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Date Sent: 2008-11-21
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, November 21, 2008

Stocks tumble for second day; Treasury's surge -- Citigroup Loses half its value in four days

Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat -- Cops detain photojournalist and seize video -- Army shreds documents on friendly fire deaths -- Ron Paul blasts the Republican Party -- NIST Releases Final WTC 7 Investigation Report -- Bush at G20: Nobody likes me -- Speed enforcement cameras targets of Arizona rebellion -- Verizon Staff Viewed Obama's Account -- Venezuelans Expected to Whittle Away at Chávez's Power -- Peter Schiff On Fast Money -- AMD Sneak Peeks Phenom II -- US shares plunge to five-year low -- Attorney General Collapses During Speech -- Mandatory ammunition registration coming soon -- Road Rage: DPS Photo Enforcement Cameras Blocked with Post-It Notes -- Obama considers Jones for top security job -- Records search on Joe the Plumber improper -- Nuclear weapons use more likely in future: US intelligence -- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac suspend some foreclosures -- Congress rushes to extend jobless benefits -- CIA faulted in shooting down of missionary plane -- Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet -- Scientists take a step closer to an elixir of youth -- Buffett's Berkshire Falls Most in at Least 23 Years -- More Votes for Judge John Buttrick in Maricopa County than Bob Barr got Nationwide -- Evidence of vast frozen water reserves on Mars -- "... there’s going to be a crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January ..." -- The Greater Depression: Tired of The Crash? -- Jailed press baron Black seeks Bush pardon -- Dems are postponing crucial vote on auto bailout -- Bail denied Pa. woman accused of killing FBI drug agent -- As ruble drops, Russians fear run on banks -- Jobless claims jump unexpectedly to 16-year high -- Judge orders release of 5 terror suspects at Gitmo -- Oil under $50 -- Rewarding Failure: Why Stop With Big 3? -- SPAM Plant Works Overtime AZ: CameraFraud sign wave 4PM today; Nationwide: Sat. November 22nd "End the Fed" Rally's in 39 cities!

News Link • Police State
Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat
11-21-2008 • Alex Jones
Senator James Inhofe has revealed that Henry Paulson was behind the threats of martial law and a new great depression prior to the passage of the bailout bill, having made such warnings during a conference call on September 19th, around two weeks bef Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Controlled Demolition just like 911
11-21-2008 • Youtube
Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to Max Keiser in Paris about the end of Wall Street, dollars and toilet paper - and Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs no longer being investment banks. [this is olde but good] Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops detain photojournalist and seize video
11-21-2008 • Youtube
An Oakland Tribune photographer was detained while shooting an immigration rights protest. She taped her encounter with the Oakland schools police chief, who maintained she hit his car. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Military
Army shreds documents on friendly fire deaths
11-21-2008 • Rawstory
In October of this year, Salon revealed that the two men had in fact been killed by friendly tank fire. Now, Salon has found that the documents related to the men's deaths were shredded just hours after the story was published. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul blasts the Republican Party
11-21-2008 • InPolitic
[I am not sure if this is recent or just after the election.] Ron Paul states that the Republican party lost credibility. He believes that if republicans want to regain their capacity, they will have to do a better job while in power. He states that Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Conspiracies
NIST Releases Final WTC 7 Investigation Report
11-21-2008 • NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology today released its final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 in New York City. The final report is strengthened by clarifications and supplemental tex Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Arizona's Top News
Speed enforcement cameras targets of Arizona rebellion
11-21-2008 • National Examiner
Post-it notes aren't the only tools of the roadside revolution. The video below, uploaded on November 20, captures a speed enforcement camera lense being covered with silly string. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bush Administration
Bush at G20: Nobody likes me
11-21-2008 • CNN video
In a video taken at the G20 summit, Bush walks across a line of world leaders without shaking or being asked to shake any of their hands. [wow!] Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Obama Administration
Verizon Staff Viewed Obama's Account
11-21-2008 • Washington Post
Verizon Wireless said last night that a number of its employees have "accessed and viewed" President-elect Barack Obama's personal cellphone account without authorization. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • World News
Venezuelans Expected to Whittle Away at Chávez's Power
11-21-2008 • Washington Post
In campaign slogs through Venezuela's biggest slum, Carlos Ocariz seeks out those who worship President Hugo Chávez. He then urges them to abandon "El Comandante" and throw their support behind him in the mayoral race for Sucre -- a dow Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
11/20/2008 Peter Schiff On Fast Money
11-20-2008 • Youtube
This is a great interview, it is too bad the lady who followed didn't get included who literally said, "What your prior guest Mr. Schiff said." Note the panelists sneering, ticked off that he has the nerve to say what he says. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
AMD Sneak Peeks Phenom II, Overclocks To 5+GHz
11-20-2008 • HotHardware
The Dragon platform is a combination of an AMD Phenom II X4 processor, Radeon 4800 Graphics cards and an AMD 7 series chipset based motherboard. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US shares plunge to five-year low
11-20-2008 • BBC News
Wall Street plunged more than 5% on Wednesday to its lowest level in over five years on rising economic worries. October consumer prices fell 1% on the month before - the biggest such fall in 61 years, which has reinforced fears of rapid slowdown. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Anthropology
The £350,000 Iron Age neckband discovered by one man and his metal detector
11-20-2008 • Daily Mail
For 40 years, Maurice Richardson has been braving all weathers to scour the countryside with his trusty metal detector, dreaming of buried treasure. But he almost ignored an unpromising-sounding beep as he searched for debris from a wartime air cr Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Citigroup Tries to Stop the Drop in Its Share Price
11-20-2008 • NY Times
In the center of the vortex is Citigroup, whose stock-market plunge accelerated, sending shock waves through the financial world.The shares slumped 26% Thursday; the bank has lost half its value in just four days. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Events: Arizona
November 22nd "End the Fed" Rally's in 39 cites including Phoenix!
10-20-08 • EndTheFed.us
At this Very Moment the federal Reserve Bank and its owners are bringing to a conclusion the planned implosion of the financial economy of the united states. They are consolidating assets and control over the nation's financial infrastructure as Read Full Story
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Reported by: Drew

