September 2, 2012

As the Democratic National Convention nears, people in Charlotte could face arrest for carrying water bottles, socks, markers, and other seemingly nonthreatening items, triggering worries over free speech violations and warrant-less searches.

­Guests and protesters of the DNC have expressed concern…

September 2, 2012

It seems that most people live in a moral grey area, now days.  They think that as long as the ends justify the means, it is good.  The only problem is, there is no moral grey area.  There is only right and wrong.  The people living in the moral grey area,  have been unknowingly manipulated by…

Sept 2, 2012

Thousands of US homes are in critical disrepair as the country continues to suffer from this summer’s record-breaking drought. And the damages are unlikely to be paid by insurance companies.

As moisture is sucked away from the ground, houses are shifting, cracking and racking up huge repair bills for surprised homeowners – bills that insurance…

July 23rd, 2011   The Fed Audit

The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. An…

Aug 31, 2012

When we convened in Jackson Hole in August 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) target for the federal funds rate was 5-1/4 percent. Sixteen months later, with the financial crisis in full swing, the FOMC had lowered the target for the federal funds rate to nearly zero, thereby entering the unfamiliar territory of having to conduct monetary…

Sept 1, 2012

The Estonian Prosecutor's Office has announced it will not launch a criminal trial over claims of shocking harassment in the military, when two ethnically Russian conscripts were allegedly made to dig their own graves.

The case went public on Thursday when several Estonian newspapers reported that the country's Defense Ministry was looking into a…

Sept 1, 2012

Maldives security forces have dispersed a march of over 3,000 protesters supporting former leader Mohamed Nasheed. At least one protester was badly injured during the clash, while more than a dozen were arrested.

The violence erupted after protesters tried to break through a police cordon around the presidential palace on Friday night. Security…

Aug 1, 2012

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) gave a 72-hour advance warning to airlines to suspend flights to Syria before the rebels try to seize civilian airports in Damascus and Aleppo. They claim the Syrian Air Force is using them 'illegally.'

The 72-hour period begins on Saturday, September 1, the FSA told Asharq Al-Awsat, the major pan-Arab daily newspaper based…

Aug 1 2012

The TSA announced on Thursday that it will begin holding open forums next year so the public can voice concerns with the body-scanning security machines many have called invasive and dangerous — 19 months after a court told them they had to.

The US Transportation and Security Administration, the Homeland Security subdivision that oversees the…

August 31, 2012

I want to start off by saying, that I just want to know how you would have handled this, if you were the Original Poster.  This is a recent post to Facebook, and the ensuing debate.

Original Post:  It amazes me that people are still falling for the Republican versus Democrat rhetoric.  They are All the Same.  Why do we…

Aug 2012

This summer, a quiet change was made to the accounting rules for gold in bank vaults. It made headlines almost nowhere, but it has the potential to dramatically change how gold is viewed relative to cash in the broader economy. For informed and prepared minds, it’s also the chance to stock up up on gold at an attractive price before the mainstream masses really…

By Cyrellys Friday August 31, 2012

This is the contents of my side of some dialog I’ve been having about the recent RNC.

This link was recommended to me: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-koerner/ron-paul-republican-convention_b_1838617.html

This was my response after reading…

Aug 31, 2012

The West’s “perverse” empire is leading to the collapse of human rights, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said. The whistleblower, currently holed up in the UK’s Ecuadorian embassy, expects to leave in a year if Sweden drops its case against him.

"The Swedish government could drop the case. I think this is the most likely scenario. Maybe after a…

August 30, 2012

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Thursday that no one would be prosecuted for the deaths of a prisoner in Afghanistan in…

Aug 30, 2012

Scientists say they're excited over a discovery that they stumbled on thanks to two Missouri farmers. The revelation they are celebrating in isn’t an end to dry spells or an all-new irrigation method, though. It’s a mysterious, debilitating disease!

Researchers have diagnosed two farmers from separate towns in the American Midwest with the first ever…

August 30, 2012

Heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Isaac is threatening a dam in Tangipahoa Parish in Southern Mississippi, leading local officials to order a mass evacuation.

Mississippi emergency management notified Gohsep and Tangipahoa parish government of an "imminent failure" of the dam at Lake Tangipahoa at Percy Quinn state park, which is…

August 30, 2012

US Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) failed to secure the GOP’s nomination for the presidency at this week’s Republican National Convention, and his supporters made sure that others were aware that they were not taking the defeat sitting down.

After being told earlier this week that he could only speak at this week’s RNC on the condition that he endorse…

August 30, 2012

Two women were stabbed to death in a gruesome killing in Russia's Kazan, and ‘Free! Pussy Riot’ [sic] was painted on the wall in what police believe was the victims’ blood.

An elderly woman, Farida Zaripova, 76, and her daughter, Liliya Zaripova, 38, were murdered in their apartment in the capital city of the…

Aug 30, 2012

A dusk-till-dawn curfew has been imposed in New Orleans as Isaac, now downgraded to a tropical storm, moves inland. Meanwhile, Louisiana officials are preparing to cut a hole in a levee to prevent the floodwater from damaging the system.

In the hard-hit hit Plaquemines Parish, wind-driven water overtopped the local levee, raising concerns that the…