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Date Sent: 2008-02-22
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Friday, February 22, 2008
 
US embassy in Belgrade attacked -- Ron Paul reactivates GOP candidacy, vows to fight on

Laptop Hard Drive Encryption Has Achilles Heel -- Parliament approves British bank nationalization -- US fears backlash over caught lying about terror flights -- Handcuffed man 'tasered to shut him up' -- Bovard: Do Elections Guarantee Freedom? -- McMansions in the Suburbs the Next Slum? -- Texans protest against planned NAFTA superhighway -- US Sues Two Tax Attorneys for Making Millions "Disappear" -- Death Wears A Badge: SWAT Teams Gone Wild -- Murrieta, California: One In Nine Homes In Foreclosure -- Newest in Cop's Arsenal: M113A2 Armored Personal Carrier -- German State-Owned Banks on Verge of Collapse -- U.S. Military's Africa Command to Stay in Germany -- If you report on the Don Siegelman case you will come under attack -- U.S. Budget Deficit May Reach $800 Billion -- MISH: A Sharper Focus On Consumer Spending -- Leaked RIAA Training Video: CD Pirates Are Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too! -- Auction-Rate Debt Succumbs to Bid-Rig Taint as Citigroup Flees -- Terry Bressi: When All Else Fails, Silence The Messenger.... -- Arrested newspaper editors sue county -- HB2833 Would Tax and Track Ammo
 
US embassy in Belgrade attacked News Link  •  Bush Administration
 US embassy in Belgrade attacked
2-21-2008  •  BBC 
Several hundred protesters have attacked the US embassy in Serbia's capital in anger at Western support for Kosovo's independence. Protesters broke into the US compound in Belgrade and briefly set part of the embassy alight. Found an unidenti  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Laptop Hard Drive Encryption Has Achilles Heel News Link  •  Privacy Rights
 Laptop Hard Drive Encryption Has Achilles Heel
2-21-2008  •  EFF 
That's because of a physical property of the computer's memory chips. Data in these DRAM processors disappears when the computer is turned off, but it turns out this doesn't happen right away. It can take minutes before that data disappea  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Parliament approves British bank nationalisation News Link  •  Economy - International
 Parliament approves British bank nationalisation
2-21-2008  •  AFP 
The nationalisation of troubled British bank Northern Rock, which was rocked by the global credit crunch six months ago, was approved by parliament. The government must now obtain an order which transfers the bank to public ownership, powers which we  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
US fears backlash over caught lying about terror flights News Link  •  Bush Administration
 US fears backlash over caught lying about terror flights
2-21-2008  •  AP 
The Bush administration is bracing for a diplomatic backlash after conceding it used British territory to transport suspected terrorists on secret rendition flights despite repeated earlier assurances the US had not. An "administrative error  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
QC won't refer wrong-doing accusations News Link  •  Arizona's Top News
 QC won't refer wrong-doing accusations
2-21-2008  •  East Valley Tribune 
Claims of wrong-doing against Queen Creek Town Councilwoman Lisa Coletto-Cohen won’t be forwarded to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. An item to consider forwarding possible conflict-of-interest violations was removed from the agenda at the req  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Handcuffed man 'tasered to shut him up' News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
 Handcuffed man 'tasered to shut him up'
2-21-2008  •  Courier-Mail 
Mr Brown's father Bryan, who has given statements to investigating officers, said about a week after the alleged incident he spoke to the officer who tasered his son. The officer said "it shut him up, didn't it?", and hung up, he sa  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Do Elections Guarantee Freedom?<br>by James Bovard News Link  •  Political Theory
 Do Elections Guarantee Freedom?
by James Bovard
2-21-2008  •  Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF) 
Elections are sometimes portrayed as practically giving people automatic “remote control” on the government. Elections kindly provide a chance for people to pre-program the government for the following years. The government will be based on the popul  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police News Link  •  Privacy Rights
 Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police
2-21-2008  •  Wired 
The machine-shredded stuff (45 million pages) is confetti, largely unrecoverable. But in May 2007, a team of German computer scientists in Berlin announced they had completed a system to digitally tape together the torn fragments.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police News Link  •  Police State
 Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police
2-21-2008  •  Wired 
The machine-shredded stuff (45 million pages) is confetti, largely unrecoverable. But in May 2007, a team of German computer scientists in Berlin announced they had completed a system to digitally tape together the torn fragments.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
McMansions in the Suburbs the Next Slum? News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 McMansions in the Suburbs the Next Slum?
