Corporate Social Responsibility in Peru - In Peru, locals protest for the Doe Run corporation – and against activists. A report from the co-founder of

"Since Doe Run’s arrival, however, things have been steadily improving. Lead levels in the blood of workers are down more than 30 percent, air lead emissions are down more than 35 percent, and discharges into local rivers have decreased significantly. In addition, industrial safety has improved dramatically at the smelter, which has gone more than a full year without a single lost-time accident. "

The Dispossession Myth - from HonestReporting.com

"An egregious fabrication from a Globe & Mail reporter recalls the larger distortion of Zionist land policy."

CAFTA Should Be Rejected Just Like The EU Constitution -- Phyllis Schlafly June 29, 2005 column.

"Will the political and business elites in America hear this message and stop trying to force CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement) on America?"

WorldNetDaily: Ray Bradbury condemns Cuban book burning

"The American Library Association, or ALA, has ignored a request by imprisoned Cuban counterparts to demand leader Fidel Castro release them, but the author of "Fahrenheit 451" responded after viewing evidence of court-ordered book burning."

WorldNetDaily: Nichols responds to 'Third Terrorist' evidence

"After a meeting with convicted Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, a U.S. congressman reaffirmed evidence of a Middle East connection to the 1995 attack."

WorldNetDaily: Property control a U.N. dream

"A similar program is under way in the United States, but proponents are careful to deny that the U.N. has any influence or involvement. The facts tell a different story."

Commentary: Better Dead Than Fed, PETA Says

PETA's history of killing animals.

BBC NEWS | Americas | 'Hezbollah drugs ring' broken up

"Police in Ecuador say they have broken up an international drugs ring which was raising money for the Islamic militant group, Hezbollah.
The authorities have declined to give details of the gang's alleged links with the group, but say it was sending Hezbollah up to 70% of its profits. "

CNN.com - High court OKs personal property seizures - Jun 23, 2005

Clearly the Supreme Court is out of control.

WorldNetDaily: Debunking another Gitmo myth

"Every single detainee currently being held at Guantanamo Bay has received a hearing before a military tribunal. Every one. As a result of those hearings, more than three-dozen Gitmo detainees have been released. The hearings, called "Combatant Status Review Tribunals," are held before a board of officers, and permit the detainees to contest the facts on which their classification as "enemy combatants" is based."

Drivers Get Tickets After Meters Installed

CHICAGO -- "It sounds like the meter maid's version of a speed trap: A ticket for parking at a meter that was installed after you park your car."

"But that's what happened in Chicago last week, where a handful of motorists returned to their vehicles and found parking meters _ and tickets _ that weren't there when they parked."

WAVY.COM - Investigators Examine if Charged PETA Employees Had Proper Certification

"After the arrests last Wednesday, PETA said, as part of its euthanization program, its employees have all the paperwork and training needed to put animals down. But WAVY News 10 has now learned the two employees charged in North Carolina may not have been certified to perform that task."

Three Lessons from a Woman Terrorist

Al-Bas explained to reporters why she carried out the act:

"I love Allah, I love the land of Palestine and I am a member of Al-Aksa Brigades... my dream was to be a martyr. I believe in death... Since I was a little girl I wanted to carry out an attack."

Roots of the New World: Essay by Olavo de Carvalho

"[The] 20th century’s first half witnessed the rise of planned economy; the second saw its fall, followed by the appearance of an even more ambitious domination plan: planned culture."

Saudis Import Slaves to America - article by Daniel Pipes

"Last week, however, the FBI accused the couple of enslaving an Indonesian woman who is in her early 20s. For four years, reads the indictment, they created "a climate of fear and intimidation through rape and other means." The slave woman cooked, cleaned, took care of the children, and performed other tasks for little or no pay, fearing that if she did not obey, "she would suffer serious harm."

WorldNetDaily: No more Boy Scouts in Britain

"The year 2007 would have marked the 100th birthday of Boy Scouting in England. Unfortunately, the British Boy Scouts, founded by Lord Robert Baden-Powell as the first Scouting group in the world, is now a dead organization."

WorldNetDaily: Rethink U.N. reform

"The United Nations should not be a governing institution. It should be a forum where sovereign nations gather to discuss their differences and develop voluntary, cooperative initiatives. Problems arise when the United Nations is given enforcement power. Because the institution is not empowered by the consent of the governed, it is not accountable to the governed, and therefore, is free to inevitably devolve into corruption and abuse."

ThisisLondon.com: Child sacrifices in London

"Boys from Africa are being murdered as human sacrif ices in London churches."
"They are brought into the capital to be offered up in rituals by fundamentalist Christian sects, according to a shocking report by Scotland Yard."

USATODAY.com - Evidence is underwhelming

"Dr. Hans von Storch, a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, called it "rubbish" methodologically, and Dr. Rob van Dorland, an IPCC lead author, said the IPCC "made a mistake by only including Mann's reconstruction and not those of other researchers."

"Two international leaders once described Kyoto's intent. Margot Wallstrom, the European Union's commissioner on the environment, said Kyoto is "about leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide," and French President Jacques Chirac called it "the first component of an authentic global governance."

FrontPage magazine.com :: Why North Korea Deported Me by Norbert Vollertsen

"My hope is that someday soon I will have much company, and that a resulting wave of international pressure will lead to the reform of this depraved and mad corner of humanity."

