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Nexus X HumectressMore on the psychological origins of political beliefs: “Other research has found that liberals tend to see moral issues in terms of individual suffering or unfairness, whereas conservatives have more group-level concerns, such as loyalty, patriotism and respect for authority and tradition. Across dozens of countries, liberals are […]
By Jacob Sullum The U.S. Supreme Court agreed for the first time to take on the issue of gay marriage. No matter how it rules in the two cases it will hear next spring, polling data suggest it is only a matter of time before legal recognition of […]
By Vincent Rinehart
If you are ever faced with extreme violence, you will have to make the decision to act.
by Shepherd Bliss
Our Veterans Writing Group met the morning after Pearl Harbor Day for our regular winter gathering, as we have convened seasonally for twenty years. Two dozen of us came from throughout Northern California to a spacious redwood home in the Sebastopol countryside.
A new study of the psychology of political beliefs indicates that Pareto was correct when he said that an individual’s political views are as much an indication of their own innate personality type and psychological makeup as much as anything else. In other words, we may be “hard-wired” […]
This is the kind of scholarship that anarchists, libertarians, anti-statists, decentralists, and anti-authoritarians of every kind should be studying. The emerging global trends are on our side. It’s not like the 20th century when anarchists were swimming against the historical tides and ever greater centralization and statism were […]
ocregister.com by SALVADOR HERNANDEZ, MIKE REICHER, SARAH de CRESCENZO, JOSH FRANCIS and KEITH SHARON / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER NEWPORT BEACH Sadness for far away victims turned to up-close terror Saturday evening as shots rang out at Fashion Island, sending holiday shoppers scrambling for their lives.
bigstory.ap.org BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high school and trying to recruit classmates to help him. Police in Bartlesville, a community about 40 miles north of […]
From Paul Myerberg of USA Today’s Twitter:
dailydot.com Kevin Collier For the overwhelming majority of Americans, there’s nothing to do in response to the horrific news of a gunman who killed 18 children in a Connecticut elementary school. So, in what’s becoming an emerging trend in response to news of mass shootings, many gun control […]
The Canadian justice system: moralfags extraordinaire! From Reason.org. ______________ This week the trial of Rémy Couture, the Canadian special-effects artist charged with “corrupting morals” by illegally combining sex and gore, began in Montreal. The evidence against him includes two short films depicting the crimes of a necrophiliac serial […]
From the Inferno. ____________ Ostensibly, she’s a horny, hyper-enhanced, insatiable fuckpig, ready to give hummers to all cummers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year, 3 holes per session… …until the director yells “cut”, upon which she reverts to a hollow, empty, used-up […]
Russia Today The U.S. Supreme Court building (AFP Photo / Chip Somodevilla) The US Supreme Court has been asked to step in and make sure the military cannot detain US citizens indefinitely without charge or trial as guaranteed in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. Attorneys […]
Think Progress House GOP Secretly Authorized $500,000 To Defend Unconstitutional Anti-Gay Law By Josh Israel on Dec 13, 2012 at 5:28 pm It has come to light that House Administration Committee Chairman Dan Lungren (R-CA) secretly approved a $500,000 increase to a contract with a private law firm […]
It is with great regret that I must inform our readers of the passing of Thomas H. Naylor, founder of the Second Vermont Republic. I received word earlier this evening that Tom passed away last night after a sudden stroke at the age of 76. Fortunately, I was […]
This article is included in the recently released National-Anarchism: Theory and Practice, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. By Wayne John Sturgeon Mutualism as Free Market Anti-Capitalism It was the French philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who first coined the term ‘anarchist’ and produced the economic […]
An interesting take on secession. • People can withdraw their consent to be ruled by corrupt government By Mark Anderson from: American Free Press Looking at recent headlines about citizens in the 50 states wanting to secede from the federal government, it’s tempting to conclude that they should […]
rt.com (RT.com / AFP Photo / David Furst) Fifteen times more troops were discharged from the US Army this year due to obesity than five years prior. With scores of recruits unfit to serve due to the extra pounds, the country’s top brass have deemed it a national […]
wired.com Noah Shachtman Artificial limbs like these could be only the beginning of man-machine interfaces, the National Intelligence Council predicts. Photo: DoD 3-D printed organs. Brain chips providing superhuman abilities. Megacities, built from scratch. The U.S. intelligence community is taking a look at the world of 2030. And […]
homelandsecuritynewswire.com Sudanese security forces have captured what they describe as an electronically tagged vulture which was dispatched by the Israeli military on a surveillance mission over Sudan; the Sudanese claimed the vulture was equipped with a camera, a solar-powered satellite uplink, and a GPS device; the Sudanese also […]
rt.com Packaged M75 perfume bottles are displayed at the “Stay Stylish” shop in Gaza City on December 10, 2012. (AFP Photo / Mohammed Abed) A cosmetic company in Gaza has launched M75, a new perfume named after a long-range missile used by Palestinian militants to target Jerusalem and […]
homelandsecuritynewswire.com The United States and some of its European have issues contracts to defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to identify, handle, and secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria; some of the training is done in Jordan, but some of the contractors are already inside Syria, […]
guardian.co.uk National Intelligence Council also sees water and food shortages and suggests world is at a ‘critical juncture in human history’ The report said: ‘China alone will probably have the largest economy, surpassing that of the United States a few years before 2030.’ Photograph: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP
antiwar.com by Justin Raimondo “He’s killing his own people!” It’s a familiar refrain to those of us who’ve been paying attention the past decade or so: it’s what our leaders in both parties said about Saddam Hussein by way of justifying the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and […]
computerworld.com Patrick Thibodeau Apple will need to rely on automation to make its U.S. factory work Computerworld – Apple’s planned investment of $100 million next year in a U.S. manufacturing facility is relatively small, but still important. Apple has the money, talent and resources to build a highly […]
fastcompany.com Neal Ungerleider With $5 million from Google, the World Wildlife Fund is deploying unarmed drones to track and hunt down wildlife poachers.
