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Date Sent: 2009-01-08
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, January 8, 2009 |
CIA Install Military Gov't. In Greece -- Analyst Predicts unemployment hits 40%; start recovery 201
Border Bullies: The Department of Homeland Security in Action -- Scottsdale Secretly Tracking License Plates -- Obama: Financial Markets Face 'Substantial Overhaul' -- California may delay tax refunds, issue IOUs -- Laura Bush unveils $500,000 George W. Bush state china -- Israeli spy pleads guilty, receives slap on the wrist from U.S. Attorney -- Trans Texas Corridor renamed, not dead -- Ron Paul: Failure of dollar will dwarf current crisis -- George Galloway: The Truth About Israel -- Some common sense about Gaza from The Young Turks -- Republican National Chairman candidates asked about Ron Paul -- Obama Nominee: Admiral Blair Aided Perpetrators of 1999 Church Killings in East Timor -- Lame Duck Days: Hope Over Experience - by Gary North -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb Angry with Economists -- CNN Confirms Israel Broke Ceasefire First -- Restaurant Performance Index at Record Low -- Porn industry seeks federal bailout -- Ron Paul: Why Do We Run A World Empire! -- Ammunition Accountability Legislation -- Obama names special watchdog for federal spending -- Got Gun Control? No Problem! Just Go Get Your Guns From The Cops. -- Surveillance cameras to be installed in New York cabs and limousines -- Paul Craig Roberts: Will There be a Recovery? -- Ramos and Compean Should NOT be Pardoned -- You Are Being Lied to About Pirates -- Elder Bush: Jeb Should Run For President -- Deficit this year said to exceed $1.18 Trillion before 'Stimulus Package'
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News Link • Economy - International
Watch the Dollar
01-07-2009
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Sri Lanka's Daily News
"In short, beware the happy talk from those who say we are “turning the corner,” ignore the daily ups and downs of the market, and tighten your belts. This is going to hurt."
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
U.S. debt is losing its appeal in China
01-07-2009
In the past China has bankrolled its huge reserves by effectively requiring its entire banking sector, which is state-controlled, to hand nearly one-fifth of its deposits over to the central bank. The central bank, in turn, has used the money to buy
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
“We Will Not Be Silent” on JetBlue Airlines
01-07-2008
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Papers Please
Showing that they haven’t lost their ability to waste their stockholders’ & the taxpayers money by violating travelers’ rights, JetBlue & two TSA officials have paid $240,000 to a passenger who they forced to cover up the message on his t-shirt as a
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Homeland Security
Border Bullies: The Department of Homeland Security in Action
01-07-2008
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Papers Please
Knowing that Homeland Security officers are creating animosity and anxiety at our borders does not make me feel safer. How many truly bad guys slip by while U.S. officers stand in small rooms and pick on little women?…
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Scottsdale Secretly Tracking License Plates
1/08/2009
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CameraFRAUD.com
CameraFRAUD has uncovered that ATS has been quietly using Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) devices to monitor and track the movements of those within the self-proclaimed “Most Livable City." The devices are also RFID-ready.
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Reported by:
Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama: Financial Markets Face 'Substantial Overhaul'
1-07-09
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CNBC.com
Obama also confirmed that he plans to lay out a roughly $775 billion economic stimulus plan on Thursday but indicated that the amount could grow once it gets taken up by Congress.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Making them Go Naked For Their Own Good
1-7-2008
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LA Times
A law set to go into effect Feb 10 will clear thrift stores and specialty retailers of children's clothes and toys. [unintended consequences? What unintended consequences?]
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Corruption
California may delay tax refunds amid budget impasse (Here's your IOU)
01-07-2009
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LA Times
"We have not made any decision about deferring payments or using IOUs, but they are possibilities if the governor and Legislature don't come to some agreement soon," Chiang spokeswoman Hallye Jordan said Tuesday.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Laura Bush unveils $500,000 George W. Bush state china
01-07-2008
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Yahoo! News
The $493,000 set was inspired by a few pieces of green basketweave-patterned French china in the White House collection believed to have come from James and Dolley Madison. It was paid for by a privately funded trust of the White House Historical Ass
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Reported by:
Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Propaganda
Pirates and Emperors
01/07/2008
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YouTube
"What you mean by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you, who do it with a great fleet, are called emperor."
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Reported by:
Jim Kaiser
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News Link • Energy
Solar Power Game-Changer: “Near Perfect” Absorption of Sunlight, From All Angles
11-03-2008
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered and demonstrated a new method for overcoming two major hurdles facing solar energy.
