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.

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.

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

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.

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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...

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.

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.

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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...

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.

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

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.

Those Spanish bonds are far worse than you thought. Also The Rule Of Law is to be cancelled in Spanish bankruptcy court.

The regional and local governments guaranteed debt for home builders that went bust. Think Las Vegas.

Uri Avnery argues that the longstanding strategic aim of Zionism and Israel - a Jews-only state in all of the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River and the prevention of an Arab Palestinian state - is a pipe dream and that Israelis has better formulate a new national aim based on peace and coexistence.

”In a bird’s eye view, the Zionist-Israeli policy looks like a river striving towards the sea. When it meets an obstacle, it goes around it. The path deviates to the right and to the left, sometimes even going backwards. But it perseveres with a wondrous determination towards its goal.

“The guiding principle was to accept every compromise that gives us what we can get at any stage, but never let the final aim out of our sight.

“This policy allows us to compromise about everything, except one: an Arab Palestinian state that would confirm the existence of an Arab Palestinian people.”

Ziad El-Hady looks at how government, elite and corporate interests shape media reports of international and domestic events, trivializing and sensationalizing news, corrupting our understanding of the world and reinforcing prejudice and bigotry.

“The corporate race for mass media consumption is a phenomenon that we as citizens pay the price for, both financially and psychologically, producing news that is generally negative, superficial and punchy; hardly ever constructive, beneficial or thought provoking.”

We can play the denial game all day long and pretend that, because the mainstream media is not reporting on it, there is no threat, but the facts are quite clear.

This is, without a doubt, the most immediate threat faced by the world. It’s so serious, in fact, that the Japanese government has considered and put into place evacuation plans for the whole of Tokyo – some 40 million people. Reports are also emerging that suggest a collapse of the spent fuel pools would be so serious that the entire country of Japan may have to be evacuated. The entire country – that’s 125 million refugees that will cause an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.

I was outside all the time when I was a kid but never found dead bees. Now I find them almost every time I step out into the garden. Colony Collapse Disorder is a real environmental threat and now Monsanto is hunting down whistleblowers who expose the fact that their herbicides are causing it.

What do the SAT, the Kellogg Company, Woodrow Wilson and Adolf Hitler all have in common? They are all connected by the practice of eugenics in the first half of the 20th century.

From 1904 until shortly after the close of WWII, the United States aggressively engaged in a scientific quest to create a master race. This radical new science, dubbed “eugenics” by Sir Francis Galton in 1883, called for selective breeding between those deemed “fit” for existence (i.e. generally those of Nordic descent), with sterilization, marriage prohibition and even euthanasia aimed at those deemed “unfit.”

Internet Censorship advocates in Congress continue their fight against the Constitution by creating a disguise for the recent House of Representatives-passed CISPA, under the name of Cybersecurity Act 2012, or S. 2105 in the Senate.

The vote on the Cybersecurity Act is rumored to be occurring between May 28th, 2012, and June 1st, 2012, so action needs to be taken as soon as possible, as next week is a recess week for Congress. Any updates on this information will be posted here.

Enable Thorium & Molten Salt Technology: Grant the US both Energy and High-Tech Independence. Our Thorium regulations severely restrict Thorium and Rare Earth development. Until we enable Thorium in the US, High-Tech Manufacturing dependent on Rare Earths will remain impossible here.

Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge them into a smaller living space by eliminating almost half its streetlights.

Past slavery was largely based on force (thus was much more obvious), but modern-day slavery is actually more widespread because global slave masters use all of the scientific tools at their disposal to win hearts and control minds, convincing us that our hands and feet are free, so we must be living self-directed lives.

1. Media and Intelligence - Information is knowledge and knowledge is power -- this is where it all starts.

2. Health and Agriculture - Why do tyrannical systems always move to declare methods of independence such as farming, vitamins, raw milk, and natural medication like cannabis as underground contraband systems that threaten the health of society?

First the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) claimed that their research confirms Japanese milk and vegetables are safe for human consumption. They reported that radiation levels are below cancer-causing levels.

