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Date Sent: 2008-07-01
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, July 1, 2008 |
On the Impossibility of Limited Government and the Prospects for a Second American Revolution
FISA Bill On Hold! -- The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve -- DNC protesters to be walled in by chicken wire -- Joe Horn Cleared by Harris County Grand Jury -- How to stop the Great Crash of '08 -- Revolution: Hawaiian style -- New service lets drivers lock in gasoline prices -- Jim Rogers: Avoid the US Dollar At All Costs! -- MISH: Deflationary Hurricanes to Hit US and UK -- Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant to go Online in October -- Iran ready to strike at Israel’s nuclear heart -- 5th Fleet: Iran won't be allowed to shut the Straight of Hormuz -- Engineering the Housing Bubble Through Monthly Payments -- VIPER Militia - An Informant is Unhappy with Gov't Deal -- Anti-Obama Blogs Shut Down by Google -- Personal Freedoms and the Internet - by Ron Paul -- Bush administration freezing cuts in Medicare fees -- Anglicans Nearly Split Over Policy on Gays -- Don't Wait for World War III - by Justin Raimondo
Ron Paul 2008 Campaign Chairman Kent Snyder, RIP; Microsoft has stopped selling Windows XP; Gareth Porter and Seymour Hersh on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
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News Link • Police State
FISA Bill On Hold!
6-30-2008
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NewsBloggers
I am pleased we were able to delay the vote on FISA until after the July 4th holiday instead of having it jammed through. I hope that over the July 4th Holiday, Senators will take a closer look at the deeply flawed legislation and understand how it t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Neocons Greatest Hits: Music To Some-Truth To Most
6-30-2008
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National Lampoon (BlipTV)
National Lampoon does it again. See them all on this video spoof you just might want to buy but simply can't. Empty Soul, Major Phoney's Holy Roller Band and many more.....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
French SWAT lay waste to crowd with live ammo
6-30-2008
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AFP
Seventeen people, including a child left in a critical condition, were injured today when soldiers fired live bullets instead of blanks during an open day demonstration.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve
6-30-2008
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der Spiegel
Humiliation for Mr. Dollar: Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Bank, faces a general investigation by the International Monetary Fund. Just one more example of the Fed losing its power.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Police State: DNC protesters to be walled in by chicken wire
6-30-08
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DenverPost.com/
The fence around the public demonstration zone outside the Democratic National Convention will be chicken wire or chain link, authorities revealed in U.S. District Court today.
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News Link • Food
The World According to Monsanto
06-30-2008
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wideeyecinema.com
On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE â€" French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won’t ever see.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Joe Horn Cleared by Harris County Grand Jury
06-30-2008
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LBG
Joe Horn, the man who shot two burglars in the back as they finished robbing his neighbor's home--and sparked a national debate-- has been cleared by a Harris County Grand Jury.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - International
How to stop the Great Crash of '08
06-30-2008
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Asia Times
The position of American households is so fragile that major institutions might fail. Washington Mutual, America's largest thrift institution, is now trading at a tenth of its 2007 stock price. It is not clear whether any other institution is wil
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Bush Declares Natl Emergency Over N Korea Nukes
06-26-2008
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whitehouse.gov via Rense.com (surely not TV!)
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national secu
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Campaign Chairman for Ron Paul 2008, Kent Snyder, passed away.
06-30-2008
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LewRockwell
...after a long illness, at the age of 49. A sweet, smart guy with a 24/7 work ethic, Kent was a martial-arts champion, and an important aide to Ron Paul...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Revolution: Hawaiian style
6-30-2008
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Daily Telegraph
The United States is an illegal occupying force that should hand the 132 islands of Hawaii back to the monarchy overthrown more than a century ago, according to members of a Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
What We Call the News (another good JibJab)
06-30-2008
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JibJab
Celebrities in rehab, political punditry and a mauling at the zoo - this is what we're calling news these days! This funny satire on broadcast news features Larry King, Bill O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera and the rest of your favorite talking heads
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Whistleblower: FISA ‘compromise’ advances police state agenda
06-30-2008
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RawStory.com
Retired AT&T engineer Mark Klein has condemned the Senate’s Wednesday cloture vote on the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
New service lets drivers lock in gasoline prices
6-30-2008
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Reuters
MyGallons.com allows drivers to fill up their tanks sometime in the future but at current prices, using a debit-like card which banks gallons rather than dollars. [You too can be a fuel speculator.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Rogers: Avoid the US Dollar At All Costs!
6-30-2008
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Bloomberg
Jim Rogers, who in April 2006 correctly predicted oil would reach $100 a barrel and gold $1,000 an ounce, said investors should steer clear of the dollar as the US economy slows and favor commodities this year. The dollar has slipped 7.7%
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Deflationary Hurricanes to Hit U.S. and U.K.
6-30-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Few are still alive that went through the great depression. That is the nature of the game. People have to forget what a depression is like to bring about the conditions that cause them. And they did. And they made the same mistakes over again, excep
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News Link • Iran
Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant to go Online in October
6-30-08
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en.rian.ru/world
"The work for the physical launch of the Bushehr NPP will begin at the end of Mehr [a month under the Iranian calendar that lasts from September 22 to October 21]," Ahmad Fayazbakhsh, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, sa
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News Link • Iran
Iran ready to strike at Israel’s nuclear heart
6-30-08
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Timesonline.co.uk
Iran has moved ballistic missiles into launch positions, with Israel’s Dimona nuclear plant among the possible targets, defence sources said last week.
