Brazil approves start of Belo Monte dam construction

Ibama approved the clearing of forest at the planned site for the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant. On Wednesday, Ibama gave approval for 238 hectares (588 acres) of land to be cleared. However, further legal challenges are likely, correspondents say. Last month, the head of Ibama, Abelardo Bayma, resigned, citing personal reasons. Brazilian media reported that [...]

Apparently you can’t dance at the Jefferson Memorial

Wait a minute! Dancing is not protected by the Bill of Rights??? TPTB are looking sillier every day.  Arresting people for dancing? Dancers are now a threat to the TPTB Watch this unbelievable display of the police state in action…

Vermont Enacts Conditional Universal Healthcare Coverage

by Stephen Lendman May 29, 2011 Numerous previous articles discussed Obamacare, described accurately as a rationing scheme to enrich insurers, drug companies and large hospital chains in lieu of universal single payer coverage. Obama hailed its March 2010 passage as answering “the call of history.” In fact, Ralph Nader was right calling it a “pay-or-die [...]

Did the Dimona Dozen murder the Fukushima 50?

Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist, Updated Saturday May 28, 2011 This is a complex article. If you have troubles understanding it, just look at THIS picture of the vanished reactor, THIS picture of the destroyed facility and THIS picture, of Magna BSP’s camera and think for a while. The pictures say it all, the article only [...]

Is the Arab Spring spreading to US Congressional staffs?

By Franklin Lamb A surprising number of Congressional staffers explain that they feel they are stigmatized abroad and particularly in the Middle East as being part of the Israel lobby when they are not. One staffer explained: “This sounds arrogant but we who work in Congress know this subject much better than the general American [...]

Novo Ordo Seclorum – NeoCon Hell on Earth

SARTRE, Contributing Writer Activist Post The 20th Century was the most destructive era in history. Deaths from all the wars and the genocides estimated at 160 million may seem small if the planet descends into the approaching holocaust. Globalization is the catchword of the ruling class. Sovereign nations are obsolete to the corporatists. Militarization for [...]

CDC admits flu vaccines don’t work (which is why you need a new one every year)

by Mike Adams (NaturalNews) I’m always amused by the purchasing process of electronics or appliances at big box stores. On one hand, as their sales associate calmly explains to you, whatever product you’re buying is such high quality that you’ll be extremely satisfied with your purchase. But on the other hand, it’s also such a [...]

Children of the Corn: GMOs Don’t Qualify As Food – Salem-News.Com

C. Stone for Salem-News.com Antibodies from women with a rare condition known as immune infertility are used in the creation of GMO food. If GMOs are highly associated with infertility and spontaneous abortions in animals, is a similar rate of infertitlity (20%) occurring in people and are there increases in spontaneous abortion? (LONDON) – There [...]

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR PRAYER

Words by Mark Twain Illustrations by Israel “O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved fire sides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help [...]

GMO Study: Surprise! You’re Eating Insecticide!

By Matt Spaeth – FIN Most Americans remain blissfully unaware (or don’t care) they are eating genetically-modified (GM) organisms every day. Passivity and blind faith in the USDA, FDA and EPA have largely contributed to this attitude. Perhaps that will change now that a new study reveals an insecticide produced in GM corn actually gets [...]