Letter Re: Hurricane Sandy: An Outsider's Perspective

11-06-2012 • http://www.survivalblog.com

JWR, I don't live anywhere near the affected area from Sandy, but now that we've had some firsthand accounts, I wanted to throw in my $.02 as an observer from afar:

7 Technologies That Will Make It Easier for the Next President to Hunt and Kill You

11-06-2012 • By The Staff of Danger Room

Robotic assassination campaigns directed from the Oval Office. Cyber espionage programs launched at the president's behest. Surveillance on an industrial scale.

NY Man Charged in Gas Hoarding Case

11-05-2012 • NBC News

Police arrested a 47-year-old New York man accused of filling up 30 five-gallon Home Depot buckets with gasoline. He collected money from his neighbors, bought gas at a Valero station almost 80 miles away and planned to bring it back to his neighborh

Homeschoolers Flee Persecution in Germany and Sweden

11-05-2012 • http://www.prisonplanet.com, Alex Newman

Two leaders in the European home education movement, a father from Sweden and a German mother, drew tears from the audience as they told a packed conference room about life in exile and the heart-rending decision to flee abroad.

Marijuana industry in Israel grows with government support

11-05-2012 • http://www.rawstory.com, By Samantha Kimmey

The medical marijuana industry in Israel is growing rapidly

Ron Paul and Gary Johnson in a New Movie: Of By For

11-04-2012 • http://www.dailypaul.com, by sharpsteve

Ron Paul and Gary Johnson in a New Movie Criticizing Washington Politics: OfByFor is a Must See

Federal Relief Costs Likely to Be Big, and Contested

11-02-2012 • New York Times

The first trickle of federal funds has started to go out after Hurricane Sandy — $29 million to rebuild highways, $30 million to hire temporary workers to help with the cleanup. But lawmakers are just beginning to tally what is certain to be a multib

Anticipating the Devolution of Big Government

11-01-2012 • Lewrockwell.com

Expect destructive feedback loops

Bloomberg Issues Minimum Passenger Edict For Cars Entering Manhattan

10-31-2012 • CBS News

With New York City’s mass transit in the early stages of coming back on-line due to the overwhelming amount of damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, Mayor Bloomberg is taking a proactive approach to keeping street traffic in Manhattan at a manageable le

Adios to Buckyballs

10-31-2012 • The Sideshow

Buckyballs, the popular magnetic desktop toy (for grown-ups!), are being discontinued by Maxfield & Oberton, who released a snarky statement explaining why. "Due to baseless and relentless legal badgering by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission

NYT called out city’s flood-protection problems in September

10-31-2012 • The Lookout

In a prescient New York Times article in September, scientists warned that New York City could become paralyzed for a month or more if a storm—or rising sea levels caused by climate change—caused significant flooding.

A Big Storm Requires Big Government

10-31-2012 • nytimes.com

Most Americans have never heard of the National Response Coordination Center, but they’re lucky it exists on days of lethal winds and flood tides.

War, Children: It’s Just a Welfare Check Away

10-29-2012 • http://original.antiwar.com, by Thomas Knapp

When pundits name-check “the welfare-warfare state,” we usually mean, and are usually understood to mean, something along the lines of “bread and circuses at home, military adventurism abroad.”

US detention of Imran Khan part of trend to harass anti-drone advocates

10-29-2012 • http://www.guardian.co.uk, Glenn Greenwald

The vindictive humiliation of Pakistan's most popular politician shows the US government's intolerance for dissent

How US drones forge as many foes as they kill

10-29-2012 • http://www.independent.co.uk,

World View: The enhanced use of unmanned attack planes is at the heart of American foreign policy

America: The Food Stamp Nation

10-27-2012 • http://demonocracy.info

America has over 44 million people on Food Stamps. The food stamps program's real name is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Raw Milk Rights Under Siege

10-26-2012 • http://www.prisonplanet.com,

The UK government is trying to ban raw milk and sending police out to harass people who sell it.

U.S. Expands Secretive Drone Base for African Shadow War

10-26-2012 • http://www.wired.com, By David Axe

The Pentagon’s secretive drone and commando base in the Horn of Africa is getting a lot bigger and a lot busier as the U.S. doubles down on its shadowy campaign of air strikes, robot surveillance and Special Operation Forces raids in the terror haven

Attorney General Tom Horne cited for leaving the scene of 2012 accident

10-25-2012 • http://www.abc15.com, staff

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne was cited Wednesday for leaving the scene of a hit-and-run accident earlier this year.

US State Dept. Demands Lebanon Form New Govt.

10-24-2012 • http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz

Says New Govt. Needed to 'Counter Syria'

Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists

10-24-2012 • http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Greg Miller

Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the “disposition matrix.”

Lessons of History - Iranian Coup of 1953

10-24-2012 • http://www.dailypaul.com, by GBAmerica

Lessons of History - Coup of 1953

Artificial Photosynthesis Effort Takes Root

10-22-2012 • http://www.technologyreview.com, Kevin Bullis

$122 million innovation hub could speed the development of devices for making fuel from water and sunlight.

If You Had Actually Grown Up In A Soviet Country, This Is What You Would Have Experienced

10-22-2012 • http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

Brian Doherty on the Trouble With Governments and Benefits of Anarchism

10-22-2012 • http://www.thedailybell.com, with Anthony Wile

The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Brian Doherty

Video: Truck Driver Stands Up To Unconstitutional Checkpoint

10-22-2012 • http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson

Americans are re-asserting their 4th Amendment rights

“Homegrown Terrorism” and Terrorism by Association

10-22-2012 • http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Michael S. Rozeff

How misleading can a “news” article get? Try this headline: “Federal Reserve bombing plot foiled in NYC”.

The Doldrums

10-21-2012 • by L. Neil Smith (The Libertarian Enterprise)

We have reached that point in the election cycle— hardly for the first time—where we are compelled to choose between voting for the lesser of two or three or four evils and not voting at all.