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May 27, 2012

May 27 10:40

Top U.S. Government Officials Admit that Our Government Has Repeatedly Protected Drug Smugglers

Watch the Following Videos, and Decide For Yourself …

May 27 10:23

Police State - Raid On A Raw Milk Farm From Jack Blood Live


Maybe you are not too interested in raw milk and therefore not too interested in the laws regarding it.....but shouldn't we be concerned about a Government that raids Amish and other family farms with guns drawn? And i am aware that the first defense of these over the top actions is that well, if not regulated, people could sick....but that is not the problem in these cases, and if you think for one second that the Government is doing this to protect you than you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It is quite the opposite....i am convinced, as evidenced by their own actions and laws, that the Government is attempting quite the opposite - to harm us, dehumanize us, and this is done in part by depriving us of alternatives to their Corporation Machine Food and "Medicine", (a la Chemtrails, Vaccines). Thanks to Jack Blood for this

May 27 10:21

NHS remove word 'Dad' from pregnancy handbook in case it offends same sex couples

An NHS guide to childbirth will no longer use the term ‘Dad’ when referring to the non-pregnant partner as it may offend homosexual couples.

The ‘Ready Steady Baby’ pamphlet has been revised after receiving a complaint that it ‘was not inclusive of people in same sex relationships’.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

"Look! Look over HERE! Gay people! Gay people hate the word 'Dad'! Think about that instead of the economy and the wars! Loyal citizens never think about the wars and the economy!"

May 27 10:19

Tel Aviv race riot flags bitter immigration dispute

Violent race riots that shook south Tel Aviv overnight sparked shock in Israel on Thursday, but also prompted top-level calls for the immediate arrest and expulsion of tens of thousands of African migrants.

May 27 10:17

Google Snoop View: Search engine giant 'knew its software could steal emails, pictures and text messages from millions of people with its Street View cars'

Google knew software for its Street View fleet could secretly collect personal data including emails, pictures and text messages from unprotected wi-fi networks, it has been claimed.

Documents seen by America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) apparently show an engineer created the snooping technology called gstumbler which could capture data from inside residents’ homes as teams toured the country.

One particular document shows that the engineer flagged up privacy implications and said a privacy lawyer should be consulted before the software was installed.

The bank of personal data collected could have been used by Google to develop new products.

It is no secret that the firm wants to continue tailoring information it gives internet users so it is relevant to their finances, interests, relationships and buying habits.

However, in a statement today the technology giant said it 'did not want or intend to use this payload data'.

May 27 10:15

911 "MISSING" Posters of Disembodied Souls

How did that bizarre and unrealistic 9/11 - 9/12 poster-blitz happen? Did it immediately occur to hundreds of "survivors" to prepare missing-person type posters, photocopy them, bring them into the city and tack them up? Is this a reasonable scenario? Wouldn't their "missing loved one" have come home or, at very least, telephoned to say they were alive? Please forgive the oxymoronic presumption of a living datafake.

May 27 10:11

FLASHBACK - China will launch NUCLEAR WORLD WAR III, if Israel, US attacks Iran- Maj. Gen. Zhang Zhaozhong

May 27 10:07

Reuter's bans Michael Rivero from commenting on news stories! - Iran has anough uranium to blah blah blah

Iran has significantly stepped up its output of low-enriched uranium and total production in the last five years would be enough for at least five nuclear weapons if refined much further, a U.S. security institute said.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Remember that whopper the US Government and the media (including Reuter's) told you all about Saddam's nuclear weapons? This is more of the same, and while you might be forgiven for falling for that lie the first time, there is no way you can justify giving these liars the benefit of the doubt with regard to Iran, a nation that has not initiated a war of conquest in over 200 years.

If you go along with this; if you send your children off to die in another war based on another hoax, knowing the hoaxers are there, then you are as guilty as the liars.


When I tried to post the above comment at the Reuter's page, I received a notice that I have been banned from commenting at Reuter's!

I wonder why. :)

Basically, Reuter's has just told you all that the comments at their stories are filtered to create a false illusion of public support for the policy.

May 27 09:56

FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO WAR AND DICTATORSHIP

It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need.

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May 27 09:55

Scientists Recommend Dangerous Antipsychotic Drugs to Treat Cancer

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

The Obama administration recently announced that the US government will assist pharmaceutical corporations in finding prescription drugs to treat new diseases.

The focus of this collaboration will identify new uses for drugs that have already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

"We need to speed the pace at which we are turning discoveries into better health outcomes,” said Dr. Francis Collins, of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “NIH looks forward to working with our partners in industry and academia to tackle an urgent need that is beyond the scope of any one organization or sector.”

Obama signed Executive Order (EO), Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council in 2010.

May 27 09:52

US condemns Syria massacre and looks for Russian help to oust Assad

The UN team in Syria described the attack in Houla as 'indiscriminate and unforgivable' but declined to directly point the finger at Assad's loyalists.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

And for good reason, Assad knows full well he faces a US-backed coup d'etat. The last thing he is going to do is commit an overt act that hands the would-be invaders an excuse to invade. Either the US-backed mercenaries fired on the civilians, or they launched an attack from within the civilians to trick Assad's military into shelling that location, to manufacture an incident used to sell yet another war to the world.

May 27 09:47

The politics of the underwater homeowner – the impact of negative equity on the balance sheet of Americans. Top 5 markets to purchase foreclosures.

The housing market is sending mixed signals in 2012. Time can sneak up on you and if you rewind to the last presidential election cycle the housing market was already moving lower. So here we are in 2012 and the housing market is still weak. A recent report shows that 1 out of 3 Americans with a mortgage is still underwater owing $1.2 trillion more on their home than it is currently worth. Keep in mind that the 5 to 6 percent cost of selling a home is shouldered by the seller and that isn’t reflected here. In spite of this, most underwater homeowners continue to pay their mortgage dutifully. Even in Las Vegas where 71 percent of homeowners are underwater, many by twice the current home value, only 14 percent are 90+ days delinquent. With so many homeowners underwater what implications will this have on the 2012 election?

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Politics are already seeping into the housing market in 2012. HARP 2.0 is providing an enormous amount of refinancing activity for the 16,000,000 underwater homeowners. Many of these homeowners are in battleground states. The big difference with HARP 2.0 versus HARP is the volume of GSE loans being refinanced. Since the housing "market" is not really a market, it will be interesting to see what interventions are put in place moving forward. Of those underwater, 9 out of 10 continue to pay their mortgage on time

May 27 09:44

Bill C-38 protest has 13,000 websites going dark across Canada this June

When it comes to politics, Canadians are generally an apathetic bunch. Often, a controversy will brew and within a week or two we forget about it and move on.

It appears Bill C-38 is one issue we're not willing to let go.

Saturday is the one month anniversary of the introduction of the so-called omnibus budget bill, a 425-page bill that amends 60 different acts, repeals a half dozen others and adds three more. Opposition parties have repeatedly said that the bill is too big and includes changes that ought to be broken off and presented as separate legislation. But the Conservatives are forging ahead with it as-is.

While Canadians haven't hit the streets en masse yet, they are showing their dislike for the bill even one month later. On June 4, 13,000 website owners across Canada, including the NDP, PSAC and even Margaret Atwood, will be darkening their websites in protest of Bill C-38 as part of the 'Black Out Speak Out' campaign.

May 27 09:41

Microsoft's New Terms of Service to Block Class Action Suits

Microsoft said late Friday that the company has begun changing its user agreements to prevent consumers from filing class-action lawsuits against the company.

In a blog post authored by Jim Fielden, the assistant general counsel at Microsoft, the company said that it would take advantage of a 2011 Supreme Court case, AT&T Mobility vs. Concepcion, that allows companies to settle a complaint either privately or via small claims court, but can prevent the plaintiff from forming a class for a class action lawsuit.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Microsoft just admitted they have no plans to improve the quality of their product, so it is time to switch to Linux.

May 27 09:41

Itinerary Updates - Bilderberg2012 Exposed

As you may already know we will be covering the Bilderberg meeting and protests in Chantilly Virginia (Westfields Marriott) Between Thursday, May 31st and Sunday June 2nd.

The Intel Hub will be providing LIVE updates and streaming video footage on our U-Stream channel, as well as uploading content fresh to YouTube and providing real-time updates on theintelhub.com’s main page and the Bilderberg 2012 page.

