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Lobo Watch – by Toby Bridges

By 2002, the wolf population of the Greater Yellowstone Area had grown to 273, while the number of elk in the northern herd had dropped to around 12,000. During the spring of 2009, it was estimated that the area’s wolf population exceeded 450 animals. And due to the escalated depredation by ever growing wolf numbers, Yellowstone’s once wondrous northern elk herd had dwindled to 6,800 animals. The 2011 count has dropped to around 4,400 animals. Likewise, once thriving populations of deer, moose, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats have also suffered a serious down turn in and around America’s greatest and most popular National Park.   Continue reading “Wolves Destroying Wildlife And Hunting Opportunities”

Rock Creek Free Press – by Wayne Madsen

The Navy released John McCain’s military record after a Freedom of Information Act request from the Associated Press. The record is packed with information on McCain’s medals and commendations but little else. The one thing that the McCain campaign does not want to see released is the record of McCain’s antics on board the USS Forestal in 1967. McCain was personally responsible for the deadliest fire in the history of the US Navy. That catastrophe, with 27 dead and over 100 wounded trumps McCain’s record as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Continue reading “Navy Releases McCain’s Records”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Two years ago, stories of fake tungsten-filled gold coins and bars began to spread; it appears, between the shortage of physical gold (after Asian central bank buying) and the increase in smuggling (courtesy of India’s controls among others) that gold fraud is back on the rise. As SCMP reports, a mainland China businessman, Zhao Jingjun, discovered that HK$270 million of 998kg of gold bars he bought in Ghana had been swapped for non-precious metal bars. What is perhaps even more worrisome, given the probe into commodity-financing deals and the rehypothecation evaporation; these gold bars were shipped to a Chinese warehouse before Zhao was able to confirm the fraud.   Continue reading “One Ton Gold Shipment Into Hong Kong Revealed To Contain Just Worthless Metal”

Press TV – by Kevin Barrett

Since 2001, American soldiers have been risking their lives in a crusade whose main beneficiary is the Israeli regime. Nearly 5,000 US troops have been killed in Iraq – almost 4,500 of them since Bush declared “mission accomplished.” Another 4,000 US troops and contractors have died in Afghanistan. An estimated 320,000 veterans have brain injuries, and about 18 commit suicide every day according to Dr. Ira Katz, the VA’s head of Mental Health.   Continue reading “Zionists vs. veterans: American tragedy”

RT News

President Putin has hailed the Ukrainian president-elect’s “plan” to resolve crisis in the country, stressing that Ukraine should start internal dialogue, and that Russia is not a party to the conflict.

Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s president-elect Petro Poroshenko have briefly spoken on the sidelines of the D-Day anniversary celebrations in Normandy.   Continue reading “Putin hails Poroshenko’s ‘positive thinking’ on settling crisis after D-Day meeting”

ITAR-TASS News Agency

SLOVIANSK, June 06. /ITAR-TASS/. Practically the entire town of Sloviansk in Ukraine’s southeastern Donetsk region has been left without electricity after a massive air strike staged by the Ukrainian army, a spokeswoman for the people’s mayor of Sloviansk told ITAR-TASS on Friday.

“There is no electricity in the majority of districts,” she said, adding that Internet connection had been lost practically all around the town too. According to the spokeswoman, water supplies had not yet been resumed in the majority of districts.   Continue reading “Air strikes by Ukrainian army leave Sloviansk without electricity”

ABC News

GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $105 million to dozens of states to settle allegations that it unlawfully marketed its asthma drug Advair and the antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin.

Under the settlement announced Wednesday, the London-based pharmaceutical also agreed to rules that bar it from paying doctors to promote its products; providing financial incentives that encourage salespeople to market drugs for unapproved uses; marketing drugs using results from inadequate studies or making unapproved claims that a product was “better, more effective, safer or has less serious side effects,” according to a statement from California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris.   Continue reading “GlaxoSmithKline Agrees to $105 Million Settlement”

NPR – by CAMILA DOMONOSKE

Earlier this week, workers in Japan began constructing an underground “ice wall” around the melted-down nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. The wall is designed to stop hundreds of tons of radioactive groundwater from leaking into the nearby Pacific Ocean.

Building a subterranean wall of ice sounds a little crazy. NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel, who’s been covering the story, says it is a little crazy — but not as far-fetched as it sounds.   Continue reading “Wall Of Ice Surrounding Fukushima Will Contain Radioactive Water”

Yahoo Finance – by Aaron Task

Anyone who follows the financial markets in recent years has come to expect dramatic proclamations of doom from Peter Schiff, president of EuroPacific Capital.

Schiff remains an ardent critic of the Federal Reserve and hasn’t reversed his long-term concerns about the fate of the U.S. economy, currency and stocks.  But judging by the accompanying interview, he seems to have learned a lesson or two about the challenge of fighting in the Fed.   Continue reading ““The air is already coming out of the bubble” but Fed can delay collapse: Peter Schiff”

Of Two Minds – by Y. Falkson

Americans know that something is wrong, deeply wrong. They see signs of the problem everywhere: income inequality, growing concentration and power of mega corporations, political donations/corruption, the absence of jobs with decent salaries, the explosion of the US prison population, healthcare costs, student loan debt, homelessness, etc. etc. However, the true causes and benefactors behind these problems are purposely hidden from view. What Americans see is Kabuki Theater of a functioning form of capitalism and democracy, but beyond this veneer our country has devolved into the exact opposite.   Continue reading “The Purchase of Our Republic”