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Subattical: Update

2011-02-02T14:45:00.000-08:00

Where to start? I'm not even sure if anyone reads this anymore... To those faithful, many apologies for the almost-year hiatus. Since the last post, Jim has moved on and is no longer authoring the blog. A big thanks to him for the plethora of information he added and contributed.If there's anyone out there, comment on this post and let me know what you'd like to see (if different from what we've

Update: Assisted Suicide Law in Washington state, Nine Months Later

2010-03-04T18:06:00.001-08:00

SEATTLE - The state of Washington says 63 suicide prescriptions were dispensed during the first nine months of the state's "death with dignity" act to people between the ages of 48 and 95.The Health Department said Thursday that of the 63 who received lethal doses, 47 are known to have died.Read more...

Anti-Government Groups Show Alarming Increase

2010-03-02T09:28:00.000-08:00

LOS ANGELES (March 2) -- The number of American anti-government militia and "patriot" groups, largely dormant since their heyday in the mid-1990s, mushroomed at an "astonishing" rate last year, raising "grave concern" about the potential for future domestic terrorism, according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.Read more...

Computer Tech Classes Rise in Popularity in Chinese Schools

2010-02-19T06:57:00.000-08:00

SAN FRANCISCO - A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation.Read more...

TSA Forces 4 Year Old to Take Off Braces

2010-02-16T14:45:00.000-08:00

Ryan was taking his first flight, to Walt Disney World, for his fourth birthday. The boy is developmentally delayed, one of the effects of being born 16 weeks prematurely. His ankles are malformed and his legs have low muscle tone. In March he was just starting to walk. Mid-morning on March 19, his parents wheeled his stroller to the TSA security point, a couple of hours before their Southwest

Dotcommunism In-Action

2010-02-13T07:26:00.000-08:00

In an effort to clamp down on news spreading about mass protests that have grown in recent months, the Iranian government has blocked its citizens' access to Web sites, censored local journalists and prevented foreign reporters from entering the country.Read more...

Duck Tales on Inflation

2010-02-09T15:14:00.001-08:00

Obama to Meet with His Holiness; Shrugs Off Chinese Admonishment

2010-02-03T18:11:00.000-08:00

China warned U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday that a meeting with the Dalai Lama would further erode ties between the two powers, already troubled by Washington's arms sales to Taiwan. The White House confirmed on Tuesday that Obama would meet the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader, reviled by Beijing as a separatist for seeking self-rule for his mountainous homeland.China's angry

US Slated to Sell $6 Billion in Arms to Taiwan

2010-01-29T18:52:00.000-08:00

In a move set only to exacerbate tensions in the U.S-China relationship, President Obama announced Friday plans to sell Taiwan $6 bn worth of arms. The sale includes Black Hawk helicopters, Patriot missiles, mine-hunting vessels, and intelligence gathering technology. Taiwan-China relations have improved over the past year but military build-up of the Asiatic island still remains a sensitive

Hayek vs Keynes (Feat.)

2010-01-27T09:16:00.000-08:00

Chinese Teen Hailed as Hero for Killing Party Official

2010-01-21T11:44:00.000-08:00

A Chinese teenager has been handed a death sentence for his role in the murder of a local Communist party official. However, local villagers who were terrorized by the official claim Li Shiming, the teen charged with the murder, is a hero and 20,000 of those villagers have petitioned the government to hand down a more lenient sentence.Read more...

Possible Changes Coming for Utah Gun-Nuts

2010-01-20T16:45:00.000-08:00

Utah state legislators are contemplating a change to the state's concealed firearm carry law. Currently, concealed carry "permitees" are prohibited-in a confrontation or when threatened- from verbally or visually signifying that they have a firearm. The new language would allow permitees to brandish the weapon or verbalize that they are carrying, as well as allow them to openly carry their

Move Your Money

2010-01-15T08:47:00.001-08:00

Are you angry about Wall Street’s reckless excesses? Are you disappointed with President Obama’s limp approach to reform? You can change this, acting individually and collectively. Withdraw your deposit and savings accounts from the large banks that brought the system to ruin and were subsequently rescued with billions in government bailouts. Put your money instead in smaller, safer banks or

Just When the MSM Proclaims the Crisis is Ending

2010-01-13T16:33:00.000-08:00

Thousands of Bay Area homes have a ticking time bomb embedded in their mortgage. The homes were purchased with loans known as option ARMs, short for adjustable rate mortgages. Next year, many option ARM payments will begin to readjust, slamming borrowers with dramatically higher monthly mortgage bills. Analysts say that could unleash the next big wave of foreclosures - and home-loan data show

Robertson: "Haiti Swore a Pact with the Devil"

2010-01-13T11:35:00.001-08:00

Pat Robertson on Haiti Disasterby burghnews

2009 Reading List

2010-01-13T09:25:00.000-08:00

Since several of you are interested, here it is.* = Recommended** = Highly Recommended*** = Must Read* Hero With One Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell - Breaks down stories of Myth and Religion revealing a consistent pattern of the hero's journey which we must all inevitably take.* Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra - Shows that the sub atomic world can only be described through paradox.

