Reuters Cites US-Funded Front in Chinese "Blind Activist" Case
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As the violence in Syria continues unabated, neighbouring Lebanon
has seized a shipment of smuggled weapons, destined for Syrian rebels.
The sea-bound cache apparently came from Libya, which is backing the
opponents of President Assad.
US foreign policy/diplomacy in Africa is more than chasing a ghost in the jungle.
We welcome Zijlstra, if only posthumously, to the ranks of gold
"conspiracy theorists," and will have a tin-foil hat engraved in his
honor.
The European Court of Justice has built up a wine collection of
almost 4,000 bottles worth at least €70,000 but denies claims judges are
spending public money on their favourite vintages
The world’s biggest banks are working with one another and police
to gather intelligence as protesters try to rejuvenate the Occupy Wall
Street movement with May demonstrations, industry security consultants
aid.
More than a hundred years after noted historian Baron John Acton
coined the phrase 'power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely' scientists claim the saying is biologically true.
What happens when debt-fueled false prosperity disappears? Just look at Spain.
As predicted: Zynga is a Trojan horse for online gambling. (As soon
as politicians are paid to get rid of those pesky laws).
Rationing and policy didn't give us the healthcare we have today, it will not provide us proper healthcare tomorrow.
Is there a secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the
event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month? CBS 2 has
uncovered some evidence that there is. It comes from the Milwaukee area
branch of the American Red Cross.
Yahoo is helping us to prepare for "Zombie Vampire Attacks."
Legislation intended to combat cyber threats may itself become a
threat to civil liberties. On Thursday, the House of Representatives
passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by a
vote of 248 to 168.
After experiencing the traumatizing death of her daughter to kidney
failure just three days after her daughter was born, Sofia Gatica from
Argentina became determined to find out what killed her daughter. Her
conclusion? Monsanto’s genetically modified soy fields that surrounded
her neighborhood, laced with damaging insecticides negatively affecting
nearby neighborhood children and adults alike.
Spain’s sickly economy faces a “crisis of huge proportions”, a
minister said on Friday, as unemployment hit its highest level in almost
two decades and Standard and Poor’s downgraded the government’s debt by
two notches.
The human capacity for self-delusion truly is remarkable.
Mitt Romney may have all but locked up the Republican nomination
with his victories in the East Coast primaries this week, but Ron Paul
and his army of acolytes aren’t ready to give up the fight just yet.
The United States will push to modernize NATO, deepen alliance
partnerships and hammer out details of the Afghanistan withdrawal at an
upcoming summit, White House officials said Thursday.
An entire way of life is rapidly dying right in front of our eyes. The
family farm is being systematically wiped out of existence in America,
and big agribusiness and the federal government both have blood all over
their hands.
Europe's debt crisis is threatening a political order that has been
built up over the course of more than a half century. It is still
entirely possible--indeed likely--that the European single currency will
not survive the crisis. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has
predicted that if the euro collapses, the European Union will crumble
with it. The destruction of the EU would, in turn, remove the
organization around which postwar European politics has been
constructed.
America’s most sophisticated stealth jet fighters have been quietly
deployed to an allied base less than 200 miles from Iran’s mainland,
according to an industry report, but the Air Force adamantly denied the
jets’ presence is a threat to the Middle East nation.
