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Date Sent: 2011-04-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 22, 2011 |
Federal Reserve Paying Banks Interest Rate That Is Eight Times Market Rate
The Crescent, the Torch, and the Sickle -- Jim Grant Explains Why QE3 Is Coming -- New Graphene Material is Paper-Thin and Ten Times Stronger Than Steel
-- Video: An Industrial Robot Made Entirely of Legos Sorts 48 Items Per
Minute -- The Botnets That Won't Die -- Microsoft Explores
Privacy-Protecting Personalization -- The US Government’s Fiscal Plight, an Enormous Problem Without a Solution? --
Self-Correcting Laser Rifle Sight Gives the Most Accurate Shot Yet --
New Night Vision Goggles Offer High-Res and Double the Field of View --
Jim Grant Explains Why QE3 Is Coming -- Killer Combo of High Gas, Food Prices at Key Tipping Point
--The Case for Moving U.S. Nuclear Fuel to Dry Storage -- The Death of
Open Data? -- Op-Ed: Psychiatric Disorder Could Complicate Japan Quake
Recovery -- Earth Day April 22 2011 – What went wrong? -- Protesters Interrupt Obama to Sing Support for Bradley Manning -- Debunking Anti-Gold Propaganda -- Can You Say CIA: Early Government Connection for The President's Mother -- CNBC: Let’s Bulldoze The Foreclosed Homes Because...
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Paying Banks Interest Rate That Is Eight Times Market Rate
04-21-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
One important example of Bernanke's new Federal Reserve "tools" is the paying of interest on deposits that banks leave with the Federal Reserve. It has resulted in over a trillion dollars accumulating at the Fed, as what as known as...
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Grant Explains Why QE3 Is Coming
04-21-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The Fed will confront the need to bail out the innocents it had previously bailed in. Hence, QE3." And therein lies the rub. Simple, sweet, and, for the US dollar, suicidal.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New Graphene Material is Paper-Thin and Ten Times Stronger Than Steel
04-21-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney have created a new material that is lighter, less dense, harder, and stronger than steel
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Self-Correcting Laser Rifle Sight Gives the Most Accurate Shot Yet
04-21-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
When you’re aiming at a target two miles away, the slightest perturbation could end up causing a catastrophic miss " not good enough for today’s military,
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News Link • Internet
CardCloud Spells the End of Physical Business Cards
04-21-2011
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Christopher Mims via TechnologyReview.com
In a world in which we expect everything to be digital, and all digital objects to be archived and searchable forever, what is the role of a paper card?
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News Link • Internet
The Botnets That Won't Die
04-21-2011
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Kurt Kleiner via TechnologyReview.com
New communications schemes could make zombie PC networks far harder to shut down.
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News Link • Internet
Microsoft Explores Privacy-Protecting Personalization
04-21-2011
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Erica Naone via TechnologyReview.com
A researcher is experimenting with ways that a Web browser could tighten the limits on information provided to websites.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Stuff You Should Know: Smoking a Cigar
04-21-2011
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Adam Tod Brown via LewRockwell.com
A quality cigar smoked properly is an experience like no other. But cigar smoking isn’t something you should just dive into blindly. Everything from making the right purchase to the way you light a cigar can make or break the entire deal.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The US Government’s Fiscal Plight, an Enormous Problem Without a Solution?
04-21-2011
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Michael Pollaro via LewRockwell.com
As Republicans and Democrats slug it out over the future course of U.S. government spending, deficits and debt, we cannot help but wonder if Washington truly grasps the enormity of the government’s increasingly fragile financial condition,
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Garage Security
04-21-2011
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Eric Peters via LewRockwell.com
As the economy tanks, crime is going up. The maggots will be looking for soft targets and your garage " especially if you leave it open " is one of the softest.
What can you do to reduce the odds you’ll be victimized?
