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Date Sent: 2008-04-23
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Crude oil nears $120 a barrel, dollar slides to new low -- More forced to stay in Army

What the Iraq War Is About - by Paul Craig Roberts -- RIAA spent $2 million lobbying for tougher laws in 2007 -- Encouraging thinness now a crime -- Struggling homeowners could get new taxpayer backed loans -- A defendant's right to confront accusers: How far does it extend? -- Texas begins DNA tests on polygamist sect children -- Al-Qaida No. 2 says 9/11 theory propagated by Iran -- Clinton defeats Obama in Pennsylvania primary -- Robert Shiller: U.S. Housing Slump May Exceed Great Depression -- Rupert Murdoch Firm Goes on Trial for Alleged Tech Sabotage -- House Dems, Ron Paul targeted over surveillance votes -- Bush's disapproval rating worst of any president in 70 years -- California foreclosure "surge": Up 327% from '07 levels -- Food crisis grips globe -- McCain's Money Challenge -- DNA Is Enough To File Indictments; As Good as a Name -- Unexplained light formations spotted above Phoenix -- Lawmakers Want to Probe the College Bowl System -- Hillary on Iran: "Totally Obliterate Them" -- MISH: Vacancies Soar in Commercial Real Estate Bust -- GOP cracks down on Ron Paul activists

