Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif smiles as he speaks to the media at the International Conference Centre of Geneva in Geneva November 24, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Carolyn Kaster/PoolReuters

(Reuters) – Iran would receive the first $550 million installment of a total of $4.2 billion in previously blocked overseas funds on or about February 1, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.

Under a November 24 nuclear agreement, six major powers agreed to give Iran access to $4.2 billion in revenues blocked overseas if it carries out the deal, which offers sanctions relief in exchange for steps to curb the Iranian nuclear program.   Continue reading “Iran to get first $550 million of blocked $4.2 billion on February 1”

black sabbathHuffington Post – by Aaron Brophy

Few bands throughout history have better represented the fight between good and evil than heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath.

The group even had an album and song titled “Heaven And Hell” during one of the periods when the late Ronnie James Dio had replaced Ozzy Osbourne as the band’s lead singer. That song’s main refrain of “Oh, it’s on and on and on/ It goes on and on and on, Heaven and Hell” pointedly captured that sense of an eternal struggle.   Continue reading “Black Sabbath’s Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil”

FILE - This Aug. 1, 2013, file photo shows Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., flanked by Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., left, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Top congressional negotiators released on Jan. 13, 2014, a bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending bill that would pay for the operations of government through October and finally put to rest the bitter budget battles of last year. The 1,582-page bill was released after weeks of negotiations between House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, R-Ky., and Senate counterpart Mikulski, who kept a tight lid on the details. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Yahoo News – by ANDREW TAYLOR

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top congressional negotiators Monday night released a bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending bill that would pay for the operations of government through October and finally put to rest the bitter budget battles of last year.

The massive measure fleshes out the details of the budget deal that Congress passed last month. That pact gave relatively modest, but much-sought relief to the Pentagon and domestic agencies after deep budget cuts last year.   Continue reading “Huge Spending Bill Would Bury Budget Battles”

Photographer Chris Du Plessis and Mtombi the Cheetah reviewing the photosDaily Mail – by Ted Thornhill

This picture captures the incredible moment a photographer lies in the grass beside a cheetah at an African game reserve.

The predator is the picture of spotty elegance as she poses with the photographer and peers down the camera.

The beautiful beast has her ears pricked ready to stalk some prey – but luckily seems to have no appetite for the man beside her.   Continue reading “Amazing moment a cheetah lies down next to a photographer and even lets him stroke her head”

Before It’s News – by Josey Wales

The American people have started to wake up. Watching everything from weekly police shootings of innocent people across the nation, to ATF running another Fast and Furious program right here on American soil.

Recently a string of ATF operations around the country have been exposed for their rogue tactics exploiting the mentally handicapped, turning out armed felons onto America’s streets. While the ATF was setting up storefront sting operations in at least six American cities nation wide, they recruited mentally disabled people to bring in business to their stores.   Continue reading “Manufactured Crisis: Fast and Furious Quietly Expanded To 6 American Cities”

WND

In 2008, President Obama said he would “bankrupt” coal plant owners and force energy prices across the U.S. to “skyrocket” as part of his plan to combat global warming – and now a new EPA rule on power plant emissions promises to do just that, slashing as much as 40 percent of the nation’s power supply and possibly even doubling Americans’ energy bills.

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted” Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board in January 2008.   Continue reading “Obama plot: Black out ‘40% of U.S. power supply’”

Before It’s News – by Lyn Leahz

Over the years, the United Nations has gradually purchased most of our precious National parks in the United States of America, and now they are working on buying all major U.S. cities. But why? What is the bigger picture? What is coming to America?

As the Obama ‘Regime’ childishly uses our National Parks and Monuments as weapons against it’s own veterans, citizens, and especially to threaten the Tea Party, and it’s values (The Constitution),  few people are aware of the fact that we the people, United States citizens, do not control our own treasured landmarks. Continue reading “Why Has the United Nations Purchased Most National Parks and Targeting Major Cities in the USA?”

