Economy

Occupy Wall Street details anniversary showdown
Press TV - Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters will mark the first anniversary of the anti-capitalism movement’s inception by trying to blockade the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), organizers say.... "We want to bring people down to the belly of the beast," she said, adding, "That will be a pretty substantial act of civil disobedience." Protesters are planning to bring handcuffs and attempt ‘citizens' arrests of bankers.’
 

Isaac claims fatality as thousands forced to evacuate
Press TV - Isaac slashed its way further inland Thursday, claiming its first fatality and stranding residents in flood-prone areas even as it threatened to wreak more havoc in the days to come.... Mississippi and Louisiana announced mandatory evacuations for all low-lying areas along the Tangipahoa River. An earthen dam at 700-acre Lake Tangipahoa in Mississippi has not breached, but does have significant damage, according to the Pike County Emergency Management Agency. UPDATE: CNN article/slideshow here.

Health

Use EFAs to reduce inflammation and support your adrenals
(NaturalNews) Omega-3 fatty acids help create cell walls that are fluid and elastic, yet strong enough to hold things together. The ALA offspring of EPA and DHA are vital to brain and eye health. Lately, a lot of research has been done on essential fatty acids, especially omega-3s. The health benefits include: Increased energy, heightened and stabilized moods, and better brain functioning with less brain fog. Hormone production is better regulated. Adrenal glands stabilized. Less body fat is maintained. Joints and muscles become pain-free. Lower blood sugar counts are generated. EFAs help prevent dementia, strokes, and inhibit tumors.

Combat cancer with the top cancer-fighting foods
(NaturalNews) (NaturalNews) An estimated one-third of cancer deaths could be related to diet, according to the National Cancer Institute. Eating processed, sugary foods with harmful additives like chemicals or even animal products with hormones is the norm for many people in developed nations. What people eat can truly kill them.

Top 5 Antioxidant Rich Foods: Slowing Aging and Fighting Cancer
Natural Society - Antioxidants are something of a buzz word in the natural health community, and for good reason. They scavenge cancer-causing free radicals throughout our body, which leads to improved health and healthier aging. We now have genetic evidence that antioxidants kill cancer, and they even help improve memory. Here are the top antioxidant rich foods you probably (and should) have in your kitchen.

PROOF: Chinese industrial fluoride suppliers openly list sodium fluoride as 'insecticide' and 'adhesive preservative' in addition to water treatment chemical
(NaturalNews) Fluoride-pushing doctors and dentists who try to contaminate your water supply with fluoride are promoting their deadly agenda with a clever lie... a lie you will see obediently repeated in every fluoride push.... Here are the five false deceptions...

Medical imaging radiation causes DNA damage and cancer; doctors prescribe more!
(NaturalNews) The health risks associated with radiation exposure, whether it comes from cancer treatments or medical imaging scans, are much more significant than most people probably think. The latest published data on radiation exposure suggests that roughly 25,000 Americans develop cancer every year as a result of medical radiation exposure, and many more experience DNA damage that could eventually lead to the development of cancer and other health problems in the long term.

Unnecessary cardiac procedures being performed by greedy doctors, whistleblower reveals
(NaturalNews) C.T. Tomlinson is a nurse that used to work at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in Fort Pierce, Florida, that is until he came forward with allegations that at least one doctor at his facility had been performing phony cardiac surgeries on healthy patients. After filing a complaint with HCA's chief ethics officer Stephen Johns, it was determined that a number of doctors and surgeons within the HCA system had been performing unnecessary cardiac procedures on healthy patients since at least 2002.

Could Just Thinking About Dessert Make You Gain Weight?
Green Med Info - Some Japanese researchers believe that our thoughts about food can cause actual physical changes that may lead to weight gain. Their study published in the journal Cell Metabolism, concluded that the anticipation of a sweet treat in mice and rats triggers their muscles to start taking up glucose from the blood and getting ready for action. If that muscle does not in fact get to work, the glucose will be stored as fat.

Exposing the FDA's Vaccine Injury Cover-up: An Interview With Walter Kyle, Esq.
Activist Post - Attorney Walter Kyle of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, began representing Plaintiffs with vaccine injuries ten years before the Vaccine Injury Act began, and has argued more than forty cases before the Special Masters of the United States Court of Federal Claims [under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act] - 42 U.S.C.A. §300aa, et.seq. As a result, Attorney Kyle has unique insight into the nuances of vaccine injury law.

Doctors discover terrifying new tick-borne virus
RT - Researchers have diagnosed two farmers from separate towns in the American Midwest with the first ever identified cases of the Heartland virus, a just-discovered tick-borne infection that landed both men in the hospital with symptoms that include fever, fatigue and nausea.... Doctors fear that future cases — ones that go longer without being brought to the attention of a trained physician — could cause a severe drop in platelet count and, as a result, abnormal bleeding. If advanced enough, the next documented case of the Heartland virus very well could be deadly.

Goji Berries: Worthy of the Name “Superfood”
care2.com - These small fruits, no bigger than the size of raisins, contain ample amounts of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and phytonutrients. With 18 amino acids, they are considered complete proteins. Pound for pound, they contain more vitamin C than any other fruit on the planet (sorry, oranges), and they have more iron than spinach (something for Popeye to contemplate). In all, they have 21 key trace minerals our bodies need to function and be healthy, including vitamin A (beta-carotene), vitamin B-complex, vitamin E, phosphorus, zinc, magnesium, selenium, calcium, iron, copper, etc. ** Goji Berries available at The Power Mall by calling 877-817-9829 or go online at ThePowerMall.com.

Infographic: Harmful Effects of Soda on Your Body
Sure, there’s nothing quite like soda to go along with that burger and fries you’ve decided to have for lunch. Not unless you care about what you put in your body and what long-term effects it is going to have on your well-being. If you do care about your health and your body, however, take a look at the harmful effects of soda consumption over time.

27 Easy, Fresh Tomato Recipes
A perfect late summer tomato, bursting at the seams with fragrant juice with the perfect balance of sweetness and acidity, plucked fresh from the vine the morning you eat it is one of life's greatest pleasures.

Guess what’s coming to dinner? The unprocessed food challenge continues
Grist - Make no mistake: Processed food is out to get you. “No!” you can say. “I only want to eat whole foods! Just leave me alone!” But does processed food listen? No. It just kicks back and laughs. “Just try to get away from me,” processed food says. “I’m everywhere you look. I’m at the convenience store. I’m in your favorite restaurant order. I’m lurking in your pantry right now. That ‘natural’ box of cereal you bought? Full of high-fructose corn syrup!

Science & Technology

VIDEO: Apple Rejects Drones+ iPhone App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes
Wired - It’s the third time in a month that Apple has turned Drones+ away, says Josh Begley, the program’s New York-based developer. The company’s reasons for keeping the program out of the App Store keep shifting. First, Apple called the bare-bones application that aggregates news of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia “not useful.” Then there was an issue with hiding a corporate logo. And now, there’s this crude content problem.

Economy

VIDEO: Isaac Surge Overtops 18 Miles of La. Levee
Slow-moving Isaac was downgraded to a tropical storm on Wednesday but left devastation in its wake, flooding homes to their attics when the sea breached a levee outside New Orleans. Inside New Orleans, levees and pumps protected the city from widespread flooding, but Isaac had cut power to a third of Louisiana's households and was expected to lash the state with heavy rain and winds into Friday.

Hurricane Isaac could cause up to $2.5 billion in losses
Press TV - Business interruptions and damage to residential and commercial property on land could cost insurance companies up to $1.5 billion, the company said in an emailed statement. Offshore, economic losses to energy production operations could total up to $1 billion. These preliminary figures do not include uninsured losses Isaac may have caused on land.

Hurricane Isaac Exploited to Acclimate Citizens to Federal Military Role in Natural Disasters
Kurt Nimmo - Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office said Tuesday it has asked the Defense Department to pay for up to 8,000 troops for 180 days. Moreover, the National Guard Bureau indicated another 35,000 troops and almost 100 aircraft are available for mobilization to Gulf Coast states, according to Paul Purpura of The Times-Picayune. Jindal told the Wall Street Journal “Katrina-style flooding” wasn’t expected. As has now become routine in federal responses to natural disasters, the demarcation between military and local law enforcement has all but disappeared.

Health

The last antibiotic: Drug companies run out of weapons against the very same superbugs they helped create
(NaturalNews) The industry is down to one last-ditch chemical: colistin, a toxic bug-killing chemical discovered in 1949. It kills superbugs, but it also causes kidney damage. So if you're infected with a superbug in a hospital, you can choose to either die from an infection, or die from the cure.

The importance of probiotics after antibiotics
(NaturalNews) Antibiotics are great at what they do; they kill bacteria. Unfortunately, they are unable to discriminate between good bacteria and bad bacteria. There are over 100 trillion good bacteria in our bodies that play a vital role in our overall health and well-being, particularly to immune function and digestion. Many of these bacteria are destroyed by antibiotic treatments and therefore must be quickly replenished. The best way to do this is by consuming probiotics, which contain live bacteria that will repopulate the gut.

Lack of sleep found to be a new risk factor for aggressive breast cancers
eurekalert.org - Lack of sleep is linked to more aggressive breast cancers, according to new findings published in the August issue of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment...."Short sleep duration is a public health hazard leading not only to obesity, diabetes and heart disease, but also cancer," said Li Li, MD, PhD... "Effective intervention to increase duration of sleep and improve quality of sleep could be an under-appreciated avenue for reducing the risk of developing more aggressive breast cancers and recurrence."

Low-carbohydrate diets make you lean and healthy, systematic review shows
(NaturalNews) A new meta-analysis, a systematic review of studies, found that low-carbohydrate diets lead to weight loss and improved health. A low-carbohydrate diet usually involves reduced consumption of grains, legumes, rice, certain dairy products and sometimes fruits and root vegetables. Fat becomes the main source of energy, and avocado, coconut products, oils, full-fat dairy, meat, fish, fowl, eggs, olives etc., are common food staples.

World's hottest (and healthiest) pepper unveiled in south carolina
(NaturalNews) Even though it has been praised for its health benefits for years, scientists have struggled to confirm capsaicin's individual health benefits. Researchers are attempting to decode the mystery behind the spicy component to peppers and to explain capsaicin's known efficacy in weight loss, appetite suppression and raising body temperature. Moreover, preliminary studies done on animals have suggested that capsaicin can kill lung, pancreatic, and prostate cancer cells. Other proposed benefits to capsaicin include...

Gates Foundation Funds Surveillance of Anti-Vaccine Groups
Green Med Info - ... $100K grant was recently disbursed to Seth C. Kalichman, professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, for "Establishing an Anti-Vaccine Surveillance and Alert System," which intends to "establish an internet-based global monitoring and rapid alert system for finding, analyzing, and counteracting misinformation communication campaigns regarding vaccines to support global immunization efforts." [emphasis added] Related article: ...‘On-Demand Vaccine Delivery via Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial

Ooh, Scary! USDA Wants to Protect Us from Raw Almonds
ANH - The “pasteurization” rule was introduced in 2007 in response to a string of salmonella outbreaks linked to large almond processing plants in 2001 and 2004; thirty-three people became ill, but no one died.... California’s Almond Board colluded with the USDA to propose mandatory “sterilization” across the industry, and the USDA agreed to implement and enforce the new rule.

Science & Technology

Destroying Internet Freedom by Taxation
Activist Post - Government taxation is as old as the first brute using force to steal from those intimidated by threats. So why should it be any different for the Internet? In today’s political environment of choosing winners and losers, the rush to tax online sales is gathering steam. Everyone feels the presence of the Amazon behemoth. Retail outlets like Best Buy are rethinking their business model in order to compete. States are eager to tap the flow of transactions with a sales tax that would cost consumers dearly.

FTCLDF to Represent Hershberger
farmtoconsumer.org - Hershberger has been charged with operating a retail food establishment without a license, operating a dairy farm as a milk producer without a license and violating a holding order issued by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP).... The court’s ruling in the Hershberger case could have a huge impact on the availability of raw milk for Wisconsin consumers.

Farmer Wins Stressful 3-Year State Legal Battle -- Raw Dairy Sales Upheld
Activist Post - The video below shows the authorities' dizzying interpretations and stretched definitions of property, sales, and more. The summons attempted a permanent injunction against the Bechards and their posterity. The harassment and amount of action over legal semantics was incredible.

Gardening To-Do List for September, Zone-by-Zone
Organic Gardening - Just a few short weeks until the autumnal equinox brings another summer to a close, but that doesn't mean there isn't plenty of work to do in the garden. Whether it's cleaning up the beds for a long winter's nap or getting the beds ready for a productive fall, this is no time to rest on your laurels. So get planting, keep harvesting, keep working that soil—and remember to plan your time accordingly, because it will be getting darker a little earlier. Happy September!

Miscellaneous

YouTube: 4 Year Old Boy Plays Piano Better Than Any Master
4 year old boy playing a piano like a superb master! Awesome!!

Economy

Energy & Environment

Isaac: Not a Katrina, Tracking Farther West
accuweather.com - Isaac made landfall as a hurricane in Louisiana Tuesday night and continued to wobble west-northwestward along the southern coast of Louisiana during the early morning hours Wednesday. Isaac made a second landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana and will continue to bring storm surge flooding, flooding rainfall, damaging wind, beach erosion and the potential for tornadoes to much of the central Gulf Coast area.
 

Health

Antioxidants from food - The five best sources
(NaturalNews) Cells need oxygen to metabolize minerals and vitamins to survive and thrive. When cells cannot use oxygen to metabolize, they resort to fermenting glucose for their energy.

Natural strategies to beat multiple sclerosis
(NaturalNews) Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease in which the myelin sheath on the nerve endings gets inflamed and damaged. This leads to scarring of the neurological tissue in the brain and spinal cord. While the medical model has very little support, many individuals have found ways to beat multiple sclerosis with natural lifestyle strategies.

The Health Benefits of Pistachios: Heart Health, Eye Health, Cancer Prevention
Natural Society - Nuts are a great source of protein and healthy fats, but did you know that pistachios have numerous additional benefits? These little tough nuts are useful in preventing cancer, lowering lipids in the prevention of heart disease, and preventing diabetes, all while delivering a good source of antioxidants.

Did You Know: Europe Requires Warning Labels on Foods with Artificial Colors
Natural Society - Europeans don’t only have it right in requiring GMO foods to be labeled or banning them outright, the European Parliament also requires labels on foods containing artificial colors. Of course, the U.S. hasn’t done anything of the sort, balking at research that shows the dangers these lab-created colors pose, especially to children.

Support the Lymphatic System
ahha.org - The lymphatic system is closely related to the cardiovascular system and is sometimes referred to as the body's secondary circulatory system. Its major function is that of a defense mechanism and it is a key to the body's immune defenses.... Unlike the blood system that uses the heart as a pump, the lymphatic system relies on skeletal muscle contractions to pump it along. The following are methods which assist lymph flow and cleansing activity, and boost overall immune response:

Are you experiencing a healing crisis?
(NaturalNews) It is not uncommon for individuals to suffer from detoxification reactions when they begin a program of natural healing. This is classically referred to as a healing crisis and occurs when the body is expelling toxins into the different systems of the body. The healing crisis is a normal process that toxic individuals will often encounter on their path to getting well.

Keeping it in the family: BPA might last in our bodies for generations
Grist - Back in May, I pointed to a study on a farm chemical that was found to cause physiological and behavioral changes in rats. Worryingly, the effects persisted for generations after a single exposure (it was the first time this phenomenon was extensively documented in an industrial chemical). In an email at the time, one of the study authors said, “Many other environmental compounds promote these types of phenomena … Future science and policy needs to consider such phenomena and mechanisms.”

7 Reasons to Consider Off-the-Grid Independent Living
Activist Post - Going off grid should not be a spontaneous decision; it can be exceedingly difficult, costly, and fraught with unexpected problems if one has not done the proper research, nor acquired the requisite skills. This article will not be about how to go off the grid, but rather why one should strongly consider doing whatever it takes learn all they can about this option as soon as possible.

Pet News

Illegal for Prisoners, Ok for Pet Food Consumers
Susan Thixton - With pet food, according to federal and state authorities, the quality of the food isn't important. No one seemed to care that spoiled meat was being sent to pet food, that is until the adulterated beef was mistakenly sent to federal prisons.

Miscellaneous

40 Items to Barter in a Post-Collapse World
Activist Post - A lot of people think of bartering as something to do when they are down and out, perhaps unemployed, or low on cash. But nothing could be further from the truth. Bartering has been around for eons and is simply a smart way to acquire goods and services under the radar screen. Today I would like to share some very simple tips for bartering as well as my own suggested list of items and skills that may be useful for barter in a post-collapse economy.

Economy

Forecasters: Isaac on verge of becoming hurricane
AP - Isaac was on the verge of becoming a full-blown hurricane Tuesday as it rolled over the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana, where residents of the low-lying coast left boarded-up homes for inland shelter while people in New Orleans waited behind levees fortified after Katrina. Forecasters predicted the tropical storm would power up to hurricane strength, which starts at winds of 74 mph, later in the day and be at least a Category 1 hurricane by the time it's expected to reach the swampy coast of southeast Louisiana early Wednesday.

Health

Aluminum adjuvant linked to Gulf War illness induces motor neuron death in mice
Gulf War illness (GWI) affects a significant percentage of veterans of the 1991 conflict, but its origin remains unknown. Associated with some cases of GWI are increased incidences of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurological disorders. Read More...

Food Cravings and Vitamin/Mineral Deficiencies
If you crave these products...What you really might need is....read more!

10 Foods that Fight Inflammation and Pain
Some of the best healing remedies to overcome inflammation also taste fabulous which can't really be stated about prescription medications. Moreover, foods won’t cause the nasty side effects common to most pain medications. Here are ten amazing foods that fight inflammation and pain.

Mushroom found on birch tree holds promise as a potent anti-cancer tonic
(NaturalNews) A little known mushroom is establishing a solid reputation in medical circles as a powerful defense against cancer. Although relatively unheard of in mainstream media, the chaga mushroom has been used in folk medicine for generations. Research has shown chaga to be extremely effective in protecting cellular DNA from damaging free radicals. It also has anti-tumor and immune stimulating benefits.

Bentonite clay to remove toxic heavy metals, clear diaper rashes, stop stinky feet and more
(NaturalNews) Bentonite clay has a very strong negative ionic charge. This negative ionic charge attracts things that have a positive charge, such as heavy metals, toxins, harmful bacteria, pesticides, and other pathogens. By divine design, bentonite clay does not attach to anything beneficial in the body. The clumping action of clay binds to heavy metals and pathogens to prevent them from passing through the intestines to the bloodstream. The clay binds with these toxins and then makes an exit via the colon and the kidneys.

Shock discovery: Bacteria found in public water comes from the treatment filters, not from the water source
(NaturalNews) When you think of contaminants in water, if you believed they simply came from the source, you'd be mistaken; new data from researchers at the University of Michigan shows that most bacteria found in drinking water actually comes from the filters of water treatment plants. The study, unique in its own right, took a broad look at the water supply in Ann Arbor, from source to tap. What researchers found is that most of the bacteria in water coming out of the tap did not come from the aquifers or rivers where it originated, but from filters at treatment plants designed to remove such bacteria.

VIDEO: Sneezing Viruses From the FluMist Nasal Vaccine
Activist Post - The United Kingdom is set to be the first country to offer the seasonal flu vaccination to all children enrolled in the public education system. The nasal flu vaccine being offered to over 9 million children is sold under the brand name Fluenz in Europe and FluMist in the United States, and is made by AstraZeneca's MedImmune unit and has been available for the past decade in the United States.This is the largest contract the company has received outside of the U.S., taking its first steps into the global dissemination of inhalable poisons.

Paul Offit Threatens All Vaccine Exemptions - An MD Responds
Green Med Info - Millionaire vaccine inventor and mandatory vaccine advocate Paul Offit recently released a short VIDEO for doctors on medscape. Here is a transcript of the speech. This statement that outlines Offit’s personal belief system could be a prelude to the legal removal of all philosophical and religious vaccine exemptions in the United States of America. This is something that Offit has been working toward for years, and the likely end-purpose of his series of books.

Antibiotics Given to Babies Increase Their Risk of Obesity
Green Med Info - Researchers from the New York University School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics have determined that children given antibiotics prior to five months of age have a significantly higher risk of becoming obese later in life.

The Medicalization of Birth is Killing Women
Gaia Health - n the United States of America, women are dying in childbirth at double the rate they were 25 years ago. The medicalization of birth is killing women. America now takes 50th place in the world in maternal mortality! The country is spending $98 billion dollars a year on hospitalization for birth. It ties with Saudi Arabia in maternal deaths. Face the Facts USA created this revealing infographic giving the facts on maternal deaths in the US:

Portland, Oregon to spend $5 million to poison its residents with toxic fluoride
Natural News - At this time, there is no official date for when the council will vote on the issue. But unless the people of Portland and their supporters around the country raise hell to the Portland City Council in the following days and weeks, this three-two majority will eventually force mandatory water fluoridation to become law, despite the fact that Portlanders have repeatedly voted down water fluoridation efforts in the past.

Black Rice Beats Brown When It Comes To Its Health Benefits
Green Med Info - Black rice offers all of the same health benefits of brown rice but it also packs some serious antioxidants. Because of its dark color, black rice bran contains the same anthocyanin antioxidants found in blueberries or blackberries. According to research from the Department of Food Science at Louisiana State University, a spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than a spoonful of blueberries, but with less sugar and more fiber and vitamin E antioxidants.

Science & Technology

Is McDonald's stalking children online?
(NaturalNews) Some 20 children's advocacy, public interest and health groups have jointly filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission charging that some online marketing by McDonald's and four other popular companies targeting children violates a federal statute that protects their privacy.

FCC Launching Huge Internet Tax
Kurt Nimmo - Get ready for another transfer of wealth via government confiscation. The FCC is ready to tax internet service in order to fund its Connect America Fund boondoggle. “Numerous companies, including AT&T, Sprint and even Google have expressed support for the idea,” reports The Hill today. The scheme is nothing new. “Consumers already pay a fee on their landline and cellular phone bills to support the FCC’s Universal Service Fund.” The “Service Fund” was devised as yet another grand socialist enterprise “to ensure that everyone in the country has access to telephone service, even if they live in remote areas.”

Scientists Successfully 'Hack' Brain To Obtain Personal Data
CBS News - Researchers from the University of California and University of Oxford in Geneva figured out a way to pluck sensitive information from a person’s head, such as PIN numbers and bank information.

Pet News

VIDEO: Dog and Cat Vaccines are Not Harmless Preventive Medicine
Dr. Becker - Vaccinosis is a condition recognized almost exclusively by the holistic veterinary community. It is not generally acknowledged by traditional veterinarians. Dr. Richard Pitcairn defines vaccinosis this way: “Vaccinosis is to be understood as the disturbance of the vital force by vaccination that results in mental, emotional, and a physical change that can, in some cases, be a permanent condition.”

Miscellaneous

VIDEO: How to separate an egg yolk from the white - Chinese style
Watch the simple and effective method of separating an egg yolk from the white. It is a simple and straight forward application of hydraulics.

Economy

Sixty Quakes Strike So Cal in 16 hours
Activist Post August 26, 2012 - Since 9:30 PM PDT, there have been sixty earthquakes in the Brawley, CA region, near the Mexican border. Dutchsinse video report here.

Woman blames smart meter for house fire
khou.com Houston - A southwest Houston woman is blaming a smart meter for a fire that left her home in shambles in July. “It’s most devastating. It has taken a toll on me just telling you about it,” said Jaclynn Harwood. “This shouldn’t happen to anybody.” Harwood provided KHOU 11 news with a document that appears to be from the Houston Fire Department.

VIDEO: Tropical Storm Isaac: Hurricane Warnings Issued for Gulf Coast
Good Morning America - As Tropical Storm Isaac grazed the Florida Keys with less force than was feared, hurricane warnings have been issued for the Gulf Coast from Central Louisiana to the Florida panhandle with Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana declaring state of emergencies ahead of the storm's landfall.

Big, radioactive lump in Hanford nuclear-waste tank: Is it leaking?
Seattle Times - As part of the biggest, costliest environmental cleanup in the nation's history — disposing of 53 million gallons of radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation — one thing was supposed to be sure: Toxic waste stored in sturdy, double-wall steel tanks wasn't going anywhere. That reassurance has been thrown into question with the discovery of a 3-foot-long mound of radioactive material between the inner and outer steel walls of one of the supposedly safe tanks.

VIDEO: Source Of Loud Booms In Foothills A Mystery
CBS News - People from all over El Dorado County say they’re hearing loud booms several times a week, but there are many theories on what is causing them.... “You can feel it in the ground, no question about it. But no one’s been able to figure out why,” said Pleasant Valley resident Peter O’Grady. “I tend to hear somewhere between four to six of these things during the weekdays usually between 11 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Health

Global Vaccine Institute: Secret Vaccine Database
thinktwice.com - The general public is essentially unaware of the true number of people -- mostly children -- who have been permanently damaged or killed by vaccines. In fact, most parents would be surprised to learn that the government has a secret computer database filled with several thousand names of disabled and dead babies, children who were healthy and alive just prior to receiving the vaccines.

Serious Vision Problems and Eye Disease Climbing Rapidly in U.S.
Activist Post - A new report from the organization Prevent Blindness America says that numerous eye disorders are climbing at alarming rates—many of them with effects including blindness. Macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and cataracts are all included and seem to be affecting more and more people each day.... Interestingly, these eye diseases have something in common: a dietary link.

