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Date Sent: 2008-11-10
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, November 10, 2008 |
Former Goldman Sachs Executive Vetted For Treasury Secretary -- 401(k)s and IRAs to be nationalized?
Israeli Supreme Court: "Museum of Tolerance" Can Be Build on Top of Muslim Cemetery -- AIG, U.S. May Restructure Loan in $150 Billion Bailout Package -- Obama’s First Appointment Is Son Of Zionist Terrorist -- Fox News Angrily Smears Nader For Daring To Criticize Obama -- Ron Paul Grassroots Docum3ntary Pre-Teaser Trailer -- Will Obama nominate the same people who helped engineer this depression? -- Regulators shut banks in Texas, California -- GOP leader: Rebuild party based on 'sanctity of marriage' -- Berkshire Hathaway Profit Falls 77% -- The Real Great Depression: The Panic of 1873 -- AIG execs at posh Phoenix resort after $85 billion bailout -- The Fed doubles its balance sheet - above $2 trillion in just 5 weeks -- Mission accomplished in Iraq - Dutch Shell has 25 year monopoly on oil and gas -- Changes You Can Believe In: Servitude Plans Covered Up -- Federal Budget Deficit Explodes to $232 Billion in The First Month of Fiscal 2009 -- Joe The Plumber, Records: Ohio Probe Begins into Government Snooping -- U.S. & Allies Tortured Kids in Iraq Prisons - Now What Will Obama Do About It? -- Gov. Schwarzenegger: California considers 90-day foreclosure freeze -- National Association Of Realtors: Home Prices to Rise in 2009 and 2010 -- Try These on Your CIA Briefer, Mr. President-Elect - by Ray McGovern -- Karl Denninger: Yes We Will Have A Depression -- New Mass Marijuana Rules Dismay Officials -- Obama Betrays America: Vows to go ahead with Polish missile shield -- 3 ‘Superbanks’ Now Dominate Industry: Sudden consolidation raises questions -- Will Obama enact compulsory universal service for all 18-25 year-olds? -- House Democratic leaders are targeting your 401K and IRAs for nationalization -- Bloomberg Sues Fed to Force Disclosure of Collateral
AZ: John Stuart Grand Jury Remand, Bail Hearing This Afternoon
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli Supreme Court: "Museum of Tolerance" Can Be Build on Top of Muslim Cemetery
11-9-2008
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Jonathan Turley
Israel’s Supreme Court have ruled that the government may destroy part of an ancient Muslim cemetery to build a new “Museum of Tolerance.” The cemetery contains the bones of past leading Muslim clerics and the warriors of famed Saladin who retook Jer
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News Link • Federal Reserve
AIG, U.S. May Restructure Loan in $150 Billion Bailout Package
11-09-08
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Bloomberg.com
" American International Group Inc., the insurer bailed out by the U.S., may get lower interest rates and more time to repay its debt in a new government rescue package valued at more than $150 billion.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
401(k)s and IRAs to be nationalized?
11-9-2008
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WendyMcElroy
Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts " including 401(k)s and IRAs " and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s First Appointment Is Son Of Zionist Terrorist
11-9-2008
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Prison Planet
Rahm Emanuel, who is to become Obama's chief-of-staff, is the son of a member of the Zionist terrorist group Irgun, which was responsible for bombing hotels, marketplaces and the infamous massacre of hundreds of Palestinian villagers were slaught
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News Link • Energy
Who needs alternate energy when you can have a nuclear reactor in your backyard?
11-09-08
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Guardian.co.uk
Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Fox News Angrily Smears Nader For Daring To Criticize Obama
11-9-2008
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Prison Planet
A Fox News host and his panel angrily proclaimed that Ralph Nader’s career was finished after the Independent Party candidate dared to criticize Barack Obama’s record of toadying up to corporate interests, as top liberal websites applauded Fox News f
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
How to smuggle 9 ounces onto a plane
11-9-2008
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New Britain Herald
Three is a popular fairy-tale number: three bears, three wishes, third time’s the charm, and three ounces is the most shampoo frequent flyers can haul in their carry-on bags without terrorists hijacking the plane.
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Grassroots Docum3ntary Pre-Teaser Trailer
11-9-2008
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Youtube
Congressman Ron Paul's run for the 2008 GOP Presidential nomination sparked a unique grassroots brush fire not seen in recent history. An effort to document this historical political insurgency against the elite system of manipulation and control
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News Link • Obama Administration
Will Obama nominate the same people who helped engineer this depression?
