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Date Sent: 2007-12-17
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, December 17, 2007 |
New Record: Ron Paul Raises $6 Million in One Day; Over $18 Million 4Q
Conservative Military Journal Slams Giuliani And Mukasey’s ‘Tacit Support For Waterboarding’ -- Congressman takes 'impeach Cheney' appeal to Web -- Bush Secret Shredding Soars -- Democrats Cave- Senate Passes Bill to Fund Troops -- McCain argues for troop withdrawal -- ALAN GREENSPAN : US ECONOMY WILL FALL INTO A FULL RECESSION !! -- Alleged Halliburton gang rape survivor says she was given 'special drink' -- Activists see Senate Dems backing down to Bush, ready to give immunity to phone companies -- Farm law overhaul has revenue guarantee -- Justice Dept.: Orders Judge to Back Off on CIA Tapes -- Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry -- Texas evacuees to be subject to criminal checks -- Bush Demands Freedom to Torture -- Anti-Bush Protesters Prosecuted for “Unauthorized Display of Sign” -- Huckabee, why parole a monster like Green? -- The Horrible U.S. Economic Morass -- Israel: U.S. report on Iran may spark war -- Flu shots & 3 new vaccines now mandatory for New Jersey preschoolers -- Judge: Man can't be forced to divulge encryption passphrase -- Another Voting Machine Fraud Report -- Ohio Swat Get Gun that Shoots Around Corners -- Dave Hodges The Common Sense Show -- Raimondo: Ron Paul Penis Envy -- Reporter explains Ron Paul media bias -- Sheriff seeks to deny inmate access to attorneys -- Gammill: Can Ron Paul Win? -- Huckabee Pushes National Sales Tax -- Ron Paul Revolution Radio Network -- Watch "PRINCE OF POT: The US vs. Marc Emery" Movie -- MISH: Implications of Commercial Real Estate Collapse
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News Link • Eugenics
Conservative Military Journal Slams Giuliani And Mukasey’s ‘Tacit Support For Waterboarding’
12-17-2007
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Think Progress
Let AFJ be crystal clear on a subject where these men are opaque: Waterboarding is a torture technique that has its history rooted in the Spanish Inquisition. In 1947, the U.S. prosecuted a Japanese military officer for carrying out a form of waterbo
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Spurned by major newspapers, Dem Congressman takes 'impeach Cheney' appeal to Web
12-17-2007
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Raw Story
As the House Judiciary Committee continues to refuse any action on proposals to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney, three of that panel's members tried to take their case to influential op-ed pages of the nation's largest newspapers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush Secret Shredding Soars
12-17-2007
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RADAR
Federal spending on paper shredding has increased more than 600 percent since George W. Bush took office. Spending on "contracts for paper shredding services" going back to 2000.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Democrats Cave- Senate Passes Bill to Fund Troops
12-17-2007
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Gateway Pundit
The BBC reported: The US Senate has authorised more spending for the Iraq war, without tying the bill to a timetable for troop withdrawal - a key Democratic demand. In a 90-3 vote, it approved a further $189bn for the campaigns in Iraq and also in Af
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Davis Fleetwood looks for answers in Iowa
12-16-2007
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Youtube
Special report by popular video blogger Davis Fleetwood, who took to the streets of Des Moines with his camera and his questions, trying to get to the bottom of a major political mystery.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Your personal guide to debt (humor)
12-16-2007
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SNL
Steve Martin on Saturday Night Live gets a valuable lesson in debt management, don't buy stuff you can't afford. It sounds so simple, so then why are so many people in debt? I know many people who could use this one page book.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ALAN GREESPAN : US ECONOMY WILL FALL INTO A FULL RECESSION !!
12-16-2007
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AP
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says the odds the U.S. will fall into a recession are “clearly rising” and he believes economic growth is “getting close to stall speed.”
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Turn out the lights California, the party is over
12-16-07
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
However, what needs to be fixed first is Schwarzenegger. State spending has gone up a whopping 40% in four years and earlier this he wanted $500 billion to build California the way it ought to be...
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Alleged Halliburton gang rape survivor says she was given 'special drink'
12-16-2007
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Raw Story
After a US Army medic confirmed that she had been raped by multiple men, Jones says she was placed under armed guard in a metal shipping container -- outfitted with a bed and a sink -- and told to keep quiet about the rape or lose her job.
