The National Security Crime Syndicate Reveals Its Secret Hand In Texas: Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst Share | May 29, 2011 Print Version By Saman Mohammadi – Op Ed News This week the Texas House voted unanimously on a bill to make TSA body pat-downs a felony under the law. But the bill was [...]
Children of the Corn: GMOs Don’t Qualify As Food Share | May 29, 2011 Print Version Source: Salem-News.com – C. Stone (LONDON) – There has been a concerted national effort by citizens to have the US government label GMOs. Opposing it are government intent not only to keep them unlabeled in the US but [...]
Fukushima: Tepco Admits That Stabilizing Reactors by Year’s End May Be Impossible May 30th, 2011 Via: Japan Times / Kyodo: Stabilizing the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant by the end of the year may be impossible, senior officials at Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday, throwing a monkey wrench into plans to [...]
Germany Decides to Abandon Nuclear Power by 2022 May 30th, 2011 Via: AP: Germany’s governing coalition said Monday it will shut down all the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022. The decision, prompted by Japan’s nuclear disaster, will make Germany the first major industrialized nation to go nuclear-free in years. It also completes a [...]
Trafficked children condemned to a nightmare by state neglect Share | May 30, 2011 Print Version Source: UK Guardian They are vulnerable, abused and, far too often, left to fend for themselves thousands of miles from home. Earlier this month, a petition signed by 735,889 Britons was handed into 10 Downing Street demanding greater protection [...]
ARAB UPRISINGS NOT A FACEBOOK REVOLUTION May 27, 2011 at 09:13 Is this Dork saying there would have not been an ‘Arab Spring’ without the Internet? * Some call the uprisings in the Arab world “the Facebook revolution.” Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the world’s biggest social network site, doesn’t seem to agree. Playing down his site’s [...]
THE FBI KNOWS WHO AIPAC IS ~~ WHY DON’T YOU MR. PRESIDENT? May 29, 2011 at 17:09 * New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released WASHINGTON, — Declassified files detailing an FBI investigation targeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are now available on the Internet. AIPAC was investigated after [...]
Mysterious fund allows Congress to spend freely, despite earmark ban Share | May 29, 2011 Print Version Source: CNN Washington – The defense bill that just passed the House of Representatives includes a back-door fund that lets individual members of Congress funnel millions of dollars into projects of their choosing. This is happening despite a [...]
Memorial Day 2011: 70 Million Died So The Jews Could Have Palestine Robert Singer The annals of history are full of fateful moments which scholars refer to as the great “what if’s” of history, where if events had taken only a slight deviation the course of human affairs would have been dramatically different. The following [...]
Terrorist ‘Pre-Crime’ Detector Field Tested in United States May 28th, 2011 This is the most hilariously unworkable Magic 8 Ball boondoggle that I’ve ever heard about. In the annals of grant swindling, this one has to take the cake. Via: Nature: Planning a sojourn in the northeastern United States? You could soon be taking [...]
Skylon Spaceplane Finally Gets Approval May 28th, 2011 Via: Discovery News: After 30 years of development, the UK and European space agencies have given the go-ahead for the Skylon Spaceplane. The Skylon, which is being developed at the UK’s Oxfordshire-based Reaction Engines Ltd., is an unpiloted and reusable spacecraft that can launch into low-Earth [...]
Lockheed Network Hit by Major Disruption May 29th, 2011 Via: Reuters: Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier, is experiencing a major disruption to its computer systems that could be related to a problem with network security, a defense official and two sources familiar with the issue said on Thursday. Lockheed, the biggest provider [...]
Tax dollars fund shrimp on treadmills, Jell-O wrestling in Antarctica Share | May 27, 2011 Print Version Source: Washington Times The Senate’s top waste watcher, in a new report Thursday, said taxpayer money has gone to funding jello wrestling in the Antarctic, to testing the exercise ability of shrimp on a treadmill and to a [...]
With no labeling, few realize they are eating genetically modified foods Share | May 27, 2011 Print Version Source: LA Times When a team of activists wearing white hazmat suits showed up at a Chicago grocery store to protest the sale of genetically modified foods, they picked an unlikely target: Whole Foods Market. Organic [...]
Top Lobbying Banks Got Biggest Bailouts Share | May 28, 2011 Print Version Source: Reuters The more aggressively a bank lobbied before the financial crisis, the worse its loans performed during the economic downturn — and the more bailout dollars it received, according to a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research this [...]
