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Dust from abandoned iron ore mine casting a pall around Canadian township

Mike De Souza
Reuters
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 21:36 UTC
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© REUTERS/Natalie Lacy

Dust from the Wabush mine hangs in the air in Wabush, Labrador in this photo taken in July 2014.
Heavy dust clouds blowing from Cliffs Natural Resources' abandoned Wabush iron ore mine into a small township in the eastern Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is putting a focus on the liability of miners that seek creditor protection and walk away from assets.

Iron ore and coal miner Cliffs Natural Resources Inc announced in February 2014 it was shutting down its Wabush mine. This year it sought creditor protection for its Canadian assets.

The fate of the deserted mine is in limbo until it is either acquired by a rival or Cliffs is able to restructure and exit creditor protection.

Local residents say the abandoned site has many open pits, with drilling equipment, trucks and other equipment stranded on the site.

"Now that the company has gone into closure, it is very hard to maintain a relationship with them. From a corporate level, we have not heard anything from them in almost a year, if not longer," said Colin Vardy, mayor of the town of Wabush. "I'm very disappointed. ... They haven't been paying their town taxes."

Comment: Another example of corporate culpability and refusal to assume responsibility for their environmental degradation and its ensuing effects on the local population.

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Propaganda

Is humanity developing mass resistance to government lies?

Bernie Suarez
Activist Post
Sat, 20 Jun 2015 16:00 UTC
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Throughout nature it is well known that species will experience changes in its DNA and adaptations in its physical expression and behavior solely for the purposes of surviving in its environment. There are numerous examples in nature of species genetically and physically adapting to its environment for survival reasons. So it's not a far-fetched suggestion that humanity itself may now be experiencing a physiological mental and cerebral transformation which is changing its behavioral pattern and environmental response to the phenomenon of government.

That's right, as humans we have an obligation to think critically and objectively when considering the plight of humanity as it struggles in these modern days against the new world order and the human control system. It is up to us to consider the objective expression of this battle for freedom against the oppressive and defective component of humanity known as government.

Whether you understand it or not, those that wish to control you are a parasite on the species. Their infective process is carried out by thought signals within other concurring members of the species. These thought signals of control, rules, laws, policing, and legal system of enslavement perpetuate itself within the species, and is the very system that we know as the controlling governmental system. It seeks to simply control and enslave others. There is really no other purpose for its existence. It generates the mental signals needed to perpetuate the control system of enslavement to take away your individual freedom and your wealth and money. It does all of this by the system of rules we logically understand today as government.
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People

Enlightened, mutual self-interest is the only way forward

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:29 UTC
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In the year 2015, America and the rest of the world finds itself at a crossroads. The time is fast approaching when the world's population will receive the final choice between a move toward true freedom or the clampdown of total oppression. Throughout recorded history, tyrannies have arisen and morphed into other forms with the end result being the creation and maintenance of a permanent worldwide oligarchy that is attempting to ensure the end of all independent thought and action.

This oligarchy has maintained its control by a number of different methods, the concept of "divide and conquer" being one of the most important in its arsenal. Throughout history, the divisions of race, religion, national borders, and class have all been cleverly used to keep the many from rightly viewing the few as the enemy.

In the past, there have been times where the façade has shown cracks and there have been individuals who have shown their perception of the obstacle of division and subsequently made strides to overcome it. Those individuals did their best but were promptly silenced or murdered for their efforts. The murders of JFK, RFK, MLK, and others are all testaments to this idea. Particularly with Martin Luther King Jr., the danger to the oligarchy was not so much his fight for civil rights for black Americans, his opposition to the Vietnam war, and his concerns for labor that posed a threat to the oligarchy individually, it was his ability to unify those varied interests - blacks and black civil rights activists, white war protesters, and blue collar workers - that represented the greatest threat.
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Health

3 dead and dozens injured as man drives car into crowd in Graz, Austria

Alex Wellman
Daily Mirror, UK
Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:22 UTC
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© EPA/Elmar GubischAttack: The man drove the vehicle, which witnesses claimed as a van, into a crowd
Three people have been killed and dozens injured after a "deranged" man drove a large car into a huge crowd of people before leaping out of his car and attacking others at random with a knfe.

A 7-year-old boy is feared to be one of those killed in the horror, along with a woman in a city square in Graz, Austria.

According to Governor Hermann Schützenhöfer, a fourth person is fighting for their life while 33 others were also injured in the shocking incident.

He called the man "deranged", adding: "There is no explanation, there is no excuse".

Local news news outlets in the country reported the man, a 26-year-old Austrian with Bosnian roots, "deliberately" drove into a crowd of people this afternoon.

According to reports in Austria, police are not treating the situation as terror-related while Kleine Zeitung newspaper said he is thought to have been suffering with family problems and from mental health issues.

