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Date Sent: 2007-10-16
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Turkey could paralyze critical Iraq supply lines -- Bernanke: Housing Remains 'Drag' on US Growth

3rd Quarter Presidential Fund Raising Posted -- Failed Legacy of Interventionism -- No justification for attack on Iran -- England a shining example of Hillary Healthcare -- Watada's Double Jeopardy -- Counterterror head says US not safer -- Hillary the Hawk -- Pentagon got FBI to help spy on Americans -- Crude Oil Trades Near Record Above $86 on Turkey-Iraq Tension -- Ron Paul Making His Move -- Live free or get hauled off to prison -- Qwest CEO Not Alone in Alleging NSA Started Domestic Spying 7 Months Before 9/11 -- Jay Leno, “The Tonight Show'’ and regrets -- 'We've treated the Arab world as a collection of big gas stations' -- The man who knew too much -- Sen. Craig: Romney "threw me under" campaign bus -- Ron Paul: Taxing Ourselves to Death -- MISH: The Art of Bailing Out -- Panic in the Florida Housing Market -- MISH: Super SIVs - A Fraudulent Attempt at Concealment -- L. Neil Smith: "The End" -- Church leaders arrested at White House -- The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us -- Banks plan fund to revive market -- al-Qaeda issues "Playing Cards of Death" -- Giuliani: I'm Prepared for Space Aliens -- More Neo-Cons join Ghoul-iani -- Cost Of Freedom At All-Time High

Reference Link • Eugenics
3rd Quarter Presidential Fund Raising Posted
Open Secrets (charts)
After 9 months of fundraising, the candidates for president in 2008 have already raised about $420 million, on track to collect an unprecedented $1 billion total. To find out where all this money is coming from, explore the options to the left.
Entered by: Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
The Failed Legacy of Interventionism
10-15-2007 • by Bumper Hornberger
Last week, the New Hampshire Union Leader went on the attack against Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s foreign-policy views, making the standard pro-empire, pro-intervention arguments that unfortunately have come to characterize the modern Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Energy
Oil futures closed at record $86.13
10-15-2007 • Calculated Risk
This chart tells the what. The question is why? Read Full Story
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News Link • Iran
There is no justification for attack on Iran
10-15-2007 • by Scott Ritter
There is a far cry from preparing for the possibility of conflict, and planning for the implementation of pre-emptive military action designed to eliminate capabilities not forbidden under international law (such as Iran’s nuclear energy program) or Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Healthcare Industry
England a shining example of the Hillary Healthcare Plan
10-15-2007 • AFP
Falling numbers of state dentists in England has led to some people taking extreme measures, including extracting their own teeth. Others have used superglue to stick crowns back on, rather than stumping up for private treatment. One person spoke of Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Watada's Double Jeopardy
10-15-2007 • The Nation
The double jeopardy clause of the US Constitution ensures that no American can be tried twice for the same offense. At a time when our civil liberties are rapidly eroding, a drama is unfolding over whether that protection applies to a US soldier. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Turkey could paralyze critical supply lines to Iraq
10-15-2007 • World Tribune
The Bush administration is concerned that Turkey could block vital U.S. supply routes to Iraq. 70% of the fuel and air shipments to the U.S. military in Iraq are currently routed through Turkey. 70% of the U.S. air cargo to Iraq flies through Turkey. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • TERRORISM
Counterterror head says US not 'tactically' safer following invasion of Iraq
10-15-2007 • Raw Story
The director of the National Counterterrorism Center, the primary US organization responsible for analyzing terror threats, told NBC News that the nation is probably not "tactically" safer from the threat of terrorism following the invasion Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke Says Housing to Remain `Drag' on U.S. Growth
10-15-2007 • Bloomberg
Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke said the housing slump will be a "significant drag'' on U.S. growth into next year. Credit markets have improved, he added, while a full recovery will take time "and we may well see some setbacks.** Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Iran
Hillary the Hawk
10-15-2007 • The Guardian
"If Iran does not comply with its own commitments and the will of the international community, all options must remain on the table, Ms Clinton said. Read Full Story
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News Link • Police State
Pentagon got FBI to help in spying on Americans
10-15-2007 • Raw Story
The Department of Defense has conspired with the FBI to "circumvent the law" in accessing hundreds of Americans' telephone, e-mail and financial records. The Pentagon issued 455 National Security Letters to obtain Americans' private Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Crude Oil Trades Near Record Above $86 on Turkey-Iraq Tension
10-15-2007 • Bloomberg
Crude oil traded above $86 a barrel because of concern Turkey may attack Kurdish militants in Iraq and disrupt shipments. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan asked lawmakers to approve military action against rebels in Iraq, holder of the world' Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Making His Move
10-15-2007 • Christian Broadcasting Network
Stop the Ron Paul jokes. Ron Paul is for real. Did you know he won the Conservative Leadership Conference straw poll in Nevada over the weekend? He didn't even show up to speak and he still won. Mitt Romney did show up and lost. Ouch! [4th place] Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Live free or get hauled off to prison
10-15-2007 • The Economist
THE American constitution gives Congress the power to collect taxes. The 16th amendment to it elaborates that Congress may tax incomes. That is enough to make most Americans pony up. But Ed and Elaine Brown of New Hampshire are unconvinced. In 1996 t Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
Qwest CEO Not Alone in Alleging NSA Started Domestic Spying 7 Months Before 9/11
10-15-2007 • Wired
Statements from former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio's defense documents alleging the National Security Agency began building a massive call records database 7 months before 9/11 aren't the only accusations that the controversial program predated Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Operation Triangulated: A Huge Ron Paul project from TARP....Help is needed!
10-15-2007 • TARP
We have an opportunity to purchase a triangulated two sided billboard sign that's can fit two 14' x 48' banners.In perfect condition. Built by Kaiser Steel this sign is 40' x 16 1/2' with a 40' main-beam. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Forty Four O Nine

