Agence France-Presse | Updated: April 22, 2012 23:13 IST

Paris:  Tens of millions of French voters turned out Sunday for the first round of a presidential poll that is expected to see the left oust Nicolas Sarkozy after only one turbulent term in office.



The left has not won a presidential election in a quarter of a century, but…

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In spite of the enormous danger that the Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima poses to the global community, especially the Norther Hemisphere, TEPCO has no plans to begin removal of the more than 1,500 fuel rods from No. 4 reactor building. (I believe these are fuel rod assemblies, however on that issue, I am not sure.) Evidently, TEPCO is now an…

The New World Order are masters of turning Chaos into their favor.  Everyone should at least do their own research and understand this.

3 centuries ago there was a system of banking discovered that gave untold wealth to its owners. The system was imported to the Americas and have been the guiding factor in the politics and  economics of this country. The bank owners device a system where they control the creation of money. if the government wanted new money they had to go the…

http://www.activistpost.com/p/writing-contest.html

Farmers demand feds probe Monsanto and Dow over crops and chemicals

Published: 18 April, 2012, 23:30         Edited: 19 April, 2012, 13:06

Over 2,000 farmers and others within the food industry are threatening to take the US government to court to make sure that feds act quickly in investigating the potential outcome of a new genetically…

Anonymous tweetbomb: Hacktivists round on CISPA

Published: 20 April, 2012, 15:27       Edited: 20 April, 2012, 23:37

Hacktivist group Anonymous has slammed SOPA’s successor-bill CISPA, due to go before the US House of Representatives. They claim it will allow companies unprecedented access to…

Fifty arrested on second day of protests in Canada

Published: 22 April, 2012, 01:31

At least 50 protesters have been arrested in Montreal as police clamped down on a demonstration against plans to develop northern Quebec. This comes after students clashed with police over proposed hikes in tuition fees a day…

Iran starts cloning of American spy drone

Published: 22 April, 2012, 14:15

Iran has completed reverse-engineering of the captured US spy drone and has started building its own copy, Iranian media reports.

The Revolutionary Guard is yet to decode parts of the software the Sentinel aircraft…

"A married Secret Service agent ousted in the Colombia sex scandal has a Facebook page filled with pictures of himself with scantily clad women — bringing further embarrassment to the agency as three more of his co-workers resigned in disgrace yesterday."

The guy had a bright idea of posting photos on Facebook, when fact he should have stayed out completely. Not really a smart move.…

100% Certainty of Total Catastrophic Failure of Entire Power Infrastructure Within 3 Years…

Hague welcomes UN move to boost observers in Syria to intensify pressure on reform

By Stephanie Condron

PUBLISHED: 01:08 GMT, 22 April 2012 | UPDATED: 01:08 GMT, 22 April…

Suicide riddle of weapons expert who worked with David Kelly: Scientist tells wife he is going for a walk, then takes his life in a field... just like his friend

• Body of Dr Richard Holmes discovered in a field four miles from the Porton Down defence establishment
• Police said there were no suspicious circumstances in latest case but revealed scientist was 'under…

Secret documents reveal MI5 agents betrayed Libyan dissidents to Gaddafi spies in London rendezvous just 700 yards from Harrods

• British spies supplied the Libyan dictator's secret agents with intelligence, mobile phones and an upmarket London safe house
• Experts say the explosive documents suggest breaches of the Geneva Conventions,…

Mac Slavo

SHTFplan.com

April 21, 2012

As smart grid metering systems expand across the developed world, many are starting to ask whether the threats posed by the new devices, which officials promise will save energy and reduce end user utility costs, outweigh their benefits. In addition to documented …

krys, Apr 22 06:03 (EEST):

I was really Pleased to find this article. This needs to be inacted on from Local, State & Federal levels so things can be set right. Please send this to your list the more that know it the better.

 

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We need to act now and stop obama from taking over all Earths Waters, once he does he will usher in the OWO. We are running out of time he has already signed executive orders on Peace time Martial Law. He has already…

April 20, 2012, via @TyphonMind

William Binney served in the NSA for over 30 years, including a time as director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. Since retiring from the NSA in 2001, he has warned that the NSA’s data-mining program has become so vast that it could “create an Orwellian state.”…

April 20, 2012, via @TyphonMind

Jacob Appelbaum, a computer security researcher who has volunteered with WikiLeaks. He is a developer and advocate for the Tor Project, a network enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the internet.

See video:…

April 20, 2012, via @TyphonMind

William Binneyserved in the NSA for over 30 years, including a time as director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. Since retiring from the NSA in 2001, he has warned that the NSA’s data-mining program has become so vast that it could "create an Orwellian state."

See video:…

April 20, 2012, via @TyphonMind

Laura Poitras, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer. She is working on the third part of a trilogy of films about America post-9/11. The first film was My Country, My Country, and the second was The Oath.

See video:…

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual…