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Date Sent: 2008-10-06
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, October 6, 2008 |
Job Losses Pushing US Economy Into Significant Recession -- US threatens to steal Iraq oil money
"Good Bye Liberty" by Chris Bliss (video) -- Naomi Wolf: A Coup Has Taken Place -- California Governor Rejects Bill That Would Implement REAL ID System -- Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 -- German government to fully guarantee private bank accounts -- The End of America - Documentary -- An Open Letter to Kathy Reichs - by L. Neil Smith -- The Immigration Bubble Collapses, The Garrison State Thrives - by Will Grigg -- Randy Pullen rapes Dan Saban -- The Immigration Bubble Collapses, The Garrison State Thrives - by Will Grigg -- Cop tries choking to get evidence that doesn't exist -- Presidential candidate reveals Army executes 5,000 US prisoners before hurricane -- Get Ready for a Bank 'Holiday' -- Empowering the IRS Via Bailout -- Census: Big Brother anxieties could hurt count -- Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system -- Non-profit offers $100k reward for info tying Rove to election rigging -- European Leaders Pledge to Continue Bailouts, Toughen Rules -- Virgin Galactic turns down zero gravity porn movie -- German bank announces collapse of 35 billion euro rescue -- Fascist Symbols in the Senate and House!!!! -- U.S. Missile Strike Kills 21 in Pakistan -- Jury finds O.J. Simpson guilty on all charges
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News Link • Conspiracies
Naomi Wolf: A Coup Has Taken Place
10/04/2008
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KEXP 90.3
The District Attorneys have the power to arrest Bush, and it MUST be done immediately. According to the Blueprint, Naomi says, the time is now... The bailout WAS the Coup.
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Reported by:
Mike Shipley
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News Link • Economy - International
Financial Crises Spread in Europe
10-6-2008
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NY Times
European nations scrambled on Sunday night to prevent a growing credit crisis from bringing down major banks and alarming savers as troubles in financial markets spread around the world, accelerating economic downturns on three continents.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank on this: Bank failures will rise in next year
10-6-2008
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AP
Here's a safe bet for uncertain times: A lot of banks won't survive the next year of upheaval despite the U.S. government's $700 billion plan to restore order to the financial industry.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Mesa Candidate Supports Ban on Photo Radar
10/05/2008
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CameraFRAUD.com
Joe Brown, Independent candidate for Arizona state representative (LD 18 / Mesa), has released a flyer which indicates strong opposition to statewide photo enforcement.
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Race For The Electric Car
10-05-2008
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CBS 60 Minutes
The jury is still out on whether electric cars can ever be really practical, but the computer geeks in California are betting that their inventiveness can beat out Detroit's cumbersome bureaucracy in producing a viable e-car.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street's Shadow Market - CBS 60 Minutes
10-05-2008
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CBS 60 Minutes
Steve Kroft looks at some of the arcane Wall Street financial instruments that have magnified the economic crisis.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Pressured to Take More Risk, Fannie Hit Tipping Point
10/05/2008
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The New York Times
When Daniel Mudd took Fannie Mae's reins in 2004, Congress demanded that he help steer more loans to low-income borrowers and lenders were threatening to sell directly to Wall Street unless Fannie bought a bigger chunk of their riskiest loans.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Homeland Security
California Governor Rejects Bill That Would Implement REAL ID System
10-05-2008
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Papers Please
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed SB 60. The legislation would have created a two-tier driver’s license system that would have allowed for the issuance of licenses to undocumented immigrants while at the same time formally adopt the RE
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
'Yes' Voters Received 54% More than 'No' Voters
10-5-2008
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MAPLight.org
In stark relief: PAC contributions vs. House votes on the (original) Billionaire Bailout. MAPLight has certainly shed light on why so-called "Free Trader" Republicans revealed their true selves.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Don't Vote! (Rational Ignorance Remix)
10-5-2008
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Reason.tv
The ultimate celebrity statement on civic duty. [much better than the original - now, it makes sense!]
