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US Supreme Court set to reveal decision on Obama's healthcare law
Barack Obama faces one of the deciding moments of his presidency this week as the Supreme Court is set to announce whether or not his flagship healthcare overhaul is constitutional.
And while the White House seems to be leaking information left, right and centre, the court has managed to keep its ruling a secret for months.
America’s nine Supreme Court justices officially voted on the plan more...
US military Insect Drones surveillance future
A small insect or a mosquito over your ear may now be much more than simply annoying. Those could easily be micro drones which now come in a swarm of bug-sized flying spies.
In an effort to create a hard-to-detect surveillance drone that will operate with little or no direct human supervision in out of the way and adverse environments, researchers are mimicking nature.
The University of Pennsylvania...
NASA to build 2500 mph supersonic passenger jet
Artist’s impression of the new supersonic commercial passenger aircraft which will fly at speeds of 2,500 mph
Aircraft enthusiasts are waiting with growing anticipation for the unveiling of plans for a supersonic jet that may be able to fly London to Sydney in just four hours.
U.S. builders – helped by the Nasa space agency – will reveal the prototype successors to Concorde at the...
Most Americans can't name Obama's religion
U.S. President Barack Obama
Just 34% of Americans correctly say U.S. President Barack Obama is a Christian, while 44% say they don’t know Obama’s religion and 11% say he is a Muslim.
Obama is a Christian and has labeled himself as such as in his writings and interviews, and while living in Chicago he attended the Trinity United Church of Christ. Since moving into the White House, Obama...
Illegal immigrants highlight Hispanic challenge for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
America is a nation of immigrants with an illegal immigration problem – a dilemma for both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the White House race, says John Avlon.
America is a nation of immigrants with an illegal immigration problem.
For the past four decades, immigration has been a political football, the subject of liberal pandering and conservative demagoguery in the culture wars. But now...
Abortion is the Ultimate Child Abuse
Outrage is expected from both liberals and conservatives on the issue of child abuse, but what about the ultimate child abuse of abortion? Liberals are usually strangely silent. As horrible as neglect, molestation, beatings, and desertion may be, murder of the helpless and innocent through abortion is worse. Though abandoned and abused children suffer, at least they still have life and, hopefully,...
Zombie Apocalypse Training Drills Ensue as Zombie-Like Attacks on the Rise
The world is a strange place as zombie preparation drills have now been carried out due to a recent wave of zombie-like attacks throughout the country.
Most recently of which was a man high on an unknown substance biting a human bicep in a “zombie-like” attack.
An ABC excerpt reads;
PALMETTO, Fla. – When Jeffrey Blake woke up in his Palmetto home Thursday morning, he had no idea the bizarre...
Tracking People Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
“When your life and all you love are on the line” – Verichip
It’s been hailed as the ultimate in personal identification and human tracking technology, and now it’s going mainstream. The VeriMed system, formerly known as the Verichip, is a passive RFID microchip measuring about the size of a grain of rice and is implantable under your skin, making it possible for health care providers...
UN questions legality of U.S. drone attacks
On Wednesday, a rapporteur of the United Nations Organization (UNO) condemned the drone attacks carried out by U.S. forces that have killed thousands, and has questioned the legality of such aerial assaults.
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary executions, Cristoff Heyns, in his report of 28 pages submitted to the UN Human Rights Council, has sued the U.S. Government in order to clarify...
Quebec plunges into crisis over student strike
Students rally in Montreal, Quebec, against tuition hikes.
Massive student protests against tuition hikes in Quebec are degenerating into one of the broadest social crises to hit the Canadian province in three decades.
The protests, which began four months ago, are now posing serious challenges to Quebec’s civil society, the state-funded BBC Persian reports.
The students never accepted the government’s...
Obama Push For World War III Shocks Putin
A highly disturbing report prepared by the Foreign Ministry on yesterdays nearly 3 ½ hour meeting between President’s Putin and Obama at the G-20 Summit in Mexico states that Russia’s leader was “shocked” after he told the US leader that America’s Middle East policies were bringing the world to brink of total war to which Obama replied… “I don’t care, maybe that’s what we all...
FBI wants to ban new Internet protocol
With the recent unveiling of the newest Internet protocol system, trillions upon trillions of devices are being paved access to the Internet for the unforeseeable future. And right on cue, the FBI is already up in arms over IPv6.
With computing devices around the globe already switching from the current Internet protocol system, IPv4, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation is predictably picking a...
Cassini finds tropical lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, pictured to the right of the gas giant in the Cassini spacecraft view.
Scientists have discovered methane lakes in the tropical areas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of which is about half the size of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, with a depth of at least one meter.
The longstanding bodies of liquid were detected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been...
Military Will Be Used To Provide Rapid Response Options in the US
Domestic Deployment: U.S. Army Chief Says Military Will Be Used To Provide “Rapid Response Options” and Address “Challenges in the United States Itself”
As the Department of Homeland Security and local law enforcement fuse into a single militarized policing apparatus for the whole of America through the use of massive surveillance warehouses, eye-in-the-sky drones and hybrid task forces, the...
Press non-freedom in the US
With Occupy Wall Street shedding light on police brutality and arrests that the US has not seen in a while, America has also seen journalists getting arrested – for simply having a press pass that the police doesn’t deem appropriate.
How is this affecting the state of press freedom in the country?
Dramatic scenes unfolding in the US during Occupy Wall Street clashes with police have been a must-cover...