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Date Sent: 2008-12-20
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, December 20, 2008 |
Paulson Urges Next $350 Billion -- Auto makers to get more than $17 billion in loans from Bush
CA AG Urges Voiding California Proposition 8 -- Ohio Constitutional Convention Resolution Killed by Grassroots Pressure -- You get a pink slip. Congress gets a raise. -- Chinese sailors fight off pirates with Molotov cocktails -- Cheney claims power to decide his own case -- Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication -- David Nolan: What Happened to the Libertarian Party? -- Cop: Blagojevich was mob-connected bookie -- Researchers Plan to Simulate Movements of 300 Million Americans -- Homeland Security Obedience Training - by Terry Bressi -- Robin Williams on Obama’s Election -- FDA Declares Mercury in Fish Safe for Infants, Children, Expectant Mothers -- Danish Supercar Sports 1,104 Horsepower -- Wired: It's Time to Raise the Gas Tax -- US military mobilizes troops for inauguration -- Ohio official in 'Joe the Plumber' flap resigns -- 3 Russian warships visit Cold War ally Cuba -- New York oil price slumps below $34 a barrel -- Obama's New Appointments - by Stephen Lendman -- Legal minds respond to landmark 9/11 civil suit against Rumsfeld, Cheney -- Gov. Napolitano signs order allowing state workers to unionize -- The Great Global Warming Swindle - Documentary Film -- Twelve Major Banks Have Credit Ratings Cut by S&P -- People 'still willing to torture' - If Told to By an Authority Figure -- Japan Government to Buy 20 Trillion Yen in Stock to Support Their Markets
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
CA AG Urges Voiding California Proposition 8
12-20-2008
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NY Times
In a sharp rebuke to supporters of a contested state ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage, the California attorney general said Friday that the measure was constitutionally indefensible and should be overturned.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ohio Constitutional Convention Resolution Killed by Grassroots Pressure
12-19-2008
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New American
On December 10 the Judiciary Committee of the Ohio House held a hearing on House Joint Resolution No. 8, “Applying to the Congress of the United States pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution to call a constitutional convention
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America Will Soon Owe More Than Its Citizens Are Worth
12-19-2008
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Peter G. Peterson Foundation
"Given more recent developments, it's clear that America now owes more than its citizens are worth," said Foundation President and CEO David M. Walker. "Passing this shocking milestone highlights the need for President-elect Obama
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
You get a pink slip. Congress gets a raise.
12-19-2008
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The Hill
A crumbling economy, 2 million constituents have lost their jobs and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay. They will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to $2.5 million that taxpayers will
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Desperate Chinese sailors fight off Somali pirates with beer bottles and Molotov cocktails
12-19-2008
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Daily Mail
Keeping low to avoid being shot, a sailor lights a Molotov cocktail before throwing it at Somali pirates trying to board his ship. He and his crewmates were expecting trouble and had prepared dozens of the makeshift grenades to repel an invasion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Aussie couple lose home via Facebook
12/19/2008
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NZ Herald
A legal move believed to be a world first has opened the way for New Zealanders to be served legal documents through their Facebook sites. Canberra lawyer Mark McCormack expects other courts will follow his lead.
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Westboro Baptist Strikes Again
12/19/2008
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The Deepest Circle of Hell
REPENT, SINNERS!! You're all of a bunch of pagans who are going to hell, and you have only yourself to blame for worshiping the false idol called "Fag Santa". God Hates You, yes YOU!! PS... Put the solstice back in Yule...
