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Date Sent: 2007-08-01
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, August 1, 2007 |
Dow Jones OKs its sale to News Corp -- Britain take troops out of Iraq -- US to boost debt limit
Giving Gonzo cover, by admitting domestic spying worse than stated -- Candidates urged to sign anti-torture pledge -- California foreclosures -- The US is a safe haven for terrorists -- MISH: One Speech Two Interpretations -- Four million Iraqis on the run -- How to win in Iraq -- Voting Machines Breached -- Ron Paul Radio -- It's a Worldwide RonPaulRevolution -- Iraqi parliament misses key deadline -- CREW cleaning the GOP's House -- Censure and Impeachment: Take 2 -- More People Expected to Default on Mortgage
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News Link • Police State
Giving Gonzo cover, by admitting domestic spying worse than stated
7-31-2007
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Reuters
The Bush administration's top intelligence official has acknowledged that a controversial domestic surveillance program was only one part of a much broader spying effort, The Washington Post reported in its Wednesday edition.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Candidates urged to sign anti-torture pledge
7-31-2007
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Reuters
A coalition of civil rights groups launched a campaign urging presidential candidates to sign an "American Freedom Pledge" rejecting torture, detention without trial and warrantless wire-tapping.
Around 130,000 people have signed a petit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
California: Golden dream or foreclosures by the sea?
7-31-2007
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Reuters
"The golden dream by the sea" is how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has fancifully described California. Yet for thousands who bought homes during the Golden State's latest housing boom, foreclosures have turned recent months into a nightma
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Police State
ICE Agent William Dreeland Deposed
Terry Bressi
Agent Dreeland's testimony reinforces my own account of the evening and makes it clear the scope of roadblock operations far exceeded legal limitations. Tribal police allowed a U.S. Customs agent to directly participate in roadblock operations an
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
One Speech Two Interpretations
7-31-2007
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by Michael Shedlock
The Fed's Poole gave a speech. The differences in reporting on that speech are remarkable. But the bottom line is the same no
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Leaving your friends in the dark
07-31-2007
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Raw Story
Staff for a top Democratic advocate of a US-India nuclear cooperation agreement admitted to Raw Story on Tuesday morning that the Bush adminstration had not yet showed him the text of the deal it announced last Friday.
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Four million Iraqis on the run
07-31-2007
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Counterpunch
Two thousand Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. It is the greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East and dwarfs anything seen in Europe since the Second World War.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Propaganda
Murdoch clinches deal for publisher of Journal
07-31-2007
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MSNBC
"The Wall Street Journal should be owned by a company dedicated to maintaining its integrity, not one grasping to find content for a yet-to-be-launched cable channel." By David Sweet - MSNBC contributor
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon announces 20,000 troops will rotate into Iraq
07-31-2007
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Raw Story
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that it will rotate 20,000 troops into Iraq at the end of this year but denied the troops would extend President Bush's troop "surge" through next spring. The AP reported Tuesday. CNN Pentagon correspond
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Jean Carbonneau
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Opinion • Mexican United States Relations
Reflexiones Libertarias
EL PALIDO CABALLO
07-31-2007
Ricardo Valenzuela
“Y al mirar observaba un pálido caballo: y su carta de presentación era muerte, y el infierno llegaba con él.”Y el gran poder le fue concedido sobre una cuarta parte de la tierra, para matar con su espada, con la hambruna, con la muerte misma, y con
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News Link • WAR: About that War
How to win in Iraq
07-31-2007
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American Conservative(William Lind)
Among the bits of lore of the US Senate is a story that dates back to before I arrived there in 1973 as a staffer to Sen. Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio. A senator - from New York, perhaps - known for depending wholly on his staff while treating it with con
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Voting Machines Breached in 'top-to-bottom' Review - Allowed by Sec. of State in California
07-31-2007
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WorldNetDaily
'The veneer of security has evaporated': Hackers given shot at California devices
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
Open DNS
07-31-2007
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Open DNS
Open DNS is a safer, faster, and smarter and more reliable way to navigate the Internet. Our service is free and requires nothing to download.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Sex for the motherland
07-31-2007
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Daily Mail
Remember the mammoths, say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp's mass wedding. "They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia." Obediently, couples move to a special section of dormito
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • History
On this day in history: July 31,1970
07-31-2007
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Farm Runoff
"Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destablilize their country." GWB. Here's the story of Dan Mitrione, policeman, ex-FBI, and trainer in "advanced counterinsurgency techniques". No wonde
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
It's a Worldwide RonPaulRevolution
07-31-2007
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via LewRockwell.com
German Video explains how Ron Paul's message of peace and freedom has worldwide support.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
A newspaper with an agenda
07-31-2007
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Haaretz
With an exclusive article about a new plan by Accountant General Yaron Zelekha to contain corruption and an adjacent article by Dan Margalit about the war waged by the sons of light, headed by Zelekha and Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, agent
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
PajamasMedia Presidential Straw Poll brings Ron Paul back :)
07-31-2007
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PajamaMedia
(C'mon guys... make up your mind.)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Iran and US Jiu-Jitsu in the Middle East
07-31-2007
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ICGA Blogspot
This strikes me as a marvelous example of political jiu jitsu. The US made possible an emergent Iran by eliminating its Taliban rivals to the east and its Baathist rivals to the west and then installing a Shia government in Baghdad for the first tim
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Middle East hypocrisy
07-31-2007
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Antiwar(Jim Lobe)
"For 60 years, my country - the US - pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Mid East," Rice declared in June 2005 at the American University in Cairo, in a widely noted speech that encouraged democracy act
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Britain will take troops out of Iraq regardless of US
07-31-2007
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Independent
Gordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he would not delay their exit in order to show unity with the US. After four hours of one-to-one talks with the US president at his Camp David
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
A new escapade
07-31-2007
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Human Events(Robert Novak)
The morass in Iraq and deepening difficulties in Afghanistan have not deterred the Bush adminstration from taking on a dangerous and questionable new secret operation. At a high level, US officials are working with the Turkish counterparts
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
Pakistani Premier 'disappointed' by US pressure
07-31-2007
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Washington Post
Pakistan will do what it takes to eliminate extremists operating in the country for its own sake, not because of rising pressure from the US, according to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. Aziz said in an interview this week that efforts to force Pakista
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
Iraqi parliament misses key deadline
07-31-2007
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Financial Times
Iraq's government has missed its deadline to compile a list of people eligible to vote in a December referendum that will determine the fate of a large, oil-rich and bitterly disputed swathe of the country, officials of northern Iraq's Kurdis
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Corruption
CREW cleaning the GOP's House
07-31-2007
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Black and Right
I must admit to having an initial gut response to CREW(Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics) and their current attempts to root out nepotism in DC. According to Josephine Hearn at The Politico, "House members are complaining that their spouse
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US should boost debt limit
07-31-2007
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AP
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Monday said the US maybe unable to pay its bills this fall unless Congress raises the government's borrowing authority, now capped at $8.965 trillion. (Hey, I know, lets raise it to 100 gazillion, that should s
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Impeachment
Censure and Impeachment: Take 2
7-31-2007
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New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey is easily the most dogged critic of Vice President Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives, and Hinchey has not exactly been soft on President Bush. So it comes as no surprise that Hinchey, a passionate progre
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Study: More People Expected to Default on Mortgage
7-31-2007
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Realtor
Mortgage delinquencies will peak at 3.6 percent of all mortgage debt outstanding in the summer of 2008, predicts a study by Moody’s Economy.com, released Thursday. "This will result in substantial financial damage," Mark Zandi, chief econom
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