May 18, 2012

* 5000 cops guard European Central Bank & other banks in Frankfurt
* Links regarding Chicago NATO command & communications operations
* US DoJ notifies Baltimore PD of citizen right to record officers
* Federal judge blocks indefinite detention provisions of NDAA law
* US war in Horn of Africa includes air strikes and commando raids

* Einstein's 1936 response to question of whether scientists pray
* Ridley Scott says he is working on sequel to Blade Runner [1982]
* Commercial space flight company SpaceX readies for launch May 19
* 90% of corn seeds are coated with Bayer bee-desimating pesticide
* News International's former CEO charged in UK phone-hacking case

* Arizona secretary of state would take Obama off November ballot
* Police warrantless cell phone tracking now more precise than GPS
* 1929 recording of James Joyce reading a poem from Finnegans Wake
* French leaders support equal marriage & adoption rights for gays
* George W. Bush to publish book on strategies for economic growth

  May 15, 2012

* JPMorgan Chairman/CEO Jamie Dimon speaks at shareholders meeting
* California ballot measure to require labeling of GMO ingredients
* Walker maintains big lead over Barrett ahead of Wisconsin recall
* Mujahedeen Khalq advocacy by Hayden, Mukasey, Giuliani, K-Street
* Rhode Island governor recognizes out-of-state same sex marriages

* Mormon Latter Day Saints longterm campaign against gay marriage
* Kuwait's senior book censor Dalal Al-Mutairi describes her work
* New French president Hollande: my enemy is the world of finance
* Short-term profit-taking eroding support for free-market system
* Data from Voyager spacecrafts indicate asymmetrical heliosphere

  May 14, 2012

* Warren: JPMorgan debacle shows banks cannot regulate themselves
* Chicago acquires long range acoustic device ahead of NATO summit
* Responses to Obama's states rights approach to marriage equality
* Domestication of dogs provided humans advantage over neanderthal
* Mayan wall paintings & numerical calculations found in Guatemala

  May 12, 2012

* Dutch judge found corrupt after ordering censorship of Pirate Bay
* Brazilian prosecutor files criminal charges against Chevron exec
* Egypt's first ever presidential debate between two frontrunners
* BART wireless network shutdown led to FCC inquiry ending May 30
* Scott Walker on release of anti-labor "divide & conquer" video

* Tech-sector Libertarians would unseat SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith
* Yale History Dept chair on Christian rite of same-sex marriage
* Short 1945 film shows how a bicycle is designed & manufactured
* Tracking prochronistic idiom use in Mad Men and Downton Abbey
* Two exhibits in Washington DC feature works by artist Ai Wei

  May 10, 2012

* Thrice divorced talk show host accuses Obama of war on marriage
* Michele Bachmann dual Swiss citizenship due to moral relativism
* Processed meat, but not red meat, associated with heart disease
* Human hiccoughs share characteristics of frog gill ventilation
* Five former classmates independently report Romney gay bashing

* Humpback whales intervene in attack on gray whale calf by orcas
* Pirate Bay criticizes Anonymous' use of DDoS as form of protest
* First Amendment protects Republican call for armed revolution?
* Dispatch from yesterday's Bank of America shareholder meeting
* DSM-V first major update of psychiatry diagnostic in 30 years

  May 9, 2012

  May 8, 2012

* North Carolina voters pass measure banning "domestic legal union"
* Bank of America shareholder meeting is tomorrow in Charlotte, NC
* Milwaukee mayor wins primary to face governor in recall election
* Volkswagon hover car concept involves electromagnetic levitation
* Maurice Sendak dies at 83; posthumous picture book next February

  May 7, 2012

* UK blocks Pirate Bay; circumvention needs no technical knowledge
* Police union would oust retired captain for protesting in uniform
* Werner Erhard's first media interview in two decades for new book
* Vladimir Putin's goons beat up protesters at swearing in ceremony
* Stephen Hawking reviews film version of "A Brief History of Time"

  May 6, 2012

* France elects new president; France lost AAA credit rating this year
* Confiscated Jewish wealth paid for 30% of German World War II effort
* Reddit's TestPAC campaigning to defeat SOPA sponsor Sen. Lamar Smith
* RIP Adam Yauch; Beastie Boys were inducted to Hall of Fame in April
* Ian Fleming wanted Alfred Hitchcock to direct first James Bond film

* Legal actions in the 2011 Canadian federal election robocall scandal
* Japan shuts down all nuclear reactors; increases fossil fuel imports
* Heartland Institute removes billboard in Chicago featuring Unabomber
* Charlotte NC invokes special police rule for Bank of America meeting
* "Naked airport guy" John Brennan fights charge of indecent exposure

  May 3, 2012

* Pictures of May Day demonstrations in US, Europe, Asia, Middle East
* International Workers Day commemorates 1886 Chicago Haymarket Riot
* Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman
* FAA put passenger on list for refusing to delete bird strike video
* Minneapolis police got Occupy activists high for research purposes

  May 1, 2012

* UK Parliament committee's scathing report on News Corp phone-hacking
* Oklahoma supreme court unanimously rejects embryo personhood measure
* Roger Ebert discusses his choices for the greatest films of all time
* British high court orders several major ISPs to block The Pirate Bay
* Christopher Walken reads Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are [video]

* Venus to pass in front of the sun June 5, 6 [not again until 2117]

