Archive for December, 2014

The Awakening Springs Unstoppable

People don’t realize the effects of their actions, words and decisions as they seem to take so long to take effect in the long run. That’s a manifestation of the semi-conscious mind at work. We expect quick results when so much is way deeper than surface appearances and understandings. I’m addressing the awakening and those […]

Today’s Protests Are Centuries In The Making

Print Friendly Protests outside City Hall (photo: John Kenny @jjk607) The tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu offer New Yorkers an opportunity to have a real conversation about our city’s sordid racial history. Racial politics may have come a long way in a city that prides itself on multiculturalism and progressivism, […]

New Year’s Eve Protests Set To Shut Down Major Cities

Print Friendly To cap off a year marked by race-based, anti-police demonstrations, a number of activist groups are banding together in an effort to stage significant protests in multiple cities this New Year’s Eve. One New York-based organization is taking the lead by organizing an event in that city scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. at […]

Kalamazoo Resident’s Week-Long Environmental Justice Fast

Print Friendly One of the MI CATS has recently begun a 7-day fast as a personal protest against Enbridge and in support of opposition to Enbridge. Here’s a statement this CAT wrote below: *** At 12am on December 25, precisely one week before the end of 2014, I began a week-long “environmental justice fast”. This […]

Activists Permanently Shut Down Vermont Yankee Nuke Plant

Print Friendly Note: The Safe and Green Campaign posted at 12:12 pm on 12.29.14 Vermont Yankee has officially powered down and is off-line …. forever. Just let that sink in. – PopRes ___________________ The Vermont Yankee atomic reactor goes permanently off-line today, Dec. 29, 2014. Citizen activists have made it happen. The number of licensed U.S. […]

Chilling, Disgusting: Investigations Into NYPD Corruption

Print Friendly Image: Twitter OWS Grass eaters, meat eaters, pads, bagmen, scores, and doing doors. These are a few of the nicknames cops in the New York City Police Department use for their colleagues engaged in the business of committing crime. It’s no wonder these words have become part of the NYPD lexicon, considering its […]

The incredible US “peace plan” for Syria

The Syrian people have won two successive wars in four years. Yet the country does not yet know peace. Not only are Washington “liberal hawks” doing everything in their power to prolong the crisis, but they have devised a plan to prepare a third war. Thierry Meyssan reveals here how they intend to use to […]

US launches airstrike on Somali militant leader – Pentagon

Somalia security forces transport blind-folded suspects detained after attackers from the militant group al-Shabaab invaded the African Union’s Halane base in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, December 26, 2014.(Reuters / Feisal Omar) The US military has conducted an airstrike targeting a senior al-Shabaab leader in Somalia, according to Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby. “The strike took […]

Lilly Martin from Inside Syria

The US tax payer should be listening to where their tax dollars are going: directly into the hands of ISIS, so they can rape, maim , enslave and kill innocent civilians.   Please find the latest news from Latakia, Syria, received today from correspondent Lilly Martin Sahiounie by email. Lilly grew up in Fresno, California […]

Blame Game: Speculation Rife After Jordanian Jet Crash in Syria

Jordan is part of the so-called ‘anti-ISIL coalition’ (better described as the ‘regime change coalition’ [RCC]) that has been bombing the terrorists’ positions in Syria since September, and the loss of its warplane represents the first of its kind for the RCC since the operation began. Details are murky about what really transpired, though, with Jordan claiming that “ground fire” took it down, while ISIL […]

US Armed Rebels Gave TOW missiles to Al Qaeda

Maram Susli (NEO) :  US supplied TOW anti-tank missiles have ended up in the hands of Jabhat Al Nusra, Syria’s branch of Al Qaeda. The US provided the missiles to CIA vetted Syrian rebel faction Harakat Hazm in May. A video posted by Al Nusra shows the weapons being used to take over Syrian military bases, Wadi […]

Scientists Discover Drunk Birds Are Just Like Drunk People

Sometimes you just have get some songbirds super wasted in the name of science. In order to determine the effects of alcohol consumption on birds, researchers from the Oregon Health and Science University deliberately spiked some zebra finches’ drinks to measure the impact on their singing ability. As it turns out, just like most people […]

Everyone Needs to Hear Macklemore on Iggy Azalea, White Privilege and Race in America

It’s been a fairly quiet year for Macklemore. After his breakout success with Ryan Lewis on 2012’s The Heist, the rapper and his producer-teammate took a backseat when it came to social commentary and general public awareness. But, being what some may call a “socially-conscious rapper,” Macklemore recently spent an hour with the hosts of […]

Why Even Scientists Get Hangovers

Beer before liquor, never been sicker. Liquor before beer, you’re in the clear. Follow a simple rule like this on New Year’s Eve and you’ll begin 2015 hangover-free, right? You wish.  Liquor before beer, and you still may be puking into the new year. The same goes for most of what you’ve learned about hangovers. Even scientists […]

If You Like Ice Cream and Wine, This Is Your Dream Come True

If you weren’t already screaming for ice cream, this concoction should do the trick. Thanks to Mercer’s Dairy in Boonville, New York, it’s now possible to get drunk from eating ice cream. Mercer’s Wine Ice Cream contains 5% alcohol by volume and is offered in eight different wine flavors: Cherry Merlot, Chocolate Cabernet, Peach White […]

For the First Time Since the Great Recession, Americans Are Optimistic About the Economy

The news: For the first time since a massive housing and credit crisis took down the U.S. economy in 2008, destroying millions of jobs and tanking the stock market, Americans are finally starting to have a more positive outlook on the nation’s economy. According to the findings of a recent Gallup poll, 4% more Americans think […]

See how a homeless man spends $100

Shocker — must see (INTELIHUB.COM) — In the video a man gives a homeless man $100, tagging along with a hidden camera to see what the man does with the money. Soon-after, the homeless man was filmed going into a liquor store. The man came out with bags full of… You won’t […]

Teenage boy arrested under ‘terrorism’ for Tweeting

It’s the world in which we live FORTH WORTH, Tex. (INTELLIHUB.COM) — “A threat of violence” has been made against police, via Twitter, by a teenage boy, reports say. The “terrorist threat”, according to police, was posted on Twitter, Dec. 22, and reads, “Should I do it? They don’t care for a […]

A 2,500 square-mile methane plume is silently hovering over Western U.S.

Legacy of fossil fuel drilling is “giant cloud” of powerful greenhouse gas now visible from space By Jon Queally | Common Dreams A monstrous cloud of accumulated methane—a potent greenhouse gas—is now hovering over a large portion of the western United States according to satellite imagery analyzed by NASA and reported by […]

What Happens When The Impossible Becomes Possible

by Luminita D. Saviuc “Never say that you can’t do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can’t be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of […]

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