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Date Sent: 2008-03-27
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
McCain proposes United Nations II -- Gas Prices: Tax Coffers Fill as Wallets Empty
Time mag: Why Ron Paul Scares the GOP -- FOX: Time to Listen to Ron Paul?! -- Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca -- Man arrested on suspicion of loitering where children gather -- IS CONDI RICE POSITIONING HERSELF FOR VP? -- Seeds of Life Found Near Saturn -- CIA role claim in Kennedy killing -- Clear Channel sues over inability to get bought in a Bush economy -- Oliver Stone to Direct George W. Bush Film -- CATO: More state intervention is always needed in a crisis -- Rolling Stone contributing Editor Jenny Eliscu on the Scott Horton Show -- Spaceship Built for Two -- Democratic Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel turns Libertarian -- Toll Roads and People Tracking -- Homeland Security Agents Harass Americans At Internal Checkpoint -- Greg Dixon: Only One Presidential Candidate Not Picked by Insiders -- MISH: WaMu Alt-A Pool Revisited -- New Home Sales Are Diving Off a Cliff -- Outsourcing passports -- Operation Cassandra -- Spy-in-the-sky drone sets sights on Miami -- Ron Paul’s Graphics Revolution -- House Democrats Pass Largest Tax Hike in History
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News Link • Eugenics
Why Ron Paul Scares the GOP
3-26-2008
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Time
There used to be an organization for people who believed in a truly limited government " limited taxes, limited spending, limited interference in individual lives and limited intervention in foreign affairs --- known as the Republican Party.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Time to Listen to Ron Paul?
3-26-2008
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FOX Business
Time to listen to Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the lone voice of reason in Congress who’s got to feel like he’s shouting into a field of cotton with his repeated warnings about the dangers of a collapsing dollar, while the administration goes AWOL on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca
3-26-2008
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Time
Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela have avoided war, but now two other Andean nations are gearing up for battle. This time the foe is the United Nations, and the cause is the right to chew coca, the raw material of cocaine. It may not sound as important
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man arrested on suspicion of loitering where children gather
3-26-2008
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Loomis News
After an El Dorado Hills mom reported observing a strange man speaking with her 2 children at each of 3 children's-story events, deputies arrested the man at his Folsom home. Victor Emmer, was arrested on suspicion of loitering where children gat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Seeds of Life Found Near Saturn
03-26-2008
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Space.com
A sniff test of water vapor spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus shows it is gushing with organic molecules, increasing the possibility of life existing somewhere in the Saturn system.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US has not felt this bad since Watergate
03-26-2008
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www.guardian.co.uk/business
Adding to fears that the world's biggest economy is falling deeper into recession, two reports showed an acceleration in the decline in house prices and an unexpectedly sharp fall in consumer confidence.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
France's first lady posed nude while super model (this is a big deal in France?)
