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Date Sent: 2007-07-06
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for July 6, 2007 |
The crash of the US economy has begun -- Olbermann on Libby and Bush/Cheney: RESIGN
Fred Thompson mole for Nixon -- Bush calls for more war -- Wash. to set medical marijuana limits -- Romney criticized for hotel pornography -- Accused D.C. "madam" offers records -- Sadr bloc joins Sunnis in rejecting Iraq oil law -- Another senior Republican fold on Bush -- Marines face new probe -- Iranian explosives outed as Made in USA? -- Oil behind Iraq war -- Perpetual motion machine on display ... or not -- American mercenaries now outnumber our troops -- Iraqi Sunnis won't support oil law -- Fed up with the war? Stop paying your taxes. -- Ron Paul on ABC News this Sunday -- If Iran were America (And we were Iran): A Timeline -- Fannie Mae: Another New Deal Monstrosity -- Commute these sentences, Mr. President -- Prisoner 345 -- ! When killer cops walk -- Cindy Sheehan to walk Martin Luther King’s grave to DC
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News Link • Impeachment
Olbermann Special Comment on Libby and Bush/Cheney: RESIGN
7-5-2007
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Youtube
I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war. - I accuse you of fomenting fear among your own people, of creating the very terror you claim to have fought. Very well done, Keith.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Eugenics
Fred Thompson mole for Nixon during Watergate
7-5-2007
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AP
The day before Senate Watergate Committee minority counsel Fred Thompson made the inquiry that launched him into the national spotlight -- asking an aide to President Nixon whether there was a White House taping system -- he telephoned Nixon's la
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bush calls for more war
7-5-207
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Wasington Times
President Bush yesterday used a July Fourth speech to airmen in West Virginia to brace Americans for another year of war in Iraq, saying the U.S. struggled for six years in the Revolutionary War to win independence from Britain. "Our first Indep
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Wash. to set medical marijuana limits
7-5-2007
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AP
This fall, sober public servants will convene meetings across Washington state to answer a pressing question: How much marijuana constitutes a two-month supply?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Romney criticized for hotel pornography
7-5-2007
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AP
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, who rails against pornography, is being criticized by social conservatives who argue that he should have tried to halt hardcore hotel movie offerings during his near-decade on the Marriott board.
Two
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
White House raps recent flurry of probes
7-5-2007
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AP
The White House pushed back against congressional investigations of the administration, saying lawmakers should spend more time passing laws to solve domestic problems.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Accused D.C. "madam" offers phone records to media
7-5-2007
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Reuters
A woman accused of running a prostitution ring catering to Washington's elite offered the phone records of her escort service to the media and others in hopes of uncovering witnesses to aid her defense.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Sadr bloc joins Sunnis in rejecting Iraq oil law
7-5-2007
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AFP
Followers of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr joined a growing chorus of Sunni Arab, Kurdish and Shiite opposition to a draft oil law backed by Washington.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Another senior Republican breaks with Bush on Iraq
7-5-2007
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Reuters
President George W. Bush's Iraq war policy continued to hemorrhage support in the U.S. Senate as another senior Republican called for a new strategy that would start to bring troops home. A day after Bush appealed to Americans
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Marines face new probe over eight Iraq deaths
7-5-2007
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Reuters
Up to 10 U.S. Marines are under investigation for the deaths of eight Iraqi prisoners during the November 2004 battle for Fallujah, marking the third war crimes probe of Marines at California's Camp Pendleton, a government spokesman said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iranian explosives outed as Made in USA?
7-5-2007
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Cernig
A picture provided by Multi-National Corps-Iraq of Iranian explosives seized in Iraq. There are good reasons to look twice at it. Not least that the picture's C-4 block looks uncannily like the standard US-military issue M-112 Demolition Charge.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Oil behind Iraq war
7-5-2007
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Sydney Herald Tribune
The government admitted the need to secure oil supplies is a factor in Australia's continued military involvement in Iraq. Defense Minister said oil was a factor in Australia's contribution to the unpopular war, as "energy security"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Another report shows red light cameras cause more accidents
07-05-2007
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The Newspaper
The new study, funded by the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, provided a city-by-city assessment that showed significant increases in the number of injuries and accidents at intersections employing photo e
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Energy
Perpetual motion machine on display ... or not
7-5-2007
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Steorn
After months of doubt over claims of a magnetic machine promising "infinite clean energy," Steorn will be putting their wares on display for public scrutiny in London. A physics defying perpetual machine, if you will. Starting tomorrow, rum
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
American mercenaries now outnumber our troops
7-5-2007
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Baltimore Sun
The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, new figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war and the government's capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Diplomat in Iraq? It sucks to be you.