Here is a short list of the half-life of five of the radioactive isotopes in the air, food and water that are poisoning us and children:

- Cesium 137: 30 years
- Plutonium 239: 24,000 years
- Strontium 90: 29 years [mimics calcium in the body]
- Uranium 235: 700-million years
- Iodine 131: 8 days [absorbed into the thyroid and gives heavy radiation dose]

Here in the US, the EnviroReporter, through their Inspector Alert nuclear radiation monitor, conducted over 1,500 radiation tests after a severe storm in Southern California. The findings were astounding.

The radiation levels were the highest ever seen; at 506% above normal background levels.

My next sentence is one which, for much of the past year, I never considered possible I would write. There is a real possibility that the London Olympics will not sell out.

I'm not just talking about football tickets, which the organisers were always going to struggle to persuade enough people to buy - I'm talking about a number of other key Olympic sports, like weightlifting, beach volleyball, boxing and even basketball.

Ever wonder how many of your tax dollars are going to the federal government censoring music blogs based on no real evidence, but just the say so of the RIAA and MPAA?

In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss self-reporting financial crimes and private equity ripping teeth out of four year olds for profit. In the second half of the show Max talks to Teri Buhl about JP Morgan's Wells Notice and what bad news that could mean to the troubled bank's fortunes.

Nations that carry out cybercrimes and wreak online havoc pose the greatest threat to the future of the internet, the chairman of Google has warned.

The real crash will come from the "government's phony cure" for the economic troubles that have swept our nation, Schiff details in his new book The Real Crash: How To Save Yourself And Your Country.
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(NaturalNews) It's not just Fukushima, though that may be enough. The northern hemisphere especially had been inundated with radioactive fallout by atmospheric nuclear weapons testing from 1950 to 1963. The Nevada testing area alone produced 1200 nuclear explosions that emitted radioactive particles across the USA.

The Chernobyl incident in 1986 affected hundreds of thousands throughout Europe, Scandinavia, and Russia. The boom in nuclear reactor power plants had already started and was constantly increasing, along with considerable radiation leaking.

A 1996 international court interpretation of international treaties opened the door for widespread use of depleted uranium (DU) that had been prohibited for use as ammunition projectiles that could pierce armor. Tons of DU ammunition has been used in Bosnia and the Mideast since, leaving a radioactive mess that will last for life times.

Susanne Posel, Contributor
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Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton says that the US government is engaged in propaganda wars with their own operatives – al-Qaeda.

Clinton sat with Admiral Bill McRaven, head of US Special Operations Command, at a conference that featured more than 100 US and international special operations commanders.

On Yemeni tribal websites, the US government seeks to replace anti-American adverts. Apparently al-Qaeda has been bragging about their impact on Yemen...

At the Group of 8 (G8) meetings this past weekend, President Obama and the leaders of the rest of the world's richest nations abandoned their governments' previous commitments to donate $7.3 billion a year to end hunger in Africa, after disbursing only 58 percent of the total pledge of $22 billion and giving less than 6 percent in new money they pledged three years ago.

Instead, rich nations will leave the problem in the hands of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition where private corporations will invest $3 billion over 10 years -- Monsanto has committed $50 million -- beginning in three countries, Tanzania, Ghana and Ethiopia.

Rainey Reitman
EFF

EFF and an array of civil liberties organizations are engaged in a pitched battle against the privacy-invasive legislation Congress is pushing under the guise of promoting “cyber security.”

Everyone agrees that network security is important, but a thinly disguised mass surveillance bill won’t help address the needs of our country in defending our networks...

Thirty officials of the North Korean regime who were involved in talks with South Korea have been executed or died in "staged traffic accidents," according to a human rights report.

Susanne Posel, Contributor
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Without any mainstream media coverage at all, the House of Representatives passed the United States – Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 (USIESC).

The USIESC, written by Eric Cantor, claims there is a need to provide Israel with unlimited military and financial aid as a result of the disturbances caused by the Arab Spring.

Israel will have an essentially unlimited amount of funds allocated to them through the Federal Reserve Bank. The country will also enjoy an “expanded role of NATO” that consists of an “enhanced presence at NATO headquarters and exercises”.

The USIESC pledges the US government’s “commitment” to assist Israel in remaining a Jewish State; as well as protection from the UN if the UN Security Council resolves to hold Israel accountable to international laws.

