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RT TV: Riots Erupt in Montreal Over Tuition Hikes | Dprogram.net

(RussiaToday) -- On Friday, student protesters confronted police in Montreal, Canada. Riot police used stun grenades, pepper spray and batons to beat student protesters in the city' downtown. The outrage comes from anger over rising tuition costs in the country. A crowd of protesters attempted to interrupt a speech by Premier Jean Charest. Citizen journalist Bernard Desgagne joins us for the breaking update.

Race Riots

Pat Deery Email

Not 20 minutes after I get this note I see a promo on CNN saying Dr.Drew is going to be interviewing Rodney King.

Riot anniversary tour surveys progress and economic challenges in Los Angeles - CNN.com

Bryant has served as an adviser on economic empowerment to the past three U.S. presidents and is on President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Financial Capability. He acknowledged that high unemployment and access to capital for small businesses has stifled the economic recovery but said there are visible symbols of urban renewal that offer optimism about a full recovery. "We believe that you cannot have a rainbow without a storm first, and no doubt, 20 years later, while real problems remain to be solved in our underserved communities, south Los Angeles and its surrounding communities have made great strides from the chaos to becoming a community," he said.

Rodney King reflects on an up-down life since riot - Boston.com

He makes money these days taking part in events like celebrity boxing matches. He's also promoting his just-published memoir, "The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption."

L.A. Riots: 20 Years Later | NBC Los Angeles

Twenty years later: Our new Twitter account is replaying the Los Angeles riots in real time. Each tweet corresponds to the date and time from 1992.

2016: Obama's America | Official Movie Site

Techno Experts

In Holocaust Museum visit, Obama outlines policies aimed at preventing genocide - The Washington Post

Speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, he invoked the international community's vows of "never again" but also cited the difficulties of fulfilling that pledge in the 21st century, recalling post-World War II mass killings in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia and elsewhere. "We are haunted by the atrocities we did not stop, by the lives we did not save," he said.

Obama announces new strategy against human rights abuse - The Washington Post

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Agenda21

Child Labor Laws | Farming | Department of Labor | The Daily Caller

A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it's attracting barbs from farm kids themselves. The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families' land. Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work "in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials."

Activist Post: The UN Plan for the World: Global Carbon Taxes, Global Safety Nets And A One World Green Economy

Did you know that the UN has a plan for running the world and it is right out in the open? It is called "sustainable development", but it is far more comprehensive than it sounds. The truth is that the UN plan for running the world would dramatically alter nearly all forms of human activity. A 204-page report on "sustainable development" entitled "Working Towards a Balanced and Inclusive Green Economy, A United Nations System-Wide Perspective" has been published in advance of the upcoming Rio + 20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.

EUROLand

Bloomberg reports U.K. Plunges Into Double-Dip Recession, as does CNBC, UK Back Into Recession in First 'Double Dip' Since 1970s | ZeroHedge

Bloomberg reports U.K. Plunges Into Double-Dip Recession, as does CNBC, UK Back Into Recession in First 'Double Dip' Since 1970s: Britain's economy slid into its second recession since the financial crisis after official data unexpectedly showed a fall in output in the first three months of 2012, piling pressure on the embattled coalition government. My contention is that the UK has not fallen back into recession, but has never truly risen out of the last one. Accounting parlour tricks, financial engineering machinations and outright verbal sleight of hand (what some may call not telling the truth) has given the illusion of organic growth, but in reality and at best, it was simply buying $1.00 worth of growth with $1.20 worth of stimulus - or should I reference this in pounds.

Will NATO Try a Wag-the-Dog Provocation Against Syria to Keep Sarkozy in Power After May 6? - TARPLEY.net

Will NATO Try a Wag-the-Dog Provocation Against Syria to Keep Sarkozy in Power After May 6?

