REPORT: The Israeli Air Force Flew Into Syria And Bombed A Chemical Weapons Plant
businessinsider.com - The Free Syrian Army (FSA) reports that Israeli fighter jets slipped into Damascus over the weekend and bombed a chemical weapons depot outside the city.

Guantanamo Bay sends in 40 medical reinforcements as two thirds of prisoners join hunger strike
Medical reinforcements have arrived at Guantanamo Bay to deal with a growing hunger strike by prisoners at the US detention centre in Cuba. Roughly 40 US Navy nurses and other specialists arrived over the weekend to deal with the growing number of strikers, which stands at 100 out of the 166 total inmates, according to Lieutenant Colonel Samuel House.

US urges North Korea to release detained American
Press TV - The United States called on North Korea on Monday to immediately release on humanitarian grounds a U.S. citizen accused of trying to topple the state's government.

Israel joins US-UK-Qaeda anti-Assad plot
Press TV - The Israeli regime has joined forces with the United States, Britain, and al-Qaeda terrorists in the plot to depose Syrian President Basher al-Assad. Speaking at a conference in New York on Sunday, former Mossad director Meir Dagan said Tel Aviv must “do whatever it can to make sure that Syrian President Basher al-Assad is removed from power.”

UN renews call for full access to Syria for chemical weapons inquiry
RT - The UN chief has urged Damascus to give its fact-finding team full access to sites where chemical weapons allegedly were used, stressing that he takes seriously the recent US report about the use of chemical weapon in Syria.

Israeli airstrike in Gaza kills one Palestinian, reportedly a militant
RT - An Israeli airstrike has killed a Palestinian motorcyclist and wounded two other people in Gaza. The attack is the first deadly airstrike carried out by Israel since a November ceasefire.

Pentagon using China satellite for US-Africa Command
Press TV - A U.S. lawmaker is questioning the Pentagon’s decision to use a Chinese commercial satellite to provide communications for its Africa Command.

VIDEO: U.S. Moves Closer to Military Intervention in Syria
Kurt Nimmo - Exploiting the unsubstantiated rumor that Syria has used chemicals weapons, senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham went on the Sunday news shows to push for military intervention in Syria.

Speak no evil: Netanyahu orders Israeli ministers to ‘remain silent’ on Syria
RT - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his ministers to cease making public comments on the civil conflict in Syria, especially reports regarding the alleged use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces, Israeli media said.

With Bags of Cash, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan
NY Times - For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency. 

20 Signs That The Next Great Economic Depression Has Already Started In Europe
Economic Collapse - The next Great Depression is already happening - it just hasn't reached the United States yet. Things in Europe just continue to get worse and worse, and yet most people in the United States still don't get it.

VIDEO: Greek parliament approves draconian civil service job cuts
RT - A new law which will cut some 15,000 state jobs by the end of next year, including 4,000 in 2013, has been passed by the Greek parliament. The harsh move is a part of austerity measures imposed by the Troika in return for a $11.4 billion bailout loan.

Report: Farmers Hoarding Food To Protect Against Currency Collapse
Mac Slavo - Like many Greeks, who have headed to the countryside to grow their own food in the midst of complete economic destruction, farmers in Argentina are hoarding the one tangible investment they know will not lose value, no matter what their currency does.

‘Big Brother’ in your fridge: British National Grid eyes ‘forced’ electricity switch
The UK’s National Grid has proposed all white goods for the British consumers to be fitted with special sensor chips, which would automatically and without owner’s consent turn the device off in the event of abnormal nationwide electricity demand.

Canada to tax Bitcoin transactions
RT - Canadians using bitcoins, the decentralized crypto-currency that recently went mainstream, must report their incomes and pay taxes as with other earnings, Canada's Revenue Agency (CRA) confirmed following a media request.

Mysterious kidney disease now 'top priority' in Central America
icij.org - Over the last two years, the Center for Public Integrity has examined how a rare type of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is killing thousands of agricultural workers along Central America’s Pacific Coast, as well as in Sri Lanka and India. Scientists have yet to definitively uncover the cause of the malady, although emerging evidence points to toxic heavy metals contained in pesticides as a potential culprit.

Boston Suspect’s Defense Team Gets Major Boost With Lawyer Who Defended Unabomber, Loughner
Fox News - The team that will be led by Miriam Conrad, the chief federal public defender for Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, got a major boost Monday with the addition of prominent San Diego lawyer and death penalty opponent Judy Clarke. Not that Conrad is considered any slouch.

Jersey City Police Brass Identify A Pro-militia Clique (Oathkeepers) In The department And Say They’ve Been Stopped
nj.com - A clique of officers who calls themselves “Three-Percenters” in the Jersey City Police Department’s Emergency Services Unit sprouted about two years ago, officials have told The Jersey Journal.

VIDEO: Cruz: GOP Senators Yelled at Me for Supporting Gun Filibuster
nationalreview.com - Texas senator Ted Cruz on Friday indicated that the battle among GOP senators over gun-control legislation was so fierce that, at several points during the debate, some of his Republican colleagues yelled at him “at the top of their lungs.”

UPDATE: Baby returned to parents after mix-up over ‘neglect’
RT - A Sacramento court has ruled for the return of a baby who had been forcefully taken from his parents by police and child protective services without a warrant on April 24, according to a Russian consulate spokesperson’s statement.

Misha the Radicalizer Story Hits a Speed Bump
Kurt Nimmo - The emerging narrative on the Boston bombings and the role allegedly played by the now deceased Tamerlan Tsarnaev hinges on a shadowy figured the government calls “Misha.” It is said the red-bearded Armenian Muslim lives in the Boston area, but could not be located by the authorities or the corporate media.

Mother of Bomb Suspects: “It’s All Lies”
Paul Joseph Watson - The mother of the Boston bombing suspects continues to insist that her sons are innocent, while the media responds by portraying Zubeidat Tsarnaeva as a terrorist herself after reports that Russian authorities intercepted phone calls during which she “vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son.”

Female DNA Found on Bomb in Boston Attack
Wall Street Journal - Investigators have found female DNA on at least one of the bombs used in the Boston Marathon attacks, though they haven’t determined whose DNA it is or whether that means a woman helped the two suspects carry out the attacks, according to U.S. officials briefed on the probe.

Obama: ‘I Am Not the Strapping, Young Muslim Socialist That I Used to Be’
CNS News - Speaking at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Barack Obama joked that he is no longer a young Muslim socialist.... “Now, look, I get it. These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be. Time passes. You get a little gray.”

U.S. Companies Purchased 900 Million Rounds of Ammo from Russia
Infowars.com - The outlandish purchase of billions of rounds of ammunition by the federal government has created a serious shortage in the United States. In response, according to a Russian website (Lenta.ru), suppliers in the United States are turning to Russia to fill the gap.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: ‘I’m Going to Grab Your Baby, and Don’t Resist’: Cops Barge Into Cali. Parents’ Home, Take Their Baby After They Seek 2nd Medical Opinion
The Blaze - California couple had their five-month-old baby “snatched” by police after they took the infant to get a second opinion on a medical procedure, they claim.

The Next Time Gold & Silver Skyrocket It Will Be in an American Financial Collapse!
silverdoctors.com - The charade that the Fed and US bankers/Financiers have been playing CAN NOT CONTINUE MUCH LONGER. The only way for them to make it out of this mess is an economic collapse. This way they can default on their debts and in the ensuing chaos pilfer the gold and silver with a promise to pay it back…One day.

The More Illegal Immigrants That Go On Food Stamps The More Money JP Morgan Makes
silverdoctors.com - Recently uncovered documents prove that the Obama administration has been working with the Mexican government to increase the number of illegal immigrants on food stamps, and when more illegal immigrants go on food stamps JP Morgan makes more money.
As you will read about below, JP Morgan has made at least 560 million dollars processing Electronic Benefits Transfer cards.

US names nationals killed in Afghanistan
Press TV - The United States Department of Defense has identified four Americans killed in Saturday's crash of a spy aircraft in southern Afghanistan. The US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) issued a statement on Saturday saying that the soldiers were killed when their plane went down in the province of Zabul.

‘N Korea to put American on trial’
Press TV - North Korea will put an American citizen, detained last year, on trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow Pyongyang’s government, a Korean news agency says.... The United States has so far not publicly commented on the latest development.

US lawmakers introduce tough N. Korea sanctions bill
timesofisrael.com - Republican and Democratic lawmakers are proposing to step up sanctions against North Korea by punishing companies, banks and governments. The bill crafted by leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and introduced Friday is modeled on sanctions in force against Iran.

‘US claims against Syria point to despair’
Press TV - senior Iranian lawmaker says the recent claims by the United States about the use of chemical weapons in Syria shows Washington's desperation in confronting the Syrian nation and government.

Lab-Altered H5N1 Flu More Infectious to Humans than Birds
voanews.com - A new study suggests a laboratory-mutated H5N1 avian influenza virus could pose a greater risk to humans than to birds, adding to concerns about the new avian flu strain that has emerged recently in China.

‘North Korea prepares for major drill’
Press TV - The military exercise involves North Korean artillery units and air force jets, Yonhap cited a South Korean government source, whose name was not mentioned. “It appears that the scale of the drill will be quite big,” the source stated.

New York Times Tells Truth About Syria; Neo-Cons Unfazed
lewrockwell.com - Shocking as it may seem, the New York Times managed to tell the truth about Syria today: "Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of." The conclusion to this revelation is not, unfortunately, "stop arming the non-existent secularists." Rather, it is to intervene even more -- and even more quickly.

Iraq suspends 10 satellite TV channels
Press TV - Iraq’s leading al-Sharqiya and Qatar-based Al-Jazeera are among the pan-Arabic channels whose operating licenses were revoked on Sunday. The Iraqi Communication and Media Commission said in a statement that the satellite channels had "exaggerated things, given misinformation and called for breaking the law and attacking Iraqi security forces".

'French troops to stay in Mali'
Press TV - France’s defense minister has reaffirmed that the country will keep 1,000 troops in Mali to fight armed groups even after the arrival of more than 12,000 UN peacekeepers later this year.

Israeli Dominated Drone Industry to Cash in on Boston Bombings
revoltoftheplebs.com - The Jewish state is the single largest exporter of drones in the world, responsible for 41 percent of all UAVs exported between 2001 and 2011, according to a database compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Israeli companies export drone technology to at least 24 countries, including the United States.

8 Revisions to Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill That You Need to Know About
Activist Post - The House of Commons passed the new anti-terrorism bill on April 24th 2013 and received royal assent on the 25th. The bill revived provisions from the Anti-terrorism Act passed just after the Sept. 11 attacks and adds some new ones that can very easily violate civil rights.

Peru says no to GMO
csmonitor.com - Peru is the first country in the Americas to ban genetically modified foods, putting its food policy closer to that of Europe, than the United States or many of its South American neighbors.

VIDEO: Glenn Greenwald Spars With Former CIA Officer On MSNBC Over Whether American Violence Abroad Fuels Jihad
mediaite.com - Outspoken civil libertarian and Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald made a rare cable news appearance this afternoon to debate with TheBlaze host and former CIA officer Buck Sexton over the role American foreign policy has played in fueling Islamic extremists to execute terrorist attacks against the United States.

VIDEO: See Something, Say Something… Rat Out Your Neighbor
Kurt Nimmo - All of the non-stop fear mongering since the Boston Marathon has paid off in spades. There were 186 reports of “suspicious activity” the week before the Boston Marathon. There were 311 reports of suspicious activity in Allegheny County the week after the bombings, according to CBS News. No actual terrorist bombs were found, of course. People are now seeing bombs where none exist.

All In The Family: Uncle Ruslan Married to Daughter of Top CIA Official
Kurt Nimmo According to new research, Uncle Ruslan, aka Ruslan Tsarni, was married to the daughter of former top CIA official Graham Fuller. This is an interesting discovery considering Tsarni is at the forefront of the effort to convince the American people that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged and now dead Boston bomber, was “brainwashed” by a shadowy Armenian named Misha.

Shifting Focus, Federal Agents Arrest New Suspect in Ricin Case
NY Times - A former taekwondo instructor was taken into custody early Saturday by federal authorities in Mississippi, accused of mailing letters containing the poison ricin to the president, a United States senator and a local judge.

Police State Euphemism: “Shelter In Place”
Kurt Nimmo - Philadelphia, home of the Constitution, has issued instructions on how to “shelter in place” following the successful police state lockdown in Boston.

VIDEO: Rachel Maddow’s Jihad Against Alex Jones, Part II
Infowars.com - So it has once again enlisted Rachel Maddow to tell her dwindling audience of semi-somnolent liberals that Ron Paul is a racist while continuing her scripted attack on Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.

Bloomberg: New Yorkers will 'never know where our cameras are'
RT - [New York City Police Department Commissioner] Kelly said the Domain Awareness System, nicknamed “the dashboard,” would centralize already existing data captured on the between 3,500 and 6,000 cameras already placed throughout the city with new technology developed in conjunction with Microsoft.
* Related Video: Rand Paul: If The Government Is Going To Watch Us They Need Probable Cause

They Come For the Ammo: New Bill Would Require Background Checks for “Explosive Materials”
Mac Slavo - Senator Harry Reid has introduced a new bill that would require background checks for anyone purchasing “explosive materials” or “powders”... The purchase of black powder in amounts over 50 pounds already requires a background check, but the new bill would lower the thresholds and will also include “smokeless powders,” which are used for the production of ammunition.

VIDEO: Part of landing gear from 9/11 plane is found - 11 years after attacks
Daily Mail - The location is particularly noteworthy because 51 Park Place is the site of the Islamic Cultural Center that stirred up controversy and months of protests two years ago when the site developers wanted to turn it into a mosque. ...part of a landing gear from one of the 9/11 planes was discovered wedged between buildings with a mysterious rope around it.

VIDEO: Ron Paul’s Dire Warning to America
Infowars.com - Former Congressman and 2012 presidential contender Ron Paul drops in to give us his take on how Congress plans to exploit our fears to take our liberties in the aftermath of the Boston terror attack on April 15.

VIDEO: Bilderberg Sleuth Jim Tucker Dead at 78
Infowars.com - Jim Tucker, the ground breaking journalist who chronicled the activities of the secretive Bilderberg Group beginning in the 1990s, has died from complication after a fall. Tucker was 78.

Senator Paul stirs business ire over blocking of tax treaties
Chicago Tribune - Senator Rand Paul is coming under pressure from some multi-national businesses to drop his opposition to tax treaties between the United States and other nations. Citing privacy concerns about Americans' tax data, Paul, a Republican and libertarian, has single-handedly blocked Senate action on treaties with Hungary, Switzerland and Luxembourg that have been signed by authorities on both sides, but have been awaiting Senate review since 2011.

Judicial Watch Uncovers USDA Records Sponsoring U.S. Food Stamp Program for Illegal Aliens
judicialwatch.org - Documents Reveal that Mexican Government Encourages Maximum Participation in U.S.-Funded Program.... The promotion of the food stamp program, now known as “SNAP” (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), includes a Spanish-language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy by the USDA with a statement advising Mexicans in the U.S. that they do not need to declare their immigration status in order to receive financial assistance.

HHS stages multimillion-dollar PR campaign to promote Obamacare
freebeacon.com - The federal agency charged with implementing the Affordable Care Act announced a multimillion-dollar public relations contract last week in order to convince people to join the program and keep it from collapsing, critics claimed.

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
rollingstone.com - The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix

US, UK claim Syria used chemical weapons against militants
Press TV - US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who was on a visit to the United Arab Emirates, told reporters on Thursday that Washington has evidence that the chemical weapon sarin has been used in Syria on a small scale.

UNSC OK’s peacekeepers for Mali
Press TV - The United Nations Security Council has approved more than 12,600 peacekeeping forces for the West African country of Mali. The peacekeeping forces comprising 11,200 military personnel and 1,440 international police will be present in Mali from July 1st. The force, to be known as MINUSMA, will be backed by French troops, if necessary, to combat fighters in the African country.

'Iraqi forces enter seized northern town'
Press TV - Iraqi security forces enter the northern town of Sulaiman Bek, which has been under the control of militants, officials says.

Inciting violence in Iraq is ‘playing with fire’: Iran official
Press TV - Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned foreign sides against inciting violence in Iraq, describing the measure as “playing with fire.”... “Having failed in Syria, foreign sides are now seeking to create sedition in Iraq, whereas this is playing with fire,” Amir-Abdollahian added, urging the outsiders to act wisely.

‘Syria crisis could spread into Jordan’
Press TV - Syria’s deputy foreign minister has warned the Jordanian government that the turmoil in Syria would spill over into Jordan.... “Menacing danger is threatening the two countries (Syria and Jordan) and the entire region, as well as all those who are supporting armed terrorist groups,” the Syrian deputy foreign minister stated.

“Gross containment failure” of Fukushima reactors — Now we are seeing plutonium far from plant
ENENews - Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Chief Engineer: There was a melt-down and a melt-through of the nuclear reactor vessels, but that wouldn’t be enough unless the containment failed too […] Now we are seeing heavy isotopes like plutonium out at 20 to 30 kilometers […] All these are signs of gross containment failure.

'Over 3.2 million jobless in France'
Press TV - The French Labor Ministry says the number of unemployed people in France increased by 36,900 in March, reaching 3.224 million for the first time since 1997.

VIDEO: Putin on Boston bombings
RT - Putin was commenting in Moscow during his annual Q&A session on the flood of comments in the US, many of them from common people, which blamed Russia, where the suspects in the bombing were born, over the crime. “Common fold in the US are not to be blamed, they don’t understand what is happening. Here I am addressing them and our citizens to say that Russia is a victim of international terrorism too,” he said.

VIDEO: Canada censured over anti-terror bill
Press TV - Canada’s government has come under fire for exploiting the issue of a “foiled terror plot” in the country and the April 15 bombings in the US in order to pass a controversial anti-terror bill, which is deemed harmful to civil liberties.

Rachel Maddow Froths Over Boston False Flag and Alex Jones
Kurt Nimmo - Maddow tried to conflate “truthers” and Boston bombing skeptics with neocons calling for a renewed war on Islam. In a segment broadcast on the military-industrial complex’s favorite “liberal” network (MSNBC is owned in part by death merchant General Electric), Maddow rallied against the very idea that government would engage in false flag terror events.

Uncle Ruslan and the Official Boston Bombing Narrative
Kurt Nimmo - Following Zubeidat Tsarnaev’s claim that her son, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was set-up by the FBI, her brother-in-law, Ruslan Tsarni, was rolled out to engage in damage control and save the official narrative on the Boston bombings.

CONFIRMED: Both FBI & CIA Watched Boston Bombing Suspects for Years
Tony Cartalucci - FBI & CIA now admit to putting Boston bombing suspect on 2 “watch lists,” directly contradicting previous public statements. CIA most likely sponsored suspect’s trips to meet US-backed terrorists in Chechnya, Russia.

Reps challenge DHS ammo buys, say agency using 1,000 more rounds per person than Army
Fox News - Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security is using roughly 1,000 rounds of ammunition more per person than the U.S. Army, as he and other lawmakers sharply questioned DHS officials on their "massive" bullet buys.

Calif. bill would let non-citizens serve on juries
AP - The California Assembly passed a bill on Thursday that would make the state the first in the nation to allow non-citizens who are in the country legally to serve on jury duty. Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, said his bill, AB1401, would help California widen the pool of prospective jurors and help integrate immigrants into the community.

PHOTOS: Today’s big ‘Stop the NRA March’ in DC that no one showed up to
guns.com - Washington Examiner reporter Charlie Spiering swung by todays Stop the NRA March in our nations capitol to check out the scene. What he came across wasn’t so much of a march as it was a sad gathering of a few dozen people.

VIDEO: Teen Suspended for Wearing NRA T-shirt Returns to School Wearing the Same Shirt
guns.com - After refusing to remove the NRA shirt, 14-year-old Jared Marcum was arrested and charged with obstruction and disturbing the education process. He was also suspended for one day. Preceding the incident, he had no criminal record.

Teacher Sues School over Suspension for 'Weapons' Charge: Showing Students Garden Tools
CNS News - Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a civil rights lawsuit against a Chicago public school district on behalf of a second-grade teacher who was suspended after he displayed garden-variety tools such as wrenches, pliers and screwdrivers in his classroom as part of a "tool discussion" in his class.

Retailer Pulls Pressure Cookers in the Wake of Boston Bombing, Then Puts Them Back After Public Outcry
Activist Post - Pat Connolly, a Williams-Sonoma spokesperson, provided “Right Views” a statement regarding the decision, including an apology to anyone who was offended: “Pressure cookers are available at all our stores nationwide."

FBI Conducting Gun Sweeps in Oakland
Infowars.com - Less than a week after SWAT police went house to house ripping families out of their homes during broad daylight in the manhunt that ensued following the Boston bombings, other police departments have seemingly taken a police state cue and followed suit. Yesterday it was reported that FBI agents and local police SWAT along with the California Highway Patrol conducted a “massive sweep” of Oakland where they barricaded several streets and closed down certain parts of the town for more than an hour.

