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Date Sent: 2010-07-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 16, 2010 PM edition |
Rangel again calls for military draft -- Budget Axe Falls on Stockton Narcs
Nuke at hearing made Senate realize ‘we’ve got a problem’ -- Rangel again calls for military draft -- Expert suspects BP has ulterior motive behind oil well cap -- Budget Axe Falls on Stockton Narcs -- Rockefeller Study Outlines “Doom Decade”: Life For All But Super Wealthy Will Be Hell On Earth -- Biggest expansion of government power over banking, markets since Depression -- Ron Paul Says U.S. Spends $1 Trillion on Foreign Policy -- Obamacare Begins – In Idaho -- Senate Committee Unanimously Authorizes One More Shuttle Flight -- It's a Trap! Atom Corral Is a Major Step Toward Quantum Computing -- Smart Visual Algorithm Lets Unmanned Drones Perform Autonomous Search and Rescue Operations -- Hobbs to Michael Pento: "You're Just Peddling The Power Of Nightmares"
-- New Genetic Model Accurately Predicts Who's Likely to Live to 100 -- Joe Arpaio Takes .50 Caliber Machine Gun To Desert, Looking for Illegals -- Transcripts Show Senators Knew Gulf Of Tonkin Was A Staged False Flag Event
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News Link • Military
Rangel again calls for military draft
07-16-2010
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The Associated Press via the raw story
Rep. Charles Rangel is again calling for a military draft to highlight the fact that relatively few families are bearing a disproportionate burden in fighting the nation's wars.
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News Link • Drug War
Budget Axe Falls on Stockton Narcs
07-16-2010
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stopthedrugwar.org/
The California Central Valley city of Stockton has been a poster child for the Great Recession, infamous for its housing developments filled with foreclosed homes, its tent cities along the San Joaquin River, and its horrendous 20% unemployment rate.
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Feature Article • Economy - Economics USA
Sinking Prices; Sinking Ships
Bill Bonner
Imagine the face of Lt. George Morris. On March 8, 1862, his ship, the USS Cumberland, found itself a victim of what the economist Joseph Schumpeter called ‘creative destruction.’ The creativity came in the form of a revolutionary new technology, iro
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News Link • Government
Nuke at hearing made Senate realize ‘we’ve got a problem’
07-16-2010
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David Edwards and Muriel Kane via the raw story
President Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed a new Strategic Arms Reduction Talks treaty in April that would reduce both countries' nuclear arsenals by about a third, but Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney thinks this is a bad idea.
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Expert suspects BP has ulterior motive behind oil well cap
07-16-2010
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David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Since a blowout preventer cap was placed over BP's damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico last weekend, there have been repeated delays in the so-called "well integrity tests" to determine whether the cap can be effective in holding back the oil.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Rockefeller Study Outlines “Doom Decade”: Life For All But Super Wealthy Will Be Hell On Earth
07-16-2010
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Steve Watson via Prison Planet.com
Terror attacks, natural disasters and a surveillance security crackdown
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News Link • Government
Biggest expansion of government power over banking, markets since Depression
07-16-2010
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Damian Paletta and Aaron Lucchetti-Prison Planet
Congress approved a rewrite of rules touching every corner of finance, from ATM cards to Wall Street traders, in the biggest expansion of government power over banking and markets since the Depression.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Says U.S. Spends $1 Trillion on Foreign Policy
07-16-2010
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Politifact.com via LewRockwell.com
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele sparked a political frenzy recently when he alleged that President Obama is responsible for the war in Afghanistan and questioned the prospects of a U.S. victory in the region.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obamacare Begins " In Idaho
07-16-2010
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William Norman Grigg
When the Regime sets prices, this is called "applied compassion."
When producers organize to complain about price controls, and then freely decide not to offer their services at the artificially low price, this is called "a criminal conspiracy to
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
It's a Trap! Atom Corral Is a Major Step Toward Quantum Computing
07-16-2010
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Alessandra Calderin via PopSci
This maze of electrodes, known as a surface-electrode ion trap, brings us closer to building quantum computers"that is, computers that could manipulate the quantum-mechanical states of atoms to process data millions of times as fast as today’s most p
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News Link • Energy
Vibration-Powered AA Battery Charges Up When You Shake It
07-16-2010
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Paul Adams via PopSci
When my little flashlight or my electric toothbrush goes dead, some atavistic impulse leads me -- and I suspect I'm not alone -- to stare for a moment at the misbehaving gadget and then give it a violent shaking, as though the electrons are stuck and
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News Link • Inventions
Smart Visual Algorithm Lets Unmanned Drones Perform Autonomous Search and Rescue Operations
07-16-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci
Unmanned drones could make searching for lost hikers much cheaper, faster and safer than using helicopters, according to researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah. They are turning drones, best known for their search-and-destroy capabilities, i
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News Link • Transportation
Brammo Empulse: The New 100mph King of Consumer Electric Motorcycles, Sold At Best Buy
07-16-2010
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Wes Siler via PopSci
Electric motorcycles no longer need be thought of as slow and boring. When the Brammo Empulse, successor to last year's Enertia, goes on sale early next year it’ll be capable of reaching speeds in excess of 100 mph with an average range of up to 100
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hobbs to Michael Pento: "You're Just Peddling The Power Of Nightmares"
07-16-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
CNBC's Simon Hobbs fought it out with Michael Pento today about the reality of the current economic situation in the U.S. The fireworks start around 3:25, when Hobbs starts questioning...
