Fast Food Burgers OOZING With PARASITES & Ammonia [Video]
The world of meat-eaters got a rude awakening earlier this year when it was found that meat passed off as beef in the U.K. was actually horse meat. But, if you thought meat in the U.S. was safe from secret ingredients, the bliss of your ignorance may soon be shattered. A recent analysis into several different fast food hamburgers found relatively little meat, and a whole host of other “stuff”.

Turmeric is one of nature's greatest gifts
(NaturalNews) Turmeric has enjoyed a great reputation within India for many generations now. Best known as one of the ingredients used in curry dishes, It's been utilized for quite some time in Indian and Chinese societies for the anti-inflammatory results it provides when dealing with a wide array of medical conditions.

Adding silver to antibiotics boosts their effectiveness against superbugs
(NaturalNews) According to new research by scientists at Boston University, however, silver might be even more powerful than originally believed; adding silver to antibiotics, it seems, boosts their effectiveness against antibiotic-resistant superbugs by up to one-thousand times.

10 Natural Substances That Could Help Cure Type 1 Diabetes
Green Med Info - Could the long sought-after cure for type 1 diabetes be as close as your kitchen cupboard? An accumulating body of scientific research appears to point in exactly that direction.

6 Natural, Pain-Reducing Spices - Without Nasty Side-Effects
Natural Society - Instead of popping an aspirin, try targeting pain with natural remedies. Here are 6 side-effect-free, natural pain-reducing remedies.

18 Spices Scientifically Proven To Prevent and Treat Cancer
Prevent Disease - Believe it or not, but when the opposition in question is an adamant disease like cancer, everything you need to prevent or treat it is right inside your spice cabinet.

Aspirin and ibuprofen proven to cause heart attacks
(NaturalHealth365) On June 14, a groundbreaking study presented at the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism provided compelling data proving that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin and ibuprofen can cause heart attacks.

Tell the EPA "No" to More Roundup in Our Food
Beyond Pesticides - EPA is poised to raise the allowable limits of the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) in certain food commodities like carrots, sweet potato, and mustard seeds... The problem is Roundup is toxic to human and environmental health. In fact, a recent MIT study finds that glyphosate’s interference with important enzymes in the body can lead to gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

Global Geoengineering – The Ever Changing Experiment
geoengineeringwatch.org - It is a challenge to predict the outcome of experiments that are being constantly altered. The saturation of the atmosphere with particles has specific and well documented effects. It forces a complete disruption of the hydrological cycle with a tendency toward CAUSING DROUGHT overall.

Study links fracking with methane-contaminated drinking water
RT - Researchers at Duke University sampled drinking water from 141 wells across northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New York and determined that the concentration of methane, the main component of natural gas, is much higher when those wells are within one kilometer of a hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” sites.

91 percent of Celestial Seasonings' 'all natural' teas found to have dangerous levels of pesticides
(NaturalNews) A damning new report on Celestial Seasonings' line of 'all natural' teas reveals that 91 percent of the teas sampled contained pesticide levels that exceeded U.S. federal limits. Ten out of 11 tea varieties, including Antioxidant Blood Orange and Sleepytime Kids Goodnight Grape were found to have excess pesticides.

Ginger for type 2 diabetics: This power herb is scientifically proven to increase insulin sensitivity
(NaturalNews) Ginger may help increase insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to the findings of a recent study conducted by researchers from the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in Iran and published in the International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition.

Home made mosquito repellent
survival-training.info - This product also works well on ants and fleas and is free from chemicals that poison the body.... This is excellent to repels fleas on pets too.

Black is the new green: Discover the health benefits of black foods
(NaturalNews) One particular antioxidant from the dark side is the superstar anthocyanin. Anthocyanins are powerful phytonutrients, a type of flavonoid consisting of water soluble pigments that serve numerous functions in plants. The most concentrated natural sources of anthocyanins are purple, blue, red, and black whole foods including spices and seeds.

Now from the makers of the deadly cervical cancer vaccine: An MRSA superbug jab in the works
(NaturalNews) The woman responsible for developing the infamous Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer, which has seriously maimed or killed tens of thousands of young girls since first being introduced, is working on a new vaccine for antibiotic-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to new reports.

Your teeth: The latest victim of toxic BPA exposure
(NaturalNews) There appears to be yet another toxic side effect associated with bisphenol-A (BPA) exposure: Tooth decay. A new study out of France recently published in the American Journal of Pathology (AJP) highlights how rats exposed to moderate doses of BPA throughout their formative years developed a condition known as molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH), which can lead to poor enamel formation and an increased likelihood of cavities.

The medical industry's solution to organ shortage: Lab-grown, genetically engineered organs
(NaturalNews) It is no secret that there simply are not enough donor organs to go around for every patient in the world that needs one. But the medical industry's latest solution this problem, manufacturing genetically-engineered (GE) organs and organ tissue in a laboratory may prove to cause more harm than good in the long run, as the long-term side effects of splicing man-made tissues and other foreign materials into people's bodies are still largely unknown.

Benefits of Activated Charcoal: Medicine of the Egyptians and Greeks
Natural Society - Activated charcoal, known as carbon, is used as a detox agent to absorb heavy metals and toxins, but the health benefits of activated charcoal continue.

Bentonite Clay to Detox Pesticides, Heavy Metals and Harmful Pathogens
Natural Society - First used in ancient Mesopotamia, Bentonite clays are called living clays appropriately since they prolong life by detoxing the toxic burden in our bodies.

Apple and Grape Seed Extracts Reduce Carcinogenic Chemicals from Cooking Meat
Natural Society - After testing the effect of extracts from apples, elderberries, grape seeds, and pineapples on the formation of HCA’s, researchers from the University of Hong Kong and Rutgers University have found that apple and grape seed extracts can reduce the formation of HCA by up to 70%.

VIDEO: Fast Food Burgers Oozing with Parasites and Ammonia
Natural Society - A recent analysis into several different fast food hamburgers found relatively little meat, and a whole host of other “stuff”.

Iron in Your Blood
Dr. Mercola - While iron is essential for human life, too much iron can cause heart disease and cancer. This is actually far more common than iron deficiency.

VIDEO: Researchers control cyborg cockroaches with Microsoft Kinect
Activist Post - Researchers at North Carolina State University have not only demonstrated the ability to remotely control cockroaches with an electronic implant but have now shown the ability to control the roaches with a Microsoft Kinect.... The Kinect is also being used by the researchers to collect data and detect how effectively the remotely controlled cockroaches respond to the electrical impulses that are used as the control system.

High-tech tombstones let loved ones live on, virtually
globalpost.com - Rick Miller kneels in front of a grave and uses his cell phone to scan a small barcode on a tombstone. Within seconds, he's looking at photos and videos of a lost loved one. But that's not all.

Two more reasons to take turmeric: It protects your heart, fights autoimmune disease
(NaturalNews) You may already have heard that turmeric is a potent anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer food, but did you know that it can also help protect your heart and fight autoimmune diseases?

Benefits of elderberries, plus a recipe
(NaturalNews) Elderberries, also known as Sambucus, have been used in natural medicine for decades. These small, dark berries grow on the Elder Tree and have been known to have incredible benefits throughout the body.

Heal the gut with these five superfoods
(NaturalNews) In a world where digestive problems run amok, it's little wonder that people are desperately looking for remedies that will help fix their gut issues. Although it is not simple, these five superfoods can help clean up the 'internal trash'.

An Avocado a Day…
Natural Blaze - Avocados are a very healthy and nutritious food.... Here is a short list of just some of the benefits of regularly including avocados in your diet...

Top heart-smart foods for cleaning arteries, supporting healthy circulation and building cardio
(NaturalNews) Certain specific foods in each food group are known for cleaning arteries, promoting a healthy circulatory system, preventing heart disease, and reducing blood pressure.

Neuroprotective goji berry offers new hope in preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease
(NaturalNews) Promising research on goji berry (Lycium barbarum) has shown a positive correlation between consumption of the fruit and neuroprotective benefits that minimize the ravaging effects of Alzheimer's. These findings give a ray of hope to the over 4.5 million Americans who suffer from the disease.

8 Nutrients Every Person Needs To Boost Health
Prevent Disease - As people strive to improve their health and evolve their food choices to a more plant-based diet, it is easy to get lost along the way. When you transition to a healthier diet, it is important to educate yourself about the nutrients your body will need on a daily basis.

Spinach Protects Against Skin Cancer, Cuts Recurrence Risk by 55%
Natural Society - Research has shown that eating spinach regularly could prevent skin cancer, which is more than can be said for traditional sunscreens. According to Australian researchers, greens like spinach and Swiss chard can protect skin from cancer.

Nasal Irrigation to Alleviate Sinus Problems, Congestion, Hay Fever
Natural Society - Jala Neti can be used in tandem with dietary changes and herbal remedies for sinus problems, often with outstanding results.

Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don’t Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail
Motherboard - The NSA has to collect the metadata from all of our phone calls because terrorists, right?... A recent Bloomberg piece points to a 2012 report on terrorism which found that most serious terrorists steer clear of the most obvious platforms—major cell networks, Google, Skype, Facebook, etc.

YouTube: Judge Napolitano vs John Stossel Over Severity
Fox business Jun 20, 2013 - Judge Andrew Napolitano and John Stossel debate whether spying is permissible.

Facebook Now Collecting Photo IDs
Julie Wilson - An Infowars.com listener recently had their Facebook account suspended for asking Facebook how to change their primary email address.... Facebook responded by suspending her account and accusing her of using a fake name.... Marissa from User Operations advised her to email a scanned or digital image of a government-issued photo ID providing her first and last name, date of birth and a photograph.

Taliban attacks Kabul's presidential palace, CIA, ISAF HQ, Ministry of Defense
RT - Taliban has launched an attack in central Kabul, targeting the presidential palace, the CIA and ISAF headquarters, the Ministry of Defense, as well as an international hotel. All the assailants have been killed in the 90-minute showdown.

Kerry to travel to Saudi Arabia
Press TV - Kerry will arrive in the western city of Jeddah later on Tuesday and is scheduled to spend several hours with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal and intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan over providing more military aid to militants in Syria.

UK claims Syrian army obstacle to peace
Press TV - British Foreign Secretary William Hague claims the Syrian army’s successful offensive against foreign-backed militants is the biggest obstacle to peace in the country.

Russia rejects US demand for Snowden's extradition
AP - Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday bluntly rejected U.S. demands to extradite National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, who has apparently stopped in Moscow while trying to evade U.S. justice, saying that Snowden hasn't crossed the Russian border.

‘Mad invader, eavesdropper’: China slams US after Snowden accusations
RT - The US has gone from ‘model of human rights’ to manipulator of internet rights, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party wrote. China has struck back at the US over its allegations that Beijing allowed NSA leaker Edward Snowden to leave Hong Kong.

Enemies of Syria Plan Escalated Aggression
Activist Post - Umbrella group members America, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, and Qatar met in Doha. They agreed on "secret" escalating measures. They hope to tip the military balance. They're desperate to counter Assad's impressive victories. He's routing insurgents convincingly. They're no match against Syria's military strength.

Israel “First” to get New Generation F35 Jetfighter: Paid for by American Taxpayers
davidduke.com - The Israeli Air force will be one of the first in the world to be given the very latest Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth jet fighter—even before the aircraft becomes fully operational in the US Air Force. In addition, the $2.75 billion price tag of the F35 shipment to Israel, is less than the annual aid subsidy of more than $3 billion, not including the recent special military budget allocated to the Zionist state.

Afghan protesters clash with US troops
Press TV - The violent clashes broke out as a group of Afghans was rallying for land rights on the road that links Kabul to Jalalabad city. Meanwhile, a convey of US military vehicles arrived at the scene and tried to get past into the nearby base.... The developments come as Washington is trying to defuse tensions with Kabul over the recent opening of a Taliban office in Qatar.

'Get them to write a big check:' Irish banker pulls bailout figure from 'arse' in leaked tapes
RT - Executives at the Anglo Irish Bank were recorded joking about how they lied to Dublin about the bank’s financial future in 2008, convincing lawmakers to invest in the failing bank with figures “picked out of my arse” - with no plans to pay them back.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Snowden’s plane lands in Havana, NSA leaker not seen aboard
RT - Ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden was not seen aboard the plane to Havana on which he was reportedly traveling, reports RT’s correspondent on the flight. The plane has already landed in the Cuban capital.
* Related Article: White House: Snowden still in Russia

VIDEO/ARTICLE: ‘Who betrayed whom?’ Ecuador considers Snowden's asylum, dubs persecution 'paradoxical'
RT - Patino said on Monday that human rights principles were the most important consideration in the case of former CIA contractor.... He stressed that the Ecuadorian government puts human rights above any other party’s interests. Patino also said it is “paradoxical” the person who revealed alleged rights violations is being “persecuted.”

EXCLUSIVE: ED SNOWDEN AND THE GENENE JONES 'BABY KILLER' CONNECTION 
THE GOVERNMENT RAG - Ed Snowden allegedly leaked to the Guardian top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) documents that revealed the extent of the surveillance on American phone and internet communications. The revelation was that the NSA was secretly spying on Citizens and foreigners by monitoring phone and internet activities. Read More...

Richard Clarke: Hastings Accident “Consistent with a Car Cyber Attack”
Kurt Nimmo - Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke told The Huffington Post on Monday that the fatal crash of journalist Michael Hastings’ Mercedes C250 coupe last week is “consistent with a car cyber attack.”

VIDEO: Glenn Greenwald goes off on host for asking if he could be charged for working with Edward Snowden
Activist Post - Glenn Greenwald, the journalist with the Guardian who originally broke the story of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program known as PRISM, attacked “Meet the Press” host David Gregory for asking if Greenwald would be criminally liable for “aiding and abetting” the leaker, Edward Snowden.

Obama’s Police State: A List Of Obama’s 55 Worst Assaults On Civil Liberties
gall-holl.com - REPOST in light of the Ed Snowden revelations, this post is more topical than ever before.

Gun buyback hoax exposed: Police departments actually sell the guns for profit
(NaturalNews) Such programs are operated by police departments who, presumably, either keep the weapons that are purchased or destroy them so they don't wind up in the wrong hands. Little did most Americans know that some departments are actually selling those buy-back guns to gun dealers so they can be resold to the general public. Huh?

VIDEO/ARTICLE: El Dorado County Sheriff Strips Forest Service Of State-Law Enforcement Power
CBS News - Sheriff John D’Agostini is taking the unusual step of pulling the police powers from the federal agency because he says he has received “numerous, numerous complaints.” In a letter obtained by CBS13, the sheriff informs the federal agency that its officers will no longer be able to enforce California state law anywhere in his county.

VIDEO: Ben Swann “Truth In Media” Kickstarter Video 6/24/2013
Liberty Crier - Support the “Truth in Media Project”

VIDEO: Ron Paul: What We Have Learned From Afghanistan
Liberty Crier - "Last week the Taliban opened an office in Doha, Qatar with the US government’s blessing. They raised the Taliban flag at the opening ceremony and referred to Afghanistan as the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”—the name they used when they were in charge before the US attack in 2001...."

DHS no longer conducts regular background checks of immigration applicants
Homeland Security News Wire - DHS is no longer conducting ordinary background checks because of the increase in the volume of amnesty applications which followed President Obama’s executive order, which took effect on 15 August last year.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Handful of Congress Members Move to Rein In Surveillance State
Kurt Nimmo - It’s no mistake the Limiting Internet and Blanket Electronic Review of Telecommunications and Email Act (LIBERT-E Act) received zero coverage by the establishment media.

