Saturday, 28 January 2012 10:37 'The operational forces used the Dodgers Stadium as a staging point (mock FEMA Camp) to base the training session out of. Stadiums have and will be used as FEMA camps during martial law type situations during future civil unrest and or economic collapse. Hurricane Katrina was a prime example of how law enforcement and military work together during times of martial law to set up FEMA camps in sports stadiums as well as take part in large scale, illegal gun confiscation.' Read more: Militarized Drills Continue: Stadiums Prepped to Be Used as Martial Law Staging Centers Saturday, 28 January 2012 08:38 'Despite its oil riches, Nigeria remains one of Africa’s poorest countries. The known oilfields are concentrated around the vast Niger Delta roughly between Port Harcourt and extending in the direction of the capital Lagos, with large new finds being developed all along the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea. Nigeria’s oil is exploited and largely exported by the Anglo-American giants—Shell, Mobil, Chevron, Texaco. Italy’s Agip also has a presence and most recently, to no one’s surprise, the Chinese state oil companies began seeking major exploration and oil infrastructure agreements with the Lagos government ... ... What has been buried from international accounts of the unrest is the explicit role the US-dominated International Monetary Fund (IMF) played in the situation. With suspicious timing IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde was in Nigeria days before the abrupt subsidy decision of President Jonathan.5 By all accounts, the IMF and the Nigerian government have been careful this time not to be blatant about openly announcing demands to ends subsidies as they were in Tunisia before food protests became the trigger for that country’s Twitter putsch in 2011.' Read more: Nigeria: Thrown into Chaos and a State of Civil War: The Role of the IMF Saturday, 28 January 2012 07:59 'About 100,000 JUI supporters held a demonstration organized by Jamiat Ulema-e Islam in front of the mausoleum of the founding father of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, on Friday. Saturday, 28 January 2012 07:54 'Protesters say the controversial measures pending parliamentary approval are in violation of workers' rights.
JUI leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman said the United States will face an “imminent defeat” in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas have been hit by several airstrikes carried out by US assassination drones since the beginning of 2012.'
The country's train and bus services also came to a halt during a nationwide strike.
"We're sick of these continual government programs that always hit the weakest, the pensioners and workers and not those in the political elite or those with real economic power in Italy," said union member Mauro Rustici in Rome.'
Saturday, 28 January 2012 07:43
'Deputy head of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Hossein Ebrahimi said on Friday that Iranian lawmakers would debate a “double-urgency” bill on Sunday which calls for the ban of oil exports to Europe as early as next week.
The move comes after EU foreign ministers reached an agreement in Brussels on Monday to impose sanctions on oil imports from Iran as of July 1. The sanctions involve an immediate ban on all new oil contracts with the Islamic Republic and freezing the assets of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) within the EU.
The Majlis motion would deny Europe the six-month phase-in period that the bloc has considered to adjust and find alternative sources to Iran's crude.'
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