China Retaliates Against U.S. ; Spy Ship Now in Hawaiian Waters

Link: The Honolulu Star is reporting that China has moved ” spy ships” in to Hawaiian waters, believed to be as an act of retaliation against U.S. occupation of the East China Sea. China’s navy has never entered these waters. One media outlet aimed at an asian-American audience, the gold sea, is reporting that a 4000 ton electronic reconnaissance ship from the People’s Liberation Army was spotted within 200 miles of the Exclusive economic zone by Hawaii.

Cat Makes Harrowing 200-Mile Trek To Find Its Way Home

Link: It’s a story that sounds like something out of a feel-good Hollywood pet movie: A 4-year-old indoor house cat named Holly, lost during a family vacation 200 miles from her home, makes a harrowing two-month journey to find her way back. The story even has a tear-jerker ending: The day Holly made it back home was on New Year’s Eve, according to the Denver Post.

Navy SEALs Ordered To Remove ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ Navy Jack From Uniforms

Link: The Navy Jack is the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag, one that has earned a revered place in America’s naval history and a beloved place in sailor’s hearts, through its use for over two centuries. This symbol of America’s naval ferocity has spanned our country’s entire existence, flying from the masts of the Continental Navy during the war of independence, to today’s War on Terror. In fact, an amendment to the Navy code called SECNAV Instruction 10520.6 clearly states that as of 31 May 2002 all ships are to fly the flag throughout the duration of the War on Terror.

Kudlow: Liberal Entitlement-State Dream Is Crumbling

Link: May I ask this question? Why is it that Americans don’t have the freedom to choose their own health insurance? I just don’t get it. Why must the liberal nanny state make decisions for us? We can make them ourselves, thank you very much. It’s like choosing a car, buying a home or investing in a stock. We can handle it. So why must the government tell me and everyone else what we can and cannot buy?

Obama Signs Dictatorial Executive Order Imposing Debunked Climate Change Policies

Link: The Obama administration on Friday once again disrespected the Constitution by signing an executive order that circumvents Congress and the American people.

19 Things That All High School Students Should Be Told Before They Go To College

Link: Don’t you wish that someone had told you the truth before you went to college? Don’t you wish that someone had told you that college has become a giant money-making scam that is designed to drain as much money out of students and parents as possible?

GCHQ and European Spy Agencies Worked Together On Mass Surveillance

Link: The German, French, Spanish and Swedish intelligence services have all developed methods of mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic over the past five years in close partnership with Britain’s GCHQeavesdropping agency.

Daylight Saving Time Is Terrible: Here’s a Simple Plan to Fix It

Link: Daylight saving time ends Nov. 3, setting  off an annual ritual where Americans (who don’t live in Arizona or Hawaii) and residents of 78 other countries including Canada (but not Saskatchewan), most of Europe, Australia and New Zealand turn their clocks back one hour. It’s a controversial practice that became popular in the 1970s with the intent of conserving energy. The fall time change feels particularly hard because we lose another hour of evening daylight, just as the days grow shorter. It also creates confusion because countries that observe daylight saving change their clocks on different days.

Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible for All—Except the Feds

Link: Bitcoin, the digital currency once known for powering the black market of the deep web, has officially caught the attention of the proverbial Man. The US government is working to regulate and control the crytocurrency; law enforcement is confiscating millions of virtual coins used for illegal transactions; and venture capitalists and entrepreneurs are chomping at the bit to profit from the hype.

Muslim Brotherhood Caught Using Puppies As Fire Bombs

Link: A pet rescue operation has saved three puppies from Muslim Brotherhood clutches, after discovering the militant members were dousing the animals with gasoline, setting them on fire and throwing them into the chaos of a Tahrir Square demonstration, as makeshift bombs.

