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Date Sent: 2008-08-29
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, August 29, 2008 |
Our own Shelton arrested for photo radar activities -- GOP considers delaying convention
Computer virus infects International Space Station laptops -- Army holds prep school for High School drop out new recruits -- Jury acquits former Marine in killing of detainees -- Russia may cut off oil flow to the West -- Denver DNC what the Police are doing for those exercising First amendment -- Cracks in the Empire -- RNC panel calls Nevada GOP 'inept' -- Military help for Georgia is a 'declaration of war',... -- Ron Paul throws the Fed and American foreign policy under the Bus -- Steve Jobs' death greatly exaggerated -- Recession is likely by year end: Chamber of Commerce -- Rocket Racing League Tests New Engine -- Jailed Anti-Castro Cuban punk rocker to stand trial -- Top Iraqi official arrested at Baghdad airport by US -- Thai rail starts partial strike in anti-government rally -- A raft made of junk crosses Pacific in 3 months -- Judge Fears Secret Hearings Over Guantanamo Detainees -- Blogger arrested over leak of Guns N' Roses songs
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Scottsdale launches all-out assault on freedom of speech
08/28/2008
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CameraFRAUD.com
Scottsdale Police has arrested a reporter who was videographing anti-camera activists. Two individuals were exercising their first-amendment rights by waving signs on a sidewalk on Shea Blvd when, incredulously, the Scottsdale Police arrested the per
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Drug War
Bolivian Is an Uneasy Ally as U.S. Presses Drug War
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NY Times
The refrain here in the Chapare jungle about Americans is short but powerful: “Long Live Coca, Death to the Yanquis!”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
GOP considers delaying convention due to large competing howling wind
8-28-2008
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Washington Post
Republican officials said yesterday that they are considering delaying the start of the GOP convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul because of Tropical Storm Gustav, which is on track to hit the Gulf Coast, and possibly New Orleans, as a full-force hurric
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Computer virus infects International Space Station laptops
8-28-2008
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Daily Telegraph
A malicious computer virus that steals passwords has been brought on board the International Space Station, NASA has confirmed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Army holds prep school for High School drop out new recruits
8-28-2008
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AP
The U.S. Army, eager to fill its ranks amid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, doesn't see them as dropouts. They are recruits who only need a GED before they're ready to begin basic training. And so, the Army formally opens its first prep school
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Jury acquits former Marine in killing of detainees
8-28-2008
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AP
A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial that ended with some of the jurors shaking hands and hugging the defendant and his sobbing mother.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Russia may cut off oil flow to the West
8-28-08
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Telegraph.co.uk
Fears are mounting that Russia may restrict oil deliveries to Western Europe over coming days, in response to the threat of EU sanctions and Nato naval actions in the Black Sea.
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News Link • Drug War
LEAP latest victim of Government Censorship
08-28-2008
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LEAP
Retired police detective, Howard Wooldridge, representing Law Enforcement Against Prohibition(LEAP) was ousted from the National Asian Peace Officers Association(NAPOA) Conference in Crystal City because he was
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Police State
Denver DNC what the Police are doing for those exercising First amendment
8/28/08
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http://www.apfn.org/apfn/dnc2008.htm
What a nice place to spend a weekend in. Are we still living in the united States of America?
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Media: Television
Alex Jones 9/11 Truth on MSNBC Hardball @ Denver DNC
8/28/08
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http://www.youtube.com/
Watch as Chris Matthews' MSNBC Hardball at the Denver DNC is taken over by Alex Jones and We Are Change Colorado, whose "9/11 Was an Inside Job" chants can be heard as loud as the program's hosts thanks to Jones' bullhorn. For m
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
RNC panel calls Nevada GOP 'inept'
8-28-2008
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AOL News / AP
A ruling from the Republican National Committee panel said the state party violated rules when it appointed, rather than elected, its group of 34 delegates and 31 alternates, according to a report obtained by The AP on Thursday.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Family
Oprah Magazine: Female Teachers Who Have Sex with Students Are Misguided Poor Souls Looking for Love
08/28/08
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Glenn Sacks
Jay, a reader, recently wrote me a letter about an article in Oprah magazine on the number of female teachers caught having sex with their students, such as Debra Lafave (pictured). The article is "Why Did the Teacher Have Sex With Her Student?*
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Economy - International
Cracks in the Empire
08-27-2008
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Michael S. Rozeff for LewRockwell.com
The entire enterprise of Government, in the bloated and intrusive form we know it as, is destined to fail. The failure of any and every coercive monopoly Government is assured by its own dynamics.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul throws the Fed and American foreign policy under the Bus
8-28-08
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HousingPanic.com
Ron Paul tells it like it is! video
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession is likely by year end: Chamber of Commerce
08-27-2008
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www.reuters.com
(Q: "When will we know we are in a depression?" A: "When it is admitted that we are in a 'Recession'.")