VIDEO: Patrick administration refuses to release Tsarnaev brothers' records
bostonherald.com - The Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s government benefits, citing the dead terror mastermind’s right to privacy.

Bloomberg: Suspects planned NYC blasts
ksbw.com - "Last night we were informed by the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets," Bloomberg said. The two came up with the plan spontaneously after the Boston bombing, as they talked in an SUV they hijacked, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

Gov. Rick Scott signs drones bill into law
tampabay.com - The new law bans local law enforcement officials from using drones without a warrant or threat of a terrorist attack, and prohibits the use of information collected by drones to be used as evidence in courts.

Four more fragments that could be 9/11 victim human remains found at landfill on Staten Island
SI Live - Four more fragments that could be human remains of 9/11 victims have been unearthed since Friday at the former Fresh Kills landfill, bringing to 71 the total number of fragments recovered since sifting resumed on April 1.

VIDEO: BIzarre: Knoxville Tn. High School, half year long "Zombie Pandemic Project" and Idaho Zombie/UFO drill April 27th
sherriequestioningall.com - The Idaho Zombie/UFO crash drill is happening on the 27th of this month. They have taken the information off the website it was on, when it began getting a lot of attention. But it is still being held and a video about it, is below.

Couple Survives Drug Crazed Home Invader Because of Their AR-15
12160.info - A couple whose names are being withheld by police were outside of their apartment on Friday, when Jasper Brisbon, who they said appeared to be on drugs, walked up and began staring at them.... Eventually, they decided to go inside of their apartment to get away from Brisbon, but he followed them. That’s when things really took a turn for the worse. * Related Video

VIDEO: I-Team Investigates Fort Worth Fertilizer Plant
CBS News - In the wake of the fertilizer explosion in West, there are questions and concerns about other fertilizer plants in North Texas. Several people in a north Fort Worth neighborhood told CBS 11 they’re worried about the American Plant Food Corporation facility on Deen Road. The plant has no connection to the plant in West.

New bill would require genetically modified food labeling in US
RT - The new bill, known as the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, was introduced on Wednesday by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and resembles previous legislation that failed to garner sufficient support in Congress.

65% of JPM’s Gold Vanishes as Massive 8 Tons of Gold Withdrawawn Overnight!
silverdoctors.com - JPM’s eligible gold inventory has just plunged to an All-Time Low as a massive 8.125 metric tonnes- a full 65% of The Morgue’s phyzz was withdrawn overnight!
Jamie & Blythe are expected to be working overnight tonight moving pallets of phyzz from 5 floors below The Fed into JPM’s depleted vault.

Texas University Sells $375 Million in Gold Bars…to Re-Invest in Gold Futures!
silverdoctors.com - Bloomberg reports this morning that the University’s Endowment fund has just liquidated $375 million of its physical gold position over the past 3 months, and will plow the proceeds…back into the PAPER GOLD FUTURES MARKET (along with general equities).

Congress Prepares $100 Million Bipartisan Flu Tax
Weekly Standard - Congress is preparing to take action on a bipartisan proposal to raise taxes on flu vaccines. This is not a tax on the wealthy, but rather on a broad swath of Americans, or at least those who choose to be immunized against the flu.

Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption
Politico - The talks — which involve Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Obama administration and other top lawmakers — are extraordinarily sensitive, with both sides acutely aware of the potential for political fallout from giving carve-outs from the hugely controversial law to 535 lawmakers and thousands of their aides. Discussions have stretched out for months, sources said.

VIDEO: Maryland Offers Glimpse at Obamacare Insurance Math
everydayhealth.com - In the latest preview of prices for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, Maryland’s dominant insurer says proposed premiums for new policies for individuals will rise by 25 percent on average next year. That’s lower than what some had predicted. Just three weeks ago, the insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, had been looking at a proposed 50 percent increase. But the company revised that initial estimate, citing worries about affordability for consumers.

Record Number of Households on Food Stamps-- 1 out of Every 5
CNS News - The latest available data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows that a record number 23 million households in the United States are now on food stamps.

500 Europeans fight against Assad in Syria – EU anti-terror chief
RT - About 500 Europeans are now fighting for the rebels in Syria against Bashar al-Assad's regime, the EU's anti-terror chief told the BBC. He added the majority of those fighters are from the UK, Ireland and France.

South Korea warns North on Kaesong
Press TV - South Korea has offered North Korea formal talks over the issue of suspended operations at the joint Kaesong industrial zone, warning that Seoul would take ‘significant measures’ if Pyongyang rejects the offer.

South Korea summons Japanese envoy
Press TV - South Korea has summoned Japan’s ambassador to Seoul to protest Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s defense of the visits by senior Japanese officials to a controversial shrine in Tokyo, which is seen by Seoul as the symbol of Japan’s wartime aggression.

Spain jobless rate hits new record
Press TV - Official data show that the unemployment rate in Spain climbed to a new record of 27.16 percent of the workforce in the first quarter of 2013.

Genetics Tie Haiti’s Cholera Strain to U.N. Peacekeepers, More than 8,000 Dead
Palm Beach Post - There’s new evidence that the strain of cholera raging through Haiti today is an especially toxic one that was delivered by United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal, sent to respond to Haiti’s devastating earthquake in 2010.

‘Japan may use force on islands’
Press TV - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to use ‘force’ against any Chinese landing on disputed East China Sea islands, claimed both by Tokyo and Beijing.

Japan's SDF to join US drill on island retaking in California
xinhuanet.com - The Japanese Defense Ministry said about 1,000 Self-Defense Forces (SDF) personnel will join in a U.S. military drill to be held in June in U.S. California on recapturing isolated island, local media reported early Wednesday.
* Related Article: 1,000 Japanese Officers To Participate In "Island Recapture" Drill In California

China H7N9 bird flu hits Taiwan
Press TV - Taiwan authorities have confirmed a case of infection with H7N9 strain of bird flu in the island, the first reported case outside of China.

Earthquake kills 13, injures 105 in Afghanistan
Press TV - At least 13 people have been killed and 105 more sustained injuries in a 5.7 magnitude earthquake that rattled Afghanistan, with strong tremors felt in neighboring Pakistan.

U.S. had more tips on Boston suspect; Congress asks questions
Reuters - U.S. intelligence was alerted when one of the Boston bombing suspects traveled to a volatile region of Russia last year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, raising new questions about the government's handling of the case and how well law enforcement agencies share information and cooperate with one another.

2 U.S. Agencies Added Boston Bomb Suspect to Watch Lists
NY Times - His name was entered into two different United States government watch lists in late 2011 that were designed to alert the authorities if he traveled overseas.

Govt. paranoia gone wild: Merchants told to 'call the police' if people buy beauty products
(NaturalNews) In the latest example of government overreach and outright paranoia following the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, a New York Republican congressman is actually calling for a measure that would require retailers to inform cops when customers buy innocuous items that could be, somehow, someday, perhaps, used to make a bomb.

Suspected Saudi Terrorist Al-Harbi Visited White House Numerous Times
Kurt Nimmo - Saudi national Abdul Rahman Ali al-Harbi, who was briefly held as a “person of interest” in the Boston bombings and then downgraded in less than 24 hours to a witness, visited the White House on numerous occasions since 2009... The startling allegation follows an earlier report indicating that al-Harbi was visited in the hospital by First Lady Michelle Obama after he allegedly sustained injuries from one of the explosives placed at the Boston Marathon.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev Attended CIA-sponsored Workshop
Kurt Nimmo - Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended a workshop sponsored by the CIA-linked Jamestown Foundation, Izvestia reports today (see English translation here). The Russian newspaper cites documents produced by the Counterintelligence Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia confirming that the NGO “Fund of Caucasus” held workshops in the summer of 2012 and Tsarnaev attended.

VIDEO: Police State Measures at Kentucky Derby
Kurt Nimmo - In response to the Boston bombings, Churchill Downs management has announced new restrictions to be imposed on attendees at the Kentucky Derby next month.

NYPD teams with US lab to study airborne weapons
Fox News - The New York Police Department is teaming up with a national laboratory to study how chemical weapons could be dispersed through the air into the subway system. Researchers will track the movement of harmless tracer gases. They'll place air sampling devices in specific areas on the street and within the subway system. The gases mimic how a chemical or biological weapon may react if released.

Report: GE Capital to stop making loans to gun shops
LA Times - The company will continue to lend to diversified businesses that sell firearms, such as Dick’s Sporting Goods. But it will cut off financing for scores of mom-and-pop gun retailers around the country, according to the story.

IRS Issued Billions in Improper Refunds, Report Says
Washington Post - The Internal Revenue Service issued more than $11 billion in improper payments through its Earned Income Tax Credit program last year, according to an inspector general’s report released this week.

Sinclair - Full-Blown Panic As People Ask “Where Is The Gold?”
King World News - Sinclair: “People have to understand what the motivation was for the recent takedown in the gold price. It was so well organized, strategized, and executed by the gold banks, in unison, even though it has had the unintended consequence of creating a massive and worldwide buying frenzy in the physical gold market.

Former CME CEO Refused Physical Delivery for 2 Gold Contracts!
silverdoctors.com - Signs of extreme physical tightness in the gold and silver markets continue to intensify, with reports of banks and firms refusing their customers physical delivery of their own bullion increasing nearly by the hour. The latest report comes from the CME’s former CEO Leo Mahlamed, who reportedly was refused delivery of 2 gold contracts Tuesday!

Child Hunger Is Exploding In Greece – And 14 Signs That It Is Starting To Happen In America Too
Economic Collapse - The world is heading into a horrific economic nightmare, and an inordinate amount of the suffering is going to fall on innocent children.

Meet the New $100 Bill, the World’s Most Popular Bank Note
Yahoo! - The US Federal Reserve just announced that its redesigned $100 bills will go into circulation on October 8. The rollout, originally planned for 2010, was delayed by production issues with the blue ribbon that’s threaded through the note.

VIDEO: Concern over anti-psychotic drug given to soldiers
abc.net.au - Psychiatrists in Australia and the United States are calling for a review of the use of anti-psychotic medications to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Australia's Department of Defence has confirmed an almost 600 per cent increase in the use of one particular anti-psychotic, Seroquel, in just five years. Soldiers have told Lateline the drug, originally intended to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, is being prescribed just to help them sleep.

VIDEO: Shooting near Watts Bar nuclear plant; feds search for gunman
ENENews - Shooting near Watts Bar nuclear plant; feds search for gunman [...] Federal officers did an in-depth search of the area, and have since lifted the alert. They’re just thankful the suspect was stopped at the edge of the property. TVA says the man was nowhere near sensitive portions of the plant, but the feds are still looking for the gunman and his motive.

VIDEO: New flyover of giant sinkhole — Oil sheen covering surface, large section of trees not turning green
ENENews April 23, 2013.

Six supplements that could make a difference when exposed to bioterrorism or other poison agents
(NaturalNews) Whenever anyone is exposed to a deadly toxin they should immediately seek emergency medical help by calling 911, their doctor or the National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222). In the interim between help arriving, there are some key supplements which might make a big difference in surviving the exposure.

What you should know about cinnamon and how it can help you
(NaturalNews) Cinnamon, which is generally an appreciated spice for its good taste when added to certain foods, definitely seems to have much more going in its favor than simply pleasing your taste buds. It's a potent anti-bacterial and anti-fungal medicinal herb offering many advantages to the human body.

Seven great food substitutions for common food allergens
(NaturalNews) For the millions of people around the world who suffer from food allergies, finding nutritionally-equivalent food substitutes can be a challenge. Many popular food substitutes, after all, contain vastly different ratios of protein to carbohydrates, for instance, or simply do not cut it when it comes to providing adequate, synergistic nutrition for your body.

Plastic and Cancerous Compounds in Tea Bags—A Surprising Source of Potential Toxins
Dr. Mercola - Chances are you’ve never even given the tea bag a second thought. But indeed, some of the newer tea bags are made with a variety of plastics; some are nylon, some are made of viscose rayon, and others are made of thermoplastic, PVC or polypropylene. Anyone aware of the dangers of plastic chemicals leaching out of plastic containers and bottles is likely to be concerned about drinking tea steeped through heated plastic.

FDA declares BPA exposure is safe! Don't worry about gender-bender chemicals
(NaturalNews) Despite countless scientific evidence explaining the dangers of Bisphenol-A (BPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refuses to ban this highly profitable industrial chemical. In their "current perspective on BPA" the FDA now states that the chemical is "safe" at the exposure level listed on current product packaging.

Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S. Costs $2,500 in India
Dr. Mercola - This costly gap exists thanks to US patents that prevent competitors from making and selling lower cost versions. Such patents do not exist to the same extent in India, and, in fact, just this month India’s highest court again rejected an application to patent the cancer drug – a move that likely would have sent prices soaring.

Government-funded medical experiments on babies risked blindness and death, over 23 prestigious universities involved
(NaturalNews) In a sick experiment on humans that eerily resembles the horrors of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, which involved deliberately infecting hundreds of black men with sexually-transmitted diseases between 1932 and 1972, a cohort of researchers from at least 23 prestigious American universities is the center of a new controversy involving medical experimentation on premature babies.

Heal Cuts and Scrapes with Herbs
motherearthliving.com - Treat minor emergencies (cuts, scrapes, car sickness, splinters, burns) with herbal remedies. Our herbal first-aid kit will easily handle on-the-go accidents.

Breastfeeding Could Save 830,000 Lives Annually
Natural Society - A new report called Superfood for Babies indicates that breastfeeding newborns could save around 830,000 lives each and every year.... It’s during the first hours after childbirth that a woman produces something called colostrum. Known as “first milk”, the colostrum contains powerful immune boosters that can help a child thrive throughout infancy and throughout their life. Still, many mothers put a bottle to their baby’s mouth soon after they enter the world.

9 Healthy & Delicious Spring Greens
motherearthliving.com - Transform spring greens into a dish worthy of a place at your dining table. From mellow to pungent, fresh and flavorful greens pack a powerhouse of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients with minimal calories. Grow these nine nutritious greens in your garden for easy-to-access additions to soups, salads, vegetarian lasagna and more.

Clean Naturally with Essential Oils
motherearthliving.com - Keep your home naturally clean with plant essential oils. These potent oils disinfect surfaces without dangerous ingredients. Learn how to make cleaning products with essential oils, and try our Lemon-Mint Window Wash.

Online Sales Tax Overwhelmingly Passes Cloture Vote
Daily Caller - The Marketplace Fairness Act, which would allow states the mechanism to start collecting taxes for online sales, overwhelmingly passed a Senate cloture vote Monday night, circumventing regular order and drawing concern from a minority of Senators over the end of the debate on the proposal. Seventy four Senators voted in favor of the motion, while 20 dissented.

U.S. Employees Set To Be Forced To Give Bosses Their Facebook PASSWORDS
Daily Mail - An attempt to ban US bosses from asking employees to hand over their Facebook login details has been blocked by Congress. A last minute alteration to the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that would have prevented employers demanding that prospective employees disclose social media passwords as a condition of employment was voted down in the house of representatives.

AP Twitter account hacked, 'explosions at White House' tweet crashes DOW
RT - A hacker compromised the main Twitter account for the Associated Press on Tuesday, creating momentary chaos across the world by inaccurately posting that US President Barack Obama was injured by an explosion in the White House.

‘Afghans protest US-led detentions’
Press TV - The protesters complained that Afghans are often detained in night-time operations by foreign forces without any legal justifications. The detainees are then taken to unknown places without coordination with Afghan authorities. Locals say US-led troops are never held accountable for the unwarranted detentions.

Spain arrests 2 al-Qaida suspects
AP - Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested two suspected members of al-Qaida's North African branch who have a similar profile to the suspects in the recent attacks in Boston.... The ministry said the two were suspected members of a cell of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, a branch of al-Qaida that operates in northwest Africa.

'US Black Hawk crashes near N Korea'
Press TV - An American UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter has crashed in South Korea near the North Korean border, a South Korean defense official says. The official speaking on condition of anonymity said that the incident took place during ongoing South Korea-US joint military exercises in Cheolwon county of Kangwon Province bordering the North.

North Korea gives South ultimatum
Press TV - North Korea has vowed to launch a military attack on South Korea without any warning if the South continues its anti-North activities. North Korea's military issued the stark warning on Monday in response to what it said were insults from the "puppet authorities" in the South, AFP reported.

Magnitude 7.5 quake jolts Sistan-Baluchestan Province in SE Iran
Press TV - A powerful earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale has struck Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, the Iranian Seismological Center (IRSC) says. The IRSC also reported that the epicenter of the quake was situated 81 kilometers north of the city of Saravan. According to the United States Geographical Survey (USGS) the quake measured 7.8 on the Richter scale and was powerful enough to be felt as far away as New Delhi, India.

EU eases Syria oil sanctions to assist rebels
RT - EU governments have agreed to ease sanctions on Syria, allowing European importers to buy oil from the Syrian opposition. The move is aimed at EU countries providing a financial lifeline to rebels fighting Syrian government forces. The European Union foreign ministers decided to ease the 2011 imposed sanctions on Syrian oil import during the Monday meeting in Luxembourg.

Germany’s KMW selling tanks to Qatar
Press TV - German arms manufacturer Kraus-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has just closed a billion dollar deal with Qatar under which the tiny Persian Gulf state will buy modern tanks and weapons from Europe’s largest economy.

‘Egypt unlikely to mend ties with Israel’
Press TV - Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has dismissed the likelihood of a thaw in relations between Egypt and Israel until Tel Aviv continues its violation of the Palestinians rights.

VIDEO: FBI and RCMP Bust al-Qaeda “Major Terror Plot” in Canada
Infowars.com - One week after the Boston bombing, Canada has arrested two men it claims planned to attack a passenger train running between New York and Toronto. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the terrorist plot involved derailing the train, but gave no further details.

YouTube: Proof That Craft or Blackwater Agents did the Boston Marathon Bombing
Craft aka Blackwater Agent was caught running out of the scene...

FBI to explain actions regarding older bombing suspect
The Hill - The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday will brief the Senate Intelligence Committee on what it learned from an interview it conducted in 2011 with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and why it did not pursue him further at the time. The briefing on Tuesday afternoon will be classified and the witnesses are not yet known, according to a source close to the proceedings.

Tsarnaev brothers were double agents who decoyed US into terror trap
DEBKAfile - The conclusion reached by debkafile’s counterterrorism and intelligence sources is that the brothers were double agents, hired by US and Saudi intelligence to penetrate the Wahhabi jihadist networks which, helped by Saudi financial institutions, had spread across the restive Russian Caucasian. Instead, the two former Chechens betrayed their mission and went secretly over to the radical Islamist networks.

VIDEO: Mystery Military Men in Boston Were Part of WMD Response Team
Activist Post - After much speculation around the mysterious "military contractor" types with black backpacks in the bomb zone of the Boston Marathon before and after the explosions took place, it has been revealed that they were part of an elite government WMD response team.

Official story unraveling for Boston marathon bombing; clear evidence points to bomb squad's prior knowledge
Mike Adams - It's now becoming clear that members of the Boston bomb squad had advanced notice of the horrific bombing that took place at the marathon today. As an eyewitness reports, once the bombs went off, officials began announcing, "this is just a drill!" This logically means they were all informed of the "bomb drill" beforehand. Otherwise, why would they respond with, "this is just a drill" ?

Saudi national reportedly arrested as suspect in Boston marathon bombing; 'drill' questions remain (update 1)
Mike Adams - The NY Post is reporting that a Saudi national has been arrested as a suspect in the Boston marathon bombing that took place today. The same paper is now reporting 12 dead, 50 injured in the bombing, representing a significant increase in fatalities over early reports.

On April 12 Boston EMS Announced Deployment of Mass-Casualty Tablet Device During Marathon
Firehouse.com - Boston EMS is deploying a new, off-the-shelf, lightweight mobile device for the first time at the Boston Marathon on April 15. The platform, from SafetyPAD, is intended for use in mass-casualty situations gives EMS personnel the ability to carry into crowds and assess a patient upon arrival, document in realtime, transmit data to transport units before they arrive, and other features.

False Flag Alert: ABC Releases Article – Justice and Fema Preparing for Major Terrorism Exercises Three Cities
By David Ruppe - The federal government has begun preparing three U.S. cities for large-scale, 10-day terrorism-response exercises scheduled this month. Beginning sometime between May 7 and May 29, local, state and top level federal authorities will respond to simulated weapons of mass destruction attacks in three cities — Denver, Portsmouth, N.H., and the Washington, D.C.-area.

Bombing suspect won't be charged as 'enemy combatant'
CNN News Apr 22, 2013 - The surviving suspect in last week's Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, "will not be treated as an enemy combatant," but rather will be prosecuted "through our civilian system of justice," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Monday afternoon.

