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Date Sent: 2012-10-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, October 27, 2012 |
CIA operators denied help during Benghazi attack -- 2 dead after police helicopter strafes vehicle
Cesium levels in fish off Fukushima not dropping -- Watchdog faults Treasury, Fed for Libor use, wants alternatives -- No Charges for Officer in Submachine Gun Murder; Promised to 'Blow' Victim's 'Head Off' -- Boarding pass barcodes 'can be read by smartphones' --
Intelsat blocks Iranian channels in Europe -- Detroit judge who sent
nude photo upsetting to bailiff's husband censured -- FCC wants to
control text message spam -- Vote for Nobody's Jim Babb at Democracy Unplugged (Publisher Recommended Video) -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, October 28, 2012 Edition -- Putin Is the New Global Shah of Oil -- The USS Gerald Ford Is
The Single Most Expensive Piece Of Military Hardware Ever Built --
British ExxonMobil Oil Chief 'Assassinated' Outside This Restaurant
In Brussels -- Mississippi School Charged With
Arresting Kids For Flatulence, Wrong Color Socks, Breaking Pencils -- Reality Check w/ Ben Swann: Can Ohio Voting Machines
be Hacked? -- Obama
moves to make the War on Terror permanent -- Fed and ECB
Smokescreens to Print Money -- Game-Changer: Netanyahu-Lieberman
Pact Turns Israeli Politics Upside-Down -- Britain Rejects
US Request to Use Bases in Attacking Iran -- Afghan Policeman Kills
Two US Troops in Insider Attack -- Raw Milk Rights Under Siege --
Afghanistan mosque suicide bomb attack kills at least 41 -- Italian
Court Sends Disgraced Berlusconi to Prison -- British Court
Considers Inquiry into UK Involvement in CIA Drone War -- Powerful Pedophile Ring Linked to Parliament Exposed -- Remote U.S. base at
core of secret operations -- Monsanto-funded ‘No on 37′ campaign fabricates
FDA quote, engages in criminal misconduct -- Will The Bottom Fall Out? 15 Signs
That Layoffs And Job Losses Are Skyrocketing -- Feds Reject
Legalizing DVD Cracking, Game Console Modding -- U.S. Expands
Secretive Drone Base for African Shadow War -- Drug Cartel Kingpin’s
Death May Make the Zetas Even Deadlier-- Quartzsite's Mayor barred
from entering his office
RT to host final US presidential third-party debate Oct.
30th
AZ: Election Night Party - Hancock's - Libertarian Candidates
& Activists Invited - 6:30-11 p.m.
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News Link • Libya
EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say
10-26-2012
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FOX News
An urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the US consulate and subsequent attack hours later on the annex itself was denied by the CIA who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Election Night Party - Hancock's - Libertarian Candidates & Activists Invited - 6:30-11 p.m.
10-26-2012
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www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
Nov 6, 2012 - Libertarian Candidates Attending: Marc J Victor - U.S. Senate; Powell Gammill - Congress, District 9; Michael Kielsky - Maricopa County Attorney; We will have the returns playing on several T.V.'s/Computers inside and out (not that we r
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Cesium levels in fish off Fukushima not dropping
10-26-2012
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AP
Radiation levels in most kinds of fish caught off the coast of Fukushima haven't declined in the year following Japan's nuclear disaster, it has emerged. Researchers believe that deposits of cesium on the seafloor or leakage from the damaged reactors
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bailouts
Watchdog faults Treasury, Fed for Libor use, wants alternatives
10-26-2012
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Reuters
The U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve need to stop using the benchmark interest rate known as Libor in financial rescue programs, as it might not be reliable and could put taxpayer dollars at risk, a federal watchdog said on Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
No Charges for Officer in Submachine Gun Murder; Promised to 'Blow' Victim's 'Head O
10-26-2012
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Reason magazine
Officer Steve Gilley of the Downey Police Department will not face charges from the Los Angeles District Attorney's office for the October 2011 submachine gun death of Michael Nida in Downey, Calif. The prosecutor who investigated the killing said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Boarding pass barcodes 'can be read by smartphones'
10-26-2012
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BBC News
A vulnerability in US domestic airline boarding pass barcodes could allow travelers to bring unauthorized items on board. The codes reveal what kind of airport checks a passenger will face and can be read by smartphones,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Intelsat blocks Iranian channels in Europe
10-26-2012
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AFP
International satellite services provider Intelsat has blocked Iran’s official broadcast channels in Europe, a company spokesman said. But it would not confirm or deny an Iranian report that it did so at the order of the US government.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Detroit judge who sent nude photo upsetting to bailiff's husband censured
10-26-2012
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FOX News
Judge Wade McCree sent a naked picture of himself to a female court bailiff. Apparently she didn't mind, but her husband did, so he gave it to us and we gave it to you and now the Michigan Supreme Court has given it back to Judge McCree,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
FCC wants to control text message spam
10-26-2012
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The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday that it’s accepting comments on a petition that seeks to have Internet-to-phone text messaging declared a type of autodialing. The technology, which collects cell numbers without consent and then mes
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Vote for Nobody's Jim Babb at Democracy Unplugged (Publisher Recommended Video)
10-25-2012
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The International Libertarian
At this Democracy Unplugged (http://www.democracyunplugged.net/) forum for alternative parties the Vote for Nobody Campaign (http://www.anti-politics.ws/) participated for the first time. While the other presidential candidate's representatives talk
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Darren Wolfe
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, October 28, 2012 Edition
10-26-2012
John Semmens
Defense Secretary Justifies Inaction in Benghazi Attack
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta explained that the US military commander for Africa, General Carter Ham, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, and himself
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The 10 Most Troubled Industries In America
