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Date Sent: 2008-12-04
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, December 4, 2008 |
Jeb Bush's bid for Senate -- Western banks face snub by China fund -- College at Age 16
US Treasury chief weighs next $350 bln for bailout -- Record number of Americans using food stamps -- US, China headed for possible currency clash -- Russian warship to cross Panama Canal -- 501c3 "churches" attempt to serve two masters... -- Prisons Want $66 Million to Fight Illegal Cell Phones -- College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S. -- Auto Sales: Frightening new phase in the economic downturn -- Mr. Mortgage: Loan Modifications Designed to Make You a Debt Slave -- Huge Stash of Marijuana Found in Ancient Tomb -- Obama names Bill Richardson to head Commerce Department -- Dead California Elector: Irregularities Found in California -- Behavioral screening: the future of airport security? -- How To Create A Depression -- GM, Chrysler Seek $11 Billion to Avert Imminent Collapse -- Clint Bolick takes on Sheriff Joe -- Obama's Economic Dream Team? - Stephen Lendman -- Robinson Crusoe’s Abuse Of The Federal Reserve - by Edwin Sumcad -- On Traffic Checkpoints Or Freedom?
AZ: Breakfast today with CameraFraud; Saturday: Arizona Breakfast Club with Greg Dixon & John Stewart
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Logitech Ships One Billionth Mouse
12-3-2008
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ExtremeTech
At nearly the same time as the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of the computer mouse, which occurs next week, Logitech announced that it has shipped its billionth one of the ubiquitous little devices.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Western banks face snub by China fund
12-03-2008
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Financial Times
China Investment Corp, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, will no longer risk investing in western financial institutions because of concerns about their viability and a lack of consistency in their governments’ policies, according to its chairman.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Treasury chief weighs next $350 bln for bailout
12-03-2008
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Rawstory.com
If Paulson were to request the next installment, he likely would do so next week, the paper said on its website. And if market conditions deteriorate further, he would do so despite disagreements with lawmakers about how to use the funds.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
New Insights On Fusion Power
12-03-2008
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Science Daily
Research carried out at MIT's Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor may have brought the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Automakers plead for aid plan, but votes lacking
12-03-2008
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Associated Press - MyWay
Imperiled automakers and their union worked feverishly Wednesday to sell a skeptical Congress on a $34 billion aid plan, promising labor concessions and restructuring.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Anxiety among Democrats as Pelosi tightens her grip
12-03-2008
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TheHill.com
Few members clash publicly with Pelosi. Reps. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Jane Harman (D-Calif.), who were at odds with Pelosi over the last few years, were stripped of their top committee posts.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
UAW grants concessions, exec warns of depression
12-03-2008
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Associated Press - MyWay
United Auto Workers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to make concessions to the struggling Detroit Three, including all but ending a much-derided program that let laid-off workers collect up to 95 percent of their salaries.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Jeb Bush's bid for Senate could clear GOP field
12-03-2008
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Associated Press - MyWay
Still popular in Florida, former Gov. Jeb Bush said Wednesday that he's interested in the seat Sen. Mel Martinez is giving up, and the field of possible candidates could quickly narrow to make way for the president's younger brother.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
Record number of Americans using food stamps: report
12-03-2008
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Reuters.com
Food stamps, the main U.S. antihunger program which helps the needy buy food, set a record in September as more than 31.5 million Americans used the program -- up 17 percent from a year ago, according to government data.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Harvard Hit by Loss as Crisis Spreads to Colleges
12-03-2008
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Wall Street Journal
The Harvard endowment, the biggest of any university, stood at $36.9 billion as of June 30, meaning the loss amounts to about $8 billion. That's more than the entire endowments of all but six colleges
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
US, China headed for possible currency clash
12-03-2008
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Breitbart.com
"The need to coordinate and collaborate gets even more urgent as the current recession bites deeper," the China Daily said in an editorial Thursday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Russian warship to cross Panama Canal
12-03-2008
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Breitbart.com
A Russian warship will sail through the Panama Canal this week for the first time since World War II, the navy announced Wednesday, pushing ahead with a symbolic projection of Moscow's power in a traditional U.S. zone of influence.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Religion: Believers
501c3 "churches" attempt to serve two masters...
12-03-2008
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www.theAntiChurch.org
There are many, many reasons why no true Christian church should become a "501c3 tax-exempt religious organization." If the average pastor, deacon board, or professing Christian knew these reasons, those who love Jesus (opposed to those who
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Prisons Want $66 Million to Fight Illegal Cell Phones
12-3-2008
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chron.com
Texas prison administrators said they were more than doubling their budget request to keep illegal cell phones and other contraband out of state prisons and wanted $30 million of it immediately to combat the problem now.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Energy
North Wales: Giant wind farm gets the go-ahead
12-03-08
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news.bbc.co.uk
Gwynt y Môr, combined with three other nearby wind farms, will provide enough green electricity to power the equivalent of 680,000 homes.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.
