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Date Sent: 2008-12-31
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
Police Investigating Internet Posters -- Oregon Gov. pursues mileage tax with GPS Tracking
Judge Agrees With Bush in Ruling on 2 Detainees -- Defiant Illinois Governor Names Pick for Obama Seat -- List of Troubled Banks -- Nobody frightens children like the TSA -- Christians called to abandon public education -- NASA Releases Columbia Report With Graphic Details Of Astronaut Deaths -- Who Controls the Money? - by Michael S. Rozeff -- Preamble to Social Mayhem - by Tim Case -- There's No Pain-Free Cure for Recession - by Peter Schiff -- An Interview with Guantánamo Whistleblower Stephen Abraham -- Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic -- MISH: Growing Unrest In Russia Amidst Economic Crisis -- Home prices plunge record 18 percent in October -- Israel attacking humanitarian relief ship? -- Peter Schiff Running For US Senate -- Transition and Hope - by Ron Paul
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, Saturday, 7:30AM
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News Link • Obama Administration
OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL:
Eligibility remains focus of Supremes' conferences
12/29/08
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http://wnd.com/
A second conference has been posted on the docket for the U.S. Supreme Court over the issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to occupy the White House, this one scheduled a week after Congress is to review the Electoral College vote tabulation. The
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Drug War
First Time Growers: Common Mistakes
12-29-2008
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The Fresh Scent
Growing is easy right? You buy some seeds, source a couple of pots, grab lights, dump in the soil and then instantly start to grow weed. Sounds pretty simple! Well, it is… until the first real roadblock makes itself known. Luckily, we are here to get
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: America
"The Day Ayn Rand Died" Lecture
12/29/2008
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their first meeting of 2009 being held on Thursday, January 8th, Phoenix Objectivists will be joined by author Jim Peron who will deliver his speech: "The Day Ayn Rand Died."
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Torture
Judge Agrees With Bush in Ruling on 2 Detainees
12-31-2008
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NY Times
A federal judge in Washington ruled the government was properly holding two Guantánamo detainees as enemy combatants, the first clear-cut victories for the Bush administration in what are expected to be more than 200 similar cases.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Defiant Illinois Governor Names Pick for Obama Seat
12-31-2008
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NY Times
Defying Senate leaders in Washington and a galaxy of political leaders here, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois announced Tuesday that he would fill the Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama, which he has been accused of trying to sell.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
List of Troubled Banks
12-30-2008
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LewRockwell
Ready to see where your bank stands? A few days ago, a friend of mine called me to ask if I had any idea how to figure out which banks would be the next to fail. Some extensive googling revealed that while lists of troubled banks obviously exist, non
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Gaza: Israel's previous attacks
12-30-2008
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The Guardian
Air strikes in Gaza follow series of operations dating back to 2006, when Hamas won Palestinian elections.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Nobody frightens children like the TSA
12-30-2008
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The Examiner
If there is a special place in Hell for officious government employees, I'm sure there's a spot all warmed up for the Transportation Security Administration officer at Baltimore/Washington International Airport who scared my kid out of his wi
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Odessa TX Police Investigating Internet Posters
12-30-2008
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Odessa American Online
A police investigation on a fake marijuana grow house may lead to the Odessa American's website, Odessa Police Lt. Jesse Duarte and Chief Tim Burton suggested. [vote in the fascism poll!]
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Phoenix Leads U.S. Home Price Decline as Lenders Unload Houses
12-30-08
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Bloomberg.com
The cost of a single-family home plunged 33 percent from a year earlier, according to an S&P/Case Shiller index. The decline was worse than Las Vegas, where prices fell 32 percent, and San Francisco, where they dropped 31 percent.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Madoffed: Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick
12-30-08
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Jessescrossroadcafe.blogspot.com
So Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, in a lapse of sound portfolio theory, entrusted a sizable share of their wealth to Bernie Madoff, and are now apparently regretting that decision.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Regulatory Fraud-by-Idiocy, Example #9463
12-30-08
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Market-Ticker.Denninger.net
Loaning money out at a lower rate of return than it costs you to acquire - isn't that kind of like "we'll lose something on each sale, but make it up on volume?"
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
US, Japanese Researchers Mix Samples of 1918 Flu Pandemic to Recreate Deadly Code
12-30-2008
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http://www.legitgov.org
Why? And, why is no one *asking* why?
Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly " a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. They mixed samples of the 1918 influenza strain with mode
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Shares FDR's Arrogant Conceit
12-30-2008
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Free Republic
"Painful crisis also provides us with an opportunity to transform our economy to improve the lives of ordinary people," Obama said.
His designated chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is more direct: "You never want a serious crisis to go t
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Reported by:
Catherine Abbitt
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Cynthia McKinney: Boat Attacked By Israeli Forces
"Our boat was rammed three times, twice in the front and one on the side," McKinney told CNN Tuesday morning. "Our mission was a peaceful mission. Our mission was thwarted by the aggressiveness of the Israeli military."
