February 2012
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The Boat in the Middle of Nowhere →
The open questions are numerous. Why was a boat anywhere near the area — quite literally, in the middle of nowhere? Who was on the boat? How did they get there — over a thousand miles from civilization — with nothing more than a pair of oars? And what happened to the crew?
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Report: Debt will swell under top GOP hopefuls’... →
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According to the report — set for release Thursday by U.S. Budget Watch, a project of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget — former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum and former House speaker Newt Gingrich would do the most damage to the nation’s finances, offering tax and spending policies likely to require trillions of dollars in fresh borrowing.
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Anonymous Hacks Greek Ministry Website, Demands... →
If there is one war that Greece could not afford to join, that is with the global computer hacking collective known as Anonymous. Yet as of minutes ago, that is precisley what happened, after Anonymous, as part of what it now calls Operation Greece, took down the Greek Ministry of Justice (http://www.ministryofjustice.gr/). While the pretext for the hacking appears to have been an arrest of...
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After finding no evidence of a C.I.A. ID, man... →
Naples man arrested at bank claims he’s CIA director, half orangutan
A Naples man is accused of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after an incident Friday outside a bank, where he told deputies he was half orangutan and needed to call the “Fusion Center” to ask about his monkey blood.
Good thing they double-checked and made absolutely sure he wasn’t the CIA Director...
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WHO Admits Omitting Fluoride’s Damaging Health... →
Fluoride, in whatever amount, is nothing less than a chemical weapon.
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Pasteurized milk 150 times more contaminated with... →
(NaturalNews) The vaccine-pushing, disease scare-mongering agency known as the CDC has put out a stunning piece of propaganda attacking fresh milk (raw dairy), claiming it is “150 times more dangerous” than pasteurized milk. This is all part of their anti-American agenda to crush food freedom and criminalize fundamental farming practices upon which this very nation was founded....
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CDC researchers say mothers should stop... →
(NaturalNews) Remember when it was considered crazy talk to suggest that mainstream medicine viewed humanity as being born lacking in pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, as if these synthetic inputs are necessary miracle nutrients for proper human development? Well, researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently showed that they adhere to this lunatic...
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Treasury dips into pension funds to avoid debt →
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury on Tuesday started dipping into federal pension funds in order to give the Obama administration more credit to pay government bills.
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Chicago to take a page out of the BART handbook &... →
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A Chicago alderman wants to make sure the city doesn’t look more like Egypt later this spring when leaders from around the world visit for a pair of international summits.
“This is the first G8/NATO summits on American soil in the age of Twitter, and we want to be sure people are able to communicate because communication is good,” said Ald. Ricardo Muñoz (22nd). ”That way we’re...
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Price Shock: Watch Cost of Gas Jump 10 Cents... →
The headlines of major newspapers and TV networks this week have been dominated by rising gas prices.
Drivers across the country have shared their stories on the cost - with many already paying more than $4 a gallon at the pump. There have even been reports of gas prices rising at a rate of 10 to 15 cents in a matter of hours.
Read: How high will gas prices go?
The swiftness at...
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Col.-Gen. Leonid Ivashov: Russia Is Ready to Use... →
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10 "fun" facts about drones →
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And the slide to the complete police state slips even closer.
1. There could be 30,000 drones overhead in the U.S. by 2020, reports the Washington Times.
2. Reaper drones’ “unblinking stare” can currently take in a 4 kilometer by 4 kilometer area — about the size of Fairfax — but that will soon be expanded, said Air Force Lieutenant General Larry James, to a 10...
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Why you can't trust what the media say about our... →
(NaturalNews) You probably already know not to trust what the news media says about big corporations, which after all are their owners — for example, Disney owns ABC, and General Electric holds stake in NBC. Now Harvard law professor and political activist Larry Lessig has released a Venn diagram that strikingly demonstrates the close connections between U.S. media and government. ...
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FBI says paying for your morning coffee with cash... →
(NaturalNews) Purchasing a cup of coffee using cash instead of a credit or debit card, using Google Maps to view photos of sporting event stadiums and large cities, and installing software to protect your internet privacy on your mobile phone — these and many other mundane activities are now considered to be potential terrorist activities by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)....
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Michelle's ski trip marks 16 Obama vacations (in... →
The Hawaii Reporter said the first family’s 2011 Christmas vacation in Hawaii would exceed $1.5 million.
And some of these vacations cost A LOT MORE.
Critics and even some in his own party say the vacations present a bad image at a time when many Americans are struggling to get by during the recession.
No way, why would anyone feel that way?
According to recent Harris poll, only three in...
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Iran stops oil sales to British and French firms →
(Reuters) - Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state’s lifeblood, oil.
See also: Saudi Arabia Cuts Oil Output, Export and Oil Prices Hit 9-Mo. High. Put it all together and whadaya get? The Price of Gas Is Outrageous — And It Is Going to Go Even Higher....
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The Price Of Gas Is Outrageous -- And It Is Going... →
So just how bad are gas prices in the U.S. right now? Just consider the following facts….
-The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States is now $3.53.
-The average price of a gallon of gasoline is already higher than $3.70 in Connecticut, Washington D.C. and New York.
-In California, the average price of a gallon of gasoline is $3.96 and there are quite a few...
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Military Warns Active Duty, Reservists, and... →
Adam Kokesh has a copy of a letter sent by the Navy’s legal beagles warning all of us not to attend the Veterans for Ron Paul March in DC on February 20th. I’m attending this march, and I expect many of us will be represented there. The military requires us to take an oath to defend and support the Constitution, but God forbid we be seen actually supporting the one presidential...
