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Date Sent: 2008-11-19
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
Hillary Clinton to accept Sec of State job -- China Passes Japan as Biggest US Treasuries Holder
Was Mark Cuban targeted by S.E.C. for his support of 'Loose Change'? -- China President Hu heads to Cuba -- Moody’s Ominous Alt-A Warning -- Obama names first African-American attorney general -- Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions - In The Range of $4,284,500,000,000 Dollars -- New Star Trek movie -- Naomi Klein on the Bailout Profiteers and the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene -- Russians in the Market for Israeli Drones -- Pentagon Wants $581 Billion From Obama, War Costs Not Included -- 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' in Pakistan Drone War -- Lieberman Keeps Committee Chair In Senate Vote -- McCain Staffer Crows At Idea Of Clinton In Cabinet -- Beijing propaganda chief hatches plan to combat age of internet news -- Beijing orders demolition of leading activist's home -- GOVERNMENTS CAN'T HANDLE GLOBAL RUN ON GOLD COINS -- Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font -- The Migration of Failure: The Internet and Mainstream Media Refugees -- Free Mark Cuban - by Will Grigg
AZ: Strategic Edge Business Alliance Breakfast Thursday featuring our own Ernie Hancock; AZ: CameraFraud PhotoRadar Sign Wave Protest Friday
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hillary Clinton to accept Obama's offer of secretary of state job
11-18-2008
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The Guardian
President-elect Barack Obama reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Flipping Out: The Star of a Real Estate Reality Show Takes a Housing Hit
11-18-08
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news.yahoo.com
Lewis says he used to get away with a mere 10% down payment. Now 40% is required. Banks also are demanding that he set aside six months' worth of mortgage payments, double the amount in boom times.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bush Capitulates, Treasuries and GM
11-18-08
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Market-Ticker.denninger.net
This - sovereign debt denominated in other than your native currency - is how a nation winds up like Weimar Germany - or Argentina! We must not issue bonds denominated in foreign currency - period.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Inflation, Money Supply, GDP, Unemployment and the Dollar - Alternate Data Series
11-18-08
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ShadowStats.com
These are charts that the Main Stream Media will never show you. Check out the true unemployment rate which is around 16%.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Sticking It To The Man... Literally!
11/18/2008
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CameraFRAUD.com
An unknown group of people have been quietly expressing disapproval with Arizona’s new freeway photo scam through the placement of Post-It notes on camera equipment throughout the valley. Reports have surfaced that numerous cameras have been involved
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News Link • Bush Administration
Was Mark Cuban targeted by S.E.C. for his support of 'Loose Change'?
11-18-08
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NakedCapitalism.com
“If this upsets you, I wonder how George Bush feels,” Mr. Norris wrote. “I assume that Mr. Cox would view your involvement with ‘Loose Change’ much as I do. After all, he served his country as a Republican congressman from Orange County for nearly 20
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News Link • Foreign Policy
China President Hu heads to Cuba
11-18-2008
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RawStory.com
The trip came as China expands its diplomacy and investment on the whole continent, with an eye on natural resources and developing markets for manufactured goods and even weapons.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Moody’s Ominous Alt-A Warning - Mortgage Implosion Round 2
11-18-08
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MrMortgage.ml-implode.com
Unlike Subprime loans that were more localized to specific regions of the bubble states or lower priced areas, Alt-A loans cut across all socio-economic boundaries and can be found littering some of the most affluent areas in the nation.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama names first African-American attorney general: report
11-18-2008
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RawStory.com
Eric Holder was co-chief along with Caroline Kennedy of Obama's vice-presidential selection process and, like Obama, is a fellow alumnus of Columbia University in New York. Holder served as deputy attorney general under former president Bill Clin
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions - In The Range of $4,284,500,000,000 Dollars
11-18-08
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MSNBC.msn.com
Not only is it a astronomical amount of money, its' a complicated cocktail of budgeted dollars, actual spending, guarantees, loans, swaps and other market mechanisms by the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and other offices of government taken over
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
TRAILER: Star Trek gets a sexy makeover in new film with love scenes, motorbikes and hunky stars
