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Date Sent: 2008-04-25
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, April 25, 2008 |
FBI wants wide monitoring of Internet activity -- al-Sadr may restart full-scale fight against US
How can you have a REVOLUTION without Bad Guys?!! - by Ernest Hancock -- Machine Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway -- McCain re-Vows War on Poverty -- Load Up the Pantry -- New home sales plunge to lowest level in 16 1/2 years -- Gunk in T. Rex Fossil Confirms Dino-Bird Lineage -- Menstrual blood can repair hearts -- Brewer must stop using 'Legal Weed' bottle caps -- U.S. says North Korea gave Syria nuclear assistance -- Police Chief Responds to Citizen-Issued Ticket -- McCain Campaign Using Prison Labor -- Is an Attack on Iran Imminent? -- Mexican Attache Engages in Espionage at SPP Summit -- Oil prices to double by 2012 -- Ticket Cameras Targeted in AZ-- Breaking the Silence: Israeli Soldiers Speak - by Stephen Lendman -- DHS Using Terrorism As Pretext To Harass Washington State Islanders -- Texas Local Gov't Forcefully Overthrows Paul Delegates! -- Prominent PA GOP officials sue PA Ron Paul delegates
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News Link • Police State
FBI wants widespread monitoring of 'illegal' Internet activity
4-24-2008
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CNET
The FBI called for new legislation that would allow federal police to monitor the Internet for "illegal activity." Mueller suggests the bureau should have a broad "omnibus" authority to conduct monitoring and surveillance of priva
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Machine Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway
4-24-2008
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CBS
M4 Carbine Rifles, MP5 Submachine Guns & Bomb Sniffing Dogs Part Of New "Torch Team" Anti-Terror Efforts.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
40+ years later McCain re-Vows War on Poverty, Says Nation in Recession
4-24-2008
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Bloomberg
Republican John McCain, saying the nation is in a recession and "families are hurting,'' retraced Lyndon Johnson's steps in eastern Kentucky and pledged to mount a war on poverty different from that waged by the former Democratic pre
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Al-Sadr may restart full-scale fight against US in Iraq
4-24-2008
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AP
Muqtada al-Sadr is considering setting aside his political ambitions and restarting a full-scale fight against U.S.-led forces _ a worrisome shift that may reflect Iranian influence on the young cleric and could open the way for a shadow state protec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Hubble telescope captures crashing galaxies
4-24-2008
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Reuters (images)
Images of colliding galaxies show them spinning, sliding and slipping into one another, wreaking stellar destruction that will give birth to new and larger galaxies. 59 new images from the Hubble Space Telescope to celebrate the 18th anniversary of i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
New home sales plunge to lowest level in 16 1/2 years
4-24-2008
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AP
Sales of new homes plunged in March to the lowest level in 16 1/2 years as housing slumped further at the start of the spring sales season. The median price of a new home in March compared to a year ago fell by the largest amount in nearly four decad
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gunk in T. Rex Fossil Confirms Dino-Bird Lineage
4-24-2008
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LiveScience
Tyrannosaurus rex just got a firm grip on the animal kingdom's family tree, right next to chickens and ostriches. New analyses of soft tissue from a T.rex leg bone re-confirm that birds are dinosaurs' closest living relatives.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Load Up the Pantry
4-24-2008
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Wall Street Journal
I don't want to alarm anybody, but maybe it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food.
No, this is not a drill.
