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Federal Reserve Bernanke signals Fed to maintain stimulus efforts
05-22-2013
AP
Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end its extraordinary stimulus programs.
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Transportation To Spark Buyers for Electric Cars, Drop the Price to Nearly $0
05-22-2013
online.wsj.com
This car deal sounds too good to be true: Drive a car, almost free.
To entice drivers to try electric-powered cars, auto makers are lowering the price of entry to the zero-emission lifestyle.
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Congress RAND PAUL: Shame on Senate for harassing Apple
05-22-2013
Rare.Us
When the U.S. Senate held an investigatory hearing on Offshore Profit Shifting and the U.S. Tax Code recently, a subcommittee summoned an Apple corporation spokesman to appear.
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Positive News Dana Frasz wants to see a Food Shift away from waste
05-22-2013
Christian Science Monitor
Forty percent of all the food produced in the US is wasted. But a number of efforts in the US such as Food Shift and others abroad are taking on the problem.
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TERRORISM Should the Law Governing the War on Terror Be Changed?
05-22-2013
Antiwar.Com/Ivan Eland
A move is afoot in Congress to change the 2001 law that kicked off what became the war on terror (although the Obama administration has dropped the now politically incorrect term).
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Activism Free Adam Kokesh Legal Fund - Shield Mutual - George Donnelly
05-22-2013
www.youtube.com
This is the one and only official Adam Kokesh legal fund. Adams business team, his friends, other activists and his selected public relations agent Shield Mutual are operating this fund because we need funds to hire a lawyer and Adam obviously canno
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Homeland Security FBI Agent Kills Man After Questioning Him About the Boston Marathon Bombing
05-22-2013
The Atlantic Wire
The FBI only said that an agent "encountered the suspect while conducting official duties. The suspect is deceased," but has not offered any other details. Update: The FBI now says that suspect became "violent" during questioning, which
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Congress Moon or Asteroid? Congress Debates Best Pit Stop to Mars
05-22-2013
space.com
NASA's plan to lasso an asteroid for astronauts as a deep-space dry run for a future mission to Mars has some members of Congress wondering if the space agency would be better off setting its sights on the moon instead.
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Drugs and Medications San Diego Mayor urges jury nullification
05-22-2013
Daily Paul.com
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is urging jury nullification in medical MJ case:
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has injected himself into a federal criminal case against the operator of a medical marijuana dispensary, intensifying his standoff with federal
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Natural Disasters New HD Video Of Oklahoma Tornado Gives The Clearest View Yet
05-22-2013
Business Insider
Oklahoma news station KFOR has posted an HD video showing the Moore, Okla. tornado from a distance. You can hear the roar of the winds and see the tornado getting larger and kicking up a huge cloud of debris as it makes its way across a flat.....
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Central Intelligence Agency Petraeuss role in drafting Benghazi talking points raises questions
05-21-2013
Washington Post
A close reading of recently released government e-mails sent during the editing process, and interviews with senior officials from several government agencies, reveal Petraeuss early role and ambitions in going well beyond the committees request,
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TAXES: Federal Top IRS Official to Invoke Fifth, Issa Subpoenas
05-21-2013
National Journal
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who headed the tax-exempt division when the targeting of tea-party groups took place, plans to invoke her Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions before Congress on Wednesday.
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Syria Kerry: US, allies, ready to step up aid rebels
05-22-2013
AP
The Foreign Relations Committee voted 15-3 to provide lethal assistance and military training to vetted rebel groups, and would slap sanctions on anyone such as Iran or Russia who sells oil or transfers arms to the Assad regime.
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World News New Iceland government freezes EU talks till referendum
05-22-2013
Reuters
Iceland's centre-right Progressive and Independence parties agreed on a coalition government and said they would freeze talks on entering the European Union until a referendum on whether or not to continue the process.
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Obama Administration Revenue Budget Projections
05-22-2013
BATR
The essential questions that persist about a stalled economy and a suffering middle class still are unanswered. In addition, the premise that raising taxes, especially on the besieged tax payer, is a productive method to close the gap on public spend
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Entrepreneurship Back to the Roots Mushrooms and Aquaponics
05-22-2013
communities.washingtontimes.com
Some of the most unusual products at Natural Products Expo West were at the Back to the Roots booth. On display were living oyster mushrooms, thriving in a specially designed recycled cardboard box filled with used coffee grounds.
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Technology: Computer Hardware Kinect for Xbox One in action
05-22-2013
youtube
Kareem Choudhry, development manager for Microsoft's Kinect, shows off new ways the Xbox One will track the user's body, including infrared imaging, face recognition, and heart-rate monitoring.
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Science Magnetic Graphene
05-22-2013
arclein
Spintronics is based on the charge of the electron, as in traditional electronics, but also on its spin, which determines its magnetic moment. A material is magnetic when most of its electrons have the same spin.
As the spin can have two values,
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Surveillance Antiwar.com Sues FBI After Secret Surveillance
05-22-2013
www.antiwar.com
The websites founder and managing editor Eric Garris, along with longtime editorial director Justin Raimondo, filed a lawsuit in federal court today, demanding the release of records they believe the FBI is keeping on them and the 17-year-old online
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3D Printing All-Natural 3D Printers: Salt and Wood Can Be Used
05-22-2013
technewsdaily.com
The fast-growing field of 3D printing has been gaining a lot of attention. But one intriguing project coming out of the University of California Berkeley aims to use natural resources like salt and wood to reduce 3D printing costs.
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Science, Medicine and Technology The Way We Think about Cancer Must Evolve
05-22-2013
Wired.com
Right now, as you read these words, your life is in danger. Somewhere within the vast self-contained micro-universe known as you, in one and possibly more of your trillions of cells, something is going wrong.
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Bitcoin Bitcoin ATMs: Handy Vending Machines or Money-Laundering Nightmares?
05-22-2013
Wired.com
The Robocoin is an ATM for Bitcoins, and for a few glorious days this past weekend, on a conference center floor in San Jose, California, it dished out thousands of dollars in exchange for Bitcoins, the worlds most popular digital currency.
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3D Printing NASA Funds 3D Pizza Printer
05-22-2013
space.com
NASA has doled out a research grant to develop a prototype 3D printer for food, so astronauts may one day enjoy 3D-printed pizza on Mars.
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Police State Rule of Law No Longer Exists in America Shahid Buttar (video)
05-22-2013
Next News Network
Gari Franchi interviews Shahid Buttar on the government that rules America and what--if anything--can be done to restore our liberty. I listened to this soon after waking up this morning and was blown away.
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Immigration Senate panel approves sweeping immigration reform bill
05-21-2013
Washington Post
A Senate committee approved a sweeping immigration reform bill Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants, setting the stage for the full Senate to consider the landmark legislation next month.