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Date Sent: 2008-04-10
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, April 11, 2008 |
Cheney & Co planned torture of detainees to last detail -- McCain doesn't rule out preemptive war
Ron Paul questions General Patraeus -- House passes Chinese crackdown resolution -- CIA: "We'll make you see death" -- U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11 -- Iraq panel orders release of US-held AP photographer -- Consent to search' (& seize) programs spreading like epidemic -- Afghans hold secret trials for men that U.S. detained -- Bush: Americans should agree that Iraq burden is worth bearing -- Judge, aide face inquiry over delay in freeing inmate -- A handout for Tax Day, April 15th -- Phoenix Foreclosures: If not a crisis, pretty close to it -- Veterans Affairs refuses to provide voter registration for wounded vets -- The LP's Turkish Delight -- Mississippi Justice: Bush US Attorney targeted my wife, supporters and friends -- Endless Enemies - by Justin Raimondo
Patrick Cockburn on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio; Randi Rhodes leaves Air America & signs with Nova M Radio
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul questions General Patraeus
4-10-2008
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Youtube
Paul knows the General can dance for 5 minutes. So he uses his 5 minutes to lay question after question at the General's feet. He will never get an answer, but he sure does frame the debate.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
House passes Chinese crackdown resolution
4-10-2008
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CNN
The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on China to end its crackdown on Tibet and release Tibetans imprisoned for "nonviolent" demonstrations. The vote was 413-1. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who has not dropped out of the presiden
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11
4-10-2008
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NY Sun
A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Cheney and Co. planned the torture of detainees down to last detail
4-10-2008
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ABC News (Crooks & Liars)
Bush’s most senior officials not only knew about the torture they were inflicting on suspected terrorists, but decided down to the last detail exactly how much torture to inflict.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq panel orders release of US-held AP photographer
4-10-2008
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Reuters
An Iraqi judicial committee has ordered the release of an Associated Press photographer held by the U.S. military in Iraq for two years and dismissed terrorism-related accusations against him, the news agency said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
'Consent to search' (& seize) programs spreading like epidemic across country
04-10-2008
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Inside Bay Area
The consent-to-search program is based on a similar effort in St. Louis in 1994 and ongoing programs in Boston and Washington, D.C. The idea is simple: Ask parents for permission to search their homes for weapons their children may be hiding.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Surge Protectors
4-10-2008
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E&P
In the five years since the war started, the single greatest mistake made by the media was hardly raising a single voice of protest against the 2007 escalation in Iraq -- until it was much too late. As Petraeus Testifies: How Press Helped Bring Him t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghans hold secret trials for men that U.S. detained
4-10-2008
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AP
Dozens of Afghan men who were previously held by the United States at Bagram Air Base and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are now being tried here in secretive Afghan criminal proceedings based mainly on allegations forwarded by the American military.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bush: Americans should agree that Iraq burden is worth bearing
4-10-2008
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Rawstory
The war in Iraq has been more expensive than every other US military conflict except World War II, but President Bush says we haven't spent enough there yet, nor does he think the war is all that costly in relative terms.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge, aide face inquiry over delay in freeing inmate
04-10-2008
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Indystar.com
The mistakes that left an Indianapolis man languishing in prison for almost two years after he was cleared have sparked a rare step: A state board wants to punish a Marion County judge and his commissioner.
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Terry Bressi
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Feature Article • TAXES: Federal
A handout for Tax Day, April 15th
Powell Gammill
Happy Tax Day everyone. In honor of this exciting festive occasion, I created a little handout that you should feel free to give your neighbors, friends, family and complete strangers depositing their hard earned wages in a post office box. (PDF)
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Phoenix Foreclosures: If not a crisis, pretty close to it
4-10-08
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HousingDoom.com
ARMLS has not officially reported March home sales yet, but based on an early preview, it is likely that sales will be in the 4,400 range, so foreclosures are running near the level of sales.
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News Link • Military
Veterans Affairs refuses to provide voter registration for wounded vets
4-10-08
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Rawstory.com
A new report Thursday reveals that Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Peake told two Democratic senators his department will not help injured veterans register to vote before the 2008 election.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
The LP's Turkish Delight
04-10-2008
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Lew Rockwell
The Libertarian Platform â€" the best thing about the party â€" has been replaced with a new one, which is tiny, vague, rhetorically slippery, accommodating, friendlier to the state, and non-threatening to mainstream opinion.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Mississippi Justice: Bush US Attorney targeted my wife, supporters and friends
4-10-2008
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Rawstory
Republican effort jails largest Democratic donor in Mississippi, helps put ex-RNC chairman in governor's chair.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Endless Enemies - by Justin Raimondo
4-9-08
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Antiwar.com
What the Americans want is a country in disarray, and the various constituencies divided among themselves â€" all the better to dominate the country, rationalize the U.S. military presence, and prepare for war with Iran.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Randi Rhodes leaves Air America (signs with Nova M Radio)
4-10-08
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Rawstory.com
A video of Rhodes referring to Sen. Hillary Clinton as a "f**king whore" began circulating last week, and the station suspended the host soon after. (Nova M Radio is Ernest Hancock's home station :)
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
McCain doesn't rule out preemptive war
4-10-08
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Rawstory.com
I think you need to consult more closely and more carefully not with every member of Congress but certainly the leaders of Congress."
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