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Graphic content warning: This article contains disturbing information and subject matter. Several of the links in particular contain material which readers are likely to find upsetting, and made the editor physically sick. Please do not follow these links without taking this warning into account. The subject is serious enough, however, that it deserves investigation. For several months now, thousands of citizen journalists have been conducting an amateur online investigation into a very dark and disturbing topic. Beginning on the link-sharing site Reddit, thousands of volunteers have been investigating occult rituals and possible evidence of an organized pedophile ring at the...

Facebook seems to be blocking access to criticisms of the shutdown, obamacare, and other political posts, and communication with others. Anybody else seeing a pattern of censorship, or is my tinfoil too tight?

The Environmental Protection Agency is getting taken to court left and right for their many overzealous regulations and intrusions into private industry, with varying results– but on Friday, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that, why no, the EPA may not punish the oil industry for their noncompliance with the EPA’s lofty Renewable Fuels Standard mandates in failing to blend a certain amount of cellulosic biofuels into their product, seeing as how those biofuels are not actually available.

Biomass and biofuels groups warn that the loss of $800 million in guaranteed federal support would stall progress in developing the fuel source and cause job losses in rural communities that can least afford it. The industry claims interest groups such as fossil fuel producers and livestock owners have hijacked the process as the House Agriculture Committee begins a markup of the bill this week. “What is probably more broadly at play is a concerted effort by livestock groups, oil groups and some in the environmental community to denigrate biofuel production,” said Matt Hartwig, a spokesman for the Renewable Fuels...

Question: Do you fill your car’s tank with gasoline that is part cellulosic ethanol, an environment-friendly distillate of wood chips, corn cobs, and switch grass? Let me answer for you: No, you don’t. You couldn’t if you wanted to. Petroleum products blended with cellulosic ethanol aren’t commercially available, because the technology for mass-producing cellulosic ethanol hasn’t been perfected. None of which has stopped the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing hefty yearly fines on oil refiners. According to the The New York Times, in 2011 automotive fuel producers were assessed $6.8 million in penalties. That amount is expected to climb dramatically...

First post. I would greatly appreciate Freeper support in signing a petition concerning a highly questionable FDA process in evaluating a new obesity drug. Comprehensive background information can be found at: http://klljinvestments.blogspot.com/p/letter-to-government.html The petition is at: http://www.petitiononline.com/passlorc/petition.html The FDA is not widely discussed here on Free Republic, but this was way over the top. Thanks very much for your support!