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Date Sent: 2007-12-31
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, December 31, 2007 |
Ron Paul indeed Out-Foxed (for now) -- Bloomberg Moves Closer to Running for President
Orwell's Proposed Preface to ‘Animal Farm’ -- Kwiatkowski : What Bhutto’s Assassination Means to America -- Big Business & Govt. Responsible For Record Personal Data Breaches in 2007 -- Fox NH Debate Update - Kent Snyder: Chairman, Ron Paul 2008 -- Stossel interviews Ron Paul -- EL SIDA POLITICO DEL SIGLO XXI -- Iran to Launch Nuclear Reactor in Summer 2008 -- GAO: Federal Fiscal Policy Unsustainable -- Smoke Nazis Hit Jackpot in Casinos -- Is Ron Paul Goldwater’s Heir? -- Raimondo: Ron Paul’s Disgraceful Ad -- UPDATED: Ron Paul NOT excluded from Fox debate? -- MISH: More Writedowns Force Citigroup To Sell Assets -- Rothbard : The Real Aggressor -- Hornberger: Stop Meddling in Pakistan -- Don't Lose Your Batteries to Airport Security -- Paul: Fox News is 'scared of me' -- Will There Be a Run on NewsCorp Holdings? -- New Jersey passes law making internet access illegal for some
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul indeed Out-Foxed (for now)
12-30-2007
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The Swamp
On Sunday night, Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said the campaign remains angry, and in the dark. "We have not heard anything else today," he said. "[Fox] continues to ignore our calls."
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul: Debating the Good Doctor No
12-30-2007
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National Ledger
"...he's terrible on television and he has lost every exchange so far this campaign season. That said, I say let Dr. Paul into the debates. There are some polls that have him finishing as high as third in New Hampshire. Not allowing him a
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dollar slips further on rate view, safety urge
12-30-2007
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Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The dollar skidded to fresh lows on Monday as speculation of more U.S. interest rate cuts enhanced the euro's yield advantage, while the yen benefited from a reluctance to hold risky positions over the holidays.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Bloomberg Moves Closer to Running for President
12-30-2007
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New York Times
Buoyed by the still unsettled field, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is growing increasingly enchanted with the idea of an independent presidential bid, and his aides are aggressively laying the groundwork for him to run.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
DUI task force arrests total 2,522
12-30-2007
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East Valley Tribune
With time winding down on the Holiday DUI Task Force’s operations, the statewide crackdown on drunken driving continued with another 182 arrests on Saturday.
Since the Thanksgiving weekend, the task force has posted more than 2,500 arrests. Tonigh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Orwell's Proposed Preface to ‘Animal Farm’
12-30-2007
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George Orwell
One publisher actually started by accepting the book, but after making the preliminary arrangements he decided to consult the Ministry of Information, who appear to have warned him, or at any rate strongly advised him, against publishing it. Here is
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Americans more wired: survey
12-30-2007
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www.reuters.com
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - About 38 percent of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45 percent are creating online content
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Hillary: Bill Will Have No Formal Foreign Policy Role In My White House
12-30-2007
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tpmelectioncentral.com
If she makes it to the White House, Sen. Hillary Clinton said today her husband will take on the same responsibilities as traditional presidential spouses, with no access to National Security Council meetings.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
What Bhutto’s Assassination Means to America
12-30-2007
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Karen Kwiatkowski for LewRockwell.com
Mainstream media has had little to say of the ongoing rudeness between the Turks and the Kurds, or the ethnic cleansing already accomplished throughout Iraq â€" both conditions directly caused by the United States policies and actions.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Pakistan Peoples Party will compete in Jan 8th Election
12-30-2007
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New York Times
NAUDERO, Pakistan â€" Three days after the violent killing of its leader, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s largest political party on Sunday picked her 19-year-old son to succeed her as chairman.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Big Business & Govt. Responsible For Record Personal Data Breaches in 2007
12-31-2007
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Wired
The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Eugenics
Times Square confetti to carry messages... (Ron Paul Revolution)
12-30-2007
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YahooNews
confetti form - Messages and wishes for the new year from people around the world will float down on the New Year's Eve revelers in T
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Internet
Stossel interviews Ron Paul ASK ABC TO AIR IT
12/29/07
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www.archive.org/
As of this writing, the interview is for THE INTERNET ONLY. Combined from 6 parts. Awesome interview John Stossel does with Ron Paul. Why did it only appear on the internet? Ask ABC http://tinyurl.com/24xhly He actually wants to understand Ron Pau
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Iran
Iran to Launch Nuclear Reactor in Summer 2008
12-30-07
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Yahoo News.com
The Russians, who are helping build the light-water reactor in the southern Iranian town of Bushehr, will have completed nuclear fuel shipments by the summer, paving the way for its launch.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GAO Report: Federal Fiscal Policy Remains Unsustainable
08-31-2007
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U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAO says: "To close the fiscal gap under Baseline Extended would require action today equal to about a 23 percent increase in revenue or reduction in programmatic spending. . ."Under our Alternative simulation [much more realistic], waiting
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Blimp Inspires Parodies
12-30-2007
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Ginn
It might be said that parody is the sincerest form of flattery. The Ron Paul blimp is an innovative idea in presidential campaigns. The creative idea has inspired some creative parodies. Here's two.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Smoke Nazis Hit Jackpot in Colorado Casinos
12-30-2007
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Mondoreb
Smokers in Colorado attempt to accommodate a group that there's no accommodating: Smoke Nazis. This time it's in casinos.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
Is Ron Paul Goldwater’s Heir?
