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Date Sent: 2008-08-22
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, August 22, 2008 |
US out of Iraq cities by June, 2009, out of Iraq by 2011--NIST Says Fire, Not Explosion, Felled WTC7
Engineer builds his own spacecraft -- Minn. Supreme Court Strikes Down Red Light Cameras -- U.S. military frees Reuters Iraq cameraman -- Company acknowledges Ohio voting machine error -- New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers -- Venezuela now Argentina's lender of last resort -- US is Cuba's 5th largest trading partner -- Syria to Consider Russian Air Defense Deal -- US Navy heads for Georgia - Russia blocks Georgia's main port city! -- US Sugar buyout: Sweet deal except for taxpayers -- New York City agrees to pay protesters $2 million -- Give me your poor! - by Mary Ruwart -- FTC all but bans robocalls -- Group aims to dim the lights on photo radar -- "Peace Mom" v. "Guardian of Power" - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Eugenics
Homes McCain doesn't remember having worth nearly $14 million
8-21-2008
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Rawstory
Rawstory figured perhaps some pictures of McCain's houses could jog his memory. "If you don't know how many houses you have, then it might not be surprising that you think the economy is fundamentally strong," quipped Obama.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Warship tracks 3 ships seized by pirates
8-21-2008
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AP
A navy coalition warship has been dispatched to track three vessels that were hijacked this week by armed pirates in an unprecedented series of attacks off the coast of Somalia, officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Minnesota Supreme Court Strikes Down Red Light Cameras
The supreme court found that Minneapolis had disregarded a state law imposing uniformity of traffic laws across the state. The city's photo ticket program offered the accused fewer due process protections than available to motorists prosecuted fo
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. military frees Reuters Iraq cameraman
8-21-2008
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Reuters
The U.S. military freed a Reuters television cameraman on Thursday after holding him for three weeks in Iraq without charges for the third time.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US out of Iraq cities by June, 2009, out of Iraq by 2011
8-21-2008
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Rawstory
"U.S. and Iraqi negotiators reached agreement on a security deal that calls for American military forces to leave Iraq's cities by next summer as a prelude to a full withdrawal of combat troops from the country," senior American officia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Company acknowledges Ohio voting machine error
8-21-2008
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AP
The maker of the most widely used touch-screen voting machine in Ohio has acknowledged the machines have a programming error that led to votes being dropped in the March primary.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russia sends only aircraft carrier they have to Syria, This isn't the best they have, its all th
08-21-2008
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Global Security, Project 1143.5
Here is the entire story of the old carrier: The Admiral Kuznetsov was launched in 1985. Following repairs in October 2004 the ship participated in exercises off Iceland. This was only the second mission of the ship in the past decade. Deployment
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers
8-21-2008
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NY Times
A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Report Says Fire, Not Explosion, Felled W.T.C. 7
08/21/2008
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The New York Times
Fires in the 47-story office tower of Building 7 at the edge of the World Trade Center site undermined floor beams and critical structural columns on Sept. 11, 2001, federal investigators concluded Thursday.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • WAR: About that War
What?! Shite government unwilling to incorporate Sunnis.
8-21-2008
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McClatchy News
{I'm shocked!} A key pillar of the US strategy to pacify Iraq is in danger of collapsing because the Iraqi government is failing to absorb thousands of former Sunni Muslim insurgents who'd joined US-allied militia groups into the country'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Be careful what you wish for Sen. Stevens
8-21-2008
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McClatchy News
A federal judge has turned down Sen. Ted Stevens' request to move his corruption trial to Alaska, tying the 84-year-old Alaska Republican to a Washington courtroom at the height of his re-election campaign 3,500 miles away.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Boomtown of the Americas, There is no downturn here!
08-20-2008
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Thomas Cabal, Escape Artist Magazine
I don't know how to put this, but if your a Baby-Boomer with any kind of retirement left, you might just want to get into this now before its too late! Panama is where your money will go four times further and medical care is top flight.
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • Economy - International
Venezuela Argentina’s lender of last resort
08-06-2008
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Mercopress, South America
Venezuela again acted as lender of last resort for Argentina having acquired a billion US dollars in sovereign bonds, at “close to market rates” according to Argentine financial sources.