France: UN Should Prepare to Attack Syria -- News from Antiwar.com

Hollande Says He'll Seek New Fiscal Treaty if Elected in France - NYTimes.com

The front-runner for the French presidency, the Socialist candidate François Hollande, said on Wednesday that if elected he would ask other European leaders to renegotiate a fiscal treaty in order to promote growth.

Dutch Prime Minister Resigns - WSJ.com

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his cabinet resigned Monday after his ruling coalition lost support of a populist party on disagreements over new measures to shrink the budget. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands will take the tendered resignations into consideration and has asked the cabinet to continue to work "in the interest of the kingdom." Mr. Rutte is scheduled to address the Dutch Parliament on Tuesday. The widely expected step, which marks an end to the center-right minority government after just one and a half years, comes after weeks-long talks over measures to slash the Dutch government's budget deficit ...

Extract on the European Investment Bank - [VIDEO]

FnF/Shadow Puppet Theatre

Official Resigns | Fast and Furious | Virgin Islands | The Daily Caller

U.S. Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich plans to resign his position soon, as two different scandals rage on in which he has provided allegedly misleading information to Congress. Weich, who has served as Attorney General Eric Holder's emissary in congressional communications, will become the next dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law in July, according to the National Law Journal. The DOJ official is the same Holder deputy who falsely told Congress that neither the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives nor any part of the Department of Justice ever allowed illicit firearms to "walk" across the U.S.-Mexico border -- even as contrary facts emerged from the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious.

NWO

Executive Order -- Blocking the Property and Suspending Entry into the United States of Certain Persons with Respect to Grave Human Rights Abuses by the Governments of Iran and Syria via Information Technology | The White House

Pedo Bear

Dutch test child-porn detection system | Radio Netherlands Worldwide

The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) is working with software giant Microsoft on a fast-working system to detect child pornography. In preparing cases against people trading in child porn, detectives often have to sift through enormous databases of photographs. That is not only time consuming but also psychologically disturbing. What's more, the amount of images is increasing every year.

Microsoft - PhotoDNA: How It Works - [VIDEO]

Chiners

Malawi

African bank chief says ready to commit $45 million to Malawi | Reuters

The head of the African Development Bank said on Sunday he is willing to provide $45 million in budget financing for Malawi to help new President Joyce Banda revive the struggling economy. Speaking after meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka told Reuters he was determined to support Malawi as it tries to resume economic reforms. He said he had held "good" discussions with Malawian Finance Minister Ken Lipenga on the sidelines of the meetings. "I am confident Malawians are doing the right thing and we want to support them," Kaberuka said in an interview. "This will be $45 million in two tranches. I am considering front loading this first tranche to support the currency realignment and to make the next tranche a floating one." Kaberuka said the development bank would begin discussions on budget support, which were put on hold last year. "Now that they are having very constructive discussions with the IMF, I am prepared absolutely to support Malawi as they resume the reforms, which were doing so well some time ago," he said.

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Sudan

President Obama's Message to the People of Sudan and South Sudan | The White House

Drone Nation

FAA Drone Authorizations | Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF filed suit against the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), demanding data on certifications and authorizations the agency has issued for the operation of unmanned aircraft, also known as drones. Any drone flying over 400 feet needs a certification or authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration, part of the DOT. But there is currently no information available to the public about who specifically has obtained these authorizations or for what purposes. EFF filed a Freedom of Information Act request in April of 2011 for records of unmanned aircraft activities, but the DOT so far has failed to provide the information.

Cultural Marxism

Muslims in Europe face discrimination: Amnesty -- The Express Tribune

LONDON: European countries are discriminating against Muslims for demonstrating their faith, especially in the fields of education and employment, rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday. In a report focusing on Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland, Amnesty urged European governments to do more to challenge negative stereotypes and prejudices against Islam. The report was particularly critical of countries that have brought in outright bans on face-covering veils or on the wearing of religious symbols in schools. "Rather than countering these prejudices, political parties and public officials are all too often pandering to them in their quest for votes," said Marco Perolini, Amnesty International's expert on discrimination.

