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Date Sent: 2008-12-12
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, December 12, 2008 |
Asian Stocks, US Futures, Dollar Tumble as Bailout Fails -- Obama will nuke Iran if Israel nuked
Korea Nuclear Talks Collapse -- Rumsfeld responsible for torture -- Senate Abandons Auto Bailout Bid -- Disgraced Federal Prosecutor Seeks to Punish Detroit Press Reporter -- Online Journalists Now The Most Jailed -- School appeals to Supreme Court to remove student's Rights -- Atheist's ideas banned in California -- Judge finds Simpsons sex cartoon to be child porn -- Bank of America to Cut 30,000 to 35,000 Positions -- Ron Paul speaks against the auto bailout before the vote -- Clinton to earn about $4,700 less than Rice -- Ron Paul: Printing Money Only Prolongs The Pain -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: California faces "financial Armageddon" -- Foreclosure Storm Will Hit U.S. in ‘09 Amid Job Loss -- Ford Bailout Money Unnecessary -- Chinese Investors Smell Blood in California -- Taliban Support Increasing, Holds 72% Of Afghanistan -- Legalize Methamphetamine! - by Marc Victor -- Jobless claims hit 26-year high of 573,000 -- Yolanda Madden: Collateral Damage from Odessa's War on People - by Brock Lorber -- Politics = Corruption - by Larken Rose
AZ: Maricopa County Libertarian Party 2008 Organizing Meeting Saturday
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stocks, U.S. Futures, Dollar Tumble as Auto Bailout Fails
12-12-2008
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Bloomberg
Asian stocks, U.S. index futures and the dollar tumbled after the Senate rejected a $14 billion automaker bailout plan for American automakers, threatening millions of jobs and a deepening of the global recession.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
In Setback for Bush, Korea Nuclear Talks Collapse
12-12-2008
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NY Times
A final push by President Bush to complete an agreement to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear weapons program collapsed Thursday, leaving the confrontation with one of the world’s most isolated and intractable nations to the administration of President-
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Rumsfeld responsible for torture
12-12-2008
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NY Times
A report released Thursday by leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee said top Bush administration officials, including Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary, bore major responsibility for the abuses committed by American troops in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Black Friday: Senate Abandons Auto Bailout Bid
12-12-2008
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NY Times
The Senate on Thursday night abandoned efforts to fashion a government rescue of the American automobile industry, as Senate Republicans refused to support a bill endorsed by the White House and Congressional Democrats.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
1950s pinup model Bettie Page dies in LA at 85
12-11-2008
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Washington Post
Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Print
Disgraced Federal Prosecutor Seeks to Punish Detroit Press Reporter
12-11-2008
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Jonathan Turley
An ex-federal prosecutor was hammered by a federal judge for his allegedly unethical conduct in the terrorism case and investigated by the Justice Dept. for his misconduct. He is now moving against a Detroit Free Press reporter who has refused to dis
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Internet
Online Journalists Now The Most Jailed
12-11-2008
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National Expositor
More online journalists are in prison globally than any other reporters working in any other medium, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. [Because they don't work for the government and ask too many questions.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Teen Posted as Sex Offender for Consensual Sex With Another Teen
12-11-2008
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Jonathan Turley
While the judge would later expunge that record, Oklahoma still insists on registering him as a high-risk sex offender " forcing him to live like a pariah and satisfy the various restrictions put in place for recidivist child molesters.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Michigan State to student: Political e-mail is spam
12-11-2008
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CNET News
Most schools encourage students to become active in campus politics. Not Michigan State University, which has filed disciplinary charges against a student leader who sent e-mail criticizing an abbreviated fall semester.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
School appeals to Supreme Court to remove student's Rights
12-11-2008
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Thomas Jefforson Center
The Watson Chapel School District has filed a petition to have the United States Supreme Court decide the legality of punishing students for wearing protest armbands.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Atheist's ideas banned in California
12-11-2008
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Jonathan Turley
The atheist billboard reading “Imagine No Religion” has been taken down shortly after it was put up in Rancho Cucamonga, California. There were 90 complaints and the city demanded its removal and the General Outdoor company was more than willing to c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man Arrested for Using Computer-Generated Picture of Real Girl Engaged in Fake Sex Act
12-11-2008
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Jonathan Turley
There could be a major criminal case emerging from Lynchburg, Virginia where prosecutors have charged Ronald Wojdyla, 57, with child pornography for superimposing his picture over a picture of an 11-year-old girl.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Armed anti-pedophile cops swoop on video site uploader
12-11-2008
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The Register
A video sharing website user who posted a clip of a man apparently swinging a baby around has had his house raided by an armed Australian police anti-pedophile squad.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge finds Simpsons sex cartoon to be child porn
12-11-2008
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Classically Liberal
Alan McEwan was charged, tried and convicted of owning child pornography in his native Australia. But, before you jump to conclusions, the alleged porn he owned was a satirical cartoon of the characters from the Simpsons.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul speaks against the auto bailout before the vote
12-11-2008
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CNN
But nobody is listening. Ron Paul says this whole bailout is a smokescreen for avoiding dealing with the real economic problems in our collapsing economy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank of America to Cut 30,000 to 35,000 Positions
12-11-08
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Bloomberg.com
The final number of job cuts won’t be decided until early next year, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said in a statement today.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
Clinton to earn about $4,700 less than Rice
12/11/2008
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Yahoo News
