Acapulco Ministry of Roads and Protection Employee Quartered and Beheaded

I find it incredible that none of these instances are reported in the US MSM. If one headless body hacked into four pieces was found in NY, LA or Topeka, Wolf Blitzer would be mugging for the camera as he described the carnage. For the last two years, butchering of bodies and beheadings have become a daily or weekly occurrence in Mexico.

War on drugs, or a War for control of the US drug market? Nearly one year ago among much pomp and circumstance, the Mexican Army was given the lead role in this war. Recent report from the UN blames Mexican Army for forced disappearances: http://www.mexicotoday.com.mx/headlines-footer-links-34/2938-un-blames-army-for-forced-disappearances.html

The Mexican government is a cesspool of corruption. Enriching themselves from providing drugs to the main culprits, the US drug market, and by exporting their citizens to the US, decimating Mexican towns and villages for the remittances from those working and living illegally in the US.

Brutal photo warning:
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Breaking: TEPCO hires ex-FEMA Director Mike Brown aka "Heck of a Job Brownie" to Oversee Nuke Meltdown

Japanese workers struggling to contain a crisis at a crippled nuclear plant discovered a crack in a pit leaking highly radioactive water straight into the sea, the firm operating the facility said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/02/3180696.htm

Japan has found radiation above the legal limit in beef from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/71786/high-beef-radiation-level-found
TOKYO —
The health ministry said Friday a reexamination showed no radioactive substances in beef from Fukushima Prefecture where the nuclear power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami is located.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/retest-finds-no-radioactive-substances-in-fukushima-beef

The day began with company officials reporting that radiation in leaking water in the Unit 2 reactor was 10 million times above normal, a spike that forced employees to flee the unit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110327/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake
Later in the day, however, NISA questioned Tepco’s math, prompting the utility to say it had miscalculated.
http://www.japan.org/archives/1062

The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), was the target of further criticism amid reports that some workers at the site had not been provided with personal radiation monitors....
"We have our suspicions about their isotope analysis," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a Nisa spokesman. Tepco said that a computer software fault could be responsible for the high readings, but added that the data could turn out to be accurate...
"The safety of our employees is our primary concern," he said, "but keeping up morale is a big challenge."
According to the few reliable descriptions of conditions at the plant, the workers are given just two meals a day – crackers and a small carton of vegetable juice for breakfast; dried rice and canned fish or chicken for dinner – and take naps in cramped corridors on lead-lined sheets to limit their exposure to radiation.
"That's where they sleep, with only one blanket each to wrap themselves around," said Kazuma Yokota, a Nisa official who spent five days at the plant.
Yokota said the rush to save the plant meant some workers had been unable to change their underwear..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/01/japanese-nuclear-workers-groundwater

Heck of a job, Brownie. Keep up the disinformation, crackers and canned chicken for meals, lead-lined sheets on cold concrete floors for bedding, and keep those risking their lives in three week old dirty underwear. Keep the morale high. Good job Brownie.

Obama 2012 Campaign Ad

Confidence in US Form of Governing at Lowest Levels Since Nixon

Confidence in the U.S. system of government has dropped to a new low in more than 35 years, with public attitudes burdened by continued economic discontent, soaring gasoline prices, record opposition to the war in Afghanistan -- and a letdown in hopes for political progress after a bout of bipartisanship last fall.

On an equally critical front in terms of potential political impact, just 31 percent now say the war in Afghanistan has been worth fighting, a new low. Sixty-four percent call it not worth fighting, and 49 percent feel that way "strongly," both record highs in ABC/Post polls.
PDF: Americans Had More Faith in Government When Nixon was President Than Today

The True Gauge of the US Employment Picture

How the unemployment figure, U-3 as it is called, is arrived at has been changed many times since the 1930's. The latest change was during the Clinton presidency when those that had been out of work for more than four weeks, and the govt. concluded they no longer were looking for work, were dropped from the count of the unemployed. This distorts the U-3 number, pushes it lower and creates a sense of improvement whether there is any or not. This indicator means nothing.

There are approximately 150,000 new entrants into the labor force each month. High school/college graduates, people that turn working age and legal immigrants. So a monthly jobs creation of 200,000 actually only absorbs, creates 50,000 workers above the new entrants. This is why the Employment Ratio gives a much better sense of the true state of US employment. See chart: Click for larger image.

In January of 1999, over twelve years ago, 64% of the working age population was employed. As of March 2011, 58% of the working age population is employed. The governments own stats show an increase of thirty million workers since January 1999. http://www.bls.gov/fls/flscomparelf/population.htm#table4_1

Simple math shows that in January 1999, approximately 128 million were employed. In March 2011, approximately 140 million. During that time frame, working age citizens have increased by 30 million but there are only 12 million more working, a gap of 18 million unemployed, or 9%, the current U-3 figure. Approximate.

