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Nexus X Humectresstechnewsdaily.com Douglas Main The Guardium MK I, one of the autonomous vehicles made by the Israeli company G-NIUS. CREDIT: G-NIUS Introduced in 2008, about eight to 10 autonomous cars have been patrolling Israeli borders, said Hugo Guterman, a researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Guterman helped develop […]
CBS Sacramento Thousands of people lined up for hours outside Cal Expo to buy ammunition. The line wrapped around the building for the first day of the two-day gun show. You’ve heard the early bird gets the worm. At the Crossroads of the West gun show it couldn’t […]
Laird Harrison KQED It’s move-in day. You’re sitting in the great new condo you just bought. And suddenly you catch a whiff of cigarettes coming from next door. If you’re a healthy-living type, your home-buyer happiness may be gone in a puff of smoke. Now California Assemblyman Mark […]
inquisitr.com A pit bull insurance law proposed in Tennessee would require owners of the controversial dogs to purchase a $25,000 policy for liability against possible attacks. The proposal has brought controversy among those who work with and own pit bulls. Wendy Jackson, founder of East Tennessee Pit Bull […]
naturalnews.com Summer Tierney (NaturalNews) An ongoing debate over the rights of homeowners to raise and keep their own chickens may soon gain an audience in the Virgina Supreme Court. Attorneys at the Rutherford Institute have filed a Petition for Appeal on behalf of Virginia Beach resident Tracy Gugal-Okroy, […]
washingtontimes.com Stephen Dinan and David Sherfinski Sen. Rand Paul won the 2013 Washington Times-CPAC presidential preference straw poll this past weekend with Sen. Marco Rubio coming in a close second, easily outdistancing the rest of the field and signaling the rise of a new generation of conservative leaders. […]
infowars.com Kurt Nimmo Feinstein’s measures may be added later as amendments to a more comprehensive Democrat bill. California Democrat and influential senator Dianne Feinstein admitted Monday her gun ban proposals will not be part of a Democrat bill to rollback the Second Amendment.
news.cnet.com Leslie Katz While Emma can stand and walk on her own, she lacks the upper-body strength to do things like lift objects and draw. (Credit: Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) Thanks to 3D-printed plastic appendages, 4.5-year-old Emma Lavelle now plays with blocks. Born with a rare neuromuscular […]
slate.com Will Oremus A man wears a brain-machine interface, equipped with electroencephalographyPhoto by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images Behind a locked door in a white-walled basement in a research building in Tempe, Ariz., a monkey sits stone-still in a chair, eyes locked on a computer screen. From his head protrudes […]
wired.com David Kravets The second of two GPS trackers found on the vehicle of a young man in California. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move.
By William Norman Grigg One aspect of drug prohibition that gets far too little attention is the fact that the drug war is immensely profitable for prohibitionists. Ten former high-ranking officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration recently signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee criticizing the Obama […]
Hell no, says Pat Buchanan. Ten years ago today, U.S. air, sea and land forces attacked Iraq. And the great goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom? Destroy the chemical and biological weapons Saddam Hussein had amassed to use on us or transfer to al-Qaida for use against the U.S. […]
USNews.Com Do you want to keep drones out of your backyard? An Oregon company says that it has developed and will soon start selling technology that disables unmanned aircraft.
Tenth Amendment Center “Fear is the foundation of most governments.” –John Adams Turn on the TV or flip open the newspaper on any given day, and you will find yourself accosted by reports of government corruption, corporate malfeasance, militarized police and marauding SWAT teams. America is entering a […]
by John Pilger What is modern propaganda? For many, it is the lies of a totalitarian state. In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her epic films that glorified the Nazis. Using revolutionary camera and lighting techniques, she produced a documentary form that mesmerized […]
by Gary North I wrote an article on Austrian School economist Murray Rothbard. I argued that one of the reasons why tenured Austrian School economists want to distance themselves from him, is his writings on conspiracies in American history. Rothbard was quite clear about his commitment to apply […]
Kelly Patricia O’Meara Photo: Garry Mcleod; Origami: Robert Lang – from Wired Magazine, “Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness” In 1952, the first hydrogen bomb was detonated and the American Psychiatric Association, APA, published its first book of mental illnesses: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental […]
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe [Transcript of a speech delivered at the 2009 Mises University.] At the beginning, I want to repeat a few points that I have made in my previous lecture on law and economics, and then I want to get to an entirely different subject than the […]
Salon.Com NYPD officers (Credit: Reuters/Carlo Allegri) This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The NYPD is the biggest police force in the country, with over 34,000 uniformed officers patrolling New York’s streets, and 51,000 employees overall — more than the FBI. It has a proposed budget of $4.6 billion for 2013, […]
SecretsoftheFed.Com An 83 year old woman in VA allegedly used a handgun to fire a warning shot to scare off a burglar late at night. The woman, Delma Towler, also called police to report the break in.
