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Date Sent: 2008-04-30
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
Drone attacks hit high in Iraq -- 18.6 Million Vacant homes -- US Marines fight Taliban
NYC Now World's 'Marijuana Arrest Capital' -- U.S. troops kill 45 in Sadr City clashes in Iraq -- Revolution in MN -- Iranian outmaneuvers U.S. in Iraq -- Gasoline prices top concerns over jobs, health troubles -- Homeowners face fight over wind turbines -- The U.S. Constitution is not just for Americans - by Christine Smith -- Traders Protest Unconstitutional Bear Stearns Bailout -- Home prices falling quickly -- U.S. Foreclosure Filings Double in First Quarter -- Ron Paul and Victory in November with Mary Ruwart - by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster -- Scalia: Torture Does Not Violate 'Cruel and Unusual Punishment -- Iran to discuss pipeline with India, Pakistan -- Global warming rage lets global hunger grow
Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday with Ernest Hancock; Forum on Intelligent Design with Dr. Chris Heward May 8 Phoenix Objectivists
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Police Make Headway In Baltimore Co. Mystery
4-29-2008
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CBS
Police were concerned that if something really was as loud and as bright as neighbors described, it could potentially be dangerous. So they began to investigate. Said Officer Posluszny, "I will not retire until I find out what this is."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
New York City Now World's 'Marijuana Arrest Capital'
4-29-2008
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CBS
Police busted nearly 400,000 people for carrying small amounts of pot in the last decade, making New York City the world leader in marijuana arrests, civil rights advocates said while unveiling a study criticizing the war on drugs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Ah, what fun we have defacing FIAT currency
4-29-2008
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Flickr (images)
It all started when I would draw glasses or beards on money with the counterfeit pen on the registers at work and just grew in to a hobby.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
The Solar Revolution and the End of Big Energy
4-29-08
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LewRockwell.com
While warriors and politicians have failed to deliver a secure source of cheap energy, scientists and business people have been doubling solar energy production every two years.
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News Link • Iran
Iranian president tries to seal India pipeline
4-29-2008
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Reuters
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pushed to seal a $7.6 billion pipeline deal linking the world's second-largest gas reserves to growing South Asian economies, despite opposition from the United States. Ahmadinejad met Prime Minister Manmohan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. troops kill 45 in Sadr City clashes in Iraq
4-29-2008
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McClatchy News
The US military said it had killed 45 militants in 2 days of fierce fighting in Baghdad, signaling that some Shiite Muslim extremists are defying a cease-fire against Iraqi troops. 4 US soldiers were killed in rocket or mortar attacks in Baghdad, the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iranian outmaneuvers U.S. in Iraq
4-29-2008
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McClatchy News
One of the most powerful men in Iraq isn't an Iraqi government official, a militia leader, a senior cleric or a top U.S. military commander or diplomat. He's an Iranian general, and at times he's more influential than all of them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Inspires Artistic Freedom
4-29-2008
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You Tube / matthewrobertart
Visual artist Matthew Robert draws Ron Paul in defense of the constitution. Music by Marc Scibilia.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Dallas man freed by DNA testing after 27 years in prison
4-29-2008
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AP
A Dallas man who spent more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit was freed Tuesday, after being incarcerated longer than any other wrongfully convicted U.S. inmate cleared by DNA testing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gasoline prices top concerns over jobs, health troubles
4-29-2008
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AP
Paying for gasoline easily tops the list of economic woes facing families in the United States, according to a survey on how changes in the economy have affected people's lives. [And food is harve$ted and tran$ported u$ing what? Ga$.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Homeowners face fight over wind turbines
4-29-2008
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Arizona Republic
The Endline's generate electricity with the turbines to power their nearby house, and they see it as a smart economic and environmental investment. The 33-foot-tall metal structures have generated quite a bluster at Bullhead City's municipal
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Drone attacks hit high in Iraq
4-29-2008
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USA Today
U.S. commanders in Iraq have ordered an unprecedented number of airstrikes by unmanned airplanes in April to kill insurgents in urban settings. [Bomb people making breakfast, then go hit the casinos. Go Air Force.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
The U.S. Constitution is not just for Americans (by Christine Smith)
04-30-2008
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Seeking Truth column at Nolan Chart
A recommendation of Jacob Hornberger's article "A Presumption of Guilt at Guantanamo" & Torture Facts/stats from Human Rights First
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Case-Shiller Shows Steep Declines In Home Prices
4-29-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Mish has included a print out of the CME Futures market for home prices in major markets across the country. The current betting on the Las Vegas market is for it to fall 46.3% from its peak in August 2006, and to hit bottom in November 2010.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Traders Protest Unconstitutional Bear Stearns Bailout
04-25-2008
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Personal Experience
A group of traders from around the country, united by a common determination to bring the illegalities committed by the Fed and the Treasury to light, converged on NYC on Friday, April 25 2008 to protest. Watch the fun!
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Jack Heald
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Saturday: Arizona Breakfast Club features Ernest Hancock
4-29-2008
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Arizona Breakfast Club
Ernie Hancock has been gone for 4 weeks, returning to tell us of his meeting Ron Paul, Paul's plans, the R3VOLutions plans, his Libertarian National Chairman plans, what others had to say around the country and his political plans. Fun!
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Concentration camp doctor heads list of top 10 wanted Nazis
4-29-2008
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AP
Heim managed to avoid prosecution, his American-held file in Germany mysteriously omitting his time at Mauthausen [CIA], and today he is the most wanted Nazi war criminal on a list of hundreds who are still free.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Manufacturing Jobs Returning to the US
03-08-2008
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Charleston Post & Courier
But maybe not in the way you think. Check out the 2 companies coming to South Carolina... "Get ready for the incoming tsunami of trade...I want children in Orangeburg County to know that when they finish high school or college, they can stay at
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
18.6 Million Vacant homes
4-28-08
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MrMortgage.ml-implode.com
What does this mean? It means the ’Months Supply’ figures released by NAR each month with the Existing Home Sales figures, which the press and market love to get so hot and bothered over, are highly suspect
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Case-Shiller Home Price Index: Prices falling quickly in bubble markets
4-29-08
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Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
Now that prices are falling, if Case-Shiller is a more accurate reflection of actual prices than OFHEO (as I believe), then the Fed might be underestimating the drag on consumer spending from falling prices.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Foreclosure Filings Double in First Quarter, Led by Nevada
4-29-08
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Bloomberg.com
The number was 112 percent above a year ago. Nevada, California and Arizona had the highest rates.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Marines move into Taliban-held area of Afghanistan
4-29-2008
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AP
US Marines exchanged gunfire with militants after pouring into a Taliban-held town in Afghanistan in the first major American operation in the region in years. Several hundred Marines, many veterans of Iraq, pushed into town in pre-dawn light in an o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Scalia: Torture Does Not Violate 'Cruel and Unusual Punishment
4-28-08
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ThinkProgress.org
SCALIA: No. To the contrary. You think â€" Has anybody ever referred to torture as punishment? I don’t think so.
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News Link • Iran
Iran to discuss pipeline with India, Pakistan
4-28-08
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CNN.com
The United States recently tried to scuttle the pipeline by offering India advanced nuclear technology to make up for the loss of Iranian gas. But Fars reported that India recently declared its readiness to participate in the discussions on the pipel
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News Link • Agriculture
Global warming rage lets global hunger grow
04-19-2008
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
We drive, they starve. . .The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted "massacres" unless the biofuel policy is halted.
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Leon Felkins
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