(EFF) – NextGov.com is reporting that the FBI will begin rolling out its Next Generation Identification (NGI) facial recognition service as early as this January. Once NGI is fully deployed and once each of its approximately 100 million records also includes photographs, it will become trivially easy to find and track Americans. Read the rest of this entry »
(AmericanDream) – If you were asked to guess, what area of the United States would you say has the highest average income? New York City? Los Angeles? Silicon Valley? Well, would you believe that it is actually the Washington D.C. area? Median household income in the region is $84,523, which is the highest in the nation. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (AFP) – Greenpeace criticises Japan radiation screening – Read More Here
(ENENews) – Canada’s largest urban weekly, The Georgia Straight out of Vancouver, reported today.
“Public officials in Japan and Canada alike jumped straight into Chernobyl-style damage-control mode, dismissing any worries about impacts,” writes The Straight’s Alex Roslin.
The paper has obtained Canadian government data showing a monitoring station in Calgary detected an average of 8.18 Becquerels per liter of radioactive iodine-131 in rainwater last March. This “exceeded Canadian guidelines” according to the paper.
Health Canada’s data on rainwater is “puzzling” because the test results it reported are much lower than the data of Simon Frazer University professor Krzysztof Starosta. “He found iodine-131 levels in rainwater in Burnaby [near Vancouver] spiked to 13 becquerels per litre in the days after Fukushima. That’s many times higher than the levels detected in Vancouver by Health Canada.”
Arresting a middle-aged writer in an evening gown for peaceable conduct is a far cry from when America was a free republic.
(Guardian) – Last night I was arrested in my home town, outside an event to which I had been invited, for standing lawfully on the sidewalk in an evening gown.
Let me explain; my partner and I were attending an event for the Huffington Post, for which I often write: Game Changers 2011, in a venue space on Hudson Street. As we entered the space, we saw that about 200 Occupy Wall Street protesters were peacefully assembled and were chanting. They wanted to address Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was going to be arriving at the event. They were using a technique that has become known as “the human mic” – by which the crowd laboriously repeats every word the speaker says – since they had been told that using real megaphones was illegal. Read the rest of this entry »
(BaldwinLive) – It’s once again time for my annual survival list column. One does not have to be a prophet to know that we are on the precipice of some potentially catastrophic–or at the very least, challenging–days. In fact, most of us are already in challenging days, and some are already enduring catastrophic events. That is, if one would call being out of work, losing one’s home, facing life-threatening medical conditions without any prospect of medical insurance, several families being forced to live in one house due to homes being foreclosed, etc., catastrophic. Read the rest of this entry »
(AJC) – Mike Adams from NaturalNews.com, reporting for Infowars.com visits the Burzynski research institute and speaks with Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, founder of the research institute and clinic. Dr. Burzynski talks about how his invention of gene-targeted cancer medications called Antineoplastons has shown much greater success rates for ridding the body of cancer than any conventional method. Dr. Burzynski also explains that while his invention should be applauded by the medical industry as a whole, it actually made him a target of scrutiny and many indictments. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (NaturalNews) – RMFR – Raw Milk Freedom Riders event to host some of the biggest names in the health freedom movement – Read More Here
(NaturalNews) – If an American talks about using marijuana or other drugs in countries where such activity is perfectly legal, or even just discusses the hypothetical idea of such an activity with a friend or family member, he or she will be committing a felony crime under a heinous new bill recently passed by the US House Judiciary Committee.
Sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011 essentially applies US policies in the “War on Drugs” on the entire world, and makes it a crime for Americans to engage in, or even just talk about, activities that are legal abroad, but illegal back at home. Read the rest of this entry »
(Youtube) – Time for everyone to wake up to whats going on around them… Media bias?? Despite the media bias on RonPaul, just look, open your eyes and study just a bit. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (Guardian) – Gaddafi killed as Sirte falls – live coverage – Read More Here
The Son of Africa claims a continent’s crown jewels
(JohnPilger.com) – On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only “engage” for “self-defence”, says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent is under way Read the rest of this entry »
(AntiwarRadio) – Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses a couple alternative explanations of the Iranian assassination plot, both more sensible than the official government story; why Iran would essentially commit national suicide by conducting a terrorist attack in Washington DC; the system of incentives for law enforcement agents and informants to play up any terrorism angle; prosecuting the CIA officials who lied to National Security Advisor Richard Clarke, in order to get the big fish in the Bush administration; and how the mainstream media is failing (on purpose) to expose government lies and give Americans credible information. Read the rest of this entry »
(BOilingFrogsPost) – Police State: Contractors Pitch Spy Tech to Cops, Clinton Vows Millions of Dollars in Funding for the New Regime, Two Teenagers among those Assassinated by US Drone Attack in Awlaki Kill, Police State: Legislation Could Expand Reserve Role in Homeland Security, Lies Behind the “Humanitarian War” in Libya, Pepe Escobar: The Ironies of Obama’s African Intervention, Cryptome 1: Pandering for the very Rich, Pennsylvania District Allows Advertising & Advertisers in Public Schools!, China’s Growth Falters, Serbs Continue to Defy NATO & More! Read the rest of this entry »
(FukushimaUpdate) – October 19th, 2011 – Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com joins us for today’s Fukushima Update. We discuss Tokyo’s radiation hot spots, TEPCO’s “cold shutdown” announcement and what the next step is at the site.
Scientific Socialism to Be Made Universal,
Education, Indoctrination, Psychotropic Dispersal,
Ensuring Obedience Instantly — Be Snappy!
The New Reason for Existing is to Be Happy
Regardless of Circumstance, Level of Austerity,
Just Be Happy says Gov., With Usual Temerity,
Scotland is a Test-Bed for the EU Science
Of Creating the Socialist Society with Reliance
On Experts of All Kinds, Cradle to Grave,
In Poverty or Squalor? — Then Be a Happy Slave
Topics: Predictable Citizens, Easily Controlled – Darpa and “Narrative Networks” to Detect those Fallen Prey to “Dangerous Ideas” and Prevent “Negative Behavioural Outcomes” – Battle for the Mind – Computer-to-Brain Interfaces – IHOPE Organization – Cons using “Science” and Highbrow Pablum – Model Society of China – Time for Scary Scenarios – International Moneylenders in Power – Stores Move from US to China – Takedown of the US – Young Males with Leadership Abilities Targetted – Ritalin for Four-Year Olds – Gov.-Funded Corporations – Paedophiles After Legalization – Planks of Communist Manifesto Accomplished – UN “Rights of the Child” – Gov. Replaces Family Unit and Real Community – Council on Foreign Relations/Royal Institute of International Affairs, Use of War – US Forest Service–International – Cancer Research Fraud. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (NaturalNews) – Study: Organic farming outperforms conventional in yields, economic viability, conservation, and health – Read More Here
(NaturalNews) – Top baby formula brands sold in stores contain alarmingly high levels of corn syrup and sugar. In light of rising rates of childhood obesity and diabetes, parents need to read labels carefully to protect their children’s health.
Consumption of large quantities of sugar and high fructose corn syrup have been linked to behavioral disorders such as ADD as well as other issues such as anxiety, daytime drowsiness and nighttime insomnia.
Feeding your baby sugar and corn syrup also increases your child’s risk for a wide spectrum of other health problems ranging from dental cavities to high triglyceride levels to nutritional deficiencies. Even the mainstream medical establishment warns of the dangers of added sugars. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (NaturalNews) – How to avoid being like the 11 percent of Americans who now take antidepressant drugs every day – Read More Here
Also: (NaturalNews) – Exposed: Illinois law financially penalizes public schools when vaccination rates drop below 90 percent – Read More Here
(NaturalNews) – Finally there’s some truth in advertising about flu shots. A CVS pharmacy is promoting flu shots using images of the grim reaper, the most widely-recognized symbol of death. In a photo snapped by a NaturalNews reader and sent to us, an adult grim reaper (complete with a scythe blade) holds a sign that reads, “Flu shots HERE! CVS Pharmacy.”
The further push the symbolism of death, a child-sized grim reaper stands next to the adult — oh look, it’s a cute family! — holding a flu propaganda sign that reads, “YOU vs FLU” which promotes a “$5 gift card” when you get a flu shot. Read the rest of this entry »
(AJC) – Aaron covers Obama’s dismal failure to co-opt and exploit the Occupy Wall Street movement and gets into the startling revelation that around a third of OWS supporters polled favor government coercion and violence to realize their tax the rich and destroy capitalism agenda.
