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Date Sent: 2011-04-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 22, 2011 PM edition |
Nevada GOP Sen. John Ensign resigns abruptly, ending two-year ethics probe
Olbermann to Trump: ‘Don, FOK off!’ -- What Would Ayn Rand Have Said About 'Atlas Shrugged'? -- US Military Theater Expands Again -- Council on Foreign Relations: 'Free-Markets Need Our Help' -- Nationalization in Bolivia -- U.S. dollar frail, Tokyo stocks slip, gold shines -- Obama OKs use of armed drone aircraft in Libya -- U.S. drone strike kills 25 in Pakistan's North Waziristan -- Michigan jury to weigh mosque protest bid -- Syrian security forces open fire; 15 dead -- Cambodian and Thai troops in border clash -- McCain Visits Rebels In Libya And Calls For Increased Support
-- A Professional Military and the Privatization of Warfare -- SPEECH
ON ICLEI TO RICHMOND TEA PARTY! -- Our "Let's Pretend" Economy --
Richard Russell - The Great Gold Tsunami Lies Ahead -- 2010 State
Department Human Rights Report on Egypt -- Pentagon: Robot War Over Libya Begins in 3, 2, 1 … -- To Curb Malaria, Researchers Create Gene That Rapidly Spreads Through Mosquito Populations
AZ: FEE awards ceremony at the Freedom Library, Yuma, April 26th.
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News Link • Corruption
Nevada GOP Sen. John Ensign resigns abruptly, ending two-year ethics probe
04-22-2011
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NY Daily News
The Senate Ethics Committee has been probing Ensign's admission two years ago that he had an affair with Cynthia Hampton, wife of his co-chief of staff, and then tried to buy her silence with a $96,000 gift from his parents.
Ensign announced last
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News Link • Government
Olbermann to Trump: ‘Don, FOK off!’
04-22-2011
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RawStory.com
Former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann posted a “worst persons” video segment on his blog Thursday night, in which he gave Donald Trump the top prize for pushing the “birther” conspiracies and asked the presidential hopeful to “FOK off.”
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News Link • Philosophy: Objectivism
What Would Ayn Rand Have Said About 'Atlas Shrugged'?
04-22-2011
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The Wall Street Journal
Anne Heller author of the biography "Ayn Rand and the World She Made" gives her thoughts about what Ayn Rand would have thought about part one of the movie adaptation of Rand's best selling novel.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday April 22nd, 2011
04-22-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Behold One of the Greatest and Most Significant Bull Markets in US History
Richard Russell on the magnificence of gold. / You're a Horse, They've Got Spurs - Bob Wenzel on the Beltway power elite. / Barack Hussein Hoover?
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Military Theatre Expands Again
04-22-2011
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dailybell.ch
U.S. to use Predator drones in Libya . . . President Barack Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drones in Libya, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Council on Foreign Relations: 'Free-Markets Need Our Help'
04-22-2011
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dailybell.ch
Capitalism is failing the middle class ... Global capitalism isn't working for the American middle class
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News Link • Economy - International
Nationalization in Boliva
04-22-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
Fortune smiles upon Santa Cruz. With abundant natural gas reserves that generate immense wealth for the local economy, some of the best weather in South America, and more beauty queens per square block than anywhere else on the planet, Santa Cruz sho
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Federal budget time bomb for dummies
04-22-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
The complexity of the federal budget and debt crisis is daunting for even the most learned financial minds. What chance do laymen like you and I have?
I recently wrote an article that looked at the U.S. budget crisis as if it were a pie, with ha
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The Russians Are Coming: Another Space First?
04-22-2011
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AP
Russian cosmonauts never had sex in space during the 50 years of human exploration of the cosmos, and rumors about secret sexual experiments were myths, the Interfax news agency reported. "There is no official or unofficial evidence that there were i
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News Link • Economy - International
U.S. dollar frail, Tokyo stocks slip, gold shines
04-22-2011
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Reuters
The dollar hovered around 3-year lows and looked set to come under further pressure next week, while a stronger yen weighed on Tokyo stocks. Gold hit a fresh all-time high of $1,509 an ounce, extending its record-breaking rally to a sixth session, as
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Obama OKs use of armed drone aircraft in Libya
04-22-2011
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AP
President Obama has approved the use of armed drones in Libya, authorizing U.S. airstrikes on ground forces for the first time since America turned control of the operation over to NATO April 4.
