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Date Sent: 2007-07-31
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
FBI, IRS Search Home of Sen. Ted Stevens
War with Syria -- Anti-war protest focuses on dollars over deaths -- Bush Needs To Resolve Whether Pat Tillman Was Murdered -- Soldier charged with Iraqi's murder was following orders -- "Material Support" Provision Sweeps Too Broad says ACLU "-- US fears that Brown wants Iraq pull-out -- 5 years later, cameraman still held at Guantanamo -- "California voting-machine review is crap -- Big Business, Big Labor does not necessarily require government "-- 1934: The plot against America -- US State Dept is 'funding Blair'
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Workers are told to shape up or pay up
7-30-2007
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LA Times
To hold down medical costs, some firms are penalizing workers who are overweight or don't meet health guidelines.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War with Syria
7-30-2007
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by Jim Lobe (IHS)
Michael Gerson’s notion that the U.S. mount cross-border raids into Syria " in part because Iran was just too tough for the moment " was followed up not only by Max Boot’s suggestion that the U.S. forces hold the Damascus International Airport hostag
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Anti-war protest focuses on dollars over deaths
7-30-2007
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Reuters
First they tried lines of empty boots, then ribbons bearing the names of the more than 3,000 dead U.S. soldiers. Now anti-war protesters are trying a fresh tactic: appealing to American worries about their wallets.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
U.S. patients choosing Mexican hospitals for price, quality
7-30-2007
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Dallas Morning News
Like vacations in sparkling Cancún or Cabo San Lucas, health care in Mexico is becoming high-quality, cheap and convenient, advocates say. As more Americans go without heath insurance or feel the pinch of managed care, some are making a run for the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bush Needs To Resolve Whether Pat Tillman Was Killed For His Political Views
7-30-2007
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Think Progress
Iraq war veteran Jon Soltz wrote on ThinkProgress about Pat Tillman: “Was the man the White House used to promote the war ordered to be killed because he was becoming increasingly critical of the war in Iraq?” Last night on MSNBC’s Countdown, host Ke
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul supporters beaten by police and arrested over flying flag
07-30-2007
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Crazy on tap
The officer then stormed into their house and started beating the husband viciously, arrested him, and put him and his wife both in jail.
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Dave Gallagher
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News Link • TERRORISM
Why the Haneef case disintegrated
7-30-2007
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BBC
The case against Dr Haneef disintegrated because that proved to be false information. The SIM card was discovered not in Glasgow but in Liverpool.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
"Material Support" Provision Sweeps Too Broadly and Will Restrict Humanitarian Efforts in
7-30-2007
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ACLU
The "Executive Order Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq" authorizes the Treasury Department to freeze and confiscate the assets of anyone determined "to have committed, or to pose a signific
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Army: Soldier charged with Iraqi's murder was ordered to shoot
7-30-2007
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KPUA
An Army document says a Hawaii-based soldier charged with murdering a detainee in Iraq shot the man under orders from a higher-ranking Army sergeant.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US fears that Brown wants Iraq pull-out
7-30-2007
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London Times
A SENIOR Downing Street aide has sounded out Washington on the possibility of an early British military withdrawal from Iraq.The prime minister’s chief foreign policy adviser, left the impression that he was “doing the groundwork” for Brown, accordin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Freed prisoners return to jihad, says US military
7-30-2007
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Ian Munro Herald
AT LEAST 30 former prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against US and allied forces following their release, the US military says.
They have been discovered in Afghanistan and Pakistan but not in Iraq
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
5 years later, cameraman still held at Guantanamo
7-30-2007
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McClatchy News
A 38-year-old cameraman for the Arabic news network al Jazeera, Hajj has been imprisoned as an “enemy combatant” at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for five years, but never charged with any crime. He was arrested by Pakistani police in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Why the Pentagon's Guantánamo Study is a Joke
7-30-2007
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Counterpunch
In a belated attempt to win the PR battle over Guantánamo, a terrorism study center at West Point has produced a Pentagon-commissioned report, which attempts to refute the findings of a report published by the Seton Hall Law School in February 2006.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Arizona's Felony Murder Law
07-30-2007
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The Agitator
Jones is not a sympathetic figure, here. But he also isn't a murderer. And this ever-broadening scope of felony murder gets all the more disturbing when you consider the ever-lengthening list of what constitutes a felony.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Companies say California voting-machine review is unrealistic
07-30-2007
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Representatives of three voting machine companies on Monday criticized a state study that found their machines could be breached by hackers, saying it had reached unrealistic conclusions.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Corruption
FBI, IRS Search Home of Sen. Ted Stevens
07-30-2007
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Associated Press
Agents from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service on Monday searched the home of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, an official said. The Justice Department has been looking into the seven-term senator's relationship with a wealthy contractor as part of a pu
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Ron Paul Leading Capitol Hill Blue On Line Poll
07-30-2007
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Capitol Hill Blue
Ron Paul's Presidential campaign continues to rule the roost in online polling. How much longer will it be before either the mainstream media provide the kind of coverage the campaign deserves or before darker forces emerge.
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Mike Dugger
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News Link • History
1934: The plot against America
07-30-2007
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Harpers(Scott Horton)
In November 1934, federal investigators uncovered an amazing plot involving some two dozen senior businessmen, a good many of them Wall Street financiers, to topple the government of the US and install a fascist dictatorship.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Military
Iran buys 250 long-distance fighter-bombers, fuel tankers
07-30-2007
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DEBKA File
Tehran and the Russian Rosoboron export arms group are about to sign a mammoth deal running into tens of billions of dollars for the sale to Tehran of 250 Su-30MKM warplanes and 20 IL-78 MKI fuel tankers. DEBKAfile's military sources report Iran
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Activism
Brown callers clog 911 lines
07-30-2007
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Union Leader(New Hampshire)
Supporters of convicted tax protestors Ed and Elaine Brown reported online and in radio broadcasts that multiple semi-automatic gunshots were fire in the woods behind the couple's Plainfield home last Saturday night.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
US State Dept 'funding Blair'
07-30-2007
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Aljazeera
There are questions emerging over Tony Blair's appointment as the Quartet's (the UN, the EU, the US and Russia) Middle East envoy. The uncertainties start with funding, who is paying the bills for the former British prime minister's new
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush's folly
07-30-2007
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LA Times
President Bush's speech last week arguing that the US must stay in Iraq to defeat the Al Qaeda leadership reassembling there ranks as one of his most vacuous. It drew on intelligence that was conveniently (and perhaps selectively) declassified i
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Jean Carbonneau
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