Muslims discriminated against for demonstrating their faith | Amnesty International

The report Choice and prejudice: discrimination against Muslims in Europe, exposes the impact of discrimination on the ground of religion or belief on Muslims in several aspects of their lives, including employment and education.

Elite$

Chicagoans Warned to Evacuate Before NATO Summit - BlackListedNews.com

GOP X Factor

Romney Nomination in doubt -- Brokered Convention likely

April 24, 2012. Des Moines. Two networks yesterday, CNBC and MSNBC, broadcast a little known fact -- Ron Paul appears to be winning the Republican nomination for President. When the popular Texas Congressman repeatedly assured supporters that the race was about delegates, not beauty contests, he apparently knew what he was talking about. Now, after three more states locked in delegates to the GOP nominating convention -- CO, MN and IA -- indicators point to a brokered convention with a possible, even probable, Ron Paul victory.

Ron Paul Wins in Iowa and Minnesota, Romney in a Panic - Doug Wead The Blog

Wait! Ron Paul Won Iowa and Minnesota Primaries? | Crooks and Liars

The Texas congressman took 20 out of 24 of the delegates from the Minnesota Congressional Districts, RNC committeewoman Pat Anderson tweeted. Those delegates will go on to the state convention, scheduled to be held May 18-19, where the final 13 delegates representing Minnesota at the GOP convention will be chosen. The news was ignored by the mainstream media, including the Associated Press, which estimated the delegate breakdown would go 17 Santorum, 10 Paul, and 6 Romney. Tweet from Minnesota's RNC National Committeewoman announcing Ron Paul's win. In Iowa, the Des Moines Register reports that "six of the new Iowa GOP state central committee members elected at district conventions Saturday have publicly expressed support for Paul," and "two more new central committee members have close ties to Paul." The new state chairman is also a Ron Paul supporter, who served as a co-chairman for the congressman's Iowa state organization.

"I Think Ron Paul Just Won Iowa!" Rachel Maddow April 23, 2012 - [VIDEO]

Paul at the University of Texas at Austin - Youth for Ron... - Eventbrite

How Ron Paul's "Delegate Strategy" is Working - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Ron Paul Wins Washington, On Track to Be Nominated at 2012 GOP Convention | Dprogram.net

Here's a micro-level example: In Washington over the weekend, Republicans in the 37th Legislative District gathered to vote on their delegates. The meeting saw Ron Paul supporters elect one of their own to chair the process. A Republican Party chairman, though, refused to accept the Paul-supporting chairperson, and ended the meeting, declaring that the meeting was no longer a Republican Party event, but rather a Ron Paul campaign event.

Shut Up Slave!

Debt Collectors Take Places Alongside Hospital Staffs - NYTimes.com

To patients, the debt collectors may look indistinguishable from hospital employees, may demand they pay outstanding bills and may discourage them from seeking emergency care at all, even using scripts like those in collection boiler rooms, according to the documents and employees interviewed by The New York Times.

NOS Nieuws - Publicist Micha Kat opgepakt

Publicist en actievoerder Micha Kat is de afgelopen avond op Schiphol aangehouden door de marechaussee. De politie was al enige tijd op zoek naar hem in verband met verschillende aangiftes van bedreigingen. Kat zou hebben aangezet tot geweld tegen leden van het Koninklijk Huis en valse bommeldingen hebben gedaan. Kat werkte jarenlang als freelancejournalist voor NRC Handelsblad. Na een conflict beschuldigde hij de krant in een boek en op internet van onrechtmatigheden. Later kreeg Kat het aan de stok met De Telegraaf. Hij gaf zich ten onrechte uit als medewerker van de krant, oordeelde de rechter.

Possible PR

WARNING! Teenagers Drinking Hand Sanitizer! (And Cheesing Their F-ing Brains Out) - [VIDEO]

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Bank$ters

SEC Charges Egan Jones - Business Insider

The SEC is charging ratings agency Egan-Jones for making "material misrepresentations" to the SEC in the summer of 2008 when it applied to be an official Nationally Recognized Statistically Ratings Agency.

