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”

schoolNatural 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 crimeHuffington Post

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”

Reuters

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”

Before It’s News – by stompk

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”

Information Clearinghouse

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 mythsThe Organic Prepper

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”

Pepsi Plans to Drop Disputed Cancer ChemicalBusiness 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”

blood1Henry Makow – by Hugo Vance

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”

A bee inspector checks on a frame of bees to assess the colony strength near Turlock, Calif., in February. More than 30 percent of America's bee colonies died off over the winter.NPR – by Dan Charles

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”

Libertarian Republican – by Eric Dondero

Whoa! duuuuuude, major diss of SD Mayor 

From Eric Dondero:

Nancy Pelosi and Bob Filner served in the US House as representatives from California for 8 years. Filner and Pelosi served together in numerous caucuses and committees over the years.    Continue reading “Pelosi seriously backs away from scandal-ridden fmr. colleague Bob Filner – He’s not “my former colleague””

“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a bookSalon – by RADLEY BALKO

Excerpted from “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces”

Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit.   Continue reading ““Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control”

DebtThe Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

When you add maturing debt to the new debt that the federal government is accumulating, the total is quite eye catching.  You see, the truth is that the U.S. government must not only borrow enough money to fund government spending for this year, it must also “roll over” existing debt that has reached maturity.

Of course the government never actually pays any of that debt off.  Instead, it essentially takes out new debts to cover the old ones.  So the U.S. government is actually borrowing far more money each year than most Americans realize.    Continue reading “The U.S. Government Will Borrow Close To 4 Trillion Dollars This Year”

China reportedly planning to back the yuan with goldRussian Beyond the Headlines –  by Marina Maksimova

According to media reports of early July, the People’s Bank of China is mulling the possibility of phasing out the dollar as the reference currency for the yuan exchange rate, and to start using gold as the reference point.

The reports have not been confirmed officially, but analysts are warning that the step, if taken, will weaken the yuan and destabilise China’s already troubled economy, ultimately provoking a new bout of the economic crisis worldwide.   Continue reading “China reportedly planning to back the yuan with gold”

Reuters / Russell BoyceRT News

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that New York Times journalist James Risen must testify in the trial of a former Central Intelligence Agency officer accused of leaking classified national defense information to the media.

A lower court ruled previously that Risen could protect the source responsible for sharing intelligence about a CIA operation discussed in his writing, but the US Court of Appeals from the Fourth Circuit reversed that decision Friday morning with a 2-1 vote.   Continue reading “Court rules journalists can’t keep their sources secret”

Mark Wilson / Getty Images / AFP RT News

Police officers in the state of New Jersey will now require a judge’s signature on a search warrant if they want to obtain the sensitive location details emitted from the cell phones of criminal suspects.

The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday in a 7-0 vote that law enforcement agents in New Jersey need warrants in future cases when they want cell phone companies to hand over location data.   Continue reading “New Jersey toughens rules for phone data searches”