Toxic byproduct of heat-processed food may contribute to weight gain and diabetes, scientists find
(NaturalNews) Eating foods cooked with dry heat could be making you fat, inflamed, diabetic, and cancer-prone. These are the suggested findings of a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which outlines how exposure to methylglyoxal (MG), a chemical byproduct of certain heat-processed foods, is linked to abdominal weight gain, early insulin resistance, and type-2 diabetes, among other conditions.

Foods that can help counter depression
(NaturalNews) Depression often, but not always, is linked to low blood pressure, low blood sugar, low thyroid functions and/or low adrenal gland function. Depressed patients who crave foods such as cheese, chocolate may be lacking enough of the amino acid tyrosine in the system. Tyrosine is said to normalize blood pressure, stimulate the thyroid and contribute to blood-sugar stabilization via adrenal support.

Horsetail and oat straw are two powerhouse herbs for calcium
(NaturalNews) The University of Maryland Medical Center published a clinical study in 1999 involving 122 women who took horsetail extract or a calcium/horsetail product marketed in Italy. Both sets of women saw an improvement in bone density. Even though the study was not performed to current scientific standards, the results did still show promise for horsetail in healing osteoporosis.

Now even TAP WATER isn't safe! Brain-eating amoeba fatal in 99% of cases 'could come from your own faucet'
Daily Mail - Last year in Louisiana, two people died from a single-celled organism that thrives in warm, freshwater after using tap water for flushing their sinuses.... Both victims, a 51-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man, had used tap water in neti pots to flush out their sinuses and died days later. They lived in separate areas of the state. Neti pots are generally safe for use for clearing out excess mucus in the nasal cavity, but when amoebas are present, the infection has a frighteningly fatal rate.

Heavy Metal Toxicity Raises Your Risk of Electromagnetic Sensitivity
Dr. Mercola - There are a number of factors that influence the degree to which you may be affected by EMFs, and your level of heavy metal toxicity is likely one of them. Heavy metals in your brain also act as micro-antennas, concentrating and increasing reception of EMF radiation. Any kind of metal implants and/or amalgam (silver) tooth fillings will significantly increase reception of microwaves, and the mircrocurrents from cell phones and other ambient fields.

The Best Kales
Mother Earth News - Count kale as one of the true treasures of the fall garden, with its sweetness revealed only after old Jack Frost has kissed its leaves a time or two. This ultra-cold-hardy, leafy green vegetable is a reliable deeply satisfying addition to any cool-weather garden.
* Related Article: Baked Kale Chips Recipe

Pet News

BilJac Product Pull
Susan Thixton - Shannon of BilJac tells me the company is pulling from sale 'a couple of products' due to mold. She stated no pets have gotten sick from the food. Shannon stated the BilJac website will provide details of the product pull 'within the hour'.

Miscellaneous

Can You Pass the Basic Preparedness Test?
Activist Post - Periodically, I like to perform what I call a “walk around” inventory. In the simplest of terms, what that means is that I walk around my home, garage and yard with an eye peeled to deficiencies that need to be corrected to insure my safety in the event of a natural disaster.... In addition to my walk around inventory, I go over my preparedness checklist so that I can re-familiarize myself with the things that need to be in place at all times – things that I may have allowed to go slack for one reason or another.

World News

Iran summit sends message of peace
Press TV - When the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement convenes in the Iranian capital this weekend, it promises to be the greatest show on earth - a show of international solidarity and peaceful coexistence - in the face of imperialist aggression and threat of all-out world war.

Pakistan: US drones hit militant hideouts, kill 18
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- U.S. missiles slammed into three compounds close to the Afghan border Friday, killing 18 suspected militants, Pakistani officials said, just a day after the government summoned an American diplomat to protest drone strikes in the country's northwest tribal region.

Norway's Breivik deemed sane, sentenced to prison
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A Norwegian court sentenced Anders Behring Breivik to prison on Friday, denying prosecutors the insanity ruling they hoped would show that his massacre of 77 people was the work of a madman, not part of an anti-Muslim crusade.

VIDEO: BBC Censors Video Showing Syrian Rebels Forcing Prisoner to Become Suicide Bomber
Paul Joseph Watson - The BBC has sensationally censored a news story and a video showing Syrian rebels forcing a prisoner to become a suicide bomber, a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, presumably because it reflected badly on establishment media efforts to portray the FSA as glorious freedom fighters. The video, a copy of which can be viewed above (the original BBC version was deleted), shows Free Syrian Army rebels preparing a bomb that is loaded onto the back of a truck to be detonated at a government checkpoint in the city of Aleppo.

NY Times: UN chief to attend NAM in blow to US, Israel
Press TV - The decision by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to attend the upcoming NAM summit in Tehran is proof that the US and Israel’s anti-Iran policy has failed to find followers in much of the global scene, The New York Times writes.

VIDEO: 'UK threat to storm our embassy still in force' – Ecuador FM Patino to RT (EXCLUSIVE)
RT - Ecuador is still concerned over the UK’s threat to storm its embassy in London. In an exclusive interview to RT, the country’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said that Ecuador will not tolerate what it sees as a clear breach of international law.

Massive student protests return to streets of Montreal
RT - Thousands of students have rallied against tuition fee hikes in Quebec, an action organizers have trumpeted as a renewal of the protest movement. The demonstrators marched through downtown Montreal on Wednesday ahead of Quebec’s general election that will be held on September 4th.The voting will decide whether Premier Jean Charest’s Liberal Party is reelected – who’ve run on a plan to drastically increase tuition fees to US$ 1,794 over seven years, a hike of 82 percent.

Iceland’s recovery continues, declared ‘impressive’
Ice News - Experts continue to praise Iceland’s recovery success after the country’s bank bailouts of 2008. Unlike the US and several countries in the eurozone, Iceland allowed its banking system to fail in the global economic downturn and put the burden on the industry’s creditors rather than taxpayers. In the following years, the Icelandic government made drastic cuts that reduced the fiscal deficit from 14 percent of GDP to just two percent. At the same time, unemployment in Iceland has shrunk to less than five percent, while analysts predict the North Atlantic economy to grow some 2.8 percent by the end of 2012, according to recent reports.

AIDS-like disease found in Asians, trigger unknown
RT - A mysterious new disease causes AIDS-like symptoms in Asians even though they are not infected with HIV, a research has found. The disease damages patients’ immune systems, but is not contagious. The illness leaves patients unable to fight off germs. Some patients have died of overwhelming infections, including some Asians now living in the US, said Dr. Sarah Browne, a scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who led the study of the disease. Researchers are calling this new disease an "adult-onset" immunodeficiency syndrome because it develops later in life and they don't know why or how.

Nuclear fears over French Polynesia atoll collapse
Radio Australia - The Nuclear Association’s president, Roland Oldham, told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat program that radioactive material could be released into the Pacific Ocean if the atoll were to collapse. “Just in that little area there is over maybe twelve underground tests in that area and we have to remember that France have done altogether 193 nuclear test explosions in Murorua,” he said. “In the soil of Muroroa, if something happens there is about 150 holes containing very dangerous radioactivity.” The association says if the atoll were to collapse it could also trigger a 15 metre tsunami. Listen to the report here.

U.S. News, Politics & Government

Over 2,500 DHS employees and co-conspirators have been convicted of crimes in the past eight years, according to federal auditor
(NaturalNews) (NaturalNews) It is often said that when an agency or department is failing, it's because there is a failure at the top, that there is something wrong with the leadership. Nowhere is that more evident than at the beleaguered Department of Homeland Security where, under the tutelage of former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, an agency with an already dubious resume has gone from bad to worse to despicable.

Stop and Swab: Dramatic Increases in DNA Police Databases
biopoliticaltimes.org - 25 states currently allow pre-conviction DNA testing, but most are now stuck in battles over its legality. As states struggle to balance effective law enforcement and protecting individuals’ rights and privacy, the debate over the appropriate use of DNA is likely to intensify. In Maryland, the controversy has pit the state’s highest court against the U.S. Supreme Court. Maryland’s DNA Collection Act allows the collection and retention of genetic material from those who are arrested, even if never convicted.

TSA Swabbing Fliers’ Hands For Explosives During ‘Chat Downs’
Steve Watson - A Michigan journalist suffering from a facial disability has described his treatment at the hands of a TSA behavioral detection officer as “frightening”, after he was detained and swabbed for explosives following a refusal to tell the agent what his business was on a domestic trip from Detroit to Grand Rapids.

VIDEO: Geriatric Patsies Sentenced to Prison Following FBI Entrapment
Infowars.com August 22, 2012 - “Two Georgia men were sentenced Wednesday to five years each in prison for trying to get an unregistered explosive and an illegal gun silencer in what prosecutors describe as a plot to attack government targets,” the AP reports today.... The plot was the typical sort of pre-crime the government deals in as it tries to frighten us into believing we are at the mercy of terrorists, even geriatric terrorists.

California man in jail two years after his conviction was overturned
RT - A federal magistrate ordered Daniel Larsen to be released from prison in 2010. Two years after the court agreed that he had been denied the right to a fair trial, though, the 45-year-old man remains behind bars in California.

Walmart, Target And Other Big Retailers Lobbied Successfully For Exemption From SEC Conflict Mineral Rule
Huffington Post - Major retailers like Target and Walmart may be able to keep the connection between their products and a war-torn African country under wraps. Thanks to their lobbying efforts, big retailers will likely be exempt from a rule, finalized by the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday, which requires public companies to disclose whether their products contain “conflict minerals” from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Wall Street Journal reports.

VIDEO: Messengers for Liberty Documentary Trailer
Liberty Crier - Messengers for Liberty is a six hour documentary series about the grassroots liberty movement growing in America today. Learn why individuals have become so passionate about liberty and how its transformed their lives for such a cause. Join us Sept. 17th, 2012 for the first episode of this weekly documentary series here at MessengersforLiberty.com. Please help share this link with friends, family, and neighbors who need to understand the importance of restoring liberty back in America.

2012 Election News

VIDEO: Reality Check: RNC Pulling Out All Stops To Keep Ron Paul’s Name Out Of Nomination
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at how the RNC is attempting to change the 5 state rule and decredential the entire Maine delegation only 4 days before the Republican National Convention.

Republicans Eye Return to Gold Standard
CNBC - The gold standard has returned to mainstream U.S. politics for the first time in 30 years, with a “gold commission” set to become part of official Republican party policy.... The move shows how five years of easy monetary policy — and the efforts of congressman Ron Paul — have made the once-fringe idea of returning to gold-as-money a legitimate part of Republican debate.

Your Vote is Not Secret: Government Using SmartPhone Barcodes to Trace Ballot to Voter
Activist Post - In Chaffee County, Colorado, the voter ballots for the 2012 Republican Primary election contain a smartphone data matrix barcode that ties the voter to the ballot. Both the ballot number and data matrix are on the ballot stub.

RNC splits Maine delegation
onlinesentinel.com - The Republican National Committee's plan to split Maine's contested delegates -- with 10 each for Ron Paul and Mitt Romney -- is unlikely to placate Maine's Paul supporters.

No Ron Paul revolution at convention
Politico - The libertarian septuagenarian controls the state delegations from Nevada, Iowa and Minnesota. But a candidate needs five states to be officially recognized on the floor. Paul supporters have made claims to Louisiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Oklahoma and Maine. But Romney’s coterie of lawyers skillfully used the rules and interpersonal negotiations to peel each away.

VIDEO: State Senator Tom Davis heading to Tampa in Support of Ron Paul

VIDEO: DHS and FBI: Anarchists May Use IEDs at Conventions
Kurt Nimmo - The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have issued a bulletin to law enforcement warning that “anarchist extremists” may use IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices, at the Republican and Democrat national conventions.“FBI and DHS assess with high confidence anarchist extremists will target… infrastructure in Tampa and Charlotte, with potentially significant impacts on public safety and transportation,” CNN reports.

VIDEO: Tampa Jail Cleared To House RNC Protesters
Paul Joseph Watson - “In an unprecedented move, Hillsborough County jail officials announced one facility is completely cleared and essentially reconstructed just for the Republican National Convention,” reports ABC Action News. Metal detectors, temporary court rooms, and medical facilities with doctors present have all been set up in readiness for an influx of detainees.

Obama's Budget to Add $4.4 Trillion to Debt in Next Four Years
weeklystandard.com - By the end of this year, the federal debt is expected to be $16.2 trillion, which is $6.2 trillion more than when President Obama first came into office four years ago. Moreover, new analysis by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee finds that, over the next 4 years, if Barack Obama remains president and his budget is enacted, $4.4 trillion will be added to the federal debt.

Glencore Food Chief Says US Drought is ‘Good for Business’
Guardian - Chris Mahoney, the trader’s director of agricultural products, who owns about £500m of Glencore shares, said the devastating US drought had created an opportunity for the company to make much more money. “In terms of the outlook for the balance of the year, the environment is a good one. High prices, lots of volatility, a lot of dislocation, tightness, a lot of arbitrage opportunities [the purchase and sale of an asset in order to profit from price differences in different markets],” he said on a conference call .

Veteran News

Brandon Raub FREE: Judge orders Chesterfield Marine’s release from psychiatric facility
Oath Keepers - A Chesterfield Marine will be released from a mental health facility after a judge ruled there wasn’t sufficient evidence of allegations made against him.... In court Thursday, the judge said that the petition filed by Chesterfield Police was blank and didn’t list a single allegation against him. The judge said Raub suffered a “deprivation of his liberty” by being held without a clear claim. Related article/video here.

VIDEO: Attorney: Psychiatrist Threatened to Use Forced Meds to “Brainwash” Brandon Raub
The Blaze - In a surprising twist, (Raub’s lawyer John) Whitehead revealed a startling allegation that his client told him about prior to his release. Raub complained to his attorney that one of the psychiatrists that he was seeing threatened to “brainwash” him and force him to take medication. “That really scared him,” he said.

World News

US-led night raid kills Afghan civilian
Press TV - NATO confirmed the death in a statement on Thursday. The military alliance claimed the victim was a militant but local witnesses said he was a civilian. Overnight operations by the US-led forces have resulted in civilian casualties and increasing tension between Washington and Kabul.

US assassination drone crashes in eastern Afghanistan
Press TV - The Taliban claimed responsibility for downing the assassination drone, which went down near Jalalabad Airport on Wednesday. The US military has also used drones in Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, and Iraq.... Insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan, despite the presence of about 130,000 US-led forces in the war-torn country.

Iran begins construction of $300 million anti-aircraft missile base
timesofisrael.com - Amid increasing talk of a possible Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities, Iran has begun construction of a new, state-of-the-art, anti-aircraft missile base. The new base, located near the city of Abadeh, in southern Iran, will cost $300 million, be home to 6,000 personnel, and host seven battalions, Iran’s Fars news agency reported Tuesday.

Writers warn Netanyahu: 'Don’t strike Iran without cabinet approval'
RT - Twenty Israeli writers are planning to send a letter to Israel’s Attorney-General on Wednesday, demanding that Benjamin Netanyahu declare he will not initiate military action against Iran without cabinet approval. The letter will be written directly to Yehuda Weinstein, and threatens legal action if Prime Minister Netanyahu does not commit to a vote in his 30-member cabinet by the end of the week.

CIA and Saudi Arabia Smuggle Stinger Missiles to Rebels in Syria
Mirror News - CIA spies have smuggled up to 14 Stinger missiles into Syria so rebels can defend themselves from air strikes. The ground-to-air weapons have been delivered across the Turkish border to the Free Syrian Army and were partly paid for by Saudi Arabia, a security source claimed.

Israel Demands Egypt Remove Tanks From Sinai
antiwar.com - After a bloody attack on a Sinai police station earlier this month, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak was crowing about it as vindication for demands for a crackdown on anti-Israel militants, saying it would serve as a “wake-up call” to President Mursi for the need for such an operation. Now that Mursi has ordered tanks to the region to follow through with the crackdown, Israel is fuming again, insisting that the deployment violates the peace treaty between the two nations and demanding Egypt remove the tanks immediately.

Authorities gain power to collect Australians' internet records
smh.com.au - Laws passed today [Aug. 22] will allow authorities to collect and keep Australians' internet records, including their web-browsing history, social media activity and emails.... The legislation will allow the Australian Federal Police to collaborate with international authorities in seeking Australian communications data under warrants.

Brazilian Court Demands Nestle Label GMO Ingredients
Activist Post - A Brazilian court has demanded that multi-billion dollar food giant Nestle label all of their products as genetically modified that have over 1% GMO content. The ruling reportedly coincides with Brazilian law which demands all food manufacturers alert consumers to the presence of GMOs within their products.

VIDEO: Poison on the Platter (Full Version)
by Jeffrey Smith - A film narrated by Mahesh Bhatt. Poison On The Platter looks at the GM issue through the lens of activists, scientists and ordinary citizens. It brings alive the various shades of the GM issue such as the scientific evidences against GM food from lab rat studies, the GM disasters such as L-Tryptothan, the story of Bt Cotton and farmer suicides in India and protests across the world against GM food.

China’s food production characterized by corruption, health-threatening practices
Homeland Security Newswire - In a disturbing report, China’s national broadcaster CCTV detailed the manufacturing process followed by sixteen different Chinese companies that sell preserved fruit. The report showed rotten peaches spiked with sodium metabisulfite to make the fruit look fresh, seasoned in bleaching agents and additives harmful to the human liver and kidneys, and pickled in outdoor pools surrounded by garbage. The peaches are then packed in dirty bags which were previously used to hold animal feed, and shipped off to big brand stores.

U.S. News, Politics & Government

US cites Iran for carrier deployment
Press TV - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that the United States was preparing for dealing with Iran and Syria as an aircraft carrier headed to the region ahead of schedule. The USS John Stennis and its strike group will set forth shortly for the Middle East, a deployment ordered four months ahead of time to minimize the gap in which the United States has only one carrier in the region.

Exclusive Truthout Interview: Sioux Spiritual Leader Speaks Out on Land Sale at Sacred Site
truth-out.org - The sacred lands of the Lakota are up for sale - again. A grassroots effort led by the Oceti Sakowin, or Great Sioux Nation, is underway to get them back. On August 25 at 10 AM, nearly 2,000 acres of land, known as Pe' Sla to the Lakota people and situated in the Black Hills of South Dakota, will be put up for public auction and sold to the highest bidder. The state of South Dakota has expressed interest in using eminent domain to pave one of the roads that runs through it.

U.S. Census Bureau helped racially target thousands of American citizens for armed government kidnappings, camp internments
(NaturalNews) The U.S. Census Bureau claims you are required by law to reveal your race on their (coercive) questionnaire, and Census Bureau workers can get ridiculously adamant about stalking you until you agree to fill out such forms. What they don't tell you is that the data you voluntarily provide the Census Bureau may be used to target you and your entire family for armed government kidnappings and involuntary relocation to a concentration camp where you are forced into slave labor.

Ryan Adviser Calls On Congress To Authorize War With Iran
thinkprogress.org - Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) isn’t exactly the most sophisticated observer of international politics. As such, he was treated to a crash course in foreign policy by the Romney campaign prior to his selection as the GOP Vice Presidential nominee. Now, one of Ryan’s key advisers during that briefing period is calling for congressional authorization for war with Iran.

Justice Dept. Opens Civil Rights Unit in Alabama to Monitor Immigration
Birmingham News - The unit, composed of more than a half dozen prosecutors in her office, will tackle a variety of criminal civil rights cases, ranging from hate crimes and excessive force by police allegations, to human trafficking, Vance said. The unit also has civil and appellate attorneys to focus on civil actions such as environmental justice, Americans with disabilities cases, fair lending and employment rights for returning veterans.

California to Grant Driver's Licenses to 400,000 Illegals
sacbee.com - California is on the verge of allowing hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to receive driver's licenses for the first time in nearly two decades. The key question is how to do it. The issue of granting driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants has raged in the Legislature for much of the past decade, without resolution, but fighting is largely moot now due to a new federal policy.

Lawless National Security Letters
Activist Post - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) calls NSLs "one of the most frightening and invasive" police state laws. The FBI's abuse of power already is legendary. It has operated extrajudicially for decades. It does so with impunity. Giving them more powers compounds America's total surveillance society.

VIDEO: Jesse Ventura's TV Episode - Police State - Banned By The Networks
This episode, Police State, is the only episode of Governor Jesse Ventura's show that TruTV would not air. Did Jesse Ventura get too close to the truth?

Man Kicked Off Flight Over Anti-TSA Shirt
Paul Joseph Watson - A man and his wife were treated as potential terrorists and kicked off a Delta Airlines flight over a satirical T-shirt because it made passengers and employees feel “very uncomfortable”.

TSA Rifles Through Bags, Conducts Pat Downs At Paul Ryan Event
Steve Watson - For some time we have been warning that the TSA is systematically moving beyond the nation’s airports and conducting operations on the streets of America. The latest example of this kind of activity occurred at an event organized by Mitt Romney’s GOP running mate Paul Ryan this past weekend in The Villages, Florida. The Shark Tank blog reports that TSA officers showed up alongside Secret Service and the local Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, and proceeded to do what they do like no one else does.

VIDEO: California Woman Shot in Her Own Backyard by a Cop
Adan Salazar - 36-year-old Jennifer Orey was in her backyard this past Sunday night when she bumped into a “person holding a flashlight.” The next thing she knew she was leveled to the ground after being shot at point blank range, asking a police officer, “Why did you shoot me?” Police were allegedly searching for a masked man after receiving a 9-1-1 call about a prowler wearing a ski-mask. They went into Orey’s backyard where she bumped into one of them, “startling” the officer who shot her.

2012 Election News

Delegates Must Indicate Their Candidate One Hour Before the Vote
Daily Paul - The games have started already. John Ryder, committeeman from Tennessee, tried to change the threshold to nominate Paul from 5 states to 10. Morton Blackwell, committeeman from Virginia opposed the change and "Ryder agreed to change the number back to five states, but the amendment passed with one change intact: DELEGATES MUST INDICATE IN WRITING AT LEAST ONE HOUR BEFORE THE VOTE WHO THEY INTEND TO NOMINATE" Anyone who wants to vote for Paul should prepare their votes NOW!

Maine Only Holdout in GOP Negotiations to Seat Ron Paul Delegates
Daily Paul - Maine is the last state whose delegates to the Republican National Convention next week are still unsure whether they’ll be seated in support of conservative Texas Rep. Ron Paul. At issue are 20 of Maine’s 24 delegates to the national GOP convention, which kicks off Sunday in Tampa, Fla.

VIDEO: Judge warns of ‘civil war’ if Obama is re-elected
Press TV - A Texas leader is warning of what he calls a ‘civil war’ and possible invasion of United Nations troops if President Barack Obama is re-elected.... In the event of civil unrest Judge Head said he’s concerned the President would hand over sovereignty of the United States to the U.N. and that the American public would react violently.

Minnesota Delegates Will Back Ron Paul at Republican National Convention
lakeminnetonka.patch.com - Minnesota’s delegation to the Republican National Convention will not back Mitt Romney when the party gathers in Tampa next week. Instead, 32 of the state’s 40 nominating votes will be cast for Ron Paul during the roll call of states, according to Marianne Stebbins—chair of the delegation.

VIDEO: Lawyer James Koutoulas Tells Rick Santelli: 'We Plan To Pursue Criminal Charges Against Jon Corzine In All 50 States'
Daily Bail - Koutoulas ups the ante in his battle against Eric Holder and Jon Corzine. Lawyer James Koutoulas with Rick Santelli on CNBC yesterday.

More Than Half Of All Americans Are At Least Partially Dependent On The Government
The Economic Collapse - A very large segment of the population has figured out that it can use voting as a tool to get more money and benefits from the government, and that is a very dangerous thing.

Report: Nearly One In Five Americans Have No Money to Put Food on the Table
shtfplan.com - WAccording to the new survey, nearly one in five Americans report that there has been at least one time in the last 12 months when they did not have enough money to buy the food they or their families needed. In some parts of the country it’s even worse. In 15 states, at least one in five Americans say they struggled to afford the food they needed at least once during the past 12 months. Nationwide, 18.2% of Americans so far in 2012 say there have been times when they could not afford the food they needed, on par with the 18.6% who had trouble affording food in 2011.

Labor Department spends stimulus funds for ads during Olbermann, Maddow shows
Washington Times - The Labor Department paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funds to a public relations firm to run more than 100 commercials touting the Obama administration’s “green training” job efforts on two MSNBC cable shows, records show. The commercials ran on MSNBC on shows hosted by Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann in 2009, but the contract didn’t report any jobs created, according to records reviewed recently by The Washington Times.

Veteran News

Oath Keepers to Rally in Support of Marine Veteran Brandon Raub, Victim of Soviet Style Pre-crime Detention
Oath Keepers is coming to the aid of this young Marine veteran and our rallying cry will be “CHARGE HIM, OR RELEASE HIM.” We cannot allow “mental illness” designations to be used as a weapon against political dissidents in America.

YouTube: Ben Swann Reality Check: U.S. Marine Held In A Mental Hospital Against His Will Because Of Facebook Posts
Aug 22, 2012 - Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at the case of U.S. Marine Brandon Raub who is being held in a mental hospital in Virginia over Facebook posts.

Government Hypes White Supremacist “Racial Holy War” in Effort to Demonize Veterans
Kurt Nimmo - Despite a lack of evidence, the establishment media claims white supremacists, skinheads and neo-Nazis are joining to U.S. military and preparing for a “racial holy war.” Reuters reports that racist groups are actively encouraging members to enlist and receive military training to overthrow the “Zionist Occupation Government,” a term invented by the Order, a racist organization created by the National Alliance, a group controlled by the FBI.

