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  Two Men Arrested in New York Terror Case (NYT > Most Recent Headlines)
    Two Men Arrested in New York Terror Case
    The suspects, whom a law enforcement official characterized as "homegrown," intended to carry out a terrorist attack in New York City, law enforcement officials said.
  WAMU: The Diane Rehm Show Podcast - XML file
    David Goldman and his Brazilian wife, Bruna, led what appeared to be a happy life in New Jersey. Then, in June 2004, Bruna took their young son Sean to Brazil for what she said would be a two-week vacation. Once there, she told her husband she was staying in South America - and keeping Sean. Her actions set in motion an international firestorm that reached the highest levels of the U. S. and Brazilian governments. Both Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama would intervene before the standoff came to an end. It would be nearly five years before David Goldman saw Sean again. He talks with Diane about his battle to bring his son home.
  The uses of semen? One: reproduction. Two: best not mentioned, really
    In his Valentine's Day-themed editorial in Surgery News, "Gut Feelings", Lazar cited a study that reported the mood-boosting effects of semen on women, concluding: "So there's a deeper bond between men and women than St Valentine would have suspected, and now we know there's a better gift for that day than chocolate."
  Google executive behind Egyptian revolution gets US book deal (w.tromp news feed)
    Google executive behind Egyptian revolution gets US book deal
    The book, to be called Revolution 2.0, will portray the role played by social media and internet technology in coalescing the broad public opposition to the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak, the publisher said.
  Massacre in Yemen (The Daily Bell RSS News Feed)
    Massacre in Yemen
    Yesterday, the Internet and alternative media generally lit up with reports of a Yemeni attack on protestors. Yemeni security forces were said to have fired on protestors for a ...
  Record flu vaccine production expected again this year. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Record flu vaccine production expected again this year.
    Influenza vaccine production for the US market is likely to head into record territory again this year, with manufacturers' estimates indicating that up to 173 million doses could be made.
  'Underwater' Homeowners Jump to 28 Percent in First Quarter - FoxNews.com. (Garlic Belch)
    'Underwater' Homeowners Jump to 28 Percent in First Quarter - FoxNews.com.
    More than 28 percent of U.S. homeowners owed more than their properties were worth in the first quarter as values decreased by the biggest margin since 2008, Zillow Inc. announced.
  LeBron James Apologizes for Saying 'Retarded' During Press Conference - FoxNews.com. (Garlic Belch)
    LeBron James Apologizes for Saying 'Retarded' During Press Conference - FoxNews.com.
    LeBron James apologized Monday night for his use of the word "retarded" in a press conference following the Heat's Game 3 loss to Boston on Saturday.
  AFP: Bill Clinton to lead Haiti inauguration. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    AFP: Bill Clinton to lead Haiti inauguration.
    WASHINGTON - Former president Bill Clinton will lead the official US delegation to the inauguration this weekend of Haiti's president-elect Michel Martelly, the White House said Wednesday.
  Libya: Nato admits it doesn't know if Gaddafi is dead or alive. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Libya: Nato admits it doesn't know if Gaddafi is dead or alive.
    Asked about the whereabouts of Gaddafi, who has not been seen in public since he reportedly escaped an air strike on April 30 that killed his son, Mr Gabellini said: "We don't have any evidence. We don't know what Gaddafi is doing right now.
  What could go wrong? EU to store credit card numbers for "terrorism database." (Southern Bread News Feed)
    What could go wrong? EU to store credit card numbers for "terrorism database."
    The database will store what a passenger ate, where they sat and whether they were flying on to another destination. The same data could be handed over to any other EU country in which the plane lands. That would include British tourists on package tours to Spain or travellers...
  Al-Qaida leader warns of 'worse to come' in eulogy to Bin Laden. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Al-Qaida leader warns of 'worse to come' in eulogy to Bin Laden.
    'What you will be facing is more intense harmful' says head of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula The leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has vowed to fight on after the killing of Osama bin Laden saying "what is coming is greater and...
  Is Portugal about to make Creative Commons illegal? (w.tromp news feed)
    Is Portugal about to make Creative Commons illegal?
    According to several reports, the Portuguese Socialist Party is announcing that it will push for a reform to its copyright legislation that will make economic rights inalienable and therefore cannot be waived or renounced.
  Merkel Endorses Former-Goldman Sachs Executive for ECB Presidency. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Merkel Endorses Former-Goldman Sachs Executive for ECB Presidency.
    German chancellor Angela Merkel has publicly endorsed Mario Draghi, former vice chairman and managing director of Goldman Sachs International and current governor of the Italian central bank, to become the next president of the European Central Bank. Draghi has already been...
  FBI: If We Told You, You Might Sue (My New Feed)
    FBI: If We Told You, You Might Sue
    Often when the government tries to suppress information about its surveillance programs, it cites national-security concerns. But not always. In 2008, a few years after the Bush administration's warrantless-wiretapping program was revealed for the first time by the New York...
  San Francisco circumcision ban headed for November ballot. (Garlic Belch)
    San Francisco circumcision ban headed for November ballot.
    Ouch
  Officials Warn Facebook and Twitter Increase Police Vulnerability (My New Feed)
    Officials Warn Facebook and Twitter Increase Police Vulnerability
    In the midst of what officials call an "appalling" and "alarming spike" in attacks on law enforcement around the country, officials are warning the success of sites such as Facebook and Twitter has made police even more vulnerable. While police have for some...
  DHS and FBI issue All Points Bulletin for Adam Curry and his ilk (Mel Cooley's news feed)
    DHS and FBI issue All Points Bulletin for Adam Curry and his ilk
    It was bound to happen ... Beware lone wolves in aftermath of bin Laden killing, advisory says ... Law enforcement officials have repeatedly warned that plots by lone wolves are the most difficult to detect and disrupt. But the DHS/FBI bulletin urges state and local law...
  Washington: State tightens rules for parents seeking to exempt kids from immunizations. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Washington: State tightens rules for parents seeking to exempt kids from immunizations.
    Vaccine exemptions now require a doctor's note Parents who send their kids to public schools must sit down with a doctor if they decide to skip some or all immunizations.
  European and IMF officials visit Athens as pressure for further bail-out grows. (w.tromp news feed)
    European and IMF officials visit Athens as pressure for further bail-out grows.
    European Union and International Monetary Fund officials are in Athens carrying out a review of Greece's finances and reform measures to determine whether the indebted nation merits a critical new slice of funding from its bail-out package.
  Beta-glucan could reduce salt in high pressure processed chicken: Study. (w.tromp news feed)
    Beta-glucan could reduce salt in high pressure processed chicken: Study.
    To reduce the amount of sodium in meats, phosphates are often added to the mix, but in this latest study, researchers aimed to get a similar textural effect through processing with oat beta-glucan, to allow manufacturers to cut salt and eliminate phosphates.
  Ajinomoto to Introduce New Sodium Reduction System - FoodIngredientsFirst. (w.tromp news feed)
    Ajinomoto to Introduce New Sodium Reduction System - FoodIngredientsFirst.
    Sodium reduction in processed foods is fast becoming one of the most critical topics in the food industry. A major issue when salt is removed from a food system is that the flavor profile becomes bland and undesirable. Salt Answer RXAX has been developed to help address this...
  SALT ANSWER RX-AX - AJINOMOTO. (w.tromp news feed)
    SALT ANSWER RX-AX - AJINOMOTO.
    Designed specifically to address the issues of sodium flavor reduction when salt levels are decreased, SALT ANSWER RX-AX works synergistically with lower levels of salt or salt blends to reestablish that desirable salt flavor to a veriety of products ranging from snacks to soups...
  DOJ wants wireless providers to store user info. (DaDenMan news feed)
    DOJ wants wireless providers to store user info.
    "Many wireless providers do not retain records that would enable law enforcement to identify a suspect's smartphone based on the IP addresses collected by Web sites that the suspect visited," he added. In an exchange with Sen. Al Franken, the Minnesota Democrat...
  Model developed to improve combination vaccine accessibility worldwide. (w.tromp news feed)
    Model developed to improve combination vaccine accessibility worldwide.
    Proano's research methodology uses mathematical optimization to solve problems that have implications for public policy, in particular to the supply chain of vaccines. This model considers each combination vaccine as a bundle of antigens that can be sold as a single item....
  Coming soon: A vaccine for coeliac disease! (w.tromp news feed)
    Coming soon: A vaccine for coeliac disease!
    Coming soon: The world's first vaccine for coeliac disease, say scientists who claim that the potential jab for the digestive disorder has shown promising results in the first phase of human trials.
  Vaccine maker Sanofi Pasteur gets US approval of new flu shot using tiny needle (w.tromp news feed)
    Vaccine maker Sanofi Pasteur gets US approval of new flu shot using tiny needle
    The company, based in Swiftwater, Pa., said patients have said they prefer the shorter, slimmer needles of the Fluzone Intradermal vaccine, but there's no data yet on whether they are less painful than bigger needles. Reactions around the injection site, including redness,...
  EU to open Benghazi office to back Libyan rebels. (w.tromp news feed)
    EU to open Benghazi office to back Libyan rebels.
    The European Union says it is planning to open an office in the Libyan rebel-held city of Bengazi. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says the bloc wants to support rebel efforts to establish democracy.
  Man diagnosed with bubonic plague in America's first case of the 'Black Death' this year (My New Feed)
    Man diagnosed with bubonic plague in America's first case of the 'Black Death' this year
    New Mexico has reported America's first human case of bubonic plague this year, the frightening disease once known as the Black Death. Officials revealed an unidentified 58-year-old man is recovering after spending a week in hospital with the illness, which kills one in...
  Navy Suspends Its New Policy on Same-Sex Unions. (w.tromp news feed)
    Navy Suspends Its New Policy on Same-Sex Unions.
    Under pressure from more than five dozen House lawmakers, the Navy late Tuesday abruptly reversed its decision that would have allowed chaplains to perform same-sex unions if the Pentagon decides to recognize openly gay military service later this year.
  Air passengers' lunch details to be stored in terrorism plan. (w.tromp news feed)
    Air passengers' lunch details to be stored in terrorism plan.
    The details of millions of British airline passengers will be stored for up to five years under EU plans to tackle terrorism. Information including names, addresses, credit card details and travel partners will be collated. The database will store what a passenger ate, where...
  2011 Eurovision song fest gets underway. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    2011 Eurovision song fest gets underway.
    It is that time of year when presenters compete with over-the-top television production and viewers cringe and criticise musical cultural differences -- yes it is the Eurovision Song contest.
  Babies given anti-obesity drugs in the womb (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Babies given anti-obesity drugs in the womb
    One hundred obese mums-to-be will be given Metformin as part of a three-year study to tackle obesity rates and reduce the number of difficult births.
