Perspective is an interesting concept.  Where is the viewer relative to the vanishing point?  Move one or the other and the image changes dramatically.  I was moved this a.m.  I was moved by a feature piece about new technology and how it is affecting the third world. E-Readers were introduced to children in Ghana.  Thanks to other technology, I was able to hear the children read.  I was able to hear childr ...

source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Independent writers explain, document, and prove what all humanity will soon recognize as “emperor has no clothes” facts: US wars are Orwellian unlawful. The following are objective facts and independently verifiable. Indeed, the facts are uncontested and therefore non-controversial by definition. Literally the one and only action between now and public embrace of factual r ...

CENSORED IN 1981: LEARNING FROM THE PAST: THE GREAT MASS TRANSIT CONSPIRACY Our national dependency on the automobile has contributed to air pollution, the national trade imbalance, inflation, the deaths of 50,000 Americans annually, disabling injuries to millions more, and billions of dollars annually in lost wages and medical expenses. It also destroyed a mass transit system that was relatively clean, ene ...

Michael Collins Fiction delivers justice that reality rarely approaches. Victims endure suffering and emerge as victors after overcoming incredible challenges. Stieg Larsson's gripping Millennium Trilogy weaves a story of revenge and triumphs for Lizbeth Salander, locked away in a mental institution and sexually abused for years. When Salander got out and threatened to go public about a high level sexual ex ...

We're on our own. It's official. The House of Representatives completed what the Senate began (which seems like the wrong way around). The giveaway to millionaires, also known as the Obama-Republican tax bill, is now law. The grand total is now $900 billion in tax cuts, a large sum of which comes from the Social Security Trust Fund. Shameless politicians have created an open wound in the Social Security tha ...

This is a very powerful presentation. Naturally, those in power do not want us to hear from these Veterans. Please take a few minutes to listen, and then, please spread the news. ...

You don't tug on Superman's cape You don't spit into the wind You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger And you don't mess around with Rim, da do da do...  Jim Croce © 1972 Everybody had a schoolyard bully as they were growing up and he was usually given a wide berth.  The reason was not so much out of fear of being hurt, although there was a component of that, certainly.  No, the real reason was beca ...

There are now two ways for Americans to get involved in the war on terror and feel good about reporting their fellow Americans. DriveMeCrazy, developed by Shazam co-founder Philip Inghelbrecht, allows users to report drivers for numerous, minor infractions. The new Patriot App for the iPhone allows users to report anything they find suspicious. Charles Reinighaus, creator of the app believes that Americans ...

by Michael I. Niman, Perhaps the biggest revelation to come out of the Wikileaks story doesn’t emanate from leaked documents themselves but from the Obama administration’s reaction to the leaks—a reaction that bares a disdain for democracy and a free press naked for the world to see. The “leaked cables” have become a sidebar to this larger, frightening story. In essence, they’ve proved to be bait, reeling i ...

By Shah Baig By the end of World War II, 90% of the casualties of war are unarmed, innocent civilians (Adam Roberts Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, vol. 52, no. 3, June–July 2010, pp. 115–136). This statistic has been  ignored by the media and the government of the United States to support the capitalistic establishment we call home. A homeland where liberty and justice are honored and worshiped. Bu ...