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  • US Escalating Covert Operations Against Iran
    29 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Reuters...
    US escalating covert operations against Iran
    06/29/2008 08:43 PM | Reuters
    Washington: US congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush’s funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.
    The article by reporter Seymour Hersh, from the magazine’s July 7 and 14 issue, centers on a highly classified (…)

  • Entire US financial system is to come under the scrutiny of the IMF
    29 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The entire US financial system is to come under the scrutiny of the IMF. Humiliation for Mr. Dollar: Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Bank, faces a general investigation by the International Monetary Fund. Just one more example of the Fed losing its power. For seven years, US President George W. Bush refused to allow the IMF to conduct its assessment. Even now, he has only given the IMF board his consent under one important condition. The review can begin in (…)

  • Honeybees: Worsening epidemic of Colony Collapse by Pr Joe Cummins (ISIS)
    28 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    To Bee Organic or not to Bee by Pr Joe Cummins
    Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a growing scourge of honeybees has struck again this year. The United Sates Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported a 36 percent loss of colonies in managed hives over the winter, up 13.5 percent from the previous year [1]. USDA has yet to identify a single pathogen responsible for the disease, and has finally begun to study the interaction between pesticides and viruses or varroa mites as possible causes [2]. (…)

  • City Hall Scandal Hits Baltimore After “The Wire” Exits
    28 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” - Oscar Wilde
    Baltimore, MD - A corruption scandal recently surfaced at City Hall. It centers on the Mayor, Sheila Dixon, and charges of bribery. Fur coats and a couple of trips out of town as gifts are supposedly involved, according to published reports. The dollar amount doesn’t seem significant. (1) We’re not talking about a Jack Abramoff-Let’s-Buy-a-Congressman-scheme here, folks. (2)
    I’m sorry that the HBO show, “The Wire,” just (…)

  • Video: Are the Democrats Going to Keep Their Word?
    28 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Democrats, during the 2006 Congressional elections, promised the American people that if they won control of the U.S. Congress that they would end the Iraq War. The voters trusted them. And, the Democrats did, in 2007, take control of the Congress. When, if ever, are the Democrats going to keep their word? As of June 27, 2008, 4,113 U.S. troops have died in the Iraq War. The cost of the conflict to the American taxpayers is estimated at $3 trillion.
    For background, please see: (…)

  • Video: Derek Cooper: The State of Maryland Says: “I Should Just Die!”
    24 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On June 19, 2008, I interviewed Derek Cooper at a protest action in Baltimore City relating to the ongoing health care crisis in this country. Mr. Cooper is 34 years old and suffers from a “chronic disease.” He has no health insurance and his current medical debts exceed $36,000. Maryland’s Health Insurance officials have “refused” to help him. Mr. Cooper says that they figure: “I should just die!” The governor of Maryland is Martin O’Malley. Mr. Cooper lives in Montgomery County. He added: (…)

  • Food relief line grows long, tense
    24 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Food relief line grows long, tense
    Frustration rises, officials caught off-guard as thousands turn out for flood assistance
    By ANNYSA JOHNSON, LINDA SPICE and GREG J. BOROWSKI
    anjohnson@journalsentinel.com
    Posted: June 23, 2008
    The chaos that erupted outside Milwaukee County’s main welfare office Monday over disaster-related food aid had more to do with a weak economy and crushing poverty in parts of this community than the devastating floods that swept through the state earlier (…)

  • A Secret Oil Gusher Inside Citigroup
    24 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Secret Oil Gusher Inside Citigroup June 21 / 22, 2008
    Two Federal Agencies Are Culpable in Oil Price Manipulations
    By PAM MARTENS
    If you want to flush out market manipulation, don’t turn to the sleuths in Congress. They’ve been probing trading of the oil markets for two years and completely missed a company at the center of the action. During that period, a barrel of crude oil has risen from $50 to $140, leaving a wide swatch of Americans facing a choice this coming winter of (…)

  • USAID May Outsource Global Cash-Distribution Function
    22 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Someone in the State Department or at USAID likely already is planning to leave government service and enter the private sector to get that contract," the source said. "That’s just how things are at State. You can be sure that there’s an official or a group of officials who are currently making plans to start their own company, use their inside connections to secure the contract, and become millionaires at the expense of the average working stiff."
    June 03, 2008 The multi-billion dollar (…)

  • Chaos Erupts As Storm Victims Try To Get Food Stamps
    22 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chaos Erupts As Storm Victims Try To Get Food Stamps
    Dozens Wait For Hours Outside Offices
    POSTED: 4:20 pm EDT June 20, 2008 UPDATED: 6:32 pm EDT June 20, 2008
    INDIANAPOLIS — Chaos erupted outside Family and Social Services Administration offices in Indianapolis Friday as storm victims lined up to receive emergency food stamps.
    The state has been giving out the stamps for the last six days, but police were called to some offices Friday as people waited in line for hours, Call 6’s (…)