Fannie-Freddie Bailout Could Cost Taxpayers $1 Trillion
• CNBC.comAccording to the Congressional Budget Office, the losses could balloon to $400 billion. And if housing prices fall further, the cost to the taxpayer could hit as much as $1 trillion.
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Fine Print: Contractors' roles in psychological operations raise concerns
• Walter Pincus, Washington PostDOD plans to spend nearly $1 billion on psychological operations worldwide in 2011 -- and nearly 40% of it will go for contracted services and products. The purpose is "to influence foreign attitudes and behavior in a manner favorable to U.S. objecti
How high can silver fly?
• Business WeekEveryone knows how in 1980 gold hit $850oz. But few recall that same year, silver hit $50oz.!!!! While gold has long surpassed its 1980 price, silver would have to more than double,...and there lays opportunity!
Blast Curtains Thicken
• arcleinHere’s how it works. Each strand of the curtain’s yarn consists of a central stretchy fiber, with a more rigid fiber wound around the outside of it. When put under strain, the rigid outer fiber straightens, squeezing the stretchy inner fiber and caus
Neutrino Surprise from MINOS
• arcleinannounced a surprise result that could point to a fundamental difference between neutrinos and their anti particles. The findings, if confirmed by further experimental runs, may help physicists to explore some of the elemental differences between mat
SunPower Claims Efficiency Record of 24%
• arcleinAlthough we’ve seen sunlight to electricity conversion efficiencies of over 40 percent with multi-junction solar cells in lab environments, most mass-produced cells can only boast a conversion rate of around 15 percent. Now SunPower Corp., a Silicon
Israeli Air Attack On Iran Possible Shortly
• arcleinMANAMA: Israel is massing warplanes in the Caucasus for an attack on Iran, it was revealed yesterday. Preparations are underway to launch the military attack from Azerbaijan and Georgia, reports our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej, quoting military
Sirhan Sirhan: In His Own Words
• Stephen Lendman via Lew RockwellSirhan Sirhan was the alleged assassin, convicted, and serving a life sentence at (no pun intended) Pleasant Valley State Prison, CA, despite convincing evidence of his innocence.
Kids may need 2 H1N1 doses again this year
• CNN HEALTHChildren over 6 months and under 9 years old who haven't received an H1N1 vaccine yet can expect to get two doses of seasonal flu vaccine this fall, if the Centers for Disease Control adopts recommendations from its vaccine advisory committee.
Peaceful Protesters Attacked, Arrested While Cop-Car Arsonists Left Alone
• Prison PlanetAn eyebrow-raising photograph of one of the anarchists who set fire to a Toronto police car during anti-G20 protests this past weekend shows him wearing Nike clothing, a potential indication that provocateurs dressed up as black-bloc “anarchists” wer
48% See Government Today As A Threat to Individual Rights
• Rasmussen ReportsNearly half of American Adults see the government today as a threat to individual rights rather than a protector of those rights.
74-MPG City Car Makes a Smart Look Big
• WiredAs the man behind some of the most successful McLaren Formula 1 cars and the incomparable McLaren F1 supercar, Gordon Murray has designed some of the fastest cars ever. Now he’s building one of the smallest. And most radical.
The Future of Green Architecture: A Floating Museum
• Popsi.comPhysalia is half-boat, half-building, and all green. This mammoth aluminum concept by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut is meant to travel Europe’s rivers, making filthy water drinkable. At the same time, the ship generates more energy than it uses
G20 Protesters Being Abducted, Bundled Into Unmarked Vans In Toronto
• Prison PlanetSeveral videos show police tackling protesters to the ground, cuffing them and then handing them over to unidentified casually dressed individuals who shove the demonstrators into unmarked black vans.
Nat Hentoff: Philadelphia man indicted for using right to free speech
• readingeagle.comFrederick Douglass had this advice: "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."
China Has Not Been Invited to Join International Space Station, NASA Says
• Space.comChina's national space program has not been invited to join the International Space Station project, despite a news report from Russia suggesting otherwise, NASA officials told SPACE.com.
White House Unveils New National Space Policy
• Space.comThe White House rolled out a sweeping national space policy for the United States on Monday, one that aims to boost international cooperation and reiterates plans to send Americans to visit an asteroid by 2025.
Water Flowed on Mars More Recently Than Thought
• Space.com"You're freezing cold and there's glacial ice everywhere, and it gets just warm enough that you get a river," said James Dickson, a research analyst also at Brown University.
North Korean heir apparent elected to assembly
• ReutersNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-il's son and handpicked heir has been elected to parliament but he will at best become a figurehead under a military-led collective leadership, news reports said on Tuesday quoting a source.
China, Taiwan to sign trade pact tying 2 economies
• APChina and Taiwan prepared Tuesday to sign a trade deal that binds their economies closer and that Beijing hopes could lead to political accommodation six decades after the rivals split amid civil war.
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2001 SPEAKER - Jim and Melissa Sharpe
• http://www.kfyi.comJim and Melissa have the number-one rated morning radio show in the state of Arizona. Both Jim and Melissa are hard-core libertarians and proud of it.
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2001 SPEAKER - Clint Bolick
• www.goldwaterinstitute.orgClint Bolick serves as the director of the Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation at the Goldwater Institute.
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2001 SPEAKER - Robert A. Levy
• www.cato.orgRobert A. Levy is chairman of the Cato Institute's board of directors.
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2001 SPEAKER - Jacob G. Hornberger
• http://www.fff.orgJacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation.
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2002 SPEAKER - L. Niel Smith
• www.lneilsmith.orgThree-time Prometheus Award-winner L. Neil Smith may be the most widely-published and prolific living libertarian author in the world.
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2002 SPEAKER - Louis James
• http://www.isil.orgLouis James is the President and CEO of the Henry Hazlitt Foundation, publisher of Free-Market.Net: The Freedom Network. Free-Market.Net enables people to learn about the ideas of liberty, use the information and resources that are available, and wor
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2002 SPEAKER - Sharon Harris
• server.theadvocates.orgSharon Harris is President of the Advocates for Self-Government.
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2002 SPEAKER - Larry Pratt
• http://gunowners.orgLarry Pratt is the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America.
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2002 SPEAKER - Walter Block
• www.walterblock.comWalter Block earned his PhD in Economics at Columbia University. He is an author, editor, and co-editor of many books
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2014 SPEAKER - TARRIN LUPO
• LupoLit.ComTarrin Lupo, author (Pirates of Savannah historical fiction series and One Nation Under Blood) and activist, will be talking about digging your own well and the move to farming by Generation Next.
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