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Architecture
Dubai to build kilometer high tower
10-05-08
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news.yahoo.com/s/
The final height of Nakheel's proposed tower is likewise a secret, as is the price tag. The company would only say it will be more than a kilometer (3,281 feet) tall.
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News Link • Police State
Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
Army Times
They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, att
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Economy - International
German government to fully guarantee private bank accounts
10-05-08
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Bloomberg.com
The German government offered to fully guarantee personal savings accounts in a bid to ease concerns about the stability of the nation's banking system amid the global credit crunch.
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News Link • Housing
Struggling borrowers face a brick wall on loan workouts
10-05-08
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mercurynews.com
But he got nowhere over countless calls pleading to rework a bum loan after it was sold and a new lender bumped his monthly payments by more than $700, to $2,700, citing a tax error.
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News Link • Gun Rights
An Open Letter to Kathy Reichs - by L. Neil Smith
10-05-2008
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l. Neil Smith
Talk about your propaganda, most of what you wrote was obviously absorbed, uncritically, from agenda-driven polemicists proven again and again to be habitual, unapologetic liars.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosures in Phoenix Set a New Record for One Week: 2,210
10-05-08
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HousingDoom.com
That indicates the number of foreclosed properties in January could be double the 3,295 tracked by Arizona State University across the county in August.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Worst record in baseball playoffs sweeps best record: 'Da Cubs
10-5-2008
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AP
It's a century and counting for the Chicago Cubs. Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers shoved Chicago into another long winter Saturday night, completing a three-game sweep of their first-round playoff series with a 3-1 victory.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk on the Bailout
10/04/08
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emac.blogs.foxbusiness.com
If there’s anyone in Congress who should feel like he has been shouting into a field of cotton, it should be Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas).
And sometimes a journalist just needs to yield the platform for once, for God’s sakes, to someone who is t
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Food
How To Bury Your Goods: The Complete Manual of Long Term Underground Storage (Paperback)
10-04-2008
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Amazon Books
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
Free Chicken Coop Plans
10-04-2008
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www.freechickencoopplans.com
So you're thinking about building a chicken coop but don't want to spend a fortune on
coop plans and building materials? This was my thought when I built my own coop a
few years ago.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
FRONT YARD GARDENS
10-04-2008
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urbanhomestead.org
Liberated Yard (since 1990): Growing food not grass. Providing not only beauty but food, medicine and income.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Job Losses Pushing U.S. Economy Into `Significant' Recession
10-04-2008
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Bloomberg.com
Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. may be heading for its worst recession in at least a quarter century as the credit crisis forces employers across the country to cut workers and ratchet back spending.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US threatens to steal Iraq oil money
10-4-2008
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PressTV
Washington has threatened to seize Iraqi assets and oil money if Baghdad rejects a controversial US-proposed security pact, Iraq says.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
Rash Spending Cuts Will Hurt Economy, Residents (WHAT???!!)