  DUTROUX WIFE RELEASED. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    DUTROUX WIFE RELEASED.
    Ex-wife of Marc Dutroux. The ex-wife of Marc Dutroux was given a 30 year jail sentence. On 10 May 2011, we learn that Michelle Martin, the ex-wife, is to be released after spending only 15 years in jail. She is to move to a convent overseas. Outrage as 'remorseless'...
  EU to open aid office in Benghazi. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    EU to open aid office in Benghazi.
    The EU will open an office in the rebel-held Libyan city of Benghazi to improve the flow of aid, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says.
  Revised 'Net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Revised 'Net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too.
    According to the detailed summary of the PROTECT IP Act, this addition "responds to concerns raised that search engines are part of the ecosystem that directs Internet user traffic and therefore should be part of the solution."
  Syria tanks 'shell' protest city. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Syria tanks 'shell' protest city.
    Syrian security forces go on with their crackdown on anti-government protests across the country, with army tanks shelling the third city of Homs.
  Grieken staken (wederom). (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Grieken staken (wederom).
    De Grieken hebben vandaag het werk weer neergelegd uit protest tegen bezuinigingsmaatregelen van de regering. Havens, treinverkeer en overheidsdiensten kwamen voor een deel stil te liggen. Ook het luchtvaartverkeer ondervond hinder. ...
  Kosmos Energy Prices Boosted 33 Mln Share IPO At Top-end Of Range. (robertleather news feed)
    Kosmos Energy Prices Boosted 33 Mln Share IPO At Top-end Of Range.
    Privately-held oil exploration and production company Kosmos Energy Ltd.announced Tuesday that it has priced its boosted initial public offering of 33 million common shares at the top end of its estimated offering price range at $18.00 per share, seeking to raise proceeds of...
  International Airlines Group earns euro33 million first-quarter profit. (robertleather news feed)
    International Airlines Group earns euro33 million first-quarter profit.
    International Airlines Group, formed by the merger of British Airways and Iberia in January, reported a first-quarter net profit of euro33 million ($48.7 million), turned around from a pro forma net deficit of euro243 million in the year-ago period. Net income includes an euro83...
  Hotline gets 33 tax tip-offs in a week (robertleather news feed)
    Hotline gets 33 tax tip-offs in a week
    The new tip-off line for alleged or assumed tax cheats got 33 reports in its first week, Tax Administration Jamaica said Tuesday. The tax-cheat hotline became operational May 1 and is manned by "trained agents, the tax agency said. The reports were referred to senior...
  Ratings agencies hammer Greece in EU chaos. (w.tromp news feed)
    Ratings agencies hammer Greece in EU chaos.
    Credit ratings agencies hammered Greece on Monday after senior euro zone policymakers acknowledged that Athens will need a second bailout package soon to avert a disorderly overhaul of its debt obligations.
  Rehn warns Finland against a Portuguese 'Lehman'. (w.tromp news feed)
    Rehn warns Finland against a Portuguese 'Lehman'.
    EU economy chief Olli Rehn on Tuesday (10 May) warned Finnish political parties to back the EU-IMF bail-out package arranged for Portugal, comparing the situation to that ahead of the collapse of financial services giant Lehman Brothers in the United States in 2008, the catalyst...
  Real News: Stiff Competition. Could a New 'Viagra Condom' Encourage Safer Sex? (w.tromp news feed)
    Real News: Stiff Competition. Could a New 'Viagra Condom' Encourage Safer Sex?
    The problem with condoms is that they don't get used as often as they should. But an innovative new product by a British biotech firm may change men's minds: called CSD500, the condom helps men keep their erection longer.
  Three Fifa World Cup voters accused of taking bribes. (w.tromp news feed)
    Three Fifa World Cup voters accused of taking bribes.
    The BBC's Panorama documentary, the timing of which had been branded "unpatriotic" by bid executives before broadcast and "frustrating" by the prime minister, David Cameron, also contained fresh allegations against the Concacaf president, Jack Warner,...
  Cellphones to get disaster alerts (w.tromp news feed)
    Cellphones to get disaster alerts
    A special chip is required to allow a phone to receive the messages, and soon all new phones will have the technology. Some smartphones already have the chip, and software updates will be available when the network goes online later this year
  National Emergency Alert System Set To Launch In NYC (audio) (w.tromp news feed)
    National Emergency Alert System Set To Launch In NYC (audio)
    A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones. It's called the Personal Localized Alert Network or PLAN. Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear on cell phones...
  Osama's Dead, But Congress Wants a Wider War. (w.tromp news feed)
    Osama's Dead, But Congress Wants a Wider War.
    Osama bin Laden is dead. 9/11 was ten years ago. So it's not the most obvious time for a key congressional panel to expand the war on terrorism. But that's exactly what a section of the fiscal 2012 defense bill proposes to do
  83 Cases of Autism Associated with Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensated in Federal Vaccine (w.tromp news feed)
    83 Cases of Autism Associated with Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensated in Federal Vaccine
    For over 20 years, the federal government has publicly denied a vaccine-autism link, while at the same time its Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has been awarding damages for vaccine injury to children with brain damage, seizures and autism.
  83 Cases of Autism Associated with Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensated in Federal Vaccine... -- WASHINGTON, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --. (pg.chrys news feed)
    83 Cases of Autism Associated with Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensated in Federal Vaccine... -- WASHINGTON, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --.
    Government program has been quietly paying awards to vaccine-injured children with autism for two decades but continues to deny vaccine-autism link. SafeMinds calls for immediate Congressional investigations.
  Fat Contracts Drift Toward Former Obama Official's Company. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Fat Contracts Drift Toward Former Obama Official's Company.
    A nonprofit whose vice president is a former Obama administration official has secured a nearly $100 million government contract in Afghanistan, raising concerns with at least one former U.S. State Department insider.
  Hillary Clinton's visit to Pakistan cancelled. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Hillary Clinton's visit to Pakistan cancelled.
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Pakistan scheduled for this month has been cancelled, report said on Tuesday. Sources told the media that the current tension (after Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's killing in Pakistan) between the two countries is the...
  Uh Oh. Weekly Insider Selling To Buying Ratio: 565x. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Uh Oh. Weekly Insider Selling To Buying Ratio: 565x.
    Barrons' noticed the massive spike in selling in recent weeks, noting that any selling to buying ratio over 20 is bearish based on its limited universe of stocks. So, what about 565?
  Sheila Bair To Step Down from FDIC. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Sheila Bair To Step Down from FDIC.
    (Reuters) - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Chairman Sheila Bair will leave the agency effective July 8, the FDIC announced on Monday.
  Shadow Government Bunkers: Security Heightened at Underground Storage Facilities. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Shadow Government Bunkers: Security Heightened at Underground Storage Facilities.
    Rumor has it that the government has built literal underground cities spanning hundreds of thousands of square feet, complete with everything from nuclear power generation to facilities capable of manufacturing just about any modern day product. The idea is that in the event of...
  But wait, I thought secession was only for neo-confederate southern racists. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    But wait, I thought secession was only for neo-confederate southern racists.
    A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot ambition to the forefront of Arizona politics.
  Flooding of Southern Farms Poised to Wreak Havoc on Economy. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Flooding of Southern Farms Poised to Wreak Havoc on Economy.
    As the Mississippi River crests and the flooding spreads to Mississippi and Louisiana, the vital grain crops in the region are in peril. In some places, the floodwaters are swamping or bearing down on wheat that is almost ready for harvest and corn that has broken through the...
  U.S. Post Office Could Be Bankrupt By September. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    U.S. Post Office Could Be Bankrupt By September.
    The U.S. Postal Service posted a $2.2 billion net loss in its second quarter and said it might be unable to pay its debts by September.
  Top FIFA Officials Are Named in Bribery Investigation. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Top FIFA Officials Are Named in Bribery Investigation.
    According to information given to a House of Commons committee by The Sunday Times, two African delegates on FIFA's executive committee, Issa Hayatou of Cameroon and Jacques Anouma of the Ivory Coast, were each reportedly paid $1.5 million to vote for Qatar, which...
  DC and Marvel unite forces in the Situation Room picture. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    DC and Marvel unite forces in the Situation Room picture.
    [PHOTO]
  Jillian Michaels Trying to Adopt Baby in Congo. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Jillian Michaels Trying to Adopt Baby in Congo.
    There are babies here too Jillian.
  House seeks accounting of aid money to Haiti. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    House seeks accounting of aid money to Haiti.
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The House on Tuesday asked the Obama administration to come up with an accounting of how humanitarian and reconstruction aid is being spent in Haiti, which has been slow to recover from the devastating earthquake of more than a year ago despite an outpouring of...
  Google takes surprise $500M charge over DOJ ad investigation - GeekWire. (DaDenMan news feed)
    Google takes surprise $500M charge over DOJ ad investigation - GeekWire.
    In May 2011, in connection with a potential resolution of an investigation by the United States Department of Justice into the use of Google advertising by certain advertisers, we accrued $500 million for the three month period ended March 31, 2011. Although we cannot predict...
  DOJ wants wireless providers to store user info. (DaDenMan news feed)
    DOJ wants wireless providers to store user info.
    Weinstein said, "when this information is not stored, it may be impossible for law enforcement to collect essential evidence." In January, CNET was the first to report that the Justice Department had started a new legislative push for what is generally known as...
  Biggest BitTorrent Downloading Case in U.S. History Targets 23,000 Defendants. (DaDenMan news feed)
    Biggest BitTorrent Downloading Case in U.S. History Targets 23,000 Defendants.
    Subpoenas are expected to go out this week. All told, more than 140,000 BitTorrent downloaders are being targeted in dozens of lawsuits across the country, many of them for downloading B-rated movies and porn. Many lawyers are mimicking the Copyright Group's legal strategy,...
  MTV Producer Gabe Ben-Meir Found with Gunshot to the Head - ABC News. (rdwrer news feed)
    MTV Producer Gabe Ben-Meir Found with Gunshot to the Head - ABC News.
    Ben-Meir was killed from a blast from a shotgun, reported the Los Angeles Times, citing an unnamed source.
  Chelsea Clinton's Husband Is Starting A Hedge Fund. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Chelsea Clinton's Husband Is Starting A Hedge Fund.
    Marc Mezvinsky, aka Chelsea Clinton's husband, is about to launch a hedge fund with "two guys from Goldman Sachs," reports NYDN.
  83 cases of autism compensated in Federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program(VICP). (Southern Bread News Feed)
    83 cases of autism compensated in Federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program(VICP).
