The Department of Homeland Security Is Searching Your Facebook and Twitter for These Words – Agriculture avalanche avian bacteria border botnet carbomb China drill drug drug war earthquake execution forest fire gang gas grid hack heroin hostage interstate Islamist Jihad Juarez keylogger kidnap La Familia looting malware marijuana meth lab nationalist nuclear outbreak Pakistan pandemic … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

America is a Constitutional Republic… NOT a Democracy – actually, i’ve known this for a long time, but it’s still a shock to me that other people might not know it. BP Settlement Avoids Day in Court with People Hurt by Spill and BP settles while Macondo seeps – oh no, the problem is all … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

there isn’t going to be much in the way of outrageous headlines today, as i have been preparing to go to san francisco for the AGT auditions. we weren’t selected (i.e. we didn’t make the cut), but we got an all-expenses-paid three-night vacation in san francisco, so it was a win anyway… and as much … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

How to Become a Government Spy in Three Easy Steps – DHS has a training plan for you, too… Depressed Army reservist attacked by police force after calling for help and NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast and Here’s Why Drivers Get Away With Murder In NYC and Police Officer Caught On Tape Saying … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

New DHS Report: If You Love “Individual Liberty” Or If You “Believe In Conspiracy Theories” You Are A Potential Terrorist – When they took the fourth amendment,    I was quiet because I didn’t deal drugs.When they took the sixth amendment,    I was quiet because I was innocent.When they took the second amendment,    I was quiet because I didn’t … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

It Is Time To Legalize All Drugs – yep… too bad nothing is being done about it… 😐 Could A Club Drug Offer ‘Almost Immediate’ Relief From Depression? – yep… too bad the drug is an illegal one… 😐 Hunting Nazis: Anonymous snares Ron Paul in Operation Blitzkrieg – there have been enough incidents like … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Next Up: Enemy Expatriation Act; Would Strip Americans of Citizenship For "Hostilities Against the United States" – When they took the fourth amendment,    I was quiet because I didn’t deal drugs.When they took the sixth amendment,    I was quiet because I was innocent.When they took the second amendment,    I was quiet because I didn’t own a gun.Now they’ve … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

The U.S. Government Funded the Iranian Terrorist Group Which “Found” The Documents Upon Which the Warmongers Are Relying – hmmm… this sounds vaguely familiar… and the US does have a long history of using forged documents as an excuse for war… 😐 SOPA Shelved Indefinitely, Obama Succumbs to Pressure, Issues Official Veto Threat – while … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

NYPD Arrests Anyone Who Speaks: This Would Be Used as War Propaganda if NY Was Foreign and Had Oil – OWS protestors are arrested for speaking in public… seriously, where’s my country? 😛 Why the NDAA Now? – 1) They are saying that the military/corporate complex is in charge, and electoral politics mean nothing; 2) … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

TSA ‘Spot Searches’ Expand To Union Station When they took the fourth amendment,    I was quiet because I didn’t deal drugs.When they took the sixth amendment,    I was quiet because I was innocent.When they took the second amendment,    I was quiet because I didn’t own a gun.Now they’ve taken the first amendment,    and I can say nothing about it. … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

It’s your fault… – that’s it… either we all learn to live together (and that, quickly), or we will ALL die. together. Idea of civilians police using drone aircraft may soon fly with FAA – “Police agencies want drones for air support to spot runaway criminals…” and forget about anybody else having them, because it’s … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

To Change the Country, We Just Might Have to Change Ourselves – which is why it’s never gonna’ happen… just sayin’… Urge the Senate to Oppose Indefinite Military Detention – the U.S. Senate is considering the unthinkable: changing detention laws to imprison people — including Americans living in the United States itself — indefinitely and … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Mississippi Republicans Only Narrowly Support Interracial Marriage – this isn’t 50 years ago, it’s today. 😐 the reason we’ve got to deal with “the war on terrorism”, and “global warming”, and occupy wall street, and priests abusing kids and things like that, these days, is because there are still people who would keep us thinking … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

the another week closer to the eschaton post this week is made using the colour Pantone 2685C purple, as a form of protest over the Cadbury® trademark, which has been mostly upheld by the UK’s trade mark registry. if more people were concerned about news like this, it would be an indication that the world … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Hiroshima Survivor Asks World to Awaken – but, unfortunately, she is one person expressing an entirely unpopular view, and she will be roundly ignored by everybody who can make a difference. A New Declaration of Independence – 1. Debt relief, 2. A substantial jobs program, 3. A healthcare public option, 4. Reregulate Wall Street, 5. … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

