Top Secret Writers

Should Sugar Be a Regulated Substance?

Kathleen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:21 +0000

Imagine you just walked into a convenience store to get a bottle of soda and the cashier asks for your ID before she will ring up your purchase. Then, imagine going out to your car and handing the soda to your child. The next thing you know, you’re in handcuffs for providing sugar to a [...]

A Tour of the Cryptozoology Museum of Portland Maine

Ryan — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:00:55 +0000

When I first walked into the Cryptozoology Museum of Portland, Maine, there were two things that struck me. The first was how well-organized the place was – with taxidermy animals, anthropological samples and lots of books and documents in display cases throughout the two-room building. The second thing that struck me was how nice it [...]

An Interview with Former MI5 Agent Annie Machon

GabriellePickard — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:02 +0000

Annie Machon is a former British Security Service (MI5) intelligence officer, who resigned MI5 in 1996 at the same time as David Shayler, a British journalist and former MI5 officer, who was Machon’s partner at the time. Both left MI5 so they could blow the whistle about the ‘incompetence and crimes’ committed by the British [...]

Doing Business in China – Foreigners Not Welcome

WC — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:00:32 +0000

Zhang Jianping, the director for China’s “National Development and Reform Commission’s International Business Cooperation Department” has recently stated that: “Chinese automakers are capable of making high-quality cars by themselves. They are able to produce more than 18 million cars a year, which has made this country the biggest market in the world. Under these circumstances, [...]

Supreme Court Protects Americans From Warrantless GPS Tracking

Dennis — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:00:27 +0000

The idea of the government tracking its citizens has been a worry for Americans for many years. Many Americans believe that this sort of government tracking has been in place for some time. Theories about American currency being tagged with tracking devices or that the military and intelligence agencies have unlimited access to any and [...]

Registered Sex Offender Count in the US Nearly 750k

Kathleen — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:00:45 +0000

Welcome to the jungle. According to a recent press release from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (1), the United States is home to 747,408 registered sex offenders. If you think that number is scary, consider that about 100,000 of them are currently considered ‘missing’. Any one of those sex offenders could be [...]

Watching the Grandparents Return in Guatemala

MarkDorr — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:31 +0000

Even in a sea of savagery, awe-inspiring miracles exist. Guatemala is a country wracked with violence. With 52 murders per 100,000 people, it has one of the highest homicide rates in the world. It is possible for you to visit or live there without incident, but there is a much higher chance that you will [...]

Prisoner Citizens: The Story of Japanese Internment Camps

Janet — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:00:21 +0000

Conflicts between the United States and other nations not only hurt diplomatic ties, they can also erode the rights of naturalized U.S. citizens, established aliens and visitors viewed as the enemy. A neighbor becomes a nemesis and friends become foes. Below are four instances in U.S. history when citizens, guests and foreign residents all became [...]

Flight Attendants Planning OccuFLY Protest at LAX

Ryan — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:00:37 +0000

On Monday, February 6th, flight attendants and citizens from around the country are planning to converge at Los Angeles International Airport to protest the recent Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill. The reason flight attendants are protesting the bill is because of how corporate interest have managed to slip in some wording that would remove [...]

Super Bowl Host Communities Sweep Homeless Under the Rug

Ryan — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:00:23 +0000

If you have any doubt whatsoever that the Super Bowl is an important event to Americans, all you have to do is look at the statistics. According to a Research paper titled “Economics of the Super Bowl” by Victor Matheson of the College of the Holy Cross, the Super Bowl is the single most watched [...]