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Date Sent: 2008-08-23
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, August 23, 2008 |
Obama Taps Biden as Presidential Running Mate -- Appeals Court Upholds Sarbanes-Oxley Act
CIA More Fully Denies Deception About Iraq -- E-Voting companies being charged with counting votes -- Ron Paul supporters traveling to Minneapolis -- Food prices to post biggest rise since 1990: USDA -- Feds' medical pot challenge tossed -- People With City Maps Could Be Planning Violence -- Israel frees father of Palestinian girl who filmed shooting of bound man -- NIST WTC 7 Report: Shameful, Embarrassing And Completely Flawed -- McCain's Neocon traitorous warmonger - by Pat Buchanan -- This Time, the World Is Not Buying It - by Paul Craig Roberts -- Many protest photo radar in Scottsdale -- U.S. Mint to Resume Distribution of American Eagle Gold Coins -- Paulson Might Weigh Whom to Hurt in Any Fannie Rescue -- Bernanke: Financial crisis taking toll on economy -- Security Makes U.S. Conventions Virtual Fortresses -- The End Does Not Justify The Means - by Christine Smith -- Bush Agrees to Timetable to Cut and Run from Iraq -- John McCain Pro Life? What A Joke! - by Chuck Baldwin -- Obama's Half-Brother Found in Nairobi Slum -- I.O.U.S.A., I Want a Refund -- Freddie, Fannie failure Could Be World 'Catastrophe,' China's Yu says -- August Denver Clinton Surprise
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama Taps Biden as Presidential Running Mate
8-22-2008
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Washington Post
Barack Obama has chosen Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate, a pick designed to shore up the Illinois senator's foreign policy credentials in advance of the November election against John McCain.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Media BLITZ Regarding Photo Radar rEVOLt!
8/29/2008
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CameraFRAUD.com
ACTION ALERT! We got their attention today. Now, we need YOUR HELP to get this in the national media. Please take a moment to send these links to your favorite publications. Some suggestions include DRUDGE Report, CNN, and USA Today.
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA More Fully Denies Deception About Iraq
8-22-2008
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Washington Post
A new CIA denial that it helped the Bush administration produce phony documents suggesting past links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Appeals Court Upholds Sarbanes-Oxley Act
8-22-2008
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Washington Post
A federal appeals court today upheld the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the government's most sweeping attempt to protect investors since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
E-Voting companies being charged with counting votes
8-22-2008
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Rawstory
A new report says election officials often are outsourcing their responsibilities [to ensure accuracy of the vote count] to the very companies that make the e-voting machines, even trusting those companies to count the votes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul supporters traveling to Minneapolis
8-22-2008
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Orange County Register
The "Ron Paul REVOLution" isn't over quite yet. The Republican congressman's primary campaign unexpectedly erupted into a phenomenon, attracting tens of thousands who'd felt like political outsiders. And while Paul won only hand
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Food prices to post biggest rise since 1990: USDA
8-22-2008
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Reuters
U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Sending the US to war is not the president's call
8-22-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
The decision to go to war rests with the elected representatives of those who will do the fighting and dying. It's one of the defining elements of the republic. That constitutional power of Congress has not always been followed. It's in jeop
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
People With City Maps Could Be Planning Violence
8-22-2008
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Infowars
A leaked copy of a Denver Police Department bulletin advises officers that violent protesters at the upcoming Democratic National Convention may be identified from their use of hand held radios, bikes, maps and "camping information."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Feds' medical pot challenge tossed
8-22-2008
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
A federal court ruling lifted the hopes of medical marijuana users by denying a Bush administration request to toss a lawsuit brought by Santa Cruz city and county officials and Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana members.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer accused of raping woman
8-22-2008
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WorldNetDaily
An Indianapolis, Ind., police officer has been charged with rape, criminal deviate conduct and other crimes after he allegedly pulled a woman over and threatened arrest if she didn't get into his car.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel frees father of Palestinian girl who filmed shooting of bound man
8-22-2008
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Hareetz
The Israel Defense Forces court of appeals has ordered the release from detention of the father of the Palestinian girl who filmed an IDF soldier shooting a bound Palestinian youth from point-blank range.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
NIST WTC 7 Report: Shameful, Embarrassing And Completely Flawed
8-22-2008
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InfoWars
NIST Claims “New Phenomenon” Occurred For First Time Ever In Collapse Of WTC 7.
