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Date Sent: 2007-09-13
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, September 13, 2007

U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan -- British troops headed to Iranian border

Toppling the Great Firewall of China -- Dollar hits all-time low against euro -- Chicago officers beat 4 men -- 3 Soldiers Who Wrote New York Times Op-Ed Die or Head Shot -- Immigration activists storm congressional offices -- Petraeus' boss calls him a sycophant -- Oil hits record $80 -- Giant banana hovering over Texas -- Iran Linked to Iraq Rocket Attack -- Ron Paul Web Stats -- Stop warrantless surveillance of ordinary Americans -- Fox 'debunks 9/11 conspiracy theories once and for all' -- Disbarring Scooter -- Chicago Cops Desperate for Dollars, Shake Down Good Samaritan -- Troop blogs show increasing criticism -- David Petraeus: General Surge -- The war on individual liberty -- Americans are now in a familiar tight spot -- Commercial Real Estate Slowdown -- MISH: Global Savings Glut Exposed -- SIGNING UP FOR A REVOLUTION -- Putin Dissolves Government -- Purge of voter rolls could swing 2008 election

News Link • Internet
Toppling the Great Firewall of China
9-12-2007 • eWeek
The People's Republic of China has no firewall perched on its routers to enable censors to block Internet sites. The authoritarian regime relies on a censorship system uses a keyword blacklist and reach deep into Internet traffic to find forbidde Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Small 'Hobbit' Galaxies Made Almost Entirely of Dark Matter
9-12-2007 • Space.com
Small, ultrafaint "hobbit" galaxies recently found hovering around our Milky Way are comprised almost entirely of dark matter, a new study confirms. Dark matter is a mysterious substance scientists think accounts for most of the mass in Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Domestic Policy
Shrinking kilogram bewilders physicists
9-12-2007 • AP
A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight �" if ever so slightly. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dollar hits all-time low against euro
9-12-2007 • AP
The dollar sank to an all-time low against the euro Wednesday amid speculation that the Federal Reserve will soon cut interest rates by as much as half a percentage point. The 13-nation euro rose as high as $1.3889 in afternoon European trading �" Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Chicago officers allegedly beat 4 men
9-12-2007 • AP
A group of off-duty Chicago police officers instigated a bar fight with four businessmen that was partially caught on videotape. Six employees claim the officers started the fight for "no apparent reason." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Two Of Seven Soldiers Who Wrote New York Times Op-Ed Die In Iraq
9-12-2007 • Think Progress
One of the surviving five authors, Staff Sgt. Jeremy Murphy, was shot in the head while the article was being written. He is expected to recover. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Activism
2 arrested as immigration activists storm congressional offices
9-12-2007 • AP
An 8-year-old boy whose mother was deported to Mexico led a chanting crowd of about 150 pro-immigration activists through congressional offices Wednesday. Capitol police arrested two demonstrators for disorderly conduct. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Admiral Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge
9-12-2007 • IPS News
Petraeus's superior, Admiral William Fallon, chief of Central Command, derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March. Fallon told Petraeus he considered him to be "an ass-kissing little chickenshit" an Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
'Six Months' Without End
9-12-2007 • Washington Post
The next six months in Iraq are crucial -- and always will be. That noise you heard was the can being kicked further down the road leading to January 2009, when George W. Bush gets to hand off his Iraq fiasco to somebody else. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Energy
Oil hits record $80 on tight supply
9-12-2007 • Reuters
U.S. light crude for October delivery was up $1.59 at $79.82 per barrel at 2:07 p.m. EDT after setting a record high of $80.00 a barrel earlier. London Brent crude was up $1.35 at $77.73 a barrel. Crude oil stocks in top consumer the United States Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Surging Toward Iran
9-12-2007 • Antiwar
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) at the Petraeus-Crocker hearings: "Where is this going? … Are we going to continue to invest American blood and treasure at the same rate we are doing now. For what? The president said let's buy time. Buy time? For wh Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Art
Giant banana hovering over Texas
9-12-2007 • Flasher (video, images)
Argentine-born, Montreal-based artist Cesar Saez's latest project is an ambitious one: at the cost of a million dollars, he plans to inflate a gigantic banana with helium and float it 20-30 miles above Texas. He and his team plan to float the mas Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Propaganda
Iran Linked to Iraq Rocket Attack
9-12-2007 • ABC News
U.S. military officials in Iraq tell ABC News that a rocket used in an attack on coalition headquarters at Camp Victory Tuesday was made in Iran. Officials say the rocket, which narrowly missed its target, was fired from an area of Baghdad controlled Read Full Story
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Web Stats
09-12-2007 • HitWise
Who exactly are those interested in Ron Paul's campaign.... everybody :) Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • WAR: About that War
After two days, no answer to 'how this ends'
9-12-2007 • McClatchy News
There was one question Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, couldn't, or wouldn't, answer. It was the question Petraeus posed rhetorically back in 2003 when he led the Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Reference Link • Police State
Stop warrantless surveillance of ordinary Americans
Stop the Spying
The president is unconstitutionally wiretapping the telephone and Internet communications of millions of ordinary Americans. Companies like AT&T want immunity for their illegal collaboration. Congress let them get away with it. Stop the Spying Now
Entered by: Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
On 9/11 anniversary, Fox 'debunks conspiracy theories once and for all'
9-12-2007 • Raw Story
On the morning of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends sought to 'debunk' conspiracy theories about the tragedy with the help of guest James Meigs, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics magazi Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bush Administration
Disbarring Scooter
9-12-2007 • IHT
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court wants to suspend the law license of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr., the former White House aide convicted in March of lying and obstructing justice in a probe into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Transportation
Battery-like device could power electric cars
9-12-2007 • CNN
Millions of inventions pass quietly through the US patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine. Read Full Story
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News Link • Police State
Chicago Cops Desperate for Dollars, Shake Down Good Samaritan
09-12-2007 • The Agitator
The police report improbably charged that Palacios solicited sex from the undercover officer, even as his wife sat in the passenger seat, and his daughter was on her way out from getting a beverage Read Full Story
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Reported by: Terry Bressi

