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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

BUSINESS

Dow At First Close Below 7000 Since '97
Stocks Hit '97 Level, Signaling Long Slump
How To Keep Your Money Safe With A Plummeting Dow
T.A.R.P Funds Forced On Healthy Banks
Is The Government On The Right Track?
Subscribers Wash Hands Of Dish Network

CERTIFI-GATE

Hawaiian Governor Challenged To Produce Obama Birth Certificate
"Lack Of Response By Obama Administration Is An Act Of Treason" By Sgt. Brian Keith, USMC
Obama ineligibility tops AOL News
Obama Supporters: Deceived Or Just Plain Liars?
Cliff Kincaid Says Obama Not Born in US
Rebuttals To Critics Of Military's Resistors To Usurper-In-Chief
Numerous Military Officers Join Orly Taitz's Suit Against Obama
Major General Says President's Eligibility Needs Proof

CLINTON FACTOR

Clinton Touring Middle East
Clinton: U.S. Will Work With New Israeli Govt.

HEALTH

Vitamins Supplements Effect
Bent On Learning Yoga

MOVIES

Who Is The 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'?
Kris Kristofferson Live Show Review

OBAMALOT

Montana Has It Right On Second Amendment
Obama Nominee Ron Kirk To Pay $10K In Back Taxes
Obama's Trade Pick Owes Irs $10,000
Obama Appointee Kirk Cheated On Income Taxes
Critics Question Obama's 'Fuzzy Math' On War Funding Estimates
Pricey New Presidential Choppers Not Made In U.S.A.
Waging War On Prosperity
Obama's Stimulus Destroys State Sovereignty

OBITUARIES

Broadcasting pioneer Paul Harvey dead at 90
Remembering Paul Harvey, the invisibles' man

POLITICS

Angry Rush Limbaugh Strikes Back At RNC's Steele
With Limbaugh Battles Raging, Republicans Unite Behind Media Freedom
Ann Coulter Interview From CPAC 2009
Dick Morris Prediction: Republicans Will Recapture Congress
Democrats Blink Over Burris Controversy
Burris Refusal Calms Gov. Quinn
Burris Election Web Site Is Up And Running
CNBC: Santelli Not Tied To Political Web Site
Sebelius On Nomination As H.H.S. Secretary
Anti-Abortion Activists Plan To Fight Sebelius' Nomination For H.H.S.
Publicist: Blagojevich Signs 6-Figure Book Deal

SCIENCE

Water May Have Flowed On Mars When Homo Erectus Walked The Earth

TECHNOLOGY

Amazon.com's New Version Of Kindle
Evolution Yields Revolution: The Kindle 2

TELEVISION

Numb3rs: Aya Sumika
Rebellion on "Sarah Silverman" set
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U.S.

Madoff Seeks To Keep Manhattan Penthouse
Madoff's Wife Ruth Says Her $62 Million 'Unrelated' To Fraud
CIA Destroyed 92 Interrogation Videos

WORLD

Obama's 'Snub' To Brown As PM Touches Down In U.S. For His First Meeting With President
Brown Arrived In The U.S. Today For First Meeting With Obama
International Donors Pledge Billions For Palestinians
Russian Middle Class Hit By Weak Ruble
Sri Lankan Cricket Team Attacked In Pakistan
Test Nations Worry About Future Of Cricket In Pakistan

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Dow At First Close Below 7000 Since '97
Associated Press

Investors' despair about financial companies and the recession has brought the Dow Jones industrial average to another unwanted milestone: its first drop below 7,000 in more than 11 years. ...

Stocks Hit '97 Level, Signaling Long Slump
Tom Lauricella and Annelena Lobb -- Wall Street Journal
Hardest hit were shares of already-battered banks. Shares in HSBC Holdings PLC, Europe's largest bank, dropped nearly 19% after it announced plans to raise capital and pull out of a disastrous foray into U.S. consumer lending. Citigroup Inc. declined 20% and General Electric Co. slid 11%. In Asia Tuesday, Tokyo's Nikkei stock index was down 1% in midday trading, and Hong Kong stocks fell 2.5%. ...

How To Keep Your Money Safe With A Plummeting Dow
KGUN-TV

The main stock market indicator dropped below the critical 7 thousand level for the first time in 12 years. So, where do you put your money to keep it safe? ...

T.A.R.P Funds Forced On Healthy Banks
Lynn M. Stuter -- News With Views
The first lie was that banks would go under if TARP didn't pass; the second lie was the self-righteous anger of Congress when they learned that banks "taking" TARP funds were "spending extravagantly." ...

Is The Government On The Right Track?
New York Financial Press

Economists are split over the effectiveness of the government's actions, according to a survey by the National Association of Business Economics. ...

