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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
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Unpaid internships ‘breaking minimum wage law’
ARE YOU A FARMER AT HEART? START A CROP MOBA 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.
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In Utah a Plan to Cut 12th Grade
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
AFRICA
An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens
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.
A forlorn polar bear cub is comforted by its mother as they drift miles from shore on a rapidly shrinking ice floe.
The Arctic-dwelling animals have become an iconic cause for green campaigners, who claim dramatic images such as these prove that global warming is destroying the world.
But despite this image being released today, it was actually taken in August last year, when it is normal for coastal ice to naturally break up and melt.
My comment: Get used to it folks. First it was Joe Stack flying his plane into the IRS office in Austin. These are the beginnings of
outrage and white hot rage against the government. It’s going to get
way worse. Millions of clueless Americans who haven’t the slightest
inkling that they are in the midst of the collapse of Western
civilization will go ballistic at the powers that be because they
have been uninformed and misinformed and do not see the BIG picture.
People Power Trumps Corporate PowerR.I.P. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant , 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
The Spread of Super Bugs
You’ve accepted the idea that TV makes you dumber. You know there are lots of more edifying things you could be doing with your time than cheering on the contestants on "Survivor." But you’ll be surprised to learn the host of other bad things TV can do to you.
Psoriasis is more than skin deep
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…
By Rodrigue Tremblay The Moral Dimension of Things Why do political leaders seem to be lying most of the time? Why is uncontrolled greed so prevalent in corporate rooms? Why do wicked men wage wars of aggression and become indifferent to the killing of innocent people? Why does materialism seem to trump everything else?
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