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Obama`s Omissions and Universal Rights

"Obama agrees to keep Israel's nukes secret [and] reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections." - Washington Post

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - On Monday evening, President Obama went on TV to focus on the need for intervention in Libya.

On Tuesday morning, it was reported that the Israeli Interior Ministry announced a decision would be reached next month regarding final approval to build another 1,500 Jewish only apartments in east Jerusalem and begin annexing major West Bank settlement blocs.

Nuclear Activists Receive Prison Sentence, Cheers, Prayers

This group deserves our honor and support..." - Tim King, Salem-News.com News Editor

(TACOMA) - The Disarm Now Plowshares activists who entered U.S. Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor to symbolically disarm the nuclear weapons stored there were sentenced today at the Tacoma Federal Courthouse, receiving sentences of 6 months to 15 months confinement, plus one year supervised release.

About two hundred fifty people gathered at the courthouse to support the Plowshares activists with their presence, song, and prayer.

Audiodraft Crowdsources Japan Relief Songs

Aims to Raise $100,000 for Red Cross Japan Aid; Best 5 Songs- to be released on iTunes, Amazon, and other outlets.

(SAN FRANCISCO ) - AudioDraft, the provider of innovative crowdsourced audio design contests, today announced that it has launched a contest to select the five best songs associated with relief and healing to be published through online music stores, including iTunes, Amazon, and others.

The proceeds will go toward tsunami and earthquake relief efforts.

Reactor Reax: Weekly Report on Nuclear Power

The latest stories making the news...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - As news continues to develop in Japan from the recent disaster at the Fukushima nuclear facility; we learn that what is already a deadly, tragic scenario, could become much worse, depending on how events unfold.

This collection of stories is published at a time when questions about the dangers of nuclear radioactivity are at their highest.

Groups Seeking Full Fukushima Radiation Data From DOE, NRC

Why Aren’t Japanese and American Citizens Getting All the Facts? “Extreme” Step Seen As Indication of Much Higher Radiation Levels Than Revealed So Far by NRC, Japanese Government.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Three groups have filed a Freedom of Information Act request to get to the bottom of what led the U.S. government to call for a 50-mile evacuation radius for Americans near the Japanese reactor crisis in Fukushima.

The three groups are not satisfied that the incomplete summary provided so far by the DOE.

Time for Nassrallah and Obama to Talk?

“Just maybe!” hints the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)

(BEIRUT) - An experienced Washington Post columnist dropped by our Hezbollah neighborhood the other day.

During a meeting with Hezbollah's Foreign Relations Officer and his assistant, the reporter came away apparently impressed with the quality of the discussion with the Lebanese political party that Israel's Shimon Peres claims “is now Lebanon!”

Email from CNN, Message from Vanunu, TWEETS to Bibi

Gaza cannot sleep...the cries of hungry children, the sullen faces of broken men and women...

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - A few days ago, this gmail came to me from the NGA Coordinator at CNN.

"I hope this is the correct email for Eileen Fleming in New Orleans, LA that has done some work for CNN. If you are the correct person, I need to know who within CNN the work was done for so the invoice can be routed correctly. If you could possibly contact me I would greatly appreciate it."