Supreme Court rules police can initiate suspect’s questioning

From Reuters.com (Edits by FactsNews)
Tue May 26, 2009 12:34pm EDT
By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that police, under certain circumstances, (which could be ANYTHING) can initiate an interrogation of a suspect without the defendant’s lawyer being present.

By a 5-4 (please, its ALWAYS 5-4) vote, the conservative majority [...]

Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (revised)

Factsnews: This may or may not be the official list. It was translated automatically using Google Translate. From Infowars.com.
kurt@infowars.com

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Dutch Queen Beatrix
Queen Sofia of Spain
Prince Constantijn (Belgian Prince)
Prince Philippe Etienne Ntavinion, Belgium
Étienne, Viscount Davignon, Belgium (former vice-president of the European Commission)
Josef Ackermann (Swiss banker and CEO of Deutsche Bank)
Keith B. Alexander, United States (Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, Director [...]

Domestic Extremism Lexicon

Police caught on tape trying to recruit protester as spy

By Paul Lewis~London Guardian
Undercover police are running a network of hundreds of informants inside protest organisations who secretly feed them intelligence in return for cash, according to evidence handed to the Guardian.
They claim to have infiltrated a number of environmental groups and said they are receiving information about leaders, tactics and plans of future demonstrations.
The dramatic disclosures [...]

F*** The RIAA! No Seriously…

This morning, the number one story on Digg is “The Pirate Bay Trial: The Official Verdict – Guilty”. 
Excerpt from TorrentFreak.com
Just minutes ago the verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. All four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Peter Sunde: Guilty. Fredrik Neij: Guilty. Gottfrid Svartholm: Guilty. [...]

Pirates stage rocket attack on US freighter

Pirates attacked an American freighter with rocket fire and machine guns but the ship escaped even as other vessels fell into the clutches of marauding Somali bandits.

Pirates have taken four ships since losing two battles with US and French forces at the weekend.

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On Monday, the head of the group that briefly seized the US ship Maersk Alabama vowed to retaliate for the deaths of three pirates in the military operation which rescued the American captain.

“The American liars have killed our friends after they agreed to free the hostage without ransom… this matter will lead to retaliation and we will hunt down particularly American citizens travelling our waters,” Abdi Garad said by phone from the pirate lair of Eyl.

The captain of the US ship was saved when Navy Seals snipers killed three pirates to end the high-seas drama which prompted Obama to call for stepped-up anti-piracy efforts.

According to sources close to the pirates, French ships were also prime targets following the rescue of the Tanit yacht in which hostage Florent Lemacon and two pirates were killed.

ANALYSIS: What if the world all used the same currency?

There is an aricle on MSNBC written by John W. Schoen, Senior producer, that discusses the pros and cons of a global currency. It starts out with:
With the value of the dollar jumping up and down against other countries’ currencies, what if the world just agreed to use the same currency? It sounds like a simple idea. But like [...]

Will IMF deliver G-20’s booster for world economy?

by Bobby Ramakant
www.opednews.com
Earlier this week the Group of Twentyleaders announced a USD 1.1 trillion booster-dose into the world economyby the end of 2010 through multilateral institutions like theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF). However, in July 2008, analysts from Cambridge and Yale Universities had reported that tuberculosis (TB) in countries with IMF loans rose sharply.
The strict conditions on IMF loans were [...]

Director of FBI Urges Renewal of Patriot Act

Portions of Law to Expire This Year
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 26, 2009; A08 

 
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III urged lawmakers yesterday to renew intelligence-gathering measures in the USA Patriot Act that are set to expire in December, calling them “exceptional” tools to help protect national security.
The law, passed shortly after the Sept. [...]