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AlterNet – by Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins

If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don’t meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could be powerless to shut down imports of unsafe food or food ingredients. And if it tries, multinational corporations will be able to sue the U.S. government for the loss of anticipated future profits.   Continue reading “Secret Trade Agreements Threaten to Undo Our Last Shreds of Food Safety”

SOTT Net – by Naomi Wolf, NaomiWolf.org

I hate to do this but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be, and that the motivations involved in the story may be more complex than they appear to be. This is in no way to detract from the great courage of Glenn Greenwald in reporting the story, and the gutsiness of the Guardian in showcasing this kind of reporting, which is a service to America that US media is not performing at all. It is just to raise some cautions as the story unfolds, and to raise some questions about how it is unfolding, based on my experience with high-level political messaging.    Continue reading “My creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be…”

Lest we forget.

Daily Mail – by DAMIEN GAYLE and MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE 

Published May 6, 2013

A senior United Nations official has claimed that Syrian rebels may have used chemical weapons against government forces.

Carla Del Ponte said evidence from casualties and medical staff indicated that rebel forces in the civil war had used the deadly nerve agent sarin.   Continue reading “UN accuses Syrian rebels of carrying out sarin gas attacks which had been blamed on Assad’s troops”

RT News

Russia is not convinced by the evidence which the US provided alleging that the government of Syria’s President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against rebel forces.

“The Americans tried to present us with information on the use of chemical weapons by the regime, but frankly we thought that it was not convincing,” said presidential aide Yury Ushakov on Friday.    Continue reading “Moscow unconvinced by US evidence of Syrian chemical weapons use”

Washington Post – by Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura

Update: The White House has cancelled the safari for this trip.

When President Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won’t be taking any chances.

Continue reading “Document: Major resources needed for Obama Africa trip”

Washington Post – by Robert Barnes and Brady Dennis

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that human genes cannot be patented, a decision that is likely to shape the future of medical and biotech research.

Those who challenged the notion that something that occurs naturally in the human body can be “owned” by a company said the decision could open a new era of expanded research and lower costs for genetic testing.   Continue reading “Supreme Court rules human genes may not be patented”

Raw Story – by Stephen C. Webster

Two police officers in Liberty, New York were sued on Thursday by a Connecticut man who claims he was handcuffed and berated after a judge objected to him writing expletives and crossing out the town’s name and replacing it with “TYRANNY” on a speeding ticket.   Continue reading “Liberty, NY cops sued for arresting man who replaced town’s name with ‘Tyranny’ on ticket”

New York Post – by GEOFF EARLE and S.A. MILLER

WASHINGTON — A top State Department official stymied investigators trying to get to the bottom of four killings in Honduras involving DEA agents and local police — yet another revelation from internal memos leaked by a whistleblower claiming a pattern of coverups.

The incident ended in the deaths of two pregnant women and two men last year, after Honduran national police opened fire from a State Department-owned helicopter on a small boat.   Continue reading “State Department stymied probe into shooting of four Hondurans, whistleblower says”

The Lone Star Watchblog

Many of us cannot home school our children because both mother and father have to work two or three jobs just to pay the bills. The cost of living to keep the lights on, food to eat and fuel in our vehicles keeps rising no matter how much we pinch pennies. We have no choice but put our kids in the public school system.

It is common knowledge now that the Public School System has become indoctrination centers. They are trying to ram down our throats a Soviet style collectivist agenda. They are trying to get children to turn in their parents if they talk against the government. They ask how many guns are in our homes. They want to know if their family is bad for the environment because they want to take hot bath.   Continue reading “Are Public School Anti Bullying Policies Part of Slave Training?”

New York Times – by MARK MAZZETTI, MICHAEL R. GORDON and MARK LANDLER

WASHINGTON — American and European intelligence analysts now believe that President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have used chemical weapons against rebel forces in the civil war there, an assessment that will put added pressure on a deeply divided Obama administration to develop a response to a provocation that the president himself has declared a “red line.”   Continue reading “Propaganda Alert: Syria Has Used Chemical Arms on Rebels, U.S. and E.U. Find”

KOBI 2 News

MULLAN, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho State Police trooper shot and killed a motorist along Interstate 90 at Lookout Pass as a sheriff’s deputy struggled with the man over a gun.

Kootenai County officials said the shooting occurred about noon Wednesday just west of the Idaho-Montana state line.   Continue reading “Idaho State trooper shoots, kills motorist near Lookout Pass”

Huffington Post – by VERENA DOBNIK

NEW YORK — Bargain hunters from around the world flock to Manhattan’s Chinatown for legally sold bags, jewelry and other accessories bursting onto sidewalks from storefronts along Canal Street.

But hidden around the city are goods labeled “Prada” or “Louis Vuitton” or some other luxury brand – counterfeits sold for a pittance. In some cases, handbags going for $2,000 on Fifth Avenue can be had downtown for, say, $20.   Continue reading “Chinatown’s Counterfeit-Goods Economy Targeted In New York City Council Bill”

The DC Caller – by Caroline May

Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are looking into allegations that the Internal Revenue Service seized 60 million medical records from a California health care provider.

“(T)he Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating allegations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in the course of executing a search warrant at a California health care provider’s corporate headquarters in March 2011, improperly seized the personal medical records of millions of American citizens in possible violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution,” members of the committee wrote in a letter Tuesday to Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel.   Continue reading “House committee looks into IRS seizure of 60 million medical records”