12-29-2007
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PoliGazette
A couple of days ago I read this column by John Derbyshire for National Review Online, which he wrote little over a week ago. In it, the conservative columnist endorses Ron Paul, arguing that the time has come for Libertarianism to be implemented.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul’s Disgraceful Ad
12-29-2007
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by Justin Raimondo (Antiwar)
This new Ron Paul ad is absolutely, outrageously, tragically wrong: "No visas for students from 'terrorist nations'"? Rarely has a more ignorant proposal been advanced â€" and it is made even worse by the fact that this is Ron Paul we
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
UPDATED: Ron Paul NOT excluded from Fox debate?
12-29-2007
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Nolan Chart
There is NO NH DEBATE on January 6th. That event was canceled 3 weeks ago. [This leaves a lot of unanswered questions, chief of which are the AP story that started it, the lack of timely response from the NH GOP or FOX who were getting hammered.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
More Writedowns Force Citigroup To Sell Assets
12-30-2007
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Mike
Citigroup is not considering asset sales because it wants to, it is so capital impaired that it is forced to. The same can be said for a reduction in force. 20,000 jobs (assuming the number is correct) is quite a lot. Where are those who are let go g
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Eugenics
Fox Debate Is Now CANCELED!! (Fox claims it was canceled weeks ago)
12-30-2007
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World Net Daily
"However, not all is what it appears. There is no debate. No one is invited. It was canceled. Somehow, Ron Paul missed the memo." (Gee, how conveeeeeeeenient.)
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
The Real Aggressor
12-29-2007
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Murray Rothbard via LewRockwell.com
This article originally appeared in the April 1954 issue of Faith and Freedom. "A sign of our time is the split-personality of the conservatives. Many to the right of center are off on a schizophrenic pursuit of both liberty and collectivism.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Stop Meddling in Pakistan - by Jacob G. Hornberger
12-28-07
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The Future of Freedom Foundation
Oh, and by the way, at the risk of asking a discomforting question of the neo-cons: Do you still maintain that President Bush invaded Iraq to spread democracy ....
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Don't Lose Your Batteries to Airport Security
12-29-2007
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TheStreet.com Senior Technology Correspondent
If you're one of the millions of airline travelers who carry spare lithium laptop, cell phone and camera batteries with you, listen up: The government has some new rules which go into effect on New Year's Day.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Paul: Fox News is 'scared of me'
12-29-2007
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Boston Globe
"They are scared of me and don't want my message to get out, but it will," Paul said.
Paul's staff said they are beginning to plan a rally that will take place at the same time the 90-minute debate will air on television. It will b
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Television
Will There Be a Run on NewsCorp (NWS) Holdings?
12/29/07
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libertyline.blogspot.com
On the heels of a December 28th, 2007 AP report that confirms Ron Paul's exclusion from the Fox News roundtable discussion of January 6th, 2008, the same kinds of energetic Ron Paul supporters who engineered the November 5th 2007 $4.3 million fun
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
16-for-16: Patriots end season unbeaten
12-29-2007
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AP
[Remarkable!] The Patriots completed a perfect regular season finishing with a remarkable 16-0 record following a thrilling 38-35 comeback victory over the New York Giants. Only the second NFL team in history to win every game on the schedule, and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
New Jersey passes law making internet access illegal for some
12-30-2007
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New York Times
New Jersey enacted legislation on Thursday banning some convicted sex offenders from using the Internet.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Beats Rudy?
12-29-2007
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Wall Street Journal
For several hours on Sunday, more than a dozen Ron Paul volunteers stood in snow drifts in the rain outside the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester waving at last-minute Christmas shoppers and handing out hundreds of yards signs.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Political Theory
Reformers in Crosshairs - A Military Intel Veteran Asks if Paul Could End Up Like Bhutto
12-29-2007
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Chiapas Medios Independientes
Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, offers fresh insight on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan. He poses an all-important question for Americans: if presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul also in the crosshairs?
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Police State
Philadelphia Unveils Plans For Limited Martial Law
12-29-2007
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Washington Post
The incoming mayor of this city is proposing a comprehensive plan of aggressive police tactics, including limiting the movement of people in high-crime neighborhoods and directing officers to increase searches of people on the street
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • TERRORISM
Benazir Bhutto: Osama bin Laden was murdered
12-28-07
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AfterDowningStreet.org
In a November 6th interview by David Frost on Aljazeera, Benazir Bhutto states that Osama bin Laden was murdered. She states the murderers name, and his connections to attacks on her.
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News Link • Eugenics
Who Gets to Speak at the New Hampshire Candidates' Forum?
12-29-2007
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YouTube / MSNBC
That question was asked and answered before.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Constitution
Down the Rabbit Hole
12-26-07
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Guardian
The executive order governing surveillance may not be the only one that Bush has modified without revealing he has done so.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Survey on Payment Delinquencies Shows More Falling Behind
12-29-2007
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Mike
Consumer Survey on Payment Delinquencies Shows More Falling Behind
What does the latest survey say, how accurate is it, and what are the implications looking ahead?
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • World News
On Bhutto, Masharraf, Bush, Pakistan, and the CIA
12-28-2007
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AlienLove
One libertarian's thoughts/opinion by Christine Smith,
written Dec. 27, 2007
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Jet Carrying Four Tons of Cocaine Also Made Trips to Gitmo [VIDEO]
12-29-2007
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Alternet
Perhaps the reason why the CIA’s well-documented role in the global drug trade is never really acknowledged is because it never really ended.
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