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Mike Shipley
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News Link • Bush Administration
Cheney claims power to decide his own case
12-19-2008
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RawStory
That's the message Vice President Dick Cheney appeared to send in a little-noticed court filing last week, in which his lawyers asserted that the vice president alone has the authority to determine which records are turned over to the National Ar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication
12-19-2008
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Bloomberg
Submarine Cables that are responsible for Internet and telephone communications between the Asia and Europe are reportedly cut down between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. In this mysterious activity all 3 major undersea cables called SE-ME
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
"Question 46," Revisited
by Will Grigg
12-19-2008
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Pro Liberate
“The US government declares a ban on the possession, sale, transportation, and transfer of all non-sporting firearms. A 30 day amnesty period is permitted for these firearms to be turned over to the local authorities. At the end of this period, a num
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
FBI informant: Blagojevich was mob-connected bookie
12-19-2008
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RawStory
Attorney and former police officer Robert Cooley claims that back when he was doing undercover work for the FBI in the late 1980's, Blagojevich was a bookie on the North Side of Chicago who was making payoffs to the mob.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Researchers Plan to Simulate Movements of 300 Million Americans
12-19-2008
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PhysOrg
Researchers from Virginia Tech are developing a computer simulation that matches the movements of all 300 million people in towns across the US. The team hopes that the model will help them understand the spread of contagious diseases, fads, and traf
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Obedience Training
Terry Bressi
Instead of protecting the traveling public, these checkpoints primarily serve as exercises in obedience training through dominance games along public highways. While such suspicionless enforcement tactics are commonplace in 3rd world dictatorships, t
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News Link • Food
FDA Stuns Scientists again, Declares Mercury in Fish to be Safe for Infants, Children, Expectant Mot
12/18/2008
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WARONYOU
In a truly astonishing betrayal of public safety (even for the FDA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today revoked its warning about mercury in fish, saying that eating mercury-contaminated fish no longer poses any health threat to children, pr
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War Onyou
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News Link • Humor
Robin Williams on Obama’s Election
11-30-2008
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Political Irony.com
Nine minute video of Robin Williams at his best on Obama, the election, the candidates, and recent political events.
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
It's Time to Raise the Gas Tax (this from Wired Magazine???)
12-19-2008
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Wired
With oil prices at a four-year low, now is the time to act. We must increase the gas tax to cut consumption, generate revenue to repair roads, finance mass transit and and put us on a path toward true energy independence.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Transportation
Danish Supercar Sports 1,104 Horsepower
12-19-2008
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Wired
Danish boutique automaker Zenvo Automotive had exactly one goal in mind when it designed the ST1 hyper-exotic: build "a real supercar with excessive power."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Gran Torino: Drama. Starring Clint Eastwood
12-19-2008
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San Francisco Chronicle
Gramps prevents a street gang from assaulting one of his neighbors. "Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have f- with?" he says in his cool growl. "That's me."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
US military mobilizes troops for inauguration
12-19-2008
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM
Holy fascist police state, Batman! US military mobilizes troops for inauguration "7,500 active duty troops and 4,000 national guard troops will take part in operations
The US military plans to mobilize thousands of troops to protect Washington aga
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • WAR: About that War
"Was there anything Saddam Hussein could have stopped that war?"
12-19-2008
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HuffingtonPost.com
Chris Matthews Eviscerates Neocon Frank Gaffney: "4,000 People Are Dead Because Of The Way You Feel" (VIDEO)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
A Map of Death
12-19-2008
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Popular Science
Ever wondered the likelihood of dying in a natural disaster like an earthquake or hurricane? A new mapping tool shows just that. (Arizona in line for a Federal Subsidy now?)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Science Gives That Natural Hair Look
12-19-2008
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Popular Science
In the newest installment of "As Seen On TV," we look at modern medicine's greatest achievement. No, not the cure for smallpox, the cure for baldness
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
Show Me the Money
12-19-2008
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Popular Science
Nothing inspires innovation like a seven-figure check, which is why more and more private and government sources are offering big money for creative technologies -- and plenty of Americans are rising to the challenge.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
3 Russian warships visit Cold War ally Cuba
12-19-2008
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International Herald Tribune
HAVANA: A Russian anti-submarine destroyer and two logistical warships docked in Cuba on Friday, a thumb-your-nose port call aimed at Washington in waters just 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Florida.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Ohio official in 'Joe the Plumber' flap resigns
12-19-2008
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Yahoo News
An Ohio agency director resigned Wednesday in the wake of a finding that she improperly used state computers to access personal information on the man who became known as "Joe the Plumber" during the presidential campaign.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
New York oil price slumps below $34 a barrel
12-19-2008
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Breibart.com
The price of New York oil sank under 34 dollars per barrel on Friday for the first time for more than four and a half years, as weak global demand overshadowed a record OPEC output cut, traders said.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Solar car completes first world tour
12-19-2008
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RawStory.com
"One of my goals was to persuade as many people as possible that renewable energy is ecological, economical and reliable," Palmer told reporters.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Legal minds respond to landmark 9/11 civil suit against Rumsfeld, Cheney
12-19-2008
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RawStory.com
The suit alleges they engaged in conspiracy to facilitate the terrorist attacks and purposefully failed to warn those inside the Pentagon, contributing to injuries she and her two-month-old son incurred
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Torture
People 'still willing to torture' - If Told to By an Authority Figure
12-19-08
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News.BBC.co.uk
US researchers repeated the famous "Milgram test", with volunteers told to deliver electrical shocks to another volunteer - played by an actor.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Twelve Major Banks Have Credit Ratings Cut by S&P
12-19-08
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CNBC.com/
Standard & Poor's lowered the credit ratings and outlooks for 12 major U.S. and European banks Friday, including Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, citing increasing industry risk and a deepening economic slowdown.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Auto makers to get more than $17 billion in loans
12-19-08
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Marketwatch.com
The White House announced plans Friday to extend $13.4 billion in loans to troubled Detroit auto makers, with another $4 billion likely available in February, citing the need to avoid "disorderly liquidation" during an already troubled econ
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Environment
The Great Global Warming Swindle - Documentary Film
The programme, to be screened on Channel 4 on Thursday March 8, will see a series of respected scientists attack the "propaganda" that they claim is killing the world's poor.