Not Prepared: 17 Signs That Most Americans Will Be Wiped Out By The Coming Economic Collapse
Economic Collapse - The vast majority of Americans are going to be absolutely blindsided by what is coming. They don't understand how our financial system works, they don't understand how vulnerable it is, and most of them blindly trust that our leaders know exactly what they are doing and that they will be able to fix our problems.

Nearly All Americans Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck
townhall.com - Fewer than one in four Americans have enough money in their savings account to cover at least six months of expenses, enough to help cushion the blow of a job loss, medical emergency or some other unexpected event, according to the survey of 1,000 adults. Meanwhile, 50% of those surveyed have less than a three-month cushion and 27% had no savings at all.

About One Week of US Military Spending Would Wipe Out World Hunger
Anthony Gucciardi | World hunger = $30 billion per year, ‘military defense’ = $737 billion.

Iraq Vet Kills Himself After Being Ordered to Commit “War Crimes”
Paul Joseph Watson - “These things go far beyond what most are even aware of”. Iraq war veteran Daniel Somers committed suicide following an arduous battle with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that was caused by his role in committing “crimes against humanity,” according to the soldier’s suicide note.

Mystery silver substance 'tri-calcium orthophosphate' found in Lake Michigan, prompts beach closure
(NaturalNews) A glittery substance eventually identified as the compound tri-calcium orthophosphate was discovered in Lake Michigan, prompting health officials to close some beaches.

Giant Louisiana sinkhole “now a 22.4-acre opening” — Combined sinkhole area is 49 acres
ENENews - A newly released depth survey shows the hole has grown by 3.1 acres since the last survey in mid-May. This new survey was made three days after containment levees were overtopped.

Obama to Announce Sweeping New Powers on Tuesday - Will Regulate Power Plants to Save Planet from 'Global Warming'
Gateway Pundit - President Obama will announce Tuesday in a speech at Georgetown University that he plans to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from existing power plants, according to individuals who have been briefed on the plan but asked not to be identified.

EPA refuses to finalize study blaming fracking for water pollution
RT - The US Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its plans to further investigate whether or not fracking led to the contamination of a Wyoming aquifer, and the agency no longer plans to write a report on the matter.

VIDEO: Geoengineering: LIVE Updated Presentation – The Most Important Topic of Our Time
Geoengineering Watch - In this video, Dane Wigington gives a presentation in Northern California on the harmful effects of Geoengineering... This is not a topic that will begin to affect us in several years, but is now already causing massive animal and plant die off around the world, as well as human illness.
* Related Government Report: Geoengineering: Governance and Technology Policy

Nano Aerosols and You
Geoengineering Watch - Under development since 1995, the weaponeer’s goal is to install microprocessors incorporating gigaflops computer capability into “smart particles” the size of a single molecule. Electronically networked in the air, thousands of sensors will eventually link into a single supercomputer no larger than a grain of sand.

Worst Hanford tank may be leaking into soil
king5.com - The first ever double-shell tank to have leaked at Hanford may be in far worse condition than anyone imagined. Hanford workers conducting routine maintenance on the tank, known as AY-102, Thursday were shocked to find readings of radioactivity from material outside the tank.

New study finds 7 in 10 Americans on at least one prescription drug, many of which can be deadly
(NaturalNews) A new study by the Mayo Clinic has confirmed what Natural News has been reporting and warning for years: Americans are becoming ever more dependent on prescription drugs. According to the study, nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug and more than half take two.

Cholesterol medications linked to major health issues
(NaturalNews) The evidence within this study [by the Journal of the American Medical Association], suggests that health issues relating to musculoskeletal conditions, arthropathies, injuries, and pain, are more common among statin users than among non-users. Other studies have pointed out that these same types of medications also have the ability to cause conditions relating to issues like memory loss.

Research links hypoglycemia to dementia in later life: Control your blood sugar while you still can
(NaturalNews) Hypoglycemia may increase the risk of dementia and vice versa, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of California-San Francisco and published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.

Regular consumption of red and processed meats boosts diabetes risk by nearly fifty percent
(NaturalNews) A research team from the University of Singapore reports their findings in the JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) that demonstrates a strong correlation between red and processed meat consumption and the risk of developing type II diabetes (T2DM).

Five simple fiber-rich recipes that help to lose weight
(NaturalNews) The average individual gains about a pound or two every year. There are now a lot of diet programs and products to remedy the situation, but losing weight can actually be as easy as increasing one's fiber.

New study links over 7,000 cancer deaths to cell phone tower radiation exposures
(NaturalNews) Could exposure to radiation from cell phone towers really responsible for over 7,000 cancer deaths? According to research findings from Brazil, the facts speak for themselves. The study established a direct link between cancer deaths in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third largest city, with the cell phone network.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: How—or Why—Do Viruses Become Lethal?
Activist Post - Those of us who research vaccine safety issues, which can include the ‘pedigrees’ of various viruses for which vaccines are manufactured, can’t help but wonder how so many unlikely cross-contaminations occur when, in nature, some, if not most, are highly improbable.

Is a hidden food sensitivity harming your health? Here are seven major clues
(NaturalNews) Food should be our first medicine. But it is too often our first poison. GMOs, pesticides, and herbicides are the most obvious toxins. They can be eliminated and replaced by using organically produced produce, grains, dairy, and meats.

Organic coconut oil: A superfood with amazing health benefits
(NaturalNews) Pound for pound, coconut oil is one of the single most nutritious superfoods you can put in your body. It has a vast array of incredible health benefits and is something recommended to almost everyone I talk to on a regular basis.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Nutrition 101: How Processed Foods Make Us Fat, Malnourished, and Sick
Activist Post - Despite overly abundant calories, people who live off of boxed macaroni and cheese, frozen dinners, Ramen noodles, and other packaged foods aren’t getting the nutrients that people who eat a whole foods diet are getting. Deadly GMO ingredients aside, the sheer amount of chemicals in processed foods can lead to disease, obesity, and malnutrition.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Facebook Privacy Blunder Highlights Online Security Gaps
Activist Post -Facebook and the corporate media are trying to downplay a glitch that exposed the personal information of 6 million users. The problem occurred with their Download Your Information tool when it was revealed that additional email addresses and telephone numbers of user contacts were automatically shared.

VIDEO: Ben Swann: NSA’s Criminal Activity
Liberty Crier - Ben Swann Full Disclosure is asking the questions the rest of the media is ignoring. Even by the overreaching standards of the Patriot Act, Ben Swann demonstrates how the NSA’s Prism program is clearly illegal.

FBI Calls Destruction of GMO Sugar Beets in Oregon 'Economic Sabotage'
Green Med Info - When GM pollen blows into a non-GM farmer's fields and irreversibly contaminates his crop with 'biopollution,' who does the law side with? Historically, Monsanto. Also, it's not called 'economic sabotage' but rather 'copyright infringement,' and the victim not the aggressor is threatened with economic ruin.

The Four Steps Required to Keep Monsanto OUT of Your Garden
Waking Times - Planting a sustainable home garden is much more than just choosing certified organic seeds and seedlings because Monsanto has cleverly positioned itself to make money off the home gardening trend.

7 Herbs That Deter Flies Naturally!
TLC - There are herbs that repel flies as well as other pests. They tend to grow easily, are drought resistant, and are often dual purpose. Who knew? It works. Here are some of the best herbs for repelling insects of all kinds

US destroying its military equipment in Afghanistan (worth a reposting)
Press TV - The U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds of vehicles and other military equipment in Afghanistan, wasting an estimated $7 billion in an era of contracting budgets and austerity.

Warmonger Blair urges Syria meddling
Press TV - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for an intervention in the Syrian conflict, saying that the cost paid by the West for not getting involved could be higher than that of intervening in the conflict.

YouTube: David Icke on the real background to Syria
David Icke on the real background to Syria, the 'Arab Spring' and the lies galore we are being told by Obama and Cameron.

UN condemns deadly attack in Somalia
Press TV - In a statement, Ban condemned the attack which took place on June 19 and killed at least 15 people including eight working for the UN saying he was “deeply concerned and outraged by the despicable attack.”

Protester killed, dozens injured as Brazil police face off with a million in 100 cities
RT - An 18-year-old protester has been killed and dozens injured as massive protests continue in Brazil's cities. Over a million people have flooded the streets of the country on Thursday.

Genetically-modified eggplant found to be unsafe for human consumption, environment
(NaturalNews) Field trials of genetically-modified (GM) Bt eggplant, also known as Bt talong, have officially ceased in the Philippines following a major ruling by the nation's Court of Appeals.

Belizean Activists Say Illegal Planting and Smuggling of GMO Soy An Act of Biopiracy
Green Med Info - BAGMO calls on the Government of Belize to provide BAHA with the authority and necessary materials to conduct random and thorough testing throughout Belize for the presence of GMO crops and to immediately eradicate all GMO plant material that is found.

YouTube: Legalized Brutality? Turkish MP says police conduct 'within law'
RT - Another large protest has been dispersed overnight by police using water cannons in Turkey's capital, Ankara. This after Wednesday saw dozens of arrests across the country, as authorities bid to stop the three-weeks long unrest.

UK's new watchdog tells banks to raise another $20 billion
Reuters - Britain's banks will have to raise 13 billion pounds ($20.4 billion) of extra capital and meet a new cap on lending ahead of international peers as the Bank of England seeks to curb risk in the financial sector.

Mass Carnage: Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Silver, Europe And Japan All Get Pummeled
Economic Collapse - Normally we don't see virtually all asset classes get slammed at the same time, but the bucket of cold water that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threw on global financial markets on Wednesday has set off an epic temper tantrum.

Senators warn Obama over Syria war
Press TV - Four bipartisan US senators have introduced a bill aimed at prohibiting the administration of President Barack Obama from providing military assistance to militants in Syria.

US will continue to invest on nuclear weapons, Hagel said
Press TV - The United States will continue to make investments to sustain its nuclear weapons, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said, even as Washington seeks to enter talks with Russia about slashing the number of deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to a third.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: False Flag Biological Attack Expected This Summer?
Activist Post - Why are role-playing actors being hired to portray biological/chemical attacks at political events this summer? Could it foreshadow a false flag attack, or are they just standard training exercises?

YouTube: Two chemtrail tanker jets almost collide with Fed-Ex commercial aircraft
Video footage taken by a Federal Express commercial airline pilot, the tankers didn't appear on the Fed-Ex aircraft avoidance system....in other words they were "Ghost Planes"... The control tower had no idea the Air Force tankers existed and no radar system was available to warn the FedEx pilot of danger.

VIDEO: Ted Cruz Launches National Petition Against Gang of Eight's Bill
Breitbart - "This is urgent," Cruz wrote in an e-mail to supporters. "We must stop this Gang of 8 immigration bill, which would give amnesty to an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants with no guarantee of a secure border."... Cruz urged supporters to share the petition with friends and to "act now--without delay--to help us defeat amnesty and stand for legal immigration!"

Evidence Indicates Michael Hastings Was Assassinated
Paul Joseph Watson - he revelation that Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was working on a story about the CIA before his death and had contacted a Wikileaks lawyer about being under investigation by the FBI hours before his car exploded into flames has bolstered increasingly valid claims that the 33-year-old was assassinated.

Michael Hastings Assassinated for Work Uncovering Surveillance State
Kurt Nimmo - The journalist Michael Hastings, who died in what authorities have described as a high-speed car crash, was an active member of Project PM, a crowd-sourced research effort to expose government intelligence contractors.

RIP Michael Hastings | Hero
RT - Abby Martin highlighting the late Michael Hastings as the day's hero, citing his work as an honest journalist who pulled no punches, and remembers his courageous storytelling.

Tell TSA What You Think About Its “Surface Mode” Gestapo
Kurt Nimmo - The TSA wants to know what you think of its effort to turn thousands of transportation employees – drivers, maintenance technicians, dispatchers, station attendants, customer service employees, engineers, conductors, trainmen and others – into low-level Gestapo agents for the ever-expanding police state.

The American prison system is so massive that its estimated turnover of $74 billion eclipses the GDP of 133 nations
xrepublic.tv - What is perhaps most unsettling about this fun fact is that it is the American taxpayer who foots the bill, and is increasingly padding the pockets of publicly traded corporations like Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group. Combined both companies generated over $2.53 billion in revenue in 2012, and represent more than half of the private prison business.

South Padre Island beach in Texas litters beach with spy cameras
Julie Wilson - Sadly, families cannot partake in the simplest of tasks anymore, such as vacationing without being photographed and surveyed by the government.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Oregon State Police Taser Autistic Child Found Wandering Naked
Adan Salazar - Instead of questioning authorities and pressing officers on why they would Tase an 11-year-old, the compliant reporters attempt to convince viewers they’re remaining objective and presenting all the facts. As her father mentioned, the reporters also intentionally misled viewers over the girl’s age, referring to her as a “woman.”

Wiedemer: Fed Will Print More in 2014 Than in Past 100 Years Combined, Sending Gold to $7,000/oz!
silverdoctors.com - Bob Wiedemer, author of “The Aftershock Investor,” says, “People are defiantly in denial about what we’re doing. . . . Nobody mentions the $85 billion a month we’re printing now. . . . We’ve only printed about $800 billion in the last 100 years. We’re going to print more than that next year. So, literally 100 years of printing next year.”

VIDEO: 11 Things You Need To Know About Silver Right Now
Silver Shield - Many of you are waking up to Sub $20 Silver with another huge paper smash in the early hours of the day. This follows the Fed Speak and is typical hit an run for these banksters, especially during the seasonal summer doldrums of silver. They want no alternative to the almighty dollar and will use every trick int he book to break that resistance.

Bail-in of Western Banking System Officially Begins As UK’s Co-Operative Bank to Bail-in £1.5bn With 100% Losses!
silverdoctors.com - In the wake of the Cyprus Popular Bank’s depositor bail-in, we alerted SD readers on April 2nd to the fact that bail-ins were coming to the US and UK, as The Fed and BOE had quietly created a resolution authority for unlimited bail-ins for TBTF banks.

Saudi Arabia arms militants in Syria
Press TV - According to the Daily Telegraph, militant sources said they had received the first batch of the heavy weaponry from Saudi Arabia in Aleppo. The sources said that more arms, including higher-end missiles, would be sent to the militants later.

Foreign Death Squad Network in Syria Larger Than Stated by West
Activist Post - Western governments and media outlets have attempted to downplay both the role and the number of foreign fighters in Syria. This is, of course, understandable, considering the agenda of the NATO forces in regards to the country.

US destroying its military equipment in Afghanistan
Press TV - The U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds of vehicles and other military equipment in Afghanistan, wasting an estimated $7 billion in an era of contracting budgets and austerity.

Intelsat stops services to Iran channels
Press TV - Communications satellite services provider Intelsat has announced the suspension of its services to the channels launched from Iran as the West's campaign against free speech intensifies.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Crowd of 30,000 overruns police cordon ahead of Brazil football match (Photos)
RT - Dozens were hurt as riot police unleashed tear gas and barrage of rubber bullets at a crowd of some 30,000 Brazilian protesters.

Mask ban: Canada's veiled protesters face 10 years' jail
RT - A new Canadian law forbids people from wearing a mask or covering their face during a riot or so-called “unlawful assembly” in the country. The law carries a maximum ten-year sentence for anyone convicted of physically concealing their identity.

