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Date Sent: 2008-09-12
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, September 12, 2008 |
Kennedy to introduce sweeping national service bill -- Lehman Brothers (the end is near)
U.S. Helps Lehman Go Up for Sale -- Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers -- Judge Limits Searches Using Cellphone Data -- YouTube Bans Videos That Incite Violence -- (Reminder) LP Convention: Smith Concedes, Attacks Barr -- The government, the media and Afghanistan - by Glenn Greenwald -- Imprisoned Jew: 'My crime was to protest at Israeli assassinations' -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rescue nets $1.7bn for Bill Gross -- Ron Paul: US in Georgia for pipeline -- McCain or Obama - Secret Government Still in Control - by Greg Dixon -- Ex-CIA exec Facing Trial Says He'll Expose Agents, Programs -- Petition to remove Bob Barr -- The Barr Campaign is Over - by David Nolan -- 11 Arrested in Florida for... Dressing Differently? -- UC computer scientists hack Sequoia touch screen voting machine in seconds -- EU in 'frightening' grab for personal information -- Iran’s Road Less Traveled to Nukes - by Ray McGovern
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Helps Lehman Go Up for Sale
9-12-2008
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Washington Post
The Federal Reserve and Treasury Department are actively helping Lehman Brothers put itself up for sale, and officials are hoping a deal will be in place this weekend before the Asian markets open on Monday, according to sources familiar with the mat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers
9-12-2008
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Washington Post
The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on national security, foreign intelligence and even ordinary criminal cases.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Judge Limits Searches Using Cellphone Data
9-12-2008
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Washington Post
The judge rejected the government's argument that historical cellphone tower location data did not require probable cause. Could establish the standard which lawyers say are routine as more people carry cellphones that reveal their locations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
YouTube Bans Videos That Incite Violence
9-12-2008
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Washington Post
The video-sharing service YouTube is banning submissions that involve "inciting others to violence," following criticism from Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) that the site was too open to terrorist groups disseminating militant propagand
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
LP Convention: Smith Concedes, Attacks Barr
09-11-2008
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YouTube - Christine Smith - Denver LNC
Christine Smith concedes at the 2008 Libertarian Party convention and attacks Bob Barr. After the Barr ended up winning the nomination Smith quit the party.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The government, the media and Afghanistan
by Glenn Greenwald
9-11-2008
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Salon
On the night of August 22, the U.S. committed what Chris Floyd, in a richly detailed and amply documented piece, calls an "atrocity" on the Afghan village, near the city of Herat. The U.S. conducted a massive midnight airstrike on the villa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
America and Al Qaeda
09-12-2008
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You Tube
A panel discussion brought to you by Al Jazeera English. Panel discussions feature Chris Hedges, Michael Scheuer, Asad Durrani, former head of ISI(Pakistani Intelligence), and Fawaz Gerges, Scholar of Middle Eastern Studies.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Draft
"Kennedy to introduce sweeping national service bill"
9-11-2008
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LewRockwell
"The plan, meant to build on national service initiatives ... {and} would provide an estimated $5 billion over five years to encourage citizens from kindergarteners to retirees to get involved in community organizations -- including faith-based
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Imprisoned Jew: 'My crime was to protest at Israeli assassinations'
9-11-2008
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The Guardian
She began making regular visits to Jenin, which had been devastated in an Israeli raid earlier that year. She talked to hundreds of people including Palestinian militants and for the first time heard the Palestinian view of the intifada and the diffi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rescue nets $1.7bn for Bill Gross
9-11-2008
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Daily Telegraph
Commenting on the Fannie and Freddie bail-out he said that he liked the plan [I'll bet] Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson had put in place, because "it lowers mortgage rates and helps support housing prices".
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The New Deal BLOCKED the Recovery
9-11-2008
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LewRockwell
In his piece today, Lew Rockwell points out that the F/F bailout simply postpones the inevitable bust, but also ensures that the bust will be more severe in the long run than it would have been had the two faux "mortgage giants" been permit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US troops' Iraq fatigue
9-11-2008
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BBC News video
US troops talk to Newsnight's Andrew North about their feelings on the mission in Iraq and how the effort is hurting the US economy and reputation. 2 months with the US 101st airborne division in the Shia strongholds of Sadr City and Shu'la.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul: US in Georgia for pipeline
9-11-2008
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PressTV
US Congressman Ron Paul says the United States is in Georgia not for democracy but to protect an oil pipeline bypassing Russia. "We are not for democracy there - we are there to protect a pipeline. And that is tragic for me," he said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Your erasures are not secure
by Wendy McElroy
9-11-2008
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her blog
We were discussing secure erasure of magnetic media, and a comment was made about recovering data using electron microscopy (to read remnant magnetic patterns in layers beneath current data) after a 7-pass overwrite (DOD standard for secure erasure
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul on Glenn Beck Regarding FED & 3rd Party
9-11-2008
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Youtube
Ron Paul talks about the Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae bailout, and his recommendation to his supporters to vote 3rd party. (9-10-2008)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Ex-CIA exec Facing Trial Says He'll Expose Agents, Programs
09-11-2008
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News Channel 8(VA)
A former top CIA official accused of corruption and fraud is threatening to expose the identities o numerous agents and programs as part of his defense, prosecutors said. In a court filing, prosecutors allege that former CIA executive director
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
Petition to the LP: Remove Barr as Nominee
09-11-2008
( I guess Bob Barr's campaign finally got the attention that it wanted )
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
The Barr Campaign is Over - by David Nolan
09-11-2008
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David Nolan
"Bob Barr's campaign for President fell off a cliff yesterday. It's time for those who love liberty to redirect their resources elsewhere." by David Nolan co-Founder of the Libertarian Party
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Who was involved in 9/11? Documentary reveals shocking facts
09-11-2008
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Russiatoday.com via Rense.com
On the anniversary of 9/11, an Italian-produced documentary called ZERO, investigating the tragedy, is opening in Russia. The authors believe that the U.S. official version of events surrounding the attacks can't be true. U.S. networks have rejec
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Family
EU's Women's Rights Committee Wants to Ban 'Sexist' Ads
09/11/08
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www.glennsacks.com
So typical--a TV ad portraying women as attractive and alluring is "sexist," but men and fathers can be made to look like idiot husbands and bad fathers all day long and that's not sexist. Of course not--after all, men have everything a
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Eugenics
Barr asks Ron Paul to be his running mate
9-11-2008
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After basically putting a gun to his campaign's head and pulling the trigger by excoriating Paul's press conference yesterday,...NOW he asks him to be VP?!? WTF?!?!?
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Police State
11 Arrested in Florida for... Dressing Differently?
09/11/2008
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The Smoking Gun
The fascist state continues, now some in FL can't wear their jeans how they please. (Time for "clothing enforcement" cameras? You listening, Redflex?)
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
UC computer scientists hack Sequoia touch screen voting machine in seconds
9-11-08
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Bradblog.com
A short, chilling video demonstrating how a single person can hack an election on a touch-screen voting system --- in such a way that it is highly unlikely that the manipulation would ever be detected
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News Link • Communications
EU in 'frightening' grab for personal information
9-11-08
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Telegraph.co.uk/news
It said that plans to co-operate with the US on "extremely controversial" techniques and technologies of surveillance and "enhanced" co-operation. The group is accused of trying to harness a "digital tsunami" to aid law
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