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Date Sent: 2007-09-21
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, September 21, 2007 |
Veterans Disarmament Bill Vote Nears -- Bernanke Abolishes Corrections and Bank Losses
MISH: Price Stability & Top Secret Missions -- British Police's New Spy Drone -- Senate Votes to Condemn "General Betray Us" Ad -- U.S. moves to stem wave of foreclosures -- Tens of thousands march for justice for Jena 6 -- McCain to criticize Giuliani on guns -- FBI tapes Sen. Stevens calls -- Airport Screeners Watch What You Read -- How the "war on drugs" brought communism to the US -- Pope 'refused to meet with Rice' -- US report on Iraqi govt corruption leaked -- Judge drops out of Brown aid cases -- Canadian dollar worth more than US dollar -- Private debt much higher than during the Great Depression -- Subprime lending to trigger world’s worst financial crisis since 1929 -- 189 IRS counts: Not guilty and hung jury! -- Bush optimistic about economy -- Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero -- 'Dozens died in Syria-Iran missile test' -- Bin Laden To Declare War On Musharraf -- Iran officer 'detained in Iraq' -- Dollar hits new low against euro -- County sheriff sets up checkpoint for blood samples -- Liberty Dollar use leads to arrests
Crude oil jumps above $84; Gold above $735
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Price Stability & Top Secret Missions
09-20-2007
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MIsh Shedlock
One of the Fed's missions is price stability. It flunked. But it keeps adding more missions. China resorted to price controls. The Bank of England wants covert actions. These are signs of instability everywhere. The US of course has its own secre
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Police State
British Police's New Spy Drone
9-20-2007
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Wired
In my 2005 book Weapons Grade I predicted that police would soon be using micro air vehicles developed for the military. I didn’t realize it would happen quite so soon.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Crude oil jumps above $84; Gold above $735
9-20-2007
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Financial Times
Crude oil prices jumped above $84 a barrel late on Thursday after production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico were shut down ahead of a threatened tropical storm.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Senate Votes to Condemn "General Betray Us" Ad
9-20-2007
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AP
The Senate voted to condemn an advertisement by the liberal anti-war group MoveOn.org that accused the top military commander in Iraq of betrayal, because the Senate had nothing better to do.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. moves to stem wave of foreclosures
9-20-2007
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Christian Science Monitor
Neither the Fed nor Congress appears likely to contain the foreclosure wave that is on pace to hit 1 million or more homeÂowners next year. Rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, after all, can go only so far toward resolving issues that extend far beyond
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Tens of thousands march for justice for Jena 6
9-20-2007
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USA Today
Tens of thousands of protesters demanding freedom for one of six black teens initially charged with attempted murder for beating a white schoolmate may get their wish as early as today.
As demonstrators from San Jose to Philadelphia descended on J
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain to criticize Giuliani on guns
9-20-2007
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AP
Republican presidential candidate John McCain lobbed a thinly veiled attack at fellow rival Rudy Giuliani, describing the former mayor's "devious" attempt with a lawsuit "to bankrupt our great gun manufacturers." Giuliani said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
FBI tapes Sen. Stevens calls as part of sting
9-20-2007
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AP
The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting, according to people close to the investigation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read
9-20-2007
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Wired
International travelers concerned about being labeled a terrorist or drug runner by Homeland Security algorithms may want to be careful what books they read on the plane. Newly revealed records show the government is storing such information for year
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Welcome to RonPauloween !
09-20-2007
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ronpauloween.com
So ask yourself this question... When is the only time during the year that tens or perhaps hundreds of neighbors and total strangers come to your house unannounced and ring your doorbell?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
How the "war on drugs" brought communism to the US
09-20-2007
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Freedom in Our Time(Will Grigg)
Alan and Stephne Roos of Bothell, Washington are victims of Communism. The couple -- a butcher and dental assistant, respectively lost their automobiles to the officially sanctioned form of theft called "asset forfeiture" because their 24-
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Pope 'refused audience for Rice'
09-20-2007
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BBC
Pope Benedict XVI refused a recent request by US Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss the Middle East and Iraq, Vatican sources say. The Pope refused a request for an audience during the August holidays.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Corruption
US report on Iraqi govt corruption leaked
09-20-2007
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Iraq Slogger
Here's is the 82 page sensitive but unclassified report on corruption in the Iraqi government. I love the executive summary. "Currently, Iraq is not capable of even rudimentary enforcement of anticorruption laws". There you have it
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Marriage
GOP mayor of San Diego flips to support gay marriage
09-20-2007
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Raw Story
The GOP mayor of San Diego, Jerry Sanders, announced in a highly emotional speech on Wednesday that he had decided not to veto a council resolution that would have reversed California's ban on same sex unions. "My opinions on this issue
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge drops out of Brown aid cases
09-20-2007
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Concord Monitor(NH)
A federal judge has recused himself from the cases of two men charged with helping Plainfield tax protestors Ed and Elaine Brown escape capture, saying that threats made against him by the Browns and their entourage might lead to the appearance
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - International
Canadian dollar equals US dollars for first time in 30 years
09-20-2007
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Bloomberg
Canada's dollar traded equal to the US currency for the first time in three decades, capping a five-year run on the back of booming demand for the nation's commodities. The Canadian dollar rose as high as $1.0008, before retreating to 99.87
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Corruption
Embassy builder linked to kickbacks
09-20-2007
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AP
The Kuwaiti company building the US embassy in Baghdad has been accused of agreeing to pay $200,000 in kickbacks in return for two unrelated Army contracts in Iraq. The scheme, outlined in a now-sealed court document obtained by the AP
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Private debt much higher than during the Great Depression
09-20-2007
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efinancedirectory.com
Private debt is much higher now than during the Great Depression, and has been allowed to grow as if there were no consequences to borrowing, and no limit to what can be paid back in the future.
