The director of the NATO headquarters project and program manager Tony Carruth speaks with journalists as he presents the the new NATO headquarters under construction in Brussels on November 13, 2013. (AFP Photo/Virginia Mayo)RT News – by Robert Bridge

NATO is constructing a bold, new headquarters in Brussels, but the $1 billion project is raising eyebrows at a time of economic hardship and military spending cuts. It also suggests the Western military bloc is here to stay.

The sprawling steel-and-glass complex, which features four extending claw-like structures extending on both sides and a grandiose 105-foot-high (32 meters) entrance, will be headquarters for more than 4,000 NATO staff from the 28 member states starting in 2016.    Continue reading “Ego building? NATO erects $1bn HQ as members slash military spending”

A screenshot from wikileaks.orgRT News

Details of a highly secretive, multi-national trade agreement long in works have been published by WikiLeaks, and critics say there will be major repercussions for much of the modern world if it’s approved in this incarnation.

The anti-secrecy group published on Wednesday a 95-page excerpt taken from a recent draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a NAFTA-like agreement that is expected to encompass nations representing more than 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product when it is finally approved: the United States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei.    Continue reading “TPP Uncovered: WikiLeaks releases draft of highly-secretive multi-national trade deal”

Mail.com

LONDON (AP) — A strain of bird flu that scientists thought could not infect people has shown up in a Taiwanese woman, a nasty surprise that shows scientists must do more to spot worrisome flu strains before they ignite a global outbreak, doctors say.

On a more hopeful front, two pharmaceuticals separately reported encouraging results from human tests of a possible vaccine against a different type of bird flu that has been spreading in China since first being identified last spring, which is feared to have pandemic potential.   Continue reading “Bird flu strain infects human for 1st time”

Yahoo News

Washington (AFP) – Two US Secret Service agents have been removed from President Barack Obama’s security detail for alleged misconduct, The Washington Post has reported.

The move came a year after the agency was involved in a prostitution scandal in Colombia.   Continue reading “Two Obama secret service agents ‘removed over misconduct’”

An illegal meth laboratory discovered by police in the USDaily Mail – by HAYLEY O’KEEFFE

A man has died after drinking a massive overdose of liquid crystal meth after mistaking it for a health drink.

Romano Dias, 55, had been given a bottle of what appeared to be a fruit-based drink by his daughter Katee, who had found it in a package delivered to her home.   Continue reading “Man dies after accidentally drinking £34,000 of crystal meth thinking it was a HEALTH DRINK”

main imageImperial College London – by Sam Wong

A drug that mimics some effects of alcohol but lacks its harmful properties would have real benefit for public health, a leading scientist has argued.

Professor David Nutt, the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, has identified candidate molecules that reproduce the pleasurable effects of alcohol but are much less toxic. He is looking for investors to help develop the product and bring it to the market.   Continue reading “Synthetic alcohol substitute could eliminate health risks – and hangovers”

Before It’s News – by N. Morgan

The police forces are losing their perception of reality, when it comes to the citizens they have sworn to protect. We are no longer human beings to them, just livestock to herd around and bully. What are your thoughts on this situation in the video?

Police brutality, as defined is:

Police brutality is a civil rights violation that occurs when a police officer acts with excessive force by using an amount of force with regards to a civilian that is more than necessary. Excessive force by a law enforcement officers is a violation of a person’s rights. Excessive force is not subject to a precise definition, but it is generally beyond the force a reasonable and prudent law enforcement officer would use under the circumstances.   Continue reading “Can You Believe This? Police Tase Man For More Than 40 Seconds Straight!”

Roger Shuler’s mug shotWho What Why – by David J. Krajicek

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama–In a case troubling to free speech advocates, an Alabama journalist who blogged about allegations of a sordid affair between a powerful Republican scion and a lobbyist has been arrested and now sits in jail on contempt charges.

A judge has taken the extraordinary steps of not only sealing the file in the case, but ordering that the blogger’s posts be removed from the Internet.

Roger Shuler, 56, was arrested Oct. 23 on a warrant by deputies who were waiting when he returned to his Birmingham home from a trip to the local library.   Continue reading “Gulag Justice? Alabama Blogger Jailed In Secretive Scandal”

Before It’s News

Nothing is ever what it seems or what you are told it is… when there’s loose money around, who’s is it?

The police and the media pay informers, it goes with the territory.

