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Date Sent: 2008-04-18
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, April 18, 2008 |
320,000 Iraq, Afghanistan vets have brain injuries -- German Banks: 'Under Threat of Collapse'
Sheriff Ran Sex-Slave Operation From Jail -- Ron Paul speech at Freedom Rally, Washington DC -- EU ready to give US some access to police data -- Don't inflate out of financial mess: Fed's Fisher -- Housing: Time to Halt Taxpayer Subsidies -- Polygamous-sect hearing in Texas descends into farce -- MISH: Energy Affecting Food Prices -- U.S. Strike on Iran Nearing -- Jesse Ventura Questions Official 9/11 Story -- Food riots for Haiti's government -- Bill Maher: The Pope is Coming to America, Parents Lock Up Your Kids! -- Has Capitalism Failed? - by Ron Paul
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News Link • Corruption
Police: Okla. Sheriff Ran Sex-Slave Operation From Jail
4-17-2008
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KOCO TV
An Oklahoma sheriff resigned after an investigation reveals he was running a sex-slave operation from his jail, police said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Samsung's woes
04-18-2008
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GOLD REPORT
Samsung's chairman is charged with tax evasion POLICE in riot gear took up station in front of South Korea's prosecutors' offices on the evening of Thursday April 17th to quell demonstrations. Normally an angry public calling for accounta
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War Onyou
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News Link • North American Union
Super NAFTA Highway
04-17-2008
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WAR ON YOU
Recently representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio gave a presentation about NAFTA Super Highway to the US House of Representatives. Some people seem unsure if it’s going to happen but it definitely seems the plans and intentions are in place. This is some
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul speech on Tax Strike, Freedom Rally, Washington DC, nationwide protest.
04-17-2008
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blog 4 Paul
As predicted, MSM failed to broadcast the news….here it is, straight from DC….sorry the audio in the first portion is muffled….I attempted to add the text portions as best as I could hear …More footage to come, I was in a hurry to get this one of Ron
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News Link • Eugenics
In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is ABC
4-17-2008
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Washington Post
For the first 52 minutes of the show, Gibson and Stephanopoulos dwelled entirely on specious and gossipy trivia that already has been hashed and rehashed, in the hope of getting the candidates to claw at one another over disputes that are no longer n
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Don't inflate out of financial mess: Fed's Fisher
4-17-2008
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Reuters
Trying to solve the financial industry's structural problems with more interest rate cuts would only worsen the situation by raising inflation, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said. "I have maintained a strong reluctance
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
EU ready to give U.S some access to police data
4-17-2008
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Reuters
The European Union executive signaled on Thursday the bloc could give the United States limited access to its police databases in a bid to resolve a long-running visa row with Washington.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Housing: Time to Halt Taxpayer Subsidies
4-17-2008
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BusinessWeek
Homeownership has long been a vibrant part of achieving the American Dream. But these days owning a home is more like starring in a horror flick, perhaps called Nightmare on Main Street. The numbers are frightening. Home prices are falling nationwide
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Humans Might Sense Oxygen Through Skin
4-17-2008
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LiveScience
A breathtaking trick potentially left over from our amphibian ancestors might be found in us â€" the ability to sense oxygen through our skin. The same oxygen sensors found in frog skins and in mammalian lungs have unexpectedly been discovered in the s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Killer whales bring the hunt onto land
4-17-2008
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Reuters
A six-tonne orca, or killer whale, torpedoes toward the beach, its dorsal fin cutting the Patagonian sea. It launches itself onto the sand in an explosion of water and foam.
Before the waters die down, the orca is shaking its immense head from sid
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Striving for normality, Iraq targets seat belt scofflaws
4-17-2008
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IHT
Iraqis often complain about the problems in their country and the government's lack of obvious progress in solving them. But as drivers in traffic-clogged Baghdad learned this week, Iraqi officials are taking action in one area: strict enforcemen
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Praying passenger removed from plane at NY airport
4-17-2008
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AP
A passenger who left his seat to pray in the back of a plane before it took off, ignoring flight attendants' orders to return, was removed by an airport security guard, a witness and the airline said.
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News Link • Marriage
Polygamous-sect hearing in Texas descends into farce
4-17-2008
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AP
A court hearing to decide the fate of the 416 children swept up in a raid on a West Texas polygamous sect descended into farce Thursday, with hundreds of lawyers in two packed buildings shouting objections and the judge struggling to maintain order.
