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Date Sent: 2007-09-27
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
Parents refuse to give personal info to military recruiters; punitive action
Gold Star Father Who Lost Son In Iraq Beaten By Pro-War Group -- Giuliani campaign's top fundraiser out -- Dems Won't Guarantee Withdrawal of Iraq Troops in 5 years -- We test US army's new secret weapon -- Federal War on Medical Marijuana and on Children -- America’s Police Brutality Pandemic -- 'A Coup Has Occurred' - by Daniel Ellsberg -- FCC proposes 'fake news' fine -- St. Louis cops harassing motorist whose videotape fired cop -- 9/11 - Blame it on Rio -- Lieberman-Kyl's Iran amendment passes -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: American Gulag Coming Soon -- "Childrens do learn," Bush tells school kids -- Violent crackdown in Myanmar -- Health-Care premiums expected to jump 8.7% in 2008 -- Bush nominee helped mask FBI's pre-9/11 failures -- States testing pay-as-you-drive -- High court takes voter-ID challenge -- Kuwait will not take part in Iran attack -- Ross Perot selling Magna Carta -- Bush fulfills H.L. Mencken's prophecy
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Gold Star Father Who Lost Son In Iraq Beaten By Members Of Pro-War Group
9-26-2007
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Crooks & Liars (photos)
Here are photos of members of “Gathering of Eagles” who assaulted gold star father Carlos Arredondo in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 2007, throwing him to the ground and kicking him.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Giuliani campaign's top fundraiser out
9-26-2007
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AP
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's top finance official is out in a staff shake-up just days before the fundraising deadline for the White House hopefuls.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Dems Can't Make Guarantee Withdrawal of Iraq Troops in five years
9-26-2007
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AP
The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Run away the ray-gun is coming : We test US army's new secret weapon
9-26-2007
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Daily Mail
One thing is certain: not just the Silent Guardian, but weapons such as the Taser, the electric stun-gun, are being rolled out by Britain's police forces as the new way of controlling people by using pain.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
The Federal War on Medical Marijuana Becomes a War on Children
9-26-2007
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Alternet
Naulls' home and businesses were invaded by DEA agents armed with shotguns, automatic rifles -- even helicopters. They seized everything he owned: his businesses, his property, all of his accounts. County child protective services came along on t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Senator: Lieberman And Kyl’s Hawkish Iran Amendment Is ‘Cheney’s Fondest Pipe Dream’
9-26-2007
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Think Progress
Those who regret their vote five years ago to authorize military action in Iraq should think hard before supporting this approach. Because, in my view, it has the same potential to do harm where many are seeking to do good.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Sobriety checkpoint citation is a sobering experience
09-26-2007
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ohio.com
Jerry Seabrook is a statistic. Or, rather, he used to be. On June 23, he was a drunken driver. On Aug. 9, he wasn't....In other words, Seabrook was not driving under the influence of alcohol. But now he's out $750 in legal fees with no recour
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Internet
Why China shut down 18,401 websites
9-26-2007
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Christian Science Monitor
The Chinese authorities are in the midst of an unusually harsh crackdown on the Internet, closing tens of thousands of websites that had allowed visitors to post their opinions, according to bloggers and Internet monitors in China.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
America’s Police Brutality Pandemic
9-26-2007
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by Paul Craig Roberts (LewRockwell)
Americans are in far greater danger from their own police forces than they are from foreign terrorists. Bush’s "war on terror" has made Americans less safe at home by diminishing civil liberty and turning an epidemic of police brutality int
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Sean Hannity out smarted by Ron Paul supporter!!!
09-26-2007
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via Sean Morley's site
Posted by freetarian on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 10:24 PM
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
'A Coup Has Occurred' - by Daniel Ellsberg
09-26-2007
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www.antiwar.com
I woke up the other day realizing, coming out of a sleep that a coup has occurred. It's not just a question that a coup lies ahead with the next 9/11. That's the next coup, that completes the first.
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News Link • Media: Television
FCC proposes 'fake news' fine
9-26-2007
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AP
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a $4,000 fine against Comcast Corp. for airing a pitch for a sleep aid without telling viewers that the spot was financed by the maker of the product.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Only the Soldiers can Stop the War
09-26-2007
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Google Video
"KILL EVERYBODY" - DARRELL ANDERSON EXPOSES US POLICY."I joined in '03," 'cause I was broke, I needed money, but I was a young American kid, but I wanted to fight in a war. I joined up. A month out of training I arrived in
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
St. Louis cops harassing motorist whose videotape resulted in the firing of a local cop
09-26-2007
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The Newspaper
When Darrow walked outside, he noticed two officers sitting in a marked squad car, numbered 65. "As I got into the car, he started to pull up the street and he and his partner just stared me down," Darrow explained.
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Terry Bressi
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Feature Article • Eugenics
One Million Republican Poll
Ernest Hancock
(Publisher's note: Now I know what "lying by omission" means) Just received a call from an organization allegedly called "One Million Republicans". The young lady said she had a statement, followed by a poll.
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Feature Article • Conspiracies
9/11 - Blame it on Rio
Barbara Peterson
Another martini? Why of course! Maybe we could hop in the jet this morning and fly to Rio for lunch. After all, the class war machine rolls on, and we won’t have to think of another strategy to control the masses for a few more hours.
