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Nexus X HumectressU.S. Spies See Superhumans, Instant Cities by 2030
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 […]
Israel using electronically equipped vultures as spies
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 […]
Gaza launches M75 missile perfume with ‘scent of victory’
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 […]
Syrian rebels trained in handling, securing chemical weapons
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, […]
China’s economy to outgrow America’s by 2030 as world faces ‘tectonic shift’
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
‘He’s Killing His Own People!’
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 […]
U.S. Apple factory may be robot city
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 […]
The Google-Funded Drones That Hunt Illegal Hunters
fastcompany.com Neal Ungerleider With $5 million from Google, the World Wildlife Fund is deploying unarmed drones to track and hunt down wildlife poachers.
Grisly video allegedly shows Syrian rebels forcing child to behead unarmed prisoner
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 […]
Survival Gear Packing 101
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 […]
VAWA: An Admission of Defeat for Native Men
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 lecture to the H L Mencken Club: How good was the “Good War”?
Keith Preston critically examines the dominant narrative surrounding the second world war.
Map of permaculture projects worldwide
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 […]
How Reactionary Hipsters Took Back the Media
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.
Manning vs. the Marines
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 […]
Robber Bands Writ Large
“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 […]
The GOP Is Dying Because The Liberty Movement Is Thriving
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 […]
Machine Gun Expo Is Down-Home Americana Gone Ballistic
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 […]
Gun rights as a right to life
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 […]
Blackwater becomes new landlord in Afghanistan for US Special Forces
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
The Fight Against the Total Surveillance State in Our Schools
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 […]
Liberal counterinsurgency versus the paramilitary right
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 […]
American anarchist Jeff “The Snowman” Monson knocks out two cops in Moscow
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 […]
Bomb explodes at offices of Golden Dawn party
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 […]
Nation Vs State: Five Reasons
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
The TSA as we know it can’t die soon enough
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 […]
Give us your guns and we’ll give you a UN sanctioned poison shot!
It’s hard to imagine that these programs turn up much of anything but publicity for police departments and grandpa’s ill-maintained relic of a firearm that’s been sitting in the basement, rusting away for a couple of generations. Police gun buyback program Sat. also offers shots … flu shots […]
America’s Scummiest Politician Strikes Again
NYC mayor acknowledged Occupy Sandy Relief NYC for the first time ever – and then immediately ordered a police eviction of the biggest Occupy Sandy relief center in Staten Island.
Stirrings of Secession
By Pat Buchanan “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another …” So begins the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies from the king and country to which they had given […]
34 Signs That America Is In Decline
Michael Snyder Economic Collapse The United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline. Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this, but not me. I mourn for the country that I was born in and that I still love.
The Majority of Americans Voted for Obama?
Private Prison Company Used in Drug Raids at Public High School
Corrections Corporation of America used in drug sweeps of public school students in Arizona. Alternet.org November 28, 2012 | In Arizona an unsettling trend appears to be underway: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations.
Shovel AK-47
Massachusetts man builds AK-47 from a shovel proving that gun control will not stop the revolution. On this Thanksgiving Day, let me say this: God Bless America the only country on this shitty planet where you still have the freedom to build AKs in defense of Motherland! The […]
Bukkake party raises $100,000 for Japan earthquake victims
Looks like activist masturbation paid off somewhere. From Dead Serious News. __________ One thousand men in Nagato, Japan paid $100 each to participate in a bukkake party to raise relief funds for Japan’s recent earthquake victims. Bukkake is a group sex act in which a group of men […]
Will the Supreme Court Kill Used Bookstores?
From Reason.com ___________ By Christopher Balogh On October 29, the Supreme Court heard the arguments of a copyright case involving the right to resell imported goods in the United States. The goods in question were college textbooks but the outcome could affect whether copyrighted goods made overseas can […]
Trial Continues for Florida Man Who Killed Utah Man With Single Punch
Guy got punched in the face and never got back up. —- 8newsnow.com LAS VEGAS (AP) – Trial is continuing in Las Vegas for a former Florida high school teacher and football coach accused of killing a Utah man with a single punch after racial insults in a […]
Shopping Local Benefits The Neighborhood: Here Are The Numbers That Prove It
fastcoexist.com Ben Schiller A new study finds that money you spend at chain stores quickly leaves the community, while money you spend at local businesses helps make the neighborhood better. Think about this the next time you go to the neighborhood CVS or Starbucks: You could do more […]
Why So Scared?
by R.J. Jacob
“The thought of you tribal thugs “bringing down the state” is fucking disturbing.”
-Anonymous
The above comment is only a taste of the recent wave of fear generated by
Zbigniew Brzezinski Still Admits The Global Political Awakening Proving Very Difficult For The Elite
Revenge of the Reality-Based Community
By Bruce Bartlett I know that it’s unattractive and bad form to say “I told you so” when one’s advice was ignored yet ultimately proved correct. But in the wake of the Republican election debacle, it’s essential that conservatives undertake a clear-eyed assessment of who on their side was […]
UK schools ban children from making best friends
By Joe Newby Teachers in some UK schools are banning children from making best friends, The Sun reported earlier this week, in order to spare them the pain of losing a friend after a falling-out. Instead, children are encouraged to play in large groups. “Educational psychologist Gaynor Sbuttoni […]
Parting Company
By Walter Williams For decades, it has been obvious that there are irreconcilable differences between Americans who want to control the lives of others and those who wish to be left alone. Which is the more peaceful solution: Americans using the brute force of government to beat liberty-minded […]
Black Friday’s gun-buyer checks set a record
USA Today 6:37PM EST November 26. 2012 – WASHINGTON — For the second consecutive year, prospective gun buyers joined Black Friday shoppers in record numbers as firearms dealers swamped the FBI with required buyer background check requests. The FBI fielded 154,873 calls, a roughly 20% increase from last […]
President Obama Briefly Worried That His Unaccountable, Murderous Power Might Fall Into Republican Hands
From Reason by Matt Welch The first 61 words of this chilling and banal New York Times article are a perfect distillation of how grotesque power appears in the eye of Americans who wield it: Facing the possibility that President Obama might not win a second term, his […]
Let’s Bulldoze a Big Box Shopping Center
Are traditional urban environments an antidote to mass consmerism, big box retailer-dominated markets, and stale strip mall culture? Nathan Lewis thinks we should start bulldozing suburban shopping malls and strip malls and replace them with traditional urban environments: really narrow streets, thoughtfully designed public places, no space wasted […]
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How Did Third Party Candidates Perform in the Election?
By Lucas Eaves During this election cycle, IVN covered third party candidates to ensure voters could access information about the wide range of choices they had at the ballot box. Gary Johnson, from the Libertarian Party, received 1,139,562 votes which represents 0.9% of the popular vote. He is […]
Divided States of America: Nation Most Polarized in 70 Years
By Kyle Becker The Wall Street Journal has put the results of the 2012 election in historical perspective: there are more single-party controlled states than at any point in the last 70 years. There have been few times in this nation’s young history when Americans have been more […]
Immigrants Against Empire
By Scott McConnell Thomas Hawk / Flickr Nearly 40 years ago, Daniel Moynihan and Nathan Glazer wrote that “the immigration process is the single most important determinant of American foreign policy.” Immigration determined the ethnicity of the electorate to which our foreign policy responds. “It responds to other […]
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