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Date Sent: 2008-09-17
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
Fed repaid JPMorgan $87 billion for Lehman financing -- AIG Gets $85 Billion to Cede Control to US
US 'may plot assassination of Al Maliki' -- Bush Agrees to War on Iran -- Cheney lied me into war -- YouTube launches major attack on 1st Amendment -- Pelosi: Dems bear no responsibility for economic crisis -- Cops Use DHS Money to Scan Fingerprints at Checkpoints -- Full-Body Scans Used Throughout Denver Airport -- Sarah Palin's Answers: Very Troubling - by Chuck Baldwin -- Cindy Sheehan vs. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi - an interview with Ernest Hancock -- Traffic Cameras To Track Everyone, Everywhere -- 2006 election results fixed, some Democrats say - by Ernest Hancock -- Asian, European markets continue slide on Lehman, Merrill woes
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News Link • Draft
Bow Down Before the One You Serve
9-16-2008
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Cato at Liberty
Today, in the Wall Street Journal, Shika Dahlmia makes the case that even though both candidates hector us ceaselessly about national service, Obama has more detailed, and more troubling, plans:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Clinton Pressure to Promote Affordable Housing Led to Mortgage Meltdown
9-16-2008
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OpenMarkets
The current mortgage crisis came about in large part because of Clinton-era government pressure on lenders to make risky loans in order to “make homeownership more affordable for lower-income Americans and those with a poor credit history
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed repaid JPMorgan $87 billion for Lehman financing
9-16-2008
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Reuters
The New York Federal Reserve intervened aggressively to shore up the U.S. financial system this week, providing at least $87 billion to help underpin trades with units of bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, court documents show.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Cheney lied me into war
9-16-2008
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Washington Post
"Did Dick Cheney . . . purposely tell me things he knew to be untrue?" Armey said. "I seriously feel that may be the case. . . . Had I known or believed then what I believe now, I would have publicly opposed [the war] resolution right
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Bush Agrees to War on Iran
9-16-08
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Rense.com
A general Middle East War could bring $10/per gallon gas prices to America. The world's economy, already headed to a global depression, will be thrust into the worst depression in human history.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Nanoflowers Improve Ultracapacitors - A novel design could boost energy storage.
09-16-2008
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Technology Review
Imagine a cell-phone battery that recharges in a few seconds and that you would never have to replace.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Russia halts trading after 17% share price fall
09-16-2008
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FinancialTimes.com
Russian shares suffered their steepest one-day fall in more than a decade on Tuesday, losing up to 20 per cent, as a sharp slide in oil prices and difficult money market conditions triggered a rush to sell.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
YouTube launches major attack on 1st Amendment
9/16/2008
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Daily Newscaster
YouTube has shown a desire to satisfy the requests of Senator Joseph Lieberman (R-Israel) by implementing S-1959 the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007″ even before it has be debated, voted on or passed as la
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Humor
SNL - Tina Fey spoofs Sarah Palin
09-16-2008
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www.hulu.com
Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin Spoof (Freak'n Great!)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
AIG May Get $85 Billion Loan, Cede Control, NYT Says
09-16-2008
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Bloomberg.com
Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc., the biggest U.S. insurer by assets, may get an $85 billion bridge loan from the Federal Reserve (WTF? The Federal Reserve is proping up Insurance Companies now?)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Importance of A.I.G.
09-16-2008
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New York Times Video
Joe Nocera, a Times columnist, explains why the future of A.I.G may be more telling than Tuesday's Federal Reserve rate decision.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Family
Man & Woman Steal Money in Investment Scam, He Gets 10 Years, She Gets...
09/16/2008
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www.glennsacks.com
...probation. Maybe there's more to the story than what the Asbury Park Press says in the article below, but it looks suspiciously like the female sentencing discount is in play again.
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Pelosi: Dems bear no responsibility for economic crisis
09-16-2008
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TheHill.com
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, when asked Tuesday whether Democrats bear some of the responsibility regarding the current crisis on Wall Street, had a one-word answer: “No.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Passive Millimeter Full-Body Scans Used Throughout Denver Airport.
09-16-2008
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Misanthropic Me
This scanner is operating in a public area - not a secure area for passengers. This appears to be in contravention of TSA policy because they specify that millimeter wave scanning “technology is a voluntary alternative to a pat-down during secondary
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Caylee Anthony: Thirty Quotes From the Caylee Anthony Case
09-15-2008
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Mondoreb
Thirty quotes from the people involved in the Caylee Anthony case: mother Casey Anthony; grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony; Orange County Sheriff, Kevin Beary; Greta Van Susteren, Nancy Grace, statements from protesters who’ve surrounded the Ant
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Joe Biden’s Near-Fatal Brain Aneurysms: MSM Tells Two Different Tales of Recovery
09-15-2008
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Ginn
It wasn’t until the recent sudden death of Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio of a brain aneurysm that the MSM focused on Barack Obama’s VP pick, Joe Biden, and his own history of the same medical condition.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama: Gaffes and Palin Have Obama Playing Defense
09-15-2008
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Nancy Morgan
Even the Mainstream Media is beginning to whisper, “Obama has lost his mojo”. What’s to blame? A gaggle of gaffes and Sarah Palin.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
Australians on Sarah Palin: A Hit Down Under
09-15-2008
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pat
How do Australians perceive Sarah Palin? Our man, pat, returns from the Land Down Under to report his impressions.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Immigration
Video: Is Illegal Immigration the Only Truly Bi-Partisan Issue?
09-15-2008
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Mondoreb
This week’s Blogs4Borders’ video report examines “Taxpayer funded Latino only healthcare? We take a look.” Also: “Bi-partisan? Is illegal immigration the one true bi-partisan issue?” [video length: 9:07]
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Traffic Cameras To Track Everyone, Everywhere
09/16/2008
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CameraFRAUD.com
With the open admission from Redflex regarding optical character recognition upgrades, it has become blatently obvious that Redflex will stop at nothing short of becoming a full-fledged quasi-police/government agency, right in the footsteps of Blackw
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Homeland Security
Cops Use DHS Money to Scan Fingerprints at Checkpoints
09-16-2008
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Alternative News Sources
Police officials are excited about a new high tech gadget that will make their jobs a little bit easier. Through a Homeland Security grant, Los Angeles County purchased 500 mobile fingerprint scanning devices that can be used by officers in the field
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian, European markets continue slide on Lehman, Merrill woes
9-16-2008
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AP
World stock markets swooned again Tuesday as global financial crisis make investors worry that asset prices had yet to hit rock bottom. At midday, Paris' benchmark CAC-40 index was down 0.5 percent to 4,150.24, Germany's DAX 30 index of blue
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Powell Gammill
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