The US government’s counter-terrorism unit will also aid Israel by any means...

It's hard to overstate how big a disaster the Facebook IPO has been for NASDAQ, one of the United States' two big stock exchanges.

People often forget that the NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) are private companies, just like the companies that list on them. As such, the exchanges compete fiercely for "clients"—which in this case are public companies looking for a place to list their stocks.

The national unemployment rates gets lots of attention, and lately more attention has been paid to the workforce participation rate since more Americans have given up looking for a job, but we can also see that an astounding 100 million Americans don’t have jobs.

Specifically, these are people who are part of the civilian over-16 non-institutional population who are either unemployed or not part of the workforce. According to the April jobs report, the number of jobless American stood at 100.9 million.

That’s an all-time record and it’s an increase of 26.2 million over the last 12 years. It’s as if we absorbed the entire adult population of Canada and not a single person had a job.

Anthony Gucciardi
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Fukushima plant operators are now admitting that the Fukushima radiation levels emitted from the disaster exceeds almost two and a half times the initial ‘estimate’ produced by Japanese safety regulators.

The announcement comes after independent researchers exposed the true amount of radiation leaked from the plant back in October of 2011. The study revealed that significantly more radioactive cesium was released into the atmosphere as a result of the Fukushima explosion than many nuclear experts previously told the public...

I lost half my teeth among other injuries while in the custody of these people. At least I survived!

HONOLULU (CN) - Parents claim in court that their 23-year-old developmentally disabled son was murdered in an Arizona prison run by Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's largest private prison company.
Plaintiffs include Medina's mother Molliann Waltjen, sister Roseanna Medeiros, and aunts Beverly Lokelani Medeiros and Kawahinekuuipolani Cliffann Medeiros.
They claim Hawaii and CCA have a "systematic tolerance of gang domination and fatally inadequate classification practices."
Medina was diagnosed as "moderately mentally retarded" and "developmentally delayed," his family says. He spent his teen years in foster care, mental institutions and after running away from a group home, got in trouble with theft and burglary charges.

While European leaders and pundits debate Greece's fate in or out of the single currency, a sombre mood blankets the debt-strapped country as it continues to be pounded by its unprecedented financial woes.

The harsh austerity measures that are being implemented in exchange for international loans are driving more and more ordinary Greeks towards the edge of depression and suicide.

Yesterday, a 60-year old unemployed musician thrust his 90-year old mother off their rooftop in central Athens before jumping to his death himself, witness said. A neighbour told Greek television that the pair had financial problems and were living off the mother's pension.

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As per usual, the Western-created al Qaeda has emerged from the woodwork to help create support for American policies which hurt the people of the United States.

I have spent a great deal of time trying to detail the various pieces of cybersecurity legislation (one of which is CISPA) being pushed by our so-called representatives in an attempt to get even more control over the Internet and further expand their surveillance capabilities which are already quite substantial thanks in part to companies like Google (and Facebook, of course) and their Big Brother technologies along with the massive data collection industry.

Susanne Posel, Contributor
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A new report released found that the majority pharmaceutical drugs used to combat malaria are bogus or of poor quality .

The Fogarty International Center at the US national Institutes of Health (NH) funded a study that found a shocking 20 to 42% of the malaria vaccines used in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are of substandard quality or absolutely fake.

By researching studies and publications, the report explains that, according to the Southeast Asian countries, 36% of the 1,437 samples of malaria vaccines were counterfeit.

Another 30% of samples could not test positive for the pharmaceutical compounds that would be in a malaria vaccine...

That the implementation of a one world government is not some magical or mysterious suggestion that can only be understood by an arduous reading between the lines, as some naive debunkers have suggested, has been disproven by the fact that the aim of global government has been spelled out for us word for word by overeager transnationalists and the think tanks they tend to assemble in. Like any governmental decree, the implementation of an actual world state to replace the nation-state of old requires a theoretical legitimization. The people designated to clear the theoretical brushes, so to speak, have been picked from the marble halls of academia. In this article I will shed some light on some of these.

Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler.

