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Date Sent: 2008-11-16
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, November 17, 2008 (Part 1) |
Japan to take lead in creating new financial order -- Treasury Accused Of Bailout Bait and Switch
Craig to be Whitehouse counsel -- Documents confirm misconduct by Siegelman prosecution -- Feds called in to review landowner's sign -- Half-dozen agencies access records of Joe the Plumber -- Images captured of 4 planets outside solar system -- ATS To Introduce Overweight Photo Scam Cams -- New World Order tightens grip on Mexico: Credit card interest rates at 41% -- Thieves Market: Shake-up ahead in world financial structure -- Gulf stocks plunge as G20 fails to halt panic -- 110 banks have asked for $170B under bailout plan -- Four insurers hope to buy thrifts, access bailout -- European Insurers pull cover from GM and Ford suppliers -- Phoenix: Foreclosures account for 47 percent of Valley home sales in October -- Iraq: Negotiators agree on US security pact draft -- Senate to take up auto bailout, Bush offers plan -- Border Patrol Targeting Medical Marijuana Users At Checkpoints -- Obama urges Congress to quickly pass rescue plan -- The Myth of Good Government - by Lew Rockwell -- Irresponsible cities also want you to bail them out -- State Goes All In on Lawn Furniture Scofflaw - by Brock Lorber -- India orbits and lands on the moon -- 'Constitutional crisis' looming over Obama's birth location
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News Link • Obama Administration
Craig to be Whitehouse counsel
11-16-2008
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Politico
Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials. [Change.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Documents confirm misconduct by Siegelman prosecution
11-16-2008
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Time
New documents have surfaced to show possible prosecutorial misconduct in the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Siegelman was convicted of corruption in 2006 in a case that has aroused widespread suspicions of political bias.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Feds called in to review landowner's sign
11-16-2008
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Bonner Co. Daily Bee
The Secret Service is being asked to review a sign a landowner put up which suggests a "free public hanging" of President-elect Barack Obama and several other political figures. The handmade cardboard sign also features a noose fashioned fr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Half-dozen agencies access records of Joe the Plumber
11-16-2008
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Beacon Journal
The election is over, but the Joe the Plumber case is not. Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles said his office is now looking at a half-dozen agencies that accessed state records on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Images captured of 4 planets outside solar system
11-16-2008
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Space.com
Astronomers have taken what they say are the first-ever direct images of planets outside of our solar system, including a visible-light snapshot of a single-planet system and an infrared picture of a multiple-planet system.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
ATS To Introduce Overweight Photo Scam Cams
11-16-2008
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CameraFRAUD.com
No, we aren’t making this headline up.
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News Link • Environment
British Enviro-Safe Bathing: Sex, Soap and Save the Earth
11-16-2008
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pat
Sainsbury, a British department store, distributed an illustrated “environmentally-safe” bathing instruction booklet. The booklet combined supposedly safe environmental bathing practices with sexual ones--which caused some of the Brit kiddies to gigg
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The TARP Is Dead, Long Live the TARP
11-16-2008
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LewRockwell.com
Think back. Think far, far back into the past. Think all the way back to the last week of September 2008. Historians tell us that at that time many Americans took leave of their senses.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Economy In Crisis (Website)
11-16-2008
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economyincrisis.org
"EconomyinCrisis.org is packed with valuable information documenting America's economic decline." -Paul Craig Roberts, the “Father of Reagonomics” and former Assistant Secretary to the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan Administ
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
New World Order tightens grip on Mexico: Credit card interest rates at 41%
11-16-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
The company administers cards for Home Depot, Woolworth and other chains in Mexico at interest rates of 35% to 70%.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Kissinger says Hillary Clinton Would Be Outstanding Diplomat
11-16-2008
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New Delhi - Voice of America
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has told an Indian audience that Senator Hillary Clinton would make "an outstanding appointment" as America's top diplomat. (Well hell,... as long as Henry likes her)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Crashing Paulson's Ponzi Party
11-16-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
This 9 minute video provides a number of viewpoints on the unraveling of Paulson's Ponzi scheme. People are starting to wake up to the fact that we as a people have been robbed on an almost unimaginable scale.
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan to seek to take lead in creating new financial order
11-16-2008
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PrisonPlanet.com
“The world is now entering a new era,” Aso said. “I think Japan should take concrete action. We would like to continue taking the initiative in establishing an economic system that can correspond to the new era.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Thieves Market: Shake-up ahead in world financial structure
11-16-08
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MSNBC.msn.com
The leaders agreed to set up a new regulatory body, "a college of supervisors," to examine the books of major financial institutions that operate across national borders, so regulators could begin to have a more complete picture of banks'
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Despite impressive win, Lesnar still a work in progress (meet Brock)
11-16-2008
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ESPN
LAS VEGAS -- There was never a doubt in Brock Lesnar's mind that he would one day become UFC heavyweight champion. That day came Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena before a sellout crowd of 14,272.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Gulf stocks plunge as G20 fails to halt panic
11-16-08
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Rawstory.com
The slump came despite the approval by leaders of the G20 nations of an action plan on Saturday to restore global growth and prevent future financial upheaval while promising new spending plans and a set of reforms.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraqi Cabinet Approves Security Pact With U.S.
