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Date Sent: 2007-11-01
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, November 1, 2007 |
Boy confesses to starting California fire
Oil leaps to $96 high -- Fed cuts US interest rates amid fears of slowing growth -- Government: US economy robust & strong --
Gold passes $800 an ounce -- America's Big, Fat Housing Inventory -- Cop falsifies arrest to justify car search -- Free Speech Costs $2.9 Million -- MISH: Which Comes First: The Cart or the Horse?
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul's 'Revolution'
11-1-2007
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Arizona Daily Star
Young voters wild about GOP candidate? Yes, but this guy's no typical Republican. Unlike the textbook image of college Republicans â€" sporting Oxford ties and sipping brandy â€" Townsend is vivacious, and she organizes dozens of Tucsonans to stand o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Oil leaps to $96 high on U.S. inventory drop
11-1-2007
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Reuters
Oil leaped nearly 2 percent to top $96 for the first time on Thursday, extending the previous day's 5 percent surge after an unexpected sharp fall in U.S. crude stocks and data showing strong economic growth.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed cuts US interest rates amid fears of slowing growth
11-1-2007
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AFP
The Federal Reserve cut US short-term interest rates Wednesday in a widely anticipated move, saying it had acted amid concerns economic growth will likely cool in coming months.
The central bank said it had cut its federal funds interest rate by a
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush says Cheney is Darth Vader
11-1-2007
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AFP
US President George W. Bush joked Wednesday that Vice President Dick Cheney, sometimes caricatured as Darth Vader, did not need a costume to play the sinister "Star Wars" villain for Halloween.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Government: US economy surges 3.9%
11-1-2007
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AFP
The US economy grew by a robust 3.9 percent in the third quarter despite tight credit that is deepening a housing slump, as consumers regained their appetite for spending, the government said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gold passes US$800 an ounce
10-31-2007
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AFP
THE price of gold passed US$800 (S$1,160) an ounce here on Wednesday for the first time since 1980 after the US Federal Reserve lowered its key short-term interest rate, the New York Mercantile Exchange said.
Gold futures for December touched US$8
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Home Prices Tumble, Consumers Shaken
10-31-2007
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BusinessWeek
The latest data on home prices show that the downturn in the housing market is getting worse, rather than better, raising questions about consumers' ability to keep propping up the economy. American consumers have taken a hit not just from fallin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America's Big, Fat Housing Inventory
10-31-2007
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BusinessWeek
At the current existing-home sales rate of 5.04 million units a year, it would take a full 10.5 months to sell the 4.4 million existing homes now on the market. The supply of existing single-family homes was at 10.2 months in Septemberâ€"the highest si
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Child On White House Tour Seizes Control Of USA
10-31-2007
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The Onion
An obscure Iowa 10-year-old seized control of the United States Tuesday after he slipped away from his White House tour group and locked himself in the Oval Office.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Eugenics
The people powering the Paul phenomenon
10-31-2007
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MSNBC
College students, old-line conservatives, anti-globalists back contender. Four college pals got a chance to whoop, holler and raise the roof cheering on their hero, Republican presidential contender Ron Paul, as he addressed a rally in Des Moines.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
90 Pennsylvania State Cops conduct largest-ever illegal dragnet checkpoint operation
10-31-2007
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
State and local cops harassed over 6,242 drivers at the largest suspicionless dragnet checkpoint operation ever conducted in the Pittsburgh area. Cops searched for everything from seatbelt violations to drugs on those unlucky enough to be caught up i
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • TAXES: State
Iowa tax man targets individuals who play with their pumpkins
10-31-2007
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The Agitator
The Iowa Department of Revenue is taxing jack-o'-lanterns this Halloween. The new department policy was implemented after officials decided pumpkins are used primarily for Halloween decorations, not food, and should be taxed
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Corruption
Cop falsifies arrest to justify car search
10-31-2007
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The Newspaper
"Even though I'm writing this ticket, I need to arrest him so I can get in that car to search it," Officer Hoyt explained to Officer Williams in a conversation beyond Moore's hearing. The search found nothing.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Maryland Jury: Free Speech Costs $2.9 Million
10-31-2007
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Baltimore Sun/Matthew Dolan
Jury awards $2.9 million in compensatory damages to father of slain Marine. The father claimed that a Westboro Baptist protest at his son's funeral caused him emotional distress and invaded his privacy.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Teen View
Teen Self Made Millionaire
10-31-2007
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Yahoo!
Not so long ago, teen Ashley Qualls lived in a one-bedroom apartment with her mom and sister. But with her computer and savvy business sense she made a better life for all of them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Oil price at record $94 a barrel
10-31-2007
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BBC News
Oil prices have hit a new record of $94 a barrel, as US government data showed a surprise fall in crude stockpiles for a second week in a row.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Experts discover rare amphibian imprints
10-31-2007
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AP
Full-body imprints of 3 ancient amphibians were found by researchers in a rock that sat untouched in a museum's fossil collection for years. The salamander-like creatures are 330 million years old -- 100 million years before the first dinosaurs
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Boy confesses to starting California fire
10-31-2007
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Reuters
A boy playing with matches has confessed to starting a wildfire that destroyed 63 structures near Los Angeles, officials said. The unidentified youngster, believed to be a preteen, was questioned by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department investi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Which Comes First: The Cart or the Horse?
10-31-2007
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MISH: Global Economic Analysis
To answer the question, the horse is money supply and credit, the cart is prices of goods, services, and assets. Is expansion of credit infinite? Is anything stopping the Fed from sending every household $100k? What is money? Is a bet on rising equit
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • World News
Pirates! U.S. Navy Rescues Ship
10-31-2007
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Mondoreb & Ginn
Admit it! Just the word makes blood quicken and the keys type a bit faster. Pirates are back in the news: the U.S. Navy played the part of the British Navy during the 17th and 18th centuries and rescued a ship from--Pirates!
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Jesus 1, ACLU 0
10-31-2007
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Mondoreb & Ginn
Jesus won one. The American Civil Liberties Union took one on the chin after a U.S. District Court ruled that prayer could return to the Indiana statehouse.
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Reported by:
Randy Ricochet
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