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Date Sent: 2008-12-11
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, December 11, 2008 |
Auto bailout passes House; Senate vote today? -- The Fed wants to issue a new form of debt
Bush blocks Iraqi War US POWs from suing Iraq -- Thomas Daschle to head Department of Health and Human Services -- Bailed-Out Bank Goes on Toll Road Buying Binge -- Pay raise for judges tucked into bailout plan -- Report suggests conscripting youth -- U.S. Two States Away from Constitutional Convention -- Goldman Recommends Credit Default Swaps Against NJ, CA, WI, FL, OH, MI, Others -- Civil Liberties Are Cut in this Economic War: Hendry -- The Myth of Government Investment -- Oldsmobile Nation by Gary North -- Police taser man in diabetic shock -- Blackwater 5 Should Be Tried In Iraq, Not America -- AIG owes $10 billion on bad trades -- 650+ Scientists Dissent On Man-Made Global Warming Claims -- Congress reaches deal on auto bailout bill (vote today?) -- The Libertarian Party's Witch Trial - by Eric A. Garris -- Deflation biggest threat facing US policy makers: John Snow -- Ramos and Compean Day Sparks Huge Grassroots Response -- Celente Predicts Revolution, Food Riots, Tax Rebellions By 2012 -- Max Keiser talks about naked short selling and virtual currency economy -- Krauthammer and Barnes call for ‘indefinite detention’ law for suspected terrorists -- Joe the Plumber: McCain 'appalled me' -- Is the Fed Taking the First Steps to Selective Default and Devaluation? -- Scandal threatens Obama -- Meredith Whitney: Banks on "Life Support" for The Next 18 to 36 Months -- Ben Afleck To Direct Movie About The Don Bolles Bombing And The Arizona Project? -- Antiwar Radio: Russell Means
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News Link • World News
Only Known North Korean Prison Camp Escapee Tells of Horrors
12-11-2008
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Washington Post
In Camp No. 14, the North Korean political prison where Shin Dong-hyuk was born and where he says he watched the hanging of his mother, inmates never saw a picture of Kim Jong Il. Inmates did not need to know the face of their "Dear Leader,"
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Bush blocks Iraqi War US POWs from suing Iraq
12-11-2008
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NY Times
After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Mr. Charchalis, now 78, had every reason to believe that he and 240 other Americans held during the Persian Gulf war of 1991 would be compensated under expansive laws that allow Americans to claim assets of foreign go
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Thomas Daschle to head Department of Health and Human Services
12-10-2008
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Washington Post
[Change] Thomas A. Daschle has not yet been formally nominated to take over the Department of Health and Human Services. That's expected to change tomorrow morning when President-elect Barack Obama will make the not-so-surprising announcement.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Auto bailout passes House; Senate vote today?
12-11-2008
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Washington Post
The House last night approved an emergency plan to prevent the collapse of the nation's domestic automobile industry, but the measure faces serious opposition in the Senate, where Republicans are revolting against a White House-brokered deal to s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bailed-Out Bank Goes on Toll Road Buying Binge
12-10-2008
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The Newspaper
Just one week after receiving a pledge of $306 billion in support from US taxpayers, Citigroup announced the intended $10 billion acquisition of a debt-laden Spanish toll road. [Thanks stupid American taxpayers!]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Rendition Victim's Suit Targets U.S. Officials
12-10-2008
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NPR
A federal appeals court will hear arguments in the case of Canadian citizen who was detained on a layover at JFK International Airport in 2002. The U.S. government accused him of being an al-Qaida member and sent him to Syria for interrogation. No ch
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Pay raise for judges tucked into bailout plan
12-10-2008
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AP
If the $14 billion bailout plan for U.S. automakers passes, it will help more than just Ford, Chrysler and General Motors. Federal judges would get a pay raise, as well.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Draft
Report suggests conscripting youth
12-10-2008
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Army Times
To deal with recruiting and retention problems, the Center for National Policy recommends requiring every American youth to serve the nation in mandatory national service with military duties as one option.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
Austin Teacher Threatens Linux Group
12-10-2008
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Boing Boing
An Austin teacher sent an angry, accusatory email to a local Linux collective accusing them of piracy for distributing the free operating system and excoriating them for encouraging her students to do the same.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Celente Predicts Revolution, Food Riots, Tax Rebellions By 2012
12-10-2008
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PrisonPlanet.com
Trend forecaster, renowned for being accurate in the past, says that America will cease to be a developed nation within 4 years, crisis will be “worse than the great depression”
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
BANQUET POLITICS
12-10-2008
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Stuart Archer Cohen
I was at a banquet in Shanghai a couple of weeks ago when I had one of the most surprising conversations about the United States that I’ve heard in 25 years of foreign travel.
