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Date Sent: 2009-07-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, July 8, 2009 AM edition |
Federal Web sites hit hard by July 4th cyber attacks -- Rove deposed over US Attorney firings
Google Unveils a PC Operating System -- Iran stocks up on censorship tools -- Tax on health benefits causing second thoughts -- NY jury rules for ex-CEO Greenberg in AIG legal battle -- Judge denies bid to move GM appeal to higher court -- California IOU holders may turn to check cashers
-- Is Texas Harboring Torture Decider? - by Ray McGovern -- Fed is
Lying about Money Supply -- US Occupation of Iraq Continues Unabated --
How to Communicate Securely in Repressive Environments -- "The Age Of Despotism"- by Chuck Baldwin -- US Special Forces involvement in 19 Latin American countries including Honduras -- Sheriff Mack Speaks Out In Favor Of Gun Rights And Second Amendment -- Deutsche Bank to Sell New York Tower for 65% Off -- Talk of a 2nd Stimulus Package is Rearing it's Head -- Delinquencies on U.S. Home-Equity Loans Reach Record
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Federal Web sites hit hard by cyber attacks
07-07-2009
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AP
A widespread and unusually resilient computer
attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several
government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting
cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned.The
Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and
Transportation Department Web sites were all down at varying points
over the holiday weekend and into this
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News Link • Bush Administration
Rove deposed " over eight hour period " in US Attorney firings
07-07-2009
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RawStory.com
Judiciary Chairman won’t comment on what was asked, said
Former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was deposed
by lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee, Judiciary Chairman John
Conyers (D-MI) said in an interview Tuesday.
Rove’s deposition took place over a period of some eight and a half
hours, beginning at 10 a.m. and ending around 6:30 p.m, ET " and the
lawyers took several breaks, Conyers said.
Conyers wouldn’t say what Rove told investigators or whether Rove would appear before his committee again.
“He was deposed today,” Conyers said in an interview with Politico. “That’s all I can tell you.”
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News Link • Iran
Iran stocks up on censorship tools
07-07-2009
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Reuters
When Iranian protesters used internet services like Twitter to gain
global attention they also reminded the world that oppressive regimes
continue to buy or build technologies to enforce censorship.
Clothilde Le Coz, director of internet research for Reporters
Without Borders, says Iran is second only to China in the extent and
sophistication of its efforts to stifle dissent online.
“The Iranian government said last year that it was blocking 5
million websites,” Le Coz said in a telephone interview. “They brag
about what they can do, perhaps to intimidate their opponents.”
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Purpose of Bat's Weird Nose Explained
07-07-2009
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LiveScience
Scientists may have solved the mystery of a bat with an extremely large
nose, according to a new study. The oversized feature could help the
bat sharpen its sonar.
The Bourret's horseshoe bat, or Rhinolophus paradoxolophus, was
discovered 58 years ago in Southeast Asia and named for its strange
facial trait. The bat
has a roughly 9-millimeter-long nose (a third of an inch), while other
species of horseshoe bats have a nose that is about half that size,
said researcher Rolf Mueller, an associate professor of mechanical
engineering at Virginia Tech and director of the Bio-inspired
Technology Laboratory in Danville, Va. "This nose is so much larger
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Tax on health benefits causing second thoughts, dimming prospects for bipartisan overhaul bill
07-07-2009
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AP
Senate Democratic leaders rebelled Tuesday against a proposed tax on
health insurance benefits, raising fresh doubts about the prospects for
bipartisan legislation on President Barack Obama's top domestic
priority.
The discontent surfaced as the White House and Vice President Joe Biden readied a triumphant announcement for
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News Link • Corruption
NY jury rules for ex-CEO Greenberg in AIG legal battle
07-07-2009
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Reuters
A company run by former AIG CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg did not
plunder billions from a retirement fund, a jury ruled, dashing the
bailed-out insurer's chances of collecting $4.3 billion in damages.
American International Group Inc took Starr International Co, a
private company run by Greenberg, to court in an effort to recover
millions of shares held by Starr and get compensation for stock sold.
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News Link • Corruption
Judge denies bid to move GM appeal to higher court
07-07-2009
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Reuters
A U.S. bankruptcy judge refused on Tuesday to allow a group of
individuals claiming to have been harmed by General Motors Corp
vehicles to appeal directly to a U.S. federal appeals court against the
sale of the automaker's assets.
Judge Robert Gerber of federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan also
rejected a request by a group of asbestos claimants to stay the sale of
GM to a group led by the U.S. Treasury.
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Opinion • Bush Administration
Ray McGovern: My Take
Is Texas Harboring Torture Decider?
