EU sells deal at too high a price: Cyprus
Press TV - “Europe is pretending to help us but the price to pay is too high: nothing less than the brutal destruction of our economic model which will cause enormous, long term difficulties for the Cypriot people,” said Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides... “We need to start from scratch, as in 1974, when our economy was leveled to the ground after the Turkish invasion,” Kasoulides added.

UN approves combat force in Congo
Press TV - The United Nations Security Council has approved the creation of a new combat force to conduct “targeted offensive operations” against armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Russian president orders unscheduled military drill in Black Sea
Press TV - Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that Putin issued the order for the large-scale maneuvers overnight as he flew back from the South African city of Durban after a two-day summit of the BRICS group of emerging powers. Peskov further said the drill is aimed at testing the battle-readiness of Russia’s Black Sea units.

Human Tissue Found in Meats - but eating it is "no threat"
Activist Post - The horse meat fiasco in Europe has prodded scientists to look a bit deeper into what else we might be consuming. A team of South African scientists have just found traces of human tissue in meat meant for public consumption from 9 provinces.

Cyprus-Style “Bail-Ins” Are Proposed In The New 2013 Canadian Government Budget!
Economic Collapse - The politicians of the western world are coming after your bank accounts. In fact, Cyprus-style "bail-ins" are actually proposed in the new Canadian government budget.... It is right there in black and white on pages 144 and 145 of "Economic Action Plan 2013" which the Harper government has already submitted to the House of Commons.

Iran, NKorea, Syria block UN arms trade treaty
Huffington Post - - Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked adoption of a U.N. treaty that would regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade for the first time, saying it fails to ban sales to terrorists, but other countries refused to let the treaty die.

Climate Gets 20 Percent of Seven-Year European Budget
ENS February 8, 2013 - European heads of state and government have agreed to commit at least 20 percent of the entire European Union budget over the next seven years to climate-related spending.... The seven-year budget was agreed at 960 billion euros ($1.28 trillion). By comparison, the budget for the years 2007-2013 was 975.777 billion euros.

Emergency Motion: US Denying Gitmo Detainees Water
antiwar.com - An emergency motion has been filed in a DC court by lawyers for the detainees, claiming that the military is now denying the detainees clean drinking water to punish them for refusing to eat provided meals. The military has so far refused to respond to the motion, but insists that the claims of insufficient water are untrue.

Food Fraud Hits a New Low with the Potential Emergence of Dog Meat in the UK
12160.info - A mystery meat, which has defied the best efforts of scientists to identify it, has been found in a lamb curry as part of an investigation into food fraud.... All of the many tests to date by the lab used by the programme have failed to identify exactly which animal was the source of the meat. The revelation raises many grim possibilities. There is evidence from Spain, for example, of meat from dog carcasses being processed for use in pet food.

Navy Wants Lasers on Marines’ Trucks to Shoot Down Drones
Wired - It’s all part of a new Office of Naval Research program, formally unveiled Thursday, with the clunky name of Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy on the Move. For the time being, it’s just a research effort, but the office expects to award grants and contracts for it worth up to $400,000. And it’s doable.

VIDEO: 'Skynet’ Drones Work Together for “Homeland Security”
Paul Joseph Watson - Professor Raffaello D’Andrea demonstrates the amazing capability of drones that can communicate with each other, technology he admits could be open to “abuse” and is “incredibly dangerous.” Aviation expert David Cenciotti expects the drones to be used for “hunting terrorists” and other “homeland security” purposes.

Arizona city mulling free shotguns in crimestopping bid
RT - An Arizona ex-politician has announced plans to distribute free shotguns to Tucson residents living in high-crime areas. Shaun McClusky said he has begun efforts to purchase guns and ammunition, which he’ll give to anyone who can pass a background check.

Reality Check: Should Elmwood Place officials face criminal charges over speed cameras?
fox19.com - The fight over the speed cameras in Elmwood Place continues tonight. As of right now, those cameras are off and a class action lawsuit on behalf of those who were ticketed by the robo-cams is moving forward. But based on the judge's blistering ruling on these cameras, is that enough?

VIDEO: Ron Paul on Lew Rockwell's Pod Cast: Empire, Blood, and Banking
Daily Paul - Ron Paul takes Lew Rockwell on a tour of our troubles.

Cover-Up of Adam Lanza Link to Psychotropic Drugs?
Paul Joseph Watson - Books about Asperger syndrome and autism were found in the home of Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza, although search warrants released today made no mention of any medication being discovered despite reports that Lanza was taking pharmaceutical drugs.... The search warrant documents can be read here (PDF). Some sections have been redacted.