11-09-08
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GlobalResearch.ca
The banking conglomerates call the shots. They decide on the composition of the Obama Cabinet. They also decide on the agenda of the Washington Financial Summit (November 15, 2008) which is slated to lay the groundwork of a new "global financial
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News Link • World News
Today - Anniversary of the Fall of The Berlin Wall
11-09-2008
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Christine Smith Blog
...a powerful reminder of the power of the human spirit of freedom to prevail against tyranny...it inspires me just as I remember it did in 1989. Let's hope the U.S. doesn't complete its own Wall of Shame.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Regulators shut banks in Texas, California
11-08-2008
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My Way News
WASHINGTON (AP) - Regulators shut down Houston-based Franklin Bank and Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles on Friday, bringing the number of failures of federally insured banks this year to 19.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Politics Among the Ruins - Obama Faces an Economic Disaster
11-09-08
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Counterpunch.com
Sprint Nextel sealed 125 retail locations and will fire 4,000 employees. Wilson’s the Leather Experts plans to shut 158 stores. Bombay Company will close all 384 U.S.-based stores. Bankrupt KB Toys will close 356 stores. Whew!
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News Link • Obama Administration
Former Goldman Sachs Executive J. Corzine Vetted For Treasury Secretary
11-09-08
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NJ.com/news
Corzine, who used to run financial services giant Goldman Sachs, had long dismissed as speculation talk that he might be interested in running the sprawling U.S. Treasury Department. But in recent days he has changed his message...
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
GOP leader: Rebuild party based on 'sanctity of marriage'
11-09-08
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Rawstory.com
When asked by Chris Wallace what "conservative solutions" the GOP would bring to their current minority-party status, Pence said social issues like "the sanctity of marriage" will remain the backbone of the Republican platform.
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News Link • Economy - International
Stunned Icelanders Struggle After Economy’s Fall
11-09-2009
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New York Times
The failure of Iceland’s banks; the plummeting of its currency; the first wave of layoffs; the loss of reputation abroad " felt like a bad dream, Iceland has now awakened to find that it is all coming true.
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News Link • Economy - International
China Announces $586 Billion Stimulus Plan
11-09-2009
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Huffingtonpost.com
A statement on the government's Web site said China's Cabinet had approved a plan to invest the amount in infrastructure and social welfare by the end of 2010. Some of the money will come from the private sector.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
Berkshire Hathaway Profit Falls 77% (PROFIT Drop,... ooooh)
11-09-2009
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Bloomberg.com
Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. posted a fourth straight profit drop, the longest streak of quarterly declines in more than a decade, as hurricanes hurt returns at insurance operations and investments lost value.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Right-wing media feeds its post-election anger
11-09-2009
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LA Times
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity dive shamelessly in, talking about the 'Obama recession' and other partisan lines.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Team Weighs What to Take On First
11-09-2009
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New York Times
The debate between a big-bang strategy of pressing aggressively on multiple fronts versus a more pragmatic, step-by-step approach has flavored the discussion among Mr. Obama’s transition advisers for months, even before his election.
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News Link • Energy
Portable power: Tiny solar cells show promise
11-09-08
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Reuters.com
"Because it is in a solution, you can design a special spray gun where you can control the size and thickness. You could produce a paste and brush it on," she said.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Real Great Depression: The Panic of 1873
11-09-08
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chronicle.com
The post-panic winners, even after the bailout, might be those firms " financial and otherwise " that have substantial cash reserves. A widespread consolidation of industries may be on the horizon, along with a nationalistic response...
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News Link • Corruption
AIG execs at posh Phoenix resort after $85 billion bailout
11/08/08
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www.abc15.com/
To the outside observer, the 2008 Asset Management Conference held this week at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort in Phoenix was nothing out of the ordinary. The conference at the posh resort included many senior managers at American International
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
The Billion Dollar Girl
11-08-2008
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www.portfolio.com
Who needs men to drive the box office when you’ve got Miley Ray Cyrus (better known to legions of pint-size fans as Hannah Montana), a multimedia starlet who is on track to be a billionaire by the time she hits 18.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed doubles its balance sheet - above $2 trillion in just 5 weeks
11-08-08
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LondonBanker.blogspot.com
Today, our assets exceed $1.9 trillion. I would not be surprised to see them aggregate to $3 trillion"roughly 20 percent of GDP"by the time we ring in the New Year.”
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News Link • Obama Administration
Change I can't quite believe in
11-08-08
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LondonBanker.blogspot.com
Rumours that either Larry Summers or Tim Geithner will be made Treasury Secretary made me even queasier. The appointment of either of these architects of the current global financial disaster, serial-forbearance artists, would be a great middle-finge
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Mission accomplished in Iraq - Dutch Shell has 25 year monopoly on oil and gas
11/08/2008
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Daily Newscaster
It’s finally mission accomplished in Iraq but don’t expect announcements of any troop withdrawals or peace breaking out in the Middle East.
