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      JCD gave me the idea, when he mentioned "battery powered" too last episode :-)
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  Oil Cabal
    Short of Oil? Dry gas pumps make Russian drivers nervous. (bertb news feed)
      Short of Oil? Dry gas pumps make Russian drivers nervous.
      Russia is cutting petrol exports after fuel shortages hit the home market.
    Halliburton earnings surge. Schlumberger, Baker-Hughes expect big profits too. (Southern Bread News Feed)
      Halliburton earnings surge. Schlumberger, Baker-Hughes expect big profits too.
      Oil field services firm Halliburton Co. reported EPS of $0.61 for its first quarter, more than double its profit in the same period a year ago. Revenue reached $5.3 billion, compared with $3.8 billion a year ago. Analysts had been expecting EPS of $0.58 on revenue of $4.89...
  Trains Good, Planes bad (Whoo Hoo!)
    Will High-Speed Rail Take Decades? (Fox News Video) (w.tromp news feed)
      Will High-Speed Rail Take Decades? (Fox News Video)
      U.S. High Speed Rail Association CEO Andy Kunz is interviewed by FOX News' Stuart Varney, who is skeptical about the country's ability to afford to build a high-speed rail system and the time it will take to construct.
    Layer 8: Flight crash mystery: Robots find Air France flight recorder but key memory part missing. (DaDenMan news feed)
      Layer 8: Flight crash mystery: Robots find Air France flight recorder but key memory part missing.
      The French investigation unit Bureau d'EnquˆÉ¬tes et d'Analyses (BEA) managing the search said the chassis of the airplane's Flight Data Recorder was found, though without the Crash Survivable Memory Unit that contains the data. It was...
    Air France crash 'flight recorder' part found - CNN.com
      The orange-colored recorder 'chassis' was found on Wednesday during the second day of an operation which also hopes to retrieve bodies from the wreckage site.
  Elite$
    [VIDEO] Donald Trump and Celebrity Oval-Office Apprentice | Moving Targets - WSJ.com
      Donald Trump says he will "probably" run as an independent candidate for U.S. president if he does not receive the GOP's nomination. He also discusses what his policy would be for China and the Middle East, in an interview with WSJ's Kelly Eva
    Trump Rips China: "Listen You Motherfuc****!" (Youtube Video) (w.tromp news feed)
      Trump Rips China: "Listen You Motherfuc****!" (Youtube Video)
      The f-bomb entertainment begins at the 5-minute mark.
    Gitmo Nation Great White North Elections tomorrow
    Pope John Paul's blood to go on display at Vatican. (w.tromp news feed)
      The Vatican said the blood, which had been stored in a Rome hospital, had been kept in a liquid state by an anti-coagulant that was added when it was taken from him.
  2TTH
    [VIDEO] Hold the Phone! That Sure Sounds Like Saddam Hussein. (My New Feed)
      [Dig up the old enemies] BAGHDAD
    Helicopter Carrying India's Dorjee Khandu Is Missing (robertleather news feed)
      (22TH) Helicopter Carrying India's Dorjee Khandu Is Missing
      India - the Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu of the NE state of Arunachal Pradesh (and two other passengers) has gone missing in bad weather during a 75-minute flight. Skies were clear when the helicopter took off, but conditions became cloudy and rainy.
    Ugandan opposition leader is in Kenya for medical treatment following arrest (robertleather news feed)
      (22TH) Ugandan opposition leader is in Kenya for medical treatment following arrest
      Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye remains in hospital for treatment and observation following his arrest. His sister, a medical doctor in Uganda, said her brother has temporary blindness and serious bruising.
  Bankster$
    Facebook early investors want to offload $1billion of shares. (w.tromp news feed)
      Early-stage investors and employees are worried the bubble might be about to burst. A group of shareholders want to offload $1billion of Facebook shares on the secondary market in a sale that would value the company at more than $70 billion.
    Student Loan Debt Hell: 21 Statistics That Will Make You Think Twice About Going To College. (Southern Bread News Feed)
      Student Loan Debt Hell: 21 Statistics That Will Make You Think Twice About Going To College.
      Is going to college a worthwhile investment? Is the education that our young people are receiving at our colleges and universities really worth all of the time, money and effort that is required? Decades ago, a college education was quite inexpensive and it was almost an...
    U.S. Treasury: China Has Decreased Its Holdings of U.S. Debt. (w.tromp news feed)
      U.S. Treasury: China Has Decreased Its Holdings of U.S. Debt.
      Mainland China has decreased its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities since last October, according to a report updated today by the U.S. Treasury Department.
    Brussels open anti-trust probes into 16 of world's biggest investment banks. (w.tromp news feed)
      Brussels open anti-trust probes into 16 of world's biggest investment banks.
