Muhammad Ali’s refusal to be drafted for the Vietnam War was said by some to be his greatest, self-imposed, defeat. With the passage of time – and so many more wars – history may tell a very different story. What was the impact of Ali’s stance on the war?

A new twist has emerged in the US water-crisis saga that began more than two years ago in the small city of Flint, Michigan. Now it seems that the crisis may be spreading to dozens of other American cities too.

U.S. senator Graham told the German TV Program Monitor that “The history (of 9/11) will have to be re-written, to say that there was a support group which made 9/11 possible.

The U.S. Army is conducting a search Friday for 4 soldiers that fell in a Swollen Creek at Fort Hood in Central Texas. Five other soldiers died in a truck they were driving.

Cooking and preserving food after an EMP attack:

Muhammad Ali’s family press conference:

Some NBC employees are refusing to travel to Rio de Janeiro to work on the network’s Olympic broadcast this summer; fearing that they could become infected with the dreaded mosquito-borne Zika virus.  NBC thinks to have a ‘simple’ solution:

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took the gloves off following a blistering speech by Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump said Thursday night that Hillary Clinton ‘has to go to jail’ for her actions; regarding a classified email scandal that has dogged her for the entire year she’s been a presidential candidate.

Corporations control the mainstream media which programs people up to 10 hours a day. A handful of publishers have a monopoly on America’s media consumption, (according to a recent study by research outfit SimilarWeb) which compiled a list of the top news publishers covering both mobile and desktop viewership in 2015. Source – http://newstarget.com/2016-06-06-just-6-mega-corporations-control-the-mainstream-media-that-programs-people-up-to-10-hours-a-day.html

Jolinda Kohl organized a ‘permablitz’ to install a permaculture food forest at Franklin and 3rd St In Jacksonville, FL. The progress will be monitored by several government agencies to see how permaculture techniques compare to traditional gardening.