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Date Sent: 2011-05-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 20, 2011 PM edition |
CONgressional Leadership Seeks 4-Year Patriot Act Extension
How DARPA's Tiny Robotic Hummingbird Hovers and Films -- Groundbreaking
Giant Human-Pedal-Powered Helicopter Sets World Record -- Larken Rose
joins Ernest for 2 hours - New book: "The Most Dangerous Superstition"
-- Virgin's SpaceShipTwo Makes Its First 'Feathering' Flight -- Student, 12, duct-taped to chair and beaten by classmates while teacher watched -- China Gives Pakistan 50 Fighter Jets -- China Is Now Top Gold Bug -- School Wants To Allow Bus Drivers To Search Students -- Israel in a Post-American Era
-- The Case
for IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn Being a Setup -- When Decent
People Start to Fear – and Loathe Cops… -- Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos
-- Gerald Celente: 'Gold standard won't save US' -- Obama Speech Hints at Openness to Assad’s Ouster -- Obama
granted Netanyahu a major diplomatic victory -- Republican senators press president on War Powers deadline -- Russell Pearce recall may be pushed to 2012 due to error -- Obama, Tell Netanyahu – Don’t Mess With Flotilla to Gaza - by Ray McGovern -- Meredith Whitney Warns on Muni Debt: The Countdown Begins In July -- Imperialism: Bankers, Drug Wars and Genocide -- Increasing Intelligence Spending While Punishing Whistleblowers Who Report Waste -- Ex-IMF chief gets $1M bail in NYC sex assault case
CA: Jordan Page Concert, Thursday May
26th 8pm in Los Angeles
National: You Have Until Monday, May 23 to Object to the Dept of Education's Expanded Non-consensual Disclosure
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Congressional Leadership Seeks Four-Year Patriot Act Extension
05-20-2011
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AntiWar.com
Congressional leadership from both houses and both parties today reached a deal on a long-term extension of the PATRIOT Act, exactly as worded and without any of the inconvenient civil rights provisions that the Obama Administration...
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
How Darpa's Tiny Robotic Hummingbird Hovers and Films
05-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
In 2006, Darpa, the Department of Defense’s R&D arm, commissioned AeroVironment, a company specializing in remote aircraft, to create an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Can Humans Survive in a Completely Self-Sufficient Closed Environment?
05-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Not yet, though we’ve been trying to do so since at least the 1970s. Fabricating an environment that needs no power other than the sun and is a closed system (where waste gets broken down and reused) is extremely difficult.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Groundbreaking Giant Human-Pedal-Powered Helicopter Sets World Record
05-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Want to see history made in the blink of an eye? About two weeks ago we wrote about Gamera, the University of Maryland’s human-powered helicopter that is chasing after the Sikorsky Prize...
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News Link • Government
The Biblical Nature of Hoppean Monarchism
05-20-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
Hans Hermann Hoppe has been widely recognized for stating the advantages of a traditional monarchy over that of what is essentially mob rule, that is, Democracy.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin's SpaceShipTwo Makes Its First 'Feathering' Flight
05-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Virgin Galactic just keeps on ticking off the milestones on its way to becoming the first commercial company to take tourists on high-altitude flights.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Why Mobile Apps Will Soon be Dead
05-20-2011
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technologyreview.com
The seeds of destruction for both iOS and Android app stores have already been sown -- by none other than Google.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student, 12, duct-taped to chair and beaten by classmates while teacher watched
05-20-2011
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NY Daily News
A 12-year-old Dallas student was bound to a chair with duct tape and beaten by classmates as a substitute teacher stood and ignored the attack.... The attackers wrapped tape around her son's mouth to keep him from shouting.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
China Gives Pakistan 50 Fighter Jets
05-20-2011
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nytimes.com
China has agreed to immediately provide 50 JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan, a major outcome of a visit by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to Beijing this week, Pakistani officials said Thursday.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
'Concrete Canvas' Makes Erecting Permanent Buildings As Easy as Pitching a Tent
05-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
When disaster strikes and permanent structures are leveled, as they were recently by earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand (and more distantly in Haiti), they are usually replaced in the short term by tent cities.
