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Afghanistan
Afghan Lawmaker: U.S. Soldiers Raided My Home, Killed My Relative
47 Afghan students (girls) fall sick after ‘toxic spray’
Afghan Spy Chief: 'I Told MI5 That Prisoners Were Being Tortured'
Survivor Calls Out Obama On Afghan Massacre And Cover-Up
Deadly clashes erupt in Kyrgyzstan
About 1,000 men
armed with sticks clashed with police and landowners in a suburb of
Bishkek on Monday
Afghanistan forces face four more years of combat, warns Nato
official
Attacks On Contractors Surge In Afghanistan
NATO Backs Plan for Afghan Command NATO foreign ministers
endorsed a plan that sets in motion the phased withdrawal of foreign
troops from lead combat roles as the coalition prepares to hand over
responsibility for the war to Afghans.
Kandaharis Overwhelmingly Want Talks With Taliban Over More Fighting
American Bodyguard Reportedly 'Executed' By Afghan Police
U.S. Contractors Failed To Train Afghans To Adjust Gun Sights
Iraq
Marine's Murder Conviction Of Iraqi Overturned On Procedural Grounds
At least 61 dead in Iraq bombings
U.S. soldier dies in raid that kills top al Qaida in Iraq leaders
Secret Jail in Baghdad Held Sunnis From the North An Iraqi
security force under the prime minister’s command held hundreds of
detainees from northern Iraq in a prison, torturing dozens of them,
Iraqi and American officials said.
US soldier dismissed for threats in Iraq protest the U.S. Army
has dismissed a soldier who threatened fellow troops and sent the
Pentagon a violent rap song he wrote to protest his Iraq
redeployment orders,
Pakistan
Suicide bombers kill 41 at refugee camp in northwest Pakistan
200,000 flee Pakistan's push against the Taliban
Pakistan Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud is alive, says spy agency
Setback for CIA after Pakistan intelligence official admits drone
attack failed to kill the Pakistan Taliban commander
Bhutto murder investigation flawed: UN Pakistani police
deliberately failed to properly investigate the 2007 assassination
of former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto
The Americas
Mexico hobbled by legal system After wave of arrests of mayors,
they are quietly freed, exposing cracks in system to fight cartels
Drug Cartel Gunmen Ambush And Murder 7 Mexican Police Officers
US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions Pt3
Dominique: Haitian elite want to go back to cheap textile
labour and destroying national food production
Coca Colla Goes on Sale in Bolivia Made from the coca leaf and
named after Bolivia's indigenous Colla people, the soda is the
latest attempt by Bolivia to expand legal markets for coca products. |
Middle East
Egypt sentences 26 in 'Hezbollah cell' for spying An Egyptian
court Wednesday convicted 26 men of spying for the Lebanese militant
group Hezbollah and planning terrorist attacks in Egypt, handing
down prison terms ranging from 25 years to six months.
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Hamas burns Tramadol painkillers smuggled into Gaza
Hamas closes smuggling tunnels It is understood the closure is
temporary and follows a security alert issued to all Israeli
tourists in Sinai yesterday.
Netanyahu To Obama: We Won't Stop Building In Jerusalem
Yemen: British Ambassador Escapes Explosion
Top U.S. Military Officer: Don't Attack Iran The “unintended
consequences” of a hit on Iran’s nuclear facilities could easily
outweigh the benefits of that delay, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman
Admiral Mike Mullen
told a forum at Columbia University
Pentagon backtracks: Iran attack
not ‘off the table’
Egypt sentences 26 in 'Hezbollah cell' for spying An Egyptian
court Wednesday convicted 26 men of spying for the Lebanese militant
group Hezbollah and planning terrorist attacks in Egypt, handing
down prison terms ranging from 25 years to six months.
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Iran's elite force expanding influence in Venezuela, claims Pentagon
The Pentagon has claimed that an elite unit from Iran's
Revolutionary Guards is building up a presence in Latin America,
especially Venezuela.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in Zimbabwe to meet new friend Robert
Mugabe
China sells petrol to Iran while talking at UN about sanctions
Europe
Aid plan for Greece worth $145 billion
Scientology Literature Banned By Russian Government For 'Extremist'
Content
New Documents Show Vatican Knew Of Abuse Earlier Than Previously
Thought
Video of smoke bomb egg fight in Ukraine parliament
Asia
China: Diplomat Beaten, Injured by Houston Cops
China Wants Web Companies to Spy on Clients China wants telecom,
web companies to inform on clients who leak state secrets.
90,000 Protest U.S. Base on Okinawa More than 90,000 Okinawans
rallied to oppose the relocation of an American air base on their
island.