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News Link • Energy
Oil Prices Headed Toward $125/barrel: T. Boone Pickens
4-17-08
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Reuters.com
Oil prices have more than quintupled since 2002, propelled higher by soaring demand from emerging economies like China alongside slow increases in global production capacity.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Energy Affecting Food Prices
4-17-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Nearly every food staple has seen a double-digit percentage increase over the past year, including a 38% hike for a dozen eggs, to $2.16, and a 19% jump, to $1.78, for a loaf of white bread, according to American Farm Bureau data.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
AZ Governor vetoes repeal of state property tax
4-17-2008
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Capital Media Services
Gov. Janet Napolitano on Wednesday vetoed legislation that would have permanently repealed the state's property tax, calling it "untimely, untenable and unwise."
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News Link • Military
Rand Corporation: 320,000 Iraq, Afghanistan vets have brain injuries
4-17-08
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Rawstory.com
Some 300,000 U.S. troops are suffering from major depression or post traumatic stress from serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 320,000 received brain injuries, a new study estimates.
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News Link • Energy
The Rise of The New Energy World Order
4-17-08
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Asia Times.com
Will that happen now? Will energy-deficit states launch campaigns to wrest the oil and gas reserves of surplus states from their control - the George W Bush administration's war in Iraq might already be thought of as one such attempt ...
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News Link • Economy - International
German Banks: 'Under Threat of Collapse'
4-17-08
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Thisismoney.co.uk
To a people with memories of another crash, that of 1929, helping to propel the Nazis to power and Germany to ruin, the spectre of a replay of those dark times is grim indeed. Throughout the crisis, banks and politicians have sought to downplay the s
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News Link • Energy
Fuel Tax Holiday Pop Quiz
4-17-2008
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Bloody Mary Breakfast
Knowing that you can purchase gasoline at a retail price today lower than your wholesale cost in six months, and that "taxes" collected on the sale of stocks purchased during the tax holiday go in your pocket, what do you do?
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![RON PAUL 4409 -- WIN.....[ER] takes [all]..5 fifths of 1oz.](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Pix/111/04/111-0417043602.jpg)
News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
RON PAUL 4409 -- WIN.....[ER] takes [all]..5 fifths of 1oz.
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We already WON! I was passing out Freedom to Fascism DVD's at the post office on the 15th and a peace officer came up to us and asked us what we were up to. We told him and he then went on to explain how he liked Ron Paul and the whole election w
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News Link • Conspiracies
Jesse Ventura Questions the Official 9/11 Story on Fox News
04-17-2008
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waronyou.com
"How can two planes knock down three buildings? Jet fuel is four-fifths kerosene, it doesn't burn hot. How can three buildings fall at the rate of gravity and turn into powder? I'm just simply questioning the fact that it doesn't add
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News Link • Food
At Least 36 U.S. States Face Water Shortage
04-17-2008
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waronyou.com
"Is it a crisis? If we don't do some decent water planning, it could be," said Jack Hoffbuhr, executive director of the American Water Works Association. Rising temperatures due to global warming have increased evaporation rates across
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News Link • Environment
The World According to Monsanto -
04-17-2008
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waronyou.com
A new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE â€" French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see. The gigantic biote
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. Strike on Iran Nearing
04-16-2008
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waronyou
Contrary to some claims that the Bush administration will allow diplomacy to handle Iran’s nuclear weapons program, a leading member of America’s Jewish community tells Newsmax that a military strike is not only on the table â€" but likely.
“Israe
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News Link • Economy - International
Food riots and other headaches for Haiti's government
04-16-2008
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gold report
Haiti?s prime minister lost his job on April 12th, the result of more than a week of unrest as protesters rioted in reaction to rising food prices in the hemisphere?s poorest country. Several Haitians died, and one United Nations peacekeeper was kill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Is there really an ocean of oil off Brazil?
04-16-2008
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gold report
JUST how much oil is there off the coast of Brazil? Until recently, Brazil's oil reserves were thought to be relatively modest: about 12 billion barrels at the beginning of 2007, according to BP, or about
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Bill Maher: The Pope is Coming to America, Parents Lock Up Your Kids!
04-16-2008
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waronyou
Bill Maher's final "New Rule" from the April 11, 2008 episode of Real Time:New Rule: Whenever you combine a secretive compound, religion and weirdos in pioneer outfits, there's going to be some child-f*cking going on.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Has Capitalism Failed? by Ron Paul
04-16-2008
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waronyou
It is now commonplace and politically correct to blame what is referred to as the excesses of capitalism for the economic problems we face, and especially for the Wall Street fraud that dominates the business news. Politicians are having a field da
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