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Date Sent: 2008-10-30
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
Federal Reserve Cuts Rate Half Point -- Australia Enforce Mandatory China-Style Internet Censorship
Phillies win the World Series -- Foreclosures: Feds to the Rescue? -- Team Armadillo Wins Mock Moon Lander Contest -- Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Emergency Paper Ballots in PA -- Swiss Re and AIG -- Is your child’s Halloween candy poisioned with melamine? -- Dow, S&P 500 fall on profit worry, GE's outlook -- Vote Flipping on Touch-Screens -- Ed Goe to Observe the 'Logic and Accuracy' Test and Lives to Tell -- Fed Opens $120 Billion Swaps With South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore -- Most major Web stocks decline after Fed rate cut -- Parents to be fingerprinted by nursery schools -- Why can't we use paper ballots? -- The Smashing of Dreams Is Not Over - by Gary North -- Lowest Confidence, 2nd Highest Stock Gain: What Gives? -- U.S. Housing Market Boom and Crash Engineered by the Government -- Ron Paul could be spoiler in Montana presidential race -- Brace yourselves - George Bush will soon be free to do just what he wants -- Japan's Toyota, Hit Hard Now But Equipped to Steer Clear -- Thousands of voters illegally purged in Colorado -- Sony profit plunges 72 percent on strong yen
AZ: John Stuart Second Remand Hearing Friday; Arizona Breakfast Club - November 1st - "End the Fed"
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
A long time coming: Phillies win the World Series
10-29-2008
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AP
Save the jokes, the taunts and all those insults about the losingest team in sports. The Philadelphia Phillies just won themselves a World Series. If that sounds strange, it was strange. Nearly 50 hours after Game 5 started but was stopped by rain, B
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Team Armadillo Wins $350,000 in Mock Moon Lander Contest
10-29-2008
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space
Private rocketry took another big step here thanks to the persistence and space spunk of Armadillo Aerospace. After years of dedicated work, the team of rocketeers snagged a large chunk of prize money in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Pre-emptive ejection: Audience members removed at McCain rally in Cedar Falls
10-29-2008
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iowastatedaily.com
‘Why are you crying? and she said ‘I already voted for McCain, I’m a Republican, and they said we had to leave because we didn’t look right,’” Elborno said. “They were handpicking these people and they had nothing to go off of, besides the way the pe
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Foreclosures: Feds to the Rescue?
10-29-2008
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businessweek.com
Banks may be required to offer interest rate relief for strapped homeowners. But it's unclear who will qualify and if the plan would put a dent in foreclosures
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Netflix and TiVo to Partner on Movies
10-29-2008
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New York Times
Netflix will place its Watch Instantly streaming-movie service on TiVo’s HD-compatible set-top boxes, furthering the technology industry’s goal of sending television shows and movies over the Internet " instead of over traditional cable and satellite
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
From The Garage To Colonizing Space
10-29-2008
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Space Review - Andrew Tubbiolo
What might an amateur space sector look like? It is an important point that it does not need to be an integrated effort at all. It could constitute any form of participation, from contributing to a blog and no more to a full machine shop with at leas
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Conspiracies
Rockefeller Reveals 9/11 FRAUD to Aaron Russo
10-29-2008
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Alex Jones YouTube
America: Freedom to Fascism Filmmaker Aaron Russo has exposed first-hand knowledge of the elite global agenda during a video interview and live on Alex Jones' nationally-syndicated radio show.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Plaintiff Demand for Emergency Paper Ballots in PA
10-29-2008
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BradBlog.com
UPDATED: SoS Will Not Appeal Decision, But Statement from His Office Includes a Troubling Note...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Swiss Re and AIG
10-29-2008
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Google Search
(I was asked by a friend if there was a connection between the Insurer of the WTC and AIG. So I started to look)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Confront Harry Mitchell TONIGHT about bailout!
10/29/2008
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AZCentral
Ask Harry Mitchell Wednesday night about his bailout sellout! 6:30 p.m. in the school's auditorium, 4201 E. Knox Road, Phoenix (Ahwatukee)
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Food
Is your child’s Halloween candy poisioned with melamine?
10/29/2008
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Daily Newscaster
Companies in North America have imported 200 million pounds of melamine laced milk powder, 20 million pounds or more by companies in the United States. Milk powder is used to make infant formula, candies, chocolates and baked goods.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street Shrugs Off Rate Cut to End Mixed
10-29-2008
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www.thestreet.com
Following a two-day meeting that began Tuesday, the Fed announced it had cut its key interest rate by 50 basis points to 1%
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US STOCKS-Dow, S&P 500 fall on profit worry, GE's outlook
10-29-2008
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Reuters.com
In a move that has been the trademark of the market's volatility ever since Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy filing in mid-September, the Dow plunged more than 300 points in the last 12 minutes, dashing prospects for the first back-to-back
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Opens $120 Billion Swaps With South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore
10-29-08
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Bloomberg.com
"The Federal Reserve has authorized the establishment of temporary liquidity swap facilities with the central banks of these four large systemically important economies,'' the U.S. central bank said in a statement.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
U.S. Stocks Gain After Federal Reserve Cuts Rate Half Point
10-29-2008
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Bloomberg.com
General Motors Corp., Alcoa Inc. and Caterpillar Inc. led gains in the Dow Jones Industrial Average after the Fed lowered the benchmark rate to 1 percent from 1.5 percent, matching a half-century low and in-line with the median forecast of economists
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Police Put a Choke Hold on TV Cameraman on Public Property
10-29-08
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YouTube.com
The following quote was made by the officer as he put the frail TV cameraman in a choke hold "I can do whatever I want".
