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Date Sent: 2007-12-12
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
White House approved destroying waterboarding tapes -- Gang-Rape Cover-Up by US Halliburton/KBR
Freddie sees $5.5B-$7.5B more losses -- 'Westernised' women being killed in Basra -- McCain: Al-Qaeda could spark US economic crisis -- CIA recruiting 5 year olds -- White House mum on CIA burned video -- Iraqi policewomen told to surrender their weapons -- Gitmo ex-prosecutor: 'Full, fair, open' trials not possible -- Don't blame Whitman for 9/11 speech -- Attorneys Say Terror Suspect Tortured -- Huckabee wants to ‘take this nation back for Christ.’ -- REVENGE OF THE SPOOKS -- Children raped at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has videos -- Joe Horn: Shot Burglars in the Back -- MISH: Derivatives Trade Soars to Record $681 Trillion -- Municipal Bonds: Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic? -- Why tariffs hurt domestic industries -- Is former Rep. Curt Weldon mixed up with the Russian mob? -- Why I spent big bucks on Ron Paul -- Mortgage Implode - O - Meter now stands at 200
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Freddie sees $5.5B-$7.5B more losses
12-11-2007
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AP
The chief executive of Freddie Mac estimated the mortgage finance company will lose an additional $5.5 billion to $7.5 billion over the next few years as the housing crisis worsens and home-loan defaults rise.
The government-sponsored company has
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Ex-CIA official goes from the shadows to the spotlight
12-11-2007
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IHT
At a conference in Texas last summer, Silvestre Reyes, head of the House Intelligence Committee, heaped praise on Jose Rodriguez Jr., former head of the CIA's clandestine service.
From fast cars to fine wines, Reyes said, the appetites of Rodr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
'Westernised' women being killed in Basra
12-11-2007
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The Independent
Religious extremists have killed at least 40 women this year in Basra because of their "un-Islamic" dress, according to Iraqi police.
The police said women were being apprehended by men patrolling on motorbikes or in cars with tinted win
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Trade
Paulsen can't get Chinese to charge you more, so he threatens food safety
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Bloomberg
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson elevated the safety of imported goods to the top of his agenda in Beijing as he tries to convince Americans of the benefits of trade with China. He may also find the issue an easier sell to China than a stronger yuan,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mortgage Crisis Forces Big Cuts at WaMu
12-11-2007
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Washington Post
Washington Mutual Inc. has become the latest lender to resort to a massive stock sale to shore up its finances amid turmoil in the mortgage and credit markets. The nation's largest savings and loan also said it will close offices, lay off more th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Coming soon " spider socks (in packs of 8)
12-11-2007
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London Times
Researchers at Shinshu University have succeeded in injecting spider genes into silkworms to create a thread that is stronger, softer and more durable than conventional silk. A Japanese manufacturer is already experimenting with the thread, and spide
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain: Al-Qaeda could spark US economic crisis
12-11-2007
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AFP
Republican presidential candidate John McCain warned Monday that Al-Qaeda could trigger a major US economic crisis with just one successful attack on a Middle Eastern oil installation. [How to explain America's collapsed economy?]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
White House mum on CIA video case
12-11-2007
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AFP
When a reporter noted that the White House has similarly stonewalled questions about other potentially embarrassing issues, and suggested that such a policy was politically expedient, Ms Perino bristled.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraqi policewomen are told to surrender their weapons
12-11-2007
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LA Times
The Iraqi government has ordered all policewomen to hand in their guns for redistribution to men or face having their pay withheld, thwarting a U.S. initiative to bring women into the nation's police force.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Wyoming GOP begins choosing delegates
12-12-2007
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By MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press Writer
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The nation's presidential delegate selection process begins this week in Wyoming, where Republicans are choosing several people to attend county conventions next month where the national delegates will be chosen.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Gitmo ex-prosecutor: 'Full, fair, open' trials not possible
12-11-2007
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LA Times
I was the chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until the day I concluded that full, fair and open trials were not possible under the current system. I resigned because I felt that the system had become deeply politi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Don't blame Whitman for 9/11 speech
12-11-2007
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AP
Holding Christine Todd Whitman liable [for telling residents near the World Trade Center the air was safe to breathe] will set a dangerous precedent, leaving public officials to worry their words to reassure the public will open them up to personal l
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Attorneys Say Terror Suspect Tortured
12-11-2007
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AP
A suspected "high-value" terrorist taken to Guantanamo last year alleges he was tortured in overseas CIA prisons and is now suffering physical and psychological trauma as a result. Lawyers sought to preserve any evidence of torture, arguing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Waterboarding Recounted
12-11-2007
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Washington post
A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that "probably saved lives," but he now regards t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Destruction of C.I.A. Tapes Cleared by Lawyers
12-11-2007
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NY Times
Lawyers within the clandestine branch of the Central Intelligence Agency gave written approval in advance to the destruction in 2005 of hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting interrogations of two lieutenants from Al Qaeda, according to a former
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
White House tacitly approved destruction of CIA waterboarding tapes, former official says
12-11-2007
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Raw Story
Contrary to the official CIA line, the lawyer for a captured prisoner revealed video cameras in interrogation rooms and on the wall of the prison in 2003 -- a year after the CIA said interrogations had stopped, suggesting there may be yet more tapes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Huckabee wants to ‘take this nation back for Christ.’
