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Date Sent: 2007-09-22
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, September 22, 2007 |
Sheriff's Dept. sets up vehicle checkpoint to collect blood--Ernie interviews Sheriff
US bars attorneys' access to detainees -- Do Not Call listings aren't forever -- Mandela still alive after embarrassing Bush remark -- Giuliani gets uneasy reception from NRA -- Kurds denounce U.S. detention of Iranian -- Greenspan Says Preemptive Strike on Iran Is `Difficult Choice' -- MIT coed with fake bomb 'art' arrested -- Feds probe Blackwater Weapons Smuggling -- Phone Companies Spying on You Case Dismissed? -- Japan's ancient underwater "pyramid" -- Federal Approval to Travel within the US -- US announces plans for developing Iraqi Air Force -- Kissinger: Oil drives US in Iraq, Iran -- US Treasury to halt state, local securities sales -- Iraqi forces take lead in only 8% of time -- Mel Gibson raided by FDA -- The Jena 6 Injustice -- RFID heading to cell phones -- Greenspan: House prices to drop much lower -- Israel shared intel with US before Syria raid -- A new Jenaration, but the same old story . . .
Barry Bonds leaves the Giants
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
County sheriff sets up checkpoint for private research firm
09-19-2007
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worldnetdaily
Motorists in Colorado are expressing outrage over a weekend stunt in Gilpin County, where highway checkpoints were set up so a private organization could ask for samples of blood and saliva. READ THIS STORY then check comments
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
US bars attorneys' access to detainees
9-22-207
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AP
Attorneys for at least 40 Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been barred from visiting or writing their clients because of a judge's order dismissing legal challenges to the men's confinement, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Protests Over Rumsfeld at Stanford
9-22-2007
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AP
Thousands of Stanford University students, faculty and alumni are protesting the conservative Hoover Institution's decision to appoint former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a visiting fellow.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
Do Not Call listings aren't forever
9-22-2007
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AP
The cherished dinner hour void of telemarketers could vanish next year for millions of people when phone numbers begin dropping off the national Do Not Call list.
The Federal Trade Commission, which oversees the list, says there is a simple fix. B
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Mandela still alive after embarrassing Bush remark
9-22-2007
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Reuters
Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite an embarrassing gaffe by U.S. President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader's death in an attempt to explain sectarian violence in Iraq.
"It's out there. All w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Giuliani gets uneasy reception from NRA
9-22-2007
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McClatchy News
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, who as New York mayor backed gun control and sued firearms manufacturers, sought a middle ground Friday with skeptical gun-rights activists.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Kurds denounce U.S. detention of Iranian
9-22-2007
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McClatchy News
U.S. troops arrested an Iranian man during an early morning raid on a hotel in this northern Iraqi city Thursday and accused him of helping to smuggle a deadly type of roadside bomb into Iraq.
But the Kurdistan Regional Government in a statement c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Greenspan Says Preemptive Strike on Iran Is `Difficult Choice'
9-22-2007
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Bloomberg
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the threat posed by Iran may force the U.S. to consider a preemptive strike, and conceded that the Iraq war, which he advocated, has made the Middle East "less stable.''
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
MIT coed with fake bomb 'art' arrested
9-22-2007
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AP
Troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint Friday after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweatshirt. Authorities call it a fake bomb; she called it art.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Feds probe Blackwater Weapons Smuggling
9-22-2007
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AP
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Case Dismissed?
09-21-2007
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Newsweek
The secret lobbying campaign your phone company doesn't want you to know about. The nation's biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
Why Iraqi farmers might prefer death to the masters word
09-21-2007
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Alternet
Heard about the thousands of farmer suicides in India? Well, Iraqi farmers may be next thanks to the work of US diplomat Paul Bremer and his Monsanto friends.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Anthropology
Japan's ancient underwater "pyramid" mystifies scholars
09-21-2007
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Amazing Nature Blog
Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis -- an ancient city sunk by an earthquake about 2,000 years ago. That's the belief of Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Conspiracies
Federal Approval to Travel within the US soon?
09-21-2007
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Blue Patriot Woman
Beginning in Feb, 2008, US Customs and Border Protection(CBP) will implement their "Advance Passenger Information System(APIS), "the gist of which is that you will need permission fromthe US Government to travel on any air or sea vessel tha
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Military
US announces plans for developing Iraqi Air Force
09-21-2007
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World Tribune
The US military has drafted a five-year plan(Soviet style planning) to develop the Iraqi Air Force. Under the plan, officials said, the Iraqi Air Force would more than double over the next year. In a Sept 17 briefing, US Air Force Lt. Col Greg Zehn
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Treasury to halt state,local securities sales
09-21-2007
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Reuters
The US Treasury on Friday said it would suspend sales of state and local government series securities(SLGS) next week to prevent the federal government from braching its statutory debt limit. The move to close the "slugs" window is the fir
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Iran
Adm. Fallon: Iran supplying Taliban
9-22-2007
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AP
Adm. William Fallon , the head of U.S. Central Command, said Iran's Revolutionary Guard is supplying roadside bomb parts for the type of sophisticated and deadly bombs found in Iraq known as explosively formed penetrators.
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News Link • Economy - International
Are we headed for an epic bear market?
9-22-2007
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MSN
Satyajit Das is laughing. It appears I have said something very funny, but I have no idea what it was. My only clue is that the laugh sounds somewhat pitying. Das, who knows as much about global money flows as anyone in the world, stopped chuckling l
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Military
Iraqi forces take lead in only 8 percent of Baghdad: US general
9-22-2007
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AFP
Iraqi forces have taken the lead for security in only eight percent of Baghdad's neighborhoods more than eight months after the start of the US troop surge, a senior US commander said Friday.
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News Link • Racism
The Jena 6 Injustice
9-21-2007
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The Smart Brotha
Almost a year ago a group of white students hung three nooses from a tree in front of Jena High School. This set into motion a season of racial tension and incidents that culminated in six Black youths facing a lifetime in jail for a schoolyard fight
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Racism
Justice for the Jena 6
9-21-2007
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Color of Change
The District Attorney came to the school accompanied by the police and demanded that the students end their protest, telling them, "I can be your best friend or your worst enemy... I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen."
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News Link • World News
Worldwide Poll for POTUS - "Who Would the World Elect?"
09-21-2007
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www.whowouldtheworldelect.com
Interesting.... so who do you think is winning?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
RFID heading to cell phones
09-21-2007
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www.infoworld.com
Can't decide if good or bad. Maybe having readers in the hands of the populace will finally show people what is really being tracked. Or make RFID more cool & prevalent? Publisher's note: It'll be bad when you can't turn them off
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
House prices to drop much lower: Greenspan
09-21-2007
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news.yahoo.com
"So far, prices have dropped only slighly. But it was enough to cause alarm around the world," he said. "Prices are going to fall much lower yet."
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News Link • Israel
Israel shared intel with US before Syria raid
9-21-2007
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AFP
Israel reportedly warned the United States that North Korea might be sharing nuclear know-how with Damascus before it carried out an air strike deep inside Syria.
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News Link • Activism
A new Jenaration, but the same old story . . .
9-21-2007
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White Men Can't Hump
Comment on the incidents and protests in Jena, Louisiana, now shaking the country. Looking for what is going on? See, "A new Jenaration, but the same old story . . ." This is a good place to start.
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Powell Gammill
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