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Date Sent: 2008-09-16
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
Wall Street in Worst Loss Since 2001 -- Nouriel Roubini: Americans worry about your bank deposits
Crisis Prompts Calls for Federal Rescue Entity -- Lawmakers Are Seeking Answers in Anthrax Case -- Fed Adds Most Reserves Since 9/11 as Banks Hoard Cash -- Meredith Whitney Scares the Hell Out of Everyone - The Market is Imploding -- Time to Throw in the Towel, Bob - Mike Renzulli -- Did 'Spore' copy protections backfire on EA? -- Wilbur Ross: 1,000 bank closures in the coming months -- State of California plans to fool the MSM that foreclosures are down -- UK’s first official sharia courts -- WaMu Slides on Concern Capital, Buyers Are Limited -- Lehman's outstanding debts total $600 billion -- In Government We Trust? Part 3 - by Ron Paul -- Google search finds seafaring solution -- Constitution More Than a Piece of Paper - Howard Blitz -- World markets tumble on Lehman news -- Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 protection -- Raids into Pakistan: What US authority? -- Pakistan troop fire turns back US helicopters -- The US Army's Mind-Control Project -- Are towns really safer without traffic lights? -- Subverting Democracy Through Electoral Fraud - by Stephen Lendman -- 10 years of translated bin Laden messages LEAKED!
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street in Worst Loss Since 2001
9-16-2008
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NY Times
Trading opened sharply down Monday morning, and the mood later turned even gloomier, despite efforts by President Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson to reassure markets that Wall Street’s deepening problems would not weaken an already anemi
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Crisis Prompts Calls for Federal Rescue Entity
9-16-2008
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Washington Post
Key Democratic lawmakers said the government may need to create a federal entity to manage the assets of insolvent institutions, much as the Resolution Trust Corp. liquidated failed thrifts during the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Lawmakers Are Seeking Answers in Anthrax Case
9-16-2008
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Washington Post
Pressed FBI officials to say when the anthrax case will be closed and why investigators had fixed on Ivins six months after notifying him in April 2007 that he was not a target. Investigators told congressional aides that they are still pursuing lead
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Shanghai Cliff Diving: Composite Index Off Two-Thirds in One Year
9-16-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
This is a stunning stock market crash, and it's not just the Shanghai composite - it's an Asian market rout:
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Adds Most Reserves Since 9/11 as Banks Hoard Cash
9-16-08
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Bloomberg.com
The Federal Reserve added $70 billion in reserves to the banking system, the most since the September 2001 terrorist attacks, to reverse a surge in borrowing costs sparked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Meredith Whitney Scares the Hell Out of Everyone - The Market is Imploding
9-15-08
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MrMortgage.ml-implode.com
Meredith Whitney stated "Futures indicate a 33% peak to trough housing price decline…I think well north of 40-45%" Watch the video of Meredith on CNBC.
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News Link • Environment
Xprize for the creative rest of us
9-15-2008
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PC Magazine
The X Prize Foundation has recently launched a YouTube search for people's "crazy green ideas." Called the Energy and Environment X PRIZE, it's on a much smaller scale compared to the other two contests above worth
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Experiment Boosts Hopes for Space Solar Power
9-15-2008
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LiveScience
A former NASA scientist has used radio waves to transmit solar power a distance of 92 miles between two Hawaiian islands, an achievement that he says proves the technology exists to beam solar power from satellites back to Earth.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
Did 'Spore' copy protections backfire on EA?