Africa
Pirates seize 77 crew Somali pirates hijacked three Thai fishing
vessels with 77 crew members over the weekend in one of their most
daring raids so far, a maritime official said on Tuesday
Somali Pirate Attacks Persist Despite Global Navy Effort |
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Dow Chemical, the US firm which now owns the leaking
pesticides
factory responsible for thousands of deaths in Bhopal, India, is
sponsoring Life Earth events in 150 cities today. The event aims to
raise money for clean water programmes. Research by environmental
organisations has found dangerous levels of highly toxic chemicals
in rivers, lakes and other water supplies close to several other
factories owned by Dow and its subsidiaries in countries including
the United States, Brazil and South Africa.
Maryland Foster Agency Won’t Allow Muslim Mother To Foster A Child
Nooses and N-Words in East Texas "I've
been called colored boy, coon, monkey," said Dontrail Mathis, 33, a
painter's helper at the plant in Paris who began highlighting racist
conditions in December 2006. "When Obama won, they went off. My
superiors said 'If he ain't white, it ain't right.'
FBI Investigating Possible Bribery Of Mine Safety Officials By Owner
Of W. Va. Disaster Mine
Media flipped key findings of (Pot) legalization poll-Actually Shows
Majority Support For Reforms
Google Releases Information On
Government Requests Google Inc. has set up
a new tool
to show where it's facing the most government pressure to censor
material and turn over personal information about its users.
Why Drug Addicts Are Getting Sterilized for Cash A North
Carolina charity is taking a controversial approach to preventing
addicts from having too many children -- paying them to tie their
tubes or get vasectomies
NY court gives government victory against ACORN A federal
appeals court in New York has temporarily blocked a judge's ruling
that found it was unconstitutional for Congress to halt federal
funding of activist group
FEMA Flood Insurance Program Primarily Benefits The Wealthy
National Guard recruiters 'forged
re-enlistment papers'
In one case, a soldier found himself fighting against
deployment to Iraq after re-enlistment papers with his signature on
it appeared -- even though he never signed any such papers,
reports Chris Ingalls at KING channel 5 news in Seattle.
Ivins colleague: Anthrax numbers
add up to unsolved case
"Impossible," said Dr. Henry S. Heine of a scenario in
which Ivins, another civilian microbiologist working for the Army,
allegedly prepared the anthrax spores at an Army lab at Fort Detrick.
Heine told the 16-member panel that Ivins would have had to grow as
many as 10 trillion spores, an astronomical amount that couldn't
have gone unnoticed by his colleagues
Military Suicides Up Among Soldiers in Repeat Army Tours
Report: 18 vets kill themselves
every day
Politics
Corporate
Front Group Funded By Coal Industry Scorns Widow Of Mine Disaster:
‘Everyone Wants Free Money’
Bill Maher Challenges Tea Baggers To Take On Defense Spending...'If
You're Unwilling To Cut Defense... You Don't Really Care About The
Debt'
Mysterious X-37B unmanned space shuttle launched by U.S. ... and
they won't say what it's for Read
U.S. tells insurer (Wellpoint): Quit dropping cancer patients
Wellpoint had used software to target those with new breast cancer
cases BOSTON - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has called on health insurer WellPoint
to stop dropping coverage for patients recently diagnosed with
breast cancer, calling the practice "deplorable."
Insurance Company Targets Breast Cancer Patients, Looks For Excuses
To Drop Coverage..WellPoint
Lobbyists Axed Key Protections for Breast Cancer Patients From
Health Care Bill
Health insurers
cooking books to game reforms
Gingrich stuns: Tea Party will
become 'militant wing' of GOP
Blackwater executive blames feds (Says CIA Approved Weapons) The
U.S. government approved both the storage of automatic weapons at
Blackwater's North Carolina compound and a gift of firearms to the
king of Jordan, a lawyer for the former head of the security firm
said in federal court Wednesday.
Red-State Moochers: Federal Taxes Favor Those Who Complain the Most
About Federal Taxes
Ron Paul supporter getting a taste of Tea Party freedom!
Bush-Era Head Of Whistleblower Protection Charged With Criminal
Contempt Former U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch withheld
information from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
during the Bush administration, according to a two-page filing in
federal court by the U.S. attorney's office here.
Simon Johnson: Wall Street's Stranglehold on Our Democracy Must Be
Broken The progressive economist talks about the fight to reform
Wall Street, what Robert Rubin should do with his money, and why
Jamie Dimon is the most dangerous man in America.