Yet fails to address why ground zero workers and media outlets had prior knowledge of an "extraordinary event" never before observed an hour in advance
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
McCain's Neocon traitorous warmonger
by Pat Buchanan
8-22-2008
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WorldNetDaily
Who is Randy Scheunemann? He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential national security adviser. But Scheunemann has another role. He is a foreign agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
This Time, the World Is Not Buying It
by Paul Craig Roberts
8-22-2008
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Antiwar
The success of the Bush Regime's propaganda, lies, and deception with gullible and inattentive Americans since 9/11 has made it difficult for intelligent, aware people to be optimistic about the future of the United States. For almost 8 years the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Many protest photo radar in Scottsdale
It's not at all about speed, some say. The public never got to vote for photo radar. Many meet to protest about the fraud of photo radar. Channel 3 coverage.
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Police State
UK Government ad that should send a chill up your spine
8-22-2008
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Youtube
In the UK, most of the TV is owned by government. There are no ads. You pay a tax to license your TV . Here is a little public service announcement from the blessed government to viewers like you....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
The $170,000 sports car that does 125mph in complete silence on sale
8-22-2008
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Daily Mail
It looks just like a normal sports car, has a top speed of 125mph and acceleration of 0-60 in 3.9 seconds. But the British-built Tesla Roadster, which goes on sale today, has one major advantage - you'll never need to fill it up.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Mint to Resume Distribution of American Eagle Gold Coins
8-22-2008
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Bloomberg
The U.S. Mint said it will resume limited distribution of its 1-ounce American Eagle Gold coins a week after suspending sales because investors and collectors depleted the supply.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paulson Might Weigh Whom to Hurt in Any Fannie Rescue
8-22-2008
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Bloomberg
[My wallet ... taxpayers ... my wallet ... taxpayers ... my wallet ... taxpayers ... taxpayers it is.] Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's response to the sinking fortunes of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac might boil down to picking which investors ge
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke: Financial crisis taking toll on economy
8-22-2008
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AP
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said today that the financial crisis that has pounded the country -- coupled with higher inflation -- is taking a toll on the economy and poses a major challenge to Fed policymakers as they try to restore stabili
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Security Makes U.S. Conventions Virtual Fortresses
8-22-2008
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Bloomberg
Two U.S. cities will become virtual fortresses during the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions, protected by airplanes, helicopters, barriers, fences and thousands of police officers, National Guard troops and Secret Service agents.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
The End Does Not Justify The Means (by Christine Smith)
08-22-2008
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Nolan Chart, C.Smith's
Can an immoral or unethical act sometimes be the right thing to do if the outcome is deemed favorable?
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama's Half-Brother Found in Nairobi Slum
08-22-2008
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Sydney Morning Herald
GEORGE HUSSEIN OBAMA, 26, was discovered this week living in a shack on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bush Agrees to Timetable to Cut and Run from Iraq
08-22-2008
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Syndey Morning Herald
NEGOTIATORS have concluded a deal which will see the complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by 2011. Under the 27-point deal, all US combat troops will be withdrawn from Iraqi cities by next June, the negotiator, Mohammed al-Haj Hammoud, said.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
KTAR: “Group plans Scottsdale protest against photo radar”
08/22/2008
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KTAR.com
The following story is running on the top of the hour, every hour, on KTAR 92.3 FM:
Protestors plan to demonstrate against photo radar in Scottsdale this afternoon. The group, camerafraud.com, asked members to gather at 5 p.m. at the corner of
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
I.O.U.S.A., I Want a Refund
8-22-2008
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LRC Blog
The book offered several options for dealing with the debt; the movie had only one: more government. The post-movie 'town hall' was silly and took only a few minutes before new taxes were proposed under the guise of "forced savings."
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
In America, land of the bubbles, the next pop will be the biggest
8-22-08
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Marketwatch.com
Publicly they denied the bubble's toxicity, dismissing it as "regional froth." Privately, they conspired to create a massive new bubble driving America deep into debt.
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News Link • Economy - International
Freddie, Fannie failure Could Be World 'Catastrophe,' China's Yu says
8-22-08
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bloomberg.com
A failure of U.S. mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be a catastrophe for the global financial system, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to China's central bank.
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News Link • Immigration
Immigration agency scraps self-deportation program
8-22-2008
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AP
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it is ending the "Scheduled Departure" program when the three-week trial run concludes Friday. Only eight people participated in the program, officials said.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
John Edwards Scandal: The Curious August 14 Flight of N179AX
08-22-08
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Mondoreb
We got an email titled “Interesting Flight”. After reading it and its contents, we agreed. By publishing the details about the August 14 flight of N178AX, registered to Baron & Budd PC, of Dallas TX, to Provendiciales Internat’l., we hope other detai
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
August Denver Clinton Surprise: Hillary Backer Files Injunction, Suit to Disqualify Obama
08-22-08
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Mondoreb
A former US senate candidate, and Clinton backer, from PA filed federal suit in Philly yesterday to disqualify Barack Obama from the nomination on constitutional grounds. Has proof Obama born in Kenya and MORE
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Randy Ricochet
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