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Date Sent: 2007-12-10
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, December 10, 2007 |
Embattled State Department inspector general resigns -- Military Families Question Iraq War
Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock -- South America launches rival to the IMF, World Bank -- Ron Paul’s Appeal to the Youth -- We Are Change confronts John Ashcroft -- Chertoff Threatens To Seize Private Property To Build Border Fence -- 8 Senior Republican Appointees Challenge Official Account of 9/11 -- House overwhelmingly passes SAFE Act on obscene images -- Why the groundswell for Ron Paul? -- Cronkite: Our Troops Must Leave Iraq -- John Stossel Interviews Ron Paul -- Another Shooter With A History Of Anti-depressant Use -- Jonathan Turley on CIA Destroys Torture Tapes -- Newsweek interview Ron Paul on guns, civil disobedience, Israel.... -- Cato Institute VP Sneers At Ron Paul -- "Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern -- MISH: Hope is Now a Sucker Trap -- Bush determines his power under Article II of Constitution -- NORTH AMERICAN UNION & VCHIP TRUTH -- Proof the polls are rigged! -- MSNBC's Tucker on Ron Paul Blimp
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News Link • World News
South America launches rival to the IMF, World Bank
12-9-2007
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AFP
Six South American presidents on Sunday launched the Bank of the South, the region's answer to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as a source for development funds.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Guantanamo: Legal no-man's land?
12-9-2007
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AP
U.S. law protects endangered iguanas on the naval base, but the Supreme Court is struggling to determine whether it also applies to the 305 men imprisoned there.
In the balance hangs America's traditional reputation for justice for all.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Supreme Court to take cases of Americans detained in Iraq
12-9-2007
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AFP
The US Supreme Court said Friday it will review in coming months the cases of two Americans detained in Iraq, who want their cases handled under American law.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US military deaths in Iraq at 3,886
12-9-2007
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AP
As of Saturday Dec. 8, 2007, at least 3,886 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,165 died as a resul
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq must cut food rations in 2008-trade minister
12-9-2007
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Reuters
Iraq will have to cut food rations in 2008 because of insufficient funds, Trade Minister Abdul Falah al-Sudany said.
His ministry had asked the government for more than $7 billion in next year's budget to distribute 10 basic items but received
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Best Meteor Shower of 2007 Peaks Dec. 13
1209-2007
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Space.com
The Geminid Meteors are usually the most satisfying of all the annual showers, even surpassing the famous Perseids of August.
Studies of past find the "Gems" have a reputation for being rich both in slow, bright, graceful meteors and fir
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Embattled State Department inspector general resigns
1209-2007
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McClatchy News
Embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard submitted his resignation, forced out for allegedly impeding criminal investigations into the construction of a new, $740 million US Embassy in Baghdad and security firm Blackwater Worldwid
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul’s Appeal to the Youth
by Anthony Gregory
12-9-2007
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LewRockwell (kudos Eric)
Ron Paul has managed to do what no libertarian organization or electoral candidate ever has: Energize the masses of young Americans, throughout the nation’s campuses, including its most leftist, and get them interested in the politics of freedom and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Military Families Question Iraq War as Support for Bush Slips
12-9-2007
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Bloomberg
Kent Fletcher, an Iraq war veteran, says he enthusiastically voted for President George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. Now, he is a registered Democrat who questions the need for the war, the way it has been managed and the treatment of returning veterans
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • North American Union
But Seriously, Folks
12/10/2007
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Adventures of Citizen X
If a North American Union is in our future, you can bet that the NAU government, or at least the supranational governmental bodies that are formed, will follow this same trend and usurp powers previously held by the federal government. The importanc
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Activism
We Are Change confronts John Ashcroft - Long Version
11/28/2007
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youtube
John Ashcroft says some crazy stuff in Boulder when he realizes hecklers heckle him and do not welcome him in Boulder. He lied the whole night and never answered any of the hard core questions asked.
