Leaving Facebook? You can try… but ‘evil genius’ social network won’t make it easy

The tide is turning against Facebook – last month, more than 100,000 Britons deleted their accounts on the social networking sit. But committing ‘Facebook suicide’ is not as easy as you might think. If you are truly determined to do the deed there are two options: you can deactivate or delete. Decision time: Committing ‘Facebook [...]

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Greek Crisis Could Cost UK £336 Billion: British Exposure ‘Significantly Underestimated’

‘Britain could be hit with losses of up to £366billion from the collapse of the Greek economy, it has emerged. The warnings came as the Greek government last night won a vote of confidence in the Athens Parliament, clearing the way for a second bailout to go ahead. The crunch will come next week when [...]

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Under Food Tyranny – E.Coli The New Terrorist Threat

‘Is the world’s e.coli scare the Osama Bin Laden of food? Europe’s e.coli outbreak was traced to multiple produce, then organic bean sprouts, then not, then settled adamantly on those organic bean sprouts. This will not make sense to informed health freedom supporters, as e.coli stems from unsanitary conditions such as factory farms and CAFOs* [...]

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The Fragile Vanity of the War Criminal

It is useless to appeal to any “American” sense of morality: we have none. It does not matter how immense the pile of corpses grows: we will not surrender or even question our delusion that we are right, and that nothing we do can be profoundly, unforgivably wrong. As I detailed in “The Blood-Drenched Darkness [...]

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The Real War –vs– The Illusions

In the complicated calculus of the men who would plan our destinies for us, if we would only let them, it is often hard to fathom which line of reasoning represents their dominant thinking on any strategic subject.  In Afghanistan and in Pakistan, it is getting harder to distinguish between the minimum acceptable goals for the [...]

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Storm rips through Chicago area, leaves over 267,000 without power

It could take days to restore power to more than 267,000 Commonwealth Edison customers who remain without electricity Wednesday morning after a severe thunderstorm downed power lines and trees throughout the Chicago area Tuesday night.   The storm, which hit Chicago about 9 p.m., prompted numerous tornado warnings throughout the area, according to the National [...]

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US raid kills civilian in Afghanistan

21 Jun 2011 The US forces have killed at least one civilian and detained three others during a night raid on a residential area in the troubled northern Afghanistan, officials say. According to Afghan officials, the incident took place in Kunduz Province on Monday night, a Press TV correspondent reported. The district governor of Imam [...]

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F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline

–’After F.B.I.’s unprofessional ‘work’ we can not restart our own servers, that’s why our Web site is offline and support doesn’t work.’ 21 Jun 2011 The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data center early Tuesday, causing several Web sites, including those run by the New York publisher Curbed Network, to go offline. The [...]

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Extremely Graphic Footage: Libyan Children Killed by NATO Bombs

‘Just a day after admitting killing 9 civilians in a bungled airstrike, NATO has been accused by the Libyan authorities of causing at least another 15 deaths. The Alliance confirmed it had carried out another bombing, but has not responded to the allegations of civilian casualties. RT crew in Tripoli has shot some shocking footage [...]

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What you don’t know about the summer solstice

For one thing, the earliest sunrise and latest sunset do not coincide with it  The summer solstice shouldn’t come as a surprise. It arrives at pretty much the same time every year. But some of the little-known facts behind and surrounding the solstice are fascinating. First, the basics: © Starry Night The seasons are caused [...]

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Radioactive Tritium Has Leaked from Three-Quarters of U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Sites, Often Into Groundwater

BRACEVILLE, Ill. – Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows. The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation. Tritium, which is [...]

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9/11 and the Orwellian Redefinition of “Conspiracy Theory”

The usual dilemma over conspiracy theories.  An action or a cover-up is either a conspiracy or a conspiracy theory, depending on which side you’re on. There is serious censorship being applied in the US, the ‘land of the free’, because the government will not accept criticism, and truth becomes ‘conspiracy theory’. Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research, [...]

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