Tarantino Lashes Out at News Correspondent

2010-01-12T09:34:00.000-08:00

Watch the whole thing... Tarantino can't handle her arrogance.

What a Shaker

2010-01-10T09:20:00.000-08:00

EUREKA, Calif. – A powerful offshore earthquake that struck near the Northern California coast left a hodgepodge of debris for communities to sort through Sunday but spared residents any serious injury. The 6.5 magnitude temblor hit late Saturday afternoon and was centered in the Pacific about 22 miles west of Ferndale. It was felt in towns more than 300 miles south into central

2010-01-08T10:01:00.001-08:00

In parts of the world the public is expected to help keep the streets clear of snow. In Minneapolis, in the US, it's your legal duty. "Keeping our sidewalks free of ice and snow is the neighbourly thing to do, and it's the law... please do your part," says the local authority's website. The rules are strict. Snow must be removed from pavements outside homes within 24 hours of snowfall ending.

"We will have the negotiations televised on C-Span"

2010-01-06T16:25:00.001-08:00

Really? Maybe this will help wake up the Obama Cult.

00's in Review

2010-01-05T15:19:00.000-08:00

French Governement to Legislate Interpersonal Communication

2010-01-05T13:27:00.000-08:00

France will become the first country in the world to ban 'psychological violence' within marriage later this year.The new law, which would also apply to co-habiting couples, would see people getting criminal records for insulting their loved ones during domestic arguments.Electronic tagging would be used on repeat offenders, according to the country's prime minister, Francois Fillon, who

Obama = Bush?

2010-01-01T11:05:00.000-08:00

In his new book, former Bush administration attorney and infamous torture memo collaborator John Yoo favorably argues that President Barack Obama is wielding executive powers in the same manner as his White House predecessor. Titled "Crisis and Command," Yoo's 500-plus-page work looks at the evolution of presidential powers from Washington to Bush, but with an afterword added for the current

Dams Contribute to Climate Change?

2009-12-30T07:54:00.000-08:00

"Geophysicists have suspected as much for years, notes a team of scientists in a paper in the Dec. 1 issue of Eos, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. But it is becoming clearer that in addition to providing lots of water to evaporate and then return to the ground as rainfall, as scientists at MIT described in a 1996 study, dams also make local meteorological conditions more

Phone GPS Shows Immigrants Water Location

2009-12-29T21:16:00.000-08:00

Faculty at UC San Diego are in the process of developing GPS software that will show immigrants the locations pipes and possibly abandoned water stations along their illegal Mexico-U.S trek.Read more...

Weapons Changing the Way We Fight

2009-12-28T10:51:00.000-08:00

In Wake of Attempted Attack, Security Officials Admit Security Failings, Flaws

2009-12-28T10:39:00.000-08:00

Following the attempted Christmas Day attack aboard a flight originating in Amsterdam bound for Detroit, U.S security officials have admitted failings and flaws of the current transportation security screening process.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Jim Rogers - Short Dollar Bounce; Long Agriculture, Precious Metals

2009-12-23T15:29:00.001-08:00

Global Governance Juggernaut

2009-12-21T16:52:00.000-08:00

The dangerous idea that the democratic accountability of national governments should simply be dispensed with in favour of "global agreements" reached after closed negotiations between world leaders never, so far as I recall, entered into the arena of public discussion. Except in the United States, where it became a very contentious talking point, the US still holding firmly to the 18th-century

San Jose PD to use head mounted cameras

2009-12-21T13:20:00.000-08:00

San Jose police, under fire for interactions with the public that have turned violent, on Friday launched a pilot project equipping officers with head-mounted cameras to record contacts with civilians.Officers will activate the cameras, about the size of a Bluetooth device and attached by a headband above the ear, every time they respond or make contact with a person. At the end of the officer's

John Elway Fights Terrorism

2009-12-17T14:01:00.000-08:00

Ben Bernanke Times "Man of the Year"

