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    Elites
      Bono faces protests at Glastonbury | Stuff.co.nz
        The anti-capitalist group Art Uncut inflated a 6-metre balloon emblazoned with the message "U Pay Your Tax 2." Security guards wrestled them to the ground before deflating the balloon and taking it away. About 30 people were involved in the angry clash.
      Retired Politicians Spend Unused Campaign Funds - New York Times
        New York's campaign finance laws have been widely criticized by public interest groups as being riddled with loopholes that permit excessive contributions from special interests and inappropriate expenses by candidates. Over the years, the Board of Elections has lent its approval to candidates who wanted to spend money on car payments and repairs, baby-sitting expenses and luxury gifts, provided such expenses were somehow connected to political activities.
        The law does prohibit candidates from converting campaign contributions to personal use "unrelated to a political campaign or the holding of a public office or party position." But the elections board has interpreted that to mean that former officeholders can keep spending money on the chance, however slim, that they will one day run again.
      Endeavour commander Mark Kelly quits NASA (robertleather news feed)
        Endeavour commander Mark Kelly quits NASA
        Mark Kelly, the veteran combat pilot and astronaut, has announced he's retiring from the US Navy and quitting NASA on 1 October. His wife is Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in January.
    Devil Weed
      GM marijuana problem growing in Colombia. (Neal)
        GM marijuana problem growing in Colombia.
        CALI, Colombia (AFP) ’Äì Greenhouses lined with genetically modified marijuana sit on a mountainside just an hour ride from Cali, Colombia, where farmers say the enhanced plants are more powerful and profitable.
    2TTH
      Ray Nagin describes post-Hurricane Katrina paranoia in his new book | NOLA.com
        The former mayor, who left office last year, also admits in the 330-page paperback that the infamously botched nature of the disaster response led him briefly into a state of paranoia. Nagin writes that he suspected the federal government of trying to poison him, and he believed at one point that the city's wealthiest, most powerful residents were trying to bug his hotel suite.
      PM David Cameron constituency chief and friend found dead at Glastonbury! (robertleather news feed)
        (22TH) PM David Cameron constituency chief and friend found dead at Glastonbury!
        55 year old Christopher Shale, constituency chairman and a close friend of the prime minister has been found dead in a portable toilet at the Glastonbury festival. Avon and Somerset Police immediately cordoned off the lavatories.
      Three Russian designers of Iran's nuclear plant die in plane crash
        Russian nuclear scientists who planned, designed, built and put into operation Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr this year, died Tuesday night, June 20, when a Rusaero flight from Moscow to Petrozavodsk in northwest Russia crashed.
        DEBKAfile's sources reveal that they were among the 44 passengers who were killed.
        Their loss is a severe blow to Russia's atomic reactor industry as well as its nuclear program as a whole, since the three, Sergey Ryzhov, Gennady Banuyk and Nikolay Trunov, specialized in running installations in tandem and synchronizing various systems.
        The Russian company OKB Gidropress, Moscow, which employed them as chief planners of nuclear plants, is proud of having sold reactors to five countries including Iran.
      aangirfan: RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH SABOTAGE?
        The whole leadership of the designers units of Russia's state nuclear corporation was killed when the Tu-134 passenger plane crash landed in the northern republic of Karelia.
      Sunny Sheu: Murdered for Investigating NY Foreclosure Judge Joseph Golia? - naked capitalism
        The details are thin but they sure don't smell right. The short form is that Sunny Sheu had his house stolen from him by fictive buyers who used forged documents. Judge Golia of Queens engaged in what appears to be highly questionable behavior in failing to reverse the sale. Sheu started investigating the judge, was told by policeman who specifically referred to information he had provided about Golia, and that if he didn't drop it, he'd wind up dead. Sheu disregarded their warning and did wind up dead. The authorities are also refusing to honor requests for information regarding Sheu's death made under New York's Freedom of Information Act. This story has been publicized by Foreclosure Fraud and The Daily Bail and I hope it gets more traction.
    $hadow Puppet Theatre
      President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts | The White House
        Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts:
    Biodiversitée
      Climate Change: It's bad and getting worse - Features - Al Jazeera English
        Schwartz, who is also the co-director of the Programme on Global Sustainability and Health, said that lack of clean water, a phenomenon that is also a product of climate change, will lead to increases in morbidity and mortality from a variety of water-borne diseases.
    Oil Cabal
      Libya bombing could give Norway the oil contracts
        Norway's contribution to military action in Libya may result in lucrative contracts to Norwegian oil companies.
    Bank$ters
      New ECB boss Draghi's Goldman Sachs part in the Greek crisis (bertb news feed)
        New ECB boss Draghi's Goldman Sachs part in the Greek crisis
        New head of ECB Draghi led Goldman derivatives group when it advised Greece on how to hide its true debt levels in order to enter the EU.
    Poppie$
      'New drugs' offset cocaine and heroin gains, says UN. (bertb news feed)
        'New drugs' offset cocaine and heroin gains, says UN.
