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Date Sent: 2008-07-28
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, July 28, 2008 |
Congress' bailout opens eminent domain seizures -- Senate passes bailout of bad mortgage lenders
Tomato growers push for compensation for FDA warning -- Protesters Rally Against Immigration Raid in Iowa -- Record deficit expected in 2009 -- Two dead, 7 India on alert as death toll from bombs rises -- Two dead, 7 wounded in Tennessee church shooting -- Iowa case raises question: Is stripping an art? -- Mayor Daley says nuts to the Supreme Court regarding guns -- Bush Defender Huge Obama Insider - by Glenn Greenwald -- If Iran is Attacking It Might Really be Israel -- MSM Stealing Blog Content -- We will be in Iraq throughout the first Obama presidency -- Top Secret Government Database Used in Bush Domestic Spying -- Hosed at the gas pump by your debit card -- THE REVOLUTION GROWS: ST. PAUL 2008 - by Devvy Kidd -- National Australia Bank will shock Wall Street -- 400 members of Rainbow Family surround, attack federal officers -- Libertarian Bob Barr Endorses Gore's Call for Totalitarian Measures -- Time Magazine pushes for compulsory conscription on 9/11 -- Sen. Reid Says Polygamy Is 'Form of Organized Crime' -- Handcuffed man dies after cop hits him with Taser 9 times -- Massive Economic Disaster; Will Survivalists Get the Last Laugh? -- Arizona Attorney General taking election-rigging allegations ‘seriously’ -- The Religious Right Is AWOL From The Real War - by Chuck Baldwin -- McCain's Son Resigns from Bank -- Missouri Police taser boy with a broken back 19 times -- You Think Slavery Ended in 1865? - by Leonard Pitts Jr. -- FDIC monitors bloggers and makes its plans -- Ron Paul tickets flying off shelves: 6,000 in six hours
Philip Giraldi on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama: Iran should take US seriously
07-27-2008
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RawStory.com
But in a rare signal of solidarity with the current Republican administration, Obama told a news conference in Paris on Friday that Iran should not wait for the next U.S. president to try to reach a deal over its nuclear program.
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News Link • Food
Gov. Schwarzenegger Smacks Down Trans Fat In California
07-27-2008
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chattahbox.com
California has become the first state to put a trans fat ban in place, building off the mounting evidence that trans fat is bad for your health.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama to Meet With Rubin, Volcker, Buffett on Economic Plans
7-27-2008
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Bloomberg
Democrat Barack Obama said he is convening a meeting on the economy that will include former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and billionaire investor Warren Buffett as he pivots to the U.S. economy after
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News Link • Immigration
Protesters Rally Against Immigration Raid in Iowa
7-27-2008
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AP
About a thousand protesters descended on a small town in northeastern Iowa on Sunday, decrying the raid of a meatpacking plant that arrested nearly 400 residents and calling for a change in federal immigration policies.
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News Link • Food
Tomato growers push for compensation for FDA warning
7-27-2008
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McClatchy News
Congressional hearings will enable California and Florida tomato growers to bash the FDA for supposedly blowing a recent salmonella outbreak. Regulators initially raised warning flags about tomatoes, costing farmers a bundle before suspicions turned
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Obama gives Fed's Bernanke vote of confidence
07-27-2008
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Reuters
...and convene a meeting on Monday on the economy and the financial system. The discussion will include former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and billionaire investor Warren Buffett, chairman of Ber
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
India on alert as death toll from bombs rises
07-27-2008
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CNN
(CNN) -- Metropolitan areas of India were on high alert Sunday after a wave of synchronized bombs that hit the western Indian city of Ahmedabad killed at least 49 people and wounded more than 114, police reported.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Two dead, 7 wounded in Tennessee church shooting
07-27-2008
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Reuters
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A man opened fire with a shotgun in a church in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Sunday, killing two people, including a man called a hero for shielding others from a shotgun blast, police and local media reported.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. acknowledges Baghdad victims were law-abiding, not insurgents
7-27-2008
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McClatchy News
The U.S. military said the 3 people killed last month after U.S. soldiers shot at their car in one of the most secured areas of Iraq were civilians, not criminals as the military initially reported. The correction came more than a month after a bank
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Record deficit expected in 2009
7-27-2008
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USA Today
The White House has increased next year's deficit to nearly $490 billion, a record figure that will saddle the next president with deepening budget problems in his first year in office, being driven higher by the fiscal stimulus package passed by
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News Link • Environment
Governor vetoes climate change curriculum
07-27-2008
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Mercury News
California pGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger decided as he vetoed a bill late Friday that would have required climate change be added to schools' curriculum. The measure was sponsored by state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto
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News Link • Art
Iowa case raises question: Is stripping an art?