Report: Countrywide Facing Criminal Probe charges May Emerge in
Investigation of Mortgage Giant's Role in Economic Meltdown (AP) A
newspaper is reporting that federal authorities are picking up the
pace in a criminal investigation
Jailed
Whistleblower: US Lawmakers Held Offshore UBS Accounts Democracy
Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez discusses his interview with UBS
whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld one day after Birkenfield’s Tax Day
clemency request to President Obama. Birkenfeld is serving a
forty-month sentence despite playing a key role in exposing the
biggest tax evasion scheme in US history.
How Moody's sold its ratings - and sold out investors...Agency
Not Cooperating With Crisis Investigators...Moody's
Slapped With Subpoena
REPUBLICANS
FIGHT TO KEEP WALL STREET TALKS SECRET
After Saying That Big Banks Should Be Made ‘Smaller,’
Cornyn Votes Against Breaking Them Up
Bush's Top Lawyer Was 'Livid' Over Destruction Of CIA Waterboarding
Video....Goss
backed CIA tape destruction
After key torture tapes destroyed, Goss said he'd 'take the heat'
for crime.....The
CIA 's 'second tape system'
Claim: CIA may not have destroyed all its recordings of
interrogations.
CIA sources say the interrogation tapes' images were "horrific"
Obama Administration Officials Drafting Secret Indefinite Detention
Policy
U.S. Subpoenas Times Reporter (Risen) Over Book on C.I.A. (Holder
Authorizes) The subpoena comes two weeks after the
indictment of a former
National Security Agency official on charges apparently arising
from an investigation into a series of Baltimore Sun articles that
exposed technical failings and cost overruns of several agency
programs that cost billions of dollars.
Barney Frank: GOP deregulation, not
porn, was SEC's problem
Goldman Sachs News
DETAILS:
Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud...
The Alleged
Scheme Explained
Documents Show Goldman Cheering Subprime Chaos New documents
from a Senate investigation show top Goldman Sachs executives
cheering the gains they were reaping as subprime-mortgage securities
collapsed in value in 2007.
GOLDMAN DEFIES
BELIEF:
Bank Giving
Staff Over $5 Billion In Pay, Bonuses In Wake Of Fraud Charges
SENATORS CALL
OUT GOLDMAN OVER 'SH*TTY DEAL'......GOLDMAN
EXECS: WE WERE COMPELLED TO 'GO SHORT'.....Docs
show Goldman willing to bet against own clients....Senate
probe: Goldman misled clients and nation — and made billions
The firm not charged in Goldman case made billions on collapse
New York hedge fund manager John Paulson was one of the first to
predict the collapse of the subprime mortgage market — and to cash
in on his knowledge.
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Gold Sachs Probe Turns to *Buffett Deal* -- Whoa! We called it here
on DU in 2008 A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director tipped off a
hedge-fund billionaire about a $5 billion investment in Goldman by
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. before a public
announcement of the deal at the height of the 2008 financial crisis,
a person close to the situation says
Goldman Sachs Director Gupta Said to Be Suspected of Leaking Buffett
Deal Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta is suspected
by U.S. investigators of tipping off a hedge fund billionaire to a
$5 billion investment in the bank by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire
Hathaway Inc., a person with direct knowledge of the inquiry said.
Warren Buffett Defends Goldman Sachs: 'We Have Had A Lot Of Very
Satisfactory Transactions'
Republicans
Vote As Bloc To Filibuster Wall Street Bill...
Single
Democrat Joins GOP, Flipped Because Warren Buffett Didn't Get
Special Deal...
Obama Releases
Surprisingly Harsh Statement...
Dems Force
More Votes To Try And Break GOP Opposition
Democrats were
surprised on Monday evening when Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) did an
abrupt about-face and became the only Democrat to help filibuster
legislation to revamp Wall Street regulations. The removal of a
provision that would have dramatically benefited financial tycoon
and Nebraska native Warren Buffett, it was said, played a role in
the Senator's flip.
Ben Nelson, Wife Own as Much as $6 Million in Berkshire Stock
Senator Ben Nelson, who supported an exemption to proposed
derivatives rules sought by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
Inc., owned as much as $6 million worth of stock with his wife in
the Omaha, Nebraska-based company, financial disclosures show. |
Arizona's goes
stupid
Arizona's bigoted law BACKFIRING UPDATE: Massive Latino movement
into Arizona!
Rachel Maddow: White Supremacist-Connected Wrote AZ 'Papers Please'
Law
Mexican president calls Arizona law 'discrimination'
4409 -- Arrested over Arizona's Real I.D. Paper's Please SB1070 bill
Arizona Sheriff Calls Immigration Law 'Stupid,' Will Not Enforce It
Arizona Ethnic Studies Classes Banned, Teachers With Accents Can No
Longer Teach English
MALDEF, ACLU And NILC Announce Future Legal Challenge To Arizona
Racial Profiling Law
Donald Trump Defends Law ..
