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Date Sent: 2008-06-18
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
Half of Wall St. Bank Profits Gone -- Military Choppers Practice 'War on Terror' at DNC Convention
When McCain Drops Out -- Videos show torture by UAE royal -- Iran's Ahmadinejad says oil price artificial -- The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words from them -- Fired state worker vindicated of child pornography charges -- Fears of big battle as Taliban fighters dig in -- Obama campaign rep STUMPED on legislative accomplishments -- How Presidential Power Became Untouchable -- Silver, Gold and the IRS -- Arizona joins Real ID revolt -- Fired U.S. Attorney: "I was working for the Sith Lords" -- 'Big Brother' snooping law stirs outrage in Sweden -- ISP’s confirm ‘2012: The Year The Internet Ends’ -- Oklahoma’s Charles Key Vows to Continue the Sovereignty Fight
Celtics win 17th NBA Championship by smashing LA
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News Link • Eugenics
When McCain Drops Out
6-17-2008
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HuffPo
I think there is every reason to believe John McCain won't be the nominee. Ok, let me say that again. McCain will not be the Republican candidate in November.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Nearly Half of Wall St. Bank Profits Are Gone
6-17-2008
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NY Times
Since last July, those same banks " Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley " have written down the value of the assets they hold by $107.2 billion, gutting their earnings
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Is the Universe Actually Made of Math?
6-17-2008
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Discover
In his mathematical universe hypothesis, he updates quantum physics and cosmology with the concept of many parallel universes inhabiting multiple levels of space and time. By posing his hypothesis at the crossroads of philosophy and physics,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
Cheap PC gadget for Internet calls selling well
6-17-2008
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AP
You may never have heard of YMax, but you may have noticed the TV ads for its product, the MagicJack, which works with a broadband connection. After plugging a regular phone into the MagicJack, the user can make and receive calls much like using a re
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Toyota hybrid battery outpaced by demand
6-17-2008
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AP
Toyota is struggling to keep up with booming demand for its hybrid vehicles because it can't make enough of the batteries that are key parts in the hit "green" cars. The crunch is likely to remain the rest of the year, as battery produc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Celtics win 17th NBA Championship by smashing LA
06-18-2008
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ESPN
On a new parquet floor below aging championship banners, the Boston Celtics won their 17th NBA title and a first one -- at last -- for Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen -- their Big Three for a new generation.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Torture
US businessman: Videos show torture by UAE royal
6-17-2008
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AP
As a trusted adviser to a member of United Arab Emirates royal family, Texas businessman Bassam Nabulsi says he safeguarded the sheik's most important documents: videotapes showing the sheik torturing people with a cattle prod and a spiked plank.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
State lawmakers consider fiscal contingency plan
6-17-2008
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East Valley Tribune
State lawmakers are trying to figure out who will patrol the highways, guard the prisoners, run the universities, care for nursing home patients and open the gates to the parks on July 1. [when AZ is broke]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Iran's Ahmadinejad says oil price artificial
6-17-2008
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AFP
[Pretty bad when the President of Iraq is the truth teller.] The current high price of oil is artificial and the market is well supplied with crude, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said pinning the blame on the sliding dollar. "The rise in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Daily Show: Baracknophobia trumps all other fears in media reports
06-17-2008
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RawStory.com
“There’s one emerging fear that trumps all others,” Stewart began. “Baracknophobia! It is defined as the irrational fear of hope.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Conyers reemphasizes subpoena threat for Rove testimony
06-17-2008
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RawStory.com
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers restated his demand that Karl Rove, a former top aide to Presdient Bush, testify next month about his alleged involvement in politicizing the Justice Department, particularly in the prosecution of a for
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words from them
06-17-2008
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nielsenhayden.com
The Associated Press, having already announced its intention to harass bloggers who publish snippets as short as 39 words from AP stories, has now published a web form through which intimidated parties can give the AP money in return for “permission”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
'Curveball' speaks, and a reputation as disinformation agent remains intact
06-17-2008
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LA Times
