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Date Sent: 2008-08-21
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |
Citizens' U.S. Border Crossings Tracked -- Taliban Escalate Afghan Fighting
Voting Machines Can Never Be Trusted, Says GOP Computer Security Expert -- At JFK Airport, Denying Basic Rights Is Just Another Day at the Office -- Music, movie lobbyists push to spy on your Net traffic -- Economists React: An Unexpected Rise in the PPI -- Goldman Sounds Alarm on AIG -- Kenneth Rogoff: "The worst is yet to come" -- More Evidence of Sharp Contraction in Money Supply -- 'America's Outrageous War Economy!' -- Who Started Cold War II? - by Patrick J. Buchanan -- Iraqi Army Raid in Diyala Leaves Provincial Official Dead -- Naomi Klein: China's Hi-Tech Surveillance State Is Ready for Export -- LIBERTY DOLLARS: Answer to US Complaint -- Russia briefly seizes Georgia's main Black Sea port -- Jim Rogers: Bigger Financial Shocks Loom to Last Years -- Willie Nelson Announces 9/11, Anti-War Event on the Alex Jones Show -- Are You Ready For Nuclear War? - by Paul Craig Roberts -- Hooray For Jerry Corsi - by Chuck Baldwin -- The Phoenix Revolution presents -- CameraFRAUD -- Suicide bombers attack US base in Afghanistan -- Large U.S. bank collapse seen ahead -- Bush critic put on terror watch list -- White House Threatening War with Russia
Robert Higgs on the Scott Horton Show on Antiwar Radio
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Voting Machines Can Never Be Trusted, Says GOP Computer Security Expert
8-20-2008
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Alternet
If a Democrat said what cyber-security expert Stephen Spoonamore is saying, he would be dismissed as a partisan conspiracy theorist.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Spray-On Condoms: Still a Hard Sell
8-20-2008
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Time magazine
Krause has his spray-on condom. Inspired by the mechanics of a drive-through car wash, the German sexual-health educator designed a custom-fitting male contraceptive using liquid latex and some materials from a hardware store. "I felt a little l
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
At JFK Airport, Denying Basic Rights Is Just Another Day at the Office
8-20-2008
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Alternet
I was recently stopped by Homeland Security as I was returning from a trip to Syria. What I saw in the hours that followed shocked and disturbed me.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
AZ ACTIVISTS PLAN PHOTO RADAR PROTEST
8/20/2008
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CameraFRAUD.com
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, Aug 20, 2008 (Direct news media distribution)---- Local activists will soon express their disapproval with Redflex Group and American Traffic Solutions, Inc...
WHEN: Friday, August 22nd - 5:00 PM
WHERE: N.E. corner, Scottsdale R
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Augmented Reality
8-20-2008
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LewRockwell
"Augmented Reality is all about added a layer (or multiple layers) of real-time data on top of what’s happening all around us. You can look at a building or a car in front of you. With augmented reality, your phone (or another device) will have
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Music, movie lobbyists push to spy on your Net traffic
8-20-2008
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c/Net
Recording industry and motion picture lobbyists are renewing their push to convince broadband providers to monitor customers and detect copyright infringements, claiming the concept is working abroad and should be adopted in the US.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Witnesses Dispute Police Account Of Fatal Prince George's Shooting
8-20-2008
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Washington Post
[This time they did not shoot the mayor's dogs.] Prince George's Co. officials will investigate the shooting of a man as 2 witnesses say the off-duty officer beat the unarmed man with a baton before firing a bullet into his torso.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economists React: An Unexpected Rise in the PPI
8-20-2008
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Wall Street Journal
Soaring U.S. producer prices, which last month rose at their sharpest rate in 27 years, show inflation is still running high even as the U.S. economy slows.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Kenneth Rogoff: "The worst is yet to come"
8-20-2008
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Naked Capitalism
Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist for the IMF currently of Harvard and Carmen Reinhart of the U. of Maryland have done an extensive study of financial crises, going back 900 years, and more intensive work on post 1800 and post World War II episo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
More Evidence of Sharp Contraction in Money Supply (Not for the Fainthearted)
8-20-2008
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Naked Capitalism
Note that while the Fed still published M1 (narrow money, currency plus demand deposits) and M2 (M1 plus time deposits, savings accounts, and non-institutional money market funds), it stopped reporting M3 (M2 plus large time deposits, institutional m
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News Link • Police State
Citizens' U.S. Border Crossings Tracked
8-20-2008
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Washington Post
The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all US citizens crossing by land, compiling data that will be stored for 15 years and m
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News Link • Housing
Bailout of Housing Giants Is Inevitable
8-20-2008
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NY Times
Financial conditions are continuing to worsen at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, leading investors to prepare for a government bailout of the housing giants even as the Treasury Department and the companies say such taxpayer intervention will not be nece
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Taliban Escalate Afghan Fighting
8-20-2008
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NY Times
Taliban insurgents mounted their most serious attacks in 6 years of fighting in Afghanistan over the last 2 days, including a coordinated assault by at least 10 suicide bombers against 1 of the largest American military bases in the country, and anot
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
'America's Outrageous War Economy!'