12-03-08
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NYtimes.com
Over all, the report found, published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, adjusted for inflation, while median family income rose 147 percent. Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Auto Sales: Frightening new phase in the economic downturn.
12-03-08
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econbrowser.com/
We may be on the cusp of much more dramatic adjustments in this sector than anything seen so far. The wrenching changes that might be immediately ahead could mark the beginning of a frightening new phase in the economic downturn.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mr. Mortgage: Loan Modifications Designed to Make You a Debt Slave
12-03-08
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mrmortgage.ml-implode.com
I am going to name it the 5-year hybrid ARM, 30-year term, 8-year graduated payment, 176% combined loan-to-value, mega-balloon (document below). And you thought Pay Option ARMs were exotic!
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Huge Stash of Marijuana Found in Ancient Tomb
12/03/2008
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FOXNews
Duuuuuude! The world's oldest stash of marijuana has been found in far western China, according to an article in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
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Found Zero
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama names Bill Richardson to head Commerce Department
12-3-2008
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AP
President-elect Barack Obama named New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as commerce secretary on Wednesday, filling a top economic post in troubled times and placing a second former campaign rival in his new Cabinet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Dead California Elector: Irregularities Found in California
12-03-2008
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Mondo
In California, it’s the will of the dead people apparently. One of the California electors appears to be deceased. Other irregularities were admitted by the California Democratic Party.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Homeland Security
Behavioral screening -- the future of airport security?
12-03-08
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CNN.com
"This 'brain-fingerprinting,' or technology which checks for behavioral intent, is much more developed than we think."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff Embarrasses Lamestream Media Pundits by Predicting Recession in 2006
12-03-2008
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You Tube
Free-market economist Peter Schiff debates lamestream media propaganda pundits about the coming recession or worse in 2006. Particularly humorous moments include watching pundits recommend buying financial stocks like Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, an
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Freed Radical
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News Link • Federal Reserve
How To Create A Depression
12-03-08
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Market-Ticker.denninger.net
There is no escaping this reality whether the government (or private parties) like it or not. These are mathematical facts and not subject to political whim; Paulson and Bernanke, both of whom are highly intelligent, understand this, the American pe
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM, Chrysler Seek $11 Billion to Avert 2008 Collapse
12-03-08
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Bloomberg.com
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC told Congress they need $11 billion in government loans just to survive the year. Democrats pledged to keep them out of bankruptcy without saying how.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix Light Rail involved in first wreck with red-light runner
12-3-2008
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AZ Family TV
It happened shortly before 10:30 a.m., at 24th and Washington streets, and involved a car and one of the Light Rail trains. The woman who was hurt reportedly was not transported to the hospital, she was just a bit shaken up.
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Reference Link • Arizona's Top News
Mission Unaccomplished
by Clint Bolick
Goldwater Institute
A new policy report, Mission Unaccomplished: The Misplaced Priorities of the Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Office, looks at the mission of MCSO and what it can do to provide more efficient and effective law enforcement services.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
County supervisor indicted on 118 counts
12-3-2008
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AP
Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley has been indicted on 118 counts of failure to disclose to the public his involvement in a wide variety of land deals, business associations and business assets. The felonies and misdemeanors span more than a dec
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News Link • Constitution
Obama Birth Certificate: Who Determines Presidential Constitutional Eligibility?
12-03-2008
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Mondo
A number of lawsuits have been filed over the birth certificate and citizenship of Barack Obama. Are the courts the right place to determine the answer? If not the courts, who, what or where? We asked What’s Your Evidence to get some some evidence on
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Bush Administration
Pardon The Border Guards!
11-03-2008
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Eagle Forum
The end of President Bush's final term is quickly approaching. Less than two months remain until he will hand over his White House keys to Barack Obama, but we cannot let him leave office without resolving one very important issue: he must comm
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Catherine Abbitt
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News Link • Constitution
U.S. Constitutional Rights vs. United Nations “Rights”
12-03-2008
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Texas Eagle Forum - Cathie Adams
Americans treasure our right to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness avowed in our Declaration of Independence and
guaranteed by our U.S. Constitution. “Rights” declared by the
United Nations, however, are not the same.
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Catherine Abbitt
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
VIDEO: CameraFRAUD on 3TV, 12-2-2008
12/2/2008
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3TV KTVK
Shawn tells 3TV how it is. (Does the MSM love this or what?)
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Police State
On Traffic Checkpoints Or Freedom?
12-02-2008
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Daily Kos
So, you might ask, how is it that the Fourth Amendment is interpreted to allow searches that are not based upon any probable cause whatever"in fact, that aren’t directed toward any particular individual, but instead, against anyone and everyone that
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Terry Bressi
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