The collapse of major market sectors in the US has spread like a plague across the economic landscape of the globe. There is growing fear that the the financial growth many countries have recently realized will evaporate in the wake of instability.

I think many of us share a similar fear: dying alone, incapacitated, perhaps unable to speak, to remember, to do the simplest thing for ourselves. Read this piece & share your thoughts on prolonging life when real life itself has already departed.

A Colorado man is behind bars for cruelty to animals after he was found transporting more than 100 dogs to Alaska supposedly to be used for sledding.

This Video is sounding an alarm to wake up and take action NOW. To really see what is going on in our nation on a practical and terrifying level. It is worth listening.. follow up, verify to your own satisfaction-- its an opener to incredible discussion.

The brain drain continues as doctors, professors, engineers and other well-educated, affluent or secular Iraqis flee or stay away, nervous about kidnappings and random violence.

Touching story about Harry, an old dog on his last legs...and why we love our old dogs so much. Article also has a wonderful slideshow of pictures of old dogs being themselves.

Seven aides to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have reversed course and agreed to testify in an investigation into whether the Republican vice presidential nominee abused her powers by firing a commissioner who refused to dismiss her former brother-in-law.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, based in Switzerland, has just reported that the earth faces the total extinction of one in every four mammals, and that the population is rapidly declining in one out of every two species.

All of these entrances are to the left side of Area 51 in the Nevada Test Range.

Beautiful wisdom from an elder. How America has come and is destined to go.We and the trees are made of the same DNA. The first World War in America occurred when Columbus landed. The message is simple. Live in harmony with your mother, the Earth.