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Date Sent: 2007-08-29
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, August 29, 2007 |
Taxpayers fund Iraq Insurgents--Iran Fill Iraq Power Vacuum-- Home prices: Steepest drop in 20 years
Rapture Ready: The Christians United for Israel Tour -- McCain Is Eligible to Receive Public Financing -- 4 million Iraqis flee -- U.S. most armed country -- AAA Lobbies Hard for Speeding Ticket Tax -- Blackwater Security purchases aircraft -- Sorry, Mr. Franklin, “We’re All Democrats Now” by Ron Paul -- US 'seizes Iranian group in Iraq' -- Faster deadlier, pilotless planes bound for Afghanistan -- US preparing for 'massive' military attack on Iran -- U.S. Stocks Fall Most in Three Weeks -- Iraq weapons are a focus of criminal investigations -- Pentagon official is under investigation -- Steve Jobs master plan: iPhone hacking -- Blitz: The Entrepreneur -- Personal data for 35,000 vets stolen -- Iran resolves plutonium issues -- Can DHS force Real ID? -- Afghan opium crop soars to "frightening levels" -- Myths about Congress's war powers -- Everything I Want to do is Illegal -- Thompson campaign loses another staffer -- Scientist Lynn Margulis calls for new 9/11 investigation -- Man gets jail time for property fixes -- Primaries fall into chaos as states play 'Me First'
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Rapture Ready: The Christians United for Israel Tour - WOW FREAKING WOW!!!
08-28-2007
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YouTube
Annual Washington-Israel Summit, blowing the cover off the Christian Zionist movement in the process. Starring Joe Lieberman, Tom DeLay, Pastor John Hagee, Ambassador Dore Gold and a host of rapture-ready evangelicals praying for Armaggedon.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain Is Eligible to Receive Public Financing
8-29-2007
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AP
Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican whose presidential campaign is in dire financial straits, is eligible to receive public financing for his struggling bid, the Federal Election Commission said. Mr. McCain requested authority to receive matc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
More Iraqis flee as figure tops four million
8-29-2007
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AFP
An estimated 4.2 million Iraqis have been uprooted from their homes, with the monthly rate of displacement climbing to over 60,000 people compared to 50,000 previously," UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis told
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people
8-29-2007
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Reuters
The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said. U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms S
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Request for help for Ron Paul campaign
8-28-2007
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Daily Paul
I have all of the states indexed into counties, with sections for strategy, GOP organizations, other organizations, events, etc., at both the state and county levels. Every state has a page where links to the canvassing maps can be posted... There ar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
AAA Screws Customers, Lobbies Hard for Speeding Ticket Tax
08-28-2007
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The Newspaper
On June 28, AAA had given unreserved praise for all aspects of the speeding ticket tax which the group had used its substantial lobbying clout to help enact.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Eugenics
Chalk one up for Ron Paul
8-28-2007
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Youtube
Let it be known that on 8.26.07 we chalked the crap out of Purdue University. These are just a few of the many chalkings from all over campus.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Blackwater Security purchases Super Tucano aircraft from Embraer
8-28-2007
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Decline and Fall
Blackwater Security has purchased these light combat aircraft that can be used for counter-insurgency for possible use at their U.S. bases.
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News Link • Iran
US 'seizes Iranian group in Iraq'
8-28-2007
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BBC News
Seven Iranians working for the Iranian Electricity Ministry have been arrested by US forces in Baghdad, the Iranian embassy says. The Iranians were in Baghdad in connection with the building of a power station.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
U.S. troops detain Iranians
8-28-2007
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AP
American troops raided a Baghdad hotel and took away a group of about 10 people that a U.S.-funded radio station said included 6 members of an Iranian delegation here to negotiate contracts with Iraq's government. Videotape showed U.S. troops lea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul on God, Government, Abortion, Homosexuality, The Draft, Why he Stays in the GOP...
