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Date Sent: 2008-12-27
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
Police Say Vet Made, Sold IEDs to Gangs -- Did Bush Sr. Kill Kennedy and Frame Nixon?
Like Many States, Ohio Reaches for A Lifeline -- Will the U.S. Break Up? -- US police could get 'pain beam' weapons -- The Next Wave of State Taxes -- 10% to 26% of retailers in financial distress and in danger of Chapter 11 -- "I've tortured and raped in Iraq" -- Rubicon in the Rear-View, Part III: En Route to Military Rule - by Will Grigg -- Congress bows to the exiting emperor - by Paul Jacob -- Bush's $1 Trillion War on Terror: Even Costlier Than Expected -- Taliban threaten to kill Pakistani schoolgirls -- Beverly Hills doctor powered his SUV with patients' liposucked fat -- S&P finishes down 40% this year -- Storm blankets West with snow, ice glazes Midwest -- Pakistan moves troops toward Indian border -- Israel Prepares To Invade Gaza -- The hockey stick that wrecked the economy - by Craig Cantoni -- US forces must get court approval for Iraq raids -- Americans prefer Web over papers for news, but TV still #1 -- Holiday Sales Tumble -- The Abortion Bailout Package -- Phoenix's budget gap grows to over 20% -- The Economic Collapse of 2009 (Part Two) - by Dave Hodges -- 70% of People will Torture if Ordered -- Early Suspicions About Bernard Madoff - by Stephen Lendman -- Protectionist dominoes are beginning to tumble across the world
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News Link • Obama Administration
Like Many Mismanaged States, Ohio Reaches for A Taxpayer Bailout
12-27-2008
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NY Times
As the economy sputters and tax revenue plummets, governors and mayors across the United States are lining up to ask President-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress for hundreds of billions of dollars to plug holes in their budgets, arguing that se
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Will the U.S. Break Up?
12-26-2007
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National Expositor
America has some 300 million people, 50 states, and more federal, state and local agencies than anyone can list. It is hard to govern such a large, complex and populous system when anything goes seriously wrong. A lot is going wrong now.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
US police could get 'pain beam' weapons
12-26-2008
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New Scientist
The research arm of the US Department of Justice is working on two portable non-lethal weapons that inflict pain from a distance using beams of laser light or microwaves, with the intention of putting them into the hands of police to subdue suspects.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
The Next Wave of State Taxes
12-26-2008
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Wall Street Journal
"My view is that cuts will become significant and touch enough people that tax increases will be more viable than they have been in the past," says Scott Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers in W
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Disingenuous New York Times Story on Global Imbalances
12-26-2008
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Naked Capitalism
The article buys, hook, line and sinker, then- Fed-governor Ben Bernanke's depiction of so-called global imbalances (the US borrowing from abroad to fund overconsumption; Japan, China, Taiwan, and the Gulf States running significant, persistent t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Here's to Life: Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008
12-26-2008
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Classically Liberal
Kitt, to the horror of everyone involved, discussed how the draft for the war in Vietnam was devastating to children. This candor was not appreciated by Johnson and the U.S. government began a campaign to harass Kitt. Her phone was bugged, she was in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Alderman wants Delmar named "Barack Obama Boulevard"
12/26/08
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www.ksdk.com
How long before he is knighted and known as Saint Obama? [Ed] A St. Louis alderman wants a stretch of Delmar Boulevard named for President-elect Barack Obama. Alderman Kacie Starr Triplett of the city's 6th Ward plans to introduce legislation Fri
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Giant snowman rises again in Alaska " mysteriously
12-26-2008
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AP
A giant snowman named Snowzilla has mysteriously appeared again this year " despite the city's cease-and-desist order. Someone again built the giant snowman in Billy Powers' front yard. When questioned he insisted Snowzilla just happened, aga
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Santa at bailout hearings
12-26-2008
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Youtube
C-SPAN coverage of Santa Claus asking Congress for a financial bailout of the North Pole - Present Giving Industry. If they don't approve his aid package, Christmas may be ruined.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Highly-Paid People Poo-Poo Profits
12-26-2008
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Bloody Mary Breakfast
The Washington Post takes a dig at for-profit loan modification firms, intimating fraud without evidence of fraud. To bolster the case, columnist Renae Merle relies on disparaging quotes from people well paid with profits of armed robbery.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Analysts: 10% to 26% of retailers in financial distress and in danger of Chapter 11
12-26-08
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Calculatedriskblog.com & WSJ.com
More Bankruptcies: Corporate-turnaround experts and bankruptcy lawyers are predicting a wave of retailer bankruptcies early next year, after being contacted by big and small retailers either preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection or s