We have our own battle plan for providing you the best coverage throughout the entire meeting, protests, and events.

May 27 09:39

ACLU v. CIA: Intelligence agency wins court battle on waterboarding issue

A United States Circuit Court of Appeals panel of judges handed a decisive defeat to the ACLU this week that stated the Central Intelligence Agency doesn't have to release documents regarding its use of waterboarding, or a photograph of the suspected terrorist, Abu Zubaydah, taken around the time that he was subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Which tells us far worse things than waterboarding were being done by the CIA.

May 27 09:30

S.2165 -- United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 (Introduced in Senate - IS)

(1) Seek to enhance the capabilities of the Governments of the United States and Israel to address emerging common threats, increase security cooperation, and expand joint military exercises.

(2) Work to encourage an expanded role for Israel within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), including an enhanced presence at NATO headquarters and exercises.

(3) Expand already-close intelligence cooperation, including satellite intelligence, with the Government of Israel.

(4) Examine ways to strengthen existing and ongoing efforts, including the Gaza Counter Arms Smuggling Initiative, aimed at preventing weapons smuggling into Gaza pursuant to the 2009 agreement following the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as measures to protect against weapons smuggling and terrorist threats from the Sinai Peninsula.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

So, the US Congress is obliging the US President in no more than 180 days to give an assessment of Israel's defense capabilities so the US can maintain its qualitative edge and support it with the latest needed technologies, paid for by billions in US taxpayer dollars, and note there is no spending cap! All Israel has to do is leak (or sell) that technology to other countries (like China) and then the "qualitative edge" is gone, and Israel can legally demand more money from the US taxpayer. This is a suction tube into your wallet and there is no shut-off valve!

May 27 09:24

Our man in Congress?

Gelbman, in his early 30s, was born in the U.S. but immigrated to Israel as a child with his parents. He was raised and educated in Israel and completed his military service, earning the rank of lieutenant.

After completing his studies at Tel Aviv University, the young Israeli moved back to the U.S. and worked in real estate. He first tried his hand at politics two years ago when he ran for Congress in a California district. When he realized he had no chance of winning, he withdrew from the race, but retained his political ambitions.

Now, Gelbman is trying his luck again in Texas's 6th Congressional District, near Dallas. The area is populated by devout Christians and strong supporters of Israel. The overarching theme of his campaign is unwavering support for Israel, an obvious attribute of his being Israeli.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

No government can serve two masters.

May 27 09:20

US Congress approves investor visas for Israelis

Congress has passed legislation adding Israel to the list of more than 75 countries eligible for temporary visas given to foreign nationals who invest in US-based businesses.

The Senate approved the measure Thursday, sending it to US President Barack Obama for his signature.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Hold on a moment ... If Israelis have so much money they can invest in the US economy, then why are we still sending Israel checks filled with billions of US taxpayer dollars?

This is a lose-lose proposition. If the Israelis make money they will send the profits back to Israel. If they lose money the US taxpayer will be forced to cover the losses. Such a DEAL!!!!!

May 27 09:14

The Vatican's Fake Occupy Implodes: Documents Evoke A History Of Money Laundering, Sexual Terrorism, And Even ... Murder

A tell-all book, leaked documents, billions in favorable contracts, money laundering, sexual terrorism ... and possibly murder. With St. Peter's in the background, it all sounds like a Dan Brown thriller. But in this mystery, the butler did not do it. At least not to the extent that a papal investigation would have it.

Paolo Gabriele, 46, who has worked as Benedict's butler since 2006, was reportedly taken into custody after investigators found a mass of documents in the Vatican apartment he shares with his wife and three children.

The arrest comes a month after the Vatican gave an investigative team led by Cardinal Julian Herranz, a member of Opus dei, a full "pontifical mandate" to join Vatican police in rooting out the perpetrators of what has been dubbed Vatileaks.

May 27 09:07

Vets Ask "Mourn For Those Killed By Americans in Battle in US Wars of Aggression!"

"On this Memorial Day, Veterans For Peace asks you to mourn not only for Americans killed in battle, but also for those killed by Americans in battle. We ask you to be willing to accept the fact that these war deaths did not have to happen--that they are actually in vain. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people have died in American wars of aggression. That is a tragedy and is a truth that must be accepted and for which we must take responsibility."

"For which we must take responsibility" sounds like Martin Luther King Jr.' outcry in his world shaking 1967 sermon "Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence. King demanded that we take responsibility for and bring these atrocities to an end

May 27 09:04

Panetta: U.S. is Ready to Stop Iran from Creating Nuclear Weapons

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Sunday indirectly confirmed recent remarks by the Ambassador to Israel that the U.S. is “ready from a military perspective’’ to stop Iran from making a nuclear weapon if international pressure fails.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

"Because Israel told us Iran is making a nuclear bomb, and Israel would never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever lie to us! Not counting that whopper about Iraq's nuclear bombs, of course!" -- Official White Horse Souse

May 27 08:50

Wisconsin officials unknowingly break law with Facebook

High-ranking members of both political parties were unaware that posting photos of completed ballots on Facebook or Twitter is illegal in Wisconsin, and they promised to quickly take down the posts Friday after election officials reminded voters of the law.

The law bars voters from showing their completed ballots to anyone.
The law bars voters from showing their completed ballots to anyone.
The law bars voters from showing their completed ballots to anyone.

May 27 08:46

UN Creates New, More Powerful Global Environmental Agency

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

In June of this year, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the United Nations (UN) will push for the expansion of their new and improved global environmental agency.

The UN Environmental Program (UNEP) will be promoted to “specialized agency” with a new title, UN Environment Organization (UNEO).

The UNEO will prop up the Sustainable Development division of the UN. The same agency that disseminates Agenda 21 policies to governments will be centralized into a global agency with powerful international backing...

May 27 08:21

Laying the Foundations for Preemptive Nuclear War Against Iran

Nile Bowie, Contributor
Activist Post

As prospects for a preemptive strike on Iran remain ever present, the recent round of talks between the P5+1 and Iran in Baghdad on May 23rd, 2012 have resulted in a familiar stalemate. As a precondition for any deal to stop higher-grade uranium enrichment, Tehran requested immediate relief from economic sanctions as a show of reciprocity [1]. Iranian chief negotiator Saeed Jalili emphasized Tehran’s right to develop peaceful nuclear energy as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while the P5+1 refused to scale back economic sanctions, insisting Iran suspend its 20% uranium enrichment program [2]...

May 27 07:55

Death Squads Ravage Syrian Town - West Calls For 'Action'

Tony Cartalucci, Contributor
Activist Post

The Western media has now admitted Syrian troops were not responsible for the "massacre" in Houla, Syria, and are now instead blaming the violence on "pro-regime thugs."

Despite this backpedaling, the US, UK, and French governments are moving ahead with their calls for "action" and have continued to condemn the Syrian government, which according to the activists they are allegedly citing, were not even responsible for the massacre.

Proving that the massacres were carried out by "pro-regime thugs" and not Al Qaeda terrorists who are renowned for such tactics and known to be operating in the area alongside the so-called "Free Syrian Army," will be very difficult for the West if it intends to use this latest tragedy to justify further meddling, especially action from the UN Security Council...

May 27 07:52

Gloom of Night

Congress leaves the postal service unable to do its job and unable to stop.

BARRON'S: The U.S. Postal Service is about to go insolvent, unless a gridlocked Congress writes a check real soon. Actually, the postal service long has been a ward of the state, unable to support itself because of political interference and clumsy regulation intended to support its half-million workers at the expense of its customers. Unlike a real self-supporting business, it can't set its prices or control its costs or determine the services it will offer without saying "Mother, may I?" to Congress and the Postal Regulatory Commission.

May 27 07:48

Nasa 'space drink' can reverse signs of ageing?

A 'space drink' developed by NASA to protect astronauts from radiation can also reduce wrinkles and reverse the telltale signs of ageing in just four months, say researchers, following a human trial.

A team at Utah University has found in its research that the concoction, known as AS10, dramatically reduces wrinkles, blemishes and sun damage after four months.

At the start of their trial, the researchers took visia photographs -- which reveal the condition of the skin below the surface by using different types of light exposure -- of 180 participants.

