“…a skull fracture and so he had bleeding coming out of his ear and out of his nose…. And probably one of the worst things he had was hearing loss, because the fracture went very close to one of his ears.”-Richard Hearn, attorney & medical doctor
A man is suing the Pocatello Police […] Continue Reading…
“…handful of gigantic banks that have simply hijacked the economy and the populations of the world for their own interest.”-F. William Engdahl, economic researcher
Police in New York City have been busy arresting protestors today, the day before major international protests are to take place. OWS personnel are planning a major march on Times Square.
Also, […] Continue Reading…
Italian students stormed the central Milan office of one of the world’s leading investment banks, Goldman Sachs. Police chased them off.
Protesters also threw eggs at the headquarters of UniCredit, Italy’s biggest bank.
The attack on the Goldman Sachs office comes a day before planned international protests. October 15 will see coordinated international demonstrations against the […] Continue Reading…
“There is a growing resentment in the two Koreas, and also in Okinawa and Guam. Everywhere people are saying, ‘We have had enough of the US military occupation, it is time to close down the bases and time to find different ways for achieving security.'”-Christine Ahn, Korea Policy Institute
To remember the […] Continue Reading…
U.S. President Barack Obama is sending 100 troops to central Africa, officially to fight terrorism.
According to the Associated Press the U.S. troops will be stationed in the Central African Republic, Congo and the newly independent South Sudan.
Former U.S. President George Bush Jr established the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). The creation of AFRICOM was greatly […] Continue Reading…
According to Idaho media reports, the executive director for the Idaho Republican Party, Jonathan Parker, is accused of helping AnalyzeSoft (a tech company that makes tracking devices for prisoners) get a big contract from Idaho Governor Butch Otter.
AnalyzeSoft is now barred from doing business with Idaho for at least one year, after it was […] Continue Reading…
As a matter of incompetence, or conspiracy, when the list of China’s top trading partners is presented, it shows the United States as the top dog. But that’s misleading, because the European Union, as a whole, is not counted.
Instead, EU members are broken up into the individual member states. If you look at the […] Continue Reading…
Shiitake mushrooms used in school lunches have tested positive for 350 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium. That’s below the government limit of 500 becquerels, but Yokohama school officials are getting rid of them anyway.
Yokohama is about 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
At a Ibaraki Prefecture mushroom farm, 830 […] Continue Reading…
“Seems likely that this is their attempt to shut down OWS for good. We know where the real dirt is: on Wall Street … We won’t allow Bloomberg and the NYPD to foreclose our occupation. This is an occupation, not a permitted picnic…”-OWS statement
“The cleanup is a pretext to remove us […] Continue Reading…
“People know that there is no real out. The children of the current adults are looking and realizing they are not likely to have as good a life as their parents. And their parents are distressed because they realize it’s true!”-Jeff Gates, former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
In an […] Continue Reading…