The cost of America’s police state
By Stephan Salisbury TomDispatch At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California. American police forces had been “militarized,” many commentators worried, as though the firepower and callous tactics on display were anomalies, surprises bursting upon us from [...]
Read More →Here’s Why the Government Thinks It Can Kill You Overseas
Wired/Danger Room The Obama administration calls it “targeted killing.” Steven Seagal would call it getting marked for death. It’s the practice of singling out an individual, linked to a terrorist group, for killing, and it’s been played out hundreds of times in the 9/11 era — including, more recently, against U.S. citizens like al-Qaida’s YouTube preacher, Anwar [...]
Read More →Bill Gates: One of the World’s Most Destructive Do-Gooders?
Dr. Mercola Mercola Above, ABC’s “Nightline,” Bill Weir talks with Microsoft founder Bill Gates about his charitable endeavors. Gates’ latest plan is to try to end world hunger by growing more genetically modified (GM) crops. He’s already invested $27 million into Monsanto Company—leading some countries to reject his charity due to the high risks, such [...]
Read More →UK: Mortgage fears as banks consider raising interest rates
eadt24 Fuel prices are already at record highs – now mortgage rates are set to rise as well. RBS-Natwest is pushing up rates on two of its products by 0.25%, while Halifax is expected to raise its standard variable rate tomorrow. The hikes in cost come despite the Bank of England maintaining the base rate [...]
Read More →Olympic brands caught up in abuse scandal
Gethin Chamberlain Guardian While Adidas, Nike and Puma make millions out of the Games, their employees are claiming exploitation Workers producing sportswear for Olympic sponsors Adidas, Nike and Puma are beaten, verbally abused, underpaid and overworked in Bangladeshi sweatshops, a shocking investigation has discovered. Workers for all three companies had been physically abused. In one [...]
Read More →Senior US senator calls for arming Syria rebels
ArabNews A senior Republican US senator on Sunday called for arming Syria’s rebels through the Arab League and suggested the imposition of “no drive” and “no fly” zones against Syrian military forces targeting the opposition. Senator Lindsey Graham, an influential Republican voice on international policy, also said he was joining with Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal [...]
Read More →Monday’s quake was 19th this year in India
ZeeNews Monday’s earthquake that shook the capital and certain areas in its neighbouring states of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh was the 19th tremor in the country this year so far and third in the past five days. The tremor, measuring 4.9 on the Richter Scale with Haryana’s Bahadurgarh as epicentre, shook Delhi and neighbouring [...]
Read More →Iran increasing lethal aid to Syria
SifyNews Iran is increasing its aid, especially lethal assistance, to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for his crackdown on opposition forces, a US daily has said. Three unnamed US officials with access to intelligence reports from the Middle East described a spike in Iranian-supplied arms and other aid to the Syrian government at a time when [...]
Read More →13 undercover French army officers seized in Syria
RT Thirteen French officers have been captured by the Syrian Army, according to Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper. It claims it received the information from a pro-Syrian Palestinian in Damascus. According to the source, the officers were taken captive in the city of Homs – the heart of the internal conflict between forces loyal to President [...]
Read More →U.N. torture official slams U.S. treatment of WikiLeaks suspect
Al Arabiya U.S. authorities’ treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Private Bradley Manning was “cruel and degrading,” the U.N. special rapporteur on torture Juan Ernesto Mendez said Monday. “I believe Bradley Manning was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the excessive and prolonged isolation he was put in during the eight months he was in [...]
Read More →Gitmo war crimes court surprises some observers
DailyStar The military tribunals held at this isolated U.S. outpost have been lambasted as kangaroo courts, heavily weighted in favor of the prosecution. But most of the convictions so far have led to lighter than expected sentences. Legal experts note, with some caveats, that all but one of the seven convictions at what are known [...]
Read More →Major X1.1 solar flare peaked around Sunspot 1429 on March 5th 2012
Adonai TheWatchers Earth orbiting satellites have detected an X1.1-class solar flare from sunspot AR1429 that produced a bright CME and resulted with strong R3 Level Radio Blackout. The flare peaked at 04:13 UTC on March 5th. A bright Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is now seen in the latest STEREO Behind and Lasco images. The expanding plasma cloud is mostly heading [...]
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