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Date Sent: 2008-08-11
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, August 11, 2008 |
Russians Push Past Separatist Area to Assault Central Georgia -- Foreigners buying up US houses
Lessons of the Paul Campaign - The Revolution was, is -- A knife registry? -- Couple arrested over unpaid $10 tax in town -- "No Work List" coming -- $1 trillion in losses? Bank on more -- White House criticizes Russia for invading oil rich country without cause -- Arkansas town under martial law -- House Votes to Grant FDA Control of Tobacco Regulation -- Coincidence? Guantanamo term ends as Bush's does -- President Ford secretly ratted to the FBI about panel's doubts on JFK murder -- After 7 years the Iraqis still have no clean water -- Science close to unveiling invisible man -- Let video games read your mind with headset -- Russian's sink Georgian ship -- S begins flying troops to Georgian from Iraq to fight Russia -- Iraq Demands 'Clear Timeline' for US Withdrawal -- Paulson: Bush right on Wall Street hangover' quip -- Outside U.S., Credit Cards Tighten Grip -- Plan to put Tasers in schools -- Drug prices up 100% or higher -- Video shows police punching teen 13 times in face, then tasering him -- TSA weighs airport gun ban in unsecured areas -- Cindy Sheehan on ballot opposing Nancy Pelosi -- Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery -- 1,500 Reported Killed in Georgia Battle -- American killed in Beijing -- Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, CyberPATRIOT Act
Comedian Bernie Mac & Musician Isaac Hayes, RIP
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Lessons of the Paul Campaign - The Revolution was, is
08-09-2008
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Chuck Young
And they should fear us. This is a deep Lesson of the Paul Campaign - that the revolution is perhaps more real than any of us give it credit for. It’s a lesson clearly lost not only on mainstream politicos but even to some degree on Ron Paul, his top
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News Link • Draft
You Belong to Us
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
8-11-2008
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LewRockwell
Democratic nominee Barack Obama has embraced national service as a priority of his presidency. Obama would not directly impose forced labor on young people, but would withhold educational funds from them and their institutions if they fail to comply.
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News Link • World News
Russians Push Past Separatist Area to Assault Central Georgia
8-11-2008
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NY Times
Russia expanded its attacks on Georgia on Sunday, moving tanks and troops through the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and advancing toward the city of Gori in central Georgia, in its first direct assault on a Georgian city with ground forces duri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Chemist ALLOWED to go home, but his lab confiscated
8-10-2008
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Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Authorities say he has patents pending and had been using his basement as a science lab to conduct experiments, possibly for many years. Firefighters found more than 1,500 vials, jars, cans, bottles and boxes in the basement Tuesday afternoon, after
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
A knife registry?
8-10-2008
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Toronto Sun
Discussion by some opposition MPs about the possible introduction of a knife registry, following the gruesome, fatal attack on a Greyhound bus passenger late last month.
A knife registry? Really? What would I have to declare, paring knives, a brea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Crybaby capitalists whine for more
8-10-2008
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MSNBC
Freddie Mac's CEO collected $38 million while the company he ran fell into a financial morass. He's just one example of corporate chiefs who want taxpayers to bail them out.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Couple arrested over unpaid $10 tax in town
8-10-2008
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Ohio
Barberton Municipal Judge Greg Macko dropped the charges after the Clarks went to the finance department and paid the overdue $10.12. They weren't fined, but they were hit with court costs. Now they owe the city $426 " $213 each.
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News Link • Immigration
"No Work List" coming
8-10-2008
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McClatchy News
For critics, the idea is an Orwellian nightmare: The federal government would begin signing off on every hiring decision made in the United States. It's the latest plan to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country. The nation's
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News Link • Constitution
The Goal Is Freedom: Was the Constitution Really Meant to Constrain the Government?
8-10-2008
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by Sheldon Richman (FEE)
A shortcut favored by most advocates of limited government is "restoration" of the Constitution. "If only we could get back to the Constitution as it was written," people say. It's a sincere wish, but as a path to a free socie
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War in Afghanistan: a tour of hell
8-10-2008
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Daily Telegraph
For all the money, technology and military might America can throw at the Taliban, conditions at the US Army's most attacked outpost in Afghanistan are reminiscent of the First World War trenches.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
$1 trillion in losses? Bank on more
8-12-2008
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CNN Money
The International Monetary Fund forecasts that global losses tied to the credit crisis will be $945 billion. It's a widely used number, but Sonders thinks it's "potentially very conservative." So how high could losses go? Sonders po
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New York's Video Vigilante, Scourge of Parking Enforcers
8-10-2008
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Washington Post
He calls himself "Jimmy Justice," a self-styled "cop-arazzi," armed only with a video camera as he prowls the streets of New York looking for law enforcement officers who are breaking the law. His targets are illegally parked city
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
The Solar Funnel Cooker - by Professor Steven E. Jones
8-10-08
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solarcooking.org
As a University Professor of Physics with a background in energy usage, I set out to develop a means of cooking food and sterilizing water using the free energy of the sun.
