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Date Sent: 2009-06-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for June 20, 2009 Saturday edition |
Obama Admin. Looks to Colleges for Future Spies -- House Impeaches Texas Federal Judge
FBI files show wide 'Deep Throat' investigation -- US airstrikes likely
killed 26 civilians -- Vandal takes sledgehammer to photo radar camera
-- Ron Paul: H Res 560, Statement Opposing Resolution on Iran -- Politicians share personality traits with serial killers
-- Treasury to Auction $104 Billion In Debt Next Week, a Record -- Navy
Positions Destroyer For Possible Intercept of North Korean Ship -- California's Bonds Soon To Get Junked By Moody's -- Ahmadinejad's own Election Monitoring Commission declares results invalid -- Mish: Flow of Funds Report Offers Hard Evidence of Deflation
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Obama Administration Looks to Colleges for Future Spies
06-19-2009
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Washington Post
The Obama administration has proposed the creation of an intelligence
officer training program in colleges and universities that would
function much like the Reserve Officers' Training Corps run by the
military services. The idea is to create a stream "of first- and
second-generation Americans, who already have critical language and
cultural knowledge, and prepare them for careers in the intelligence
agencies," according to a description sent to Congress by Director of
National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair.
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News Link • Corruption
House Impeaches Federal Judge From Texas
06-19-2009
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AP
The House on Friday impeached a federal judge imprisoned for lying
about sexual assaults of two women in the first such vote since
impeaching former President Bill Clinton a decade ago.
The impeachment of U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent of Texas sets up a
trial in the Senate. Kent is the first federal judge impeached in 20
years. The House approved four articles
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
FBI files show wide 'Deep Throat' investigation
06-19-2009
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AP
The documents show the expanse of
agents' investigation into the film: seizing copies of the movie, having
negatives analyzed in labs and interviewing everyone from actors and
producers to messengers who delivered reels to theaters.
All of it in a failed attempt to stop the spread of a movie that some
saw as the victory of a cultural and sexual revolution and others saw as
simply decadent.
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News Link • Philosophy: Communism
In Venezuela, Land 'Rescue' Hopes Unmet
06-19-2009
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Washington Post
Several years after President Hugo Chávez's populist government had
expropriated the property from its longtime owners and begun
distributing parcels to small farmers like him to work.
Six months after he arrived, Barrera's dream is still just a dream
-- his 37 acres are fallow, so he spends his time feeding grain to nine
scrawny pigs.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Running the Gauntlet
06-19-2009
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Tucson Weekly
Call it déjà vu all over again.
It was Dec. 20, 2008, and Terry Bressi found himself idling through
a remote Border Patrol checkpoint on State 86. He was simply returning
from his job at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, on the Tohono
O'odham Reservation west of Tucson. But minutes later, he possessed a
newly minted citation for impeding traffic. One might be forgiven for assuming that traffic impediment is the
actual purpose of these checkpoints, which are popping up with
increasing regularity across the Southwest. But when it comes to Terry
Bressi, the Border Patrol and the Tohono O'odham Police Department have
a little score to settle.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
99-Year-Old's Water Bill Jumps Almost 4000%
06-19-2009
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www.nbcwashington.com/
Stop complaining about your utility bills. Jeannette Cohen's water bill jumped almost 4000 percent.
The 99-year-old northwest Washington woman insists
it must be a mistake. Usually, her water bill is $30. In March, she did
a double take.
"I got my usual bill and opened the envelope and looked at the amount," she said. "Huh? I looked again."
It was $1,181.
Cohen
complained and had plumbers check her house twice. Usually, she uses
about 3,000 gallons of water per month. D.C. Water and Sewer
Authority's records show that 139,876 gallons went into her house that
month, and they insist she must pay for them.
"It's just so obvious that, as the plumber said, 'You couldn't use that much water,'" she told News4's Tom Sherwood.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Hitler's Psychiatrist Cited Sexual Motivation for War
06-19-2009
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http://henrymakow.com/
by Henry Makow Ph.D.
Hitler's sexual dysfunction was
responsible for war and his persecution of the Jews, according to Kurt
Kreuger M.D. who claims he was Hitler's psychiatrist from 1919 to 1934.