News Link • Media: Television
Jay Leno, “The Tonight Show'’ and regrets
10-15-2007 • blogs.mercurynews.com
In an effort to avoid losing Conan O’Brien (of “Late Night'’) and his young, advertiser-friendly audience, the network reached a deal with Leno three years ago that he would step down in favor of O’Brien. But THEN... Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Bush Administration
Abizaid: 'We've treated the Arab world as a collection of big gas stations'
10-15-2007 • Think Progress
"Of course it's about oil, we can't really deny that," Abizaid said of the Iraq campaign early on in the talk at Stanford University on Saturday. Read Full Story
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News Link • NeoCons
The man who knew too much
10-15-2007 • The Guardian
He prepared briefs for Dick Cheney, but when he uncovered a political scandal - a conspiracy to enable a rogue nation to get the nuclear bomb - he found himself a marked man. Read Full Story
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News Link • Social Security
First Boomer Files for Social Security
11-15-2007 • AP/Yahoo News
10,000 people per day will become eligible for Social Security benefits for the next two decades. A retired teacher from New Jersey gets the ball rolling. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber

Feature Article  • Politics: General Activism
NEEDED: High Res Ron Paul Photo
Ernest Hancock
   An inspired owner of other Interstate billboards wants to have them printed professionally (what are we,... chopped liver :) so that he can place 2 14 x 48 foot billboards on I-40 in New Mexico. But he can't find a high enough res photo of RP.
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News Link • Eugenics
Sen. Craig: Romney "threw me under" campaign bus
10-15-2007 • Reuters
"Disgraceful," Mitt Romney said at the time about Sen.Larry Craig, who had served as co-chair of his campaign efforts on Capitol Hill.

"He not only threw me under his campaign bus, he backed up and ran over me again," Craig said Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Taxing Ourselves to Death<br>by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. (R-TX)

Feature Article  • Eugenics
Taxing Ourselves to Death
by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. (R-TX)
Powell Gammill
   This past week, Congress had an opportunity to permanently repeal the death tax by amending the Tax Collection Responsibility Act of 2007 to end the estate tax forever. This would have been a good provision in an overall bad bill.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Art of Bailing Out
10-15-2007 • MISH: Global Economic Analysis
If you are in a doomed relationship, it is best to get out of it as quickly as you can. This advice applies not only to personal relationships but also to the stock market. Countrywide CEO Mozilo has perfected the art of bailing. On 6 occasions in Oc Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Shedlock

