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Date Sent: 2008-06-06
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, June 6, 2008 |
Is Bush Gearing Up to Attack Iran? -- Alleged 9/11 mastermind asks court to become a martyr
Gates ousts Air Force leaders in historic shake-up -- Haditha Marine Not Guilty on All Counts -- U.S. attorney general revising FBI probe guidelines -- Bush exports police state to police state China -- The McCain speech McCain's people don't want you to see -- Bob Barr gets the Colbert Bump -- Prime Loans Going Delinquent at Record Rate -- Home Equity Falling at Record Pace -- Libertarian VP nominee Wayne Root on The Charles Goyette Show -- NUECES COUNTY GOP hands over convention minutes -- NV GOP Announce Date to Finish Convention: Too Late -- Senate Phase 2 is finally released: Bush Lied Us Into War -- How the Media Abandoned Iraq -- Scientology: The Other Side -- Revealed: Long-Term Iraq Plans
D-Day + 64 years; House approves $3 trillion budget
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News Link • Military
Gates ousts Air Force leaders in historic shake-up
6-5-2008
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AP
Defense Secretary Robert Gates ousted the Air Force's top military and civilian leaders Thursday, holding them to account in a historic Pentagon shake-up after embarrassing nuclear mix-ups.
Gates announced at a news conference that he had acce
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
U.S. attorney general revising FBI probe guidelines
6-5-2008
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Reuters
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Thursday that he is working to revise the guidelines for FBI investigations as the bureau seeks to transform itself into an intelligence-gathering agency that seeks to prevent terrorist attacks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Alleged 9/11 mastermind asks court to become a martyr
6-5-2008
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USA Today
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said Thursday that he would embrace the death penalty for his role in planning the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. He said he has hoped to become a martyr throughout his five years in U.S. detention.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Brad Blog gets his vote flipped right before his eyes
6-5-2008
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Bradblog
As a fairly well-known Election Integrity journalist who has personally covered, for years, the myriad election woes of thousands (if not millions) of voters around the country who have tried to bring seemingly endless stories of votes flipped on e-v
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Bush: Iran an "Existential Threat to Peace"
6-5-08
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Haaretz.com
U.S. President George W. Bush told visiting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday that Iran was an "existential threat to peace" and
said the world must take that threat seriously.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Haditha Marine Not Guilty on All Counts
6-5-2008
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AP
A Marine intelligence officer accused of trying to cover up the killings of 24 Iraqis appeared stunned at first when a jury acquitted him of the charges.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
Water: The Next Crisis
6-5-2008
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Daily Telegraph
A catastrophic water shortage could prove an even bigger threat to mankind this century than soaring food prices and the relentless exhaustion of energy reserves, according to a panel of global experts at the Goldman Sachs "Top Five Risks"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Rumors of War: Is Bush Gearing Up to Attack Iran?
6-5-08
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Alternet.org
Might a new war against the demonized Iranians make voters stick with "war hero" John McCain? It's a long shot, but this administration has always had a major streak of riverboat gambler about it.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Confederate flag keeps students from attending commencement
6-5-2008
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KARE TV11
They say they're just "good ol' boys" who, like the song goes, were "never meaning no harm." But three Bloomington Kennedy seniors were not allowed to attend their commencement Wednesday night after bringing a Confederate
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
One less great boss
6-5-2008
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Smoking Gun
A technology billionaire was a drug fiend who trafficked in cocaine, Ecstasy, and methamphetamine, spiked the drinks of business associates and employees, hired prostitutes for himself and others, and maintained several narcotics dens, including one
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Bush exports police state to police state China
6-5-2008
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Washington Times
[Try it out there, before we try it out here...ooopps to late.] The support includes security and military equipment that is restricted for export under the Export Administration Act, prompting some critics of the policy to question its legality.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Revolutionary air car runs on compressed air
06-05-2008
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RawStory.com
Mini-CAT or City Cat, can be refueled in minutes from an air compressor at specially equipped gas stations and can go 200 km on a 1.5 euro fill-up -- roughly 125 miles for $3. The top speed will be almost 70 mph and the cost of the vehicle as low as
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain Leaves Fox Speechless (VIDEO)
06-05-2008
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YouTube
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: If you were awful enough to delight in John McCain's prebuttal speech trainwreck last night, feast your eyes on the Fox News commentators trying to decide if it was ...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Prime Loans Going Delinquent at Record Rate
6-5-08
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HousingWire.com
The Q4 to Q1 change in severe delinquencies strongly favors prime borrowers, for example, with severe DQs increasing by 19.2 percent for prime and 13.7 percent for subprime borrowers.
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News Link • Police State
D.C. Neighborhoods Being Targeted for Military-style Police Checkpoints
06-05-2008
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Washington Post
"...In certain areas, we need to go beyond the normal methods of policing," Fenty (D) said at a news conference announcing the action. "We're going to go into an area and completely shut it down to prevent shootings and the sale of
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Senate Votes on Climate Security Act Friday
06-05-2008
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Mondoreb
The Senate votes tomorrow on a particularly onerous piece of legislation: The Climate Security Act. It will affect neither climate, nor security. It will, however, affect your pocketbook in the confiscatory way we've come to expect from Congress.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • History
June 6 1944, D-Day: Video Tribute to the American Spirit
06-05-2008
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RidesAPaleHorse
Two video shorts that provide an educational look at what happened on 64 years ago on the beaches of Normandy.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
VICTORY in NUECES COUNTY!
County GOP hands over convention minutes after legal battle.
06--4-2008
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Dennis Rodenbeck
The legal battle to view public documents has been upheld by the 13th Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi, Texas. While Mr. Bertuzzi, the current Republican County Chair of Nueces County in Texas was happy to comply after the ruling, he had stonewall
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Jack Spratt
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News Link • Eugenics
The Colbert Report - Bob Barr the Libertarian Party candidate for President
06-05-2008
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Comedy Central
"We Libertarian leaning Republicans"
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Home Equity Falling at Record Pace
6-5-08
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Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
With prices now falling - and expected to continue to fall - the percent homeowner equity will probably decline rapidly in the coming quarters.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Nev. Republicans Announce Date to Finish Convention, Local Man says Too Late
6-4-2008
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KTVN Channel 2 Reno
Get your popcorn ready to watch the fight. This is gonna be good.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Eugenics
NV Republican Party Argues with Its Own Delegates
06-05-2008
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TV4 KRNV Reno, Nevada
Nevada Republican Convention still in contention
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Phase 2 is finally released
06-05-2008
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Senate Intelligence Committee
Finally, the report is released on the pre-war intelligence, and other events which led to the April 2003 invasions of Iraq. Like any government document, lots of redactions! I'm so shocked
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Military
Rootin' Tootin' Recruitin'
6-5-2008
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Catholic Peace Fellowship
A 17-year-old was taken from her grandmother's house in East Chicago by National Guard personnel under threat of arrest if she did not report for boot camp. She was trying to pass her junior year, ... and she is not old enough to retain a lawyer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
How the Media Abandoned Iraq
6-5-2008
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Alternet
The editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation's news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had the numbers to prove it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Enough with the lies about Scientology. As John Lennon said, "gimme some truth"!
06-05-2008
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The Real Truth About Scientology
Did you know that there is technology in Scientology that has been proven totally effective when applied properly which is the technology of doing a proper investigation?
Do you think that might possibly be of benefit to the 911 truth movement or in
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Garko Factor
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