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1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street -- 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s -- 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates -- 4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina -- 5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products -- 6. Lobbyists Buy Congress -- 7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past -- 8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions -- 9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza -- 10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate... Tags: Censorship Posted by: ampedstatus.
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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
'US drones killed 1200 people in Pakistan in 6 years'
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?
Evo Donates 50% of Salary to Haiti and Chile
by Luc Majno 'Lord' Amherst ~ 'scalping' and its lotteries
Blunt leftist ex-rebel sworn in as Uruguay president
Leonard Peltier ~ 1976 ~ by Luc Majno
Bachelet says Chile quake toll rises to 795-report
Don’t Blame Bunning - It's the bank bailout that led to a dangerously spiraling deficit
How convenient that seemingly everyone in the liberal blogosphere, and even at many points to the right, got to use Jim Bunning as a scapegoat. The real issue here is the banking bailout, a bipartisan swindle that Bunning opposed and that has led to a dangerously spiraling deficit without providing relief to ordinary folk. It isn’t, and it is vicious nonsense to transform Bunning, who has a long record of opposition to the bipartisan policies that caused America’s financial mess, into a poster boy for economic heartlessness. The issue was not ...
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Economists Warn Another US Financial Crisis on the Way
Even as many Americans still struggle to recover from the country's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, another crisis – one that will be even worse than the current one – is looming, according to a new report from a group of leading economists, financiers, and former federal regulators. In the report, the panel, that includes Rob Johnson of the United Nations Commission of Experts on Finance and bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren, warns that financial regulatory reform measures proposed by the Obama administration and Congress ...
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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
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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.
MICROSOFT exec pitches Internet usage tax to pay for cybersecurity programs...
Internet Explorer 8 still not mingling well with 2,000 highly-visited sites
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.
AFRICA
1,000 Words About Malawi 
Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack write 1,000 words about their travels in Malawi.
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
MORE Science/Environment News
Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease [video]
FDA Orders Widespread Food Recall
Documents Reveal Anthem Blue Cross Manipulated Data to Justify Massive Rate Hike
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
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
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Powerful song. . .
Peace is patriotic,~Vince
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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