7-5-2007
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Washington Post
U.S. diplomats in Iraq, increasingly fearful over their personal safety after recent mortar attacks inside the Green Zone, are pointing to new delays and mistakes in the U.S. Embassy construction project in Baghdad as signs their vulnerability could
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraqi Sunnis won't support oil law
7-5-2007
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McClatchy News
Leading Sunnis in Iraq’s Parliament snub a set of U.S.-supported oil laws that would regulate Iraq’s oil industry and govern how to distribute oil revenue. The Bush administration contends passage would draw Sunnis into the Shiite-led government and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Fed up with the war? Stop paying your taxes.
7-5-2007
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AP
When the United States invaded Iraq more than four years ago, war opponent David Gross asked his bosses for a radical pay cut, enough so he wouldn't have to pay taxes to support the war.
"I was having a hard time looking at myself in the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul on ABC News this Sunday
07-05-2007
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Ron Paul 2008 blog
Presidential candidate Ron Paul will be interviewed for 15 minutes by ABC News' chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos this Sunday, July 8, on the program "This Week".
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Iran
If Iran were America(And we were Iran): A Timeline
07-05-2007
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Lew Rockwell(Jeffrey L. Bryan)
This is for anyone interested in understand what American foreign policy has done to people in Iran. (For simplicity's sake, I have combined the roles of the USA and the UK, as the USA was assuming control of the former British Empire at this ti
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
iPhone lemmings line up for NSA surveillance
07-05-2007
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Dept of Step Right Up
Have you heard about the iPhone? It's a wonderful new invention that lets the NSA illegally record all your phone calls, copy all you contacts, keep records of all your Web and IM activity, keep records of all your Web and IM activity, watch you
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Housing
Fannie Mae: Another New Deal Monstrosity
07-05-2007
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Mises Institute
The shortcomings of Fannie Mae have been overlooked on the basis that Fannie plays a critical role in driving the housing sector, and thus the American economy. As Fannie goes, so goes the nation. Fannie means housing, and accordingly, Fannie
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Drug War
Commute these sentences, Mr. President
07-05-2007
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Cato at Liberty
Mandy Martinson - 15 years for helping her boyfriend count his drug-dealing money. Dejarion Echols - 20 years for selling a small amount of crack and owning a gun, causing Reagen-appointed federal judge Walter S. Smith, Jr. to say, "This is one
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Torture
Prisoner 345
07-05-2007
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Columbia Journalism Review
On December 15,2001, early in the morning on the last day of Ramadan, a reporter and a cameraman from Al Jazeera arrived the Pakistani town of Charman on the Afghanistan border, on their way to cover the American military operation. The reporter, Ab
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush makes a power play
07-05-2007
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Detroit Free Press
President George W. Bush is giving an obscure White House office new powers this month over regulations affecting health, worker safety and the environment. Executive Order 13422, which is to take effect July 24, requires federal officials to show t
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New cancer mutation found
07-05-2007
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World Science
Biologists report that they have found a mutation implicated in at least four types of cancer. The finding may add a key piece of information to medicine's arsenal of cancer-fighting strategies, the researchers say. Like many others involved in
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • World News
Russia issues new missile defence threat
07-05-2007
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Guardian
Russia warned today that it would position its rockets close to the Polish border and point missiles at US bases in Europe if Washington rebuffed its latest offer of coopoeration on missile defence. Russia's hawkish first deputy prime minister,
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
When killer cops walk
07-05-2007
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Counterpunch(Anthony Gregory)
On June 28, a San Bernardino jury acquitted Ivory J. Webb of attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm in a confrontation caught on video tape. He had shot Elio Carrion three times in the back, shoulder and chest as the unarmed man
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Eugenics
A trip to Iowa - by Fred Hutchison
07-05-2007
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www.renewamerica.us
Ron Paul came anyway to give his own separate speech in a place where they could not ban him. He brought with him the most incredible army of volunteers and supporters. (A very good article to give you a full picture of the events on both sides)
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Environment
CONNECTING THE DOTS
DECLINE OF INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION
7-5-2007
Frosty Wooldridge
America lives in denial of our impending energy dilemma. If you're having a great day, don't read this depressing column. If you're having a bad day, this column will make it worse. However, if you want to face reality, this enlightens!
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News Link • Activism
Cindy Sheehan to walk from Martin Luther King’s grave (Atlanta) to DC on June 12
7-5-2007
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ICH
I’m not backing off. I tried to remove myself from the political realm of the US, what BushCo is turning into an Evil Empire, but the blatant audacity of George commuting Scooter’s sentence (he’s not ruling out a full pardon â€"and you know he will) ha
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Thomas Costanzo
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