Revolution Has Started In Spain

Source: Time Magazine Two political earthquakes have shaken Spanish life in the past week. First were the massive sit-ins that had tens of thousands of citizens camping out in the public squares of major cities in protest of the country’s capsized economy and unresponsive political class. The second came Sunday night, May 22, when voters [...]

The Base of the Mountain and the Wheel of Fire

By Les Visible Politics is the art of telling people what they want to hear and then doing what’s expedient, according to the dictates of power and money. It’s basically the art of the deal. Deals are accomplished through compromise. It’s quid pro quo. It’s been said that ‘the devil is in the details’ and [...]

Bill Gates pushes for 90 percent vaccination rate worldwide

by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) The infamous Bill Gates is on a crusade to vaccinate the entire world. In a recent speech, the Microsoft guru-turned-humanitarian put pressure on the governments of the world to “prevent four million deaths by 2015, [and] … ten million deaths” by 2020. He believes this will happen by vaccinating [...]

Iran Just Arrested 30 People In An Alleged U.S. Spy Network

Gus Lubin Iran has arrested 30 people it says were engaged in “complex espionage and sabotage network” run by the United States, state media reported. Another 42 CIA operatives officers were supposedly identified. Spying in Iran can carry the death penalty. No comment yet from Washington. More of the statement via Al Jazeera and Press [...]

Record Snowpacks Could Threaten Western States

By KIRK JOHNSON and JESSE McKINLEY STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — For all the attention on epic flooding in the Mississippi Valley, a quiet threat has been growing here in the West where winter snows have piled up on mountain ranges throughout the region. In California, officials staged three days of flood training last week, including [...]

Obama and the Israel Lobby

By Glenn Greenwald This week’s hysterical, reality-deprived reaction to President Obama’s pronouncements on the Israel/Palestine conflict genuinely provoked laughter on several occasions. That happened when I thought of the intense controversy triggered by publication of Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer’s The Israel Lobby, which examined the “loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work [...]

Top CIA Osama bin Laden Hunter Helped Bilk $200M From Pentagon

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff (Newser) – A CIA operative in charge of hunting down Osama bin Laden is a war profiteer who helped bilk the Pentagon out of some $200 million, reports Gawker. Marty Martin was put in charge of tracking down the terror mastermind from 2002-2004, and boasted to the AP that those [...]

Do Psychopaths Misrule Our World?

By Greg Guma The checklist, a way to help identify potential psychopaths among us, was developed by Bob Hare, a prison psychologist who conducted remarkable experiments and eventually codified his findings. Jon Ronson has provides an excellent history and analysis in his new book, The Psychopath Test. Here’s the basic list, a collection of tendencies [...]

FBI lab reports on anthrax attacks suggest another miscue

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Buried in FBI laboratory reports about the anthrax mail attacks that killed five people in 2001 is data suggesting that a chemical may have been added to try to heighten the powder’s potency, a move that some experts say exceeded the expertise of the presumed killer. The [...]

USDA fines family four million dollars for selling bunny rabbits

Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) When the Dollarhite family of Nixa, Mo., first started raising and selling bunnies as part of a lesson to teach their teenage son about responsibility and hard work, they had no idea they would eventually meet the heavy hand of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). According to a [...]