In February 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate passed a law which, if signed into law by President Obama, will provisionally outlaw many forms of peaceful protest within the United States. The bill in question, H.R. 347 or The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, would make entering or remaining [...]
The U.S. Office of Minority Health states that in 2009, Latinos and African Americans were respectively 1.2 and 1.5 times as likely to be obese as whites, with the racial disparities even more pronounced among children. A contributor factors to this might be that fast food restaurants are universally more prevalent in poor and minority [...]
American intervention in Afghanistan has come to a crossroads; one path leads to “further nation-building”, and the other is a path for the soldiers to make their way back home. Many will agree that we have served our duty in the Middle East, and have carried out our nation’s military mission to curb the [...]
American Government’s new campaign titled “See Something, Say Something” could allow people to label any American a suspected “Terrorist.” While the list is not definite and still growing these are certain actions and beliefs to date that could get one labeled a terrorist: Protesting Anything. Asking Questions about Pollution. Paying Cash at an Internet Café. [...]
In 1981, a lawyer tried to subpoena Ron Paul to testify in the trial of Don Black, a Grand Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan. Black along with two other Klansmen were charged with planning to violently, overthrow the small Caribbean country of Dominica in what they called “Operation Red Dog”. A Klansman, Michael Perdue [...]
American Government’s new campaign titled “See Something, Say Something” could allow people to label any american a suspected “Terrorist.” While the list is not definite and still growing these are certain actions and beliefs to date that could get one labeled a terrorist: Protesting Anything. Asking Questions about Pollution. Paying Cash at an Internet Café. [...]
“Smart meters” are new electric metering devices being installed on residential dwellings and businesses by utility companies throughout the United States. A Smart Meter operates on a mesh network, issuing frequent bursts of high frequency radiation several times more powerful than a cellular telephone to communicate with other Smart Meters and transmit information on a [...]
Between 2004 and 2007 Wachovia Bank handled funds totaling $378.4 billion for Mexican-currency-exchange houses acting on behalf of drug cartels. Wachovia conceded it didn’t do enough oversight in processing the $378.4 billion for Mexican-currency-exchange houses from 2004 to 2007. The transactions amount to the largest violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, an anti-money-laundering law, in [...]
British scientists have developed genetically altered chickens that reportedly do not transmit bird flu to other chickens. Yet these chickens may still contract the sickness themselves. Yet by tampering with the DNA of the chicken, the safety of its meat for human consumption is called into question. The scientific literature remains mute on whether GM [...]
The Microwave oven has been a common household item for more then 40 years now. Yet while microwaves reheat food, they also generate a host of known carcinogens. The ovens produce micro wavelength radiation at a rate of up to 2.45 GHz. This microwave radiation interacts with the molecules in food. The waves agitate the [...]