I stumbled on his 1941 book, "I was Hitler's Doctor" not
suspecting he was a psychiatrist. I wasn't prepared for the intimate
revelations, including one that Hitler hated Jews because a grocer
named Sachs had "desecrated" his mother.
Professor Robert Waite
says the book is a hoax. There was no Jewish grocer in Leonding and
Kreuger couldn't possibly have remembered pages of intimate
conversations verbatim. ("The Psychopathic God," p. 434)
I
don't know about the grocer but it seems to me that after treating a
very special patient for 15 years, a gifted man like Kreuger could
reproduce his words. Hitler's problem with women is widely known. Also,
the Introduction was written by Ot
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News Link • Campaign for Liberty
H Res 560: Statement Opposing Resolution on Iran
6/19/09
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APFN
Statement of Congressman Ron Paul
United States House of Representatives
Statement Opposing Resolution on Iran
June 19, 2009
I rise in reluctant opposition to H Res 560, which condemns the Iranian government for its recent actions during the unrest in that country. While I never condone violence, much less the violence that governments are only too willing to mete out to their own citizens, I am always very cautious about “condemning” the actions of governments overseas
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News Link • Transportation
Replace, Don't Reform, Airport Security
06-19-2009
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http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/4989
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives voted 310-118
to keep the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from
strip-searching passengers with millimeter-wave scanners at airport
checkpoints.
Screeners will grope us instead.
Millimeter-waves function like Superman’s X-ray vision, peering through
your clothing to the body beneath. You don’t undress; the scanner does
that for you. Meanwhile, screeners leering at the monitor and
ostensibly checking for weapons can check you out instead.
Prisons have used millimeter-wave and similar technologies for years.
No wonder the TSA, which frequently confuses passengers with prisoners,
has tried since its beginnings in 2002 to push us into these
pornographic scanners. But public outrage always stymied those efforts;
there’s something unutterably creepy about government agents inspecting
naked citizens. Michael Chertoff, then Secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security, finally growl
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Politicians share personality traits with serial killers
06-19-2009
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LA Times (h/t Butler Shaffer)
[well, duh!] Kouri with the National Assn. of Chiefs of
Police, assembled traits such as superficial charm, an exaggerated
sense of self-worth, glibness, lying, lack of remorse and manipulation
of others are common to psychopathic serial killers.
But they are also common to American
politicians.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Redflex: Out of Gas
06-19-2009
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CameraFRAUD.com
Redflex seems to be running out of gas" literally and figuratively.
The photo radar vendor is facing the possibility that it’s biggest co-conspirator in crime and cheerleader-in-chief, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, may be forced to “review” the contract due to a possible state government shutdown.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Treasury to Auction $104 Billion In Debt Next Week, a Record
06-19-2009
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CNBC
The Treasury announced Thursday a record $104
billion worth of bond auctions for next week, part of its herculean
efforts to finance a rescue of the world's largest economy.
The
sales will exceed the previous record of $101 billion set in auctions
that took place in the last week of April and consist of two-year,
five-year and seven-year securities. That record was matched by another
$101 billion week in May.
Though
next week's total was broadly in line with expectations, worries about
supply have weighed on the U.S. government bond market, which will see
a mammoth $2 trillion worth of new debt issued this year.
"Maybe
the Treasury market reacted a little negatively and it will continue to
be like this," said Suvrat Prakash, U.S. interest rate strategist with
BNP Paribas in New York. "Supply
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News Link • Iran
'God is Great' echoes throughout Tehran
06-19-2009
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breitbart.com
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Tehran residents are climbing to their roofs and crying "God is Great!" in open defiance of Iran's supreme leader.
The late-night cries of "Allahu Akbar!" and "Death to the Dictator!" throughout Tehran Friday
are a direct challenge to the cleric who has ultimate authority under
Iran's constitution. They come hours after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned opposition supporters to stop protesting the June 12 election they say was rigged in favor of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi borrowed the tactic from the 1979 Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who asked Iranians to show unity against the U.S.-backed shah by shouting "Allahu Akbar" from their roofs.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Navy Positions Destroyer For Possible Intercept of North Korean Ship
06-19-2009
Navy Positions Destroyer For Possible Intercept of North Korean Ship Suspected of Proliferating Missiles, Nukes
The U.S. military is preparing for a possible intercept of a North Korean flagged ship suspected of proliferating weapons
material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned.
