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Date Sent: 2008-08-04
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, August 4, 2008 |
Housing Lenders Fear Bigger Wave of Loan Defaults -- Scientists Question FBI Probe On Anthrax
Iraq Elections Bill Stalls On Kirkuk -- Crude prices rise on Middle East concerns -- CIA armed guards protected Radovan Karadzic -- South Korea Says US Killed Hundreds of Civilians -- Privately-owned SpaceX rocket suffers 3rd launch failure -- Bob Conley - A Ron Paul Democrat? -- Bin Laden driver to stay indefinitely at Gitmo regardless of trial outcome -- Curbs on naked short-selling practice -- Expert on bailouts: Bank regulators should investigate themselves -- FDIC warns four US banks over liquidity -- Growth For Spanish-Speaking Television News -- Air force looks to new weapon in Iraq -- On Joe Klein and the Jewish Neoconservatives -- Ahmadinejad: Iran won't give up nuclear rights -- Did Hillary Use Scandal to Force Edwards Out of the Race? -- Saudi Arabia prisons to replace Guantanamo bay -- Secret “War on Terror” Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed -- After the Bubble, Ghost Towns Across America
RIP: Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
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News Link • Media: Print
Media Outlets Are Seeking a Campaign Bounce of Their Own
08-03-2008
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New York Times
This year’s presidential campaign has drawn more voter interest than any other race in generations. For mainstream news media, however, capitalizing on that interest has been hit or miss, though not for lack of trying.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Elections Bill in Iraq Stalls On Kirkuk
8-4-2008
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Washington Post
Iraqi lawmakers on Sunday failed to settle a dispute over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and pass a provincial elections bill viewed as vital for national reconciliation, despite intense pressure from the United States and the United Nations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Housing Lenders Fear Bigger Wave of Loan Defaults
8-4-2008
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NY Times
The first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting, but a second, far larger one is quickly building.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA armed guards protected Radovan Karadzic
8-3-2008
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AFP
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his 'deal', Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Crude prices rise on renewed concerns about Middle East
08-03-2008
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China View
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices traded higher Friday on renewed concerns after Israel raised new concerns about Iran's nuclear program.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
New country-of-origin food labels will cost $2.5 billion
8-3-2008
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McClatchy News
American companies will spend $2.5 billion next year complying with new country-of-origin food label rules [100% of cost which will be passed on to the consumers], the Agriculture Department now estimates.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Across America, economic woes are mounting
8-3-2008
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McClatchy News
As politicians and policymakers in Washington struggle to control the damage from the housing crisis, the banks' credit crunch, $4 a gallon gasoline, rising food prices and mounting unemployment, bad economic news is beginning to bite in their ar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
South Korea Says U.S. Killed Hundreds of Civilians
8-3-2008
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NY Times
“When the napalm hit our village, many people were still sleeping in their homes,” said Lee Beom-ki, 76. “Those who survived the flames ran to the tidal flats. We were trying to show the American pilots that we were civilians. But they strafed us, wo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Privately-owned SpaceX rocket suffers 3rd launch failure
08-03-2008
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news.xinhuanet.com/english (China)
Internet mogul Elon Musk started the company six years ago after eBay purchased his company, PayPal, for 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. The company, one of the most promising examples of an entrepreneurial "new space" movement, has 525 employee
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Torture
Bin Laden driver to stay indefinitely at Gitmo regardless of trial outcome
8-3-2008
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AP
[so why have the trial? ah show!] Even if he is found innocent, he may not leave this U.S. Navy base. The military retains the right to hold those considered to pose a threat to the United States " even those who have been cleared of charges at Guant
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Wall Street war: A win for Utahn - Byrne's battle helps bring curbs on naked short-selling pract
08-03-2008
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Salt Lake City Tribune
Three years ago Byrne, believing Overstock.com's shares were under pressure from an illegal trading tactic known as "naked short-selling," launched a campaign to end the practice. He termed it his own personal "jihad," or holy
