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Date Sent: 2011-06-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, June 10, 2011 |
Hillary Clinton Considers Seeking The World Bank Presidency
Ex-NSA official Thomas Drake to plead guilty to misdemeanor -- Jury clears Chicago businessman in Mumbai attacks, convicts him in plot against Danish paper
-- Undocumented Youth Blocked from Entering Workforce Starting Own
Business -- Gates says no hasty U.S. troop cut in Afghanistan -- Huffington Post traffic surpasses NYTimes.com -- First therapeutic study of LSD in 35 years finishes treatment of last subject -- Court reinstates Phoenix New Times lawsuit over late-night Publisher arrests -- Buy Guns While You Still Can - PART 3: Assault Rifles (the endangered species) -- Supreme Court rules against Microsoft in patent case -- Bradley Manning activist subpoenaed in WikiLeaks investigation -- Possible Sighting of Dark Matter Lights Up Physics Community -- How I Know Another Correction Is Coming -- Ron Paul "What Should The Role Of Govt Be?" -- Candidates announced for first New Hampshire GOP primary debate --
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hillary Clinton Considers Seeking The World Bank Presidency
06-09-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Hillary Clinton may be seeking the World Bank presidency, Reuters just announced.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Hillary Clinton interested in becoming head of World Bank?
06-09-2011
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telegraph.co.uk
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ex-NSA official Thomas Drake to plead guilty to misdemeanor
06-09-2011
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Washington Post
Days before his trial was set to begin, former National Security Agency manager and accused leaker Thomas A. Drake accepted a plea deal from the government Thursday that drops the charges in his indictment, absolves him of mishandling classified info
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Jury clears Chicago businessman in Mumbai attacks, convicts him in plot against Danish paper
06-09-2011
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Washington Post
A federal jury convicted a Chicago businessman on Thursday of helping plot an attack against a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad but cleared him of the most serious terrorism charge accusing him of cooperating in the dead
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
I.B.M. Researchers Create High-Speed Graphene Circuits
06-09-2011
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NY Times
I.B.M. researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications, from high-bandwidth communication to a new generation of low-cost smartphone and television d
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Undocumented Youth Blocked from Entering Workforce Starting Own Business
06-09-2011
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Phoenix New Times
Lilly Romo runs an English school blocks from the Arizona Capitol. Classes are held in a white adobe building with nothing on its façade but a sign advertising Escuela de Inglés. Its walls are thin and bare except for a series of certificates praisin
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Nicotine discovery may lead to new weight loss drugs
06-09-2011
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RawStory.com
US scientists have figured out exactly how nicotine acts as an appetite suppressant in the brain, a finding that could one day help in the fight against obesity, researchers said Thursday.
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News Link • Environment
World must invest $40 billion a year to save forests, says United Nations
06-09-2011
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RawStory.com
Investing $40 billion annually in the forest sector is needed for the world to transition into a low carbon, resource-efficient green economy, according to a UN report released here Sunday.
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News Link • Housing
Americans' equity in their homes near a record low
06-09-2011
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Yahoo.com CalculatedRisk.com
Falling real estate prices are eating away at home equity. The percentage of their homes that Americans own is near its lowest point since World War II, the Fed. Reserve said Thursday. The average homeowner now has 38 percent equity, down from 61%...
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News Link • Currencies
The World According to Doug Casey
06-09-2011
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LewRockwell.com
“I have very little doubt that we will see some form of currency control within the U.S. and some other countries, because one thing you can count on is that the government never controls itself. What it does is control its subjects.”
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News Link • Internet
Huffington Post traffic surpasses NYTimes.com
06-09-2011
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RawStory.com
The Huffington Post received more traffic than the website of The New York Times in May, the first time it has surpassed NYTimes.com in unique visitors, tracking firm comScore said Thursday.
