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Date Sent: 2008-08-09
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, August 9, 2008 |
Ron Paul: Iran Attack Plan ‘Green Light’ -- Russia, Georgia at war -- US Naval Armada Heads to Iran
Incumbent Tenn. congressman loses primary -- Child pornography is good business . . . -- Washington Mutual shares tumble -- Voter Legally Refuses Demand to Show Photo ID at Poll, Gets Thrown in Jail -- Fannie Mae posts another huge loss -- Gates wants to double Afghan army size -- Charges continue piling up against Detroit mayor -- Bush classifies $200 million cybersecurity program, redacts questions about contractors -- Airline pilots' reports on low fuel -- The Great Oil Bubble has Burst -- Hamptons town struggles with $12M deficit -- Obama camp ponders: 'What does Hillary want?' -- LEGALIZE PROSTITUTION? NO, TAX THE RICH! - by Just... -starchild- -- Florida GOP Claims Republican Liberty Caucus, by law, Can't Use "Republican" Name -- Cindy Sheehan vs. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi -- Fingerprints now used to find drugs, explosives -- US weighs stepped-up military forays into Pakistan -- Pakistan generals meet as Musharraf faces ouster -- Sadr to disarm if U.S. withdraws on timetable
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Credit Crisis Triggers Unprecedented U.S. Response
8-8-2008
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Washington Post
Since the credit crisis erupted a year ago, the Bush administration has presided over one of the broadest expansions of the government into private lending in U.S. history, risking public money to prop up financial firms both large and small.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Incumbent Tenn. congressman loses primary
8-8-2008
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AP
A freshman U.S. representative on Thursday became the first Tennessee congressman to lose a primary since 1966 after a bruising campaign in which he was accused of selling out to "Big Oil."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Grandma arrested for driving with child on roof
8-8-2008
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AP
[Couldn't afford Disneyland this summer.] Authorities say a grandmother was arrested for driving around the parking lot of a Marathon grocery store with her 3-year-old grandchild sitting on the roof of the car.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
'Good Morning, Mr. President.'
by William Buppert
8-8-2008
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LewRockwell
"Please, sir, maintain the decorum of these proceedings so we can move forward to an amicable separation. I give you my personal assurance on the safety and well-being of all Federal personnel we have detained for immediate repatriation to the r
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Child pornography is good business . . . for the government
8-8-2008
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Freespace
Karen Fletcher will be sentenced under a plea bargain for having written fictional stories about sex with children. Prosecutors have already indicted writer Frank McCoy for similar writings, depicting the stories in question as "child pornograph
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Why Iran Won't Budge on Nukes
8-8-2008
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Time
When U.S. officials appeal to the Iranian people over the heads of its regime, they like to assume that Tehran's defiance on the nuclear issue reflects only the extremist position of an unrepresentative revolutionary leadership. Plainly, they hav
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Last Call: Washington Mutual shares tumble
08-08-2008
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Business Week
The Seattle-based bank reported a $3 billion second-quarter loss last month -- the biggest quarterly loss in its history -- as it increased its loss reserves to more than $8 billion to cover souring loans in its mortgage portfolio.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
DNS Flaw Much Worse Than Previously Reported
8-8-2008
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AP
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky finally revealed the full details of his reported DNS flaw. It turns out it's a lot worse than previously understood. "Every network is at risk," Kaminsky said at the Black Hat conference. "That'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Voter Refuses Demand to Show Photo ID at Poll, Gets Thrown in Jail
8-8-2008
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Bradblog
A voter in Kansas City --- one I happen to know, because he's an Election Integrity advocate in the Show Me State --- was arrested and sent to jail after he refused to show a driver's license at the polling place before attempting to vote dur
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fannie Mae posts another huge loss
8-8-2008
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Reuters
Fannie Mae posted a much larger-than-expected second-quarter loss and slashed its dividend more than 85% to preserve capital as home loan defaults accelerated in the bleakest U.S. housing market since the Great Depression.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Government owes American Indians $456 mln
-8-2008
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Reuters
After 12 years of litigation, a federal judge rejected claims that the government owed American Indians $47 billion for mismanaging their money held in a special trust fund, but ruled they were owed less than 1 percent of the amount sought.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Gates wants to double Afghan army size: report
08-08-2008
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RawStory.com
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates backs a 20-billion dollar plan to double the Afghan army and reshape NATO and US missions to better confront the resurgent Taliban, US media reported Friday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Charges continue piling up against Detroit mayor
8-8-2008
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AP
For anyone keeping score, the leader of the nation's 11th-largest city now faces 10 felony charges in two separate cases. The city charter says a felony conviction evicts him from office. The City Council already wants to bounce Kilpatrick on oth
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Is Your Organic Food Really Organic? (trust gov't?)
