Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) told a Senate committee that he drank a glass of fracking fluid as a way to illustrate safety advances by the oil and gas industry, the Washington Times reported on Tuesday. “We did drink it around the table, almost ritual-like, in a funny way,” Hickenlooper said at a Senate Committee [...]
As the so-called “Mayan doomsday” approaches, the Mayans of Guatemala are speaking out against what some are calling a government- and tour business-led effort to profit off misinterpretations of their traditions. “We are speaking out against deceit, lies and twisting of the truth, and turning us into folklore-for-profit. They are not telling the truth about [...]
Continue reading …Call it a card player’s dream. A complete set of 52 silver playing cards gilded in gold and dating back 400 years has been discovered. Created in Germany around 1616, the cards were engraved by a man named Michael Frömmer, who created at least one other set of silver cards. According to a story, backed [...]
Continue reading …OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel. “It is permissible to kill the Righteous among non-Jews even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who [...]
Continue reading …A homeless woman in Connecticut discovered a spooky remnant from superstorm Sandy’s landfall — a human skeleton, which surfaced after the storm uprooted a famous local tree. The skeleton was found in a 103-year-old tree known as the “Lincoln Oak” on the New Haven Green,WTNH-TV reported Tuesday. “I noticed what I thought was a rock [...]
Continue reading …SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A group of about 150 Mormons quit their church in a mass resignation ceremony in Salt Lake City on Saturday in a rare display of defiance ending decades of disagreement for some over issues ranging from polygamy to gay marriage. Participants from Utah, Arizona, Idaho and elsewhere gathered in a [...]
Continue reading …A recently discovered mysterious “winged” structure in England, which in the Roman period may have been used as a temple, presents a puzzle for archaeologists, who say the building has no known parallels. Built around 1,800 years ago, the structure was discovered in Norfolk, in eastern England, just to the south of the ancient town [...]
Continue reading …By Stephen C. Webster Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has broken some massive stories in his day, but uncovering secret societies within the highest echelons of America’s military would probably be the biggest of his career. Well, get ready for the media storm: That’s essentially what Hersh told an audience in Doha, Qatar recently, according [...]
Continue reading …Traveler, 56, said he was transporting a saint’s remains to his monastery By Renee Maltezou A Cypriot monk caught at a Greek airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in his baggage told authorities he was taking the relics of a saint back to his monastery. The 56-year-old Cypriot was detained at Athens airport [...]
Continue reading …Effort to conflate killer with anti-big government conservatives falls apart Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com A full scale demonization campaign against conservatives, free speech and the Second Amendment on behalf of Democrats and the establishment media in the wake of Saturday’s shootings has sensationally backfired after it emerged that gunman Jared Lee Loughner was a [...]
Continue reading …Since 1881, the obelisk known as Cleopatra’s Needle has stood in New York’s Central Park, but a letter from the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities indicates that this may change if the monument is not taken better care of. Recently, Zahi Hawass, the aforementioned secretary general and archaeologist, wrote to the Central [...]
Continue reading …What in the world are they thinking over at the Federal Reserve? The privately-owned central bank that runs the U.S. economy is now forcing local banks to remove every shred of Christian faith from their establishments. When Federal Reserve examiners recently visited a local bank in Perkins, Oklahoma they demanded that the bank take down [...]
Continue reading …SOUTH JORDAN, Utah – A man armed with a shotgun outside a Mormon temple near Salt Lake City was shot and killed by police Christmas Day, a television station reported Saturday. The man had been in an altercation with another man in the parking lot outside the Oquirrh Mountain Temple of The Church of Jesus [...]
Continue reading …Taken from zeitgeistchallenge.com: All you have to do is take the various claims (that I will list below) concerning the similarities of Christ and other ancient gods that Zeitgeist makes, match them up to the text where it is claimed, and provide the specific quote and/or a link to the source, for example: – List [...]
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