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Date Sent: 2008-04-17
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
Ron Paul: Bailout Writing on the Wall -- Paul O'Neill: US Strong Dollar Policy is 'Vacuous Notion
Deadlocked jury forces 2nd mistrial in Miami terrorism case -- Wall Street surges higher after upbeat earnings reports -- Pentagon Seeks Authority to Train and Equip Foreign Militaries -- Supreme Court upholds lethal injection -- Oil Rises to Record -- Further US rate cuts seen in wake of inflation, housing news -- Government driving poultry prices up again -- Legal dispute could increase cost of digital TV -- Netanyahu: 911 was good for Israel -- Ron Paul on Neil Cavuto on Tax Day, 4/15/2008 -- Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest -- Gun injuries soar as UK police 'experts' blast themselves and colleagues -- India offers firearms permits for vasectomies -- Freedom Rally in Washington DC: Ernest Hancock -- Why Do Oil Prices Keep Rising? - by MISH -- The Man Who Would Be Bush - by Robert Scheer -- NASA, are you smarter than a 5th grader? -- AP photographer freed by US military following Iraqi court order -- U.S. Housing Starts Dropped More Than Twice the Forecast
Edward Lorenz, father of the chaos theory, dead at 90
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Deadlocked jury forces 2nd mistrial in Miami terrorism case
4-16-2008
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ABC News
The second trial of 6 men accused of plotting attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices ended with a second hung jury, another embarrassing blow to a case the Bush administration had cited as an example of nipping a devastating terrorist a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Seeks Authority to Train and Equip Foreign Militaries
4-16-2008
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NY Times
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates urged Congress to grant the Pentagon permanent authority to train and equip foreign militaries, a task previously administered by the State Dept., and to raise the annual budget to $750 million, a 250% increase.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street surges higher after upbeat earnings reports
4-16-2008
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AP
Wall Street rallied after better-than-expected quarterly results from JPMorgan Chase and two other Dow Jones industrials raised investors' hopes that companies and the economy are indeed recovering from the protracted global credit crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Survival of the Richest
by Robert Kiyosaki
4-16-2008
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Yahoo! Finance
My problem with the [bail out] is that the Fed saved this patient because it's a wealthy one. Saving the biggest investment banks in America is welfare for the rich. Would the Fed do that for you or me if we screwed up our investment portfolio?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Court upholds lethal injection
4-16-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
In a 7-to-2 decision announced, the US Supreme Court upheld the injection procedures used by Kentucky officials to execute condemned prisoners. The justices ruled the existing procedures do not pose a "substantial risk of serious harm."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Federal court upholds NYC’s rule requiring calories on restaurant chain menus
4-16-2008
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AP
A federal judge has turned aside a challenge from New York restaurants and upheld the city’s rules requiring calories to be posted on some menus. Judge Richard Holwell says in a ruling the law is a reasonable approach to the city’s goal of reducing o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Should child rapists face death penalty?
4-16-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
30 years ago the US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision, declaring sentencing someone to death for the crime of rape was cruel and unusual punishment. The decision referred to the rape of an adult woman, but it left an issue unresolved.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Further US rate cuts seen in wake of inflation, housing news
4-16-2008
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AFP
Further Federal Reserve interest rate cuts appeared more likely after government reports showed a modest rise in inflation and that the housing market remained mired in a deep slump.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A genome for everyone takes a step closer to reality
4-16-2008
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AFP
The idea of having your personal genetic code unraveled was once a dream reserved for individuals who were fans of science or big on ego -- and deep in pocket. But a new technique has slashed the cost and time of genome sequencing,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Oil Rises to Record in New York on Unexpected Drop in Supplies
4-16-2008
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Bloomberg
Crude oil and gasoline rose to records after the Energy Department reported unexpected declines in U.S. crude inventories and refinery operating rates. Oil climbed to $115.21 a barrel in New York, the highest since futures began trading in 1983. Oil
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Government driving poultry prices up again
4-16-2008
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Kansas City Star
Federal agents arrested hundreds of people in raids at Pilgrim's Pride chicken plants in 5 states, the latest crackdown on illegal immigrant labor at the nation's poultry producers. In separate sweeps, authorities also arrested dozens of work
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Legal dispute could increase cost of digital TV
4-16-2008
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AP
A small Pennsylvania company's patent lawsuits could hamstring the government's $1.5 billion effort to make the transition to digital television easier on consumers' wallets.