May 27 07:47

‘Obama to seek Russia's help to ease out Assad’

In a new push to stop growing bloodshed in Syria, US President Barack Obama plans to seek Russia's help to ease out President Bashar al-Assad under "the Yemenskii Variant," a proposal modeled on the transition in Yemen.

When Obama brought it up with Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev at the G-8 summit at Camp David last weekend, Medvedev appeared receptive, US officials said, signaling that Russia would prefer that option to other transitions in the Arab upheaval.

May 27 07:32

McDonald’s Rejects Anti-Obesity Campaign, ‘Proud’ of ‘Responsible’ Menu

Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post

After shareholders proposed altering the McDonald’s menu to help cut down on climbing obesity rates, particularly childhood obesity rates, it was quickly rejected by both the corporate board and retiring Chief Executive Jim Skinner.

Instead of adopting the policy, which was actually drafted in an attempt to enhance worker productivity and overall quality of life, the former CEO instead stated that he was ‘proud’ of McDonald’s menu changes. The quote was matched by the incoming CEO Don Thompson, who stated that the food options were very ‘responsible’.

If you are even slightly familiar with the ingredients present in foods on the McDonald’s menu (yes, even ‘healthy’ salads), then it is obvious to you why these statements are outwardly fictitious.

In fact, you need only to examine what exactly makes up a ‘chicken nugget’ at McDonald’s...

May 27 07:18

The Power Principle Documentary About U.S. Foreign Policy

long but worth watching.

May 27 05:57

The Banking Cartels think they are going to take our Social Security

In 2008 the mortgage derivative fraud/scam was discovered as the bubble burst. The largest central banks were wiped out, literally by their own hand. Congress surrendered its power over allocations to the Treasury Department and Henry Paulson was named Treasury Secretary. Then the American people were told that they were going to have to replace the wealth that had been stolen through the toxic derivatives because these privately owned central banks were too big to fail, thus the failure was dumped onto the people.

$32 trillion was stolen. $32 trillion was borrowed in the name of the American people, leaving those people in generational bonded servitude. Now the thieves had only to collect the wealth.

May 27 04:38

Our Troops do NOT Protect Our Freedom and We Should Stop Thanking Them for Doing So

Our Troops do NOT Protect Our Freedom and We Should Stop Thanking Them for Doing So
SUNDAY, 07 AUGUST 2011 16:11 JESSE RICHARD
Let's make one thing crystal clear, no member of the US military contributes in any way whatsoever to protecting the freedoms of the American people. As a matter of fact, they are more likely to turn their weapons on you than they are to defend your Constitutional rights.

The only people on this planet Earth who can affect your freedom are members of Congress, local legislators and the members of enforcement institutions who will blindly follow the rulers who sign their paychecks. And, while your beloved troops are murdering people around the globe, yes, I said murdering, your Congress and local legislators are eliminating your freedoms, en masse, without any intervention by our so-called protectors in the armed forces.

May 27 04:36

AMAZING SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN

Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us
- Mike Prysner

May 26 22:26

The Answering of Kautski

"Give me four years to teach the children,'' said Lenin, "and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.'' He wasn't talking about reading, writing, and arithmetic. He wanted only enough of such skills so that the workers could puzzle out their quotas and so that a housebroken bureaucracy could get on with the business of rural electrification. Our educationists call it basic minimum competency, and they hope that we'll settle for it as soon as they can cook up some way of convincing us that they can provide it. For Lenin, as for our educationists, to "teach the children'' is to "adjust'' them into some ideology.

May 26 22:11

Truth - WE NEED REAL CHANGE! Not O'bomney Change.

US Marines Maj. Christopher Miller at Missouri GOP Congressional District 3 convention, April 21, 2012. Debate on Presidential candidates before voting on delegate slates.

May 26 21:16

Ryan Dawson on RBN for WRH May 24 Thursday Show


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May 26 20:11

American Way: Why Barack Obama now has a battle on his hands for the 2012 election

For several months Democrats were in denial, writes John Avlon. But now they're waking up to the fact that this presidential campaign isn't going to be a cakewalk at all.

There are storm clouds on the horizon for Barack Obama's re-election.

Democrats indulged in over-confidence during the Republican primaries. It was an understandable reaction to the chaos that came with all the pandering to the far-Right and the rise of frankly laughable candidates like Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain in the search for an alternative to Mitt Romney.

May 26 20:10

Forces death toll reaches 3000 in Afghanistan war

The United States Defence Department announced that a serviceman had died from "complications associated with a medical condition," becoming the 3,000th casualty according to a tally compiled by the broadcaster CNN.

The death comes as Nato armies hastened preparations for a pullout after more than a decade of fighting.

Most of those who have lost their lives during the more than 10 years of Operation Enduring Freedom have been American – 1,974 to date. British troops have suffered the second highest level of deaths among coalition of 28 nations, with 414 deaths.

May 26 20:09

Sandy Dahl, the widow of the pilot of 9/11 Flight 93, dies unexpectedly.

Sandy Dahl, 52, became one of the faces of the grieving 9/11 families, founding a scholarship in the name of her husband, Jason, and giving public speeches to ensure the memories of those lost were not forgotten.

Officials at the Captain Jason M Dahl Scholarship Fund said she died in her sleep from natural causes at her home near Denver, Colorado, on Friday night.

May 26 17:26

Deadline Approaches for Russia and China led UN Internet Takeover

The State Department is expected to finally name a lead negotiator next month for high level international talks with the U.N. in December that would decide the fate of the Internet, a senior U.S. official told Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio last week.

The nomination would come nearly a year after then-Russian Prime Minister Vladmir Putin announced in June 2011 that he and his allies sought to establish international control over the Internet. At the time, Putin had “reaffirmed” Russia’s support of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) — a little-known U.N. agency responsible for the international regulation of long-distance calls and satellite orbits — as his preferred instrument to bring about international cooperation on cybersecurity and Internet issues. Russia is a co-founder of the ITU, dating back to 1866.

May 26 17:26

IF THIS DOES NOT TRIGGER A REVOLUTION, THEN YOU ARE ALL PUSSIES! As An Encore to Bailing Out the Big Banks, Government to Backstop Derivativees Clearinghouses … In the U.S. and Abroad

As the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday:

Little noticed is that on Tuesday Team Obama took its first formal steps toward putting taxpayers behind Wall Street derivatives trading — not behind banks that might make mistakes in derivatives markets, but behind the trading itself. Yes, the same crew that rails against the dangers of derivatives is quietly positioning these financial instruments directly above the taxpayer safety net.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

BUMP BACK TO THE TOP.

What this basically means is that the US Government let Wall Street go wild with high-stakes gambling called Derivatives, and even after the disaster of AIG (which was dumped into the taxpayers) derivatives were still allowed to run rampant across the globe. In other words, since Wall Street and the government ducked the consequences of their earlier greed, they got greedier. Derivatives exposure in Europe alone is almost $100 trillion. So what Wall Street and Washington DC just did is drop the derivatives exposure onto the taxpayer. So when the system implodes, which is now inevitable, they will come knocking on the door for your money, your gold, your jewelry, the gold in your teeth, your silver, your copper, your car, and most importantly the lives of your children pledged as slaves to the resulting debt for the next 20 generations. As ancient Rome succumbed to the machinations of the money-junkies, wives, daughters, even sons were forced to work in state-owned houses of prostitution. Already in Europe women are being told they must work as whores if they cannot find other work with which to pay the money-junkies. Think it will not happen here? Still believe Saddam had nuclear weapons?

Now, consider that since 2008 the American people have told the US Government not to use taxpayer money to backstop Wall Street's recklessness. Had DC allowed Wall Street to take their lumps from the mortgage-backed securities fraud and fail, to be replaced by more responsible financial leaders, we would already be headed out of this mess the way Iceland is. But the US Government ignored the will of the people, went ahead with TARP and an endless stream of additional bailouts, Wall Street got greedier and now Europe hovers over the edge of a precipice, firmly tied to the Wall Street banks by derivatives, and now Washington DC wants to move those chains from their good buddies the bankers onto your ankles, and wave good bye as you sink our of sight into the abyss.

In other words, the government is going to force you to pay for the failure that resulted from their doing something you told them not to do in the first place.

And if you go along with this, then you deserve everything that is about to happen.

Now is the time to get angry, because you have nothing left to lose!