      The European Commission on Friday opened two antitrust probes into the world's major investment banks, 16 institutions that dominate the credit default swap market. In the first case, Brussels is to investigate 16 financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, Credit...
    Ivory Coast Banks reopen after 10-week shutdown. (bertb news feed)
      The reopening of the banking system is a step towards restarting the economy of the world's biggest cocoa producer. (The new president used to be the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund)
    The U.S. dollar on the edge of a great cliff! Within a hair of ALL-TIME LOW! | Martin D. Weiss' Blog
      After plunging for nearly a year, the greenback is down a staggering 15.9% since last June alone.
      This week, it hit a low of 72.834, a meager 2.136 points from its lowest level of all time. Meanwhile ’Ä¶
  Biodiversitée
    9:05AM: Low-carbon business models key to sustainable growth - UN (w.tromp news feed)
      The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today urged businesses to transform their enterprises into low-carbon operations that are environmentally sound and benefit communities in order to remain profitable and sustainable.
    Al Gore joins ex-Apple engineers to reinvent the e-book (robertleather news feed)
      Biodiversiteˆ© - Al Gore joins ex-Apple engineers to reinvent the e-book
      Push Pop Press, a company set up by former Apple employees Kimon Tsinteris and Mike Matas, has published Our Choice, an app version of Gore's 2009 book about global warming, it "will change the way we read books". There is narration from Gore himself - Great :-(
  Haiti
    Haiti's new leader taking the job seriously - I mean he's only a bankrupt cocaine addict (robertleather news feed)
      Haiti's new leader taking the job seriously - I mean he's only a bankrupt cocaine addict
      Haiti's president-elect, Michel Martelly, known to his countrymen as "Sweet Micky,". What a card. Haitians barely batted an eye at revelations during this year's presidential campaign that Martelly used to snort cocaine and that several homes he owned in...
    Sean Penn seen at State Dept. pre-Nerd Prom - Yahoo! News
      Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton have a particular love of Haiti, and Clinton's counselor Cheryl Mills has been spearheading the department's work on post-quake relief there.
      Penn is also executive producer of a new documentary, "Love Hate Love," on three families whose lives were affected by terrorism, which premiered in New York at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this week.
    US senator raises concerns about Haiti vote fraud - Complains to Clinton... good luck with that (robertleather news feed)
      US senator raises concerns about Haiti vote fraud - Complains to Clinton... good luck with that
      U.S. senator Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont urged the State Department to look at the visa and U.S. residency status of Haitian officials who might have engaged in election fraud in Haiti's legislative races, in a letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton... yeah...
    Haiti was a practice run for O-Bomb-A's Operation Garden Plot II, and FEMA camps when Currency Collapses (Mel Cooley's news feed)
      Haiti was a practice run for O-Bomb-A's Operation Garden Plot II, and FEMA camps when Currency Collapses
      in 2010 Hussein's lawyers devised a clever exception to the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA), which would otherwise prevent the use of D.O.D. Troops to quell civil unrest. Use the National Guard and the Coast Guard. According to the lawyers, "So, when does the PCA not apply?...
  $hadow Puppet Theatre
    Immelt Quits New York Fed Board. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
      Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric, has resigned as a class B director on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, citing increased demands on his time.
    New hand in line to join Obama Middle East team. (w.tromp news feed)
      Simon, formerly the Clinton NSC's senior director for transnational threats, and currently an adjunct senior fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor at Georgetown University of Middle East security studies, did not immediately respond to request for...
  Gitmo Nation
    Drones Spray, Track the Unwilling in Air Force Plan | Danger Room | Wired.com
      Here's how the U.S. Air Force wants to hunt the next generation of its enemies: A tiny drone sneaks up to a suspect, paints him with an unnoticed powder or goo that allows American forces to follow him everywhere he goes
    Feds mine Facebook for info. (Southern Bread News Feed)
      Feds mine Facebook for info.
      Federal investigators in Detroit have taken the rare step of obtaining search warrants that give them access to Facebook accounts of suspected criminals.
    [VIDEO] - Charlie Veitch out of jail discussing his arrest and the royal wedding on RT
      Charlie Veitch fresh out of jail after being arrested for "conspiracy to cause a public nuisance" talks about his experience and the wedding in general.
    [VIDEO] - Royal Wedding Purge 2011: Charlie Veitch Arrest
    Still think you have free speech - Police make 55 arrests around royal wedding (robertleather news feed)
      Still think you have free speech - Police make 55 arrests around royal wedding
      The Police made 55 arrests. 10 people at Charing Cross station were arrested for carrying anti-royalist placards. Earlier, 3 people were detained on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance. They were suspected of planning to behead royal effigies.
