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Date Sent: 2011-07-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 8, 2011 |
ISPs Agree To Become Copyright Cops For RIAA And MPAA -- Minnesota loses AAA rating on downgrade
Ed Foster - Mayor of Quartzite
- Government cannot be fixed... even from the inside -- Paris
prosecutor to investigate new Strauss-Kahn case -- Witness saw teen
beaten in Syrian jail -- Family
fights government over rare ‘Double Eagle’ gold coins -- Greek
Tragedy Goes Global -- Nanocrystalline Cellulose Strong as Kevlar
Extracted from Straw is Heading to Commercialization -- Arizonans Simply Aren’t Smoking Enough --
Using a Lab-Grown Trachea, Surgeons Conduct the World's First Synthetic
Organ Transplant -- Bitcoin
Digital-Wallet App Hits Android Market -- ‘Body Bombs’ Are a
Good Sign, DHS Insider Claims -- Q&A:
Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis -- Compressed-Air
System Could Aid Wind Power -- U.S.
Dismisses Terror Indictment Against Osama Bin Laden --
Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
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News Link • Internet
ISPs Agree To Become Copyright Cops For RIAA And Co.
07-07-2011
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Maximum PC
Sick of the foot-dragging, content associations just went Dirty Harry. They bypassed [the law] completely by forging a deal with the largest ISPs, who will now take a "graduated response" against file-sharers at the copyright owners' bidding.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Minnesota loses AAA rating on Fitch downgrade
07-08-2011
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Reuters
Minnesota lost its top credit rating on Thursday as Fitch Ratings downgraded the state's general obligation bonds one notch to AA-plus, citing the budget impasse.
Minnesota's state government has been shut since last Friday, when Democratic Govern
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Paris prosecutor to investigate new Strauss-Kahn case
07-08-2011
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Reuters
The Paris prosecutor's office said on Friday it has opened a preliminary inquiry into a complaint filed by French writer Tristane Banon alleging an attempted rape by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Witness saw teen beaten in Syrian jail
07-08-2011
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AP
Inside a filthy detention center in Damascus, 9 interrogators repeatedly bludgeoned a skinny teenager whose hands were bound and who bore a bullet wound on the left side of his chest. They struck his head, back, feet and genitals until he was left on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Family fights government over rare ‘Double Eagle’ gold coins
07-08-2011
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The Lookout
Philadelphian Joan Langbord found 10 coins in a deposit box kept by her father, a jeweler who died in 1990. But when they tried to have them authenticated by the US Treasury, the feds flipped. They said the coins were stolen from the US Mint in 1933,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Aspen's Pleistocene Treasure Trove
07-08-2011
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arclein
That was from Oct. 14, when workers on a reservoir dam turned over the first fossil bones (of a young female mammoth, promptly nicknamed Snowy) to last weekend, when work on the reservoir resumed. A tight contract schedule dictates that the reservo
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nanocrystalline Cellulose Strong as Kevlar Extracted from Straw is Heading to Commercialization
07-08-2011
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arclein
One ounce of NCC added to one pound of plastic can make a composite material up to 3000-times stronger than the original plastic alone.
Adding NCC to materials increases their strength and stiffness. Just a small amount can increase resistance t
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robert klein
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Time to Annex Judea and Samaria?
