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Date Sent: 2007-11-16
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, November 16, 2007 |
Bush repeats 'Third World War' warning - U.S. could face $2 trillion lending shock
Pollsters and pundits retreating from the Ron Paul juggernaut - Pakistan: Bush crafts a witches brew of, dictatorship, intrigue, and violence - Americans: Sheep to the Constitutional Slaughter? - U.S. Warns China over Iran - The Union of England and Scotland is over - Pop culture dissing the Dollar? Euro becoming currency of choice for those with wealth - Future of medicine? Online physician moves out of the ER and into your PC. House calls even?!
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News Link • Eugenics
Pollsters and pundits retreating from the Ron Paul juggernaut
11-16-2007
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www.usadaily.com
Two new polls in New Hampshire have now placed Paul at 7% and John Zogby told Sean Hannity today that he thinks Paul can get 15-18% in New Hampshire.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Pakistan: Bush crafts a witches brew of, dictatorship, intrigue, and violence
11-16-2007
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Eric Margolis
Post-9/11 US aid to Pakistan is $10.6 billion, but `black’ payments are many times higher. Some reports put them at $1 billion monthly. These payoffs have not trickled down to the mid and lower ranks.
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News Link • Iran
Bush repeats 'Third World War' warning in German TV interview
11-16-2007
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www.globalresearch.ca
“You know,” he said, “if you want to have a Third World War, you need only drop a nuclear bomb on Israel.” He added that this was “neither a prediction nor a wish.”
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News Link • Constitution
Americans: Sheep to the Constitutional Slaughter?
An Interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano
11-16-2007
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Brian Doherty
Judge Andrew Napolitano is one of American media’s most tenacious defenders of Americans' rights. His official title at Fox News, where he appears regularly on Fox and Friends and The Big Story, is “Senior Judicial Analyst.” But at the often Bush
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
11-16-2007
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By Roger Highfield, Science Editor UK Telegraph
An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. could face $2 trillion lending shock: Goldman Sachs
11-16-2007
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www.reuters.com
Leveraged investors cut back lending to keep capital ratios from falling -- A bank targeting a constant capital ratio of 10 percent, for example, would need to shrink its balance by $10 for every $1 in losses.
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News Link • Iran
U.S. Warns China over Iran
11-16-2007
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news.yahoo.com
"I don't think China would want to be in a position to cause a failure of diplomacy to deal with this issue," Khalilzad told reporters.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Don't answer American Community Survey, don't face going to jail
11-15-2007
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WND
Another month, and another 250,000 forms are being mailed out in the Census Bureau's perpetual American Community Interrogation, which demands responses regarding a family's lifestyle, housing, work schedules, physical and mental disabilitie
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them
11-16-2007
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www.religionnewsblog.com
Jerusalem, can it be? Where is the Religious Right on this one? How much are we sending to Israel?
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Bruce Barton
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News Link • World News
The Union of England and Scotland is over
11-15-2007
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www.telegraph.co.uk
The Labour Party is desperate not to lose Scotland, because it would lose 40 of Scotland's 59 MPs.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Pop culture dissing the Dollar? Euro becoming currency of choice for those with wealth.
11-15-2007
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USA Today
Some supermodels now demand payment in Euros. Rappers flashing Euros instead of bucks. There is a 500 Euro bill, and that's really appealing to drug barons and money launderers. It seems the greenback just ain't sexy no more.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Future of medicine? Online physician moves out of the ER and into your PC. House calls even?!
11-15-2007
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Yahoo!
She could hardly breathe when she text messaged Parkinson. She had been having trouble getting an appointment with a traditional doctor.
"I sent him an email and within two minutes he answered me and the next day he was here,"
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Eugenics
Rudy's first TV ad
11-15-2007
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Giuliani 2008 campaign
It is a very good ad. Now it is up to the New Yorkers to lay waste to it.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wells Fargo: Housing worst since Great Depression
11-15-2007
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Reuters
"I don't think we're in the ninth inning of unwinding this," he continued, using a baseball reference. "If we are, it's an extra-inning game.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Rogers mocks Bernanke's indifference to dollar's fall
11-15-2007
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GATA
"He is a total fool," Rogers said. "He said Americans who buy only American goods are not affected if the value of the U.S. dollar goes down. I was terrified."
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News Link • Military
'Suicide Epidemic' among U.S. Veterans
11-15-2007
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AFP
The US military is experiencing a "suicide epidemic" with veterans killing themselves at the rate of 120 a week -- an average of 17 a day.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Is U.S. Gov't. secretly testing Americans again?
