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Date Sent: 2008-10-27
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, October 27, 2008 |
Asia shares fall on recession fears -- 'U.S. attacks inside Syria' -- Volvo truck sales crash 99.7
GM Said to Ask U.S. Treasury for Aid in Chrysler Merger Talks -- Banks to use Paulson's gift to buy weaker banks -- The Democrats the Media Doesn't Want to Talk About -- How I Plan To Vote - by L. Neil Smith -- Thousands of hedge funds on brink of failure -- If McCain loses, what next for conservatives? -- Federal Reserve now inflating at 341% per year!!!! -- Plasma shield may stun and disorientate enemies -- Ark. anchorwoman dies in hospital after beating -- Lawsuit Against Obama Dismissed -- HORROR 'ABUSE' BY COPS -- GM to stop 401(k) payments November -- Officer Friendly takes care of a dog -- The fate of the world will be decided by a few politicians in Israel next week -- White House intervention may force 200,000 voters to use provisional ballots -- Videographer To Defy Court Order Banning Cameras During Trial -- TSA won’t give up on “Secure Flight” travel permission and surveillance scheme -- How Smart Is a Smart Card? -- Iraq's prime minister won't sign U.S. troop deal - U.N. Mandate ends Dec. 31st -- Touch-Screen Votes Now Flipping In Texas -- U.S. has plundered world wealth with dollar: China paper -- History Speaks Will America Listen? - by Dave Hodges
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News Link • Humor
Dear American
10-27-2008
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The Libertarian Enterprise
I am sure you have received those emails that promise money if you would act as a middle man. Well here is one that is circulating the Internet that actually is making money for the few right now. [funny]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM Said to Ask U.S. Treasury for Aid in Chrysler Merger Talks
10-27-2008
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Bloomberg
General Motors Corp., the largest U.S. automaker, has asked the Treasury Department for financial aid to help complete a merger with Cerberus Capital Management LP's Chrysler LLC, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Asia shares fall on recession fears
10-27-2008
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Reuters
Asian shares fell on Monday, with Japan's Nikkei briefly hitting its lowest intraday level since 1982, as investors feared fresh moves expected from central banks this week will not be enough to stave off a deep global recession.
Trading was c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bank Bailout Cash: Banks to use Paulson's gift to buy weaker banks
10-26-08
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MortgageImplode.com & NYtimes
In fact, Treasury wants banks to acquire each other and is using its power to inject capital to force a new and wrenching round of bank consolidation
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama Campaign Cuts Access for Florida TV Station Asking Unpleasant Questions UPDATED
10-26-2008
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Mondo
The Obama campaign canceled an upcoming Jill Biden interview with Florida TV station WFTV"because the station asked Joe Biden a couple of tough questions. A sign of things to come?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Eugenics
PUMAs: The Democrats the Media Doesn’t Want to Talk About
10-26-2008
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Mondo
One segment of the electorate has been largely ignored by the Mainstream Press is the PUMAs (Party Unity My Ass). They represent a network that is independent of Republicans: some polls say 25% of Democrats will not support Barack Obama. They're
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - International
World leaders pledge financial reform as gloom deepens
10-26-2008
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AFP
After a week of growing economic gloom and plunging stock markets, Asian and European leaders meeting in Beijing promised Saturday wide-ranging reforms while UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also called for quick change.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hedge Fund Chief: Thousands of hedge funds on brink of failure
10-26-08
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Telegraph.co.uk/finance
"This will go down in the history books as one of the greatest fiascos of banking in 100 years," said Mr Roman, who with Noam Gottesman, co-runs GLG...
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News Link • Eugenics
Coke or Pepsi: So Which Brand Are You Drinking in November?
10-26-2008
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Paul Armentano for LewRockwell.com
Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. One could readily say the same thing about participating in presidential elections.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Private Coinage
10-26-2008
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Murray N. Rothbard via LewRockwell.com
How would private coinage work? In the same way, we have said, as any other business. Each minter would produce whatever size or shape of coin is most pleasing to his customers. The price would be set by the free competition of the market.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
If McCain loses, what next for conservatives?
10-26-2008
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DALLAS (Reuters)
DALLAS (Reuters) - If Republican John McCain loses the November 4 election as most polls predict, his party may be in for a rough period of soul searching.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Eugenics
Judge dismisses Obama birth certificate lawsuit
10-26-2008
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WorldNetDaily
"If I don't have standing, if you don't have standing, if your neighbor doesn't have standing to ask whether or not the likely next president of the United States is eligible to be in that office in the first place, then who does?'
