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Date Sent: 2008-07-30
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Marathon WTO talks collapse in U.S.-India farm row -- Court rejects Ramos/Compean appeal

Restaurant Chains Close as Diners Reduce Spending -- Rocket Racing League Takes Flight! -- Obama's War? - by Pat Buchanan -- Billion-dollar bankruptcies highest since 2003 -- Bohemian Grove 2008 list -- Popgun Parade (DC v. Heller is better known as the Viagra Decision) - by L. Neil Smith -- China to censor Internet during Games -- Mixed ruling on controversial Florida gun law -- McCain backs off his no-new-tax pledge -- House formally apologizes for slavery and Jim Crow -- Sen. Stevens Indictment Means Trouble for GOP on Senate Seat -- The Dark Side: The War on Terror - by Frosty Wooldridge -- Executive Power and Misconduct -- The Reign of 'Sheriff Joe' -- Police Often Side With Lawbreakers -- Obama and McCain: Why you Should not Bother to Vote for Either! -- S&P: Home prices drop by record 15.8% in May -- Does the American flag belong in church? - by Becky Akers -- Safe & Sound Bank Ratings AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club addresses The Greatest Depression, while the FDIC still lets us talk about it

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Rocket Racing League Takes Flight!
07-29-2008 • Wall Street Journal - marketwatch.com
OSHKOSH, Wis., July 29, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- History was made today in Oshkosh, WI, as the Rocket Racing League's Rocket Racer(R) took to the skies above EAA AirVenture in the first public display of the future of sports and entertainm Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

Feature Article  • Events: Arizona
"The Greatest Depression" - at The Arizona Breakfast Club
Ernest Hancock
   This coming Saturday, August 2nd 2008, we will all share in a presentation about reaping of what has been sown for so many decades,... and what we can do to protect ourselves/survive.
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News Link • Internet
Welcome to Cuil�"the World’s Biggest Search Engine
07-29-2008 • Cuil
". The Internet has grown. We think it’s time search did too. Cuil searches (pronounced: "Cool" searches) more pages on the Web than anyone else�"three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mother Ship Unveiled for $200,000 Place in Space
07-29-2008 • Washington Post
Branson unveiled the double-hulled "mother ship" built to carry a capsule filled with six wealthy tourists high into the stratosphere, from where the smaller ship would rocket into the blackness more than 60 miles above Earth. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Bush Administration
The White House and Fox News violate anti-propaganda laws
7-29-2008 • Blue Tidal Wave
McClellan's confirmation of an operation inside the White House of providing comprehensive talking points to Conservative talk show personalities to manipulate the media and control the message regarding the war in Iraq and the war on terror is a Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Actor now Libertarian candidate wants to exterminate the Arabs
7-29-2008 • PolitickerKY
"So are you calling for a complete genocide of the Arab race? Is that what you're saying? Unless they raise the white flag?" asked one of the program's hosts, Sage Koontz. "When you are in a war, you kill every thing that moves Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Restaurant Chains Close as Diners Reduce Spending
07-29-2008 • New York Times
The parent company of Bennigan’s, an Irish-themed bar and grill with about 200 sites across the country, filed for bankruptcy, a move that will put hundreds of employees out of work and leave many landlords with empty retail space during a painful ti Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Man wants to skydive without a parachute
7-29-2008 • London Times
This month Corliss was training in Switzerland in preparation for a stunt in which he will fall 2,500ft from a helicopter without a parachute and, if all goes to plan, live to tell the tale. He will be wearing a wingsuit, which he believes will allow Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
ROCKET RACER GOES PUBLIC
07-29-2008 • MSNBC
After three years of press releases and hush-hush rocket testing, the Rocket Racing League finally presented its first public demonstration of a NASCAR-style racing plane, powered by a on-and-off blaze of orange flame. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Private Race to the Moon Takes Off
07-29-2008 • Space.com
Google and X PRIZE officials unveiled nine new privately funded teams today that will compete for $30 million in the Google Lunar X PRIZE challenge, a race to the moon. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

Opinion  • Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
Fred Kaplan on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
Mark Jokel