Shakira Investigates ..
Denver Schools Ban Trips To Arizona
Email From Author Of Arizona Law Reveals Intent To Cast Wide Net
Against Latinos
McCain, Kyl mount stiff defense of Ariz. law.....McCain,
Kyl want troops on U.S.-Mexico border
Napolitano: Ariz. law could stretch fed resources Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says Arizona's new immigration
law could siphon federal money and staff needed to go after
dangerous immigrants.
US supported economics spurred Mexican emigration
Dan La Botz: Decades of
neo-liberal reforms waged an attack on workers standard of living
Times Square Bomber
UPDATE: SUV IN TIMES SQUARE HAD
EXPLOSIVES
A New York Fire Department officer
told Reuters the vehicle was found to contain explosives, gasoline,
propane and burned wires and was being treated as a "failed device."The
SUV contained three barbecue-grill-sized propane tanks, fireworks,
two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers and two clocks with
batteries, electrical wire and other components, police said. Timers
were connected to a 16-ounce can filled with the fireworks, which
were apparently intended to set the gas cans and propane afire,
Kelly said.
The Taliban in
Pakistan claimed responsibility in a video posted on
YouTube, but Kelly and federal investigators said Sunday that no
evidence had surfaced linking the group to the bomb. On Sunday
night, a
second video was posted by apparent representatives of the
Taliban, showing the group's commander, Hakimullah Mehsud, promising
to launch attacks in the United States.
Investigators hunt for clues in Times Square bomb scare
According to the SITE Intelligence Group,
a private firm that tracks extremist websites, a YouTube video
allegedly released by the Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility
for the attempted bombing. The clip included English subtitles and
audio purportedly voiced by Qari Hussain Mehsud, whom officials
describe as the organizer of the group's suicide-bomb squad.
AP Source: Man Tied to Pakistan Sought in NYC Bomb Authorities
have identified the buyer of the SUV used in a failed Times Square
terror attack and are seeking him as a potential suspect, two law
enforcement officials said Monday.
S.U.V. Holding Bomb Material Had Been Sold in Cash Deal The
Nissan Pathfinder rigged to blow up in Times Square on Saturday
night was recently sold by its registered owner for cash, with no
paperwork involved, a person briefed on the investigation said.
NYC car bomb had Conn. license plate as possible link to Stratford
junk yard probed; no Taliban link seen
OIl RIG
GO LEAKY...fishy go dead
11 Missing As Oil Rig Sinks In Gulf Of Mexico: Stage Set For Big
Spill
LAST MONTH: Obama Moved To Allow Drilling From Delaware To Florida
'Drill, Baby, Drill' Champions Silent On Gulf Oil Spill... UPDATE:
Palin Comments
RIVER OF OIL
NEARS SENSITIVE WETLANDS
PHOTOS: BIRD
COATED IN OIL.. 5,000 DOLPHINS IN AREA, 'MANY GIVING BIRTH RIGHT
NOW'..
SPILL COULD
ECLIPSE EXXON VALDEZ.. 'PUNGENT FUEL SMELL'
Oil Starts To Wash Ashore In Louisiana
From bad to
worse: BP using toxic chems to 'disperse' oil
Oil Well Hit By Fatal Explosion Produces Slick The Size Of Hong Kong
Crist says oil spill proves drilling isn't safe, withdraws his
support After a 90-minute plane flight Tuesday above the spill,
which was spreading in an 80-mile by 42-mile blob, Crist said,
"Clearly it could be devastating to Florida if something like that
were to occur. It's the last thing in the world I would want to see
happen in our beautiful state.''
Coast Guard: NEW oil leak in Gulf of Mexico
Coast Guard Tries Burning Oil as It Nears Land
Now Leaking
42,000 Gallons Per Day
Decade-old report cited failure of oil rig safety
system
BP CEO: ‘It
wasn’t our accident’ but we’ll clean spill; Liability waivers were
'misstep'; Firm told to stop distributing settlement agreements
Bill Would
Raise BP's Liability Cap To $10 Billion..
PHOTOS:
Animals In Peril..
Oil Spill BIG
NEWS
OIL SET TO HIT
'LOOP CURRENT'... WOULD SEND SPILL TO FLORIDA KEYS
GULF STREAM
MAY SEND OIL SPILL UP EAST COAST
Oil Headed
Around Florida... Oceanographer: 'It's More Of A Question Of When'
Relief Well Was Used to Halt Australian Spill to plug the
spill in the gulf, BP may try to use a relief well, but a
similar spill last year near Australia showed how difficult it
can be to execute the maneuver.
