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Date Sent: 2007-07-13
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
al-Qaida Has Rebuilt, U.S. Intel Warns -- Would Iraqi Civil War Hurt the US?
Bush's sends a girl into tears -- Pentagon criticized for armor contracts -- Violations Of California Election Law -- Pope: Other Christians Not True Churches -- Fred Thompson's 'abortion woes' -- Pentagon Whistle-Blower Tangled with Neo-Cons and Lost -- Civil Liberties Violations & Perjury -- Ex- convicts and addicts to get DoD clearance -- Arizona immigrants await crackdown -- Pipeline bomber sought to topple Bush -- Military files left unprotected online -- Firefighters Target Giuliani -- Ron Paul and Bernanke -- War Made Easy (Movie) -- Operation Spooner - Hello Iowa? Freedom Calling -- Concert at Ed & Elaine Brown's Home - w/ "Poker Face" -- Ron Paul Registered 0% Support in Latest USA Today Poll -- US cities try London-style camera surveillance -- Educating American Children to be Citizens of the World -- Ron Paul Revolution , Memphis Style -- Arab League historic visits Israel -- Kentucky State PD crime lab faked evidence -- Special treatment for Uncle Sam? -- Bush again links Iraq violence to 9/11
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush's sarcastic response sends a girl into tears
7-12-2007
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Raw Story
President Bush got a different reaction from a 13-year-old girl who asked him about immigration during a forum. The Washington Times reports Jessica Hackerd was left in tears after Bush gave her a wry "yeah, thanks" in response to her query
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Pentagon criticized for armor contracts
7-11-2007
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Muckracker Report
The Defense Department put U.S. troops in Iraq at risk by awarding contracts for badly needed armored vehicles to companies that failed to deliver them on schedule, according to a review by the Pentagon's inspector general.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Potential Violations Of California Election Law Revealed CA SoS's 'Top-to-Bottom Review'
7-11-2007
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Brad Blog
The results of California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's "top-to-bottom review" of electronic voting systems previously approved for use by her predecessor is still underway. But before any of the findings from her teams of security s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Pope: Other Christians Not True Churches
7-11-2007
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AP
Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
CNN profiles Fred Thompson's 'abortion woes'
7-11-2007
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Raw Story
CNN's Situation Room documented Fred Thompson's struggles to distance himself from past lobbying activity on behalf of a pro-choice organization, first reported by the Los Angeles Times.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Pentagon Whistle-Blower Tangled with Neo-Cons and Lost
7-11-2007
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Wired
Congress had prevented the sale of any equipment that could deliver nuclear weapons. Barlow pointed out that selling the jets to Pakistan would violate non-proliferation laws and complained that the Pentagon was misleading Congress on the issue.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Civil Liberties Violations
7-11-2007
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Washington Post
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified he was unaware of civil liberties violations committed by the FBI during its exercise of Patriot Act powers. But Gonzales was sent notifications when such violations occurred and had reported to the Intelli
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Ex- convicts and addicts may get DoD clearance
7-11-2007
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The Hill
At the Pentagon’s request, Senate defense authorizers tucked deep within a defense bill a repeal of the department’s restriction on granting security clearances to ex-convicts, drug addicts and the mentally incompetent.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Would Iraqi Civil War Hurt the US?
7-11-2007
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by Ivan Elund (Antiwar)
Even the worst-case scenario after a total U.S. withdrawal " a full-blown Iraqi civil war that drags in neighboring states " would be bad for Iraqis, but it would have only minimal effects on U.S. security. No one would care if it weren't for its
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Uncertainty as Arizona immigrants await crackdown
7-11-2007
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Reuters
She has 15 years experience scrubbing and vacuuming offices and private homes in and around Phoenix and hopes that having her own firm will get herself and her clients out of a bind. "This way I will be able to work for myself and the employers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Accused pipeline bomber sought to topple Bush -FBI
7-11-2007
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Reuters
A U.S. man accused of plotting to blow up oil pipelines sought to bring down the Bush administration and expressed regret for the death of an al Qaeda leader, an FBI official said. Reynolds faces charges of planning to attack energy installations, tr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
MA. woman found innocent of animal cruelty by NH jury
07-11-2007
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Fosters Online
A Massachusetts woman was found innocent of animal cruelty after New Hampshire prosecutors failed to prove she was responsible for the welfare of a dog left outside her parents' home overnight in subzero temperatures.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • TERRORISM
al-Qaida Has Rebuilt, U.S. Intel Warns
7-11-2007
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Newsweek
[Well, what have the last 5 years, $2 trillion, 3,600 lives, 25,000 wounded been about?] U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded al-Qaida has rebuilt its operating capability to a level not seen since just before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Bee
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Military files left unprotected online
7-11-2007
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AP
Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq. Geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad. Plans for a new fuel farm at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
The military calls it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Firefighters Target Giuliani on 9/11 Leadership
07-11-2007
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NewsMax.com
In a video being released Wednesday, New York City firefighters and their families criticize former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his handling of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul and Bernanke
07-11-2007
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US House Committee on Financial Services via LRock
Wednesday, July 18, at 10:00am Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the House Committee on Financial Services on "Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy," with questions from Committee members, including Ron Paul.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Registered 0% Support in Latest USA Today Poll (shocking :)
07-11-2007
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TransWorldNews (sound sinister enough? :)
Romney is leading in Iowa and New Hampshire but did not even get double digits. We've yet to see a credible scientific poll taken in Iowa since Ron Paul's Iowa Rally and that would be particularly more telling for Ron Paul's campaign than
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Should US cities try a London-style camera network?