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” -― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

May 26 17:23

Turn Out The Lights - The Largest U.S. Cities Are Becoming Cesspools Of Filth, Decay And Wretchedness

Once upon a time, the largest U.S. cities were the envy of the entire world. Sadly, that is no longer the case. Sure, there are areas of New York City, Boston, Washington and Los Angeles that are still absolutely beautiful but for the most part our major cities are rapidly rotting and decaying. Cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis and Oakland were all once places where middle class American workers thrived and raised their families. Today, all of those cities are rapidly being transformed into cesspools of filth, decay and wretchedness. Millions of good jobs have left our major cities in recent decades and poverty has absolutely exploded.

May 26 17:22

US Hard Line in Failed Iran Talks Driven by Israel

The prospects for agreement are not likely to improve before that meeting, however, mainly because of an inflexible U.S. diplomatic posture that reflects President Barack Obama’s need to bow to the demands of Israel ...

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May 26 17:17

Iraq MPs Push Return to Saddam-Era Conscription Laws

Members of the Iraqi parliament are pushing a new proposal to return the nation to the old conscription laws that the nation was under during Saddam Hussein’s rule. The proposal is still stalled in committee, with many Iraqis opposed to the return of the old system.

May 26 17:16

Military to Avoid Embarrassing Pictures by Banning Photography

It sounds like the punchline of a bad joke, but after years of dealing with photographs of troops torturing prisoners, desecrating corpses and generally behaving badly, commanders in southwestern Afghanistan have announced that they are going to solve the problem by banning photography.

May 26 17:14

Torture and the CIA

Former CIA Deputy Director for Operations Jose Rodriguez has written a book with the assistance of former Agency press officer Bill Harlow. Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives is largely a defense of Rodriguez’s role in the CIA’s use of torture on suspected terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11. Rodriguez argues that what he describes as “enhanced interrogation techniques” were necessary to obtain information on terrorist activities. His employment of the euphemism underscores his argument that these procedures were found to be legal by Bush administration lawyers and that they do not constitute torture, which is a war crime.

May 26 17:13

U.S. asks judge to undo ruling against military detention law

- Federal prosecutors on Friday urged a judge to lift her order barring enforcement of part of a new law that permits indefinite military detention, a measure critics including a prize-winning journalist say is too vague and threatens free speech.

May 26 17:11

Right-wing Israeli MPs whipped up Tel Aviv race riots: reports

Most reports said the rally turned nasty after the crowd was whipped up by several racist speeches by right-wing MPs, several of them from the ruling Likud party of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

"It's a vast right-winged conspiracy!" -- Hilary Clinton

May 26 17:09

US prepares multi-front proxy war against Syria

Since the Washington Post’s May 16 report on an influx of arms to Syrian opposition forces, the Obama administration’s plans for a proxy war against Syria have become clearer still.

The Post wrote of “significantly more and better weapons” reaching oppositionists, “paid for by Persian Gulf nations [Saudi Arabia and Qatar] and coordinated in part by the United States,” based upon a perspective that “an expanding military confrontation is inevitable.”

Saudi Arabia and Qatar were sending weapons with approval from Washington, which has “expanded contacts with opposition forces to provide the gulf nations with assessments of rebel credibility and command-and-control infrastructure.”

May 26 17:08

Postcards From Sweden

By the time a rating agency has finally opined on something in a way indicative of the truth, it is too late to stick one's head in the sand. Yesterday precisely this happened once more - from the WSJ: "Credit rating agency Moody's Investor Service Friday downgraded a range of major banks in Sweden and Norway, citing contagion risks from the European debt crisis.

May 26 17:06

Recovery? Half of American Households Living on Government Benefits

Webmaster's Commentary: 

That's the half Obama can rely on to do as they are @#%$ing told!

May 26 17:00

Schoolboy cracks age-old maths problem

Shouryya Ray, who moved to Germany from India with his family at the age of 12, has baffled scientists and mathematicians by solving two fundamental particle dynamics problems posed by Sir Isaac Newton over 350 years ago, Die Welt newspaper reported on Monday.

Ray’s solutions make it possible to now calculate not only the flight path of a ball, but also predict how it will hit and bounce off a wall. Previously it had only been possible to estimate this using a computer, wrote the paper.

Ray first came across the old problem when his secondary school, which specializes in science, set all their year-11 pupils a research project.

On a visit to the Technical University in Dresden pupils received raw data to evaluate a direct numerical simulation – which can be used to describe the trajectory of a ball when it is thrown.

May 26 16:56

The Common Food Ingredient That's Making You Stupid

Foods that appear to be nutritious could actually be destroying your brainpower. The culprit? A common ingredient slipped into many "healthy" foods, including baby food, applesauce, and oatmeal, a breakfast favorite. Researchers at UCLA found that ingesting foods and drinks containing the ingredient high-fructose corn syrup for just six weeks caused troubling changes in brain function. "Our findings illustrate that what you eat affects how you think," says Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, PhD, a professor of neurosurgery and integrative biology and physiology at UCLA. "Eating a high-fructose diet over the long term alters your brain's ability to learn and remember information."

May 26 16:55

Russian, North Korean arms ships to dock in Syria as bloody crackdown continues

Russia and North Korea continue to ship weapons and ammunition to Syria, despite the ongoing bloody repression of the Syrian uprising by security forces loyal to president Bashar Assad. Senior opposition figures who spoke to “Haaretz” have confirmed that the shipments are being paid for by the Iranian government.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Russia hardly needs Iranian money. Russia indicated long ago that they were going to draw a line against US/Israeli imperialism if either Syria or Iran were being overthrown from without, which clearly is what is being attempted. We are on the brink of global thermonuclear war because of Israel.

May 26 16:36

Bad news unwelcome: Israel refuses to listen to US envoy’s report on Iran

Top Israeli officials have refused to meet the US envoy to the P5+1 group, who arrived in Jerusalem with a report on recent talks with Iran. The diplomatic démarche comes as relations between the two countries strain over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

­Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman arrived in Israel on May 25, a day after the group of six (Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany) ended their unsuccessful negotiations in Baghdad.

She had intended to brief Israeli officials about negotiations between Iran and the P5+1. But both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak became unexpectedly unavailable to meet her.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Israel just slapped the US in the face in full view of the world in their anger that the US failed to bring the P5 talks to a complete end, instead of allowing the talks to continue into June. Massa is displeased the slaves did not do as they were ordered to do, and so the diplomatic lash comes out!

< If we had a man of courage in the White House he would at least stop signing those checks full of US tax dollars over this insult. At best Dimona would vanish in a flash of white light.

May 26 16:06

Washington’s Hypocrisies

The US government is the second worst human rights abuser on the planet and the sole enabler of the worst–Israel. But this doesn’t hamper Washington from pointing the finger elsewhere.

The US State Department’s “human rights report” focuses its ire on Iran and Syria, two countries whose real sin is their independence from Washington, and on the bogyman- in-the-making–China, the country selected for the role of Washington’s new Cold War enemy.

May 26 16:02

School Defends Using Electroshock Torture On Autistic Kid 31 Times In Seven Hours

Psychopaths have somehow convinced parents that electroshock torture banned by international law is helping their autistic children.

When a society condones the use of torture first on its enemies and then on its own citizens we should only expect that our children will soon be indoctrinated into accepting such practices by having it applied to them.

May 26 15:46

Report: Japan & China to Drop Dollar, Begin Trading Directly in June

The dollar’s death by a thousand cuts just sustained a major blow courtesy the samurai as Kyodo News announced Saturday that Yen-Yuan direct trading will begin in June. Coincidence that Jim Sinclair predicted 6 months ago that the US dollar would suffer a major set-back in June 2012?

May 26 15:36

China, Accused By US Of Rights Violations: "I'm Rubber, You're Glue"

Summary.

"The United States' tarnished human rights record has left it in no state -- whether on a moral, political or legal basis -- to act as the world's 'human rights justice,'" China said in an annual report on U.S. human rights.

The report cited the arrests of protesters participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States. Many protesters, it said, accused police of brutality.

May 26 15:29

HFT Stock Market Manipulation Behind Facebook IPO Stock Crash

Imagine walking into your local pawn shop and the store is selling Compact Discs for $5.00 dollars and buying them for $10.00!

A report released today shows Wall Street traders used high-speed computers to create just that situation during the Facebook IPO.

May 26 14:48

The Disturbing, Ludicrous Legislation Which Would Give Unknown Amount of Military Aid to Israel

The latest incarnation of the completely nonsensical American support of Israel is the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012, which has already passed Congress.

