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Nexus X HumectressFrom Russia Today A German court has ruled that parents can’t have their sons circumcised on religious grounds in a move which has angered Muslim and Jewish groups in the country. The court in Cologne decided that a legal guardian’s authority over a child does not allow them […]
From Natural News If you have ever doubted the truly satanic essence of the infamous Lady Gaga, then you need look no further than her new perfume, which is expected to debut this fall. According to the Boston Globe and various other sources, the new Gaga scent, known […]
From the Huffington Post The Bolivian president and a Russian political leader have launched a joint effort to have President Barack Obama stripped of the Nobel Peace Prize. As Forbes is reporting, Russian Liberal Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky released a statement Monday saying that the prize, awarded to […]
“Teachers taught us that Hitler was terrible, not because he hated the wrong group, but because hating any group is illogical, unscientific and leads ultimately to violence. Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. Sometime while I was busy and didn’t notice, Political […]
rawstory.com David Ferguson A TSA worker at an airport in Florida violated the agency’s policy when she opened a container containing the ashes of a passenger’s grandfather and spilled them on the terminal floor, according to Indianapolis, Indiana’s ABC affiliate station, WRTV Channel 6.
huffingtonpost.co.uk Lucy Sherriff A Cambridge academic responsible for mentoring students has come under pressure to resign over his controversial views which have been dubbed by some as racist, sexist and pro-Hitler. On his website, Martin Sewell, a supervisor in the university’s Faculty of Economics, describes black people as […]
.D. Heyes Natural News (NaturalNews) As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to approve scores of drone applications for a range of federal, state and local agencies, concern among Americans and privacy groups is rising about the use of these drones for illegal surveillance. The latest federal agency […]
dw.de Political turmoil continues in Nepal after the break-up of the main party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). Mohan Vaidya ‘Kiran,’ former senior-vice chairman of the party, tells DW about his political plan. Mohan Vaidya “Kiran” is the former senior-vice chairman of the Nepal’s main party, […]
rawstory.com AFP A surgeon operates on a patient in 2009. A medical transplant centre on the Italian island of Sicily said Monday it had carried out the world’s first partial liver transplant using only a robot to remove the organ of the donor. (AFP Photo/Axel Schmidt) A medical […]
rawstory.com AFP LONDON — British police launched an investigation on Monday after two England internationals were subject to abuse on social networking site Twitter. Ashley Young and Ashley Cole were targeted after missing penalties in England’s Euro 2012 quarter-final loss to Italy on Sunday. A Metropolitan Police spokesman […]
rt.com A British Muslim woman was asked to leave a school’s parents’ night in Manchester for wearing the veil. The college cited “safety” and “security” reasons. Maroon Rafique was stopped from entering Manchester College by security staff, who told her that for the security of teachers and pupils, […]
From The Anarchist Library. Bob Black spits on his hands, hoists the black flag, and considers slitting throats. Kudos to Luna920 for bringing this to my attention. _______________ Introduction We’ve all heard the phrase “law and order” — as if they go together. The slogan assumes that law […]
Holder gets a Goading @ TakiMag. _____________________ by Jim Goad The House Oversight Committee voted last week to begin Contempt of Congress proceedings against porpoise-faced Attorney General Eric Holder. Although the vote was a reaction to Holder’s stonewalling in the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal, America’s wormy, mustachioed […]
“Screw Uganda, guys: Nigeria’s a better backdoor!” From Atlanta Blackstar. ______________ In an effort to help it deal with the brutal violence of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, the Nigerian government has given the U.S. the authority to conduct strikes against the group on Nigerian soil with […]
mosquitocloud.net Charles Hugh Smith, 06, 22, 2012 The Solution to Concentrated Power: the Three Ds The solution to centralized power can be summarized as the three Ds: diffusion, decentralization, and devolution of power to local communities. Yesterday I analyzed the global failure of centralization: The Master Narrative Nobody Dares Admit: […]
