(Higgins) – When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked so hard to never have to face that threat again. Sandy just destroyed my house and we don’t have flood insurance. Read the rest of this entry »

1992 John Holdren Publication Reaffirms Devotion to Population Control through “Global Effort” Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – It was not copyright violations that prompted the hosting service Burst.net to pull more than 73,000 blogs offline earlier this month. It was al-Qaeda, the phony terror group created by the CIA.

“The site was shut down after FBI agents informed executives of Burst.net, Blogetery’s Web host, late on July 9 that links to al-Qaeda materials were found on Blogetery’s servers, Joe Marr, chief technology officer for Burst.net,” told CNET. “Sources close to the investigation say that included in those materials were the names of American citizens targeted for assassination by al-Qaeda. Messages from Osama bin Laden and other leaders of the terrorist organization, as well as bomb-making tips, were also allegedly found on the server.”

The FBI did not order Burst.net to pull the plug. Marr said a Burst.net employee erred in telling Blogetery’s operator and members of the media that the FBI had ordered it to terminate Blogetery’s service. He said Burst.net did that on its own, according to CNET. Read the rest of this entry »

(DomainGang) – BREAKING NEWS – The administrator of the most popular political and social blog in Greece, “Troktiko” – the Rodent – was assassinated after being shot with 20 bullets.

Known for its controversial political articles, stigmatizing the former, right wing government of New Democracy, Troktiko became the most popular, Greek-owned destination in Greece. With an Alexa ranking of 869 globally, Troktiko.blogspot.com surpassed many international web sites in traffic.

The administrator of Troktiko, journalist writer and radio producer Socrates Giolias aged 37, was executed with a barrage of bullets, outside his residence around 5:20am local time today, in Ilioupolis – a suburb of Athens, in Greece. Read the rest of this entry »

(C4L) – The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984. A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that they will have a virtual monopoly on information that the public is able to access. In Italy, Germany, and Britain the anonymous internet that most Americans are still familiar with is slowly being modified. If one goes into an internet café it is now legally required in most countries in the European Union to present a government issued form of identification. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – Once again, the Obama administration has violated the Bill of Rights. Earlier this month, the feds took down a free WordPress blogging platform and disabled more than 73,000 blogs. The action was completely ignored by the corporate media. The site, Blogetery.com, was told by its hosting service that the government had issued orders to shut down the site due to a “a history of abuse” related to copyrighted material. Read the rest of this entry »

(TorrentFreak) – After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities on grounds of “a history of abuse”. More than 73,000 blogs are out of action as a result. Read More Here

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(May 20) – Alex talks with Charlie Veitch, the man behind The Love Police blog. Veitch’s videos have raised awareness of the authoritarian attitude of police and security guards in their dealings with the public in England. Read the rest of this entry »

(May 20) – Alex talks with Charlie Veitch, the man behind The Love Police blog. Veitch’s videos have raised awareness of the authoritarian attitude of police and security guards in their dealings with the public in England. Read the rest of this entry »

(WashingtonsBlog) – What do the new BLS numbers - 162,000 nonfarm jobs added in March – mean?

Barry Ritholtz provides a very useful summary: Read the rest of this entry »

(PCWorld) – Late yesterday afternoon, Google introduced some changes it was making to Buzz via its Official Google Blog. They didn’t really change much — they just made some of the privacy features more visible, made it easier to block people from following you, and made it easier to manage which followers show up on your public Google Profile. Read the rest of this entry »

Wow. I think that is really the only word that comes to mind when trying to define how my life has been since just before noon on Christmas. Read the rest of this entry »

Consider murder mystery novels, TV forensic dramas, sensational news stories, and political murder (assassination). Discovering and prosecuting the guilty, “bringing them to justice” is the goal. Exploring and analyzing antecedents and psychopathology may be undertaken by a few, typically writers and intellectuals. When noticed at all by the public, such critics tend to be summarily marginalized as apologists. Read the rest of this entry »

In 2000, America was described as the sole remaining superpower – or even the world’s “hyperpower”. Now we’re in real trouble (at the very least, you have to admit that we’re losing power and wealth in comparison with China).
How did it happen so fast? Read the rest of this entry »

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »

America is suffering a permanent destruction of jobs.
JPMorgan Chase’s Chief Economist Bruce Kasman told Bloomberg:

[We've had a] permanent destruction of hundreds of thousands of jobs in industries from housing to finance.

