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Date Sent: 2008-07-17
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
Sovereign funds cut exposure to weak dollar -- US faces global funding crisis, warns Merrill Lynch
The motivation for blocking investigations into Bush lawbreaking -- Father-of-three branded a 'pervert' - for photographing his own children -- Status Report on the Collapse of the U.S. Economy -- Dirty Bomb Security Measures Over Three Years Behind Schedule -- GOP Asks Net For Advice, Paulites Answer -- Iran Pours Cash Into Afghanistan, Seeking Leverage Against US -- Book raises possibility of secret succession plan -- Foreclosures Now 41% of Home Sales in So. California -- More US troops go to Afghanistan -- Bush won't give Congress papers in CIA leak probe -- Homebuilder Confidence Falls to New Record Low -- Sarkozy call for second EU vote provokes storm in Ireland -- Media Death March -- Mars' wet and balmy past -- Ron Paul vs. Ben Bernanke video -- Obama, McCain Allergic to New Iraq Reality - by Ray McGovern -- Does city corruption get more blatant than this? -- Naomi Klein: Bush Sees Crisis in Fuel, Food, Housing as Chance to Exploit Us -- 5 hours of video of the Revolution March Rally -- CNN reporter criticizes TSA, finds self on "Terror Watch List" -- Gun expert claims feds punishing him -- Secret Bilderberg Agenda to Microchip Americans Leaked -- Man Arrested For Unlawful Photography -- What an attack on Iran will look like
AZ: Strategic Edge: Michael Shoen 911 talk Breakfast today; John Stuart Re-Indicted for Murder
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Utopian Dreams
by John Markley
7-16-2008
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Strike-the-Root
The Anti-Federalists, who we are generally taught to consider fools and paranoiacs, make all sorts of eerily accurate predictions on the effects of adopting the Constitution; when they err, it is usually because they are not pessimistic enough.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
The motivation for blocking investigations into Bush lawbreaking
7-16-2008
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
One important political impediment to holding Bush officials accountable for their illegal torture program: Key members of Congress sanctioned this program, so those who might ordinarily be counted on to lead the charge are themselves compromised.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Father-of-three branded a 'pervert' - for photographing his own children
7-16-2008
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Daily Mail
When Gary Crutchley started taking pictures of his children playing on an inflatable slide he thought they would be happy reminders of a family day out. But the innocent snaps of seven-year-old Cory, and Miles, five, led to him being called a ‘perver
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Status Report on the Collapse of the U.S. Economy
7-16-2008
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Global Research
Even the super-rich are becoming nervous as cries for an emergency suspension of short selling ring out. What is really taking place is the producing economy of workers is being crushed by the overall debt burden on households, businesses, and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Imagine There's No Global Warming
7-16-2008
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Youtube
I took John Lennon's song "Imagine" and made it politically incorrect. [Yes you did!]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
GOP Asks Net For Advice, Paulites Answer the Call ... and Answer, and Answer
7-16-2008
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Wired
Ron Paul supporters have made themselves at home on the the GOP platform site, sounding many of the themes that turned the Texas congressman's doomed run for the Republican presidential nod into an internet cause célèbre.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
GAO Report: Dirty Bomb Security Measures Over Three Years Behind Schedule
07-16-2008
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Mondoreb
The Government Accountability Office released a report that states that measures designed to secure radioactive materials"that could be used in a dirty bomb by terrorists"are more than three years behind schedule.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
Reichstag Fire - a song by David Rovics
7-16-2008
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Youtube
Given history, those of us who weren't born yesterday must ask the obvious question: Who knew what and who did what and why is the government so terrified of asking these questions?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Rare Video: Did Obama Slip Hillary The Bird?
07-16-2008
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Mondoreb
Video of Obama after the 21st bruising Democrat debate. Did he slyly make an obscene gesture while mentioning Hillary Clinton? Watch the video and you be the judge. [video time: 1:09 min]
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Iran
Iran Pours Cash Into Afghanistan, Seeking Leverage Against U.S.
7-16-08
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Bloomberg.com
The flags of Iran, Afghanistan and Tehran-based Abad Rahan Pars Road & Construction Co. fly above a railroad work camp west of the Afghan city of Herat, signaling another commercial incursion from across the border.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosures Now 41.1 Percent of Home Sales in Southern California
7-16-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Foreclosure resales continue to be a dominant factor in today's Southern California market accounting for 41.1 percent of all resales. That was up from 39.2 percent in May, and up from 7.3 percent in June a year ago.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
More US troops may go to Afghanistan this year
07-16-2008
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Associated Press
Faced with an increasingly sophisticated insurgency, particularly along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, defense officials said sending more troops would have a significant impact on the violence.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush won't give Congress papers in CIA leak probe
07-16-2008
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Reuters
President George W. Bush, asserting executive privilege, has rejected Congress' request for documents on FBI interviews with Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from a probe to find who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Homebuilder Confidence Falls to New Record Low
7-16-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
“Builders are reporting that traffic of prospective buyers has fallen off substantially in recent months,” said NAHB Chief Economist David Seiders.
