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Date Sent: 2008-04-04
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, April 5, 2008 |
Chinese paramilitary slaughters Tibetans -- Congressmen have $196 million invested in defense co's
Was WWII Really 'The Good War'? - by Patrick J. Buchanan -- Hands Off Internet Gambling - by Ron Paul -- It’s Dangerous for Children To Know Atheism Exists -- Must read: The Green Light - by Phillippe Sands -- 'Emerald City' Goes Bust - by Marcel Votlucka -- TSA Deploys Airport Behavior Screeners -- Clinton releases tax returns -- Putin to U.S.: Iran is no threat -- Bush 'ordered war crimes' -- US Military studying clandestine use of blogs -- Wis. Man in Standoff Over Unpaid Taxes -- Zimbabwe gets $50 million bank note (ouch) -- IEDs go beyond Iraq, Afghanistan -- Jobs: Nonfarm Payrolls Decline 80,000 in March -- 81% think US on wrong track -- A sub to fight al-Qaeda's navy -- ID Still Not Required To Fly
This morning Arizona Breakfast Club: Gun Writer Alan Korwin
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Was WWII Really 'The Good War'?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
4-4-2008
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AntiWar
"Yes, it was a good war," writes Richard Cohen in his column challenging the thesis of pacifist Nicholson Baker in his new book, Human Smoke, that World War II produced more evil than good. Baker's compelling work, which uses press clip
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News Link • Eugenics
Who is the real patriot? Surprise....
4-4-2008
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Chicago Tribune
In 1961, a young man, after hearing JFK’s call to “do for your country” gave up his student deferment, left college and joined the Marines. In 1963, he volunteered again to be a Navy corpsman. Valedictorian of his Navy class, he was assigned to the P
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News Link • Declaration of Independence
What Do We Stand For?
by Paul Craig Roberts
4-4-2008
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LewRockwell
Americans traditionally thought of their country as a "city upon a hill," a "light unto the world." Today only the deluded think that. Polls show that the rest of the world regards the United States and Israel as the two greatest
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain's Beer Forture
4-4-2008
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CNN
Budweiser, then NASCAR's official beer, is brewed by Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc., whose products have made Cindy McCain and her family a fortune.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The American Form of Government and the Paulson Plan
by Michael S. Rozeff
4-4-2008
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LewRockwell
I have difficulty briefly describing America’s form of national government. According to the CIA, the U.S.A., which is the Federal government, is a constitutional federal republic with a strong democratic tradition. On paper, this is correct.
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News Link • Eugenics
Hands Off Internet Gambling
by Ron Paul
4-4-2008
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LewRockwell
Mr. Chairman, I stand opposed to the regulations being discussed today because I opposed the underlying bill upon which these regulations are based. The ban on Internet gambling infringes upon two freedoms that are important to many Americans: the ab
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
It’s Dangerous for Children To Know Atheism Exists, Says IL State Legislator
4-4-2008
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Friendly Atheist
Outspoken atheist Rob Sherman, who filed a lawsuit that put a stop to the Mandatory Moment of Silence, was back in the Illinois General Assembly. He was arguing Governor Rod Blagojevich’s $1,000,000 grant to the Pilgrim Baptist Church
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Moth that can travel at 55mph
4-4-2008
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Daily Telegraph
Moths that fly high above our heads throughout the night are not at the mercy of the wind but use a sophisticated internal compass which can help them travel up to 400 miles in a single flight, according to a study.
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News Link • Torture
The Green Light
by Phillippe Sands
4-4-2008
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Vanity Fair
As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn’t talk, the Bush administration’s highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and t
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News Link • Torture
Building a Legal Framework for Torture
By Jason Leopold
4-4-2008
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Consortium News
On Jan. 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon's top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted two days earlier by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
'Emerald City' Goes Bust
by Marcel Votlucka
4-4-2008
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Strike-the-Root
The current economic situation has shown that certain politicians and "experts" are nothing more than a gaggle of scuzzy showmen in their own right; fallen "wizards" in a real-life Oz.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists create material one atom thick
4-4-2008
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Daily Telegraph
Flat, parallel sheets of carbon atoms in the graphite of pencil lead have been peeled apart by the scientists to yield a sheet a single atom thick that has peculiar properties. This new material, called graphene, is exciting physicists worldwide beca
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Deploys Airport Behavior Screeners
4-4-2008
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AP
To the untrained eye, the man looked like any other traveler as he waited in line at Kennedy Airport. But something about the way he was acting caught the attention of two security screeners. For 16 minutes, they questioned him, scanned every inch of
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News Link • Eugenics
Clinton releases tax returns
4-4-2008
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CNN
Hillary Clinton released her tax returns for the years 2000 to 2006 late Friday afternoon, ending weeks of speculation over her delay in making them public.The New York senator had initially said that she would not release them unless she was the Dem
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News Link • Iran
Putin to U.S.: Iran is no threat
4-4-08
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presstv.ir
"Instead of pushing Iran into a corner, it would be far more sensible to think together how to help Iran become more predictable and transparent."
