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Date Sent: 2008-11-29
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
Bailout now at $8.5 trillion -- Consumers Forgoing Retailers' Discounts
Last Gunmen Killed in India, Ending Siege -- China Abruptly Executes Convicted Spy -- Economi Downturn Drives Military Rolls Up -- Iraq says $80 dollars a 'reasonable' price for oil -- Poverty spreading in suburbs -- Chris Matthews 'staffing up' for Senate run -- Next Round Of Foreclosures To Hit Retail -- Does the Libertarian party still matter? -- FDA defends US infant formula; sets safe level for melamine -- Russia to complete Iran nuclear plant in 2009 -- Surveillance Cameras to spot crimes BEFORE they happen -- 5 more members of Congress being probed in bribery -- Texas DA reveals evidence against Cheney -- Replace Regulation With Innovation - by Jim Ianuzzo -- $10,000/ Ounce Metal Selling For Less Than Gold! -- Robert Shiller: Economic Crisis May Run For 'Years and Years' -- Active force, reserves to integrate with 'Homeland Defense' -- H-S Precision Firearms' new Spokesmonster - by Scott Bieser -- Audio of Appeals Court Roadblock Hearing - by Terry Bressi
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News Link • TERRORISM
Last Gunmen Killed in India, Ending Siege
11-29-2008
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Washington Post
Security forces brought a three-day assault on India's financial and cultural capital to an end Saturday morning, killing the last remaining gunmen holed up in one of the city's luxury hotels after freeing hostages and recovering bodies from
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News Link • China
China Abruptly Executes Convicted Spy
11-29-2008
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Washington Post
China on Friday executed a man convicted of passing sensitive military and political information to Taiwan a day after notifying his relatives through diplomatic channels that they would have a second chance to visit him, his daughter said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Economic Downturn Drives Military Rolls Up
11-29-2008
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Washington Post
Some of the largest investment firms on Wall Street are gone. The country's auto industry is on the verge of collapse. Banks are shedding jobs. But in these doom-and-gloom times, there is someone who's hiring: your local military recruiter.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Iraq says 80 dollars a 'reasonable' price for oil
11-28-2008
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Breitbart.com
"A reasonable price for oil is 80 dollars a barrel," said Shahristani on arrival in Cairo to attend a consultative meeting by the OPEC cartel to study slumping crude prices. (Really? Pre or post Hyper-inflation dollars. Such BS)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
What We Value Is What We Save In a Crisis
11-28-08
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LondonBanker.blogspot.com
When a central bank thinks its house is on fire, it too will rush to save the thing valued most. In the United States, the central bank has rushed to save the bonuses and dividends of its Wall Street clientele by hiding away the bad assets...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Poverty spreading in suburbs
11-28-2008
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Reuters
Poverty in the United States is spreading from rural and inner-city areas to the suburbs, according to a study, a situation that can worsen as the economy confronts what may be a protracted recession.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Inventions
Shuttle astronaut invents zero-gravity cup
11-28-2008
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Reuters
Endeavour astronaut Don Pettit, a self-described tinkerer who served as the space station's flight engineer in 2003, invented a zero-gravity cup that wicks liquids along the sides of a piece of folded plastic, eliminating the need for a straw.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Plumes spewing from Saturn moon may contain water
11-28-2008
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Reuters
Astronomers looking at the spectacular supersonic plumes of gas and dust shooting off one of Saturn’s moons say there are strong hints of liquid water, a key building block of life. Adds to the growing push to explore further the moon Enceladus, as o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Next Round Of Foreclosures To Hit Retail
11-28-2008
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CBS/AP
Black Friday's retail shoppers hunting for holiday bargains won't be enough to stave off what's likely to become the next economic crisis. Malls are entering foreclosure, commercial victims of the same events poisoning the housing market.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumers Forgoing Retailers' Discounts
11-28-2008
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Washington Post
New economic data show that last month consumers were not tempted by retailers offering deep discounts. They were not enticed by lower home prices. And even though falling gas prices made their wallets a little fatter, they held on to their newfound
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Swiss likely to approve prescription heroin
11-28-2008
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AP
Swiss voters are expected to make the system permanent in a referendum prompted by a challenge from conservatives. The heroin program has won wide support within Switzerland since it was begun 14 years ago to eliminate scenes of large groups of drug
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Sarkozy Voodoo Dolls Must Be Sold With Warning Label
11-28-2008
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Bloomberg
French President Nicolas Sarkozy voodoo dolls can still be sold by a publisher as long as they come with a warning that sticking pins in the toy is an affront to his dignity, a Paris court ruled today.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Surveillance Cameras to spot crimes BEFORE they happen
11-28-2008
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Daily Mail
The cameras can alert operators to suspicious behavior, such as loitering and unusually slow walking. Anyone spotted could then have to explain their behavior to a police officer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Texas DA reveals evidence against Cheney
11-28-2008
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Rawstory
District Attorney Juan Guerra spoke regarding his investigation of injustice within the prison systems which led to the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, along with other officials.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
Mr. Obama: Don’t Miss Next Week’s Chicago Tribune
11-29-2008
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We The People Foundation
Full-Page citizenship challenge to run twice, next Monday and Wednesday in Chicago's principal newspaper. Mr. Obama is requested to publicly produce documentation conclusively establishing his status as a "natural born" U.S. citizen.
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Political Theory
Replace Regulation With Innovation by Jim Ianuzzo
10-28-2008
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libertariansolution.com
Maricopa County Libertarian Party Chairman Jim Ianuzzo reasons through the fallacy that "responsible" regulation is a positive market force.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Precious Metals
Ten Thousand Dollar an Ounce Metal Selling For Less Than Gold!
11-28-2008
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Kitco.com
Look at the price of rhodium in these charts. Compare June 08 ($10K/ounce) with September 08 ($5K/ounce) and then snag up all you can get at today's unheard of price of $760./ounce (low) and $1060./ounce (high)! Once the automakers get their ba
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Robert Shiller: Economic Crisis May Run For 'Years and Years' - Part 1 - 2 & 3
11-28-08
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econvideo.blogspot.com/
In part 2&3 of this video interview Robert Shiller talks about changes in the zeitgeist, culture and how 'Bubble Thinking' took hold in residential real estate.
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News Link • Police State
Gun Licensing in England
11-26-2008
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shock.military.com
If requiring gun owners to obtain a government license seems like a harmless idea to you, you may want to know about "Firearms Form 101." That's the "Application for a Firearms Certificate" that must be filled out by Britons i
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Robert Shiller: The Economic Crisis May Run For "Years and Years" - Part 1
11-28-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
In this 9 minute interview economist Robert Shiller describes the comparisons between the current crisis and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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News Link • Military
Active force, reserves to integrate with reserves taking lead in 'Homeland Defense'
11-28-08
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PrisonPlanet.com and Air Force Times
Defense Secretary Robert Gates also called upon Congress to “mandate that the National Guard and Reserves have the lead role in and form the backbone of DoD operations in the homeland.”
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Banker Bailout: The Best Breakdown I've Seen for The $8.5 Trillion Giveaway
11-28-08
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SFgate.com
The Treasury Department today released the most complete breakdown of where the $8.5 trillion in banker bailout funds went.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Insanity - Over And Over Again
11-28-08
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
Paulson and Bernanke are effectively writing checks that President Obama is going to have to cash. I suspect he is going to find that this will get extraordinarily difficult some time in 2009, and when it does, that's when the real trouble will
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
U.K.: Robots Can Now Make Facial Expressions in Real Time
11-28-08
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news.BBC.co.uk
Bristol scientists have created the first robot that can mimic human expressions in real time. Watch the video.
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