SEC Moves To Shutdown Agency That Cut US Credit Rating Twice :

Congress Takes Fresh Look at MF Global - NYTimes.com

A Congressional panel is continuing the examination of the collapse of MF Global and the firm's misuse of customer money, as lawmakers seek to find ways to prevent a repeat of the financial debacle. Against the backdrop of a continuing federal investigation into wrongdoing at MF Global, the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday will hold the sixth Congressional hearing concerning the firm's demise. But unlike prior Capitol Hill inquiries that focused on exposing missteps by executives and regulators, this hearing is to center on new policies to protect customer money and improve regulatory oversight.

In the most anticipated aspect of the hearing, the bankruptcy trustee for MF Global, Louis J. Freeh, is to offer his first public assessment of the case. Mr. Freeh, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has faced criticism over his handling of the bankruptcy process.

MF Global Bankruptcy Investigation - C-SPAN Video Library

Witnesses testified on the implications of and lessons learned from the collapse of MF Global. Topics included the latest on the continuing investigation, recovery efforts of missing funds, and how to better protect customer segregated accounts in the future.

Out There

With all this natural gas, who needs oil? - CSMonitor.com

From his suburban home in a wooded neighborhood once known for its shipbuilding prowess, Mann is crafting automotive gadgets for a future that many believe could help solve the nation's long-intractable energy woes -- one fueled mostly by natural gas. During the past five years, Mann has converted more than 10 cars to run on compressed natural gas, in addition to gasoline, using a device he invented, the "CNG Fogger," which boosts the vehicles' mileage. Commuters in the Boston area have snapped up his cars from Craigslist as have CNG enthusiasts as far away as Wisconsin. Mann has also built a CNG race car and wants to design another to compete in the Indianapolis 500.

Biodiversit�e

Phys.Org Mobile: Bonn to house top UN panel on biodiversity

The former West German capital of Bonn has been chosen for the secretariat of a UN expert panel on biodiversity, the organisation announced on Thursday. The decision was made at a plenary meeting in Panama City of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, or IPBES, according to an announcement on the platform's website. "Germany (Bonn) wins the vote to host the IPBES secretariat by majority in the fourth round of the voting process," it said in a flash news item. IPBES was set up in 2010 after five years in gestation. It held its first gathering in Nairobi last October. Its goal is to imitate the success of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in which thousands of scientists draw up an assessment of global warming to help policymakers. Some biologists say that Earth is in the early stages of a sixth mass extinction, a man-made phenomenon driven by habitat loss, hunting, introduced species and climate damage. The 2008 "Red List" assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that 38 percent of 44,837 species were threatened. Bonn was the capital of West Germany until German reunification in 1990. It was the united country's seat of government until 1999, when Berlin became the capital, but retained many government departments. IPBES will join two other big UN environment organisations -- the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) -- whose secretariats are in Bonn. The five-day meeting in Panama, ending on Saturday, also aims at setting down procedures and a work programme, IPBES said.

Devil Weed

61 euro voor pakje sigaretten in Nieuw-Zeeland? #zaplog

In Nieuw-Zeeland wil men het aantal rokers flink terugschroeven door uit te pakken met een fikse prijsverhoging. Een pakje sigaretten zou rond 2020 maar liefst 61 euro moeten kosten. Het doel is om in 2025 heel Nieuw-Zeeland rookvrij te maken. Het ministerie van Gezondheid is van mening dat het verhogen van de prijs het beste resultaat zal opleveren. Als dit voorstel effectief wordt goedgekeurd, zal een pakje sigaretten niet onmiddellijk 61 euro kosten. De prijs zal dan eerst worden verhoogd met 30 tot 60 procent, om nadien ieder jaar de prijs op te drijven. Rond de periode van 2020 zal iedereen die rookt en in Nieuw-Zeeland woont 61 euro moeten betalen voor een pakje sigaretten.

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