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Date Sent: 2008-03-03
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, March 3, 2008 |
Troops Stay In Iraq if Democrat Wins -- Chavez Mobilizes Military, Closes Columbian Embassy
Ernest Hancock announces his candidacy for Chairman of the Libertarian Party -- $31 million worth of lost valuables on the TSA's watch -- Economist Stiglitz Says Iraq War Costs May Reach $5 Trillion -- Rove: $200 A Barrel Oil -- '9/11 attacks made up' -- Diebold Receives a Takeover Offer -- White House blocks inquiry into construction of $736m Iraq embassy -- War at Any Cost? by Rep. Ron Paul -- Charges ruled too broad against Bonds -- Iran Nuke Laptop Data Came from Terror Group -- Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam -- Support Ron Paul, Get Foreclosed On!
Note: An earlier mailing of Freedom's Phoenix newsletter went out at 12:30 P.m. MST Sunday, March 2, 2008
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
$31 million worth of lost valuables on the TSA's watch
3-2-2008
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BoingBoing
A Fox affiliate managed to get ahold of the TSA's raw data on luggage theft on their watch and is reporting that a whopping $31 million worth of valuables disappeared from the aviation system in the past three years. Many of these items went miss
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Black Fungus Found in Chernobyl Eats Harmful Radiation
3-2-2008
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FOX News
The research began with the discovery of black fungus growing on the walls of the damaged, highly radioactive Chernobyl nuclear reactor and collected by robots.
The fungus was rich with melanin, the same pigment that gives human skin its color, pr
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economist Stiglitz Says Iraq War Costs May Reach $5 Trillion
3-2-2008
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Bloomberg
Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz, author of a new book that claims the Iraq war will cost the U.S. more than $3 trillion, said the final tally is likely to climb much higher than that. "It's much more like five trillion. We were tryi
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Rove: Iraq Redeployment Would Cause Oil Prices To Skyrocket To $200 A Barrel
3-2-2008
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THinkProgress
If we were to give up Iraq with the third largest oil reserves in the world to the control of an Al Qaida regime or to the control of Iran, don’t you think $200 a barrel oil would have a cost to the American economy?
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
'9/11 attacks made up, ' says best actress Oscar-winner
3-2-2008
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Daily Mail
Actress Marion Cotillard sparked a political row yesterday after accusing America of fabricating the 9/11 attacks. The 32-year-old French actress, who received an Oscar last month for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, openly que
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Diebold Recieves a Takeover Offer
03-02-2009
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The New York Times
The United Technologies Corporation made an unsolicited $3 billion bid for Diebold, one of the largest makers of automated teller and voting machines.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Torture
Guantanamo Justice
3-2-2008
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HuffPo
On October 4, 2007, Colonel Morris D. Davis resigned as chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay, and he has devoted considerable time, ever since, to giving his reasons why. Confessions extracted from defendants under torture were to be admitted as eviden
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
White House blocks inquiry into construction of $736m embassy in Iraq
3-2-2008
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The Guardian
The Bush administration is blocking an inquiry into the delay-plagued construction of the $736m US embassy in Baghdad. The chairman of the House oversight committee asked secretary of state Rice today to explain why her department certified
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Tensions Rise Between 'Awakening' and Iraqi Govt Forces
3-2-2008
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Antiwar
US backed Sahwa forces threaten to destabilize US-backed Iraqi government forces in Iraq's volatile Diyala province. The "Awakening Councils," known locally as the Sahwa, have left their centers in cities and districts around the capita
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War at Any Cost?
by Rep. Ron Paul
3-2-2008
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Antiwar
In recent months the undeclared war in Iraq seems not to have been on the minds of most Americans. News of the violence and deprivation which ordinary Iraqis are forced to deal with on a daily basis rarely makes it to the front pages. Instead, we rea
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Charges ruled too broad against Bonds
3-2-2008
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Reuters
Barry Bonds won an initial courtroom skirmish when a federal judge found that steroid perjury charges against him were improperly structured, a finding that complicates the government case against the U.S. baseball home run king.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Many Troops Would Stay In Iraq if a Democrat Wins
3-2-2008
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Wall Street Journal
Despite the rhetoric of the Democratic presidential candidates, significant numbers of U.S. troops will remain in Iraq regardless who wins in November. In their final push to win the nomination, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are repeating th
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran Nuke Laptop Data Came from Terror Group
3-2-2008
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Antiwar
The Bush administration has long pushed the "laptop documents" as hard evidence of Iranian intentions to build a nuclear weapon. Charges based on those documents pose the only remaining obstacles to the IAEA declaring Iran resolved of all u
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam
3-2-2008
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Wired
October 27, 1969, 18 B-52s began racing from the western US toward the eastern border of the Soviet Union. The pilots flew for 18 hours, hurtling toward their targets at more than 500 miles per hour. Each plane was loaded with nuclear weapons hundred
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
If Ernie Hancock was a cute black woman, he'd do this vid. ;-)
02/28/08
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YouTube
This fabulous black woman has a series of videos on presidential politics that is priceless. This link is to the one WE all would be most interested in -- her support of Ron Paul. You'll be cheering all the way through.
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Jefferson Paine
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News Link • Drug War
Surprise Revelation from the ONDCP
3-2-2008
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Pushing Back / ONDCP
Legalizing marijuana would cut Mexican drug cartel revenues by 61%. Legalizing all drugs would cut their revenues by an astounding 100%!
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • World News
Chavez Mobilizes Military, Closes Columbian Embassy: Tactics to Distract Opposition?
03-02-2008
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Mondoreb
When there's trouble at home, history teaches to look for opponents abroad.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
A little Ralph Nader R3VOLution fun
3-2-2008
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Youtube
Dang! I've seen this movie somewhere before. Still works on sooooooo many levels. (well until the commie social health care finale)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Decorate Your House to Support Ron Paul, Get Foreclosed On!
03-02-2008
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www.truckers4ronpaul.org
I don't have any idea if the Company can really Foreclose within just 2 weeks or not but just the threat is enough to cause a lot of worry, especially when your mortgage payments are up to date.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: Local
VA Supreme Court Overrules Regional Taxes
03-01-2008
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Tom Holden - Virginian Pilot
"The Virginia Supreme Court dealt a crippling blow to the region’s transportation plans on Friday when it ruled that the General Assembly cannot delegate taxing power to nonelected bodies."
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Michael Wagner
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Barry Hess vs. Bruce Cohen on Liberty Cap Talk Live with Host Todd Andrew Barnett
03-02-2008
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Liberty Cap Talk Live
Liberty Cap Talk Live host Todd Andrew Barnett moderates a debate between anti-war Libertarian Barry Hess and self-proclaimed "not pro-war" Libertarian Bruce Cohen
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Todd Andrew Barnett
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