FEDS WANT MAJOR EXPANSION OF SECRET WIRETAP POWERS OVER WEB-BASED SERVICES. Facebook, Google, Skype and other brand names behind your favorite internet sites and programs are chafing at proposed new rules from the Obama administration that would force companies to comply with sweeping wiretaps and information requests from the FBI and Justice Department. While companies [...]
THEY GIVE OSCARS, DO THEY NOT, FOR FISCAL CHARADES LIKE THE ONE NOW PLAYING IN WASHINGTON, D.C.? If they did, Fix the Debt, the spectacular show produced by billionaire Pete Peterson, with a cast of dozens of fellow plutocrats, would be a shoo-in for an award. The lobby group that Peterson heads has already [...]
TEA AT 4, SHERRY AT 6. BANKSTERS OF THE WORLD ARISE; YOU HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN BUT A LUXURY SANCTUARY FOR YOUR CRIMINALITY IN LONDON. James Petras describes the “veritable crime wave” that has swept over London as it has become the inviting destination of kleptocrats from around the world as they find a [...]
“NOW THAT NO ONE IS USING BPA IN BABY BOTTLES, THE FDA FINALLY GETS AROUND TO BANNING IT.” (EurekAlert) Public health expert David Daussey denounces as a “hollow victory” for public health that the FDA has banned the use of Bisphenol-A in baby bottles and sippy cups, leaving unregulated the use of BPA in [...]
“IT’S GOING TO RUIN OUR OCEAN”: SHELL OIL’S PLAN FOR MASSIVE ARCTIC DRILLING RUNS AGROUND…LITERALLY. (CNN) The “most complex, most difficult wells” ever drilled are to be found in the Alaskan wilderness, where Shell is launching a controversial plan to increase oil exploration in the Aleutian Islands. It is one of the largest such [...]
Days after systematic rate-fixing of the London exchange responsible for setting most of the world’s lending rates was uncovered at Barclays, leading to the resignation of that bank’s top executives, the scope of the “Libor” — “London interbank offered rate” — scandal has spread to more banks and could generate criminal charges on both sides [...]
“SECLUDED AND SELF-CONTAINED OUTPOSTS STRATEGICALLY LOCATED.” (Ephemeris 360) The new face of U.S. military imperialism is the rapid development of these “lily pad” bases around the world. Not only are they “strategically located,” they are largely “strategically concealed” from public knowledge as the public is led to believe its stable of overseas based [...]
` STATE OF FLORIDA CLOSES TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL IN MIDST OF “WORST OUTBREAK IN 20 YEARS”; OUTRAGE ENSUES… (Palm Beach Post) ` In what may be the most bizarre yet potentially deadly political controversies seen in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott and some state lawmakers are facing questions from health officials and public wrath for their decisions [...]
U.S. COURTSHIP WITH LAOS SET BACK A BIT BY DISCOMFORTING QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY UNEXPENDED AMMUNITION FROM U.S. BOMBING BETWEEN 1964 AND 1973 IS YET TO BE CLEANED UP. (Asia Times) Hillary Clinton’s “historic” visit to Laos is aimed to bolster relations with another south Asian nation in the policy of “pivot” from middle east to [...]
LIBERALS, DON’T GET TOO ENTHRALLED BY THE “ROBERTS COURT” IN THE WAKE OF ITS RULING ON OBAMACARE. (Reader Supported News) Bill Blum issues this warning, noting that the upholding of “Obamacare” in last week’s decision may have been a victory of sorts for health care “coverage” since it sustained the “individual mandate” on grounds that [...]
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