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World News

Syria army kills large number of insurgents in Hama suburb
Press TV - The development came a day after Syrian troops regained control of more areas in Aleppo from foreign-backed insurgents. Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Damascus says outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorists are the behind the unrest while the opposition accuses the security forces of killing protesters.

Four killed, scores wounded in Tripoli
Press TV - Two people were killed in Tripoli’s district of Bab al-Tebbaneh and the other two died in the city’s Jabal Mohsen neighborhood, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Ten soldiers and 23 civilians were wounded in the clashes that broke out on Monday and continued intointo the night and spilled over to the Zahryeh district and its surroundings.

Economic collapse fears lead Govts. to remove civilian protections from military
Examiner - On Aug. 17, Germany became the latest country to remove longstanding protections for civilian populations from military intervention in domestic conflicts. In a new court ruling, which repealed laws created out of the Nazi era in Germany, the government can now use the military against citizens in extreme cases, joining the U.S. and other nation states who have removed the dividing line between civilian and military policing.

One million Indian bank employees strike against reforms
RT - About one million Indian bank employees have started a two-day strike, protesting against reforms that would allow more private capital into the financial sector.... The largest lender the State Bank of India was forced to halt trading in onshore spot foreign exchange markets. It comes as a blow to the economy that faces its worst slowdown in almost a decade. The strike comes a day ahead of an expected parliamentary approval of some changes in rules that would allow bigger role for investors in banks.

Russia warns West after Obama Syria threats
Aljazeera - Russia warned the West on Tuesday against unilateral action on Syria, a day after US president Barack Obama threatened "enormous consequences" if his Syrian counterpart used chemical or biological arms or even moved them in a menacing way. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking after meeting China's top diplomat, said Moscow and Beijing were committed to "the need to strictly adhere to the norms of international law...and not to allow their violation."

VIDEO: 'West’s chemical weapons talk just pretext for intervention’ - Syrian Deputy PM Jamil
RT - "The West is looking for an excuse for direct intervention. If this excuse does not work, it will look for another excuse,” said Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil speaking to journalists after meeting with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow.... Jamil warned against military action in Syria saying that it is “impossible” because it would turn the conflict into a regional one, stating "Those who are contemplating this evidently want to see the crisis expand beyond Syria's borders."

Syrian Army seizes arms cache in Aleppo
Press TV - The Syrian Army has seized an arms cache in the northern city of Aleppo as clashes continue between insurgents and government troops in the country’s largest city.... On Monday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said increasing evidence on the ground shows Syrian insurgents are receiving “massive” amounts of Western-made arms through third countries. Damascus has been blaming Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar for funding the insurgents and supplying them with weapons.

US drone strikes target rescuers in Pakistan – and the west stays silent
Guardian - The US government has long maintained, reasonably enough, that a defining tactic of terrorism is to launch a follow-up attack aimed at those who go to the scene of the original attack to rescue the wounded and remove the dead. Morally, such methods have also been widely condemned by the west as a hallmark of savagery. Yet, as was demonstrated yet again this weekend in Pakistan, this has become one of the favorite tactics of the very same US government.

Americans tune out Afghan war as fighting rages on
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - It was once President Barack Obama's "war of necessity." Now, it's America's forgotten war. The Afghan conflict generates barely a whisper on the U.S. presidential campaign trail. It's not a hot topic at the office water cooler or in the halls of Congress - even though more than 80,000 American troops are still fighting here and dying at a rate of one a day.

Gold Buyers Prosper in Crisis-Hit Italy
Reuters - In a country suffering from economic crisis, buying gold off desperate people has become one of the few boom industries. City centres are being transformed as traditional shops go out of business, their signs replaced by ones that announce “Compro Oro”, or “I Buy Gold”.... “Business is very good, you can really feel the crisis,” said 30 year-old Alexia Messi, who works in Oro Change on Via Medaglie D’Oro in northern Rome. It opened its first branch five years ago and now has seven outlets in Rome.

U.S. News, Politics & Government

VIDEO: Violent Black Panthers Activist Turned Out To Be FBI Informant
Alexander Higgins - Richard Aoki was a militant activist and armed the Black Panthers, but turned out to be an FBI informant at the very same time. This information was made public after an investigation by Seth Rosenfield revealed FOIA documents that verify these claims by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Aoki committed suicide in 2009, but today many questions remain, such as to what extent did the FBI know the man was arming the Black Panthers? Trevor Aaronson, author of the “Terror Factory,” discusses the slippery slope between the FBI creating criminals and catching them.

After-Birth Abortion: Eugenicists Say Babies are a Parasitic Burden on Society
Intel Hub - According to Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, “after-birth abortion” is proposed as a form of “contraception” that would allow babies to be killed after they are born. In a paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics: “[W]hen circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible. … [W]e propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than ‘infanticide,’ to emphasize that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus … rather than to that of a child.

Local governments using new mobile speed cameras that resemble mailboxes
wtop.com Washington, DC - Local governments are availing themselves of new mobile speed cameras that resemble mailboxes as effective and profitable ways to slow drivers down.... Prince George's County expects to bring in $8 million in 2012, with a whopping $28 million in 2013. Montgomery County recently doubled its mobile cameras and forecasts bringing in $12 million from fines in 2012.

Government Documents Prove Domestic Drones Are For Spying On Americans
Steve Watson - The documents, from the Federal Aviation Administration, were recently made public by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Among the documents are never-before-released Special Airworthiness Certificates (SACs) detailing which private companies have been granted permission to operate drones in US skies. The EFF notes that the vast majority of drones are being used purely for surveillance purposes.

VIDEO: Parents Fear Cafeteria palm scanners will implant ‘Mark of the Beast’ on children’s hands
Daily Mail - A Louisiana public school’s decision to purchase palm scanners to speed up lunch lines and payments has been met with religious opposition. Mother Mamie Sonnier said that she will not allow her children to participate in the scanner payment program, alleging that the technology would imprint the mark of the beast, or 666, on their hands.

Immigrants protest ‘illegal’ label
Newsday - A small group of immigrants gathered in Woodbury Monday to protest the use of the word “illegal” to describe those who have entered the United States without documentation. “By saying illegal, they’re assuming that we broke a criminal law,” said Jackeline Saavedra, 27, of Bay Shore, a Touro Law Center student who identified herself as undocumented. “Not everybody enters illegally.” Coordinators said they prefer the phrase “undocumented immigrant.”

Christianity & gun owners in the crosshairs: Chilling tactic exposed
HomelandSecurityUS.com - If you are an outspoken Christian in America, you need to be concerned. If you are an outspoken Christian in America who happens to be a gun owner, you need to be very concerned. And if you are a Christian gun owner who disagrees with the Progressive anti-Christian agenda in America and have a platform to inform others, you better believe that you are under intense scrutiny. Sound like paranoid propaganda? Read on.

2012 Election News

Ron Paul Campaign Strikes Deal with RNC to Seat Delegates
yahoo.com - The compromise settled a dispute over delegates from Louisiana. "Paul will be awarded 17 of the state's 46 delegates in the compromise," Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton told ABC News in an email. "The rest of the state's delegates are expected to support Mitt Romney, the party's presumptive nominee." In addition, the RNC will seat an additional Paul delegate from Massachusetts.

Pre-Crime Cameras For RNC In Tampa
Paul Joseph Watson - The Tampa Police Department will deploy dozens of ‘behavior recognition’ surveillance cameras at the Republican National Convention later this month, with the cameras remaining in place and more being added after the event finishes. “The police department in Tampa, FL, is deploying behavioral recognition software from BRS Labs on dozens of the video cameras that will provide round-the-clock surveillance at many of the venues where the GOP national convention will take place August 27-30,” reports Government Security News.

Isaac May Impact 2012 Republican National Convention
AccuWeather - As delegates and the media gather for the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 27-30, an unwanted visitor, "Isaac," may join in. Tropical Storm Isaac is forecast to become a hurricane later this week as it moves west-northwestward, touring the northern Caribbean with squalls of heavy rain, gusty winds and rough seas.

VIDEO: Worcester Police Gang Invade Liberty Love Fest II
ronpaultribune.com - Police officers decided they wanted to mess around with the people at Liberty Live Fest II.... Despite the cops closing us down we the organizers were able to secure a free place in Holliston massachusetts to continue our event.

GOP Consultant: Koch Brothers Bought Ryan’s Nomination With $100 Million Promise
National Memo - According to Stone, the billionaire Koch brothers purchased the Republican vice presidential nomination for Ryan from Romney in late July by promising to fork over an additional $100 million toward “independent expenditure” campaigning for the GOP ticket. Any such transaction would represent a serious violation of federal election laws and perhaps other statutes, aside from the ethical and character implications for all concerned. Although Stone is not the most reputable figure, to put it mildly, he has been a Republican insider, with access to the party’s top figures, over four decades

Jacob Rothschild, John Paulson And George Soros Are All Betting That Financial Disaster Is Coming
The Economic Collapse - Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world? Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down. Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson made somewhere around 20 billion dollars betting against the U.S. housing market during the last financial crisis, and now he has made huge bets that the euro will go down and that the price of gold will go up. And as I wrote about in my last article, George Soros put approximately 130 million more dollars into gold last quarter.

US corn, soy prices hit records as drought lingers
AFP - US corn and soybean prices closed at new record highs Tuesday as a new survey showed worse-than-expected crop damage from a brutal drought across the country's central breadbasket. The price of corn jumped 1.7 percent to $8.3875 a bushel, while soybeans finished at $17.3025 a bushel, up 2.8 percent from Tuesday. That left the corn price up 68 percent from June and soybeans 39 percent higher.

Veteran News

YouTube: Kidnapped Marine vet Brandon Raub speaks out from psych ward
Published on Aug 20, 2012 by Adam Kokesh.

YouTube: Marine who served with kidnapped Brandon Raub testifies to his sanity
Recorded on August 20, 2012 at John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell, VA.

Occupy Wall Street Protest

World News

Obama threatens to attack Syria
RT - US President Barack Obama has a stern warning for the country of Syria. In an address made early Monday, the commander-in-chief confirmed that he has not ruled out an offensive strike on Bashar al-Assad and his regime. Speaking from the White House, President Obama said that if Syria were to deploy chemical or biological weapons, the United States will follow through with its threat of launching an attack. Responding to a question about America’s current attitudes towards Assad, Obama said that the United States will not tolerate any efforts to allow Syria or any other countries to use weapons of mass destruction.

Netanyahu ‘determined to attack Iran’ before US elections, claims Israel’s Channel 10
timesofisrael.com - The TV station’s military reporter Alon Ben-David, who earlier this year was given extensive access to the Israel Air Force as it trained for a possible attack, reported that, since upgraded sanctions against Iran have failed to force a suspension of the Iranian nuclear program in the past two months, “from the prime minister’s point of view, the time for action is getting ever closer.”

Sinai military build-up: Egypt to deploy tanks and aircraft to tackle Islamist militants
RT - Egypt is set to put tanks and aircraft on duty in Sinai for the first time since its 1973 war with Israel in a bid to tighten security in the region. Meanwhile, Tel Aviv has installed its Iron Dome anti-rocket system near the Egyptian border. The plan was first voiced by President Morsi after an August 5 attack blamed on Islamist militants that killed 16 Egyptian border guards. It was then finalized by Egypt’s newly appointed Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, as he made his first official visit to Sinai Monday.

Gaddafi’s son faces hanging if found guilty
Telegraph - The son of the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi will be charged with urging supporters to kill demonstrators and revolutionaries during last year's uprising, and he faces execution by hanging if he is found guilty.

YouTube: 'West wants Libyan oil, country set for ruin like Iraq and Afghanistan'
RT - 32 people have been arrested in Libya in connection with recent bomb attacks in the capital. All those detained are said to belong to a network of loyalists of the country's former leader Muammar Gaddafi and have reportedly been receiving financial backing from abroad. RT talks to political analyst and Middle East consultant Peter Eyre.

US Drone Attacks Leave 21 Civilians Dead In Pakistan In Under 48 Hours
Press TV - Pakistani officials told Press TV that nine people were killed after a US drone fired four missiles at two vehicles in Mana area of Shawal district in North Waziristan on Sunday morning. This is while on Saturday twelve people lost their lives when a US drone targeted a building in the same troubled region. Washington claims its drone strikes target militants, although casualty figures clearly indicate that Pakistani civilians are the main victims of the assaults.

Lord Rothschild Betting On Euro Collapse?
Paul Joseph Watson - If the actions of Lord Jacob Rothschild are anything to go by, the long predicted collapse of the Euro may not be far away, with the banking titan placing a $200 million dollar bet against the troubled single currency. “Lord Rothschild, an elder member of the dynastic Rothschild banking family, has taken the position against the euro through RIT Capital Partners, the 1.9 billion pound investment trust of which he is executive chairman,” reports CNBC.

Banks to use Libor parliamentary probe to push for end of free accounts
Daily Mail - Banks are plotting to use a parliamentary inquiry into their bad behaviour as a way of imposing account fees on customers. MPs and peers on a commission set up to examine the recent Libor scandal will be approached by financial institutions this week which will argue in favour of introducing current account charges. Several banks are expected to make the case that ‘free’ accounts were partly to blame for reckless actions by lenders and scandals such as the mis-selling of payment protection insurance.

China claims US clean-energy violates WTO rules
RT - On Monday China's Commerce Ministry named six renewable-energy projects in the US which received such subsidies, among them a solar-power venture in Massachusetts and a wind-power venture in Ohio, as well as in Washington State, New Jersey and California. The investigation was carried out on behalf of Chinese exporters and renewable energy companies. China is calling on the U.S. to cancel practices not in line with WTO rules. It wants the US to "give Chinese renewable energy products a fair treatment," the ministry said on its website.

U.S. News, Politics & Government

US adopts Al-Qaeda's tactic of secondary attacks for drone strikes
RT - The US has been carrying out follow-up attacks after its drone strikes in Pakistan, specifically targeting people coming to the aid of the wounded. The tactic has been widely condemned, including by the UN – which considers it a war crime. A Guardian report by Glenn Greenwald shows the US government's hypocrisy regarding such tactics. While the FBI has warned that “terrorists may use secondary explosive devices to kill and injure emergency personnel responding to an initial attack,” the US regularly applies the same methods.

Georgia cops can ask for immigration papers
RT - A federal appeals court has ruled that law enforcement officers in Georgia can run checks to verify the citizenship of any persons suspected of a crime if they fail to provide identification themselves. The decision was handed down Monday afternoon by a three-judge panel presiding over the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. They reversed an earlier decision from a lower court that blocked a provision in the state’s 2011 immigration law that limited officers from doing as such.

VIDEO: Aurora Eyewitness: Alarm Announced “Murder In The Theater”
Paul Joseph Watson - Another bizarre piece of eyewitness testimony has emerged out of the Aurora massacre, with a woman claiming that an alarm was repeatedly played shortly after the shooting began announcing “murder in the theater”.

Self defense is a 'Divine Right' says Mike Adams in new video documentary
(NaturalNews) Our latest humanitarian project involves sharing educational information intended to help stop the next holocaust from ever happening. I've just completed two important educational videos entitled "The Divine Right of Self Defense" and "Gun Control is Genocide." These two videos approach the issue of citizen disarmament from a humanitarian point of view, discussing the historical results of citizen disarmament and how we can work together to save lives and prevent violence.

VIDEO: Homeless Man Killed By Cops, shot 46 times
CNN - Saginaw, Michigan (CNN) -- Three days before Independence Day, Milton Hall died in a fusillade of police gunfire outside a strip mall. He had been arguing with officers in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant when he was shot, in full view of passing motorists and while he was holding some sort of knife. Saginaw County Prosecutor Michael Thomas said later that the squad of police confronting him opened fire "because apparently, at this point in time, he was threatening to assault police."

VIDEO: Government and Media Turn Accused Cop Killers into Constitutionalist “Sovereign Citizens”
Kurt Nimmo - Prior the latest round of violence attributed to the so-called “sovereign citizen movement,” the FBI ramped up its propaganda campaign and declared that “extremists” opposed to the government pose a domestic terror threat and a danger to law enforcement. The FBI’s Counterterrorism Analysis Section produced a report in February stating that activists opposed to government authority and taxation pose a violent threat to law enforcement. The report specifically denotes constitutionalists as terrorists.

As Above, So Below: The Globalist Agenda Reflected in Local Politics Through 'Council of Governments'
Activist Post - The fact is that those individuals and committees implementing globally standardized guidelines and policies at the local level are not merely select groups who are willing recipients of Federal grants, but a wide ranging cadre of local politicians, bureaucrats, and wealthy businessmen who work together through a complex setup of organizations, groups, and councils.

Government Funded Bullet Trains Will Connect American Agenda 21 Megacities
Intel Hub - To boost infrastructure and build Agenda 21 high-speed rail systems (HSRS) across America, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood stated last week that $470 million in unspent funds are still available to states for such projects. In 2011, Obama called for these HSRS to be built in America within the next 25 years. In California, government funding for a HSRS across the Central Valley trades $4.5 in bonds for $3.2 billion in federal stimulus for a railway that links to transportation lines.

2012 Election News

Paul Attorney Threatens RNC, Romney Campaign
The Washington Times The lawyer for Ron Paul’s Oklahoma delegates to the Republican National Convention threatened Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee to withhold votes on Monday for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, according to the Oklahoma GOP chairman. The Paul attorney told the RNC’s Committee on Contests that unless it seated the Paul delegates instead of those elected by the Oklahoma GOP, Paul supporters across the country would withhold their votes from Mr. Romney.

RNC Parking, Road Closures, Protest Areas, Updates, RNC Hotline (866)762.8687
Daily Paul - Cyclops Technologies (NWO anyone?) is providing their software Plate Smart: License Plate Scanners to be used by Law Enforcement During RNC for ID checks, looking for suspended or revoked licenses or outstanding warrants, & Be On The Lookouts (BOLOs) Surely their info gathering & redistribution is unconstitutional, especially when they boast (their own accounts) a mere 90% accuracy rate.

The Sun Dome Rally Has Sold Out!
Daily Paul - We’re now less than one week away from Ron Paul’s “We are the Future” celebration at the Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida. All the events are shaping up, and it’s looking to be a very fun and exciting time.... The Sun Dome rally has sold out! But don’t worry. We have overflow room in the USF outdoor baseball stadium next door.

Jerusalem Post Reports Netanyahu Interference in US Elections
Veterans Today - A critical issue to Americans has been Romney’s recent visit to Israel where he met behind closed doors with diamond merchants tied to 70% of the world’s illegal “blood diamond” trade and is said to have accepted millions in illegal campaign donations. Romney met secretly with cash bearing delegations from Russia, London’s banking community and other groups, some American citizens but most not, all violations of American law.

YouTube: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 8/20/12
It's Time for a Truly Conservative Foreign Policy

Americans At Or Below 125% Of The Poverty Level
Zero Hedge - From AP: "the number of Americans with incomes at or below 125 percent of the federal poverty level - the income limit for qualifying for legal aid - is expected to reach an all-time high of 66 million this year. A family of four earning 125 percent of the federal poverty level makes about $28,800 a year, government figures show."

No Horses, But Detroit Water Department Employs 'Horseshoer'
michigancapitolconfidential.com - Yet even with a department so bloated that it has a horseshoer and no horses, the local union president said it is "not possible" to eliminate positions. Union rules have turned the department into a government jobs program, some critics say.

Veteran News

Attorney Statement on Brandon Raub; Raub to Be Detained Indefinitely
rutherford.org - In a hearing held at the hospital, government officials disregarded Raub’s explanation that the Facebook posts were being interpreted out of context, sentencing him up to 30 days’ further confinement in a VA psych ward. In coming to Raub’s defense, Rutherford Institute attorneys are challenging Raub’s arrest and forcible detention, as well as the government’s overt Facebook surveillance and violation of Raub’s First Amendment rights.

NDAA guise or not: Brandon Raub was not “arrested.” KIDNAPPED then?
Daily Paul - I am telling you folks, they are trying to exert the NDAA (which means no official “arrest”…just a kidnapping). Brandon Raub [a former U.S. Marine] has been detained AGAINST HIS WILL in a Petersburg psych hospital. He has not been “arrested. Just kidnapped. Abducted.... If the NDAA has been used--and it appears that it has been--then after Federal Judge Kathleen Forrest's providing injunctive relief against the unconstitutional NDAA Sections 1021 and 1022, declaring them essentially illegal, then the US Government and the FBI and the Secret Service, are in criminal contempt of court.

Occupy Wall Street Protest

World News

US, South Korea start major military drill
Press TV - The U.S. and South Korean military Monday began an annual joint exercise to test defenses against North Korea, a drill denounced by Pyongyang as a rehearsal for war. More than 30,000 U.S. troops, both those based in the South and some 3,000 from overseas, are taking part in the drill known as Ulchi Freedom Guardian, which ends on August 31, the U.S. forces said in a statement.... U.S. and South Korean forces insist it is defensive, while the North has called it "a dangerous act to ignite a new war".

US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman arrives in Afghanistan
Press TV - The top U.S. military officer Martin Dempsey flew Sunday to Afghanistan to hold talks with senior commanders amid a spate of attacks by Afghan soldiers on their NATO counterparts. Before landing at the sprawling U.S. airbase in Bagram, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters that the rise in "insider attacks" would be a key focus of his meetings with U.S.-led coalition and Afghan officers. The visit comes amid a rise of attacks in which apparent Afghan security forces have turned their guns on coalition troops, killing 10 of them in less than two weeks.

US, Israeli navies complete drill in Mediterranean
Press TV - Israeli and American naval counterparts completed a joint drill last week in the Mediterranean Sea, a joint search-and-rescue exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, which included live fire and seaborne helicopters landings. However, the Americans were quick to point out that the annual drill - which, while not held for the last three years - was unconnected with the escalating psychological war of nerves between Israel and Iran.

Israel falsifies documents to deport Sudanese migrants - reports
RT - Israel has deported Sudanese asylum seekers by issuing documents with purposefully incorrect nationalities, a recently published report by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed.

Non-intervention policy: Hundreds watch as dozens of Jewish youths attack Palestinians
RT - Hundreds of people watched but did not intervene as a gang of Israeli youths attempted to "lynch" a group of Palestinian children in the center of Jerusalem's Zion Square, police said on Sunday. Five suspects have been arrested so far.

Poland Shedding Light on Secret CIA Prison
Military.com - On an idyllic lake surrounded by woods and a double row of mesh-and-razor-wire fences about 100 miles north of Warsaw, there stands a secluded villa that the CIA once used to interrogate - and allegedly torture - top al-Qaida suspects. On the grounds of the Polish intelligence-training academy and nicknamed "Markus Wolf" for the former East German spy chief, it's the focal point for a top-secret probe that Polish prosecutors have launched into how their government tolerated rampant violations of international and Polish law.

US-Israeli deal on Iran? No Israeli strike now if Obama pledged a spring attack
DEBKAfile - The White House this week scrambled to reconnect with Jerusalem after the Obama administration was persuaded that Israel was serious about conducting a fall military operation against Iran’s nuclear program before the Nov. 6 US presidential election - notwithstanding the heavy opposition guns firing against it at home and from Washington.
* Related Article: MSM Propaganda Detracts from Obama and Netanyahu Plans to Attack Iran

Attack on Iran will bring destruction of Israel – Ahmadinejad
RT - Tehran and Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah warn of cataclysmic retaliation against an Israeli attack, threatening to make the country “a living hell.” The statements come amidst reports of that Israel is preparing a unilateral strike on Iran. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said his party had already fixed targets in Israel and would be able to hit them with a small number of rockets if Tel Aviv decides to attack first.

Iran’s Words Mistranslated Again by Americans Trying to Start a War
Washington's Blog - Most Americans confuse zionism and Judaism. While many assume that zionism simply means allowing the Israeli nation to exist, many zionists in high positions within the Netanyahu and Sharon administrations advocate for very different policies altogether, including the use of offensive wars throughout the Middle East. See this, and read the section entitled “Securing the Realm” here. In reality, many devout Jews are against zionism as being antithetical to traditional Jewish values. As such, many Jews say that criticizing zionism is not anti-semitism. … and some zionists themselves admit that even non-Jews have the right to criticize Israel.

Egypt's Islamist president to visit Iran, news agency reports
LA Times - Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi plans to visit Iran this month for an international summit in what would mark the highest level official contact between the two nations in more than 30 years, according to Egypt's state news agency. The MENA agency, quoting a source in Morsi’s office, said the newly elected Islamist president is expected to attend the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran on Aug. 30. The decision follows an invitation hand-delivered to Morsi nearly two weeks ago in Cairo by Iranian Vice President Hamid Baghaei.

Western spies helping Syria rebels
AFP - Sunday Times says British intelligence helping rebels launch successful attacks. Aleppo: British and German spies are involved in covert operations to help Syrian rebels in their increasingly bloody fight to topple the regime of President Bashar Al Assad, press reports said on Sunday. The reports said German and British spies were passing on information about Syrian troop movements to the rebels.

Propaganda Alert: US needs to send troops to Syria to get WMD
Reuters - The United States and its allies are discussing a worst-case scenario that could require tens of thousands of ground troops to go into Syria to secure chemical and biological weapons sites following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's government, according to U.S. and diplomatic officials. These secret discussions assume that all of Assad's security forces disintegrate, leaving chemical and biological weapons sites in Syria vulnerable to pillaging. The scenario also assumes these sites could not be secured or destroyed solely through aerial bombings, given health and environmental risks.