YouTube: Glenn Beck on Saudi National once Considered Person of Interest in Boston Bombing
April 22, 2013 - Glenn Beck's Big Revealing Info "Inside Job", Monday morning Glenn Beck laid out what he knows about the Saudi connection to the Boston marathon bombings.

YouTube: Judge Napolitano on legal defense of Boston Bomber suspect
Apr 21, 2013 - Boston Bomber - What Will The Younger Terrorist's Defense Be? - Judge Napolitano - Huckabee

YouTube: Woman calling into radio show saying first suspect was run over and shot BY police
Eyewitness to Shootout that killed the older brother calls into radio station- Says Gov SUV vehicle ran over suspect, and most likely dead instantly !!

Boston Bomber Last message on Facebook to his Father : I have never done it , they set me up
financearmageddon.com - Boston Bomber's Last message on Facebook to his Father - This will be the last message before the police will get me. I never done it, they set me up.I am sorry it has come to this.

VIDEO: Tamerlan Tsarnaev Naked, Handcuffed, Alive! How Did His Body End Up Like This?
By Josey Wales (Reporter) - This UNCONFIRMED video which we are told appeared on Brazilian TV earlier today appears to have been shot at the scene of the Boston Police Dept’s arrest of suspect bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev – the video clearly shows the 26 year old being escorted to BPD vehicle whilst handcuffed and not wounded, which in total contradiction to official reports which claim the suspect was shot by police and then run-over by his younger brother in a stolen SUV in Sommerville, MA.

YouTube: Back to Back C-span callers - Boston Marathon Bombing a false flag
People call into CSPAN concerned that a possible false flag attack was perpetrated at the Boston Marathon.

YouTube: A foreign language heard being spoken in Sandy Hook raw footage - Need translation
Jan 22, 2013 - A foreign language can clearly be heard in the background and could offer clues to what really happened. We need this vid shared with as many people as possible to understand what they are saying. I am no expert on foreign languages but it sounds Aramaic or Hebrew.

Monsanto Threatens To Sue Vermont If It Passes GMO Labeling Bill
disinfo.com - What happened to the formerly staunch legislative champions of Vermont’s “right to know” bill? They lost their nerve after Monsanto representatives recently threatened that the biotech giant would sue Vermont if they pass the bill. [Officials] expressed concern about Vermont being the first state to pass a mandatory GMO labeling bill and then having to “go it alone” against Monsanto in court.

Congress Quietly Repeals Insider Trading Ban
Liberty Crier - While Congress might be stuck in a deadlock on just about every issue imaginable, there’s one piece of legislation that both Democrats and Republicans hate unanimously: the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, a law passed last year designed to prevent insider trading among lawmakers and government officials by requiring them to post disclosures of their financial transactions online.

David Morgan: Fed Confirms US Banks Will go Cyprus if Needed
silverdoctors.com - In an interview released over the weekend, silver guru David Morgan discusses Federal Reserve governor Jeremy Steins’ official comments last week confirming that the U.S. will do as Cyprus and take depositors money if need be. Morgan urges listeners to understand their money is not safe in banks, the banksters do not consider your deposits as your money, and that the time to exit the US banking system is NOW.

US Mint Sells 681k ASE’s Monday, Sets All-Time April Gold & Silver Sales Record!
silverdoctors.com - S Mint reported a whopping 681,000 ASEs sold Monday, bringing the April sales total past 3 million ounces for the first time EVER at a record 3,068,000 oz. The Mint has now set a monthly sales record 3 out of the first 4 months in 2013, including January’s record sales for any month of 7,498,000 oz sold!

Suddenly Carbon is a US$6 Trillion Bubble
Daily Bell - Suddenly, the reality of carbon investing is sinking in. According to this Bloomberg article, "banks, funds and institutional investors are seeking clarity from government and central banks about how greenhouse- gas emissions may affect the value of their investments."

IRS to Close for 5 Days Due to Furloughs
Fox Business - The IRS will issue official furlough notices next week to employees detailing that the agency will be closed for five days with unpaid leave for workers this summer because of the sequester.

Butchery in Nigeria: At least 185 killed as army battles Islamists
RT - A northeastern Nigerian town turned into a slaughterhouse as a battle between government troops and Islamist militants left at least 185 dead. Heavily-armed extremists used locals as human shields while soldiers set residential quarters on fire.

Syrian opposition claim dozens killed in ‘massacre’ by Assad forces
RT - Syrian opposition activists allege that government troops have killed at least 85 people during the storming of a Damascus suburb following five days of fighting.

‘N Korea moves more missile launchers’
Press TV - North Korea has moved two more missile launchers to its east coast amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, a report says. The move comes as Pyongyang has been apparently preparing for a missile test on its east coast.

Russian Navy warships dock in southern Iran
Press TV - A group of Russian Navy warships has docked at the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas after a long journey from the Pacific Ocean.

Iraqis vote in first election since U.S. withdrawal
Washington Times - raqis cast ballots in regional elections Saturday amid tight security, marking the country’s first vote since the U.S. military withdrawal and a key test of its stability.

New Evidence That US Invasion Has Produced Epidemic Of Birth Defects In Iraq
thetruthisnow.com - A new study confirms, not for the first time, the horrific price paid by the Iraqi people for the US-led invasion of their country in 2003, and the 2004 bombing campaign and assaults on the city of Fallujah in particular.

Earthquake in China claims 203 lives, with over 11,500 injured (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
RT - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in southwestern China has left 203 dead and over 11,500 people injured. The Chinese army has stepped in to deal with the debris of collapsed houses and public building as death toll continues to rise.

Heads Up Denver, Portsmouth, N.H., and the Washington, D.C.-area - Preparing for Major Terrorism Exercises Three Cities
The federal government has begun preparing three U.S. cities for large-scale, 10-day terrorism-response exercises scheduled this month. Beginning sometime between May 7 and May 29, local, state and top level federal authorities will respond to simulated weapons of mass destruction attacks in three cities — Denver, Portsmouth, N.H., and the Washington, D.C.-area.

PHOTO: Boston Bomber Last message on VKontakte (Russian equivalent of Facebook) to his Father : I have never done it , they set me up

Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Mirror News - A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated and not the kind of thing people learn from Google. “They were too advanced. Someone gave the brothers the skills and it is now our job to find out just who they were. Agents think the sleeper cell has up to a dozen members and has been waiting several years for their day to come.”

Suspect Awake, Responding to Questions Hours After Alleged Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound to Throat
USA Today - Investigators had been unable to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was badly wounded and unable to talk since he was captured Friday night. But less than 48 hours after he was taken into custody, the 19-year-old suspect — who remains hospitalized in serious condition — began responding to questions in writing, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Suspects' Aunt Maret Tsarnaev: Nephews Set Up
Business Insider - A Toronto woman who identified herself as the Boston Marathon bombings suspects' aunt suggested to reporters Friday afternoon that her nephews had been set up.

YouTube: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk: Congress Exploits Our Fears to Take Our Liberty
This week, as Americans were horrified by the attacks in Boston, both houses of Congress considered legislation undermining our liberty in the name of "safety." Gun control continued to be the focus of the Senate, where an amendment expanding federal "background checks" to gun show sales and other private transfers dominated the debate....

Why Has US President Already Delivered Guilty Verdict to Boston Bombers? Gitmo Comes to America
Activist Post - President delivers ‘executive verdict’ as Feds draft in Gitmo interrogators to handle 19-year-old student held in custody.

McCain and Graham: Suspect Dzhokhar has no rights and should be ‘enemy combatant’
Activist Post - Seen by some as the poster children for new Senate ‘term limits’, Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain are warning against trying the surviving Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in a court of law, claiming he should be held as an “enemy combatant” instead. They were joined in their call by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).
* Related Video: This Is What A Police State Looks Like

Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi, Bombing ‘Person Of Interest’ Has 6 Saudi ‘Terrorists’ In Family
The Global Dispatch - Out of a list of 85 terrorists listed by the Saudi government shows several of Al-Harbi clan to have been active fighters in Al-Qaeda.... Then you have Al-Harbi clan members in Gitmo:...

Glenn Beck’s Double Standard on “Bad-Bad-Bad Men”
Kurt Nimmo - Glenn Beck’s claim that the Obama administration protected a Saudi involved in the Boston bombing reeks of hypocrisy. Beck is a master of the false left-right paradigm game. He is attacking Obama while conveniently forgetting that George W. Bush had his own Saudi problem on September 11, 2001.

YouTube: Beck Gives Obama Till Monday to Admit Boston Bombing was Inside Job
Apr 19, 2013 - Glen Beck claiming he has proof the federal government carried out the boston marathon bombing as a false flag opperation. He said that Obama has till monday to admit it or his show will reveal the evidence for his conspiracy theory!

VIDEO: Tsarnaev Brothers’ Mother: My Sons Are Innocent, This Is A Setup / FBI Interviewed Dead Boston Bombing Suspect Years Ago
Liberty Crier - The FBI admitted Friday they interviewed the now-deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years ago and failed to find any incriminating information about him.

Brothers Tsarnaev Inspired by Chechen Warlord on State Department Payroll
Kurt Nimmo - The Daily Mail reports today that despite the fact the FBI had Tamerlan Tsarnaev under surveillance for five years, the agency discounted the possibility he was in direct contact with Doku Umarov, a man described as “Russia’s Bin Laden,” and thus posed a threat to the United States.

Military Men Witnessed At Boston Bombing Identified As National Guard CST Teams
Steve Watson - After days of speculation and calls for officials to provide an explanation, it has emerged that the unidentified military style group pictured at the scene of the Boston bombing both before and after the explosions could be National Guard Civil Support Teams (CSTs) that were pre-scheduled to be at the event.

Mourn For America: Whenever A Tragedy Happens They Take Even More Freedom From Us
Economic Collapse - What in the world is happening to America? Over the past couple of decades, the federal government has used just about every major national tragedy as an excuse to take even more liberty and freedom away from us.

Kerry: Let's Face It, We Have "More Important Things" to Worry About Than Benghazi
townhall.com - Four Americans, including our sitting ambassador, murdered in a terrorist attack. Repeated warnings and requests for beefed up security ignored and denied in a notorious jihadi hotspot. Zero assistance, hour after hour, as two murdered former SEALs begged for back-up. Let's wrap this up and move on, says the Obama administration's top diplomat.

Michigan House Unanimously Passes NDAA Nullification Bill
New American - On Thursday, April 18, the Michigan House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill prohibiting state agents and law enforcement from participating with the federal government in the indefinite detention of its citizens.

VIDEO: 8th Grader Arrested, Suspended For NRA ‘Protect Your Right’ T-Shirt With Image Of Gun
The Blaze - An eighth grade student from West Virginia has been arrested, suspended and faces charges for wearing an NRA T-shirt with the image of a firearm and the words “Protect Your Right” printed on it to school.

Texas fertilizer plant flew under Dept. Homeland Security radar
RT - The fertilizer plant which exploded, killing at least 14 and partially razing a small Texas town, failed to alert the DHS it was storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate allowable without mandatory safety checks, Reuters reports.

Treasury's Miller: No banks will be bailed out
Market Watch - No financial institution, regardless of its size, will be bailed out by taxpayers again, Treasury Undersecretary for Domestic Finance Mary Miller said Thursday.

Gold Panic!?!
silverdoctors.com April 21, 2013 - Gold just suffered what can only be described as a panic. This metal plummeted so fast that its price surrendered a staggering 1/7th of its value in just two trading days! This blistering decline was so extreme it even dragged the general stock markets down with it. Shell-shocked gold investors are nervously wondering what to make of it.

10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleashed An Unprecedented Global Run On Physical Gold And Silver
silverdoctors.com - The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver. All over the planet, people are recognizing that this is a unique opportunity to be able to acquire large amounts of gold and silver at a bargain price.

Citing U.S. Debt, Arizona Set To OK Gold, Silver Currency
azcentral.com - It may be time for Arizonans who have invested in gold and silver to take their stockpiles of coins out of hiding and get ready to put them to use. If some of the state’s more conservative politicians get their way, someday soon shoppers could conceivably be able to plunk down precious metal to pay for groceries, buy a new car or pay a traffic fine.

So Who Sold All That Gold? - JPM's Own Version
Zero Hedge - Since prevailing fringe theory is that JPMorgan and the other bullion banks 'control' the price of gold, we thought it would be interesting to hear yet another explanation for last week's monumental precious metal market events... from the horse's mouth... Via JPMorgan...

North Korea sets conditions for talks
Press TV - North Korea has called on the United States and South Korea to immediately halt their military drills while demanding the withdrawal of UN sanctions as conditions for dialogue to diffuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

‘Two Gaza rockets hit southern Israel’
Press TV - Germany has offered to keep nearly 800 of its troops in Afghanistan, following the planned withdrawal of US-led forces from the Asian country by the end of 2014.

‘Japan provokes tensions over islands’
Press TV - China has accused Japan of heightening tensions in the East China Sea by its increased use of fighter jets to patrol the disputed chain of islands that are claimed by both Beijing and Tokyo.

Magnitude 7.0 quake recorded north of Japan - USGS
Reuters - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck off northern Japan on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

‘Violence getting worse in Afghanistan’
Press TV - The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that violence is increasing significantly in Afghanistan as the Taliban are stepping up their spring offensives.

US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,200
Press TV - At least 2,200 American soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan as a result of the US-led invasion of the Asian country in late 2001, according to latest statics.

YouTube: Nigel Farage: "This EU is the New Communism. It is Power without Limits."
European Parliament, Strasbourg, 17 April 2013. Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Co-President of the 'Europe of Freedom and Democracy' (EFD) Group in the European Parliament... Debate: Current situation in Cyprus Council and Commission statements.

Chinese govt. warns of bird flu spread
PanArmenian.net - Two more people in China have died from a new strain of avian influenza, bringing to 16 the The latest victims were from the commercial capital of Shanghai, where the majority of the 77 cases have been found, Reuters reported citing the official Xinhua news agency.

What is Craft International Private Military Forces doing at the Boston Marathon"
Thanks to Joel and George for this contribution.............
**Related Article & Photos: Photo surfaces of ‘The Craft’ mobile communications van at Boston marathon
Mike Adams - A detailed, hi-res photo of more “The Craft” operatives and what appears to be their mobile communications van has just surfaced. “The Craft” is a group of private military operatives who have been revealed through a fast-growing number of photos published by Natural News and Info Wars.
**More Related News: Photos: Private military operatives hired to 'work' the Boston marathon with black backpacks, radiation detectors, tactical gear

Total media blackout now under way on most likely suspects in Boston marathon bombing
NaturalNews - "Astonishingly, there is not a single mention of "The Craft" in any mainstream media outlet: not NYT, not Washington Post, not LA Times, etc. Not a single word."

One Boston Bombing Suspect Is Dead
NY Times - One of two suspects wanted in Monday’s deadly Boston marathon bombing was killed early Friday in a violent standoff with the police in a quiet residential neighborhood just west of Boston. The second suspect remained at large following what authorities described as a deadly crime spree that left one police officer dead and another seriously wounded.

Breaking: Police Confirm Infowars Photos of Boston Suspects
Paul Joseph Watson - Photos of Boston bombing suspects sent to Infowars by Anonymous that caused a huge stir on the Internet yesterday after being posted by the Drudge Report have been confirmed by police to be the two men sought for questioning, but the authorities and the media remain mute on other photos which show what are likely to be employees of a private security firm carrying large black backpacks at the scene of the explosion.

VIDEO: FBI Releases Images of Suspects in Boston Marathon Bombing
ABC News - The FBI today released images of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing the bureau still considers to be "armed and extremely dangerous."
* Related Article/Video: FBI Blurs Suspect’s Face?

Photos: Private military operatives hired to ‘work’ the Boston marathon
Mike Adams - Natural News has now confirmed that at least five private military contractors were operating on scene at the Boston marathon, and that they all carried black backpacks which look very similar to the backpack carrying the pressure cooker bomb (see pictures below).

YouTube: Reality Check: Did The FBI Know About Boston Bombing Beforehand
Could it be that the FBI knows more about this attack than they are letting on? Could they have known about the attack before hand?

VIDEO: Ricin Arrest: Suspect Appears To Be Mentally Unstable Democrat
Steve Watson - Also wrote diatribes about organ harvesting conspiracy. Police in Mississippi have arrested a man in connection with the ricin letters that were intercepted earlier this week before reaching their intended targets; the President, and a Republican Senator, also from Mississippi. Initial research suggests that the man is a Democratic supporter, a fact skipped over by much of the mainstream media.

YouTube: Ron Paul launches Institute for Peace and Prosperity
RT - For the first time since leaving office, Ron Paul returned to the spotlight this week. The recently retired congressman launched a new foreign-policy educational effort from Washington on Wednesday called the Institute for Peace and Prosperity. Some fellow lawmakers past and present - including Walter Jones, Dennis Kucinich, John Duncan, and Thomas Massie are on the Institute's board, and they are aiming to change more than policy as RT's Meghan Lopez explains.

YouTube: Press Conference: Release of Task Force Report on Detainee Treatment
The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment is an independent, bipartisan, blue-ribbon panel charged with examining the federal government's policies and actions related to the capture, detention and treatment of suspected terrorists during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. {Related article from Yesterday: US War Crimes over Three Administrations]

Gitmo Is Killing Me
Ny Times - ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity. I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.

Obama Looking at Executive Actions After Senate Defeats Gun Bill
Kurt Nimmo - According to a BuzzFeed source, Joe Biden told gun control “stakeholders” via conference call on Thursday that the fight against the Second Amendment is not over and additional laws will be imposed on firearms owners.

YouTube: Karl Rove Heckled Throughout Speech In Massachusetts, Called Murderer, Terrorist
According to CBS 3, the demonstrations [at the University of Massachusetts] raged both inside the auditorium and out, and Rove had barely begun speaking before people began standing up and shouting Rove down with accusations that his guidance of former President George W. Bush on the Iraq War had led to countless American and Iraqi casualties.

Supreme Court Strikes Down Warrantless Blood Tests In DUI Cases
Raw Story - Police following up on drunk driving investigations will no longer be able to draw their suspect’s blood without a court order authorizing the search, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. In a 5-4 decision... the court ruled that the natural expiration of alcohol in the bloodstream does not constitute “destruction of evidence,” which would otherwise give officers cause for a warrantless search.

VIDEO: Napolitano: Drudge Report is not credible
Washington Examiner - During a House hearing this morning, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano criticized the Drudge Report for highlighting stories about the department’s purchases of ammunition and MRAP (mine-resistant, ambush protected) vehicles.

Immigration Bill Contains Free Cell Phones
Breitbart - The 844-page immigration reform bill the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” dropped in the dead of night contains a lucrative handout that would give taxpayer-funded free cell phones to some people who live or work near the U.S. border with Mexico.
* Related Article: Immigration Bill Would Take Nearly Three Days To Read - Nonstop

Sex Offenders In Florida Now Have Warning Signs Outside Their Homes
vice.com - Last week, 18 sex offenders in Bradford County, Florida, found large red signs outside their homes that read, "a convicted sexual predator... lives at this location." The Bradford County Police Department installed the signs.

6 Reasons Why States Should Continue to Oppose Obamacare
reason.com - Over the past year, 34 states have decided against implementing some, or any, parts of Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges—and with good reason.

VIDEO: Missile Used In Texas?
Conspiracy Theories - The bullet whiz sound just prior to the boom reminds me of the Air Show when the Blue Angels do the sneak attack low fly over extremely fast..

Kentucky Sen. Paul Says He Is Considering 2016 Presidential Campaign
Washington Post - Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, popular with conservatives and libertarians in the GOP, said Wednesday he is considering a presidential campaign in 2016 but will not make a decision before next year. Paul said at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor that he wants to be part of the national debate and said that remaining open to a presidential bid would give him a broad audience on a number of policy issues.

10 Signs The Takedown Of Paper Gold Has Unleashed An Unprecedented Global Run On Physical Gold And Silver
Economic Collapse - The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver. All over the planet, people are recognizing that this is a unique opportunity to be able to acquire large amounts of gold and silver at a bargain price. So precious metals dealers now find themselves being overwhelmed with orders in the United States, in Canada, in Europe and over in Asia.

IRS workers accused of stealing jobless benefits and welfare
RT - Two dozen Tennessee-based IRS workers have been accused of fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits, food stamps, welfare and housing vouchers, illegally receiving a total of $250,000 in government benefits.

Gold Wipes $560 Billion From Central Banks as Equities Rally
Bloomberg - Investors are dumping gold funds at the fastest pace in two years in favor of equities, compounding a slump that has wiped $560 billion from the value of central bank reserves.

Steve Forbes: Why Gold Plunged
Forbes - Ben Bernanke has pulled off a neat trick that could well give us the worst of all worlds: a brief commodity deflation, future inflation and a stagnant economy. It will earn him a prominent place in the central bank’s Hall of Infamy. Usually central bankers earn opprobium from history the old-fashioned way, by debasing the currencies under their care. But Bernanke has added a new twist.

