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Date Sent: 2008-06-05
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, June 5, 2008 |
Clinton to end run, endorse Obama on Saturday -- Mercury teeth fillings may harm some: FDA
Pundits Ready to Fight Hillary over Her Decision to Stay in the Race -- German government backs enhanced surveillance -- Assassination Art shut down by police and secret service -- Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US -- FBI: Police aren't tattling on you often enough -- Texas justice of the peace sued over paddlings -- 9/11 families excluded from Guantanamo hearing -- Ed McMahon fighting foreclosure -- Soviet Police State in Our Nation's Capitol -- Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US -- Federal Judge OKs Blackwater to Open San Diego Site -- Implantable RFID Business 'Not Self-Sustainable' -- US Silver Eagles Illegally Rationed -- A New Strategy for Neo-Creationists - by Mike Renzulli -- MISH: $5 Trillion Hidden Off Bank Balance Sheets -- MISH: Water4Gas State Cutbacks Will Deepen Recession -- SUV can go 40 miles for a dollar -- Beaten in raid, man gets $350G -- Eight accused of robbing, torturing drug dealers
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News Link • Eugenics
Pundits Ready to Fight Hillary over Her Decision to Stay in the Race
06-04-2008
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Mondoreb
Hillary's speech was one of concession: she says she'll fight on. Many pundits were ready to fight her over her decision not to drop out.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • TERRORISM
German government backs enhanced surveillance
6-4-2008
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IHT
Despite strong criticism from the opposition and even its own coalition partners, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government agreed to give Germany's police forces greater powers to monitor homes, telephones and private computers, maintaining that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Assassination Art shut down by police and secret service
6-4-2008
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NY Times
New York City police detectives and Secret Service agents had shut down the exhibition, and building workers had quickly covered over the inflammatory title with large sheets of brown paper and blue masking tape. The gallery is across the street from
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
6-4-2008
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AP
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
FBI: Police aren't tattling on you often enough
6-4-2008
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USA Today
State and local police officers fail to notify federal authorities about encounters with possible terrorism suspects up to 10 times a day, a senior FBI official said. Police are asked to contact the center when routine computerized background checks
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Texas justice of the peace sued over paddlings
6-4-2008
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AP
The family alleges that Garza told Zurita to strike his 14-year-old stepdaughter repeatedly on the buttocks in open court. It says the judge told Zurita the girl would be fined $500 if she wasn't paddled.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
9/11 families excluded from Guantanamo hearing
6-4-2008
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Reuters
The invitation to attend Thursday's arraignment at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba was rescinded when the New York Daily News revealed that lone invitee was an ardent defender of President Bush who spoke in support of his administration at
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Mercury teeth fillings may harm some: U.S. FDA
6-4-2008
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Reuters
Silver-colored metal dental fillings contain mercury that may cause health problems in pregnant women, children and fetuses, the Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday after settling a related lawsuit.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Ed McMahon fighting foreclosure
06/04/2008
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AP
McMahon is nearly $644,000 behind in payments on a $4.8 million mortgage loan he got in 2005.
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Trouser Chili
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Opinion • Corruption
Farm Wars
California Spraying
06-04-2008
Barbara Peterson
I publicly request that the individuals who are funding this aerial spraying project all stand unmasked and unprotected in the direct firing line of the pesticide spray, at the moment of occurrence.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
6-4-2008
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AP
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Clinton to end run, endorse Obama on Saturday
6-4-2008
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Rawstory
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton will drop out of the presidential race and cede the Democratic nomination to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama at the end of this week, per an official statement from her campaign.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Future Predictions
Systematic Legal Plunder is One Sure Sign of the End of the Republic
06-04-2008
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Mondoreb
One sign that a republic is near the end of its life is systematic legal plunder; or, in the words of Fredrick Bastiat, “if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Internet
Scientology - Anonymous CyberWars: The YouTube Battle
06-04-2008
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Ginn
Recently DBKP wrote of the Cyber-War being waged between the mysterious group known as Anonymous and the Church of Scientology. While looking for Scientology's take on the matter, we came across the remnants of one of their battles--on YouTube.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Accused $787,000 thief to cops: Arrest real criminals
6-4-2008
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East Valley Tribune
Adan Betancio Guerrero, 36, of Mesa is accused of stealing someone else’s Social Security number and using it to purchase two homes and two vehicles. The records stated Betancio racked up $787,000 in loans and has tried to get a job using the victim’
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Judge tosses school official's lawsuit against Fox News
6-4-2008
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AP
A federal judge has thrown out a school superintendent's lawsuit against Fox News, saying the cable news channel acted unprofessionally but without malice when anchors on Fox and Friends reported a parody story about ham as fact last year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Federal Judge Gives Ok for Blackwater to Open Site in San Diego
6-4-08
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Fox6.com/news
According to the San Diego City Attorney's Office, Huff's ruling allowing Blackwater to use an Otay Mesa warehouse without completing all city permit procedures denies the city its land-use authority.