Canada rejects calls to bail out eurozone
Montreal Gazette - The Conservative government on Wednesday rejected calls from Germany and the eurozone that Canada give to a bailout fund, even as German chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Ottawa for two days of meetings with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty have repeatedly rejected entreaties from Europe to contribute to a $450-billion bailout pot, managed by the International Monetary Fund, for troubled eurozone economies.

VIDEO: US war on whistleblowers must end - Assange
RT - Julian Assange made his first public appearance in two months, ever since he took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Addressing the hundreds of people gathered outside the embassy, Assange thanked them for their support, claiming it was their resolve and presence that stopped British police storming the building.

Report: Cesium detected in pistachio nuts from U.S. — Contains most radioactivity of any item in round of tests from Japan
ENENews - Sampled by: Maruetsu (Japanese Supermarket). Test Date: August 11, 2012. American Pistachio Nuts with unknown expiration date (bottom row of results below) Cesium-137: 9.54 becquerels/kg.
* Related Video: Fukushima Rad News Aug 17/2012...

U.S. News, Politics & Government

US under pressure over drone raids
Press TV - UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Ben Emmerson said on Sunday that the US is coming under mounting global pressure over its use of assassination drones, adding that he is preparing a report on the issue for the next session of the Human Rights Council in March. Emmerson also urged Washington to open itself to an independent probe into the legality of such attacks that will "remain at the top of the UN political agenda until some consensus and transparency has been achieved."

US keeps quiet as Iraqis smuggle dollars into Iran
RT - A network of iraqi financial institutions have been smuggling US dollars into Iran to alleviate the financial struggle there caused by economic sanctions – but the Obama administration has been mum about it. The New York Times exposed Washington's ongoing struggle with Baghdad's Elaf Islamic Bank, in addition to a full network of financial institutions and oil-smuggling operations helping Iran evade sanctions.

Missouri Republican says pregnancy unlikely in 'legitimate rape'
RT - A US congressman has announced a new way for women to prevent unwanted pregnancy. All they have to do is be “legitimately raped,” and a natural conception-blocking mechanism will kick in, Missouri's Todd Akin told an interviewer. Representative Akin, who is hoping to unseat incumbent Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill in November, was asked during an interview with local Fox affiliate KTVI whether he believed women had the right to have an abortion if the pregnancy was the result of a rape.

VIDEO: Valedictorian in Oklahoma Denied High School Diploma Because She Said “Hell” in Graduation Speech
Liberty Crier - By La’Tasha Givens PRAGUE, Okla.– There’s a bit of diploma drama going on between a local high school and that school’s valedictorian. David Nootbaar is furious his daughter’s school is keeping her diploma. He says, “She has worked so hard to stay at the top of her class and this is not right.” Kaitlin Nootbaar graduated from Prague High School in May and was named valedictorian.

US Army grants $3 million for anti-suicide nasal spray research
RT - For those feeling down in the dumps, the US military now has a solution: an anti-suicidal nasal spray that delivers antidepressant chemicals to the brain. The US Army has awarded a scientist at the Indiana University School of Medicine $3 million to develop a nasal spray that eclipses suicidal thoughts. Dr. Michael Kubek and his research team will have three years to ascertain whether the nasal spray is a safe and effective method of preventing suicides.

'Treasure' island? Radioactivity reported on San Francisco isle
RT - The city of San Francisco plans to convert former Naval base 'Treasure Island' into a residential neighborhood, but new reports by the US Navy and public health officials suggest the island may be more radioactive than previously believed.... New investigations have revealed that gun sights on Navy ships containing radioactive material were routinely repaired there. Several ships from the Pacific fleet that may have been contaminated by radiation from US nuclear bomb tests also underwent refits at the island.

Social Security Administration says hollow point bullets necessary for staff's safety
RT - Responding to reports centered on the SSA’s recent request for tens of thousands of rounds of high-power, heavy duty ammunition, the agency tasked with assisting the elderly and disabled with federally funded benefit packages has attempted to explain their invitation for ammo makers to make them a deal. “Our special agents need to be armed and trained appropriately,” a blog post from the SSA office explains. “They not only investigate allegations of Social Security fraud, but they also are called to respond to threats against Social Security offices, employees and customers.

Wannabe Navy SEALS offered chance to ‘kill Osama’
RT - Ever wanted the chance to assassinate a notorious terrorist? A former Navy SEAL is offering anyone with $325 the opportunity to do just that as part of the ‘Navy Seal Adventure’ mission.... The Minnesota-based Sealed Mindset Firearms Studio, an industrial center-turned-paintball range in New Hope, allows participants to recreate the assassination raid on Osama Bin Laden’s hideout. The 'Navy SEAL Adventure' is the brainchild of ex-SEAL Lawrence Yatch and his wife, who maintain there is more to the experience than just the thrill of shooting the world’s formerly most wanted terrorist.... “The biggest thing we’re trying to accomplish is giving people a sense of empowerment,” Yatch told KSTP.

Phoenix official orders woman to stop handing out free water during extreme heat wave, claims she needs 'permit'
(NaturalNews) In the United Police States of America, there is no more room for free-thinking individuals that wish to take common sense action as they see fit, at least not when they try to do so without the government's permission. In a shocking display of utter tyranny against a free individual trying to contribute to the greater good, an official in Phoenix, Arizona, recently ordered resident Dana Crow-Smith to stop handing out free bottles of water to thirsty passersby trying to survive the extreme heat wave, claiming that she needs a permit to conduct this act of good will.

Then They Came For Me (2012)
Daily Paul - Adapted from the original (First they came...) by Rev. Martin Niemoller (1937).

YouTube: Wake Up... (DollarDVDProjectLiberty.com)
Remember, Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple. What is His attitude about invading countries that did not attack us? That doesn't sound like "just war" to me. Too many "Christians" rally for war and death to their brothers and sisters on this planet.

2012 Election News

Denied Elected Delegates, Paul Campaign Files Second Appeal in Louisiana
Liberty Crier - After being denied by the Committee on Contests from the Republican National Committee earlier this month, the Ron Paul campaign has filed a second appeal in Louisiana, determined to see satisfaction for rule breaking at the state convention. There is some argument between the establishment GOP and the Paul faction over how the convention was conducted. A few days before the state convention, an affidavit and supplemental rules were distributed to delegates. The delegates chosen to go to the Republican National Convention (Tampa, FL) were required to sign an affidavit as a promise to vote for the candidate that they were bound to via the State Central Committee.

YouTube: Judge Napolitano on the 2012 Election, Obamacare, and The Future of Liberty
Aug 17, 2012 - Reason Magazine's Matt Welch sat down with Napolitano at FreedomFest 2012 and discussed the ramifications of the Supreme Court's ruling on the individual mandate and whether or not there's a substantive difference between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney from a libertarian perspective.

YouTube: Thousands of Protesters getting ready for RNC convention in Tampa
Fox News - "You'll see a long line of 5,000 protestors, something Tampa I don't think has ever seen before," Hamil [a spokesman for the Coalition to March on the RNC] said. The group will meet in the park on Monday, August 27th. They plan to hear from 30 speakers and then by noon, hit the streets.
* Related Video: Tampa Police Department Flexes Its Muscles

List Of Prohibited Items at RNC Convention
Daily Paul - ...CAMCORDERS and cases, large cameras with lens (over four inches) - does NOT apply to media.... Tripods for cameras - does not apply to media. Backpacks or carry cases for binoculars, cameras - does not apply to media.

VIDEO: CNN Censors Richard Belzer
lewrockwell.com - Check out this hilarious account by LRC contributor David Martin deflating that blowhard Brit Piers Morgan of CNN by actor/author Richard Belzer discussing his new book, Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country’s Most Controversial Cover-Ups. In the process he also deliciously skewers Kochtopus faux “libertarian” humorist P. J. O’Rourke who was also a guest on the CNN program.

Paul Ryan caught lying about request for millions in Obama's stimulus money
RT - Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan admitted he requested federal stimulus money for Wisconsin, after harshly criticizing the stimulus plan and twice denying to have sought its funds.
* Related Article: The Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan’s Brother Money Connection and video

General Motors Is Headed For Bankruptcy, Again
Forbes - Right now, the federal government owns 500,000,000 shares of GM, or about 26% of the company. It would need to get about $53.00/share for these to break even on the bailout, but the stock closed at only $20.21/share on Tuesday. This left the government holding $10.1 billion worth of stock, and sitting on an unrealized loss of $16.4 billion.

US foreign debt hits record high
RT - The United States might officially be the worst neighbor on Earth: the US now owes its allies $5.2923 trillion, the most money the country has ever been indebted to its foreign friends in the history of the nation. Statistics released this week by the US Treasury indicate that, as of June 2012, the United States has borrowed bucks from most of the world’s major countries and has accumulated a debt that is on the verge of doubling in only a few short years. As of June, the amount of US Treasury securities held by foreign holders is close to $5.3 trillion, which includes $1164.3 billion from China and $1119.3 billion from Japan at the top of the list.

Startling Evidence That Central Banks And Wall Street Insiders Are Rapidly Preparing For Something BIG
Activist Post - If you want to figure out what is going to happen next in the financial markets, carefully watch what the insiders are doing. Those that are "connected" have access to far better sources of information than the rest of us have, and if they hear that something big is coming up they will often make very significant moves with their money in anticipation of what is about to happen.

Fundraising scammers are more common than you think - This couple milked donors for $800,000 in Japanese tsunami relief fund
(NaturalNews) A lawsuit has been filed in the New York County Supreme Court, alleging that a married couple set up a fake relief fund for survivors of the 2011 Japanese tsunami and used it to scam donors out of more than $800,000.

Veteran News

Afghan War veterans in danger of mysterious degenerative brain disease
RT - Doctors have discovered an incurable brain disease evident in a large number of soldiers returning from war, and estimate that as many as 250,000 US troops are at risk of being ravaged by the disorder next. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy cannot be diagnosed or adequately treated yet, Col. Dallas Hack of the Army's Combat Casualty Care Research Program tells the Huffington Post, and scientists say that they think brain injuries developed during battle might bring up the likelihood of CTE occurring, which is characterized by bursts of anger and depression, and is believed to be able to impact motor skills and memory.

VIDEO: This Former Marine Was Picked Up By The FBI Over Facebook Posts About 9/11
Business Insider - A former U.S. Marine who accused the government of lying about 9/11 and spoke of “The Revolution” on Facebook was detained on Friday night, reports Renee Nal of Gather. According to Brandon Raub's mother, authorities from the FBI, Secret Service and Chesterfield County PD came to their door, questioned Raub about his Facebook posts – which are critical of the official story regarding 9/11 and refer to "starting a revolution" – then handcuffed him and placed him in a Chesterfield PD squad car before taking him directly to John Randolph Psychiatric Hospital in Hopewell, Va.

World News

UN monitors quit, saying Syrians choose 'path of war'
Reuters - Syria's government and rebels have "chosen the path of war", a U.N. peacekeeping chief said as the world body ended its doomed monitoring mission to Damascus.

Bahraini forces attack al-Quds Day protesters
Press TV - Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have attacked demonstrators who were staging a protest to mark the international al-Quds Day in support of the Palestinian resistance against Israel. Protesters in Bahrain took to streets on Friday to mark the international al-Quds Day. They held the rallies despite a government ban. People all over the world are taking part in mass rallies to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people and commemorate the continuous Zionist occupation of Palestinian lands.

‘Quds Day will clean Zionist black stain’
Press TV - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the International Quds Day is the day of unity among all human beings to remove the Zionist “black stain” from the human society. “Today, countering the entity of Zionism and the fabricated Zionist regime safeguards rights of all human beings, defends human dignity and paves the way to save humankind from arrogance, poverty and misery,” Ahmadinejad said in an address at the International Quds Day on Friday. The world should know that most Western hegemonic and colonial powers maintain a joint commitment to protect the entity of the Israeli regime, he added.

Syrian Rebel Leader Threatens To Form Alliance With Al-Qaeda If West Doesn’t Provide Arms
Paul Joseph Watson - Syrian rebel commander Abu Ammar has threatened to form an alliance with Al-Qaeda if the west fails to provide heavy arms in the effort to topple President Bashar al-Assad. “We don’t want al Qaeda here, but if nobody else helps us, we will make an alliance with them,” Ammar, a rebel leader in the city of Aleppo told AFP, adding that Al-Qaeda fighters would “brainwash” Syrian rebels and create their own base of operations.

VIDEO: Crash of Black Hawk chopper kills 7 U.S. troops in Afghanistan
LA Times - U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashed in restive Kandahar province on Thursday, killing seven American troops and four Afghans, U.S. and Afghan military officials said. Afghan officials said the crash site was in Shah Wali Kot, a volatile district where insurgents have long been active. The Afghan dead included three members of the Afghan security forces and a civilian interpreter, according to an Afghan provincial spokesman in Kandahar. The NATO force said the cause of the crash was under investigation, and was tight-lipped about whether insurgent fire had been reported in the area.

Families of assassinated Iranian scientists sue Israel, US, UK
hangthebankers.com - Rahim Ahmadi Roshan, father of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who was killed in a terrorist attack in January, told a press conference in Tehran on Wednesday, that the families have asked Iran’s Judiciary to pursue their complaints and bring those responsible for the assassinations to justice. In November 2011, some US presidential candidates said operations should be carried out against Iran, such as assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, sabotage of Tehran’s nuclear program, and even a military strike on the country.

At least 18 killed as S. African police open fire on thousands of striking miners
RT - At least 18 bodies were seen lying bloody and motionless on the ground after local police opened fire on striking miners, a South African news agency reports. Some of the protesters were allegedly armed with machetes and spears. The incident is believed to have occurred after police, in the process of laying down barricades of barbed wire, were outflanked by a crowd of 3,000 demonstrators.

U.S. News, Politics & Government

VIDEO: US civil rights groups to appeal FBI spying lawsuit decision
Press TV - Civil rights groups in the United States have lashed out at the court ruling which cleared the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of spying on Muslims... Attorneys of the civil rights groups Council on American Islamic Relations of Greater Los Angeles (CAIR-LA) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) say the ruling allows the federal government to escape responsibility for its actions.

Federal government hoarding meat stocks in response to drought - Food shortages for the rest of us?
(NaturalNews) At least two-thirds of the U.S. is currently suffering through varying degrees of drought, with the U.S. Drought Monitor reporting as of August 14 that 63 percent of hay, 72 percent of cattle, 85 percent of soybean crops, and 85 percent of soybean crops, and 87 percent of corn crops are not getting the water they need to survive.

South Carolina Mission 2012 Starts Tomorrow: Disaster Exercise Masquerading as 'Free Healthcare Event'
Activist Post - On the heels of a WMD drill known as Operation Four Aces being conducted in the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina area, the state capital of Columbia is now getting a taste of the action as well. The difference, however, is that this event is not specifically centered around a terrorist attack. In fact, this drill supposedly isn’t even a drill at all. SC Mission 2012 is actually described as “a free healthcare event for people living in the Midlands” whose mission is to “1) address the immediate needs of individuals and 2) help place these individuals in a medical home to receive regular care. Services include free medical, dental, vision and pharmacy services.”

Pentagon Developing Autonomous Humanoid Robots To “Perform Evacuation Operations”
Steve Watson - The Department of Defense has awarded a lucrative contract to an engineering and robotics design company to develop and build humanoid robots that can act intelligently without supervision. Boston Dynamics Inc. has been contracted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the agency responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military, in a deal worth $10.9 million. The DoD announced Tuesday that “The robotic platforms will be humanoid, consisting of two legs, a torso, two arms with hands, a sensor head and on board computing.”

Police chiefs adopt drone code of conduct
Washington Times - The nation’s police chiefs have adopted a code of conduct for their use of drones, including letting any images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, be open to inspection by the public, and that the images not be stored unless they are evidence of a crime or part of an ongoing investigation.... The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the industry trade group, applauded the new rules, saying they struck a good balance. Here are the eight operational rules the chiefs recommended...

VIDEO: AZ Gov. Jan Brewer bars public benefits for illegal immigrants
Fox News - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed an executive order directing state agencies to deny driver's licenses and other public benefits to young illegal immigrants who obtain work authorizations under a new Obama administration program. Brewer's order issued Wednesday says she's reaffirming the intent of current Arizona law denying taxpayer-funded public benefits and state identification to illegal immigrants.

2012 Election News

YouTube: Reality Check: RNC Rules Committee Can't Follow Their Own Rules
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at how the RNC rules committee won't enforce rules for delegates headed to the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

Complaint filed against GOP State Chairman
coloradostatesman.com - 8/16/2012 - Last Friday, a Republican National Convention delegate from Denver filed a formal petition with the national GOP asking that State Republican Party Chairman Ryan Call be thrown off the convention’s Credentials Committee, charging that state party rules don’t allow the kind of election that put Call on the panel. The complaint stirs up simmering tension in Colorado’s delegation between backers of presidential candidate Mitt Romney and upstart supporters of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who hasn’t conceded the nomination.

40 Facts That Prove Obama And Romney Are The Same Vote
govtslaves.info - What a depressing choice the American people are being presented with this year. We are at a point in our history where we desperately need a change of direction in the White House, and we are guaranteed that we are not going to get it.

VIDEO: Draft-dodging Mitt Romney fled to France - how a candidate got out of Vietnam
12160.info - Exclusive: Andrew Longman explains how candidate got out of Vietnam service. Mitt Romney doesn’t describe himself as a draft dodger. He does his best to portray an “apple pie and the flag” image of Americana. He likes to be known as Mr. Toughguy and a strong-military Republican. And so it may come as a bit of a shock to the average reader to learn that Romney wiggled out of the draft during Vietnam. It’s one of the many concussions from Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman in their new book, “The Real Romney.”

VIDEO: Unbound and loving it! My National Delegate speech!
Daily Paul Aug 15, 2012 - We are now UNBOUND on the first ballot at the RNC. To celebrate I decided to post my speech from the 2012 Texas Republican convention. This is a recording of the speech I gave to become the 3rd delegate to the RNC for CD 33. Rise up and let us have the numbers in Tampa!

Ron Paul Still Mum As His Son Endorses Paul Ryan
US News- The plot thickens for supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul. His son, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, has endorsed Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan as the vice presidential nominee, while Ron Paul has stayed mum not only about Ryan, but about endorsing presumptive GOP presidential nomine Mitt Romney.

Brilliant! Ron Paul Supporter Owns romneyryan.com - Story Goes Viral
Daily Paul - If you happen to visit RomneyRyan.com, you might think you have reached a website operated by a Democratic political action committee, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign or maybe the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In reality, the man behind the site, which highlights the controversy around presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's tax returns, is an enterprising young supporter of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). The site is awesome with Ron Paul vids.

Judge Napolitano: November’s choices - tough to support either Romney-Ryan or Obama-Biden
Fox News - We are in terrible straits this presidential election. We have a choice between a president who has posed more of a danger to personal freedom than any in the past 150 years and a Republican team that wants to return to Bush-style big government.

VIDEO: Reality Check: Rep. Paul Ryan = Big Spender?
Daily Paul - Reality Check: Rep. Paul Ryan=big spender? He comes today to Cincinnati, a look at Ryan's "principle" problem and voting record.

Buy local movement is spawning local currencies
endthelie.com - With growing distrust of big banks and the unstable economy, the buy local movement is gaining more traction, especially if localities create their own currency. The concept of printing local currency (in the form of paper money) is nothing new and is perfectly legal by federal law, except private coinage is not. In 1991, Ithaca NY started to experiment with their money called hours. According to author and founder of Ithaca Hours, Paul Glover, this is how the system works...

22 Stats That Show How The Emerging One World Economy Is Absolutely Killing American Workers
Economic Collapse - For decades our politicians have promised us that the "free trade" agenda would bring us greater prosperity than ever before. They insisted that merging our economy into the emerging one world economy would cause millions upon millions of new jobs to be added to the U.S. economy. Unfortunately, it was all a giant lie.

The 26 Top CEOs Who Made More Than Their Companies Paid In Federal Taxes
Consumerist - This year's crop of CEOs averaged $20.4 million in total compensation, a 23% percent increase over the average for last year's batch of top executives. Meanwhile, the companies they worked for received an average of a $163 million tax refund from the federal government. Only a handful of businesses paid any federal taxes in 2011. "The four most direct tax subsidies for excessive executive pay cost taxpayers an estimated $14.4 billion per year — $46 for every American man, woman, and child," writes the IPS. "That amount could also cover the annual cost of hiring 211,732 elementary-school teachers or creating 241,593 clean-energy jobs."

Veteran News

Despair: 38 US Soldiers Killed Themselves This Month, An All Time High
Army Times - The soldiers included a 21-year-old air traffic controller who shot himself in his Fort Wainright, Alaska, barracks; a 26-year-old captain who died at an indoor firing range in Virginia, and a 29-year-old sergeant who had deployed four times to Iraq and Afghanistan. Three soldiers died at their own hands on deployment, and 13 had deployed at least once. But nine had never seen combat, according to the Army.

World News

Spate of terror attacks in Iraq kill eight, wound over 50
RT - A series of blasts and shootings in five Iraqi cities resulted in at least eight deaths and more than 50 injuries, officials said. The attacks struck Fallujah, the capital of Baghdad and three other cities.... The deadly nationwide violence brings the total number killed in Iraq in August to 153. That number includes 67 security force members and 86 Iraqi civilians. In July 325 were killed in insurgent attacks, the highest reported death toll since August 2010.

Tug of war: Retaliatory kidnappings pull Lebanon into Syrian conflict
RT - A Lebanese Shiite clan abducted over 20 Syrians and a Turk in retaliation for a family member kidnapped by the Free Syrian Army. The group threatened to capture more citizens from countries allied with Syrian rebels unless the hostage is released. Hatem al-Mikdad, a senior member of the clan, threatened to target citizens from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, he said in an address to the Lebanese National News Agency.

Latest UN Syria Report on War Crimes Compiled by Washington Think-Tanker
Activist Post - The [UN] report covers the period between Feb. 15 and July 20 and involved 1,062 interviews, both in the field and in Geneva," reported the Washington Post in their article titled, "UN expert panel concludes Syria regime, militia have committed war crimes against civilians." The Washington Post also writes that the UN report stated, "anti-government armed groups committed war crimes, including murder, extrajudicial killings and torture." The value of a report based on "interviews" is throwaway propaganda - to be twisted and used by both sides accordingly, but ultimately adding nothing in terms of documented facts or forensic, photographic, and/or video evidence.

VIDEO: Ancient olive trees, stolen from Palestinian lands, now decorate Israeli settlement
Desert Peace - In this video below, Halper points out several olive trees, some over 400 years, that he believes were stolen from Palestinians. The trees would never grow here ordinarily. And he says that in other cases Israeli soldiers who have removed the trees from Palestinian villages have sold the trees to the nouveau riche in north Tel Aviv. These trees were in Palestinian families for 400 years, Halper says, and provided generations with sustenance. Their removal and transplanting are part of the “banal” humiliation of Palestinians.

Maharashtra State Revokes Monsanto’s Cotton Seed License
NEW DELHI, India, August 9, 2012 (ENS) – This was a difficult day for the proponents of genetically modified crops in India. In Parliament, the Agriculture Committee tabled a report seeking a ban on genetically modified food crops and a halt to all field trials. And the state of Maharashtra cancelled Mahyco Monsanto Biotech’s license to sell its genetically modified Bt cotton seeds.

US warns Iran to stay out of Syria
The Australian - Iran's arch-foe, the US accused Tehran yesterday of setting up a militia in Syria and urged the Islamic republic to stay out of the conflict. "It is obvious that Iran has been playing a larger role in Syria in many ways," US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. He said the US had evidence that Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were "trying to develop, trying to train a militia within Syria to be able to fight on behalf of the regime". "We are seeing a growing presence by Iran and that is of deep concern to us. We do not think that Iran ought to play that role at this moment in time, that's dangerous ... it's adding to the killing that's going on in Syria," he said.

VIDEO: Explosion near UN monitors' HQ in Damascus
RT Aug 15, 2012 - Three were wounded when a bomb exploded on Wednesday 10 meters away from the Damas Rose hotel in Damascus, Syria, where UN monitors are headquartered.... Faisal Mekdad, Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister, toured the area of the blast and said that none of the UN staff was hurt. The explosion occurred as UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos was visiting the Syrian capital, but her team is believed to be headquartered at a different hotel.

Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mexico undetected for weeks, U.S. officials say
freebeacon.com - A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed after it left the region, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. It is only the second time since 2009 that a Russian attack submarine has patrolled so close to U.S. shores. The stealth underwater incursion in the Gulf took place at the same time Russian strategic bombers made incursions into restricted U.S. airspace near Alaska and California in June and July, and highlights a growing military assertiveness by Moscow.

Colonizing Nations 101
Activist Post - Might justifies right. Nations are destroyed to free them. Code language conceals real motives. Policy involves ravaging the world one country at a time or in multiples. Nations are destroyed for their own good. Monied interests alone benefit.

World shipping crisis threatens German dominance as Greeks win long game
Telegraph - Over 100 German ship funds have already shut down as the long-simmering crisis in global container shipping finally comes to a head. A further 800 funds are threatened with insolvency, according to consultants TPW in Hamburg. They are not alone. Britain’s oldest shipowner, Stephenson Clark, dating back to 1730, went into liquidation last week, closing the final chapter of Britain’s coal trade and the industrial revolution.

