The WikiLeaks website says it’s under a forceful Internet-based attack, and the site was inaccessible to some users in U.S. and Europe throughout the morning Tuesday.
The site, which just distributed a trove of U.S. diplomatic documents, said in a
Now, despite mounting evidence of borrower mistreatment, the Federal Reserve has proposed a rule that would disable the most effective legal tool that borrowers have to fight foreclosures.
In short, what this means is that if the bank violated black-letter law in making a loan to you the change would require you to pay off the entire principal before you could assert your rights and remedies.
The Brandywine Peace Community held a protest on November 27, 2010 at the defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, property in King of Prussia, PA, outside of Philadelphia. About ten protesters attended.
This libertarian had some good conversations wi
Take 3 minutes to enjoy this young boy play Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson. Anyone who plays guitar knows this style of playing is very difficult, but he does it with ease. It will quiet your soul (at least for a few minutes)....
A new cement-like material that could be used to form sidewalks, bike and jogging paths, driveways and parking lots, may be able to lessen two environmental problems, namely plastic waste and polluted rainwater runoff. The substance is called Plastis
A computational study by Rassin Grantab and Vivek Shenoy at Brown University and Rodney Ruoff at the University of Texas at Austin reveals that graphene sheets with highly misaligned boundaries are actually stronger than slightly misaligned ones. As
Only recently, however, with the discover of mirror neurons, has it become clear just how this powerful sharing of experience is realized within the human brain. In the early 1990's Giacomo Rizzolatti and his colleagues at the University of Parma di
"What we saw in these animals was not a slowing down or stabilisation of the ageing process. We saw a dramatic reversal – and that was unexpected," said Ronald DePinho, who led the study, which was published in the journal Nature.
Unbeknownst to most Americans, I'm sure, people outside of the USA can no longer mail you packages if that package weighs more than 1 pound (453 grams). That's the total weight including packaging. One pound is not very heavy.
I was interviewed by Brent Johnson on the “Global Freedom Report." Topics included libertarianism, rejecting political parties, principles, tyranny of U.S. govt., protection from govt. persecuting individuals, TSA. I invite you to listen.
Bernanke's QE II policy did nothing for jobs, nothing for bank lending, nothing for the real economy and had negative benefits for small businesses. However, the Fed did ignite a rally in the stock market and corporate bonds.
In this Russia Today interview Karl Denninger talks about the austerity that is soon to be unleashed on an unsuspecting American public. An austerity that will crush them like Robert De Niro was in the classic Raging Bull...
Federal authorities are investigating whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange violated criminal laws in the group's release of government documents, including possible charges under the Espionage Act, sources familiar with the inquiry said Monday.
In this Russia today interview by Max Keiser, Bregtje van der Haak explains the mindset of Californians suffering thru the worst economy in over 70 years. They believe that the people who destroyed them are winners, and they are losers...
With authorities closing in to seize 2,400 marijuana plants on John Boone's farm 2 years ago, the legendary Kentucky outlaw vanished like a puff of smoke. The prolific grower has been dodging the law ever since, his folk-hero status growing with ever
No, this isn't the headline of a newspaper from “Bizarro World” or even a satirical piece from The Onion. This is in fact what happened on November 26, 2010 at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon's Pioneer Courthouse Square. Acco
If a big rig barrels past you at 90 m.p.h., XATA software may be recording it all through Verizon smartphones. XATA's Turnpike fleet solution became available to help businesses comply with the Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 initiative.
War would be a lot safer, the Army says, if only more of it were fought by robots. And while smart machines are already very much a part of modern warfare, the Army and its contractors are eager to add more. New robots — none of them particularly hu
The organizers of "Bank Run 2010" have chosen December 7 as the day when protesters are meant to withdraw their money from the banks, which they hope will cause a run on the banks that could collapse financial institutions.
Little progress has been made against Taliban fighters and the Afghan government remains weak and rife with corruption, according to the Pentagon's semiannual report to Congress on the war in Afghanistan.
The report, titled "Progress Toward Securi
This video explains the seven simple steps to make travelers' security screening as liberty-depriving as possible while doing very little to keep anyone safe.
Neither Senator nor any of the bills sponsors make any mention of the subjugation to unlawful trade and harmonization agreements or the underlying assaults on Constitutional rights. Not one speaker can claim anything other than systems already in pl
Ron Paul's refrain is that he is in fact the real conservative. This is far, correction, tremendously far from the truth. Ron Paul is an extremist, and a phony conservative. People get the false idea that libertarians like Dr. Paul are the same as co
Pedestrians should think twice before jaywalking in downtown L.A. -- or they could walk away with a $191 fine.
During the busy holiday shopping season, the Los Angeles Police Department is ramping up a zero-tolerance policy for jaywalkers downtown