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Date Sent: 2010-07-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, July 12, 2010 AM edition |
Pentagon Provokes New Crisis With China -- Senator Joe Lieberman: 'US will attack Iran if it must'
NY woman questioned again and again over ID mix-up -- Debt commission leaders paint gloomy picture -- Retire at age 70? Young people may have to under plan -- Greene had legitimate sources for South Carolina election fees -- US to access Europeans' bank data in new deal -- Female mice 'can be turned lesbian by deleting gene' -- U.S. Missiles Deployed Near China Send a Message -- Historians locate King Arthur's Round Table? -- Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems: About to Crash? -- Gen. Casey: America may be in Iraq and Afghanistan for another decade -- Senate bill would make airport body scanners mandatory
-- Oakland cops in riot gear -- Cops Go Ballistic Over Camera Dissent
-- Mark Twain Uncensored: American Troops are "Our Uniformed Assassins"
-- Mish: Anecdotes from Florida - "Hell is on the Way" -- Is The Fed Funding The Treasury Through The Banks? -- PARTS OF ARIZONA BACK TO MEXICO? (VIDEO) -- ‘Bulletproof Custard’ Liquid Armor Is Better than a Kevlar Vest -- Obama and Netanyahu Plan Conflict, not Resolution - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Drums of War? Pentagon Provokes New Crisis With China
07-10=2010
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globalresearch.ca
Three news features appearing earlier this week highlight tensions between the United States and the People's Republic of China that, at least in relation to the language used to describe them, would have seemed unimaginable even a few months ago
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News Link • Iran
Senator Joe Lieberman: 'US will attack Iran if it must'
07-10-2010
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jpost.com/Israel
There is wide support in Congress for using all means to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear power, “through diplomatic and economic sanctions if we possibly can, through military actions if we must,”...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
NY woman questioned again and again over ID mix-up
07-11-2010
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AP
Sylvie Nelson's border crossings are anything but routine. Customs agents sometimes order her out of her car. Twice, they handcuffed her in front of her young children. Once, agents swarmed her car and handcuffed her husband, too.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt commission leaders paint gloomy picture
07-11-2010
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AP
The heads of President Obama's national debt commission painted a gloomy picture as the United States struggles to get its spending under control. Curtailing popular tax breaks, such as the home mortgage deduction, and instituting a financial trigger
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News Link • Art
Vt. scrap-wood dinosaur posing modern-day problem
07-11-2010
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AP
Does a 25-foot-tall, 122-foot-long dinosaur need a permit to avoid extinction?
That's the unlikely dilemma posed by "Vermontasaurus," a whimsical sculpture thrown together with scrap wood by a Vermont man. The oddity now faces opposition from neig
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News Link • Social Security
Retire at age 70? Young people may have to under plan
07-11-2010
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McClatchy News (video)
Young Americans might not get full Social Security retirement benefits until they reach age 70 if some trial balloons that prominent lawmakers of both parties are floating become law.
No one who's slated to receive benefits in the next decade or t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Greene had legitimate sources for South Carolina election fees
07-11-2010
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McClatchy News
Alvin Greene, the obscure jobless man whose come-from-nowhere victory in the June Democratic primary for U.S. Senate created a national furor, had legitimate sources of income to finance his $10,400 primary entry fee, law enforcement sources said Fr
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News Link • World News
Belgium's plan to wash its dead down the drain
07-11-2010
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Daily Mail
It could hardly be said to be the most dignified of send-offs.
Undertakers in Belgium plan to eschew traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead.
The move is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmenta
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Flights diverted, delayed as UFO detected hovering
07-11-2010
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People Daily
An unidentified flying object (UFO) disrupted air traffic over Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou late on Wednesday, the municipal government said on Thursday.
Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 pm, and some fli
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News Link • TAXES: State
NJ looks to privatize motor vehicle inspections, other services
07-11-2010
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AP
New Jersey would close its centralized car inspection lanes and motorists would pay for their own emissions tests under a sweeping set of recommendations set to be released by the Christie administration today.New Jersey would close its centralized c
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News Link • Internet
Australia halts web filter plan ahead of polls
07-11-2010
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AFP
Australia put its disputed Internet filter plan on hold for up to a year Friday to allow for an independent review of what content would be banned, in a move to mute controversy ahead of elections. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said that int
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News Link • Free Speech
Fascism with Free Speech
07/09/10
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Ayn R Key
One of the most difficult challenges people face in convincing people that the United States is far from free is that, for the most part, people still have a considerable amount of the right to free speech as allegedly protected by the first amendmen
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News Link • Police State
US to access Europeans' bank data in new deal
07-11-2010
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BBC News
Euro MPs have approved a new deal to allow US anti-terror investigators to access Europeans' bank data.
