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Date Sent: 2007-10-27
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, October 27, 2007 |
Russia: Attack Iran and you attack Russia -- FEMA Infiltrates Its Own Press Conference
Billions in housing wealth at risk as foreclosures soar -- BATF rebuked for attacks on gun dealers -- Plame: Disclosure of classified status amounted to 'treason' -- State Dept e-mails say Blackwater hurting US in Iraq -- Israeli official admits Iran nukes pose little threat -- Mesa Police Aviation Unit is out of Control -- Former Treasury Sec: Lets start the fire sale, not bail out investors -- Peter Schiff: How Bad Will the Next Recession Be? -- Jane Harman's War on the First Amendment -- GA Supreme Court: Set Genarlow Free -- U.S. Peace activist, retired Col. Ann Wright, again detained at Ottawa airport -- Harry Reid & Dream Act Down in Flames -- Iran defiant at new U.S. sanctions -- Oil above $92 -- Chinese Banks Head for the US -- Al-Qaida Supporters Attack Al-Jazeera TV -- Giuliani on Immigration: "Give Me Three Years" -- Ron Paul & The Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Contribution
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News Link • World News
Gamblers beware - tribal casinos outside State jurisdiction
10-26-2007
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ABC News
Regardless, a jury may never get chance to hear Hoffman's case. Native American tribes, as independent nations, have their own court systems and can be sued in state courts only under limited circumstances.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Billions in housing wealth at risk as foreclosures soar
10-26-2007
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San Francisco Chronicle
"Things are getting exponentially worse," said Haveman, a principal at Beacon Economics in San Rafael. Home prices "have only now started to drop. They have a ways to go."
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News Link • Religion: Believers
America's Armageddonites Push for More War
10-26-2007
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After Downing Street
Millions of Americans, the richest people in history, have a death wish. They are the new "Armageddonites," fundamentalist evangelicals who have moved from forecasting Armageddon to actually trying to bring it about.
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News Link • Gun Rights
BATF rebuked for attacks on gun dealers
10-26-2007
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WND
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been given a rebuke by Congress for its aggressive attacks on firearms dealers who may have paperwork errors in their record-keeping.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Bush Administration
Plame: Disclosure of classified status amounted to 'treason'
10-26-2007
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Raw Story
"Call me naive," she said, "but that wasn't on our list of options...we didn't actually consider they would betray our country's national security to get at me."
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Resident winning fight for right to display campaign sign
10-26-2007
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Hastings Star Gazette
Essentially “content neutral” means there can’t be restrictions on certain types of speech but not others. Campaign signs are considered political speech, while things like real estate “for sale” signs are considered commercial speech.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Secret Societies
Abuse of the classification system
10-26-2007
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Balkinization
I've complained in the past about the unjustifiable secrecy involving executive branch memoranda on the lawfulness of interrogation techniques. (Short version: There's no justification for keeping secret such memos about what techniques are
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Corruption
State Dept e-mails say blackwater hurting US in Iraq
10-26-2007
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ABC News Blog
Internal State Dept e-mails, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, show top officials were extensively briefed about repeated incidents of Blackwater security guards killing innocent civilians more than 2 years ago.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Watercoolered: The CIA's double secret probation
10-26-2007
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Mother Jones
As she walks to her table at a Georgetown restaurant, Janine Brookner looks pleasant, harmless, vaguely academic; with her blond bob and cream pantsuit, you'd figure her for a literrature professor. But only until she starts to talk about her lo
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Iran
Israeli official admits Iran nukes pose little threat
10-26-2007
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Haaretz
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said a few months ago in a series of closed discussions that in her opinion that Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel, Haaretz magazine reveals in an article on Livni to be published Friday.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Snow: "Let's accelerate the price discovery process on this paper"
10-26-2007
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Reuters
"We know that when you prop things up artificially -- Japan -- we know when you prop things up artificially -- the (savings and loans) in the United States -- you get bigger adverse consequences,"
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News Link • Homeland Security
FEMA Staffers Posed as Reporters at Press Briefing
10-26-2007
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E & P
"The questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters. We're told the questions were asked by Cindy Taylor, FEMA's deputy director of external affairs, and 'Mike' Widomski, the deputy director of public affairs."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How Bad Will the Next Recession Be?
