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Date Sent: 2009-01-02
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, January 2, 2009 |
US stocks suffer worst year since Great Depression -- Government bailout of US newspapers
Steel Industry, in Slump, Looks to U.S. Taxpayer Bailout -- Government pipe dreams on internet ratings doomed to fail -- New year = new laws -- Cash-strapped states weigh selling roads, parks -- Venezuela to seize gold concessions as oil falls -- Will President Bush Seize Pennsylvania Property for 9-11 Memorial? -- Man arrested for wearing ‘POLICE’ t-shirt at Christmas party -- 'Financial 9/11' struck over $6.9 trillion from US economy during 2008 -- Exactly What IS a Natural Born Citizen? -- ROBBIE MADDISON MAKES 2009 NEW YEARS JUMP IN LAS VEGAS!!! -- Torture enabler needs job, please help -- Mukasey's recommendation of exec privilege to hide Cheney transcript revealed -- US rescue averted 'financial collapse': Treasury claim -- Britain ready to take in Guantánamo prisoners -- Most Americans concerned about Barack Obama’s citizenship status -- Iceland’s political leaders forced from the airwaves by angry citizens -- The only juice left in the Republican Party is the Ron Paul Revolution
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, Tomorrow, 7:30AM, "Surviving the Fall of the Empire"
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Steel Industry, in Slump, Looks to U.S. Taxpayer Bailout
1-1-2008
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NY Times
The steel industry, having entered the recession in the best of health, is emerging as a leading indicator of what lies ahead. As steel production goes " and it is now in collapse " so will go the national economy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Government pipedreams on internet ratings doomed to fail
1-1-2008
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The Register
Proposals by UK Culture Secretary to introduce cinema-style ratings for websites across the globe might benefit from a little more fact-finding and a little less rhetoric. On the other hand, the danger of open-minded research, is it might just expose
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New year = new laws
1-1-2008
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Wendy McElroy
As you opened your eyes this morning, a new set of laws -- especially on the state level but federal and local as well -- descended upon your life ... whether you know it or not. Lawmakers everywhere were busy last year; they passed laws that justifi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Judge forces couples to separate every night
1-1-2008
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Classically Liberal
Angel Chandler is divorced from her husband and has custody of her daughter. Angel has been in a 9 year, same-sex relationship since her divorce. The courts make it clear that a parent may lose custody of their child if they are sleeping with someone
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Humidity Built the Snowman, Anchorage Brought Him Down
1-1-2008
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Reason
A group of small snowmen supporters were caught picketing outside of City Hall on the sidewalk, but they have since been removed. The city says the building's maintenance worker who is in charge of clearing the sidewalk of snow removed Snowzilla*
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Cash-strapped states weigh selling roads, parks
1-1-2008
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AP
Minnesota is deep in the hole financially, but the state still owns a premier golf resort, a sprawling amateur sports complex, a big airport, a major zoo and land holdings the size of the Central American country of Belize.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Venezuela to seize gold concessions as oil falls
1-1-2008
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CNBC
Venezuela will seize several gold mining concessions that previous governments granted private operators, in a bid to supplement falling oil prices with proceeds from state-controlled gold, President Hugo Chavez said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Splitsville in Shanksville: Will President Bush Seize Pennsylvania Property for 9-11 Memorial?
1-1-2008
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Jonathan Turley
There is an interesting fight brewing over the planned memorial to Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The owner of the land refuses to sell a critical part of the needed land and the relatives want President Bush to seize the property to allow t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man arrested for wearing ‘POLICE’ t-shirt at Christmas party sues officer
1-1-2008
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Blog of Bile
The city Belleville and a police officer are being sued by a man who claims he was wrongfully arrested and charged with falsely impersonating a police officer after wearing a T-shirt with the word “POLICE” written across the front and back.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
'Financial 9/11' struck over $6.9 trillion from US economy during 2008
1-01-09
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Rawstory.com
"It was beyond most people’s comprehension that such a thing could happen," Marc Pado, chief market strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald, told the Financial Times. "No one thought the short-term could be this destructive."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Report: Toyota developing solar powered green car
1-01-09
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
According to The Nikkei, Toyota is working on an electric vehicle that will get some of its power from solar cells equipped on the vehicle, and that can be recharged with electricity generated from solar panels on the roofs of homes.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
Exactly What IS a Natural Born Citizen?
01-01-2009
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plainsradio.com via e-mail
Simple eight-minute video explaining this misunderstood term.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
This Week In FRAUD
01/01/2009
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CameraFRAUD.com / 4409
Welcome to the second installment of: This Week In FRAUD! Name: Rape-van Ricky. Age: 3 (2005 Chevy Venture). Address: None - public nuisance/vagrant - usually found on sidewalks in Scottsdale.
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Homeland Security
Changing of the Guard - By Rachel Alexander
12-31-2008
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The American Spectator via Rense.com
So why has incoming president Barack Obama picked Napolitano for secretary of homeland security? (be sure to read the comments!)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Mukasey's recommendation of exec privilege to hide Cheney transcript revealed
1-1-2009
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Rawstory
The Justice Department released Attorney General Michael Mukasey's recommendation that President Bush invoke executive privilege in refusing to release to Congress transcripts of Dick Cheney's conversations with the FBI.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Torture enabler needs job, please help
1-1-2009
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Wall Street Journal
"What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?" Former Attorney General Anthony Gonzales said. "For some reason, I am portrayed as the one who is evil in formulating policies t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US rescue averted 'financial collapse': Treasury
1-1-2008
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AFP
Massive rescue efforts by the US government and central bank in recent months helped avert a "financial collapse" and are working to stabilize the economy, a Treasury report said. [Geniuses spending us into and out of recession.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Reevaluating media regulations
1-1-2009
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Variety
Even so, the incoming Obama administration faces difficult choices involving big media as the mess it's grappling with regarding the Big 3 automakers. Without some kind of action, more broadcasters, newspapers and magazines are going to die off.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Britain ready to take in Guantánamo prisoners
1-1-2009
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London Times
Britain is preparing to receive foreign terror suspects from Guantánamo Bay so that Barack Obama can shut it down. Britain now supports moves to rehouse the detainees, despite previous refusals to help President Bush.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US stocks suffer worst year since Great Depression
1-1-2009
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Financial Times
The worst annual performance for Wall Street stocks since the Great Depression ended with a modest rally on the final day of trading as the Federal Reserve pushed ahead with its plan to buy mortgage-backed securities.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Most Americans concerned about Barack Obama’s citizenship status
01/01/2009
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Daily Newscaster
Anyone who dares to question the citizenship of Barack Obama is treated as a lone crazy by the controlled press. Yet when the people are able to voice their opinion on whether or not Barack Obama is a natural born U.S. citizen...
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Icleland’s political leaders forced from the airwaves by angry citizens
01/01/2009
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Associated Press
A nationally televised meeting between Iceland’s prime minister and other political leaders was forced off the air Wednesday night when angry protesters disrupted the broadcast.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • WAR: About that War
New year brings major changes to Boston
01-01-2009
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Yannone.blogspot.com
As the clock strikes 12, Iraq hands US control of the Blue Zone.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Government bailout of U.S. newspapers
1-1-2009
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Reuters
[Smelling the fascism yet?] Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty. But others think he and his colleagues are setting a worrisome precedent for government involvement in the U.S. press.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The only juice left in the Republican Party is the Ron Paul Revolution
01/01/2009
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Daily Newscaster
The talking heads are offer up their talking points about the chosen CFR candidates like software being downloaded to a computer but things get slightly off script when Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation says, the only juice left in the Repu
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D. H. Williams
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