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Gun Rights Colorado sheriffs sue over new gun restrictions
05-17-2013
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Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional. The lawsuit involves sheriffs from 54 of Colorado's 64 counties,
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Surveillance Cell phone users ‘have no legitimate expectation of privacy’ – judge
05-17-2013
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Russia Today
A federal judge recently ruled that if someone has their cell phone turned on, their location data does not deserve protection under the Fourth Amendment, meaning law enforcement can track individuals without a search warrant.
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TAXES: State Glenn “Kane” Jacobs Mental Smackdown of Tennessee Lt Governor
05-17-2013
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WWE Pro Wrestling champion Glenn “Kane” Jacobs is about to deliver a mental smackdown on Tennessee’s Lieutenant Governor over a debate on the internet tax AKA the “Marketplace Fairness Act”! (Video Interview)
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Humor SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 19, 2013 Edition
05-17-2013 John Semmens
Attempt to Morph “Bad Luck” into Scandals “Unfair,” Says Carney
President Obama's Press Secretary Jay Carney bristled at the suggestion the Administration is embroiled in three major scandals. “What scandals?” Carney demanded to know. “The Preside
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers 75 Years in Prison For Videotaping Police
05-17-2013
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NBC News (video)
Michael Allison faces 75 years in prison for five counts of recording law enforcement officials without their consent in Robinson, Illinois.
Illinois is one of the states applying old eavesdropping and wiretapping statutes to new technologies like
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Science, Medicine and Technology Progressive Coronary Artery Calcium Buildup
05-17-2013
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For those with the greatest increase in coronary artery calcium buildup (300 units or more), the study found a more than six-fold increase in coronary heart disease incidents independent of other risk factors for heart disease.
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Science Population Recalculated
05-17-2013
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A research team from the Autonomous University of Madrid and CEU-San Pablo University in Spain predicts the global population will begin to decline by the middle of the 21st century. Their study, published in the scientific journal “Simulation,” used
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Science, Medicine and Technology What Everybody Got Wrong About Tesla
05-17-2013
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Tesla basically responded by saying that as long as you get the technology right, the style doesn't really matter. Musk leveled this exact charge at rival Henrik Fisker:
...he is a designer or stylist… he thinks the reason we don’t have electric
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Bitcoin US authorities launch their first attack on bitcoin
05-17-2013
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Tech Investor News
Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security served the Dwolla mobile payment service with a court order requiring it to immediately cease all account activities with the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange
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Syria Sectarianism in Iraq stoked by Syrian war
05-16-2013
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Washington Post
A recent tide of sectarian tensions that erupted into the worst violence seen in Iraq in five years is testing the government of Prime Minister al-Maliki, whose ability to contain the crisis could hinge on a conflict raging beyond his control in Syri
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Events: Arizona Won't You Be My Neighbor - AquaDome Ernest Hancock Friday May 17th 2013 we are assembling the AquaDome starting at 3pm until done. All of the hard work is done and now all we need to do is put the pieces together... Wanna Help? Then the Aquaponic/BioDiesel/H2OPESystem is assembled.
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Inventions Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!
05-16-2013
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ted.com
Why can't two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn't you make music with ketchup? In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge to play with the world around you.
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Inventions LG hints at development of waterless washing machine
05-16-2013
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Mother Nature Network.com
From the 'holy disbelief, Batman' file: Korean electronics giant LG is rumored to be developing a washing machine that doesn't use water. Although details are scant, Mashable has more on the chatter.
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Outdoor Survival Could your child survive alone in the woods?
05-16-2013
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Mother Nature Network.com
There's a hierarchy of survival skills that are more age-appropriate for children than teaching them how to skin a squirrel for supper.
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Agriculture Loan propels fish-and-vegetable aquaponics
05-16-2013
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westfaironline.com
Continental Organics, a sustainable farm in New Windsor, should more than double its production of organic vegetables this spring due in part to a $100,000 loan from the spouse of a Facebook founder.
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Energy SunPower to sell energy storage, potentially lithium ion batteries
05-16-2013
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gigaom.com
SunPower plans to sell lithium ion batteries — or other energy storage technology — bundled with solar panels. The move follows other solar companies into the energy storage space.
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Religion: Believers Food For Thought
“There Is A Conspiracy”
05-17-2013 Chuck Baldwin
The title of today’s column, “There Is A Conspiracy,” is a direct quote from Ezekiel 22:25. In this passage, God instructed Ezekiel to blow the whistle on the conspiracy of Israel’s prophets to deny people truth, to devour people’s souls, to defraud
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Criminal Justice System Bin Laden son-in-law: Warning issued by NY judge
05-17-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
Bin Laden son-in-law warning: A N.Y. judge gave Osama bin Laden's son-in-law a warning that he may have chosen the wrong lawyer to represent him. The judge told Sulaiman Abu Ghaith that his Jewish lawyer may be facing jail time.
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers Surprise, Surprise
05-17-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
One of the videos eyewitnesses shot with a cell-phone while cops beat David Sal Silva to death in Kern County, California, has “disappeared” now that the phones are in the sheriff’s department’s custody.
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Science, Medicine and Technology Blood Clot Risk Management
05-17-2013
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hey include being physically active, avoiding smoking, following a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy body mass index, and controlling blood sugar levels, blood pressure and cholesterol. They then compared the incidence of blood clots among those wh
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Surviving the Collapse The Center for Natural Living: Toward a Voluntary and Natural World
05-17-2013
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Introducing the Center for Natural Living, a tax-exempt non-profit based in Central Texas with the mission of demonstrating the value of voluntary cooperation and natural living in the areas of sustainability, family, and health by creating education
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Criminal Justice System Unrecorded testimony
05-16-2013
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Boston Globe
Those concerned with the survival of American civil liberties most commonly fear the federal government’s technical ability to record and store virtually all telephonic and electronic communications. But a more immediate threat to liberty
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Business/ Commerce Paypal orders customer's violin destroyed before returning it to her
05-16-2013
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I sold an old French violin to a buyer in Canada, and the buyer disputed the label. Rather than have the violin returned to me, PayPal made the buyer DESTROY the violin in order to get his money back. They deemed the violin “counterfeit”