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Nexus X HumectressCouple handcuffed, jailed for dancing on subway platform: lawsuit
By Kathianne Boniello First smoking, then soda — now there’s no dancing in New York City. Caroline Stern, 55, and her boyfriend George Hess, 54, claim they were handcuffed for having happy feet on the platform of the Columbus Circle subway station — and spent 23 hours in […]
Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals, and Extremists Are the Happiest of All
By Arthur C. Brooks WHO is happier about life — liberals or conservatives? The answer might seem straightforward. After all, there is an entire academic literature in the social sciences dedicated to showing conservatives as naturally authoritarian, dogmatic, intolerant of ambiguity, fearful of threat and loss, low in […]
Maoists used “human shields” in forest encounter
khabarsouthasia.com Chandan Das in Jamshedpur for Khabar South Asia In this June 2010 file photo, government-backed troops stand guard as women walk in a Chhattisgarh village. India’s home ministry says Maoist insurgents, known as Naxals, used women and minors as human shields during a recent encounter with the […]
The Canadian Holocaust: The Untold Story of the Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
From Hiddenfromhistory.Org Preamble: Who are We and What Can We Become? The time has come to end our complicity in mass murder. Our exposure of the Canadian genocide has simultaneously indicted the social order that gave rise to it. Euro-Canadian Christian society as a whole stands condemned in the […]
Myths of Individualism
Tom G. Palmer set the communitarian crowd straight. Kudos to Kyle Kidwell for bringing this to my attention. ____________ It has recently been asserted that libertarians, or classical liberals, actually think that “individual agents are fully formed and their value preferences are in place prior to and outside […]
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The Serial Ineptitude of the Democrats
By Ralph Nader If the Democrats in Congress were all drinking water from the same faucet, there might be a clue to their chronic fear of the craven and cruel corporatist Republicans who dominate them. But they don’t, so we have to ask why their fear, defeatism, and […]
The Price of Screwing With America
By William Blum I’m sure most Americans are mighty proud of the fact that Julian Assange is so frightened of falling into the custody of the United States that he had to seek sanctuary in the embassy of Ecuador, a tiny and poor Third World country, without any […]
Sheldon Adelson and the End of American Anti-Semitism
By Eric Alterman Las Vegas Sands Chief Executive Officer Sheldon Adelson speaks during a media briefing in Singapore December 21, 2009. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash If a Jew-hater somewhere, inspired perhaps by The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, sought to invent an individual who symbolizes almost all the anti-Semitic clichés […]
Divine Right of Kings, Aztec Style
How to Vote Wisely
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A Pig Kills a Dog: Another Day in Life on the Animal Farm
Please sign the petition here: http://is.gd/sxr89J Find more details about the killing here: http://is.gd/xxvNbg
Status Quo You Can Count On
The tax man cometh to police you on health care
By Stephen Ohlemacher WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold most of President Barack Obama’s health care law will come home to roost for most taxpayers in about 2½ years, when they’ll have to start providing proof on their tax returns that they have health insurance. That scenario puts the Internal Revenue […]
The New Homesteaders: Off-the-Grid and Self-Reliant
From Popular Mechanics By James Vlahos The phone rang when I was shoeless and only a couple of sips into my morning coffee. “Hi, it’s Novella Carpenter,” the caller said. “My goat is giving birth.” Twenty minutes later I was crouched in the hay at Ghost Town Farm, pushing […]
Biggest Financial Scandal in Britain’s History, Yet Not a Single Occupy Sign; What Happened?
