(Russia Today) The recession ruined Linda Ruggles’ business and she has been selling plasma twice a week since to make ends meet. The blood bank couldn’t bail her out from behind bars though, which is where she ended up after she couldn’t pay a $480 fine. That fine, say cops in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina,… [Read more…]
December 21, 2011
(Spencer Ackerman)The troops have come home, the flag has been been lowered, and the Iraq War is officially in the past for the U.S. military. But the military is holding on to a major souvenir of the war: a massive database packed with retinal scans, thumb prints and other biometric data identifying millions of Iraqis.… [Read more…]
December 21, 2011
(Fox NY) Century-old technology colossus IBM on Monday depicted a near future in which machines read minds and recognize who they are dealing with. The ” IBM 5 in 5 ” predictions were based on societal trends and research which the New York State-based company expected to begin bearing fruit by the year 2017. “From… [Read more…]
December 20, 2011
(Activist Post) The irony cannot be escaped that a country that issued a document codifying independence for free citizens, should turn into one that declares outright war on all that signifies independent living and prosperity. It is not a king this time who is exerting ownership over the land and its people, but it is… [Read more…]
December 19, 2011
(Wired) The Pentagon hasn’t come close to solving the PTSD crisis plaguing the current generation of troops. And the top brass looks like it’s ready to try anything — like a major push into a cutting-edge, controversial realm of treatment. One that’d see military personnel popping a pill to wipe away the fear they associate… [Read more…]
December 19, 2011
(Atlantic Wire) A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows that Ron Paul has taken the lead in the Iowa caucus race, while Newt Gingrich’s support is fading fast. A different Gallup poll shows Gringrich still holding the lead, but slipping, while The New York Times has Paul in the lead as well. Gingrich has… [Read more…]
December 16, 2011
(Wired) The House Judiciary Committee debated the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act for hours Thursday — and despite protracted criticism of the bill from the nation’s leading internet engineers and companies, lawmakers repeatedly rejected attempts to water-down the bill. About five hours into the 11-hour hearing, the committee voted 22-12 to reject an amendment that… [Read more…]
December 16, 2011
(Zero Hedge) In order to get to the bottom of every collapse (or death), a forensic analysis of the last minutes of any transition from life to death has to be perormed. So far, we have only had broad strokes of the key events in the last days of MF Global as obviously many of… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
(Russia Today) With President Obama read to sign away the freedoms of Americans by inking his name to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, opponents are already going after the lawmakers that made the legislation possible. The act, abbreviated as NDAA FY2012, managed to make its way through Congress with overwhelming support… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
(NaturalNews) The right to due process in America is coming to a sudden end as traitorous members of Congress have now passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which gives the U.S. military the power to arrest, detain, interrogate, torture and murder U.S. citizens inside the United States, with no due process. President Obama, who… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
(Activist Post) In 2011, it is scarcely even possible to keep up with the new methods of surveillance and control being introduced by governments, corporations, and universities on what seems like a daily basis. I, myself, have had quite a time over the last few months trying to keep track of them all. Indeed, in… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
(CBS) – Westford school officials are getting tough on classroom holiday parties. They’re banning sugary snacks and sweetened beverages from the celebrations this year. Students are being told to leave the Christmas cookies, cakes, candy bars, and soda at home and to bring fruits, unsweetened juices, popcorn and raisins instead. Superintendent Everett Olsen says the… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
(Brandon Smith) A friend of mine took note recently that a large portion of activists involved in the Liberty Movement had hit extremely hard times, or had been struggling financially even before the general economic collapse began to take hold. He asked me my theory on why it was that so many of us are… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
(Paul Joseph Watson) Human Rights Watch has labeled President Obama’s U-turn on his decision to veto the NDAA bill, which empowers the government to indefinitely detain Americans without trial, a “historic tragedy for rights,” but should we really be surprised given the fact that it was Obama’s White House which ensured language that would have… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