Sandy Hook shooter had 12 gauge shotgun in glove compartment?
12160.info - According to Fox News, Adam Lanza had a shotgun that fits inside a glove compartment and it has 35 round clips. See the link here. Quote from Fox News Article: "A loaded 12-gauge shotgun was found in the glove compartment of the Honda Civic Lanza drove to the school with two magazines containing 70 rounds of Winchester 12-gauge shotgun rounds."

VIDEO: Biden: Senate Gun Bill Vote Only the Beginning
Kurt Nimmo - Biden said he believes Congress will ultimately force the American people to report their gun purchases to the federal government. “I think we’re on the verge of getting a serious thorough universal background check system in place,” he added.

Gun Store Owners: Ammo Shipments Are Not Even Making It To Shelves
Steve Watson - Owners at Blue Steel Guns & Ammunition in Raytown, Miami told The Miami Herald that customers were so hungry for ammo that they couldn’t even stack shelves with fresh supplies before they had all been bought.... The shop sold 60 boxes of .22-caliber and 9 mm ammunition, totaling thousands of rounds, in just 18 minutes.

VIDEO: Officer Convicted In Shooting Death Becomes Police Chief
5newsonline.com - When Coleman Brackney took over as Sulphur Springs’ chief, it was the first time Coleman put on a police uniform since he was fired from the Bella Vista Police Department in 2010. Coleman was convicted that year of negligent homicide and served about one month in jail.

Texas Senate passes legislation allowing state supported colleges to conduct background checks for student housing
Your Houston News - Texas colleges and universities would gain access to Department of Public Safety files for criminal background checks of students who apply for on-campus housing under legislation adopted unanimously by the state Senate Wednesday, March 27.

E-Gov Link Enables Local Governments to Accept Bitcoin
Activist Post - E-Gov Link announced today integration of Bitcoin payments into its popular E-Gov suite of products. Bitcoin, a global digital currency, is gaining in popularity, and provides citizens and municipalities a more cost effective solution for payments.

Metals Dealers Shut Down Sales As Silver Globex Market Price Feeds Fluctuating By Over $1
silverdoctors.com - Silver gapped up vertically on tonight’s Globex open, as the entire day’s paper raid was erased in the opening tick in Asia… Meanwhile according to other live metals feeds, silver has gapped-down to $27.88.

More than 300,000 homes are foreclosed "zombies," study says
Press TV - A national survey found 301,874 "zombie" properties dotting the U.S. landscape in which homeowners in foreclosure have moved out, leaving vacant property susceptible to vandalism and degradation. Florida tops the list of zombie properties with 90,556 vacant homes in foreclosure, according to a foreclosure inventory released on Thursday by RealtyTrac, a real estate information company in Irvine, California.

‘More arms being sent to Syria militants’
Press TV - A senior Arab official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a carefully prepared covert operation involving Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, and Qatar was arming the foreign-backed militants in Syria, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.

French war creates crisis in Mali
Press TV - The French-led war in Mali has caused a serious humanitarian crisis and has displaced tens of thousands of people, many of whom reside in refugee camps in neighboring countries in deplorable conditions.


British troops arrive in Mali
Press TV - Forty British soldiers, which are part of a team of 500 troops from European countries, will help develop the Malian Army's infantry and artillery skills, the ministry said on Wednesday, AFP reported.

US deploys nuclear jets to South Korea
Press TV - The US military has deployed two nuclear-capable B2 stealth bombers over South Korea to conduct “deterrence” mission amid escalating tension in the Korean peninsula over North Korea’s threats of attacking its neighbor and the US.

China willing to mediate Korean conflict
Press TV - China says it is willing to help a ‘reconciliation and cooperation’ process between North Korea and South Korea, amid rising tension in the Korean Peninsula.

VIDEO: Cyprus banks open after 12-day lockdown
Aljazeera - Banks in Cyprus have opened their doorsfor the first time in almost two weeks, with tight controls on transactions to prevent a run on deposits after the island was forced to accept a stringent EU rescue package to avert bankruptcy.

Chinese supertanker gets oil at Iran port
Press TV - A Chinese supertanker with the capacity to carry two million barrels of crude has docked and embarked at an Iranian port, the first such move since the European Union imposed sanctions on Iran’s oil in July.

UN’s Ban Recommends Putting 11,200 Peacekeepers in Mali
Bloomberg - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon recommended that as many as 11,200 United Nations peacekeepers and a special counterterrorist unit be deployed to Mali to take over the fight against Islamic insurgents in the land-locked African nation, relieving France.

VIDEO: Western-Backed “Arab Spring” Leads to Persecution of Christians
Paul Joseph Watson - Whereas Christians were relatively free to practice their faith and preach under the rule of leaders like Hosni Mubarak, Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar Al-Assad, the new regimes that have emerged in Egypt, Libya and now Syria have made the subjugation of Christians a centerpiece of their agenda.