World powers eye emergency food meeting; action doubted
Reuters - France, the United States and G20 president Mexico will hold a conference call at the end of August to consider whether an emergency international meeting is required, aiming to avoid a repetition of the food price spike that triggered riots in poorer countries in 2008. Yet even as the third grain surge in four years stirs new fears about food supply and inflation, many say the world's powers are no better prepared to rein in runaway prices.

"Robin hood" Spanish mayor becomes hero for robbing supermarkets
Refreshing News - A Spanish mayor who became a cult hero for staging robberies at supermarkets and giving stolen groceries to the poor sets off this week on a three-week march that could embarrass the government and energize anti-austerity campaigners. Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo, regional lawmaker and mayor of the town of Marinaleda - population 2,645 - in the southern region of Andalusia, said food stolen last week in the robberies went to families hit hardest by Spain's economic crisis.

U.S. News, Politics & Government

Mexico Purchases 1.5 Million Tons Of Corn From Drought Stricken US
The United States announced yesterday that it will sell 1.516 million tons of corn to Mexico, the fourth largest sale of corn to a foreign country U.S. history.Corn producers and exporters told the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, that they will sell Mexico 982,980 tons of corn during the 2012-2013 marketing year and 533, 400 tons during the 2013-2014 marketing year.

Pentagon confirms X-51A test flight was a failure
RT - The Pentagon revealed on Wednesday that Tuesday’s test run of the X-51A WaveRider aircraft was unsuccessful.... The WaveRider was only scheduled to soar for around five minutes, and the military did not release any official comment on the status of the exercise until a full day later, only then finally acknowledging the failure.

YouTube: Reality Check: Obama Administration Refuses To Tell Judge If NDAA is Being Illegally Enforced?
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at the fight between a federal judge and the Obama Administration over the NDAA's indefinite detention clause.

VIDEO: Feds Crack Down on Police Brutality Nationwide
CBS News - CBS News has learned that Portland is just one of 20 police departments nationwide that the Justice Department has investigated for civil rights violations in the last year - more than any time in history.

Arkansas Police Release ‘Suicide’ Reenactment Video Of Handcuffed Man Who Shot Himself In The Head
Steve Watson - The officers say they found a small, .380 caliber handgun and a spent cartridge in the backseat next to Carter’s slumped lifeless body. They claim that the weapon must have been overlooked when they searched Carter, twice. As part of the investigation into the death, and perhaps also in response to claims of foul play, police released a video, depicting several officers of different heights and builds being cuffed, but still being able to raise a concealed replica gun to their heads.

DHS Classifies New Ammo Purchases Following Controversy
Paul Joseph Watson - The Department of Homeland Security has redacted information relating to the quantity of bullets it is buying following a controversy concerning the agency’s purchase of over a billion rounds of ammo, which many fear is a sign the federal government is preparing for civil unrest in the United States. Despite the fact that documents are only supposed to be redacted if authorized by Congress or for national security reasons, a solicitation posted on the FedBizOpps website yesterday concerning ammunition purchases made by the DHS on behalf of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) contains numerous blacked out sections.

Social Security Administration To Purchase 174 Thousand Rounds Of Hollow Point Bullets
Paul Joseph Watson - UPDATE: DHS Now Covering Up Ammo Purchases? First it was the Department of Homeland Security, then it was the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and now the Social Security Administration is set to purchase 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets that will be delivered to 41 locations across the country.... The synopsis to the solicitation adds that the ammunition is to be shipped to 41 locations within 60 days of purchase. A separate spreadsheet lists those locations, which include the Social Security headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland as well as major cities across the country including Los Angeles, Detroit, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Seattle.

The U.S. government’s coming war with the American people
(NaturalNews) At the same time politicians in Washington are openly talking about banning online ammo sales to American citizens, the government itself is arming to the teeth. And not in a military sense, either: The Department of Homeland Security is stockpiling insane quantities of anti-personnel "hollow-point" ammo of all calibers, including #00 tactical shotgun ammo, anti-personnel pistol rounds and match-grade .308 sniper rounds. As the DHS fights no foreign wars and only has jurisdiction in the United States, the only purpose of this ammo can be for use against the American people.

Kucinich Legislation Reins in NATO, Reclaims Constitutional War Powers of Congress
Activist Post - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is today urging Members of Congress to support legislation, H.R. 6290, to prevent future presidents from using the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to circumvent Congress’ constitutional authority to declare war.

VIDEO: Dishonorable Disclosures - Intelligence and Special Operations Forces are Furious
The Trenches - Intelligence and Special Operations forces are furious and frustrated at how President Obama and those in positions of authority have exploited their service for political advantage. Countless leaks, interviews and decisions by the Obama Administration and other government officials have undermined the success of our Intelligence and Special Operations forces and put future missions and personnel at risk.

Chemical Industry Spent Almost $10 Million Against GMO Labeling
nationofchange.org - Besides the chemical industry, companies including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestle USA, General Mills and ConAgra are pouring money into defeating the labeling requirement. If California passes the measure, these companies’ profits could suffer from a warning label driving consumers away.

The war on chalk
Examiner - On Saturday in Madison, Steve Books, a long-time Veterans for Peace activist, wrote "This is far, far, far from over" in chalk on a sidewalk next to the Capitol building. As a result, he was taken away in handcuffs by Capitol Police and issued a citation for “conduct otherwise prohibited” under Wisconsin Administrative Code 2.14 that in Books’ case carries a fine of $205.05. The response by authorities to Books’ heinous powdery crime is consistent with a nationwide trend that some are beginning to call “the war on chalking.

2012 Election News

Doug Wead: RNC, Ron Paul Delegates Not Welcome in Tampa
Remember all of those hard fought victories? Thousands of people who gave up their time and money to attend precinct caucuses? And then faced coordinated attacks at District and County Conventions, where threatened establishment Party hacks had hired thugs ready to arrest them? Sometimes the very new Country Chairman, duly elected to replace them?

Pennsylvania judge upholds law that could ban almost half of Philadelphia from voting
RT - Supporters claim the strict ID law helps prevent voter fraud and keeps non-citizens from voting, but it also keeps eligible citizens without an adequate ID from casting their ballots. In a 70-page opinion, the judge wrote that opponents of the new law “did not establish … that disenfranchisement was immediate or inevitable.” But last month, the Philadelphia City Paper found that 1,636,168 of the state’s voters might not have valid IDs to partake in the election, and almost half of Philadelphia voters might be banned from voting.

YouTube: Reality Check: Is Rep. Paul Ryan Actually A Big Spender? His “Principle” Problem
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan's spending record during his seven terms in office.

What Did Rand Paul Gain?
Daily Bell - Mitt Romney has picked the youthful warmonger Paul Ryan to be his running mate. From my point of view, this leaves the junior senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, standing near the altar like a jilted bridesmaid. Not a very pretty picture. And now what has Rand Paul got?

RNC ‘Committee on Challenges’ ignores the will of Massachusetts voters. MA Liberty Caucus Objects!
malibertycaucus.com - This flagrant violation of the foundation of American Democracy has not killed the spirit of Liberty, but rather strengthened the resolve of activists to continue to reform the Massachusetts Republican Party, by actively supporting the removal of leadership that undermines fair elections, promotes cronyism, and whose policy positions clearly infringe on personal liberty.

Media Admits "Romney's Greatest Fear" is Ron Paul Nomination
hubpages.com - Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton told the Tampa Tribune reporter that "Dr. Paul will not seek to be nominated from the floor," language which is often intended to deflect speculation as to a candidate's intentions, without committing to a course. Moreover, a recent email to Paul supporters from the campaign indicates that Dr. Paul is still very much in the race, saying: "Ron Paul’s number-one goal for the RNC is making sure his delegates and alternates who deserve to be seated in Tampa are credentialed." This does not sound like the urging of someone who does not seek the nomination.

Pat Buchanan Glowingly Endorses Romney's Neocon VP Pick
Daily Paul - Maybe Pat wants a job with Fox News? He seems just as excited about this pick as William Kristol. "...Romney is owed a debt for choosing a man of principles and conservative philosophy as a running mate, thereby giving this country a clear choice as to the future it wants to live in..."

NEWS: Paul Festival is officially changing its name!
Daily Paul - They are now called P.A.U.L. Festival which stands for "People Awakening and Uniting for Liberty" "We love Ron Paul, he is the inspiration for the Festival. We would give anything to have him speak or visit the Festival. For whatever reason he has decided against it. We did not seek his approval, or ask him to sanction this event, we just DID IT. Being the LIBERTARIAN MINDED PEOPLE we are, we did not ask for permission.

To Protect Ethanol, Obama Seeks to Inflate Meat Prices
A drought is currently driving down corn production. The shortage of feed is forcing livestock producers to slaughter animals early, putting downward pressure on meat prices in the short run and guaranteeing shortages and higher prices next year. But nature is not the biggest factor in this crisis -- the government is. Specifically, the federal government's ethanol mandate, which requires that 13.2 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol be produced in 2012. Thanks to the ethanol mandate, more than 40 percent of the nation's corn crop now goes into the production of a useless fuel that hardly anyone would buy if the government didn't require it.

Taxpayers Fund $454,000 Pay for Collector Chasing Student Loans
800notes.com - The growing number of ex-students overwhelmed with student-loan debt might want to consider a career switch and become a collector of overdue student loans. Sadly, it's no joke. As Bloomberg explains, one such collector made $454,000 in a single year, most of it in bonuses for getting people to pay up. His boss, the CEO of Educational Credit Management Corp., makes than more than $1 million in salary, along with some sweet commuting perks.

Solyndra Bankruptcy: Solar Panel Company Won't Pay Back Most Of Its $527 Million Government Loan
Huffington Post - Solyndra's not going to pay back the better part of its loans, which is bad news for its investors -- better known as U.S. taxpayers. Solyndra, the solar panel company that famously filed for bankruptcy last September, will only be paying back about $24 million of the $527 million loaned to it by the U.S. government, according to Dow Jones reports. The company will also repay at least half of a $70 million investment from private equity firms, but much of a separate $1 billion investment from the private equity industry won't be coming back.

Ann Barnhardt: Get your money out of the financial system or it will be stolen from you!
SilverDoctors - The Doc sat down with Ann Barnhardt of the former Barnhardt Capital Management Tuesday night for an exclusive interview discussing the shocking precedent set by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision last Friday that Sentinel’s use of $500 million segregated client funds to secure a loan from the Bank of NY Melon for it’s prop trading desk is not fraudulent but is rather perfectly legal.... Barnhardt tells readers ‘You have got to get your money out of the financial system! Not just the futures markets, but the entire thing! Stocks, 401k, IRA.

Price of Ground Beef Hits Record High
CNS News - The average price of ground beef hit a record high in the United States in July, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS has been tracking the average price of a pound of 100% ground beef since 1984. In July, it cost $3.085, up from $3.007 in June. Prior to June, the average cost of 100% ground beef in the United States had never topped $3.00.

World News

Afghan Taliban attack US base in Khost
Press TV - Afghan Taliban say they have attacked a US military base in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Khost as foreign forces are suffering more casualties in the war-torn country. The high number of military casualties in Afghanistan has intensified opposition in the United States and other members of the Western military alliance against the protracted war in the country.
Insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan, despite the presence of about 130,000 US-led forces in the country.

Libyan Terrorists Are Invading Syria
Activist Post August 14, 2012 - US, British, NATO, and GCC are arming and funding the foreign invasion of Syria - Western media providing increasingly tenuous "revolutionary" cover. Reuters today provides us with a spectacularly contradictory headline in their report, "Libyan fighters join Syrian revolt." Obviously foreign fighters from Libya, raiding cities, attacking government and civilian targets, and attempting to subvert and overthrow the sovereign government of Syria is not a "revolt." It is an invasion.

Israel has not decided on Iran strike, cannot deliver knockout punch alone, top US defense officials say
timesofisrael.com - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey express doubts that Israel can or will launch solo campaign against nuclear sites. Two top American defense officials spoke out against possible Israeli plans to strike Iranian nuclear sites Tuesday, as the US ramps up efforts to hold Jerusalem back from launching a unilateral campaign. Speaking to reporters from the Pentagon, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he did not believe Israel had yet made a decision on whether or not to embark on a military campaign.

Netanyahu: Iran's Nukes 'Dwarf' Other Threats
Newser - Syria descending into civil war, the Arab Spring, instability in Egypt—the Middle East is full of uncertainties that threaten Israel, but all of them are "dwarfed" by Iran's nuclear threat, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last night, reports Reuters. Netanyahu's comments were broadcast live by Israel's media, and published in both right- and left-wing newspapers, as debate grows in Israel over whether the country needs to go to war with Iran. "I say again that Iran must not be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said.

Another large quake hits NW Iran
Press TV - An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale has struck the Iranian province of East Azarbaijan, just three days after two powerful earthquakes killed 306 people and injuring over 3,000 in the northwestern province.... There have been no deaths and no injuries reported so far.

China Launching Gold Backed Global Currency!
Before It's News - There can be no doubt that the US dollar will soon be history. China is recasting all of their gold reserves into small one kilo bars in order to issue a new ‘gold backed’ global currency. This is surely a strategic part of their recent push to sign new trade agreements with Russia, Japan, Chile, Brazil, India, and Iran. The cat is now out of the bag, the US will be given the ‘bums rush’ by the largest trading nations in the world and the dollar will go down in flames. GATA now estimates that 80% of the gold that investors believe they have in allocated accounts is long gone, the majority of it probably wound up in China.

Another blast hits Afghanistan, brings total death toll to at least 46
RT - An explosion in the country's north has killed 10 people. Earlier, multiple suicide bombings in the southwestern province of Nimroz left at least 36 people dead, and injured over a 100 others. Police said a motorcycle bomb outside a crowded bazaar in northern Afghanistan has killed at least 10 people, including several children. The blast brought the death toll to at least 46 in a bloody day for the war-torn country, after as many as 14 suicide bombers were involved in attacks in the southwestern city of Zaranj.

Former Syria PM: Assad controls only 30% of country
Reuters - Riyad Hijab told a news conference in Jordan that the morale of Syrian authorities was low after grappling for 17 months to crush a popular uprising and an armed insurgency against Assad. “The regime is collapsing, spiritually and financially, as it escalates militarily,” he said. “It no longer controls more than 30 percent of Syrian territory.” Hijab, a Sunni Muslim, was not in Assad’s inner circle. But as the most senior civilian official to defect, his flight after two months in the job looked embarrassing for the president.

British Bank in $340 Million Settlement for Laundering
NY Times - Standard Chartered, the British bank, has agreed to pay New York’s top banking regulator $340 million to settle claims that it laundered hundreds of billions of dollars in tainted money for Iran and lied to regulators. The agreement is a victory for Benjamin M. Lawsky and his 10-month old agency, the New York Department of Financial Services, which took on the bank alone in charging that it schemed for nearly a decade with Iran to hide from regulators 60,000 transactions worth $250 billion.

Chinese companies pull out of US stock markets
AP - Just a few years after Chinese companies lined up to sell shares on Wall Street, a growing number are reversing course and pulling out of U.S. exchanges.... The withdrawals follow accusations of improper accounting by some companies and a deadlock between Beijing and Washington over whether U.S. regulators can oversee their China-based auditors. Some Chinese companies say they are pulling out of U.S. markets because a low share price fails to reflect the strength of their business. Withdrawing also eliminates the cost of complying with American financial reporting rules.

Fukushima mutant butterflies spark fear of effect on humans
RT - Genetic mutations have been found in three generations of butterflies living near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The gruesome discovery has led scientists to fear that the leaking radiation could affect other species.... To make sure the mutations were caused by radiation and not some other factor, researchers collected butterflies from unaffected regions of the country, and observed similar results after giving them low-dose exposures of radiation.

U.S. News, Politics & Government

Mainstream Doctors Say Supporting the 2nd Amendment is a Mental Disorder
Activist Post - The medical industry in conjunction with Big Pharma wants to classify the right to keep and bear arms as a mental disorder in another power grab to circumvent and eventually destroy our Constitutional 2nd Amendment.... Daniel Webster, co-director of the anti-firearm John Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, asserts that "gun ownership—a precursor to gun violence—can spread 'much like an infectious disease'" and wants healthcare professionals to have influence over whether or not American citizens are legally allowed to possess firearms. Webster would like to see Obamacare have ultimate control of the classification of mental states with regard to purchasing and obtaining FBI clearance for a gun.

VIDEO: Philadelphia woman faces $600-a-day fine for feeding needy neighborhood kids
Fox News - A Pennsylvania woman who offers free lunch every day to low-income children in her neighborhood faces a $600-a-day fine next summer if she continues because she did not clear the food giveaway with township officials. Angela Prattis donates her time to distribute the meals — supplied by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia — and adheres to strict paperwork, like filling out weekly reports and being visited bi-weekly from a state worker, MyFoxPhilly.com reports.

Over Atlantic in an hour? Pentagon to test hypersonic X-51A WaveRider aircraft (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
RT - The Pentagon knows that, sometimes, time really is of the essence. That’s why they are throwing their weight behind a new aircraft — one capable of traveling five times the speed of sound for minutes on end — scheduled for testing this week.

TSA ‘chat-downs’ investigated at Boston’s Logan airport
USA Today - The Department of Homeland Security is investigating complaints from airport security officers that the “chat-down” program at Boston’s Logan airport has become a magnet for racial profiling. The Transportation Security Administration said Monday that the department’s inspector general will examine the complaints that Middle Easterners, Hispanics and blacks have been targeted in the program. The New York Times reported Sunday that 32 TSA officers at Logan made the complaints.

'Black box' standards coming for cars
The Hill - New federal standards for "black boxes" that record information leading up to auto accidents will will take effect Sept. 1, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ruled on Tuesday.... The federal standards will apply only to cars that are voluntarily outfitted with event data recorders (EDRs), also known as black boxes. But while the government does not yet require all cars to have black boxes installed, NHTSA is still thought to be considering a federal mandate as a next step, possibly this year.

2012 Election News

Ryan: GOP ticket to wait to disclose tax specifics
bradenton.com - Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says he and Mitt Romney will wait until after they're elected to disclose what tax loopholes they plan to get rid of.

Chinese companies pull out of US stock markets
Just a few years after Chinese companies lined up to sell shares on Wall Street, a growing number are reversing course and pulling out of U.S. exchanges.

'I'm sick to my stomach': anger grows in Illinois at Bain's latest outsourcing plan
Guardian - The Sensata plant in Freeport is profitable and competitive, but its majority owner, Bain Capital, has decided to ship jobs to China – and forced workers to train their overseas replacements.... Workers at the plant have appealed to Bain and Romney to save their plant.... It's a surreal experience, they say. For months they have watched their plant being dismantled and shipped to China, piece by piece, as they show teams of Chinese workers how to do the jobs they have dedicated their lives to.

Factory owners: Federal prisoners stealing our business
CNN Money - Just hearing the word Unicor is enough to make Kurt Wilson see red. Unicor is a government-run enterprise that employs over 13,000 inmates — at wages as low as 23 cents an hour — to make goods for the Pentagon and other federal agencies.... Wilson has been competing with Unicor for 20 years. He’s an executive at American Apparel Inc., an Alabama company that makes military uniforms. (It is not affiliated with the international retailer of the same name.) He has gone head-to-head with Unicor on just about every product his company makes — and said he has laid off 150 people over the years as a result.

You Will Not Believe What Some People Are Willing To Do For A Paycheck These Days
The Economic Collapse - It is absolutely amazing what some people will do to make a living in this economy. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and we have not seen this kind of desperation for jobs in America since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Humor & Satire

World News

Iran condemns assassination of Syrian journalist by insurgents
Syria’s state news agency, Sana, reported on August 12 that a Syrian journalist had been killed in Damascus. Sana said its reporter, Ali Abbas, was killed at his residence in the Jdaidet Artouz area, blaming an "armed terrorist group." No further details were given regarding the incident.

VIDEO: I was ‘in all ways’ tortured in US jail: Iran citizen
Press TV - “They put me in prison; the first 18 months were horrible because I was in all ways tortured. Physically, not beating me but keeping me for 18 hours in a freezing cell all in chains, chains around my waist and my hands and my feet. And they always put the chains and handcuffs in a way that my skin would come off,” Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan told Press TV after her arrival in Tehran from Oman on Sunday night.

Total assault on medical free speech as British authorities threaten vaccine-autism website over its content
(NaturalNews) A U.K. group devoted to helping parents customize appropriate vaccination schedules for their children has been targeted by British authorities for posting scientifically-backed warnings about the dangers of the combination measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, also known as MMR. BBC News reports that BabyJabs.co.uk has been ordered by the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to pull information from its website that merely explains the known scientific links between MMR and autism.

(Major) Earthquakes list August 14, 2012 – Massive very deep earthquake in the sea of Okhotsk (Japan – Russia)
earthquake-report.com - A Magnitude 7.7 (updated from 7.3 by USGS) earthquake hit the sea of Okhotsk 160 km from Poronaysk, Russia although it was a massive earthquake the depth of 625 km has decreased the shaking strongly, making it a IV on the Mercalli scale (light shaking) for a very wide area, no tsunami is possible because of the depth.
The earthquake has been felt as far as Japan!

Very strong moderately dangerous earthquake in the Xinjiang mountains, China – More damage than initially expected
earthquake-report.com - A M6.2 earthquake occurred in the Xinjiang mountains, China. Initially reported by the international agencies as very shallow (read very dangerous), the report of the Chinese authorities came as a relief as this agency mentioned a depth of 30 km.

VIDEO: Extraordinary footage unearthed after 70 years shows prisoners and Nazi guards laughing and joking inside Colditz
Daily Mail - Colditz may have been a notorious Nazi prisoner of war camp, but a newly-unearthed film shows its inmates and guards still found time to fool around. The extraordinary footage – the only known film of prisoners and guards inside the camp – was found 70 years after it was shot. It will be screened for the first time on Channel 4 tonight. The clips show inhabitants of the camp in a more relaxed light, joking around and smiling for the camera.

Israeli Minister Asks Nations to Say Iran Talks Have Failed
NY Times - Amid intensifying Israeli news reports saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is close to ordering a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program, his deputy foreign minister called Sunday for an international declaration that the diplomatic effort to halt Tehran’s enrichment of uranium is dead.

Israel’s Dollar Reserves a Weapon Against Iranian War Disaster
israelnationalnews.com - Gloom and doomers warn that war with Iran could cripple the economy, but Israel has a weapon: $70 billion in dollar reserves.... If a war between Israel and Iran were to cause a panic among foreign investors selling shekel investments, the local currency could plummet. Fischer then could come to the rescue, using the hoard of dollars to buy up shekels and prevent the collapse of the currency.

Media coverage of Syrian violence partial and untrue, says nun
Irish Times - A NUN who has been superior at a Syrian monastery for the past 18 years has warned that media coverage of ongoing violence in that country has been “partial and untrue”. It is “a fake”, Mother Agnes Mariam said, which “hides atrocities committed in the name of liberty and democracy”.... She told The Irish Times she was in Ireland “not to advocate for the (Assad) regime but for the facts”. Most news reports from Syria were “forged, with only one side emphasized”, she said. This also applied to the UN, whose reports were “one-sided and not worthy of that organisation”.

Venezuela plans a 'guerrilla army' against US invasion
Venezuela is training a "guerrilla army" aiming to be a million strong by 2013 to fight off a possible US invasion, an opposition lawmaker said Sunday. "Plan Sucre" -- apparently crafted with input from close ally and fellow US foe Cuba -- covers the legal, logistical and other angles necessary to "transform a professional army into a guerrilla army," Representative Maria Corina Machado told El Universal newspaper. "The strategic objective is to build a new Bolivarian military doctrine" that would prepare Venezuela to be successful in a prolonged popular war against "the empire," or the United States, Machado said, citing the document.

U.S. News, Politics & Government

VIDEO: Muslim ex-employee sues Disney over harassment, discrimination
Press TV - Imane Budlal, the 26-year-old former employee of Walt Disney, says that she had been subjected to discrimination by the company on the ground of her Islamic beliefs. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of the young Moroccan Muslim female. “The harassment and discrimination in this case is unprecedented,” said Attorney Anne Richardson.

JFK's $100 mln security system breached by a jet-skier
RT - After sinking his jet ski, a 31-year-old man was forced to swim to the only lights he saw on shore. Wearing a bright yellow life jacket, the man penetrated John F. Kennedy airport, bypassing the $100 million security system... Still wearing his life jacket, the young man then walked into a terminal and approached a Delta Airlines worker, who was startled and called the authorities. But rather than help the stranded jet skier, police immediately arrested the young man and charged him with criminal trespass.

DHS To Purchase Another 750 Million Rounds Of Ammo
Paul Joseph Watson | Second massive ammunition buy this year fuels fears of civil unrest. A solicitation originally issued by the DHS in April but updated on Friday calls on suppliers to provide a plethora of different types of ammunition, The PDF file for the solicitation lists the different units of ammo required by the thousand, with the total ammo purchase exceeding 750 million rounds.

NOAA Requests Ammunition For The Weather Service
Activist Post - On 9 Aug 2012, the Department of Commerce, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by way of the National Weather Service, put out a solicitation for a small variety of ammunition.... In all, 40,000 rounds of ammunition, and only 500 Transtar II blue 24" x 40" targets are being ordered. All the ammunition and targets are being spread out over the US to three locations, Ellsworth, ME; New Bedford, MA; Wall, NJ; and St. Petersburg, FL. Only the 24,000 rounds are being sent to Florida, no targets will be shipped there.

