The National Security State Wins (Again) :Why the Real Victor in Campaign 2012 Won’t Be Obama or Romney
By William J. Astore http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175542

Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, the media is already handicapping the presidential election big time, and the neck-and-neck opinion polls are pouring in. But whether President Obama gets his second term or Romney enters the Oval Office, there’s a third candidate no one’s paying much attention to, and that candidate is guaranteed to be the one clear winner of election 2012: the U.S. military and our ever-surging national security state.

May 14, 2012
Update on the Arrest of Captain Watson: Day 2 in Custody

Captain Paul Watson defending the whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, as the Japanese factory ship, Nisshin Maru, lurks nearby. Photo: Barbara VeigaCaptain Watson remains in the custody of German authorities as of Monday, May 14th. A German judge in the lower courts of Frankfurt has refused to release Captain Watson, instead saying that the German court would like to confirm that Costa Rica wants Captain Watson extradited to their country. The German legal council representing Captain Watson includes Oliver Wallasch and Alexander Gruner. Sea Shepherd operatives continue to work around the clock in Europe and Latin America in order to determine the true reasons behind Costa Rica’s warrant.

WTO called upon to dismiss Japan, EU challenge to Canadian renewable energy policy
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For Immediate Release
May 14, 2012

WTO called upon to dismiss Japan, EU challenge to Canadian renewable energy policy: amicus curiae submission addresses Canada’s failure to properly defend Green Energy Act

Tenants to Move into First Renovated Queens Manor Suites

Date: Monday, May 14, 2012 For Immediate Release

VICTORIA, BC – On Tuesday media are invited for a photo opportunity as tenants move into the first 12 renovated suites at Queens Manor.

Looking forward to a PEACEful retirement?
Drat, your pension relies on investments in WAR!

Research by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) shows that Canada's six largest pension funds* ("The Big Six") have billions invested in the world's leading weapons manufacturers. Our pensions rely on profits from war industries that are arming US- and NATO-led invasions, regime changes, military occupations and repressive governments around the world that attack activists struggling for peace, democracy, justice and human rights.

America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill: On Staring Death in the Face and Not Noticing 

Tom Engelhardt - Here’s the essence of it: you can trust America’s crème de la crème, the most elevated, responsible people, no matter what weapons, what powers, you put in their hands. No need to constantly look over their shoulders.

Placed in the hands of evildoers, those weapons and powers could create a living nightmare; controlled by the best of people, they lead to measured, thoughtful, precise decisions in which bad things are (with rare and understandable exceptions) done only to truly terrible types. In the process, you simply couldn’t be better protected.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175541/

The NGO UN Watch targets specific states and ignores the failings of other states.

Joan Russow – Global Compliance Research Project.

The NGO UN Watch describes itself as an independent international NGO that monitors the UN Watch is a Geneva-based NGO whose stated mission is "to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter. The UN Charter affirms the principle of the sovereign equality of states and it affirms that conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained,. UN Watch fails to abide by these principles as it targets primarily socialist states such as Venezuela and states that are critical of Israel and appears to ignore a range of international obligations arising under a number of treaties.

Adrian Dix ramps up pipeline battle

PETER O'NEIL, VANCOUVER SUN MAY 12, 2012 - B.C. NDP leader enlists legal team in fight against Enbridge's controversial $5.5-billion pipeline proposal

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=5fb3e1d8-9e50-476d-b847-36d49cfb5956

Photograph by: Darren Stone, Victoria Times Colonist Files , Vancouver Sun

 

Hydro awash in private power B.C. Producers running flat out

Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun May 11, 2012 - Hydro awash in private power. After a bumper year for precipitation in the Pacific Northwest, BC Hydro stations around British Columbia are sitting idle while independent power producers run flat out.

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Hydro+awash+private+power/6605915/story.html#ixzz1uaOxFzng