Führer of the German people, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Navy & Air Force, Chancellor of the Third Reich, Herr Hitler reaped on that day at Munich the harvest of an audacious, defiant, ruthless foreign policy he had pursued for five and a half years. He had torn the Treaty of Versailles to shreds. He had rearmed Germany to the teeth— or as close to the teeth as he was able. He had stolen Austria before the eyes of a horrified and apparently impotent world.

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Reminds you of Bibi and Israel. Nazism is not dead!

Facebook's chief operating officer joked about the company's disastrous public offering during a speech to Harvard Business School students.

Sheryl Sandberg, 42, asked the class yesterday to click on the social network's advertisements now that the company had gone public.

In the 22-minute speech, where she offered advice based on her career success, the executive quipped: 'We’re public now. So can you click on an ad or two while you’re there?'

A US Senate Committee is poised to discuss a bill that will give Israel one of the largest aid package ever received.

The United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012, which is going under scrutiny at the Foreign Relations Committee, is expected to expand military links between the two countries and provide Israel with aircraft and special munitions.

Reports also state that the bill will allow Israel to have access to pictures from US spy satellites and extend US loan guarantees to Israel until 2015. In return, Israel will open Israeli air space for US Force exercise.

Jeremy Hunt's former special adviser told a News Corporation lobbyist that the media giant's BSkyB takeover bid would go ahead once plans to make Sky News a separate company were signed off, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

The US State Department is outraged. Apparently Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who assisted US intelligence in their attempt to identify Osama Bin Laden’s family and establish that they were living in Pakistan, has just been convicted of treason and sentenced to thirty years hard labor by the Pakistani government. How dare they?

Personally I believe that this whole dog and pony show is nothing more than an attempt to add some kind of credibility to the “Barack Obama killed Osama Bin Laden” story, which can be considered nothing more than a story as Bin Laden had already been killed several times prior to the Pakistan production.

A Compilation of praise and agreement from Presidential candidates to various other publically known opponents

The Real Obama Budget Deficit For 2011: 5 Trillion Dollars

A 60-year-old man and his 90-year-old mother jumped off the roof of their apartment block in Vathy Square, near central Athens, early on Thursday in a double suicide that appeared to have been prompted by financial woes.

Clinton: Iran has left us little choice but to impose sanctions
Russia Foreign Min. official: Moscow won't support 'crippling' Iran sanctions over nuclear work.

HAARETZ:.US. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that Iran's continuing refusal to provide more information on its nuclear program has left the international community little choice but to impose new, tough sanctions on Tehran.

In congressional testimony, Clinton said Iran's failure to accept the Obama administration's offers of engagement and prove its nuclear intentions are peaceful had given the U.S. and its partners new resolve in pressuring Tehran to comply with international demands through fresh penalties

Congressmen on the powerful Senate appropriations committee voted to cut $1 million from the $800 million annual budget for each of the 33 years that Dr Shakeel Afridi has been told he must serve in jail for working with a foreign intelligence agency.

Dr Afridi set up a fake vaccination campaign in Abbottabad in an attempt to obtain blood samples from bin Laden's family, as the CIA tried to confirm the al-Qaeda chief's presence in a nearby villa.

Leading retailers including Morrisons, Dixons and Ladbrokes have backed a call for the Government to take regulatory action on the fees faced by businesses for accepting card payments.

Concern has been growing over the increasingly high cost of bank card transaction fees.

Without action, rising charges could ultimately be passed onto shoppers - creating an extra squeeze on their spending.

Many of Ron Paul’s supporters are currently abuzz with a letter that was written byJennifer Sheehan, the RNC’s legal council in 2008, which appears to state that no state delegate to the GOP convention is bound by his state to vote for a particular candidate.

The excitement derives from the fact that if it were true, an outright Romney victory in the first round of voting at the convention in Tampa would be rather unlikely. But if it is not true – and I am sure the GOP will change rules if necessary to make it untrue – there may be just as much excitement to be had in the possibility of something that is rather more in the control of Paul’s supporters.

Parker Higgins
EFF

Today, Google expanded its transparency reports program today by releasing a detailed report of content removal requests from copyright holders. The new copyright report joins its semi-annual government takedown transparency report, and covers more than 95% of the copyright takedown requests it has received for Search results since July 2011.

Though Google has posted the content of takedown requests to Chilling Effects where possible before, this report presents the data collectively (and graphically) for the first time...