By Alexander Cockburn Since what is now going is being described as “the greatest financial scandal in the history of Britain” — the Barclays imbroglio – I have a question to ask. Where are those tents outside St Pauls? Or ones in solidarity this side of the Atlantic? […]
Dissident News Update July 7, 2012
A Groundswell of Activism Against Drones Activist opposition to Washington’s new affinity with unmanned aerial vehicles for use in surveillance and war is growing by the day. Anti-drone campaigns are now established in New York, Nevada, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, as well as a growing movement […]
Special treatment for Israelis to enter the US
Program with Israel pre-clears Israeli travelers from immigration and customs into the United States. “Special friendship” says Napolitano. Listen to the interview here. —- forward.com Nathan Guttman Homeland Security Sec’y Defends Controversial Grant Program NATE LAVEY Secretary Speaks: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks to staff at the […]
WikiLeaks releases Syria Files containing 2.5 million emails
wikileaks.org Translations [es] Syria Files (ES) [fr] Syria Files (FR) [de] Syria Files (DE) [pt_br] Syria Files (PT-BR) Today, Thursday 5 July 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria Files – more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to […]
Obamacare: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems
By Gavin McInnes Last week, the Supreme Court decided we all have to buy government broccoli for $1.7 trillion. This is the analogy fiscal conservatives are using to describe the Obamacare mandate that insists everyone pay their “fair share.” John Derbyshire says that “healthcare isn’t broccoli,” because while […]
The Court and the “Ring of Capitalists”
By David D’Amato Last week’s 5-4 decision from the US Supreme Court, holding that Congress did indeed possess the constitutional authority to enact the individual mandate that remains Obamacare’s most controversial provision surprised many. The Court’s majority opined that although the US Constitution’s Commerce Clause doesn’t give Congress […]
Why Congress Doesn’t Work
This sounds like a mainstream, reformist version of ARV/ATS. By Leo Linbeck III gary718 / shutterstock Faced with a complex, hard-to-solve problem, there is a natural human tendency to solve a much simpler, easier one instead. Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, in his book,Thinking, Fast and Slow, dubs this cognitive process […]
Israeli National-Anarchism?
This looks to be an interesting book. This book reveals for the first time the ancient Israelite culture, which Moses established in the Sinai Desert, as an Anarchistic society. The Ancient Israelite culture rejected all forms of law and administration on principle because of their belief in Yahavah […]
Israeli troops filmed kicking Palestinian child (VIDEO)
rt.com An Israeli Border Police officer has been caught on video kicking a Palestinian child in the southern West Bank. The police have launched a probe into the incident, documented by an Israeli human rights organization. The footage shows a 9-year-old boy walking down the road when a […]
2,000-person Pakistani mob kills man for burning Koran
rawstory.com Agence France-Presse A 2,000-strong Pakistani mob snatched a mentally unstable man from a police station, beat him to death and torched his body after he allegedly burned pages from a Koran, police said Thursday. The mob ransacked the police station in a village on the outskirts of […]
Foucault and Fourth Generation Warfare: Towards a Genealogy of War and Conflict
smallwarsjournal.com by Alex Verschoor-Kirss Abstract: The tendency within the study of military history is to assume a general continuity and regularity to warfare that can be discovered and analyzed with enough backwards-looking study. This approach, however, yields untenable theories of warfare, such as that of “fourth generation warfare,” […]
10 Movements to Secede from the United States
By Lauren Davis From io9.com via nata-ny.blogspot.com This week, the United States celebrates its independence from Great Britain. But throughout the nation’s history there have been plenty of people who have sought their independence from the US, not in it. Some of these rebellions against the US have […]
The Truly Oppressed Want Separation
Neuroscience linking race preference to brain activity
How the brain responds to and processes images of people from different racial groups is an emerging field of investigation that could have major implications for society. Psychologist Elizabeth Phelps of New York University, in New York, who in 2000 led one of the first studies in this area, tells Nature what her latest review of the field reveals about the neuroscience of race1.
V for Victory: Crowley and Infowars
ac2012.com Infowars.com has recently revived the “V for Victory” campaign as a way to “invoke the spirit of the French who were occupied by the Nazis in World War Two.” What does this have to do with Aleister Crowley 2012? While he certainly wasn’t the first person to […]
Spain’s Indignados: Decentralization and Neighborhood Association
snuproject By Marta Sánchez A silent revolution emerges from the underground. Far from losing strength, decentralization has allowed 15-M to become ever more dynamic. Is the 15-M movement going invisible? Or is it rather gaining strength in the ‘underground’? The mainstream media keep claiming that the indignados have lost support since […]
Optimus Paul, or Ronimus Prime?
