On the 23 of May,DC Vote activists showed inside the Rayborn Building, outside the offices of GOP Rep Trent Franks. His door was locked and his answering machine "full."

Afghanistan, Monday: A NATO soldier of unreported nationality was killed by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan.

Yemen, Monday: A suicide bomber killed more than 100 people at a rehearsal for a military parade in the Yemeni Capitol.

All the new rules put into place by the act were directed against employees, despite the neutral-sounding language. Proponents of the act claimed it was a response to the Wagner Act primarily circumscribing management, but such circumscription was the point: Employees had possessed no rights, and the 1935 act was intended as rectification. Taft-Hartley was an attempt to take back as many of those hard-won rights as possible.

CNET on May 22, 2012 released the following:
“CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.

Dances with Dragons Climax DC-Area Creation Spirituality Gathering

R/Evolutionary Theologian Matthew Fox keynotes, teaches at weekend of leading-edge spiritual experience, learning, growth and Cosmic Celebration, announce co-hosts Evolve Chesapeake and Creation Spirituality Communities .

RICHMOND – On Tuesday May 22 as many as 45 prisoners at Red Onion State Prison, comprising at least 2 segregation pods, will enter the first day of a hunger strike protesting deplorable conditions in the prison and ongoing abuses by prison staff. For the men participating in the strike this is their only recourse to get Red Onion warden Randy Mathena to officially recognize their grievances and make immediate changes to food, sanitation and basic living conditions at the prison.

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Israel’s policy of forced displacement has left its Palestinian targets little recourse.

Well-known Beit Jala restaurant destroyed by Israel, again…

“It was bizarre,” said Mohammad Zeidan, director of the Arab Association for Human Rights. “The timing … we couldn’t really believe what we were seeing.”
Just before dawn on that day, Israeli soldiers surrounded and sealed off the area, and proceeded to destroy the restaurant and an adjacent building owned by the Qesieh family. The demolition was carried out under the pretext of a demolition order issued in 2005.

For the Qesieh family, the destruction of their restaurant was a violent reminder of the complete Israeli control over their basic rights and only source of income.
“I’m still paying debt from when they destroyed it in 2000,” said Ramzi Qesieh, owner of al-Makhrour. “How am I to rebuild when I can’t make any money? When they can destroy it again at any time?”

CIA financed Finnish Socialists between 1945 – 1954 and maybe onwards. IA was not willing to finance Finnish Capitalists 'as they already we on our side' say the document. Finnish geopolitical position creates opportunities for people in politics and working for government not to follow their own legal code as there is no punishment.

Afghanistan, yesterday: A suicide bomb attack on a NATO convoy in Tirin Kot, Uruzgan Province, killed 2 NATO soldiers of unreported nationality and 2 children.