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Date Sent: 2008-11-24
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, November 24, 2008 |
Worst financial crisis yet to come: IMF chief economist -- US eyes "surge" of 20,000 for Afghanist
Citigroup Gets $306 Billion Loan Guarantee, $20 Billion Taxpayer Cash -- We Must Fight This Fascist Red Light Camera Scam That Wantonly Invades Private Rights - by Edwin Sumcad -- License-plate scanning catching crooks, raising privacy worries -- Pelosi wants $700 Billion for New Stimulus Package -- Was the Present Financial Meltdown Planned? - by Greg Dixon -- 150 YouTube videos from across America - END THE FED 11-22-2008 -- Gates and the Urge to Surge - by Ray McGovern -- GM hasn't ruled out bankruptcy -- The Austrians Were Right - by Ron Paul -- Obama may delay tax rollback -- Iraq told: Keep US troops or face martial law -- IBM to build brain-like computers -- Hillary demands - and gets - a purge of her critics before accepting Secretary of State -- Save the Republican Party?... Why? (The story of AZ LD4) -- Iraqi Citizens Stage Huge Protest Against Continued US Occupation -- Geithner and Summers: Change We Can('t) Believe In -- Was WaMu brought down to make way for Henry Paulson's Banker Bailout? -- US officials flunk test of American history, economics, civics -- Jim Cramer and The Collapse of Downey Financial -- Citigroup May End Up With US Government Rescue -- Meredith Whitney: Mortgage Market to Contract For First Time in US -- Weapons charges dropped against 4 cops -- Chicago Photographer Arrested Again - Chicago PD on the Warpath -- Obama, the Honeymoon is Going Down in Flames -- Obama economic plan aims for 2.5M new jobs by 2011 -- Message to the 'Silly String Bandits' from the cops
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News Link • Obama Administration
Comedian Lewis Black rant mocks tacky 'Obamabilia'
11-23-08
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Rawstory.com
Said Black: "The election of Barack Obama has once again demonstrated America's greatest gift: Our capacity to embrace hope and idealism... and then turn it into worthless, disposable crap!"
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News Link • Bush Administration
Citigroup Gets $306 Billion Loan Guarantee, $20 Billion of Government Cash
11-23-08
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Bloomberg.com
Citigroup will, as a fee for the guarantee, provide preferred shares to the Treasury and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the regulators said in a statement. The government will also inject $20 billion into the bank from the Treasury’s $700 billion T
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
The Eco Machine: Can like magic pull water out of thin air
11-23-08
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Guardian.co.uk
The demand for water is off the chart. People are looking for freedom from water distribution systems that are shaky and increasingly unreliable.'
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News Link • Police State
License-plate scanning catching crooks, raising privacy worries
11/23/08
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http://www.azcentral.com
anyone still believe we are not in a police state? [Ed] In a state that routinely ranks among the top five in the U.S. in auto theft, DPS scanned more than 1.6 million plates since introducing its first cameras in 2006 - leading directly to 122 felon
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Nancy Pelosi wants a big number: Try $700 Billion for New Stimulus Package
11-23-08
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Rawstory.com
"Something of several hundred billion would have to be some investment into the future, plus creating jobs immediately, and a tax cut," she said.
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Reference Link • Drug War
Elevator Arguments for Drug Policy Reform
Pete Guither / DrugWarRant.com
Whether you’re on an elevator, or talking to the press, or just chatting with friends, usually you have 30 seconds to grab their attention - not nearly enough time to fully educate someone. [.pdf document]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • History
JFK's Assassination - My Interviews with Witnesses (by C. Smith)
11-23-2008
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Christine Smith website
First person accounts from Hugh Aynesworth (investigative journalist), Bob Jackson (Pulitzer winning photographer of Oswald gunned down by Jack Ruby); and others including Bob Porter about the JFK assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald and Ruby.
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. eyes "surge" of over 20,000 for Afghanistan
11-23-2008
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Reuters.com
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he and top commanders had discussed sending five brigades to Afghanistan, including four brigades of combat ground forces as well as an aviation brigade
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM board hasn't ruled out bankruptcy as an option
11-23-2008
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Detroit Free Press
GM spokesman Tony Cervone acknowledged today that the board has examined the possibility of bankruptcy as an option the automaker may need to pursue should it not receive its share of a $25 billion low-cost loan package the Detroit automakers are see
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama may delay tax rollback for the wealthy
11-23-2008
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Rawstory.com (VIDEO)
The tax cuts were instated by President Bush and discontinuing them was a key promise of Obama's campaign for the presidency.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Worst of financial crisis yet to come: IMF chief economist
11-23-2008
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Rawstory.com
ZURICH, Switzerland (AFP) " The IMF's chief economist has warned that the global financial crisis is set to worsen and that the situation will not improve until 2010, a report said Saturday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Free-Market Monetary System
11-23-2008
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F. A. Hayek via LewRockwell.com
A lecture delivered at the Gold and Monetary Conference, New Orleans, November 10, 1977. It made its first appearance in print in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 3, Number 1.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Austrians Were Right
11-23-2008
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Ron Paul
many Americans are hoping the new administration will solve the economic problems we face. That’s not likely to happen, because the economic advisors to the new President have no more understanding of how to get us out of this mess than previous admi
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq told: Keep US troops or face martial law
11-23-2008
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Rawstory
Iraq's defense minister Abdul Qadir Muhammed Jassim threatened to declare a state of emergency if Iraq's parliament refused to sign an accord allowing US troops to stay in the country for three more years.
