8 striking parallels between the U.S. and the Roman Empire
By Steven Strauss | Alternet Is our republic coming to an unceremonious end? History may not be on America’s side Lawrence Lessig’s Republic Lost documents the corrosive effect of money on our political process. Lessig persuasively makes the case that we are witnessing the loss of our republican form of government, as politicians increasingly represent those who [...]
Read More →Death threats anyone? Austrian Prof: global warming deniers should be sentenced to death
By joannenova Richard Parncutt, Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria, reckons people like Watts, Tallbloke, Singer, Michaels, Monckton, McIntyre and me (there are too many to list) should be executed. He’s gone full barking mad, and though he says these are his “personal opinions” they are listed on his university web site. For [...]
Read More →‘People should stop staring and start learning’: World’s ‘ugliest woman’ gives courageous interview
By Amy Oliver | Daily Mail She has been ridiculed, stared at in the street and called ‘the world’s ugliest woman’ by insensitive cyber bullies. But, after years of misery and self doubt, Lizzie Velasquez says she can finally shrug off the hurtful comments about her looks as ‘just words’. Miss Velasquez, from Austin, Texas, [...]
Read More →Photographic Adventure Reveals the Frightening Deadness of Genetically Engineered Corn Field
By Dr. Mercola | merocla A recent NPR article1 highlights the truly frightening environmental effect of monoculture. NPR commentator and science writer Craig Childs decided to replicate a photo project by David Liittschwager, a portrait photographer who spent years traveling the world dropping one-cubic-foot metal frames into gardens, streams, parks, forests, and oceans, photographing anything [...]
Read More →N. Korea’s Kim Calls for More Weapons, End to Confrontation
VOA North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has used a New Year speech to call for the development of more advanced weapons, as well as an “end to confrontation” on the Korean peninsula. In the surprise address broadcast Tuesday on state television, Kim called on his country to hold fast “to the ideals of independence, [...]
Read More →Netanyahu Stands behind “Palestinian State” Vision
By Gil Ronen | INN Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has affirmed to Channel 2 that as elections approach, he stands behind the principles he outlined in his speech at Bar Ilan University in 2009. Channel 2‘s Knesset reporter, Amit Segal, did not say Monday evening whether the information came directly from Netanyahu, but from the way in which he [...]
Read More →Fiscal cliff-diving: US Senate approves last-minute deal
RT The deadline for the ‘fiscal cliff’ has passed in the US, with senators approving a bill to soften the impending tax hikes and spending cuts. Economists warn the austerity measures could send the US back into recession if lawmakers do not act. The stopgap bill will now be presented to the House of Representatives, [...]
Read More →Deep-Space Travel Could Contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease
By Cassie Ryan | The Epoch Times Exposure to cosmic radiation during future long-term missions to Mars and other distant destinations might lead to an earlier onset of Alzheimer’s disease in astronauts, according to a new U.S. study. Before leaving Earth, astronauts are protected from radioactive particles by our planet’s magnetic field. Outside Earth’s orbit, [...]
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