        Gains made in tackling global use of cocaine and heroin are being offset by rising consumption of synthetic and prescription drugs, the UN says. In its annual report, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that in Europe, seizures of new psychoactive drugs had been...
      The News - Heroin cheapest in Belgium
        This is evident from the annual World Drug Report by the United Nations. Heroin takes on average only 23 euros per gram. In Finland is seven times more. - Cocaine here has a street value of about 49.5 euros per gram. Ruyters Tino, director of the center for drug addicts Free Clinic, said that the price can be explained by the central position of our country.
      Drug production slumps as blight hits poppy crops (WT news feed)
        Drug production slumps as blight hits poppy crops
        World opium production decreased sharply last year due to a blight in Afghanistan but is expected to rebound. Coca growing and cocaine production also fell, the United Nations has reported.
    Gitmo Nation
      AP News: Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search
        Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia.
        Her mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search.
      Home Security System Being Promoted By Comcast Can Be a Trojan Horse for Big Brother? (WT news feed)
        Home Security System Being Promoted By Comcast Can Be a Trojan Horse for Big Brother?
        The new service now being promoted is Xfinity. It shows a state of the art home monitoring with cameras around the house and sensors keeping track of energy usage.
      Patriot Act Debate: Is the FBI Collecting Your Phone Data? - TIME
        That section allows the FBI to seize without a warrant "any tangible things," like documents, so long as they are part of an effort to protect the country against international terrorism. The FBI can order a private company to turn over data as long as the bureau can convince a special national-security court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, that the information is "relevant" to antiterrorism work.
        Obama Administration officials emphasize that this review by the intelligence court is an important step in protecting privacy. Privacy advocates, however, consider it little more than a rubber stamp. " 'Relevant' means some noncrazy reason for asking for it," said the Cato Institute's Julian Sanchez, who believes the government is using that authority to sweep up huge amounts of communications data.
      Huiscontrole weigeren kan uitkering kosten (WT news feed)
        Huiscontrole weigeren kan uitkering kosten
        Een uitkering kan worden verlaagd of gestopt als mensen niet meewerken aan controle thuis en als informatie over hun woonsituatie anders niet te krijgen is. Hierbij is geen vermoeden van fraude meer nodig.
    United $tates of EURO-pe
      BBC News - Spanish anti-austerity protesters start march on Madrid
        Hundreds of acrivists from cities across Spain have begun marches towards Madrid as part of a demonstration against the state of the economy.
        The protesters, who started off in cities including Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia and Cadiz, plan to converge in the capital next month.
      Near-bankrukpt Greece a culture of corruption, $1 billion a year in bribes - New Europe
        Even as Greeks face wage freezes and cuts, higher taxes and a longer wait for retirement to keep the country from going under in an ocean of debt, they have been hit with a new report that identifies one of the main culprits for the country's reputation for graft and excessive spending: that everyone from doctors to lawyers to civil servants to government officials are on the take, costing Greeks $1 billion a year to pay them.
      New ECB boss Draghi's Goldman Sachs part in the Greek crisis (bertb news feed)
        New ECB boss Draghi's Goldman Sachs part in the Greek crisis
        New head of ECB Draghi led Goldman derivatives group when it advised Greece on how to hide its true debt levels in order to enter the EU.
      Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism
        A new integration bill (covering letter and 15-page action plan), which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads: "The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people. In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role. With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society."
      CRASH 2: Sir Merv takes the gloves off to warn that the end is nigh. | The Slog
        "Right through this crisis from the very beginning.....an awful lot of people wanted to believe that it was a crisis of liquidity," King opined today, "It wasn't, it isn't. And until we accept that, we will never find an answer to it. It was a crisis based on solvency.....initially financial institutions and now sovereigns."
      Wilders found not guilty of inciting hatred, but is 'on the edge' (WT news feed)
        Wilders found not guilty of inciting hatred, but is 'on the edge'
        The court ruled that some of Wilders' statements were insulting, shocking and on the edge of legal acceptibility, but that they were made in the broad context of a political and social debate on the multi-cultural society.
    Ministry of Truth
      [VIDEO] Obama Makes Another Military Gaffe: Mistakes Fallen Soldier for Living One | NewsBusters.org
        How does the Commander-in-Chief mix these heroes up? He put that medal around Giunta's neck and he stood with Monti's parents as they grieved. These fallen heroes leave such a great legacy, and we should know all their names. The ironic part of the speech, and this comes after the announcement of the politically pressured drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, was Obama's closing remark, "Know that your Commander-in-Chief has your back."
        Trouble is, however, SFC Monti did, in fact, receive the award posthumously in 2009, three years after he was killed in Afghanistan in 2006. Obama did award the Medal of Honor to a living Army service member, Sal Giunta, a staff sergeant in another Army unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
      BLACKFIVE: President Obama's Terrible Mistake
        How does the Commander-in-Chief mix these heroes up? He put that medal around Giunta's neck and he stood with Monti's parents as they grieved. These fallen heroes leave such a great legacy, and we should know all their names. The ironic part of the speech, and this comes after the announcement of the politically pressured drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, was Obama's closing remark, "Know that your Commander-in-Chief has your back."
