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Date Sent: 2008-03-14
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, March 14, 2008 |
Ron Paul warns of Worldwide Economic Collapse -- Police Make Salvia Bust Because They Can
Bumper Hornberger: Bush's Freedom Delusion -- Michigan, campaigns talk do-over primary -- Keith Olbermann Special Comment On Hillary -- Federal Vice Agents Tout Success -- Immigration Checkpoints Being Used As Pretext for Narcotic Searches -- Jim Rogers: 'Abolish the Fed' -- F.B.I. Made ‘Blanket’ Demands for Phone Records -- Foreclosures make up 33.5% of home sales in So. California -- Foreclosures up 60% on year -- Get elected to Congress and get rich -- Sheriff threatens reporters with jail -- McCain Scores Another "Eradicate Islam" Endorsement -- Gold tops $1,001 per ounce -- Mike Renzulli: Capitalists Who Cut Their Own Throats -- Pollution is Called By-Product of 'Clean Fuel' -- Barbara Peterson: Frankenfood -- Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice in Police State America
New color $5 bills came out yesterday; Bob Schultz, We The People Speaks in Houston tomorrow and Phoenix, Sunday
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul warns of Worldwide Economic Collapse
3-13-08
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Rawstory.com
In this C-SPAN video, Ron Paul warns of a worldwide economic collapse brought on by the fall of the dollar, the expense of maintaining an American empire, and soaring budget deficits.
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush's Freedom Delusion - by Jacob G. Hornberger
3-13-08
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Future of Freedom Foundation.org
Even more ironic is the fact that in the process of supposedly bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq, Bush has brought to the American people a regime of torture, snitches, military tribunals, warrantless searches, denial of due process, denial of t
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News Link • Constitution
Ron Paul: Intervening Our Way to Economic Ruin
3-14-08
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Antiwar.com
The Constitution is very clear, the government ought to preserve our liberties and give us a strong national defense. It shouldn't run our lives, it shouldn't run the economy, it shouldn't police the world. [text of speech]
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News Link • Eugenics
Michigan, campaigns talk do-over primary
3-13-2008
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AP
Michigan Democrats are close to an agreement with presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama to hold a do-over primary. Party officials and the campaigns negotiated on Thursday, and state Democratic leaders were hopeful tha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Federal Vice Agents Tout Success
3-13-2008
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Atlanta Journal Constitution / Steve Visser
Jack Killorin said his agents are rolling up drug-trafficking organizations. He credits last year's spike in area burglaries, robberies and car thefts in part to criminals forced to pay more for their illicit drugs.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Revolution March: Summer 2008
03/13/2008
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Arizona CHANGE
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government..."
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Homeland Security
Immigration Checkpoints Being Used As Pretext for Narcotic Searches
03-13-2008
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Phoenix New Times
All the Border Patrol checkpoints, not just the ones near Yuma, take advantage of special powers that experts say contradict normal constitutional search-and-seizure rules.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Rogers: 'Abolish the Fed'
3-13-08
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CNBC.com
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should resign and the Fed should be abolished as a way to boost the falling dollar and speed up the recovery of the U.S. economy, investor Jim Rogers, told CNBC Europe Wednesday.
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News Link • Police State
F.B.I. Made ‘Blanket’ Demands for Phone Records
3-13-2008
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NY Times
Senior officials of the FBI repeatedly approved the use of “blanket” records demands to justify the improper collection of thousands of phone records. They used blanket records demands at least 11 times in 2006 alone as a quick way to clean up mistak
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran's Eliot Spitzer
3-13-2008
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PajamaMedia
What happens when you are THE most powerful member of the largest city's police force and you are caught naked in a brothel "praying" (preying?) with six naked women . . . in Iran? Nothing good I suspect.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosures make up 33.5% of home sales in Southern California
3-13-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Last month's median home price fell 19.2 percent from the peak of $505,000 reached last spring and summer.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosures up 60 percent on year for February
3-13-2008
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Reuters
US home foreclosure filings in Feb. edged down from Jan. but were a whopping 60% higher than a year earlier, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said. The surge in foreclosures from a year ago indicate the cycle has yet to hit its peak.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Get elected to Congress and get rich
3-13-2008
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Reuters
The personal wealth of members of the U.S. Congress has soared in recent years, leaving lawmakers on average far more well-to-do than most Americans as of 2006.
The median net worth of senators was estimated at $1.7 million and House of Representat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Sheriff threatens reporters with jail
3-13-2008
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AP
When the Duval County sheriff said he would lock up reporters from local newspapers if they kept "interfering" in his business, no one took the threat lightly. For 20 years, he had done what he pleased with no challenges to his reign. He de
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain Scores Another "Eradicate Islam" Endorsement
3-13-2008
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Mother Jones / David Corn
Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a "war" against the "false religion" of Islam with the aim of destroying it.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold tops $1,001 per ounce on futures market
3-13-2008
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MarketWatch
Gold futures briefly broke the psychologically important level of $1,000 an ounce Thursday, propelled by ongoing dollar weakness and bleak news from the financial sector.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
House FISA Battle Continues As Southern Border Remains Open
03-13-2008
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Mondoreb
The National Republican Congressional Committee has an article on the continuing FISA battle in the House. We say, why bother?--as long as the U.S. southern border remains an open door.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Drug War
Police Make Salvia Bust in Lincoln, NE
3-13-2008
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Lincoln Journal Star
A legislative bill that would make Salvia divinorum an illegal drug in Nebraska has little chance of passage during the last six weeks of the legislative session. Lincoln Police on Monday made a Salvia bust anyway.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Environment
Pollution is Called By-Product of 'Clean Fuel'
03/13/2008
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The New York Times
An old Alabama chemical plant converted into a refinery to produce biodiesel fuels converting soybean oil into 'earth-friendly' fuels is now responsible for area pollution 450 times greater than permitted.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Proposed Florida Law will Regulate Toilet Paper
3-13-2008
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CBS4-TV
Here's the bottom line, the bill would be a mandate that all eating establishments must have enough toilet paper when you go into the restroom. The only problem is the bill doesn't dictate how much toilet paper is "enough."
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Corruption
Meet Kristen: Eliot Spitzer's Downfall
03-13-2008
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Mondoreb
5 pix of "Kristen", 22-year-old Ashley Youmins, whose "professional' name was Ashley Alexandra Dupre. Was she worth her reported asking price of $4300-5000?
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Randy Ricochet
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