theregister.co.uk Iain Thomson The latest list from Forbes of the 100 most powerful women on the planet suggests that the technology industry is leading the way in promoting sexual equality, contributing 15 per cent of the spots overall and a quarter of the top 20 positions. The technology […]
wired.com Spencer Ackerman International Security Assistance Force Commander U.S. Marine Corps General John Allen visits Forward Operating Base Farah, August 11, 2012. Photo: ISAF/Flickr General John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said he still doesn’t know why at least 10 NATO troops have died in the […]
stratrisks.com Source: Gizmag Once the preserve of science fiction, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have advanced to the point where they can even be found in novelty headwear, which only makes an achievement of an international team of scientists more frightening. Using an off-the-shelf Emotiv BCI costing only a few hundred […]
rt.com Photo source —————– Ecuador does not fear US revenge for granting asylum to Julian Assange. Despite America’s power in the world, it is not Ecuador’s “father or teacher to punish us,” the country’s foreign minister said exclusively to RT Spanish host Eva Golinger. “We don’t think that […]
The late Elizabeth Wright takes black neocons to task. From Issues & Views. ______________ Conservative by default The passage of just a few short years has made it hard to remember when only the views blessed by the progressive left found a path into the public arena. And, […]
From News.com Australia. ______________ Parents are being warned to educate their kids about the criminal repercussions of online trolling. PARENTS are being warned to tell their kids they could face criminal convictions for online trolling after a Bendigo man was sentenced to jail for making an offensive Facebook […]
From The Onion. OOO-RAH! _____________ By U.S. Army Pfc. Edwin Quinones Ever since I was a kid I dreamed of joining the Army. So as soon as I could, I went down to my local recruiter and enlisted, knowing full well that I’d probably be sent to Afghanistan. […]
guardian.co.uk Naomi Wolf If you think that 24/7 tracking of citizens by biometric recognition systems is paranoid fantasy, just read the industry newsletters Tom Cruise as John Anderton in the futuristic film Minority Report, where the advertisements use recognition technology to call out to the shoppers. Photograph: Allstar/20th […]
rawstory.com Arturo Garcia A video published Monday by the Center for Investigative Reporting reveals that the man responsible for arming and training members of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s did so while acting as a federal informant. According to reporter Seth Rosenfeld, Richard Aoki was approached […]
From Alternative Right: Andy Nowicki contra the humour police. ________________ There is a kind of meta-humorous flavor to this story in the New York Times, which reports that a certain humanities instructor is in hot water after telling a dark and edgy joke to his class earlier this […]
Here, PC; there, Islam. Theocracies suck! From The Guardian. _______________ by Jon Boone An 11-year-old Christian Pakistani girl could face the death penalty under the country’s notorious blasphemy laws, after she was accused by her neighbours of deliberately burning sacred Islamic texts. Rifta Masih was arrested on Thursday, […]
Goad grapples with lies, damn lies, and statistics at TakiMag. ___________________ The email challenge came like a squirrel defiantly placing an acorn on its shoulder and daring me to knock it off: “respond to this damn article.” The damn article was from Forbes, and I’ll be damned if […]
From TPM. Rape: more effective than Durex, apparently… _____________ Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological […]
forbes.com Clare O’Connor All 141 square miles of Larry Ellison’s latest purchase, Lanai. Image via Wikipedia. Oracle founder Larry Ellison is no stranger to the good life. The third richest person in America (sixth in the world) has bought his fair share of flashy toys over the years. […]
wnd.com Bob Unruh Software billionaire Bill Gates, who previously has advocated the reduction of the human population through the use of vaccines, and his wife Melinda marked the 100th year since the First International Eugenics Congress in London with a “family planning” summit with abortionists and the United […]
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Newsmax.com A sheriff says seven people arrested in a fatal shootout with Louisiana deputies have been linked to violent anarchists on the FBI’s domestic terrorism watch lists.
aljazeera.com Interior minister accuses rival neighbour of fabricating messages threatening revenge attacks on indigenous communities. India has accused Pakistan of fabricating threatening bulk messages that triggered panic among migrant workers in southern Indian cities. Thousands of people hailing from indigenous communities in the northeastern state of Assam fled Bangalore and […]
sciencedaily.com Two new species of owls have been discovered in the Philippines, and an MSU researcher played a key role in confirming their existence. (Top left: Cebu Hawk owl. Bottom right: Camiguin Hawk owl.) (Credit: Courtesy of Oriental Bird Club: original painting by John Gale)
Chicago Tribune LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange prepared to weigh into a standoff between Britain and Ecuador over his future on Sunday by speaking from a balcony of the Ecuadorean embassy where he holed up to avoid arrest by police deployed in force outside. Ecuador has […]
Christian Science Monitor Fears of a coming economic collapse that could spark widespread violence, even civil war, fueled the continued explosive growth of conspiracy-minded antigovernment “patriot” groups in 2011. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups in the […]
dprogram.net (Infowars) – We are free only to worship the state and be quiet debt slaves.
