'September 18th, 2011'

Israel-Palestine Conflict: Pay attention to nonviolence

Israel-Palestine Conflict: Pay attention to nonviolence

TED In 2003, the Palestinian village of Budrus mounted a 10-month-long nonviolent protest to stop a barrier being built across their olive groves. Did you hear about it? Didn’t think so. Brazilian filmmaker Julia Bacha asks [...]

Police threaten Guardian journalist with Official Secrets Act

Police threaten Guardian journalist with Official Secrets Act

The Telegraph Police are threatening Guardian investigative journalist Amelia Hill (photo, left) with prosecution under the Officials Secrets Act. The news should worry everyone, Left and Right, who cares about a free press. As far as [...]

New Poverty Rate Only Tells Half the Story: Twice the Number of Americans Struggling to Get By

New Poverty Rate Only Tells Half the Story: Twice the Number of Americans Struggling to Get By

Huffington Post The latest poverty figures paint a grim picture of the Great Recession’s deep and persistent impact on average Americans. Last year, more Americans were poor than ever before, as the poverty rate climbed to [...]

US to Launch Nuclear-Capable Missile from Vandenberg on International Day of Peace

US to Launch Nuclear-Capable Missile from Vandenberg on International Day of Peace

Independent The United States has selected September 21, 2011, the United Nations International Day of Peace, for its next launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The launch will take place at Vandenberg Air Force [...]

Dark matter found at last? WIMPS in space might hold the crucial clue, experiment finds

Dark matter found at last? WIMPS in space might hold the crucial clue, experiment finds

Daily Mail Scientists working on the Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) experiment may have recorded evidence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) – a crucial step towards solving the mystery of ‘dark matter’, [...]

Gore’s 24 Hour Climate Show Gets Negative Reviews From Fellow Global Warming Activists

Gore’s 24 Hour Climate Show Gets Negative Reviews From Fellow Global Warming Activists

Marc Morano Climate Depot [Update - Sept. 18, 2011: Yet Another Key Claim of Gore Bites the Dust! NOAA lead author of U.S. Climate Science Assessment Report on Texas drought: 'This is not a climate change [...]

Market Havoc and Threats to Your Pension

Market Havoc and Threats to Your Pension

Bob Chapman International Forecaster We have warned subscribers and listeners and those on the Internet over and over again that government was going to come after your private retirement funds including 401K’s and IRA’s that hold [...]

Congress Wanting To End Local TV Stations, Creates National Control over Media

Congress Wanting To End Local TV Stations, Creates National Control over Media

Brian D. Hill U.S.W.G.O When Hitler wanted national control over Germany he took control of all media including the newspapers and radio when he implemented national socialism. I had just discovered that months ago elite members [...]

Turkey in threat to freeze EU relations

Turkey in threat to freeze EU relations

RTE Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said EU-candidate Turkey would freeze relations with the European Union if Cyprus is given the rotating EU presidency in 2012, state-run Anatolian news agency reported. “If the peace negotiations [...]

Antibiotics losing the fight against deadly bacteria

Antibiotics losing the fight against deadly bacteria

Jonathan Owen Independent.co.uk Our last line of defence against bacterial infections is fast becoming weakened by a growing number of deadly strains that are resistant to even the strongest antibiotics, according to new figures given to [...]

Greek finance ministry denies default rumors

Greek finance ministry denies default rumors

RIA Novosti The Greek Finance Ministry on Saturday denied rumors that the country would soon default on its debt. A new wave of default rumors was triggered by the sudden cancellation of Prime Minister George Papandreou’s [...]

Cop Arrests Disabled Woman for Sitting

Cop Arrests Disabled Woman for Sitting

Gawker A disabled Atlanta woman says she was sitting outside and waiting for the ice cream man when a cop showed up and ordered her to move. When she refused—because she wasn’t in anyone’s way, or [...]