In 1898, elites within the United States government falsely accused Spain of blowing up the USS Maine in order to stoke the American people into a flag-waving frenzy that resulted in the Spanish-American War.
It was the night of July 19, 64 A.D., when the Great Fire burst through the rooftops of shops near the mass entertainment and chariot racing venue called Circus Maximus. The flames, whipped by a strong wind, rapidly engulfed densely populated areas of the city.
This winter of discontent, the New England states have been hit with one after another particularly strange snowstorms. The previous 2007-08 winter was also similar. The snow smells full of chemicals, as it comes down uniformly and looks like manufactured snow that is used on ski slopes (i.e., fluffy, packed powder). Sometimes, the falling snow stops abruptly, and does not trail off, as it used to do. It is definitely not the same snow that, for millions of years, used to be provided by Mother Nature, in all her magnificence. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. will cut as many as 5,000 jobs, the first companywide firings in its 34-year history, and said sales and profit will probably drop as the recession eats into software demand. The stock fell the most in 33 months. Read the rest of this entry »
“The National Security Agency had access to all Americans’ communications — faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications,” Tice claimed. “It didn’t matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications.” Read the rest of this entry »
For a picture of the US real estate crisis, imagine New Orleans wrecked by Hurricane Katrina, and before the waters even begin to recede, a second Katrina hits. Read the rest of this entry »
A swelling global population, changing diets and mankind’s expanding “water footprint” could be bringing an end to the era of cheap water.
The warnings, in an annual report by the Pacific Institute in California, come as ecologists have begun adopting the term “peak ecological water” — the point where, like the concept of “peak oil”, the world has to confront a natural limit on something once considered virtually infinite. Read the rest of this entry »
On his first full day in office, President Obama has issued executive orders which, he says, will usher in a new era of openness and transparency in government.
On his first full day in office, President Obama has issued executive orders which, he says, will usher in a new era of openness and transparency in government.
The United States Navy and Air Force have joined with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, to build a prototype for a ground based “Star Wars” weapon system located in the remote bush country of Alaska. Read the rest of this entry »
The United States Navy and Air Force have joined with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, to build a prototype for a ground based “Star Wars” weapon system located in the remote bush country of Alaska. Read the rest of this entry »
Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday Barack Obama had the “stench” of his predecessor as U.S. president and was at risk of being killed if he tries to change the American “empire.” Read the rest of this entry »
Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday Barack Obama had the “stench” of his predecessor as U.S. president and was at risk of being killed if he tries to change the American “empire.” Read the rest of this entry »
After the overthrow of communist governments in Eastern Europe, capitalism was paraded as the indomitable system that brings prosperity and democracy, the system that would prevail unto the end of history.
The present economic crisis, however, has convinced even some prominent free-marketeers that something is gravely amiss. Truth be told, capitalism has yet to come to terms with several historical forces that cause it endless trouble: democracy, prosperity, and capitalism itself, the very entities that capitalist rulers claim to be fostering. Read the rest of this entry »
Sunday’s Washington Post contained a chilling first-person report from a a former lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who served as a military lawyer in Bosnia, Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It tells his very personal involvement with detainees at Guantanamo, and especially about the case of Mohammad Jawad, who was only 16 at the time of his arrest. Forward this story to people who think Guantanamo is full of terrorists. This is the truth. Read the rest of this entry »
Sunday’s Washington Post contained a chilling first-person report from a a former lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who served as a military lawyer in Bosnia, Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It tells his very personal involvement with detainees at Guantanamo, and especially about the case of Mohammad Jawad, who was only 16 at the time of his arrest. Forward this story to people who think Guantanamo is full of terrorists. This is the truth. Read the rest of this entry »
On January 17, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a unilateral ceasefire, where Israel will stop its attacks but continue its military presence. “We have met and even surpassed our goals,” declared Olmert, as he thanked the Israeli public for their continued support of the 22-day onslaught in Gaza.
To those paying even minimal attention to the developments of this war, this is a perplexing statement. Read the rest of this entry »
On January 17, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a unilateral ceasefire, where Israel will stop its attacks but continue its military presence. “We have met and even surpassed our goals,” declared Olmert, as he thanked the Israeli public for their continued support of the 22-day onslaught in Gaza.