11-18-2008
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Daily Mail Reporter
A trailer for the new movie was released online on Monday, no doubt fuelling the excitement of Trekkies around the world ahead of the film's release next year. (Trailer at bottom of page)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
NAHB Housing Market Index Hits Record Low
11-18-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
U.S. home builders have never been as anguished about their industry as they were in early November, with their monthly market index gauge plunging five points to a record low 9, the National Association of Home Builders reported Tuesday. "We ar
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News Link • Corruption
Fast Food: Just Another Name for Corn
11-18-2008
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Wired
Corn is central to agriculture in the United States, where it is grown in greater volumes and receives more government subsidies than any other crop. Between 1995 and 2006 corn growers received $56 billion in federal subsidies, and the annual figure
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Naomi Klein on the Bailout Profiteers and the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene
11-18-08
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DemocracyNow.org
But they’re saying that they won’t disclose who has received these taxpayer loans, because it could cause a run on the banks, it could cause the market to lose confidence in the institutions that have taken these loans.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Superstrong Space Magnets Are Just as Weird as We Thought
11-18-2008
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Wired
The gravity is so strong that all the matter in the star condenses into neutrons, and the resulting stuff is so dense that a teaspoon of it would weigh about a hundred million tons.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Bush Administration: Dismiss RFID 'Mark of the Beast' Lawsuit
11-18-2008
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Wired
The Bush administration on Thursday urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of Amish farmers in Michigan claiming RFID chips required on cattle "are a mark of the beast."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Inventions
iPod Ghetto Accessory.
11-18-2008
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Wired
Next time you're down at the diner you might try out the CupSpeakers from Dmitry Zagga. His minimalist speaker design consists four paper cups, a couple of toothpicks and an iPod.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
'Sticky' Bombs Hit Baghdad
11-18-2008
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Wired
The so-called "sticky" improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, can be quickly tucked under a car bumper, and held in place by magnets. Which means any vehicle in Iraq can now be turned into a car bomb, or an assassination tool. The driver of
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Army May Place Massive Orders for Hulking Trucks
11-18-2008
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Wired
After investing in a fleet of over 10,000 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, the Pentagon is preparing to buy more -- lots more.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russians in the Market for Israeli Drones
11-18-2008
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Wired
This would be an unusual turn of events. Israel has sold arms to Russia in only a few limited instances. And as Ha'aretz notes, Russia supplies weaponry to Israel's arch-enemies, Syria and Iran:
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Wants $581 Billion From Obama " War Costs Not Included
11-18-2008
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Wired
Give the boys in the Pentagon credit; they've got chutzpah.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' in Pakistan Drone War
11-18-2008
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Wired
America's top commander in Afghanistan says he doesn't have anything to do with the flurry of U.S. killer drone attacks in the nearby border regions of Pakistan.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Lieberman Keeps Committee Chair In Senate Vote
11-18-2008
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Huffington Post
Sen. Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign. (same coin.... both sides)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Rahm Emanuel Roasts Stephen Colbert
11-18-2008
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Huffington Post
Colbert was roasted as part of a charity event for the Spina Bifida Association, organized every year by Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
McCain Staffer Crows At Idea Of Clinton In Cabinet
11-18-2008
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Huffington Post
she spoke of the threats this country faces, and of the prescriptions offered by Obama, in language that would warm the hearts of neoconservatives (if we had them). She threatened to "obliterate" Iran in response to unprovoked aggression ag
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News Link • Humor
New Orleans: Big Easy Sponge Bob?
11-18-2008
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Mondo
An email alert from a reader: Sponge Bob spotted in News Orleans. We hope this doesn't make us "insensitive".
