Anonymous Comrade submits:

"The Masters of the Universe"

Pepe Escobar, Asia Times

It may be instructive to learn what US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the "Prince of Darkness" Richard Perle were doing last weekend. From May 15 to 18 they were guests at the Trianon Palace Hotel, close to the spectacular Versailles palace near Paris, for the annual meeting of the Bilderberg club.

Depending on the ideological prism applied, the Bilderberg club may be considered an ultra-VIP international lobby of the power elite of Europe and America, capable of steering international policy from behind closed doors; a harmless "discussion group" of politicians, academics and business tycoons; or a capitalist secret society operating entirely through self interest and plotting world domination.

Full story is at Asia Times

California Town Criminalizes Compliance with Patriot Act

ARCATA, California (AP) -- More than 100 cities and one state have passed resolutions condemning the USA Patriot Act, saying it gives the federal government too much snooping power. But in this liberal fold of Northern California's Redwood Curtain, a simple denouncement just doesn't go far enough.

To cooperate with the act, the City Council says, is criminal.

jim submits:

"FCC Chairman Responds to Request for Delay on Media Ownership Proceeding"

Washington, D.C.-Federal Communication Commission Chairman Michael K.
Powell personally delivered his response today to Commissioners Jonathan S.
Adelstein and Michael J. Copps, both of whom had requested a delay of the
June 2nd vote on the broadcast ownership Biennial Review proceeding.