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Infowars Issues Emergency Terror Alert →
Regardless of your personal feelings about Alex Jones, this story makes some good points about the continual upcoming war with Iran bombardment perpetrated by the mainstream media as of late…
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Postal Service Seeks 50-Cent Stamps, No Saturday... →
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Active Duty Troops to March on White House →
The February 20th march on the White House by veterans and active service members in support of Paul is appropriately dubbed “Ron Paul is the Choice of the Troops.” The event will begin at noon with a rally at the Washington Monument followed by a march at 2 PM in military squad formation to the White House where a special ceremony to honor troops who have died since the election of Obama...
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Soros Warns Of Chaos, But Supports People Creating... →
Billionaire George Soros has been warning in recent weeks of “chaos” coming to the West. That’s curious. Because by the wildest of coincidences, he just happens to be supporting the radicals creating it.
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U.S. schoolchildren now subjected to sack lunch... →
First it was the TSA searching your underpants at the airport, claiming to be protecting you from “terrorists.” Now a local elementary school in North Carolina is searching the homemade lunches of schoolchildren with the goal of forcing children to ditch their nutritious, home-made meals and learn to consume pasteurized, homogenized USDA-approved cow’s milk and chemically-laced processed...
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Deadly Alcohol Needs Global Regulation, Health... →
In a commentary appearing today (Feb. 15) in the journal Nature, Sridhar argues that the WHO should regulate alcohol at the global level, enforcing such regulations as a minimum drinking age, zero-tolerance drunken driving, and bans on unlimited drink specials. Abiding by the regulations would be mandatory for the WHO’s 194 member states.
Maybe people will actually realize the...
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The next World Bank president: Bill Clinton? →
The World Bank desperately needs to revive its fortunes after years of lacklustre leadership and shrinking role – which is precisely why former US president Bill Clinton is among the names being touted as its next head to replace Robert Zoellick.
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US biotech giant guilty of poisoning French farmer... →
The judgment, following a long, legal struggle by Mr François, was hailed as a landmark breakthrough by campaigners against the systematic farm use of chemical pesticides and herbicides. “It is a historic decision in so far as it is the first time that a (herbicide) maker is found guilty of such a poisoning,” Mr François’ lawyer, Maître Francois Lafforgue, said.
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Nato apologises after killing eight Afghan... →
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Report: US topsoil contains levels of radioactive... →
Few in the mainstream media are talking about it these days, but radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is still spewing into and contaminating the environment. And a professional engineer from Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering says that levels of radioactive cesium in US topsoil have recently been detected at levels...
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Pentagon’s Project ‘Avatar’: Same as the Movie,... →
Soldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the humans’ place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from obliterating its target.
If you’ve got Danger Room’s taste in movies, you’ve probably seen both ideas on the big screen. Now Darpa, the Pentagon’s far-out research arm, wants to bring ‘em into the...
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China Warns on Growing Water Shortages →
The world’s second-largest economy, is struggling to deal with the costs of the immense environmental degradation that has accompanied economic growth. Worsening water shortages and water pollution pose a growing threat to economic and social development, Hu Siyi, vice-minister of water resources, told a press conference on Thursday.
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Drug-releasing microchip passes first test in... →
(Health.com) — It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie: A patient visits a doctor’s office and, after a brief surgical procedure, walks away with a microchip under her skin that delivers medication in precisely timed and measured doses.
That scenario doesn’t seem so futuristic anymore. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced today...
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Why the U.S. economy parallels Ancient Rome →
An inefficient, weak tax system. A bloated military budget. Multiple wars being waged simultaneously.
You can be excused for thinking the preceding sentence is about the United States, but in fact, it describes the Roman Empire two millennium ago as it began its long, hundred-year decline. Jeff Gundlach, CEO with DoubleLine Capital LP in Los Angeles, used the parallels between Ancient Rome...
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Virginia House Passes NDAA Nullification 96-4 →
In a move completely ignored by the establishment media, the Virginia House of Delegates has voted in favor of House Bill 1160 (HB1160), legislation that codifies in Virginia law noncompliance with the “kidnapping provisions” of section 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA).
The final vote, held on February 14, was 96-4. The bill was sponsored by Delegate...
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Report: Insider Documents Detail a March 23 Greek... →
That a default in Europe is coming has never been the question. For the astute observer the only thing at issue is how and when it will happen. While the mainstream financial media and government officials have tried to spin this story as one that involves only Greek debt, the fact of the matter is that this isn’t isolated to a single country. Italy, Portugal, Ireland and most other...
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WHY IS THE FBI THINKING ABOUT SHUTTING OFF YOUR... →
It’s a scary thought, having the Internet forcibly shut off for you. But it’s just what some Fortune 500 companies and government agencies could face as the Federal Bureau of Investigation tries to get rid of an extremely malicious computer virus.
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400 shades of lipstick found to contain lead, FDA... →
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“Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest...”
– Phil Angell, Monsanto’s director of corporate communications (referring to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) explained the company’s regulatory philosophy to Michael Pollan in 1998
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Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with... →
RAEFORD — A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because the school told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious. The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the person who was inspecting all lunch boxes ...
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“Yes! Congress should obey the same laws as everyone else. I believe that was in...”
– Jon Stewart, on holding Congress members responsible for insider trading
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Obama budget proposes new security, airline fees →
Wait, we have to pay to be groped by creepy old dudes now? Awesome. You know. For people who are really really really really lonely.
How about he proposes a budget where we pay to NOT get molested by someone’s perpetually-radiated grandma?
Or, as death by 1,000 paper cuts suggests: “How much terror has to happen before Congress creates an agency protecting Americans from the...
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When 22 bird flu experts meet at the World Health... →
That’s always good. Wait, WHAT?