Month: October 2013

Motherboard – by Alec Liu

Just two weeks after the Feds shuttered the Silk Road, the notorious online drug bazaar, bitcoin prices have touched a five-month high—with a single bitcoin fetching nearly $156 each on Tokyo-based exchange Mt. Gox.

Bitcoin’s resiliency can no longer be denied, especially as the digital currency continued its ascendancy even against the backdrop of a US government in utter disarray. At the 11th hour of the crisis, President Obama signed a bill that ended the partial government shutdown and, more importantly, raised the debt ceiling, an arbitrary limit on the amount of money the country can borrow that would have been surpassed today. Continue reading “Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown”

Care 2 – by Judy Molland

When Massachusetts high school senior Erin Cox went to pick up a drunk classmate from a party, she thought she was doing the right thing. However, administrators at North Andover High School seem to disagree. They are punishing her for her action, citing the school’s zero tolerance policy on drugs and alcohol.

We teach our kids to be responsible and to help others in need. That’s exactly what the 17-year-old was doing when she showed up to help her friend, but her school decided to punish her even though she was doing what any good parent or teacher would encourage her to do.   Continue reading “Meet the Honor Student Who Was Punished for Giving a Drunk Friend a Ride”

Zero Hedge – by Christian Gustafson of Deflation Land

For the past 300 years, the historical pattern has been for the era marked by a century to continue into the following century by fourteen or fifteen years.

Let me explain.  Everyone knows that the 19th Century, its uprightness, its optimism and sense of purpose, the halcyon days of British Empire, came to an end with World War I, starting in 1914 and building to a nasty crescendo by 1916.  The 20th Century had arrived, and it had some real horrors in store for us.   Continue reading “Why I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Currency Collapse”

Care 2 – by Alicia Graef

Intellihub – by JG Vibes

NASHVILLE (INTELLIHUB) — A federal air marshal was arrested Thursday morning at Nashville International Airport after he was caught taking multiple upskirt pictures of female passengers boarding a plane, police told CNN.

A witness spotted 28-year-old Adam Bartsch, who was on duty, taking pictures with his cell phone underneath women’s dresses, police said. The witness grabbed Bartsch’s phone and notified a Southwest Airlines flight attendant, a police report said._{[1]   Continue reading “TSA Air Marshal Arrested For Taking Upskirt Photos of Passengers”}

Care 2 – by s.e. smith

North Carolina made headlines this year with its commitment, after ten years of discussion and deliberation, to compensate the victims of forced sterilization in the 20th century. The state’s decision could have major repercussions, as contrary to what one might expect from the parity of coverage in the news, North Carolina wasn’t the biggest offender in the era of widespread forced sterilizations: that honor goes to California, which performed 1/3 (20,000) of the estimated 60,000 forced sterilizations between the early 1900s and the 1960s. (Virginia came in second, with a little over 8,000 sterilizations.) Those states could be held equally accountable in coming years, requiring a substantial cash payout.   Continue reading “Is Cash Alone Enough for Forced Sterilization Victims?”

Care 2 –  by Beth Buczynski

Just when you think there’s no winning against the biotech industry, news out of Mexico City shows that all is not lost. After years of deliberation, a Mexico judge has placed an indefinite ban on genetically-engineered corn. Effective immediately, companies like Monsanto and DuPont/Pioneer will no longer be allowed to plant or sell their corn within the country’s borders.   Continue reading “Mexico Bans GMO Corn, Effective Immediately”

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

According to Naomi Wolf’s New York State Supreme Court complaint, she first discovered “unexplained activity” on her three Washington Mutual (WaMu) checking accounts in 2005. The prominent feminist author claims that she diligently sought to “monitor the activity of her accounts.” However, Wolf was blocked in her own self-monitoring efforts when WaMu stopped sending her monthly statements and denied her access to her online account. The net result of WaMu’s alleged actions is that Wolf alleges that more than $300,000 was stolen from her three accounts and this resulted in her filing a law suit against the bank. What happened to Naomi Wolf is going to be played out all across this country. And we are not going to have long for all of us to realize that we are Naomi Wolf.   Continue reading “Don’t Leave Your Money in the Bank Without Reading This First”

Steve Quayle – by Anthony

I can totally believe what the Disaster Nurse had to say in her Q-Alert. She gave the conformation I was looking for. I was told yesterday during prayer time for the military and police “Stop, it is over”! This morning while in prayer I asked the Lord if I should write about the psychological preparation needed for the days ahead. The dark side’s testing, will yield behavior patterns they will be counting on as they game the upcoming collapse. I got my answer when I read what the Disaster Nurse had to reveal.   Continue reading “Christians will have to get their mind clearly decided on what they will do well before the coming civil war starts”

Fox News

SAN FRANCISCO –  Racial tensions and gang problems were plaguing a Northern California high school when three students arrived for classes in 2010 wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.

