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Date Sent: 2008-06-04
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, June 4, 2008 |
Aussies Bolt Iraq Over Bush's Lies - by Ray McGovern -- Mexico isn't feeling the US economic slump
Canada's parliament votes to grant asylum to U.S. war resisters -- Clueless: Bernanke Blames Saving Glut For Housing Bubble - by MISH -- OK for Drug Dogs to "Sniff Around" Your Home without Warrant -- Arizona Legislator Karen Johnson Asks McCain to Meet on 9/11 -- Clinton says she's open to being Obama's VP -- Farm Bill Blocks Court-Ordered Release Of Subsidy Program Data Under FOIA -- Newest McCain official: President has "near dictatorial powers" by Glenn Greenwald -- Why did the CIA give the Iranians blueprints to build a nuke 6 years ago? -- US rejects Rudd's war assertions -- Why Australia is leaving Iraq -- 100,000 in Massachusetts fined for not having health insurance -- Both McCain, Obama exaggerating Iran's nuclear program
Jim Lobe on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Clueless: Bernanke Blames Saving Glut For Housing Bubble
6-3-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
This nonsense is what happens when an academic meets the real world. That Bernanke can't distinguish between monetary printing and savings is quite telling.
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News Link • Military
Canada's parliament votes to grant asylum to U.S. war resisters
6-3-08
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Rawstory.com
It urged the government to allow conscientious objectors "who have refused or left military service related to a war not sanctioned by the United Nations" to stay in Canada.
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News Link • Police State
Michigan: Okay for Drug Dogs to "Sniff Around" Your Home without Warrant
06-03-2008
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Mondoreb
Imagine, while leaving for work, you run into a cop with a drug dog on your porch. There only "sniffing around". If you live in Michigan, that meeting just might occur--thanks to a ruling by the Michigan Court of Appeals last week. The Foun
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - International
Mexico isn’t feeling the U. S. economic slump
06-03-2008
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buffalonews.com
MEXICO CITY " A sizzling stock market. A strengthening peso. Good economic growth. Someone forgot to tell Mexico that the United States has been flirting with recession.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
McAuliffe: If Obama reaches 2,118, Clinton will concede
06-03-2008
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TheHill.com
Terry McAuliffe, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (N.Y.) campaign chairman, said Tuesday that he believes that, once Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) reaches the needed # of delegates the former first lady “will congratulate him and call him the nominee.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Clinton says she's open to being Obama's VP
06-03-2008
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By BETH FOUHY and DEVLIN BARRETT, Ass. Press
On a conference call with other New York lawmakers, Clinton, a New York senator, said she was willing to become Obama's vice presidential nominee if it would help Democrats win the White House, according to several participants in the call.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Global Warming: New Sunspot Cycle May Mean The Iceman Cometh
06-03-2008
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pat
While the Senate debates more taxes to combat global warming, the latest sunspot cycle may mean another round of global cooling.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • PC: Political Correctness
Nanny State Only Has a Zest for Bossing People Around
06-03-2008
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pat
The primary goal of the Nanny State: to make life so uncomfortable and colorless for citizens that they fail to understand how uncomfortable life has become. Three examples.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Immigration
Illegal Immigration Video: Debunking the Media Matters "Report"
06-03-2008
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Jake Jacobsen
This week’s Blogs4Border’s video blogburst “Fisk”s Media Matters recent statements about illegal immigration.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Grassroots Contemplate Enforcement Action to Insure Republican Party of Texas Compliance with Te
06-03-2008
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fairconvention.org
HOUSTON, TEXAS - A group of Republican activists coordinated by Wharton County GOP Chair Debra Medina announced today that it has undertaken action to ensure the proper enforcement of the Texas Election Code at the upcoming Republican Party of Texas
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Jack Spratt
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News Link • Welfare: Corporate
Farm Bill Blocks Court-Ordered Release Of
Subsidy Program Data Under FOIA
6-3-2008
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Mulch blog
A provision secretly tucked into the Farm Bill blocks a recent federal appeals court decision under the Freedom of Information Act that ordered USDA to make public large amounts of data crucial to monitoring the multi-billion-dollar farm subsidy and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Newest McCain official: President has "near dictatorial powers"
6-3-2008
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
Bill Kristol proudly announces one of his Weekly Standard staff members, Michael Goldfarb, is the Deputy Communications Director of the McCain campaign. Last April, Goldfarb wrote about the powers the President possesses in our country:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Why did the CIA give the Iranians blueprints to build a nuke 6 years ago?
6-3-2008
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The Guardian
George Bush insists that Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. So why, six years ago, did the CIA give the Iranians blueprints to build a bomb?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Why Australia is leaving Iraq
6-3-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
Australia's prime minister said Monday that the reasons used to justify joining the war in Iraq turned out to be false. Labor leader Kevin Rudd made the remarks a day after ordering his country's 550 combat troops to head home after five year
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US rejects Rudd's war assertions
6-3-2008
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Herald Sun
THE White House has rejected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's charges of "abuse" of pre-war intelligence on Iraq, saying "the entire world" agreed on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
People in Kennedy land fined for not having health insurance
06-03-2008
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AP
Nearly 100,000 Massachusetts taxpayers have been fined for failing to obtain health insurance, even as a major survey concludes the effort to create near-universal coverage in the state is meeting key goals. 5% of taxpayers failed to
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Iran
Both McCain, Obama exaggerating Iran's nuclear program
6-2-08
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McClatchydc.com
In criticism aimed at Obama, McCain said, "The idea that they now seek nuclear weapons because we refused to engage in presidential-level talks is a serious misreading of history."
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