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Date Sent: 2007-08-27
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, August 27, 2007 |
DNC strips Florida of its delegates -- Sting curtailed by corrupt FBI agents
Tales of a Ron Paul Revolutionary - by Ernest Hancock -- 600,000 more Iraqis abandon home -- Iraq body count running at double -- Afghan forces strike inside Pakistan -- Fed's Poole says worried by rising trade friction -- Ex-Treasury chief Summers warns on recession risks -- Fed bends rules to help two big banks -- GIs' morale dips -- Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11 -- White House Defends US Terror Tribunals -- Pentagon's New Drug Weapons -- Law may not bar shirts with troops’ names -- Number of Iraqis Held by U.S. Swelling -- Bad credit threatens US more than terrorism -- Papers censor "Opus" -- CNN: 'RON PAUL DOESN'T HAVE A CHANCE!' -- US 'sole survivor' to leave Iraq -- Agenda 21: The Strip Mining of the American Education Dollar -- My Homeland Security Checkpoint Experience -- MISH: Now we know who and why -- Pentagon starts 24-hour Iraq desk -- Whistleblowers in Iraq face penalties -- Pakistan test fires nuke capable cruise missile -- U.S. rebrands Iraq "ex"-insurgents -- Hackers untie iPhone from AT&T -- DEA Highway Robbery -- Internal passports for Arizonans
The Big Mac is 40 years old . . . rumor: Gonzales to resign, to be replaced by Chertoff
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The hunt for bin Laden
827-2007
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Newsweek
The Americans were getting close. It was early in the winter of 2004-05, and Osama bin Laden and his entourage were holed up in a mountain hideaway along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Suddenly, a sentry, posted several kilometers away, spotted a p
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Military cites risk of abuse by CIA
8-27-2007
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Boston Globe
Top military lawyers have told senators that President Bush's new rules for CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists could allow abuses that violate the Geneva Conventions, according to Senate and military officials.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Spying Program May Be Tested by Terror Case
8-27-2007
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NY Times
After a bloody raid by American military forces on an enemy camp in Rawah, Iraq, on June 11, 2003, a Defense Department report took inventory. Eighty suspected terrorists killed. An enormous weapons cache recovered. And, in what the report called “po
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US surge sees 600,000 more Iraqis abandon home
8-27-2007
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The Independent
The scale of the human disaster in the Iraq war has become clearer from statistics collected by two humanitarian groups that reveal the number of Iraqis who have fled the fighting has more than doubled since the US military build-up began in Februar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq body count running at double pace
8-27-2007
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AP
This year's U.S. troop buildup has succeeded in bringing violence in Baghdad down from peak levels, but the death toll from sectarian attacks around the country is running nearly double the pace from a year ago.
Some of the recent bloodshed ap
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghan forces strike Taliban inside Pakistan
8-27-2007
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AFP
US-led and Afghan troops struck Taliban posts inside Pakistan, which denied giving permission, as new clashes left more than 30 rebels dead and there were claims of civilian casualties. The US-led coalition received the go-ahead from Pakistan to stri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed's Poole says worried by rising trade friction
8-27-2007
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Reuters
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole termed "troubling" a rising tide of protectionist sentiment in Washington, which could undermine U.S. exports. "Some U.S. legislative proposals seem to be based on a presumption th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ex-Treasury chief Summers warns on recession risks
8-27-2007
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Reuters
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said the risks of a recession are greater now than at anytime since the September 11 attacks due to real estate and mortgage market troubles. "But I would say that the risks of recession are now greater
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Eugenics
Ctrl - Alt - Delete
Ernesto del Fuego Rides Again
08-26-2007
Mike Dugger
Well, it appears that Ernest Hancock is home from the r3VOLutionary front for a short while. Naturally I have to pitch in my two cents worth about what Ernie's been up to and what I think will happen next. In short - It's all good.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Woman Needs Way To Get 80,000 Cans Of Silly String To Iraq
8-27-2007
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NBC TV10
Marcelle Shriver has about 80,000 cans of Silly String and all she needs is a way to get them to Iraq.
For almost a year, the New Jersey woman has been collecting Silly String to send to troops, who use it to detect trip wires connected to bombs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed bends rules to help two big banks
8-27-2007
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CNN
If the Federal Reserve is waiving a fundamental principle in banking regulation, the credit crunch must still be sapping the strength of America's biggest banks. Fortune's Peter Eavis documents an unusual Fed move.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
ACLU sues DEA on behalf of truck whose money was seized
8-26-2007
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AP
A trucker has sued the Drug Enforcement Administration, seeking to get back nearly $24,000 seized by DEA agents earlier this month at a weigh station on U.S. 54 in New Mexico north of El Paso, Texas.
Anastasio Prieto of El Paso gave a state police
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
GIs' morale dips as Iraq war drags on
8-26-2007
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LA Times
As military and political leaders prepare to deliver a progress report on the conflict to Congress next month, many soldiers are increasingly disdainful of the happy talk that they say commanders on the ground and White House officials are using in t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11
8-26-2007
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The Independent
I am increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9/11. It's not just the obvious non sequiturs: where are the aircraft parts (engines, etc) from the attack on the Pentagon? Why have the officials involved in the Unit
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News Link • TERRORISM
White House Defends US Terror Tribunals
8-26-2007
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AP
The Bush administration told a newly formed appeals court that discrepancies between the nation's new terrorism law and the way it is being carried out should not stall one of the Pentagon's first terror trials. Government attorneys urged to
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News Link • Military
Pentagon's New Drug Weapons
8-26-2007
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Wired
They’ve got a whole pharmacy of extra special stuff that they’re not going to tell anyone about. They’re heavily armed, and the law can’t touch them. Because they’re the Pentagon’s own nonlethal chemical weapons developers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Law may not bar shirts with troops’ names
8-26-2007
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AP
Flagstaff man who sells anti-war T-shirts with the names of service members killed in Iraq may escape criminal prosecution under a state law that legislators hoped would block his activities.