On the lighter side, Dykes talks about how thieves made off with a truck carrying Obama’s prized teleprompter and podium while the anointed one was on the road shilling his so-called jobs program. He also talks about bandits making off with LA SWAT team goodies, including 21 MP-5 submachine guns and 12 large caliber handguns. Read the rest of this entry »
In her recent book, “Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries,” she dedicated ample space to dissecting — and critiquing — the process in which citizens go about obtaining permits for demonstrations, and how permitting has been killing First Amendment protections one regulation at a time. She paid special focus to New York City. Read the rest of this entry »
(BoilingFrogsPost) – Follow the Money with Bergman-Chicago: The City That Works! – Burrowing Into Some Rabbit Holes – Read More Here
(DailyBail) – HOLY BAILOUT – Federal Reserve Now Backstopping $75 Trillion Of Bank Of America’s Derivatives Trades
This story from Bloomberg just hit the wires this morning. Bank of America is shifting derivatives in its Merrill investment banking unit to its depository arm, which has access to the Fed discount window and is protected by the FDIC.
This means that the investment bank’s European derivatives exposure is now backstopped by U.S. taxpayers. Bank of America didn’t get regulatory approval to do this, they just did it at the request of frightened counterparties. Now the Fed and the FDIC are fighting as to whether this was sound. The Fed wants to “give relief” to the bank holding company, which is under heavy pressure.
This is a direct transfer of risk to the taxpayer done by the bank without approval by regulators and without public input. You will also read below that JP Morgan is apparently doing the same thing with $79 trillion of notional derivatives guaranteed by the FDIC and Federal Reserve. Read More Here
(Telegraph) – Video: White House accused of Barack Obama ‘green screen’ trickery
The White House has been accused of digitally adjusting President Barack Obama’s weekly address to the nation to give the impression he was sitting in front of a car assembly line in Detroit.
Experts in video effects said Mr Obama’s talk on boosting employment had actually been recorded in front of a neutral “green screen” and the factory background filled in later.
They said the edges around the president’s head and shoulders were too sharp. Read More Here
(WeeklyStandard) – Video: Biden Continues to Warn of Rapes and Murders If Jobs Bill Isn’t Passed – Read More Here
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(Fox) – Ron Paul “We’re In A Debt Crisis That’s Worldwide”
(NaturalNews) - A major clinical trial has found that dietary supplementation with vitamin E appears to increase the risk of prostate cancer among apparently healthy men. [Klein EA and others. Vitamin E and the risk of prostate cancer: The Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT). JAMA 306:1549-1556, 2011]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/…
The study, which spanned more than seven years, followed what happened to more than 35,000 men who received either 400 IU of vitamin E, vitamin E plus selenium, selenium, or a placebo. The group that received vitamin E alone had a 17% higher incidence of prostate cancer. The researchers warned: Read the rest of this entry »
(EmpireBurlesque) – It is not enough for the Peace Laureate to murder American citizens without charges, without trial and without warning; he must also murder their children too — in the same cowardly, cold-blooded fashion.
Last week, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki — an American teenager — was ripped to shreds by an American drone missile in Yemen. The boy, like his father, Anwar al-Awlaki — had not been charged with any crime whatsoever, much less convicted and sentenced. So what was his offense? He missed his father — who had been in hiding from the Peace Laureate’s publicly stated intention to assassinate him — and he went off to find him. Read the rest of this entry »
(EconomicCollapse) – If you want to know what the early stages of an economic collapse look like, just walk around some of the downtown areas of our major cities. Today, nearly all large U.S. cities are either flat broke or they are on the way to being flat broke. Yes, New York City and Washington D.C. (and a few others) are still doing fairly well, but for most U.S. cities economic reality is catching up with them very quickly. Right now, there are a number of major cities that are so broke that they cannot keep the street lights operating. Read the rest of this entry »
The Immense Criminal Enterprise Known as “Responsibility to Protect.”
(LandDestroyer) – Meet Dr. Sliman Bouchuiguir, the man behind the verified pack of lies used to justify NATO’s intervention in Libya. This amazing piece of investigative journalism reveals not only how tenuous these fabrications were, but have produced Bouchuiguir himself admitting fragrantly that the allegations he made were contrived, baseless, unconfirmed, and designed specifically to give the necessary requirements for NATO’s intervention. Read the rest of this entry »
(Youtube) – Ron Paul jumps on Herman Cain at the CNN debate in Las Vegas — this time over Cain’s comments about the Occupy Wall Street movement. Read the rest of this entry »
(TedTalks) – On any given day we’re lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows the manners and “hotspots” used by those trained to recognize deception — and she argues honesty is a value worth preserving. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – For over 20 years, the dogma of man-made global warming has been trumping sound science and even basic logic. The result has been a global movement of pseudo-scientific alarmism about climate change that seeks to solve it with scams like global carbon taxes.