Banks are ordered to stockpile an extra £25billion to prepare for another financial crisis
Daily Mail - Britain’s banks have been told to stockpile £25billions by the end of the year to prepare for future financial crises. In a major blow to borrowers, the Bank of England warned banks they face a potential £50 billion hit over the next three years from eurozone shocks, bad debts and mis-selling scandals.

Firm Is Accused of Sending Spam, and Fight Jams Internet
NY Times - A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world.

Law would fire sheriffs for defying gun control measures
Washington Examiner - Supporters of the 380 sheriffs in 15 states who so far have vowed to defy new state and federal gun control laws claim that legislation is starting to pop up around the nation to fire any state elected or appointed law enforcement official who doesn't obey federal orders.

Biometric National ID Card could be mandated on all American workers
(NaturalNews) Control - this is what fuels many Congressmen and women. Recently, two U.S. senators met with President Obama, vouching for a biometric national ID card that would force workers to submit to a fingerprint, hand, or iris scan. Any worker failing to comply with this biometric tracking mandate, would be terminated from their job.

20 Key Ways to Defeat The New World Order
Activist Post - How does one defeat the New World Order (NWO) with their control over the banks, the military, the corporations, health care and the politicians? In short, they own it all. Is there any way to defeat the NWO?

YouTube: Children Horribly Deformed by US Chemical Weapons in Iraq (NSFW)
The Young Turks - The depleted uranium usage in Iraq left lasting effects, on our own troops and in babies born with horrifying deformities in Fallujah and Basra. Is this the legacy of the war, and should people be paying more attention to these awful consequences?

VIDEO: Gun Stores Resorting To Bullet “Rationing”
Steve Watson - Gun stores across America are resorting to bullet rationing, with store owners saying they have never seen such shortages in their lifetimes, and blaming huge ammunition purchases by the federal government.

VIDEO: Police restrain crowd from taking food after supermarket eviction
wistv.com - Law enforcement officials pushed back hundreds of people who were crowding around a large pile of merchandise outside an Augusta grocery store Tuesday afternoon. But the goods sitting in the parking lot of the Laney Supermarket didn't make into anyone's hands. Instead, the food people hoped to take home was tossed into the trash.

"Meet Ron Paul" is climbing Amazon's Top 100 Best Selling Children's Biography List
Daily Paul - The Ron Paul biography for kids, Meet Ron Paul, is now #65 on the Amazon Kindle Store Children's Biography list. We are just below Abraham Lincoln and "One Direction."

More than 130 arrested during Chicago schools protest
RT - Demonstrators protest school closings on March 27, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. More than 1,000 demonstrators held a rally and marched through downtown to protest a plan by the city to close more than 50 elementary schools, claiming it is necessary to rein in a looming $1 billion budget deficit.

How to Hide Your Money Where the Bankers Won’t Find it
theprepperjournal.com - There are a ton of options for hiding things and they are only limited to your creativity. If you are going to hide money, I would take extra precautions. Especially, if you plan on seeing this money again someday. For ideas, here are a few...

Pentagon cuts number of furlough days
AP - Defense officials say the Pentagon will sharply cut the number of unpaid furlough days civilians will have to take in the next several months from 22 to 14, reducing the financial impact of the budget cuts on as many as 700,000 workers.

STUDY: Health overhaul to raise claims cost 32%
yahoo.com - Insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Barack Obama's overhaul... By 2017, the estimated increase would be 62 percent for California, about 80 percent for Ohio, more than 20 percent for Florida and 67 percent for Maryland. Much of the reason for the higher claims costs is that sicker people are expected to join the pool, the report said.

US-led airstrike kills 20 in Afghanistan'
Press TV - Local residents in Afghanistan’s Logar Province say at least 20 people, including many women and children, have been killed in a US-led airstrike in the province’s Barak-e Barak village, with Afghan officials confirming the death of at least three people.

Pyongyang warns of nuclear war due to South Korea-US provocations
Press TV - "Our people and army are entering the final stage of preparations for war against the United States to defend their country's dignity and sovereignty," the North Korean foreign ministry said in a Tuesday statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

49,000 killed in Pakistan since 9/11
Press TV - At least 49,000 people, including 15,000 security personnel, have been killed in violence in Pakistan since the 9/11 attacks in the United States, a security report says.

Iran sanctions could force BP to shut down North Sea gas field
Press TV - Dow Jones reported on Tuesday that without gas from the adjoining Rhum field, of which the National Iranian Oil Company is a joint owner, BP might have to close down the Bruce field.

Final Push for a Canada-EU CETA and the Coming NAFTA-EU Free Trade Zone
Activist Post - Pressure is mounting on Canada to finish up a long-delayed trade deal with the EU. Despite outstanding issues that still must be settled, there is a final push to try and complete an agreement this summer. If both sides are able to secure a deal, it would lay the groundwork for the proposed U.S.-EU trade pact.

