Home » North America
Most Americans don't know the significance of 4th of July
Mark Dice talks with beachgoers in San Diego, California to ask them why the 4th of July holiday was started. Many of them have no clue at all and simply agree with him when he insinuates blatantly false explanations. Check out Mark’s new book Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True on Amazon.com, Kindle or Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-reader.
Mark Dice is a media analyst, social...
Strauss-Kahn released without bail
What was all of this, a consensual political boost so he could get the sympathy of French voters?
Former International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has walked out of court free without bail. His release came after prosecutors raised doubts over the credibility of the hotel housekeeper who has accused him of sexual assault.
Prosecutors agreed to release the former IMF head on his own...
IMF says US debt unsustainable
The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that the US debt burden is perilously unsustainable but warned against too-sharp fiscal adjustments that would slow the fragile economy.
In its annual assessment of US financial strengths and weaknesses, the IMF also said that if the government does not hike its debt ceiling soon to accommodate current spending commitments, the impact could wreak havoc...
Canadian Senator urges people to rise up
Senator Don Oliver photograph in the court yard of the Senate on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ont., June 27, 2011.
Blacks in Canada need to unite, rise up and address the deep racism in this country that keeps them out of positions of power, a Conservative senator says.
“What will it take for our collective Afro-Canadian family to unite — to rise up and claim our rightful place in Canadian society?”...
New 'Little Ice Age' underway
The Earth will enter a new 'Little Ice Age' due to low sunspots.
American researchers say sun spot activity will start to recede in the next two years leading the Earth towards a new ‘Little Ice Age’ in the coming years.
Three separate studies conducted by scientists of the American Astronomical Society’s solar physics division say solar activity will start to recede after...
DC Kids Ingest Cocaine at Elementary School
Four students at a Washington elementary school ingested cocaine brought to the school by a classmate Wednesday, school officials said.
Some of the kids who ingested the cocaine did so orally and others inhaled it through their noses, according to Fred Lewis, a spokesman for DC Schools. He said they were hospitalized as a precaution as was a fifth student who did not ingest the drug.
The children...
A split decision over circumcision
The Foreskin Man Web comic advocates for a ban on circumcision in California.
Colorado lawmakers have decided to cut out Medicaid coverage for newborn circumcision, making them now the seventeenth state to stop subsidizing the snip.
Officials in Colorado claim that the move to skin the procedure from Medicaid-covered procedures would save the state an estimated $186,500 a year. With a budget shortfall...
U.S. House keeps Libya funding, fails to authorize mission
A resolution that bars most funding for the U.S. military mission in Libya failed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, shortly after another measure authorizing the Libya mission suffered the same fate.
The resolution, offered by Rep. Tom Rooney and supported by House Republicans, strikes current-year defense funding for the Libya mission except for search and rescue, intelligence, surveillance,...
TSA Groping Bill Up For Vote In Texas Senate Monday
It flew through the House with nary a word against it in the regular session.
But today Speaker Joe Straus called the anti-TSA-groping bill “ill-advised” and a “not well-researched” publicity stunt, after quickly gaveling in and out a five-minute floor session this morning.
The possible lack of quorum may have been the official reason that bill did not get a floor debate this...
Newly published research in leading journals Against Fluoride and Vaccines
Excerpts below, articles here and here. To understand that Big Pharma and “health care” companies do not act for the public benefit, continue reading the excerpt from this. Explanation, documentation and proof that US corporate media makes the choice to keep Americans ignorant of these game-changing stories is here, with an excerpt of one game-changing examples.
Fluoride:
“The prolonged...
Thousands secretly sterilized in America
More than 60,000 Americans were victims of state-sanctioned sterilization during the 20th century.
After getting married at age 18, Elaine Riddick desperately tried to start her own family. It wasn’t until she was in her 50s, however, that the North Carolina woman found out that doctors sterilized her when she was a teenager.
Riddick was raped at age 13 and says that, when she awoke in a hospital...
US Minorities Becoming Majority
Ethnic minorities now constitute a majority of babies in the United States, marking a significant demographic shift, according to official figures. Preliminary census estimates reveal that, for the first time, ethnic minorities make up the majority of infants in the country. This change underscores a growing age divide between older, mostly white Americans and a younger, predominantly minority population,...
‘Europe is dying’ U.S. population expert tells Senate hearing
Population Research Institute (PRI) President Steven Mosher.
Given the precipitous decline in the birthrates of European countries, all anti-natal programs funded by the United States should immediately be replaced by pro-natal programs, one top population expert recently told the U.S. Senate.
“It doesn’t matter whether we call them reproductive health programs, family planning programs, or population...
Cigarette packs to display graphic images as health warnings
Pictures of diseased lungs and a man blowing cigarette smoke out of a tracheostomy hole in his neck are among the final nine graphic images that will be part of new health warnings on cigarettes and advertising.
The warnings represent the most significant changes to U.S. cigarette labels in more than 25 years and are required to be placed on all cigarette packs, cartons and ads no later than September...
Floods threaten central US nuclear plant
The Cooper Nuclear Power Station near Brownville, Nebraska.
As the Missouri River continues to swell, the US state of Nebraska has issued an emergency flood warning at the Cooper Nuclear Power Station.
The Nebraska Public Power District has issued a flood alert for the state’s southeast Cooper nuclear plant, the Associated Press reported.
“We knew the river was going to rise for some time,”...