Economy
Econ. collapse was really 'a
con'
With
regulators accusing global institutions of fraud, patterns emerge.
Stunning: Greenspan Wanted Housing-Bubble Dissent Kept Secret
As top Federal Reserve officials debated whether there was a
housing bubble and what to do about it, then-Chairman Alan Greenspan
argued that the dissent should be kept secret so that the Fed
wouldn't lose control of the debate to people less well-informed
than themselves. "We run the risk, by laying out the pros and cons
of a particular argument, of inducing people to join in on the
debate, and in this regard it is possible to lose control of a
process that only we fully understand," Greenspan said, according to
the transcripts of a March 2004 meeting.
UNSTOPPABLE OLIGARCHY- 6 Banks Control 60% Of Gross National
Product: By Bill Moyers Simon Johnson: Oligarchy is just- it's a
very simple, straightforward idea from Aristotle. It's political
power based on economic power. And it's the rise of the banks in
economic terms, which we document at length, that it'd turn into
political power. And they then feed that back into more
deregulation, more opportunities to go out and take reckless risks
and-- and capture huge amounts of money.
Krugman: Looters in Loafers Last October, I saw a cartoon by
Mike Peters in which a teacher asks a student to create a sentence
that uses the verb “sacks,” as in looting and pillaging. The student
replies, “Goldman Sachs.”
6 Myths About Poverty in America, Debunked
U.S.
Regulators Approve Creation Of New Market: Box Office Futures...movie
prices will go up
George Soros: America Must Face Up To The Dangers Of Derivatives...Clinton:
Rubin And Summers Gave Wrong Advice On Derivatives, I Was Wrong To
Take It
Oil has been a slumbering giant for nearly a year, but experts say
the world's most important commodity is set to resume its climb back
to $100 by this summer at the latest.
More than Half of U.S. Households Affected by Joblessness
World Bank Gives China Greater Voting Power, lifting Beijing to #3
spot in 186-nation lending
Science
Really? UK Woman Gains 'Chinese Accent' After Extreme Migraine |
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Powerful SEIU chief to step down Andrew Stern, the influential
and controversial union official, is preparing to resign his
position.
Dozens Walk Past Dying Hero On New York Sidewalk
Rallies Fall On 15th Anniversary Of
Oklahoma City Domestic Terror Attack ..
Relatives Of Shooting Victims Respond
..
Is The NRA Encouraging
Anti-Government Extremism?
....Activists Carrying Guns And Rifles
Descend On Washington... See Photos, Video
Dorothy Height, Largely Unsung Giant of the Civil Rights Era, Dies
at 98 One of the last living links to the social activism of the
New Deal era, Ms. Height had a career in civil rights that spanned
nearly 80 years, from anti-lynching protests in the early 1930s to
the
inauguration of
President Obama in 2009. That the American social landscape
looks as it does today owes in no small part to her work.
Oil Drilling Accidents Prompting New Safety Rules
Federal regulators did not need this week’s
explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore
drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and
hundreds of injuries over the last several years had already
convinced them that changes were needed.
Utah To Execute Man With Firing Squad
Soldiers Call Army Trauma Units 'Worse Than Iraq'
Insurers aim to recoup claims linked to Toyota
Security Issues
Explosive Device Found On Pittsburgh Marathon Race Course
U.S. Adds Passenger To No-Fly DURING Flight
Courts
Court Overturns Election Procedures That Dilute American Indian Vote
In Wyoming
Wisconsin Victim Of Abuse Sues Pope
Rod Blagojevich Claims Obama Took Money From Tony Rezko, Pushed
Valerie Jarrett For Senate....
Blagojevich Subpoenas Obama As Witness In Corruption Trial....Blagojevich Judge Calls Emergency Meeting
Feds
indict ex-Blackwater president
Federal prosecutors indicted Gary Jackson, who was
president of Blackwater until last year, on Friday in a case that
stemmed from a raid on Blackwater's North Carolina headquarters in
2008, which turned up 22 automatic weapons, including 17
Russian-made AK-47s.
Judge:
'Anonymous jury' for US student's trial
A judge ruled Monday that an anonymous jury will hear the
trial of an American student accused of lending support to al-Qaida
in Afghanistan.
Aide to ex-North Carolina Gov. Easley pleads guilty to tax evasion
Lesbian Teen Barred From Prom Sues School, Claims 'Public
Humiliation'
Education
University Newsroom Raided By Police Following a
widespread campus
riot last weekend, James Madison University's newspaper, The
Breeze, became the subject of intense police scrutiny. Why? The newspaper is the only news outlet that has photographic
evidence of the melee. Police pressured the twice-weekly paper for copies of the
photographs for several days, saying they needed pictures to
identify those responsible for the riot; the Breeze refused. The
paper's editor
Drug War
Mexican drug
gangs
increasingly
target US public
land
Not
far from
Yosemite's
waterfalls and
in the middle of
California's
redwood forests,
Mexican drug
gangs are
quietly
commandeering
U.S. public land
to grow millions
of marijuana
plants and using
smuggled
immigrants to
cultivate them.
