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Date Sent: 2008-08-14
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
US Headed To Bankruptcy, Says Top Budget GOP -- Russia Ignores Ceasefire, Drives Deeper Into Georgia
Martial Law Expanding in Arkansas -- Civilian Genocide, Dead Americans Cost Of U.S.-Russia Proxy War -- Can't find WMD in Iraq? Plant it? -- Mars Needs Saloons! - by L. Neil Smith -- Gunmaker to feds: Give me my firearm! -- Nullification: Last Exit Before Insurrection - by Will Grigg -- Hassled for Carrying a Gun by Wyoming Police -- Park Service Plan to Open 70% of Inaugural Parade Route to Public -- US sends more arms to Georgia -- Fliers without ID placed on TSA list -- Bush Sends Army, Navy, Rice to Georgia on "Aid Mission" -- Support Your Local Police Rape Gang - by Will Grigg -- New Orleans cops cleared in bridge shooting -- Documents detailing Chef Julia Child's early spy network released -- As Demand For Organs Increases, Doctors Debate When To Declare Organ Donors Dead -- General At Gitmo Publicly Tears Other General A New One -- Georgian president's US claims raise eyebrows -- We Had No Choice - by Brock Lorber -- Duo Claims to Have Carcass of Bigfoot -- Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Gunned Down In His Office -- U.S. Cities Would be Locked Down, Quarantined Under Pandemic Flu Response Plan -- Steve Jobs Confirms iPhone Has a Kill Switch -- Using Georgia to Target Russia - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Police State
Martial Law Expanding in Arkansas
8-13-2008
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CNN
"Now, if somebody wants to sue us, they have an option to sue, but I'm fairly certain that a judge will see it the way the way the citizens see it here," the Mayor said. "Some infringement on constitutional rights is OK, and we hav
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Rape victims pleased former cop never will be free
8-13-2008
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NY Times
Judge Robert Freitag sentenced Pelo, a former Bloomington police sergeant, for the rapes of Gliege and three other women between 2002 and 2005 and the stalking of a fifth woman.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Civilian Genocide, Dead Americans Cost Of U.S.-Russia Proxy War
8-13-2008
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InfoWars
The truth behind who is primarily responsible for the bloodshed unfolding in South Ossetia and surrounding areas has been buried by the western corporate media. Georgian forces, with a green light from NATO and the support of American and Ukrainian m
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Can't find WMD in Iraq? Plant it?
8-13-2008
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atLargely
The Pentagon civilian leadership under the guidance of Stephen Cambone, appointed to lead Defense Department intelligence in March 2003, dispatched a series of "off book" missions out of the ultra-secretive Office of Special Plans. The team
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gunmaker to feds: Give me my firearm!
8-13-2008
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WorldNetDaily
"You have seized company property without any cause or court order to date. The company firmly demands the return of the firearm in question," Len Savage told John Spencer and other officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Mars Needs Saloons!
by L. Neil Smith
8-13-2008
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The Libertarian Enterprise
It says here that "Mars could resemble the lawless Wild West if privately funded adventurers seeking to exploit the planet get there before governments, a leading British astronomer said". Ooooooooh...
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Headed Toward Bankruptcy, Says Top Budget Committee Republican
8-13-2008
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National Expositor
The ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee said the government is headed toward bankruptcy. "We know that for a fact,” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) . "All the actuaries, all the objective scorekeepers of the federal government, are predi
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Nullification: Last Exit Before Insurrection
by Will Grigg
8-13-2008
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Pro Liberate
The "People's Court" begins its work: Also called the "Blood Tribunal," the National Socialist court didn't permit jurors to interfere in the imposition of "justice."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Hassled for Carrying a Gun by Wyoming Police
8-13-2008
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National Expositor
A friend was visiting me from out of town. His concealed weapons permit did not have reciprocity with Wyoming, so he was open carrying. I was carrying concealed - though on several trips to Powell in the past, I
have chosen to open carry. We stopped
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
'Where Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?'
by Scott Ritter
8-13-2008
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Truthdig
According to Suskind, the letter said that "9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq"thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda, something the Vice President’s Office h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Park Service Plan to Open 70% of Inaugural Parade Route to Public
8-13-2008
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Washington Post
The proposals followed a March federal court ruling that the park service had violated the First Amendment by keeping war protesters from the parade for President Bush's second inauguration.
