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Date Sent: 2008-05-26
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, May 26, 2008 |
Bob Barr Becomes Libertarian Nominee on Sixth Ballot
California Home Prices Drop 32% in 12 Months -- Trucking shifts to crisis gear -- The Plan to Torpedo the Dollar -- In McCain Campaign, a Lobbying Labyrinth -- Iran 'paid Iraq insurgents to kill UK soldiers' -- Blowing a kiss to a cop gets a 14 year old arrested -- George W Bush Authorized 911 Attacks Says Government Insider -- Student says college violated rights by banning protest -- Insanity: Bush and McCain's lies about Iran - by Charley Reese -- Pentagon Cannot Accounting for $15 Billion Expended -- Historical Housing Graphs -- MISH: Real Estate: Alt-A Delinquencies Soar
Mars lander touches down; Michael Schwartz on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Libertarian Party Debates
5-24-2008
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C-SPAN
Bob Barr, Mike Gravel, Michael Jingozian, Steve Kubby, George Phillies, Wayne Allyn Root, and Mary Ruwart. Incumbent LNC Chair William Redpath faced Ruth Bennett and Ernest Hancock.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Mideast negotiations now bypassing Washington
5-25-2008
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McClatchy News
In a week of dramatic developments in the Middle East, the most dramatic development of all may have been the fact that the United States, long considered the region's indispensable player, was missing in action.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Touchdown! Phoenix Spacecraft Lands on Mars
5-25-2008
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Space
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander survived a fiery plunge through the Martian atmosphere Sunday to make a three-point landing on the red planet's arctic plains, where it beamed back its first images to the delight of mission scientists.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California Home Prices Drop 32% in 12 Months
5-23-08
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Bloomberg.com
California home prices tumbled 32 percent in April from a year earlier as ``distressed'' properties and a lack of financing cut demand, the state realtors group said.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Behind the Rise in Prices: The Plan to Torpedo the Dollar
5-25-08
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AxisofLogic.com
"The financial crisis that we now face was created by design. It is intended to destroy the labor movement, crush the middle class, quash Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, reduce our foreign debt by 50 or 60%, force a restructuring of Amer
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News Link • Inventions
Velcro Let it Rip for 1.5 miles on 50th Anniversary
05-25-2008
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Mondoreb
Last Tuesday, Velcro marked it’s 50 anniversary with a ripping good time: by letting 1.5 miles of the hook-and-loop fastener rip.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Transportation
Trucking shifts to crisis gear
05-25-2008
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Tulsa Daily World
High fuel prices are crippling the airline industry and chopping into household budgets, but no sector of the economy has been hit harder than the trucking industry, executives and analysts say.
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tom paswater
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News Link • Eugenics
Hillary Clinton: Nobody Knows the Troubles I’ve Seen
05-25-2008
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Mondoreb
Imagery equating Clinton with Hitler abounds on the web. Might it not be time for “Hitlery” to find a nice, quiet bunker?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iran 'paid Iraq insurgents to kill UK soldiers'
05-25-2008
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Telegraph
Iran has secretly paid Iraqi insurgents hundreds of thousands of American dollars to kill British soldiers, according to a leaked government document obtained by the Telegraph. The allegations are contained in a confidential "field report"
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
In McCain Campaign, a Lobbying Labyrinth
05-25-2008
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New York Times
Rick Davis, the manager of Senator John McCain's presidential campaign, is a typical Washington insider in many ways, having long worked as both a lobbyist and a political operative along the intersection of politics, policy and money.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Nipple Cream Draws Warning From FDA
05-25-2008
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Ginn
The FDA is warning new Moms about a nipple cream product that should be no longer on the shelves; yet a quick check on the web found this product still being sold at such internet stores as Amazon.com, Vitapal.com, and Drugstore.com.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Transportation
Auto Eroticism: The Man Who Loved Cars Too Much
05-25-2008
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pat
The quaint but weird story of a man who loves his cars. No, I mean, really, he loves his cars. Really.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
Lame LSM report on Phoenix Ron Paul Rally in Arizona Republic
5/23/08
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http://www.azcentral.com/
[no mention of the enthusiasm or the content of Ron Paul's Message- Ed] Texas Congressman Ron Paul and his ongoing campaign for the GOP presidential nomination rolled through Phoenix Thursday evening. An estimated 700 to 800 supporters showed up
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Conspiracies
George W Bush Authorized 911 Attacks Says Government Insider
5-25-2008
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IntelDaily
[Without further comment...] Keep in mind the man being interviewed is no two-bit internet conspiracy buff. Stanley Hilton was a senior advisor to Sen Bob Dole (R) and has personally known Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for decades.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Student says college violated rights by banning protest
5-25-2008
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AP
A college violated some students' constitutional rights by not allowing them to wear empty gun holsters as part of a nationwide protest over campus bans on concealed weapons, a student claims.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Insanity: Bush and McCain's lies about Iran - by Charley Reese
5-24-08
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LewRockwell.com
Nothing alarms me more than the thought of an irrational person in the White House. I'm OK with stupid. I can live with venal. I can tolerate a womanizer, even a drunk, but a crazy person in command of our nuclear forces gives me the heebie-jeebi
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Cannot Accounting for $15 Billion Expended
5-25-2008
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Washington Post
The inspector general for the Defense Department said the Pentagon cannot account for almost $15 billion worth of goods and services ranging from trucks, bottled water and mattresses to rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns that were boug
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
It’s Not a Campaign, It’s a Mission
5-25-2008
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NY Times
They found an unlikely reason to stay: Ron Paul, the libertarian Republican congressman from Texas who continues to run for president, even months after Senator John McCain has essentially sewn up the nomination.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Google, Chevron Build Mirrors in Desert to Beat Coal With Solar
5-24-08
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Bloomberg.com
Along a dusty two-lane highway in California's Mojave Desert, 550,000 mirrors point skyward to make steam for electricity. Google Inc., Chevron Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are betting this energy will become cheaper than coal.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Historical Housing Graphs: Months of Supply, Sales & Inventory
5-24-08
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Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
The months of supply has risen to 11.2 months, and will probably be over 12 months sometime this summer.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Real Estate: Alt-A Delinquencies Soar
5-22-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Delinquencies for Alt-A mortgages rated between 2005 and 2007 are climbing, with total delinquencies rising as high as 17 percent in some cases, more than 6 percentage points higher than previous estimates....
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