11-16-2008
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New York Times
BAGHDAD " The Iraqi cabinet voted overwhelmingly Sunday to approve the security agreement that sets the conditions for the Americans' continued presence in Iraq from Jan. 1 until the end of 2011.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Tolerance fails T-shirt test
11/15/08
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www.chicagotribune.com/
As the media keeps gushing on about how America has finally adopted tolerance as the great virtue, and that we're all united now, let's consider the Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment. Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liber
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Putin threatened to hang Georgian president 'by the balls'
11-15-08
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Rawstory.com
“Hang him?” asked Sarkozy. “Why not,” Putin replied. “The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein.” “But do you want to end up like Bush?” asked Sarkozy. “Ah, there you have a point,” resigned Putin.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
110 banks have asked for $170B under bailout plan
11-15-08
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news.yahoo.com
At least 110 banks have requested more than $170 billion from the Treasury Department's rescue fund, and many more are expected to have submitted applications before Friday's deadline.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
European Insurers pull cover from GM and Ford suppliers
11-15-08
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Financial Times.com
The move leaves three possible scenarios: GM and Ford can start paying upfront for goods; they can hope their suppliers will trade uninsured; or they couldbe unable to buy the parts they need for car production.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Four insurers hope to buy thrifts, access TARP
11-15-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
In addition to Hartford Financial, the AP reports that Genworth Financial Inc., Lincoln National Corp. and Aegon NV have all asked the Office of Thrift Supervision for permission to buy thrifts - and access the TARP.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
GET THE STOCKS!
11-15-08
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Market-Ticker.denninger.net
Not the kind you buy on an exchange. The kind you put in the public square.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Phoenix: Foreclosures account for 47 percent of Valley home sales in October
11-15-08
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bizjournals.com
The high rate of foreclosure sales is pushing down home values across the Valley. For the traditional sales market, the median price of resale homes in Maricopa County was $175,000 in October
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News Link • Economy - International
Resort plans nude "anything goes" month-long party
Thu Nov 13, 2008
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Reuters
"Tough economic times call for stiff measures," said Tony Fox, owner of the White Cockatoo resort. "It will be a hedonistic event, where anything goes for a month. It doesn't take rocket science to work out what that means."
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Homeland Security
Border Patrol Targeting Medical Marijuana Users At Checkpoints in Washington State
11-15-2008
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Kitsap Sun
The checkpoints are random & unannounced, & have occurred at various points on the Olympic Peninsula. If stopped, BP officials said it is generally a short encounter, unless they suspect those in a vehicle are illegal aliens, terrorists or criminals.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq: Negotiators agree on US security pact draft
11-15-2008
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AP
U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed on a draft of a security pact that would allow American troops to stay in Iraq for three more years after their U.N. mandate expires Dec. 31, a senior aide to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama urges Congress to quickly pass rescue plan
11-15-2008
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Reuters
President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday urged lawmakers to quickly pass at least "a down payment" on a new economic rescue plan to help resuscitate the ailing American economy. [Is there CHANGE...in your wallet?]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Senate to take up auto bailout, Bush offers plan
11-15-2008
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Reuters
The US Senate plans to take up a proposal to bailout distressed automakers, while the White House recommended another route to get billions to Detroit fast. [What's in yur wallet?]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Islamic Finance May Be On to Something
11-15-2008
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BusinessWeek
Speculation is taboo under sharia, and there's a ban on assessing interest because the Prophet Mohammed said debts must be repaid in the amount that was loaned. Money proffered must be backed by collateral, and if financial instruments are traded
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
States want their own federal financial bailout
11-15-2008
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McClatchy News
Led by California with a $28 billion hole in its budget, 41 states are in financial trouble, and many of their leaders are looking to Congress to bail them out. [What's in yer wallet?]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
India celebrates planting its flag on moon
11-15-2008
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AP
A probe sent from the orbiting mother spacecraft took the pictures and gathered other data that India needs for a future moon landing. The box-shaped probe was painted with India's saffron, white and green flag and it slammed into the moon's
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mayors of Philadelphia, Phoenix seek bailout share
11-15-2008
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Breitbart.com
The mayors"Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, Shirley Franklin of Atlanta and Phil Gordon of Phoenix"made their request in a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food Recipes - Long Term Storage Foods
Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More
11-15-2008
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New York Times
The economy is in tatters and, for millions of people, the future is uncertain. But for some employees at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant here, times have never been better. They are working at a furious pace and piling up all the overtime they wa
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
India's Chandrayaan-I reaches its final resting orbit
11-15-2008
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Times of India
BANGALORE: India's unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 on Wednesday successfully entered the operational lunar orbit after ISRO scientists carried out final orbit reduction manoeuvre, lasting one minute.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
DENNIS KUCINICH GRILLS NEEL KASHKARI ON BAILOUT SCAM
11-15-2008
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YouTube
November 14, 2008 Kucinich (D-OH) Domestic Committee meeting with Kashkari Treasury Department Use of Government Assistance Funds
(And Obama's position???)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Kashkari Says Treasury Approving 20 Bank Stakes Today (Update3)
11-15-2008
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Bloomberg.com
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Treasury is about to approve capital injections into 20 more banks, said Neel Kashkari, the department's assistant secretary in charge of a $700 billion bank-rescue plan.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
'Constitutional crisis' looming over Obama's birth location - Alan Keyes lawsuit warns A
11-14-2008
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World Net Daily via Rense.com
"Hawaii Revised Statute 338-178 allows registration of birth in Hawaii for a child that was born outside of Hawaii to parents who, for a year preceding the child’s birth, claimed Hawaii as their place of residence," the document said.
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Ed Vallejo
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