'US training Syria militants in Jordan'
Press TV - American and foreign officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that "the training has been taking place since late last year at an unspecified location" in Jordan. Officials added that the training is being conducted by US intelligence officers. Other countries such as Britain and France are also involved in the operation, officials said, adding "the effort is ongoing."

Syrian rebels ask US to shoot down Assad warplanes with Patriot missiles
NBC News - Syrian opposition leader Mouaz al-Khatib — who appeared Tuesday as the representative of Syria at an Arab League summit meeting following the Assad regime's suspension — said that he had asked Secretary of State John Kerry "to extend the umbrella of the Patriot missiles to cover the Syrian north and he promised to study the subject," Reuters reported.

New BRICS bank to rival World Bank, IMF
Press TV - The BRICS group of emerging economies has unveiled a new development bank, which is aimed at breaking the monopoly held by Western-backed institutions.... Finance ministers of the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - met in Durban, South Africa for the opening of the fifth BRICS summit this week as leaders are expected to make an official announcement on Wednesday.

VIDEO: Cyprus bail-out: savers will be raided to save euro in future crises, says eurozone chief
Telegraph - Savings accounts in Spain, Italy and other European countries will be raided if needed to preserve Europe's single currency by propping up failing banks, a senior eurozone official has announced.

US Jails Chinese Engineer for Exporting Trade Secrets
BBC - A US court has sentenced a Chinese national to more than five years in prison for illegally exporting military trade secrets to China. Liu Sixing, who formerly worked in US company L-3 Communications, was accused of taking information on US missile, rocket and drone technology to China.

Anti-Israel ads to appear at US train stations
Press TV - The American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) started its campaign on Tuesday by unveiling some of the ads that will appear for four weeks at 25 stations on the Metro North train line near New York City. The advertisements call for an end to the Israeli apartheid and the financial aid that the US provides to the Israeli regime every year in a show of public anger.

One Man Stands in the Way of Arizona Anti-NDAA Bill
Activist Post - Representative Andy Tobin is currently blocking HB 2573 from receiving a full House vote. He is willing to kill protection for the people of Arizona, and allow the Federal government to trample the rights of his constituents.

Texas Anti-NDAA Bill Heads to House Floor: Action Needed
Activist Post - Rep. Larson's bill, once amended, will protect the people of Texas from indefinite military detention and extrajudicial assassination without charge or trial. However, we have to get it through Committee first. It's time to bring the pressure. One call, and taking 30 seconds to tell your legislator what you think, can make all the difference.

V1DEO: Teen Gets 30 Months in Federal Prison for Laser Pointer
Activist Post - The FAA says that laser pointers are dangerous to pilots because it may temporarily blind them. They claim that over 3600 laser incidents occurred in 2011. Below is a compelling video of the FBI catching a laser pointer criminal in the act in 2011. This 2-year-old video shows the FBI's incredibly advanced surveillance technology...

18 Reasons Why Doctors and Lawyers Homeschool Their Children
childrensmd.org - The face of homeschooling is changing. We are not all religious extremists or farmers, and our kids are not all overachieving academic nerds without social skills. An estimated 2.04 million k12 children are home educated in the United States, a 75% increase since 1999.

VIDEO: Weapons Manufacturer: Big Sis Attempting to Exhaust Ammo Supplies
Paul Joseph Watson - A weapons manufacturer who supplies the federal government with ammunition told the nationally syndicated Savage Nation radio show that the Department of Homeland Security’s huge ammo purchases were an attempt to dry up supplies as part of an end run around the second amendment.

Gun store rescinds Mark Kelly's [Gabby Gifford's husband] rifle purchase, questions his 'intent'
Fox News - A Tucson gun store owner has decided to rescind the sale of a military-style rifle to Mark Kelly, the husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, after Kelly said he had intended the purchase to make a political point about how easy it is to obtain the kind of firearms he's lobbying Congress to ban.

VIDEO: Albany Police: SWAT Used Poor Black Neighborhood For Training Because It’s ‘Realistic’
Raw Story - On Thursday, Albany’s SWAT team shocked nearby residents when it stormed a public housing complex that was scheduled to be demolished, according to the Times Union. Photos circulated on Facebook over the weekend showed police in tactical gear, spent shell casings and fake blood.
* Related Article: Albany Cops Threaten to Arrest Citizens During Training Exercise

Police Need Warrant for Dogs Sniffing Homes, High Court Says
SFGate - Drug-sniffing police dogs have their place, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. And it’s not on a suspect’s front porch. The court today said officers typically need a warrant before taking an animal to the door of a house in the hope of detecting narcotics.

