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Record foreclosure filings threaten housing recovery

The total of outstanding foreclosure auction notices on Orange County homes hit 10,513 at the end of December, the highest in this housing downturn, reports ForeclosureRadar.com.

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Record number of young Americans jobless

The U.S. economic recession has taken a particularly heavy toll on young Americans, with a record one out five black men aged 20 to 24 neither working nor in school.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60P0Z620100126


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The rental breakdown

The American Prospect
by Monica Potts

01/28/10

In the 1990s, federal home-ownership policy shifted from making home-ownership available to the middle class to subsidizing home-ownership for almost everyone. In the process, renters were implicitly denigrated and federal spending allocated to support them fell. The push for home-ownership began under President Bill Clinton and reached a crescendo under President George W. Bush and his ownership [sic] society. … In Bush’s America, home-ownership was not only an unalloyed good but was imbued with a sense of moral imperative; good Americans owned homes. … But a longer-term problem also needed addressing: the shrinking stock of affordable rental housing, and the growing number of low-income renters who needed assistance...

https://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_rental_breakdown


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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A study in "enhanced reporting techniques."

By Jeff Stein

He claims that the disinformation he helped spread was a CIA dirty trick: "In retrospect, it was a valuable lesson in how the CIA uses the fine arts of deception even among its own."

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24525.htm



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

01/27/10

It’s amusing to watch U.S. officials protest the Chinese government’s surveillance of its own citizens. After all, isn’t it the U.S. government that secretly and illegally conspired with private telecom companies to record telephone conversations of private American citizens? And isn’t it the U.S. government that secured both civil and criminal immunity for the telecoms’ decision to sell out the privacy of their customers to the feds?

https://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-01-27.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/27-1

The State of OUR Union
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/27-12

The State of My Union Isn't So Great
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/27-7

The Historic Cost of the State of the Union: Mr. President, Welcome to the Saudi Arabia of Coal
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/27-8

Our Wars Are Killing Us
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/27-3

Military Families to Obama: Bring All Our Troops Home Now!
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/27-2

Friends of the Earth: Obama Speech a Kick in the Gut to Environmentalists
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/28-9

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SOTU: The night of magical thinking

Orange County Register
by staff

01/27/10

President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address answered the big question pundits were asking resoundingly. In the face of setbacks and growing opposition, in the face of the cap-and-trade energy bill being considered effectively dead, in the face of the loss of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, in the face of increasing opposition to the health-insurance reform proposal that has yet to take final shape, would the president modulate his agenda to take account of a political climate that has changed radically since he took office a year ago, or would he double-down on the program of increasing the size, scope and responsibility of government? He chose to double-down… One might view this as admirable determination to stick by a program, or one might view it as stubbornness, defiance, even, dare we say it, a touch of arrogance...

https://www.ocregister.com/opinion/sector-231369-government-jobs.html



SOTU: I will micromanage your life

Fox Business News
by John Stossel

01/28/10

It’s so sad to watch the State of the Union. I’m reading his speech as he reads it nearly word for word on the teleprompters. The president makes endless promises while Congress sycophantically applauds. It’s as if he’s saying, ‘We’re the magic politicians and we can solve all your problems. I will cut that deficit that I inherited from President Bush but simultaneously cut taxes for all of you! I will give you a new jobs bill: green jobs, subsidized speedy trains, hand-outs for small business, tax credits for big business.’ And then Congress applauds itself for spending more of your money. But we already have an idea of what this will really do: enrich accountants and tax lawyers. We’ve seen it in those stimulus ‘tax cuts’ he bragged about...

https://tinyurl.com/y97dzyg



Tuning out the State of the Union

Washington Examiner
by Gene Healy

01/26/10

Tomorrow night, an embattled President Obama will deliver his 2010 State of the Union. He originally wanted to give it on Feb. 2, but — adding to a string of recent indignities — had to yield after irate ‘Lost’ fans made clear they wouldn’t put up with their season premiere getting pre-empted by a lousy presidential speech. ‘Lost’ is a silly show — a six-year-long ‘Twilight Zone’ episode doomed to end in disappointment. But you can hardly blame Americans for preferring it to the SOTU, a dull and tacky spectacle that celebrates our retreat from limited, constitutional government...

https://tinyurl.com/yhynzjz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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None of Your Business!
https://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul192.html

The Census and Despotism
https://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/census.html

The Census Scam
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/garris1.html

Diary of a Census Resister
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/diary-census-resister.html

Fight the Games
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/stop-civil-obedience.html

Civil Disobedience and the Census
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/census-civil-disobedience.html

