downloadScience Blogs – by Greg Laden

Probably.

I want to start out by welcoming all you bee experts who think it is not the neonicotinoids, or that it is not so simple, to make your case in the comments. There is a great deal of controversy over what is causing bees to die off. That controversy even impinges on how we describe the thing we are talking about. Notice that I’ve not used the term “colony collapse disorder” because that is a term that may have been misused, or at least, that people who know stuff have noted has been used incorrectly thus mucking up the discussion.   Continue reading “What is killing the bees? It’s the neonicotinoids, for sure.”

Before It’s News – by Tom Dennen

How did Banks get “Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail” and How Soon Will they be Too Big to Tax? Hint – They Started 3000 Years Ago as Monylenders in the Temples… and they arevery patient.

The secret was an overwhelmingly convincing demonstration 400 years ago in Holland that showed how greed among the middle classes could be controlled through specific forms of financial manipulation over and above predatory lending and other practices the demonstrators – money lenders – had already perfected over eons.​    Continue reading “How did Banks get “Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail” and How Soon Will they be Too Big to Tax? Hint – They Started 3000 Years Ago as Monylenders in the Temples…”

TV-subliminalBTruthstream Media – by Aaron Dykes

Television is mass mind control, and the Internet and cell phones are using the technology, too.

Former managing director and member of the board of directors of Wall Street investment firm Dillon, Read & Co, as well as former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner in the Dept. of H.U.D. during the Bush 41 administration, Catherine Austin Fittsrelays a chilling conversation she overheard circa 1984 while working on Wall Street, where executives discussed how subliminals and entrainment technology was about to be deployed through the television waves.   Continue reading “Wall Street Whistleblower: Subliminals Added to TV”

ABC News

He’s a 42-year-old freshman senator, but when asked by Jonathan Karl on “This Week” if he’s ready to be president, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida answered without hesitation.

“I do … but I think that’s true for multiple other people that would want to run … I mean, I’ll be 43 this month, but the other thing that perhaps people don’t realize, I’ve served now in public office for the better part of 14 years,” said Rubio. “Most importantly, I think a president has to have a clear vision of where the country needs to go and clear ideas about how to get it there and I think we’re very blessed in our party to have a number of people that fit that criteria.”    Continue reading “Sen. Marco Rubio: Yes, I’m Ready to be President”

Bluegrass Pundit

This is the least shocking story of the day. Boehner doesn’t have the balls to have the House arrest Lois Lerner for contempt and Eric Holder will never do it. That leaves the contempt vote as a toothless show vote to placate the base. Boehner can go back to working on his tan and golf game now.

Via The Hill:   
Continue reading “Boehner fails to find a pair: Rules out House arresting Lois Lerner…”

Marine One-to-be: An artist's rendering shows what Sikorsky's proposed 'VXX' presidential helicopter might look likeDaily Mail – by David Martosko

The Department of Defense awarded a contract on Wednesday to a Connecticut company that will build a fleet of helicopters to replace the Marine One fleet that ferries U.S. presidents short distances.

The contract, given to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, will cost an initial $1,244,677,064 ‘for the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the Presidential Helicopter Replacement program.’ For that price the U.S. Navy will get six test aircraft and all the necessary research & development.    Continue reading “Obama administration to spend $20 BILLION on helicopter program to replace his private fleet of 23 choppers – but they won’t be ready until 2022”

AOL

Imagine you’re on a nice, long train ride in the United States. You close your eyes for a quick nap and wake up in… China? Yup. That could happen if China goes through with a proposed high-speed railway linking it to the U.S.