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News Link • Government
Senators call for crackdown on ‘Bitcoin’ as drug traffickers move in
06-09-2011
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Stephen C. Webster via RawStory
The Internet barter system known as "Bitcoin," makes it difficult for law enforcement to monitor online transactions, has raised the ire of two U.S. Senators who learned recently about a new website that lets Bitcoin users buy and sell illegal drugs.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
First therapeutic study of LSD in 35 years finishes treatment of last subject
06-09-2011
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
Psychiatrists in Switzerland have nearly completed their study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy in the treatment of anxiety associated with life threatening illnesses.
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News Link • Family
Family: Boyhood ‘anti-sissy’ therapy led to suicide
06-09-2011
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David Edwards via RawStory.com
In interviews that aired on CNN Tuesday and Wednesday, Kirk Murphy’s family said that experiments designed to make him more masculine led to his suicide.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Nanometal Changes from Hard to Soft at the Flip of a Switch
06-09-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Researchers at the Technical University of Hamburg and the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht have engineered a new nanomaterial that changes from hard to soft with the flip of a switch.
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News Link • Energy
First Hybrid Power Plant Will Combine Solar, Wind and Natural Gas
06-09-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
A new hybrid power plant to be built in Turkey will combine a traditional gas-fired steam turbine with solar thermal power and wind power, according to GE.
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News Link • Housing
Robert Shiller: "A 10-25% Slump In Home Prices Would Not Surprise Me At All"
06-09-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Recent housing and employment data suggests the economy is at a tipping point, while home prices could have much further to fall, veteran economist Robert Shiller said on Thursday.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Court reinstates Phoenix New Times lawsuit over late-night arrests
06-09-2011
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Arizona Republic
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reinstated portions of a federal lawsuit filed by the owners of Phoenix New Times stemming from their late-night arrests by Maricopa County sheriff's deputies in 2007 after the paper published details
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News Link • Environment
Google Earth Goes Under the Sea
06-09-2011
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Jennie Walters via PopSci.com
Google Earth broke new ground (new water?) when they took the world of virtual-earth-exploring oceans. Of course, the oceans are kind of big. They fill up nearly three-quarters of the earth's surface area, and most of that area hasn't been mapped.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Supreme Court rules against Microsoft in patent case
06-09-2011
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RawStory.com
The US Supreme Court upheld a $290 million patent infringement verdict against US software giant Microsoft on Thursday in a closely watched case brought by a small Canadian company.
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News Link • Internet
Bradley Manning activist subpoenaed in WikiLeaks investigation
06-09-2011
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
A computer expert and vocal supporter of the Army private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks has been served a subpoena compelling his testimony in the Grand Jury investigation of the leaked documents.
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News Link • Energy
Breakthrough in battery technology could revolutionize electric vehicles
06-09-2011
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Eric W. Dolan via RawStory.com
A new battery design developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could transform the way electric vehicles and the power grid store and discharge energy.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Possible Sighting of Dark Matter Lights Up Physics Community
06-09-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Minnesota mine say they’ve seen seasonally varying blips in electrical pulses that may be the telltale signs of WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Super-Dense Forms of Carbon Could Out-Sparkle the Shiniest Diamond
06-09-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Girls might just have a new best friend. Diamonds are commonly known as one of the hardest (and shiniest) rocks on the planet, but new simulations show that three other stable forms of pure carbon would sparkle even more than diamonds.
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News Link • Constitution
CONSTITUTION LOBBY IS GAINING TRACTION! Long-held Vision Coming to Fruition
06-09-2011
Imagine a well-funded Constitution Lobby in every state dedicated to one thing: institutionalizing Citizen vigilance, confronting government wrongdoers and securing Redress through powerful, lawful Civic Action. It may be about to happen…
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Ron Paul’s Radical Vision
06-09-2011
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reason.com
The libertarian Republican warns of impending disaster, reaches out to the left, and prepares for a presidential campaign. - Brian Doherty from the July 2011 issue of Reason Magazine
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul Rising
06-09-2011
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www.nationalreview.com
Yet when he recalls spotting throngs of college students, at campus after campus, toting handmade signs and railing against the Federal Reserve, he knows that, in his own way, he won something.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Forensic Technique Sniffs Crime Scene Air Samples for the Lingering Scent of Death
06-09-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Casey Anthony--the Florida mother accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008--has not been short on conflicts and legal confrontation. But one controversial aspect is stemming from an unexpected source: a can of air
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Paraplegic College Grad Lands His First Job: A Bionic Leg Tester
06-09-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
After walking across the stage at his graduation with the help of exoskeletal legs, Austin Whitney strolled straight into a new career: bionic leg tester.