Kerry Called For “Immediate” Air Strikes on Syria
Paul Joseph Watson - US Secretary of State John Kerry called for “immediate” air strikes on Syria last week following the Obama administration’s claim that President Bashar Al-Assad had used chemical weapons, a rush to war that was soundly rejected by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Kerry calls Karzai to ease tension over Taliban office
Press TV - US Secretary of State John Kerry has called Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the second time over the past 24 hours in a bid to defuse tension with Afghanistan after Kabul opposed the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar.

Jordan, US hold drills in desert areas
Press TV - Military forces from the United States and Jordan have held war games in desert areas near the Syrian border with the Persian Gulf country.

Russian Cyberspace Head Calls For Internet Kill Switch
Paul Joseph Watson - The head of Russia’s cyberspace policy today called for global governments to react to the NSA spy scandal by creating a United Nations-style body that would have regulatory control over the Internet – including a web kill switch.

VIDEO: First Congress Member Allowed to Read Secret TPP Treaty - "This Agreement Hands The Sovereignty of Our Country Over to Corporate Interests”
Washington's Blog - Yesterday, Congressman Alan Grayson... announced that he had been allowed to read the text of TPP – and that it is an anti-American power grab by big corporations...

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Journalist Michael Hastings Dies in Fiery Crash / Hollywood RAW FOOTAGE
12160.info - Written by City News Service - Journalist Michael Hastings, whose blunt Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal led to the resignation of the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, died today in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to the magazine and a website for which he worked.

VIDEO: FBI uses drones in U.S., says Mueller
CNN News - FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged the law enforcement agency uses drone aircraft in the United States for surveillance in certain difficult cases. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that drones are used by the FBI in a "very, very minimal way and very seldom."

VIDEO: DHS Claims Billions of Bullets Purchased Were “Clerical Error”
Warner Todd Huston - A fellow named Steve Knepp came across some agents of the Department of Homeland Security in Philadeplhia that claimed that the 2 billion bullets ordered by his agency was “quite possibly a clerical error.” The agent told Mr. Knepp that it was absurd that people think that DHS would even have enough money to buy that many bullets all at once.

The Forced Depopulation of America’s Rural Areas
Activist Post - If you wonder why New York City Mayor Bloomberg and Michelle Obama have been trying to control the size of sodas, the amount of salt one can use and are dictating what school children will eat for lunch, the answer is that they are conditioning the American public that the government controls all food intake. The reasons for these new controls over diet will become painfully clear after reading the following paragraphs.

Executive At Monsanto Wins Global Food Honor
NY Times - On Wednesday the World Food Prize Foundation said the honor and the $250,000 cash prize would be shared by Robert T. Fraley, Monsanto’s executive vice president and chief technology officer, and two other scientists, Marc Van Montagu of Belgium and Mary-Dell Chilton of the United States.

VIDEO: GOP Rep's Epic 1-Minute Beatdown Of Barack Obama On House Floor
ijreview.com - Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) took to the House Floor Monday and delivered a brief – yet awesome – skewering of Barack Obama, his administration and his vice president. Must-watch.

VIDEO: Investigative Journalist Michael Hastings Dies in Fiery Hollywood Crash - "It sounded like a bomb went off"
Blacklisted News - Michael Hastings Currently Was Working On CIA And NSA Story.

TWA Flight 800 crash not due to gas tank explosion, say former investigators
Yahoo! News - The producers of an upcoming documentary on TWA Flight 800—which exploded and crashed into the waters off Long Island, N.Y., on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 people on board—claim to have proof that an explosion outside the Paris-bound flight caused the crash. And six former investigators who took part in the film say there was a cover-up and want the case reopened.

Topeka, KS: No school insurance if teachers have guns
cjonline.com - Allowing teachers and other employees to carry guns under a new state law would cost most school districts their insurance. EMC Insurance Companies, the state’s main insurer of schools, won’t insure districts with armed employees under the new law, which takes effect July 1. Districts already insured by EMC wouldn’t have their policies renewed.

NJ Supreme Court Rules State Can Seek Custody Of Child Without Evidence Of Abuse
CBS News - Diana Autin [executive director of Statewide Parent Advocacy Network] says under the court’s ruling, the state can get custody of a child with behavior problems if it proves that the parent can’t provide the type of services the child needs and the services are in the child’s best interest. She says the division can get custody without using the state’s abuse and neglect law.

Attempted Land Grab Ends With Voters Booting Entire City Council
reason.com - Government officials like to use eminent domain for the convenience of their preferred policies and/or the enrichment of themselves and their buddies. Usually, they get away with it, because the folks on the receiving end are too few and powerless to hold their tormentors to account.

32 Facts That Show How Men Are Being Systematically Emasculated In America Today
Economic Collapse - What is wrong with men in America? Why isn't our country producing lots of strong, independent, hard working men of character like it once did?

Obama Set to Kill U.S. Jobs Market with 30 Million Workers
Intel Hub - With the decline in employment, rather than implement ways to increase growth in the economy, the Obama administration is doing just the opposite. It is clear to so many people now that Obama was selected by the Elite to bring about the destruction of the United States. No decision he has made has had a single positive impact to our country – not one.

Poll finds nearly two-thirds see U.S. economy as poor
upi.com - Nearly two-thirds of Americans rate the U.S. economy as poor while 35 percent say it is good, a national poll indicates.

VIDEO: IRS to pay $70M in employee bonuses despite spending cuts
Fox News - The IRS is set to pay roughly $70 million in employee-union bonuses, contrary to an Obama administration directive to halt such rewards amid the deep, government-wide budget cuts known as sequestration.

Dow Skids 200, Stocks End Down 1% as Fed Hints at Stimulus Slowdown
CNBC News - Stocks accelerated their selloff in the final hour of trading to end near session lows Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve said it will maintain its bond-buying program, though Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted that the central bank plans to moderate purchases later this year.

VIDEO: Ron Paul: Dollar Will Collapse, Gold Will “Go To Infinity”
Steve Watson - Appearing on CNBC yesterday, former Congressman Ron Paul warned that if the US continues on its current course, the dollar will collapse, and gold will literally be priceless. “Eventually, if we’re not carefully, it will go to infinity, because the dollar will collapse totally,” Paul said on CNBC.com’s Futures Now.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: National Mortgage Settlement Monitor Finds Few Flaws As Consumer Advocates Cry Foul
Huffington Post - The government-appointed monitor overseeing mortgage practices as part of last year’s robo-signing settlement between five big U.S. banks and dozens of government agencies found few violations after grading the banks’ compliance with ambitious new standards, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

West to send more arms to Syria
Press TV - Informed diplomats have said a plan for providing foreign-backed militants fighting against the Syrian government in the southwestern city of Dara'a and on the northern borders with Turkey with weapons has entered the implementation phase.

Obama urged to crush Syria’s air power
Press TV - In a letter to Obama on Tuesday, the chairmen of the Foreign Relations and Armed Forces panels Senator Bob Menendez, as well as Carl Levin and John McCain urged the president to immediately send weapons to the militants in Syria, The Hill reported.

Israel backs US arming of Syria militants
Press TV - Israeli President Shimon Peres has supported the United States plans to provide foreign-backed militants in Syria with weapons.

Karzai suspends talks with US over Taliban move
AP - The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find a way to end the nearly 12-year war.

Israel violates Lebanese airspace
Press TV - There were reports that the enemy plane had carried out circular maneuvers over the regions before it left Lebanon’s airspace at 22:15 pm towards the occupied territories while flying over the town of Naqoura in South Lebanon. Israel violates Lebanon's airspace on an almost daily basis, claiming the flights serve surveillance purposes.

Obama Has Plans to Cut U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, if Russia Reciprocates
NY Times - President Obama plans to use a speech in Berlin on Wednesday to outline plans for further reductions in the American nuclear arsenal if Russia agrees to pare back its weapons at the same time, administration officials said Tuesday.

Brazil to deploy National Security troops against protesters
RT - The Brazilian government will deploy National Public Security Force in five cities hosting the FIFA football tournament in an effort to contain the ongoing protests across the country.

YouTube: G8 backs Syria conference, calls for chemical probe & removal of al-Qaeda fighters
RT - While the G8 was struggling to find a diplomatic end to the Syrian conflict, violence on the ground kept escalating. At least 60 government troops have been killed near Aleppo in a car bomb attack allegedly carried out by Al-Qaeda affiliated rebels - shortly after a similar blast in Damascus that left 10 soldiers dead.

VIDEO: US to begin direct peace talks with Taliban 'within days'
france24.com - Senior US officials said on Tuesday that they will enter peace talks with the Taliban at a new office in Doha "within the coming days", in what may be a significant step towards an end to the long-running war.

Snowden seeks asylum in Iceland through intermediary
RT - Iceland has been informally contacted by an intermediary who stated that NSA leaker, former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, wants asylum in the Nordic island-state, Reuters reports. The difficulty though is that he is not in the country.

The Chinese Version of Agenda 21 and Why the US Should Care
Activist Post - The Chinese government is in the process of relocating 250,000 people per week from rural farmlands to densely populated urban areas into what has been dubbed as the Chinese ghost towns. Many of us have heard about these Chinese ghost cities. However, until this year we didn’t really know the true purpose of why these ghost cities were being built. However, the veil is being lifted and now it is becoming very obvious as to what the Chinese are up to.

US senators question aid to Honduras, citing extrajudicial killings
RNIF - A number of US senators have questioned Obama administration™s foreign aid to Honduras, pointing to growing reports of human rights atrocities in the Central American country that has long been regarded as a US-client state.

YouTube: Rand Paul Blasts Dick Cheney: 'Someone Should Have Been Removed From Office' For Pre-9/11 Failures
6/18/13 - Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on CNN's The Situation Room on Tuesday evening where he was asked to respond to former Vice President Dick Cheney who told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that the junior Kentucky senator was wrong when he criticized the NSA's surveillance programs.

VIDEO: BOOM! Talk About Dropping a Truth Bomb on Live TV
Activist Post - This is an older video, but it's worth watching. Former U.S. Marine Ken O'Keefe goes off on a truther rant like no other. You won't ever see this on CNN.

VIDEO: Real Life Spy Drama On U.S. Bound Plane? “I’m Dead Already, They’re Gonna Kill Me”
Activist Post - To add further drama and confusion to the story of Edward Snowden, NSA Spying and Central Intelligence Agency involvement, a passenger on a U.S. bound flight out of Hong Kong Monday claimed that intelligence agents had detained him, were going to kidnap him, take him to a safe house, and that they planned to kill him because of his knowledge about the recently released leaks.

VIDEO: Audit The IRS Rally June 19th Noon - US Capitol West Lawn
Daily Caller - Conservative activists are planning to storm Capitol Hill on Wednesday for what they are predicting will be “the largest Tea Party protest since 2010.” The protest — drawing tea partiers like TV host Glenn Beck and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul — is in response to the Internal Revenue Service’s recent admission that it has been specifically targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

Senate rejects border fence
Washington Times - Senators on Tuesday rejected building the 700 miles of double-tier border fencing Congress authorized just seven years ago, with a majority of the Senate saying they didn’t want to delay granting illegal immigrants legal status while the fence was being built.

NORAD’s Falcon Virgo Exercise Rolls Out in D.C. Today
Kurt Nimmo June 18, 2013 - On June 17, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs announced a NORAD exercise for the Washington, D.C. area to be held between June 18 and June 19. The Defense Department press release states...

The 12 Principles of Enslavement
Activist Post - There were always people who wanted to control others and by imposing their will secure their existence, materially and spiritually.

US Companies Lobbying Furiously To Save Corporate Tax Loopholes
Huffington Post - The seamy details of this lobbying effort are found in a new study by the reform advocacy group Public Citizen. It is arguably one of the least-surprising studies in the history of studies, right up there with research confirming that popes tend to wear large hats. But it makes for depressing, eye-opening reading nonetheless.

Fox commentator paid $50,000 to tout stock
marketwatch.com - Most investors can’t tell the difference between “sponsored investment research” and independent analysis, and that’s exactly what the “sponsors” — typically small companies paying for a marketing campaign that will inflate their stock activity and value — are counting on.

Man Who Oversees $150 Billion Warns Of Hyperinflation
King World News - Rob Arnott, who has won an unprecedented six Graham & Dodd Awards and is also Chairman of Research Affiliates, also warned KWN about the dangers of what the Fed and other central planners are engaging in as they lead us into a reckless and potentially game-ending and destructive “Hyper-Keynes” policy.

Watch Your Cash: New BAIL-IN Rules Will Force “Failed Bank Losses on Investors”
Mac Slavo - When the Cypriot government forced account holders to cover bank losses earlier this year most of the world assumed this was a one-off event, limited only to the people of Cyprus. Though warnings urging depositors to get their money out of banks spread across the world, few have taken them seriously. Perhaps now they’ll reconsider.

Farewell Bernanke – Thanks For Inflating The Biggest Bond Bubble The World Has Ever Seen
Activist Post - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is on the way out the door, but the consequences of the bond bubble that he has helped to create will stay with us for a very, very long time. During Bernanke's tenure, interest rates on U.S. Treasuries have fallen to record lows. This has enabled the U.S. government to pile up an extraordinary amount of debt.

10 Disturbing Tales From The Side Streets And Dark Alleys Of America
Economic Collapse - As our economic decline becomes even more severe, the hearts of even more Americans are going to grow cold. And people with cold hearts can do some absolutely terrible things. The following are 10 disturbing tales from the side streets and dark alleys of America...

VA Gulf War panel members walk out to protest changes
Army Times - Three members of a Veterans Affairs Department advisory committee on Persian Gulf War illnesses walked out of a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday to protest planned changes to the board’s makeup — alterations they say are designed to neuter the often outspoken panel.

‘US deploys 1,500 Marines to Yemen’
Press TV - Some 1,500 Marines were deployed to al-Anad military base in the country’s southern province of Lahij, al-Sharea daily quoted the official as saying on Monday.... The official also said that American forces usually enter the country in small groups, but the recent large deployment could be in preparation for a possible imminent incident in the region.

Demonstrations held in Berlin ahead of Obama visit
Press TV - On Monday, around 400 demonstrators rallied in Berlin in protest against Washington's use of its assassination drones, which have killed thousands of people in Afghanistan and around the world.... The US president is scheduled to speak before 4,000 people at the Brandenburg Gate, on Wednesday.

‘Police conduct raids across Turkey’
Press TV - Turkish police have carried out multiple raids across the country and detained dozens of anti-government protesters, local media have reported.

VIDEO: Brazil sees largest protests in decades as unrest hits second week
RT - Mass protests continued throughout Brazil on Monday, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators converging in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brasilia and other cities.

‘Saudis send missiles to Syria militants’
Press TV - Saudi Arabia has been purchasing missiles from suppliers in France and Belgium since two months ago and has sent them to militants in Syria, a report says.

EU, US to launch talks on ‘biggest bilateral trade deal in history’
RT - US President Barack Obama and EU leaders have officially announced they will start negotiations on the creation of the world’s biggest free-trade agreement, which could boost economic growth on both sides of the Atlantic.
* Related Article/Video: Tax evasion priority number one...

Putin and Obama agree to push both sides in Syrian conflict to Geneva talks
RT - Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama have agreed to push the sides of the ongoing Syrian conflict to the negotiating table in Geneva. The leaders made the pledge after a 2 hour meeting at the G8 summit.