9-15-2008
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cNet News
Enraged by what they call "draconian" copyright protections, thousands of people flooded Amazon.com to give the game a one-star rating. What's the fuss about? Electronic Arts imposed copyright protections that limited the number of time
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Wilbur Ross: Sees about 1,000 bank closures in the coming months
9-15-08
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Reuters.com
Wilbur Ross, founder of private equity firm WL Ross & Co LLC, expects as many as a thousand U.S. bank closures in the coming months, CNBC said on its website on Monday.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State of California is going to fool the MSM that foreclosures are down
9-15-08
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MrMortgage.ml-implode.com
The bill went into effect with recordings on or after 9/8/2008. The CA foreclosure process is managed by a trustee, and they were already processing volumes well above their capacity.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Nouriel Roubini: Americans should worry about their bank deposits
9-15-08
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finance.yahoo.com
The intent here isn't to add to people's anxieties, but Roubini is one of the few market watchers to correctly predict the severity of this ongoing credit crisis. video
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News Link • Food
Eating veggies shrinks the brain
9-15-2008
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Times of India
Scientists [undoubtedly meat eating] have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage. Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient [duh]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
UK’s first official sharia courts
9-15-2008
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London Times
ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to thos
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
WaMu Slides on Concern Capital, Buyers Are Limited
9-15-2008
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Bloomberg
Washington Mutual, the biggest US savings and loan, fell 21% in New York trading on concern it won't be able to find new capital or a buyer to keep the lender in business. "There's a very good chance that they are the next one to fail,**
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth
09-15-2008
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www.bostondynamics.com
BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. ( )
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lehman's outstanding debts total $600 billion
9-15-08
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Financial Times.com
The largest unsecured creditors include Citigroup and Bank of New York Mellon, who have around $138bn of exposure to Lehman’s bond debt as indenture trustees.
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News Link • Internet
Google search finds seafaring solution
9-15-2008
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London Times
The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles offshore [maybe further, outside of territorial waters, away from governments].
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Constitution
Constitution More Than a Piece of Paper
09-17-2008
Howard Blitz
When the United States Constitution was signed on this date 221 years ago it marked a real change in the relationship between government officials and the citizenry. For most of history citizens were ruled by rulers. Now for the first time, the rul
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Feature Article • Eugenics
In Government We Trust? Part 3
by Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
What is stopping people from simply trading with each other in gold and silver? Why are you still being paid in fiat dollars, and why can't you pay in gold? Answer: Government has enacted policies that provide considerable stumbling blocks
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News Link • Economy - International
World markets tumble on Lehman news
9-15-2008
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AP
Stock markets tumbled in Europe and Asia on Monday after the double-fisted blow from Wall Street news that Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch would be sold to a large U.S. bank.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 protection
9-15-2008
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AP
Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old investment bank choked by the credit crisis and falling real estate values, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors on Monday and said it was trying to sell off key business units.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Raids into Pakistan: What U.S. authority?
9-15-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
Orders President Bush signed in July authorizing raids by special operations forces in the areas of Pakistan controlled by the Taliban and Al Qaeda and undertaking those raids without official Pakistani consent, have roots stretching back to the days
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pakistan troop fire turns back U.S. helicopters
9-15-2008
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Reuters
Firing by Pakistani troops forced two U.S. military helicopters to turn back to Afghanistan after they crossed into Pakistani territory early on Monday, Pakistani security officials said. The incident took place near Angor Adda, a village in the trib
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News Link • Military
The Army's Totally Serious Mind-Control Project
9-15-2008
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Time
The US Army just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing "thought helmets" that harness brain waves for secure communication among troops. Ultimately, it will "lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alon
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Are towns really safer without traffic lights?
9-15-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
One German community removes lights and signs in a daring experiment and sees accident rates decline. [yes, but revenues and control declined]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Judge to rule on lawsuit against county jails
9-14-2008
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East Valley Tribune
A federal judge is expected to decide this month whether treatment of inmates in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jails passes constitutional muster, settling a 30-year-old class action lawsuit.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Jesse Ventura's three day visit to the valley helps wakens more and more people to the truth of
09-15-08
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wearechabgearizona.com
Two new video clip show the impact one individual can have awakening the public.
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Drew
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News Link • Whistleblowers
10 years of translated bin Laden messages LEAKED!
09/15/2008
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Slashdot.org
One message includes bin Laden's denial of having anything to do with the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Humor
Video - McCain's VP Call to Palin
09/15/2008
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Youtube
Exclusive, never before seen footage of McCain's first call to Gov. Palin. McCain: "I'm f---ed right now, royally humped!"
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News Link • Political Theory
Cynicism 'can damage democracy's health'
9-15-2008
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guardian.co.uk / The Observer
Cynicism may now represent one of the greatest threats to democracy, according to a research project at the London School of Economics. [whatever]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Photo Enforcement Rollout Grinds to a Halt
09/14/2008
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CameraFRAUD.com
Incessant complaints from American Traffic Solutions have thrown a kink in the state’s grand scheme to steal $10 million dollars a month from its own citizens. (ACTION ALERT: CALL the Department of Administration and tell them to reject ALL of these
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