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Date Sent: 2007-08-08
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, August 8, 2007 |
US troop level in Iraq reach all-time high -- China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales
Iowa GOP Won't Allow a Privately Funded Manual Validation of Diebold Computers --Vote-swapping legal -- Many of Ron Paul’s Insurgents Would Take a Bullet for Him -- President Paul now 1 in 8 -- Was America Complicit in Saddam's Crimes? -- U.S. court sees no right to unapproved medicines -- 'It is strange that they are spending so much money prosecuting me' -- New Law Gives Government Time to Turn Internet and Phone Systems into Permanent Spying Architecture -- Priests finding it difficult to preach about Iraq war -- A lifetime of saving evaporates with bank's collapse -- "Big Brother in the Big Apple" by Bob Barr -- Ex-AIPAC staffers say Condi leaked them classified info -- Say Bitch!!!! and go to jail -- Travelers from US face EU crackdown -- Bonds makes home run history with No. 756 -- Airlines sue FBI, CIA over 9/11 -- Nuclear weapons lab reports security breach -- Subprime fallout deepens in Germany -- Are taxpayers about to bailout hedge funds? -- Clinton vs. Paul -- Why Are Christians So Gullible? -- Judge orders release of surveillance documents -- Powerful Dem agrees to block intelligence budget -- Church asked to preach 'tax evasion is a sin' -- The Whiskey Rebellion -- Scan this passport, and watch system crash! -- 'Surveillance society' warning on data sharing
Space shuttle to lift off tomorrow
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Internet vote-swapping legal, court finds
8-7-2007
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ARS Technica
Imagine someone created a web site with the sole purpose of allowing voters in one state to "swap" preferred candidates with voters from another state: would such a site count as illegal vote-tampering? Several sites were promptly smacked d
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Many of Ron Paul’s Insurgents Would Take a Bullet for Him
8-7-2007
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Thoughts on Advancing Liberty in the World
Other GOP Presidential hopefuls have supporters. Ron Paul on the other hand is quoted as having followers or that he is running an insurgency campaign like that of Barry Goldwater in 1964 as John Derbyshire over at the National Review Online has stat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul's chances of becoming Mr. President now 1 in 8
8-7-2007
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Daily Paul
Following this weekend's Republican debate in Iowa and some extensive mainstream coverage and sound bytes., Presidential candidate Ron Paul's odds to become the next Commander-in-Chief have been slashed further from 15 to 1 to 8 to 1.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Boycott ABC
8-7-2007
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Boycottabcandsponsors
The first link is hilarious exclusion of Ron Paul. The really work at it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Saddam's Trial
Was America Complicit in Saddam's Crimes?
8-7-2007
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Huffington Post
There were fears in Washington that politically damaging information might be unearthed about America's role propping up Saddam during the 1980s. "Once Saddam's regime was overthrown the Bush Administration made sure that instead of an i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
U.S. court sees no right to unapproved medicines
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Reuters
[You're terminally ill and a judge has really pissed you off...hummm.] Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to experimental drugs not approved by regulators, a U.S. appeals court ruled. The Food and Drug Administration requi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
'It is strange that they are spending so much money prosecuting me'
8-7-2007
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The Independent
The High Court ruled that restrictions imposed by police on Parliament Square anti-war protester Brian Haw, as he continues his peace camp demonstration were unlawful "by reason of lack of clarity".
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
New Law Gives Government Time to Turn Internet and Phone Systems into Permanent Spying Architecture
8-7-2007
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Wired
A new law expanding the government's spying powers gives the Bush Administration a 6-month window to install possibly permanent back doors in the nation's communication networks. The legislation was passed hurriedly by Congress over the week
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Priests finding it difficult to preach about Iraq war
8-7-2007
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Stanmford Advocate
The Rev. David Blanchfield paused before addressing the issue of why he has not voiced his opposition to the Iraq war from the pulpit. "I'm probably out of my mind even talking to you," he said. The United States violated the Catholic p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A lifetime of saving evaporates with bank's collapse
8/07/2207
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http://www.post-gazette.com/
Raymond Przybilinski socked away $521,000 from a lifetime of driving trucks, working overtime when he could and playing the piano or accordion late into the evenings at weddings, hotel bars and social clubs.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Eugenics
Neocons aiding '08 Republicans
8-7-2007
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Washington Times
"There is an overwhelming presence of neoconservatives and absence of traditional conservatives that I don't know what to make of," said Richard V. Allen, former Reagan White House national security adviser.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
In Bush we trust --- Or, else.
8-7-2007
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San Francisco Chronicle
This is Bush's most brazen defiance of the Constitution, which is no small feat for an administration that sets its own rules on electronic surveillance, torture, kidnapping, designating "enemy combatants" arrested on US soil, held ind
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Big Brother in the Big Apple
8-7-2007
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by Bob Barr (Washington Times)
Michael Bloomberg, the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent mayor of New York and his equally surveillance-enamored police commissioner is giving Mr. Blair a run for the money as the most surveillance-hungry public official in the world.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Ex-AIPAC staffers say Condi leaked them classified info
8/7/2007
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http://www.jewishsf.com
| Two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee say Condoleezza Rice was their informant on sensitive national security matters. The claim, laid out in a courtroom Friday, April 21, intensified the drama surrounding a trial th
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Say Bitch!!!! and go to jail
8-7-2007
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NY Times
The New York City Council, which passed a symbolic citywide ban on the use of the n-word, has turned its linguistic (and legislative) lance toward a different slur: bitch.