Nine Nobel Peace Laureates Call on NBC to Cancel “Stars Earn Stripes”
nobelwomensinitiative.org - Nine Nobel Peace Laureates today issued an open letter to the Chairman of NBC Entertainment, as well as General Wesley Clark and others involved in the new “reality” show premiering tonight on NBC—“Stars Earn Stripes”—calling on them to walk away from the show immediately. The Laureates say that the program pays homage to no one and is “a massive disservice to those who live and die in armed conflict and suffer its consequences long after the guns of war fall silent.”

Feds: Mississippi county runs 'school-to-prison pipeline'
(CNN) -- Officials in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, have operated "a school-to-prison pipeline" that violates the constitutional rights of juveniles by incarcerating them for alleged school disciplinary infractions, some as minor as defiance, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday. "Students most affected by this system are African-American children and children with disabilities," the Justice Department said.

Ohio, Florida Public Schools Lock Mentally Disabled Children in Closets
AlterNet - To discipline misbehaving students, public schools in Ohio and Florida regularly send children to “seclusion” — isolation in a locked cell-like room, old office, or closet, NPR’s State Impact reports. Many of these children are special needs students and their parents are not always told of this disciplinary practice. Ohio schools — where seclusion is almost completely unregulated — sent students to seclusion rooms 4,236 times in the 2009-2010 school year. Sixty percent of these students had disabilities.

2012 Election News

Ron Paul Will Not Seek To Be Nominated From The Floor, Because The DELEGATES Seek To Nominate Ron Paul From The Floor.
Daily Paul - Jesse Benton's comment, "Dr. Paul will not seek to be nominated from the floor" has stirred a lot confusion among the DPers. This is understandable, but at the same time EVERYBODY has to remember that the only important thing is to understand that it is the DELEGATES that seek to nominate Ron Paul from the floor. It is not the job of Ron Paul, but of the delegates. Everything else is distraction. PERIOD!

YouTube: Paul Ryan "Townhall" Arrests
Rep. Paul Ryan's only August appearance is at this $15 a ticket "townhall", where he refuses to speak directly with his constituents--who are demanding real answers. Instead? He has them arrested. Call Rep. Ryan (202) 225-3031 and tell him: That's not how we do things in America.

PHOTO OF THE DAY - The Truth About Paul Ryan
Daily Bail.

Attention RNC Delegates! Ron Paul beats Obama and Romney with 58% favorability in national poll
Daily Paul - New Poll: 45% Vote Ron Paul For President With 58% Favorability. In a new poll conducted by Pulse Opinion Research matching up presidential candidates Barack Obama and Ron Paul, 45% of one thousand likely voters across America said they would vote Ron Paul for President. 58% of those surveyed have a favorable view of Ron Paul, while just 36% have an unfavorable view. Compare this to Mitt Romney (50% favorable, 45% unfavorable) and Barack Obama (51% favorable, 48% unfavorable). Ron Paul is viewed in a favorable light by significantly more people than Obama or Romney.

Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Connecticut All Have Elections on TUESDAY August 14th, 2012
Daily Paul - Like so many that I speak to, very few people know that there are a bunch of what's called "run off" primaries taking place before the General Election on November 6th.... On Tuesday 8/14/12 people in Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Connecticut hava a chance to pull the rug out from under the status quo because the sheeple are only motivated to go vote in the big elections. Below I've collected names of liberty candidates from different sources.

VIDEO: Foreign Cash Disqualifies Romney from Presidential Bid
Veterans Today - No other American presidential candidate has ever left the US to garner campaign contributions from foreign citizens. There is a reason for this, one Romney and his staff seem oblivious to and the mainstream media has ignored. Using foreign contributions in any American election is a felony. Here, Fox News identifies illegal fundraising in both Israel and in London, no doner is identified, no records are kept.

Peregrine CEO indicted for lying to regulators
yahoo.com - Peregrine Financial Group founder and chief executive Russell Wasendorf Sr was indicted on charges of lying to regulators, a little over a month after he botched a suicide attempt and confessed to bilking customers of his brokerage for years. Wasendorf, 64, "overstated the value of PFG's customer segregated funds by at least tens of millions of dollars" to the Commodity Futures Exchange Commission, according to the indictment, filed in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The indictment carries a possible maximum sentence of 155 years in prison, a $7.75 million fine, and 93 years of supervised release following any imprisonment, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

Banks falsify credit card lawsuits in 90 percent of cases?
RT - US credit card companies have been churning out lawsuits and improperly collecting debt from consumers 90 percent of the time, at least according to a New York judge who deals with these cases. Lawsuits produced by credit car companies to recoup unpaid bills often rely on inaccurate documents, incomplete records and generic testimonies from witnesses who repeatedly testify, the New York Times reported. The companies often sue clients for more money than is owed.

Current Social Security surplus dwarfed by deficit ahead
Seattle Times - As millions of baby boomers flood Social Security with applications for benefits, the program's $2.7 trillion surplus is starting to look small. For nearly three decades Social Security produced big surpluses, collecting more in taxes from workers than it paid in benefits to retirees. The surpluses also helped mask the size of the budget deficit being generated by the rest of the federal government. Those days are over. Since 2010, Social Security has been paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes, adding to the urgency for Congress to address the program's long-term finances.

Veteran News

Troubled veterans left without health-care benefits
Seattle Times - ...federal law draws a sharp dividing line between honorably discharged veterans, who are offered access to veterans health-care and disability compensation, and those whose misdeeds may put those benefits at risk. Veterans who fall below the threshold of an honorable discharge must submit to a VA review of whether they engaged in "willful and persistent misconduct," and if so, whether that makes them ineligible for health-care or disability benefits.

Occupy Wall Street Protest

Humor & Satire

World News

Afghan officer opens fire on US troops
Press Tv - An Afghan policeman has opened fire on American soldiers in the eastern Nangarhar province in yet another so-called green-on-blue attack. At least six US-led forces were killed by Afghan forces or civilians in similar attacks in southern Afghanistan since Thursday. According to a NATO count, Green-on-blue attacks, in which Afghans turn their weapons against their foreign allies, have killed a total of 34 foreign soldiers this year.

Chinese health deteriorating as Western foods become more prominent
(NaturalNews) A recent study found in the journal Circulation showed that Chinese men and women who ate Western fast food raised their risk of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Take into consideration the rapid expansion of fast food giants like McDonald's, Burger King, and Subway in China, and you are setting things up for disaster.

Reps From Half the World's Population Meet to Resist Foreign Destabilization in Syria
Activist Post - Iran has recently hosted 30 nations including Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Oman, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Cuba, Jordan, Tunisia, Palestine, and many others in Tehran this week in efforts to support the Syrian government against foreign destabilization. Upon the agenda were calls to end foreign arms currently flowing into terrorist hands inside Syria, proposals to broker a meaningful ceasefire, the coordination of humanitarian aid, and supporting the Syrian people's right to reform without foreign interference.

Former Defense Secretary Says US Will Probably Enforce “No Fly Zone” Over Syria
Zero Hedge - Three months to the election? Check. Which means war-mongering rhetoric, once considered a staple of the GOP, may very soon become action, first in Syria, and soon, everywhere else. From Bloomberg: “The U.S. and allied forces probably will impose a “no-fly zone” over Syria and take other “more aggressive action” against the Syrian regime, former Defense Secretary William Cohen said. While the U.S. has been leery of another military intervention after a decade of wars, “We’re coming to the point, however, where the violence is getting so severe, I think, that you’ll see a movement towards setting up those no- fly zones,”

UK Sends £5 Million to Listed Terrorists in Syria
Activist Post - In direct violation of both American and British anti-terrorism legislation, particularly provisions regarding providing material support for listed or proscribed terrorist organizations, the United Kingdom has just announced that it will provide armed militants that include listed terror organizations with a £5 million tranche of what it calls "non-lethal practical assistance."

Dozens Of Underwater Drones Deployed To The Waters Of Iran
singularityhub.com - What to do when international talks begin falling apart? Send a fleet of unmanned submersibles in preparation for a waterway showdown.... Each SeaFox is outfitted with an underwater television camera, homing sonar, an explosive charge, and is controlled through an optic fiber tether. None of the submersibles, however, return from a successful mission as they end, not only with the destruction of the mine, but the craft itself, each costing about $100,000. The SeaFox can sniff out both submerged and surface mines.

Two earthquakes in Iran kill 300 and injure 5,000
Reuters August 12, 2012 - Two quakes hit northwest Iran near city of Tabriz. Quakes were 6.4 and 6.3 in magnitude.... Thousands huddled in makeshift camps or slept in the street after Saturday's quakes for fear of more aftershocks, 60 of which had already struck. A lack of tents and other supplies left them exposed to the night chill, one witness told Reuters. "I saw some people whose entire home was destroyed, and all their livestock killed," Tahir Sadati, a local photographer, said by telephone. "People need help, they need warm clothes, more tents, blankets and bread." The worst damage and most casualties appeared to have been in rural villages around the towns of Ahar, Varzaghan and Harees, near the major city of Tabriz, Iranian media reported.

Britain faces legal challenge over secret US 'kill list' in Afghanistan
Guardian - Britain's role in supplying information to an American military "kill list" in Afghanistan is being subjected to legal challenge amid growing international concern over targeted strikes against suspected insurgents and drug traffickers. An Afghan man who lost five relatives in a missile strike started proceedings against the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the Ministry of Defence demanding to know details of the UK's participation "in the compilation, review and execution of the list and what form it takes".

Tom Clancy Rainbow Six – Olympic Bioweapon Foretold?
Zen Gardner - was sharing with a friend about the possibility of a biological false flag at the Olympics that Clif High mentioned recently and he shot this back to me. “There was a Tom Clancy book called Rainbow Six with exactly that scenario… a hyperactive flu bug that they release at the Olympics and spread it around the world… but in the book the International Police Force saves the day and puts the wacko vegan extremists on ice. he wrote it in 1998… more device forecasting?”

Scottish Government Plans Gardasil Vaccinations During New School Term
Adan Salazar - According to the BBC, the Scottish government says it will begin implementing the vaccinations to “protect thousands of Scottish women” during the new school term. “The HPV vaccine…will continue to be offered to girls in their second year of secondary school, when they are about 13 years old,” the article states. Reportedly, the vaccine is replacing the Cervarix vaccine, which only offers “protection” against two strains of HPV, while Gardasil offers “protection” from four.

U.S. News, Politics & Government

Darrell Issa to Sue Eric Holder Monday
Roll Call - House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa plans to sue Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday for refusing to provide documents related to the "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling operation.... The action is the latest escalation in the dispute between House Republicans and the Justice Department over the documents, which relate to a botched gun-smuggling operation.

"Wider pedophile ring" at Penn State points to explosive connections
(NaturalNews) How high does the corruption go? Was Jerry Sandusky the only pedophile at Penn State? Federal investigators are now looking into an unnamed prominent Penn State booster who may have been molesting young boys. This would go a long way toward explaining why University officials covered up Sandusky's crimes at Penn State for many years. He wasn't the only one who need protecting.

No Consent: Your Child Can Now Be Sterilized In Oregon For Free
Examiner - There is a shocking development in the newObamacare Contraception Mandate that went into effect in Oregon on August 1. Your 15-year-old (as young as 12 in some cases) childcan be sterilized for free, without your consent. Sterilized, not reversible but a permanent end to your child’s ability to reproduce. Do you feel a 15-year-old is mature enough to make that decision?

NaturalNews exclusive: UNITED-Continental airline pilots forced to fly with as little as 3 hours' sleep, 'worked until we drop'
(NaturalNews) Whistleblower pilots flying for United / Continental airlines warn that they are being "worked until we drop," forced to pilot consecutive long-distance flights with as little as three hours' sleep. In a series of secret meetings with NaturalNews, three United / Continental pilots described the "utter hell" they are being put through: "We are being worked until we drop," one pilot to me in a recent face-to-face meeting in Texas. "United-Continental is flying us in violation of FAA legal requirements. Pilot fatigue is at red alert levels. This is an accident waiting to happen."

NDAA on trial: White House refuses to abide with ban against indefinite detention of Americans
RT August 10, 2012 - Not only is the White House fighting in court for the power to jail Americans indefinitely without trial, but the Obama administration is refusing to tell a federal judge if they've abided by an injunction that prohibits them from such. Attorneys for the White House have been in-and-out of court in Manhattan this week to argue that the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, or NDAA, are necessary for the safety and security of the nation.

Domestic Spying: Mini-Drone Can Watch Neighbors From Above
CBS News - While President Obama takes flak for the US’s use of unmanned drone attacks abroad, there is a smaller, smartphone-controlled drone hovering above urban rooftops and suburban backyards: The Parrot AR Drone 2.0. The Parrot AR Drone 2.0, listed on Amazon just below $300, is the best way to live out one’s fantasy of being a spy. The miniature drone is controlled through your iPhone or iPad and features multiple sensors, including a hi-definition front-facing 720-pixel camera and a vertical camera looking straight down from the bottom of the miniature quadricopter (four propellers).

Tracking the NYPD's Full Spectrum "Ring of Steel"
Activist Post - By utilizing biometrics, a massive city-wide camera system supplying real-time data to law enforcement, and a physical militarized presence that has turned the city into an armed encampment capable of shooting down planes; New York's surveillance city has no rival in the realm of Big Brother worship. New York has become the testing ground for the implementation of military-level counterterrorism operations on American soil. According to a 60 Minutes interview with Commissioner Ray Kelly [Video], he commands a force larger than the FBI, consisting of 35,000 uniformed officers and 15,000 civilian employees.

YouTube: Police: "When the President Follows the Constitution, I will"
Illegal Stop Over Open Carry.

White House removes petition with over 22,000 signatures calling for the TSA to follow the law
Activist Post - When I first mentioned the petition in my August 1, 2012 article, “Federal court calls for TSA to explain defiance of naked body scanner order,” the petition had just over 16,000 signatures. According to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the White House removed the petition at around 11:30 am EDT, August 9, 2012, with about 22,500 signatures.

2012 Election News

You Tube: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 8/13/12
End The Fed's Monopoly: Legalize Competing Currencies!

Benton: ‘Dr. Paul will not seek to be nominated from the floor.’
Tampa Bay Online - Ron Paul has announced he'll seek a positive, non-confrontational stance from his campaign during the convention, and even will snub some gatherings planned by supporters because his campaign isn't controlling them. Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton wouldn't discuss negotiations biberty Crier - will be a very prominent time." Benton said by email that Ron Paul is not expected to speak, but that Romney representatives "are working with us (on) other ways to recognize and honor Ron at the convention.

Dramatic Video: 71-year-Old Taken to the Ground for Questioning Paul Ryan
Liberty Crier - As Congressman Paul Ryan cracked a joke about a senior citizen, Tom Nielsen found himself face down on the floor being handcuffed by police. The 71-year-old retired plumber from Kenosha was thrown to the ground, placed in handcuffs, and arrested for trespassing and resisting arrest after objecting to Ryan’s plans to gut Social Security and Medicare during his congressman’s only public appearance scheduled during the August 2011 recess — a $15 Rotary Club luncheon in West Allis on Tuesday.

Romney's VP Pick Paul Ryan Is No Conservative
New American - If Republican voters have any doubts about Ryan’s commitment to budget austerity, they need only hear the Democrats’ outcry that Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” will be a road to the poorhouse for elderly and low-income Americans.... Ryan’s voting record shows a robust support of big-spending programs to enlarge the role of the federal government, especially when they are promoted by a Republican in the White House.

VIDEO: Ron Paul on Fox Business: Paul Ryan's Budget Doesn't Cut Anything of Substance
Daily Paul - Here is also Tom Woods: Paul Ryan is Another Status Quo, and Jack Hunter on Ryan's Budget Plan: 30 Years to Balance the Budget?

Louisiana Ron Paul Delegates Lose Appeal
Liberty Crier - On Friday, August 10, the RNC Committee on Contests issued a ruling in favor of seating the national convention delegation elected and certified by the Republican Party of Louisiana. “The Committee recommends that the contested delegates and alternates certified by the Republican Party of Louisiana be credentialed and seated for the 2012 Republican National Convention,” read the Contest Report.
* Related Article: Louisiana NOT over...

Maine Gov. LePage Threatens RNC Boycott if Ron Paul Delegates Are Not Seated
Mike Tipping August 19, 2012 - Today, conservative talk show host Ray Richardson announced on Facebook that Governor Paul LePage, the only elected member of the delegation not challenged by Romney’s supporters, has announced that he will boycott the convention if the Ron Paul delegates are not seated.... This declaration ups the ante in this conflict and, if the challenge to the delegates is not resolved amicably before they arrive in Tampa, will likely make the Maine disagreement into national news.
* Related Video: Tea Party leader and Ron Paul delegate on GOP Compromise

5 Issues That Prove Ron Paul is Ahead of His Time
Liberty Crier - A few weeks ago, a speech [Video] Congressman Ron Paul gave on the House floor in 2002 resurfaced on the web and went viral. At that time, the Bush Administration was planning for war in Iraq and a “global war on terror,” the PATRIOT Act had been passed, and the Federal Reserve had lowered interest rates near zero. In the speech, Paul clearly and consisely articulates the dangers of what the U.S. was embarking on and the results that would likely occur.

Warning: Get Your Money Out: “All Legal Bank Deposit Protections Are Now Officially Gone”
Mac Slavo - Former money manager Ann Barnhardt, who in November of 2011 made the decision to cease operations of her brokerage firm and return funds to her customers citing “systemic” problems within the entire financial industry, has issued a new warning about the stability of US banks and the safety of individual deposit accounts. The implications of the ruling, according to Barnhardt, will affect the monies of all private individuals who have seen their deposit accounts wiped out in the collapse of firms like John Corzine’s MF Global and put all deposit account holders in the country at risk should their bank be faced with a financial windstorm:

Are The Government And The Big Banks Quietly Preparing For An Imminent Financial Collapse?
The Economic Collapse - If federal officials do expect a financial collapse to occur, they would not be the only ones. An increasing number of very respected economists are speaking about the coming financial collapse as if there is a certain inevitability about it. For example, check out the following quote from a recent Money Morning article.... Richard Duncan, formerly of the World Bank and chief economist at Blackhorse Asset Mgmt., says America's $16 trillion federal debt has escalated into a "death spiral," as he told CNBC. And it could result in a depression so severe that he doesn't "think our civilization could survive it." A former World Bank executive is warning that our civilization might not survive what is coming? That is pretty chilling.

Exclusive: U.S. banks told to make plans for preventing collapse
Reuters August 10, 2012 - U.S. regulators directed five of the country's biggest banks, including Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, to develop plans for staving off collapse if they faced serious problems, emphasizing that the banks could not count on government help. The two-year-old program, which has been largely secret until now, is in addition to the "living wills" the banks crafted to help regulators dismantle them if they actually do fail. It shows how hard regulators are working to ensure that banks have plans for worst-case scenarios and can act rationally in times of distress.

U.S. Won’t Prosecute Goldman Sachs, Employees in Financial Probe Fraud
Bloomberg - The U.S. Justice Department won’t pursue criminal charges against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) or its employees for allegedly concealing that the bank bet against securities related to the housing market that it sold to investors.... Prosecutors “determined that, based on the law and evidence as they exist at this time, there is not a viable basis to bring a criminal prosecution with respect to Goldman Sachs or its employees in regard to the allegations set forth in the report,” the Justice Department said yesterday in a statement. Fox News related video here.

Higher gas prices expected after refinery fire
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Analysts expect West Coast gas prices to rise beyond $4 a gallon after a fire knocked out a key section of one of the nation's largest oil refineries. Meanwhile, the same U.S. Chemical Safety Board team that investigated the oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico was standing by with state and company inspectors waiting for structural and environmental tests to see if it was safe to enter the unit.

11 Things That Can Happen When You Allow Your Country To Become Enslaved By Bankers
Activist Post - Borrowing money from the bankers can allow a nation to have a higher standard of living in the short-term, but it always results in a lower standard of living in the long term. Why is that?

Teenager not allowed to sell hot dogs now homeless
Daily Caller - Nathan had saved up money for a hot dog cart to help his parents pay their bills. His mother suffers from epilepsy and his father suffers from multiple sclerosis, limiting their ability to work. The 13-year-old had worked out an arrangement to sell hot dogs in the parking lot of a local sporting goods store. His mom felt the location was great since it was on private property, so his age wouldn’t be an impediment. Before opening up shop, Johnson said [Video], they stopped by city hall, just across the street from the cart’s location, to ask if they needed a permit to sell food. His mother explained that a woman at city hall told her no permit was necessary.

Veteran News

VA Supports Gulf War Veterans on Multiple Fronts
It has now been 22 years since the start of the 1990-1991 Gulf War which comprises the deployment and combat operations known as Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Almost 700,000 Servicemembers were deployed during this period. Those Veterans who have enrolled in the VA health care system have made over 2 million outpatient visits for health care and had over 20,000 inpatient admissions in the VA health care system. Read More...

Army of the future: Soldiers will be able to run at Olympic speed and won't need food or sleep with gene technology
Tomorrow's soldiers could be able to run at Olympic speeds and will be able to go for days without food or sleep, if new research into gene manipulation is successful.

VA taps vets groups to help fast track claims
Veterans Affairs officials hosted a workshop last week to brief 10 veterans service organizations on plans to fast track certain veterans benefits claims, and how they can help in the process.

Economy

Occupy Honolulu occupies main police station
Star Advertiser - Occupy Honolulu protesters set up a new encampment at the Honolulu Police Department's headquarters on South Beretania Street, asserting that city workers improperly seized their items. Their presence quickly caused tension as one protester claimed he was assaulted by a police officer who pushed him aside at the entrance about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
 

Greenland ice more resistant to climate change than feared, study shows
(NaturalNews) The ice in Greenland appears to be less vulnerable than earlier believed to uncontrolled melting that some scientists and climatologists said would drive up sea levels and lead to a host of environmental issues, according to a new study that found a spike in loss of ice had declined.

Health

Drug scarcity hits Medicaid as states limit spending
(NaturalNews) According to Kaiser Health News, 16 states have already set limits on the number of prescription medications they will cover for Medicaid patients. Illinois, the president's home state, was the latest to impose prescription drug caps for Medicaid patients: four. Alabama has an even tighter limit: one. "Doctors fear the state's cost-cutting move could backfire on patients, who have to get state permission to go beyond the limit," said KHN.

High-dose vitamin D needed to prevent bone fractures
(NaturalNews) If you had a major health risk you could mitigate with an inexpensive yet very effective, safe, easy treatment, would you do it - or would you think it's too good to be true? A new analysis of multiple studies on vitamin D has proven its effectiveness at preventing broken bones in elderly individuals. Yet, perhaps because there are no lobbyists for vitamin D or because of the disinformation out there, considering vitamin D usage for people with a high risk of fracture is a low priority in the medical world.

Boost vigor and mental well-being by harmonizing copper levels in the body
(NaturalNews) Since copper is important for many bodily processes, deficiency manifests in a variety of ways. Symptoms include weakness, fatigue, hair loss, low immunity, thyroid problems and irregular heart beat. Copper deficiency is rare although those suffering from chronic diarrhea, Crohn's or celiac disease can develop malabsorption issues. Regular use of antacids can also hinder assimilation.

The Human Feeding Experiment and New Disease
Green Med Info - Could we be human guinea pigs being fed food that hurts us and causes new disease? Despite intense protests from consumer groups and environmentalists, genetically modified organisms, (GMOs) foods, have been dubbed as the 'human feeding experiment' and are continuing to be integrated into the food supply. Most of us do not even know the extent of it, as it is not in mainstream news.

VIDEO: Parents who couldn't stand agony of seeing daughter, 8, with brain tumor go through chemotherapy ordered by judge to give her treatment they refused
Daily Mail - A couple has been pulled before a judge after they refused to let their eight-year-old daughter undergo chemotherapy for a brain tumour, opting for alternative treatment instead. Sarah Parisian, from Minnetonka, Minnesota, had 90 per cent of the cancerous tumour removed last December and underwent a cycle of chemotherapy - but endured painful suffering, her parents said. When they told doctors they would not allow her to go through it again, Jon and Karen Parisian were reported to Child Protection Services and ordered into court.

Illinois Sees First Case Of New Swine Flu Strain
CBS Chicago - Will government hype a new vaccine? State health officials have confirmed Illinois’ first case of Swine Flu this year. WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports Illinois Department of Public Health director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck said the U.S. has seen an uptick this year in the number of cases of H3N2v Swine Flu, a relatively new strain. But the case of an Illinois boy who contracted it is the only one of 146 cases nationwide that is in Illinois. “Four states total, and the vast majority have been in Indiana, followed by Ohio,” he said.

US health watchdog warns of swine flu risk as agricultural fairs get under way
Guardian - The US government's health watchdog is warning children and the elderly to avoid contact with pigs at agricultural fairs following a surge in humans infected with swine flu over the past month.... Dr Joseph Bresee, of the CDC's influenza division, said: "Right now a large number of agricultural fairs are ongoing around the country and the direct exposure of people to pigs has been the primary cause of infection." Bresee said that anyone coming into contact with swine should avoid eating, drinking or putting anything in their mouths while around pigs. He said that children and the elderly or anyone with a weakened immune system should not go near pigs at all.

Science & Technology

Google On The Hook For A Record $22.5 Million In Safari Privacy Case
Consumerist - Better start digging around in those couch cushions, Google. The company has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it fudged privacy settings of Apple's Safari Internet browser when it told users it wouldn't place cookies or serve targeted ads. It's going to cost Google a pretty penny to pay the civil penalty — a record $22.5 million.

