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Date Sent: 2008-06-02
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, June 2, 2008 |
Martial Law: The Installment Plan-by Will Grigg--MISH: Bankruptcy Reform Act Finally Blows Sky High
Indicted Chicago cop shines light on corruption -- US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships -- Billboards That Look Back -- Your Mind is Controlled -- 2 Miami officers charged in FBI corruption probe -- California voters could roll back legal pot growing -- Motorcycle group to sue DMV and State Police over Unconstitutional Roadblocks -- Appeals Court Upholds High School’s Disciplinary Action of Student for Off-Campus Speech -- Maine Jury Says It's Legal to Protest an Illegal War -- Australian troops pull out of Iraq -- 34 Convicted in Display At U.S. Supreme Court -- Missouri law would fine employers for requiring microchip implants -- Bhutto Dealt Nuclear Secrets to N. Korea -- Open Letter To: Jacob Hornberger ("FFF") and Anthony Romero ("ACLU") from Bob Schulz ("WTP") -- Explanation of what is going on with Hillary/ Obama MICH/ FLA delegates -- LA Times: Executive Order No. 12333 -- Mars probe appears to have landed atop ice -- Hearings over McClellan revelations? -- Fla., Mich. delegates will get half-votes -- The Fed Props Up Wall Street Banks 365 Days a Year -- MISH: S&L Crisis vs. Current Crisis -- Looking for An Honest Judge in Santa Cruz - by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster -- US terrorism list a political tool -- VIDEO: George W. Guilty of Murder? - by Vincent Bugliosi -- Largest Swiss Newspaper Asks if Bush Was Behind 9/11...
Phoenix: John Stuart hearing today at 10AM; Gen. William Odom, Dead; Christopher Ketcham and Sgt. Matthis Chiroux on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Indicted Chicago cop shines light on corruption
6-1-2008
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Reuters
A former Chicago police officer charged with being part of a ring that falsely arrested and stole from drug dealers has detailed how the operation led to a plot to kill two colleagues, according to interview excerpts released on Friday.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships
6-01-08
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Guardian.co.uk
Ships that are understood to have held prisoners include the USS Bataan and USS Peleliu. A further 15 ships are suspected of having operated around the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...
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News Link • Police State
Billboards That Look Back
6-1-2008
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NY Times
In advertising these days, the brass ring goes to those who can measure everything " how many people see a particular advertisement, when they see it, who they are. All of that is easy on the Internet, and getting easier in television and print.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
2 Miami officers charged in FBI corruption probe
6-1-2008
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AP
Two veteran police officers were charged Friday with providing protection for purported shipments of cocaine and stolen goods in what was actually an undercover FBI operation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
California voters could roll back legal pot growing
6-1-2008
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AP
Voters here took the state's official permissiveness on marijuana to new heights in 2000, allowing residents to grow up to 25 pot plants for medical, recreational or personal use.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Homegrown Revolution - Radical change taking root
06-01-2008
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Devraes
“In our society growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest; one that can - and will - overturn the corporate powers that be.”
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Media: Television
Your Mind is Controlled
06-01-2008
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YouTube
"Through education, media, and big business, your mind is being controlled. Your mind is distracted with illusions to keep you away from the truth."
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Motorcycle group to sue DMV and State Police over Unconstitutional Roadblocks
06-01-2008
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WSYR.com
State Police are harassing motorcyclists at a roadblock en route to a biker rally in the Adirondacks. The National Coalition of Motorcyclists calls this "unconstitutional" and has taken the first steps necessary to file a lawsuit to put an
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Activism
Second Circuit Upholds High School’s Disciplinary Action of Student for Off-Campus Speech
6-1-2008
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Thomas Jefforson Center
The appeals court upheld a ruling that the school acted appropriately in disqualifying the student from running for senior class secretary despite no precedent involving student expression that did not occur at the school or school-sponsored event
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Larry Craig Bobblefoot Doll
6-1-2008
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The Smoking Gun
Capitalizing on Senator Larry Craig's restroom bust, a Minnesota minor league baseball team this Sunday is giving away a promotional item celebrating the Republican politician's arrest last year in an Minneapolis-St.Paul airport toilet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Maine Jury Says It's Legal to Protest an Illegal War
6-1-2008
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Alternet
Six peace activists were acquitted on charges of criminal trespass for failing to obey a police request that they abandon their sit-in outside U.S. Sen. Susan Collins' office in the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building in Maine.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Gen. William Odom, Dead
6-1-2008
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Antiwar blog
The sad news just reached us that retired General William E. Odom has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 75. Odom served as director of the National Security Agency during Ronald Reagan’s second term. He had a reputation as a military hard-line
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Australian troops pull out of Iraq
6-1-2008
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Reuters
[As one wag put it, Australia joins the Coalition of the Going. Will Tonga step up?] About 500 Australian combat troops pulled out of their base in southern Iraq on Sunday, fulfilling an election promise to bring the soldiers home this year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
34 Convicted in Display At U.S. Supreme Court
6-1-2008
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Washington Post
Don't be protesting outside the US Supreme Court. No free speech there. No Bill of Rights there. Thirty-four people were convicted yesterday of misdemeanor charges stemming from a demonstration at the Supreme Court in January in which they decr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Bhutto Dealt Nuclear Secrets to N. Korea, Book says
06-01-2008
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Washington Post
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, on a state visit to North Korea in 1993, smuggled in critical data on uranium enrichment -- a route to making a nuclear weapon -- to help facilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang, according to a new boo
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Missouri law would fine employers for requiring microchip implants
05-29-2008
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Columbian Missourian
JEFFERSON CITY " Your bosses can still make you work weekends and give you projects you loathe. But Missouri lawmakers have voted to make it a crime if they order that a microchip be implanted in your arm. (Where else might they implant it!?!)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Eugenics
Explanation of what is going on with Hillary/ Obama MICH/ FLA delegates
6-1-2008
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Brad Blog
The meeting of the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee has been an interesting one to watch. All sides in the unfortunate matters of fighting over how to seat (or not) the delegations from Florida and Michigan at this year's national convention
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Martial Law on the Installment Plan
by Will Grigg
6-1-2008
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Pro Libertate
Will Grigg documents the timeline from out nation's beginnings that has slowly led to our rapidly impending martial law enslavement.