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Stuart Archer Cohen
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News Link • Family
LA Gang Peace Negotiator Asked 'How many of the gang members you deal with live with their fathe
12/10/2008
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www.glennsacks.com
Over the weekend my wife and I had the pleasure of attending incoming California State Senator Rod Wright's (pictured) swearing-in Inglewood. While serving in the Assembly from 1996 to 2002, Rod was a pioneer of child support and family law refor
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Failure of US Auto Industry Could Batter Credit Markets
12-10-08
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CNBC.com
The threat is so serious that "Credit Crisis Part II" looms if the government doesn't come to the aid of GM and Ford, said J.P. Morgan analyst Eric Selle...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Goldman Recommends Credit Default Swaps Against NJ, CA, WI, FL, OH, MI, Others
12-10-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
There is probably another dozen or two states waiting in the wings. Expect to see municipal bond yields rise. And states are going to have to cut services, raise taxes, or both. That means more job losses, more foreclosures, and more bankruptcies...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bush Administration
US Federal Budget Gap Balloons to $400 Billion in First 2 Months of Fiscal 2009
12-10-08
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Rawstory.com
The two-month deficit represents 88 percent of the entire fiscal 2008 deficit of 454.79 billion dollars, the highest on record.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Civil Liberties Are Cut in this Economic War: Hendry
12-10-2008
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www.cnbc.com
"The government has gone to war, it is an economic war. And in a war the government takes a larger and larger role in the society.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Events: America
Earthquake (the Big One) coming soon (some say)...
12-10-2008
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www.urbansurvival.com
"December 10th through the 15th of January are especially active with combinations of problems including the [earthquake] already forecast for that period in the 32/thirty-two to 36/thirty-six degrees of latitude band
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Halliburton accused of supplying rotten food to U.S. forces
12-10-2008
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Big News Network.com
This is just yet another example of the total disregard and disdain that Corporate America, the Pentagon and our elected representatives to and include Obama and Bush have for the citizens of our nation. Wake up America and support the troops by brin
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Myth of Government Investment
12-10-2008
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Chris Brown for LewRockwell.com
A"massive effort" to convert federal buildings into more energy-efficient buildings by "replacing aging heating systems and installing efficient light bulbs." So the joke becomes: How much does it cost to change a light bulb?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Police taser man in diabetic shock
12-10-2008
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RawStory.com
"It's unfortunate in the officers' aspect and they feel extremely bad after they learned that in fact it was a medical need and not someone who was under the influence of an intoxicant, drug or alcohol," El Reno's mayor told CBS
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Blackwater Five Should Be Tried In Iraq, Not In America
12-10-2008
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LP of Georgia
The indictment and surrender of 5 employees of Blackwater for alleged murders committed in Iraq raises a question. Why does the US Justice Dept. have the power to punish Americans for things they do outside of the United States?
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
AIG owes $10 billion on trades gone bad: report
12-10-2008
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RawStory.com
Fallen US insurance giant American International Group owes financial firms some 10 billion dollars on speculative trades that turned sour, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
12-10-2008
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epw.senate.gov
The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Print
Bleeding Red Ink New York Times eyes asset sales
12-10-2008
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Financial Times
The New York Times is considering potential asset sales and is in discussions with lenders as it prepares for one of the “most challenging years” in its history. Advertising revenue fell sharply at the paper in November.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Feminist Professor Wendy Murphy Seems Unhappy about Due Process in Rape Cases
12-10-2008
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www.glennsacks.com
"That we allow defense attorneys to obfuscate and eroticize rape trials as a way of distorting the truth to produce an unfair result only adds insult to injury." I guess the accuser's story is always "the truth" and giving con
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Corruption
Congress reaches deal on auto bailout bill
12-10-2008
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Breitbart.com
Congressional leaders struck a deal on a bill to disburse 15 billion dollars to bail out the cash-strapped auto sector, which is to be put to a House of Representatives vote later Wednesday. Bill calls for the appointment of a "car czar".
