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What a beautiful start to the year! Footage taken aboard the "Mappepire" on January 2, 2012, with Alan, Marc, Nadine and Marlene.
Reflecting on 2011 and Ready to Fight for Healthier Oceans in 2012 | Leila Monroe's Blog | Switchboa
From stopping offshore oil spills to saving sharks; from protecting the oceans most special places to tackling ocean trash: 2011 was a busy year in the fight to protect the world’s cceans. Reflecting on some of the major ocean events...
The resort town of Cleveleys in the United Kingdom was covered in white stuff and it was not snow, but foam, lots and lots of foam. It was blown ashore by st...
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared a recent rash of seal deaths to be an “unusual mortality event” on Tuesday. More than 60 seals have died and 75 found diseased in Alaska with skin sores and patchy hair loss. The Fish and Wildlife Service has also ident
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The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - news, weather, sports, Arctic Cam, lifestyles and more about living in Alaska's Interior
The transport of oil is big money. But so is a pipeline spill - something Enbridge Inc., proponent of the $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project, knows painfully well.
The oil industry's top lobbyist is warning the Obama Administration to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline or face "huge political consequences" in an election year.
Bay of Plenty is forecast to experience another episode of harsh weather over the weekend, making salvors worry about the fate of MV Rena, which is still stuck on a reef despite being split in two on the surface. Maritime officials, however, said they are prepared for the worst.
The oil spill compensation fund is supposed to go to victims.
MOBILE, Alabama -- The Gulf Coast Claims Facility is again mailing out checks after receiving verbal clarification from a federal judge about a ruling requiring it to withhold 6 percent of claimants payments.
The Powers That Be constantly try to pull the wool over people’s eyes, but sometimes the wool blinders are so itchy that people rip them off and clearly see the scam.
SAN FRANCISCO - January 5 - As an organization dedicated to upholding human rights and social justice, the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (NLGSF) is alarmed by the Oakland Police (OPD) and Alameda County Sheriff’s Departments’ ongoing violence, harassment, and unconstitutional...
Imagine, for a moment, that you're a corporate CEO, and you want to get rid of your union contract. Maybe you signed it at the height of the boom, and now it's beginning to pinch. While you're at it, maybe you'd like to stop the payments you agreed to make to that employee pension fund.
One reason to fear that we can replicate merely decent job months like December is the situation in Europe.
The American Dream is disappearing.
The Nonprofit Quarterly | @npquarterly | Homeless Forming Tent Cities throughout the U.S.: Eloquent.
The Occupy Wall Street protesters live in tent cities by choice to make a conscious statement about the unequal concentration of wealth and power in American society. In other tent cities, the occupan
"You have to be asleep to believe it." A short excerpt from the video "Life Is Worth Losing" (2005).
An excerpt from Part 1 of the documentary Eight Steps to Empire. Follow on Twitter@8Steps2Empire. Part 2 - The Culture Wars will be coming out soon. Stay tun...
The threat of life imprisonment looms for Occupy Oakland activist Marcel Johnson, better known by his alias, Khali. Having spent about 15 years incarcerated already, 38 year-old Khali said he was trying to turn his life around by distributing food to the needy at the Occupy Oakland encampment, where...
I’m aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, an insider. But if you think, as I do, that we need deep change in this country, then cynicism is a sucker’s bet. Try as hard as you can, you’re never going to be as cynical as the corporati...
GlaxoSmithKline Argentina Laboratories Company was fined 400.000 Pesos (approx 90.000 US Dollars) by Judge Marcelo Aguinsky following a report issued by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology (ANMAT) for the killing of 14 babies during illegal lab vaccine tr
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When the Association of American Law Schools gathers in Washington today for a three-day conference, many big and timely issues will be up for discussion. Presentations will address the financial crisis, the mortgage crisis, the legal fallout of the BP oil spill and, perhaps inevitably, Occupy Wall ...
BP has big problems, and not just because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the $20 billion compensation fund it set up to pay the victims. The petro-giant has been missing Wall Street's profit targets lately, thanks to sloppy operations and a general trend toward lower gasoline consumption.
