Current News Headlines

These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:

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• AP

Organizers of an initiative campaign to prohibit the use of cameras for traffic enforcement in Arizona have fallen short of collecting enough signatures. Tthey collected 120,000 voter signatures -- about 34,000 short of the number needed.

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• Amber Corrin

$5.5 million in contracts to digitize the Arlington cemetery’s records, without results. At least three contractors over a 7-year time period were awarded contracts to upgrade and digitize ANC’s burial records. Records are still done manually!

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• USA Today

The federal debt will represent 62% of the nation's economy by the end of this year, the highest percentage since just after World War II, according to a long-term budget outlook released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

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• McClatchy News (video)

A congressional commission pressed Goldman Sachs to spell out how much their company has earned from its exotic bets against the housing market, including $20 billion in wagers that helped force a $162 billion taxpayer bailout of the AIG.

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• Scott Rentschler, Awakenin to Liberty

In the last chapter of The Dollar Meltdown, Charles Goyette makes a fascinating observation about what has been depicted on American coins over the years: America's earliest coins portrayed Liberty. Not rulers and politicians. Just Liberty. A symb

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• InfoWars.com/

Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has called for compulsory service for all Americans ages 18 to 25. “It’s time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American.

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• CameraFRAUD - The Cameras are Coming Down

Chandler, AZ – The leading Arizona group advocating for the removal of automated ticking cameras is proud to announce an unprecedented grassroots fundraiser in the month of July.

CameraFRAUD, established in 2008 after then-Governor Janet N

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• AntiWar.com

Though this would ostensibly be a “civilian” force, the State Department is already looking at acquiring its own military hardware to create its own “combat force” dependent on military contractors.

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• Survivalblog.com

To heat up part of my lunch, something you'd put in a microwave or oven, and the sun was shining, I'd go get our black wheelbarrow, put my lunch in it, turn it under the sun, and set a single-pane window or large piece of glass over the top.

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• MSNBC

The nation's top civil liberties group on Wednesday issued travel alerts for Arizona, saying the state's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants could lead to racial profiling and warrantless arrests. American Civil Liberties Union affiliates

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