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Date Sent: 2008-05-30
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, May 30, 2008 |
Texas Supreme Court: Sect children should be returned to parents -- US banks likely to fail
Judge: Retry death row inmate or free him -- Computer trained to "read" mind images of words -- CNN reporter talks of pressure to be patriotic -- Network news anchors praise the job they did in the run-up to the war -- Joe Lieberman to Kill Freedom of Speech -- Bush Claims More Powers than King George III -- Housing Prices: Falling faster than during 'Great Depression' -- Military Recruits Thousands More Warbots for New Unmanned Surge -- Skyrocketing Oil Prices Threaten Prosperity -- A Bush insider confirms the reasons for impeachment -- 2,300 Marines plan 'Urban Combat Training' in Indiana cities -- FDIC: Banks hit by Troubled Real Estate Loans -- Why Vincent Bugliosi Wants to Prosecute George W. Bush for Murder -- Disturbing 2008 Global Peace Index Report - by Stephen Lendman -- McClellan First Noticed Bush’s Habit of Lying during Campaign Flap over Cocaine Use -- Homeland Security Agents Reveal Illegal 'Shotgunning' Practice
Gordon Prather on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US banks likely to fail as bad loans soar
5-29-2008
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Financial Times
US banks set aside a record $37.1bn to cover losses on real estate loans and other credits during the first quarter in a sign of the growing economic pain being caused by the global credit crisis, regulators said on Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Judge: Retry death row inmate or free him
5-29-2008
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NBC
Multiple sclerosis has Paul House in a wheelchair. A tenacious prosecutor has him on death row, deemed too dangerous to be released two years after the U.S. Supreme Court said he likely is not guilty.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Uh Oh
by Bill Bonner
5-29-2008
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LewRockwell
We agree with George Soros too; the slump will result in a "noticeable decline in living standards" for most Americans. But we were waiting for the evidence...the proof that the consumer is cutting back. Now we have it. And it comes from th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
CNN reporter talks of pressure to be patriotic
5-29-2008
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AP
CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin said Thursday she was referring to her time spent at MSNBC when she said she felt pressure not to report stories critical of the Bush administration during the time leading up to the Iraq war.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Network news anchors praise the job they did in the run-up to the war
5-29-2008
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by Glenn Greenwald
Here is an absolutely amazing link to a video where the three network news anchors appeared jointly on The Today Show this morning and were forced by McClellan's book to address whether the media failed in its duties in the run-up to the war
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
It's Official: Stephen Gordon has Lost His Mind
5-29-2008
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Third Party Watch
Either that or Bob Barrfed on this electoral map.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Police State
Bush Claims More Powers than King George III
05-29-2008
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WARONYOU
The Bush administration has arrogated powers to itself that the British people even refused to grant King George III at the time of the Revolutionary War, an eminent political scientist says.
“No executive in the history of the Anglo-America
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War Onyou
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News Link • Bush Administration
McCain Reacts To McClellan: ‘Every Intelligence Agency In The World And Every Assessment’
05-29-2008
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RP2008
Asked about the book today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) defended the administration's actions in the run-up to the war, suggesting there was no manipulation involved. McCain claimed "every intelligence agency in the world" thought Hussein h
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War Onyou
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Joe Lieberman to Kill Freedom of Speech
05-29-2008
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VidzKing
Wouldn't blame him, An Israeli lover like that would be pissed if he knew that Hamas were kicking Mossad's ass.
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War Onyou
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Housing Prices: Falling faster than during 'Great Depression'
5-29-08
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Economist.com/
This shows that the latest fall in nominal prices is already much bigger than the 10.5% drop in 1932, the worst point of the Depression. And things are even worse than they look. In the deflationary 1930s house prices declined less in real terms.
