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Date Sent: 2008-04-14
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, April 14, 2008 |
Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S. -- Alaska Joins REAL ID Refuseniks
War rages on as America collapses -- Euro Demands More Say in World Economy -- The Government Is Trying to Wrap Its Mind Around Yours -- Paulson says food price controls won't work -- Take Your Money Back -- The Coming War with Iran -- GITMO'd For Dancing at the Jefferson -- Hillary Clinton: Gushing to the Gullible over Guns and God -- MISH: What Exactly Is The G7 Plan -- Prank Underscores Toll Road Unpopularity -- John McCain 'would confront Russia and China' Memorial -- Amazing Alzheimer's Drug Breakthrough -- Continuity of Government Plan is 'Currently' in Effect -- Torches, bungee cords used to breach border fence -- Your Legacy Mr. President: War Crimes - by Larisa Alexandrovna -- New chip lets iPod store 500,000 songs -- Bob Poole and Privatization, Enemies of Freedom - by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster -- Iran Fighting Proxy War in Iraq, U.S. Envoy says -- Perfectly Legal Until They Sought Citizenship
Ron Paul, Ernie Hancock speaking in Wash. D.C. rally April 15th; Tax Day Tomorrow
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News Link • Police State
Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S.
4-14-2008
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Washington Post
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department will activate his department's new domestic satellite surveillance office in stages, starting as soon as possible with traditional scientific and homeland security activities -- suc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
War rages on as America collapses
4-14-2008
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NY Times OpEd
"The U.S., once the greatest can-do country on the planet, now can't seem to do anything right," opines the New York Times' Bob Herbert this morning.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Why China is the REAL master of the universe
4-14-2008
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Daily Mail
The dire warnings from the International Monetary Fund the West now faces the largest financial shock since the Great Depression, while the Asian economies are still powering ahead, simply underlines our vulnerability in this new world order.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Euro Demands More Say in World Economy
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AP
The European Union's top economy official has said that Europe deserved a greater say in the global economy as the strong euro gains ground as the world's second major currency.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
The Government Is Trying to Wrap Its Mind Around Yours
4-14-2008
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Washington Post
We should be asking why the federal government invests millions of dollars in emerging technology aimed at detecting and decoding brain activity. Though government funding focuses on military uses they can and do end up in the hands of civilian law e
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Flake not so frugal with travel
4-14-2008
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Arizona Republic
Rep. Jeff Flake has built a reputation in Washington as a fiscal conservative by berating his colleagues for wasting taxpayer money. But he's not against traveling the globe on the taxpayer's dime. Flake recently took his wife on a weeklong t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paulson says food price controls won't work
4-14-2008
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Reuters
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned that governments should resist temptation to try to control soaring food costs through price controls [like Nixon did], which he said would likely make the situation worse.
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • TAXES: Federal
Take Your Money Back
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Politicians are constantly making the claim that they just can't do with a penny less of your money, while they force you to make do with less and less all the time (and then they have the nerve to call you "greedy" if you object). They
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
The Coming War with Iran: It's About the Oil, Stupid
4-13-08
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Huffingtonpost.com
The oil companies and governments are not telling the truth about how close we are to the end. Dick Cheney knew about peak oil back in 1999 when he spoke to the London Petroleum Institute as Halliburton CEO. He predicted it would come in 2010.
