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Date Sent: 2007-11-09
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, November 9, 2007 |
Air Force Academy: The Christian Neocon Cancer -- Lauren Canario Freed -- Mukasey confirmed as AG
Bhutto arrested -- Will 'armloads' of US cash buy tribal loyalty? -- China's moon program seeks private funding -- Supreme Court ponders handgun ban -- U.S. to release 9 Iranians it seized in Iraq -- 1 in 7 Iraqis now displaced -- Dozens use fake IDs to work at Chicago airport -- Retailers report sluggish -- Ron Paul w/ Wolf Blitzer -- Chinese public pushes for aircraft carriers -- Judge postpones Canadian's Gitmo hearing -- Grand jury indicts Giuliani's ex-NYC top cop Kerik -- Congress Overrides Bush for Pork -- Police Seize Cars for Personal Profit -- The Growth Recession and Early Stages of a Housing Depression -- Scientists discover "fear switch" in mice -- 450,000 Subprime Mortgages per Quarter Face 1st Reset -- Insured CDOs May Have AAA Ratings Cut Four Levels -- Ron Paul, Validated and Vindicated -- Is Pakistan a Preview of Our Future -- AT&T whistleblower: I was forced to connect 'big brother machine -- U.S. Debt Tops $9 trillion for first time-Treasury -- M-3 Money Supply Hits 17% -- French President: "Monetary disarray could morph into economic war" -- Anti-Chavez Protesters Shot in Venezuela -- The Tyranny of the Minority
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News Link • Constitution
Air Force Academy: The Christian Neocon Cancer
11-8-2007
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TruthDig
"When Dobson’s Focus on the Family “campus” was completed, the academy skydiving team, with great ceremony, delivered the “keys from heaven” to Dobson. (PUBLISHER RECOMMENDED)
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush Calls Gen. Musharraf -- Benazir Bhutto Placed Under House Arrest
11-8-2007
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LA Times
Pakistani police backed by armored vehicles surrounded the Islamabad home of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Friday, and a security official said she had been placed under house arrest.
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News Link • Bush Administration
Will 'armloads' of US cash buy tribal loyalty?
11-8-2007
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Christiqan Science Monitor
Inside a stately guesthouse on the grounds of Saddam Hussein's palace in Tikrit on the banks of the Tigris, sheikh Sabah al-Hassani jokes that the initials "SH" of the former dictator etched on the walls are his.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
China's moon program seeks private funding
11-8-2007
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Reuters
China, the third country to put a man into space aboard its own rocket, will open part of the second stage of its moon mission projects to private funding. China's first lunar probe reached its working orbit and the country plans to put a man on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Supreme Court ponders whether to rule on DC's handgun ban
11-8-2007
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McClatchy News
The Supreme Court takes aim at gun control Friday, in a private conference that soon could explode publicly.
Behind closed doors, the high court's nine justices will consider taking a case that challenges the District of Columbia's stringe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. to release 9 Iranians it seized in Iraq
11-8-2007
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McClatchy News
The U.S. military soon will release nine Iranians it's holding in Iraq, including two held since January on suspicion that they'd funneled weapons and financial support to Iraqi Shiite Muslim militias.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
1 in 7 Iraqis now displaced
11-8-2007
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McClatchy News
The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction offered a generally optimistic picture of security developments in Iraq in his quarterly report, but noted that while violence was down, 1 in 7 Iraqis " 14% of Iraq's population " is now displ
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Dozens use fake IDs to work at Chicago airport
11-8-2007
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AP
More than a hundred people with fake identification were given employee security passes to Chicago's O'Hare airport, officials said. The airport raid, showed that rigid new security protocols implemented in the six years since the terrorist a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Retailers report sluggish October sales
11-8-2007
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AP
The outlook for the holiday shopping season grew bleaker as retailers announced disappointing October sales results due to consumers' worries about the housing slump and higher energy prices. The news came from all sectors, including mall-based a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul in The Situation Room w/ Wolf Blitzer 11-8-07
11/08/07
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http://www.youtube.com/
Wolf does his best to make Ron Paul look bad. Wolfie? Calm down, your masters are very happy with you, but you are losing credibility with most Americans. Ron Paul just raked in 4.2 m in 24 hours and all he can do is talk what he would do if he los
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • World News
As military balks, Chinese public pushes for aircraft carriers
11-8-2007
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McClatchy News
Public sentiment is running strongly in favor of launching a program to build aircraft carriers, and some military experts say construction may be inevitable. "Actually it has almost been decided that the Chinese navy will build carriers,"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Judge postpones Canadian's Gitmo hearing
11-8-2007
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AP
A U.S. government official's eyewitness account of a firefight that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan could derail the Bush administration's plans to put a former child soldier on military trial, defense attorneys said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Grand jury indicts Giuliani's ex-NYC top cop Kerik
11-8-2007
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AP
A federal grand jury has indicted Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, on various fraud charges, a person close to the investigation said. The charges include mail and wire fraud, tax fraud, ma
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Congress Overrides Bush for First Time on Massive Pork Laden Water Bill
11-8-2007
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Bloomberg
Congress handed President George W. Bush the first veto override of his presidency, voting to revive a $23 billion water-projects measure he rejected last week on grounds it was too expensive.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Mukasey confirmed as attorney general
11-8-2007
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AP
The Senate confirmed retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general Thursday night to replace Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from office in a scandal over his handling of the Justice Department.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Impeachment
VIDEO - KUCINICH: Takes House Floor, Moves for Cheney Impeachment (HISTORIC)
11/08/07
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www.youtube.com
Dennis Kucinich has the floor of the house and mops it with DICK cheneys face!
