Link: http://youtu.be/VQdRcYr5aaE

These new numbers come on the heels of a Greenpeace report on the Fukushima disaster - in which the organization places the blame for the crisis - NOT on the natural disaster - but instead on the Japanese Government. The report accuses the Japanese government of ignoring the risks posed to Fukushima before the earthquake and "cutting corners to protect profits over people." It goes on to argues that nuclear energy is "inherently unsafe" and governments are too quick to approve nuclear power plants, while at the same time unable to the consequences of nuclear disasters.

Link: http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-racial-justice/drug-testing-welfare-recipients-trend-no-traction

In the last few days there's been a lot of national attention paid to legislation introduced in over 20 states proposing drug testing applicants and recipients of public benefits.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/activism/154387/3_mega-banks_screwing_you_with_sneaky_fees_--_again/

Consumers were outraged when Bank of America announced a $5 debit fee last fall. Undeterred, some banks are now quietly imposing even more fees.

Link: http://zen-haven.dk/what-nasty-surprises-await-our-warmongers-in-the-gulf/

If Hague, Hammond and Cameron love Israel so much let them and the regime’s other admirers don uniform and flak-jacket and go play battleships in the Gulf’s “bathtub” themselves. Who in their right mind would volunteer to be that trio’s cannon-fodder? The spectacle of the world’s school-yard bully, the United States, flanked by hooligan helpmates Britain, France and Canada all menacing Iran is building up to a chilling climax. I

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109523/TSA-forces-woman-fresh-pumped-milk-order-breast-pump-plane.html

Amy Strand, was traveling with her nine-month-old daughter Eva, on Wednesday when a TSA agent at Hawaii airport insisted she show him the full bottles of milk before she could board her plane home to Maui. The high school vice principal said the agent insisted that security rules required that the device could be brought on-board only if it contained milk.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/02-3

In June 2007, on a warm Sunday in San Antonio, Texas, presidential candidate Barack Obama rolled up his white shirtsleeves and addressed a crowd of 1,000: ‘We’re going to close Guantánamo. And we’re going to restore habeas corpus,’ he said. The assembly cheered. It is now 2012. The US detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba – which has held hundreds of prisoners without trial and has been the site of torture and abuse – remains open. In December, President Obama signed into law a National Defense Authorization Act that, according to the New York Times, will ‘make indefinite detention and military trials a permanent part of American law’.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/02-0

The Australian government doesn’t like it when global tobacco giants can sue them over public health laws. Corporate America finds this utterly unreasonable. Thirty-one U.S. corporate lobby groups, from the Business Roundtable to the National Potato Council, sent a letter to President Obama this week, urging him to give Australia a good smackdown.

Link: http://www.infowars.com/corporate-media-officially-stops-covering-paul-campaign-2/

GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul and his supporters have long complained that the establishment media deliberately operates a blackout when it comes to Paul’s campaign, a claim that has been verified time and time again.

Link: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/03/02/why-cant-americans-have-democracy/

Syria has a secular government as did Iraq prior to the american invasion. Secular governments are important in Arab lands in which there is division between Sunni and Shi’ite. Secular governments keep the divided population from murdering one another.