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Date Sent: 2013-04-25
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, April 25, 2013 |
Internet sales tax embraced by no-tax Republicans -- Man Convicted of Hacking Despite Not Hacking
Boston suspects planned bombs in New York: Mayor Bloomberg -- U.S.: Syrian regime may have used chemical weapons against rebels -- Obama Heads Closer to War on Syria -- 04-25-13 -- Tim Frey (Roberts & Roberts Brokerage INC.) - (Video Loaded) -- Solar Plane Soars Over San Francisco Before Epic Cross-Country Odyssey -- Congressman:
'Five Jihadists Have Reached Their Targets in the United States Under
Barack Obama' -- Welcome to the Age of Big Drone Data -- Twitter Said to
Bolster Security After AP Account Hacked -- How Ray Kurzweil Will Help
Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain -- FBI video: Domestic terrorist says he targeted conservative group for being ‘anti-gay’ --
Congress Prepares $100 Million Bipartisan Flu Tax -- Bombing suspect’s
mosque hosted author who criticized US, UK for ‘war against Islam’ --
Boston and Freedom -- Pentagon’s research agency developing next generation of navigation technology to replace GPS -- Rand Paul’s Orwellian Doublethink -- Tsarnaev brothers didn’t rob a 7-Eleven: spokeswoman -- The Boston Inquisition -- The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Armies --
While Everyone Stopped Paying Attention, Bitcoin Went On Another Insane
Surge -- North Korean Soldiers Drop Weapons To Pick Up Farming Tools --
What It's Like To Live Life At The Mercy Of A Drone -- Australia police arrest hacker group LulzSec 'leader' -- The Bush Legacy -- America's War on Terror 2.0
William Grigg: "An Explanation and Appeal." Please Help!
AZ: INAUGURAL PREPPER FEST AZ EXPO COMING APRIL 26-28, 2013
; April 30-May 1st, Future of Freedom Foundation's Jacob Hornberger, Dick Cheatham (John Rolfe) and Sheldon Richman in Yuma and Scottsdale, AZ – “Restoring Liberty to America”; Language of Liberty Phoenix Seminar May 3-4, 2013
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
Internet sales tax embraced by no-tax Republicans
04-25-2013
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Associated Press
You don't see this very often: a majority of Senate Republicans voting to make people who buy stuff on the Internet pay state and local sales taxes.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Boston suspects planned bombs in New York: Mayor Bloomberg
04-25-2013
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Reuters
The two men accused of carrying out last week's bombing of the Boston Marathon planned a second bomb attack on New York's Times Square, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday.
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News Link • Syria
U.S.: Syrian regime may have used chemical weapons against rebels
04-25-2013
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The Ticket
The US accused Syria’s regime of having used chemical weapons, specifically the deadly nerve agent sarin, against rebels seeking to topple him. But top officials, citing the flawed intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq, said Washington needs
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Solar Plane Soars Over San Francisco Before Epic Cross-Country Odyssey
04-25-2013
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Jason Paur via WIRED.com
The solar airplane that will attempt to fly across the country has made its final test flight, spending most of the day soaring over San Francisco Bay on a day that couldn’t have been any prettier.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Driverless Cars Imminent
04-25-2013
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arclein
Cities will greatly expand, again: Faster and more efficient transportation will convert locations that are currently too remote for most users into feasible alternatives, abundant with space. Like suburban rail in the early twentieth
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News Link • China
Chinese Bubble
04-25-2013
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arclein
Concerning fraud, the above article states that based on a Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party (CDIC) report, $1 trillion was taken unlawfully out of China in 2012.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Congressman: 'Five Jihadists Have Reached Their Targets in the United States Under Barack Obama*
04-25-2013
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The Weekly Standard
Congressman Tom Cotton took to the House floor "to express grave doubts about the Obama Administration’s counterterrorism policies and programs":
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News Link • Military
Welcome to the Age of Big Drone Data
04-25-2013
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
James is the Air Force’s deputy chief for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, giving him the flying service’s drone portfolio.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Twitter Said to Bolster Security After AP Account Hacked
04-25-2013
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www.bloomberg.com
Twitter Inc. plans to bolster security on its site after the account of the Associated Press news service was hacked and an erroneous post triggered a stock- market decline, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain
04-25-2013
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Steven Levy via WIRED.com
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn’t have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field, joined the search giant late last year.
