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Date Sent: 2008-08-12
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, August 12, 2008 |
Ron Paul's wife in serious condition -- Georgia claims Russians have cut country in half
FDIC Fund Strained by Bank Failures -- Federal judge: F State's Rights, No guns at Atlanta airport -- Police Want Tight Permanent Security Zone at Ground Zero -- Putin Calls Shots to Salve Old Wounds -- Economic Malaise Threatens To Undermine European Unity -- John Yoo: "It Sucks to Have Judges Protecting the Constitution" -- Video game foreshadows Russian war -- Georgian minister: Thanks to Israeli training -- The Beginning of the Summer Olympics and The Third World War -- Dual Citizenship: Should We be worried? -- What's in a Bill Name? - by Ron Paul -- Wes Clark, Democratic VP nominee? -- Russia launches cyber attacks on Georgia -- Homeland Security asks Congress for money to take on God -- US Arms Cache Found in Kyrgyzstan -- Canadian soldier killed in firefight in Afghanistan (by Blackwater?) -- War in the Caucasus: Towards a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation? -- American Mercenary Captured By Russians -- Court blocks MIT students from showing subway hack -- Targeting Immigrants - The Largest Ever ICE Raid - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
FDIC Fund Strained by Bank Failures May Lift Premiums
8-12-2008
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Bloomberg
The failure of IndyMac Bancorp Inc. and seven other banks this year may erase as much as 17 percent of a government insurance fund and raise premiums for all banks, from Franklin National of Minneapolis to Bank of America Corp.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Federal judge: F State's Rights, No guns at Atlanta airport
8-12-2008
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AP
A federal judge on Monday upheld a gun ban at the world's busiest airport, dealing a blow to gun rights groups who argued a new Georgia law authorized them to pack heat in certain parts of the Atlanta airport.
U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul's wife in serious condition at hospital
8-12-2008
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AP
The wife of Republican Rep. Ron Paul was in serious but stable condition Monday at a Houston hospital, a spokesman for the congressman said.
Carol Paul was in the critical care unit at an unidentified hospital, spokesman Jesse Benton said in a sta
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
The Real Aggressor
by Justin Raimondo
8-12-2008
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Antiwar
The anti-Russian bias of the Western media is really something to behold: "Russia Invades Georgia," "Russia Attacks Georgia," and variations thereof have been some of the choice headlines reporting events in the Caucasus, but the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
What's the answer to this? (ANTHRAX)
by Glenn Greenwald
8-12-2008
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Salon
"The FBI's theory as to how and when Ivins traveled to New Jersey on September 17 and mailed the letters is simply impossible..."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Police Want Tight Security Zone at Ground Zero
8-12-2008
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NY Times
The entire area would be placed within a security zone, in which only specially screened taxis, limousines and cars would be allowed through “sally ports,” or barriers staffed by police officers, constructed at each of five entry points.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Putin Calls Shots to Salve Old Wounds
8-12-2008
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NY Times
If there were any doubts, the last week has confirmed that Mr. Putin, who became prime minister this spring after eight years as president, is running Russia, not his successor, President Dmitri A. Medvedev. And Mr. Putin is at last able to find reli
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Economic Malaise Threatens To Undermine European Unity
8-12-2008
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Washington Post
But as Europe confronts its toughest economic test since the official creation of the European Union in 1993, Barroso has hung a "for sale" sign on her cafe door. Business has dried up -- falling 80 percent in six months -- as Spain has joi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Suskind's Other Scoop
8-11-2008
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Andrew Sullivan
"The problem," Dearlove says, finally, "was the Cheney crowd was in too much of a hurry, really. Bush never resisted them quite strongly enough." His voice trails off as he looks beyond the Old Chruch to the temples o Washington.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
John Yoo: “It Sucks to Have Judges Protecting the Constitution”
8-11-2008
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Emptywheel
John Yoo complains that the Supreme Court's strong rulings last term are an "unprecedented" grab for power.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
U.S. Troops fighting in Georgia (video)
8-11-2008
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Eclipse News
Eyewitness testimony from fleeing Ossetians stating that soldiers with USA markings found among the dead Georgian forces. This bears correct with the news of “Operation Immediate Response”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Georgian minister: Thanks to Israeli training, we're fending off Russian military
8-11-2008
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Haaretz
Georgian Minister Temur Yakobashvili praised Israel for its role in training Georgian troops. "Israel should be proud of its military, which trained Georgian soldiers," Yakobashvili, referring to a private Israeli group Georgia had hired.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Art
Attack of the Giant Killer Dog Crap!