Did Israel Attack Syria Again?
Paul Joseph Watson - The IDF is refusing to comment on reports that Israel attacked the Al-Miza military airbase near Damascus last night, which if true could lead to a Syrian response and a massive escalation of the 27 month conflict.

UN chief to travel to China
Press TV - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said on his visit to China next week he will discuss China's "key role" in boosting UN programs around the world. "

No trial, transfer or release: Gitmo's 'indefinite detainees' identified
RT - For the first time since President Obama took office Washington has publicly disclosed the names of inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp classified as “indefinite detainees” - those who pose too great a threat to release but cannot be tried in court.

VIDEO: Edward Snowden: Dick Cheney Calling Me A Traitor Is An Honor
Liberty Crier - When asked about being called a traitor by Dick Cheney Edward Snowden said, “This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American.”

VIDEO: Judge Napolitano: We Live In Dangerous Times, Losing Liberty To Slippery Slope
Liberty Crier - Judge Andrew Napolitano talks with Neil Cavuto about the erosion of our liberties and makes comparisons of today’s surveillance operations to those of Stalin’s tyrannical and murderous regime.

The Supreme Court Decided Your Silence Can Be Used Against You
Atlantic Wire - A nation continues to wait for final word on the Supreme Court's Big Four cases this term — voting rights, affirmative action, DOMA, and Proposition 8 — but the justices' closest decision arrived first on Monday, in a 5-4 ruling on Salinas v. Texas in which the conservative members of the Court and Anthony Kennedy determined that if you remain silent before police read your Miranda rights, that silence can and will be held against you.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Obama To Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny
Real Clear Politics - U.S. President Barack Obama gives the commencement address to the graduating class of The Ohio State University at Ohio Stadium on May 5, 2013 in Columbus, Ohio.

VIDEO: Big Drop In Obama’s Approval Rating
Liberty Crier - President Obama’s approval rating dropped eight points since May. CNN’s Chris Cuomo and John King report.

US offers $300 million to Syria refugees
Press TV - In another sign of illegal interference in the internal affairs of Syria, the United States is offering a new $300 million aid package for Syrian refugees.... Deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes told reporters that the new donation will bring the total U.S. aid to Syrian refugees to over $800 million.

Obama Restricts Spying In Mosques While Spying Everywhere Else
investors.com - The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won't snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are. That's right, the government's sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized.

Voter Proof-of-Citizenship Law Voided by Supreme Court
Bloomberg - The U.S. Supreme Court threw out an Arizona law requiring evidence of citizenship when people register to vote, in a victory for minority-rights advocates and the Obama administration.

VIDEO: State photo-ID databases become troves for police
Washington Post - The faces of more than 120 million people are in searchable photo databases that state officials assembled to prevent driver’s-license fraud but that increasingly are used by police to identify suspects, accomplices and even innocent bystanders in a wide range of criminal investigations.

Scammers Use Obamacare To Steal Identities Of Elderly
CBS News - According to consumer watchdogs, scammers are trying to fool consumers, in many cases seniors, into giving up personal information by claiming they’ve been selected to be among the first to get insurance cards for “Obamacare.”

Nanny Mike Strikes Again: Plans to Force Citizens to Compost
Kurt Nimmo - Nanny Mike, who has outlawed consumption of large soft drinks and smoking outdoors, has an ambitious plan to handle 100,000 tons of food scraps a year and convert residential food waste into biogas for electricity generation, according to the New York Times.

Whenever Margin Debt Goes Over 2.25% Of GDP The Stock Market Always Crashes
Economic Collapse - What do 1929, 2000 and 2007 all have in common? Those were all years in which we saw a dramatic spike in margin debt. In all three instances, investors became highly leveraged in order to "take advantage" of a soaring stock market. But of course we all know what happened each time.

Ex-McDonald’s worker sues franchise that required fee-based payroll debit cards
cpapracticeadvisor.com - The Shavertown, Pennsylvania, McDonald's forces workers to be paid only one way: with a payroll debit card that burdens workers with hefty fees to obtain their hard-earned cash, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of Gunshannon and other McDonald's workers.

Gulf War Panel: We’re Being Purged for Contradicting the VA
theamericanconservative.com - Members of a heretofore independent panel on Gulf War Illness are accusing Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki of “shooting the messenger” by gutting their committee and slashing half its members in a recent charter rewrite.

Iran to ‘deploy 4,000-strong force’ to Syria as US military set to stay in Jordan
RT - Iran will deploy 4,000 Revolutionary Guards to Syria to bolster Damascus against a mostly Sunni-led insurgency, media reported. Meanwhile, US F-16s and Patriots will stay in Jordan – speculatively, to help establish a no-fly zone to aid Syrian rebels.

Britain prepared for war in Syria two years before the crisis flared up, France’s former FM says
SANA - Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said that Britain had been preparing gunmen to invade Syria two years before the crisis there flared up in 2011.During a TV show, Dumas said ''I was in Britain two years ago, and I met British officials, some my friends…they admitted that they were up to something in Syria.''

VIDEO: Iran presidential election, remarkably free and fair: Analyst
Press TV - “This was really a remarkable election. I think no one can doubt that amongst the six candidates this was a free and fair election,” William Beeman, professor at the University of Minnesota, told Press TV on Monday. Hassan Rohani emerged victorious in Iran's 11th presidential election by winning 50.7 percent of the vote.

N. Korea proposes high-level talks with US
RT - Pyongyang has proposed high-level talks with the US without preconditions, KCNA state news agency reports. This comes after North and South Korea canceled negotiations amid high tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Turkish police arrest 500 protesters
Press TV - Turkish police have arrested 500 people during anti-government protests in the capital city of Ankara and Istanbul, amid calls for a nationwide strike.

Hundreds in Hong Kong protest NSA surveillance
freep.com - In a show of protest against U.S. surveillance programs and in support of whistle-blower Edward Snowden, several hundred people marched Saturday to the U.S. Consulate General and the offices of the Hong Kong government despite drizzly weather.

Rio police tear gas thousands at protest demanding health care and education
Raw Story - Police deployed tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse around 3,000 protestors from outside Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium ahead of the Confederations Cup match between Italy and Mexico on Sunday. The demonstrators were attempting to enter the stadium in protest at the vast sums of money spent on the organisation of the tournament and next year’s World Cup, which Brazil is also hosting.

VIDEO: Inside Bilderberg: Clues left in the Grove Hotel reveal another piece to their financial agenda
21stcenturywire.com - Investigative journalists from the UK Column, American Free Press and Sovereign Independent accidentally wandered into a presentation suite at the Grove – only discover the remnants of a presentation by Thomson Reuters which Bilderberg organisers had neglected to take down after the event. It read “”unleashing the power of our unified platform on financial markets”.

Iceland Decides Against Joining The EU
euobserver.com - Iceland's bid to join the EU is over, the country's foreign minister told the European Commission on Thursday (13 June). "This is how democracy works," said Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, on his first overseas trip, three weeks after being appointed to the recently elected Icelandic government.

GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits
Guardian - Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts... Some delegates were tricked into using internet cafes which had been set up by British intelligence agencies to read their email traffic.

Japan Suspends Recommendation of HPV Vaccines
sanevax.org - 14 June 2013: Merck’s Gardasil and GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix took a hit as Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare told local governments to suspend their previous recommendation for HPV vaccine administration to the country’s 12 to 16 year old girls.

US picks new envoy to oversee Guantanamo closure
RT - The US State Department is expected on Monday to announce the appointment of a new lawyer to oversee the closure of the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison.

Admission: Special Forces were only hours from Benghazi
WND - In a bombshell admission that has until now gone unreported, Martin Dempsey, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, conceded that highly trained Special Forces were stationed just a few hours away from Benghazi on the night of the attacks but were not told to deploy to Libya.

White House defends high bills for Africa trip
Washington Times - The Obamas’ trip, at a time of “sequestration” budget cuts, will take them to Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa from June 26 to July 3. Citing a confidential planning document, the Washington Post reported that the trip will cost between $60 million to $100 million.

VIDEO: Louisiana rocked by week's second chemical plant blast
RT - A chemical plant has exploded in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, less than two days after a deadly blast in the nearby town of Geismar. At least one person was killed Friday evening, and some seven injured.

VIDEO: 14-year-old at the center of "NRA T-Shirt Controversy"
WOWK 13 - Suspended and arrested after refusing to change his NRA shirt. Today, 14-year-old Jared Marcum appeared before a judge and was officially charged with obstructing an officer. A $500 fine and up to a year in jail, that's the penalty that Jared could face, now that a judge has allowed the prosecution to move forward with it's obstructing an officer charge against him.

Obama’s Syria Policy Looks a Lot Like Bush’s Iraq Policy
The Ron Paul Institute - President Obama announced late last week that the US intelligence community had just determined that the Syrian government had used poison gas on a small scale, killing some 100 people in a civil conflict that has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives.
* Related Video: Ron Paul on Obama's Syria WMD...

FBI's Use of Patriot Act to Secretly Obtain Americans' Business Records Increased by 1,000% Under Obama
AllGov News - The probing involves Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which permits the FBI to obtain business records and other “tangible things”—including “books, records, papers, documents and other items,” as part of a terrorism or foreign intelligence investigation.

House Passes Ban on Drone Strikes Against US Citizens
Activist Post - An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014 that will ban drone strikes against American citizens passed in the House on Friday. However, the amendment does contain an exception for Americans "actively engaged in combat against the United States".... The 2014 NDAA now heads to the Senate.

DHS Admits Boston Training Drill Involving Backpack Explosives Planned Months Before Marathon
Anthony Gucciardi - The Department of Homeland Security has gone public with an admission that an exercise was planned months before the Boston Marathon bombings that involved backpacks being used to detonate explosives by rogue terrorists.

Censorship Abounds: The Handful of Companies That Control Your Perceptions
Activist Post - The world has become censored in ways you wouldn’t even imagine in both covert and overt ways. Let’s look at the six major corporations who control every single media station that you probably peruse on a daily basis...

U.S. Court Decisions confirm "Driving a Motor Vehicle" is a right, not a govt granted privilege
Jack McLamb - Legislators, police officers and court officials are becoming aware that there are now court decisions that prove the fallacy of the legal opinion that" driving is a privilege and therefore requires government approval, i.e. a license". Some of these cases are...

Expect Panic & Devastation As Control Of Markets Is Lost
King World News - Today one of the top economists in the world warned King World News that investors should expect panic and devastation as central planners lose control of markets. Michael Pento, founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies, also spoke about precious metals and unprecedented turmoil in global markets.

10 Charts That Show The Incredible Power Of Having Economic Information Seconds Before The Rest Of The Market
Business Insider - Thomson Reuters has been giving elite traders a 2 second advantage on the bi-monthly Consumer Confidence index, a key number for traders. In the past few days, that revelation has angered a lot of people on Wall Street.

Rotting, Decaying And Bankrupt – If You Want To See The Future Of America Just Look At Detroit
Economic Collapse - Eventually the money runs out. Much of America was shocked when the city of Detroit defaulted on a $39.7 million debt payment and announced that it was suspending payments on $2.5 billion of unsecured debt, but those who visit my site on a regular basis were probably not too surprised.

The era of cheap food may be over
Guardian - The last decade saw the end of cheap oil, the magic growth ingredient for the global economy after the second world war. This summer's increase in maize, wheat and soya bean prices – the third spike in the past five years – suggests the era of cheap food is also over.

VIDEO: Veterans claim V.A. is 'gutting' research

VIDEO: More trouble for the Department of Veterans Affairs

US decides to keep fighters in Jordan
Press TV - The United States has decided to keep F-16 fighter jets and Patriot anti-missile weapons in Jordan after ending a joint military drill there this month.

Russia slams ‘fabricated’ info on Syria
Press TV - A senior Russian lawmaker says information on the use of chemical weapons by Syrian forces against militants is ‘fabricated.’

YouTube: Iran votes for new president amid Ahmadinejad's controversial legacy
RT - Iran is going to the polls to choose the successor of president Ahmadinejad, who is winding up his maximum eight year term at the top job....

No result after talks on Turkey protests
Press TV - Negotiations between Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the representatives of anti-government protesters have ended without a clear result.

S Africa punishes troops over UN mission
Press TV - Ninety-three South African soldiers have been disciplined for offenses committed while deployed in a United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

'Afghan forces kill 50 Taliban militants'
Press TV - Afghan forces backed by US-led foreign troops have killed 50 Taliban militants and injured many others during cleanup operations across the war-ravaged country over the past 24 hours... The statement, however, did not mention whether there were any casualties on the side of Afghan or foreign forces.

‘S Africa to return Gaddafi-linked assets’
Press TV - South Africa has reached an agreement with Libya to return more than 1 billion US dollars in assets stashed in the country by former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

‘Harmful for children’: Turkish TV channels fined for live coverage of protests
RT - Turkey’s TV watchdog fined four TV channels over their live coverage of the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, citing that the broadcasts were "harming the physical, moral and mental development of children and young people."

Turkish PM, protest leaders hold talks
Press TV - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has entered into emergency talks with representatives of anti-government protesters after they rebuffed his ultimatum to leave Gezi Park in central Istanbul.

Obama Admin Considers Resettling Thousands of Syrian Refugees in U.S.
Breitbart - The Obama administration is considering resettling thousands of refugees who left Syria during the country's ongoing civil war to multiple towns and cities across the United States, the L.A. Times reports.

Is Obama Starting A War With Syria Just To Distract Us From All The Scandals?
Economic Collapse - Well, isn’t that convenient? At the moment when the Obama administration is feeling more heat then ever before, it starts another war. Suddenly everyone in the mainstream media is talking all about Syria and not about the IRS scandal, Benghazi,NSA snooping or any of the other political scandals that have popped up in recent weeks.

With Scandals Raging At Home, Obama (Conveniently) Discovers Chemical Weapons Use in Syria
lewrockwell.com - Barely a week after President Obama announced the ascendance of the left-neocon, humanitarian interventionist cultists Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the top of his foreign policy team, and in a time of choking scandal, alas a light at the end of the tunnel has appeared for the Obama regime: his old friend war!

Maine House Crushingly Supports GMO Labeling: 141 to 4 Vote
Natural Society - The state of Maine House has voted to pass a bill called LD 718 that would require all genetically modified food products to carry a label describing them as such. “Produced with Genetic Engineering” is the key phrase that is being used.

VIDEO: Monsanto Video Revolt: Massive Grassroots Campaign Launched Against GMOs, Monsanto
Natural Society - Following the great success of campaigns like March Against Monsanto, the new Monsanto Video Revolt brings the online revolution against Monsanto to life by enabling powerful activism on and before July 24th, 2013.

Obama ‘Strongly Objects’ to Religious Liberty Amendment
Fox News - The Obama Administration “strongly objects” to a proposed amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday that would have protected the religious rights of soldiers – including evangelical Christian service members who are facing growing hostility towards their religion.

Reality Check: Process for Government Assassination Of U.S. Citizens
Liberty Crier - Can the office of the President play the role of judge, jury and executioner when it comes to terror suspects, even U.S. Citizens? A leaked Justice Department memo asserts that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are suspected to be senior operational leaders of Al Quaeda.

Memo: State Department Hired Agents with Criminal Records
Breitbart - And now we have a third scandal emanating from Hillary Clinton's State Department. A shocking memo obtained by the New York Post says that the State Department hired an "alarming number of law-enforcement agents with criminal or checkered backgrounds because of a flawed hiring process."

