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Date Sent: 2008-06-25
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
Neocons to Sacrifice 5th Fleet in Gulf -- Senate force taxpayers to bail out mortgage lenders
‘The Iraqis owe us’ century-long oil leases -- Housing taxpayer bailout plan passes key Senate test -- Feingold, Dodd filibuster wiretap bill -- What Your Government Knows About Cannabis And Cancer -- Consumers to pay for new cargo security laws -- NASA expert: Prosecute those who don't agree with me on global warming -- Doctor Holds Patient Hostage Until She Pays Her Bill -- 44% of Americans favor torture for terrorist suspects -- Doubting Case, a Prosecutor Helped the Defense -- Message to Obama and McCain: Don't Waste Time on Paul's Backers -- Police molestation -- US Supremes again ignore private property seizures on Kelo Anniversary -- Bennet Sedacca: Fed faces "Financial Tsunami" it can't contain -- Congress to demand Bush 'blockade' Iran's imports of gasoline -- NAFTA Highway plans questioned by area residents -- US Toehold in Tehran? -- George Carlin: A Four-Letter Threat to Authority - by Butler Shaffer
AZ: 911 Truth & Sen. Karen Johnson welcomes Architect Richard Gage Friday
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News Link • Iran
The Neocon Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf
11-08-07
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informationclearinghouse.info
The most sophisticated of Iran’s cruise missiles are the ‘Sunburn’ and ‘Yakhonts’. These are missiles against which U.S. military experts conclude modern warships have no effective defense.
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News Link • Police State
First Reports In On What It’s Like Flying Without ID
06-24-2008
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Papers Please
"...only by reports such as these will we be able to ascertain what’s playing on the screen today at our nation’s security theater. The cost of admission is but your civil liberty and common sense..."
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bob Beckle: ‘The Iraqis owe us’ century-long oil leases
6-24-2008
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Rawstory
Fox political commentator Bob Beckel said on last night’s O’Reilly Factor that Iraq owes American oil companies 100-year leases. Such leases, he went on, would lower oil prices.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Housing taxpayer bailout plan passes key Senate test
6-24-2008
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AP
A massive foreclosure rescue bill cleared a key Senate test Tuesday by an overwhelming margin, with Democrats and Republicans both eager to claim election-year credit for helping hard-pressed homeowners.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
What Your Government Knows About Cannabis And Cancer -- And Isn't Telling You
6-24-2008
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HuffPo
Senator Ted Kennedy is putting forward a brave face following his recent surgery but the sad reality remains. Even with successful surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy treatment, gliomas -- a highly aggressive form of brain cancer that strikes approx
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Feingold, Dodd filibuster wiretap bill
6-24-2008
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Rawstory
Senator Chris Dodd has taken the floor and begun the wiretap bill filibuster. The video is live-streaming from the Senate floor.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Dems who flipped on FISA immunity see more telecom cash
6-24-2008
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The Crypt
House Democrats who flipped their votes to support retroactive immunity for telecom companies in last week’s FISA bill took thousands of dollars more from phone companies than Democrats who consistently voted against legislation with an immunity prov
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumers to pay for new cargo security laws
6-24-2008
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AFP
US consumers could be hit hard by new security laws demanding that all cargo containers bound for the United States be scanned for radiation or weapons, a senior US customs official said. The measures, which Congress has demanded must
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
NASA expert: Prosecute those who don't acknowledge global warming
6-24-2008
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Reuters
THE heads of major fossil fuel companies who spread disinformation about global warming should be "tried for high crimes against humanity and nature," according to a leading climate scientist. [Disagreement is treason, eh?]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Doctor Holds Patient Hostage Until She Pays Her Bill
6-24-2008
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The Consumerist
Doctor Laurusonis and 2 assistants in Georgia have been accused of locking a woman in an examination room "when concerns arose about her ability to pay the bill." The 3 were indicted on charges of false imprisonment for the October 4th, 200
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Poll: 44% of Americans favor torture for terrorist suspects
6-24-08
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Rawstory.com
A new poll of citizens' attitudes about torture in 19 nations finds Americans among the most accepting of the practice.
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News Link • History
Scientists calculated the exact date of the Trojan Horse
6-24-08
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Telegraph.co.uk
Scientists have calculated that the horse was used in 1188 BC, ten years before Homer in his Odyssey describes the return of a warrior to his wife on the day the "sun is blotted out of the sky"
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Doubting Case, a Prosecutor Helped the Defense
6-24-2008
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NY Times (h/t Liz)
How an 21-year veteran Assistant District Attorney deliberately threw a case to let a couple of wrongfully convicted men go free.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Message to Obama and McCain: Don't Waste Time on Paul's Backers
6-24-2008
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by Earl Ofari Hutchinson (HuffPo)
The really scary thing was that his out of the pale views and bigoted quips made sense to the throngs of mostly young, naïve, and impressionable voters who shrilly cheered him on. They repeatedly lambasted, hectored, harangued, and giddily name calle
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Police molestation
6-24-2008
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Radgeek (video)
As many as 7 male and female deputies forcibly removed Steffey’s clothes inside a Stark County jail cell and left her completely naked for 6 hours. Steffey had someone call for help [big mistake] when a cousin injured her during a fight.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is 'Totally Badass'
6-24-2008
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Onion News Network video
Officially approved news to a slavish people.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bennet Sedacca: Fed faces "Financial Tsunami" it can't contain
6-24-08
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Bloomberg.com
Sedacca wrote that current financial-market conditions remind him of ``someone standing on a lonely beach, armed with only a small bucket, trying to stop a rare tsunami that hits the shores
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News Link • Property Rights
US Supremes again ignore private property seizures on Kelo Anniversary
6-24-2008
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NY Times
The United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by a dozen New York City property owners and tenants whose homes and businesses are scheduled to be taken over by the government and demolished to make way for the $4 billion Atlantic Yards p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Hitler Video: Film of Hitler Singing at Party Rally
06-23-2008
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Mondoreb
If this film footage had been widely broadcast in the 1930s, WWII wouldn't have happened and Hitler might have ended up a sitcom actor.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Iran
Congress to demand Bush 'blockade' Iran's imports of gasoline
6-24-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
By, inter alia [among other things], prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Senate to force taxpayers to bail out risky mortgage lenders today
6-24-2008
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AP
Conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats are concerned about how to pay for the measure, while members of the Congressional Black Caucus _ most of them liberal _ call it "unacceptable," arguing it doesn't do enough to address the nee
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • North American Union
NAFTA Highway plans questioned by area residents
07-23-2008
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Kingman Daily Miner Newspaper
CHLORIDE - If the NAFTA Highway - also known as the Canamex Highway - comes to fruition, 130 miles of it will run through Mohave County and a lot more will traverse the rest of Arizona, joining Mexico, the U.S. and Canada, and effectively erasing the
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Dawn Wilson
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News Link • Iran
Toehold in Tehran?
06-24-2008
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Washington Post
A smart idea to shake up US policy and reach out to the Iranian people is being debated in Washington, but the debate isn't taking place within or between the presidential campaigns. It's going on inside the Bush adminstration.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Humor
George Carlin: A Four-Letter Threat to Authority
by Butler Shaffer
6-23-2008
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LewRockwell
It is difficult to find words that convey the sadness I felt upon being awakened, this morning, to the news that George Carlin had died the night before. He was the successor to the man I continue to regard as the most significant dismantler of autho
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Powell Gammill
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