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Tenther Radio to broadcast on TSA anti-grope bill

Tenth Amendment Center activists will host Heather Fazio of Texans for Accountable Government tonight at 7 p.m. CDT on BlogTalk Radio.

Listeners may tune in by clicking here each Wednesday.

Ms. Fazio represents one of the groups that persuaded Gov. Rick Perry to add the anti-groping bill to the Special Session underway now.

Passage of the bill would “nullify” Texas' compliance with Department of Transportation regulations because, as Sheriff Richard Mack of the Constitution Party has summed up the Tenth Amendment, “If we left anything out, you can't do that, either.”

Reasonable search and seizure may be carried out only after an affidavit of probable cause has been presented to a magistrate and a warrant of search obtained plainly stating what in particular is sought and the reason for the search, according to the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Thomas E. Woods, Jr., will be taking live calls at 323-843-6008.

You may listen to an archive of the Tenth Amendment Center's pilot show by clicking here.

Al Qaeda attack frees 40 terrorists from Yemeni prison

Mukhalla, Southern Yemen – Dozens of Al Qaeda fighters attacked a prison in this seaside city today, freeing 40 prisoners awaiting trial or previously convicted for terrorism.

According to Radio Free Europe and other news sources, one guard was killed and several wounded when a firefight broke out between militants bearing machine guns and prison guards.

The nation has been in a state of unrest since January when protests against President Ali Abdulla Saleh's regime erupted. He is in Saudi Arabia recovering from wounds he received in a bombing in early June.

Greek vote of confidence opens way for bailout, cuts

Athens – Prime Minister George Papandreou's government survived by 12 votes, 155-143, opening the way for a $17 billion loan from the World Bank and a spending cut of 28 billion euros.

Only two members abstained.

The vote on the latest round of austerity measures will take place on June 28.

Though the Greek treasury will survive for the time being, the government has reportedly used up the public's patience as unemployment nears 20 percent and retirement has become a myth and a fairy tale.

Protesters, who have been camped outside the building for weeks, chanted insults to the members inside as the votes were polled.

Inside, opposition members heaped disdain on the slim majority, their opinion favoring bankruptcy over extending the massive debt the government faces.

Possum Kingdom wildfires resembled a war zone...

Clifton – Over the past few weeks, David “Batman” Snyder sent two truckloads of volunteer firefighters – a six-man crew - to Possum Kingdom two times.

Their mission: to at least try to help channel the out-of-control burn that engulfed homes and everything else in its path.

He shakes his head, says, “I don't know how it started...The funny thing is, how come FEMA and all that bunch didn't do something to help out?”

One of his crewmen, a man who made the trip to battle the blazes both times, told him that, though he's never been in a war, he has seen a lot of them on television. Truly, it is a war between men and machines and the chemical reaction of fire in which flames can leap from treetop to treetop and race before the hot summer winds at a terrifying pace, only to descend to ground level and attack grass and brush when the tree line yields to more open prairie.

“He said that's what it looked like, to look out there, especially at night, and see it all just going up in smoke.”

Mr. Snyder has had long service with the volunteer fire department, and he's seen a lot of changes.

“Back 15 years ago, we used to have a lot of fires along the railroad. They keep their right of way cleaned out a lot better than they used to.” Today, he says, the Santa Fe is much more scrupulous about controlling underbrush and grass.

In the past, hot journal boxes and sparks from rolling stock often started disastrous fires during the hot, dry seasons.

Transmission wires still cause trouble. Exploding transformers spew hot oil, which ignites dry brush and grass when electrical emergencies occur.

On Monday, a crew battled an out of control brush fire at Walnut Springs to a standstill, a project in which every volunteer fire department in rural Bosque County worked all day long to control what could have been a disaster.

It all costs a lot more money these days, Chief Snyder explained.

Fuel, the main item, is up by huge percentage points, but all other items are sky high as a result of a devalued dollar and hard times.

The department is hosting an all-you-can-eat fish fry on Saturday, June 25, at Womack Hall. The starting gun will resound at 5 p.m.

Donations are $10 at the minimum.

Stocks open higher before Greek vote of confidence

Athens - Americans are poised to witness what may be the beginning a momentous crash of the European Union's economic system.

The Greek Prime Minister and his government is facing a vote of confidence at midnight – 5 p.m. EDT – that will signal by its result whether the treasury will likely accept a rollover of its bonded indebtedness to other EU member nations such as Germany, or ultimately choose bankruptcy and wiping the slate clean in its struggle to make both ends meet.

American markets rose a point and a half on the news at opening this morning, as did Greek and other European markets, in hopes that the government will prevail, but many key analysts on the street predict disaster, a cascading banking collapse that will soon reach American shores.

The fact that the EU and its fledgling currency, the euro, has lasted for more than a decade is largely attributable to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors' choice to keep on printing U.S. dollars, something which has devalued American currency drastically in favor of increasing U.S. Treasury debt at what many hard-eyed realists in the financial community consider unsustainable levels of serviceability.

The truth is, many Greeks and other Europeans do not wish to accept the terms of a bond rollover and bailout, something that will subject their lifestyles to crippling indebtedness, lowered expectations, and a scant prospect of retirement. So far, the new "austerity package" for Greece includes $9.4 billion in tax hikes, doubling past measures agreed to with bailout lenders that have pushed unemployment to a record 16.2 percent and extended a deep recession into its third year.

Protesters have camped outside the Greek Parliament building here for weeks in anticipation of the moment when a 2/5 quorum will be required to cast votes of confidence in absolute majority for the present government to prevail.

They have caused violent clashes with police now for the past two years as the government has slashed social programs in medicine, retirement, welfare and subsidized housing across the board.

The clock is ticking as the drama builds.

Amnesty offer - Syrian President “delusional, helpless”

Damascus – Experts quoted in “The Jerusalem Post” say that Bashar Assad's offer of amnesty for protesters and others who have committed illegal acts only show he is delusional.

In a lengthy and rambling speech, the president referred to protesters as gangsters and lawbreakers, but vowed for the second time in three weeks to give them amnesty.

Though hundreds have been released from jails, thousands still languish in lockups throughout the nation following a three-month stretch of violence that has left thousands of persons dead as troops fire live rounds to disperse crowds.