Link: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/03/24/obama-doj-loosens-miranda-restrictions-further/?mod=google_news_blog

The rule established in the 1966 Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona has never been overturned. In theory, law enforcement still needs to tell every suspect they arrest all that business about the right to remain silent, that anything they say can and will be used against them, yadda yadda yadda. But in reality, for better or worse, the Miranda rule is a shell of its former self. Over the years, courts have consistently chipped away at it, providing exceptions here and there. It seems that police forces these days would practically need a law professor on hand to keep them updated on when it applies.

Link: http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/24/pf/financial_crisis_outcome/index.htm?section=money_mostpopular&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_mostpopular+%28Most+Popular%29

The average American family's household net worth declined 23% between 2007 and 2009, the Federal Reserve said Thursday. A rare survey of U.S. households, first performed in 2007 but repeated in 2009 in order to gauge the effects of the recession, reveals the median net worth of households fell from $125,000 in 2007 to $96,000 in 2009.

Link: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/151657-nuclear-storm-warnings

White House Science Advisor John Holdren and Sir John Beddington, Science Advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a recent joint article "Celestial Storm Warnings" published in the New York Times, warned that a solar flare from the Sun could cause a great geomagnetic storm, with catastrophic consequences for the United States and the world. A great geomagnetic storm would generate a powerful electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that could destroy electronic systems and collapse all the critical infrastructures--power grids, communications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water--that sustain modern civilization, and the lives of millions. Holdren and Beddington write reassuringly that "work to protect our societies is well underway."

Link: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=22869

A devastating earthquake strikes Japan. A massive tsunami kills thousands. Fears of a nuclear meltdown run rampant. Bloodshed and violence escalate in Libya. And U.S. companies selling doomsday bunkers are seeing sales skyrocket anywhere from 20% to 1,000%.

Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/24/in-message-to-big-business-maine-governor-lepage-orders-labor-mural-removed/

The Republican governor of Maine has a wild idea: displace history to make the state appear more friendly to wealth. That's precisely what Gov. Paul LePage has ordered. In the state's Department of Labor building, a 36-foot mural depicting the history of labor movements in Maine, will soon be painted over to send a "message" to business that Maine is not a labor-run state. The mural, which depicts illustrations of union workers demonstrating in front of black-and-white images showing the state's labor history, was installed in 2008. The Republican ministry of truth rewrites history.

Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/03/23/colorado.oregon.radiation/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Colorado and Oregon have joined several other Western states in reporting trace amounts of radioactive particles that have likely drifted about 5,000 miles from a quake and tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant in Japan, officials say.

Link: http://caledonia.patch.com/articles/curt-johnson-charged-with-sexual-assault?ncid=breaking_news

SC Johnson heir, who lives in Caledonia, admitted to having inappropriate contact with a child, according to a criminal complaint. Samuel Curtis Johnson III was formally charged today, March 24, with repeated sexual assault of a child. A judge released him on a $500,000 cash bond and Johnson was ordered to have no contact with the child or any other minor female child. Johnson, who lives in Caledonia, is the billionaire son of the late Sam Johnson and is the former head of Sturtevant-based Diversey, Inc. The super rich billionaire class have been raping humanity and the earth for a long time.

Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42250806

$105 per barrel oil. Cotton prices at record levels. Food prices at 2008 highs. Typically, such commodity price increases would send central banks running to the U.S. Dollar to secure the value of their savings. After all, the dollar has been the reserve currency since World War I. But not this time.

Link: http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/715/1/

• Smoke has been reported rising from the Fukushima unit number 3. If it's from fuel-cooling pools that contain plutonium, that's a major (to put it mildly) disaster. • one millionth of a gram of plutonium ingested causes cancer.

Link: http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2011/03/desperate-dreams-of-demon-spawn.html

When I look at a situation, I like to factor in the variables and what I intuit about trends and players. So, until I hear ‘definitively’ otherwise, I’m one hundred percent assuming that Israel did the Jerusalem bombing in order to gear up to pound Gaza yet again. They’ve been launching bottle rockets into their own territory again (my considered assumption) and the circumstantial proof of that is that they rarely hit anything, much less anyone. Then they go and exterminate children on soccer fields. They just arbitrarily kill without conscience. If you are a committed and compulsive thief then... stealing is like breathing and they are determined to steal the greater Zion of ‘ersatz’ Israel.

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27760.htm

The current military attack on Libya has been motivated by UN Security Council resolution 1973 with the need to protect civilians. Statements by President Obama, British Prime Minister Cameron, French President Sarkozy, and other leaders have stressed the humanitarian nature of the intervention, which is said to aim at preventing a massacre of pro-democracy forces and human rights advocates by the Qaddafi regime.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/24-0

Families of victims in Colombia’s civil war are suing the biggest banana importer in the United States for its role in funding illegal armed groups in the country’s conflict. Relatives of 931 people killed by left-wing guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries want compensation after Chiquita Brands admitted paying the groups at various times during the conflict to protect its banana plantations in the Caribbean Urabá region.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/world/150374/the_fundamental_need_to_fight_america%27s_leaders%27_obscene_preoccupation_with_war_and_empire/

I know you will agree that as a country we are obscenely wasting billions of dollars every week in Afghanistan, and the Obama administration is hard-pressed to explain why. A few weeks ago, journalist Chris Hellman, writing for Tomdispatch, calculated that the real annual military budget is $1.2 trillion -- an astounding number. This is an amount that would solve virtually every fiscal problem we have -- state budget shortfalls, health care, education, environmental protection and retirement for many, if we ever found the will to emphasize human priorities, instead of making war and dominating the globe.

Link: http://dont-tread-on.me/the-two-coming-american-revolutions/

The Enemy of my Enemy is NOT my Friend. In the late 1700′s there were two historic revolutions, the American and the French Revolutions. The American Revolution was very much an intellectual revolution as much as it was a military revolution. In the years before the first shot was fired, American Patriots laid the intellectual foundation for the American Revolution. They worked on what America should be and not so much of what they were against. The original Sons of Liberty mounted an intellectual assault on the Empire that the sun never set on.