News Link • Bush Administration
Attorney General Collapses During Speech
11-20-2008 • NY Times
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey collapsed during a speech Thursday night and was taken to the hospital after he failed to regain consciousness. There was no immediate word on his medical status. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Feature Article  • Constitution
Growing Home
Melinda Pillsbury-foster
   The tools for freedom are in our hands. A people who would govern themselves must first learn to use them.
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Feature Article  • Gun Rights
Mandatory ammunition registration coming soon to a state near you.
Found Zero
   The friends of fear are back and this time they want to make you register your ammunition, get rid of it or face fines and imprisonment.
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News Link • Transportation
Road Rage: DPS Photo Enforcement Cameras Blocked with Post-It Notes
11-20-2008 • Phoenix New Times (h/t Thane)
I rang up DPS flack Lt. James Warriner, and he confirmed that Post-it note ninjas are at work in the Valley, with at least five incidents having occurred over the last few days on SR 51, I-10, and the Loop 101. Warriner says DPS has an investigator a Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Obama Administration
Obama considers Jones for top security job
11-20-2008 • Reuters
President-elect Barack Obama is leaning toward selecting retired Gen. James Jones as White House national security adviser. Retired Adm. Dennis Blair was the top candidate to be the director of national intelligence. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Eugenics
Records search on Joe the Plumber improper
11-20-2008 • AP
[duh!] An agency director improperly used state computers to find personal information on "Joe the Plumber," a government watchdog said. There was no legitimate business purpose for the head of Ohio's Department of Job and Family Servic Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
Nuclear weapons use more likely in future: US intelligence
11-20-2008 • AFP
The use of nuclear weapons will grow increasingly likely by 2025, US intelligence predicted Thursday in a report on global trends that forecasts a tense, unstable world shadowed by war. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac suspend some foreclosures
11-20-2008 • Reuters
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two biggest U.S. home loan finance companies, said they would suspend foreclosures of occupied homes until early 2009, as the government moves to stem the tide of home losses plaguing the economy. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Congress rushes to extend jobless benefits
11-20-2008 • AP
Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a million or more laid-off Americans whose benefits are running out. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA faulted in shooting down of missionary plane
11-20-2008 • Reuters
The CIA obstructed inquiries into its role in the shooting down of an aircraft carrying a family of US missionaries in Peru in 2001. The CIA-backed program targeting drug runners was so poorly run that many suspect aircraft were shot down Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Graph of The Day: Worst Crash Since The Great Depression
11-20-08 • Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
Today it became official: this is the worst Bear Market since the Great Depression. Read Full Story
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ("You don't know "Dick")
11-20-2008 • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Wednesday November 19, 2008 - Jon Meacham Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Obama Administration
Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet
11-20-2008 • LA Times
The activists are uneasy not only about signs that both Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates could be in the Obama Cabinet, but at reports suggesting that several other short-list candidates for top security post Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Economy - International
Sarkozy's fervor for summit meetings raises hackles in Washington
11-20-2008 • www.iht.com
WASHINGTON: President Nicolas Sarkozy of France left the summit meeting on the financial crisis here last weekend in a triumphal mood, declaring that it had tamed the animal spirits of American capitalism. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists take a step closer to an elixir of youth
11-20-2008 • telegraph.co.uk
A naturally occuring substance that can create "immortal cells" could be the key to finding a real elixir of youth, scientists claim. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks tumble for second day; Treasury's surge
11-20-2008 • Miami Herald
NEW YORK -- Stocks plunged for a second straight day Thursday, falling to a ranges not seen in six years as financial and energy stocks tumbled and as demand for the safety of government debt spiked to historic levels. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Buffett's Berkshire Falls Most in at Least 23 Years (Update2)
11-20-2008 • Bloomberg.com
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. fell the most in at least 23 years, dropping for the eighth straight day since reporting a 77 percent decline in third- quarter profit. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Evidence of vast frozen water reserves on Mars: scientists
11-20-2008 • Breitbart.com
Ground-penetrating radar used by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals numerous huge glaciers up to one half-mile thick buried beneath layers of rock and debris. Researchers said one glacier is three time the size of Los Angeles in area. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