FDIC Deposit Insurance Scam: The Infographic
silverdoctors.com - In the wake of bail-ins as the new bank resolution method of choice throughout the entire Western world, our friends at Demonocracy have released a MUST SEE infographic on the FDIC illusion of insured bank deposits.

West will pay for 'supporting Al Qaeda' - Assad
RT - In the statement that was made on Wednesday to state channel Al Ikhbariya, Assad warned that "The West has paid heavily for funding Al-Qaeda in its early stages. Today it is doing the same in Syria, Libya and other places, and will pay a heavy price in the heart of Europe and the United States."

Surreal: US Troops Stage in Jordan to Defend Al Qaeda in Syria
Tony Cartalucci - CNN reports that some 200 US troops are staging along Syria’s border, this as reports reveal huge amounts of US-provided flour smuggled into Syria have formed the foundation of Al Qaeda’s public relations strategy. Together with huge amounts of US-provided weapons, the aid is fueling Al Qaeda’s continued operations and atrocities inside Syria.

French court summons IMF chief Lagarde
Press TV - A French court has summoned Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to testify in a corruption investigation into alleged misuse of public funds when she was France’s finance minister. Under the leadership of the separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) -- the current ruling party of Quebec -- the Quebec sovereignty movement gained momentum last year, Press TV correspondent Ashantai Hathaway reported from Montreal on Tuesday.

VIDEO: Quebec pushes for secession from Canada
Press TV - The government of Quebec, a predominantly French speaking province of Canada, is making efforts to make the province an independent country... Taking the issue a step further, the New Movement for Quebec (NMQ) will hold a convention, or “the Convergence Nationale”, in May.

US terror drones kill 5 in Yemen
Press TV - At least five people have been killed in two strikes carried out by US assassination drones near the Yemeni capital Sana’a.

'US to send troops to Jordan for Syria’
Press TV - US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the United Stated is dispatching 200 troops to Jordan for military operations along the Syrian border. On Wednesday, Hagel told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington that the deployment would include specialists in intelligence, logistics and operations. The troops will come from the headquarters of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, Texas, to replace a similar number of US forces already in Jordan.

US Aid Falls into Al Qaeda's Hands in Syria by Design, Not Chance
Activist Post - Huge amounts of US-provided flour smuggled into northern Syria have formed the foundation of Al Qaeda's public relations strategy, the Washington Post and London Telegraph reveal. Together with huge amounts of US-provided weapons, the aid is fueling Al Qaeda's continued operations and atrocities inside Syria.

Official Document:  Special Events as Planned Disasters: Marathons – A Tale of Two Cities and the Running of a Planned Mass Casualty Event
It is important to emphasize that the New York Times recently reported that most of the recent domestic terror plots in the United States “were facilitated by the F.B.I.,” suggesting that yesterday’s incident in Boston may have been part of such an operation. It remains to be seen how the media and the Obama administration will exploit this incident depending who gets the blame, but Rahm Emanuel’s“never let a serious crisis go to waste” advisory is sure to be in play. The fact that the explosions were preceded and overlapped by a”drill” of an almost identical nature mirrors other major terror attacks, such as the 7/7 bombings in London.

YouTube: What is this guy holding? - Boston Marathon Bombing

VIDEO: Obama Covering Up Saudi Link to Boston Bombing?
Paul Joseph Watson - The Saudi “person of interest” suspected of being involved in the Boston Marathon bombings is being deported from the United States next week on “national security grounds,” according to a terrorism expert, who notes that the move is “very unusual,” especially given an unscheduled meeting yesterday between President Obama and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal.

VIDEO: FBI/DHS DRILL Staged Boston Marathon Bombing? Nevada Governor 2014 David Lory VanDerBeek
nevadagovernor2014.com - Bloody footsteps leading up to the door…Wherever FBI/DHS/police are drilling, there is terror when the drills go live and they burn their patsy.

Self-declared 'Master of Impressions' arrested in Obama ricin letter case
RT - Federal agents have arrested a man they believe mailed the letters to President Obama and Senator Roger Wicker that “preliminarily tested positive” for the poison ricin. The FBI named a Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth, Mississippi as its arrest.

VIDEO: 'Like a nuclear blast’: Texas plant explosion registered as 2.1 earthquake
RT - It felt ‘like a bomb went off’, those who saw the deadly Texas explosion ripping through a fertilizer plant say. A video taken by a father several meters from the scene captures his child screaming ‘Daddy, please get out of here, I can't hear!' The blast injured over 172 people; dozens are feared dead. The explosion leveled local residents’ homes, shaking doors and sending shockwaves across the community. Related article/video: Dozens believed killed...

PHOTOS: Boston Bombing Culprits Identified?
Infowars.com - Photos collated on the 4chan website show numerous images of suspicious individuals wearing large backpacks present at the scene of the Boston Marathon bombings. Three of the men appear to be Arab or Middle Eastern in appearance, whereas another two of the individuals are white.
* Related Article/Video: Navy SEALs Spotted at Boston Marathon...

Israeli police head to US to aid in Boston Marathon bombing investigation
RT - Israel Police Chief Yohanan Danino says he has dispatched officials to Boston, Massachusetts, where they will meet with Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and other authorities, the Times of Israel Reports.

VIDEO: CNN Links Alleged Pressure Cooker Bomb to “Extreme Right-wing Individuals”
Kurt Nimmo - It looks like CNN is falling back on old habits instilled by the U.S. Army’s Fourth Psychological Operations Group. In a news story about the alleged pressure cooker bomb found in Boston, the political establishment’s propaganda network claimed “extreme right-wing individuals” are fond of the device featured in al-Qaeda’s magazine.

VIDEO: Boston Police Radio: Additional Explosive Devices Found
Infowars.com - The official story is now in chaos.

Security officers order staff, media to clear Boston courthouse
Reuters - Security officials on Wednesday ordered staff, media and attorneys to evacuate Boston’s federal courthouse Wednesday.... “Get away from the building. I can’t stress this enough, people,” a uniformed law enforcement official yelled at the crowd.

VIDEO: Follow Up Attack? Ricin Sent To Senator Who Ended Gun Control Filibuster; Second Letter Sent To Obama
Steve Watson - Pattern beginning to emerge as some suggest both attacks could be right wing, pro-gun extremists. A letter believed to have been laced with the deadly substance ricin was intercepted in a Maryland post office yesterday before it could reach it’s intended destination – the desk of a Senator who has been fiercely critical of gun control legislation, yet voted to block a filibuster on the issue.

Boston Marathon Finish Line: 666 Boylston St.
Before It's News - No kidding. How Bizarre! Is this a sign that the Illuminati are behind this bombing? Maybe even behind Newtown Massacre since the last mile was dedicated to Newton victims? The last mile ending at 666 Boylston St. That's really wild.

Flashback: AG Holder: Americans Not Worried Enough About Home-Grown Terrorists
New American Feb 28, 2013 - "I worry a little that the American people, from the general population, has become a little complacent that we don't understand or realize that the threats are still real, that the danger is out there, is still tangible, that we still have to be as vigilant as we need to be," Holder told Pierre Thomas of ABC News.

Clinton, Bush and Obama: US War Crimes over Three Administrations
Global Research - On Tuesday, the Constitution Project, a Washington, DC think tank, released a 600-page report by its “Task Force on Detainee Treatment” documenting decades of war crimes committed by US imperialism and its military and intelligence agencies.

VIDEO: Obama on Senate gun vote: ‘A shameful day’
US Today - An angry President Obama criticized a minority of the Senate on Wednesday for helping defeat a proposal to expand background checks on gun purchases. "It came down to politics — the worry that that vocal minority of gun owners would come after them in future elections," Obama said in the Rose Garden. "All in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington."

Oath Keepers to Muster on Lexington Battle Green, MA on April 19, 2013
oathkeepers.org - Oath Keepers will be mustering on Lexington Green, in Lexington Massachusetts, this April 19, 2013! Stewart Rhodes, Founder of Oath Keepers, has been invited to speak at a rally being held on the Green by the Massachusetts chapter of Gun Rights Across America.
* UPDATE: Town of Lexington Pulls Permit...

537 Taser-Related Deaths In The United States Since 2001
Electronic Village - Today we added 29-year old Kevin Culp (Richmond, WA) and 33-year old Christopher Parker as the 184th and 186th taser-related death in America since 2009. [NOTE: the full list is shown below].

New York government confiscates 'private' records of psychiatrists in chilling Orwellian mental health sweep
The march to tyranny has picked up fierce momentum in the state of New York, where the criminal Cuomo administration is now issuing subpoenas that demand psychiatrists turn over ALL their records to the state, reports AmmoLand.com

Here We Go Again - Gold & Silver Plunge to $1350, $22.50 on Globex
silverdoctors.com April 17, 2013 - Gold and silver have been greeted to yet another waterfall plunge as the first trading since the CME hiked margins in both metals by 18% after today’s COMEX close.

History Tells Us That A Gold Crash + An Oil Crash = Guaranteed Recession
Economic Collapse - Is the United States about to experience another major economic downturn? Unfortunately, the pattern that is emerging right now is exactly the kind of pattern that you would expect to see just before a major stock market crash and a deep recession.

US-led forces kill Afghan tribal elder
Press TV - US-led forces in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktia Province have killed an influential tribal elder, Haji Merza, and arrested four members of his family... Following the incident, local villagers staged a protest, condemning the killing and the arrests by the US-led forces.

US moves to aid Israel in war on Iran
Press TV - On Tuesday, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted "Senate Resolution 65," according to which the US will provide the Israeli regime with diplomatic, economic and military assistance if Tel Aviv decides to launch an attack against Iran.

'N Korea rejects negotiations with US'
Press TV - North Korea Foreign Ministry said in a statement released by the North’s KCNA news agency on Wednesday that Pyongyang would not return to a “humiliating negotiating table with the party brandishing a nuclear stick.” Washington’s insistence that Pyongyang should show its “will for denuclearization” before any negotiation was "a very impudent hostile act,” the statement added.

Israel again threatens to invade Iran
Press TV - The Israeli military chief has repeated warmongering rhetoric against the Islamic Republic of Iran, saying the regime can invade Iran on its own.

US drone kills 4, injures 2 in Pakistan
Press TV - At least four people have been killed and two others injured in an attack carried out by a US assassination drone in northwestern Pakistan.

GM meat and fish set to go on sale: Scientists to press ahead despite public outrage
Daily Mail - Authorities in the US are expected to grant approval to Aquabounty salmon, which has been modified to grow twice as fast as normal salmon. And experts trying to combat world hunger are calling on the British Government to back the use of GM farm animals on the dinner table here.

Officials: Boston Bombing Likely Carried Out By “Domestic Terrorist”
Paul Joseph Watson - Richard DesLauriers, the special agent in charge of the Boston FBI office, asserted, “The person who did this was someone’s friend, neighbor or coworker,” ruling out the possibility that the attack was carried out by foreigners who entered the United States.

VIDEO: Special Report: Inside Boston Marathon Bombing Press Conferences
Infowars.com - Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi was on location at the Boston Marathon explosion press conferences minutes after the event and managed to get in some hard-ball questions for Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.

PHOTOS: Is this the second Boston bomb just moments before it exploded?
Daily Mail - New crime scene photographs of the remnants of the first bomb which detonated during Monday's Boston marathon appear to show that a pressure cooker was used in at least one of the deadly charges - as experts described the devices as military-style 'anti-personnel' devices.... And photographs taken by a member of the public of the second bomb site before and after detonation show an orange and grey bag next to the barrier - right where the bomb appears to have gone off.

Photo of Man on the Roof Above Explosion Goes Viral, Citizens Demand Answers
Activist Post - Authorities in Boston are investigating a highly suspicious photo that shows a man on the roof just above the area where the second explosion hit near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Bravery of soldiers who ran the grueling race wearing 40lb BACKPACKS in honor of fallen comrades... then found the strength to tear down barricades and free victims
DailyMail - A group of soldiers competing in the grueling Boston Marathon wearing 40lb backpacks in honor of fallen comrades managed to find the strength to tear down barricades and free trapped victims.

VIDEO: Terror in Boston: Hagel Says Pentagon Ready to Violate Posse Comitatus
Kurt Nimmo - During testimony on Capitol Hill, Chuck Hagel characterized the attack in Boston as terrorism and said the Pentagon is prepared to respond quickly to any request from domestic law enforcement, according to Pentagon’s propaganda newspaper, Stars and Stripes.

Boston Marathon bombs: al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine taught pressure cooker bomb-making techniques
Telegraph - A recipe for how to make pressure cooker bombs, which investigators say were used in the Boston Marathon attack, was most notoriously published in the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire.

VIDEO: YouTube Censors Family Guy Clip Which Predicted Boston Marathon Attack
Paul Joseph Watson - Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane created a cartoon which made fun of terrorist bombings and depicted mutilated Boston Marathon runners, yet he is labeling people who merely talk about the episode as “abhorrent”. Tivo and others are now removing the episode from their systems, which is strange given that the episode is supposedly a “hoax” and doesn’t exist, according to the media.

American Conservative magazine founder: Attack could be ‘false flag’ operation to start Iran war
Daily Caller - In a blog post on the American Conservative’s website, McConnell conceded that the attacks are most likely an al-Qaida operation, but said there is a small chance it could be a false flag operation perpetrated by those who want the U.S. to go to war with Iran. “I agree with Charles Krauthammer that this has an Al Qaeda feel to it, the urban setting, the quest for dramatic photographs,” he wrote.

VIDEO: Obama Insider Attempts To Link Boston Bombing To ‘Tax Day’
Steve Watson - Former Obama advisor David Axelrod has joined other mainstream media mouthpieces in insinuating that the horrific Boston Marathon bombing may have been linked to “tax day”.

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback Signs 2nd Amendment Protection Act into Law
tenthamendmentcenter.com - Today, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed into law Senate Bill 102 (SB102), formerly HB2199 – the 2nd Amendment Protection Act. In the wake of increased federal interest in restricting the right to keep and bear arms, the new Kansas law is the most comprehensive nullification of such acts thus far.

VIDEO: Envelope tests positive for ricin at Washington mail facility
CNN News - An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was told the letter was addressed to the office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi.

GOP fast tracks bill to fortify ObamaCare's high-risk pools
The Hill - House Republicans are moving quickly on a new bill to strengthen ObamaCare's temporary insurance plan for people with pre-existing conditions. The Helping Sick Americans Now Act (H.R. 1549) was introduced late Monday and is scheduled for a mark-up Wednesday in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Force Majeure Was the End Game All Along, COMEX Will Default in the Next Week!
silverdoctors.com - The COMEX will default in the next week or several weeks and people will be “settled” with Dollars, no more metal will be delivered! So, knowing that “game over” has arrived, they are dumping a massive volume of paper contracts with impunity to push the metals prices as low as possible before the “default”.

Chris Martenson: This Gold Slam Is A Massive Wealth Transfer From Our Pockets To The Banks
silverdoctors.com - The central plank of Bernanke’s magic recovery plan has been to get everybody back borrowing, spending, and “investing” in stocks, bonds, and other financial assets. But not equally so – he has been instrumental in distorting the landscape towards risk assets and away from safe harbors.

'US Black Hawk crashes near N Korea'
Press TV - An American UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter has crashed in South Korea near the North Korean border, a South Korean defense official says. The official speaking on condition of anonymity said that the incident took place during ongoing South Korea-US joint military exercises in Cheolwon county of Kangwon Province bordering the North.

North Korea gives South ultimatum
Press TV - North Korea has vowed to launch a military attack on South Korea without any warning if the South continues its anti-North activities. North Korea's military issued the stark warning on Monday in response to what it said were insults from the "puppet authorities" in the South, AFP reported.

Magnitude 7.5 quake jolts Sistan-Baluchestan Province in SE Iran
Press TV - A powerful earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale has struck Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, the Iranian Seismological Center (IRSC) says. The IRSC also reported that the epicenter of the quake was situated 81 kilometers north of the city of Saravan. According to the United States Geographical Survey (USGS) the quake measured 7.8 on the Richter scale and was powerful enough to be felt as far away as New Delhi, India.

Syria forces kill militants, seize arms
Press TV - The Syrian Army says it has killed more foreign-sponsored militants and seized their weapons during an operation across the country. Syrian government forces launched attacks against militants in the governorates of Homs, Idlib, Daraa, Latakia, Hama, Deir ez-Zor, Aleppo, and Damascus, on Monday and killed dozens of them, the official SANA news agency reported.

Russia sends humanitarian aid to Syria
Press TV - Russia has sent more than 30 tons of humanitarian aid to the crisis-hit Syria to help the victims of the two-year-long conflict in the Arab country, the Russian Embassy in Damascus says.

VIDEO: Black Monday in Iraq: 46 killed, almost 300 injured in series of attacks
RT - A string of attacks in several parts of Iraq killed 46 and injured almost 300 on Monday. The upsurge of violence came as Iraqis prepare to go to polls for their first election since the withdrawal of US troops.

Israel's booming economy puts billions in US aid under spotlight
NBC News - Boosted by newly discovered natural resources, Israel is surging ahead economically – a success that is pushing the issue of the country's $3 billion in annual aid from the United States onto the agenda. The country made its first intervention in the foreign currency market in almost two years Tuesday, buying $100 million to peg back the growing strength of its shekel.

Greece, troika agree on bailout loan
Press TV - Greece and its troika of international creditors have agreed on the release of an 8.8-billion-euro bailout loan for the country.

Production of Opium by Afghans Is Up Again
NY Times - For the third year in a row, opium cultivation has increased across Afghanistan, erasing earlier drops stemming from a decade-long international and Afghan government effort to combat the drug trade, according to a United Nations report released on Monday.

VIDEO: Child kidnapped by German police for being home schooled
xrepublic.tv - 15-year old Christian girl Melissa Busekros was taken from her parents in a SWAT-style police raid. German officials consider her family dangerous because her parents home school their daughter.... She was diagnosed of school phobia by state-paid shrink, declared mentally ill and locked in an asylum because she opposed the government's policies and believed in God.

How to recognize the signs of False Flag Terrorism (Operations)
A false flag operation is any procedure, which is carried out by one organization, but designed to appear as though it was orchestrated by another entity. Read More...

VIDEO: Bizarre footage from Marathon
Listen to the military with the HUGE backpacks.

Official story unraveling for Boston marathon bombing; clear evidence points to bomb squad's prior knowledge
Mike Adams - It's now becoming clear that members of the Boston bomb squad had advanced notice of the horrific bombing that took place at the marathon today. As an eyewitness reports, once the bombs went off, officials began announcing, "this is just a drill!" This logically means they were all informed of the "bomb drill" beforehand. Otherwise, why would they respond with, "this is just a drill" ?

Saudi national reportedly arrested as suspect in Boston marathon bombing; 'drill' questions remain (update 1)
Mike Adams - The NY Post is reporting that a Saudi national has been arrested as a suspect in the Boston marathon bombing that took place today. The same paper is now reporting 12 dead, 50 injured in the bombing, representing a significant increase in fatalities over early reports.

On April 12 Boston EMS Announced Deployment of Mass-Casualty Tablet Device During Marathon
Firehouse.com - Boston EMS is deploying a new, off-the-shelf, lightweight mobile device for the first time at the Boston Marathon on April 15. The platform, from SafetyPAD, is intended for use in mass-casualty situations gives EMS personnel the ability to carry into crowds and assess a patient upon arrival, document in realtime, transmit data to transport units before they arrive, and other features.

Boston marathon bombing happened on same day as 'controlled explosion' drill by Boston bomb squad
Mike Adams -Two bombs have rocked the streets of Boston and reportedly injured 22 marathon runners (two have reportedly died). It's too early to know the cause of these explosions, but you can rest assured both the state and federal government will try to use this tragic event to blame whatever convenient enemies are most advantageous for the government.

VIDEO: UM Coach: Bomb Sniffing Dogs, Spotters on Roofs Before Explosions
local15tv.com - University of Mobile’s Cross Country Coach, who was near the finish line of the Boston Marathon when a series of explosions went off, said he thought it was odd there were bomb sniffing dogs at the start and finish lines. "They kept making announcements to the participants do not worry, it's just a training exercise," Coach Ali Stevenson told Local 15.

VIDEO: Boston Police Commissioner on Marathon Explosions: 'This Is An Ongoing Event'
PBS - A loud explosion on the north side of the street went off first, followed by a second blast a few seconds later.... Meanwhile, police said the motive for the bombings remains unclear. They also reported a third explosion -- at the John F. Kennedy Library -- but it may not be related.

Five More Undetonated Bombs Found In Boston; Death Toll Rises To 3
Zero Hedge - Via WSJ, The devices—which are in addition to the two that exploded near the finish line of the marathon... Each had been rendered inoperative or was in the process of being rendered inoperative, the officials said. But the officials also sounded a note of caution, saying they are moving quickly and each device they believe is a bomb hasn't been fully dissected or analyzed.