The term is hateful and deeply sexist, said Councilwoman Darlene Mealy of Br
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Travelers from US face EU crackdown
8-7-2007
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Financial Times
US business travelers and tourists flying to the European Union are facing the threat of the same laborious registration requirements that Washington has demanded of Europeans in the latest US security crackdown.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Bonds makes home run history with No. 756
8-7-2007
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AP
Barry Bonds raised both arms over his head like a prize fighter in victory, fists clenched â€" and then he took off. It was over at long last. Like him or not, legitimate or not [he is], he is baseball's new home run king.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airlines sue FBI, CIA over 9/11
08-07-2007
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AP
Airlines and aviation-related companies sued the CIA and the FBI on Tuesday, asking a federal court to let them interview investigators who can tell whether the aviation industry was to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks or whether it had acted rea
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US troop level in Iraq reach all-time high
08-07-2007
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AFP
US troop levels in Iraq hae hit their highest point of the more than four year old war, with the numbers swelling to nearly 162,000 because of overlapping unit rotations, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Homeland Security
Nuclear weapons lab reports security breach
08-07-2007
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Raw Story
A government watchdog group warns that New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the nation's nuclear weapons design laboratories, has again experienced a security failure of 'the most serious' level.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - International
Subprime fallout deepens in Germany
08-07-2007
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IHT
Germany, which last week became the first Ruropean country infected by the woes in the American mortgage market, suffered another blow Monday when a Frankfurt-based asset management firm closed one of its funds to halt withdrawals by rattled investor
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Housing
Are taxpayers about to bailout hedge funds?
08-07-2007
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Crimes and Corruption of NWO
The media seem to be saying that this is the financial markets's expectation now that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac might loosen some of their lending restrictions. Fannie and Freddie are implicitly back up by the government(taxpayers).
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - International
China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales
08-07-2007
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Telegraph
The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the US, hinting it may liquidate its vast holdings of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
2008: Hillary Clinton vs. Ron Paul?
08-06-2007
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Daily Kos
I therefore invite the reader to consider the possibility, however remote, that we could see the following. Hillary Clinton, the consummate insider, vs. Ron Paul, the career outsider. I know how most people on this site would vote, but I ask you to
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Mike Dugger
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Opinion • Political Theory
The Job of the Public Official
08-08-07
Howard Blitz
This year citizens of Yuma have the opportunity to select individuals to represent them at the local level. Next year they have the opportunity to select government officials to represent them at the state and national levels as well. Before citize
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News Link • World News
Iraqis oppose oil privatization
08-07-2007
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Oil Change International
Iraqis oppose plans to open the country's oilfields to foreign investment by a factor of two to one, according to a poll released today. Iraqis are united in this view: There are no ethnic, sectarian, or georgraphical groups that prefer foreign
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Police State
Judge orders release of documents
08-07-2007
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New York Times
A federal judge yesterday rejected New York City's effort to prevent the release of nearly 2,000 pages of raw intelligence reports and other documents detailing the Police Dept's covert surveillance of protest groups and individual activists
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Church asked to preach 'tax evasion is a sin'
08-07-2007
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Christian Today
Thou shalt not steal... from the state. That's the message Italy's prime minister wants Catholic priests to preach from their pulpits to help him stamp out rampant tax evasion robbing the state of sorely needed cash. "A third of Italia
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • History
This day in history - The Whiskey Rebellion
08-07-2007
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LewRockwell(Murray Rothbard)
In recent years, Americans have been subjected to a concerted assault upon their national symbols, holidays, and anniversaries. Washington's Birthday has been forgotten, and Christopher Columbus has been denigrated as an evil
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Property Rights
What is owned when digital media is bought?
08-07-2007
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Slashdot
"Invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, Federal Custom's Agents have raided over 30 homes and businesses looking to confiscate so-called 'mod chips', or other devices that allow the playback of pirated video games.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Scan this passport, and watch system crash!
08-07-2007
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Wired
A German security researcher who demonstrated last year that he could clone the computer chip in an electronic passport has revealed additional vulnerabilities in the design of the new documents and the inspection systems used to read them.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Police State
'Surveillance society' warning on data sharing
08-07-2007
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Financial Times
Confidential personal data - gleaned from sources as diverse as driving licences, medical records and store loyalty cards - is now often shared without people's knowledge, the information commission will warn on Tuesday, in its latest salvo
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Trinidad orders extradition of terror suspects to US
08-07-2007
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VOA News
A judge in Trinidad Monday ordered the extradition of three men wanted in the US on charges of plotting to blow up fuel pipelines supplying a New York airport. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports US officials say the three were part of an Islam
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Homeland Security
48 hour warning
08-07-2007
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CNN
New legislation will require visitors to the US to register their travel plans 48 hours before departing for the US. The agreement -- signed by the US and the European Union -- will allow the US Dept of Homeland Security(DHS) to continue using
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Jean Carbonneau
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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 • 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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