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  [VIDEO] Former French Minister charged with rape
    French politician Georges Tron (pictured) has been charged with rape, his lawyer said Wednesday. The charges were brought by three women who worked in the town hall in Draveil, where he is mayor. He is out on bail and faces up to 20 years in prison.
  Wellington's zombie apocalypse plan (GitmoKiwi news feed)
    Wellington's zombie apocalypse plan
    Wellington's zombie apocalypse plan Getting prepared for the zombie apocalypse is spreading. First they started planning in the US, now New Zealand is getting ready. Simple solution to me is "No Influenza injection". Simple really.
  Pirate Radio Law BILL NO A00326B (Newsmix)
    BILL NO A00326B
    Creates the crime of unauthorized radio transmission; prohibits knowingly making a radio transmission on radio frequencies assigned and licensed by the federal communications commission for use by AM and FM radio stations.
  Flu vaccine maker CSL hit with FDA warning for lax quality control. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Flu vaccine maker CSL hit with FDA warning for lax quality control.
    Sydney Morning Herald Vax maker CSL hit with FDA warning FiercePharma Manufacturing Flu vaccine maker CSL has been cited by the FDA for GMP failures spanning a lack of follow-through on raw material test failures to half-hearted investigations into adverse reactions suffered...
  Protein 'helps predict Alzheimer's risk'. What no vaccine... (robertleather news feed)
    Protein 'helps predict Alzheimer's risk'. What no vaccine...
    A protein in spinal fluid could be used to predict the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to German researchers
  Saab Workers Miss a Payday. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Saab Workers Miss a Payday.
    Despite deals with Chinese partners, the automaker's owner said that it was unable to pay employees their June salaries, and prospects for obtaining short-term funding were uncertain.
  Apple removes 'anti-Israel' app. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Apple removes 'anti-Israel' app.
    Apple removes an application called ThirdIntifada from its App Store at Israel's request because it is deemed to be offensive.
  Derivatives Cloud the Possible Fallout From a Greek Default. (WT news feed)
    Derivatives Cloud the Possible Fallout From a Greek Default.
    No one seems to be sure, in large part because the world of derivatives is so murky. But the possibility that some company out there may have insured billions of dollars of European debt has added a new tension to the sovereign default debate.
  [VIDEO] - Syrian President Blames "Saboteurs" For Protests In Syria pt.5
    June 20, 2011 CNN
  Government 'surplus' stores now selling personal items TSA steals from passengers. (WT news feed)
    Government 'surplus' stores now selling personal items TSA steals from passengers.
    If you have ever wondered what happens to the countless barrels of personal items that the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confiscates (steals) from air travelers every single day, you might be surprised to know that state governments are now reselling these...
  Bill Gross: "College Is Worthless". (Dave Jones Linkblog Feed)
    Bill Gross: "College Is Worthless".
    A few weeks ago we pointed out what may be the most troubling (and Marxist) observation in America's labor arena, namely that the labor's share of national income has dropped to the lowest in history as a record number of Americans now focus on wealth creation through...
  THE FAKE STORY THAT STARTED THE CIA COUP IN TUNISIA. (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    THE FAKE STORY THAT STARTED THE CIA COUP IN TUNISIA.
    Bouazizi, whose story turns out to be fake. The 'Syrian Gay Girl blogger' turned out to be an American fake. ( Syrian Gay Girl Blog Revealed As Fake Had News Agencies Fooled ) On 17 June 2011 the BBC reported on further doubts about the story of Mohamed Bouazizi, the...
  Greece prepares to sell off state assets to get loans. (FX news feed)
    Greece prepares to sell off state assets to get loans.
    Greece is preparing to sell off billions of dollars worth of state assets including airports, highways and state-owned companies, as well as banks, real estate and gaming licenses, to meet international lenders' demands that it raise funds.
  [VIDEO] HPV vaccine highly effective in teens: study (CBS News Video) (WT news feed)
    HPV vaccine highly effective in teens: study (CBS News Video)
    The human papillomavirus can lead to cervical cancer, but the vaccine has sparked controversy in the U.S. over government recommendations that girls as young as eleven get it. Now, reports "Early Show" news anchor Betty Nguyen, research shows the vaccine working well...