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News Link • Bush Administration
Federal Budget Deficit Explodes to $232 Billion in The First Month of Fiscal 2009
11-08-08
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news.yahoo.com
Just one month into the fiscal year, the federal budget deficit has already reached $232 billion, according to estimates released Friday.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Joe The Plumber, Records: Ohio Probe Begins into Government Snooping
11-08-2008
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pat
Ohio’s attorney general begins an investigation into the government snooping into Joe the Plumber’s records. Helen Jones-Kelley has already been suspended with leave and the trail may lead to Ohio governor, Ted Strickland.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Torture
U.S. & Allies Tortured Kids in Iraq Prisons - Now What Will Obama Do About It?
11-08-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
While the criminal abuse of male prisoners at Abu Ghraib is well known, child and women prisoners held there have also been tortured and raped, according to Neil Mackay of Glasgow’s “Sunday Herald.”
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gov. Schwarzenegger: California considers 90-day foreclosure freeze
11-08-08
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NPR.org
Norm Miller, a real estate economist at the University of San Diego, says the governor's proposed foreclosure freeze isn't a good solution. He says it would just delay the inevitable correction the market needs to make if it is to recover.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
National Association Of Realtors: Home Prices to Rise in 2009 and 2010
11-08-08
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MarketWatch.com
Home prices are expected to reverse trend and increase 1.1% in 2009 and 5% in 2010, Yun said in his economic forecast.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Stunned Icelanders Struggle After Economy’s Fall - Is America Next?
11-08-08
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NYtimes.com
The collapse came so fast it seemed unreal, impossible. One woman here compared it to being hit by a train. Another said she felt as if she were watching it through a window. Another said, “It feels like you’ve been put in a prison, and you don’t kno
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Karl Denninger: Yes We Will Have A Depression
11-08-08
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Market-Ticker.denninger.net/
The greatest area of danger here is that The Fed is in fact trying to catch not a falling knife but rather a falling piano. The idea that The Fed can prevent a debt deflation of this magnitude is pure folly, and increasing its leverage to 50:1
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News Link • Police State
Changes You Can Believe In: Change.Gov Changes America Serves Post
11-08-2008
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Mondo
Yesterday, Barack Obama’s Change.gov site announced plans to require students to perform community service. Today, that post was changed and a host of comments appeared within the hour on our original post seeking to discredit DBKP. We provide the be
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News Link • Energy
Chinese Cargo Ships Will Have Solar Sails
11/08/08
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http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2276/
The sails are 30 meters long, covered with solar PV panels that will provide 5 percent of the ships' electricity and will harness enough wind to reduce fuel costs by 20 to 40 percent. The sails are controlled by a computer that angles them for ma
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News Link • Drug War
New Mass Marijuana Rules Dismay Officials
11-8-2008
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The Berkshire Eagle
The law, which will take "money and manpower" to enforce, "is overly burdensome to the police officer and to the court system," State Police Lt. McDyer said. Supporters say police and prosecutors should stop "whining".
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News Link • Conspiracies
3 ‘Superbanks’ Now Dominate Industry: Sudden consolidation raises questions
11-08-08
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MSNBC.msn.com
Several of the nation's biggest banks have failed or been absorbed by healthier institutions, leaving three giant "superbanks" with an unprecedented concentration of market power: Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama Betrays America: Vows to go ahead with Polish missile shield:
11-08-08
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Rawstory.com
Barack Obama has told Polish President Lech Kaczynski he will go ahead with plans to build a missile defence shield in eastern Europe despite threats from Russia, Warsaw said on Saturday.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
House Democratic leaders are targeting your 401K and IRAs for nationalization
11-08-08
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augustreview.com
Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts " including 401(k)s and IRAs " and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration
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News Link • Police State
Will Obama enact compulsory universal service for all 18-25 year-olds?
11-08-08
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examiner.com
It's time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their co
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News Link • Police State
Not Everyone is Celebrating
11-08-08
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Rense.com
What will it take for all those who are celebrating now to realize we have a one party political system consisting of democrats and republicans pretending to be a 2 party system?
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News Link • Internet
Cool Facts About The Knowledge Explosion
11-08-08
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wearechange.org
I had no idea half of these things were true... must see video.
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News Link • Welfare: Political
Where has all they money gone....
11-08-2008
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www.usaspending.org
Eagle Eye Publishers, the premier commercial source of government spending data since 1986, is making its wealth of contract, grant, loan, insurance and other federal government financial information available for free to the general public through
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bloomberg Sues Fed to Force Disclosure of Collateral
11-7-2008
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Bloomberg
``The American taxpayer is entitled to know the risks, costs and methodology associated with the unprecedented government bailout of the U.S. financial industry,'' said Matthew Winkler, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News.
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News Link • Draft
America Serves
11-07-2008
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OBAMA
"The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges." (From the Office of the President-Elect)
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Feature Article • Eugenics
And, the Winner Is...
Brock Lorber
We interrupt the regularly-scheduled victory dances to bring you this important announcement: 45% of voting-age Americans voted "No" for President.
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