Facebook Memorial Page Made BEFORE Boston Bombing
Here is the page before it is taken down - https://www.facebook.com/BostonBombin 

Boston runners were warned: Squamish man
squamishchief.com - Mike Heiliger, 59, said a woman holding several bags was telling runners who were picking up their pre-race packages in downtown Boston on Saturday (April 13) that they were going to die if they participated in the event.

VIDEO: LIVE UPDATES: Boston Marathon Explosion
ABC News - "Terror At The Boston Marathon".

Boston Marathon Bombing Media and Rumor Roundup
Activist Post - While Obama mentioned that the bombings were still being investigated and thus people shouldn’t be jumping to conclusions before the facts are learned, some in the media have not followed that advice. CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen has already said that it could either be the work of al Qaeda terrorists or “right-wing extremists.”

YouTube: Gun Rights Advocate's Staff Helped Write Background Check Bill
An influential Gun Rights Advocate actually helped write the Background Check Bill coming up before the Senate this coming week. Alan Gottlieb, Executive Vice President of the Second Amendment Foundation, speaking candidly at a GOP gathering on Friday claimed that his staff had actually helped write the bill.

New York's assault weapon registration begins
Breitbart - Key measures of New York's tough new gun law kicked in Monday, with owners of firearms now reclassified as assault weapons required to start registering the firearms and new limits on the number of bullets allowed in magazines.

llegal Immigrant DUI Killer Ruled Incompetent Because Of His ‘Unique Cultural Background’
Donna Anderson - A self-confessed illegal immigrant in Milford, Mass., faces up to 15 years if found guilty of vehicular homicide but it’s a big “If.” As it stands right now, Nicolas D. Gauman has been found incompetent to stand trial because he doesn’t speak English and doesn’t understand the American legal system. Critics say Guaman had an accomplice – Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick..

YouTube: Ron Paul's Straight Talk 4/15/13: Why Can't We All Travel To Cuba?
Earlier this month, entertainers Jay-Z and Beyoncé were given a license by the US government to travel to Cuba. Because it is not otherwise legal for Americans to travel to Cuba, this trip was only permitted as a "cultural exchange" by the US Treasury Department. Many suspect that the permission was granted at least partly due to the fame, wealth, and political connections of the couple.

The Eleventh Marble
Michael Rivero - Any five-year old child knows that if you put ten marbles into a tin can, you can only take ten marbles back out. No amount of wishful thinking, dreaming, or praying, will yield that eleventh marble from inside that can. That eleventh marble does not exist. It never did, and it never will. All discussions about the eleventh marble are the product of imagination. The eleventh marble is a fantasy. Private central bankers issuing the public currency as interest-bearing loans operate on the belief that they can put ten marbles (dollars) into a tin can (the world) and magically get 11 marbles back out.

Congress Quietly Repeals Insider Trading Ban
Liberty Crier - While Congress might be stuck in a deadlock on just about every issue imaginable, there’s one piece of legislation that both Democrats and Republicans hate unanimously: the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, a law passed last year designed to prevent insider trading among lawmakers and government officials by requiring them to post disclosures of their financial transactions online.

VIDEO: Gerald Celente - "The Dollar Can Lose It's Reserve Status"
trendsresearch.com - Gerald Celente discusses the possibility that the dollar could lose its reserve status, much to the detriment of the nation’s already shaky economy

All US Wholesalers Sold Out Of All Physical Silver!!!
silverdoctors.com - Two of the largest wholesale suppliers in the US, including Amark and CNT, who is the supplier of gold blanks to the US Mint for Gold Eagles, and is a registered COMEX depository, HAVE JUST SOLD OUT OF ALL PHYSICAL SILVER!!!

Is The Takedown Of Gold A Sign That The Entire Global Financial System Is About To Crash?
Economic Collapse - Somebody out there is sure getting prepared for something really big. We have just witnessed a takedown of gold and silver unlike anything that we have witnessed in decades.

House bill would fire tax-delinquent federal workers
Washington Post - The House this week is scheduled to vote on two bills that would block federal employees, job candidates and contractors from working for the government if they owe back taxes.

VIDEO: V.A. Shrink Admits He Gets a $3K Bonus Per Vet for Seizing Their Guns
Clash Daily - In an hour long interview with George Hemminger, and a NY psychiatrist reveals shocking and detailed information of a seemingly insidious, deliberate and concerted effort by governmental auspices to confiscate firearms from veterans via psychiatric evaluations.

Taser death of 77-year-old veteran with Alzheimer's prompts lawsuit
Examiner - After wandering away from a Montana veterans home, 77-year-old Korean War Veteran Stanley L. Downen, who suffered from severe Alzheimer’s, fell and hit his face on the pavement after being tasered by police, resulting in his death three weeks later, according to a lawsuit filed by Downen's granddaughter.

VIDEO: All Wars Are Bankers' Wars!
Michael Rivero - I know many people have a great deal of difficulty comprehending just how many wars are started for no other purpose than to force private central banks onto nations, so let me share a few examples, so that you understand why the US Government is mired in so many wars against so many foreign nations. There is ample precedent for this.

The Rothschilds Want Iran’s Banks
AFP - Some researchers are pointing out that Iran is one of only three countries left in the world whose central bank is not under Rothschild control. Before 9-11 there were reportedly seven: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, and Iran. By 2003, however, Afghanistan and Iraq were swallowed up by the Rothschild octopus, and by 2011 Sudan and Libya were also gone. In Libya, a Rothschild bank was established in Benghazi while the country was still at war.

The Lie Of The Century
Michael Rivero - There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a war. Indeed because most people prefer living in peace to bloody and horrific death in war, any government that desires to initiate a war usually lies to their people to create the illusion that support for the war is the only possible choice they can make.

Creating a North Korean Threat
Activist Post - Washington needs enemies. When none exist, they're invented. A previous article said North Korea's straight from central casting. Pyongyang threatens no one. Media scoundrels say otherwise.

Iran dealing mortal blow to US global hegemony: Irish analyst
Press TV - Finian Cunningham, an expert on international affairs, wrote in a column for Press TV that Iran presents a “greater and more problematic challenge” than North Korea to “US global hegemony.” Cunningham warned that any possible military strike on Iran would end in a “deathblow to the waning American and global economy.”

President Anastasiades' daughter included in list of 6 000 who moved money
cybc.com - Τhe Ethnos on Sunday in Athens has revealed the names of six thousand individuals and legal persons in Cyprus that transferred money abroad from the first through to the 15th March, the eve of a Eurogroup decision for a haircut on deposits in Cyprus banks over 100 thousand euro.

Fresh Leaks Reveal Outrageous Corruption Among Political Leaders
Press TV - A collection of 2.5 million records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) -- a global network of journalists from more than 60 countries -- has unmasked high ranking politicians, arms dealers and other famous individuals from 170 countries operating under the cover of private trusts and businesses in the British Virgin Islands, the Cook Islands and other offshore locations.

N Korea says will ready N-force for war
Press TV - The President of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Yong-nam said that Pyongyang would expand the quantity and quality of its nuclear force which is the “treasure of a unified Korea.” He made the comments during a memorial event, which was held in the capital, Pyongyang, on Sunday on the eve of the 101st anniversary of the birthday of late leader Kim Il-sung.

IMF recognizes Somali government after 22 years
Press TV - "The International Monetary Fund today recognized the federal government of Somalia, headed by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, paving the way for the resumption of relations after a 22-year interval," the IMF said in a statement on Saturday.... However, the IMF said it will not lend money to Somalia until the country repays a $352 million debt it owes to the monetary body.

UK confirms use of chemical weapons in Syria, media say
france24.com - Tests at the British Ministry of Defence on a Syrian soil sample reveal that chemical weapons have been used in the conflict, The Times reported on Saturday. A diplomatic source said Thursday that "hard evidence" confirmed the weapons had been used.

EXPOSED: Syrian Human Rights Front is EU-Funded Fraud
Activist Post - NYT admits fraudulent Syrian human rights group is UK-based "one-man band" funded by EU and one other "European country."

Israel says Gaza family killed lawfully
Press TV - The November 18 attack during Israel's war on the besieged Gaza Strip on the three-story home of the al-Dallu family killed 10 members of the family, along with two neighbors. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said on Sunday that Tel Aviv informed it that Israeli forces did not violate the laws of war or commit any criminal acts in the attack.

46 Senators Willing to Trash 2nd Amendment, Surrender Sovereignty to UN
Ventura County Tea Party - Over the weekend, we came four votes away from the United States Senate giving our Constitutional rights over to the United Nations. In a 53-46 vote, the senate narrowly passed a measure that will stop the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.

DoD Issues Instructions on Military Support of Civilian Law Enforcement
publicintelligence.net - The Department of Defense has issued an instruction clarifying the rules for the involvement of military forces in civilian law enforcement. The instruction establishes “DoD policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures for DoD support to Federal, State, tribal, and local civilian law enforcement agencies, including responses to civil disturbances within the United States.”

California Liberty Preservation Act Passes Committee 6-0 to Nullify the NDAA
Activist Post - Dozens of states and local jurisdictions continue to move toward nullifying the unconstitutional National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Montana's Final Vote to Pass Anti-NDAA Bill Might Override Governor Veto
Activist Post - As People's Blog For The Constitution notes: Since more than two-thirds of the statehouse and senate have already voted in favor of restoring due process, there may be enough votes to override a veto. In Montana, H.B. 522 passed its House Judiciary Committee hearing overwhelmingly by a unanimous vote of 20 – 0, which was then followed by another sweeping vote of 98-0 which sent it off to the Senate.

Florida Atlantic U. Disciplines Professor Who Questioned Accounts of Newtown Shootings
chronicle.com - Florida Atlantic University has formally reprimanded a tenured professor for mentioning his institutional affiliation in blog posts in which he questioned official accounts of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn.

Cop fired for using Trayvon Martin images in target practice
RT - A Florida policeman has been fired for using photos of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, shot and killed last year by a neighborhood watchman, for target practice. Martin's family attorney condemned the act as “depraved.”

Here are the 16 Republicans who voted to kill Rand Paul’s gun control filibuster before it started
canadafreepress.com - Sadly, just a few hours later, 16 Republican Senators caved to the Democrats and voted to end debate and bring to the floor a gun control bill that no one has had a chance to read.... Here are the GOP members who sided with their Dem opponents....

VIDEO: Larry Pratt knocks Blitzer on his heels: "Your polls are hokum. So are Fox's...
Daily Paul - "I don't believe they ask the right questions". And much more. Pratt also calls for ousting Toomey. It's a great match.

Ron Paul launches free online curriculum for home schoolers to learn about reality
(NaturalNews) Finally - a decent alternative to failing public schools. The Ron Paul Curriculum is an online educational forum parents can utilize to home-school their children from Kindergarten through the 12th grade.

Gold Extends Bear-Market Plunge Below $1,400 on U.S. Recovery
Bloomberg - Gold slumped below $1,400 an ounce to a two-year low after dropping into a bear market last week as optimism that a U.S. recovery will curb the need for stimulus cut demand for a protection of wealth. Precious metals declined.

Here Is What You Must Know About The Gold & Silver Smash
King World News - On the heels of enormous volatility in gold and silver, today 40-year veteran, Robert Fitzwilson, wrote the following piece exclusively for King World News. Fitzwilson, who is founder of The Portola Group, tells KWN readers what they must know about the incredible action that is now taking place in these key markets.

16% of US Annual Silver Supply Just Vaporized…
silverdoctors.com - 5 million ounces of annual silver supply and 500,000 ounces of annual gold supply have just been vaporized landslided. Rio Tinto’s Kennecott mine in Utah- the US’ 2nd largest silver mine and world’s largest copper mine has just suffered a massive landslide which will likely shut down production at the mine for years as upwards of 1 billion tons of dirt and ore have collapsed into the basin.

100 Years Old And Still Killing Us: America Was Much Better Off Before The Income Tax
Economic Collapse - Did you know that the greatest period of economic growth in American history was during a time when there was absolutely no federal income tax? Between the end of the Civil War and 1913, there was an explosion of economic activity in the United States unlike anything ever seen before or since.

VIDEO: The Entire Economy Is a Ponzi Scheme
Washington's Blog - Bill Gross, Nouriel Roubini, Laurence Kotlikoff, Steve Keen, Michel Chossudovsky, the Wall Street Journal and many others say that our entire economy is a Ponzi scheme. Former Reagan budget director David Stockman just agreed...

Interest on Student Loans to Give Government $34 Billion a Year in Revenue
AllGov - At present, student loan debt stands at $1.1 trillion, more than all other consumer debt except for home mortgages.... If a doubling of the student loan interest rate scheduled for July 1, 2013, goes into effect, the rate will go from 3.4% to 6.8%, which would add thousands of dollars to the average student borrower's payments every year.

VIDEO: Jim Rogers: ‘I Suspect Governments Will Take the Pension Plans Next; I Am Worried And I’m Taking Preparations’
Liberty Crier - When asked if bank account confiscation will be going worldwide, Jim said, ”Well, it’s now in their bag of tricks, but yes, they can do anything they want too now. I for one am worried and I’m taking preparations. Who knows if I’m right or not, but I’d rather be safe than sorry as all of those people who had money in Cyprus have learned.

IRS High-Tech Tools Track Your Digital Footprints
stratrisks.com - The Internal Revenue Service is collecting a lot more than taxes this year—it’s also acquiring a huge volume of personal information on taxpayers’ digital activities, from eBay auctions to Facebook posts and, for the first time ever, credit card and e-payment transaction records, as it expands its search for tax cheats to places it’s never gone before.
* Related Video: Judge Napolitano On IRS E-Mail Snooping...

YouTube: John Stossel: Americans Taxed from Dusk Till Dawn
Fox Business - Tax Foundation President Scott Hodge on the need to simplify the tax code.

Fed Argues that Mortgage Abuses are Trade Secrets, Meaning Institutionalized Fraud
nakedcapitalism.com - ...Federal Reserve staff argued that the documents relating to widespread legal violations are the “trade secrets” of mortgage servicing companies. In addition, staff from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) argued that these documents should be withheld from Members of Congress because producing them could be interpreted as a waiver of their authority to prevent disclosure to the public of confidential supervisory bank examination information.

20,000 U.S. M-16s stolen from unguarded warehouse in Kuwait
worldtribune.com - Kuwait has reported the theft of a massive amount of U.S. weapons. The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin M-16 assault rifles and 15,000 rounds for 9mm pistols were stolen.... Kuwait has been a major defense client of the United States.

S Korea 'doubts' North has nuclear missile despite US intel. report
Press TV - South Korea's Defence Ministry said on Friday it doubted North Korea had the ability to launch a nuclear-armed ballistic missile as claimed in a report by the U.S. military spy agency. "North Korea has conducted three nuclear tests, but it is still doubtful that North Korea has made a small, light warhead that can be mounted on a missile," ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told reporters.

Nuclear bombshell: North Korea has nukes capable of striking neighboring nations, says Pentagon
(NaturalNews) A classified Defense Intelligence Agency report described in testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday reveals that “North Korea now has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles.” The U.S. has jointly declared “Watchcon 2″ status with South Korea, the highest level of military alert, as North Korean missiles have been spotted in the “launch” position.

Audit: Pentagon gave Afghan contracts to Taliban, other terrorists
Press TV - A new audit from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has found significant weaknesses in the oversight intended to keep the Pentagon from giving contracts to Taliban and other terrorists.

‘74,000 Malian refugees need urgent aid’
Press TV - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says 74,000 Malians who have taken refuge in the desert of Mauritania need urgent help and humanitarian assistance.... The French-led war on Mali, which Paris launched on January 11, has caused a serious humanitarian crisis in the northern areas of the country and has displaced thousands of people, who now live in deplorable conditions.

Proponents of ‘first strike’ nuclear war against Iran rob billions from their own citizens
RT - The Pentagon and NATO’s multibillion-dollar war budgets are financed by massive economic austerity measures, impoverishing people in the US and NATO member-states in order to build advanced nuclear weaponry justified by the ‘Iran threat.’

'Kerry in Mideast for Iran war coalition'
Press TV - An unnamed security official said in an interview with the Israeli news website Walla on Wednesday that the recent visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry to the Middle East aimed to create an anti-Iran axis in the region. The anti-Iran axis would include Israel, Turkey, Jordan and the Persian Gulf states, the official said.

Leaked report: Nearly half of US drone strikes in Pakistan not against al-Qaeda
RT - A trove of leaked classified reports has confirmed what many had suspected – US drone kills in Pakistan are not the precision strikes against top-level al-Qaeda terrorists they are portrayed as by the Obama administration.

Cost of Cyprus bailout swells to $30 billion, leaked document shows
Press TV - The cost of the bailout for Cyprus has swollen to 23 billion euros (30 billion US dollars), with most of the burden on the shoulders of the crisis-hit nation, leaked updated plans for the rescue show.

Ugandan thief contracts Ebola virus from swiped cell phone
NY Daily News - An unlucky crook caught the Ebola virus when he swiped a cell phone from a patient battling the disease at a hospital in western Uganda, the locus of an outbreak of the deadly fever.

Bird Flu Causing Suffocation Shows Severe Spectrum of New Virus
Bloomberg - Bird flu turned fatal for a 52- year-old Shanghai woman whose lungs became so damaged that she began to suffocate, causing her vital organs to rapidly shut down, doctors in China said.... Treatment with intravenous antibiotics, steroids, antibody therapy, and mechanical ventilation failed to help, and she died April 3.

VIDEO: Treason Alert: Dems Try to Move Gun Bill Forward Without Allowing Senators to Read It
Kurt Nimmo - Like the disastrous and unconstitutional Obamacare bill rammed down the throats of the American people, the unconstitutional S. 49 gun bill aimed at the heart of the Second Amendment passed cloture earlier today in the Senate with 68 votes despite the fact senators have not had a chance to read it.

VIDEO: Day of Action to Close Guantanamo': US cities protest Obama's inaction
RT - With Guantanamo prisoners on hunger strike for over two months, human rights activists across the United States demonstrated against the country's treatment of detainees in the offshore US prison camp.

Guantanamo Bay hearing delayed after mysterious disappearance of legal files
RT - Pre-trial hearings in the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunals have been delayed to address the disappearance of defense legal documents from Pentagon computers, military officials said on Thursday.

Climate change now included in US curriculum
RT - Those who doubt climate change could soon be forced to change their minds – if they want to succeed in school, that is. To prepare kids for adulthood, the American school system is incorporating climate change into its science curriculum.

VIDEO: Off-Duty Firefighter Saves Man Who Cuts Himself With Saws at Home Depot
NBC4 News - Art Hurtado, Pasadena Fire captain and paramedic, helped save the life of a man at Home Depot after the victim apparently tried to cut his arms off using handsaws found at the home improvement store.

17 Qualities of a True Revolutionary
Revolutionary Champion of Man (RCOM) is a maverick thinker who lives their life differently than everybody else. He sees everybody else as crazy for living in a way that is destroying the planet and all life on earth. She was born to change the world and would rather die than live like the rest.
Instead of living in a way that will lead humanity towards extinction, an RCOM decides to live life in a way that will fix all of the problems and clean up the mess created by previous generations.

COMEX Silver Inventories Fall Off Cliff As Registered Silver Declines by 10% in 48 Hours!
silverdoctors.com - Nearly 4 million ounces of physical metal has vaporized from COMEX vaults as the rush to physical intensifies in the wake of the Cyprus bail-in wealth confiscation as news has spread that nations the Western world over are preparing to shove the next banking crisis down the throats of depositors.

VIDEO: If Bullion Were Not a Threat Government Would Not Attack It- Paul Craig Roberts
silverdoctors.com - “When gold hit $1,900, the Federal Reserve panicked because they realized with the dollar deteriorating so rapidly, compared to bullion prices, that soon it would also deteriorate its exchange value with other currencies.”

Bitcoin Trading Reopens, Promptly Plunges Another 35%!
silverdoctors.com 3/12/13 - After MtGox halted trading for 12 hours to allow the market to “cool down”, trading resumed at 10pm EST tonight. Not surprisingly, the digital currency immediately plunged another 35% to $78 from $120 where it was when trading was halted earlier Thursday, before rebounding back above $100.

Office of Management and Budget: Obama Will Become First President to Spend $4T in One Year
CNS News - In the historical tables it released along with President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget proposal this morning, the White House Office of Management and Budget revealed that in fiscal 2016, under the president's budget proposal, it expects Obama to become the first president in the nation's history to preside over a federal government that spends more than $4 trillion in one year.

Are DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks being used to fix Bitcoin rates?
RT - A massive surge in the number of Bitcoin users and reports of hacking attempts are being blamed for a worldwide panic that caused the cryptocurrency’s worth to fluctuate drastically in recent days.... “Attackers wait until the price of Bitcoins reaches a certain value, sell, destabilize the exchange, wait for everybody to panic-sell their Bitcoins, wait for the price to drop to a certain amount, then stop the attack and start buying as much as they can.”

