By Andy Greenberg Forbes One morning in mid-August, seven months into the Arab Spring protests and government crackdowns in which thousands have been killed, something strange happened on Syria’s Internet. As users aimed their Web browsers at Google and Facebook, they instead saw a page of white Arabic script scrawled across a black background.
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Biological Hazard in MultiCountries (October) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared a recent rash of seal deaths to be an “unusual mortality event” on Tuesday. More than 60 seals have died and 75 found diseased in Alaska with skin sores and patchy hair loss.
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Austin NAACP President Nelson Linder, who has known Ron Paul for 20 years, unequivocally dismissed charges that the Congressman was a racist in light of recent smear attempts, and said the reason for him being attacked was that he was a threat to the establishment.
By Tim Wall Discovery News The winter solstice is a vampire’s delight. No other night is longer and no day shorter. But sorry blood-suckers, it also means the subsequent days get longer.
BY CYRIAQUE LAMAR Io9.com In the 2,800-person village of Shingō in Japan’s Aomori prefecture, you can visit a tourist attraction that earns almost doodlysquat fanfare despite its world-shattering theological ramifications. I am, of course, talking about the grave of Jesus Christ.
By Gordon Duff Finnish authorities have confirmed the seizure of 69 Patriot missiles manufactured by Raytheon Corporation today. During a routine search of the MS Thor Liberty, a ship flagged by the Isle of Man, at the Finnish port of Kotka, authorities found 69 Patriot missiles capable of a type capable of intercepting ICBMs, the most modern available and America’s most sensitive military technology.
By Ian Sample Guardian News Hundreds of thousands of pictures of the moon will be examined for telltale signs that aliens once visited our cosmic neighbourhood if plans put forward by scientists go ahead.
By Shaylin Clark Web-Pro News The government of Switzerland has issued a statement declaring that it will not take action to alter current copyright laws allowing the downloading of music and movies for personal use. The statement is the result of a lengthy study conducted by the Swiss government into the impact of so-called “piracy” on the entertainment industry.
By Genevra Pittman Orlando Sentinel Close to one in three teens and young adults get arrested by age 23, suggests a new study that finds more of them are being booked now than in the 1960s.
FOX News The White House on Monday defended Vice President Joe Biden for saying that the Taliban isn’t an enemy of the United States despite the years spent fighting the militant Islamic group that gave a home to Al Qaeda
By David A. Nace American-Thinker Much of the success of the Democratic Party over the last eighty years has come from its ability to successfully portray itself as the party of the middle class. However, many of the major programs enacted by the Democratic Party have hurt rather than helped the middle class. Economic researchers and objective historians have shown this for decades; however, it is only in the last three years that the public has started to recognize this.
By Zen Gardner This is their time of year. Oh how they love to turn this holiday into an exercise in fear. And I don’t mean to do the same, but we are dealing with psychopathic killers and we need to keep a wary eye out at all times.
By Ian O’Neill Discovery News “We’ve been EMP’d!” your commanding officer screams over the noise of incoming gunfire. “Electronics are down!” This may sound familiar if, like me, you’re a fan of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” — a hugely popular first-person video game based in a fictional near-future when the U.S. goes to war with Russia.
By Tom Newton Dunn Thesun.co.uk/ A Chilling new EU master plan that emerged last night would leave bankrupt nations as effective slave states without a vote.
By Acharya S/D.M. Murdock Truth Be Known The December 25th birthday of the sun god is a common motif globally, dating back at least 12,000 years as reflected in winter solstices artfully recorded in caves. “Nearly all nations,” says Doane, commemorated the birth of the god Sol to the “Queen of Heaven” and “Celestial Virgin.” The winter solstice was celebrated in countless places, including China and Persia, the latter regarding the solar Lord and Savior Mithra’s birth.
By ANDREW LISZEWSKI Gizmodo It’s not the first crowd control tool to use sound waves, but Raytheon’s patent for a new type of riot shield that produces low frequency sound waves to disrupt the respiratory tract and hinder breathing, sounds a little scary.
By Brian Bennett LA-Times Rick Vetter was rushing to board the Amtrak train in Charlotte, N.C., on a recent Sunday afternoon when a canine officer suddenly blocked the way. Three federal air marshals in bulletproof vests and two officers trained to spot suspicious behavior watched closely as Seiko, a German shepherd, nosed Vetter’s trousers for chemical traces of a bomb. Radiation detectors carried by the marshals scanned the 57-year-old lawyer for concealed nuclear materials.