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News Link • China
China, France vow to promote 'multipolar' world
04-25-2013
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Associated Press
China's President Xi Jinping and France's President Francois Hollande pledged to push for a world free of domination by any superpower Thursday as the French leader visited the Chinese capital on a mission to boost trade amid his country's worsening
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News Link • Media: Print
NY Times rolls out new products in search of revenue
04-25-2013
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www.reuters.com
New York Times Co reported a decline in quarterly revenue on weak advertising sales but announced new products with the hope of tapping additional dollars.
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News Link • Free Speech
FBI video: Domestic terrorist says he targeted conservative group for being ‘anti-gay’
04-25-2013
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www.washingtonexaminer.com
Family Research Council (FRC) officials released video of federal investigators questioning convicted domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins II, who explained that he attacked the group’s headquarters because the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) iden
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Congress Prepares $100 Million Bipartisan Flu Tax
04-25-2013
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The Weekly Standard
Congress is preparing to take action on a bipartisan proposal to raise taxes on flu vaccines. This is not a tax on the wealthy, but rather on a broad swath of Americans, or at least those who choose to be immunized against the flu.
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News Link • Economy - International
How Canada Dominates African Mining
04-25-2013
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arclein
"We certainly are one of the biggest players [in Africa] in several respects", Pierre Gratton, president and CEO of the Mining Association of Canada, told Think Africa Press. "It's a largely undeveloped, unexplored continent, which makes it inter
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News Link • Anthropology
Europe's Dynamic Genetic history
04-25-2013
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arclein
shows that the first farmers in Central Europe resulted from a wholesale cultural and genetic input via migration, beginning in Turkey and the Near East where farming originated and arriving in Germany around 7,500 years ago," says joint lead author
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Bombing suspect’s mosque hosted author who criticized US, UK for ‘war against Islam’
04-25-2013
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The Daily Caller
The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center also encouraged its members to show their “support of the forgotten women of the War on Terror.”
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News Link • Government
Boston and Freedom
04-25-2013
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www.lewrockwell.com/Andrew P. Napolitano
The government's fidelity to the Constitution is never more tested than in a time of crisis. The urge to do something " or to appear to be doing something " is nearly irresistible to those whom we have employed to protect our freedom and to keep us s
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News Link • Activism
William Grigg: "An Explanation and Appeal." Please Help!
04-25-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
For all who have benefited from and appreciate the inimitable work of William Grigg over the many years he's been steadfastly and eloquently writing on behalf of liberty, this excerpt -- attached to the end of his latest piece -- is a must read.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Pentagon’s research agency developing next generation of navigation technology to replace GPS
04-25-2013
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Raw Story
The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including a tiny autonomous chip, the director of the Pentagon’s research agency said Wednesday.
DARPA, the research group behind a r
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News Link • Drones
Rand Paul’s Orwellian Doublethink
04-24-2013
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Free Press Publications
In 1984, George Orwell wrote, doublethink is “[t]o know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Tsarnaev brothers didn’t rob a 7-Eleven: spokeswoman
04-25-2013
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http://www2.macleans.ca, by Nick Taylor-Vaisey
A clarification of detail that has come up as I work on an interactive map of the week in Boston:
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News Link • Mercenaries
The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Armies
04-25-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert Johnson
Its been a banner decade for modern military fighting.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Microsoft Will Announce The Next Xbox On May 21
04-25-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Steve Kovach
Microsoft just sent out invitations for its next-generation Xbox announcement. The event takes place May 21 at Microsoft's offices in Redmond.
