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Date Sent: 2007-08-07
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, August 7, 2007 |
Iraqi political crisis grows: ALL Sunnis leave government -- Bush wants even more authority
Turkey 'launches incursion into Iraq' -- Iowa GOP refuses Validation of Computer results -- California decertified Diebold vote computers -- Russian jets bomb Georgia -- Eavesdropping Reforms Empower Spy Chief -- We are in Iraq to stay -- Afghan President says bin Laden who -- British jet bombs oil facility in Southern Iraq -- Remembering Hiroshima -- Scientists reveal secret of levitation -- Frankfurt Trust Halts Redemptions -- WOW: Market meltdown -- U.S. border cop charged with murdering migrant -- Federal Trade Commission to Oversee Internet Safety -- Bear Stearns Co-President, Co-COO Quits -- NBC Dateline reporter forced to flee DEFCON -- 2 Arabs face explosives charges, but feds say BS -- White House, FBI Agents Race to Disrupt 'Summer of '07' Threat -- Failure to police yourself against crimes now a crime -- Presidential debates in Spanish? SÃ -- What do citizens owe government? -- Russia to commission ICBM -- Afghan president: Iran has been helper and solution -- Why the Iowa straw poll is still mighty important -- American Home Mortgage Files Chapter 11 -- Judge John Buttrick to speak Thursday, Aug. 9th -- Post-disaster plan details kept secret -- Exposing the myth of the Constitution and the framers who conned us
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Turkey 'launches incursion into Iraq'
08-06-2007
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Press TV
Turkish commandos have entered the Iraqi border region of Dahuk, in an operation aimed at eradicating Kurdistan Workers Party rebels. According to a security official, about 350 Turkish commandos crossed the Iraqi border on Sunday.
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Supporters Denounce Iowa Diebold Use
08-06-2007
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FreeMarketnews.com
http://www.votefraud.org/ron_paul_stop_the_votefraud_page.htm - tells what happened at the Ames Straw Poll in 1995. One (A House without Doors) tells about the proven vote fraud against Pat Buchanan in the 1996 Iowa Presidential Caucuses, and how it
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
California just decertified Diebold vote computers. Iowa Straw Poll counted by?....
08-06-2007
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BradBlog.com
"VotersUnite!" applauds Secretary of State Bowen's decision to decertify voting systems in California
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Night Riders for Ron Paul
8-6-2007
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Youtube
Make your own illuminated cartop sign for under $50 -- then become a Night Rider for Ron Paul ("How-to" video).
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Jefferson Paine
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Elegant Anal-ysis by the Times Online
8-5-2007
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Global Economic Analysis
Elegant Anal-ysis by the Times Online
Irwin Stelzer at the Times Online totally blows it by calling Greenspan a "scapegoat" in the housing crisis. Using Stelzer's own words he is guilty of "elegant anal-ysis" in defending Gre
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hell Fights Back
8-5-2007
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Global Economic Analysis
Homebuilders built houses from hell. Now it's payback time. Numerous websites have sprung up talking about significant quality issues. The cover of Newsweek is talking about "the bonfire of builders". Beazer declares a dividend in despe
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russian jets bomb Georgia
8-6-2007
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Reuters
Georgia said jets flown from Russia fired a missile on its territory, narrowly missing hitting a village, but Russia's military denied any involvement. The missile landed without exploding in a vegetable field near Tsitelubani, west of the capita
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Eavesdropping Reforms Empower Spy Chief
8-6-200
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AP
For the first time in nearly four decades, a senior intelligence official â€" not a secretive federal court â€" will have a decisive voice in whether Americans' communications can be monitored when they talk to foreigners overseas.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
An Anti-War Senator
8-6-2007
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AntiWar blog
"We begin now to find the misfortune of entering into war without a declaration of warâ€"without a declaration setting forth to the people the causes of the war, and one upon which they may hold the Government responsible."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
We are in Iraq to stay
8-6-2007
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Checkpoint Bahgdad
Visiting a U.S. military base in Iraq can feel a little like a trip down Alice’s Wonderland rabbit hole. Inside the barbed-wire fences and flood lights, and just past the tanks and attack helicopters, is a slice of Americana. In between their dangero
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
The $63 billion sham
8-6-2007
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Boston Globe
SECRETARY OF STATE Condoleezza Rice said the US wants to send $63 billion in weapons to the Middle East to "bolster forces of moderation and support a broader strategy to counter the negative influences of Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran.*
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Afghan President says bin Laden who
8-6-2007
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AP
"We are not closer, we are not further away from it," Karzai said ahead of his two-day summit with President Bush at Camp David, Md. "We are where we were a few years ago."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
British strike causes Basra blaze
8-6-2007
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AFP
British artillery fire on Saturday slammed into a disused oil facility in Iraq's southern city of Basra, causing an extensive blaze and sending thick black smoke into the air, the military said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Remembering Hiroshima
