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Date Sent: 2008-10-09
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, October 9, 2008 |
Wall Street panic rolling over consumers worldwide -- Debt Too Big for National Debt Clock
The End of The World As We Know It - The U.S. may soon be insolvent -- If Martial Law, Arizona Will Secede -- AIG Gets Billions More To Borrow -- Man Threatened Bank Over Financial Losses -- FBI’s Complete File on Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Interest rate slash frenzy won't save the day -- New TASER Weapons Produced For Crowd Control -- Army prepares America for Martial Law -- Time Is Up Congress - And America -- Feds Declare 'Anthrax Emergency' -- Documents say detainee near insanity -- With bailout, socialists say Bush is now 'a fellow traveler' -- DNA fingerprinting could reveal your surname -- Leahy Concerned About NorthCom’s New Army Unit -- California Governor Signs Off On New Protections for Free Speech -- Russia 'completes' Georgia pullout -- I.M.F. Calls for Aggressive Response to Crisis -- Condo board may deny 83 year old man the right to ride a Segway -- George Ure: The man who predicted the "Global Economic Meltdown" a year ago -- Nikkei dives 9.4%, biggest 1-day fall since '87 -- World bankers cut rates - conspire against the US dollar -- In bleak forecast, IMF sees major global downturn, especially the USA -- Justice for Yemeni Sheik - by Stephen Lendman
They will be heard ... today.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. To Take Ownership Stake in Banks
10-9-2008
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NY Times
Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system, according to government officials.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
See you at "The Ranch"
Lets face it, rocket technology isn't going to get us to the stars! The saucer-shaped crafts that will be built at "The Ranch" (a "civilian" version of Area 51) will make NASA's space shuttle project look like something ou
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Eugenics
DNC JOINS OBAMA TO BLOCK BERG SUIT
10/08/2008
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NewsWithViews.com
Author's Note: This article is a rewrite of last week's article on Philip J. Berg's lawsuit to force Barack Obama to produce a certified copy of his original birth certificate.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
AIG Gets Billions More To Borrow
10-8-2008
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Forbes
American International Group has blown through the $85.0 billion it borrowed from the United States government last month and is getting an additional $37.8 billion line of credit from the Fed as it seeks to shrink itself into profitability.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The End of The World As We Know It - The U.S. may soon be insolvent
10-08-08
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WallStreetExaminer.com
Today we saw first signs that the market can’t even absorb just the Treasury supply. We will be facing an unimaginable economic environment, one in which the world rightly questions the ability of the US Government to service its obligations.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Frank Luntz, Ron Paul’s message transcends politics
10/08/2008
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Daily Newscaster
Americans are tired of the ideology and partisanship of Washington says Luntz neither Barack Obama or John McCain are doing a good job addressing the economy. When Ron Paul talks he gets it perfect.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • History
The Man Who Saved the World . . . Through Inaction
10-8-2008
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ExtremeTech
Somehow it took more than twenty years to honor a man who saved us all. If you were alive on September 26, 1983, you almost didn't make it through the day. If you are too young to have lived that day, you were almost never born.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain explains how to balance the budget before he leaves office
10-8-2008
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Rawstory video
"You and I together will confront the $10 trillion debt the federal government has run up and balance the federal budget by the end of my term in office," he said. "Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my uhoh!
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
If Martial Law, Arizona Will Secede
10-08-2008
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www.breakitdownblog.com
Arizona will join with 34 or more (majority) of states and declare their own independence from the Union… interesting (especially with election time around the corner and conspiracies about that Bush/Cheney empire would do something in order to decla
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Jason Dimitrov
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Man Threatened Bank Over Financial Losses
10-8-2008
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FOX News
Cops say the Wall Street crisis has had a disturbing affect on one disgruntled investor. Police charged a 60-year-old man with threatening to blow up a bank branch. He was angry about his investment losses, so he said he would kill everyone inside.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Judge orders 17 Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay
10-08-2008
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LA Times via InformationClearingHouse
Federal judge ordered the Bush administration to release prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling Tuesday that 17 Chinese Muslims must be brought to his courtroom by the end of the week so that they can be set free.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
FBI’s Complete File on Martin Luther King, Jr.