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News Link • European Union
Sarkozy call for second EU vote provokes storm in Ireland
07-16-2008
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www.breitbart.com
Irish politicians reacted angrily Wednesday after French President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested Ireland should hold a second referendum on the EU's new treaty, after rejecting it last month.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sovereign funds cut exposure to weak dollar
07-16-2008
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Financial TImes
One big sovereign fund in the Gulf has cut its dollar-denominated holdings from more than 80 per cent a year ago to less than 60 per cent, while China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has been looking to strike deals with private equ
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Dark Knight'
07-16-2008
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www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com
'Dark Knight' Speeding Towards Friday: Selling, Selling, Selling ...90% Sold Out; Batman Will Play In Record 4,366 Venues
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Print
Media Death March
07-16-2008
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Wired Magazine
The depressed newspaper industry is old news of course but Alan Mutter, who blogs at Reflections of a Newsosaur, noticed a depressing pattern in the last report of "short" market activity: there were some pretty big bets that newspaper stoc
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New data pinpoint Mars' wet and balmy past
07-16-2008
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www.breitbart.com
Water bathed the surface of southern Mars for millions of years, helping to create an environment theoretically capable of nurturing life, according to a new study into the planet's mysterious oceans.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Man, does city corruption get more blatant than this?
7-16-2008
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East Valley Tribune
What happens when citizens spend their treasure and sweat getting 2 initiatives onto a ballot only to have a city employee separately make mistakes conveniently nullifying a recall? Why that employee gets a two week vacation. Congratulations!
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Naomi Klein: Bush Sees Crisis in Fuel, Food, Housing as Chance to Exploit Us
7-16-08
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Alternet.org
There really is a kind of a tsunami of shocks facing not just the economy but people's lives, people's real lives. They're all intersecting. They're making each other worse. And I think we really are seeing some very live examples, wh
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. faces global funding crisis, warns Merrill Lynch
7-16-08
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Telegraph.co.uk/
The country depends on Asian, Russian and Middle Eastern investors to fund much of its $700bn (£350bn) current account deficit, leaving it far more vulnerable to a collapse of confidence than Japan in the early 1990s after the Nikkei bubble burst.
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Watch the highlights of the Revolution March Rally
7-16-2008
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Youtube (John Darash)
As you know Ernie was co-MC at the Revolution March Rally in Washington DC this past weekend. John Darash has posted a 26 part video series of the rally! Even though Chuck Baldwin & Ron Paul spoke last, they are the first three.
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News Link • Police State
CNN reporter criticizes TSA, finds self on "Terror Watch List"
7-16-08
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Rawstory.com
CNN's Drew Griffin reported on the bloating of the watch list, which an ACLU count pegged at 1,001,308 names Wednesday afternoon. Griffin's is one of those names, he says.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Peruvian Delicacy of Cuy: Dining on Roasted Guinea Pig
07-16-2008
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pat
In the mood for something different? How about a trip to Peru to dine on the national delicacy of roasted cuy. That’s guinea pig for our non-Peruvian speaking readers.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Conspiracies
Secret Bilderberg Agenda to Microchip Americans Leaked
7/16/08
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www.thestrategy.org.au
Sources from inside the 2008 Bilderberg meeting have leaked the details of what elitists were discussing in Chantilly Virginia last week and the talking points were ominous - a plan to microchip Americans under the pretext of fighting terrorist group
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun expert claims feds punishing him
7-16-2008
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WorldNetDaily
A gun expert who testified against the government when David Olofson was on trial for loaning to an acquaintance a gun that misfired now says the government is punishing him for that testimony.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man Arrested For Unlawful Photography
7-16-2008
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WHJL
The cell phone photographer says the arrest was intimidation, but the deputy says he feared for his life. "Here’s a guy who takes me out of the car and arrests me in front of my kids. For what? To take a picture of a police officer?" said S
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News Link • Iran
What an attack on Iran will look like (video)
7-16-2008
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BrasscheckTV (h/t Donna)
Bush continues to push for an attack on Iran. He is goaded by the Israeli War Lobby, the "religious" right, and other assorted domestic fascists and lunatics. Iran is not Iraq.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Laws of Lashon Hara: The Evil Tongue
07-16-2008
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Babba Zee
The Internet Age demonstrates that "Information is Power". But this was known over 3000 years ago when the Laws of Lashon Ha-ra (Disparaging Speech) were first formulated. Some insights and information that will surprise many people.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops: We don't need no stinkin' jurisdiction
7-16-2008
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WorldNetDaily
City police officers in one Florida county will have unrestricted authority to make traffic stops outside of their jurisdiction beginning Aug. 1. Broward County's new policing-without-boundaries plan would allow officers to patrol any of its citi
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News Link • Eugenics
JibJab: "Time For Some Campaigning"
7-16-2008
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JibJab
Every 4 years, my brother and I are blessed with a political circus so ripe with absurdity that ‘finding the funny’ becomes like shooting fish in a barrel. In 2004, we produced This Land. Now, we’re pleased to present Time for Some Campaignin’!
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