North Carolina’s New Welfare Requirement: Submit to a Criminal Background Check if You Want Benefits
The Blaze - Some North Carolina legislators agreed Tuesday to require county social service workers to perform criminal background checks on people seeking welfare and food stamps.... “We absolutely have to make sure our aid goes to law-abiding citizens first,” said state Rep. Dean Arp, R-Union, one of the bill’s primary sponsors. “This is a reasonable provision to ensure that.”

YouTube: "Starve The Beast, Don't Join The Military" - War Veteran
Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran, Popeye talks about his experiences with Veteran Affairs and some of the mistreatment that happened to himself and to others. Due to unsanitary equipment and procedures, the Miami VA hospital put numerous veterans health and lives in danger. Popeye also talks about problems with Veterans Affairs in general and a solution to the crisis we're seeing our country in.

Chinese Professor: 70-80% Chance of War With North Korea
Paul Joseph Watson - “There is a 70 to 80 per cent chance that a war will happen because North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may want to use this opportunity to force a reunification of the Korean Peninsula,” Zhang Liangui, a professor of international strategic research at the Communist Party’s Central Party School, told the South China Morning Post.

Top Economic Advisers Forecast War and Unrest
Washington’s Blog - Kyle Bass, Martin Armstrong, Larry Edelson, Charles Nenner, James Dines, Nouriel Roubini, Jim Rogers, Marc Faber and Jim Rickards Warn of War. We’re already at war in numerous countries all over the world. But top economic advisers warn that economic factors could lead to a new world war. Kyle Bass writes...

North Korea close to dangerous line: US
Press TV - Hagel told reporters on Wednesday that Pyongyang “with its bellicose rhetoric, its actions, has been skating very close to a dangerous line.” The US defense secretary also expressed Washington’s readiness to deal with “any contingency, any action that North Korea may take or any provocation that they may instigate.”

US plans funds to upgrade nuclear arms
Press TV - US President Barack Obama has reportedly requested more funding to further upgrade American nuclear weapons at the cost of reduced spending on nuclear nonproliferation measures, which it demands from other nations.

Cyprus to sell around 400 mln euros worth of gold
(Reuters) - Cyprus has agreed to sell excess gold reserves to raise around 400 million euros and help finance its part of its bailout, an assessment of Cypriot financing needs prepared by the European Commission showed.

'India defies US-led oil sanctions on Iran'
Press TV - India has reiterated that it will not halt its oil imports from Iran despite the US-engineered sanctions against the Islamic Republic’s oil sector, a report says.

North Korea's reservists 'called back to help with spring harvest'
Independent - This week comes one sure sign that life on in the North is returning to normal after weeks of military drills.... Sources in South Korea say a quarter of the North’s population – up to seven million people – have been ordered to prepare for spring crops, an annual ritual that is critically important for the impoverished, aid-dependent nation.

Alert level at 'vital threat’ in S Korea
Press TV - South Korea has raised its military surveillance alert to "vital threat" amid claims that North Korea would test-launch a medium-range missile.

Pakistan tests nuclear-capable missile
Press TV - Pakistan’s military says it has successfully launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.... The test came four days after India successfully test fired a nuclear-capable Agni II missile from eastern Odisha state. The surface-to-surface missile strike can reach targets around 2,000 kilometers away.

‘Israel sanctions hit Gaza food stocks’
Press TV - A UN humanitarian official says a new round of Israeli sanctions on the besieged Gaza Strip is impacting food supplies and would have "serious" effects if continued.

Mali crisis: French withdraw troops amid fears of prolonged war
RT - France has withdrawn its first batch of 100 troops out of the 4,000 deployed in Mali as it prepares to hand over operations to a UN peacekeeping force, with 1,000 French troops to remain on the ground by the end of the year.

VIDEO: Hagel Speaks About Pentagon Cuts, North Korea
April 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel talks about the cuts to the Pentagon's budget and the latest threats made by North Korea against South Korea and the U.S. Hagel speaks at the National Defense University. (Source: Bloomberg)

Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee & 8 Senators to Filibuster S. 649
livingnotsurviving.com - 13 Senators, led by Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee, signed letters to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid guaranteeing a filibuster & full-stop against any attempts of gun-control, gun registration, and/or gun confiscation. These 13 brave Senators are as follows...

YouTube: Ending Forfeiture Abuse: How States Can Be Tough on Crime and Respect Property Rights
InstituteForJustice - Civil asset forfeiture is one of the greatest threats to private property rights in our nation today. Law enforcement can take your property without even charging you with a crime. According to reports from the Institute for Justice, law enforcement agencies frequently fail to disclose what they seize or how they use the proceeds. Failure to report only makes this already bad problem worse.

VIDEO: Senate Moves Closer to Gun Confiscation
Kurt Nimmo - ABC News reported earlier today that senators Joe Mancin, a Democrat from West Virginia, and Republican Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania have reached a deal to impose universal gun registration on all Americans practicing their right to bear arms under the Second Amendment.

VIDEO: Democrat Admits Obama Agenda Is Total Gun Ban
Paul Joseph Watson - Democratic Austin City Council member and potential next mayor Mike Martinez admitted during a speech that the Obama administration’s long term gun control agenda is focused on banning firearms altogether.

Sheriffs Suing Own State Over Guns
WND - Revealing the disconnect between Colorado politicians and the law enforcement officers who are charged with making sure the state’s laws are followed, more than half of the sheriffs in the state are planning to file a lawsuit against recent gun control laws passed by Democratic lawmakers.

VIDEO: Student Says Gun Free Zone Laws Left Him and Others Defenseless During Lone Star Campus Mass Stabbing
Adan Salazar - One of the students who hid in a classroom with about 50 others during a mass stabbing at the Lone Star Community College in northwest Houston yesterday told reporters he wished “that the law would let us carry guns,” slamming the unconstitutional laws that prevented students from being able to defend themselves.

Mississippi to Add Terrorism to Death Penalty Bill
AP - Mississippi prosecutors can pursue the death penalty if a victim is killed while certain other felonies are committed — crimes such as rape or armed robbery. The new law will add terrorism as one of the other, aggravating crimes. The bill defines terrorism as an act committed to influence government by intimidation, coercion, mass destruction or assassination, or to intimidate or coerce civilians.

YouTube: Liberty & Civil Rights speech by Senator Rand Paul Howard University
Senator Rand Paul joined the students at Howard University to discuss civil rights, liberty and the future of freedom in America today.

Bitcoin crashes over 50% just one day after bold public prediction by Mike Adams of Natural News
(NaturalNews) But the real story here isn't that I accurately made this dire prediction less than 24 hours before it took place; the real story is that this crash was almost certainly caused by a covert central bank "stress test" of the pliability of the bitcoin market. That's all explained below. (This is a Natural News exclusive. Nobody else has realized this yet...)
* Related Article: BitCoin Down 40% And Dumping - Zero Hedge 4/10/13 - Time to rename it BitCrash... or will it stage an amazing recovery?... Bitcoin is undergoing a classic correction after quintupling in price over the past 30 days. The currency, which was trading as high as $265 earlier today on Mt. Gox, plummeted and is now trading at around $150.

Why Are The Banksters Telling Us To Sell Our Gold When They Are Hoarding Gold Like Crazy?
Activist Post - The big banks are breathlessly proclaiming that now is the time to sell your gold. They are warning that we have now entered a "bear market" for gold and that the price of gold will continue to decline for the rest of the year. So should we believe them? Well, their warnings might be more credible if the central banks of the world were not hoarding gold like crazy. During 2012, central bank gold buying was at the highest level that we have seen in almost 50 years.

Seniors would see smaller Social Security checks under Obama budget
CNN Money - The budget plan, released Wednesday, calls for changing the way the annual cost of living adjustments for Social Security and other federal programs are calculated. Shifting to "chained CPI" from the current inflation measure could reduce the federal debt by $230 billion, but it would also mean that seniors would get smaller increases in their Social Security payments each year.

Can An Afghani War Veteran Help Us to Understand Good Conscience?
wakingtimes.com - I believe the medical community has made a mistake in considering war-related post-traumatic stress a disorder. War related post-traumatic stress is a natural order, not a disorder.... Anyone who witnesses gruesome violence and death would feel nauseous and repulsed, and these reactions are a natural order of human preservation, not a disorder.

Kerry: US to step up aid to Syrian rebels
Press TV - With a planned meeting with Syrian rebel officials scheduled for tomorrow, Secretary of State John Kerry says imposing regime change in the nation remains “front and center” in foreign policy discussions, and that the U.S. is considering “stepped-up” aid to rebel factions.

Navy Deploying Laser Weapon Prototype Near Iran
NY Times - The laser will not be operational until next year, but the announcement on Monday by Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, the chief of naval operations, seemed meant as a warning to Iran not to step up activity in the gulf in the next few months if tensions increase because of sanctions and the impasse in negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program. Related RT video here.

Libyan arms fueling warfare in Syria, Mali, Gaza Strip – UN report
RT - Arms out of post-Gaddafi Libya are empowering militant groups, including terrorists and criminal gangs across the Middle East and Africa, a UN report said. Twelve countries are involved in the illicit trade of weapons, including portable SAM missiles.

Two Afghans killed in US-led attack
Press TV - Local officials say a third victim was also injured after US-led soldiers opened fire on the bus in Afghanistan’s western Herat Province on Wednesday.... Following the attack, the families of the victims and the other passengers on the bus held a protest, demanding justice, and called for the withdrawal of the US-led forces from their country. The US military has not yet commented on the incident.

China-N Korea border closed to tourists
Press TV - A key border crossing between China and North Korea has been closed to tourist groups amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

UK Man Wins Court Victory Over BBC for 9/11 Coverup Broadcast
Activist Post - Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV license fee because the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks, he alleged. It is widely known that the BBC reported the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 over 20 minutes before it occurred. WTC 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by a plane on 9/11 but collapsed at free-fall speed later that day.

‘S Korea, US raise surveillance status’
Press TV - According to the report by the South Korean Yonhap news agency, a senior military official said that the two countries upgraded their surveillance status on Wednesday to monitor an imminent missile test by North Korea.

Chinese colonel says latest bird flu virus is U.S. biological weapon
freebeacon.com - A Chinese Air Force officer on Saturday accused the U.S. government of creating the new strain of bird flu now afflicting parts of China as a biological warfare attack. People’s Liberation Army Sr. Col. Dai Xu said the United States released the H7N9 bird flu virus into China in an act of biological warfare, according to a posting on his blog on Saturday.

VIDEO: Police injured and arrests made as hundreds 'celebrated' death of Margaret Thatcher
Telegraph - More than 100 people gathered in south London suburb - the scene of fierce riots in 1981 just two years into her first time in office. Some scaled the nearby Ritzy Cinema and changed the film listings to read "Margaret Thatchers dead".

VIDEO: 'Devastating' quake strikes near Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant, kills dozens
NBC News - A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck near Iran's only nuclear power station Tuesday, killing at least 37 people and injuring hundreds, according to one report, and generating tremors that were felt on the other side of the Persian Gulf.

Why gun control is bad for America
Veterans Today - n apparent violation of his Constitutional Oath of Office, President Barack Hussein Obama has been aggressively promoting gun control, including a recent appearance in Denver, CO, where there are reasons to believe that Colorado is going to be the pilot project for a nation-wide effort to secure universal registration as a step toward confiscation.

VIDEO: Obama Demands Vote On 2nd Amendment During Hartford Speech
Kurt Nimmo - President Barack Obama traveled to Hartford, Connecticut on Monday and delivered a speech calling for a vote on the Second Amendment. He lashed out at Republicans who plan to resist attempts by Congress to destroy the right to bear firearms.

NY Gun Confiscation Underway – Citizens Told to Turn in Pistol Owner ID & Firearms
ammoland.com - News came from multiple NY State based firearms enthusiast websites late Friday that confiscations of Pistol Owner ID Cards, as well as firearms and accessories has commenced in NY under the provisions of the horribly flawed, draconian and blatantly unconstitutional NY SAFE Act. Those folks having their weapons and FID cards confiscated have been discovered to have been prescribed multiple different types of psychotropic drugs, such as those for Depression or Anxiety.

Colorado Gun Grabbers Target Health Records To Set Up A NY Style Gun Grab
ammoland.com - Just when it looked as though Democrats were done forcing their radical anti-gun agenda on Coloradans… Democrat gun-grabber Beth McCann has announced she is drafting a bill that will require the release of mental health records into a mass government-controlled database.

Police Confiscate Man’s Guns Over Son’s Water Pistol Threat
Paul Joseph Watson - In the latest example of anti-gun hysteria, police in New York State confiscated a man’s firearms and revoked his pistol license after his son threatened to use a water pistol against bullies who had taunted his friends at school.

Macabre case involving abortionist receives zero national attention
Paul Joseph Watson - One of the employees who worked for infamous abortionist Kermit Gosnell described to a jury how she heard a baby “screaming” during a live-birth abortion, but the shocking story continues to receive virtually no national attention.

Charlie Reese Final Column 545 vs. 300,000,000 People
netlog.com - Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It’s a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!

VIDEO: BenSwann.com Coming Soon…
A new platform. A new beginning. Here, together, we will shatter the left vs. right paradigm and the news will never look the same.

VIDEO: Mitch McConnell seeks FBI investigation
Politico - “Senator McConnell’s campaign is working with the FBI and has notified the local U.S. Attorney in Louisville, per FBI request, about these recordings,” McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton said in a statement. “Obviously a recording device of some kind was placed in Senator McConnell’s campaign office without consent. By whom and how that was accomplished presumably will be the subject of a criminal investigation.”

Obama's 2014 budget numbers are based on bad math, phantom revenues, imagined spending cuts and a middle-class tax hike
Daily Mail - The Obama administration released an outline of its fiscal 2014 budget to reporters on Tuesday, forbidding its release until 6:00 a.m. Wednesday. The preview promises that President Barack Obama's budget 'reduces the deficit and puts the Nation on a sound fiscal course.'

IRS to Reduce Audits of Big Businesses by 18%
Tax Prof Blog - The IRS plans to expend 18% percent less effort auditing businesses with assets of $10 million or more compared with just two years ago, according to a very timely IRS planning document. ,,, This series of internal IRS management reports — the last one covers the period ending in January 2013 — are provided by the IRS thanks to a court order granted TRAC as a result of a suit filed under the Freedom of Information Act.

Nearly 20% of CNT Silver Inventories Withdrawn from COMEX Vaults Monday!
silverdoctors.com - Epic drainage of physical silver inventories continued Monday, as Brinks’, CNT, and Scotia all reported massive withdrawals of silver from their COMEX depositories. The biggest withdrawal came in the CNT vault, where 1.138 million ounces (including 737k REGISTERED oz) were withdrawn- an astonishing 17.3% of CNT’s entire physical silver inventory vaporized overnight!

Modern Money Mechanics
coinage.me - As explained and revealed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Creating Money Out of Nothing and Selling it is explained in great official detail. The important thing to realize is there is no money with intrinsic value! It is really nothing more than transactions and the ability to create them!... This document has been removed from print by the Federal Reserve and made unavailable. Here is the Document: Modern Money Mechanics.pdf.

YouTube: The Tiny Dot
A situation too weird for 99.999% of people to adequately explain.

NYC has to pay $365k to settle OWS suit
Press TV - In an agreement announced Tuesday, the City of New York will pay more than $365,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by people whose property was destroyed when the New York Police Department raided Zuccotti Park and evicted Occupy Wall Street on November 15, 2011.

Pyongyang warns foreigners to evacuate S. Korea, threatens ‘thermonuclear’ war
RT - North Korea has warned all foreign nationals to prepare to evacuate the South in the event of conflict. "We do not wish harm on foreigners in South Korea should there be a war," Reuters quoted KCNA news agency as saying, citing the spokesperson for its Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee.

‘Dimona poses threat to environment’
Press TV - An Israeli nuclear scientist has warned that Israel's Dimona nuclear plant is aging and poses a real threat to the environment. Professor Uzi Even, a former member of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, said the power plant should be shut down. Last year, some 70 workers suffering from cancer filed lawsuits against the Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission, over the lack of proper safety measures.

EU calls on Austria and Luxembourg to abandon bank secrecy regime
Austria is under pressure from the European Commission over its banking secrecy policy and risks being left alone in an "unsustainable position" as the EU gears up for a drive to curb tax evasion. The Commission has called on Austria to free up information on foreign depositors in its banking sector on Monday and follow the transparency rules other EU members follow.

Japan deploys Patriot missile launchers
Press TV - Japan has deployed Patriot missile launchers to defend against potential attack by North Korea as tensions in the Korean Peninsula continue to build up.

N Korea to suspend Kaesong operations
Press TV - North Korea says it will suspend operations at an industrial complex it has jointly run with South Korea blaming military warmongers for the move.

Russia Putin Warns Korean Crisis Could Be Worse Than Chernobyl
rian.ru - Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed on Monday for calm on the Korean Peninsula, warning that the escalation of tension in the region could lead to a nuclear disaster far worse than the Chernobyl incident.

France launches major offensive in Mali
Press TV - French forces have launched one of their largest offensives against what they claim to be extremist militants in the West African country, Mali.

GlobeCast to pull Hispan TV off air
Press TV - GlobeCast has decided to stop the transmission of Iran’s Spanish-language Hispan TV on an SES satellite in line with the Western campaign against free speech.

H7N9 Bird Flu Update: 21 Infected, 6 Dead
ABC News - Three new cases of the new bird flu strain, H7N9, have been reported in China, bringing the total number of cases to 21, according to the World Health Organization. Six of those who were infected have died, but no new deaths have been reported since Friday.

YouTube: Communism Survivor Blasts Salem Gun Grabbers: "You Don't Know What Freedom Is!"
"You don't know what freedom is because you never lost it!" With a pointed finger Manuel Martinez called out Anti-Gun Committee Leader Floyd Prozansky during heated testimony on Friday.

YouTube: Leaked Government Report Reveals Testing Of Gun Sensing Drones In Oklahoma
DHS Small Drone Test Plan Calls for Evaluating Sensors for 'First Responder, HS Operational Communities'.
* Related Article: EXCLUSIVE: DHS Small Drone Test Plan Calls for Evaluating Sensors for 'First Responder, HS Operational Communities'

Army Labeled Evangelicals as Religious Extremists’
Fox News - A U.S. Army training instructor listed Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism as examples of religious extremism along with Al Qaeda and Hamas during a briefing with an Army Reserve unit based in Pennsylvania, Fox News has learned.

VIDEO: Firearms Company Relocating To North Texas
CBS News - A firearms company that makes AR-15 style rifles for the iconic brand Colt, will open a plant in Breckenridge in Stephens County. Oregon company Bold Ideas confirmed the development Friday.

YouTube: Larry Pratt Schools Gun Control Cheerleaders on CSPAN
April 7, 2013 C-SPAN.

Mitch McConnell joins Senate gun filibuster
Politico - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would join a group of Senate Republicans threatening a filibuster to oppose a cloture vote if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid moves a gun bill to the floor this week.

Report: 'Gang of Eight' to Oppose Amendments to Their Immigration Bill
Breitbart - All the members of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” pushing immigration reform in the U.S. Senate will band together to block any efforts by other senators to offer amendments to their legislation once it is introduced, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

US Mint Sells Nearly 1 Million Silver Eagles Monday, Begins Rationing Sales!
silverdoctors.com - The US Mint has updated April sales statistics for the first time since last week, and to no surprise, the Mint again reported more massive sales, with another 833,000 silver eagles reported sold Monday! The April total through 6 business days is now 1.645 million ounces, bringing the 2013 total to a massive 15.868 million ounces.

25 Things That You Should Do To Get Prepared For The Coming Economic Collapse
Economic Collapse - The strategies posted below are a mix of both short-term and long-term strategies. Some will be important for our immediate future, while others may not be needed for a number of years. But in the end, you will be very thankful for the time and the effort that you spent getting prepared while you still could.

YouTube: Time to Sequester Air Force One Vacation Flights
Air Force One costs taxpayers $179,750 per hour. It's time to sequester President Obama's use of Air Force One and limit it to official business rather than vacations and sight seeing tours.

Analysis: Obama’s Budget Includes $800 Billion In Tax Hikes, $7.3 Trillion In New Debt
Weekly Standard - The Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee is breaking down President Obama's budget with this preliminary analysis...

More Than Dozen States Push For Gold as Legal Tender
Bloomberg - Arizona is poised to follow Utah, which authorized bullion for currency in 2011. Similar bills are advancing in Kansas, South Carolina and other states.

MD Residents to Pay New “Rain Tax” For Rain That Falls on Their Property
Intel Hub - The Maryland government, under direct order of Obama and the EPA will now begin taxing the state’s 10 largest counties according to the rain that falls on their property and the “impervious surfaces” on their land.

VIDEO: Corporations Profit From $75 Billion Tax Payer Funded Food Stamps Program
freedomoutpost.com - On Friday “Boomtown 2: The Business of Food Stamps” Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon exposed how politicians and corporations have used the country’s food stamps program to profit on the backs of tax payers.