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News Link • Bush Administration
Activists see Senate Dems backing down to Bush, ready to give immunity to phone companies
12-16-2007
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Raw Story
Votes expected this week and next in the Senate have civil libertarians worried about their prospects to block a proposal that would free telecommunications companies from legal oversight of their facilitation of President Bush's post-9/11 warran
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Videotape shows Sharpton cutting a deal
12-16-2007
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Philadelphia Inquirer
With a hidden FBI camera rolling inside a New York hotel suite in 2003, an unsuspecting Rev. Al Sharpton, Democratic candidate for president, spoke candidly.
Sharpton offered to help Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White win a multimillion-doll
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Blackwater in Baghdad
12-16-2007
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Salon
When he got out of his car to find out what was happening, he saw the convoy and the white car burning, and started yelling at the other cars to turn around. Two helicopters circled overhead, each with a man strapped in and a machine gun sticking out
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul R3VOLution on PBS's NOW!
12=16=2007
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Raw Story (video)
NOW takes a closer look at the Ron Paul Revolution.
The following video is from PBS’s NOW, broadcast on November 14, 2007
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News Link • Welfare: Political
Farm law overhaul has revenue guarantee
12-16-2007
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Reuters
Revenue protection would shield farmers from poor yields and low prices. Payments would be made if revenue from a crop is below a target level.
"I think it's very important," said Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Tom Harkin, Iow
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News Link • Conspiracies
New Times drops challenge to Web censorship
12-16-2007
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East Valley Tribune
[Wimps!!!!] Mike Lacey, executive editor of Village Voice Media, the paper’s parent company, said it made no sense to pursue the challenge now that the threat of prosecution by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has been dropped.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Justice Dept.: Orders Judge to Back Off on CIA Tapes
12-16-2007
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AP
The administration argued it was not obligated to preserve the videotapes and told US District Judge Henry Kennedy that demanding information about them "could potentially complicate the ongoing efforts to arrive at a full factual understanding
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Musician Dan Fogelberg, 56, Dies of Cancer
12-16-2007
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AP
Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Wallowing in a little nostalgia
12-16-2007
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Mike Dugger
Web sites come and web sites go, but with a little effort you can pull one out and show it off. Kind of like a grand parent’s brag book I suppose. Where were you when Republican’s were touting a Revolution instead of trying to quash one?
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News Link • Humor
Dick Cheney: "Ron Paul rebellion will be crushed"
12-16-2007
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TheSpoof.com
"The force of the supporters is strong with this one," he said. "You underestimate the power of their side," Cheney admonished. "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Paul supporters."
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News Link • Constitution
Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry
12-16-07
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The New York Times
“What he saw was decisive evidence that within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans’ phone usage.”
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News Link • Police State
Texas evacuees to be subject to criminal checks
12-15-07
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Houston Chronicle
The person's name would be added to a bus boarding log. That person's name and their bus information would be sent wirelessly to the University of Texas Center for Space Research data center.
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News Link • Torture
Bush Demands Freedom to Torture
12-16-2007
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Washington Post
President Bush's repeated insistence "we don't torture" appeared more bogus as he threatened to veto a bill that would explicitly ban a variety of abhorrent practices. It would require intelligence agencies follow interrogation rule
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News Link • Eugenics
Anti-Bush Protesters Prosecuted for “Unauthorized Display of Sign”
12-16-2007
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The Progressive
On May 6th, they went out onto the bridge over the North-South Highway and held a banner that said, “IMPEACH Bush and Cheney"LIARS.” They also displayed a flag upside down. They were there for about an hour when a state trooper pulled up.
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News Link • Eugenics
Huckabee, why parole a monster like Green?
12-15-2007
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Arkansas Ledger
Gov. Huckabee never read the confession of demented killer Glen Green before he made the monster eligible for parole. Green's confession is so depraved, its sadistic details so scary that no sane, responsible adult would consider him for parole.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Ron Paul International Tea Party New Zealand!
12-16-2007
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YouTube.com
[Sharing the 3V0L] We are 3 Ron Paul supporters from New Zealand and Australia. We can't donate to the campaign because we are foreigners, so we decided to invest our $ into some travel to NZ's capital to pay a visit to the US Embassy. Pleas
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bo Way Back - the Horrible U.S. Economic Morass - By Clive Maund
12-13-07
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Kitco.com
$5000 an ounce gold may ultimately be scant compensation for financial and societal breakdown if you have government agents breaking your door down with a sledgehammer...