08-28-2007
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The American View
Text and Audio
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Faster deadlier, pilotless planes bound for Afghanistan
08-28-2007
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USA Today
The Air Force this fall will deploy a new generation of pilotless airplane with the bombing power of an F-16 to help stop the stubborn Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. The Reaper is an upgraded version of the Predator, which has become
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Study: US preparing for 'massive' military attack on Iran
08-28-2007
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Raw Story
The US has the capacity for and may be prepared to launch without warning a massive assault on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities, as well as government buildings and infrastructure, using long-range bombers and missiles, according to a new analys
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Stocks Fall Most in Three Weeks
8-28-2007
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Bloomberg
Stocks posted their biggest drop in 3 weeks on weaker consumer confidence and speculation tighter credit will hurt banks. The declines erased all of last week's gains. The S&P 500 decreased 2.4%, the Dow Jones lost 2.1%, and Nasdaq slipped 2.4%
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Congress to probe domestic spy satellite use
08-28-2007
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Raw Story
The Dept of Homeland Security's top intelligence, privacy and civil rights officials will be called before Congress next week to explain the Bush adminstration's plan to dramatically expand the domestic use to spy of spy satellites that can s
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Books
The Lobby
08-28-2007
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New Yorker
Last year, two distinguished political scientists, John J. Mearsheimer, of the Univ. of Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt, of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, published a 34,000 word article online entitled "The Israel Lobby and U
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Corruption
Iraq weapons are a focus of criminal investigations
08-28-2007
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New York Times
Several federal agencies are investigating a widening network of criminal cases involving the purchase and delivery of billions of dollars of weapons, supplies and other material to Iraqi and American forces, according to American officials.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bush Administration
Pentagon official is under investigation
08-28-2007
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LA Times
(And the saga continues) A Bush politcal appointee and former Silicon Valley executive who has faced oppositon in his bid to bail out Iraq's struggling factories is under investigation by the Defense Dept on mismanagment allegations.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Housing
Home prices: Steepest drop in 20 years; no recovery soon
8-28-2007
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AP
U.S. home prices fell 3.2% in the second quarter, the steepest rate of decline since Standard & Poor's began its nationwide housing index in 1987. The decline shows no evidence of a market recovery anytime soon. The declining residential real est
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iran: We Will Help Fill Iraq Power Vacuum
8-28-2007
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CBS/AP
"The political power of the occupiers is collapsing rapidly," Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. "Soon, we will see a huge power vacuum in the region. ... we are prepared to fill the gap, with the help of neighbors and regi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
The Steve Jobs master plan: iPhone hacking
08-28-2007
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http://news.com.com c/net
"He, like all of us, knew that people would immediately start to hack the iPhone and unlock it for use on T-Mobile and other services abroad. And once that happened, the benefits could far outweigh the costs of such a hack."
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Free Trade
The Entrepreneur
08-29-2007
Howard Blitz
According to Webster’s Dictionary an entrepreneur is one who organizes, manages, and undertakes the risk of a business enterprise. The significance of the entrepreneur cannot be overstated. If it were not for entrepreneurs every single 21st century
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News Link • World News
Iraqi Sunni Arabs say deal won't end boycott
08-28-2007
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Reuters
A new political accord between Iraq's main Sunni Arab, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders will not be enough to lure boycotting Sunni Arabs back into the government, a spokesman for the biggest Sunni Arab bloc said on Monday.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Personal data for 35,000 vets stolen
08-28-2007
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Stars and Stripes
Personal records including addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 35,000 veterans and their families were stolen this month from the officies of a POW support organization in Texas, officials announced Friday.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Iran
Iran resolves plutonium issues under atom pact
08-28-2007
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Reuters
Iran has resolved UN questions about tests with plutonium, a key fuel for atomic bombs, and the IAEA considers the matter closes, according to the text of an IAEA-Iran accord released on Monday. It would be the first issue relating to the scope
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Shift in Pentagon's security-privacy balance?
08-28-2007
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Christian Science Monitor
(When the Patroit Act is trashed, I'll believe this) First came the FBI's decision in the spring to implement stringent new guidelines to prevent from abusing their authority to issue national security letters, which can be used to gather inf
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Insurgents get a cut of US aid to Iraq
08-28-2007
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McClathcy Newspapers
Iraq's deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against US troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in US rebuilding funds that they've extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province. The payments, in return for the ins
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Homeland Security
Can DHS force Real ID?
