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Date Sent: 2008-02-01
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, February 1, 2008 |
Montel Williams loses job over war -- 9/11 Commission Executive Staff regularly consulted Rove
United States' Plan to 'Dominate Space' Could Backfire -- The Revolution: A Manifesto - By Ron Paul -- Hearing to be secret in KBR Iraq case -- Vermont Wants Their Guard Troops Back -- Iraq: The forever treaty -- Pioneering Blackwater Protesters Given Secret Trial and Criminal Conviction -- British military experimental victims awarded £3 million -- Cable Break Causes Wide Internet Outage -- FBI: Students' 'bombs' were fireworks -- The Ron Paul Economy -- E. coli bacteria: A Future Source of Energy? -- Teachers ordered to 'police children's lunchboxes' -- Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million -- MISH: Jobless Claims Spike, Spending Slows, More Rate Cuts Coming -- Comptroller of Currency: Concern over Commercial Real Estate Loans by Banks -- Journalists, bloggers are threats -- Military Not Ready For Attack on U.S. -- Tuccille: Attacked by a cop on a dark road -- Home Equity Lines of Credit suspended by Countrywide Mortgage
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News Link • Eugenics
Giuliani Quits -- Thank You Dr. Paul!
1-31-2008
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Nolan Chart
What really happened to Giuliani was Ron Paul. The beginning of the end for Giuliani was his arrogant smack-down of Ron Paul in the first debate, twisting Paul's words into "We deserved 9/11." Despite mob-like cheering from the neo-co
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News Link • Military
United States' Plan to 'Dominate Space' Could Backfire
1-31-2008
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Wired
Mike Moore, author of "Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance", wrote the different approaches to China and the weaponization of space. The policy of space dominance being pushed among space warriors could actually destabilize spac
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Hearing to be secret in KBR Iraq case
1-31-2008
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Houston Chronicle
In an unusual closed session, a federal appeals court will hear arguments today in three cases alleging KBR knowingly sent civilian contractors along a dangerous route in Iraq, where they suffered a deadly attack.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Vermont Wants Their Guard Troops Back
1-31-2008
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Antiwar blog
The authority to call up Guard members for Iraq duty has expired because that country no longer poses a threat to U.S. national security. "The mission authorized in 2002 does not exist," said Fisher, "The Vermont Guard should revert ba
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Justin Raimondo Live-blogs the GOP Debate
1-31-2008
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Taki magazine
[The only way to "watch."] Are Americans better off now than they were 8 years ago? Mad John McCain rambles on and on"starting off by saying, “yes, we are better off”"and then going into a litany of our economic woes. Alzheimer’s up close a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq: The forever treaty
1-31-2008
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Seatlle Post Intelligencer
With the clock ticking on our "commitments" in Iraq -- the international mandate expires in less than a year -- the Bush administration is left in an interesting position. It could create a plan for a troop withdrawal; instead, the plan bei
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Pioneering Blackwater Protesters Given Secret Trial and Criminal Conviction
1-31-2008
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Alternet
Superior Court Judge Russell Duke presided over the final step in securing the first criminal conviction stemming from the deadly actions of Blackwater, the Bush administration's favorite mercenary company. Lest you think you missed some earth-sh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
British military experimental victims awarded £3 million
1-31-2008
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BBC
Many of those given nerve agents in the trials at the Wiltshire complex have complained of life-long ill health. The servicemen were often told they were helping to find a cure for the common cold.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Cable Break Causes Wide Internet Outage
1-31-2008
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AP
At least for a while, the World Wide Web wasn't so worldwide.