7-272008
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AP
Iowa doesn't have any all-nude strip clubs â€" but it does have performing arts centers where women dance naked. However, the loophole in the state's public indecent exposure law that allows nude dancing at "art centers" is under atta
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Inflation's next front is retailers as costs rise
7-27-2008
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AP
"While these increases have not for the most part been passed on at the retail level, it is inevitable that they will be at some point. Car dealers and other retailers cannot continue to absorb rising costs at the wholesale level and not pass th
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mayor Daley says nuts to the Supreme Court regarding guns
7-27-2008
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Chicago Tribune
"I don't look at this lightlyâ€"that, 'Oh, because the Supreme Court's done it we're just gonna dismiss it and all of a sudden people can arm themselves." If the gun ban were overturned the city would need to consider other wa
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Meets The Sopranos
7-26-2008
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www.analyst-network.com
Department Of Homeland Insecurity Puts CNN Reporter On Watch List And Threatens Former Air Marshal With Obstruction Of Justice After News Report Embarrassed The TSA And Air Marshal Service
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New London Connecticut Wages 3 Year Legal Battle At Taxpayer Expense To Hire Only Stupid Cops
7-27-2008
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www.badcopnews.com
"Your average dunderhead is not the person you want to try to solve a fight between a man and his wife at 2 A.M.," said Nick Checker, 35, a local playwright. "I'd rather have them hire the right man or woman for the job and keep re
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • WAR: About that War
If Iran is Attacking It Might Really be Israel
07-26-2008
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Infowars.com
Those who argue that Israel would never do such a thing should think again. Israel is willing to behave with complete ruthlessness towards the US if they feel that the stakes are high enough, witness the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 and the bomb
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Patrick Snow
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
MSM Stealing Blog Content: Times Joining Growing MSM Trend?
July 27, 2008
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Mondoreb
Imagine how pleased we were when the London Times quoted our recent interview--several times! Pleasure turned to pain when the Times didn't credit us, however. After ignoring our letters, we did some research. Is this a new MSM business model.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Hospital guards tase 66-year-old minister over joke
7-27-2008
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Rawstory
A reverend claims security guards dragged him out of a hospital and tasered and beat him because he told a joke about the lack of a smile on a guard's face led to video showing at least 5 officers surrounding and beating him laying on the floor.
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News Link • Eugenics
Bush Defender Huge Obama Insider
7-27-2008
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
Cass Sunstein -- both due to his relationship to Obama and, independently, to his new marriage -- is one of the most inside of Obama insiders. He has simultaneously been an unusually vocal defender of some of the worst Bush radicalism
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News Link • WAR: About that War
We will be in Iraq throughout the first Obama presidency
7-27-2008
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Reuters
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said in an interview published on Saturday the size of a residual U.S. force left in Iraq after the withdrawal of combat troops would be "entirely conditions-based." [will see my 2nd term]
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Is Obama the 'Antiwar Candidate'?
by Justin Raimondo
7-27-2008
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AntiWar
So, you thought we'd be rid of the endless "war on terrorism" once we got Bush out of the White House, and ensconced a Democrat in his place? Well, think again, and get ready for an escalation of the Other War â€" the one in Afghanistan,
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News Link • Police State
Top Secret Government Database Used in Bush Domestic Spying
7-27-2008
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DemocracyNOW! (audio, transcript)
"Main Core" reportedly collects and stores vast amounts of personal and financial data about millions of Americans. Some former US officials believe it was used by the National Security Agency to determine who to spy on in the aftermath of
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News Link • Eugenics
Change Germans Can’t Believe In
By Susan Neiman
7-27-2008
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NY Times
It’s been hard for me to find a European, aside from two Harvard-educated friends in Paris, who confessed to excitement â€" not just about the visit, but the prospect of an Obama presidency.
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News Link • Corruption
Hosed at the gas pump -- by your debit card
7-27-08
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moneycentral.msn.com
You may have topped off with just $20 worth of unleaded, but the debit-card transaction could freeze as much as $75 in your account, sometimes for days.
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News Link • Eugenics
THE REVOLUTION GROWS: ST. PAUL 2008
7-26-2008
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by Devvy Kidd
As the colonials of 1775 had reached the point of no return with King George, so have we the people with the deliberate looting of the people's purse without representation, never ending wars and efforts to integrate the USA with 2 foreign
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Freelance firefighters protect high-end homes
7-26-2008
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CNN
Business is booming for private firefighting as drought and soaring temperatures create one of the worst fire seasons. But officials question the reliance on private crews, raising doubts about whether they could get in the way of government firefigh
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
National Australia Bank will shock Wall Street
7-26-2008
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Infinite Unknown
The National Australia Bank’s decision to write off 90 per cent of its US conduit loans will have dramatic repercussions around the world. Wall Street will be deeply shocked when they understand the repercussions of what NAB has done.
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News Link • Police State
Uncle Harry’s One-Step Guide to Fascism
7-26-2008
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GoHarrison
List recent totalitarian authorizations passed by CONgress empowering the President under Martial Law.
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News Link • Eminent Domain
Congress' bailout opens doors to eminent domain seizures
7-26-2008
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WorldNetDaily
Some states have passed laws protecting property owners by barring eminent domain solely for economic development purposes. But the federal government is often the source of funds for the projects that result in the use of eminent domain.