(Chris McGreal) Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. Human rights groups accused the president of deserting his principles and disregarding the long-established principle that the… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
(NaturalNews) One of the most common questions I’m asked today from people who are aware of what’s really going on is, “Should I leave the USA to get away from the coming police state?” Three years ago, I would have said YES, but today, after having experienced such an effort myself and now having a… [Read more…]
December 13, 2011
(Reuters) – A member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Committee said on Monday that the military was set to practice its ability to close the Gulf to shipping at the narrow Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil transit channel in the world, but there was no official confirmation. The legislator, Parviz Sarvari, told… [Read more…]
December 13, 2011
(Activist Post) You thought you weren’t doing anything wrong, so why should you care about who they call a terrorist? Well, you may not believe it, but you’re likely a terror suspect in America’s new paradigm of the Land of the Fear. The government is casting a wide net over its citizens in its search… [Read more…]
December 12, 2011
(Eric W. Dolan) Speaking to a Current TV panel after the Republican presidential debate on Saturday, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) suggested that Texas Rep. Ron Paul may see a new influx of support. The post-debate panel included Former Vice President Al Gore, Current TV Anchor Cenk Uygur, and The Young Turks contributors Michael… [Read more…]
December 12, 2011
(Joe Wolverton) Senator Rand Paul, a self-described representative of the Tea Party, worries that the small progress toward the restoration of limited government may be “set back” by the upcoming Republican presidential nomination. In a letter to the Des Moines Register, the son of GOP White House hopeful Ron Paul set forth his two goals… [Read more…]
December 12, 2011
( Brian Bennett) Reporting from Washington— Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said. Janke knew the gunmen could be anywhere on the 3,000-acre spread in… [Read more…]
December 12, 2011
(NaturalNews) What corporate-driven “science” has in mind for the future of humanity is far different from the dreamy utopian landscape that’s been portrayed by the mainstream media. To hear the corporate-run media tell it, science is always “good” for humanity. Scientific achievements are always called “advances” and not “setbacks,” even though many of them have… [Read more…]
December 9, 2011
(John Thorpe) It is my belief that, in one month, Ron Paul will shock the world and win the Iowa Caucuses. Granted, that belief goes against all the polling data and all the money data and all the common sense in the world. Mitt Romney has all the money in the world, and has the… [Read more…]
December 9, 2011
(Philip Klein) Attorney General Eric Holder denied that anybody at the Department of Justice lied about the Fast and Furious program that allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug lords, even though he admitted that the DOJ sent inaccurate information to Congress. Last week, the DOJ took the rare step of formally… [Read more…]
December 9, 2011
(Kurt Nimmo) The establishment media campaign to ignore Ron Paul despite his immense popularity received a blow this week when the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released the results of a new study. PEJ looked at 20 million Tweets about the race for president and found that Ron Paul “fared far better”… [Read more…]
December 9, 2011
(Infowars) “A fellow veteran contacted me concerning a new and disturbing development. He had been utilizing a Mormon cannery near his home to purchase bulk food supplies. The man that manages the facility related to him that federal agents had visited the facility and demanded a list of individuals that had been purchasing bulk food.… [Read more…]
December 8, 2011
(Golden Truth) Jon Corzine has released the written testimony that he will make before Congress today. It has been highly polished up by his legal advisers and contains so many “I can’t recall’s” that even Bill Clinton would blush. While the entire testimony has very little credibility with regard to substantive issues, I just want… [Read more…]
December 8, 2011
(Gawker) Last week the U.S. Senate passed 93-7 a version of the National Defense Authorization Act that includes provisions giving the military the right to detain you forever and without charge if they think you’re some kind of terrorist. Consider it an early holiday present! There is no exchange policy, sorry. President Barack Obama can… [Read more…]
December 7, 2011
(AP) A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a Montana woman sued for defamation was not a journalist when she posted online that an Oregon lawyer acted criminally during a bankruptcy case, a decision with implications for bloggers around the country. Crystal L. Cox, a blogger from Eureka, Mont., was sued for defamation by… [Read more…]
