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Date Sent: 2008-06-09
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, June 9, 2008 |
Clinton suspends campaign, endorses Obama -- The r3VOLution...and Ron Paul's role in it
Ernest Hancock and Barry Hess share their knowledge of the future -- NJ Spends $331 Million a Year Jailing Drug Offenders -- Gun owners tired of hiding their weapons -- Butler Shaffer Attends a GOP CONvention -- Farm crisis spooks Argentine economy -- Gasoline rises above $4 a gallon -- Lawyer: Gitmo interrogators told to trash notes -- OPEC: No need to pump more oil despite record prices -- World's biggest solar farm -- Option ARM's: Wave of Foreclosures Will Overwhelm the Market Thru 2011 -- TOMATOES AND SALMONELLA -- U.S. Military's Middle East Crusade for Christ -- Bilderberg meeting attracts prominent politicians, businessmen -- Feds: Republican treasurer embezzled over $500k -- Gold Surges Most in 6 Months on Jobs Data, Dollar's Slump -- Amazon.com site fails for 2 hours, cause unknown -- Mexico Demands World Court Intercede in American Judicial System -- Virgin Galactic Spaceline: Mega-Mothership Set for Rollout -- Ron Paul Questions Iraq Lawmakers -- MISH: Oil Prices vs. Power of Personality -- AZ Co. Sheriff Caught Fudging the Photo Radar Numbers -- Had Enough? Change Your Leaders, Change Your Life - by Dave Hodges
Maricopa Co. LP meeting tonight
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News Link • Drug War
New Jersey Spends $331 Million a Year Jailing Nonviolent Drug Offenders
6-8-2008
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Stop the Drug War
As New Jersey legislators push for sentencing reforms of some mandatory minimum drug offense sentences, a new report from the Drug Policy Alliance finds that the state is spending more than $330 million a year to lock up nonviolent drug offenders.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Michael Crichton, Vindicated: His 1993 prediction of mass-media extinction
6-8-2008
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Salon
The mediasaurs had about a decade to live, he wrote, before technological advances""artificial intelligence agents roaming the databases, downloading stuff I am interested in, and assembling for me a front page""swept them under.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun owners tired of hiding their weapons embrace 'open carry'
6-8-2008
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LA Times
For years, Kevin Jensen carried a pistol everywhere he went, tucked in a shoulder holster beneath his clothes. Then one evening he stumbled across a site that urged gun owners to do something revolutionary: Carry your gun openly for the world to see
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Butler Shaffer Attends a GOP CONvention
6-8-2008
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LewRockwell
[Hopefully not sober.] It had been forty-four years since I last attended a political convention. I was part of my state’s delegation to the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, an experience that helped push me over the threshold in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Foes of Ariz. sanctions law to have day in court
6-8-2008
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East Vallley Tribune
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments by business groups and Hispanic activists that only the federal government can regulate whether employers can hire people not in this country legally. More to the point, they contend only the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gasoline rises above $4 a gallon for first time
6-8-2008
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Reuters
The U.S. average price for a gallon of regular gasoline topped $4 for the first time, a survey issued on Sunday by the travel group AAA showed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Farm crisis spooks Argentine economy
6-8-2008
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AP
Argentina, one of the world's biggest breadbaskets, should be rolling in cash as world food prices soar. Instead, soy, wheat and corn have sat for weeks in silos as farmers protesting new export taxes suspended sales.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Lawyer: Gitmo interrogators told to trash notes
6-8-2008
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AP
The lawyer for Omar Khadr, Lt. Cmdr. Kuebler, said the instructions were included in an operations manual shown to him by prosecutors and suggest the US deliberately thwarted evidence that could help terror suspects defend themselves at trial.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
OPEC: No need to pump more oil despite record prices
6-8-08
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Rawstory.com
Iran has large volumes of crude sitting in tankers offshore waiting for buyers.
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News Link • Energy
World's biggest solar farm at centre of Portugal's ambitious energy plan
06-08-2008
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John Vidal
Clean-tech revolution in country without oil or gas. Project also includes wave and wind power.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Police State
U.S. Sonic Blasters to be Aimed at Olympic "Human Rights Protesters"?
6-8-08
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Spiegel.de/international
Instead, they turn on their Long Range Acoustic Devices and blast the crowds with ear-splitting noise, sending the crowd into a panic. A tag on the side of the devices reads: "Made in USA."
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Obama, Mainstream Media: Right Color Was More Important than Right Stuff
06-08-2008
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Mondoreb
Last spring, the liberal Mainstream Media was more interested in whether Barack Obama was "black enough". "The Right Color"--or "The Right Shade of Color"--was more important than asking whether a rookie senator had '
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Option ARM's: Wave of Foreclosures Will Overwhelm the Market Thru 2011
6-8-08
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Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
According to Credit Suisse, monthly option recasts are expected to accelerate starting in April, 2009, from $5 billion to a peak of about $10 billion in January, 2010.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Military's Middle East Crusade for Christ
6-8-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
“They are proselytizing not on behalf of the Constitution of the United States . . . but rather on behalf of some sort of fanatical view of end times. And they are using our army to affect that.”
