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What the World Will Look like in 2050
Here is the world in 2050, as imagined by the U.S. Census Bureau: India will be the most populous nation, surpassing China sometime around 2025. The U.S. will remain exactly where it is now: in third place, with a population of 423 million (up from 308 million in 2010). And declining birth rates in two of the world’s most economically and politically influential countries, Japan and Russia,...
Marine Le Pen ahead of Sarkozy in presidential poll
Marine Le Pen the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen recently became leader of the National Front succeeding her father. She is turning out to be a slick operator. With the French presidential elections less than a year away she is polling ahead of President Sarkozy.
She doesn’t deny that there used to anti-Semitism in the party. Now she says she has only one thing to say to anyone with those views “...
Chavez tells Venezuelans he'll win Long Battle Against Cancer
Hugo Chavez (R) in Cuba with Fidel Castro (L)
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, making his first public appearance since having a tumor removed in Cuba, promised supporters that he will win his battle against cancer though it will likely take some time.
Speaking from a balcony at the presidential palace in Caracas yesterday evening, Chavez described how he underwent surgery on June 20 after...
US needs another declaration of independence
235 years after the American colonies declared independence from Britain, the passengers on the U.S. Boat to Gaza call for a new American Declaration of Independence, this time from Israel.
The passengers issued their call from the decks of the U.S.-flagged boat, The Audacity of Hope, which is currently confined to a Greek military pier near Athens, while its captain sits in jail.
Like the Founders...
Gypsies Face Ghettoization in Romania
In Arizona, politicians are trying to build a wall on the Mexican border to keep illegals out. Across the Atlantic, in an industrial city in Romania, a wall is being built to keep people in.
The local government of the city of Baia Mare in northern Romania is trying to erect a concrete wall in front of a Roma (Gypsy) neighborhood. The wall would separate the community from a main road, and human rights...
Asian-born Australians may soon become majority
Asian-born Australians may soon outnumber whites, says government study. The number of Asians in Australia has almost doubled in a decade, from 1.03 million in mid-2000 to 2.1 million in the middle of last year, according to government statistics.
Pramod Kumar is part of a wave of immigration that has changed the face of Australia over the past decade.
Mr. Kumar is from Hyderabad in India’s northwest....
Belarus power dimmed from midnight on unpaid bill
Inter RAO halted electricity supplies to Belarus as huge debt remains unpaid.
Russia’s electricity export monopoly Inter RAO halted its supplies to Belarus at midnight as a huge debt remains unpaid.
An agreement between Inter RAO UES and Belenergo stipulates the delivery of 3 billion kilowatt/hours of electricity to Belarus this year, with about 775 million kilowatt/hours having already been...
Asia to become one huge megacity
By 2025, seven of ten largest metropolitan cities of the world will be located in Asia. China holds all chances to become one of the world leaders on the level of urbanization of the population. China is currently experiencing a peak of migration of the rural population in large cities. In general, by 2020, nine of the world’s largest metropolitan cities will overcome the limit of 20 million...
Population in the UK will hit 70m even earlier than feared
Overload: The latest calculations suggests the UK population could hit 70.4 million in 2026, three years earlier than forecast.
Runaway migration will drive the UK population above 70 million in 15 years – three years earlier than previously predicted.
In 2009 official estimates predicted it would take 20 years to reach this landmark level, a figure the Prime Minister has said the nation must not...
New 'Little Ice Age' underway
The Earth will enter a new 'Little Ice Age' due to low sunspots.
American researchers say sun spot activity will start to recede in the next two years leading the Earth towards a new ‘Little Ice Age’ in the coming years.
Three separate studies conducted by scientists of the American Astronomical Society’s solar physics division say solar activity will start to recede after...
Is Hugo Chavez Dead?
After Undergoing Surgery In Cuba, Some Are Speculating That Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Is Dead. BBC reported just a momemnt ago that “Absence of ill Hugo Chavez sparks speculation“.
Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, is undergoing medical treatment in Cuba, leading to all sorts of rumors about his health. There are even people speculating that Hugo Chavez is dead.
Is Hugo Chavez...
DC Kids Ingest Cocaine at Elementary School
Four students at a Washington elementary school ingested cocaine brought to the school by a classmate Wednesday, school officials said.
Some of the kids who ingested the cocaine did so orally and others inhaled it through their noses, according to Fred Lewis, a spokesman for DC Schools. He said they were hospitalized as a precaution as was a fifth student who did not ingest the drug.
The children...
A split decision over circumcision
The Foreskin Man Web comic advocates for a ban on circumcision in California.
Colorado lawmakers have decided to cut out Medicaid coverage for newborn circumcision, making them now the seventeenth state to stop subsidizing the snip.
Officials in Colorado claim that the move to skin the procedure from Medicaid-covered procedures would save the state an estimated $186,500 a year. With a budget shortfall...
France says E. Coli poisoning traced to British sprouts
Frederic Lefebvre, French secretary of state for consumer affairs, pictured in April 2011, Friday pointed to a British producer of vegetable sprouts as the possible source of 10 suspected cases of E. coli poisoning in Bordeaux, southwestern France.
A French minister Friday pointed to a British producer of vegetable sprouts as the possible source of 10 suspected cases of E. coli poisoning in Bordeaux,...
Newly published research in leading journals Against Fluoride and Vaccines
Excerpts below, articles here and here. To understand that Big Pharma and “health care” companies do not act for the public benefit, continue reading the excerpt from this. Explanation, documentation and proof that US corporate media makes the choice to keep Americans ignorant of these game-changing stories is here, with an excerpt of one game-changing examples.
Fluoride:
“The prolonged...