Robert Steele: World Bank Open Access / Open Knowledge

Press Release WASHINGTON, April 10, 2012 – The World Bank today announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy builds on recent efforts to increase access to information at the World Bank and to make its research as widely available …

Owl: Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years

New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, concluding that fracking chemicals injected into the ground could migrate toward drinking water supplies far more quickly than experts have previously predicted. More than 5,000 wells were …

David Isenberg: Death for Reed-Elsevier, Life for Knowledge

Elsevier Versus Wikipedia: Academics Revolt Against Giant Publisher by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog CorpWatch, May 11th, 2012 Over 11,000 academics have pledged to boycott Elsevier, the Dutch publishing giant, for profiting off their work and making it unavailable to the general public. Now Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is about to turn the world of corporate …

Owl: Pope Outraged Over Leaks on Vatican Corruption — Should He Adopt US Tactics?

No institution on planet Earth – no matter how allegedly “respectable” – seems exempt from lies, fraud, graft, corruption, and so on, and all of them are highly intent on exterminating the “whistleblowers” within them, even the Catholic Church: Pope calls in Opus Dei troubleshooter to uncover source of Vatican leaks Cardinal given ‘pontifical mandate’ …

Owl: Eugenics Of, By, For the Elite – Velvet Lies, Catastrophic Plans

When it comes the the elites’ population reduction/eugenics agenda, the beat just keeps going on. More news related to this agenda seems to be coming out every week. Is there something in the air? Are the elite and their scientist shills panicking, even if ever so slightly? The UN Agenda 21 calls for an 85% …

Owl: City of Roswell Tortures, Hounds, and Finally Executes Citizen with Chickens

There are seemingly too many articles to count about federal or state abuses of  power, but this does not mean there is any lack of vicious, sadistic, utterly cruel, and maniacally vindictive abuse by local government, as is evident is this well-researched, detailed article about a harmless and decent man who legally raised chickens on …