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Date Sent: 2008-08-16
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, August 16, 2008 |
US mint suspends gold coin sales -- Bush forgot to ask Turkey if the Navy could steam through
What Do Prisoners Make for Victoria's Secret? -- Olympic committee rethinks copyright infringement claim on Tibet protesters -- Raping the Military - by Jared Taylor -- Second Amendment Does Not Protect Illegal Aliens -- The Return of Debtor's Prison? - by Wendy McElroy -- World-Wide Recoupling Is Bad News All Around -- The Problem with Gagging Security Researchers -- America's Worst Sheriffs, pt. 1 - by Will Grigg -- Ron Paul’s wife improving -- "Bigfoot" fails DNA test -- World Power no longer belongs to the West -- Classified Letters Regarding FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds -- Bush and Henry Kissinger display their true colors at the Olympics -- War in Georgia: The Israeli Connection -- South Ossetia, Georgia, Russia and the Path to War -- America's Greatest Threat - by Chuck Baldwin
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
What Do Prisoners Make for Victoria's Secret?
8-15-2008
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Mother Jones
Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum wage"minus fines and victim compensation"for everything from grunt work to firefighting to specialized labor. Here's a sampling of what they make, and for whom.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Olympic committee rethinks copyright infringement claim on YouTube
8-15-2008
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c/Net
The International Olympic Committee has retracted a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown request it sent to YouTube over a Tibetan protest video.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Second Amendment Does Not Protect Illegal Aliens
8-15-2008
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Volokh Conspiracy
So concludes a Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of Florida, in U.S. v. Boffil-Rivera, recommending that the District Judge reject a constitutional challenge to a federal statute that criminalizes gun possession by illegal aliens.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Raping the Military
by Jared Taylor
8-15-2008
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Vdare
It blames rape on a military "culture of misogyny." It reports that the 14% of the armed forces who are now women must submit to "military language" that reveals "unabashed hatred of women," and that rape and sexual assa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Return of Debtor's Prison?
by Wendy McElroy
8-15-2008
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H. Beatty Chadwick, a former corporate lawyer, has been imprisoned in a county jail for over 13 years even though he has never been arrested, criminally accused or tried. Chadwick is imprisoned on ‘contempt of court’ charges that sprang from a conten
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
The Media Just Wants A Close Race
8-15-2008
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The Seminal
You didn’t already believe that the media is cutting John McCain some huge breaks, consider McCain’s recent comments about the war in Georgia. I’ve included a fairly long clip in order to give his atrocious statement the proper context:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
World-Wide Recoupling Is Bad News All Around
8-15-2008
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Wall Street Journal
Earlier this year some economists were talking about the world “decoupling” from the U.S., making it through an American downturn relatively unscathed, but the latest data from Europe and Asia appears to be putting holes in that theory and it’s bad n
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
The Problem with Gagging Security Researchers
8-15-2008
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The Agitator
Matt Blaze, a prominent computer security researcher, writes about an unfortunate decision restraining some MIT security researchers from giving a talk about security flaws in Boston’s subway system:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
America's Worst Sheriffs, Part I
by Will Grigg
8-15-2008
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Pro Liberate
Morro Bay's municipal leaders embrace a "felon"? Charles Lynch is welcomed by the community's business elite as he opens a licensed medical marijuana dispensary. The red-haired lady to his left is Mayor Janice Peters, who obviously
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul’s wife improving
8-15-2008
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Victoria Advocate
Carol Paul, wife of U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, continued to improve Thursday. “She has given us some big scares over the past 48 hours, but things appear to be improving and there is room for cautious optimism,” Paul spokesperson Jesse Benton reporte
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
"Rambo" To Be Pitchman For Russian Vodka
8-15-2008
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Reuters
In his movies, he shot many Russians. Now, he hopes Russians will take many shots.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Chandler officer found not guilty of cooking his police dog
8-15-2008
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Arizona Republic
Sgt. Lovejoy was found not guilty of misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. After testimony from investigators, an assistant police chief, experts and Lovejoy himself, Judge Goodman ruled the officer was not reckless in the death of his police dog.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
County Attorney's bid to stop state Bar investigation fails
8-15-2008
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Arizona Republic
The Arizona Supreme Court refused to stop investigations by the State Bar of Arizona into allegations of professional misconduct in the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
What's Really Behind the Russian-Georgian Conflict?
