Costa Rica powered by renewable energy for over 250 days in 2016 … Costa Rica completes 2016 without having to burn a single fossil fuel for more than 250 days. 98.2% of Costa Rica's electricity came from renewable sources in 2016. The state-run
There have been more than 50 government shutdowns of the Internet in 2016, costing the respective countries hundreds of millions of dollars and choking citizen freedoms during crucial moments.
Several federal agencies are accelerating hiring in the final days of the Obama administration to ensure that as many new employees as possible are in place before President-elect Donald Trump imposes a promised hiring freeze.
On the day that California officials implemented a controversial law that allows undocumented residents to obtain driver's licenses, DMV offices throughout the state were packed with immigrants looking to take advantage of the opportunity.
At the foot of a tall building in downtown Rio de Janeiro, government workers line up for donated groceries, unable to buy their own because their salaries have not been paid.
Continuing in the tradition of sacrificing everyone's privacy to pursue a 'war' on the tactic of terrorism, the U.S. government has begun requesting social media identities from foreign travelers.
Ivanka Trump Harassed
On-Board a JetBlue plane at JFK Airport in New York City for a planned family vacation in Hawaii, Donald Trump's eldest daughter Ivanka was accosted by another passenger Dan Goldstein, a Brooklyn lawyer. Goldstein's harangue
Following Newt Gingrich's comments yesterday that Donald Trump no longer wants to drain the swamp, it appears the president-elect is not best pleased with this narrative...
• https://www.libertarianinstitute.org, By Craig Can
Note: This commentary was first published on Nov. 9, 2013, long before the so-called invisible white working man voted Donald Trump into office. I find upon a later reading that a lot of my writing is crap, but I think this piece is an exception and
Technocrats have no use for privacy when it comes to social engineering, thus proving that U.S. Intel has gone rogue and is being run by Technocrats for Technocrats. ? TN Editor
When Rev. Katie Grover arrived on a recent morning at Patapsco United Methodist Church, one of two congregations she pastors in the Baltimore area, she was surprised to find a $12,000 citation attached to the door.
(NaturalNews) The federal government just cannot stay out of the business of American citizens. Their constant need to overstep their boundaries and enforce ridiculous regulations has made it extremely difficult to make a living as a business owner i
Regimes come and go but technology persists through it all. This is why innovation is so exciting. Groups can oppose it. Governments can regulate it. But in the end, the knowledge is there and humanity clamors to use it.
Adam Smith's central contribution to economic understanding was surely his demonstration that under an institutional arrangement of individual liberty, property rights, and voluntary exchange the self-interested conduct of market participants could
• https://www.rutherford.org, By John W. Whitehead
"I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel." ? Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Christmas
RNC Averts Hack that Duped DNC
Amid all the caterwauling from Democrats about Russians supposedly hacking the Democratic National Committee's computer system comes a report from the Republican National Committee that a similar attempt on their com
Trump transition team efforts to obtain the names of government employees who have worked on climate change has been rejected by current Energy Department leadership.
What is a person to do when their state of poverty becomes so extreme that it becomes criminal?
That's exactly what's happening to homeless people in the United States these days. And it isn't just the homeless people who are being criminaliz
One of the oldest traditions in the American republic is "government by an emergency." Over the last 2½ centuries, US citizens have endured confiscation, imprisonment, and censorship conducted outside normal constitutional constraints. The Supre
no matter what the government says. NaturalNews) Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, has declared that the denial of an easement necessary to drill under the Missouri River will not be impeding their plans t
Though the bill only targets those with conditions such as Alzheimers and autism, critics say the bill's passage will open a "pandora's box" of invasive government surveillance.