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News Link • China
China Is Now Top Gold Bug
05-20-2011
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finance.yahoo.com
Chinese investors are snapping up gold bars and coins, buying more than ever before in the first quarter of 2011 and overtaking Indian buyers as the world's biggest purchasers of the metal.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
School Wants To Allow Bus Drivers To Search Students
05-20-2011
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A school district wants to give its bus drivers the authority to search students for weapons or drugs. The proposal would allow the drivers to search a student and their belongings if there is an immediate threat of harm or danger to those on the bus
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News Link • Healthcare
Patient Elects to Have Hand Amputated to Make Way for a Bionic One
05-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
A Serb living in Austria has elected to have his hand amputated so that he can be fitted with a working bionic limb. The 26-year-old Milo’s biological hand was intact but useless.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Obama and Netanyahu face tense meeting on Mideast
05-20-2011
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news.yahoo.com
U.S. President Barack Obama's endorsement of a longstanding Palestinian demand on the borders of their future state sets the stage for what could be a tense meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
World's Smallest 3-D Printer Could Find Its Way Into Your Home
05-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
At the Vienna Institute of Technology, a group of engineers claims they've created not only the world's smallest 3-D printer.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Efficient DNA-Based Computing Could Replace Silicon
05-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
“DNA is the future of computing,” Jian-Jun Shu tells PhysOrg. And why not? Silicon is slow by comparison, computes in a binary system, creates waste heat, and is not particularly easy on the environment.
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Libertarianism versus Statism
05-20-2011
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lewrockwell.com
All of us have been born and raised within a statist box, one in which the federal government’s primary roles are to take care of people, regulate their economic activities, and maintain an overseas military empire that intervenes in the affairs of o
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Models Find that Gliese 581d is the First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet
05-20-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
The red dwarf Gliese 581, one of our own solar system’s closest neighboring stars and a regular point of exoplanetary interest, can finally claim the title of owning the first confirmed potentially-habitable expolanet.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Israel in a Post-American Era
05-20-2011
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lewrockwell.com
In 1918, the United States proved militarily decisive in the defeat of the Kaiser's Germany and emerged as first power on earth. World War II, ending in 1945, produced two truly victorious nations, the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin and the America of
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Where Are the Christian Churches When We Need Them Most?
05-20-2011
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lewrockwell.com
One of the most important functions of religious faith, observed St. Thomas Aquinas, is to allow people of limited intelligence and people with limited time for study to know important truths about God without having to investigate them personally.
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Case for IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn Being Setup
05-20-2011
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http://lewrockwell.com/
Although it is very possible that IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually attacked a maid at the Sofitel Hotel in New York without warning, there remains the possibility that the story is more complex.
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News Link • Free Speech
Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos
05-20-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Forget copyright infringement, You Tube is now complying with removal orders from governments to stop populist rage going viral
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gerald Celente -- 'Gold standard won't save US'
05-20-2011
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youtube.com
Steve Forbes is championing a return to a gold standard in five years time. Will that help the slumping American economy though? Gerlad Celente of the Trends Research Institute says no.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
PlayStation Network Hackers Used Amazon's Cloud Services To Launch Their Attack, Report Says
05-20-2011
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popsci.com
Hackers used Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing service to wage an attack on Sony’s PlayStation network last month, according to a report by Bloomberg News.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Obama granted Netanyahu a major diplomatic victory
05-20-2011
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www.haaretz.com
After Obama accepted Netanyahu's demands, the PM now cannot be apathetic to the U.S. president's proposal for 1967 borders.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Republican senators press president on War Powers deadline
05-20-2011
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CNN
As the US military campaign in Libya approaches the 60-day mark, 6 Republican senators wrote President Obama asking if he will comply with the War Powers Act, which says Congress must authorize action that lasts more than 60 days.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Russell Pearce recall may be pushed to 2012 due to error
05-20-2011
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Arizona Republic
Arizona's elections director said she inadvertently gave an incorrect timetable to the organizers of a drive to recall controversial Senate President Russell Pearce, forcing a change in strategy in the historic recall effort.
Elections Director Am
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage Delinquencies by State: Percent and Number
05-20-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
There are plenty of problems in California, but nothing like Florida. Florida has 57% the number of mortgages as California, but more delinquent loans. In most ways, dividing this by states is arbitrary - except the foreclosure process matters.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Federal Pressure Making It Impossible to Open Medical-Marijuana Dispensaries?
05-20-2011
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AZcentral.com
Although Arizona's medical-marijuana program mostly will be run by the state Health Department in cooperation with cities and towns, Maricopa County officials plan to opt out in reaction to mounting federal pressure on states that have legalized...
