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Date Sent: 2008-03-07
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, March 7, 2008 |
Homeowner Equity Is Lowest Since 1945 -- Carlyle Capital misses margin call on $21.7 billion
Message from Ron Paul -- McCain Wins the Coverage Battle as Media Move to Anoint Him -- Ron Paul's lasting legacy! -- MOTHERS Act Seeks to Drug Expectant Mothers -- Sensor Necklace Records When Pill Is Swallowed -- Venezuela: Colombia trade 'Coming down' -- National Dragnet Is a Click Away -- Denver Officials Ignore Marijuana Voters -- Soaring Food Prices Caused by Biofuel Production -- Families Flock to Foreclosure Fairs -- Chicago Ban Little Baggies -- Department of Pre-Crime -- Snag in deal by U.S and Canada's "Prince of Pot" -- Troop depression on rise in Afghanistan -- U.K. sets timetable for I.D. cards -- Blast Damages Times Square Recruiting Station -- Peak Oil - True or False -- Social Security Surveillance Act -- Bush Officials: Congress irrelevant on Iraq -- Real ID to Meet International Standard
Attorney Marc Victor guest on the Charles Goyette radio show today & Phoenix meetings: From Real ID to RFID: Threats to Privacy?; Phoenix Objectivists March meeting (see articles above)
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News Link • Eugenics
Message from Ron Paul
3-6-2008
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Youtube
Ron Paul's Message to Supporters -- March 6, 2008. Is he dropping out? Nah. The r3VOLution continues...if you want it to. [PS: The media interprets this as he is dropping out...See, they knew he was still in the race.]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Print
McCain Wins the Coverage Battle as Media Move to Anoint Him
3-6-2008
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Journalism
[wow!] With Florida winner John McCain getting about 75% more coverage than Mitt Romney, and with Mike Huckabee almost invisible, the press appeared conspicuously close to turning McCain into the presumptive nominee last week.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
John McCain Vs. Ron Paul
by Jeremiah Johnson
3-6-2008
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Nolan Chart
Two Republicans. Two military veterans. Two men in their political prime. But only one can take the Republican nomination. Which will it be and what do they have going for them? ["Two men enter. One man leaves."]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul's lasting legacy!
3-6-2008
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Arden Forester
His legacy will be that a whole host of people across the world got interested in the message and those people have not folded their tents, but are contemplating a bigger canvas to operate under. Put simply, do we have to pay so much of our income to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Once-Habitable Lake Found on Mars
03-06-2008
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Space.com-Jeremy Hsu-Staff Writer-
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured the images that suggest the debris-strewn Holden Crater once held a calm body of water that could have harbored life.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Giant telescope opens both eyes
03-06-2008
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BBC News
Astronomers at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona have released the first images taken using its two giant 8m diameter mirrors.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Sensor Necklace Records When Pill Is Swallowed
03/06/2008
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Science Daily
Why not call it what it is, a "leash" around the neck? I wonder if it will eventually have a built-in taser to punish non-compliance... Mommy always makes sure her kids take their medicine.....!!
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
MOTHERS Act Seeks to Drug Expectant Mothers
3-6-2008
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CHANGE Arizona
A new law being considered in the U.S. Congress would attempt to prevent postpartum depression in new moms by drugging them with SSRI antidepressant drugs while they're still pregnant... Good idea, Congress, you win.
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Reported by:
Queue Jackson
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News Link • Eugenics
International Film About Christine Smith
03-06-2008
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Paid for by Christine Smith for President
An international production company has contacted Christine Smith, Libertarian candidate for president, proposing to create a documentary film about her and her LP campaign for the presidency.
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Paul Kruger
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News Link • World News
Venezuela: Colombia trade 'Coming down'
3-6-2008
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Reuters
Trade between Colombia and Venezuela was limited to bare necessities with Venezuela only allowing in perishable goods as tensions remained high in the Andean region's worst diplomatic crisis in years. Venezuela sent tanks to the Colombian border
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Homeowner Equity Is Lowest Since 1945
3-6-2008
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AP
Americans' percentage of equity in their homes fell below 50 percent for the first time on record since 1945, the Federal Reserve said Thursday.
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Actual Court Transcripts: They Said What?