Fleeing Drug
Violence,
Mexicans Pour
Into U.S.
Former residents
say drug gangs
have laid waste
to El Porvenir,
Mexico, and
those who can
are fleeing to
the U.S
Mexican Drug
Boss Sentenced
in Ore.
The man
authorities say
was the kingpin
of one of the
biggest drug
organizations in
Oregon history
was sentenced
Monday to 30
years in prison.
Prosecutors say
Jorge Ortiz-Oliva,
40, oversaw
three large
"super" labs in
the Salem area
that produced at
least 230 pounds
of
methamphetamine
and ran
marijuana
plantations on
secluded public
land and
national forests
in several
states. More
than 40,000
plants were
seized from one
site in southern
Oregon
DEA nabs 4
Mexican drug
cartel leaders
Justice's
anti-gang units
not meshing
With a rising
tide of gang
violence
nationwide, the
Justice
Department set
up two special
units in the
same building
and charged them
with helping
coordinate
investigations
into some of the
country's
deadliest
street-crime
syndicates. But
three years
later, far from
helping wipe out
the scourge of
the nation's
violent gangs,
the two groups
are hardly even
communicating
with each other.
And that isn't
the only
problem.
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Media
Should Middle Schoolers Be Banned from Facebook?
Tea Partiers Get Their News From Fox And Are More Likely To Justify
Violence Against The Government
Rush Lies Again: ‘There Were Union Workers’ At Non-Union Mine
Explosion Last Friday, Rush Limbaugh demanded to know
why a coal miner union didn’t protect the 29 miners who were
killed in one of Massey CEO Don Blankenship’s mines. After
ThinkProgress reported that
there was no union at the mine, Limbaugh claimed yesterday that
it was a “fact” that “there
were union workers there.” Limbaugh cited a news article that
the “National Labor Relations Board has affirmed a decision that
Massey Energy
must rehire 85 coal miners who alleged they were illegally
discriminated against because of their union affiliation.”
News Corp Aims To Go Carbon Neutral While Fox News Promotes Climate
Change As A Hoax
Tory links to Murdoch under scrutiny after Ofcom ruling
Accusations - hotly denied by the Tories - have been made that
Conservative media policy is in effect being written by Rupert
Murdoch and his son James - the chairman of BSkyB, chief executive
of the Sun's owners News International, and not a fan of Ofcom.
Public Editor: NYT 'Misusing Anonymous Sources'
‘South Park’ Producers Say Network Cut Fear Speech
Producers of “South Park” said Thursday
that Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear
from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could
be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
Geico Voice Actor Fired After Insulting Tea Partiers
Founder: 'I'm Ashamed Of' BET
Police/Prison
ACLU And Human
Rights Watch
Report Calls On
South Carolina
And Alabama To
Stop Segregating
Prisoners With
HIV
Feds charge 50
in immigrant
smuggling ring
White
Supremacist
Rally Ends with
Five Arrests Two
Assaults(LA CA)
A white
supremacist
rally on the
lawn of Los
Angeles City
Hall ended with
a handful of
arrests Saturday
afternoon as
counter-protesters
showered police
and white
supremacists
with rocks
Man
impersonating
police
officer charged
as US President
Barack ... NORTH
Carolina
police have
charged a man
who allegedly
impersonated a
police
officer at
Asheville
airport as US
President Barack
Obama departed
on Air Force
...
White
supremacist
'stabbed and
beaten to death
by his black
neighbour' in
Mississippi town
Civil Rights
Police seize
gear from
Gizmodo iPhone
blogger
Authorities
seized
computers,
digital cameras,
a cell phone and
other items from
a technology
blog editor who
posted pictures
and details of a
lost iPhone
prototype
President Obama
orders hospital
visit rights for
gays, lesbians
Sonoma County CA
separates
elderly gay
couple and sells
their home Without
authority,
without
determining the
value of Clay
and Harold's
possessions
accumulated over
the course of
their 20 years
together or
making any
effort to
determine which
items belonged
to whom, the
county took
everything
Harold and Clay
owned and
auctioned off
all of their
belongings.
Lower Merion
report: Web cams
snapped 56,000
images Lower
Merion School
District
employees
activated the
web cameras and
tracking
software on
laptops they
gave to high
school students
about 80 times
in the pas
Contemporary
Family Services,
a Maryland-based
private foster
agency that is
“authorized by
the state to
place foster
children with
families,”
has rejected the
application of
Tashima Crudup,
a former foster
child herself,
to foster a
child.