07-07-2009
Ray McGovern
Editor’s Note:
Prior to giving a series of talks in Texas later this week, the author offered
the following op-ed to the Dallas Morning News and the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram.
Both newspapers in George W. Bush’s home state turned it down.
Seldom
does a crime scene have so clear a smoking gun. A two-page presidential
memorandum of Feb. 7, 2002, leaves no room for uncertainty regarding the
“decider” on torture. His broad-stroke signature made torture official
policy.
This should come as no surprise. You see, the Feb. 7, 2002,
memorandum has been posted on the Web since June 22, 2004, when then-White House
Counsel Alberto Gonzales mistakenly released it, along with other White House
memoranda.
The title seemed innocent enough " “Humane Treatment of al
Qaeda and Taliban Detainees” " but in the body of the memo President George W.
Bush authorized his senior aides to withhold Geneva Convention protections from
suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban detain
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Opinion • Bush Administration
Ray McGovern: My Take
Dear President Bush,
07-07-2009
Ray McGovern
Dear President
Bush,
With this note I hope to make sure you know that I have been
invited by the Dallas Peace Center to lecture next Thursday evening, July 9, at
a dinner at FunAsia in Richardson. You and Mrs. Bush are cordially
invited.
In my remarks I plan to focus on the subject of torture. I
shall draw on my thirty years in Army Intelligence and the CIA, as well as a
lifetime of trying to follow Jesus of Nazareth. I will take issue with your
decision of February 7, 2002 that the Geneva Convention Relative to the
Treatment of Prisoners of War (August 12, 1949) does not apply to al Qaeda and
Taliban detainees; and I will explore the implications of that
decision.
Somehow it seemed not quite proper to come to Dallas without
letting you know this in advance. I also wanted to tell you that I would
welcome a chance to discuss these issues with you"either privately or, better
still, at the dinner itself.
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News Link • Food
HR 2749: Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply
07-07-2009
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foodfreedom.wordpress.com
A
new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food
Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped.
HR
2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing
existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency. The bill
would impose a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and
local artisanal producers; and it would disproportionately impact their
operations for the worse.
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News Link • Food
Food Stocks Look Good
07-07-2009
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LewRockwell.com
BREADBASKET
FOR THE WORLD
In 233 years
the world population has swollen from less than a billion to almost
seven billion. The
Japan Times reports that Canada produces 145% more calories
of food than it consumes and the United States is close with 128%
while the island nation of Japan has recently dipped to 39%.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Occupation of Iraq Continues Unabated
07-07-2009
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Dahr Jamail
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
- George Orwell
On July 4 in Baghdad, Vice President Joe Biden, who campaigned with Barack
Obama on a platform of ending the occupation of Iraq, found himself in one of
former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's lavish buildings, the Al-Faw Palace.
While one of Saddam Hussein's thrones sat on the side of the room, Biden presided
over a swearing-in ceremony for 237 soldiers, who were becoming US citizens.
Speaking of the ceremony, Biden said,
"We did it in Saddam's palace, and I can think of nothing better. That
S.O.B. is rolling over in his grave right now." Perhaps the irony of both
the scene and his statement were lost to Biden. For if Saddam Hussein was rolling
in his grave, the reason would have less to do with one of his pala
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News Link • China
China's Urumqi city in chaos as mobs vow revenge
07-07-2009
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RawStory.com
Police on Tuesday fired tear
gas to disperse thousands of Han Chinese protesters armed with
makeshift weapons and vowing revenge, as chaos gripped this flashpoint
city riven by ethnic tensions.
Authorities ordered a night curfew and thousands of heavily armed
police deployed across Urumqi, the capital of China's remote northwest
Xinjiang region.
But tensions spiked dramatically following weekend clashes that claimed at least 156 lives.
Authorities said they had arrested 1,434 suspects, accusing them of
murder, assault, looting and burning during attacks by Muslim Uighurs
against the Han, China's dominant ethnic group who are seen in Xinjiang
as oppressors.
But despite the security clampdown involving police with submachine
guns, shotguns and batons, mobs of Han Chinese marched through Urumqi
-- with many wielding bricks, chains and poles and bent on reprisals
against Uighurs.
"The Uighurs came to our area to smash things, now we are going to
their area t
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News Link • Food
Russian Scientists Warn Of Genetically Modified Fast Food Link To Pandemic Flu
07-07-2009
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whatdoesitmean.com
(Publisher: UNCONFIRMED - This story has started to hit the Internet on various sites that I am not that familiar with. So do some more research before forwarding as fact)
Scientists from Russia’s Ministry of
Health are warning in a secret report to Prime Minister Putin that they
have discovered a ‘critical link’
between the H1N1
influenza (Swine Flu) virus and genetically modified amylopectin
potatoes that are consumed in massive quantities nearly exclusively by
Westerners and sold in fast food restaurants as French Fries.
