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Date Sent: 2007-11-05
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, November 5, 2007 |
Catastrophic Storm about to hit Wall Street -- Pakistan's Musharraf declares emergency rule
Clinton's bag man to squeal -- Rice fails to calm Turkish leaders -- Carey Defends Medical Marijuana -- Ozzy Osbourne Angered by ND Sheriff's Sting -- Why Citi Struggles to Tally Losses -- No email privacy rights under Constitution -- No evidence of Iranian nuclear weapons program -- Gadhafi's role in Darfur -- Scientists note brain's reaction to fear -- Iraq conference looks to tensions on Turkey border -- Former JAGs Petition Their Government For Redress -- The Drug-Court Judge's Wife -- Disagreement in Bush administration over Iranian nukes -- Italian Judge suspends CIA trail -- Fred Thompson's Criminal Adviser -- Blackwater: Spies for Hire -- US Army: 5 million acres needed -- Both the Clinton and Bush Administrations Began With an Assault on Religion -- MISH: Downward Spiral of Deep Junk -- al-Qaida #2 Man Calls For New Holy War -- Social Security Investigator shoots family dog -- Security Holes in Federal Driver Database -- Musharraf imposes emergency rule -- Big Sugar is Big Sugar Daddy -- A Bank of their own -- US Air Force struck Syrian nuclear site
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Catastrophic Level 3 Storm about to hit Wall Street (AN IMPORTANT READ - FP Publisher)
11-4-2007
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Asia Times
From November 15, we will have a new tool for figuring out how much toxic waste is in investment banks' balance sheets.
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News Link • Eugenics
Clinton's bag man to squeal ... after the primary
11-4-2007
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AP
Gaunt and glancing nervously at reporters, disgraced Democratic moneyman Norman Hsu appeared in a California court and agreed to spend another 10 weeks behind bars while his lawyers do "research." The surprise delay raised eyebrows because
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Rice fails to calm Turkish leaders over rebels' presence in Iraq
11-4-2007
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McClatchy News
Turkish officials indicated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had failed during two days of talks to persuade them not to send troops across the Iraqi border to attack Kurdish rebels based there. "All options are on the table. How, when and wh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Pakistan's Musharraf declares emergency rule
11-4-2007
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AFP
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency Saturday, sacking the nation's top judge and blaming judicial interference in government and a wave of Islamic militant attacks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Carey Defends Medical Marijuana Online
11-4-2007
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AP
Drew Carey won't tout toking up, but he defends the use of medical marijuana in a video on Reason.tv. "Smell that smell," the 49-year-old comedian says as he walks into a Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary. "That's the s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Ozzy Osbourne Angered by ND Sheriff's Sting
11-4-2007
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AP
Osbourne claims his reputation was tarnished when Sheriff Paul Laney invited 500 people with outstanding warrants to a nightclub before the rocker's concert with Rob Zombie at a nearby arena. More than 30 showed up and were arrested.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims
11-04-2007
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www.theregister.co.uk
At issue is whether the procedure whereby the government can subpoena stored copies of your email - similar to the way they could simply subpoena any physical mail sitting on your desk - is unconstitutionally broad.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Experts: No evidence of Iranian nuclear weapons program
11-4-2007
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McClatchy News
Despite President Bush's claims that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons that could trigger "World War III," experts in and out of government say there's no conclusive evidence that Tehran has an active nuclear-weapons program.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Gadhafi's role in Darfur talks sets back new image as statesman
11-4-2007
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McClatchy News
He's been crossed off the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, has won a temporary seat on the U.N. Security Council and is slowly opening his oil-rich economy to an eager West. But longtime Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi showed his evolut
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists note brain's reaction to fear
11-4-2007
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AP
Science is getting a grip on people's fears. As Americans revel in all things scary, scientists say they now know better what's going on inside our brains when a spook jumps out and scares us. Knowing how fear rules the brain should lead to t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq conference looks to tensions on Turkey border
11-4-2007
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Reuters
Turkey stepped up pressure on the United States to help curb attacks by Kurdish rebels from northern Iraq as a conference on Saturday of Iraq's neighbors and major powers sought to lower cross-border tensions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Former JAGs Petition Their Government For Redress
11-04-2007
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Bloody Mary Breakfast
34% of Americans think that elected officials care about the opinions of people like them. Four of them are former Judge Advocate Generals of the Navy, Army, and Marine Corps.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Vs. Solidad O'Brien on Anderson Cooper 360: Was He Treated Fairly?
11-04-2007
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Mondoreb & Ginn
Ron Paul. Was he treated fairly in this interview? Love him or hate him, you have to admit that the guy often isn't treated objectively by the media.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
Why Left and Right Must Unite
11-04-2007
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Patrick Wood
The globalizers know that in order to keep our eyes off of them, they need to keep us fighting among ourselves over issues more petty than merely saving our nation from total extinction.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Police State
UK: Police retain DNA of 'petty crime suspects'
11-4-2007
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Daily Telegraph
A report by police chiefs lists more than 5,000 offenses that qualify for lifelong inclusion on the database. Anyone arrested for any of the crimes will have his or her DNA taken and stored.
