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Date Sent: 2007-11-17
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, November 17, 2007 |
House votes to end CIA rendition program -- Officers Oppose Cheney
Police gun down man in a coma -- Victim gets 200 lashes for getting gang raped -- Lindsay Lohan spends 84 minutes in jail for cocaine/ conviction -- Election fixes stir worries on ballot security -- The liberal 9th Circuit rubber-stamps Bush's illegal wiretap program -- Arizona Begins Statewide Speed Camera Push -- Georgia Police Turns Sonic Blaster on Demonstrators (VIDEO) -- MISH: Goldman Sees "Substantial Recession" Risk -- Homeland Security Links 9/11 Truthers to Taliban -- Barry Goldwater, Jr. endorses Ron Paul /-- MISH: Paulson, Bernanke, Bush vs. Mervyn King -- Ron Paul Silver coins seized by US Gov't still available on Ebay,...
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police gun down man in a coma
11-16-2007
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BBC News
A man who had gone into a diabetic coma on a bus in Leeds was shot twice with a Taser gun by police who feared he may have been a security threat. The incident happened just a week before the fatal shooting of Brazilian man
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Victim gets 200 lashes for getting gang raped
11-16-2007
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News24 (Saudi Arabia)
A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail. The 19-year-old woman - whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms - was initially ordered to
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
House votes to end CIA rendition program
11-16-2007
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ACLU
A little noticed prohibition in the Democrats' $50 billion Iraq funding bill that passed the House Wednesday would effectively end CIA renditions, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Sane Officers Oppose Cheney
11-16-2007
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Truthdig
The Pentagon has launched a preventive strike against a target that military chiefs presumably regard as one of the most active current threats to U.S. and world securityâ€"namely, the office of the vice president of the United States. Thrusting back h
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Lindsay Lohan spends 84 minutes in jail for cocaine conviction
11-16-2007
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Reuters
Actress Lindsay Lohan checked in and out of jail on Thursday, spending just 84 minutes behind bars for a drunken driving and cocaine-possession conviction, Los Angeles police said. [And yet if you are poor, unconnected and black ....]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Election fixes stir worries on ballot security
11-16-2007
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Houston Chronicle
German is the county's respected administrator of elections, and there were witnesses present as he corrected the vote totals on a sales tax referendum for a fire/ambulance district in the Cypress-Fairbanks area of northwest Harris County.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
9th Circuit rubber-stamps Bush's illegal wiretap program
11-16-2007
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L.A. Times
A federal appeals court in San Francisco handed a major victory to the Bush administration, ruling that a lawsuit challenging the government's warrantless wiretapping program could not go forward because of the "state secrets" privilege
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Arizona Begins Statewide Speed Camera Push
11-16-2007
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The Newspaper
Opening of statewide photo radar program in Arizona highlights how easily media are deceived.
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Police State
Georgia Police Turns Sonic Blaster on Demonstrators (VIDEO)
11-16-2007
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Wired
The Saakashvili regime in Georgia is using sound weapons against opposition protestors. This English-language footage from Russia Today shows riot police rolling through the streets of Tblisi in pickup trucks, small dishes in hand. A high frequency
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Goldman Sees "Substantial Recession" Risk
11-16-2007
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Mish Shedlock
Goldman Sachs sees a $2 trillion cut in bank lending that could trigger a "Substantial Recession". The Fed's Kroszner says growth will return. If anything, Goldman has understated what will happen because risk aversion feeds on itself.
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Reported by:
Mike Shedlock
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Feature Article • Eugenics
Barry Goldwater, Jr. endorses Ron Paul
Ernest Hancock
"America is at a crossroads," said Mr. Goldwater. "We have begun to stray from our traditions and must get back to what has made us the greatest nation on earth or we will lose much of the freedom we hold dear."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paulson, Bernanke, Bush vs. Mervyn King
11-16-2007
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Mish Shedlock
Bernanke, Paulson and Bush are all being disingenuous when it comes to transparency, inflation and the Dollar. The "Strong Dollar Policy" consists of nothing more than trying to talk it up. The odds of recession are way understated. This is
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Reported by:
Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Untouched on a shelf for 113 years: a dusty bone of the dinosaur no one knew existed
11-16-2007
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www.guardian.co.uk
Spinal fossil of sauropod found in museum vault
· Species believed to have lived 140m years ago
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Reported by:
Geoffrey Hayes
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