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Date Sent: 2008-01-15
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
Ron Paul's New Year Predictions -- Supremes Deny Certiorari for Landmark Right to Petition Case
Invitation: Marc J. Victor's Open House and Ron Paul Revolution Rally -- Gulf Prankster Possible Message Source -- An Open Letter to Voters: Please Don't -- On Dissolving the United States of America -- Mysterious $100 Counterfeit Bills Appear Across World -- The Dying Have No Right to Experimental Drugs -- Saudi State Bank Urge Govt. to Cut Dollar Exposure -- The Deflation Time Bomb -- U.S. drafting plan to allow government access to any e-mail or Web search -- CNBC: Citigroup to Announce $24 billion Write-Down; 17,000-24,000 Job Cuts -- Amnesty Politicians Running for President -- MISH: Credit Card Time Bomb Is Ticking Away -- President Bush visit paralyzes Dubai -- Option ARM Update: "This is a stated income crisis" -- Toward Militarism, War, Empire, Caskets, and Bankruptcy -- Using Bhutto for Imperial Gain
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News Link • Iran
Gulf Prankster Possible Message Source
1-15-2008
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AP
The audio on a video showing Iranian patrol boats swarming near U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf may have come from a prankster rather than from the Iranian vessels, the Navy Times newspaper has reported.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Push the button, Franc!
1-15-2008
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Check Your Premises
Suppose there were a magic button sitting in front of you. Suppose that button would instantly reduce the federal government to only $200 billion. Would you refuse to push the button " even if you want the federal government to be 0 dollars?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
An Open Letter to Voters: Please Don't
1-15-2008
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Strike the Root
There has recently been much applause for Ron Paul and the prospect of his election as President of the United States. I respect Ron Paul greatly as a person, as he is a very humble and sincere individual. I cannot in good conscience vote for him, or
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
On Dissolving the United States of America
1-15-200
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LewRockwell
Lysander Spooner has provided ironclad arguments that this Constitution is an invalid authority for Americans of today. If that is so, and I believe it is, then no "legal" moves need to be taken to dissolve the U.S.A. It is already an entit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Credit Default Swaps: A $45,000 billion market that could tumble in a long recession
1-14-08
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Financial Times.com
So one could take that calculation as a starting point. A downturn lasting two years could easily trigger payments streams of a multiple of $250bn.
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush: Welcomed In The Land of 15 Hijackers
1-15-08
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News.BBC.co.uk
The Bush administration has notified the U.S. Congress that it intends to go ahead with a major sale of sensitive military technology to Saudi Arabia.
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News Link • Political Theory
Who goes Nazi?
08-01-1941
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Harper's Magazine
It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know....
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Conspiracies
Mysterious $100 Counterfeit Bills Appear Across World
1-11-08
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KansasCityStar.com
It’s an illegal parallel print of a genuine note.” He claims that the supernotes are of such high quality and are updated so frequently that they could be produced only by a U.S. government agency such as the CIA.
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News Link • Energy
GM to Make Biofuel Out of Garbage
1-14-08
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RawStory.com
The US automaker has entered into a partnership with Illinois-based Coskata Inc. which has developed a way to make ethanol from practically any renewable source, including old tires and plant waste.
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News Link • Constitution
Supreme Court: The Dying Have No Right to Experimental Drugs
1-14-08
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RawStory.com
As is customary when the court declines to take up a case, the nine justices gave no explanation of their reasoning.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Judge Grants Kucinich Entry Into NV Debate
1-14-2008
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Breitbart / AP
The judge called it a matter of fairness and said Nevada voters will benefit if they hear from more than just Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards. [No word on the state of private property and contracts in NV]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - International
Saudi State Bank Urges Govt. to Cut Dollar Exposure
1-14-08
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Reuters.com
Concerns that state investors, including those in Gulf oil exporters would shift assets away from the dollar helped drive the U.S. unit to record lows on global markets last year.
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
H.R. 1955 misinformation spreads across the Internet
01-15-2008
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Muckraker Report
January 15, 2008 " Much has been written about H.R. 1955, The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, some of which is inaccurate. The inaccurate information being reported is causing [read more]
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Ed Haas
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
We've Run Out of Bubbles - by Bill Fleckenstein
1-14-08
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MoneyCentral.MSM.com
If we stop attempting to bypass the creative destruction of capitalism, we will finally be able to bring about a recovery built on a solid foundation instead of the quicksand underlying the 2003-7"recovery"....
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News Link • Bush Administration
The End of the Road for George W. Bush - by Chris Hedges
1-13-08
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TruthDig.com
He will return, I expect, to his ranch, where he will be able to spend the rest of his life doing the only task for which he has shown any aptitude"cutting down brush with a chain saw.
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News Link • Police State
Courage! by Christine Smith
01-14-2008
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Alien Love
...the war against corruption- and its stripping and stealing of human dignity/civil liberties/property and all its assaults on the human spirit- will be won....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Deflation Time Bomb
1-14-08
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OnlineJournal.com
In fact, real estate is quickly becoming the leper at the birthday party; everyone is staying away. That means that prices will fall -- and more rapidly than anyone imagined. The blood is in the water.
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News Link • Police State
U.S. drafting plan to allow government access to any e-mail or Web search
1-14-08
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Rawstory.com
National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," ....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CNBC: Citigroup to Announce $24 billion Write-Down, 17,000-24,000 Job Cuts
1-13-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
The Chinese government's apparent rejection of a planned multi-billion-dollar investment in Citigroup Inc. by state-owned China Development Bank suggests there may be limits to Beijing's....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Credit Card Time Bomb Is Ticking Away
01-14-2008
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Mike
Cash strapped consumers are increasingly turning to charge cards and home equity lines to support consumption. Some Debt Trends Are Good. This Isn’t One of Them. The trend towards treating credit card like ATMs is not going to end well for either the
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Police State
President Bush visit paralyzes Dubai
01-14-2008
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Arabian Business
A public holiday was declared for Monday for Bush's visit. Most Dubai residents learned about the holiday on local radio stations as they sat stuck in traffic caused by roads closed by security personnel.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Option ARM Update: "This is a stated income crisis"
1-14-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
The percentage of option ARMs with payments behind by at least 60 days in California is in double digits in the Inland Empire, San Diego County, Santa Barbara County, Sacramento, Salinas and Modesto....
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News Link • Constitution
Toward Militarism, War, Empire, Caskets, and Bankruptcy
1-11-08
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TheFutureofFreedomFoundation.org
What’s the point of sending a fleet of battleships and destroyers into the Middle East if it’s not to poke hornets’ nests?
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