8-6-2007
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Antiwar
Sometimes, something happens that is so awful that we find ourselves rationalizing it, talking as if it had to happen, to make ourselves feel better about the horrible event. For many people, I believe, President Truman's dropping the atomic bomb
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
Bill Kristol and the Stink of Fear
8-6-2007
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by Justin Raimondo (AntiWar)
In the Bizarro World of the neoconservatives, none of this matters: indeed, it merely spurs them on. Since the pursuit of American national interests is entirely unrelated to their foreign policy agenda, the horrific damage to this country and its re
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists reveal secret of levitation
8-6-2007
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AFP
Physicists can create "incredible levitation effects" by manipulating so-called Casimir force, which normally causes objects to stick together by quantum force. The phenomenon could be used to improve the performances of everyday devices ra
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Frankfurt Trust Halts Redemptions at Fund Amid Subprime Concern
8-6-2007
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Bloomberg
Frankfurt Trust, the mutual fund manager of Germany's BHF-Bank, stopped withdrawals from a fund after clients removed 20 percent of their money since the end of July amid concern about the U.S. subprime loan debacle.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Market meltdown
8-6-2007
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CNBC/ Youtube
Wow, this guy (CNBC's Jim Cramer - a bit madder than usual) really self destructs with the truth about what has happened and where our economy is going. And the news isn't good.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
U.S. border cop charged with murdering migrant
8-6-2007
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Reuters
An Arizona judge ruled on Monday that a U.S. Border Patrol agent must stand trial for murder for shooting dead a Mexican immigrant in a case that prompted condemnation and increased tensions with Mexico.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Senate Asks Federal Trade Commission FTC to Oversee Internet Safety
8-6-2007
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PC Magazine
Calls on the FTC to oversee a government-directed public awareness campaign, an online safety and technology working group, requires schools to include tutorials on the detriments of "cyberbullying" and strengthens child pornography enforce
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bear Stearns Co-President, Co-COO Quits
8-6-2007
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Huffington Post
Bear Stearns Cos. said co-President and co-Chief Operating Officer resigned 2 weeks after the company told investors that one with assets of about $638 million was essentially worthless, and another worth about $925 million had lost more than 90% of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
NBC Dateline reporter forced to flee DEFCON
8-6-2007
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Youtube video
DEFCON 15 in Las Vegas, the "largest underground hacking convention," was itself being "surreptitiously" monitored, by a member of the media. "Defcon founder Jeff Moss told the crowd that there was a real, covert reporter in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Lessons not learned
8-6-2007
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by Sen. Russ Feingold (Huffington Post)
Six years ago, in the aftermath of 9/11, Congress rammed through the USA PATRIOT Act with little consideration of what that bill actually contained. Five years ago, Congress authorized a reckless and ill-advised war in Iraq. One year ago, Congress pa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
In Iraqi south, Shiites press for autonomy
8-6-2007
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Christian Science Monitor
When Najaf unplugged its power station from the national grid last week, it was a sign of provincial dissent over the unequal distribution of electricity. But it also indicates a new assertiveness in the south, as Iraq's regional leaders seek to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Bloggers, debates and taxes
8-6-2007
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Independent-Conservative
First off, the Fair Tax . . is it really fair? Well, in my opinion, no it is not fair. What does the fair tax change? Proponents of the fair tax have set the sales tax figure at 23%. Why? Because that's the amount they would need to continue the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
ABC News-Iowa Debate Poll results
8-6-2007
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Spirit of '76
The GOP debate, hosted by ABC News correspondant and former Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos, really wasn't one of Paul's most shining moments. The host provided him little time to speak, favoring the corporate candidates approved by the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Drudge-Iowa Debate Poll results
8-6-2007
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Drudge Report
Following the GOP debate in Iowa yesterday DrudgeReport.com had their usual poll asking readers who won the debate. Below are the results of that poll which was pulled down sometime between 6:30pm EST and 8:00pm EST.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Blogging perspective on the debate
8-6-2007
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AP
I had to watch ABC.com's edited version of the debate, and came away with "why the hell can't the Republicans nominate someone with Giuliani's social views, Ron Paul's foreign policy, and Sam Brownback's views on the death pe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
A neocon perspective on the debate
8-6-2007
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Human Events
Iowa frontrunners Romney and Giuliani showcased their ideas, poise and style. 2nd-tier candidates Huckabee (8%) and Hunter showed why they are still in the race while Constitution gadfly Ron Paul, proved redundantly why they should not be.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
