Richard Holbrooke, noted diplomat, is dead at 69

New Jersey Senator Michael Doherty (R-Warren, Hunterdon) announced…

It's not just the US using drones anymore: it's Mexico too, and they're literally crashing in our own backyard.

On Tuesday of last week, a small Mexican drone crashed in the El Paso Valley, as far as a half-mile into the United States. Little is known about the crash or what the device was doing in US airspace. US officials returned the craft to Mexico.

"We are collecting data about the crash. We don't have the aircraft because it was returned to its owner,"…

That is, except during a lunar eclipse.



The luster will be a bit "off" on Dec. 21st, the first day of northern winter, when the full Moon passes almost dead-center through Earth's shadow. For 72 minutes of eerie totality, an amber light will play across the snows of North America, throwing landscapes into an unusual state of ruddy…

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HOMELAND INSECURITY

Ex-chief worried naughty terrorists won't be nice to New York, Washington

Posted: December 19, 2010

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There is a "real possibility" foreign Islamic terrorists already…

WarIsACrime.org

On Thursday, 135 peace activists organized by Veterans for Peace were arrested at the White House fence in the snow for the crime of advocating the majority position against these wars.  These winter peacemakers were also charged with failing to carry misspelled racist…

David Codrea

• Gun Rights Examiner

“The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is…

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At the same time the president was speaking, dozens of protesters, organized by Veterans for Peace, lined up along the White House fence in an act of civil disobenience. Many chained or tied themselves to the fence and chanted "End, end, end the occupation. Troops out now!"

Police spent several hours arresting demonstrators, taking photos of each one before placing them into vans.

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Eric Fry has put together the pieces, searched the articles and has done the timeline that show's how the Fed shoveled money into the coffers of Goldman Sachs. Even to help Goldman pay off its TARP debt.



This investigative report from Eric Fry is must reading. It should also be kept in mind that this is…

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In response to concerns it’s become a means of radical promotion, YouTube has now added an option for flagging content that is terrorist in nature.

When you flag a video as inappropriate, “promotes terrorism” now appears as an option under the “violent or repulsive content” category on the Google-owned website.

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) called the new terrorism flag a “good first step toward scrubbing mainstream Internet sites of terrorist propaganda.”

Lieberman first…

The massive industrial conglomerate Halliburton has reportedly offered to pay $250 million to settle charges against its former chief executive, ex-Vice President Dick Cheney, in a multi-million dollar bribery case.

Nigeria filed charges against Cheney last week in an investigation of alleged bribery estimated at $180 million. Prosecutors named both Halliburton and KBR in the charges, as well as three European oil and engineering companies -- Technip SA, EniSpa, and Saipem…

Bill Gross, Nouriel Roubini, Laurence Kotlikoff, Steve Keen, Michel Chossudovsky and the Wall Street Journal all say that the U.S. economy is a giant Ponzi scheme.



Virtually all independent economists and financial experts say that rampant fraud was largely responsible for the financial crisis. See…

Days of violent protests by Bangladeshi garment workers - who produce clothes for western brands like Marks & Spencer, H&M, Tesco and Walmart - demanding a higher minimum wage peaked on Sunday when at least three people were killed and 250 people were injured in clashes with police.



Since then, production has resumed in some units of the Dhaka and Chittagong Export Processing Zones, after employees were given assurances that they would reap the full benefits of a…

By Jon Christian Ryter

December 15, 2010

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With a straight face that would suggest they had the authority to do so, the Federal Communications Commission is poised to steal the Internet after new…