rt.com Screenshot from YouTube user SyrianGirl War A graphic video recently posted to YouTube allegedly shows Syrian rebels forcing a child to behead an unarmed prisoner. A recent series of similarly brutal incidents has done little to dampen foreign calls to arm the Syrian opposition. The video shows […]
survivalblog.com Jim G. I’ve been reading a lot lately about types of bags and the many different options for BOBs that are out there. A staple of all prep web sites is the gear list and there is no shortage of suggestions on what you should have with […]
By Vince Rinehart
A nation is never conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.
-Cheyenne saying
The recent spat between Democrats and
Keith Preston critically examines the dominant narrative surrounding the second world war.
permacultureglobal.com A growing list of permaculture projects worldwide This will be the premier place to find out who is doing what, and where, in the permaculture world. You can search for projects by keyword, and/or filter to specific project types. You can even constrain your search by climate […]
by Rachel Haywire
For a while the Fash have been fighting with the Posh who are generally not very Fash. One might say Fash is a reaction to Posh. Yet every now and then someone comes along who is both Posh and Fash. This person is Fosh.
By Kelley B. Vhlahos As far as villains go, Pfc. Bradley Manning is hardly quintessential. At 5 foot 2 inches tall, his slender frame and bespectacled image has invoked snickers, sarcasm and according to reporting over the last two years, a lifetime of bullying. Bradley Manning That bullying […]
“What are kingdoms but great bands of robbers? What are bands of robbers themselves but little Kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is governed by the authority of a ruler; it is bound together by a pact of association; and the loot is divided […]
Brandon Smith Alt Market To the point of causing intestinal convulsions, there has been no shortage of analysis on the elections of 2012. Every no-name mop-head mainstream media hack with a niche audience has put in his or her two cents on the finale of perhaps the biggest […]
wired.com Pete Brook There are thousands of gun shows in America each year, but machine gun shows are a rare spectacle. At the two-day hands-on shootfest that is the Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot & Trade Show (OFASTS) exhibitors rent out fully automatic weapons to the public so that they may annihilate refrigerators, ovens […]
You take away guns from American history and there is no America….. Take away guns and you take away people’s ability to protect themselves. You take away people’s ability to protect themselves in a world where evil does everything it can to deprive us of life, you take […]
RT.com As President Obama insists on a speedy end to the war in Afghanistan, his administration has other plans. A facility owned by the private security force once known as Blackwater has been awarded a $22 million contract to house US
By John Whitehead The battle playing out in San Antonio, Texas, over one student’s refusal to comply with a public school campaign to microchip students has nothing to do with security concerns and even less to do with academic priorities. What is driving this particular program, which requires […]
This piece by critic of yours truly Matthew Lyons is quite good and well worth worth reading. Here’s the money quote: “we need to “worry much more about the consequences of ruling class ‘anti fascism,’ than [about] ruling class propensities to impose fascism from above.” Building on Walden […]
rt.com American MMA star Jeff Monson will be remembered by the Moscow crowd not only for his fight with Fedor Emelianenko, but also by his off-ring adventures in the Russian capital. On Monday, the Russian internet simmered with discussions of Fedor Emelianenko’s latest win over the American veteran […]
reuters.com Golden Dawn has surged in popularity during Greece’s debt crisis and was catapulted from obscurity to winning 7 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections in June, riding a wave of public anger at austerity, corrupt politicians and immigrants. Activists and politicians have called for the ultra-nationalist […]
by Spencer Pearson
Nationalism as a modern ideology emerged alongside, and in alliance with, all the other great political ideological traditions of the Industrial Age around the time of the French Revolution. Since that time is has been
Hear, hear! Anyone who follows Bruce Schneier and his book Beyond Fear knows that the reason air travel is safer today is less about the TSA taking away your nail clippers and more about reinforced, locking cockpit doors and the common understanding among passengers that if your plane […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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