Susanne Posel, Contributor
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The Cornucopia Institute (CI), a watchdog group that focuses on the American agricultural industry, has accused the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) over a federal governmental panel that decides what is considered “organic” and the federal insiders that are using the USDA to further their alternative agenda.

CI has released a document called The Organic Watergate , wherein they claim the USDA’s Natural Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is staffing their agency with employees that have corporate ties to nefarious multi-nationals.

Congress enabled the NOSB with statutory power when they passed the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990...

This weekend, Bill Moyers’ public television show is devoting a full hour to Reckoning With Torture, an innovative film project the want you to help make.

Innovative film project by director Doug Liman, the ACLU, and PEN American Center are asking you to help to make a movie to fight the NDAA and help America reckon with torture.

Molecules containing large chains of carbon and hydrogen - the building blocks of all life on Earth - are one of the main 'targets' of Man's missions to Mars, and key to understanding if life ever existed on our neighbouring planet.

These molecules have previously been found in meteorites from Mars - but scientists have disagreed on where they came from.

A new paper led by Carnegie’s Andrew Steele provides strong evidence that this carbon did originate on Mars - although it does not seem to be biological in itself.

Claims by four of Wall Street's main market makers against Nasdaq over Facebook's botched IPO are likely to exceed $100 million, as they and other traders continue to deal with thousands of problems with customer orders.

Charges of £15 a month could be applied, allowing a fixed number of cash machine withdrawals, direct debits, standing orders and cheques. Any transactions beyond these caps would attract extra charges.

It is clear banks are nothing more than parasites.

They are bailed out by the taxpayer.

More money required.

Interest rates for savers are zero.

More money required.

Mortgage rates go up.

More money required.

Credit card fees go up.

More money required.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) sold $101.3 billion more long-dated derivatives insuring against defaults by investment-grade companies as of March 31 than it had bought back, according to quarterly data from the Federal Reserve.

The amount of insurance-like credit-default swaps the bank sold was double its $50.2 billion net position at the end of December and more than four times its $23.6 billion net position as of Sept. 30, 2011.

The Federal Reserve data, first reported Wednesday by Reuters, validate earlier reports by The Wall Street Journal that positions by traders at the bank, including one dubbed "the London whale," had reached a face value of $100 billion or more.

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The US Emergency Planning Program was initiated soon after the Three Mile Island disaster frightened everyone almost to their senses in 1979. These were the first changes since -- done so stealthily it surprised nuclear watchdogs. Some did not know changes have been in effect since December 2011.... The nuclear power industry and FEMA both love the new changes because..... being flexible "will help keep responders on their toes." There is one new drill. Guess what it is... A preparedness that we really really need... Go ahead, guess....

"They're saying, 'If there's no way to evacuate, then we won't,'" Phillip Musegaas, a lawyer with the environmental group Riverkeeper, said of the stronger emphasis on taking shelter at home."

John Brennan, Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor was a name that you did not see on the Mainstream media. Most recently he publicly spoke about the drone program calling it moral and ethical and just. According to reports from the Associated Press, John Brennan has now seized the lead in choosing who will be targeted for drone attacks and raids. According to the AP, under the new plan, Brennan’s staff compiles the potential target list and runs the names past agencies such as the State Department at a weekly White House meeting.

The last nail is being driven into the nail of the coffin of American republic yet Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes.

The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty.

Characteristic of this epic event is the casual acceptance by the people and political leaders of the unitary presidency, which is equivalent to granting dictatorial powers to the President.

Ron Paul Speech on the House Floor - May 25th, 2011

Earlier today an amendment proposed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) that would have prevented Food and Drug Administration agents from carrying guns and from raiding farms without warrants, was voted down on the Senate floor by 78 senators. These 15 senators, meanwhile, supported the amendment. Not a single one is a Democrat...

Police announce they are considering plans to arm remotely controlled aircraft with 'less than lethal weapons' such as tear gas, tasers and rubber bullets.

Beginning in the fall of 2011, the international elite started pumping the US stock market up, in an attempt to get those Americans who still had a little money in the bank, to invest. They saw $15 trillion in private savings and 401K retirement accounts, just waiting to be stolen. They would pump a few billion dollars in, coupled with a propaganda campaign saying “strong recovery” and the stock market would shoot up by a couple hundred points.

