Tag: california
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police state int’l: cctv, checkpoints, provocateurs & yoo
san fran suburb, tiburon, may install license plate cameras* big brother flies into antelope valley calif with ‘crime-fighting’ eyes*penn state police, ohio highway patrol, ny state police & US border patrol team up for ‘traffic enforcment initiative’*july 4th parade + constitution = banned for life?*US launches review of terror warning system*terror alert system getting overhaul*IT…
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econocrash: homeless, deficit, world currency & the fed under fire
“here it is, you can see it & touch it”:medvedev shows off sample coin of new ‘world currency’ at g8 more families becoming homeless, study findsfrom washington post: Louis Gill doesn’t like to turn anyone away. The director of the Bakersfield Homeless Center in California has taken to laying out cots and mattresses between the…
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drugwars: the opium afghanisurge, pot taxes & murder city mexico
video: special forces go for big busts in afghan drug warfrom danger room: In Afghanistan, it’s hard to peel apart the insurgency from the opium trade. So U.S. Special Forces are trying a different approach in their war on Afghan drugs. Forget burning down the poppy fields. For months, American and Afghan commandos have been…
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warwhores: expansion, growth & refusal of oath
US launches major afghanisurge op: 1000’s of US marines move into the world’s largest opium production area*obama’s 1st major military excursion: marines launch huge op in south afghanistanron paul: ‘fight them over there vs. over here’ a false choice*cia crucified captive in abu ghraib prison*did toxic chemical in iraq cause soldiers illnesses?*ranchers attempt to hold…
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6/25 binge & purge
nestle recalls all refrigerated toll house dough*supermarket suppliers ‘helping destroy amazon rainforest’*re-engineering a food poisoning microbe to carry medicines & vaccines*medical group issues bpa intake warning*10 ‘big duh’ realizations about our world that need to be stated*san fran signs nation’s 1st mandatory composting law*food, inc: michael pollan & friends reveal food industry’s darkest secrets*woman faces…
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econocrash: cia, soul, wall street & wal-mart
satire: wal-mart to employ 80,000 iraq war veterans as greeters banks in georgia, north carolina & kansas closed by regulatorsfrom bloomberg: Banks in North Carolina, Georgia and Kansas with combined assets of $1.5 billion were seized by regulators last week, costing the U.S. insurance fund $363 million and pushing this year’s tally of failures to…
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econocrash: california, classwar & a banking dictatorship
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive*how long can the dollar last as world’s reserve currency?*florida mother secretly lives in home for sale*japan probes report 2 seized with undeclared bonds*video: judgment day: broke california faces shutdown at schwarzenegger’s hands*can the US govt afford to let cali fail?*financial bailout plan keeps zombie…
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econocrash: the depression quietly deepens
we will never know the true inside story of what really went on*obama promises summer speedup of economic effort*white house had long planned gm & chrysler bankruptcies*paulson’s secret talking points reveal that banks were forced to surrender ownership stakes to govt*obama officials: no ‘magic bullet’ for auto companies*boston globe workers reject plan*nytimes hires goldman sachs…
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police state int’l: nanny state, lockdowns, drills & disinfo
dread zeppelin: the army’s new surveillance blimp*chp encourages residents to report out-of-state license plates*fema website shows martial law exercise, nle ’09, with foreign troops*atlanta airport tests security program*mueller defends use of informants against newburgh 4*gps shoes being developed for alzheimer’s patients*video: police lockdown ny school, search lockers & impound cars after student commits suicide*uptown explosion…
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strategy being devised to protect use of bpa
from washington post: Manufacturers of cans for beverages and foods and some of their biggest customers, including Coca-Cola, are trying to devise a public relations and lobbying strategy to block government bans of a controversial chemical used in the linings of metal cans and lids. from wikipedia: Global production of bisphenol A in 2003 was…
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Econocrash: Free Drugs, Cut Jobs & Total Control
pfizer offers free prescription drugs for the jobless the system is designed to exert total control over the individualfrom global research: What impresses me in the current financial crisis is the near-total failure of so-called progressives to appreciate the magnitude of what is going on or the level of intelligence behind it. How many will…
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scotus says ashcroft & mueller can’t be sued for post-9/11 torture
from reuters: The Supreme Court rejected on Monday a lawsuit by a Pakistani man against a former U.S. attorney general and the FBI director claiming abuse while he was imprisoned in New York after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. By a 5-4 vote, the U.S. high court overturned a ruling that Javaid Iqbal, who was…
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schwarzenegger, california & taxing marijuana
schwarzenegger says debate needed on taxing marijuanafrom dpa: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday that the state should have a debate on legalizing and taxing marijuana, but clarified that he did not necessarily support the idea. The former action movie star, who was filmed puffing a joint in the documentary film Pumping Iron, said that…
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swine flu week2: in decline or incubating?
…flashback to week1 updates on swine flu unleashed here & here… video: ron paul on the swine flu hoax* swine flu hysteria spreads faster than actual virus*hawaii gov. says world health org may go to level 6 this weekend*company warned officials of flu 18 days before alert was issued*governments & biowarfare: a brief history*coral cross:…
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Econocrash: IMF, CFR & Protestors Queue Up For Conflict
100s queue for low wage retail sales jobs in dublin regulators shut banks in georgia, michigan, california & idahofrom bloomberg: Regulators seized banks in Georgia, Michigan, California and Idaho with total assets of $2.3 billion, bringing the tally of failures in the U.S. this year to 29, exceeding the total for all of 2008. American…