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News Link TERRORISM
U.S. to launch formal peace talks with Taliban
06-18-2013
Washington Post
The Obama administration will start formal peace talks with the Taliban in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, the first direct political contact between them since early last year and the initial step in what the administration hopes will lead to a neg
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News Link Internet
Julian Assange: Google's just an arm of US government
06-18-2013
The Register
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed that Google is tied up in a conspiracy stretching up to the very highest levels of American government. The pale blond hacker claimed that Google was a US government "echo".
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News Link Surveillance
Liars for the Total State
06-18-2013
youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Government claims they foiled 50 terror plots by snooping on you. Ron Paul comments on Caputo.
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News Link TAXES: Federal
Swiss Lawmakers Reject Deal to End US Tax Spat
06-18-2013
AP
Switzerland's lower house of parliament pushed back strongly Tuesday against a government proposal to end a bitter dispute with U.S. authorities over American tax cheats suspected of hiding money in the country's banks.
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News Link Bill of Rights
Supreme Court Rules Pre-Miranda Silence Can Be Used Against You To Prove Guilt
06-18-2013
Jonathan Turley
In a major loss for individual rights vis-a-vis the police, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that prosecutors could use a persons silence against them in court if it comes before hes told of his right to remain silent.
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News Link World News
Shock: Iceland Defies EU, Freezes Membership Bid
06-18-2013
The Daily Bell
Iceland's new government is no more apt to speed an entry into the EU than previous administrations. Representatives reaffirmed a halt to efforts to join the European Union. Reasons included worries over control of Iceland's resources and
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News Link Internet
Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment
06-18-2013
Washington Post
Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests the court makes, arguing the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it is forced to give the government.
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News Link TAXES: Federal
Full House committee transcripts shed new light on genesis of IRS targeting
06-18-2013
Washington Post
Democrats just released a full transcript of testimony from a key witness in the investigation of IRS targeting of conservatives and it appears to confirm that the initial targeting did originate with a low-level employee in the Cincinnati office.
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News Link Philosophy of Liberty
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
06-18-2013
FreemansPerspective.Com
Wake up and see the world as it is. Turn off the talking heads on TV and get to know the real world. Stop spending all your brain cycles on celebrities, sports heroes and gossip hounds get to know your neighbor and the old woman who lives around th
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News Link Entertainment: Movies
Brostitute- extremely amusing short online video with Tim Roth
06-18-2013
Christine Smith's blog (video from Funny or Di
Now, thats satire we need more of...
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News Link World News
Reporter Who Brought Down General Stanley McChrystal Is Dead at 33
06-18-2013
http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Michael Hastings, the journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone reports. He was 33.
Hastings' 2010 profile of McChrystal in the pages of Rolling St
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News Link Federal Reserve Bank
Farewell Bernanke Thanks For Inflating The Biggest Bond Bubble The World Has Ever Seen
06-18-2013
http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is on the way out the door, but the consequences of the bond bubble that he has helped to create will stay with us for a very, very long time. During Bernankes tenure, interest rates on U.S. Treasuries have fal
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News Link Ron Paul Says...
Its Obamas Safari But Were the Ones Taken for a Ride!
06-18-2013
http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Remember the Sequester? Remember the Administration threatening the end of the world if the phony cuts (which were actually just decreases in future spending increases) came into effect? Remember the cuts to Air Traffic Controllers while we were to
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News Link Government Waste
Uncle Sams Growing Ownership of Student Loans
06-18-2013
http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Murray Rothbard would, correctly, object to this government spending as investment. My point in quoting Marron is simply to show how large a factor student loans have become, rather than to hail it as magical new investment. Indeed, given new evide
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News Link Science, Medicine and Technology
Secrets of the Transhumanist Agenda Revealed at 2013 Conference
06-18-2013
http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Dmitry Itskov spoke at the Global Future 2045 Conference (GF2045) wherein he said that he would like to see technology developed that would allow human consciousness to be inputted into artificial computer neuro-brains and hologram bodies.
In 2020
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News Link Free Speech
Google Says Secret Intelligence Court Restricts Its Right to Free Speech
06-18-2013
Technologyreview.com
Google is demanding that a secret intelligence court allow it to share some details about surveillance requests for user data.
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News Link Science, Medicine and Technology
Researchers Can Now "Hear" The Exact Shape Of A Room
06-18-2013
popsci.com
Researchers from American and French universities have discovered how to exactly map a room's shape solely by using a sense you wouldn't normally choose for this kind of task
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News Link Science, Medicine and Technology
First Known Four-Quark Particle Pops Up In Japanese Collider
06-18-2013
popsci.com
This new finding confirms the particle exists.
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News Link Science, Medicine and Technology
Nursing Home Tracks Residents' Every Move
06-18-2013
popsci.com
It's geriatric Big Brother!
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News Link Science, Medicine and Technology
What Is Lidar?
06-18-2013
technewsdaily.com
Whether you need to map out a landscape or discover an ancient city, lidar an advanced application of laser technology is probably your best bet.
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News Link Entertainment: Movies
'Wikileaks' Film Flop Scores on BitTorrent Sites
06-18-2013
technewsdaily.com
No box office smash, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks," captured the No. 4 spot in last week's most pirated movies roster, compiled by TorrentFreak, a news site covering all things torrent-related.
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News Link 3D Printing
Future Buildings Could be Made of Artificial Bone
06-18-2013
livescience.com
Move over nanotubes, there's a new futuristic building material in town and its origins may surprise you.
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News Link Science, Medicine and Technology
Seeing the Light: Retinal Prosthesis Restores Rat Vision
06-18-2013
livescience.com
Technology for restoring vision is still at an early stage, but a new kind of retinal prosthesis allows blind rats to sense light, a study shows.
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News Link Climate Change
Baked Alaska: Crazy Weather Swings from Ice to Fire
06-18-2013
livescience.com
In Alaska, houses are built to keep warm air in and cold air out, not the other way around.
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News Link Space Travel and Exploration
Mystery on Venus: 'Super-Hurricane' Force Winds Inexplicably Get Stronger
06-18-2013
space.com
The howling, hurricane-force winds of Venus are blowing even faster lately, and scientists aren't sure why.
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News Link Corruption
Hain Celestials Not so Organic or Healthy High Pesticide Content in Tea
06-18-2013
Farm Wars
Hain Celestials caught mislabeling organic products, and Celestial Seasonings tea laden with pesticides and known carcinogens.
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News Link Congress
Congress Considers Nixing NASA Asteroid Mission
06-18-2013
space.com
A draft authorization bill from the House Science space subcommittee would cap NASA spending at about $16.87 billion for the next two years, prohibit a proposed asteroid retrieval mission, overhaul the agencys........
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News Link Gun Rights
BOOM! U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO.) Introduces H.R. 2361, Protecting Second Amendment Rights
06-18-2013
Daily Paul.com
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, today praised U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) for his introduction of H.R. 2361, legislation intended to prevent states ......
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News Link Big Brother
Washington Times - Big Brother Alert: Cameras In Cable Box To Monitor TV
06-18-2013
Daily Paul.com
It hardly gets more Orwellian than this. New technology would allow cable companies to peer directly into television watchers' homes and monitor viewing habits and reactions to product advertisements.
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News Link Just For Fun!
Guy Tries to Wiretap Government Agents for Prank, Gets Arrested
06-18-2013
Daily Paul.com
So it turns out the government can wire tap us, but we cant wire tap them!
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