Then when they saw no one was biting, they would pull their money out, the stock market would fall, and they would start devising a new scheme. This is when they realized that those Americans who still had money left were not going to be so easily fooled.

Last night, a riot broke out in in Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood following a rally calling for African refugees to be deported from the country. Above, a mob sets garbage on fire while singing “The people want the Africans to be burned.”

In a stunning and completely unannounced move, US Senator Rand Paul -- who many agree represents the best hope for the restoration of liberty in America -- has introduced an amendment to a key FDA funding bill that seeks to sharply rein in the FDA's power. It would disarm the FDA and make the agency stop using guns against the American people; it would halt the FDA's armed raids on raw milk farmers; it would also stop the FDA's outrageous and longstanding censorship of truthful health claims of dietary supplements and medicinal herbs.

(*'King Bibi' featured on cover of Time Magazine 05/19/2012)

Keelan Balderson, Contributor
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The EU bureaucrats have declared that Greece should remain within the Eurozone in order to respect its commitments to the corrupt financial system that has decimated the country and the rest of the world.

Herman Van Rompuy, the unelected President of the European Council following a recent summit in Brussels, suggested that Greece no longer has the right to self-determination and is beholden to the superstate dream...

David Cameron was today dragged into the scandal engulfing Jeremy Hunt and the Murdoch empire after a damaging private memo was made public at the Leveson Inquiry.

The document, written for the Prime Minister by the Culture Secretary in November 2010, openly backed the £8 billion takeover of BSkyB by News Corp and warned him not to block it.

Ben Swann takes a look at Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney taking money from Morning After Pill maker at a Miami fundraiser.

Bend over and spread 'em!

The United States drone program is killing civilians simply for traveling in large groups while the 'terrorists' are trying to provide humanitarian services.

International organizations and human rights activists denounce the United States for maintaining secret prisons in various countries, where prisoners of the so-called war against terrorism are abused and tortured.

They are the subject of the controversial issue of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prisons recently uncovered, after reviewing a case statement which dates from 2002 and 2003, such as a denunciation against such prisons in Poland.

Volusia County School officials stand by a Deltona High School nurse's decision to refuse a student his inhaler during an asthma attack, citing a lack of a parent's signature on a medical release form.

The PFC Auction house, a Guernsey-based auction house, says the item will instead be donated by the seller to the late president's foundation for display.

Reagan's family, his foundation and his surgeon had criticised the proposed sale as an invasion of his privacy.

The foundation Thursday expressed appreciation for the decision.

Online bidding on the item had reached about $30,000 when the sale was suspended. It had been set to conclude on Thursday evening.

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

Earlier this month Obama announced that his raid and subsequent killing of Osama bin Laden was a good enough reason to re-elect him to office this November.

Obama claims the U.S. commando raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed was the singularly most important day of his presidency. It was called Operation Neptune’s Spear. “I did choose the risk,” Obama said. “The reason I was willing to make that decision of sending in our SEALs to try to capture or kill bin Laden rather than to take some other options was ultimately because I had 100 percent faith in the Navy SEALs themselves.”

Now Obama has given Hollywood filmmaker, Kathryn Bigelow, the exclusive rights to make a propaganda film for them about the Navy SEAL Team Six that supposedly raided the bin Laden compound and took down the “terrorist leader”...

Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post

Just after France legislators and officials moved to ban Monsanto’s genetically modified strain of GMO maize over environmental and health concerns, the European Union has decided to step in and re-secure Monsanto’s presence in the country — against the very will of the nation itself.

This should come as no surprise when considering the fact that the United States ambassador to France, a business partner to George W. Bush, stated back in 2007 that nations who did not accept Monsanto’s GMO crops will be ‘penalized’. In fact, ambassador Craig Stapleton went as far as to say that the nations should be threatened with military-style trade wars...

The Occupy Wall Street movement was created to combat corporate power but has since evolved. Police brutality took center stage when New York City police officers pepper-sprayed peaceful protesters, and since then a retired Philadelphia police captain has come forth to bridge the gap between protesters and law enforcement. Ray Lewis is in the process of potentially being stripped of his union benefits for protesting in his uniform, and he joins us with more on why he feels that it is necessary for him to speak out.