      Report: Bin Laden courier's phone provides leads - FOX5 - KVVU - Las Vegas, News, Weather and Video
        In tracing the calls on the cellphone, U.S. analysts have determined that Harakat commanders had called Pakistani intelligence officials, the senior American officials said. One said they had met. The officials added that the contacts were not necessarily about bin Laden and that there was no "smoking gun" showing that Pakistan's spy agency had protected bin Laden.
      Iran giving out condoms for criminals to rape us, say jailed activists. (bertb news feed)
        Iran giving out condoms for criminals to rape us, say jailed activists.
        Prison guards in Iran are giving condoms to criminals and encouraging them to systematically rape young opposition activists locked up with them, according to accounts from inside the country's jail system.
    Arab Spring
      Twitter / @SenJohnMcCain: In #Egypt 4 biz delegation ...
        In #Egypt 4 biz delegation w/ Jeff Immelt, @GeneralElectric & @CocaCola @Bechtel @MarriottIntl @DowChemical @BoeingCorporate @ExxonMobil
      Libya bombing could give Norway the oil contracts
        Norway's contribution to military action in Libya may result in lucrative contracts to Norwegian oil companies.
      BBC News - Hassan Nasrallah: Hezbollah men 'spied for CIA'
        The head of Hezbollah has said two of the Lebanese Islamist group's members have confessed to working for the CIA.
        Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said a third man was under investigation, accused of spying for the US intelligence agency.
      The Ugly Truth: Video Of Libyan Rebel Beheading Gadhaffi Soldier And Other Nato War Crimes :
        As the former CIA Asset who covered Libya at the United Nations from 1995 to 2003 during negotiations for the Lockerbie Trial, I am compelled to break past that propaganda to examine actual evidence.
      Obama's Libya
      Just seven years on Fleeting moments - Iftekhar A Khan
        The drone is said to be Obama's favourite weapon of war because it does a clean job, with no mess at the joysticks end. Sitting thousands of miles away, the drone operators neither see the splattering of blood and splintering of bones, nor hear the wailing of the kin of those who have been killed.
      U.S. House keeps Libya funding, fails to authorize mission. (WT news feed)
        U.S. House keeps Libya funding, fails to authorize mission.
        A resolution that bars most funding for the U.S. military mission in Libya failed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, shortly after another measure authorizing the Libya mission suffered the same fate.
    Shut Up Slave!
      L.A. County's Private Property War - Page 1 - News - Los Angeles - LA Weekly
        L.A. Weekly found in a six-week investigation that county inspectors and armed DA investigators also are pursuing victimless misdemeanors and code violations, with sometimes tragic results. The government can define land on which residents have lived for years as "vacant" if their cabins, homes and mobile homes are on parcels where the land use hasn't been legally established. Some have been jailed for defying the officials in downtown Los Angeles, while others have lost their savings and belongings trying to meet the county's "final zoning enforcement orders." Los Angeles County has left some residents, who appeared to be doing no harm, homeless.
    Food!
      Warning issued on bean sprouts - The Irish Times - Sat, Jun 25, 2011
        Irish consumers have been urged not to eat raw bean sprouts after an E.coli outbreak in France similar to a recent one in Germany that claimed 37 lives.
        The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said today French authorities are investigating an outbreak of food-borne illness caused by Verotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC) 0104:H4.
        It is the same strain as that identified in the recent large outbreak in Germany associated with bean sprouts.
        "Preliminary indications suggest that bean sprouts could be also be implicated in this French outbreak," the authority said.
      Scientists push to implement edible RFID tracking chips in food. (@CrisisClub)
        Scientists push to implement edible RFID tracking chips in food.
        Developed by Hannes Harms from the Royal College of Art in London, the "NutriSmart" system is based on the idea that RFID wafers injected directly into food can help better track the food supply chain, further automate the supermarket shopping experience, and simplify...
      Store gives away eggs for free and sells the cartons they're in | Sympatico.ca News
        P.E.I. officials have stopped a small store from selling local, free-range eggs because of food safety regulations. Until those regulations are amended, the store has found a creative work-around.
      FSA revises guidance after E. coli outbreak. (robertleather news feed)
        FSA revises guidance after E. coli outbreak.
        The Food Standards Agency says it is revising its guidance on the consumption of sprouted seeds in light of an outbreak of E. coli in France. The FSA is advising that seeds such as alfalfa, beansprouts and fenugreek should be cooked and not eaten raw.