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Dollar Shift: Chinese Pockets Filled as Americans’ Emptied
12-26-2008
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New York Times
"The problem, he said, was not that Americans spend too much, but that foreigners save too much. The Chinese have piled up so much excess savings that they lend money to the United States at low rates, underwriting American consumption."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
"I've tortured and raped in Iraq"
12-26-2008
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YouTube
An American soldier boasts of having tortured Iraqis and making a 15 years old Iraqi girl commit suicide after she had been raped. (WARNING: Not for the Holidays! - This is what WAR does to soldiers and now Obama is sending another 30k to Afghanistan
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Rubicon in the Rear-View, Part III: En Route to Military Rule
by Will Grigg
12-26-2008
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Pro Liberate
"We no longer have a civilian-led government." Thomas Schweich, who was deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement affairs in the Bush Regime "The silent military coup d’etat that has been steadily gaining gr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
millions of monkeys
12-26-2008
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GNN.tv
A parable for our time: Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Blind, Yet Seeing: The Brain’s Subconscious Visual Sense
12-26-2008
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NY Times
The eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. Blindsight: A patient whose visual lobes in the brain were destroyed was able to navigate an obstacle course and recognize fearful faces subconsciously without aid.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Congress bows to the exiting emperor
by Paul Jacob
12-26-2008
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Green County Dailies
Over the years, and with the growth of government, Congress has delegated more and more of its powers to the executive branch, in some cases to the agency of the bureaucracies, in others to the person of the president.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
George Carlin sets it strait
12-26-2008
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Youtube
It isn't funny, but it is Carlin at his prescient best.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bush's $1 Trillion War on Terror: Even Costlier Than Expected
12-26-2008
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Time
[Anyone who doesn't think we past this amount years ago?] President Bush's war on terror will soon have cost the U.S. taxpayer $1 trillion " and counting " is unlikely to spread much Christmas cheer in these tough economic times.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Taliban threaten to kill Pakistani schoolgirls
12-26-2008
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AFP
Taliban extremists in Pakistan's troubled northwest Swat valley have banned girls from attending school, threatening to kill any female students, officials said Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Police Say Vet Made, Sold IEDs to Gangs
12-26-2008
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Military
Police spent the day searching the house of a decorated, two-tour Iraq war veteran after he was arrested and charged with making explosive devices and attempting to sell them to gang members, according to a probable cause affidavit.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Beverly Hills doctor powered his SUV with patients' liposucked fat
12-26-2008
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Forbes
Liposuctioning unwanted blubber out of pampered Los Angelenos may not seem like a dream job, but it has its perks. Free fuel is one of them. Beverly Hills doctor turned the fat he removed from patients into biodiesel that fueled his SUV
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
S&P finishes down 40% this year
12-26-2008
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Financial Times
The S&P is down more than 40 per cent so far this year, its worst fall since the Great Depression. Most analysts expect that the more than year-long recession will get worse before it gets better and investors are bracing themselves for more pain in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Radio
Freedom Fighter Radio Hacked
12-26-2008
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http://freedomfighterradio.net/?p=3273
Alternative Talk Radio’s Freedom Fighter Radio program, website and host’s personal computer were recently hacked. Jim Stachowiak, the program host, said the attack seemed to be an all-out assault. The entire program archives, website content and his
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Storm blankets West with snow, ice glazes Midwest
12-26-2008
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AP
Yet another snowstorm pummeled parts of the West on Friday, snarling post-holiday traffic and darkening lights on Christmas trees, and freezing rain covered some Midwest highways with a dangerous sheet of ice. Winter storm warnings were issued Friday
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Pakistan moves troops toward Indian border
12-26-2008
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AP
Pakistan began moving thousands of troops away from the Afghan border toward India amid tensions following the Mumbai attacks. The move represents a sharp escalation in the standoff between the nuclear-armed neighbors
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel Prepares To Invade Gaza
12-26-2008
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AFP
All signs seem to indicate that Israel is preparing an offensive in the Gaza Strip after about 100 rockets and mortar shells were fired across the border over the last two days. The rocket attacks came after a cease-fire between the two sides expired
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Slow Starvation of Brain Triggers Alzheimer's
