Israel-Palestine Conflict: Pay attention to nonviolence
TED In 2003, the Palestinian village of Budrus mounted a 10-month-long nonviolent protest to stop a barrier being built across their olive groves. Did you hear about it? Didn’t think so. Brazilian filmmaker Julia Bacha asks why we only pay attention to violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict — and not to the nonviolent leaders who [...]
Read More →Police threaten Guardian journalist with Official Secrets Act
The Telegraph Police are threatening Guardian investigative journalist Amelia Hill (photo, left) with prosecution under the Officials Secrets Act. The news should worry everyone, Left and Right, who cares about a free press. As far as anyone knows, Ms Hill has not betrayed any official secrets; what she has done, as I have written before, is talk [...]
Read More →New Poverty Rate Only Tells Half the Story: Twice the Number of Americans Struggling to Get By
Huffington Post The latest poverty figures paint a grim picture of the Great Recession’s deep and persistent impact on average Americans. Last year, more Americans were poor than ever before, as the poverty rate climbed to a 17-year high. Yet as bad as that sounds, the number of Americans who are struggling to get by [...]
Read More →US to Launch Nuclear-Capable Missile from Vandenberg on International Day of Peace
Independent The United States has selected September 21, 2011, the United Nations International Day of Peace, for its next launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The launch will take place at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with a target in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. An annual International Day of Peace [...]
Read More →Dark matter found at last? WIMPS in space might hold the crucial clue, experiment finds
Daily Mail Scientists working on the Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) experiment may have recorded evidence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) – a crucial step towards solving the mystery of ‘dark matter’, a material thought to make up the huge majority of the matter in the universe, but which is extremely [...]
Read More →Gore’s 24 Hour Climate Show Gets Negative Reviews From Fellow Global Warming Activists
Marc Morano Climate Depot [Update - Sept. 18, 2011: Yet Another Key Claim of Gore Bites the Dust! NOAA lead author of U.S. Climate Science Assessment Report on Texas drought: 'This is not a climate change drought' -- For constant updates on Gore see here.] Former Vice President Al Gore 24 hour climate “reality” show [...]
Read More →Market Havoc and Threats to Your Pension
Bob Chapman International Forecaster We have warned subscribers and listeners and those on the Internet over and over again that government was going to come after your private retirement funds including 401K’s and IRA’s that hold $6.6 trillion in investments. This past week in a grand deficit cutting bargain the Senate Finance Committee explored “Tax [...]
Read More →Congress Wanting To End Local TV Stations, Creates National Control over Media
Brian D. Hill U.S.W.G.O When Hitler wanted national control over Germany he took control of all media including the newspapers and radio when he implemented national socialism. I had just discovered that months ago elite members of the U.S. congress we’re planning to take away our local TV stations due to the fact that the [...]
Read More →Turkey in threat to freeze EU relations
RTE Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said EU-candidate Turkey would freeze relations with the European Union if Cyprus is given the rotating EU presidency in 2012, state-run Anatolian news agency reported. “If the peace negotiations there (Cyprus) are not conclusive, and the EU gives its rotating presidency to southern Cyprus, the real crisis will [...]
Read More →Antibiotics losing the fight against deadly bacteria
Jonathan Owen Independent.co.uk Our last line of defence against bacterial infections is fast becoming weakened by a growing number of deadly strains that are resistant to even the strongest antibiotics, according to new figures given to The Independent on Sunday by the Health Protection Agency (HPA). The disturbing statistics reveal an explosion in cases of [...]
Read More →Greek finance ministry denies default rumors
RIA Novosti The Greek Finance Ministry on Saturday denied rumors that the country would soon default on its debt. A new wave of default rumors was triggered by the sudden cancellation of Prime Minister George Papandreou’s visit to U.S. The news came a day after eurozone ministers postponed a decision on another bailout tranche of [...]
Read More →Cop Arrests Disabled Woman for Sitting
Gawker A disabled Atlanta woman says she was sitting outside and waiting for the ice cream man when a cop showed up and ordered her to move. When she refused—because she wasn’t in anyone’s way, or doing anything wrong—the cop allegedly manhandled her and caused her to fall to the ground. Then he bought her [...]
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