    Cyber War$
      Leveraging Social Media for Early Indications and Warnings of Instability and Unrest | Empress of the Global Universe
        This presentation will discuss how-Lockheed Martin's software suite, called
        Event Registration (EVENT: 314816)
        "Web Information Spread Data Operations Module" (WISDOM), is breaking new
        ground in online social media collection and analytics. WISDOM's innovative
        algorithms are integrated with, and indeed govern, existing technologies
        (e.g., crawling, tagging, agents, visualizations, etc.) to provide near
        real-time monitoring and analytic exploitation of the Internet as a
        socio-cultural data source. With its suite of capabilities, WISDOM's
        automated collection, processing, and analytic visualizations save the
        analyst time generally spent on collection so they may devote the majority of
        their effort toward analysis; and discover trends, sentiment shifts, and key
        influencers in online communities to alert the analyst to indications of
        unrest that may lead to instability events.
      LulzSec site taken down by lone-wolf hacker. (WT news feed)
        LulzSec site taken down by lone-wolf hacker.
        The lone-wolf operator, known as the Jester, claimed to have downed the LulzSec website "for the lulz" and exposed its shadowy leader in a Twitter message on Friday. The main LulzSec website was down for a short time on Friday morning but resurfaced shortly after.
    Magic Numbers
      Standard Form 33
      Tri-State Red Cross Expanding to Serve 33 Counties (robertleather news feed)
        Tri-State Red Cross Expanding to Serve 33 Counties
    Squirrel!
      Twin Towers steel sent for memorials across America (The Groupie)
        Twin Towers steel sent for memorials across America
        [I thought the Chinese got all that steel] As the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks nears, workers at an airplane hangar filled with World Trade Center steel have dispatched charred hunks of metal to towns across America for building memorials. The Port Authority of...
    Vaccine$
      @Adamcurry brought my 6month old son to get vaccinated.They tried to schedule "gardasil" for some time in the future.Told her a flat out no. (@adamcurry - Twitter Search)
        @Adamcurry brought my 6month old son to get vaccinated.They tried to schedule "gardasil" for some time in the future.Told her a flat out no.
      California bill would remove parental consent of HPV vaccine for kids. (Southern Bread News Feed)
        California bill would remove parental consent of HPV vaccine for kids.
        The bill would allow children to consent to treatment with the controversial Gardasil vaccine intended to prevent HPV -- a virus that can cause cervical cancer. Ninety one deaths attributed to Gardasil have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System as of...
      Ban on CSL flu vaccine extended to older children. (Southern Bread News Feed)
        Ban on CSL flu vaccine extended to older children.
        Sydney Morning Herald Ban on CSL flu vaccine extended to older children The Age HEALTH authorities have toughened the restrictions on children taking CSL's flu vaccine , raising the minimum age from five years to nine. After more than a year of investigating, the...
    Out There
      NASA - Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm
        This week, officials have gathered at the National Press Club in Washington DC to ask themselves a simple question: What if it happens again?
      INCOMING! Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on Monday : Discovery News. (Mr. Oil's Earthquake Feed)
        INCOMING! Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on Monday : Discovery News.
        This may sound like late notice, but astronomers have just spotted a rather chunky asteroid heading our way, set to narrowly miss us on Monday. In fact, it will be such a narrow miss that astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere should be able to spot the flyby with fairly modest...
    Video
      [VIDEO] Obama Makes Another Military Gaffe: Mistakes Fallen Soldier for Living One | NewsBusters.org
        How does the Commander-in-Chief mix these heroes up? He put that medal around Giunta's neck and he stood with Monti's parents as they grieved. These fallen heroes leave such a great legacy, and we should know all their names. The ironic part of the speech, and this comes after the announcement of the politically pressured drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, was Obama's closing remark, "Know that your Commander-in-Chief has your back."
        Trouble is, however, SFC Monti did, in fact, receive the award posthumously in 2009, three years after he was killed in Afghanistan in 2006. Obama did award the Medal of Honor to a living Army service member, Sal Giunta, a staff sergeant in another Army unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
      Top 6 Videos of Michele Bachmann's Batshit Insane Quotes. (DaDenMan news feed)
        Top 6 Videos of Michele Bachmann's Batshit Insane Quotes.
        If there is one thing that Michelle Bachmann does exceptionally well, it is making us laugh with her constant stream of complete ignorance. It amazes me that 99% of what she says is ridiculous.
      [VIDEO] NASA To Fly Low Over Region For Air Quality Study - CBS Baltimore
        This is no ordinary plane, it's a specially fitted NASA aircraft designed with equipment to measure air pollution levels in flight. And starting next week the skies over Maryland will become a pollution detection playground for the plane and for NASA scientists.
      [VIDEO] - 6/22/2011 -- X37 (OTV 2 / USA 226) spacecraft in near earth orbit over Japan during quake
        I think the x37 might be "powered" or "propelled" using frequency manipulation.. they don't admit this, but (in my opinion) why wouldn't they use HAARP in conjunction with this craft.. or at least some form of ground based frequency manipulation, the chinese have admitted their "meridian (chinese haarp) can move objects in space... if theirs can.. so can ours!