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Reported by:
Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Israel
Israeli spy pleads guilty, receives slap on the wrist from U.S. Attorney
01/07/2009
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Daily Newscaster
Ben-Ami Kadish who gave secrets to Israel about sensitive U.S. missile defense technology reached a plea deal with U.S. Attorney’s office guaranteeing him only a slap on the wrist.
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Reported by:
D. H. Williams
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
Real Letter From CEO To His Employees
01-07-2009
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Rense.com
To All My Valued Employees - There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your job.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • North American Union
Trans Texas Corridor renamed, not dead
01-07-2009
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texasturf.org via Rense.com
"What today's hype was about is a political ploy to make the public go back to sleep while it gets built under a different name."
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ended Dollar Dead Bounce
1-07-09
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news.goldseek.com/
The rally on weakness has run its course. Meaningful efforts to prevent a USEconomic and US Financial System collapse will assure degradation, devaluation, and a semblance of destruction for the beleaguered USDollar. It is on its last legs after 37 y
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul: Failure of dollar will dwarf current crisis
1-07-09
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Rawstory.com
Paul replied. "I think the confidence eventually will be lost. ... The financial system broke down because they lost confidence in it ... but soon they're going to lose confidence in the dollar. Now that'll be a crisis that'll be muc
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Family
Court Delivers Devastating Blow to Leading Feminist Attorney Barry Goldstein
01-05-2009
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www.glennsacks.com
Few family law cases are as heartbreaking as those involving Parental Alienation, where one parent has turned his or her children against the other parent, destroying the loving bonds the children and the target parent once enjoyed. Many of my reader
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Reported by:
Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Some common sense about Gaza from The Young Turks
Who Is Responsible For The Gaza Strip Conflict? "There is plenty of blame to go around". The Young Turks breaks down the issues in a rational fashion.
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Reported by:
Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Doctor Decries Israeli Attacks
1-7-2009
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Youtube
Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells Sky News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republican National Chairman candidates asked about Ron Paul
1-7-2009
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Youtube
[uh, er, well, ah, I uh is my time up yet?] Thanks to Mr. Norquist for the various plugs and for mentioning Campaign for Liberty even when it was not part of the original question. And we agree with him: the Federal Reserve is "completely annoyi
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
George Galloway 1/3/09 Truth About Israel
1-7-2009
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Youtube
George Galloway accused US Sen. Norm Coleman and other pro-war politicians of covering up the "theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth... on your watch" that was committed by "Halliburton and other American corporations... wi
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Obama Nominee: Admiral Blair Aided Perpetrators of 1999 Church Killings in East Timor
1-7-2009
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Democracy NOW!
Admiral Dennis Blair played a critical role in backing the Indonesian occupation of East Timor during the 1990s. At the height of a wave of ruthless attacks on Timorese that killed hundreds and displaced tens of thousands, Blair personally informed t
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Preparing To Install Military Government In Greece?
1-7-2009
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Prison Planet
The increasingly violent riots in Greece could be the curtain raiser for a military coup d’etat and the installation of a new government more friendly to U.S. hegemony as a countermeasure to increasing Russian influence over the Balkan state.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Angry with Economists
01-07-2009
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YouTube
Nassim Nicholas Taleb angry with economists. The interviewer was just a journalist clueless about his ideas but he got them across anyway by ignoring her questions.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Lame Duck Days: Hope Over Experience
01-07-2009
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Gary North for LewRockwell.com
Before the hoped-for day of deliverance on January 20 at high noon, there is a two-month transition period. The dark night of the incumbent Administration is expected to recede in the brightness of a new dawn. (Not)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
CNN Confirms Israel Broke Ceasefire First
Rick Sanchez does the research and finds that Israel violated the terms of the ceasefire first by killing 6 Gazans on November 4. Shouldn't media outlets check the facts before running with a story?
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Restaurant Performance Index at Record Low - After Falling for 17 Months
1-07-09
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
“A solid majority of restaurant operators reported negative same-store sales and traffic levels in November, while nearly one-half expect their sales in six months to be lower than the same period in the previous year.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Porn industry seeks federal bailout
01-07-2009
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CNN
Another major American industry is asking for assitance as the global financial crisis continues: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a bailout
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul: Why Do We Run A World Empire!
1-7-2009
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Youtube
Ron Paul interviewed on the trillion dollar budgets and what they are doing to our nation by CNN.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Humor
WHO AM I?
