In this update:<br />
1. Dinner for Scott tomorrow!<br />
2. 06/06: Ssshh! Secret Café to benefit SCSC<br />
3. 06/24: Prison Justice PMA at the US Social Forum<br />
4. 0...
On Wednesday May 19th, the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva finally launched an assault on the Red Shirt camp in the neighbourhood of Rachaprasong. Television stations from around the world broadcast brutal images of assault tanks destroying the bamboo and tyre barricades and soldiers armed with rifles firing live ammunition at demonstrators.
Events like oil spills, the "flash crash," volcanos, and floods will have an increasing impact on the economy and the availablility of capital. Unfortunately, most money managers and other strategists do not include these factors in their plans and decision processes. They should.
WASHINGTON - For the first time, more US forces are deployed in Afghanistan than Iraq, amid a buildup of American troops in the Afghan war, the Pentagon said on Monday.
Promoted by blackandred on Mon, 2010/05/24 - 11:39am
The RCMP-led Integrated Security Unit (ISU) of the G20 is refusing to rule out the use of Agent Provocateurs to get protesters to commit illegal acts, the Toronto Media Co-op has learned.
NEW YORK - As Congress stiffens its resistance to moving any Guantánamo prisoners anywhere near the continental U.S., some communities are putting out the welcome mat.
In 2005 ten families, nearly all elderly, squatted a block of flats in Seville demanding better housing. Now the local council is trying to evict some of them.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-Deepwater horizon
-Repercussions
-Sanctions on Iran
-Quote of the Week
-Briefs
Oil spill update for May 24, including:
-What caused the disaster
-EPA weighs sanctions against BP
-Dispersants
-MMS deficiencies in Alaska
-Increasing insurance costs
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has directed the U.S. military to coordinate with South Korea to "ensure readiness" and deter future aggression from North Korea, the White House said on Monday.