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Date Sent: 2008-04-28
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, April 28, 2008 |
Karzai Escapes Unharmed After Taliban Attack; 3 Killed -- McCain Used Wife’s Jet for Little Cost
The 'John McCain / Hillary Clinton Team' can't be hid forever -- Letters Give C.I.A. Torture a Legal Rationale -- Report from Nevada GOP Convention -- Royal Caribbean Strands Family On Cruise From Hell -- Sharpton vows to 'close this city' after officer acquittals -- Anti-war Cindy Sheehan files to take on Pelosi -- Constitution Party stunner: Chuck Baldwin KOs firebrand Alan Keyes -- Chaos over Ron Paul cancels convention -- MISH: Geopolitics of Peak Oil -- The New Economics of Hunger -- California: Median Home Prices Down 29% In March -- GOP Ignores the Rules! -- Paul has a novel idea for his campaign leftovers -- Right wing to soldiers: You can hold an M-16, but not Playboy -- "The World According to Monsanto" Expose’ Disappears from the Internet! -- Delegate challenges concerning Florida, Michigan to be heard -- PBS breaks 'media blackout' of NYT story on Pentagon propaganda -- How Hillary Can Still Win --State moves to ban fake testicles
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Letters Give C.I.A. Torture a Legal Rationale
4-27-2008
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NY Times
The Justice Department has told Congress that American intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can legally use interrogation methods that might otherwise be prohibited under international law.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Karzai Escapes Unharmed After Taliban Attack (Video of Attack)
04-27-2008
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YouTube (AP)
Suspected Taliban militants attacked a ceremony attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday, unleashing automatic weapons and rocket fire. The attack killed two but the president escaped without injury. (April 27)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush tweaks candidates at correspondents' dinner
04-27-2008
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Yahoo News
The Scottish-born Ferguson found middle ground between the tepid impersonations of last year's entertainer, Rich Little, and the merciless satire that Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert delivered in 2006. (Ferguson wanted to keep his job)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Racism
Sharpton vows to 'close this city' after officer acquittals
04-27-2008
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RawStory.com
Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Family
Royal Caribbean Strands Family On Cruise From Hell
04-27-2008
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Mondoreb
Royal Caribbean kicks off a family with no passports, in their pajamas, at night, with a kid--because the kid had a cold.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain Used Wife’s Jet for Little Cost
4-27-20078
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NY Times
Senator John McCain’s backed legislation last year requiring presidential candidates to pay the actual cost of flying on corporate jets. Mr. McCain’s campaign is using a corporate jet owned by his wife's company.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Anti-war Cindy Sheehan files to take on Pelosi
4-27-2008
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San Francisco Chronicle
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan wants to snatch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat from her in November, but first she's going to need the help - and signatures - of 10,198 friends and supporters.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Chaos over Paul cuts short gathering
04-27-2008
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Reno Gazette Journal
After a super-majority of Ron Paul supporters captured control of the Republican state convention, state party officials abruptly canceled the event without electing delegates to the national convention. (T-shirt today - "Don't Gavel me Bro*
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Constitution Party stunner: Chuck Baldwin KOs firebrand Alan Keyes
4-27-2008
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Kansas City Star
Convening its national convention in Kansas City today, the Constitution Party picked radio talk-show host Chuck Baldwin over former Ambassador Alan Keyes as its 2008 presidential candidate.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Project Censored: Top 25 Stories of 2008
4-27-08
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AtLargely.com
Larisa Alexandrovna wants to remind us how much the Main Stream Media is hiding from the general public.
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News Link • Energy
Geopolitics of Peak Oil
4-25-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Today we found out that the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Resource (SPR) rose to a record 700.9 million barrels, and is increasing at a rate of 62,000 barrels a day. Why would the U.S. be increasing reserves with oil over $100?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California: Median Home Prices Down 29% In March
4-27-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
The median price for an existing home in Monterey county was -46.22% when compared to the peak price two years ago. The High Desert was -37.09%, and Sacramento was -34.48%.
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News Link • Food
The New Economics of Hunger
04-27-2008
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Washington Post
How a sinking dollar affects oil prices and then global food prices. The Fed's reckless policies here are causing starvation (by design?) all over the world.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Police State
King George Walker Bush's United Police States
4-27-08
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Youtube.com
YouTube video.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Ignores the Rules! The corruption is obvious, and so is the resistance to correct it.
04-27-2008
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Dennis Rodenbeck, Nueces County Republican Conv.