  Elites
    Bono faces protests at Glastonbury | Stuff.co.nz
      The anti-capitalist group Art Uncut inflated a 6-metre balloon emblazoned with the message "U Pay Your Tax 2." Security guards wrestled them to the ground before deflating the balloon and taking it away. About 30 people were involved in the angry clash.
    Retired Politicians Spend Unused Campaign Funds - New York Times
      New York's campaign finance laws have been widely criticized by public interest groups as being riddled with loopholes that permit excessive contributions from special interests and inappropriate expenses by candidates. Over the years, the Board of Elections has lent its approval to candidates who wanted to spend money on car payments and repairs, baby-sitting expenses and luxury gifts, provided such expenses were somehow connected to political activities.
      The law does prohibit candidates from converting campaign contributions to personal use "unrelated to a political campaign or the holding of a public office or party position." But the elections board has interpreted that to mean that former officeholders can keep spending money on the chance, however slim, that they will one day run again.
    Endeavour commander Mark Kelly quits NASA (robertleather news feed)
      Endeavour commander Mark Kelly quits NASA
      Mark Kelly, the veteran combat pilot and astronaut, has announced he's retiring from the US Navy and quitting NASA on 1 October. His wife is Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in January.
  Devil Weed
    GM marijuana problem growing in Colombia. (Neal)
      GM marijuana problem growing in Colombia.
      CALI, Colombia (AFP) ’Äì Greenhouses lined with genetically modified marijuana sit on a mountainside just an hour ride from Cali, Colombia, where farmers say the enhanced plants are more powerful and profitable.
  2TTH
    Ray Nagin describes post-Hurricane Katrina paranoia in his new book | NOLA.com
      The former mayor, who left office last year, also admits in the 330-page paperback that the infamously botched nature of the disaster response led him briefly into a state of paranoia. Nagin writes that he suspected the federal government of trying to poison him, and he believed at one point that the city's wealthiest, most powerful residents were trying to bug his hotel suite.
    PM David Cameron constituency chief and friend found dead at Glastonbury! (robertleather news feed)
      (22TH) PM David Cameron constituency chief and friend found dead at Glastonbury!
      55 year old Christopher Shale, constituency chairman and a close friend of the prime minister has been found dead in a portable toilet at the Glastonbury festival. Avon and Somerset Police immediately cordoned off the lavatories.
    Three Russian designers of Iran's nuclear plant die in plane crash
      Russian nuclear scientists who planned, designed, built and put into operation Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr this year, died Tuesday night, June 20, when a Rusaero flight from Moscow to Petrozavodsk in northwest Russia crashed.
      DEBKAfile's sources reveal that they were among the 44 passengers who were killed.
      Their loss is a severe blow to Russia's atomic reactor industry as well as its nuclear program as a whole, since the three, Sergey Ryzhov, Gennady Banuyk and Nikolay Trunov, specialized in running installations in tandem and synchronizing various systems.
      The Russian company OKB Gidropress, Moscow, which employed them as chief planners of nuclear plants, is proud of having sold reactors to five countries including Iran.
    aangirfan: RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH SABOTAGE?
      The whole leadership of the designers units of Russia's state nuclear corporation was killed when the Tu-134 passenger plane crash landed in the northern republic of Karelia.
    Sunny Sheu: Murdered for Investigating NY Foreclosure Judge Joseph Golia? - naked capitalism
      The details are thin but they sure don't smell right. The short form is that Sunny Sheu had his house stolen from him by fictive buyers who used forged documents. Judge Golia of Queens engaged in what appears to be highly questionable behavior in failing to reverse the sale. Sheu started investigating the judge, was told by policeman who specifically referred to information he had provided about Golia, and that if he didn't drop it, he'd wind up dead. Sheu disregarded their warning and did wind up dead. The authorities are also refusing to honor requests for information regarding Sheu's death made under New York's Freedom of Information Act. This story has been publicized by Foreclosure Fraud and The Daily Bail and I hope it gets more traction.
  $hadow Puppet Theatre
    President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts | The White House
      Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts:
  Biodiversitée
    Climate Change: It's bad and getting worse - Features - Al Jazeera English
      Schwartz, who is also the co-director of the Programme on Global Sustainability and Health, said that lack of clean water, a phenomenon that is also a product of climate change, will lead to increases in morbidity and mortality from a variety of water-borne diseases.
  Oil Cabal
    Libya bombing could give Norway the oil contracts
      Norway's contribution to military action in Libya may result in lucrative contracts to Norwegian oil companies.
  Bank$ters
    New ECB boss Draghi's Goldman Sachs part in the Greek crisis (bertb news feed)
      New ECB boss Draghi's Goldman Sachs part in the Greek crisis
      New head of ECB Draghi led Goldman derivatives group when it advised Greece on how to hide its true debt levels in order to enter the EU.
  Poppie$
    'New drugs' offset cocaine and heroin gains, says UN. (bertb news feed)
      'New drugs' offset cocaine and heroin gains, says UN.