The vote followed tough negotiations with US authorities after a previous agreement was blocked by the European Parliament in February.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Female mice 'can be turned lesbian by deleting gene'
07-11-2010
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Daily Telegraph
Researchers found that disabling the FucM gene " which influences the levels of oestrogen to which the brain is exposed " caused the mice to behave as if they were male as they grew up.
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News Link • China
U.S. Missiles Deployed Near China Send a Message
07-11-2010
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Time magazine
If China's satellites and spies were working properly, there would have been a flood of unsettling intelligence flowing into the Beijing headquarters of the Chinese navy last week. A new class of U.S. superweapon had suddenly surfaced nearby.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Dr. James David Manning calls for Congress to arrest Mr. Obama. Recorded on 21 June 2010.
6/21/10
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Atlah.org
Dr. James David Manning calls for Congress to arrest Mr. Obama. Recorded on 21 June 2010. video
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
SUPPORT RON PAUL-ENDORSED CLINT DIDIER FOR US SENATE IN WASHINGTON STATE!
071110
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www.varight.com
Clint Didier is a former NFL player who beat the odds to be in the pros. Now he seeks to beat the odds again: Running a constitutionalist campaign for US Senate from Washington State. Let's bring the R3volution to Washington State!
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Feds 'Disappear' Edgar Steele - Mystery Deepens
07-11-2010
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Rense.com
Controversial Patriot writer and lawyer Edgar J. Steele, already jailed on suspicious charges that he tried to kill his wife with a pipe bomb, has been mysteriously removed...
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems: About to Crash?
07-11-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
If you are facing a foreclosure and MERS was involved in some fashion, either in assignment of the paper just before the suit was filed or worse, in bringing the suit itself, you need competent legal advice right now.
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News Link • Archaeology
Historians locate King Arthur's Round Table?
07-11-2010
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Telegraph.co.uk/
Researchers exploring the legend of Britain’s most famous Knight believe his stronghold of Camelot was built on the site of a recently discovered Roman amphitheatre in Chester.
Legend has it that his Knights would gather before battle at a round...
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News Link • Conspiracies
The greatest con since 1776
07-11-2010
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TheAutomaticEarth.blogspot.com
If as a nation that's all you got, it might be a better idea to just close the door, hand the key to Putin, and go live somewhere else. For this is not going to be good enough. It will be for some, of course, but for the people it will be a disaster
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News Link • Military
Gen. Casey: America may be in Iraq and Afghanistan for another decade
07-11-2010
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
“The types of conflict that we are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I think are likely to be fighting here for a decade or so, are focused on the people,” Casey, the army's Chief of Staff, said Friday night at the Aspen Institute's Ideas Festiva
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News Link • Corruption
Bank of America Admits To Repo 105-Like Fraud
07-11-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The US public accepts that the bankers have lied, cheated and stolen pretty much every day for the past century and the only thing we have to show for it is a $20 trillion debt tab in a few years. Yet that they continue doing so with impunity...
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot
07-11-2010
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NYtimes.com/
In a handful of laboratories around the world, computer scientists are developing robots like this one: highly programmed machines that can engage people and teach them simple skills, including household tasks, vocabulary or...
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News Link • Homeland Security
Genetic Fryers: Senate bill would make airport body scanners mandatory
07-11-2010
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RawStory.com
The bill, known as the Securing Aircraft From Explosives Responsibly: Advanced Imaging Recognition ("SAFER AIR") Act, would require all commercial airports in the US to use full-body scanners as their primary screening method by no later than 2013.
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News Link • General Opinion
A Week of Living Free at Porcfest - by Szandor Blestman
07-11-2010
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Mr. Blestman himself! via szandorblestman.com
"This is what freedom is about. It is the attitude that we should be able to decide for ourselves how to behave, so long as another individual is not harmed nor his property damaged."
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News Link • Immigration
Virginia Lawmaker Pushing Immigration Bill - Challenges DOJ To Sue Them Too
07-11-2010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Corey Stewart is a man to be proud of, and as a Virginian " I salute him.
I wish I lived close enough to vote for him.
Mr. Stewart is pushing for a similar piece of legislation to Arizona’s law in the state of Virginia at this very moment.
