Meet the Corporate Front Groups Fighting to Make Sure You Can't Know What's in Your Food
They’re all part of the anti-labeling PR team that will soon unleash a massive advertising and PR campaign in California, designed to scare voters into rejecting the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act.
PermalinkFederal cuts to strip 70,000 more US workers of jobless benefits in June
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/unem-m31.shtml
Next month, another 70,000 US workers will be cut off of unemployment benefits weeks earlier than would have been the case had President Obama and Congress not reduced the duration of extended jobless pay. The early loss of benefits in June will come on top of early cutoffs for more than 200,000 workers two weeks ago as a result of the anti-working class bill brokered by the White House in February.
British Supreme Court endorses extradition of Julian Assange
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/assa-m31.shtml
At the UK Supreme Court in London, Wednesday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden. The judges ruled by a majority of five to two that the extradition request had been “lawfully made”. Assange is challenging the extradition, which is based on contested allegations of sexual assault made by two women in August 2010.
Spanish banking crisis roils global financial markets
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/euro-m31.shtml
Fears that the euro zone is nearing breakup sent panicked investors to safe haven assets Wednesday, driving the yields on US government debt to their lowest levels since 1946. Investors fled from Spanish and Italian bonds after the European Central Bank made clear that it would now allow Spain to tap its financing to recapitalize Bankia, the country's fourth-largest bank, which last week requested a €19 billion bailout from the Spanish government.
Resisting with the Greeks
Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article21959
In the recent elections on May 6, Greek voters sanctioned the coalition forces which had applied austerity plans and surrendered to the dictates of the Troika (the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission). New Democracy and the PASOK (Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement) have thus paid the price of their total submission to Greece’s creditors. The far right party, LAOS, a member of the coalition previously in power, has practically disappeared from the political scene.
Government Defies Federal Judge on NDAA
Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/government-defies-federal-judge-on-ndaa.html
When 4th District Court Judge Katherine Forrest ruled the NDAA unconstitutional, there was wide rejoicing across the Internet. Posts from prominent civil liberties activists, like journalist David Seaman, rang out with VIICCTOOORRYY! A Russia Today newscast titled the ruling “NDAA Shot Down, But Threats Remain” seemed to imply that the fight was over, or "on hold." But it was only just beginning.
Obama Admits Repeatedly Ordering Assassinations Of Innocent Civilians
The most detailed look ever into Obama’s assassination program and reveals the program has turned into a horrifying quagmire unjustified civilian slaughter. Following the backlash over Obama’s recent appoint of John Brennan as a the first ever Assassination Czar new details have been ‘leaked’ to justify the program.
US Policies Separate Families, Kill the Sick and Create Havoc on the Mexican Border - Video
Link: http://truth-out.org/news/item/9349-los-deportados
Alberto Laborin Villa got to Mexico with what he had on: a pair of slacks and a gray dress shirt. His pockets were empty: no money and no identification. He had no phone numbers either because his phone was back home in Pasco, Washington. Alberto was in Nogales, Sonora, now, and home was about as far away as a place could be for Alberto that night, his first after being deported.
Drug war devastation in Latin America
Link: http://socialistworker.org/2012/05/31/drug-war-devastation
U.S. policies that continue to fuel the escalating violence and brutality of the "war on drugs" in Central and South America. PRESIDENT OBAMA recently announced an aid package of more than $130 million to fight the narcotraficantes (narco-traffickers) in Central and Latin America. The infusion of money was announced at the Summit of the Americas in April in Cartagena, Colombia, to head off criticism of the "war on drugs"--and spreading calls to declare it a failure and end it.
Bust 'Em Up: Who Needs Wall Street Giants?
Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002743332
JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and the handful of other behemoths of Wall Street that dominate American banking — who needs them? After enduring years of insatiable greed by the slick-fingered hucksters who run these gambling houses; after watching in dismay as their ineptness and avarice drained more than $19 trillion from America's household wealth since 2007 and plunged our real economy into the worst financial crisis since the 1930s Depression; after witnessing their shameful demands for trillions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts to save their banks and their jobs; and now after seeing them return immediately to business as usual, including paying multimillion-dollar bonuses to themselves — we have to ask: Huh!?!
