As of December 31, 2010, the FDIC lists 157 U.S. bank failures for the year 2010. That number eclipses the previous record of 140 shuttered banks set only one year earlier in 2009. When the ongoing economic storm began in 2008, only 25 banks failed that year. The chart below illustrates bank closures going back […]
Last spring, a Polish military plane crashed in western Russia effectively decapitating the Polish government. A serious documentary film questioning the official story surrounding the tragic crash is now available for free viewing on the Internet. Several parts of the film are embedded below in this article. The documentary, which includes interviews with top government […]
After many months of trying to wring something out of NVIDIA, I have finally obtained a Tegra 2-based device. It is in the form of the ViewSonic G Tablet, a 10″ Android 2.2 (Froyo) based slate computer. We bought it from Sears, of all places. Oddly enough, Sears has one of the largest selections of […]
If you are Jonesing over the Apple iPad but can’t afford half-a-grand for a baseline 16GB WiFi version, the $250 Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor is a good alternative. Sporting twice the amount of RAM (512MB) along with 8GB of flash memory (expandable to 40GB thorough a microSD slot), the well-designed NOOKcolor has hardware features that […]
Kathy’s 79-year-old uncle, Dr. Paul Magelli, is traveling to Arusa, Tanzania, to climb Africa’s tallest mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro. Uncle Paul will be the oldest person ever to ascend to the top of the 19,380 foot peak. His climb begins January 5th. He expects to reach the summit on January 12. You can follow his journey […]
An open source operating system lauded for its security features appears to have been infiltrated by the FBI over a decade ago resulting in the covert injection of eavesdropping code allowing the U.S. Government to snoop certain types of commonly used encrypted network traffic. Security expert and OpenBSD leader Theo De Raadt forwarded to the […]
There is an eerie resemblance between the “Combined Disasters” card from the popular Illuminati game and a recent photo of the London riots. The photo below is taken from here.
Over the last few years, the Transportation Security Administration has implemented increasingly invasive yet illogical and ineffective airport security measures. While the USA’s borders remain wide open to malicious invaders, American travelers are subjected to x-ray naked body scanning that has been broadly compared with automated strip searches. And now, opting out of naked body […]
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Illegal immigration is a huge problem in the United States. Crime, disease, terrorism, declining wages for Americans and the breakdown of social infrastructure like schools and hospitals are increasingly serious concerns. However, the media and the Congress are attempting to leverage one issue where many people have sympathy for the influx of illegal aliens: the […]
The Earth’s magnetic field has suddenly thrown off a strange wavy tail as the photo below reveals.
WorldNetDaily follows the court martial case of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin. Lakin was denied “disclosure of Barack Obama’s documentation proving his eligibility to be commander in chief.” WorldNetDaily reports on the decision by acting judge, Army Col. Denise R. Lind here. “Lind ruled that it was ‘not relevant’ for the military to be considering such […]
Known as the “The Buzzer”, this shortwave station, located in Povarovo, Russia, has been heard sine 1982. The signal is normally a buzz tone that repeats at about 25 tones per minute. Throughout the month of August shortwave radio listeners have logged several unusual sounds. Wikipedia logs the unusual activity that has been heard on […]
Here is a picture of Winnie eating dinner.
Jeffrey Smith of AmericanFreePress.net has a well researched piece on the announcement made by the Mexican government to send Mexican police to New York City to patrol the borough of Staten Island.
Note: This report was originally published at Bright Side of News* on April 8, 2010. After their server crashed, BSN* has not yet been able to recover the article after several weeks. We are reposting the report here to serve as a mirror of the original article. There are likely to be minor editing differences […]
The vanshardware.com server has been the target of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for about the last ten hours. Not only has our website been down, but our email server has not been functioning properly. A DDoS is commonly carried out by a virus maker who has taken control of many infected personal […]
While there is a continuous push to claim “separation of church and state” in the public arena, the implications inevitably lead to a reduction of Christian beliefs. These beliefs do get replaced. They will always be replaced. California is leading the way in how Christian beliefs are being replaced in public schools. The Sacramento Bee’s […]
In what some are calling an act of war, a report from Diggers Realm claims that the notorious Mexican drug syndicate, Los Zetas, has captured at least two American ranches near Laredo, Texas, and have entered into a standoff with local law enforcement and the Border Patrol. I can personally vouch that this info came […]
The globalists’ insane Communist test lab of North Korea has threatened nuclear war this weekend if provoked by a joint U.S.-South Korea military exercise. The BBC reports: “The army and people of the DPRK will start a retaliatory sacred war of their own style based on nuclear deterrent any time necessary in order to counter […]
Over the last week, a multipronged attack on free speech has come to light. Leading the assault is Las Vegas-based copyright troll “Righthaven” led by Steve Gibson. On the fast track to becoming the most loathed person on the Internet, Gibson buys up copyrights to newspaper articles published in cyberspace and runs a Web crawler […]
The astronomy photo of the day comes courtesy of NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric (SOHO) orbiting solar observatory. An enormous, fiery, winged shape can be seen as if emerging from the sun’s broiling surface to the upper right of the occlusion disk. For extra win, a trail of pixie dust follows it.
It’s difficult to express the sheer absurdity of this story, but it perhaps helps explain why our country is falling so swiftly. Are we truly this pathetically stupid and our schools and police this tyrannical and amoral? A 15-year old boy ate chicken nuggets given to him by a friend. As a result, the police […]
Should we view the following astonishing statistics as separation of “church and state” in the United States, or rather “government without representation”? The current makeup of the United States Supreme Court includes 6 Catholics and 2 Jews. If Kagan’s nomination goes through, there will be 6 Catholics and 3 Jews on the Supreme Court. The […]
For many people, Apple Computer’s co-founder, Steve Jobs, exists on a higher plane than the one mere mortals occupy. It’s a peculiarity of our modern world that a gadget designer can find himself at the center of a personality cult. Certainly, Steve Jobs’ uncompromising direction has played a huge role in Apple’s success. However, out […]