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Date Sent: 2008-02-05
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, February 5, 2008 |
Bush Sends Congress $3.1 Trillion Budget With Big Increases for Defense
Arizona State University Ron Paul Club on Charles Goyette Show -- 9/11 Commissioner: 'We had to go through Karl Rove' -- Insurgencies spread in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- US plan for Afghan troop surge -- Paralysis Outbreak In Meat Workers Handling Pigs' Brains -- FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping -- U.S. job losses raise recession worries -- Bigelow Aerospace Wants Atlas 5 Rockets for New Space Station -- Pentagon asks for biggest budget hike since World War II -- No one is too young for Guantanamo -- Writers' strike means rough going for TV networks -- The CIA operation that should have prevented the Iraq war -- The Neocons: An Illustrated Progression -- British plan to build training camp for Taliban Fighters -- Willie Nelson: Twin Towers Were Imploded On 911 -- Did NASA Accidentally "Nuke" Jupiter? -- Strong Evidence of Imminent Slump in CRE Investment -- MISH: Fallout From U.S. Slowdown Hits Canada -- MISH: Overhang of LBO Debt -- MISH: Citigroup's Strange New Definition of "High Risk" -- Hillary: Garnish wages to pay for health care -- Frosty: State of the Union: The Bush Treason -- Leveraged loan market in "disarray" -- Computer Voting Critics classified as "Security Risks" in Maricopa County Election -- Dan Abrams Denounces Signing Statements -- Greenback's days in Iran numbered -- McCain on Immigration -- Egypt: No ships present when internet cable cut
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News Link • Conspiracies
9/11 Commissioner: 'We had to go through Karl Rove'
2-5-2008
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Raw Story
A new book that accuses the head of the ostensibly independent 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, of being beholden to the Bush Administration during his tenure.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Insurgencies spread in Afghanistan and Pakistan
2-5-2008
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McClatchy News
Islamic insurgents are expanding their numbers and reach in Afghanistan and Pakistan, spreading violence and disarray over a vast cross-border zone where al Qaida has rebuilt the sanctuary it lost when the US invaded Afghanistan after the 9/11 attack
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US plan for Afghan troop surge
2-5-2008
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London Times
THE conservative Washington think tank that devised the “surge” of US forces in Iraq has come up with a plan to send 12,000 more American troops into southern Afghanistan. The American Enterprise Institute also urged getting tough with Pakistan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Paralysis Outbreak In Meat Workers Handling Pigs' Brains
2-5-2008
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Medical News Today
The Centers for Disease Control updated its investigation of an outbreak of a paralyzing condition that is affecting certain meat processing plant workers who use compressed air to remove the brains from the heads of pig carcases.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping
2-5-2008
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CNN
The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists. The bureau is expected to announce the awarding of a $1 billion,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iranians inaugurate space project
2-4-08
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BBC.co.uk
The test-launch for the country's first low-orbit research satellite was shown on Iranian state television cries of "God is Great" from the announcer.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. job losses raise recession worries
2-5-2008
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Christain Science Monitor
In a worrisome sign, America's job market may be freezing up even in areas far removed from housing or mortgage loans. In January, stagnation in the economy's giant service sector helped cause the first monthly decline in jobs in over four ye
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Bigelow Aerospace Wants Atlas 5 Rockets for New Space Station
2-5-2008
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Space
Bigelow Aerospace officials said Feb. 1 they are making progress in their negotiations with United Launch Alliance for six initial launches for their planned commercial space station, starting around 2011. Subsequently the company hopes to conduct as
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Pentagon asks for biggest budget hike since World War II
2-5-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
The Pentagon is asking for more than $515 billion for fiscal 2009, the largest request ever, and a nearly 8 percent increase over the amount of money Congress awarded the Defense Department last year. Also asking for an additional $70 billion to cove
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
No one is too young for Guantanamo
2-5-2008
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Reuters
A Canadian accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan should not be tried as a war criminal because he was a child soldier for al Qaeda, too young to voluntarily join its forces, his military defense lawyer told a U.S. war court on Monday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
Writers' strike means rough going for TV networks
2-5-2008
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Christin Science Monitor
With the Hollywood writers' strike 3-months old, TV networks are scrambling to fill the void of new programming, primarily with new game and reality shows. But even those moves are coming up short: Ratings at the 5 major broadcast networks droppe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA operation that should have prevented the Iraq war
2-5-2008
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AFP
When Saad Tawfiq watched Colin Powell's presentation to the UN on February 5 2003 he shed bitter tears as he realized he had risked his life and those of his loved ones for nothing. As one of Saddam Hussein's most gifted engineers, Tawfiq kne
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News Link • NeoCons
The Neocons: An Illustrated Progression
2-5-2008
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Washington Post
The Washington Post created an illustrated timeline of neoconservatism to go with a review of Jacob Heilbrunn’s They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of The Neocons.
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News Link • TERRORISM
British plan to build training camp for Taliban Fighters
02-04-2008
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Independent
Britian planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligences sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Hope is on the way
02-04-2008
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yannone.blogspot.com
Though hell is here today, hope is on the way. Marc Scibilia's one-man band plays "Hope Anthem" for the Ron Paul Revolution.