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  Greece faces power outages due to austerity strike (WT news feed)
    Greece faces power outages due to austerity strike
    Greece faced power outages on Monday as employees at the main power utility began 48-hour rolling strikes to protest the company's privatization, part of austerity plans needed to avoid a national debt default.
  EU Commission spends millions on 'luxuries' (WT news feed)
    EU Commission spends millions on 'luxuries'
    Our investigation shows that Commissioners were travelling by private jet and handing out gifts of Tiffany jewellery to guests as Europeans faced budget cuts and IMF bailouts.
  Germany confirms human E. coli transmission (WT news feed)
    Germany confirms human E. coli transmission
    Female kitchen worker passes on strain to 20 people she prepared food for, after eating E. coli infected sprouts.
  Porn Star -- I Was Hillary Clinton's Intern! (The Groupie)
    Porn Star -- I Was Hillary Clinton's Intern!
    [With a face only Hillary would love] Adult film star Sammie Spades tells TMZ she was going to community college in Buffalo, NY back in 2006 when she met then Senator Clinton at a banquet ... and expressed interest in a summer internship. Sammie says she was accepted as a 2006...
  [VIDEO] Mark Faber : Greece Bailout Actually Bailout of European Banks. (robertleather news feed)
    (VIDEO) Mark Faber : Greece Bailout Actually Bailout of European Banks.
    Just to remind us all. Mark Faber, from last year : Greece Bailout Actually Bailout of European Banks. Greece has no ability to pay, so bail out actually to get European banks out of debt.
  Feds Okay Start-up That Monitors Employees' Internet and Social Media Footprints (WT news feed)
    Feds Okay Start-up That Monitors Employees' Internet and Social Media Footprints
    "....The company sent me some of those examples of what's previously turned up in applicant background checks: a job seeker who had an Internet photo featuring him holding multiple guns and a sword, another who was a member of a...
    Employee Background Screening | Employee Hiring Tool | Employee Verifications
  Just another brick in the wall: UN Agenda 21 in US law. (WT news feed)
    Just another brick in the wall: UN Agenda 21 in US law.
    The CLEAR Act: A pre-planned and pre-written bill; one just waiting for that golden opportunity to magically appear, will seize all water rights, coastal and in-land.
  Telstra, Optus to start censoring the web next month. (WT news feed)
    Telstra, Optus to start censoring the web next month.
    Most Australian internet users will have their web access censored next month after the country's two largest internet providers agreed to voluntarily block more than 500 websites from view.
  VIDEO] This McDonald's Video Takes Recruitment Propaganda To Hollywood Heights (video) (WT news feed)
    This McDonald's Video Takes Recruitment Propaganda To Hollywood Heights (video)
    It is a full-on miniature drama tracing the arc of a young woman who starts at the bottom at McDonald's, overcoming the snark and condescension of her friends and her mother, and rises to become a floor manager who trains other new employees, joining part of a community of...
  Somali pirate sentenced to 33 years in US prison (The Groupie)
    Somali pirate sentenced to 33 years in US prison
    A Somali man who pleaded guilty to piracy has been sentenced in the US to more than 33 years in prison. Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is the only survivor of the crew of pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama merchant ship off Somalia's coast in April 2009. He was captured by...
  33 in custody for manipulation at Turkish stock exchange. (robertleather news feed)
    33 in custody for manipulation at Turkish stock exchange.
    The Istanbul police department took 33 people into custody for stock share manipulation on the Istanbul Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
  Indain Thorium
    THORIUM is found in abundance in India, and has the potential to serve as feedstock for an ambitious nuclear power programme that can lift hundreds of millions out of poverty. At least 225,000 tonnes of thorium exist in India, much more than the estimated 60,000 tonnes of natural uranium.
  Protection Against Alzheimer's Disease Boosted By Mystery Ingredient In Coffee. (WT news feed)
    Protection Against Alzheimer's Disease Boosted By Mystery Ingredient In Coffee.
    A yet unidentified component of coffee interacts with the beverage's caffeine, which could be a surprising reason why daily coffee intake protects against Alzheimer's disease.