The Patriot Act Anniversary Week Round-Up – When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry… the Patriot Act has been extended until 2015… Scum Thy Name Is Quan – Scott Olsen, member of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

trust george carlin to lay it right out there, and not pull any punches… too bad nobody’s listening to him either… 😐 Fukushima Update and BP’s Gulf of Mexico PR, One Year Later – you thought you’d heard the last of these, but you were wrong… they’re only just beginning… but nobody cares, because they’re … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

now that it’s coming up on the 1 year anniversary, i’m wondering whether i should be doing this weekly post – another week closer to the eschaton… – before i started putting all the “news” news in a weekly post, i put pretty much all of them up when i found them, and didn’t take … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

It Knows – okay, i’m frightened now… 😮 Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet – it’s likely because those highly secret and secure military networks all run windoesn’t… In Alabama, It Goes Like This: No ID, No Water – when i lived in alabama (in the 1960s), they taught us “do unto others as you … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

When the World Outlawed War – “on August 27, 1928, in Paris, France… the Kellogg-Briand Pact – outlawing war – was … ratified by the United States Senate in a vote of 85 to 1 and remains on the books to this day as part of what Article VI of the U.S. Constitution calls “the … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

U.S. assembling secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula – because, you know, we have to be stirring things up somewhere… You Should Definitely Take More Drugs – whether they’re legal or not… We Ignore Poverty, But It Is On the Rise – the US has the highest poverty rate among developed countries. Court Advances … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Blast rocks nuclear plant in France – At the moment no one knows whether the building itself is still completely airtight, but some radiation could of course leak outside… BP’s "Failure of Supervision and Accountability" Caused the Nation’s Largest Oil Spill – and, yet, the government continues to pretend that BP has our environment’s best … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now. … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Earthquake Threat to Nuclear Reactors Far Higher Than Realized – forget about fukushima, we’ve got our own problems… that aren’t being reported in the news around here… 😐 Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head – if the war in iraq wasn’t illegal enough already… 😐 They Hate Us Because We’re Hypocritical Idiots – … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Daily exercise ‘may prolong life’ – “every single hour of TV watched after the age of 25 shortened the viewer’s life expectancy by just under 22 minutes…” Pasco couple fear losing home to foreclosure for paying mortgage too early – this is all kinds of wrong… Obama bans war criminals, except our own – 😡 … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

How Two Former Fox Reporters Found Out To Their Cost Just How Corrupt And Far Reaching Monsanto’s Reach Is – 😮 Wait… Did Herman Cain End The Debate With A Line From A Pokemon Movie? – maybe that’s what he means by “a poet”, but if so, he needs a little more education before running … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

just to make sure that everyone is still clear about this, here’s the current trajectory of politics and the american economy stripped down to its bare essentials: 2001-2008: republicans run economy into ditch. 2008: obama elected. 2009-2011: republicans respond by doing everything possible to prevent him from fixing things. 2012: republicans use lousy economy as … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

before anything else, Oceans on brink of catastrophe – “marine life facing mass extinction ‘within one human generation’” it’s getting to the point where we might, actually, be better off encouraging mass extinction of every living thing on the planet and starting over, anyway… word is that a deal to raise the debt-ceiling has been … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

A visualisation of US Debt in 100 dollar bills – 😮 WTF? No Way… Man Gets $330,000 Home for $16 – get ready for more of this kind of thing… my guess is that it’s going to get a lot more common… Norman Foster Rebuilds Buckminister Fuller’s 1933 Fuel Efficient Vehicle – this is from … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Can We Subpoena The Monkey? Why The Monkey Self-Portraits Are Likely In The Public Domain – this is one of those “there are so many things that are really wrong with the world, and yet this is the kind of thing that make it into the news” items that really frustrates me… because if there … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Iran’s supreme leader accuses U.S. of terrorism – america is a terrorist… wait, america is a terrorist! too bad nobody’s going to pay attention, because the guy who pointed it out is brown and believes in the wrong god… 😐 Justice to Drop Investigations Into CIA Officials Involved in Torture – because it’s only illegal … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

it’s getting to the point where i can’t honestly say that i’m happier with obama than i would have been with any of his potential republican counterparts… at this point, he’s marginally better than anybody the republicans have fielded so far, but that’s not saying much, simply because the potential republican candidates, at this point, … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Japanese PM Says He Will Resign Over Fukushima – my impression is that resigning will, among other things, be like saying “it’s somebody else’s problem now”, a lot more than it would be like saying “this happened on my watch, and i am dishonoured by it”… at the same time, he’s probably going to be … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

