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Date Sent: 2008-03-12
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
McCain defends MORE lobbying--Gulf War syndrome linked to chemicals--No link to Saddam and al-Qaida
Bill opposing North American Union just failed in the AZ House -- Spitzer Tripped Up on Laws He Enforced -- Hated Saddam-era spies back at work in Iraq -- Inside Gitmo with Detainee 061 -- Enemy combatants get to phone home -- PSU students seek right to carry weapons -- Boy punished for T-shirt with gun image -- Rush for biofuels threatens starvation on a global scale -- U.S. may add Venezuela to list of terrorist states -- I pledge allegiance to the ... queen? -- House Steers its own Path on Wiretaps -- Caroline Baum: John Galt Plan Might Save U.S. Financial System -- Ron Paul talks to Neil Cavuto on FOX about the Fed’s bailout today -- Adm. William Fallon resigns as U.S. Mideast military chief -- MISH: Night of the Living Fed -- MISH: Central Bankers "Pull Out All The Stops" -- California Skools: A Tough Nut To Crack (Homeschooling) -- Howard Blitz: A Tale of Two Depressions -- Is Salvia the Next Marijuana? -- Journalist To Be Fined Up To $5,000 Per Day -- VIVA LA DEMOCRACIA LATINOAMERICANA -- The Muslim Jesus -- Bagpipers honor Irish who fought for Mexico against U.S. -- Fed to Lend $200 Billion, Take on Mortgage Securities -- George Bush hates America
Phoenix News (see below): "UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections" A Film Thursday; Real ID meeting Thursday; Protest McCain on 5th Anniversary of Iraq; The Revolution Continues with Bob Schulz
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain defends more lobbying
3-11-2008
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AP
[my friends] Sen. John McCain said his inquiries into a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract were designed to assure evenhanded bidding and denied they were motivated by the lobbyists who are close advisers to his presidential campaign.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Print
Appeals court has as much contempt for judge as the reporter
3-11-2008
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USA Today
A federal appeals court temporarily blocked a lower court's order requiring a former USA TODAY reporter to pay thousands of dollars in fines. Toni Locy would not identify sources who named former Army scientist Steven Hatfill as a possible suspec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Spitzer Tripped Up on Laws He Enforced
3-11-2008
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Washington Post
Eliot Spitzer knew how to catch bad guys by following the money. As attorney general, he once broke up a call-girl ring and locked up 18 people on corruption, money-laundering and prostitution charges. He ruthlessly investigated the pay packages of W
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Spitzer blew $80,000 on hookers
3-11-2008
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AP
An Emperors Club employee was quoted as telling Kristen that Spitzer "would ask you to do things that ... you might not think were safe," and Kristen responded "I have a way of dealing with that. ... I'd be, like, listen, dude, you
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Probe to Sample Saturn Moon's Geysers
3-11-2008
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AP
Three years after gigantic geysers were spied on an icy Saturn moon, the international Cassini spacecraft is poised to plunge through the fringes of the mysterious plumes to learn how they formed. Wednesday's flyby will take Cassini within 30 mil
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Evolution of a rEVOLution
3-11-2008
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Reason
When Paul did talk, he focused on the idea of radically limiting government"a message nowhere else to be found on either side of the aisle during this campaign. No other candidate was even questioning the wisdom of the Federal Reserve or the Departme
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Hated Saddam-era spies back at work in Iraq
3-11-2008
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USA Today
Iraq's government has been quietly bringing back into service Saddam-era intelligence agents who have experience spying on Iranians. Most Saddam-era intelligence agents fled after the U.S.-led invasion. Were the primary means of repressing the po
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Inside Gitmo with Detainee 061
3-11-2008
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Mother Jones
Shortly after German-born Murat Kurnaz arrived at Camp Delta, intelligence reports show the plan was to let him go. What happened [four years later]?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Enemy combatants get to phone home
3-11-2008
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Miami Herald
The Pentagon has decided to let ECs, or enemy combatants, do it too -- phone home.
The Department of Defense has approved a policy to let some of the 275 war-on-terror detainees [the worst of the worst] speak by phone with family.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Gulf War syndrome linked to chemicals
3-11-2008
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UPI
A U.S. study shows increasing evidence that the high rates of illness among Persian Gulf War veterans can be explained by pesticide and nerve agent exposure. The study analyzed evidence regarding the class of chemicals acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
PSU students seek right to carry weapons
3-11-2008
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Centre Daily
Nathaniel Sheetz, 23, a Penn State graduate student in industrial engineering, often carries a handgun. And he can: He has a permit to carry a concealed weapon. The moment he steps on campus, however, the permit is no good. Like most other U.S. unive
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Boy punished for T-shirt with gun image
3-11-2008
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AP
The family of a middle school student who was given detention for wearing a T-shirt bearing the image of a gun has filed a federal freedom of speech lawsuit against the school district. Wearing a T-shirt to honor his uncle, a U.S. Army soldier fighti
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Rush for biofuels threatens starvation on a global scale
3-11-2008
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London Times
The rush towards biofuels is threatening world food production and the lives of billions of people, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser said, putting himself at odds with ministers committing Britain to large increases in the use of biofuels
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. may add Venezuela to list of terrorist states
3-11-2008
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McClatchy news
The Bush administration has launched a preliminary legal inquiry that could land Venezuela on the U.S. list of nations that support terrorism, following reports of close Venezuelan links with Colombian rebels [cuz gas can't cost enough]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida
3-11-2008
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McClatchy News
An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents captured after the US invasion found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network. The Pentagon-sponsored study
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
New York Governor ‘Destroyed’ Over Threat To Probe 9/11
03-11-2008
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By: Sorcha Faal
Carlyle Group as it nears total collapse and is facing insolvency - Larry Silverstone’s withdrawal of over $14 billion from the embattled groups coffers - see the loss to New York States already troubled massive pension fund of over $10 billion.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
I pledge allegiance to the ... queen?