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Ray McGovern: My Take
Gates and the Urge to Surge
11-23-2008
Ray McGovern
Every two years, if the commander-in-chief/elect says he wants to throw more troops into an unwinnable war for no clear reason other than his political advantage, panderer-in-chief Robert Gates will shout “Outstanding!”
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hillary demands - and gets - a purge of her critics before accepting Secretary of State
11-23-08
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independent.co.uk/news
The advisers who helped trash the former First Lady's foreign policy credentials on the campaign trail are being brutally shunted aside, as the price of her accepting the job of being the public face of America to the world.
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News Link • Internet
Man sues McDonalds after nude photos of his wife were splashed on the Internet
11-23-08
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news.BBC.co.uk
Phillip Sherman says he accidentally left his phone, with the photos, at a McDonald's in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Iraqi Citizens Stage Huge Protest Against Continued US Occupation
11-20-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
You don't hear about the protests of over a million people in our mainstream news against the proposed Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq. These photos never quite make it to the front page (or any other) of our "free press."
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News Link • Obama Administration
Geithner and Summers: Change We Can('t) Believe In
11-23-08
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Market-Ticker.denninger.net
The market liked it and rallied 500 points into the close Friday. Never mind the suspicious timing of the announcement - one hour before options expire?! I've seen obvious manipulation before but this was so transparent as to be ridiculous.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Was WaMu brought down to make way for Henry Paulson's Banker Bailout?
11-23-08
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seattletimes.nwsource.com
Yet Oliver Stone-style sleuths are digging for something darker, like regulatory missteps or the federal government sacrificing WaMu to pressure Congress to approve a multibillion-dollar bailout for the financial industry.
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News Link • Constitution
US officials flunk test of Amerian history, economics, civics
11-23-08
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news.yahoo.com/s/afp
US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Cramer and The Collapse of Downey Financial
11-23-08
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yellowroad.wallstreetexaminer.com/blogs
Today the Downey Financial is finally gone. Long live Jim Cramer!
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Citigroup May End Up With U.S. Government Rescue
11-23-08
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Bloomberg.com
Citigroup’s $2 trillion of assets dwarfs companies such as American International Group Inc. that got support from the U.S. government this year. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may favor a rescue...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Meredith Whitney: Mortgage Market to Contract For First Time in U.S.
11-23-08
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CNBC.com/
In this November 5th interview on CNBC Meredith stated that $2 trillion would be withdrawn from credit card lines of credit, and that financial stocks could fall in the neighborhood of 70% due to falling revenue.
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Letters to the Editor
• More about Politics: General Activism
We are at war.
Written by: Thomas Kamen
Great job, I read FP every day and appreciate all the good work you folks are doing down there. Keep it up. These bastards cant survive in the light. We are waking more sleepers every day. Soon, very soon it will reach a criti
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Weapons charges dropped against four Iron Pigs
11-22-2008
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Rapid City Journal
A judge has ordered that concealed weapons charges be dismissed against 4 off-duty Washington police officers who were charged in connection with a shooting during the Sturgis rally. Circuit Judge Warren Johnson ruled that cops are exempt from prosec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Chicago Photographer Arrested Again - Chicago PD on the Warpath
11-22-2008
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Discarted
We checked back in with the freelance photojournalist who was arrested by the Chicago Police Department October 22 at a crime scene. Thinking we’d hear about the status of his arrest, we were shocked to learn he’d been arrested again - and the second
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama: The Honeymoon is Going Down in Flames
11-22-08
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CounterPunch.com
She’s an interventionist by instinct, her finger twitching over the Bomb Release lever. She voted yes on the Iraq war. She was an ardent advocate of NATO’s onslaught on Yugoslavia.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama economic plan aims for 2.5M new jobs by 2011
11-22-2008
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AP
President-elect Barack Obama promoted an economic plan Saturday he said would create 2.5 million jobs by rebuilding roads and bridges and modernizing schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
A Message to the 'Silly String Bandits'
I wonder how much channel 12 NBC got paid for this infomercial for the speed camera companies? Can anyone actually watch this and seriously hold a straight face at how silly the government/media cartel has become? At least they provide us with some e
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Tom Westbrook
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