VIDEO: Ben Swann Naming Names In IRS Scandal On Hannity
Liberty Crier - Claims that IRS targeting of conservative groups were conducted by a small number of rogue agents are falling apart. Ben Swann reveals that none of the six agents involved in the scandal have the same manager. The only person linked to all of the agents is Cindy Thomas, the program manager of the tax exempt organizations division and the highest ranking official in the Cincinnati division.

IRS Cancels Order for Spying Equipment
CNS News - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has cancelled its purchase order for surveillance equipment, which had included coffee trays with hidden cameras and cameras that could be hidden in plants.... Neither the IRS press office nor the IRS procurement office responded to inquiries from CNSNews.com asking why the purchase order was cancelled.

IG: IRS Employees Abused Charge Cards and Wrote Bad Checks
CNS News - The report said that during the two years in question agency employees sent Citibank a total of 325 bad checks written on personal accounts that had insufficient funds to cover them, that agency officials with top-secret security clearances had their charge accounts suspended for failure to pay the balances, and that the IRS had a tendency of being “overly lenient” in disciplining those who misused the cards.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Obama Justice Department Silent On NY Cops Violating Fourth Amendment
Kurt Nimmo - On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder filed a Justice Department brief in a class-action lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s policy of violating the Fourth Amendment with its controversial stop-and-frisk program.

Complaint Challenges Constitutionality of Florida Prescription Drug Database
journalonline.com - Florida’s prescription drug monitoring database program violates the state’s constitution, invades the privacy of residents and subjects them to unreasonable searches, according to an amended complaint filed Wednesday in circuit court in Volusia County.

House Committee Approves 20-Week Abortion Ban
Breitbart - The House is girding for another wrenching debate on abortion after a House panel on Wednesday approved legislation that would ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks.

Former Tea Party Governor Makes Possession of Bong a Felony
Kurt Nimmo - It’s another sign that the Tea Party meme is an excuse to institute more statist coercion. Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed legislation that will make possession of a pipe a third degree felony beginning July 1. A third degree felony in Florida could result in a five year prison term, a loss of the right to vote (for career politicos like Scott), and a lifelong criminal stigma.

Crimes Against Humanity: How Monsanto is Turning a Hawaiian Island into a Petri Dish Complete with Human Lab Rats
Activist Post - With the arrival of Monsanto’s test fields, the beautiful island has become a laboratory and the islanders are being treated as the lab rats.... 1850 acres of the island has been planted with Monsanto’s Bt corn. Workers wear head to toe protective gear during spraying, including respirators. Nearby residents, however, are not provided with such equipment and have no option but to breathe in the toxic dust that comes from the fields.

Feds to Grab $130B in ObamaCare Fines
Breitbart - The federal government is set to pick up $130 billion in penalties over the next decade from companies once Obamacare kicks in, according to estimates provided by the government. Those penalties will land on companies that either don’t provide employees health insurance or what the government considers to be “inadequate” health insurance.

Federal government wants you to save the planet while you nuke your food
(NaturalNews) In an effort to "save the planet" the federal government is now aiming to make microwave ovens more efficient. The Department of Energy is finalizing new standards for microwaves, which will "prevent 38 million metric tons of carbon emissions," according to Heather Zichal, deputy assistant to the president for energy and climate change.

Obama Quietly Raises 'Carbon Price' as Costs to Climate Increase
Bloomberg - Buried in a little-noticed rule on microwave ovens is a change in the U.S. government’s accounting for carbon emissions that could have wide-ranging implications for everything from power plants to the Keystone XL pipeline.

Multiple fires force evacuation of thousands in Colorado
NBC News - Wildfires fueled by hot, gusty winds were burning hundreds of acres and forcing evacuations Tuesday in three different parts of Colorado, a large part of which was under a red flag warning for extreme wildfire risk.

YouTube: GMO A Go Go!
An Animated (and Satiric) Short Film

Printable Postcards of BRANDS to BOYCOTT!
Please print, cut on dotted lines, and fold each card twice for two wallet-sized boycott guides

Boycott these Monsanto-pandering factory 'food' companies and help drive GMOs out of the food supply
(NaturalNews) If Americans are truly serious about making real progress in the fight against genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), then we are going to have to take things to the next level by voting with our wallets, and boycotting every single factory food company that continues to secretly use GMOs in its products.

Elderberries make flu shots look like ridiculous poison cocktails
(NaturalNews) A real flu fighter isn't a cocktail shot in the arm; rather, a true flu fighter is a naturally antiviral, antibacterial, immune building powerhouse. One wonderful food medicine flourishing right among us is the elderberry.

Vitamin B3 fights superbug infections naturally: Study
(NaturalNews) As researchers continue the hunt for ways to stem the growing threat of the lethal superbug MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), one safe and easy remedy may be going overlooked: Vitamin B3, also known as niacin.

Chipotle becomes first US restaurant chain to voluntarily label GMOs
(NaturalNews) The recent decision by Whole Foods Market to label all genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) sold in its stores by the long-off date of 2018 looks silly and almost meaningless compared to the right-now policy of fresh food chain Chipotle, which is officially the first and only major U.S. food supplier to voluntarily label GMOs.

Got PMS? Psychiatry has a new mental diagnosis for you
(NaturalNews) According to psychiatry's newly revised diagnostic bible... women who show typical signs of PMS are diagnosable with a brand new mental illness.... To qualify for the illustrious mental disorder, you must experience at least five of the following symptoms during the final week before the onset of menses...

How Turmeric Reduces Oxidative Stress and Supports Your Brain and Heart
Prevent Disease - Curcumin has increasingly come under the scientific spotlight in recent years, with studies investigating its potential health benefits. It has even been found to outperform pharmaceuticals in preventing disease.

Attorney Refutes Dr. Offit's Vaccine Exemption Criticism
Green Med Info - Pediatrician and pro-vaccine advocate Dr. Paul Offit, who once said a child can safely receive 10,000 vaccines at once, has spoken out repeatedly against vaccine religious exemptions, implying that his opinion is more important than the fundamental moral tenets of a variety of world religions.

VIDEO: Corporations Own 20% Of Your Genes
Natural Society - The Supreme Court is set to make a landmark decision this month, a ruling that affects us all and will essentially determine ‘who owns’ the human genome. The case concerns the patenting of genes. Human genes. And though the issue is now front and center, it is far from new.

Love Nutella? Here's Why You Should Never Eat It And Opt For A Healthier Alternative Recipe
Prevent Disease - The scariest thing that people don't know about Nutella is that it contains monosodium glutamate (MSG), also known as E621. It's cleverly hidden inside an artificial flavor called vanillin which is labeled on every Nutella jar.

YouTube: How Spy Agency Contractors Have Already Abused Their Power
The Young Turks - "Could the sprawling surveillance state enable government or its legion of private contractors to abuse their technology and spy upon domestic political targets or judges This is not a far off possibility...."

Man Behind Leaks Is Still in Hong Kong
WSJ - Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former government contractor behind one of the biggest national-security leaks in U.S. history, has told a local newspaper he has no plans to leave Hong Kong and intends to challenge the U.S. government in the city's courts. Devlin Barrett reports.

Edward Snowden: US government has been hacking Hong Kong and China for years
South China Morning Post - In an exclusive interview carried out from a secret location in the city, the former Central Intelligence Agency analyst also made explosive claims that the US government had been hacking into computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland for years.

Feds hunted for Snowden in days before NSA programs went public
Reuters - U.S. government investigators began an urgent search for Edward Snowden several days before the first media reports were published on the government's secret surveillance programs, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: NSA Chief Denies Key Claim Made by PRISM Whistleblower, Claims Spying Has Disrupted Dozens of Terror Attacks
theblaze.com - The director of the National Security Agency says surveillance programs have disrupted or helped disrupt dozens of terrorist attacks. NSA director Keith Alexander defended the programs at a Senate hearing on Wednesday and also called claims that the spy agency can tap into any Americans’ phone calls or emails “false.”

VIDEO: Justin Amash: Clapper Lied Under Oath and Should Resign
Infowars.com - At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing back in March, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, “Does the NSA collect any type of data on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” “No, sir,” Clapper answered.

22 Nauseating Quotes From Hypocritical Establishment Politicians About The NSA Spying Scandal
Economic Collapse - Establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans both love the Big Brother surveillance grid that the U.S. government has constructed, and they are both making it abundantly clear that they will defend the NSA to the very end.

How Facebook is Altering Your Mind
davidrainoshek.com - Is it really altering your mind? Absolutely. Significantly. It is changing the physical structure of your brain’s neural network, which even changes how you feel about yourself and other people. And in ways that may surprise and enlighten you.

Fight GMO: 7 Easy Steps to Start Saving Your Own Seed
naturalblaze.com - These simple tips for saving organic, non-GMO seed is a great way to participate in the resistance to the seed monopolies being established by Monsanto other agro-chemical companies. It is incumbent upon all of us to do our part in reclaiming the right to grow our own, unadulterated natural foods.

Austin Leads Agenda 21 Adoption with Smart Grid, International Codes
Activist Post - The entire service area for Austin has been smart metered, without regard to national outcry over the negative health effects.... The city’s water is in the process of being smart metered, too. The Citizens Water Conservation Implementation Task Force filed the report “Water Conservation 2020: Strategic Recommendations” with Austin’s City Council in 2010, calling for a smart meter program with “real-time” water use data.

Dust Bowl Conditions Are Literally Returning To The Western Half Of The United States
Activist Post - Three years of severe drought has turned the soil of much of the western United States into a fine powder that the wind can easily pick up. As a result, we are seeing “apocalyptic” dust storms unlike anything the region has seen since the days of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Missouri sinkhole area called 'very dangerous' to public
sott.net - Cape Girardeau's public works director Tim Gramling said two sinkholes on South Sprigg Street, near LaCroix Creek, continue to grow. A sinkhole in the creek is causing water to flood into the nearby Buzzi Unicem quarry.

Turmeric protects against alcohol-induced brain damage
(NaturalNews) A recent study in India seems to have given a remedy for brain damage from chronic heavy alcohol consumers. Not that it should be an alcoholic's cover, but perhaps curcumin from turmeric would provide a recovery from brain damage after a period of heavy alcohol consumption.

Five natural pain-relieving alternatives to aspirin and NSAIDS that work fast
(NaturalNews) Over the counter pain remedies such as aspirin, acetaminophen, and ibuprofen have been the go-to choices for killing pain and/or inflammation fast. But they have their vast array of side effects.

GMO feed turns pig stomachs to mush! Shocking photos reveal severe damage caused by GM soy and corn
(NaturalNews) If you have stomach problems or gastrointestinal problems, a new study led by Dr. Judy Carman may help explain why: pigs fed a diet of genetically engineered soy and corn showed a 267% increase in severe stomach inflammation compared to those fed non-GMO diets.

A critical look at three popular alternate cancer cures: Oxygen, high pH and baking soda/molasses
(NaturalNews) The internet abounds with advice about three popular alternate cancer cures: Oxygen, highly alkaline pH and the combination of baking soda and molasses.

Meat scrap leftovers now being reprocessed into ice cream: The dismal future of food
(NaturalNews) There appears to be no limit to how far the processed food industry will go to maximize its profits, even if it means reprocessing animal meat waste and adding it to completely unrelated foods like ice cream.

Why the NIH Uses Bogus Study to Malign Ginkgo Biloba
Gaia Health - A new NIH study proclaiming that Ginkgo biloba causes cancer is so absurd you must wonder if they produced it with a straight face. More important, though, is why—and the reason is truly frightening. It’s part of a system determined to steal all natural health methods and hand them to Big Pharma & Big Medicine for profits.

Yet Another Perversion: Del Monte's GMO Pineapple Approved in the U.S.
Truth Farmer - According to the website, The Packer, Del Monte submitted its requests for approval from the USDA’s APHIS division (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) in July of 2012, and the agency quietly gave its approval of Rosé in January of this year, but a formal public response was only made in late April.

How Free of Gluten are "Glutenfree" Labeled Products Really?
Green Med Info - A "glutenfree" label may not indicate a product free of gluten. Learn about questionable standards and gluten loads of glutenfree labeled products.

USDA Says to Label ‘Machine Tenderized’ Meat, But NOT GMOs
Natural Society - In the twisted world of food safety and the federal government’s seemingly-random concern for public health, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed a rule requiring mechanically tenderized meat be labeled as such and even include specific cooking instructions.

Cannabis Provides Dramatic Benefit for Chronic Diseases in Recent Study
Natural Society - In a recent study, cannabis provided dramatic relief to those suffering from chronic ailments and reduced drug intake by 1.7 medications per day.

VIDEO: Ron Paul: I’m worried that the government might kill Edward Snowden with a drone
washingtonexaminer.com - "We live in a bad time where American citizens don't even have rights and that they can be killed," Paul continued. "But the gentleman is trying to tell the truth about what's going on, he is not defecting, there's no signs of that happening. It's a shame we're in an age where people who tell the truth about what the government is doing gets into trouble."

After a closed-door briefing of the House of Representatives, lawmakers call for a review of the Patriot Act
Guardian - Anger was mounting in Congress on Tuesday night as politicians, briefed for the first time after revelations about the government's surveillance dragnet, vowed to rein in a system that one said amounted to "spying on Americans".

NSA to continue global surveillance program
RT - Quoting a senior intelligence official speaking on condition of anonymity, AP reported Tuesday that there are no plans to scrap the surveillance programs. Despite outrage from US citizens and persons abroad mortified by the revelations, the NSA operations are likely to “continue to receive widespread if cautious support within Congress,” the official told the AP.

Anonymous infiltrates PRISM... Hacks Obama's Skype account... Leaks more NSA documents...
chronicle.su - Anonymous hackers claimed to have infiltrated PRISM’s network infrastructure after gaining access to the graphical user interface which was intended only for use by federal agents in cases of terrorism.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: ACLU Files Lawsuit Over Government Massive Phone Record Grab - Judge Andrew Napolitano - Cavuto
Fox News June 11, 2013.

YouTube: Ron Paul Blasts NSA Defenders On Piers Morgan: 'You're Justifying Dictatorship!'
"To all of you who defend this nonsense, what should the penalty be for those who destroy the constitution?" - Ron Paul

VIDEO: Judge Napolitano To Shep Smith: NSA Leaker An ‘American Hero’ Who Exposed ‘Extraordinary Violations’
mediaite.com - Appearing on Fox’s Studio B this afternoon, senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano gave a frank assessment of NSA leaker Edward Snowden as “an American hero” who went great lengths to expose “extraordinary violations” of fundamental American values within the government.

The big flip-off: Company doesn't give feds data
World Net Daily - WND reported in 2010 when Katherine Albrecht, a Harvard-trained privacy expert who helped develop StartPage, warned, “It would blow people’s minds if they knew how much information the big search engines have on the American public. In fact, their dossiers are so detailed they would probably be the envy of the KGB.”

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Facebook Censors Photos of Children Protesting Monsanto as ‘Abusive’
Natural Society - Apparently posting photos against Monsanto online is sometimes met with the ban hammer, specifically if they have to do with children. But what highly abusive photo did she post? As you can see below, Andrea posted a photo of her children holding up anti-Monsanto signs at the Houston March Against Monsanto rally...

Syria militants’ rockets hit Lebanon
Press TV - A barrage of rockets fired by foreign-backed militants in Syria has hit the northeastern Lebanese town of Hermel in Bekaa Valley.

