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A day before Occupy Wall Street hopes to shut down New York and
cities across the country in massive May Day protests, the NYPD visited
at least three activist homes in New York and interrogated residents
about plans for tomorrow's protest.
Cleveland May Day terrorist plot – another frame-up by the Feds
Under the guise of filling us all in on what his White House department
is doing to "clear away red tape", the evil bastard is really informing
his followers about the advancements in one world government and a North
American union:
After taking heat for shipping jobs to China and contracting to
employers with questionable labor conditions, Apple (rather publicly)
took credit for creating more than half a million jobs in the U.S.
Daniel Chong, a 24-year old student at UC San Diego, was taken into
custody during a drug raid and abandoned in a holding cell for five
days without food or water, according to NBC San Diego.
In one of the most complete documentaries undertaken on the financial crisis, PBS Frontline's "Money, Power, & Wall Street" series stretches from the origins of the credit derivative business with a bikini-clad pool-side Blythe Masters and her JPMorgan colleagues to the scary (but absolutely true) fact that the financial crisis never ended.
Did Monsanto actually plant genetically modified alfalfa before it was deregulated by the USDA?
In an explosive memoir released today, former CIA counterterrorism
chief Jose Rodriguez provides new evidence that Rep. Nancy Pelosi lied
when she declared she had not been briefed about the use of
waterboarding.
Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing decline of the U.S. economy?
UN's silence over Syrian opposition terrorism lays bare "international law's" illegitimacy.
Interesting Timing...
The report said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives traced two of the weapons suspected in the murder of lawyer
Mario González RodrĂguez, but did not report this fact to the Mexican
government until eight months after the tracing.
A senior UN official in Geneva last week listed Israel among the
countries that she says are restricting the activities of human rights
groups.
The CIA’s torturer in chief goes on a nationwide book tour bragging
about how authorized CIA torture and admitting to one war crime after
the next.
One battery could be positioned near a playground in Waltham Forest
with the others providing round-the-clock cover from Blackheath Common,
the Lea Valley Reservoir, Oxleas Wood, Barn Hill in Epping Forest and
on top of a block of flats in Bow.
A rash of incidents involving envelopes containing a suspicious
white powder had police scrambling around New York City on Monday and
forced the nation’s fourth-biggest bank, Wells Fargo & Co, to shut
down five branches.
Two bombs planted by militant Irish nationalists, including one
packed with enough explosives to have killed anyone within a 50-metre
(yard) radius, were defused in Northern Ireland on Saturday, police
said.
Iran’s first nuclear power plant was connected at almost full
capacity to the national power grid on April 28, the Islamic Republic
News Agency reported, citing Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, who heads the
Iranian Atomic Energy Organization.
Pesticides, ubiquitous among not only the food supply but farms and
homes worldwide, have been found to be creating lasting changes in
overall brain structure — changes that have been linked to lower
intelligence levels and decreased cognitive function.
Tens of millions of pounds of UK aid money have been spent on a
programme that has forcibly sterilised Indian women and men, the
Observer has learned.
Another election in Europe, another warning about nationalists.
Spanish Q1 GDP printed -0.3% on expectations of a -0.4% Q/Q
decline. Unfortunately this is hardly encouraging for the nearly 25% of
the labor force which is unemployed, and for consumers whose purchasing
habits imploded following record plunges in retail sales as observed
last week.
Reuters Cites US-Funded Front in Chinese "Blind Activist" Case
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.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Thursday for a
federal law to ban talking on a cell phone or texting while driving any
type of vehicle on any road in the country.
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) in the European parliament
has announced it cannot support the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
(ACTA).
A remote-controlled helicopter the federal government has allowed
University of Connecticut researchers to fly on campus can make its own
in-flight decisions.
But the drone chopper — a 6-foot, battery- powered helicopter called “Maxi Joker 3” — won’t be buzzing dorms or snapping spring break photos.
But the drone chopper — a 6-foot, battery- powered helicopter called “Maxi Joker 3” — won’t be buzzing dorms or snapping spring break photos.
The House passed the controversial CISPA cybersecurity bill on
Thursday, defying a White House veto threat and throwing the issue
squarely into the Senate’s lap.