You've seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. Yes, they're a long way away from th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Brewer must stop using 'Legal Weed' bottle caps
4-24-2008
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AP
Vaune Dillmann thought the wording on his bottle caps was a clever play on the name of the town where he brews his beer - Weed. Federal alcohol regulators thought differently. They have ordered Dillmann to stop selling beer bottles with caps that say
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Menstrual blood can repair hearts
4-24-2008
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AFP
Some 20% of the cells began beating spontaneously about three days after being put together in vitro with cells from the hearts of rats. The cells from menstrual blood eventually formed sheet-like heart-muscle tissue.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. says North Korea gave Syria nuclear assistance
4-24-2008
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Reuters
The US released photographs of what it said was a Syrian nuclear reactor built with North Korean help, in an effort to pressure Pyongyang to fully disclose its nuclear activities. Israel destroyed the reactor in a September 6 air strike that was init
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Another Border agent held on domestic violence charges
04-24-2008
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AZ Starnet
Cedres was an agent stationed in Douglas at the time of his arrest but he has since been fired, said Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Jose Gonzales.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain Campaign Unaware of 13th Amendment Violations
4-24-2008
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Birmingham News / Kim Bryan
McCain campaign gets almost 80% off on a gathering space, plus free labor from jail inmates. McCain campaign officials said they knew nothing about Homewood using inmate labor at no cost, nor did they ask for a cut rate.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Portland Asst. Police Chief Responds to Citizen-Issued Ticket
4-24-2008
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Raw Story / CNN
Asst. Police Chief says the officer did nothing wrong. That commanders tell officers to stay near their cars so they can respond to emergencies. "Asking an officer to find a 'legal' parking space...is unreasonable."
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Iran
Is an Attack on Iran Imminent?
by Dan Hamburg
4-24-2008
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Santa Monica Mirror (h/t Dennis C)
George Bush is poised to order a massive aerial bombardment â€" possibly including tactical nuclear weapons â€" of up to 10,000 targets in Iran. The attack would be justified on grounds that Iran is interfering with US efforts in Iraq and Iran is develo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Canadian study: Oil prices to double by 2012
4-24-08
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Rawstory.com
The price of oil is likely to hit 150 dollars (Canadian, US) a barrel by 2010 and soar to 225 dollars a barrel by 2012 as supply becomes increasingly tight, a Canadian bank said Thursday.
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News Link • North American Union
Mexican Attache Engages in Espionage at SPP Summit in New Orleans, Bungles the Attempt
04-24-08
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FoxNews
FoxNews, refuses to report that the meeting in question was the recent New Orleans Summit of the SPP - prelude to the North American Union. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352378,00.html
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Reported by:
Bruce Barton
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News Link • Eugenics
Delaware Libertarian exclusive interview with Christine Smith
04-24-2008
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The Delaware Libertarian (Steve Newton website)
A new interview - with foreign and domestic policy questions. I invite you to read Newton's excellent interview with me.
-C. Smith (Paid for by Christine Smith for President)
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
New Home Sales Plunge
4-24-08
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Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
New home sales in March were the lowest since 1991. Months of supply" is at 11 months; the highest level since 1981. Note that this doesn't include cancellations.
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News Link • Immigration
Video: The Truth About Illegal Immigration and the Jobs Americans Won't Do
04-24-2008
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Mondoreb
The "jobs Americans won't do" involves one little thing: what you're paid to do it.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Tucson Ticket Cameras Targeted
04-24-2008
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The Newspaper
A set of cameras designed to issue traffic tickets at a Tucson, Arizona intersection were left photographing the ground over the weekend after being hit by a vigilante.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Eugenics
Texas Local Gov't Forcefully Overthrows Paul Delegates!
04-23-2008
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Youtube
Ron Pauls elected delegates have been unlawfully, illegally, and for all intents and purposes VIOLENTLY overthrown in a blatant declaration of war against Ron Paul supporters and converts!
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Using Terrorism As Pretext To Harass Washington State Islanders
04-24-2008
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Seattle Times
"...That changed in February, when federal agents started corralling everyone off domestic ferries into a fenced-off area in Anacortes and questioning them about their citizenship."
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Eugenics
Prominent PA GOP officials sue PA Ron Paul delegates
04-23-2008
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Auburn Journal
Questionable Lawsuit May Result In Criminal Consequences for Prominent PA GOP Party Members
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Trouser Chili
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