News Link • WAR: About that War
Troop blogs show increasing criticism of war
9-12-2007 • AP
In the past year, as soldiers and Marines return for the second, third or even fourth deployments, and the death toll approaches 4,000, some soldiers began questioning the war. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Military
David Petraeus: General Surge
9-12-2007 • The Independent
It is a measure of Petraeus's political skills that he was promoted to his present position despite being responsible in part for two of the greatest debacles of the Iraq war. In 2003/4 it was Petraeus who was in charge of securing Mosul from the Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Huckabee: Nice Guy, or Slanderer-by-proxy?
9-12-2007 • Antiwar
The conventional wisdom is that Mike Huckabee is a Real Nice Guy, and his soft-spoken manner gives superficial credence to this assertion, and yet, it is a lot of malarkey: aside from his demagogic appeal to naked emotion over logic and facts in his Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
The war on individual liberty
9-12-2007 • Orange County Register
As the 9/11 anniversary approaches, we should all be mindful of the degree to which our liberties have been eroded. "War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Americans are now in a familiar tight spot
9-12-2007 • Toronto Sun
Many of the same mistakes made in the Vietnam War are being repeated in Iraq and Afghanistan, but neither the White House, Pentagon, nor U.S. field commanders seem to recognize or understand them. Gen. Petreaus will issue a report on the "progre Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lawyers: Commercial Real Estate Slowdown "Like an Earthquake"
9-12-2007 • Law
The sudden queasiness of lenders has cast a pall over the once-robust real estate market in the last six weeks, Cowan and other lawyers report. Deals have been interrupted mid-stride. Some have been re-jiggered and others have just died. Read Full Story
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News Link • Bush Administration
Did President Bush make a Satanic hand sign during 911 moment of silence?
9-12-2007 • Yahoo!
You decide. Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Global Savings Glut Exposed
09-12-2007 • Mish Shedlock
The "Savings Glut" is an optical illusion that confuses "savings" with "debt" while ignoring U.S. deficit spending, consumer credit binges, and trillions of dollars blown in Iraq, all in the face of Fed policies that dis Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Shedlock

News Link • Politics: General Activism
SIGNING UP FOR A REVOLUTION - Las Vegas Makes News
09-12-2007 • Las Vegas Review Journal
"We've got state and county employees taking them down as fast as we can," McKenzie said. "It's becoming a real concern. If we let this go on and not do anything about it, it could cause sign chaos on the highways and pe Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Philosophy: Political
"WRECK OF THE HESPERUS" - Longfellow
09-12-2007 • www.blupete.com/Literature/Poetry/Wreck.htm
A poetic cautionary tale of the cost of a Captains' hubris. Food for thought to-day. "Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, And do not tremble so; For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow." Read Full Story
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Reported by: Geoffrey Hayes

News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Putin Dissolves Government
09-12-2007 • FoxNews.com
President Vladimir Putin dissolved Russia's government Wednesday and then quickly nominates Viktor Zubkov, a Russian Cabinet official who oversees the fight against money laundering, to be the new prime minister. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • WAR: About that War
US officials begin crafting Iran bombing plan
09-12-2007 • Faux News
A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jean Carbonneau

News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Purge of voter rolls could swing 2008 election
9-12-2007 • Raw Story
"Voting Section Chief John Tanner called for the purges in letters sent this spring under an arcane provision in the National Voter registration Act, better known as the Motor Voter law," says Rosenfeld, adding that the letters " notif Read Full Story
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Instead of going home, British troops headed to Iranian border:
9-12-2007 • Raw Story
As tension between the United Sates an Iran increases, military action along the Iran-Iraq border intensifies. Ostensibly to guard against importation of Iranian weapons and fighters targeting Western troops in Iraq, the UK is sending up to 350 tro Read Full Story
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