The project, nicknamed the “China-Russia-Canada-America” line, would be over 8,000 miles long and was first reported in China’s state-run Beijing Times newspaper. The paper interviewed a railway expert from the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Continue reading “China considering building high-speed railway to U.S.”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The most significant geopolitical event of the day is the east Ukraine independence referendum taking place in various cities across the region, less than two months after the Crimean case study which saw the region split away from Ukraine and join Russia, despite the fervent warnings by Kiev and the west that the result of the “rigged election” would not be accepted by anyone. As it turned out then, it only needed to be accepted by Russia which promptly took over the Black Sea territory.   Continue reading “East Ukraine Votes For Independence: Turnout Reported “Off The Charts””

FBI Drafts Law to Require Websites to Grant Backdoor Access to Government AgenciSCG News

I’m sure you’ve heard about PRISM, the NSA’s surveillance program which enlisted the cooperation of tech giants like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft (and thereby Skype). That program involved companies voluntarily granting the U.S. government backdoor access to user communications and data. This was a scandal, and of course the companies involved were not about to reveal the technical methods used to grant that access. In the case of Microsoft, we have specific documents from the Snowden leaks which show that Microsoft helped the NSA by developing a way to break their own encryption, thereby allowing real time monitoring of Skype audio and video. If you think that’s creepy, wait till you hear what they are trying to do next.   Continue reading “FBI Drafts Law to Require Websites to Grant Backdoor Access to Government Agencies”

Charleston Voice

Center for Defense Information{CDI}
1500 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20005

Formed in 1973 as a project of the tax-exempt Fund for Peace(FFP). CDI and its sister FFP projects – the Center for National Security Studies(CNSS) and the Center for International Policy(CIP) – are spin-offs from projects initiated by the Institute for Policy Studies(IPS), the Washington-based , internationally active revolutionary think-tank. CDI director Gene R. LaRoque has worked closely with IPS cofounder Richard Barnet, and longtime IPS fellow Earl C. Ravenal as a CDI advisor.   Continue reading “Center for Defense Information{CDI} and its Marxist Sphere of DC Influence”

Ukranian_PartisansThe Captain’s Journal – by HERSCHEL SMITH

Politico Magazine:

It is here in the forest that you leave behind, once and for all, Ukraine’s cosmopolitan present and take a step back into its violent past—as well as glimpse what could become its bloody future. It is here, locals say, where Ukraine’s fate could be decided once again.

Continue reading “Yuppie, Get Your Gun!”

American Rifleman – by Bruce Canfield

Early 1942 was a time of crisis for the Allies. The Japanese had dealt America’s Pacific fleet a crippling blow on Dec. 7, 1941, and just a few months later would force the surrender of the Philippines. On the other side of the world, most of Western Europe was under the heel of the Nazi jackboot, and the seemingly invincible Wehrmacht was sweeping across the steppes of the Soviet Union. Against that bleak backdrop, Allied planners were tirelessly exploring ways to stem the Axis aggression and take the fight to the enemy.   Continue reading “The Liberator Pistol”

Mail.com

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — One of the two officers at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen who shot and killed a pair of suspected al-Qaida gunmen was getting a haircut at a barbershop when the attempted abduction took place, Yemeni security officials said Sunday.

The attempted kidnapping April 24 is the latest evidence of al-Qaida’s expanding presence in the capital, a serious challenge to the authority of the already weak central government. It also could strain ties between Yemen and the U.S., which has launched an aggressive campaign of drone strikes against suspected al-Qaida fighters in the country.   Continue reading “Americans in Yemen shooting were getting haircuts”

CenturyLink – by Martin Griffith, AP

Dozens of people rode their ATVs and motorcycles on an off-limits trail in southern Utah on Saturday in a protest against what the group calls the federal government’s overreaching control of public lands.

San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge said from 40 to 50 people, many of them waving American flags and some carrying weapons, drove about a mile down Recapture Canyon near Blanding and then turned around. Hundreds attended a rally at a nearby park before the protest.   Continue reading “Dozens of protesters ride in off-limits canyon”

Yahoo News

(Reuters) – A Veterans Affairs healthcare coordinator was placed on administrative leave on Friday following revelations of an email sent last year outlining a scheme for masking delayed treatment of patients at a VA medical facility in Wyoming, CBS News reported.

The report comes as Veterans Administration Secretary Eric Shinseki faces increased pressure to resign over charges his department allowed deadly delays in care at some of its hospitals for veterans.   Continue reading “Veterans Affairs worker in Wyoming placed on leave in patient delay scandal – report”