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Activism
Lauren Canario Freed from jail
11-09-2007
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Free Talk Live (mp3 recording)
The Free Talk Live crew interviews free-stater Lauren Canario shortly after her release from jail after 35+ days for refusing to show her papers during a traffic stop.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul: Money Bomb II
11-08-2007
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Mondoreb
Ron Paul Money Bomb II: Ron Paul just had a one day total of $4.2 million. This new video outlines the plans for the December version of the “The Money Bomb”. It is only one and a half minutes long and gives all the info needed to help set it off.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Corruption
Police Seize Cars for Personal Profit
11-08-2007
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The Newspaper
Federal investigators believe that high-ranking police officers in Corpus Christi, Texas may have abused their positions by improperly acquiring vehicles for personal use at police impound lot auctions.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Growth Recession and Early Stages of a Housing Depression
11-8-2007
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Market Oracle
Others think this estimate conservative, Dr. Robert Shiller of Yale University has calculated that home prices would have to decline by 50% to be at par with cost of rental housing.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Minyan Mailbag: Money Frozen In Yukon
11-8-2007
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MISH: Global Economic Analysis
Mortgage fraud in so pervasive that problems in US asset backed securities spread all the way to Whitehorse, Yukon.
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Eugenics
Is FOX News (and the Republican Party) planning to keep Ron Paul out of the Dec. 4 debates?
11-8-2007
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Iowa Politics
Fox News and the Republican Party of Iowa have set criteria that will not allow candidates to participate who are polling less than 5%. But which polls, run by whom, according to what standards? [He has been invited. Tancredo & Hunter are not.-Ed]
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists discover "fear switch" in mice - subjects fearlessly approach and interact with
11-8-2007
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Daily Mail
Japanese scientists have discovered how to shut down areas of mice brains which respond with fear to odors from natural enemies and dangers. Previous experiments have produced super-athletic mice. Will future applications in humans produce fearless a
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
450,000 Subprime Mortgages per Quarter Face 1st Reset
11-8-2007
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Ben Bernanke said, "On Average from now until the end of next year, nearly 450,000 subprime mortgages per quarter are scheduled to undergo their first interest rate reset."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Insured CDOs May Have AAA Ratings Cut Four Levels, Fitch Says
11-8-2007
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Bloomberg
The bond insurance industry has guaranteed more than $1 trillion of bonds issued by U.S. cities and states as well as CDOs backed by mortgages, credit cards and other assets.
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul, Validated and Vindicated
11/08/07
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http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/11/07/publiceye/
If you build it, they will come. If by ‘it’ you mean a campaign war chest, and by ‘they’ you mean the media. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the newly-validated Ron Paul, who set an all-time GOP mark for one-day campaign fundraising on Monday,
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Constitution
Is Pakistan a Preview of Our Future
11-8-2007
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der Spiegel
Instead of filling the prisons with extremists, he has crammed the cells full of lawyers and opposition activists -- those who have been making his life difficult in recent months.
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News Link • Police State
AT&T whistleblower: I was forced to connect 'big brother machine
11-8-2007
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Raw Story
"The entire data stream of those internet cables into the secret room -- and we're talking about phone conversations, email web browsing, everything that goes across the internet."
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News Link • Eugenics
Gold Standard Stories: A Tale of Two Rons
11-08-2007
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Mondoreb
David Wiegel's "Hit and Run" at Reason, has an interesting comment about two Ron's: Ron Paul and Ron Reagan. On the issue of the gold standard, the two Ron's shared much the same view.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Bush Administration
U.S. Debt Tops $9 trillion for first time-Treasury
11-8-2007
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Reuters
The increase in the debt limit is the fifth since Bush took office in January 2001. The U.S. debt stood at about $5.6 trillion at the start of his presidency.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
M-3 Money Supply Hits 17%
11-8-2007
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Now and Futures
The FED stopped publishing this chart on March 23, 2006. You will see why they wanted to keep this important information from you.
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News Link • Economy - International
Sarkozy: "Monetary disarray could morph into economic war"
11-8-2007
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Housing Doom
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has warned the United States Congress that the US risks triggering "economic war" if it attempts to devalue its way out of trouble by allowing a relentless slide in the dollar.
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News Link • Activism
Anti-Chavez Protesters Shot in Venezula
11-08-2007
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Mondoreb
People in Venezuela took to the streets to protest the Chavez government's steady march to turn the country into a private club for Chavez and cronies. They were shot by masked gunmen. Does anyone doubt who arranged this?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Police State
The Tyranny of the Minority
11-08-2007
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RidesAPaleHorse
We received a letter and the writer was angry. What upset the writer? The same thing that angers millions of Americans across the USA each and every day: an ever-increasing web of regulations, laws and edicts by--in many cases--unelected officials.
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