    For over 20 years, the federal government has publicly denied a vaccine-autism link, while at the same time its Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has been awarding damages for vaccine injury to children with brain damage, seizures and autism. A new investigation, based...
  AstroGnostic: Stanley Kubrick and the Reality Stargate. (Newsmix)
    AstroGnostic: Stanley Kubrick and the Reality Stargate.
    It's Weidner's contention that Stanley Kubrick was enlisted to help manufacture film and photography for a simulation of an Apollo 11 mission for public consumption, which would keep the real mission secret
  Italy goes to enormous lengths to debunk legend predicting massive Rome quake Wednesday. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Italy goes to enormous lengths to debunk legend predicting massive Rome quake Wednesday.
    Italian officials are going to extraordinary lengths to try to debunk an urban legend predicting a devastating earthquake in Rome on Wednesday. The country's Civil Protection department has posted a dense information packet on its website stressing that quakes can't be...
  Italians evacuate Rome over 'big one' earthquake fears. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Italians evacuate Rome over 'big one' earthquake fears.
    Businesses have reported requests from one in five people to have time off work and many are also keeping children away from school and heading to the beach or country for the day. Romans are taking it so seriously that local newspapers have even been publishing survival guides...
  Antimalarial, psychotropic drugs used on Guantanamo detainees? (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Antimalarial, psychotropic drugs used on Guantanamo detainees?
    Jason Leopold, investigative reporter and Deputy Managing Editor of Truthout, discusses the standard Guantanamo practice of forcing detainees to take dangerously high doses of potent antimalarial drugs; how the long-lasting psychiatric side effects of mefloquine may have been...
  BBC Sport - Football - Triesman claims four Fifa members sought 2018 bribes. (Sir Dwayne's Town Crier)
    BBC Sport - Football - Triesman claims four Fifa members sought 2018 bribes.
    FIFA World Cup Scandal - interesting claims mentioning earthquakes and knighthoods: - Fifa vice-president Warner asked for around Ã‚Â£2.5m to build an education centre in Trinidad, with the cash to be channelled through him, and later wanted...
  Anthrax vaccine: Children targeted for testing Ã‚Â« The PPJ Gazette. (pg.chrys news feed)
    Anthrax vaccine: Children targeted for testing Ã‚Â« The PPJ Gazette.
    But Biosolutions wants to test their vaccine on kids just the same.
  Greeks stay In. (pg.chrys news feed)
    Greeks stay In.
    the peg to the Euro was being seriously considered. Over the weekend we find that there is little truth to the Spiegel claim.
  First Read - Boehner to call for 'trillions' in cuts as debt ceiling deadline looms. (pg.chrys news feed)
    First Read - Boehner to call for 'trillions' in cuts as debt ceiling deadline looms.
    Boehner will call for spending cuts at least as deep as the increase in the nation's debt limit during his remarks to the Economic Club of New York City Monday night, according to excerpts provided to NBC News
  Where in the world is Ahmadinejad? -- Global Public Square Blogs. (pg.chrys news feed)
    Where in the world is Ahmadinejad? -- Global Public Square Blogs.
    We're witnessing a power struggle, and it's getting more intense. First, Ahmadinejad fired the minister of intelligence. The Supreme Leader blocked the move. Then, the president fired his foreign minister, another Khameini protege. This time the Ayatollah wrote a...
  55 years ago, Newton Minow was Prescient - All Media, not just TV is a Vast Wasteland (Mel Cooley's news feed)
    55 years ago, Newton Minow was Prescient - All Media, not just TV is a Vast Wasteland
    It is scary how much he knew and how little has changed, as he said ... "But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a...
  APPLE's Shill in Chief, Guy L Bud Tribble - loser (Mel Cooley's news feed)
    APPLE's Shill in Chief, Guy L Bud Tribble - loser
    APPLE's Shill in Chief, Guy L Bud Tribble hopes that non-conforming apps that track people are caught.
  GOOGLE's Shill in Chief at today's Internet Privacy Hearing (Mel Cooley's news feed)
    GOOGLE's Shill in Chief at today's Internet Privacy Hearing
    What a piece of crap this guy ALAN DAVIDSON is. Supposedly an expert in GOOGs geolocation data policies and yet claims he, like Sgt. Schultz, KNOWS NOTHING!! about GOOG patent application for tracking people. He claims that it was all an accident.
  7.1 earthquake strikes near Vanuatu. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    7.1 earthquake strikes near Vanuatu.
    A strong 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia On Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage and a local official said that a tsunami was not expected.
  (Real News) - Knives are out - Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Divorce -- A Long Time Coming Because She Was Miserable. (robertleather news feed)
    (Real News) - Knives are out - Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Divorce -- A Long Time Coming Because She Was Miserable.
    "Sources tell us she's been extremely unhappy in her marriage for years, complaining about Arnold's out of control ego, as well as his womanizing". Guess he won't "be back". Talk about distraction... WHO CARES
  Schlumberger wins Iraq oil well drilling bid. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Schlumberger wins Iraq oil well drilling bid.
    Schlumberger has secured a contract from ExxonMobil to drill 15 new wells at Iraq's West Qurna 1 oilfield redevelopment project, according to an industry source. Schlumberger was awarded a contract last year to drill 10 wells at West Qurna 1. Last month, Halliburton won a...
  Analysis Finds Evidence of Autism in Many Vaccine Injury Cases. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Analysis Finds Evidence of Autism in Many Vaccine Injury Cases.
    Of the 170 cases the report's authors examined, 32, or 19 percent, provided documented evidence of autism or autism-like symptoms. The evidence in some cases included findings by the court that the children had autism, "autism-like symptoms" or "symptoms and...
  Chinese regulators suspend TV crime , spy drama and dramas about time-travel (robertleather news feed)
    Chinese regulators suspend TV crime , spy drama and dramas about time-travel
    China has ordered TV stations across the country not to air any "detective shows", "spy thrillers" or "dramas about time-travel" for the next three months. All have been ordered off-air with immediate effect. What the f........?!
  Lou Gehrig's Disease Linked to Longer Ring Finger (robertleather news feed)
    Lou Gehrig's Disease Linked to Longer Ring Finger
    The latest research links long ring fingers and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, possibly shedding light on the elusive condition.
  Spain LNG imports drop as Algeria gas pipeline starts up - data. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Spain LNG imports drop as Algeria gas pipeline starts up - data.
    MADRID, May 10 (Reuters) - Spanish imports of liquefied natural gas fell hard in April when the Medgaz gas pipeline from Algeria started up, the latest data from gas grid operator Enagas (ENAG.MC: Quote) show. Enagas said unloading of LNG in the world's third-biggest...
  Rights group: 757 civilians killed in Syria. - Or is this code? (robertleather news feed)
    Rights group: 757 civilians killed in Syria. - Or is this code?
    A Syrian human rights group says 757 civilians have been killed in Syria since an uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in mid-March. 757.. not sure I like the sound of that number turning up like that.
  Breast-fed infants 'better behaved' (robertleather news feed)
    Breast-fed infants 'better behaved'
    Breast-fed babies grow into better behaved and more emotionally stable children than those that are bottle fed, a study has shown. Five-year-olds who had been breast-fed were almost a third less likely to suffer behavioural problems severe enough to disrupt family life.
  Herman's latest haiku (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Herman's latest haiku
    one more Haiku for the "EU day" soviet-style celebrations
  Pew Study on how online users get news (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Pew Study on how online users get news
    The findings also reveal that while search aggregators remain the most popular way users find news, the universe of referring sites is diverse. Social media is rapidly becoming a competing driver of traffic. And far from obsolete, home pages are usually the most popular page for...
  BitCoin will Fail (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    BitCoin will Fail
    FAIL #1: If you like bitcoin, then you must think the gold standard was a good idea
  Navy chaplains authorized to perform same-sex marriages on bases (My New Feed)
    Navy chaplains authorized to perform same-sex marriages on bases
    An April 13 memo issued to Navy chaplains said they could perform same-sex marriages in Navy chapels located in states where gay marriage is legal, the website Lez Get Real reported today. The memo noted that while Navy chaplains are allowed to perform same-sex ceremonies, they...
  Pentagon Dinner Guest al-Awlaki Slated to Replace Osama - BlackListedNews.com. (pg.chrys news feed)
    Pentagon Dinner Guest al-Awlaki Slated to Replace Osama - BlackListedNews.com.
    Yemen-based Anwar al-Awlaki is scheduled to replace the late Osama bin Laden, according to news reports.
  Bank Of America To Start Charging 30% On Credit Cards - BlackListedNews.com. (pg.chrys news feed)
    Bank Of America To Start Charging 30% On Credit Cards - BlackListedNews.com.
    Starting June 25 of this year, Bank of America will start charging more and more of their credit card customers an APR of almost 30%. According to a letter that came in the mail today, that new rate would apply "indefinitely.
  Chilling Footage: Syrian Forces Arrest Hundreds of Activists in House-to-House Raids. (pg.chrys news feed)
    Chilling Footage: Syrian Forces Arrest Hundreds of Activists in House-to-House Raids.
    BEIRUT (AP) Ã¢ï¿½ï¿½ Syrian security forces arrested hundreds of activists and anti-government protesters in house-to-house raids across the country Monday, part of an escalating government crackdown aimed at stamping out a revolt...
  EUobserver / Van Rompuy: Europeans too depressed to be innovative. (pg.chrys news feed)
    EUobserver / Van Rompuy: Europeans too depressed to be innovative.
    EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - If Europe is to remain relevant as an innovative economy, people need to be more positive and entrepreneurial and not let themselves be depressed by the economic crisis and subsequent austerity measures, EU council chairman Herman Van Rompuy has said.
  Photo Gallery: The Mystery of Air France Flight 447 - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. (pg.chrys news feed)
    Photo Gallery: The Mystery of Air France Flight 447 - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International.
    Rescue workers recovered parts of Flight AF 447 after it crashed in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009. Most of the plane, however, disappeared.
  Libyan refugee boat carrying 600 sinks (Canadian Feed)
  Housing crash is getting worse. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Housing crash is getting worse.
    New data just out from Zillow, the real-estate information company, show house prices are falling at their fastest rate since the Lehman collapse.
  Dutch study finds a link between food coloring And Adult ADHD. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Dutch study finds a link between food coloring And Adult ADHD.
    Are food dyes linked to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder? It depends who you ask. A recent Dutch study suggests yes; while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staunchly denies it. Perhaps a more pertinent question is, "Are food dyes linked to ADHD in adults?"
  Gee, why the sudden shortage of used cars? Remember Cash for Clunkers? (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Gee, why the sudden shortage of used cars? Remember Cash for Clunkers?
