By:JadetheCreator When it comes to Houston, we have it made as citizens. Great food, a plethora of local, thriving businesses, incomparable local musical acts, and a community ready and willing to pull an honest legacy to it’s success. One thing that can be said, is that the art scene is intransigent. We’ve been graced by…
Blogs
National
Federal judge rules DC ban on handguns unconstitutional
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Saturday overturned Washington D.C.’s ban on carrying handguns outside the home, saying it was unconstitutional. “There is no longer any basis on which this Court can conclude that the District of Columbia’s total ban on the public carrying of ready-to-use handguns outside the home is constitutional under any level…
International
Ron Paul Asks Americans to Question Official Story on Downed Malaysian Flight
McClatchy WASHINGTON — Former Texas Rep. Ron Paul suggests in a column that the United States, through its support of the Ukrainian government, shares the blame in last week’s downing of a Malaysian Airlines jet over the eastern Ukraine. The column, carried Sunday on the website of the Ron Paul Institute, was provocative from the outset.…
Solutions
Crowd-Funding App To Give Homeless a New Start Raises Nearly $1 Million
New company has a unique solution to the problem of homelessness By: John Vibes, True Activist. Recently, I have been looking into various efforts that people have been taking around the world to improve the situations of those who don’t have anywhere to live. In my research, I learned about a new smartphone application that…
Police State
Bloggers, Surveillance and Obama’s Orwellian State
Time Advancements in technology have fueled this White House’s obsession with controlling the message. Jay Carney is free. But not loose – at least so far. After resigning as the press secretary for President Obama on June 20, Carney gave insight into the Obama administration’s handling of classified documents, and responded to criticism that this…
9/11
Supreme Court Denies 9/11 Lawsuit Against Bin Laden Family
The Liberty Beat The Supreme Court has ruled that lawsuits by victims’ families and survivors of the September 11 attacks can move forward, however relatives of Osama bin Laden and Saudi businesses suspected of supporting the attacks will not be included. The high court decided not to review a previous ruling that dismissed lawsuits against…
TSA
Report: TSA Routinely Targets Transgender Passengers For Extra Pat-Downs, Strip Searches
Emerson Rensink | The Anti-Media In an extensive report conducted by Al-Jazeera America last month, it was revealed that U.S. Transportation Security Agency (TSA) policies routinely single out transgender passengers for extra security screenings, including pat-downs and strip searches. Al-Jazeera’s findings are based on information gathered from public records requests from the Department of Homeland…
Economy
ANALYST: GERMANY SECRETLY PLANNING TO JOIN BRICS
Infowars Financial analyst Jim Willie sensationally claims that Germany is preparing to ditch the unipolar system backed by NATO and the U.S. in favor of joining the BRICS nations, and that this is why the NSA was caught spying on Angela Merkel and other German leaders. In an interview with USA Watchdog’s Greg Hunter, Willie, a…
Technology
Crowd-Funding App To Give Homeless a New Start Raises Nearly $1 Million
New company has a unique solution to the problem of homelessness By: John Vibes, True Activist. Recently, I have been looking into various efforts that people have been taking around the world to improve the situations of those who don’t have anywhere to live. In my research, I learned about a new smartphone application that…
GMO's
Kyrgyzstan Bans Cultivation of Genetically Modified Crops
24 Genetically modified products to be prohibited cultivated in Kyrgyzstan. Today the deputies approved in the third reading the bill “On the prohibition of cultivation, production, import and sale in KR products containing GMOs”. Earlier it was reported that the adoption of the law till 2015, it is planed to build a laboratory, where not…
Drug War
Scientists Discover How Magic Mushrooms Expand Our Minds
Activist Post New research shows that our brain displays a similar pattern of activity during dreams as it does during a mind-expanding drug trip. Psychedelic drugs such as LSD and magic mushrooms can profoundly alter the way we experience the world but little is known about what physically happens in the brain. New research, published…
Environment
SACRED SPIRIT OF WATER
IC Sacred Spirit of Water speaks to how we will be impacted by the federal government’s omnibus bills that eliminate protection for 99% of Canada’s lakes and rivers and the Alberta government’s potential plan to set up a provincial water market. Features interviews with: Francois Paulette, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Jon Slomp, Helene Walsh, Bill Moore-Kilgannon, Andrew Nikiforuk,…
Globalization
Ukraine Protests Carefully Orchestrated: The Role of CANVAS, US-Financed “Color Revolution Training Group”
Global Research The recent protests in Ukraine have the stench of a foreign-orchestrated attempt to destabilize the government of Viktor Yanukovych after he walked away from signing an EU Association Agreement that would have driven a deep wedge between Russia and Ukraine. Glamor-star boxer-turned political guru, Vitaly Klitschko, has been meeting with the US State…