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Date Sent: 2008-05-09
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, May 9, 2008 |
Raided counsel's office shut down Siegelman investigation -- Terrorizing the FBI
FBI seeking records of 2004 Condoleeza Rice ethics probe -- How China's citizens could provide a prop for US equities -- Chris Matthews: MSNBC bosses were 'basically pro-war' -- Neocons Admit that "War On Terror" Is a Hoax -- FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret 'National Security Letter', Loses -- The Silenced Majority: No one wants another war - by Justin Raimondo -- A New Look at the Hub of AT&T's Spying Program -- Government-Supplied Marijuana Program Turns 30 -- Once-secret memos question Clinton's honesty -- Drug Cops Raid Innocent Man, Shoot Him 5 Times, Then File Bogus Charges -- GOYETTE INTERVIEW: SEN. KAREN JOHNSON ON 9/11 -- Feds want your photo on E-Verify -- TN Gov: Tax collections "deteriorating dramatically" -- Relight the Flame of Freedom in Denver - End WAR by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster -- Ahmadinejad brands Israel a 'stinking corpse' -- American housing - Map of misery -- Eurabia: The Coming of the House of War -- UrineLuck Out of Luck: Feds Raid Spectrum Labs (Outrageous!) -- MISH: Death of the SUV -- Killing Enemies Without Trial - by Jacob Hornberger -- Will McCain drag America to war with Islam? -- MISH: WaMu's Suspect Mortgage Pool -- McCain pledges War on 'Evil' -- Mississippi Drug War Blues: Cory Mayes update
Ron Paul Meetup Phoenix Reminder-Party tonight 6:30; Ned Parker on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio; Politico: Bob Barr will announce LP Presidential run Monday; Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto will be #1 on the May 18th New York Times bestseller list
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News Link • Conspiracies
FBI seeking records of 2004 Condoleeza Rice ethics probe
5-8-2008
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McClatchy News
FBI agents investigating government watchdog Scott Bloch have subpoenaed any records that would reveal whether concerns about the 2004 elections prompted him to clear Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of ethics violations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
House OKs $15B in taxpayer earnings to buy bad home loans from fatcats
5-8-2008
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AP
The House has approved sending states $15 billion to buy and fix up foreclosed properties. The vote Thursday was 239-188 to approve the bill, which most Republicans opposed. It would provide loans and grants to areas hit hardest by the housing crisis
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
How China's citizens could provide a prop for US equities
5-8-2008
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Financial Times
Current policy fails to address the inherent conflict between the desire to prevent inflation in an overheating economy and the wish to keep an artificially low, semi-fixed exchange rate. The conflict cannot be removed without either a painful and un
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Raided counsel's office shut down investigation into Siegelman case
5-8-2008
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Rawstory
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel Scott Bloch -- whose home and office were recently raided by the FBI --last year shut down a previously undisclosed investigation into the federal prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Navy releases McCain's military record
5-8-2008
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AP
From his five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp to his tenure as the Navy's liaison to the Senate, John McCain's Navy record boils down to a series of unadorned paragraphs that bestow upon him some of the nation's top military honor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Asia's difficult policy choices
5-8-2008
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Financial Times
"Loose monetary policy in the US will increase domestic liquidity in Asian economies whose currencies are closely aligned with the dollar. This will complicate monetary policy at a time when domestic inflationary pressures are already being stok
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Clinton supporter pressures Pelosi over White House battle
5-8-2008
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CNN
In a heated phone call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off campaign money to congressional Democrats unless Pelosi embraced finance a revote of the Democratic presidential primaries in Flo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
Neocons Admit that "War On Terror" Is a Hoax
5-8-2008
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Asia Times
Key war on terror architect Douglas Feith has now confirmed Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Wesley Clark in admitting that the so-called War on Terror is a hoax. [in his new book of course]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret 'National Security Letter', Loses
5-8-2008
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Wired
[For now] The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public, civil liberties
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
The Silenced Majority: No one wants another war - by Justin Raimondo
5-9-08
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Antiwar.com
Rumors of oil at $200 a barrel already have the markets roiling. Wait until you see what happens to prices when the Persian Gulf is impassable.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Terrorizing the FBI
5-8-2008
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Youtube
You get picked up by the FBI as a suspected terrorist. They let you go but demand you check in from time to time. What to do? Give them daily everything you do, every day, every month, every year til they choke.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Legislator asks DEA to explain pot club raids
5-8-2008
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San Francisco Chronicle
A congressional leader, citing complaints from Bay Area mayors and lawmakers, wants the Drug Enforcement Administration to explain its increased use of "paramilitary-style enforcement raids" and property forfeiture orders against medical ma
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
A New Look at the Hub of AT&T's Spying Program
5-8-2008
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EFF
The hub of the spying program may be just outside of St. Louis, in a Missouri town called Bridgeton. A special report puts the pieces together in a comprehensive and disturbing story about this dragnet surveillance, with the help of AT&T whistleblowe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Those Pesky Trolls Infesting The Obama Listserv
05/08/2008
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Shootingsparks
As a rabble-rouser who has broadcast far and wide my personal discomfort with the influence AIPAC and the Council on Foreign Relations has on our national political discourse, i have come across a tool used by those who share the agenda set forth by
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Clifford Webb
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News Link • Drug War
Psst... Government-Supplied Marijuana Program Turns 30
5-8-2008
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Alternet
That program marks its 30th anniversary May 10. That's right, our government has been supplying medical marijuana to a small number of patients -- the program peaked at 34 approved participants in 1991 -- for three full decades.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Once-secret memos question Clinton's honesty
5-8-2008
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Washington Times
A decade before Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton admitted fudging the truth during the presidential campaign, federal prosecutors quietly assembled hundreds of pages of evidence suggesting she concealed information and misled a federal grand jury
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Drug Cops Raid Innocent Man, Shoot Him 5 Times, Then File Bogus Charges
5-8-2008
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Stop the Drug War
His name is Tracy Ingle and he's alive, but he needs help. They raided his house from multiple entrances, bashing down his front door with a battering ram and crashing through his bedroom window. He grabbed a broken gun to scare what he thought w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
INTERVIEW: AZ SEN. KAREN JOHNSON RE: 9/11
5-8-2008
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The Charles Goyette Show (MP3)
Charles interviews Karen on why the Arizona Republic is so torked over her and 9/11.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Is Hillary Clinton the Crazy Aunt in the Attic?
