Wall Street Journal – by DAMIAN PALETTA

The Social Security Administration has begun warning the public it cannot guarantee full benefit payments if the debt ceiling isn’t increased.

When asked by the public, the agency is notifying beneficiaries that “Unlike a federal shutdown which has no impact on the payment of Social Security benefits, failure to raise the debt ceiling puts Social Security benefits at risk,” according to a person familiar with the agency directive.   Continue reading “Social Security Warns Benefits Could Get Cut”

FBI detonates 'potentially volatile substance' near Houston homeKVUE News

HOUSTON – The FBI confirmed that they detonated a “potentially volatile substance” Saturday in the backyard of a home in the Tanglewood area in Houston.

Nearby neighbors were notified before it took place.   Continue reading “FBI detonates ‘potentially volatile substance’ near Houston home”

Brietbart – by Mike Flynn

Just before the weekend, the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was “closed” due to the shutdown. Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown.

The Park Service will also have rangers on duty to police the ban. Of access to an ocean. The government will probably use more personnel and spend more resources to attempt to close the ocean, than it would in its normal course of business.    Continue reading “Feds Try to Close the Ocean Because of Shutdown”

Airport 14News 4 Jax

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville International Airport was evacuated Tuesday evening because of two suspicious packages found there, according to the Jacksonville Aviation Authority, and witnesses say two men were taken into custody.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office bomb squad was called to the airport at 2400 Yankee Clipper Drive about 6:30 p.m. and the airport was closed.   Continue reading “JIA evacuated, closed due to 2 suspicious packages; witnesses say 2 men in custody”

How Poverty Taxes the BrainThe Atlantic Cities – by EMILY BADGER

Human mental bandwidth is finite. You’ve probably experienced this before (though maybe not in those terms): When you’re lost in concentration trying to solve a problem like a broken computer, you’re more likely to neglect other tasks, things like remembering to take the dog for a walk, or picking your kid up from school. This is why people who use cell phones behind the wheel actually perform worse as drivers. It’s why air traffic controllers focused on averting a mid-air collision are less likely to pay attention to other planes in the sky.   Continue reading “How Poverty Taxes the Brain”

Activist Post – by Sigmund Fraud

While many adults would prefer to ignore it, a police state has already risen amongst the once free nations of the West. The legal framework and technology for this advanced big brother nightmare has been developing for decades, and as such, it is unlikely that the trend towards even greater surveillance, control and injustice will slow much in the coming years, even though the public is slowly awakening to what is happening.   Continue reading “How to Talk to Kids About the Police State”

The Press Democrat – by Clark Mason

Gun-control advocates failed this week to convince the Windsor Town Council to support a federal ban on assault weapons when a majority of council members abstained from voting on the matter.

Windsor so far is the only municipality in Sonoma County to break ranks on the issue. Seven cities have endorsed a ban while Rohnert Park is yet to take up the issue.   Continue reading “Windsor council won’t back assault weapons ban”

Mother Jones – by Gavin Aronsen

After the public release of a document in which he suggested that Occupiers and libertarians pose a domestic terror threat to Concord, New Hampshire, the city’s police chief has backed away from the claim.

In an application to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeking more than $250,000 to purchase an armored police vehicle, the capital city of New Hampshire specified the local branch of the Occupy movement and the Free State Project, an effort to recruit “liberty-loving people” to relocate to the Granite State, as potential sources of terrorist action.   Continue reading “N.H. City Wants a “Tank” to Use Against Occupiers and Libertarians”

Washington’s Blog

Favoring “Friends” and Harassing “Enemies” … Propaganda … Cyber-Warfare … Track ‘Em and Whack ‘Em

You know that the NSA and other government agencies are spying on all Americans.

But is the government just passively spying on us like some giant peeping Tom? Or doing something with that information?   Continue reading “Is Government Just Spying Like a Giant Peeping Tom … Or Is It Actively USING that Information in Mischievous Ways?”

The Bob Tuskin Radio Show

Arlington, Texas — A family with a passion for gardening and conscious living was raided by the Arlington SWAT team early Friday morning. All 8 adults present in the house were initially handcuffed at the gunpoint of heavily armed SWAT officers, including the mother of a 22 month old and a two week old baby who was separated from her children during the raid. I had a chance to interview Quinn who gave me his first hand account of the raid and the background behind it all.   Continue reading “Family Raided by SWAT Team for “Weeds””

Testosterone Pit – by Wolf Richter

What an army of rabble-rousers, economists (those banished from the mainstream media), and bloggers, including your humble servant, have been hammering on for years, a study by the San Francisco Fed now finally confessed: Quantitative Easing didn’t do a heck of a lot of good for the real economy.

