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Date Sent: 2007-08-15
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Final reckoning days away for Musharraf -- Gonzales Could Get Say in States’ Executions

Clinton's First Lady Records Locked Up -- Do US, Iraqi Officials Undercount Detainees? -- Our war crimes -- Bad guys make even worse allies -- Why Isn't the Press on a Suicide Watch? -- Reporters ordered to testify in leak case -- Should a tazer have been used on a man holding a baby? -- Have Christians Already Accepted The Mark Of The Beast? -- Somalia: The rubble and the blossom -- Remember the fall of Rome -- NSA wiretapping trial begins -- ABA targets CIA methods, secrets law -- National ID? How about a global ID? -- Heroin found in car of top Afghan border official

Feature Article  • Eugenics
RonPaulRevolution in Ames, Iowa Straw Poll (Video)
Ernest Hancock
   Behind the scenes build up to the Iowa Straw Poll
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Beyond Padilla terror case, huge legal issues
8-14-2007 • Christian Science Monitor
Jose Padilla is known worldwide as the man who plotted with Al Qaeda to detonate a radiological "dirty bomb" in a major US city. He allegedly presented his plan to top Al Qaeda leaders Abu Zubaydah and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Moham Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Mitt Romney spends over $1100 per vote to win the Iowa Straw Poll
8-14-2007 • Sons of Liberty
Tonight I stumbled across an article on washingtonpost.com detailing the extensive expenditures of the Mitt Romney campaign in the months and weeks leading up to his victory the Iowa Straw Poll. I’ve always thought that math is fun, so let’s see if Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bush Administration
‘If he’s so smart, how come you lost Congress?’
8-14-2007 • Carpetbagger Report
When the president and Karl Rove delivered brief statements at the White House yesterday, reporters were not allowed to ask questions. One spoke up anyway. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Internet
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
8-14-2007 • Wired
On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digi Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Clinton's First Lady Records Locked Up
8-14-2007 • LA Times
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president, but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building here, obscuring a large swath of her record a Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Criminal Justice System
Gonzales Could Get Say in States’ Executions
8-14-2007 • LA Times
The Justice Department is putting the final touches on regulations that could give Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales important new sway over death penalty cases in California and other states, including the power to shorten the time that death row inmat Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Do US, Iraqi Officials Undercount Detainees?
8-14-2007 • Iraq Slogger
An Iraqi official who heads the government committee tasked with inspecting detention facilities announced shocking figures this weekend, estimating the number of detainees held in US and Iraqi-run prisons at 67,000. The admission sparked the Iraqi g Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Steven Greenhut: Our war crimes
8-14-2007 • Orange County Register
What should be our reaction when American troops in Iraq behave in troubling ways? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bush Administration
Bad guys make even worse allies
8-14-2007 • LA Times
It was classic bureaucratic bungling in a report criticizing the Pentagon's failure to keep proper records and track weapons flows. But there may have been another factor -- the government's dangerous and bumbling use of bad guys. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • World News
Final reckoning days away for Musharraf
8-14-2007 • Financial Times
Confronted by the gravest crisis of his eight-year rule, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, faces an ever-shrinking menu of options. In recent weeks he has spent much of his time shut away in his military camp in Rawalpindi, surrounded by self-i Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Why Isn't the Press on a Suicide Watch?
8-14-2007 • E & P
You'd never know that at least 3% of all American deaths in Iraq are due to self-inflicted wounds. And that doesn't include the many vets who have killed themselves after returning home. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Housing
SoCal home sales now 54% below peak
8-14-2007 • LA Times
Southern California home sales continued to slump in July, falling 27% from year-ago levels, and are now running 54% below peak levels reached in July 2003, DataQuick reported today. Some industry experts have warned that August sales may be even we Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Housing
"Blood in the water" in Florida property market
8-14-2007 • Reuters
Until two years ago, middle-class retirees vied with property speculators for houses and apartments on Florida's sun-drenched Gulf Coast. Now almost every other house on some of its streets has a for-sale sign outside. With a bloated inventory Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Calif. squirrels heat tails for defense
8-14-2007 • AP
California ground squirrels have learned to intimidate rattlesnakes by heating their tails and shaking them aggressively. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • World News
North Korea seeks help after massive flooding
8-14-2007 • Reuters
North Korea is seeking foreign help after massive flooding left hundreds dead or missing and swept away many buildings, a U.N. aid agency spokesman said. North Korea, which has struggled with chronic food shortages for years, said in a report early Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Media: Print
Reporters told to testify in leak case
8-14-2007 • AP
Five journalists must identify the government officials who leaked them details about a scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks, a federal judge said. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Criminal Justice System
Should a tazer have been used on a man holding a baby?
8-14-2007 • AP
In this case a security officer tazes an father who is holding his new born. The father wanted to take the new born home but for some reason isnt allowed. (That's a whole other story in itself;...To whom does a baby belong? The parents? The hospi Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chip Saunders

Opinion  • Philosophy: Political
Have Christians Already Accepted The Mark Of The Beast?
08-14-2007
Chuck Baldwin
   Christians throughout church history have debated the nuances of Eschatology. These debates will doubtless last until Jesus Himself decides to end them.
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Opinion  • Domestic Policy
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
08-15-2007
Howard Blitz
   Tomorrow at 7 PM at the Historic Downtown Yuma Theatre, 254 S. Main Street, The Freedom Library will screen the movie, Sophie Scholl �" The Final Days. Nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie is the true story
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Somalia: The rubble and the blossom
08-14-2007 • Liberty Unbound
Go to the world's worst-run country, and discover that what the government can't run prospers. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Remember the fall of Rome
08-14-2007 • Government Accounting Office
David Walker, comptroller general of the US is warning of the same collapse that Rome suffered. His reccomendations aren't correct, but his assessment is frank, and rather sober. (And it's only 14 pages) Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Homeland Security
Building a better beast
08-14-2007 • Freedom in our Time(Will Grigg)
Let it not be said that the disastrous and unjustifiable Iraq war has failed to yield commercial spin-offs. Just as the first Gulf War famously prompted the Chinese General Staff to begin a crash modernization of the People's Libertation Army Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Criminal Justice System
NSA wiretapping trial begins
08-14-2007 • Christian Science Monitor
In the federal appeals court in San Francisco Wednesday, lawyers for a Saudi charity accused of helping Al Qaeda will argue that their clients, including two American attorneys, were illegally spied on without the required court warrant. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
ABA targets CIA methods, secrets law
08-14-2007 • LA Times
The American Bar Association voted Monday to urge Congress to override a Bush adminstration order authorizing the CIA to use interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, and sensory and sleep deprivation. The nation's largest lawyers' Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Police State
National ID? How about a global ID?
08-14-2007 • Infoworld
The Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems(FIXs) -- a little-known group of non-profits, government contractors, commercial entities, and government agencies -- has just unveiled a first-of-its-kind global infrastructure to support Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Drug War
Herion found in car of top Afghan border official
08-14-2007 • ABC News Blog
A manhunt is on in Afghanistan for the man President Hamid Karzai wanted to name head of his country's border police. ABC News has learned, following the discovery that the official owned a care filled with heroin intercepted by members Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

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