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News Link • Economy - International
Subprime lending to trigger world’s worst financial crisis since 1929
09-20-2007
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www.asianews.it
As unlikely as it may seem, the United States along with Canada and Mexico, appears to be getting ready to launch a new single currency: the Amero.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
189 IRS counts: Not guilty and hung jury!
09-20-2007
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yannone.blogspot.com
Four-month federal income tax evasion case ends without convictions
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
"Paint the Town RON" - Bypassing the Media formerly known as MainStream
09-20-2007
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www.paintthetownron.com
On the weekend of September the 29th Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Groups from around the country are going to saturate their towns, counties and cities with Ron Paul banners and signs. We will make videos of the event and post them to youtube.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bush optimistic about economy
9/20/07
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http://news.yahoo.com/
ha ha ha - President bush on Thursday cited "some unsettling times" in the U.S. housing and credit markets as he sought to assure jittery Americans that the economy is holding up well despite worries about a recession. "I say that the
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
How Queens school failed Mariya Fatima after stroke
By CARRIE MELAGO
9-20-2007
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NY Daily News
The typed words on the school memo are as direct as they are stunning: "No Deans are permitted to call 911 for any reason."
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Gun Rights
Veterans Disarmament Bill Could Come Before The Senate At Any Time
9-20-2007
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Gun Owners of America
The Senate could bring up the Veterans Disarmament Bill at any time, as a result of its passage in the Judiciary Committee a few weeks ago.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Gun Rights
Anti-gun California Senator Dianne Feinstein Is At It Again!
9-20-2007
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Gun Owners of America
New bill treats gun owners like Mafia bosses.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Iran
Iranian Officer Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Roadside Bombs Into Iraq
9-20-2007
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FOX News
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq â€" An Iranian officer accused of smuggling powerful roadside bombs into Iraq was arrested Thursday in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Iran
Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero Iranian mission says he'll go despite NYPD reject
9-20-2007
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WABC
Iranian mission to the United Nations has informed the Secret Service that the Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero Monday at 10 a.m.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Israel
'Dozens died in Syria-Iran missile test'
9-20-2007
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Jerusalem Post
Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light in Jane's Defence Weekly.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Bush Administration
Asked if Iraq war was worth it, President Bush's Defense Secretary Gates says, "I don't
9-20-2007
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Raw Story
Bush's cabinet has gone off script.
In an interview with New York Times columnist David Brooks Wednesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was asked if the Iraq war was worth it.
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News Link • World News
Bin Laden Tape To Declare War On Musharraf
9-20-2007
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AP
Osama bin Laden will release a new message declaring war on Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. "Urgent, al-Qaida declares war on the tyrant Pervez Musharraf and his apostate army, in the words of Osama bin Laden," it read.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke Abolishes Corrections and Bank Losses
9-20-2007
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Safehaven
The Fed is saying that it will now print money like mad to prevent any sort of market pullback of any kind and it doesn't care about the value of the dollar.
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News Link • Iran
Iran officer 'detained in Iraq'
9-20-2007
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BBC News
US-led forces in Iraq say they have arrested an Iranian officer operating in the north of the country.
They say the man was a member of the Quds Force - an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards - and was detained in the Kurdish city of Sula
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News Link • Economy - International
Dollar hits new low against euro
9-20-2007
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BBC News
The dollar dropped below the psychologically important $1.40 against the euro, deepening recent losses.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
County sheriff sets up checkpoint for private research firm
09-19-2007
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worldnetdaily
Motorists in Colorado are expressing outrage over a weekend stunt in Gilpin County, where highway checkpoints were set up so a private organization could ask for samples of blood and saliva. READ THIS STORY then check comments
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Police State
Liberty Dollar use shows up in Walworth. Couple charged with retail theft for making purchases
09/19/07
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www.theweekextra.com
On May 6, Kranish was getting something to eat at the Dari-Ripple in Walworth and attempted to pay for his meal with a $20 "fine silver Liberty Dollar." Shortly after he gave it to the clerk, a police officer arrived and started asking him
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Thomas Costanzo
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