  [VIDEO] Anti-austerity protests spread across Europe. (Euronews Video) (WT news feed)
  [VIDEO] Houston Pilot Suspended For Slurs, Swearing Over Air Traffic Radio (The Groupie)
    Houston Pilot Suspended For Slurs, Swearing Over Air Traffic Radio
    [Winning] HOUSTON -- A Houston-based airline pilot has been suspended after his cockpit microphone became stuck, allowing an obscenity-laced rant to be broadcast over hundreds of miles, Local 2 Investigates reported Tuesday. RAW AUDIO: Pilot Tirade (Warning: Language) Video:...
  Citing E. coli bacteria, Russia bans food products from 300 German companies (WT news feed)
    Citing E. coli bacteria, Russia bans food products from 300 German companies
    Russian regulators are introducing a ban on meat and milk products from some 300 German companies, citing concern about E. coli. The statement by the agricultural oversight agency Rosselkhoznadzor did not identify the companies but said the ban will begin Monday.
  Rape in Libya: The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name - TIME
    The female doctors at one of the larger hospitals here can tell you stories - of corpses of violated women stripped and strewn on the streets of front-line Ajdabiya; of the women afraid to leave their homes in Brega; of the 13-year-old Misuratah girl gang-raped by soldiers who burst into the family's living room, forcing her father to watch. "She kept screaming," one doctor says. "Just screaming and screaming, 'Daddy, don't look!'" The doctors are in their mid-20, stationed in the emergency room of one of this rebel stronghold's most sophisticated hospitals. They talk for hours about the rape of women. But it's only stories. They have never met a victim.
  Foreign National About to Run a Key Bureau of a Top U.S. Regulatory Agency. (Southern Bread News Feed)
    Foreign National About to Run a Key Bureau of a Top U.S. Regulatory Agency.
    This is off the charts. Dr. Alison Oldale will join the Federal Trade Commission as Deputy Director for Antitrust in the Bureau of Economics after serving as the Chief Economist for the United Kingdom's Competition Commission. This is a high level position in the FTC. S.M....
  Aerial mosquito spraying to take place in several cities | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
    A specially-designed C-130 Hercules will be spraying for mosquitoes at Joint Base Langley and surrounding areas this week. The mosquito aerial spraying is scheduled to begin Tuesday and continue through Friday from 5:45 p.m. until dusk, a news release from Langley said. Spraying areas include Langley, Poquoson, York County, Newport News, Craney Island and parts of Portsmouth and Hampton. Joint Base Eustis has not yet been added to the schedule. The Hercules will be flying as low as 150 feet over the peninsula to train aircrew and spray Dibrom Concentrate, the news release said. After spraying, about 95 percent of adult mosquitoes should be killed. The mosquito population reductions could last up to two weeks, depending on the size of the area sprayed and whether conditions were favorable for new mosquitoes to hatch.
  Today in history (Adam Curry's Gitmo Nation News Feed)
    Today in history
    Swine flu vaccine killed 500
  Patent Cliff Losses Mean Eli Lilly Must Acquire or Be Acquired | BNET
    Eli Lilly (LLY) will lose the most revenue from its pharmaceuticals during the "patent cliff," waving goodbye to more than 50 percent of its sales through 2020 as its brand name drugs lose their market exclusivity, according to estimates by Bernstein Research analyst Tim Anderson. AstraZeneca (AZN) and Pfizer (PFE) will fare almost as badly, Anderson predicts. The industry as a whole faces $100 billion in losses as brand names face competition from cheap generic alternatives through 2015.
  Obama's Withdrawal Strategy Leaves Twice As Many Troops In Afghanistan | NEWS JUNKIE POST
    When Obama began his Presidency there were close to 38,000 troops in Afghanistan. If he keeps the promises that he will make in his speech tonight, eighteen months months from now, after withdrawing, or reclassifying, 30,000 troops, there will still be 68,000 troops left in Afghanistan.
  FICO Sells New Score That Predicts Whether You Will Take Your Medicine - The Consumerist
    Are you going to be a good boy and take your medicine? Next time your Mom won't have to ask you. She can just check your FICO Medication Adherence Score. The same people who make the standard credit scoring model have turned their data mining drills and abacuses onto medicine. They're selling a new score that says can predict if you will take your medication correctly.
