States want their own federal financial bailout
• McClatchy NewsLed by California with a $28 billion hole in its budget, 41 states are in financial trouble, and many of their leaders are looking to Congress to bail them out. [What's in yer wallet?]
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India celebrates planting its flag on moon
• APA probe sent from the orbiting mother spacecraft took the pictures and gathered other data that India needs for a future moon landing. The box-shaped probe was painted with India's saffron, white and green flag and it slammed into the moon's
Mayors of Philadelphia, Phoenix seek bailout share
• Breitbart.comThe mayors—Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, Shirley Franklin of Atlanta and Phil Gordon of Phoenix—made their request in a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
India's Chandrayaan-I reaches its final resting orbit
• Times of IndiaBANGALORE: India's unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 on Wednesday successfully entered the operational lunar orbit after ISRO scientists carried out final orbit reduction manoeuvre, lasting one minute.
Protest Photo Radar
• Amber MayWe are protesting the photo radar on Monday Nov. 17 beginning at 1pm at starting at the Arizona State Capital. We probably will go to about 5 pm. We plan on marching to the court house. Please come and show your support.
Kashkari Accused Of Bailout Bait and Switch During Angry Hearing - Part 1
• News LinkKashkari Accused Of Bailout Bait and Switch During Angry Hearing
DENNIS KUCINICH GRILLS NEEL KASHKARI ON BAILOUT SCAM
• YouTubeNovember 14, 2008 Kucinich (D-OH) Domestic Committee meeting with Kashkari Treasury Department Use of Government Assistance Funds (And Obama's position???)
Kashkari Says Treasury Approving 20 Bank Stakes Today (Update3)
• Bloomberg.comNov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Treasury is about to approve capital injections into 20 more banks, said Neel Kashkari, the department's assistant secretary in charge of a $700 billion bank-rescue plan.
'Constitutional crisis' looming over Obama's birth location - Alan Keyes lawsuit warns A
• World Net Daily via Rense.com"Hawaii Revised Statute 338-178 allows registration of birth in Hawaii for a child that was born outside of Hawaii to parents who, for a year preceding the child’s birth, claimed Hawaii as their place of residence," the document said.
State Goes All In on Lawn Furniture Scofflaw
Brock LorberIan Bernard, host of internationally-syndicated Free Talk Live is sentenced to 93 days in jail for his tenants' choice of lawn furniture, and asking about obligations.
Post-Guantánamo: A New Detention Law?
• NY Times“You can’t be a purist and say there’s never any circumstance in which a democratic society can preventively detain someone,” said one civil liberties lawyer, David D. Cole, a Georgetown law professor. [This clown is on our side?]
Cleric Calls for Resistance to U.S. Presence in Iraq
• NY TimesAs the Iraqi cabinet prepares to vote on a security agreement for American troops, the anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr called Friday for armed resistance against any agreement that allowed a continued United States presence in Iraq.
Lobbyists taking top positions in Obama's Administration
• NY TimesA list of transition team members that his office made public includes a complicated tangle of ties to private influence-seekers. Among the full roster of about 150 staff members being assigned to government agencies between now and Inauguration Day
Chinese have stopped saving and are now spending like Americans
• Washington PostThe waifish 26-year-old dropped her laptop bag on a chair, opened her menu and began ordering her favorites: milk tea, black forest cake, chicken wings, waffle fries. It was a typical Chinese order at a quintessential American chain: Pizza Hut.
Military Industrial Complex Sells You Fear
• Washingotn PostIntelligence officials are warning that the deepening global financial crisis could weaken fragile governments in the world's most dangerous areas and undermine the ability of the United States and its allies to respond to a new wave of security
Free Talk Live Host Jailed for 90 Days
• Free KeeneFTL host Ian Freeman (Bernard) arrested for contempt of court and sentenced to 90 days in jail after refusing to force his tenants to remove a couch from a rental property.
New Blackwater Iraq Scandal: Guns, Silencers and Dog Food
• TruthoutA federal grand jury in North Carolina is investigating allegations the controversial private security firm Blackwater illegally shipped assault weapons and silencers to Iraq, hidden in large sacks of dog food, ABCNews.com has learned.
Paulson says Banking System has been Stabilized
• LA TimesI believe the banking system has been stabilized. No one is asking themselves anymore, is there some major institution that might fail and that we would not be able to do anything about it. So I think that is a positive.
Eclipse Aviation Employees Will be Paid
• Aero-News NetworkA message at the 800 number given to employees Thursday states that money will be in their checking accounts by Tuesday. It appears this funding was not the reported $200-$300 million Eclipse needs to continue operations.
GM Collapse Would Cost U.S. Up to $200 Billion, Forecaster Says
• Bloomberg.comGeneral Motors Corp., seeking a federal bailout as its cash dwindles, would cost the government $200 billion should the biggest U.S. automaker be forced to liquidate, a forecasting firm estimated.
Insurer Hartford Financial: To become a S&L to access billions from T.A.R.P.
• Calculatedrisk.blogspot.comStruggling insurer Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. announced it has applied to convert to savings-and-loan status and said it will buy Federal Trust Corp. for $10 million.
CONNECTING THE DOTS
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S ROLL IN WORLD POPULATION HUMAN MISERY
Frosty WooldridgeHow can religion look reality in the eye, but go straight ahead with dogma that fails humanity in the 21st century? How can the Catholic Church watch human misery grow in this time period and do everything in its power to facilitate more misery? Fi
Paulson on CNBC: "In many ways we have humiliated ourselves as a nation"
• CNBC.comHenry Paulson uttered this phrase 16 minutes, and 42 seconds into the 20 minute softball interview by Erin Burnette.
Citigroup Job Cuts Could Reach 35,000
• CNBC.comThe cuts could result in a loss of roughly 35,000 jobs, based on the bank's reported 352,000-person workforce as of Sept 30. Citigroup has already cut 23,000 jobs this year. Additional reductions would come from layoffs
Silicon Valley: Santa Clara County Housing Underwater!
• viewfromsiliconvalley.comThis map gives you a good idea how bad the housing market is in one of the highest income areas of the country.
Government did it, only government can save us
IOUSA The MovieI.O.U.S.A.: 30-minute condensed version: Learn about the $53 trillion our government owes in financial obligations to foreign investors and to every single American in the form of pensions, health benefits, Social Security and Medicare.
Entered By: Powell Gammill
US Gov't. Shorting Silver
• SilverSeekerThere is compelling new proof of a silver (and gold) price manipulation connecting the investment bank JP Morgan Chase, the dominant force in world commodity trading, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the US Treasury Department, the ar
Fed: Credit Swap Clearinghouse to Be Running by Year-End
• Bloomberg.comU.S. regulators said at least one central clearinghouse for the $33 trillion credit-default swap market will be running by year-end after they agreed on a plan to regulate the entities.
Shantytowns Spring Up in Major US Cities
• Minyanville.comRising unemployment and widespread foreclosures have left many homeless and living in tents and makeshift huts in cities around the nation. It’s a scene not seen since the “Hoovervilles” of the Great Depression.
Australia planning to block 10,000 websites
• Telegraph.co.uk/A trial of web-filtering technology earler this year found it could slow internet access by as much as 87 per cent and by at least 2 per cent. Australia's internet service is already notoriously sluggish.
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