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At the height of the U.S. housing boom, when building materials were in short supply, American construction companies used millions of pounds of Chinese-made drywall because it was abundant and cheap. Now that decision is haunting hundreds of homeowners and apartment dwellers who are concerned that the wallboard gives off fumes that can corrode copper pipes, blacken jewelry and silverware, and possibly sicken people.
(04-11) 18:31 PDT PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — By BRIAN SKOLOFF and CAIN (…)

2009-04-03
The world’s first nuclear powered icebreaker, the ”Lenin”, will be turned into a museum and luxury hotel in Murmansk. The rebuilding is supposed to be finished already this summer.
Plans for the rebuilding were presented at a tourist fair in Moscow recently. The icebreaker is going to be placed by the Murmansk Sea Port, practically in the center of Murmansk.
In addition to the museum and hotel, the vessel will also have a restaurant, a sport and recreation center, a (…)

Moscow’s stock market once again No. 1 By Andreas Männicke Saturday 11 April 2009
100% chance is Eastern Europe. Fulminant bullish on the stock market Ostbörsen. BRIC is again an issue. Japan’s mega-cyclical program. Oil price at year high. Gold breaks a default preference values. Strong profit likely.
Totgeglaubte live longer: The RTS index, one of the many stock market barometer of the Russian stock market rose on 8 April on USD basis to 6.62% at 810.3 index points. Thus, the RTS (…)

Scientology Cult Targets Haiti for Slave Labor
The Scientology organization has increasingly targeted poor countries such as Haiti in its recruitment efforts. Why would this money-hungry crime-cult be interested in one of the world’s poorest countries? The answer: Because they want to bring Haitians in to the USA on "religious worker" visas to serve as unpaid laborers.
Quoting at length from Scientology-affiliated newspaper the Tampa Bay Informer:
Haiti, with its 75% unemployment (…)

When words fail, we can say it in pictures. Art for Peace can surely be effective as outlined below. Indeed we must at least TRY for the cause of those Mothers and Children suffering under Bush-ite-Zionist Wars and Occupations in the ongoing Bush (now Obama) War on Women and Children in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories - and for Humanity as a whole threatened by a looming 10 billion-victim Climate Genocide.
Each year in the World about 16.0 million people die (…)

Economic Crisis: No End In Sight Worse than the Great Depression
by Mike Whitney
Global Research, April 9, 2009
It’s been 21 months since two Bear Stearns hedge funds defaulted setting off a series of events which have led to the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression. No one expected the financial meltdown to hit this hard or spread this fast. The failure at Bear triggered a freeze in the secondary market where mortgage loans are repackaged into securities and sold to (…)

Drone Warfare: An International War Crime
Professor Sam Hamod, Ph.D. "As Easter is upon us, it is a time to meditate upon moral matters." Reverend Scott
Drones do not allow people the right to explain themselves.
Drones do not offer any proof of the guilt, they simply attack alleged “terrorists.”
Drones do not take any prisoners, the drones simply kill people.
After the drones have killed civilians, women and children, and possibly some people who want American, NATO, Israeli, (…)

China’s Proposal for a Super-sovereign Reserve Currency System Reform the International Monetary System
by Zhou Xiaochuan
Global Research, April 9, 2009 People’s Bank of China
Proposal of the Governor of the People’s Bank of China presented to the G20 Meetings
The outbreak of the current crisis and its spillover in the world have confronted us with a long-existing but still unanswered question,i.e., what kind of international reserve currency do we need to secure global financial (…)

The late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is alleged to have said, “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
The late Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler, to rally support for the pending Holocaust, is alleged to have rhetorically asked his followers, “Who remembers now the extermination of the Armenians?”
While historians continue to debate whether Stalin or Hitler actually uttered these words, the insights these quotations reveal about the frailties of humankind are (…)

by Keith Harmon Snow
April 6, 2009 To Commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the Kagame Dictatorship’s War Crimes Victory in Rwanda
Human Rights Watch, Alison Des Forges and Disinformation on Central Africa
On 12 February 2009, Human Rights Watch Rwanda expert Alison Des Forges was killed. Des Forges was widely cited as a staunch critic of the Rwandan military government, but there is much more to this story than the western propaganda system has revealed.
Meanwhile, Paul Kagame’s (…)