07-08-2011
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arclein
If Israel had annexed Judea and Samaria decades ago, most of the subsequent tortured history of its relations with the Palestinians would have been avoided. Most observers have assumed it is too late for such a “radical” step. But the Palestinian Aut
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare
Arizonans Simply Aren’t Smoking Enough
07-07-2011
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http://papatodd.com
Part of Arizona’s budget woes are due to the fact the it was counting on revenue created from evil weed, tobacco. Problem is, the cash cow is drying up because fewer and fewer people are smoking. And now who’s to suffer? Why, it’s heart-transplant
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Todd Detry
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Using a Lab-Grown Trachea, Surgeons Conduct the World's First Synthetic Organ Transplant
07-07-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Surgeons working at Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden have taken a huge step forward for regenerative medicine by successfully executing the world’s first synthetic organ transplant.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Bitcoin Digital-Wallet App Hits Android Market
07-07-2011
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Mike Isaac via WIRED.com
First introduced to the Android Market on Wednesday, the Bitcoin app for Android turns your smartphone into a wallet for Bitcoins, a form of alternative, decentralized currency that has been circulating the web for a few years.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
‘Body Bombs’ Are a Good Sign, DHS Insider Claims
07-07-2011
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WIRED.com
Say what you want about the Transportation Security Administration and their use of body scanners. TSA has proven that the deterrent they have established is working. Consider the following:
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Apple’s App Store Hits 15 Billion Downloads
07-07-2011
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Charlie Sorrel via WIRED.com
According to the official numbers, the store has gone from zero to 425,000 apps in just three years. About 100,000 of those are iPad-native.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Online Service Finds Lost Laptop, $1 Million in Counterfeit Greenbacks
07-07-2011
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Ryan Singel via WIRED.com
It isn’t often that you hear about a stolen laptop being returned to its rightful owner " but still, that’s not really news. Toss in a police raid in Argentina and the recovery of about a $1 million in counterfeit U.S. bills " now you have a story.
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News Link • Energy
Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis
07-07-2011
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Chris Anderson via WIRED.com
In these highlights from the hourlong session, Gates argues that nuclear power is still safer than all other energy options, rich countries aren’t spending enough on R&D, and installing solar panels on your roof is not helping to reduce CO2 emissions
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Space Shuttle Launch: Equator vs. Mountains
07-07-2011
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Rhett Allain via WIRED.com
It is difficult to believe that this will be the last space shuttle launch.
Clearly, I must do something to commemorate this event. But what? How about I look at space ships in orbit and consider the energy required. WITH GRAPHS.
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News Link • Energy
Compressed-Air System Could Aid Wind Power
07-07-2011
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Prachi Patel via TechnologyReview.com
A startup says its compressed-air technology could do a better job of storing the power generated by wind turbines.
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News Link • Energy
Solar Cells that See Red
07-07-2011
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Katherine Bourzac via TechnologyReview.com
Metamaterials that convert lower-energy photons to usable wavelengths could offer solar cells an efficiency boost.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
U.S. Dismisses Terror Indictment Against Osama Bin Laden
07-07-2011
June 17 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. prosecutors in New York, the first to identify and charge Osama bin Laden three years before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, were granted their request to dismiss the case against him, more than a month after he was
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Healthcare
The Great Cancer Hoax: The Brilliant Cure the FDA Tried Their Best to Shut Down...
06-11-2011
Important! The producers of this powerful film are allowing a full and FREE preview through June 13th! Please tell everyone you know to watch this film in it's entirety through June 13, 2011. Visit the Mercola Video Library
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Counter-Economics
Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
07-07-2011
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declaration.i2p
Governments of the World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us and have no sovereignty where we gather.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Constitution
One Document, Under Siege
07-07-2011
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www.time.com
People on the right and left constantly ask what the framers would say about some event that is happening today. What would the framers say about whether the drones over Libya constitute a violation of Article I, Section 8, which gives Congress the p
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Media: Print
Murdoch stuns critics, shuts down scandal-hit paper
07-07-2011
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Reuters
In a breathtaking response to a scandal engulfing his media empire, Rupert Murdoch closed down the News of the World, Britain's biggest selling Sunday newspaper. Its journalists hacked the voicemails of thousands of people, from child murder victims
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Wallet Voting
PorcFest 2011 - Robert P. Murphy - Mises Daily
07-07-2011
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http://mises.org
The most immediately practical "good idea" I came across was from guys who had laminated a business card containing a US pre-1964 dime. On the back of the card is a table showing how much silver such dimes and quarters contain, and what their market
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Drew
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Feature Article • Drug War
The Drug WAR is OVER!
Thomas Costanzo
The Oklevueha Native American Church can use any "Earth-based healing herb for use in ceremony". Any member use it, transport it in their cars, have it in their homes, and use it in their own ceremonies on their property and any federal land. A land
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