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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
"The Crisis Is Upon Us" - Ron Paul
07-29-2008 • Ron Paul via LewRockwell.com
I have days �" growing more frequent all the time �" when I'm convinced the time is now upon us that some Big Events are about to occur. These fast-approaching events will not go unnoticed. They will affect all of us. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Eugenics
Bob Barr’s Campaign to Supporters: Send Cash�"Quick!
07-29-2008 • Wall Street Journal
Barr was one of the Republicans who spear-headed the impeachment effort against former President Bill Clinton. He has since changed many of his political stripes�"and party affiliation�"but has gained little traction since announcing his bid in mid-May Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Republican high-tech guru Mike Connell
07-29-2008 • BradBlog.com
Threatened by Karl Rove should the GOP's "high IQ Forrest Gump" --- so described for his uncanny ability to be found "at the scene of every [GOP] crime" --- fail to "take the fall" for election fraud in Ohio. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Criminal Justice System
Comcast, NetZero agree to block Internet child porn
7-29-2008 • Reuters
Internet service providers Comcast Corp and United Online's NetZero have agreed to block access to child pornography, the New York Attorney General's office said. The announcement comes a week after Cuomo threatened to pursue legal action aga Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Obama's War?
by Pat Buchanan
7-29-2008 • Human Events
Why does Barack think a surge of 10,000 troops will succeed in winning a war in which we have failed to prevail after seven years of fighting? How many more troops is he prepared to commit? Is the Obama commitment open-ended? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Food
U.S. food portions: Monuments of decadence?
7-29-2008 • Reuters
With soaring food prices sparking protests in many countries and more than 800 million people going hungry every day, US food portions are under scrutiny. A lightening of the American plate could ease pressure on worldwide demand, but not everyone is Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Immigration
The Immigration Fight Gets Ugly
7-29-2008 • BusinessWeek
These crackdowns by state and federal authorities are having their intended effect: They have combined with a sputtering economy to drive many immigrants out of the U.S., according to a forthcoming analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Secret Societies
Bohemian Grove 2008 list
Ernest Hancock
   Here is the link to the newest bohemian Grove guest list as well as video footage and photos.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Billion-dollar bankruptcies highest since 2003
7-29-2008 • Reuters
Billion-dollar bankruptcies are at their highest in 5 years only half way through 2008, according to bankruptcy filing tracker BankruptcyData.com. A total of 7 US companies with more than a billion dollars in assets have filed for bankruptcy protecti Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Gun Rights
Popgun Parade (DC v. Heller is better known as the Viagra Decision)
07-29-2008 • L. Neil Smith
soon we'll beg the government for its gracious permission to exercise the fundamental, unalienable, individual, civil, natural, Constitutional, and human right of every man, woman, and responsible child to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concea Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • China
Lying China to censor Internet during Games
7-29-2008 • AFP
Australian Olympic boss John Coates is disappointed that China will censor the internet during the Beijing Olympics. "It certainly is disappointing... I think it's a matter that the IOC will take seriously," Coates said, adding that he Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Gun Rights
Mixed ruling on controversial Florida gun law
7-29-2008 • Reuters
Florida employers cannot bar their employees from keeping guns locked in their cars at work but businesses can stop customers from keeping firearms in cars while shopping, a U.S. judge has ruled. Both gun advocates and business groups claimed victory Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Free Trade
Marathon WTO talks collapse in U.S.-India farm row
7-29-2008 • Reuters
Marathon talks on a new global trade pact collapsed as the United States and India refused to compromise over a proposal to help poor farmers deal with floods of imports. Ministers from other countries expressed incredulity that the trade liberalizat Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Social Security
McCain backs off his no-new-tax pledge
7-29-2008 • AP
Republican presidential candidate John McCain's signal that he may be open to a higher payroll tax [on young people] for Social Security [to keep his SS checks coming], despite previous vows not to raise taxes of any kind, is drawing sharp rebuke Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Environment
Environmental Hysteria (Part 1 of 3): "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!"
7-29-2008 • Youtube
Two very green guys. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Racism
House formally apologizes for slavery and Jim Crow
7-29-2008 • AP
[It must be election time.] The House on Tuesday issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Legislative Mischief
Sen. Stevens Indictment Means Trouble for GOP on Senate Seat
7-29-2008 • CQPolitics
The indictment Tuesday of longtime Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens puts Republicans in serious jeopardy of losing his Senate seat to the Democrats this year. The 84-year-old Stevens, the longest serving GOP senator in history, had been narrowly f Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Inventor says jet packs ready to take off
7-29-2008 • AP
This isn't how a jet pack is supposed to look, is it? Hollywood has envisioned jet packs as upside-down fire extinguishers strapped to people's backs. But Glenn Martin's invention is far more unwieldy - a 250-pound piano-sized contraption Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Techno Gadgets
Teenager hacks together hardware for controlling your car via phone
7-29-2008 • Engadgetmobile
A Kenyan kid has constructed a nifty box that attaches to your car to provide a number of unique remote-control features that you're not going to find on your average OnStar setup. The flagship function seems to be the real-time lockout, which ca Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Opinion  • Energy
CONNECTING THE DOTS
No Way to Grow or Drill Our Way Out of This Energy Crisis
7-29-2008
Frosty Wooldridge
   Who are we kidding? Who are Obama and McCain kidding? Are we kidding ourselves? When it comes to energy, we're like a bunch of rats in a cage with few options. We must arm ourselves with reason, creative thought and common sense.
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Opinion  • Books
CONNECTING THE DOTS
The Dark Side: The War on Terror
7-29-2008
Frosty Wooldridge
   The Iraq War provides the power elites to fabricate lies, declare wars and kill young soldiers without a sense of honor, responsibility or personal integrity.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Reign of 'Sheriff Joe'
07-29-2008 • Washington Post
In Arizona, the perils of driving while brown Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
RON PAUL SUPPORTERS! The Freedom cartoon
07-29-2008 • YouTube
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Impeachment
Executive Power and Misconduct
07-29-2008 • YouTube
C-SPAN Hearing 7/25/08 - Bruce Fein (Constitutional Attorney) Former Associate Deputy Attorney General Regan Admin 1981-82 (Impeachment) Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Religion: Believers
Groups to pray for lower prices at gas stations
07-29-2008 • www.breitbart.com
An activist from the Washington D.C. area, Rocky Twyman, started the effort, saying if politicians couldn't lower gas prices, it was time to ask God to intervene. The group thinks the prayer is helping, saying prices are starting to fall below $4 Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Police State
P.C. in the U.K.: Police Often Side With Lawbreakers
July 29, 2008 • pat
If George Orwell returned from the dead, he wouldn't recognize Britain today. But George Winston, the character from Orwell's police state novel, 1984, would be right at home. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

