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Date Sent: 2007-09-10
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, September 10, 2007

DEMOCRATIC RETREAT ON IRAQ? -- Will the Press Again Serve as 'Surge Protectors'?

New armor-piercing grenade causing US casualties in Iraq -- Thompson Linked to Accused Libyan Terrorists -- Libertarian Think Tank taken over by Neocons -- Fred Thompson on bin Laden -- Next False Flag Terror Attack scheduled Sept 14 -- Big Brother IS Watching You, Starting October 1st -- ¿Por qué temen a Ron Paul? -- Fred Thompson: Al Qaeda smoking ban pushed the Iraqis to U.S. -- US bribes insurgents to fight Al-Qaeda -- FBI casts wide net when targeting phone records -- US auditor questions military's Iraq casualty figures -- Larry Craig’s Best Friend: The US Constitution -- Alex Jones arrested -- NRA's anti-gun Director Joaquin Jackson -- Corporation of Defense -- Olbermann: Surge debate already over, Bush wins -- Microchip implants cause fast-growing malignant tumors -- Freshpersons, Welcome to Debt! -- They thought they were free -- Ron Paul to make major international address -- CIA defends torture and domestic spying to protect us -- Don't believe the surge hype -- Homeland Security 6 years later -- Harley profits slumping -- Unemployment rises -- MISH: Swaptions and Financial Turmoil -- Ninth Circuit contemptuously dismisses ID to enter courthouse case Ron Paul on the Bill O'Rielly show tonight: Truth to Power

News Link • WAR: About that War
New armor-piercing grenade causing US casualties in Iraq
9-9-2007 • Raw Story (video)
The Russian-made device is light enough to be thrown by a single insurgent standing alongside a road and is equipped with a parachute so that it falls vertically on its target and can take out even armored vehicles. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Thompson Linked to Work for Libyans
9-9-2007 • NY Times
3 years after Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, Fred Thompson provided advice to a colleague about one of his law firm’s new clients: The man representing the 2 Libyan intelligence officials charged in the terrorist bombing. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Libertarian Think Tank taken over by Neocons
9-9-2007 • Reuters
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has joined the Hoover Institution at Stanford University as a visiting fellow and will serve on a task force focused on issues pertaining to ideology and terror, the California think tank said. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paulson's Subprime Bets Reap 410 Percent Return-So Far
9-9-2007 • Housingwire
A hedge fund run by $20 billion firm Paulson & Co. has surged 410% so far this year as subprime bets paid off. Read Full Story
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News Link • Humor
Mortgage Market Collapse Threatens Nation's Banner Ad Industry
9-9-2007 • The Onion
With the mortgage market reeling from massive loan defaults, analysts are now predicting disaster for the banner ad industry (humor). Read Full Story
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Reported by: Trouser Chili

News Link • Eugenics
Chalking New Hampshire for Ron Paul
9-9-2007 • NH Underground (video)
As you may know, UNH hosted the Republican debate on Sept.5th. Somebody chalked the campus for Ron Paul on Tuesday night! Purdue University was recently chalked. Here is a video of the post-chalking event. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Fred Thompson on bin Laden
9-92007 • We Could Be Famous
Presidential candidate Fred Thompson was asked to react to Osama bin Laden's first public communication in 3 years. He was asked if the US should have captured bin Laden and fully dismantled al-Qaeda prior to invading Iraq? This is what he said: Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • TERRORISM
Next False Flag Terror Attack scheduled Sept 14
9-9-2007 • FMNN
$billions in puts for Sept, nukes "accidentally" flown over US, impeachment rally on Sept 15, and now the Air Force *announces* no planes in the air on Sept 14. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Trouser Chili

News Link • Environment
Wonder Soil
09-09-2007 • YouTube
Wonder Soil mini Wafers expanding with water - Dehydrated compressed soil waffer that expads 14x its volume with water. Has all of the nutrients and water saving polymers. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Police State
Big Brother IS Watching You, Starting October 1st
09/09/07 • www.dailykos.com
Beginning in October 2007 the Department of Homeland Security will open a new office called the National Applications Office (NAO) charged with civil/domestic intelligence gathering. This new division of Homeland Security was conceived entirely by t Read Full Story
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Reported by: Thomas Costanzo

Opinion  • Mexican United States Relations
Reflexiones Libertarias
¿Por qué temen a Ron Paul?
09-09-2007
Ricardo Valenzuela
   Creo todos estaremos de acuerdo que, durante los 7 años transcurridos de este siglo, el mundo ha cambiando de forma más dramática que los primeros dos mil de la era cristiana. El aniversario siete del ataque a las torres gemelas de Nueva York, es un
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bush's War Saves 300,000 Iraqi Lives!
09-07-2007 • Don Polson
The recent collapse of the real estate market has taken its toll on some who earn their living there. Here a realtor has gone off the rails and taken up neocon statistics. Faux News breeds Faux Statistics! If ignorance is strength, then Mr. Polson is Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Dugger

