http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/RSS/News-Feed.xml Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 16, 2012 PM edition. en-us Wed, 16 May 2012 23:40:51 GMT Wed, 16 May 2012 23:40:51 GMT Copyright 2012, FreedomsPhoenix.com Editor@FreedomsPhoenix.com (Managing Editor) WebGuy@FreedomsPhoenix.com (Webmaster) Proprietary Internal Program http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111798 Surveillance aircraft used by the U.S. military overseas could soon be coming to the skies above Los Angeles County. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:41:13 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111795 The Israeli company Stark Aerospace of Mississippi is not so much from Mississippi as it is from Israel. Stark Aerospace of Mississippi is a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries! And the Federal Aviation Administration has given them permission Wed, 16 May 2012 12:50:03 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111776 Seminar Teaches 1) the kind of federal government intended by the Founding Fathers and created by the Constitution; 2) how the government slipped its chains, escaped the castle and now runs amok through the village, trampling rights and liberty and r Wed, 16 May 2012 12:49:04 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111833 It's a proposition some might find hard to swallow: a 20-percent tax on unhealthy food to improve the health of the nation. Wed, 16 May 2012 18:41:57 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111832 Samuel Beckett, born in a suburb of Dublin in 1906, was a native English speaker. However, in 1946 Beckett decided that he would begin writing exclusively in French. After composing the first draft in his second language, he would then translate thes Wed, 16 May 2012 18:38:16 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111831 Characters on Star Trek suffer frequent misadventures on the holodeck, a room that creates advanced holograms indistinguishable from reality. But now theoretical physicists such as Brian Greene, host of the recent PBS special The Fabric of the Cosmos Wed, 16 May 2012 18:35:00 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111830 George Hotz, an infamous hardware hacker better known online as Geohot, has a PlayStation that he's not allowed to play with — at least not the way he likes to, which involves figuring out how to bypass manufacturers' artificial limits on what users Wed, 16 May 2012 18:31:51 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111829 Sometime in early 2004, as Mark Zuckerberg was furiously coding the first iterations of The Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, the Internet passed what then seemed to be an impressive milestone: 750 million people worldwide had become connected. Wed, 16 May 2012 18:29:03 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111828 In a recent Ask Me thread on Reddit, a site user named Ididwinit shares what he did with his $2 million Australian lottery jackpot. Wed, 16 May 2012 18:18:48 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111827 Verizon's CFO Fran Shammo said today that the carrier will eliminate unlimited data plans when customers make the switch to a 4G phone. Wed, 16 May 2012 18:13:50 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111826 Gallup is out with a look today at some key indicators that look troublesome for Barack Obama's re-election prospects this fall. Wed, 16 May 2012 18:08:02 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111824 Without a government for the last eleven days, and amid mainstream discussion of a Euro Zone exit, the Greek people are realizing that the economic and political system as they know it is rapidly descending into chaos. Wed, 16 May 2012 17:53:14 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111823 Aaron Dykes delves into the latest revelations concerning the elite Bilderberg group ahead of their annual meeting. Wed, 16 May 2012 17:49:44 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111825 Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered a previously unrecognised volcanic process, similar to one that is used in chocolate manufacturing, which gives important new insights into the dynamics of volcanic eruptions. Wed, 16 May 2012 17:46:46 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111822 Napolitano also said that "The first American patriot that shoots down one of these drones that comes too close to his children in his backyard will be an American hero." Wed, 16 May 2012 17:46:22 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111821 What can a fish tell us about human brain development? Researchers at Duke University Medical Center transplanted a set of human genes into a zebrafish and then used it to identify genes responsible for head size at birth. Wed, 16 May 2012 17:43:13 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111820 In an ongoing clinical trial, a paralyzed woman was able to reach for and sip from a drink on her own – for the first time in nearly 15 years – by using her thoughts to direct a robotic arm. Wed, 16 May 2012 17:38:03 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111818 I've been thinking about this since Ofer Nave spoke in the Agorist Panel at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum this year. He drew a distinction between sustainable and unsustainable counter economic activity Wed, 16 May 2012 17:09:00 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111818 Tom Cryer, Attorney and founder of TruthAttack.Org, talks about the upcoming Save America Seminar on Saturday, May 19th - Kelly Connor Appleseed Project Instructor in Arizona, talks about the program. Wed, 16 May 2012 16:54:32 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111817 What is going on with the Ron Paul Campaign? The national media got the story wrong about Paul "dropping out" but then comes an email from Jesse Benton to supporters. I have been forwarded this email and asked to explain it. Frankly, I cannot. Wed, 16 May 2012 16:44:17 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111816 The complete May 15, 2012 Conference call between Ron Paul 2012 Campaign Manager Jesse Benton and Reporters on where the Paul 2012 Campaign is going from here. Sinclair News is committed to reporting the News factually, honestly and uncensored. Wed, 16 May 2012 16:40:53 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111815 His campaign advisors have had to try to play damage control--many, though by no means all, Paul fans around the Internet were dispirited, especially the ones still wanting to rack up