By TMZ 81-year-old Warren Buffett — one of the richest men on the planet — got downright gangsta at the grand reopening of Jay Z’s 40/40 nightclub in NYC last night … throwin’ up the Roc-a-Fella sign … like a boss.
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By Jamie Lee Curtis Taete Vice.com US Congressman and poor-toupee-color-chooser Lamar Smith is the guy who authored the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA, as I’m sure you know, is the shady bill that will introduce way harsher penalties for companies and individuals caught violating copyright laws online (including making the unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime which you could actually go to jail for). If the bill passes, it will destroy the internet and, ultimately, turn the world into Mad Max (for more info, go here).
By Fareed Zakaria CNN News There’s not much foreign policy talk on the campaign trail except for one issue – Iran. Everyone is talking about Iran’s new strength and assertiveness – its missile tests, its progress on the nuclear program, its moves in Iraq.
By MATTHEW MOSK ABC News Although it is not apparent on his financial disclosure form, Mitt Romney has millions of dollars of his personal wealth in investment funds set up in the Cayman Islands, a notorious Caribbean tax haven. A spokesperson for the Romney campaign says Romney follows all tax laws and he would pay the same in taxes regardless of where the funds are based.
By Brandon Keim WIRED An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it needed just 60 days.
By Reuters The billionaire co-founder of Carlyle Group private equity company is donating $7.5 million to restore the Washington Monument, which has been closed since it was damaged by an earthquake in August.
Tennessee speed guns By LAURA ITALIANO NYPost.com Gun nuts in the Tennessee state legislature have declared civil war on New Yorkers — saying they will retaliate for the prosecution of a woman who was carrying an illegal pistol at the 9/11 Memorial.
By SETH BORENSTEIN Yahoo News Scientists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars: meteorite chunks from the red planet that fell in Morocco last July. This is only the fifth time scientists have confirmed chemically Martian meteorites that people witnessed as they fell. The fireball was spotted in the sky six months ago, but the rocks were not discovered on the ground in North Africa until the end of December.
By Chris Hedges Truth-Dig Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in the latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed by the president Dec. 31.
EneNews A strange report by the former editor of the Japan Times Weekly Yoichi Shimatsu on the Jeff Rense Radio program, Nov. 28, 2011:
By Alejandro Rojas Huffington-Post A German citizen has won his first battle in an effort to view a UFO report created by the Scientific Service of the German Parliament (aka Bundestag). After attempts by the Bundestag to block the document’s release, the Berlin Administrative Court has ruled that the German citizen has the right to read the document as requested. The Bundestag is appealing the decision, sending it to the Supreme Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg for a final decision.
CBS News A new state law requires those who buy drain cleaners and other caustic substances to provide photo identification and sign a log.
By Simon Black Sovereign Man “Yesterday we discussed certain events that, in my view, are nearly mathematical certainties. Things like a restructuring of public pensions and Social Security in Europe and the US. Western governments blocking Internet and mobile networks. War. The US government being forced to issue debt in a foreign currency.
China’s Collapse ‘Will Bring Economic Crisis To Climax In 2012’ By Larry Elliott Guardian UK A looming hard landing in China will bring the financial and economic crisis of the past five years to a climax in 2012, one of the City of London’s leading analysts has warned.
By Michael Winter USA Today Federal biologists announced today that up to 6.7 million bats in 16 states and four Canadian provinces may have died from the white-nose fungus since it was detected six years ago, a die-off that a conservationist today called “a potential extinction event,” The Washington Post reports.
ozhouse.org This guys ego is out of control. But I expect nothing less from a Hollywood zombie. They spend so much time in fantasy land that reality becomes rather foggy. Mark, please take your sorry ass down to the Army recruitment centre and explain to them what a superhero you are. If what you say is true, Uncle Sam needs you immediately!!!
By BARRACUDA Just imagine watching people disappear right in front of your eyes wherever you may be. Then you turn on the radio and television only to hear that millions and millions of people, including children, have just vanished from this earth. This is something that you see in the movies. It is not every day reality. People do not just disappear for any reason at all.
FOX News A recent visit by the commander of Iran’s elite Quds force to Damascus is the strongest sign yet that Iran is supplying weapons to aid Bashar Assad’s crackdown on the Syrian people, a senior Obama administration official said Tuesday.