08-08-2008
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Environmental News Network
When you buy food with a "USDA organic" label, do you know what you're getting? Now is a good time to ask such a question, as the USDA just announced Monday it was putting 15 out of 30 federally accredited organic certifiers they audite
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush classifies $200 million cybersecurity program, redacts questions about contractors
08-08-2008
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RawStory.com
The Bush Administration is finalizing plans to establish yet another massive surveillance program -- and has classified almost every single detail.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
Georgia reports new air attacks at military bases
8-8-2008
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AP
The fighting, which devastated the capital of Tskhinvali, threatened to ignite a wider war between Georgia and Russia, and escalate tensions between Moscow and Washington. Georgia said it was forced to launch the assault because of rebel attacks; the
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Pilots' reports on low fuel
8-8-2008
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AP
The Aviation Safety Reporting System has reports from pilots expressing safety concerns about airline directives pressuring them to fly with uncomfortably low fuel levels. [What goes up....]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hamptons town struggles with $12M deficit
08-08-2008
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Newsday
The social calendar is still a whirl of glamorous lawn parties, wine tastings, gallery openings, beach get-togethers and gala benefits in the Hamptons, the summer playground for the millionaire Learjet Set. But down at Town Hall, the local government
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
The Great Oil Bubble has Burst (what did you think was going to happen?)
08-08-2008
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New York Times
Actually the price of a barrel of crude has been falling: from a peak of $145 in early July, it came down to $117 and was trading yesterday at $120. That's almost a 20 per cent drop in little more than three weeks.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • OLYMPICS Beijing China Summer 2008
Politics, pageantry blend for Bush at Olympics
08-08-2008
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www.breitbart.com
Before settling in for the opening festivities, Bush jabbed at China's human rights record and spoke with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about fighting in the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama camp ponders: 'What does Hillary want?'
08-08-2008
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International Herald
That is still a bit of a mystery, particularly as she and Senator Barack Obama negotiate the delicate question of her role at the Democratic convention later this month in Denver and in the campaign beyond.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate
08-08-2008
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ABC News
John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Florida GOP Claims Republican Liberty Caucus, by law, Can't Use "Republican" Name
8-8-2008
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www.staugustine.com
"They obviously do not take their oath seriously because they are actively trying to torpedo McCain's candidacy as evidenced by their stated intentions to demonstrate against McCain at the Convention."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Cindy Sheehan vs. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
08-08-2008
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www.cindyforcongress.org
Campaign Website for Cindy Sheehans race against Pelosi. Cindy is forcing the Democrats to answer for not stopping the Iraq War after they took control of the Congress.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Create World's Thinnest Balloon
8-8-2008
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LiveScience
Scientists have created the world's thinnest balloon, made of a single layer of carbon just one atom thick. The fabric that the balloon is made of is leakproof to even the tiniest airborne molecules.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Rubber that conducts electricity
8-8-2008
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Reuters
In the latest twist on electronics, Japanese scientists said on Thursday they have developed a rubbery material that conducts electricity, a finding that could be used to make devices that bend and stretch.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Fingerprints now used to find drugs, explosives
8-8-2008
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AP
If a person handled cocaine, explosives or other materials, there could be enough left in a fingerprint to identify them, says a chemist.NY Times
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News Link • Iran
Massive US Naval Armada Heads For Iran
8-8-2008
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European Business
Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval blockade of Iran and the likely resulting war in the Persian Gulf area. The massive war games included a US Navy
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US weighs stepped-up military forays into Pakistan
8-8--2008
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AP
Top Bush administration officials are urging the president to direct U.S. troops in Afghanistan to be more aggressive in pursuing militants into Pakistan on foot as part of a proposed radical shift in its regional counterterrorism strategy, The Assoc
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News Link • World News
Pakistan generals meet as Musharraf faces ouster
8-8-2008
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Reuters
Eyes were on Pakistan's generals on Friday for any gesture of support for President Pervez Musharraf the day after a four-month-old civilian coalition declared plans to impeach the former army chief.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Sadr to disarm if U.S. withdraws on timetable
8-8-2008
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Reuters
Influential Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr would dissolve his Mehdi Army militia if the United States starts withdrawing troops according to a set timetable, a spokesman said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Russia, Georgia effectively at war
8-8-2008
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Reuters
Russian jets bombed the Vaziani military airbase outside the Georgian capital Tbilisi, a senior Georgian security official told Reuters. "No one was wounded but some buildings have been destroyed," he said. "They have declared war agai
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