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Date Sent: 2008-08-15
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, August 15, 2008 |
Russia: Georgia can 'forget' regaining provinces--US halts Israeli plan to attack Iran nuke facili
Court rules Saudi Arabia immune in 9/11 -- TSA threatens airlines who tell customers they're on watchlists -- Police accused of attempting to incite violence at SPP -- Poland, US clinch missile shield deal -- Pakistan's Musharraf to resign -- $8 Billion Demand in California Prison Case -- Custodial Dad Paid $100,000+ in Alimony to Working Ex-Wife, Received no CS -- Iraqi Refugees Forced into Prostitution -- Russia controls a third of Georgia -- Barbed wire, stun-gun use mark DNC warehouse jail -- Heller and the 8th Circuit Court - by Chip Saunders -- Thought Crimes Agenda Being Implemented -- Third surgery successful for Ron Paul's wife -- Massive Private Contractors' Role In Iraq -- George Clooney To Make Movie About Bin Laden's Driver -- Texas School District To Allow Guns On Campuses -- US boasts of laser weapon's 'plausible deniability' -- Will American Indifference Destroy the World? - by Paul Craig Roberts -- Navy relieves commander of nuclear air recon squadron -- 12 yr old San Francisco Girl to Russian Troops: Thank You
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News Link • World News
No Permits, No Protests In Beijing's Special 'Pens'
8-15-2008
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NY Times
Indeed, a few Chinese who followed the process to apply for a protest permit are now either missing or detained. Others have been harassed by authorities and sent home without getting approval.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Holds 9 Year Old Iraqi In Custody
8-14-2008
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Called to Account (video)
A voice on the video with a US accent says “We know about him”, “He is the most dangerous”. It seems to completely pass by the soldiers this boy is only 9 years old. What were you doing when you were 9? How would your adult life be changed if you wer
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
U.S. court rules Saudi Arabia immune in 9/11 case
8-14-2008
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Reuters
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, four princes and other Saudi entities are immune from a lawsuit filed by victims of the September 11 attacks and their families alleging they gave material support to al Qaeda, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police beat a guy in front of their police car video camera
8-14-2008
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MSNBC video
oooooooooops! Got to love the quote about a thin line between medals and exceeding authority. Is there any wonder the law enforcement is what it is?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
TSA threatens airlines who tell people they’re on watchlists
08-14-2008
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Papers Please
USA Today reports that TSA’s upset when airlines explain the hassle by telling people they’re on a TSA watch list. TSA will not tell people when they are on such a list. TSA won’t tell people when they ARE NOT on such a list. They want the airlines t
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • North American Union
Police accused of attempting to incite violence at SPP
8-14-2008
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Youtube
Protestors at Montebello are accusing police of trying to incite violence. Video on YouTube shows union officials confronting 3 men -- one armed with a rock -- that were police officers dressing up as demonstrators. Was the Prime Minister's Offic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Poland, US clinch missile shield deal
8-14-2008
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AFP
Warsaw and Washington signed a preliminary deal on basing part of a US missile shield in Poland, in the face of Moscow's vehement opposition and mounting East-West tensions over Georgia. US and Polish negotiators inked the accord in a ceremony af
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Pakistan's Musharraf to resign as president
8-14-2008
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Reuters
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf will resign rather than face impeachment by parliament, the Financial Times said on its Web site, citing government officials and a member of his circle. A deal had been brokered between Musharraf and members
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Russia: Georgia can 'forget' regaining provinces
8-14-2008
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Washington Post
Russian troops searched selected cities, forests and fields in Georgia looking for military equipment left behind by Georgian forces. In Moscow, Russia's foreign minister declared Georgia could "forget about" regaining its 2 separatist
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Books
Fearing Muslim Violence, Random House Withdraws Novel
8-14-2008
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Writer's blog
Author Sherry Jones had her book contract canceled by Random House over fears that extremist Muslims would engage in violence over the contents. The book details the life of the prophet Muhammad's child bride, Aisha.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
$8 Billion Demand in California Prison Case
8-14-2008
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NY Times
The court-appointed receiver in charge of bringing California’s prison health system into compliance with federal constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual treatment of prisoners said Wednesday that he would ask a judge to seize $8 billio
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Denver Determined Not to Let Piss and Shit Spoil Its Convention
8-14-2008
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Indecision2008
The City of Denver is taking all measures to silence the legions of doubters who predict the upcoming Democratic National Convention will be ransacked by piss and shit. The City Council has passed an ordinance that...Prohibits the possession of noxio
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Family
Custodial Dad Says He Paid $100,000+ in Alimony to Working Ex-Wife, Received no CS
08-11-2008
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Glenn Sacks
I do believe that alimony is appropriate under certain circumstances, such as when one parent has made substantial career sacrifices in order to be the primary caregiver for the couple's children, and upon divorce their incomes are very unequal b
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraqi Refugees Forced into Prostitution
8-14-2008
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Alive in Baghdad (video)
Iraqis without sponsors were forced to do work that no human would wish to do, such as working in drug trafficking or prostitution. Some of the sex workers are under the age of 16, and are afraid of being hunted down by their families in Iraq for the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Saakashvili: Russia controls a third of Georgia
8-14-2008
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AP
Georgia's president said Thursday that a column of Russian tanks and other vehicles was moving toward the country's second-largest city, and that Russian forces already control a third of Georgian territory. [Cry wolf too many times ....]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Want to know what Pravda has to say about President Bush?
