Update: March 8, 2014 7:30 P.M. ET

Malaysia Plane Crash

(BeforeItsNews) - Austin-based high-tech eco-friendly company Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) has confirmed that 20 of its employees were confirmed passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Twelve are from Malaysia and eight are from China. The company’s key product solutions include those for electric vehicles. View this entry »

(NewJersey) – I’m down at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington and I just finished watching Rand Paul’s speech (see video at bottom).

It was really groundbreaking. I never before saw a politician head into a bastion of big-government Republicans and tell them that government run by either party is the enemy of liberty.

Except of course for Rand’s father Ron. He did it all the time. View this entry »

(NaturalNews) - There are some astonishing things you’re not being told about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the flight that simply vanished over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board.

The mystery of the flight’s sudden and complete disappearance has even the world’s top air safety authorities baffled. “Air-safety and antiterror authorities on two continents appeared equally stumped about what direction the probe should take,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

WSJ goes on to report: View this entry »

(SLHS) - Today’s podcast focuses on the inspirational story of a rather remarkable woman, Estella Pyfrom. Estella has had quite the eventful life. She started working at the age of 6, picking beans in the segregated South to help her family make ends meet. Later in life, she received her Master’s Degree and taught in the Palm Beach County School district for over 50 years. Once retirement age rolled around, Estella opted against putting her feet up and watching the days go by. In fact, you could say that she had a rather brilliant idea. View this entry »

(KleinOnline) - Just eight days after a terrorist attack in the city of Kunming dubbed “China’s September 11th,” a Malaysia Airlines flight carrying mostly Chinese passengers disappeared over the South China Sea. View this entry »

(RonPaul) - Officially, US debt stands at more than $17 trillion. In reality, it is many times more. The cost of the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq may be more than six trillion dollars. President Obama’s illegal invasion of Libya cost at least a billion dollars and left that country devastated. The costs of US regime change efforts in Syria are likely thus far enormous, both in dollars and lives. That’s still a secret. View this entry »

(AJC) – Alex and David Knight completely expose the conspiracy to disarm Americans and the rising popularity of liberty across the country. Hardly anyone attended an anti-gun event in Austin, Texas yesterday which took place right in the middle of SXSW, an internationally-known entertainment festival that attracts thousands from around the world. View this entry »

Moscow responds to USS Truxtun being sent to Black Sea

(PaulWatson) - Moscow has responded to the United States sending the guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun into the Black Sea by deploying a Bastion anti-ship missile system in Sevastopol, according to reports. View this entry »

(KurtNimmo) - If a video appearing on Youtube can be believed, it appears Ukraine’s coup government may have employed mercenaries in a bid to shut down a move in Donetsk to expand the industrial city’s autonomy. View this entry »

“His words straight out were, ‘I cannot wait to get the order to kick your door in’”

(MikaelThalen) – A Connecticut man revealed shocking comments made by a Branford police officer this week who has openly defended door-to-door gun confiscation. View this entry »

NHS demands GPs monitor potential extremists

(PaulWatson) - Doctors in Britain are being forced to become state snitches and spot “radical” patients under an NHS initiative that threatens to cut funding if a GP practice fails to take part in the program. View this entry »

“We do the things that would be necessary to make sure that it can happen.”

(SteveWatson) – Libertarian Senator Rand Paul said Sunday that he is “definitely” considering a presidential run and has begun to put the wheels in motion, adding to months of speculation that there will once again be a Paul in the race for the White House.

“We’re definitely talking about it, my family’s talking about it,” Paul said on Fox News Sunday. View this entry »

(DailyCaller) - Zaid Jilani, a former blogger with the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress, explained this week how the Obama administration frequently tries to censor the progressive organization’s content when it departs from the White House’s agenda. View this entry »

(WashTimes) – Sen. Rand Paul urged the thousands that turned out for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to imagine electing a “friend of liberty” to the White House who will defend the Constitution and push back against a federal government that is trampling over their individual rights. View this entry »

Update 2: ARMED ATTACKERS LEAVE UKRAINE MILITARY BASE IN SEVASTOPOL: TV5

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Update, and this time from Reuters:

• ARMED MEN ENTER UKRAINIAN MILITARY POST IN CRIMEA AND TAKE CONTROL, NO SHOTS FIRED — REUTERS REPORTER ON THE SCENE
• UKRAINIANS AND FORCES THOUGHT TO BE RUSSIANS HOLD NEGOTIATIONS AFTER MILITARY POST TAKEN, NO ARMS SEIZED — REUTERS REPORTER
  

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(ZeroHedge) – More lies, propaganda, or for once, the truth? Just out from Time’s Simon Shuster: View this entry »

(SHTFPlan) - Earlier this week we noted that an invasion of the Ukraine by Vladimir Putin would likely lead to a complete destruction of U.S. stock markets. It’s not so much the invasion force itself, but rather, the economic maneuvers that would come with it should Russia take this course of action. View this entry »

(FinancialTimes) - An aggressive cyber weapon called Snake has infected dozens of Ukrainian computer networks including government systems in one of the most sophisticated attacks of recent years. View this entry »

Updated with a new video below.