10-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Lucas Kawa
Kevin Boyland and Anna Son at IBISWorld released a report highlighting ten U.S. industries with limited growth prospects.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
The USS Gerald Ford Is The Single Most Expensive Piece Of Military Hardware Ever Built
10-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
The USS Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive weapon ever created and will run about $11.5 billion, with three ships costing about $40.2 billion.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
British ExxonMobil Oil Chief 'Assassinated' Outside This Restaurant In Brussels
10-26-2012
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Duncan Gardhan, Bruno Waterfield, Emily Godsen
Nicholas Mockford, a British executive for the oil company ExxonMobil has been shot dead in front of his wife in an assassination-style killing in Brussels.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
A Mathematician Hacked Into Google Because He Thought It Was Part Of A Job Interview
10-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
Zachary Harris didn't think he was cut out for the job, but when Google emailed him an offer he figured he'd give it a wack anyway.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Mississippi School Charged With Arresting Kids For Flatulence, Wrong Color Socks, Breaking Pencils
10-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Abby Rogers
The Justice Department is taking a stand against an educational policy in Mississippi that incarcerates kids for just being kids.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New Samsung Galaxy S III Ad Touts Sex Video Capabilities
10-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com,
Rather than focusing on Apple-bashing, Samsung's new ad for the Galaxy S III uses an different but equally edgy pitch: the new phone is good for making, and viewing, sex videos, the company suggests.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Dutch Oven Cooking
10-26-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com, by Louie
When I think of Dutch Oven cooking I usually have visions of campfires and Scout Camp, of apple cobbler and savory stews.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
RT to host final US presidential third-party debate
10-26-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, legalizeliberty
Libertarian Party candidate Gov. Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein will sound off once more before Election Day, with both presidential hopefuls now slated to debate live from RT’s Washington, DC studio on October 30.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Leaked: Here's Google's First 10-Inch Tablet
10-26-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Steve Kovach
Google and Samsung are expected to unveil a new 10-inch tablet called the Nexus 10 at the big Android press event in New York on October 29.
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News Link • European Union
Diminishing EU a Wonder to Behold
10-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Britain has left the European Union in all but name ... To all intents and purposes, the UK is already out.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Death Penalty
North Korean army minister 'executed with mortar round'
10-26-2012
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By Julian Ryall
A North Korean army minister was executed with a mortar round for reportedly drinking and carousing during the official mourning period after Kim Jong-il's death.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
10-26-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Glenn Greenwald
Complete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism " 'disposition matrix' " the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim
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News Link • Currencies
Fed and ECB Smokescreens to Print Money
10-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com,
Fresh on the heels of ECB president Mario Draghi's Lies In Defense Bond Purchases, Including a Warning of Deflation [below] comes news of an unexpected rise in Eurozone price inflation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Game-Changer: Netanyahu-Lieberman Pact Turns Israeli Politics Upside-Down
10-26-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
New Likud-Beiteinu Bloc Could Be All-or-Nothing Proposition
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Afghan War: Just the Facts
10-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
A suicide bomber targeted worshippers who had gathered at a mosque in north Afghanistan for prayers to mark Eid al-Adha, killing at least 41 people.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
The Recovery Meme and Why It's Just Talk
10-26-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
'End of recession' greeted with joy in defiant Notts ... The end of Britain's longest double-dip recession since the 1950s has been welcomed by leading figures in Notts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
Britain Rejects US Request to Use Bases in Attacking Iran
10-26-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
British Lawyers Warn Attack Would Violate International Law
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News Link • Food
Raw Milk Rights Under Siege
10-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com,
The UK government is trying to ban raw milk and sending police out to harass people who sell it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan mosque suicide bomb attack kills at least 41
10-26-2012
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http://www.bbc.co.uk
A suicide bomber targeted worshippers who had gathered at a mosque in north Afghanistan for prayers to mark Eid al-Adha, killing at least 41 people.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Italian Court Sends Disgraced Berlusconi to Prison
10-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Kurt Nimmo
In November, Silvio Berlusconi bowed out as prime minister after he failed to please the banksters and put together an austerity program for the Italian people.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
British Court Considers Inquiry into UK Involvement in CIA Drone War
10-26-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
Noor Khan's father was killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan along with 40 other people last year
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Powerful Paedophile Ring Linked to Parliament Exposed
10-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
An MP claims there is ‘clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No 10′. Alex interviews the UK Column’s Brain Gerrish about this and a whole host more.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Remote U.S. base at core of secret operations
10-26-2012
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Craig Whitlock
Around the clock, about 16 times a day, drones take off or land at a U.S. military base here, the combat hub for the Obama administration’s counterterrorism wars in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.
