BRIEFFake human sacrifice filmed at Cern, with pranking scientists suspected … Scientific users' of the Geneva facility 'let their humour go too far' with staging of occult rite ... The video, which circulated online, shows several individuals in black cloaks gathering in a main square at Europe's top physics lab, in what appears to be a re-enactment of an occult ceremony. The video includ...Read More

BRIEFUS moves nuclear weapons from Turkey to Romania ... Two independent sources told EurActiv.com that the US has started transferring nuclear weapons stationed in Turkey to Romania, against the background of worsening relations between Washington and Ankara.- Euractiv (here)Always the nukes.Whenever there is military tension anywhere in the world that involves the US, it often involves the nucle...Read More

By any objective measure, Donald Trump is poised to lose the November election by a wide margin. Taking into consideration new swing-state polls from Quinnipiac University that show Trump trailing Hillary Clinton by 12, 10 and 3 points in Virginia, Colorado and Iowa, respectively, we can use RealClearPolitics’s average of recent polls in swing states (and 2012 results everywhere else) to e...Read More

NPR is killing off comments. That's great news! ... NPR made a big announcement Wednesday: It is ending its users' ability to offer comments at the bottom of each story posted on its site. “We’ve reached the point where we’ve realized that there are other, better ways to achieve the same kind of community discussion around the issues we raise in our journalism,” Scott Mon...Read More

Loonie closes at highest level in more than a month; stock markets pull back ... The Canadian dollar continued to ride higher with oil prices Tuesday, as both the currency and a barrel of crude climbed in value for a fourth straight day. The loonie added 0.38 of a cent to 77.80 cents U.S., closing at its highest level in more than a month amid a weakening U.S. dollar.It's never been clear why...Read More

Trust in public power companies misplaced ... Former Labor minister Patrick Conlon urges carbon price to fix electricity system ... A SENIOR Labor figure is urging a carbon price on electricity to lower household bills by kickstarting investment in new-generation power plants. - The AdvertiserAustralian politicians have been obsessed with taxing carbon ever since the tax was briefly imposed and...Read More

Fixing America’s Roads Is a Great Opportunity ... Many politicians and commentators are calling for a big burst of spending on infrastructure. On his blog, my esteemed Bloomberg View colleague Tyler Cowen raises an interesting question: What is the opportunity cost of government spending — that is, what is the value of the other uses to which the money and resources could be put? ...Read More

Michael Moore: Trump Is Self-Sabotaging His Campaign Because He Never Really Wanted the Job in the First Place ... He’s running for president to get a better deal for “The Apprentice.” Michael Moore, AlterNetHas film-maker Michael Moore revealed the truth about Donald Trump's campaign? Is it just a publicity stunt gone wrong, and a malicious one?Despite his tremendous success, th...Read More

We had some trouble with the site and stories will be up later today. In the meantime come visit our new links feature – Notable News – or view stories you may not have seen yesterday. The problems were internal and everything is fixed now. Thanks for your support!You don’t have to play by the rules of the corrupt politicians, manipulative media, and brainwashed peers.When you su...Read More

Hillary Promises a New Government Agency to Open Up Our Borders ... Hillary's open borders policy will reach fruition if she becomes president. In fact, she said ... she is going to open up a new government agency to help illegal aliens and get them on a path to citizenship. She has already said that in her first 100 days, she will go much further than Barack Obama. - Independent SentinelMonths ag...Read More

Gold Losing Appeal for Investors Retreating From Rally ... 'People don't believe in the gold rally,' Holmes says. Investors are growing more skeptical of gold's lasting luster. Hedge funds and other speculators cut their wagers on a bullion rally for the fourth time in five weeks. As traders tire, the metal's 30-day historical volatility has dropped to the lowest since November. Open interest is a...Read More

New York Magazine Makes "The Case Against the Media" Editor Genevieve Smith tells Folio: why now’s the time to dig deep into public distrust ... On July 25, New York magazine featured a cover story that immediately sparked interest among those in media, called "The Case Against the Media. By the Media." – FolioAt the end of July, New York magazine tried to investigate reasons American...Read More

World’s Oldest Gold Object May Have Just Been Unearthed in Bulgaria ... A small gold bead shows that Copper Age people in the Balkans were processing gold 6,500 years ago... -SmithsonianThis gold bead further confirms the maturity of private monetary history in our view.Reference.com tells us, HERE: "The existence of gold has been known for over 5,500 years; therefore, the exact locatio...Read More

A Nobel Alternative to the Current Euro System ... A new book by Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz suggests that the best way forward for the euro area is a “flexible euro,” a system of different currencies under the same name fluctuating within certain limits. It’s a new, ingenious riff on an idea that keeps popping up in discussions of the currency bloc’s...Read More

OLYMPICS Shaming Could Be the Best Fix for Olympic Doping ... At the Olympics, we're witnessing some serious cases of public shaming. Victorious competitors are publicly ostracizing those who once used performance-enhancing drugs. To take just one example, Australian Mack Horton, gold medalist in the 400-meter freestyle, pointedly refused even to acknowledge China's silver medalist Sun Yang, who h...Read More

Central banks are printing money as though the global economy is in freefall ... Central banks around the world are now spending $200 billion a month on emergency economic stimulus measures, pumping this money into their economies by buying bonds. The current pace of purchases is higher than ever before, even during the depths of the financial crisis in 2009. -QuartzFrom Quartz we learn that centr...Read More

Air Force Seeks New Land-Based and Air-Launched Nukes ... Advancing what could become a near-total rebuild of the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, the Air Force ... solicited industry proposals to build a new fleet of land-based nuclear missiles as well as replacements for its air-launched nuclear cruise missile force. The two projects are part of a broader modernization of the nuclear arsenal expe...Read More

UK & EU Shut Out 3D Printing Community ... It's amazing what an eruption Brexit had in the headlines, only to be superseded by worse things in the news shortly after ... What an interesting law they have chosen to pass. -3DPrintThe disease of government is like an ineradicable plague that sickens without ceasing. Now patent and copyright law have been extending in the UK and EU.Why should we...Read More

To commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the first Bikini Atoll nuclear tests, the nonprofit National Security Archive has published declassified footage of the Able and Baker “shots” in the summer of 1946. -Maritime ExecutiveThese new photos and films of the Bikini Atoll atom bomb blast seem artifical.The most obvious, apparent fakery can be seen in the "Baker" atom-bomb test,...Read More

Sailors And Marines Can Officially Declare They Are Transgenders This Fall ... Before declaring transgender status, these service-members have to be at the start, in the middle of, or finished transitioning. Only then will they be able to ask for a formal gender switch in the database system, Navy Times reports. -Daily CallerIt is helpful for transgender people that the Pentagon now has a pol...Read More