Posted on September 18, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog

Justices Souter and O’Connor, Intelligence Agency Heads and Congressmen All Warn of Tyranny in America

Former Supreme Court Justice…

September 21, 2012

A Turkish court convicted 330 military officers, including three former top generals, and sentenced them to prison terms as long as 20 years on Friday in a trial of suspects from the armed forces accused of a wide-ranging plot to overthrow the government nearly a decade ago. Thirty-four were…

September 19, 2012

Just two days after the failed 2012 DNC Terror Plot, potentially the most high profile UN meeting ever was scheduled for September 26, 2012,…

Sept. 21, 2012

Federal regulators, intensifying an investigation into alleged manipulation of California's electricity market, on Thursday threatened to suspend power trader JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s right to sell electricity in the state.

The …

September 21, 2012

A new biometric “gait recognition” system has been developed by Britain’s National Physical Laboratory, meaning that individuals can now be recognized and located by their “signature” walk.

Serious privacy concerns have been aired about the system and its potential surveillance applications.

New Scientist reports that NPL,…

Sept 20, 2012 

High-frequency trading, which already has a sullied reputation, is even worse than the critics have charged, a new survey shows. 

The Federal Reserve…

9/20/2012

At least 54 people were killed when a Syrian air strike hit a fuel station in the northern province of al-Raqqa on Thursday, a British-based violence watchdog said, an area of heavy fighting between government and rebel forces.



The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of activists across…

September 18, 2012

Russia has ordered the United States to end its financial support for a wide range of…

September 18, 2012

It's been labeled as one of the primary reasons why job growth in the U.S. continues to lag, but apparently no one at the White House is listening.

Obamacare is set to claim another casualty - the food service industry, one that is known for its low-paying positions and tight profit…

SEPT. 18, 2012

A lone appeals judge bowed down to the Obama administration late Monday and reauthorized the White House’s ability to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or due process.

Last week, a federal judge ruled that an temporary injunction on section 1021 of the…

September 14, 2012

Did you know that you can put tetracycline in Rabies vaccine bait and when you x-ray the bones of the animals that consume it that they will fluoresce?

WHAT?

That Jordan dude jumps around topics like those little jitterbugs in summer on hot pavement.

Maybe.

Maybe not.  I did promise you in “…

September 17, 2012

The Colorado climber who abandoned his injured dog on a mountain to save his own life has agreed to give up the German Shepherd to one of its rescuers - who has renamed her 'Lucky'.

Anthony Ortolani, 29, left the dog, whom he called Missy, on Bierstadt Mountain last month after a storm moved in…

September 17, 2012

When 69-year-old Walter Samasko Jr died in May he left behind just $200 in the bank and no friends or family to lay claim to the meager inheritance. 

He hadn't worked since 1968 and was living off stock accounts of $140,000 and $25,000.

But the real treasure was found at his Nevada home, along…

September 17, 2012

The White House has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to place an emergency stay on a ruling made last week by a federal judge so that the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge is reaffirmed immediately.

On Wednesday, September 12, US District Court Judge Katherine Forrest made permanent a…

September 18, 2012

The Iranian nuclear chief has said that the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is infiltrated with terrorists and saboteurs who are trying to derail his country’s nuclear program.

Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, who was speaking at the annual member state gathering of the IAEA in Vienna on Monday, also…

September 17, 2012

The recent outbreak of violent anti-American protests in the Muslim world will make US politicians think twice before supporting Islamic radicals, political analyst and ex-jihadist Tawfik Hamid said in an interview with RT.

The US has funded Islamists groups throughout the world for decades, and the death of the American ambassador…

September 17, 2012

While many millionaires got poorer in the last year, billionaires did just fine, overcoming market and economic turmoil.

The number of people with at least $30 million in their pockets grew to 187,380, while their total wealth fell 1.8 percent to $25.8 trillion – a sum bigger than the combined size of the U.S. and Chinese…

September 16, 2012

The arrival of the original iPhone in 2007 was a quantum leap for cellphones. Phones had never worked or looked like…

September 17, 2012

Hundreds of police barricaded the New York Stock Exchange as Occupy Wall Street protesters swarmed the Financial District for the movement’s one-year anniversary. Some 100 demonstrators were reportedly arrested.

Witnesses reported on Twitter that demonstrators are being arrested for "blocking pedestrian traffic." A woman…

November 10, 2012