Massive surveillance didn’t just start after 9-11. The U.S. government through the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration started keeping secret records of virtually all Americans’ international telephone calls nearly a decade before the terrorist attacks on New York…

“The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.” Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born American sociologist Source Reference The shadows of diversity in globalization, affects for cultural heritage.

“I’m not a Catholic, but I could be persuaded to become one.” Al Gore, in anticipation of the papal encyclical on the environment. Source Reference SXSW: Gore says climate-change deniers should pay political price

As California continues to struggle under a prolonged four-year drought, Governor Brown announced stringent mandatory water regulations in an effort to cut usage by 25 percent. He made the announcement while standing on grass in the Sierra Nevada’s typically covered…

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell when he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four (in 1942), a book about the coming totalitarian society. Source Reference…

Last year he was first on the list of Fortune Magazine’s 50 Greatest World Leaders. This year, in its second published list, he is still there as number four of the “extraordinary men and women who are transforming business, government,…

“Sad this new Indiana law can happen in America today. We shouldn’t discriminate against people because of who they love.” Likely presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in a twitter post, decrying a new Indiana law that protects people from being forced…

In case you are wondering what the attitude of homosexual activists is toward laws that defend freedom of religion, observe what is happening in Indiana. Activists have been pressing for a boycott of Indiana after the state enacted a “religious…

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States Source Reference Freedom Quotes

Pope Francis has added a stop to his trip to the United States this coming September – The White House. U.S. officials have confirmed the meeting on September 23 with an official opening ceremony at the presidential residence. The pope…

If you want to minimize your risk of colon cancer, the second leading cause of death by cancer in the United States (and probably other western nations), follow what Seventh-day Adventists do. Switch to a vegetarian diet. That means no…

“Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.” Ulrich Beck, German Socialist Source Reference http://www.brainyquote.com/search_results.html?q=globalization+&pg=2