7-11-2007
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Christian Science Monitor
The speed with which London's ubiquitous surveillance cameras helped identify would-be bombers has prompted calls for extensive closed-circuit television networks in the US.
In the first such public effort in the US, New York is planning to be
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Revolution , Memphis Style
07-11-2007
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YouTube
This is a video about our efforts on July 3rd "The Great Ron Paul Overnight". We called it Operation "Paint the Town Ron". Enjoy
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
(Video) Local Austin News Coverage of the Ron Paul Revolution
07-11-2007
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RonPaulRevolution.com
The news coverage is increasing because Ron Paul can not be ignored any longer.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
Arab League to make historic visit to Israel
07-11-2007
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Radio Free Europe
For the first time ever, the 22-nation Arab League is set to send a delegation to Israel. Its mission: to discuss a sweeping peace initiative with the Jewish state, as well as the threat posed by Hamas and other Islamic extremist movements.
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Corruption
Kentucky State Police crime drylabbing suspicions too great to ignore
7-11-2007
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Muckracker
July 12, 2007 -- According to Double-Tongued Dictionary: a lexicon of fringe English, focusing on slang, jargon, and new words, “drylabbing” is defined as the faking of laboratory test results, especially when the test has not been [read more]
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Ed Haas
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Special treatment for Uncle Sam?
07-11-2007
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Der Spiegel
About 390 CIA-run flights through German airspace were in violation of German law, and Berlin could have collected millions of euros in fines. Now internal investigations could make things embarrassing for Gerhard Schroder's government as well a
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush again links Iraq violence to 9/11
07-11-2007
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McClatchy Newspapers
Struggling to stem growing opposition to his Iraq policy even among Republicans, President Bush contended anew Tuesday that the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks in the US are the same as al Qaida in Iraq, a violent insurgent group
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Military
Navy readies a pullback in Persian Gulf
07-11-2007
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New York Sun
The Navy is making plans to reduce the American presence in the Persian Gulf by the end of the summer to a single carrier group, down from the two carrier groups in the Gulf. The preparation to reduce the American presence in the Persain Gulf
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The uptick rule: nice knowing you
07-11-2007
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Traders Narrative
In this quiet , shortened trading week, something historic will happen. As of today, July 3rd 2007 the 'uptick' rule will be eliminated. If you're new to all this, the uptick rule limits how a trader can sell a stock short. The rule on
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Turkish PM refuses to rule out invasion of Iraq
07-11-2007
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Times Online
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, today denied any immediate plans to authorise a military invasion in northern Iraq. But he hinted that once elections have taken place later this month that he would reassess Turkey's options.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Iran
Avoiding war with Iran
07-11-2007
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Huffington Post (Philip Giraldi)
(It seems the Democrats want war with Iran more than the GOP) The Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007, which would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2008, tightens the screws on Iran's economy. It sensibly denies a nuclear cooperation agreement with
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Torture
Abu Ghraib: The unknown atrocities
07-11-2007
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Anti War blog
A video with former soldiers who were at Abu Gharib prison in Iraq. (Note: Strong language used here. Be aware)
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bush Administration
Former Bush adviser to say no to Senate
07-11-2007
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AP
President Bush's former political director says she intends to follow his directive and not answer questions about her role in the adminstration's firing of federal prosecutors -- unless a court directs her to defy her former boss.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
Giuliani names Podhoretz as foreign policy advisor
07-11-2007
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Talking Points Memo
Rudy sure knows how to pick them. From Thomas Ravenel(indicted for dealing coke) who was his South Carolina campaign chair to Sen. David Vitter(aka Sen. Wild Thing) as his Southern Regional Chair. Lord knows what's next.
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Jean Carbonneau
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