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News Link • China
China Is Building A Brand New Green City From Scratch
10-26-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
Chengdu Tianfu District Great City is supposed to be a prototype that can be replicated elsewhere throughout China.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Why Do Children Think Covering Their Eyes Makes Them Invisible?
10-26-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
Young children nearly universally seem to think that closing or covering their eyes makes them invisible to others. Cambridge researchers are finding out why.
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News Link • Food
Monsanto-funded ‘No on 37′ campaign fabricates FDA quote, engages in criminal misconduct
10-26-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Ethan A. Huff
The No on 37 campaign trying to prevent Californians from knowing whether or not the foods they eat contain genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) has sunk to a new moral and ethical low
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
World Series Gigapans Take Hi-Res View of the Action
10-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Jakob Schiller
Nose pickers attending the World Series beware. MLB has contracted photographers to shoot hugely hi-res Gigapan photos of every MLB post-season game this year, and you could be caught in the act.
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News Link • Inventions
Drop Ping-Pong Balls on People With This iPhone-Controlled Copter
10-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Christina Bonnington
Here at Wired we’re big fans of office weaponry. And drones. So when we learned of the Kickstarter for the iStrike Shuttle, for the iStrike Shuttle, an iOS-controlled flying machine that can drop ping-pong balls onto your target of choice, we got pre
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Will The Bottom Fall Out? 15 Signs That Layoffs And Job Losses Are Skyrocketing
10-26-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael
If you still have a good job, you might want to hold on to it very tightly because there are a whole bunch of signs that unemployment in the United States is about to start getting worse again.
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News Link • Inventions
Custom Casts Let You Pimp Your Broken Bones
10-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
The unlucky no longer need to rely on friends with Sharpies to decorate casts " they can tattoo their fiberglass forearms with cartoon characters, fluorescent pink tiger stripes, or most impressively, custom X-ray images.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Feds Reject Legalizing DVD Cracking, Game Console Modding
10-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
Copyright regulators rejected on Thursday proposals to make it lawful for people to copy DVDs for personal use or to jailbreak videogame consoles to run custom software.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Expands Secretive Drone Base for African Shadow War
10-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By David Axe
The Pentagon’s secretive drone and commando base in the Horn of Africa is getting a lot bigger and a lot busier as the U.S. doubles down on its shadowy campaign of air strikes, robot surveillance and Special Operation Forces raids in the terror haven
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News Link • Drug War
Drug Cartel Kingpin’s Death May Make the Zetas Even Deadlier
10-26-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert Beckhusen
When Mexican marines killed the leader of the Zetas earlier this month, they killed the only person capable of holding Mexico’s most dangerous cartel together.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Now Boarding: The Top 10 Private Spaceships
10-26-2012
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http://www.space.com, by Mike Wall
NASA retired its iconic space shuttle fleet in 2011, leaving the United States without a homegrown way to get its astronauts and cargo to space. But that should change soon.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
See Inside the Private Lynx Space Plane (Photos)
10-26-2012
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http://www.space.com, by Clara Moskowitz
The builders of a new private space plane designed to launch a pilot and passenger on suborbital spaceflights offered a glimpse inside the novel rocket ship last week during an annual gathering of commercial spaceflight companies and experts.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
RT to host final US presidential third-party debate
10-26-2012
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http://rt.com
Libertarian Party candidate Gov. Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein will sound off once more before Election Day, with both presidential hopefuls now slated to debate live from RT’s Washington, DC studio on October 30.
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