    The score is on a range of 0 to 500. Over 400, and you're probably going to follow instructions. Under 200, and you're a risk for not taking your medication correctly. You might not get the prescription ever filled, forget to pick up your drugs from the pharmacy, not take all your doses, take your pills at the wrong time of day, or either over or under-dose.
  [VIDEO] Fashion Designer Blames Pills & Alcohol For Praising Adolf Hitler (Uploads by MOXNEWSd0tCOM)
    Fashion Designer Blames Pills & Alcohol For Praising Adolf Hitler
    Fashion Designer Blames Pills & Alcohol For Praising Adolf Hitler June 22, 2011 BBC World News MOXNews.com From: MOXNEWSd0tCOM Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 02:35 More in News & Politics
  [VIDEO] Anonymous & LulzSec Say They Will Team Up To Attack Governments & Banking Institutions (Uploads by MOXNEWSd0tCOM)
    Anonymous & LulzSec Say They Will Team Up To Attack Governments & Banking Institutions
    Anonymous & LulzSec Say They Will Team Up To Attack Governments & Banking Institutions June 22, 2011 NHK News MOXNews.com From: MOXNEWSd0tCOM Views: 5 0 ratings Time: 00:41 More in News & Politics
  [VIDEO] BBC on the "cyber attacks" - Clear overtones of "terrorism" overtones in the coverage (robertleather news feed)
    BBC on the "cyber attacks" - Clear overtones of "terrorism" overtones in the coverage
    The BBC spin a little story regarding the "cyber attacks". As far as SOCA report, only their website was breached. However, the BBC makes it clear that this is the work of loose nit cyber hackers... coming soon a report near you "cyber terrorists" with ties...
  [VIDEO] Police Are So Desperate" Hackers Mock Arrest (Uploads by MOXNEWSd0tCOM)
    "Police Are So Desperate" Hackers Mock Arrest
    "Police Are So Desperate" Hackers Mock Arrest June 21, 2011 CNN MOXNews.com From: MOXNEWSd0tCOM Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 03:28 More in News & Politics
  Arab League chief admits second thoughts about Libya air strikes | World news | The Guardian
    The outgoing head of the Arab League and a frontrunner to become president of a democratic Egypt has voiced reservations about Nato's bombing campaign in Libya, calling for a ceasefire and talks on a political settlement while Muammar Gaddafi remains in power.
  Moving to the U.S. will increase your cancer risk by 400%. | elephant journal
    Robyn shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a "Real Food" evangelist. Grounded in a successful Wall Street career that was more interested in food as good business than good-for-you, this mother of four was shaken awake by the dangerous allergic reaction of one of her children to a "typical" breakfast. Her mission to unearth the cause revealed more about the food industry than she could stomach, and impelled her to share her findings with others.
  [VIDEO] Mr Oil clip
  Krokodil: The drug that eats junkies - Europe, World - The Independent
    The home-made drug that Oleg and Sasha inject is known as krokodil, or "crocodile". It is desomorphine, a synthetic opiate many times more powerful than heroin that is created from a complex chain of mixing and chemical reactions, which the addicts perform from memory several times a day. While heroin costs from £20 to £60 per dose, desomorphine can be "cooked" from codeine-based headache pills that cost £2 per pack, and other household ingredients available cheaply from the markets.
    It is a drug for the poor, and its effects are horrific. It was given its reptilian name because its poisonous ingredients quickly turn the skin scaly. Worse follows. Oleg and Sasha have not been using for long, but Oleg has rotting sores on the
  Ga's farm-labor crisis playing out as planned | Jay Bookman
    Thanks to the resulting labor shortage, Georgia farmers have been forced to leave millions of dollars' worth of blueberries, onions, melons and other crops unharvested and rotting in the fields. It has also put state officials into something of a panic at the damage they've done to Georgia's largest industry.
  A Battle Between North End Residents And Tourists On Segways - CBS Boston
    There's a battle rolling onto Boston's sidewalks pitting pedestrians against tourists on futuristic wheels.
