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Date Sent: 2009-09-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for September 12, 2009, Saturday edition |
Census Bureau Severs ACORN Ties in 2010 Count -- Court dismisses Iraqi contractor torture case
‘Leading architect’ of Bush surveillance quietly appointed to declassification board -- S.C.'s Wilson Rakes In $750,000 in Less Than 48 Hours -- Bush Justice Department official who lied won't be charged -- Informant says FBI threw away chance to catch alleged 9/11 plotter
-- Principal blocks publication of paper exposing contractor’s
religious bias -- Obama faces skeptics in Congress over Afghan war -- Obizzaro World - they want to prosecute the video makers not the criminals at Acorn -- Corus, Minn. bank busts bring '09 failures to 91 -- Obama to impose tariffs on Chinese tires -- Bank Exec "Borrows" Foreclosed Home -- Life Sentence for Taiwan Ex-President -- ANOTHER Obama Pick With Tax Problems
Nationwide: various tax protest activities
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Court dismisses Iraqi contractor torture case
09-11-2009
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Reuters
A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against two
U.S. defense contractors by Iraqi torture victims, saying the companies
had immunity as government contractors.
The lawsuit was filed in 2004 on behalf of Iraqi nationals who say
they or their relatives had been tortured or mistreated while detained
by the U.S. military at the Abu Ghraib prison.
The plaintiffs sued CACI International Inc, which provided
interrogators at Abu Ghraib, and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc's
Titan unit, which provided interpreters to the U.S. military.
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News Link • Obama Administration
‘Leading architect’ of Bush surveillance quietly appointed to declassification board
09-11-2009
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Rawstory
The man who helped oversee President George W. Bush’s warrantless
wiretapping program now has a new job: a membership on the Public
Interest Declassification Board.
Former Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, who led the National Security
Agency under President Bush from 1999 to 2005 and the Central
Intelligence Agency from 2006 until President Barack Obama’s
inauguration, was appointed during the Labor Day recess by Sen. Mitch
McConnell (R-KY).
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush Justice Department official who lied won't be charged
09-11-2009
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Rawstory
Attorney General Eric Holder has decided not to bring any criminal
charges against a former Bush administration official who lawmakers
said lied to them in sworn testimony.
An inspector general's report found that Bradley Schlozman, the
former head of the civil rights division, misled lawmakers about
whether he politicized hiring decisions.
Criminal prosecutors eyed the matter but decided not to file any
criminal charges for his under-oath denials of making personnel
decisions based on politics.
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Informant says FBI threw away chance to catch alleged 9/11 plotter
09-11-2009
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Rawstory
A Lebanon-native who pretended to be an Islamic extremist at the
behest of American authorities claims that the FBI took him off the
trail of alleged 9/11 plotter Mohammed Atta right as a window of
opportunity opened to catch him.
Were it not for the FBI’s action, the informant says he is “one
million percent positive” the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks could have been
prevented.
The claims are part of an ABC News report, set to air on Thursday’s editions of World News Tonight and Nightline.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Principal blocks publication of paper exposing contractor’s religious bias
09-11-2009
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Rawstory
Sue Vaughn, the school’s principal, says she halted the student paper’s
publication in part over information about the information about the
contractor’s religious bias. Taylor Erickson, 17, a student at the
school, says administrators told him the information about the
“mission” to “serve God” was “irrelevant,”
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News Link • World News
Cuban court upholds 2-year sentence for protester
09-11-2009
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AP
A Cuban appeals court upheld a two-year
prison sentence for "public dangerousness" against a man who became an
Internet celebrity after his drunken rant about hunger on the island
was captured by a film crew.
The court rejected Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos' plea for leniency [or a pizza]
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama faces skeptics in Congress over Afghan war
09-11-2009
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Breitbart
(lol After the plan) A powerful US senator warned against sending more American troops to Afghanistan, signalling growing skepticism over the war within President Barack Obama's own party.Carl Levin, the influential chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was the latest top Democrat in Congress to voice opposition to a fresh military build-up in Afghanistan, as the White House weighs deploying yet more troop combat troops.But his comments came as the Pentagon confirmed it intended to send more troops to Afghanistan to tackle a growing threat from improvised explosive devices.
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News Link • General Opinion
Obizzaro World - they want to prosecute the video makers not the criminals at Acorn
09-11-2009
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Insane! I am sure by now you have watched the videos of the horrible Acorn people who would have no problems giving your tax dollars to people who would bring in young girls and use them for Prostitution, if not you can view it here. Now in the new O Bizzarro world the state is thinking of prosecuting get this not the Biach from Acorn but those who brought this criminal organization to light!