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News Link • World News
White House criticizes Russia for ‘disproportionate’ military response
8-10-2008
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AP
On Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney said that "Russian aggression must not go unanswered, and that its continuation would have serious consequences for its relations with the United States." [Only we are allowed to invade and bomb nations
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News Link • World News
Casualties and damage in the S Ossetian conflict - 09 Aug 08
8-10-2008
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al-Jazerra video
Georgian troops have poured into South Ossetia and the Georgian president has appealed to the international community for assistance. Russian troops have been shown on Russia's television channels being treated in hospital, and claim that 15 of t
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News Link • Military
The day before 9/11
8-10-2008
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CBS News video
News story about massive Pentagon $2.3 TRILLION dollar embezzlement the day before 9/11 quickly forgotten about.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
House Votes to Grant FDA Control of Tobacco Regulation
8-10-2008
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American Cancer Society
This week the US House of Representatives voted 326 to 102 to pass the Family Smoking Prevention Tobacco Control Act, to grant the Food and Drug Administration power to regulate tobacco products. If the legislation is enacted, consumers would see tou
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News Link • TERRORISM
The Hamdan military commission trial: a post-mortem
8-10-2008
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HuffPo
A slew of questions remain: Was his trial legal? Will he be freed once he serves his five remaining months? And, having floundered in this first attempt, will the administration be foolish enough to use this deeply-flawed system to try the people it
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News Link • TERRORISM
Coincidence? Guantanamo term ends as Bush's does
8-10-2008
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Reuters
When jurors began deliberating his sentence, the only question they asked the judge was how much credit Hamdan would get for the time he has been held at Guantanamo. He would get 61 months' credit, and the jurors sentenced him to a 66-month term
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News Link • TERRORISM
War Crimes System Is Still on Trial
8-10-2008
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NY Times
The verdict in the first war crimes trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is in: One poorly educated Yemeni, with an impish sense of humor and two little girls, is guilty of supporting terrorism by driving Osama bin Laden. With credit for time served, the s
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News Link • Housing
LOST SOVEREIGNITY
8-10-2008
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NY Post
There's a new land grab starting in America. Foreign money, which up to now has focused its attention on investing in iconic commercial real estate is now moving to scoop up tens of thousands of discounted foreclosed homes across the country.
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News Link • Conspiracies
President Ford secretly ratted to the FBI about panel's doubts on JFK murder
8-10-2008
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AP
Former President Ford secretly advised the FBI that two of his fellow members on the Warren Commission doubted the FBI's conclusion that John F. Kennedy was shot from the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas, according to newly rele
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News Link • WAR: About that War
After 7 years the Iraqis still have no clean water
8-10-2008
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AP
The tanks were full of enough clean drinking water for some 200,000 Iraqis at a new distribution station in eastern Baghdad, but local officials struggled Saturday to agree on where it should go.
The dilemma was an example of the obstacles facing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Science close to unveiling invisible man
8-10-2008
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London Times
INVISIBILITY devices, long the realm of science fiction and fantasy, have moved closer after scientists engineered a material that can bend visible light around objects.