big vote totals in states like Texas and California,... Wed, 16 May 2012 16:35:46 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111814 Throughout the First World, and, particularly in the US, there is an increasing consciousness that fiat currency, far from being the solution to economic problems, is, in fact, a cause of them. Wed, 16 May 2012 16:22:54 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111813 I've been somewhat surprised by the absolutely hysterical reaction among some RP activists to Ron Paul's announcement that he's shifting resources toward winning more delegates instead of blowing it on straw polls in new primaries. In some of the for Wed, 16 May 2012 16:19:33 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111811 Former state judge Ellen Rosenblum's win basically ensures she will become the state's first female attorney general in November, as Republicans have not fielded an official candidate. Wed, 16 May 2012 16:12:30 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111812 Let's think about whether all acts of Congress deserve our respect and obedience. Suppose Congress enacted a law – and the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional – requiring American families to attend church services at least three times a month. Wed, 16 May 2012 15:45:14 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111810 Three decades ago, political leadership was in a bull market. Today, it is in a bear market. Wed, 16 May 2012 15:42:39 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111809 It's official: gold has fallen as much as 21 percent from its intraday record in September, according to Bloomberg, qualifying it for the distinction of being in a bear market. Wed, 16 May 2012 15:36:14 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111808 The worst case scenario: If everything expires, and we runs straight off the fiscal cliff, a hit of about 4% to GDP. Wed, 16 May 2012 15:31:45 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111806 The acupuncture treatments were so effective that dropping the substituted addiction of methadone for heroin was a no-brainer. Since then, drug addiction recovery and detoxification clinics using auricular acupuncture have been established in several Wed, 16 May 2012 15:29:34 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111805 srael, without the administered territories, is a strategically crippled country. These areas, known historically as Judea and Samaria and labeled "the West Bank" following the Jordanian occupation of said territories in 1949, are the key to Israel's Wed, 16 May 2012 15:27:46 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111804 If we take these and all the foregoing facts into account, we begin to get a picture of a worldwide complex of linguistic relationships that transcend time and space. We can see Basque, an oddity among modern European languages, as the last relic of Wed, 16 May 2012 15:24:05 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111803 Read it and weep... or something else. Wed, 16 May 2012 15:11:43 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111807 Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has personally laid down some very heavy restrictions on the beleaguered F-22 Raptor. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:57:16 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111802 Europe's financial crisis lurched into a perilous new phase as dire predictions emerged of a collapse in Greece's economy, with a run on its banks bringing an inevitable end to its membership of the euro. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:52:38 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111801 As Greece erupts, Italy is moving into the eye of the storm. Its economy is contracting at speeds not seen since the depths of the slump in 2009 as draconian austerity bites, greatly increasing the risk of social revolt and a banking crisis. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:49:10 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111800 Four days before the NATO Summit in Chicago, fencing was erected around the site of the weekend meetings. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:45:19 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111799 Law enforcement and homeland security personnel face an average of 55 daily encounters with "known or suspected terrorists" named on government watchlists, officials told Reuters. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:43:55 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111797 Wed, 16 May 2012 13:42:09 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=111796 In 2008 the Lakota people launched the Free Lakota Bank, in accordance with the demands of the treaty council, in partnership with the American Open Currency Standard and with protection from the Strong Heart Warrior Society. Wed, 16 May 2012 13:22:56 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111794 Activists in Albany, California have staged an occupation of a different kind of public space—a farm. Wed, 16 May 2012 11:50:30 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111793 I gave a lecture last night at the Cape Ann Forum, on the topic of America's changing position in the world and what it might (should) mean for U.S. grand strategy. Wed, 16 May 2012 11:41:45 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111792 If you needed one more example of how DNA will soon cease to exist as a private piece of information, you need look no further than the latest product launch byApplied DNA Sciences. Wed, 16 May 2012 11:34:33 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111791 Most people fork over the extra money for organic foods with the idea that they are doing something good for their health. Wed, 16 May 2012 11:30:58 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111790 The crisis is not relinquishing its grip on Europe. From autumn 2008 to early 2009 the world market experienced the deepest slump in economic output since the Second World War. Wed, 16 May 2012 11:22:02 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111789 With a display of cynicism that is hard to top, the Obama reelection campaign on Monday launched a public attack on Republican Mitt Romney's role as a job-destroying asset stripper at Bain Capital, the same day that Obama raised more than $2 million Wed, 16 May 2012 11:16:56 GMT http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=111788 Hugo Chávez's rejection of the neoliberal policies dragging Europe down sets a hopeful example to Greece and beyond Wed, 16 May 2012 11:14:31 GMT