    [VIDEO] - The Laura Ingraham Show - Black Chamber of Commerce CEO blasts "Marxist," "brownshirt" Obama
      In an explosive interview, Harry Alford, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Comemrce, slammed Obama's anti-business adminstration
    See Something Say Something Cafeteria Warnings (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
      See Something Say Something Cafeteria Warnings
      FOund in a middle school lunchroom
    Germany Says Al-Qaida Suspects Were Planning Bombing. (robertleather news feed)
      Germany Says Al-Qaida Suspects Were Planning Bombing.
      German officials say three suspected al-Qaida members arrested on Friday had been planning a bomb attack in the country. Prosecutor Rainer Griesbaum told a news conference Saturday that the trio had planned to attack a crowded place but had not yet picked a target. He said they...
    McDonald's Hires 62,000 in U.S. Event, 24% More Than Planned. (w.tromp news feed)
      McDonald's Hires 62,000 in U.S. Event, 24% More Than Planned.
      McDonald's and its franchisees hired 62,000 people in the U.S. after receiving more than one million applications, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said today in an e-mailed statement.
    The War on Money - Precious Metals - Resource Investor. (DaDenMan news feed)
      Some government apologists might say, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, why would you mind being x-rayed, sniffed, patted down, detained and questioned?" Besides the obvious absurdity of that question, the main reason this is of concern is because in every case...
    Belgium closer to banning burqa (My New Feed)
      [can they make laws, without a government?] BELGIUM has taken a major step toward banning burqa-type Islamic dress in public when its lower house of parliament overwhelmingly backed the measure. After today's approval, the senate still has several weeks to decide whether to...
  United $tates of EURO-pe
    EU hits banks with credit default swap probe. (robertleather news feed)
      EU hits banks with credit default swap probe.
      The European Commission, the EU's executive body, said it is probing whether major investment banks, including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, colluded in their operations in a market that is already under scrutiny by U.S. authorities and being subjected to broad, new...
  Ministry of Truth
    [VIDEO] 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
      2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
      Journalists, politicians and celebrities gathered for the White House Correspondents' Association Annual Dinner.
    Remarks by the President at Miami Dade College Commencement | The White House
      Class of 2011, you and your generation are now responsible for our future.¬Ý I’Äôm only going to be President a little bit longer. You are going to be leaders for many years to come.¬Ý You will have to make choices to keep our dream alive for the next generation.
    [VIDEO] - Obama Jokes About Birth Certificate Controversy
      President Obama showed his skills as a comedian at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner, focusing mainly on Donald Trump. He made fun of the birth certificate controversy, and ribbed Trump about his presidential ambitions.
    Tax Payer Funded NPR Brings Rock Stars to Swanky Washington Party - Doug Heye (usnews.com)
      Meanwhile, as Washington prepares to celebrate, well, itself at the annual White House Correspondents’Äô Dinner, where media organizations try to out-do each other by planting celebrities at their $2,500 tables, taxpayer-subsidized and donor-supported NPR is no exception. Joining NPR staff will be Ambassador Susan Rice as well as three All Songs Considered favorites, Annie Clark, who records under the nom de plume St. Vincent, Talking Heads founder David Byrne, and R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe. [Read Mary Kate Cary: What Congress needs to know about funding PBS and NPR].
      Which raises the question: In a time when, NPR’Äôs budget is under scrutiny, is hosting rock stars at a swank dinner the sign NPR officials want to send? And, is promoting new recordings of musical artists--be they starving or sated--something the government should even subsidize in the first place?
    [VIDEO] - Obama Pockets a Secret at Kennedy Space Center - April 29, 2011
      So - if it was a 'note', what did it say?
      I have no idea why or how I noticed this, lol. enjoy :P
    Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia : Bronstein at Large
    Update: Chronicle responds after Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia, then claims they didn't. (Southern Bread News Feed)
      Update: Chronicle responds after Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia, then claims they didn't.
      Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then...
    Europe rebuked for supplying false volcano ash info to air passengers (w.tromp news feed)
      The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has criticised the misleading information given to air passengers by the European Commission during the volcanic ash crisis in 2010.
    [VIDEO] Is It Time To Give Up? (Obama, Banks and You) in [Market-Ticker]
      But after closeÝexamination of the alleged document - an examination you can repeat for yourself to satisfy yourself that this is not some sort of sick joke - it is clear thatÝthis "certificate"Ýis not a photograph, a photocopy or a scan.Ý
      It was assembled.
    [VIDEO] Valerie Jarrett: Obama Not Releasing College Records. (audio) (w.tromp news feed)
      "He's almost 50 years old and he's president of the United States and I don't think anybody would debate his intelligence and so now we need to get serious ... let's just get serious and get back to focusing on what's important," senior Obama...