(Infowars) - Jon Bowne investigates the mass amnesia associated with the indisputable connection between the Ku Klux Klan and the Democratic Party as well as its long history of murder, torture and voting coercion: View this entry »

(TheOrganicPrepper) - The bells are tolling on the American economy.  Every day, another expert is warning us of the imminent demise of our way of life. If you’re paying attention, you can see it coming, like some huge storm system, bearing down on you. You don’t stand there and wait for it to hit you. View this entry »

(Dissenter) – In the past few days, the Russian state-funded media organization, RT, has had two of its staff members express some level of protest against the editorial line of the organization and how it is currently covering the Russia-Ukraine “crisis” that has been unfolding. View this entry »

(BreakingTheSet) – On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin remarks on the ongoing media craze surrounding her remarks on RT regarding the crisis in Ukraine and features a clip of her appearance on CNN where she took the opportunity to call out the corporate media. Abby then speaks with Alexis Baden-Mayer, political director of the Organic Consumers Association, about a recent lawsuit filed against the EPA in an effort to disclose the ingredients found in pesticides, discussing the dangers and negative effects associated with these chemical sprays. View this entry »

Death as my constant companion,
Like grief is here to remind
That beneath the surface of everyday life,
My soul’s purpose I must find, in time.

(TomLescher) – Both grief and death bring us into our emotional bodies where we FEEL the difference between our highest goals and aspirations for ourselves and our life and where we actually, truly are. Sometimes the chasm between the ideal and the real can be devastating. We are in tense times now and are being pushed to BE and DO (masculine and feminine working together) View this entry »

(SLHS) – It’s time for another edition of ‘Good News’ – the episodes of SLHS where we focus on the stories that prove that the sky isn’t falling, that there is another tomorrow, and that things aren’t all bad! In this podcast, learn about a group of teenagers (yes, teenagers!) organizing a Valentine’s day surprise for an elderly woman; a comforting show of empathy from a healthy young boy to another with leukemia; and what happened when a Texas newscaster decided to stand up for the openly gay NFL prospect Michael Sam. As usual – enjoy, spread the word, and peace! View this entry »

(AmandaWarren) - Phoenix military-style police were in a stand-off with an armed robbery suspect who was in his home on Wednesday. They had blocked off the entire suburban road.

A little pup walked in the middle of the operation and decided to pick a fight, barking at the police to stand down. View this entry »

(NaturalBlaze) - Mark Baker of Baker’s Green Acres has always refused the offer to back down when it came to the state of Michigan and the DNR ordering fines of $700,000 and the destruction of his heritage pigs – because they looked different. View this entry »

(NoMoreFakeNews) - On one level, the struggle over Ukraine is a deadly US/EU/Russian game of territory, involving governments, intelligence agencies, corporations, and banks.

But at a higher level, as usual, sit the elite Globalist players. And their motives are different. They see every conflict as an opportunity to negotiate the aftermath. View this entry »

(BenSwann) - Ben Swann explains how the new coalition of EndPartisanship.org is working to break the 2 party hold on primary elections, which currently lock around 50% of voters out of the process. Plus, Ben details a lawsuit that has now been filed in the state of New Jersey to break that hold. View this entry »

(DollarVigilante) - As I write this, the European Union has just announced a possible $15b aid package to Ukraine (including 8 billion euros in fresh credit). Everybody has read the headlines about Europe: record unemployment, no end in sight, and so on.

So you might be wondering just where the European Union, and its constituent nations, scraped together the money to propose aid for Ukraine.

Well, wonder no more, because the following eight events might give you an idea of where governments go to get a little extra cash. View this entry »

City of Hamburg defends state’s attack on Second Amendment by attacking the First

(AdanSalazar) – A town in western New York state is pursuing charges against a man for refusing to remove a pro-Second Amendment sign from his property, an order the man and his lawyer are calling unconstitutional. View this entry »

(KurtNimmo) - The Russian newspaper Izvestia reports the Russian Duma is drafting amendments to the criminal code that will allow the Putin government to prosecute journalists as terrorists. View this entry »

(TenthAmendmentCenter) - Yesterday, the New Hampshire house passed a bill to thwart some of the actions of the growing surveillance state. House Bill 1533 (HB1533), which bans the use of any information obtained from a “portable electronic device” such as mobile phone in “a criminal, civil, administrative, or other proceeding,” passed by a voice vote and now moves on to the senate for further consideration. View this entry »

Cynical stunt coordinated with anti-Russian agitator

(PaulWatson) - Ex-RT host Liz Wahl is not “brave” or “courageous.” Her resignation reeks of hypocrisy.

In a follow up interview with Fox News, Wahl, who resigned in protest against state propaganda, says “yes” she would take a job with CNN. View this entry »

Cell phone footage mysteriously deleted in police custody

(MikaelThalen) - A man in Fall River, Mass. has been charged with unlawful wiretapping for recording a police officer shouting profanities in public. View this entry »

Newsweek writer asks if Satoshi Nakamoto is working on behalf of government

(PaulWatson) - Satoshi Nakamoto, the alleged Bitcoin founder who was outed yesterday by Newsweek, did classified work for the U.S. military and major corporations, a fact that will sit uncomfortably with many Bitcoin proponents should it be confirmed that Nakamoto is indeed the father of the cryptocurrency. View this entry »

(TheYoungTurks) - *While two RT anchors spoke out against network editorial policy this week, one of them stayed at their jobs, and Abby Martin joined Piers Morgan Wednesday night after delivering an off-script commentary about Ukraine, and ended up going on several tangents about the “corporate media” complex and the self-censorship that exists at American networks “beholden to advertisers.” Martin told Morgan, “I knew going into that that I could put my job on the line, considering how the corporate media has fired multiple anchors for simply speaking out against the Iraq War.” She insisted that her bosses give her “complete editorial freedom,” and when Morgan asked about other parts of the programming, she shot back…* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Josh Feldman / Mediaite:http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rt%E2%80%9…