In case you forgot how quickly the euro area economy was
deteriorating, here’s a look at the latest reading of composite PMI for
the 17-country region.
Ben Franklin warned of this when he said that those who willingly give up liberty for security deserve neither.
The federal government’s unmanned drones patrolling the U.S.-Canadian border are venturing into Washington’s airspace.
The United States has deployed sophisticated F-22 fighter jets to
the United Arab Emirates amid deepening tensions between Iran and its
pro-US neighbors, officials said Monday.
Officials have released the name of the California lab researcher who died after handling a rare strain of bacteria
De Beers, Chevron, Rio Tinto and Texaco were among the
international corporations to hire Executive Outcomes (EO), which became
the first of the world’s privatised armies in the post-Cold War era.
The Angolan and Sierra Leonean governments followed.
Why did US trained officers organize the coup in Mali?
This year, the heavy police presence, which some argue contributed
to the tension, will intensify significantly. A checkpoint. Watch
towers.
Another paid informant
Nearly 15 percent of people worldwide believe the world will end
during their lifetime and 10 percent think the Mayan calendar could
signify it will happen in 2012, according to a new poll.
Giant US military-industrial company Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR)
is in the running to win a slice of a controversial £1.5 billion
(US$2.43 billion) contract to transform the West Midlands and Surrey
police forces in Britain, The (London) Times reported.
A convicted American terrorist plotter and his mother lost another
legal round Wednesday in their efforts to hold accountable a former Bush
administration official who issued legal memos supporting harsh
interrogation techniques for suspected enemy combatants.
American is sad to see a great American go.
Remains to be moved in attempt to stem rumours of murdered girl hidden in crypt
Veteran investigative journalist Roger G. Charles joins us to
discuss the new book which he has co-authored, Oklahoma City: What the
Investigation Missed and Why It Still Matters. We investigate some of
the anomalies, discrepancies and holes in the official account of the
OKC bombing, including the bombing itself, the role of Andreas
Strassmeier at Elohim City, the numerous forewarnings, and much more.
Radioactive cesium was detected in 51 food products from nine
prefectures in excess of a new government-set limit in the first month
since it was introduced April 1, according to data released by the
health ministry Tuesday.
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.
Bolivian troops occupy installations owned by Red Eléctrica, following Argentina's move to nationalise oil company
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 RodrÃguez, 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.
