BIN POLICE WILL FINE YOU £1,000

by Jack Bellamy

Enforcement officers will be hired to rummage through their trash.

The pilot scheme would involve ­hiring two enforcement officers at a cost of £45,000.

If the plan is given the green light on Thursday then the officers would be used to rummage through black bin…

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Founder Puts Blackwater Security Firm Up for Sale

By JAMES RISEN

WASHINGTON — Burdened by lawsuits, criminal investigations and negative publicity stemming from its private security work in Iraq and Afghanistan,…

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by Declan McCullagh

A new U.S. Senate bill would grant the president far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of or even shut down portions of the Internet.

The legislation announced Thursday says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines, or software firms that the government

selects "shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action

developed" by the Department of Homeland Security.…

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(NaturalNews) – Declaring ozone generators an unapproved and untested medical device, the FDA seized the inventory of a California manufacturer on January 29.

“The seized devices…

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This would solve two problems...

by Derek Sheriff

Just when you thought Arizona couldn’t get any more provocative, or push any more of the federal government’s buttons, it looks like

America’s 48th state may actually become the 15th state to adopt another

very controversial law!

This proposed law, on the other hand, may actually make some people on the Left, as well as the Right, happy for a change. I have my doubts

about whether it will make those who put party above…

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by Raw Story

An emergency radio broadcast to El Paso police at 6:43 p.m. stated a Border Patrol agent had fired into a crowd of people."

If oil and the mideast crisis weren't enough, a new breaking report is

sure to stir up feelings on the also-still-simmering immigration debate

again.

The…

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By Victor Thorn

With the actual U.S. unemployment

rate teetering at around 20 percent, our lopsided “free trade” treaties

with China must be seriously reexamined. Particularly interesting is a

recent photo that surfaced, which American outsourcers don’t want us to

see.



On April 18, Liz Hull and Lee Surrell of the UK Daily Mail described KYE Systems, a “Chinese sweatshop [where] workers

slumped over their desks with… Continue

MAP OF THE DAY: Why The Sun Never Sets On The British Petroleum Empire

Shares of BP are down over 2% today, on continuing worries over the cost of cleanup of the Gulf oil leak. While

progress has been made in capping the leak, oil continues to gush out

from the base of the former… Continue

Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency.

By Raffi Khatchadourian

The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the

city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence

sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall

Australian…

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Friday's jobs report was pretty rough, but actually the unemployment rate dipped to 9.7%. That's because, despite the lack of private sector hiring, a large swath of jobseekers decided to, for whatever reason,

quit the workforce.

As Annaly Capital Management (via PragCap) notes, the civilian…

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Joe Weisenthal

We've dubbed this chart the "Scariest Job Chart Ever," as it shows how the decline in employment is WAY uglier than in past recessions.

Calculated Risk has updated it with the latest

numbers from this morning, and now it looks even…

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by David Gutierrez, staff writer





(NaturalNews) A growing reliance on imported food and other necessities

is making First World nations such as the United Kingdom increasingly

vulnerable to social collapse, warns Andrew Simms, policy director of

the "think-and-do tank" of the New Economic Foundation, writing in The

Guardian.



"Events are… Continue

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