3-11-2008
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USA Today
Britain wants students to pledge allegiance to Queen Elizabeth, similar to how Americans say the pledge to the U.S. flag. A pledge to the monarch, to be said at a "coming of age" ceremony when teens graduate the equivalent of high school
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
House Steers its own Path on Wiretaps
03/11/2008
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The New York Times
In continued defiance of the White House, House Democratic leaders are readying a proposal that would reject giving legal protection to the phone companies that helped in the National Security Agency’s program of wiretapping without warrants.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
The Iraq Follies
03-12-2008
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Mother Jones
In putting together my new book, So Wrong for So Long, on Iraq and the media, I revisited the good, the bad, and the ugly in war coverage from the run-up to the invasion through the five years of controversy that followed. Even though I monitored th
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
John Galt Plan Might Save U.S. Financial System: Caroline Baum
03-11-2008
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Bloomberg.com
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Let's face it: The Federal Reserve must be scared to death as it watches the financial system unravel.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Top U.S. Mideast Commander to Retire Early
03/11/2008
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The New York Times
The Pentagon announced Adm. William J. Fallon, the top American commander in the Middle East whose views on Iran and other issues have seemed to put him at odds with the Bush administration, is retiring early.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Military
Adm. William Fallon to resign as U.S. mideast military chief
3-11-08
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Rawstory.com
Last week, Esquire magazine portrayed him as being opposed to President Bush's Iran policy. It described Fallon as a lone voice against taking military action to stop the Iranian nuclear program.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Night of the Living Fed
03-11-2008
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Mike
The panic actions by the Fed to inject liquidity will not work. $200 billion may sound like a lot of money, but when you compare it with the size of the markets that are melting down " there are $11 trillion in U.S. mortgages outstanding " it’s a dro
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Central Bankers "Pull Out All The Stops"
03-11-2008
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Mike
With global coordination from the ECB, Bank of England, and the Bank of Canada, the Fed is desperately trying to pump liquidity into the markets. While the short covering rally will suggest euphoria, the regulators have raised the stakes this morning
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Psychophant Rocks
03/11/2008
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Arizona CHANGE
Psychophant is a hard rock band from Phoenix, AZ whose members are active Ron Paul Revolutionaries. Its influences include Queensryche, Judas Priest, Dream Theater, and Van Halen.
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Events: Arizona
The Revolution Continues with Bob Schulz
03/11/2008
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Arizona CHANGE
The Chairman of the “We The People Congress” will appear to speak on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 1:00pm at the Phoenix Public Library. Come learn about the profound legal tool that can restore Constitutional order without electing a single politician
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Protest McCain on 5th Anniversary of Iraq
03/10/2008
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Arizona CHANGE
Protest with community leaders on the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq at the office of John "100-years" McCain. The action takes place at McCain’s office: 5353 N. 16th Street on March 19 from 4:30pm - 7:30pm.
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Mike Shipley
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Opinion • Economy - Economics USA
A Tale of Two Depressions
03-12-2008
Howard Blitz
With the cost of gasoline, food products, and health care increasing at faster rates the current inflationary depression is beginning to show signs of full development. Like the deflationary depression of the 1930’s there will, no doubt, be many ind
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News Link • Drug War
Is Salvia the Next Marijuana?
3-11-2008
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Raw Story / AP
Legislators, so-called, are concerned that the inexpensive and easy-to-obtain plant could become the next marijuana. Eight states have already placed restrictions on salvia, and 16 others are considering a ban or have previously.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Police State
Journalist To Be Fined Up To $5,000 Per Day
3/11/08
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www.webpronews.com
Federal Court Judge Reggie B. Walton is charging Locy with contempt of court for not revealing a source who supplied her with information for a story about the Feds' investigation into anthrax attacks back in 2001. Contempt wouldn't be so bad
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Religion: Believers
The Muslim Jesus
3/11/08
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www.informationclearinghouse.info/
Leading theology scholars examine the role of Jesus Christ in the Islamic tradition, revealing the two faiths have more in common than is generally realised. Muslims share the Christian belief in the Virgin Birth, Christ's status as the Messiah a
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Mexico
Bagpipers honor Irish who fought for Mexico against U.S.
3-11-2008
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USA Today
Every month, a wail of bagpipes reverberates through a plaza in downtown Mexico City, causing startled passersby to stop and stare. Then, from behind the bullet-scarred walls of an old fortress, a platoon of Mexican bagpipers emerges through the gate
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed to Lend $200 Billion, Take on Mortgage Securities
3-11-2008
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Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve, struggling to contain a crisis of confidence in credit markets, plans to lend up to $200 billion in exchange for mortgage-backed securities. The Fed coordinated the effort with central banks in Europe and Canada, which plan to in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
George Bush hates America
03-11-2008
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Freedom in our Time Blog
This great article by William Grigg speaks about the recent veto by Bush on the bill forbidding torture. But the interesting part of this piece is the story of Hanns-Joachim Scharff, the German Luftwaffe's "master interrogator".
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Jean Carbonneau
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