08-28-2007
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Gov Exec Blog
Much was made of Homeland Security Dept Sec Michael Chertoff's comment last week that residents of states that fail to follow the Real ID Act's requirement to issue more secure driver's licenses will be required to show a passport
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Drug War
Afghan opium crop soars to "frightening levels"
08-28-2007
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Reuters
(With a war on drugs and terror, mission accomplished) Opium production has soared to "frightening record levels" in Afghanistan, which now has more land producing drugs than Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru combined, the UN said on Monday.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Constitution
Myths about Congress's war powers
08-28-2007
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Christian Science Monitor
It's enough to make a history teacher blush - all the myths out there about the role of the US Congress in starting and stopping America's wars. Before lawmakers vote in September on bills to pull American troops out of Iraq, we at least oug
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Least religious countries
08-28-2007
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Gadling
When you travel to Europe, don't be surprised to find that many Europeans don't believe in God. I have even witnessed some alcohol-infused conversations between Americans and Europeans that almost ended in fist fights over His/Her existance.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Everything I Want to do is Illegal
08-28-2007
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Acres USA(Joel Salatin)
Everything I want to do is illegal. As if a highly bureaucratic regulatory system was not already in place, 9/11 fueled renewed acceleration to eliminate freedom from the countryside. Every time a letter arrives in the mail
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
Thompson campaign loses another staffer
8-28-2007
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AP
Republican Fred Thompson sidestepped questions about the departure of yet another high-level aide to his presidential campaign-in-waiting. Linda Rozett, a longtime U.S. Chamber of Commerce official, is gone as the communications director.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Gul set to be president of Turkey, risks army wrath
08-28-2007
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Bloomberg
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul is set to win election as the country's next president today, risking fresh tensions with the army over Islam's role in government. Gul, who would be Turkey's first president with an Islamist past,
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Spitzer talks of suing to expand health plan
08-28-2007
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New York Times
Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Monday that New York would consider suing federal health officials if the state was not granted a waiver to expand its federal subsidized health insurance program for children. The announcement followed a decision
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Conspiracies
Scientist calls for new 9/11 investigation
08-28-2007
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Rense
World renowned scientist, Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., today severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation, "I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
Sarkozy calls for troop exit from Iraq
08-28-2007
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China Daily
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday said Iraq's road to recovery begins with a clear timetable for the pullout of foreign troops as he outlined an assertie role for France in world hotspots. Making his first major foreign policy speech si
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Property Rights
Man gets jail time for property fixes
08-28-2007
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Daily Breeze
He built a fence, a retaining wall, a patio and a few concrete columns to decorate his driveway, and now Francisco Linares is going to jail for it. Linares had been given six months to get final permits for the offending structures or remove them
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Jean Carbonneau
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Opinion • Mexican United States Relations
Reflexiones Libertarias
CHINITA DE MIS AMORES
08-27-2007
Ricardo Valenzuela
Durante los años 50, el mundo atestiguó una gran sociedad entre los EU y Japón tanto que, llevó al país nipón a convertirse en la segunda economía del mundo. Observamos después el mismo fenómeno con Taiwán, Singapur, Corea y en general con todos lo
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News Link • Voting and Elections
As states play 'Me First,' primaries fall into chaos
08-27-2007
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ABC News
New Hampshire secretary of State has had the sole authority to set the date of the Granite State's first-in-the-nation presidential primary " an early-in-the-year contest that has been the single most decisive event in determining who gets nomina
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
'something's in the works' to trigger a police state
08-27-2007
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RawStory.com
Paul Craig Roberts -- a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan: "Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Middle East turmoil could cause world war: U.S. envoy
8-28-2007
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Reuters
Upheaval in the Middle East and Islamic civilization could cause another world war, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was quoted. Zalmay Khalilzad said the Middle East was so disordered it had the potential to inflame the world as Europe did
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Nine Teams Sign Up To Compete for Lunar Lander Prize
08-27-2007
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Space.com
Level 1 requires a rocket to take off, fly to an altitude of 50 meters, then hover for 90 seconds while landing precisely on a pad 100 meters away. The flight must then be repeated in reverse, and both flights-along with within a two-and-a-half-hour
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Ernest Hancock
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