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An interesting United Nations report has warned that disconnecting people from the Internet is a violation of human rights, and breach of international law. Attempts to censor it are incompatible w…

Yesterday I did a blog entry on how the US economy is getting screwed because US tax rates are getting lower with all the tax cuts introduced by Bush and Obama, robbing the country of hundreds of b…

After creating the world's worst oil spill which has devastated the environment and leaked more than 205 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has now increased its lobbying. It ha…

Is America becoming a nation of tax cheats? More to the point, is the US Government letting that happen?As part of the Tea Party inspired deal hammered out in Congress last week to avoid a shutdown…

In Britain, protesters are up in arms over the Cameron Government's 20% budget cuts. There are claims that the sheer scale of the cuts to payments and public services will destroy Britain and p…

So billionaire Donald Trump is now flirting with the idea of running for US president. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal survey has Trump running second to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney amo…

Climate change could create a whole new world order. And political brawls of the first order.The European Union has put forward an ambitious report which seeks to ban gasoline and diesel fueled aut…

What is it with the mid-West in the US? First we had the grotesque union-busting activities in Wisconsin. And now, the Minnesota GOP has taken the war on poverty to a new level.They are bringing in…

Google is facing another big test, this time in the US Senate, with Senator Herb Kohl, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights announcing that the …

You really do wonder what planet the people on Federal Reserve are on.Food prices have now reached record levels and are still going up because of rising oil prices. Someone should tell the preside…