      Gains made in tackling global use of cocaine and heroin are being offset by rising consumption of synthetic and prescription drugs, the UN says. In its annual report, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that in Europe, seizures of new psychoactive drugs had been...
    The News - Heroin cheapest in Belgium
      This is evident from the annual World Drug Report by the United Nations. Heroin takes on average only 23 euros per gram. In Finland is seven times more. - Cocaine here has a street value of about 49.5 euros per gram. Ruyters Tino, director of the center for drug addicts Free Clinic, said that the price can be explained by the central position of our country.
    Drug production slumps as blight hits poppy crops (WT news feed)
      Drug production slumps as blight hits poppy crops
      World opium production decreased sharply last year due to a blight in Afghanistan but is expected to rebound. Coca growing and cocaine production also fell, the United Nations has reported.
  Gitmo Nation
    AP News: Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search
      Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia.
      Her mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search.
    Home Security System Being Promoted By Comcast Can Be a Trojan Horse for Big Brother? (WT news feed)
      Home Security System Being Promoted By Comcast Can Be a Trojan Horse for Big Brother?
      The new service now being promoted is Xfinity. It shows a state of the art home monitoring with cameras around the house and sensors keeping track of energy usage.
    Patriot Act Debate: Is the FBI Collecting Your Phone Data? - TIME
      That section allows the FBI to seize without a warrant "any tangible things," like documents, so long as they are part of an effort to protect the country against international terrorism. The FBI can order a private company to turn over data as long as the bureau can convince a special national-security court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, that the information is "relevant" to antiterrorism work.
      Obama Administration officials emphasize that this review by the intelligence court is an important step in protecting privacy. Privacy advocates, however, consider it little more than a rubber stamp. " 'Relevant' means some noncrazy reason for asking for it," said the Cato Institute's Julian Sanchez, who believes the government is using that authority to sweep up huge amounts of communications data.
    Huiscontrole weigeren kan uitkering kosten (WT news feed)
      Huiscontrole weigeren kan uitkering kosten
      Een uitkering kan worden verlaagd of gestopt als mensen niet meewerken aan controle thuis en als informatie over hun woonsituatie anders niet te krijgen is. Hierbij is geen vermoeden van fraude meer nodig.
  United $tates of EURO-pe
    BBC News - Spanish anti-austerity protesters start march on Madrid
      Hundreds of acrivists from cities across Spain have begun marches towards Madrid as part of a demonstration against the state of the economy.
      The protesters, who started off in cities including Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia and Cadiz, plan to converge in the capital next month.
    Near-bankrukpt Greece a culture of corruption, $1 billion a year in bribes - New Europe
      Even as Greeks face wage freezes and cuts, higher taxes and a longer wait for retirement to keep the country from going under in an ocean of debt, they have been hit with a new report that identifies one of the main culprits for the country's reputation for graft and excessive spending: that everyone from doctors to lawyers to civil servants to government officials are on the take, costing Greeks $1 billion a year to pay them.
    New ECB boss Draghi's Goldman Sachs part in the Greek crisis (bertb news feed)
      New ECB boss Draghi's Goldman Sachs part in the Greek crisis
      New head of ECB Draghi led Goldman derivatives group when it advised Greece on how to hide its true debt levels in order to enter the EU.
    Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism
      A new integration bill (covering letter and 15-page action plan), which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads: "The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people. In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role. With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society."
    CRASH 2: Sir Merv takes the gloves off to warn that the end is nigh. | The Slog
      "Right through this crisis from the very beginning.....an awful lot of people wanted to believe that it was a crisis of liquidity," King opined today, "It wasn't, it isn't. And until we accept that, we will never find an answer to it. It was a crisis based on solvency.....initially financial institutions and now sovereigns."
    Wilders found not guilty of inciting hatred, but is 'on the edge' (WT news feed)
      Wilders found not guilty of inciting hatred, but is 'on the edge'
      The court ruled that some of Wilders' statements were insulting, shocking and on the edge of legal acceptibility, but that they were made in the broad context of a political and social debate on the multi-cultural society.
  Ministry of Truth
    [VIDEO] Obama Makes Another Military Gaffe: Mistakes Fallen Soldier for Living One | NewsBusters.org
      How does the Commander-in-Chief mix these heroes up? He put that medal around Giunta's neck and he stood with Monti's parents as they grieved. These fallen heroes leave such a great legacy, and we should know all their names. The ironic part of the speech, and this comes after the announcement of the politically pressured drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, was Obama's closing remark, "Know that your Commander-in-Chief has your back."
      Trouble is, however, SFC Monti did, in fact, receive the award posthumously in 2009, three years after he was killed in Afghanistan in 2006. Obama did award the Medal of Honor to a living Army service member, Sal Giunta, a staff sergeant in another Army unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
    BLACKFIVE: President Obama's Terrible Mistake
      How does the Commander-in-Chief mix these heroes up? He put that medal around Giunta's neck and he stood with Monti's parents as they grieved. These fallen heroes leave such a great legacy, and we should know all their names. The ironic part of the speech, and this comes after the announcement of the politically pressured drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, was Obama's closing remark, "Know that your Commander-in-Chief has your back."