Brazil wants to build enough wind turbines to power Sao Paulo within 7 years

Link: Brazil’s economy is growing fast, and it is expected to need an increase of 50% in power generation capacity over the next decade. Currently, the country gets quite a lot of its electricity from hydro, but because it is becoming more reluctant to build new dams on its numerous rivers, it is now turning to another plentiful source of energy: Wind power. The country doesn’t have much of it right now, but a big wind turbine boom seems to be starting.

Chess Grandmaster Takes On 10 Jail Inmates Blindfolded, And Wins

Link: A chess grandmaster, ranked 3rd in the U.S., put his skill at playing blindfolded to the test Friday at the Cook County Jail, beating ten inmates in two hours, without ever seeing any of the chess boards.

25 Stats That Prove That The American Dream Is Being Systematically Destroyed

Link: The 25 statistics that you are about to read are solid proof that the middle class in America is being systematically wiped out. Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world.  It seemed like almost everyone owned a home, had a couple of nice vehicles and could provide a very comfortable lifestyle for their families. Sadly, that has all changed.

Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance

Link: One of the trends we’ve seen is how, as the word of the NSA’s spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. But where to start?

Modern Art Was CIA ‘Weapon’

Link: The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art – including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko – as a weapon in the Cold War.

Retired Marine sings ‘God Bless America’ at World Series Game 1

Link: Retired Marine Sgt. Dan Clark hit a home run with his rendition of “God Bless America,” finishing strong with an emphatic salute.

The Government Is Researching How To Use Technology To Change Your Religious Beliefs

Link: Will we eventually get to the point where Christianity is looked down upon so much in this nation that it is considered acceptable for the government to use technology to wipe away the religious beliefs of “extremist” Christians? 

Hitler finds out about Obamacare Exchange Problems

Link: Hitler learns that two weeks after going live, the Obamacare Exchange website is still a soup sandwich.

Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails?

Link: It’s common to find, in the blank spaces of 13th and 14th century English texts, sketches and notes from medieval readers. And scattered through this marginalia is an oddly recurring scene: a brave knight in shining armor facing down a snail.

Obama’s Military Purge Continues: Relieved Of Duty Brig General, Suspended Command Sgt Major

Link: The Universal Free Press is keeping count and says these two bring the Army total to eleven this year and “it’s only October.”
[What] would an American president do if his plan is not to protect the Constitution and American citizens? What would he do? He would purge leaders who do not share his views on liberty.

The Single Best Overview of What the Surveillance State Does With Our Private Data

Link: The U.S. surveillance debate is constantly distorted by the fact that national-security officials hide, obscure, and distort so much of what they do. Occasionally a journalist is able to expand the store of publicly available information, most recently thanks to Edward Snowden’s indispensable NSA leaks. But even public information about government surveillance and data retention is difficult to convey to a mass audience. It involves multiple federal agencies with overlapping roles.

Trans-Pacific Pact Negotiations Should Finish By Year’s End

Link: The federal government may be “shut down,” but negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Pact are proceeding without delay.  The TPP is a free trade agreement amongst a group of countries which comprise 40% of world trade.  The partnership is yet another step toward globalization and the ceding of national sovereignty in favor of international control.

Muslim Brotherhood In The White House

Link: On December 11, 2004, Muslim Brotherhood apologist Mohamed Elibiary was a featured speaker at a conference honoring the memory of Ayatollah Khomeini, the man synonymous with Islamic terrorism. On September 13, 2013, this same man, Mohamed Elibiary was named the head of the Obama administration’s Homeland Security Advisory Council.

Obama Ready To “Shutdown” 16 U.S. States

Link: How credible is the threat? Well there are several things that makes this doomsday scenario possible. Number one, the government already has the contingency plan in place and President Obama signed off on the executive order already.

One Of Those Killed In Ma’loula: “I Am A Christian, And If You Want To Kill Me For This, I Do Not Object”

Link: I am a Christian, and if you want to kill me for this, I do not object to it” – such were the last words of one of three Christians, killed by extremists after their refusal to accept Islam in Ma’loula, which has already become famous among the faithful as “a land of Martyrs”.