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Date Sent: 2008-12-15
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, December 15, 2008
 
Gun Confiscation In Wisconsin -- Team Obama may double incoming stimulus package

Official Report Faults Iraq Reconstruction -- NY Governor plans taxes to solve budget crisis -- TURBO CAPITALISM IN SHANGHAI - by Stuart Archer Cohen -- Obama Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Chicago Home Mortgage $903,000 over Legal Limit -- This is what a really bad recession looks like -- Man throws shoes at Bush in Iraq and calls him a dog -- Economics with Nassim Taleb -- Iceland’s banking collapse -- December 15: America's Second Most Important Holiday - by Powell Gammill -- You’re smart and I’m stupid, so please explain something to me - by Craig Cantoni -- When The Lagging Economy Impacts The Cargo Shipping Industry -- For those who have everything and those who have none - by Call Me Oyate -- Deflationary geniuses abound - Call Me Oyate -- Oregon bank blast kills police officer, bomb expert -- Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer -- Marijuana Legalization Tops List of Questions for Obama -- Murder, Spies & Voting Lies (the Clint Curtis story) -- Outrageous Arrest of FL Election Integrity Advocate, Candidate Caught on Tape -- Congressman Ron Paul on Bailing Out the Auto Industry AZ: Bill of Rights Day celebration today
 
Official Report Faults Iraq Reconstruction News Link  •  WAR: About that War
Official Report Faults Iraq Reconstruction
12-15-2008  •  Washington Post 
As the United States prepares for a major expansion of its development and reconstruction programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, government investigators have described the U.S. reconstruction effort in Iraq as a failure that wasted billions.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
NY Governor plans taxes to solve budget crisis News Link  •  TAXES: State
 NY Governor plans taxes to solve budget crisis
12-15-2008  •  NY Times 
Gov. David A. Paterson will propose a $4 billion package of taxes and fees on a range of items, from sugary soft drinks made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi to luxury items like furs and boats, when he unveils his plan to close a deficit that has ballooned to  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
We don't need no stinking social liberty around here News Link  •  Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
 We don't need no stinking social liberty around here
12-14-2008  •  Classically Liberal 
The (formerly) Libertarian Party has had a birthday. It is now 37 years old. In my view the LP is a zombie -- the living dead. It walks and moves about but it is a corpse for all practical purposes. LP National Chairman Bill Redpath has issued a list  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
The Sunshine Caucus<r>by Jim Davidson News Link  •  Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
 The Sunshine Caucusby Jim Davidson
12-14-2008  •  The Libertarian Enterprise 
Simply put, knowledge is power. The consent of the governed has been obtained through fraud. We all remember the lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Those lies were the main reason many Americans felt that going to war in Iraq was justifi  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
SWAT Team victim cannot investigate his detention News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
 SWAT Team victim cannot investigate his detention
12-14-2008  •  The Agitator 
Prince George’s County, Maryland officials are still refusing to hand over documents related to the botched raid on Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Some pigs are more equal than others here on the farm News Link  •  Criminal Justice System
 Some pigs are more equal than others here on the farm
12-14-2008  •  The Agitator 
Guy hits another car while doing twice the speed limit, and kills its driver, a 20-year-old college student. The student’s mother is in the passenger side, and watches her son die. The guy admits he's been drinking, but the police don’t give him  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Police wish to geld police review board News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
 Police wish to geld police review board
12-14-2008  •  The Agitator 
One of the reforms the city of Atlanta implemented in the wake of the 2006 botched drug raid in which narcotics officers shot and killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston was to set up a Citizen Review Board to look into allegations of police misconduct.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
TURBO CAPITALISM IN SHANGHAI News Link  •  China
 TURBO CAPITALISM IN SHANGHAI
12-15-2008  •  Stuart Archer Cohen 
PART I: The Communist Business Environment  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Stuart Archer Cohen
Obama Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Chicago Home Mortgage $903,000 over Legal Limit News Link  •  Obama Administration
 Obama Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Chicago Home Mortgage $903,000 over Legal Limit
12-14-2008  •  Ginn 