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News Link • Philosophy: Communism
Chinese paramilitary kills Tibetan protesters
4-4-08
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Timesonline.co.uk
Shouting “Long Live the Dalai Lama”, “Let the Dalai Lama come back” and “We want freedom”
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News Link • Constitution
Constitutional lawyer: Bush 'ordered war crimes'
4-4-08
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Rawstory.com
Turley told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Thursday night. "But evidence keeps on coming out.... What you get from this is this was a premeditated and carefully orchestrated torture program. Not torture, but a torture program."
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News Link • Anthropology
Mankind taking a dump on Oregon a lot earlier than thought
4-42008
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Reuters
DNA from ancient human feces found in a cave in Oregon provides biological verification that people were in North America 14,000 years ago, researchers said.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
European ship docks at space station
4-4-2008
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Space.com
Europe's first space freighter, the unmanned cargo ship Jules Verne, made its docking debut at the International Space Station with a graceful arrival. [This is actually a huge accomplishment for the European Space Agency or anyone.]
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News Link • Military
U.S. Military studying clandestine use of blogs
4-4-08
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Rawstory.com
U.S. Special Operations Command in 2006 recommended "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers" in order to promote messages favorable to the military. It also raised the possibility of altering an "enemy blog" by hack
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News Link • History
Swedes find Viking-era Arab coins
4-4-08
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news.BBC.co.uk
About 470 coins were found on 1 April at an early Iron Age burial site. They date from the 7th to 9th Century, when Viking traders travelled widely. Most of the coins were minted in Baghdad and Damascus....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Las Vegas Preforeclosures Hit Record
4-4-08
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Economicrot.blogspot.com
The number of Clark County homes that entered preforeclosure status reached a record 6,152 in March, up 52 percent from February and more than double the 2,813 preforeclosures in the same month a year ago....
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
US lawmakers have $196 million invested in defense companies
4-4-2008
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AP
[It is almost like they knew where our tax money was going.] Members of Congress have as much as $196 million collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the start of the Iraq war,
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Wis. Man in Standoff Over Unpaid Taxes
4-4-2008
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AP
A landowner with "strong anti-government attitudes" barricaded himself in his rural home Thursday and fired shots at SWAT officers trying to search his home and arrest him, authorities said. No one was injured.
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News Link • Economy - International
Zimbabwe gets $50 million bank note
4-4-2008
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AP
How much does it cost for a loaf of bread in Zimbabwe? With inflation raging at more than 100,000 percent, a loaf costs 50 million Zimbabwe dollars [actually Z$16 million per loaf]. [Our future after CONgress "fixes" our economy.]
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News Link • TERRORISM
IEDs go beyond Iraq, Afghanistan
4-4-2008
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USA Today
Makeshift bomb attacks by insurgents " common in Iraq and Afghanistan " are on the rise in other countries, prompting concerns by military experts that the tactic is becoming the weapon of choice by terror groups worldwide. [Bush's legacy.]
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jobs: Nonfarm Payrolls Decline 80,000 in March
4-4-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Nonfarm payrolls fell 80,000 in March, the Labor Departmenmt said Friday, its biggest decline in five years, after falling by 76,000 in both January and February. Both were revised to show bigger losses.
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News Link • Bush Administration
81 percent think U.S. on wrong track
4-4-08
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news.Yahoo.com
The CBS News-New York Times poll released Thursday showed 81 percent of respondents said they believed "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track." That was up from 69 percent a year ago, and 35 percent in early 2002.
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News Link • Military
A sub to fight al Qaeda's navy
04-02-2008
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Robert Scheer
The high-tech planes and ships commissioned for trillions of dollars to defeat an enemy with no navy, air force or army, and using $3 knives as its weapons arsenal, was a gift to the military-industrial complex that will go on giving for decades to c
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Homeland Security
ID Still Not Required To Fly
04-04-2008
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Papers Please
As reported several weeks ago and in accordance with the Gilmore decision, ID is not required to fly in the United States. Two recent documents have corroborated this fact.
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