Subscribers Wash Hands Of Dish Network
Miriam Marcus -- Forbes
Couch potatoes are unloading their DISH Network subscriptions. In its third consecutive quarter of subscriber loss, satellite TV provider DISH Network said Monday it lost a net 102,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter, as nearly a fifth of its gross subscriber additions came from its now-expired partnership with AT&T ...

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Water May Have Flowed On Mars When Homo Erectus Walked The Earth
Discover Magazine
Water may have been flowing over the surface of Mars as recently as 1.25 million years ago, according to a new study that examined gullies and fan-shaped deposits on the Martian landscape and determined that they were formed by melting ice. ...

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Hillary Clinton's Blog
Hometown Conservative
Huffington Post
InfoWars (Alex Jones)
instapundit
Investigating Obama
John McCain's Blog
Mapes on Politics
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Michelle Malkin Blog
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Nation
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Nero Wolfe Group
Nobama Network
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Stop the ACLU Blog
Squeegee Consulting LLC
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Madoff Seeks To Keep Manhattan Penthouse
WNYW-TV

Bernard Madoff is claiming a $7 million Manhattan penthouse and an additional $62 million in assets can be kept from investors, saying they are unrelated to the fraud that authorities say cost victims more than $50 billion. In court papers filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Madoff and his lawyer claim the apartment, $45 million in municipal bonds and $17 million more in a separate account all belong to Madoff's wife, Ruth. ...

Madoff's Wife Ruth Says Her $62 Million 'Unrelated' To Fraud
David Glovin -- Bloomberg News
U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton, who is presiding over a lawsuit against Madoff by the Securities and Exchange Commission, filed an order yesterday modifying terms of an asset freeze on Bernard Madoff's property. As part of his order, he cited a claim by Ruth Madoff that some of her assets are separate from his. Madoff's lawyers claim "only Ruth Madoff has a beneficial ownership" to a Manhattan apartment, about $45 million in municipal bonds on deposit at Cohmad Securities Corp., and approximately $17 million in cash in another account, Stanton said. Ruth Madoff says these assets are "unrelated" to the alleged fraud, Stanton wrote, citing her husband's lawyer. ...

CIA Destroyed 92 Interrogation Videos
Agence France-Presse (FR)
According to The New York Times, the tapes show the harsh interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, suspected of being a leading Al-Qaeda member, and Abdel Rahim al-Nashiri, believed to have been involved in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen. ...

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Angry Rush Limbaugh Strikes Back At RNC's Steele
NewsMax
"I hope [Steele] realizes he is not a talking-head pundit," Limbaugh said on his show Monday afternoon in a 20-minute response to Steele's criticism. "It's time for you to go behind the scenes and start doing the work you were elected to do, instead of trying to be some media star, which you're having a tough time pulling off." Steele, for his part, is backing down on his comments. "My intent was not to go after Rush -- I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate . . . I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren't what I was thinking." ...

With Limbaugh Battles Raging, Republicans Unite Behind Media Freedom
Byron York -- Washington Examine
After three moderates joined Democrats to pass the stimulus bill in mid-February, Senate GOP leaders worried whether there would be any issue on which the party's 41 senators would be able to agree. Now, with talk radio, they've found one. It happened after a long-simmering conflict over Democratic plans to limit the reach of conservative talk broke into the open with a showdown last week between Republican Sen. Jim DeMint and Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin. When Durbin offered a proposal that would diminish the influence of conservative talk, all 41 GOP senators -- including moderates Arlen Specter, Susan Collins and Olympia Snow -- voted against it, while every Democrat (with the exception of the absent Ted Kennedy) voted for it. ...

Ann Coulter Interview From CPAC 2009
Human Events

Right before her speech at CPAC 2009 HUMAN EVENTS' assistant managing editor Michelle Oddis got a chance to ask Ann Coulter what she thought of President Obama's sort of State of the Union address and the 2012 presidential race. ...

Dick Morris Prediction: Republicans Will Recapture Congress
NewsMax

Dick Morris tells Newsmax TV that Obama's tax and spend policies amount to a "war on prosperity." He says the worst is yet to come, that Obama's policies are destined for failure, and he predicts a massive backlash that will sweep Republicans back into power in Congress in 2010. But right now, Morris says with the three GOP turncoats in the Senate, Republicans are "largely impotent." ...

Democrats Blink Over Burris Controversy
WFLD-TV

Efforts to dump the man Blagojevich put in that seat seem to be running out of steam. Senator Roland Burris will not resign, and now his fellow Democrats seem resigned to stop talking about it. Political Editor Jack Conaty reports on the latest nuance of racial politics in what some call this post-racial era. ...

Burris Refusal Calms Gov. Quinn
Dave McKinney And Abdon M. Pallasch -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Sen. Burris made it very clear he has no intention of stepping aside. If Sen. Burris doesn't step aside, then we cannot have a special election," Quinn said after speaking at a Casimir Pulaski event Monday in Chicago. He earlier delivered the message to West Side African-American leaders. Quinn has faced criticism from some Burris loyalists for calling on the senator last week to resign and expressing support for legislation establishing a special election that effectively would cut Burris' term short. ...

