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Date Sent: 2008-11-28
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, November 28, 2008 |
Iraqi parliament OKs US troops for 3 more years -- For stores, holiday season may already be over
Groups Urge No Bailout Benefit To Private Student Loan Lenders -- Clueless officials speculate India's terrorists trained outside India -- FOIA Docs Show Feds Can Lojack Cell Phones Without Telco Knowledge -- Citigroup bailout slammed by New Yorkers -- Shopping Malls: May soon start going dark from coast to coast A Long Tab: The Cost of The Banker Bailout Fraud -- Citigroup: Gold Over $2,000, Massive Inflation, Depression, and Civil Disorder -- Kafkaesque: Department of Homeland Lunacy -- Peter Schiff on Bloomberg TV
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq Approves Deal Charting End of U.S. Role
11-28-2008
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NY Times
With a substantial majority, the Iraqi Parliament on Thursday ratified a sweeping security agreement that sets the course for an end to the United States’ role in the war and marks the beginning of a new relationship between the countries.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
A Land Rush in Wyoming Spurred by Wind Power
11-28-2008
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NY Times
The man who came to Elsie Bacon’s ranch house door in July asked the 71-year-old widow to grant access to a right of way across the dry hills and short grasses of her land here. Ms. Bacon remembered his insistence on a quick, secret deal.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Groups Urge No Bailout Benefit To Private Student Loan Lenders
11-28-2008
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Washington Post
Student advocacy groups are urging the Treasury Department to prevent a new $200 billion consumer-lending program from benefiting private student lenders, which they say are largely unregulated and prey on students with risky, high-interest loans.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Clueless officials speculate India's terrorists trained outside India
11-27-2008
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Washington Post
Counterterrorism officials and experts said the scale, sophistication and targets involved in the Mumbai attacks were markedly different from previous terrorist plots in India and suggested the gunmen had received training from outside the country.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Thanksgiving Funny Turkeys: Give Thanks for Humor
11-27-2008
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pat
Happy Thanksgiving from DBKP. Hope everyone's not too full to laugh. A collection of Thanksgiving Day humor.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Citigroup bailout slammed by New Yorkers
11-27-08
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reuters.com/
"They were bailed out before, this is the second bailout, so what's going on? Are they going to ask for another bailout soon?" asked Cheril Nichols, a 50-year-old nurse from New Jersey.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Shopping Malls: May soon start going dark from coast to coast
11-27-08
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hosted.ap.org/
Even as the holiday shopping season begins in full swing, the same events poisoning the housing market are now at work on commercial properties, and the bad news is trickling in. Malls from Michigan to Georgia are entering foreclosure.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
CameraFraud video on the news
11-27-2008
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ABC 15
Kudos to Ed Vallejo who writes: "...it's a great video! It has Shawn and Powell and some others, plus [GOP State Party Chairman] Randy Pullen."
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Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Economy - Economics USA
How much thanks are you giving?
11/27/2008
Found Zero
I suppose it's highly traditional for an American author to wax nostalgic on a holiday. Time to think of traditions that tie us to the past, that tie us to family and community. Time to put aside the cares of the world and make time for what'
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News Link • Obama Administration
Could Obama Be Denied A Security Clearance?
11-27-2008
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America's Survival, Inc.
In this excellent piece of intelligence they are speaking of, among other things, the fact that the president elect of the United States could NOT get a security clearance order to serve our country. We have come to a pretty rough part of the road,
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Catherine Abbitt
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News Link • Bush Administration
Gentrifying Gitmo
11-27-08
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NakedCapitalism.com
First, Gitmo would be a just place to deliver [many] of the lamest decision-makers in America's history who've past or presently mal-served the American people. Legal luminaries (ahemmm...) such as Alberto Gonzales, the Dark Lord, Mr Rove...
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News Link • Military
Iraqi parliament OKs US troops for 3 more years
11-27-08
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap
Iraq's parliament approved Thursday a security pact with the United States that lets American troops stay in the country for three more years " setting a clear timetable for a U.S. exit for the first time since the 2003 invasion.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
For stores, the holiday season may already be over
11-27-08
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money.aol.com/news/
Experts say discounts are only going to get even better as stores resort to more extreme measures to clear out unsold items. The value of coats and sweaters drops dramatically as the winter months wear on.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
A Long Tab: The Cost of The Banker Bailout Fraud
11-27-08
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WallStreetJournal.com
The Federal Government has committed trillions of dollars through a wide range of rescue programs to shore up the economy. Below, the costs of some key programs and the dates they were announced.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Citigroup: Gold Over $2,000, Massive Inflation, Depression, and Civil Disorder
In an internal note, Citigroup has predicted a “gloom” and “doom” scenario, of inflation, depression, and potentially war. DBKP takes a look at the period before the Great Depression, the Roaring Twenties, to see if there are any “similarities” to ou
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Real Estate: Case Shiller and CAR Analysis November 2008 Release
11-27-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
The housing numbers are as grim as expected. The CAR housing numbers reflect Oct 2008 which are actual sales in late August and September . The price declines range from 30% to 60% with median price declines between $130,000 and $800,000.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Kafkaesque: Department of Homeland Lunacy
11-27-08
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AfterDowningStreet.org
They won’t tell you who put you there, and they won’t take you off either. That has to be done by the agency that reported your name"the one they won’t identify to you. It’s straight out of Kafka.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff on Bloomberg TV
11/26/08
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www.youtube.com/
Peter Schiff "on the money" again! [ed] An aggressive discussion on Bloomberg Tv with Peter Schiff and some other market "experts".
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Humor
Auction: Christmas in the house from "A Christmas Story"
11-26-2008
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eBay
Now this would be really cool.
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Trouser Chili
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