Virginia DMV
Pulls License
Plate Coded With
Neo-Nazi Message
From Truck With
Anti-Islam
Imagery
The number
88 stands for
the eighth
letter of the
alphabet, H,
doubled to
signify “Heil
Hitler,” said
CAIR’s Ibrahim
Hooper. “CV”
stands for
“Confederate
veteran” —
the
plate was a
special model
embossed with a
Confederate
flag, which
Virginia makes
available for a
$10 fee to
card-carrying
members of the
Sons of
Confederate
Veterans.
And 14 is code
for imprisoned
white
supremacist
David Lane’s
14-word motto:
“We must secure
the existence of
our people and a
future for white
children.”
Mississippi
learning:
Lesbians barred
from proms,
yearbook pics
Environment
Lingering
Legacies for
Earth Day 2010:
U.S. Food Still
Tainted With Old
Chemicals Thirty-eight
years after DDT
was banned,
Americans still
consume trace
amounts of the
infamous
insecticide
every day, along
with more than
20 other banned
chemicals.
Gov’t OKs 1st US
Offshore Wind
Farm, off Mass.
A whole new way
of generating
electricity in
the U.S. drew a
big step closer
to reality
Wednesday, and
it could look
like this: 130
windmills, 440
feet tall,
rising from the
ocean a few
miles off Cape
Cod.
Mass. declares
state of
emergency after
aqueduct break;
'boil-water'
order issued for
1 million
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Laura
Bush blames 'small' stop sign for 'ex-boyfriend's' death
Voters scammed with 'pot petition' into registering for GOP
Treasury/Federal
Reserve/Bailouts/SEC/IRS
Hewlett-Packard Faces SEC Inquiry on Overseas Payments After Moscow
Raid U.S. regulators are examining whether Hewlett-Packard Co.
employees made improper payments to foreign officials to win
business, widening probes underway in Europe.
SEC knew of Stanford scheme since 1997, inspector general says
Goldman Sachs sued; 'Fraud cost $1 billion'
Simon Johnson:
The Man At The Heart Of The Goldman Fraud Scandal
SEC Said to Vote 3-2 Along Party Lines to Sue Goldman Over CDO
Disclosures The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission split
3-2 along party lines to approve an enforcement case against Goldman
Sachs Group Inc., according to two people with knowledge of the
vote.
Former Lehman CEO To Claim 'No Recollection' Of Accounting Fraud In
Congressional Testimony Last month, an examiner appointed by the bankruptcy court to
investigate the Lehman debacle issued a 2,200-page report. It found
that the firm masked $50 billion in debt by using the so-called Repo
105 accounting maneuver
GM CEO believes taxpayers could be made whole General Motors Co believes
taxpayers could recoup their entire $50 billion investment in the
company although the Obama administration still expects the
government to take a loss, albeit a smaller one than first thought,
on the industry's 2009 bailout.
Exclusive: Abacus might have had other benefits for Goldman Goldman Sachs Group may have used a subprime
mortgage-linked security that is the focus of a U.S. civil fraud
lawsuit against the bank to unload other complex bonds it created,
according to a deal document obtained by Reuters.
FDIC Shuts Down 7 Banks in Illinois
Regulators on Friday shut down seven banks
in Illinois, putting the number of U.S. bank failures this year at
57.
INTERNAL GOLDMAN EMAILS RELEASED
TOP EXEC: WE HAVE 'THE BIG SHORT' ON SUBPRIME CRISIS
Goldman Sachs CEO, Board Hit With Shareholder Lawsuit
GM 'Paid Back' Bailout Funds With Other Taxpayer Dollars
Buffett Says Derivatives Law May Spare Berkshire on Collateral
Requirement Warren Buffett, who has warned about the dangers of
unregulated derivatives, said a Senate plan to add oversight of the
contracts probably won’t require his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to put
up collateral.
Lobbying
Republican Senators Opposed To
Reform Have Taken Millions In Wall
Street Cash
Corporate Front Group Runs Racial Ad
Portraying Indians Thanking Bill
Halter For Offshoring Jobs
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Credit where credit is due: TeaBaggers tell Neo-Nazi to leave
Mullets, Pandering and Paranoia in Florida (Tea Party Rally)
60
percent of SarahPAC donations went to pay consultants
RNC Auditor Has Own History Of Campaign Finance Controversy
What if Tea Party was BLACK?