December 7, 2011
(Fox) The New York Police Department is warning local banks to bolster mailroom security after a letter bomb was addressed to the CEO of Deutsche Bank in Germany. All New York-area banks were advised to take extra precautions on Wednesday after the device was found in the mailroom of Deutsche Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt. No… [Read more…]
December 7, 2011
(Paul Joseph Watson) The revelation that Halliburton subsidiary KBR is seeking sub-contractors to staff and outfit “emergency environment” camps located in five regions of the United States follows preparations over the last three years to deal with riots inside the United States that have already spread throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. As… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
Newt Gingrich is flying high. The former Speaker of the House has rocketed to the top of the Republican polls, taking a 30-point lead in Florida and giving one-time GOP front-runner Mitt Romney a run for his money in New Hampshire. What’s more, the competition around him seems to be collapsing. Herman Cain is history;… [Read more…]
November 18, 2011
(Paul Joseph Watson) Telecommunications giant Sprint has announced the launch of its Wireless Emergency Alerts program that will deliver messages from the federal government directly to millions of Americans as part of a system set to become mandatory on all new cellphones. “Wireless Emergency Alerts allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to accept and… [Read more…]
November 18, 2011
(Adam Rawnsley) The U.S. military can see you breathing on the other side of that wall. It can even see your heartbeat racing while you crouch behind the door. But if you think running farther away or hiding in a crowd will make you invisible to the Defense Department’s sensors, you might be in for… [Read more…]
November 18, 2011
(Gwl) A new type of Internet connected television is coming out soon, with built in software and hardware to enable feedback between users, TV content, and the Internet. In a very real way, this TV will be able to watch you, with websites able to instantly adapt to TV broadcasts and online ads able to… [Read more…]
November 18, 2011
(AP) Texas Rep. Ron Paul is emerging as a significant factor in the Republican presidential race, especially in Iowa. He’s been long dismissed by the GOP establishment, but the libertarian-leaning candidate is now turning heads beyond his hard-core followers – and rising in some polls – just weeks before the state holds the leadoff presidential… [Read more…]
November 17, 2011
(NaturalNews) Traditional wood-burning stoves are still one of the most cost-efficient, sustainable, and renewable sources of energy production that families can use to heat their homes. But the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not a huge fan of them, as was evidenced by its recent decision to push those who use traditional models to… [Read more…]
November 17, 2011
(Urban Preparing) Through the years I have read many, many checklists and articles about Bug-out-Bags [BoBs] and Bug in Bags [BiB]. All suggest food, clothes, guns…etc, and yes those things are important to have, but not many talk about basic kits. What’s the difference in a BOB and a BiB, and why would I need… [Read more…]
November 17, 2011
(John McCormack) General Electric, one of the largest corporations in America, filed a whopping 57,000-page federal tax return earlier this year but didn’t pay taxes on $14 billion in profits. The return, which was filed electronically, would have been 19 feet high if printed out and stacked. The fact that GE paid no taxes in… [Read more…]
November 17, 2011
(Afp) The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour. Launched by rocket from Hawaii at 1130 GMT, the “Advanced Hypersonic Weapon,” or AHW,… [Read more…]
November 17, 2011
(Kris Gutiérrez) The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is weeks away from launching an unmanned aerial asset to help deputies fight crime. The ShadowHawk helicopter is six-feet long, weighs fifty pounds and fits in the back of an SUV. “We can put it over a fire, put it over ahazmat spill, put it over a house… [Read more…]
November 17, 2011
(CBS) It’s not over yet. In fact, it may be just beginning. New York City leaders are warning that thousands of protesters could converge on Manhattan on Thursday. The NYPD is now getting ready for the next stage of “Occupy Wall Street” protests, reports CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer. It may have looked peaceful at Zuccotti… [Read more…]
November 16, 2011
(Steve Fermier) Former White House advisor Karl Rove mixed it up with a group claiming to be with Occupy Baltimore. During a speech at Johns Hopkins University last night a group of about a dozen people interrupted Rove with shouts and chants. Rove stopped for a time then demanded that the group wait until the… [Read more…]
November 16, 2011
