Just in: The Irish Army reports they’ve blown up a suspected booby trapped bus, and found a fake bomb in the capital of Dublin.
A homemade bomb was found on a bus heading to Dublin. The Army destroyed it by blowing it up.
In Dublin a fake bomb was found. Officials believe it was meant to distract the military and police.
“Firstly we oppose it because it is a waste of money. The second reason we oppose this is because of British imperialism, but most importantly we oppose this because she is the commander-in-chief of the British military who continue to occupy the six counties [Northern Ireland].”-Brian Leeson, Eirigi chairman
Members of the Republic of Ireland’s Eirigi political party, held a trial for Queen Elizabeth. She was charged with 12 crimes, including the Great Irish Famine and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After they found her guilty they cut her head off. Of course it was just an effigy of the queen.
“But here is seems an individual or a group with specific knowledge of the dissident republican coded warning system has called to make a bomb threat. The police cannot afford to do anything but treat this with the utmost seriousness.”-Mark White, SkyNews Home affairs correspondent
Scotland Yard has put London on alert after bomb threats were called in from Irish, who’re upset over the Queen of England’s visit to Ireland.
As an example of the ongoing war between the Irish and the English, in April a Northern Ireland police constable was killed when his home was bombed.
“The real purpose of the ongoing massive garda [police] operation is to deter and intimidate people from engaging in protests against the visit by the commander-in-chief of the British military.”-Louise Minihan, Dublin City Council member
Several Irish protesters were arrested just before Queen Elizabeth II set foot on the Emerald Isle. Arrests were made not only in the Republic of Ireland, but in Northern Ireland as well.
One group, “Eirigi”, has announced plans to occupy the Garden of Remembrance. The queen is scheduled to lay a wreath to remember the Irish who fought for independence from her own royal family.
In Northern Ireland, members of the Irish Republican Army said the queen’s visit is “the final insult”, and is proof that armed resistance must continue.
This past weekend at least 27 bodies were found in a mass grave along Guatemala’s border with Mexico. Since then Guatemalan forces have battled with suspects, resulting in the capture of one, and killing two.
Now the President of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, has declared a State of Siege. He says they’ve identified the bodies in the mass grave as migrant workers, who were trying to get into Mexico for jobs. Colom says the migrants were killed by the Zetas Drug Gang.
I’ve asked this before: Why would drug dealers want to kill migrant workers? This looks more like something that radical right wing nationalist would do, not purely drug dealers.
The majority of people killed in Mexico’s Drugs War have been migrant works from outside Mexico. Don’t forget that many tourists from the United States have been killed, for no apparent reason. I’m suspecting that what is happening is that a pro-Mexican NAZI like group (Zetas) has risen to power, through the sale of illegal drugs, and is carrying out their ultra-nationalist agenda of ridding Mexico of all foreigners. The drug dealing was just to get enough money to wage their war.
U.S. Senator John Kerry says that he’s worked out differences between Pakistan and the United States. As a sign he says Pakistan will return the tail rotor of the downed stealth helicopter used in the Osama bin Laden raid.
Kerry also says Pakistan no longer wants an official apology from the U.S. Kerry’s announcements might be too late for the U.S. government, as a Senate panel is deciding if Pakistan is still an ally of the U.S. or not.
The U.S. Commerce Department says overall new home construction dropped 10.6% in April. Also, building permits fell 4% since March.
Construction of multi-family homes, with five or more units, dropped 28%. Economic “experts” expected an increase in housing construction for April.
Pakistan is reporting that two NATO helicopters attacked a Pakistani security checkpoint in North Waziristan. Also, a U.S. drone attack killed 12 people in the same region.
No response so far from NATO forces on why they attacked a security checkpoint. This is not the first time; last year U.S. helicopters did the same thing, killing two Pakistani soldiers.
These attacks come as U.S. Senator John Kerry is in Pakistan, to try an reconcile the May 1/2 Osama bin Laden operation with Pakistani officials.
“…timely action to increase the debt limit in order to protect the full faith and credit of the United States and avoid catastrophic economic consequences for citizens.”-Timothy Geithner, Treasury Secretary
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, will now use government employee retirement money to pay U.S. government debts. He pointed out that he’s not the first Treasury Secretary to do so.
Even with using retirement money, it’s estimated the government will run out of debt payment options within 11 weeks. The Federal government has spent its way to the legal debt limit of $14.3 trillion.
What Geithner, and Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve (a private bank), want is for Congress to raise the debt limit. But, that would only mean that our elected officials could get us even deeper in the hole.
The problem is that our Federal government is running solely on loans. Geithner wants to be able to keep borrowing money. There is a fear that no matter how drastic government spending cuts are, they might not be enough. This is a really really really bad sign.
The Treasury Department has already stopped issuing state and local governments special securities to manage their debts. Where does that leave them?
History shows that Congress loves to raise its debt limit, so it can spend more of YOUR money, and it’s partly the cause of our current situation. Some members of Congress say it’s time to pay the piper.
“The wildfire situation in Alberta remains extreme.”-Ed Stelmach, Premier of Alberta
The wildfires in Alberta, Canada, are not only destroying homes, and even towns, but oil fields as well. The fires are adding to already damaged oil production in Canada.
This year, most oil producers in Canada are dealing with clean ups of major oil spills (ignored by main stream media) and explosions of sand oil fields (also ignored by main stream media). On top of that, and the fires in Alberta, some oil fields are under water because of flooding in Manitoba.
Oil producer Penn West says their oil production is down by 40,000 barrels per day, and that’s before the fires shut down their operation in Alberta.
The Rainbow pipeline (run by Plains All American Pipeline LP) in Alberta, is closed because of a massive oil spill earlier this year, but clean up of the spill is halted because of the wildfires. How long will the wildfires go once they hit the oil?
Reuters reported that at least half a dozen Canadian pipelines developed leaks this year. This is either a case of shoddy maintenance by Canadian companies, or sabotage.
The result of the explosions, pipeline spills, flooding and now fires, is causing several Canadian refiners to shut down. Operators of the Pelican Lake plant say they will have to shut down if they don’t get oil soon. The Marten Mountain plant is already shut down.