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Date Sent: 2008-06-23
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, June 23, 2008 |
Secret Pentagon Funding All-Time High -- Did the CIA leak blueprints to build small powerful nukes?
UK to Begin Microchipping Prisoners -- Bill Kristol: Bush might attack Iran if he thinks Obama will win -- "Publicity Bomb" For Petitions for Redress of Grievances - by Bob Schulz -- El Baradei warns against strike on Iran -- Army ‘vacuum’ bomb missiles hits Taliban -- URGENT: Stop Congress from fomenting another war -- Ron Paul: Doesn't Accept 9/11 Investigation -- Ireland under Franco-German pressure to hold new EU vote -- Tiny Shetland island declares independence -- Philly Cops Illegally Search & Seize Home of Neighborhood Police-Surveillance Camera Protesters -- Gov. Napolitano Approves Prohibition on Real ID -- Group files lawsuit against DC police checkpoints -- Ron Paul supporters fall short in Montana -- Neocons: Hit Iran even if it destroys the world's economy -- Jon Turley tells Olbermann the 4th Amendment has been gutted
AZ: John Stuart Sign Wave/Court date Today; Glenn Greenwald on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio; Phoenix Objectivists 2nd June meeting
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News Link • Media: Radio
Lost in Translation
06-23-2008
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Pro Publica
An Arab-language television network and radio station, founded by the Bush adminstration to promote a positive image of the US, has aired anti-American and anti-Israeli viewpoints, has showcased pro-Iranian policies and recently gave air time
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Secret Societies
Secret Pentagon Funding Near All-Time High
06-22-2008
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Wired Blog
The latest Pentagon budget request contains a near record high level of money for classified, or "black" programs, reports the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Fiscal year 2009 includes a whooping $34 billion to fund
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Real spy gadgets are even stranger than ‘Get Smart’
06-21-2008
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Kansas City Star
In the spy movie “Get Smart,” agents use a variety of crazy gizmos, including the Cone of Silence and a Swiss army knife that doubles as a flamethrower.
Pure Hollywood fantasy? Don’t be so sure.
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Reported by:
tom paswater
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News Link • Privacy Rights
U.K. to Begin Microchipping Prisoners by David Gutierrez
06-21-2008
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Naturalnews.com via Rense.com
The British government is developing a plan to track current and former prisoners by means of microchips implanted under the skin, drawing intense criticism from probation officers and civil rights groups.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Iran
B. Kristol: Bush might attack Iran if he thinks Obama will win
6-22-08
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Rawstory.com
President Bush is more likely to attack Iran if he thinks Senator Barack Obama may be elected, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol told FOX News Sunday morning.
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News Link • Eugenics
The Real McCain by Paul Harris with the Observer
06-22-08
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guardian.co.uk via Rense.com
To his fans he's a lovable patriot with a maverick streak. But to his critics he's an anti-abortion Creationist who surrounds himself with religious extremists. Paul Harris uncovers the dark side of John McCain
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Army ‘vacuum’ bomb missiles hits Taliban
6-22-2008
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London Times
Apache attack helicopters have fired the thermobaric weapons against fighters in buildings and caves, to create a pressure wave which sucks the air out of victims, shreds their internal organs and crushes their bodies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Stop Congress from fomenting another war [URGENT ACTION ITEM]
6-22-2008
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DownsizeDC
The House appears likely to vote on a bad resolution early next week. If you oppose starting a war with Iran then we must act now to oppose House Concurrent Resolution 362. This resolution has 169 co-sponsors, including 77 Democrats and 92 Rep
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Why North America's Oldest Colony Split Up
6-22-2008
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LiveScience
Some people point to 1906 as the year of the Great San Francisco Earthquake, but, for anthropologists who study American Indians, it is the year that split the Hopi community of Orayvi, the longest continually occupied settlement in North America.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Woman, StunGunned While Seven-month Pregnant, Found 'Not Guilty'
06-22-2008
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Mondoreb
A woman, whom police stunned in the neck while she was seven-months pregnant, was found Not Guilty by a suburban Dayton jury.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • European Union
Ireland under Franco-German pressure to hold new EU vote
06-22-2008
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www.timesonline.co.uk
The Irish government is expected to bow to Franco-German pressure and hold a second referendum to try to rescue the Lisbon treaty that voters rejected this month.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Declaration of Independence
Tiny Shetland island declares independence
6-21-2008
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Yahoo News
"There will be no income tax, VAT (value added tax), council tax, corporation tax, or any of the other taxes instituted by the British government," Hill wrote.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • WAR: About that War
ElBaradei warns against strike on Iran
6-21-2008
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CNN
A military strike on Iran would turn the Middle East "into a ball of fire," said Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Iran
Report: North Korea developed nukes for Iran at bombed Syrian facility
6-21-08
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Haaretz.com
Experts believe North Korea provided assistance to Iran at the Syrian facility believed bombed by Israel Air Force in September 2007, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. May Free Up More Land for Crops
06/20/2008
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The New York Times
Signs are growing that the U.S. government may allow farmers to plant crops on millions of acres of conservation land, while a chorus of voices is also pleading with Washington to cut requirements for ethanol production.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Philly Cops Illegally Search & Seize Home of Neighborhood Police-Surveillance Camera Protesters
06-21-2008
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Philly.com
The raid on the property was led by 9th District Police Capt. Dennis Wilson who was quoted as saying, "....We're trying to drum up charges against them, but unfortunately we'll probably have to let them go."
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Police State
Group files lawsuit against D.C. vehicle checkpoints
06-21-2008
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Associated Press
A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking an injunction against the District of Columbia police department's vehicle checkpoint program, calling the "military-style" initiative unconstitutional and ineffective.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Court overturns father's grounding of 12-year-old
6-19-2008
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AFP
A Canadian court has lifted a 12-year-old girl's grounding, overturning her father's punishment for disobeying his orders to stay off the Internet. (Wants to grow up to be Gloria Alred.)
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul supporters fall short in Montana
6-21-2008
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AP
Sen. John McCain may be the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but supporters of Ron Paul in Montana refused to abandon their candidate. The group led an impassioned fight Friday at the Montana GOP convention, shaking things up in a failed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Did the CIA leak blueprints to build small powerful nukes?
6-21-2008
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by Gordon Prather
However, in Chapter II of the Cox Committee report, the whole world learned " courtesy Chairman Chris Cox and Counsel Scooter Libby " that the secret to making a compact missile-deliverable nuke was to make a non-removable pit out of Plutonium-23
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Jon Turley tells Keith Olbermann how the 4th Amendment has been gutted
6-21-2001
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Rawstory (MSNBC video)
"Never appease political bullies, President Bush admonished at the Israeli Knesset," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann opened. "Oddly, House Democrats chose to ignore him on the subject of dealing with him."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Neocons: Hit Iran even if it destroys the world's economy
6-20-08
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LATimes.com
And if an attack on the oil facilities of a country with some of the world's largest reserves leads to a huge spike in oil prices, sends gas prices up to 10 bucks a gallon and brings economic ruin in the rest of the world, well, so be it:
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