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News Link • Bitcoin
While Everyone Stopped Paying Attention, Bitcoin Went On Another Insane Surge
04-25-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
A week and a half ago, Bitcoin crashed and fell to the mid-$60s (it had been in the mid $200s).
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News Link • World News
North Korean Soldiers Drop Weapons To Pick Up Farming Tools
04-25-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Paul Szoldra
The Hermit Kingdom is talking tough again, only this time it's about the fight to feed its own people.
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News Link • Drones
What It's Like To Live Life At The Mercy Of A Drone
04-25-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Grace Wyler
In a stirring Senate testimony Tuesday, Farea al-Muslimi, an American-educated Yemeni activist and journalist, described the effects of a U.S. drone strike on his home village just six days ago.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Australia police arrest hacker group LulzSec 'leader'
04-25-2013
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http://www.bbc.co.uk
Australian police say they have arrested a "self-proclaimed leader" of the hacking group LulzSec.
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News Link • Military
This Rocket-Like Plane Could Have Been The SR-71 Blackbird Replacement
04-25-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, David Cenciotti
The above image, published by Code One on its Facebook page, shows the configuration for the SA-2S, an SR-71 Blackbird replacement concept that was studied by Convair in the early ’60s.
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News Link • Housing
Italian Prisoners Design Sleek 'Micro-Apartment'
04-25-2013
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businessinsider.com, Rebecca Baird-Remba
If we've learned anything from prison movies, we know prisoners can make almost anything out of the few objects they use every day.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
FFF in Scottsdale, AZ " “Restoring Liberty to America” TONIGHT - 6:30 p.m. Scottsdale Plaza Resort
04-25-2013
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http://fff.org
FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman will be giving a presentation in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Train Like an Ancient Hindu Warrior: The Steel Mace Workout
04-25-2013
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artofmanliness.com, by Brett & Kate McKay
Looking for a new workout? How about one that was used by Hindu warriors over 2,000 years ago and still used by Pehlwani wrestlers today?
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Reference Link • Conspiracies
The Motive Behind the Boston False Flag Operation
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The first step to subduing an enemy is to remove their command and control and that is accomplished by eliminating communications. This is precisely what the administration is poised to do and they are moving quickly towards this end. If the governme
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News Link • History
Psychic Erik Jan Hanussen, Hitler/Nazis, with my recommendation of film “Invincible”
04-23-2013
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C. Smith Blog
No more fascinating a story of a man during Hitler’s rise to power than that of Erik Jan Hanussen, a man whose psychic abilities catapulted him and Hitler in the public eye.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston Bombs Likely Built From Fireworks
04-24-2013
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ABC News (video)
A New Hampshire fireworks store has told the FBI that it sold four-hundred dollars worth of fireworks in February to accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The gunpowder in fireworks is often used in bombs.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rare Meteorite Grains May be from Supernova That Sparked Solar System
04-24-2013
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Space.com
Two surprising grains of sand in a pair of meteorites that landed on Earth suggest they were formed in a single supernova that occurred billions of years ago, new research suggests.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Caught in the System, Ex-Hacker Is Stalked by His Past
04-24-2013
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wired.com
Early last week, before the suspects were identified in the Boston Marathon bombings, a U.S. probation officer and his supervisor visited the Manhattan apartment of programmer Stephen Watt with a question: Did Watt happen to know anything.....
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News Link • Police State
Republican trio push to militarize U.S. response to domestic terrorism
04-24-2013
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Rawstory
Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), John McCain (AZ), and Kelly Ayotte (NH) lashed out at liberals and libertarians on Tuesday, claiming it was dangerous to oppose the notion the United States was a “battlefield.”