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Rocket Racing League Tests New Engine
8-28-2008
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Space.com
A rocket-powered racer successfully passed its first three flight tests with a new liquid oxygen and alcohol engine, setting the stage for a possible demonstration race in the sky at the 2008 Reno Air Races next month.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Intensifying the Sun
08-27-2008
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Technology Review
Jon Mapel, cofounder of Covalent Solar, explains how the solar-power company got its start and how its technology works. (get the estimated increase in solar power of 40% and the world will change)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Top Iraqi official arrested at Baghdad airport by US
8-28-2008
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AP
Al-Lami's detention could discredit attempts by the Shiite-led government to keep top supporters of Saddam Hussein out of senior government jobs as he was in charge of that task, as head of a committee that screens former Baath party members.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Jailed Anti-Castro Cuban punk rocker to stand trial
8-28-2008
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AP
Performing songs with angry lyrics that poke fun at or openly insult Fidel Castro and his brother Raul, who is Cuba's president, Porno para Ricardo was banned from official Cuban airwaves, but has continued to hold concerts behind closed doors.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Thai rail starts partial strike in anti-government rally
8-28-2008
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Reuters
Thai rail workers began a partial strike on Thursday, joining a protest by thousands of people barricaded inside the prime minister's official compound whose leaders vowed to stay until his government fell.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Sheriff breaks law in e-mail to America's Toughest Sheriff
8-28-2008
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East Valley Tribune
Pinal County Sheriff Chris Vasquez is asking his Maricopa County counterpart Joe Arpaio not to bad-mouth him before the upcoming election. Vasquez, a Democrat, sent Arpaio, a Republican, an e-mail asking the politically popular Arpaio to be nice to h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Judge Fears Secret Hearings Over Guantanamo Detainees
8-28-2008
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AP
A federal judge overseeing cases against dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees said yesterday that he fears the public " and the detainees themselves " will be locked out of the courtroom when evidence in the case is scrutinized
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
A raft made of junk crosses Pacific in 3 months
8-28-2008
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AP
Tanned, dirty and hungry, 2 men who spent 3 months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land. "We made it," hollered Marcus Eriksen. "Where's the food?**
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News Link • WAR: About that War
First Afghan medalist lands to hero's welcome
8-28-2008
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Reuters
Thousands of jubilant Afghans packed the national stadium to give the country's first Olympic medal winner Rohullah Nikpai a hero's welcome. Nikpai, who won a taekwondo bronze medal, was met by Vice-President Karim Khalili at Kabul airport in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Blogger arrested over leak of Guns N' Roses songs
8-28-2008
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AP
A 27-year-old blogger suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" on his web site was arrested by FBI agents on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws, and his bail was set at $10,000.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Denver Police Have Already Arrested About 100 Protesters
8-27-2008
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HuffPo
The confrontation erupted Monday night as police in riot gear tried to disperse a crowd of about 300 people that was disrupting traffic. Police said they were forced to use pepper spray when members of the crowd, some carrying rocks, rushed a police
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Kucinich tells DNC: 'Wake up America!'
08-27-2008
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RawStory.com
DENVER -- He might not have had the marquee billing of a Mark Warner or a Hillary Clinton, but Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) nonetheless whipped his party faithful into a frenzy Tuesday evening.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Judges consider whether FBI violated free speech
8-27-2008
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Reuters
A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a U.S. government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking information should remain secret.
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Powell Gammill
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