Common Dreams – by Deidre Fulton

A new legal opinion penned by two former Justice Department officials bolsters warnings that the proposed merger between agroindustrial giants Bayer and Monsanto “is a five-alarm threat to our food supply and to farmers around the world.”

The white paper (pdf) by Maurice E. Stucke and Allen P. Grunes, both former employees of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, states that Bayer’s proposed takeover of Monsanto would:   Continue reading “Bayer-Monsanto merger is ‘five-alarm threat’ to food and farms: Legal experts”

Consumerist – by Mary Beth Quirk

Why would the state need to know your name, phone number, where you live, wand how old you are when you buy beer? It’s unclear, but that kind of detailed info is exactly what Alabama regulators have proposed craft brewers collect from anyone buying beer to bring home.

The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board is considering a new rule [PDF]what would require brewers to collect that kind of information from anyone who purchases beer at a brewery for off-premise consumption, the Associated Press reports, and industry groups are not pleased: they’re calling it an invasion of privacy, and an administrative nightmare.   Continue reading “State Wants Craft Brewers To Keep Info On Every Person They Sell Beer To”

Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos

Washington, D.C. – A new Department of Defense Inspector General’s report, released last week, has left Americans stunned at the jaw-dropping lack of accountability and oversight. The glaring report revealed the Pentagon couldn’t account for $6.5 trillion dollars worth of Army general fund transactions and data, according to a report by the Fiscal Times.

The Pentagon, which has been notoriously lax in its accounting practices, has never completed an audit, would reveal how the agency has specifically spent the trillions of dollars allocated for wars, equipment, personnel, housing, healthcare and procurements allotted to them by Congress.   Continue reading “Audit Reveals the Pentagon Doesn’t Know Where $6.5 Trillion Dollars Has Gone”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

The police state apparatus will now condition children to prostrate themselves before their masters as they are extorted during traffic stops. Illinois drivers education now includes instructions on how to properly allow police to generate revenue.

The bill signed into law on Friday by Governor Bruce Rauner authorizes a new curriculum for driver’s education classes which includes interacting with police. It will be instituted for the 2017-18 school year and become mandatory training at both private and public schools.   Continue reading “Illinois Institutes Chilling New Mandate for Schools to Teach Children How to Submit to Police”

Constitution – by Onan Coca

The liberal fascists in Charlotte, North Carolina might have been stopped from forcing unisex bathrooms on private businesses, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped fighting. The activists have shifted their focus from private businesses towards the local public school system and pushed the school board in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County to enact new guidelines on dealing with gender issues.   Continue reading “Public Schools in North Carolina Look to Brainwash Children on Gender with “the Gender Unicorn”!”

Informed Comment – by Juan Cole

Zack Beauchamp at Vox has a very clear explanation of why the $400 million the US paid to Iran in January was not a ransom for hostages.

The fact is that the Obama administration dodged a likely ruling by an arbitration court against the United States that could have awarded Iran as much as $10 billion.   Continue reading “Obama not only did not pay Iran Ransom, he denied Iran Billions it had Coming to It”

Video Rebel’s Blog

We need to go beyond Left and Right to found an anti-Banker party. Dr Michael Hudson.

Republicans are used to unfair reporting from the news media because the press in the US is mostly Jewish owned and both pro-Israel and pro-Wall Street. But this year has been rather astounding. When Bernie Sanders supporters converged on Debbie Wasserman Schultz to blame her for rigging the primaries for Hillary, MSNBC said 99% applauded the former head of the DNC. I saw the raw video of Sanders supporters booing her and yelling, “Bernie. Bernie.” The TV audience never saw the anti-Hillary protesters outside the convention center chanting, “Lock her up! Lock her up!”   Continue reading “Either Give Fair Coverage Or We Pull Your FCC Licenses!”