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News Link • Drones
Rand Paul’s reversal: I don’t care if a drone kills a liquor store robber with $50 in cash
04-24-2013
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Rawstory
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who filibustered for 13 hours in March 2013 against the idea of using military drone technology against U.S. citizens, said he supported them being used against criminal suspects in an interview with Fox Business Channel on Mon
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Los Angeles to pay $4.2 million to two women fired at in Dorner manhunt
04-24-2013
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Reuters
The city of Los Angeles will pay $4.2 million to a mother and daughter who were caught in a hail of bullets in February when police mistook their truck for one driven by renegade ex-policeman Christopher Dorner and opened fire, officials said on Tues
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News Link • Drug War
13 corrections officers indicted in Md., accused of aiding gang’s drug scheme
04-23-2013
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Washington Post
More than a dozen Maryland state prison guards helped a dangerous national gang operate a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scheme from behind bars that involved cash payments, sex and access to fancy cars, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
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News Link • Police State
Chicago-area teen latest snared in website traps
04-23-2013
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AP
It was a sham site constructed and controlled by the FBI with the aim of snaring terrorist wannabes in the virtual world before they could carry out real-world harm. Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, 18, was arrested on a terrorism charge stemming from the
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
How The FBI Will Analyze Thousands Of Hours Of Boston Bombing Video
04-23-2013
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Grant Fredericks via PopSci.com
An FBI forensic video instructor reveals how investigators will sort through reams of video footage in preparation for the eventual trial of Dzhokar Tsarnaev.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Tables Plan to Allow Knives on Planes
04-23-2013
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
The Transportation Security Administration is delaying a plan that would have allowed passengers, beginning Thursday, to bring small knives and sporting goods on flights.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Here’s a Good Reason to Encrypt Your Data
04-23-2013
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
There’s many reasons to password-protect " or encrypt " one’s digital data. Foremost among them is to protect it during a security breach.
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News Link • European Union
EU Lifts Sanctions, Will Buy Oil From Syrian Rebels
04-23-2013
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Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com
The European Union has agreed to a partial lifting of the Syrian oil embargo today, permitting member nations to engage in any deals in the nation that are approved by the rebel Syrian National Coalition (SNC).
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News Link • Obama Administration
Drone Strikes and the Boston Marathon Bombing
04-23-2013
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Robert Wright via The Atlantic
The more we learn about the Boston Marathon bombing, the more reason there is to doubt the wisdom of Obama's drone-heavy approach to fighting terrorism.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston bombing suspect cites U.S. wars as motivation, officials say
04-23-2013
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Scott Wilson, Greg Miller and Sari Horwitz
The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the attack, according to U.S. officials familiar with the interviews.
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
White House Endorses Internet Sales Tax
04-23-2013
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DANIEL HALPER via PrisonPlanet.com
The White House today endorsed the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would be a tax hike for purchases made over the Internet. The White House claims the tax would “level playing field for local retailers.”
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
FBI and RCMP Bust al-Qaeda “Major Terror Plot” in Canada
04-23-2013
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PrisonPlanet.com
One week after the Boston bombing, Canada has arrested two men it claims planned to attack a passenger train running between New York and Toronto. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the terrorist plot involved derailing the train, but gave no fur
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
North Korea Adamantly Denies Conspiracy Theory Linking It To Boston Bombing
04-23-2013
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Geoffrey Ingersoll via PrisonPlanet.com
North Korea’s KCNA news agency will blast out threats of nuclear annihilation, but they draw the line at getting blamed for the Boston Marathon Bombings.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston bomb suspect will not be designated an ‘enemy combatant’
04-23-2013
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Jeremy Herb and Amie Parnes
The suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was read his Miranda rights on Monday after the White House decided not to try him as an enemy combatant.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Police Say The Naked Man Arrested In Boston Was Not Tamerlan Tsarnaev
04-23-2013
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Geoffrey Ingersoll via PrisonPlanet.com
On Thursday night while police were hunting in Watertown, Mass. for bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, at one point they arrested a naked man who looks a lot like Tamerlan.
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