Ukraine vows to 'liquidate' pro-Russian rebels after body of 'brutally tortured' politician is found in river

• Ukraine ends Easter truce after two bodies found near town of Slaviansk
• One was Vladimir Rybak, a member of president's Batkivshchyna…

Coming to a street near you - the lights that keep you awake and could make people ill...

• Councils claim LED lights use less energy than conventional sodium bulbs
• Hounslow council agree to dim lights after complaints from residents
• But the local authority won't replace the 16,000 lights across the borough
• Bury…

Victory for Nevada's last rancher! Federal agents release cattle and back down from 'range-war' after armed protestors rally to support rancher 'kicked off land his family has held since 1870'

• Bureau of Land Management would not enforce court order to remove  cattle and was pulling out of the area
• Politicians have compared the…

What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma

We now know the government's Tamiflu stockpile wouldn't have done us much good in the event of a flu epidemic. But the secrecy surrounding clinical trials means there's a lot we don't know about other medicines we take…

Former executive of bank that helped trigger collapse of RBS found dead along with his wife, 57, and daughter, 22

• Jan Peter Schmittmann, wife and daughter found dead on Saturday
  
  
• Their bodies were discovered by Schmittmann's elder daughter
• The former top banker came under fire for taking a large pay-off
• It…

Airport luggage spies: How officials are rummaging through your bags without telling you

• Officials are allowed to search bags before they go on baggage carousel
• Two thirds of searchers turn up nothing and owners are never told
  
  
• Staff also found not seeking proper authorisation before searching…

I am out to make a difference. I am out to make it so that every Person affiliated with the oil industry can live more richly than if They worked to retirement and were living off whatever They managed to save, affording up to what it would allow.  If They wanted to.

Think about that for a moment.  Every Person working in the gas stations, in trucking, taxiing, and other transportation…and the…

Liberty and freedom are often used to mean the same thing.  The ability to choose for One’s Self how One spends One’s time/energy.  Both presume the three Laws are binding principles, and Individuals presume other “laws” as well (really all beyond the three are statutes, acts, bills, codes, rules, regulations, edicts, mandates, ordinances, and so on).

The difference is that “liberty” is what a ship’s captain gives to His/Her crew, while “freedom” means there is no Other that One must…

All Chinese schoolchildren to be tested for drugs after kindergartens are caught giving them medication 'to improve attendance'

• China's education ministry orders nationwide investigation into issue
• Follows protest by parents of kindergarteners who were given drugs
  
  
• Children at schools in Xi'an…

If I asked You for a $10 donation and in return I would give You a copy of My book, in PDF, would You choose to do so?



Perhaps You are not familiar with My work. Understand that I am trying to end poverty, oppression, wage/debt slavery, and profiteering on this planet. Please look at other of My blog posts for details.



Perhaps You are like Me: reliant on the generousity of friends and being a burden to Them, having nothing to give. If so, I empathize and…

UK media alarmed by govt bill allowing seizure of journalists’ notes, files

Published time: February 01, 2014 10:01

UK media organizations have warned that if a government bill authorizing police to seize journalists' notebooks, photos and digital files is passed Monday, it could seriously endanger press freedom in the country.

Currently, requests for reporters’ notebooks and…

EDIT TO ADD:  Note to whoever added this pic:  "The love of money is the root of all evil."  If We remove the soil in which the root grows, it cannot flourish. This quote was made from inside the scarcity paradigm, and as such does not reflect the options and expectations of…

In Our past systems of governing, We pass "laws" - whether by consent of the "governed" (seldom) or by decree from a body of one to some number of Individuals who are making decisions.  (They aren't really Laws, for there are only three Laws.  If You look, You will see they are all statutes, codes, bills, declarations, constitutions, regulations, mandates, edicts, decrees, rules, and so on.  They are NOT Laws.)



So We operate under these decisions for Us as best We can.  We vote…

A small, homemade bomb exploded outside of a French church in Rome on Friday shortly before President François Hollande was due to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican, the French embassy in Rome told FRANCE 24

Latest update : 2014-01-24

At least five cars were damaged in the blast, which took place in the city centre, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.



Police…

Ukrainian officers may face ‘criminal liability’ for abusing naked rioter

Published time: January 23, 2014 19:14 

Edited time: January 23, 2014 22:50

The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has officially apologized and launched an internal inquiry after a video showing Berkut special forces ridiculing a naked Kiev rioter in freezing temperatures appeared on the internet.

Follow RT’s …

Clashes in Madrid as protest over govt spending spreads to 46 cities

Published time: January 16, 2014 15:38

Rallies that started in the Spanish city of Burgos have spread nationwide, including Madrid, leading to 14 arrests in the capital. The initial protest to a costly government project quickly infected other cities in the recession-stricken country.

The capital, Madrid, saw…

‘Massive’ low-flying helicopter to test radiation levels in Baltimore

Fish testing at 124 times over radiation limit caught off Fukushima

Special Report: Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up

Lawsuit alleges BP, Chevron dumped radioactive waste into Louisiana waters