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Date Sent: 2008-10-25
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, October 25, 2008 |
Bailout Expands to Insurers -- Treasury Starts Buying Stakes in Regional U.S. Banks
The Exit from Fascism Is Open - by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster -- Gloomy Forecast On Hedge Funds -- North Korea clamps down on mobile phones to stop news of food crisis -- Ron Paul: Republican brand is 'in big trouble' -- Many World Stock Markets Now Off 50% Or More From The Peak -- Another 11th-hour stay for US death row inmate Troy Davis -- Tata and Mahindra interested in buying Hummer -- Paulson: U.S. to announce stake in about 20 banks -- MISH: Paulson Weighs Buying Stake in Insurers -- U.S. agency safeguarding pensions loses $4 billion, seeks to reassure retirees -- Federal Reserve: New rate cut likely, with record low within sight -- Photo Van Driver Attacks Elected Official -- Foreclosures in California on steep rise -- U.S. Dollar Death Dance -- Chrysler to Cut 25% of Salaried Work Force -- Dirt on Obama or McCain can get you $50,000 -- Misfired police raid could have ended in bloodshed -- The End of America (VIDEO)
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
The End of America (VIDEO)
10-24-2008
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www.snagfilms.com
best-selling author Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth) makes a chilling case that American democracy is under threat. Investigating parallels between our current situation and the rise of dictators and fascism in once-free societies
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bailout Expands to Insurers
10-25-2008
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Washington Post
The Treasury Department is dramatically expanding the scope of its bailout of the financial system with a plan to take ownership stakes in the nation's insurance companies, signaling new concerns about a sector of the economy whose trouble
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gloomy Forecast On Hedge Funds
10-25-2008
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Washington Post
The hedge fund industry, a once-unstoppable profit machine that has already lost more than $200 billion in value this year, could shrink by a quarter or more as the global financial crisis deepens, according to industry analysts and fund managers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
North Korea clamps down on mobile phones to stop news of food crisis
10-24-2008
His report came two days after the World Food Programme said that two thirds of North Koreans do not have enough to eat, in the country’s worst crisis since as many as three million people died of famine a decade ago.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul: Republican brand is 'in big trouble' (VIDEO)
10-24-2008
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Raw Story VIDEO
CNN's John Roberts spoke to Rep. Ron Paul about the upcoming presidential election and the possibility that the Republicans could take a beating at the polls. However, he started off with a question about former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Gree
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Many World Stock Markets Now Off 50% Or More From The Peak
10-24-08
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LAtimes.com
Markets down more than 70%: Vietnam (-70.5%), Peru (-73.2%), Ireland (-73.4%), Russia (-73.9%), Iceland (-88.7%).
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News Link • Humor
Ron Paul Promises To Return When Country Needs Him Most
10-24-2008
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The Onion
After piling the last of his Campaign for Liberty signs in the back of a beat-up Ford truck Thursday, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) once again abandoned his candidacy for president.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Death Penalty
Another 11th-hour stay for US death row inmate Troy Davis
10-24-2008
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AFP
[It is working. Keep up the pressure.] Troy Davis, a black American who has spent 17 years on death row for the murder of a white policeman, was Friday granted a stay of execution, three days before he was due to be put to death, court documents show
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tata and Mahindra interested in buying Hummer
10-24-08
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Reuters.com
In fact, Mahindra & Mahindra, which plans to enter the U.S. auto market with its own vehicle next year, denied interest in Hummer earlier this year.