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Print
What's Really Killing Newspapers
08-03-2008
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Slate.com
The social networking that takes place via instant messaging, microblogging, or e-mail further steals from newspapers the mindshare they once owned. Radio, which once served a similar social role with its menu of music, news, and talk, is plummeting.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Man on Wire
08-03-2008
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Man on Wire official movie site
Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his illegal walk between the Twin Towers in New York City on August 7, 1974.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Joe Klein Speaks Truth to Power
08-03-2008
( "The Third Rail,... ISRAEL" ) - but how long will they let him get away with it?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Expert on bailouts: Bank regulators should investigate themselves
08-03-2008
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RawStory.com
They have swapped U.S. Treasury bonds for toxic securities," he told Barron's. "It is privatizing the gains and profits, and socializing the losses as usual. This is socialism for Wall Street and the rich."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
Scientists Question FBI Probe On Anthrax
08-03-2008
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Washington Post
In tactics that the researchers considered heavy-handed and often threatening, they were interviewed and polygraphed as early as 2002, and reinterviewed numerous times. Their labs were searched, and their computers and equipment carted away.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Death, the Drug War, and Corey Maye
08-03-2008
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LewRockwell
Writers on this page and elsewhere long have exposed the U.S. War on Drugs for what it is: a fraud that has killed or destroyed many more people than ever have been injured or killed by illegal drugs themselves.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Elijah vs. the State - by Laurence M. Vance
08-03-2008
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by Laurence M. Vance for LewRockwell.com
Christians support for, the U.S. government’s latest military adventure often recite the mantra, "Obey the powers that be," a loose paraphrase of Romans 13:1, as if that somehow means that Christians should blindly follow whatever the gover
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
FDIC warns four US banks over liquidity
08-03-2008
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Financial TImes
The cease-and-desist orders issued in June said the four banks needed to raise more capital, expand their loss allowances and better oversee and diversify their loan portfolios. A fifth bank was cited for violating consumer protection laws.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Air force looks to a new drone to keep peace in Iraq
08-03-2008
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www.breitbart.com
"We can put unmanned aircraft -- Predator, Reaper, and other assets -- overhead for long endurance periods. We call that persistent stare. "And with the Reaper, armed with Hellfire and 500-pound precision weapons, we'll be able to have
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Baghdad, 5 years on (part 1): City of walls
8-3-2008
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Youtube
US claims that the military surge is bringing stability to Iraq. By travelling through the heart of Baghdad its easy to see by enclosing the Sunni and Shia populations behind 12ft walls, the surge has left the city more divided and desperate than eve
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
On Joe Klein and the Jewish Neoconservatives
08-03-2008
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Daniel Levy
It appears that America's Jewish silent majority is beginning to revolt against the nasty, noisy, neocon minority that dominates the Bush Administration. Time magazine's Joe Klein is fighting back and he may belatedly spark a Jewish revolt ag
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Mike Dugger
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News Link • Philosophy: Communism
Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
8-3-2008
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AP
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps [and communism in general], has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Ahmadinejad: Iran won't give up nuclear rights
08-03-2008
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MyWay News
TEHRAN,Iran (AP) - Iran will not give up "a single iota of its nuclear rights," the country's president said Saturday, rebuffing an informal deadline to stop expanding uranium enrichment or face more sanctions.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Garko Rocks "This Land Is Your Land"
08-02-2008
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GARKO
performed live with the house band at the Church of Scientology Mission of Brand Blvd in Glendale, CA
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Public's censored 9/11 Memorial finally ready to allow public back in
8-3-2008
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Arizona Republic
After 2 years of emotional debate, a series of revisions to the memorial known as Moving Memories is nearly complete. 2 of the contentious inscriptions were removed from the face of the memorial, and 2 new happy ones added in their place.