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News Link • Drug War
The Drug-Court Judge's Wife
11-04-2007
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Yannone Blog
Who are these self-righteous politicians to tell someone what they can or cannot put in their own body? These are the same slimy, hypocritical politicians who used drugs when they were young, who tax and regulate us to death. How dare they presume to
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Bush Administration
Disagreement in Bush administration over Iranian nukes
11-04-2007
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Miami Herald
Despite President Bush's claims that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons that could trigger "World War III," experts in and out of government say there's no conclusive evidence that Tehran has an active nuclear-weapons program. Even h
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Italian Judge suspends CIA trail
11-04-2007
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Washington Post
An Italian judge on Wednesday extended the suspension of the abducation trial of 26 Americans charged in an alleged CIA operation until the country's highest court rules on a government challenge that could scuttle the case. The Constitutional C
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
Fred Thompson's Criminal Adviser: Sad Day for the Scandalmongers
11-04-2007
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Mondoreb & Ginn
Nearly 30 years ago someone sold some marijuana. The same person over the next several years gets into various scrapes involving drugs. In 2007, that person loans a buddy his jet to make some trips. If you're Fred Thompson, that means you're
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Katherine Harris' contributor fined $1 million
11-4-2007
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Miami Herald
A defense contractor was fined $1 million for picking up the tab for meals with former Rep. Katherine Harris
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Forty Four O Nine
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Blackwater's Owner Has Spies for Hire
11-4-2007
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Washington Post
Total Intelligence Solutions, has assembled a roster of former spooks -- high-ranking figures from agencies such as the CIA and defense intelligence -- that mirrors the slate of former military officials who run Blackwater.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Army: Five million acres needed for training facilities by 2011
11-4-2007
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RawStory
Five million acres is comparable to 7,812 square miles -- an area about the size of New Jersey.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Downward Spiral of Deep Junk
11-3-2007
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MISH: Globa Economic Analysis
Ambac and MBIA credit defaults swaps are trading into deep junk territory. In addition both stocks have plunged huge over the last couple months. The business model of both companies is to insure debt against default. Increasingly, the market is star
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops endanger public, assault innocent person, while pursuing stolen vehicle
1-03-2007
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Sun Sentinel
Deputies were trying to stop a silver Ford Mustang that had roared away from a traffic stop about 1:30 a.m., according to the agency. Instead, about a half-hour later, they nailed a silver Dodge Charger and a dark-blue Honda.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • TERRORISM
al-Qaida #2 Man Calls For New Holy War: Gadhafi, Abbas, US Among Targets
11-03-2007
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Mondoreb & Ginn
Moammar Gadhafi a jihad target? How soon they forget.
Gadhafi is one of the subjects of a video issued by al-Qaida #2 man, Ayman al-Zawahri. Gadhafi's Libya, which was on the US list of "terror-sponsoring states" for years, is now the
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Property Rights
Social Security Investigator shoots family dog
11-03-2007
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Maryland Gazette
The Pasadena man came home on his lunch break to let his 7 month-old pit bull, Hershey, outside. Within a few moments, the dog would be shot by a man identified as a Social Security investigator
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Homeland Security
Audit finds Security Holes in Federal Driver Database
11-03-2007
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The Newspaper
The $4 million registry maintains files on motorists across the country that contain names, dates of birth, sex, heights, weights, eye colors and the details of any tickets received. About one out of five drivers -- 42 million -- is listed in the dat
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul is choice among local GOP
11-4-2007
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News-Leader
"Ron Paul has won just about every straw poll in the country," said Steve Miller of Springfield, a supporter who wore a Paul T-shirt and carried a large Paul campaign sign with him all night.
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News Link • Police State
Musharraf imposes emergency rule
11-4-2007
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BBC News
Pakistan's President Pervez Muasharraf has declared emergency rule and suspended the country's constitution.
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Big Sugar is Big Sugar Daddy
11-3-2007
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Mondoreb
We hear about the evil of "Big Oil". But one industry has a much higher profit margin than Big Oil: Big Sugar. U.S. consumers pay much higher prices for sugar--and every food item that takes processed sugar--than they would have to if Big S
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - International
A Bank of their own
11-03-2007
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Alternet
"Developing nations must create their own mechanisms of finance instead of suffering under those of the IMF and the World Bank, which are institutions of rich nations ... it is time to wake up." That was Lula Da Silva, the president of Bra
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Air Force struck Syrian nuclear site
11-03-2007
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Jerusalem Post
The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a susp
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Jean Carbonneau
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