The
USS John McCain, a Navy destroyer, is positioning itself in case it
gets orders to intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the
vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense
official. The order to inderdict has not been given yet, but the ship
is moving into the area.
"Permission has not been requested. Nor is it clear it will be," a military source told
FOX News. "This is a very delicate situation and no one is interested in precipitating a confrontation."
The
ship left a port in North Korea Wednesday and appears to be heading
toward Singapore, according to a seni
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News Link • Food
Nestle recalls Toll House cookie dough products
6/19/09
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BreitBart.com
Nestle USA on Friday voluntarily recalled its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after a number of illnesses were reported by those who ate the dough raw. The company said the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating reported E. coli illnesses that might be related eating the dough.
In a statement, the FDA said there have been 66 reports of illness across 28 states since March. About 25 people have been hospitalized, but no one has died. E. coli is a potentially deadly bacterium that can cause bloody diarrhea, dehydration and, in the most severe cases, kidney failure.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
NSA monitors millions of American e-mails
6/19/09
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The Intelligence Daily
Several current and former agents within the National Security Agency (NSA), speaking on condition of anonymity, have told the New York Times that the spy agency likely monitors millions of e-mail communications and telephone calls made by Americans. The new revelations follow the disclosure in April that the NSA’s monitoring of domestic e-mail traffic broke the law in 2008 and 2009.
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News Link • Iran
Ahmadinejad's own Election Monitoring Commission declares results invalid
06-19-2009
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Andrew Sullivan (Atlantic)
Yes, the president of Iran's own election monitoring commission has declared the result invalid
and called for a do-over. That is huge news: when a regime's own
electoral monitors beak ranks, what chance does the regime have of
persuading anyone in the world or Iran that it has democratic
legitimacy?
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News Link • Iran
IRAN (is not the problem) is a feature length film
6/19/09
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APFN Messageboard
IRAN (is not the problem) is a feature length film responding to the failure of the American mass media to provide the public with relevant and accurate information about the standoff between the US and Iran, as happened before with the lead up to the invasion of Iraq. w/video link..
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News Link • Housing
The Dumbest Thing I've Seen Yet: 125 Percent LTV Home Mortgages
06-19-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
If you are underwater on your house and take a deal like this, you are as dumb as a box of rocks and have just consented to being bent over the table and violated repeatedly. That our government would propose "allowing" such a thing is fomenting financial rape upon The American Public
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Present Uranium Reactor Development
06-19-2009
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arclein
Of the reactors covered here: The Chinese HTR-PM (250 MWe) is scheduled to begin construction in September of this year and is to be completed in 2013. The Hyperion Power Generation company has customer orders and is planning to have their first hot tub size uranium hydride reactors (27MWe) built in 2013. The Russians have built reactors like the SVBR (75/100 MWe) metal breeder reactor for their submarines. The SVBR reactor project is funded and should have a pilot reactor for 2020. These first three reactors would likely also be the lowest cost reactors of the ones proposed here. The funding and commitment to build those reactors seems to be the strongest. China and Russia will build those reactors for internal use. Hyperion Power Generation's uranium hydride reactor seems simple enough and they have convinced customers to buy it if they build it and can meet what they are claiming
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Nominates ACORN Fund Raiser to Court Seat
3/17/09
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CA Political News
Reporting from Washington President Obama announced his first judicial nomination today, elevating U.S. District Judge David F. Hamilton from southern Indiana to the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.
White House officials described Hamilton as a seasoned judge who has shown an "empathy with real people" and who has bipartisan support in the Senate.
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News Link • Obama Administration
In a Rotten Nutshell: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know about ACORN
6/18/09
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Capital Researchorg
The radical community organizing group ACORN has become a major issue in the 2008 elections. Critics charge that the organization helped cause America’s current fi nancial troubles and is now perpetrating ballot fraud on a massive scale. We know for certain that ACORN is working with labor unions to get out the vote and to pressure workers and employers to unionize workplaces.....
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