The criminal portion of a law passed earlier this year
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Generals
8-26-2007
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by Radley Balco
So for months now we've been told to "just wait." Wait until September, when General Petraeus issues his report on the surge. Then we'll reevaluate. That report hasn't come out yet--it still being August and all--but the adminis
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Number of Iraqis Held by U.S. Is Swelling
8-26-2007
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NY Times
The number of detainees held by the American-led military coalition in Iraq has swelled by 50% under the troop increase ordered by President Bush, with the inmate population growing from 16,000 in February to 24,500 today. Nearly 85% of the detainees
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Help wanted ads go unanswered in West
8-26-2007
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AP
John Francis, who owns the McDonald's in Sidney, Mont., said he tried advertising in the local newspaper and even offered up to $10 an hour to compete with higher-paying oil field jobs. Yet the only calls were from other business owners upset the
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bad credit threatening US economy
8-26-2007
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AP
Bad credit has supplanted terrorism as the gravest immediate risk threatening the economy. Borrowers' withering ability to pay their bills and the subsequent fallout in the credit markets topped the list of short-term risks on peoples' minds,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bush left with few options, even fewer chances for success in Iraq
8-26-2007
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McClatchy News
One way to look at the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq released this week is to review what it describes as the best-case scenario.
In that scenario, Iraq's security will improve modestly over the next six to 12 months, but violence acr
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News Link • Media: Print
Is this the forbidden “Opus” cartoon? A Doonesbury double standard?
8-26-2007
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Hot Air blog
The cartoon "Opus" censored in at least 25 newspapers Sunday (including the Arizona Republic) due to the potential to offend Muslim sensibilities.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
CNN ANCHOR: 'RON PAUL DOESN'T HAVE A CHANCE!'
8-26-2007
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Youtube
CNN Anchor asks Young Republican who will win the Presidency, and doesn't like the answer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
DNC strips Florida of its delegates
8-26-2007
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Ben Smith blog
The Democratic Party has taken a swipe at the nation's fourth biggest state, stripping Florida of all of its '08 delegates as punishment for jumping the gun with its Jan. 29 primary. Florida's early date could force other states to move u
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US 'sole survivor' to leave Iraq
08-26-2007
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BBC
A US soldier is to return home from Iraq under a military proviso known as the "sole survivor" rule after losing both of his brothers in the war.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Vick to Plead Guilty in Dogfighting Case
08-26-2007
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Forbes
In Vick's written plea agreement filed in federal court Friday, he admitted helping kill six to eight pit bulls and supplying money for gambling on the fights. He said he did not personally place any bets or share in any winnings.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Now we know who and why
08-25-2007
The story begins with unusual borrowing by 4 major banks early last week. The real story hit Friday: Citigroup is borrowing to bail out a subsidiary and the Fed gave massive exemptions to Citi to allow it to do so. "New Rules" are being inv
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon to start 24-hour Iraq info desk
8-25-2007
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NBC
[Or imminent attack on Iran.] For the Pentagon, getting out Iraq information will now include a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week Iraq Communications Desk that will pump out data from Baghdad " serving as what could be considered a campaign war room.
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News Link • World News
Pakistan test fires new air-launched cruise missile
8-25-2007
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AFP
[Why would Iran want the bomb?] Pakistan successfully test fired a new air-launched cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons. The Ra'ad (Hatf-8) missile has a range of 217 miles and uses stealth technology.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
What's in a name? U.S. rebrands Iraq ex-insurgents
8-25-2007
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Reuters
U.S. forces have rebranded one of the main insurgent groups in Iraq and now use the term "concerned local nationals" to refer to a group that once claimed responsibility for killing scores of Americans.
The updated vocabulary for referri
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Teen 'unlocks' iPhone from AT&T network
8-25-2007
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AP
Armed with a soldering iron and a large supply of energy drinks, a slight, curly haired teenager has developed a way to make the iPhone, arguably the gadget of the year, available to a much wider audience. George Hotz, 17, of Glen Rock, N.J., spent h
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News Link • Corruption
Lively Green sting curtailed by corrupt FBI agents/informants
08-25-2007
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Tucson Weekly
Prosecutor Lacey believed the case would affect Lively Green. "The defense might argue the DOJ and FBI knew or should have known a rape of the stripper took place, and the FBI and DOJ did nothing about it," he told investigators.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Hackers claim to untie Apple's iPhone from AT&T
8-25-2007
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Reuters
Hackers have found a way to use Apple Inc's iPhone on networks other than AT&T's, opening up the coveted device to rival carriers and overseas customers. iPhoneSIMfree.com developed software that allows the use of rival mobile services such
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News Link • Corruption
Highway Robbery by the DEA
08-25-2007
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The Agitator
Officers took the money and turned it over to the DEA. Border Patrol agents searched his truck with drug-sniffing dogs but found no evidence of illegal substances, DEA agents told Prieto forfeiture proceedings would be initiated within 30 days.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Internal passports for Arizonans in the works
8-24-2007
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Arizona Republic
Arizona could be the first state along the Mexican border and one of the first in the country to develop a driver's license secure enough to be used in lieu of a passport at a port of entry. The US Dept.of Homeland Security announced an agreement
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