2009-12-17T13:13:00.000-08:00

US Government exceeds Debt Ceiling

2009-12-16T15:37:00.001-08:00

The latest calculation of the National Debt as posted by the Treasury Department has - at least numerically - exceeded the statutory Debt Limit approved by Congress last February as part of the Recovery Act stimulus bill.The ceiling was set at $12.104 trillion dollars. The latest posting by Treasury shows the National Debt at nearly $12.135 trillion.A senior Treasury official told CBS News that

Greg Caton Arrested for Producing Herbal Remedies

2009-12-16T11:15:00.000-08:00

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today stands accused of taking part in the kidnapping and illegal extradition of a permanent resident of Ecuador, in violation of both international law and Ecuadorian law.Greg Caton, owner and operator of Alpha Omega Labs (www.AltCancer.com), an herbal products company that sells anti-cancer herbal remedies made with Ecuadorian medicinal herbs, was arrested

Ron Paul Argues for Fed Audit

2009-12-15T14:51:00.001-08:00

US to expand drone attacks into Pakistani cities

2009-12-14T13:02:00.000-08:00

After confirmation that the CIA has been operating drone strikes in Pakistani territory, a new report says the US is seeking to expand the attacks into the country's cities.The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that top US officials were pushing to expand the air strikes beyond Pakistan's tribal region and into the major city of Quetta to allegedly target the Taliban.Although the US and

Copenhagen Not an Open Forum

2009-12-13T11:40:00.000-08:00

This man asked the wrong question

N. Korea Confirms Swine Flu Outbreak

2009-12-09T15:08:00.000-08:00

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that swine flu has hit the nation, a day after South Korea's president offered to help the impoverished neighbor fight the virus reported to have already killed dozens.Read more...

John Perkins

2009-12-09T13:10:00.000-08:00

John Perkins is the author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman. If you ever get a chance, read his book. It is a revolutionary perspective concerning geopolitics.

New drone to scour U.S. coast for smugglers

2009-12-08T14:33:00.000-08:00

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal border police will soon launch an unmanned surveillance aircraft with marine radar to patrol the coastline for drug smuggling boats, authorities said on Monday. U.S. The remote-controlled plane acquired by the Customs and Border Protection agency is an adapted and unarmed version of the Predator drones built by California-based General Atomics Aeronautical

How the Federal Reserve Manipulates Currency and Redistributes Wealth

2009-12-07T13:44:00.000-08:00

A Case for Anarcho-Capitalism

2009-12-04T14:44:00.000-08:00

Judges 17:6 -In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.We've ventured from the age of the Strong Man and are ready for a more sophisticated system.

Nanny of the Month - November

2009-12-02T18:08:00.001-08:00

Dubai's Debt Bubble to Affect World

2009-11-28T14:35:00.000-08:00

Cloudy future? Heavy fog rolls by early in the morning near the Dubai Marina. — Reuters pic NEW YORK, Nov 28 — Dubai’s debt woes could further unhinge an already fragile US commercial real estate, as it illustrates the importance of that tiny country to global investors in an increasingly interconnected world. A state-owned investment conglomerate Dubai World, with US$59 billion (RM200 billion)

Institutionalized Theft

2009-11-23T14:12:00.000-08:00

If you watch one video from this blog, watch THIS one.

Gold Hits Fresh High

2009-11-22T18:50:00.000-08:00

TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures rallied in electric trading on late Monday morning in Asia, as safe-haven demand helped lift the December contract to a fresh high above $1,160 an ounce. The gain extended a winning streak Friday in New York that's already spanned six straight sessions. "It is an unbelievable rally," said Darin Newsom, a senior analyst at Telvent

Ron Paul Moves Forward in Call to Edit the Federal Reserve

2009-11-19T14:34:00.001-08:00

This is the ultimate end game for central banks and governments around the world: who will control the purse strings and who will control the monetary levers to get the economy moving. Today's vote in Barney Frank's committee will give us an indication of where the US is heading. A no vote to retain a ban on audits should be seen as a sell signal for the US dollar.Read More

Dobbs on Daily Show

2009-11-19T14:24:00.000-08:00

Watch it HerePart2 Part 3

Osama bin Laden's son wants to work for UN

2009-11-19T12:44:00.000-08:00

Omar bin Laden has said he wants to be in a "position to promote peace" and that working for the United Nations would be "ideal".Read More