    Report: Bin Laden courier's phone provides leads - FOX5 - KVVU - Las Vegas, News, Weather and Video
      In tracing the calls on the cellphone, U.S. analysts have determined that Harakat commanders had called Pakistani intelligence officials, the senior American officials said. One said they had met. The officials added that the contacts were not necessarily about bin Laden and that there was no "smoking gun" showing that Pakistan's spy agency had protected bin Laden.
    Iran giving out condoms for criminals to rape us, say jailed activists. (bertb news feed)
      Iran giving out condoms for criminals to rape us, say jailed activists.
      Prison guards in Iran are giving condoms to criminals and encouraging them to systematically rape young opposition activists locked up with them, according to accounts from inside the country's jail system.
  Arab Spring
    Twitter / @SenJohnMcCain: In #Egypt 4 biz delegation ...
      In #Egypt 4 biz delegation w/ Jeff Immelt, @GeneralElectric & @CocaCola @Bechtel @MarriottIntl @DowChemical @BoeingCorporate @ExxonMobil
    Libya bombing could give Norway the oil contracts
      Norway's contribution to military action in Libya may result in lucrative contracts to Norwegian oil companies.
    BBC News - Hassan Nasrallah: Hezbollah men 'spied for CIA'
      The head of Hezbollah has said two of the Lebanese Islamist group's members have confessed to working for the CIA.
      Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said a third man was under investigation, accused of spying for the US intelligence agency.
    The Ugly Truth: Video Of Libyan Rebel Beheading Gadhaffi Soldier And Other Nato War Crimes :
      As the former CIA Asset who covered Libya at the United Nations from 1995 to 2003 during negotiations for the Lockerbie Trial, I am compelled to break past that propaganda to examine actual evidence.
    Obama's Libya
    Just seven years on Fleeting moments - Iftekhar A Khan
      The drone is said to be Obama's favourite weapon of war because it does a clean job, with no mess at the joysticks end. Sitting thousands of miles away, the drone operators neither see the splattering of blood and splintering of bones, nor hear the wailing of the kin of those who have been killed.
    U.S. House keeps Libya funding, fails to authorize mission. (WT news feed)
      U.S. House keeps Libya funding, fails to authorize mission.
      A resolution that bars most funding for the U.S. military mission in Libya failed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, shortly after another measure authorizing the Libya mission suffered the same fate.
  Shut Up Slave!
    L.A. County's Private Property War - Page 1 - News - Los Angeles - LA Weekly
      L.A. Weekly found in a six-week investigation that county inspectors and armed DA investigators also are pursuing victimless misdemeanors and code violations, with sometimes tragic results. The government can define land on which residents have lived for years as "vacant" if their cabins, homes and mobile homes are on parcels where the land use hasn't been legally established. Some have been jailed for defying the officials in downtown Los Angeles, while others have lost their savings and belongings trying to meet the county's "final zoning enforcement orders." Los Angeles County has left some residents, who appeared to be doing no harm, homeless.
  Food!
    Warning issued on bean sprouts - The Irish Times - Sat, Jun 25, 2011
      Irish consumers have been urged not to eat raw bean sprouts after an E.coli outbreak in France similar to a recent one in Germany that claimed 37 lives.
      The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said today French authorities are investigating an outbreak of food-borne illness caused by Verotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC) 0104:H4.
      It is the same strain as that identified in the recent large outbreak in Germany associated with bean sprouts.
      "Preliminary indications suggest that bean sprouts could be also be implicated in this French outbreak," the authority said.
    Scientists push to implement edible RFID tracking chips in food. (@CrisisClub)
      Scientists push to implement edible RFID tracking chips in food.
      Developed by Hannes Harms from the Royal College of Art in London, the "NutriSmart" system is based on the idea that RFID wafers injected directly into food can help better track the food supply chain, further automate the supermarket shopping experience, and simplify...
    Store gives away eggs for free and sells the cartons they're in | Sympatico.ca News
      P.E.I. officials have stopped a small store from selling local, free-range eggs because of food safety regulations. Until those regulations are amended, the store has found a creative work-around.
    FSA revises guidance after E. coli outbreak. (robertleather news feed)
      FSA revises guidance after E. coli outbreak.
      The Food Standards Agency says it is revising its guidance on the consumption of sprouted seeds in light of an outbreak of E. coli in France. The FSA is advising that seeds such as alfalfa, beansprouts and fenugreek should be cooked and not eaten raw.