"I never said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, never in my whole life," he said. "I challenge anyone in the world to get a piece of paper from me, anything with my signature, that proves I said there were weapons of mass destructi
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Countrywide revelations muddle housing rescue
06-17-2008
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ap.google.com
Revelations that Dodd and Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., the Budget Committee chairman, got cut-rate mortgages through a VIP program for friends of Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo - Democrats' message... massive foreclosure rescue package
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Former Massachusetts state worker has been vindicated of child pornography charges
06-17-2008
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www.tgdaily.com
Boston Herald, “one of the most horrific cases I’ve seen.” ...referring to the resulting witch hunt against Fiola after the indecent images were discovered. The Department of Industrial Accidents so far hasn’t apologized to Fiola.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Fears of big battle as Taliban fighters dig in
06-17-2008
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www.guardian.co.uk
The Taliban dug into defensive positions in a cluster of villages near Kandahar yesterday in apparent preparation for a battle on the doorstep of Afghanistan's second city.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Virginia Tech families win $11 million settlement from state
06-17-2008
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CNN
The families had pursued wrongful death and personal injury claims against the state after an August 2007 report by an independent panel concluded that more timely and more specific information from university officials might have saved lives.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama campaign rep STUMPED on legislative accomplishments
6/18/08
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http://www.youtube.com/
Even Chris Matthews was surprised when the Obama campaign's own surrogates are left utterly stumped when asked to list his legislative accomplishments as a Senator
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Impeachment
How Presidential Power Became Untouchable
6/18/08
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http://www.hnn.us/
Congressman Dennis Kucinich has presented 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush to the House of Representatives. Yet Congress is no more likely to respond than it did to his earlier proposal to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. As a co
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Conspiracies
Mark Dice on the Michael Reagan Show: I'm Sorry, But!
6/17/08
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RadioDujour
(Publisher's Note: It got yanked from YouTube right after I listened to it :) But I found it again on this site. - BTW, Reagan never tells his audience _not_ to kill Mark Dice)
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Precious Metals
Silver, Gold and the IRS
06-15-2008
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NewsWithViews.com
Here's tax court case the government wishes you didn't hear about.The words “one dollar” is inscribed on both the coin and the paper, yet the paper dollar will only pay for about one quart of gasoline at today’s prices, while the silver dolla
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Mike Dugger
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News Link • Police State
Arizona joins Real ID revolt
06-17-2008
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Arizona Capitol Times
"My support of the REAL ID Act is, and has always been, contingent upon adequate federal funding," Napolitano wrote in a letter to House Speaker Jim Weiers. "Absent that, the REAL ID Act becomes just another unfunded federal mandate.**
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Fired U.S. Attorney: "I was working for the Sith Lords"
6-17-08
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Rawstory.com
"I thought I was working with the Jedi Knights and I was working for the Sith Lords," Iglesias acknowledged, as the audience broke into applause.
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News Link • Police State
'Big Brother' snooping law stirs outrage in Sweden
6-17-08
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Timesonline.co.uk
The Bill would grant the country's intelligence agencies access to cross-border e-mails, phone calls, text messages and faxes, and empower them to moniter websites visited by Swedish citizens.
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News Link • Police State
Military Choppers Practice 'War on Terror Operations' at DNC Convention Site
6-17-08
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Rawstory.com
A half a dozen military helicopters flew low over parts of Denver Monday night as part of a security drill organized by the U.S. Department of Justice. Denver police said they were aware of the operation, but could provide no details.
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News Link • Internet
ISP’s confirm ‘2012: The Year The Internet Ends’
06-17-2008
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I Power
Fight to save the Internet from becoming just another Pay-Per-View TV experience!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Oklahoma’s Charles Key Vows to Continue the Sovereignty Fight
06-17-2008
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Comment: B. Peterson, Article: World Net Daily
In a follow-up to the article "Oklahoma Declares Sovereignty," I found some answers to readers' questions regarding the reason behind HJR 1089, and why it is lying dormant in the Rules Committee.
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Barbara Peterson
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