    [VIDEO] John Stossel Moderates A "Debate" Between Rep. Ron Paul And ... An Obama Impersonator | Media Matters for America
      From the April 28 edition of Fox Business' Stossel:
    [VIDEO] - William Cohan Extended Interview Pt. 1 - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 04/28/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
      In this unedited, extended interview, William Cohan calls Goldman Sachs a collection of very smart people who were put on Earth to make money.
    Google and Obama: Joined at the Hip. (Southern Bread News Feed)
      Google and Obama: Joined at the Hip.
      Sources have told the Chicago Tribune that Google's Eric Schmidt was seen dining with Obama's 2012 presidential campaign manager Jim Messina at Cafe Spiaggia in Chicago last week providing further evidence of Google incestuous relationship with the Administration.
    Daily Kos: UPDATEDx2: Anonymous Hits Chamber!
      A. It's a document dump from Anonymous
      and
      B. It contains documents from an organization that particularly makes my teeth curl, the Michigan based Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
    Tajikistan President calls global terrorism a myth. (bertb news feed)
      The president of Tajikistan, which has been waging battle with a domestic insurgency for the past few years, says international terrorism is a myth invented by global superpowers.
    David Arkush: U.S. Supreme Court to Major Corporations: You Write the Rules. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
      In essence, AT&T asked the court to allow it to use the fine print of contracts to eliminate class actions, a practice that flouts the laws of 20 states. In a 5-4 decision, the court granted AT&T's request.
  Techno Experts
    Activists claim purge of Facebook pages. (bertb news feed)
      Activists claim purge of Facebook pages.
      The list of suspended pages include those for the anti cuts group UK Uncut, and pages that were created by students during last December's university occupations.
    Anyone Can Take Down Facebook Pages with a Fake Email Address. (w.tromp news feed)
      Anyone Can Take Down Facebook Pages with a Fake Email Address.
      Because the social network does not validate the identity of anyone submitting a DMCA takedown notice, nor does it check to see if the report was sent from a legitimate email address, anyone with an ax to grind can fill out a form with bogus information to see a Facebook Page...
  Poppie$
    i was listening to john talking about how afghanistan was a hot bed in the poppy trade. it made me think about my experience with poppies and i can tell you that its not just afghanistan... the poppy trade is going on right here in america. i was an opiate addict in my younger years and would mail order boxes of dried poppy pods to make into opium or opium tea (its sold as an arts and crafts supply). these poppies would always come from either arizona, washington, or colorado. i did find some local sources in california, which was cheaper, but on average an addict could spend over $300 a week on poppies. i was a part of an online forum about poppy consumption and can honestly say there are hundreds of thousands of poppy addicts in america. at $300 a week that would be a $1.5b a year industry.
    this is happening in america
    -keep this anonymous
  Celebritée Ambassadors
    Angelina Jolie on way to Siem Reap (IsNoGood)
      Angelina Jolie on way to Siem Reap. Hollywood megastar Angelina Jolie is set to return to the Kingdom today to shoot an advertising campaign for fashion label Louis Vuitton in Siem Reap, but those connected with the visit have remained tight lipped about her agenda.
    Why Are Eva Longoria and Rosario Dawson at the White House? Closed-Door Meetings to Build Support for Immigration Reform (w.tromp news feed)
      President Obama is meeting with a number of Hispanic actors and journalists this afternoon in another behind-the-scenes effort to enlist support and build momentum for his vision of immigration reform.
  Arab Spring
    Libya
      Scepticism surrounds 'Gaddafi son's death' - Africa - Al Jazeera (robertleather news feed)
        Scepticism surrounds 'Gaddafi son's death' - Africa - Al Jazeera
        Residents in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi have taken to the streets to celebrate Libyan government's announcement of the death of Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son in an air strike, but growing scepticism remains over the veracity of the news. Gaddafi and his wife...
      Gaddafi 'supplies troops with Viagra to encourage mass rape', claims diplomat. (bertb news feed)
        Gaddafi 'supplies troops with Viagra to encourage mass rape', claims diplomat.
        One of America's most senior diplomats claimed that Muammar Gaddafi is supplying his troops with Viagra to encourage mass rape, according to diplomats. Earlier in the week Rice also claimed, also without offering any evidence, that Iran is helping Syria suppress internal...
      US intel: No evidence of Viagra as weapon in Libya - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com. (DaDenMan news feed)
        US intel: No evidence of Viagra as weapon in Libya - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com.
        There is no evidence that Libyan military forces are being given Viagra and engaging in systematic rape against women in rebel areas, US military and intelligence officials told NBC News on Friday.
      [VIDEO] Why the West Wants the Fall of Gaddafi. (Southern Bread News Feed)
        Why the West wants the fall of Gaddafi, essential listening. No, it's not about oil, it's much bigger.