Egyptian Person: Halaal Prostitution in Saudi Arabia - Pays Good

"I read in Alarabiya Arabic news site about what they called "summer marriage" in Saudi Arabia. What is that? When a Saudi travels outside the country during the summer months, they marry a Saudi from the opposite sex (usually a traveling man marries a woman), in order to have some "company" during the trip, and when they are back to Saudia, they terminate their marriage."

The American Spectator: A New Yorker Kind of Guy

"I am not sure how many mothers or fathers or children or widows of Vietnam war casualties read the New Yorker. I am not sure if anyone who edited the piece -- and it is edited well, although utterly without moral input -- had friends or family who fought there (such as my late father in law, Col. Dale Denman, Jr.). But how insulting, how insulting must an article like this be to them. How insulting it is to us all: to lavish praise on a man who helped kill our fellow Americans, to describe him in endearing terms, to try to make him seem like a kindly uncle."

Washington Post: Many Scientists Admit to Misconduct

"Few scientists fabricate results from scratch or flatly plagiarize the work of others, but a surprising number engage in troubling degrees of fact-bending or deceit, according to the first large-scale survey of scientific misbehavior."

WorldNetDaily: Kudos for Cashill, others

"As one of the core members of FIRO (Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization, which "imploded" earlier this year) I was one of only about a dozen spectators in the courtroom the day that James and Elizabeth Sanders were sentenced . . ."

FT.com / Americas - Court deals blow to Canada’s public healthcare

In their ruling, a narrow majority of the Supreme Court judges concluded that “the benefits of the prohibition (on private health insurance) do not outweigh its deleterious effects. The physical and psychological suffering and risk of death that may result from the prohibition on private health insurance outweigh whatever benefit - and none has been demonstrated here - there may be to the system as a whole”.

WorldNetDaily: Woodward does Washington

Is it possible that Mark Felt was not really Deep Throat? Was Deep Throat really just one person, or several people. Ann Coulter has some interesting thoughts on the subject.

FrontPage magazine.com :: Female Genital Mutilation and African AIDS by Marion D. S. Dreyfus

The real reasons why AIDS/HIV is so out of control in African and elsewhere.

Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student - The Boston Globe

WASHINGTON -- "During last year's presidential campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex, while George W. Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences.

But newly released records show that Bush and Kerry had a virtually identical grade average at Yale University four decades ago."

News: Study shows G-rated fare more profitable

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "A new study set to be released Tuesday shows that family-friendly movies are more profitable than R-rated films, throwing more fuel onto the fire of the long-running debate over sex and violence in entertainment -- and whether it sells."

New York Daily News - Stanley Crouch: No Child Left Behind is starting to work

"Only a fool would assume that teachers or any other labor group could get a fair deal if they had no numbers behind them. For all of the screaming and hollering, however, No Child Left Behind, as recent figures and testimony have shown, is beginning to work because the bill takes the position that failure is no longer an acceptable option."

Billions Spent Incarcerating Criminal Aliens

"A look at the costs of incarceration of illegal aliens. The federal Bureau of Prison spent $5.8 billion on this between 2001 and 2004 - and that was only 25% of the actual cost, the rest which was shouldered by individual states."

What’s Wrong with the Boy Scouts?

"On June 1, the Portland (Maine) School Committee voted six to three to ban the Boy Scouts from distributing promotional literature to students."

HonestReporting.com: Silence on French Court Ruling

"In a landmark ruling, a French court has found that country's leading paper, Le Monde, guilty of 'racist defamation' against Israel and the Jewish People.

While this is an encouraging sign that Europe is waking up to the vitriolic anti-Israel content in its media, it's disturbing to note that this important ruling received almost no media coverage - in Europe or the U.S."

FrontPage magazine.com :: Shadows of Doubt by Rocky Mountain News

"University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill fabricated historical facts, published the work of others as his own and repeatedly made false claims about two federal Indian laws, a Rocky Mountain News investigation has found."

Animal "Rights" Versus Human Rights

"It is an indisputable fact that many thousands of lives are saved by medical research on animals. But animal rightists don't care. PETA makes this frighteningly clear: "Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it." Such is the "humanitarianism" of animal rights activists."

The American Spectator: Deep Throat and Genocide

Ben Stein has a few thoughts about Deep Throat.

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Cuban Intelligence Defector Reveals: Castro Spies on Celebrities by Humberto Fontova

"My job was to bug their rooms," revealed Cuban intelligence defector Delfin Fernandez while on a Madrid TV show recently, "with both cameras and listening devices. Most people have no idea they are being watched while they are in Cuba. But their personal activities are filmed under orders from Castro himself. Child sex, drug use, orgies, those are the sort of things they want to tape, anything--shall we say—‘ethically incorrect.’ And Castro's undercover agents don't wait around hoping the famous visitors might randomly engage in these things. They tempt them, bait them with offers." According to some sources, Havana has recently topped Bangkok as the mecca for child sex.

WorldNetDaily: Saudi religious police arrest 8 Christians

"Saudi Arabia's religious police arrested eight Christians, including one who was beaten in front of his 5-year-old son, according to a Washington, D.C.-based human rights group."

WorldNetDaily: Islamic court acquits Iranian Christian

Here's some good news from the Middle East.

Midia Sem Mascara: Roots of the New World

"The first half of the 20th. century witnessed the rise of planified economy; the second saw its fall, followed by the appearance of an even more ambitious plan of domination: planified culture." - A new essay by Olavo de Carvalho