K
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Military
The Military’s Media Whores: On Ethics, Power, Rapport and Responsibility
07-1-2010
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Maximilian Forte
The Pentagon has perhaps the single largest public relations apparatus on earth " $4.7 billion on P.R. in 2009 alone and employing 27,000 people, a staff nearly as large as the 30,000-person State Department " but is that really enough to ensure posi
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Move the Money, Starve the Empire
07-1-2010
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Christine Ahn, FPIF
Mike Prokosch is among the organizers of the 25% Solution campaign in Massachusetts, which aims to cut a quarter, or about $250 billion, from the Pentagon and other military agencies and institutions. The campaign wants to redirect this money to soci
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Conspiracies
Energy efficient light-bulbs may not only destroy your health, they change your behavior...
07-10-2010
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h.e.s.e. project
I knew they had been fast-tracked, and about the mercury, but I was shocked at just how bad the new lighting might be. Would you be surprised that C3H lab mice under eco-lighting had HALF the lifespan of the natural light control group and, wait f
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News Link • Racism
The Siege against Gaza: America's Ongoing Support...
07-10-2010
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globalresearch.ca
"The killing of civilians is intended to trigger a response by Palestinian resistance forces, which in turn justifies Israeli retaliation (on "humanitarian" grounds) as well as a process of military escalation. The logic of this process contai
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News Link • Police State
Raw footage: Oakland cops in riot gear, Foot Locker spree, other videos
07-10-2010
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San Francisco Chronicle
An assortment of videos and commentary on the Oakland riots which were triggered by the absurdly lenient sentence handed to the police officer who murdered a hand-cuffed man in cold blood and then covered it up. Anyone still think the gummint isn't
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News Link • Immigration
Clueless Classless Leadership Leads to Arizona Lawsuit
07-10-2010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Mr Obama,
You rule by the will of the people.
This is something that you, your cronies, and all too often the Republican leadership has forgotten in the past and are certainly ignoring today.
While I am sure you feel that you can do some goo
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Cops Go Ballistic Over Camera Dissent
07-10-2010
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CameraFRAUD - The Cameras are Coming Down
A giant sombrero placed over a Redflex ticketing machine in Paradise Valley, Arizona was stomped on and destroyed by town police officers before being placed in the back seat of a cruiser. CameraFRAUD volunteers had gathered at the “scamera” location
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News Link • Military
Mark Twain Uncensored: American Troops are "Our Uniformed Assassins"
07-10-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Twain refers to American troops as “our uniformed assassins” and describes their killing of “six hundred helpless and weaponless savages” as “a long and happy picnic with nothing to do but sit in comfort and fire the Golden Rule into those people...
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Toxicologists: Corexit “Ruptures Red Blood Cells, Causes Internal Bleeding”
07-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Shrimpers throwing their nets into water… [then] water from the nets splashed on his skin. … [He experienced a] headache that lasted 3 weeks… heart palpitations… muscle spasms… bleeding from the rectum…
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News Link • Israel
The Three Venal Stooges Go To Israel
07-10-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/
For the last few days, this psychotic trio of serial killers were in their beloved homeland of Israel, licking the hand that feeds them and performing renditions of John McCain’s favorite tune: “Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran” to an audience...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Concert Revenue is Collapsing: Down 17 Percent From 2009
07-10-2010
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new.music.Yahoo.com
That's a 17 percent drop in an industry that seemed impervious to the weakening economy just a few years ago. The total haul of $965.5 million was the lowest for the first half of the year since 2005 when gross revenue was $730.9 million.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mish: Anecdotes from Florida - "Hell is on the Way"
07-10-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
I have a vending business here in Florida. I service manufacturing and many general businesses. All are laying off workers. I have machines that were taking in 100.00 plus dollars a week that are now doing only 5.00 per week.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Presenting The Wall Of Worry: The 50 Ugliest Facts About The US eCONomy
07-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
#50) In 2010 the U.S. government is projected to issue almost as much new debt as the rest of the governments of the world combined. #49) It is being projected that the U.S. government will have a budget deficit of 1.6 trillion dollars in 2010.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Don't Believe The Hyped-Up Same-Store Sales, Retail Sales Were Very Bad
07-10-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The same-store sales gainers benefited by the general reduction in store locations. Essentially, survivorship bias is skewing the numbers. If somehow you could take into account all the locations that had been shuttered...
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Is The Fed Funding The Treasury Through The Banks?
