News Roundup For 06/03/2010

Environment

What BP does not want you to see

Stefan Molyneux on the BP oilspill

The State and the Energy Monopoly

Big Brother

Michigan Considers Law to Register Journalists
First they came for the workplace and your medicine cabinet. Next..your canon of knowledge? Why not? Surely, if the safety of the workplace environment & your medicine is to be trusted to the government regs, then something as important as knowledge and truth should be regulated too. So many books out there as well. How are we to glean the truth without the help of big brother?

Flotilla Raid News

Here is a roundup of varying perspectives on the Flotilla raid and the propaganda warfare in overdrive from both sides. Decide for yourself what the truth is. Regardless of who is more responsible for this tragedy, the unfortunate reality is both Israelis and Palestinians are needlessly suffering because of emotions flaring up in confrontations and the innocent being exploited by heavy handed & terrorist attacks from both the State of Israel and Hamas. Plenty of guilt is to go all around with the boundaries of States & religion causing deep seated hatred in this long standing conflict. It’s a mess over there with no immediate, easy solutions for either side. Violence begets violence.

Obama Seeks to Quiet Outrage over Gaza Flotilla Killings

Gaza aid flotilla attack: 41 Britons detained by Israel

Aussie photographer Kate Geraghty ‘Tasered during flotilla raid’

Nations decry Israel’s blockade of Gaza

Turkish MPs want ties with Israel cut

Muslim “Militants” Open Fire on Israel Soldiers

Close-Up Footage of Mavi Marmara Passengers Attacking IDF Soldiers
Amid Censorship, Israel’s Media Does Its Part

Gaza’s real humanitarian crisis
Israeli propaganda photo in Haaretz of man with knife?

All aboard the peace thug flotilla

Scott Horton Interviews Eric Garris on Gaza blockade

Ankara ambushes Israel at sea

Obama’s Timidity and Deaths at Sea

Glenn Greenwald Destroys MSNBC’s Defense of Israeli Attack

Israel’s lie machine goes into overdrive

Israel Deliberately ‘Creates Gazan Humanitarian Crisis’ (Video)

The Truth About The Blockade

C4SS: Israeli Raid: Statist Logic to its Deadly Extreme
Supposedly the raid had to be done, because the flotilla challenged Israel’s control of Gaza. When a mindset is adopted that the state must control everything within a certain area, then anything the state does not have a hand in is seen as a threat. But transporting medical supplies and “luxuries” like toys and unapproved foods really only threatens a government’s control.

Gaza flotilla raid (Wikipedia)

Gaza flotilla debacle: Obama sides with Arabs

The “flotilla video” (Boing Boing)

Videos Posted by Israeli Humanitarian Aid

IDF: Hamas stops flotilla aid delivered by Israel

Immigration

Diamondbacks game draws immigration protesters
Several hundred people, many from the SEIU, use a three-game series with the Dodgers to voice opposition to Arizona’s controversial law.

War

US Senate rejects exit timetable for Afghanistan
The 80-18 vote nixed a bid by liberal Democrat Russ Feingold for a detailed troop timetable, which he argued would avoid future “emergency” war spending bills such as the $33 billion one now before the Senate.

Former CIA Officials Admit To Faking Bin Laden Video

U.S. to Take Control of Opium Smuggling in Afghanistan

They fight for our..freedom?

CIA, Heroin Still Rule Day in Afghanistan

Economy

Half a Dozen States Delay Tax Refunds

GOVERNMENT: THE NEXT BUBBLE TO BURST

Warren Buffett to face US Congress crisis inquiry

Fall in U.S. M3 Money Supply

Police State

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories

Drug War

“Prince of Plot” Pleads Guilty, Accepts Five-Year Prison Sentence

Another victim of the drug war

California Tax and Regulate Has Eight-Point Lead in Latest Poll, But Still Under 50%

Rules vague on using medical marijuana in public

Aurora Mall Bans Medical Pot Patient Over T-Shirt

“Wearing a marijuana leaf on your shirt is not a crime,” Corry said. “There is absolutely no reason he should have been contacted by mall security and Aurora police. There’s absolutely no reason he should have been kicked out of the mall. This is America.”

While some may understandably not like the mall’s policy here, it is private property.

Rand Paul

Rand Paul equivocates on strategic policy with Iran. Politics is after all the art of compromise. Even the seemingly staunch pro-liberty politicians can let their platform be co-opted and watered down by the siren song of living to fight another day. This though is a rather significant compromise.