By Patrick Henningsen

21st Century Wire

June 23, 2011

Since flooding began on June 6th, there has been a disturbingly low level of media attention given to the crisis at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Facility near Omaha, Nebraska. But available evidence strongly suggests that something very…

Un-flipping-believable.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/06/17/37457.htm

NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Ruling in favor of Transocean and BP, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed third-party environmental claims in a giant pleading bundle in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, saying the fact that the oil flow has stopped makes those lawsuits irrelevant. 

     "The injunction at this stage…

The Intel Hub

By M. Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie And Contributing Writer

June 22nd, 2011…

A U.S.soldier who had most of his leg muscle blown off in Afghanistan has become the first to see it grow back in a pioneering experimental operation.

Marine Isaias Hernandez lost 70 per cent of his right thigh muscles when an enemy mortar exploded as he tried to carry out repairs to a truck in Afghanistan.

With such severe muscle damage Hernandez would ordinarily have had his leg amputated.

But a re-think in the way soldiers are treated led to the wounded warrior being injected…

By EDWARD WONG

Published: June 22, 2011

BEIJING — The Chinese vice foreign minister warned the United States on Wednesday to stay out of the increasingly tense territorial…

By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF

Dozens of al-Qaida militants battled their way out of prison Wednesday in the latest sign that Yemen's political upheaval has emboldened them to challenge authorities in the country's nearly lawless south, security officials said.

By AHMED AL-HAJ

Associated Press

Dozens of al-Qaida militants battled their…

Published: 22 June, 2011, 17:06

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Moscow, saying that it wants to see Washington take a more constructive approach toward maintaining security in the Black Sea region, has slammed the visit of a US guided-missile cruiser to the Batumi port in Georgia.

­"The ongoing maneuvers of the USS Monterey, a…

5 WikiLeaks Revelations Exposing the Rapidly Growing Corporatism Dominating American Diplomacy Abroad

One of WikiLeaks' greatest achievements has been to expose the exorbitant amount of influence that multinational corporations have over Washington's diplomacy.

Read the following page to see for yourself how bad we need a separation of corporation and State.  Exposed in cables coming from wikileaks is a very bad Government getting involved in  Other country…

http://rt.com/news/netherlands-mint-scannable-coin/

Dutch Royal Mint has made what appears to be world’s first coin to feature the Quick Response (QR) Code, a matrix of black and white squares, which can be scanned by a mobile phone camera and recognized by an app.

The codes, which…

Barney Frank and Ron Paul will Introduce Legislation on Thursday to Fully Legalize Marijuana

Mike Riggs | June 22, 2011

COVINGTON, La. -- It's unusual, but not unheard of -- a 35-year-old Northshore man was sentenced this month to life in prison following his fourth conviction on marijuana charges.Cornell Hood's attorney said his client plans to appeal his sentence, which sends him to jail for life under the state's habitual offender law."The punishment is not so much for…

Tobacco Plant

Tobacco plants can be quite beautiful. Even if you don't approve of smoking tobacco or using it in any form, you can still grow a tobacco plant for ornamental purposes in your garden. Since most varieties of tobacco plants have large attractive flowers and nice green foliage, you will probably receive quite a few comments on it from neighbors and people passing by. My grandfather kept a garden for many years and during that time he grew only one tobacco plant which easily…