SuperStation95

The United States Government, specifically the US Department of Defense, has been caught supplying 1700 metric tons of brand new, advanced U.S. weapons, to the Jabhat Al Nusra, the Al Qaida terrorist group affiliate inside Syria!  The weapons were shipped on a transport vessel by sea, through the port of Aqaba, Jordan to Aleppo, Syria.    Continue reading “Caught! U.S. Gov’t Shipped 1700 Metric Tons Of New, U.S. Weapons To Al Nusra Terrorists In Syria”

Investment Watch

The State’s Attorney’s General of Virginia, New York, Massacheusetts, and one other east coast state, along with DHS, FEMA and the A D L had a teleconference yesterday describing huge plans for gun confiscation in those states.

Amazingly, someone either risked their life or hit the wrong button because the supposedly private teleconference went out as open access to state and government agencies.   Continue reading “Teleconference of East Coast Gov’t Agencies Planning Gun Confiscation Leaked”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

KEY WEST, Flor. (INTELLIHUB) — British and Canadian citizens have been told to use caution when traveling to Florida and have been warned away from having sexual intercourse within the state as the Zika virus, carried by mosquitoes, is now spreading through several counties.

In Miami authorities are maintaining statements that the virus has been contained to a one square mile zone in the city as workers diligently continue ground and aerial spraying efforts in order to control the virus’s spread.   Continue reading “Insecticides being sprayed from helicopters onto general public at low altitudes to combat Zika in Florida Keys”

Heat Street – by Jillian Kay Melchior

During the Democratic National Convention, the office of Philadelphia’s most powerful construction union stood out, decked in an enormous sign declaring “Hillary for President.” But on Friday morning, the union headquarters captured public attention for a different reason: a yellow Penske semi-truck parked on the curb outside, packed with dozens of boxes of evidence lugged out of the office by federal agents.   Continue reading “Feds Raid Home, Office, Pub of Philly Union Boss Tied to DNC and Clinton”

Logo_of_the_United_Methodist_Church.svgThe United Methodist Church (UMC) is a mainline Protestant denomination, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor—the Evangelical United Brethren Church—was a leader in Evangelicalism.

The United Methodist Church supports federal legislative efforts for strict gun control measures in the USA, and outright bans of most weapons in other nations.[81] The Church also declares every church to be “a weapon-free zone”.[82]

Preferred Method: Reeducation

Weasel Zippers

I’m sure he’ll squeeze in a few more destinations before he leaves office.

BOSTON (CBS) – President Obama and the First Family have arrived on Martha’s Vineyard for their final presidential getaway on Martha’s Vineyard.   Continue reading “Obama Leaves D.C. For Final Taxpayer-Funded Martha’s Vineyard Vacation…”

Counter Current News – by Tasha Sharifa

Rob Evans of the Guardian writes:

”The most traumatizing time of Lisa Jones’s life began when she agonized for months over the true identity of her boyfriend. They had been together for six years and she loved him “totally, completely, more than anyone”.

“He was the closest person in the world to me,” she says. “The person who knew me better than anybody else. I thought I knew him better than anyone else knew him.” But she had begun to suspect that he was lying about who he really was.   Continue reading “Woman Discovers Boyfriend of Six Years Is Undercover Cop Spying on Her and Her Friends”

Yahoo News

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Police shot a mugger near the stadium where the Rio Olympics opening ceremony took place and a woman was killed close to another Olympic site, police said Saturday.

The violence on Friday highlighted the task facing an unprecedented force of 85,000 soldiers and police deployed to secure the Olympics.   Continue reading “Two shot dead at Rio Olympic sites”

Sent to us by a reader: This finance/government collaboration explains the American elites’ love affair with international socialism. They don’t know how to make money any other way. Competition is a sin. Government organized monopolies are profitable when you control the government. If there are no national restrictions on moving profits around, they can hide their loot offshore. The perfect crime.

The Occidental Observer – by Carolina Hartley

We’re never far from money. We spend most of our time and energy in quest of money.

But how did this thing become an intermediary between us and the world around us? Before money, we bartered. Why did money supplant barter and who is custodian of the money system?    Continue reading “Ezra Pound on Money”