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Date Sent: 2007-10-26
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, October 26, 2007 |
Request to fit B-2 bombers w/ bunker busting bombs: Iran? -- Colbert's Campaign Afoul of Law
Do you own silver? Money for Nothing -- Confronting Condi Rice -- Giuliani 'defending and protecting' predator priest? -- House Passes Thought Crime Prevention Bill -- Court rules social workers must follow law -- 30 Ways That the IRS Tries to Control Pastors and Churches -- Court Upholds Extreme Force in DUI Blood Draws -- The Carbon Ranger is coming...to take your home -- Scary ARM Chart, 2007-2016 -- MISH: Downshift In Consumer Spending Mindset -- U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Iran's Military -- Gambler Mae: Entity to bail out investors who apparently risk nothing -- Iran to buy 24 jet fighters from China -- Judge: Fingerprints "Unscientific"; Police, Prosecutors Concerned
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News Link • Precious Metals
Money for Nothing
10-23-2007
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Theodore Butler
How Morgan Stanley (among others) is defrauding silver investors while government regulators look the other way. An estimated 1 billion ounces of silver has been paid for by clients, but not yet purchased by their brokers. And the brokers have
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Reported by:
Mike Dugger
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
AG Terry Goddard tries growing a set of nads with a huffy epistle
10-25-2007
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Phoenix New Times
Someone sends me a copy of this letter Attorney General Terry Goddard fired off to County Attorney Andrew Thomas mentioning the New Times case, and asking that Thomas recuse his office from the investigation and have it "transferred immediately
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Secret Service Contacts Forum Over Poster’s Bush Death Threat?
10-25-2007
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Best of the Misc
The administrator of the extremely popular fitness forum posted a thread with an ominous message and plea for all forum members. The message? The site had been contacted by the Secret Service in response to a thread titled, “Let’s kill bush (serious)
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
The drug war debate
10-25-2007
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Youtube (4 part video)
Should drugs like marijuana, heroin, and cocaine be legal? Watch the fireworks as Ethan Nadelmann, author of Think Again: Drugs and of the Drug Policy Alliance clashes with David Murray, chief scientist at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Pol
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Rhetoric vs. Reality: Why the Ron Paul Campaign is DOA
10-25-2007
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National Ledger
[Let them attack Ron Paul.] I am still waiting for Ron Paul to direct me to that part of the constitution that says America is not allowed to take preventive action against a known foreign enemy in defense of our own sovereign nation.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Confronting Condi Rice: “The blood of millions of Iraqis is on your hands”
10-25-2007
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Crooks & Liars (video)
Code Pink protestor Desiree Farooz confronts Condoleeza Rice with “blood-stained” hands, calling the Secretary of State a “war criminal” who should be tried at the Hague.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
Neocons love Rudy and Hillary
10-25-2007
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NJ Voices
The neoconservatives in the think tanks and in the media have been the Amen chorus cheering on the Bush/Cheney regime at every step of the way. That's why the neocons have hitched their wagon to the two most pro-war candidates running for preside
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Giuliani 'defending and protecting' predator priest?
10-25-2007
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ABC News
"Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Slavery by any other Name is Still Slavery
10-25-2007
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Populist America
The army will continue to utilize the stop-loss policy in order to provide sufficient human cannon fodder for President Bush's immoral and unnecessary wars. The stop-loss policy prevents military personnel from leaving at the end of their service
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Beats Thompson, Huckabee In New Hampshire Poll
10-25-2007
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NH Presidential Watch
A new poll conducted by St. Anselm College's New Hampshire Institute of Politics shows Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney leading their respective fields. The survey of 1,514 likely primary voters also has Ron Paul beating Fred Thompson and Mike Huc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Blocking Network Packets - The Comcast Fiasco
10-25-2007
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Geeks Are Sexy
It started five days ago when the Associated Press ran a story called “Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic.” In this story, the reporter, Peter Svensson, points out that Comcast was blocking P2P traffic by interfering with certain packet streams.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
House Passes Thought Crime Prevention Bill
10-25-2007
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National Expositor
This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution and defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-te
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Court rules social workers must follow law
10-25-2007
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WorldNet Daily
The ruling comes in an Arizona case in which social workers, accompanied by Maricopa Co. deputy sheriffs, made unsupported threats to place a family's children in custody and arrest the parents if they were not allowed to search the family's
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Ten Most Dangerous Organizations in America
10-25-2007
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Family Security Matters
Family Security Matters releases their objective list of the 10 most dangerous organizations in America. Freedom's Phoenix strangely absent. C'mon, folks! We can do better!