rt.com Genetic mutations have been found in three generations of butterflies living near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The gruesome discovery has led scientists to fear that the leaking radiation could affect other species.
rudaw.net ADIB ABDULMAJID The people of Efrin attend the opening of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) office in their city. Photo from loqmanafrin. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – As rifts between different factions of the Syrian opposition have deepened and no unified agenda has been declared, many Kurdish activists consider […]
upi.com OSTRAVA, Czech Republic, Aug. 18 (UPI) — Police in the Czech Republic said they arrested a man suspected of planning a similar attack to that of Anders Behring Breivik in Norway. The 29-year-old man, whose name was not reported, was detained about a week ago in Ostrava, […]
USA Today MILWAUKEE – Is a gun like a virus, a car, tobacco or alcohol? Yes say public health experts, who in the wake of recent mass shootings are calling for a fresh look at gun violence as a social disease. By Jeffrey Phelps, AP Dr. Stephen W. […]
By Ethan Bishop Picture it: a self-governing community of little more than 35,000 people, living amongst “dramatic natural scenery”. For over the past two centuries, the people of this same community have been renowned for their independent spirit and love of freedom. Though originally little more than an […]
Media Will Defend Biden’s Racial Gaffe By Calling Romney Racist After Vice President Joe Biden’s epic gaffe in which he suggested to a largely black audience in Virginia that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan wanted to “put y’all back in chains,” the mainstream media has been desperately seeking […]
Small Business Owner Sends Biden Packing – ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Chris McMurray, who just opened a ‘mom and pop’s’ bakery with his wife in May, was offered the opportunity of a lifetime. What opportunity was that, you ask? The opportunity was to host the vice president and […]
CNN Saginaw, Michigan (CNN) — Three days before Independence Day, Milton Hall died in a fusillade of police gunfire outside a strip mall. He had been arguing with officers in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant when he was shot, in full view of passing […]
By James Edwards The voters of Montana, 93% of whom are White, elected Brian Schweitzer to the highest office in their state. What does he think of them after they sent him to the Governor’s mansion? To him, they are nothing but “White, racist rednecks.”
The Daily Mail American civilians are buying as many AK47s from Russia’s top armory as the Russian military and police. The surge in sales of Russian assault rifles and shotguns are fuelled by firearms enthusiasts who are paranoid about the weapons being banned in the United States. The […]
Freedom Outpost I have received word that some people think that simply reporting on what the federal government is doing with our money, especially when it comes to purchases of ammunition on the domestic front that is in excess of a billion rounds within six months, is somehow […]
Excellent, yes. And what else might our forces need? Ibex? You have been very quiet. Do you have any ideas? – Um…w-w-, uh, weapons?
By Karen DeCoster In the city ghettos, the police state has always resorted to giving away gift cards for athletic shoes – such as at Footlocker – in exchange for local folks turning in a gun. Then the media follows up by bragging about how many guns the […]
Joe Biden Race Baits: Romney’s “Going To Put Y’all Back In Chains” As Vice-President Joe Biden spoke to supporters in Danville, Virginia on Tuesday, he took shots at Mitt Romney’s economic plan. What he said was found offensive by many as he spoke in an area that has […]
U.S. Military Officers Are Told to Plan to Fight Americans Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles. At issue is an […]
From CNN Money American Apparel Inc., which manufactures Army uniforms in Alabama, has laid off 150 workers as a result of going head-to-head with Unicor for government contracts.
From CNN New York (CNN) — A multi-million-dollar intrusion-detection system at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport failed to notice a man who walked onto a runway Sunday, authorities said. The man, who was arrested after he was spotted by an airline employee, told police he was […]
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Whilst the President inhabits the luxurious surroundings of the Oval Office and flies aboard Air Force One, his half-brother George Obama lives in a notorious African slum
George Obama has battled addictions to drink and drugs for most of his life at the same time as his relative has enjoyed a meteoric rise to power
The 30-year-old, who was once hooked on cocaine, says that his surname is frequently a burden to him
By Gavin McInnes Commencement speeches often give great advice on how to succeed, whom to befriend, and whom to love, but they never focus on the importance of hatred. I believe that choosing whom you will never speak to again can be as helpful as choosing whom to […]
By Thomas Storck There can be no such thing as a “global village.” No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live […]
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