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News Link • Internet
Bruised South Korean government takes on "infodemics"
8-3-2008
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Reuters
The mass access to the Internet, which helped ex-CEO Lee Myung-bak to his resounding presidential election victory, went on to become the instrument helping shatter that popularity in just five months in office. Now he is doing something about it.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
John Edwards Scandal: KC Writer Cites “Veiled Threats”, Denials as Likely
08-03-2008
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Mondoreb
The KC Star's Aaron Barnhart attempts to explain to the paper's readers why they were kept in the dark about the John Edwards' story. He says it was likely "veiled threats" to reporters and the "vigorous denials by the camp
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
John Edwards Scandal: Did Hillary Use Scandal to Force Edwards Out of the Race?
08-03-2008
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Mondoreb
Back in January, John Edwards exited the Democrat primary race. But his withdrawal was announced by Hillary Clinton. We revisit the phone call between Edwards and Clinton the night before the announcement. Does Hillary Clinton read the National Enqui
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Saudi Arabia prisons to replace Guantanamo bay
8-2-2008
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Pakistan Daily News
Saudi Arabia is to build five modern prisons in the kingdom to replace US Guantanamo detention facility. CIA and Saudi officials are cooperating to construct the prisons which are to replace Guantanamo and US secret prisons in Europe.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Secret “War on Terror” Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed
8-2-2008
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InfiniteUnknown
The news will be an embarrassment to the US government, which has persistently denied claims that it operated a secret “War on Terror” prison on Diego Garcia, and a source of even more consternation to the British government, which is more closely b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Police Impersonators: Never There When You Need One
by Will Grigg
8-2-2008
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Pro Liberate
As law enforcement becomes increasingly authoritarian, and the public grows more docile, the practice of police impersonation by criminals is becoming more commonplace. "You wave a badge at someone and tell them to pull over and you'd be ama
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
After the Bubble, Ghost Towns Across America
8-2-2008
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Wall Street Journal
Since real-estate tanked, many new planned communities across the country are half-empty, with for-sale signs outnumbering residents by a large margin. Daily life in these developments seems a bit post-cataclysmic. Unfinished houses and vacant lots s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
A GOP Choice: Tom Coburn or Ted Stevens
8-2-2008
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Wall Street Journal
2006 exit polls revealed that corruption in government was second only to the Iraq war as the driving force behind the Democratic takeover. A major part of that corruption was earmarks -- pork projects members often secure in secret.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
The biggest military hacker of all times did his work over 56k modem
8-2-2008
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Valleywag
Gary McKinnon, a British computer expert, claims he's just fascinated with UFOs. Using his home computer and a modem he infiltrated military networks and accessed thousands of computers trying to find evidence of alien contact.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Florida Bank Fails
8-2-2008
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FDIC
First Priority Bank, Bradenton, Florida, was closed today by the Commissioner of the Florida Office of Financial Regulation, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named receiver. It was immediately sold to
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA found something so extraordinary on Mars that they notified Bush
8-2-2008
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Astroengine
On Thursday, NASA held a press conference to announce that the recent TEGA experiment on board Phoenix had confirmed the presence of water in the Martian soil. Whist exciting, Phoenix scientists were expecting that result. However, behind the scenes,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Toyota Announces Segway Killer: The Winglet Personal Transporter
8-2-2008
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Wired
Only a year after taking control of Sony's robotics business, Toyota has come up with a vertical, mechanized scooter (or personal transporter, in future-speak) intended to help people move about in public areas.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
S&P emails slammed mortgage debt products
8-2-2008
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Reuters
In another email, an S&P manager said ratings agencies were helping to create an "even bigger monster -- the CDO (collateralized debt obligation) market. Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of card falters."
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. mulls what do to with any Guantanamo convict
8-2-2008
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Reuters
If Osama bin Laden's driver is convicted on terrorism charges as Guantanamo's first U.S. war crimes trial ends next week, he will be jailed separately from the rest of the prisoners, the head of the detention operation said on Saturday.
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