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Date Sent: 2007-09-12
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
Thousands of GIs Cope With Brain Damage -- 6 Nukes Missing - Big Problems With This Story!
Clinton to Return $850,000 -- Why wasn't General Petraeus sworn in? -- Court grants Sen. Craig hearing on sex charge -- Housing Market Slump Forces Couple To Open Brothel -- Bob Schieffer: Is it worth the cost? -- Gen. Jones: US occupation of Iraq appears permanent -- Wall Street wants taxpayer bailout -- Former CIA official now expects war with Iran -- Rivera drowned out by 9/11 truthers -- Anti-war protesters tossed from CONgress -- MISH: Double Standard in Gold Hedging? -- Dollar hits 15-year low -- Russia tests powerful 'dad of all bombs' -- MISH: Countrywide Seeks Another Cash Infusion -- 9/11 is all about Government Control over the Individual -- When Politics Displaces Physics
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News Link • Eugenics
Thompson Says He's No Churchgoer
9-11-2007
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Bloomberg
Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson, who has based his campaign on appealing to conservative voters, said he isn't a regular churchgoer and doesn't plan to speak about his religion on the stump.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Clinton to Return $850,000 in Donations Tied to Hsu
9-12-2007
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Examiner
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton plans to return $850,000 in donations collected by Norman Hsu, a fund-raiser arrested last week on charges of fleeing to avoid sentencing in a 1991 fraud case in California.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Bill O'Reilly hosts Ron Paul
9-11-2007
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Raw Story (video)
When presidential candidate Ron Paul appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly repeatedly pressed Paul to agree that Iran is a dangerous enemy which will pose an imminent threat if the US leaves Iraq, interrupting every one of Paul*
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Why wasn't General Betrayus sworn in before CONgress?
9-11-2007
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AntiWar
It dawned on me when House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) invited Gen. Petraeus to make his presentation, Skelton forgot to ask him to take the customary oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I had
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Court grants Sen. Craig hearing on sex charge
9-12-2007
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Reuters
A Minnesota court on Tuesday granted U.S. Sen. Larry Craig a hearing on his request to let him take back the guilty plea he made after his arrest in a men's room sex sting.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Housing Market Slump Forces Couple To Open Brothel
9-11-2007
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WCBS TV
The downturn in the housing market appears to have driven two homeowners to desperate and illegal measures. New Rochelle Police raided a 3-bedroom home after undercover officers responded to a Craig's List posting offering dominatrix services wit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bob Schieffer: Is it worth the cost?
9-11-2007
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Crooks & Liars (video)
We haven’t lost this war, but we’re not winning it. We’re hanging on. Victory would be obvious, Iraqi families would be strolling the streets of Baghdad and Osama Bin Laden would be walking out of a cave somewhere with his hands up. Instead of that q
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Moroccan woman favors cultural revolution
9-11-2007
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McClatchy News
When she was hauled into court for openly advocating a republic over Morocco's U.S.-allied monarchy, she showed up with a symbolic strip of tape across her mouth. After the government locked up her comrades, she moved next to the prison.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
A Month of Malarkey
9-11-2007
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AntiWar
The reports can be summed up as we are making some progress here, not so much there, and we need more time. And, of course, more money. The rhetoric will be like the wind, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Bush people lie like a drunken fis
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
9/11, Six Years Later
9-11-2007
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AntiWar
It has been six years since the horrid attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Throughout George Bush has been president, especially given the emphasis he has put on 9/11, it's fair to judge him on how well he's done on policies aimed at responding to 9/
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Gen. Jones: US occupation of Iraq appears permanent
9-11-2007
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Raw Story
"The notion that we're not going to be there forever flies in the face of what we see on the ground," Jones adds.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Wall Street wants taxpayer bailout
9-11-2007
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AFP
Bruised Wall Street investors, facing a suddenly weaker economic outlook, pinned their hopes on a Federal Reserve rescue, even as some analysts warn of considerable uncertainty ahead.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Speaking From Experience: Former CIA official now expects war with Iran
9-11-2007
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Harper's
Yesterday, I called the officialâ€"who speaks with me only off the recordâ€"and he now believes a military strike is likely.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Limits proposed on fast-food restaurants
9-11-2007
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LA Times
Amid worries of an obesity epidemic, including high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, Los Angeles officials, among others around the country, are proposing to limit new fast-food restaurants -- a tactic that could be called health zoning.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Rivera drowned out by 9/11 truthers, Alex Jones arrest in background
9-11-2007
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Raw Story (video)
Says Geraldo At Large host Geraldo Rivera to the crowd, chanting "9/11 was an inside job" at the beginning of the show: "Get a life." The protesters continue chanting as Rivera reports on the high temperature in New York City, cau
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Anti-war protesters tick off CONgressmen and get tossed from CONgress
9-11-2007
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Raw Story
As soon as Rep. Ike Skelton gaveled a joint Congressional hearing to order this morning, protesters could be heard yelling "war criminal" at Army Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, who were about to testify about conditions in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Thousands of GIs Cope With Brain Damage
9-11-2007
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AP
Thousands of troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or TBI. These blast-caused head injuries are so different from the ones doctors are used to seeing from falls and car crashes that treating them is as much faith as it is science.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
