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Date Sent: 2008-02-25
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, February 25, 2008 |
White House says phone wiretaps back on -- $3 trillion dollar war -- McCain in serious contradiction
Iran says U.S. intelligence fake -- Democrats to File FEC Complaint Over McCain's Financing Request -- Backer disputes McCain remarks -- Political pork and the military-industrial complex -- U.S. gasoline prices at $3.10 a gallon -- Nader announces run for president -- MISH: Bank of America Asks Congress for a $739 Billion Bank Bailout -- Great Britain wants 19 forms of personal information on all travelers -- Wall Street Bank Run -- Canada, U.S. agree to use each other's troops in civil emergencies -- Former Arizona Governor Evan Mecham Dead -- When the Terrorists Were 'Our Guys' -- The Bonfire of Capitol -- Phoenix: Real Estate Downturn Hits Hard -- Kurdish troops surround Turks in worst confrontation yet in Iraq -- MySpace, Medical Marijuana and Biker Gangs -- Overzealous CBP Agents Cause Infant's Death
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News Link • Eugenics
John McCain’s denials start to unravel in tale of the blond lobbyist
2-24-2008
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London Times
If anything was going to derail John McCain’s White House bid, it was the fear that he was too old to be president, not the likelihood of being embroiled in a sex and favors scandal. But when the Arizona senator reached for the lawyer who steered Bil
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran says work plan closed, U.S. intelligence fake
2-24-2008
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Reuters
Iran said on Sunday it had cleared up all past outstanding issues over its nuclear program with the United Nations nuclear watchdog and accused the United States of providing intelligence that was fake.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Did Vicki Iseman “Steal Honor” in THREE Presidential Elections?
2-24-2008
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EmptyWheel
For the moment, though, I'm more interested in the 2004 election--the one McCain didn't run in. You see, I find it a mighty curious coincidence that two of the companies for which Iseman was lobbying John McCain in 1999 and 2000 also happen t
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Hillary crushes 12-year old rape victim to defend client
2-24-2008
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Newsday
In 1975, a 27-year-old Hillary Rodham, acting as a court-appointed attorney, attacked the credibility of a 12-year-old girl in mounting an aggressive defense for an indigent client accused of rape in Arkansas - using her child development background
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Democrats to File FEC Complaint Over McCain's Financing Request
2-24-2008
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Bloomberg
Howard Dean, head of the Democratic National Committee, said the party will oppose Republican Senator John McCain's attempt to turn down public financing for his presidential campaign.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Independence Institute flack has no need for the Fourth Amendment
2-24-2008
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Square State
If you want to spy on an American, get a warrant. That compels the phone companies to spy, and they can't get sued! If you want to spy on a terrorist - please do. And if a "terrorist can sue a phone company" - as Allard's guy stupid
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Washington Post upset over Cheney's support for guns
2-24-2008
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Washington Post
This month Mr. Cheney joined a brief filed by 305 lawmakers in the Supreme Court case over the constitutionality of the District's gun control laws. A federal appeals court struck down the gun ban -- the most far-reaching in the nation -- as unco
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
U.S. considers easing ban on guns in national parks
2-24-2008
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LA Times
In a victory for gun-rights advocates, the federal government is preparing to relax a decades-old ban on bringing loaded firearms into national parks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
After the War, a New Battle to Become Citizens
2-24-2008
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NY Times
Despite a 2002 promise from President Bush to put citizenship applications for immigrant members of the military on a fast track, some are finding themselves waiting months, or even years, because of bureaucratic backlogs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Backer disputes McCain remarks
2-24-2008
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Washington Post
Broadcaster Lowell "Bud" Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Senator John McCain's presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Political pork and the military-industrial complex
2-24-2008
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Raw Story
PBS' Bill Moyers Journal profiles Seattle Times investigative reporters David Heath and Hal Bernton in their investigation of congressional earmarks, and their recipients, in the Pacific Northwest.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
U.S. gasoline prices rise to $3.10 a gallon
2-24-2008
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Reuters
The national average for self-serve, regular, unleaded gas was $3.1011 per gallon on February 22, up 15.88 cents from two weeks earlier, and up 75.24 cents from a year ago, tracking a rise in crude oil prices.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Nader announces run for president
2-24-2008
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AP
Ralph Nader on Sunday announced a fresh bid for the White House, criticizing the top contenders as too close to big business and dismissing the possibility that his third-party candidacy could tip the election to Republicans.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
NHRA: What It Looks Like When a Car Explodes at 300 mph
02-24-2008
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Mondoreb
Series of 11 pictures of a car exploding at 300 mph. Taken at Pomona's NHRA two weeks ago.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Publisher Emeritus of Onion Magazine Editorializes on Election Ritual: Worse than Waterboarding?
01-28-2008
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T. Herman Zweibel
"Does the grist choose the mill, the rabbit the hawk, the innocent 12-year-old Atlantic City orphan girl the lusty mob of beefy, drunk, vacationing coal-oil sales-men? They do not, and neither do the Citizens choose their Leaders."
