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Date Sent: 2008-03-06
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, March 6, 2008 |
Cyber-Rebels Defy Cuba 's Limits -- Bush plotted to overthrow democratically elected Hamas
Sovereign wealth funds -- Retiree couple needs $225K for medical -- Fed: US economy sputtering on several fronts -- Appeals Court Weighs Teen's Web Speech -- Seized laptop shows Chavez's rebel ties -- Threats up against federal judges, prosecutors -- Vegas clinic may have sickened thousands -- More FBI privacy violations confirmed -- Election Do-Over in Michigan and Florida? -- Border Agent Corruption is Rampant -- Bush May Fire CentCom Chief -- Government Blacklists 80 Tourism Websites -- The NAU is a Funny Joke to Arizona House -- Moses was high on drugs -- A Word From Ron Paul -- Vt. towns approve Bush-Cheney 'indictment' -- Dump ALL The Incumbents -- MSNBC hosts mock/ threatens 9/11 Truthers -- Project: Taking Back Our Airwaves -- Real ID Whistleblower Jailed! -- Bill Would Set Foreclosure Moratorium
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sovereign wealth funds not harmful: U.S. officials
3-5-2008
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Reuters
Some of America's biggest banks, including Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, have been forced to seek billions of dollars in fresh capital from foreign investors after suffering huge losses tied to risky subprime mortgages. Raised concerns that foreig
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gates no longer world's richest, or even second place
3-5-2008
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Reuters
Warren Buffett, the famed U.S. investor who heads Berkshire Hathaway Inc, replaced his friend and Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, Forbes magazine said. The magazine estimated Buffett's worth at $62 billion in it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Retiree couple needs $225K for medical
3-5-2008
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AP
A couple retiring this year will need about $225,000 in savings to cover medical costs in retirement, according to a study released by Fidelity Investments. And it is similar to other projections for health care costs in retirement _ daunting figures
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain wins Bush's White House embrace
3-5-2008
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AP
John McCain got a White House embrace from President Bush, along with the party perks that go with sewing up the Republican nomination. The endorsement reminding voters of the drawn-out Iraq war and the nation's economic woes under an unpopular G
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
More screening set for private planes
3-5-2008
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AP
The Homeland Security Department will soon require advance information on private flights to the United States to prevent a terrorist from smuggling a nuclear bomb into the country.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US economy sputtering on several fronts: Beige Book
3-5-2008
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AFP
The US economy is struggling on several fronts, with housing, manufacturing and retail activity losing steam, the Federal Reserve said. It also cited "upward pressure on prices from rising materials and energy prices," a sign of inflation t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Appeals Court Weighs Teen's Web Speech
3-5-2008
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AP
A teen who used vulgar slang in an Internet blog to complain about school administrators shouldn't have been punished by the school, her lawyer told a federal appeals court.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Seized laptop shows Chavez's rebel ties
3-5-2008
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AP
Files in a laptop computer seized from the wreckage of a Colombian rebel camp in Ecuador offer new insights into Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's desire to undermine Colombia's U.S.-allied government.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Republican McCain trails Clinton and Obama: poll
3-5-2008
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Reuters
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain trails Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in hypothetical matchups. Obama leads McCain by 12% -- 52% to 40%; Clinton leads McCain by 6% -- 50% to 44%, the poll found.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Threats up against federal judges, prosecutors
3-5-2008
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USA Today
Threats against federal judges and prosecutors are on pace to rise for the fifth consecutive year. In response, federal officials are expanding their surveillance efforts to include suspects who have threatened state and local authorities
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Cyber-Rebels in Cuba Defy State's Limits
03-03-2008
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The New York Times
A growing underground network of young people armed with computer memory sticks, digital cameras and clandestine Internet hookups has been mounting some challenges to the Cuban government in recent months, spreading news that the official state media
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • History
1888 photo depicts Helen Keller, teacher
3-5-2008
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AP
Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod. The photograph shows an 8-year-old Helen sitting outside holding Sullivan's hand and cradling on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Vegas clinic may have sickened tens of thousands
3-5-2008
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AP
Nearly 40,000 people learned a trip to the doctor may have made them sick. In a scandal associated with Third World countries, a Las Vegas clinic was reusing syringes for 4 years. Led an outbreak of fatal hepatitis C virus and HIV exposure
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
More FBI privacy violations confirmed
3-5-2008
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AP
The FBI acknowledged it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations "aimed at tracking terrorists and spies."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Do-Over in Michigan and Florida?