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News Link • Iran
Israel: U.S. report on Iran may spark war
12-16-2007
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YahooNews.com
"The American misconception concerning Iran's nuclear weapons is liable to lead to a regional Yom Kippur where Israel will be among the countries that are threatened," Dichter said in a speech.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Flu shots & 3 new vaccines now mandatory for New Jersey preschoolers
12-16-2007
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CNN
New Jersey State Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs approved the requirement for flu shots and three other vaccines for school children starting September 1, 2008, over the objections of parent groups.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Judge: Man can't be forced to divulge encryption passphrase
12-16-2007
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CNet News
A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can't force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Still Voting?
12-15-07
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Rawstory.com
A study, released Friday, found that voting machines and central servers made by Elections Systems and Software; Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold; and Hart InterCivic; were easily corrupted.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ohio Police Get New Tool to 'Corner' Criminals
12-14-2007
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Officer.com
Cornershot was developed by a former Israeli Special Forces officer, and it's a tool Shearer said he would love to equip every officer within the department. [The Nazis had similar machine pistols in WWII. -Ed.]
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Ron Paul 12 million towards freedom New York City Meetup
12-16-2008
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YouTube.com
So, remember that little guy, Ron Paul. The one that all TV channels said he would not go any where? [Strange, there's no mention in the "Old Media".]
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News Link • Eugenics
Austin is a stronghold for Ron Paul campaign
12-16-2007
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AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Supporters run the gamut from techies to libertarians to 'black helicopter' crowd.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Happy Bill of Rights Day
12-15-2007
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Modern Musings
Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a “bill of rights” that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens.
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News Link • Eugenics
TEA PARTY and V's SPEECH
"V" address the Tea Party Tomorrow...
12-15-2007
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YouTube.com
Video of V addressing America about tomorrow's Tea Party. Well done.
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Penis Envy
12-15-2007
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by Justin Raimondo (Antiwar)
Ron Paul's simultaneous reenactment of the Goldwater and McCarthy (Eugene, not Joe) campaigns has excited a wave of enthusiasm on both sides of the political spectrum " and also a much less enthusiastic reaction from committed ideologues,
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News Link • Eugenics
Reporter explains Ron Paul media bias
12-15-2007
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The Ron Paul Report
Well, maybe not conspiracy, but unarguably, suppression. And wherever you find suppression, you will find muted dissent in the ranks. And ... we would think... that the media criticism of Ron Paul, is actually...meant to be be supportive?!
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Petty Arpaio seeks to deny inmate access to attorneys
12-15-2007
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Az Central
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to waste even more public money by appealing a court ruling regarding visiting hours for attorneys and other legal defense personnel meeting with inmates in county jails.
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Opinion • Eugenics
Fascist Nation
Can Ron Paul Win?
December 15, 2007
Powell Gammill
From not a snowball's chance in Hell to a fair chance. I give my reasons for why Ron Paul could pull off one of the greatest political upsets of all time, mainly because of you. And heck he has already won.
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News Link • Eugenics
Huckabee Pushes National Sales Tax in NH
12-15-2007
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AP
"Instead of basing our national budget off of payroll taxes for Social Security ... it means the base of funding is much broader," said Huckabee, "That's important because we have a declining number of people who actually live by t
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Reference Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Revolution Radio Network
web site
It's our goal to keep the Ron Paul freedom message strong and alive and shout out the virtues of Dr. Ron Paul. Let's show the world we're mad as hell about the media ignoring our candidate and we're not going to take it anymore!
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Implications of Commercial Real Estate Collapse
12-15-2007
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Mike
Hidden in the headline U.S. Housing Crash Deepens in 2008 After Record Drop is the fact that it's not just housing we are talking about. U.S. office sales fell 70 percent in October from a year ago, industrial sales declined 24 percent, and retai
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS saves Northern border town from invading volunteer firefighters
12-15-2007
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Buffalo News
Responding to such calls from across the border is not uncommon in those parts. What was different in this latest attempt by Canadian firefighters to race to the aid of their fellow New York firefighters is that they were stopped at the border.
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