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Some people confuse Veterans Day with Memorial Day. They’re both federal holidays. The latter remembers combat related dead service personnel.
The former honors war and peacetime veterans. It largely thanks living ones. It does so disingenuously.
Veterans Day was formerly Armistice Day. It commemorates the war to end all wars. In 1918, guns on both sides largely fell silent. They did so on the 11th hour of the 11th day of 11th month. Continue reading “Veterans Day Hypocrisy”
Engineers at Duke University have designed a breakthrough gadget that ‘harvests’ background microwave radiation and converts it into electricity, with the same efficiency as solar panels.
The development, unveiled on Thursday, raises exciting possibilities such as recharging a phone wirelessly and providing power to remote locations that can’t access conventional electricity. Continue reading “New invention ‘harvests’ electricity from background radiation and could be used to beam power to remote locations or recharge phones wirelessly”
November 11 is Veterans Day in the United States. It (and the Sunday preceding) has become a day of holy worship for many. Churches as well as today’s temples of worship – the sports arena – will bear witness to this glorious event. The throngs will cheer uncontrollably.
They cheer for their heroes, those who have died so they could live free – free to pay a 50% portion to the state, free to have every form of communication monitored, free to be forced into all sorts of activities and prohibited from many others, free to turn their children over for brainwashing, free to be seen naked before flying. Continue reading “The Required Blood Sacrifice”
Waking Times – by Daniel Chamovitz
Have you ever wondered what the grass under your feet feels, what an apple tree smells, or a marigold sees? Plants stimulate our senses constantly, but most of us never consider them as sensory beings too. In fact senses are extremely important to plants. Whatever life throws at them, they remain rooted to the spot – they cannot migrate in search of food, escape a swarm of locusts or find shelter from a storm. To grow and survive in unpredictable conditions, plants need to sense their environment and react accordingly. Continue reading “Plants Exhibit The Same Senses As Humans And See, Touch, Smell, Hear and Even Taste”
The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
The quest to cut off the National Security Agency from the utilities it needs to power its surveillance stations just gained a powerful new partner: Revolution Truth, a non-partisan organization created to provide citizens with information they can use to increase their participation in and influence on the governing process.
Tangerine Bolen is the founder of Revolution Truth and according to a press release, she has thrown her support behind the efforts of the OffNow coalition, describing it as an “exciting initiative.” Continue reading “Coalition to Cut Off NSA’s Power Gets Potent New Ally”
The bikers massed in Washington. So did truckers. Then there were the groups representing the military and its families. And don’t forget what the veterans themselves did when President Obama strategically shut off access to the World War II veteran’s memorial during the government’s partial shutdown.
Now a mass demonstration has been announced for Washington to combine all the frustration Americans have over the Obama scandals – Benghazi, Navy SEALs, Fast and Furious, the IRS, the NSA, Obamacare, amnesty for illegal aliens and others – and press for action. Continue reading “Washington rally call: ‘It is time for action’”
ABC Australian – by Will Ockenden
A young Australian entrepreneur says his bitcoin website has been hacked and thieves have stolen more than $1 million in virtual currency.
Unlike old currencies bitcoin is digital, traded computer-to-computer, and often used to pay for goods and services on the internet.
But it has no central authority or government-based backing, and the alleged theft – one of the largest in the currency’s four-year history – raises questions about digital money and if it can ever be regulated. Continue reading “Australian bitcoin user TradeFortress says site hacked, $1 million in virtual currency stolen”
Front Page Mag – by Raymond Ibrahim
According to Egyptian newspaper El Watan, a group of Egyptian lawyers has submitted a complaint charging U.S. president Barrack Hussein Obama with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.
The complaint charges Obama of being an accessory to the Muslim Brotherhood, which incited widespread violence in Egypt both before and after the June 30 Revolution. Continue reading “Obama Accused of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ at International Criminal Court”
Back in 2003, it was already well established that the US federal government was using new surveillance powers found in the Patriot Act to investigate crimes unrelated to terrorism. In 2001, the ACLU detailed how the FBI issued 143,074 national security letters (which come with gag orders), resulting in 53 criminal referrals, of which only one was for terrorism. And, in October, NSA Chief Gen. Keith Alexander stated that only one or two terrorists plots were thwarted because of federal surveillance of telephone conversations. Continue reading “Nixon Had It Right: The Government Should Be Wiretapped”
Accuracy in Media – by James Simpson
Our nation is being stolen before our very eyes. The American people are being robbed of their livelihoods, their security and their freedom. President Obama makes grand sweeping gestures and delivers soaring rhetoric about helping the poor and achieving fairness. But he merely draws our attention away from the hand that is reaching deep into our pockets. Such is the nature of his extremist legislative agenda. Call it Grand Theft Obama, but it is no video game; this is for real.
