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Business Insider
From the moment Palcohol became public knowledge, it was only a matter of time until someone would try to snort powdered alcohol.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Here's The Jet China Built To Compete With Western Airliners [PHOTOS]
05-22-2014
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Business Insider
After more than a decade of development, China's first modern airliner is finally ready for customer delivery, according to the Associated Press.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Snowden’s First Move Against the NSA Was a Party in Hawaii
05-22-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Kevin Poulsen
It was December 11, 2012, and in a small art space behind a furniture store in Honolulu, NSA contractor Edward Snowden was working to subvert the machinery of global surveillance.
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Hacker Plans Holy Marriage of GitHub and Bitcoin
05-22-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan
A Canadian software developer is fusing two of the most interesting open source projects of the 21st century: Git and bitcoin. Yurii Rashkovskii calls his project Gitchain, and it’s now backed by about $10,000 raised on the popular crowdfunding site
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA OKs Citizen Science Attempt to Rescue a Vintage Spacecraft
05-22-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Adam Mann
A hardy little spacecraft is about to come home after an incredibly long journey and an unexpected mission it had not been built for. As it flies by Earth next month, scientists will have a brief window to attempt to communicate with the vintage NASA
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News Link • TERRORISM
Get Ready for the Next Terror
05-22-2014
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FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE
If I had to bet, I think I’d put my money on some type of “cyberwar” event coming in the not-too-distant future.
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News Link • Transportation
US To Spend $2 Billion On Los Angeles' 'Subway To The Sea'
05-22-2014
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Business Insider
The federal government will spend $2 billion to extend a subway line under Los Angeles' storied Wilshire Boulevard, an effort to ease congestion in one of the country's most transited corridors and to eventually link downtown to the beach with a "Sub
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Mark Cuban Says We're All Bigoted, Calls Donald Sterling Ruling 'A Slippery Slope' ...
05-22-2014
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Business Insider
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban talked about the NBA's decision to ban Donald Sterling and force him to sell the Clippers in a new interview at Inc.'s GrowCo conference in Nashville.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Edward Snowden Was Teaching Strangers How To Beat Government Spying Months Before His NSA Leaks
05-22-2014
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Business Insider
Many months before Edward Snowden made headlines worldwide for his leaks of NSA surveillance programs, the Hawaii-based government contractor was leading a "Crypto Party" to teach strangers how they could protect themselves online,...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Justice Is Dead In Amerika
05-22-2014
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig Robert
Cecily McMillan is an Occupy protester who was seized from behind by a goon thug cop"a goon thug with a long record of abuse of authority"by her boobs.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Some People Are Wondering If Obama's MyRA Could Signal The End For 401ks
05-22-2014
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Business Insider
Defined benefit plans (pension plans) " which are paid in addition to an employees' salary " have been declining, as defined contribution plans (like 401k plans) have been on the rise.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
George Soros Dumps Holdings in Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan, Buys Tech and Gold Mines
05-22-2014
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Daily Paul.com
George Soros dumped his stakes in banks and went for tech and gold miners in the first quarter, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Activists to Distribute 9/11 Reality Brochures to Counter Memorial Brochure Propaganda
05-22-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Activists to Distribute 9/11 Reality Brochures to Counter Memorial Brochure Propaganda
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Peter Schiff's Euro Pacific Precious Metal Selects BitPay for Bitcoin payments
05-22-2014
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Daily Paul.com
BitPay, world leader in business solutions for Bitcoin digital currency, announces a partnership with Euro Pacific Precious Metals.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
13 Ukraine troops dead, over 30 wounded in attack
05-22-2014
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AP
Just days before Ukraine holds a presidential election, pro-Russia insurgents attacked a military checkpoint in the east Thursday, killing 13 troops in the deadliest raid yet in weeks of fighting, Ukraine's leader said.
A rebel commander who claim
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News Link • New World Order
US Secretary of Defense Hagel Proudly Says New World Order Being Built
05-22-2014
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During an event honoring the 223rd anniversary of Poland's constitution last night -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said we are seeing a new 21st century world order being built and although there are conflict and complications,
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News Link • Police State
Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
05-21-2014
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The Guardian
For the first time, the founder of an encrypted email startup that was supposed to insure privacy for all reveals how the FBI and the US legal system made sure we don't have the right to much privacy in the first place.
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