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Date Sent: 2007-10-02
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Senate OKs Bush War Budget 92-3 -- Chicago Police Dept. Murders, Tortures

Torture and rape reported in Iraqi children prisons -- Hillary, War with Iran is No Laughing Matter -- Canadian Drug War -- US to implement rules for Internet gambling ban -- Domestic spy satellite program on hold ... for now -- Infrared Scans May Regulate Traffic Lanes -- Burma: Thousands dead -- Defense contractor's trial set to begin -- Which 5 Senators were absent for vote on War funding -- Financial institutions nationwide are undergoing a 3-week test of a fake flu pandemic -- MISH: Mortgage Forgiveness Act -- 30 Year Continuous Power Laptop Battery -- Iran-Russia Evacuates Nuclear Power plant staff -- Secret White House Meeting to Destroy "Uncooperative Churches" -- DHS Backs Away from Proposed Permanent Southern Arizona Checkpoint -- Many soldiers get boot for 'pre-existing' mental illness -- Air Force arranged no-work contract -- Swiss bank UBS warns of big losses -- Private student loan bubble could burst -- Phoenix airport victim's plea before dying: I'm not a terrorist! -- State Dept official threatened investigators -- Citigroup Warns of 60% Earnings Drop -- Chine$e $ell-off rumor$ trigger$ concern -- Recession Concern Spurs U.S. Bond Rally -- Gates Tells Lawmakers Iraq War Is Hurting Afghanistan Mission -- Greenspan's Dark Legacy Unmasked -- 'The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing'

News Link • Eugenics
Less than 2 weeks before voter registration closes in New Hampshire
10-1-2007 • Ron Paul Nation
Many STATES have CLOSED Primaries! What does this mean??? It means if you are NOT REGISTERED REPUBLICAN, You will NOT be able to vote for Ron Paul in the PRIMARY election. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • World News
China Communist elder issues bold call for democracy
10-1-2007 • Reuters
In a bold jab before a key meeting of China's Communists, a 90-year-old former secretary to Mao Zedong has urged the Party to embrace democracy, saying that only political freedom can end instability and corruption. Li Rui issued his demand for c Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bush Administration
New U.S. military focus: Africa
10-1-2007 • DC Notes
Though little noticed outside of the Pentagon, the attack occurred on Sept. 11 in Mali, a northwest African state that the Pentagon fears could become home to havens for terrorists. A US C-130 transport plane was hit by machine-gun fire after it drop Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Torture and rape reported in Iraqi children prisons
10-1-2007 • Azzaman
Even children can be detained in Iraq placed in special jails. But that is not enough. They can also be raped, tortured and burned. The new picture emerging from the US-led ‘liberation’ of a country that has been bleeding since US invaded in 2003. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Foreign Policy
US world's largest 3rd world arms dealer
10-1-2007 • NY Times
The United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain, according to a Congressional study to be released Monday. Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia were the top buyers. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
The Mean Streets of Homeland Security
10-2-2007 • Antiwar
Here, police in uniform with video cameras were proudly out in the open shooting what looked like continuous footage of us all. And that was the least of it. We demonstrators were surrounded by a veritable army of police, on horseback, on motorbike, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Israel
Upcoming legal battle dramatizes rising concern about the Israel lobby
10-1-2007 • Antiwar
It seems to have fallen down the memory hole or been consigned to the purgatory of forgotten news stories: the indictment of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two top officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). More than three ye Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Torture
Long-Suffering Mauritanian Sent Home From Gitmo
10-1-2007 • Antiwar
For over 5 1/2 years the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has held hundreds of innocent men. Humanitarian aid workers, teachers or students of the Koran, businessmen, economic migrants, and refugees from persecution �" all were swept up for bounty paym Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Gravel: Hillary, War with Iran is No Laughing Matter
10-1-2007 • HuffPo
Hillary, I'm glad to see you got a good laugh when I confronted you during last week's debate over your vote calling the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. The American public finally got to see your cavalier attitude towar Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Drug War
Canadian Drug War
10-1-2007 • Canadian Press
Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy with a stark warning: "The party's over" for illicit drug users. "In the next few days, we're going to be back in the business o Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Internet
US to implement rules for Internet gambling ban
10-1-2007 • AFP
US authorities unveiled rules Monday to implement a law passed last year banning Internet gambling, which would prohibit payments made through US-based banks, credit cards and other systems. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
Domestic spy satellite program on hold ... for now
10-1-2007 • Raw Story
The Department of Homeland Security is not implementing a plan to dramatically widen law enforcement agencies' access to spy satellite data as intended after lawmakers raised privacy concerns and called for cuts to the agency's funding. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Transportation
Infrared Scans May Regulate HOT Lanes
10-1-2007 • Washington Post
Are drivers ready to be scanned like groceries at the supermarket? Technology scans drivers and passengers with bursts of infrared light that detect human skin. The technology is so sophisticated that it can distinguish human faces from decoy dummies Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • World News
Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle
10-1-2007 • Daily Mail
Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed. [Now you know where they all disappeared to.] Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Corruption
Defense contractor's trial set to begin
10-1-2007 • AP
Defense contractor Brent Wilkes hosted fancy dinner parties and chartered jets for powerful members of Congress while his company was racking up more than $100 million in government contracts. The lawmakers who enjoyed the largess were often the same Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Gosh, which 5 Senators were absent for vote on War funding
10-1-2007 • Antiwar
Today the Senate passed Bush’s war funding request by an overwhelming vote of 92-3. Quite a coincidence about the five who didn’t vote: they are all Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
Financial institutions nationwide are undergoing a 3-week test of a fake flu pandemic
10-1-2007 • Canton Rep
Hundreds of banks and other financial institutions are participating in the largest test of its kind ever conducted to ensure the nation’s financial system can keep functioning in case of an outbreak of pandemic flu. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Trouser Chili

