MSM: The world’s rubbish dump – a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan

(Ind) – A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.

MSM: Mission to break up Pacific island of rubbish twice the size of Texas

A high-seas mission departs from San Francisco next month to map and explore a sinister and shifting 21st-century continent: one twice the size of Texas and created from six million tonnes of discarded plastic.

MSM: Evans-Pritchard – Dow 4,000 by Summer

Global trade and economic output are collapsing at rates that outpace the Depression of the 1930s, and “shock and awe” policies are required from the U.S. government to revive global growth, says Daily Telegraph International Business Editor Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.

Most Common Source of Calories in U.S. is LOADED With Mercury!

Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, according to a new study. Mercury was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient.