The secrecy of Groom Lake was threatened in early 1974 when the astronauts on Skylab disobeyed specific instructions, pointed their camera out the window and took pictures of a facility that did not officially exist. They returned to Earth and their photographs quickly became a headache for NASA, the CIA, and the Deft of Defense.

NASA had an agreement with the US intelligence community that dated from the beginning of the Gemini program. All astronaut photographs of the Earth would first be reviewed by the National Photographic Interpretation Center in Building 213 in the…

The perfect storm that has swept oil prices to $132 a barrel may subside over the coming months as rising crude supply from unexpected corners of the world finally comes on stream, just as the global economic downturn begins to bite. The forces behind the meteoric price rise this spring are slowly receding. Good news at last?

Whining scared Politicians and the MSM need to start telling it like it is. They dance around truth so as not to alert us to who and what the real problem is. These liberal press liers and thier corrupt and lying politician collaborators dare not…

Says anything is better than Clinton.

LINZ - Austria - The Austrian version of Changing Rooms, Folterungr?ume, where the presenters redesign secret underground torture dungeons, has been a ratings…

Twenty-five former U.S. military officers have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation. They are among the rapidly growing number of military and intelligence service veterans, scientists, engineers, and architects challenging the governments story.

of your derisive complaints has been well answered elsewhere. See, for example, 911truth.org, Jim Hoffman's excellent site 911research.com, architects and engineers for 911truth (ae911truth dot org) or the journal of 911 studies…

The author claims that activities such as web surfing and video games, along with a shift from a 'print culture' to a 'video culture', has led to a culture of anti-rationalism and anti-intellectualism, where people cannot concentrate for long periods of time and lack knowledge of basic geography, science and history.

This is the last subject that any candidate would dare raise on the long and winding road to the White House. It is almost impossible to talk about the manner in which public ignorance contributes to grave national problems without being labeled…

This is a great article from the March 2008 issue of The Atlantic by James Fellows. It's the most in-depth look at the Chinese web access issue that I've seen.

Next is the perilous “connect” phase. If the DNS has looked up and provided the right IP address, your computer sends a signal requesting a connection with that remote site. While your signal is going out, and as the other…

This story has been posted already, but amidst the current furor and discussion about The Pirate Bay and copyright it's worth being called again. It gives some very sane points over the issue.

The donors have to trust that the developer will finish it, of course; but this is effectively how freeware development works now. Somebody makes a name for themselves with a piece of freeware; they ask for donations; the donations help to fund…

International flights that don't cost a thing? Books or music you don't have to pay for? Even companies handing out cars? Traditional business is based on the certainty that everything has a price. But now we are at the dawn of a new consumerist era, governed by 'freeconomics'…

One last question. Will Anderson be giving his book away for free? “Of course. I don't aim to make money from the sale of the book. My thing is to get my ideas out there.” Really? “Yeah, really. It's like when I was in a…

The world we could be living in…

Bernays’s version of a “democratic society,” in which political decisions are marketed to consumers, has many modern proponents. Consider a comment by Andrew Card, George W. Bush’s former chief of staff….

Harper’s February cover story was one of clear-eyed financial journalism. Eric Janszen explains Americas devolution from goods-production to paper shuffling. The FIRE economy (for Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) concluding it can only survive by blowing ever-bigger bubbles. Veteran political analyst show government has systematically distorted

FIRE is a credit-financed, asset-price-inflation machine organized around one tenet: that the value of ones assets, which used to fluctuate in response to the business cycle and the financial markets, now goes in only one direction,…

The historians have been polled and more than 80% agree, George Bush is the worst president in US history.

Even worse for the president, the general public, having once given Bush the highest approval ratings ever recorded, now appears to be coming around to the dismal view held by most historians. To be sure, the president retains a considerable base…

This is for anyone interested in understanding what American foreign policy has done to people in Iran.

In response to the drumbeat of threats from Iran, Americans vote out the somewhat-less-hawkish Bill Clinton (serving his, er, third term) and we elect a new, “tougher” prime minister to protect us: militant religious…

It's not global warming we should be worried about. It's global cooling!

There is no doubt that the next little ice age would be much worse than the previous one and much more harmful than anything warming may do. There are many more people now and we have become dependent on a few temperate agricultural areas,…

But Washington, Wall Street, and ethanol and oil and gas companies want you to think there is, says automotive expert Ed Wallace

One wonders if verifiable facts ever get in the way of this administration's statements on issues that are critical to the average American's wellbeing. After all, last time I checked, when politicians are elected to public office, or…

An absolutely excellent article on what is happening, and why, in the high stakes game of world dominance. From several centuries of egalitarian, high-principled values and concern for others, towards a country that is still abusing their own people, are unreliable business partners, and absolutely unscrupulous. Does a disaster await?

There are even reports that manholes in Britain have been disappearing to feed the monstrous appetite for scrap steel in the other side of the world. China is spending 35 times as much on crude oil as it did eight years ago, and 23 times as much…

Not only is the Theory of Evolution questioned in Kansas but now the so-called Theory of Gravity as well. If it ain’t in the bible, folks, it can’t be true.

“Let's take a look at the evidence,” said ECFR senior fellow Gregory Lunsden.”In Matthew 15:14, Jesus says, 'And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.' He says nothing about some gravity making…

How much do you think it would cost you to move a single average-sized MP3 via SMS?

This article contains only a fraction of the full story of SMS economics in the United States. While SMS originally used the control channel, the huge amount of SMS traffic we are seeing now in the US makes that impossible. (The average US…

Saudi prince promises 5billion desert spire TWICE as tall as nearest rival being built.

It is being planned for a new city near the Red Sea port of Jeddah. Behind the scheme is 51-year-old Prince al-Walid bin Talal, who bought the Savoy for £1.25billion in 2005. The plan gives the Middle East a clear lead over…

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“Wouldnt you like to know where Dick Cheney puts his money? Then youd know whether his deficits dont matter? claim is just baloney or not. Well, as it turns out, Kiplinger Magazine ran an article based on Cheneys financial disclosure statement and, sure enough, found out that the VP is lying to the American people.”

Is Cheney betting on Economic Collapse? By Mike Whitney 07/04/06 "Information Clearing House" — – Wouldn’t you like to know where Dick Cheney puts his money? Then you’d know whether his…