'KKK' confronts Westboro protesters
CNN TOP STORIES | MAY 31, 2011
http://pulsene.ws/1MlEj
Protesting members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church were met with an unlikely group of counter-protesters Monday at ... read more
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
'KKK' confronts Westboro protesters
Frum: Media loves Palin, snubs Romney
Frum: Media loves Palin, snubs Romney
CNN TOP STORIES | MAY 31, 2011
http://pulsene.ws/1MNHF
Sarah Palin has mesmerized the cable shows by revving a bus and riding a Harley. read more
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Egyptian official: 'Virginity checks' done
Egyptian official: 'Virginity checks' done
CNN TOP STORIES | MAY 31, 2011
http://pulsene.ws/1Mnms
A senior Egyptian general admits that "virginity checks" were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the ... read more
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Clashes rage in Yemen's capital
Clashes rage in Yemen's capital
CNN TOP STORIES | MAY 31, 2011
http://pulsene.ws/1MFZ6
Three people were killed Tuesday during clashes in Taiz, a center of protests against the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, ... read more
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Supreme Court Throws Out Lawsuit Against John Ashcroft
Supreme Court Throws Out Lawsuit Against John Ashcroft
HUFFINGTON POST: POLITICS | MAY 31, 2011
http://pulsene.ws/1MMwB
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft cannot be sued over his role in ... read more
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In Shift, Feds Target Top Execs for Health Fraud
About Time. Now go after the crooks on Wall St.:
It's getting personal now. In a shift still evolving, federal enforcers are targeting individual executives in health care fraud cases that used to be aimed at impersonal corporations.
The new tactic is raising the anxiety level — and risks — for corporate honchos at drug companies, medical device manufacturers, nursing home chains and other major health care enterprises that deal with Medicare and Medicaid.
Previously, if a company got caught, its lawyers in many cases would be able to negotiate a financial settlement. The company would write the government a check for a number followed by lots of zeroes and promise not to break the rules again. Often the cost would just get passed on to customers.
Earthquake caused boom in N.E. Philly
http://m.philly.com/phillycom/pm_101980/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=bNfb3QV7
- What happens when the big one comes along? We are not ready.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Lockheed Martin Hit by Cyber Attack
Only a matter of time before America is hit by a devastating Cyber Attack. It will happen because the government, media and business are not taking the threat more seriously:
Hackers launched a "significant and tenacious" cyber attack on Lockheed Martin, a major defense contractor holding highly sensitive information, but its secrets remained safe, the company said Saturday.
Lockheed Martin, the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon confirmed that the contractor's information systems had come under attack. Lt. Col. April Cunningham, speaking for the Defense Department, said the impact on the Pentagon "is minimal and we don't expect any adverse effect."
Still, the concerted attempt to breach the contractor's systems underscored the risk to the nation's critical defense data.
Ralph Nader: Revitalizing the AFL-CIO
This comes from a true champion of the people:
At a perilous period for both working and unemployed Americans, facing deep recession, corporate abandonment to China and other repressive regimes, and the Republicans’ virulent assault on livelihoods and labor rights, Kelber believes that AFL-CIO should be on the ramparts. Instead, he sees it as moribund, hunkering down, with control of the power and purse concentrated in the hands of the silent and Sphinx-like Federation officers and the tiny clique of bureaucrats who run the show.
“In the AFL-CIO, the rank-and-file have no voice in electing their officials, because only the candidates of the Old Guard can be on the ballot,” he writes.
Certainly, the AFL-CIO is not reflecting the old adage that when “the going gets tough, the tough get going.” They recoil from any public criticism of Barack Obama, who disregards or and humiliates them by his actions.
Mr. Obama promised labor in 2008 to press for a $9.50 federal minimum wage by 2011, and the Employee Free Choice Act, especially “card check,” and then forgot about both commitments. He has not spoken out and vigorously fought for an adequate OSHA inspection and enforcement budget to diminish the tens of thousands of workplace related fatalities every year. He’s been too busy managing drones, Kandahar and outlying regions of the quagmire of our undeclared wars.
