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Date Sent: 2010-09-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, September 27, 2010 AM edition |
American and Afghan Troops Begin Combat for Kandahar -- US seeks to expand wiretaps on the Internet
Helicopter Attacks Militant Meeting in Somalia -- CIA uses pirated, inaccurate software to target drone attacks-- On the Secret Committee to Save the Euro -- Federal court cases alleging police abuse increased 25% since 9/11 -- Wall Street Knew Its Mortgage Securities Were Subpar -- Worm hits computers of staff at Iran nuclear plant -- Did doctors jump start the HIV pandemic? -- Contractor deaths exceed military ones in Iraq, Afghanistan this year -- T-Mobile Claims Right to Censor Text Messages -- FBI Investigating 'Here You Have' Worm -- NATO says 3 detained Afghan journalists released -- White House invokes state secrets privilege to block targeted killings suit -- China rises and rises, yet still gets foreign aid -- Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army officer's memoir
-- Arizona deputy’s shooting by drug-runners may have been hoax -- Army
paratroopers are now training for 'full-spectrum operations,' for the
first time in years -- Tasers for Teachers -- Witness The Raid on an Anti-War Activists Apartment -- Pastors plan to 'bait' IRS with pulpit politics
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News Link • Afghanistan
American and Afghan Troops Begin Combat for Kandahar
09-26-2010
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NY Times
American and Afghan troops have begun the active combat phase of a military operation designed to drive the Taliban out of districts around the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar city, military officials said Sunday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
U.S. is seeking to expand wiretaps on the Internet
09-26-2010
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www.mercurynews.com
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications -- including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking websites like Facebook and software that allows direct "peer to peer" messaging like
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Helicopter Attacks Militant Meeting in Somalia
09-26-2010
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NY Times
An unidentified military helicopter blasted rockets at a house where Somali militants were meeting on Sunday, according to residents and insurgent leaders, in an apparent strike against the Shabab insurgent group.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA used pirated, inaccurate software to target drone attacks: lawsuit
09-26-2010
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Rawstory
'They want to kill people with my software that doesn't work,' software exec tells court
The CIA used illegally pirated software to direct Predator drone attacks, despite apparently knowing the software was inaccurate, according to documents in an
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
On the Secret Committee to Save the Euro, a Dangerous Divide
09-26-2010
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Wall Steet Journal
Two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed in the fall of 2008, a small group of European leaders set up a secret task force"one so secret that they dubbed it "the group that doesn't exist." Its mission: Devise a plan to head off a default by a count
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Federal court cases alleging police abuse increased 25 percent since 9/11
09-26-2010
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Since the 9/11 terrorists attacks, we’ve seen a sharp increase in First Amendment violations against photographers, usually in the name of keeping us “safe.” One of the reasons for this increase is the lowering of police hiring standards in the recru
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
New Proof Wall Street Knew Its Mortgage Securities Were Subpar: Clayton Execs Testify
09-26-2010
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Huffington Post
During a little-noticed hearing a firm hired by Wall Street to analyze mortgages given to borrowers with poor credit, which were then packaged and sold to investors during the boom years, revealed 28% of those loans failed to meet basic underwriting
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Today on LewRockwell.com - Sunday Sept. 26th 2010
09-26-2010
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LewRockwell.com
Good for the Martians! - According to retired Air Force officers, UFOs hampered US WMD. / How To Survive the Government Depression and Destruction of the Middle Class / Bloody Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt / Federal Restrictions on Our Gun Rights
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Blow Your Mind
09-26-2010
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PrisonPLanet.com
#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Famed Obama 'Hope' poster artist losing hope
09-26-2010
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http://news.yahoo.com
By Aamer Madhani, National Journal - The artist whose poster of Barack Obama became a rallying image during the hope-and-change election of 2008 says he understands why so many people have lost faith.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Worm hits computers of staff at Iran nuclear plant
09-26-2010
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Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran " A complex computer worm capable of seizing control of industrial plants has affected the personal computers of staff working at Iran's first nuclear power station weeks before the facility is to go online, the official news agency repo
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
‘Tonight, we are returning this decree to the trash bin'
09-26-2010
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Jeruselum Post
Shaul Goldstein, head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, said that people were now waiting to see if Netanyahu was serious about renewing building. “It is our natural right to build here,” he said. “There is no reason to stop building now.”