(Paul Joseph Watson) Days before the doomed financial broker filed for bankruptcy, MF Global conducted “unexplained wire transfers” that led to a $900 million shortfall in client funds, leading customers like Gerald Celente to learn that their accounts had been looted and setting the precedent for internal bank runs as more big firms go bust.… [Read more…]
November 16, 2011
(Kurt Nimmo) Obama’s Department of Justice will tell Congress today it should have the ability to prosecute people who lie on the internet. It wants to do this by making it illegal to breach the terms of service of websites. The DOJ’s deputy computer crime chief, Richard Downing, will argue that the Computer Fraud and… [Read more…]
November 16, 2011
(Wired) The revolution may never be televised, but if Occupy activists in a semi-secret media war room in New York’s Bowery district have their way, it will be livestreamed. Police seizures at occupations, as at the flagship camp in New York City on Tuesday, not to mention rain, cold and theft, are horrible for expensive… [Read more…]
November 16, 2011
(Raw Story) The US Air Force has a new 30,000-pound bomb in its arsenal designed to penetrate targets buried deep underground, a spokesman said Tuesday. The Air Force started taking delivery of the giant bomb, the “Massive Ordnance Penetrator,” in September, said Lieutenant Colonel Jack Miller. Under an August 2 contract worth $32 million, the… [Read more…]
November 15, 2011
(CNNMoney) Mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac received the biggest federal bailout of the financial crisis. And nearly $100 million of those tax dollars went to lucrative pay packages for top executives, filings show. The top five executives at Fannie Mae received $33.3 million in 2009 and 2010, while the top five at… [Read more…]
November 15, 2011
( Dr. Mercola) To understand the nature of Pringles and other stackable chips, forget the notion that they come from actual potatoes in any recognizable way. The Pringles Company (in an effort to avoid taxes levied against “luxury foods” like chips in the UK) once even argued that the potato content of their chips was… [Read more…]
November 15, 2011
(The Daily) The lawyer for accused child molester Jerry Sandusky apparently likes his women young. Defense attorney Joe Amendola, 63, representing Sandusky in the sexual molestation case roiling Penn State and Joe Paterno’s legendary football program, impregnated a teenager and later married her, The Daily has learned. According to documents filed with Centre County Courthouse,… [Read more…]
November 14, 2011
(Fox) Llya Zhitomirskiy, one of the co-founders of Facebook-alternative Diaspora, died Saturday night at the age of22. A spokesman for the San Francisco medical examiner’s office confirmed the death of Zhitomirskiy to FoxNews.com, originally reported Sunday by popular tech news blog TechCrunch. He was unable to confirm reports that the young man committed suicide. Confirmation… [Read more…]
November 14, 2011
(Wake Up World) Apparently there are not enough chemicals already added to our drinking water, as there is now a call by “experts” to further poison our water supplies by adding Lithium. Their main reason is to decrease suicide and violent crime rates. So it this how we wish to function as a society? Instead… [Read more…]
November 14, 2011
(CNN) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fired back Sunday at a CBS News’ “60 Minutes” report that highlighted several instances of what it suggested could be “soft corruption.” The show looked at the investments of various lawmakers — including Pelosi, House Speaker John Boehner and Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama — who reportedly bought… [Read more…]
November 14, 2011
(Paul Joseph Watson) Congressman Ron Paul was a victim of what later transpired to be a deliberate policy on behalf of CBS News to restrict the air time of certain candidates during last night’s Republican debate, after he was afforded just 90 seconds of speaking time during the course of the event in South Carolina… [Read more…]
November 11, 2011
(Video Rebels Blog) Catherine Austin Fitts said we are witnessing a Leveraged Buyout of the world that will permanently end democracy. The elite has bought all the politicians and the media. They have stolen enough money to earn 2 trillion dollars a year from their investments. She said 2 trillion dollars a year is sufficient… [Read more…]
November 11, 2011
(Chip Wood) No matter how many times you beat back a Federal power grab, it is almost impossible to kill the monster. Like the most terrifying villain in the worst horror movie you’ve ever seen, it keeps coming back to life and threatening the townspeople. Consider the efforts by the Food and Drug Administration to… [Read more…]
November 10, 2011
(Espn) A chronological look at the case against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, based on a grand jury report in Pennsylvania state court. Some key dates in Penn State football history are included. Sandusky has been charged with 40 criminal counts, accusing him of serial sex abuse of minors: 1969 Jerry Sandusky… [Read more…]
November 10, 2011
