Learned Helplessness: In Dire Straits, Americans Whimper Instead

06-25-2010 • SmirkingChimp.com

The way out is obvious. If a two-party corpocracy beholden to gangster capitalism is ruining your life, get rid of it. Don't whimper. Bite.

Researchers see chimps waging "war"

06-22-2010 • Reuters

Chimpanzees wage war, mercilessly killing members of neighboring groups to expand their own territory. While biologists had long suspected that chimp violence could be more than random, the study provides the first clear evidence of this.

It's Too Late Frosty: White Newborns To Be A Minority In USA By 2011

06-12-2010 • Dailymail.co.uk/news/

Whites are on the verge of becoming a minority of newborn babies in the United States.

Little People of Japan

06-11-2010 • arclein

On the island of Hokkaido, in the cold northern reaches of the Japanese archipelago, the indigenous Ainu people too have their long traditions of an ancient race of dwarf-like people thought to have inhabited the land long before humans arrived.

Porn Stars in 3-D Lure Consumers to New Sony, Panasonic TVs

06-02-2010 • Bloomberg.com

Porn star Mika Kayama is at the frontier of a push to develop videos and content in Japan that Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. need to lure customers for their new 3-D televisions.

Parenting Matters: Books in the home 'boost children's education'

05-22-2010 • Telegraph.co.uk/

According to researchers, the presence of literature in the home had a profound effect on all families, irrespective of parental occupation or social class.

Oldest Mesoamerican pyramid tomb found in Mexico

05-18-2010 • AP

Archaeologists in southern Mexico announced Monday they have discovered a 2,700-year-old tomb of a dignitary inside a pyramid that may be the oldest such burial documented in Mesoamerica. The tomb held a man aged around 50, who was buried with jad

Knowledge, Truth and Human Action: America Hits the Wall

05-17-2010 • globalresearch.ca/

Paul Craig Roberts writes, "Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it. Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits.

Chris Hedges: BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns’

05-17-2010 • Truthdig.com

They serve Thanatos, the forces of death, the dark instinct Sigmund Freud identified within human beings that propels us to annihilate all living things, including ourselves. These deformed individuals lack the capacity for empathy.

American Men Suckle From Giant Plasma Boob Tubes While Country Rots

05-12-2010 • Ritholtz.com

It wasn’t always this way. Prior to the current era, Americans did occasionally take to the streets. 600 Iowa farmers abducted a judge who was doing mortgage foreclosures, threatening to lynch him. The governor declared martial law, and troops...