Suspected Mexican drug trafficker Vicente Zambada-NieblaBusiness Insider – by Michael Insider

An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels.

Sinaloa, led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, supplies 80% of the drugs entering the Chicago area and has a presence in cities across the U.S.   Continue reading “CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel”

Activist Post – by Jeff Roberts

The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last forty two years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behaviour needed to stop environmental destruction.   Continue reading “Take 10 Minutes To Inform Yourself On The Fukushima Crisis”

filephoto manuel ramos jay cicinelli kelly thomas trialKTLA News – by Melissa Pamer

In a quickly reached verdict, jurors found two former Fullerton police officers accused in the 2011 beating death of a 37-year-old homeless man not guilty on all charges on Monday.

Former Officer Manuel Ramos and ex-Corporal Jay Cicinelli were accused of causing the death of Kelly Thomas in a violent struggle in the Orange County college town, prompting angry protests and closely watched criminal proceedings.   Continue reading “Ex-Officers Found Not Guilty in Kelly Thomas’ Beating Death”

IRSSovereign Man – by Simon Black

In the 3rd century AD, Emperor Caracalla famously remarked of Rome’s tax policy:

“For as long as we have this,” pointing to his sword, “we shall not run out of money.” (Of course, Rome did run out of money. )

At the time, Roman taxation was so extractive that it drove people into poverty and desperation. Yet the government continued to forcibly plunder wealth at the point of a sword.   Continue reading “Check out the IRS’s stunning admission of its own mafia tactics”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Money well-spent, we are sure some would suggest; but when the National Institute of Health spends $224,863 to test 95 “custom-fitted” condoms so every hard-working American man can choose the one that fits ‘just right’, we suggest the government is stretching the tax dollar a little too far. As NY Post reports, the study was prompted by concern that despite the wide-scale promotion of latex condoms to help prevent the spread of HIV, their use remains “disappointingly low,” because, the government says, one-third to one-half of men complain of poor-fitting prophylactics and are less likely to use them… apparently. Of course, we assume, when questioned, all said the condom was ‘too small’.   Continue reading “Government Spent $224,863 On “Custom-Fit” Condoms”

Activist Post – by James White

Something that always puzzled me is how we, as Americans, allow the Federal Government to “flip the script” when it comes to appropriate rules of conduct. The idea is that the officials (public servants) who we elect are supposed to be working for us, their constituents. Put another way, they are our employees. We, the people, are the boss. Or, at least we are supposed to be.   Continue reading “Unelected Bureaucrats: Conduit for America’s Destruction”

Friends of Liberty

Operation Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are the two sub programs which will be implemented once the Rex 84 program is initiated for its proper purpose. Garden Plot is the program to control the population. Cable Splicer is the program for an orderly takeover of the state and local governments by the federal government. FEMA is the executive arm of the coming police state and thus will head up all operations. The Presidential Executive Orders already listed on the Federal Register also are part of the legal framework for this operation.   Continue reading “FEMA Concentration Camps: Locations and Executive Orders”

Alternews

Investigators say a man set a Penn Hills (Pittsburgh) house on fire after an argument with the home’s residents.

Mark Anthony Venson, 21, turned himself in to police Saturday to face charges for arson. Investigators say he intentionally set fire to the house on Lime Hollow Road on Thursday after the home’s residents told him to leave.    Continue reading “Couple allow homeless man to sleep in their house, he repays them by setting fire to it over argument about sausages”

google-becomes-military-contractor-for-the-pentagon-war-machineNow the End Begins

Google has spent the last decade building databases on everything, including each and every computer-using American citizen. Now it intends to join forces with the United States Military to put all that info to good use. The giant “swooshing sound” you are hearing right now is the major leap forward of the Mark of the Beast.

The DC: Google CEO Larry Page has rapidly positioned Google to become an indispensable U.S. military contractor. Google recently purchased Boston Dynamics, a robotics pioneer that produces amazing humanoid robots for the U.S. Defense Department.   Continue reading “Google Joins Forces With NSA And DARPA As Military Contractor”