May 8, 2008
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Mondoreb
Is Hillary Clinton about to become the Democrat equivalent to the “crazy aunt in the attic”: at times fondly remembered, but still crazy? That’s the verdict of Politico’s James Kotecki.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Drug War
Three Arrested For Robbing Grave for Skull Bong
May 8, 2008
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Ginn
Three Kingwood Texas teens are under arrest for digging up an abandoned grave and stealing a skull to use as a bong. Complete historical bong info included.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Homeland Security
Feds want your photo on E-Verify
05-08-2008
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Arizona Daily Star
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services wants to see your ID. More specifically, they want to put your driver's license photo in E-Verify, a nationwide database that employers in Arizona must use to check your eligibility for work.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tennessee Governor: Tax collections "deteriorating dramatically"
5-8-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
He said the first quarter was the third worst on record, and second quarter "is certainly shaping up to be worse than that"
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News Link • Iran
Ahmadinejad brands Israel a 'stinking corpse'
5-8-08
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Rawstory.com
Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. "Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation," he said.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Eurabia: The Coming of the House of War
05-08-2008
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Mondoreb
“Islam divides the world into two parts. The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the Dar al-Islam, or House of Submission. Everything else is the Dar al-Harb, or House of War, so called because it will take war"holy war, jihad"to bring
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Media: Television
Maury: A Win-win-win Moment for Must-Retch TV
05-08-2008
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Ginn
A recent win-win-win moment for Must-Retch TV in the land of the Lowest Common Denominator.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Drug War
UrineLuck Out of Luck: Feds Raid Spectrum Labs
05-08-2008
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Ginn
The makers of Urineluck are out of luck as Feds have raided Spectrum Labs in Kentucky and Ohio; meanwhile a Carolina Senator “pushes” a bill to require all persons running for federal office be “drug tested”.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
American housing - Map of misery
5-8-08
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Economist.com/finance
But their models suggest that six states"Arizona, Florida, Virginia, Maryland, California and New Jersey, could see further price declines of 25% or more.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Killing Enemies Without Trial - by Jacob Hornberger
5-6-08
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CounterPunch.org
Better to simply kill them (or torture them and then kill them). Yes, war is hell, and sometimes innocent people are killed in the process. But what better, more efficient way to rid a nation of its enemies....
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News Link • Energy
Death of the SUV
5-7-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Demographics also play a role. Baby boomers are trading in larger vehicles as their nests empty, and their children are now of car-buying age. Half of the next generation will pick small cars for their first set of wheels....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
WaMu's Suspect Mortgage Pool
5-6-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
In one year, the pool was 29.07% 60-day delinquent or worse. Of that, 13.87% is in foreclosure and 6.21% is bank owned real estate.
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News Link • Eugenics
Will McCain drag America to war with Islam?
5-8-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
Take a close look at some of the religious leaders who back McCain.
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News Link • Eugenics
To woo conservatives, McCain pledges war on 'evil'
5-8-08
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Rawstory.com
The presumptive Republican nominee "singled out" China, Iran, Myanmar, Sudan, North Korea and Saudi Arabia for restricting religious freedom -- "a subject of great importance."
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News Link • Eugenics
New Radio Interview with Christine Smith
05-08-2008
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Paid for by Christine Smith for President
Smith discusses child pornography, the FBI, anarchism, rule of law, the future of the LP, and more.
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Paul Kruger
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News Link • Drug War
Mississippi Drug War Blues
5-8-2008
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Reason.tv
At 11p.m on December 26, 2001 police in Prentiss, Mississippi raided the residence of Cory Maye, a 21-year-old father at home with his 18-month-old daughter. Reason.tv's Drew Carey chronicles the horror Maye has lived with since.
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Brock Lorber
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