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Date Sent: 2007-08-30
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
FBI point-and-click surveillance system -- MISH: Margin Calls Mount
Bush to request $50 billion more for Iraq war -- Hero Richard Jewell dead -- G.O.P. Plans Early-Primary Penalties -- US calls arrest of Iranians after Bush speech 'a regrettable incident' -- Iraq's Sadr suspends armed actions -- The Do-It-Yourself Campaign of Ron Paul -- US judge allows POW Noriega to be extradited to France -- No gun sales in Penn for 3 days
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News Link • Foreign Policy
China welcomes U.S. opposition to Taiwan U.N. bid
8-29-2007
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Reuters
China welcomed U.S. pressure on Taiwan to drop its plan for a referendum on membership of the United Nations, saying the island's attempts to assert nationhood were doomed to failure. China considers Taiwan as part of its territory, part of "
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Poland may soon finalize U.S. anti-missile talks
8-29-2007
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Reuters
Poland and the US may be nearing a breakthrough in talks to locate parts of a US anti-missile shield on Polish soil. A deal after Washington signaled a compromise on a Polish request for Patriot missiles or similar air protection to defend its citie
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bush to request $50 billion more for Iraq war
8-29-2007
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Reuters
President Bush is preparing to ask Congress for as much as $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq. The request signals increasing White House confidence it can fend off mounting congressional pressure to begin withdrawing troops from I
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Outcry over property owner jailed for making repairs
8-29-2007
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Daily Breeze
The Daily Breeze article about a Rolling Hills Estates resident sentenced to six months in county jail for building on his property without permits has sparked a fierce backlash and a tidal wave of national and media attention.[Roaches hate the light
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Point, Click... Eavesdrop:
8-29-2007
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Wired
The FBI has built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device,
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
iPhone hackers could face legal battle
8-29-2007
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AP
Hackers have figured out how to unleash Apple's iPhone from AT&T's cellular network, but people hoping to make money from the procedure could face legal problems.
At least one of the companies hoping to make money by unlocking iPhones said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Hero Richard Jewell, falsely labeled terrorist dead at 44
8-29-2007
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AP
[You've been Jewelled now in our lexicon.] Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was wrongly linked [by FBI leak] to the 1996 Olympic bombing and then waged a decade-long battle with news organizations to defend his reputation, died Wedne
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Feds Strike Out with 'Terrorist' Batting Average
08-29-2007
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James Bovard
But when it comes to hits and errors on terrorists, Uncle Sam could not qualify even for a tryout for the minor leagues. The federal government has had far more strikeouts than people realize when it comes to terrorist suspects.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Impeachment
Impeachment March on Washington Planned for September 24
8/29/2007
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ww.associatedcontent.com
On September 24, 2005 at noon, there will be thousands--if not millions--gathering at the White House to collectively shout, figuratively at least, "I told you so." And then will begin the call for impeachment that should have been called b
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Eugenics
G.O.P. Plans Early-Primary Penalties
8-29-2007
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NY Times
The Republican National Committee plans to penalize at least 5 states holding early primaries, including New Hampshire and Florida, by refusing to seat at least half of their delegates at the national convention in 2008, a party official said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Mayor on stand: I acted in best interest of Detroit
8-29-2007
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AP
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick took the witness stand and defended his decision to remove the head of the police internal affairs unit. The former internal affairs chief claims he was fired because he was looking into drunken-driving accidents, falsified ove
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US calls arrest of Iranians after Bush speech 'a regrettable incident'
8-29-2007
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Raw Story/ BBC News
BBC News reports "an embarrassed American military has said it regrets that eight Iranians ... were arrested, handcuffed, and blindfolded by US soldiers in Baghdad." They acknowledge the Iranians are engineers in Iraq to rebuild the electri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq's Sadr suspends armed actions by his militia in time for Petraeus report
829-2007
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Reuters
Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr suspended all armed actions by his Mehdi Army.
Asked if the unexpected order meant no attacks on U.S. troops, one senior aide said: "All kinds of armed actions are to be frozen, without exception."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Margin Calls Mount
8-29-2007
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MISH: Global Economic Analysis
Margin calls are mounting at Carlyle. A letter from the CEO says conditions are worse than what caused the demise of Long Term Capital Management. The apology misses the mark. The real problem is Carlyle borrowed money and bet it all. Basis Yield Alp
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed underestimated debt impact, focused on inflation
08-29-2007
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Bloomberg
Federal Reserve officials, underestimating the impact of credit-market turmoil, focused at their Aug. 7 meeting on inflation and slowing productivity. Minutes of the session released yesterday showed that the Fed was intent
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Democratic fundraiser is a fugitive in plain sight
08-29-2007
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LA Times
For the last 15 years, California authorities have been trying to figure out what happened to a businessman named Norman Hsu, who pleaded no contest to grand theft, agreed to serve up to three years in prison and then seemed to vanish.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bush Administration
Heckuva Job!!
08-29-2007
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Mother Jones
Every adminstration has its share of politically appointed deadwood--ex-campaign workers, big fundraisers, incompetent ideologues. Traditionally, after duds like Reagan Interior Sec James Watt were exposed, presidents showed them the door.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Housing
Impossible to track troubled mortgages
08-29-2007
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AP
It's hard to know how scared to be if you don't know the size of the threat. No, not terrorism, housing. The US mortgage-lending business is a sprawling, varied enterprise that no one regulator oversees, making it impossible to know how man
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
Bringing Politics Back to the People - The Do-It-Yourself Campaign of Ron Paul
8-29-2007
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American Chronicle
Out of all the candidates running for President in 2008, who among them has supporters willing to hang signs on freeway overpasses, to stand with signs outside events whatever the weather, who will volunteer their time to make phone calls or write le
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Top 8 ways hard money would change your life
08-29-2007
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Lew Rockwell Blog
I'll be honest. What excites me the most about Ron Paul is not his stance against illegal war. It's not that the only one to stand up against the Patriot Act the first time around. It's not just the he's never voted for a tax incre
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
US judge allows Noriega to be extradited to France
08-29-2007
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Washington Post
Wearing a crisp military uniform, former Panamanian(and CIA asset) Manuel Antonio Noriega appeared before a federal magistrate Tuesday, asking that he be allowed to return next month to the country he ruled and menaced in the 1980's.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul facebook student network tops 20,000
08-29-2007
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Free Market News
MSM has labeled Ron Paul(R-TX) as the "Internet candidate" for his online success, especially with 700-plus MeetUp groups. Less well reported is how well Ron Paul is doing with college students around the nation. The campaign is said to h
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Gun Rights
No gun sales in Penn for 3 days thanks to the Gov
08-29-2007
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AP
Gov. Ed Rendell, despite pressure from gun dealers, decided Tuesday not to delay a database upgrade that will halt Pennsylvania firearms sales for three days. The Democratic governor said the shutdown to allow work on the criminal history database
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
Tucker (MSNBC): Ron Paul to emerge as “folk hero of this election”
08-28-2007
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thespinfactor.com
Tucker, a self-professed fan of Ron Paul discusses liberty with former stripper, and current libertarian county chairman, Michelle Shingal. They regard Hillary Clinton as the candidate of big-government intervention, and Ron Paul as the “candidate of
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Ernest Hancock
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