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More Americans sacrificing liberty: Ron Paul
Former US presidential candidate Ron Paul
Americans are being forced to sacrifice their liberty more than ever since the 9/11 attacks, says former US Congressman Ron Paul.
“The sacrifice of liberty is not of concern for most Americans today,” this is not new, said Paul, as it “has gotten especially bad in America since 9/11.”
In a video posted on his Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Liberty...
Record number of Americans living abroad renounce citizenship
A record number of Americans gave up their US citizenship in the first quarter of 2015, according to IRS data. This is blamed on the taxation of income earned outside the US, along with laws expanding offshore bank account and asset reporting.
A total of 1,335 people renounced US citizenship during the first three months of the year, topping the previous record by 18 percent, according to data compiled...
Tiny 2% of younger Americans trust official media
A recent survey conducted by Harvard University showed that younger Americans do not trust the media.
The survey, Institute of Politics poll, was conducted among 3,000 young people aged between 18-29. Only 12 percent of them said they trust local media.
Eighty-eight percent of the polled said that they “sometimes” or “never” trust the media. Just 2 percent said they trusted...
Americans tired of both Bushes and Clintons
An American political analyst says people in the United States are tired of policies of the families of Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush when they were in power.
“They’re really tired of both Bushes and Clintons. One is perhaps enough. Maybe there should be new faces and new names there,” William Jones from Executive Intelligence Review told Press TV on Monday.
He made the comments after former...
It's Official: Americans Are Stupid
As Americans, we tend to be pretty full of ourselves, and this is especially true of our young people. But do we really have reason for such pride? According to a shocking new report from the Educational Testing Service, Americans between the ages of 20 and 34 are way behind young adults in other industrialized nations when it comes to literacy, mathematics and technological proficiency. Even though...
Activists rally in Chicago to close black site, end disappearing of civilians
Protesters in Chicago have held a rally to demand the police shut down a formerly abandoned warehouse that is reportedly being used to interrogate suspected criminals without recourse to legal representation.
The detention facility, which was first brought to public attention in a report by the Guardian in February, is a plain warehouse located on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, which...
Millions Of East Coast Americans Could Die if Hit by Tsunami
Could you imagine what would happen if a tsunami hundreds of feet high slammed into the east coast of the United States at several hundred miles an hour? Just because it has never happened during any of our lifetimes does not mean that it can’t happen. In fact, scientists tell us that there is a very good chance that it will happen someday. And if it does happen, there is a very good chance that...
Europeans just can't compete with Americans on internet - Obama
President Obama has criticized European efforts to regulate the internet, suggesting Brussels is unfairly targeting US tech companies, because their European rivals just “can’t compete” with Americans.
“We have owned the internet,” Obama stated in an interview with the technology portal Re/Code, during his summit on cyber-security in Silicon Valley on Friday. “Our companies have created...
More than 3,000 Americans renounce US citizenship in 2014
More than 3,000 Americans renounced their US citizenship or long-term residency in 2014, a new record, according to the US Department of Treasury.
The number of US citizens who gave up their citizenship last year reached 3,415, a 14 percent increase from the 3,000, who did so in the previous year, which was also a record.
Many experts believe the trend is accelerating due to the US government’s...
America Now a Nation of Proles Obsessed With Super Bowl
Proles upset over Seahawks’ bad play calling while ignoring greater evils committed by Obama.
Americans are more outraged over Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll’s play calling during the Super Bowl than they are about President Obama, revealing that America is now a nation of “proles” obsessed with football, beer and gambling, just as the novel 1984 predicted.
Twitter exploded in debate this...
People Kicked Off Beaches, Weddings Moved For Obama Holiday
“I’m not a king,” President Obama has said more than 20 times recently in an effort to dissuade Americans from revolting against his executive rule phone and pen barrage.
The President’s actions in his downtime might make many take another look, however, as it emerged this week that an entire beach was closed down to make way for the first family, as well as a happy couple having to relocate...
Battle for control of US Senate
US Senate floor
Americans will go to the polls on Tuesday to vote for their congressional representatives, both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, their governors and their state representatives.
They will elect 435 members of the House of Representatives, 33 senators, 38 governors and 46 state legislatures.
The House of Representatives is already controlled by the Republicans and polls...
5% of Americans hold 63% of country's wealth - Federal Reserve
The US Federal Reserve chair has expressed concern about increasing wealth inequality in the US, saying the richest five percent of Americans hold 63 percent of the country’s wealth.
Janet Yellen made the remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Economic Conference on Inequality of Economic Opportunity on Friday.
According to her, those at the very top have made significant income gains while...
Diversity losing support among white people as they become minority
Psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have concluded a study to see if White people have differing views on “diversity” as we become a minority.
Professor Yuen Huo and doctoral student Felix Danbold from UCLA gathered 98 White people around the US, split them into two groups, and told the groups one of two statements.
The first statement was based on Census predictions:...
LaGuardia on strike, 58% of Americans want to ban flights from Africa
Airplane cabin cleaning crews at New York’s LaGuardia International Airport began a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, citing, in part, possible exposure to the Ebola virus. Meanwhile, a poll found most Americans want flights banned from Ebola-ravaged areas.
Around 200 Air Serv employees who work on domestic flights to LaGuardia began their strike on Wednesday evening. The group is seeking to unionize,...