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Panic in the Florida Housing Market
10-15-2007 • Palm Beach Post
You don't see the paperwork. You won't see the panic. But behind doors in Palm Beach County and along the treasure Coast, thousands of homeowners are struggling to make the mortgage. Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Super SIVs - A Fraudulent Attempt at Concealment
10-15-2007 • MISH: Global Economic Analysis
A bailout plan has been cooked up so that Citigroup will not have to mark to market huge losses in $400 billion in SIVs. Citi does not want to put the assets on the books or sell them. The plan allows a group of banks to buy the assets at so called * Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Shedlock

News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
"The End" - by L. Neil Smith
10-15-2007 • L. Neil Smith for The Libertarian Enterprise
As a libertarian, for example, I knew a collectivized "command and control" economy can't work, in particular, because it can't discover or establish price. Price is the single most important item of information that's necessary Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Activism
Church leaders arrested at White House while attempting to deliver anti-war petitions
10-15-2007 • J. Bennett Guess
The UK does not allow protests outside parliment, the US apparently does not allow them in certain areas outside the White House. So much for the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Glenn Jacobs

News Link • Bush Administration
The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us
10-15-2007 • NY Times OpEd
"BUSH lies" doesn't cut it anymore. It's time to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves. The Times unearthed yet another round of secret Department of Justice memos countenancing torture. President Bush gave his Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Opinion  • Politics: General Activism
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Governor Lamm said, "It's the crime of the century!"
10-15-2007
Frosty Wooldridge
   How many people realize our current financial swindle of future generations passes for the "Crime of the Century"? Our U.S. Congress borrowed ourselves into $8.7 trillion debt. We're in SO much trouble financially throughout the world.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Is there life on a moon of Saturn?
10-15-2007 • The Guardian
They are visions on the other side of the solar system: a moon with lakes of liquid methane: a tiny, rocky world with geysers of water that are being sprayed into space and a strange mottled moon that has been splattered with dark, organic-rich gunk Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Romney ad becomes parody of itself
10-15-2007 • Mitt Romney
Political Ad + Laugh track = Instant Parody Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Banks plan fund to revive market
10-15-2007 • BBC
Some of the US's largest banks are expected to announce plans later to form a $75bn (£37bn) fund to support the ailing market for sub-prime debt. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

Feature Article  • Philosophy: Liberalism
Promised Social Change in Ecuador
Stephen Lendman
   Hoped for change in Ecuador under a socially democratic president
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News Link • WAR: About that War
al-Qaeda in Iraq Deal "Playing Cards of Death"
10-15-07 • Mondoreb & Ginn
One week ago, Death by 1000 Papercuts posted a story about al-Qaeda in Iraq issuing playing cards similar to those the US handed out when hunting down leaders of Sadaam Hussein's regime. Only these cards had pictures of Iraqi tribal leaders AQI h Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Giuliani Is Even Prepared for Space Aliens
10-14-07 • Mondoreb & Ginn
Rudy Giuliani is prepared for anything: terrorists, Democrats, even space aliens. The following exchange took place today at a campaign stop in Exeter, NH. A small boy in the audience asked about the possibility of interstellar attack. "If (the Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Eugenics
More Neo-Cons join Ghoul-iani
10-15-2007 • Jim Lobe for Anti-War.com
Republican presidential candidate and current front-runner, Rudi Giuliani, has named four prominent neo-conservatives, to his already-neocon-dominated foreign policy team. Read Full Story
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News Link • Humor
Cost Of Freedom At All-Time High
10-14-2007 • The Onion
Even as it reaches unprecedented levels, most Americans have no choice but to pay for the intangible commodity. "I suppose you need freedom," said Nancy Holstrom, who was forced to send her two eldest sons to Iraq last month to help defray Read Full Story
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Reported by: Terry Bressi

News Link • Police State
"The Republic is Stoned Cold Dead"
10-15-2007 • by Karen Kwiatkowski (LewRockwell)
It's over. The faithful and the hopeful may carry the corpse of the American republic, hoping that it can be brought back into normality, into life, and into power. I am afraid the nurturers will not survive. Read Full Story
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