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Date Sent: 2012-05-31
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, May 31, 2012 AM edition |
Debt Crisis: A $46 Trillion Problem Sweeping In -- Harrisburg mayor will fight for bankruptcy right
Spain's Borrowing Costs Near Danger Level: Bailout Next? -- SCOTUS Denies Cert to Cops Who Tasered a Pregnant Woman -- Were Nazi Soldiers Heroes? -- DUI Attorney Challenges Validity of Distracted Driving Laws -- U.S. Drone Policy: Standing Within 200 Feet Of A Terrorists Makes You A Terrorist -- New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks -- The U.S.
Military May Blanket Afghanistan in Tiny Spy Sensors That Last for Two
Decades -- The Moral Challenge of ‘Kill Lists’ -- Japan and China to start direct currency trading on Friday -- Chemists
Outrun Laws in War on Synthetic Drugs -- Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Moves toward
Commercialization -- SpaceX's Private Dragon Capsule Returns to
Earth Today -- Meteorite Reveals Clues in Search for Life on Mars
-- NASA preparing to
launch NuSTAR, its newest X-ray eyes -- New math model can help
computers avoid communication breakdowns -- Gardening Without Water,
My Experimental Garden, Did it Work?
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, This Saturday, June 2nd, Drug
War and the Media; Protest AZ GOP Inaccurate Election And
Unethical Ballots - This
Saturday, June 2nd
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt Crisis: A $46 Trillion Problem Comes Sweeping In
05-30-2012
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Telegraph(UK)
Bad stuff, they say, comes in threes. We've already got the banking and the eurozone sovereign debt crises. Next comes the corporate funding crisis.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Harrisburg mayor: will fight for bankruptcy right
05-30-2012
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Reuters
The mayor of Pennsylvania's debt-laden capital city said she will fight for the city's ability to declare bankruptcy after June 30. A state law that bars small Pennsylvania cities from filing for municipal bankruptcy is to expire then.
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain's Borrowing Costs Near Danger Level: Bailout Next?
05-30-2012
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CNBC
Spanish 10-year borrowing costs neared the 7 percent danger level and Bankia shares hit record lows on Monday after the government, struggling to sort out its finances, proposed putting sovereign debt into the struggling lender.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Blueford v. Arkansas
05-30-2012
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The Agitator
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court found another exception to the Constitution’s prohibition on double jeopardy. I don’t agree with the Court’s decision, but that’s not really even the most objectionable part of this case.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
It’s a Long Road to Better
05-30-2012
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The Agitator
This pretty incredible two-part post from the appellatesquawk blog demonstrates how even good policies like videotaping interrogations can be undermined by bad expert witnesses and indifferent judges.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
SCOTUS Denies Cert to Cops Who Tasered a Pregnant Woman
05-30-2012
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The Agitator
So these cops were already off the hook for damages. They appealed because they wanted the Supreme Court to forever preserve a police officer’s power to Tase pregnant women who drive 12 miles per hour over the speed limit
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News Link • Drug War
Five Wives Vodka
05-30-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Yes, there is such a brand. It is distilled in Utah (a Mormon stronghold), but has been banned in Idaho because its label and its name might offend Mormons and women. Idaho regulators have decided not to carry Five Wives Vodka
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News Link • Military
Were Nazi Soldiers Heroes?
05-30-2012
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by Jacob Hornberger (Future of Freedom Foundation)
Have you ever noticed that Nazi soldiers, especially those who died in World War II, are never celebrated as heroes? Why is that? Didn’t they answer the call of their government in time of war? Didn’t they serve their country by loyally obeying the d
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Walnut Creek DUI Attorney Challenges Validity of Distracted Driving Laws
05-30-2012
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San Francisco Chronicle
Distracted driving laws are meant to discourage a number of risky behaviors on the road, including texting, talking on a cell phone, and eating behind the wheel. But they are also used as a basis for conducting a pretext stop for to engage in unwarra
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. Drone Policy: Standing Within 200 Feet Of A Terrorists Makes You A Terrorist
05-30-2012
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New York Times
"It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent," the Times reports. "Counterterrorism officials insis
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News Link • Food
New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks
05-30-2012
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New York Times
New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity.
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News Link • Military
The U.S. Military May Blanket Afghanistan in Tiny Spy Sensors That Last for Two Decades
05-30-2012
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
During the Cold War, both sides liberally used the “bug”--the remote listening device--to surreptitiously get wind of what the other side was up to by listening in on a room, a building, or, in the case of East Berlin, an entire city.
