Phys.org – Rob Lever – Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control Of The Internet

It is expected to be the mother of all cyber diplomatic battles. When delegates gather in Dubai in December for an obscure UN agency meeting, fighting is expected to be intense over proposals to rewrite global telecom rules to effectively give the United Nations control over the Internet. Russia, China and other countries back a move to place the Internet under the authority of the International Telecommunications Union, a UN agency that...

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Forget 1%, 99% Or 47%: It Is The Turn Of The 70% To Be Pissed

Mike Kriegerzerohedge.comOctober 26, 2012 The Seventy PercentPeople are going to be pissed off no matter who wins this election and that is a very important social dynamic I believe is vastly under appreciated by the majority of mainstream pundits and analysts out there.  This is also very distinct from the environment that prevailed in 2008.  Four years ago, the financial markets were crashing and the economic future...

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Facebook Now Censoring Political Posts As ‘Hate Speech’

Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.comOctober 29, 2012 Facebook is now apparently censoring political posts which violate its “Statement of Rights and Responsibilities” as hate speech, after the social networking giant threatened to close radio host Alex Jones’ account over an image of Osama Bin Laden with the words “Al-CIA-da” written underneath. Attempting to login to Alex Jones’ Facebook account, which has over 321,000 subscribers, Infowars staff...

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Beyond the Petro Dollar: U.S. soon to become world's top oil producer

By JONATHAN FAHEY AP Energy Writer Sunday, October 28, 2012 AP photo In this Tuesday, July 26, 2011 file photo, Austin Mitchell, left, and Ryan Lehto, work on an oil derrick outside of Williston, N.D. U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the United States could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s biggest producer. U.S. production of oil and other liquid hydrocarbons is on track to rise 7 percent in 2012 to an average of 10.9...

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Wealth Inequality in America

Plenty of talk has gone into the rising income inequality that America has experienced since the early 1970s. But income is merely a wealth flow, and the truer measure of equality is the distribution of net worth and financial wealth (the wealth stock). The historical change is clear: the bottom 80% have gotten considerably poorer both in financial wealth and in terms of total net worth: This widening gap between the rich and...

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NaturalNews – Carolanne Wright – Sugar Consumption A ‘Public Health Crisis’ Aggravated By GM Sugar Beets

(NaturalNews) Sugar is exceptionally toxic and leads to heart disease, metabolic syndrome and cancer — it can even be equated with addictive drugs like cocaine, according to prominent medical experts. Add to this the fact that genetically modified (GM) sugar beets now dominate the U.S. market, a healthy future certainly looks bleak. Not only are Americans dealing with the negative effects of consuming elephantine amounts of sugar, but now the...

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NaturalNews – Ethan A. Huff – Canadian Officials Deny Science, Declare BPA Chemical ‘Safe’ After First Claiming It To Be ‘Toxic’

(NaturalNews) Keeping up with the latest science regarding chemical safety is apparently of little or no concern to the Canadian government, which recently declared the highly-toxic plastics chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) to be safe just two years after declaring it to be a toxin. In a report issued by Health Canada’s Food Directorate, the agency has iterated its unfounded position that exposure to BPA in food packaging “is not expected to pose a...

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Dean Henderson – Robber Barons Blow Commodities Bubble

With global workers increasingly squeezed in a tightening vice of asset deflation and commodity inflation, the Wall Street Journal reported recently that a single trader owns ½ the planet’s copper.  Stashed in a London Metal Exchange (LME) warehouse, its owner is said to be J. P. Morgan Chase. The same Journal article- “One Giant Pile of Copper” by Tatyana Shumsky and Carolyn Cui- states that one trader controls...

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TheIntelHub – Andrew Gavin Marshall – The Global Banking ‘Super-Entity’ Drug Cartel: The “Free Market” Of Finance Capital

I would like to introduce you, the reader, to some realities of our global banking system, resting on the rhetoric of free markets, but functioning, in actuality, as a global cartel, a “super-entity” in which the world’s major banks all own each other and own the controlling shares in the world’s largest multinational corporations, influence governments and policy with politicians in their back pockets, routinely engaging in fraud and bribery,...

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