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Date Sent: 2007-09-19
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
Fed's Cut Has Little Impact on Foreclosures, Charles Goyette on CNN, Crude Oil Over $82
Fed cuts interest rate -- Fed cut said to have little impact on foreclosures -- CNN - Charles Goyette on Kerry, Tasering, Hillary -- Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take flight -- Adm. Fallon Presses Case Against Iran -- Pima County Supervisors vote against I-19 Checkpoint -- Rice swipes at IAEA, urges bold action on Iran -- US intercepting billions of foreign communications -- Key Senators urge shifting responsibility to Iraq -- Prepare for prolonged turmoil, says US Treasury Secretary -- Student tortured and arrested for asking Kerry a question -- Ron Paul at the Values Debate -- New record for Antarctic Total Ice Extent?An error in programming caused the usual dispatch of this newsletter to not be sent out last night. My apologies to everyone! -- Webmaster
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed cut said to have little impact on foreclosures
09-18-2007
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Orange County Register
An aggressive interest rate cut by the U.S. central bank on Tuesday will provide some relief to struggling homeowners but will not dramatically stem the tide of foreclosures, experts say.
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News Link • Police State
CNN - Charles Goyette on Kerry, Tasering, Hillary...
09-18-2007
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YouTube
Police Tasered and arrested a University of Florida student - Hillary & Romney & Edwards - Run away Gov't spending etc. - Taxes and Lobbyist
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks
09-18-2007
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www.whitehouse.gov
Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, last extended on September 5, 2006 and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2007.
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News Link • Iran
Adm. Fallon Presses Case Against Iran
09-18-2007
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www.sfgate.com
The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East is pressing Arab allies to form a more united front against Iran, seen by Washington as the region's long-term threat.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Pima County Supervisors vote against I-19 Checkpoint
09-19-2007
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Tucson Citizen
The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to oppose the U.S. Border Patrol's plan to set up a permanent checkpoint on Interstate 19. Critics told supervisors such a checkpoint would be worse than ineffectual in stopping illegal immig
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Iran
Rice swipes at IAEA, urges bold action on Iran
09-18-2007
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Reuters
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice scolded the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency on Wednesday over its strategy and called for diplomacy with "teeth" to end Tehran's nuclear plans.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ticketed rider pedals fine line in court
9-18-2007
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Arizona Republic
Royston handcuffed Livingston, put him in the back of his car and told him that he was tired of arguing about the law. "I'm going to settle this argument, and a judge is too, and we're going to put you in jail for it," Royston said,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Crude Oil Rises Above $82
9-18-2007
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Bloomberg
Crude oil rose for a third day to more than $82 a barrel in New York on speculation a U.S. interest rate cut will bolster demand for fuel. The Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate by a half point, more than economists predicted, to hel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain Gains While Romney Fades
9-18-2007
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Gallup Poll
With 30% of Republicans (and Republican-leaning independents) supporting Giuliani, followed by Thompson at 22%, McCain at 18%, and Romney at 7%. Both Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Texas Congressman Ron Paul get 4% of the vote.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rogers, Faber say Fed Rate cuts will spur a recession
9-18-2007
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Bloomberg
Interest rate cuts by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will spur inflation, cause the U.S dollar to collapse and push the world's largest economy into recession, investors Jim Rogers and Marc Faber said.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Missouri: Cop Website Contained Apparent Death Threat Against Video Vigilante
9-18-2007
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The Newspaper
Unofficial website popular with Saint Louis, Missouri police contained a death threat against Brett Darrow three months before his recent encounter.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Police State
US intercepting billions of foreign communications
09-19-2007
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Raw Story
The US's top spy said American intelligence agencies are intercepting "billions" of conversations and e-mails abroad, but he would say how many Americans have been inadvertently snard in this international warrantless wiretapping dragne
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Sex Pistols reunite for one-time concert
09-18-2007
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AP
The Sex Pistols are reuniting for a concert to mark the 30th anniversary of their only album, "Never Mind the Bollocks." All four original members -- John Lydon(Rotten),Steve Jones,Paul Cook and Glen Matlock -- will play a one-time concert
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed cuts interest rate
09-18-2007
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AP
(Another step in destroying the dollar) In a BOLD strike, the Federal Reserve slashed a key interest rate by a half point on Tuesday -- the first cut in over four years -- and left the door open to further relief to prevent a painful housing slump
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Demos to delay funding for Iraq war
09-18-2007
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AP
(How about eliminating it) Democrats are poised to delay money for the Iraq war by several weeks(whop di freakin do)giving them time to calulate their next move and see if Republican support for President Bush's policies deteriorate.
