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Date Sent: 2008-12-02
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, December 2, 2008 |
Asian Stocks Fall -- Icelanders storm central bank -- Recession in US Started Year Ago
Recession in U.S. May Be Just Beginning as Job Losses Mount -- How Gun Control Laws Contributed To the Mumbai Slaughter -- I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq -- Ammo Registration Currently Under Review By 18 States -- A Reality Check on D.C. Checkpoints -- Schwarzenegger Calls Fiscal Emergency in California -- On War, Gardening, and Cooking for Bad Times -- It's Official: Hillary, Holder, Napolitano are US Secretaries -- Teen Boy Must 'register as sex offender for life after having sex with his girlfriend' -- Pentagon hires British scientist to help build robot soldiers -- We were trained by Pakistan navy: Captured terrorist -- US masses naval-air-marine might in Arabian Sea opposite India, Pakistan, Iran -- Filtered Internet: Bush FCC chairman considering 'porn-free Internet' -- Neocons Love Obama: They are very pleased by his appointments -- Bruce Fein: Army to deal with potential domestic "civil unrest and crowd control" -- Pentagon plans to station 20,000 troops for 'domestic security' -- Meredith Whitney: U.S credit card industry to pull $2 trillion in credit lines -- Mish: Housing Update - How Far To The Bottom? -- Feds May Order Thousands of Ca. Prisoners Freed -- Criminal Injustice Against the Holy Land Foundation Charity - by Stephen Lendman -- Kristol Recommends Pardons and Medals of Freedom for Torturers
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stocks Fall
12-2-2008
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Bloomberg
Asian stocks tumbled, extending a global rout, as a deepening world recession drove down commodity prices and heightened concern company earnings will collapse as manufacturing shrinks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession in U.S. May Be Just Beginning as Job Losses Mount
12-2-2008
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Bloomberg
The U.S. economy, now officially in recession, may be in the midst of the longest slump in the post- World War II era as job losses mount and credit dries up.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
How Gun Control Laws Contributed To the Mumbai Slaughter
12-2-2008
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by Butler Shaffer (LewRockwell)
I live in India and I am a proud firearm owner -- but I am the exception not the norm, an odd situation in a country with a proud martial heritage and a long history of firearm innovation. This is not because the people of India are averse to gun own
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ammo Registration Currently Under Review By 18 States
12-2-2008
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Doctor Bulldog
The bill that is being pushed in 18 states (including Illinois and Indiana) requires all ammunition to be encoded by the manufacturer in a data base of all ammunition sales. So they will know how much you buy and what calibers. Nobody can sell any am
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq
12-2-2008
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Washington Post
I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the most notorious mass murderers of our generation, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Icelanders storm their central bank
12-2-2008
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AP
Thousands of Icelanders marked the 90th anniversary of their nation's sovereignty with angry protest Monday, and several hundred stormed the central bank to demand the ouster of bankers they blame for the country's spectacular economic meltdo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
American Airlines Now Charging Fees To Non-Passengers
12-2-2008
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The Onion
Cash-strapped American Airlines announced a new series of fees this week that will apply to all customers not currently flying, scheduled to fly, or even thinking about flying aboard the commercial carrier.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Under pressure, US eased lending rules
12-2-2008
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AP
The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
What happened to the Acorn crop?
12-2-2008
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Washington Post
The idea seemed too crazy to Rod Simmons, a measured, careful field botanist. Naturalists in Arlington County couldn't find any acorns. None. No hickory nuts, either. Then he went out to look for himself. He came up with nothing. Nothing crunched
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Deep-diving NR-1 wraps up its 40-year career
12-2-2008
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Navy Times
Its oven was actually a toaster taken out of a P-3 Orion. It had no shower, and there were 4 racks for 11 sailors. The officer in charge slept on the deck behind the conn. The elite crew of the NR-1 could live on the bottom of the ocean for up to a m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
A Reality Check on D.C. Checkpoints
12-2-2008
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Washington Post
In June, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, his attorney general and the DC police announced military-style checkpoints in which police stop drivers and allow only those with a police-approved "legitimate reason" to continue on the public roadway.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food Recipes - Long Term Storage Foods
On War, Gardening, and Cooking for Bad Times
12-01-2008
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Survivalblog.com
Wars are forever. The memories seem to never end for families. They are passed on from generation to generation.The Civil War, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Iraq.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Schwarzenegger Calls Fiscal Emergency in California
12-01-08
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Bloomberg.com
Schwarzenegger, a 61-year-old Republican, wants lawmakers to raise taxes and cut spending to narrow the gap that is projected to swell to $28 billion over the next 18 months.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Teen Boy Must 'register as sex offender for life after having sex with his girlfriend'
11/26/2008
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www.glennsacks.com
"An Oklahoma teenager is swept up in laws aimed at protecting kids from child predators. He must register as a sex offender for life, as the worst level offender, after having a sex with his girlfriend, who said she was his age, 16...
