All by myself: "Alone time" can be good for you

© Joe Raedle/Getty Images      Eighty-five percent of Americans believe it's important to have times when they are completely alone and away from anyone else, according to a recent Pew survey. Another 55 percent believe this is very important while 30 percent say it's somewhat important.1 This desire for occasional solitude gives your body and, perhaps more importantly, your mind space and time to just be in the moment, experiencing...

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6-year-old invited sexual abuse, says judge

© Huffington Post      Judges Horacio Piombo and Ramón Sal Llargués of the Chamber of Criminal Cassation of Buenos Aires stunned the world when they reduced the sentence of a child molester because the child "displayed a homosexual orientation and was accustomed to being sexually abused." Mario Tolosa was the child's soccer coach when he raped the child. He had been sentenced to six years, but the judges cut that sentence almost...

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Death of sanity: Mike Huckabee says Israeli occupation made life great for Palestinians: Now they have sidewalks

© YouTube Mike Huckabee speaks in Central Park at the Israel Day Concert on May 31, 2015      In a speech in New York this weekend, Mike Huckabee told a sympathetic crowd that Israeli occupation has made life great for Palestinians, reports. The Republican presidential candidate gave a keynote at the 22nd annual Israel Day Concert in Central Park, a "star-studded" event to honor "three slain Israeli teens." This year's show...

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Lawyer fights against Harper's C-51 Bill, a "fascist and dictatorial piece of legislation"

© Unknown      Constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati did not thank people for attending a rally opposing Bill C-51, saying instead that it is every Canadians' duty to fight against what he called a "fascist and dictatorial piece of legislation." The Toronto lawyer, who previously launched cases against Marc Nadon's Supreme Court appointment and recent changes to the Citizenship Act, vowed to fight the Anti-Terrorism Act on constitutional...

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Go to war or go home: House resolution to force debate on fight against ISIS

© Reuters / Stringer      A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to force a debate on the war against ISIS - by threatening to bring the US troops home by the end of the year. Congress has approved funds for the conflict for months, while dodging discussion of its status. Calling Congress the "poster child for cowardice", Representative Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) proposed a "concurrent resolution" on Thursday, seeking to force a...

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The Danes are revolting: Tax Administration set on fire

     In Fredensborg, Denmark, ten official cars from the Tax Administration Office were set on fire and destroyed overnight in a protest. As reports, police received notification Wednesday night at 3:09 a.m. that the Tax Administration offices on Kratvej were on fire. So far, there are no suspects. But, as Martin Armstrong notes, the police will undoubtedly hunt for someone retaliating against the Tax Man. As Martin Armstrong...

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USA Freedom Act: Another nail in the coffin of civil liberties

© unknown      With the passage of the USA FREEDOM Act, mainstream media outlets and even some "privacy advocates" are hailing the passage of the bill as a welcome step forward and a sign of defeat for the USA PATRIOT Act, the bill that was itself passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and widely representative of the United States' rapid descent into outright police state tyranny. Unfortunately, however, the passage of the...

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Jurassic Park paleontologist wants to re-create a real dinosaur within 10 years

© Meet the media Guru/Flickr Jack Horner, the paleontologist who worked on Jurassic World (and the rest of the Jurassic Park films), has plans to make a dinosaur.      Yes, this is for real. No, there isn't dinosaur DNA trapped in amber, waiting to be replicated and cloned. But that's not the only way to make a dino, said Jack Horner, the paleontologist who worked on "Jurassic World" (and the rest of the "Jurassic Park" films),...

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Cop runs over bicyclist during high speed chase

© Unkown      Officials near the city of Philadelphia say they are investigating an officer who ran over a bicyclist during a high speed police chase. Officials say they are trying to determine what happened, but local media sources have already begun spinning the story to favor the officer involved. The local media has more information than the police have given out to everyone, but numerous sources have already begun conjecture...

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Researchers find ability to delay gratification linked to how specific structures of the brain are connected and communicate

© The Royal Society Pictured are a series of 12 serial views of a chimpanzee's brain, projecting from the base of the brain, showing the white matter connectivity between the caudate and the dorsal prefrontal cortex. The scans were projected onto a standard chimpanzee template brain.      The ability to delay gratification in chimpanzees is linked to how specific structures of the brain are connected and communicate with each...

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Corporate rule and crimes of the past

© Unknown      With TPP and its deranged Atlantic cousin, TTIP, both proceeding — and Citizens United still buttering up our elections for corporate feasts — watchdogs and whistleblowers have never been more important to our democracy. However, while a hero like Edward Snowden can reveal to us the surveillance state and dragnet data collection enabled by the Patriot Act, one person alone can't stop its successor, the USA FREEDOM...

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BEST OF THE WEB: The reality of Kiev's repression of anti-fascism in Ukraine

© Facebook ‘Alley of Glory’ in Odessa on May 9, 2015. Marchers chant anti-fascist slogans      There is a common misconception in the West that there is only one war in Ukraine: a war between the anti-Kiev rebels of the East, and the US-backed government in Kiev. While this conflict, with all its attendant geopolitical and strategic implications has stolen the majority of the headlines, there is another war raging in the country...

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