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News Link • Economy - International
Prepare for prolonged turmoil, says US Treasury Secretary
9-18-2007
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London Times
Investors should brace themselves for a prolonged period of market turmoil, Henry Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, said yesterday as he held emergency meetings with the Chancellor and the French Finance Minister.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Home Builder confidence continues downward in September
9-18-2007
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NAHB
Concerns about the substantial inventory of new homes for sale and the effects that deepening mortgage market problems are having on buyer demand caused builder confidence to decline for a seventh consecutive month in September, according to the late
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Opinion • Constitution
Rights are not granted by the Constitution
09-19-2007
Howard Blitz
"Done...the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven." Thus, the United States Constitution was finalized and sent to the state conventions for approval. It would take until the fol
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News Link • Anthropology
It is the death of history
09-18-2007
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Independent(Robert Fisk)
2,000-year old Sumerian cities torn apart and plundered by robbers. The very walls of the mighty Ur of the Chaldees cracking under the strain of massive troop movements, the privatisation of looting as landlords buy up the remaining sites
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Key Senators urge shifting responsibility to Iraq Army
09-18-2007
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New York Times
Three senators who are considered potential swing votes on war policy said Monday that a weekend visit to Iraq left them discouraged about prospects for political reconciliation there and convinced that the US must quickly shift more responsibility
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - International
Why Iran's economy is struggling
09-18-2007
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Telegraph
The public sector absorbs about 70 per cent of gross national product, making Iran's unreformed command economy almost as moribund as the old Soviet Union's. So the economy is Iran's key weakness. (And we are going to attack them?)
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News Link • Iran
Iran threatens missile attacks on US targets
09-18-2007
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Telegraph
Iran threatened to fire long-range missiles at American targets in the Middle East yesterday as the war of words between Teheran and the West continued to escalate. A senior commander of the Revolutionary Guard, the largest component
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Student tortured and arrested for asking Kerry questions
9-18-2007
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Raw Story (video)
Police Tasered and arrested a University of Florida student when he engaged in "combative diatribe" following a question of Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) at a student forum about why he didn't contest the 2004 presidential election or impeach
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News Link • Environment
New record for Antarctic Total Ice Extent?
09-18-2007
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Icecap
While the news focus has been on the lowest ice extent since satellite monitoring began in 1979 for the Arctic, the Southern Hemisphere(Antarctica) has quietly set a new record for most ice extent since 1979. This can be seen on this graphic
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News Link • Immigration
Music scholar barred from US, no reason given
09-18-2007
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New York Times
(Must have to do with her name) Nalini Ghuman, an up-and-coming musicologist and expert on the British composer Edward Elgar, was stopped at the San Francisco airport in August last year and, without explanation, told she was no longer
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News Link • World News
Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village
9-18-2007
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AFP
Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area. Villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote vil
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News Link • Corruption
13 Congressmen subpoenaed in bribery cases
09-18-2007
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Portfolio
Defense lawyers have subpoenaed several members of Congress, of both parties, to tesitfy in an upcoming trial of one of the men accused of bribing a former California congressmen, people close to the House Appropriations Committee(Looks like they are
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul at the Values Debate
09-18-2007
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Lew Rockwell Blog(Video)
Here's the 4 minute closing remark by Ron Paul at the Values Debate.
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News Link • World News
Europeans oppose attack on Iran, tire of Afghan war
09-18-2007
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Bloomberg
European are overwhelmingly against a potential US military attack to thwart Iran's nuclear amibitions and are tiring of the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, a survey showed. Americans are more willing to contemplate the use of force agai
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