H.R. 4133, or the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012, sponsored by Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) along with 304 others, passed the house on May 9, 2012 with a disturbingly large margin.

Indeed, only two of our so-called representatives actually voted against the legislation, further proving that the vast majority of politicians couldn’t care less about America or the people of the United States.

May 26 14:47

Target on Your Cyber Back: DHS Has a List of Words Deemed ‘Suspicious’

The Department of Homeland Security has flagged hundreds of words as “suspect” – and while many make sense, like “Al Qaeda,” some are just plain odd. For example, the DHS may dig through your cyber life if you write something about snow. Or pork.

So, you’ve just come back from a beach holiday in Mexico and posted about it on your blog. Or maybe you’ve tweeted about skiing lessons? Updated your status, saying you’re stuck home with food poisoning?

All those things will tweak the DHS antennae, according to a manual published by the agency. The Analyst’s Desktop Binder, used by agency employees at their National Operations Center to identify “media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities,” includes hundreds of words that set off Big Brother’s silent alarms.

May 26 14:32

REPEAT AFTER ME: "RT Is Wrong: Fukushima is NOT 4½ Chernobyls (But It IS Worse)"

Original post.

The problem is that numbers were compared without being converted -- some of the measurements were in I-131 equivalence (and yes, this is the first I have heard of it, and no, I do not undrstand why everyone does not use the same scale)...

Maybe if we correct our mistakes in the same voice with which we made them we even gain ground with the people we most need to gain ground with.

Hyperlinks at source

May 26 14:04

'Double standard' applied by the US: China

By Li Xiaokun and Zhao Shengnan China Daily/Asia News Network Saturday, May 26, 2012

Beijing on Friday swiftly hit back at Washington's annual report on China's human rights, saying in a report that the US government's crackdown on protesters in the Occupy Wall Street demonstration is the real illustration of American democracy.

In the report, Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011, the State Council Information Office demanded the US stop its double standards.

Beijing issued the report less than 24 hours after the release of the Washington report, which Chinese experts said used harsher wording than previous editions and reflected US double standards that meet political needs in an election year.

It was the 13th annual report China has published in response to US attacks.

The US report "turned a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation and remained silent about it", China's report said.

May 26 13:44

Marc Faber - Looming Global Catastrophe

May 26 13:41

Memorial Day: 1% mocks US military with unlawful wars; arrests are when?

*hyperlinks and video live at source*

The 1% mock America’s war dead on every Memorial Day because they continuously damn more US soldiers to kill and die in unlawful wars.

This is an insult to our military past and present, and their families. Because an unlawful war is a literal attack upon US soldiers, it is also treason by the 1% upon American military.

Current US wars are not close to lawful: war law is the legal victory all of our families sacrificed to achieve through two world wars: no nation is allowed to use their military in armed attack unless under attack by another nation’s government.

May 26 12:46

Analysts play down higher-grade uranium find in Iran

Analysts have played down the UN atomic agency’s discovery of higher-grade uranium traces in Iran, saying it was likely due to a technical glitch rather than a covert attempt to enrich to arms grade.

May 26 12:38

The Lightbulb Conspiracy

Webmaster's Commentary: 

YouTube deleted the original link for this documentary, alternating between "User removed this video" and "copyright claim" but in actuality I think that corporate America was very upset that someone blew the whistle on their little scam of making products designed to fail so that we must buy replacements at hug profits to them.

May 26 12:10

THE DREAM OF PALESTINE DEFERRED

Our situation in Palestine is very dire indeed. Millions of Palestinians squeezed uinto concentration areas and money pours in to a few of them to keep the lid on the rest of us. Among Palestinisns and Israelis, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer (though the disparity of money allocation is still 10:1 in favor of Israeli Jews over the indigenous Palestinians). But it is also not just an economic issue: the issue is racism. Zionism, bult on notions of privilage and chosenness cannot help but spread racism. The pogroms in Tel Aviv against Africans is just a small manifestation of the kind of pogroms and ethnic cleansing done against the native Palestinians. And it continues to be done. Even as Zionists celebrated occupying Jerusalem, studies show Israeli policies succeeded in creating the highest levels of poverty among Palestinians of Jerusalem. And the disastrous affects of the Oslo agreements continue to be felt throughout the occupied areas.

May 26 12:09

IN MEMORY OF MEMORIAL DAY

I am also remembering other Memorial Days

2010,

the Turkish flotilla

bringing aid to Gaza

the Israeli attack,

nine dead

May 26 11:39

Israel lobby’s favorite senator tries to erase Palestinian refugee status for millions

One senator from Illinois, though, wants to write off those millions and change who is classified as a Palestinian refugee. Mark Kirk, a hawkish Republican whose political career has been boosted by right-wing Israel advocates, is leading a drive to fundamentally redefine who a Palestinian refugee is in the eyes of the United States.

Critics see the move as just one step in a larger strategy to take the issue of refugee rights for Palestinians off the negotiating table, and to cut funding from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN agency that assists Palestinians. One senior Senate aide who helped craft the amendment told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that “this will have major implications for future negotiations over final status issues with regard to refugees.”

May 26 10:32

West's Undermining of UN Paves Way for NATO Syrian Intervention

Western propagandists unanimously defer to "activists" despite hundreds of UN monitors on the ground in Syria.

Tony Cartalucci, Contributor
Activist Post

Reports this week of the Syrian military "slaughtering civilians" near Homs have been reported relentlessly by Western media outlets, citing solely "activists" who have been consistently exposed as manipulating and purposefully distorting the reality on the ground in Syria. After episodes including "Gay Girl in Damascus," who turned out to be in fact a "middle-aged American man in Scotland," and "Syrian Danny" who was caught directing fake gunfire before a staged "casualty report" given to CNN's Anderson Cooper, the word of "activists" in Syria, openly sympathetic to the Free Syrian Army, is clearly less than credible...

May 26 10:22

Keiser Report: Reform = Crime To Favor Wall St. Crooks

Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the 99% knocking on Timmy Geithner's door looking for 'reform' of criminal behavior. In the second half of the show Max talks to independent video journalist, Luke Rudkowski, about livestreaming to the world from a smartphone and his recent work covering the NATO summit in Chicago.

May 26 10:16

Webster Tarpley: West is Behind Syrian Violence

More bombing in Damascus; Is Syria headed to a civil war in spite of the UN ceasefire. Clashes have erupted between pro and anti Assad groups in northern Lebanon and news of a group of Lebanese pilgrims abducted by anti-government armed groups in Syria. Is Syrian violence spreading into the neighboring country and is the a deliberate attempt to do just that?

May 26 10:12

US dispatches official to brief Israeli leaders on Iran nuclear talks

Senior State Department official Wendy Sherman to arrive in Tel Aviv on Friday to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to Israel's security following just-concluded talks between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

"Yes massa Israel. Yes massa Israel. We did everything thou hast commanded, oh Israel. We made certain the desire for peace of over 190 nations could not and will not stand in the way of thy desire for bloody war waged by American children on Iran. Can I be President again?" -- Official White Horse Souse

May 26 10:05

US Hard Line in Failed Iran Talks Driven by Israel

Negotiations between Iran and the United States and other members of the P5+1 group in Baghdad ended in fundamental disagreement Thursday over the position of the P5+1 offering no relief from sanctions against Iran.

The two sides agreed to meet again in Moscow Jun. 18 and 19, but only after Iran had threatened not to schedule another meeting, because the P5+1 had originally failed to respond properly to its five-point plan.

The prospects for agreement are not likely to improve before that meeting, however, mainly because of an inflexible U.S. diplomatic posture that reflects President Barack Obama’s need to bow to the demands of Israel and the U.S. Congress on Iran policy.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

"Look, Schwartze; we had a deal. You send your kids to murder Iran for us, I let you be President for another four years! Now get with it, or you are out and Romney is in, and if he doesn't shape up, he'll be out and Ron Paul will be in and then you are ALL royally screwed! Final warning; START KILLING IRANIANS FOR ME!" -- Nodding Yahoo

May 26 09:59

Stoned To Death: Calcium Supplements Proven To Kill

Sayer Ji, Contributor
Activist Post

New research published this week in the journal Heart has confirmed the findings of two controversial studies on calcium supplementation and heart attack risk published in the British Medical Journal last year, and which found a 24-27% increased risk of heart attack for those who took 500 mg of elemental calcium a day.[1] [2]

The results of this newest review, involving 24,000 people between the ages of 35 and 64, were even more alarming. Those participants who took a regular calcium supplement increased their risk of having a heart attack by 86% versus those who took no calcium supplements at all...

