Despite all the difficulties the WikiLeaks faced in 2012, Julian Assange vowed to publish some 1,000,000 new documents in the coming year. In his Christmas speech he called for people to continue fighting for democracy “from Tahrir to London.”
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Mac Slavo SHTFPlan.com After nationwide calls to ban assault rifles and high-capacity magazines following the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Americans concerned about the government’s coming move to restrict the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession of firearms deemed too dangerous to be in the hands of private citizens are cleaning out gun stores from coast to coast.
The official Chinese government news agency, Xinhua, has demanded the US immediately adopt stricter gun control measures to reduce the number of firearms the US populace is permitted to possess.
By Cavan Sieczkowski Members of the quasi-religious group, Westboro Baptist Church, planned to gather in Connecticut to protest the funeral of Newtown, Conn., shooting victim Principal Dawn Hochsprung. However, Good Samaritans were already there to thwart any possible protest with a human wall.
By Lionel Shriver President Obama read the names of Adam Lanza’s victims – all 26. On the one-week anniversary of America’s second-most lethal school shooting, bells tolled across the nation – 26 times. But even omitting his suicide, the impenetrable killer’s victims numbered 27.
Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.
By: Matthew Humphries Getting the Internet beamed to an aircraft flying at 35,000 feet moving at a rate of 500mph certainly posed a tech challenge for the aviation industry. But also providing a wireless link to 300 passengers aboard a crowded flight needed to be thoroughly tested before an airline could confidently offer an in-flight Internet service.
By Rupert Neate The Guardian Investor Bill Ackman accuses America’s best paid chief executive, Michael Johnson, of duping salespeople out of $3.8bn America’s best paid chief executive has been accused of duping some of the world’s poorest people out of $3.8bn (£2.4bn) in “the best-managed pyramid scheme in the history of the world”.
According to the director of the Hieroglyphic and Iconographic Heap MAYA (Ajimaya) INAH, such belief is modern and its origin can be traced back to the 70s of the twentieth century, with the first esoteric publications in which “predicts” the end of human civilization, coinciding with the TENTH POSTGRADUATE b’ak’tun in the Long Count of the Maya calendar, which corresponds to December 21, 2012.
The Mayan Calendar is expiring because there are no more time-keepers. The next cycle of years and eons became impossible to calculate when the ancient guild of stargazers was abolished by the Spanish conquistadores. Cultural assault, not a looming apocalypse, is the reason for the loss of the Mayan system of tracking time.
A confirmed tornado touched down in Mobile, Ala. Thursday morning, causing damage to buildings and overturning cars. Police say the twister, confirmed by the National Weather Service as an EF1 after an initial survey of damaged areas, caused no injuries.
NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity that beat newcomer sister probe Curiosity to an area containing water-formed clay minerals, has found that the spot may be far richer than scientists first realized.
Introduction by Joan d’Arc With its bizarre claim to have been found in a surplus IBM copy machine in 1986 by a Boeing Aircraft employee, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars takes its place among those dubious ’elite blueprints’ for control of the planet, second only to the well known treatise The Protocols of Zion.
Melissa Melton Infowars.com In a shocking article that seems to completely toss the Constitution out the window, Reuters announced President Obama’s official dictatorship in a story it published yesterday, “Even Without Congress, Obama Could Act to Restrict Guns.”
Trevor Timm EFF.org The Senate is about to vote on an extension of the controversial FISA Amendments Act, the unconstitutional law that allows the NSA to warrantless spy on Americans speaking to people abroad. Yet you wouldn’t know it by watching CSPAN because the Senate isn’t debating it.
The Sandy Hook gunman worshiped the devil and had an online page dedicated to Satan, a former classmate revealed, as his childhood barber recalls Adam Lanza never spoke and would stare at the floor every time he had his hair cut.
By Josh Peterson The public may soon have the ability to search through the names of persons and organizations operating drones within the United States. Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ed Markey introduced the Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act (DAPTA) Tuesday, which attempts to create guidelines and limitations on how the FAA issues drone licenses.