14 killed in bomb attacks in Damascus
Press TV - At least 14 people have been killed in two bomb attacks that struck near a police station in the Syrian capital Damascus.

Russia ready to consider asylum for NSA whistleblower Snowden
RT - Russia is willing to consider granting political asylum for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who blew the lid on the US PRISM program, Russian media reported. Snowden dropped out of sight Monday after he was last seen checking out of a Hong Kong hotel.

That hissing noise out of Greece could mean trouble for the euro zone
marketwatch.com -The Greek Composite index GR:GD -4.70% , which has been slowly sliding south since mid-last month, dropped nearly 5% on Monday after the Greek government failed to attract any binding bids for Depa, the state-owned gas company.

New violence surge across Iraq kills at least 70
RT - A wave of attacks across mostly Sunni areas of Iraq has claimed at least 70 lives, injuring more than 230. The resurgence comes after several days of calm. Amid failure to tackle political problems, there are renewed fears of a full-scale sectarian war.

Jordan wargames: Patriot batteries, F-16s and 4,500 US troops near Syrian border
RT - Multinational military exercise 'Eager Lion' has been launched in Jordan amid condemnation from neighboring Syria and its ally Russia. The US brings Patriot missile batteries to the Syrian border, which could remain deployed afterwards.

South African bodies call for Israel to be excluded from diamond processing over ‘war crimes’
RT - The coalition of organisations such as South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers, the country's largest trade union federation COSATU; South African Students Congress; the Coalition for a Free Palestine and BDS South Africa say that “billions of dollars' worth of diamonds exported via Israel are a major source of revenue for the Israeli military, which stands accused of war crimes."

US nuclear bombs stored in Netherlands
Press TV - Former Netherlands prime minister, Ruud Lubbers has noted that 22 US nuclear bombs are stored at an airbase on Dutch territory... The Dutch newspaper said the bombs are B61 nuclear weapons, which were developed in the US in 1960s, adding that they are about four times as powerful as the bombs used on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

VIDEO: Bilderberg Delegate Speaks On Record
Steve Watson - Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, a former leading British ambassador to Afghanistan, now a leading executive at arms manufacturer BAE Systems, spoke on record to The Watford Observer today. Predictably, Cowper-Coles merely repeated the establishment media hoax that Bilderberg has no influence and is merely a “talking shop” or a golfing holiday.

Canada has program to eavesdrop on its citizens, too
Daily Caller - The program, like the one in the U.S., amasses huge amounts of telephone “metadata”: not the actual content of a call but instead the details of who called whom, the location of each party, and the duration of the call. Many have noted that on a large scale, metadata could paint pictures of entire social networks and patterns of communications.

VIDEO: DHS Admits Boston Training Drill Involving Backpack Explosives Planned Months Before Marathon
Anthony Gucciardi - According to the DHS documents acquired by the Boston Globe, the agents were planning on conducting training exercises centered around a fictitious terrorist group called ‘Free America Citizens’, a group that would plant backpacks full of explosives around Boston that the detectives would be forced to track down.

Chicago police pass 3,000 mark in gun seizures
Stl. Louis | Department continues to lead the nation in the number of gun seizures so far this year.

VIDEO: Shorthanded Antioch Police Ask Mail Carriers, Garbage Collectors To Help Spot Crime
CBS SF - Employees of the local trash collector, Republic Services Inc., as well as U.S. Postal Service employees have been given tips on how to act as effective witnesses to crimes. The program, dubbed “We’re Looking Out For You” aims to add some experience eyeballs looking out for the city’s 105,000 residents.

U.S. government has given Afghan National Army more than $1 billion in ammo
Washington Free Beacon - The U.S. government has given the embattled Afghan National Army (ANA) more than $1 billion in taxpayer-funded ammunition, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s (SIGAR) latest oversight report.

IRS Buying Spying Equipment: Covert Cameras in Coffee Trays, Plants
CNS News - The IRS, currently in the midst of scandals involving the targeting of conservative groups and lavish taxpayer-funded conferences, is ordering surveillance equipment that includes hidden cameras in coffee trays, plants and clock radios.

IG Report: IRS Can’t Document All Expenses for $4.1 Million Conference
CNS News - A new report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) concerning a three-day, $4.1 million conference for Internal Revenue Service employees, shows that the IRS was not able to document all its expenses for the event including, for instance, receipts and W-2 wage and tax statements.

VIDEO: Ben Swann “Truth In Media Project” Kickstarter Trailer
Liberty Crier - Ben Swann launches his “Truth In Media Project” on Kickstarter. At the time of this posting $11,812 of a requested $1,250,000 has been raised.

Gold Falls to Lowest in More Than Two Weeks on Stimulus Outlook
Bloomberg - Gold declined to the lowest price in more than two weeks in London on speculation the Federal Reserve will curb stimulus as the U.S. economy strengthens. Palladium retreated from a two-month high.

VIDEO: Obama: 'We Don't Want to Tax All Businesses Out of Business'
CNS News - "We don't want to tax all businesses out of business," Obama said. "But we do think that there's a role to play for government."... Obama has made similar statements in the past. When speaking about implementing a cap and trade system when running for president in 2008, Obama said he would bankrupt coal power plants.

Booz Allen biggest 4-month stock fall after its employee Snowden leak
RT - Shares of a consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton have fallen 5%, after company employee Edward Snowden revealed the US National Security Agency (NSA) had access to personal data shared through internet.

South Haven nuclear plant leaks into control room — Bed of sand that tank was supposedly resting on “did not exist”
ENENews - It’s been more than a month since the Palisades Nuclear Plant near South Haven shutdown after an unexpected release of slightly radioactive water into Lake Michigan.... During repairs, the company realized the flooring beneath the tank was not built as drawings indicated. Specifically, a sand bed the tank was supposedly resting on did not exist.

VIDEO: The Purpose of Geoengineering and Chemtrails is Death
Activist Post - Urgent Alert: Throughout May of 2013, Southern California, home of 22 million people, received by far the most powerful daily aerosol attacks this writer has ever seen since learning of the Geoengineering issue in 2007. The sky remains whited-out and mountains ten miles away are barely visible due to toxic chemtrail fallout.

Militants attack NATO headquarters in Kabul International Airport
Press TV - Kabul’s police chief Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said Afghan security forces had killed all the seven attackers. “There have not been any casualties to the security forces, and we have not (received) any report of civilian casualties so far.” The Taliban militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. It said several US-led soldiers were killed during the assault.

US says giving S-300 systems to Syria threatens future US, Israeli strikes
Press TV - US claims its spy agencies have identified Russian ships taking “weapons” to Syria, including the S-300 anti-air defense system, expressing fears the move would threaten “future air strikes” against the nation by US, Israeli and NATO aircraft.

YouTube: Bilderberg 2013: Secret meeting opens press office for 1st time
RT - The Bilderberg Group is famously shy of press attention, but this year its annual confab is inundated with reporters from some of the world's top media outlets. RT's Sara Firth went to Watford near London to try and find out what the world's most powerful group might be talking about.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Alex Jones Storms BBC, Confronts Bilderberg Member
Paul Joseph Watson - Radio host takes over live broadcast.

VIDEO: Alex Jones Speaks to thousands at Bilderberg 2013
Prisonplanet.com June 9, 2013.

No sign Turkey's economy affected by protests - Fitch
RT - Anti-government demonstrations in Turkey haven’t yet caused any significant economic disruption to put the country’s “BBB” sovereign rating at risk. However, the Fitch ratings agency says persistent unrest effecting the economy could pressure the rating.

Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
Guardian - Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber-attacks, a top secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian reveals.

On 46th Anniversary, Survivors of Israeli Attack on USS Liberty Demand Congressional Inquiry
antiwar.com - Saturday [June 8,2013] marks the 46th anniversary of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, a Naval spy ship in the Mediterranean Sea. The attack killed 34 American crew members and wounded 171 others.

Pope Francis Warns of 'Culture of Waste,' Disposable Human Beings
Breitbart - The pontiff put forward the concept that our world’s “culture of waste” has led to a mentality of materialism and disposability that involves not only things, but people as well and, especially, the unborn child, the disabled, and the elderly.

Booz Allen Grew Rich on Government Contracts
NewYorkTimes - The company, based in Virginia, is primarily a technology contractor. It reported revenues of $5.76 billion for the fiscal year ended in March and was No. 436 on Fortune’s list of the 500 largest public companies. The government provided 98 percent of that revenue, the company said.

Military told not to read Obama-scandal news
World Net Daily - WND has received an unclassified NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) that warns airmen not to look at news stories related to the data-mining scandal.... The notice applies to users of the Air Force NIPRNET (Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network), which is the only way that many troops stationed overseas and on bases in the U.S. are able to access the Internet.

DOJ & FBI Raid News Media Offices After Releasing an Alarming Story on Obama
National Report - Within hours of publishing a scathing story on President Obama the DOJ raided the offices of the National Report claiming the raid was lawful under the USA Patriot Act but refusing to say why the government was taking the action.

Rand Paul: Congress, not Homeland Security, Should Decide Border Issue
Breitbart - Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) plans to introduce an amendment to the Senate immigration bill that would give Congress, not the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the authority to determine whether the border is actually secure.

James Holmes’ lawyers enter insanity plea; here come the insane psychiatrists
Jon Rappoport - James Holmes’ lawyers have entered an insanity plea in the Aurora- theater massacre case, and the judge, Carlos Samour, has just accepted it.

Colorado counties mull forming new state, North Colorado
Fox News - Officials in eight northern Colorado counties united in opposition to the state's new gun control laws and oil and gas regulations are reportedly considering forming a 51st U.S. state called North Colorado.

California Elementary School Hosts Toy Gun Buyback
Liberty Crier - n elementary school in Hayward California held a toy gun exchange Saturday (6/8/13), offering students a book and a chance to win a bicycle if they turned in their play weapons.

VIDEO: Cops Use YOUR Children As Props For “School Shooter Drills” (Paid For By Homeland Security)
Liberty Crier - Hundreds of emergency responders, students and school officials in Eatonville participated in an active shooter drill coordinated by Pierce County Emergency Management and hosted by the Eatonville School District that took over two schools and several blocks in the Mount Rainier foothills community.

Report: Homeschooling Growing Seven Times Faster than Public School Enrollment
Breitbart - As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling. Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home by their parents over the next ten years, as more parents reject public schools.

VIDEO: “Consuming Kids” Reveals Shocking Tactics Used to Manipulate Your Children’s Preferences and Habits
Dr. Mercola - America’s 52 million kids under the age of 12 represent one of the most powerful markets for American businesses, influencing adult spending worth $700 billion a year. The documentary Consuming Kids reveals the shrewd practices of the multi-billion dollar marketing machine designed to turn your kids into loyal, lifelong consumers who will also influence how the entire family spends its money.

Cartel Setting Up Epic Metals Raid As Chinese Markets Closed Mon-Wed?
silverdoctors.com - Cartel finally busts $22 silver; cartel may attempt to smash gold & silver below April lows of $1320 & $20 overnight Sun and into Monday as Chinese financial markets will be closed Monday through Wednesday.

Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers Will Enable China To Dominate 1000s Of U.S. Communities
Economic Collapse - Are you ready for a future where China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States? Such a future would be unimaginable to many Americans, but the truth is that it is already starting to happen. Chinese acquisition of U.S. businesses set a new all-time record last year, and it is on pace to absolutely shatter that record this year.

‘Israel in rush to finish Golan fence’
Press TV - The Israeli regime is scrambling to finish the construction of a 45-mile fence along the Syrian border in the occupied Golan Heights, a report says. According to a Friday report by the Washington Post, the new “smart fence” is equipped with concertina and razor wire, touch sensors, motion detectors, infrared cameras and ground radar.

UN slams ‘cold-blooded murder’ in Iraq
Press TV - The United Nations envoy to Iraq has condemned the killing of over a dozen people near a town in the western province of Anbar.

David Petraeus At Bilderberg to Craft “Big Data” Spy Grid
Paul Joseph Watson - Former CIA Director David Petraeus is in attendance at the 2013 Bilderberg Group conference to help construct the “big data” spy grid, which is set to become the new frontier of clandestine statecraft as Internet connectivity becomes ubiquitous.

Bilderberg Member Set to Speak on Record
Paul Joseph Watson - A Bilderberg Group member is set to speak on record to the BBC in what represents an unprecedented move for the secretive organization, which is being forced to become more transparent in the face of huge protests and widespread condemnation.

'US must send missiles to Syria militants'
Press TV - McCain told the Brookings Institution think-tank on Thursday that "the Syrian state is disintegrating in much of the country, leaving vast ungoverned spaces that are being filled by extremists, many aligned with Al-Qaeda."

Syria Army retakes key Golan crossing
Press TV - Syrian army troops have established control over a key crossing in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights shortly after it fell into the hands of foreign-backed militants.

‘Mali army has reinforced N positions’
Press TV - Malian military officials say the country’s army has reinforced its positions in the northern part of the West African country following a day of deadly fighting in the area.

South Korea accepts North’s proposal
Press TV - South Korea has agreed to a North Korean proposal for official talks on reopening the Kaesong joint industrial zone, which had been closed due to tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang.

Bank of India Prohibits Gold Coin Sales to Retail Investors!
silverdoctors.com - With the Bank of India attempting to outlaw physical gold purchases for retail investors, only a day after we broke news that France has banned the shipment of gold and silver coins in the mail, it is clear that global capital controls against gold and silver are coming, ahead of the inevitable Western depositor bail-in.

NYT: Obama has lost all credibility
NY Times - Within hours of the disclosure that federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers...

House Passes $45B Homeland Security Spending Bill
tbo.com - The House on Thursday passed a $45 billion measure boosting the Homeland Security Department's budget by about 2 percent above spending levels imposed by an ongoing round of automatic budgets cuts.

YouTube: Obama is Big Brother and a Bald Faced Liar!
June 06, 2013 Current TV News.

NIH-Funded Project Sterilizes Rats in NYC Subway
Activist Post - As part of this pilot project, Dr. Loretta Mayer and her company Senestech received $462,836 from the NIH to test the product ContraPest® on the NYC subway system’s brown rat population. The bait contains 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide (VCD), commonly used in tires, polyesters and plastics. According to blogger Anastasia Bodnar, “VCD basically degrades ovaries, similar to how the ovaries degrade during menopause.”

Obama Picks Libya War Architect for U.N. Ambassador
Kurt Nimmo - Samantha Power, Obama’s Special Assistant who pushed for the slaughter over 30,000 Libyans under the guise of humanitarian intervention, may soon replace Susan Rice as U.S. ambassador at the United Nations. Rice, scorched by the Benghazi affair, will retreat to the White House and take up the role of Obama’s national security adviser.

VIDEO: Valerie Jarrett: Eric Holder 'Will Be in His Position for Quite a While'
Weekly Standard - Valerie Jarrett, a close adviser to President Obama, said that Eric Holder is "definitely" not stepping down and that he'll be attorney general "for quite a while."

VIDEO/ARTICLE: CIA Didn’t Always Know Who It Was Killing In Drone Strikes, Classified Documents Show
NBC News - About one of every four of those killed by drones in Pakistan between Sept. 3, 2010, and Oct. 30, 2011, were classified as "other militants,” the documents detail. The “other militants” label was used when the CIA could not determine the affiliation of those killed, prompting questions about how the agency could conclude they were a threat to U.S. national security.