USMint Sells Another 1 Million Silver Eagles, Set to Place 3rd Consecutive Monthly Sales Record!
silverdoctors.com - In the wake of the Cyprus banking collapse, the US Mint has sold nearly 1 million ounces of silver in 4 days!

VIDEO: Rand Paul Wants Illegal's Turned into Taxpayers
WND - “What I’m saying is let’s get them work visas, normalize them, tax them, make them taxpayers,” the senator said in an exclusive interview with WND reporter Taylor Rose.

Your Tax Dollars at Work: More Than a Vacation a Month for Obamas in 2013
Weekly Standard - In the first three months of the year, members of the first family have been on three vacations, averaging a vacation a month. And now it's being reported that the first daughters are on a spring break vacation in the Bahamas.

JPMorgan Chase Still Going Strong Despite Paying Billions for Long List of Misdeeds
AllGov - JPMorgan Chase has paid $16 billion in fines, settlements and other litigation expenses in just the last four years. But the troubles have not substantially weakened the bank, still the nation’s largest financial holding company.

Indebted California county grants its administrator $400k salary for life
RT - With millions of dollars in debt and a $3 million projected deficit for 2013 alone, Alameda County is struggling to stay afloat. But rather than pay off its dues, the city is shelling out a $423,664 annual salary for a county administrator.

VA uses tranquilizers on over 30 percent of veterans with PTSD despite clinical warnings against their use
(NaturalNews) Doctors and medical professionals at the Veterans Affairs are handing out dangerous tranquilizers such as Xanax and Valium to military service members diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder though they have been repeatedly advised not to do so because of the potential the drugs could cause more harm than good.

N Korea again threatens to strike Hawaii, Guam and the US mainland
Press TV - All artillery troops including strategic rocket units and long-range artillery units are to be placed under class-A combat readiness," the Korean People's Army (KPA) supreme command said in a Tuesday statement.... The army's announcement came days after Seoul and Washington signed a new military pact in response to what they called even low-level provocations by Pyongyang.

World's First Bitcoin ATM Is Announced - First Location: Cyprus
Activist Post - While European politicos negotiate in Brussels, deciding the fate of other people's money in Cyprus, the free market has already moved in to help Cypriots get access to their money via other means....

Alberta man to sell home for Bitcoin virtual currency
cbc.ca - If successful, 22-year-old entrepreneur Taylor More would be the first person ever to accept the fast-rising virtual currency in exchange for property.

Food and medicine airlifted to snowbound residents
Medication and food are being delivered by helicopter to people left snowbound by the severe weather in Northern Ireland.

US, South Korea sign military pact
Press TV - The United States and South Korea have signed a military deal enabling a joint response to what they call provocations by North Korea, official sources say.... The limited acts of provocation envisaged in the pact, signed on March 22, include maritime border incursions, shelling of border islands and infiltration by low-flying fighter jets or by Special Forces units.

VIDEO: CIA Orchestrated Syrian Opposition Crumbles
Kurt Nimmo - The CIA has sent forth its potted plant to rule over Syria – but only if it can manage to defeat the Syrian army and remove Bashar al-Assad, either by Russian aircraft or in the same way Moammar Gaddafi was removed.

Kerry Demands Iraq Stop “Arms Flow” to Syria even as US Arms/Funds Al Qaeda
Global Research - Absurd demands were put forth by US Secretary of State John Kerry, regarding Iraqi airspace and alleged aircraft passing through it with arms and cash supposedly destined for the Syrian government.

Confirmed: US shipping weapons to Syria; Al Nusra's 'mystery' sponsors revealed
Press TV - While US President Barack Obama and the Western media lied in concert to the world regarding America's role in supporting terrorists operating in Syria, it is now revealed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been shipping weapons to Syria via NATO-member Turkey and Jordan since at least early 2012.

'Dagger' brigade readies for AFRICOM missions
stratrisks.com - Some 4,000 soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, out of Fort Riley, Kan., are training for realignment to U.S. Africa Command, expected later this year. The 2nd BCT, or "Dagger" Brigade as it is known, will be the first brigade to be regionally aligned to U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM.

Cyprus' banks to remain closed until Thursday
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Cyprus ordered banks to remain closed for two more days over fears of a run by customers trying to get their money out, after striking a pre-dawn bailout deal Monday that averted the country's imminent bankruptcy.

A Letter from Cyprus: Economy Shutting Down, Going CASH ONLY!
silverdoctors.com - Nowhere in Cyprus accepts credit or debit cards anymore for fear of not being paid, it is CASH ONLY. Businesses have stopped functioning because they cannot pay employees OR pay for the stock they receive because the banks are closed.

