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Date Sent: 2007-12-13
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, December 13, 2007 |
Central banks join forces to ease credit crisis
95% of all e-mail sent in 2007 was spam -- Thompson: ‘I Don’t Care’ What The Intelligence On Iran Says -- Pelosi buys $16K worth of flowers on your dime -- Tempe Wi-Fi Network Goes up for Sale -- CIA destroyed tapes despite court order -- Have Bilderberg Kingmakers Selected Perry for Giuliani Running Mate? -- Alberto Gonzales is American Bar Association's "Man of the Year" -- Trying to stop Arizona's Internal Passport Program -- New Zealand Hunting Down the Country's Firearms -- Blitz: The Bill of Government Restrictions -- Great beasts peppered from space -- Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert -- Spy Court Won't Release Wiretap Documents
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News Link • Internet
95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 was spam
12-12-2007
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CNET
There was a time--2004 to be precise--when spam "only" consumed 70 percent of all e-mail. Those were the good old days. Today, as Barracuda Networks' annual spam report shows, upwards of 95 percent of all e-mail is spam. In 2001, the nu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Guantanamo Legal Adviser Refuses To Say Iranians Waterboarding Americans Would Be Torture
12-12-2007
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Think Progress
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “The Legal Rights of Guantanamo Detainees” this morning, Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, the legal adviser at Guantanamo Bay, repeatedly refused to call the hypothetical waterboarding of an America
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Thompson: ‘I Don’t Care’ What The Intelligence On Iran Says, The NIE Is ‘Foolishness’
12-12-2007
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Think Progress
Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) said he doesn’t care what the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran says. Iran is “undoubtedly intent upon nuclear weapons,” Thompson said, explaining, “I don’t care what this latest NIE says.” The former actor t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Pelosi buys $16K worth of flowers
12-12-2007
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The Hill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent $16,000 [of the taxpayers money] on flowers since taking office, one reason why she spent 63 percent more in her high-profile inaugural year than her low-key predecessor did last year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Tempe Wi-Fi Network Goes up for Sale
12-12-2007
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PC World
An early municipal Wi-Fi network in Tempe, Arizona, has only 500 subscribers, but it may have a buyer.
A mobile operator, Telscape, wants to buy the 40-square-mile network, which consists of about 1,000 access points in a mesh. With the proper mar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Central banks join forces to ease credit crisis
12-12-2007
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Reuters
[This is the last thing the Fed can do.] Central banks around the world banded together to stem a mounting credit crisis on Wednesday in their first coordinated action since terror attacks shut down U.S. financial markets on September 11, 2001.
Th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA destroyed tapes despite court order
12-12-2007
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AP
Federal courts had prohibited the Bush administration from discarding evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest interrogation tactics.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
World's Shortest Political Quiz...no, really
12-12-2007
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Marc Stevens
This is the world's shortest political quiz, only ONE question. See why you should stop wasting your time, money and energy with political elections.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Republican Presidential Debate: Dec. 12, 2007 (CNN)
12-12-2007
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Truth/Peace/Love & No Fear
Youtube video in 10 parts. No War, No immigration just economy, economy, economy with Ron Paul getting little 30 second soundbite time.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Marriage
Enlightening Conversation with a Marriage License Bureau...
12-12-2007
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Virgil Cooper
The marriage license is a Secular Contract between the parties and the State. The State is the principal party in that Secular Contract. The husband and wife are inferior parties.
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Queue Jackson
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News Link • Corruption
Have Bilderberg Kingmakers Selected Perry for Giuliani Running Mate?
12-12-2007
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Old Thinker News
Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to "...campaign on behalf of Giuliani wherever he is needed."
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Queue Jackson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Women have more backbone than men (My mother wouldn't be surprised)
12-12-2007
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Yahoo News
"The body must change in dramatic ways to accommodate the baby, and these changes affect a woman's stability and posture."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Bush Administration
Alberto Gonzales is American Bar Association's "Man of the Year"
12-11-2007
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AFP
"George W. Bush appeared to be grooming the man he affectionately calls 'Fredo' for the US Supreme Court," the magazine wrote. "But after Gonzales appeared veracity-challenged when testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committ
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Trying to stop Arizona's Internal Passport Program
12-11-2007
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East Valley Tribune
Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, the leading foe, said the deal Gov. Napolitano inked with the U.S. Homeland Security is a step toward totalitarianism. “This isn’t Nazi Germany, and I oppose requiring people to carry tracking devices in their pockets.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
New Zealand
Hunting Down the Country's Firearms
10-27-2007
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New Zealand Weekly Herald
New Zealand police are raiding cabins, homes, and hunting shelters in a search for illegal firearms.
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Chip Saunders
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Opinion • Bill of Rights
The Bill of Government Restrictions
12-12-2007
Howard Blitz
On December 15, 1791 the people of the United States, through state conventions, ratified the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. The original Constitution was only ratified with the guarantee that there would be further and spec
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New system identifies synthetic diamonds
12-12-2007
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The Jeruselem Post--By Sharon Wrobel--
The Israel Diamond Exchange this week said it will ...use hi-tech methods to fight off the infiltration of synthetic and treated stones...
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Great beasts peppered from space
12-11-2007
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BBC News--By Jonathan Amos--
Evidence suggests ice-age animals in North America were peppered by exploding space debris.
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Geoffrey Hayes
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Reference Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Seeing Red AZ
Rob Haney, Dist. 11 PC Chair
Our title, Seeing Red AZ, is derived first and foremost from Arizona’s unique scenic beauty. It also refers to our reactions to the sometimes unfathomable way we are dismissed by our elected officials. Stay with us for news, commentary and analysis.
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News Link • Police State
How Free Are We Really?
12-12-2007
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NewsWithViews.com
So how free are we really? The most relevant answer is that we're not as free as we were 20 years ago, not nearly as free as we were 50 years ago, and we'll be even less free 20 years hence.
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Queue Jackson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert
12-12-2007
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Telegraph
Morgan Stanley has issued a full recession alert for the US economy, warning of a sharp slowdown in business investment and a "perfect storm" for consumers as the housing slump spreads. In a report "Recession Coming" released tod
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
Brown 'plans to talk to Taliban'
12-12-2007
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Guardian
Talks with the Taliban and extra aid to stop the cultivation of opium poppies could form part of the prime minister's plans for redeveloping Afghanistan, it was reported today. Gordon Brown will set out Britain's military, political and econ
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Secret Societies
Spy Court Won't Release Wiretap Documents
12-12-2007
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AP
The nation's spy court said Tuesday that ti will not make public documents regarding the Bush adminstration's warrantless wiretapping program. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, in a rare public opinion, said the public has no righ
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