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Date Sent: 2008-11-08
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, November 8, 2008 |
Obama Keeping Gates "Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard" -- Obama: Iran's pursuing Nukes 'unacceptab
Obama Calls for Swift Action on Economy -- Obama: Compulsory Service REQUIRED of All Students -- 300 Mortgage Companies have gone out of business -- No “Change” In Israeli Manipulation Of U.S. Foreign Policy Under Obama -- The Far Left is Starting to Wake Up To Their Betrayal -- Former Defense Official: Jobs lost in 2008: 1.2 million -- GM: Liquidity to "fall significantly short" of necessary minimum in 2009 -- Rahm Emanuel: You Can't Take a Knife to a Gun Fight -- Las Vegas: Land Prices Down 74% From Last Year -- Socialist Milwaukee Voters Vote Themselves Mandatory Paid "Sick" Days -- Ford Burns $7.7 Billion Cash in One Quarter -- When Hollywood's Rich & Famous become the Beverly Hillbillies Pawning Their Property -- The Wages of Sin - by Stephen Lendman -- What Are We After Now That It Is All Over? - by Edwin Sumcad
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News Link • Obama Administration
Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons ‘unacceptable’: Obama
11-07-2008
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PrisonPlanet.com
US President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons was “unacceptable” and the Islamic Republic must stop supporting “terrorist organizations.” Obama, speaking at his first press conference since winning Tuesday’s presi
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Calls for Swift Action on Economy (Video)
11-07-2008
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US News and Report
President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that the country is facing the greatest economic challenge of our lifetime and 'we're going to have to act swiftly to resolve it.' (Nov. 7) ('We Gotta' Do Something')
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Obama: Compulsory Service REQUIRED of All Students
11-07-2008
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Mondo
Stories about the formation of an Obama Youth seem to have been correct. Change.gov, the website of the “president-elect” has announced that middle school, high school and college students will be required to perform community service. Retirees will
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Son: Billy Graham's work with presidents is ending
11-07-2008
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breitbart.com
"But he's our president-elect, and those positions that he holds that are contrary to Biblical teaching, I hope that God will change his heart," said Graham, who now heads the Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mortgage Implode-O-Meter: 300 Mortgage Companies have gone out of business
11-07-08
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Mortgageimplode.com
I remember when Merit Financial became the first mortgage company to make the Implode-O-Meter list in late 2006. You should really see that list now.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Helping Track America's Voting Problems
11-07-2008
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ourvotelive.org
The Electronic Frontier Foundation site OurVoteLive.org, which is recording complaints from voters across the country, has had more than 9,000 complaints of voting problems, including at least 500 reports with voting equipment.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Worst People in the World... that don't matter any more.
11-07-2008
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Keith Olbermann MSNBC VIDEO
"Wait a minute! What's the difference what he said? Bill-O the clown, you don't matter anymore! Bill Orely [intentional mispronunciation], today's worst person ... Who doesn't matter anymore ... In the world!"
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Israel
No “Change” In Israeli Manipulation Of U.S. Foreign Policy Under Obama
11-07-2008
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PrisonPlanet.com
Wearing joint US-Israeli label pin, Obama vowed to keep military action in mind for Iran, outdid Bush for pro-Israeli sentiment during June speech, Israeli papers hail “our man in the White House” following appointment of Emanuel
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
The Far Left is Starting to Wake Up To Their Betrayal
11-07-08
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Informationclearinghouse.info
Change is coming to Washington, but it is difficult to decipher what form it will take. Early clues, however, suggest that Barack Obama’s administration will prove unlikely to alter the fundamental political machinery that has led us into war and eco
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Testosterone Patch Helps Women Enjoy More Sexual Episodes
11-07-2008
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smartabouthealth.net
A new study has revealed that the testosterone patch can help both men and women as it can help women enjoy more satisfying sexual episodes.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, focused on three groups of women for a period
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Humor
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
11/7/08
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The Onion
The revelation that Obama's candidacy was the only thing that gave their lives any meaning has caused many supporters to wander aimlessly.
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Friday Schedule: Meeting With Economic Advisers (1:30pm EST Press Conf.)
11-07-2008
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Huffingtonpost.com
After a meeting with Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and the Transition Economic Advisory Board, President-elect Obama will hold a 1:30 p.m. (central) press conference at the Hilton Chicago.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
One of Hef's former girlfriends engaged to NFL player
11-07-2008
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newsday.com
Hef's other gal pal, Holly Madison, has also moved on. She's been dating "Mindfreak" illusionist Criss Angel. But don't cry for Hef - he's already moved on to 19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM: Liquidity to "fall significantly short" of necessary minimum in 2009
11-07-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Looking into the first two quarters of 2009, even with its planned actions, the company's estimated liquidity will fall significantly short of that amount unless economic and automotive industry conditions significantly improve...
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News Link • Obama Administration
Rahm Emanuel: You Can't Take a Knife to a Gun Fight. Live from Chicago, It's BuzzFlash.com!
11-07-2008
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BuzzFlash.com
So it's only natural that we have a take on Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff. We have interacted with him as activists and journalists -- just as we have with most Democratic politicians in Illinois.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
House backs Argentine pension bid
11-07-2008
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BBC
Argentina's lower house of parliament has approved a government plan to nationalise private pension schemes worth $30bn. (Because they can)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Las Vegas: Land Prices Down 74% From Last Year
11-07-08
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HousingDoom.com
"There’s a significant amount of investor concern in the market. I think there’s certainly potential for further devaluation in the coming quarters."
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Socialist Milwaukee Voters Vote Themselves Mandatory Paid "Sick" Days: Slackers Welcome to
11-07=08
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Milwaukee Urinal-Sentinel Online
City of Milwaukee residents overwhelmingly approved a binding referendum Tuesday that calls for private employers in the city to provide paid sick leave for all their workers, a measure strongly opposed by business leaders and Mayor Tom Barrett. The
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Freed Radical
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News Link • Drug War
Successful Pot Smokers: Let's Make a List
11-7-2008
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The Agitator
The latest ONDCP absurdity is an anti-pot PR campaign with the motto, “Hey, not trying to be your mom, but there aren’t many jobs out there for potheads.” [the list of Presidents, scientists, musicians, athletes, and artists is growing quickly]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Labor Department: 240,000 Jobs Were Cut in October
11-07-08
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Bloomberg.com
October's decline marked the 10th straight month of payroll reductions, and government revisions showed that job losses in August and September turned out to be much deeper
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Opinion • Books
CONNECTING THE DOTS
PART 1: FIRST CHANGE"THE LONG EMERGENCY
11-7-2008
Frosty Wooldridge
Hang on to your hats folks! Without our cheap energy mistress called oil, we're facing sobering realities. With our water supplies dwindling, we face food challenges. With our cities bursting with gridlock traffic and sheer people overload, wha
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ford Burns $7.7 Billion Cash in One Quarter
11-07-08
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Bloomberg.com
Ford Motor Co., with U.S. sales shredded by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, posted a third-quarter operating loss of $2.98 billion. The company said it used up $7.7 billion in cash and would cut more salaried jobs.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Down and Out in Beverly Hills: Rolexes, Picassos Hit Pawnshops
11-07-08
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Bloomberg.com
``I've never seen so many bankers, lawyers, doctors and actors'' with valuable things to pawn, he said. He pointed to an 18-carat white gold bracelet with 69 diamonds ($2,900) and an 18-carat yellow gold Rolex Yachtmaster II (``a steal'
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