 |
REAL TIME SPOT PRICES
Bitcoin Average: $81383.15
Gold: $4708.3 Change: $151.7
Silver: $77.35 Change: $4.64
|
|
|
ARCHIVED NEWSLETTER |
|
Sign up
to receive the Freedom's Phoenix Headlines by Email. |
|
HELP FUND FREEDOM'S PHOENIX!
Make a one-time or periodic contribution.
Use your credit card or PayPal account. |
|
Join us on our
Social Networks |
Share this page with your friends
on your favorite social network:
|
 |
|
|
|
Date Sent: 2011-07-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 1, 2011 |
US sees Iran behind rising troop deaths in Iraq -- US Dumps 100 Inquiries Into CIA Jail Deaths
IMF Rape Victim Raped Again by NY Times Day After Strauss-Kahn Replaced -- Gates departs Pentagon with Medal of Freedom -- How to Arrest the Economy-Strangling EPA -- Police 'Flash Mob' Beats, Tasers Mentally Handicapped Teen -- History and Memory: Reflections on Teaching the Holocaust -- Why the Exclusionary Rule Matters -- Fully Informed Jury: The Comic Book -- Megafires May Change the Southwest Forever -- Killer Drones, Stealth Jets, Spy Planes: Bob Gates’ Legacy in Military Tech -- After Thousands of Years of Research, We're Still Trying to Figure Out Static Electricity -- New Botnet, Now 4.5 Million Machines Strong, is 'Practically Indestructible'
-- America’s Oil Supply: The Keystone for Survival -- IBM Demos Phase
Change Memory That Reliably Packs Multiple Data Bits Into Single Cells
-- Are We Prepared for a Catastrophic Solar Storm? -- How The First Crowdsourced Military Vehicle Can Remake the Future of Defense Manufacturing -- Spirits of Justice Going to Gaza -- Gaza and Thoughts of a Starving Ireland -- Tea Party People Are WAAAY off-Track
AZ: Arizona
Breakfast Club tomorrow with Alan Korwin on "The Global Collapse"; POOL PARTY- tomorrow, at the Hancock's starting 1PM
PA:
Outreach Table - DECLARE
PEACE FAIR tomorrow in Philadelphia
|
News Link • Iran
U.S. military sees Iran behind rising troop deaths in Iraq
06-30-2011
•
Washington Post
Pentagon blamed the mounting death toll on the growing sophistication of weapons that insurgents and Iranian-backed militia groups are using, including powerful rockets, armor-piercing grenades and jam-resistant roadside bombs suspected of coming fro
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Will Widen 2 C.I.A. Inquiries Into Jail Deaths
06-30-2011
•
NY Times
The Justice Department announced it was opening a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two terrorism suspects in C.I.A. custody overseas, but it was closing inquiries into the treatment of nearly 100 other detainees over the last decade.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Criminal Justice System
IMF Rape Victim Raped Again by NY Times Day After Strauss-Kahn Replaced
06-30-2011
•
NY Times
The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to tw
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • World News
Another Area Girds for Revolt as Sudan Approaches a Split
06-30-2011
•
NY Times
Young men are being mobilized into militias, marching into the hills to train. All the cars in this area, including humanitarian vehicles, are smeared with thick mud to camouflage them from what residents describe as unrelenting bombings.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Military
Gates departs Pentagon with Medal of Freedom
06-30-2011
•
Washington Post
President Obama surprised Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, paying tribute to his four decades of public service at a regal farewell ceremony outside the Pentagon.