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Moral Challenge of ‘Kill Lists’
05-30-2012
Ray McGovern
Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan has been called President Obama’s “priest” as they wrestle with the moral dilemma of assembling a “kill list” of “bad guys,” a role that recalls how established religions have justified slaughters over the centur
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News Link • China
Japan and China to start direct currency trading on Friday
05-30-2012
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www.japantoday.com
Japan and China will start direct currency trading this week, Tokyo said Tuesday, the first time Beijing has let a major unit other than the dollar swap with the yuan.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Chemists Outrun Laws in War on Synthetic Drugs
05-30-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Brandon Keim
The war on drugs has a new front, and so far it appears to be a losing one.
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News Link • Anthropology
'Vampire' Plague Victim Spurs Gruesome Debate
05-30-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Charles Q. Choi
What may have been an exorcism of a vampire in Venice is now drawing bad blood among scientists arguing over whether gravediggers were attempting to defeat an undead monster.
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News Link • Inventions
Smallest Artificial Heart Keeps Baby Alive
05-30-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Susan Young
Italian doctors implant tiny pump into a 16-month-old boy awaiting his new heart.
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News Link • Energy
Cheap Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Moves toward Commercialization
05-30-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Peter Fairley
Printable photovoltaics could become viable, thanks to a new advance.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Pill Could Reverse Effects of a Stroke Long After It Hits
05-30-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Susan Young
One pharmaceutical company aims to lengthen a stroke's drug-treatable period from hours to months.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Fatty acid found in fish prevents age-related vision loss: U of A medical research
05-30-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Raquel Maurier
An omega-3 fatty acid found in fish, known as DHA, prevented age-related vision loss in lab tests, demonstrates recently published medical research from the University of Alberta.
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News Link • Energy
New materials could slash energy costs for CO2 capture
05-30-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Jade Boyd
A detailed analysis of more than 4 million absorbent minerals has determined that new materials could help electricity producers slash as much as 30 percent of the "parasitic energy" costs associated with removing carbon dioxide from power plant emis
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News Link • Agriculture
Time is ticking for some crop's wild relatives
05-30-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Teri Barr
A botanist brings a species of alfalfa from Siberia, to the United States. His hope? The plant survives, and leads to a new winter-hardy alfalfa. But what also happened during this time in the late 1800's, isn't just a story of legend and lore.
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News Link • Environment
New report examines effects of trees killed by bark beetles on wildfire
05-30-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Sherri Eng
A recent report analyzing a range of published studies on the impact of bark beetles on trees in the U.S. and Canada provides a more complete picture of the effect of this destructive insect on wildfires.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX's Private Dragon Capsule Returns to Earth Thursday
05-30-2012
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http://www.space.com, by Clara Moskowitz
After a more than a week in orbit, the private space capsule Dragon is preparing to return to Earth from the International Space Station and cap off its historic mission with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Meteorite Reveals Clues in Search for Life on Mars
05-30-2012
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http://www.space.com, Staff
A meteorite that fell to Earth 41 years ago is helping scientists unlock clues regarding the makeup of Mars' atmosphere and its potential implications to help shape future missions to search for evidence of life on the Red Planet, a new study finds.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Tomato genome fully sequenced
05-30-2012
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http://phys.org, byCornell University
For the first time, the genome of the tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, has been decoded, and it becomes an important step toward improving yield, nutrition, disease resistance, taste and color of the tomato and other crops.
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News Link • Geology
Landslides linked to plate tectonics create the steepest mountain terrain
05-30-2012
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http://phys.org, byUniversity of Washington
Some of the steepest mountain slopes in the world got that way because of the interplay between terrain uplift associated with plate tectonics and powerful streams cutting into hillsides, leading to erosion in the form of large landslides, new resear
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA preparing to launch NuSTAR, its newest X-ray eyes
05-30-2012
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http://phys.org, byJPL/NASA
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. The mission will study everything from massive black holes to our own sun. It is sched
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News Link • Communications
New math model can help computers avoid communication breakdowns
05-30-2012
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http://phys.org, byStanford University
Language is so much more than a string of words. To understand what someone means, you need context.
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News Link • How To
Gardening Without Water, My Experimental Garden, Did it Work?
05-30-2012
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Tarrin P. Lupo
This video documents how I grew a totally organic garden during a drought in Savannah Ga using practically no water. I reduced my water consumption 95% compared to the previous year using this wood chipping technique. This was an experiment wood chip
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Protest the Arizona National Delegate Election
05-30-2012
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PicketAZGOP.Com
The Pinal County Republican Committee has passed a Resolution seeking cancellation of the May 12 election results...(SMELLS OF AN OP)
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