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Date Sent: 2014-10-23
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
Only 12% of People Killed in US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Identified as Militants, Says Report
Israel Gaza War Inquiry: Hold the Cheers -- China's Population Control Policies -- 10-22-14 -- Jordan Page - Tony Tangalos - Eric Murphy (MP3 & VIDEO LOADED) -- Hustlers, Con Men & Dupes Cashing in on the War on Terror -- Shielded from Justice: The High Cost of Living in a Police State -- Lavrov on Russian Foreign Policy -- First Swiss Gold Poll Shows Pro-Gold Side In Lead At 45% -- Tickets issued due to red-light cameras are illegal, says Florida court -- After 13 Years of U.S. Occupation, Afghanistan Opium Production... -- NSA Is Letting Its Chief Technical Officer Work 20 Hours a Week for a Private Company -- Washington 911 Went Down for Six Hours in April Because a Call Counter Maxed Out -- Marijuana & the Bible -- Subprime Bubble Pop 2.0? Department Of Financial Services Slams America's Largest Subprime Service -- The Most 'Distrusted' News Sources In America -- Proof That Ted Cruz Is An Establishment Mole -- Bitcongress Hopes to Improve Voting with Cryptography -- Libel or free speech? Woman posts sign 'outing' neighbor for owning a gun -- Leading Contrarian Economist: "We Are Coming In On The End Game Here" -- It's Not Just Spying – How the NSA Has Turned Into a Giant Profit Center for Corrupt Insiders -- Obama's Ebola Czar Thinks There's Too Many People in Africa -- British Spy Chief Calls For Crackdown On Internet Freedom -- Madsen: Ebola Epidemic Linked to CIA
AZ: Jordan Page to play concert at the Hancock's in Phoenix on October 24th, 2014; PrepperFest Expo, October 24-26, 2014, Westworld in Scottsdale, AZ
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News Link • Drones
Only 12% of People Killed in US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Identified as Militants, Says Report
10-17-2014
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By Madeline Grant, Newsweek
Research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, an independent news organisation based at City University, London, has found that only 12% of victims of US drone strikes in Pakistan could be identified as militants.
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Conferences
Radical Entrepreneurship at the First Annual Freecoast Festival
10-21-2014
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Shire Liberty News
PORTSMOUTH â€" The First Annual Freecoast Festival took place Sept. 19-20 in the New Hampshire towns of Portsmouth and Newmarket. Over 100 attendees enjoyed a variety of scheduled events, heard presentations from several New Hampshire-based entrepren
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Sandy Pierre
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Sense of smell 'may predict lifespan'
10-22-2014
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arclein
"It doesn't directly cause death, but it is a harbinger, an early warning system that shows damage may have been done.
"Our findings could provide a useful clinical test, a quick inexpensive way to identify patients most at risk."
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Weird Crystal Can Absorb All The Oxygen In A Room -- And Then Release It Later
10-22-2014
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arclein
The crystal is a salt made from cobalt*, and it appears to be capable of holding oxygen at a concentration that is 160 times higher than the air we breathe. The paper notes that "an excess" of the substance would bind up to 99 percent of the oxygen
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robert klein
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News Link • China
China's Population Control Policies
10-22-2014
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arclein
"After several decades of the one child policy implementation and forced abortion, the Chinese public lives in an atmosphere of scared fear from their government. . . And the one-child policy and the implementation and its propaganda have demoraliz
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robert klein
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News Link • TERRORISM
Hustlers, Con Men & Dupes Cashing in on the War on Terror
10-21-2014
Risen writes, a story of "how greed and the hunt for cash have all too often become the main objects of the war on terror."
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Police State
Shielded from Justice: The High Cost of Living in a Police State
10-22-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, By John W. Whitehead
"It's been over five months since the night a SWAT team broke into the house in which we were staying…We were staying with relatives and my whole family was sleeping in one room. My husband and I, our three daughters and our baby (nicknamed "
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News Link • Conspiracies
Dark Journalist: UFOs & The Breakaway Security State...
10-22-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Danr
Dark Journalist: UFOs & The Breakaway Security State - NASA Nazis & Covert Ops with Dr. Joseph Farrell
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News Link • Gold and Silver
First Swiss Gold Poll Shows Pro-Gold Side In Lead At 45%
10-22-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Calgary4Paul
"The poll had quite a large sample of 13,397 people from all over Switzerland who participated in the first phase of the 20 Minuten online survey on October 15.
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News Link • Afghanistan
After 13 Years of U.S. Occupation, Afghanistan Opium Production...