According to these reports, the protease enzyme genetically modified in the
potatoes being sold through Western fast food restaurants as French Fries to
protect against Potato
virus X causes an “explosive”
replication of the H1N1 influenza virus by increasing the acidic conditions of
the endosome and causing the hemagglutinin protein to rapidly fuse the viral envelope with the
vacuole's membrane, then causing the M2 i
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Adviser Says U.S. Should Mull Second Stimulus
07-07-2009
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Bloomberg.com
July 7 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. should consider drafting a
second stimulus package focusing on infrastructure projects
because the $787 billion approved in February was “a bit too
small,” said Laura Tyson, an outside adviser to President
Barack Obama.
The current plan “will have a positive effect, but the
real economy is a sicker patient,” Tyson said in a speech in
Singapore today. The package will have a more pronounced impact
in the third and fourth quarters, she added, stressing that she
was speaking for herself and not the administration.
Tyson’s comments contrast with remarks made two days ago
by Vice President Joe Biden and fellow Obama adviser Austan
Goolsbee, who said it was premature to discuss crafting another
stimulus because the current measures have yet to fully take
effect. The government is facing criticism that the first
package was rolled out too slowly and failed to stop
unemployment from soaring to the highest in almost 26 years.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Lab-made sperm could make men redundant...
07-07-2009
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www.metro.co.uk/news
Women who say they don't need a man may well be right " after human sperm was created in the lab.
The breakthrough could give hope to infertile couples and men left
unable to have children after having cancer treatment.
But don't worry guys, the scientists who created the sperm using stem
cells don't plan to take you out of the baby-making process just yet.
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News Link • Housing
Ruins of the Second Gilded Age
07-07-2009
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NY Times Magazine
Interesting slide show of a professional photographer's take on the real estate bust across the US. 2 of the subjects are from the Phoenix area.
GREENLEAF SUBDIVISION Mortgage fraud rose to new heights nationally during the real estate boom, aided by lenient lending rules and lax oversight.
For this subdivision in Dawsonville, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, an
appraiser and a developer together created false documents that led a
California bank to offer nearly $5 million in mortgages for 15 homes "
houses that were neither finished nor ready for occupancy. Out-of-state
investors, relying on the false appraisals, purchased the properties,
usually sight-unseen.
The developer, Jeffery Alan Teague, was arrested after an F.B.I.
investigation and is now serving more than 15 years in prison. The home
buyers " many of whom most likely intended to flip the properties
without ever seeing them " are now stuck with a nearly worthless asset.
The neighborhood has become a d
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Feature Article • Activism
My experience with the cross-country Ride For Honesty in Arizona.
Found Zero
First off, let me say my experience was short and sweet. There's my odd work schedule, there's the inevitable varueries of the timing and schedule of a bike ride and twice as inevitable communication challenges. By the time I established a firm idea of where they were and where they were going to be, I was able to jet up and catch them in Ash Fork, a tiny little town on I-40 East of Flagstaff.
Now I say "them" and "they" because Mike the Liberty Rider isn't alone on his journey through Arizona. Three Arizona activists and a motorhome accompany him. So as I'm exiting the highway at Ash Fork I raise Ed on the cell and Ed says they are about 11 miles East of Ash Fork, so I have some waiting to do until they get here.
Right then Tom Costanzo goes pedalling along right in front of me on the highway. So I get back on the other way, overtake Tom, pull over and talk to him for a bit. He'd broken out in front of the pack and was placidl
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News Link • Military
US Special Forces involvement in 19 Latin American countries including Honduras, (Leaked Document)
07-07-2009
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American Resistance Movement
This confidential US
Special Forces (7th, US Southern Command), briefing dated 17 May 2009
was created for Florida Congressman Miller.
Although unclassified, it specifies a For Official Use Only (FOUO) distribution restriction.On page 7 of the document, it is proudly proclaimed that the 7h Special Forces Group has conducted missions in every Latin American country.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sheriff Mack Speaks Out In Favor Of Gun Rights And Second Amendment
07-07-2009
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http://oneumbrellaforliberty.com
Very important that you watch the full interview. Sheriff Mack's new book The County Sheriff - America's Last Hope presents a plan with which we can avert catastrophe brought about by domestic enemies in the federal government. The full interview can be seen at Action For Liberty Website
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