Geothermal Plant Gets Funding
• Technology ReviewU.S. Geothermal will use a technology called supercritical binary cycle to convert geothermal heat into electric power.
Current News Headlines
These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
Redflex – The Takeover Bid and Toll Roads
• Camerafraud.comWill Macquarie-Redflex goons find their way in to the 2011 AZ State Legislature session? It’s highly likely. What they’ll be seeking is for our cash strapped state to sell them the roads that the taxpayers have already paid for
An Energy-Saving Air Conditioner
• Technology ReviewEvaporative cooling plus drying with desiccants equals cool air for less cost.
Writing Circuits on Graphene
• Technology ReviewThis simple trick to control graphene oxide's conductivity could pave the way for etching electronic circuits into the carbon material, an important advance toward high-speed, low-power, and potentially cheaper computer processors.
Liquid Mirror Breakthrough Could Make State-of-the-Art Optics Cheap
• PopSciA breakthrough in deformable liquid mirror technology could drastically reduce the price associated with adaptive optics, making the best in high-tech telescopes more widely available.
Demographic Hell: Housing will remain stagnate from 2010 to 2020
• MyBudget360.comMiddle class young family is also delaying on having children so the necessity for a bigger home is also being pushed out. This demographic shift is happening at the same time that baby boomers start entering retirement age and will want to downsize
Is China Secretly Stealth-Buying Gold?
• Businessinsider.com/'China is considered a stealth buyer of gold, said Boris Schlossberg, director of currency research at Global Forex Trading. As the world's largest producer of the metal, China often buys gold from its own mines and doesn't report those sales...
San Francisco Requires Cell Phone Retailers to Display Radiation Output
• PopSciNever mind that the largest study ever conducted on the cell phone-cancer link found that your cell phone addiction isn't increasing your risk of cancer. San Francisco voted yesterday requiring that all cell phones sold in the city display the amount
China Could Dump Its Massive Fannie And Freddie Holdings
• Businessinsider.com/Who is the largest foreign holder of mortgage bonds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? China. The nation owns $300 - $400 billion worth, which comes to nearly 20% of China's official currency reserves according to unofficial estimates via China Daily
World's First Solar Sail Photographed in Deep Space
• Space.comA tiny space camera has snapped amazing photos of the world's first solar sail spacecraft to voyage into deep space on an interplanetary mission for Japan.
BP Tells Cleanup Workers They’ll Be Fired If They Wear Respirators
• Prison PlanetWe’re repeating the same catastrophe in the Gulf. You see pictures of people wearing regular clothes who are wading in and scooping oil off the water. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people, are going to get sick unnecessarily.
FCC Moves to Regulate Internet
• Prison PlanetThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Thursday to begin the formal process of bringing the Internet under greater federal control – a move sought by both President Barack Obama and FCC Chairnman Julius Genachowski.
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday June 18th 2010
• LewRockwell.comI Refuse To Be Counted - Government Is Not Your Savior, Andrew Napolitano - Government Is a Cancer - The Angry Sea of Bankruptcy - Disrespect for Government - Why I Gave Up My US Citizenship - Harry Browne Was Right (Must be anti-Gov't Day :)
Artificial Corneas Now Ready
• arcleinAn artificial cornea (prototype shown here) could restore sight to thousands starting this year. An expansive EU project to produce an artificial corneahas found success thanks to the work of Joachim Storsberg of the Fraunhofer Institute for Appli
Seattle’s Blue Gang Extortion Racket
• The International LibertarianThe incident with a Seattle Police Officer punching a 17-year-old woman in the face has caused much controversy. I commend the young women involved for their courage in standing up to legal plunder.
Arizona's older workers get training for new careers
• AZcentral.comThese workers, typically 55 or older, aren't ready to retire. But their years of work experience don't make regrouping to find the next job any easier.
Natural Law vs Positive Law
• Uncommon SenseWhen the founders of America set out to form a better type of government they had a clear historical perspective of the type of government they did not want. They knew that monarchies and arbitrary power were the enemies of freedom. Using this knowle
US Near Breaking Point Obama Prepares Martial Law Decree
• http://www.stewwebb.com/us_near_breaking_point_obaTonight we bring you a special report by SoCal Martial Law Alerts (SCMLA), which details the horrendous catastrophe still occurring in the Gulf of Mexico and the insidious plans the criminal U.S. Government aka Obama and his Bush-Clinton Crime Family
Bush Clinton Mizel Organized Crime Syndicate
• http://www.stewwebb.comMurders, Narcotics, Blackmail and Control of U.S. Government Breaking News Thursday June 17, 2010 http://www.stewwebb.com By Stew Webb 25 Years Federal Whistleblower
Late Night Joke Dump: June 18, 2010
• Mondo FrazierThe best political jokes and political/social commentary is almost always late at night. Here's some of the best from the past week.
Oil Disaster Meets Opportunity: Obama's Cap and Trade Leads to $7 Gas
• NYpost.com/p/newsThe answer can be found in Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's now-famous words, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste -- and what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."
Jon Stewart Explains How Eight Presidents Failed At Energy Independence
• Afterdowningstreet.org/Jon has to have a very good research staff to be this cutting and accurate at the same time.
Alan Greenspan: We're In Danger Of Being The Next Greece!
• Businessinsider.com/In February 2001 Alan Greenspan warned that the Federal Government was in danger of paying off the national debt too quickly (by 2010), and therefore it was more prudent to run deficits. He was afraid the US would buy equities with it's cash...
Toxic Levels Of Methane Are Suffocating The Gulf of Mexico
• news.yahoo.com/s/apThat means huge quantities of methane have entered the Gulf, scientists say, potentially suffocating marine life and creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives.
Oil May Be the Nail in Florida Housing's Coffin
• CNBC.comWhat strikes me, though, in driving around here for the last few days is not the growing fear among the locals, but the sheer number of "For Sale" signs down the beach. They're literally almost every third house.
Southern Poverty Law Center Reports a Satirical Wanted Poster of Chris Simcox as Real
• SPLC.orgPoster even states "Do not attempt to take suspect into custody. No Active Warrant exists."
ICELAND PASSES WIKILEAKS LAW
• truthdig.com"The Icelandic parliament has approved a package of broad protections for journalists, making the island nation perhaps the safest place in the world to afflict the comfortable and speak truth to power.
Icelandic leaders wanted to create a
Ocean's Carbon 'Burp'
• arcleinA giant "burp" of carbon dioxide stored under the ocean between South Africa and Antarctica may have helped end the last ice age more than 18,000 years ago, according to a new study.
A Host of Mummies
• arcleinIn the middle of a terrifying desert north of Tibet, Chinese archaeologists have excavated an extraordinary cemetery. Its inhabitants died almost 4,000 years ago, yet their bodies have been well preserved by the dry air.
Looking for Alien DNA
• arcleinthe ultimate fate of all those theories would be decided by the DNA tests he wants done on Queen Puabi's remains. "I'm really risking my life's work on this outcome," he said.