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News Link • Iran
US Navy Fifth Fleet: Iran won't be allowed to shut the Straight of Hormuz
6-30-08
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Rawstory.com/news/afp
"They will not close it... They will not be allowed to close it," Vice-Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff said at a press conference in Bahrain, where the Fifth Fleet is based.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Engineering the Housing Bubble Through Monthly Payments
6-30-08
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MrMortgage.ml-implode.com
-In 2002, payments for the median home reached the upper end of affordability at the time. All of a sudden in mid-2002 the intermediate-term 3/1, 5/1, 7/1 and 10/1 fully amortized and interest only loan programs were introduced.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Oliver Stone and 'W.,' a story of President Bush
06-30-2008
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LA Times
While the Bushes in this scene from 1990 were talking about the Texas Rangers (of whom George W. once owned a share) and Saddam Hus- sein (against whom George H. W. was about to go to war in Kuwait), there was much more at stake...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
The Five Who Rule 300 Million: The Law According to Judicial Whim
06-30-2008
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Mondoreb
Every year about this time, Americans drag themselves out of bed, get ready to face the day--and find out what rights they've retained after the Supreme Court's latest rulings. It's Rule by the Five Who Rule 300 Million.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
VIPER Militia - An Informant is Unhappy with Gov't Deal
06-30-2008
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www.badcopnews.com
Victim Of U.S. Government’s Witness Protection Program Has Had Enough, Wants His Old Identity Back - Government Never Came Up With Simple Documents, Like A Birth Certificate Or SSN, Can't Register A Car Or File Taxes In Past 13 Years
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Help the Bob Barr Campaign with a Poster Design of Your Own
6-30-2008
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WarOnGuns
Design a Barr/Lautenberg poster of your own. Just send me your graphic as a .jpg file.
I'll post them as I get them, and will pick a time--maybe two weeks from now--to present them together. [I think I started to hear squealing above the laughte
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
AK Rep Don Young Receives Taxpayer Award
6-30-2008
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thenextright.com
Don Young [bridge to nowhere] received an award from each of the following groups: Americans for Tax Reform, American Shareholders Association, Alliance for Worker Freedom, and the 60 Plus Association.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Immigration
Illegal Immigration: Budget Woes Force Cuts on Citizens
06-30-2008
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Mondoreb
This week's Blogs4Borders blogburst video report explores state budget woes and their unintended consequences; and, more murders from the Mexican Drug War in the U.S. Was the Mexican military involved?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Kennedy v Louisiana: Abolition of Death Penalty for Treason Up Next for Supreme Court
06-30-2008
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pat
It looks like the Supreme Court may been preparing for the abolition of the death penalty for treason next.
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News Link • Internet
Anti-Obama Blogs Shut Down by Google, Obamabots
06-30-2008
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BabbaZee
Anti-Obama blogs on Google's Blogger site started getting shut down last week. The cause: Obama supporters marking the blogs as "SPAM".
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Phoenix, Arizona: Record Notice Of Trustee Sales
6-30-08
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HousingDoom.com
There was a record 2325 NOTs issued is June 2007. As of last Frday, there were 6668 NOTs issued in Maricopa County for the month of June, and there is still one business day left.
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News Link • Social Security
Bush administration freezing cuts in Medicare fees
6-30-2008
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AP
The Bush administration is freezing a scheduled 10% fee cut for doctors who treat Medicare patients. The administration's delay spares lawmakers from having to use the recess to explain to seniors why they didn't do the job before leaving tow
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Housing Abyss
6-30-2008
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BusinessWeek
The housing crisis is entering a new and frightening stage. On June 24, Standard & Poor's announced that the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Index had fallen more than 15% in April from a year earlier, the biggest since 1940-42,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
America's Shrinking Groceries
6-30-2008
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Time
American supermarkets are epics of excess: it often seems like every item in the store comes in a "Jumbo" size or has "Bonus!" splashed across the label. But is it possible that the packages of food Americans are buying is shrinki
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News Link • Technology: Software
Microsoft will stop selling Windows XP Today
6-30-2008
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AP
Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a [large] slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Anglicans Nearly Split Over Policy on Gays
06/30/2008
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The Times Online
Anglican conservatives, stopping short of full schism, declared Sunday that they would defy historic lines of authority and create a new, independent-oriented power bloc within the communion led by a council of predominantly archbishops from Africa.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Iran
Don't Wait for World War III - by Justin Raimondo
6-30-08
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Antiwar.com
It is typical Orwellian Newspeak: no military action is "authorized," yet what else would a blockade involve but the use of American military assets to enforce it? This means war
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
On the Impossibility of Limited Government and the Prospects for a Second American Revolution
6-30-2008
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by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The countries ranking highest in terms of national pride were the United States and Austria. We shall concentrate here on the United States and the question of whether and to what extent the American claim can be justified.
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