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Date Sent: 2008-11-04
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, November 4, 2008 |
Government to borrow a record $550B this quarter -- Fed needs to sell 10 times last years debt
We Are Freeing Ourselves - by Ernest Hancock -- Bill passes giving NY mayor third term -- Guantanamo Jury Sentences Bin Laden Aide to Life Term -- Conviction in Spy Case Over Cash-Filled Suitcase -- Letter to Maricopa County Elections Director, Karen Osborne -- Educating Voters - by Brock Lorber -- What Do You Really Want? - by Christine Smith -- Obama vows to destroy the American Coal Industry -- Missing juror lied about father's death and went to horse races -- The Election is Over, We Lost, Time For Revolution - by Szandor Blestman -- Worst Month Since WWII: GM U.S. October Sales Crash Over 45% -- Bar-goers to be tested for drugs -- Fed Squirming Over Fannie and Freddie Agency Debt Guarantee -- Ford: Auto sales fall 30% in October -- Maricopa County Election Fraud - observers demonstrate how -- Russian President Medvedev: US to blame for global financial crisis -- Argentina Government Siezes Private Pension Funds -- Circuit City Announces Closure of 155 Stores -- Fed 'Bailout' cash lures 1,800 banks to get in line for a handout -- Impeach McCain Obama preparing for then: NOW! -- More from the Front Lines of the Financial Crisis - by Stephen Lendman -- Bill Fleckenstein: The Economic Crisis is Still Taking Batting Practice -- This Rage To Vote America Back To The Cave - Edwin Sumcad
On Antiwar Radio: Justin Raimondo and Lew Rockwell
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News Link • TERRORISM
Guantanamo Jury Sentences Bin Laden Aide to Life Term
11-4-2008
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Washington Post
[First the chauffeur, now the media guy.] An al-Qaeda propagandist who promised endless war against the US was sentenced to life in prison at Guantanamo Bay on 35 counts of solicitation to commit murder, providing material support for terrorism and c
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Bill passes giving mayor third term
11-4-2008
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NY Times
For four uninterrupted hours, scores of New Yorkers walked up to a microphone, looked at Mr. Bloomberg and rendered a blunt verdict on the legislation that would allow him to seek a third term.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Conviction in Spy Case Over Cash-Filled Suitcase
11-4-2008
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NY Times
The diplomatic tangle between Venezuela, Argentina and the United States reached a new pitch on Monday when a jury in Miami convicted a wealthy Venezuelan businessman of acting as an “unregistered agent” of Venezuela on American soil.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Frozen mice cloned - are woolly mammoths next?
11-3-2008
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Reuters
Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species.
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Chip Saunders
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Feature Article • Voting and Elections
Educating Voters
Brock Lorber
I've been told repeatedly, the key to good governance is educating voters. With everybody and their brother telling people how to vote, I decided to do my part by teaching people where to vote.
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
What Do You Really Want?
11-03-2008
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Christine Smith's Blog
This absurd election is a prime example of such conformity....To vote for someone based on their race, sex, or political party is to succumb to herd mentality....
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Gov't to borrow a record $550B in current quarter (that's three months!)
11-3-2008
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AP
The government will borrow a record $550 billion in the current quarter as it scrambles to fund the huge rescue programs being put in place to deal [or steal] with the worst financial crisis in seven decades.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Obama vows to destroy the American Coal Industry
11-3-2008
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AP
Obama on his energy plan: "So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Missing juror lied about father's death and went to horse races
11-3-2008
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AP
A juror who vanished during Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial told the judge Monday she lied about her father dying and flew to California to see horse races. Hinnant, a licensed paralegal who works for a mortgage company, said she had re
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
The Election is Over, We Lost, Time For Revolution by Szandor Blestman
11-01-2008
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The American Chronicle.com
The time has come for the citizenry of this country to start the process of taking it back. We may likely have lost a battle, so what shall we do now? Do we simply give up and accept our fate?
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Worst Month Since WWII: GM U.S. October Sales Crash 45.1 Percent
11-03-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
The WSJ in a headline quoted GM executive Mark LaNeve as saying October was "probably worst industry sales month in the post-WWII era."