10-22-2014
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http://www.slate.com, By Ben Mathis-Lilley
After 13 Years of U.S. Occupation, Afghanistan Opium Production Is at an All-Time High
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News Link • Government
NSA Is Letting Its Chief Technical Officer Work 20 Hours a Week for a Private Company
10-22-2014
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http://www.slate.com, By Ben Mathis-Lilley
The Senate Intelligence Committee is looking into a report by Reuters that the National Security Agency agreed to let its chief technical officer work 20 hours a week for a private company founded by the agency's former director.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Washington 911 Went Down for Six Hours in April Because a Call Counter Maxed Out
10-22-2014
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http://www.slate.com, By Ben Mathis-Lilley
This April, most 911 services went out in seven states for six hours; the entire state of Washington was affected by the near total blackout.
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News Link • 3D Printing
Wasp's 3D printers produce low-cost houses made from mud
10-22-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Nick Lavars
A need to address a lack of housing for the globe's growing population has turned up some eye-catching efforts, blending creative architecture with new, sustainable technologies.
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News Link • Drones
Drones used to monitor behaviour of killer whales
10-22-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Nick Lavars
Researchers from the Vancouver Aquarium and the US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have begun using drones to keep tabs on endangered killer whales off the west coast of the continent.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA looks to SpaceX for Mars landing tips
10-22-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has made it no secret that he plans to go to Mars, and it looks like he's giving NASA's ambitions about the Red Planet a bit of a boost along the way.
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
A First-Hand Look At The Ultra-Secretive Leaders Of Scientology
10-22-2014
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Business Insider
A former executive of the Church of Scientology said three members of the church's top management ambushed him at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday morning, and that he has video footage to prove it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
Subprime Bubble Pop 2.0? Department Of Financial Services Slams America's Largest Subprime Servi
10-22-2014
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zerohedge.com
Once upon a time, in the distant 2005 and 2006, the world just couldn't get enough of such subprime mortgage superstars as New Century Financial.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Proof That Ted Cruz Is An Establishment Mole
10-22-2014
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Daily Paul.com
If being married to a CFR member and supporting the neoconservative policies of endless war weren't enough; Senator Cruz has managed to recruit the quintessential political insider's hatchet man, Ben Ginsberg, as his legal counselor.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Bitcongress Hopes to Improve Voting with Cryptography
10-22-2014
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thelibertybeat.com
Bitcongress promises to bring transparency and legitimacy back to voting by using cryptography and the blockchain technology that has helped Bitcoin reach a wide audience.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
Libel or free speech? Woman posts sign 'outing' neighbor for owning a gun
10-22-2014
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bizpacreview.com
Some anti-gun activists are worried about the safety of everyone but gun owners.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Leading Contrarian Economist: "We Are Coming In On The End Game Here"
10-22-2014
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shtfplan.com
To say that the U.S. economy is in trouble would be an understatement. According to Shadow Stats economist John Williams, we may be on the very cusp of a crisis so severe that it promises to re-write the entire paradigm.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
It's Not Just Spying â€" How the NSA Has Turned Into a Giant Profit Center for Corrupt Insiders
10-22-2014
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Prison Planet
Dear NSA Employees, You Now Have a Green Light to Loot and Pillage. It's Time to Get Paid:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
British Spy Chief Calls For Crackdown On Internet Freedom
10-22-2014
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Prison Planet
Says 'plotters, proliferators and paedophiles' make surveillance-free internet a 'utopian dream'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Madsen: Ebola Epidemic Linked to CIA
10-22-2014
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Prison Planet
Investigative journalist and former NSA contractor Wayne Madsen told Press TV on Monday the latest Ebola outbreak in Africa may be a resurfacing of an earlier infection linked to the CIA.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic Will Fly Rocket-Powered SpaceShipTwo Test Flights Soon
10-22-2014
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space.com
The private spaceflight company Virgin Galactic will soon begin a new round of rocket-powered test flights of the commercial spaceliner SpaceShipTwo to prepare for eventual passenger flights to space.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Would Finding Alien Life Change Religious Philosophies?
10-22-2014
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space.com
The discovery of extraterrestrial beings â€" be they slimy microbes or little green men â€" would dramatically change the way we humans view our place in the universe. But would it shatter religion?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Tiny Cubesats May Hitchhike on Mission to Europa
10-22-2014
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space.com
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., has selected proposals from 10 universities to begin investigating the possible use of cubesats as auxiliary components to missions to Europa and beyond.
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Robert Lee
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Feature Article • Propaganda
Public Worry Over Remote Threats
Ivan Eland
The breathless news coverage of the miniscule number of people in the United States that have so far contracted the Ebola virus has led to a typical irrational response in some quarters.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Virginia Police Have Been Secretively Stockpiling Private Phone Records
10-21-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By G.W. Schulz
While revelations from Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency's massive database of phone records have sparked a national debate about its constitutionality, another secretive database has gone largely unnoticed and without scrutiny.