(Michael Hurley) In April, Pittsburgh radio host Mark Madden wrote a story revealing Penn State for much of the cover-up of Jerry Sandusky’s alleged child rape that has been exposed in the past week. While it didn’t raise many eyebrows back then, six months later it looks to be incredibly accurate. On Thursday morning, just… [Read more…]
November 9, 2011
(Activist Post) Good and evil doesn’t have a grey zone. Killing and stealing is bad. Violence is never “good” or necessary unless it is used to defend against killers and thieves. Indeed, that is the morality behind the “just war” principle as defined by international laws and treaties. Yet, this simple concept of right and… [Read more…]
October 27, 2011
A state task force is considering doubling, and maybe even tripling, the state’s flush fee. The fee for the Bay Restoration Fund is now $30 a year for property owners. The task force is considering recommending a doubling of the fee in 2013, and increasing it to $90 in 2015. The fund pays for sewage… [Read more…]
October 20, 2011
(AP) The death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi expands the growing string of security victories on President Barack Obama’s watch and reinforces his own style of dealing with enemies without immersing the United States in war. Even skeptics offered congratulations. For Obama, the outcome allowed him to stand victorious in the Rose Garden on Thursday,… [Read more…]
October 16, 2011
(NaturalNews) TIME, USA Today, MSNBC, NPR, CTV, the LA Times and numerous other mainstream media outlets have all been running a juvenile hoax over the last week. Through various misleading headlines, they’re all claiming that vitamins might kill you. Here are some of the headlines: Study links vitamins to higher death rates in women –… [Read more…]
October 14, 2011
(rnntv) A hidden camera investigation of New York City crisis pregnancy centers found they gave out false medical information. One center told the undercover reporter that having an abortion could increase women’s risk of developing breast cancer. Expectant Mother Care warned that doctors tricked women into having abortions and then sold the fetus. Watch video,… [Read more…]
October 14, 2011
(Kurt Nimmo) If you call in to the Alex Jones Show or hundreds of other talk radio stations around the country that maintain a web presence, there is a good chance the FBI will recorded you. Mark Weaver, writing for WMAL talk radio in Washington, D.C., reports that the FBI has awarded a $524,927 contract… [Read more…]
October 13, 2011
(NaturalNews) The pet products industry is burgeoning, as 2011 figures released by the American Pet Products Association (APPA) show that Americans now spend more than $50 billion a year on food, supplies, and veterinarian care for their pets — up nearly 300 percent since 1994. And now Big Pharma wants a piece of the pie,… [Read more…]
October 13, 2011
(Paul Joseph Watson) Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer says that an FBI insider told him the dubious terror plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador which has been blamed on Iran was likely manufactured by the Obama administration, because no information about the plot even exists within FBI channels. The plot, an assassination attempt… [Read more…]
October 12, 2011
(WikiPedia) Felipe Andres Coronel (born February 19, 1978), better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is an American rapper of Afro-Peruvian descent as well as an urban activist. He was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Harlem, New York.[2] Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics. The views expressed… [Read more…]
October 12, 2011
(The Political Commentator) #1 During Operation Fast and Furious, ATF agents purposely allowed thousands of guns to be sold to individuals that they believed would get them into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. #2 ATF agents were specifically ordered not to intercept the guns before they crossed the border. The following is a brief… [Read more…]
October 12, 2011
(American Dream) The Occupy Wall Street protests and the rise of the Tea Party movement have both changed America, but you haven’t seen anything yet. You better buckle up, because America is getting very angry and as the economy continues to decline the economic protests are going to become much more frightening in the years… [Read more…]
October 11, 2011
(CNNMoney) — Occupy Wall Street is on the move … uptown. Why uptown? Because that’s where the rich folks live! Organizers are planning a march on Tuesday that will visit the homes of JP Morgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire David Koch, hedge fund honcho John Paulson, Howard Milstein, and News Corp… [Read more…]
October 11, 2011
(Paul Joseph Watson) The global authority over all .com domain names, VeriSign, is demanding the power to terminate websites deemed “abusive” when ordered to by government without a court order or any kind of oversight whatsoever. “The company said today it wants to be able to enforce the “denial, cancellation or transfer of any registration”… [Read more…]
October 10, 2011