Nothing Obama does seems to publically rile the AFL-CIO. In February, he crossed Lafayette Square from the White House with great fanfare to visit his pro-Republican opponents at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yet declined to go around the corner and visit the AFL-CIO headquarters. Where was the public objection from the House of Labor?
via powor.org
1 in 10 Soldiers Have Lost Limbs in Current Wars
1 in 4 of those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are unemployed, suffer depression or substance abuse.
- source: CNN
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
California Teacher in Chloroform Case Arrested Again on Explosives Rap
ABC:
A popular California teacher, accused earlier this week of helping students inhale chloroform, was arrested again when explosive material was found inside her chemistry classroom.
A bomb squad detonated a small vial of the highly explosive compound nitroglycerin after it was discovered at Livingston High School, south of Stockton.
Rights group says extrajudicial killings by Venezuela’s police officers escalating
Ortega called the rise in the number of killings part of “a progressive disappearance of institutional conduct” within Venezuela’s municipal, state and federal police forces.
Venezuelans are generally distrustful of police. The government of President Hugo Chavez recently dissolved the Metropolitan Police in the capital of Caracas due to rampant corruption, violent crime by officers and widespread rights abuses.
The government created a new city police force — the National Bolivarian Police — last year as part of an effort to regain the trust of citizens and it plans to expand the force, establishing precincts in other cities.
Ortega’s group is closely examining 81 cases of extrajudicial killings between 2000 and 2009, but rights activists say many more such killings were committed during that period. Provea, another Venezuelan rights group, counted 199 extrajudicial killings between October 2009 and September 2010.
Cofavic’s study said few police officers responsible for unwarranted killings faced prosecution, which Ortega said has spurred an increase in such slayings.
“Less than 4 percent of the cases go to trial in Venezuela and that obviously creates a situation of institutional break down,” Ortega said.
Police responsible for killings frequently threaten or attack the relatives of victims seeking to intimidate them into not reporting the slayings to government authorities, Ortega said.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Wisconsin Union Law Struck Down By County Circuit Judge
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/26/wisconsin-union-law-law-s_n_867437.h...
- One for our side. This battle has been won. But the war continues.
- One for our side. This battle has been won. But the war continues.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Senate debates president’s power during cyber-attack
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/23/senate-debates-presidents-pow...
- A cyberattack is coming. And we are unprepared just as weren't prior to 9-11.
- A cyberattack is coming. And we are unprepared just as weren't prior to 9-11.
Minneapolis liquor store looted after tornado
http://www.twincities.com/ci_18119387?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1
- Chaos coming to a neighborhood near you. And the government won't do anything for us. They are too busy raising money from fatcats.
- Chaos coming to a neighborhood near you. And the government won't do anything for us. They are too busy raising money from fatcats.
Authorities accuse 13 in Philadelphia of mob charges
Federal authorities on Monday unveiled racketeering, gambling and loan shark charges against 13 alleged mob members, accusing them of crimes from threatening murder over unpaid debts to running illegal video machines in Philadelphia coffee shops.
Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles Experts
The number of violent crimes in the United States dropped significantly last year, to what appeared to be the lowest rate in nearly 40 years, a development that was considered puzzling partly because it ran counter to the prevailing expectation that crime would increase during a recession.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Source: Former IMF chief sought company of two hotel receptionists
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/05/22/new.york.former.imf.chief/index.html?eref...
- How could this pig be considered a strong candidate to become President of France.
- How could this pig be considered a strong candidate to become President of France.
Pile of debt would stretch beyond stratosphere
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/19/us-usa-debt-size-idUSTRE74I5TL20110519
- And still there are no solutions being offered or coming. The press seems more interested in whether Newt Gingrich is overspending at Tiffanys.
- And still there are no solutions being offered or coming. The press seems more interested in whether Newt Gingrich is overspending at Tiffanys.
Paul Ryan's Budget Plan Too Controversial For Senate GOP?
Paul Ryan's Budget Plan Too Controversial For Senate GOP? - http://pulsene.ws/1HaHf
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