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Cyclone Nargis in Burma :
Cyclone Nargis was suddenly monstrous - The Hurricane unexpectedly reached Category 4 strength ahead of landfall in Myanmar. After slowly churning through the Bay of Bengal without gaining significant strength – and without forecasters predicting that it would – Tropical Cyclone Nargis suddenly intensified into a monstrous Category 4 storm with winds of up to 132 mph. The last prediction had been for Nargis to make landfall as a Category 1 or Category 2 storm. (…)

‘Perhaps 60% of today’s oil price is pure speculation’
By F. William Engdahl
Global Research, May 2, 2008
The price of crude oil today is not made according to any traditional relation of supply to demand. It’s controlled by an elaborate financial market system as well as by the four major Anglo-American oil companies. As much as 60% of today’s crude oil price is pure speculation driven by large trader banks and hedge funds. It has nothing to do with the convenient myths of Peak Oil. (…)

“ Rich people, God Bless Us!” By David Glenn Cox
Here in the polarized states of America, with a little media magic, a draft dodger can become a war hero and a war hero a charlatan. After the New York Times exposé explains the media’s complicity in what has been going on, well thanks, but no thanks. Old news, Robert Novak and Judith Miller, Op Ed’s by Richard Perle and Pat Buchanon, the story then turns to inside baseball.
Just conspirators trying to unburden their chest and clear (…)

Building Manager: DC Madam’s Death Not Suicide
POSTED: 8:54 pm EDT May 2, 2008 UPDATED: 9:27 pm EDT May 2, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. — The building manager of a Central Florida condo said he spent time talking to Deborah Jean Palfrey on Monday as she packed to go to her mother’s house and she did not seem suicidal.
Deborah Jean Palfrey has many ties to Central Florida. For the past 12 years she’s owned a condo at Park Lake Towers in Orlando.
Video: Manager Says D.C. Madam Death Not Suicide (…)

June 25 and 26: North America 2030: An Environmental Outlook, CEC, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (public invited) Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America Fifteenth Regular Session of the CEC Council and meetings of the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) 25–26 June 2008 Government Conference Center 2 Rideau Street Ottawa, Canada
Link to Program of Public Events here:
– http://www.cec.org/files/pdf/COUNCI...

"DID YOU KNOW PENGUINS CAN FLY?"
(Swans - April 21, 2008) "DID YOU KNOW PENGUINS CAN FLY?" asked a local resident recently. "Penguins do not fly," I retorted. "You are wrong," he replied. "How come? if I may ask... " "I saw it on TV," answered the strong-headed chap. To see something on TV — a computer simulation — was enough to make that man believe that penguins do fly. In September 2005, I had a conversation with another long-time Boonville resident who was adamant that we were (…)

In the last eight years implementing the plans for the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) designed "to promote American global leadership" has backfired.
To accomplish PNAC’s goals, all threats needed to be eliminated. From the onset, the United Sates earmarked two countries as mortal enemies: Venezuela and Iran. With Venezuela, it is well documented that the CIA attempted to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chavez. And with Iran, the United States continues to (…)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJaTpgZHyeE
Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasure of the AFL-CIO, was one of the featured speakers at the “International Workers Day Celebration” event, held on May 1, 2008, at the National Labor College, in Silver Spring, MD. He ripped into the evils of Globalization and the harmful effects that it is having on the economy and in particular on the lives of working class Americans. Mr. Trumka also charged: “Wall St. has hijacked the economy!” He is the former (…)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPcBYBvKAU
On April 30. 2008, a photo exhibit highlighting the desperate seriousness of the Iraqi Refugee Crisis was held on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C. Ms. Gabriela Bulisova photographed the refugees at sites she recently visited in both Iraq and Syria. She was also one of the speakers at the event, which was sponsored by Refugees International, among other groups, and was held in room 2220 of the House Rayburn Building. For background on the Iraqi (…)

by Steve Watson
President Bush last week signed into law a bill which will see the federal government begin to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months, a move critics have described as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.
Described as a "national contingency plan" the justification for the new law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of "public health (…)