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Raising the specter of last-generation browser battles, Mozilla
launches a publicity campaign to seek a place for browsers besides IE on
Windows devices using ARM chips.
The United Nations has information that arms are being smuggled in
both directions between Lebanon and Syria, a UN Middle East envoy said
Tuesday.
Senate approval of the Law of the Sea Treaty would help the US
counter China's aggressive moves to claim islands near the Philippines
and other Asian neighbors.
The Turkish daily Aydinlik said that suicide bombings represent a
way of incitement carried out by the CIA and Mossad agents in Iraq, and
are applied now in Syria, Lebanese daily Al-Benaa reported. “CIA and
Mossad agents have carried out – and still – various attacks in several
countries including Iraq, Pakistan and Libya,”. “Those agents have
achieved their goal where most of their operations were targeting
Shiite and Sunnite mosques. All bombings were declared suicide attacks,
while the suicide bombers were announced killed, but the fact is
contrary to what was claimed,” the daily added.
To volatility-loving currency traders, the euro has been a source
of great frustration, its trade versus the dollar hewing to a boring
range of 4 cents for almost four months. For that they can blame an
unintentional symbiosis between the European Central Bank and the
People’s Bank of China, the first via its stubbornly hands-off view of
markets, the latter for being hyper-interventionist.
The country’s northern beaches have been declared off-limits as
scientists scramble to pin down what has caused such a massive death
toll.
The Air Force, like the rest of the military and the CIA, isn’t
supposed to conduct “nonconsensual surveillance” on Americans
domestically
The Chicago conclave and history's little ironies
Vermont appears on the verge of enacting the nation's first
statewide ban of a hotly debated natural gas drilling technique called
hydraulic fracturing.
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Obama officials tried to present this as some successfully foiled terror attack, while it was anything but
After admitting UN peace plan was a ploy, Brookings predictably scraps it and begins promoting expanded military conflict.
Well that didn't take long to figure out...
The fate of Greece is, on Tuesday night, in the hands of the leader
of a far-left party who launched the quest to form a government by
declaring the country could no longer commit itself to the terms of an
international loan agreement keeping its economy afloat.
Germany and the European Union have warned Francois Hollande,
France's new Socialist president, that he will not be permitted to
renegotiate a eurozone austerity treaty, despite it being rejected by
French voters.
Hostess Brands Inc. on Friday sent out letters notifying its more-than 18,000 workers that they could be laid off in the next two months.
But we were fighting the Russians...
Up to 20 prisoners have been released from Bagram prison in the
past two years after giving assurances they would give up their struggle
and reconcile with the government.
From Tennessee to the District of Columbia, police are using mobile
and stationary surveillance cameras to collect and store license plates
of residents who have committed no crime—so that they can be found if
they ever do.
The pandemic swine flu vaccine has been linked to narcolepsy after a
study found children who had been vaccinated with 13 times more likely
to suffer from the condition
Spain will swoop in with public money this week to clean up huge
bad loans at the nation's fourth-biggest listed bank, Bankia, the
government said Monday.
Iran is accepting renminbi for some of the crude oil it supplies to
China, industry executives in Beijing and Kuwait and Dubai-based
bankers said, partly as a consequence of U.S. sanctions aimed at
limiting Tehran’s nuclear program. Tehran is spending the currency,
which is not freely convertible, on goods and services imported from
China.
As Ron Paul continues to rack up delegates leading up to the
national convention in Tampa, several mainstream media outlets have
finally begun to pay attention, but most articles and news casts stress
that Congressman Paul still has no chance at winning the nomination.
Northrop Grumman Corporation has test fired the first product in
its next-generation FIRESTRIKE family of high-energy, solid-state
lasers.
Yeah, that might have something to do with it. Maybe.
A ProPublica roundup of the best investigative reporting on food processing and safety.
The problem of US military veterans falling into a life of crime
after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has reached such levels that a
law enforcer in Georgia has opened what is believed to be America’s
first county jail devoted to veteran inmates.
The German government on Monday ruled out reworking the European
Union’s fiscal pact despite calls to do so by French president-elect
Francois Hollande.
The BIJ estimates the U.S. has killed some 3,000 people in 319 drone
strikes. Of these, 600 were civilian bystanders and approximately one in
four of those were children.
Greece’s Left Coalition called on Sunday for an anti-bailout
coalition, saying the country’s general election showed that austerity
policies had been soundly defeated and a peaceful revolution ushered in.