Big Five UK banks see profits for 2012 'wiped out'
The major UK banks saw a 45% rise in core profits in 2012, but that hike was wiped out by a mix of regulation and their own mistakes, a KPMG report says.

Sen. Reid Beefs up "Base Bill" to Destroy Gun Ownership
GOA - This would ban private sales of firearms, unless purchasers first get the permission from the government. If Senators can pass this de facto registration bill, they will be well on the way to confiscation (see, for example, Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York, who has a gun owner registry and has called for gun confiscation).
* Related Article: Rand Paul and Ted Cruz threaten filibuster...

VIDEO: 5 Mississippi Lawmakers Die In Months; Pro-Agenda 21 Legislator Jessica Upshaw Found Dead Of Gunshot Wound
Before It's News - 5 Mississippi state lawmakers have died within the past few months, including the recent death of Jessica Upshaw who recently took a great deal of blame for not allowing a vote to kill Agenda 21 in Mississippi. Upshaw represented a district that included the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and was said to have committed suicide.

VIDEO: Hundreds Of DHS Armored Trucks On The Move?
Steve Watson - Footage of hundreds of armored trucks, similar to ones reportedly purchased recently by the Department Of Homeland Security has appeared online, raising more questions over their intended use. The video was uploaded to YouTube last week by a user who stated that it was shot in the middle of the desert between Hackberry and Peach Springs, Arizona.

DHS To Buy 360,000 More Rounds of Hollow Point Ammunition
Paul Joseph Watson - While the Department of Homeland Security continues to ignore members of Congress demanding to know why the federal agency is engaged in an apparent arms build-up, the DHS has just announced it plans to purchase another 360,000 rounds of hollow point ammunition to add to the roughly 2 billion bullets already bought over the past year.

Are The Ammo Shortages By Design?
newstalk1290.com - There’s been lots of speculation over the last several months about ammo shortages. Consumers are frustrated with long lines and the lack of availability. The most common calibers are increasingly difficult to find. 9mm, .223 cal., 5.56 NATO, .40, cal. and .45 cal. have all but dried up. Prices are up 100 to 200 percent over just two years ago.

VIDEO: McCain Gets Behind Senate Attack On Second Amendment
Kurt Nimmo - Republican Arizona Senator John McCain will work with Senate Democrats on legislation to expand background checks for private sales of firearms between individuals. “We’ve had discussions about the issue,” McCain told The Hill. He declined to provide details.

Serbu Firearms Refuses to Sell .50 Cal Sniper Rifles to NYPD
guns.com - Serbu Firearms, a manufacturer of bolt-action and semi-automatic .50 caliber sniper rifles, is refusing to sell their wares to the NYPD. Their reason, of course, is that owing to unfair gun laws, they will not support law enforcement in New York.

Cuomo’s 7-Bullet Limit to Be Suspended Indefinitely, Skelos Says
Bloomberg - Governor Andrew Cuomo’s seven-round limit on magazines sold in New York will be suspended “indefinitely” by a measure in his $136.5 billion budget set to be passed this week, Dean Skelos, a Senate majority leader said.

YouTube: Dennis Kucinich: US an 'Orwellian State', Drones, GMOs, Holding Bush Accountable
RT - Abby Martin talks to US Congressman, Dennis Kucinich, about the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war and other issues that set him aside from the average establishment politician.

Austin police chief, key legislators want special driver’s permits for undocumented immigrants
statesman.com - Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told a Texas House committee this month that the little-noticed measure tucked into a must-pass budget bill in 2011 is causing trouble for police. The law requires everyone in Texas to prove they are in the U.S. legally before they can renew driver licenses.

VIDEO: Two Texas state troopers indicted for roles in roadside body cavity search of two women
NY Daily News - Trooper Kelley Helleson, who was later fired after the Texas Department of Public Safety investigated, was charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of official oppression. Trooper David Farrell was charged with theft after the women said their prescription went missing following last summer’s incident.

Stikkel: Government Regulation Of Bitcoin Has Mixed Implications
dailyorange.com - Because some currency regulations now apply to Bitcoin, it is difficult to deny Bitcoin is a serious medium of exchange, which may help it gain recognition. However, the regulation itself is a new burden on some Bitcoin-based businesses. There are privacy issues, as well.

Store Combats Showrooming With $5 ‘Just Looking’ Fee
Consumerist - While some bricks-and-mortar chains are trying to curb showrooming — using a retailer to check out an item in person before buying it online — with price-matching or store-exclusive brands, one business has come up with a possible solution… charging a $5 fee for shopping without buying.

VIDEO: Thousands march in Paris against same-sex marriage and adoption
RT - Tens of thousands of French families, activists and conservatives have marched in Paris protesting against a bill that if passed would allow same-sex marriage and adoption. Police fired teargas to prevent protesters from entering the Champs Elysees.

