Oligarchs are seizing more overt control in most countries in the world, the worldwide economy is on course for another - even bigger - train wreck, countries are cracking down on freedom and becoming more tyrannical, we are in a permanent state of war, and companies like BP are destroying our natural resources without any checks and balances.
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If they had hired Blackwater, the firm would have had a particularly appropriate sounding name for the job: guarding tar-stained beaches. In their latest eyebrow-raising PR move, multinational oil giant BP has enlisted private security contractors to keep onlookers away from oil cleanup sites.
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The local and federal governments have resorted to significant measures: barricading the downtown core behind a massive galvanised perimeter fence, erecting checkpoints with x-rays, uprooting trees that police say could be used by demonstrators, and converting a sound stage into a massive temporary detention facility in preparation for mass arrests of protesters. But with Canadian soldiers, snipers, commandos and police tactical units representing the sharp end of a security budget that is poised to top $1bn, the most significant threat to business as usual for the summit may turn out to be far-flung rural blockades enacted by Canada's long suffering native communities.
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BP knew its Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico was a "nightmare" in the days leading up to its fatal April 20 blowout, congressional investigators said yesterday, but the company "appears to have made multiple decisions for economic reasons that increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure." WRH permalink
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"Over the new year 2009-2010, an international group of 1500 men and women from 42 nations went to Egypt to join a Freedom March to Gaza. They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza. To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison.
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by Charles (A Reader)Let us contemplate the day in the near future when the consequences of financial chicanery finally outpace the ability of the governments, central banks and big media to cover up and obfuscate the truth. Many respected voices have now gone on record that September 30 or thereabouts will be that day. Bob [...]
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Legal Immunity Set For Swine Flu Vaccine Makers In Past, Thousands Filed Claims Contending They Suffered Side Effects MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer POSTED: Friday, July 17, 2009 ATLANTA — The last time the government embarked on a major vaccine campaign against a new swine flu, thousands filed claims contending they suffered side effects from [...]
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Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader. "The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting [...]
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Corporate media engages in mental gymnastics to hide the true driver of natural climate change through eons of geological history – the sun The fact that the corporate media has openly abandoned any pretense of balance and fully thrown its weight behind the religious fervor of global warming – an orthodoxy that refuses to allow [...]
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Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War. But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915. Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had [...]
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Is anyone really surprised? The FDA is a drug-pushing, people-betraying, scientifically illiterate criminal organization that, time and time again, seeks only to protect the profits of powerful corporations whose products poison the people. This statement is no longer a mere opinion. It is an observable fact based on the FDA’s own pattern of behavior and [...]
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How many self-improvement programs have you bought in the last 6 months? If you're like most people, the answer probably is… TOO MANY! And I bet, like most people, you've got at least a couple of them under your bed… in storage… or otherwise, out of your reach. Right? So… why aren't you using these [...]
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The Sunday, November 30th Los Angeles Times’ front page headline boldly reads "BAILOUT: PAY NOW, WORRY LATER" Those five words say it all. As we have expected for years, the crisis has developed. As we have assured readers for years, no major bank will be allowed to fail. Instead, after $8.5 Trillion in commitments by [...]
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WHEN I first stuck my head above the parapet to say I didn't believe what we were being told about global warming, I had no idea what the consequences would be. I am a scientist and I have to follow the directions of science, but when I see that the truth is being covered up [...]
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As Detroit's crumbling auto industry asks Congress for a bailout, Chrysler is in the awkward position of paying about $30 million in retention bonuses to keep top executives while the company cuts thousands of jobs. Chrysler owes the bonuses under its contracts with about 50 executives, based on a retention incentive plan crafted early last [...]
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Global warming apocalypse debunked as big chill sets in Record low temperatures have hit dozens of areas across America as a natural period of global cooling accelerates, leaving man-made global warming advocates with egg on their face as the big chill sets in. Data compiled by the IceAgeNow website shows that record lows are being [...]
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What the World Knows — and Americans Don't — About the Bailout October 18, 2008 Readers of The Guardian were greeted with this leading story — front-page, up top — on Saturday morning: Wall Street banks in $70bn staff payout Pay and bonus deals equivalent to 10% of US government bail-out package Having laid out [...]
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There is one simple but extremely dangerous error being made by the man who is the world's greatest expert on the time period and economics of the Great Depression, Dr. Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve. The Chairman is an expert on the history and consequences of that period. He is being guided by this [...]
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Suppose you give me a million dollars with the instructions, "Invest this profitably, and I'll pay you well." I'm a sharp dresser — why not? So I go out onto the street and hand out stacks of bills to random passers-by. Ten thousand dollars each. In return, each scribbles out an IOU for $20,000, payable [...]
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Jims Formula September 1, 2006 First interest rates rise affecting the drivers of the US economy, housing, but before that auto production goes from bull to a bear markets……. This impacts many other industries and the jobs report. An economy is either rising at a rising rate or business activity is falling at an increasing [...]
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Nov. 7, 2007 Moving little faster than a 19th century stagecoach, this "secular" (long-term) bull market in tangible assets has managed to escape the notice of mainstream America or media fanfare so far in the 21st century. That is about to change. Now that gold prices have risen near $850/oz., a new public phase of [...]
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