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank of America Asks Congress for a $739 Billion Bank Bailout
2-23-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
The attempt to blame the free market for this mess is galling. The blame lies with Congress, the Fed, and the SEC. If the Fed had not reduced interest rates to 1% and held them there, the bubble would never has gotten as big.
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News Link • Police State
Great Britain wants 19 forms of personal information on all travelers
2-23-08
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Guardian.co.uk
Passengers travelling between EU countries or taking domestic flights would have to hand over a mass of personal information, including their mobile phone numbers and credit card details, as part of a new package....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street Bank Run
2-21-08
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WashingtonPost.com
Warren Buffett, had warned years before that "derivatives," whose value was balanced loosely on the real assets underneath, were the equivalent of "financial weapons of mass destruction."
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News Link • Bill of Rights
White House says phone wiretaps back on despite the expiration of the 'Surveillance Legislation*
2-23-08
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Reuters.com
President George W. Bush has said he would not compromise with the Democratic-led Congress on his demand that phone companies be shielded from lawsuits for taking part in his warrantless domestic spying program.
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News Link • Environment
GM exec stands by calling global warming a "crock"
02-23-2008
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Rueters
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a "total crock of s---,"
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The three trillion dollar war
2-23-2008
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London Times
The Bush Administration was wrong about the benefits of the war and it was wrong about the costs of the war. The president and his advisers expected a quick, inexpensive conflict. Instead, we have a war that is costing more than anyone could have ima
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock 1480 KPHX 02-24-2008
Arizona is soon to be in compliance with The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative with the active participation of Governor Janet Napolitano, so that our Arizona Driver's License will become an RFID chipped Identification for the North American U
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News Link • Eugenics
Newsweek catches McCain in a serious contradiction
02-23-2008
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Salon.com
Significant is the seriously misleading statements that McCain made when denying key parts of the NYT story. One of the central claims of that story was that Paxson Communications, a major McCain contributor and provider of jet travel.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • North American Union
Canada, U.S. agree to use each other's troops in civil emergencies
2-22-08
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Canada.com
Neither the Canadian government nor the Canadian Forces announced the new agreement, which was signed Feb. 14 in Texas.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Former Arizona Governor Evan Mecham Dead at 83
2-23-2008
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East Valley Tribune
Arizona's political history turned on Evan Mecham. The former governor ran as an outsider, a self-styled political reformer doing battle with what he deemed the corrupt elite, a cabal of crooked politicians, wealthy power brokers and their pawns
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
When the Terrorists Were 'Our Guys': A Special Report
02-23-2008
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Robert Parry
In 1976, when George H.W. Bush was CIA director, the U.S. government tolerated right-wing terrorist cells inside the United States and mostly looked the other way when these killers topped even Palestinian terrorists in spilling blood, including a le
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Bonfire of Capitol
2-22-08
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Counterpunch.org
The upcoming global recession/depression will give us plenty of time to mull over the ruinous effects of Fed policy and to devise a plan for abolishing the Federal Reserve once and for all.
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News Link • Energy
Air Powered Car Coming to The U.S. in 2010
2-23-08
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PopularMechanics.com
The six-seat modified version of MDIs CityCat that, thanks to an even more radical engine, is said to travel as far as 1,000 miles at up to 96 MPH with each fill-up.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Phoenix: Real Estate Downturn Hits Hard in West Valley
2-23-08
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AZcentral.com/arizonarepublic
Three communities in the southwest Valley top the devaluation list: Buckeye valuations plummeted nearly 25 percent, Avondale dropped nearly 22 percent and Goodyear fell 20 percent.
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News Link • Eugenics
The Twelve Questions Hillary Clinton Wouldn't Answer
02-23-2008
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Mondoreb
Pravda's been sending Hillary Clinton questions to answer for two years. Their list of questions has grown.They're still waiting for her to answer their 12 questions--and they're not happy about it.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraqi Kurds ready to confront Turkish troops
2-23-2008
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McClatchy News
Iraqi Kurdish officials on Friday ordered 6,000 Kurdish militiamen to take up new positions in Iraq's Dohuk province as hundreds of Turkish troops crossed the border in what Turkey said was an attack on Kurdish rebels who'd sought shelter the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Kurdish troops surround Turks in worst confrontation yet in Iraq
2-22-2008
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McClatchy News
Iraqi Kurdish troops on Thursday encircled Turkish soldiers in northern Iraq and threatened to open fire in the most serious standoff between the two nation's forces since Turkey threatened late last year to go after guerrillas from the Kurdistan
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
MySpace, Medical Marijuana and Biker Gangs
02-20-2008
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Salem-News.com
Can MySpace friends equate to biker gang affiliation? - A Dallas Oregon man says he never expected to be in trouble for the company he keeps, especially at the age of 51. But some of Les Lowen's MySpace friends may have ties to biker clubs or '
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Homeland Security
Overzealous CBP Agents Cause Infant's Death
02-23-2008
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Star Bulletin
The 14 day old infant had been flown to Honolulu for emergency heart surgery. He died while detained inside a customs room at the Honolulu Airport with his mother and nurse.
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Terry Bressi
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