03-06-2008
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RidesAPaleHorse
Maybe it's the pressure of being in court, but here's the funniest 18 things RAPH found that people actually said under oath. It's all in the transcripts.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Police State
National Dragnet Is a Click Away
03-06-2008
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Washington Post
Authorities to Gain Fast and Expansive Access to Records
"They also underscore how the use of new data -- and data surveillance -- technology to fight crime and terrorism is evolving faster than the public's understanding or the laws in
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
$25000 a Day Fine: Garbage Disposals Grind to a Halt in NC
03-06-2008
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Ginn
The city of Raleigh, NC doesn't want any garbage disposals in their town. They want citizens to phase them out. If they don't, eventually it's a $25,000 a day fine.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Drug War
Denver Officials Ignore Marijuana Voters
03-06-2008
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The New York Times
Despite Denver voters electing to decriminalize certain amounts of the posession of Marijuana in 2005, the amount of arrests for pot-related offenses in the city have increased dramatically since the law passed.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Food
Soaring Food Prices Caused by Biofuel Production Putting U.S. Emergency Aid in Peril
-6-2008
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Washington Post
USAID officials said that a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other cereals over the past six months has generated a $120 million budget shortfall that will force the agency to reduce emergency operations. That deficit is projected
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Families Flock to Foreclosure Fairs in California
3-6-08
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Biz.Yahoo.com
"You're talking 10 percent of an entire city becoming homeless," Cardoza said. "I don't know how much worse things can get."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Carlyle Capital misses margin call on $21.7 billion
3-6-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
The company leverages its $670 million equity 32 times to finance a $21.7 billion portfolio of residential mortgage-backed securities issued by U.S. housing agencies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
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News Link • Drug War
Chicago May Ban Little Baggies
3-6-2008
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Sun Times / Fran Spielman
Ald. Robert Fioretti persuaded the Health Committee to ban possession of "self-sealing plastic bags under two inches in either height or width," after picking up 15 bags on a recent stroll through a park. [$1,500 fine!]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Department of Pre-Crime
3-6-2008
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Motherjones
When Attorney General Alberto Gonzales held a press conference in the summer of 2006 on the arrests of 7 young men for plotting to bomb Chicago's Sears Tower, he sounded defensive, his voice lingering a beat on each thing the men allegedly did.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Snag in deal by U.S and Canada's "Prince of Pot"
3-6-2008
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Reuters
The United States wants to extradite Marc Emery -- who founded a political party and campaigned across Canada to legalize pot -- on charges he illegally sold marijuana seeds from his Vancouver store to American buyers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Marathon hopeful, 101-year-old, training hard
3-6-2008
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Reuters
Already Britain's oldest employee, 101-year-old Buster Martin now aims to become the world's oldest marathon runner by completing the London Marathon and celebrating with a pint of beer and a cigarette. Sprightly and bearded, he completed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Too much free market: Phoenix will enforce ban on sidewalk sales
3-6-2008
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Arizona Republic
Phoenix officials are planning a move that will mean big changes to the look and feel of downtown's monthly First Friday arts events. Ordinances make those sidewalk sales illegal, city officials say. And after complaints from some artists and gal
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Troop depression on rise in Afghanistan
3-6-2008
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AP
U.S. troop morale improved in Iraq last year, but soldiers fighting in Afghanistan suffered more depression as violence there worsened, an Army mental health report says.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
U.K. sets timetable for I.D. cards
03-05-2008
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The Times Online
Britain's Home Secretary announced the usage of biometric I.D. cards to be implemented this year. The cards would be required for foreign nationals, employees in a variety of employment sectors and college students.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Homeland Security
Blast Damages Times Square Recruiting Station
03-04-2007
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New York Times
A small, manmade device exploded at a military recruting station in Times Square, New York City last night at 4 a.m. No injuries were reported and police are investigating.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Social Security
Social Security Surveillance Act Enters House (H.R. 5405)
3-6-2008
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4409
RTR Libertyville, IL - Under the guise of protecting seniors and our national security, Congressman Mark Kirk of Illinois 10th District and Peter Roskam of the 6th District are setting the wheels in motion for another crack at a national ID card.
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Forty Four O Nine
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News Link • Constitution
Bush Officials: Congress irrelevant on Iraq
3-5-08
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ArmyTimes.com
"We have the authorization to defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq," Satterfield replied. The situation in Iraq continues to be a threat to the United States.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Real ID to Meet International Standard
03/06/2008
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Arizona CHANGE
Our leaders swear up and down that they have no intention to subject Americans to a one world government. Then they turn around and pass legislation that seems to be building up to exactly that.
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Mike Shipley
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