But a simple visual chart put together by Jo Nova shows how governments, industry, and Wall Street have been behind the global warming scam all along, and how they continue to use taxpayer dollars to fund it. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (SteveWatson) – Federal Records Show Romney Campaign Bought And Paid For By Big Banks – Ron Paul’s campaign financed by active duty servicemen and women, grassroots supporters – Read More Here
(AmericanDream) – We are never going to restore legitimacy to our political system until we get the money out of politics. Typically, in federal elections the candidate that raises the most money wins about 90 percent of the time. In 2008, Barack Obama raised almost twice as much money as John McCain did. 3 of the top 7 donors to Obama’s campaign were big Wall Street banks Read the rest of this entry »
(HigginsBlog) – Occupy Trenton Finalizing Lawsuit Against State As Senator Supports #OccupyWallStreet – Read More Here
(Gallup) – Most Americans Uncertain About “Occupy Wall Street” Goals
Less than half of Americans express an opinion about either the Occupy Wall Street movement’s goals or the way it has conducted its protests. Those with an opinion are more likely to approve than disapprove. Read More Here
(Youtube) – Video: Occupy Phoenix with AR-15′s
#OccupyPhoenix Morpheus heads to down town Phoenix at the Cesar Chavez plaza to join with other individuals to DEMONSTRATE for the right to exist! The demonstrators get some protection from JT Ready and http://usbordergurad.com
(FoxNation) – Video: Far Left Occupy Rome Protesters Destroy Statue of Mary
The far left Occupy Rome goons destroyed a statue of Mary during their rally this weekend. It didn’t seem to bother them. Video Link Here
(KurtNimmo) – Private Security Allegedly Hired to Clear OWS from Zuccotti Park
According to email sent to Infowars.com, Brookfield Properties recently posted an ad on the New York Craigslist calling for “able-bodied men” to evict the OWS demonstrators from Zuccotti Park on Friday. Brookfield Properties is the company that owns Zuccotti Park where the OWS is encamped on Manhattan. Read More Here
(Breitbart) – Video: Obama: Occupy Wall Street ‘Not That Different’ From Tea Party
In an interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, President Obama likened the Occupy Wall Street protests where people are living, in the streets of New York and calling for major economic upheavals in America’s capitalist system to the tea party movement against extra-constitutional federal government intrusion. Read More Here
(WashingtonsBlog) – Who Is to Blame: Washington Or Wall Street?
Poll: Conservatives Blame Washington, While Liberals Blame Wall Street
In the minds of likely voters, Washington, not Wall Street, is primarily to blame for the financial crisis and the subsequent recession. Read the rest of this entry »
(TehranTimes) – Iran capable of winning any possible war: Army chief
The Army commander announced on Tuesday that Iranian armed forces are at the height of military preparedness and are equipped with the most advanced military equipment, and will give a firm response to any possible invasion.
“I assure you that we will win the war in the event of any aggression against our country,” Ahmadreza Pourdastan told a press conference. – Source: Tehran Times
(Change) – Israel Mistreatment of Palestinian Political Prisoners: Free Majd Ziada Now!!! – Read More Here
(IND) – Chile punishes student protesters with a military draft order
Chile is giving nearly 57,000 18-year-olds one month to report for potential military duty, saying the government needs to fill gaps in its armed forces because a nationwide student protest movement has reduced the number of volunteers it usually gets. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Is Washington Using Famine in the Horn of Africa to Embark on Yet Another Illegal War?
The large troop deployment by Kenya into Somali territory is taking on the form of a full-scale invasion, rather than a temporary incursion as initially reported.
What is also emerging – but largely unreported – is that the US appears to be providing coordinated aerial firepower to help the advance of the Kenyan military against Al Shabab Islamic militants who have held power in the southern Somali territory. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – U.S. Hawks Behind Iraq War Rally for Strikes Against Iran
Key neo-conservatives and other right-wing hawks who championed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq are calling for military strikes against Iran in retaliation for its purported murder-for-hire plot against the Saudi ambassador here.