10-04-2008
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www.courant.com
Our priority in state government must remain job retention and job creation, and budget cuts work against each of these objectives.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Randy Pullen rapes Dan Saban
10-4-2008
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Arizona Republic
The state Republican Party started airing an ad that highlighted allegations made against Sheriff Joe Arpaio's challenger, Dan Saban. The commercials shocked viewers. Who's behind it? Arizonans For Public Safety, Randy Pullen, chair; with fun
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
The Immigration Bubble Collapses, The Garrison State Thrives
10-4-2008
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by Will Grigg (Pro Liberate)
As our economy collapses, immigration both legal and illegal is slowing down. Any guess as to the use to which the Homeland Security State will put its immigration control assets once the immigrant flood dries up?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Cop tries choking to get evidence that doesn't exist
10-4-2008
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FreeStudents
A police officer arrested a man who he believed had marijuana. The cop couldn't find the marijuana so he assumed the man was swallowing it. To prevent this the officer then began chocking the man, who was in handcuffs and didn't try to resist
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Presidential candidate reveals Army executes 5,000 US prisoners before hurricane
10-4-2008
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WorldNetDaily
The former Democratic congresswoman from Georgia who now is the Green Party's candidate for president has claimed the government killed 5,000 prison inmates during Hurricane Katrina, dumping their bodies in a Louisiana swamp
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Census: Big Brother anxieties could hurt count
10-4-2008
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AP
To combat people's hesitancy, the bureau will work with local governments and organizations such as churches and community groups to make sure people understand what the census is and that the data won't be shared.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Police State
Empowering the IRS Via Bailout
10-04-2008
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Bill Anderson via LewRockwell Blog
The bailout bill also gives the Internal Revenue Service new authority to conduct undercover operations. It would immunize the IRS from a passel of federal laws, including permitting IRS agents to run businesses for an extended sting operation, to op
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
High-Efficiency Generators for Hybrid Vehicles
10-04-2008
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Technology Review
Free-piston engines could be used to generate electricity as efficiently as, and less expensively than, fuel cells.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system
10-04-2008
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CNN
The system "would literally, like an anti-aircraft weapon, shoot down an attack before it hits its target," he said. "And that's what we call Einstein 3.0." (Big Bubba with a CyberGun to be used "preemptively")
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Non-profit offers $100k reward for info tying Rove to election rigging
10-04-2008
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Rawstory.com
A non-profit organization has offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who can supply information tying Republican strategist Karl Rove and computer expert Michael Connell to illegally manipulated elections
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
European Leaders Pledge to Continue Bailouts, Toughen Rules
10-04-2008
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Bloomberg.com
Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- European leaders pledged to continue bailing out their own nations' banks, stopping short of a regional rescue effort, in response to the global credit crisis.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Ideal Space Show that's an out of this world experience
10-04-2008
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scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com
The Virgin Galactic people have been talking about turning down a million-dollar offer to allow a zero-gravity porn film to be made on their space craft. ( you just KNOW this is eventually going to happen :)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
German bank announces collapse of 35 billion euro rescue
10-4-2008
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AFP
German bank Hypo Real Estate said a planned 35-billion-euro (48-billion-dollar) rescue had fallen through after the banking consortium involved pulled out of the deal. The rescue bid was the biggest in German history and came after HRE was sucked int
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Radio
Howard Stern Hitched in All-Star Wedding
10-04-2008
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Eonline
After a lengthy engagement, the Sirius Satellite shock jock has taken the marital plunge with longtime girlfriend Beth Ostrosky
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Bailout 101: What new law says (let's look, after it is passed)
10-04-2008
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CNN
Here's a rundown of key provisions of the financial rescue plan. (blah blah blah
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Bush: Effects of financial bailout will take time
10-04-2008
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Reuters.com
One day after Bush signed the $700 billion rescue package into law, he sought to assure the public the government would be careful in implementing the legislation aimed at easing a credit crisis that has created turbulence in global financial markets
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Fascist Symbols in the Senate and House!!!!
10-04-2008
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Jim Palmisano
Look at the Symbols surrounding the Flag behind Brad Sherman in his speech concerning threats of Martial Law here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8
Then go to approximately 2:05 minutes into the following video and find out what those
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Jim Palmisano
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News Link • Military
U.S. Missile Strike Kills 21 in Pakistan
10-03-08
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Antiwar.com
A US missile strike destroyed a house in a North Waziristan village today, killing at least 21 people according to a senior Pakistani official. Of the 21, a local official said 16 of them foreigners.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Jury finds O.J. Simpson guilty on all charges
10-4-2008
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AP
O.J. Simpson has been found guilty on all charges in the gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room more than a year ago. Simpson faces up to life in prison.
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Powell Gammill
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