"Energy Citizens," a front group backed by the American Petroleum Institute (API), has launched a new national ad campaign in advance of the 2012 elections to try and make it sound like public support exists for increased oil and gas drilling. The print and TV ads, coordinated by the Edelman PR firm...
( http://wakeup2thelies.com/ ) This video is a selection of clips that expose the carbon taxing, socialist, new world order attempting to take over Australia ...
The first two of a dozen public hearings to discuss proposed Early Restoration projects after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will take place in Florida on Jan. 11 and Jan. 12.
The national agency in charge of marine security, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has said it has reasons to believe that the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) was not sincere with the information it provided on the Bonga oil spill.Briefing newsmen in Lagos y...
controlled Sinopec, today struck a deal with Devon Energy to buy into five prospective new exploration areas in the US.' Christopher Helman, Forbes
Oil giant vows to continue fight after appeals court rules it must pay $18bn for dumping toxic waste in Amazon basin
William Rivers Pitt: I have spent the last three months being beaten about the head and shoulders by the "mainstream" news media with the planet-encompassing importance of this first step in the GOP presidential race.
Thousands of Indiana workers rallied outside, and inside, their state capitol on Wednesday to speak out against Governor Mitch Daniels' renewed effort to force through so-called "right to work" legislation designed to undermine labor unions and workers' rights protected by collective bargaining.
Michigan Senate Works to Thwart Effort to Suspend Financial Martial Law | Center for Media and Democ
A group called Michigan Forward is working to gather nearly 200,000 signatures between now and March to get a measure on the ballot to repeal Michigan's new strict emergency financial manager (EFM) law. The current law, passed in March, 2011, lets the governor appoint emergency managers who are then...
The Worldnutdaily has redesigned its page completely and relaunched as WND. The new design is snazzy, and it includes testimonials from seemingly random people. This one popped up on the frontpage the first time I visited: I read WND every day because I have not found a more reliable, truthful...
On that day, Dr. Ben Chavis announced recently during a press conference at the National Press Club, pastors who are part of the Occupy the Dream movement will connect with the well-known Occupy Wall Street group to hold protests at Federal Reserve banks in 10 cities around the nation.' Scott Galin...
HAARP use in Port Hedland, Western Australia and how it is affecting weather patterns.
Independent Mars colony recruits Andrew D. Basiago and Laura Magdalene Eisenhower have confirmed the existence of a Aryan-Extraterrestrial colony on Mars in a joint appearance on Exopolitics Radio with Alfred Lambremont Webre.
I strongly advocate assisted suicide, allowing doctors and nurses to help patients who desire to end their lives do so as painlessly and as dignified as possible. One of the dumb arguments opponents of this practice make is that if you allow voluntary, active euthanasia it will inevitably lead to...
I kid you not! From the Hollywood Reporter: Sweden has recognized file sharing as a religion, granting official church status to the country's Missionary
The euro is a dying currency. On Thursday, the EUR/USD fell below 1.28 for the first time since September 2010. In fact, as I write this the EUR/USD is sitting at 1.2791. Back in July, the EUR/USD was over 1.45. But this is just the beginning. The euro is going to go a lot lower. At this point, there are several ...See More
Iran is accusing the EU of waging an economic war. It's in response to Europe considering banning Iranian oil imports in the coming weeks. There's already a ...
Syria: invasion of terrorist elements sponsored by the West
Huge pro-government rallies remain unreported.
The Egyptian newspaper al-Arabi said on Friday that a colonel in the U.S. with the last name Cleveland is overseeing the operations of training and weaponry, and is the real leader of the "Syrian Free Army." The publication says that Cleveland is moving between the fields of training his organization.
The colonel in charge of creating an army consisting of armed men opposed to the Syrian government, called "Syrian Free Army," said the U.S. had created training bases in Turkey to the north, in eastern Lebanon, and Arbil in Iraq.
The colonel in charge of creating an army consisting of armed men opposed to the Syrian government, called "Syrian Free Army," said the U.S. had created training bases in Turkey to the north, in eastern Lebanon, and Arbil in Iraq.
