Controversy Swarms Bee and Pesticide Study
Link: http://news.discovery.com/earth/controversy-swarms-around-honeybee-and-pesticide-study-120409.html
Another study adds to the buzz that a certain class of pesticides, called neonicotinoids, may be behind the bee-killing colony collapse disorder. But the findings have stirred up a hornet’s nest of objections from the pesticides’ manufacturer, Bayer. Harvard University biologist Chensheng Lu found a correlation between an imidacloprid-contaminated diet and one of the symptoms of colony collapse disorder.
PermalinkUS Army Preparing for Martial Law Scenario in US? Civil Disturbance and Mock Riot Drills In Washington
For years the alternative media has warned about the US military possibly being used against the American people in a time of economic collapse or any sort of martial law scenario. Drills such as Vigilant Guard 2010 have brought widespread attention to the fact that portions of our own military are training to take on crowds of American citizens demanding food and Constitutional rights in a time of crisis.
Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds
President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the board that oversees Medicare financing.
First Man Arrested With Drone Evidence Vows to Fight Case
The tiny town of Lakota, N.D., is quickly becoming a key testing ground for the legality of the use of unmanned drones by law enforcement after one of its residents became the first American citizen to be arrested with the help of a Predator surveillance drone.
City of Roswell, GA, bullies Andrew Wordes to death over his backyard chickens
An innocent man who had legally been raising a few dozen chickens and other small birds in the backyard of his suburban Atlanta home is now dead, following a crusade of terror perpetrated against him by the City of Roswell in Georgia. Andrew Wordes, who died during a recent raid on his property in which county marshals tried to illegally evict him, was the obvious victim of a rogue state gone mad — and his blood is now on the hands of the Roswell City Administrator, the Roswell City Council, and the Roswell Police Department, all of which robbed from Wordes his property, his livelihood, and ultimately his life.
Fukushima Has Potential to Destroy the World And Our Civilization - Video
Link: http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/09/fukushima-has-potential-to-destroy-the-world-and-our-civilization/
A former UN Adviser has warned that Fukushima has the potential to destroy the world, the environment, and our civilization with nuclear fallout taking up to 50 years to contain. Experts are now coming forward with their opinions on the real implications of the Fukushima disaster. More and more scientists continue to report that Fukushima has the potential to make Chernobyl look like a drop of water compared to a massive lake.
19 Things That The Talking Heads On Television Are Being Strangely Silent About
If the talking heads on television don't tell us about something that happens, does it make that event any less real? Of course the answer to that question is quite obvious, but unfortunately way too many Americans allow their realities to be defined by what they hear from the mainstream media. Way too many people use phrases such as "if that was true I would have heard about it on television" to deflect conversations that are starting to become uncomfortable. Critical thinking is a skill that is in short supply in America today, and most Americans seem content to let their televisions do their thinking for them. Sadly, the pretty people on television do not spend a lot of time talking about the things that are truly important.
US Gives Iran 'Last Chance' Warning
Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31029.htm
Obama demands concessions as crucial talks begin in Istanbul later this week. Iran must immediately close a large nuclear facility built underneath a mountain if it is to take what President Obama has called a "last chance" to resolve its escalating dispute with the West via diplomacy.
The Making of a Rampage Murderer: What the Brutal Life of Oakland Shooter One L. Goh Says About America
The cruelty, predation and concentration of wealth today has sparked a new type of murder that has more in common with insurgency violence than serial murder.
Obama Administration Silencing Pakistani Drone-Strike Lawyer
Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31035.htm
When is the last time you heard from a civilian victim of the CIA’s secret drone strikes? Sure, most of them can’t speak because they’re deceased. But many leave behind bereaved and angry family members ready to proclaim their innocence and denounce the absence of due process, the lack of accountability, the utter impunity with which the U.S. government decides who will live and die.
False Flag Aircraft Carrier Now In Place
Link: http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1999/030/False_Flag_Carrier_Enterprise_Now_In_Place.html
Would the US military really sacrifice its own to start a war with Iran? Would the US really be complicit in attacks on its own citizens to get into lucrative wars and gain access to precious natural resources? If this sounds outlandish to you all you have to do is read. And read. The USS Enterprise that just arrived in the Persian Gulf, nicknamed the "Big E", is scheduled to be decommissioned after this last tour of duty. A very expensive endeavor, especially since this was the very first nuclear powered vessel. It's reminiscent of the old warships left in Pearl Harbor as the newer ones left just prior to the attacks, or the ultra-expensive asbestos removal scheduled for the Twin Towers before their timely demise.