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News Link • Police State
Surveillance Requests In UK Top 500,000
7-26-2008
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ITVibe
Over 500,000 spying requests were made in the UK last year from authorities such as the Police force to local councils representing a substantial jump from the 350,000 requests in 2006 and is starting to worry some of the civil liberty groups in the
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
400 members of Rainbow Family surround, attack federal officers
7-26-2008
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WorldNetDaily
"This lawless behavior is unacceptable and we will not tolerate it," said the Forest Service director of law enforcement. "The safety of our employees, public and Rainbow participants is our number one priority, and we will continue to
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News Link • Eugenics
Alleged Libertarian Bob Barr Endorses Goracle's Call for Totalitarian Measures
7-26-2008
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Moonbattery
Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr praised Al Gore, who challenged the United States to run on 100 percent zero-carbon electricity within 10 years. According to Barr, the Goracle's apocalyptic hysteria "makes sense." How our na
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News Link • Draft
Time Magazine pushes for compulsory conscription on 9/11
7-26-2008
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Volokh Conspiracy
A relatively new group, Service Nation, is planning to kick off a campaign with a Summit for "National Service" on September 11. Time Magazine has signed on to promote the effort. Its training "Change Agents" in cooperation with *
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News Link • Marriage
Sen. Reid Says Polygamy Is 'Form of Organized Crime'
7-26-2008
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FOX News
{read-it gets worse] Gregory Brower, the Arizona U.S. Attorney, said there is no federal law against polygamy, but the federal government has a number of traditional resources at its disposal to investigate polygamists, including FBI, BATF, IRS, and
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paper Sold To Pools Of Liquidity
7-26-08
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theinternationalforecaster.com
The dollar would collapse, along with our economy, and stock, bond and derivative markets would be devastated. The public would be left holding the bag, as happened in the days leading up to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depre
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man dies after cop hits him with Taser 9 times
7-25-2008
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CNN
A police officer shocked a handcuffed "Scooter" Pikes 9 times with a Taser after arresting him on a cocaine charge. The coroner said the 21-year-old was jolted so many times by the Taser that he might have been dead before the last 2 shocks
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama Removes American Flag from His Airplane -
See his new look
07/22/2008
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by Bill Dupray in: Barack Obama, Liberals, Patriot
Barack Obama recently finished a $500,000 total overhaul of his 757. And as part of the new design, he decided to remove the American flag from the tail. What American running for President of the United States would remove the symbol of his country?
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News Link • Federal Reserve
N. Roubini: What's up with the covered bond push?
7-26-08
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RGEmonitor.com
Covered bonds will be used to render profitable assets off soon-to-be-bankrupt corporates, leaving pensioners and other creditors with the stripped carcass in the liquidation.
Am I too cynical?
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain's Son Resigns from Boards of Henderson, NV Bank
7-26-2008
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Las Vegas Review Journal
Andrew McCain, son of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, resigned today from the boards of directors of Silver State Bankcorp and Silver State Bank. [on a Saturday]
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
AZ Appeals Court Rules Driving Is Essential Element For DUI Convictions
07-26-2008
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The Newspaper
The statute criminalizes 'actual' control -- not 'potential' use Judge Eckerstrom wrote for the unanimous panel. "Indeed, many impaired adults have ready access to a vehicle, and therefore the potential use of one, but retain the
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News Link • Propaganda
This project is sponsored by George Orwell and his Big Brother
7-25-08
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Timesonline.co.uk
Like the telescreens in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four that citizens could turn down but not off, the giant screens planned for 60 towns and cities will make watching television compulsory.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Massive Economic Disaster -- Will Survivalists Get the Last Laugh?
7-26-08
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Alternet.org
"At least they're aware that we've entered the early innings of what could easily become a very disruptive period of our history," the Clusterfuck Nation columnist explains. "Most of them are responding constructively rather th
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News Link • Police State
Missouri Police taser boy with a broken back 19 times
7-26-08
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Rawstory.com
Doctors believe 16-year-old Mace Hutchinson broke his back and heel after falling, as his injuries are consistent with such a fall. The boy's family does not understand why police would have tasered the the teen 19 times after he was so seriously
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News Link • Domestic Policy
You Think Slavery Ended in 1865?by Leonard Pitts Jr.
7-26-2008
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Common Dreams
It would be appalling if it happened once. It happened hundreds of thousands of times in Alabama alone. The author of a compelling new book, Slavery By Another Name introduces you to a chapter of black history you may not know.
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Senate passes taxpayer funded bailout of bad mortgage lenders
7-26-2008
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AP
[So they use your money to cover their losses on their money they risked. Suckers!!!!] Homeowners who cannot afford their monthly payments can refinance into taxpayer-backed loans. The bill also offers your money to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
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News Link • Federal Reserve
FDIC monitors bloggers and makes its plans
7-26-2008
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Bizjournals
"The blogs were a bit out of control," said the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. "We're going to continue to stay on top of it. The misinformation that came out over the weekend fed a lot of depositors' fears.'
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