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Opinion • Economy - Economics USA
Farm Wars
I had a dream...
06-08-2008
Barbara Peterson
I had a dream the other night in which there was famine. Fuel was not available, and the land was barren. If we are indeed being thrown straight into third-world status, we need to prepare.
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News Link • Humor
Bush Refuses to Read McClellan’s Book, Calling It ‘A Book’
05-28-2008
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the Borowitz Rreport
Puts Chances of Reading Book at Zero
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tom paswater
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
TOMATOES AND SALMONELLA
06-08-2008
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TOMATOES AND SALMONELLA
An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has now been reported in nine states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
Lab tests have confirmed 40 illnesses in Texas and New Mexico as the same type of salmonella, ri
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War Onyou
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News Link • Energy
Affordable DIY Solar Heating System
06-07-2008
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Alternative Energy
Mother Earth News recently featured an extensive article covering instructions on building your own small-scale solar heating system for as low as $30. The system successfully supplies enough power to keep the building’s interior comfortable in near-
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
Solar Speedboat Gets 30 Knots Per Hour
06-07-2008
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Alternative Energy
Dutch MK1 prototype is designed to travel at speeds up to 30 knots per hour! In 2006 the Delft Technical University Solarboat Team raced the speedboat to first place in the Nuon Frisian Solar Challenge.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Bilderberg meeting attracts prominent politicians, businessmen
06-07-2008
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RawStory.com
The 56th Bilderberg Meeting, an annual conference of influential politicians and businessmen, began Thursday in Chantilly, Virgina, according to a press release from the organization.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Chavez says he will meet with next US president
06-07-2008
But Chavez also warned that George W. Bush "will be much more dangerous during the last months that he has left" in the White House, and accused the outgoing U.S. president of attempting to orchestrate his assassination or spur a military r
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Franken wins Senate endorsement in Minnesota
06-07-2008
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RawStory.com
"To the people of Minnesota, let me say this: I'm not a perfect person," said Franken, a former "Saturday Night Live" writer and performer. "I'm not going to pretend to have all the answers. But I'll tell the trut
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Feds: Republican treasurer embezzled over $500k
06-07-2008
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RawStory.com
According to the Department of Justice and an internal NRCC audit stemming from its accusations against Ward in March, he began embezzling in 2003.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Amazon.com site fails for 2 hours, cause unknown
06-07-2008
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Rueters
BOSTON (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said its U.S. website was down for about 2 hours on Friday but said it was unsure what had blocked access to the world's biggest online store.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold Surges Most in Six Months on Jobs Data, Dollar's Slump
06-07-2008
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Bloomberg
Gold jumped the most in six months after the U.S. jobless rate had the biggest gain in more than two decades, spurring a drop in the dollar. Silver also rose.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic Spaceline: Mega-Mothership Set for Rollout Debut
6-7-2008
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Space.com
Rollout of Scaled Composites' mega-mothership, WhiteKnightTwo, is anticipated late July in Mojave, California " the first phase of a project to create a private space travel business. WhiteKnightTwo is a specially designed jet carrier aircraft,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Mexico Demands World Court Intercede in American Judicial System
06-07-2008
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Ginn
Mexico is demanding the World Court take urgent measures to block executions of Mexican Nationals on US Death Rows. Amazingly, Bush sided with the World Court--a bad precedent indeed.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
Clinton suspends her campaign, endorses Obama
6-7-2008
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AP
Hillary Rodham Clinton ended her historic campaign for the presidency on Saturday and told supporters to unite behind rival Barack Obama, closing out a race that was as grueling as it was groundbreaking.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Questions Iraq Lawmakers (Pt. 2)
6-7-2008
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Youtube
[See Pt. 1 link] Al-Ilyan is one of three leaders of the Iraq Accordance Front, parliament's largest Sunni Arab bloc with 44 of the house's 275 seats. Last year, he played a prominent role in the Sunni decision to walk out of the Cabinet in p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Oil Prices vs. Power of Personality
6-7-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
If Bush has no "personality" neither does Paulson, or for that matter, Bernanke. Paulson's strong dollar policy yapping makes him the laughingstock of the world.
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News Link • Corruption
Pinal County Sheriff Caught Fudging the Photo Radar Numbers
06-07-2008
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The Newspaper
Instead of being down 53 percent as the Pinal County Sheriff's Dept claimed, accidents increased 16 percent during the period speed cameras were used, as compared to the same period in 2006 without cameras.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Food
UN Food Crisis Summit leads to warm fuzzies for Obama
06-05-2008
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MARTA FALCONI, UPI
African leaders at the U.N. food summit said Thursday that Barack Obama becoming the Democratic presidential nominee was a point of pride and could lead to increased U.S. focus on problems in Africa. In Kenya, where his father was born people gather
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • World News
Nuclear Explosion Occurs Near Epicenter of the Sichuan Earthquake, Expert Says
06/03/2008
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By Wu Weilin, Epoc Times Staff
Boxun News, a Chinese-language Web site, reports that an unnamed expert has claimed that there was a nuclear explosion near the epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake, based on witness reports and the discovery of concrete rubble believed to have come f
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Bruce Barton
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