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© EPA/Elmar GubischHorror: The man was arrested after leaping out of the car and attacking people with a knife
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People

Tens of thousands protest in heart of Britain against austerity


Sputnik
Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:30 UTC
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© AFP 2015/ JUSTIN TALLIS
Thousands of people from over Britain flocked to downtown London on Saturday to march against austerity policy of the UK government, in the first big public protest since the Conservative Party was reelected in May, according to social networks messages.

The participants of the rally, organized by The People's Assembly Against Austerity, gathered in front of Bank of England occupying all space outside, videos published online showed.


Comment: People are getting fed up with austerity measures that have nothing to do with helping the country but sucking resources from the people.

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Pistol

4 year old Ohio girl takes police bullet meant for dog


RT
Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:19 UTC
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© Reuters / Shannon Stapleton
A police officer following up on a hit-and-run case in Columbus, Ohio, heard screams coming from a neighbor panicked by a medical emergency. On responding, he was accosted by the family dog and in the struggle accidentally shot a young girl in the leg.

The mishap occurred on Friday when a Columbus police officer missed the dog and hit the girl in the right leg.

"They were carrying her, she had a blanket around her, there was some blood, she obviously was conscious, she wasn't even crying," Gary Parsley, who lives a few doors down, told WTTE Fox 28.

The police officer responsible, who remains unnamed, is receiving psychological counseling.

Comment: Police ineptitude and poor judgement continue to be displayed with the 'shoot first' mentality which will create more distrust between people and the police who are supposed to 'serve and protect' them.

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Wolf

Selfie queen Kim Kardashian West to give public speech... on the objectification of women in media

Tony Bravo
SFGate
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 21:55 UTC
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Kardashian West, the star of her family's reality hit "Keeping up with the Kardashians," wife of singer Kanye West and celebrity social media maven, recently released the book Selfish, a photo collection of her selfies. Given Kardashian West's renown as one of the most famous women in the world, The Commonwealth Club has decided to hold the conversation at the Paramount for the first time to accommodate the expected crowd. Kardashian West will speak about her famous family, the business of millennial culture, the objectification of women in media and more. No host has been announced yet for the conversation.

Media star Kim Kardashian West will speak at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland on June 30 as part of the Commonwealth Club's Inforum series.

Tickets will go on sale on Monday, June 15, at www.commonwealthclub.org, with a price ranging from $40 to $300.

Comment: It might be some form of sick joke, but no, this apparently is not satire.

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Alarm Clock

German business leaders voice opposition to anti-Russian sanctions


Sputnik
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 21:14 UTC
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© AFP 2015/ DANIEL ROLAND
Leaders of many German businesses are against EU anti-Russian sanctions, as the EU itself suffers from their consequences, said Heinz Hermann Thiele, Chairman of German company Knorr-Bremse.

"I've always been against sanctions, and I still think they're wrong. I'm not the only person in Germany who thinks that. I support the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin — it's time to put an end to sanctions," Thiele said during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The German businessman hopes that Europeans finally understood that anti-Russian sanctions are hurting the EU itself.
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Gold Bar

Texas gives Wall Street bankers gold finger, moves to extract its gold from FED

Clint Siegner
Money Metals Exchange
Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:07 UTC
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When Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill Number 483 in his own hand this past Friday, Texas gave Wall Street a big gold "finger" and will soon bring $1 billion in gold bars back to the Lone Star State.

The University of Texas made headlines in 2010 by adding more than $500 million in gold to their endowment. The decision to plough half a billion dollars into gold was only the first chapter of the story. Perhaps the bigger news was the choice not to simply buy shares in a gold ETF or gold futures contracts. Custodians decided to buy physical bars instead - signaling a distinct lack of faith in paper gold.

Like most gold investors, they have seen very little to inspire confidence since. In fact, those with the fiduciary responsibility for managing the Texas gold are feeling less certain than ever. That's why they convinced state officials to build a depository and move the gold bars home from Wall Street. Texas joins Germany, Venezuela, the Netherlands, and other governments that have lost trust in New York depositories for safeguarding their metal.

Who could blame them?
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USA

Jon Stewart speaks up about the hypocrisy in American culture towards the mass shooting in Charleston


YouTube
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:52 UTC
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Below, a clearly emotional and fed up Jon Stewart talks about the church shooting in Charleston, correctly labeling it "domestic terrorism". Stewart began, "I have one job and it's a pretty simple job. I come in in the morning and we look at the news and we write some jokes about it."

Stewart brought up the massacre in South Carolina; the shooting, Stewart said, simply left him unable to do his job. He was all out of jokes.

"I honestly have nothing, other than just sadness, once again, that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other, and the nexus of a gaping racial wound that will not heal, yet we pretend does not exist," he said, before launching into a critique of Americans' refusal to acknowledge the problems of racism and gun violence. "This is a terrorist attack. This is a violent attack on a church, that is a symbol for that community," he said. "This wasn't a tornado. This was a racist...And we're going to keep pretending like, 'I don't get it, what happened?'"

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