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Date Sent: 2008-10-27
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, October 28, 2008 (Pt. 1) |
Sen. Ted Stevens Found Guilty in Corruption Trial -- Nationalizing 401k assets?
Syria slams deadly village raid as US 'war crime' -- 50,000 purged from voter rolls in Georgia -- Let's Take the Futures Market to Task! -- Will Senate actually investigate NSA spying on Americans? -- Feds take credit for disrupting skinhead plot to assassinate Obama -- Jim Rogers discussing commodities and the economy -- Public Pension Funds Lose Billions -- Lower demand drags oil back towards $60 -- Spending the Economy into Oblivion - by Ron Paul -- LA Times to layoff 75 staffers -- Election Fraud doesn't Interest Obama or the DNC -- Bigoted and ignorant McCain/Palin supporters in Ohio -- Paulson doles out $31 billion to 14 more banks -- Most Major Papers Continue Circulation Decline -- Obama campaign cuts off WFTV after interview with Joe Biden -- Government computers used to find info on 'Joe the Plumber' -- Obama on 'redistribution of wealth' -- Syrians hold funerals for people killed in US raid -- Dylan Ratigan rips Paulson for creating credit crisis -- Federal Judge Rules Against Joe Arpaio in Landmark Class-Action Jail Lawsuit -- Obama Birth Certificate Sealed by State of Hawaii -- Britain needs 0% interest rate to avoid a depression -- Frisked at Mitch McConnell Rally -- September New Home Sales Fall to The Lowest Level in 27 Years -- Treasury buys $7 billion stake in Capital One and Sun Trust -- Nikkei Stock Market Falls to 26 Year Low -- Crushed Ukraine and Hungary Seek IMF Aid -- Public Enemy Number One - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: John Stuart Court Date 8:30 a.m. Friday Oct. 31st
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Georgian president dismisses PM: govt official
10-27-2008
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Rawstory.com
Saakashvili will ask Georgia's parliament to approve the nomination of Gega Mgaloblishvili, the former Soviet republic's ambassador to Turkey, to replace Gurgenidze, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Syria slams deadly village raid as US 'war crime'
10-27-2008
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Rawstory.com
"The American forces from Iraq committed cold-blooded murder," the government newspaper Tishrin wrote. "They committed a war crime in killing eight Syrian civilians in a quiet village."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Boy, 8, killed in Mass. gun show accident
10-27-2008
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Yahoo
WESTFIELD, Mass. " An 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair.
(Not a Gun Show. But you can feel the propaganda building for Gun Shows)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rove: GOP infighting 'a sad sight to see'
10-27-2008
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Rawstory.com
"It is a sign of undisciplined people who do not have the loyalty they ought to have to the candidate whom they are serving," Rove said. "Nobody makes themselves look good in this process."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting and Elections
CNN: 50,000 purged from voter rolls in Georgia
10-27-2008
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Rawstory.com
...one of more than 50,000 registered Georgia voters who have been "flagged" because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Monitor Election Problems Nationwide with OurVoteLive.org
10-27-2008
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Search by State or County for Real-Time Voter Reports on Election Day
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft 'to transport millions' says expert
10-27-2008
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Times Online
Nuclear... the new "Green" - The consolation of sitting a few yards from a nuclear reactor will be non-stop flights from London to Australia or New Zealand, because the aircraft will no longer need to land to refuel.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Will Senate actually investigate NSA spying on Americans?
10-27-2008
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news.cnet.com
NSA whistleblowers tell a different story -- including that phone sex conversations were intercepted, recorded, and passed around the office for laughs. "These were just really everyday, average, ordinary Americans who happened to be in the Midd
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Communism
Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered
10-27-2008
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youtube.com
He wants to Radically Reinterpret the Constitution to Redistribute Wealth!!
In a 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview
Obama is discussing the best way to bring about a Redistribution of Wealth!!!
This Video Exposes the radical underneath the rhetor
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Jennifer Burk
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News Link • Eugenics
Feds take credit for disrupting skinhead plot to assassinate Obama
10-27-2008
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AP
2 men were arrested Oct. 22 by the Crockett County, Tenn., Sheriff's Office. "Once we arrested the defendants and suspected they had violated federal law, we immediately contacted federal authorities," said Crockett County Sheriff
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Public Pension Funds Lose Billions in Wall St. Turmoil
10-27-2008
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Washington Post
The market downturn is ravaging public pension funds across the United States, with many state and local governments seeing more than 20 percent of their retirement pools swept away in the turmoil.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Sen. Ted Stevens Found Guilty in Corruption Trial
10-27-2008
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Washington Post
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted today of lying on financial disclosure forms to hide tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and renovations to his Alaska home that were financed mostly by a powerful business executive and his oil services compan
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Lower demand drags oil back towards $60
10-27-2008
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Financial Times
Oil prices fell to a fresh 17-month low on Monday, trading just above $60 a barrel, on signals of lower energy demand in November, in spite of the arrival of the cold season in the northern hemisphere.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
Danger, danger. Your 401(K) is going to be taken away.
10-27-2008
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Boston Herald
Socialism is on the way. First, on the hit list is your 401(k). Congressional Democrats have a plan to eliminate 401(k)s and have this money transferred to a government guaranteed retirement accounts.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
Nationalizing 401k assets?
10-27-2008
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publicradio.org
list of "unthinkables" that have actually happened is long and growing. A Republican Admin. engineering a more than $1 trillion bailout -so far-. The government seizing control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and insurance giant AIG.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Print
LA Times to layoff 75 staffers
10-27-2008
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Breitbart.com
The Times, which is owned by Chicago-based Tribune Co., reduced its overall staff by 250 people last summer, including 150 from the newsroom.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Election Fraud doesn't Interest Obama or the DNC
10-27-2008
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BradBlog.com
We've been reporting for the past week on what we see as the dismal failure of the DNC/Obama's much-vaunted team of "thousands of attorneys" ready to pounce on any reported problems in the electoral system around the country.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Bigoted and ignorant McCain/Palin supporters in Ohio
10-27-2008
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The Lippard Blog - Al Jazzera
This is no doubt not a representative cross-section of McCain and Palin supporters, but it's a disturbingly ugly set of them. It's fortunate that most of the worst comments are from the older generation--I hope that younger people are less li
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Slave public to be inventoried by mobile fingerprint scanners
10/27/2008
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Daily Newscaster
Officers will use the devices to screen anyone they deem not able to identify themselves fully by other means. No longer will you have the any right to privacy as you walk down a street or visit a public venue.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Bond box office seen critic and recession-proof
10-27-2008
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news.yahoo.com
The new James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" may prove critic-and recession-proof too when it hits British cinemas this week and U.S. theatres on November 14, box office trackers predict.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
Election Night Energy: Caffeine Levels of Energy Drinks, Coffee, Sodas
10-27-2008
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Mondo
Pulling an all-nighter on Election Night? What’s the best source of “energy”? We rate the energy odrinks, coffee and other popular beverages you might be thinking of"oh, and chocolate, too.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama and his Bubble: The Hate America Crowd
10-27-2008
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Ginn
Just who is the “Hate America” crowd”? According to Barack Obama, he didnt' have a clue about a single one of them. DBKP takes a look at the bubble Obama’s been operating in since the 1990’s in regards to some of his associates"some of the most
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bailout Update: Paulson hands out $31 billion to 14 more banks
10-27-08
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Bloomberg.com
``This is just unprecedented,'' said BMO Capital Markets analyst Peter Winter. ``What the government has said is that you can't let the financial system fail, and if this doesn't work they'll come up with another plan.''
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Thousands Protest Father-Bashing Domestic Violence
10/27/08
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www.glensacks.com
Several hundred Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) buses feature misleading, father-bashing ads purporting to address the serious issue of domestic violence. One ad depicts a happy little girl with the message "One day my husband will kill me."