It also is the first time that drones will be used f
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. drone strike kills 25 in Pakistan's North Waziristan
04-22-2011
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Reuters
2 US pilotless aircraft fired 4 missiles into a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border killing 25 militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike came 2 days after a visit to Islamabad by Admiral Mike Mullen, th
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Michigan jury to weigh mosque protest bid
04-22-2011
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Reuters
A Dearborn, Michigan jury will consider whether a controversial Florida pastor will have to post a "peace bond" before a planned demonstration in front of the largest mosque in the United States. District Court Judge Mark Somers issued a preliminary
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News Link • Activism
Syrian security forces open fire; 15 dead
04-22-2011
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AP
Syrian security forces fired live bullets and tear gas on pro-democracy demonstrations across the country, killing at least 15 people " including a young boy " as the uprising against President Assad's authoritarian regime defied a deadly security cr
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News Link • World News
Cambodian and Thai troops in border clash
04-22-2011
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al-Jazeera
Thai and Cambodian troops have clashed with gunfire and artillery shells, shattering a two-month lull in long-standing tensions over their disputed border. The fighting broke out near Ta Muean Tom temple on the border in Pa Nom Dong Rak district of T
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News Link • WAR: About that War
McCain Visits Rebels In Libya And Calls For Increased Support
04-22-2011
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globalspin.blogs.time.com
Is Sen. John McCain's visit Friday morning to the Benghazi strong-hold of Libya's rebel forces a sign of creeping escalation in the conflict with strongman Muammar Gaddafi that may lead to eventual troop deployment by Western nations? Impossible to k
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
Plant Grapevine
04-22-2011
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arclein
We've known for some time that plants respond to one another, but only now are we realising how subtle and sophisticated their interactions can be. Plants continually eavesdrop on each other's chemical chatter - sometimes sympathetically, sometimes
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News Link • Science
New Hydrogen Storage Composite
04-22-2011
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arclein
To confirm that hydrogen was present within the magnesium, the researchers observed the nanoparticles through the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope, the TEAM 0.5 " also located at Berkeley Lab.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Virgin Oceanic Does Nemo
04-22-2011
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arclein
The only thing preventing this from having been accomplished in the past was the lack of a compelling reason and the cost of course. Sir Richard has decided to take up the challenge and will get us the necessary hardware.
This should soon provi
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
A Professional Military and the Privatization of Warfare
04-22-2011
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Jeff Shear
So quickly have logistics and security companies swept onto the battlefield that the government and the armed services have lost control over them. -- There are more contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan than there are uniformed soldiers. -- In Iraq an
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News Link • United Nations
SPEECH ON ICLEI TO RICHMOND TEA PARTY!
042211
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www.varight.com
Sandy Sanders, blogger, legal scholar and activist, spoke at the Richmond Tea Party's Tax Day Rally on April 18, 2011 (Stop the In$anity!) on ICLEI. ICLEI is an international association of local governments and their associations that have made a co
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
Tsunami warnings, written in stone, saved some
04-22-2011
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MSNBC.msn.com
The stone tablet has stood on this forested hillside since before they were born, but the villagers have faithfully obeyed the stark warning carved on its weathered face: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
America's Fiscal Dead End: A 2013 "Minsky Moment"
04-22-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
America may have 2 years at the most before it all comes crashing down when the world's former superpower hits its own Minsky Moment.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Our "Let's Pretend" Economy
04-22-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Children love to play "let's pretend." Let's pretend the economy is "recovering." Why does this "recovery" remind me of an addict who's conning his caseworker? (Yes, I'm really in recovery--those aren't tracks, they're insect bites....)
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News Link • Food
Window Garden Planter
04-22-2011
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dreamhillresearch.com/
This setup utilized 6 containers and 20 bags of potting soil place in front of a large south facing window
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News Link • Military
Pentagon: Robot War Over Libya Begins in 3, 2, 1 …
04-21-2011
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
Moammar Gadhafi’s forces are killing Libyan civilians and pushing back rebel forces, NATO air strikes be damned. So it’s time to send in the drones.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Twitter Campaign Tries to Save Chuck From Cancellation
04-21-2011
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Angela Watercutter via WIRED.com
A small but mighty online force has hopes of Chuck renewed for a fifth season. The latest in a series of online efforts to get another chapter of the show, the We Give a Chuck campaign has been flooding Twitter with appeals to the show’s advertisers.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Why and How Apple Is Collecting Your iPhone Location Data
04-21-2011
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Brian X. Chen via Wired.com
iPhone and iPad customers were spooked to find out that their devices have recorded a detailed history of their geographical locations for the past year in an unprotected file. But it turns out that Apple already explained it " almost a year ago
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
FYI: Is It Ever OK To Drink Your Own Urine?
04-21-2011
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Ryan Bradley via PopSci.com
Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy,
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News Link • Transportation
Lasers Could Replace Spark Plugs, Making Engines More Efficient
04-21-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Laser ignition systems, which are exactly what they sound like, could replace spark plugs as the primary means to ignite the fuel-air mix in engines, boosting fuel efficiency and cutting down on carbon emissions.
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News Link • Energy
Why count on ourselves when we can rely on our enemies?
04-22-2011
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The Political Commentator, Michael Haltman
Why become energy self-sufficient? The Saudis, our "friends," just gave us the perfect reason!
Although it would take some time, the United States could become somewhat energy self-sufficient. The naysayers to that fact will tell you that we nee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
To Curb Malaria, Researchers Create Gene That Rapidly Spreads Through Mosquito Populations
04-21-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
A collaboration between researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Washington has produced a gene that the team was able to effectively spread from just a few mosquitoes to most of a population in just a dozen generations
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cooling Down Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells
04-21-2011
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Katherine Bourzac via TechnologyReview.com
Startup company SiEnergy Systems has overcome a major barrier to commercializing solid-oxide fuel cells with a prototype that operates at temperatures hundreds of degrees lower than those on the market today.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
A Cheap, Portable Way to Monitor Unborn Babies
04-21-2011
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Emily Singer via TechnologyReview.com
An inexpensive portable device could make it easy to monitor fetal health in remote locations, and it might also provide an alternative to more expensive machines currently used in doctors' offices in the developed world.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A More Human Virtual Crowd
04-21-2011
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Erica Westly via TechnologyReview.com
Modeling crowd behavior can help engineers design buildings and other public spaces so as to prevent deaths and injuries during emergencies. But it is hard to design virtual crowds that realistically mimic real ones.
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