08-15-2008
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author unknown see LTE & comments
This article was written by a retired Lt.-Col. in the U.S. military, who is currently residing in Russia. His article here helps clear up much of the misinformation people have been fed by the sadistic folks in Washington who are trying to promote WW
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • WAR: About that War
World Power no longer belongs to the West -
Russia's Announcement August 8th
08-12-2008
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by George Friedman
The Russian invasion of Georgia has not changed the balance of power in Eurasia. It simply announced that the balance of power had already shifted. The United States has been absorbed in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as potential conflict
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"2081" The Movie
8-15-2008
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Movie website (h/t LewRockwell)
[Ernie will be soooo pleased! A remake of his favorite movie.] 2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is finally equal
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
"Bigfoot" fails DNA test
8-15-2008
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Reuters
Bigfoot remains as elusive as ever. Results from tests on genetic material from alleged remains of one of the mythical half-ape and half-human creatures, made public at a news conference held after the claimed discovery swept the Internet, failed to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Denver Cops Brutally Beat Man and Lie About it
8-15-2008
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Youtube
[Just so you visitors know how much the Denver PD cares about your Rights.] These dumb Denver cops must of had a bad day because they lost it on this guy. Well, to be honest, many cops lose it. They're only human, but that doesn't make it rig
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
U.S. mint suspends gold coin sales; futures price is a fiction
8-15-2008
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GATA
The U.S. Mint has suspended sales of American eagle gold coins and is refusing orders from dealers. The suspension is overwhelming evidence that the futures contract price of gold on the commodities exchanges is substantially below the physical marke
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Classified Letters Regarding FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
8-15-2008
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Memory Hole
The following letters were declared classified. They regard Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator who charges that the FBI's translation service 1) is incompetent and corrupt and 2) received specific warnings about 9/11 before the attacks.
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News Link • Drug War
Drug Money
8-15-2008
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the Stranger
A local television station claims an infomercial hosted by a travel writer promotes the use of marijuana and is refusing to air it. But Fisher Communications, which owns KOMO television, collected thousands of dollars without airing the show.
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News Link • Art
Something Beautiful!
8-15-2008
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video
You will think it is an animation at first. Watch and all will be revealed. Well, not all. Pretty cool, eh?
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush forgot to ask Turkey if the Navy could steam thru the Bosporus to Georgia
8-15-08
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McClatchyDC.com
Ankara, a NATO ally, hadn't cleared any U.S. naval vessels to steam to Georgia through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, the narrow straits that connect the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, the officials said.
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush and Henry Kissinger display their true colors at the Olympics
8-17-08
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Politicalhumor.about.com
Can you say Freudian slip.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
South Ossetia, Georgia, Russia and the Path to War
08-12-2008
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briefing report: www.globalsecurity.org
If FoxNews or CNN isn't enough for you and you really want to understand the dynamics of the current conflict - which has the potential of going critical - then this page and its links are what you need to know. Pay close attention because there
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News Link • Israel
War in Georgia: The Israeli Connection
08-15-2008
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by Arie Egozi, Ynet News Israel08-10-2008
For the past 7 years, Israeli companies have been helping the Georgian Army prepare for war against Russia through arms deals, training of infantry units, and security advice. The fact that Georgia's defense minister, Davit Kezerashvili, is a fo
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush condemns 'bullying' Russia
8-15-08
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news.BBC.co.uk
In a statement at the White House, Mr Bush accused Russia of "bullying and intimidation", saying it was an unacceptable "way to conduct foreign policy in the 21st Century".
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News Link • Police State
TV News crew crashes Denver's DNC 'concentration camp'
8-15-08
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Rawstory.com
"We showed up at the facility unannounced today, the doors were wide open, and we managed to shoot for several minutes until a Denver sheriff's captain asked us to leave."
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