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Do we have a Constitutional crisis here? Did Pelosi Commit Treason?
8/25/10
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Worldnet Daily
It long has been documented that when Barack Obama was picked by the Democratic Party to be its 2008 presidential candidate, only one state " Hawaii " was sent a document from Nancy Pelosi certifying that he was qualified under the requirements of th
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Healthcare
Did doctors jumpstart the HIV pandemic?
09-26-2010
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Reuters
Perhaps it wasn't sex workers that launched HIV onto its deadly global rampage, but well-meaning doctors using dirty needles in the first half of the 20th century. Campaigns to eradicate tropical diseases in Africa might have helped HIV gain an footh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Contractor deaths exceed military ones in Iraq, Afghanistan this year
09-26-2010
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Rawstory
More private contractors than soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, the first time in history that corporate casualties have outweighed military losses on America’s battlefields. More than 250 civilians working under U.S. con
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
T-Mobile Claims Right to Censor Text Messages
09-26-2010
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Wired
T-Mobile told a federal judge it may pick and choose which text messages to deliver on its network. A texting service claiming T-Mobile stopped servicing its “short code” clients after it signed up a California medical marijuana dispensary.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
FBI Investigating 'Here You Have' Worm
09-26-2010
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PC World
The FBI has launched an investigation into the "Here you have" worm, which disrupted corporate e-mail systems in the U.S. two weeks ago. A hacker using the name Iraq Resistance has exchanged a number of e-mails with IDG over the past 2 weeks
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO says 3 detained Afghan journalists released
09-26-2010
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AP
3 journalists picked up by coalition forces or the Afghan intelligence service for their suspected links to Taliban propaganda networks have been freed after brief detentions that prompted angry reaction from journalism advocates and President Karzai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Discussion: They Thought They Were Free
09-26-2010
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Tour4Liberty - YouTube
We discussed the book They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House invokes state secrets privilege to block targeted killings suit
09-26-2010
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http://thehill.com
The White House on Saturday invoked the state secrets privilege to toss a lawsuit brought by civil liberties groups against an assassination plan against terrorists that would also target a U.S. citizen.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
China rises and rises, yet still gets foreign aid
09-26-2010
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http://hosted.ap.org
BEIJING (AP) -- China spent tens of billions of dollars on a dazzling 2008 Olympics. It has sent astronauts into space. It recently became the world's second largest economy. Yet it gets more than $2.5 billion a year in foreign government aid - and t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army officer's memoir
09-26-2010
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www.cnn.com
Washington (CNN) -- The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman said Saturday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Immigration
Arizona deputy’s shooting by drug-runners may have been hoax
09-26-2010
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RawStory.com
Two nationally known forensic pathologists are questioning a sheriff deputy's version of how he was shot in the remote desert south of Phoenix, adding to theories that the incident was a hoax timed to enflame the debate over illegal immigration.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Army paratroopers are now training for 'full-spectrum operations,' for the first time in yea
09-26-2010
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http://articles.latimes.com
The nine-day exercise on Ft. Bragg's Sicily Drop Zone this month involved more than 2,000 paratroopers and airmen. Huge Air Force cargo planes dropped not only paratroopers, but also heavy vehicles and artillery pieces. It was the type of large-scale
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Tasers for Teachers
09-26-2010
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news.com.au
In a move labelled "ridiculous" by parents, Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek's office proposed handing teachers the 50,000 volt electro-shock weapons for protection against rising school violence.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Homeland Security
Witness The Raid on an Anti-War Activists Apartment
09-26-2010
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InformationClearingHouse.info
Computers, cell phones, files and records, passports were among items swept up in the early morning raid. This action came a few days after the FBI's Inspector General criticized the FBI for lying to Justice Department about raids and surveillance...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Religion: Unregistered Churches
Pastors plan to 'bait' IRS with pulpit politics
09-25-2010
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USA Today
On Sunday, a group of 100 preachers nationwide will step into the pulpit and say the only words they're forbidden by law from speaking in a church.
They plan to use the pulpit as a platform for political endorsements, flouting a federal law that th
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Richard Deyoung
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