    Residents in the North End have been complaining about an onslaught of Segway riders invading their neighborhood.
  FedEx 4Q net income rises 33 percent - Yahoo! Finance
    The company's outlook assumes that oil and fuel prices will remain below peak levels from earlier this year. The benchmark price for oil in the U.S. topped out at about $114 per barrel. It's now around $95 per barrel.
  [VIDEO] NASA Scientist Accused of Using Celeb Status Among Environmental Groups to Enrich Himself - FoxNews.com
    The NASA scientist who once claimed the Bush administration tried to "silence" his global warming claims is now accused of receiving more than $1.2 million from the very environmental organizations whose agenda he advocated.
  [VIDEO] - Rick Perry accepts the 'Boot Up Texas' award at 2011 RightOnline
    Texas Governor Rick Perry accepts the 'Boot Up Texas' award at 2011 RightOnline Conference -- Tweeters, really?
  Does The New 'White House Rural Council' = UN's Agenda 21? | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze
    President Obama's E.O. 13575 is designed to begin taking control over almost all aspects of the lives of 16% of the American people. Why didn't we notice it? -Weinergate. -In the middle of the Anthony Weiner scandal, as the press and most of the American people were distracted, President Obama created something called "The White House Rural Council" (WHRC).
    Executive Order - Establishment of the White House Rural Council | The White House
  American Policy Center >> Agenda 21 In One Easy Lesson
  High-Tech Bracelets Locate Missing Ohio Seniors, Autistic Children
    The Rocky River Police Department in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, acquired 15 of the tracking bracelets and demonstrated the technology to its citizens last week. Police Chief Kelly Stillman said Rocky River is the first city in Ohio to offer the bracelets, which are available free of charge (with a monthly activation fee) to those in the community who need them.
  New York Fed Refuses to Reveal How Much Cash Was Sent to Iraq -- News from Antiwar.com
    The Special Inspector General fror Iraq Reconstruction's (SIGIR) efforts to figure out what happened to billions of dollars in missing cash shipped to Iraq are struggling mightily, officials say, because the New York Federal Reserve is refusing to disclose how much cash was even shipped in the first place.
  F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline - NYTimes.com
    A government official who declined to be named said earlier in the day that the F.B.I. was actively investigating the Lulz Security group and any affiliated hackers. The official said the F.B.I. had teamed up with other agencies in this effort, including the Central Intelligence Agency and cybercrime bureaus in Europe.
  [VIDEO] Cocaine Tainted With Animal De-Wormer Sickens Dozens - ktla.com
    Doctors at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) say drug dealers are cutting cocaine with levamisole, used for deworming livestock.
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    VIDEO: Tainted Cocaine Sickens Users; Chris Wolfe reports
    Rash of Heroin Overdoses Spark Concerns in Simi Valley
    The warning follows reports of at least a dozen patients developing serious skin reactions after smoking or snorting cocaine believed to be contaminated with the veterinary drug.
  Florida unemployment law: Bosses get powerful tool in Florida unemployment law overhaul - Orlando Sentinel
    A just-passed overhaul of Florida's unemployment laws gives employers the ability to challenge jobless benefits to former employees for behavior that has little to do with how they conduct themselves at work.
    The provision permits businesses to fight a worker's benefits claim based on "misconduct, irrespective of whether the misconduct occurs at the workplace or during working hours."
    In essence, it allows the business to cite a worker's private behavior as a reason to deny benefits.
    For example, owners of a delivery company, who can now fire a driver cited for reckless driving, could also challenge his right to benefits even if the offense occurred while he was driving his own car on his own time.
  New Services Adds Your Drunken Facebook Photos To Employer Background Checks, For Up To Seven Years - The Consumerist
    The FTC has given thumbs up to a company, Social Intelligence Corp., selling a new kind of employee background check to employers. This one scours the internet for your posts and pictures to social media sites and creates a file of all the dumb stuff you ever uploaded online. For instance, this sample they provided was flagged for "Demonstrating potentially violent behavior" because of "flagrant display of weapons or bombs."
  [VIDEO] - Libya conflict: Nato loses drone helicopter
    Wing Cmdr Bracken said no attack helicopters had been lost.