12-12-2007
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ThinkProgress
I knew government didn’t have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives. […] I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
Government wants to steal Declaration of Independence
12-11-2007
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NY Times
Unbeknownst to Anna Plumstead, her attic in Wiscasset, Me., held a treasure: one of the earliest copies of the Declaration of Independence, delivered to her town in 1776 as part of a campaign to spread its message through the original 13 colonies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
REVENGE OF THE SPOOKS
12-11-2007
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Eric Margolis
"Merry Christmas, Mr. President’ hissed the men in cloaks as they plunged a dagger into George Bush’s back. America’s spooks finally had their revenge. After being forced by the White House in 2002-2003 to concoct a farrago of lies about Iraq, a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Voyager 2 finds solar system is uneven
12-11-2007
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AP
New observations from NASA's long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft show the solar system is asymmetrical, likely from disturbances in the interstellar magnetic field, scientists reported.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Archaeologists find 2,000 year old Roman glue in Germany
12-11-2007
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ANI
Archaeologists have reportedly found traces of a glue used by the Romans 2,000 years ago near the town of Xanten in Germany. This ancient glue was used to mount silver laurel leaves on legionnaires' battle helmets, made of iron.
Though the hel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Scientists Make Fruit Flies Gay, Then Straight Again
12-11-2007
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LiveScience
A new study finds that both drugs and genetic manipulation can turn the homosexual behavior of fruit flies on and off within a matter of hours.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Skeptical Scientists Urge World To ‘Have the Courage to Do Nothing' At UN Conference
12-11-2007
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US Senate
An international team of scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, descended on Bali this week to urge the world to "have the courage to do nothing" in response to UN demands.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Hersh: children raped at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has videos
12-12-2007
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BoingBoing
...children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out.'
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Anthropology
Rapid acceleration in human evolution described
12-11-2007
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Reuters
Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Self-Righting Object
12-11-2007
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NY Times
The Gomboc is a roundish piece of clear synthetic material with gently peaked, organic curves. It looks like a piece of modern art. But if you tip it over, something unusual happens: it rights itself.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Joe Horn: Shot Burglars in the Back
12-11-2007
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Ginn
Is Joe Horn a Good Neighbor or Cold-blooded Killer? News that the burglars "moved toward him"--and that Horn shot them in the back. And that a police detective was present when it all happened.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Technology: Software
Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy
12-11-2007
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New York Times
Will privacy sell? Ask.com is betting it will. The fourth-largest search engine company will begin a service today called AskEraser, which allows users to make their searches more private.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Meter maid does undercover cop. Undercover cop does meter maid.
12-11-2007
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The Newspaper
A stubborn meter maid in Bayonne, New Jersey was arrested Friday after her insistence on issuing a parking ticket allegedly interfered with a police sting operation (not quite sure who to root for here:)
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • WAR: About that War
McCain is waaaay off on this one...
12-11-2007
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youtube/infowars
"There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today," said McCain...
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Queue Jackson
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News Link • Future Predictions
Nostradamus Code: World War III Prophesies Revealed?
12-11-2007
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Ginn
Will WWIII start next year and feature nuclear weapons? A new book about previously unknown Nostradamus manuscripts says "yes". They reveal prophesies which foretell a conflict between the US and Iran,
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Randy Ricochet
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Opinion • Immigration
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Mutterings About What's Left of Our Nation
12-22--2007
Frosty Wooldridge
Ever hear the complaints of people around a coffee shop? They usually address what's happening in our society at large. Here are a few that we face in the United States in the first decade of the 21st century. If you could go back in time, you
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
12-11-2007
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ABC News
A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. [Your future America.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Derivatives Trade Soars to Record $681 Trillion
12-11-07
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Several hedge funds are going to get carted out on a stretcher all at once and cause a cascade of defaults. When the event comes, those hedges will prove to be worthless.
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News Link • Constitution
The President-Tyrant
12-11-07
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AfterDowningStreet.org
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic?
12-11-07
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WallstreetExaminer
MBIA insures just over $1,000bn of municipal and structured finance bonds. However, it only had the ability to pay $14.2bn of claims as of September 30.”
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News Link • Eugenics
Hillary Clinton: Too Crass for Cash?
12-11-2007
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Ginn
The selling of the Lincoln Bedroom. Is Hillary too crass for the cash?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Yes, Antiwar Movement, there's a Santa Claus
12-11-2007
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Lew Rockwell(Donna Voltile)
You may not like the gift wrapping but the contents are what you wrote on your wish list. End the War, Bring the Troops Home Now, No War For Oil, or for Israel, Do Not Attack Iran, Restore The Constitution and The Rule of Law, No to the Patriot
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Kill the Messenger
12-11-2007
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Google Video
A 52 minute documentary about Sibel Edmonds, the State Secret BS, and how government protects itself.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Free Trade
Why tariffs hurt domestic industries
12-11-2007
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Le Quebecois Libre
In reality, so-called "protective tarrifs protects no one. They actually harm the domestic industries that they are intended to help. Indeed, in the long run, everybody loses when the free market is restricted and when individuals and companie
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Corruption
Is former Rep. Curt Weldon mixed up with the Russian mob?
12-11-2007
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Harpers Magazine(Ken Silverstein)
As my colleague Scott Horton noted yesterday, former Congressman Curt Weldon appears to be in a heap of trouble. Yesterday, the Washington Post has reported, his ex-chief of staff, Russ Caso, copped a plea on charges that he allegedly helped
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Torture
Coming in From the Cold
12-11-2007
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ABC News
A leader of the CIA team that captured the first major al Qaada figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to WATERBOARDING WAS TORTURE BUT NECESSARY. In the first public comment by any CIA officer in handling high-value al Qaeda targets
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
From a Big Ron Paul Supporter
12/11/07
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redstateeclectic.typepad.com
I recently spent a significant sum of money running a full-page advertisement in USA Today supporting the candidacy of Ron Paul for President of the United States. Several people have asked me why I did it, so I have decided to explain my reasoning.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mortgage Implode - O - Meter now stands at 200
12-11-07
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MortgageImplode.com
Since late 2006, 200 major U.S. lending operations have "imploded."
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