11-15-2007
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KSLA
A high level of barium, 6.8 parts per million, (ppm). That's more than three times the toxic level set by the EPA. Ryan addressed concerns that barium could be meant to wear down a person's immune system.
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News Link • North American Union
Canada refuses to grant refuge to US Iraq War resisters
11-15-2007
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After Downing Street
Today the Supreme Court of Canada decided to not hear appeals from US Iraq War resisters seeking refuge in Canada.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Barclays disaster less than feared
11-15-2007
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Reuters
Major finance houses went some way to reassure investors that after months of credit market havoc, fallout from the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown is containable. But the International Monetary Fund said lending by pan-European banks could be furthe
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News Link • Eugenics
Want to make a 30 second commercial for Ron Paul?
11-15-2007
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Youtube
CNN has requested for the campaign to submit a 30 second ad to be used as a bumper when going in to commercial during the Nov 28 CNN/YouTube Debate. The national campaign has asked the Ron Paul Grassroots Supporters to develop the ad to be shown!
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dollar dives on fears the Gulf States will abandon link
11-15-2007
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Daily Telegraph
The Gulf region has some $3,500bn (£1,690bn) in central bank coffers and wealth funds, so any shift in strategy could have a major impact. Kuwait has already ditched its peg.
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Collecting Fans, Big Money
11-15-2007
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AP
Those who dismissed Rep. Ron Paul as a joke in the Republican presidential primary campaign aren't laughing so hard these days. The Texas libertarian's rise in the polls and in fundraising proves that a small but passionate number of American
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GE's "enhanced" cash fund breaks the buck
11-15-2007
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MISH: Global Economic Analysis
Money markets have always been considered a safe haven. Not any more. For a paltry extra .1% in yield, many money market funds have invested in SIVs and other toxic debt. BofA, Credit Suisse, Wachovia, and Legg Mason have all shored up money markets
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA admits to recording interrogations of top al Qaida captives
11-14-2007
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McClatchy News
The CIA has three video and audio recordings of interrogations of senior al Qaida captives but misled federal judges about the evidence during the case against terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui , federal prosecutors revealed in a Nov. 9 court filing that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
China's economy 40 percent smaller than estimated: analyst
11-14-2007
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AFP
China's economy is 40 percent smaller than most recent estimates, a US economist said Wednesday, citing data from the Asian Development Bank and guidelines from the World Bank. "This more accurate picture of China clarifies why Beijing conce
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Pakistan's Khan charged under anti-terror laws
11-14-2007
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AFP
Police in Pakistan arrested cricket legend Imran Khan and later charged him under anti-terrorism laws after he emerged from hiding to join a student protest. He was picked up as former premier Benazir Bhutto hammered the phones from under house arres
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US House defies Bush with Iraq funding vote
11-14-2007
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AFP
The Democratic-led House of Representatives defied a White House veto threat Wednesday and inserted timelines for an immediate troop withdrawal in a 50 billion dollar Iraq war funding bill.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran and China vow to boost ties
11-14-2007
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China's trade with Iran was set to soar to around $20 billion this year from just $200 million in the mid-1990s, partly due to U.S. sanctions which have prompted Iranians to turn from the West to Asia for trade.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Prosecutor threatening jail for parents who refuse mandatory injections for their kids
11-14-2007
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Washington Post
The parents of more than 2,300 Prince George's County students who failed to get forced vaccinations could face fines of $50 a day and up to 10 days in jail if their children don't meet immunization requirements, county officials said yesterd
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Level 3 Catastrophe Delayed Until After the 2008 Election
11-14-2007
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Calculated Risk
Fear of a bloodbath in the CDO market, in which banks, pension funds, and corporations would be forced to reveal the true value of their Level 3 holdings, necessitated a one year delay in Rule 157.
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News Link • Eugenics
Judith Regan Sues Murdoch Empire
11-14-2007
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www.thesmokinggun.com
$100 million lawsuit accuses several defendants, including Murdoch's News Corporation and HarperCollins Publishers, of a smear campaign that was intended to advance the Murdoch political agenda and protect "Rudy Giuliani's presidential a
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Fifty states face voting machine lawsuits; “Uncounted” documents DRE issues
11-14-2007
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www.clarksvilleonline.com
Business as usual will not be the norm over the next 48 hours as Secretaries of State in all fifty states will each receive subpoenas in the National Clean Election lawsuit
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • North American Union
Arizona are you ready for your leg of the NAFTA superhighway
11-14-2007
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Stop The NAU
article deals with canamex corridor
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Daryl Hunter
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