- Thai protester arrested for throwing bags of human crap and fermented fish at home of Thai Prime Minister Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. The masses are graduatinf rom throwing shoes.
- Florida beach towns hold anti-oil drilling protest. Grand Oil Party pushing for lifting states' off-shore drilling ban.
- Protesters confront Felipe Calderon in Ciudad Juarez. Demonstrators hit Mexican president on human rights abuses.
QUAKE NEWS (Chapter III of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" by Emmanuel Goldstein, 1984, by George Orwell: "All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article of faith. It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon . . . others explore even remoter possibilities such as focusing the sun's rays through lenses suspended thousands of kilometres away in space, or producing artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by tapping the heat at the earth's centre. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Pentagon briefing, April 28, 1997:
- Strong quake off Tonga. 6.3 quake does not trigger tsunami warning.
- Inch of rain leaves Haitian earthquake homeless deep in mud and water. And the U.S. military is in Haiti for what? Protesters turn out in support of exiled President Aristide.
- Montserrat's volcano erupts again. Plume of ash shot nine miles into sky.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- Honduras's right-wing president Profirio Lobo wants to meet Obama. In any Oval Office meeting, Lobo should probably get down on his knees and give Obama the "Lewinsky" treatment for Obama's help in ousting Lobo's predecessor.
- Secret document reveals U.S. post-war occupation authority in Japan co-opted Japanese wartime Unit 731 biological warfare unit. Occupation authorities censored mail of death doctors.
- Goldman Sachs fingerprints found on Greek financial collapse. Goldman derivatives deal helped sink Greek economy.
- China orders back-off from risky U.S. assets. tatte of California may be at top of list of risky assets. The Terminator has terminated California's financial viability.
NATIONAL NEWS
- Two Air Force officers who stole classified anti-nuclear weapons tampering device from Minot Air Force Base missile silo permitted to resign. Air Force will not conduct courts-martial effectively helping to sweep the entire Minot nuclear theft saga under the carpet.
- Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) not runing for re-election. Move leaves the Congress without a Kennedy family member for the first time in decades.
- Assistant U.S. Attorney for eastern Louisiana Jan Mann may be discussing possible plea deal with right-wing wiretappers. U.S. Attorney's office remains mum on talks with defense attorneys.
- Obama frets over revelations from Britain about torture. White House says failure of neocon lickspittle British Foreign Secretary David Miliband to stem disclosure of torture intelligence will affect intelligence charing between Washington and London.
- Muslim clerics says TSA body scanners violate Islamic law. Fatwa issued against Muslims being subjected to body scanners.
- Texas GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina chastised after stating that she believes the U.S. government had a role in the 9/11 attacks. In the GOP or Democratic Party, tell the truth like Medina or Van Jones, and be hounded out of the clubhouse. Very fascist, very neo-American.
COUNTRY FOCUS: Dominican Republic. Dominican attorney for Idaho Baptist orphan abductors in Haiti suspected of involvement in trafficking under-age Nicaraguan girls and Dominican women for prostitution in El Salvador. El Salvador and Haiti launching criminal investigations. The Obama administration (who's your daddy, Barky?) and INTERPOL steering clear of investigation.