3-5-2008
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AP
Officials in Michigan and Florida are showing interest in holding repeat presidential nominating contests so that their votes will count in the epic Democratic campaign. The governors of both states, along with Clinton's campaign, are now saying
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Border Agent Corruption is Rampant
03-05-2008
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Miami Herald
Bribery. Drug trafficking. Migrant smuggling. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is supposed to stop these types of crimes. But instead, so many of its officers have been charged with committing those crimes that their boss in Washington recently iss
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush May Fire CentCom Chief Adm. Fallon, Replace With Commander More 'Pliable' To War With I
3-5-08
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ThinkProgress.org
If that were to happen, it may well mean that the president and vice-president intend to take military action against Iran before the end of this year and don’t want a commander standing in their way.
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. Government Blacklists 80 Tourism Websites
3-5-2008
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DNN (kudos Tyger)
An English travel agent had 80 websites blacklisted by the United States government. The Treasury Department ordered [the ISP] eNom to disable Marshall’s tourism sites because they helped Americans evade travel restrictions to Cuba.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • North American Union
HCM2003 is Funny Joke to Arizona House
03/05/2008
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Arizona CHANGE
A bizarre exchange before the AZ House on Tuesday seemed a victory against the NAU, but left puzzled looks on the faces of onlookers who had been hoping for substantive debate.
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Israeli researcher: Moses was high on drugs when he saw burning bush, spoke to God
3-05-2008
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AFP
High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Eugenics
A Word From Ron Paul
3-5-2008
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Forbes
We asked each campaign to submit 500 to 1,000 words on the issues they believe are the most important ones facing the nation at this moment in time. Here is what Ron Paul had to say.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
A Goliath Sniper Rifle May Take Some of the Physics Out of War
3-5-2008
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Wired
I'm lying flat on a cactus-spiked ridge above the desert north of Phoenix, clutching a Barrett M107 long range sniper rifle. It's a semiautomatic cannon that spits Macanudo-sized .50-caliber rounds at 2,850 feet per second with enough force t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Vt. towns approve Bush-Cheney 'indictment'
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution.
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Bush plotted to overthrow the democratically elected Hamas government
3-5-2008
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al Jazeera
The US plotted to overthrow the democratically elected Hamas government in the Palestinian territories, documents obtained by Al Jazeera reveal. One of the documents appears to show that Washington tried to persuade Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian pre
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Conspiracies
MSNBC hosts mock Sep. 11 conspiracy theorists; "I hope we have a special prison for them"
3-5-08
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Rawstory.com
"The man led away in handcuffs," Geist wrapped, "and hopefully taken to one of those secret prisons in eastern Europe, never to be heard from again. We can only hope."
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News Link • Communications
Taking Back the Airwaves
03-05-2008
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Restore the Republic
Getting Truth out to the People
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Jim Palmisano
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News Link • Corruption
Real ID Whistleblower Jailed!
03-05-2008
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Stop Real ID Coalition
The mere utterance of opposition to the whims and whimpers of those in self supposed authority is punished, viewed as a form of terrorism. The mistreatment of activists who challenge legislation is something we must challenge immediately
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Jim Palmisano
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News Link • Police State
Utah "Fine - Tunes" Liquor Laws
03-03-2008
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The New York Times
Being the only state to regulate the amount of alcohol that goes into a standard shot, Utah is considering raising the alcohol limit to 1.5 ounces from 1 ounce while enacting a host of new liquor-related rules.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Drug War
U.N. condemns Britain's celebrity drug culture
03-03-2007
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The Times Online
The United Nations condemned what it saw as lax enforcement of Britain's drug laws due to the increased availability of cocaine. U.K. police are increasingly turning a blind eye to celebrity cocaine consumption.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Housing
Bill Would Set Forclosure Moratorium
03-03-2008
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The New York Times
With forclosure rates seen skyrocketing nationwide, politicians now support measures not seen since The Great Depression. President Bush, Hillary Clinton and the State of New York are proposing legislation enacting moratoriums on home forclosures.
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Mike Renzulli
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