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Date Sent: 2008-02-29
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, February 29, 2008 |
1 in 100 US Adults Behind Bars -- Bernanke's Bank Comment Rattles Stocks
Real ID - The Arizona Breakfast Club - Sat. March 1st -- FBI stiffs cowboy of his reward -- Man is jailed for giving a manicure -- The Calm Before the Conflagration -- Gun Control Claims More Victims -- McCain says 100-year remark distorted -- America's Family Prison -- U.S. Sends Warships to Eastern Mediterranean -- Company Uses Waterboarding to "Motivate" its Employees -- FBI opens investigation of Roger Clemens -- 9/11 Memorial Fenced Off -- Government Concedes Vaccine Autism Case -- FBI: 911 Hijacker's Were Supported by Saudi Defense Contractor -- IRS Flouts Court Orders, Refuses to Release Data on Its Tax Enforcement Activities -- On Toll Roads by Ron Paul -- Final Production Design Cleared for Next Falcon 1 Flight -- "Protesting Power - War, Resistance and Law"
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News Link • Eugenics
Meet Ron Paul's Congressional Opponent!
2-28-2008
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Wonkette
EXCLUSIVE and GROUNDBREAKING interview with Texas Congressional District 14’s last best hope for vanquishing the Paultards now and forever. Says Peden, "Restore the Second Amendment." What does that mean, exactly?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
FBI stiffs cowboy of his reward
2-28-2008
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AP
Behind closed doors at the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office, Eric Bayles, who stumbled across the remains in a wash near remote Cross Canyon, was given a check for $75,000. Bayles’ wife, Sharon, is upset the FBI didn’t give her husband the full rewar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eye
2-29-2008
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AFP
An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye. The procedure used involved his son Robert, 23, donating a tooth, its root and part of the jaw.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Calm Before the Conflagration
2-28-2008
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TruthDig
The United States is funding and in many cases arming the three ethnic factions in Iraq"the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunni Arabs. These factions rule over partitioned patches of Iraqi territory and brutally purge rival ethnic groups
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Control Claims More Victims
by Benedict D. LaRosa
2-28-2008
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LewRockwell
The problem at Virginia Tech was not that there were guns on campus " only the campus police and gunman were armed " but that it was a “gun-free zone.” As a result, there were not enough people carrying guns to neutralize the gunman once he began his
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain says 100-year remark distorted
2-28-2008
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AP
"No American argues against our military presence in Korea or Japan or Germany or Kuwait or other places, or Turkey, because America is not receiving casualties."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Study shows bacteria are common in snow
2-28-2008
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AP
Those beautiful snowflakes drifting out of the sky may have a surprise inside ... bacteria. Most snow and rain forms in chilly conditions high in the sky and atmospheric scientists have long known the moisture needs something to cling to in order to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
America's Family Prison
02-28-2008
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www.brasschecktv.com
The federal government operates a prison that holds entire families. Located in Taylor, Texas and operated by Corrections Corporation of America, this prison holds mostly illegal immigrants,... but soon.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
I wanted to know where a friend got his door mat... Target Department Store???
02-28-2008
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Target Department Store Online
I'm not sure what good it does anymore. [Everyone should view this for a laugh--Powell]
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Christine Smith Radio Interview: topics include the future of the LP, Ron Paul, and more
02-28-2008
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Paid for by Christine Smith for President
At this time, I believe, the greatest threat to the LP are the people who have infiltrated and hijacked our party for their own agendas (with liberty being far down their list of priorities if at all).
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Paul Kruger
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News Link • Military
U.S. Sends Warships to Eastern Mediterranean as Regional Tensions Mount
2-28-08
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Rawstory.com
And when asked whether Syria is the reason for the deployment, he said, "It's not specifically sent to any one country, as much as it is to the region itself."
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News Link • Art
Aussies "Grow Trees" into Furniture, Art
02-28-2008
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Ginn
An Australian company grows trees into unusual shapes for ready-made furniture and art.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • TERRORISM
RON PAUL 4409 -- It cost lives :(
02-28-2008
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4409
I don't normally do dark videos like this but I started and couldn't stop. I'm sorry if someones relative is pictured jumping out of the tower. I do not mean to discount their lives.
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Forty Four O Nine
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News Link • World News
Company Uses Waterboarding to "Motivate" its Employees
02-28-2008
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Ginn
Welcome to Prosper, Inc. where an ex-employee says the supervisor used waterboarding and drew mustaches on employees' faces to "increase your sales output".
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
FBI opens investigation of Roger Clemens
2-28-2008
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AP
The FBI has begun investigating whether Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he denied taking performance-enhancing drugs. FBI agents opened the case 2 weeks after Clemens and Brian McNamee, his former personal trainer, testified at a House committee
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars
02-28-2008
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AFP
According to a new report, for the first time in the nation’s history and with the world's largest incarceration rate, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Dollar Index Falls to Record Low of 73.68
2-28-08
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Bloomberg.com
``There is very real concern that there is a possibility of a dollar crisis,'' said Paul Chertkow, in an interview with Bloomberg Radio. ``I don't use the word crisis lightly; we are in uncharted territory for the dollar....
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
9/11 Memorial Fenced Off in Symbolic Act of Shame
02/28/2008
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Arizona CHANGE
The public is safe after the heroic acts of our legislature led to the fencing of the 9/11 Memorial. This step has been taken because, as Representative Kavanagh noted, the “controversy needs to go away”.
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Government Concedes Vaccine Autism Case
2-28-2008
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Huffington Post
After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • TERRORISM
FBI: 911 Hijacker's Were Supported by Saudi Defense Contractor Omar al-Bayoumi
2-28-08
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Rawstory.com
Thompson believes that the possible motive for the Commission to alter the dates is to obscure official Saudi ties to the hijackers.
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News Link • Eugenics
Hagee Bets on McCain to Lay Armageddon Ground Work
2-28-2008
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NYT / The Caucus
Asked about Hagee’s extensive writings on Armageddon and about Hagee’s belief that the anti-Christ will be the head of the EU, McCain responded, “all I can tell you is that I am very proud to have Pastor John Hagee’s support.'’
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke's Bank Comment Rattles Stocks
2-28-08
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CNBC.com
"Investors are so nervous, they want to believe that all of the credit issues are behind them but every time Bernanke or someone comes out with a comment like this, you get these violent moves in the market," said Charles Massimo....
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Honeywell laying off 420 in Phoenix, moving jobs to S. Asia
2-28-2008
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Arizona Republic / Andrew Johnson
Honeywell Aerospace said Wednesday that it is eliminating 420 manufacturing jobs at its north Phoenix facility and plans to move the jobs to Indonesia and Malaysia starting in the third quarter.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Corruption
IRS Flouts Court Orders, Refuses to Release Data on Its Tax Enforcement Activities
2/28/08
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www.citizen.org/
Public Citizen Joins Lawsuit to Force Agency to Release Records. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is flouting three court orders requiring it to regularly provide a nationally recognized researcher with the statistical data she needs for her studie
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Secret Societies
Who Can "Fix" the Singularity?
2/28/2008
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CHANGE Arizona
Tugging at the veil of secrecy. Why we can't get justice in our courts, why we don't actually use "money" in this country and the main difference between the presidential candidates...
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Reported by:
Queue Jackson
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News Link • Homeland Security
InfraGard: An Unhealthy Government Alliance
2-27-08
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The Future of Freedom Foundation.org
I’m just speculating, of course, but is it possible that InfraGard will be a domestic police and spying arm for the government concerning “thought crime”?
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