Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In what is as close to saying ‘trust us, we’re from the government,’ as it gets; President Obama’s traitor-identifying, blame-pointing, cover-your-assing speech on Friday has done nothing to end the supposedly “critical NSA counter-terrorism tool,” from being used on American citizens.People of America should be relieved, as the President stated unequivocally that he is “comfortable that the program is not being abused.” If only American citizens were able to see all the moving pieces, Obama implied, they would say “you know what?    Continue reading “Obama On NSA Spying: “I Would Be Concerned Too, If I Weren’t Inside The Government””

Fox News

Small business owners across the country are receiving letters from the IRS questioning if they are reporting all of their cash income, in a new push by the agency some are saying could unnecessarily create fear in the small business community.

The Wall Street Journal reports the initiative is an attempt to respond to what the agency feels is a widespread failure by small businesses to report all their cash sales.     Continue reading “Critics question IRS initiative targeting small businesses”

Before it’s News – by Live Free or Die

‘Police State’ America continues to unfold as the pictures below of a Hartford, Connecticut drug bust show. A full blown paramilitary team showed up after someone called the police about the smell of someone smoking marijuana. Isn’t this just a bit of overkill, responding en masse like this to someone smoking a plant? It looks to me like how they’d be responding to the Boston Marathon bomber. Is this the ‘new America’ Barack Obama promised? A brand new video report about the unfolding police state in America is also below that asks the question we all want to know, “Is America becoming a ‘Police State’?    Continue reading “Pot Smell Leads To Paramilitary Raid In Hartford, Connecticut”

Common Dreams – by Lacy MacAuley

Spying on protesters is the worst violation of our freedom.

She was an undercover cop who called herself “Missy.” When I first met her four years ago, I couldn’t have known that the small-framed woman with spiky brown hair and intense eyes was anything but a fellow activist showing up for a protest in Washington, D.C.

A “selfie” photo of Nicole Rizzi, a.k.a. “Missy,” posted to her own Twitter account on March 21, 2013. She posed as a protester at a Keystone XL pipeline demonstration that day.I certainly didn’t know she was actually Nicole Rizzi, an undercover cop ordered to secretly spy on peaceful protesters, violate our freedom of speech and assembly, and disregard our right to privacy.    Continue reading “How I Exposed an Undercover Cop”

628x471Pat Dollard

Excerpted from The New York Daily News: Activists rallying for the right to bear arms came face to face with Newtown’s grieving community on Friday—and neither side liked what they saw.

The two groups butted heads on Starbucks Appreciation Day at a coffee store less than two miles away from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 26 children and educators lost their lives to gun violence in December.   Continue reading “Armed Gun Activists Gather At Newtown Starbucks Despite Closure, Tension With Opposing Crowd”

Common Dreams – by Sarah Lazare

In what is believed to be Israel’s first drone strike in Egypt’s borders, Israeli Air Force drones fired missiles on Egypt’s Sinai peninsula Friday, killing at least five people, Egyptian authorities report.

Israel reportedly collaborated with Egyptian military and intelligence on the attack, as Egyptian military and police forces escalate deadly attacks in the Sinai.   Continue reading “Israel Launches First Deadly Drone Strike Within Egypt’s Borders”

Illegal Immigration ProtestersThe American Dream – by Michael Snyder

Should we roll out the red carpet and allow millions upon millions of thieves, rapists, gang members and drug dealers to come waltzing into this country any time they would like?  Should we broadcast a message to the rest of the world that anyone that can find a way to enter this country and somehow get to a “sanctuary city” can sign up for a plethora of welfare benefits and live a life of leisure at the expense of hard working American citizens?    Continue reading “19 Very Disturbing Facts About Illegal Immigration That Every American Should Know”

Reading Between the Grooves- by Jim Owston

In 2002, the late Solomon Burke recorded the album “Don’t Give up on Me.” Featured on that CD was a cut co-authored by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, and Brenda Russell entitled “None of us are Free.” The song was featured on the final episode of House, M.D.’s second season. I caught this about a week ago when one of the networks was doing a House marathon.

Solomon Burke is one of the best, but underrated, soul musicians of the 1960s. While he never had a Top 20 hit, his songs inspired a generation. This particular cut also features the Blind Boys of Alabama on back-up vocals. I particularly like the Hammond B3 organ parts and the fact this song in F minor ends on an F major chord.    Continue reading “Solomon Burke: None of us are Free”

Hannah Alive and WellGuardian Express – by Cherese Jackson

After a massive search in a remote area of Idaho, police on Saturday located the suspected killer and the 16-year-old girl, Hannah, he allegedly kidnapped.  The girl was found safe but the kidnapper was killed, police said.

