From Mike Adams at Natural News:

“The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world. One of the programs recently funded by the foundation is a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a man’s scrotum to render him infertile for six months. It might accurately be called a “temporary castration” technology. Read more about it here: http://www.naturalnews.com/028853_u… Continue reading →

The US military is the worst offender bar none when it comes to the environment. And yet, the federal government continues to lecture businesses and people all around the world on their energy consumption.

This story on the Pentagon’s environmental costs won a Project Censored award:

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While the American media has begun to concede that the BP oil spill (19-39 million gallons spilled in some estimates) is now the worst oil spill in US history, far surpassing the Exxon Valdes disaster (11 million gallons), the foreign press (Russia’s Press TV) is going further and calling it potentially the worst environmental disaster of all time. Continue reading →

The Guardian:

“Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons.

The “top secret” minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa‘s defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel’s defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them “in three sizes”. Continue reading →

More natural disasters, reports AP:

“GUATEMALA CITY – Explosive eruptions shook two huge volcanos in Central and South America on Friday, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and disrupting air traffic as ash drifted over wide regions.

Guatemala’s Pacaya volcano started erupting lava and rocks on Thursday afternoon, blanketing the country’s capital with ash and forcing the closure of the international airport. President Alvaro Colom declared a “state of calamity.” Continue reading →

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the SEC is going to keep a data base (an “audit trail”) of every trade made through the NY exchange.

What an extraordinarily intrusive, expensive, and dangerous piece of folly this is. If we ever needed the final proof that the SEC is a useless, vindictive, and corrupt outfit, here it is.  Do you think this is about protecting ordinary investors? What nonsense. The system already has circuit-breakers to interrupt crashes like the one on May 6. They were put in place after 1987. Continue reading →

The Nobel Women’s Initiative is calling for the release of Israeli whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu:

Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire is calling for the freedom of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistle-blower. In a letter to fellow peace laureate President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres, Maguire has asked for the two men to help obtain Vanunu’s release. Continue reading →

Update: The alert has since been canceled

More bad news from mother earth:

“An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 rattled the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu early Friday, triggering a tsunami watch for the area, officials said. There were no immediate reports of damage.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a tsunami warning for Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia. It said the quake had the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that could strike coastlines in the region within minutes to hours. Continue reading →

Update:

It’s so much easier to ban something than actually prosecute the people who commit fraud, for which there doesn’t seem to be the will. Nonetheless, on the whole, I think banning naked short-selling is right. I’m less certain about CDS, for which there is a legitimate use.  In other words, I don’t think you need a separate ban of CDS (if someone is trying to sell another slippery instrument in the market, this ban could be a way of getting rid of a competing financial instrument). What you need to do is prosecute fraudulent short-selling under fraud statutes, under which it should already be listed. Continue reading →