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UK: COUNCILS USE BUGS IN LAMPPOSTS TO EAVESDROP ON YOU: HIGH-powered spy microphones on street lampposts are being used by snooping council officials to listen in on private conversations.

 

Obama sees Turkey turning eastward if snubbed by EU. Turkey could end up seeking alliances outside the West if the European Union keeps it dangling over its bid for membership, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a newspaper interview. Obama told Italy's Corriere della Sera the United States believed it would be wise for the European Union to accept Turkey, and saw reluctance to let Turkey in as a factor behind changes seen in its traditionally West-facing foreign policy. (reuters.com)
 

Doubt Is Cast On Claims That Sarkozy Took Cash.  

 

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Middle East/Asia

 

General who said it was 'fun to shoot people' takes over US Central Command: A senior US general once criticised for saying it was "fun to shoot some people" has been picked to take over US Central Command, leading the military command running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

  Canada

 

Canada may sue BP over oil spill

The Canadian government is considering a lawsuit against oil giant BP for environmental damage caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

P.E.I. fishermen were briefed about the potential move at a meeting with Department of Fisheries and Oceans officials Friday in Stanhope.

The meeting was called to plan for Canada's share of bluefin tuna stocks in the future, but fisheries scientists are also looking for signs of damage to North Atlantic tuna populations.

 

 

 

 

Africa

 

Expats warned of grenade attacks in Burundi  There have been over 60 grenade attacks in the past month in Burundi, some targeted at the expat community.

Markets/Economics

 

Economic recession to bring down American Empire?: The US is overextended in multiple wars and its economy is continuing to falter; is the American Empire beginning to fall?

 

 

 

 

Business

Wells Fargo to Cut 3,800 Jobs, Stop Subprime Loans: Wells Fargo & Co. said it will shut down a unit that makes what the San Francisco bank calls "non-prime" real estate, auto and credit card loans and stop originating nonprime mortgages, eliminating a total of 3,800 jobs.

 

US court rejects halt to drilling: A US appeals court in New Orleans, Louisiana, has rejected a bid by the federal government to stop offshore deepwater oil exploration.

 

Extractive Industry Displacement, Poverty and the Global Mining Through Roots

 
China’s Illegal Subsidies to Its Paper Industry Threaten U.S. Jobs

U.S.

 

Residents outraged: BP dumping oily waste in Gulf landfills: After BP crews scoop up the oil off Gulf beaches, the waste is transported to Mississippi's Pecan Grove landfill. Even workers' protective suits, gloves, shovels, rakes and anything else that touches oil is buried there.

 

MAG: U.S. Missiles Deployed Near China...

 

 

Science/Environment 

 

Enough ice to cover the Southwest U.S. has disappeared from the Arctic, if you compare June 2010 to an average year. Even compared to the last record, enough ice has been lost to cover New England.
 
Early humans settled in England 800,000 years ago: study. Flint tools found in an English village show ancient humans settled northern Europe 800,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought, which could prompt scientists to reassess the capabilities of early humans.
 

 

Health

 

Busy Social Life Is Key to Beating Cancer, Study Finds.

 

Toxicologists: Corexit “Ruptures Red Blood Cells, Causes Internal Bleeding”, "Allows Crude Oil To Penetrate “Into The Cells” and “Every Organ System"

Now, two toxicologists are saying that Corexit is much more harmful to human health and marine life than we've been told.

Specifically Gulf toxicologist Dr. Susan Shaw - Founder and Director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute - dove into the oil spill to examine the chemicals present.

 

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The Relief Wells Are Ahead of Schedule , but will they work?

 

Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball ~ Joe Bageant Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse.

 

Mood Swings July 6 2010: Mood Swings and Lebensraum  ‘I don’t want to agree with him, because if he’s right, we’ve basically got to go to the mountains with a gun and some soup cans, because it’s all over’.

 

No Free Press for BP Oil Disaster ~ Dahr Jamail

 
Understanding the BP Oil Tragedy: Time Blindness ~ Joel S. Hirschhorn 
 
 Psychology
 
 
 
10 Ways to Transform Toxic Thoughts. If you’ve ever felt the way anger or fear can electrify the atmosphere in a room, you’ll know what Sandra Ingerman means by ‘toxic thoughts’.
 
 
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OZ PUTS OFF INTERNET CENSORSHIP...

 

A decade later, Internet appliance dream is realized Ten years ago, the next big thing in tech was supposed to be the Internet appliance: a device that offered tech newbies a simpler and cheaper way to get onto the Internet.
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