      Libya's Tropical Bank, Seized by Uganda, Says Annual Profit Almost Doubles - Bloomberg
        Uganda took control of Tropical on March 25 to protect the lender from sanctions imposed on Libya by the United Nations. The UN measures were aimed at halting attacks by Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's regime on protesters.
      Washington censors Libyan TV plus Arab TVs covering violent clampdown in Bahrain [Voltaire Network]
        Meanwhile, going by Saudi media reports, the U.S. Department of State asked Arabsat, the satellite management company, to suspend broadcasting by Libyan channels.
      [VIDEO] UN: Libya will suffer food crisis (bertb news feed)
        In about two months time.
      Did Libya Just Invade Tunisia? (Southern Bread News Feed)
        Did Libya Just Invade Tunisia?
        Sounds crazy but, "Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi crossed into neighbouring Tunisia and fought a gun battle with Tunisian troops in a frontier town as Libya's conflict spilt beyond its borders...Pro-Gaddafi forces fired shells into the town of Dehiba, damaging...
    Syria
      The Three Stooges Want War With Syria. (Southern Bread News Feed)
        The Three Stooges Want War With Syria.
        Three of the Senate's most enthusiastic hawks, Sens. John McCain (R -- AZ), Joe Lieberman (I -- CT), and Lindsay Graham (R -- SC) have issued a joint statement on Thursday demanding that President Obama publicly order Syrian President Bashar Assad to resign immediately.
    Congo
      Firms Seek Supply Route Around Conflict in Congo (w.tromp news feed)
        While the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake is causing many companies to worry about the electronics supply chain, a different pall is hovering over a rare, blue-gray metal that is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The substance is tantalum, an ingredient in...
      Ben Affleck's Congo-Billionaire Connections (w.tromp news feed)
        Affleck didn't dwell on it much, but he's attracted some pretty high-profile donors to his cause. They include billionaire and Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen; Cindy Hensley McCain, wife of Senator John McCain; Humanity United, a foundation led...
      Rwanda bans export of Congo conflict area minerals. (w.tromp news feed)
        Rwanda has banned the sale of minerals from areas where there is fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in compliance with a U.S. law requiring minerals to be certified conflict-free, its mines minister said.
      Congo: Chronicle of death ignored. Five million people have died in Congo in a war that no one really understands (w.tromp news feed)
        The 1994 genocide in next-door Rwanda lit a fuse in Congo. In 1996 a rebel army from eastern Congo marched a thousand miles across the lush country to depose Mobutu Sese Seko, he of the leopard skin fez, whose regime had been badly weakened by the winding down of Western support...
      UN, Congo government try to formalize the mining industry. (w.tromp news feed)
        Several initiatives are underway to try to formalize Congo's mining sector, with various stakeholders involved in each. Coordination and harmonization of efforts will be a major challenge to declaring Congo's minerals conflict-free.
      Congo to hold national elections on Nov. 28. (w.tromp news feed)
        Congo to hold national elections on Nov. 28.
        Congo will hold its second post-war presidential and legislative elections on Nov. 28, the electoral commission said on Saturday. The polls are seen as an important step towards stability for a country recovering from a conflict that ended in 2003, leaving more than 5 million...
      Detained Crew, GV Released from Congo (w.tromp news feed)
        Detained Crew, GV Released from Congo
        The Gulfstream V that had been detained in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since February 4 was released in late March, along with the remaining flight crew and passengers, according to Arcadia Aviation, which manages the aircraft. The aircraft has returned to the U.S.
    Sudan
      US Lifts Sanctions On Sudan's Largest Bank. (w.tromp news feed)
        The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control posted notice on its website that Bank of Khartoum was removed from the blacklist, meaning it can seek the return of blocked assets and resume limited dealings with U.S. financial institutions.
      China expresses willingness to boost cooperation with southern Sudan, promises further aid. (w.tromp news feed)
        "China is ready to promote its friendly exchanges with southern Sudan on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence," said Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in a meeting with David Deng Athorbei, envoy of the president of the southern Sudan government, in...
    Uganda
      Uganda starts pumping oil in June. (Southern Bread News Feed)
        Uganda starts pumping oil in June.
        UGANDA expects to pump its first oil in June starting with 500-1,000 barrels per day. Three oil wells: Kasamene 1, Kigogole 1 and 3 in the Lake Albert rift will produce the first oil as tests to understand their behaviour and rate of flow (Extended Well Testing) are conducted....
      Ugandan opposition leader is in Kenya for medical treatment following arrest (robertleather news feed)
        (22TH) Ugandan opposition leader is in Kenya for medical treatment following arrest
        Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye remains in hospital for treatment and observation following his arrest. His sister, a medical doctor in Uganda, said her brother has temporary blindness and serious bruising.