Google Apparently Wants To Get Sued Again, Now Including Gmail Content In Search Results
Consumerist - Because Google didn't learn anything from the Google Buzz privacy debacle, the company has now decided to begin testing the integration of users' Gmail content into general search results. So a search for Amazon on Google.com would also bring up a sidebar with e-mails from or related to your Amazon purchases. Well, that's all well and good. Until someone's spouse, significant other, or co-worker unwittingly uses that person's computer to search for something like "restaurants in Chicago" and up come e-mails about a secret rendezvous at the Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's.

CNN: Mars rover: Is all this really necessary?
What Really Happened - During its expected lifespan of 23 months, all this cool hardware could help solve big mysteries: Has life ever existed on Mars? What can Mars tell us about our own planet? Can we benefit from Martian resources?... Is the price tag really worth it?... Everyday products we take for granted today were created by the Moon program, including the technology inside the laptop which Thom Patterson is presumably able to use to write his articles, hopefully without hurting himself. Some numbers (on the assumption Thom Patterson can do simple math.)... CNN article/photos here.

PETITION: Montgomery County Board of Education Member: Save Brickyard Educational Farm and 32 years of organic soil!
Nick's Organic Farm has been under continuous organic management for the last 32 years. It is less than 15 miles from The White House and is one of the oldest organic farms in Maryland with rich soils from the past three decades of careful stewardship. It is also one of the only farms in the region that produces organic seeds.... If we do not convince our legislators to stop soccer field development by August 15th, 2012, our lease will run out, and we will lose this invaluable farm and educational center. Every county has soccer fields, but we have the opportunity to lead the country with a program that integrates farm-to-school principles with farmer training, on an nationally renowned organic farm.

Your Autumn To Do (and Don’t) List
Organic Gardening - Gardening in the late summer and early fall can barely be called working. Cooler, crisper days and the knowledge that time outdoors will soon be limited gives every task a bittersweet flavor. That said, there’s still plenty to do, so don’t waste time on unnecessary chores. We’ve taken the work out of deciding what to do for you. No need to thank us; just have fun out there.

Pet News

Petco Warning on Stainless Steel Pet Food Bowls
Susan Thixton - Provided by one of you great attentive pet owners out there - Petco has issued a warning about some of its stainless steel pet food bowls. A radioactive material - Cobalt-60 - was found in the bowls.

VIDEO: Watch the New Pet Food Documentary Trailer
Susan Thixton - Here is the promotional trailer for the new pet food documentary Pet Fooled.

The Media Warnings Begin
Susan Thixton - As expected, the media warnings have begun warning pet owners against the feeding of raw pet food. This media warning - at least - had one pet owner opposing opinion. But they did not bother to find veterinary opposing opinion (which are many).

Economy

Occupier charged with terroristic felony for protesting in front of bank
RT - A protester belonging to an Occupy Wall Street group in rural Pennsylvania is being charged with felony attempted bank robbery and a terrorism-related charge for holding signs up during a demonstration at a local Wells Fargo branch. David C. Gorczynski, 22, was charged on Tuesday with attempted bank robbery and terroristic threatening, both felonies, as well as one misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. Police detained him after he walked into an Easton, PA Wells Fargo branch with a sign that read “You’re being robbed” and another that said “Give a man a gun, he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob a country.”
 

VIDEO: Nevada Foreclosure Fraud Stopped – As Soon As It Was Made A Felony
Alexander Higgins - Once Nevada made it a crime (a felony) to file fraudulent mortgage foreclosure paperwork with the courts, subject to 10 years in jail and fines of $10,000 per violation… foreclosures stopped. Fighting ‘fraudclosure’ Nevada State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto explains why she’s suing Bank of America for a range of violations.

Southern California rattled by two 4.5 quakes within 10 hours
Reuters - A pair of moderate earthquakes, both registering a magnitude 4.5, struck the Southern California town of Yorba Linda on Tuesday night and Wednesday, rattling the region twice within 10 hours, but no damage or injuries were reported.... Seismologists at USGS and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena said the twin quakes, called "doublets," occurred near the so-called Whittier fault, one of the larger underground fissures running through Southern California.

'A sudden increase in extreme weather events': the new Big Lie
Telegraph - The Warmists are getting desperate. Their attempt to make much of the Muller non-story backfired horribly. Their yarn about melting Greenland turned out to be ludicrously overdone. Then, of course, there was Watts et al's paper showing that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – the US government department responsible for keeping tabs on America's temperature data – has been fiddling the data so as to exaggerate late 20th-century warming by 100 per cent.

Health

Is there fluoride in your grapes?
(NaturalNews) Most of the talk concerning fluoride exposure these days centers around the chemical's forced presence in many public water supplies, and how this is causing an epidemic of chronic health problems. But little do many people realize that fluoride exposure is also problematic throughout the food supply, including in fresh food crops that have been sprayed with pesticides and herbicides made from fluoride compounds.

Are onions healthier than many superfruits?
(NaturalNews) Onions are not only a savory cooking staple to use as an inexpensive seasoning and flavoring agent in your favorite recipes. They also happen to be literally packed with beneficial compounds. So packed in fact, that they are actually healthier ounce for ounce than most "superfruits" like pomegranates, goji berries and blueberries.

Mysterious Honey Discovered That Kills ALL Bacteria Scientists Throw At It
theaustralian.com - AUSTRALIAN researchers have been astonished to discover a cure-all right under their noses -- a honey sold in health food shops as a natural medicine. Far from being an obscure health food with dubious healing qualities, new research has shown the honey kills every type of bacteria scientists have thrown at it, including the antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" plaguing hospitals and killing patients around the world. Some bacteria have become resistant to every commonly prescribed antibacterial drug. But scientists found that Manuka honey, as it is known in New Zealand, or jelly bush honey, as it is known in Australia, killed every bacteria or pathogen it was tested on.

National disaster: Millions of children prescribed antipsychotic drugs they don't need
RT - US psychiatrists prescribe antipsychotic drugs to children in one third of all visits, which is a rate almost three times higher than during the 1990’s. Roughly 90 percent of antipsychotic prescriptions written between 2005 and 2009 were prescribed for something other than what the US Food and Drug Administration approves them for. Researchers say the increase in antipsychotic drug prescription is largely to treat disruptive behaviors, including attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – even though those disorders are not treatable by antipsychotics. Medications such as Abilify and Risperdal, which are used primarily to treat patients with schizophrenia, are increasingly being prescribed “off label” to control youngsters with ADHD who have problems controlling their behavior.

Popcorn ingredient found to be linked with Alzheimer’s
Fox News - A recent study has found that diacetyl, an ingredient in popcorn responsible for its buttery flavor and smell, may be linked to Alzheimer’s disease, UPI.com reported. The scientists said they focused on the substance, because it has already been associated with respiratory and other health issues in workers at microwave popcorn and food-flavoring factories. According to UPI.com, diacetyl is used in other products such as margarines, snacks and candies, baked goods and in some beers and chardonnay wine.

U.S. scores dead last again in healthcare study
Reuters - Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system, according to a report released on Wednesday. The United States ranked last when compared to six other countries -- Britain, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, the Commonwealth Fund report found.

Adrenal fatigue and the road to ruin
(NaturalNews)(NaturalNews) Are you tired all the time? Sleepy during the day but can't sleep at night? So stressed out you can't think straight? Crabby, depressed, sick all the time? Muscle weakness, chronic pain, dizziness? These are just a few of the classic symptoms of adrenal fatigue.

New study establishes a link between magnetic field exposures and obesity
(NaturalNews) A study published last month, by the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in California, points to another kind of epidemic. Lead researcher De-Kun Li was prompted to examine how exposure to magnetic fields might be related to pregnancy and obese children.... Dr. Sam Milham, a leading electromagnetic fields (EMF) epidemiologist (retired) and author of "Dirty Electricity," shares his view on Li's research findings, "Childhood obesity is unheard of among the Amish and I believe that at least part of the reason is that they don't have electrical service in their homes, they don't drive cars and don't use cell phones." [We have EMF Stezer filters at the Power Mall!]

Economy

U.S. Freezes All Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Decisions
PR Newswire - Federal nuclear regulators today froze at least 19 final reactor licensing decisions in response to a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit that spent nuclear fuel stored on-site at nuclear power plants “poses a dangerous, long-term health and environmental risk.”... The NRC action was sought in a June 18, 2012 petition filed by 24 groups urging the NRC to respond to the court ruling by freezing final licensing decisions until it has completed a rulemaking action on the environmental impacts of highly radioactive nuclear waste in the form of spent, or 'used', reactor fuel storage and disposal.

Health

Big Pharma shifting from deadly chemical drugs to bioelectric implants
(NaturalNews) Not content simply drugging its millions of victims with mind-altering chemical and biological inputs, the pharmaceutical industry is now developing ways to literally transform the human brain into a drug industry-controlled, biometric computer that will basically turn human beings into nothing more than mind-controlled robots.

Google complies with FDA demands to secretly disable Adwords accounts of nutritional detox companies
(NaturalNews) The latest attack on free speech in America comes from the FDA and is supported by Google Adwords. NaturalNews has learned that the FDA is quietly, and without notice to affected companies, commanding Google to disable the full Adwords accounts of nutritional supplement companies offering "detox" or "chelation" nutritional products.

Research proves stress really does shorten your life span by damaging DNA
(NaturalNews) Researchers at the University of Colorado recently identified a potential link between micronutrient deficiencies and the development of postpartum depression. Up to 15 percent of women experience a period of depression after giving birth, and a link between nutrition and the psychoneuroimmunology behind symptoms of depression may help prevent or remedy postpartum depression with natural supplements or a targeted diet.

Ginger could manage diabetes
Science Alert - Ginger, the common spice and ancient Asian remedy, could have the power to help manage the high levels of blood sugar which create complications for long-term diabetic patients, a University of Sydney study reports. The study, published in the prestigious natural product journal Planta Medica, reveals the potential power of ginger to control blood glucose by using muscle cells. Professor of pharmaceutical chemistry Basil Roufogalis who led the research says ginger extracts obtained from Buderim Ginger were able to increase the uptake of glucose into muscle cells independently of insulin.

America's largest for-profit hospital chain unnecessarily putting lives at risk
Press TV - Doctors at America's biggest for-profit hospital chain performed needless and dangerous cardiac treatments for years in an apparent attempt to bring in more money, the New York Times reports. Prodded by a nurse, hospital giant HCA investigated itself in 2010 and uncovered cardiologists who couldn't justify their procedures at Florida hospitals over the previous eight years. HCA insists it took "action where necessary," but there's no evidence it reimbursed Medicare or Medicaid for the procedures.

VIDEO: Flesh-eating bacteria victim: 'It was a simple cut'
katu.com - A simple cut nearly killed an Alaska man, who ended up getting flesh-eating bacteria. The horrific condition attacked his arm and nearly took his life.... After three trips to the emergency room, doctors in Alaska realized Pereyra was near death and flew him by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

YouTube: Robert F Kennedy Jr Shocking Vaccine Cover Up

This "Twisted-Vegetable" Makes Animals Fat - Are You Eating it?
Dr. Mercola - According to results from a 10-year long feeding study on rats, mice, pigs and salmon, genetically engineered feed causes obesity, along with significant changes in the digestive system and major organs, including the liver, kidneys, pancreas, genitals and more. Animals fed genetically engineered Bt corn were less able to digest proteins due to alterations in the micro-structure of their intestines. They also suffered immune system alterations. Impaired ability to digest proteins can have far-reaching implications for your health.

Splenda soon to unleash 'Nectresse' - Here's what you need to know about this new 'natural' sweetener
(NaturalNews) According to the Nectresse website, the product is "100 percent natural," and is made from the heat-stable extract of an Asian melon known as monk fruit, or Lo Han. But monk fruit is not the only ingredient in Nectresse, nor is it even the primary ingredient. The first and most abundant ingredient in Nectresse is actually erythritol, a sugar alcohol commonly derived from corn, the vast majority of which has been genetically modified (GM) in the U.S. And the second ingredient in Nectresse is sugar, which is refined and more than likely comes from GM sugar beets.

Digestive enzymes enhance nutrient absorption, gut health and longevity
(NaturalNews) A survey of holistic practitioners by Ed McCabe, author of Flood Your Body with Oxygen [available at The Power Mall], for the order of nutrients' importance consensus was: Oxygen, water, enzymes, minerals, and vitamins.... Enzymes are energized, active protein compounds that are involved with every aspect of digestion and all cellular metabolism throughout our bodies. Without enzymes, food, minerals, and vitamins are useless. In fact, every activity in our body from creating cellular energy to building bone and muscle to hormonal production and distribution, and even thinking are governed by enzymes.

Doctors Advising Pregnant Women To Avoid TSA body Scanners
Steve Watson - An article in the New York Times health and science section today carries several revealing details indicating that doctors and scientists are extremely wary of the TSA’s use of full-body “backscatter” X-ray scanners. The article details an account from pregnant Yolanda Marin-Czachor, a 34-year-old mother and teacher from Green Bay, Wis., who says: “one of the first things my doctor said was: ‘Do not go through one of those machines. There have not been any long-term studies. I would prefer you stay away from it.’ ”

Science & Technology

20,000 AT&T Workers Go On Strike
Consumerist - UPDATE: The CWA has released a statement regarding the strike, and also says the total number of striking workers is around 22,500 (18,000 out west and 4,500 in Connecticut). "Contract negotiations are never easy," said CWA District 9 Vice President Jim Weitkamp. "But when AT&T violates the law repeatedly, the process really can't work. Given AT&T's record profits, tax breaks and jaw-dropping executive compensation, there is no reason for them to insist on lowering the standard of living of a single worker."

Federal government now ruthlessly stealing thousands of dollars from small farmers' bank accounts via 'Bank Secrecy Act'
(NaturalNews) If you run a family farm or other small business in which you regularly make large cash deposits at the bank, you could be in violation of a little-known federal law called the Bank Secrecy Act. Making regular cash deposits of any amount, in fact, could land you in the crosshairs of government tyrants who, according to CBN News, have already seized tens of thousands of dollars from family farmers whose only "crime" was depositing their hard-earned cash in their bank accounts.

Economy

VIDEO: Millionaire Buys Every Foreclosed Home in Michigan County for $4.8M
MyFoxDetroit.com reports Bill McMachen, a businessman and former yacht dealer, paid about $4.8 million for all 650 tax foreclosed properties at Macomb County's July 31 sale. Authorities had announced at the auction that the properties could be sold as a package deal for the price of the back taxes, which totaled about $4.8 million. McMachen jumped at the chance.

Massive fire engulfs Chevron California refinery (PHOTOS)
RT - Firefighters are battling with a blaze that has torn through oil giant Chevron’s Richmond refinery in California. Officials have warned residents to stay indoors as toxic fumes have been released during the fire. The blaze has been brought under control by firefighters, but has not been put out. The fire reportedly started in the facility’s main processing unit at 6:15pm local time Monday (01:15 GMT Tuesday).

US infrastructure, highways and power grids, failing under relentless heat wave
(NaturalNews) America is falling apart, literally, and the extreme weather events of the past few months and years surely have not helped the situation any. A recent New York Times (NYT) piece explains that various roads, bridges, and even nuclear power facilities all across the country are crumbling, or otherwise undergoing severe structural damage, as a result of the extreme heat waves that continue to sweep the nation.

VIDEO: Towns' Residents Flee Oklahoma Wildfires That Have Destroyed Dozens of Homes
NBC NEWS - Firefighters are struggling to control more than a dozen blazes that have scorched thousands of acres. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports. New evacuations were under way Saturday as well: Authorities ordered evacuations in the towns of Glencoe, population of around 600, and Mannford, population about 3,000 in Creek County about 20 miles west of Tulsa. Thousands were on the move as the fire in Creek County spread quickly, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

Health

Chemotherapy backfires - causes healthy cells to feed growth of cancer tumors
(NaturalNews) It turns out that chemotherapy damages healthy cells, causing them to secrete a protein that accelerates the growth of cancer tumors.... This protein, dubbed "WNT16B," is taken up by nearby cancer cells, causing them to "grow, invade, and importantly, resist subsequent therapy," said Peter Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He's the co-author of the study that documented this phenomenon, published in Nature Medicine.

The Martial Flu: U.S. Pandemic Laws Align with International Health Regulations
Activist Post - All of the new vaccines are DNA vaccines which contaminate normal human DNA with patented GMOs, just as Monsanto has been doing to organic fields with pollen drift. The public has not been informed of this or given legal papers to release their intellectual property rights over their own unique DNA.

Consuming Large Amounts of This Mineral Reduces Cancer Risk By 67 Percent
Prevent Disease - Who would have thought that the earth beneath our feet could be to blame for health woes ranging from heart disease to thyroid problems to cancer? Yet that’s the view of some experts who say levels of selenium, a mineral essential for good health, are so low in soil in Europe that it’s affecting the food chain, diets and, ultimately, the risk of disease.

Sprouts: So fresh, they're still growing!
(NaturalNews) Sprouts are a miracle food. As a 'living' food, sprouts continue to grow higher in nutritional value after being harvested. Sprouting is the process of germinating seeds to be eaten raw or cooked. When seeds are soaked, the dormant seeds turn into a nutritional powerhouse. For instance, when peas are dry they have no Vitamin C; however, when sprouted for 48 hours, they provide more Vitamin C than fresh oranges while Broccoli sprouts help protect the body against cancer. A salad made from an assortment of sprouts, compared with the traditional lettuce salad, provides five times as much protein, six times as much Vitamin C and seven times as much of the B Complex Vitamins and costs less than half as much.

Seven toxic foods, drinks, and additives to cut out of your diet for good
(NaturalNews) With so much conflicting information out there about which foods are healthy and which foods are not, it can be difficult for many people to determine how best to approach a healthy lifestyle that includes eating well. But a good place to start is to avoid these seven toxic foods, beverages, and additives that are quite common in the American diet.

Flame retardants are causing autism
(NaturalNews) More and more over the past 25 years, brominated flame retardants have been used in home furnishings and electronics to slow down fires. These chemicals are now routinely found in household dust, food, air and in the umbilical cords of newborns.

A New Name for Statin Drug Poisoning: Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Green Med Info - Few drugs are as toxic to the organ they are prescribed to "treat" as statins. There are already hundreds of studies indicating that statin drugs are muscle-damaging (myotoxic) and nerve-damaging (neurotoxic), and yet they are somehow still legally allowed to be sold to millions of patients worldwide, ostensibly to protect the human heart -- which is, mind you, a muscle with an exceptionally high density of nerves.

Cash rewards keep people on their medications
Reuters - Weekly rewards of as little as $5 could keep people on track with their medications, says a new study. “It helps the patient understand that we are serious about helping them get treated,” said Dr. Deb Sodt, who leads the Minnesota Department of Health Tuberculosis Prevention & Control Program and was not involved in the new work.

In Praise of the Lowly Cucumber
Green Med Info - With no pretensions or aspirations for superfood status, the lowly cucumber still offers a surprising range of nutrients, and even some recently discovered health benefits for diabetics. Summer is the perfect time to enjoy its refreshing flavor paired with avocado is this quick and easy cold soup.

Insecticides Modified in GM Corn Polluting U.S. Waters
Activist Post - The research was conducted in the states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, where corn fields are abundant. Scientists found the bacterial protein washed off the corn and directly into the streams. While they won’t say for certain what this means for human health, the consensus is that it can’t be good.

Pet News

Hartz ultra guard pro is poison
hartzvictims.org - I recently moved into my own apartment, taking my kitten with me. My mom’s house was really damp and we were never able to stop the fleas, so I asked my bf to pick up some flea drops on the way home so we wouldn’t have an infestation here too. As soon as I put the product on I could tell something was not right, she just seemed depressed. A few hours later I noticed the back leg twitchs that were so violent I was worried she was going to break her foot or something, along with shaking, not eating, and weird breathing.
 

Economy

EPA violated 10th Amendment and state rights - Virginia coalition files federal suit over unconstitutional rain water collection mandate
(NaturalNews) The Tenth Amendment has been described by some constitutional scholars and experts as the Bill of Rights' catch-all amendment, in that it was written into the nation's founding document as a way to remind future federal lawmakers and officials that unless the Constitution explicitly allows it or bans it, states - as sovereign entities - are free to do as they please.

Nun shuts down the only weapons-grade uranium facility in US
RT - A group of protesters, including an 82-year old nun, broke into the only US government’s facility for enriching and storing weapons-grade uranium, smearing human blood on the walls of the unit where the nuclear bomb component is stored. The facility, located in Tennessee, was shut down after it failed to keep out the trespassers. The private contractor responsible for its protection, WSI Oak Ridge, is a wing of the same company that failed to provide enough staff at the London Olympic Games. As a result, the British government was forced to deploy extra British Army troops.

Health

Alzheimer's is really just 'type-3' diabetes, new research shows
(NaturalNews) Emerging research on the widespread degenerative brain disease known as Alzheimer's suggests that this prevalent form of dementia is actually a type of diabetes. Published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, a recent study out of Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) confirms that Alzheimer's is marked by brain insulin resistance and corresponding inflammation, a condition that some researchers are now referring to as type-3 diabetes... Coconut Oil available at the Power Mall here!

Inflammation is a major reason why you can't lose weight
(NaturalNews) It's well established that obesity is characterized by low-level chronic inflammation. Several theories as to how this inflammation occurs have been proposed, but dietary choices seem to be the most important factor involved. It's increasingly recognized that regular consumption of certain foods leads to diet-induced inflammation; which in turn sets the stage for insulin resistance, leptin resistance and other conditions that go hand in hand with overweight and obesity. These conditions make it very hard to lose weight and maintain healthy body weight.

Komen for the Cure caught in mammography propaganda fraud; scientists blast agenda of deception
(NaturalNews) It is time for the truth to be told about Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The organization is, flatly stated, engaged in fraud.... All across America, men and women participate in "run for the cure" events, raising tens of millions of dollars each year that go into the hands of Komen for the Cure. What these people don't know is that much of that money is spent on "free" mammograms. Those mammograms, in turn, actually cause breast cancer because they subject women to high doses of ionizing radiation.

Killing children with X-ray images - Death by procedure
(NaturalNews) Children are more radio-sensitive than adults and children undergoing CT scans have triple the risk of leukemia and brain cancer after two or three CT scans according to a recent article in the Lancet. Doctors think the benefits usually outweigh their risks, but "radiation is known to carry a hard-to-calculate, elevated, long-term probability of induced cancers", according to Marta Hernanz-Schulman, MD, chair of the American College of Radiology Pediatric Imaging Commission.

Doctors' woeful lack of training about nutrition dooms millions to early graves
(NaturalNews) Proper nutrition is vital for maintaining good health and warding off illness. Nutrition can also play a pivotal role in healing illness of all kinds, including heart disease, diabetes and cancer - the three leading illnesses which cause deaths. It is thus shocking that our doctors - whom most people turn to for advice on diet and nutrition - receive little to no training on the subjects in medical schools.

Ron Paul’s Statement on Introducing the Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act
Liberty Crier - Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce the “Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act.” This legislation allows terminally ill patients to use drugs, treatments and devices that have not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) if their physicians certify: (i) such patients have no other treatment options; and (Ii) the patient executes written, informed consent that they are aware of any potential risks from the drug, device, or treatment. It is important to remember that this legislation only applies to otherwise terminally ill patients. Denying these patents a possible opportunity to cure their illness-or at least reduce their suffering—is nonsensical and cruel.

VIDEO: Why doctors are more dangerous than guns - new Health Ranger investigation video
(NaturalNews)This mini-documentary by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, is based on U.S. government statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, combined with doctor-caused deaths published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. These data show that FDA-approved prescription drugs kill 290 Americans every single day, meaning that for mass shootings to approach that number, you'd have to see a Colorado Batman movie massacre take place EVERY HOUR of every day, 365 days a year.

Biologist calls sodas and fizzy beverages 'evil'
(NaturalNews) Have a Coke and a smile. Or, if you're part of the 'new generation,' a Pepsi. One taste of those excito-toxins and you won't worry about aborted fetal cells or cancer-causing chemicals. After all, who wants to think about Type 2 Diabetes when they just want a sweet reward, and a moment to relax?

Is your diet toxic?
(NaturalNews) It's common knowledge that diets rich in processed, preserved and GMO-laden ingredients are highly toxic. But, what you may not know is that a completely home-grown, organic, non-GMO meal can also be toxic - if your body can't digest it.

The Potential Effects of Soy, and How it Might Decimate the Health of Your Unborn Baby and the Fertility of Future Generations
Dr. Mercola - If you're pregnant or thinking of having a baby, you might want to take a look at some new research on the effects of plant estrogens, such as that found in soy, on a developing fetus. According to Medical News Today1, a paper published in Biology of Reproduction2 suggests that exposure to estrogenic chemicals in the womb or during childhood has the potential to negatively affect a woman's fertility as an adult. This coincides with earlier research on neonatal effects of exposure to plant or environmental estrogens.

Science & Technology

After defeat of cybersecurity bill, Obama weighs executive order
The Hill - Senate Republicans recently blocked cybersecurity legislation, but the issue might not be dead after all. The White House hasn’t ruled out issuing an executive order to strengthen the nation’s defenses against cyber attacks if Congress refuses to act.