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Plasma shield may stun and disorientate enemies
10-26-2008
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technology.newscientist.com
The US Army hopes, within a few years, to deploy a plasma shield " a machine that generates a protective screen of dazzling mid-air explosions " to stun and disorient an enemy.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve is inflating at 341 percent per annum
10-26-08
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GaryNorth.com/public
I have never seen anything like this. The adjusted monetary base over the last eight weeks has risen at 341% per annum. The increase in the monetary base is $300 billion
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News Link • Media: Television
Ark. anchorwoman dies in hospital after beating
10-25-2008
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AP
"It was our hope, as was yours, that Anne would overcome the injuries inflicted upon her in the brutal attack at her home. We were with her in her last moments, and although our hearts are broken, we are at the same time comforted by our faith k
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Lawsuit Against Obama Dismissed, Appeal Goes to US Supreme Court
10/25/08
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www.rightsidenews.com/
Looks like the government of the people by the people and for the people is perished![ED] Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama's lack of "qualifications" to serve as Pres
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
HORROR 'ABUSE' BY COPS
10-25-2008
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NY Post
A gang of rogue cops clobbered a Brooklyn man they saw smoking a joint, then sodomized him with a walkie-talkie antenna during a broad-daylight attack in a subway station, law-enforcement sources and the victim's lawyer said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Depression Warning: Volvo truck sales crash 99.7 percent in Europe
10-25-08
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Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
The depth of the recession was revealed today as truckmaker Volvo admitted demand across the Continent has crashed by 99.7% as it took orders for just 115 new trucks in the last three months.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM to stop 401(k) payments November 1st
10-25-08
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bizJournals.com
“We remain focused on building sustainable success, not only on short-term results (and) we will continue to assess our overall staffing needs. Any decisions or actions will be shared directly with employees,” it said.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer Friendly takes care of a dog
10-25-2008
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CodeMonkey VIDEO
What makes this particular case interesting is that the police department backed down when they found out that there was surveillance footage of the incident. Judging from the video, there was simply no good reason for the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The fate of the world will be decided by a few politicians in Israel next week
10-25-08
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Rense.com
Israel has had more than its share of aggressive war hawks among its political elite, however, few can hold a candle to dear old Bibi. He is the one that scares most of the rest. He never met a war that he did not like.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
White House intervention may force 200,000 voters to use provisional ballots
10-25-08
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PubRecord.org/nationworld
The unprecedented intervention by the White House less than two weeks before the presidential election may result in at least 200,000 voters in Ohio not being able to vote on Election Day.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Videographer To Defy Court Order Banning Cameras During Trial
10-25-2008
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Ridley Report (video)
Videographer David Ridley in Keene, New Hampshire will risk arrest to defy a court order banning the videotaping of an upcoming high profile Keene trial surrounding a couch enforcement dispute (that's right - a couch!).
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Police State
TSA won’t give up on “Secure Flight” travel permission and surveillance scheme
10-25-2008
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Papers Please
But the solution to the problems with “watchlists” is not to tighten their enforcement, but to replace secret administrative “no-fly” and “selectee” determinations with judical determinations of dangerousness, made by judges in response to government
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Boettke on the Billionaire Bailout
10-25-2008
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Future of Freedom Foundation
"Can do" and "ought to" are two separate questions. Should something be done just because it can and can something be done even if we should? GMU Econ Professor Peter Boettke brilliantly pursues the answers.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Gardner Goldsmith on Vote Fraud
10-25-2008
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Liberty Conspiracy
In this audio, Gard highlights recent news on ACORN in Ohio, and chats with Ed Naile, Chairman of the Coalition of NH Taxpayers. [the bad guys have no compunction about voting early and often]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Police State
How Smart Is a Smart Card?
10-25-2008
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Technology Review
Acetone is used to peel the plastic off the card's millimeter-square chip. Once they isolated the chip, they embedded it in a block of plastic and sanded it down layer by layer to examine its construction. RFID chip reveals the algorithms that co
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Iraq's prime minister won't sign U.S. troop deal - U.N. Mandate ends Dec. 31st
10-25-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
Army Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, told USA Today: "Without (a security agreement), we would potentially have to cease all operations."
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Roots of Voodoo: Why Sarkozy is Getting Skewered
10-25-2008
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liveScience
A controversial voodoo doll is proving to be quite the pain in the side of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. [It is a funny story, but even more interesting is an elaborate introduction to the religious history of VooDoo. Very interesting.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Obama Records: Obama Medical, College, University, Other Records Still Hidden
10-25-2008
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Mondo
Obama has refused to release his medical, college and university records. In May, the NY Times said, ""No presidential candidate should get to the point that he has locked up his party’s nomination without public vetting of his health."
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Touch-Screen Votes Now Flipping In Texas - Obama's Attorneys AWOL
10-25-08
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Bradblog.com
This is just getting worse and worse. Now it's happening in Texas. (And in MO, if you read to the end of the article). And the vaunted "thousands of attorneys" from the Obama campaign and the DNC are still nowhere to be found.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
U.S. has plundered world wealth with dollar: China paper
10-25-08
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Reuters.com
The front-page commentary in the overseas edition of the People's Daily said that Asian and European countries should banish the U.S. dollar from their direct trade relations for a start, relying only on their own currencies.
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Opinion • Conspiracies
History Speaks Will America Listen?
10-25-2008
Dave Hodges
America stands upon the precipice of an economic Armageddon as we are witnessing the most gigantic theft of public and private assets in the history of the planet. Conspicuously missing from the national conversation of America’s pending economic col
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News Link • Humor
Ron Paul Supporter Attacked - "M" Carved On His Face
10-25-2008
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Ron Paul Forums
Josh Lowry Manuel, who reportedly hails from Houston, Texas,claimed that, after seeing a Ron Paul bumper sticker on his car, the male attacker beat him and used his knife to mark a M on his face.
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Brock Lorber
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