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Date Sent: 2008-02-11
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, February 11, 2008 |
Chavez threatens to halt US oil sales -- NAU: Texas Public-Private Toll Roads Raises Outcry
Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock -- Bush Declares That Cheney Is ‘The Best Vice President In History’ -- Romney never recovered from being a douchebag -- Huckabee Challenges Washington Caucus Results -- Olympic athletes forced to sign no criticism of China contract -- Torture of Detainees: "Right on. Y'all are doin' a great job" -- MISH: Will "Walk Aways" Increase Discretionary Spending? -- MISH: Borrowed Reserves And Tin Foil Hats -- The Bush Financial Bust of 2008 - by Mike Whitney -- Mayor Tells Marines to Leave Town -- Was ES&S Responsible for the Bad Voter Rolls in New Mexico? -- Mukasey's Law by Larisa Alexandrovna -- DPS may deploy more cameras than governor claimed -- Abandoned anchor cut Gulf Internet cable -- Sieg Heil, TSA by Becky Akers -- Why Mormons Should Support Ron Paul -- Message from Ron Paul -- The Surreal ID Card Act and HB 2677 -- Homeland Security Checkpoint Day 5 -- America's Secret Trials -- Here Come the Brownshirts, Again by Paul Craig Roberts -- Madness: America's future under John McCain by Chuck Baldwin -- ZeitGeist Day on March 15th -- Global Cooling on the Way?
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News Link • Voting and Elections
It's the Message, Stupid!
02-10-2008
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by Mike Wasdin
While watching the MTV debate, I noticed that since this was a younger group of people that all the questions were about “if elected, what can I expect from government?”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush Declares That Cheney Is ‘The Best Vice President In History’
02-10-2008
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ThinkProgress
While Bush’s chosen superlative for Cheney may be “best vice president” ever, history is likely to take another view. For instance, Cheney’s biographer Stephen Hayes describes him as “the most secretive” vice president in history.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Daily Show: Romney never recovered from being a douchebag
02-10-2008
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RawStory
"So who was Mitt Romney, now that it's over?" Stewart mused. "Throughout his campaign, he'd seemed to many a cipher, devoid of principle, a salt-and-pepper, man-shaped polymer casing for a spiritual vacuum."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
American Soldiers Will Pay the Price for Bush's Torture Policy - by - Jacob G. Hornberger
2-9-08
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CounterPunch.org
The entire sordid process only reflects how deeply the United States has plunged with respect to basic principles of morality, right conduct, and civilization? And for what?
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News Link • Corruption
The Clinton Chronicles...
2-10-2008
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Citizens for Honest Government
Discover the story behind Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Mena (Arkansas) cocaine smuggling operation they ran while Bill was governor of Arkansas
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Queue Jackson
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News Link • Eugenics
Huckabee Challenges Washington Caucus Results
2-10-2008
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FoxNew.com
Mike Huckabee is challenging the results of the Washington state caucuses, accusing the state party chairman of calling the election for John McCain before all the votes were counted. [challenging the straw poll :) ]
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Brock Lorber
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Opinion • Mexican United States Relations
Reflexiones Libertarias
EL SECRETO DE CHILE
02-09-2007
Ricardo Valenzuela
Durante los últimos 20 años, Chile frecuentemente ha sido citado como un ejemplo económico y político para el resto de las naciones del mundo. Después de su regreso a la democracia ha habido una aprobación general, gran admiración, y el compromiso de
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chavez threatens to halt oil sales to US
2-10-2008
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AP
President Hugo Chavez threatened to cut off oil sales to the US if Exxon Mobil wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets. "If you end up freezing [our assets], we're going to harm you," Chavez said. "Do
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
W.H.O. and Bloomberg Open Global Antismoking Project
2-10-2008
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NY Times / Donald McNeil Jr.
Nicknamed Mpower and based on a partly successful program for fighting drug-resistant tuberculosis, the report suggests raising taxes, banning smoking, enforcing laws, monitoring use, warning people, and offering free help.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Wheelchair "Hard-Core Sitting"
2-10-2008
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ESPN.com
With a motocross helmet, elbows pads and a seat belt, Aaron spent as much as 30 hours a week at skate parks across Las Vegas, earning the nickname that has stayed with him to this day: Wheels.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Ron Paul Wrongfully Left out of Ballots
02-10-2008
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YouTube
Ron Paul was missing from the ballot at my designated polling place at 6 Lee Avenue Stony Point, NY 10980 in Rockland County NY. Upon mentioning this to the poll workers they proceeded to tell me several times that "He dropped out".
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
Britain kow tows to China as athletes are forced to sign no criticism contracts
02-10-2008
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www.dailymail.co.uk
British Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China's appalling human rights record " or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Huckabee Wins Kansas Caucuses
02-10-2008
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MyWay
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mike Huckabee trounced John McCain in Kansas' caucuses Saturday, their first head-to-head contest, and told fellow conservatives he was in the Republican presidential race to stay.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Torture
Torture of Detainees: "Right on. Y'all are doin' a great job"
2-9-08
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Rawstory.com
Captain Carolyn Wood, overseeing interrogation at Bagram, would be awarded a Bronze Star for "valor" and tapped to begin similar operations at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison.