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate change on trial Business group wants proof of threat
09-11-2009
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Market Watch
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest nonprofit business group in the world, is seeking to have the facts of climate change put on trial -- to the delight of some of its members and the chagrin of others.
The chamber petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency seeking proof of the agency's finding that climate change poses a public threat. In papers filed in federal court just two weeks ago, the chamber says "that a proceeding on the record is necessary to narrow the areas of scientific uncertainty, to permit a credible weighing of the scientific evidence, and to enable submitters of proof to demonstrate the falsity of some key erroneous claims."
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Corus, Minn. bank busts bring '09 failures to 91
09-11-2009
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Market Watch
Reports of Corus Bank's failure had surfaced earlier Friday. The Corus failure will cost the federal deposit-insurance fund $1.7 billion.Brickwell Community Bank is the third bank to fail in Minnesota this year, and will cost the deposit-insurance fund $22 million
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News Link • China
Obama to impose tariffs on Chinese tires
09-11-2009
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Yahoo
President Barack Obama has slapped punitive tariffs on all car and light truck tires entering the United States from China in a decision that could anger the strategically important Asian powerhouse but placate union supporters important to his health care push at home.
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News Link • Healthcare
Why the proposed healthcare plan will not fix the problems
09-11-2009
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Marti Oakley
Here is what I learned about the healthcare proposal as a result of actually READING the damn thing.
It can never fix the healthcare issue for several reasons, the most
important of which is that it
never once addresses the issues that caused it in the first place.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Searching for Life on Mars With Methane
09-11-2009
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LiveScience
Since all the sources were found during local [Mars] summer and disappeared
during winter, are the methane sources active only at certain periods
of the Martian year? Are they near the surface or buried deeper in the
soil? What mechanisms trigger the methane releases? This impressive seasonal change in the distribution of methane raises
many new questions, but one thing is for sure: Mars is no longer
considered a dead planet. It has a very strong activity, whether
geologic or due to life " maybe both.
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News Link • History
Sunken WWII Navy Patrol Boat Found
09-11-2009
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LiveScience
The wreck of the YP-389, a converted fishing trawler, rests in
about 300 feet of water in a region known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic," where several U.S. and British naval vessels, merchant ships, and German U-boats sunk during the Battle of the Atlantic.
Six sailors died when the YP-389 was attacked by a German submarine June 19, 1942. There were 18 survivors.
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News Link • Corruption
How Far Does The Lawlessness Go?
09-11-2009
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The Market Ticker
Out-of-control banana republic regimes usually wind up that way incrementally. Rarely does a madman come to power and simply seize the crown. Oh sure, it happens, but it nearly always incites immediate civil disorder and even open warfare, civil or (often) externally-promoted. When Saddam invadaed Kuwait it did not take long before the world responded with lots of guns, bombs and planes, as just one example.
But the slow, gradual co-opting of a government from inside out is another matter. These sorts of regimes usually collapse of their own weight, but not before they take down huge swaths of the population with them, reducing them to squalor. Thus it happened in Zimbabwe, Argentina and countless others over the years.
Has it happened in the United States already, but the people simply haven't woken up? Two years ago, five, ten I would have instantly dismissed such a proposition as preposterous.
Now I'm not so sure.
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News Link • World News
Life Sentence for Taiwan Ex-President
09-11-2009
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NY Times
Chen Shui-bian, the former president of Taiwan who had been on trial since March for corruption, was sentenced to life in prison by a 3-judge panel. Mr. Chen’s wife, was also convicted of corruption and
sentenced to life in prison. They were accused, among other things, of
stealing and misusing public money from 2000 to 2008, while Mr. Chen
was in office. They were both fined a total of $15 million.
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News Link • Obama Administration
ANOTHER Obama Pick With Tax Problems
09-11-2009
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Yid With Lid/wsj
Tim Geithner, who was picked to be Treasury Secretary (and new boss of the IRS) "forgot" to pay $34,000 in taxes.
Former Senator and "non lobbyist-lobbyist" Tom Daschle was designated to run the Department of Health and Human Services got a private car and driver and didn't know he was supposed to pay $100,000 dollars in taxes on it
Nancy Killefer chosen by President Obama to be the first Chief Performance Officer of the United States withdrew her name from consideration because she too has a history of not paying taxes.
Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama's Health and Human Services secretary, said in a letter obtained by the Associated Press that she made "unintentional errors" on her taxes and has corrected her returns from three different years.
Maybe the President feels 5 is his lucky number or has so much ego that he just doesn't care, but news broke today that Lael Brainard, nominated to be Undersecretary of the Treasury Department f
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