12-26-2008
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LiveScience
When the brain doesn't get enough of the simple sugar called glucose a process is launched that ultimately produces the sticky clumps of protein that appear to be a cause of Alzheimer's.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Spirituality Spot Found in Brain
12-26-2008
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LiveScience
What makes us feel spiritual? It could be the quieting of a small area in our brains, a new study suggests. The area in question " the right parietal lobe " is responsible for defining "Me," said researcher Brick Johnstone of Missouri Unive
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Apple's Depression Strategy: Sell iPhones at Wal-Mart
12-26-08
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tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/
Wal-Mart will start selling Apple's popular iPhone on Sunday, the chain said, confirming earlier reports by employees.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Mormons well-served by self-reliance in hard times
12-26-2008
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AP
Mormons may be among the country's best prepared to weather the current economic hard times. Since the Great Depression, church leaders have preached a doctrine of self-reliance and selflessness, calling on members to plan for their own future wh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US forces must get court approval for Iraq raids
12-26-2008
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London Times
US soldiers have had to learn new tactics, develop new defenses, make new allies and fine-tune the way they raid their enemies’ hideouts. Now they are having to learn another skill in the fight against Iraqi insurgents: applying for an arrest warrant
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Japan November industrial output falls 'off the cliff'
12-26-08
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MarketWatch.com
Industrial production fell as much as 8.1% in November from the previous month -- the biggest drop in the measure since the government started releasing comparable figures in 1953 -- as Japanese companies produced less automobiles and other machinery
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Did Bush Sr. Kill Kennedy and Frame Nixon?
12-26-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
If you buy into the basic outlines of it, you come up against a history of American politics in which our top "elected" officials are not just chosen through a process openly corrupted by money and media and parties, but are also chosen thr
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Media: Internet
Survey: Americans prefer Web over papers to read news - TV number one
12-24-08
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Rawstory.com
Television, however, remains the preferred medium for Americans, according to the survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
A New Liberty Now
12-26-08
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PrisonPlanet.com
Once you are exposed to the complete picture " and For a New Liberty has been the leading means of exposure for more than a quarter of a century " you cannot forget it. It becomes the indispensable lens through which we can see events in the real wor
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Holiday Sales Tumble as U.S. Consumers Cut Spending
12-26-08
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Bloomberg.com
Consumers spent at least 20 percent less on women’s clothing, electronics and jewelry during November and December, resulting in what may be the biggest holiday-shopping sales decline in four decades.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Phoenix's budget gap grows to over 20 percent as economy falters
12-26-08
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azcentral.com/
In September, Phoenix officials had pegged the estimated deficit at $250 million, or about 20 percent of Phoenix's $1.2 billion general fund, which pays for police, parks and other basic services.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Media: Television
TV show latest offbeat tactic for Sheriff Joe Arpaio
12-26-08
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azcentral.com/
A cross between "Punk'd" and "Cops," the program sets up elaborate sting operations to snare people wanted on outstanding warrants. Actors and undercover deputies play along in faux scenarios where scofflaws are enticed to hav
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Abortion Bailout Package
12-26-2008
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Christian News Wire
Abortion groups have submitted their 50 page proposal to the Obama-Biden transition team. At the top of the list? More taxpayer dollars for abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood. How much more? Over 1.5 billion dollars more!
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Catherine Abbitt
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News Link • Torture
Replication of Milgram's Shocking Experiments Proves 70% of People will Torture if Ordered
12-26-2008
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Natural News
The Milgram experiments from the early 1960's are classic (but shocking) studies that demonstrated the "sheeple-ness" of people everywhere. In the experiments -- which have been replicated numerous times across multiple cultures, races
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Catherine Abbitt
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News Link • World News
Protectionist dominoes are beginning to tumble across the world
12-26-2008
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambrose
The riots have begun. Civil protest is breaking out in cities across Russia, China, and beyond. Greece has been in turmoil for 11 days. The mood seems to have turned “pre-insurrectionary” in parts of Athens - to borrow from the Marxist handbook.
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