RNC Spent $340,000 On Hawaii Meeting
Michael Steele: African-Americans 'Don't Have A Reason' To Vote
Republic
Health Insurance
New York Offers Costly Lessons on Insurance State rules expanding coverage to the already
sick — also a core provision of the new federal health law —
have led to skyrocketing rates.
Romney Says He Wouldn’t Repeal The Individual Mandate That He
Believes Is ‘Unconstitutional’ (Updated) On April 8th, Mitt Romney told a New Hampshire newspaper
that
the individual mandate was “unconstitutional” and reiterated his
pledge to repeal ObamaCare. “I think it’s unconstitutional on the
10th Amendment front,” he said.
Report: Health Overhaul Will Increase Nation’s Tab
President Barack Obama’s health care
overhaul law will increase the nation’s health care tab instead of
bringing costs down, government economic forecasters concluded
Thursday in a sobering assessment of the sweeping legislation.
Defense Spending
U.S. Faces Choice on New Weapons for Fast Strikes The new weapons system is designed
to hurl a conventional warhead of enormous weight at high speed and
with pinpoint accuracy, without crossing the nuclear threshold.
Former Bush official runs secretive
'Cockroaches' group
The Cockroaches are a venerable Washington, D.C.,
institution that has apparently never been written about, a kind of
not-so-secret society for several hundred current and former defense
intelligence officials, private-sector contracting firms, lobbyists,
Congressional staffers and Members of Congress. The group meets
every other month or so for off-the-record dinners to discuss new
developments in defense and intelligence, and to swap war stories,
literally and figuratively.
Budget and Taxes
Federal Deficit Lower Than White
House Projection
McCain: Lowest Tax Rates in Decades
Are Crippling the Country He
must not have seen the
this new study from the Tax
Policy Center, a joint project of
the nonpartisan Urban Institute and
Brookings Institution. Crunching
numbers from the Congressional
Budget Office, another nonpartisan
group, analysts there found that the
median middle-class family of four
will owe just 4.6 percent in federal
income tax today — about half of
what they owed in Ronald Reagan’s
lowest tax year.
Millions face tax increases under
Dems budget plan President
Barack Obama's Democratic allies in
the Senate promise to cut the
deficit by almost two-thirds over
the next five years, but their
budget plan could threaten about 30
million people with tax increases
averaging $3,700 in 2012 and after
because of the alternative minimum
tax.
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Tobacco giant Philip Morris targets Indian tobacco industry
Stocks, Commodities Drop as Goldman Sachs Sued, China Curbs Property
Loans Asian stocks fell the most in two months, while
commodities and currencies slumped, after the Securities and
Exchange Commission sued Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for fraud and
China curbed property loans.
Fox Business Sues Federal Reserve
IMF Calls For Taxes On Banks
Challenging China in Rare Earth Mining Demand is surging for rare earth minerals as
customers, particularly the U.S. military, seek alternatives to
China, which now mines 97 percent of such minerals. Above, a rare
earth mine in Mountain Pass, Calif.
Hugo Boss to Keep Ohio Plant Open (succumbing to an aggressive
union-led campaign & Danny Glover)
Whirlpool Will Close US Plant in June; Send Jobs to Mexico
Abacus
Transactions Allowed Goldman Sachs to
Shuffle Debt Risk Like Beads From July
2004 through April 2007, as credit markets
boomed, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. created 23
financial transactions called Abacus, the
word for a relatively crude counting tool
involving the shuffling of beads.
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Lehman Channeled Risks Through 'Alter Ego'
Firm -
In the years before its collapse, Lehman
used a small company — its “alter ego,” in
the words of a former Lehman trader — to
shift investments off its books. The firm, called Hudson Castle,
played a crucial, behind-the-scenes role at
Lehman, according to an internal Lehman
document and interviews with former
employees. The relationship raises new
questions about the extent to which Lehman
obscured its financial condition before it
plunged into bankruptcy.
Crocodile Tears on Wall Street But the week's award for sheer gall goes
to a Chicago area hedge fund called Magnetar,
named after a kind of neutron star that
spews deadly radiation across the galaxies.
Thanks to the teamwork of the investigative
reporting website ProPublica, as well as
public radio's Planet Money project and
"This American Life," we learned that
Magnetar worked with Citigroup, JPMorgan
Chase, Merrill Lynch and other investment
banks to create toxic CDO's --
collateralized debt obligations --
securities backed by subprime mortgages that
management knew were bad. Then Magnetar took
that knowledge and bet against the very same
investments they had recommended to buyers,
selling short and making a fortune.The
owners covered their bets with ample
campaign contributions to Rahm Emanuel. Yep,
the same -- President Obama's White House
chief of staff. At the time he was an
Illinois congressman and chair of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,
which collected millions of dollars from the
financial services industry.
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