U.K.: Landmark Case Could Stymie Legal System - Queen not valid monarch

Written by Debra Siddons

Friday, 27 May 2011 07:51

If everyone began using this defence tomorrow, in all of the Commonwealth courts and in the United States, the entire legal…

EDMONTON - Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith attacked Premier Alison Redford on Wednesday for attending the elite Bilderberg conference.

Smith said Albertans shouldn’t have to foot the $19,000 bill to attend the conference of power brokers because the meeting is closed to media, will pass no resolutions and Redford won’t be able to say what happened or what she accomplished.

“That’s $19,000 on the taxpayer dime for a committee that meets in secret, has no policies, no resolutions,…

An authoritative new book – published this week – names the killers of Princess Diana, and shows who gave them the order to assassinate her.

This explosive, evidence-based book is the most shocking, revealing, yet factual work written on the 1997 Paris car crash that took the lives of Princess Diana and her lover Dodi…

Two of the most glamorous names in global finance are linking up, with the Rothschild banking dynasty agreeing to buy a stake in the Rockefeller group’s wealth and asset management business to get a long-sought foothold in the United States.

Rothschild’s London-listed RIT Capital Partners said on Wednesday it was buying the 37-per-cent stake from French group Société Générale SA’s private banking arm for an undisclosed sum.

The transatlantic union brings together David…

Stephen Harper’s vision of Canada seems to begin, and end, in the tarsands, and everything else be damned. Tolerance is redefined as applying only to anyone who agrees with that vision. Everyone else is “radical,” an “extremist,” or even included in his government’s new program battling terrorism.

This is an insult to those of us who have fought, and sacrificed for our country, against real radicals, real extremists and real terrorists.

When I read about ministers of the Crown…

Kashi Cereal Stirs Anger - Exposed by Small Rhode Island Grocer

By Dr. Mercola

A simple sign on a grocery store shelf has gone viral, causing a storm of outrage among consumers who feel they've been misled by cereal maker Kellogg's claims about its Kashi cereals. A Rhode Island grocer posted a note on the shelf where Kashi was supposed to…

The following is a continuation, so to speak - coming again from Alan Grayson.

Please know, that I am not campaigning for him - I simply get his Emails - but quite often, it is hoped that I would donate or contribute to his cause - I just communicate with him, at this point in time. 

Here is what I recently received from him, and my response to that - just to add this: I really do not agree with what appears to be, a (his) justification or agreement over the Libyan Invasion…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Officials say an 18-month-old girl was mistakenly pulled off a JetBlue Airways Corp. flight before it left Fort Lauderdale because airline employees thought her name was on the U.S. no-fly list.

An airline employee boarded the Newark, N.J.-bound flight before it departed Tuesday evening, telling the family their toddler was on the federal list that includes thousands of known…

by Prof. Marjorie Cohn

In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a new treaty with Cuba that allows the United States to remain in Guantánamo Bay until the U.S. abandons it or until both Cuba and the United States agree to modify their arrangement. According to that treaty, “the stipulations of [the 1903] agreement with regard to the naval station of Guantánamo shall continue in effect.” That means Guantánamo Bay can be used only for coaling or naval stations.…

The Latin American Revolution Part XII:

URUGUAY MAKES BIG SOCIAL GAINS UNDER LEFT WING GOVERNMENT:

By Asad Ismi

Uruguay, a small South American nation located between Argentina and Brazil, has been carrying forth the…

I just received the following, from former republican Congressman: Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) - He is currently running to reclaim a Florida congressional seat.

I thought it was a very well written piece, as is; all that usually comes from him - so I thought of sharing it with everyone here, for what it may be…

By Chris Hedges

The conflation of technological advancement with human progress leads to self-worship. Reason makes possible the calculations, science and technological advances of industrial civilization, but reason does not connect us with the forces of life. A society that loses the capacity for the sacred, that lacks the power of human imagination, that cannot practice empathy, ultimately ensures its own destruction. The Native…

Canada's banking system is often lauded for being one of the world's safest. But an analysis by CCPA senior economist David Macdonald found that Canada's major lenders were in a far worse position during the downturn than has ever been previously believed.



Macdonald pored over data provided by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions and the big banks themselves for his report published Monday.



It says…

Intelligence experts say that Osama bin Laden's death on May 2, 2011, crippled the organizational capabilities of al-Qaeda, the global terror network he created in the late 1980s.

When Osama bin Laden was still alive, intelligence experts envisioned one of three outcomes for al-Qaeda in the event of his death.

The first was that it would have no effect at all, because the group had made operational contingencies for such a crisis. The…

Here's an Associated Press story on an agreement for another decade of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, an agreement between two governments that do not represent their peoples, a story that was clearly translated from the language of some foreign planet. I'll help out with improving the translation a bit below:



"By HEIDI VOGT, Associated Press



"KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a deal Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership…

"An officer who gives an order to torture or kill is an ‘individual’ in that word’s ordinary usage; an organization is not - US Supreme Court Justice: Sonia Sotomayor - April 18, 2012".



Justices Limit Suits Under Law on Torture - the family of an American citizen killed during a visit to the West Bank, may not sue the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestine Liberation Organization, under a 1991 federal law, the Torture Victim Protection Act.

Source:…

The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington’s pretense and the stark reality are diametrically opposed.



US government officials routinely criticize other governments for being undemocratic and for violating human rights. Yet, no other country except Israel sends bombs, missiles, and drones into sovereign countries to murder civilian populations. The torture prisons of Abu Gahraib,…

In their efforts to vet job applicants, some companies and U.S. government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person's social networking profiles and instead are asking to log in as the user to have a look around.

"It's akin to requiring someone's house keys," said Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor and former federal prosecutor who calls it "an egregious privacy violation."

Lori Andrews, law professor at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law…

Kambale Musavuli, is a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a human rights activist, Student Coordinator and National Spokesperson for the Friends of the Congo.

Mr. Musavuli’s professional activities, publications and public engagements, reflect his unflagging commitment to realizing peace and justice in the Congo. Mr. Musavuli has written for The Washington Post-Foreign Policy in Focus, The Huffington Post and, numerous other academic and news publications. He has also…