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Date Sent: 2008-07-21
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, July 21, 2008

ACLU details police infiltration -- Northcom chief: Homeland command is all grown up

Revisiting Jimmy Carter's "Malaise" Speech -- Schwarzenegger Needs To Face Reality: California Is Insolvent - by MISH -- All 177 Mervyn's Department Stores Could Close Within 30 Days -- Paulson braces public for months of tough times -- US: The World's Biggest Blue Light Special -- 'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies - by Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern -- INSIDERS AGREE: BANK RUNS IMMINENT -- Andrew Napolitano: Freddie and Fannie Bailout is Unconstitutional -- Alaskans suffer nation's highest gasoline prices -- As Wars Lengthen, Toll on Military Families Mounts -- US: Iran must choose between cooperation and confrontation -- Merrill Drops After $4.65 Billion Second-Quarter Loss -- Battered mortgage giants spent about $186 million on lobbying, political contributions -- Photo radar citations could net state $210M a year -- OIC Wants U.N. to Outlaw Free Speech -- House prices could fall for two years: Citigroup -- No rush to register handguns in D.C. -- Guns Ruling Spawns Legal Challenges By Felons -- Police detain tactic described -- Dream of gas tax holiday blocked over union bribes David Bromwich on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio

Feature Article  • Eugenics
Jimmy Carter's "Malaise" Speech - Video and Audio (very soon, Bush's version)
Ernest Hancock
   I read the transcript for this speech a few years ago and was amazed at how much 'libertarianism' it had in it. Enough "individual liberty and self-responsibility" was promoted in the speech that Kennedy and the Press trashed.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Taser death ignites racial tensions
7-20-2008 • Chicago Tribune
At 1:28 p.m. Baron "Scooter" Pikes was a healthy 21-year-old man. By 2:07 p.m., he was dead. In the 39 minutes in between in which Pikes was handcuffed by police and shocked 9 times with a Taser device, while pleading for mercy Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bush Administration
Send Karl Rove to Jail
07-20-2008 • Grass Roots Campaign
Sign the petition to the House Judiciary Committee to cite Karl Rove for contempt of Congress for his ignoring a subpoena from that committee. The crime is blatant and extant, the punishment is clear. Send Karl Rove to Jail. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Dugger

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Schwarzenegger Needs To Face Reality: California Is Insolvent
7-20-08 • Michael Shedlock / Mish
Many other states are in the same sinking ship, all attempting to postpone the day of reckoning via sleight of hand trickery and magic mirrors. Read Full Story
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News Link • Philanthropy
Bruce Trowbridge: Spending Summer Biking and Running Across the Nation
07-20-2008 • Mondoreb
What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Biked and ran 2487 miles across the USA to help raise money for clean water in Africa. Along the way, outran a pack of coyotes and had a run-in with a band of gypsies. Meet the guy who's actually doing it: Bruce Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Tazing a blind woman in her home just comes with the job
7-20-2008 • CNN video
Police say they didn't realize a suspect's mother was blind when they tased her. So? I thought using the taser was dependent upon circumstances, or does the claim she threw a punch at a cop ring less true when delivered by a blind woman in h Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
All 177 Mervyn's Department Stores Could Close Within 30 Days
7-20-08 • Bloomberg.com
Mervyn's LLC, the long-struggling California department-store chain, is fighting for survival as some of its vendors have halted shipments to the company and key lenders have pulled financing... Read Full Story
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News Link • Eugenics
Document forensics expert: Obama "birth certificate" a "horrible forgery"
7-20-2008 • Israel Insider
I find it entertaining as heck that we have the two main presidential candidates accused of not being eligible to run for president of the USA because one was allegedly born in Kenya, and the other in Panama. What a country. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Opinion  • Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
David Bromwich on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
Mark Jokel

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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paulson braces public for months of tough times
7-20-08 • news.Yahoo.com
"I think it's going to be months that we're working our way through this period �" clearly months," he said. Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US: The World's Biggest Blue Light Special
7-20-08 • WallstreetExaminer.com
We should see this BLS primarily conducted by foreign corporate and elitist interests, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), and private equity firms. The criminals on Wall Street will also play a role accelerating the process, as there are fees to be colle Read Full Story
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News Link • Police State
The March 13th secret closed door meeting of the U.S. House of Representatives
07-20-2008 • CSPAN - YouTube
The content of the meeting:..... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

Feature Article  • Torture
'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies - by Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern
   One can assume that former Attorney General John Ashcroft didn’t mean it to be funny, but his testimony on Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee might strike one as hilarious, were it not for the issue at hand �" torture.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
INSIDERS AGREE: BANK RUNS IMMINENT
07-20-2008 • 2cents.dailyreckoning.com
You can hear the panic in his voice. He told me, point-blank: "It's all coming down. The whole system is crashing." He is quickly turning into an urban survivalist -- outfitting his home with solar, buying biodiesel, stocking up on food Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

