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Date Sent: 2011-07-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 29, 2011 |
Bill Would Force Intel Chief to Renounce ‘Secret Patriot Act’
Mother charged with unlawfully entering school bus to help a son she
thought was ill -- Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming
This Advanced?’ -- No warrant 2 a.m. apt. complex drug search -- Ron Paul's "Impact of Monetary Policy on the Economy" July 26 2011 -- Chilling Video Captures Man's Cries For Help As He Is Tased And Beaten To Death by Cops -- Civil Disobedience on a Plate -- Donors throw their money at debt problem -- Daily NATO War Crimes in Libya -- Debt Ceiling Roulette -- How Design Software Will Shape Manufacturing's Future -- Cars Must get 54.5 Miles Per Gallon by 2025 -- Feds Giving Engineers and Scientists $50K to Learn to Start Companies -- UK Engineers Print and Fly the World's First Working 3-D Printed Aircraft -- DARPA Wants to Bring Wireless Power to Troops and Their Gadgets in
the Field -- AZ State Senator Ron Gould - Quartzsite / Mayor of
Quartzsite Ed Foster In Studio -- Ron Paul: "Default Is Coming" -- Is George Soros a Hypocrite on Regulation? -- Debt ceiling: Will I
get my Social Security check? -- You ever hear of the risk-free rate?
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News Link • Government
Bill Would Force Intel Chief to Renounce ‘Secret Patriot Act’
07-28-2011
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Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.com
For months, two Senators have screamed bloody murder that the government holds a secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act so broad that it amounts to a whole different law giving the feds massive domestic surveillance powers.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Mother charged with unlawfully entering school bus to help a son she thought was ill
07-29-2011
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If Tara Keener had known that her 5-year-old son was only sleeping, she might not have acted this way.
But Keener, an emergency room nurse, didn’t know. All she knew was what she could see through the windows of a big yellow school bus as she
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’
07-29-2011
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CATO Institute
.... teachers who’ve seen Khan Academy presentations and loved the idea but wondered whether they could modify it “to stop students from becoming this advanced.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
No warrant 2 a.m. apt. complex drug search
07-29-2011
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Law enforcement officers walked drug-sniffing dogs through a Pulaski apartment complex [without a warrant] at 2AM -- a practice occasionally used to search for evidence of illegal drug activity, the town's police chief said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul's "Impact of Monetary Policy on the Economy" July 26 2011
07-29-2011
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Ron Paul's "Impact of Monetary Policy on the Economy: A Regional Fed Perspective on Inflation, Unemployment, and QE3" Hearing July 26 2011 video Dr. Thomas M. Hoenig, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Chilling Video Captures Man's Cries For Help As He Is Tased And Beaten To Death
07-29-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia, kept calling for his father as police beat and tased him repeatedly.
But his father, a retired Orange County sheriff’s deputy, was not around.
It wasn't until after Thomas slipped int
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Civil Disobedience on a Plate
07-29-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Instead of the old dance-and-drug-type rave, these are raves where foodies gather to craft, sell, talk about, and share their food in underground farmer's markets, away from all of the bureaucracy and tyranny of the federal food fuzz.
These are pe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Donors throw their money at debt problem
07-29-2011
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Washington Post
“I love my country. I don’t want it in debt like this. I don’t want it having a financial crisis,’’ said Jane Olive, a retired teacher in Las Vegas who sent $100 to the box this month.
But the contributions don’t specifically go to pay off existin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Stabilizing Heart Failure
07-29-2011
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arclein
“The reversal of cardiac dysfunction in this pre-clinical heart failure model in the pig by restoring S100A1 levels in practically the same setting as in a patient is remarkable and will pave the way for a clinical trial.”
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Wind Power Placement Shows Ten Fold Jump
07-29-2011
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arclein
Despite improvements in the design of wind turbines that have increased their efficiency, wind farms are rather inefficient, Dabiri notes. Modern farms generally employ horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs)-the standard propeller-like monoliths that
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Seventh and Eighth DNA Bases
07-29-2011
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arclein
"Before we can grasp the magnitude of this discovery, we have to figure out the function of these new bases," said senior study author Yi Zhang, PhD, Kenan Distinguished Professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UNC and an Investigator of the How
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
World’s largest radio telescope gears up in Chile
07-28-2011
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RawStory.com
The world's largest network of radio telescopes is ready to begin the first phase of operations in northern Chile's Atacama Desert, an observatory announced Thursday.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Future Predictions
How Design Software Will Shape Manufacturing's Future
07-28-2011
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Tom Simonite via TechnologyReview.com
Powerful design tools and techniques such as 3-D printing enable manufacturers to be more nimble, says Autodesk's manufacturing boss.
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News Link • Transportation
Cars Must get 54.5 Miles Per Gallon by 2025
07-28-2011
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Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.com
In 15 years, a new car that gets less than 50 miles per gallon could be considered a gas-guzzler--if new fuel economy regulations President Obama plans to announce tomorrow stick.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Shine
07-28-2011
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Katherine Bourzac via TechnologyReview.com
In work that could improve solar cells and LEDs, researchers have, for the first time, made practical working devices out of three-dimensional photonic crystals.
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News Link • Transportation
Someday Your Brain Could Brake for You
07-28-2011
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Kristina Bjoran via TechnologyReview.com
For the first time, researchers have used brain signals to predict when a driver is about to slam on the brakes.
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News Link • Government
Feds Giving Engineers and Scientists $50K to Learn to Start Companies
07-28-2011
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Ryan Singel via WIRED.com
The National Science Foundation is looking to change that with a $10 million grant for an start-up education program intended to teach the nation’s top scientists and engineers how to become entrepreneurs.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
UK Engineers Print and Fly the World's First Working 3-D Printed Aircraft
07-28-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Engineers at the University of Southampton in the UK have designed, printed, and sent skyward the world’s first aircraft manufactured almost entirely via 3-D printing technology.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
DARPA Wants to Bring Wireless Power to Troops and Their Gadgets in the Field
07-28-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Too much gadget and not enough battery. A problem any early adopter of a smartphone has faced (and, to some degree, is still facing) and can be a particular hassle when you’re traveling. Lots of gadgets means lots of charging cords or spare batteries
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul: "Default Is Coming"
07-28-2011
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www.realclearpolitics.com
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) explains why default by inflation is worse than default by not raising the debt ceiling.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is George Soros a Hypocrite on Regulation?
07-28-2011
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blogs.wsj.com
George Soros blamed government regulations for a decision to scale back his roughly $25 billion hedge fund. Now, a U.S. senator is calling out Soros for being a flip flopper.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Social Security
Debt ceiling: Will I get my Social Security check?
07/28/2011
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CNN Money
Can the government afford to send out Social Security checks next week if the debt ceiling isn't raised? The 28 million Americans expecting their payments on Aug. 3 will have to wait and see. Another 27 million people are scheduled to get checks la
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Michele Power
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
You ever hear of the risk-free rate?
07-28-2011
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The Political Commentator
The risk-free rate is also known as the 3-month U.S. treasury bill!
What happens if and when there is no risk-free rate?
Will that happen when the United States is downgraded from AAA?
What will happen to the CAPM?
When I was in business
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Michael Haltman
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