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Spring is Coming!

It was the worst storm in sixty years. In the blackness around the house gales crashed through the forest like rampaging buffalo, then pounded their hooves across the roof.

Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists

Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause. Read more at Aljazerra

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Does Posting Jihadist Material Make Tarek Mehanna a Terrorist?

Does posting militant videos on the internet make you a terrorist? How the outcome of Mehanna’s trial could rewrite the line between speech and crime. Read More at Mother Jones

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New Leak at Japan Reactor Threatens Ocean

TOKYO—Water containing radioactive substances may have leaked into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Thursday, the plant operator said, the latest example of continued problems at the stricken plant more than three months after the government declared conditions there stabilized. Read More…

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U.S. Confirms Liberian Leader Worked for CIA

U.S. Confirms Liberian Leader Worked for CIA. U.S. officials have confirmed long-held suspicions former Liberian president Charles Taylor worked for the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies. Taylor helped raise speculation after claiming U.S. officials had helped him escape a maximum security prison in Boston in 1985. According to the Boston Globe, the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency [...]

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Chris Hedges – Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Great piece and action by Chris Hedges on Obama’s very scary National Defense Authorization Act. All ready for Assange, your neighbours and possibly your children? Read here  

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The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of “Terrorism”

The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of “Terrorism”. Great article from Glen Greenwald. Remember, that “terrorism”, means any act of violence against a civilian population not committed by the USA, Israel, Canada, The UK… or other nice white people.

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U.S. oil and coal companies fund major climate skeptic

Greenpeace has revealed that Willie Soon one of the world’s most prominent climate change skeptic has admitted to being paid more than $1 million in the past decade by ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Insitute and Koch Industries along with Southern, one of the world’s largest coal-burning utility companies. Willie Soon works as an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian [...]

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Wikileaks… Priceless

Great spoof of Mastercard ad… Hey PayPal, where’s my Wikileaks money?  

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