A Libertarian Perspective
“Taxpayer” Tragicomedy!! Carr Contra the Cuntservatives
My latest from the Inferno. _________ Last week saw comedian Jimmy Carr spotlighted and strung up under the media lamppost as something of a pecuniary piñata. For some reason, King Cameron of Cuntalot, the current British PM, saw fit to name and shame him as a protection fee […]
Islam’s Role in Slavery
From TakiMag: Jim Goad on the Trans-Saharan slave trade. ___________ While filling my car with gasoline possibly derived from Middle Eastern oil, I spotted a billboard for a local clothing store called US ARABIA. Though the sign’s head-swaddled male and female models appear to be Caucasian, palefaces are […]
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Health care: What the Supreme Court’s ruling means for US consumers
By Mark Trumbull The US Supreme Court‘s decision on health-care reform Thursday opens the door to a major expansion of health insurance, affecting households across America. Related stories How much do you know about health-care reform? Take our quiz! Obama health-care law: Supreme Court upholds it in entirety […]
Vulgar Libertarian Economics in a Nutshell
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Why Libertarians Should Oppose Conspiracy Theories
By Dan Bier and David Bier “Bilderberg conspiracies have become a handicap for the Liberty Movement,” says conservative commentator Jack Hunter in a recent article. “Bilderberg conspiracy theorists have become a political handicap. The Birthers probably have a few interesting points to make, but this doesn’t change the fact that […]
Chief Justice Roberts, Economic Fascist
By Gary North On July 2, 1776, Congress voted for the Declaration of Independence. Most of the members signed it on July 4, although more signed over the next month. The problem was this: a declaration of independence from King George III (and from Parliament, which was really […]
Despite fights about its merits, idea of American exceptionalism a powerful force through history
By Dan Gilgoff CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) – It’s safe to say the first European arrivals to New England wouldn’t recognize today’s debate over whether America is exceptional. Though the United States wouldn’t be born for another century and a half, the Puritans arriving in the early 1600s on […]
Romney losing ground to Obama without support from Paul Nation
This analysis is consistent with my own. The combination of widening class divisions and demographic and cultural change means the Repugs are screwed. By Kevin Kerwick National Republicans may have some serious thinking to do. Their presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney looks to be in serious trouble on multiple fronts today. […]
Don’t fuck with the Swiss mountain people
The First Liberty Library
by Murray Rothbard
The lone individual is seldom given credit as a shaper and mover of great historical events; and this is particularly true when that individual is no famous statesman or military hero, nor leader of a mass movement, but simply a little-known person pursuing his own idea in his own way. Yet such a person, scarcely known in his day and totally forgotten by historians until the last few years, played an important role in one of the most significant events in modern history: the American Revolution. know the great influence of this man and his simple idea in forming an event that has shaped all of our lives.
The Whole of the Law: The Political Dimensions of Crowley’s Thought
by Keith Preston
The fame of Aleister Crowley is principally derived from his reputation as a notorious occultist. It is this reputation that has made his name legendary in numerous counter-cultural and youth culture circles, ranging from contemporary enthusiasts for witchcraft of varying sorts to purveyors of certain shades of heavy metal music. Yet for all his status…
Mayoral candidate’s house shot up by La Familia drug cartel, warned to withdraw from race or family dies
washingtonpost.com Associated Press, Published: June 28 EMILIANO ZAPATA, Mexico — Before the sun climbed above the hills around this central Mexican town, Saul Garcia and his family awoke to the sound of bullets piercing the front gate. A masked motorcyclist had opened fire on their brick home, leaving […]
Swinging sex parties slowly finding a place among Saudi Arabia’s foreign residents and elite
rt.com AFP Photo/Getty Images Swinging sex parties are slowing finding a place among Saudi Arabia`s foreign residents and elite. One foreign couple gave a sneak peak into their private lives that could cost them their freedom or more in the conservative Islamic kingdom. The couple, living in the […]
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