Canada and the F-35: a Match Made in Heaven or Hell?
Link: http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/canada-and-the-f-35-a-match-made-in-heaven-or-hell-4680/
Canada's potential purchase of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters has sparked questions surrounding the appropriateness of military procurement plans and the legitimacy of government contract practices. But apart from these domestic controversies, there is the more important matter of how these new fighters would fit into Canada's foreign policy, says Zak Rose of Geopoliticalmonitor.com.
No More Pretense - London Financial Times: Rockefellers & Rothschilds Merge Operations
As if to those of us who have researched into them, it wasn't already a widely known fact that Rockefeller's JP Morgan Chase Bank is merely an American branch of the Rothschilds' operation. Now, they're simply publicly declaring what was already a fact. Guess there's no need for 'secrecy' when they're stealing everything before the coming collapse.
Caveman Blogger Fights for Free Speech and Internet Freedom - Video
Can the government throw you in jail for offering advice on the Internet about what food people should buy at the grocery store?
The no-jobs generation
Link: http://socialistworker.org/2012/05/29/the-no-jobs-generation
"MEMBERS OF the Class of 2012: As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you're picking up today. "You're f*cked."
US student loan debt: Where did it come from and who benefits?
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/loan-m29.shtml
The impoverishment of American students and their families by student loan debt has become a well-known fact. A generation of young people are facing financial desperation in order to make huge monthly payments on their loans. The scale of this collective debt affects all aspects of their lives:
- 39 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds have no health insurance.
- 23 percent say they cannot buy basic necessities.
- 20 percent have credit card debt of more than $10,000.
- 49 percent have taken a job they didn’t want in order to pay bills.
- 24 percent have moved back home with parents to save money.
- 20 percent have postponed marriage.
- 22 percent of 18-to-34-year-olds have postponed having children.
US threatens military intervention in Syria following Houla massacre
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/syri-m29.shtml
The massacre of over 100 people in Houla is being utilized by the United States, other Western powers and the Gulf States to step up their drive for regime-change in Syria. Thirty-two children and 34 women were among Friday’s dead, the United Nations has said.
The President’s $8 Billion Coincidence - Video
Link: http://my.brainshark.com/The-President-s-8-Billion-Coincidence-356086344
Remember what FDR said, "There are no coincidences in politics..."
U.S. home prices fall 2.6% in March, S&P/Case-Shiller index shows
Link: http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-home-prices-20120530,0,4204709.story
Home prices ended the first quarter at their lowest point since the U.S. housing crisis began, a closely followed index of home values showed, but analysts found indications of growing stability in the turbulent housing market.
U.S. consumer confidence hits lowest level in 8 months
Americans' confidence in the economy fell in May to its lowest level in eight months as consumers fretted about slow hiring, a big stock market drop and the global economy, says a private research group.
Harvey Organ: JPM Unwinding IRSwaps, Losses ‘COULD BRING DOWN THE WHOLE FINANCIAL SYSTEM’
The Doc spoke with financial/metals analyst Harvey Organ this weekend to discuss the escalation of the European debt crisis, JP Morgan’s derivatives crisis, and the gold and silver markets.
Japan and China to start direct currency trading on Friday
Japan and China will start direct currency trading this week, Tokyo said Tuesday, the first time Beijing has let a major unit other than the dollar swap with the yuan. The move, which will scrap the greenback as an intermediary unit, comes as China introduces measures as part of a long-term goal of internationalizing its currency to rival the dollar.