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News Link • Bush Administration
Executive Order No. 12333
06-01-2008
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Los Angeles Times
A Bush adminstration plan to issue new orders realigning the chain of command over US spy services has triggered turf-related skirmishes across the intelligence community. The changes could erode the CIA's standing as the
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News Link • Eugenics
A short clip from the republican convention held in Branson.
We're everywhere
06-01-2008
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ronpaulforum.info
A short clip from the republican convention held in Branson.
Were everywhere
http://www.youtube.com/v/UBPLapFSDWk&hl
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War Onyou
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Why Democrats Won’t Stop the War
06-01-2008
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hronpaulforum.info
The nationwide opposition to the Iraq War is based on a host of populist impulses. Some people hate it because they think lives are being sacrificed to pursue the oil industry’s agenda. Some despise it because, without a military draft, the U.S. ca
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
E.T. phone Rome; Vatican says it's OK
05-31-2008
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Chicago Tribune via NewsOK.com
Word that the Vatican recently had declared devout Catholics free to believe in aliens traveled at warp speed around the globe and, quite possibly, to points unknown.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mars probe appears to have landed atop ice
05-31-2008
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San Francisco Chronicle
Elated scientists probing the arctic surface of Mars with their newly landed Phoenix spacecraft said Saturday they are convinced they have found a bright and shiny layer of genuine ice only inches beneath the Martian soil and directly under the body
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Conyers mulls hearings over McClellan revelations
05-31-2008
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RawStory.com
McClellan tells CNN he'd 'be happy' to testify; Perino suggests White House could block
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Officials say Fla., Mich. delegates will get half-votes
5-31-2008
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AP
Democratic Party leaders agreed to seat Michigan and Florida delegates with half votes into this summer's convention with a compromise that left Barack Obama on the verge of the nomination but riled Hillary Rodham Clinton backers who threatened t
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed Will Now Prop Up Wall Street Banks 365 Days a Year
5-30-08
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Bloomberg.com
``If you are a bondholder in one of these Wall Street firms, you know you have a big `Sugar Daddy' now called the Federal Reserve that's going to back you up,'' said Jeff Pantages, chief investment officer of Alaska Permanent Capital
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bankruptcy Reform Act Finally Blows Sky High
5-29-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
After the fairy godmother (Bush) signed the bill written by industry lobbyists and passed by Congress as "reform", banks and lending institutions went on a credit binge of previously unimaginable proportion.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
S&L Crisis vs. Current Crisis
5-30-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
In the 1980's the consumer was not tapped out. Today's consumer is so tapped out that many are walking away from their homes. Others are voluntarily choosing bankruptcy.
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News Link • Eugenics
Raising the Barr
5-31-2008
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The Economist
ON MAY 25th a dysfunctional minor party picked a grumpy ex-Republican as its presidential candidate. This may be just another quirk in the quirky history of the Libertarian Party. But it just might be something more than this: a further sign that the
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News Link • Eugenics
You can't lick Bob!
5-31-2008
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Reason
In 2004, the Economist was the first magazine to take the hammer and tongs to Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik. The candidate's staff hurried to purge damaging and weird material from his web site after he, surprisingly,
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News Link • Eugenics
Bob Barr licked?
5-31-2008
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The Independent (music video)
Barr famously licked whipped cream off the breasts of two women at a charity event while running for Congress in 1994. [He's got my vote! Here are some volunteers making your first TV commercial Bob.]
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News Link • Bush Administration
Analysis: US terrorism list also a political tool
5-31-2008
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AP
North Korea has not been linked to a terrorist attack in more than two decades, but it is still on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. Now, it may be on the verge of its coveted goal of getting removed " for reasons having little to do with
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News Link • Constitution
VIDEO: George W. Guilty of Murder?
by Vincent Bugliosi
05-31-2008
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waronyou
Bring about Justice
George W Bush has gotten away with murder, thousands of murders, and we the American people cannot let him do this.
Legal architecture for the case against Bush and to prosecute him...
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War Onyou
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News Link • Conspiracies
Largest Swiss Newspaper Asks if Bush Was Behind 9/11...
05-31-2008
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waronyou
2,973 humans died with the attacks of 9/11. "Bin Laden" and "Al Qaeda", the Bush clan cried. The world believed them. In the meantime even scientists doubt the Bush version. Now, Swiss university professors Albert A. Stahel and Da
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