    "This drone helicopter was performing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance over Libya to monitor Colonel Gaddafi's forces threatening the civilian population," he said.
    "We are looking into the reasons [for the loss]. We can confirm we have not lost any attack helicopters."
  Drone Copter is NATO's First Combat Casualty in Libya | Danger Room | Wired.com
    Libyan state TV showed wreckage of the drone and claimed it was from a manned Apache gunship Gadhafi's forces had shot down 85 miles east of Tripoli. But the debris' color, shape and markings prove it was from an MQ-8 Fire Scout, a so-called "Vertical-Takeoff Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" built by Northrop Grumman.
  Surprise! TSA Is Searching Your Car, Subway, Ferry, Bus, AND Plane | Mother Jones
    Not to worry: security isn't the only goal of VIPR. A recent VIPR operation/screening at a Tampa Greyhound bus station was conducted with US Border Patrol and ICE. "What we're looking for is threats to national security as well as immigration law violators," said Steve McDonald from US Border Patrol. An ICE representative said that they were also looking for smuggling, and Gary Milano from Homeland Security said that although that was the first time the Tampa bus depot had been screened, VIPR would be back again sometime in the future and was using the element of surprise as a deterrent to "the bad guys."
    Although one man at the Tampa screening said he felt "safer,"-VIPR operations are not without their naysayers. A VIPR screening at a Des Moines Greyhound station last week is alleged to have targeted Latinos. Another TSA/Border Patrol VIPR screening on a trolley in San Diego resulted in three teens being handcuffed and deported while on their way to school. Around 20 others were also deported, according to local news outlets.
  King Co. requires life vests for swimmers, floaters - seattlepi.com
    People who hope to beat the summer heat by swimming, floating or boating on rivers in King County must wear a life vest or face an $86 -fine.
    A divided County Council on Monday passed a personal flotation device ordinance by a five to four vote. Opponents said it was an intrusive move by "big-government."
  Activist Post: Scientists Successfully Implant Chip That Controls The Brain; Allowing Thoughts, Memory And Behavior To Be Transferred From One Brain To Another
    Scientists working at the University of Southern California, home of the Department of Homeland Security's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, have created an artificial memory system that allows thoughts, memories and learned behavior to be transferred from one brain to another.
  Vandenberg AFB poised for Minuteman 3 test
    An unarmed Minuteman 3 test is scheduled for an early morning mission Wednesday, June 22, from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
    The weapon with its lone re-entry vehicle is set to blast out of an underground silo on North Base at 3 a.m. However, the team has until 9 a.m. to get the missile off the ground.
    The military will track the one re-entry vehicle as it travels some 4,200 miles southwest of Vandenberg to a predetermined target in the Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean.
  The Underground Market shutdown
    They have decided (apparently with pressure from the state level), that the market is no longer a private event, and can therefore not continue as it has. We have requested a meeting with the city attorney for a definition of what a private/public event is exactly, so we can determine where the line is, and continue running the market.
  [VIDEO] HUMMERS - Underdog - The Magnet Men Pt 3
    The Magnet Men tell Underdog to tell Earth they need to give up all their metal or they will use their magnet gun on them. (via Dave Bryan)
  [VIDEO] Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace - FoxNews.com
    'Daily Show' host talks politics, media bias in extended, unedited interview
  Obama to Personally Tweet From Twitter Account - WSJ.com
    Obama's campaign said in a posting on its website Friday that Obama will tweet regularly from the popular social media service and his personal tweets will be signed "-BO." The campaign said it will now manage both Obama's Twitter account and Facebook page.
    Obama tweeted personally early Friday evening, welcoming followers to "a new @BarackObama. From now on, #Obama2012 staff will manage this account; tweets from the President will be signed "-BO."
  Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone - NYTimes.com
    This erosion of anonymity is a product of pervasive social media services, cheap cellphone cameras, free photo and video Web hosts, and perhaps most important of all, a change in people's views about what ought to be public and what ought to be private. Experts say that Web sites like Facebook, which require real identities and encourage the sharing of photographs and videos, have hastened this change.