Greece was plunged into fresh political chaos today after no party
emerged with enough votes to form a government following yesterday’s
election.
Despite what you may have heard from the mainstream media, Mitt Romney does not have the Republican nomination locked up.
Some laboratory mice were given specially engineered
insuling-producing genes. These genes were then remotely activated using
radio waves. This could mean a whole new field of medical procedures in
which we turn genes on and off at will.
A Colorado elementary school student was suspended from school this
week for singing a lyric from a popular LMFAO song, "I'm sexy and I
know it."
His campaign slogan "Change is Now..."
The government says the anti-protest bill was just a small tweak of the existing law. Don’t believe it.
The military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA,
announced plans to create nanosensors that monitor soldiers’ health on
the battlefield and keep doctors constantly abreast about potential
health problems.
Who needs SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) or the international ACTA
(Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) when companies can have websites
or YouTube channels removed simply by claiming their content has been
infringed?
The southeastern Michigan city of Milan, a 40-minute or so commute
to Toledo or Detroit industrial centers, might become the new home for a
200-acre or larger “China City” that would house Chinese business
people.
U.S. hospitals are ripping out wall-mounted toilets and replacing
them with floor models to better support obese patients. The Federal
Transit Administration wants buses to be tested for the impact of
heavier riders on steering and braking. Cars are burning nearly a
billion gallons of gasoline more a year than if passengers weighed what
they did in 1960.
Prescriptions of Ritalin for attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder have quadrupled in a decade, prompting fears it is being pushed
on children at the expense of alternative treatments and without
appreciation of long-term effects.
Russian Opposition Caught Filing into US Embassy in Moscow.
A top U.S. commander is seeking authority to expand clandestine
operations against militants and insurgencies around the globe, a sign
of shifting Pentagon tactics and priorities after a grueling decade of
large-scale wars.
The world is moving into an era without any dominant global powers,
and Canada will be among the winners in the new world disorder, a
prominent risk analyst predicts in a new book.
Some of the world's most prominent hedge fund managers are betting
against the eurozone -- and not just the peripheral countries everyone
knows are in trouble. They're taking positions against the core
countries, economies that -- until now -- everyone has assumed were
rock-solid.
Amish children raised on rural farms in northern Indiana suffer
from asthma and allergies less often even than Swiss farm kids, a group
known to be relatively free from allergies, according to a new study.
It started, as many days do in Greece, with a trip to the kiosk to
buy cigarettes. Still half-asleep, Panayiotis Roumeliotis was surprised
to be asked to show his identity card by two young men with shaved
heads. It was his first direct contact with the vigilante groups that
have become a feature of everyday life in some areas of the Greek
capital.
DARPA is at it again. This time, the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency has announced plans to create nanochips for monitoring
troops health on the battlefield.
In a meeting meant to calm residents fear about hosting missiles on
their rooftops during the Olympic games, Lieutenant Colonel Brian Fahy
told Londoners it’s possible that drones laden with biological weapons
may be used in an attack during the upcoming games.
After visiting Fukushima, Senator Ron Wyden warned that the
situation was worse than reported … andurged Japan to accept
international help to stabilize dangerous spent fuel pools.
A trial to assign blame and damages that could total tens of
billions of dollars for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been put
off until January, in a setback for the U.S. government, which wanted to
try its case this summer.
The government is informing small plane pilots that if they enter
the no-fly zone during the summit, they might be shot down.
All EU countries will be run from Brussels if Van Rompuy is replaced by a "super EU president".
CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force
surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail
providers, and is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making
those backdoors mandatory.
Some stations on the Metra Electric Line and South Shore Line could
be shut down during the upcoming NATO summit, and passengers at other
stations could face airport-style security screenings, due to the Secret
Service security plan that could be released as soon as Friday
afternoon.
The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial
proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo,
and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.
Controversial ‘naked’ body scanners could be introduced at all UK airports after top scientists declared them safe.
For years, Europeans have paid insufficient attention to
developments on the Continent, or have not dared look at them
critically. Some began to look more closely at the problems two years
ago – at the start of the eurozone debt crisis – but most still do not
want to know that this was only the tip of a much bigger iceberg.
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.
One of the most successful grassroots campaigns during the past year has been the Stop Agenda 21 movement both at the local level and state level. However, we haven’t heard as much about Agenda 21 implementation at the national level.
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.
Reminds me of Operation Big City...
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.
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.
