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Porn In Peshwar: Adult Cinema Thrives In Hotbed Of Pakistani Fundamentalism

      In Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s most conservative province, billboards showing women are regularly torn down and music shops have been repeatedly bombed. So how is it that under the noses of Islamist forces, adult movie houses continue to flourish?    The half-lit room smells strongly of hashish. On the screen, a woman…

The Gold Problem 2012

  THE GOLD PROBLEM REVISTED Watch for special report soon to publish here  on China`s Cornering  The Gold Markets       Yesterday, Ben Bernanke dedicated his entire first propaganda lecture to college student to the bashing of the gold standard. Of course, he has his prerogatives: he has to validate a crumbling monetary system…

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Robotic News For The Masses: Automated platforms are now “writing” news

Automated platforms are now “writing” news     Can technology be autonomous? Does it lead a life of its own and operate independently of human guidance? From the French theologian Jacques Ellul to the Unabomber, this used to be widely accepted. Today, however, most historians and sociologists of technology dismiss it as naive and inaccurate….

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The world must turn its attention to Syria, Not Iran, to avoid escalation into a regional war.

          As Israel is threatening to attack Iran to halt its alleged pursuit of the bomb, the beating of the war-drums has become so loud that, to avoid hearing them, you would need to hide inside a cave in Africa. And then put in earplugs. The noise is so loud that…

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America`s Medical Cartels Protected by Politicians

  Americans are too selfish to understand that by helping their neighbors, they create a safety net for themselves.     Two years ago, Barack Obama signed into law the most comprehensive reform of American health care since Medicare. Most of its provisions haven’t been implemented yet. But the debate about it rages on at…

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Shameless Star Comedian Does Kink On Unsuspecting Women

    Male comedians are weird. They jerk off all the time, and then go on stage and talk about jerking off all the time, for money and laughs. But our nation’s most hilarious stand-up comic and critically cherished sitcom auteur adds a thrilling twist to his onanistic escapades: He traps unsuspecting women in his…

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Syndication Age News Stories: Mistakes Morphs into Meme and Myth

    The word as virus: Myth-making in the syndication age Submitted by GMason on Sun, 03/18/2012   My general theory since 1971 has been that the Word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host…

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The Tribal Truths Of Afghanistan Failure Of Democracy

  THE WAR THAT COULD NOT BE WON   In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns,” wrote legendary Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu in The Art of War. In Afghanistan, Western politicians should have heeded this two-and-a-half-thousand year old axiom from the oldest known book on the strategy of war….