And it is not merely monetary theft, as is apparent from Obamacare. America is being fundamentally transformed, as Obama promised. This is one promise that he clearly intends to keep, no matter how many people lose their health insurance policies, their jobs, or their productive futures. Continue reading “Grand Theft Obama: The Biggest Heist in U.S. History”
The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.”
— Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775
A soon-to-be-released book by Stephen P. Halbrook uses newly discovered secret documents from German archives, diaries, and newspapers from the time of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich to demonstrate how civilian disarmament can be accomplished by “legal” methods. Continue reading “The Past as Prelude: Nazi Disarmament and the U.S. Gun Grab”
Out-of-control spying reflects America’s true face. At stake are fundamental rights too important to lose.
They’re gravely eroded already. They’re headed toward disappearing altogether. They may not survive much longer.
Everybody spies on everyone else. America likely does it best of all. It spies on friends and foes alike. Continue reading “Institutionalized Spying Targets Freedom”
The Silk Road is dead. But the dark web dream lives on.
On Wednesday morning, Silk Road 2.0 came online, promising a new and slightly improved version of the anonymous black market for drugs and other contraband that the Department of Justice shut down just over a month before. Like the old Silk Road, which until its closure served as the Web’s most popular bazaar for anonymous narcotics sales, the new site uses the anonymity tool Tor and the cryptocurrency Bitcoin to protect the identity of its users. As of Wednesday morning, it already sported close to 500 drug listings, ranging from marijuana to ecstasy to cocaine. It’s even being administered by a new manager using the handle the Dread Pirate Roberts, the same pseudonym adopted by the previous owner and manager of the Silk Road, allegedly the 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht arrested by the FBI in San Francisco on October 2nd. Continue reading “‘Silk Road 2.0’ Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web”
The Guardian- by Spencer Ackerman
The FBI monitored a prominent anti-war website for years, in part because agents mistakenly believed it had threatened to hack the bureau’s own site.
Internal documents show that the FBI’s monitoring of antiwar.com, a news and commentary website critical of US foreign policy, was sparked in significant measure by a judgment that it had threatened to “hack the FBI website” and involved a formal assessment of the “threat” the site posed to US national security. Continue reading “FBI monitored anti-war website in error for six years, documents show”
Science Daily – by Tom Robinette
A pair of University of Cincinnati researchers has seen the light — a bright, powerful light — and it just might change the future of how building interiors are brightened.
In fact, that light comes directly from the sun. And with the help of tiny, electrofluidic cells and a series of open-air “ducts,” sunlight can naturally illuminate windowless work spaces deep inside office buildings and excess energy can be harnessed, stored and directed to other applications. Continue reading “Bringing Sun’s Light and Energy to Interior Rooms: Innovative Solar Technology May Lead to Interior Lighting Revolution”
New Republic – by Christopher Beam
The slogan of the New Century Global Center, the recently completed largest building in the world by floor space, sounds at first like a Chinglish-y misfire: “The One of Everything.” But as I spent a day wandering around the structure, located in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, the catchphrase started to take on a kind of brilliance. It captures the building’s comprehensiveness: It really does have one of everything, from a shopping mall to an Intercontinental Hotel to a 14-screen IMAX theater to a water park to a fake church to a McDoniqloGAPbucks to an ice skating rink—everything, that is, except restraint. Continue reading “One Man, 1.7 Million Square Meters”
Turkish border guards seized three vehicles loaded with over 1,000 kg of chemicals as they tried to illegally cross the border into Syria. One of the smugglers was arrested, while others managed to escape.
The Turkish General Staff reported that the chemicals were seized after a convoy of three vehicles refused to stop and attempted to illegally cross the border near the southeastern Turkish town of Reyhanli on Saturday. Continue reading “Turkish patrol seizes over a ton of chemicals from smugglers at Syria border”
For more than six months, WhoWhatWhy has been asking questions about the Boston Marathon bombing and aftermath, pursuing our constitutionally protected duty. By and large, reaction from official sources has been mute.
Is the FBI conducting an honest investigation or working diligently on a cover-up? It’s impossible to know. Continue reading “Monday Morning Skeptic: In Boston Bombing, FBI Fights For Public’s Right To Know… Nothing”
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Forbes – by Andy Greenberg
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