News Link • Israel
What the Iraq War Is About - by Paul Craig Roberts
4-23-08 • AntiWar.com
Three trillion dollars could have paid for U.S. oil imports for 30 years; $5 trillion could pay the U.S. oil bill for a half century had the Bush regime preserved a sound dollar. Read Full Story
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News Link • Art
Earliest Oil Paintings Discovered
4-22-2008 • LiveScience
Oil paintings have been found in caves behind the two ancient colossal Buddha statues destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, suggesting that Asians �" not Europeans �" were the first to invent oil painting. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Legislative Mischief
RIAA spent $2 million lobbying for tougher IP laws in 2007
4-22-2008 • ARS Technica
During 2007, the RIAA spent $2.08 million lobbing Congress on 3 pieces of legislation near and dear to its heart: The PRO-IP Act, the Intellectual Property Enforcement Act, college funding bill The College Opportunity and Affordability Act, and legis Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • World News
Inciting thinness now a crime
4-22-2008 • AP
The French parliament's lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill that would make it illegal for anyone �" including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites �" to publicly incite extreme thinness. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Military
DOD data: More forced to stay in Army
4-22-2008 • USA Today
The Army has accelerated its policy of involuntary extensions of duty to bolster its troop levels, despite Defense Secretary Robert Gates' order last year to limit it, Pentagon records show. Gates directed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staf Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Military
Sending in the Marines (to Recruit Women)
4-22-2008 • NY Times
THE Marines are looking for a few good women. Actually, they will take as many as they can get. Faced with the difficulty of recruiting during a long and unpopular war, the United States Marine Corps has started marketing itself to women in a conc Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Housing
Struggling homeowners could get new taxpayer backed loans
4-22-2008 • AP
Homeowners staggering under mounting mortgage debt and facing foreclosure could get cheaper, government-backed loans under Democrats' housing rescue plan. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bill of Rights
A defendant's right to confront accusers: How far does it extend?
4-22-2008 • Christian Science Monitor
The Constitution's Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants the right to face their accusers in court. But what happens when the accuser is not available for cross-examination at trial because she was murdered by the very person she would t Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Marriage
Texas begins DNA tests on polygamist sect children
4-22-2008 • Reuters
For the tests to be useful, the adults would also have to give DNA samples. However they can legally refuse to do so which could complicate matters further and delay [them ever seeing their kids again] legal decisions about the fate of the children. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • TERRORISM
Al-Qaida No. 2 says 9/11 theory propagated by Iran
4-22-2008 • AP
Osama bin Laden's chief deputy on Tuesday denied a theory that Israel carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and blamed Iran and Shiite Hezbollah for spreading the idea to discredit the Sunni al-Qaida's strike against the U.S. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Clinton defeats Obama in Pennsylvania primary
4-22-2008 • AP
Hillary Rodham Clinton gained a gritty victory in the Pennsylvania primary over a better-funded Barack Obama, staving off elimination in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The former first lady was winning 54% of the vote Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Robert Shiller: U.S. Housing Slump May Exceed Great Depression
4-22-08 • CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Yale University economist Robert Shiller ...said there's a good chance housing prices will fall further than the 30% drop in the historic depression of the 1930s. Read Full Story
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News Link • Corruption
Rupert Murdoch Firm Goes on Trial for Alleged Tech Sabotage
04-22-2008 • Wired Magazine
Did a Rupert Murdoch company go too far and hire hackers to sabotage rivals and gain the top spot in the global pay-TV war? This is the question a jury will be facing in a spectacular five-year-old suit that has, oddly, received little notice from U. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Transportation
Gasoline usage heads down
04-22-2008 • www.kansascity.com
U.S. drivers are doing something they haven’t done for nearly two decades �" consume less gasoline. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Police State
House Dems, Ron Paul targeted over surveillance votes
04-22-2008 • RawStory.com
New radio ads are running in districts of several Democratic members of Congress, as well as Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, targeting the lawmakers for their opposition to a White House-backed surveillance bill. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Bush Administration
Bush's disapproval rating worst of any president in 70 years
04-22-2008 • USA Today
The previous record of 67% was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952, when the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Summer travel headaches loom as airlines' woes deepen
04-22-2008 • Federal News Radio
domestic carriers will need to raise fares by 15 percent to 20 percent just to break even. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Housing
California foreclosure "surge": Up 327% from '07 levels
04-22-2008 • L.A. Times
...reaching an average of more than 500 foreclosures per day -- DataQuick said in a report, warning that the widening foreclosure problem could "spread beyond the current categories of dicey mortgages, and into mainstream home loans." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Crude oil nears $120 on supply woes, dollar slide
04-22-2008 • economictimes.indiatimes.com
Crude oil futures popped to a fresh record Tuesday as supply threats gathered and the dollar tumbled against the Euro. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Eugenics
McCain's Money Challenge
04-22-2008 • http://news.aol.com/political-machine
McCain to accept taxpayer money to finance his campaign. McCain will be eligible to receive about $84.1 million from the national treasury to run his campaign between his official September nomination at the GOP convention and Election Day. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Eugenics
Fabulous Life of John McCain
04-22-2008 • YouTube
Fabulous Life of John McCain Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Criminal Justice System
DNA Is Enough To File Indictments; As Good as a Name
4-22-2008 • NY Sun (h/t Anon)
Prosecutors now need no more than a suspect's DNA to file an indictment in New York City, following a court decision that allows prosecutors to get around statutes of limitations for some crimes. Did not need to know the identity of a suspect in Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Food
'Perfect Storm' food crisis grips globe
4-20-08 • Scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com
That anger is palpable across the globe. The food crisis is not only being felt among the poor but is also eroding the gains of the working and middle classes, sowing volatile levels of discontent and putting new pressures on fragile governments. Read Full Story
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Feature Article  • Eugenics
Today's Primaries: Publisher's Note - April 22nd 2008 (Clinton - Paul - Obama - McCain)
Ernest Hancock
   Blah Blah Blah..... it is all about Hillary. No mention of Ron Paul (Duh) and the news about Florida's lost delegates and Pennsylvania's Voting Computers will all be Hillary Hillary Hillary... (Just so I can say "I told you so")
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Unexplained light formations spotted above Phoenix
4-22-2008 • ABC 15 (video)
Did you see them? Several people reported seeing four lights forming various formations above the Valley Monday night. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Mystery Lights Spotted Flying 'In Formation' In Fla. Skies
4-22-2008 • Local 6 (video)
Strange orbs of light spotted flying in the night sky over St. Augustine are the second reported sighting of mystery lights in the area in recent weeks. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Lawmakers Want to Probe the College Bowl System
4-22-2008 • AP / Ben Evans
Forget government corruption or corporate fraud. Three members of Congress want the Justice Department to investigate whether college football's Bowl Championship Series is an illegal enterprise. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber

News Link • Eugenics
Hillary on Iran: "Totally Obliterate Them"
4-21-08 • ABCnews.go.com
"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton said. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate the Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Vacancies Soar in Commercial Real Estate Bust
4-21-08 • Michael Shedlock / Mish
Architect billings in the C&I space have been in free-fall since December �" the three-month annualized rate was -77.4% as of February. Read Full Story
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News Link • Eugenics
GOP cracks down on Ron Paul activists
04-20-2008 • St Louis Today
Within minutes district GOP leaders disqualified almost half of the convention delegates or alternates �" most of them suspected supporters of Ron Paul Read Full Story
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Reported by: Trouser Chili

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