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Date Sent: 2008-06-27
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, June 27, 2008 |
US Stocks Tumble to Worst June Since Depression -- Mayors: Gun ruling won't stop confiscation
Bush moves to take N.Korea off terrorism blacklist -- Will GOP candidates adopt 'every-man-for-himself' strategies? -- Kucinich: 'We went to war for the oil companies' -- Electronic citations speed up ticketing process for police -- NY millionaire gets prison for enslaving workers -- Update On The DC ID Roadblock Case -- Minerals Needed for Life Found on Mars -- BATF Raids Blackwater Facility in North Carolina -- The European Housing Mania -- THE ANZA PORT...A DOOR TO PROSPERITY - by Ricardo Valenzuela -- Law School Dean Calls Conference to Plan Bush War Crimes Prosecution -- OPEC President: Oil may hit $170 barrel this summer -- Store Closings: Symptoms of A Depressed Economy -- MISH: Bank of America's Parking Meter Play -- New FISA bill: Defines propane tanks as a WMD -- Supreme Court rules 5-4 in favor of 2nd Amendment as an Individual Right -- Gov't Study Criticizes Bush Administration's Iraq Progress -- AIPAC supported Iran War Resolution May Be Passed Next Week
Oil above $140 a barrel; ISIL President Vince Miller lies on death's door; AZ:911 Truth welcomes Architect Richard Gage
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Stocks Tumble, Sending Dow to Worst June Since Depression
6-26-2008
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Bloomberg
U.S. stocks tumbled, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its worst June since the Great Depression, as record oil prices, credit-market writedowns and a slowing economy threatened to extend a yearlong profit slump.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Bush moves to take N.Korea off terrorism blacklist
6-26-2008
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AP
Six years after branding North Korea a part of his "axis of evil," Bush offered mostly symbolic concessions in exchange for Kim Jong Il's decision to hand over a long-awaited accounting of its nuclear bomb-making abilities.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Will GOP candidates adopt 'every-man-for-himself' strategies?
6-26-2008
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Rawstory
Despite imploring House Republicans to get their "dead asses" in line, Minority Leader John Boehner was unable to hold his party together on a Medicare-related vote this week. The disarray is raising questions whether GOP lawmakers "wi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Kucinich: 'We went to war for the oil companies'
6-26-2008
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Rawstory
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has introduced measures to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, said Thursday that oil executives who secretly met with the vice president in 2001 should be held criminally liable for pushing an illegal war.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Electronic citations speed up ticketing process for police
6-26-2008
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USA Today
Police agencies and troopers in several states are tossing out handwritten tickets in favor of electronic citations as a way to improve accuracy and save time. With the quick swipe or scan of a driver's license, officers are able to enter the loc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bird Study Reveals 10 Things You Didn't Know
6-26-2008
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LiveScience.com
Birds are among the most studied and openly stalked animals, but scientists have just discovered a flock of unexpected new avian facts, based on an analysis of genetic data that yielded an evolutionary tree full of surprises.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mayors: Gun ruling won't stop confiscation efforts
6-26-2008
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AP
Washington's blanket ban on handguns will fall and tight gun laws in places like Chicago and San Francisco are sure to come under attack. But most of the nation's firearms regulations will probably stay on the books, and some politicians said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Incredible, Edible Front Lawn
6-26-2008
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Time
Clarence Ridgley is the most popular guy on his block, and it's all thanks to his lawn. In April, Ridgley transformed his neatly trimmed yard into a garden of tomatoes, blueberries, strawberries, lettuce, beets and herbs. And because the plot sit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
NY millionaire gets prison for enslaving workers
6-26-2008
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AP
A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on Indonesian housekeepers held as slaves in her Long Island mansion was sentenced to 11 years in prison. The trial provided a glimpse into a US problem of domestic workers exploited in slave-like conditions
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Minerals Needed for Life Found on Mars
6-26-2008
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Space.com
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander found evidence of mineral nutrients essential to life in Martian dirt. After performing the first wet chemistry experiment ever done on another planet, Phoenix discovered a sample of Martian dirt contained several solub
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Daylight Robbery
06-26-2008
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The Stress Blog(You Tube)
Here's the You Tube version of the Panorama special aired in England about the claims that as much as $23 billion may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Update On The D.C. ID Roadblock Case
06-26-2008
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Papers Please
"While this fiasco was initiated by local authorities, remember that §201(3) of the Real ID Act grants a sole individual (the Secretary of DHS) the authority to establish by fiat when and where “official” ID is required in the United States."
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Gun Rights
BATF Raids Blackwater Facility in North Carolina
6-26-2008
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MSNBC
Company financed automatic weapons for sheriff, then held onto them.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Police State
You're on Candid Camera
06-26-2008
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Newsweek
A Bush administration program to expand domestic use of Pentagon spy satellites has aroused new concerns in Congress about possible civil-liberties abuses. On Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committe approved an amendment denying
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - International
The European Housing Mania
06-26-2008
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ElliottWave
... Tulips Pale in Comparison
If you are one of the hundreds of thousands of Europeans who own speculative real estate, you tread the crumbling edge of a huge cliff."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Law School Dean Calls Conference to Plan Bush War Crimes Prosecution
06-26-2008
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www.abajournal.com
The dean of Massachusetts School of Law at Andover is planning a September conference to map out war crimes prosecutions, and the targets are President Bush and other administration officials.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
OPEC President: Oil may hit $170 barrel this summer
6-26-08
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Bloomberg.com
Threats against Iran would also support prices during the summer, he said. A political crisis that would stop Iran's oil production would push prices over $200 a barrel, to possibly $400 a barrel, he said.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bank of America's Parking Meter Play
6-26-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Banks are so greedy, and/or so desperate that not only are they charging ridiculous interest rates, they are willing to ding you with a $10 fee on a $2 transaction.
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News Link • Constitution
Official Launch of Coppercards, July 4, 2008!
06-26-2008
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Jim Palmisano
The purpose of CopperCards is to bring back U.S. Constitutional law and Common Law by providing effective tools and community for the common person to protect their rights and to hold government accountable.
We are currently seeking freedom advoc
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Jim Palmisano
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News Link • Constitution
New FISA bill: Defines propane tanks as a WMD
6-26-08
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blog.Wired.com
To that, the new bill adds the practice of trafficking in weapons of mass destruction as being grounds for eavesdropping.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Gov't Study Criticizes Bush Administration's Iraq Progress
06/26/2008
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The New York Times
The Government Accounting Office released a report monday that gave a blistering assessment of the Bush Administration's measurements of the progress made in Iraq.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Iran
Iran War Resolution May Be Passed Next Week (AIPAC supported)
6-25-08
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Antiwar.com
Resolution 362 has already gained 170 co-sponsors, or nearly 40 percent of the House. It has been referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee, which has 49 members, 24 of whom, including the ranking Republican, are co-sponsors.
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