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan Government to Buy 20 Trillion Yen in Stock to Support Their Markets
12-19-08
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Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com
You have to wonder why they just don't give money directly to their people, and allow them to use their discretion to invest and consume, rather than use the money to prop up a zombie market at the direction of a central planning bureaucracy.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bush Administration
Paulson Urges Release of Next $350 Billion From TARP
12-19-08
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Bloomberg.com
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged Congress to release the second half of the $700 billion financial rescue fund after exhausting the first $350 billion in less than three months.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Madoff equals Social Security
12-19-2008
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Karmabanque Radio
Max Keiser being interviewed about the Madoff scheme, and explains that Social Security works in the same manner. I find it quite revealing that this interview is being conducted from Tehran, and not New York.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Police State
Police Get The Wrong House In Galveston, Allegedly Assault 12-Year-Old Girl
12-19-2008
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Houston Press
After the incident, Dymond was hospitalized and suffered black eyes as well as throat and ear drum injuries.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
Frost vs Nixon
12-19-2008
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www.frostnixon.com
In 1977, Sir David Frost conducted a gripping, candid interview with President Richard Nixon that shook the world and changed our perceptions and beliefs forever.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Secret Societies
Bilderberg Economist Says “Print Money ”
12-19-2008
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PrisonPlanet.com
At long last, the world’s economic leaders are swinging into action. The US Federal Reserve could have done what it did on Tuesday night - slashing US interest rates to absolute zero and announcing that it would print money without limit
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul: Fear Based Bailouts Constitute Economic Terrorism
12-19-2008
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PrisonPlanet.com
Texas Congressman Ron Paul has hit out at US monetary policy, warning that fear based politics are being used to promote the bailout culture in the same way they were used to sell the Iraq war.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Bloomberg Misquotes Ron Paul Seconds After He Speaks
12-19-2008
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PrisonPlanet.com
Another embarrassing corporate media faux pas was revealed when, during an interview with Congressman Ron Paul, Bloomberg put up a caption seconds after Paul called for less financial regulation, claiming that he had called for more.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Griffins 4 millionth fan to get 4 million...Zimbabwean dollars
12-19-2008
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GriffinsHockey
No. 4 million will then be honored in an on-ice ceremony during the first intermission, where he or she will receive a prize package including:
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Roll the bones...Get Busy!
Obama Health Care Community Discussion
12/19/08
Thomas Costanzo
The Obama-Biden Transition Team has invited people across the country to hold community discussions on health care reform to give input to the administration. The invitation went out last week, and we have until December 31st to hold these discussion
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News Link • Obama Administration
IMPOSTOR PRESIDENT OBAMA: VICTORY WILL BE SHORT LIVED
12/19/08
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http://www.newswithviews.com/
Everyday my mail box is filled with requests to investigate corruption at all levels of government. It's regrettable that so much time and effort has to be directed in exposing Barack Hussein Obama aka Barry Soetoro, aka Barry Obama, aka Barack D
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Thomas Costanzo
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