2-21-08  •  TheAtlantic.com 
Nelson forecasts a likely surplus of 22 million large-lot homes (houses built on a sixth of an acre or more) by 2025�"that’s roughly 40 percent of the large-lot homes in existence today.  Read Full Story
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Texans protest against planned NAFTA superhighway News Link  •  North American Union
 Texans protest against planned NAFTA superhighway
2-21-08  •  Rawstory.com 
With no public approval required to begin construction, repeated calls against the TTC at public meetings, with seldom a word of support, may easily go unheeded.  Read Full Story
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US Sues Two Tax Attorneys for Making Millions News Link  •  TAXES: Federal
 US Sues Two Tax Attorneys for Making Millions "Disappear"
2-21-2008  •  Reuters 
"The amount of tax loss caused by Davison's promotions is incalculable but likely in the hundreds of millions of dollars." The government said it sued Stover and Davison because pursuing their customers "may be an insurmountable o  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Brock Lorber
Cindy McCain: The McCain Manipulation Machine News Link  •  Eugenics
Cindy McCain: The McCain Manipulation Machine
02-21-2208  •  Ginn 
14 years ago, John McCain used his Keating Five lawyer to file extortion charges and harass the guy who blew the whistle on wife Cindy's drug theft. A classic case of the "little guy" losing..  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet
Death Wears A Badge: SWAT Teams Gone Wild News Link  •  Police State
 Death Wears A Badge: SWAT Teams Gone Wild
02-21-2208  •  Mondoreb 
About every 2 weeks, a SWAT team breaks into the wrong house in America--many times killing innocent, unarmed Americans. A look at the increasing militarization of America's police.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet
Ron Paul takes on the World Bank News Link  •  Federal Reserve
 Ron Paul takes on the World Bank
2-21-08  •  Youtube.com 
Don't you wish other politicians could tell the truth like Ron Paul?  Read Full Story
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Murrieta, California: One In Nine Homes In Foreclosure News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 Murrieta, California: One In Nine Homes In Foreclosure
2-20-08  •  The Press Enterprise.com 
One in nine homes in the city of 100,000 residents is either in foreclosure or in the preliminary stages. Many neighborhoods have homes with dying lawns and broken windows.  Read Full Story
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Las Vegas Real Estate: 25 Percent Fall From Peak in April 2006 News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 Las Vegas Real Estate: 25 Percent Fall From Peak in April 2006
2-21-08  •  Las Vegas Sun.com 
SalesTraq, a research company that tracks the Las Vegas housing market, reported Monday that 2,177 homes were repossessed in January, surpassing the 1,962 sales in the new and existing home markets.  Read Full Story
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Newest in Cop's Arsenal: M113A2 Armored Personal Carrier News Link  •  Police State
 Newest in Cop's Arsenal: M113A2 Armored Personal Carrier
02-21-2208  •  Ginn 
Crooks in Richland County SC beware, you can run--especially if it's over 40 mph-- but you can't hide, the M113A2 is coming to town. What kind of crime is the county having?  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Randy Ricochet
New Hampshire State House Weighs Impeachment News Link  •  Impeachment
 New Hampshire State House Weighs Impeachment
2-20-2008  •  Concord Monitor 
Activists crowded into a State House hearing yesterday on a proposed resolution that would request Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Trouser Chili
German State-Owned Banks on Verge of Collapse News Link  •  Economy - International
 German State-Owned Banks on Verge of Collapse
2-20-08  •  Spiegel.de/international 
But if a state-owned bank were to go under, the consequences could be disastrous for the whole economy.   Read Full Story
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U.S. Military's Africa Command to Stay in Stuttgart, Germany News Link  •  Military
 U.S. Military's Africa Command to Stay in Stuttgart, Germany
2-21-08  •  Spiegel.de/international 
With the establishment of a military command responsible for Africa, the US was hoping to promote peace and stability on the continent. The problem is, the Africans want no part of the American military.   Read Full Story
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Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for a Bomb by Year's End News Link  •  Iran
 Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for a Bomb by Year's End
2-21-08  •  Spiegel.de/international 
