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Date Sent: 2007-09-11
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
Foreclosures increase at triple-digit rate -- Pentagon plans base along Iran border
Bin Laden Was at Tora Bora -- John Edwards: Need New Global Anti-Terror Organization -- ‘Petraeus Report’: There Will Be No Report -- Wind farm interfering with Sen. Kennedy's yachting -- Cheney (2003): No more troops needed for Iraq -- Ron Paul speaks at Aaron Russo Memorial -- McCain: Splurging the surge -- America's African Battlefront -- Sabotage suspected in Mexican pipeline blasts -- Sgt. Kenline lies: Police abuse captured on video (Wow!) -- Oversalted Burger Leads to Jail -- WHAT UNITES POLITICIANS: BIG GOVERNMENT -- Debt Market in 'Pivotal' time as $140 billion matures -- Terror Watch List riddled with false information -- Foreclosure 'Tax' is next Mortgage crisis -- Japan revises GDP down 1.2%
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News Link • History
Ancient escape hatch found in Israel
9-10-2007
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AP
Under threat from Romans ransacking Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, many of the city's Jewish residents crowded into an underground drainage channel to hide and later flee the chaos through Jerusalem's southern end unnoticed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Yemeni Says Bin Laden Was at Tora Bora
9-10-2007
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AP
A doctor who treated wounded al-Qaida fighters at Tora Bora in Afghanistan has confirmed Osama bin Laden was at the mountain stronghold as U.S. and Afghan forces attacked " and said the al-Qaida chieftain seemed concerned about only his own welfare.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosures increase at triple-digit rate in 11 states
9-10-2007
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Fair Oaks
The nation’s foreclosure abyss has widened with 11 states seeing triple-digit increases in August compared to a year earlier, says Foreclosures.com, a Fair Oaks-based foreclosure information service.
Through August, 355,624 homes have been taken b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
John Edwards Calls For Global Anti-Terror Organization
9-10-2007
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Back Dog Press
Sen. John Edwards, on the campaign trail, has proposed the creation of an international organization to fight terrorism through shared intelligence. The man who claimed that there was no war on terror beyond a bumper sticker a few months ago, now ins
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
New Twist In Saga Over ‘Petraeus Report’: There Will Be No Report
9-10-2007
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Think Progress
In the latest twist to the ongoing saga over the Petraeus White House report, a senior military official tells the Washington Times today that there will actually be no report at all:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Wind farm interfering with Sen. Kennedy's yachting
9-10-2007
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Seattle Times
In a remarkable turnaround, liberals are now heaping scorn on the 73-year-old senator. Young audiences boo at his name, and the leftish "Daily Show" on Comedy Central makes fun of him. The source of unhappiness is Kennedy's efforts to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Cheney: No more troops needed for Iraq
9-10-2007
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AP
Even in 2003, top generals predicted we would need to keep a large combat force in Iraq for years after toppling Hussein’s government. Dick Cheney, Vice President and former Secretary of Defense, did not agree with the generals…but the generals were
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
WHAT UNITES POLITICIANS: BIG GOVERNMENT
9-10-2007
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Yahoo! News
You have to love the hypocrisy of the Republicans running for president, nine characters in search of Ronald Reagan. That's why Fred Thompson, who thinks he's the next best thing, jumped in among the lemmings. After all, he is tall and is an
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Inside the Texas GOP straw poll
9-10-2007
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Waxahachie Daily Light
Only two well-known candidates for President made it to the Republican straw poll: Congressman Ron Paul of Texas and Congressman Duncan Hunter of the people’s republic of California. Ron Paul presented the convention with tangible ideas, agree with h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The first space shuttle wasn't American
9-10-2007
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English Russia
Twenty two years before first Russian space shuttle “Buran” or 10 years before the first American shuttle Soviets projected and built manned spaceship aircraft that could land from the orbit by itself. It had space only for one pilot and was more rat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain campaign leak: Splurging the surge
9-10-2007
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Atlantic Monthly
In an internal memo sent to political advisers this week, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis writes of "four phases" the campaign plans to "roll out" in September.
This isn't one of those internal memos meant for p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Sabotage suspected in Mexican pipeline blasts
9-10-2007
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LA Times
In an apparent case of sabotage, six explosions blew apart natural gas pipelines operated by Mexico's Pemex state oil monopoly early today in Veracruz state, causing fires and forcing the evacuation of 15,000 people from surrounding towns.