  FDA Reveals Graphic Warnings For Cigarettes - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver
    "President Obama is committed to protecting our nation's children and the American people from the dangers of tobacco use. These labels are frank, honest and powerful depictions of the health risks of smoking and they will help," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in an FDA statement. "These labels will encourage smokers to quit and prevent children from smoking. President Obama wants to make tobacco-related death and disease part of the nation's past, and not our future."
  Thousands in the streets of Luxembourg to European economies
    In Luxembourg city on Tuesday thousands of trade unionists, including many Belgians, arrived on the street. They shout their dissatisfaction with the austerity of course Europe.
    -The event - which in addition to many Belgians Luxembourg, French and Germans walked out - started at 15:00, with the usual noise of firecrackers, and decked with many banners and flags.
  [VIDEO] More chaos for travellers
    The crisis prompted renewed calls for a high-speed rail link between Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane.
    ''Certainly one of the benefits of high-speed rail would be that it offers resilience in times like this where airlines are grinding to a halt,'' said David George, chief executive of the Co-operative Research Centre for Rail Innovation.
  14 Norwegian children have had narcolepsy for vaccine
    14 Norwegian children have had narcolepsy for vaccine
    Normal incidence of narcolepsy in children is about one case per 100,000 children.
    For this reason, it was expected about five cases in vaccinated children. Instead, it reported 14 cases.
    Narcolepsy Narcolepsy is thus almost three times as prevalent among vaccinated children as among non-vaccinated children.
  [VIDEO] - Obama is a terrorist
    Fox News's Bill O'Reilly Interviews Rapper Lupe Fiasco - 06/20/11
  Obama likely to cut 10K troops from Afghanistan - Yahoo! News
    President Barack Obama is expected to withdraw roughly 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan this year, with one brigade of about 5,000 forces leaving this summer and a second brigade of similar size coming home by the end of the year, a senior U.S. defense official said Tuesday.
  Greece must be allowed to default - Public Service Europe
    The European elite is ignoring the will of the people by protecting Greece from default, claims UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP
  [VIDEO] Is it time to update the U.S. Constitution? -- Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs
    But our Constitution has been revised 27 times. -Some of these revisions have been enormous and important, such as the abolition of slavery. Then there are areas that have evolved. For example, the power of the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, is barely mentioned in the document. This grew as a fact over history.
    Fareed Zakaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  [VIDEO] Schumer | Republicans | Jobs | RealClearPolitics
    Sen. Chuck Schumer talks about a new "jobs bill" (or stimulus) to get the economy going and encourage employment. One way to do this, he says, is to give corporations incentives to hire. Schumer says being against this, which the Republican party is, is like opposing employment.
    "If they are against a business tax cut to help employment, they have always been for business tax cuts in the past, you gotta wonder, maybe they don't want the economy to grow," said Schumer, the number three Democrat in the Senate.
  [VIDEO] Ron Paul | Today Show | Time Is Right | RealClearPolitics
    Rep. Ron Paul, running for GOP nomination in 2012: "I want to legalize freedom.
  [VIDEO] George Will | Republicans | Libya | RealClearPolitics
    George Will: "The United States is engaged in hostilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, the tribal region of Pakistan, Yemen and Libya. That's five wars, how many do these people want? With regard to Libya: Did Libya attack us? No. Was it about to attack us? No. Were we obliged by a treaty to get engaged in a civi war in a tribal society? No. Were American's endangered? No. Find me a reason for this."
  Raytheon readying directed energy warheads to fry enemy electronics, cook allied Pop Tarts -- Engadget
    Raytheon, the people who brought you the pain ray, are at it again. The defense giant is planning an arsenal of "directed energy warheads" expected to use radio and microwaves to electronically neutralize targets rather than blow them up. The company's being typically secretive about details, but mentions the recent acquisition of Ktech, a firm specializing in airborne electronic warfare and enemy vulnerability assessment, giving us a clue about how it might all work.
  Libyan gov't slams NATO raids on civilian neighborhood
    NATO warplanes struck the neighborhood early Sunday morning, killing 9 people, including five members of a family, and wounding 18 others. As a Xinhua reporter saw at the scene, a three-story building was reduced to crumbling wrecks, dozens of homes and scores of vehicles nearby damaged or destroyed, and windows of a school building shattered.