May 26 09:56

Saving Illinois from Senator Kirk

I went completely bonkers yesterday reading Senate fight over the number of Palestinian refugees..... So livid I shot Senator Kirk off a tweet to remind him his job is not in the Knesset!

Senators will vote on an amendment crafted by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) that would require the State Department to report on how many of the millions of people currently supported by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) are actually ........refugees.

May 26 09:55

Gaza fleet leashed by Israel, starved for fuel

Israeli gunboats and an Egyptian clampdown on fuel smuggling into the Gaza Strip are strangling the Palestinian enclave's little fishing fleet, slowly turning a generation of fishermen into fishmongers.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

A slow death by forced starvation is the cruelest death there is, and needless to say, considered a crime against humanity. What obviously needs close investigation is why the new government of Egypt is all of a sudden acting like the old government of Egypt with regard to the Palestinians.

May 26 09:53

President Taft on the nature of economic conspiracy

“When men attempt to amass such stupendous capital as will enable them to suppress competition, control prices, and establish a monopoly, they know the purpose of their acts. Men do not do such things without having it clearly in mind.” -President William Taft, 1911, Message of the President of the United States: communicated to the two houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session, Sixty-second Congress, December 5, 1911, on the anti-trust statute

May 26 09:51

Warrantless Spying Fight

Obama officials demand full, reform-free renewal of the once-controversial power to eavesdrop without warrants

May 26 09:49

30,000 Drones Over America - Weaponized Police State

May 26 09:47

Russian arms shipment en route to Syria

A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described on Friday as credible.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

"Yee=HAAAA; we did it! We got the Cold War started again! That oughta shut up the @#%$ing slaves about the @#$%ing economy!" -- Official White Horse Souse

(Ahem)

What happens when a Cold War gets hot? This story, if true, suggests Russia has quit being Neville Chamberlain and has decided the time has come to draw a line in the sand ... or the blood.

May 26 09:38

UN Committee 2012 Session Concludes Israeli System Tantamount to Apartheid

Between mid-February and early March 2012, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination held its 80th session, in which it evaluated the compliance of several states with the 1966 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). Among these states was Israel, which became a party to the Convention in 1979. The Committee’s concluding observations and recommendations are notable because they establish that Israel’s policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) are tantamount to Apartheid, and additionally determine that many state policies within Israel also violate the prohibition on Apartheid as enshrined in Article 3 of the Convention.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

"Veto. Veto! Oh yes, veto, veto VEE-TOE!!! I call Veto!" -- Official White Horse Souse

May 26 09:34

Ron Paul: Lawyers Confirm All Delegates Are Unbound!

May 26 09:23

Over 90 killed in Syria massacre, activists say

A Syrian artillery barrage killed more than 90 people, including dozens of children, in the worst violence since the start of a U.N. peace plan to staunch the flow of blood from Syria’s uprising, activists said on Saturday.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Common sense, people. Why would Assad, who wants to avoid a war, do something so obvious and heavy-handed as to provide the aggressors with the very excuse they need to invade? This is a staged incident by the US mercenaries to sell yet another invasion on the path to total global war.

May 26 09:21

The DEA’s conduit to Viktor Bout gets a slap on the wrist: Andrew Smulian sentenced five years

Independent journalist George Mapp was the first to publicly break the story of alleged weapon dealer Viktor Bout's imminent transfer to Florence Colorado's Super Maximum security prison (dubbed Supermax) to be canceled.

Judge Shira A. Scheindlin — whom also presided over the Viktor Bout trial and sentenced him to 25 years — now sentenced Andrew Smulian who earlier pled guilty to participating in FARC weapon deal to 5 years.

Smulian will be able to deduct that time from his 60 month sentence and will be a free man in about 10 months.

May 26 09:16

Teen secretly lived in AOL's HQ for 2 months, eating free food, using gym & showers

After working until 4 a.m, the 19-year-old entrepreneur had finally passed out. A few hours of sleep would help with the day ahead.

But unlike most people working at AOL's Palo Alto, Calif., campus who were surely still hours from showing up at the sprawling complex, Simons was already there. He'd been living there for two months, hiding out at night on couches, eating the company's food, and exercising and showering in its gym. And now, with an angry security guard bellowing at him, it was all over.

May 26 09:15

Texas honor student jailed for missing too much school

An honor student in Texas was thrown in jail after she missed too many classes at her high school.

A judge issued Diane Tran, 17, a summons Wednesday for her excessive truancy after she missed class. She was arrested in open court.

Last month, Tran was issued a warning by the judge for missing school.

Tran said she works both full-time and part-time jobs, in addition to taking advanced and college level courses.

May 26 09:07

Bilderberg Here We Come

The scene on opening day of the now renown (previously secretive) Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly Virginia on May 31st might actually feel surreal as activists and members of the alternative media converge on the property line of the Westfields Marriott to document the event as over 130 of the worlds most predominant businessmen, financiers, and oligarchs gather behind closed doors to discuss the future of the planet amongst themselves.

In fact, the meeting will be the 60th annual meeting of the Bilderburgers and some of the most predominant alternative members in the world will be on location to try and grab their shot at exposing the elites agenda and gain explicit intel on the attendees, topics, and highlights of the meeting.

May 26 08:57

TV Networks Say You're Breaking The Law When You Skip Commercials

Mitch Stoltz
EFF

Television networks are having a busy month trying to stamp out new TV-watching technology, including telling a court that skipping a commercial while watching a recorded show is illegal. Yesterday, Fox, NBC, and CBS all sued Dish Network over its digital video recorder with automatic commercial-skipping. The same networks, plus ABC, Univision, and PBS, are gearing up for a May 30 hearing in their cases against Aereo, a New York startup bringing local broadcast TV to the Internet...

May 26 08:47

Social Justice on Trial in Canada

Stephen Lendman, Contributor
Activist Post

Destructive neoliberal mandates harm US and European societies. Canada's conservative government force-feeds similar policies.

They include wage and benefit cuts, less social spending, privatization of state resources, mass layoffs, deregulation, tax cuts for corporations and super-rich elites, and harsh crackdowns against resisters.

It's also about sharply hiking college tuition fees, student anger, and criminalizing public responses...

May 26 08:43

Popular Hair Growth Drug Chemically Castrates Users

Warning to all men who are considering using Propecia to treat their male pattern baldness: it causes sexual dysfunction in nearly all users and this is often PERMANENT!

The alternative, Rogaine, is not much better and carries a risk of causing skin problems, dark circles and accelerated aging. Fortunately, there IS a natural (and much safer) alternative.

May 26 08:22

Texas schools to begin tracking students with IDs embedded with RFID chips

Madison Ruppert, Contributor
Activist Post

In an attempt to get more money from the state, a middle school and high school in Texas are implementing a program in which student IDs will be outfitted with radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips in order to track their movements around school.

As is so often done when it comes to surveillance technology, this is being sold to us as something for our own good and the good of our children. This is identical to how the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is pushing their ludicrously unconstitutional license plate surveillance program...

May 26 08:04

Defense Department Seeks Legal Authority to Deploy Reservists onto American Streets

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

Thanks to Posse Comitatus, the US military are forbidden from responding on the streets of America whenever the whim is announced.

The Posse Comitatus Act, Section 1385, states that only under “circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress” can a military presence on American streets be permitted.

Yet, if the Defense Department has their way, a new authorization act will give them the power to order the armed forces to be used against the American public...

May 26 08:00

Keynesianism & Eugenics

In looking at and assessing the economic paradigm of John Maynard Keynes — a man himself fixated on aggregates — we must look at the aggregate of his thought, and the aggregate of his ideology.

Keynes was not just an economist. Between 1937 and 1944 he served as the head of the Eugenics Society and once called eugenics ”the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists.” And Keynes, we should add, understood that economics was a branch of sociology. So let’s be clear: Keynes thought eugenics was more important, more significant, and more genuine than economics.