    "The price of used cars is just crazy right now," said Adam Lee, chairman of Maine dealer Lee Auto Malls. His dealership is paying hefty sums for cars it normally might not purchase to have a full inventory. "It can be a piece of junk cars we used to pay $2,000 or...
  Skin Product Company Offers Journalists Cash for Favorable Coverage. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Skin Product Company Offers Journalists Cash for Favorable Coverage.
    The scholarly sounding American Institute of Advanced Medicine is circulating a letter that asks newspaper editors to publish a promotional press release in exchange for $100 for every new customer the "editorial" ad creates.
  Morgan Stanley, BofA and JP Morgan are top 3 holders of silver ETF fund. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Morgan Stanley, BofA and JP Morgan are top 3 holders of silver ETF fund.
    JPM is the third largest holder of SLV with 5.1 million shares, just behind BofA with 6.8 million shares and Morgan Stanley with 7.2 million
  Hasidic Newspaper Issues Statement On Photoshopping Of Iconic Image (Grebulon reports from gitmonation falafel)
    Hasidic Newspaper Issues Statement On Photoshopping Of Iconic Image
    Hasidic Newspaper Issues Statement On Photoshopping Of Iconic Image Der Tzitung Hillary Clinton's pic removed 5-5-11 annotated They photoshopped Hillary out. They caught hell. Now here is their 'apology'
  Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Invests to Complete Construction of Haitian-owned Hotel and Conference Center in Port au Prince - Business Wire - SunHerald.com. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Invests to Complete Construction of Haitian-owned Hotel and Conference Center in Port au Prince - Business Wire - SunHerald.com.
    WASHINGTON -- The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund announced today that it would invest $2 million to complete construction on a major hotel project in Haiti that was abruptly halted following the devastating 2010 earthquake.
  Impotency Product Found in Bin Laden Raid? (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Impotency Product Found in Bin Laden Raid?
    A number of herbal remedies were reportedly found at Usama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan including a product used to treat impotency.
  Controversial HPV vaccination in AP becomes murkier. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Controversial HPV vaccination in AP becomes murkier.
    The tale of the controversial cervical cancer vaccine trials in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat has become murkier with fresh evidences showing the complicity of the state government and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to push the unethical trial in clear violation of all...
  NC school district to give away iPod, laptop to children who participate in vaccination contest. (pg.chrys news feed)
    NC school district to give away iPod, laptop to children who participate in vaccination contest.
    (NaturalNews) The Chapel Hill - Carrboro City School (CHCCS) district in North Carolina has launched a shocking new vaccination contest that offers prize incentives to students who get vaccinated.
  Flurry of Airline Incidents Reported - TheStreet. (DaDenMan news feed)
    Flurry of Airline Incidents Reported - TheStreet.
    Three security incidents occurred on Sunday.
  PATH Train from Midtown Crashes in NJ, Injuring 33 - DNAinfo.com. (DaDenMan news feed)
    PATH Train from Midtown Crashes in NJ, Injuring 33 - DNAinfo.com.
    A PATH train that originated in Manhattan crashed into an abutment in the Hoboken station Sunday morning, tossing people around and leaving dozens injured, authorites said. All of the 33 injuries were minor in the 9 a.m. incident, according to a Port Authority spokeswoman....
  Ford Makes One Million Fiesta In 33 Months. (DaDenMan news feed)
    Ford Makes One Million Fiesta In 33 Months.
    That number in that time shows the incredible demand for Ford's small hatchback -- the current model -- which is on its way to become one of the all-time best selling Fords. In fact the Fiesta is Europe's top-selling small car and Europe's second best-selling car...
  The UN's gift to Haiti: Cholera. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    The UN's gift to Haiti: Cholera.
    The cholera outbreak that killed more than 4,500 people in Haiti last year was linked to peacekeepers from Nepal, a new report says, a conclusion previously resisted by at least some United Nations officials.
  Northrop Grumman formally unveils Firebird. (Newsmix)
    Northrop Grumman formally unveils Firebird.
    Northrop Grumman today unveiled the Firebird, an optionally-piloted surveillance aircraft.
  Climate change could disrupt wi-fi and hit power supply (My New Feed)
    Climate change could disrupt wi-fi and hit power supply
    [Noooo not my wifi] Climate change will disrupt wi-fi connections, cause regular power failures and lead railway lines to buckle unless Britain spends billions of pounds, Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary has warned.
  Climate change 'could disrupt wi-fi and hit power supply'. (w.tromp news feed)
    Climate change 'could disrupt wi-fi and hit power supply'.
    Climate change will disrupt wi-fi connections, cause regular power failures and lead railway lines to buckle unless Britain spends billions of pounds, Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary has warned.
  Pakistani Media Reportedly Outs CIA Chief (w.tromp news feed)
    Pakistani Media Reportedly Outs CIA Chief
    The alleged name of the Islamabad station chief -- one of the CIA's most significant and sensitive assignments -- was first broadcast Friday by ARY, a private Pakistani television channel, The Wall Street Journal reported. The channel was covering a meeting between the...
  Suspicious Package Forces Evacuation Of Mockingbird DART Station In Dallas (w.tromp news feed)
    Suspicious Package Forces Evacuation Of Mockingbird DART Station In Dallas
    Passengers Alert Authorities To Man Asking For Help Carrying Packages
  CNBC: Sheila Bair resigning from FDIC on July 8th (Mel Cooley's news feed)
  Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010. (w.tromp news feed)
    Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010.
    The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected "agents" of a foreign power or terrorists on U.S. soil last year, according to a Justice Department report released under the Freedom of...
  NC school district to give away iPod, laptop to children who participate in vaccination contest. (w.tromp news feed)
    NC school district to give away iPod, laptop to children who participate in vaccination contest.
    According to the CHCCS district website, for each vaccine a student receives, he or she will also receive an entry into a drawing to win an Apple iPod or a laptop computer -- and students that get the entire recommended vaccine schedule, which includes the Human Papillomavirus...
  Tony Blair Used Childrens's Cash To Set Up Office (w.tromp news feed)
    Tony Blair Used Childrens's Cash To Set Up Office
    Tony Blair received Â£400,000 from a fund for disadvantaged children to set up an office in a five-star hotel.Prime Minister David Cameron revealed the money came from the Department for International Development (DfID) and is meant to fund humanitarian work in...
  New High Tech Taser being used in Polk County [vid] (My New Feed)
    New High Tech Taser being used in Polk County [vid]
    Bartow, Florida - There's a new taser in town that looks like something out of a James Bond movie. It packs a powerful punch and can stop the bad guys in their tracks longer than a stun gun can. Polk County Sheriff's Office SWAT team members say the taser has already...
  If you liked 'Cash for Clunkers', brace yourself for 'Cash for Keys' (My New Feed)
    If you liked 'Cash for Clunkers', brace yourself for 'Cash for Keys'
    Cash for Keys? With the real estate market still bleak, and in spite of substantial opinion that the government's programs designed to help the market's rebound have failed, the government has another program up it's sleeve: Cash for Keys. The Financial Times...
  Europe to spend Â£225million on army of 1,000 spin doctors to promote EU. (w.tromp news feed)
    Europe to spend Â£225million on army of 1,000 spin doctors to promote EU.
    The European Commission will next year spend over Â£225million on propaganda campaigns and the employment of over one thousand spin doctors to sell the EU to a hostile public.
  Florida teenagers told to 'pull up their pants' by new law. (w.tromp news feed)
    Florida teenagers told to 'pull up their pants' by new law.
    Senate Bill 228, also known as the "Pull Your Pants Up" Bill, was last week overwhelmingly approved by the state legislature. It is expected to be signed by Governor Rick Scott this week.
  UK savers face Â£9 TRILLION retirement shortfall. (robertleather news feed)
    UK savers face Â£9 TRILLION retirement shortfall.
    UK savers face a retirement savings gap of Â£9 TRILLION due to increasing levels of debt, the cost of long-term care and insufficient pension savings.The Chartered Insurance Insitute (CII) has used existing data produced by the OECD to calculate the shortfall in...
  Banks prepare for huge client compensation - Take that bitches (robertleather news feed)
    Banks prepare for huge client compensation - Take that bitches
    Banks are allocating billions of pounds to compensate clients who were mis-sold credit insurance, in a fresh blow to a sector seeking to gain public trust after the financial crisis.
  Effort aside, Europe fails to staunch debt crisis. (robertleather news feed)
    Effort aside, Europe fails to staunch debt crisis.
    No matter how hard Europe tries, it just can't get a grip on its sovereign debt crisis. Since late 2009, when Greece's vast budget and debt problems first materialized, the European Union has strived to come up with solutions, from fiscal adjustment programs to labor...
  Computer algorithms account for "about half" of all oil trading. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Computer algorithms account for "about half" of all oil trading.
    High frequency trading and algorithmic trading accounts for about half of all the volume in oil markets.
  Berlusconi denies denies corruption charges. (robertleather news feed)
    Berlusconi denies denies corruption charges.
    Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has appeared in court in Milan on charges of corruption, denying having his British former lawyer David Mills (husband to to Tessa Jowell) lie under oath. As if he would - ho ho :-)
  Latest Awards Bring US Closer to National High-Speed Passenger Rail Network. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Latest Awards Bring US Closer to National High-Speed Passenger Rail Network.
    This is a big day for the Department of Transportation, for the Obama Administration, and for the American people.Â We are bringing President Obama's vision of American high-speed rail one step closer to reality with $2.02 billion in targeted investments . And I...
  Why America's College Bubble Is Next To Burst. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Why America's College Bubble Is Next To Burst.
    For the vast majority of college courses, there is absolutely nothing that students can learn in a huge multi-million dollar lecture hall with hundreds of other students that they can't learn at home listening to that same professor on a computer. The only reason online...
  Brigitte Bardot's billionaire ex Gunter Sachs shoots himself - Prediction - Wait for Alzheimer's element getting more coverage (robertleather news feed)
    Brigitte Bardot's billionaire ex Gunter Sachs shoots himself - Prediction - Wait for Alzheimer's element getting more coverage
    Playboy Gunter Sachs, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, has committed suicide. German-born Sachs, 78, left a suicide note saying he'd suffered from a "hopeless" illness and was losing his memory, ability to think and communicate clearly. Alzheimers perhaps?
  Congo Republic launches Chinese-funded hydro power plant. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Congo Republic launches Chinese-funded hydro power plant.
    The oil-producing central African state of Congo Republic inaugurated a 120 Megawatt Chinese-funded hydroelectric power station late on Saturday aimed at bridging the gap in its energy needs.
  Prankster triggers speed camera -- on ROLLER SKATES. (robertleather news feed)
    Prankster triggers speed camera -- on ROLLER SKATES.
