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Two US fighter jets have dropped four unarmed bombs in Australia’s World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef marine park after a training exercise went wrong.
The AV-8B Harrier jets took off from the aircraft carrier USS Bonhomme Richard and each released an inert bomb and an unarmed explosive bomb off the coast of Queensland, the US 7th Fleet said in a statement on Saturday. Continue reading “FAIL: US drops unarmed bombs on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef marine park”
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — Hundreds of millions of times a day, thirsty Americans open a can of soda, beer or juice. And every time they do it, they pay a fraction of a penny more because of a shrewd maneuver by Goldman Sachs and other financial players that ultimately costs consumers billions of dollars.
The story of how this works begins in 27 industrial warehouses in the Detroit area where Goldman stores customers’ aluminum. Each day, a fleet of trucks shuffles 1,500-pound bars of the metal among the warehouses. Two or three times a day, sometimes more, the drivers make the same circuits. They load in one warehouse. They unload in another. And then they do it again. Continue reading “The House Edge: A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold”
Washington Times – by Emily Miller
Attorney General Eric Holder has confiscated George Zimmerman’s gun. Even though Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury in the death of Trayvon Martin, the Justice Department on Thursday ordered the Sanford police to put a hold on the evidence from the trial, which includes the Kel Tek 9mm handgun.
It is not clear what federal law or legal procedure allows Mr. Holder to stop a police chief in Florida from returning a firearm to an innocent man. Continue reading “MILLER: Eric Holder steals George Zimmerman’s gun”
Waking Times – by Dylan Charles
In a 5 to 4 vote, the US Supreme Court has absolved pharmaceutical companies, and over 80 percent of all drugs prescribed in the US, of legal liability for a long list of ill deeds including fraud, mislabeling, side effects and accidental death.
This decision happened as a response to a lower court’s ruling concerning a victim who took a pharmaceutical drug and had a severely adverse reaction that caused the patient to be completely disfigured when the drug caused a flesh-eating side effect. Continue reading “Supreme Court Rules Drug Companies Exempt from Lawsuits in 5-4 Vote: Monsanto Strategy?”
*UPDATE: FDNY tweet confirms fire is in a commercial vault!
A journalist on scene on Wall Street this evening [Friday] has just sent us footage of a massive fleet of Firetrucks and ambulances in front of JP Morgan’s headquarters at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, with fire-fighters stating they are responding to a COMMERCIAL VAULT FIRE IN THE BASEMENT! Continue reading “Massive Fire Reported in JP Morgan Basement Vault! Gold Force Majeure?”
I believe this case is a set-up and a test case, and if they get away with it, there will be many more cities, whose control is taken out of the hands of their residents. ~J
Source: Detroit Free Press
Thanks to DD.
LANSING — An Ingham County judge says Thursday’s historic Detroit bankruptcy filing violates the Michigan Constitution and state law and must be withdrawn. Continue reading “Michigan AG challenges judge’s ruling that Detroit bankruptcy is unconstitutional”
Reality Blog – by Clint Richardson
In case you haven’t heard, municipal bankruptcy is now all the rage. When smaller municipal corporations (only corporations can declare bankruptcy) had little resistance as test cases for these outrageous claims of fraudulent bankruptcy and default, the larger municipalities gained the confidence that the financially illiterate cesspool of people as citizens don’t know there heads from a hole in the wall when it comes to the financial reporting apparatus of government. Continue reading “Detroit: The Latest Bankruptcy Lie”
Natural News – by Ethan A. Huff
A $3.2 billion public school lunch scheme devised by Michelle Obama has been axed from at least one public school system in New York after students forced to eat according to the new standards were literally starving. According to reports, the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake (BH-BL) School District near Schenectady voted to scrap the National School Lunch Program starting in September 2013 after determining it to be a complete failure, both practically and financially. Continue reading “New York public school system drops Michelle Obama’s government lunch standards after students complain of starvation”
Homelessness could be turned into a crime under proposed anti-social behaviour laws a think-tank has warned.
The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing bill, which featured in the Queen’s Speech earlier this month, includes powers to ban certain activities from designated areas.
The Manifesto Club claims these Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) are more wide-ranging than the powers they will replace while including fewer checks on their use leaving them open to exploitation. Continue reading “Homelessness Could Be A Crime Under Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill Warns Think Tank”
Egyptian security forces raided the office of the Iranian Al Alam Arabic language satellite channel in Cairo and detained its director, the outlet reported on Saturday.
