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Date Sent: 2009-07-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 3, 2009 |
r3VOLution activists busy in Santa Fe for the Fourth of July
r3VOLution activists busy in Santa Fe for the Fourth of July -- Sarah Palin stepping down as governor -- Seven banks fail, pushing 2009 tally to 52 -- Lots of Cool New Stuff - Techno Gadgets -- What July Fourth Means to Me - By Ronald Reagan -- WaPo Salon Scandal: Editors, Lawmakers Deny Knowledge -- Raw Dessert - Chocolate Cherry Tart -- Strip the Bank of England of Its Power -- Johnny comes marching home — to no job -- Hybrid Anything: Retrofit Kit Wins Award -- USB 3.0: A Primer -- India Joins Russia, China in Questioning U.S. Dollar Dominance -- Speech Recognition iPhone App Translates Arabic On the Fly -- Nearly Naked Fireworks--why we celebrate the Fourth of July -- U.S. 'ready' for N. Korean missile -- US Marines locked in 'hell of a fight' with Taliban -- Stop the NEW Real ID - S.1261 - The PASS Act -- Seven U.S. Banks Seized -- The Church is No Sancturary from US Police State -- A Visitor From the Past -- "Strike of the Sword" -- Beck and Former CIA Employee Agree: U.S. Needs to be Hit by al-Qaeda -- Shocka!: Evidence Shows That Cheney Swayed White House reaction and response to CIA Leak -- Unemployment Rate: Percent Change versus Prior Recessions -- Rhine Temperature Rises 3 Degrees in Century -- NY City Apartment Sales Down More Than 50% -- Don’t believe the hype on the Coup in Honduras -- America's Effective Unemployment Rate at 18.7%? -- Because No One Else Would... -- The JAG Hunter - IS OBAMA GUILTY OF TREASON? Live Tonight 9 pm est. --
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Seven banks fail, pushing 2009 tally to 52
07-03-2009
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PrisonPlanet.com
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) " Seven banks were shut down by authorities
Thursday, pushing the tally of failed banks for 2009 to 52, more than
doubling the failures in 2008.
Six regional banks in Illinois and one in Texas closed their doors, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
The rash of Illinois failures are interlinked: All six banks were
controlled by one family and followed a similar business model that
“created concentrated exposure in each institution,” according to the
FDIC.
The agency said that the six failures stemmed from the banks’
investments in collateralized debt obligations and other loan losses.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Lots of Cool New Stuff - Techno Gadgets
07-03-2009
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Technology Review
Quantum-Dot Lighting, First U.S. Plug-In Hybrid, Butane Charger, Power Booster, Cheap Chemical Sensor, Glaucoma Detector, Wireless Scale, City Sensing, Gesture-Recognition TV, Heart Watcher, Firefox for Mobiles.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
WaPo Salon Scandal: Editors, Lawmakers Deny Knowledge
07-03-2009
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Huffington Post
The revelation that the Washington Post had planned to hold
corporate-sponsored "salons" with public officials at publisher
Katharine Weymouth's house continues to have repercussions in media and
political circles. The White House issued an ethics reminder to staff,
while lawmakers and Post editors have tried to distance themselves from the event.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Hybrid Anything: Retrofit Kit Wins Award
07-03-2009
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PopSi
A former IBM engineer says his latest invention can
turn regular cars into plug-in hybrids for between $3,000 and $5,000.
He could be on to something.
It fits into a wheel hub and can double a car's fuel economy. That's
the claim of Dr. Charles Perry, who says his plug-in hybrid retrofit
kit can save America 120 million gallons of fuel per day. Big talk. But
then, inventors betting on revolutionary uphevals need to talk as big
as they think. The former IBM electrical engineer designed the kit to
transform existing automobiles into hybrids by placing an electric
motor inside each wheel. Perry recently took first prize for his
invention at a green energy competition at the Tennessee Technology
Development Corp. The plan is to develop the kit into a product selling
for between $3,000 and $5,000.
As part of the prize, Perry received a $50,000 grant, which will be
matched by Palmer Labs LLC of Reston, Va., whose goal is to
commercialize the inv
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
USB 3.0: A Primer
07-03-2009
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PopSi
That Universal Serial Bus port in your computer
is about to get an upgrade. You know, the one where you plug in all
your external hard drives, digital cameras, MP3 players, thumb drives,
and USB heated-slippers? If you bought your computer any time after the
year 2000, it probably came equipped with a USB 2.0 port. However,
later this year computers will start shipping that include USB 3.0 ports, which can transmit data up to ten times as fast. Here's what to expect.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Speech Recognition iPhone App Translates Arabic On the Fly
07-03-2009
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PopSi
Speech technology is advancing quickly; even smartphones offer apps
that let you speak commands and perform voice-activated searches. Now,
a new app for iPhone and Blackberry can convert spoken Arabic into
spoken English (and vice versa). The mobile app's speed of processing
and accuracy is unprecedented for such a complex and different pair of
languages.