Rembrandt Inc. owns a patent on technology it says is part o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu: 911 was good for Israel - Larisa Alexandrovna's response
4-16-08
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AtLargely.com
So as a Jew, let me once again say that Jews from all over the world - especially American Jews - should very publicly shun people like Netanyahu at every opportunity and take our religion back from the morally decayed pro-fascist sympathies....
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News Link • Police State
Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest
4-16-08
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Associated Press & news.yahoo.com
"Now innocent people's DNA will be put into this huge CODIS database, and it will be very difficult for them to get it out if they are not charged or convicted of a crime," McCurdy said.
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul on Neil Cavuto on Tax Day, 4/15/2008
4-16-2008
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Youtube
GOP Presidential Candidate Ron Paul on taxes, eliminating the IRS and the 2008 presidential election.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Sees Bailout Writing on the Wall
4-17-2008
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US News & World Report
With momentum building for some form of taxpayer-funded housing rescue, what better time to check in with one of the most ardent bailout opponents, Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas? Excerpts from an interview:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Gun injuries soar as UK police 'experts' blast themselves and colleagues by mistake
3-16-2008
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www.mailonsunday.co.uk
Nearly half of all injuries caused by police shootings are the result of officers blasting themselves or a colleague, often during bungled training and demonstrations. Those poor brit bastards.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Gun Rights
India offers firearms permits for vasectomies
3-21-2008
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www.timesonline.co.uk
A scheme that trades one male status symbol for another has achieved a large rise in the number of men undergoing vasectomies in a bandit-ridden region of central India.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama's OTHER spiritual mentor: anti-gun friend of Farrakhan, the Rev. Michael Pfleger
4-16-2008
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DaveKopel.org
"We're going to find you and snuff you out....Like a rat you're going to hide. But like a rat, we're going to catch you and pull you out...." Rev. Pfleger also promised: "We're going to snuff out legislators that are vo
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Energy
Why Do Oil Prices Keep Rising?
4-16-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Cantarell, which currently produces one of every 50 barrels of oil on the world market, is fading so fast analysts believe Mexico may become an oil importer in eight years. That would batter Mexico's economy, which depends on oil exports....
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News Link • Eugenics
The Man Who Would Be Bush - by Robert Scheer
4-15-08
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TruthDig.com
Are Americans unusually stupid or is it something our president put in the water? ? As millions surrender their homes and sacrifice other standards of our nation’s economic and political reputation to the caprice of the Bush-Cheney imperium, a majori
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Riverside County, California: 7,960 Foreclosure Filings in March
4-15-08
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SignonSanDiego.com/news
In Riverside County, 1 in 92 households went into some form of foreclosure last month, compared to nearly 1 in 200 during the same period a year earlier, according to RealtyTrac.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Paul O'Neill: U.S. Strong Dollar Policy is 'Vacuous Notion'
4-16-08
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Bloomberg.com
``The markets actually have control over those relationships. When people say strong dollar, if they don't mean that `we believe intervention can work and we're prepared to intervene,' then `strong dollar' is ridiculous.''
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Defense in Italian CIA case request Berlusconi and Prodi as witnesses
04-16-2008
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IHT
A former Italian secret services chief's defense lawyers requested Wednesday that Premier-elect Silvio Berlusconi testify in he trial of 26 Americans and others charged with kidnapping a terror suspect during a CIA operation
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA, are you smarter than a 5th grader?
4-16-2008
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AFP
[Sorry, couldn't help myself.] A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
AP photographer freed by US military following Iraqi court order
4-16-2008
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AP
The U.S. military has released Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein after holding him for more than two years. A U.S. military statement on Monday said Hussein is no longer considered a threat.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Housing Starts Dropped More Than Twice the Forecast
4-16-08
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Bloomberg.com
``A nation in recession spells disaster for a housing market that is already in a rapid descent,'' Celia Chen, an economist at Moody's Economy.com in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said before the report. ``Residential construction is in a f
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