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Queue Jackson
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
ABC News: Icelandic Teen Released with "No Charges"
12-09-2007
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ABC News / FABIOLA ANTEZANA
Although, it's not clear what charges could be filed for calling a white house back line.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Chertoff Threatens To Seize Private Property To Build Border Fence
12-09-2007
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Los Angeles Times
The Bush administration warned landowners along the southern border Friday that it would seize their property if they refused to cooperate with federal efforts to build a fence meant to slow illegal immigration.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Conspiracies
8 Senior Republican Appointees Challenge Official Account of 9/11 - "Not Possible", "
12-9-2007
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OpEd News
Eight former senior Republican administration appointees have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and several have called for a new investigation. "I find the facts against the official story of the [WTC] buildings' collapse mor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
House overwhelmingly passes SAFE Act on obscene images -- Ron Paul dissents
12-9-2007
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Engadget
Look, kiddie porn and terrorism are bad. Obvious. But what better way for a government to push through controversial legislation quickly than to harness their emotive properties? After all, what self-respecting member of the US House of Representativ
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Why the groundswell for Ron Paul
12-09-2007
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Detroit New via Washington Post, Gillespie & Welsh
When a fierce Republican foe of the wars on drugs and terrorism is able, without really trying, to pull in a record haul of campaign cash on a day dedicated to an attempted regicide, it's clear that a new and potentially trans formative force is
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Peggy Noonan Admits GOP Is Controlled By Fundies, “Idiots”
12-09-2007
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FireDogLake
"Nooner, who's apparently been in a coma for the past 30 years, is shocked, shocked! to find that the GOP's base is a bunch of religious bigots".
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Walter Cronkite: Our Troops Must Leave Iraq
12-08-2007
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CrooksAndLiars.com
... from the beginning this has been an ill-considered and poorly prosecuted war that, like the Vietnam War, has diminished respect for America. We believe Mr. Bush would like to drag the war on long enough to hand it off to another president.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Another Shooter With A History Of Anti-depressant Use
12-08-2007
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InfoWars
Killer is latest in long line of young men with history of psychiatric drugs treatment for depression and ADHD.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Ron Paul and the Libertarian Split
12-08-2007
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by Lew Rockwell
When Christopher Hayes of The Nation phoned me about the split between regime libertarians and the rest of us, I told him that all would be united by the Ron Paul Revolution (if only, in some cases, by the scent of power). Of course, he gets some thi
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Newsweek interview Ron Paul on guns, civil disobedience, Israel....
12-8-2007
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Newsweek TV
Howard Fineman's exclusive interview with the presidential candidate in our Report From the Front series
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Cato Institute VP Sneers At Ron Paul: He’s Not Our ‘Kind of Person’!
12-8-2007
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AntiWar
In The Nation's, “Ron Paul’s Roots,” by Christopher Hayes, has this eye-popping denunciation of Rep. Paul by the unbearably pompous Brink Lindsay, a Cato Institute “scholar” and recently appointed vice president for research, “He doesn’t strike m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
"Missing" evidence is familiar Bush pattern
12-8-2007
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Glenn Greenwald
The most glaringly similar case was when, during the trial of Jose Padilla, DOJ prosecutors told the federal court that key videotapes of Padilla's interrogations by DOD agents could not be located, a claim which prompted expressions of increduli
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hope is Now a Sucker Trap
12-07-07
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
The idea is to get people to keep making mortgage payments on a loan that is worth more than the collateral. A neat trick!
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News Link • Constitution
Bush determines his power under Article II of Constitution
12-08-07
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Rawstory
The President, exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, can determine whether an action is a lawful exercise of the President's authority under Article II.
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News Link • Conspiracies
NORTH AMERICAN UNION & VCHIP TRUTH
12-8-2007
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Youtube (Mark causing trouble:-)
This is fun. Scenes from the movie Zeitgeist - watch it free:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Straw men
12-08-2007
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San Diego Union Tribune
There will be plenty of head scratching, and more than a little disbelief, if Republican voting in Iowa and New Hampshire mirrors a recent straw poll conducted by the Republican Party of San Diego County. (Ron Paul gets 2nd - Surprise :)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
MSNBC's Tucker on Ron Paul Blimp
12-08-2007
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MSNBC - YouTube
Tucker Carlson discusses the Ron Paul blimp as well as the Revolution in our country.
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Ernest Hancock
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