Racial Profiling: Police “Stop and Frisk” Practices in America
Li Onesto Global Research June 17, thousands of people marched through the streets of New York City to demand an end to the NYPD’s policy of stop-and-frisk. The crowd was very diverse, old and young, and different nationalities, from many different walks of life—reflecting a growing awareness of this issue and how important it is [...]
Read More →The Nuclear Cult
KARL GROSSMAN Counter Punch Nuclear scientists and engineers embrace nuclear power like a religion. The term “nuclear priesthood” was coined by Dr. Alvin Weinberg, long director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the laboratory’s website proudly notes this. It’s not unusual for scientists at Oak Ridge and other U.S. national nuclear laboratories to refer to [...]
Read More →Textured surface may boost power output of thin silicon solar cells
David Chandler MIT News MIT team finds new approach to trapping light efficiently in thin-film silicon solar cells. Seen from above, a sheet of silicon has been textured with an array of tiny inverted-pyramid shapes, so small that they correspond to the wavelengths of light and can efficiently trap light waves. Image: Anastassios Mavrokefalos Highly [...]
Read More →New Rules, High Costs and Big Business
David S. D’Amato Center for a Stateless Society Surveying the new JOBS Act, legislation with the ostensible purpose of aiding “emerging growth companies,” the Washington Post’s Rob Kaplan and Tom Voekler contend that the act’s biggest impact will be on the formation of “small and mid-sized business capital.” Observing an important difference between “the largest [...]
Read More →Forget The Election Results – Greece Is Still Doomed And So Is The Rest Of Europe
Michael Snyder Activist Post The election results from Greece are in: the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely. It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament, and Pasok (another pro-bailout party) will have about 33 seats. Those two parties have alternated ruling [...]
Read More →UK schools ban pork from lunches owing to religious reasons
ANI Schools in UK have banned pork from school lunches for religious reasons. Haringey Council, North London, recently adviced all schools to ban pork, which is not eaten by Jews or Muslims , across the country, and to meet the needs of staff and pupils who are not allowed to have contact with it. The [...]
Read More →Vatican Accuses Media of “imitating Dan Brown”
IrishTimes A senior Vatican official has accused the media of trying “to imitate Dan Brown” in their coverage of the so-called VatiLeaks scandal and said the Roman Catholic Church’s latest travails were part of attempts to destabilise it. The interview with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who ranks second only to Pope Benedict in the Vatican’s hierarchy, [...]
Read More →Will Russian language get official EU status?
VOR Russian compatriots abroad are calling on the European Union to grant their language the status of an official working language. This initiative was taken by the Coordinating Council of Russian Compatriots in France. “The Russian language is the native language of 6.5 million people living in the EU, while a similar number of people [...]
Read More →CIA, MI6 Pass on Regime Forces Photos to Syrian Opposition
Al Manar The Daily Star Sunday online magazine said the British and US ¬satellites pass on photos and plans of regular army movements to the Syrian opposition chiefs through the British foreign security apparatus (MI6) and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers who have infiltrated Syria. According to the daily, the information has helped [...]
Read More →Our Vital Connection to the Earth
Louise McCoy The Epoch Times When one sleeps outside (uninsulated by rubber or synthetics), mesmerized by the panoply of stars, little does one suspect the silent migration of electrons from the ground into one’s body to set things right. The Chinese knew about the healing capacity of the Earth and called the energy Earth qi. [...]
Read More →Spain’s bond yield hits new record high despite Greek vote
PressTV Spain is back on the front line of the eurozone debt crisis as its long-term borrowing rate shot above seven percent, despite initial relief after a pro-bailout victory in Greek parliament elections. On Monday, the rate of return investors demanded to hold 10-year Spanish bonds jumped to 7.061 percent, the highest level since the [...]
Read More →Japan braced for powerful typhoon Guchol
TuoitreNews Japan’s Pacific coast was bracing itself for a powerful typhoon Monday as it headed northeast along the Okinawa Islands, packing winds of up to 144 kilometers (90 miles) per hour, officials said. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that the typhoon, named Guchol, could cause thunderstorms, strong winds and high waves as it was expected [...]
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