Atrazine is a deadly herbicide used by lawn chemical companies and corn farmers. There are much safer alternatives. But the EPA always sides w
GMO Firm Syngenta allegedly tainted the water supply of 52 million with hormonally-disruptive chemical Atrazine. The Swiss-based GMO company Syngenta settled a class action lawsuit for some $105 million over the dangers posed by its gender-bending herbicide Atrazine. Water utilities in the U.S. Midwest sued over alleged contamination resulting from Syngenta’s weed killer Atrazine, which leaked into systems and potentially affected the drinking supply of some 52 million Americans in more than 2,000 water districts, according to the Wall Street Journal. Atrazine, used as a herbicide by half of American corn growers, is banned in Europe and linked to “disrupting sexual reproductions in frogs” with some studies also linked to reproductive problems in humans.
Scientists: “Absolutely every one” of bluefin tunas tested from S. California was contaminated with Fukushima radiation
“We were definitely surprised to see it at all – and even more surprised to see it in every one we measured” Pacific bluefin tuna migrating last year from coastal Japan to the waters off Southern California contained radioactive cesium isotopes from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, scientists reported Monday.
The Three Rogue Nations: Producing Order Out Of Chaos
Link: http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=876
When Corrupt Governments Are Formed and Maintained To Oversee State-sponsored Criminal Enterprises. Israel, Colombia and Pakistan share something in common which can only be properly explained when looking at the world geo-political chessboard through the lens of the New World Order (NWO) leadership. Each of these nations plays a pivotal role in their respective regions of the planet. Their roles are decidedly different from what you might expect of a sovereign nation, especially since they are engaged around the clock in so much illicit and clandestine behavior.
Mass repression in Quebec: A warning to the working class
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/pers-m28.shtml
The mass arrests are testimony both to the depth of popular opposition to Bill 78 and the determination of Canada’s ruling class to stamp out the student strike and run roughshod over all opposition to its class-war agenda.
IMF chief: It’s “payback time” for Greek workers
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/euro-m28.shtml
In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde vented her class hatred for the workers of Greece, denouncing them as tax scofflaws and ruling out any respite from the austerity measures that have devastated the country.
Government Repression of Quebec Student Movement Sparks Massive Protests
Link: http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/641.php
Quebec's student movement and the swelling ranks of its popular allies staged a massive rally and march in Montreal on May 22 in favour of the students’ fight for free, quality public education and against government repression. Estimates by some mainstream news outlets and by independent observers place the number of participants as high as 400,000. It was the largest social protest in Canadian history and amounted to a massive display of civil disobedience against a special law adopted by the Quebec government four days earlier that aims to break a more than three-month long strike of post-secondary students in the province.
The Banking Cartels think they are going to take our Social Security
In 2008 the mortgage derivative fraud/scam was discovered as the bubble burst. The largest central banks were wiped out, literally by their own hand. Congress surrendered its power over allocations to the Treasury Department and Henry Paulson was named Treasury Secretary. Then the American people were told that they were going to have to replace the wealth that had been stolen through the toxic derivatives because these privately owned central banks were too big to fail, thus the failure was dumped onto the people.
The Vegas sting A cunning FBI trap set by a cocaine addicted stool pigeon ensnared this British businessman
The only problem? He was innocent. FBI entrapped David Painter in fake $15million deal to arm the presidential guard in Gabon. He was forced to sell £1.5m home and sell shares to cover his legal costs. The 58-year-old slept on a concrete floor with 24 hour a day electric lighting in prison. He said: 'After I was arrested I felt as if I’d just dropped off the radar of my real life, as though I’d disappeared into the American prison system and would never be discovered'
Radiation spikes on floor below No. 4 fuel pool
Link: http://enenews.com/radiation-spikes-floor-below-4-fuel-pool
the pool, an 11-meter deep well.., stretches between floors three and four... Radiation spiked on the second floor at 500 microsieverts per hour... By the fourth floor, near the top of the building, where an explosion during the nuclear accident a year earlier had blown off the ceiling and bits of walls, readings were down to 300 microsieverts per hour.
It Took Earth Ten Million Years to Recover from Greatest Mass Extinction
Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120527153810.htm
It took some 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time, latest research has revealed. Life was nearly wiped out 250 million years ago, with only 10 per cent of plants and animals surviving. It is currently much debated how life recovered from this cataclysm, whether quickly or slowly.