'Top Cyber Cop' Says Internet Way Overdue For Attack
Activist Post - Shawn Henry, 24-year veteran of the FBI's cyber security division, stated that he is surprised a massive cyber attack hasn't happened yet, and feels it is "very very likely" that one is due to happen in the near term. In the CBS interview, Henry claims state-sponsored actors like China and Russia are already infiltrating and causing damage to networks, yet he provides no proof of this. To date, all suspected attacks have been proven to be false alarms despite the media hype. Furthermore, it is the U.S. and Israel who are among the leaders in the rapid evolution of the offensive cyberwar arms race.

Pre-Crime Software Moves One Step Closer to Reality
Activist Post - This data integration initiative is taking place across the board in our largest federal agencies and departments as part of an Office of Science and Technology outline (PDF) that includes a $200 million upfront investment, as well as a $250 million annual investment by military departments into human-computer interaction. The $200 million in the Obama program will be spread among the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the U.S. Geological survey, and DARPA to see that the information they collect will move quickly "from data to decisions."

GMOs cause animals to lose their ability to reproduce, Russian scientists discover
((NaturalNews) A study presented at the Days of Defense Against Environmental Hazards in Russia has unveiled once again the implicit dangers associated with the consumption of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). According to Voice of Russia, scientists from the National Association for Gene Security and the Institute of Ecological and Evolutional Problems discovered that animals fed GMOs as part of their normal diet eventually develop the inability to reproduce.

Kevlar Tires Now Required to Traverse ‘Spear-Like’ GMO Crops
Anthony Gucciardi - The latest news comes from an unlikely source — an automotive publication known as Autoblog. The website reports that farmers who have opted to plant Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds have run into one daunting problem... little ‘spear-like’ stalks from the harvested GMOs are absolutely wreaking havoc on the heavy duty tractor tires. In case you’re not aware, kevlar is the same material used in bulletproof vests to protect from gun bullets.... Furthermore, a single tractor tire can easily cost thousands of dollars. Thanks to the GMO crops, the average lifespan of a tractor tire has dwindled from five or six years down to just one or two — if the farmer is lucky.

Pet News

Cancer and Your Pet: Two Things to Avoid
Dr. Becker - The study of the relationship between nutrition and cancer in companion animals is in its infancy. However, it is assumed there is a link between obesity and cancer in dogs and cats – just as there is a link between the two in humans. Fat doesn’t just sit on your pet’s body harmlessly. It produces inflammation that can promote tumor development. In fact, cancer is actually a chronic inflammatory disease.... A healthy, species-appropriate diet for dogs and cats – one that is anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer – consists of real, whole, fresh foods, preferably served raw.

The AAFCO has no definition of human grade ingredients
Susan Thixton - This is one of my many pet food peeves. The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) has no definition of human grade ingredients, but the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) does (inspected and approved). What makes this so frustrating is that members of AAFCO are state representatives of Department of Agriculture.

Economy

VIDEO: Roseanne Barr to Speak at Chemtrails and Geo-Engineering Conference in Los Angeles and Live Online
Activist Post - Award-winning actress, author, activist, and presidential candidate Roseanne Barr will join weather experts, researchers, journalists and filmmakers to discuss Geo-Engineering based Weather Modification Programs at the Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails Conference & Fundraiser. ...to be held from August 17–19, 2012, at the historic Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. The entire event will also be available live online.

Amount of CO2 being sucked away by Earth 'has doubled in 50 years'
The Register - 'Surprising study' means models need changing. Again.... According to the NOAA: This new global analysis makes it clear that scientists do not yet understand well enough the processes by which ecosystems of the world are removing CO2 from the atmosphere, or the relative importance of possible sinks: regrowing forests on different continents, for example, or changing absorption of carbon dioxide by various ocean regions. "We don't know why or where this process is happening," commented NOAA boffin Pieter Tans. "We need to identify what's going on here, so that we can improve our projections of future CO2 levels and how climate change will progress in the future."

Health

Healing Naturally: Fasting and Elimination (opinion )
NaturalNews) The evidence throughout time supporting fasting is incredible. There was a guy back in ancient Greece named Aesculapius that said, "Instead of using medicine, fast. "Hippocrates recommended prolonged fasting instead of taking health-destroying pharmaceuticals, which is the God of modern day medicine, most of the religions in the world advocate periods of "abstinence" from food to attain physical and spiritual purity and even animals and babies, through their natural instincts, refuse to eat food when they feel ill. Yet, most people are clueless about the benefits of fasting when sick and always advise those that they care about to "Eat to keep up your strength." During illness, there can be no worse advice to lower vitality.

Try some of these top summer superfoods to help you cool off
(NaturalNews) As many areas of the country perspire their way through record-breaking summer heat, staying hydrated is of the essence, as is keeping your body nourished with life-giving, health-promoting superfoods. And since warm and hot foods are not always desirable during this time of year, here are a few "cool" superfood ideas to help you beat the heat and nurture your palate.

Protect yourself from West Nile virus naturally
(NaturalNews) Mosquitoes are on the rise this summer, and several cases of West Nile virus infections from mosquitoes have been reported in Texas along with a few deaths. Other states have reported cases of West Nile virus infections as well.... Fortunately, there are some good, natural alternatives....

Zinc plays key role in supporting key biological processes
(NaturalNews) Zinc is an essential mineral which, although required in only limited amounts, the body cannot produce and a steady supply must be maintained in order to support important bodily processes like strengthening the immune system, wound healing, cell division and supporting the catalytic activity of various enzymes essential in DNA. It has also been reported to encourage hair growth, as cells in the hair follicle contain zinc, and promote healthy skin, as zinc manages the skin's oil content and the androgenic hormonal effect that produces acne.

Milwaukee lowers fluoridation level and will advise parents about infant formula
(NaturalNews) Milwaukee alderman Jim Bohl wanted to stop fluoridation in his city. But he had to settle for a compromise. The city's aldermen recently voted to reduce the fluoride level from 1.1 to .7 parts per million. .7ppm is the proposed lower level for fluoridation from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Pregnant women were used as human guinea pigs in thalidomide trials
(NaturalNews) Newly uncovered documents reveal that pregnant Australian women were used as guinea pigs for the morning sickness drug thalidomide in a series of clinical tests some 50 years ago that left a number of children with substantial birth defects.

More Pseudo Science to Give Another Vaccine: This Time It’s Shingles
Gaia Health - Shingles is a painful nerve disease that results from the same virus that causes chicken pox. It tends to strike people whose immune systems are compromised, such as those with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, or Crohn’s disease. These are all autoimmune conditions and, as Gaia Health has documented, are associated with vaccinations. They are, in fact, largely caused by excessive vaccinating.

When life gives you lemons, make 100 home remedies to improve your health
(NaturalNews) When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and dozens of other foods and home remedies from this versatile fruit. Lemon's health benefits are due to the high concentration of vitamins B and C, antioxidants, protein, flavonoids, phosphorus, potassium, carbohydrates and volatile oils. Whether you're using this superfood to prevent kidney stones or making lemon-flavored cake icing, you'll reap the benefits in flavor and good health.

Oregano Oil Health Benefits
Healing-from-Home-Remedies.com - Applied topically or ingested orally oil of oregano helps inhibit (and sometimes kill) ninety different types of detrimental bacteria, fungi, parasites, protozoa, yeasts, and molds. It is said to even treat Candida and Staph infections! Wild oregano [Origanum vulgare] is recognized as having one of the broadest ranges of antimicrobial effectiveness known among plants. It has been regarded for the following properties...

Free methods to lower stress
(NaturalNews) Lower stress, lower disease: Cortisol, AKA the "stress hormone," is a steroid produced by the adrenal glands on top of the kidneys. It is usually released in times of stress to maintain homeostasis in the body. However, chronic stress that causes sustained release of cortisol has serious, negative effects on health. Not only does it stress the cardiovascular system, it decreases immunity as well. High cortisol levels can contribute to type II diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity, high blood pressure, and the loss of reproductive health, just to name a few.

White Wine Shown to Damage Tooth Enamel
Natural Society - If you enjoy a glass or two of wine now and then, you may have thought red wine would be worse for your teeth after the Merlot-stained smile stared back at you in the mirror. But, scientists say white wine is actually worse for your teeth, damaging your tooth enamel after just one glass.... Also, the scientists say brushing immediately after indulging could actually make matters worse. This is because your toothbrush could essentially brush away the enamel that the wine has loosened. Instead, they suggest you eat something with it and wait at least 30 minutes before going after your teeth with a toothbrush.

Science & Technology

Speed kills! US Navy targets hypersonic, GPS-guided bullets (PHOTOS)
RT - Remember the old cartoons where a bullet could chase you around a corner? What if that bullet was fired at 5,600 mph from an Electromagnetic Rail Gun? If the US Navy has its way, these sci-fi,supersonic GPS-guided projectiles could soon be a reality. The futuristic munitions come as part of the US Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Hyper Velocity Projectile program, which was announced on July 19. The agency's researchers hope to develop equipment that would allow high-velocity weapons to accurately strike far-away targets – without having to depend on rocket propulsion, Military and Aerospace Electronics reports.

USDA Alert: Half of U.S. Counties Designated Primary Disaster Areas; Financial Fallout “Intensifying”
shtfplan.com - The situation is so dire that it has prompted the US Department of Agriculture to declare more than half of America a disaster area. …more than half of all U.S. counties – 1,584 in 32 states – have been designated primary disaster areas this growing season, the vast majority of them mired in a drought that’s considered the worst in decades.... The USDA uses the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor to help decide which counties to deem disaster areas, which makes farmers and ranchers eligible for federal aid, including low-interest emergency loans.

Piles of Black Gold (Dirt)
Mother Earth News - While turning a compost pile may not seem like a fun task, it is this maintenance work that helps to create the organic fertility base for the garden beds at D Acres Permaculture Farm. Learn why a compost pile is worth the effort and start one of your own.

Economy

Infographic: Less-Lethal Weapons and the Occupy Movement
12160.info - The infographic identifies top examples of less-lethal weapons deployment within the Occupy movement. These capabilities are used globally by law enforcement and military personnel, and the demand for them is steadily rising.

UC Davis pepper-spray cop finally off the force
RT - Lieutenant John Pike’s long reign of burning, eye-watering terror is over. The University of California, Davis, cop that made headlines for blasting peaceful protesters with military-grade pepper-spray last year is no longer employed by the school.... Pike was on paid administrative leave up until as recently as mid-July, and the Sacramento Bee reports that his 2010 salary brought him a paycheck of more than $110,000 annually.
 

The Meat Grinder: When the debt-collection machine comes for its pound of flesh
inlander.com - Miller, a young, tireless consumer law attorney, is after information about the robo-signer’s work at Midland Credit Management, an arm of Encore Capital. Every year, Encore buys billions of dollars in credit-card debts and then sets out to collect — filing hundreds of thousands of lawsuits against the debtors. That’s where robo-signers, like the one Miller is deposing, come in.

JPMorgan subsidiary accused of manipulating California electric market
sacbee.com - Enron went out of business long ago, and California's energy market has been a place of relative calm. Now, however, another big power trader is being investigated for allegedly gaming the state's electricity system. State officials believe a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the New York investment bank, pulled down an extra $73 million by exploiting a small wrinkle in California's electricity market over several months in 2010 and 2011.

MAPS: The Secrets Drillers Can Hide About the Fracking in Your Backyard
The Trenches - A new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council shows that most states where fracking occurs have no disclosure laws at all, and that those that do are woefully behind when it comes to revealing behind-the-scenes details of their operations. While the Obama administration has put some new rules in place, many decisions about what drillers are allowed to hide are left to the states; Interior Secretary Ken Salazar complained to Reuters that state-level regulation is “not good enough for me, because states are at very different levels, some have zero, some have decent rules.”

Health

Chick-fil-A sandwiches contain MSG, HFCS and anti-foaming chemicals; eating them is a sin in the eyes of God
(NaturalNews) This article is sure to get me in trouble with everybody, but I just had to cringe yesterday when I heard news reports of people lining up at Chick-fil-A restaurants all across the country to protest the attack on the restaurant's CEO by the LGBT community (and same-sex marriage advocates).

Super human strength created by superfoods and herbs
(NaturalNews) Imagine living life without (chronic) unwarranted fear and never having to experience degenerative disease. This is NOT just a silly idea - it's reality for many people throughout the world. Epidemiological studies prove that the longest living (happy) people remain connected to the earth and thrive on whole, natural foods - filled with nutrients but low in calories. Eating spirulina, chlorella, goji berries, chaga mushrooms and ashwagandha can balance blood sugars, boost the immune system and help detoxify unwanted poisons from the body.

Newly Emerged H3N8 Seal Flu Virus Touted as Next ‘Pandemic’
Natural Society - Of course the largest concern with this virus is the possibility that it will spread to humans from animals. Considering that it has already mutated somewhat substantially, mainstream media organizations are already sounding the alarm for pandemic mode. Experts say, however, that it’s highly unlikely that the H3N8 seal flu virus will even spread to humans. That is unless, of course, the mammal-adapted H3N8 were to combine with the H5N1 bird flu virus.

Martial law shakes hands with the US vaccine program
(NaturalNews) Who knew the Pentagon had muscled into the US vaccine program? DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has been doing research on vaccine production. They've found a way to produce flu vaccines a lot faster than Big Pharma. Utilizing vaccines grown on tobacco cells, instead of the traditional chicken eggs, DARPA has turned out a staggering 10 million doses of flu vaccine in just one month. This "Blue Angel" project, as it's called, suddenly puts the Pentagon in the forefront of the vaccine business. The big question is: why is the Army involved in vaccines at all? And the answer is no surprise. According to DARPA, it's all about readiness in containing bio-threats. Translated, that means terrorist attacks that could use flu viruses.

BPA tooth fillings linked to behavior disorders in children
(NaturalNews) Researchers have found a link between dental fillings made using bisphenol A, otherwise known as BPA, and behavior and emotional problems in children. Scientists from New England Research Institutes in Watertown, Mass., say the effects generally show up a few years later and they were generally small but were nonetheless measurable.

VIDEO: Lawsuit Against Nature Valley: Food Products Not so "100% Natural"
Natural Society - You may think that a food product gifted with the phrase "all natural" has, you know, all natural ingredients, but this unfortunately is not always the case. The latest falsely marketed product being exposed is Nature Valley's granola bars. In fact, the company is being sued.... The problem? The product actually contains high-maltose corn syrup and maltodextrin, two not-so-natural ingredients.

Digital pills make their way to market
Nature News Blog - Digestible microchips embedded in drugs may soon tell doctors whether a patient is taking their medications as prescribed. These sensors are the first ingestible devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To some, they signify the beginning of an era in digital medicine.

Your Diet Affects Your Grandchildren's DNA, Scientists Say
livescience.com - Diet, be it poor or healthy, can so alter the nature of one's DNA that those changes can be passed on to the progeny. While this much has been speculated for years, researchers in two independent studies have found ways in which this likely is happening. The findings, which involve epigenetics, may help explain the increased genetic risk that children face compared to their parents for diseases such as obesity and diabetes.

Psyllium husk - Promote weight loss and cleanse your colon
(NaturalNews) Psyllium husk is an amazing shrub-like herb that is most commonly found in India. It possesses a plethora of health benefits and has proven effective in treating irritable bowel syndrome, colon caner, constipation, diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, ulcerative colitis and atherosclerosis among various other health conditions. Akin to flax seed and oat bran, the fiber in psyllium husk is soluble. Soluble fiber is useful in lowering bad cholesterol (LDL) which reduces the risk of heart disease and promotes overall health. [The Power Mall carries Certified Organic Psyllium Husks.]

Science & Technology

5 Reasons Why The NSA Can’t Be Trusted to Run U.S. Cybersecurity Programs
EFF - This week, the Senate will be voting on a slew of amendments to the newest version of the Senate’s cybersecurity bill. Senators John McCain and Kay Bailey Hutchison have proposed several amendments that would hand the reins of our nation’s cybersecurity systems to the National Security Agency (NSA).... The NSA's dark history of repeated privacy violations, flouting of domestic law, and resistance to transparency makes it clear that the nation's cybersecurity should not be in its hands.

Internet Giants Combine Forces Creating New Lobby to Control Capitol Hill
Blacklisted News - The titans of the Internet, including Google, eBay, Amazon and Facebook, are combining forces under the blanket of a newly formed lobby group that wants to influence lawmakers on how they can manipulate the Internet, as well as how important they truly are. In September of this year, the lobby groups called the Internet Association, will be based in Washington, DC, and headed by Michael Beckerman, former adviser of the Energy and Commerce Committee within the House of Representatives.

US farmers urge Obama administration to suspend ethanol quota amid drought
Guardian - Under the EPA's renewable fuel standard programme, oil companies are required to dilute their gasoline with increasing amounts of biofuel every year. This year's mandate calls for the production of 13.2bn gallons of biofuels – almost all of it produced from corn. Food security experts and international aid organisations have also warned that ethanol could be tightening up supplies and pushing up prices in the global food market during the drought.
* Related Article: U.S. government is unlikely to bow to pressure for a waiver on quotas...

Call to Action - Join the 'Occupy Monsanto' movement this September
(NaturalNews) Beginning on September 17, 2012, and lasting for one week, Occupy Monsanto, an international, grassroots effort fighting back against the corporate takeover of agriculture, is calling on health freedom advocates across the globe to stage mass protests at the many worldwide facilities owned by the Monsanto corporation. You can access a full list of the locations of Monsanto's facilities around the world here.

Economy

FHFA: Cuts to mortgage principal would not ‘meaningfully’ reduce foreclosures
MarketWatch - Ed DeMarco, the acting chief of the regulator for Fannie and Freddie, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said in a letter to the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee that “after much study,” he has concluded that Fannie and Freddie’s participation in the Obama administration’s program to cut the amount owed by underwater borrowers would “not make a meaningful improvement in reducing foreclosures in a cost effective way for taxpayers.” Fannie and Freddie already have cost taxpayers over $188 billion, DeMarco said.

Goldman Sachs to Pay $26 Million to Settle Investor Suit
Bloomberg - Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will pay $26.6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by investors in a $698 million mortgage-backed securities offering, according to papers filed in Manhattan federal court.

Taxpayers Help Fund Chevrolet Volt Smart Community
insideline.com - OnStar and General Motors have become official partners of Pecan Street Inc., the country's first nonprofit research and development consortia, where residents agreed to be part of a clean-energy smart grid test for sustainable living. The Mueller community, 3 miles outside Austin, provides a real-life lab for the automaker to observe charging patterns and how consumers and clean-energy technologies interact and support electric-vehicle charging. The project runs for five years.
* Related Article: OnStar markets ‘family-friendly’ spy system

Pennsylvania towns win a round in court against unfettered fracking
Philadelphia Daily News - In a 4-3 decision, Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court said the state did not have the right to strip local municipalities of zoning rights solely for the benefit of the fracking industry. It may buy some time to finally exercise some due scientific diligence on the industry.

Health

Mom booted from hospital as baby snatched
WND - A social worker who called police after apparently making up a story about a possible danger to a newborn, and the hospital that then gave a shot to the infant based on the social worker’s story, now want a federal court to ignore their actions. According to the Home School Legal Defense Association, which brought a case against the Hershey Medical Center and social worker Angelica Lopez-Heagy on behalf of Scott and Jodi Ferris, the defendants have asked the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to dismiss the claim.

US blood supply at emergency levels
RT - Accident-prone Americans: be aware! The Red Cross says that they are experiencing a 15-year low with blood supplies, and to make matters worse the country is also being hit with a severe shortage of doctors. The American Red Cross says that the number of blood donors they saw in June was around 50,000 fewer than expected, and now the agency’s supply is the slimmest it has been since the end of the twentieth-century.

New Study Shows This Potent Vitamin Helps Prevent Breast Cancer
Dr. Mercola - Estrogen receptor positive breast cancer cells are no match for this potent cancer fighter. Scientists have found about 3,000 genes that are upregulated by vitamin D; the vitamin has an impact on not only cancer but also autoimmune diseases, heart disease, obesity, dementia, and more

Synthetic vitamins fuel sickness while enriching the corrupt medical industry
(NaturalNews) Have you really read the label, researched any of the synthetic additives, or checked out the "other ingredients," or did you just figure that was irrelevant? If you are guilty of taking any of the aforementioned supplements, it's time to buy some liver, kidney, and colon detoxification, and you better educate yourself about those too, because "The Man" wants you sick and dying, not avoiding toxic vitamin imposters that are NOT ABSORBABLE by the body.

More than 80 reasons to use honey as a DIY home remedy for better health and good eats
(NaturalNews) Everyone knows honey tastes sweet and is delicious mixed with tea and lemon; but chances are you never realized how many health-related uses this versatile food possesses.... The best honey is one that is totally raw, organic and contains the honeycomb in the jar. It should include royal jelly, propolis and bee pollen for maximum health benefits.

VIDEO: Jason David: A Father's Plea (Emotionally gripping video in favor of medical cannabis)
Daily Paul - This video is really one of the most sad I've seen on the topic of the Feds verses cannabis users for medical reasons. We've all seen the wheel chair bound guy asking Romney and Paul what they thought about legalization of cannabis for medical reasons. This is the effect of the policies that the executive branch is bringing down on people who truly need cannabis for survival every day.
* Related Article: Feds Target Largest Medical Marijuana Dispensary...

6 Healthy Reasons to Eat More Real Cinnamon (Not its Cousin)
Green Med INfo - True cinnamon is usually labeled "Ceylon cinnamon" and comes principally from Sri Lanka, India, Madagascar, Brazil and the Caribbean. Cassia, on the other hand, is often designated as "Chinese cinnamon" or "Saigon cinnamon" and comes principally from Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Japan and Korea.

Food Industry Won’t Take out Harmful BPAs
Natural Society - According to a past study conducted by the nonprofit Consumers Union, 18 of 19 canned foods contained 22 micrograms of BPA per serving—116 times more than the ‘daily recommended limit.’ Progresso, Del Monte, Campbell’s, Annie’s, and Hormel soups took the BPA lead. Unfortunately, BPA still continues to taint food cans today. Researchers have linked BPA consumption to hyperactivity, aggression, depression, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, various cancers, and reproductive difficulties including Anogenital distance.

Rationing Begins: States Limiting Drug Prescriptions for Medicaid Patients
kaiserhealthnews.org - Sixteen states impose a monthly limit on the number of drugs Medicaid recipients can receive and seven states have either enacted such caps or tightened them in the past two years, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KHN is a program of the foundation). The limits vary across the country. Mississippi has a limit of two brand-name drugs. In Arkansas adults are limited to up six drugs a month. Since June, Alabama has had the nation’s stingiest Medicaid drug benefit after limiting adults to one brand-name drug. HIV and psychiatric drugs were excluded.

Health Benefits of Tai Chi – A Chinese Art
Natural Society - A 2006 study at Stanford University demonstrated how Tai Chi has a significant impact on overall mental and emotional wellbeing. 39 subjects were given 12 weeks of Tai Chi instruction and their mental health was assessed before and afterward. The participants were evaluated for overall mood, stress levels, perceived social supports and self-confidence measures. ...the subjects showed significant improvement in all four of these categories. Perceived stress levels showed the largest decline, demonstrating how Tai Chi is a safe, effective way to improve mood.

Legal battle erupts over whose plastic consumers should trust
NPR - In 2007, Eastman Chemical began marketing a tough new BPA-free plastic called Tritan. Business was good, says Lucian Boldea, a vice president at Eastman. But then a study reported problems with a wide range of BPA-free products, including Tritan. Now Eastman is suing the chemical testing companies behind the study.

Science & Technology

Is your power strip spying on you? Complex hacking device looks like extension cord
(NaturalNews) You've heard of power strips. Heck, you've probably got several of them in your home, powering your various electronic devices, television sets, DVD players, etc. But did you know a company now makes a power strip that can actually spy on you. According to Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at Forbes.com, this insidious new device looks, for all intents and purposes, like an ordinary power strip.

12 Ways The 'Law Of Attraction' Can Improve Your Life
Business Insider - Psychologists, New Age thinkers and religious leaders have been talking about the Law Of Attraction for years, though it gained popularity again when the book "The Secret" made waves in 2006. The law is simply this: We attract whatever we think about, good or bad.... Whether or not you believe in the power of the universe, there is scientific research that proves the effects of positive thinking.

Twitter Apologizes for ‘Mess Up’ in Suspending NBC Critic
Bloomberg - Twitter blocked Adams’s account after he posted the work e- mail address of NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel, urging people to complain about the network delaying broadcasts of events. Twitter said today that some of its staff, who were working with NBC in covering the Olympics, identified the tweet as a violation of its terms of use and then encouraged the broadcaster to report the violation.

EPA Asks for Public Comment on Petition to Ban Pesticide Deadly to Bees, Senators Urge Expedited Action
Beyond Pesticides, July 30, 2012 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has opened a 60-day public comment period on the agency’s decision to deny the request by beekeepers to immediately suspend the use of clothianidin, a pesticide that poses harm to pollinators. The legal petition was filed earlier this year by 25 beekeepers and environmental organizations, and cites significant acute and chronic bee kills across the United States linked to neonicotinoid pesticides, particularly clothianidin.

Pet News

Cancer and Your Pet: Two Things to Avoid
Expect to see "cancer prevention" processed pet diets coming soon to a store and/or veterinary office near you. It's just a matter of time.

Miscellaneous

The Most Often Forgotten Survival Preparations
Activist Post - Sadly, having a stockpile of food, weapons, and some slick tactical gear is not enough to ensure a high likelihood of survival, at least not in any of the social collapses that have occurred in the past century around the world. It’s a start, but only just…