    Sam Tuffnell pulls a fast one on powerless cops as he triggers a 30mph speed camera - on ROLLER SKATES. The stunt-loving daredevil - who challenged himself to make the Gatso flash - beamed yesterday: "I was doing at least 40mph but I think it was more.
  TSA Looking for Poop Bombs?! (DaileyinDC)
    TSA Looking for Poop Bombs?!
    #WTF Apparently, to take a plane now, you have to get a colonic before hand, just to make sure.
  U. S. Official: Bin Laden Would Have Been Taken Alive If He Was Naked. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    U. S. Official: Bin Laden Would Have Been Taken Alive If He Was Naked.
    According to the London's Telegraph, John Brennan, the chief US counter-terrorism adviser is now claiming that Seal Team 6 commandos were told to assume bin Laden was wearing a suicide vest and that he should be killed, unless they found him naked.
  Measles: Wirral measles outbreak sparks vaccine pleas. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Measles: Wirral measles outbreak sparks vaccine pleas.
    The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said two children had been confirmed as having the disease and there were seven other probable cases, including adults. None of those affected had been fully immunized with the MMR vaccine.
  Pfizer working on MRSA vaccine. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Pfizer working on MRSA vaccine.
    The emergence of hard-to-treat MRSA, in both the hospital and the community setting, and the additional costs to treat these infections provide a rationale for the development of a vaccine to prevent S. aureus infections.
  Birmingham Project Champion 'spy' cameras being removed. (robertleather news feed)
    Birmingham Project Champion 'spy' cameras being removed.
    More than 200 so-called "spy cameras" installed in largely Muslim areas of Birmingham are being dismantled.What's replaced them?
  Kate McCann's haunting account - Which DOES NOT MATCH her previous statements (robertleather news feed)
    Kate McCann's haunting account - Which DOES NOT MATCH her previous statements
    Check out the opening statements in this story and compare them to the version of events she gives here. tinyurl.com/68o3tm She's added additional details, such as the slamming door and it doesn't match her police statement.
  Kate McCann tells of angry outburst - Oh, and buy my book. (robertleather news feed)
    Kate McCann tells of angry outburst - Oh, and buy my book.
    Kate McCann has laid bare her shock and outrage after Portuguese police officials made her and husband Gerry suspects in the abduction of her daughter Madeleine. Because, obviously, with no evidence of an abduction, the witnesses stories not matching, what else could they do?
  Internet porn 'encourages sex offenders' - Cart before horse thinking in land of research (robertleather news feed)
    Internet porn 'encourages sex offenders' - Cart before horse thinking in land of research
    Research suggests a "causal link" between the "dramatic rise" in explicit images on the web and illegal real life behavior. It allows "like-minded individuals" to "reinforce", i.e. perverts get off on perverted porn. Not porn creates...
  Spontaneous text giving can transform fundraising (robertleather news feed)
    Spontaneous text giving can transform fundraising
    Vodafone UK's chief executive believes that a new initiative can boost charitable giving. I'm sure he does. So does Bill Clinton, George W. Bush... to name just two.
  Thousands of super-injunction celebrities 'outed' on Twitter - Which then crashes, conveniently (robertleather news feed)
    Thousands of super-injunction celebrities 'outed' on Twitter - Which then crashes, conveniently
    A user of Twitter leaked dozens of celebrity names who apparently have used super-injunctions to hide their identity.... and then Twitter crashed due to traffic. Funny how it stood up to the Bin Laden news, eh?
  Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar (bertb news feed)
    Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar
    School districts have gone as far as prohibiting flavored milk, and Florida considered a statewide ban in schools. Otherare replacing flavored milks containing high-fructose corn syrup with versions containing sugar, which some see as more natural.
  Haitian lawmakers vote to allow dual nationality (bertb news feed)
    Haitian lawmakers vote to allow dual nationality
    That means the 2 million Haitians living in the United States, Canada and elsewhere will have more say in the political affairs of Haiti. They are now able to run for lower levels of office and own land, a senator said.
  Giant Squid Dying From LF Sound (Canadian Feed)
    Giant Squid Dying From LF Sound
    A new study, published online in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, indicate that Giant Squid in Spain are dying due to sounds created by human activity in the ocean.
  'Mad hatters' gang of middle-aged women blamed for Detroit crime spree. (pg.chrys news feed)
    'Mad hatters' gang of middle-aged women blamed for Detroit crime spree.
    Police in Detroit are hunting a gang of middle-aged women, nicknamed the "Mad Hatters", who they blame for a string of robberies, purse snatching and fraud.
  France Telecom Suicides (Canadian Feed)
    France Telecom Suicides
    The suicide of Remy L, uncovers problems within the company France Telecom-Orange which may have caused 50 suicides in the past 3 years
  Muslim with intimate 7/7 links works for Scotland Yard. (rdwrer news feed)
    Muslim with intimate 7/7 links works for Scotland Yard.
    A man described as a suspected terrorist sympathiser closely linked to the July 7 bombers has worked for Scotland Yard and a string of councils to run training courses about "engaging" Muslim youths.
  Defence: Federal agent coerced teen to violence. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Defence: Federal agent coerced teen to violence.
    Attorneys for Mohamed O. Mohamud said in a filing Friday that emails from an agent known only as "Bill Smith" prove the teen's innocence and show the federal government is not playing fair with the evidence it is supposed to provide.
  Timmy time: Geithner's Sunday Evening schedule. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Timmy time: Geithner's Sunday Evening schedule.
    On Sunday evening, Treasuey Secretary Geithner will meet for dinner with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan ahead of this week's 2011 U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
  Citizens for Rail Security: Warren Buffet getting in on the police state action now? (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Citizens for Rail Security: Warren Buffet getting in on the police state action now?
    Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire-Hathaway, owns BNSF (Burlington Northern Sante Fe railway). Five years ago, BNSF started Citizens for Rail Security, and it has almost 10,000 members. In the name of preventing terror incidents, they are primed to spy on passengers and...
  Top 5 Cities For Terrorists Acts Are In California (Mel Cooley's news feed)
    Top 5 Cities For Terrorists Acts Are In California
    Everything is a competition?
  California votes to label (but not ban) GMO frankenfish. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    California votes to label (but not ban) GMO frankenfish.
    With the USDA expected to approve genetically modified (GMO) salmon in the near future -- without any serious safety research -- it may devolve on the states to try to minimize the potential negative impact. The California Assembly Health Committee in Sacramento on May 3...
  Jon Hunstman's Speech to USC: "we are trained to say something when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say." (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Jon Hunstman's Speech to USC: "we are trained to say something when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say."
    Well, guess again, the real secret about diplomats is that we are trained to say something when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say. We are forever locked between a clichÃ© i and an indiscretion.
  Homegrown terror threat overstated since 9/11, according to new RAND Corp. study. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Homegrown terror threat overstated since 9/11, according to new RAND Corp. study.
    According to Jenkins' research, there have been 82 cases since 9/11 in which individuals in the U.S. either provided material support to a terrorist organization, attempted to join a front abroad or plotted to carry out a terrorist attack on behalf of a terrorist cause....
  More frequent whale strandings leaves experts puzzled. (DaDenMan news feed)
    More frequent whale strandings leaves experts puzzled.
    While there has been a rash of strandings in Florida, including at least 15 pilot whales that washed ashore this week in the Florida keys, experts are quick to point out that the BP gulf oil spill is a possible cause, but not the only factor. Earth Times points out that, "A...
  UK ads banned for overstating climate change. (robertleather news feed)
    UK ads banned for overstating climate change.
    Two government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the potential harm. The adverts were commissioned by Ed Miliband.
  What recession? CEOs are being paid more than ever as millions of American's struggle to make ends meet. (DaDenMan news feed)
    What recession? CEOs are being paid more than ever as millions of American's struggle to make ends meet.
    Wall Street fat cats are getting paid better than ever before, while the rest of the country is still trying to drag itself out of recession. On 'Main Street' jobs are harder to come by, housing prices are still tumbling and more Americans are struggling to make ends...
  This is what they live for. (Jay Rosen's links)
    This is what they live for.
    When it revs up, it's an awesome machine. A portrait of the New York Times system waking up to the Bin Landen news.
  Vision: Start Slow on the Path to Making America Bullet Train-Friendly. (w.tromp news feed)
    Vision: Start Slow on the Path to Making America Bullet Train-Friendly.
    Will investing in speed and electrification create the "sparks effect" needed to convince Americans to ride high-speed rail?
  Real News: BBC One controller to cull male crime-fighters. (w.tromp news feed)
    Real News: BBC One controller to cull male crime-fighters.
    BBC One controller Danny Cohen has said he plans to limit the number of male detectives in the channel's dramas. Zen, starring Rufus Sewell, was axed because there were already enough male crime-fighters on TV, he said.
  U.S. to Provide Part of Qaddafi's Frozen $33 Billion to Rebels. (w.tromp news feed)
    U.S. to Provide Part of Qaddafi's Frozen $33 Billion to Rebels.
    The Obama administration said it will permit Libyan rebels to draw on the $33 billion in Libyan assets frozen by U.S., as allied nations opposing Muammar Qaddafi looked for further measures to force him from power.
  Spate of attacks kill 33 Iraqis despite security alert (w.tromp news feed)
    Spate of attacks kill 33 Iraqis despite security alert
    A series of gunfire and bomb attacks, including a suicide car bombing, killed up to 33 people and wounded some 87 others in Iraq on Thursday, despite tight security measures for fear of revenge attacks after the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
  Vote 2011: Labour wins all 33 seats in Manchester as Lib Dems are wiped out. (w.tromp news feed)
    Vote 2011: Labour wins all 33 seats in Manchester as Lib Dems are wiped out.
    It proved a momentous count for Labour -- which won all 33 seats up for grabs, boosting its majority to the highest level in more than a quarter of a century.
  Berlusconi's nurse 'to face trial for recruiting prostitutes'. (w.tromp news feed)
    Berlusconi's nurse 'to face trial for recruiting prostitutes'.
    Prosecutors have asked for 25-year-old Nicole Minettia -- appointed regional councillor by Berlusconi who's embroiled in several sex scandals -- to be charged with recruiting some 33 prostitutes for him, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
  33 crashes on route in three years (robertleather news feed)
    33 crashes on route in three years
    Staffordshire Police said a total of 33 smashes have been recorded on a three-mile stretch of the A449 Stourbridge Road. NWO or mere coincidence. This was between January 2008 and November last year.
  Costs of Baroness Ashton's EU foreign service go up again. (w.tromp news feed)
    Costs of Baroness Ashton's EU foreign service go up again.
    Now, despite coming under pressure even from her friends, and with questions being asked about how much longer she can survive as head of the new EU foreign service, she is reacting in a familiar Brussels fashion; asking for more money.