US Sec. of State tells Iraq to close airspace for Iranian planes ‘with Assad aid’
RT - Iraq shouldn't allow Iran to use its airspace to provide aid to the Syrian government, US Secretary of State, John Kerry, warned during his unannounced visit to Baghdad.

VIDEO: Eurozone finance ministers approve bailout deal for Cyprus
RT - The Eurogroup has approved a deal on a €10 billion bailout for Cyprus, struck early Monday in Brussels. Cyprus avoids exiting the eurozone, but will have its second largest bank closed with heavy losses expected for big depositors.

Spain Brings the Pain to Bank Investors
WSJ - The Spanish government will impose heavy losses on investors at nationalized banks and hire external advisers to help it manage these banks' assets, its latest efforts to overhaul a financial sector battered by the collapse of a decadelong housing boom.

CNPC to Start Oil Production in Afghanistan Soon
Rigzone - China's largest oil company is due to start commercial production of crude oil in Afghanistan shortly, heralding a resource boom that could transform the country's economy over the next decade, the country's mining minister said.

Syrian opposition leader resigns
RT - The president of the Syrian National Coalition Moaz Khatib has announced his resignation from office just four months after being elected. The head of the Western-backed opposition group has stepped down amid high tension in the coalition. He said in a statement that he is resigning “to be able to work with freedom that cannot be available within the official institutions.”

Israel to 'immediately' respond to all Syrian cross-border shooting
RT - Israel will “immediately” respond to Syrian gunfire on the border of Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, stated new Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. The statement comes after Israel returned fire from over the border, wounding two Syrian soldiers.

Tel Aviv refuses to end Gaza blockade as part of Turkey-Israel reconciliation
RT - Israel did not agree to end its Gaza blockade as part of reconciliation with Turkey, and could clamp down even harder on the Palestinian enclave if security is threatened, a senior Israeli official said on Sunday.

VIDEO: US stations more troops in S Korea
Press TV - Figures released by the US Department of Defense show that over 37,000 US soldiers are stationed in South Korea, which is roughly 9,000 more than what the two countries had agreed in 2008.

France deploys troops to CAR
Press TV - France has sent some 350 troops to the Central African Republic to counter the Seleka fighters, who have allegedly taken control of the capital city of Bangui.

'French colonization of Mali cannot last'
Press TV - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood party has called on France to pull its forces out of Mali, saying the French-led war in the African country amounts to "colonialism."

VIDEO: BBC-Guardian Exposé Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers to U.S. Col. Steele & Gen. Petraeus
Liberty Crier - A shocking new report by The Guardian and BBC Arabic [on Democracy Now!] details how the United States armed and trained Iraqi death squads that ran torture centers.

Cyprus imposes ATM withdrawal limit of €100 per day for island's two largest banks
RT - A spokesman for the country's second largest lender, Cyprus Popular Bank, told Reuters that the new measure began at 1pm local time (11am GMT) and would remain in place until the bank reopens, or until confirmation of continued emergency funding from the European Central Bank.

VIDEO: Lew Rockwell: ‘Your Money Is Safer Under The Mattress Than In A Bank’
Liberty Crier - Lew Rockwell [on RT] discusses the situation in Cyprus after the country’s Parliament gave a resounding no vote to the EU-IMF bailout package. The move could have seen the government take up to 10% of people’s savings, from private bank accounts – as a precondition to securing the much needed 10 billion euro loan.

Gold Bank Run Begins? Dutch Bank ABN Amro Halts Physical Gold Delivery!
silverdoctors.com - Dutch Bank ABN Amro has sent a letter to clients this weekend informing them that they will halt extradition and physical delivery of their clients’ gold holdings effective April 1st!

Syrian National With Suspected Ties to 9/11 Living Freely in NJ, ‘Virtually Immune From Deportation’
A Syrian national with established ties to the 9/11 hijackers is currently living in the suburbs of northern New Jersey, unworried about facing deportation by the U.S. government due to a series of mistakes made at the federal level, Fox News reports.

Senate votes 53-46 to stop US from joining UN Arms Trade Treaty
The Hill - Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced an amendment that would prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty in order to uphold the Second Amendment. His amendment passed on a 53-46 vote.

VIDEO: Retired Army Captain Warns DHS Acquisitions are ‘bold threat of war’ Against the American People
Adan Salazar - “It is with gravest concern that I write to you today concerning the recent appropriation of weapons by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that can only be understood as a bold threat of war by that agency, and the Obama administration, against the citizens of the United States of America,” the decorated retired Army Captain’s letter begins.

VIDEO: Ron Paul Texas Straight Talk: Neo-Con War Addiction Threatens Our Future
Liberty Crier - William Kristol knows what is wrong with the United States. As he wrote recently in the flagship magazine of the neo-conservatives, the Weekly Standard, the problem with the US is that we seem to have lost our appetite for war.

