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Date Sent: 2008-04-22
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
What About the War, Benedict? - by Ray McGovern -- 3 States Subjected To "Martial Law Sweeps"
Is John McCain a Crook? -- Few Clear Wins in U.S. Anti-Terror Cases -- The trillion-dollar mortgage time bomb -- From DNA of Family, a Tool to Make Arrests -- Pentagon chief urges Air Force to embrace change -- There Must Never Be Another Waco! - by Chuck Baldwin -- More convicted felons allowed to enlist in Army, Marines -- New Orleans: Summit for Security and Prosperity -- Indiana Gov. Daniels: People need to get over Reagan -- Food Rationing Confronts USA
Oil hits $117.60 a barrel; China now the No. 1 nation in Internet users
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Few Clear Wins in U.S. Anti-Terror Cases
4-21-2008
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Washington Post
When seven ragtag men in a Miami religious sect were indicted in 2006 for their role in a bizarre plot to blow up the FBI Miami office and Chicago's Sears Tower, then- Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said the case represented "a new bra
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Is John McCain a Crook?
4-21-2008
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Slate
The controversial George W. Bush-sponsored poll in South Carolina mentioned John McCain's role in the so-called Keating Five scandal, and McCain says his involvement in the scandal "will probably be on my tombstone." What exactly did Mc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Editor blows it, columnist loses his gig and gets tarred
4-21-2008
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Chicago Tribune
Every once in awhile, we newspaper columnists, raging and fulminating at our keyboards, go too far -- we overstate, we gloss over nuance, we generalize unfairly, we give offense we don't intend while trying to be funny or profound, or we otherwi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
The Green Light
4-21-2008
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Vanity Fair
As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn’t talk, the Bush administration’s highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The trillion-dollar mortgage time bomb
4-21-2008
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CNN
Risks are rising that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may need a taxpayer bailout that could cost far more than previous rescues.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Today's Pennsylvania Primary: Democracy of the Gods
4-21-2008
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Brad blog
On Tuesday night, you will be told who the winner of the Pennsylvania Primary is. You will accept it. You will have no choice. No matter who the winner really is. Or isn't.
The Election Will be 'Unrecountable, Unverifiable, and Unauditable
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
From DNA of Family, a Tool to Make Arrests
4-21-2008
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Washington Post
Privacy Advocates Say the Emerging Practice Turns Relatives Into Genetic Informants. Investigators obtained a court order without the daughter's knowledge for a Pap smear specimen she had given five years earlier at a university medical clinic in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Animal activists offer million dollars for test-tube meat
4-21-2008
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AFP
Steaks out of a test-tube? The animal rights group PETA is putting up a million dollar reward for anyone who by 2012 can grow in-vitro meat that looks and tastes like the real thing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Pentagon chief urges Air Force to embrace change
4-21-2008
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AP
In unusually blunt terms, Defense Secretary Robert Gates challenged the Air Force, whose leaders are under fire on several fronts, to contribute more to immediate wartime needs and to promote new thinking.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Three States Subjected To "Martial Law Sweeps"
4-21-2008
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After Downing Street
Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as well state and local police forces in three states last weekend for a vast round up operation that one sheriff’s deputy has described as "martial law training".
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
No matter who wins, we all lose
4-21-2008
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South Carolina Times (h/t Kurt Hoffman)
The 6th District Republican Party held its convention April 5. The election of national delegates/alternates played a prominent role. I was there and was elected one of three national delegates. So how did I, a small potato, get elected?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
There Must Never Be Another Waco!
by Chuck Baldwin
4-21-2008
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On February 28, 1993, agents of the BATF began their assault on the home of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. An unarmed David Koresh was shot by the agents as he stepped onto his front porch. A shootout resulted with several deaths on both s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Quotes: Twenty Foreign Policy Quotes by Liberals
04-21-2008
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Mondoreb
“One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that’s come before them, where we’re involved, and it didn’t upset my breakfast at all.” That was Ronald Reagan in 1983 after the Grenada Invasion. He'd likely have t
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Illinois Earthquakes: The Infamous Dr. Browning's New Madrid Prediction
04-21-2008
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Ginn
The earthquakes in Illinois, which still sent out aftershocks earlier this morning, reminded some of Dr. Iben Browning's infamous 1990 earthquake prediction--which sent residents scurrying for cover.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
The Libertarian Party: Is it Time for a Woman President? YES! by RPaul supporter rtbohan
04-21-2008
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Liberty in America column
Saw this article written by someone over at The Nolan Chart & wanted to share it.-- CSmith (Paid for by Christine Smith for President)
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
An Alarming Forecast For The Housing Bust
4-20-08
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DailyKos.com
Homeowners who have suffered a 20 percent or greater fall in house prices are about fourteen times more likely to default on a mortgage compared to homeowners who have enjoyed a 20 percent increase.
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News Link • Military
More convicted felons allowed to enlist in Army, Marines
4-21-2008
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AP
Under pressure to increase their numbers, the Army and Marines have sharply raised the number of recruits with felony convictions they are admitting to the services. The bulk of the crimes involved were burglaries, other thefts, and drug offenses
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Eye of the Housing Hurricane - Mike Morgan update
4-20-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
This is exactly what’s happening in Florida’s housing and financial markets. We are in the eye of the hurricane, and the back half will hit us twice as hard as the front.
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News Link • Eugenics
Indiana Gov. Daniels: People need to get over Reagan, already
4-21-2008
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National Examiner (h/t Anon)
"Nostalgia is fine and Reagan’s economic plan was good," Gov. Daniels said. "But we need to look towards the future rather than staying in the past." Adding the GOP needed to work on uniting behind McCain instead of constantly com
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • North American Union
New Orleans: Summit for Security and Prosperity
4-21-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
Bush himself is pushing his Canadian and Mexican counterparts to adopt US-style “Homeland Security” measures so that, says Barlow, “we’ll all be zip-locked together in one security bag.”
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World
4-21-2008
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NY Sun / Josh Gerstein
Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
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Brock Lorber
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