The honor came on Gates’s last
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Government
Virginia Woman Escorted Out Of Public Meeting For Taking Photo
06-30-2011
•
Photography Is Not a Crime
Beverly Bradford, who freelances for a local news site was ordered by BOE Chairman Scott Littner to either “turn over or delete the image.” Bradford refused, stating she had the right to document the meeting under the Virginia Freedom of Information
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How to Arrest the Economy-Strangling EPA
06-30-2011
•
Farm Wars
The Clean Air Act has been expanded and the EPA is in a power grab for jurisdiction over vehicle emissions and is now planning control over utilities.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
|
News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police 'Flash Mob' Beats, Tasers Mentally Handicapped Teen
06-30-2011
•
Lew Rockwell
Jesse Kersey, a mentally handicapped 17-year-old, was riding his bicycle near his home and otherwise minding his own business when he was accosted by a stranger named Willie Hooper, an armed enforcer in the employ of the city of Dayton, Ohio. Jesse,
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • History
History and Memory: Reflections on Teaching the Holocaust
06-30-2011
•
Lew Rockwell
While there are many exceptional films available, I want to focus upon the seven key films I believe essential to understanding the Holocaust:
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Drug War
Why the Exclusionary Rule Matters
06-30-2011
•
The Agitator
In Tennessee, a big drug bust is in jeopardy after a federal judge found that police had no reason for the traffic stop that led to the subsequent search and arrest: Lt. Shane Daugherty, a team supervisor with the 17th Judicial Drug Task Force and pe
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • Environment
Megafires May Change the Southwest Forever
06-30-2011
•
Brandon Keim via WIRED.com
The plants and animals of the southwestern United States are adapted to fire, but not to the sort of super-sized, super-intense fires now raging in Arizona.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Military
Killer Drones, Stealth Jets, Spy Planes: Bob Gates’ Legacy in Military Tech
06-30-2011
•
Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
A staggering $700 billion in defense R&D and gear since 9/11 led to only "relatively modest gains in actual military capability," Gates said on June 2. No giant robots, jet packs or sharks with lasers.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Energy
After Thousands of Years of Research, We're Still Trying to Figure Out Static Electricity
06-30-2011
•
Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Today in the Things We Thought We Understood But Really Don’t file, a Northwestern University researcher has upended what was previously thought to be a pretty good understanding of how static electricity works.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Technology: Software
New Botnet, Now 4.5 Million Machines Strong, is 'Practically Indestructible'
06-30-2011
•
Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Known as TDL-4 (it’s the fourth iteration of the malicious program), this particular little nuisance hides in places security software rarely checks and speaks with other infected machines and their overseers in a novel encrypted code.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Environment
Spiders Fleeing Pakistan's Floodwater Take to the Trees
06-30-2011
•
Jennie Walters via PopSci.com
Last summer’s floods in Pakistan displaced millions of people--and millions of spiders. Although spiders rarely migrate to trees during natural disasters, the flooding was so heavy and prolonged, they had to climb trees and remain there.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
IBM Demos Phase Change Memory That Reliably Packs Multiple Data Bits Into Single Cells
06-30-2011
•
Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
IBM researchers in Zurich--working alongside their stateside colleagues--have demonstrated for the first time that phase change memory (PCM) can reliably store multiple data bits per cell over long periods of time.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Solar Flares
Are We Prepared for a Catastrophic Solar Storm?
06-30-2011
•
Damon Tabor via PopSci.com
One of the biggest disasters we face would begin about 18 hours after the sun spit out a 10-billion-ton ball of plasma--something it has done before and is sure to do again.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
News Link • Military
How The First Crowdsourced Military Vehicle Can Remake the Future of Defense Manufacturing
06-30-2011
•
Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Rogers’ team of designers and engineers at in Phoenix built the car, nicknamed FLYPmode, from scratch in less than four months, unveiling it for President Obama last week before delivering it to the military’s mad-science division in Virginia.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
|
Opinion • Economy - International
Ray McGovern: My Take
Gaza and Thoughts of a Starving Ireland
06-30-2011
Ray McGovern
Israeli officials have actually bragged about “putting Gazans on a strict diet” " in other words, condemning them to a subsistence living just barely above the point where they would starve and perhaps subject Israel to charges of ethnic cleansing by
•
•
|
News Link • Techno Gadgets
Clash of the Tablets: From iPad to TouchPad, 6 Slates Compared
06-30-2011
•
http://www.wired.com/
In today’s crowded market, looking for a tablet is like buying a new car. Everything looks great when it’s slick, polished and sitting on the lot. The hard part is keeping track of what’s under the hood.
Read Full Story
•
•
|
|
Reported by:
Freedoms Phoenix Reader 3
|
| Tags: freedoms, phoenix, archives, politics, libertarian, alternative, government, freedom |
|
|
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
Reference Link • 
Opinion • 
Opinion • 
Feature Article • 
Feature Article • 
