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Putin Secures New Gas Pipeline, Undermining U.S. Plan Russian President Vladimir Putin secured a deal to start building a natural-gas pipeline to Central Asia, undermining a U.S.-backed plan to give the region an alternative route bypassing Russia from Luc Majno SINISTER COVER–UP – WEAPONS–GRADE URANIUM USED AT CHALK RIVER NOT NEEDED FOR MEDICAL ISOTOPES Top US Envoy: Iran Needs To "Confess" To Past Weapons Program Iran needs to "confess" to running a secret nuclear weapons program up to 2003 or its claims of cooperating with a U.N. investigation of its past clandestine activities will be a sham, a senior U.S. envoy said Friday US hits at Chinese oil deal with Iran The US has complained to Beijing about a new deal between Sinopec, the Chinese state–owned energy company, and Iran, in a sign of the rift between the world’s big powers about Tehran’s nuclear programme MORE Top Stories TOP 10 – News Roundup WORLD NEWS Ahmadinejad and King Abdullah meet in Mina Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and King Abdullah said strengthening ties between Tehran and Riyadh as two poles of Islam’s world prevents enemies to divide Muslim nations Military Evangelism Deeper, Wider Than First Thought For US Army soldiers entering basic training at Fort Jackson Army base in Columbia, South Carolina, accepting Jesus Christ as their personal savior appears to be as much a part of the nine–week regimen as the vigorous physical and mental exercises the troops must endure US police crack down on protesters Police in the US city of New Orleans have used chemical spray and stun devices on people protesting against government plans to destroy public housing By Dave Eriqat Oklahoma – Not The Musical Version I will say it plainly: I have zero respect for cops anymore and little respect for their laws, especially when I see that people with money are essentially above the law unless they screw up egregiously. I did not always have zero respect for cops. There was a time when I naively entertained becoming one myself. But observing their increasingly unsavory behavior, particularly since 9/11, has radically altered my view of them Lakota group pushes for new nation A group of "freedom–loving" Lakota activists announced a plan Wednesday for their people to withdraw from treaties their forefathers signed with the U.S. government. MORE News BUSINESSBy Peter Goodchild Hydrocarbons And Funny Money One can say that the future will be one of diminishing fossil fuels, and hence diminishing gasoline, plastic, paint, asphalt, fertilizer, and electricity. Or one can say that it will be a period of stagflation: rising prices and falling wages – since rising oil prices "drag up" all other prices. Eventually faith in the dollar will collapse, and money will be replaced by barter from Eric G Staring into the Abyss, by Mike Whitney The Collapse Of The Modern Day Banking System from Eric G MORE Business News MARKETS from Eric G Paul Krugman Has Housing Bubble News That Will Scare the Crap Out of You from Eric G HOUSING – SIMPLE AS THAT The End of Money from Eric G A Market on the Brink Triple–digit oil prices expected after 2007 records After a record–smashing year with oil peaking at $99 a barrel in 2007, a triple–digit world of crude oil awaits in the coming year, energy experts say from Eric G Hyperinflation! Global food prices are out of control MORE Market News ENVIRONMENT/SCIENCE/TECH Is A World Wide Famine
In The Works? –
By Thomas Riggins Jacques Diouf, who runs the UN Food and Agriculture organization has stated that there "is a very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food" in the coming years. That doesn’t sound very good at all. Rosenthal, reporting from Rome, says his reason for announcing this is that because of "an ‘unforeseen and unprecedented’ shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels" from Israel Shamir Doomsday seed vault in the Arctic Scary — very scary More Tech/Environment/Science news HEALTH
from Luc Majno
What if humans were packaged like regular meat?? from Luc Majno CT SCANS: THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 2 PER CENT OF ALL CANCERS CT (computed tomography) produce a radiation dose similar to that of the atom bombs that were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The scans, which seem to especially cause cancers of the lungs and colon, are the cause of up to two per cent of all cancers. The effect could be far worse among children, who are more sensitive to irradiation Larry B BOTCHED SURGERIES BLAMED ON ADDICTED DOCS Confidential Programs Let Addicted Doctors Practice While In Rehab; Calif. Ends Its Program Rehab After Spinal Cord Injury May Help Repair Brain, Spinal Cord Intensive rehabilitation training for patients with spinal cord injuries can stimulate new branches growing from severed nerve fibers, alongside compensatory changes in the brain, say Canadian researchers. Most importantly, it could lead to restoring hand function and the ability to walk. Brain —University of Alberta NATUREDeadly US snow storm sparks chaos Up to 12in (30cm) of snow was expected to fall in some parts – The latest deadly US winter storm of the season has wreaked chaos at one of America’s busiest airports, sparked mass power cuts and claimed two lives Oil spill in North Sea off Norway The oil spill is Norway’s second largest ever – Thousands of tonnes of oil have spilled into the North Sea during the loading of a tanker off Norway, the oil company StatoilHydro has said MORE Nature news VIDEO/AUDIO
Death Of The US Dollar
This is a must watch Aljazeera Video
Paul Craig Roberts and others talks about the ill health and possible demise of the dollar OP–EDBy Gaither Stewart Resistance Resistance is real life as opposed to virtual life. Resistance is the precise opposite of acceptance of what society offers and the resulting retreat into comfort and ease, into the assurances that your lifestyle is the right one, that your way of life is the right way of life. Resistance is the rejection of Power’s version of life. It is rejection of wide–eyed acquiescence to Power’s lure by Richard Backus America, the Next Great Banana Republic 9/11 TRUTH MANIFESTO New hard –hitting article on 9/11 from Joel S. Hirschhorn by Gaither Stewart Taser Jolts along the road to mutiny – hope is not enough A Violent Cartography, By Howard Zinn Bomb After Bomb I am stunned by the thought that we, the "civilized" nations, have bombed cities and countrysides and islands for a hundred years. Yet, here in the United States, which is responsible for most of that, the public, as was true of me, does not understand--I mean really understand--what bombs do to people Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. Fallacy of Terrorism Role of Canadian Intelligence Agencies to Terrorize Citizens The myth of international terrorism is a misleading political phenomenon to embark on American ambitions of global hegemony MORE OP–ED news BACK |