Burris Election Web Site Is Up And Running
Associated Press
Sen. Roland Burris isn't saying whether he'll run for a full term in the Senate next year, but he has laid the groundwork on the Internet with the website supportburris.com ...

CNBC: Santelli Not Tied To Political Web Site
Associated Press
Video of Santelli's appearance at the Chicago Board of Trade has been seen nearly 2 million times on CNBC's Web site, more than anything the network has ever posted, and more than 855,000 times on YouTube. Before it was altered Monday, the Web site described "Rick Santelli's Re-Tea Party" four times on its home page, urging people to organize for protests. It had an "About Rick" link with the CNBC on-air editor's profile, saying he "voiced the sentiment of millions of Americans on the stock market floor." ...

Sebelius On Nomination As H.H.S. Secretary
KCTV-TV

Watch Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' remarks upon being introduced as the (third) choice for secretary of health and human services. ...

Anti-Abortion Activists Plan To Fight Sebelius' Nomination For H.H.S.
Sharon Kehnemui Liss -- FOX News
Kansas-based Operation Rescue says it will launch a full-out campaign against Sebelius because, as governor, she has had the support of Dr. George Tiller, who has been indicted for allegedly performing late-term abortions on underage girls. ...

Publicist: Blagojevich Signs 6-Figure Book Deal
Associated Press

A publicist for Rod Blagojevich says the former Illinois governor has signed a six-figure deal to write a book about the dark side of politics. ...

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Clinton Touring Middle East
KTTV-TV

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is kicking off a whirlwind, week-long tour of five different countries including England, Israel, and the Palestinian terroritories. On Monday, she's in Egypt pushing for peace in the region ...

Clinton: U.S. Will Work With New Israeli Govt.
Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. will work closely with any new Israeli government. Clinton is in Jerusalem on her first Mideast visit as the top U.S. diplomat. ...

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Obama's 'Snub' To Brown As PM Touches Down In U.S. For His First Meeting With President
Daily Mail (UK)
Gordon Brown's hopes of hitching his political fortunes to Barack Obama's star were dented today after an apparent snub from the White House as Mr. Brown arrived in the U.S. today. There was dismay in Downing Street when it was revealed the anticipated schedule had been altered and Mr Obama will not hold a full press conference with Mr Brown. ...

Brown Arrived In The U.S. Today For First Meeting With Obama
Press Association (UK)

Brown flies to the US to become the first European leader to visit Obama ...

International Donors Pledge Billions For Palestinians
Agence France-Presse (FR)

International donors pledged almost 4.5 billion dollars to the Palestinians and demanded the immediate lifting of Israel's blockade on Gaza. But they insisted that the aid money must bypass Hamas. ...

Russian Middle Class Hit By Weak Ruble
Agence France-Presse (FR)

Many in Russia's middle class are facing ruin as the ruble plunges in value. Loans are often taken out in dollars but the exchange rate is making it impossible for many people to meet their repayments. To make things worse, the price of imported foods is shooting up. ...

Sri Lankan Cricket Team Attacked In Pakistan
Associated Press

A dozen men attacked Sri Lanka's cricket team with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers Tuesday ahead of a match in Pakistan, wounding several players and killing six police officers. ...

Test Nations Worry About Future Of Cricket In Pakistan
Sonia Oxley -- Reuters
"As far as Pakistan is concerned I'm afraid this could mean the end of international cricket in that country for the foreseeable future," South Africa coach Mickey Arthur told Reuters. ...

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Numb3rs: Aya Sumika
TV Guide

Aya Sumika, who plays FBI Agent Liz Warner on the hit show NUMB3RS, talks to Hollywood 411's Chris Harrison about playing sassy, the myth, the hot mathematician and being really bad with numbers. ...

Rebellion on "Sarah Silverman" Set
Nellie Andreeva -- Hollywood Reporter)
The show's executive producers -- Silverman, Dan Sterling and Rob Schrab -- have threatened to quit after the cable network told them the budget for their series would be slashed by more than 20%. More than two months after "Sarah Silverman" ended its second season, the show has yet to be renewed for Season 3. (In 2007, the second-season pickup came 11 days after the series' premiere.) ...

Update on Comcast Situation
Robert Jay March -- March Report

Our server logs show that on Monday, Feb 16, 2009, a hacker with the I.P. address 67.182.253.190, which is registered to Comcast Cable Communications, Inc., made over 800 attempts to hack into our server. All of the attempts failed. Given that we have a problem with Comcast blocking delivery of our newsletters, classifying them as spam despite the fact that all subscribers are double-opt-in subscribers, we find ourselves wondering if this might have been an "inside job." We're just pondering, not accusing.

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