Whatever it did for Wall Street, and however it shifted wealth to the upper echelon of society, and however it destroyed what little remained of the free markets, and whatever distortions, misallocations, and bubbles it created, QE had “at best,” – emphasis mine – “moderate effects on economic growth,” the study said.   Continue reading “The Fed’s Confession: We Can Avoid A Crash At The End Of QE If Everybody Believes That Everybody Believes In A Mirage….”

When a reporter asked a paid protester what this protest was for- he told the reporter, "It's a day to ban guns, I think." -The Event was actually for a new movement called "Purge Day". Ben Swann Full Disclosure – by Michael Lotfi

So, no one supports your cause? No problem. You can hire supporters- even protesters. A company started last October by 22-year-old Adam Swart provides just this service.  In a telephone interview I spoke with Swart about his new found success. “I came up with the idea on a visit to Estonia,” says Swart. At the airport, Swart says he saw a man who was being swarmed by a crowd of excited onlookers. He tells me, “I thought- Why can’t I have that kind of attention?” And so, Swart’s company, Crowds on Demand, was born.   Continue reading “New Company Allows Organizations To Hire Fake Protesters”

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 13: U.S. President Barack Obama waves to members of the news media as he walks across the South Lawn while departing the White House May 13, 2013 in Washington, DC. According to the White House, Obama is traveling to New York City to deliver remarks at two Democratic National Committee events at private residences and a joint Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee/Democratic Senate Campaign Committee event at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)IntelliHub – by Cassius Methyl

Employees for the government sometimes are required to inform the agency about relationships with foreign people, allegedly to confirm that the person is not a threat to ‘national security’. Apparently, one of Obama’s bodyguards, Rafael Prieto, had an affair, and killed himself for some reason while under investigation. His secret was revealed by other agents during their investigation for another sex scandal.   Continue reading “Obama Bodyguard Found Dead After Having an Affair With a Foreign National”

A screenshot from silentcircle.comRT News

Silent Circle, a secure email service that provides customers with an encrypted way of sending messages, announced Thursday that it is shutting down only hours after a company offering a similar product said the same.

Shortly after the owner and operator of Lavabit.com wrote that his nine-year-old encrypted email service was shutting down in order to avoid becoming “complicit in crimes against the American people,” Silent Circle said Thursday they’d be following suit.   Continue reading “Another encrypted Internet service shutting down after Lavabit”

Japan Gets to Know a Quadrillion as Debt Hits New HighBusiness Week -by Bruce Einhorn

The late Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) is famous for allegedly saying, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”  It might be apocryphal—the Dirksen Congressional Center has found no evidence that the late Illinois Republican ever made the quip—but it certainly resonates as the political parties spar over sequestration and Americans become even more accustomed to thinking somewhat casually about what should be unfathomably big numbers.   Continue reading “Japan Gets to Know a Quadrillion as Debt Hits New High”

wantyou2Infowars – by Kurt Nimmo

Predictably, the corporate media, the official propaganda outlet for the establishment, has refused to post or publish an open letter sent to Obama by Lon Snowden, the father of Edward Snowden. This callous refusal should finally convince any who may have had any doubt that the United States is anything but a tyrannical national security state with a state-run media no different than the one in Cuba, China or Iran.

Edward Snowden’s unwarranted persecution and vilification by the globalist propaganda media is part of a larger campaign to snuff out investigative media.   Continue reading “Snowden’s Father Calls Out Obama On Nuremberg Crimes”

Infowars – by Alex Jones and Julie Wilson

In June, Infowars.com cited a report by WhoWhatWhy.com revealing that the “FBI was aware of an organization, possibly a local police department or private security company, that had plans to assassinate peaceful protesters during the Occupy Movement.”

The classified document released by the FBI read:   Continue reading “Obama DHS Planned to Kill Peaceful Protesters in Sniper Attacks”

Oregon Live – by Laura Gunderson

A jury Friday awarded an Oregon woman $18.6 million after she spent two years unsuccessfully trying to get Equifax Information Services to fix major mistakes on her credit report.

The judgement, likely to be appealed, appears to be one of the largest awarded to a consumer in a case against one of the nation’s major credit bureaus.   Continue reading “Equifax must pay $18.6 million after failing to fix Oregon woman’s credit report”