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Oil prices settle above $82...Palosi
SHE’S LOSING HER GRIP!
 

Tea Partiers Should Be Picketing the Corporations That Dominate Our Lives

Private monopolies determine the breakfast cereal we eat, the car we drive, the medical treatment we receive, what we feed our pets: they're the ones that threaten our liberty.

 

How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste

In the "era of colorblindness" there’s a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we as a nation have "moved beyond" race. We haven’t.

1 in 6 Americans Infected With Herpes

Greece Set for 2d General Strike in a Month
 
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Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa

20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era.READ MORE
John Vidal / Mail & Guardian
 

US Forced To Apologize To Gaddafi As Libya-Switzerland Row Escalates

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Greece warns of worse downturn as strikes loom...
 
New Sex Scandal Rocks the Vatican
 
 
 
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CANADA

I was at my friend’s place tonight and the police dropped by
 

What’s New: In Brief
Canadian Underwriter
The BC government plans to take $778 million from the Insurance Corp. of BC over the next three years for general revenue, the Vancouver Sun has reported.

 

The Great Divide of Natural Gas

South Korea is coming to northeast British Columbia. It was reported this week that State-run Korea Gas has signed a deal with Canadian gas major EnCana covering three fields in the province of British Columbia. Korea Gas will take a 50% interest, for a price tag of $1.1 billion.

 

The militarization of the continent, along with U.S.-Canada integration is taking place in areas of law enforcement, border services and the armed forces. More is being done to better protect the northern border, but somehow government needs to strike a balance between security and the movement of goods and people.
Reports are that the key witness in a grand plan to steal Canada’s water resources suddenly dies of a heart attack. How convenient.

 
Genocide in the Making in Canada. Who are the real criminals?
 
Stolen Sisters A Human Rights Response to Discrimination & Violence Against Indigenous Women
Submitted by Luc Majno

 

 

AMERICAS

 

Community Media: The Thriving Voice of the Venezuelan People
Gonzalo Gomez, co-founder of Aporrea.org, says that the website is a; ...popular alternative news agency and an open mailbox for the popular and working ...

MARKETS/ECONOMICS

 
 
 
 
 
My comment: The wise person ignores all mainstream media reports of ‘more jobs’ coming down the road. In the first place, it’s a lie; in the second place, it’s too late to make any difference.
 
The Oncoming Bitterness of Sugar
 
 
ORGANIZED CRIME: THE LOOTING OF AMERICA LOOTING OF $11 TRILLION FROM THE U.S. ECONOMY

BUSINESS

Who cleans up the mess when ignorant, greedy bankers rack up massive debt then go broke? The people of Iceland made a strong statement Saturday. The sins of big bankers and government regulators shouldn't fall on the citizens.
, they voted down a proposal requiring them to cover bad debt incurred by one of the nation’s oldest and largest banks. Covering the debt would have cost Iceland’s 317,000 citizens around $17,000 each.
 
10,000 Turn Out In DC To Attack Insurance Co. Profits; Network News Ignores Them
 
 
Chinese lawyers file a complaint on behalf of more than 170 consumers against Hewlett-Packard, asking the government’s quality watchdog to order a recall of allegedly faulty notebook computers.
 
Toyota has run into further headwinds after widely publicised reports that the driver of a Prius hybrid hatchback in California had trouble slowing his speeding vehicle on an interstate highway after the accelerator jammed.
 
Regulators tell US banks to hold funds
US regulators have told banks not to increase dividends or buy back shares until political and economic uncertainty surrounding the industry dissipates, in a move that will delay by months the return of capital to shareholders.
 

TECH

Pondering Good Faith in Publishing
By MOTOKO RICH
Digital media raises the question of what part the traditional book publisher will play in the future.

How Pandora slipped past the junkyard

U.S.

Collapse of the American Empire: swift, silent, certain
 
U.S. says ‘drugged driving’ growing threat
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
America After the Quiet Coup A financial oligarchy has gained hegemony over the government structure.
 

 
Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases

AFRICA

Contractors 'divert Somalia aid'

Up to half the food aid in Somalia is routinely diverted to corrupt contractors and militants, a leaked UN report says.

 

Residents Flee Angolan Village Invaded by Elephants

 
Tear gas fired at Togo protesters
Togo police use tear gas to disperse protesters angry at Saturday’s election victory for President Faure Gnassingbe.

ASIA/MIDDLE EAST

Western producers like BP, Exxon Mobil, and Shell are enjoying their best access to Iraq’s southern oil fields since 1972, but a weaker government could be on the way.

SC/ENVIRONMENT

 
Fresh batch of ‘leaked’ emails reveal no sign of conspiracy. Just climate scientists keen on public engagement.
 
 
 
 
My comment: Paul Farrell is not an ardent peak oiler or a gushing tree hugger. He’s an economic analyst who writes for Marketwatch. Be prepared--be VERY prepared.
 
Food Security Threat: Goverment Set to Ban Public Fishing, Individual Food Production

 

 
GEORGE MONBIOT: WHEN FACTS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AREN’T ENOUGH FOR SOME PEOPLE My comment: Facts weren’t enough for Galileo's torturers either.
 

MORE Science/Environment News

HEALTH and HEALTHIER TALK

 

 
 

CANCERS have a cure hidden by doctors since the 1700s! ~ ASPARAGUS By Luc Majno

 
FDA: Company Knew of Salmonella Contamination, Didn’t Act
 
After Cancer, Women Remove Healthy Breast
A procedure gains popularity but doesn't improve survival odds.

 

 

Like Little Golden Assassins, ‘Smart’ Nanoparticles Identify, Target and Kill Cancer Cells
Another weapon in the arsenal against cancer: Nanoparticles that identify, target and kill specific cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.
 

OP ED

 
A REMINDER TO ALL RESIDENTS OF INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION: ‘If you’re riding a high horse there’s no way of getting off gracefully’.
Thank you Cindy for this quote!
 
Collapse of the American Empire: swift, silent, certain
Commentary: Historians warning of a sudden 'thief at night,' an 'accelerating car crash'
 

Washington Post criticizes DPJ lawmaker for views on 9/11 attacks

Arguing that his views ''seem to reflect a strain of anti-American ... But another reason is that you are unlikely to ever DISPROVE an alternative theory. ...

 

Understanding Toyota’s Sudden Acceleration

By Joel S. Hirschhorn
 
 
 
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VIDEOS

Death of the Colorado River
As the Colorado River disappears, a photographer captures the suffering on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
 
Mexican mogul Slim edges out Gates as world’s richest person
 
Give me seven minutes and I’ll show you how the world works. Watch the BBC TV investigative report, then my update with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now – Greg.

 

FEATURES

Splitsville for Sarkozy and Carla Bruni?

GlobalPost: French Bloggers Buzzing with Rumors of Infidelity, But France’s Mainstream Media Remains Silent

LETTERS/INTERVIEWS

 
 
George Albayan sent a message to the members of Bite Club of KC.
Please sign this Petition IMMEDIATELY.....The animal torturers at UCLA are glueing metal rods onto animals eyeballs, and they are using OUR tax dollars to pay for it. Please sign Camille Marinos Petition IMMEDIATELY. This torturing of animals has GOT to STOP.

 

Bite Club protest ~ from Jason Miller
from Frederick, HRH Prince Frederick von Saxe-Lauenberg, Founder President :- Children of the World 2000 member of the International Peace Bureau World Peace Emissary www.kyazanga.org/childrenoftheworld»
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