8-11-2008
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LiveNews
A giant inflatable dog poo has caused chaos, breaking windows and pulling down power lines, after it escaped and flew away from an outdoor exhibition.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Ghost Recon game foreshadows Russian war perfectly!
8-11-2008
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Above Top Secret
Ghost Recon begins in August 2008, with civil unrest in Russia. Ultra-nationalists have seized power in Moscow, with plans to rebuild the Iron Curtain. Their first step is clandestine support of rebel factions in Georgia and the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Beginning of the Summer Olympics and The Third World War
8-11-08
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Rense.com
When you analyze the grand strategy being employed, you essentially have to come to the conclusion that it is either so damn crazy as to be a form of mass insanity by its backers or just plain evil. I think that it is the latter.
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News Link • Israel
Dual Citizenship -- Should We be worried?
When they took their oath to become American citizens, my parents had to pledge their "allegiance" exclusively to America and renounce their allegiance to "any and all foreign governments."
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Eugenics
Wes Clark, Democratic VP nominee?
8-11-2008
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Rawstory
A former NATO commander, Clark ran his own brief presidential campaign in 2004 and he remains popular among progressive activists. Observers see his national security credentials as a potential vital boost to the ticket. His observation that McCain**
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Georgia claims Russians have cut country in half
8-11-2008
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AP
Russian forces seized several towns and a military base deep in western Georgia on Monday, opening a second front in the fighting. Georgia's president said his country had been effectively cut in half with the capture of the main east-west highwa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Russia launches cyber attacks on Georgia
8-11-2008
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Wired
The websites of Georgia's government have been under denial-of-service attacks for weeks, with Russian hackers fingered as the culprits. Those online assaults have only intensified in recent days, as a shooting war between the two countries has b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Tbilisi, Georgia Police Enforce Martial Law (2007)
8-11-2008
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Youtube
Georgia Police Were Assisted By Americans to Help Declare Martial Law Financially with high tech Defenses against the people.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security asks Congress for money to take on God
8-11-2008
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Johnny Rook's Climaticide Chronicles
Homeland Security, arguably the most incompetent agency in the astonishingly incompetent Bush Administration, has announced it wants to spend tens of million dollars fighting hurricanes. That’s right, HS, loser by a knockout against Hurricane Katrina
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Arms Cache Found in Kyrgyzstan
8-11-2008
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Kommersant
The US embassy in Kyrgyzstan found itself embroiled in scandal after the country’s interior ministry announced a hoard of US-made weapons was found in a house rented by US citizens. The embassy hurriedly stated the weapons were intended for antiterro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Canadian soldier killed in firefight in Afghanistan (by Blackwater?)
08-10-2008
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canadianpress
An investigation is underway to determine whether a Canadian soldier and soon-to-be father killed in combat early Saturday in southern Afghanistan died as a result of friendly fire by private security guarding a passing civilian convoy or a skirmish
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War in the Caucasus: Towards a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation?
8-11-08
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GlobalResearch.ca
Are we dealing with an act of provocation, with a view to triggering a broader conflict? Supported by media propaganda, the Western military alliance is intent on using this incident to confront Russia, as evidenced by recent NATO statements.
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News Link • Military
American Mercenary Captured By Russians
8-11-08
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PropagandaMatrix.com
Another report from the Russia daily Kommersant states that thousands of mercenaries from numerous different countries are fighting on the Georgian side and are being "commanded by the U.S. military instructors."
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Court blocks MIT students from showing subway hack
8-11-2008
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AP
A federal judge has ordered three college students to cancel a presentation at a computer hackers' conference showing security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston's subway.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Behind the Olympics: China’s Lucrative Organ-Harvesting Industry
08-11-2008
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Nancy Morgan
Behind the televised glamour of the Beijing Olympics, lies a chilling Chinese “charity”: the routine"and highly lucrative"harvesting of organs from executed political prisoners.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • China
Olympics Faux Fireworks: Computer-Enhanced Fakery Seen on TV
08-11-2008
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Mondoreb
Apparently there's a bit of PT Barnham in everyone: even the Chinese. It's reported that viewers in the worldwide audience, who thought they were watching an awesome fireworks display at the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, were re
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