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Date Sent: 2007-08-22
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, August 22, 2007 |
Military Interrogators Posing as Lawyers at Gitmo -- al-Sadr: Iraq's government end is near
America's Pastors: Preachers Of Truth Or Promoters Of Tyranny? -- July Foreclosures Up 9 Percent From June -- ES&S [voting machines] to be Rebuked, Fined and Possibly Banned -- Ron Paul's Airforce -- Boy Suspended for Doodling Gun -- Scientists drug-test whole cities -- Differences between a Free Society and one controlled by Government -- Ten Reasons Why Ron Paul Can’t Win -- High Risk Credit by Ron Paul
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. money funds are the next to fold
8-21-2007
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Reuters
Experts are reassuring investors that U.S. money market mutual funds, which have gathered about $165 billion in new assets over an eight-week period, are safe from the subprime mortgage problems that have caused steep losses at several hedge funds.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
July Foreclosures Up 9 Percent From June
8-21-2007
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AP
The number of foreclosure filings reported in the U.S. last month jumped 93% from July of 2006 and rose 9% from June, the latest sign that homeowners are having trouble making payments and finding buyers during the national housing down
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Asking the Wrong Questions on Iran
8-21-2007
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Rootless Cosmopolitian
Had the “case for war” been proven, would Iraq look any different today? Would it be any less of a bloodbath; any less of a quagmire for U.S. troops; any less of a geopolitical disaster; any less of a drain on U.S. blood and treasure? Would the U.S.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Military Interrogators are Posing as Lawyers at Gitmo
8-21-2007
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Counterpunch
Military interrogators posing as "lawyers" are attempting to trick Guantanamo prisoners into providing them with information. This incredible and illegal practice contributes "to the prisoners' suspicions that the (real) lawyers ar
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
al-Sadr says Iraq's government is near its end
8-21-2007
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AP
"The prime minister is a tool for the Americans, and people see that clearly. It will probably be the Americans who decide to change him when they realize he has failed. We don't have a democracy here, we have a foreign occupation."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
ES&S to be Rebuked, Fined and Possibly Banned in CA?
8-21-2007
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Wired
California plans to hold an administrative hearing on the fate of Election Systems & Software for violating state election codes. ES&S, the top voting machine company in the country, is being accused of selling at least 5 CA counties a version of its
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul making many dollars for local GOP events wherever he goes
8-21-2007
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Nashua Telegraph
Sunday’s GOP barbecue fundraiser could have been dubbed “The Ron Paul Show,” based on the attention the Texas congressman received and the number of his supporters in attendance. Over 500 people ponied up $18, making it the most successful barbecue i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul has his own Airforce
8-21-2007
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Youtube
Skyspot Advertising is a night aerial advertising business. Using similar technology to the Goodyear blimp, they scroll messages with an electronic sign from a Cessna 172 aircraft that can be seen over a large area of reach. Ron Paul's rEVOLution
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Generals
08-21-2007
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The Agitator
Though President Bush has been telling us for months we need to listen to our military leaders about what's going on in Iraq, we now learn that General Petraeus won't actually be writing this report. The White House will...
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Incompetent School Administrators Suspend Boy for Doodling Gun
08-21-2007
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East Valley Tribune
An East Valley eighth-grader was suspended this week
after he turned in homework with a sketch that school
officials said resembled a gun and posed a threat to
his classmates.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Property Rights
Mattel seeks to shut porn Web site with name "Barbie" in title
8-21-2007
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AP
The lawsuit alleges adult actress China Barbie used a domain name containing the word "barbie" in a "bad faith attempt to profit from Mattel's Barbie trademarks" and had damaged Mattel's good name.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Internet
Tots getting Internet identity at birth
8-21-2007
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AP
Brought to you by the same people who see no threat in fingerprinting their kids or depositing them in gov't schools, parents are getting domain names for their young kids, long before they can do more than peck aimlessly at a keyboard. What coul
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Drug War
While Sicilian mafia has withered, the Calabrian mafia has eclipsed them
8-21-2007
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AP
While the Sicilian Mafia was imploding under a ruthless crackdown, another crime syndicate rooted in the rugged mountains at the tip of Italy's boot was quietly eclipsing Cosa Nostra in power and reach. They now own the european drug trade.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Drug War
Scientists drug-test whole cities
8-21-2007
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AP
Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city's sewer plant and get a good snapshot of what people are taking.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Eugenics
Ten Reasons Why Ron Paul Can’t Win:
8/21/2207
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Lewrockwell.com
It always perturbed me that the wide variety of neocon commentators on television regularly pronounce with such fury and unison that Ron Paul "can’t win" but never give any reasons why he couldn’t win the presidential race. At first, I ass
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Police State
Arizona to Turn Speed Cameras into Spy Cameras
08-20-2007
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The Newspaper
According to a written request for proposals sent to various speed camera companies, the state police are seeking to include automated number plate recognition (ANPR) technology in its new automated ticketing system.
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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