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VILE HYPOCRISY EXPOSED by reporter doing his job.

By   /  July 14, 2012  /  Politics, World  /  No Comments

VICTORIA NULAND, spokesperson for State Department

“Associated Press’ Matt Lee is one of those rare reporters who frequently challenges U.S. foreign policy hypocrisy, both in general and, even more rarely, as it pertains to the nation’s support for Israel.” As Glenn Greenwald points out, “a remarkably revealing exchange.” Check it out in context. VICTORIA NULAND, spokesperson for State Department: Listen, before [...]

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NSA whistleblower: They’re assembling information on every U.S. citizen

By   /  July 14, 2012  /  Police State, World  /  No Comments

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Muriel Kane Raw Story NSA whistleblower William Binney was interviewed by internet journalist Geoff Shively at the HOPE Number 9 hackers conference in New York on Friday. Binney, who resigned from the NSA in 2001 over its domestic surveillance program, had just delivered a keynote speech in which he revealed what Shively called “evidence which [...]

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Why are there gruesome images on cigarette packs and not cosmetics, alcohol or junk food?

By   /  July 14, 2012  /  Health  /  No Comments

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Prevent Disease There is a shameful double standard that exists at the expense of smokers. We all know smoking is bad for our health and that modern-day cigarettes are the equivalent of cancer on a stick. Smokers know it too. But why do government officials allow graphic images of disease on cigarette packages without extending the [...]

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Study Finds Link Between Personal Care Products and Diabetes in Women

By   /  July 14, 2012  /  Health  /  No Comments

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Prevent Disease Brigham and Women’s Hospital study is the first to examine an association between phthalates and diabetes in a large population of women. The number of chemicals capable of interfering with hormones and permitted in packaging in the United States and the European Union is at least 50 but phthalates is among the worst. They have [...]

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Basic errors by doctors in British hospitals killing 1,000 patients every month

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ANI Basic errors by doctors in British hospitals are killing up to 1,000 patients a month, a new study has found. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that almost 12,000 patients are dying needlessly in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals every year because of basic errors by medical staff. The researchers of [...]

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United Nations, Olympics Accused of Using “Unaccountable” Private Security

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By Pratap Chatterjee CorpWatch Blog Two global institutions – the United Nations and the Olympic Games – face charges that they are using “unaccountable and out of control” private security contractors. One of the companies at the heart of both controversies is G4S, a private security company in the UK. Preparations for the Olympic Games in [...]

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Leaked Docs Reveal ‘Off the Charts’ Damage at US Nuke Plant

By   /  July 14, 2012  /  Environment  /  No Comments

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Common Dreams Problems with the steam generators and miles of tubing at the San Onofre nuclear plant are the most severe found in comparable generators in the US and much more severe than previously reported, according to a new report. The report by Fairewinds Associates (and commissioned by Friends of the Earth) also provides an analysis of leaked documents (pdf) by [...]

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Rivers With Trees, Leaves And Waterfalls Discovered Under The Sea

By   /  July 14, 2012  /  Environment, World  /  1 Comment

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Message To Eagle Rivers under the sea can really exist! The ocean has many secrets, and underwater rivers are one them. Scientists have discovered a massive underwater river flowing along the bottom of the Black Sea. This amazing undersea river is complete with trees and leaves flowing on the sea bed, and even waterfalls! It [...]

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Latest Syria “Massacre” – Goebbelsesque Propaganda

By   /  July 14, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  6 Comments

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Tony Cartalucci LD Surely if nothing “activists” have so far said about latest so-called “massacre,” in Tremseh, Syria can be verified, it is impossible to “blame” anyone for the alleged deaths that are said to have occurred. Nevertheless, the Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, and many other mainstays of the West’s corporate-run media machine ran with [...]

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Mount Fuji Cracked by Quake Last Year

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Shannon Liao The Epoch Times Mount Fuji has a crack approximately 66 feet long, caused by a magnitude-6.2 earthquake that hit many Japanese coastal cities on March 15 last year—four days after the giant quake and tsunami in the northeast—local authorities recently revealed. Shomei Yokouchi, the governor of the Yamanashi Prefecture where Mount Fuji is [...]

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JPMorgan Loss Hits $5.8 Billion

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VOA The largest U.S. bank, JPMorgan Chase, says it lost $5.8 billion in bad trades this year, nearly triple its original estimate. The Wall Street investment bank said two months ago it estimated that losses originating in its London trading office would total about $2 billion. But in a new earnings statement Friday, the bank [...]

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NY Fed became aware of banks manipulating key rate in 2007

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Marcy Gordon DailyReporter The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released documents Friday that show it learned five years ago of big banks understating their borrowing costs to manipulate a key interest rate. The documents also show Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was then president of the New York Fed, urged the Bank of England to [...]

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