(Ryan Dawson) Why do we still have a holiday for a mass murdering, slave trading, psychotic, genocidal bigot? Escalate wars and you get a Nobel Peace Prize as Obama did. Wipe out 20% of the earth’s population, well then you get your own holiday the capital, a country, and multiple cities and counties named after… [Read more…]
October 8, 2011
(Telegraph View) Sir Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, this week called the current financial crisis “the most serious… since the 1930s, if ever”, in justification for a further £75 billion of “quantitative easing”. Since Sir Mervyn cited the chaos of the inter-war years, it seems appropriate to quote Winston Churchill: “Want… [Read more…]
October 7, 2011
(Economic Collapse) The U.S. economy is dying and most American voters have no idea why it is happening. Unfortunately, the mainstream media and most of our politicians are not telling the truth about the collapse of the economy. This generation was handed the keys to the greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen,… [Read more…]
October 7, 2011
(Kurt Nimmo) Chris Burris, writing for Lew Rockwell’s website yesterday, makes a good point about the Occupy Wall Street movement – they are barking up the wrong tree. Instead of occupying a park outside of Wall Street, they should march en masse to 33 Liberty Street. That’s where the New York Fed is located. In… [Read more…]
October 7, 2011
(Kurt Nimmo) A county in Florida has installed fingerprint scanners in school buses. Described as “one of the most monumental things that Washington County has ever done” by an education bureaucrat, the machines have been used since the beginning of the school year. School officials decided moving the scanners to the buses was a more… [Read more…]
October 7, 2011
(Reuters) – American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s… [Read more…]
October 5, 2011
(Reuters) Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues. Jobs’ death was announced by Apple in a statement late on Wednesday. The Silicon Valley icon… [Read more…]
October 4, 2011
(Economic Collapse) Will the bad financial news ever stop? A lot of people in the financial world were hoping for a much better fourth quarter after an absolutely disastrous third quarter. Well, if Monday was any indication, October could end up being a really rough month for global financial markets. So much bad financial news… [Read more…]
October 2, 2011
(Paul Harris) Hundreds held by NYPD – including New York Times journalist – after attempted march across bridge ends in chaos. More than 700 people were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening during a march by anti-Wall Street protesters who have been occupying a downtown Manhattan square for two weeks. The group, called… [Read more…]
October 2, 2011
(Ron Hera) Earlier this week I attended the Utah Monetary Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah. As you may know, the state of Utah passed a Legal Tender Act earlier this year authorizing the use of federally minted gold and silver coins as money in the state of Utah. Now, legislators in other states, many… [Read more…]
August 23, 2011
(Thomas Dishaw) A powerful 5.9 earthquake was felt in Maryland today. Centered northwest of Richmond, Virginia shook the Baltimore area to a shocking standstill. No major damage was reported. The earthquake was felt as far north as Rhode Island. Below are some pictures of damage in the Canton Safeway.
August 21, 2011
(Paul Joseph Watson) In a response to a question asked by Infowars correspondent Robert Wanek at Iowa State University during the recent Ames straw poll, Ron Paul said that the federal government was preparing for civil unrest and martial law in the United States. Paul was asked for his opinion on whether H.R. 645 (The… [Read more…]
August 17, 2011
The truth has been so twisted and turned that our belief system in America has become our biggest enemy. We believe that the stock market is an independent structure, operating within government guidelines… But when we open up government’s Institutional Fund and Pension Fund investment portfolios and asset listings, we can easily find that the… [Read more…]
August 15, 2011
(Oliver Lee) Oh, Monsanto, you sly dog. You keep trying to make us believe you are “committed to sustainable agriculture” with your canny advertisments on American Public Media, even as you force-feed farmers your lab-grown Frankenseeds that expire every year (which are, let’s be honest, opposite of sustainable). But we shouldn’t be surprised by the… [Read more…]
August 11, 2011
(Mr. Average) There has risen a new and extremely dangerous terrorist organization that has the ability to destroy America. It can increase our unemployment to the point that sparked riots in Great Britain. It can destroy our financial standing in the world. It has and can again stagnate our country. Vice President Joe Biden has… [Read more…]
August 11, 2011
(Frances Romero )Although Sesame Street’s creators have never said the two characters are gay, viewers have long speculated that roommates Bert and Ernie are more than just friends. Perhaps a new petition, started by Illinois resident Lair Scott, was prompted by the changing tide in the U.S.: in June, New York became the sixth —… [Read more…]