But the Mob, the Drug Lords and all the other extra-legal governments running around selling sex and drugs and rock ‘n roll without borders have more money for information than any police force or news medium, one of which depends on your taxes and the other on your advertising.   Continue reading “Police as Partners in the ‘Illegal’ Drug Business”

There is no "fix" for ObamaCareHuman Events – by John Hayward

I think – well, to be forthright, I know, with actuarial certainty – that any of the various “Keep Your Plan” legislative fixes floating around Congress would kill ObamaCare.  President Obama and the rest of the Affordable Care Act con artists know it, too.  There’s a reason he told the biggest lie in modern history, over and over again.  More to the point, there’s a reason ObamaCare includes the insurance-slaying regulations and requirements Obama kept lying about.  This bill, like all socialist failure, is a massive exercise of compulsive force.  It won’t work if there’s an escape valve.   Continue reading “There is No ‘Fix’ for Obamacare”

Libyan_GernadeFront Page Mag – by Daniel Greenfield

I can’t think of a single possible thing that could go wrong with this plan. I only wish there was some way to get the Saudis, Iranians and Pakistanis involved to really improve our national security.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have obtained an internal Department of Homeland Security draft final regulation that would lift a 20 year ban on Libyans coming to the US to work in sensitive fields.   Continue reading “Obama Inc. Wants Libyans to Come to US, Work in “Aviation Maintenance” and “Nuclear Fields””

MassPrivateI

U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no direct ties to the U.S. government and simply had purchased certain books.

Federal officials gathered the information from the customer records of two men who were under criminal investigation for purportedly teaching people how to pass lie detector tests. Continue reading “Big Brother is spying on what we read & which DVD’s we watch”

MassPrivateI

California – Bay Area technology company ShotSpotter (SST) unveiled Monday a gunshot detection system for schools that they hope helps police respond faster in the case of mass shootings such as the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre or smaller incidents, but privacy advocates elicited concerns about the surveillance technology.   Continue reading “‘ShotSpotter’ spying on students with plans to expand to malls, airports and more”

Washington’s Blog

Drug War?   American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium

It is well-documented that the U.S. government has – at least at some times in some parts of the world –protected drug operations.

(Big American banks also launder money for drug cartels. See this, this, this and this. Indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. And the U.S. drug money laundering is continuing to this day.)   Continue reading “U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Afghan Opium Production”

MassPrivateI

DHS, is soliciting information from potential qualified businesses to perform deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) reviews of samples collected from encountered individuals.

These samples serve a variety of purposes, including the identification of family relationships and criminal suspects, among others.   Continue reading “DHS wants to use DNA testing to identify suspects and family relationships”

Sgt. Report

If you, like I, have brainwashed, intellectually dishonest, “liberal” friends who still insist on giving Barack Obama a pass for every horrible, often criminal thing he has ever done, you might want to make them aware of this additional fact.

According to Senator Rand Paul, who spoke at a luncheon in Charleston, South Carolina on Monday, November 11, the President of the United States himself wrote the regulation to cancel the health insurance of MILLIONS of Americans. And every single Democrat voted for it.   Continue reading “Sen. Rand Paul Reveals: Barack Obama Wrote the Regulation to Cancel your Insurance, and Every Democrat Voted for It!”

web1_court_justice_gavel_01_thinkstock_2.jpgLas Vegas Review Journal – by SEAN WHALEY

CARSON CITY — Three Las Vegas siblings who saw their summer job, birthday and scholarship money taken by a bank after their parents defaulted on a loan are getting a chance to get their money back.

A three-justice panel of the Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Clark County District Court judge erred when she did not hold a hearing on whether the $11,910 garnished by Nevada State Bank from accounts held by Haley, Tyson and Trey Brooksby was proper.   Continue reading “Las Vegas children win court skirmish over garnished savings”

An aerial view shows the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (Reuters/Kyodo)RT News

The stricken nuclear plant at Fukushima in northern Japan is in such a delicate condition that a future earthquake could trigger a disaster that would decimate Japan and affect the entire West Coast of North America, a prominent scientist has warned.

Speaking at a symposium on water ecology at the University of Alberta in Canada, prominent Japanese-Canadian scientist David Suzuki said that the Japanese government had been “lying through its teeth” about the true extent of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.    Continue reading “Big quake near Fukushima would ‘decimate Japan, lead to US West Coast evacuation’”

** FILE ** Associated PressWashington Times – by By CJ Ciaramella — The Washington Free Beacon

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must disclose its plans for a so-called Internet “kill switch,” a federal court ruled on Tuesday.

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia rejected the agency’s arguments that its protocols surrounding an Internet kill switch were exempt from public disclosure and ordered the agency to release the records in 30 days. However, the court left the door open for the agency to appeal the ruling.   Continue reading “Homeland Security must disclose ‘Internet Kill Switch,’ court rules”