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mortgage Forgiveness Act - The Seen and Unseen
10-1-2007 • MISH: Global Economic Analysis
The House passed the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007. The NAHB, NAR, and MBA all lined up in support. But unseen consequences of the bill may make them think twice in years to come. Legislation piles on top of legislation. Instead, the e Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Shedlock

News Link • Bush Administration
Senate OKs Bush War Budget 92-3
10-1-2007 • AP
Thwarted in efforts to bring troops home from Iraq, Senate Democrats on Monday helped pass a defense policy bill authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read Full Story
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Scientists Invent 30 Year Continuous Power Laptop Battery
10-01-2007 • Next Energy News
Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavoltaic power cells are constructed from semiconducto Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Dugger

News Link • Books
Crazed Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania Authorities Go After Book Collector - Our Tax Dollars At Work
10-1-2007 • Bad Cop News
WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA - A bookstore owner’s obsession with the written word has cost him his Pennsylvania home after local officials deemed his book collection a fire hazard. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Geoffrey Hayes

Opinion  • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Ron Paul Revolution
10-03-2007
Howard Blitz
   Although only polling four percent in the mainstream media, Ron Paul is taking the Internet by storm and is now given a 4 to 1 chance to win the presidency. Through YouTube and MySpace, Ron Paul continues to accumulate a following of young and old,
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News Link • Iran
Iran-Russia Evacuates Entire Bushehr Nuclear Power plant staff
10-1-2007 • Rense
Iranian news outlets claims nuclear experts packed their bags Friday, increasing speculation of an imminent U.S., Israeli attack. Read Full Story
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Opinion  • Conspiracies
Words Eye View
Secret White House Meeting to Destroy "Uncooperative Churches"
10/01/07
Greg J Dixon
   Did you know that every leading branch of government including the State Department, Attorney General, US Treasury, IRS, Reno's Justice Dept., FBI, representatives from the UN and Senior White House aides along with the head of the IRS's Exem
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Feature Article  • Police State
DHS Backs Away from Proposed Permanent Southern Arizona Checkpoint
Terry Bressi
   Giffords once again uses the pretext of illegal narcotics as an excuse for legitimizing interior Homeland Security checkpoints which interfere with the right to privacy and travel that every American (used to) enjoy.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Chicago Police Dept.: Murder, Torture Inc. Yet Again
10-1-2007 • AP
Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago's troubled police department reeling again. Federal prosecutors are also investigating claims Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Arizona's Top News
Autopsy set in handcuffed mother's death
10-1-2007 • CNN
Police handcuffed Gotbaum with her hands behind her back and took her to a holding cell, where she was later found dead. Police "found her with the handcuffs up by her neck area. There are many people that are able to get handcuffs around their Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Eugenics
Videos from Ron Paul's Family Walk in New Hampshire
Ernest Hancock
   At first the campaign asked for a $500,000 target to be met as a demonstration of support at the end of the reporting quarter. He raised $1.2 million in a week. This video demonstrates why.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Household Debt and GDP Growth
10-01-2007 • suddendebt.blogspot.com
Our economic growth during the past few years was almost entirely a result of households consuming by going deeper into debt. Read Full Story
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News Link • Media: Television
WMUR NH TV to Ron Paul: 'Drop Dead'?
10-01-2007 • Free Market News
Once again New Hampshire's state-wide TV station apparently declined to cover GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Tex), even though his well-attended "Family Day" rally took place this past weekend in Manchester where WMUR is located Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Military
Many soldiers get boot for 'pre-existing' mental illness
10-01-2007 • St Louis Post-Dispatch
Thousands of US soldiers in Iraq -- as many as 10 a day -- are being discharged by the military for mental health reasons. But the Pentagon isn't blaming the war. It says the soldiers had "pre-existing" conditions that disqualify them Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Corruption
Air Force arranged no-work contract
10-01-2007 • Washington Post
While waiting to be confirmed by the White House for a top civilian post at the Air Force last year, Charles D. Riechers was out of work and wanted a paycheck. So the Air Force helped arrange a job through an intelligence contractor that required Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Economy - International