Sen. Hillary Clinton would make about $4,700 less as secretary of state than her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice. Congress late Wednesday lowered the salary for the nation's top diplomat to keep Clinton's nomination from running afoul of the Co
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Jim Kaiser
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bobbleheads - Kudlow, Cramer, Pelosi et al
12-09-08
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Realestateandhousing2.blogspot.com
Here are a few thoughts for those that have started thinking we might be at the bottom . . . as we are now hearing from the clowns, like Kudlow, Cramer and many of the other Bobbleheads that almost appear to be intentionally misleading us into very d
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul: Printing Money Only Prolongs The Pain (VIDEO)
12-11-08
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PropagandaMatrix.com
"Instead we just carry on doing the same old thing....we spend more money, we run up more debt, we print more money, and we think that's gonna solve the problem that was created by spending too much money, running up debt" stated the Co
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: California faces "financial Armageddon"
12-11-08
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sfgate.com/
Without action this year, the state could be staring at a deficit as great as $40 billion by June 2010, an administration official said. Schwarzenegger is expected to share the bad news with legislative leaders in a budget negotiating meeting today.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosure Storm Will Hit U.S. in ‘09 Amid Job Loss
12-11-08
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Bloomberg.com
“We’re going to see a pretty significant storm next year,” Rick Sharga, executive vice president of marketing for Irvine, California-based RealtyTrac, said in an interview. “There are two or three clouds that suggest a pretty heavy downpour.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
Obama will nuke Iran if Israel nuked, official says
12-11-08
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Rawstory.com
Under such an agreement, the United States would promise to use nuclear weapons against Iran should Israel be atomically attacked. Obama's secretary of State, Sen. Hillary Clinton, promised a similar "massive response" should Israel com
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
Clinton to earn about $4,700 less than Rice (can you say "Saxby Fix"?)
12-11-2008
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Yahoo! News
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would make about $4,700 less as secretary of state... to keep Clinton's nomination from running afoul of the Constitution.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Transportation
Ford Bailout Money Unnecessary, Company Says
12-11-2008
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Huffington Post
By shunning government loans, Ford Motor Co.'s top executives say they hope to buff up the automaker's image and set it apart from its cash-starved Detroit competitors
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Keepin' It Real Estate: Chinese Investors Smell Blood in California
12-11-08
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minyanville.com/
The Los Angeles Times paints a colorful picture of “Caravans of cash-rich Chinese in Hummers and Lincoln Navigators weaving through American neighborhoods in recent months, looking for foreclosures and other bargain properties to buy.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Baby Girl Born From Full Ovary Transplant
12-11-2008
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Huffingtonpost.com
Doctors in St. Louis said they have successfully transplanted a full ovary from a volunteer, allowing her infertile twin sister to give birth to a healthy baby girl on November 11.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
8 Really, Really Scary Predictions - Whitney, Roubini, Rogers, Shiller and more
12-11-08
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money.cnn.com/
So far we've had TARP 1.0, TARP 2.0, and TARP 3.0, and I'm certain there will be a 4.0, a 5.0, and a 6.0. There has to be, because the companies cannot raise the capital they need, which means that the default provider of capital has to be th
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Michael Ware's Tortured World: "I Am Not The Same Fucking Person"
12-11-2008
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Huffingtonpost.com
"I am not the same fucking person," he tells me. "I am not the same person. I don't know how to come home."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Taliban Support Increasing, Holds 72 % Of Afghanistan: Report
12-11-2008
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Virginia M. Moncrieff for Huffington Post
If you are currently living in Kabul, you are residing in a city with a "permanent Taliban presence" according to a new report by The International Council on Security and Development (ICOS).
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
More Minnesota Absentee Ballots Found; Franken Makes Major Push
12-11-2008
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Huffingtonpost.com
The Minnesota Senate recount campaign has firmly entered its legal stages, with Al Franken's chief counsel sending a lengthy and sharply argued memorandum to the Secretary of State's office on Thursday
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Den Of Liars
12-11-08
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Market-Ticker.denninger.net
We haven't had an expansion in GDP over the last eight years. Congress and its organs of reporting economic "facts" have lied. We have in fact actually seen about a 10% contraction in real GDP from 2000 levels; the "expansion"
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Drug War
Legalize Methamphetamine!
03-27-2006
Marc J. Victor
"I’m the last guy who ought to argue for the legalization of meth.[1] As a practicing criminal defense attorney, I make a good income from defending people who are charged with drug crimes..."
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News Link • Transportation
Coping with light-rail costs
12/11/08
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azcentral.com
Metro light rail faces plenty of challenges running its new transit system. It has trains to take care of, schedules to meet and the complex demands of planning extensions. Just as difficult: juggling the money to pay for it all. The $1.4 BILLION sp
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jobless claims hit 26-year high of 573,000
12-11-08
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Rawstory.com
"The U.S. labor market weakened further last week, with the number of first-time filings for state unemployment benefits jumping by 58,000 to a 26-year high of 573,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Largest Moon of 2008
12-11-2008
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Catherine Abbitt
The Full Cold Moon - December 12th
Sky watchers will be dazzled by an exceptionally high, bright, and large Moon. In fact, this Moon is 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full Moons this year. Why? The Moon is both in its full phase and at a p
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Catherine Abbitt
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Opinion • Corruption
Roll the bones...Get Busy!
Politics = Corruption
12/10/08
Thomas Costanzo
By Larken Rose
Politicians are crooks. Does anyone NOT know that? What's really amazing is that, despite how often they get caught doing shady things, some people apparently think that such events are unusual.
Getting CAUGHT may no
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