New simulations carried out by European Union experts come to an alarming conclusion: Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium to build an atomic bomb by the end of this year.   Read Full Story
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Warning: If you report on the Don Siegelman case you will come under attack News Link  •  NeoCons
 Warning: If you report on the Don Siegelman case you will come under attack
2-21-08  •  Atlargely.com 
Folks, I have gotten yet another heads up - which is why I am now taking this seriously, that some sort of attack piece is coming against me, Scott Horton, and anyone else writing about Siegelman....  Read Full Story
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Pimco's Gross Says U.S. Budget Deficit May Reach $800 Billion News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 Pimco's Gross Says U.S. Budget Deficit May Reach $800 Billion
2-20-08  •  Bloomberg.com 
(Bloomberg) -- Bill Gross, manager of the world's biggest bond fund, said the U.S. federal budget deficit will widen to as much as $800 billion during the next presidential administration.   Read Full Story
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A Sharper Focus On Consumer Spending News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 A Sharper Focus On Consumer Spending
2-21-08  •  Michael Shedlock / Mish 
Where is Spending Slowing? Nearly every consumer category we looked at in the survey scored lower than a year ago in terms of spending going forward �" led by restaurant spending....  Read Full Story
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Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too! News Link  •  Entertainment: Music
 Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too!
2-21-2008  •  Gizmodo 
This is a leaked official RIAA training video produced with the National District Attorneys Association telling U.S. prosecutors why they should bust music pirates: It'll lead them to "everything from handguns to large quantities of cocaine  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Auction-Rate Debt Succumbs to Bid-Rig Taint as Citigroup Flees News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
 Auction-Rate Debt Succumbs to Bid-Rig Taint as Citigroup Flees
2-21-08  •  Bloomberg.com 
Hundreds of auctions have failed this month, sending borrowing costs as high as 20 percent because dealers from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to Citigroup Inc.,stopped using their own capital to support the sales.  Read Full Story
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When All Else Fails, Silence The Messenger.... Feature Article  •  Homeland Security
 When All Else Fails, Silence The Messenger....
Terry Bressi
   As a result of documenting and reporting on these suspicionless homeland security checkpoint experiences, there are currently several efforts underway by various individuals to either shutdown my website or force the removal of content already posted
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Ron Paul reactivates GOP candidacy, vows to fight this year and beyond News Link  •  Eugenics
Ron Paul reactivates GOP candidacy, vows to fight this year and beyond
2-21-2008  •  LA Times 
"I will stay in as long as my supporters want me to," Paul promised. "And I say as long as the number of volunteers continues to grow, and the money comes in, and there are primaries out there, and they want me to be involved, I am goi  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
$heriff Joe and Andy Thoma$ going to co$t the county taxpayer$ million$ again? News Link  •  Arizona's Top News
 $heriff Joe and Andy Thoma$ going to co$t the county taxpayer$ million$ again?
2-21-2008  •  Phoenix New Times 
New Times submitted a formal Notice of Claim against the public officials responsible for a fiasco that saw the trampling of the First Amendment rights of this newspaper and its readers, and culminated in the jailing of its founders, Michael Lacey an  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Real ID + False Opposition = HB2677 News Link  •  Privacy Rights
 Real ID + False Opposition = HB2677
02/20/2008  •  We Are Change AZ 
Arizona missed an opportunity on Tuesday to become the 1st State in the nation to refuse Real ID. While some states have passed “resolutions” of non-compliance, HB2677 would have enshrined the prohibition into AZ law, a line not crossed by the other  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Shipley
HB2833 Would Tax and Track Ammo News Link  •  Gun Rights
 HB2833 Would Tax and Track Ammo
02/21/2008  •  Phoenix Pink Pistols 
An Act by the AZ House of Representatives may soon track ammunition purchases statewide by codifying and entering every round produced or sold in Arizona into a database maintained by the Department of Public Safety.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Mike Shipley
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