Leading the charge is the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), the ideological successor to the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which played a critical role in mobilising support for “regime change” in Iraq in the late 1990s and subsequently spearheaded the public campaign to invade the country after the 9/11 attacks. The group sent reporters appeals by two of its leaders for military action on its letterhead Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Prior to the worldwide OWS-inspired protests on October 15, a group of prominent leftists “issued a manifesto that includes a strong call for global democracy and, in particular, democratic rule over the international financial system,” reports Read the rest of this entry »
(StateColumn) – Texas Congressman Ron Paul, a Republican presidential candidate, launched his latest money bomb on Wednesday. The “Black This Out” money bomb has raised nearly $700,000 as of 11am EDT.
In a email to his campaign supporters, Paul urged his activists to donate to his campaign. “None of our hard work matters unless I can raise the resources to break through the media blackout and take my message of liberty straight to the voters,” Paul wrote. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – In the streets of Greece, arguably the biggest protest in years is now descending into violence. People are venting their anger against a new package of austerity measures the country is likley to adopt as soon as Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Ahmed Maher helped lead Egypt’s “Arab Spring” that resulted in military dictatorship
(PaulWatson) – A US government-backed pioneer of the so-called “Arab Spring” in Egypt that eventually resulted in a military dictatorship is now “advising” the Occupy Wall Street protesters in both Washington DC and New York, in another sign that the movement has been subverted by the establishment. Read the rest of this entry »
Note: In the Obama era of state-sponsored assassinations, there’s always that moral or ethical dilemma that won’t go away. In America, the Party Leader has already spoken on this issue in his 2009 inaugural speech, when Barack Obama said that America must “reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals”.
(IND) – The family of a American teenager killed in Yemen during a US attack – a week after his terrorist father also died in a US strike – has lashed out at reports that the young man was a militant.
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, 16, who was born in Denver, was the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, one of America’s most-wanted men, whom an unmanned drone obliterated with a rocket in Yemen last month. Read the rest of this entry »
(ABCNews) – A new computer virus using “nearly identical” parts of the cyber superweapon Stuxnet has been detected on computer systems in Europe and is believed to be a precursor to a new Stuxnet-like attack, a major U.S.-based cyber security company said today. Read the rest of this entry »
(MediaRoots) – Margot Paez is an independent journalist based in LA and the host of Insight Out News. She has been covering Occupy Los Angeles since October 1st, and has been compiling daily footage from the local protest on her blog. Her best video footage includes exclusive interviews from Tom Morello, Dan Choi Day and on the spot interviews with the protestors. Read the rest of this entry »
Reasons for Suspicion Run Deep on Political & Legal Grounds
(BoilingFrogsPost) – The United States last week turned the U.N. Security Council into a courtroom. It wanted to try Iranian suspects before foreign governments in the bizarre story of an alleged assassination attempt on the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
Behind closed doors in the council chambers U.S. officials admitted the story was “hard to believe.” This is according to a Western diplomat who was among the council ambassadors shown evidence by U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, who was accompanied by officials of the F.B.I., CIA and the State and Justice Departments. Read the rest of this entry »
(BFP) – Obama has now more than Doubled Bush-Era Total Deaths in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan: Baku’s Natural Gas Discoveries Reviving Interest in Caspian Pipelines, Police State: FBI’s DNA Database Upgrade Program Under Fire, Number of CIA Drone Attacks in Pakistan Hits 300, Covert Operative for Israel Achieved Immunity from Criminal Prosecution, America’s Foreign Relationships, Cerro Rico: The Mine that Funded and Empire, Israel Plans New Settlement of 2600 that will Isolate Arab East Jerusalem, Judge Denies Bid by Government for Solyndra Trustee, Unfolding A Plot: Mossad at Work & More! Read the rest of this entry »
(MediaRoots) – Abby & Robbie Martin cover the Occupy Wall Street movement: Bay Area activism compared to other cities nationwide, the divide and conquer tactics being used to discredit OWS, the different schools of thought and ideology within the movement and the original demands made by the US Day of Rage; the Obama administration’s shocking crackdown on medical marijuana and new federal law banning medical marijuana card holders from owning firearms; Blackwater and the privatization of the armed forces: is the corporatization of the US military what is preventing an anti-war rebellion similar to that seen in the 60s? Read the rest of this entry »