US Navy deploys 2nd aircraft carrier to Gulf
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy said Monday it has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf region amid rising tensions with Iran over its disputed nuclear program. The deployment of the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise along with the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group marks one of the few times the Navy has had two aircraft carriers operating in waters near the Persian Gulf, said Cmdr. Amy Derrick-Frost of the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet.
Obama administration has diverted $500M to IRS to implement healthcare law
The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law. The money is only part of the IRS’s total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process. The tax agency is responsible for several key provisions of the new law, including the unpopular individual mandate.
America's Health Care "Debate": The Silencing of Single-Payer Supporters
Link: http://truth-out.org/news/item/8407-the-real-health-care-debate
The debate surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act illustrates the impoverishment of our political life. Here is a law that had its origin in the right-wing Heritage Foundation, was first put into practice in 2006 in Massachusetts by then-Gov. Mitt Romney and was solidified into federal law after corporate lobbyists wrote legislation with more than 2,000 pages.
EPA-approved GMO insecticide responsible for killing off bees, contaminating entire food chain
Early last year, leaked documents obtained by a Colorado beekeeper exposed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) illegitimate approval of clothianidin, a highly-toxic pesticide manufactured by Bayer CropScience that the regulatory agency knew was capable of killing off bees
Americans cut back on doctor visits, prescriptions
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/heal-a09.shtml
Americans made fewer visits to the doctor last year and were issued fewer prescriptions, a clear indication that many people are struggling to pay for health care. This decline came despite the introduction of 34 new medicines by the pharmaceutical industry, the largest number in a decade.
Economic Crisis and Austerity: The Stranglehold on Canada's Families
Link: http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/614.php
The claim that economic crises and austerity have an uneven impact on the working-class ? with the greatest effects being felt by women and children ? is one we hear often on the Left. However, with some important exceptions, this claim is all too often just an aside or a footnote. In this article, I want to look at the economics of austerity in two ways: first, by thinking about the uneven impacts of austerity on women and families and, second, by looking at austerity itself as a gendered phenomenon.
East Timor: a lesson in why the poorest threaten the powerful
Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2012/04/09/east-timor-a-lesson-in-why-the-poorest-t
Small, impoverished countries can often present the greatest threat to predatory power, because if they cannot be intimidated and controlled, who can?
Quebec authorities seeking to criminalize student strike
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/queb-a09.shtml
Quebec’s Liberal government is using repression—arrests, court injunctions and the threat of cancelling the winter semester—to force an end to a nearly two-month-long strike of university and CEGEP (pre-university and technical college) students. Nevertheless, almost 200,000 students are continuing to boycott classes to oppose the Charest Liberal government’s plan to raise university tuition fees by 75 percent over the next five years, beginning in September.
San Francisco Bay Area milk sample has highest amount of Cesium-137 since last June — Almost double EPA’s maximum contaminant level
Link: http://enenews.com/april-milk-sample-highest
Title: UCB Milk Sampling Results
Source: UCBDepartment of Nuclear Engineering
America's prescription drug addiction suggests a sick nation
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/09/america-prescription-drug-addiction
The growing taste for prescription opioids in the US is a concern. What is it about our way of life that necessitates such relief? We Americans really like to pop pills. The Associated Press has just reported that we're increasingly strung out on prescription opioids, with sales ballooning from 2000 to 2010. In some parts of the US, receipts for oxycodone-based products – such as OxyContin, Percoset, and Percodan – surged sixteenfold; hydrocodone-based products such as Vicodin continue to gain solid ground in Appalachia and Middle America.
Israel seeks automatic US aid - Video
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/235001.html
They are seeking to increase this military aid for Israel's missile systems and establishing an automatic multi-year program, which I repeat and I quote, 'will not require annual approval.'"
China cautions on potential consequences of striking Iran
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/235140.html
If force is used on Iran, it will certainly incur retaliation, cause an even greater military clash, worsen turmoil in the region, threaten the security of the Strait of Hormuz and other strategic passages, drive up global oil prices and strike a blow at the world economic recovery."
Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack
The Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the summer and has developed an action plan to move Russian troops through neighboring Georgia to stage in Armenia, which borders on the Islamic republic, according to informed Russian sources.
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