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Date Sent: 2008-11-19
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Thursday, November 20, 2008

Chart of The Day: Four Bad Bear Markets - Robert Gates: As Bad As Rumsfeld? by Ray McGovern

Arizona GOP 'Pulls' a 'Nevada' on GOP r3VOLutionaries - McCain running for re-election in 2010 - Janet Napolitano picked to head Homeland Security - Hurt by Losses, Pension Funds Criticize Rules - Indian Naval Warship Destroys Pirate Vessel - Dow falls below 8,000, S&P at 5-year low - Charts Predict: Dow 6,400 in Less than a Month - Mortgage Slavery: The Great Mortgage Modification

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chart of The Day: Four Bad Bear Markets
11-19-08 • CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
This chart gives you a sense of how far the market has fallen and how far it could fall. Click on the chart to enlarge. Read Full Story
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Did John McCain Lose Arizona?
11-19-2008 • Huffington Post
"in a county the size the size of Maricopa (sic), perfect compliance with the statutory electoral scheme, while desirable, is not possible due to time, space, the practicalities of the electoral process and the number of persons involved" Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

Opinion  • Obama Administration
Ray McGovern: My Take
Robert Gates: As Bad As Rumsfeld?
11-19-2008
Ray McGovern
   Just thought the Obama folks�"and non-Obama folks too�"might like to learn more about Robert Gates from someone who has known and watched him for almost 40 years.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
McCain running for re-election in 2010
11-19-2008 • politico.com
McCain decided Tuesday night to set up a political action committee, a step toward running for a fifth Senate term in 2010, an aide told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the decision had not yet been made public. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock

News Link • Homeland Security
Janet Napolitano picked to head Homeland Security
11-19-08 • Rawstory.com
"Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) has been chosen to serve as secretary of the vast and troubled Department of Homeland Security for President-elect Obama," Politico's Mike Allen reported late Wednesday night. " Read Full Story
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Feature Article  • Arizona's Top News
Arizona GOP 'Pulls' a 'Nevada' on AzGOP r3VOLutionaries
Ernest Hancock
   "These people took a page out of Nevada's playbook when they cancelled their state convention because Ron Paul was winning too many delegates to the GOP National Convention."
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Did McCain Lose in Arizona?<br>by Denis Campbell

News Link • Arizona's Top News
Did McCain Lose in Arizona?
by Denis Campbell
11-20-2008 • Huffington Post
While Maricopa County (Phoenix) Judge Edward O. Burke agreed with the state's Libertarian Party that county elections director did not follow election law, ensure ballot integrity and provide an unbroken custody chain, he ruled against them sayin Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hurt by Losses, Pension Funds Criticize Rules
11-20-2008 • NY Times
Stung by outsize investment losses, some of the nation’s biggest companies are pushing Congress to roll back rules requiring them to put more money into their pension funds, just 2 years after Bush signed a law meant to strengthen the pension system. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Iran
Iran Said to Have Enough Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon
11-20-2008 • NY Times
The report concluded that as of early this month, Iran had made 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium [which they are entitled to under the treaty and cannot be made int a bomb...nonstory unless you are a Neocon propaganda rag.] Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Police State
New York Police Fight U.S. Over Eavesdropping
11-20-2008 • NY Times
An effort by the New York Police Department to get broader latitude to eavesdrop on terrorism suspects has run into sharp resistance from the Justice Dept. has the commissioner and attorney general accusing each of putting the public at risk. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Foreign Policy
Indian Naval Warship Destroys Pirate Vessel
11-20-2008 • Washington Post
An Indian navy frigate battled with and sank a vessel described as a pirate mother ship in the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest and most lawless shipping lanes, the navy said Wednesday. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Decorated U.S. Agent in Drug Arrest
11-20-2008 • AP
Government officials say a decorated federal immigrations officer has been arrested on drug distribution charges. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Syrian Facility Looked Like Reactor, U.N. Says
11-20-2008 • Washington Psot
The investigation of the suspected nuclear site in Syria that Israel destroyed last year has bolstered U.S. claims that Damascus was building a secret nuclear reactor and confirmed traces of uranium amid the ruins. [235 or 238?] Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Gun Rights
ATF Introduces Online Firearms Form To Ease Transactions, Prevent Errors
11-20-2008 • Washington Post
Every year, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives finds thousands of licensed gun dealers in violation of federal law, often for very minor problems. The agency, which conducts about 11,000 inspections a year, says it has come up wi Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Food
McDonald's Courts Moms As Fast-Food Emissaries
11-20-2008 • Washington Post
$o here is Debra DeMuth, McDonald'$ global nutrition director, mounting a $pirited defen$e of frie$ to five mother$ of young children at a McDonald'$ in Baltimore. "They are probably one of the most victimized food$," DeMuth $ays Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Calif. Supreme Court to take up gay marriage ban
11-19-2008 • AP
{get the Mormons off the hook] California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • History
Herod may have been buried among lavish artwork
11-19-2008 • AP
King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Legislative Mischief
Finger-pointing begins as Senate nixes auto vote
11-19-2008 • AP
A Democratic Congress, unwilling or unable to approve a $25 billion bailout for Detroit's Big Three, appears ready to punt the automakers' fate to a lame-duck Republican president. President Bush has "no appetite" to act on his own. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow falls below 8,000, S&P at 5-year low
11-19-2008 • AP
Wall Street hit levels not seen since 2003 on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average plunging below the 8,000 mark amid a dour economic outlook from the Federal Reserve and worries over the fate of Detroit's three automakers. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Bush Administration
Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas indictments alleging prisoner abuse
11-19-2008 • AP
A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NC undercover officers use Taser on pallbearer
11-19-2008 • AP
Five sheriff's deputies will be disciplined after they used a Taser while serving an arrest warrant on a man at his father's funeral, a North Carolina sheriff said. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Trouble With Eric Holder
11-19-2008 • The Nation
Quick! Name the veteran Department of Justice insider who, shortly after the USA Patriot Act was signed into law and at a point when the Bush administration was proposing to further erode barriers to governmental abuses, argued that dissenters should Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jennifer Burk

