Hundreds of dead pelicans wash up on Peru's beaches... weeks after 600 dolphins died in the same waters
At least 1,200 pelicans and other sea-faring birds have washed up dead on Peru's northern coastline, just weeks after 600 dolphins died in the same region. Now, the Peruvian government has issued a health alert, asking people stay off the beaches until scientists can figure out what is causing the massive die-offs. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140414/Hundreds-dead-pelicans-wash-Perus-beaches--weeks-600-dolphins-died-waters.html#ixzz1uEYLr0At
PermalinkEvery president is a war president
Ninety-six years ago, when President Woodrow Wilson ran for re-election, two notable things happened: 1) His campaign used the slogan "He kept us out of war," and 2) he won. It has been a long time since any president could seek a second term while making that boast.
Columbia Medical Professor: Inhaling just one radioactive hot particle can cause cancer - Video
Link: http://enenews.com/columbia-medical-professor-inhaling-one-radioactive-hot-particle-cancer-video
Japanese Nuclear Scientist and Japanese and US medical doctors to discuss current radiological health conditions and concerns in Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor catastrophe.
Mankind must change ways to survive, report says
Link: http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15935446,00.html
Mankind may face extinction if it fails to change its ways, the Club of Rome think tank has said. Short-sighted political and economical models are the problem, according to a new report by the group.
So then Who in the Hell Are We?
Link: http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1153
The latest PR catch phrase from business, administration, military, state and local officials after some atrocity or other is that whatever happened, it is certainly “not who we are,” a phrase appropriately initially uttered by the Vietnam War commander, Gen. William Westmoreland, with reference to the My Lai slaughter of 400 women, children and old men, all civilians, by a group of US soldiers. Yet if all these abominations are not “who we are,” then why do our business, police and military and government institutions generate so many examples of obscene, horrific or criminal behavior?
Britain faces worst recession since 1930s
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/ukec-m05.shtml
Britain is back in recession. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the economy shrank by 0.2 percent over the first three months of 2012, following a 0.3 percent contraction at the end of 2011. It has now entered a double-dip recession, the first since the 1970s.
Report highlights systemic jobs crisis in US
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/jobs-m05.shtml
Only 115,000 jobs were added in the US in April, according to Friday’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was significantly below expectations, and was the smallest gain in six months. It was well below the revised figure of 154,000 jobs added in March.
An even more catastrophic worst-case scenario follows that a fire in the pool at unit 4 could then spread, igniting the irradiated fuel throughout the nuclear site and releasing an amount of cesium-137 equaling a doomsday-like load, roughly 85 times more
‘Doomsday-like’ radiation release if fire in pool at unit 4 — “It would be a global catastrophe… it already has been, but it would dwarf what’s already happened” -Nuclear Waste Expert
‘Israel threatened to take down world in nuclear Armageddon’ - Video
Link: http://presstv.com/detail/239682.html
Israel is the only regime that has threatened to obliterate all world countries in a “nuclear Armageddon,” if its existence is put in jeopardy, a political analyst tells Press TV. In a Friday interview, Mark Glenn, from The Crescent and Cross Solidarity movement, lashed out at Israel for its nuclear stockpile, sayingTel Aviv is the only regime that “has threatened to take the entire world down in a nuclear Armageddon in the instance that her precious experiments in Jewish self-rule in the Middle East ceases to materialize.” “There is no other country in existence today that has basically told the entire world that if we are going to go down we are going to take the rest of the world down with us,” he added.
Space Weather Expert Has Ominous Forecast
Link: http://zen-haven.dk/space-weather-expert-has-ominous-forecast/
A stream of highly charged particles from the sun is headed straight toward Earth, threatening to plunge cities around the world into darkness and bring the global economy screeching to a halt. This isn’t the premise of the latest doomsday thriller. Massive solar storms have happened before — and another one is likely to occur soon, according to Mike Hapgood, a space weather scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, England.