    Poppie$tan
      Afghan Taliban: Spring offensive starts now. (w.tromp news feed)
        Afghan Taliban: Spring offensive starts now.
        The Taliban announced they will begin their spring offensive Sunday, pledging to attack military bases, convoys and Afghan officials, including members of the peace council working to reconcile with top insurgent leaders.
      Pakistan tests nuclear capable cruise missile. (w.tromp news feed)
        Pakistan on Friday successfully conducted flight test of indigenously developed air launched cruise missile, which "can deliver nuclear and conventional warheads with great pin point accuracy," the army said.
  Cyber War$
    [VIDEO] Howard Schmidt Remarks. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
      Howard Schmidt Remarks.
      Howard Schmidt, White House cyber security coordinator and special assistant to President Obama, talked about the presidentˆÉ¬¢ˆÇÔø‡ˆÇÔø‡s national security for trusted identities in cyberspace (NSTIC)...
    PlayStation hacker may have obtained millions of users' credit card info. (w.tromp news feed)
      PlayStation hacker may have obtained millions of users' credit card info.
      Speaking at a press conference convened by the firm at their headquarters in Tokyo, Hirai, Sony's executive vice president, conceded that the hacker may have obtained the users' credit card numbers, expiration dates as well as purchase history and password security...
    Anonymous to target Iran with DoS attack. (w.tromp news feed)
      Anonymous to target Iran with DoS attack.
      The hacker group Anonymous has its next denial-of-service (DoS) target in sight: Iran, CNET has learned. Members of the loosely organized group are planning "Operation Iran," an attack designed to shut down Iranian Web sites beginning Sunday, according to their latest...
    DOJ: FBI digital counterintelligence weakened by focus on child porn. (w.tromp news feed)
      DOJ: FBI digital counterintelligence weakened by focus on child porn.
      Despite its growing digital surveillance capabilities and increasing responsibility for investigating and countering cyber attacks on the U.S., the FBI's core cyber security division turns out to be basically incompetent, according to a critical report from the Dept. of...
    Shed a Tear: The Age of Broadband Caps Begins Monday. (DaDenMan news feed)
      Shed a Tear: The Age of Broadband Caps Begins Monday.
      Come Monday, AT&T will begin restricting more than 16 million broadband users based on the amount of data they use in a month. The No. 2 carrier's entry into the broadband-cap club means that a majority of U.S. broadband users will now be subject to limits on how much they...
  MK Ultra
    RFK assassin claims woman in polka-dot dress controlled his mind. (w.tromp news feed)
      RFK assassin claims woman in polka-dot dress controlled his mind.
      In a new court filing, the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 said he was controlled by a mystery woman at the time of the killing.
  EQ Machines
    Expert: HAARP shifts threaten New Madrid. (Southern Bread News Feed)
      Expert: HAARP shifts threaten New Madrid.
      "Oh, and some huge magnetometer shifts off the HAARP site, so when we see this kind of deflection, the quake picture may be about to get serious. The deflection this morning was showing more than -500 nT. The deflection around the 3/11/2011 Japanese earthquake was smaller...
    Judge says southern Illinois levee can be blown up | Reuters
      The levee breach could flood 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland, which contains about 90 homes. Missouri had filed suit to prevent the Corps from carrying out its plan.
    Great Brood of Cicadas Poised to Swarm the South
      Billions of Brood 19 cicadas are expected to begin appearing in early May. Also called the Great Southern Brood, their emergence across the American south is something that happens only once every 13 years.
    Tornado Warning Over New Jersey as Violent Weather Continues - Metropolis - WSJ
      On the fourth day of tornadoes the activity will shift from the South and Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic, where severe weather is already underway.ÝA tornado warning means that a tornado has been spotted, either by local authorities or weather radar. The latest raft of warnings cover parts of northern New Jersey and the lower Hudson Valley in New York.
    Buffet loses big on EQ's
      In the news release announcing the preliminary first-quarter results, Berkshire broke out estimates for each event, saying it would likely incur losses of $1.07 billion from Japan's catastrophe, $412 million from New Zealand's Christchurch earthquake and $195 million from Australia's floods and Cyclone Yasi.
  Monsantooo
    Monsanto-tied scientist abruptly quits key USDA research post. (w.tromp news feed)
      Monsanto-tied scientist abruptly quits key USDA research post.
      Beachy's exit coincides with news that NIFA's budget outlook has darkened considerably.
    Great seed robbery. (pg.chrys news feed)
      Monsanto, which controls 95 per cent of the cottonseed market, has pushed the price of seed from 7 per kg to 3,600 per kg, with nearly half being royalty payments. It was extracting `1,000 crores per annum as royalty from Indian farmers before Andhra Pradesh sued it in the...
