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Date Sent: 2008-08-30
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, August 30, 2008 |
McCain picks a woman for VP
What does a police state look like? -- You, Me, and the FDIC - by Gary North -- This Week's Bank Failure Surprisingly Costly -- Sarah Palin: Dick Cheney In A Dress -- Update on Shelton -- A brief report on the John Stuart Homicide Trial -- Simple, flexible Web publisher -- California prepares for gay marriages in prisons -- Remember Nueces County Texas? The saga continues -- The Constitution vs. Obama's Acceptance Speech -- The Imperial United States of America -- Computer virus infects International Space Station laptops -- Coroner's Investigator Charged with Living It Up on Dead Man's Credit Card -- GOP considers delaying convention due to Gustov -- Army holds prep school for High School drop out new recruits
Freedom's Phoenix Legal Defense Fund for Shelton (RP4409); Volunteer for the Rally for the Republic
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News Link • Police State
What does a police state look like?
8-30-2008
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Classically Liberal
What does a police state look like? That is a good question. Maybe it looks something like this. Here is a photo of a small group of people trying to hold a demonstration in Denver at the Democratic Party convention. Notice the police overkill.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
This Week's Bank Failure Surprisingly Costly
8-30-2008
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Naked Capitalism
The plot is already familiar: the Friday night, FDIC prepack, in this case, with Birmingham, Alabama-based Regions bank assuming all $974 million of deposits and $34 million of assets. The bank focused on real estate lending and had a "faith bas
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Sarah Palin: Dick Cheney In A Dress
8-30-2008
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Reality Catcher
McCain's anti-choice, anti-science, anti-environment, anti-gay right wing extremist pick for vice president -- particularly important in view of Sen. McCain's advanced years and failing health -- reveals the depth of his cynicism and condesce
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
You, Me, and the FDIC
by Gary North
8-30-2008
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LewRockell
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Better understood as the Federal Deception Illusion Corporation. Its goal is to create public deception regarding the looming insolvency of individual banks. In the name of protecting depositors, it protects
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
A Wearable Motorcycle
08-29-2008
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Popular Science
Jake Loniak is a college junior, he's also the inventor of one of the most innovative concept vehicles we've seen in ages. Inside: the electric exoskeleton motorcycle and an exclusive video of the beast in action
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Flying Cars, Jetpacks and Rocket Racers, Oh My!
08-29-2008
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Popular Science
Video from the Oshkosh airshow; including a plane that transforms into a road-ready vehicle, an intro to the Rocket Racing League and more
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
Battery Breakthrough?
08-29-2008
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Technology Review
A Texas company says it can make a new ultracapacitor power system to replace the electrochemical batteries in everything from cars to laptops.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Internet
Simple, flexible Web publishing
08-29-2008
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Technology Review
Created as an open-source project by Dries Buytaert, Drupal is a free content management framework--a tool for building customized websites quickly and easily, without sacrificing features or stability.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Marriage
California prepares for gay marriages in prisons
08-29-2008
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http://pageoneq.com/news
"They will have the same marriage rights as other inmates " they will be able to marry non-inmates, but barred from marrying other inmates in prison"
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Remember Nueces County Texas?
The saga continues but with a brighter spotlight!!!
08-29-2008
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Dennis Rodenbeck
PRESS RELEASE
NUECES COUNTY GOP DELEGATES FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST LOCAL PARTY LEADERS-
Evidence of Illegal Delegates Submitted to 94th District Court
August 29, 2008
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX. A group of delegates to the Nueces County Republic
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Jack Spratt
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Letters to the Editor
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Our Rights disappearing
Written by: Dina Rose
Scottsdale police should be suspended for their actions toward Shelton. His
Rights were repeatedly violated. American's rights are being attacked each and
every day that we don't reclaim the Constitution as without it we lose total,
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
The Imperial United States of America: Its Constitution and the Truth of Its History
8-29-2008
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Strike-the-Root
by Constantine Rebêlillon. Though the American Revolution was great, truly a miracle and one of the single defining moments of a generational pro-liberty movement, it was lost, once and forever, in the United States with the establishment of the coun
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
The Constitution vs. Obama's Acceptance Speech
08-28-2008
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The Constitutionalist Commentator
Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama, in what the media is hailing as one of the most important speeches since Martin Luther King, Jr. uttered the words "I have a dream," didn't see fit to mention the word "Constitution"
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Adam Burke
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Feature Article • Eugenics
Who the heck is Sarah Palin?
Powell Gammill
McCain picks Sarah Palin for his Vice Presidential running mate and right away the question is who? As for the why... woman + governor + not from northeast = non-establishment.
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain picks a woman for VP
8-29-2008
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AP
John McCain tapped little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate on Friday in a startling selection on the eve of the Republican National Convention. [August surprise]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Storm destroys ASU's new $8.4 million practice bubble tent facility
8-29-2008
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Arizona Republic
The 103,500-square-foot climate-controlled facility was just completed this month. It is a bubble of fabric supported by air pressure that was constructed to give athletes a break from the heat. [What?! They don't have storms in Texas?]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama’s New Friend, Fred Baron
08-29-2008
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Ginn
The “money” man behind John Edwards has turned his attention to Obama. Does Obama really need a new “friend” like Fred Baron?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
John Edwards is Democrat’s Typhoid Mary
08-29-2008
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CB
John Edwards is persona non grata, the modern-day equivalent in the Democrat Party to Typhoid Mary. It’s now being reported he’s even been kicked out of the house by wife, Elizabeth.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Coroner’s Investigator Charged with Living It Up on Dead Man’s Credit Card
08-29-2008
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Mondoreb
An investigator for an Ohio coroner’s office was charged with stealing a credit card. From a dead man at the morgue. When he used it to pay a $400 bill. At a strip club"and then it gets weird.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Drug War
Bolivian Is an Uneasy Ally as U.S. Presses Drug War
9-20088-28
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NY Times
The refrain here in the Chapare jungle about Americans is short but powerful: “Long Live Coca, Death to the Yanquis!”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
GOP considers delaying convention due to large competing howling wind
8-28-2008
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Washington Post
Republican officials said yesterday that they are considering delaying the start of the GOP convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul because of Tropical Storm Gustav, which is on track to hit the Gulf Coast, and possibly New Orleans, as a full-force hurric
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Computer virus infects International Space Station laptops
8-28-2008
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Daily Telegraph
A malicious computer virus that steals passwords has been brought on board the International Space Station, NASA has confirmed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Army holds prep school for High School drop out new recruits
8-28-2008
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AP
The U.S. Army, eager to fill its ranks amid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, doesn't see them as dropouts. They are recruits who only need a GED before they're ready to begin basic training. And so, the Army formally opens its first prep school
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Powell Gammill
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