    NATO warplanes were circling overhead for more than one hour after the raids, causing great panic to local residents.
    In a statement issued later on Sunday, NATO admitted that civilian casualties were caused during the airstrikes -- in the first such acknowledgement since the alliance began its air operations in March.
  BP gets off scott free
    NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Ruling in favor of Transocean and BP, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed third-party environmental claims in a giant pleading bundle in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, saying the fact that the oil flow has stopped makes those lawsuits irrelevant.
    -----"The injunction at this stage would be useless, as not only is there no ongoing release from the well, but there is also no viable offshore facility from which any release could possibly occur," U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier wrote. "The Macondo well is dead, and what remains of the Deepwater Horizon vessel is on the ocean floor, where it capsized and sank in 5,000 feet of water.
    -----"Moreover, BP and the agencies comprising the Unified Area Command have been and are cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico. An injury is not redressable by a citizen suit when the injury is already being addressed."
  All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup | Mother Jones
    Webster's defines speedup as "an employer's demand for accelerated output without increased pay," and it used to be a household word. Bosses would speed up the line to fill a big order, to goose profits, or to punish a restive workforce. Workers recognized it, unions (remember those?) watched for and negotiated over it--and, if necessary, walked out over it.
  Did NATO Bomb Libyan Civilians in Tripoli as Punishment for "Largest Pro-Government Rally in Weeks" - American Everyman
    Why would they do that?
    Because from the sequence of events and published news articles, it looks like NATO was spinning up the "accident" before it happened.
    Which means it wasn't an accident.
    By going in after the fact and re-writing the original article, after the fact, they have made their original intention even clearer.
    NATO leaders knew their operational plans for Saturday were going to create civilian casualties and so they used the Associated Press to spin-up the "human shields" story prior to the event.
  Porn Star -- I Was Hillary Clinton's Intern! | TMZ.com
    Sammie says, "I was planning on becoming an attorney and then going into public office" -- however, a couple years later she ran into money problems, abandoned politics ... and claims having sex on tape was the best way to pay the bills.
    The star of "Big Butts Like It Big #8" ... and "White Bubble Butts #4" says, "I don't think Hillary would be too happy, but I have nothing but respect for Mrs. Clinton."
  [VIDEO] Eurogroup delays decision over Greek loan | euronews, world news
    "We await of course, a decision from the Greek parliament on the approval of the plan. Based on that.....the decision on the overall financing strategy can be taken and in that case the payment of the last instalment agreed as part of the first programme will be in mid-July. "
  Court Rules US Taxpayers, Not BP Or Transocean, Are Liable For Gulf Oil Spill Clean Up Costs (WT news feed)
    Court Rules US Taxpayers, Not BP Or Transocean, Are Liable For Gulf Oil Spill Clean Up Costs
    A US District court has dismissed over 100,000 lawsuits brought against BP And Transocean to pay for oil spill clean up costs and environmental damages to the Gulf of Mexico caused by the BP Gulf Oil Spill.
  Beursdag begint met storing. (WT news feed)
    Beursdag begint met storing.
    De Amsterdamse beurs heeft maandagochtend te maken met een storing, evenals de beurzen in Parijs, Brussel en Lissabon. Het is nog niet duidelijk wanneer de handel wordt hervat.
  [VIDEO]100,000 in Spain anti-crisis protest. (WT news feed)
    100,000 in Spain anti-crisis protest.
    More than 100,000 protesters took to the streets in Spain on Sunday blaming bankers and politicians for causing a financial crisis that forced the country to adopt painful spending cuts.
  [VIDEO] Anti-austerity protests spread across Europe | euronews, world news
    Anti-austerity rallies have been held across Europe -- in Spain thousands marched to protest against high unemployment and their government's handling of the economic crisis.
  Rex Murphy: Climate scientists make a mockery of the peer-review process | Full Comment | National Post
    A report on renewables, by the Renewable Energy Council of Europe, and Greenpeace, peer-reviewd by the man who wrote it. All they need add is a citation from the Suzuki Foundation and an endorsement from Elizabeth May and "the science will be settled" forever.