Created by Sakhr and Dial Directions for use by the Department of
Defense, Homeland Security, and other military customers -- not you --
the app has implications for field personnel who need to understand
foreign speech in dire situations. The app also provides a text
translation.
"I've seen Sakhr's speech-to-speech mobile translator on the iPhone
in action, and it could be a game-changer," said Hythem El-Nazer, the
senior vice president of Boston-based TA Associates, speaking to Business Wire. ""Instant, open speech translation on a mobile phone hasn't been done before
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Feminism
Nearly Naked Fireworks--why we celebrate the Fourth of July
07-03-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
The Nearly Naked Fireworks Stand in Puyallup, Washington illustrates the enterprising economic spirit of America--which is a big part of what we celebrate on the Fourth of July
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. 'ready' for N. Korean missile
07-03-2009
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Washington Times
COLORADO SPRINGS | U.S. missile defenses are prepared to try to knock
down the last stage of a Taepodong-2 missile that North Korea is
expected soon to launch if sensors detect the weapon threatens U.S.
territory, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command told The
Washington Times.
"The nation has a very, very credible ballistic-missile defense
capability. Our ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, I'm
very comfortable, give me a capability that if we really are threatened
by a long-range ICBM that I've got high confidence that I could
interdict that flight before it caused huge damage to any U.S.
territory," said Air Force Gen. Victor E. "Gene" Renuart, Northcom
commander.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
US Marines locked in 'hell of a fight' with Taliban
07-03-2009
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RawStory.com
US Marines are in a "hell of a fight" as they
storm into Taliban strongholds in a major assault in Afghanistan, their
commanding officer said on Friday.
Nearly 4,000 Marines launched the operation Thursday in parts of the
southern province of Helmand, suffering their first fatality in a
pivotal test of President Barack Obama's aggressive new strategy
against the Taliban.
The 1/5 Infantry Battalion met only light resistance in their push
south and had already been able to meet locals at shuras (councils),
Brigadier General Larry Nicholson said, speaking to a convoy with which
AFP was travelling.
But "for 2/8 there is a hell of a fight going on in the southern
quarter of the sector," the top Marine said on arrival at Garmsir, a
town along the Helmand River that was a key objective for the offensive.
"2/8 are going to face some challenges," he said. The Marines were
in an area called Toshtay about 25 kilome
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News Link • Police State
The Church is No Sancturary from US Police State
7/02/09
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Lew Rockwell
Pastor Jose Elias Moran was preparing for an early Wednesday prayer service yesterday (July 1) at the Iglesia Profetica Peniel in Webster, Texas when he was informed that a member of his congregation had been stopped by the police.
Out of concern for the church member, Pastor Moran went out to inquire what had happened, only to have the officer, Raymond Berryman, snarl at him to go back inside. According to witnesses, when Moran tried to explain, “I’m the pastor,” Berryman grabbed at his shirt...
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
A Visitor From the Past
07-03-2009
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Thelen Paulk
A friend called me last night to tell me about a publiction on the front page of The Foothills Focus. It's a tale of our time in a poem. The Foothills focus is a north valley community news paper serving Anthem, Black Canyon City, Carefree, Desert Hills, Cave Creek, New River, North Phoenix, North Scottsdale, and Tramonto.
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Jason Dimitrov
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News Link • Environment
Rhine Temperature Rises 3 Degrees in Century
07-03-2009
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arclein
The Rhine river between Germany and the Netherlands is on average three degrees warmer than 100 years ago, with power stations the main culprits, the German green group BUND said on Tuesday.
According to a study commission by BUND, this stretch of the river is warmed two degrees Celsius by waste water pumped in by industry and by nuclear and coal-fired power plants
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News Link • Conspiracies
Goldman Sachs: "Engineering Every Major Market Manipulation Since The Great Depression"
06-25-2009
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Rolling Stone
With a subtitle like "From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression
- and they're about to do it again" run, don't walk, and buy Matt Taibbi's latest piece in Rolling Stone magazine. One
of the best comprehensive profiles of Government Sachs done to date.
Speaking of GS, they sure must be busy today, now that Bernanke is
about to be impeached and take the fall for all their machinations.
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