amazonwatch.org Amazon Watch, International Rivers, Movimento Xingu Vivo FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | June 23, 2012 For more information, contact: Brent Milliken, +55 61 8153 7009, brent@internationalrivers.org Verena Glass, +55 11 9853 9950, veglass@uol.com.br Altamira, Brazil – Indigenous peoples affected by the controversial Belo Monte dam complex now under […]
aljazeera.com After working with US intelligence for months, the Mexican navy said it believed it had nabbed a big prize in a known Guadalajara narco-haven: the son of Mexico’s top fugitive drug lord. But it turned out they got the wrong man. The man arrested on Thursday as […]
techdirt.com Mike Masnick We’ve heard of police very frequently overreacting to things and sending in SWAT teams when they aren’t necessary. We’ve also heard of them sending SWAT teams to the wrong place. But this latest story, found via Radley Balko (who tracks these things like no other) […]
By Dean Kuipers Los Angeles Times May 18, 2012 In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued an injunction […]
wired.com Chris Anderson At last year’s Paris Air Show, some of the hottest aircraft were the autonomous unmanned helicopters—a few of them small enough to carry in one hand—that would allow military buyers to put a camera in the sky anywhere, anytime. Manufactured by major defense contractors, and […]
By Pat Buchanan In introducing his new book, Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America, Paul Gottfried identifies a fundamental divide between neoconservatives and the traditional right. The divide is over the question: What is this nation, America? Straussians, writes Gottfried, “wish to present the construction of government […]
10-15 red squads commanded by teenagers. And they say anarchists are scary. ———————– timesofindia Sanjay Ojha RANCHI: With the arrest of a large number of senior CPI(Maoist) leaders, including some central committee members, the rebel organization have handed over commands of squad and areas to teenagers. A number […]
indianexpress.com 71 elected representatives in the East Maharashtra district have resigned from their posts, apparently due to Naxal threat. Talking to reporters in Gadchiroli on Wednesday evening, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Gadchiroli Zilla Parishad (ZP) Sumant Bhange said 71 elected representatives have resigned in the last one […]
By Andy Nowicki White lightning in the ‘Rainbow Nation’ The following is an exclusive excerpt from my article “The Niggers of the Earth,” concerning my travels among the Afrikaners last December. The full piece will run in the first issue of Radix, the new print journal put out by the National Policy […]
By Paul Gottfried The latest bestseller by German economist Thilo Sarrazin, a former member of the Bundesbank executive board, is a rambling critique of the eurozone. His book Deutschland braucht den Euro nicht (Germany does not need the euro) tells you everything you might want to know about why the […]
By Tom Whitehead Violent groups who clashed with police in Greece and Spain over austerity cuts could launch an attack on the summer Games to ensure worldwide publicity, it is feared. The Italian group, the Informal Anarchist Federation, has already threatened to wage a “low-intensity war” against the […]
From Voltairine.org In commemoration of Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) Emma Goldman’s Memorial Tribute to Voltairine de Cleyre (1932), an excerpt: The first time I met her — this most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced — was in Philadelphia, in August 1893. I had come to that […]
By Gabe Fisher Iran, Syria, Russia and China are planning the “biggest-ever wargames in the Middle East,” according to an unconfirmed report on the semi-official Iranian news site Fars News. A Syrian official denied the claims. According to the article, the four countries are preparing 90,000 troops, 400 aircraft […]
The Continuing Economic Crisis by Tim Kelly Twelve Victims of the Drug War by Laurence M. Vance The Jacob Hornberger Show: June 17, 2011 by Jacob G. Hornberger The Natural Right to Be Free by Laurence M. Vance The Supreme Court Abandons the Guantánamo Prisoners by Andy Worthington Slow, Predictable Hearing on Fast […]
From The UK Libertarian. Davy, the UK Libertarian, hoists moralistic tax-happy statists on their own petard. Logical, potent, and apt, if emotionally-oversaturated at times. _________________ [WARNING: The following article contains images that some people may (and should) find disturbing. If you don’t want to see fairly graphic images […]
From HuffPo. Not seeing how what he said was “offensive”. Any sensible totalitarian disarms their citizenry/”undesirables” to make it easier to oppress and prey on them. Talk to the JPFO—they’ll fill you in! Shame he felt the need to backpedal for being right. ___________________ By Paige Lavender Samuel […]