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Most major Web stocks decline after Fed rate cut
10-29-2008
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CNN
The central bank lowered its target for the federal funds rate _ which is the interest that banks charge on overnight loans _ to 1 percent. This is the second half-point reduction the federal funds rate this month.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
U.K.: Parents to be fingerprinted by nursery schools
10-29-08
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Telegraph.co.uk/
The new entry system requires people who collect their children to place their finger on a scanner, to make sure that only nominated individuals can get through secure entrances.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Australia To Enforce Mandatory Chinese-Style Internet Censorship
10-29-08
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PropagandaMatrix.com
If we allow Australia to become the first "free" nation to impose Internet censorship, the snowball effect will only accelerate - the U.S. and the UK are next.
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News Link • Eugenics
YOUR NEW PRESIDENT, ZBIG BROTHER
10-29-2008
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NewsWithViews.com
There is a real danger that, unaddressed, the frustration of choosing between a Communist illegal alien raised by a Communist sex pervert and a POW traitor who is a Soviet front man could lead to an epidemic of Acid Reflux Disease or even an outbreak
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Why can't we use paper ballots?
10-29-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
Remember that all of this is just about the visible problems with DRE machines, and that if all the visible problems were fixed there would be no reason whatsoever to believe your vote was counted and no way whatsoever to verify it.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Smashing of Dreams Is Not Over
10-29-2008
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Gary North for LewRockwell.com
Day by day, the dreams of hundreds of millions of people around the world are being smashed. It is a terrible thing to see from the sidelines. It is far worse to be a participant.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lowest Confidence, 2nd Highest Stock Gain: What Gives?
10-29-2008
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Elliot Wave
Now, the trendlines represented in these charts may not correspond perfectly, but if you look at them and conclude that confidence does not correlate with consumption, then I humbly suggest a trip to the optometrist.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Housing Market Boom and Crash Engineered by the Government
10-29-08
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MarketOracle.co.uk
Meanwhile, in the world of investment securities, the Securities and Exchange Commission greatly reduced the amount of their own capital investors were required to bring to the table, resulting in a huge increase in bank leveraging of speculative tra
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul could be spoiler in Montana presidential race
10-29-2008
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www.missoulian.com
KALISPELL - Along a stretch of Highway 93, signs supporting former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul almost outnumber those of the party’s presidential nominee, John McCain.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Brace yourselves - George Bush will soon be free to do just what he wants
10-29-08
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Guardian.co.uk
George Bush, in power for 12 more weeks in which he can do pretty much whatever he likes. Not only will he never again have to face voters, he won't even have to worry about damaging the prospects of his own party and its standard bearer
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Investors Cautious in Early Trading After Yesterday's Rally
10-29-2008
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Washington Post
Concluding its two-day meeting in Washington this afternoon, the agency is expected to slash a key interest rate, possibly down to 1 percent. The U.S. Treasury is this week investing directly in banks, hoping to encourage them to issue more loans.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan's Toyota, Hit Hard Now But Equipped to Steer Clear
10-29-2008
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Washington Post
the automaker is exceptionally rich and well positioned for the future. It has about $47 billion in liquid assets, the lowest manufacturing costs in its industry and global leadership in fuel-sipping hybrid cars such as the Prius.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Lawsuit: Thousands of voters illegally purged in Colorado
10-29-08
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Rawstory.com
Election watchdog groups are accusing the Colorado Secretary of State of purging up to 30,000 voters in violation of federal law.
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News Link • Economy - International
Sony profit plunges 72 percent on strong yen
10-29-2008
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TOKYO (AP)
Sony makes about 80 percent of its sales overseas and is vulnerable to fluctuations in exchange rates. A rising yen erodes the overseas profits when converted into the Japanese currency.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Print
Christian Science Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy
10-29-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
In 2009, the Monitor will become the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website; the 100 year-old news organization will also offer subscribers weekly print and daily e-mail editions.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Georgia voters stand in line for 12 hours
10-29-08
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Rawstory.com
Voters in Clayton County, Georgia reportedly waited in line between eight and twelve hours on Monday, in some cases into early Tuesday morning. The county's election supervisor Annie Bright blamed the state for the delays, citing computer problem
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Treasury Bailout Cash Going to The Stronger Banks Not The Weak
10-29-08
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Bloomberg.com
The U.S. government's $160 billion handout to banks from Niagara Falls to Beverly Hills is going mostly to lenders that need it least, putting weaker rivals at risk of being shut down or taken over, analysts say.
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