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Date Sent: 2007-10-04
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, October 4, 2007 |
Ron Paul Raises Jaw-Dropping $5 Million -- US units arrive in Iraq barely ready
Watada court-martial set for Oct. 9 -- Ron Paul Banner is Disorderly Conduct -- Raids Were a Shambles, Nassau Complains to U.S. -- White House Secrecy On Wiretaps Described -- Losing the War on Terror -- All phone calls and text messages to be logged -- U.S. sailor: Don't deport my wife -- Dad, not police, found son's body -- Lawmaker shows naked woman during school lecture -- Canada Refuses Entry to CODEPINK Cofounder -- Baltimore mayor implements gun-offender registry -- America's Nuremberg Trials -- In Phoenix Questions arise over terror drill -- Qatar cuts dollar exposure -- MISH: Drowning in Debt: How do we protect ourselves? -- Paul Jacob arrested in Oklahoma -- Australia pulls support for US military action on Iran -- New revelations in attack on American spy ship -- Israel lifts veil of secrecy over air strike in Syria -- House passes bill on pullout -- Meet the New IMF, Same as the Old IMF -- Housing data show continued weakness
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News Link • Internet
TubeMogul.com - What if you could upload to all of the video sites at once?!!!
10-03-2007
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www.tubemogul.com/
And what if you could track all of the traffic in one place? Could you eventually be your own Network President? The Big Bad Guys are soooo toast :)
- TubeMogul - Empowering Online Video
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Should Ron Paul Accept Federal Matching Funds ?
10-3-2007
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Liberty Papers
There have been a few articles over at Lew Rockwell’s blog on the question of whether Ron Paul should accept federal matching funds (i.e., tax dollars taken from people who might not necessarily support his campaign) in his run for the White House.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Form Of Government
10-3-2007
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Rense
The Declaration of Independence didn't merely proclaim the independence of our thirteen colonies from England and her King nor did it merely proclaim America's freedom in terms of dissolving the "political bands" to that monarchy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Declaration of Independence
Perfect Recipe for Revolution
10-3-2007
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Keene Free Press
This is a warning about a violent levée en masse . This is not to say that is not, or never an option, but a warning to think before we leap. We have an insidious enemy who is always thinking a step or two ahead.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
'It is Their Right, It is Their Duty, To Throw Off Such Government'
10-3-2007
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Common Dreams
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their fut
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Watada court-martial is now set for Oct. 9
10-3-2007
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AP
The second court-martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a Fort Lewis U.S. Army officer who refused to go to Iraq with his unit a year ago, has been rescheduled to Oct. 9. His first trial ended in a mistrial. If convicted, Watada faces a maximum of six year
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ron Paul Banner is Disorderly Conduct
10-3-2007
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Rattube (video)
Tom Rolling needs to go to Constitution school. People this is scary, this Wisconsin Cop has know idea what the law is. If signs are a safety issue then every highway in the US is in violation. This man has no comprehension of what the Constitution s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Soon you'll be paying more to read this
10-3-2007
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National Review
In my piece on Democrats and taxes today, I neglected to mention that even as he seeks the return of the 3-martini lunch, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) is setting you up for a tax on your Internet service by letting the moratorium on Internet taxes expir
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
US Rep. Allen to protestors: go directly to jail
10-3-2007
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The Phoenix
Neither Senator Susan Collins nor the man challenging her for her seat will mention an important difference between them: Rep. Tom Allen, a Democrat, has activists arrested when they demonstrate at his offices; Collins, a Republican, lets them stay.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Election Countdown
10-3-2007
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Search Election
We have ### days until Ron Paul is elected President
### days (##### hours) until President Ron Paul takes office
This means Bush will leave the White House in ######## seconds
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Raids Were a Shambles, Nassau Complains to U.S.