Two cables that carry Internet traffic deep under the Mediterranean Sea snapped, disrupting service Thursday across a swath of Asia and the Middle East.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
FBI: Students' 'bombs' were fireworks
1-31-2008
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AP
[guilt by Arab] Two Egyptian college students arrested near a South Carolina Navy weapons station last year were carrying low-grade fireworks, as they claimed, not the dangerous explosives as charged by federal prosecutors, the FBI has determined.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Ron Paul Economy
1-31-2008
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The Nation
The little man who wasn't there at the Republican TV debates is Ron Paul, the short-of-stature libertarian physician and Congressman. The debate moderators, who are threatening to become the ruin of electoral politics in the United States, almost
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Bill Clinton has angry response for 9/11 heckler
1-31-2008
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RawStory (video)
"9/11 was not an inside job, it was an Osama Bin Laden job," President Clinton proclaimed. "We look like idiots, folks, denying that the people who murdered our fellow citizens didn't ....," he added. "So we heard from yo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Montel Williams loses job over anti-war sentiment
1-31-2008
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Daily Kos
[Dixiechicked] For just over three minutes TV talk show host Montel Williams owned the hosts of Fox and Friends. A former Marine and Naval officer, Montel lectured the stunned hosts on the stupidity of spending air time on the death of Heath Ledger,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
9/11 Commission Executive Staff regularly consulted Rove during investigation
1-31-2008
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RawStory
Philip Zelikow, a former colleague of then-National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, was appointed executive director of the 9/11 Commission despite his close ties to the Bush White House, and he remained in regular contact with Rove while overseein
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
John McCain's Double Talk Tango
01-31-2008
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Mondoreb
Next stop for the "Straight Talk Express": The Waffle House. The many positions of Senator McCain in words, video and pictures.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Energy
E. Coli Bacteria: A Future Source of Energy?
1-31-08
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ScienceDaily.com
Thomas Wood, a professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, has "tweaked" a strain of E. coli so that it produces substantial amounts of hydrogen.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Teachers ordered to 'police children's lunchboxes'
1-31-2008
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Daily Mail
School lunchboxes could soon be monitored to ensure children are eating healthy meals. Under the Government's obesity strategy, all schools will be expected to design a "healthy lunchbox policy" on what makes a nutritional packed lunch
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million under "gluttonous" PRO-IP Act
1-31-2008
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ArsTechnica
Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision. The issue is compilations, which now are treated as a single work. In the RIAA's perfect world, each co
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jobless Claims Spike, Spending Slows, More Rate Cuts Coming
1-31-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Bernanke now appears hell bent on matching Japan's ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) in a misguided attempt to prevent deflation, a deflation that I might add is badly needed.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
More Libertarian Food
by Brad Edmonds
1-31-2008
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Strike-the-Root
Entrepreneurs are capable of surprising things we can’t predict, but which will undoubtedly make our lives better. If environmentalists would let free enterprise and market competition work their magic, the environment would get better seemingly on
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Comptroller of Currency: Concern over Commercial Real Estate Loans by Banks
1-31-08
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Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
Mr. Dugan added. “Over a third of the nation’s community banks have commercial real estate concentrations exceeding 300 percent of their capital....
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News Link • Bush Administration
Methodist ministers against Bush library
1-31-08
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Rawstory.com
Some Methodist ministers are making a final yet improbable attempt to stop George W. Bush's presidential library, museum and public policy institute from being built at Southern Methodist University.
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News Link • Police State
Journalists, bloggers are threats in terror drill
1-31-08
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Rawstory.com
Imagined villains include hackers, bloggers and even reporters. After mock electronic attacks overwhelmed computers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an unspecified "major news network" airing....
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News Link • Military
Report: Military Not Ready For Attack on U.S.
1-31-08
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Rawstory.com
The commission's 400-page report concludes that the nation "does not have sufficient trained, ready forces available" to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear weapons incident, "an appalling gap that....
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News Link • Media: Television
Viewers turned off by Hollywood writers' strike 'may never switch TV on again
1/31/08
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entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/
American TV networks have lost almost a quarter of their audiences because of the Hollywood writers' strike, according to new figures, and executives fear that “orphaned” viewers may never return. The Nielsen ratings organisation found that US vi
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Attacked by a cop on a dark road
by J.D. Tuccille
1-31-2008
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Disloyal Opposition
On the night of July 29, 2007, a Senegalese-born American citizen living in Cottonwood, Arizona, was driving home from her job as a nurse's aide in an unlit, unpopulated route through the desert, she suddenly saw flashing lights in her rearview m
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Home Equity Lines of Credit suspended by Countrywide Mortgage
1-31-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
The lenders are starting to be concerned about the risk of homeowners drawing down HELOCs while at the same time their property value is declining, leaving no equity in the home.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
MESSENGER Probe detects huge "spider" crater on
Mercury
01-31-2008
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Reuters-By Will Dunham-
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A NASA probe that shot past Mercury this month detected a puzzling geological feature...
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Anthropology
Ruins of 7,000 yr.old city found in Egypt
01-29-2008
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AFP/Yahoo News
CAIRO (AFP) - A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt's Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday.
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