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Date Sent: 2008-02-12
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
Pentagon official, 3 others charged with spying for China -- Rep. Shadegg won't seek re-election
The Future of The Ron Paul Revolution by Ernest Hancock -- Hasty U.S. troop cuts risk Iraq gains: Petraeus -- BlackBerry Service Outage in N. America -- Arizona Seeing Signs of Flight by Immigrants -- Ariz. bankruptcy rates rise 63% -- Mortgage Crisis Spreads Past Subprime Loans -- Lawmakers say Ariz. revenue shortfall reportedly worsening -- Republicans' John McCain to Become Their Waterloo by Frosty Wooldridge -- Huckabee brushes off pressure to bow out -- "Stimulus Package" 'rebate' must be paid back -- Sen. Johnson on Sequoia Voting Machines -- Illegal Immigration - The Hegelian Dialectic in Action by Barbara Peterson -- Banks Need Bailouts, But Where's The Money? -- Is Japan Sitting Massive on Subprime Losses? -- Las Vegas Real Estate: January Median Sale Price -17.3% -- Fake Islamofascists Speak to the Air Force Academy -- Bush Demands Information on All Family Members of Air Passengers -- Help America Vote Act: Registration Issues in State After State -- Phoenix Real Estate: Lender-Owned Homes Now 19% of Homes Sales -- Boeing's Virtual Border Fence Doesn't Work -- Police launch dawn raid on boy of 12 'over school fight' -- The Rise of the Imperial Class - by Justin Raimondo
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Hasty U.S. troop cuts risk Iraq gains: Petraeus
2-11-2008
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Reuters
The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq advocated a cautious approach to cutting American firepower, saying that security gains could be sacrificed if troops left too quickly. Five extra combat brigades brought in last year as part of President Bush'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
COURT ORDERS DISCOVERY IN CREW LAWSUIT AGAINST WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION
2-11-2008
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CREW
Today, District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an order allowing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to conduct limited discovery in the case of CREW v. Office of Administration (OA).
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
BlackBerry Service Outage in N. America
2-11-2008
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AP
A major service outage afflicted users of the popular, addictive BlackBerry smart phones across the United States and Canada. Officials with AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless said BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. told them customers of all wirel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Arizona Seeing Signs of Flight by Immigrants
2-11-2008
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NY Times
The signs of flight among Latino immigrants here are multiple: Families moving out of apartment complexes, schools reporting enrollment drops, business owners complaining about fewer clients. A consensus is developing among economists, business peopl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Ariz. bankruptcy rates rise 63 percent
2-11-2008
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Arizona Republic
Arizona bankruptcies remain at elevated levels as the economy slows and credit ills linger, though the pace of increase may be easing. The 967 statewide filings in January represented a 63-percent gain over January 2007, according to the U.S. Bankrup
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mortgage Crisis Spreads Past Subprime Loans
2-11-2008
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NY Times
The credit crisis is no longer just a subprime mortgage problem. As home prices fall and banks tighten lending standards, people with good, or prime, credit histories are falling behind on their payments for home loans, auto loans and credit cards at
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Lawmakers say Ariz. revenue shortfall reportedly worsening
2-11-2008
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Arizona Republic
The state's budget picture apparently is again getting worse than previously estimated, with January tax collections pointing toward a revenue shortfall well over $1 billion, two Senate leaders said Monday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Pentagon official, three others charged with spying for China
2-11-2008
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AFP
A US defense official, an ex-Boeing engineer and 2 others were charged with spying for China involving sensitive military and aerospace secrets, including on the space shuttle. The 4 were linked to 2 espionage conspiracies, which posed a "grave
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Rep. Shadegg won't seek re-election to Congress
2-11-2008
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Arizona Republic
Saying he never intended to be a professional politician, Arizona Rep. John Shadegg announced Monday that he will not seek re-election to an eighth term in Congress, but he would love to run for U.S. Senate. [no fun being in the minority]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Eugenics
Huckabee brushes off calls to bow out
02-11-2008
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YahooNews.com
This time there is no incumbent, but Sen. John McCain has a commanding lead. Some Republicans suggest Huckabee's insistence on staying in the race could hinder the party's ability to unify behind the front-runner.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
Dept. of Defense Microwave Skinheater Weapon
02-11-2008
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DOD - YouTube
This will probably end up in the hands of law enforcement soon to be used on Americans.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
The Fear Factory
2-11-2008
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Rolling Stone / Guy Lawson
The FBI now has more than 100 task forces devoted exclusively to fighting terrorism. But is the government manufacturing ghosts?