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News Link • Police State
DC Checkpoints: Soviet Police State in The Nations Capitol
6-4-08
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Rawstory.com
The latest proposal from DC's mayor and police chief would have officers patrolling Soviet-esque checkpoints limiting residents' ability to travel to and from targeted neighborhoods.
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News Link • Eugenics
Preview of McCain Debacle, 2008
06/03/2008
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YouTube
Wow! Look at how the media (even Fox News here) is preparing to crucify McCain. And he makes it so easy.... ;-)
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Jefferson Paine
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Implantable RFID Business 'Not Self-Sustainable' by John Burnell (see editor's note at t
05202008
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Will Smith, Editor, rfidupdate.com
Human-implantable RFID microchips face an uncertain future in the wake of developments that the technology's developer, VeriChip, announced last week. The Delray Beach, Florida-based company announced it sold most of its assets to tool manufactur
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Privacy Rights
CASPIAN - New Evidence Of
VeriChip Lies And Deception
Group's Latest Report Sets Record Strai
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Katherine Albrecht at spychips.com via Rense.com
Opponents of the VeriChip implant are launching a new offensive against the controversial human microchip this week, amid reports that VeriChip plans to put its chipping division on the auction block.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Precious Metals
US Silver Eagles Illegally Rationed
06042008
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Bix Weir with silverseek.com
(open letter to Henry Paulson, US Secretary of the Treasury) Dear Sirs:
It has come to my attention that 1oz US Silver Eagle coins are being rationed by the US Mint to 13 authorized dealers and not being made available to the public in adequate amo
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ResCap: Show Me The Money
6-3-08
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biz.yahoo.com/ap
Residential Capital LLC, the mortgage lending unit of GMAC LLC, said Tuesday it needs more than three times more cash to stay in business than it estimated just weeks ago.
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News Link • Food
Build a Self Watering Container
06-04-2008
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SurviveLA
Even if you live in an apartment and work long hours, you can still grow some of your own food. Here are detailed instructions on how to build a self-watering container cheaply.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
$5 Trillion Hidden Off Bank Balance Sheets
6-4-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
The absurdity is not $5 trillion coming back on bank balance sheets. Rather the absurdity is with accounting rules that let banks hold this much stuff off balance sheets in the first place.
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News Link • World News
Prince Charles: Undercover Muslim?
06-04-2008
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pat
Has the future king of England converted to Islam? Pat thinks so--and explains why.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Cutbacks Will Deepen Recession
6-4-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
At $1.8 trillion annually in a $14 trillion economy, the states and municipalities spend almost twice as much as the federal government, including the cost of the Iraq war. When librarians, lifeguards, teachers, transit workers, road repair crews and
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News Link • Energy
Saturday In The Park With Water4Gas,
Water4Gas is a major movement now.
And as gas prices continue
05-31-2008
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Hundreds Attend Water4Gas Exhibition In Los Angele
Not long ago, Ozzie Freedom, the owner of Water4Gas, would walk outside of his small pad in Studio City (North of Hollywood, CA in the San Fernando Valley) and there would be around 3-5 or so people there on a Saturday afternoon who wanted to know mo
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Garko Factor
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News Link • Drug War
Heavy Marijuana Use Shrinks Brain Parts: Study
6-4-2008
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Yahoo / Reuters
The [15] men had smoked at least five marijuana cigarettes daily for on average 20 years. The researchers acknowledged that the study did not prove it was the marijuana and not some other factor that triggered these differences.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Energy
SUV can go 40 miles for a dollar
6-3-08
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Hispanicbusiness.com
"They have nibbled; they haven't bitten," he said. But he said foreign car makers have pursued the firm's technology "aggressively."
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Beaten in raid, man gets $350G
EXCESSIVE FORCE ALLEGED
06-04-2008
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APP.com- By Lauren O. Kidd
Man Who went to empty apartment to measure for curtains brutalized by
drug cops- no warrant, no warning.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Drug War
Eight accused of robbing, torturing drug dealers
05-06-2008
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CNN.com-
NEW YORK (AP) -- A gang of police impersonators abducted and tortured cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multimillion-dollar stashes by holding their families hostage or threatening to squeeze their testicles with pliers,
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Eugenics
A Message to Ron Paul Supporters
06-09-2008
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Weekly Standard-Michael Goldfarb
McCain staffer Goldfarb tells Ron Paul supporters to vote for Obama,
calls them "Paulnuts".
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Police State
The Last Roundup
06-04-2008
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Radar
(Long article;worth the read) In the spring of 2007, a retired senior official in the US Justice Dept sat before Congress and told a story so odd and ominous, it could have sprung from the pages of a pulp political thriller. It was about a principl
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM to close four plants, may unload Hummer
06-04-2008
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RawStory.com
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - General Motors Corp on Tuesday said it is closing four truck plants employing 10,000 workers and could sell its Hummer brand in a rushed response to higher gasoline prices that the largest U.S. automaker now sees as a
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Israeli warning over nuclear Iran
6-3-08
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news.BBC.co.uk
"The Iranian threat must be stopped by all possible means," Mr Olmert said in his speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee - a lobby group.
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