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Date Sent: 2011-08-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 2, 2011 AM edition |
Gabby Giffords returns to Congress and helps House pass debt compromise
Syrian army kills 136 in crackdown: activists -- Army Wants Smart Shirt That Adapts to Weather -- Government: Steroids Good, Vegetables Bad -- Iceland’s loud No -- Foxconn Plans to Replace Its Gadget-Building Unhappy Human Workforce With 1 Million Robots -- Next Week's Adventure in Sovereign Debt - by Jim Davidson -- Furiousgate - by A.X. Perez -- L. Neil Smith's "Down With Power" -- The Missing Security Tapes From The World Trade Center -- Jon
Stewart describes our future under the umbrella of politically motivated
debt ceiling compromise
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Sat.; Another POOL PARTY AT THE HANCOCK'S Saturday, 8/6/11
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gabby Giffords returns to Congress and helps House pass debt compromise
08-01-2011
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The Ticket
Just a day before the United States faces financial default, House lawmakers approved a compromise bill that will raise the nation's debt ceiling in exchange for trillions of dollars in federal spending cuts.
The bill, approved 269 to 161, will in
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News Link • World News
Syrian army kills 136 in crackdown: activists
08-01-2011
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Rawstory
Syrian forces killed nearly 140 people including at least 100 when the army stormed the flashpoint protest city of Hama, activists said, prompting calls for emergency Security Council talks.
Activists said it was one of the deadliest days in Syria
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Army Wants Smart Shirt That Adapts to Weather
08-01-2011
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Lena Groeger via WIRED.com
Soldiers encounter all sorts of weather conditions on the battlefield: blistering winds, broiling heat, drenching rain. Through it all, they face one constant problem: What to wear? Soon, their fashion dilemma could get a little easier.
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News Link • Transportation
Vintage Race Cars Brandish Beauty and Speed at Silverstone
08-01-2011
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Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.com
The Silverstone Classic bills itself as "the world’s biggest classic racing festival." With more than 7,000 cars spanning the history of motorsports, we're not about to argue.
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News Link • Food
Government: Steroids Good, Vegetables Bad
08-01-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Steroid-feeding industrial Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations violate all standards of care and welfare for animals are heartily endorsed by the governments that helped to create them. But let a small farmer family feed their animals organic vege
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News Link • Economy - International
Iceland’s loud No
08-01-2011
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The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other e
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Foxconn Plans to Replace Its Gadget-Building Unhappy Human Workforce With 1 Million Robots
08-01-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
The factory bots will reduce labor costs and improve efficiencies, the company’s founder, Terry Gou, told the Xinhua news agency. And they will be unable to take their own lives.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Next Week's Adventure in Sovereign Debt - by Jim Davidson
08-01-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
Political brinksmanship with the economy? Devaluation of the world's reserve currency? An onslaught of inflation? What's next? One thing that might be "next" is a deflationary shock as about 36% of the USA economy doesn't show up on the 3rd of August
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News Link • Gun Rights
Furiousgate - by A.X. Perez
08-01-2011
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The Libertarian Enterprise
Gun dealers who called ATFE to report suspicious buyers when these strawmen attempted to make purchases were told by ATFE to complete the sale. ATFE actually facilitated the passage of the weapons into Mexico. It turns out that
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News Link • Energy
At The End Of The Earth: The Longest, Deepest Oil Wells In The World
08-01-2011
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Noreen Malone via PopSci.com
In Russia’s far east, temperatures can fall to 35 degrees below zero. Many islanders herd reindeer. In January, oil crews drilled the world’s longest and deepest extended-reach well, 7.7 miles down into the ground and 7.1 miles out under the ocean.
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News Link • Energy
Tiny Battery Embedded In a Nanowire Is the Smallest Battery Yet
08-01-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via
Nanotechnology promises to enable tiny, intricate circuits powering devices on any surface. But unless they’re harvesting energy from something like a heartbeat, the devices can only be as small as the smallest battery.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
The Missing Security Tapes From The World Trade Center
08/01/2011
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The Intel Hub
Late on the night of August 23, 2001, at about 3 a.m. security cameras in the parking garage of the World Trade Center captured the arrival of two or three truck vans.
Visual examination determined the vans were separate and unique from trucks use
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Jon Stewart describes our future under the umbrella of politically motivated debt ceiling compromise
08-01-2011
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The Political Commentator
Without political courage and with the political caving on the debt ceiling debate, this video gives us an idea of what our future may look like!
Democrat or Republican, come the 2012 election throw all of them out and let's start things over wit
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