The Census and the Constitution
https://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams22.html

Census: A Little Too Personal
https://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul649.html

Census Data Not So Confidential After All
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/theroux-m1.1.1.html

Census Resisters Cite Distrust of Government
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/census-resistance-grows.html

U.S. Census Tracks Mail, Raising Fears Among Some
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/census-privacy-invasion-grows.html

Census Time Heightens Privacy Concerns
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/mccullagh5.1.1.html

The Census Man Cometh
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/seiler9.1.1.html

As the Census Advances, So Does Potential for Fraud
https://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/census-swindlers.html

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Year of the Rat — I mean, census

Campaign For Liberty
by Becky Akers

02/02/10

The Census is indeed a mistake, not only in its concept but in the phrasing: given the latitude of ‘in such Manner as they shall by Law direct,’ it’s hard to argue that any question bureaucrats ask, whether via mail, phone, or personal visits, violates the Constitution once legislation authorizes it. Indeed, that document’s elasticity enables the Census Bureau to justify even its annual ’surveys’ by claiming they help with its gargantuan, decennial task...

https://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=575



The census: Inquiring minds want to know a lot

Foundation for Economic Education
by Lawrence W. Reed

written 05/00; posted 02/08/10

What the federal bureaucracy calls ‘the largest peacetime mobilization effort in U.S. history’ is now underway. It’s the 2000 census — and if you’re an American citizen, it’s got a few questions for you. As many as 53, in fact. America’s founders felt it was important enough to know how many people lived in the country that they wrote a requirement for a census every ten years into the third paragraph of Article I, Section 2, of the Constitution...

https://tinyurl.com/l4zu8q



Today’s census no longer just counts people

Hawaii Reporter
by William J. Watkins, Jr.

05/03/10

The Census Bureau’s propaganda machine is in full gear! The press releases and advertisements tell us that the 2010 census is a national ‘civic event.’ By answering just ten questions in ten minutes you ‘help determine how more than $400 billion in federal funds are distributed.’ And if you are lucky enough to receive the more intrusive American Community Survey — formerly the census long form — you allegedly assist in everything from job training for veterans to improving education for disabled children...

https://tinyurl.com/26m9e47


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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U.S. Census Implementing Massive Invasion of Privacy

Video

Are U.S. Census Bureau surveys violating your rights by asking personal questions … and maintaining databases of your private information?

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/16/us-census-implementing-massive-invasion-of-privacy.aspx



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The Obama Retirement Trap
https://www.lewrockwell.com/holland/holland12.1.html

Where Will US Job Growth Come From?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/quinn/quinn21.1.html

Retirement Armageddon
https://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north808.html

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Obama’s “train wreck” ahead

Human Events
by Donald Lambro

01/27/10

Arthur Laffer, creator of the Laffer Curve that showed how low tax rates boost economic growth, is warning anyone who will listen that the economy is headed for a ‘train wreck’ in 2011 that will make the current recession look tame by comparison. The famed economist, whose supply-side, tax-cutting policies enacted by President Reagan in 1981 put the economy on a record-breaking, 25-year economic trajectory of growth and prosperity, is telling Americans not to be lulled by sporadic signs of growth this year, because the economy is headed for a sharper decline next year when tax rates are expected to jump sharply, sending the economy into a new tailspin...

https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35341



A five-point plant to save America, Haiti and the world

J. Neil Schulman @ Rational Review
by J. Neil Schulman

01/27/10

The United States of America as a geo-political entity is doomed. That sector of the American economy tied to the entitlements and obligations of its federal and state governments — and whose capital and obligations are calculated in terms of a dollar issued by its secretive central bank — is ‘upside down.’ Its debt and obligations far exceed the capital owned by and current productive capacity of its people. The two alternatives, when reduced to essentials, come down to either a bankruptcy involving a repudiation of debts and entitlements — which means some people are going to be thrown to the wolves, and many will actually die — or a bankruptcy involving a reorganization that can lead to a real recovery...

https://tinyurl.com/ybmjt3c


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Sahil Kapur

Remember the Pentagon Office of Special Plans that helped collect dubious intelligence that led to the war in Iraq? Or the program where the Pentagon secretly briefed military analysts to promote the Iraq war? Meet the would-be Office of Strategic Deception.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24515.htm



Nothing More Dangerous Than a Recovering "Realist?"

By Stephen M. Walt

Back in 2002, the Council on Foreign Relations sponsored a book by Kenneth Pollack (subsequently director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Studies at Brookings), entitled The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq. The book argued that Saddam Hussein was irrational and undeterrable and that the United States had no choice but to remove him from power.

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