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Date Sent: 2008-12-21
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, December 22, 2008 (Pt. 1) |
Hedge funds gain $200 Billion bailout -- Afghanistan could get up to 30,000 new US troops
Kissinger Calls For New International System Out Of World Crises -- Young people watch less TV -- China blocks access to NY Times web site -- Winter Slamming Northeast & Northwest -- Protectionist dominoes are beginning to tumble -- Median home price in S. California below $300,000 -- US to replace British forces in Iraq -- Denver Airport: Boeing 737 Plane Skids Off Runway and Burns -- California Woman Receives Bionic i-LIMB Hand -- Gen. George S. Patton was assassinated -- Cheney: If president does it during wartime, it's legal -- Mobile police tower guards Georgia shoppers -- America's freedom fighters are called to action -- Biden: US Economy in Danger of 'Absolutely Tanking' -- Deterring Torture Through the Law - By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern -- The Effort to Dismantle Our Constitution -- Americans sell possessions, buy used to cut costs -- Technical Wizard Who Created White House E-Mail System Dies in Plane Crash -- Obama's Chief of Staff talked directly with Blago about getting Obama's $enate $eat -- 'White vigilantes' shot black neighbors without consequences in Katrina aftermath -- Mo. begins prosecuting under cyberbullying law -- RIAA to stop piracy lawsuits; go after ISPs -- DC officer pleads guilty to unprovoked assault on protester -- Wikileaks Posts Secret Bomb-Stopper Report -- Schwarzenegger may force unpaid time off for state employees -- Kissinger: "Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people." -- Castro proposes prisoner swap for US talks
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News Link • Conspiracies
One of my sources died in a plane crash last night...
12-21-2008
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By Larisa Alexandrovna via AfterDowningStreet
a key witness in the Ohio election fraud case & Mike Connell set-up the alternate email and communications system for the White House. He was responsible for creating the system that hosted the infamous GWB43.com accounts that Karl Rove and others us
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Kissinger Calls For New International System Out Of World Crises (VIDEO)
12-21-2008
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PrisonPlanet.com
Says global necessities should foster an “age of compatible interests” (Here.....We.....Go!)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Study: Young people watch less TV
12-21-2008
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www.hollywoodreporter.com
But while Millennials are watching the least amount of TV, they are spending the most time with media in general, making that up with video games, music and the Internet.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
China blocks access to New York Times Web site
12-21-2008
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apnews.myway.com
BEIJING (AP) - China has blocked access to the New York Times Web site, the newspaper said Saturday, days after the central government defended its right to censor online content it deems illegal.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Winter Slamming Northeast & Northwest
12-21-2008
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www.weather.com
Another major winter storm will move through the Northeast today. A major winter storm is also impacting the Pacific Northwest with heavy snow and gusty winds, with heavy rain possible near the coast.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Hedge funds gain access to $200bn Fed aid
12-21-2008
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Financial Times
Hedge funds will be allowed to borrow from the Federal Reserve for the first time under a landmark $200bn programme intended to support consumer credit. (WHAT?????????????)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
A World Enslaved
12-21-2008
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Foriegn Policy
There are now more slaves on the planet than at any time in human history. True abolition will elude us until we admit the massive scope of the problem, attack it in all its forms, and empower slaves to help free themselves.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Protectionist dominoes are beginning to tumble across the world
12-21-08
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telegraph.co.uk/finance/
"If we are not able to do that, then social unrest may happen in many countries, including advanced economies. We are facing an unprecedented decline in output. All around the planet, the people have reacted with feelings going from surprise to
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Median home price in Southern California falls below $300,000
12-21-08
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seattletimes.nwsource.com/
The November median price was down 34.5 percent from a year ago and 43.6 percent below the peak price of $505,000 recorded during several months in 2007, the San Diego real-estate information service MDA DataQuick reported this past week.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US to replace British forces in southern Iraq
12-21-2008
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HuffingtonPost.com
BASRA, Iraq " American troops will move into southern Iraq early next year to replace departing British forces, the top U.S. general in Iraq said.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Denver Airport: Boeing 737 Plane Skids Off Runway and Burns
12-21-2008
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HuffingtonPost.com
The 110 passengers and five crew members made it out on emergency slides, and firefighters extinguished the flames quickly, Green said.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Internet connection cut between Europe, Asia and Africa (AGAIN?)
12-21-2008
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www.guardian.co.uk
Millions of internet and telephone users across the Middle East and south Asia are struggling to get connections after damage to undersea cables linking Europe, Africa and Asia took down a major route for internet traffic.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
California Woman Receives Bionic i-LIMB Hand
12-21-2008
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www.bio-medicine.org
Touch Bionics' i-LIMB™ Hand, the world's first fully-articulating and commercially-available bionic hand, coupled with the innovative selective compression-stabilization interface system.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
The Warning
12-21-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
This short video is a trailer for a new movie about the destruction of our constitution.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Unusual microbial ropes grow slowly in cave lake
12-21-2008
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www.bio-medicine.org
Deep inside the Frasassi cave system in Italy and more than 1,600 feet below the Earth's surface, divers found filamentous ropes of microbes growing in the cold water
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders
12-21-08
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Telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/
Patton, who distrusted the Russians, believed Eisenhower wrongly prevented him closing the so-called Falaise Gap in the autumn of 1944, allowing hundreds of thousands of German troops to escape to fight again,. This led to the deaths of thousands of
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
Cheney: If president does it during wartime, it's legal
12-21-08
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Rawstory.com
"He could launch the kind of devastating attack the world has never seen," Cheney said. "He doesn't have to check with anybody, he doesn't have to call Congress, he doesn't have to check with the courts, he has that authori
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Mobile police tower guards Marietta Georgia shoppers The USSA is coming are you ready?