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Beware the New Globalism - All hail the coming regionalist revolt
12-10-08
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antiwar.com/justin/
Disarmed in advance " skeptics of globalism are, after all, lunatics who see "black helicopters" in the sky (over Montana, no less!) " we are invited to entertain the idea of a world government that "would involve much more than cooper
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Deflation biggest threat facing U.S. policy makers: John Snow
12-10-2008
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www.financialpost.com
"I think this contraction is building momentum, and I hate to say this, but I think we're in for a tough 2009," Mr. Snow said at the International Economic Forum of the Americas in Toronto.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Celente Predicts Revolution, Food Riots, Tax Rebellions By 2012
12-10-2008
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www.TheCitizen.com
Trend forecaster, renowned for being accurate in the past, says that America will cease to be a developed nation within 4 years, crisis will be "worse than the great depression"
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Krauthammer and Barnes call for ‘indefinite detention’ law for suspected terrorists
12-10-08
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PrisonPlanet.com & ThinkProgress.org
KRAUTHAMMER: We’re going to have to have a law which is going to allow indefinite detention, and it is going to be Democrats who will actually have to craft it. I think that’s poetic justice...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Max Keiser talks about naked short selling and virtual currency economy
12-10-2008
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Karmabanque Radio
I found this a guy a while back, but even though his politics are a bit strange, on financial matters, he's dead on IMHO!
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Special Forces mistakenly kill 6 Afghan police
12-10-2008
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AP
U.S. Special Forces killed six Afghan police and wounded 13 early Wednesday in a case of mistaken identity by both sides after the police fired on the Americans during an operation against an insurgent commander, officials said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Joe the Plumber: McCain 'appalled me'
12-10-2008
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Politico
Asked why he didn’t leave McCain’s campaign if he was “appalled” by the candidate, Wurzelbacher said, “honestly, because the thought of Barack Obama as president scares me even more.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
FLASH: Get The Stocks (For The Fed) - They want to issue a new form of debt
12-09-08
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Market-Ticker.denninger.net
This is a blatant attempt to overthrow by chicanery The Government of The United States and must be treated as such by The FBI, The Department of Homeland Security and the citizens of this nation.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Is the Fed Taking the First Steps to Selective Default and Devaluation?
12-10-08
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jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com
What an image. The NY Fed as a GSE, the new and improved Fannie and Freddie. Zimbabwe Ben can simply print a new class of Federal Reserve Notes with no backing from Treasuries. BenBucks. Federal Reserve Thingies.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Scandal threatens Obama
12-10-2008
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AP
President-elect Barack Obama hasn't even stepped into office and already a scandal is threatening to dog him. Obama isn't accused of anything. But that Illinois Gov. Blagojevich, a fellow Democrat, has been charged with trying to sell Obama**
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Office Depot to Close 112 Stores, Reduce New Openings
12-10-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
The Company plans to close 112 underperforming retail stores in North America over the next three months, reducing the North American store base to 1,163. ... Additionally, 14 stores will be closed through 2009 as their leases expire...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
AIG: A Black Hole?
12-10-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
American International Group Inc. owes Wall Street's biggest firms about $10 billion for speculative trades that have soured ... Meanwhile, from Bloomberg: AIG Says More Managers Get Retention Payouts Topping $4 Million
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Meredith Whitney: Banks on "Life Support" for The Next 18 to 36 Months
12-10-08
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CNBC.com/
"The big banks are going to be on life support for at least 18 months, if not 36 months,"
Oppenheimer's executive director of equity research told CNBC Wednesday morning. "The big banks will not fail, but the big banks will not g
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Protest Downtown? Nah,...Let's Do It At The Airport!
12-10-2008
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AP
In the post 9/11 era, protests at sensitive international airports have become an effective way to rattle nerves and publicize causes. There is an increasing trend for demonstrators to shut down airports.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Corruption
Ben Afleck Looking To Direct Movie About The Don Bolles Bombing And The Arizona Project?
12-10-2008
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Az. Republic
The film reportedly would begin with Bolles' death and continue through the investigation conducted by several newspapers afterward, an effort known as the Arizona Project.
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Chip Saunders
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