Opinion  • Religion: Believers
Words Eye View
Crisis in the Church, II
072908
Greg J Dixon
   Dear Friends, Jim Cabaniss, President of American Veterans in Domestic Defense (AVIDD), sent me one of the most startling e-mails recently, with three of the most thought-provoking questions that I have ever had anyone ask that I would like to sh
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
John Edwards Love Child Scandal: Debate at Wikipedia Rages
July 29, 2008 • Mondoreb
A debate rages at Wikipedia over whether to allow their users information on the John Edwards Love Child scandal. A behind-the-scenes look at how Wiki decides what information users will see. Will Wikipedia be any more successful at informational gat Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

Feature Article  • Criminal Justice System
Court rejects Ramos/Compean appeal (breaking)
Donna Hancock
   After months and months of delays, today the 5th Circuit rejected the most important aspects of the appeal by imprisoned border patrol agents Ramos and Compean.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Questions for Obama and McCain and why you Should not Bother to Vote for Either!
7/29/08 • Radley Balko
A nice summary of the self-serving flip-flops of both of our major candidates. The only rational conclusion is to not waste your vote on either of these phonies. Originally published at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,392283,00.html. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins

News Link • Housing
S&P: Home prices drop by record 15.8% in May
7-29-2008 • AP
Home prices tumbled by the steepest rate ever. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city index dropped by 15.8% in May compared with a year ago, a record decline since its inception in 2000. The 10-city index plunged 16.9%, its biggest decline i Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Does the American flag belong in church?<br>by Becky Akers

News Link • Religion: Believers
Does the American flag belong in church?
by Becky Akers
7-29-2008 • Christian Science Monitor
Our allegiance belongs to God, not state power. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Reference Link • WAR: About that War
RON PAUL 4409 -- 12:27 AM and no one cared to listen.
Google 4409
We stand passively mute in the United States Senate, paralyzed by our own uncertainty, seemingly stunned by the sheer turmoil of events.
Entered by: Forty Four O Nine
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Reference Link • Economy - Economics USA
Safe & Sound Ratings
bankrate.com
Is your bank safe? Now you can find out.
Entered by: Brock Lorber
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Opinion  • Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
Chalmers Johnson on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
Mark Jokel

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