By RichardSilverstein.com You remember the descriptions of the First Battle of Bull Run when all of Washington’s high society rode out in their fine carriages and horses to picnic under the shady trees and watch their Union boys send the Yankees packing?
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Via: The Daily: Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands.
By Huffington Post
ozhouse.org Here’s one for the brainwashed zombies that think Australia is sugar, spice and everything nice. theage.com.au AUSTRALIA was an ”integral” element of the potentially illegal detention of prisoners of war at a secret Iraqi desert prison in 2003, according to a US military document.
By Daily Record UK COMPUTER hacker Gary McKinnon is “unable to control the terror that consumes his every waking moment” as he fights extradition to the US, his mother said today.
By The SUN UK A BEAST lurches through icy waters in a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all.
By Terry Frieden CNN News A key congressional Republican who had threatened to bring a contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder if he did not comply with a demand for “Operation Fast and Furious” documents by 5 p.m.
ozhouse.org For the US to order New Zealand to arrest a German citizen is outrageous to begin with, but to seize a man’s money and property before he has had his day in court is anything but justice.
By Barbara Starr CNN News Although the U.S. focus remains on exerting diplomatic and economic pressure on Syria, the Pentagon and the U.S. Central Command have begun a preliminary internal review of U.S. military capabilities
By Joseph Straw NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Congress has approved legislation allowing expanded drone flights over the U.S., and possibly some scenic sections of the Empire State.
By ROB COOPER Daily Mail Russian scientists have finally drilled down through four kilometres of Antarctic ice to a lake that has been sealed for the last 20 million years.
By John Vidal The Guardian A small group of leading climate scientists, financially supported by billionaires including Bill Gates, are lobbying governments and international bodies to back experiments into manipulating the climate on a global scale to avoid catastrophic climate change.
By Itamar Eichner Ynet News Preparing for Iran strike? Foreign embassies in Israel have recently started to formulate contingency plans to evacuate their citizens from the Jewish State in case of a missile attack on Israel.
By The National Post The Canadian Forces, like every part of the federal government, is facing stiff budget cuts. Before the hatchet falls, it is worth considering how little, rather than how much, Canada spends on national defence.
By Nick Squires Telegraph UK In a new book, Father Amorth, the exorcist for the diocese of Rome, gives a bizarre account of how he and two assistants brought a pair of “possessed” Italian men to one of the Pope’s weekly audiences in St Peter’s Square in May 2009.
By China Daily The map and images released by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) are the world’s highest-resolution lunar images ever published that cover all of the moon
By Donovan Webster Smithsonian Mag It’s a few hours before dawn in the Peruvian rainforest, and five bare light bulbs hang from a wire above a 40-foot-deep pit. Gold miners, operating illegally, have worked in this chasm since 11 a.m. yesterday. Standing waist-deep in muddy water, they chew coca leaves to stave off exhaustion and hunger.
By Canada.com A majority of Canadians say they support reinstating the death penalty for murder, according to a new poll.