Police try dirty tactics against Athenian protesters, Fail

They'll have to resort to Plan B. Using provocateurs to try to evict the people from Syntagma Square didn't work. One was reportedly found to have a police ID. And at least one Athens tv station showed footage of police arming so-called 'anarchists'*:

Reuters' headline Greek strikers hurl yoghurt and stones at Athens police is totally false and - given real events on the ground - suspect. The bulk of the protest was, and remains, peaceful.

Despite being attacked from all sides and the entire square filled with tear gas, people did not leave Syntagma Square and are still manning roadblocks around parliament. The People's Assembly will be held this evening as scheduled.

If you are in Athens, be there!

[* Police authorities issued a statement regarding this video, saying they had apprehended a foreigner who was in possession of bats and spears, and that the suspicious looking characters receiving the cache were undercover officers!]

The Babies and Young Children Are Dying

There now exists a new rule-of-thumb regarding the media: the less the media says about something the more dangerous it is. The thing that tells us we are in serious danger is the almost complete absence of anything in the papers about the dangers coming from Fukushima. The news is so bad that they cannot and will not print anything about it.

But now we have very disturbing reports about a 35% spike in infant mortality in Northwest cities since the meltdown in Fukushima. Dr. Janette Sherman and Joseph Mangano wrote:

U.S. babies are dying at an increased rate. The recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report indicates that eight cities in the northwest U.S. (Boise ID, Seattle WA, Portland OR plus the northern California cities of Santa Cruz, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose and Berkeley) reported the following data on deaths among those younger than one year of age:

4 weeks ending March 19, 2011: 37 deaths (avg. 9.25 per week)
10 weeks ending May 28, 2011: 125 deaths (avg. 12.50 per week)

This amounts to an increase of 35% (the total for the entire U.S. rose about 2.3%), and is statistically significant. Of further significance is that those dates include the four weeks before and the ten weeks after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. In 2001 the infant mortality was 6.834 per 1000 live births, increasing to 6.845 in 2007. All years from 2002 to 2007 were higher than the 2001 rate.

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Indignant Corinthians Vote To Send Parliamentarians Home

An unofficial translation:

Citizens 'Fire' Corinthian MP's

Resolution of the open assembly of Corinth's 'Perivolakia' Square to the Ministers of Parliament of Corinthia Prefecture

Ladies and Gentlemen, we hired you and we are firing you.

You no longer represent us.

You did not respect the countr that raised us.

You did not respect the elderly.

You did not respect our children's dreams.

You respected nothing and only one thing is certain.

That you will not remain unpunished.

Self-organization in the squares will bring the storm upon your heads.

Open Assembly of Corinth's 'Perivolakia' Square 
TUESDAY 14 MAY AT 18:30 WE WILL GATHER AT 'PERIVOLAKIA' SQUARE FROM WHERE A MARCH SHALL BEGIN TOWARDS THE POLITICAL OFFICES OF CORINTHIA PREFECTURE'S FOUR MP'S (FOR PRACTICAL AND MORAL REASONS WE DECIDED TO GO TO THEIR POLITICAL OFFICES RATHER THAN THEIR HOMES AS INITIALLY PROPOSED) WHERE THE RESOLUTION WILL BE DELIVERED TO THEM.

WE ARE NOT ENTERING INTO DIALOGUE WITH THEM, NOR ARE WE ASKING FOR SOMETHING FROM OUR ENEMIES. ON THE CONTRARY, WE RENDER THEM OBSOLETE AND SERVE THEM NOTICE THAT A REVERSE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN FOR THEM AND THEIR POLICY WHICH LED US TO THE PRESENT SITUATION.

Up to No Good: 'New war likely on Bilderberg agenda'

RT's Bill Dod talks to Tony Gosling, an investigative journalist from Bristol, UK, about what might be the main agenda behind all the security and closed doors at this year's meeting of the Bilderberg Group in Switzerland.

Eurozone Straitjacket: 'Govt plans pillage of Greece!'

Thousands have been out on the streets of Athens in protest against the second round of austerity measures debated in the Greek Parliament. People don't want new taxes or wage cuts - but without them the country will not receive international bailout money.