Link: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120430/02112518698/nytimes-realizes-that-fbi-keeps-celebrating-breaking-up-its-own-terrorist-plots.shtml

Over the last few years, we've noticed that nearly every victory the FBI celebrates against terrorism is actually about stopping its own terrorist plots that it feeds to hapless individuals, often nudging them and pushing them down the road to "become" terrorists, despite commonly displaying little to no aptitude for actual terrorism.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/spai-m01.shtml

Fears the government will not meet deficit-cutting targets agreed with the European Union and International Monetary Fund have pushed up its borrowing costs. There is also growing speculation that bank debts are much higher than admitted.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/paki-m01.shtml

Washington ended a month-long pause in its campaign of drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas Sunday, provoking a formal protest from the government in Islamabad.

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/morning-of-empire-tv-will-numb-your.html

I’m sorry, but I am convinced beyond reproach that we are all part of some giant dream. I mean, this cannot be real! All one has to do is what I just did this Tuesday morning; channel surf all the so called news talk shows on the boob tube.

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31219.htm

There's a major shift under way, one the US mainstream media has left largely untouched even though it will send the United States into an economic maelstrom and dramatically reduce the country's importance in the world: the demise of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency.

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31214.htm

Drones—unmanned aerial vehicles—come in all shapes and sizes, from nano-sized drones as small as a grain of sand that can do everything from conducting surveillance to detonating explosive charges, to massive “hunter/killer” Predator warships that unleash firepower from on high. Once used exclusively by the military to carry out aerial surveillance and attacks on enemy insurgents abroad, these remotely piloted, semi-autonomous robots have now been authorized by Congress and President Obama for widespread use in American airspace. The military empire is coming home to roost.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/01-3

Students at one of Detroit's public high schools who were suspended after an act of civil disobedience to protest school closures and inadequate learning conditions created their own "freedom school" on Friday.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/01-0

Of course, most of us know what’s wrong with the world. We know about the poverty, war, violence and disease. We’re conscious of the injustice, but not fully conscious of it, because frankly, we have enough to worry about in our own lives. As such, we’ve come to accept these injustices as simple facts of life – prepackaged side effects of the human condition, as natural and intertwined with our existence as water to a stream, beyond our capacity to effect in any significant way. This collective sense of powerlessness and default apathy is why we’re striking.

Link: http://www.infowars.com/youtube-sends-hundreds-of-ron-paul-videos-to-memory-hole/

Google property YouTube has closed down a popular Ron Paul channel after “multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement,” most notably establishment media tool CNBC. The message here is: you will love war and death just as Romney the war monger does, and you won't criticize the privately owned Federal Reserve banking system as Ron Paul does. The last three presidential elections were totally rigged. Romney will be the next pre selected puppet. Never ending war and never ending servitude to the banks will continue.

Link: http://www.infowars.com/hypocritical-anti-defamation-league-lashes-out-at-mel-gibson-again/

The Anti-Defamation League, known for its blind and biased allegations, has once again decided to go after Mel Gibson, even after repeated and fruitless attempts to bring him down in the past. It seems like any smear against the actor and director , irrespective of its nature and origins, sets off the engine behind the League to once again launch an attack.

Link: http://socialistworker.org/2012/05/01/putting-cuffs-on-kids

Police say they found the girl crying on the floor of the principal's office. One of the officers claims he tried to calm her, but she then "pulled away and began actively resisting and fighting with me." Imagine that: Uniformed cops with guns only made a miserable crying child more upset. "The child was then placed in handcuffs for her safety, and the officer proceeded to bring her down to the police station,"

Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/47246646

Two Federal Reserve officials warned Tuesday that the U.S. could be heading for a "fiscal cliff" at year's end if mandated tax increases and spending cuts are implemented.