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Feature Article •
Please help Insure Ron Paul's Congressional District
Ernest Hancock
The r3VOLution may go to Texas just to make sure _everyone_ knows that we understand the importance of having Ron Paul in Washington, D.C. to keep an eye on things for us ( we'll get back to the national focus on the POTUS race after March 4th)
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News Link • North American Union
Proposal in Texas for a Public-Private Toll Road System Raises an Outcry
2-10-08
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New York Times.com
The plan envisions a 4,000-mile network of new toll roads, with car and truck lanes, rail lines, and pipeline and utilities zones, to bypass congested cities and speed freight to and from Mexico.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Will "Walk Aways" Increase Discretionary Spending?
2-9-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
"So the bottom line is that what the payroll data have missed is the fact that over the past six months, 520,000 self-employed individuals have fallen by the wayside (more than were lost in the entire 2001 recession).
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Borrowed Reserves And Tin Foil Hats
2-8-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Between 50 and 150 U.S.banks -- as many as one in 57 -- could fail by early 2010, mostly those with no more than a couple billion dollars of assets, Cassidy said.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Bush Financial Bust of 2008 - by Mike Whitney
2-8-08
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GlobalResearch.ca
The problem for the FDIC is that it has never supervised a bank failure which exceeded 175,000 accounts. So the impending financial tsunami is likely to be a crash-course in crisis management.
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News Link • Police State
Grand Rapids: Mayor Tells Marines to Leave Downtown
2-9-08
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Toledo Blade.com
The 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., planned to spend their weekend engaged in urban patrol exercises on the streets of downtown as well....
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Was ES&S Responsible for the Bad Voter Rolls in New Mexico?
2-8-08
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BradBlog.com
Five other states also have hired ES&S to compile statewide voter lists: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas and Nebraska...Meanwhile, other states have had problems with vendors hired....
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Mukasey's Law - by Larisa Alexandrovna
2-9-08
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AtLargely.com
My god, what have we become when the only argument available to a government claiming to be a democracy is the argument used by Nazis to justify their crimes? Think about this and let it sink in fully.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
DPS may deploy more cameras than governor envisioned in budget
2-9-2008
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Arizona Republic
The Department of Public Safety is telling potential bidders to be prepared to put up to 170 speed and red-light cameras systems along Arizona highways and at intersections. More than 100 anticipated under Gov. Janet Napolitano's recent proposed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Abandoned anchor cut Gulf Internet cable
2-9-2008
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AP
An abandoned anchor was responsible for cutting one of the undersea Internet cables severed last week, causing disruptions across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cable's owner said Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
RON PAUL 4409 -- Obama AND Hillary CAUGHT on Video Kissing ~~ McCain is pissed!
02-09-2008
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4409
Hillary caught cheating with McCain. Obama and Hillary caught on video kissing. McCain gets pissed off and breaks up with Hillary but in the end they all have just one allegiance not to one another but to the U.N. the CFR and the New World Order. Wat
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News Link • Eugenics
Why Mormons Should Support Ron Paul
2-9-2008
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Nolan Chart
Mitt Romney was supported by millions of LDS (Mormon) voters. This candid letter from a fellow Mormon explains why LDS members should support Ron Paul for President.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
The Ron Paul Rebate
2-9-2008
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The Pledge
Sitting around wondering how to spend your "stimulus" check when it arrives? Here is an idea:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Sieg Heil, TSA
2-9-2008
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LewRockwell
Ah, the Nazis. Modern America knows few epithets more vile. You can insult a man’s mother, wish rape on him, liken him to the hinder part of the alimentary canal. But don’t compare him to Germany’s totalitarians, even if he works for the TSA.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
America's Secret Trials: Prelude to Your Future
2-9-2008
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AP
The secrecy shrouding government files on terror suspects is bogging down the Pentagon's effort to hold trials at Guantanamo Bay, with defense attorneys accusing the government of withholding potential exculpatory evidence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Here Come the Brownshirts, Again - by Paul Craig Roberts
2-9-08
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CounterPunch.org
The Brownshirt Party has chosen John "hundred year war" McCain as its presidential candidate. Except for Cheney, Norman Podhoretz, and Billy Kristol, McCain is America's greatest warmonger
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News Link • Eugenics
Madness: America's future under John McCain - by Chuck Baldwin
2-9-8
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LewRockwell.com
Make no mistake about it: the establishment wants one of its own to succeed George Bush. In order for that to happen, they must manipulate the primaries to ensure that, no matter who wins in November....
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Global Cooling on the Way?
02-07-2008
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Investor's Business Daily
Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. This solar hibernation corresponds with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted until 1715.
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Trouser Chili
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