  Codex
    EU: 1 Day to Save Herbal Medicine! (My New Feed)
      EU: 1 Day to Save Herbal Medicine!
      In 1day, the EU will ban much of herbal medicine, pressing more of us to take pharmaceutical drugs that drive the profits of big Pharma. The EU Directive erects high barriers to any herbal remedy that hasn't been on the market for 30 years -- including virtually all...
    Feds sting Amish farmer selling raw milk locally. Cite interstate commerce violation (w.tromp news feed)
      A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal government announcing this week that it has gone to court to stop Rainbow Acres Farm from selling its contraband...
  Food!
    Sugar
      SUgar industry sues corn sugar scammers
        They say the campaign constitutes false advertising and are seeking compensation for lost profits and corrective advertising. The corn industry say the case has no merit.
    Salt
      Pennsylvania Firm Recalls Reduced Sodium Chicken Noodle Soup. (Southern Bread News Feed)
        Pennsylvania Firm Recalls Reduced Sodium Chicken Noodle Soup.
        Media with questions about the recall should contact Ron Bottrell of Hill & Knowlton, Inc.
    McDonald's Hires 62,000 in U.S. Event, 24% More Than Planned. (w.tromp news feed)
      McDonald's Hires 62,000 in U.S. Event, 24% More Than Planned.
      McDonald's and its franchisees hired 62,000 people in the U.S. after receiving more than one million applications, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said today in an e-mailed statement.
  Vaccine$
    Pill that costs just two pence could stop onset of Alzheimer's. (w.tromp news feed)-Lithium!!!!
      Lithium helps slow the progression of memory loss - raising the possibility it could be used to prevent dementia. The naturally occurring element has long been prescribed to treat mood swings and bipolar disorder and research has also shown it can halt the progress of the...
    Checklist May Help Identify Autism Earlier On In Life - List for SUB-1 Year olds... (robertleather news feed)
      Checklist May Help Identify Autism Earlier On In Life - List for SUB-1 Year olds...
      Identifying autism by an easy to follow list, for 1 year olds and younger. "Do you know when your child is happy and when your child is upset?", "Does your child pick up objects and give them to you?" - No, it's a BABY!!
    Germany: Memantine as possible Alzheimer's treatment. (w.tromp news feed)
      After the manufacturer of the Alzheimer's drug memantine submitted a supplementary analysis of study data, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) sees proof of a benefit of the drug for cognitive function, as well as indications of a benefit...
    Seth Rogen: Alzheimer's is 'brutal' (My New Feed)
      [Here's an actor raising awareness to Alzheimers] Larry King returns to CNN with a look at how people cope with Alzheimer's disease. Don't miss"Unthinkable: The Alzheimer's Epidemic," at 8 ET Sunday night on CNN. (CNN) -- Seth Rogen may be known for...
    CMS Seeks to Expand Access to Flu Vaccine through Medicare. (Southern Bread News Feed)
      CMS Seeks to Expand Access to Flu Vaccine through Medicare.
      Providers and suppliers would have to develop and implement policies for offering and administering a seasonal influenza vaccine and a pandemic vaccine when the latter is needed.
    Oncothyreon Expects to Net $37.4M to Advance Cancer Pipeline. Lung cancer vaccine. (Southern Bread News Feed)
      Oncothyreon Expects to Net $37.4M to Advance Cancer Pipeline. Lung cancer vaccine.
      Oncothyreon currently intends to use the money to fund development of two candidates: small molecule PX-866, which is being studied in multiple indications, and ONT-10, a follow-on to non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) vaccine Stimuvax.
    [VIDEO] World Health Organisation and the pandemic flu conspiracy - from British Medical Journal (robertleather news feed)
      (Video) World Health Organisation and the pandemic flu conspiracy - from British Medical Journal
      Key scientists advising the WHO on planning for an flu pandemic had done paid work for pharmaceutical firms that stood to gain from the guidance they were preparing. Add Dr Rosemary Leonard, who heavily promoted Tamiflu on the BBC tinyurl.com/5wmxqra
    Follow up on Armadillo leprosy story (bertb news feed)
      Follow up on Armadillo leprosy story
      Until the late 1950s, no animal had been experimentally infected. [Scientists] found that about 80 percent of the armadillos they infected with the bacillus contracted leprosy, and in an especially virulent form. (Scientists gave them leprosy in the fifties?)
    CDC vaccine scientist who downplayed links to autism indicted by DOJ in alleged fraud scheme
      CDC researcher Poul Thorsen, who famously headed up the "Denmark Study" that many claim disproved any link between autism and vaccines, has been indicted in Atlanta by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, money laundering and defrauding research institutions of grant money.