07-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
My theory is that the money has floated into the Treasury market. A lot of people have wondered how the Treasury would be able to continue running record deficits without the Fed buying. Well, we now know that the banks are picking up a lot of slack.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Time to Board the Gold Stocks Train?
07-10-2010
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Jeff Clark via Lew Rockwell.com
One of the big hints that gold stocks will be ready for take-off is when they stop following the broader markets and strictly track gold, particularly if the market falls and gold stocks don’t. We now have data showing this has just occurred.
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News Link • Mexico
PARTS OF ARIZONA BACK TO MEXICO? (LIVE) Update 07/09/10
07-09-2010
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Real News Tucson
07/09/2010 - VIDEO - Real News Tucson heads down to Buenos Aires National Park about 40 miles SW of Tucson to see if parts of Arizona were really being blocked off to Americans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Zn2XPzlgM
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is The Bailout Going To Work, Or Is America Going To Descend Into The Depths of Economic Hell?
07-10-2010
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Bill Sardi via LewRockwell.com
Most Americans are too busy or distracted to realize the world economy now sits on an unprecedented abyss.
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News Link • Inventions
Video: Insect-Like Pincers Allow Flying Swarmbots To Perch On Nearly Any Surface
07-10-2010
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John Mahoney via PopSci
A swarm of buzzing dragonfly bots passes overhead. Suddenly, they make a kamakaze dive toward a nearby tree--but wait a minute, instead of crashing and careening to the ground, they're sticking to the tree. Resting, recharging, waiting for orders. Al
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
.NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Gets New Steering System, Will be First Rover to Land Directly on i
07-10-2010
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Laurie J. Schmidt via PopSci
The next Mars rover, Curiosity, has been outfitted with a new cutting-edge mobility system that's enough to make off-road enthusiasts drool with envy.
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News Link • Environment
NASA Will Rescue Thousands of Sea Turtle Eggs from Oil Leak Areas
07-10-2010
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Laurie J. Schmidt via PopSci
NASA's latest mission doesn't have anything to do with spacecraft or satellites. The space agency is helping thousands of baby sea turtles make their successful pilgrimage to the ocean. Biologists are digging up some 700 turtle nests on northern Gulf
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
New Brain-Protecting Compound Works in Rats; Could Make Alzheimer's a Distant Memory
07-10-2010
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Clay Dillow
After testing 1,000 different molecules on the memory hubs of rats suffering from memory loss, scientists there have come up with a compound that protects memory-forming cells in the hippocampus, which could lead to promising treatments for Alzheimer
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News Link • Inventions
British-Designed ‘Bulletproof Custard’ Liquid Armor Is Better than a Kevlar Vest
07-10-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci
Liquid armor has been shown to stop bullets more effectively than plain Kevlar, according to British firm BAE Systems. The material could be used to make thinner, lighter armor for military personnel and police officers, the BBC reports.
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News Link • Future Predictions
What Would the Earth Look Like if it Stopped Spinning?
07-10-2010
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Paul Adams via PopSci
What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? We don't have any reason to think it will in the next few million millennia, but Witold Fraczek, an employee of geographic imaging software company ESRI, was curious.
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News Link • Property Rights
Tamworth Millionaire Program
07-10-2010
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LiveFreeandComply.org
After a local blogger was punished by the Tamworth, NH Town Council with a $4 million property assessment, the Citizen's Realty Advisory Program (CRAP) began advertising the Tamworth Millionaire Program so you can cash in, too!
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Tomorrow, Watch the Largest Asteroid Flyby Ever, Live
07-10-2010
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Laurie J. Schmidt via PopSci
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission is poised for a flyby of asteroid 21 Lutetia, the largest asteroid to ever be visited by a spacecraft. On Saturday, July 10, Rosetta will skim past Lutetia at a speed of about 33,000 miles per hour, coming
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News Link • Energy
Swiss Solar-Powered Plane Successfully Completes Groundbreaking 26-Hour Night Flight
07-10-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
A team of visionary Swiss engineers and at least one test pilot with nerves of steel have pushed solar-powered flight to the next level, completing an overnight flight that proves solar flight is possible even when the plane’s fuel source dips behind
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The China Excuse: Last Refuge of American War Profiteers
07-06-2010
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Stan Abrams
A great deal of hawkish rhetoric in recent years has focused on the threat of terrorism, and a huge amount of money has been shoveled into the Iraq and Afghanistan, but this is not nearly sufficient an excuse for spending the big bucks.
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