  Europe's largest stem cell clinic shut down after death of baby. (w.tromp news feed)
    Europe's largest stem cell clinic shut down after death of baby.
    Europe's largest stem cell clinic, which is at the centre of a scandal over the death of a baby given an injection into the brain, has been shut down...The clinic charged patients up to Â£20,000 for stem cell injections into the back and brain despite a lack of...
  India: Clinical trial on new live oral cholera vaccine. (w.tromp news feed)
    India: Clinical trial on new live oral cholera vaccine.
    Live vaccine is better than killed vaccine, which is licensed and commercially available in India for the last two years, as the efficacy is more. Also, in comparison to the killed oral vaccine that requires two doses, IOCV is a one dose vaccine that will ensure fewer dropout...
  Haiti: UN warns rainy season poses challenge to anti-cholera efforts (w.tromp news feed)
    Haiti: UN warns rainy season poses challenge to anti-cholera efforts
    The four-member panel of experts included a series of recommendations for the UN and the Haitian Government so they can help prevent the future introduction and spread of cholera.
  EU Said to Consider Requiring Collateral for Extra Greek Aid. (w.tromp news feed)
    EU Said to Consider Requiring Collateral for Extra Greek Aid.
    European Union officials may require Greece to provide collateral for aid as policy makers struggle to prevent the euro area's first sovereign debt restructuring, said a person with direct knowledge of the situation.
  Greece must exit euro for its own good, says leading German economist. (w.tromp news feed)
    Greece must exit euro for its own good, says leading German economist.
    One of Germany's top economists has said that Athens will be unable to solve its debt crisis if it keeps the euro currency. The German public, too, is upset over the billions being spent to keep Greece afloat.
  Israel navy: give us more money (Grebulon reports from gitmonation falafel)
    Israel navy: give us more money
    Navy repels Hizbullah gas field threats The Navy's high command is preparing an effective response to the new and multiplying threats against the gas fields. 8 May 11 10:34, Globes' correspondent "For quite some time, we have been thinking about how to deal with...
  Europe's invisible 'boots on the ground' in rebel Libya. (w.tromp news feed)
    Europe's invisible 'boots on the ground' in rebel Libya.
    ...Bani declined to let journalists interview the advisors, about 20 Britons, and ten each from Italy and France, while defence and foreign ministries in London, Paris and Rome refused requests to let AFP report on their work.
  Special report: Big Pharma's global guinea pigs. (w.tromp news feed)
    Special report: Big Pharma's global guinea pigs.
    The increasing reliance on clinical trials in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America raises serious questions. Is the quality of the data as reliable as that from a top U.S. medical centre? Is it safe to extrapolate common clinical effects from studying patients with different...
  Blood test may reveal suicidal tendencies: Swedish study (w.tromp news feed)
    Blood test may reveal suicidal tendencies: Swedish study
    Suicidal patients may now be identifiable by a simple blood test, according to new research by a team in Lund University in southern Sweden.
  Railroads work closely with feds as terror threats develop (w.tromp news feed)
    Railroads work closely with feds as terror threats develop
    Representatives of the country's two largest railroads, Union Pacific Railway in Omaha and BNSF Railway Co., said they've worked closely with federal security officials since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and continue to adjust operations as they receive new...
  Does Delta Airlines Endorse Racial Profiling Against Muslims? (Grebulon reports from gitmonation falafel)
    Does Delta Airlines Endorse Racial Profiling Against Muslims?
    Does Delta Airlines Endorse Racial Profiling Against Muslims? Tweet imams ejected from airplane Masadur Rahman and Mohamed Zaghloul interviewed after being ejected from flight for their 'Arab garb' (KCNC) Yesterday, a pilot for a Delta Airlines feeder flight in Memphis...
  All domestic Israeli flights still grounded (Grebulon reports from gitmonation falafel)
    All domestic Israeli flights still grounded
    All domestic Israeli flights still grounded Despite the contaminated fuel, international flights are operating normally with carriers refueling in neighboring countries. 8 May 11 09:47, Globes' correspondent Three days after Ben Gurion Airport was paralyzed when...
  European Union moves closer to unifying airspace. (w.tromp news feed)
    European Union moves closer to unifying airspace.
    The agreement is partly a response to complaints about Europe's handling of air traffic after a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland a year ago that grounded thousands of European flights, stranding air travellers.
  DoJ to Congress: Make ISPs keep tabs on users (w.tromp news feed)
    DoJ to Congress: Make ISPs keep tabs on users
    As a new Senate privacy panel considers the data collected by iPhones, Androids and BlackBerrys, the Department of Justice is reminding lawmakers that it needs Internet providers to store more data about their users to help with federal investigations.
  Rifts among Libyan rebels stalling creation of a credible government (w.tromp news feed)
    Rifts among Libyan rebels stalling creation of a credible government
    SPLITS have opened in the Libyan opposition administration over claims that Italy is about to break the UN arms embargo and provide weapons to the rebel army. With the ruling National Transitional Council deadlocked in its attempts to agree an executive committee, two of its...
  Forbes Predicts U.S. Gold Standard Within 5 Years. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Forbes Predicts U.S. Gold Standard Within 5 Years.
    A return to the gold standard by the United States within the next five years now seems likely, because that move would help the nation solve a variety of economic, fiscal, and monetary ills, Steve Forbes predicted during an exclusive interview this week with HUMAN EVENTS.
  Real News: Fake census forms probe drug consumption and penis size (w.tromp news feed)
    Real News: Fake census forms probe drug consumption and penis size
    Forms masquerading as Germany's 2011 census but instead asking questions about drug consumption and penis size have been arriving in post boxes around the country.
  Twitpic Owns Your Pictures. (DaDenMan news feed)
    Twitpic Owns Your Pictures Ã‚Â« XSReviews.
    you hereby grant Twitpic a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and Twitpic's (and its successors' and...
  Greece launches massive fire sale to service growing debt as riot police clash with violent protesters. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Greece launches massive fire sale to service growing debt as riot police clash with violent protesters.
    Marinas, casinos and former Olympic venues could be up for grabs after Greece announced a massive fire sale to help service its debt.
  In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Wi... by Aaron Greenspan - Quora
    The only silver lining is that the very last clause, section 1872, allows companies that had already been operating under the old law to continue doing so without repurcussion until July 1, 2011, which is when the music stops. On that date, every affected company needs a license application on file, or else the founders, employees and even investors will be committing state and federal crimes by merely continuing to operate.
  Hotline gets 33 tax tip-offs in a week - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Wednesday. (DaDenMan news feed)
    Hotline gets 33 tax tip-offs in a week - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Wednesday.
    The tax-cheat hotline, 1-888-292-4328, became operational May 1 and is manned by "trained agents, the tax agency said. The reports were referred to senior investigators for follow-up. The hotline is one of the tools employed by the TAJ to "widen the tax net and to stem...
  Vatican-appointed panel warns of climate change. (w.tromp news feed)
    Vatican-appointed panel warns of climate change.
    The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, a Vatican advisory panel, hosted a conference last month on the causes and consequences of retreating mountain glaciers. Its final report, dated May 5 and signed by independent glaciologists, climate scientists, meteorologists and chemists,...
  SILVER: After tumbling nearly 33% last week (from of. (DaDenMan news feed)
    SILVER: After tumbling nearly 33% last week (from of.
    After tumbling nearly 33% last week (from 31-year peak of $49.51 April 28 to a low Friday of $33.26, silver has bounced higher, but only modestly so. The precious metal is trading at $35.57/oz, on the low side of the day's $35.24 to $39.48 range. Silver stalled earlier...
  Navy reverses itself on gay marriages on military bases (noa's linkblog feed)
    Navy reverses itself on gay marriages on military bases
    Washington (CNN) -- The Navy did an abrupt about-face late Tuesday, suspending earlier guidance that could have allowed same-sex marriages on military bases once the Pentagon scraps its present Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. A memorandum from the Chief of Chaplains,...
  Rebel Libyan finance head seeking line of credit. (w.tromp news feed)
    Rebel Libyan finance head seeking line of credit.
    A University of Washington economics lecturer who now handles finances for the Libyan rebel government says he's meeting with U.S. officials in Washington, D.C., to find a line of credit for the group opposed to Moammar Gadhafi.
  Uranium One Announces 33% Increase in Q1 2011 Production to a Record 2.4 Million Pounds; Average Cash Costs of $14 per Pound. (DaDenMan news feed)
    Uranium One Announces 33% Increase in Q1 2011 Production to a Record 2.4 Million Pounds; Average Cash Costs of $14 per Pound.
    TORONTO and JOHANNESBURG, May 11 /CNW/ - Uranium One Inc. ("Uranium One") today reported record quarterly revenue of $101.9 million for Q1 2011 based on sales of 1.7 million pounds at an average realized sales price of $61 per pound. Quarterly production was a record...
  Kosmos Energy Prices Boosted 33 Mln Share IPO At Top-end Of Range. (DaDenMan news feed)
    Kosmos Energy Prices Boosted 33 Mln Share IPO At Top-end Of Range.
    Privately-held oil exploration and production company Kosmos Energy Ltd. (KOS: News ) announced Tuesday that it has priced its boosted initial public offering of 33 million common shares at the top end of its estimated offering price range at $18.00 per share, seeking to raise...
  Head Of Eurogroup Admits To Lying About "Secret Greek Meeting" (Illuminotty's News)
  33 U.S. Senators introduce DREAM Act to help immigrant students earn a path to legal status. (DaDenMan news feed)
    33 U.S. Senators introduce DREAM Act to help immigrant students earn a path to legal status.
    U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii) joined 32 other Senators in introducing the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act today -- a narrowly tailored bill to give undocumented students a chance to earn legal status if they came here as children, are...
  Deputy speaker of Euro Parliament resigns over plagiarism claim (w.tromp news feed)
    Deputy speaker of Euro Parliament resigns over plagiarism claim
    Self-appointed plagiarism hunters announced in mid-April they had discovered unacknowledged copying in a thesis which Koch-Mehrin submitted to the University of Heidelberg to obtain a doctor of philosophy degree in 2000.
  One arrest, 33 citations during 'Cops on Rails' effort. (DaDenMan news feed)
    One arrest, 33 citations during 'Cops on Rails' effort.
    Law enforcement officers made one arrest and wrote 33 citations during a special enforcement program Tuesday. Operation "Cops on Rails/Officer on the Train" ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday to watch for motorists who violated railroad crossing laws. One person was...
  Medium and Heavy Truck Sales Up 33% in April. (DaDenMan news feed)
    Medium and Heavy Truck Sales Up 33% in April.
