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Date Sent: 2008-02-15
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, February 15, 2008 |
Ex-GOP candidate Romney endorses McCain -- US plans to shoot down broken satellite
Mainstream Media Cutbacks -- Bush Administration Hides More Bad Economic Data -- Child fingerprint checks at European borders -- North American Union Police Force In California? -- Landlord donates late Clinton rent check to Obama -- Muni Auction Interest Rates Climb to 20% -- Keep the R3VOLution Going by Marc Stevens -- MISH: No Underwriter Support for Failed Muni Auctions -- Home Prices Fall in 77 U.S. Metro Areas -- MISH: Does The Shopping Center Economic Model Work? -- MISH: Blacklist Domino Effect About To Hit Florida -- Supreme court Justice Stephen Breyer confronted by students -- Join the Army, buy a house? -- Bill Turns Traffic Cameras into Spy Cameras -- Now police are told they can use 'potentially lethal' Taser guns on children -- This is What A Police State Looks Like -- Why is Marijuana Illegal?
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News Link • Eugenics
Bloomberg: U.S. Resembling 'Third World Country'
2-14-08
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WCBSTV.com
The theory among those urging him to run for president is that a businessman who rose from Wall Street to build his own financial information empire might be appealing as a financial crisis worsens.
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News Link • Food
Still putting lemon in your water?
2-14-2008
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Youtube
Probably not after watching this video...
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Drug War
American Drug War - The Last White Hope
2-14-2008
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Google Video
Documenting the "drug war" from the perspective of drug warriors and drug dealers. A lot of time with an ex-DEA agent nicknamed Dime Bag Joe.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Eugenics
Libertarian Leadership Conference in Nevada by Christine Smith
01-14-2008
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Nolan Chart website
"...Never have I (or anyone else I've spoken with) heard of such an outrageous requirement...."-Christine Smith
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Paul Kruger
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News Link • Eugenics
Ex-GOP candidate Romney endorses McCain
2-14-2008
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AP
Republican campaign dropout Mitt Romney endorsed John McCain for the party's presidential nomination and asked his national convention delegates to swing behind the likely nominee. The two met privately before appearing together at a news confere
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
US plans to shoot down broken satellite
2-14-2008
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AP
The Pentagon, under orders from President Bush, is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March. The option preferred by the administration will be to fire a missile from a U.S. Navy cruiser, and shoot down t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
Hillary Reveals Her True Nature
2-14-08
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Spiegel.de/International
Sometimes you have to go abroad to find the truth.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
San Francisco Bay Area Area Median Home Price 17% Off Peak
2-14-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Bay area sales plunged below 4,000 transactions for the first time in over 20 years last month as the market remained hamstrung by the credit crunch and uncertainty among buyers, sellers and lenders.
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking U.S. Economic Indicators
2-14-08
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Thinkprogress.org
The Bush administration’s latest move is to simply hide the data. Forbes has awarded EconomicIndicators.gov one of its “Best of the Web” awards.
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News Link • Police State
Child fingerprint checks at European borders
2-14-08
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Telegraph.co.uk
By 2019 all travellers, including children, will be required to enter a closed booth on their own, where their biometric details, stored digitally on microchips in passports, will be checked against their real fingerprints.
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News Link • North American Union
North American Union Police Force In California?
2-14-08
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TruthNews.com
Is it possible this logo is now appearing on patches donned by a secretive NAU police force, sent in to help local cops force protesters to “stand down” as they demonstrated against one of the best known NAU kingpins....
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News Link • Eugenics
NH landlord donates late Clinton rent check to Obama campaign
2-14-2008
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Raw Story
"30 days went by, with no replies to phone calls, e-mails, no replies at all. Suddenly a newspaper article comes out. It was the worst publicity [Hillary] could get. Three days go by and I get a [past due rent] check,” said the building owner
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosures Increase 53 Percent in One Month in Riverside County, California
2-14-08
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The Californian-North County Times
Foreclosure sales, auctions that are typically won by the lender of the mortgage, hit 2,813 properties in January, up 475 percent from the same time a year ago....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Muni Auction Sees Interest Rates Climb to 20%
2-13-08
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Bloomberg.com
Rates on $100 million of bonds sold by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, with bidding run by Goldman, soared to 20 percent yesterday from 4.3 percent a week ago....
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Keep the R3VOLution Going
by Marc Stevens
2-14-2008
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Adventures in Legalland
If the Ron Paul revolution is really about the message of freedom, freedom of each individual man and woman, then let’s keep the momentum going and start doing things that will really bring that about.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
No Underwriter Support for Failed Muni Auctions
2-14-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
The reason for the failures is that the broker dealer refused to put up their own capitol to complete the auction. This is an indication of extreme fear or perhaps worse, a lack of investment capitol....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Home Prices Fall in 77 U.S. Metro Areas
2-14-08
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Bloomberg.com
Prices fell in 77 of 150 metropolitan areas, the most since the group began tracking values in 1979. The decline was 10 percent or more in 16 metro areas, the association said.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Does The Shopping Center Economic Model Work?
2-13-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
For the next decade, retailers are not going to have to open a brand new store because there's going to be so many empty ones that need to be filled.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Blacklist Domino Effect About To Hit Florida
2-14-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
The key point in this mess, not even mentioned in the article, is the domino effect. Anyone who purchased a unit and has closed on it is now trapped. There is no one to sell to because no financing is available.
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News Link • Military
Join the Army, buy a house?
2-14-08
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News.Yahoo.com & AP
Faced with the challenge of expanding the U.S. Army in wartime, the military is testing an incentive program that pays enlistees up to $40,000 toward a home
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
The 4409 crew confronts Supreme court Justice Stephen Breyer after speech at ASU Feb 12, 2008
2-14-2008
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RP4409
No state may join the United States unless it is a Republic. Our Republic is one dedicated to "liberty and justice for all." Minority individual rights are the priority. The people have natural rights instead of civil rights. The people are
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Queue Jackson
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News Link • Constitution
RON PAUL 4409 -- JUSTICE Stephen Breyer conftronted at ASU by 4409 crew
02-14-2008
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RON PAUL 4409
We were shocked to hear a Supreme Court Justice claim that we were a democracy. We only taped the first 8 minutes of the speech and caught him saying it over 10 times. He must have said it over 50 times. I found it very unethical and in my opinion de
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News Link • Police State
Bill Turns Traffic Cameras into Spy Cameras
2/14/08
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www.thenewspaper.com/
Why am I not surprised - Ed. Cameras once proposed solely for the purpose of monitoring the level of traffic on freeways may soon have a new mission in West Virginia following unanimous state House passage of the "Guardian Angel Video Monitoring
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Police State
Now police are told they can use Taser guns on children
2/14/08
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www.dailymail.co.uk
Police have been given the go-ahead to use Taser stun guns against children. The relaxing of restrictions on the use of the weapons comes despite warnings that they could trigger a heart attack in youngsters. Until now, Tasers - which emit a 50,000-v
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Police State
This is What A Police State Looks Like
2/14/08
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www.informationclearinghouse.info
Unauthorized POLICE video of Police Riot in Portland at bush fundraiser. Get ready all this coming to a city near you for practicing your god given right to assemble peaceably.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Drug War
Why is Marijuana Illegal?
2-13-2008
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YouTube / MarijuanaPolicyPosse
The first video in the Short Cuts Documentary Series that ask the question: why is marijuana illegal? [Google "Drug WarRant" and read the answer in the top left corner of Pete Guither's blog]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Eugenics
Problem? No government solution? What to do...?
02-13-2008
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YouTube
This is how society would solve problems in America if Ron Paul were president....
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Jefferson Paine
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