“Members of Congress, as Marcy Wheeler has shown, asked to see copies of the legal justification for “targeted killings” at least twenty times. ”

Whatever Legal justification they may have, will not get them off the hook if they have breached international criminal law, and are at some time in the future called to account outside of the USA for these assassinations.

They are on thin ice with this assassination “program”.

thanks

is Fatster ok?

Dock workers in Hong Kong have ended a 40-day strike that affected one of the world’s busiest ports.

About 450 workers agreed to a pay increase of 9.8%, after initially demanding a hike of more than 20%.”

May 6th

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22430016

hi Fatster

all the apolcalyptic sci fi movies and books are coming true.

The size of the deck is astonishing.

” This afternoon, off the Virginia coast, the Navy’s experimental X-47B UCAS (Unmanned Combat Air System) became the first unmanned aircraft to do a “touch and go” on an aircraft carrier. ”

http://breakingdefense.com/2013/05/17/breaking-navy-x-47-drone-makes-1st-touch-go-on-aircraft-carrier/

Hamburg Germany.

“After a freighter went up in flames at the start of the month while carrying radioactive material into Hamburg’s harbour, it has emerged that the German port city receives such hazardous cargo up to seven times a month.

Fire fighters said they had only narrowly been able to prevent a catastrophe on May 1st when the freighter “Atlantic Cartier” caught fire – complete with its radioactive load.

Tens of thousands of people were gathered just a few hundred metres away to celebrate the Evangelical church day when the ship went up in dramatic flames.

Fire fighters were able to quickly identify the containers which had the radioactive cargo and remove them before anything worse happened.

The authorities confirmed that the ship had been carrying around nine tonnes of the dangerous uranium hexafluoride, a toxic chemical used in the nuclear industry, as well as four tonnes of explosives, the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported.

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130517-49777.html#.UZoOaZVZGQK

Wikipedia:

“Uranium hexafluoride (UF6), referred to as “hex” in the nuclear industry, is a compound used in the uranium enrichment process that produces fuel for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.

It is highly toxic, reacts violently with water and is corrosive to most metals.”

It’s good to read ENENews.

http://enenews.com

At least one would hope that the movement of jobs to places other than North America would raise the standards of the people in those destinations.

But, it’s a loss on both ends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_May

great read, she is amazing. Some awards she has received:

“International Conservation Award from Friends of Nature, 1985
Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, in recognition of significant contribution to compatriots, community and to Canada, 1992
Elizabeth May Chair in Women’s Health and the Environment, Dalhousie University, 1998.
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters (DHumL), Mount Saint Vincent University, 2000.
Harkin Award from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society for her lifetime achievement in promoting the protection of Canada’s wilderness, 2002
Best Activist Award, Coast Magazine, Best of Halifax Readers’ Poll, 2002
Honorary Doctorate of Laws, University of New Brunswick, 2003.
United Nations Global 500 award.[91]
Officer of the Order of Canada, 2005.
Couchiching Award for Excellence in Public Policy, 2006
Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Mount Allison University, 2007.
Newsweek Magazine: One of World’s Most Influential women, November 28, 2010[93]
Maclean’s Parliamentarian of the Year, 2012

Paul Craig Roberts is interesting on US jobs reports. He too doesn’t believe them.

“Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) says both the jobs report and unemployment rate are “nonsense.”

I agree with both. But don’t expect the financial press to report the facts.

Let’s take a walk through the BLS report and you can arrive at your own conclusion. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm”

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/05/05/the-financial-press-a-disinformation-machine-paul-craig-roberts/

Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada leader, and Member of Parliament

“OTTAWA – The Hill Times announced today the winners of its 21st Annual Politically Savvy Survey and Green Leader Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, earned top honours in two important categories: “Hardest Working MP” and “Best Constituency MP.

Elizabeth May won Maclean’s Parliamentarian of the Year Award in 2012.”

She’s literally brilliant.

Thanks for the information.

“Free” Trade Agreements, they’re great!

“In 2011, the Quebec government placed a moratorium on all new drilling permits until a strategic environmental evaluation was completed. When the current Quebec government was elected last year, it extended the moratorium to all exploration and development of shale gas in the province.

Instead of going to court, Lone Pine Resources, which is based in Calgary, is using its incorporation in Delaware to access the investor rights chapter of NAFTA to challenge the Quebec moratorium in front of a paid, largely unaccountable investment tribunal. The company says the Quebec moratorium is “arbitrary” and “capricious,” and that it deprives Lone Pine of its right to profit from fracking for natural gas in Quebec’s Saint Lawrence Valley.

http://www.canadians.org/media/water/2013/14-May-13.html

that is genius.

now they have to demote the person that fired the wrong person. or, promote them. or something.