Argentina's Model, an Alternative to Austerity
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/05-3
Argentina's record levels of employment and massive reductions in poverty have little to do with exports. One of the great myths about the Argentine economy that is repeated nearly every day is that the rapid growth of the Argentine economy during the past decade has been a "commodity export boom". For example, the New York Times reported last week:
Social Security Is Not Going Broke
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/05
Which federal program took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans of all ages out of poverty? Why, Social Security, of course, which ended 2011 with a $2.7 trillion surplus.
Disinformation On Every Front
Link: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/05/04/disinformation-on-every-front/
Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no disinformation from the left. Others think that propaganda is the business of Obama and the Democrats. In fact, propaganda from the right, the left and the middle are all part of the disinformation fed to americans.
Gloom builds for euro zone, United States
Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/04/us-global-economy-idUSBRE8431LP20120504
The euro zone economy worsened markedly last month and U.S. employers cut back on hiring, according to two reports on Friday that dampened hopes for gradual recovery on either side of the Atlantic.
Mississippi twins arrested for videoing police from their balcony
As nineteen year old Shanell Madison of Pearl, Mississippi tells it, she and her twin brother Terrell were sitting peacefully on the balcony of their apartment on Tuesday when they heard shots from a police shootout below. Then Terrell began recording the scene with his cellphone, and that brought the police bursting into the apartment to arrest both of them. “The police came up here after they took his phone,” Shanell told WLBT News. “They slammed him down and arrested him, and I’m like ‘Why are y’all arresting him’, and then they grabbed me and slammed me also and arrested me.”
THE NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE
Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article21913
I will hardly refer to the Cuban people, who one day rid their country of the United States domain, when the imperialist system had reached the height of its power. Men and women of different ages paraded on May Day down the most symbolic squares in all provinces of the country.
New Fracking Rules Come Up Short Leaving Communities, Earth Unprotected
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/04-6
Today, the Obama administration proposed new rules on the fracking industry's procedures and oversight on public lands. Outdated fracking regulations have been replaced with out of touch fracking regulations, falling short of protecting communities from toxic pollution, according to environmental groups.
The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb
More than a year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Japanese government, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) present similar assurances of the site's current state: challenges remain but everything is under control. The worst is over.
Unresolved tensions dominate US-China talks
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/usch-m04.shtml
The fourth US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, beginning yesterday in Beijing, has underscored the fraught relations between the two countries over economic and geopolitical issues. The high-powered US team headed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is using the meeting to pressure the Chinese regime to make significant concessions.
The social crisis in the US and the 2012 elections
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/pers-m04.shtml
Three and a half years into the economic crisis, the conditions of life facing millions of people in the US are disastrous. Whatever the talk of an economic “recovery,” poverty, perpetual unemployment, impossible levels of debt pervade American society.
“We are Preparing for Massive Civil War,” Says DHS Informant
Link: http://www.beaconequity.com/we-are-preparing-for-massive-civil-war-says-dhs-informant-2012-05-03/
In a riveting interview on TruNews Radio, Wednesday, private investigator Doug Hagmann said high-level, reliable sources told him the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing for “massive civil war” in America. “Folks, we’re getting ready for one massive economic collapse,” Hagmann told TruNews host Rick Wiles. Sign-up for my 100% FREE Alerts “We have problems . . . The federal government is preparing for civil uprising,” he added, “so every time you hear about troop movements, every time you hear about movements of military equipment, the militarization of the police, the buying of the ammunition, all of this is . . . they (DHS) are preparing for a massive uprising.”
Alleged US Army doc: re-education camps and psy-op missions aimed at activists
Link: http://rt.com/usa/news/psyop-activists-internment-resettlement-526/
An American military document just uncovered appears to detail an US Army plan that calls for detaining “political activists” at re-education camps staffed by military-hired “PSYOP officers” in both America and abroad. The website Infowars.com has unearthed the smoking gun, a copy of a United States military manual entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations, which appears to offer Defense Department insiders instructions on dealing with the imprisonment of anyone considered an enemy to the American way of life and how to go about indoctrination them with an “appreciation of US policies and actions” through psychological warfare.