    Scientist find a way to wipe out painful memories (My New Feed)
      [and theres Alzheimer again] IT sounds like something from a science fiction movie. But researchers reckon they have found a way to erase painful memories and post-traumatic stress. They discovered a link between a protein called PKM and recollections of disturbing incidents....
    Bird flu vaccine sales to governments artificially boosted Sanofi-Aventis's numbers. (Southern Bread News Feed)
      Last year's results were also doped up by sales of bird flu vaccine to governments. When these were stripped out, sales growth was 0.1 percent despite the 569 million euros in sales lost to generics, the company said.
    It's a miracle! - Hepatitis C drug called a 'miraculous advance' (robertleather news feed)
      It's a miracle! - Hepatitis C drug called a 'miraculous advance'
      A new treatment for hepatitis C could soon be on the market if the Food and Drug Administration takes the advice of an advisory committee. The committee unanimously approved the first of two new drugs to treat chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 infection. Hepatitis C is a chronic...
  Out There
    9:55AM: Doomsday: Earth's core spinning out of control. (bertb news feed)
      The Earth is expanding, blowing up like a balloon, and will eventually explode many millions of years from now. The shifting, aberrant, unstable core is a symptom of this process and causes geomagnetic field instability.
    Deadly time vortex appears over Antarctica | Before It's News
      "If it's something the US military has constructed down there, then they're violating the international Antarctic Treaty," said an aide to Nicole Fontaine, at the time he was the European Parliament's French president. "If not, then it's something that's at least 12,000 years old, which is how long ice has covered Antarctica. That would make it the oldest man-made structure on the planet. The Pentagon should heed the calls of Congress and release whatever it's hiding."
  Magic Numbers
    33 insurgents killed in northwest Pakistan. (DaDenMan news feed)
      33 insurgents killed in northwest Pakistan.
      At least 33 militants, two pro-government tribesmen and one soldier were killed in military actions and clashes in Kurram, Orakzai and Mohmand Agencies of Pakistan on Thursday. ˆÇÔø‡ Officials said that helicopter gunships pounded three militant hideouts...
    U.S. gasoline futures end at highest in 33 months. (DaDenMan news feed)
      U.S. gasoline futures end at highest in 33 months.
      NEW YORK, April 29 (Reuters) - U.S. gasoline futures rose for the seventh session in a row on Friday, ending the month with the highest settlement in 33 months as shrinking stockpiles and refinery outages stoked supply worries ahead of the summer driving season. On the New York...
    TJX chief gets $23m, or 33% more (robertleather news feed)
      TJX Cos. chief executive, Carol Meyrowitz, has received more than $23 million in compensation for fiscal year 2011, a 33 percent yearly increase.
    Smartphone Users: 33% Would Give Up Chocolate Before Phones (DaDenMan news feed)
      Smartphone users love their phones so much, a full one-third would give up chocolate in order to keep using their devices. That's according to a new survey commissioned by Google of 5,013 U.S. adult smartphone users.
    Playtech Poker Revenue Down 33 Percent - European Poker News - CardPlayerEurope.com. (DaDenMan news feed)
      Playtech, the publicly-quoted online gaming software provider which owns the iPoker network, today reported poker revenue down 33 percent in the first quarter of 2011 to 5.7 million compared to 8.5 million a year earlier.
    World Stock Markets Rally To 33-Month High. (DaDenMan news feed)
      The MSCI World Stock Market Index closed today at 1,371.4, reaching the highest level since July 30, 2008, almost 33 months ago. Compared to the cyclical low of 697.5 in early March 2009, the MSCI World Stock Index has almost doubled over the last two...
    Dollar Hits 33-Month Low, Gold Sets New Record. (DaDenMan news feed)
      The U.S. Dollar Index reached 73.05, its lowest level since July 2008, in overnight trading as investors used the Federal Reserve and Chairman Bernanke's continued dovish stance at its FOMC meeting yesterday as a catalyst to sell the greenback.
  Real News
    Real News: Justin Bieber gets pelted by eggs at Sydney Concert on the 29th of April! (Sky News Video) (w.tromp news feed)
      Real News: Justin Bieber gets pelted by eggs at Sydney Concert on the 29th of April! (Sky News Video)
      US pop sensation Justin Bieber has come under attack, from flying eggs. The teen superstar was performing at Sydney's Acer Arena on Friday night, when six of eggs were launched from the crowd.
    Prince William and Kate Middleton royal wedding date coincides with Hitler's wedding anniversary - and more events in history that happened on April 29th - mirror.co.uk
      1992: Fierce rioting broke out in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four white police officers of beating black motorist Rodney King.
    Superman threatens to renounce US citizenship. (bertb news feed)
      In the latest issue of Action Comics, which went on sale on Wednesday, the Man of Steel decides to take the step after he intervenes in a protest against the Iranian government.