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News Link • Eugenics
Important, must see Bob Barr interview with foreign press
5-29-2008
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Youtube
Now that Bob Barr is officially the Libertarian party's presidential candidate, we wanted to give you a sense of his diplomatic savvy. And frankly, this clip shows some pretty impressive grace under pressure.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
A Post About the Future of the Libertarian Party
05-29-2008
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by Darren Wolfe
(Publisher's Note: I'll have a great deal to say about the LPUS convention late next week [we'll see if Barr keeps some promises]. This article is a very good summary. Bottomline: The LP no-compromisers did much better than you might t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Finally, A Good Book for the Bathroom
5-29-2008
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AP
Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, is writing a book that will reflect on the turmoil after his arrest last year in an airport sex sting.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Marriage
Texas Supreme Court: Sect children should be returned to parents
5-29-2008
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AP
In a crushing blow to the state's massive seizure of children from a polygamist sect's ranch, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that child welfare officials overstepped their authority and the children should go back to their parents.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Judge Upholds Ballot-Access Restrictions in NC
5-29-2008
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indpoliticalreport.com
A Superior Court judge ruled May 27 that “there is no fundamental right for a voter to vote for the party of their choice” and threw out the state Libertarian Party’s challenge to North Carolina’s elections laws.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Eugenics
Dem delegates face fate (get ready for an 'I told you so')
05-29-2008
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Detroit News Washington Bureau
But many of the members of the Democratic National Committee's Rules & Bylaws Committee say they're focused less on Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama than on a set of rules they argue are vital to maintaining fairness and order in future elect
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
RFK Jr.- "They ARE Destroying OUR Constitution."
05-29-2008
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waronyou
George Bush Sr's corrupt idiot son is elevated to the White House where he has succeeded in doing more damage to America than any external enemy in its history.
Meanwhile, the deeply informed, insightful, patriotic son of Robert F. Kennedy is
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War Onyou
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News Link • Military
Military Recruits Thousands More Warbots for New Unmanned Surge
05-29-2008
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Wired
But appearances can be deceiving in the world of military robots. Turns out, there's been a second unmanned surge. And yesterday, iRobot's rival, Foster-Miller, announced that it had won the contract to supply it.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
White House reacts negatively to ex-aide's book
05-29-2008
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Herald Tribune
The White House reacted negatively today to scathing criticisms of President George W. Bush and members of his inner circle that appear in a new memoir written by Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary who was forced out in 2006 afte
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Germany: Skyrocketing Oil Prices Threaten Prosperity
5-29-08
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Spiegel.de/international
What is really worrying Germans, though, is the fear that this "oil price madness," as Germany's mass-circulation daily Bild calls it, could become a permanent condition. In the past, energy prices would shoot up but then drop again...
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News Link • Military
2,300 Marines plan 'Urban Combat Training' in Indiana cities
5-28-08
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ChicagoTribune.com
About 2,300 Marines will take part in an urban combat training exercise in central and southern Indiana, including landing helicopters at Indianapolis shopping malls, parks and the state fairgrounds, officials said.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
FDIC: Banks hit by Troubled Real Estate Loans
5-29-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Rising levels of troubled loans, particularly in real estate portfolios, led many institutions to increase their provisions for loan losses....
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News Link • Bush Administration
Why Vincent Bugliosi Wants to Prosecute George W. Bush for Murder
5-29-08
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CounterPunch.org
“George Bush has gotten away with murder " thousands of murders,” Bugliosi says. “And no one is doing anything about it. The American people can’t let him do this.”
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News Link • Food
GMO and FDA Health Fraud Schemes
05-29-2008
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Jeffrey M. Smith
Video in which the author of Seeds of Deception outlines FDA deception and how this deception promotes GMO and hides the health consequences.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Bush Administration
McClellan First Noticed Bush’s Habit of Lying during Campaign Flap over Cocaine Use
5/28/08
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www.pensitoreview.com/
McClellan’s book offers another indication that George Bush used cocaine over a period of at least 20 years
In his new tell-all book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs), former Bush
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Thomas Costanzo
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