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News Link • Corruption
An Open Letter to Barack Obama: by Robert L. Schulz
10-31-2008
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wethepeoplefoundation.org
Are you a Natural Born Citizen of the U.S.? Are you legally qualified to hold the Office of President? Dear Mr. Obama... (soon to be a USA Today ad!)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Police State
Pub-goers to be tested for drugs - How far can the public be pushed?
11-03-08
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news.BBC.co.uk
The Itemiser allows police officers or door staff to swab customers hands as they enter a pub or club. It can tell almost instantly if drugs are present - including cocaine, cannabis, heroin and ecstasy.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Joe Pyne Show Stanley Kohls War Resisters 01
11-03-2008
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YouTube
This part of this episode, taped in 1966, deals with Stanley Kohls, a liberal pacifist war resister.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Squirming Over Fannie and Freddie Agency Debt Guarantee
11-03-08
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HousingDoom.com
Lockhart already acknowledged a cap for support like this at $200 billion tops for Fannie + Freddie. Real news would be raising this number, or Hank hinting that the sky’s the limit...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ford: Auto sales fall 30 percent in October
11-03-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Ford Motor Co. ... said its U.S. sales fell 30 percent in October, the 23rd decline in the past 24 months. And Ford is probably in the best shape of the U.S. automakers.
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News Link • Energy
Air Cars to be built in U.S. starting in 2011
11-03-08
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finance.yahoo.com
This car leaves the highest-mpg vehicles you can buy right now in the dust. Even if it used only regular gasoline, the air car would average 106 mpg, more than double today's fuel sipping champ, the Toyota Prius.
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News Link • Economy - International
Judge Prevents Argentina from Liquidating US Assets
10-30-2008
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Bloomberg
A New York federal judge blocked Argentina from transferring out of the U.S. investments held by its pension funds, granting a request by bondholders holding a $553 million judgment against the South American country.
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News Link • Economy - International
Russian President Medvedev: US to blame for global financial crisis
11-03-08
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biz.yahoo.com/ap
Russia's president says the United States is to blame for the global financial crisis -- and presents his case in an online preview of his state-of-the-nation speech.
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentina Government Siezes Private Pension Funds
10-28-2008
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Wall Street Journal
Argentina's government pressed forward with its plan to nationalize $30B in private pension funds, laying out investment guidelines for the funds it wants to seize and lobbying Congress to approve the proposal.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Circuit City Announces Closure of 155 Stores
11-03-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Due in part to its deteriorating liquidity position and the continued weak macroeconomic environment, the company has decided to take certain restructuring actions immediately, including closing 155 domestic segment stores...
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed 'Bailout' cash lures 1,800 banks to get in line for a handout
11-03-08
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onlineWSJ.com
Treasury and banking regulators say as many as 1,800 publicly held institutions could apply for government investments in coming weeks, out of concern that failing to do so could make them losers...
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News Link • Eugenics
Atlas Mugged
11-3-2008
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News Herald / Ron Hart
I want to appease the new administration and not be too productive. So, upon Obama's passing his new redistribution plan, I will slow my work schedule, lay off a few people (Obama's got their back) and let someone else bust his tail.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Prices released on the new Core i7 "Nehalem" computer chips (CPUs)
11-3-2008
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PC Magazine
Intel has released the prices of the Core i7 "Nehalem" quad-core processors, which the company has said will ship before the end of November. For less than $300, you can buy one. [a 3 core crippled one]
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed needs to sell 10 times last years debt - The check is on the table
11-03-08
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markit-ticker.denninger.com
The U.S. may sell a net $388 billion of bills, notes and bonds this quarter, up from $178.4 billion last quarter and $33.4 billion in the same period of 2007, according to a quarterly survey. Ten times last year's levels.
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Reference Link • Eugenics
Impeach McCain.com - preparing for then: NOW!
impeachmccain.com
November 2008 looks iffy, but just in case, we've started ImpeachMcCain.com. After the inaugural, the fears that people have had about McCain become true. And impeachment, disgrace and resignation could be close behind.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bill Fleckenstein: The Economic Crisis is Still Taking Batting Practice
11-02-08
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moneycentral.msn.com
To return to baseball metaphors: As I said earlier, I believe the credit crisis is probably in the eighth inning. The economic crisis is still taking batting practice. As far as the funding crisis goes, I don't think folks even realize that game
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