How can all this massive, regular, permanent death and destruction not affect and infect a society? Sure, it all takes place thousands of miles away. Sure, it’s buried on page 14 of the newspaper. We don’t see the caskets or the burials.
Dateline Sacramento, Jan. 5, 2012: The state of California today filed for federal bankruptcy protection, citing a worsened economy that has blown out even the most pessimistic assumptions about its long-term financial picture.
Since at least 2004, Lockheed Martin has been involved in the Pentagon's Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA), which collected personal data on American citizens for storage in a database known as "Threat and Local Observation Notice" (TALON).
When bipartisanship breaks out in Washington DC, check to make sure your wallet is still in your pocket. Every time you fill up your car this winter you are participating in the biggest taxpayer swindle in history.
All 72 counties in Wisconsin are now participating in the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) program called “secure communities,” a federal information sharing system that uses biometrics, or fingerprints, to identify both legal and illeg
Worried about getting the flu? Just get H1N1 swine flu and you'll probably never have to worry about getting sick from any influenza again. That's the conclusion that amazed medical researchers were forced to draw from the research they just comple
Researchers have been working for more than a decade towards bringing the long extinct woolly mammoth back to life. The Japanese have been at the forefront in the project to return woolly mammoths to the land of the living. It's been a dream borderi
Why can't we find more of these real leaders? Why do we keep sucking in to the "pretty people" with the perfect hair, the perfect smiles and the perfect ability to change their promises at the drop of a dime?
Naah, I didn’t either. Funny thing is, I would be willing to bet LOADS of dollars that our beloved Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t know it either! The things this administration comes up with is beyond ludicrous!
I thought it was weird when Janet N
Worried geologists and climatologists are crunching the numbers and the totals they're arriving at equals the sum of all fears...A new Ice Age is looming and the only debate remaining is whether the Earth has already slipped into one or is it about
What's happening on the Korean peninsula? If you read the press or listen to the talking heads, your best guess would be that an insaneNorth Korean regime is willing to risk war to manage its own internal political tensions. This conclusion would be
The Post found that the technologies and techniques which were “honed for use on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan have migrated into the hands of law enforcement agencies in America. The FBI is building a database with the names and ...
“Until now, there wasn’t really an obvious connection between all these different phenomena,” said Dr. Philipp Scherer, professor of internal medicine and cell biology and senior author of the study appearing online today and in a future edition of N
The freezing conditions that have blasted Britain are being blamed on a series of weather patterns that are bringing Arctic temperatures to much of western Europe, California and even Australia.
One of the main factors is a change in the position
Thunderstorms are known to create tremendously high electric fields - evidenced by lightning strikes.
Electrons in storm regions are accelerated by the fields, reaching speeds near that of light and emitting high-energy light rays - gamma rays - a
Hmm a system where a person is given a number and needs to use it to buy goods and services. Where will Americans have heard of that before? Oh, that is right, Revelation.
Alan Greenspan: “I think whatever froth there is in the housing market is becoming contained at this stage, and it’s getting contained largely because mortgage rates have moved up and are beginning to have an impact.
The escalation in the price of oil is predicted by the legendary oil man T. Boone Pickens, known for his financial acuity as well as his oil expertise, and John Hofmeister, who retired as president of Shell Oil Company, to sound the alarm...
Democratic politics relies on deception. Without deception of the voters on a comprehensive scale, there could be no politics above the local level, where people know the deceivers personally and are therefore less easy to fool.
But he’s been dead for quite awhile, and people may be a little vague on who exactly the fellow was and what he stood for. To that end, Pentagon officials are now making it clear, they’re pretty sure Dr. King was a hawk.
January 15, 2011 marks the 20th year since the United States began to bomb Iraq. Since then millions of Iraqi people have been militarily occupied, injured, starved, killed, tortured, and imprisoned. Millions more have become internally displaced or
So now that the dirt is coming out, that the Fed did see the evidence of the housing bubble and continued to steer the Titanic at the same speed towards the iceberg, the nature and magnitude of its error is still being underplayed.
This is getting insane. Remember we warned you about 4 different regulatory executive branch overreaches about to happen sometime back? We were right on 3 of 4 - and now # 4 is coming to pass. Are you ready to read and fight back YET?
So now - sta
"Home prices are starting to sag again under the crushing weight of foreclosed properties," said Sal Guatieri, senior economist and vice president at BMO Capital Markets, an economic research group. "A sharp drop in prices would undermine household..
Demographic trends have played a decisive role in many of the great invasions, political upheavals, migrations, and environmental catastrophes of history. By the 2020s, an ominous new conjuncture of demographic trends may once again threaten...
A teenager was arrested yesterday on suspicion of being involved with the Anonymous’ Operation Payback. The operation orchestrated DDoS attacks on anti-piracy targets in the last months, and more recently against those who obstructed Wikileaks’ work.