Swiss bank UBS warns of big losses, blames US housing crisis
10-1-2007 • AFP
Swiss banking giant UBS warned the crisis in the US housing market had cost it $3.4 billion US dollars from its fixed income, rates and currencies division, as it announced a major management shakeup and plans to cut 1,500 jobs. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Reference Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Operation Mockingbird
Wikipedia
Operation Mockingbird was a CIA operation to influence domestic and foreign media, whose activities were made public during the Church Committee investigation in 1975.
Entered by: Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Private student loan bubble could burst
10-01-2007 • AP
The near doubling in the cost of a college degree the past decade has produced an explosion in high-priced student loans that could haunt the US economy for years. While scholarship, grant money and government-backed student loans Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • TAXES: State
Michigan lawmakers reach budget deal
10-01-2007 • AP
The state Legislature agreed early Monday to raise the income tax and expand the sales tax to services in a deal with the governor that quickly ended a partial state government shutdown. For a little more than four hours, fewer state police Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix airport victim's plea before dying: I'm not a terrorist!
10-1-2007 • NY Daily News
The daughter-in-law of one of New York's top officials screamed, "I'm not a terrorist!" and fought with security officials in the Phoenix airport before being wrestled to the ground and handcuffed, witnesses told the Daily News yest Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Corruption
State Dept official threatened investigators
10-01-2007 • McClatchy Newspapers
Aides to State Dept Inspector General Howard Krongard threatened two investigators with retaliation this week if they cooperate with a congressional probe into Krongard's office, the chairman of a House of Rep panel and other officials Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Immigration
Employers brace for immigration rules
10-01-2007 • San Luis Obispo.com
Upcoming court decision could lead to detailed, binding program that will verify workers' employment status or levy penalties. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • WAR: About that War
US, Iraqi civilian deaths see decline
10-01-2007 • AP
Deaths among American forces and Iraqi civilian deaths feel dramatically last month. The US Embassy, meanwhile, joined a broad swath of Iraqi politicians -- both Shiite and Sunni -- in criticizing a nonbinding US Senate resolution seen here as a rec Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Citigroup Warns of 60% Earnings Drop
10-1-2007 • AP
Citigroup Inc., the nation's largest financial institution, warned its 3rd-quarter earnings are likely to decline 60%, as it takes more than $3 billion in writedowns for securities backed by underperforming mortgages and loans tied to corporate b Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Conspiracies
Chinese $ sell-off rumors triggers concern, conspiracies
10-01-2007 • Free Market News
Recently, Free Market News reported that at least 2 major Chinese banks have adopted a policy to "sell dollars and buy euros and gold". But the possibility of a Chinese dollar dump has triggered far more elaborate - conspiratorial - rumors Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession Concern Spurs U.S. Bond Rally on Fed Ease
10-1-2007 • Bloomberg
For the first time since 1995, the U.S. bond market is rallying on the assumption that the Federal Reserve has relegated inflation to a secondary concern because the central bank views a recession as a much greater threat to the economy. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Gates Tells Lawmakers Iraq War Is Hurting Afghanistan Mission
10-1-2007 • Bloomberg
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told a group of U.S. House Democratic lawmakers that the multinational mission in Afghanistan is suffering from a lack of resources, citing the war in Iraq and the reluctance of U.S. allies to contribute more troops Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Economy - Economics USA
Greenspan's Dark Legacy Unmasked
Stephen Lendman
   Alan Greenspan's dark legacy refutes his historical revisionism
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News Link • Iran
'The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing' Seymour Hersh
10-01-2007 • Seymour Hersh
Hersh: We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we've had 20 of them, Krushchev and Mao and of course Stalin, and for a little while Gadhafi was our Hitler. Read Full Story
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News Link • Iran
S. Hersh: 'War with Iran will be about protecting the troops in Iraq'
9-30-2007 • Raw Story
The Bush Administration is all but set to authorize a campaign of limited, surgical airstrikes against Iranian targets, Hersh reports in the New Yorker's latest edition. Read Full Story
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