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Date Sent: 2008-06-12
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
Russians predicts $250 a barrel oil in 2009 -- Obama pushes National Fingerprint Registry
Senator Karen Johnson's Speech to the Senate on 9/11 -- Dollar Gains Most Since 2005 as Bernanke Says Growth Risk Fades -- Libertarianism's divergent roads -- Montana Bakken Oil Field: Good News for U.S. Consumers, Bad News for MSM -- Foreclosures: Whopping 65.5% of Home Sales in Sacramento, Ca -- Charles Goyette and Ernest Hancock -- Grand Illusion - Gas prices are NOT going up - by Marc Stevens -- Jail Time for Tenet? - By Ray McGovern -- Bill, Hillary Busy Making New Enemy List -- MISH: Things That Have Not Yet Happened -- US seek 58 bases in Iraq -- Inflation fears may push gold back to $1,000/oz -- Fed blames inflation on increasing prices -- 3 Internet providers agree to block child porn -- Government’s Moral Compass (Yeah, I Laughed Too) - by Becky Akers -- Armed revolution in Latin America is over, says Chavez -- Toyota Prius 100 MPG conversion
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News Link • Conspiracies
Senator Karen Johnson's Speech to the Senate on 9/11 (VIDEO)
6-11-2008
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BlipTV
Brief introductory material, and then we switch to the floor speech.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
New Gang of 14 Won't Back McCain
6-11-2008
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The Hill
At least 14 Republican members of Congress have refused to endorse or publicly support Sen. John McCain for president, and more than a dozen others declined to answer whether they back the Arizona senator.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • WAR: About that War
9/11 Truth to US Soldiers in Iraq (VIDEO)
06-11-2008
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The Resistance Matrix
A political activist group is sending letters and DVDs to U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq telling them 9/11 was an inside job
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dollar Gains Most Since 2005 as Bernanke Says Growth Risk Fades
06-11-2008
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Bloomberg
(First Hillary 'suspends' her campaign, then the dollar rallies from the grave. I guess I don't know anything :)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Libertarianism's divergent roads
06-11-2008
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Taki's Magazine
Justin Raimondo provides an overview of the libertarian movement from the dark days of WWII to the present. It is a rather brisk treatment but it does a nice job of delineating the essential dichotomy that has bedeviled the movement for decades.
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Mike Dugger
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosures: Whopping 65.5% of Home Sales in Sacramento, Ca.
6-11-08
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WallStreetJournal.com
A whopping 65.5% of 1,654 homes sold by Realtors in May were bank-owned, foreclosed, homes. The median sales price in Sacramento County and the City of West Sacramento May was $230,250, down 34.2% from a year ago.
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News Link • Immigration
Will Strip for Green Card: Canada Faces Pole Dancer Shortage
06-11-2008
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pat
Canadians are suffering from an exotic pole dancer shortage. pat wonders, "Is this a job Canadians won’t do?"
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Grand Illusion - Gas prices are NOT going up
by Marc Stevens
6-11-2008
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Adventures in Legalland (VIDEO)
The "rise" in gas prices is just another political illusion. The problem is fake money from the criminals called the Federal Reserve and their partners in crime, the people called the federal government.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Johnson Steps Down from Obama VP Search
6-11-2008
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Washington Post
James Johnson has given up as the head of Obama's vice presidential search team. The former Fannie Mae CEO has drawn heavy criticism for favorable mortgages he received from beleaguered subprime lender Countrywide Financial Corp.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Clintons: Bill, Hillary Busy Making New Enemy List
06-11-2008
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Mondoreb
The New York Times says that the Clintons are busy making a New Enemies List"and this one has mostly the names of Democrats on it.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Bush Administration
Jail Time for Tenet?
By Ray McGovern
6-11-2008
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Consortium News
One key aide, former CIA Director and Medal of Freedom winner, George Tenet, can be forgiven for being somewhat apprehensive these days. For he has lied under oath regarding what Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks and how early Bush knew it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Global Warming or Global Governance?
06-11-2008
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Comment: B. Peterson, Video: M. Coffman
Why is it “we the people” who must pay the price of the “global warming” problem?
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Things That Have Not Yet Happened
6-11-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Bernanke’s statements are like standing in front of a tsunami proclaiming "The Worst Is Over" before the wave even hits the shore.
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News Link • Food
The Crazy World of Egg Stacking
06-11-2008
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Mondoreb & RidesAPaleHorse
Apparently, stacking eggs is like a bad gambling habit: once you start, it’s hard to stop.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Precious Metals
Inflation fears may push gold back to $1,000/oz
6-11-2008
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Reuters
Gold is poised to climb back above $1,000 per ounce this year, as inflationary pressures and financial turmoil prompt investors to seek shelter in the metal used as a store of value.