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News Link • Propaganda
Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story
10-24-2008
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breitbart.com
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Paulson: U.S. to announce stake in about 20 banks
10-24-08
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Reuters.com
Neel Kashkari, Treasury's interim manager for the rescue program, told lawmakers on Thursday that more banks are expected to receive capital infusions within a few weeks, meaning that Treasury is expected to announce those banks in the coming day
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Reference Link • Federal Reserve
Making Money
US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
Welcome to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s (BEP) website. We are the largest producer of security documents in the United States. The BEP prints billions of Federal Reserve Notes for delivery to the Federal Reserve System each year.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Paulson Weighs Buying Stake in Insurers
10-24-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
So what's next? Homebuilders? Hedge Funds? Pension Plans? The stock market itself? After all, we all know the stock market only goes up, let's print $10 trillion and buy stocks.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. agency safeguarding pensions loses $4 billion, seeks to reassure retirees
10-24-2008
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Reuters
The agency that insures corporate pensions has enough money to pay long-term benefits despite $4 billion in estimated investment losses and ongoing US economic turmoil, its director said. "The people who depend on us should not be concerned,"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve: New rate cut likely, with record low within sight
10-24-08
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news.Yahoo.com
The Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut interest rates again next week. But could the Fed soon go where it has never gone before and bring them below 1%?
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Photo Van Driver Attacks Elected Official
10/24/2008
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CameraFRAUD.com
Tempe Police has released a damning report detailing the violent actions of a Redflex employee against a demonstrator holding an anti-photo radar sign earlier this month.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gates Foundation paying Scientists to turn Mosquitoes into "Flying Syringes"
10-22-2008
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AFP
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 100,000 dollars each on Wednesday to scientists in 22 countries including funding for a Japanese proposal to turn mosquitoes into "flying syringes" delivering vaccines.
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Adam Burke
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News Link • Eugenics
'SNL' Bush Endorses McCain
10-24-08
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TruthDig.com/avbooth
While the McCain campaign is doing everything it can to distance itself from the presidency of George W. Bush, “SNL” still managed to imagine how an endorsement from the commander-in-chief would go...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosures in California on steep rise
10-24-08
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SFgate.com
Statewide, the number of homes repossessed soared 228.4 percent over last year to 79,511 during the third quarter, according to MDA DataQuick. That's the largest number of foreclosures since the San Diego research firm began tracking foreclosures
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News Link • Federal Reserve
U.S. Dollar Death Dance
10-24-08
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GoldSeek.com
What is pushing the USDollar up cannot be construed as anything remotely resembling healthy factors. In no way whatsoever does it resemble investment. It is more like paid off death contracts, paid off death investments, paid off transfers from toxic
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News Link • Conspiracies
To Our Government: Cut It Out Now
10-24-08
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market-Ticker.denninger.net
Treasury forcibly enslaved all of America to provide that capital via a "call" on future tax revenues, and give it to the bankers so they could pay bonuses and play "corporate raider" with one another.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chrysler to Cut 25 Percent of Salaried Work Force
10-24-08
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news.Yahoo.com
Chrysler LLC said Friday it will cut 25 percent of its salaried work force starting next month, and the automaker warned that it will make more restructuring announcements in the near future.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Treasury Starts Buying Stakes in Regional U.S. Banks
10-24-08
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Bloomberg.com
The decision to buy stakes in more lenders comes after some mid- sized American financial institutions reported mounting losses.
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News Link • Eugenics
Dirt on Obama or McCain can get you $50,000
10-24-2008
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www.americastruenews.com
You have a chance to receive $50,000 under our Knock Out Challenge! To be eligible to receive this money, a user must submit verifiable information about either Presidential Candidate that is so stunning it stops either candidate in their tracks
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Misfired police raid could have ended in bloodshed
10-24-2008
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by J.D. Tuccille, Civil Liberties Examiner
There are times when cops ought to be kicking in doors. A hostage-taker threatening the lives of innocents unless he gets what he wants? Go for it.
An elderly man whose grandson unknowingly bought a hot cell phone? Not so much.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama Birth Certificate: Lawsuits Mushroom in State Courts over Obama Citizenship
10-23-2008
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Mondo
Lawsuits mushroom in state courts over Obama citizenship issues.Phillip Berg, of Berg v. Obama says he has tapes being translated of Barack Obama’s paternal grandmother claiming Obama was born in Kenya. Fox News denies negotiating with African Press
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
Corruption: Obama Shaky Donations, Media’s Lack of Reporting
10-23-2008
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Mondo
There’s a corruption in the Obama campaign contributions: credit cards security features have been disabled on the campaign's website, foreign contributions, etc. There’s also a corruption in a Mainstream press"a press that refuses to report it.
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