“The security forces also seized equipment and devices from the channel without giving any explanation for these actions,” Al Alam said on its website. Continue reading “Egyptian security forces raid office of Iranian TV channel”
In 1971, a bizarre experiment funded by the US Navy, and carried out in the basement of Stanford U, showed exactly how quickly normal, everyday people can quickly turn into psychotic creeps, just because they are given authority over others. But one of the major findings of the experiment was the effect of the uniform, and in the experiment, a baton and handcuffs. Continue reading “The Evil Psychology Behind A Cops Uniform And Badge. The Stanford Prison Experiment Revisited”
Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, we learn that China has a new ‘weapon’ that will turn you and I and entire cities into ‘basket cases‘. Before I go any further, I have to ask, have they already used this upon Washington DC and Capitol Hill and most big cities in America? It might certainly explain….well, you know…never mind. This ‘weapon’ sure sounds like what the US shadow govt. uses upon those who dissent, putting them through electronic torture and harassment. A video about electronic harassment via directed energy weapons is below. Directed energy weapons are real, they are here, and we are the target. This story from Bloomberg shares of China’s new propaganda ‘weapon’ and the tweets about it that have gone viral in China. Continue reading “China’s New Basket Case Weapon Will Turn Entire Cities Into Basket Cases”
Freedom Outpost – by John Risselada
If you haven’t been able to put two and two together yet, the spectacle we just witnessed as the George Zimmerman trial wasn’t really about George Zimmerman at all. It wasn’t a trial to find real justice and it wasn’t even a trial where George Zimmerman was the accused. It wasn’t about Trayvon Martin or the perceived injustice of a white guy who wasn’t white being racist against a poor, oppressed black kid. Nope, this was a trial where the nation’s self-defense laws were the accused and it was designed explicitly to get the new generation of ding dongs educated in social change and social justice to believe that drastic steps need to be taken to change our nations out dated gun laws. Ding dongs incidentally, that haven’t had an honest discussion about liberty and the constitution since the third grade. Continue reading “The Zimmerman Trial Was Ultimately About Going After Guns & Self-Defense Laws”
The film is set in Indonesia, where, beginning in 1965, military and paramilitary forces slaughtered up to a million Indonesians after overthrowing the democratically elected government. That military was backed by the United States and led by General Suharto, who would rule Indonesia for decades.
There has been no truth and reconciliation commission, nor have any of the murderers been brought to justice. As the film reveals, Indonesia is a country where the killers are to this day celebrated as heroes by many. Continue reading ““The Act of Killing”: New Film Shows U.S.-Backed Indonesian Death Squad Leaders Re-enacting Massacres”
You’d think the only thing happening in the world right now is the Trayvon Martin case. Perhaps that’s the intention of TPTB. In the last few days of the Zimmerman trial, over 20 children were shot in Chicago, but no one really noticed. I agree without argument or ceremony that both sides, Zimmerman and Trayvon, were in the wrong. That said, we need to move on to equally or more pressing issues and avoid the theatrics designed to distract us.
Issues that are at least if not more pressing include Bernanke and the FED admitting that dollar collapse would be imminent as soon as the FED stops pumping “QE Infinity”. This is very significant because apparently there are only two alternatives – inflation ad infinitum or dollar collapse. But the country being so involved in the soap opera that was the Zimmerman trial and related events, no body seemed to notice much. Continue reading “What Kind of World?”
Monsanto and their biotech buddies would have you believe that they are super-heroes, set on saving hungry children from starvation wearing a dazzling fake-green cape. In fact, in a recent attack on activists, Monsanto’s CEO Hugh Grant said that because critics “can afford” organic food, we don’t care about the plight of those who can’t afford it. “There is this strange kind of reverse elitism: If I’m going to do this, then everything else shouldn’t exist,” said Grant. “There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.” Continue reading “The 10 GMO Myths That Monsanto Wants You to Believe”
Business Week – by Venessa Wong
A report released just before July 4th by an environmental group seems to have gotten lost in the holiday weekend haze, despite findings that link cola and cancer. Pepsi (PEP) continues to sell sodas made with4-methylimidazole, or 4-MEI—ruled a carcinogen last year by the state of California—according to the Center For Environmental Health. Continue reading “Pepsi Plans to Drop Disputed Cancer Chemical”
The American Civil LIberties Union (ACLU) is filing lawsuits in strategic states to remove the medical ban on homosexuals donating blood and plasma.
Never mind that just 30 years ago, in the early days of AIDS, thousands of innocent women, children and men died of AIDS from infected blood transfusions. Dozens of medical workers in blood donation centers contracted the disease from contact with contaminated blood. Continue reading “Bad Blood: The Gay Drive to Donate”
According to a new survey of America’s beekeepers, almost a third of the country’s honeybee colonies did not make it through the winter.
That’s been the case, in fact, almost every year since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began this annual survey, six years ago. Continue reading “Bee Deaths May Have Reached A Crisis Point For Crops”
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Before It’s News – by stompk
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NPR – by Dan Charles