Sploid seems to be shutting down its operations. Bummer since there has rarely been a better electronic news outlet and aggregator. One that despite its tabloid appearance, and sometimes corny lead-ins, managed to cover stories that others just dreamt of having backbone enough to touch upon.
Just like YouTube, Lebanon, Joe Lieberman, newspaper circulation and airline [...]
The Free State Project is a nationwide movement aimed at recruiting libertarians to move to New Hampshire. Russell Kanning, a member of the same Free State Project, was arrested at the end of July for handing out leaflets, urging IRS agents to quit their jobs. He is now being held in maximum security and effectively [...]
There is hope … if more people would take a similar course of action we could, in time, choke the military from within. It’s a small first step, but make no mistake, this is nothing short of visionary!
GPU is a Gnutella client that creates ad-hoc supercomputers by allowing individual PCs on the network to share [...]
The land of the free - but free speech is a rare commodity
It used to be said that academic rows were vicious because the stakes were so small. That’s no longer true in America, where a battle is underway on campuses over what can be said about the Middle East and US foreign policy.
Douglas Giles [...]
Eric Snider on how Hollywood manipulates the media coverage, and the consequences for one renegade reporter that broke the mold.
The call came on a Tuesday afternoon. It was the film critic at a weekly newspaper to which I am a regular contributor. The critic asked me: “Do you want to be a whore?”
OK, not in [...]
The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway lead the way in the annual Center for Global Development (CGD) report on the efforts to improve the lot of developing nations.
The CGD’s measures a broad number of factors for the index, rather than merely the amount of aid countries provide.
It also examines several policy areas - such as trade [...]
Yes, Apple, the corporation that allegedly is nothing like the moneygrubbing dark lords of Redmond. So much for the “good corporation” theory. Just in case you didn’t get it when it was revealed last month Apple managed the frankly astonishing feat of violating Chinese labour laws.
Market a product called “Profit Pod” that is completely unrelated [...]
A new dismal low point for the United States. According to new research presented by National Geographic, people in the United States are among the least likely, certainly among industrialized nations, to accept the theory of evolution.
In the U.S., only 14 percent of adults thought that evolution was “definitely true,” while about a third firmly [...]
Daily Show: Jon Stewart and Aasif Mandvi. Brilliant skit which captures most of the lies and hypocrisy surrounding America’s new world order and the utter bs, clichés, euphemisms and word games used to cover up reality and the actual agenda.
On America not dealing with 9/11 as they apparently expect others to deal with crisis: “I [...]
It’s good to be president when the people can’t even remember the rationale for aggression, just the sketchy and propagandized details that allow you to continue on a campaign of imperial expansion.
While the country is preparing to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and shocked the world, 95 percent [...]
Contact
Lifestream
