Saturday, 28 August 2010 08:42 'Two vessels carrying 46 international human rights activists have reached the Gaza Strip, despite Israel's strict 14-month siege of the Palestinian territory. The end of the mission to symbolically break the siege came after Israel backed down from an earlier warning to the 'Free Gaza' protest group not to breach the blockade. Al Jazeera's Ashraf Amritti in Gaza said: "The arrival of these two boats is a very symbolic gesture for the Palestinian cause, to end the siege, end the occupation.' Read more: Aid Boats Reach Gaza Despite Blockade Saturday, 28 August 2010 08:23 'With BP's well capped and CEO Tony Hayward exiled to Russia, perhaps you thought that surely there will be no additional revelations about BP to enrage you. But now comes this: prison labor. In its national PR blitz to buff up its image, the oil giant has loudly been boasting that it has hired devastated, out-of-work local people to handle the clean-up. Many have been hired, but the people themselves say not nearly enough. The Nation magazine now reports a big reason for the shortfall — BP has been using inmates to do much of the shoveling and scooping to remove oil from Louisiana beaches. In the early days of the cleanup, crews suddenly appeared wearing scarlet pants and white t-shirts with bold red letters spelling out, "Inmate Labor." Investigative reporter Abe Louise Young writes that the sight of prison laborers outraged the local community, so they were removed.' Saturday, 28 August 2010 08:21 Saturday, 28 August 2010 08:17 'Everyone on earth knows how fragile the economy is. It has pushed first-world countries to the brink of revolution. The pushing can't withstand much more before the pillars of civilization begin to fall. And once they begin falling, there may be no stopping them from collapsing society altogether. Unfortunately, the signs of further economic erosion are disturbingly obvious to the onlookers, and the remaining pillars are hanging on by a thread. What's more, the controllers are orchestrating the collapse of the American economy and society right now, albeit in slow motion, but it is already crumbling. The economy and the environment have surpassed their critical tipping points, where dollars will inevitably be worthless and resources will be out-of-reach expensive for most of humanity. We are likely to see astronomically-high gas prices ultimately causing food and medicine to be quickly wiped out of the box stores -- first by nesters, then by desperate looters. One only has to witness the panic buying before predicted snow storms to imagine what a sustained blizzard would do. It's well past the 11th hour and survival and real solutions must rule the day.' Read more: Collapse Survival Will be Tribal: Begin Recruiting Now Saturday, 28 August 2010 08:08 Would President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on "rainwater runoff" from homes and small businesses? You bet they would. In fact, the EPA, under radical environmentalist Lisa Jackson, is proposing regulations to do just that. Saturday, 28 August 2010 08:03 'Thomas Bodström, chair of the Parliamentary Justice Committee and former justice minister, has come out in favour of voluntary drug testing, but when Sveriges Radio asked him to submit to a test, he refused.' Saturday, 28 August 2010 07:57 'A hero soldier who lost a leg in Afghanistan has been denied a disabled parking badge three times by council bosses. Lance Corporal Johno Lee has clocked up £800 in fines for parking in disabled bays in his home town of Newark, Nottinghamshire, on days when he uses a wheelchair or feels unable to walk very far. When he first applied to Nottinghamshire County Council for a blue badge, he was advised he was young and 'may get better'. Saturday, 28 August 2010 07:48 Saturday, 28 August 2010 07:37 After 10 years of comparative slumber, the sun is waking up - and it's got astronomers on full alert. This week several US media outlets reported that NASA was warning the massive flare that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid. NASA has since rebutted those reports, saying it could come "100 years away or just 100 days", but an Australian astronomer says the space community is betting on the sooner scenario rather than the latter. Despite its rebuttal, NASA's been watching out for this storm since 2006 and reports from the US this week claim the storms could hit on that most Hollywood of disaster dates - 2012. Read more: Sun Storm to Hit Earth With the Force of 100 Million Bombs Saturday, 28 August 2010 07:32 'When police arrested Anthony Graber for speeding on his motorbike, the 25-year-old probably did not see himself as an advocate for police accountability in the age of new media. But Graber, a sergeant with the Maryland Air National Guard, is now facing 16 years in prison, not for dangerous driving, but for a Youtube video he posted after receiving a speeding ticket. The video, filmed with a camera mounted on Graber's motorcycle helmet designed to record biking stunts rather than police abuse, shows a plain clothes officer jumping out of an unmarked car and pointing a pistol at the motorcyclist. It does not portray the policeman in a positive light. After he posted the video on Youtube, police raided Graber's home, seized computers and put him in jail.' Saturday, 28 August 2010 07:28 'We already know, we and our gutless British cousins, that Bush and Blair and their cronies sent hundreds of thousands to war in 2003 based on, not only lies, but a plot to undermine the democratic freedoms of both governments and prestage the western world in their own image, totalitarian, interventionist and totally owned and operated by an international cabal of financial criminals. We got that “New World Order” that “Pappy” Bush promised us in his “points of light” speech. What we got was an end to America as we know it, a government taking orders from Tel Aviv and a “New