By Dan Noyes SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The story captured the attention of the nation back in 1976. Three Bay Area men were convicted and received life sentences. Now, one of the men convicted of kidnapping a bus full of children and burying them in a van more than […]
By Nick Smith OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Police are keeping close watch on the Oakland Convention Center. Wednesday afternoon, anarchist demonstrators clashed with officers when they were denied entrance to a conference on human trafficking. Demonstrators, calling themselves “Occupy Patriarchy” gathered outside the convention center to protest the conference […]
From Spiked. Interview with the PC Stasi’s latest victim. ___________ By Patrick Hayes ‘You hear the things the social workers say, and you just bang your head against a brick wall and think, “Am I actually hearing this? Is this real?”’ Toni McLeod is an eight-month pregnant 25-year-old […]
From the Atlantic Wire. Personally, I find Kickstriker’s campaign parody fucking hilarious, not to mention potentially more effective than Jason Russell’s imperialist-enabling personality cult. Here’s an excerpt from the Kickstriker bid… PLEDGE $50,000 OR MORE 3 BACKERS · Limited Reward (29 of 32 remaining) If Kony is killed […]
From Business Insider This infographic created by Jason at Frugal Dad shows that almost all media comes from the same six sources. That’s consolidated from 50 companies back in 1983. NOTE: This infographic is from last year and is missing some key transactions. GE does not own NBC (or […]
By Chris Bassil Earlier this month, Amendment 1 — an amendment to the North Carolina state constitution that precludes the state from recognizing gay marriage, among various other kinds of domestic partnership — was passed by voters. Much has already been made of the bill’s discriminatory content, the […]
I can live with that. From BBC News. _________________ A US father who found his five-year-old daughter being raped, then beat the attacker to death will not be charged, prosecutors have said. The 23-year-old man told police he found the girl being assaulted on Saturday 9 June by […]
James Joyner on the rapecage-industrial complex. From Outside the Beltway. ____________ Christopher Glazer takes to N+1 magazine to argue that we should Raise the Crime Rate. Statistics are notoriously slippery, but the figures that suggest that violence has been disappearing in the United States contain a blind spot […]
From the Daily Mail. Sic semper tyrannis… …or, translated from Latin: good fucking riddance! ________________ Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years until overthrown by a revolution in the ‘Arab Spring last year, has been declared clinically dead by his doctors this evening. State […]
Benjamin Marks takes Mencken-misconceptions (and libertarian uplift) to task… Read more about “Mencken’s Conservatism” here. _________ Mencken believed that most of the debates about politics, religion, science, philosophy, aesthetics and other issues rests on false premises that make all their squabbles merely petty infighting. Here is a brief […]
By David D’Amato Surveying the new JOBS Act, legislation with the ostensible purpose of aiding “emerging growth companies,” the Washington Post’s Rob Kaplan and Tom Voekler contend that the act’s biggest impact will be on the formation of “small and mid-sized business capital.” Observing an important difference between […]
From Business Insider Scotland’s bid for independence looks likely to change the way that the UK works (to some degree at least), but do secessionist movements have a wider impact? We’ve taken a look at Europe’s various secessionist movements to show you exactly why you need to watch […]
Swedish courts in sensible verdict shocker! Read all about it at The Local. I also found this tidbit—from artist Trevor Brown’s blog—interesting… i just received a letter yesterday from a fellow swede saying “…his ex tried to get him convicted for sexual abuse of their child so she […]
From the New Statesman. Might be a worthy read for those interested in modern men’s issues. __________ By Ally Fog Anyone who has ever debated male-specific gender issues will probably have experienced an encounter like this: Bloke: “Yeah, but men can also be victims of violence and injustice, […]
schneier.com Bruce Schneier We’re in the early years of a cyberwar arms race. It’s expensive, it’s destabilizing, and it threatens the very fabric of the Internet we use every day. Cyberwar treaties, as imperfect as they might be, are the only way to contain the threat. If you […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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