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Date Sent: 2008-02-06
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, February 6, 2008 |
McCain Nearly Unstoppable -- Clinton & Obama essential tie -- US Service Sector Slows = Recession
Arizona Libertarians sue County Elections Department,... and WIN! -- "Provisional Ballots - A shit-load of pissed off Republicans" -- State by State Results of Yesterday's Elections -- Iran's gas shortage plague Ahmadinejad -- 9/11 Widows Call For New Investigation -- Huckabee wins all 18 W.Va. delegates -- Rockwell: Ron Paul's Greatest Speech -- Devvy Kidd: "SUPER TUESDAY" - THE HERDING TECHNIQUE -- Online Gambling a Matter of National Security -- American Conservative Endorses Paul for President -- Naomi Wolf: It Is Time To Confront the Growing Police State -- Strip search of woman by Deputies outrageous -- GMAC posts $724 Million Loss -- MISH: Bubble Economy Endgame -- Three-parent embryo formed in lab -- Hornberger: Why Not Abolish the Fed?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Service Sector Slows Down; Stocks Plunge
2-5-2008
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AP
Lingering hopes that the U.S. economy might avert a recession withered Tuesday after the nation's service sector " its banks, travel companies, contractors and stores, among others " shrank for the first time in five years.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
The Democratic Party's dangerous experiment
2-6-2008
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CNET
As most of us now understand, paperless electronic voting is a really bad idea. But there is a still worse idea: voting over the Internet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
State by State Results of Yesterday's Elections
2-6-2008
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USA Today
Top vote recipients are listed below for completed contests " click a candidate button to read about the victory or click under the state name for detailed vote tallies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain Nearly Unstoppable
2-6-2008
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AP
John McCain's string of cross-country victories made him all but unstoppable - and proved his appeal across a broad swath of the Republican Party.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Clinton -- Obama essential tie on delegates in yesterday's voting
2-5-2008
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MSNBC
Clinton wins California, most other big states, but party’s delegate rules mean Democratic race to end up virtually tied.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
For the Gov't agent who has everything;...a folding machinegun!
2-4-2008
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Youtube.com
Displayed for the first time this week at SHOT Show, in Vegas,...Magpul Industries of Colorado presents the FMG9 (as in Folding Machine Gun 9mm,...get it?) I want one!!!!
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Iran
Iran's gas shortage plague Ahmadinejad
02-05-2008
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Telegraph
(And we're still thinking of attacking this country?) Iran's president is facing growing domestic criticism because his government has failed to provide gas for tens of thousands of people in the midst of a severe winter. Iran has the secon
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Conspiracies
9/11 Widows Call For New Investigation
2-5-08
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Rawstory.com
"All right," Bush told the panicked CIA briefer who interrupted the president's vacation to deliver the warning in person. "You've covered your ass, now."
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News Link • Economy - International
Northern Rock is not a ticket for a 'gravy train'
2-5-2008
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Financial Times
Taking over Northern Rock is not a ticket for a “gravy train”, the man leading Virgin’s bid for the stricken lender said last night as he tried to counter suggestions that the consortium would make a killing at the taxpayers’ expense. Sir Brian Pitma
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
WV GOP Convention: The Triumph of Naked Politics
02-05-2008
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Mondoreb
Sometimes, the race doesn't go to who has the most delegates or who was popular. Sometimes, it goes to who's the best in back room horse-trading politics.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Comes to WV: Unveils New Idea in War on Terror
02-05-2008
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Mondoreb
Ron Paul spoke to a highly-enthusiastic WV GOP Convention this morning, getting loud cheers from other candidates' delegations. He also unveils a truly unique idea for fighting Al-Qaida and the War on Terror.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Crikey! How Crocs Digest Animals Whole
2-5-2008
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LiveScience
Crocodiles are ferocious creatures that will eat snakes, buffalo, cattle and even people. New research explains crocodiles' spectacular method of digesting large whole meals that lets them eat 23 percent of their body weight at once, bones and al
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How the Hyoid Bone Changed History
2-5-2008
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LiveScience
Our gift of the gab is all due to a small horseshoe-shaped bone suspended in the muscles of our neck, like a piece of fruit trapped in Jell-O. The hyoid bone, is the only bone not connected to any other, is found only in humans and Neanderthals.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Election Fraud Alerts
2-5-2008
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Yannone
Reports of voter frustration and potential fraud emerged in Phoenix, AZ, this morning. Voters were being denied regular ballots because, they were told, they have already received mail-in ballots. Voters disagreed... and were given provisional ballot
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Huckabee wins all 18 W.Va. delegates
2-5-2008
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AP
In the first contest decided Tuesday, Huckabee won all 18 delegates at the West Virginia GOP convention. Romney had hoped to claim victory there, but with McCain trailing, his backers switched their support to Huckabee to deprive Romney of the win.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul's Greatest Speech according to Lew Rockwell
2-5-2008
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LewRockwell
Mr. Speaker, I shall be soon leaving the House and have asked to make a few comments regarding the problems our nation faces and the actions needed to correct them. Having been honored by the 22nd District of Texas to represent them for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
Richard Hammond presents Bloody Omaha (The Graphics)
02-05-2008
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BBC via YouTube
How 3 graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the TIMEWATCH program "Bloody Omaha"... (Be very careful about what you think you see on TV)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Sometimes You Have to Call it as You See It
2-5-2008
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LiveLeak
I'm sure this gets a chuckle, a "no kidding," and maybe even a honk before passing drivers tune back in to the All Brittney, All Day channel.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Eugenics
"SUPER TUESDAY" - THE HERDING TECHNIQUE
2/5/08
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Devvy Kidd
Gotta read - Ed. In his Treatise on War, Sun Tzu, said: "Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him." It is this strategy in the art of war which we are seeing once again in a presidential primary. Predictably, the tw
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Internet
Online Gambling a Matter of National Security
2-5-2008
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Ed Brayton
[You] have no right to know how many billions of tax dollars they've spent with no legislative authorization in order to buy the cooperation of other nations and prevent American adults from gambling in the privacy of their own home.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Eugenics
Paul for President
2-5-2008
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The American Conservative
TAC believes that only one candidate has put forth a diagnosis of America’s current ills and has a vision to turn the country off its misguided course. That is Congressman Ron Paul, whom we endorse for the Republican nomination.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
It Is Time To Confront the Growing Police State - Naomi Wolf
02-05-2008
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Huffington Post.com
This is an open invitation to honorable patriots on the Right and in the center to join this movement to restore the rule of law and confront this horror: this is not conservatism....
