There has been a fresh round of articles appearing recently concerning world population, suggesting that journalists may have grown tired finally of writing / worrying / bullshitting about climate change. Indeed, Google Trends indicates that articles on population growth have doubled since 2008. Apparently, 2011 is the year the planet […]
Environment
The Islamabad government has admitted for the first time that there are US Marines operating in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, a report says. The disclosure has been made during a closed-door meeting of the parliamentary committee on defense, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday. Senator Khurshid Ahmed, a member […]
Who are these people? Where do they come from? How do they get in power?
[youtube]zpbW64vRrMc[/youtube] The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful and secretive institutions in Washington, long considered beyond the reach of lawmakers. But now, as details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out more than a trillion dollars during the financial crisis, a rare bipartisan movement in Congress demands […]
Power does not rest with the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political parties. It is not represented by the press. It is not arbitrated by a judiciary that protects us from predators. Power rests with corporations. And corporations gain very lucrative profits from war, […]
China used to be one of the world’s leading naval powers. But in the 1400’s, the isolationist Ming Dynasty ordered China’s large fleets dismantled and its ports closed. The next time Chinese warships put to sea was during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 when they were quickly demolished by the […]
| Something’s Happening | UPDATE 4 | Rense.com | January 8, 2011 | Something strange is happening in the world. First they (the authorities) claimed it was the cold which was killing the birds and the fish but now it’s happening all around the world, in hot places too. So it’s not the […]
[ … & I’m sure that there’s probably more … ] [ … & if you had been paying attention at the time to ‘The Destruction Of Iraq’ ( 2003 ~ ongoing ) Then – yes – you would know the answer to the question posed in the tweaked […]
With so much misinformation circulating in different media outlets around the world about Venezuela and President Hugo Chavez, it’s time to set the record straight. Venezuela is not a dictatorship and President Chavez is no dictator. [ and this video and the article below : is how come. ] Read […]
Bees in freefall as study shows sharp US decline | Alok Jha, science correspondent | guardian.co.uk | Monday 3 January 2011 | The abundance of four common species of bumblebee in the US has dropped by 96% in just the past few decades, according to the most comprehensive national census […]