Pakistan upholds a ban preventing supply trucks for the US-led foreign forces in neighboring Afghanistan from using Pakistani territories, Press TV reports.
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the president no choice. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is defending President Obama's controversial move this week to fill vacancies in his administration while Congress is out of town.
( Shades of the Bush / John Bolton ambassador appointment )
Tonight we look at a variety of local and international stories, with a focus on the ominous passing of the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA). The Act allows for the military detention of American citizens without due process.
Infowars.com has received a document originating from Halliburton subsidiary KBR that provides details on a push to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States. Entitled “Project Overview and Anticipated Project Requirements,” the document describes services KBR is looking to farm out to subcontractors. The document was passed on to us by a state government employee who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.
- and viable public transportation doesn't even show up on the radar screen. With private doctors on call, who cares about Medicare?' Mike Lofgren, CounterPunch
The film is set in 1937 in Nanjing, China during the Nanking Massacre, at the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War. A group of escapees, finding sanctuary in a Church compound, risk their lives as they struggle to survive the plight and persecution brought on by the violent invasion of the city. Chr...
Canadian media, Anglican Church, UK Crown suppress evidence of butchered Mohawk children - BREAKING.
Child bone fragment unearthed in 2011 from genocide at The Mohawk Institute, Brantford, ON Canada (itccs.org) Mohawk Nation assumes jurisdiction over genocide of Mohawk children in Ontario, Canada residential school Canadian media, Anglican Church, UK Crown suppress evidence of butchered Mohawk chil...
A scandal unfolding in Denmark over the transfer of Iraqi prisoners by Danish forces to Iraq authorities, even as they knew they would be tortured, threatens to implicate the current Secretary General of NATO.
( Heck,Harper and his Nazis still haven't been nailed for Canadian roundups in Afghanistan going to torture....you'd think it was Abu Ghraib and not Bagram )
Syrian state TV says a suspected suicide bomber has killed at least 25 people in the capital, in an attack that was apparently targetting a police bus. The a...
As we first reported at 12:43 on Wednesday afternoon, there’s another nasty smell in the area of Holly Drive, which is off Myrtle Drive in Concord. Witnesses say the smell is coming from the site of the crude oil spill,
Abstract: The widespread belief among those who question the official account of 9/11, that a large plane did not hit the Pentagon on 9/11, is unsupported by the evidence. The failure of the 9/11 truth movement to reach consensus on this issue after almost a decade is largely due to a failure to rig...
In a year of struggling cleantech firms in 2011, I've been searching for untold stories of successful cleantech startups that have been flying under the radar. Here's one that's been at the top of my mind: nuclear waste cleanup startup Kurion, which cleaned house last year.
-- BP criticized for "serious" safety breaches related to last year's fire on a North Sea platform -- Lack of proper protection meant sparks from overheating crane engine ignited flammable gases -- Findings likely to put oil giant's safety record under scrutiny once again (Adds context in fifth para...
As an American, corn-based spirit, bourbon has changed rapidly in recent decades. Now, the question is: how long do we have until it's all made with genetically engineered grain?
Many major food manufacturers have been on a kick to jump on the "all natural" bandwagon, with all sorts of processed food products now claiming to be healthy and free of artificial and synthetic ingredients. However, one such company, Frito-Lay, is the subject of a new class act
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Nikola Tesla is finally beginning to attract real attention and encourage serious debate nearly 70 years after his death. Was he for real? A crackpot? Part of an early experiment in corporate-government control?
Anti-terrorism resources are being used to target environmentalists, peace, animal and political activists who hold different views than the government.
NYPD entrapment of Occupy Wall Street members New Years Eve. Also in this clip is a member of the Lawyers Guild being arrested for using his phone. This occu...
THE TENTH GLOBAL BRAIN CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT WORLDWIDE MEDITATION EVENT — Saturday, January 7 at 4:00am.
It is a presentation of the Secret Patterns of Gaia's Sacred Sites by Hugh Newman