To those paying even minimal attention to the developments of this war, this is a perplexing statement. Read the rest of this entry »
The New York Times recently posed an excellent question: “Why save banks if they won’t lend?” (January 19, 2009)
Before the first $350 billion “installment” of the bailout, we were told that the money was needed to “unfreeze” the credit markets, meaning that banks would again be willing to lend businesses the money they needed to continue doing business. Read the rest of this entry »
The New York Times recently posed an excellent question: “Why save banks if they won’t lend?” (January 19, 2009)
Before the first $350 billion “installment” of the bailout, we were told that the money was needed to “unfreeze” the credit markets, meaning that banks would again be willing to lend businesses the money they needed to continue doing business. Read the rest of this entry »
Investment guru issues grim warning as sharp fall in inflation hits pound
Fresh concerns about the British economy and fears for the stability of the UK’s financial system pushed sterling to new record lows against the dollar, euro and yen yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Investment guru issues grim warning as sharp fall in inflation hits pound
Fresh concerns about the British economy and fears for the stability of the UK’s financial system pushed sterling to new record lows against the dollar, euro and yen yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
2009 heralds the start of a “new age of rebellion” according to an editorial in the highly influential London Times newspaper, and the year in which masses of people will take to the streets to riot in response to drastically falling standards of living.
Not many Americans know anything about the hideous barbarity in Gaza, because US cable networks and newspapers rarely carry pictures of disfigured blood-splashed children who have been killed, maimed or orphaned by the Israelis, says Brian Cloughley. Read the rest of this entry »
“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom” –John F. Kennedy
Revelations and Awakenings. Read the rest of this entry »
Now a critique of President Obama’s Inauguration speech.
You tell us that we have “gathering clouds and raging storms,” a bit of fear to instill into the mass of followers. He claims that “we have carried on not only by the skill or vision of those in high office, but by We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears…” Read the rest of this entry »
If one really looks closely at the policies proposed by the Obama Administration, they dont represent any kind of significant change, says Adam Kokesh, an activist with the Iraq Veterans Against the War organisation. Read the rest of this entry »
Psychotropic drugs are prescribed to children in the United States at three times the rate of children in Europe, according to one of the first studies to rigorously compare such prescription patterns between different countries. Read the rest of this entry »
Iran has said today resistance groups around the world like those in Gaza had the right to have access to weapons to fight against “colonialists”. Read the rest of this entry »
China on Tuesday renewed its pledge never to be the first to use nuclear weapons in a military conflict, and senior military leaders vowed greater openness about the strengthening of the world’s biggest armed forces even as they brushed aside questions on weapon systems and missiles aimed at Taiwan. Read the rest of this entry »
China on Tuesday renewed its pledge never to be the first to use nuclear weapons in a military conflict, and senior military leaders vowed greater openness about the strengthening of the world’s biggest armed forces even as they brushed aside questions on weapon systems and missiles aimed at Taiwan. Read the rest of this entry »
Europe’s car industry faces collapse without rapid intervention from EU governments, Carlos Ghosn, Renault’s chief executive, warned today. Read the rest of this entry »
Europe’s car industry faces collapse without rapid intervention from EU governments, Carlos Ghosn, Renault’s chief executive, warned today. Read the rest of this entry »
What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility – a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. Read the rest of this entry »
What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility – a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. Read the rest of this entry »
Keynesian and Monetarist economic central planning always comes to a nasty end, as shown by the Austrian School’s Henry Hazlitt, F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Leonard Read and Ron Paul. Read the rest of this entry »
Keynesian and Monetarist economic central planning always comes to a nasty end, as shown by the Austrian School’s Henry Hazlitt, F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Leonard Read and Ron Paul. Read the rest of this entry »
This week the death toll in Gaza passed the 1,000 mark, after three weeks of Israeli air and ground attacks. But surprisingly, no one has reported an even more appalling statistic: that there are some 1.5 million injured Palestinians in Gaza. How is it possible that such an astounding figure could have passed the world’s media by? Read the rest of this entry »
DOSSANI: The Israeli government and many Israeli and U.S. officials claim that the current assault on Gaza is to put an end to the flow of Qassam rockets from Gaza into Israel. But many observers claim that if that were really the case, Israel would have made much more of an effort to renew the ceasefire agreement that expired in December, which had all but stopped the rocket fire. In your opinion, what are the real motivations behind the current Israeli action? Read the rest of this entry »
Israel has announced that it is setting up a network of bloggers to combat websites deemed “problematic” by the Zionist state, presumably to propagandize about the necessity of killing babies and infants in the name of self-defense. Read the rest of this entry »