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Media: Print
Most Major Papers Continue Circuation Decline
10-27-2008
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Editor & Publisher
For those holding out for some improvement in print circulation, this morning brings disappointment. The Audit Bureau of Circulations released the latest figures showing major drops in circulation in the past 6 months at the big metros.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama campaign cuts off WFTV after interview with Joe Biden
10-27-2008
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Orlando Sentinal (audio)
West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama's comment, to Joe the Plumber, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama isn't being a Marxist with the "spreading the wealth" comment. "Are you joking?" sai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Government computers used to find info on Joe the Plumber
10-27-2008
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Columbus Dispatch
Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
John Stuart Court Date 8:30 a.m. Friday Oct. 31st, 2008.
10-27-2008
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ww.meetup.com
John Stuart has court on Friday at 8:30 Judge McMurdie East court building room 413 Superior Court. It is oral arguments on the motion to remand or dismiss the case.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain slams Obama on 'redistribution of wealth'
10-27-2008
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AP (audio)
Conservative bloggers and websites have been flogging it, and now John McCain's campaign has put its imprimatur on it: a newly disclosed radio interview in which Democratic rival Barack Obama talks about the redistribution of wealth.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Syrians hold funerals for people killed in US raid
10-27-2008
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AP
Families in a Iraqi border village prepared to hold funerals for 8 people killed when the US military launched an attack on Syria. Angry residents chanted, "May God's wrath fall on them." "We are taking matters into our own hands,*
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dylan Ratigan rips Paulson for creating credit crisis
10-27-08
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YouTube.com
Dylan Ratigan let the cat out of the bag in this CNBC clip from Thursday 10-23-08.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Federal Judge Rules Against Joe Arpaio in Landmark Class-Action Jail Lawsuit
10-22-2008
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Phoenix New Times
In a major blow to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, U.S. District Judge Neil Wake ruled just minutes ago in a landmark class-action lawsuit that Maricopa County jails do not meet constitutional standards. (WTG John Stuart!)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Is surfing the Internet altering your brain?
10-27-08
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Reuters.com
The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order.
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News Link • Economy - International
A Bunch of Zeros
10-27-2008
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Wordmess.net
Price inflation in Zimbabwe skyrocketed to 231 million percent a year! Let`s now have a look at the photos that you may not be able to see anywhere else in the world.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - International
Britain may need 0% interest rate to avoid a depression
10-27-08
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DailyMail.co.uk
Interest rates may have to be slashed to zero as Britain battles to avoid a full-blown depression, one of the country's leading economists warns today.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
September New Home Sales Fall to The Lowest Level in 27 Years
10-27-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
The seasonally adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of September was 394,000. This represents a supply of 10.4 months at the current sales rate
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama Birth Certificate: Obama Birth Certificate Sealed by State of Hawaii
10-27-2008
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Mondo
World Net Daily is reporting that the Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, has placed the Obama birth certificate under seal. Kenyan authorities has also told WND that "all documents concerning Obama were under seal until after the U.S. presidenti
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Treasury buys $7 billion stake in Capital One and Sun Trust
10-27-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
The biggest morning disclosure was Capital One Financial Corp.'s $3.55 billion sale of preferred stock and warrants to the Treasury Department, followed by SunTrust Banks Inc. at $3.5 billion. ...
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Frisking at Mitch McConnell Rally
10-27-2008
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Youtube
A couple of freedom lovers peacefully protested the senate minority leader and they get harassed by the Lexington police. I was actually shooting video to make an anti-bailout commercial and handing out homemade flyers when this happened.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Crushed Ukraine and Hungary Seek IMF Aid
10-27-08
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news.BBC.co.uk
Hungary's currency, the forint, has seen a sharp fall, stocks have tumbled and the country has cut its growth forecast for 2009.
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan: Nikkei Stock Market Falls to 26 Year Low
10-27-08
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AP.Google.com
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index closed down 6.4 percent to 7,162.90 " the lowest since October 1982. The losses came despite a report that the government was considering massive capital injection into struggling banks
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