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Date Sent: 2007-07-24
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
Peace activist Sheehan and 45 others arrested at Congress -- Gonzales vows to repair Justice's imag
$100 a barrel oil coming soon -- Fed-up donor pulls plug on Democrat pols -- House rejects campaign pay for spouses -- Childhood Now a Sex Crime -- NYC Cab Commission seizes private vehicle for offering free rides -- Serious Security Questions at Sky Harbor Airport -- Why the US Military Loves Ron Paul -- Questions for Presidential Candidates by L. Neil Smith -- XM And Sirius To Offer 'A La Carte' Option -- Exposing the True Isolationists -- Dead farmers got $1.1 billion from USDA -- Unlikely adversary arises to criticize detainee hearings -- Congressman denied access to post-attack plans -- Al-Sadr builds secret power base -- Saving A President -- Randy Barnett: Pro War Libertarian?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
$100 a barrel oil coming soon
7-23-2007
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Bloomberg
The $100-a-barrel oil that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said would prevail by 2009 may be only a few months away. $95 crude is likely this year unless OPEC unexpectedly increases production, and declining inventories are raising the chances for $100 oil
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Fed-up donor pulls plug on Democrat pols
7-23-2007
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Miami Herald
One of Florida's leading Democratic rainmakers has called the whole thing off. A trial lawyer who has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats and helped raise much more, is so fed up with his party's failure to stop the war in Ira
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
House rejects campaign pay for spouses
7-23-2007
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AP
Spouses don't belong on campaign payrolls, the House says, voting to end a practice that benefited members of Congress for years. Follows controversies in which lawmakers added many thousands of dollars to their family incomes by hiring relatives
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Childhood Now a Sex Crime
07-23-2007
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The Agitator
Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, both 13, face the prospect of 10 years in juvenile detention and a lifetime on the sex offender registry in a case that poses a fundamental question: When is horseplay a crime?
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Corruption
NYC Cab Commission seizes private vehicle for offering free rides
07-23-2007
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The Newspaper
The Taxi and Limo Commission (TLC) seized a vehicle belonging to a retired cab driver because he was offering free rides in his personally owned vehicle. The commission found a woman who would testify she offered Kottner a $10 tip to help pay for gas
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Homeland Security
Serious Security Questions at Sky Harbor Airport
7-23-2007
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ABC15 TV (video)
We've discovered a 4.5 hour time frame each night when virtually anything can be brought into the secure side of Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. There's no metal detector, no X-ray machine, and it's apparently not a problem.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Peace activist Sheehan and 45 others arrested at Congress
7-23-2007
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Reuters
Calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan and 45 fellow Iraq war protesters were arrested after they refused to leave a U.S. lawmaker's office and adjoining hallway, authorities sai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Gonzales vows to repair Justice's image
7-23-2007
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AP
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says he's staying at the Justice Department to try to repair its broken image, telling Congress in a statement released Monday he's troubled that politics may have played a part in hiring career federal prose
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Why the US Military Loves Ron Paul
7-23-2007
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by Tom Engelhardt (The Nation)
While US commanders in Iraq are deep into planning post-surge surges well into next spring, a couple of straws in the military wind indicate that support for them, not just in civilian America but in military America, may be on the wane.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
BIG Ron Paul signs: the video
7-23-2007
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Youtube (see message)
This video shows us making 70 more signs however we have introduced a bigger sign visible over 1/4 mile away.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Radio
NEWS 92.3 KTAR LINE-UP CHANGE
07-23-2007
The lineup change will be moving Larry Gaydos to 7-10pm and adding Phil Hendrie to the KTAR-FM lineup from 10pm-1am.
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Chad Lawrence
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News Link • Eugenics
Questions for Presidential Candidates, Part One
by L. Neil Smith
7-23-2007
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The Libertarian Enterprise
As we are forced to wade deeper into that cesspool called the 2008 election, it's important we assist the 1 or 2 good candidates we hope will bob up to the surface distinguishing themselves from the foul dregs starting to settle into the muck
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Dead farmers got $1.1 billion from USDA
07-23-2007
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Washington Post
The US Dept of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and routinely failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were properly made, according to a government report.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Inside the surge
07-23-2007
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Guardian(Video)
The Guardian's award-winning photographer and filmmaker Sean Smith spent two months embedded with US troops in Baghdad and Anbar province. His harrowing documentary exposes the exhaustion and disillusionment of the soldiers.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Unlikely adversary arises to criticize detainee hearings
07-23-2007
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New York Times
Stephen E. Abraham's assignment to the Pentagon unit that runs the hearings at Gitmo, Cuba, seemed a perfect fit. A lawyer in civilian life, he had been decorated for counterespionage and counterterrorism work during 22 years as a reserve Army i
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bush Administration
Congressman denied access to post-attack plans
07-23-2007
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Newhouse News
Constituents called Rep. Peter Defazio's (D-Ore) worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
Al-Sadr builds secret power base
07-23-2007
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Scotsman
AFTER months of lying low, the anit-American Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has re-emerged with a shrewed two-tiered strategy that reaches out to Iraqis on the street and distances him from the increasingly unpopular government. Al-Sadr and his
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Homeland Security
Stricter rules at border coming next summer
07-23-2007
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Buffalo News
Top homeland security officials Friday that tougher crossing rules will be gradually imposed next year at the four international Niagra River crossings. You may not need a passport to return to the US. But it'll take more than a library card or
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Randy Barnett: Pro War Libertarian?
7-23-2007
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by Walter Block (LewRockwell)
That this episode occurs while we are still relatively weak, but on an upward trajectory (thanks most recently to the magnificent efforts of Ron Paul), makes it even more shameful.
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