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Make the Bankers Pay: Iceland, Ireland pushing back against neo-feudalism
Gulf Cooperation Council finance ministers at a meeting in Riyadh
on May 5. Gulf leaders will discuss a proposal for a closer political
union among them that could begin with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, the
Bahraini information minister said on Saturday.
The top-secret US National Security Agency is not required to
reveal any deal it may have with Google to help protect against cyber
attacks, an appeals court ruled Friday.
Europe central bankers have been openly expressing views on the
possibility of Greece leaving the eurozone as its leaders struggles to
form a government.
Truckloads of armed men attacked the Tripoli headquarters of
Libya’s interim prime minister on Tuesday, in a new demonstration of the
lawlessness pervading the capital just weeks before a scheduled
national election.
A $100 million NATO invasion is coming. Low intensity conflict may
follow. The “City of Broad Shoulders” may get more than it bargained f
Banks are quietly readying themselves to start trading a new Greek
currency. Some banks never erased the drachma from their systems after
Greece adopted the euro more than a decade ago and would be ready at the
flick of a switch if its debt problems forced it to bring back national
banknotes and coins.
Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB),
renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that
values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may
reduce his tax bill.
Banks are quietly readying themselves to start trading a new Greek
currency. Some banks never erased the drachma from their systems after
Greece adopted the euro more than a decade ago and would be ready at the
flick of a switch if its debt problems forced it to bring back national
banknotes and coins.
Deerfield employees can earn $100 for reporting crimes
The U.S. Is Now EXPORTING Refined Petroleum Products, But the Oil
Companies Are Gaming the System By Switching To a Different Benchmark to
Keep U.S. Fuel Prices HIGH … And the Keystone Pipeline Will Create Even
HIGHER U.S. Prices
That's enough drugs to give every single American 64 Percocets or
Vicodin. And pain pill prescriptions continue to surge, up 600 percent
in ten year, thanks to doctors who are more and more willing to hand out
drugs to patients who are suffering.
Then Deny Actual Bombings.
Syrian War: The Prequel
Politicians across the spectrum in Venezuela are trading dire
predictions of impending violence in the vacuum left by uncertainty
about the health of President Hugo Chávez.
The initiative calls for the decriminalization of growing plants such as coca, marijuana and opium poppies in the country.
Japan to Nationalize Fukushima Utility
David Cameron has given his strongest warning yet that the euro is
doomed to fail as fears grow that Greece is close to crashing out of the
single currency.
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.