Why the Federal Reserve is Retarding Recovery and Worsening the Crisis

2009-11-19T00:32:00.001-08:00

Evolutionary Christianity

2009-11-18T17:25:00.000-08:00

A message for a more mature age.Watch Here

Free Market Dynamics in Action

2009-11-18T15:17:00.000-08:00

Debtors' Revolt

2009-11-18T00:30:00.001-08:00

Ken Wilber - Integral Politics

2009-11-17T22:34:00.000-08:00

Police Raid NYC Newspaper Circulation Offices

2009-11-17T22:25:00.000-08:00

New York City raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a union corruption probe, a law enforcement official said Police officers working with the Manhattan district attorney's office searched circulation offices of The New York Times in Queens, the New York Post and the Daily News in Manhattan, and El Diario in Brooklyn, the official said, speaking

The Emperor Has No Clothes

2009-11-16T19:00:00.001-08:00

The Federal Reserve's low interest rate policy is meant to encourage investors to move into riskier assets in order to promote economic recovery, and there are no signs currently the policy is resulting in the build-up of a U.S. asset bubble, the central bank's number-two official said on Monday.Read MoreThe entire system is based on bloated assets which are passed from one investor to the next

On the Constitution

2009-11-16T14:15:00.001-08:00

Bring on the Carbon Taxes

2009-11-14T15:46:00.001-08:00

The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion. "Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where. This data will be then be sent to a collection agency that will send out the bill," the transport

Double Think Defeated by Natural News

2009-11-13T09:50:00.000-08:00

(NaturalNews) When you publish a hard-hitting story containing links to lots of little-known documents, you never know what kind of bizarre blow-back you'll receive. The latest episode of reactive strangeness occurred following our publication of the story about SIGA Technologies and the conflicts of interest found in Dr. Mehmet Oz's holding of 150,000 option shares in that company (http://

Raw Milk and Pasteurization

2009-11-13T00:46:00.002-08:00

Ron Paul on the Fed, Inflation, and Liquidation

2009-11-04T11:48:00.000-08:00

Giving Obama Power to Pull Plug on Internet

2009-11-03T21:56:00.000-08:00

CNET News has obtained a summary of a proposal from Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) that would create an Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor, part of the Executive Office of the President. That office would receive the power to disconnect, if it believes they're at risk of a cyberattack, "critical" computer networks from the Internet.Mercola

Collapse of the Carry Trade

2009-10-31T16:43:00.000-07:00

“Once the dollar stops falling, you have a sudden reversal of the dollar, you have to close your shorts, you have to dump assets, and you could have a market crash all over the world,” he says.The tightening of liquidity with the pop of the carry trade bubble could be massive. Of course, any dollar deflation will be compensated for by the Fed's printing press, meaning that we will still probably

Ron Paul Calls Sanctions on Iran "An Act of War"

2009-10-29T15:45:00.001-07:00

Top Official Resigns over Afghanistan

2009-10-27T15:45:00.000-07:00

A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. By July, he was the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban hotbed. But last month, in a move that has sent ripples all the way to the White House, Hoh, 36, became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over

Consciousness and Quantum Physics

2009-10-27T10:42:00.001-07:00

Amit Goswami, Ph.D ON Quantum Physics & Consciousness, Why do we all feel separate.Amit Goswami's blog is located here: http://www.amitgoswami.orgHis new movie, which is being directed by BlueDotProductions is located here: http://www.quantumactivist.comSee Parts 2 and 3

Pesident Obama Issues Swine Flu Emergency

2009-10-27T08:59:00.000-07:00

Read MoreCBS reports:H1N1 or "swine flu" in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu.In fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That's according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation.

Wilhelm Reich

2009-10-22T14:04:00.000-07:00

Reich was living in Germany when Hitler came to power in January 1933. On March 2, the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter published an attack on one of Reich's pamphlets, The Sexual Struggle of Youth.[5] He left immediately for Vienna, then Scandinavia, moving to the United States in 1939. In 1947, following a series of articles about orgone in The New Republic and Harper's,[6] the Food and

Modern Man a Wimp

2009-10-21T21:00:00.000-07:00

LONDON (Reuters) - Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions. Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood. Any Neanderthal woman could have beaten former

Niall Ferguson: The Dollar is Dying a Slow Death

2009-10-20T20:56:00.000-07:00

The weakening dollar is dying a slow death. "It's clear where we're headed," says Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money. "Ten years from now there will be more than one international reserve currency," he tells Tech Ticker.Ferguson dismisses the dollar loyalists, citing the British pound – the last international reserve currency - as his example. "These things don't last forever" but

The Problem of Government Subsidized/Backed Student Loans

2009-10-20T15:52:00.000-07:00

Time Travel Dillema May Be Cause of Explosion Blamed on Terrorists

2009-10-19T15:56:00.000-07:00