Home prices fell in at least 45 metropolitan areas in the third quarter as the real estate slowdown spread beyond industrial cities, where job losses have taking their toll on housing, to inflated markets in Florida, California and Arizona.While the Detroit was the worst hit, with home prices falling almost 11% between July 1 and Sept. 30, the Sarasota, Fla., area was second with a 9% drop in the median single-family home price, according to data released Monday by the National Association of Realtors. Five Florida metro areas were among the 10 regions with the biggest price declines in the third quarter, compared with the period last year. And in California, median prices fell in San Diego and Sacramento. The number of metro areas experiencing price depreciation jumped from 26 in the April-June period, and the number is expected to continue to rise for the next few quarters as sellers in more cities are forced to cut prices to woo buyers back into the market....
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Editor - 18:28:00 11-21-06
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 Threat to US citizens forces Mx officials to lock down town, Tx. Sheriff boosts security |
Residents of the Mexican border town of Guadalupe, across the Rio Grande from Fabens, are dealing with armed checkpoints and car-by-car searches. The small farming community is under tight surveillance by officials in Mexico, and now in the United States. The scene in Guadalupe Bravo could most accurately be described as a town under lockdown. The Mexican military increased its presence in the town, and Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West tells ABC-7 he's ready to send man power into the area on the US side of the border. Sheriff West added that his office recently heard of plans to kidnap US citizens, and transport them across the border to be killed in Guadalupe. According to Sheriff West, Victor Canello a man with ties to Fort Hancock was taken to Guadalupe and shot. ...
http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=5709913
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Editor - 12:52:00 11-21-06
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| Trapped in Lies and Delusions |
Ask yourself: How in the world could Bush, from a political standpoint, order the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq? For the past 3 years, he & Cheney have been suggesting that people who call for exiting Iraq are nothing more than weak-kneed cowards who would “cut & run” from the battlefield & subject the US to terrorism. Thus, by ordering a withdrawal from Iraq, would they not be implicitly admitting that they themselves had joined the ranks of the cut-&-run cowards who would put the nation at risk from the terrorists? Indeed, how would they explain a withdrawal to all the Iraqis who collaborated with the occupier & who would then be at the mercy of Iraqis who didn’t? Worst of all, how would Bush explain the withdrawal to every American family that has lost a loved one in Iraq? No matter how hard each such family has tried to suppress it, a critically important question would inevitably surface within their consciousness: “What exactly did my son, daughter, spouse, or parent die for...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger109.html
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Editor - 11:50:00 11-21-06
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| Court Rules NY Illegally Confined Sex Criminals to Mental Hospitals After Prison Sentences |
New York's highest court ruled Tuesday that the state wrongly confined convicted sex offenders in psychiatric facilities after their prison sentences ended. In its 7-0 ruling, the Court of Appeals sent the cases of 12 men who had been held without hearings as psychiatric patients back to a lower court to quickly determine if each poses a danger to the public. "We do not propose that these petitioners be released, nor do we propose to trump the interests of public safety. Rather, we recognize that a need for continued hospitalization may well exist," Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick wrote in the high court's opinion. The 12 unidentified men were among the first New York inmates involuntarily committed to mental hospitals after serving their sentences. Gov. George Pataki ordered the commitments in 2005 after the Legislature's failure to approve a law preventing them from returning to communities where they could repeat their crimes. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2670794
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Editor - 10:31:00 11-21-06
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| Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy? |
At first, it seems an open-&-shut case. On June 5 1968, Robert Kennedy wins the California Democratic primary & is set to challenge Richard Nixon for the White House. After midnight, he finishes his victory speech at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles & is shaking hands with kitchen staff in a crowded pantry when 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan steps down from a tray-stacker with a "sick, villainous smile" on his face and starts firing at Kennedy with an 8-shot revolver. As Kennedy lies dying on the pantry floor, Sirhan is arrested as the lone assassin. He carries the motive in his shirt-pocket (a clipping about Kennedy's plans to sell bombers to Israel) & notebooks at his house seem to incriminate him. But the autopsy report suggests Sirhan could not have fired the shots that killed Kennedy. Witnesses place Sirhan's gun several feet in front of Kennedy, but the fatal bullet is fired from one inch behind. And more bullet-holes are found in the pantry than Sirhan's gun can hold, ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1952379,00.html
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Editor - 10:26:00 11-21-06
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| Pro-reform Mexico cabinet named |
The President-elect of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, has announced his first cabinet appointments, including the key economic portfolios. Mr Calderon appointed several pro-business economists and academics to important financial positions. Correspondents say the appointments are aimed at showing Mr Calderon is determined to push ahead with reforms. On Mon, the defeated left-wing candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, launched a "parallel government". Mr Calderon said his finance minister would be Agustin Carstens, a former economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Mr Carstens left his job as IMF's deputy managing director last month to work with Mr Calderon, and will now lead efforts to push through market reforms and create more jobs. The president-elect's team will also include an academic, Georgina Kessel, who has been named as energy minister, and Sduardo Sojo, who is the head of public policy in the outgoing government of Vicente Fox and will be the minister for the economy....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6170240.stm
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Editor - 10:17:00 11-21-06
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