10-08-2008
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The Memory Hole
For the first time, Martin Luther King’s entire FBI file is now online - all 16,659 pages, posted by The Memory Hole.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Interest rate slash frenzy won't save the day
10/08/2008
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UPI
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- This is more than a global financial meltdown: Other major nations around the world this week are following U.S. President George W. Bush's lead in effectively dismantling the very structures of free-market capitalism.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chicago's Cook County Sheriff won't evict in foreclosures
10-08-2008
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Associated Press
Dart said that from now on, banks will have to present his office with a court affidavit that proves the home's occupant is either the owner or has been properly notified of the foreclosure proceedings.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
New TASER Weapons Produced For Crowd Control
10-08-2008
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PrisonPlanet
Stun gun manufacturer rolls out devices that promise to “drop everyone in a given area to the ground”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
FEMA sources confirm coming martial law, says Wayne Madsen
10/08/2008
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Daily Newscaster
Wayne Madsen a Washington based investigative journalist, author, columnist and former U.S. Naval Officer is reporting a document called the “C & R” document is being passed around among senior members of Congress and their staff.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Conspiracies
You Saw It Here First; Economic Crash, Banker Stick-Up Predicted Long Ago
10-08-2008
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Alex Jones' Prison Planet
The global economic crisis and the centralization of power that would be implemented under the pretext of fixing it were predicted by this website as well as regular guests who appeared on The Alex Jones Show for the past three years-plus.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Phoenix Halts Scam-Van Expansion
10/08/2008
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CameraFRAUD.com
Phoenix won’t be expanding its red-light camera photo-enforcement program... A summer pilot speed program, which focused on higher speeds on arterial streets outside of school zones, and right turns on red lights, had mixed results.
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Constitution
Army prepares America for Martial Law
10/08/2008
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Daily Newscaster
The evidence is clear and mounting that the Democrats and Republicans who control the seat of power in Washington intend to declare Martial Law in America, and soon.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Central Banks Coordinate Global Cut in Interest Rates
10-08-2008
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New York Times
The action failed to calm gyrating markets, however, amid the growing realization that a serious and prolonged recession may be difficult to avoid.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Time Is Up Congress - And America
10-08-08
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Market-Ticker.denninger.net
In The Depression millions of automobiles will be scrapped after being abandoned by their owners for lack of insurance and registration fee money. Cheap scooters will become the dominant form of transportation for those with jobs, as they will be al
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News Link • Future Predictions
Feds Declare 'Anthrax Emergency'
10-08-2008
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Federal Register via Rense.com
The Secretary, HHS, provides notice of the determination of the Secretary of Homeland Security on September 23, 2008 that there is a significant potential for a domestic emergency involving a heightened risk of attack with a specified biological, che
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
Discover The POWER Of... Doing NOTHING!
10-07-2008
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thepowerofdoingnothing.com
What problems can be solved by the correct, timely, coordinated lack of effort that it takes to do nothing?
WAR, POLITICAL CON GAMES, THE HOUSING CRISIS, DETERIORATION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES AND MORE
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Garko Factor
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News Link • Torture
Documents say detainee near insanity
10-8-2008
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AP
While the treatment of prisoners at detention facilities in Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq have been the subject of complaints, the documents shed light on how American citizens and a US resident were treated in jails inside the US.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Wall Street panic rolling over consumers worldwide
10-8-2008
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Reuters
A London businessman may have to put off his wedding. A baker in Paris fears customers will disappear. A student in Slovenia sees an automobile loan fall out of reach. And a real estate agent in Chicago says she's just plain scared.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
DNA fingerprinting could reveal your surname
10-8-2008
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Reuters
Police could one day predict the surname of male suspects or victims of crime from DNA alone, British researchers said. Scientists said that men with the same surname were highly likely to be genetically linked.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
With bailout, socialists say Bush is now 'a fellow traveler'
10-8-2008
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McClatchy News
They don't call him President Bush in Venezuela anymore. Now he's known as "Comrade." With the Bush administration resorting to government bailout after government bailout to keep the US economy afloat, leftist governments and their
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
They will be heard.....OCTOBER 9th is the date.