August 9, 2011
(David Icke) As I travel around America it is clear that this country is on the brink of an economic catastrophe the like of which it has never seen. And, of course, it is not alone. A similar story can be told around the world. The foreclosure figures are fantastic as families and others lose… [Read more…]
August 9, 2011
( JeeYeon Park) Stocks saw its biggest one-day gain since May 2010 Tuesday after a wild market session as investors snapped up beaten-down stocks and following a Fed statement to keep interest rates near zero for at least two more years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 429.92 points, or 3.98 percent, to close at… [Read more…]
August 8, 2011
(Anna Edwards) Police are now armed with a device that can scan fingerprints so they can correctly identify suspects who lie about their details. In what sounds like something out of George Orwell’s dystopia 1984, suspects can now be finger printed in the street thanks to the new hand-held police gadget. The mobile identification service… [Read more…]
August 8, 2011
(Paul Egan) Michigan has removed about 30,000 college students from its food stamp program — close to double the initial estimate — saving about $75 million a year, says Human Services Director Maura Corrigan. Federal rules don’t allow most college students to collect food stamps, but Michigan had created its own rules that made nearly… [Read more…]
August 7, 2011
(Dean Praetorius) The thought of drinking your own urine might be disgusting to some people, but one Texas town thinks it might be the best option in the face of one of the state’s worst droughts ever. Big Spring, Texas, home to the Colorado River Municipal Water District, will be experimenting with reprocessing wastewater produced… [Read more…]
August 7, 2011
(Alexander Higgins) The first two markets to open following news of the U.S. AAA credit rating cut, Saudi Arabia and Israel, both immediately crashed over 5% after the opening bell. Here is a prelude to what U.S., European, Asian markets face when they open tomorrow morning. Earlier Zero Hedge reported Saudi Arabia stocks crashed 5.5%… [Read more…]
August 7, 2011
(Thomas Dishaw) White House staffers enjoyed a hefty raise this year,some upwards of 83% over last year. Some notables in this class are Matthew Vogel who received a $59,000 raise. He is the Special Assistant To The President for Economic Policy. The way the economy has been performing he should be getting fired,not rewarded with… [Read more…]
August 6, 2011
(infowars.com) Associated Press sources are reporting a statistically impossible tragedy for U.S. forces in Afghanistan– that of the 38 NATO forces killed in a helicopter crash Friday night, “more than 20″ were members of SEAL Team 6, the covert unit that took credit for killing Osama bin Laden in May. Mainstream sources are seizing upon claims… [Read more…]
August 5, 2011
(newsbad) I’m not into 2012 conspiracies, but the recent actions and evidence of government officials among the elite are causing me to wonder, what is the reason for all of this extreme preparedness? First underground bunkers, and now relocation off of coastlines? I have tried to gather as much new evidence as to what they could… [Read more…]
August 5, 2011
( Zachary A. Goldfarb) Standard & Poor’s announced Friday night that it has downgraded the United States credit rating for the first time, dealing a huge symbolic blow to the world’s economic superpower in what was a sharply worded critique of the American political system. Lowering the nation’s rating one-notch below AAA, the credit rating company said… [Read more…]
August 4, 2011
( JeeYeon Park)(Stocks plunged sharply Thursday, with the Dow down more than 500 points, in its worst one-day drop since December 2008. All three major averages tumbled into negative territory for the year as investors were rattled over an intensifying global economic slowdown and ahead of the widely-followed monthly unemployment report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 512.76… [Read more…]
August 4, 2011
( JeeYeon Park) Stocks eased off their session lows but were still sharply lower across the board in another volatile session Thursday as fears over a global economic slowdown intensified and ahead of the widely-followed monthly unemployment report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged over 2 percent, led byCaterpillar [CAT 91.57 -4.71 (-4.89%) ] and Alcoa [AA 13.43 -0.83 (-5.82%) ], after rebounding from a deep selloff in the… [Read more…]
August 4, 2011
(yahoo news) US debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of gross domestic project after the government’s debt ceiling was lifted, Treasury figures showed Wednesday. Treasury borrowing jumped Tuesday, the data showed, immediately after President Barack Obama signed into law an increase in the debt ceiling as the country’s spending commitments reached a breaking point… [Read more…]
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