Unpleasant verbal exchanges and altercations marked the previous year’s Cinco de Mayo celebrations at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, 20 miles south of San Jose. So when students told administrators that trouble was a possibility because of the American flag attire, the students were ordered to turn their shirts inside out or go home.   Continue reading “Appeals court to consider Calif. school’s Cinco de Mayo American flag ban”

MSNBC – by Alexander Smith

A car and a police cruiser collided at an intersection northwest of central Columbus, Ohio, early Friday, killing six people and injuring a police officer, officials said.

The police officer was responding to reports of a robbery at a McDonald’s in the suburb of Upper Arlington, police told the Columbus Dispatch newspaper.   Continue reading “Six killed in Columbus, Ohio police car crash”

Anti-War – by Justin Raimondo

We all get depressed, at some point or other: I’m sure even Pollyanna had her down moments. What’s troubling is that many anti-interventionists seem to be in a permanent state of depression: given the history of the past decade or so, the interventionist bias of the “mainstream” media, and the enormous resources the War Party has at its disposal, they have convinced themselves the cause of peace is practically hopeless, and that only a miracle can prevent the next major conflict.

The reasoning behind this kind of pessimism is specious. To begin with, human beings have free will: no human outcome is inevitable. There’s the theory that humans are hardwired for violence, and that it’s just “human nature” to engage in mass murder every couple of years or so: I don’t buy it. If that were true, we’d still be living in the Stone Age.   Continue reading “The Case for Optimism”

MassPrivateI

If you drive in Seattle, there is a good chance the police department knows where your car has been at least once during the past three months.

Seattle police recorded license plates on 72 percent of Seattle’s streets while searching for stolen cars and chronic parking offenders during an 86-day period this past summer. In all, police made more than 1.6 million scans of more than 600,000 unique plates, according to an analysis of a department database.   Continue reading “The Seattle Police scanned (spied) 1.6 million license plates in 3 months”

RT News

Radioactivity levels in a well near a storage tank at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have risen immensely on Thursday, the plant’s operator has reported.

Officials of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said on Friday they detected 400,000 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances – including strontium – at the site, a level 6,500 times higher than readings taken on Wednesday, NHK World reported.    Continue reading “Radioactivity level spikes 6,500 times at Fukushima well”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Amid all the economic news do not loose sight of the coming wars with Syria (Isaiah 17:1) and Iran (Daniel 8). Syria is still engulfed in a war against foreign terrorists funded by the West. This weapon sale hints that these nations will be involved in any attack on Iran. 

(RT) – The Pentagon plans to sell $10.8 billion worth of advanced weaponry to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The hardware includes bunker buster bombs and cruise missiles.   Continue reading “Pentagon to sell bunker busters, cruise missiles to Gulf monarchies in $11bn deal”

Pro Libertate –  by William N. Grigg

“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm,” wrote the late Richard Grenier decades ago. The murderous reality behind that oft-recited authoritarian aphorism – generally mis-attributed to Orwell – was made tangible on the morning of June 27 when at least a dozen L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputies traveled to Littlerock, California, a village of roughly 1,200 people about an hour northeast of Los Angeles, to attack an 80-year-old man named Eugene Mallory in his bed.   Continue reading “Rough Men Stand Ready to Kill You in Your Bed”

RT News

The US Coast Guard has discovered a 4,100-pound tar mat under the sand around Louisiana’s southernmost port. It is believed to be left over from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The tar mat was uncovered while the Gulf Coast Incident Management team combed the coast following Tropical Storm Karen, which developed in southern portions of the Gulf of Mexico in early October.    Continue reading “New mass of tar on Louisiana coast linked to 2010 BP oil spill”

Fuel Fix – by James MacPherson

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota officials are trying to determine if Tesoro Corp. knew about potential problems — including one deemed “serious” in documents obtained by The Associated Press — with a pipeline that leaked more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil in a wheat field in the northwestern part of the state.

Dave Glatt, chief of the state Department of Health’s environmental health section, said Wednesday that regulators want to know more about inspections conducted before the spill reported by a farmer harvesting wheat on his farm near Tioga on Sept. 29.   Continue reading “N.D. officials want answers on ruptured oil pipeline inspections after Tesoro leak”

Ventism – by Doug Bandow

Attention in Washington remains focused on the government shutdown.  But a far more important issue confronts America: rising chocolate prices. When will the government address this terrifying global crisis?

Cocoa trees have been cultivated for thousands of years. The early Mesoamericans, including the Aztecs and Mayans, turned the beans into cocoa solids, liquid, and butter. These peoples offered cocoa beans as gifts for the gods and using cocoa drinks in sacred ceremonies.   Continue reading “The World Is Entering a Devastating Chocolate Crisis: The Government Must Act to Save Us”