    Medium and heavy truck sales were up 33% in April over the same period a year ago and down 10% from last month, according to figures compiled by Wards Communications. Dealers sold 38,116 trucks with GVW ratings above 10,000 pounds during the month, up from April 2010 (26,618)...
  Clinton Bush Haiti Fund invests $2 million in hotel project. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Clinton Bush Haiti Fund invests $2 million in hotel project.
    The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund announced yesterday that it would invest $2 million to complete construction on a major hotel project in Haiti that was abruptly halted following the devastating 2010 earthquake. The 130-room Oasis Hotel was fully funded and construction was well...
  A "vaccine" for methamphetamine abuse. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    A "vaccine" for methamphetamine abuse.
    Scientists are reporting development of three promising formulations that could be used in a vaccine to treat methamphetamine addiction one of the most serious drug abuse problems in the U.S. The report appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
  Galleon Chief's Network of Friends Who Tell Secrets (NYT > Most Recent Headlines)
    Galleon Chief's Network of Friends Who Tell Secrets
    What made Raj Rajaratnam stand out in the hedge fund world was his deep set of contacts inside Silicon Valley executive suites and on Wall Street trading floors.
  Coming Soon: Smoke-Free in the Park (NYT > Most Recent Headlines)
    Coming Soon: Smoke-Free in the Park
    Readers respond to an Op-Ed about legislation that bans smoking in public parks and public beaches.
  Newt Gingrich confirms he will take on Barack Obama in White House race (The Guardian World News)
    Newt Gingrich confirms he will take on Barack Obama in White House race
    Former House speaker joins a thin field of Republican candidates while Obama's poll surge sets up first $1bn campaign A surge in support for Barack Obama after the killing of Osama bin Laden has failed to scare off former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who on Wednesday added his...
  President Obama Announces Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Haiti to Attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Michel Martelly (White House.gov Press Office Feed)
    President Obama Announces Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Haiti to Attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Michel Martelly
    Release Time: For Immediate Release President Barack Obama today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Haiti to attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Michel Martelly on May 14, 2011. The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton,...
  Kerry to visit Pakistan to discuss US ties (allvoices - All News >> 1 >> Breaking)
    Kerry to visit Pakistan to discuss US ties
    USSenator John Kerry said on Tuesday he would travel to Pakistan in the coming days to discuss "all the relevant issues" with Islamabad after the US killing of Osama bin Laden. Kerry, a Democrat who is close to the Obama...
  Presidential Nomination Sent to the Senate, 5/11/2011 (White House.gov Press Office Feed)
    Presidential Nomination Sent to the Senate, 5/11/2011
    Release Time: For Immediate Release NOMINATION SENT TO THE SENATE: William J. Burns, of Maryland, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service with the Personal Rank of Career Ambassador, to be Deputy Secretary of State, vice James Braidy Steinberg.
  James Steinberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  NPR Hearts Urban Outfitters, But The Feeling's Not Mutual | Fast Company
    We can imagine that NPR sees the Urban T-shirt as an exercise in brand-awareness, and its presence on Urban's trendy hipster shelves will probably get noticed. But the fact that NPR promoted the Urban version of the T-shirt with a tweet stating "NPR T-shirt available at Urban Outfitters ($24 for local station encouraged first, tho)" is where the brand message gets a bit confusing. NPR is suggesting that prospective T-shirt buyers hand over $24 as a donation to their local stations, and then spend another $24 on the shirt at Urban...rather than simply promoting its own version on sale at its own shop, for its own profits.
  Osama bin Laden's diary: 'Consider Los Angeles, spread out the targets' (The Guardian World News)
    Osama bin Laden's diary: 'Consider Los Angeles, spread out the targets'
    Personal, handwritten journal and collection of computer files reveal his hand at work in every recent major al-Qaida threat Osama bin Laden kept pressing followers to find new ways to strike at the US while he was in hiding and his terror organisation was becoming battered and...
  No Agenda Mobile - Android Market
    - Stream the last 10 episodes (Wi-Fi*, 3G or LTE required). - Skip to any point in an episode by tapping a location on the timeline. - Glossary section to learn the history and meanings of recurring themes and catch phrases.
  ACLU: Oppose New Worldwide War Authority
    This new war authority would give the president "any president" the power to unilaterally take our country to war wherever, whenever and however he or she sees fit. It would essentially declare a worldwide war without end.
  President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts, 5/11/2011 | The White House
    William J. Burns, Deputy Secretary, Department of State Robert G. Taub, Commissioner, Postal Regulatory Commission Mark P. Wetjen, Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commish becomes Comcast lobbyist
    Meredith Attwell Baker, one of the two Republican Commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission, plans to step downâ€”and right into a top lobbying job at Comcast-NBC.
  Christine Lagarde under investigation over role in payments to Bernard Tapie (The Guardian World News)
    Christine Lagarde under investigation over role in payments to Bernard Tapie
    The French finance minister is to be the subject of a full judicial inquiry after Tapie received £248m to end 15-year legal dispute She's a former synchronised swimmer who became the first female finance minister of a leading industrialised country and one of France's most...
  Congress Poised To Give President Power To Continue GWOT Indefinitely | TPMDC
    The origin of the language in the defense bill dates back to March, when President Obama signed an executive order -- derided by some of his closest allies -- that effectively formalized an indefinite detention system at Guantanamo.
  Ireland's future depends on breaking free from bailout - The Irish Times - Sat, May 07, 2011
    Ireland is facing economic ruin.
  Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg PM and Head Euro-Zone Finance Minister says "When it becomes serious, you have to lie"
    "When it becomes serious, you have to lie," Juncker, who as the chairman of the regular meetings of eurozone finance ministers is one of the currency union's key spokesmen, said in recent remarks.
  Entire X Factor USA contestants database hacked and leaked online
    Fox released an official statement to all contestants via email to all contestants just two days ago
  1:41PM: Bin Laden relatives want probe and proof of death!! (allvoices - All News >> 1 >> Breaking)
    Bin Laden relatives want probe and proof of death!!
    Relatives of Osama bin Laden want proof that the terrorist leader is dead and are calling for an investigation into how he was killed, according to Jean Sasson, an author who helped one of bin Laden's sons write a memoir....
  WALL STREET JOURNAL CAUGHT SCRUBBING MAJOR PORTIONS FROM TRUE FINNS's TIMO SOINI'sS OP-ED
    The ever watchful Vasarahammer forwards the following story first noticed at Hommaforum, and at Market-Ticker, concerning the op-ed of chairman of the True Finns party, Timo Soini that was published in the Wall Street Journal concerning the Portugal bailout.Â The embolden print are the portions clipped from the original article, that from some reason the WSJ opinion editor left on the cutting room floor. KGS
  Obama to Deliver Speech on Mideast (NYT > Most Recent Headlines)
    Obama to Deliver Speech on Mideast
    The administration wants to put the death of Osama bin Laden in the context of the political transformation in the region, officials said.
  Iraqis to Discuss Whether Some U.S. Troops Should Stay (NYT > Most Recent Headlines)
    Iraqis to Discuss Whether Some U.S. Troops Should Stay
    Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said Wednesday that he would meet with Iraqi leaders to discuss whether the United States military should remain after the end of the year.
  General in Abu Ghraib Scandal Files to Run for Senate in Texas (NYT > Most Recent Headlines)
    General in Abu Ghraib Scandal Files to Run for Senate in Texas
    Ricardo Sanchez, a Democrat who was the Army commander during the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, filed paperwork to run for the open Senate seat in Texas.
  Yet Another Passenger Causes an Airplane 'Incident' - Gawker
    Yet another passenger tried to open the cabin door mid-flight on Tuesday night, the fourth weird plane incident this week. (Fifth, if you count the Australian plane that got hit by lightning.)
  Earthquakes in Spain kill three people (The Guardian World News)
    Earthquakes in Spain kill three people
    Two earthquakes in Spain, near Lorca in the south-east, have cost three lives At least three people have died in earthquakes in the south-east of Spain. Two earthquakes in quick succession caused damage in the Murcia region, south-east Spain. An official with the Murcia regional...
  Visa Is Making The E-Wallet Real (Fast Company)
    Visa Is Making The E-Wallet Real
    We've heard a lot about the notion of a digital wallet, but the tech itself seems slow to arrive. Now one credit giant is changing all that. We've heard a lot about the notion of a digital wallet , but the tech itself seems slow to arrive apart from one or two regional...
  Ed Schultz sued by NBC employee for $100,000 - TVNewser
    Michael Queen is suing Schultz in federal court for at least $100,000, claiming he paved the way for Schultz's MSNBC show. Queen claims he approached Schultz in January 2008 and asked him if he had anybody helping him try to land a TV show.
  Amtrak: 40 Years, $40 Billion - Tom Schatz - National Review Online
    When Congress created it in 1970, Amtrak was intended to be a profitable enterprise; instead, it has cost taxpayers a total of $40 billion. According to a 2009 study by the Pew Charitable Trust, 41 of Amtrak's 44 lines lost money in 2008. Per-passenger losses ranged from $5 per passenger on the Northeast Regional to $462 on the Sunset Limited line, which runs all the way from New Orleans to Los Angeles. According to the Amtrak inspector general's September 2010 semiannual report, the rail service covered only about 84 percent of its operating costs in fiscal year 2010.
  U.S. To Introduce Draconian Anti-Piracy Censorship Bill | TorrentFreak
    The U.S. Government is determined to put an end to online piracy. In an attempt to give copyright holders and the authorities all the tools required to disable access to so-called rogue sites, lawmakers will soon introduce the PROTECT IP Act. Through domain seizures, ISP blockades, search engine censorship, and cutting funding of allegedly copyright infringing websites, the bill takes Internet censorship to the next level.
  NPR at Odds with the White House on Bin Laden Death Photo (w.tromp news feed)
    NPR at Odds with the White House on Bin Laden Death Photo
    One of the White House's stated reasons for withholding Osama bin Laden's death photo is the "gruesome" and "graphic" nature of the image. It's clear, however, that the White House has not convinced National Public Radio, which is drafting a...
  In the U.S. means a general pardon: 12 million citizens as well - International - UK
    In the Netherlands until 2006, long debated an amnesty for almost 30 thousand immigrants. In America, Obama wants the debate leading up to the presidential election also on the agenda. Just going out there for a slightly larger group: 12 million people.
  Libyan regime accused of exploiting humanitarian crisis | World news | The Guardian
    The Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is allowing thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants on to overcrowded, unseaworthy ships in an apparently calculated attempt to use migration as a weapon to pressure Nato and the EU countries backing Libya's rebels.
