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Date Sent: 2015-06-30
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, June 30, 2015 |
Voting-Rights Advocates Get Win at Supreme Court
Solar Impulse launches five day trip across the Pacific Ocean toward Hawaii -- Greece threatens top court action to block Grexit -- Dow slips triple digits into red for year on Greece -- France Loses Enthusiasm for Nuclear Power -- Flytrex Sky drone set to deliver out of the box -- Shooting a Drone Down Is Illegal, Court Rules -- The F-35 Can't Beat The Plane It's Replacing In A Dogfight: Report -- No One Can Do Background Checks Until The Feds Fix Their Hack Mess -- The White House is making a huge step towards protecting the government from hackers -- NBC fires Donald Trump after he calls Mexicans rapists and drug runners -- Soon, Your Phone Could Warn You If You're Approaching Railroad Tracks -- We Wish This Luxury Airship Was Real -- Morgan Threewheeler gets the velomobile treatment -- Student-designed pill dispenser uses fingerprint scanner to avoid overdosing -- Microsoft's HoloLens Sidekick experiment lost in CRS-7 explosion -- Europe to get colder: Melting sea ice to blame -- Bill Gates invests $2 billion in renewable energy -- Revolutionary Green Wheel hydroponic garden grows food faster with NASA technology -- The Human Rights Crisis: A Problem Of Perception? -- World's first commercial jetpack to hit the market in 2016 -- 'Hi, I'm Uncle Sam and I'm a War-oholic' -- Should Animals Be Doing More For Animal Rights? -- Puerto Rico's Governor Speaks Math: Debts Are 'Not Payable' -- This quirky Spanish eco-house is hidden under a rolling hill -- The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech -- Palestinian man overcomes Gaza energy cuts with affordable DIY solar ovens -- The Supreme Court Just Stopped the EPA From Making the Earth a Safer Place -- Hundreds of New Species Discovered -- IPCC On Global Warming: It's Happening, And It's Our Fault --
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News Link • Politics
Voting-Rights Advocates Get Win at Supreme Court
06-29-2015
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http://www3.atr.rollcall.com
Monday's big election law news came from the Supreme Court's penultimate decision of the term upholding Arizona's congressional districts.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Energy
Solar Impulse launches five day trip across the Pacific Ocean toward Hawaii
06-29-2015
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http://inhabitat.com
Last week we reported that the Solar Impulse 2 could be grounded for up to a year if the experimental solar-powered airplane missed its window to take off across the Pacific Ocean.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - International
Greece threatens top court action to block Grexit
06-29-2015
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Exclusive: European leaders warn in concert that a 'No' vote on Sunday means Greece will be pushed out of the euro
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Economy - International
Dow slips triple digits into red for year on Greece
06-29-2015
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http://www.cnbc.com
U.S. stocks plunged nearly 2 percent or more on Monday with the Dow and S&P 500 wiping out gains for the year on escalating tensions between Greece and its creditors.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • World News
France Loses Enthusiasm for Nuclear Power
06-29-2015
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http://www.scientificamerican.com
Nuclear's share of electricty will drop from 75 percent to 50 percent by 2025 due to loss of know-how and requirements for more renewable sources
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Drones
Flytrex Sky drone set to deliver out of the box
06-29-2015
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http://www.gizmag.com
While Amazon continues testing out its drone delivery service in North America, Israel-based Flytrex is already offering delivery drones and a 3G-based platform to send and receive small packages via a connected app. The company claims the Flytrex Sk
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Drones
Shooting a Drone Down Is Illegal, Court Rules
06-29-2015
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com
Sure, there's concern that the emergence of drones will come at the cost of personal privacy, but that doesn't mean we can turn our skies into the Wild West.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Government Waste
The F-35 Can't Beat The Plane It's Replacing In A Dogfight: Report
06-29-2015
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foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com
We've heard of significant shortcomings before with the fighter jet that's supposed to be America's future, but this is just as bad as it gets.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
No One Can Do Background Checks Until The Feds Fix Their Hack Mess
06-29-2015
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gizmodo.com
Fallout from the cyberattack on the US Office of Personnel Management is already starting: Federal background checks have been shut down for six to eight weeks as a "proactive" security measure.
