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German Beehives Hit by Mass Die-Off
Europe May 12, 2008, 12:29PM EST
Beekeepers are pointing the finger at a Bayer CropScience pesticide marketed under the name Poncho, but government tests aren’t conclusive
by Andrew Curry
In Germany’s bucolic Baden-Württemburg region, there is a curious silence this week. All up and down the Rhine river, farm fields usually buzzing with bees are quiet. Beginning late last week, helpless beekeepers could only watch as their hives were hit by an (…)

Alienated at work? Don’t sell yourself.
Legislation since the 1990s has introduced a focus on mass education , performativity and marketisation in British Higher Education, whereby reduced public funds are allocated against student numbers and performance indicators, forcing reliance on market mechanisms to differentiate institutions based on the quality of education, which is essentially treated as a commodity.
A technocratic and instrumental view of knowledge is adopted, leading to (…)

The reason that the United States of America has a drug problem is because it has been caught in a perpetual lie. The denial by Americans that cannabis is not a Schedule I substance has only benefited large conglomerates, and a small minority of people who profit from criminalizing the majority.
Our children are not stupid, but they are inquisitive. When they consumes cannabis for the first time they realizes almost immediately that they have been lied to. Once this lie is exposed then (…)

Venezuela’s Chavez Says Attack by U.S. Would Cause $500 Oil
By Steven Bodzin
May 15 (Bloomberg) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose country is the biggest oil exporter in the Americas, said crude oil would rise to ``$400 or $500 a barrel’’ in the case of a U.S. attack.
The reactivation of the U.S. Fourth Fleet in the Caribbean on July 1 and a possible U.S. base on the Guajira Peninsula, which Venezuela shares with Colombia, are both threats to his country, Chavez said at his (…)

by Julie Stephens
Kristin Ross, May ’68 and Its Afterlives, University of Chicago Press, 2002 (238pp). ISBN 0-2267-297-1 (hard cover) RRP $69.00.
The ‘blaming the sixties industry’ that emerged in the United States from the late eighties has its own distinctive counterpart in France. The events of May-June 1968, where nine million people stopped working and brought France to a complete standstill for five to six weeks, has inspired a voluminous literature. By the end of 1968, in France (…)

"Welcome to the Axis of Evil" — Bolivian President Evo Morales to Paraguayan President-Elect Fernando Lugo
Bolivian President Evo Morales came to New York to deliver the keynote address at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Morales became Bolivia’s first indigenous president when he was elected in 2005 with more popular support than any Bolivian leader in decades.
Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez had a chance to sit down with President Morales at the Bolivian mission in (…)

"I joined in ’03," ’cause I was broke, I needed money, but I was a young American kid, I wanted to fight in a war. I joined up. [A] month out of training I arrived in Baghdad, Iraq, January ’04. Saddam’s been captured. And I get there and the guys I’m serving with have been there for six months already; they were there in ’03. And I go, "Well, you know what, I think it’s come out that, you know, these people had nothing to do with 9/11, there was no Iraqi on those planes.
We can see around (…)

Quake ’predicted’ 5 years ago
By Zhu Zhe (China Daily) Updated: 2008-05-13 06:49
A seismologist warned more than five years ago that based on historical records and animal studies, a strong earthquake was likely in Sichuan.
"Sichuan is virtually certain to experience an earthquake measuring above 7 in the next few years," Chen Xuezhong, a senior researcher with the geophysics institute of State Seismological Bureau (SSB), wrote in a paper published in December 2002, in the periodical (…)

http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18259942.html Well, I’m so tired of crying, but i’m out on the road again. I’m on the road again. Well, I’m so tired of crying, but I’m out on the road again. I’m on the road again. I ain’t got no woman Just to call my special friend. You know the first time I traveled out in the rain and snow, In the rain and snow. You know the first time I traveled out in the rain and snow, In the rain and snow. I didn’t have no payroll, Not even no place to (…)

"May 4th 1970, Kent State University: National Guard killed 4 students and wounded 9. Some of them who did not take part in any action at a 100 yds range.
Start and end sequence of a 1 hr documentary special by Germany’s WDR TV. Coverage originating from major U.S. networks. TV Teams of NBC, ABC and CBS had been present. Where has their material gone?"
From: andrewc92
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19562596.html