The U-3 figure in January of 1999 was 4.3%. Currently, a 9% short fall of workers between now and then. Without the governments massaging of data, done to show their policies are working, the true unemployment rate is over 13%. To achieve full employment defined by the governments flawed U-3 rate of 5%, including the current level of 150,000 new entrants into the work force monthly, 200,000 new jobs per month will take 14 years to achieve full employment.

US Taxpayers Bailed Out Libyan Bank and Then Paid More Money to Bomb Them

Arab Banking Corp., a lender part- owned by the Central Bank of Libya, used a branch in New York to borrow at least $5 billion from the U.S. Federal Reserve as credit markets seized up in 2008 and 2009.
Bernanke Hearts Gaddafi

Wal-Mart CEO Tells US to Prepare for Serious Inflation

But of course, inflation in food, fuel and clothing don't count:
"U.S. consumers face "serious" inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products, the head of Wal-Mart's U.S. operations warned Wednesday."

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2011-03-30-wal-mart-ceo-expects-inflation_N.htm

Japan asks Nations to Weaken Import Curbs Placed on their Food as their Shelters Turn Away Tsunami Victims Due to Radiation Fears

Hundreds of people evacuated from towns and villages close to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are being turned away by medical institutions and emergency shelters as fears of radioactive contagion catch on.
Hospitals and shelters want certificates proving no radiation

Japan called on the world not to impose "unjustifiable" import curbs on its goods
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/japan-earthquake/4829630/Japan-urges-calm-over-food-export-fears

With the massive of amount of debt created in Japan over the last twenty years, did any of it go to preperation for possible disasters?

I am Kong Manrui. Who are you?

What's my Name in Mandarin

Another Day, Another Tortured, Burned and Beheaded Corpse

Gruesome picture warning:

I especially hate Tantawi. He’s an old friend of Mubarak and a close ally of the US”.

The law is an open challenge to the revolutionary workers and youth of Egypt. It prohibits strikes and protests with exactly the same methods that drove the population to overthrow the previous dictator, Hosni Mubarak

“Hillary Clinton now tears around Tahrir Square, exhorting the virtues of democracy! I remember very well the weapons and the tear gas ‘made in the US’ that were used against us”.

During the march, a woman protester said they were still faced with the same criminals that prevailed in Mubarak’s time. “It’s true that Mubarak’s gone, but the system remains. The new Mubaraks are now called Sharaf and Tantawi”, she said.

“The military does not represent our interests. It represents the interests of the US, and it has done so since the time of Sadat, when Egypt once again subordinated itself to the US”,
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/egyp-m28.shtml

Heads Still Rolling in Mexico

The first discovery occurred in the colony Unit Model, a man executed had been abandoned and between her legs remained the head had been cut. Sus restos fueron trasladados al Servicio Médico Forense en donde sigue como no identificado. His remains were taken to the Forensic Medical Service where he continues as unidentified.
A few minutes after authorities went to the colony Luis Echeverría, very close to the model unit, which also found a decapitated man and a woman, you know the whereabouts of their heads. Ellos tampoco han sido identificados. They have not been identified.
 3 Decapitated 11 More Dead and Tortured

August 6 and 9th, 1945

ABC News had Rumsfeld on to Comment on the War in Libya. What a Joke

He looked like a whore. A cheap, street whore with pounds of rouge and powder pancake on his face trying to tempt his tricks into copulating among the trash, next to the dumpster, behind a abandoned warehouse.

In other news:
"...employees fled the complex's Unit 2 reactor when a reading showed radiation levels had reached 10 million times higher than normal in the reactor's cooling system."
/snip/
"The number is not credible," said Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Takashi Kurita. "We are very sorry."
He said officials were taking another sample to get accurate levels, but did not know when the results would be announced."
http://www.santamariatimes.com/news/world/article_833a8502-8ad3-53e2-aca2-9e788898d66c.html
The number is not credible? A TEPCO spokesman speaking to credibility in itself lacks credibility.

"In the first 24 hours of the Libyan attack, US B-2s dropped forty-five 2,000-pound bombs. These massive bombs, along with the Cruise missiles launched from British and French planes and ships, all contained depleted uranium (DU) warheads.
DU is the waste product from the process of enriching uranium ore. It is used in nuclear weapons and reactors. Because it is a very heavy substance, 1.7 times denser than lead, it is highly valued by the military for its ability to punch through armored vehicles and buildings. When a weapon made with a DU tip strikes a solid object like the side of a tank, it goes straight through it, then erupts in a burning cloud of vapor. The vapor settles as dust, which is not only poisonous, but also radioactive."
http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2321/27/
More denial, obfuscation regarding nuclear fall out and hazards.