Paul Craig Roberts: The USA is a “Failed State”
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comQuestion: Dr. Roberts, the United States is regarded as the most successful state in the world today. What is responsible for American success? Dr. Roberts: Propaganda.
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It's Too Late Frosty: White Newborns To Be A Minority In USA By 2011
• Dailymail.co.uk/news/Whites are on the verge of becoming a minority of newborn babies in the United States.
Little People of Japan
• arcleinOn the island of Hokkaido, in the cold northern reaches of the Japanese archipelago, the indigenous Ainu people too have their long traditions of an ancient race of dwarf-like people thought to have inhabited the land long before humans arrived.
Porn Stars in 3-D Lure Consumers to New Sony, Panasonic TVs
• Bloomberg.comPorn star Mika Kayama is at the frontier of a push to develop videos and content in Japan that Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. need to lure customers for their new 3-D televisions.
Parenting Matters: Books in the home 'boost children's education'
• Telegraph.co.uk/According to researchers, the presence of literature in the home had a profound effect on all families, irrespective of parental occupation or social class.
Oldest Mesoamerican pyramid tomb found in Mexico
• APArchaeologists in southern Mexico announced Monday they have discovered a 2,700-year-old tomb of a dignitary inside a pyramid that may be the oldest such burial documented in Mesoamerica. The tomb held a man aged around 50, who was buried with jad
Knowledge, Truth and Human Action: America Hits the Wall
• globalresearch.ca/Paul Craig Roberts writes, "Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it. Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits.
Chris Hedges: BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’
• Truthdig.comThey serve Thanatos, the forces of death, the dark instinct Sigmund Freud identified within human beings that propels us to annihilate all living things, including ourselves. These deformed individuals lack the capacity for empathy.
American Men Suckle From Giant Plasma Boob Tubes While Country Rots
• Ritholtz.comIt wasn’t always this way. Prior to the current era, Americans did occasionally take to the streets. 600 Iowa farmers abducted a judge who was doing mortgage foreclosures, threatening to lynch him. The governor declared martial law, and troops...
Chimps deal with death like humans
• APRare video footage taken at a wildlife park has showed that chimpanzees react to the death of a group member just like humans do when a close relative dies. Videos of 4 chimpanzees showed the animals caressing and grooming the 4th, a dying female,
Babies Are Born to Dance
• LiveScienceBabies love a beat, according to a new study that found dancing comes naturally to infants. The research showed babies respond to the rhythm and tempo of music, and find it more engaging than speech.
'Hobbit' skeleton defies human-evolution theory
• APThis world turned upside down once existed here, on the remote island of Flores, where an international team is trying to shed light on the fossilized 18,000-year-old skeleton of a dwarf cavewoman whose discovery in 2003 was an international sensatio
Niall Ferguson: Complexity and Collapse - Empires on the Edge of Chaos
• InformationClearingHouse.infoThe next phase of the current crisis may begin when the public begins to reassess the credibility of the monetary and fiscal measures that the Obama administration has taken in response. Interest rates at zero nor fiscal stimulus can achieve...
74,000 year old Tools In India Reveals Ancient Life
• BernamaNewly discovered archaeological sites in India have revealed how people lived before and after the colossal Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago. A potentially ground-breaking implication of the new work is that the species responsible for making
On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners
• NY TimesEarly humans, possibly even prehuman ancestors, appear to have been going to sea much longer than anyone had ever suspected. On the Greek island of Crete, stone tools are at least 130,000 years old, which is considered strong evidence for the earlies
Ancient dialect extinct after last speaker dies
• ReutersOne of the world's oldest dialects, which traces its origins to tens of thousands of years ago, has become extinct after the last person to speak it died on a remote Indian island. Boa Sr, the 85-year-old last speaker of "Bo", was the oldest member o
America's Bright Future: Prostitot Lingerie Parade
• celebrities.ninemsn.com.au/blogWhether it's dressing like a dominatrix for Halloween, skipping around a pole-dancing pole or performing the totally un-PG hits 'Smack That' and 'Tik Tok', we suspect this nine-year-old could easily notch up more scandals than her big sis...
Find of huge Mayan head suggests significant city
• ReutersArcheologists have discovered a huge Mayan sculptured head in Guatemala that suggests a little-known site in the jungle-covered Peten region may once have been a significant city. The stucco sculpture, which is 10 feet wide and 11.5 feet tall, was b
Stone basins may be Miwok salt 'factory'
• APSomewhere in the Sierra Nevada, a granite terrace the size of a football field holds hundreds of mysterious stone basins---one of the earliest known "factories" created by Miwok Indians to make tons of salt to trade with tribes around California.
Chimps use cleavers and anvils as tools to chop food
• BBC NewsThe apes' use of tools can be surprisingly sophisticated. "For example, nut-cracking in the Bossou chimpanzee community in Guinea involves the use of a movable hammer and anvil, and sometimes the additional use of stabilizing wedges to make the anvil
Booze formed communities
• der SpiegelDid our Neolithic ancestors turn to agriculture so that they could be sure of a tipple? The expert on identifying traces of alcohol in prehistoric sites reckons the thirst for a brew was enough of an incentive to start growing crops.
Ancient Mayans Likely Had Fountains and Toilets
• LiveScienceThe ancient Mayans may have had enough engineering know-how to master running water, creating fountains and even toilets by controlling water pressure, scientists now suggest. Perhaps the earliest known example of the intentional creation of water
Sixty Headless Skeletons -- 3,000 Years Old -- Discovered in Pacific Ocean Archipelago Vanuatu
• Science DailyThe islanders usually removed the volcanic ash before burying their dead under ashes and sand. Each grave is marked with a pottery jar decorated with intricate patterns, possibly stamped by small pieces of worked bone. The ceramic also depicts faces
First Jesus-era house discovered in Nazareth
• APArchaeologists unveiled a humble dwelling that is the first dating to the era of Jesus to be discovered in Nazareth, then a hamlet of around 50 impoverished Jewish families where Jesus spent his boyhood.
Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
• TED TalksWith wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India's Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today -- and are often superior to modern water megaprojects.
James Geary, metaphorically speaking
• TED TalksAphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language: the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make
Human Ancestors Were Homemakers
• LiveScienceEarly humans were dividing their living spaces into kitchens and work areas much earlier than previously thought. Rather than cooking and eating in the same area where they snoozed, early humans demarcated such living quarters.
Maya Murals Give Rare View of Everyday Life
• LiveScienceRecently excavated Mayan murals are giving archaeologists a rare look into the lives of ordinary ancient Maya. The murals were uncovered during the excavation of a pyramid mound structure at the ancient Maya site of Calakmul, Mexico (near the bord
Human Evolution: Where We Came From
• LiveScienceThe dawn of humanity remains a fascinating mystery. What started our distant ancestors on the evolutionary path that led to us? Spectacular fossils and a host of other data uncovered in the last decade are revealing key details to solving this riddle
Modern man a wimp says anthropologist
• ReutersMany prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions. Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in
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