8-14-08
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english.Pravda.ru/opinion
What’s wrong with destroying an environment for 4 billion years and generations after generations of people? After all, they’re just rag heads, aren’t they Mr. Bush?
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russian Snipers In Georgia Now Targetting The Press (video)
8-14-2004
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YouTube
If it bleeds, it leads; in this case the reporter provides her own blood for the story, thanks to a sniper in Gori, Georgia.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Great Gold Robbery of 1933
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
8-14-2008
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Mises Institute
It's been 75 years since the federal government, on the spurious grounds of fighting the Great Depression, ordered the confiscation of all monetary gold from Americans, permitting trivial amounts for ornamental or industrial use.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Thought Crimes Agenda Already Being Implemented
8-14-2008
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Rouge Government
The Department of Homeland Security is implementing provisions of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 known as the thought crimes bill, despite the fact that the legislation has not passed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
U.S. puts brakes on Israeli plan for attack on Iran nuclear facilities
8-14-2008
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Haaretz
The American administration has rejected an Israeli request for military equipment and support to improve Israel's ability to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. Rejected at the highest level, Israel is in the advanced stages of preparations to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Third surgery successful for Rep. Paul's wife
8-14-2008
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Houston Chronicle
Carol Paul, wife of US Rep. Ron Paul, remains in the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital this morning after having her third surgery in a week. "Carol's surgery was successful. We are not out of the woods yet, but signs look very posit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Could a Roof-Top Windmill Provide 80 Percent of a Home's Energy?
8-12-08
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HeraldTribune.com
The first of his Democratic Ecology products is to be launched this fall, a miniature roof-top windmill, priced between €500 and €800, which will produce up to 80 percent of a home's energy.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
George Clooney To Make Movie About Bin Laden's Driver, Salim Hamdan
8-13-2008
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The Guardian, UK
Clooney is believed to be interested in playing the role of lawyer Swift and the case certainly has all the drama and tension of any fictional legal thriller.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Massive Private Contractors' Role In Iraq Documented By New Report
8-14-2008
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TPM Muckraker
Today private military contractors supporting the US occupation in Iraq far outnumber US troops inside the country. All together, these non-uniformed workers have cost nearly $100 billion, roughly 20% of the total budget for the 5-year war.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Texas School District To Allow Guns On Campuses
8-14-2008
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NBC
The school district said it will allow the guns to protect students, because board members estimate it would take first responders nearly 30 minutes to get to the school if there was an emergency.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bear bet that netted $270 Million throws fresh suspicion on collapse
8-14-2008
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The Independent
In a "whodunnit" that has gripped Wall Street for months, many traders and senior executives at Bear Stearns have become convinced the firm was brought down by a conspiracy of rivals and hedge funds, who spread malicious rumors and ultimate
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
US boasts of laser weapon's 'plausible deniability'
8-14-2008
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New Scientist
An airborne laser weapon dubbed the "long-range blowtorch" has a benefit that the US could convincingly deny any involvement with the destruction it causes, say senior Air Force officials. The Advanced Tactical Laser is mounted on a Hercule
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Will American Indifference Destroy the World?
by Paul Craig Roberts
8-14-2008
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Information Clearinghouse
In the Reagan years, the National Endowment for Democracy was created as a cold war tool. Today NED is a neocon-controlled agent for US world hegemony. It functions to pour money and election-rigging into former parts of the Soviet Union
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Navy relieves commander of air recon squadron
8-14-2008
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AP
The commander of a Navy air reconnaissance squadron that provides the president and the defense secretary the airborne ability to command the nation's nuclear weapons has been relieved of duty only 3 months after taking the job.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Warning to the NWO
8-14-2008
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Youtube
Patriotic message from the RNEM compliments of the sons of liberty! [offensive language at the end . . . oh, the well past midnight crash at the door. . . for some reason that popped into my head.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Truth Rising Trailer Contest Winner
8-14-2008
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Youtube
This video is the winner of Alex Jones' Truth Rising Trailer Contest. Thank you for watching!
http://www.infowars.com/?p=3945
THE TRUTH IS RISING
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Report investigates child brainwashing in the Middle East
8-14-2008
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Youtube
Report on Memri TV and footage compiled of brainwashing Muslim children to hate the west. Very disturbing footage. For more information, visit memritv.org [Effectively a CBN ad for MemriTV, but I thought it interesting.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Video from the Nancy Pelosi book tour ;-D
8-14-2008
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Youtube
Man if this is how you get treated in your own home state, by your former supporters, I wouldn't want to be in front of a audience who were swinging my hard cover book around. Just a tip.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
FOXNews-12 yr old San Francisco Girl to Russian Troops: Thank You
August 14, 2008
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Revolutionary Politics
FOXNews-12 yr old SanFrancisco Girl to Russian Troops: Thank You
August 14, 2008 " 12:37 pm
12 Year Old Girl Tells the Truth on Fox News about Georgia. Fox News even had to cut them off right in the middle of the account of Georgian aggression eve
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Istvan Lettang
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