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Wife of Missing Burbank FBI Agent Implores Public for Help

He would "never hurt" anyone, Stephen Ivens' wife said in a statement

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It's being called the largest search in Burbank in the past 20 years. FBI Agent Stephen Ivens disappeared after going for a hike near his home. John Cadiz Klemack reports from Burbank for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on May 15, 2012.

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FBI veteran arrested on child pornography charges

Donald J. Sachtleben, 54, was charged with possessing and distributing child pornography.


A former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Carmel resident was arrested on child pornography charges.

Donald J. Sachtleben, 54, has been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography.

U.S. Attorney Joseph Hogsett announced the criminal charges Monday, stating law enforcement began investigating an individual suspected of trading child pornography online in September 2010. That individual, who resided in Illinois, was arrested in January 2012.

After searching the Illinois suspect's computer, authorities discovered he was trading material with several other people. Hogsett said law enforcement was able to trace the alleged online activity to Sachtleben's home in Carmel.

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Robert Kennedy Jr.'s ex-wife Mary found dead in New York home in apparent suicide

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Mary Kennedy, seen here with her ex-husband Robert Kennedy Jr., was found dead in her Mount Kisco home on Wednesday
Mary Kennedy, the ex-wife of Robert Kennedy Jr., was found dead this morning in her home. Initial reports point to suicide as the cause of death for the 52-year-old.

She and Robert Kennedy, the third-eldest of Robert Kennedy's 11 children, were married for 16 years before they divorced in May of 2010.

The mother-of-four was found dead in her Mount Kisco home Wednesday but there have yet to be formal reports about the exact cause of death.

'There was an EMT vehicle outside the home about an hour ago,' a source told Radar Online.

Just three days after her ex filed for divorce, she was arrested for suspected drunk driving.

She was arrested when police saw her drive over a curb outside of a school carnival. When she failed several sobriety tests, she was given a breathalyzer test and blew a 0.11 which is above the legal limit of 0.08.

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Greeks withdraw $894 million in a day: Is this beginning of a run on banks?

Political leaders in Athens were due to discuss an emergency government Wednesday to deal with a possible run on banks as it emerged Greeks withdrew almost $900 million in a single day, fearing their country could crash out of the euro currency by the end of the week.

An interim government would take the country through to new elections on June 17, triggered by the collapse on Tuesday of talks to form a coalition between winners of the inconclusive May 6 election.

Greeks are withdrawing euros from banks, apparently afraid of the prospect of rapid devaluation if the country leaves the European single currency and returns to the drachma.

Comment: Despite the fear mongering promoted by the "experts" above, if Greece leaves the eurozone, though they will face difficulties initially, the possibility exists that the country and its people would reclaim their sovereignty eventually. The change in currency has nothing to do with the creation of totalitarian regimes, as a look at current international politics proves.


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Prime Minister Hopes Price Increase Will Help Brits Hold Their Liquor

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The British government has apparently had it with the nation's binge drinking and the resultant drain on the universal health care system. Calling the situation a "scandal," Prime Minister David Cameron wants to raise the minimum price for booze across the board to $0.80 per unit.

Britain's National Health Service estimates that drinking costs the state $4.4 billion per year once liquor-related violence and disease are included in the mix, and liver disease has risen by 25% over the last decade, according to AP.

The wire service notes that "men chasing each other and shrieking like teenagers; women stumbling and falling over in their too-short skirts and high heels" and "sidewalks ... littered with empty beer bottles and reeking puddles" are a common sight, as are government-run "booze buses" whose job it is to transport revelers to a clinic when they get falling-down drunk.

Still, drinking in general has actually decreased during the same period, leading to the conclusion that a small but dedicated cadre of mostly young people (the legal drinking age is 18) is responsible.

Predictably, the Wine and Spirit Trade Association was less than thrilled with the prime minister's proposal. The association, whose hundreds of members include Heineken, Pernod Ricard, Concha y Toro, Sainsbury, and Diageo, which makes Smirnoff, Bailey's, Johnnie Walker, and Guinness, told the Daily Mail: "We think this is going to lead ultimately to legal challenges...It would be a drinks company taking the case, or perhaps a group of drinks companies."

