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Today’s Top 10
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
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.
2.8 million Iraqis remain internally displacedSeven years after the March 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq remains deeply divided. There are few prospects of durable solutions for the approximately 15 per cent of the population who are displaced inside and outside Iraq. It is thought that there are almost 2.8 million internally displaced people (IDPs), close to half of whom were displaced prior to 2003. Though Iraq is no longer in the grip of a humanitarian crisis, daily life for all Iraqis is precarious. Public health, electricity, water and sanitation services remain inadequate.
Flexible Afghanistan War Objectives: And the Agony Grinds On Washington and its willing mouthpieces in the media have for years been trying to sell us the preposterous war in Afghanistan. While they attempt to convince us that the war is predicated on a faultless military logic and moral wisdom, it remains in fact a tragic adventure with no decipherable objectives, and involving several countries, private contractors, and all sorts of firms seeking to make a quick buck. The intellectual cowardice of some should not blind the majority to the fact that the war in Afghanistan is morally indefensible and militarily unwinnable…
‘US drones killed 1200 people in Pakistan in 6 years’.
Chilean Earthquake, Strong Central Government Lessens Effects
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile on Feb. 27 was many times more powerful than the one that struck Haiti two months ago, but Wake Forest University Professor of Political Science Peter Siavelis says Chile has many advantages as it begins its recovery efforts.
Evo Donates 50% of Salary to Haiti and Chile
BOLIVIAN WOMEN RISE UP
by Luc Majno 'Lord' Amherst ~ 'scalping' and its lotteries
Leonard Peltier ~ 1976 ~ by Luc Majno
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My commment: What’s important about this story is not the reforms.
There won’t be any, and even if there were, they wouldn’t amount to
spit in the ocean. What’s really important is that we’re headed for
Meltdown #2.
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 growing number of young people are finishing college and resisting the pressure to plunk down in a cube behind a computer. Others skip college altogether - - given the spiraling costs involved, it's hard to blame them - - and yearn for meaningful, hands-on work. Community-scale organic farming has...
WHAT ARE BANKS DOING WITH DEPOSITERS’ MONEY?
So if the banks are not making loans, what are they doing with
depositor money?
Well, they are still lending, but not to businesses and consumers.
They are lending to the federal government.
BIG SIS UNLEASHED: Homeland Security program digs 'into all Internet communications'...
MICROSOFT exec pitches Internet usage tax to pay for cybersecurity programs...
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6 Dead in Fatal Arizona Bus Crash
My comment: In Kunstler’s latest blog he talks about how life for
many people in this economic meltdown will become ‘a permanent camping trip’. The residents of these tent cities know exactly what he means.
Americans Afraid to Fight the Powers That Be What has to happen before Americans are willing to take to the streets in protest? Must unemployment keep rising? Does everyone have to be without health insurance? Does Obama have to find new industries to bail out? While nothing ruffles subjugated Americans, people in other countries won’t take epic degrees of theft lying down. Americans, generally unaware of anything important, are completely ignorant of the world’s financial situation and its impact on them. Even worse, they are ignorant of what is going on in their own country, and direct…
AFRICA
Six years ago, there were claims that the U.S. used white phosphorous and depleted uranium in Fallujah. Today, there's a disturbingly large number of cases of birth defects there.
1,000 Words About Malawi 
Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack write 1,000 words about their travels in Malawi.
which is an interview with a tireless Vermont activist who helped make this historic decision by the Vermont Senate happen last week. It is extremely positive and focuses on the power of local action to create safe and resilient communities. ~ from Carolyn Baker
Life After Growth
What if the economy doesn’t recover?.
Psoriasis is more than skin deep
DID YOU KNOW? ABOUT CHLORINE IN SPLENDA? When combined with other chemicals, chlorine can change the nature of a substance, creating a new product. Every time you drink a glass of water, read a newspaper, put on a vinyl raincoat, brush your teeth, drive your car, or drink a diet cola with sucralose, you are using chlorine…
(NaturalNews) Herbalist Greg Caton remains under arrest in the United States after having been illegally kidnapped and extradited from Ecuador by the FDA. He faces a hearing on March 17th in a Louisiana…
Doctors Keep Patients, Families in the Dark About Death
(NaturalNews) In one quarter of all cases where doctors in the United Kingdom conclude that a patient will never recover, the family of the patient is not informed, according to the National Care of the Dying Audit, conducted by the Marie Curie Palliative…
Can Money Buy Education?
‘Bearding the Russkies – – a highly dangerous gamble’: a piece about Central Europe and US containment of Russia.~ By Gaither Stewart
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