Leaders of the rich world are enacting a giant fraud

"The last generation of humans went to the moon. This generation of humans needs to decide if it wants to stay alive on planet Earth."  Mohamed Nasheed, President of the drowning Maldives NOTE: I've tried several Google searches to find a photo of the sculpture referred...

Australia: Past decade the warmest since records began in 1850

Tony Abbott just won the leadership role for the Australian Liberal Party. He is now the spokesperson for the Liberal Party political campaign to undermine the Labor Party's climate change policies. The Australian popular action group GetUp, (sister group to the US-based...

Where Google Goes From Here, Part 1

New York Times: Room for Debate: A running commentary on the news." December 2, 2009, Where Google Goes From Here, Part 1 By THE EDITORSGoogle’s dominance in Internet search has earned it billions in profits and has allowed it to expand its ambitions far...

Australia: Return to a secret country, by John Pilger

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of A Secret Country, his best-selling history of Australia, with a description of Aboriginal Australia and its relationship with white authority following Prime Minister...

How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger

Book review: Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger21 November 2009, The ScotsmanBy DAVID ROBINSON"How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Irish Tiger by Fintan O'TooleIN THE 1980s I lived for half a dozen years in Ireland. It's an easy country to fall...

Cern Large Hadron Collider restarts after 14 months

Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, based in Geneva, Switzerland are searching for the Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle central to understanding physics. Higgs boson is only predicted to exist, in other words, it has never been...

Breaking the great Australian silence

Legendary Australian investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker and human rights activist John Pilger gave a remarkable speech on November 5, 2009 while accepting the Peace Prize from the Sidney Peace Foundation. Over the years, John Pilger has often been criticized for...

AUSTRALIA: Cause of WA oil spill revealed

The source of the truth about what really happened to cause this devastating oil spill is a senior installation contractor, who was working near the drilling operation on August 21, the day the leak occurred."Cause of WA oil spill revealedDAVID PRESTIPINONovember 10, 2009 -...

Is a Virus the Cause of Fatigue Syndrome?

They say the human body is made up of 90% non-human life forms, e.g. 72% water, and millions of separate virus species numbered in the trillions.  Just one in ten of our DNA strands are human, while five are virus and four are bacteria, all co-existing and interacting in...

Nobel Prize for Promises? by Howard Zinn

We are all weary of war, but we really need to go easy on Obama. He has achieved a lot in a very short time. The Nobel Prize should encourage him, and the rest of us too. No one person can turn "the machine" around. Can you? The more I try the harder it gets. Major...