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Eugenics? Project Prevention Pays Drug Addicts $300 to Get Sterilized

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Project Prevention is raising eyebrows and controversy by offering drug addicts $300 to either undergo sterilization or use a form of long-term birth control.

Project Prevention has paid a total of 4,077 people (including 65 men) to get a tubal ligation (tube-tying), an IUD, implanon (a hormonal contraceptive that is implanted), Depro-Provera (an injection that lasts three months) or (for men) a vasectomy.

Based in North Carolina, Project Prevention hangs posters in nationwide in homeless shelters, methadone clinics, AA and NA meeting rooms, and near needle exchange programs. The posters say: "Don't let a pregnancy ruin your drug habit." and "She has her daddy's eyes ... and her mommy's heroin addiction."

Comment: A frightening pathological comment from Ms. Harris who considers addicts little more than animals to be kept from reproducing. For more background on the plan to depopulate the world, read:
Connecting the Dots: Mass depopulation on its way and the Secret Team's management of the world


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Infrastructure is Crumbling While US Congress Blathers: Bridges, Tunnels and Railroads Structurally Deficient

Congressmen don't always see eye-to-eye when it comes to many issues and earlier this week Congress took up a transportation bill that many critics believe won't go anywhere. Across America there are many roads and bridges that are in need of repair, so why can't Congress come to terms with improving America's infrastructure? Wilmer J. Leon, political science professor at Howard University, helps us answer some of these questions.

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Profit Motive? Big Psychiatry Invents and Redefines Mental Illnesses

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Unlike in conventional medicine where objective diagnoses and treatments are made based on observable biological evidence, psychiatrists get together every so often to decide what should or should not be considered a "mental illness." And they do not always agree, as evidenced by the more than 13,000 professionals from around the world who recently signed an open letter demanding that the upcoming edition of the psychiatry industry's "diagnostic manual" be put on hold and reconsidered.

As the elite of the nation's psychiatric establishment work in the shadows to fully revise the highly controversial handbook labeling various behaviors and emotional states as "illnesses," experts across the board are crying foul. A handful of new potential mental disorders and the revised definitions for others have caused a particularly fierce uproar among some psychiatrists and mental health professionals. At least 25,000 comments have already been submitted about the proposals.

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Fertility Firm Targets Financially Vulnerable College Students

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Read all about it: The leaflet from Altrui that was distributed to Cambridge University students
Thousands of Cambridge students have been targeted by a firm offering up to £750 to egg donors.

Leaflets were stuck in their university pigeonholes, making an emotional plea to help a couple unable to have children.

It said: 'We are looking for a real-life angel to be our egg donor.'

The development appears to be a result of an increase in the amount of 'compensation' that can be given to donors, and may confirm fears of a rise in 'egg brokers' profiting from dealing in human lives.

The targeting of elite students also raises concerns about attempts to create 'superbabies'.

Last night critics warned that young women are often unaware of the risks of egg donation, and a fertility expert said the firm's tactics were 'unacceptable'. Donors have to take drugs to stimulate egg production, and complications may cause death in rare cases.

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Brevard Mother Killed Her Four Children, Then Herself: Deputies


US, Florida - The unmistakable sound of gunfire stirred the neighbors early Tuesday. Moments later, there was a knock at the front door.

They opened it to find three children from next door - at least one of them shot and wounded, authorities said. The neighbors called 911, grabbed a towel and tried to attend to the kids.

Then, they told deputies later, a calm voice in the darkness summoned the three children back to their home on Bright Avenue in Port St. John. It was their mother, 33-year-old Tonya Thomas.

They kids walked back obediently. And once inside, Thomas shot and killed them.

Brevard County Sheriff's deputies were just arriving at 4:54 a.m. Tuesday when they heard the shots that ended the lives of Joel, Jazlin and Jaxs Johnson. They were 12, 13 and 15.

Their oldest sibling, 17-year-old Pebbles Johnson, was stretched out on the front yard motionless when deputies arrived. They drove onto the lawn and loaded her into the back of a deputy's cruiser, but by the time they could get her to paramedics waiting nearby, she was dead.