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
Words Eye View
Why the Giants Won the Super Bowl
02-04-2008
Greg J Dixon
Why the Giants Won the Super Bowl
By Greg Dixon
Christians who don’t have a sense of humor and those of you who don’t enjoy sports can stop reading this column now because you won’t catch the drift anyway so you needn’t waste your time. Besides,
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News Link • Eugenics
RE: Ron Paul and How the Media Pick the Candidates
2-4-2008
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LewRockwell
Check out what they did in the Tennessean today. Never mind when Paul spoke here, he rallied 1600+ Tennesseans. Never mind you see signs everywhere for Paul and none for any other candidate. He is the only candidate with a campaign HQ.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bush Sends Congress $3.1 Trillion Budget With Big Increases for Defense
2-4-2008
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FOX News
President Bush sent the nation's first-ever $3 trillion budget proposal to Congress, contending that the spending blueprint will fulfill his chief responsibility to keep America safe. [PS: Bush was the first with a $2 trillion budget too. Nice le
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News Link • Military
Adolph Hitler's "Lost Fleet" found in Black Sea
2-4-08
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Telegraph.co.uk
The vessels, including one once commanded by Germany's most successful U-boat ace, formed part of the 30th Flotilla of six submarines, taken by road and river across Nazi-occupied Europe....
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News Link • Bush Administration
Willie Nelson: Twin Towers Were Imploded On 911
2-4-08
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PropagandaMatrix.com
"I saw one fall and it was just so symmetrical, I said wait a minute I just saw that last week at the casino in Las Vegas and you see these implosions all the time and the next one fell and I said hell...
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Did NASA Accidently "Nuke" Jupiter?
2-4-2008
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Enterprise Mission
In 2003, NASA deliberately directed its still-functioning Galileo spacecraft to make a 108,000 mph suicidal plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere. Thus ended the successful eight-year NASA Galileo mission in a literal, most fitting “blaze of glory.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tax Rebates May be a "Roll of the Dice"
2-4-08
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Money.CNN.com
With the U.S. government getting ready to return $600 to individuals and $1,200 to couples as part of an economic stimulus plan, many analysts expect a jackpot payout for casinos....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Strong Evidence of Imminent Slump in CRE Investment
2-4-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Of particular interest is the record increase in tighter lending standards for Commercial Real Estate (CRE) loans.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fallout From U.S. Slowdown Hits Canada
2-4-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
In spite of the supposition that "there has never been a better opportunity to purchase household furniture" it seems there is no profit in the liquidation business.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Overhang of LBO Debt
2-4-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
It was changing attitudes that sunk home prices. Now attitudes are impacting LBOs in a major way. This is just the beginning of the unwinding of attitudes towards both consumption and risk.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Citigroup's Strange New Definition of "High Risk"
2-3-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
CREDIT card customers who pay off their balance each month are as much risk from being cut off by their lender as those that have lost control of their spiraling debts.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Why Hasn't EVERY Voter Heard About This?!
02-04-2008
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YouTube
This video is partly a wake up call to believers and partly a defense of Christianity, because of those who are perverting it. It is also a wake up call to Americans and a defense of the Constitution, because of those who are perverting it.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Hillary: Garnish wages to pay for health care
2-4-08
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CapitolHillBlue.com
When pressed on ABC's "This Week," she said: "I think there are a number of mechanisms" that are possible, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
FT: Leveraged loan market in "disarray"
2-4-08
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Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
“The market is in total disarray,” said the head of debt capital markets at one major Wall Street firm. Another senior banker involved in the deal added: “The last 10 days have been the worst ever.
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News Link • Constitution
Dan Abrams Denounces Signing Statements
2-04-08
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Afterdowningstreet.org
Jonathan Turley does a great job of explaining why signing statements are undermining the constitution.
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News Link • Iran
Greenback's days in Iran numbered
2-3-08
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Presstv.ir
The Oil Bourse is supposed to trade oil products in non-dollar currencies and many analysts hold the opinion that it could deal a blow to the already declining greenback.
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News Link • Internet
Iridium (when Internet cables 'break', where will be herded for communications)
02-04-2008
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Wikipedia
Iridium communications service was launched on November 1, 1998 and went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 13, 1999. The first Iridium call was made by then-Vice President of the United States Al Gore. Motorola provided the technology and major fi
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
02-04-2008
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Washington Post
Intriguingly, many of these new rightists were the children of old leftists, and a winding pedigree could be traced to unlikely starting points -- the classroom of Leo Strauss
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain on Immigration
2-4-2008
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Better Immigation
Thin McCain is for secure borders? Listen to McCain in his own words.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Egypt: No ships present when internet cable cut
2-4-08
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The Jerusalem Post.com
No ships were present when two marine cables carrying much of the Middle East's internet traffic were severed, announced Egypt's Ministry of Communications Sunday, contrary to earlier speculation....
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News Link • Media: Television
Superbowl ads on Internet video
2-4-2008
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Spike
Want to watch a particular Superbowl commercial again? Here it is. Here is another collection:
http://www.make-this-work.com/blog/977/
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