Last
Updated:
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 18:23
GMT Bilderberg
Attendee: Obama Officials Gave Briefings At Secret Elite Confab An attendee of this
year's secretive Bilderberg meeting in Vouliagmeni, Greece has revealed
that several Obama administration officials were in attendance and gave
briefings to the elite group's members.
UN
wants ‘flood of drugs’ in Afghanistan to devalue opium
United Nations officials in Afghanistan are attempting to create a “flood
of drugs” in the country intended to destroy the value of opium
and force poppy farmers to switch to legal crops such as wheat.
Obama’s
Guantánamo Appeasement Plan
Two days after his inauguration, President Obama pledged to close Guantánamo
within one year. The Republicans, led by Senators John McCain, Mitch
McConnell and Pat Roberts, immediately launched a concerted campaign
to assail the new president.
Obama
Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate
President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will
create a “cyber czar,” a senior White House official who
will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation’s
government-run and private computer networks, according to people who
have been briefed on the plan.
De
Menezes officer cleared of deception
A senior police surveillance officer who admitted tampering with his
evidence during the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes
was cleared today by an official investigation.
Ruling
Party Official: Japan Should Attack North Korea
A ruling party lawmaker today urged Japan to break the terms of its
pacifist constitution and pre-emptively attack North Korea following
the Stalinist state's nuclear bomb test.
‘N
Korea Fires More Missiles After Nuke Test’
North Korea has reportedly fired two short-range missiles off its east
coast - defiant in the face of international condemnation of its latest
nuclear test.
Government
to change “diets & lifestyles” to fight global warming
GIVE up lamb roasts and save the planet. Government advisers are developing
menus to combat climate change by cutting out “high carbon”
food such as meat from sheep, whose burping poses a serious threat to
the environment.
Judge
threatens to penalize Obama lawyers in state secrets, wiretap case
A District court judge is threatening to “sanction”
Obama Justice Department lawyers who’ve refused to respond
to an order ordering the Department to provide a plan for how the
case of a charity caught in a warrantless wiretap should proceed.
Bomber
kills ‘5 US troops’ in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber rams its explosive-laden vehicle into a US army
convoy in north-east of the war-ravaged country, killing five US
troops and injuring several others.
If
they can break the law, why can’t we?
Lies, spin and establishment contempt for the rules by which the
rest of the population are meant to live, are nothing new.
Netanyahu
to ‘give up outposts’ for US backing on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is willing to tear down
settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank in return for US backing
on its stance on arch-foe Iran, local media reported on Tuesday.
The
Survival of Billy Best Proves Cancer Doctors Wrong about Daniel
Hauser
If there’s one thing that cancer doctors and health authorities
can’t stand, it’s being wrong. And in the case of 13-year-old
Daniel Hauser, the cancer doctors insist that unless the boy submits
to chemotherapy as a “treatment” for Hodgkin’s
Lymphoma, he will almost certainly die.