  Cyber War$
    Grid Frequency Experiment
    Leveraging Social Media for Early Indications and Warnings of Instability and Unrest | Empress of the Global Universe
      This presentation will discuss how-Lockheed Martin's software suite, called
      Event Registration (EVENT: 314816)
      "Web Information Spread Data Operations Module" (WISDOM), is breaking new
      ground in online social media collection and analytics. WISDOM's innovative
      algorithms are integrated with, and indeed govern, existing technologies
      (e.g., crawling, tagging, agents, visualizations, etc.) to provide near
      real-time monitoring and analytic exploitation of the Internet as a
      socio-cultural data source. With its suite of capabilities, WISDOM's
      automated collection, processing, and analytic visualizations save the
      analyst time generally spent on collection so they may devote the majority of
      their effort toward analysis; and discover trends, sentiment shifts, and key
      influencers in online communities to alert the analyst to indications of
      unrest that may lead to instability events.
    LulzSec site taken down by lone-wolf hacker. (WT news feed)
      LulzSec site taken down by lone-wolf hacker.
      The lone-wolf operator, known as the Jester, claimed to have downed the LulzSec website "for the lulz" and exposed its shadowy leader in a Twitter message on Friday. The main LulzSec website was down for a short time on Friday morning but resurfaced shortly after.
  Magic Numbers
    Standard Form 33
    Tri-State Red Cross Expanding to Serve 33 Counties (robertleather news feed)
      Tri-State Red Cross Expanding to Serve 33 Counties
  Squirrel!
    Twin Towers steel sent for memorials across America (The Groupie)
      Twin Towers steel sent for memorials across America
      [I thought the Chinese got all that steel] As the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks nears, workers at an airplane hangar filled with World Trade Center steel have dispatched charred hunks of metal to towns across America for building memorials. The Port Authority of...
  Vaccine$
    @Adamcurry brought my 6month old son to get vaccinated.They tried to schedule "gardasil" for some time in the future.Told her a flat out no. (@adamcurry - Twitter Search)
      @Adamcurry brought my 6month old son to get vaccinated.They tried to schedule "gardasil" for some time in the future.Told her a flat out no.
    California bill would remove parental consent of HPV vaccine for kids. (Southern Bread News Feed)
      California bill would remove parental consent of HPV vaccine for kids.
      The bill would allow children to consent to treatment with the controversial Gardasil vaccine intended to prevent HPV -- a virus that can cause cervical cancer. Ninety one deaths attributed to Gardasil have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System as of...
    Ban on CSL flu vaccine extended to older children. (Southern Bread News Feed)
      Ban on CSL flu vaccine extended to older children.
      Sydney Morning Herald Ban on CSL flu vaccine extended to older children The Age HEALTH authorities have toughened the restrictions on children taking CSL's flu vaccine , raising the minimum age from five years to nine. After more than a year of investigating, the...
  Out There
    NASA - Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm
      This week, officials have gathered at the National Press Club in Washington DC to ask themselves a simple question: What if it happens again?
    INCOMING! Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on Monday : Discovery News. (Mr. Oil's Earthquake Feed)
      INCOMING! Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on Monday : Discovery News.
      This may sound like late notice, but astronomers have just spotted a rather chunky asteroid heading our way, set to narrowly miss us on Monday. In fact, it will be such a narrow miss that astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere should be able to spot the flyby with fairly modest...
  Video
    [VIDEO] Obama Makes Another Military Gaffe: Mistakes Fallen Soldier for Living One | NewsBusters.org
      How does the Commander-in-Chief mix these heroes up? He put that medal around Giunta's neck and he stood with Monti's parents as they grieved. These fallen heroes leave such a great legacy, and we should know all their names. The ironic part of the speech, and this comes after the announcement of the politically pressured drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, was Obama's closing remark, "Know that your Commander-in-Chief has your back."
      Trouble is, however, SFC Monti did, in fact, receive the award posthumously in 2009, three years after he was killed in Afghanistan in 2006. Obama did award the Medal of Honor to a living Army service member, Sal Giunta, a staff sergeant in another Army unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
    Top 6 Videos of Michele Bachmann's Batshit Insane Quotes. (DaDenMan news feed)
      Top 6 Videos of Michele Bachmann's Batshit Insane Quotes.
      If there is one thing that Michelle Bachmann does exceptionally well, it is making us laugh with her constant stream of complete ignorance. It amazes me that 99% of what she says is ridiculous.
    [VIDEO] NASA To Fly Low Over Region For Air Quality Study - CBS Baltimore
      This is no ordinary plane, it's a specially fitted NASA aircraft designed with equipment to measure air pollution levels in flight. And starting next week the skies over Maryland will become a pollution detection playground for the plane and for NASA scientists.
    [VIDEO] - 6/22/2011 -- X37 (OTV 2 / USA 226) spacecraft in near earth orbit over Japan during quake
      I think the x37 might be "powered" or "propelled" using frequency manipulation.. they don't admit this, but (in my opinion) why wouldn't they use HAARP in conjunction with this craft.. or at least some form of ground based frequency manipulation, the chinese have admitted their "meridian (chinese haarp) can move objects in space... if theirs can.. so can ours!