Like millions of other homeowners, President-elect Barack Obama has a Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac mortgage, but unlike other home owners, Obama managed to acquire one $903,000 over the legal Federal limit. A DBKP exclusive.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet
Iraqi reporter throws shoes at Bush and calls him dog (VIDEO) News Link  •  Bush Administration
 Iraqi reporter throws shoes at Bush and calls him dog (VIDEO)
12-14-2008  •  RawStory.com 
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi reporter called visiting U.S. President George W. Bush a "dog" in Arabic on Sunday and threw his shoes at him during a news conference in Baghdad. (Both Shoes!... and he still lives :)  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Obama-Rezko: Cook County Clerk Lists Attorney as Owner Of Obama Chicago Home News Link  •  Obama Administration
 Obama-Rezko: Cook County Clerk Lists Attorney as Owner Of Obama Chicago Home
12-14-2008  •  Ginn 
The blog, Strato-Sphere, has discovered that Barack Obama isn’t listed as the owner of his Chicago home at the Cook County Clerk’s office. The guy who does “own” the home, is the same “guy” cited as a source regarding Obama’s ties to Rezko.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet
Gun Confiscation In Wisconsin News Link  •  Gun Rights
 Gun Confiscation In Wisconsin
12-12-2008  •  www.jpfo.org 
If someone disagreed with you about an article or story you published and then complained to the police who came into your business and arrested you for disorderly conduct, would that incident be newsworthy?  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chip Saunders
Man throws shoes at Bush in Iraq News Link  •  Bush Administration
 Man throws shoes at Bush in Iraq
12-14-08  •  news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ 
BAGHDAD " A man threw his shoes at President George W. Bush and was dragged away by security officials during the president's farewell trip to Iraq.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
This is what a really bad recession looks like News Link  •  Federal Reserve
 This is what a really bad recession looks like
12-14-08  •  MarketWatch.com 
What exactly is "quantitative easing"? Simply put, it's an attempt by the Fed to flood the financial system with so much cash that some of it will have to be lent out. The Fed would do that by "purchasing long-term Treasuries and a  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Congressional Motors Presents the 2012 Pelosi GTxi SS/Rt Sport Edition News Link  •  Humor
 Congressional Motors Presents the 2012 Pelosi GTxi SS/Rt Sport Edition
12-14-2008  •  Iowahawk 
All new for 2012, the Pelosi GTxi SS/Rt Sport Edition is the mandatory American car so advanced it took $100 billion and an entire Congress to design it.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber
Bush Reviews Auto Finances Before Writing Check News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 Bush Reviews Auto Finances Before Writing Check
12-14-2008  •  ABC 
"The White House has indicated that it will step up and use the authority that they have had all along," Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., told ABC News. [proving that congress is purely ceremonial]  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber
A conversation about economics with Nassim Taleb News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 A conversation about economics with Nassim Taleb
12-03-08  •  CharlieRose.com 
This 20 minute interview with Nassim Taleb is very good because he has a way of describing our current economic condition in an entertaining fashion.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Karl Schwarz: Just The Way It Is News Link  •  Obama Administration
 Karl Schwarz: Just The Way It Is
12-13-08  •  Rense.com 
You need to 'get that' because the US has murdered 2-3 million Afghanis, too, and still does not have that pipeline. Of course, Barky Obamanation is going to 'surge' Afghanistan and prove to the world he is dumber than Bush.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Iceland’s banking collapse: One of the biggest any country has ever suffered News Link  •  Economy - International
 Iceland’s banking collapse: One of the biggest any country has ever suffered
12-14-08  •  NakedCapitalism.com 
The scale of what confronts Ms Hjaltested and other Icelanders is only just becoming clear. According to the IMF, the failure of the banks may cost taxpayers more than 80% of GDP.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
December 15: America's Second Most Important Holiday Opinion  •  Bill of Rights
 Fascist Nation
December 15: America's Second Most Important Holiday
12-14-2008
Powell Gammill
   Monday, December 15, is one of America's most important holidays. Arguably it's second most important. Second only to July 4th. It is the day the Bill of Rights was presented to the States for their consideration.
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You’re smart and I’m stupid, so please explain something to me Opinion  •  Corruption
 You’re smart and I’m stupid, so please explain something to me
12-13-2008
Menckens Ghost
   The Wall Street Journal said Bernard Madoff's $50 Billion Ponzi scheme could prove to be history’s largest financial scam. With all due respect to the Journal, it is not the largest financial scam--not by a long shot.