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News Link • Transportation
Morgan Threewheeler gets the velomobile treatment
06-29-2015
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gizmag.com
The Morgan Threewheeler is definitely a unique vehicle, although with prices starting just shy of £30,000 (about US$47,000) ... well, it ain't cheap.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Inventions
Student-designed pill dispenser uses fingerprint scanner to avoid overdosing
06-29-2015
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gizmag.com
And you thought that regular pill bottles were hard to open ... a new overdose-proof medication dispenser developed by a team of mechanical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University can't be opened even with the help of a hammer or drill.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Microsoft's HoloLens Sidekick experiment lost in CRS-7 explosion
06-29-2015
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gizmag.com
When the unmanned CRS-7 flight blew up in midair yesterday en route to the International Space Station (ISS), it destroyed a lot more than a shipment of freeze dried shrimp cocktail.
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News Link • Environment
Europe to get colder: Melting sea ice to blame
06-29-2015
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http://www.redorbit.com
Climatologists have been observing a pattern of increasingly retreating Arctic sea ice for years, and this trend appears to be disrupting ocean currents on a global scale.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Energy
Bill Gates invests $2 billion in renewable energy
06-29-2015
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http://inhabitat.com
Bill Gates has announced plans to invest another $2 billion in renewable energy technology to help the fight against climate change.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Agriculture
Revolutionary Green Wheel hydroponic garden grows food faster with NASA technology
06-29-2015
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http://inhabitat.com
DesignLibero's Green Wheel is a revolutionary hydroponic garden that utilizes NASA technology to quickly and efficiently grow food in your home.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Human Rights Crisis: A Problem Of Perception?
06-29-2015
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antiwar.com
The main crisis of human rights is not about perceptions, but about its complicity with domination
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Inventions
World's first commercial jetpack to hit the market in 2016
06-29-2015
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http://inhabitat.com
Those of us who grew up thinking the year 2000 would bring jetpacks and hover cars finally have something to look forward to: the world's first commercially available jetpack is set to go on sale in 2016.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Foreign Policy
'Hi, I'm Uncle Sam and I'm a War-oholic'
06-29-2015
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antiwar.com
It was the summer of 2002. The Bush administration's top officials knew that they were going into Iraq in a big way.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Humor
Should Animals Be Doing More For Animal Rights?
06-29-2015
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popularliberty.com
Panelists discuss whether animals should play a more active role in the fight for their rights by participating in marches or organizing boycotts.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Puerto Rico's Governor Speaks Math: Debts Are 'Not Payable'
06-29-2015
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popularliberty.com
Puerto Rico's governor, saying he needs to pull the island out of a "death spiral," has concluded that the commonwealth cannot pay its roughly $72 billion in debts, an admission that will probably have wide-reaching financial repercussions.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Architecture
This quirky Spanish eco-house is hidden under a rolling hill
06-29-2015
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http://inhabitat.com
The Live Garden House is a green-roofed, vaulted home built using traditional techniques in Zaragoza, Spain that is hidden underneath the curves of a rolling hill.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Police State
The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech
06-29-2015
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ronpaulinstitute.org
"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Palestinian man overcomes Gaza energy cuts with affordable DIY solar ovens
06-29-2015
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http://inhabitat.com
A Palestinian man living in Gaza is helping his community overcome chronic energy shortages with affordable DIY solar ovens.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Climate Change
The Supreme Court Just Stopped the EPA From Making the Earth a Safer Place
06-29-2015
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http://www.motherjones.com
On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down sweeping regulations that would limit emissions of mercury and other pollutants from power plants, extending a debate that has started and sputtered for nearly 20 years.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Hundreds of New Species Discovered
06-29-2015
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http://www.aboutmyplanet.com
A Filipino-French research team discovered between 150-250 new species of crustaceans and 1,500- 2,500 new species of mollusks.
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Environment
IPCC On Global Warming: It's Happening, And It's Our Fault
06-29-2015
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http://www.aboutmyplanet.com
Last Friday, a report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) resolved the debate forever: the Earth is warming, and humans are the cause.
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