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Meredith Whitney Warns on Muni Debt: The Countdown Begins In July
05-20-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Next month will be pivotal for most states, as it marks the fiscal year end and is when balanced budgets are due. The states have racked up over $1.8 trillion in taxpayer-supported obligations in large part by underfunding their pension and other...
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News Link • Food
To Eat And Survive In LA: On Track For A Million Food Stamp Users
05-20-2011
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Businessinsider.com/
Los Angeles County food stamp users are now on track to reach the 1,000,000 mark by later this year.
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News Link • Drug War
Imperialism: Bankers, Drug Wars and Genocide
05-20-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
While the White House pays the Mexican state and army to kill Mexicans suspected of drug trafficking, the US Justice Department belatedly slaps a relatively small fine on the major US financial accomplice to the murderous drug trade...
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News Link • Surveillance
James Bovard: Assassination Nation
05-20-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
Some Americans may think the president’s license to kill is simply a temporary tactic for the war on terror. But precedents being established today will be invoked by future commanders-in-chief who may have a much broader “enemies lists”...
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
Words Eye View
Will Jesus Christ Return on May 21?
05-19-2011
Greg J Dixon
Eighty-nine year old religious broadcaster and Bible teacher, Harold Egbert Camping, has been predicting for some time now that Jesus Christ is going to return this Saturday May 21. I will assure you, in no uncertain words, HE WILL NOT!
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA's Biometric Nirvana: "Trusted Traveler" & Global Entry Kiosks
05-20-2011
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politics.blogs.foxnews.com
Napolitano said the U.S. currently has trusted traveler programs in place with Mexico, Canada, and the Netherlands and are in numerous discussions with several other countries regarding potential partnerships.
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News Link • Surveillance
You Have Until Monday, May 23 to Object to the Dept of Education's Expanded Nonconsensual Disclo
05-20-2011
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www.Missourieducationwatchdog.com
The Department of Education (DOE) has proposed regulatory changes that would gut the primary federal student-privacy statute, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FERPA imposes strict limits on how the government may use so-called P
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Water Ocean on Titan
05-20-2011
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arclein
addition to its seas on its surface, scientists recently also discovered hints that Titan possesses an internal ocean, one of water and ammonia. Using radar to peer through Titan's dense atmosphere, NASA's Cassini spacecraft found that over time,
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Heart Patch
05-20-2011
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arclein
Specifically, we developed a method for complete decellularization of human myocardium that leaves intact most elements of the extracellular matrix, as well as the underlying mechanical properties. A cell"matrix composite was constructed by applying
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
North Slope Hydrate Test Underway
05-20-2011
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arclein
The well, the result of a partnership between ConocoPhillips and the Office of Fossil Energy's (FE) National Energy Technology Laboratory, will test a technology that involves injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) into sandstone reservoirs containing metha
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News Link • Science
Super Storm on Saturn
05-20-2011
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arclein
This is the first major storm on Saturn observed by an orbiting spacecraft and studied at thermal infrared wavelengths. Infrared observations are key because heat tells researchers a great deal about conditions inside the storm, including temperat
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Current Government Expenditures versus Receipts
05-20-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
To me the chart dramatically shows just how far the government is from serious budget control. In my world, a first step would be to see the blue line (expenditures) fall below the red line (receipts), while preventing any increase in the red line.
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Increasing Intelligence Spending While Punishing Whistleblowers Who Report Waste
05-19-2011
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Kathleen McClellan , Daily Kos
The billions wasted on Trailblazer are a fraction of massively bloated intelligence budget - of which NSA makes up a third. The Washington Post's Top Secret America profiled how, post-9/11, the intelligence industrial complex exploded, growing into s
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
No Child Left Behind fix lagging in Congress
05-20-2011
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AP
The long-awaited overhaul of the 9-year-old No Child Left Behind law has begun in the House with the first in a series of targeted bills, but a bipartisan, comprehensive reform of the nation's most important education law still appears far from the f
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Ex-IMF chief gets $1M bail in NYC sex assault case
05-20-2011
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AP
After Strauss-Kahn spent nearly a week in police custody and then jail, a judge agreed to free him on $1 million cash bail plus an additional $5 million bond " provided he's confined to a NY apartment, under armed guard and electronic monitoring.
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