10-08-2008
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Restore The Republic
Presidential candidates from ALL parties have been invited to a debate on Restore The Republic Radio OCT 9th at 9 p.m. (eastern). Let's just see who will participate. Hopefully hard questions and even better REAL answers will be given by those in
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The USA and World Economy - The important stories
10-08-2008
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FreedomsPhoenix
Every day for over 3 years FreedomsPhoenix has covered the economy. Over 2300 of the the most informative headlines are available for your crash course to understand exactly what happened and why. So you can make informed decisions.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
California Governor Signs Off On New Protections for Free Speech
10-08-2008
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday signed Assembly Bill 2433 and filled a significant gap in protection for anonymous speech online.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Leahy Concerned About NorthCom’s New Army Unit
10-08-2008
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Common Dreams
Leahy was instrumental in getting Congress to repeal the "Insurrection Act Rider" in the '06 defense appropriations bill. That gave the President sweeping power to use military troops in ways contrary to the Insurrection Act and Posse C
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russia 'completes' Georgia pullout
10-08-2008
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english.aljazeera.net
There was no immediate confirmation from a European Union mission monitoring the pullback from the two zones, which are on Georgian territory adjoining the breakaway, pro-Russian areas of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
National Debt Too Big for National Debt Clock to Handle
10-08-2008
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gothamist.com
It's passed $10 trillion, and the Durst Organization will have to add another a spot for a 14th digit"while they're at it, they may as well make room for a 15th and 16th digit
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
I.M.F. Calls for Aggressive Response to Crisis
10-08-2008
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New York Times
The fund urged governments to make direct capital injections into banks, as well as to buy distressed assets, which the Bush administration plans to do in its $700 billion rescue program.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama Backers Trying to Create Media Storm over Harmless McCain Remark
10/08/08
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www.glennsacks.com
Just when the low-rent McCain-Palin tactics against Obama have disgusted me to the point of helping decide my vote, Obama's supporters are hammering McCain over an absolutely harmless comment he made during last night's debate.
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Economy - International
Pakistan Facing Bankruptcy
10-08-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
Given the country's standing as a frontline state in the US-led "war on terrorism", the economic crisis has profound consequences. Pakistan already faces worsening security as the army clashes with militants in the lawless Tribal Areas
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Condo board may deny 83 year old man the right to ride a Segway
10-08-08
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gmy.news.yahoo.com
Stan Blumenthal likes to ride his Segway to see his girlfriend and go to the store, but that may soon be a thing of the past. The condo board has indicated that riding a Segway is more dangerous than driving a golf cart.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
George Ure: The man who predicted the "Global Economic Meltdown" a year ago
10-08-08
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CoastToCoastAm.com/shows
Beginning on October 7, 2008 and running through March 2009, they foresee a calamitous period on an epic scale. America will be beset by a variety of problems, which they broke down as 45-48% related to the economy, 40% concerning the military...
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News Link • Economy - International
World stocks return to red despite rate cuts
108-2008
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Reuters
Stock markets remained mired in steep losses on Wednesday, battered by fears about the world's worst financial crisis in nearly 80 years and gaining only temporary relief from globally coordinated interest rate cuts.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed President to CFR: Don't expect too much
10-8-2008
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Reuters
"Before we seek to dramatically expand the Fed's responsibilities, I believe it is important to recognize there are limits to what central banking can do," Plosser said to the Council on Foreign Relations. Plosser argued willy-nilly
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Nikkei dives 9.4%, biggest 1-day fall since '87
10-8-2008
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Reuters
The Nikkei average plunged 9.4 percent on Wednesday, its biggest drop since the 1987 stock market crash, as growing fears of a global recession led investors to wipe $250 billion off the value of Tokyo shares.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
In bleak forecast, IMF sees major global downturn, especially the USA
10-8-2008
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Reuters
In its bleakest forecast in years, the International Monetary Fund said the world economy was set for a major downturn with the US and Europe in recession.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
World bankers cut rates - conspire against the US dollar
10/08/2008
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Daily Newscaster
With precision world banks cut lending rates by .5% this morning citing the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Latest move by world banking cartel to cause hyperinflation.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Immigration
Illegal Immigration Video: Interview with Peter Brimelow, Author of Alien Nation
10-08-2008
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Mondo
Video interview about the effects of illegal immigration with Peter Brimelow, author of Alien Nation. Brimelow, who was an editor at Forbes and National Review, is candid on what open borders have meant for the USA in this 3-part video interview.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Media: Television
CNN Junk Science: Audience Reaction Meters Entertainment, Not Polling
10-08-2008
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David W. Moore
A former Gallup pollster says CNN’s “audience reaction” graphic during the debate is entertainment, not polling. David W. Moore says CNN uses “junk science” in relying on the hand-held audience reaction meters.
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Randy Ricochet
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