A Patriotic Duty: Repeal the Patriot Act and The Patriot Act: When Truth Becomes Treason – i am a patriot? americans are not nearly afraid enough. Not Enjoying TSA Grope-Down is a Suspicious Activity – “a very large segment of the population” are terrorists, and will no longer be able to travel by anything more … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Bin Laden Sons Say U.S. Broke International Law – it’s what i’ve been saying all along: killing osama bin laden was not an act of “justice”, it was an act of revenge. killing osama bin laden reduces the united states to the same level that we are claiming that the “terrorists” occupy. if we truly … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

"Safe" Radiation is a Lethal Three Mile Island Lie and Nuclear Power Can Never Be Made Safe – in case there were any questions… unfortunately, i am getting the very strong impression that it’s going to have to happen to us, in “somebody’s back yard” – It’s Time to Close California’s Nuclear Power Plants – … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

A Teabagger fails miserably in refuting racism charge – dude… where’s my country!? you know you’re doing it wrong when the ku klux klan posts a news release distancing themselves from you and yours… – Ku Klux Klan Distances Selves From Westboro Baptist Church, Tea Party 10 Examples That Should Convince Anyone That We No … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Texas GOP Rep. Introduces Sharia Ban Because He Heard Sharia Is A Threat On The Radio, Asks ‘Isn’t That True?’ and The Anti-Choice Movement: "Not Intended to Be Factual" – these people are your ELECTED representatives, and they are in charge of making our laws… and what they say is “not intended to be factual”?!? … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

An Open Letter to The Ruling ClassYou control our world. You’ve poisoned the air we breathe, contaminated the water we drink, and copyrighted the food we eat. We fight in your wars, die for your causes, and sacrifice our freedoms to protect you. You’ve liquidated our savings, destroyed our middle class, and used our tax … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Mr. James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and a former defense attorney, tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police. RIAA lobbyist becomes federal judge, rules on file-sharing cases – if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em… and then turn against ’em when they’re not expecting it… except … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Germany set to abandon nuclear power for good – good for them! hopefully they’ll set an example that other people will want to emulate… although i doubt it… 😐 Kucinich Wants to Impeach Obama For Libyan Strike – and well he should. US lawmaker targets Libya strike funding – tell me again why we didn’t … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Jury Nullification Advocate Is Indicted – if we’re going to have the right of jury nullification, then we should be informed about it. if we’re not going to have that right, then it should be made illegal. but if we’re going to have the right in theory, but not be informed about it, and when … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite – but at the same time, how much do you want to believe FAUX News, especially considering their reputation these days? Mass. company making diesel with sun, water, CO2 – what do you bet this is the last time we’re going to hear about these guys? … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

The real challenge for Internet freedom? US hypocrisy. And there’s no app for that. How Close Are We to a Nano-based Surveillance State? – Little Brother is watching you… Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators – he’s watching senators, as well… why is more outrage not being expressed about this kind of thing? 😐 and, … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Dear Poor People, Thank You for Going Without Heat So We Can Buy Another Week of War The Washington Legislature should legalize marijuana – this is great… now all we have to do is get people to believe it. okay, i’ve been watching this back-and-forth argument between people who are decidedly against homeopathic medicine, and … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

happy VD. i hope you don’t get VD… Arrest Warrant Issued for Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf – what did i tell you? the answer is 3 years and approximately 60 days… 😐 Rights groups vow to hunt Bush over torture – more good news… 😉 Algeria shuts down internet and Facebook as protest mounts … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

Oysters "are functionally extinct" – “a survey of oyster habitats around the world has found that the succulent mollusks are disappearing fast”… there’s yer problem… 😐 Bush’s Swiss visit off after complaints on torture – “President Bush has admitted he ordered waterboarding which everyone considers to be a form of torture under international law.” the … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →

before i get into it, happy martin luther king jr. day. i was in birmingham during one of his rallies in 1963, and met him when i was three years old. the only other thing i remember about that event was that i also got shit on by a pigeon… Broke and Hungry: This Chart … Continue reading another week closer to the eschaton… →