World Order” economy now openly looting the world, eating away even America’s standard of living and flushing it down the toilet, turning it into a debt-ridden third world hell hole.' Saturday, 28 August 2010 07:23 Saturday, 28 August 2010 07:16 'Anyone who has looked at the events of 9-11 knows there are basically two competing histories. First, there is the official version, presented by President George W. Bush in a speech given shortly after the attacks and bolstered by the appointed 9-11 commission, that Muslim terrorists were responsible for the death and destruction. This version has since been adopted and supported by the Obama administration and virtually every member of Congress. The second version is fundamentally opposed to the official version in that it claims that the terror attacks were a sophisticated "false flag" operation carried out by Israelis with the assistance of highly-placed Zionist agents inside the U.S. government. This version posits that the Israeli plan was for the attacks to be blamed on Al Qaida in order to usher in the Zionist-designed "War on Terror" with its pre-planned invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. While the official version is the only one discussed in the mainstream media, various strands of the unofficial version are found primarily on the Internet. As any serious student of 9-11 knows, the mainstream media ignores a whole host of legitimate questions, facts, and evidence about the attacks that would be reported and examined by the media if it were free to do so.' Saturday, 28 August 2010 06:52 'US administration's housing reform plan is a fraud and it will cause more Americans to lose their homes, a former US treasury senior official says. “The tax credits, in a way, deceived many home buyers and caused them to purchase into a declining market. Now even many of the homes purchased by the tax credit are underwater; the entire program was a fraud,” former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts, told Press TV on Friday. The mechanism of the US administration's Making Home Affordable Program is to reward the lenders for modifying mortgages. Recent data, however, show that more than 616,000 trial modifications have been cancelled so far.' Saturday, 28 August 2010 06:48 'Mexico says it is planning to tighten the noose around big-ticket cash purchases to curtail the flow of smuggled dollars and fight money laundering. President Felipe Calderon put forward the sweeping new measures Thursday to crack down on billions of dollars of the illicit money gained by the drug cartels and spent by them for more profit. "This illicit money is vital for the criminal. That is what they seek, this money. It is also vital to finance their activities," said Calderon, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. If approved by the legislature, the legislation would not allow anyone to buy real estate in cash. Neither would it permit anyone to spend more than MXN 100,000 (USD 7,700) in cash on vehicles, boats, airplanes and luxury goods. Violators of the new legislation would face up to 15 years in prison.' Saturday, 28 August 2010 06:31 'A senior US official has downplayed the Lebanese military prowess, claiming that the Israeli regime is capable of destroying the army within hours. Frederick Hoff, a senior advisor to the United States Middle East envoy George Mitchell, told Lebanese Army chief of staff Jean Kahwaji that the Israeli army is ready to destroy the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) within four hours, if another border clash were to occur, The Jerusalem Post reported, citing the Lebanese newspaper Aliwaa on Friday.' Friday, 27 August 2010 08:54 'As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.' Read more: Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans Friday, 27 August 2010 08:48 'They say marijuana is dangerous. Pot is not harmful to the human body or mind. Marijuana does not pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana is very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries and a large number of chemical corporations. Big businesses, with plenty of dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the people. The truth is, if marijuana was utilized for its vast array of commercial products, it would create an industrial atomic bomb! The super rich have conspired to spread misinformation about the plant that, if used properly, would ruin their companies.' Read more: The Marijuana Conspiracy: The Reason Hemp Is Illegal Friday, 27 August 2010 07:11 Friday, 27 August 2010 06:58 'Five US soldiers are charged with deliberately targeting Afghan civilians amid growing discontent over the rising civilian causalities in the war-torn country. The troopers allegedly killed three Afghans in Kandahar Province this year and they were charged with murder in June. Since then US army prosecutors have also filed additional charges of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder -- a plot that allegedly began when one soldier discussed how easy it would be to "toss a grenade" at Afghan civilians, The Seattle Times reported on Thursday. One of the soldiers had reportedly formed what has been called a "kill team" to randomly execute Afghan civilians while on petrol.' Friday, 27 August 2010 06:50 'A press report says former French President Jacques Chirac and his conservative UMP party have agreed to pay a fine to escape prosecution on charges of fraud. The report, confirmed by the city of Paris, reveals a deal under which Chirac and France's ruling UMP party will pay the city 2.2 million euros to drop its fraud charges against the former president, Deutsche Welle reported. 550,000 euros of the fine is to be paid by Chirac while the remaining1.65 million euros would be paid by party of current President Nicolas Sarkozy.' Read more: Chirac Pays Paris to Drop Fraud Charges
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