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Reported by:
Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Releases Columbia Report With Graphic Details Of Astronaut Deaths
12-30-2008
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HuffingtonPost.com
In a graphic 400-page report, NASA further studied the Feb. 1, 2003, shuttle tragedy to help them design their new shuttle replacement capsule more likely to survive an accident.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Defending Archimedes
"Call to Dunkirk" - Christians called to abandon public education (FROM 2008)
12-28-2008
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WorldNetDaily via e-mail
...some people are fed up with public school treatment of Christianity and have launched a campaign calling for a rescue of kids from government education programs - a "Call to Dunkirk."
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Police State
Ex-cop debuts first 'KopBusters' trailer
12-30-2008
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RAW STORY exclusive, courtesy of Kopbusters.com
VIDEO & 'KopBusters' creator scheduled to appear Tuesday, 3:45 p.m. EST, on CNN Newsroom with Rick Sanchez
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Ex-cop debuts first 'KopBusters' trailer
12-30-2008
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RAW STORY exclusive, courtesy of Kopbusters.com
VIDEO & 'KopBusters' creator scheduled to appear Tuesday, 3:45 p.m. EST, on CNN Newsroom with Rick Sanchez
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
Preamble to Social Mayhem
12-30-08
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PrisonPlanet.com & LewRockwell.com
The society that elected the president-in-waiting is dominated by blind nationalism, trendy savior-worship, an unending ignorance of history, economics and philosophy and devoid of a critical thought process, I fear history will say of this moment, “
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Clintons Selected To Drop Times Square Ball On NYE
12-30-2008
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CBS - wcbstv.com
NEW YORK (CBS) Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, will kiss 2008 goodbye on the world's biggest stage this New Year's Eve.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Clintons Selected To Drop Times Square Ball On NYE
12-30-2008
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CBS - wcbstv.com
NEW YORK (CBS) Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, will kiss 2008 goodbye on the world's biggest stage this New Year's Eve.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Who Controls the Money?
12-30-2008
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by Michael S. Rozeff for LewRockwell.com
They (The Fed & Government) are intentionally deceiving the public about the necessity and benefits of these expenditures. A great deal of money is being transferred to persons who should be absorbing losses that they are responsible for.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic
12-30-08
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Reuters.com/
Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly -- a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic
12-30-08
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Reuters.com/
Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly -- a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
There's No Pain-Free Cure for Recession
12-30-2008
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Peter Schiff for the Wall Street Journal
It would be irresponsible in the extreme for an individual to forestall a personal recession by taking out newer, bigger loans when the old loans can't be repaid. However, this is precisely what we are planning on a national level.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Growing Unrest In Russia Amidst Economic Crisis
12-30-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Now that things are getting worse by the minute, Putin will likely attempt to shift the blame to -- you guessed it -- the US. America will be made a scapegoat for the global crisis, for manipulating oil markets and for anything else that goes wrong i
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Uh Oh..... Monetary Flat Spin
12-30-08
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Market-Ticker.denninger.net
BTW, evidence that Bernanke's Monetary Flat Spin is already impacting the economy in ways that may do critical (if not fatal) damage was found this morning in the Case-Schiller numbers. Everyone, including Bernanke, was expecting the rate of hom
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Confidence Hits New Low on Jobs Woes
12-30-08
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CNBC.com/
Consumer confidence fell to a record low in December as the worst job market in 16 years hammered sentiment, the Conference Board said on Tuesday.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Dancing on a Precipice: The Tenuous Balance in Global Finance
12-30-08
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Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
The much touted notion that the US is the preferred destination for private wealth, thus sustaining an out of balance trade deficit through a financial services economy, is rubbish at best, and propaganda at worst. It is rooted in the Dick Cheney nos
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Home prices plunge record 18 percent in October: S&P/Case-Shiller index
12-30-08
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news.yahoo.com
The composite index of 20 metropolitan areas fell 2.2 percent in October from September. The price drops, both on a year-over-year and month-over-month basis, came in worse than expectations based on a Reuters survey of economists.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to be sentenced Jan. 9
12-30-2008
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AP
U.S. prosecutors want a Miami judge to sentence the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 147 years in prison for torturing people when he was chief of a brutal paramilitary unit during his father's reign. [sets precedent -- T. Knapp
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski to pursue mileage tax with GPS Tracking
12/27/2008
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gazettetimes.com
A year ago, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced it had demonstrated that a new way to pay for roads " via a mileage tax and satellite technology " could work.
Now Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he’d like the legislature to take the next st
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Jim Kaiser
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News Link • Humor
Illinois Jeweler Selling Senate Seats
Dec. 29, 2008
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consumerist.com
A Chicago furniture store is running ads claiming that it "sells more seats than the Governor." Now a local jewelry store is literally selling Senate seats, as beautiful charms!
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Peter Schiff Running For US Senate
12-30-2008
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Peter Schiff For US Senate
In 2010, the Senate Chairman of the Banking Committee, author of the aggressive bailout plan, and the top recipient of political contributions from the insurance industry Chris Dodd will be giving up his senate seat. While Dodd was in office, he clai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel attacking humanitarian relief ship?
Laila El-Haddad
Report of ship carrying human rights workers including Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney under fire, being rammed by IDF. Casualties unknown at this time.
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Found Zero
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