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Date Sent: 2007-10-11
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, October 11, 2007

Carter: Bush allows torture -- Hedge fund collapse on the way?

3 weeks after Blackwater shooting, FBI ignores key evidence -- U.S.-led Iraq coalition withering fast -- Nancy Pelosi: Activists should persuade GOP lawmakers to work to end war -- US to help out former Saddam aide = CIA -- U.S. Marshals continue harassing N.H. residents -- 'Homeland Security' forcibly injecting deportees with psychotropic drugs -- Jews are "Imperfect Christians" -- MISH: Skepticism On Free Trade? -- Republican Economic Debate Video -- CIA Drug Running Plane? -- New homeland security plan; leak everything -- Turkey shells rebels in Northern Iraq -- Debate on troop withdrawals on hold -- Open carry legal in New Hampshire? -- Romans Chapter 13 - Clearing up the Confusion -- Bush warns against Armenia bill -- Grief Over Gun Permits -- MISH: Cargo Decline Portends Consumer Weakness -- Ron Paul: 2 days left in New Hampshire -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali: abandoned to fanatics -- "Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire"

News Link • Bush Administration
CBS: Three weeks after Blackwater shooting, FBI ignores key evidence
10-10-2007 • Raw Story
"The FBI investigation is supposed to wrap up in days, not weeks, but there's still a lot of work to do. Our investigation turned up many witnesses who haven't yet been interviewed, not to mention vehicles that are key evidence still dri Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S.-led Iraq coalition withering fast
10-10-2007 • AP
U.S. troops already are stretched thin trying to contain Sunni and Shiite Muslim extremists. But the shrunken coalition won't make much of a difference because most of the non-U.S. forces have largely stuck to non-combat roles. "This is a U. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Torture
Bush allows torture: Carter
10-10-2007 • AFP
President Bush's administration tortures detainees in defiance of international law, former US president Jimmy Carter charged. "I don't think it, I know it, certainly," Carter told CNN when asked if he believed the US administration Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Legislative Mischief
Nancy Pelosi: Activists should persuade GOP lawmakers to work to end war
10-10-2007 • Christian Science Monitor
[And you thought you'd put the Dems in charge.] Antiwar protesters have been "sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco and angering my neighbors, hanging their clothes from the trees, building all kinds of things, [putt Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Privacy Rights
Texas DOT sells MVD records to comerical company to conduct intrusive surveys
10-10-2007 • MySA.com
...under a $781,588 state contract, 150,000 surveys were mailed to homes stating: "You are being asked to participate in these efforts because the license plate of a vehicle registered in (your) name was randomly recorded" during a highway Read Full Story
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Reported by: Terry Bressi

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
US to help out former Saddam aide
10-10-2007 • MSNBC(Video)
An Iraqi court convicted a former aide to Saddam Hussain of crimes against humanity, but turns out he was on the CIA payroll. And the guy who suggested this person to the CIA? Well, it turns out to be the current President of Iraq. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Homeland Security
U.S. Marshals continue harassing N.H. residents
10-10-2007 • Homeland Stupidity
...those same high-ranking government officials are upset at the level of publicity this story has been getting, and especially with the publication of videos documenting harassment and threats by U.S. Marshals and “Treasury agents.” Read Full Story
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Reported by: Terry Bressi

News Link • Immigration
'Homeland Security' forcibly injecting deportees with psychotropic drugs
10-10-2007 • ACLU
The motion, filed Tuesday in federal court, comes after an immigration official testified in the Senate last month that 50 immigrants over a seven-month period were forced to take psychotropic drugs. Many of them had no psychiatric diagnosis. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Terry Bressi

News Link • Religion: Believers
Jews are "Imperfect Christians"
10-10-2007 • White House Intel Report
Ann Coulter was interviewed tonight on CNBC's "The Big Idea" show. She was asked what her version of a "Perfect America" would be. Here is how she started her answer: "Everyone would be happy, Republican and we would lo Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hedge fund collapse on the way?
10-10-2007 • Financial Times
Investors will withdraw $500 billion(245 pounds,355 billion euros) a quarter of the asset base -- from hedge funds in the next year, leading to a collapse of a "large number" of hedge funds. So predicts Giles Conway-Gordon, managing partne Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Media: Print
Ron Paul is featured article in Wash Post
10-10-2007 • Free Market News
However, today, the news is out thanks to a high-echelon Ron Paul supporter who posted a follow-up story at DailyPaul.com confirming FMNN's initial report. The Post journalist is Jose Antiono Vargas, and the article goes on to explain Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Healthcare Industry
Does SCHIP insure kids or subsidize savvy HMO's?
10-10-2007 • The Examiner(Timothy Carney)
Democrats may never get enough votes to override President Bush's veto of their bill expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), but they can hope to draw quite a bit of blood in the process. The Democrats' congressi Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Skepticism On Free Trade?
10-10-2007 • MISH: Global Economic Analysis
The Wall Street Journal took a poll that claimed Republicans grow skeptical of Free Trade. Unfortunately, the poll questions were so biased as to be useless. Nonetheless the WSJ is probably right. Candidates from both parties are taking shots at free Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Shedlock

News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul: One on One CNBC AfterDebate 10/09/07
10-10-2007 • YouTube
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Eugenics
Republican Economic Debate of 10-09-2007 Online Video
10-10-2007 • MSNBC
Ron Paul Highlights Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Drug Running Plane?
10-10-2007 • Mad Cow
Seventeen months after an American-registered DC9 airliner was busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine, a major international scandal is brewing over a second drug traficking incident in Mexico's Yucatan involving an American-registered jet owned by a du Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • World News
Sarkozy meets with Putin
10-10-2007 • Times Online
President Putin of Russia has made a big shift towards Western efforts to dissuade Iran from building nuclear weapons, President Sarkozy claimed in Moscow last night. The French leader emerged with the news after a three-hour private dinner that was Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Bush Administration
New homeland security plan; leak everything
10-10-2007 • Baltimore Sun Blog
The White House maintains that it is "building a culture of preparedness" with its new national strategy for homeland security. Yet the new report arrives on a day on which it is reported in Washington that a private intelligence firm Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • WAR: About that War
Turkey shells rebels in Northern Iraq
10-10-2007 • AP
Turkey is shelling suspected Kurdish rebel camps across the border in northern Iraq, a newspaper reported Wednesday, but the government appeared unlikely to move toward sending groud troops until next week. (That's a relief) Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • WAR: About that War
Debate on troop withdrawals on hold
10-10-2007 • AP
Congressional Democrats have put on the back burner legislation ordering troops home from Iraq and turned their attention to war-related proposals that Republicans are finding hard to reject. The legislative agenda marks a dramatic shift for party l Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Gun Rights
Open carry legal in New Hampshire?
10-10-2007 • You Tube(Video)
Dave Ridley accosted by three police officers for doing something legal. Dave's politeness is only surpassed by Russell's outrage. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Racism
Bush warns against Armenia bill
10-10-2007 • BBC News
President George W Bush has urged US legislators not to pass a resolution declaring the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire to be genocide. Read Full Story
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