Afghan Family of Eight, Including Six Children, Killed in Nato Missile Attack
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/27-0
At least eight members of an Afghan family have been killed, including six children, after an airstrike by the US-led NATO coalition in Afghanistan. The missiles hit late Saturday night in the eastern province of Paktia, according to officials. The aftermath of airstrikes. File photo. (Image by: BOB STRONG / REUTERS) Rohullah Samon, a spokesman for the governor of Paktia province, said Mohammad Shafi, his wife and their six children died in an airstrike around 8 p.m. in Suri Khail village of Gurda Saria district.
Panetta: U.S. is Ready to Stop Iran from Creating Nuclear Weapons
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Sunday indirectly confirmed recent remarks by the Ambassador to Israel that the U.S. is “ready from a military perspective’’ to stop Iran from making a nuclear weapon if international pressure fails. The U.S. and members of the United Nations Security Council recently met in Baghdad for talks about Iran’s suspected nuclear weapon program. Iran denies it has military intentions but has called for the destruction of Israel. US 'should stop trying to conquer countries' - Congressman - Video
Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you
Link: http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2012/05/revealed-hundreds-of-words-to-avoid.html#axzz1w9WV9nsf
Revealing: A list of keywords used by government analysts to scour the internet for evidence of threats to the U.S. has been released under the Freedom of Information Act (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')
Mounting signs of deepening global slump
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/econ-m26.shtml
New economic figures point to a renewed downturn of the world economy amid a growing debt crisis in Europe and the threatened breakup of the euro zone. The economy of the 17-member euro zone contracted sharply in May, according to the currency bloc’s purchasing managers’ index, which fell at its fastest rate since June 2009. Market, the issuer of the survey, said the figures indicate the euro zone economy will likely shrink by about 0.5 per cent in the current quarter.
Greek ruling elite prepares for showdown with working class
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/gree-m26.shtml
As Greece prepares for elections on June 17 amid an overwhelming popular rejection of austerity, the ruling class is making secret preparations for a military crackdown against the workers. These preparations are taking place in parallel with more public discussions within the European Union on financial mechanisms to penalize Greece, should the Greek population vote to reject EU austerity demands.
Bad news unwelcome: Israel refuses to listen to US envoy’s report on Iran
Link: http://www.rt.com/news/israel-us-report-iran-301/
Top Israeli officials have refused to meet the US envoy to the P5+1 group, who arrived in Jerusalem with a report on recent talks with Iran. The diplomatic démarche comes as relations between the two countries strain over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
As Commandos Raid Tampa, US State Dept Demands Power to Declare War?
It happened again at the recent Tampa-based conference, "Building the Global SOF Partnership" ... The US military staged a mock drill in violation of 130+ years of the Posse Comitatus Act that bars domestic forces from active use on US soil. It wasn't just the US, either. Some 90 nations supposedly participated in the drill, which aimed to "rescue" Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, supposedly kidnapped by terrorists. There were helicopters overhead and a tactical assault showed up by water. Then special ops teams invaded a "terrorist village" near the Convention Center and rescued the mayor, who said he was grateful.
US Hard Line in Failed Iran Talks Driven by Israel
Link: http://peacenews.org/2012/05/us-hard-line-in-failed-iran-talks-driven-by-israel-truthout-org/
Negotiations between Iran and the United States and other members of the P5+1 group in Baghdad ended in fundamental disagreement Thursday over the position of the P5+1 offering no relief from sanctions against Iran.
How the Post Office Is Being Destroyed By a Phony Budget Crisis
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/26-1
As every 6 year old learns, there is real and there is make believe. The massive Post Office deficit that is driving its management to commit institutional suicide by ending 6-day mail delivery, closing half of the nations’ 30,000 or so post offices and half it’s 500 mail processing centers, and laying off over 200,000 workers, is make believe.
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