By Kevin Carson Since Hugo Chavez’s death last week, predictably, the cable news talking head shows and the editorial pages of the major newspapers of record have been full of head-shaking about the dictatorial nature of his regime. To be sure, the Chavez regime was dictatorial. But another […]
By Justin Raimondo The response to Rand Paul’s historic filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan met with rapturous applause from civil libertarians and anti-interventionists on the right and the left – followed by harsh denunciations from Democratic party partisans and their neocon allies. It was a moment […]
By Robert Beckhusen An anarchist group suspected in the bombings of research labs in Mexico has now taken credit for a murder. Photo: Cosmopolita/Flickr Over the past two years, Mexican scientists involved in bio- and nanotechnology have become targets. They’re not threatened by the nation’s drug cartels. They’re […]
CBS DC For Every 10 Americans, Only 3 Trust The Government WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. has found that fewer Americans than ever trust the decisions made by the government. Data collected from a survey taken in January of this year indicates that […]
Police intervened when more than a hundred people joined in a candlelit vigil in the East Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, where 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot 11 times by police on Saturday. Brooklynites on Twitter reported that police followed the march and searched apartment buildings in […]
Rest in peace and fuck the pigs. Brooklyn neighborhood on police lockdown following protest Further reading here at Attack the System: The Rebillion in Los Angeles – The Context of a Proletarian Uprising
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By Daniel Larison jcolman / Flickr Rod looks back on the Iraq war debate and acknowledges that its “radical” opponents got the main question right: I don’t think this makes radicals always right, or beyond mockery. But I learned that sometimes, radicals of the left and the right […]
By Vikrant P. Reddy and Marc A. Levin vgm8383 / Flickr Since the 1980s, the United States has built prisons at a furious pace, and America now has the highest incarceration rate in the developed world. 716 out of every 100,000 Americans are behind bars. By comparison, in […]
The LA Times is pissed. Demonstrators rally outside the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. to assert their right to own firearms and to denounce recent gun-control efforts. (Tim Roske / Associated Press / January 19, 2013) Related photos » Photos: The 10 trigger-happiest states in America Can bipartisanship break out […]
By Dr. Stephen Sniegoski phen Sniegoski March 8, 2013 6 While traditional conservatives welcomed neoconservatives as allies in their fight against Soviet Communism and domestic liberalism, the neocons in effect acted as a Trojan Horse within conservatism: they managed to secure dominant positions in the conservative political and […]
A march of environmentalists, eco-radicals & Cascadians took place on March 3, 2013 following the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon. I participated in one of the conferences’s many panels along with Cascadian activists: Cascadian Bioregionalism and the Indigenous Future. I also attended a packed and […]
Interesting insights from Robert Kaplan Ancient and medieval mapmakers would better understand the world of 2100 than would the politicians of 2000. Nations as we know them have existed for only a few hundred years. But cities have been with us since the dawn of civilization. And while […]
Trendsimwatching.com Trend: Nation-states may be losing power to smaller entities as globalization sorts cultures into regions based on city-states. VC Confidential describes a dinner talk by futurist Paul Saffo. Excerpts below. Link: VC Confidential: A Global Evening with Paul Saffo …our world is moving from one of nation-states […]
By Parag Khanna The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This […]
San Francisco Chronicle In this photo taken Feb. 14, 2013, Peter Bensinger, a former Drug Enforcement Administration chief under Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, speaks at a news conference in Chicago. Bensinger is one of eight former DEA chiefs that say the federal government needs […]
by Rachel Haywire
The Cathedral is the new matrix. Anyone familiar with Mencius Moldbug is familiar with this fact. We are trapped, ideologically, by the academic institutions that tell us how to think. We are pressured, socially, to associate ourselves with meaningless causes that give us status points. Holding the most socially progressive viewpoint in the room is a valuable commodity here in the
By Dave Hummels Do you ever get the feeling that progressives have run out of ideas? This thought crossed my mind when I read Thom Hartmann’s “The Draft: A War-Killer” on Truthout. Hartmann advocates reinstatement of conscription in a “new and improved form.” He proclaims that the military […]
This is a story I wrote in 1998. It is also the origin of the name Acidexia. This is the first dystopian story I ever authored. No words have been changed. The Wrong Section It was Sydney’s first day of high school. She walked into her classroom and saw a […]
Here’s a comment I made recently in a discussion where I was calling out some anarchists for their lack of boldness when it comes to embracing the implications of their ideas. Thoughts? “I’ve long believed that when Anarchistan finally arrives it will probably have a lot of internal […]
Take out the anti-Semitic, anti-gay, and anti-abortion stuff and you have modern left-liberalism. TotalFascism.Com Fascism: It’s about getting things done.
By Dave Hummels While reflecting on recent episodes of police misconduct in my community and beyond, I began to think about how much law enforcement agencies resemble the Catholic Church. And no, this is not a pre-St. Patrick’s day Irish joke. Consider the following: The Church and police departments […]
By Mary Theroux “Bread and circuses” anyone? The culmination of last night’s Oscars broadcast with a Live! feed from the White House with Mrs. Obama (hangin’ with her military BFs) marks the official recognition of the Presidency as theater: like the old Western sets, no substance required.
I personally find the practice of bestiality to be utterly revolting, only a half step above pedophilia, and I hardly consider a ban on the practice in the name of curbing animal abuse to be any kind of human rights violation. But I do worry when things start […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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