But the caveat is gold's fortunes are traditionally strongly
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Golf Cart Injuries Soar
6-11-2008
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LiveScience
[not enough regulation of course] Putt-putt golf carts of yesteryear have given way to pimped-out street versions that are much speedier, and apparently more dangerous.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. seeking 58 bases in Iraq, Shiite lawmakers say
6-11-2008
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McClatchy News
Iraqi lawmakers say the United States is demanding 58 bases as part of a proposed "status of forces" agreement that will allow U.S. troops to remain in the country indefinitely.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed blames inflation on increasing prices -- uuuhhhhhhh?
6-11-2008
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Reuters
Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren, also warned that inflationary pressures were being stoked by soaring energy and food prices, and after aggressive Fed interest rate cuts since September.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
3 Internet providers agree to block child porn
6-11-2008
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AP
The companies also will pay $1.1 million to help fund efforts to remove the online child porn created and disseminated by users through their services, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said. The changes will affect customers nationwide.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Government’s Moral Compass (Yeah, I Laughed Too)
by Becky Akers
6-11-2008
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LewRockwell
It’s always amusing when politicians, cops and other denizens of the dark side lecture the rest of us on morality. A hit-and-run accident has given everyone from the chief of police to the governor an excuse to scold the citizens who pay their salari
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Some Call It 'Counterinsurgency'
by Don Bacon
6-11-2008
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LewRockwell
[It sounds better than 'brutal military occupation'] It is widely reported that the US military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing on for over 5 years, have been "counterinsurgencies" led in Iraq by the expert General Petra
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Armed revolution in Latin America is over, says Chavez
6-11-2008
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The Independent
Catching his critics off guard, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on the Marxist rebel army in neighboring Colombia to lay down its arms and release its hostages, declaring that guerrilla armies are now "out of place".
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Russians predict $250 a barrel oil in 2009
6-11-2008
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Financial Times
Gazprom, the Russian group that supplies a quarter of Europe's natural gas, expects the price of crude oil to almost double within 18 months and to take gas prices higher with it. "We think it will reach $250 a barrel in the foreseeable futu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
'Government misled us into war' less notable than lesbians kissing
6-11-2008
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Rawstory VIDEO
Last week, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the long-delayed Phase II of its report on prewar intelligence, detailing "administration prewar statements that, on numerous occasions, misrepresented the intelligence and the thre
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama pushes National Fingerprint Registry
6-11-2008
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Heritage Foundation
Sens. Diane Feinstein and Mel Martinez authored a bill (with 11 co-sponsors, including Sen. Barack Obama) that was incorporated into a housing bill passed by the Senate Banking Committee that creates a national fingerprint registry.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Toyota Prius 100 MPG conversion
6-11-2008
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Rocky Mountain News
Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory spruced-up a Toyota Prius, a plug-in hybrid sedan complete with a solar panel attached to its oval roof and a bigger battery in the trunk to supply power in lieu of the gasoline-fueled engine.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Concerts - Theatre - Events
Freedom Tour 2008 - Free Concert at San Tan Flat - Wed. June 18th
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Ed Vallejo via YouTube (well it's about time!)
The Ron Paul for President - Phoenix Meetup Group is giving a free concert in Queen Creek next Wednesday featuring Lee Alexander, Marc Sibilia, and Element 115 - AND THERE WILL BE DANCING! Everyone is invited!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Energy
Honda FCX: What a Gas! A Week in Suburbia With a Hydrogen Honda
6/11/08
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www.nytimes.com
FOR a decade or longer, the fuel-cell car has resembled the mirage that recedes as you draw closer to it. Hydrogen-powered vehicles always seemed at least 20 years away, the subject of news conferences in Washington and static displays at auto shows.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
NBA Games Fixed? Well, duh!
6-11-2008
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AP
NBA commissioner David "Arranger" Stern dismissed allegations from a former referee at the center of a gambling scandal that the 2002 playoff series was rigged by league referees and officials, calling the claims baseless.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
Jonathan Turley: Dem's Protecting Bush From Impeachment
6-11-08
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Rawstory.com
Jonathan Turley says that America's founders "would have been astonished by the absolute passivity, if not the collusion, of the Democrats in protecting President Bush from impeachment."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CHRYSLER BUILDING ON THE BLOCK
6-11-2008
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NY Post
[When you are sitting on a huge pile of US dollars that nobody wants, where are you going to spend them?] Abu Dhabi is negotiating an $800 million deal for the Art Deco treasure that has defined the Midtown skyline since 1930.
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Powell Gammill
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