  April 29, 2012

* Acting Israeli military chief says Iran will not build nuclear bomb
* Picture of Secretary Clinton drinking a bottle of beer in Cartagena
* Obama step-father fed him dog meat when he was a child in Indonesia
* Robert Spitzer apologizes to the gay community for "gay cure" study
* Eight foot Occupy London placard enters Museum of London collection

* Salafis back liberal dissident former leader of Muslim Brotherhood
* 1947 CIA report on the expected consequences of Palestine partition
* Obama signs waiver to release $192M in aid to Palestinian Authority
* I visited Tacos Morenos & Seymour Marine Discovery Center yesterday
* Non-invasive means of translating brainwaves into machine commands

  April 25, 2012

* Pentagon supplier's cowardly media manipulation against journalist
* Warren Buffett to host president's campaign fundraiser in Nebraska
* Harvard Library: we're broke unless research is publicly available
* This Is Oregon showcases the natural beauty near Portland [video]
* Fox & Friends' Steve Doocey to fudge erroneous Obama quote today

  April 22, 2012

* Unspoken preface to "silver spoon" remark imputed to Obama by Fox
* Map shows status of US domestic drone use applications at the FAA
* Summary of report on November 18th UC Davis pepper-spray incident
* Senator suggests boycott of Coca Cola for ending ALEC membership
* Socialist Francois Hollande wins first round of French elections

* Monet saw ultraviolet after the lens in his left eye was removed
* Bradley Manning court appearance April 24-26, Ft. Meade Maryland
* Bahrain Grand Prix in the midst of yearlong government crackdown
* Publishers fear future Amazon monopoly more than consumer piracy
* New highway to secluded former Tibetan Kingdom of Lo [pictures]

  April 21, 2012

* Nonprofit ALEC effectively turns legislators into shadow lobbyists
* Center for Media and Democracy lists 27 corporate sponsors of ALEC
* Leadership Conference of Women Religious represents 80% of US nuns
* Dendrimer-Based Postnatal Therapy for Cerebral Palsy [animal model]
* 30 year NSA veteran turned whistleblower William Benney interviewed

  April 20, 2012

* Judge rules that advocating jury nullification is not a crime
* Arizona supreme court panel: Sheriff Arpaio broke federal law
* Third US state supports amendment to deny corporate personhood
* Magician sued over copyright registration for Shadows illusion
* Dutch Pirate Party takes entertainment industry group to court

  April 15, 2012

* The long struggle for a progressive counterweight to ALEC lobby
* New Occupy Wall Street tactic based on court decision [pictures]
* American Nazi Party registers Washington DC lobbyist John Bowles
* US government tries to deny MegaUpload fair legal representation
* Fox president disrespects half-term governor ahead of TV special

* Assange producing The World of Tomorrow while under house arrest
* Essay on Jon Stewart; never killed someone who didn't deserve it
* 1986 Queen concert at Wembley Arena in high quality video online
* Editors of one of my favorite sites Signandsight.com say goodbye
* Herzog's Into The Abyss: A Tale Of Death, A Tale Of Life [2011]

  April 14, 2012

* Stuxnet allegedly loaded by Iranian double agents belonging to MEK
* Republican candidate Mitt Romney files for extension on 2011 taxes
* Differences between Romneycare & Obamacare: abortion & immigration
* "Used book smell" caused by compounds released during oxidization
* 750 lightning strikes in 4 hours above the San Francisco Bay Area

  April 12, 2012

* Obese mothers significantly more likely to have child with autism
* Formula One president claims that protest is tolerated in Bahrain
* Fox News accuses Gawker & Joe Muto of criminal & civil wrongdoing
* Nick Merrill crowdsourcing end-to-end encrypted internet platform
* Former NASA engineers question agency position on climate change

  April 11, 2012

* George Zimmerman speaks to Hannity; charged with 2nd degree murder
* Obama opposes Minnesota ballot measure that would ban gay marriage
* Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to discontinue funding for ALEC
* Longterm Fox News employee begins anonymous whistleblower series
* Gingrich campaign bounces $500 check for Utah ballot filing fee

  April 8, 2012

* Leftist MEK trained in Nevada while classified as terrorist group
* Museums across Europe collaborate with antidemocratic Saud regime
* Study of settlement patterns in Israel undermines story of Exodus
* Researchers recreate bee collapse with pesticide laced corn syrup
* Journalist Mike Wallace has died; invented newsmagazine TV format

  April 7, 2012

* First-time claims for US unemployment insurance at a four year low
* Focus on the Family support legal protection for religious bullies
* Montana attorney general orders Greg Mortenson to repay $1,000,000
* Coca Cola, Pepsi Co, and Kraft sever ties to ALEC corporate lobby
* What Facebook sends to law enforcement in response to a subpoena

  April 5, 2012

* Monsanto threatens to sue Vermont if lawmakers require GMO labeling
* Connecticut governor expected to sign bill abolishing death penalty
* Miss Universe Canada welcomes back transexual contestant Talackova
* USGS confirms oil and natural gas fracking is causing earthquakes
* First Lady Michelle Obama to appear on "Colbert Report" April 11

  April 3, 2012

* UK bill would permit access to private communications on demand
* Local US police departments using phone tracking as routine tool
* Santorum: University of California schools don't teach US history
* Iraqi defector whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all
* Technology Development Corporation installed Stellar Wind for NSA

  April 2, 2012

* Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has serious problems
* Essentially separate justice system in the US for Muslims: details
* Newly revived General Motors pulls support for Heartland Institute
* William Burroughs: "we intended to destroy dogmatic verbal systems"
* Hour long interview with Patti Smith on CBS Sunday Morning [video]