2 Arabs face explosives charges in traffic stop, but feds say no bomb
8-6-2007
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Reuters
2 men faced state explosives charges after police outside Charleston, South Carolina, found what a law enforcement source said was a bomb and bomb-making material in their car during a weekend traffic stop. But federal officials disputed that accoun
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
White House, FBI Agents Race to Disrupt 'Summer of '07' Threat
8-6-2007
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ABC News
[Oh, puke! Here comes the fear.] Senior law enforcement officials said today that the growing signs of a "Summer of '07" terror attack on the U.S. have led the FBI to dispatch dozens of agents to track down new leads across the country.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
When failure to police yourself against crimes you haven't committed becomes a crime
08-06-2007
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Classical Values
It's one thing to prosecute and punish crime, but what gives the government the right to step in and require citizens to monitor themselves? What's being discussed here is making it a crime not to use crime prevention devices. Where does it e
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Eugenics
Presidential debates in Spanish? SÃ
8-6-2007
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Houston Chronicle
Univisión plans to make its own history by airing the first U.S. presidential debates in Spanish Sept. 9 and 16 in Miami. Questions at the live debate would be simultaneously translated into English. But there are, naturally, some issues.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Political Theory
What do citizens owe government?
08-06-2007
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FFF(Jim Bovard)
When politicians are not promising new benefits to citizens, they continually remind citizens what they owe the government. From their first years in government schools, children are indoctrinated with the notion that government provides them
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Military
Russia to commission new ICBM in 2008
08-06-2007
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International News
(Isn't this adminstration just grand) The Russian Navy plans to commision a new intercontinental ballistic missile next year after completing its tests, it chief said on Saturday. Adm. Vladmir Masorin said that the Navy was to conduct another t
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Iran
Afghan pres says Iran has been helper and solution
08-06-2007
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Raw Story
"Iran has been a supporter of Afghanistan in the peace process that we have and the fight against terror and the fight against narcotics in Afghanistan... We have had very very good, very very close relations.... Iran has been a helper and a s
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraqi political crisis grows
08-06-2007
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AP
Iraq's political crisis worsened Monday as five more ministers announced a boycott of Cabinet meetings - leaving the embattled prime minister's unity government with no members affiliated with Sunni political factions. Meanwhile
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Police State
Bush wants more authority over wiretapping
08-06-2007
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Raw Story
The day after President George W. Bush marshaled political forces in Congress to grant him greater authority to engage in counterterrorism-related spying, the president stated that he would seek greater changes to the FISA when the legislative
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
Why the Iowa straw poll is still mighty important to candidates
8-5-2007
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Des Moines Register
In the 1980 Republican presidential caucus campaign, Tennessee Sen. Howard Baker said one function of the Iowa caucuses was to "winnow the field" of candidates. He meant Iowa caucus-goers cut the field to a more manageable size for voters i
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Mexican United States Relations
Reflexiones Libertarias
Reforma Fiscal ¿onde?
8-06-2007
Ricardo Valenzuela
Mientras el presidente Calderón ansiosamente espera la bendición del Honrable Congreso aprobando su proyecto de Chupar-Side economics, gran parte del mundo se ha dado a la creación de una verdadera reforma tributaria utilizando esa magia conocida com
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
American Home Mortgage Files Chapter 11
8-5-2007
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AP
American Home Mortgage Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection, the latest casualty of a mortgage industry. The Melville, N.Y.-based mortgage lender asked a court in Wilmington, Del. for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its lenders.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Post-disaster plan details kept secret
08-05-2007
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News Day
It's the stuff of nightmares: an attack on the nation's captial that would take out whole swaths of official Washington. In response to a presidential directive, White House homeland security adviser Frances Townsend will deliver a plan thi
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Payback Time: FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker
8-5-2007
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Daily Kos
During the very time Congress was debating codifying President Bush's lawbreaking by revising the FISA law many of his allies have been afraid to publicly challenge as unconstitutional, Alberto Gonzales' DOJ was raiding the home of a former J
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
The three stooges
8-5-2007
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Salon
The president won't fire Alberto Gonzales. He needs him to protect White House secrets, including the scheming roles of Cheney and Rove.
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Powell Gammill
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