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News Link • Economy - International
Banks face 10-day debt timebomb
09-10-2007
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Britain's biggest banks could be forced to cough up as much as 70 billion pounds over the next 10 days, as the credit crisis that has seized the global financial system sparks a fresh wave of chaos. Almost 20 percent of the short-term money marke
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Sgt. Kenline lies, jacks up motorist for not respecting his authority
09-10-2007
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Brett Darrow http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc
VIDEO and transcript included. Brett Darrow records an illegal police encounter where Sgt. Kenline of the St. George Missouri Police screa
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Report: Case of the Salty Burger
9-9-2007
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Smoking Gun
Bull told cops she accidentally put too much salt and pepper on the hamburger, but since managers had been concerned about waste, she "had gone ahead and used the hamburger." [A copy of the police report is included.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Oversalted McDonald's Burger Leads to Arrest & Jail
9-9-2007
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AP
A McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer's burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick. Kendra Bull was arrested, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Pentagon plans base along Iran border
09-10-2007
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Raw Story
The Pentagon is preparing to build a base near the Iraqi-Iranian border, in an effort to stem the "flow" of "advanced Iranian weaponry" to Shiite militants in Iraq, according to Monday's edition of the War Street Journal. '
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Czech body armour found with Iraqi insurgents
09-10-2007
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Sunday Herald(Scotland)
Hundreds of Iraqi insurgents killed or captured in battle by American-led coalition forces have been found to be wearing state-of-the-art Czech-manufactured body armour. The latest findings have added to mounting concern about the quantity
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke will cut Interest Rates Twice, survey says
09-10-2007
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Bloomberg
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, chastened by the first drop in employment in four years, will be forced to cut interest rates at least twice this year, according to a Bloomber News survey. The unexptected weakness in the labor market
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - International
Debt Market in 'Pivotal' Text as $140 billion matures
09-10-2007
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Bloomberg
Banks and companies need to refinance almost $140 billion of commercial paper in Europe by the end of next week and may push up yield premiums on corporate bonds, according to Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest bank.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Homeland Security
Terror Watch List riddled with false information
09-10-2007
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Wired Blog
The nation's centralized terrorist watch list is used to screen 270 million individuals every month now contains more than 700,000 entries, but remains marred by duplication, erroneous information, incorrect tracking codes and poor coordination
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Buying Beer in The Keystone State
09-10-2007
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennslyvania law inconveniently restrict six-pack sales to bars, restaurants and some delis, where they're often sold at premium prices. Beer by the case is available only at distributorships. (Remember, it's still againt the law to buy bee
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Corruption
11 New Jersey officials arrested on corruption
09-10-2007
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AP
FBI agents arrested 11 public officials in towns across New Jersey Thursday on charges of taking bribes in exchange for influencing the awarding of public contracts, the US Attorney's Office said. (Hmm, what about the White House)
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosure 'Tax' is next Mortgage crisis
09-10-2007
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The Street(Terry Savage)
And unless Congress acts quickly to change tax policy, there are more surprises that will start appearing next April. If you're forced to sell your home at a loss -- or lose it through a foreclosure -- the tax consequences could be costly.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan revises GDP down 1.2 percent
09-10-2007
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AP
Japan's gross domestic product for the April-June quarter declined 1.2 percent on an annual basis, the government said on Monday as it revised downward a preliminary estimate of 0.5 percent growth for the quarter. The adjustment marks the first
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
New armor-piercing grenade causing US casualties in Iraq
9-9-2007
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Raw Story (video)
The Russian-made device is light enough to be thrown by a single insurgent standing alongside a road and is equipped with a parachute so that it falls vertically on its target and can take out even armored vehicles.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Mexican United States Relations
Reflexiones Libertarias
¿Por qué temen a Ron Paul?
09-09-2007
Ricardo Valenzuela
Creo todos estaremos de acuerdo que, durante los 7 años transcurridos de este siglo, el mundo ha cambiando de forma más dramática que los primeros dos mil de la era cristiana. El aniversario siete del ataque a las torres gemelas de Nueva York, es un
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bush's War Saves 300,000 Iraqi Lives!
09-07-2007
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Don Polson
The recent collapse of the real estate market has taken its toll on some who earn their living there. Here a realtor has gone off the rails and taken up neocon statistics. Faux News breeds Faux Statistics! If ignorance is strength, then Mr. Polson is
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Mike Dugger
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