The Untouchables: NY Senate passes bill making 'annoying' police a crime
RT - The New York State Senate passed a controversial bill on Wednesday that aims to classify ‘aggravated harassment of a police officer’ as a crime, but will it give the authorities the green light for strong-arm tactics if passed? Sponsored by Senator Joe Griffo, Bill S.2402 would make it a felony to “harass, annoy, or threaten a police officer while on duty.”

VIDEO: Rand Paul: Orwell's '1984' has arrived
WND - “Dystopian novels were just that, bad utopias,” he said, “but not practically possible. One could always sigh in relief that such surveillance, such invasion of privacy, was not technologically possible. “Until now.

Florida Sheriff Arrested After Defending Second Amendment
Kit Daniels - Liberty County Sheriff Nicholas Finch, 50, was booked in his own jail Tuesday with one count of official misconduct by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The FDLE accuses Finch covering up the arrest of Floyd Eugene Parrish after releasing him from the Liberty County Jail. Parrish had been arrested for carrying a concealed firearm without a license, a third-degree felony in Florida.

Oregon Senate passes bill to regulate tracking devices for kids
Infowars.com - Oregon senators took a major step in affirming school students’ rights to privacy Wednesday. An Oregon bill aimed at making it a requirement for schools to inform parents, students and the state Board of Education before implementing and distributing privacy invading radio frequency identification technology passed the Senate with a 28-2 vote yesterday, reports the Associated Press.

20 Completely Ridiculous College Courses Being Offered At U.S. Universities
Economic Collapse - Listed below are 20 completely ridiculous college courses being offered at U.S. universities. The description following each course title either comes directly from the official course description or from a news story about the course…

11-Yr-Old Suspended From School For Merely TALKING About Guns
WMAL - Bruce Henkelman of Huntingtown says his son, a sixth grader at Northern Middle School in Owings [Maryland], was talking with friends about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre when the bus driver hauled him back to school to be questioned by the principal, Darrel Prioleau.

Austerity To Cost U.S. Economy 2 Million Jobs By 2019: Study
Huffington Post - A new study by the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, estimates that today's austerity measures are going to leave the U.S. economy with 2 million fewer jobs and $433 billion less in economic growth by 2019.

1/3 Population of Puerto Rico Gets Food Stamps--$2 Billion in 2012
CNS News - The federal government spent more than $2 billion to provide food stamps to residents of Puerto Rico in 2012, up to 25 percent of which is untraceable because it is distributed in cash and there is “no way to verify that funds are spent on food,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

VIDEO: Former drone operator says he’s haunted by his part in more than 1,600 deaths
NBC News - Former drone operator Brandon Bryant tells NBC's Richard Engel that he felt like he became a "heartless" "sociopath" under the drone program.

VIDEO: Tropical Storm Andrea Kicks Off Hurricane Season – Bears Down on Fla. Coast
Tropical Storm Andrea continued moving swiftly up the East Coast Friday morning, bringing rain, wind and tornadoes from the Carolinas into the Northeast.... The tornado threat remains until early afternoon, according to the Weather Channel's hurricane specialist Carl Parker.

Pentagon Blackout: “Large American Military Force” Deployed to Syrian Border
RNIF - The catalyst for the next great war will likely occur somewhere in the middle east. The Americans know this. As do the Russians and the Chinese. And as with the last two ‘great wars,’ the groundwork is being laid well ahead of time.

US terror drone kills 3 Afghan children
Press TV - The airstrike was conducted during the early hours of Thursday near the Pakistani border. Local officials said six other people, including women, were also injured in the attack.

108,000 Private Contractors Are in Afghanistan and We Have No Idea What They're Doing
policymic.com - Two recently released reports, one by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and one by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), show that not only is the number of private contractors in Afghanistan increasing, but the Pentagon is also unable to tell what they are even doing there.

‘Qusayr’s liberation blow to Israel, US’
Press TV - Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the Syrian army’s liberation of the strategic town of Qusayr is a major blow to the Israeli regime and the United States.

Syria Ravaged By Outbreaks Of Disease: Typhoid, Cholera, Measles And Tuberculosis
Activist Post - The World Health Organization is warning of an increased risk of disease epidemics in Syria and neighboring countries as summer approaches. The WHO says outbreaks of diseases carried in water – specifically hepatitis, typhoid, cholera and dysentery – are inevitable, given the severe disruption to Syria’s health system.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Turkey angry at US comments on protests
Aljazeera - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has contacted US Secretary of State John Kerry to object to recent statements from Washington expressing concern over Turkey's handling of mass anti-government protests, a foreign ministry diplomat said.

Iran denies link to Turkey protests
Press TV - Reacting to reports about the arrest of an Iranian national in connection with violent demonstrations in Turkey, Iran has officially dismissed media claims that the Islamic Republic is linked to the ongoing protests in Turkey.

Afghan massacre soldier escapes death
Press TV - A military judge has accepted a US soldier's guilty plea in the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers, ruling that he would not face the death penalty.

France Bans Shipment of Gold & Silver in the Mail!
silverdoctors.com - France has just taken capital controls to a new level, banning the shipment of physical gold, silver, and cash through the mail, effectively shutting down the precious metals trade in France!

Does China Plan To Back The Yuan With Gold And Make It The Primary Global Reserve Currency?
silverdoctors.com - What in the world is China up to? Why are the Chinese hoarding so much gold? Does China plan to back the yuan with gold and turn it into a global reserve currency? Could it be possible that China actually intends for the yuan to eventually replace the U.S. dollar as the primary reserve currency of the planet?

IMF admits mistakes over Greece bailout
Press TV - In an internal report published on Wednesday, the IMF said there were "notable failures" in preparing the first Greek rescue that forced a second larger bailout, AFP reported. The Washington-based organization said it underestimated the damage that fiscal austerity would do to the Greek economy in its earliest rescue of the nation in 2010.

House delays DHS bulk ammo purchase
Press TV - By a 234-192 vote late on Wednesday, the House adopted an amendment to DHS spending bill for 2014 that would require the agency to report to Congress the need and cost of buying over a billion rounds of new ammunition.

YouTube: Judge Napolitano ~ Time For AG Eric Holder To Go
Fox News June 4, 2013.

FBI's David Hardy says Fla. lawsuit could hurt national security
UPI.com - A declaration in support of ending a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., lawsuit says the suit's classified information could compromise FBI security investigations.

Bloomberg’s NYC Government Fining Gift Shop Owner $60,000 For Selling Tiny, Gun Shaped Lighters
gunssavelives.net - The shop owner was apparently unaware of the ridiculous NYC law which makes the selling of toy guns, even tiny novelty gun shaped cigarette lighters, a serious crime, punishable by massive fines that easily put small business owners out of business.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Rice to Replace Donilon in the Top National Security Post
NY Times - In a major shakeup of President Obama’s foreign-policy inner circle, Tom Donilon, the national security adviser, is resigning and will be replaced by Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, White House officials said late Tuesday.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: EPA accused of singling out conservative groups, amid IRS scandal
Fox News - The allegations concern the Environmental Protection Agency, which is being accused of trying to charge conservative groups fees while largely exempting liberal groups. The fees applied to Freedom of Information Act requests -- allegedly, the EPA waived them for liberal groups far more often than it did for conservative ones.

VIDEO: Congressman Diane Black: Very Chilling, IRS Behaves like in Communist Countries
XRepublic.tv Jun 5, 2013.

VIDEO: Larken Rose: Current IRS scandal is a joke
XRepublic.tv - {adult language] The recent "scandal" involving the IRS is completely trivial compared to injustices that are routinely committed across the country by the federal extortion racket.

Senate immigration bill could double guest workers
Washington Times - The Senate immigration bill could nearly double the number of guest workers allowed into the U.S., according to a new analysis the Center for Immigration Studies is releasing Wednesday that says the jump is four times the increase of the last immigration bill in 2007.

73,441,399 Gun Purchase Background Checks Under Obama
CNS News - There have been 73,441,399 background checks for gun purchases since President Obama took office, according to data released by the FBI.

Monsanto Still Testing Genetically Modified Wheat in Two States
RINF - Bloomberg reported that the corporate agriculture giant planted 150 acres of GM wheat in Hawaii last year and 300 acres of GM (also known as genetically engineered or GE) wheat in North Dakota this year. Monsanto did not disclose the specific herbicides these trial wheat crops are bred to tolerate, Bloomberg added.
* Related Article: Monsanto- Boycotting the Criminal...

Liberty is Rising Truth in Media Project
Ben Swann - As promised, you are now the first to hear in detail about my- actually our- next step. Beginning next week on Monday, June 10, we will officially launch the "Liberty Is Rising Truth in Media Project" on Kickstarter. As I have told you, this is the most involved and meaningful project I have ever been involved in and it is not something I can do on my own.

Clinton’s bi-racial son story is not over | Cleveland Challenger
Bill Clinton has some business he needs to clear up that would be the right thing for him to do by a young man named Danny Williams. Is he or is he not Williams’ father?

Take Action: Urge Congress to Oppose Taxes on Credit Unions
ATR - Congress has suggested removing credit unions' tax-exempt status, which will eliminate credit unions' ability to provide low interest loans to Americans who do not have the finances necessary to get loans from banks. Any bill that suggests implementing taxes on credit unions will affect the 40% of Americans who rely on loans from credit unions to start up small businesses, pay for school, and mortgage their homes.

Director of US Mint: Gold & Silver Demand Remains “Unprecedented”
silverdoctors.com - n an interview with Reuters Wednesday, the head of the US Mint stated that US demand for gold and silver bullion remains “unprecedented“, that the mint is buying up every single blank suppliers can produce, and that the mint is considering re-launching the Platinum Eagle program, which was halted in 2008.

12 Clear Signals That The U.S. Economy Is About To Really Slow Down
Economic Collapse - A whole host of recent surveys indicate that the American people are starting to feel a bit better about the economy, but the underlying economic numbers tell an entirely different story. The following are 12 clear signals that the U.S. economy is about to really slow down...

Builders of the lost ark
Skeptophilia - New from the "I Wish I Were Kidding" department, today we have a story that as much as $37.5 million in taxpayer-funded rebates could go to the building of a theme park in Kentucky called Ark Encounter whose goal is to prove that the story of Noah's Ark is "plausible."

FBI, Veterans Affairs agents raid home of ex-Louis Stokes VA Medical center chief William Montague
cleveland.com - BRECKSVILLE, Ohio - Agents from the FBI and the Criminal Investigations Division of the Department of Veteran Affairs swarmed the Brecksville home Friday of the former director of the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center.

FEMA refuses Hurricane Sandy aid to elderly US Army veteran
RT - As New York City continues to rebuild and reimburse those residents displaced by Hurricane Sandy at least one man, a US Army veteran, was refused help because of a strict federal law that prevents someone from collecting aid on their property.

Syria army to ‘continue battle’
Press TV - Syrian army has urged citizens in the newly-recaptured city of al-Qusayr to return to their home, saying the battle will continue to crush all foreign-backed militants across the country.... According to the reports, Syrian military forces have dismantled the terrorist network of the militants in the strategic area, which borders Lebanon.

VIDEO: Turkish media criticized for ignoring protests and police brutality
RT - “We are watching the news from CNN International: Protesters, tear gas, and police hitting people. Then we checked CNN Turkey and there was a penguin documentary. So, I can't comment!” TV talk show host and producer Ozgur Cakit told RT. Other networks briefly mentioned the protests, but failed to cover the violent clashes in which scores were injured.

NATO to send team of experts to Libya
Press TV - NATO will send a team of experts to Libya to give technical advice to the Libyan military in terms of training as the North African country faces a flow of fighters from Mali.

US drone raids must end: Pakistani PM
Press TV - Pakistan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has demanded an end to US-led assassination drone strikes in his country.

Britain fails to blacklist Hezbollah
Press TV - The failure came after Britain was unable to convince its European allies that Hezbollah was behind an attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, according to British media outlets.

Obama Authorizes New Iran Sanctions Targeting Currency
Bloomberg - Obama signed an executive order that would impose penalties on “foreign financial institutions that knowingly conduct or facilitate significant transactions for the purchase or sale of the Iranian rial,” according to a statement yesterday from White House press secretary Jay Carney.

Iran’s Reactor Said Damaged by Quakes
ABC News - Diplomats say countries monitoring Iran’s nuclear program have picked up information that the country’s only power-producing nuclear reactor was damaged by one or more recent earthquakes. Two diplomats say long cracks have appeared in at least one section of the structure.

Turkey imported 628 tons of teargas and pepper spray in 12 years – report
RT - Turkey has bought $21 million in tear gas and pepper spray – mainly from US and Brazil – over the past 12 years, Turkish media reported. The US is known for its exports of crowd control munitions to countries rocked by widespread protest.

Turkish protesters raise $55,000 for full-page ad in New York Times
Guardian - Three individuals claiming to represent the Turkish people raise money from more than 1,300 backers on crowdfunding site... "We want the world to hear from Turks themselves about what's happening in Turkey," reads a campaign mission statement. "We want the world to support us as we push for true democracy in our country."

60,000 in Tokyo protest government plans to restart nuclear power
12160.info - Approximately 60,000 people rallied in Japan’s capital of Tokyo on Sunday, June 2nd in order to protest recent government plans to restart the country’s idled nuclear reactors.

Al Qaeda weapons expert: U.S. ambassador to Libya killed by lethal injection
washingtontimes.com - An al Qaeda terrorist stated in a recent online posting that U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens was killed by lethal injection after plans to kidnap him during the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi went bad.

Student Suspended For Saving Fellow Student’s Life
politicaloutcast.com - It was a study period. While the teacher was on the far side of the classroom, one student began to bully another student. The student saw the bully grab his victim and place him in a headlock when he heard the distinctive click of a knife opening up. That’s when the student instinctively reacted and got between the two students and pushed the knife-wielding bully away, where he was quickly subdued. Later in the day, the police were called in, not on the knife wielding student but on the student that helped out.

Press Shakedown? Labor Dept. Wanted $1M from AP
White House Dossier - According to the Associated Press, which reported today on the widespread use by government officials of secret email accounts, Labor demanded that AP pay $1.03 million for costs the department said were involved in retrieving email addresses for political appointees.

I.R.S. Spent $4.1 Million on a Single Conference, Audit Finds
NY Times - The Internal Revenue Service spent $4.1 million on a single conference in Southern California in 2010, paying top dollar for hotel rooms, $27,500 for a keynote speaker and tens of thousands of dollars for gifts to the 2,600 people who attended, according to a newly released Treasury Department audit.

Colorado theatre shooting suspect James Holmes enters insanity plea
Telegraph - The decision means the 25-year-old will undergo months of mental evaluations but will still face trial and could eventually be executed. Jurors will be asked to weigh evidence of Holmes’s mental state and could press ahead with the death penalty if they do not accept he was insane at the time of the shootings.

VIDEO: US government at war with truth tellers: Alex Jones
Press TV - Press TV has conducted an interview with Alex Jones, Infowars.Com, Texas, about the issue of the suspicious death five months ago of Aaron Schwartz an outspoken critic of Barack Obama. The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Thomas Pickering testifies behind closed doors on Benghazi
Politico - Former Ambassador Thomas Pickering appeared for a closed-door deposition Tuesday morning, testifying about his investigation in to the attack of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Pickering will answer questions for more than two hours from members and staff of both parties of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

VIDEO: Trial Continues For Military Whistleblower Bradley Manning (Day 2)
Activist Post - We have spoken to Nathan Fuller at Bradleymanning.org who has given us gracious permission to reprint his daily firsthand reports. Day 2 is posted below.