Feature Article  • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
More Votes for Judge John Buttrick in Maricopa County than Bob Barr got Nationwide
Ernest Hancock
   John Buttrick is a well known Libertarian that was the AzLP candidate for Governor in Arizona in 1994 and was later appointed Superior Court Judge by Governor Hull.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Greater Depression: Tired of The Crash?
11-20-08 • Market-Ticker.denninger.net
The credit market is telling you that we are headed for an S&P 500 trading at three hundred and a DOW at under three thousand. That we are headed for unemployment north of 20% on the U6 (broad) measure, and GDP contraction of 20%... Read Full Story
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Letters to the Editor   • More about Economy - Economics USA
"... there’s going to be a crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January ..."
Written by: PureTrust
   Hello, Friends, Joe Biden, as well as three other "world leaders," have within the last week, made veiled comments to their friends that something HUGE is going to happen in the next two months. Colin Powell made this comment,
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dems are postponing crucial vote on auto bailout
11-20-2008 • Ap
[and you thought it was over] Democratic leaders in Congress sidetracked legislation to bail out the auto industry today and demanded the Big Three develop a plan assuring the money would make them economically viable. As a result, the fate of hundre Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bush Administration
Jailed press baron Black seeks Bush pardon
11-20-2008 • Reuters
Former media baron Conrad Black is seeking a pardon from U.S. President George W. Bush in a last-ditch effort to get out of jail early. Black, a Canadian-born member of Britain's House of Lords, has been in prison since March, when he began servi Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Criminal Justice System
Bail denied Pa. woman accused of killing FBI agent
11-20-2008 • AP
Bail has been denied for a woman accused of killing an FBI agent during a drug raid. Christina Korbe called 911 during the raid and said her house was being robbed and that she had fired at a burglar. She was arrested while still on the phone with an Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - International
As ruble drops, Russians fear run on banks
11-20-2008 • McClatchy News
The rates posted on the wall tell the story: The shop buys and sells dollars for just under 28 rubles, about an 18 percent drop since August, when it was about 23. "I'm very worried there will be another default," said the teller, refer Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jobless claims jump unexpectedly to 16-year high
11-20-2008 • AP
New claims for unemployment benefits jumped last week to a 16-year high, the Labor Department said Thursday, providing more evidence of a rapidly weakening job market expected to get even worse next year. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Criminal Justice System
Wave of Japanese Mothers Killing Their Kids--Guess Who's Fault It Is?
11/20/08 • www.glennsacks.com
The news story Why Japan's isolated mothers are killing their children (The Age [Australia], 11/8/08) has so many outrageously revealing quotes about the pro-mother/anti-father bias that it's hard to know where to begin. Quote #1--"[Y Read Full Story
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Reported by: Glenn Sacks

News Link • Energy
Oil under $50
11-20-2008 • Reuters
Oil dropped more than 3 percent on Thursday, touching the lowest level since May 2005 as record U.S. job losses intensified concerns of a long and deep global recession and further crushed demand expectations. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Torture
Judge orders release of 5 terror suspects at Gitmo
11-20-2008 • AP
A federal judge Thursday ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth in a major blow to the Bush administration's strategy to capture terror suspects without charges. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Opinion  • Books
CONNECTING THE DOTS
PEAK EVERYTHING: WAKING UP TO THE CENTURY OF DECLINES
11-20-2008
Frosty Wooldridge
   America faces daunting challenges with the end of the age of oil. We must move today on how we might reconfigure our civilization to deal with limited energy to grow our food and transportation to our mega cities. This book enlightens, sobers and in
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News Link • Politics: Independent and Other Campaigns
Fictional Presidential Campaigns: Top Ten Greatest Fictional Candidates for Prez
11-20-2008 • Mondo
Who was the Greatest Fictional Presidential Candidate of All-Time? Darren Garnick has compiled his list of the Top Ten. Our favorite didn’t make the list. Did yours? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rewarding Failure: Why Stop With Big 3?
11-20-2008 • CBS / Declan McCullagh
Bailing out companies that lose money on every vehicle they manufacture and cannot adapt to changing market conditions is not merely necessary in today's economic climate -- it's the American way. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber

News Link • Food
SPAM Plant Works Overtime: The Financial Crisis Menu
11-20-2008 • Mondo & RidesAPaleHorse
Though many have lost their jobs, a SPAM plant works overtime. The NY Times discovers that SPAM is on the menu at the Financial Crisis Cafe. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Chinese SpaceWalk: Real Deal or Video Hoax?
11-20-2008 • Rhonda R Shearer
Remember the computer-enhanced fireworks at the Beijing Olympics? Was the recent SpaceWalk video from CCP Shenzhou VII Spacecraft�"the center of a blog debate�"the real deal or more clever enhancement? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

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