10-3-2007
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NY Times
Scores of federal immigration agents from around the country, some wearing cowboy hats and brandishing shotguns and automatic weapons, endangered residents and local police officers as they raided homes in Nassau County in a poorly planned antigang o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Seattle case raises questions about war on terror
10-3-2007
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CNN
Where in the world is Ruben Shumpert? By most expectations, the Seattle barber should be sitting in a federal lock-up serving time for gun and counterfeiting convictions in a case deeply colored by allegations of terrorism. But in November, days befo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
MSNBC Upset and Astonished at Ron Paul's Success
10-3-2007
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LewRockwell
Watch Nora O'Donnell, a FOX-style Bushite. She's upset and astonished at Ron's fundraising prowess, which has only begun. Newsweek's Jonathan Alter is funereal. "This is how they will sound when they announce Ron's victory in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Four Myths Government and Media Use to Scare Us About 'Dictators'
10-3-2007
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Alternet
The Bush White House calls Iran's President Ahmadinejad a "dictator" when he isn't -- part of scaring the public into thinking preemptive war is a good thing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
White House Secrecy On Wiretaps Described
10-3-2007
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Washington Post
No more than four Justice Department officials had access to details of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program when the department deemed portions of it illegal, following a pattern of poor consultation that helped create a **
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The People vs. the Profiteers
10-3-2007
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Vanity Fair
Americans working in Iraq for Halliburton spin-off KBR have been outraged by the massive fraud they saw there. Dozens are suing the giant military contractor, on the taxpayers' behalf. Whose side is the Justice Department on?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Judge rules: Bush can’t hide Presidential records indefinitely
10-3-2007
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Crooks & Liars
The ruling was made in a lawsuit filed by the American Historical Association and other organizations, which argued that Bush’s Executive Order 13,233 was an “impermissible exercise of the executive power.” A bill that would overturn the order is pen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Losing the War on Terror
10-3-2007
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UNTE
The Bush administration has adopted a particular approach to fighting terrorism, something it calls the "preventive paradigm." This paradigm seeks to employ the most coercive measures that a state has against people, not because of what the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
UK-All phone calls and text messages to be logged
10-3-2007
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BBC News
Information about all landline and mobile phone calls made in the UK must be logged and stored for a year under new laws.
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News Link • Immigration
U.S. sailor: Don't deport my wife
10-3-2007
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CNN
Eduardo Gonzalez, a petty officer second class with the US Navy, is about to be deployed overseas for a 3rd time. Making his deployment even tougher is the fact his wife and young son may not be around when he comes back. He also doesn't know wha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Timeline shows how dad, not police, found son's body
10-3-2007
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CNN
Moore said he pleaded without success for officers to search for his missing friends. In the morning light hours later, Smith's father Arthur Smith, would cry out in agony, finding his son's body tangled across a fallen tree and Green's c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Lawmaker shows naked woman during school lecture
10-3-2007
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AP
A state legislator surprised a high school class when the computer he was using projected a photo of a nude woman during a lecture on how a bill becomes a law.
State Rep. Matthew Barrett was giving a civics lesson when he inserted a data memory s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Canada Refuses Entry to CODEPINK Cofounder and Retired Colonel Ann Wright
10-3-2007
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After Downing Street
The two women were headed to Toronto to discuss peace and security issues at the invitation of the Toronto Stop the War Coalition.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Baltimore mayor implements gun-offender registry
10-03-2007
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examiner.com
The gun-offender registry is similar to a program that has already been operating in New York. Offenders who do not register could face up to a year in jail and a fine up to $1,000.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Can AIPAC have it both ways?
10-3-2007
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Muchraker Report
October 4, 2007 " Frequently found in American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) press statements is the following abstract. Consistently ranked as the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, AIPAC is an American
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Ed Haas
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News Link • Homeland Security
Phoenix-Questions arise over terror drill
10-3-2007
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IHT
The United States is preparing for its biggest anti terrorism exercise ever next week, a scenario testing the impact if three fictional" dirty bombs" were to go off and cripple transportation arteries in two major U.S. cities.
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News Link • Economy - International
Qatar cuts dollar exposure
10-3-2007
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Ameinfo
Qatar's $50 billion sovereign wealth fund has trimmed its exposure to the dollar.
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Feature Article • Identity Theft
It’s a Worldwide ‘Loose Happening’
Barbara Peterson
Are multi-national companies playing fast and loose with our personal information? From personal experience, I would say yes! With all of the warnings we get regarding identity theft, why are large multi-national corporations treating their customers
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul scores $5.1 million in 3rd Quarter for White House race
10-3-2007
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Reuters
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, an anti-war libertarian who has clashed with his rivals over Iraq, raised more than $5 million for his White House bid in the last three months. [Thomas was first to report this, but this is nice too.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Entrepreneurs rally for a new space age
10-03-2007
It was no accident that aircraft designer Burt Rutan chose to make history on the anniversary of Sputnik.