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When The Lagging Economy Impacts The Cargo Shipping Industry News Link  •  Economy - International
 When The Lagging Economy Impacts The Cargo Shipping Industry
12-13-2008  •  Reuters 
Fourteen crew and officers, mostly from the Philippines, have been stranded for three months in an Argentine river on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner, surviving on charity donations of food and water.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chip Saunders
For those who have everything and those who have none. Feature Article  •  Economy - Economics USA
 For those who have everything and those who have none.
Found Zero
   It relies on one simple observation: in coming times, the man who has much might need help securing it. And along with this observation comes it's corollary, in coming times, those given access to resources necessary to procure survival will figh
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Deflationary geniuses abound. Opinion  •  Economy - Economics USA
 Deflationary geniuses abound.
12/13/2008
Found Zero
   A slew of economists, researchers and brainiacs are talking about deflation as if it's the ultimate indicator of whatever we're going through.
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Top 100 Innovations of 2008 - Popular Science Magazine News Link  •  Inventions
 Top 100 Innovations of 2008 - Popular Science Magazine
12-13-2008  •  Popular Science 
The 100 fastest, biggest, safest, greenest and most powerful innovations of the year  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Oregon bank blast kills police officer, bomb expert News Link  •  TERRORISM
 Oregon bank blast kills police officer, bomb expert
12-13-2008  •  Associated Press 
...declined to describe the bomb in detail but indicated it was powerful. A bank employee found the bomb in bushes outside the bank, and it exploded after officers took it inside.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer (VIDEO Computer recreated) News Link  •  Inventions
 Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer (VIDEO Computer recreated)
12-13-2008  •  www.newscientist.com 
One of Archimedes's creations was saved, though. The general took back to Rome a mechanical bronze sphere that showed the motions of the sun, moon and planets as seen from Earth.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Team Obama may double incoming stimulus package: Report News Link  •  Obama Administration
 Team Obama may double incoming stimulus package: Report
12-13-2008  •  RawStory.com 
President-elect Obama's transition team may double the size of a planned economic stimulus package in an effort to prevent soaring unemployment.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Marijuana Legalization Tops List of Questions for Obama in Online Poll News Link  •  Drug War
 Marijuana Legalization Tops List of Questions for Obama in Online Poll
12-13-2008  •  salem-news.com 
The number one thing Americans are asking President-elect Barack Obama is whether or not he is going to legalize marijuana. Generations are changing and evolving and the taboos around cannabis are slowly falling away.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Murder, Spies & Voting Lies (the Clint Curtis story) News Link  •  Voting - Election Integrity
 Murder, Spies & Voting Lies (the Clint Curtis story)
12-13-2008  •  votinglies.com 
WINNER - BEST DOCUMENTARY - NEW JERSEY FILM FESTIVAL - 2008  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
OSCARS NAME HUGH JACKMAN HOST News Link  •  Entertainment: Movies
 OSCARS NAME HUGH JACKMAN HOST
12-13-2008  •  deadlinehollywooddaily.com 
"We kept saying how we were looking for Cary Grant or Clark Gable. And then we realized that Hugh Jackman had hosted the Tony's so successfully,"  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Outrageous Arrest of FL Election Integrity Advocate, Candidate Caught on Tape News Link  •  Voting - Election Integrity
 Outrageous Arrest of FL Election Integrity Advocate, Candidate Caught on Tape
12-13-2008  •  Brad blog 
After her arrest, orchestrated by her opponent, Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes, Brodsky was held overnight in the county jail until 5:45am the next morning, despite her son having posted bail for her --- $25! --- at 8:30pm the night before.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Congressman Ron Paul on Bailing Out the Auto Industry News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 Congressman Ron Paul on Bailing Out the Auto Industry
12-13-2008  •  Ron Paul YouTube 
At the time of filming the House had passed the legislation. Later this evening, the Senate rejected it.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
Detroit Downpayment Deal Dissolves Opinion  •  Economy - Economics USA
 Detroit Downpayment Deal Dissolves
12-12-2008
Brock Lorber
   In a surprise (to me) move, Senate Republicans go union-busting and hand complete control of the government to the incoming Obama administration.
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