From Reuters. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Inmates working at a Vermont correctional unit’s print shop managed to sneak a prank image of a pig into a state police crest that is emblazoned on police cars, and 30 cruisers sported the design for the last year, officials said on Thursday. The official […]
From My Fox Twin Cities. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— (NewsCore)(New York Post) – A Transportation Security Administration screener was busted for allegedly stealing $5,000 from a passenger who was going through a security checkpoint at New York’s JFK airport, the latest in a string of snafus by the federal agency, authorities […]
From the SHTF Plan. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– While President Obama’s supporters hailed his withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq as the end of the war in the middle east, behind the scenes the Pentagon has been quietly massing troops and armaments on two islands located just south of the Strait of Hormuz, […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— By Barbara Starr U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has come to the conclusion there is a growing likelihood Israel could attack Iran sometime this spring in an effort to destroy its suspected nuclear weapons program, according to a senior administration official. The official declined to […]
Article from Infowars. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– In Indianapolis, local cops and the FBI have set-up a massive surveillance grid ahead of the Super Bowl, slated for February 5th. The heightened security – including a smartphone photo and video surveillance network, the installation of 150 new manhole covers, and the virtual […]
From the Intel Hub. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Two British tourists were arrested by the Department of Homeland Security and denied entry to the country after posting two tweets that were apparently considered terrorist threats by overzealous agents who did not posses even rudimentary knowledge of the difference between British and […]
From The Huffington Post. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- A sign of uncertain times, or marketing of questionable taste? As Occupy Miami received its most certain eviction notice yet, possibly leading to a sunset showdown of sorts with police, a Miami security company issued a statement boasting their readiness to “intervene, should riots occur.” Apparently, […]
From CNN. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The Israeli drone aircraft, the Eitan, is pictured in February 2010. STORY HIGHLIGHTS The plane spins in the air and loses a wing before the crash, a witness says The drone is capable of reaching parts of Iran — and carrying missiles No injuries are […]
From Financial Sense. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The biggest problem for investors today in trying to forecast the future price of silver is the enormous amount of contradictory analysis on the Internet. There are bulls, bears, paper traders, physical buyers, technical analysts, hedge funds, commercial banks and silver manufacturers all trying […]
From The Daily Mail. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Pentagon is set to launch a floating naval base in the Middle East, a move which would make the military more flexible but could cause friction with America’s friends and foes alike. The vessel, which has unofficially been called the ‘mothership’, is […]
From CNN. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Smoke rises between Occupy Oakland protesters and police cordoning off an intersection Saturday. STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: More than 100 protesters are arrested after they enter a downtown Oakland YMCA building NEW: Occupy protesters claim an attempt to enter Oakland City Hall Police say activists threw bottles, flares […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- updated 10:05 AM EST, Sat January 28, 2012 The Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response teams (VIPR) conducted 3,895 surface transportation operations in 2010, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Screenings occurred at some of the nation’s 500 Amtrak stations. STORY HIGHLIGHTS […]
As evidenced by my being quoted in this piece by maverick journalist Celia Farber. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Documentary Film Review: “The Greater Good” “At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– To paraphrase the assessment of libertarian socialist Rosa Luxemburg a century ago, we face an imminent choice between freedom and barbarism. There are only two possible outcomes in the present struggle between the authoritarian institutions of state and corporation, and the emergent society […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Auburn University philosophy professor Roderick Long coined the term “conflationism” for the tendency to confuse the free market — whether in accusatory or apologetic polemics — with actually existing capitalism. Left-conflationism is the practice of attacking the evils of actually existing corporate capitalism […]
And non-religion is the fastest growing religious perspective. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The increasing secularization of American society has taken a particular toll on Protestant identity, presenting the prospect that after more than 200 years of history, the United States may soon no longer be a majority Protestant country, according to […]
Christopher Gunderson aka “Ned Day,” “Chris Day,” and other pseudonyms recently posted this about yours truly on Facebook. “Keith Preston is a known racist, though with a peculiar anarchist pedigree, and the fact that you are quoting him favorably confirms my suspicion that there is something rotten in […]
Article by Ian Huyett. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- To those wary of corporate power, Halliburton — a multinational oil field services provider — has become a sort of caricature, rivaled only by Monsanto in epitomizing shameless boardroom gluttony. Until 2007, Halliburton owned Kellogg Brown & Root, a company that specializes in […]
Listen to the interview. Keith Preston interviews Richard Spencer. Topics include: The origins of the “alternative right” and how it differs from the mainstream “conservative movement”; The impact of the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche as the principal intellectual influence on the alternative right; Why alternative rightists tend towards […]
Interesting. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— (WikiCommons) At its peak, Kowloon had a population density of 3,300,000 people per square mile. Occupying every inch of hundreds of mid-rise buildings, Kowloon was such a lawless maze of alleyways and secret staircases, that police from the outside world would rarely venture in without a […]
Another great discussion between Richard Spencer and Jonathan Bowden.