Iran, Nicaragua eye more ties
Press TV - The Islamic Republic of Iran and Nicaragua have called for the further expansion of economic and political relations between the two countries. In a meeting with his Nicaraguan counterpart Sandinista René Nunez, Iran Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said, “Political and economic relations between Iran and Nicaragua are expanding.”

Africa: The Growing Campaign to Revoke Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
allafrica.com - This week, a challenge has begun with the launch of a petition urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to revoke Obama's Peace Prize. By midnight of the first day, nearly 10,000 people had signed.

Report: Authorities Seize $50 Million In Gold From Private Owner: “Nearly A Ton”
Mac Slavo - When one obviously panicked family looking to get out of harms way before contagion spreads and financial Armageddon takes hold attempted to cross into Switzerland, customs agents on the border found much more than they expected. After questioning the family and inspecting their vehicle police reportedly found one ton of gold hidden in the floor boards.

12 Million Tons of the UK’s Carefully Sorted Recyclables are being Dumped in Foreign Landfills
Daily Mail -The trade in sending rubbish abroad – mainly to Asia – has doubled over the past decade, as councils have increasingly turned to contractors to deal with mountains of waste generated by compulsory recycling schemes.

Deadly New Bird Flu Vindicates Controversial Research
Reuters - Scientists know precisely what it takes for a bird flu to mutate into a potential human pandemic strain – because they’ve created just such mutant viruses in the laboratory.

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant leaking contaminated water
Reuters - As much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The power company has yet to discover the cause of the leak, detected on one of seven tanks that store water used to cool the plants reactors, a spokesman for the company, Masayuki Ono, said at a press briefing.

Deadly levels of radiation found in food 225 miles from Fukushima
(NaturalNews) Despite a complete media blackout on the current situation, levels of Cesium-137 (Cs-137) and Cesium-134 (Cs-134) found in produce and rice crackers located roughly 225 miles away from Fukushima are high enough to cause residents to exceed the annual radiation exposure limit in just a few months, or even weeks.

Twelve civilians, including 11 children killed in Afghan NATO strike
RT - A NATO airstrike has killed 11 children and one woman in the East of Afghanistan, report local officials. A house collapsed during the attack, causing the casualties and leaving six women injured. The civilians were killed during a joint Afghan-NATO operation late on Saturday night in the Shigal district of Kunar province, which borders Pakistan.

North Korea allegedly preparing fourth nuke test
RT - As tensions are running high on the Korean Peninsula reports have emerged that North Korea could be gearing up for a fourth underground nuclear weapons test at Punggye-ri, the site of its previous test.

Inside North Korea's Environmental Collapse
PBS - North Korea has been hiding something. Something beyond its prison camps, its nuclear facilities, its pervasive poverty, its aching famine, its lack of energy—electrical, fossil, or otherwise.

US to deploy spy drone in Japan
Press TV - The U.S. military is set to deploy an unmanned spy plane in Japan to boost surveillance capabilities as North Korea apparently readied for missile launches, a newspaper report said on Saturday.

S Africa scheduled to send troops to DRC
Press TV - The South African government is scheduled to dispatch troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of UN Organization Stabilization Mission (MONUSCO).

VIDEO: One killed, over 60 injured in clashes between Muslims and Christians in Cairo
RT - One person has reportedly been killed and 66 wounded when clashes erupted outside a Coptic cathedral in Cairo after funeral prayers were held for four Christians killed in sectarian violence.

‘US drone hits in Pakistan followed deal’
Press TV - The report by The New York Times said on Sunday that Pakistan granted the US permission to use drones in the country after the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) killed a wanted Pakistani tribal rebel.

Global Deposit Confiscation Called For By Influential CEO Of Italy’s Largest Bank
silverdoctors.com - The CEO of Unicredit Federico Ghizzoni said yesterday that it is “acceptable to confiscate savings to save banks.”

Gold-Run: “There is Not One Single Ounce of Gold Available for Sale in Bangkok!”
silverdoctors.com - SD reader Anders has submitted a boots-on-the ground report from Bangkok Thailand, which is normally flooded with physical gold. In the wake of this week’s massive gold take-down by the cartel, Anders reports that: EVERY Gold-shop in Bangkok is out of Bullion…there is not 1 single ounce of gold bullion available for purchase in the entire city of Bangkok!

Kissinger in new mass WikiLeaks document release
RT - WikiLeaks has published the ‘Kissinger Cables’: its largest public release of documents in nearly a year, totaling some 1.7 million classified files, including information on the US’s secret diplomatic history.

VIDEO: Rand Paul: Republicans And Some Evangelicals Often Appear ‘Too Eager For War’
Daily Paul - Appearing on the Christian Broadcasting Network this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said something that is likely to continue the distancing of himself from the staunch neoconservative types like Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer who have actively blasted the senator for civil libertarian views. Speaking with CBN’s David Brody, Paul said that Republicans and evangelical Christians too often seem eager to go to war.

Kansas set to enact life-starts-"at fertilization" abortion law
Reuters - In addition to the provision specifying when life begins, the bill prevents employees of abortion clinics from providing sex education in schools, bans tax credits for abortion services and requires clinics to give details to women about fetal development and abortion health risks. It also bans abortions based solely on the gender of the fetus.

Ohio town wants to implement massive aerial surveillance program
RT - Drones aren’t conducting surveillance 24/7 in the United States just yet, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to worry about: in Dayton, Ohio, manned airplanes might soon do the spying. Officials with the Dayton City Commission recently announced that they hope to sign a $120,000 contract with a local security company in order to give law enforcement agencies an eye-in-the-sky ability unheard of elsewhere in America.

VIDEO: Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk 4/8/13: Homeschooling: The Future Of Liberty
Liberty Crier - A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the criminalization of alternatives to government-controlled education. Dictators recognize the danger that free thought poses to their rule, and few things promote the thinking of “unapproved” thoughts like an education controlled by parents instead of the state. That is why the National Socialist (Nazi) government of Germany outlawed homeschooling in 1938.

VIDEO: Reality Check: One Glaring Oversight In U.N. Arms Treaty?
(FOX19) - The United Nations has voted on a historic, first of its kind treaty aimed at the international arms trade. So what does this international treaty mean for you? And what one area of arms trafficking did the U.N. happen to miss?

Feds Identify 300,000 Americans as Terrorists
Activist Post - On Friday, the Los Angeles Times posted an article attempting to define a domestic terrorist movement consisting of as many as 300,000 Americans. Some are even labeled as non-violent "paper terrorists".... They refer to this so-called terror group as "sovereigns, zealots who refuse to recognize government authority in virtually any form."

VIDEO: James Holmes' psychiatrist warned he may pose threat
LA Times - Details about the case have been tightly sealed from the earliest days of the investigation. Yet on Thursday, District Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. reversed previous rulings on public access and made public the arrest affidavit and 12 search warrants.... They found prescription medication for sertraline, a generic version of Zoloft used to treat depression, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder; and Clonazepam, usually prescribed to treat anxiety and panic attacks. * Related Article: As Predicted, James Holmes Was Taking Violence-Linked Antidepressant Drugs

YouTube: MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry » All Your Kids Belong To Us
On March 23, my colleague Mark Finkelstein noted how MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry considers the unborn child a “thing” which takes a “lot of money” to “turn into a human,” costing thousands of dollars to care for each year of his/her life. Now it appears that Harris-Perry thinks that, after they’re born, children fundamentally belong to the state.

Obama Budget to Cap Retirement Accounts at $3 Million
Breitbart - The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts.

More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job
Economic Collapse - The percentage of the working age population in the United States that had a job in March 2013 was exactly the same as it was all the way back in March 2010.

VIDEO: Paul Craig Roberts: ‘US a Third World country in 11 years’
Press TV - A former assistant secretary to the U.S. Treasury has predicted that the U.S. will become a Third World country in 11 years because a lot of manufacturing and professional jobs are being moved offshore.... “I believe we’re about half way there,” said Roberts.

VIDEO: Ron Paul’s Podcast Nation: Cyprus Fair Warning (4-5-13)
Liberty Crier - The midnight raid in Cyprus, could it be a fair warning to us? Ron Paul will discuss it with Charles Goyette.

Tungsten Silver? Fake ASE’s Discovered
silverdoctors.com - We now have an official confirmed report of tungsten molybdenum filled American Silver Eagles. A reader of silver analyst Jeff Lewis submitted the evidence after acquiring 15 fake ASE’s on ebay (underscoring the need to acquire your precious metals from a reputable dealer who obtains their supply directly from national mints)...

‘North Korea moves 2nd missile to east’
Press TV - North Korea has moved a second medium-range missile to its eastern coast amid escalating tension in the Korean Peninsula, a report says.

Confirmed: 2 N. Korean Subs Missing
From the Trenches - This situation is going from bad to worse. According to this report, two North Korean subs went missing two days ago. Though the google translation below from Chosun News TV is very shabby, you can get the jist of it. This situation was brought to my attention via this tweet from Defense Analyst Nathan J. Hunt minutes ago (7pm Eastern 4-3-2012).

‘International terrorists move into Syria’
Press TV - A recent study by the London-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization (ICRS) found that up to 5,500 foreign fighters had traveled to Syria since the crisis erupted more than two years ago.

UN stops food distribution in Gaza
Press TV - The United Nations has halted food distribution among tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in the besieged Gaza Strip after demonstrators protesting aid cuts stormed a UN compound.

Soros calls Japan’s aggressive stimulus plan ‘dangerous’
RT - “What Japan is doing is actually quite dangerous because they’re doing it after 25 years of just simply accumulating deficits and not getting the economy going,” Soros said in Hong Kong. “If the yen starts to fall, which it has done, and people in Japan realize that it’s liable to continue and want to put their money abroad, then the fall may become like an avalanche.”

‘War with US could start any time’
Press TV - North Korea says a preemptive nuclear war with the United States could start any time as tensions continue to escalate between the two countries. “The moment of explosion is approaching fast… The US had better ponder over the prevailing grave situation,” said the General Staff of the North Korean People's Army (KPA) in a statement issued on Thursday.

YouTube: South Korea Ready for Possible Missile Launch by North
Wi Yong-Sup, South Korea's Defense Ministry Spokesman] "We consider a North missile launch is always a possibility. And we've got our measures ready for it. We are ready to respond if the North launches a missile, we are closely monitoring the situation."

DPRK’s “State of War” Declaration Is a Faulty Translation: Not an Official Policy Statement
Scott Creighton - “from that time” becomes “from this time on” and “from this moment“… little change, big difference. As much as our leaders would like them to have taken the bait, North Korea has not declared war on the South or the U.S. in response to our unprecedented provocations.

‘Egypt captures arms sent from Israel’
Press TV - Egypt’s navy has captured a ship carrying more than a 100 crates of weapons and ammunition, which had wandered into the country’s territorial waters after departing from Israel, says one report. he capture took place on Thursday after the vessel, which was heading from the Israeli port of Eilat to Togo, strayed into Egypt’s waters, AFP reported. The report, however, said the ship was sailing under the flag of an African country.

Bank of Japan to pump $1.4 trillion yen into economy in unprecedented stimulus
Reuters - The Bank of Japan unleashed the world's most intense burst of monetary stimulus on Thursday, promising to inject about $1.4 trillion into the economy in less than two years, a radical gamble that sent the yen reeling and bond yields to record lows.

Deadly New Bird Flu Virus in China Possibly Linked to Dead Pigs
The Epoch Times - A new and deadly strain of bird flu is threatening two eastern Chinese provinces, with health authorities and virologists suspecting that a virus mutation is the link between the dead pigs that floated past Shanghai, dead migratory birds in north China, and the deaths of three people.
* Related: Shanghai culls birds over flu detection

VIDEO: Gun Owners of America: We’ve Been Against Background Checks From The Beginning
From the Trenches - Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America owns Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Harball.

VIDEO: 15-Year-Old Girl Demolishes Gun Control Arguments
Activist Post - States continue to wrestle with gun control in the wake of incidents such as Sandy Hook. In response, Connecticut predictably just passed the most restrictive package of bills in the nation, while other states are taking a 180-degree different direction.

MAP: America’s Death Zones: Where NOT To Be When It Hits the Fan
Mac Slavo - As the potential for a globally destabilizing event becomes ever more probable, many concerned Americans are starting to wonder where they’d go if the worst were to happen.

Chechnya High Rise Burns For 29 Hours With No Collapse, WTC 7?
Activist Post - On April 3rd Chechnya’s tallest building, a luxury hotel, caught fire and burned for 29 hours before finally being put out. The building is completely destroyed; however, it did not collapse. This raises many questions as to how World Trade Center 7 could have collapsed on 9/11 with only small fires on a couple of floors.

VIDEO: Man Charged With Terrorism For Criticizing School Security
Infowars.com - Brain Davis, disabled man from Iowa, made the mistake of telling his physical therapist that he believes security at his grand daughter’s school is lacking. Now he is in the slammer charged with felony threat of terrorism.... “I never said that I would go in there and do something to those kids.” Davis told WHO TV 13 in Des Moines. “I said anybody, any one person could go in there. Anybody.”

Spokane Grandmother Of 10 Holds Burglar At Gunpoint At Her Home
CBS News - KXLY-TV reports that Sandy Mize, a grandmother to 10, fired a warning shot and held the suspect, 35-year-old Sean Denny, in her living room until he tried to get away. That’s when authorities apprehended him in her backyard early Wednesday morning.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Gun Shop Makes Own Ammo To Beat Shortage
Steve Watson - A gun shop in Texas has turned to making its own ammo in an attempt to keep up with the overwhelming demand for bullets in the midst of a national shortage that many believe is being purposefully exacerbated by the federal government.

Delaware Mayor and Gun-grabber Enjoys Concealed Carry
Kurt Nimmo - The hypocrisy of the gun-grabbers knows no bounds. Delaware House Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf said he may look into banning firearms in the legislature after it was discovered Williams packed on the House floor. Schwartzkopf, however, gave the mayor a pass. “That’s Dennis. He comes from inner-city Wilmington, and it’s a lot of things going on up there,” he said.

VIDEO: 'Drones fly, children die’: US activists launch massive anti-drone campaign
RT - A month-long nationwide anti-drone campaign has kicked off in New York. Numerous activist groups are planning to take part in ‘April Days of Action’ demonstrations, attempting to draw public attention to the use of drones.

Tens of thousands Obamacare 'navigators' to be hired
Washington Examiner - Tens of thousands of health care professionals, union workers and community activists hired as "navigators" to help Americans choose Obamacare options starting Oct. 1 could earn $20 an hour or more, according to new regulations issued Wednesday.

21 Statistics About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Everyone Should Know
Economic Collapse - With each passing year the level of economic suffering in this country continues to go up, and we haven't even reached the next major wave of the economic collapse yet. When that strikes, the level of economic pain in this nation is going to be off the charts.

VIDEO: 10 Things You Didn't Know You Can Buy with Bitcoins
Activist Post - Last week I wrote about 5 digital currencies besides Bitcoins which had some people still wondering what crypto-currencies are and what they can be used for.

Mining Your iPhone for Gold & Silver- the Infographic
silverdoctors.com - You’ve heard rumors and reports of all the physical gold and silver that is headed to the landfill every year via discarded electronics- but just how much gold, silver, and platinum is really in your iPhone or tablet?

Senate GOP: Gang of Eight Deal Could Cost Trillions in Welfare
Breitbart - Senate Budget Committee Republican staff on Thursday released a description of what they claim is a “major flaw” in the immigration reform plan being pushed by the bipartisan “Gang of Eight"--a loophole that will end up being a multi-trillion dollar entitlement spending increase, with the burden falling on American taxpayers.

As economy flails, debtors' prisons thrive
CBS News - (MoneyWatch) Thousands of Americans are sent to jail not for committing a crime, but because they can't afford to pay for traffic tickets, medical bills and court fees. If that sounds like a debtors' prison, a legal relic which was abolished in this country in the 1830s, that's because it is. And courts and judges in states across the land are violating the Constitution by incarcerating people for being unable to pay such debts.

Eric Holder Gets Busy: Enron’s Skilling May Be Released From Prison Over A Decade Early
Zero Hedge - Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling may be the latest beneficiary of the culture of pervasive permitted, even according to some - encouraged, crime. After being sentenced to prison for 24 years in the aftermath of Enron's spectacular 2001 bankruptcy, the former CEO may be released after serving well less than half of his term.

Bitcoin Hacked: Price Stumbles After Buying Frenzy
CNBC - Online currency bitcoin had 20 percent knocked off its price overnight on Thursday as one of its major exchanges became the victim of a hacking attack leading to a sell-off in the virtual currency after reaching an all-time high.

Fast-food workers strike, citing low wages: 'It's not enough'
NBC News - "It's not enough," Elba Godoy, a crew member at a McDonald's just a few blocks from Times Square, said of her $7.25-per-hour minimum wage, which helps support her extended family of seven. "They don't like [that we're out here], but we have to do it. We cannot survive on $7.25." Godoy and her colleagues are seeking a raise to $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.

US chemical battalion in South Korea
Press TV - The United States has deployed a battalion equipped to deal with nuclear, biological and chemical attacks in South Korea after North Korea threatened to attack the US with ‘nuclear weapons.’

Israel cuts water to Palestinian villages
Press TV - Palestinian media reported on Monday that Israeli authorities halted the water flow to 10 villages located northwest of al-Quds (Jerusalem). According to reports, local Israeli officials had already imposed restrictions on the amount of water pumped to these villages.

Dutch ING Bank Suffers "Technical Glitch", Clients Report Negative Balances
Zero Hedge - UPDATE: Another Dutch bank - Rabobank - is apparently having 'technical' issues now. Following yesterday's discussion of the brink-like nature of the Dutch economy (and banking system), it is perhaps just a coincidence that ING is suffering from a major failure in its Internet Banking. It is unclear how many customers are affected but judging by the scale of responses on Twitter (#ING) it is widespread.

North Korea 'ratifies' nuclear strike against US
RT - North Korean army says it has final approval for nuclear attack on the US, the official KCNA news agency says. This comes shortly after the Pentagon said the US military prepares to deploy an advanced missile-defense system to Guam.

VIDEO: Pentagon sends missile defences to Guam as North Korea 'approves nuclear attack on US'
Telegraph - The Pentagon has announced that it is sending an advanced ballistic missile defence system to Guam, as North Korea ramped up its bellicose rhetoric with the announcement that it has given final approval for a nuclear attack on the US.

N. Korea suspends access to crucial jointly-run industrial zone with South
RT - North Korea has suspended access to the Kaesong industrial zone shared with the South – the latest move amid escalating tensions on the peninsula. South Korea’s defense minister warned that all options will be considered if worker safety is at risk.

1mn died' from Afghan heroin, drug production '40 times higher' since NATO op
RT - Heroin production in Afghanistan increased 40 times since NATO began its ‘War on Terror’ in 2001, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service stated, adding that more than 1million people have died from Afghan heroin since then.

Bank of Japan Set to Unlease Massive Cost-Push Inflation, Propel Gold Well North of $2,000
silverdoctors.com - Money managers are calling this week’s BOJ [Bank of Japan] meeting, the most important one in many years. Key market players expect Governor Kuroda to imitate Ben Bernanke’s actions, and begin buying longer maturity bonds, and more of them, with electronically printed yen.

Britain's debt reaches £1.39TRILLION, equivalent to 90% of the entire economy, ONS reveals
Daily Mail - Chris Leslie, Labour's shadow Treasury minister, said: 'For all David Cameron's false claims to be paying down Britain's debts, the national debt has gone up and up on his watch.

Here Are the 46 Senators Who Voted to Turn Your Gun Rights Over to UN
thegatewaypundit.com - Fortunately, the odious, anti-American treaty was again voted down by the full Senate, but 46 Senators voted in favor of handing over our Constitutional rights to the UN. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) offered Amendment 139 that was passed with a 53 to 46 vote. His Amendment contained language to affirm that foreign treaties would not trump the U.S. Constitution.

VIDEO: A Run On Gun Stores In Connecticut
KOMO 4 News April 02, 2013 - A run on gun stores in Connecticut before sweeping new gun control laws are enacted.

Pentagon May Outsource Supply Of Explosives Due To US Shortage
ibtimes.com - A recent Pentagon probe has revealed that the U.S. Defense Department may be running out of domestic suppliers of so-called energetic materials used in military munitions. The end result could be the U.S. relying on foreign suppliers for materials such as explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics and other ingredients.

VIDEO: North Carolina May Declare Official State Religion Under New Bill
Huffington Post - Republican North Carolina state legislators have proposed allowing an official state religion in a measure that would declare the state exempt from the Constitution and court rulings.

