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Date Sent: 2011-07-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, July 21, 2011 |
Flying Dogs, Raging Bitches, and Banned Beer -- NH Police Once Again Confiscate Man's Camera -- Park Ranger Arrests Woman For Attempting To Record Her Own Traffic Stop -- Indiana May Halt Crime Lab Investigation -- Appleton police shut down lemonade stand -- ACLU, Others Oppose Pittsburgh Traffic Stop Quota -- Tax Bills Imperil Slavery Museum -- The Best Measurement of Earth's Radioactivity Shows Half the Earth's Heat Comes from Nuclear -- Killing Mosquitoes With a Genetic Trick that Makes Digesting Blood Deadly -- New Study of Gulf Oil Spill Details the Plume's Chemical Makeup, Helping Explain Where the Oil Went
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News Link • Food
Flying Dogs, Raging Bitches, and Banned Beer
07-20-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Once upon a time, in the fall of 2009, the Flying Dog Brewery applied for a license to sell its Raging Bitch craft beer, in the state of Michigan. The Michigan Liquor Control Commission, instead, decided to forbid the sale of the beer by denying the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NH Police Once Again Confiscate Man's Camera
07-20-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Once again, police confiscated a camera under the pretense of “evidence” " which numerous lawyers say is unlawful without a subpoena.
This time it happened in New Hampshire to a man who was arrested on wiretapping charges for videotaping police in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Park Ranger Arrests Woman For Attempting To Record Her Own Traffic Stop
07-20-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Celia Sullivan, a 50-year-old mother of two from Utah, enjoys hiking through the Capitol Reef National Park to take photos.
But it ended up getting her arrested on federal charges on the Fourth of July.
All because she tried to record the park
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Prosecutorial Discretion
07-20-2011
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The Agitator
Call it bullying or call it horseplay. Either way, a state appellate court panel says roughhousing with a sexual connotation by a pair of 14-year-old Somerset Co. boys was a crime that requires them to register as sex offenders for the rest of their
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Indiana May Halt Crime Lab Investigation
07-20-2011
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The Agitator
So remember how Indiana was launching a big investigation into errors at the state crime lab? Remember how hundreds of convictions could have been called into question? Turns out it would be cheaper to just pretend the whole thing never happened.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Appleton police shut down lemonade stand
07-20-2011
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It's a summer tradition, especially for two Appleton neighbors.
“The kids have been setting it up for six or seven years now,” said Margi Mann.
Two young girls sell lemonade and cookies every year near their house during Appleton's Old Car Sho
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
ACLU, Others Oppose Pittsburgh Traffic Stop Quota
07-20-2011
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The American Civil Liberties Union and some neighborhood groups are questioning a Pittsburgh police commander's order that officers in patrol cars make at least 10 traffic stops a month in a zone that includes the predominantly black Hill District.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Tax Bills Imperil Slavery Museum
07-20-2011
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NY Times
It’s been 10 years since L. Douglas Wilder, the nation’s first elected black governor, unveiled a plan to build the United States National Slavery Museum on 38 acres here. It was to be the only institution of its kind, housed in a soaring glass-and-t
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The Incredible Things NASA Did to Train Apollo Astronauts
07-20-2011
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Betsy Mason via WIRED.com
Apollo astronauts practiced every second of their mission, even planting the flag (above), many times, indoors, outdoors, in space suits, underwater, in planes, in centrifuges, in pools, in the ocean and anywhere else NASA saw fit.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Does the Slope of a Pyramid Really Matter?
07-20-2011
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Rhett Allain via WIRED.com
This is the famous Bent Pyramid. The lower part of the pyramid has an angle of 54° and the upper part is at 43°. Why is it bent? Really, who knows. The two likely reasons are:
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News Link • Environment
The Best Measurement of Earth's Radioactivity Shows Half the Earth's Heat Comes from Nuclear
07-20-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
It turns out nearly half of the Earth’s total heat output comes form decaying radioactive elements like thorium and uranium in the Earth’s crust. But that’s an answer that begets more questions.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Discover Two Never-Before-Seen Kinds of Water Waves
07-20-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Of the things in the physical world we think we know a lot about, water is definitely among them. Nonetheless, by precisely shaking a shallow container of water, researchers have now observed two new types of waves never observed before in water
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Killing Mosquitoes With a Genetic Trick that Makes Digesting Blood Deadly
07-20-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
In trying to curb malaria, biologists and epidemiologists have pulled some dirty tricks on mosquitoes. But after all the genetic tinkering to make mosquitoes disease resistant and the laser and nano-attacks that kill the insects on the wing,
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News Link • Military
Minesweeping Tank-Bot Shreds Land Mines, Rolling Through Explosions With Ease
07-20-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Technology is helping de-miners find unexploded land mines in new and cool ways, like the metal detectors augmented with smartphones we learned about this spring. And now, there are mine-chomping tank robots that eat mines for breakfast.
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
New Study of Gulf Oil Spill Details the Plume's Chemical Makeup, Helping Explain Where the Oil W
07-20-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Towering flames illuminated the pre-dawn darkness, casting shadows on the ship Ocean Intervention III as it floated over the sunken remains of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
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News Link • Police State
A New Tazer Weapon Will Fall a 200 lbs Man Like a Tree
07-20-2011
Police in Mesa Arizona yesterday tested a new model of Tazer, the Tazer C2, that will Fall a 200 lbs Man Like a Tree (Video).
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