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Yesterday, my Associate and dear friend Carlos Latuff stated that this Blog is ‘mostly about the Middle East’. That is very true, for the simple fact that I live here. The Palestinian cause, in particular, is very close to my heart as they are my people. As Carlos himself stated, “WE ARE ALL PALESTINIANS”. His series of cartoons dealing with that can be seen HERE. Read the rest of this entry »

President Obama has stated that he is happy to consider bailing out the corporate media, expressing concerns that alternative internet based news outlets will grow in popularity as a result of the downfall of newspapers. Read the rest of this entry »

(WashingtonsBlog) – In a post called “Break Up the Big Banks”, Rolfe Winkler provides a nice graphic showing that the too big to fails have gotten bigger: Read the rest of this entry »

(MeetThePress) – Message from Meet the Press: the Internet is disinformation, the corporate media is the truth. Read the rest of this entry »

Commonly-accepted wisdom says that we can inflate our way out of our debt crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

(WashingtonsBlog) – You’ve heard how bad things were in the Weimar Republic, when people would rush straight to stores to buy food after receiving a pay check because their money would buy much less the next day. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the fact that the Southern Poverty Law Center linked Infowars and Alex Jones with Pittsburgh cop killer Richard Poplawski earlier this year because Poplawski had left comments on Jones’ websites, comments on SPLC’s own website that call for Alex Jones to be executed for his political beliefs have remained online for four months. Read the rest of this entry »

The claim that America would launch more wars to the help the economy is outrageous, right? Read the rest of this entry »

Increasingly, Google and its properties — the vastly popular video site YouTube and equally popular Blogger — are tools for shutting down opposition to the government. On the weekend, Google removed an Alex Jones video critical of Obama’s policies. Google classified the video as “hate speech” because the corporation allegedly received complaints the content of the video was racist. In the video, Alex appears as “Obama the Joker,” as depicted in a now infamous street art poster. Read the rest of this entry »

In a move destined to garner less attention than cap-and-trade or health care, Barack Obama’s choice for the position of Information Czar could have drastic implications for the conservative blogosphere. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone is playing the guessing game regarding the secret program which the CIA hid from Congress.

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein is guessing that it is Cheney’s executive assassination squad. Yesterday, I guessed it might have been continuity of government plans.

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You’ve probably heard that the CIA is looking to hire laid-off bankers.

This is nothing new. Read the rest of this entry »

Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping. He suggests that linking to copyrighted material should be outlawed. Read the rest of this entry »

(Times) – Thousands of bloggers who operate behind the cloak of anonymity have no right to keep their identities secret, the High Court ruled today Read the rest of this entry »

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-Newly discovered Planet X on collision course with earth..
-Obama spiked with truth drug says smoke em if you gotta em were FKD.
-Israeli election crisis Read the rest of this entry »

I had almost forgotten about The Riverbend Blog, but it all came rushing back to me as I looked over it during one of my ‘in the office, bored, and on the internet’ moments, last week.

You’ll get simply epic quotes, such as:

“Let me clear it up for any moron with lingering doubts: It’s worse. It’s over. You lost. You lost the day your tanks rolled into Baghdad to the cheers of your imported, American-trained monkeys. You lost every single family whose home your soldiers violated. You lost every sane, red-blooded Iraqi when the Abu Ghraib pictures came out and verified your atrocities behind prison walls as well as the ones we see in our streets. You lost when you brought murderers, looters, gangsters and militia heads to power and hailed them as Iraq’s first democratic government. You lost when a gruesome execution was dubbed your biggest accomplishment. You lost the respect and reputation you once had. You lost more than 3000 troops. That is what you lost America.”

She might be one of the best female bloggers you’ll find anywhere – and it’s great insider look at the War in Iraq, and what they’ve been going through.

Scott McClellan’s surprisingly critical memoir of his time as White House Press Secretary put the White House in full-on damage control mode. McClellan’s book may have been off-message, but the White House and its surrogates were conspicuously “on” in their response. Read the rest of this entry »

Scott McClellan’s surprisingly critical memoir of his time as White House Press Secretary put the White House in full-on damage control mode. McClellan’s book may have been off-message, but the White House and its surrogates were conspicuously “on” in their response. Read the rest of this entry »