The breakthrough could lead to rendering anything from people to large objects
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Singer, songwriter Isaac Hayes dies at age 65
8-10-2008
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AP
Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. He was 65. A family member found him unrespon
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Let video games read your mind with headset
8-10-2008
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USA Today
Emotiv's elegant, lightweight EPOC headset is a piece of cutting-edge technology that grants Yoda-like telepathic powers, allowing players of computer games to move items on screen with merely their thoughts. Due for release by year's end, th
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News Link • World News
Russian's sink Georgian ship
8-10-2008
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AP
Russian news agencies say the Defense Ministry is claiming to have sunk a Georgian missile boat that was trying to attack Russian navy ships in the Black Sea. "Georgian missile patrol boats today made two attempts to attack Russian military ship
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News Link • World News
US begins flying troops to Georgian from Iraq to fight Russia
8-10-2008
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AP
A senior U.S. military official says the Americans have begun flying Georgian troops home from Iraq after they requested help with transportation. Georgia has called its 2,000 troops home from Iraq to help in the fighting against Russia
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq Demands 'Clear Timeline' for US Withdrawal
8-10-2008
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AP
Iraq's foreign minister insisted Sunday that any security deal with the United States must contain a "very clear timeline" for the departure of U.S. troops. But Zebari made clear that the Iraqis would not accept a deal that lacks a time
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paulson: Bush right on Wall Street `hangover' quip
8=10-2008
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AP
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says there's a lot of truth to President George Bush's comment that Wall Street "got drunk and now it's got a hangover," and it will aid understanding of the current economic climate.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Developers Poised to Welcome Las Vegas Spillover
08/10/2008
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The New York Times
Kingman, an area of just 40,000 people, is poised to become the freshest face in the Sun Belt’s growth spurt since Las Vegas is running out of land and water to sustain its growth
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Economy - International
Outside U.S., Credit Cards Tighten Grip
8-9-2008
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NY Times
Few American exports have proved as popular as credit cards. In just a generation, they have gone from a totem of Western affluence to an everyday accessory in Brazil, Mexico, India, China, South Korea and elsewhere. More than two-thirds of the world
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Plan to put Tasers in schools
8-9-2008
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Pittsburg Tribune-Review
The president of a school safety consulting firm said districts which are considering arming its police officers with Tasers, have to take a conservative approach to their deployment and develop a comprehensive policy. But an attorney for the America
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Drug prices up 100% " or higher
8-9-2008
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USA Today
Drug companies are quietly pushing through price hikes of 100% " or even more than 1,000% " for a very small but growing number of prescription drugs, helping to drive up costs for insurers, patients and government programs.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Video shows police punching teen 13 times in face, then tasering him
8-9-2008
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Rawstory
The video shows undercover Deputy Brian Tollison pulling over a truck driven by a drug suspect and beating the teenage driver while what appears to be a back-up deputy held down him down.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA weighs airport gun ban in unsecured areas
8-9-2008
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USA Today
The Transportation Security Administration may allow airports to ban firearms from terminals, parking lots, roads and other airport areas where many states currently allow carry. "Any decisions we make could affect every other airport in the cou
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Cindy Sheehan will be on the ballot opposing Nancy Pelosi
8-9-2008
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AP
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan qualified Friday for a November showdown with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, collecting the signatures needed to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for Congress. "We're very excited," said Sheehan
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News Link • European Union
Homer Simpson On The New Euro Coin (Really)
8-9-2008
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Reuters
A one euro coin has turned up in Spain bearing the face of cartoon couch potato Homer Simpson instead of that of the country's king, a sweetshop owner told Reuters on Friday.
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Chip Saunders
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Opinion • Eugenics
Last Chance
08-13-08
Howard Blitz
On Labor Day, September 1, about 2380 individual members of the Republican Party will congregate in St. Paul, Minnesota to choose an individual to be their nominee for President of the United States. This is no small matter and who they nominate as
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News Link • Bush Administration
Tape: Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery
08-09-2008
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RawStory.com
In damning transcript, ex-CIA official says Cheney likely ordered letter linking Hussein to 9/11 attacks
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News Link • WAR: About that War
1,500 Reported Killed in Georgia Battle
08-09-2008
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New York Times
The fighting that began when Georgian forces tried to retake the capital of the South Ossetia, Tskinvali, appeared to be developing into the worst clashes between Russia and a foreign military since the 1980s war with Afghanistan.
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News Link • OLYMPICS Beijing China Summer 2008
American killed in Beijing
08-09-2008
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Boston Globe
A Chinese man stabbed the in-laws of the US Olympic men's volleyball coach, killing one and injuring the other. Attacked two American tourists on the opening day of the Olympic Games, killing one of them before committing suicide.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Comedian Bernie Mac Dies at 50
08-09-2008
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People
"[He] passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital," his rep, Danica Smith, told PEOPLE.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws
08-08-2008
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Slashshot
A number of readers are sending in links to a video from the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference last month, in which Lawrence Lessig recounts a conversation over dinner with Richard Clarke, the former government counter-terrorism czar.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Credit Crisis Triggers Unprecedented U.S. Response
8-8-2008
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Washington Post
Since the credit crisis erupted a year ago, the Bush administration has presided over one of the broadest expansions of the government into private lending in U.S. history, risking public money to prop up financial firms both large and small.
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