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Today’s Top 10
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
Land beautifying plan temporarily halted in Jerusalem Energy exec: Israel could end natural gas imports
TEL AVIV, Israel — A US energy company announced Tuesday that a project it is developing off the Israeli coast could soon end the country's longtime ...
Israel welcomes Arab League support for indirect talks
Israel on Wednesday welcomed an endorsement by the Arab League of a US-backed proposal to convene indirect Israeli-Palestinian peace ...
By paul craig roberts
Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy
Iraqis sold out their independence for American dollars. Had the Shi'ites joined with the Sunnis against the invaders, the U.S. would have been defeated and driven out.
What’s Really Behind Turkey’s Coup Arrests?
Blunt leftist ex-rebel sworn in as Uruguay president
Leonard Peltier ~ 1976 ~ by Luc Majno
Bachelet says Chile quake toll rises to 795-report
A secretive group of Wall Street hedge fund bosses are said to be behind a plot to cash in on the decline of the euro.
Rewarding failure, at our expense
--SAYS NUMBER 2 SENATE REPUBLICAN
The euro has become another "subprime" currency, afflicted by debts, funny bookkeeping, regulatory failure and widespread street protests in Greece and Spain. It's ironic that more violence-prone Americans didn't hit the streets, and throw rocks, when their living standards were sliced dramatically. Not yet anyway. |
Dubai Requests Further Spending Cuts
An Anemic Stimulus Bill - China has Left us in the Dust  Job loss in this recession has been much more severe than in any recession since the 1930s. The Administration's "Stimulus Bill" would have been much too small to make a difference, even if its "bang for the buck" hadn't been reduced by tax cuts (which don't create jobs) and pork (which create jobs inefficiently). In contrast China has added a huge volume of domestic spending, and there are more jobs than people to fill them. Prognosis 2012: Towards a New World Social Order ~ Historical background – the establishment of capitalist supremacy.
Internet Explorer 8 still not mingling well with 2,000 highly-visited sites
German court overturns law on phone, e-mail data
The new ruling prevents anti-terror authorities from retaining cell phone calls and e-mails.
Survey: More Americans get news from Internet than newspapers or radio
David Cope’s software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that?.
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The government doctors and psychologists who participated in and authorized the torture of detainees have escaped discipline, accountability or even internal investigation.
L.A. has sold the idea of enriching the residents of the Owens river valley before, while ripping them off in the dark. Will the residents buy into it? AFRICA
U.S. Wages Food War Against Somalia
March 2, 2010 - In Somalia, the United States has reverted to ancient siege tactics to starve the people into submission. The U.S. seeks to prevent food aid from getting to areas controlled by Shabab resistance fighters. However, "if international aid were restricted to areas controlled by the U.S.-backed puppet regime, only a few neighborhoods in Mogadishu, the capital, would be fed."...
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Research Team Breaks the Ice with New Estimate of Glacier Melt
The melting of glaciers is well documented, but when looking at the rate at which they have been retreating, a team of international researchers steps back and says not so fast.
The UK government is considering creating the world’s largest Marine Protected Area around the Chagos islands. Commercial fishing companies are resisting. Let’s send a global flood of public support for this plan. Sign the petition.
A massive iceberg struck Antarctica, dislodging another giant block of ice from a glacier, Australian and French scientists said Friday.
This article reframes "hope" and "faith" and urges us to move beyond the passivity of hoping that something external will make things better and encourages us to make friends with our despair as a catalyst to authentic change.~ By Carolyn Baker
Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.
The USDA and Secretary Vilsack, in collaboration with Monsanto, are about to lift a court-ordered ban on Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) "Roundup Ready" alfalfa. This GMO would have disastrous effects on US and global agriculture. Genetically engineered alfalfa would be the first perennial GM crop, and would result in a huge increase of toxic RoundUp in the environment.
MORE Science/Environment News
Mercurial Tuna: Study Explores Sources of Mercury to Ocean Fish With concern over mercury contamination of tuna on the rise and growing information about the health effects of eating contaminated fish, scientists would like to know exactly where the pollutant is coming from and how it's getting into open-ocean fish species.
SB 689 which would ban kicking, shaking punching,choking and other harsh punishments of children will be heard in a MD Senate Committee on Wednesday March 3. It's a start in giving children more protection from physical harm.
Find out why I call them ‘Weapons of Mass Prescription’ in today’s feature article.
IQ scores of cigarette smokers tend to be lower than nonsmokers'.
Chew on This 
These hypocrites who now cry "emotional manipulation!" are the same crew that devoted the better part of the last decade "catapulting the propaganda," as Dim Son would say, using every slick trick in the book to ratchet up our fears of terror terror everywhere to justify the Bush Crime Family's illegal, immoral wars.
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
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Here’s Pink Floyd’s movie ‘The Wall’ (full lenght). Enjoy. . .
Peace is Patriotic, ~ Vince
THE HOUR ~ Episode 109
US Army Takes Haiti - US Blocks Some Aid Flights - Vid
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Submitted by Luc Majno ~ Film Review: BATTLE FOR WHITE CLAY awarded Best Political Documentary at the 2009 New York International Independent Film Festival.
Submitted by Luc Majno ‘my name is wasichu. i know thee, i have found thee, & i will not let thee go’. 0949 est, october 11, 2004 barnard, vermont The first people who lived on the northern plains of what today is the United States called themselves ‘Lakota’, meaning ‘the people’, a word which provides the semantic basis…
LETTERS/INTERVIEWSSAVE OUR OCEANS ~ submitted by Luc Majno ‘People Power Trumps Corporate Power; R.I.P. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant’
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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