Fighting corruption with bumper stickers and public toilets: ambient accountability

Anti-corruption activists try to make those in power answerable to people. We call this accountability.

NGOs try to make “accountability” happen by training citizens to audit local government…

Why Didn’t We See the Russian Asteroid Coming?

 Annalee Newitz

Early this morning, a fireball blazed over the Chelyabinsk region in Russia,…

Who says NASA has lost interest in the moon? Along with rumours of a hovering lunar base, there are reports that the agency is considering a proposal to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit.

Researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California have confirmed that NASA is mulling over their plan to build a robotic spacecraft to grab a small asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit. The mission would cost about $2.6 billion – slightly more than NASA's…

Sir, – Nicosia Letter by Brendan Ó Cathaoir (World News, February 6th) distorts the realities of Cyprus.

Mr O Cathaoir mentions the island is divided by the Green Line, but what he does not say is that the Line was drawn on the map right after the armed attacks on Turkish Cypriot civilians by Greek Cypriot militia in December 1963, and that the UN peace keeping forces in Cyprus was stationed on the island during the first half of 1964.

Referring to Turkey’s intervention in…

For an institution devoted to eternal light, the Vatican has shown itself to be a master of smokescreens since Pope Benedict XVI's shock resignation announcement.

On Thursday, the Vatican spokesman acknowledged that Benedict hit his head and bled profusely while visiting Mexico in July. Two days earlier the same man acknowledged that Benedict has had a pacemaker for years, and underwent a secret operation to replace its battery three months…

When you buy a house, you end up feeling like you will be paying it off until the world ends. Well, how about one of these luxurious condos, which come with all the mod-cons, as well as a pool, a movie theater and a library – oh, and a guarantee that it will survive Doomsday if and when that fateful day comes.

For these luxury flats, deep below the Kansas prairie in the shaft of an abandoned missile silo, are meant to withstand everything from economic…

In a video interview with The Daily Caller, musicianTed Nugent said president  has “defied everything he said” in his first State Of The Union address.

Despite his strong support for the Second Amendment, Nugent told TheDC that the president’s “anti-budget” economic policies have him concerned the most.

“I believe that what we saw in the president’s first STATE OF THE…

Corporate giant Monsanto, known for its controversial business model, lobbying, and its widely criticized genetically modified organisms (GMOs), has officially joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a group of powerful interests including major banks and Big Oil backing the United Nations “Agenda 21” scheme for so-called “sustainable development.” Critics, however, expressed alarm over the announcement, saying the global “sustainability” push is really a transparent…

When the New York Times wrote of the improved technology of 3D printing this writer responded with a frivolous blog about it, scoring the concerns of anti-gun people about how the technology will allow…

The European Union and the Spanish Economic Minister Luis de Guindos have had secret talks concerning the restructuring of Spain’s austerity cutbacks on education and health care pre-bailout wherein the nation will lose its sovereignty to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission and the European Central Bank.

This sovereign land-grab by the central banking cartels is mirrored in a recent Goldman Sachs report: “The more the Spanish administration indulges domestic…

Have you ever looked up into the clouds on usually a clear day, and seen aircraft flying very very high with a trail of what looks like smoke behind them? And wonder exactly what they were???

Is it Solar Engineering? Is it terra-forming of the planet? Experiments in controlling the weather? 

This has been going on for years and years! This is the true Global Weather threat.. Created by yours trully!

They are controlling the weather. They are…

2012: When the Government Comes

Knocking, Who Has Your Back?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Second Annual Report

on Online Service Providers’ Privacy and Transparency

Practices Regarding Government Access to User Data

This is I think the last report, not sure if a new report is out yet.. But thought

some might find it interesting..

The link is to a pdf file on www.eff.org…

By Tim Schmidt

USCCA Founder

Last week, I gave a clarion call to anyone and everyone who would hear it to transform their beliefs into action.  If there is one thing I know, it’s that the USCCA community is full of like-minded Americans who are passionate about what they believe.  Have you turned your beliefs into action yet?

I love seeing my fellow Americans become proactive in defending our natural born rights, but as great as it is to see people taking…

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security, along with a SWAT team and Bernalillo County sheriff’s deputies raided the home of Robert Adams in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, according to a federal search warrant affidavit the raid seized nearly 1,500 firearms from the man’s home and business. However, no charges have been filed against him, despite the fact that court documents reveal that agents had been watching Adams for years.

By Wednesday afternoon dozens of rifles were…

Should the federal government regulate guns of any type?

Really like the output of Americans!! Stand together and Unite! I know our line has been drawn in the sand. And that we are making our stand.

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