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News Link • Eugenics
Paul Raises Jaw-Dropping $5 Million
10/03/07
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abcnews.com/
Today's fundraising announcement by Rep. Ron Paul, the Republican Libertarian ob-gyn from Texas, doesn't involve quite as much money, but is downright jaw-dropping. His campaign is revealing today that in the 3rd quarter Paul raised $5,080,00
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Drowning in Debt: How do we protect ourselves?
10-3-2007
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MISH: Global Economic Analysis
The best way to not drown in debt is to live well within your means. The #1 rule is don't buy stuff you cannot afford. Think twice about that SUV. Have a Years' Worth of Living Expenses in Cash to protect against loss of a job. Cash is not tr
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Paul Jacob arrested in Oklahoma
10-03-2007
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Free Paul Jacob
What Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is trying to do to me is wrong. In America, we cherish the right to engage in politics, to speak our minds, to promote our candidate, to work to pass a voter initiative, without fear of reprisal
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Military
Russia steps up bomber exercises near Alaska and Canada
10-03-2007
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International Herald Tribune
Russian warplane exercises around Alaska have become routine in the past few months, US military officials said Monday, as the former Cold War superpower steps up flights from its Arctic bases. Over the summer, Russian bombers have staged
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Iran
Australia pulls support for US military action on Iran
10-03-2007
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Orstrahyun Blog
Australian troops and special forces will not join the US in proposed military action on Iran, according to foreign minister Alexander Downer. Of course, this is Downer speaking. Australian special forces may already be operating inside Iran
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Israel
New revelations in attack on American spy ship
10-03-2007
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Chicago Tribune
Bryce Lockwood, Marine staff sergeant, Russian-language expert, recipient of the Silver Star for heroism, ordained Baptist minister, is shouting into the phone. "I'm angry? I'm seething with anger! Forty years, and I'm seething wi
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul betting odds could be impacted by new voting rules
10-03-2007
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Gambling 911
Voting Rules Changed at Last Minute Will Shut out Votes for 2008 US Presidential candidate Ron Paul, according to Gambling911.com Special Contributor Jennifer Reynolds. Ms. Reynolds regularly reports on the Ron Paul campaign
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
UN says Afghan violence up 30 percent
10-03-2007
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AP
Violence in Afghanistan has surged this year with suicide bombings inflicting an especially high toll on civilians, a new UN report says. The report said Afghanistan is averaging 550 violent incidents a month, up from an average of 425 last year.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
Records on North Korean ship docked in Syria were altered
10-03-2007
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Haaretz
Online databases tracking a ship reportedly flying a North Korean flag that docked in Syria have changed their records following a report in The Washington Post linking the alleged Israeli air strike in Syria to a North Korean shipment.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Israel
Israel lifts veil of secrecy over air strike in Syria
10-03-2007
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Jerusalem Post
Israel decided Tuesday to lift the strict veil of secrecy over an air strike in Syria last month. The censor announced that it was allowing the Israeli media to report on the raid without attributing such reports to foreign sources. The censor did
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Military
US units arrive in Iraq barely ready
10-03-2007
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Defense News
US ground units deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan are arriving ready to fight -- but just barely, according to the nominee to head the command that oversees the training of those forces. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. James Mattis told the Senate Armed Servi
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
House passes bill on pullout
10-03-2007
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Washington Post
The House, with overwhelming, bipartisan support, voted yesterday to give the Bush administration two months to present to Congress its planning for the withdrawal of combat forces in Iraq. The 377 to 46 vote was the first salvo of a new legislative
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
South Korean leader turns down invite for extending summit
10-03-2007
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Times Online
President Roh Moo Hyun of South Korea has turned down an unexpected offer from Kim Jong II to extend their historic North-South summit by a further 48 hours, it emerged today. (Wonder if the US has something to do with this)
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Meet the New IMF, Same as the Old IMF
10-03-2007
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Another Day in the Empire
Leave it to a socialist to provide the International Monetary Fund with its new agenda, basically the same old agenda. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former finance and economics minister in French politician Lionel Jospin's "Plural Left" g
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Housing
Housing data show continued weakness
10-03-2007
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By ALAN ZIBEL - Associated Press
"The housing bubble has burst," said Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital in Darien, Conn. "Prices are going to collapse, and sales are going to fall through the floor."
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Ernest Hancock
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