Sheriff Bill Gore in San Diego County, Calif., said 40-year-old James Lee DiMaggio was killed by an FBI agent at 4:22 p.m. Pacific time near a campsite. His captive, 16-year-old Hannah Anderson, was located and “appears well,” Gore told reporters Saturday evening.   Continue reading “Hannah Anderson Found Alive: Kidnapper James Lee DiMaggio Dead”

Live Leak – by Coradon

CHON BURI – A man shot and killed his girlfriend and her mother on Thursday at a car modification shop in Muang district, just 20 days before they were due to be married on Aug 28.

The victim, identified as Kewelin Hongthong, 28, and her mother Wimol Hongthong, 48, were both shot three times by Tasaphol Haekla, 35, and died instantly at the scene, police said.   Continue reading “Cold-blooded murderer in Thailand dances after shooting his victims”

WikiLeaks Party

Today the President of the United States validated Edward Snowden’s role as a whistleblower by announcing plans to reform America’s global surveillance program.  But rather than thank Edward Snowden, the President laughably attempted to criticize him while claiming that there was a plan all along, “before Edward Snowden.”  The simple fact is that without Snowden’s disclosures, no one would know about the programs and no reforms could take place.  As Thomas Jefferson so eloquently once stated, “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”  Luckily for the citizens of the world, Edward Snowden is one of those “people of good conscience” who did not “remain silent”, just as Pfc Bradley Manning and Daniel Ellsberg refused to remain silent.   Continue reading “Statement from Julian Assange in response to President Obama’s plans to reform America’s global surveillance program”

Judicial Watch Press Release, August 5, 2013

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents from the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealing that between March 27, 2009, and August 24, 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder accrued $4,263,704.01 in total travel expenses. This included $697,525.20 in taxpayer-funded personal travel expenses.  The documents were released to Judicial Watch in June in response to an August 2012 Freedom of Information Act request.   Continue reading “Judicial Watch Obtains Documents Revealing AG Holder Travel Expenses Exceeded $4 Million in Four Years”

AlterNet – by Sunil Kumar Aggarwal

It is time to bust the myths Sabet has been perpetuating.

Kevin Abraham Sabet-Sharghi, Ph.D., aka Kevin Sabet, has been a headline-grabbing right-winger ever since his U.C. Berkeley days—where he did not study science or medicine despite his current appointment as an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Florida. His most recent incarnation as a co-founder of Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana) follows a stint in the Obama White House on its drug policy staff from 2009-2011. His personal website claims he is the “quarterback” of a new anti-drug movement, boasting that he’s been“quoted in over 15,000 news stories.”   Continue reading “5 Biggest Lies from Anti-Pot Propagandist Kevin Sabet”

17, 26, 27 – debatable. Not certain of the validity of all these statements.

NESARA – by John MacHaffie

1. The IRS is Not a US government agency. It is an agency of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) (Diversified Metal Products v I.R.S et al. CV-93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I., Public Law 94-564, Senate report 94-1148 pg. 5967, Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391)   Continue reading “Here Are Truthful Facts Most People Do Not Know, …. But Should…”

Eyes Open Report – by Paul Lawrance

Newly drafted tobacco bills leaked by the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA) reveals NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plans to wage war on electronic cigarettes.

If the ordinances were to be executed the display of smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes would be prohibited in retail stores and would require 21 years of age to acquire.   Continue reading “Bloombergs at it again: Electronic Cigarettes in the Crosshairs”

Press TV

The US government is planning to arrest two former JP Morgan Chase & Co. employees for their alleged role in masking the size of a multibillion-dollar trading loss.

The former employees, who worked in London, could be arrested in the next few days and extradited to their countries, the New York Times reported on Saturday citing people familiar with the matter.    Continue reading “US mulling arrest of big bank employees”

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

Two years ago Joe Lozito was attacked by a serial killer in the NYC subway and suffered multiple stabbing wounds before taking the man down. According to Lozito, two NYPD police officers were standing within viewing distance and didn’t raise a hand to help him until after the the killer was disarmed. Then they arrested him and claimed credit for the apprehension.

Lozito filed charges against the city for the officers not taking any action and again according to Lozito, the city claimed the NYPD has no legal duty to protect any members of the public.   Continue reading “NYPD: No Duty To Protect & Serve- New York’s Official Policy”

The Ugly Truth – by israelhayom.com

Daniel Kahneman, a 2002 Nobel Prize laureate who is considered one of the world’s foremost researchers in the fields of behavioral economics and hedonic psychology, is named one of 16 recipients of the U.S.’s highest civilian honor.

Professor Daniel Kahneman will receive the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom | Photo credit: Ziv Koren   Continue reading “Obama to award Israeli professor the Presidential Medal of Freedom”

Rense.com – by J. Speer-Williams

Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) was perhaps the most accomplished actress of her generation. It was Ms. Barrymore who said, “You grow up the day you have the first real laugh – at yourself.”

Do you remember your first real laugh at yourself? Mine came when I was about thirty years old.

Anyway, my maturing came after reading Gary Allen’s, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, and finally realizing there was no substantial difference, in practice, between the Democratic and Republican political parties.   Continue reading “When Was Your First Chuckle … At Yourself?”