At the Nueces County Convention in Texas, it turns out the status quo ran into problems when people who understood the rules of the State Election Code tried to work under them. As you can see, the status quo either had no idea of what the rules are
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Reported by:
Jack Spratt
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Right wing to soldiers: You can hold an M-16, but not Playboy
4-26-08
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Rawstory.com
Our troops should not see their honor sullied so that the moguls behind magazines like Playboy and Penthouse can profit. The ‘Military Honor and Decency Act’ will right a bureaucratic--and moral--wrong."
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News Link • Eugenics
Paul has a novel idea for his campaign leftovers
04-27-2008
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Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
Despite single-digit polling in the majority of primary states, Paul is sitting on about $4 million in campaign cash, Benton said. The campaign might not be precluded from creating a carefully structured for-profit corp. specifically for educational
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Open letter to Shane Cory (LP Exec. Dir.) & Andrew Davis (LP Media Coordinator) from Christine Smith
04-27-2008
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Christine Smith's column
Regarding your press release "Libertarians call for increased communication to combat child pornography."
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Christine -
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News Link • Transportation
Used BMWs: Costly Repairs, Reliability Issues
04-26-2008
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Ginn
BMWs once had a reputation as the ultimate driving machines produced by German engineering. The brand has fallen on tough times. Why?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Food
Load Up the Pantry...No, this is not a drill.
4/26/08
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online.wsj.com
I don't want to alarm anybody, but maybe it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food. You've seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. Yes, they're a long way away from the U.S. But most foodstuffs oper
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Nothing New
by Charley Reese
4-26-2008
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LewRockwell
Here's a quotation cited by Mark Twain from the 19th century. Read it and see if you don't recognize it from today's political discourse: "Even if the war be wrong we are in it and must fight it out: we cannot retire from it without
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Israel Might Have Many More Spies Here, Officials Say
04-25-2008
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CQ Politics
The elderly New Jersey man arrested last week on charges of spying for Israel years ago was probably still working for the Jewish state’s espionage service in tandem with another, as yet unidentified spy, former American intelligence officials say.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain under investigation for Rothschild campaign donations
04-26-2008
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Judicial Watch
The venue for the event was apparently donated to the campaign by foreign nationals, in violation of federal campaign finance laws. Funny... McCain’s the guy who spearheaded campaign finance reform in order to remove the corrupting influence of money
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
PBS breaks 'media blackout' of NYT story on Pentagon propaganda
4-26-2008
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ThinkProgress (h/t Dennis C)
On Sunday, The New York Times exposed the Pentagon’s secret campaign to use analysts in order to "generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance." Since that time, TV news have largely been silent
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Delegate challenges concerning Florida, Michigan to be heard
4-26-2008
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AP
A plan to award half-delegates for the disputed Michigan and Florida Democratic presidential primaries will get a hearing before party leaders May 31. Hillary Clinton won both contests and has been pushing for the delegates to be seated.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
How Hillary Can Still Win (90 sec. VIDEO)
04-26-2008
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YouTube
This entertaining spoof is to make it clear that Hillary can not win. Buuuut, all the more 'prophetic' for me when she does :) I am still of the opinion that the entire process is all about Hillary becoming president,... no matter what. INSHO
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Chuck Baldwin enters Presidential Race
4-26-2008
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Nolan Chart (h/t Dennis C)
"I will say it straight out: any Christian or conservative who supports John McCain has no principles left worth defending!" - Chuck Baldwin
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Powell Gammill
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Reference Link • Internet
Break the Matrix
Our goal at BreakTheMatrix is to build a social networking organization and movement that will bring freedom loving people together on the Internet, and deliver our message of optimism, hope, freedom and prosperity "off-Internet."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
State moves to ban fake testicles on vehicles
4-26-2008
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Reuters
Because Lord knows this is more important than anything else going on!!
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Don't believe Bush's War is religiously based? Ask an atheist soldier.
4-26-2008
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Associated Press
Afterward, his commander asked whether he believed in God, Hall said.
"I said, 'No, but I believe in Plexiglas,'" Hall said. "I've never believed I was going to a happy place. You get one life. When I die, I'm worm foo
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
What Is is....Microtargeting your mind
04-26-2008
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http://shootingsparks.blogspot.com/
a piece i wrote blogging for Obama about the head f**kers at Burson-Marsteller
and the mind control mob in the MSM
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Clifford Webb
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