Ed Vallejo
I received this in an e-mail this morning, and I just HAD to share it with you.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama names special watchdog for federal spending
1-07-09
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/news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Obama made the pledge but provided few details as he named Nancy Killefer as his administration's chief performance officer, creating a new White House position aimed at eliminating government waste and improving efficiency.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Border Patrol in Arizona Seizes Weapons, Marijuana in 2 Separate Incidents
07 January 2009
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borderfirereport.net
Border Patrol agents from the Tucson Sector seized several guns and ammunition along with various bundles of marijuana in Tucson and Nogales.
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Reported by:
Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Gun Rights
It Has Already Started Ammunition Accountability Legislation - If they can deprive you of ammo they
01-07-2009
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http://freedomfighterradio.net/
Remember how Obama said that he wasn’t going to take your guns? Well, it seems that his allies in the anti-gun world have no problem with taking your ammo!
The bill that is being pushed in 18 states (including Illinois and Indiana) requires all ammu
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Police State
Got Gun Control? No Problem! Just Go Get Your Guns From The Cops.
1-7-2009
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San Francisco Chronicle
Thieves broke into Contra Costa County sheriff's cruisers and made off with three semiautomatic rifles and two shotguns, weeks after a similar break-in at the CHP office in Martinez, authorities said Tuesday.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
The Ultimate Flying Machine: Sexy as a Sports Car, Portable as a Jet Ski
01-07-2009
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Wired VIDEO
In 2004, the FAA implemented the most far-reaching change to aviation rules in 50 years by creating an entirely new category. (VIDEO)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
What are my Rights & Constitutional Liberties during police encounters?
01/07/2009
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Daily Newscaster
In this video series by www.FlexYourRights.org you will see how best to respond to law enforcement in a way that protects your Civil Rights.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Police State
BART officer’s execution of prisoner, caught on camera phone
01/07/2009
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Daily Newscaster
In the camera phone video you can see officer Johannes Mehserle subdue and restrain the victim placing his boot on his neck, removing his weapon from his holster prompting fellow officers step back.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Transportation
Surveillance cameras to be installed in New York cabs and limousines
01/07/2009
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Daily Newscaster
A new pilot program in New York City will install both forward and backward looking cameras in some of the city’s 13,000 cabs and limousines.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paul Craig Roberts: Will There be a Recovery?
1-05-09
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CounterPunch.com
Only a government totally oblivious to reality would imagine that Russia’s Putin, whose nose is rubbed in excrement every day by the US government, will permit America to transit Russian territory to resupply US imperial legions in Afghanistan.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ramos and Compean Should NOT be Pardoned
1-7-2008
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The Liberty Papers
Even their supporters acknowledge that the agents shot at a fleeing suspect rather than a suspect trying to cause injury or death. Do they really want to make every law enforcement officer in the country judge, jury, and executioner?
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Propaganda
You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
01-07-2009
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HuffingtonPost.com
Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates?
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
Elder Bush: Jeb Should Run For President (VIDEO)
01-07-2009
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HuffingtonPost.com
On "Fox News Sunday," former President George H. W. Bush said he's ready for another Bush in the White House. He hopes his son Jeb runs for Senate in Florida and one day for president.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Deficit this year said to exceed $1.18 Trillion before 'Stimulus Package'
1-07-09
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AZcentral.com/
That estimate doesn't include the cost of President-elect Barack Obama's pending economic stimulus package, which will likely add at least $750 billion to the total over the next two years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Colbert & Colmes: Alan Colmes Joins Colbert Report For One Night
01-07-2009
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HuffingtonPost.com
Colbert kept Colmes near, but below, him at his desk and made claims often about his dominance over the departing host of "Hannity & Colmes."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
All the presidents’ lunch
01-07-2009
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CNN
Former presidents Jimmy Carter, George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton will join Obama and Bush at the White House for lunch.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Analyst Predicts 40% Unemployment, No Recovery until 2015
1-07-09
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PrisonPlanet.com
Unemployment nationally in the USA is now touching 16%. The officially posted number is somewhere near half of that. By the fall of 2009, American real unemployment will be near the all time 1930′S Great Depression high of 25% unemployed. Sadly
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Predictions
Justin Raimondo: Save your candles " the Dark Ages are coming
1-07-09
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Antiwar.com/justin/
The trillions President-elect Obama plans on spending to "cure" our economic malaise will prove poisonous to the dollar, with hyperinflation an inevitability. Whether this reaches Weimar levels remains to be seen, but one can easily imagine
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Russia stops all gas supply to Europe via Ukraine
1-07-09
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine on Wednesday " leaving tens of thousands of people in more than a dozen countries without heat during a winter cold snap. The EU accused both nations of holding consumers hostage in their con
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Jack Gregson
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