Researchers from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have concluded that over 40,000 Nazi camps and ghettos existed during Hitler's reign of terror between 1933 to 1945.

The total is far higher than most historians had previously estimated, according to The New York Times.

Geoffrey Megargee and Martin Dean, the lead editors of…

One civilian killed, over 400 injured in Port Said clashes

Published time: March 04, 2013 01:47

One person has been reported killed and over 400 injured in clashes in Port Said. Egypt’s army reportedly moved in to stop clashes between protesters and police, sparked by the transfer of prisoners accused of last year’s stadium massacre.

At least one civilian has been killed in clashes in…

South Dakota approves guns in the classroom

Published time: March 02, 2013 01:29

Lawmakers in South Dakota have passed a bill that would allow school districts to arm staff and teachers with guns to make their schools “safer”.

State Senators on Wednesday voted 21-14 to pass the measure, despite large-scale opposition from school administrators and personnel, who are largely…

‘Screw the Troika’: Hundreds of thousands protest austerity measures across Portugal

Ethnic Albanians clash with police in Macedonia

SKOPJE | Sat Mar 2, 2013 1:14pm EST

(Reuters) - Riot police in Macedonia clashed on Saturday with ethnic Albanian protesters who torched a bus and attacked shops in a second day of violence triggered by the appointment of a former guerrilla fighter as defense minister.…

Gay sex rings, 'The Filth' corrupting the Vatican...and why the Pope REALLY quit

• Sickened by moral corrosion in his own shadowy cabal, Benedict can only rid Rome of its malign influence by resigning... a leading Catholic writer's explosive analysis

By JOHN CORNWELL…

America’s deadly phenomenon: The sinkholes that have swallowed homes, cars and businesses across the country

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 03:44 GMT, 2 March 2013 | UPDATED: 13:43 GMT, 2 March…

PICTURED: The grisly photo of smirking son showing off his mother's head after 'he chopped up her corpse with a power saw'

• Bahsid McLean, 23, is charged with murdering his mother Tanya Byrd, 45, and chopping up her body into pieces
• Cops found gruesome pictures of the man and his mother's body on his cell phone
  
  
• Byrd's head, torso, hands, and leg were found in at least…

Here are 5 different articles of insanity of children being accused of violence at school when all they are doing is playing as normal children will do...and just think squirt gun season is on its way which may cause these incidents to rise which brings a threat of drowning in the bull crap...

POP TART GUN…

Man killed after he was swallowed up by 100ft SINKHOLE under his bedroom pictured for the first time as engineers battle to find him

• Jeff Bush, 37, screamed for help as he was sucked into the hole in Florida
  
  
• Brother: 'I heard him screaming for me but I couldn't do anything'
  
  
• 'Safe to presume' he is dead, say fire officials
• House deemed too unstable to continue rescue effort this…

Iraqi army helped Syrian government retake border checkpoint - reports

Published time: March 02, 2013 01:19

The Iraqi army has reportedly shelled Free Syrian Army positions inside Syria near the border with Iraq. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Iraq was helping Syrian government forces regain control of a border checkpoint seized by the insurgency.

Syrian troops have recaptured…

from the but-but-terrorism dept

We've been discussing the now annual rush to re-approve the FISA Amendments Act, despite the fact that the original bill was on shaky constitutional ground, and it's been made much (much, much) worse due to a secret interpretation of what the law means (a secret interpretation that many in Congress apparently have no interest in finding out about). Andrew Napolitano, a former judge, has penned an interesting column laying out many of the reasons why the…

from the it's-all-about-the-public-perception dept

As the Congressional investigation into the DOJ's prosecution of Aaron Swartz has continued, apparently a DOJ representative has admitted that part of the reason it insisted on having Swartz plead guilty to a felony and go to jail, no matter what, was that it feared the public backlash for the original arrest if they couldn't then show a felony conviction and jailtime. According to a Huffington Post article, quoting various…