10-26-2007
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Alternet
Peter Schiff "Rate cuts will only bring about higher long-term interest rates, higher consumer prices, more defaults and bankruptcy. The Fed has reached the end of its rope"
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News Link • Police State
Terror watch list swells to more than 755,000--By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY
10-26-2007
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USA Today
"It undermines the authority of the list," says Lisa Graves of the Center for National Security Studies. "There's just no rational, reasonable estimate that there's anywhere close to that many suspected terrorists
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Geoffrey Hayes
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News Link • Constitution
The Politics of Paranoia: Jane Harman's War on the First Amendment
10-26-2007
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Smirking Chimp
"The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda."
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News Link • Homeland Security
FEMA Displays Katrina Lessons Learned
10-26-2007
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Washington Post/Al Kamen
FEMA holds press conference on California wildfires with FEMA employees posing as the press.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
GA Supreme Court: Set Genarlow Free
10-26-2007
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AP/Daniel Lee
Georgia's high court upholds the sentence reduction for Genarlow Wilson and orders his freedom. Wilson has served over two years of a ten year sentence for having consensual oral sex.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Police State
U.S. Peace activist, retired Col. Ann Wright, detained at Ottawa airport
10-26-2007
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After Downing Street
The women say they shouldn’t be on the database - which is supposed to inform border officials about serious crimes - and that the FBI hasn’t explained why they’re on it.
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News Link • Iran
Iran defiant at new U.S. sanctions
10-26-2007
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BBC News
"The hostile American policies towards the respectable people of Iran and the country's institutions are contrary to international law, without value and, as in the past, doomed to failure,"
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Oil rallies above $92
10-26-2007
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Reuters
Oil rallied to a fresh record high above $92 a barrel on Friday as the dollar tumbled to a record low,
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News Link • Economy - International
Chinese Banks Head for the US
10-26-2007
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der Spiegel
Flush with cash from going public and from strong growth at home, Chinese banks are now eying the U.S. It's part of a broader push to become global titans offering a wide range of financial services.
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News Link • Iran
Russia: Attack Iran and you attack Russia
10-26-2007
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Asia Times
Putin and the Supreme Leader have agreed on a plan to nullify the George W Bush administration's relentless drive towards launching a preemptive attack, perhaps a tactical nuclear
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News Link • TERRORISM
Al-Qaida Supporters Attack Al-Jazeera TV over Latest bin Laden Video
10-26-2007
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Mondoreb & Ginn
Websites supporting al-Qaida have rained down insults and invective on Al-Jazeera TV, many times a dependable source for the distribution of their viewpoint. Thousands of insults have been posted blasting the TV station, which centers around providin
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Immigration
Giuliani on Immigration: "Give Me Three Years"
10-26-2007
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Mondoreb & Ginn
Rudy Giuliani wants to do for the U.S. as president what he couldn't do for New York City as mayor: reduce illegal immigration within three years. This time, he says it's different.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul & The Don Black Contribution: No Conclusion Jumping Needed
10-26-2007
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Mondoreb
Evidence that the Ron Paul campaign received a donation from a Neo-Nazi White Supremacist is reported a bit breathlessly by the Lone Star Times. All campaigns get contributions from those they disagree.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
Candidate's signs removed from area bridges
10-25-2007
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WCNC (video)
Jen Thompson with the North Carolina Dept. of Transportation said posters placed on overpasses are illegal because they are not official state signage. “If motorists have to look up at these signs, they are a hazardous distraction,” Thompson said.
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Powell Gammill
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