May 26 07:51

UN finally realizes terrorist groups responsible for Syrian bombings

Madison Ruppert, Contributor
Activist Post

Since the violence in Syria first broke out, Syrian President Bashar al Assad stated that the attacks focused on civilians were the work of foreign agents and terrorists, an assertion which the Western media regularly mocked.

I have repeatedly pointed out that large sections of the opposition, such as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), are nothing more than terrorists, evidenced by their willingness to brag about carrying out terrorist attacks.

Furthermore, the reality of terrorist activity in Syria has been nothing short of blatant for months now and the Western rhetoric dating back to over a year ago completely glosses over these facts.

Earlier this year we witnessed a massive pro-Assad demonstration in Damascus which focused on protesting the “one-year conspiracy” to overthrow the Assad government, something which the Western media chose to ignore, for obvious reasons...

May 26 07:35

Five Ways Public Schools Prepare Us For Prison Life

It didn’t occur to me that the six-foot fence around the perimeter was meant to keep me in. That is, until the day I decided to leave.

Fed up with being kicked around the schoolyard, I decided to do what any intelligent human being would do: go home. I soon learned this wasn’t a viable option for a sixth grader.

Looking back, it’s not real clear who was surprised the most by the situation — the school authorities at my assumption that I would actually leave, or me, at the revelation I had no choice in the matter. Apparently there were laws. Huh, who knew?

The view of the playground fence from the jungle gym was never quite the same.

May 26 07:15

Washington’s Hypocrisies by Paul Craig Roberts

The US government is the second worst human rights abuser on the planet and the sole enabler of the worst–Israel. But this doesn’t hamper Washington from pointing the finger elsewhere.

The US State Department’s “human rights report” focuses its ire on Iran and Syria, two countries whose real sin is their independence from Washington, and on the bogyman- in-the-making–China, the country selected for the role of Washington’s new Cold War enemy.

Hillary Clinton, another in a long line of unqualified Secretaries of State, informed “governments around the world: we are watching, and we are holding you accountable,” only we are not holding ourselves accountable or Washington’s allies like Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the NATO puppets.

May 26 07:13

Bilderberg 2012: Dark Cabal Meet to Plot Final End Game

Paul Watson welcomes Charlie Skelton, reporter for The Guardian to discuss the upcoming Bilderberg Conference in Chantilly, Virginia.
Bilderberg 2012 is set to be the scene of the biggest ever protest against the secretive organization. Listed below are the details and meet-up times for what promises to be a momentous occasion.

May 26 07:12

Fear of Bank Runs in U.S. Hit All Time Highs

While the global elite are still clinging to the hope that the euro single currency can survive a Greek exit that now looks inevitable, some members of the financial aristocracy have already given up on the entire eurozone altogether.

In an article for the Financial Times entitled, We must break up the failing euro, former Bilderberg attendee Sir Martin Jacomb concedes that all efforts to rescue the euro have been in vain, calling for "all 17 members to decide at once to revert to national currencies."

May 26 07:07

Army general retracts statement about suicide

Why are so many members of the U.S. Armed Forces committing suicide. Neither the officers,noncoms or enlisted seem to have a clue!

An Army general has retracted comments he made earlier this week on his official blog after he had attended the memorial service of a soldier who committed suicide in front of his twin 6-year-old daughters.

At the week’s start, Pittard wrote on his “Thoughts while working out in the gym” blog on the post’s official site: “I have now come to the conclusion that suicide is an absolutely selfish act. I am personally fed up with soldiers who are choosing to take their own lives so that others can clean up their mess. Be an adult, act like an adult and deal with your real-life problems like the rest of us.”

The entry has since been scrubbed.

May 26 06:55

Ron Paul’s Ten Principles of a Free Society

This is the Appendix to Ron Paul’s book, Liberty Defined.

1. Rights belong to individuals, not groups; they derive from our nature and can neither be granted nor taken away by government.

2. All peaceful, voluntary economic and social associations are permitted; consent is the basis of the social and economic order.

May 26 06:54

Canada protest spreads as arrest list hits 2,500 benchmark

Ontario students have pledged to take to the streets in solidarity with their protesting fellows in Montreal and other cities of Quebec. The students are defying emergency laws the authorities are imposing to curb down the wave of dissent.

Students in Quebec have been protesting for more than 100 days now, with violent clashes between police and protesters reported on several occasions. The latest demo on Wednesday night resulted in a police crackdown on demonstrators.

About 700 people were detained throughout the province, which pushed the total number of detentions over the months over 2,500. That is at least five times more than during the 1970 crisis, when martial law was declared in Quebec in response to the actions of radical nationalists.

May 26 06:53

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want the government spying on you

The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as ‘attack’, ‘Al Qaeda’, ‘terrorism’ and ‘dirty bomb’ alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like ‘pork’, ‘cloud’, ‘team’ and ‘Mexico’.

May 26 06:42

Afghanistan – We Forgot History and We Repeated It

Santayana’s famous dictum about those who forget history being condemned to relieve it is nowhere better observed than in the mountains of Afghanistan.
One of my favorite artists was the superb Victorian painter Lady Jane Butler who captured in oil the military triumphs and tragedies of the British Empire.

Her haunting painting, "The Retreat from Kabul, (also known as "Remnants of an Army,") shows the sole survivor of a British army of 16,500 during the first Anglo-Afghan War in 1842, Dr. William Brydon, struggling out of Afghanistan. All the rest of the British occupation force were killed by Afghan tribesmen after a futile attempt to garrison Kabul.

This gripping painting should have hung over the NATO summit meeting last week in Chicago to remind the US and its allies that Afghanistan remains "the graveyard of empires."

May 26 06:30

How the US Sold Africa to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont, PepsiCo and Others

The new G8 scheme to help African farmers does nothing to address the problems that are at the core of hunger and malnutrition. More likely, it will serve only to further poverty and inequality across the continent. The elites of the first world work together with the elites of the third world in the name of helping peasant farmers, but it nobody consults the peasant farmers themselves. Perhaps Obama could spend a week or two living with his Kenyan family members to find out what they actually want and need before he suggests another program to “help” the people of Africa.

May 26 05:28

The US China Trade War

The Treasury Department released its semi-annual FX Report, which they say shows that no country in the world is at present manipulating currency and that is including China. This would be laughable if the American taxpayer had not paid for the report. The one thing that is confirmed is that the Chinese have established significant control over the US Treasury Department.

I hope we can all remember last week when the traitor Timothy Geithner cleared the way for the Chinese government to buy US Treasury Bonds directly from the US Treasury, which no other country in the history of our nation has been allowed to do. These are not acts of incompetence, but rather blatant acts of treason against the people of the United States.

May 26 04:36

Ted Butler "CFTC Has Lied and Complicit with the Silver Manipulation." Also, U.S. Govt. will directly prop metal manipulation - no middleman?

Obama, now has formed an agency to directly Bail out the Comex and London exchange for all the derivative bets of Wall Street. It is a back door bail out of the banks and makes sure the manipulation of metals continue, as I see it.

Ted Butler directly accuses the CFTC of lying and being complicit in the manipulation of silver. He says it is easy to prove. He is calling for the resignation of the whole CFTC board.

May 26 03:48

'L'ANTISEMITE' Is Banned

Cannes 2012: 'The Anti-Semite' Is Banned From Cannes Marketplace

Early Friday, marketplace organizers cancelled screenings of "The Anti-Semite," which reportedly includes scenes in which Dieudonne dresses as a Nazi, and others that mock the Auschwitz concentration camp. Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson also reportedly appears in the film as himself.

"Anti-Semitism has no place at Cannes, and we welcome the clear statement to that effect from the organizers of the film festival," said Abraham H. Foxman

May 26 02:49

Pink Floyd- Breathe and Time

Breathe by Pink Floyd and then Time. Live from London
Run Rabbit run, some psychedelics, and the clock ticking.
Was there a better Pink Floyd song? Not for me. Time is awesome.
"Breathe,Breathe in the Air, don't be afraid to care."
"And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to Run, you missed the starting Gun."
"Home, Home again. I like to be here when I can."
"Calls the faithful to their knees, to hear the Softly spoken magic spells"
Oh, those Words. Then Just before the Ladies make you cry.
"I am not frightened of Dying. Anytime will do, I don't mind.
Why should I be frightened of Dying? There's' no reason for it.
You've got to go Sometime." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vMoMXNbfz0
Dark Side of the Moon is still Fresh 40 years later.
Music like this opened a young man's mind as he was growing up.
I nominate Dark Side of the Moon for the best album of all Time.