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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Reference Link • The Old School Conservatives
I'm Not Kidding
Michael Heraty
The ’08 race is in now in full swing. As stated in a previous entry, the pseudo-conservatives are throwing most of their support behind Fred Thompson...........
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News Link • Police State
New Jersey Court Upholds Extreme Force in DUI Blood Draws
10-25-2007
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The Newspaper
Police may inflict permanent physical damage while forcibly taking blood from a motorist accused of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), according to a decision by the appellate division of the New Jersey Superior Court.
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Corruption
Mesa plans photo-camera revenue changes to recoup alleged "losses"
10-25-2007
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AZ Central
After swearing up and down that red light and speeding cameras were all about safety and not revenue, the city of Mesa is revamping their photo-camera enforcement system to shake down the traveling public for even more of their hard earned federal re
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Corruption
Univ. Cal campus cops go one better - they don't Taze, they shoot to kill
10-25-2007
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Arizona Republic
An Arizona man who authorities believe could be connected to arson in fire-ravaged Southern California was shot and killed after trying to run campus police over Tuesday night.
No evidence, no picture of a police cruiser the suspect aldegedly ramm
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Reported by:
Bruce Barton
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News Link • Eugenics
No Joke: Colbert's Campaign May Run Afoul of Law
10-25-2007
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ABC
Stephen Colbert says his presidential campaign is serious business and the Federal Election Commission may find that's no joke. (Did it ever cross the FEC's mind that this is a set up to challenge all of the campaign restrictions :)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Scary ARM Chart, 2007-2016
10-25-2007
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Just in time for Halloween, the International Monetary Fund recently published a report with a chart showing ARM resets coming up -- a reset occurs when the low introductory payment period ends on a adjustable mortgage.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. "undoubtedly in recession": Jim Rogers
10-25-2007
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Reuters
"Many parts of industry are actually in a state worse than recession. If it were not for (Federal Reserve Chairman Ben) Bernanke putting huge amounts of money into the market, the stock market would probably be down much more than it is."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Downshift In Consumer Spending Mindset
10-25-2007
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MISH: Global Economic Analysis
One by one, and store by store, consumers are throwing in the towel. This does not bode well for retail store expansion, holiday sales, or hiring plans. It also does not bode well for an economy 100% dependent on an ever increasing expansion of credi
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Iran
U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Iran's Military
10-25-2007
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After Downing Street
"Today, Secretary Paulson and I are announcing several new steps to increase the costs to Iran of its irresponsible behavior," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who made the announcement alongside Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Speaking to Power
10-25-2007
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We the People Foundation
This week, the We The People organization Petitioned the Judiciary of the United States, twice, on the Record, in what we believe is a historical, intellectually compelling defense of the Constitution and the People’s Right to hold the Government acc
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
New Home Sales and Recessions: This Graph Says it All
10-25-2007
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This graph shows New Home Sales vs. Recessions for the last 35 years. New Home sales were falling prior to every recession, with the exception of the business investment led recession of 2001.
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News Link • Iran
Request to fit B-2 bombers with bunker busting bombs raises questions on Iran
10-25-2007
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Raw Story
It's just what the White House would need to bomb Iran -- money to modify stealth B-2 bombers to carry a bunker-busting bomb.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gambler Mae: Entity to bail out investors who apparently risk nothing
10-25-2007
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MSNBC
Call it Super SIV Mae. Wall Street's pals in the Treasury Department want to ride to the rescue with a new entity of entitlement, the 'structured investment vehicle.' [It is only your tax money, and the nation's debt.]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran to buy 24 jet fighters from China
10-25-2007
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Haaretz
Iran has signed a deal with China to buy two squadrons of J-10 fighter planes that are based on Israeli technology, the Russian news agency Novosti reported yesterday. The 24 aircraft are based on technology and components provided to China by Israe
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • TERRORISM
New terror threat is real
10-25-2007
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Newsmax
The Dept of Homeland Security is tracking a serious terror threat to the US, Newsmax has learned. Charles E. Allen, chief of intelligence at DHS, would not disclose details of the threat. But his office focuses on a wide range of threats to the hom
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge: Fingerprints "Unscientific"; Police, Prosecutors Concerned
10-25-2007
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Mondoreb & Ginn
For years, voices have been crying out about the "myth of fingerprints". A judge in Baltimore now agrees. And prosecutors and police all over the country are concerned.
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Reported by:
Randy Ricochet
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