News Link • Media: Television
Ron Paul on the Bill O'Really show
09-09-2007 • Lew Rockwell Blog
The Ron Paul interview with Bill O'Really is scheduled for Monday at 8:00pm, according to the Paul campaign. Faux News is making sure viewership is minimized by scheduling him during the opening night of Monday Night Football, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Eugenics
Al Qaeda smoking ban pushed Iraqis to US
09-09-2007 • New York Daily News
Freshly minted GOP White House hopeful Fred Thompson puzzled Iowans yesterday by insisting Al Qaeda smoking ban was one reason freedom-loving Iraqis bolted to the US side. "They said,'You gotta quit smoking,'" Thompson explained Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • WAR: About that War
CRS find Al-Qaeda violence limited in Iraq
09-09-2007 • Think Progress
But in a new report, the Congressional Research Service notes that attacks from al Qaeda are only a small percentage of the violence in Iraq, criticizing the Bush adminstration's statistics and noting that this false reporting on AQi has increase Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Homeland Security
Local Border Patrol Attack Dog Targets I-19 Checkpoint Opponents
09-09-2007 • Local 2544 Border Patrol Union
Local 2544 border patrol union boss Edward "Bud" Tuffly uses his position as local union boss to rage against opponents of the proposed permanent I-19 checkpoint. Accusing opponents of lacking valid points, Tuffly fails to make any of his o Read Full Story
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Reported by: Terry Bressi

News Link • Drug War
Cheese-like heroin killing Texas teens
09-09-2007 • Observer
A teenage student has become the latest victim in Dallas to die from a powerful and highly addictive new street drug known as 'cheese'. The rise of the drug, a mixture of black tar heroin and powdered headache tablets, has been described as Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq Debate is a Sea of Statistics
09-09-2007 • AP
In vertical bars of blue, green, gray and red, a briefing chart prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency says what Gen. David Petraeus won't. Insurgent attacks against Iraqi civilians, their security forces and US troops remain high Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Economy - International
Days of cheap food are over
09-09-2007 • Guardian
Premier Foods, the group behind Branston Pickle,Oxo,Mr.Kipling and Quinn, said a "systemic change" in world ingredient markets, with "violent rises" in many commodities, had heralded a new era, bringing to a close almost 15 years Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Too Sexy to Fly?
09-09-2007 • MSNBC
Two months ago, she boarded a Southwest Airlines flight from San Diego to Tucson. Before the flight took off, she was escorted into the jetway by a customers service representative, who asked her to change her clothes. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • WAR: About that War
US bribe insurgents to fight Al-Qaeda
09-09-2007 • Times Online
American forces are paying Sunni insurgents hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to switch sides and help them to defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The tactic has boosted the efforts of American forces to restore some order(Can you say blowback) Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Iran
China becomes Iran's biggest trade partner
09-09-2007 • Kyodo News
(Another good reason not to invade) China for the first time became Iran's biggest trade partner in 2006, replacing Japan, according to customs-cleared trade and other data. This shows China, facing growing energy demand, is deepening Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Police State
FBI case wide net when targeting phone records
09-09-2007 • AP
FBI demands to telecommunications companies went beyond requesting phone records of customers under suspicion to include analyses of their broader patterns of communicatioin with others as well, newly obtained documents show. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • WAR: About that War
US auditor queries military Iraq casualty figures
09-09-2007 • AFP
An independent US government auditor on Friday cast doubt on US military statistics expected to show a huge dip in sectarian violence in Iraq under the current troop surge strategy. Comptroller General David Walker said there was a Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Legislative Mischief
Larry Craig’s Best Friend: The US Constitution
9-9-2007 • Sun Valley
As word comes of Sen. Larry Craig’s reconsideration of his announced resignation from the U.S. Senate, it turns out that his best ally in getting rid of his guilty plea for his conduct in a Minneapolis airport restroom may be the United States Consti Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Alex Jones arrested for amplifying freedom of speech without a permit
9-9-2007 • NY Daily News
Alex Jones, a fringe filmmaker who believes President Bush was responsible for 9/11, was arrested last night by the NYPD. Jones, 33, of Austin, Tex., was charged with operating a bullhorn without a permit during a protest at Sixth Ave. and 48th St. a Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Corruption
N.J. CORRUPTION BUSTS: ‘NO WONDER POLITICIANS DON’T WANT ARMED CITIZENS’ �" CCRKBA
9-9-2007 • CCRKBA
"Criminals will violate the law, whether it’s a gun law or an anti-corruption law. If this keeps up, they’re going to have to build a new federal prison in New Jersey just to house all the public officials who have wrongly figured they are above Read Full Story
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