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News Link • Conspiracies
Did Next Commander-in-Chief Falsify Selective Service Registration? Never Actually Register? Obama**
11-13-2008
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debbieschlussel.com via Rense.com
Did President-elect Barack Hussein Obama commit a federal crime in September of this year? Or did he never actually register and, instead, did friends of his in the Chicago federal records center, which maintains the official copy of his alleged Sele
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Media: Internet
Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs
11-18-2008
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NY Times
Investigations ensued. The chiefs of 2 redevelopment agencies were forced out. One of them faces criminal charges. Yet the main revelations came not from any of San Diego’s television and radio stations or its dominant newspaper but from a handful of
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News Link • China
Beijing orders demolition of leading activist's home
11-18-2008
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AFP
"They stuck the demolition notice on our front door," Dong said. "Nobody came to talk with us, there were no negotiations for compensation, no public hearings." For over a decade, Ni has been a prominent rights activist and lawyer
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News Link • Media: Internet
Beijing propaganda chief hatches plan to combat age of internet news
11-18-2008
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London Times
China’s propaganda mandarins are experimenting with a new policy to manage their message in the age of the internet: reporting the news as it happens. Important shift for the ruling Communist Party, accustomed to deciding what will be reported and wh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
GOVERNMENTS CAN'T HANDLE GLOBAL RUN ON GOLD COINS
11-18-2008
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NY Post
THERE'S a worldwide run on gold coins. Even as the price of the precious metal itself comes under pressure people around the world are demanding so many of the valuable coins that government mints are having difficulty filling orders.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
China Passes Japan as Biggest U.S. Treasuries Holder
11-18-2008
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Bloomberg
China surpassed Japan in September to become the biggest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries, as foreign investors sought the relative safety of government debt as stocks plunged 9.1% that month. [relative is right; who owns whom?]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font
11-18-2008
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Bloomberg
Funding from billionaire George Soros, the Center for American Progress has become in just five years an intellectual wellspring for Democratic policy proposals, including many that are shaping the agenda of the new Obama administration.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
An Assassin's Lessons About the Financial Crisis
11-18-2008
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http://www.stuartarchercohen.com
A friend of mine spent many years in the security business doing contract work for the CIA, some of which involved killing people. One of the things he told me was, “A guy will do almost anything if he thinks it’s for the good of other people.”
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Free Mark Cuban
11-18-2008
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ProLiberate Blog
Obnoxious? Yes -- but gifted, too: 50-year-old billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban, targeted by the Feds for daring to oppose the Great Plutocrat Swindle.
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Jennifer Burk
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News Link • Internet
The Migration of Failure: The Internet and Mainstream Media Refugees
11-18-2008
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Mondo
A New York Times writer discovers Internet news sites, run by refugees from failing newspapers. These sites are run by Mainstream Media “professional journalists” and are the future, says the Times. We say: put Internet lipstick on the MSM and it’s s
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • History
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Pardons’ Past: Compassion for Cash
11-18-2008
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Mondo
Remember PardonGate? DBKP takes a look back at past Presidential pardons, in particular the numerous and “unusual” pardons granted by Bill Clinton including members of the terrorist group, FALN, and financier Marc Rich.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • History
The Dumbest Obama-Bashing I've Heard Yet--with a Dose of Anti-Semitism, Too
11/18/08
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www.glennsacks.com
"Hilmar points to events surrounding the election of Barack Hussein Obama as reminiscent of the way the Nazi regime came to power."
Tom Horn, CEO of Anomalos Publishing, recently sent out the mailing "Former Hitler Youth to Appear o
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Glenn Sacks
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama appointees defenders of 'Extraordinary Rendition' and 'Warrantless Wiretaps'
11-18-08
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DemocracyNow.org
No appointees have been named as yet, but questions are already being raised about the people heading Obama’s transition efforts on intelligence policy.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paul B. Farrell: 30 Reasons for Great Depression 2 by 2011
11-18-08
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MarketWatch.com
Scan these 30 "leading indicators." Each problem has one or more possible solutions, but lacks unified political support. Time's running out. We're already at the edge. Add up the trillions in debt:
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Japan economists call for 'Obama bonds' - denominated in Japanese Yen
11-18-08
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AsiaTimes.com
Japanese economists, increasingly concerned that the United States might seek to pay its enormous and growing debt obligations in a weakened US dollar, are looking to the possibility of US Treasuries being issued in yen.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paul Volcker issues dire warning on slump
11-18-08
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Telegraph.co.uk/
"What this crisis reveals is a broken financial system like no other in my lifetime," he told a conference at Lombard Street Research in London.
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
You knew it was coming - the new "New Deal"
11-18-2008
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Christian Science Monitor
And who better to lay it out for us than radical lefty, Ralph Nader,...so that when Congress only enacts about 2/3rds of the items listed here, they can claim to be "centrist", and "moderate".
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Al-Queda Hijacks U.S. Military Trucks
11-18-2008
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AP
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Dozens of masked gunmen blocked a mountain pass and hijacked a convoy of trucks carrying military vehicles and other supplies bound for U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. But don't worry,...all is well. (Gag!)
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Chip Saunders
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