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News Link • Humor
Late Night Joke Dump: July 16, 2010
07-16-2010
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Mondo Frazier
The best political jokes and political/social commentary is almost always late at night. Here’s some of the best from the past week. This week's rating: Very Good!
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Genetic Model Accurately Predicts Who's Likely to Live to 100
07-16-2010
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Laurie J. Schmidt via PopSci
In 1997, Jeanne Louise Calment of France died at the age of 122, making her the oldest documented human to have ever lived. People who live to be 100 years or older are rare, and only about 1 in 600,000 people in industrialized nations live that long
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News Link • Immigration
Joe Arpaio Takes .50 Caliber Machine Gun To Desert, Looking for Illegals
07-16-2010
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blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com
Sheriff Joe is heading into the desert today to hunt for illegal aliens in the oven-like temperatures. And he's breaking out the big guns, or at least one of them -- a .50 caliber machine gun, in case they run into any of them-thar narco-terrorists.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Transcripts Show Senators Knew Gulf Of Tonkin Was A Staged False Flag Event
07-16-2010
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PrisonPlanet.com
Over 1,100 pages of previously classified Vietnam-era transcripts released this week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee highlight the fact that several Senators knew that the White House and the Pentagon had deceived the American people...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Geologist Chris Landau: BP Cap will not stop leak from ocean floor
07-16-2010
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Youtube.com
In this video interview Chris Landau explains why the cap placed on the "Macondo" well will not work in the long run. It is his judgement that the oil will find its way to the surface vie cracks in the strata in less than 8 days.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Demographic Story Coming to the Fore: Boomers vs Teenagers
07-16-2010
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Ritholtz.com
What about demographics " an aging boomer population " and a crappy economy that has the 55+ cohort postponing retirement and consequently crowding out the younger generation (parents keeping their own kids/grandkids out of the job market...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
University Of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Plunges To One Year Low Of 66.5
07-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The UMichigan consumer confidence index dropped from from 76, the best number since January 2008, to 66.5, the lowest since August 2009, on expectation of 74.5. The expectations component came in at 60.6 versus expectations of 68.5...
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Chinese Treasury Dump Brings Its Total Holdings To One Year Low
07-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
China dumped $33 billion in Treasuries, bringing its total to the lowest since June 2009. Furthermore, Japan also offloaded $8.8 billion in bonds, as did the Oil Exporters.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ECRI Plunges At 9.8% Rate, Double Dip Recession Virtually Assured
07-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Based on empirical evidence presented previously by David Rosenberg, and also confirming all the macro economic data seen in the past two months, virtually assures that the US economy is now fully in a double dip recession scenario."
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Ethanol indu$try $cramble$ to keep your $ub$idie$
07-16-2010
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AP
The once-popular ethanol industry is scrambling to hold onto billions of dollars in government subsidies, fighting an increasing public skepticism of the corn-based fuel and wariness from lawmakers who may divert the money to other priorities.
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News Link • Immigration
U.S. Court Orders Safety, Not Deportation, for Woman Facing Torture
07-16-2010
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NY Times
Saying that government lawyers let their zeal for victory in a deportation case outweigh their responsibility to be fair, a federal appeals court last week ordered the US to provide a haven for a woman facing the likelihood of torture in China.
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News Link • Iran
US ties scientist's Iran return, US hikers' fate
07-16-2010
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AP
The Obama administration stepped up calls for Iran to release 3 American hikers asking they receive the same treatment as a Iranian scientist allowed to return home from the US. The department also asked about an ex-FBI agent last seen in Iran in 200
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News Link • History
Ship junked 200 years ago uncovered under WTC site
07-16-2010
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AP
The ship was buried as junk two centuries ago -- landfill to expand a bustling little island of commerce called Manhattan. When it re-emerged this week, surrounded by skyscrapers, it was an instant treasure that popped up from the mud near ground zer
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News Link • Foreign Policy
The Clinton-Gates tandem and U.S. foreign policy
07-15-2010
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Eugene IVANOV
As Obama’s difficulties with his domestic agenda keep mounting, more and more often key foreign policy decisions are made by the Clinton-Gates tandem. As a result, the differences between Obama’s foreign policy and that of his predecessor, George W.
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News Link •
Trickle Down Retribution
07-12-2010
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arclein
This poorly drafted hodgepodge--most provisions have nothing to do with the true causes of the financial crisis--will drastically expand the power of the federal government, create new bureaucracies staffed with thousands, and do little to help the s
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
King Arthur's Round Table Located
07-16-2010
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arclein
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 t
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News Link • Science
Discovering Diamonds
07-16-2010
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arclein
Burke's work reveals the best places to look for diamond-bearing kimberlites are the boundaries between the parts of the mantle that enclose plumes and those that don't.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
The Big Green Lie Exposed
07-16-2010
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arclein
Humpty Dumpty has fallen from the walls, and all the establishment commissions and investigations in Europe cannot glue him together again.
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robert klein
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