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News Link • Iran
Breaking: Lieberman-Kyl's Iran amendment passes
9-26-2007
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Think Progress
By a vote 76-22, the Senate passed the Lieberman-Kyl amendment, which threatens to "combat, contain and (stop)" Iran via "military instruments,"
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News Link • Future Predictions
Alexander Solzhenitsyn warns:
American Gulag Coming Soon
9-26-2006
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Rense
In 1978 what did Solzhenitsyn say about the gulag? "At what exact point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away. When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? . . . ." The s
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Bruce Barton
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Kennedy Hate Crime Law Before the Senate
9-26-2007
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Rense
Call your Senator today! The Kennedy Hate Crimes Bill has been slipped into the National Defense Authorization Act of FY 2008 as Senate Amendment #2067 and will be voted on this week.
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Bruce Barton
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News Link • Immigration
Bank of America doesn't need your Social Security #
09-26-2007
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Snopes.com
...well, if you are an illegal immigrant. Press #2 and the questioning process for a credit card leaves that part out.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
C.H.A.N.G.E confronts Alan Greenspan
09-26-2007
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YouTube
We Are Change and Infowars confront former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan during a recent book signing event. Greenspan is called out for his traitorous bad-mouthing of the dollar and his crimes against working and middle class Americans.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
"Childrens do learn," Bush tells school kids
9-26-2007
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Reuters
Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, President George W. Bush told a group of New York school kids: "Childrens do learn." Bush made his latest grammatical slip-up at a made-for-TV event where he urged Con
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
the Last Iraqis
9-26-2007
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Last of Iraqis blog
Mohammed
i'm a 25 years old dentist i live in iraq (Baghdad) i was born and raised here but unfortunately i'm thinking that the iraqis are going to extinct so i made this blog wishing that i can make a difference or even share my greif with
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Bruce Barton
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News Link • World News
Violent crackdown launched in Myanmar, with monks beaten, arrested, killed
9-26-2007
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AP
The government said its security forces opened fire on demonstrators who failed to disperse, killing one person, and witnesses said police beat and dragged away dozens of Buddhist monks in the most violent crackdown in a month of protests in Myanmar.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Norwegian aid going to 'Koran schools' in Pakistan
09-26-2007
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Aftenposten
(Does the Patriot Act include foregin nations?) Norway's Foreign Ministry has been sending financial aid to controversial religious schools in Pakistan. Researchers and local Pakistani experts want it to stop, as does a conservative politician.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Health-Care premiums expected to jump 8.7% in 2008
09-26-2007
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War Street Journal
Health-care premiums of employers and their workers rose by more than twice the rate of inflation in 2007, and cost increase are expected to accelerate next year, with employees picking up a larger slice of the bill, according to a study released
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Hungary issues entrepreneurial permits to prostitutes
09-26-2007
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CNN
In an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy, officials said Monday that Hungary will allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur's permit -- a move that could generate government revenues from an industry worth an estimated $1 bil
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush nominee helped mask FBI's pre-9/11 failures
09-26-2007
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Raw Story
In the coverage of Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee to replace Alberto Gonzales, the line in his resume that has resonated the most with the media is his experience presiding over the 1995 terrorism trial of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Teen View
Aging boomers continue their wild ways
09-26-2007
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Newsroom-1
Youths are being maligned to draw attention from the reality that it's actually middle-aged adults -- the parents -- whose behavior has worsened.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Transportation
Six states testing pay-as-you-drive system
09-26-2007
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Thought-Criminal
Enter researchers from the Univ of Iowa Public Policy Center, who have developed a system for charging you by the distance traveled, instead of by the gallon of fossil fuel. 2,700 drivers from Maryland,Texas,North Carolina,Idaho, and California
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Military
Parents refuse to give personal info to military recruiters
09-26-2007
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Sharon Secor Blogspot
"Dear Parents/Guardians of Juniors and Seniors: Congress has passed two major pieces of legislatioin that require local education agencies (high schools) receiving assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to give
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
2 Spinning Terror Heads of Rep Jane Harman
09-26-2007
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Free Market News
Jane Harman (D-CA) has accused the Bush adminstration of using threats of terrorism to pass bills that erode personal liberty. Yet she seems activated the same sort of mechanism recently by helping to introduce the infamous(in certain circles)
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
High court takes voter-ID challenge
09-26-2007
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Journal Gazette(Indiana)
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether the Indiana legislature violated the Constitution when it passed a law requiring Hoosiers to produce a picture ID before they vote. The justices will hear the case next year as the 2008
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Kuwait says it wouldn't take part in any Iran attack
09-26-2007
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Reuters
Kuwait said on Tuesday it would not allow its territory to be used for any attack on Iran. "Iran is a FRIENDLY, neighbouring country and it is not possible that we would agree to see it in a difficult position," Sheikh Jaber al-Hamad al-Sa
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • History
Copy of Magna Carta to be sold
09-26-2007
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AP
(Seems the little hand grenade with a bad haircut is selling this) A 13th-century copy of the Magna Carta, a milestone of English freedom, will offered for sale in New York in December, Sotheby's auction house said Tuesday. It's owned by the
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush fulfills H.L. Mencken's prophecy
9-26-2007
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McClatchy News
"On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron,"
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