The court said the service allowed event organizers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
US sends more arms to Georgia " Israeli media
8-13-2008
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Russia Today
The United States is sending fresh supplies of weapons to Georgia from its base in the Jordanian port of Aqabah. That’s according to the Israeli newspaper " Maariv. The paper says the US began flying weapons from the transport hub on Saturday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
Ditch the VPN for LogMeIn?
8-13-2008
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Download.com
I haven't encountered a single VPN client review without some degree of legitimate complaint, and my own experience with them has left much to be desired. I dislike how, by their nature, they affect every program that connects to the Internet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Bush Sends Army, Navy, Rice to Georgia on "Aid Mission"
8-13-2008
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Truthout
With the fragile truce in Georgia on the brink of collapse Wednesday, President Bush announced that the United States had begun a humanitarian aid mission there and said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would go to the region to work for a settlem
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Support Your Local Police Rape Gang
by Will Grigg
8-13-2008
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Pro Liberate
These 3 guys, who are accused of conspiring in the jailhouse rape of an 18-year-old high school student, are former deputies in the employ of the Grant County, Kentucky Sheriff's Department. Sgt. Clinton Shawn Sydnor, the fetching item on the le
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Fliers without ID placed on TSA list
8-13-2008
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USA Today
The Transportation Security Administration has collected records on thousands of passengers who went to airport checkpoints without identification, adding them to a list of people who violated security laws or were questioned for suspicious behavior
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A 'Frankenrobot' with a biological brain
8-13-2008
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AFP
Meet Gordon, probably the world's first robot to be controlled exclusively by living brain tissue.
Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon's primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading by scientists who unve
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New Orleans cops cleared in bridge shooting
8-13-2008
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AP
A judge threw out murder and attempted murder charges Wednesday against seven New Orleans police officers accused of gunning down two men on a bridge in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
As Demand For Organs Increases, Doctors Debate When To Declare Organ Donors Dead
8-13-2008
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AP
"[Some] argue the definition of death is flawed, and that more emphasis should be on informed consent and the chances of survival,...."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Documents detailing Chef Julia Child's early spy network released
8-13-2008
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AP
Famed chef Julia Child shared a secret with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg at a time when the Nazis threatened the world. They served in an international spy ring managed by the Office of Strategic Servic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Georgian president's US claims raise eyebrows
8-13-2008
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AP
It was a claim that could have [and did] provoked a dangerous Kremlin response: The United States is readying to take over airports and ports in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The claim, by U.S.-backed Georgia President Mikhail Saakashvili
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
In Rare Incident, A US General At Gitmo Publicly Tears Other General A New One
8-13-2008
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Miami Herald
1-star Gen. Gregory Zanetti said fellow 1-star Gen. Hartmann's demeanor ''as an attorney from a thousand miles away,'' was ``abusive, bullying and unprofessional . . . pretty much across the board.''
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • WAR: About that War
As Expected, Russia Ignores Ceasefire, Drives Deeper Into Georgia
8-13-2008
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MSNBC
Soldiers waved at journalists and one jokingly shouted, "Come with us, beauty, we're going to Tbilisi." The convoy roared southeast, toward the Georgian capital.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Gunned Down In His Office
8-13-2008
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AP
The man had come into the party's office and asked to speak with Gwatney. When the secretary said she wouldn't allow him to meet with Gwatney, the man went into his office and shot him.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
HOAX? Duo Claims to Have Carcass of Bigfoot - Press Conference This Friday
8-12-2008
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www.guanabee.com
They plan to hold a press conference on Friday in Palo Alto where they will reveal a photograph and DNA evidence of the famed beast. (Why not the carcass? Why only photos and "samples"? Hmmmmm.)
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Domestic Policy
U.S. Cities Would be Locked Down, Quarantined Under Pandemic Flu Response Plan
07-10-2008
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Natural News.com via Rense.com
by David Gutierrez - The consensus among health experts is that a pandemic, or global epidemic, of influenza is inevitable... "We are not talking about simply shutting things down for a day or two like a snow day," Eubank said. "It'
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Steve Jobs Confirms iPhone Has a Kill Switch
8-13-2008
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NewsFactor
Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed the iPhone 3G has a kill switch to remove potentially malicious applications. Jobs said Apple would be "irresponsible" not to have the switch. The issue isn't the switch, but that Apple didn't disclose
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Who in the Edwards’ Campaign Ran the Cover Up?
August 13, 2008
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Mondoreb
Who in the Edwards' campaign was in charge of the cover up? It started a year ago when information about Rielle Hunter started disappearing from the Internet and ended up with millions being spent on jets, multi-million dollar house and hush mone
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Randy Ricochet
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