8-19-2008
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MoneyWatch
Yes, America's economy is a war economy. Not a "manufacturing" economy. Not an "agricultural" economy. Nor a "service" economy. Not even a "consumer" economy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
How politics destroys harmony and creates conflict
8-19-2008
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Classiclly Liberal
I want to leave “good Christians” alone. They tell me that they appreciate that. The same “good Christians” then want to use the force of government to regulate what I read, who I love, what substances I put in my body, what I believe, etc.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Who Started Cold War II?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
8-19-2008
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Vdare
The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO. Had Georgia been in NATO when Mikheil Saakashvili invaded South Ossetia, we would be eyeball to eyeball with Russia, fac
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Depends on your definition of "Win-Win"
8-19-2008
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Espresso Pundit
The Trust Land was set aside at statehood to provide a source of revenue for public schools. The Governor's initiative would simply retire half a million acres of prime land as open space; the schools would get nothing...but see who does....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Laser Gunship Fires; 'Deniable' Strikes Ahead? And Next Year, Who's an Insurgent?
08-13-2008
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by David Hambling, Wired Magazine
Precision engagement of a Positively Identified insurgent by a Directed Energy Weapon will be a highly surgical and impressively violent event. Target effects will include instantaneous burst-combustion of insurgent clothing, a rapid death through vi
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraqi Army Raid in Diyala Leaves Provincial Official Dead
8-19-2008
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McClatchy News
Iraqi forces raided the provincial government compound in Diyala early Tuesday morning, killing the governor's secretary and confiscating computers and cars before local police engaged them in a two-hour gun battle,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Naomi Klein: China's Hi-Tech Surveillance State Is Ready for Export
8-19-2008
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Alternet
With 300,000 security cameras in Beijing alone, China is at the forefront of the surveillance boom -- and U.S. corporations are reaping the profits.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Back In the USSA
by Will Grigg
8-19-2008
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Pro Liberate
[Trust me on this. Read it from the beginning. A fitting Olympic tale that eventually blends into a story the Neocons would not want you to read.]
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Libertarian Candidate List
08-19-2008
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Arizona Libertarian Party
WRITE-IN LIST also included to place Libertarian candidates on the General Election ballot
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Kiwi court gives green light to "boobs on bikes" parade
8-19-2008
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Reuters
The parade on Queens St., featuring leather-clad local and international porn stars, is part of an "Erotica Expo" organized by self-styled "porn king" Steve Crow.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Family
DNC Platform Is Bad News for Dads
08-18-08
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www.GlennSacks.com
If the Democratic Party is interested in garnering men ’s votes, one certainly would not know it from their platform. The Democratic National Committee’s "Renewing America's Promise" is bad news for American fathers.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
John Taylor Gatto MP3
08-19-2008
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John Taylor Gatto interviewed by Dale Williams
Dale Williams interviews the Educational Revolutionary John Taylor Gatto. The profound author of valued books telling of the awful educational betrayals that have occurred in America.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russia briefly seizes Georgia's main Black Sea port
08-19-2008
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www.charlotteobserver.com
About 100 heavily armed Russian soldiers aboard six armored personnel carriers overran the port of Poti at about 8 a.m., according to port officials and witnesses. Five hours later they drove out of Poti past helpless Georgian police officers and doz
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Rogers: Bigger Financial Shocks Loom - Consequences to Last Years
8-19-08
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MarketOracle.co.uk
Before World War II, Japan's yen was two to the dollar. After they lost the war, the yen was 500 to the dollar. That's a collapse. That was also a bottom. These are not predictions for the U.S., but I'm saying that things get pretty bad
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News Link • Conspiracies
Willie Nelson Announces 9/11, Anti-War Event on the Alex Jones Show
08-19-2008
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InfoWars.com
In a landmark and impromptu interview today on the Alex Jones Show, music icon and genuine American hero Willie Nelson addressed the impending attack against Iran and Dennis Kucinich’s article of impeachment, scheduled to go before the House Judiciar
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Are You Ready For Nuclear War?
08-19-2008
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By Paul Craig Roberts
Pervez Musharraf, the puppet installed by the US to rule Pakistan in the interest of US hegemony, resigned August 18 to avoid impeachment. Karl Rove and the Diebold electronic voting machines were unable to control the result of the last election i
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Opinion • Philosophy: Political
Hooray For Jerry Corsi
08-19-2008
Chuck Baldwin
Dr. Jerome Corsi is probably the most controversial man in America these
days. His blockbuster new book, The Obama Nation, is currently the New York
Times Number One Bestseller, and media talking heads are having a hissy fit.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Suicide bombers attack US base in Afghanstan
8-19-2008
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AP
Suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a US military base near Afghanistan-Pakistan border in a daring attack. The fighting was still going on. The militants failed to gain entry to Camp Salerno after launching waves of attacks just before mid
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Large U.S. bank collapse seen ahead
8-19-08
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Reuters.com
"We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper, we're going to see a big one, one of the big investment banks or big banks," said Rogoff, who is an economics professor
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News Link • Police State
Bush critic put on terror watch list
8-19-2008
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CNN video
An author critical of the Bush administration's Karl Rove landed on the terror watch list.
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News Link • Bush Administration
William S. Lind: White House Threatening War with Russia
8-19-08
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LewRockwell.com
It is impossible for the United States to wage conventional war with Russia in her own backyard. We would have to go nuclear, or back down and accept defeat. It is all too easy to guess which alternative the Bush administration would select.
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