VIDEO: ObamaCare in Trouble? Exchange provision delayed, as lawmakers push to repeal another
Fox News - The Obama administration now says a special system of exchanges designed to make it easier for small businesses to provide insurance will be delayed an entire year -- to 2015.... Meanwhile, 79 senators including several liberal lawmakers recently voted to repeal a new tax on medical devices contained in the health care law following a similar vote in the House.

Ben Swann leaving Fox 19 News
cincinnati.com - Anchor Ben Swann will leave WXIX-TV “to explore other opportunities” when his contract expires at the end of May. He says he’s close to announcing his new gig. “After 2 ½ years at WXIX Fox 19, the time has come for me to explore other opportunities,” he said in the station announcement.

9/11: Illegitimacy of US government
Press TV - More than 11 years after the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center, New York City’s government is finally asking: What in the world could have happened to the missing 1,116 victims?

Obama to Return 5 Percent of Salary in Show of Solidarity
CNBC News - Obama's decision grew out of a desire to share in the sacrifice that government employees are making, said a White House official, who was not authorized to discuss the decision publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Hundreds of thousands of workers could be forced to take unpaid leave -- known as furloughs -- if Congress does not reach an agreement to undo the cuts.... A 5 percent cut from the president's salary of $400,000 per year amounts to $1,667 per month.

VIDEO: Fannie Mae Posts Record $17B Profit, Still Owes Taxpayers $80 Billion
Daily Bail - Fed mouthpiece, WSJ reporter Jon Hilsenrath on Fannie's massive debt to taxpayers despite record profits. This is the first profit in 6 years for Fannie Mae, which lost $16.5 billion last year alone, and who along with Freddie has borrowed $187 billion from taxpayers since 2008.

VIDEO: McDonald’s want ad demands bachelor’s degree, two-years experience for cashier
Washington Examiner - With colleges producing more graduates, and youth unemployment at a sky-high 11.5 percent, even landing a job selling Big Macs is getting competitive. Consider: A job opening at a Massachusetts McDonald’s for a full-time cashier requires one to two years experience and a bachelor’s degree.

VIDEO: Global Elite Preparing New Korean War to Coincide with Economic Implosion?
Kurt Nimmo - The Federal Reserve plan to crash the economy and make room for world government and an authoritarian globalist economic and accompanying police state control system will necessitate a sufficient prerequisite – and that prerequisite may very well be a new war on the Korean peninsula.

Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit
Washington Post - he Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.

US calls on China to restrain N Korea
Press TV - Washington has urged Russia and China to use their influence on North Korea to restrain the East Asian country as tensions continue to escalate on the Korean Peninsula.

Concerned Officials Warn: “North Korea Could Explode a High-Altitude Nuclear Device Over The United States”
Mac Slavo - The idea that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea may have a secret weapon of sorts may sound far-fetched, but not everyone considers it an impossibility. With the U.S. deploying naval assets to the region and Chinese troops mobilizing en masse at the border, there is a distinct possibility that a military clash of some type is in the works.

‘US expands training of Syria militants’
Press TV - The United States and Jordan have increased the training of militants fighting against the Syrian government in an effort to establish a buffer zone along the southern border of Syria, a report says.

US sends 2nd warship to Korean coast
Press TV - The United States says it has deployed a second guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific to waters off the Korean Peninsula as tensions mount with North Korea.

North Korea crisis gone too far, says UN
BBC - UN chief Ban Ki-moon says the North Korea crisis has "gone too far" and calls for urgent talks after Pyongyang announced plans to restart its main nuclear complex.

VIDEO: Syria crisis: March was 'conflict's deadliest month'
BBC - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based activist group, said it recorded 6,005 deaths last month. It said victims included at least 291 women, 298 children, 1,486 rebel fighters and army defectors, and 1,464 government troops. The other casualties were unidentified civilians and fighters, it added.

Israel launches fresh airstrike on Gaza
Press TV - Israeli warplanes have launched an airstrike on the besieged Gaza Strip, the first such attacks since a truce ended an eight-day Israeli onslaught on the coastal enclave in November. Hamas Interior Ministry said in a statement that Israeli jets bombarded an open area in northern Gaza late on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

U.N. passes sweeping international arms regulation viewed by some as 2nd Amendment override
Washington Times - The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday signed off on a sweeping, first-of-its-kind treaty to regulate the international arms trade, brushing aside worries from U.S. gun rights advocates that the pact could lead to a national firearms registry and disrupt the American gun market.

WHO Suspends Vaccine After 26 Children Die in the Developing World
Activist Post - According to reports, at least 26 children have died and many more have been seriously injured after they were given the 5 in 1 vaccine, Quinvaxem. Newspapers have reported that all of the victims suffered adverse reactions including fevers, vomiting and the appearance of bruises all over their bodies.

Nearly Every Mass Shooting In The Last 20 Years Shares One Thing In Common...
ammoland.com - The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes.

VIDEO: Free Gun Program Plans To Expand To North Texas
CBS News - The Armed Citizen Project is raising money to give free guns to residents living in high-crime areas and to single women — so they can defend themselves against criminals. Based in Houston– the group now wants to expand to Dallas.

VIDEO: Connecticut Legislature Moves to Impose Severe Restrictions on 2nd Amendment
Kurt Nimmo - Connecticut will soon follow New York and impose unconstitutional restraints on the Second Amendment. In addition to reaching an agreement to outlaw “high-capacity magazines” in the future, lawmakers have agreed to create a so-called “eligibility certificate” for residents legally practicing their right to own a firearm.

YouTube: Full Disclosure: "Rand Paul's 13 Hours That Changed Public Opinion"
Apr 2, 2013 - Ben Swann Full Disclosure explains how the Rand Paul filibuster has been responsible for a 50 point swing in public opinion on the use of drones to kill U.S. citizens who are also terror suspects overseas.

Police shooting could cost taxpayers millions
king5.com - The case involves a 2012 incident where 28-year-old Dustin Theoharis was shot 16 times while in bed. Theoharis had not committed a crime--police entered his room to search for weapons after arresting someone else at the Auburn home.
* Related Video: Cops Fire 20 Bullets At Unarmed Man In His Bed! Then Call It Justified!

In MERS We Trust
callawyer.com - When you get your pocket picked by a real pro, sometimes all you can do is appreciate the artistry. Such, apparently, is the case with MERS, a national electronic database of home mortgages that effectively swiped millions of dollars from local governments just when they could have used the revenue most.

Cyber Attack Alert: You are not facing a financial haircut but financial decapitation!
silverdoctors.com - Steve Quayle’s banking management source has released an alert stating that a false-flag financial cyber attack is close at hand in which the Western Central banks will blame the coming financial collapse.... I have said it before this will be a financial false flag. The frequency of banking network failures has gotten to be very acute to the point that I am convinced that we are edging closer to the one major event that will set everything in motion.

Take Your Money Out of the Bank, While You Still Can
Activist Post - My sources tell me that Obama is going after every investment including our pensions and 401(k)’s. The banksters on Wall Street are also acquiring firearms, ammunition and control over private mercenary corporations like DynCorp and Blackwater, as authorized by Department of Defense (DOD) directive 3025.18.

VIDEO: U.S. Senator Inhofe: Banks Never Paid Back Bailouts
We Are Change - Luke Rudkowski interviews U.S. Senator James Inhofe about his opposition to the 700 billion dollar bank bailout in 2008 and martial law threats he received from Henry Paulson. Even though the public has been led to believe that the banks paid back this money, according to Senator Inhofe this is false and the full amount was never paid back.

Capitol Alert: State auditor: California's net worth at negative $127.2 billion
sacbee.com - Were California's state government a business, it would be a candidate for insolvency with a negative net worth of $127.2 billion, according to an annual financial report issued by State Auditor Elaine Howle and the Bureau of State Audits.

N Korea relaunching main N-complex
Press TV - According to the official KCNA agency on Tuesday, a uranium enrichment facility and five MW Yongbyon reactors, which were closed in 2007 as part of an international nuclear disarmament deal, are to be put into operation again. The move is in line with a policy of “bolstering the nuclear armed force both in quality and quantity” as well as solving “acute” electricity shortages, said a nuclear energy spokesman.

Iran, Turkey resume gold trade
Press TV - Iran and Turkey have resumed their trade of gold for natural gas and made a USD-120-million deal in February, circumventing tough US sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear energy program.

List Released With 132 Names Who Pulled Cyprus Deposits Ahead Of “Confiscation Day”
Zero Hedge - The disclosure of the list, which shows that the outflow of deposits from local banks other financial institutions outside Cyprus became massively raises suspicion that some had inside information about the decisions taken by the other 16 eurozone countries in exchange for financing deficits of the economy.

Eurozone unemployment hits its highest level: 19.071 million out of work
RT - The average unemployment rate across the eurozone’s 17 constituent European Union countries rose from January’s initial 11.9 percent high to 12 percent in February, meaning a further 33,000 people were put out of work. Overall, 19.071 million are jobless across Europe.

North Korea almost certainly lacks basic technical capability to carry out its big war plan
Washington Post - Let’s rule out the nuclear threat right now: while North Korea does have nuclear warheads, it does not appear to have mastered the technology to miniaturize them enough to put on top of a missile. The odds for non-nuclear missiles aren’t much better.

China mobilizing troops, jets near N. Korean border, US officials say
freebeacon.com - China has placed military forces on heightened alert in the northeastern part of the country as tensions mount on the Korean peninsula following recent threats by Pyongyang to attack, U.S. officials said.

China Yuan Touched A Record High Against the Dollar
Reuters - China's yuan touched a record high versus the dollar on Monday and stayed near that level for much of the day, buoyed by an abundance of dollar supply in the market, traders said.

Judge Rules In Favor Of Banks In Massive Libor Lawsuit
Reuters - A judge on Friday dismissed a "substantial portion" of claims facing a number of banks in a barrage of lawsuits accusing them of interest-rate rigging.

Small Georgia town passes law requiring residents to own guns
Fox News - Council members in Nelson, a city of about 1,300 residents that's located 50 miles north of Atlanta, voted unanimously to approve the Family Protection Ordinance. The measure requires every head of household to own a gun and ammunition to "provide for the emergency management of the city" and to "provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants."

Top scientists to Obama: Ban mutation experiments that will make avian flu more infectious
RT - A group of leading scientists – including a Noble Prize winner - has proclaimed that it is “ethically and morally” wrong to alter the deadly H5N1 virus to make it more contagious for research purposes, and have asked President Obama to ban it.

YouTube: Teachers Attend Gun Training in Ohio
The gun control debate is taking a new direction in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. A firearms company in Ohio is putting together the country's first ever gun training class for school teachers. 1400 applicants from across the country applied and 24 were selected....

Mexican drug cartels dispatch agents deep inside US
Daily Star - Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States – an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world’s most lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits.

VIDEO: Rhode Island Marijuana Decriminalization Law Going Into Effect
Huffington Post - This is not a prank: Rhode Island will officially decriminalize less than an ounce of marijuana on April 1, as a law signed last year by independent Gov. Lincoln Chafee goes into effect.

NYPD boss said stop-and-frisk designed to 'instill fear' in minorities - Senator's testimony
RT - A New York State Senator testified in federal court Monday that New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly explained the city’s controversial stop-and-frisk program as a means of instilling fear in young African American and Hispanic men.

Police Pepper Sprayed Babies, Lawsuit Claims
Activist Post - Marilyn Taylor is suing the City of New York, the NYPD and Officers Maripily Clase, Suranjit Dey and Jermaine Hodge in Federal Court on behalf of her family after an incident at a New York subway put them in confrontation with police officers.

VIDEO: Don't Talk to Cops
Underground Documentaries - Mr. James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and a former defense attorney, tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police.

Genetically Modified Oranges With A Side Of Frog Genes?
Activist Post Forum - In this PDF presentation obtained by Food Nation Radio Network, read about genetically modified oranges. The information speaks for itself. These GM oranges are currently in field trials in the State of Florida to combat a citrus blight called Greening, instead of testing two varieties of citrus that are already resistant to the blight.

Hooray: South Carolina Republicans About to Nominate Mark Sanford for Congress
Guy Benson - Yep, he was the guy whose staff claimed was off "hiking the Appalachian Trail" when he mysteriously disappeared for nearly a week in June of that year -- when, in fact, he was visiting his journalist mistress (now-fiancee) in Buenos Aires.

Five Reasons You Should Care About Cyprus
Forbes - Unless you are a student of history or are planning a Mediterranean vacation, you may never have given the island of Cyprus much thought. Then suddenly, it dominated the headlines for several days. What does a banking crisis in a small and far-off land mean to you?

David Stockman warns of economic collapse, critics cry 'cranky old man'
CSMonitor.com - David Stockman, who served as President Reagan’s budget director, has liberal economists like Paul Krugman and Jared Bernstein in an uproar over his new book, “The Great Deformation,” that will be released Tuesday.

Fastest Growing Contributor to National Debt is Interest on National Debt
AllGov - The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the fastest growing segment of federal spending from 2015 to 2021 won’t be Medicare or Social Security, but interest payments on the debt. Ballooning interest payments could be so bad that they would wipe out the $1.2 trillion in savings from the sequestration budget cuts over the next decade.

Stockton, CA bankruptcy can move forward, judge rules
LA Times - At issue will be whether U.S. bankruptcy law trumps California law, which says the pension plan must be funded. The $900 million Stockton owes to the California Public Employees Retirement System to cover pensions is its biggest debt -– as is the case with many cities in California.

U.S. F-22 stealth jets join South Korea drills amid sabre-rattling
Reuters - The United States sent F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea on Sunday to join military drills aimed at underscoring the U.S. commitment to defend Seoul in the face of an intensifying campaign of threats from North Korea.

N. Korea vows to strengthen nukes amid tensions
france24.com - North Korea vowed Sunday to strengthen its nuclear weapons, a day after announcing it is in a "state of war" with South Korea, and said it would never trade its atomic deterrent for aid.

Fighting erupts in Mali’s Timbuktu
Press TV - French fighter jets continue to bomb northern regions of Mali amid clashes between the French-backed Malian troops and local fighters.

BRICS dumping euro amid simmering EU banking crisis
RT - Brussels has been forced to eat a generous slice of humble pie: A massive sell-off of the euro is underway in the wake of a persistent financial crisis, as holdings in the European currency by emerging economies were slashed by almost 8 percent last year.

Cyprus’ President-related company transfers €21mn to London prior to bailout agreement – report
RT - A company owned by in-laws of Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades wired €21 million from Laiki Bank to London days before the Eurogroup’s crisis-triggering levy proposal, claims a Cypriot newspaper. The president demands an investigation.

GMO plague: Charts show worldwide GE crop fields cover entire size of U.S., and then some
(NaturalNews) Data compiled by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), a pro-GMO group whose stated mission is to increase crop productivity and alleviate poverty for resource-poor farmers, reveals that an astounding 420 million acres of land in 28 countries are currently growing GM crops.

World Must Unite Against US-Saudi-Israeli Proxy War in Syria
Tony Cartalucci - US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel have conspired to destroy Syria by way of arming sectarian extremists since 2007. - The West now admits it, along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have provided thousands of tons of weapons to militants in Syria – while also conceding that Al Qaeda’s Syrian franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra is the best armed, most well equipped militant front in the conflict.

‘US Army veteran fighting Syrian government worked for CIA’
Press TV - The father of a US Army veteran recently arrested by the FBI for joining foreign-backed militants in Syria says his son was serving the CIA and reporting back to the Agency from the country. Darryl Harroun says his son Eric, who was arrested and charged with conspiracy on Wednesday for fighting with al-Qaeda-linked militants, is extremely patriotic and would not join militants.

Bank of Cyprus depositors could lose up to 60% of their savings
Guardian - The officials said on Saturday that deposits over €100,000 (£84,000) at the country's largest bank will lose 37.5% of their value after being converted into bank shares. If the bank were to need further capitalisation the savers could lose as much as 22.5% more, depending on an assessment by officials who will determine the exact figure needed to restore the troubled bank back to health.

FDIC & Bank of England Create Resolution Authority for Unlimited Cyprus-Style “Bail-Ins” for TBTF Banks!
silverdoctors.com - We suspected that the same policy change had been made by the US & the UK, but was simply yet to be discovered, buried in the website of a Federal agency. We suspected correctly…
* Related Article: In Cyprus, The Economic Misery Is Just Beginning To Sink In

Who’s Next? Italy’s Monte Paschi Admits To Billions In Deposit Outflows
Zero Hedge - In a somewhat wishy-washy, ‘hide-the-truth’-like statement on Monte dei Paschi’s website, the CEO admits to, “the withdrawal of several billion in deposits.” Of course, the reasons why these depositors withdrew their capital from the oldest bank in the world will never be known though of course he blames it on “reputational damage” from their derivative cheating scandal.

Sorry, Mates, Strictly Business: Australia Wants To Cut Out US Dollar In Trade With China
ibtimes.com - Australia is seeking to bypass trading in U.S. dollars with China in an effort to avoid the commercial uncertainties that come with the recent fluctuations in the greenback.... Eliminating the dollar in trade will be the focus of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s trip to Beijing next week.

Removing military assets from Afghanistan to cost at least $5 billion
Press TV - The U.S. operation to remove military hardware and vehicles from Afghanistan as troops withdraw after 12 years of war will cost between five and six billion dollars, officials said Sunday.

YouTube: Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk: Cyprus Crisis and the Dangers of Fractional-Reserve Banking – 4/1/13
Full transcript coming soon!

Texas DA Slain in His Home; Had Armed Himself
ABC News - On Saturday, he and his wife were found shot to death in their rural home just outside the town of Forney, about 20 miles from Dallas. While investigators gave no motive for the killings, Forney Mayor Darren Rozell said: "It appears this was not a random act."

White House Overruled FDA Attempt to Require Microbiological Testing at Food Facilities
AllGov - The (FDA) drafted new food safety rules that mandated companies conduct product and environmental testing to prevent pathogens from getting into food supplies. But when those rules were submitted to OMB for review, administration officials from OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs stripped the provision requiring facilities to conduct microbiological testing.

VIDEO: Ron Paul’s Podcast Nation 3-29-2013
Liberty Crier - Ron Paul talks about Syria and North Korea: Powder Kegs and Interventionism.

Unanimous Supreme Court Rules that Citizens Can Hold Federal Government Liable for Abuse by Law Enforcement Officers
Liberty Crier - In its ruling in Millbrook v. United States, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court has concluded that the U.S. government may be held liable for abuses intentionally carried out by law enforcement officers in the course of their employment.

Obama Uses Executive Power To Move Gun Control Agenda Forward
The Hill - The president has used his executive powers to bolster the national background check system, jumpstart government research on the causes of gun violence and create a million-dollar ad campaign aimed at safe gun ownership.

VIDEO: Sen. Grassley and Republicans Plan to Work With Democrats On Legislation Attacking 2nd Amendment
Kurt Nimmo - Despite a plan by Republican senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee to derail and defeat S. 649, the Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013, Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley is preparing work with Democrats in their war on the Second Amendment next month.

Connecticut Baker Under Fire for Designing Pro 2nd Amendment Birthday Cake
Guns.com - Jennifer Montalto, owner of Jenny-Lu’s bakery in Middlebury, CT is receiving some backlash for baking a pro 2nd Amendment cake for a local Friends of NRA birthday dinner. Elizabeth Mais wanted to order her husband Bill an AR-15 crafted cake for his 51st birthday, but she was turned down by a number of local bakers who didn’t approve of her idea.

VIDEO: IMF Proposes $1.40 a Gallon Gas Tax on US Drivers
Activist Post - The national average for a gallon of gasoline is currently at $3.65. On top of that sky-high price, the International Monetary Fund has now proposed that the U.S. should impose a tax of $1.40 per gallon in order to pay for social programs around the world and help the environment.

Denver Airport Probe: Nearly $2 Billion Overbudget
Intel Hub - The aesthetics of the airport were a particular concern amongst it’s designers according to public reports. Ominous art lines the interior and exterior of the massive 53 square mile complex, ranging from murals depicting some type of future apocalypse, to massive statues which some say represent evil on every level.

Judge holds up American Airlines merger with US Airways because bankrupt company plans to pay CEO $20MILLION golden parachute
Daily Mail - Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane gave his preliminary approval on Wednesday to a plan that would combine the two airlines and form the largest carrier in the country. However, he raised questions about a plan to pay Tom Horton, the CEO of AMR Corp, parent of American, $9.9million in cash and $9.9million in stock as part of a severance package.

New malware goes directly to US ATMs and cash registers for card info
RT - Research conducted by the Russian-based security company Group-IB recently discovered malware called “Dump Memory Grabber,” which it believes has already been used to steal debit and credit card information from customers using major US banks including Chase, Citibank and Capital One, Security Weekly reports.

VIDEO: Navy Vet David Schmecker Has Guns Confiscated By Force In Connecticut
surviveandthrive.tv - David A. Schmecker, a 50 year-old, honorably discharged Navy veteran with no criminal past and no previous history of any mental disorder, had his gun permit revoked and his guns forcefully confiscated by police without true cause or reasonable justification.