Iran and six world powers are meeting today for nuclear talks in Baghdad - and Israel is unsurprisingly unhappy about such diplomacy.

In a clear sign that Israel will not be satisfied until Iran's nuclear facilities have been bombed, Israeli Defence minister Ehud Barak yesterday accused Iran of "deception" over its recent agreement to allow UN inspectors into the country.

A statement released by Barak's office accused Iran of trying to "reach a technical agreement that will create a deception of progress in talks in order to reduce the pressure ahead of talks tomorrow in Baghdad and postpone harshening of sanctions". He further went on to dictate how attendees of the Baghdad talks should deal with Iran, demanding that "It's forbidden to make any concessions to Iran. World powers' demands must be clear and unequivocal."

The following video contains disturbing images compiled from the streets of Greece as protests, riots, and police response have converged amid austerity brought about by international banksters.

This is a familiar scenario the world over as divide-and-conquer techniques pit police against the very people it is in their best interest to protect ... while the engineers of the collapse sit back and watch from afar. These images have continued to multiply throughout other collapsed economies, past and present, where the First World quickly can become the Third.

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First the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) claimed that their research confirms Japanese milk and vegetables are safe for human consumption. They reported that radiation levels are below cancer-causing levels.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has also assessed the problem of radioactive levels at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.

This concept, known as the Linear No-Threshold Dose hypothesis (LNT), was accepted in 1959 as the global regulating philosophy and remains entrenched despite all scientific evidence to the contrary.

With regard to radiation this belief has been unsuccessful...

We've all seen this TV scenario: Investigators are racing to track down the source of a deadly virus, or maybe a terrorist nuclear device, threatening a big city.
But they're keeping the publicity lid on because they don't want people to panic.

(NaturalNews) An open society is a free society, and the media's primary job in helping to maintain a free, open society is to shine the light of scrutiny on government. In doing so the media lives up to its (supposed) mantra of afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted. The only thing that could possibly get in the way of that mission is, of course, the government, through one of its surrogates in the federal court system.

In an effort to shed some light on how the government interprets its own PATRIOT Act, New York Times reporter Charlie Savage filed suit against the federal government last fall to get some answers after a Freedom of Information request was shot down by the Justice Department, which said the interpretation was "classified."

His suit followed several earlier warnings by Democratic Sens. Mark Udall of Colorado and Ron Wyden of Oregon, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who said in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. in September they believe the public has been misled about how the government is interpreting the law.

(NaturalNews) The biggest threat to America today is not terrorists or global warming, but the mass genocide of Americans who die every year at the hands of the corrupt U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In a recent report, investigative reporter Jon Rappoport uncovers the dirty truth that FDA-approved drugs kill at least 100,000 people every single year -- the FDA actually lists this figure on its own website -- and the agency is doing absolutely nothing about this disastrous trend.

On a webpage entitled Why Learn about Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)?, the FDA admits that 100,000 people die every single year as a result of taking FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs. Citing figures from three different published studies, the figures also reveal that two million people a year suffer from serious ADRs, which include things like stroke, heart attack, and permanent neurological damage.

You can view the FDA page for yourself here: http://www.fda.gov

(NaturalNews) It has been more than a year now since the massive 9.0-plus magnitude earthquake and corresponding tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the eastern coast of Japan, sending untold amounts of nuclear radiation into the environment. And to this day, the threat of nuclear fallout is ever-present all around the world in what some have described as a "nuclear war without a war."

Though governments and many media outlets have downplayed the disaster, its aftermath continues to threaten the health and wellbeing of plants, animals and humans not only in Japan, but all around the world. Far worse than Chernobyl, the Fukushima catastrophe truly is a nuclear holocaust event with gradual, long-term consequences that we are only just now beginning to recognize and grasp.

SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon space capsule completed its first test before its scheduled docking at the International Space Station, NASA said Wednesday.

The test flight was launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket which blasted off before dawn Tuesday from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. With its successful launch, SpaceX, owned by the billionaire Internet entrepreneur, Elon Musk has completely dispelled doubts about commercial space travel.