News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Star Wars and False Flags
11-19-2008 • Youtube
Do you really know what the Star Wars prequel trilogy was all about? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Trouser Chili

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stock Market Crashes: Five Stock Market Downturns Since 1929
11-19-2008 • Mondo
For many people, the Financial Crisis of 2008 is the first they’ve experienced. DBKP takes a look at five stock market crashes of the last 80 years and what happened. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

Opinion  • Religion: Believers
CONNECTING THE DOTS
WHAT DO 43 MILLION ABORTIONS ANNUALLY WORLDWIDE HAVE TO DO WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
11-19-2008
Frosty Wooldridge
   Can the Catholic Church step into the 21st century or remain in the 1st century? Can it come to terms with birth control or will it maintain its archaic stance that causes so much grief for Catholic families around the world that birth more children
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Charts Predict: Dow 6,400 in Less than a Month
11-19-08 • CNBC.com/
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is set to sink to 6,400 within the next few weeks, Nicole Elliott, technical analyst at Mizuho Corporate Bank told CNBC. Read Full Story
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Price of Southern California homes falls 41% from peak
11-19-08 • LAtimes.com
Prices were dragged down by the large number of foreclosed homes on the market. For the first time since the slump began, repossessed properties in October accounted for more than half of residences sold. Read Full Story
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Feature Article  • Entertainment: Night Life - Night Clubs
RON PAUL 4409 -- Scottsdale, AZ douche bags
Forty Four O Nine
   Scottsdale, AZ douche bags and yes my hair is a little crazy like that but I'm not a big douche......I hope...haha
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News Link • TERRORISM
Ariz. Muslim leaders face increased FBI scrutiny
11-16-2008 • The RAG (azcentral.com/arizonarepublic)
About 20 young Muslim males climbed out, armed with assault rifles, a shotgun, a sniper rifle and handguns. The location near Happy Valley Road and 51st Avenue is a desert recreation site for off-road motorists, hikers and bikers, dozens of whom were Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mortgage Slavery: The Great Mortgage Modification Pump - God Save Us All
11-19-08 • MrMortgage.ml-implode.com
Homeowners - SMARTEN UP! The FDIC program keeps you fully in debt, renting your home for the rest of your life. This is a terrible solution. Read Full Story
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Idiots of the Week Winners: November 19 2008
11-19-2008 • Nancy Morgan
The winners are in for this week’s Idiot of the Week competition. The struggle was fierce, but Nancy Morgan has awards for all of the divisional champs, plus the honorary mentions. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Suicide Pact Stories: The Man who Left His Wife Hanging and the Desire to Die Together
11-19-2008 • Ginn
A man in the UK decided to not fulfill his end of a suicide pact, leaving his wife to hang from a doorframe for two months. We've found other suicide pact stories including the infamous "Heaven's Gate". Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Housing Starts at a 49 Year Low
11-19-08 • CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Total housing starts were at 791 thousand (SAAR) in October, the lowest level since the Census Bureau began tracking housing starts in 1959. Read Full Story
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Feature Article  • Israel - Palestine
Extrajudicial Assassinations As Official Israeli Policy
Stephen Lendman
   For Israel, murder is permissible if government says so.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Rogers on the economy 11-17-08
11-18-2008 • Financial Times
A series of videos of a Jim Rogers interview by FT's John Authers. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gerald Celente Predicts Revolution
11-18-2008 • FOX News
Before 2012: 1. America will be the first undeveloped country 2. Revolution, food shortages, riots, marches 3. Food instead of gifts for Christmas Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Who Controls A.I.G.?
11-18-2008 • NY Times
The terms of the government ’s investment in the American International Group were released last week. After reading these terms, I have a multiple-choice question. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why Can’t I Just Print My Own Stimulus Money?
11-18-2008 • LewRockwell
It seems to me that Mr. Hank Paulson and Mr. Ben Bernanke are making things much more difficult than they need to be, and I want to offer to give them a helping hand to dig us out of this recession. Call it my first act of "National Service," Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ABX & CMBX Go Parabolic - ‘Carnage’ - That CNBC will never allow on 'BubbleVision'
11-18-08 • MrMortgage.ml-implode.com
ABX and CMBX spreads are predicting Armageddon is upon us. The credit markets are locked up tight and there is no more that can be done. Read Full Story
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News Link • Bush Administration
Democrats' plans to investigate Bush administration may be blocked
11-18-2008 • IHT
"The Bush administration overstepped in its exertion of executive privilege, and may very well try to continue to shield information from the American people after it leaves office," said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse who sits on 2 committees, Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Project Censored: Top 25 Buried Stories of 2008
11-18-2008 Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation...Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA...FBI Deputizes Business...ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?...Seizing War Protesters’ Assets...Terrorism Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

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