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News Link • Corruption
What the BLEEP do you know?
2/5/08
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www.youtube.com
Informative video of exactly how the BORG operates. The Government steals the money first from you and borrows from the Bank at the same time, to give it to their Business buddies in the Military - Industrial complex ( who are the Neo - CONs) to fig
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Police State
Strip search of woman by Sheriff's Deputies called outrageous
2/5/08
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wkyc
Hope Steffey's night began with a call to police for help. It ended with her face down, completely naked and sobbing on a jail cell floor. Steffey says Stark County sheriff's deputies used excessive force and assaulted her during a strip sear
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GMAC posts $724 Million Loss as Home Loans Sour
2-5-08
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Bloomberg.com
Profit at GMAC's auto finance unit declined 77 percent to $137 million because of reduced gains from the sale of contracts signed with car buyers. Income at the insurance business dropped 91 percent...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bubble Economy Endgame
2-5-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
In the end, one factor alone is going to seal the fate. That factor is called the psychology of deflation. Simply put, the Fed can't force consumers or businesses to borrow or banks to lend.
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News Link • Eugenics
Paul eyes pivotal role with Alaska win
02-05-2008
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www.nationalpost.com
Ron Paul's supporters are convinced he will carry Alaska. The candidate's unique take on gun owners' rights, his anti-tax message and call for limited government all resonate in the northwestern state
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
There's No Hate Like Ron Paul Hate
2-5-2008
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YouTube / MikeZer0
Imagine walking out to your vehicle in the morning and finding four slashed tires and an un-family friendly note on the windshield just for having a Ron Paul bumper sticker. You've got to love this guy's solution!
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Three-parent embryo formed in lab
02-05-2008
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BBC
So while any baby born through this method would have genetic elements from three people, the nuclear DNA that influences appearance and other characteristics would not come from the woman providing the donor egg.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
A Strike in the Dark by Seymour Hersh
02-05-2008
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The New Yorker
Sometime after midnight on September 6, 2007, at least four low-flying Israeli Air Force fighters crossed into Syrian airspace and carried out a secret bombing mission on the banks of the Euphrates River, about ninety miles north of the Iraq border.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Why Not Abolish the Fed? - by Jacob G. Hornberger
2-5-08
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LewRockwell.com
That’s what the Fed has been doing for decades " accommodating ever-increasing government expenditures by printing the money to pay for them. That’s why the value of the dollar has been plummeting....
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News Link • Iran
War by Accident? - by Karen Kwiatkowski
2-5-08
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LewRockwell.com
World faith in the dollar no longer rests on substantive reality, but on an illusion that most of the world’s inhabitants, and all of its bankers, now see through. Unfortunately, it is an illusion ....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CDO Ratings to Plunge
2-5-08
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Bloomberg.com
Ratings firms are responding to criticism that they failed to react quickly enough as rising defaults on subprime mortgages in the U.S. caused a plunge in the value of CDOs, securities that package other debt.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Oscar nominees urged to attend ceremony
02-02-2008
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New York Times
Despite a strike by the entertainment industry's Writer's Guild union, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presdient Sid Ganis urged actors and filmmakers nominated for Oscars to attend his organization's awards ceremony.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Arizona Libertarian Party conducting its primary election online
02-05-2008
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Dan Wallach, Rice University
No cryptography is used, but then the information you’re sending isn’t terribly secret, either. The lack of SSL is strongly indicative of a lack of sophistication (although they did set a tracking cookie to an opaque value of some sort).
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Joyce McCloy
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News Link • Bush Administration
RON PAUL 4409 -- (BUSTED) -- BUSH tells the people to "F_ _ K" off
02-05-2008
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Shelton -- www.RonPaul4409.com
April 20, 2004 Presdident Bush has a press conference informing the media and all the world that...
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Forty Four O Nine
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