CSPOA 2013 Convention Review
The Government Rag - As the weekend progressed, I was amazed at the amount of patriotic enthusiasm and love the people who attended had for America. I heard speakers from all over the country (sheriffs, politicians, mayors, patriotic organizations, radio hosts, Oath Keepers, and more that are seeking solutions for the problems that America is facing.

VIDEO: Group to recall Colorado Senate President over gun votes turns in 16K signatures
kdvr.com - “This sends a strong message,” said Rob Harris, who delivered three boxes full of petitions to the Secretary of State’s office. “We’ve obtained enough signatures to recall a state legislator for the first time in the history of Colorado.”

VIDEO: Hundreds of Gunowners Show up in Temple, TX with Loaded Guns At the “Come and Take it” March
Intel Hub - This past weekend Hundreds of Gunowners staged a successful armed march in Temple, TX with Loaded Weapons At the “Come and Take it March”.... dontcomply.com is now working to organize armed Second Amendment marches in cities across the country.

Illinois passes bill to allow concealed firearms; last U.S. state to have such a ban
Fox News - The compromise plan by the House and Senate followed a federal appeals ruling that stated Illinois' concealed carry ban is unconstitutional and that the state must change it by June 9. Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, has not said whether he will sign the legislation into law. However, the bill has enough votes in the legislature to override a gubernatorial veto.

Monsanto can't explain how GMO wheat survived
RT - Monsanto claims it has no idea how its herbicide-resistant strain of wheat made its way onto an Oregon field. The global biotech giant based in Missouri says it abandoned research on it in 2004 and is mystified by its emergence nearly a decade later.

Trade Deficit in U.S. Widened From Three-Year Low
Bloomberg - The trade deficit in the U.S. widened in April from a more than three year low, reflecting a rebound in imports of consumer goods and business equipment that eases concern about the degree of slowing in economic growth.

VIDEO: Cruz: ‘Abolish the IRS’
The Hill - "I think we ought to abolish the IRS and instead move to a simple flat tax where the average American can fill our taxes on a postcard, put down how much you earn, put down a deduction for charitable contribution, for home mortgage, and how much you owe," Cruz said in an interview with Fox News on Monday.

An Alabama County Strikes a $4.2 Billion Bankruptcy Deal
NY Times - Protesters demonstrated outside the Jefferson County courthouse in Birmingham, Ala., in 2011 when commissioners were considering bankruptcy. The county on Tuesday reached a deal to refinance most of the sewer debt at the center of its financial collapse.

*Breaking: The Comex Confirms That Its Gold and Silver Inventory Reports Are Fraudulent!
silverdoctors.com - Well now. How would like to get your bank statement in the mail from JP Morgan or Bank of America and see this disclaimer added at the bottom: "The information in this report is taken from sources believed to be reliable; however, the Commodity Exchange, Inc. disclaims all liability whatsoever with regard to its accuracy or completeness. This report is produced for information purposes only.”

House panel to address sexual assaults in military
AP - Lawmakers outraged by sexual assaults in the military are moving swiftly to address the problem, tackling legislation that would strip commanders of their authority to overturn convictions in rape and assault cases.

Putin: S-300s not yet delivered to Syria
RT - Russia has not yet delivered Russian-made S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Syria, President Vladimir Putin said. “As for the S-300s, it’s one of the best air defense systems in the world,” Putin said following a Russia-EU summit. “It’s a serious weapon. We would not like to tip the balance of power in the region. We signed the contract a few years ago. It has not been implemented yet.”

US missile defense system may remain on Jordan-Syria border after drills
RT - The US will deploy Patriot missile batteries and F-16 fighter jets in Jordan for military exercises, and the weapons may remain there indefinitely due to the threat of the Syrian civil war. The US has declined to comment on the size of the deployment.

VIDEO: Second fatality, thousands injured as police try to curb Turkey protests
RT - A second fatality has been confirmed as protests in Turkey enter their fifth day. With several thousands already reported injured Turks continue to flood social media with video, images, and allegations of police brutality.

Monsanto Concedes Defeat in the Face of Europe’s Fierce Opposition to GMOs
The Organic Prepper - North America needs to take note: Europe has defeated the biotech giant by refusing to be contaminated with Monsanto’s GMO offerings and toxic farming methods. Monsanto announced that they will no longer continue to lobby for approval of its genetically modified seeds in Europe due to “low farmer demand.”

U.S. publishes details of missile base Israel wanted kept secret
McClatchy - The Obama administration had promised to build Israel a state-of-the-art facility to house a new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3. As with all Defense Department projects, detailed specifications were made public so that contractors could bid on the $25 million project.

VIDEO: Ron Paul: Iraq Collapse Shows Bankruptcy of Interventionism
Liberty Crier - May was Iraq’s deadliest month in nearly five years, with more than 1,000 dead – both civilians and security personnel — in a rash of bombings, shootings and other violence. As we read each day of new horrors in Iraq, it becomes more obvious that the US invasion delivered none of the promised peace or stability that proponents of the attack promised.

Al-Qaeda Sets Up Complaints Department
Telegraph - The organization is the leading militia in the north-eastern part of rebel-held Syria, and has taken control of parts of the civilian administration in the city of Raqqa. It posted a new notice there this week saying it was open to receiving complaints from members of the public.

US urges Turkey violence investigation
Press TV - The United States has called on Turkey to carry out an investigation into the police’s violent crackdown on anti-government protesters described by defiant Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as extremists.

IMF cuts German econ. growth forecast
Press TV - International Monetary Fund has halved its 2013 economic growth forecast for Germany to 0.3 percent as recession in the eurozone continues to hold back Europe’s largest economy.

Breaking: Bilderberg Releases 2013 Agenda
Jurriaan Maessen - In addition to the list of participants released today, the official Bilderberg website has released the key topics that will be discussed at the conference. These topics range from “Developments in the Middle East” to “Nationalism and populism”.
* Related: Live Coverage of Bilderberg 2013

Seven banks and bankers that always attend Bilderberg meetings
efinancialcareers.com - Although banking and financial services regulation aren’t on the agenda, it seems that plenty of bankers and banks attend Bilderberg meetings on a regular basis. We’ve combed through attendee lists for the past five years and noted that some names and organisations appear repetitively.

Intel Chair: Release the Bin Laden Documents
Weekly Standard - And Rogers, in an appearance Sunday on Meet the Press, suggested that the Obama administration cherry-picked the few documents released to date to create a narrative about al Qaeda favorable to the president.

VIDEO: Day one of Manning trial focuses on intent of WikiLeaks source
RT - In a small courtroom outside of Baltimore early Monday, Army prosecutors painted a picture of Pfc. Manning that portrayed him as a traitor that released files to WikiLeaks with intent to cause harm to the US. Manning’s defense counsel David Coombs insisted otherwise, however, and rejected the government’s argument that the soldier made contact with the anti-secrecy website in order to bring harm to the country he had taken an oath to protect.

Breaking: Connecticut Senate Passes GMO Labeling Bill
Natural Society - The Connecticut state Senate has amended and passed GMO labeling bill HB 6527 by an overwhelming vote of 134-3 after days of negotiation. A major step in the right direction, the bill signifies the growing opposition against Monsanto and GMOs at large within the United States that I have continued to support — but the bill does have a major flaw.

Air Force Says Painting that References Bible Verse Violates Rules
townhall.com - An inspirational painting that referenced a Bible verse has been removed from a dining hall at Mountain Home Air Force Base after an anti-religion group filed a complaint. The painting featured a medieval crusader and referenced Matthew 5:9, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” The Military Religious Freedom Foundation called the painting “repugnant” and an “overt display of Christian nationalism.”

SUPREME COURT: Police Can Force Open Your Mouth And Swab Your DNA
Business Insider - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that police don't need a search warrant before they open your mouth and take a swab of DNA if you've been arrested for a "serious crime."

Handicapped Woman Calls 911 During Brutal Beating by Cops
Activist Post - Megan Graham, a Federal Way, Washington woman, called 911 to attempt to save herself from the cops who were beating her. Straight from the Bully’s Playbook, the partially deaf and cognitively disabled woman has been charged with felony assault on an officer.

Obama’s Super Secret Treaty Which Will Push The Deindustrialization Of America Into Overdrive
Economic Collapse - Did you know that Barack Obama has been secretly negotiating the most important trade agreement since the formation of the World Trade Organization? Did you know that this agreement will impose very strict Internet copyright rules, ban all "Buy American" laws, give Wall Street banks much more freedom to trade risky derivatives and force even more domestic manufacturing offshore?

Israeli aircraft violate Lebanon airspace
Press TV - Five Israeli aircraft have penetrated the Lebanese airspace and flown over several areas of Lebanon in blatant violation of a UN Security Council resolution.

Syria foils infiltration by militants
Press TV - The Syrian army has driven back a group of militants who were attempting to infiltrate Syria through the Lebanese border.

Militants torch NATO trucks in Pakistan
Press TV - Heavily armed militants in the troubled southwestern Pakistan have set fire to at least two NATO tankers carrying supplies to US-led forces in neighboring Afghanistan.

Libya: Gaddafi-linked assets worth $1bn 'in South Africa'
BBC - South African officials are investigating claims ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his family stashed $1bn (£600m) in assets in the country.... Any assets belonging to him or his family are firmly considered by many Libyans as state-owned property that should be returned.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Turkey police brutality: Cops attack protesters, use gallons of tear gas
RT - The brutal suppression of a peaceful environmental sit-in in Istanbul ignited a nationwide protest against the Turkish government. Allegations of police crossing the line between keeping the order and oppression are mushrooming in the social media.

VIDEO: Infowars Reporters Confront Bilderberg Security
Paul Joseph Watson - Infowars reporters Paul Joseph Watson and Richard Reeves confronted Bilderberg’s security team at the Grove Hotel in Watford, site of this week’s secretive elitist confab, demanding to know why their reservations had been cancelled in apparent violation of UK law.

Russian nuke subs to patrol southern seas for first time since Soviet era
RT - Russia is planning to deploy nuclear ballistic missile submarines to the southern seas for the first time since a 20-year break that followed the collapse of the USSR, sources told Russian media.

‘Qaeda gunmen US private army in Syria’
Press TV - “Groups like the Mujahideen who fought during the Soviet War in Afghanistan, and later emerged as the Taliban and al-Qaeda were tools of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),” Gordon Duff, a senior editor at Veterans Today, told Press TV by phone on Saturday.

Israelis hold anti-occupation protest
Press TV - Protesters in Tel Aviv call for the Israeli regime’s withdrawal from the Palestinian territories it has occupied since 1967.

The drawdown diet: Marines steamed by loss of hot meal at Afghanistan base
NBC News - Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.

VIDEO: Thousands blockade European Central Bank in Frankfurt
RT - The entrance of the ECB is blocked by over 3,000 ‘Blockupy’ protesters in a march against austerity. ‘Blockupy’ has announced the coalition has “reached its first goal” of the day.

Pakistan may be next in line for an IMF bailout
AP - With foreign reserves diminishing fast, Pakistan is on the brink of an economic crisis that may force its new government to ask for an unpopular bailout from the International Monetary Fund requiring a sweeping overhaul of the country’s economy.

UPDATE: US not to sign UN weapons treaty
Bloomberg - The U.S. won’t join the U.K., France and other major Western allies at the United Nations today to sign the first international treaty regulating the $85 billion a year global arms trade.

Court-martial trial for Bradley Manning over WikiLeaks starts Monday
RT - The United States Army private responsible for the biggest intelligence leak in US history will finally be tried in a military court starting Monday after more than three years of pretrial detainment.
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IRS woes grow with report of conference spending
AP - The Internal Revenue Service, already under fire after officials disclosed that the agency targeted conservative groups, faces increased scrutiny because of an inspector general's report that it spent about $50 million to hold at least 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012.

VIDEO: Law men and elected officials "SHOCKED" by new evidence. Obama Birth credentials fraudulently and criminally fabricated! Biggest FRAUD in US History!
PPSIMMONS News - Carl Gallups reported he had a telephone conversation with Mike Zullo immediately after Mike made his public presentation at the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Convention in St. Charles, Missouri, on the morning of Saturday, June 1.

Citizens Grand Jury Indicts Holder For Perjury And Obstruction of Justice
PR Newswire - A Citizens Grand Jury has issued a criminal indictment charging Attorney General Eric Holder with testifying falsely to Congress over his role in issuing subpoenas to AP and Fox News reporters, his "Fast and Furious" gun-running scheme to Mexican drug dealers (which resulted in the death of an ICE Border Agent), and Benghazi. View Holder indictment.

Report: IRS Collecting Documents From 88 Employees as Part of Scandal Investigation
The Blaze - The agency is in the process of collecting the documents in order to comply with congressional requests. IRS officials missed a May 21 deadline to turn over information to the House Ways and Means Committee, reportedly because of the sheer amount of documents they needed to collect. They also missed a Friday deadline to answer 41 questions from the Senate Finance Committee.

Obama To Sign International Gun Control Treaty On June 3rd
Breitbart - This treaty is ostensibly aimed at putting an end to gun trafficking across international boundaries, and both Breitbart News and the NRA have argued that it will eventually require an international gun registry in order to be enforceable.... Even though Obama will sign this treaty, it is not enforceable in the U.S. until the Senate ratifies it by a two-thirds majority.

Drone Surveillance Contract Called Off by U.S. State Department
Bloomberg - The U.S. State Department canceled its $1 billion surveillance drone competition, saying none of the proposals met its requirements, according to the U.S. government’s Federal Business Opportunities website.

5-year-old Interrogated By School Over Toy Cap Gun Until He Wet Himself With Fear
Steve Watson - The Washington Post reports that the five-year-old from Dowell Elementary School in Lusby, Maryland was questioned by school officials for over two hours after he showed a friend his cowboy-style cap gun on the way to school.

Taxpayer dollars used by U.S. government to promote GMOs in other countries
(NaturalNews) Not content to allow Monsanto to poison Americans, the U.S. government is using your tax dollars to promote the bio-ag giant's genetically modified food crops overseas as well, according to a new report.

Congressional research: cost of tax breaks $12 trillion, benefits mostly rich
Huffington Post - The top ten U.S. tax deductions, credits and exclusions will keep $12 trillion out of federal government coffers over the next decade, and several of them mainly benefit the wealthiest Americans, a new study from the Congressional Budget Office shows.

Sleep deprivation in the military: Modafinil and the arms race for soldiers without fatigue
Slate.com - All over the world, scientists are experimenting on soldiers to keep them awake beyond the limits of normal endurance. Researchers are engineering, and militaries are deploying, chemically enhanced troops. Of all the superpowers we’ve imagined, the one that has turned out to be most attainable—so attainable we’re already using it—is the ability to go without sleep.

Thank you for your Service – Navy reservist evicted from home while on active duty
stopforeclosurefraud.com - In his absence, while PO Worrell was serving his country, Emigrant Bank unlawfully evicted the Worrell’s from their home – violating a court ordered stay that was in place while the appeal was pending in federal court.

VIDEO: ‘US military sexual assaults a massive problem’
Press TV - Sexual assaults in the U.S. military is “a massive, massive problem”, but those who commit such assaults are never prosecuted and “the abuse will continue”, says Stephen Lendman, American writer, radio host, and columnist at Veterans Today.