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Obama Administration
It's Official: Hillary, Holder, Napolitano are US Secretaries
12-1-2008
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Politico
After weeks of speculation, President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden officially unveiled their new national security team Monday in Chicago. A quick snapshot of the key players.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
5 things the war Cabinet says about Obama
12-1-2008
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Politico
President-elect Obama made official the worst-kept secret in Washington this morning: that his national security team will be headlined by a bitter political rival (Clinton) and a member of President Bush’s war cabinet (Gates).
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon hires British scientist to help build robot soldiers
12-01-08
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Telegraph.co.uk/news
Noel Sharkey says: "It sends a cold shiver down my spine. I have worked in artificial intelligence for decades, and the idea of a robot making decisions about human termination is terrifying."
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News Link • TERRORISM
We were trained by Pak navy: Captured terrorist
11-29-2008
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indiatoday.digitaltoday.in via Rense.com
Azam Amir, the terrorist who was held by the Mumbai Police, has made some striking revelations regarding the Mumbai terror attacks. Azam has disclosed that the Pakistan Navy had trained the terrorists in boating and swimming to carry out the attacks
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Obama Administration
AMENDING THE NATURAL BORN CITIZEN REQUIREMENT: GLOBALIZATION AS THE IMPETUS AND THE OBSTACLE
12-01-2008
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Sarah P. Herlihy
Why would anyone want to change our Constitution? Apparently Sarah P. Herlihy does.......since 2006. What a coincidence....she's associated with Barack Obama in Chicago and the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP http://www.kirkland.com
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Catherine Abbitt
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession in U.S. Started in December 2007, NBER Says
12-01-08
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Bloomberg.com
The declaration was made by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, nonprofit group of economists based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The last time the U.S. was in a recession was from March through November 2001, according to NBER.
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News Link • Military
US masses naval-air-marine might in Arabian Sea opposite India, Pakistan, Iran
12-01-08
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PrisonPlanet.com
Three US aircraft carriers with strike groups, task forces and nuclear submarines have piled up in the waters of the Arabian Sea opposite the shores of India, Pakistan and Iran, and in the Persian Gulf.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Global manufacturing gauges collapse in November
12-01-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
"Manufacturing is in freefall, with output collapsing," Shepherdson wrote. "We see no prospect for near-term improvement."
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News Link • Obama Administration
Neocons Heart Obama: They are very pleased by his appointments
12-01-08
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PrisonPlanet.com
Max Boot makes well the argument that there is no difference between McCain and Obama, never mind millions of changelings who believe Obama stands for love, peace, and a new road not traveled by the Bushcons...
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News Link • Architecture
Architectural Whimsy: 50 Strange Buildings of the World
12-01-08
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villageofjoy.com/
This is a really great list of 50 building from around the world that give you a taste of how much fun architecture can be.
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News Link • Police State
Pentagon plans to station 20,000 troops for 'domestic security'
12-01-08
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Rawstory.com
The US Department of Defense plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to terror or nuclear attacks and emergencies, The Washington Post said Monday.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Bruce Fein: Army to deal with potential domestic "civil unrest and crowd control"
12-01-2008
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The REAL News Network
The US federal government has made strong preparations for "continuity of government" in the event of a national catastrophe. A full army brigade is now on active duty within domestic borders, and the Bush administration has issued a direct
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Catherine Abbitt
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News Link • Housing
Mish: Housing Update - How Far To The Bottom?
12-01-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
In the meantime I am sticking with my model that suggests there is another 3-5 years before housing bottoms in the US. I also expect the UK, Canada, and Australia to follow similar paths
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Meredith Whitney: U.S credit card industry to pull $2 trillion in credit lines
12-01-08
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CNBC.com/
"In other words, we expect available consumer liquidity in the form or credit-card lines to decline by 45 percent."
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News Link • Police State
In Midst Of Worst Unemployment And Economy, Feds May Order Thousands of Ca. Prisoners Freed
12-1-2008
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AP
California's day of reckoning has finally come for three decades of tough-on-crime policies that led to overcrowded prisons and unconstitutional conditions for inmates. Schwarzenegger and Republican state lawmakers promise an appeal directly to t
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Bush Administration
Kristol Recommends Pardons and Medals of Freedom for Torturers
12-01-2008
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Weekly Standard
Yeah, that would put a nice lid on that administration, wouldn't it.
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Trouser Chili
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