U.S. Spends Far More for Health Care Than 12 Industrialized Nations
Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31238.htm
The United States spends more on health care than 12 other industrialized countries yet does not provide "notably superior" care, according to a new study from The Commonwealth Fund. The U.S. spent nearly $8,000 per person in 2009 on health care services, while other countries in the study spent between one-third (Japan and New Zealand) and two-thirds (Norway and Switzerland) as much.
U.S. Army Orders $266 Million Worth of Ammo Amid Re- Education Camp Claims and Martial Law Drills on the Streets of America
ATK, the company now infamous for supplying upwards of 750 million rounds of .40 caliber hollow point ammunition to the Department of Homeland Security, has just secured a $266 million dollar contract to supply ammunition to the U.S. Army.
Why I Interrupted Obama Counterterrorism Adviser John Brennan
Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2012/05/03/why-i-interrupted-obama-counterterrorism
Fact check: There have been some 3,000 Pakistanis killed in drone attacks, of whom only 170 have been identified as known “militants”. (Editor)
Pelosi condemns Obama’s continued raids on marijuana dispensaries
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com.
Topics: Obama ♦ President Barack Obama ♦ President Obama. President Barack Obama’s emphasis on raiding medical marijuana dispensaries drew a rebuke from none other than House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) this week, who warned in a prepared statement that she has “strong concerns” about her political ally’s policy.
Orwell Comes to the Guantanamo Tribunal
Link: http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/orwell-comes-guantanamo-tribunal
The hundreds of lawyers, reporters and observers headed to Guantanamo Bay for Saturday’s arraignment of five defendants at the 9/11 military commission better check their calendars: Suddenly, it feels a lot like 1984. The government wants to censor any statements the defendants have made about how they’ve been treated while in U.S. custody. If they were tortured or abused by CIA or Department of Defense personnel, that’s information the government wants to keep classified.
How Wall Street Drives Up Gas Prices -- Ripping Us Off and Killing Jobs
Next time you fill up your tank, remember that $10 to $25 is going right from your pocket to the financial sector. Wall Street is financializing the commodities markets – especially oil – as it seeks new ways to pick our pockets. The same greedy swindlers who puffed up the housing bubble and then milked it dry are now hard at work doing the same with gasoline.
Russian military ups the ante on missile defense
MOSCOW (AP) ? Russia's top military officer has threatened to carry out a pre-emptive strike on U.S.-led NATO missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe if Washington goes ahead with its controversial plan to build a missile shield. President Dmitry Medvedev said last year that Russia will retaliate militarily if it does not reach an agreement with the United States and NATO on the missile defense system. Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov went even further Thursday. "A decision to use destructive force pre-emptively will be taken if the situation worsens," he said at an international conference attended by senior U.S. and NATO officials.
The 86 million invisible unemployed
Link: http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/03/news/economy/unemployment-rate/
Last year, 86 million Americans were not counted in the labor force because they didn't keep up a regular job search. Most of them were either under age 25 or over age 65. Last year, 86 million Americans were not counted in the labor force because they didn't keep up a regular job search. Most of them were either under age 25 or over age 65. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- There are far more jobless people in the United States than you might think.
Media Get Bored With Occupy—and Inequality
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/03-3
Class issues fade along with protest coverage. Occupy Wall Street is rightly credited with helping to shift the economic debate in America from a fixation on deficits to issues of income inequality, corporate greed and the centralization of wealth among the richest 1 percent. The movement has chalked up other victories as well, from altering New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s tax plan (New York Times, 12/5/11) to re-energizing activists and unions, but bringing some discussion of class into the mainstream dialogue has been one of its crowning achievements.
US deploys F-22 fighter jets in threat to Iran
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/rapt-m02.shtml
The Pentagon has dispatched F-22 Raptors, the most advanced American warplanes, to the United Arab Emirates in a provocative escalation of US war threats against Iran.
The Empire vs. Iran (and Syria): A New World War for a New World Order?
Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31226.htm
Confronted with a declining World Order it can no longer control, does the West want to re-assert its will through a new world war, which this time would be really global? A terrifying scenario emerges from the ceaseless escalation of pressures and threats against Syria and Iran, pitting, for the first time since the NATO-OECD Empire won the Cold War two decades ago, the Western trio of the UN veto club (U.S., U.K., France) against its non-Western duo (Russia and China).
Outlaw Police State
Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article21911
It may still be news to you that there has been a fundamental change in the political character of the US, with effective suspension of the Constitution, an end to freedoms once protected in the Bill of Rights, and the abandonment of the rule of law as power is concentrated in the executive branch of government in a one party state (see Welcome). The final stage in the transformation to an authoritarian society of control was not a response to a crisis (9/11 trade-off of ‘freedom for security’), but the intended arrival of a totalitarian future, enabled by technological change and the crime of the 9/11 catalyst event.
Tasers Kill (Still)
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/05/02-0
A new medical study has found that electrical shock delivered to the chest by a Taser or stun gun - used by over 16,700 law enforcement agencies in 107 countries - can lead to cardiac arrest and sudden death. While Amnesty International and other groups have long cited the dangers of tasing, the study in the journal Circulation is the first to appear in a peer-reviewed publication. It looked at the cases of eight people who went into cardiac arrest after being shocked by a Taser X26 fired at a distance. Seven died.
Obama's 'Midnight' Deal Will Stretch Afghan War to 2024
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/02-6
President Obama's secret trip to Afghanistan, shrouded in secrecy for security reasons, culminated in a midnight meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the signing of a 'strategic partnership agreement', the full details of which have not been made available to either the American or Afghan public.
Mitt Romney's Dangerous Foreign Policy Team: Nostalgic for Bush, Hellbent on War with Iran
It's hard to watch the Romney campaign with a straight face. Their latest crackup has one Romney adviser, John Lehman, warning of the “Soviet threat," and another, Pierre Prosper, complaining that the administration hasn't done enough to stand with Czechoslovakia. And those comments were hardly the first time we've heard throwbacks to the Cold War in this campaign. But don't laugh too hard—it might distract from the dangerous and discredited worldview Romney's foreign policy team is pushing.
Marijuana Found to Kill Cancer Cells – The Marijuana and Cancer Relationship
Link: http://naturalsociety.com/marijuana-and-cancer-relationship-destroy-cancer-cells/
marijuanaleaf 220x137 Marijuana Found to Kill Cancer Cells The Marijuana and Cancer RelationshipThanks to the available findings of a 2006 study showing that cannabis actually reduces the number of cancer cells, medical marijuana users can now feel even better about the widely abolished pain relief ingredient found in the plant. The relationship between marijuana and cancer has always been up for debate, but with the use of a specially crafted oil made from the buds of the Cannabis Sativa plant, scientists confirmed that the plant’s primary psychoactive chemical tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) destroys any and all malignant cancer cell growths in several patients. Details on the marijuana and cancer prevention connection aren’t exactly known, but further, more extensive testing will reveal exactly what may be causing this seemingly miracle cure.
Nature publishes details of bird flu strain that could spread among people
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/02/nature-publishes-bird-flu-strain-people
Controversial research on a hybrid strain of bird flu that could potentially spread between humans was published on Wednesday in Nature after security restrictions on the work were lifted. Scientists created the virus by merging a mutated strain of bird flu with the "swine flu" virus that sparked a human pandemic in 2009. The hybrid strain spread easily between ferrets – the best proxy that flu researchers have for people – but was not lethal and could be controlled with antiviral drugs and bird flu vaccines.
The Shadow Government Goes Public!
Link: http://www.kirwanesque.net/2012/3055/shadow-government/
There has been a secret at the heart of the government of this nation since 1871. It’s called the “Act of 1871” and that “ACT” is what created the District of Columbia. (1) It applies ONLY to a ten square mile area inside Washington D.C. However ever since the New Millennium began this government has been trying to enforce every law that they have passed for themselves (for that ten-square mile area of Washington DC) onto the rest of us.
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