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News Link • Transportation
Speed and Pot (holes)
04-13-2008
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Mondoreb
For many people, springtime means potholes. How one company turned the fear of potholes into a clever ad campaign. 3 pix.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
GITMO'd For Dancing at the Jefferson Memorial
4-13-2008
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The Agitator
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will..." - Thomas Jeff
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Siezing Water:The Water Restoration Act of 2007
04-13-2008
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ron paul forum
The Water Restoration Act of 2007, along with others, gives the federal government complete control over every waterway, river, stream, lake, aquifer, creek, slew, swamp, underground spring and even the rain that runs off your roof. Why? Well to be
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War Onyou
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News Link • Military
Former US Administrator In Iraq Paul Bremer
04-13-2008
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waronyou.com
Former US Administrator In Iraq Paul Bremer
Iraqis Are Better off Today than Under Saddam Rule
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Actroids: The Amazing Humanoid Robot Girls
04-13-2008
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Ginn
Just how far have fembots or female androids come? A long, long way, as we discovered in these 4 amazing videos of the newest fembots, or “actroids”, a humanoid robot. Will women soon become obsolete?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Gun Rights
Hillary Clinton: Gushing to the Gullible over Guns and God
04-13-2008
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Mondoreb
What Clinton said about guns the last time she was in the White House and what she said yesterday are two completely different things.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Federal Reserve
What Exactly Is The G7 Plan
4-12-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Dare I ask again "what exactly is the plan?" Certainly we have not seen openness or transparency. Instead we have seen lies, deceit, and an alphabet soup of facilities that encourage lies and deceit.
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News Link • NeoCons
John McCain 'would confront Russia and China'
4-13-08
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Telegraph.co.uk/news
In a recent foreign policy speech, Mr McCain advocated removing Russia from the G8 group of major industrialised powers, while this week he announced he would not attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics....
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News Link • Humor
Arizona: April 1 Prank Underscores Toll Road Unpopularity
04-12-2008
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The Newspaper
A Scottsdale radio station's April Fool's prank generated hundreds of angry calls to Arizona lawmakers last week. Continuing a tradition of April 1 pranks, KTAR radio announced that the state would immediately begin collecting tolls...
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The Mainstream Media's Shifting Economic Definitions Reflect MSM Woes
04-12-2008
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Mondoreb
In 1996, 85% of the MSM coverage called Bill Clinton's unemployment rate of 5.4% "full employment", while 2008's 5.1% employment is "worrisome". Is the MSM mistaking its own bad times for America's?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Amazing Alzheimer's Drug Breakthrough Touted by Researchers
04-12-2008
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Ginn
Researchers in California believe they’ve found a new treatment for Alzheimer patients, one which works within minutes and shows amazing results.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Transportation
How they Build a NASCAR Stock Car
04-12-2008
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Mondoreb
How they built Ward Burton's NASCAR ride--in under 90 seconds. The video's length, not the building of the car.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Bush Administration
Evidence is Growing: Continuity of Government Plan is 'Currently' in Effect
4-12-08
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PrisonPlanet.com
I would wager that if asked, this administration will admit that we have been in a state of emergency for their tenure in office." Congress? Was the state of emergency lifted, yes or no?
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News Link • Immigration
Torches, bungee cords used to breach border fence
4-12-2008
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Houston Chronicle
Illegal immigrants armed with torches, hacksaws, ladders and even bungee cords are making it around a section of the border fence hailed as the most efficient way to stop them. [hunh. Who'da guessed?]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Your Legacy Mr. President - Chapter one: War Crimes - by Larisa Alexandrovna
4-12-08
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AtLargely.com
When Bush describes the makeup of such "murderous ideologies" he is actually describing himself and his administration: "By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New chip lets iPod store 500,000 songs
4-12-2008
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London Times
Scientists at IBM say they have developed a new type of digital storage which would enable a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs or 3,500 films, runs on a single battery charge for weeks and cost far less to produce.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran Fighting Proxy War in Iraq, U.S. Envoy says
4-12-08
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nytimes.com
Iran is engaging in a proxy war with the United States in Iraq, adopting tactics similar to those it has used to back fighters in Lebanon, the United States ambassador to Iraq said Friday.
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News Link • Immigration
Prefectly Legal Until They Sought Citizenship
04/12/2008
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The New York Times
Thanks to backlog of applications from legal immigrants seeking citizenship, many applications are being rejected by federal examiners due to the pressure to make quick decisions and weed out any security risks.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Homeland Security
Alaska Joins REAL ID Refuseniks
04-11-2008
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Papers Please
The Alaska state legislature passed a law this evening banning the expenditure of any funds to implement the REAL ID Act. The Identity Project had the honor of being instrumental in educating Alaskans on the evils of REAL ID: we applaud the passage
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Terry Bressi
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