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Up to 100K Los Angeles voters likely won't have ballots counted
2-11-08
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Rawstory.com
In a system that seemed tailor made to fail, more than half of the Decline to State voters who cast ballots last week in Los Angeles County have been effectively disenfranchised.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
"Stimulus Package" 'rebate' must be paid back - VisaJourney.com
02-11-2008
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CNN (then they took it from page :)
The checks are an advance on next year's refunds, and most, if not all of the money, will be deducted from taxpayers' refunds in 12 months' time.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Truth or Terrorism? The Real Story Behind Five Years of High Alerts
2-11-2008
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Rolling Stone / Tim Dickinson
A history of the Bush administration's most dubious terror scares " and the headlines they buried
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • United States Postal Service
Stamps to go up a penny
02-11-2008
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AP
The cost of a first-class stamp will rise to 42 cents starting May 12, the USPS said Monday. The price of the Forever stamp will go up the same time, meaning those stamps can still be purchased for 41 cents for first-class postage after the rate inc
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Inventory, Inventory, Inventory
2-11-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
So not only is this the highest yearend inventory in history, but the December decline was less than normal (only 7.4%).
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Banks Need Bailouts, But Where's The Money?
2-11-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
So where is the money? It's not in the US. Paulson has resorted to begging sovereign wealth funds to bail out capital impaired US banks.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Congress Owes it to Us, and Itself, to Take Clemens Hearings Seriously
2-11-2008
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ESPN.com / Gene Wojciechowski
If the 41 committee members do their jobs, maybe we'll also hear some honest answers. Otherwise, the whole day will be nothing more than a taxpayer-funded, dog-and-pony photo op. [author obviously doesn't pay attention to congress]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Home prices will drop for 2 more years, experts predict
2-11-08
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Newsday.com
"We are way early in the curve in terms of the devastation to housing," said Manhattan appraiser Jonathan Miller, executive vice president at Radar Logic, a real estate data firm
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News Link • Economy - International
Is Japan Sitting Massive on Subprime Losses?
2-11-08
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HousingDoom.com
The Tokyo bourse has crumbled, suffering the worst start to the year since the Second World War. The Nikkei index is down 17 per cent since Christmas, and the shares of Japanese banks are leading the slide.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Las Vegas Real Estate: January Median Sale Price -17.3%
2-9-08
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HousingDoom.com
In evaluating the nation’s 330 biggest metropolitan areas, SmartMoney magazine says the median price in Las Vegas should be closer to $198,000, down 31 percent from $286,000 in 2007’s second quarter.
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News Link • Military
Fake Islamofascists Speak to the Air Force Academy
2-11-08
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TruthDig.com
“These three jokers are as much former Islamic terrorists as ‘Star Trek’s’ Capt. James T. Kirk was a real Starship captain,” said Mikey Weinstein, the head of the watchdog group MRFF.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Bush Demands Information on All Family Members of Air Passengers
2-11-08
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Rawstory.com
Some diplomats have called the proposal blackmail. The US has threatened to require west Europeans and Britons to have US visas to enter if their governments won't sign on.
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Help America Vote Act: Registration Issues in State After State
2-10-08
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BradBlog.com
Many states are just now fully implementing new, statewide, computerized registration rolls as mandated by the disastrous Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Phoenix Real Estate: Lender-Owned Homes Now 19% of Homes Sales
2-11-08
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HousingDoom.com
It is being reported that 38% of sales in Las Vegas are "lender-owned", so Phoenix appears to still be in better shape. However, the foreclosure rate continues to grow in the Phoenix area.
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News Link • Torture
U.S. Said to Seek Execution for 6 in Sept. 11 Case
2-11-2008
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NY Times
Military prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty for six Guantánamo detainees who are to be charged with central roles in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, government officials who have been briefed on the charges said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Mexican Border: Boeing's Virtual Fence Doesn't Work
2-7-08
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BusinessWeek.com
Among Project 28's problems: Wind and rain affect the cameras' image quality. Radar has been unable to distinguish between mesquite bushes and clusters of people or animals.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Records must be released in timely fashion, court rules
2-11-2008
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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
A unanimous Arizona appeals panel declared sheriff's [Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio] "inattentiveness" created unjustified delays and violated the state records act.
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Queue Jackson
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News Link • Corruption
Police launch dawn raid on boy of 12 'over school fight'
2-11-2008
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Daily Mail
When father objected to them walk into the bedroom shared with four young siblings, he claimed they threatened to arrest him as well. By the time Dean was led away, the other youngsters were all "scared and crying", their father said.
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Queue Jackson
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News Link • Eugenics
The Rise of the Imperial Class - by Justin Raimondo
2-11-08
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Antiwar.com
In effect, the military-industrial complex lives very much like a vampire, draining the life's blood from the productive sector and reducing the availability of capital investment where it's really needed.
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