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News Link • NATO
Red Team Go! It's NATO's Turn to Build a Cyber Defense Force
06-09-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Hacks, cyber strategies, international cyber squads--we could just go ahead and dub this the “summer of cyber,” and it’s not even mid-June. On the heels of some high-profile hacks, a terse exchange between Google and China following a Gmail breach
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mars Science Lab Needs $44 Million More For It to Launch This Year, NASA Says
06-09-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
NASA’s newest Mars rover faces further hurdles and could require another $44 million in funds before it is ready for launch this fall, according to an agency audit announced today.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
2011 Summer Movie Smackdown: Unraveling Science Fiction From Fact
06-09-2011
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Gregory Mone via PopSci.com
Although some of these gadgets remain far beyond the realm of possibility (at least for now), here's the science behind Hollywood's awesome line-up of wrist lasers, vibranium shields and X-jets.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Candidates announced for first New Hampshire GOP primary debate
06-09-2011
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CNN
Debate watching party at the Hancock's Monday, June 13, 2011. Debate starts at 5 p.m. You can show up as early as 4:30 for food and fun, but the debate will be taped and we will begin watching at 6 p.m.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Implanted Electrodes Loaded With Drugs Could Monitor Brain And Treat It When Necessary
06-09-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Microelectrode arrays implanted in the brain monitor neurological conditions in living patients all the time, sometimes even influencing brain activity if it gets out of line.
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News Link • Internet
Iceland's Citizens Are Writing Its New Constitution Online
06-09-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
In the 18th century, if you wanted to draft a democratic constitution you crowded a handful of men into a room and hashed out the finer points of policy and philosophy until you had a document that was declared the law of the land.
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News Link • Environment
Chile's Puyehue Erupts, Making Ashen Artwork in the Sky
06-09-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
But like many of the natural world’s most violent and disruptive events, they sure do make for some incredible photo ops. Chile’s Puyehue, which began erupting on Saturday, is no exception.
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News Link • Energy
Edison-Era Inventions Emerge From the Vaults of General Electric
06-09-2011
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
General Electric has pretty much had its hand in every major technological advance in the 130 years since its founding (in part by Thomas Edison!). The company recently started a Tumblr of some of its most striking innovations
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
When The Sun Unleashed Its Plasma Blast This Week, Earth Got Lucky
06-09-2011
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Damon Tabor via PopSci.com
On Tuesday, the biggest solar flare in four years erupted from the sun, sending a mass of charged particles hurtling towards Earth. NASA announced that it was an M-2 (medium-sized) flare and an S1-class (minor) radiation storm.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Lupe Fiasco: Obama ‘The Biggest Terrorist’
06-09-2011
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Sharlene Holt, Musicians for Freedom
Chicago Rapper Lupe Fiasco : "In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America."
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News Link • Police State
No Knock Raid, the song.
01-06-2011
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Youtube
This is a terrific song inspired by the work of Radley Balko from Reason Magazine.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. intensifying covert war in Yemen
06-09-2011
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Reuters
The Obama administration has intensified air strikes on suspected militants in Yemen in a bid to keep them from consolidating power as the government in Sanaa teeters, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
A U.S. official confirmed to Reuters
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News Link • Government
Lieberman says he will attend Beck’s ‘important’ Israel rally
06-09-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) announced Monday that he would be attending Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Courage” August rally in Israel.
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News Link • Israel
Churches Worldwide to Show Support for Israel May 23
06-09-2011
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www.theisraelproject.org
Christian leaders at more than 1,500 churches in all 50 states and in more than 50 countries are scheduled to hold religious services Sunday (May 23) focused on educating their congregants about the importance of Israel to their faith.
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