The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world's biggest companies would wipe out more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable, a major unpublished study for the United Nations has found.The report comes amid growing concern that no one is made to pay for most of the use, loss and damage of the environment, which is reaching crisis proportions in the form of pollution and the rapid loss of freshwater, fisheries and fertile soils.
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1,000 Signatures from “Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth” to be Submitted Today to Congress
A suicide car bomber in Iraq has struck a vehicle checkpoint in the city of Ramadi, killing at least 10 people, including police and civilians.
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Israel's Mossad secret service, more formally known as the Institute for Espionage and Special Tasks, has a long history of carrying out clandestine operations, including several spectacular assassinations.
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