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Date Sent: 2007-07-04
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for July 4, 2007 |
What July Fourth Means to Me - By Ronald Reagan
Ron Paul Talks to Iowa Supporters hours before big event (Video) -- Sales Strong for First Seats Aboard Virgin Galactic's Spaceliner -- FOIA requests plagued by delays -- Sheriff's Dept. To 'Help' Us Celebrate Independence Day -- Committing treason in search of Liberty -- TSA boosts security for July 4 holiday -- US to deploy international force in Gaza -- New NSA whistleblower speaks -- Wolfowitz join AEI -- "The Ron Paul Dollar"
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News Link • Corruption
Bush Commutes Libby Prison Sentence: spares Libby from prison term.
7-2-2007
President Bush commuted the sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Monday, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case. Bush left intact a $250,000 fine and two years probation for Libby, according to a senior W
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Sales Strong for First Seats Aboard Virgin Galactic's Spaceliner
7-4-2007
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Space
After witnessing the initial surge of public interest in suborbital space tourism that followed the successful flight of the X Prize-winning SpaceShipOne three years ago, officials at Virgin Galactic thought the pace of paid reservations might slow d
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
China pressured World Bank to cut deadly pollution figures
7-4-2007
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AP
Research showing that 750,000 people die prematurely in China each year from pollution was cut from a World Bank report following pressure from Beijing, the Financial Times said Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Study: FOIA requests plagued by delays
7-4-2007
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AP
Using the Freedom of Information Act to get information from the government is like waiting for ketchup to flow from a new bottle. Both often take longer than they are supposed to.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
TSA boosts security for July 4 holiday
7-3-2007
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AP
Some of the armed officers with dogs that turned up this week around airports, subways and bus stops are part of special Transportation Security Administration teams sent to protect mass transit sites over the July Fourth holiday. The "VIPER"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
US to deploy international force in Gaza
07-03-2007
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Press TV
The Jordanian daily newspaper ad-Dostour on Monday quoted US sources as saying that President Bush's government is promoting a former US plan, which was unveiled at the time of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Whistleblowers
New NSA whistleblower speaks
07-03-2007
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Vineyard Saker
A former member of US military intelligence has decided to reveal what she knows about warrantless spying on Americans and about fixing of intelligence in the leadup to the invasion of Iraq. Adrienne Kinne describes an incident just prior to the inv
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • NeoCons
Wolfowitz join AEI
07-03-2007
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Washington Post
He was the architect of the Iraq war who was forced from the World Bank presidency amid allegations that he improperly acted to benefit his girlfriend. Now, Paul D. Wolfowitz will turn his attention to the relatively calmer waters of Washington inte
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Liberty dollar Introduces "The Ron Paul Dollar" in 1, 20, 1000 denominations.
7-3-2007
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Liberty Dollar
In celebration of The 4th of July, 2007 you are invited - even urged - to flex your independence with the Volunteer Network's 'secret weapon' - the Ron Paul Dollar bringing new meaning to the U.S. Mint's "Presidential Dollars
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
'Uncle Sam' Tickets Hundreds Of Speeding Drivers
7-3-2007
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AP
Hundreds of Central Florida motorists were ticketed Monday by a costumed Uncle Sam officer in a weeklong operation targeting speeding holiday drivers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Lieberman calls for wider use of surveillance cameras
7-3-2007
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The Hill
Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said he wants to “more widely” use surveillance cameras across the country.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Mitt Romney way ahead in TV, radio ad spending
7-3-2007
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Reuters
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is taking an early lead in political ad spending, with his GOP presidential campaign running more TV ads than any other candidate. [by spending his own money]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Putin tries anew to stop missile shield
7-3-2007
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AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin sought anew to bat down U.S. plans to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, proposing that the system be expanded and largely Russian-based.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain cuts staff amid poor fundraising
7-3-2007
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AP
Republican John McCain struggled to keep his deeply troubled campaign afloat Monday, laying off dozens of staffers after lackluster fundraising and excessive spending left him with just $2 million for his second presidential bid.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona OKs illegal-worker restrictions
7-3-2007
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AP
Arizona's governor signed a bill Monday that prohibits people from hiring illegal immigrants and requires businesses to verify applicants' employment eligibility, saying Congress was apparently "incapable" of helping.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Drug Deletes Bad Memories
7-3-2007
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LiveScience
Researchers at Harvard and McGill University (in Montreal) are working on an amnesia drug that blocks or deletes bad memories. The technique seems to allow psychiatrists to disrupt the biochemical pathways that allow a memory to be recalled.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. probes raid after civilian death allegations
7-3-2007
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Reuters
The U.S. military said it was reviewing an air strike on insurgent targets in a southern Iraqi city after local officials reported it killed 10 civilians, including six children.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Judge orders OSHA to release toxic info
7-3-2007
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AP
A federal judge has ordered the Labor Dept. to share the results of years of toxic substance sampling in American workplaces. The decision came in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by a former Labor Dept. official, who now is a whistleblower.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
The Only Cure for Global Warming
by Vin Suprynowicz
July 2, 2007
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
There are some who, lacking the ecstatic thrill of any other faith-based religion, wish to believe that the earth is in the early stages of an unprecedented climatic change which will see temperatures soar, the polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
7-2-2007
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Chicago Sun Times
A cooperative and productive discussion of global warming must be open and honest regarding the science. Global warming threats ought to be studied and mitigated, and they should not be deliberately exaggerated as a means of building support for a de
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ignorant jury acquits cop who shot passenger 3 times for obeying his orders
07-02-2007
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theagitator
Ivory Webb, the San Bernardino police officer who shot an Iraq war veteran three times at point blank range, has been acquitted on all charges. You may remember that Webb said after the shooting that he inadvertently told the victim to "get up!*
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
The Amateur Future of Space Travel
07-02-2007
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NY Times
With NASA sponsoring seven design contests for everything from a new lunar lander to a new space glove, anybody with a home-brewed invention could enter...
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Immigration
Border fence accidentaly built on Mexican soil
07-02-2007
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AP
The 2 1/2-kilometre barrier along the US-Mexico border was designed to keep cars from illegally to keep cars from illegally crosing into the US. There's just one problem: It was accidentally built on Mexican soil. Now embarrassed border offici
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Gun Rights
Jury acquits FL. man for self-defense shooting
07/02/2007
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Sun Sentinel
A Florida man was set free by a jury a self defense shooting when Norman Borden was nearly killed in October 2006 by 3 men who burned his house down and euthanized his dogs.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • TERRORISM
Britain faces Iraqi-style car-bombings
07-02-2007
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Christian Science Monitor
Britain's new prime minister Gordon Brown confronted an immediate test of his leadership this weekend after a succession of failed car bomb attacks underscored a change in tactics by terrorists who authorities say are linked to Al Qaeda.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Lugar: Change in Iraq Policy can't wait
07-02-2007
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CBS News
The President's "surge" strategy can not achieve it's goals of securing Iraq and giving the Iraqi government time to reach a consensus, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said on Face the Nation. "The point of the surge was to give t
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Iran
Riots in Tehran over Gas Prices
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In 1964, when Prime Minister Hassan-Ali Mansour raised the price of gas from $.04 to $.06, the population rioted. Now those riot leaders are in power and history is repeating.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Peace walkers stopped at Rocky Mountain National Park
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Two young peace activists said they were stopped at an entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday and ordered to remove peace placards on their chests before entering the park.
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