12-21-2008
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http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/storie
Ann Dejarnett went about her shopping at the Kroger on Whitlock Avenue in Marietta with a lot more comfort knowing there was an extra pair of eyes watching.
The Marietta police department’s Skywatch Tower was high above the parking lot Monday afte
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Constitution
Emergency Response: America's freedom fighters are called to action
12-20-2008
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Robert L. Schulz
Unceasing violations of the United States Constitution call for defense against domestic enemies. This is why you took that oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. This is the time.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Your request is being processed... RIAA To Stop Suing Music Swappers
12-20-2008
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HuffingtonPost.com
The group representing the U.S. recording industry said Friday it has abandoned its policy of suing people for sharing songs protected by copyright and will work with Internet service providers to cut abusers' access if they ignore repeated warni
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Biden: U.S. Economy in Danger of 'Absolutely Tanking' (VIDEO)
12-20-2008
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ABC
"The economy is in much worse shape than we thought it was in," Biden told me during an exclusive interview -- his first since becoming vice president-elect-- to air this Sunday on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghanistan to get 30,000 new US troops
12-20-2008
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AP
[change] The top U.S. military officer said Saturday that the Pentagon could double the number of American forces in Afghanistan by next summer to 60,000 - the largest estimate of potential reinforcements ever publicly suggested.
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Powell Gammill
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Letters to the Editor
• More about Police State
Black Helicopters in Phoenix
Written by: Ernest Hancock
(Below is an email from a FreedomsPhoenix reader here in Arizona. It caught my interest because that same day a friend of mine that was visiting from out of state and I were sitting outside in my front yard when a single low flying Black Blackhawk
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
4 foes of Arpaio arrested at supervisors meeting (w/video)
12-20-2008
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East Valley Tribune
Sheriff’s deputies and county Protective Service officers arrested two men and two women in the middle of the meeting when they stood and applauded a speaker who criticized Arpaio.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Americans sell possessions, buy used to cut costs
12-20-08
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Reuters.com/
"Every morning we open up these doors, people are there, lined up to the door," said Dollard, sweeping her hand at a snaking pile of used goods waiting to be appraised at the Once Upon A Child store in the Cincinnati suburbs.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bush Administration
Technical Wizard Who Created White House E-Mail System Dies in Plane Crash
12-20-08
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Atlargely.com
You see, Mike Connell set-up the alternate email and communications system for the White House. He was responsible for creating the system that hosted the infamous GWB43.com accounts that Karl Rove and others used.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Obama's Chief of Staff talked directly with Blago about getting Obama's $enate $eat
12-20-2008
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Chicago Sun-Times
President-elect Barack Obama's incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had a deeper involvement in pressing for a US Senate seat appointment than previously reported. Emanuel had direct discussions about the seat with indicted Gov. Blagojevich
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
'White vigilantes' shot black neighbors without consequences in Katrina aftermath
12-20-2008
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Rawstory
At least 11 black people were shot by white gunmen in the days following Hurricane Katrina's destruction of New Orleans, and in the three years since those crimes, little has been done by law enforcement.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Mo. begins prosecuting under cyberbullying law
12-20-2008
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AP
A 21-year-old woman accused of sending a vulgar text message to a 17-year-old girl is one of the first cases brought under a law against cyberbullying spurred by the suicide of a teenage girl following cruel messages on the Internet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
RIAA to stop piracy lawsuits; go after ISPs
12-20-2008
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AFP
The US recording association said Friday that it will stop suing people who download music illegally and focus instead on getting Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to take action.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
D.C. officer pleads guilty to unprovoked assault on protester
12-20-2008
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Rawstory
A police officer for Washington, D.C. pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault on a protester he beat in the face with a riot stick nearly four nears ago. He threw the protester to the ground, lifted up his head and hit him across the face w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Wikileaks Posts Secret Bomb-Stopper Report " Did It Go Too Far?
12-20-2008
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Wired
In July, 2005, I asked a member of a Baghdad-based military bomb squad about the radio-frequency jammers his team was using to cut off signals to Iraq's remotely detonated explosives. "I can't even begin to say the first thing about '
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
"Lizard People" invade Franken Senate Recount
12-20-2008
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Crooks & Liars (video)
The now famous "Lizard People" ballot was judged yesterday. Norm Coleman's challenge was duly rejected, and the Lizard People went to Al Franken. Thanks to the great work of the people at The Uptake we now have this moment recorded for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama names Global Warmers to science posts
12-20-2008
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AP
President-elect Barack Obama named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Schwarzenegger may force unpaid time off for state employees
12-20-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may force all state workers to take two days of unpaid leave each month to conserve money ... The practice would begin in February and would last through June 2010 ...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
"Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people."
12-17-08
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LondonBanker.blogspot.com
The origins of the current food crisis can be traced to the recycled policies of the Nixon White House. Henry Kissinger stated the premise succinctly in 1970: "Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
The Effort to Dismantle Our Constitution (ConCon)
12-19-2008
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SweetLiberty.com
After the completion of the proposed Newstates Constitution (1974), Nelson Rockefeller, then president of the U.S. Senate, engineered the introduction of HCR 28 calling for an unlimited Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) in 1976.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Castro proposes prisoner swap for U.S. talks
12-20-2008
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Reuters
Cuban President Raul Castro proposed on Thursday a swap of prisoners with the United States as a goodwill "gesture" to pave the way for talks with incoming U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • LOVE
Marriage Freedom: Love, not Law!!
Mike Shipley
The modern marriage license grants power to the state in nearly 1200 different ways to control your property. They are sold to you as "rights"... but they are more aptly described as "intrusions".
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