  Bin Laden Death Photos Available To Some Lawmakers
    Heather Molino, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, said the Democratic congressman is planning to view the photos at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. either Wednesday or Thursday.
  Associated Press Calls Osama image - DePers.nl
    Associated Press has an official request submitted to the U.S. authorities to the photo of Osama Bin Laden to come. Journalists call on the American version of the Open Government Act (WOB), the Freedom of Information Act. That the National Press Photographers Association reported Tuesday.
  FEMA ORDERED 102,000 Boxcars With Shackles! - United Truth Seekers
    I THEN TRAVELED TO PORTLAND OREGON, and lectured in the home of an actual employee of GUNDERSON STEEL FABRICATION. The wife of this high level executive called this meeting personally to make a public admission. In the meeting were OTHER GUNDERSON EMPLOYEES who had witnessed the prisoner boxcars in the higher than normal, three floor/three tier prisoner boxcars.
  Domestic surveillance court approved 100% of 2010 warrant requests
    The FISC did not deny any applications in whole, or in part, according to the April 19 report to Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, (D-NV.)
  Allahu Akhbar! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    This phrase is also used in times of distress.
    Just before a Garuda Airbus A300B-4 crashed into the jungle near Medan, Indonesia, the pilot screamed "Aaaaaah! Allahu Akhbar!" into his radio. According to a radio communication transcript, the pilot's conversation with the air controller had been in English, but his last words were this Arabic phrase as the plane crashed on September 26, 1997, killing all 235 people aboard in Indonesia's deadliest crash. It was suspected that the crash may have been due to either disorientation or engine failure caused by local dense smog resulting from forest fires.[2][3]
  Cellphones to Get an Emergency Alert System - NYTimes.com
    Updating the national emergency alert system, federal officials planned to announce on Tuesday in Manhattan that some cellphone users in New York and Washington will soon be able to receive alerts by text message in the event of a national or regional emergency.
  Get vaccinated, win an ipod!
    Again, to enter, the student will need to provide the school nurse with a record of vaccines received between 4-1-11 and 5-31-11and one of those vaccines must be meningococcal vaccine.Â Records of vaccines received are due to the
  TSA Agents Search Baby At Kansas City International - Kansas City News Story - KCTV Kansas City
    Monday, the TSA explained the search and said it conformed to security protocol. The trouble, a TSA spokeswoman said, was a stroller. It was too big for the X-ray belt, so it got a hand-check with an explosive trace detector and when that set off an alarm agents searched the baby.
  Flourishing Poppy Fields Outside Prison Camps Are Heroin Cash Crop for North Korea - FoxNews.com
    Pinched by tightening economic sanctions and faced with what might become a contentious transition of power, North Korea is ramping up production of one of its key foreign currency generators -- heroin.Â
  Deze foto's mag u niet zien van de RVD - HP/De Tijd
    Fotograaf Arthur Batenburg kwam afgelopen zondag een wel heel opmerkelijke stoet tegen. Tijdens een wandeling in het bos bij Apeldoorn zag hij ineens koningin Beatrix. Ze was vergezeld van prins Friso, prinses Mabel en haar twee dochters, maar ook Desmond Tutu, Richard Branson en Kofi Annan. De hooggeplaatsten maakten een ritje in twee drie koetsen. Natuurlijk schoot Batenburg direct zijn rolletje vol, maar nu blijkt dat dat helemaal niet mag van de RVD! "Als dit persvrijheid voorstelt, dan zijn we behoorlijk diep gezonken met z'n allen." ï»¿
  Whatzit? Military missile defense radar vessel moves up Strait of Juan de Fuca -- Port Angeles Port Townsend Sequim Forks Jefferson County Clallam County Olympic Peninsula Daily news
    The U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Sea-Based X-Band, or SBX, radar vessel is slowly moving east on the Strait of Juan de Fuca today.
  Princess Diana's samples switched.
  Billionaire's role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions - St. Petersburg Times
    A foundation bankrolled by Libertarian businessman Charles G. Koch has pledged $1.5 million for positions in Florida State University's economics department. In return, his representatives get to screen and sign off on any hires for a new program promoting "political economy and free enterprise."
  FBI: If We Told You, You Might Sue Â» Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
    There you have it. The government doesn't want you to know whether your internet or phone company is cooperating with its dragnet surveillance program because you might get upset and file lawsuits asserting your constitutional rights. Would it be such a bad thing if a court were to consider the constitutionality of the most sweeping surveillance program ever enacted by Congress?
  Haiti's Continuing Cholera Outbreak - NYTimes.com
    A United Nations report on the cholera outbreak that has sickened 300,000 Haitians since last fall, killing nearly 5,000, finds evidence to suggest that the disease may have originated at a United Nations military camp north of the capital, which spilled raw sewage into a tributary of the Artibonite River.
  California - High-Speed Rail Plan Is Questioned - NYTimes.com
    The report, which warns that the full route from San Francisco to Los Angeles may never be completed and is likely to cost more than the estimated $43 billion, calls for starting construction in a more densely populated area and for giving control of the project to the State Transportation Department.
  Andresen on BitCoin and Virtual Currency | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty
    Gavin Andresen, Principal of the BitCoin Virtual Currency Project, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about BitCoin, an innovative attempt to create a decentralized electronic currency. Andresen explains the origins of BitCoin, how new currency gets created, how you can acquire BitCoins and the prospects for BitCoin's future. Can it compete with government-sanctioned money? How can users trust it? What threatens BitCoin and how might it thrive?
  Hillary Clinton: Chinese System Is Doomed, Leaders on a 'Fool's Errand' - Jeffrey Goldberg - International - The Atlantic
    In an exclusive interview, the secretary of state says Beijing's human rights record is "deplorable" and it is "trying to stop history" by opposing the advance of democracy
  Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney aboard Air Force One en route El Paso, Texas | The White House
    During the tour the President will be shown a mobile truck X-ray and be given an overview of large-scale technology designed to protect and prevent radiological threats.Â He will also view a demonstration of border patrol personnel searching commercial cargo.
  Intellectual Property Consortium wants .net domains to be subject to copyright seizures and to abolish privacy-shielded .NETs - Boing Boing
    The Intellectual Property Constituency has asked that, as a condition of Verisign's ongoing management of the .NET top-level domain, that they should be required to act as private copyright cops. Among the IPC's demands are that .NET domains should be subject to suspension on copyright complaints and that anonymous or privacy-shielded .NET domains should be abolished.
  U.S. Braced for Fights With Pakistanis in Bin Laden Raid - NYTimes.com
    Mr. Obama's decision to increase the size of the force sent into Pakistan shows that he was willing to risk a military confrontation with a close ally in order to capture or kill the leader of Al Qaeda.
  Timo Soini: Why I Don't Support Europe's Bailouts - WSJ.com
    When I had the honor of leading the True Finn Party to electoral victory in April, we made a solemn promise to oppose the bailouts of euro-zone member states. Europe is suffering from the economic gangrene of insolvencyâ€”both public and private. Unless we amputate that which cannot be saved, we risk poisoning the whole body.
  Match fixing: Ante Sapina co-operating with authorities as the enormity of the operation hits home - Telegraph
    This week, as most of European football was looking forward to a mouthwatering conclusion of this season's Champions League when Barcelona and Manchester United meet at Wembley, the fallout from the biggest match-fixing case ever to come before a court continued almost unnoticed.
  Match fixing: Fifa and Interpol join forces in $20 million bid to fight match-fixing menace - Telegraph
    The Interpol agreement follows Telegraph Sport's disclosure last week that Fifa investigators, working with Interpol, have begun a major inquiry into a global match-fixing ring it believes has been specifically targeting friendly internationals.
  BBC News - Birmingham Project Champion 'spy' cameras being removed
    More than 200 so-called "spy cameras" installed in largely Muslim areas of Birmingham are being dismantled.
  Sen. Schumer proposes no-ride list for Amtrak trains | Reuters
    A senator on Sunday called for a "no-ride list" for Amtrak trains after intelligence gleaned from the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound pointed to potential attacks on the nation's train system.
  Meningococcal Meningitis
    The first successful treatment of meningitis with intravenous and intrathecal penicillin was reported in 1944, and the first clinical trials using high doses of intravenous penicillin as monotherapy for the treatment of meningitis were reported in 1950. Since then, penicillin has remained the drug of choice for the treatment of meningococcal meningitis
    WAVE - Specific Vaccines Meningococcal
  Navy Authorizes Chaplains to Perform Same-Sex Marriages in Naval Chapels
    Anticipating the elimination of the military ban on homosexuality, the Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains has decided that same-sex couples in the Navy will be able to get married in Navy chapels, and that Navy chaplains will be allowed to perform the ceremonies -- if homosexual marriage is legal in the state where the unions are to be performed.
  Why Everything Is Dirtier - Jeffrey A. Tucker - Mises Daily
    One of these mandates has removed TSP from detergent â€” and with catastrophic results. No one wants to talk about this. There is a major hush-hush culture here because business, understandably, doesn't want to face a consumer backlash, and government doesn't want to acquire the reputation for being the civilization wrecker that it truly is.
  Administration announces $2 billion for high-speed rail - CNN.com
    Fifteen states and Amtrak will receive the money to back 22 high-speed intercity passenger rail projects. Among other things, the funds will be used to improve speed and service in the Boston-Washington "Northeast Corridor," add faster rail lines in the Midwest, and help spur more efficient train service between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
  MTV Staffer Gabriel Aron Benmier Murdered in L.A. | The Wrap TV
    Gabriel Aron Benmier, a musical coordinator for MTV, was murdered in front of his Los Angeles apartment on Sunday morning in what police sources are calling an execution-style killing, the Los Angeles Times reports. Benmeir, who was reportedly shot in the back of the head and was found face-down, was 30.
  Jamie Gorelick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Jamie S. Gorelick is an American attorney, presently representing BP.[1]
  Examiner Editorial: Anybody but Jamie Gorelick for FBI director | Examiner Editorial | Opinion | Washington Examiner
    But there is no escaping the damage that would result if President Obama appoints Jamie Gorelick to succeed Robert Mueller as FBI director. Like Gump, Gorelick was present at a remarkable series of recent historical events during the past two decades, but through them all she displayed nothing that could be called either innocent or wise. So let us count the ways in which Gorelick earned the sobriquet "Mistress of Disaster."
  "CIA spy" Davis was giving nuclear bomb material to Al-Qaeda, says report - Yahoo! News
    Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of top-secret CIA documents, which point to him or the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region, providing Al-Qaeda terrorists with "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents," according to a report
  Climate change 'threatens UK wi-fi connections', says government report | Environment | The Guardian
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  Clinton: US doesn't see China as threat - Yahoo! Singapore Finance
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