May 26 00:35

55 year old Homeless Man carries 2 Masters Degrees

55 year old Maurice Johnston lives in Boston, by way of Cleveland. He has a Masters Degree in Plasma Physics from Dartmouth College, and a masters in Electrical Engineering and acoustics from Purdue University. He's worked over 10 years at Lockheed Aerospace & Aerodyne Research Corp. Maurice has taught in Science and physics, and took care of both his parents in their time of need. Maurice is very well spoken, (he sounds like Obama) and is very kind, so why is Maurice homeless.....

May 25, 2012

May 25 23:58

Popular Hair Growth Drug Chemically Castrates Users!

Warning to all men who are considering using Propecia to treat their male pattern baldness: it causes sexual dysfunction in nearly all users and this is often PERMANENT! The alternative, Rogaine, is not much better and carries a risk of causing skin problems, dark circles and accelerated aging. Fortunately, there IS a natural (and much safer) alternative.

May 25 23:05

Bankia seeks US$24-billion bailout as debt worries mount

The Bankia group, a Spanish lender nationalized earlier this month, will seek 19-billion euros (US$23.8-billion) of government funds as it provisions against real estate and non-property loans.

The group will ask the state’s bank rescue fund to provide the money by buying shares in its parent company, Banco Financiero y de Ahorros, it said in a filing to regulators yesterday after a meeting of the board of Bankia SA, its listed arm. The group needs a further 4 billion euros to cover real estate on top of provisions already ordered by the government, and 5.5-billion euros for the rest of its loan book, it said.

May 25 21:36

Cops Taser Pregnant Woman 3 Times Over Driving Violation

When I heard about three police offers who wound up using a taser on a pregnant woman in Seattle, my first thought was that the story was some kind of a joke. Cops tasering a pregnant woman? In some sort of attempt to subdue her? For real?! You gotta be kidding me.

May 25 21:33

Miami Beach Police Deny They Have a 2,000 Person Arrest Quota for Memorial Day Weekend

Are Miami Beach Police planning to arrest 2,000 people during the notorious Memorial Day weekend parties on South Beach? As in they’ve actually set a quota regardless of whether or not 2,000 deserve to be arrested. To put that in prospective, the record number of arrests over Memorial Day weekend ever in Miami Beach was just over 1,000.

May 25 21:33

NATO summit on power and control

The NATO summit put on display how we can and do conjure up foreign and domestic threats to justify government control of our society. For it is fear that justifies not just our obscene military spending, but more importantly, the official violation of our civil and constitutional rights and the concession of political power to corporations.

This fear is then used to justify a growing military alliance even when there is no credible threat. It is the basis for the militarization of our police force, the erosion of our civil liberties and globalization of our economy.

This fear arises because the United States, more than any other country, still lives in the shadow of the Cold War. The culture of fear created at that time and continuing to this day frames our every government action and our federal spending of almost $1 trillion per year on our "security." The NATO summit is the celebration of that culture of fear and constitutes a show of force.

May 25 21:32

Miami Beach Police Union Rep: “We Have Arrest Quotas Every Memorial Day Weekend”

The chief of Miami Beach Police is insisting that his officers do not have a 2,000-arrest quota this Memorial Day weekend. But the department’s union vice president tells Riptide that he witnessed a major announce the quota at an officer roll call — and that his department has such quotas every year during the predominantly-black party weekend on South Beach.
“It’s racial profiling,” says Det. Gustavo Sanchez, “and it’s against our operating procedure.”

May 25 19:51

Has Egypt finally broken with the myth of the 'good autocrat'?

Eighteen months on, it is still too early to judge Egypt’s January 25th revolution. This was a unique revolution, transforming Egyptians from spectators into true players, who are now actively involved in shaping their country. But the revolution has not changed Egypt’s old political dynamic.

What is striking about Egyptian history, both ancient and contemporary, is how the country has been governed. All Egypt’s rulers, natives and foreigners, have shared an authoritarian mindset.

May 25 19:42

Barack Obama's marijuana smoking days with the 'Choom Gang'

However, while Bill Clinton notoriously "didn't inhale" at Oxford, Mr Obama took an altogether more enthusiastic approach to smoking marijuana in his youth, according to a new biography.

As a secondary school pupil in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the late 1970s, Mr Obama is said to have been a member of the "Choom Gang", a group of boys who played basketball and choomed, or smoked dope.

May 25 19:42

The Pope's butler arrested following Vatileaks investigation

The butler, identified as Paolo Gabriele, 40, was held by gendarmes after a special commission of three top senior cardinals had been appointed by the Pope to identify the source of the leaks which have caused severe embarrassment.

Mr Gabriele, who has been at the Pope’s side for six years, is one of the German born pontiff’s closest members of his inner circle which totals just four lay people and four nuns. Vatican sources said the Pope had been ''deeply pained and struck'' by the arrest of the man who has been a constant presence at his side

May 25 19:41

Joe Biden tells of anguish after the death of wife and daughter

With his voice occasionally breaking with emotion, Mr Biden recounted the phone call in December 1972, telling the 29-year-old senator that his wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter had been killed in a car crash while Christmas shopping.

"And just like you guys know by the tone of the phone call, you just knew," he said. "You just felt it in your bones: Something bad happened."

As he left the US Capitol building to identify the bodies and tend to his two young sons, who were critically injured in hospital, he recalled looking up at the building's cavernous rotunda.

May 25 19:40

Vatican Bank President Fired After String of Scandals

Activist Post

Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the president of Vatican's bank Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), reportedly resigned Thursday after a vote of no confidence by the bank's board.

No details were given other than that Tedeschi "failed to meet some highly important functions" and that he was removed for "for dereliction of duty."

Tedeschi was tapped to run the bank in 2003 about twenty years after its involvement in one of Italy's largest banking fraud cases in history...

May 25 18:11

Tepco: 'No Plan' To Deal With Fukushima Collapse That Threatens Civilization

TEPCO says they don't know what to do if Reactor 4 collapses, instead declaring it safe from earthquakes after finding it leaning and with a bulged exterior wall.

May 25 17:23

District Attorney Covers Up Romney Felony Case With Fake Investigation

Waukesha County Wisconsin has become known as America’s most fraudulent election battleground since April 5, 2012 when the State of Wisconsin held what would become a rigged election for Supreme Court Justice.

It was announced on election day that Democrat challenger, Joane Kloppenburg, won a narrow victory. This became a national sensation when the day after the election Waukesha County Clerk, Kathy Nickolaus, Announced the discovery of an eye popping unsealed and previously uncounted 7500 votes for the incumbent Republican, David Prosser which altered the outcome of the election. The Waukesha County Board Of Supervisors has issued an ultimatum to the County Clerk to diqualify herself from the Governor’s Recall election next week or resign.

May 25 17:19

Washington’s Hypocrisies

Paul Craig Roberts
Activist Post

The US government is the second worst human rights abuser on the planet and the sole enabler of the worst – Israel. But this doesn’t hamper Washington from pointing the finger elsewhere.

The US State Department’s “human rights report” focuses its ire on Iran and Syria, two countries whose real sin is their independence from Washington, and on the bogeyman-in-the-making – China, the country selected for the role of Washington’s new Cold War enemy.

Hillary Clinton, another in a long line of unqualified Secretaries of State, informed “governments around the world: we are watching, and we are holding you accountable,” only we are not holding ourselves accountable or Washington’s allies like Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the NATO puppets...

May 25 15:28

NATO summit on power and control

The NATO summit held in Chicago last weekend reflects everything that is wrong with our society.
The NATO summit put on display how we can and do conjure up foreign and domestic threats to justify government control of our society. For it is fear that justifies not just our obscene military spending, but more importantly, the official violation of our civil and constitutional rights and the concession of political power to corporations.

May 25 15:24

Breaking News on "Audit the Fed" - A message from Rand Paul + Campainforliberty.com

Audit the Fed (H.R. 459) is now scheduled for a vote this July in the U.S. House of Representatives!

May 25 14:57

Fukushima Nuclear Cesium Fallout Equals 4,023 Hiroshima Bombs

New TEPCO estimates calculate the amount of Cesium leaked from Fukushima is 24 times higher than previously thought and equal to 4,023 Hiroshima bombs.