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • Free Trade
US is Cuba’s fifth trading partner- in spite of the embargo
08-20-2008
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South Atlantic News Agency
United States farm and food exports to Cuba reached 600 million US dollars in 2007, despite the decades old US trade embargo, according to the latest release from the Cuban Statistics Office.
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Syria to Consider Russian Air Defense Deal
08-20-2008
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RIA Novosti, Moscow
Syria is ready to discuss deploying Iskander missile-defense systems on its territory, the country's president told a Russian business daily. President Assad, who arrived in Russia on Wednesday, said in an interview: "Our position is that w
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Ukraine to Russian Navy, Black Sea Fleet must vacate Sevastopol base by 2017
08-21-2008
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RIA Novosti, Moscow
Volodymyr Ohryzko said in an interview with the Russian daily Izvestia that Ukraine has no plans to push for an early pullout of the Black Sea Fleet. Ships from Russia's Black Sea Fleet patrolled the waters off the Georgian coast
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
S.Korea Prez. says to CEOs: Until economy better, no golf for you!
8-21-2008
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Reuters
South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak has told officials to give up golf for the moment because it sends the wrong signal just as the economy has hit the rough.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Sheriff goes to jail for an education (Are you listening, Arpaio?)
8-21-2008
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Reuters
Sheriff Mark Curran walked into his own jail on Wed. to spend a week as a prisoner, saying he was inspired to learn what it was like to be confined and to sample jail programs designed to reduce recidivism.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Sorry Ricky Martin, but Women Shouldn’t Create Single Parent Households"and You Shouldn’t Either
08-21-2008
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Glenn Sacks
I’ve long criticized the Single Motherhood by Choice movement for ignoring the importance of fathers and the two-parent family. Now singer Ricky Martin has decided to have motherless children.
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Eugenics
How many houses does McCain own? Even he doesn't know! (Duh,...7?)
8-21-2008
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Washington Post
"If you don't know how many houses you have, then it's not surprising that you might think the economy is fundamentally strong," Obama said.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Energy
New catalyst boosts hydrogen as transport fuel
8-21-08
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Guardian.co.uk
The resulting catalyst is made from calcium, cobalt and small grains of cerium oxide, a common ingredient in ceramics. According to the researchers, it an produce hydrogen with 90% efficiency at around 350C " a low temperature by industrial standards
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. Navy heads for Georgia - Russia blocks Georgia's main port city!
8-21-08
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ap.google.com
Armored personnel carriers and troop trucks blocked the bridge to the Black Sea port city of Poti, and Russian forces excavated trenches and set up mortars facing the city. Another group of APCs and trucks were positioned in a nearby wooded area.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
What happens when you remove health care from the free market?
8-21-2008
Working-age Americans are facing mounting problems when it comes to affording health care, a result of what analysts are calling a "perfect storm" of economic woes.
In 2007, 41% of working-age Americans -- 72 million people -- reported hav
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
US Sugar buyout: Sweet deal for the Everglades?
8-21-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
Banged out in secret meetings, a $1.75 billion taxpayer-funded plan to buy 187,000 acres of US Sugar's cane fields in the Lake Okeechobee basin marks one of the largest conservation buyouts of a major industry in the US, promising to break
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Give me your poor!
by Mary J. Ruwart
8-21-2008
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Liberty For All
Liberty's natural constituents have always been the young and disadvantaged, not the established and the elite. Is the Libertarian Party, built on the activism of the "have-nots," now snubbing its most ardent supporters?
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News Link • Activism
New York City agrees to pay protesters $2 million
New York City has agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to protesters arrested during a 2003 rally against the Iraq war who said their civil rights had been violated, lawyers for both sides said on Tuesday.
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Communications
FTC all but bans robocalls
8-21-2008
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c/Net
The Federal Trade Commission essentially banned robocalls Tuesday--creating new rules that telemarketers may only send the prerecorded sales pitches to people who actually want to receive them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
Valley group aims to dim the lights on photo radar (CameraFRAUD.com)
8/21/08
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ABC15.com
ABC15 reports: Some call it the flash they fear. Photo enforcement cameras are popping up across the Valley and many law enforcement agencies consider them a useful tool to cut down on red light runners and speeders. But for one Valley organization,
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Camera FRAUD
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