Reference Link • TAXES: Federal
RON PAUL 4409 -- Small puppy wants his MONEY back !
Google 4409
This small puppy is pissed and he wants his MONEY back!....Why would he want it back? Does he have the power to get it back?
Entered by: Forty Four O Nine
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News Link • Constitution
Freddie and Fannie Bailout is Unconstitutional
7-20-08 • Fox.news
In this video Judge Andrew Napolitano explains why bailing out Freddie and Fannie is unconstitutional. Read Full Story
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News Link • China
Beijing Olympics and Pollution: When Is a Gas Mask a Performance Enhancer?
07-20-2008 • Mondoreb & RidesAPaleHorse
The Chinese are concerned about pollution during the Olympics. Will wearing a gas mask get an athlete disqualified? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Barack Obama, Mainstream Media: Obama’s Excellent Adventure
07-20-2008 • Mondoreb
Need more proof that the Mainstream Media isn’t the PR wing of the Democrat Party? Look no further than their coverage of Obama’s Excellent Adventure. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Liberty and Responsibility
7-19-2008 • Shawn-Politics
When we give government our responsibility we also give it our liberty. The more liberty that government has, the less we have. This works both ways. That is why our founders tried to restrain the government with the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Entertainment: Movies
I.O.U.S.A.: The Movie
7-19-2008 • The Pissed Off Citizen
[movie trailer] I'm really glad that a documentary movie is finally being released on the U.S. economy and not some fabricated action movie. Coming way too late to a theater near you. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Alaskans suffer nation's highest gasoline prices
7-19-2008 • Reuters
Think you're feeling pain at the gas pump? Consider the residents of Lime Village, Alaska, an isolated Denaina Athabascan Indian community where gasoline prices have hit $8.55 a gallon. The price is severely curtailing movement around the Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Military
As Wars Lengthen, Toll on Military Families Mounts
7-19-2008 • AP
Divorce lawyers see it in the breakup of youthful marriages as long, multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan fuel alienation and mistrust. Domestic violence experts see it in the scuffles that often precede a soldier's departure or sour a br Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Privacy Rights
Library confrontation with cops points up privacy dilemma
7-19-2008 • AP
Children's librarian Judith Flint was getting ready for the monthly book discussion when police showed up. Five state police detectives wanted to seize Kimball Public Library's public access computers as they frantically searched for a 12-yea Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Amazing technology from Japan . . . but can you guess what it is ?
7-19-2008 • etceteracommunity
Miniaturization and wireless bringing portable computing to a new level. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • PC: Political Correctness
U.K. Nanny State Roundup: Mastering the Broom and Binge Drinkers
07-19-2008 • pat
UK Nanny State Roundup in not-so-Great-Britain: brooms don't cut it and Britain's laws encourage binge drinking, which produces a tragic result. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Iran
US: Iran must choose between cooperation and confrontation
7-19-08 • Rawstory.com/news/afp
Burns did not meet or speak with separately any member of the Iranian delegation, the spokesman added. Read Full Story
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Battered mortgage giants spent about $186 million on lobbying, political contributions
7-19-2008 • AP
For years, mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tenaciously worked to nurture, and protect their financial empires by invoking the political sacred cow of homeownership and fielding an army of lobbyists, power brokers and political contributors Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Merrill Drops After $4.65 Billion Second-Quarter Loss
7-19-2008 • Bloomberg
Merrill Lynch & Co. declined in New York trading after the third-biggest U.S. securities firm reported a wider-than-estimated second-quarter loss on $9.7 billion of credit-market writedowns. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Md. ACLU releases docs detailing police monitoring
7-19-2008 • AP
Undercover Maryland state police officers infiltrated meetings of peace and anti-death penalty groups for more than a year, and included the name of at least one prominent peace activist in a federal database for tracking terrorists and drug dealers. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Human Speech Traced to Talking Fish
7-19-2008 • LiveScience
Fish communicate with sound, too. And researchers say your speech skills and, in fact, all sound production in vertebrates can be traced back to this ability in fish. (You got your ears from fish, too.) Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Housing
House prices could fall for two years: Citigroup
7-19-2008 • BBC news (video)
Citigroup chairman Win Bischoff has warned that house prices in Britain and the United States are likely to keep falling for another two years. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • TAXES: State
Photo radar citations could net state $210M a year
7-19-2008 • East Valley Tribune
Arizona's coffers could be fattened by $210 million a year - or more - under the terms of the new contract for statewide photo enforcement of speed and red-light laws. Figures provided by the state Department of Public Safety show that the eig Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Gun Rights
No rush to register handguns in D.C.
7-19-2008 • USA Today
Ron Jones, 33, was expecting a crowd when he arrived at 6:05 a.m. to obtain an application. Jones said he is planning to purchase a weapon for self-defense. "It's our constitutional right. I'm here to exercise that right. The way things Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • United Nations
OIC Wants U.N. to Outlaw Free Speech
07-19-2008 • BabbaZee
The Organization of the Islamic Conference is again attempting to outlaw speech it finds disagreeable�"and the United Nations is its weapon of choice. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Homeland Security
Northcom chief: Homeland command is now grown up
7-19-2008 • AP
Renuart, commander of the U.S. Northern Command, seems unnaturally upbeat for a man whose job is to figure out what disasters might befall the American homeland, and lay plans to prevent or cope with them. "I think we're doing really good th Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Gun Rights
Guns Ruling Spawns Legal Challenges By Felons
7-19-2008 • AP
Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal law barring felons from owning guns after police found seven pistols, three shotguns and five rifles at his home south of Pittsburgh. As a defense, Barton a Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • TAXES: Federal
Dream of gas tax holiday faltered over job losses
7-19-2008 • AP
The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere. Lawmakers concluded with a prod from the constructi Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

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