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News Link • Surveillance
Facebook to DEA: Stop Making Phony Accounts!
10-21-2014
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Diamond Dog
The Verge: Facebook has a message for the DEA: if you want to use our service, you have to use your real name.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Lyft And UberX Can Now Operate At San Francisco International Airport
10-21-2014
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Business Insider
The next time you need a lift from San Francisco International airport (SFO), look for a pink mustache â€" or a sleek and subtle UberX car.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Conspiracies
"Anti-Petrodollar" CEO Of French Energy Giant Total Dies In Freak Plane Crash In Moscow
10-21-2014
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zerohedge.com
Three months ago, the CEO of Total, Christophe de Margerie, dared utter the phrase heard around the petrodollar world, "There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars," as we noted here.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
An American Warden Visited A Norwegian Prison, And He Couldn't Believe What He Saw
10-21-2014
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Business Insider
Retired superintendent James Conway is a 38-year veteran of the Attica Correctional Facility in New York. He spent none of that time pitying his inmates.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
NEO â€" ISIS Downs Two US Warplanes â€" Who Is Responsible?
10-21-2014
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http://www.veteranstoday.com, by Gordon Duff
There is emerging evidence that ISIS/ISIL is coordinating military activities tied to upcoming US elections.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man Claims SWAT Team Invaded The Wrong House
10-21-2014
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FOX News
"It feels like you're living in a police state suddenly. The people who are supposed to be there to protect you are, stomping down your door, throwing flash grenades into your house and goose-stepping their way over your freedom,"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
ISIS Cited as Michigan Village's Police Push for Secrecy
10-21-2014
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http://antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
The tiny village of Oakley, Michigan looks fairly unremarkable as you drive through it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Bicyclist Sues San Francisco Police After Arrest For Carrying Infant Son In Baby Carrier
10-21-2014
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CBS News
Hashitaka's attorney said that "has nothing to do with whether the baby should be taken to Child Protective Services, not given to his mother or why the father would be choked until he passed out, twice, and taken to jail."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Investing in Junk Armies
10-21-2014
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Bremer's decision threw 400,000 Iraqis with military training, including a full officer corps, out onto the streets of its cities, jobless. It was a formula for creating an insurgency. Humiliated and embittered, those men would later join
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Stockholm Syndrome and the State
10-21-2014
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When I attack the state, most people will respond as though I've just kicked their inner child in the balls. To most, the state takes on the role of a father figure, a stern institution that is fundamentally looking after their best interests.
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Jewish settlers take over 10 E. Jerusalem homes
10-21-2014
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AFP
Israeli settlers moved into 10 new homes in annexed east Jerusalem on Monday, activists said, in spite of fierce local opposition and international condemnation of such takeovers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Is Dekalb County, Georgia Government Running An Immense Financial Scam?
10-21-2014
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ars technica
Dekalb County government officials have taken a page from this corrupt government and from the bankers who have robbed the country blind, stolen homes, destroyed jobs and rigged the whole economy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Obama signs "BuySecure" initiative to speed EMV adoption in the US
10-21-2014
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ars technica
On Friday, President Obama signed an executive order to speed the adoption of EMV-standard cards in the US that will require credit card companies to stop relying on the magnetic stripe cards and move toward embedded chips
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News Link • Corruption
Hypocrite socialist group endorsing $20 per hr. minimum wage posts $13 per hr. job listing
10-20-2014
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BenSwann.com
However, the Freedom Socialist Party promised that its push for a $15-per-hour Seattle minimum wage would "leave no one behind."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Police State
Pentagon Says Ebola Strike Team Does Not Violate Posse Comitatus
10-20-2014
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Infowars
Pentagon press secretary, Rear Admiral John Kirby, on Monday dismissed constitutional concerns over the decision to deploy the military in response to the Ebola virus within the United States.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Paris Opera expels veiled woman during performance
10-20-2014
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http://news.yahoo.com
France's government is drawing up a new set of rules for theatres after the Paris Opera ejected a woman for wearing a veil during a performance, the institution's deputy director said Sunday.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
National Service is Anti-Liberty and Un-American
10-20-2014
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http://ronpaulinstitute.org, by Ron Paul
Former Clinton Administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently called on the government to force young people to spend two years either "serving" in the military or performing some other type of government-directed "community service."
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News Link • World News
Sweden Deploys Army, Air Force, Navy Near Stockholm Over Reported Damaged...
10-20-2014
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Sweden Deploys Army, Air Force, Navy Near Stockholm Over Reported Damaged Russian Sub; Moscow Denies
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