It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World
By Ellen Brown | Web of Debt In the 2012 edition of Occupy Money released last week, Professor Margrit Kennedy writes that a stunning 35% to 40% of everything we buy goes to interest. This interest goes to bankers, financiers, and bondholders, who take a 35% to 40% cut of our GDP. That helps explain how [...]
Read More →The Fight for Real Organic Food Continues
By Alex Pietrowski | Waking Times Greed and power in the food industry is turning a trip to the grocery store into an objectionable experience, as processed and factory foods are further pushed onto the unwitting public. On the positive side, however, most of us now have plenty of organic options, providing we know where [...]
Read More →3 Inspiring Examples of Urban Agriculture
Waking Times Until even as recently as the late 70′s and early 80′s, it was still common in many countries to own a lot in a community garden or grow in-season produce in your backyard. Now cities are once again becoming more “green” and urban gardens and farms are providing people with nutrient-rich local foods. [...]
Read More →Scientists Sound Off: Ban GMO Testing In India
By Elizabeth Renter | NaturalSociety Scientists gathered in New Delhi to discuss the need for the Indian government to ban GMO trials in their country. The gathering was a media briefing organized by Aruna Rodrigues, “the lead petitioner in a public interest litigation” seeking the ban. As we reported last month, the proposed ban, backed by [...]
Read More →Sweet diesel! Discovery resurrects process to convert sugar directly to diesel
By Robert Sanders | UC Barkley A long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be used to produce renewable diesel fuel to replace the fossil fuels now used in transportation, UC Berkeley scientists have discovered. Campus chemists and chemical engineers teamed up to produce diesel fuel from the products of a bacterial [...]
Read More →Perfectly-preserved woolly mammoth skeleton unearthed near Paris
ANI A well conserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth Helmut from at least 200,000 years ago has been dug up near Paris, it has been revealed. Helmut – as the creature has been nicknamed – died aged about 30 and was 9 feet tall with even longer tusks. The mammoth’s tusks and bones were found [...]
Read More →Near disaster aboard Norwegian oil rig as anchor swings loose, puncturing ballast tanks
By Karl Kristensen | Bellona The Norwegian operated Floatel Superior housing oil platform was damaged in the early hours of Wednesday morning in a storm during which a loose anchor punched holes in the platform’s ballast tank, causing it to list. Statoil, the platform’s operator, evacuated 336 people by helicopter from the platform in the Norwegian [...]
Read More →Turkey: We Reserve Right to Arm against any ‘Syrian Threat’
Al Manar Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul said Thursday that the country reserved the right to defend itself against any ‘threat’ from neighboring Syria, amid discussions about the possible deployment of US Patriot missiles. “Patriots… are being discussed within NATO. It is only natural for us to take any measure for defence reasons,” Gul told reporters, [...]
Read More →Assad to RT: ‘I’m not Western puppet – I have to live and die in Syria’
RT In an exclusive interview with RT, Syrian President Bashar Assad said he will not leave Syria. Assad also spoke on the calls for armed foreign intervention in Syria, and the possible fallout on the country’s internal conflict and across the region. “We are the last stronghold of secularism and stability in the region and [...]
Read More →Gaddafi’s daughter seeks Tunisian lawyer’s help in case against NATO
Xinhua | ANI A daughter of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Aisha, has requested a Tunisian lawyer’s help in suing NATO for her father’s death, Tunisian Shems FM reported Thursday. The radio said Aisha has requested the service of Bechir Essid in cases against NATO, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates for their roles in [...]
Read More →New super-Earth planet found in habitable zone of six-planet system
By Tim Stephens | UCSC An international team of astronomers has discovered a new super-Earth planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star. It is one of three new super-Earths found in orbit around a star already known to have three other low-mass planets orbiting it. The previously discovered planets were hot super-Earths orbiting [...]
Read More →Chernobyl cleanup workers had significantly increased risk of leukemia
By Jason Socrates Bardi | EurekAlert A 20-year study following 110,645 workers who helped clean up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the former Soviet territory of Ukraine shows that the workers share a significant increased risk of developing leukemia. The results may help scientists better define cancer risk associated with low doses [...]
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