6 Nukes Fly Over The US -- Big Problems With This Story!
9-11-2007
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Free World Survey
Routine procedures were violated which suggests a rather obvious explanation for the error. The military munitions personnel were acting under direct orders, though not through the regular chain of military command." How did a squadron commander
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Paul: U.S. Has 'Dug a Hole' for Itself in Iraq
9/11/07
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abcnews
Paul's Take on 9/11 Paul's swell of grass-roots and Web-savvy supporters, strict anti-abortion rights philosophy and challenges to party dogma surrounding the war fuel fire and debate in the conservative spectrum. Paul reiterated his support
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
No Greenspan, Conditions are NOT Like 1998
9-11-2007
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MISH: Global Economic Analysis
Greenspan says conditions are like 1987 or 1998. He could hardly be more wrong. In 1987 and 1998 we had an internet buildout and a housing bubble to look forward to. CDS, CDO, LBO SIV, ABS, etc all became financial buzzwords for easy credit. The easy
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Damn, It’s Nam â€" Again!
09-11-2007
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Eric Margolis for LewRockwell.com
The "successes" being reported from Iraq and Afghanistan are illusory. We heard exactly the same story during the Vietnam War, when US military spokesmen trumpeted glowing daily reports about enemy body counts....
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer on unpaid leave after making threats against driver
09-11-2007
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KMOV 4
An area police officer is on unpaid leave after making a series of verbal threats to a driver. The incident happened around 2 a.m. Saturday in a commuter parking lot near I-55 and Revis Barracks in St. George.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Police State
UK Social Services Threatens to Snatch Newborn from Pregnant Mom
09-11-2007
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The Daily Mail
The daughter of teachers and with a glittering academic future, Fran was delighted when she became pregnant. But social services discovered the illness she thought she'd put behind her - and will confiscate her daughter when she is born...
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Missouri: Police Threaten, Detain Motorist for Parking After Hours
09-11-2007
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www.thenewspaper.com/news
A St. George, Missouri police officer is caught on tape threatening to invent charges to arrest a motorist for parking after hours.
Includes text story and transcript.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Double Standard in Gold Hedging?
09-11-2007
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Mish Shedlock
There is no double standard in gold hedging nor is there massive fraud in forward sales as some contend. Articles that see conspiracies in every tick in price do more harm than good. There are many reasons to own gold but forced covering by fraud sho
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dollar hits fresh 15-year low
09-11-2007
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Financial Times
The dollar fell to a fresh 15-year low against a basket of currencies on Tuesday as the greenback continued to suffer from the prospect of a cut in US interest rates.
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News Link • World News
Russia tests powerful 'dad of all bombs'
9-11-2007
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AP
The new ordnance, nicknamed the "dad of all bombs" is four times more powerful than the U.S. "mother of all bombs." "The tests have shown that the new air-delivered ordnance is comparable to a nuclear weapon in its efficiency
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Countrywide Seeks Another Cash Infusion
911-2007
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MISH: Global Economic Analysis
Countrywide allegedly needs another cash infusion. So soon? It was less than a month ago that Countrywide received a $2 billion loan from Bank of America in return for options on 16-17% of the company and senior debt status on the loan. The speed at
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Science in the Bush: When Politics Displaces Physics
9/11/07
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18
On September 11th the whole world watched as jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center. These heinous crimes were labeled as acts of war. However, scientific principles show much more happened that day than we were told. The most striking feature
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Thomas Costanzo
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