03-26-2008
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Times Online
One of the most common French searches on the internet lately has been "Carla Bruni nue". The former super-model posed in her previous life for numerous nude sessions with well-known photographers.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
The BBC airs broadcast - CIA role claim in Kennedy killing
03-26-2008
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BBC
New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy's assassination has been brought to light.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Radio
Clear Channel, Bain, Lee Sue Banks Over Buyout Plan (Update3)
03-26-2008
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Bloomberg.com
Clear Channel joined the private-equity firms in a suit filed in Texas state court in San Antonio, where the company is based, alleging the banks interfered with the takeover by refusing to provide loans.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Breaking: Oliver Stone to Direct George W. Bush Film Starring Josh Brolin
03-26-2008
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SlashFilm.com
Josh Brolin, shooting onto the A-list after his performance in No Country For Old Men, will portray the controversial 43rd U.S. president. The script, by Stanley Weiser (Wall Street, Project X) is already completed (Story Update
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
More state intervention is always needed in a crisis
03-26-2008
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blog.mises.org
In a CNBC interview, Cato Institute chairman Bill Niskanen stated that more regulation may well be necessary to prevent the investment banks from unfairly gaming the system. (What happened to "Oppose the Cult of the Omnipotent State"
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
You'd Look Sweet Upon the Seat of a Spaceship Built for Two
03-26-2008
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WIRED
The commercial space company Xcor Aerospace is expected to unveil a model of the Lynx, a two-seat suborbital spaceship that is smaller than a business jet.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Democratic Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel turns Libertarian
03-26-2008
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weblog.signonsandiego.com
Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel announced on Wednesday that he is folding his hapless campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination and running for the Libertarian Party nod instead.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Hi-tech census costs, accuracy in doubt
3-26-2008
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AP
Big worries for the nation's first high-tech census should have been obvious when tests showed some of the door-to-door headcounters couldn't figure out their fancy new handheld computers. Now, officials say, technology problems could add as
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Freeway cameras net city more than $1 million profit per year
3-26-2008
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Arizona Republic
The city of Scottsdale has made a $2 million profit in the 2 years it has been operating speed enforcement cameras on the Loop 101 freeway through the city.
Also brought in $5.4 million in state surcharges and $1 million more for Scottsdale's co
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Family files $8 million claim against government caused death
3-26-2008
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Arizona Republic
A politically connected New York family filed an $8 million claim against Phoenix, blaming police officers for the death of Carol Gotbaum. Gotbaum, 45, died at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after she was arrested and placed in a holding ce
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Agents Harass Americans At Internal Checkpoint
03-26-2008
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YouTube
After being stopped twice within 30 minutes at different DHS checkpoints in Southern Arizona, an honorably discharged marine & current college student asks a few questions and gets a whole lot of attitude from arrogant CBP agents.
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain proposes United Nations II
3-26-2008
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Bloomberg
John McCain called for a new "League of Democracies'' to advance western values and said he'd explore a free-trade agreement with the European Union in a speech outlining his foreign policy positions. [Regurgitate Woodrow Wilson ...
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
WaMu Alt-A Pool Revisited
3-26-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Cesspool Bottom Line: 22.69% of a pool that was 92.6% rated AAA is 60 days delinquent or worse. At the current rate of progression it would not be surprising to see 30% of this pool get to REO status.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
New Home Sales: Diving off a cliff
3-26-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
"Months of Supply is at the highest level since 1981. Note that does not include cancellations...
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News Link • Identity Theft
Outsourced passports netting govt. profits, risking national security
3-26-2008
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Washington Times
The US has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic passports to overseas companies " including one in Thailand victimized by Chinese espionage " raising concerns that cost savings are put ahead of national security.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Operation Cassandra - by William S. Lind
3-25-08
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LewRockwell.com
Let me state it here, again, as plainly as I can: an American attack on Iran could cost us the whole army we now have in Iraq.
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News Link • Police State
Spy-in-the-sky drone sets sights on Miami
3-26-08
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Rawstory.com
A small pilotless drone manufactured by Honeywell International, capable of hovering and "staring" using electro-optic or infrared sensors, is expected to make its debut soon in the skies over the Florida Everglades.
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul’s Graphics Revolution
3-25-2008
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NY Times (a big h/t Terri K.)
Although Ron Paul may be mathematically out of contention for the Republican nomination, from what I can tell, he has inspired more do-it-yourself campaign graphics than any of the leading contenders from either party.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Gas Prices: Tax Coffers Fill as Wallets Empty
03-26-2008
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Mondoreb
Oil companies aren't the big winners in rising gas prices--federal and state governments are. In California, lawmakers are fighting over how to spend the extra $8 billion.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
House Democrats Pass Largest Tax Hike in History
03-26-2008
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Mondoreb
Right before recess, House Democrats passed the budget bill. It contained important--but hard to find--tax increases that amount to over $3100 per family. What's to be done?
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Randy Ricochet
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