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Oil Spill May Stress Out Gulf Residents for Decades
04-21-2011
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http://www.livescience.com/
The Deepwater Horizon disaster, which began a year ago, has placed psychological stress on some Gulf residents similar to that experienced by Alaskans in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill more than 20 years ago.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New Night Vision Goggles Offer High-Res and Double the Field of View
04-21-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Night vision goggles are, according to SA Photonics (a manufacturer of night vision goggles, naturally), a "key enabling technology" that has allowed the U.S. military to "own the night".
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News Link • Energy
Killer Combo of High Gas, Food Prices at Key Tipping Point
04-21-2011
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CNBC.com
With gas prices now standing at about $3.90 a gallon, energy costs have now passed 6 percent of spending"a level that Johnson says is a "tipping point" for consumers.
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News Link • Future Predictions
2011 Skyscraper Contest: Energy Harvesters, Domes With Holes, and Other Buildings of the Future
04-21-2011
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http://www.popsci.com/
Future cities could include pancake-shaped buildings, power plants that harvest lightning and ocean-based skyscrapers that produce potable water and clean up trash.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
The Case for Moving U.S. Nuclear Fuel to Dry Storage
04-21-2011
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http://www.technologyreview.com/
Nuclear waste pools are packed more densely in the U.S. than those at Fukushima, with no removal plan in sight.
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News Link • Environment
Just How Green Is Natural Gas?
04-21-2011
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http://www.technologyreview.com/
Not green at all, reports a study suggesting that the methane released by fracking and drilling makes it worse than coal.
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News Link • Government
The Death of Open Data?
04-21-2011
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http://www.technologyreview.com/
The battle over budget cuts may gut the U.S. government's effort to make information more widely available.
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Op-Ed: Psychiatric Disorder Could Complicate Japan Quake Recovery
04-21-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
A growing psychiatric phenomenon in Japan known as hikikomori could be especially troublesome in the aftermath of the country’s massive earthquake and tsunami.
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Opinion • Environment
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Earth Day April 22 2011 " What went wrong?
04-21-2011
Frosty Wooldridge
In that 41 years since the first Earth Day, we added 112 million more Americans to this already overloaded country, and the citizens of the planet added another 5.0 billion human beings. You have to wonder how inept, how stupid our species.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
We Like The Vibe of This ipad- Controlled Massage Chair
04-21-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Relaxation can come in so many forms. For some, it’s a leisurely walk along a nature trail. Some folks prefer to hit the treadmill or curl up with the latest (and last) David Foster Wallace tome.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Best Sun Images From Solar Space Telescope’s First Year
04-21-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space telescope charged with watching the sun in unprecedented detail, revealed its first look at the sun to the world one year ago today.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Protesters Interrupt Obama to Sing Support for Bradley Manning
04-21-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Protesters supporting WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning managed to infiltrate a private fundraiser for President Obama on Thursday morning in San Francisco, interrupting his remarks with a song.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Stunning Space Photos from Astronaut Paolo Nespoli
04-21-2011
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http://www.space.com/
The rising moon over the limb of the Earth is shown in stages in this fabulous set of images snapped by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli on Jan. 19, 2011 from the International Space Station.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Can You Say CIA: Early Government Connection for The President's Mother
04-21-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
I have previously mentioned the very curious early connection between President Obama's mother and Timothy Geithner's father. I suspect Geithner's farther was/is high level CIA.
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News Link • Housing
CNBC: Let’s Bulldoze The Foreclosed Homes Because...
04-21-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
CNBC: Let’s Bulldoze The Foreclosed Homes Because the “Fixtures, the WIFI, or Whatever, Even the Color is Not Going to be Stylish By the Time Someone Buys Them”
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News Link • Surveillance
We No Longer Live In The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave
04-21-2011
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BlackListedNews.com/
#4 Would you like to have your face scanned and your ID recorded every time you attend a public event? Don’t laugh. The San Francisco Entertainment Commission is actually proposing a new rule which “would require all venues...
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Is the World Too Big to Fail? The Contours of Global Order
04-21-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces - coinciding, fortuitously, with a remarkable uprising of tens of thousands in support of working people and democracy in
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