From The Daily Caller. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Over the last week, several people that worked in the Reagan administration have come forward and countered former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s claim that he is a “Reagan Republican.” These people say Gingrich “wasn’t on board with a lot of what President Ronald Reagan tried to accomplish during […]
Article by Andre C. James. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Little known to the American public Newt Gingrich and his then wife Marianne were the subject of a US Justice Department criminal investigation in the late 1990s involving a $10 million bribe of the world’s largest private arms dealer, Sarkis Soghanalia Unaware […]
Article by Kirkpatrick Sale. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— Aristotle declared that there should be a limit to the size of states. But really, what did he know? He lived at a time when the entire population of the world was somewhere around 50 million—about the size of England today. Athens, where […]
From MSNBC —————————————————————————————————————————————————– In his final word, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq said Monday that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has “gone as far as feasible” and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programs of Saddam Hussein that were used to […]
Article by Stephen Walt. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- While I was away, a friend sent me a link to an article from the online magazine Tablet, and asked me what I thought about it. The piece is by Adam Kirsch, and it’s basically a critical summary of the impact of my […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– There’s always a Looming Danger, an Ominous Threat lurking somewhere – that’s the War Party’s bread-and-butter. Back in the day, it was the Germans, who were going to cross the Atlantic and meet their Japanese allies somewhere near the Mississippi. Then it was the Commies, who were […]
Hmmm. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Hazel Jones, 27, appeared on ITV’s This Morning earlier in the week to discuss her rare condition. (Screengrab) A British woman who revealed she has two vaginas was reportedly offered $1 million to make a porno film. Hazel Jones, 27, appeared on ITV’s This Morning earlier […]
WTF? ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The owner of the goat Mr David Mutunha said he caught Chisare in the act with his goat after he heard sounds of distress coming from the animal. Residents in Ward 28 in Norton were left stunned by the bizarre incident which happened on Saturday night. […]
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman who Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft […]
From KFI AM 640 —————————————————————————————————————————————————- LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Joint military training exercises will be held evenings in downtown Los Angeles through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPD will be providing support for the exercises, which will also be held in other […]
From PressTV.Com —————————————————————————————————————————————————— An alliance of activist groups in the United States has announced that they will occupy the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) headquarters in early March. Anti-corporate protesters from over 120 groups are devising plans to occupy AIPAC headquarters in Washington, DC from March 2 […]
Article by Adam Gopnick. Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss. A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that […]
From Debka.Com ————————————————————————————————————————————————— India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar, DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Iranian sources report exclusively. Those sources expect China to follow suit. India and China take about one million barrels per day, […]
From Gizmodo.Com ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— Anonymous has sure been quiet lately, but today’s federal bust of Megaupload riled ’em up good: a retaliatory strike against DoJ.gov (and plenty of other foes) leaving them completely dead. DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com is reporting the department’s site as universally nuked, and an Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account is boasting success. This is almost certainly […]
From CNS News. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Organized crime-related deaths in one Mexican border state during the first nine months of 2011 exceed the number of Afghan civilians killed in roughly the same period in all of war-torn Afghanistan. According to the Mexican government, from January through September 2011 2,276 deaths were […]
Article by Ian Huyett. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Few Republicans would deny that it’s difficult for Mitt Romney to sell himself as a fiscal conservative while sharing a stage with Ron Paul. The Texas congressman and physician, who has consistently scored among the top three GOP candidates in recent weeks, has […]
Interesting blog that includes some good words for yours truly.
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- In a single day of glory, January 18, a major portion of the Web went dark as a warning that we will no longer tolerate the Copyright Nazis’ infringements on our speech. The next day, with the FBI’s takedown of MegaUpload, they showed […]
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- The present historic epoch is one of transition from authoritarian institutions like states and corporations, to a society of self-organized networks and voluntary associations. As in any historic transition, second-order variables introduce high levels of turbulence to the process. One such source of […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— There’s no doubt about it: Andrew B. Adler, the editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times, is afool. His article advocating the assassination of President Obama has by now beenbroadcast all over the internet, and brought condemnation from every quarter down on his head. His tearful apologies, his denials that he […]
Richard Spencer interviews Jonathan Bowden.
I’ve always thought one of the most embarrassing tendencies of leftists is their habit of parading with tacky, hand-lettered signs with misspelled words. That and all the goofball chants: “Hey, hey, ho, ho, blah blah blah has got to go….” Puke.
Article by Kirkpatrick Sale. Required reading. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Why America Failed, which this book is not about, is nonetheless a devastating and eviscerating critique proving convincingly that Americahas failed, and abominably, even tragically. That makes it a very important book that I hope will find an attentive audience, particularly among […]
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. I’m not sure I agree with all of this. Most of the criticism of RP I hear isn’t especially focused on standard libertarian opposition to Social Security and Medicare. Rather, the Republi-turd “base” opposes RP because of his opposition to neocon wars and […]
My interview with Gottfried on VOR. ———————————————————————————————- Keith Preston interviews Paul Gottfried. Topics include: The core characteristics that distinguish the Right from the Left, including a belief in the necessity and legitimacy of organic hierarchy, respect for the limitations imposed by human nature, and a preference for tradition […]
Wow! It looks like Ron Paul is a lot more popular with the public than with the Republi-turds. Ron Paul is not “the answer.” The Andrew Levine article I previously posted explains fairly well why a RP presidency would be ineffective at genuinely dismantling the system (unified opposition […]
Article by Andrew Levine. This is an interesting critique of Ron Paul from a neo-Marxist perspective. While it makes some interesting arguments, and is likely correct is its assessment of the futility of the Ron Paul campaign, it also engages in a lot of unnecessary overreach. The reason […]
Article by Sheldon Richman. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– The image of four U.S. marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan fighters is a fitting symbol of American intervention in Central Asia and the Middle East. That picture will live forever in the memories of people in the region, along with the […]
By Bill Anderson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– As the returns from South Carolina come in, we find that about two-thirds of SC Republican voters are evangelicals, and the evangelicals have spoken loudly: If Democrats are adulterers, they are evil, but if it is a Republican, well, all is forgiven. I’m sure […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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