Missing virus vial raises concerns at UTMB facility
chron.com - The missing vial, which contains less than a quarter of a teaspoon an infectious disease, had been stored in a locked freezer, designed to handle biological material safely, within the Galveston National Laboratory on UTMB's campus, officials said. During a routine internal inspection last week, UTMB officials realized one vial of a virus called Guanarito was not accounted for at the facility.
* Related: Message from the President of UTMB

Not even close: Pentagon requests $49 million to build new Gitmo prison
RT - The US Southern Command (Southcom) has requested $49 million to build a new prison building at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba “for special detainees” as well as carry out other “necessary” renovations, US media reveal.

Ron Paul’s Podcast Nation 3-22-2013
Liberty Crier - President Bush’s Iraq War began 10 years ago. Ron Paul tells the inside story of how it got by Congress and what the result has been.

Dr. Ron Paul addresses the "N. Korea Threat" on His FaceBook
Daily Paul - Ron Paul: Tensions on the Korean peninsula have again reached a flashpoint, as the US and South Korea trade threats with the government of North Korea...

Las Vegas Passes Anti-NDAA Resolution
pandaunite.org - Nevada (People Against the National Defense Authorization Act) announces the passage of a Las Vegas City Council Resolution defeating the indefinite detention provisions of the 2012 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act).
* Related: Anti-NDAA Legislation Tracking

VIDEO: Gun Owners Sue New York Government to Restore 2nd Amendment
Kurt Nimmo - The New York affiliate of the National Rifle Association on Thursday requested an injunction to stop the state from denying residents their Second Amendment right and 14th Amendment right to equal protection under the law. Governor Andrew Cuomo and State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman are named in the lawsuit.

Georgia Guns On Campus Bill Passes State House Of Representatives
Huffington Post - The Republican-controlled Georgia House of Representatives voted Friday morning to pass legislation that would permit guns on college campuses, churches and public buildings and allow school administrators to be armed. The legislation, which now moves to the state Senate for consideration, could make Georgia the sixth state to allow guns on college campuses.

VIDEO: Bloomberg Wants to Use Drones. Surveillance Cams Around New York Are Not Enough
Liberty Crier - Some New Yorkers have expressed serious concern after Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s remark that more security cameras, and even spy drones, will soon be chipping away at our personal space. As CBS 2’s Alice Gainer reported, if it feels like you are constantly being watched, that is because you probably are – at least if you step outside onto city streets.

NH House Votes to Decriminalize Marijuana
nashua.patch.com - The state House of Representatives voted 214-115 on Thursday to pass a bill to decriminalize possession of up to one quarter of an ounce of marijuana.

New Hampshire House Votes To Prohibit Private Prisons
thinkprogress.org - The House on Thursday voted to forbid the executive branch from privatizing the state prison system, saying that to do so would shirk the state’s constitutional responsibility to rehabilitate inmates.... The legislation, while prohibiting prison privatization, allows the governor to enter into a temporary contract with a private provider during times of a “corrections emergency” with the approval of the Executive Council.

Senate Passes $3.7 Trillion Budget, Setting Up Contentious Negotiations
NY Times - After an all-night debate that ended just before 5 a.m., the Senate on Saturday adopted its first budget in four years, a $3.7 trillion blueprint for 2014 that would provide a fast track for passage of tax increases, trim spending modestly and leave the government still deeply in the red a decade from now.

Texas Moves To Repatriate Its Gold From The Federal Reserve
Star-Telegram - Call it the Rick Perry gold rush: The governor wants to bring the state's gold reserves back from a New York vault to Texas.... Freshman Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake, is carrying a bill that would establish the Texas Bullion Depository, a secure state-based bank to house $1 billion worth of gold bars owned by the University of Texas Investment Management Co., or UTIMCO, and stored by the Federal Reserve.

VIDEO: Wisconsin Welfare Reform Promotes Self-Sufficiency
Liberty Crier - According to the governor’s plan, able-bodied adult recipients without young children would be required to work or participate in job training for 20 hours a week in order to receive food stamp benefits... “It is important to give temporary hand up to those in need, but for those who are able, we should not provide a permanent hand out. Our goal is simple: transition people from government dependence to true independence,” said Walker.

Joe Biden runs up bill of $585,000 for just ONE NIGHT in five-star Paris hotel
Daily Mail - Paris may be known as the City of Light, but that title certainly doesn’t mean that visitors are light on spending as Vice President Joe Biden’s one day trip cost taxpayers more than half a million dollars.

Treating PTSD with Medical Marijuana Could Curb Veteran Suicides
reason.com - The VMCA has collected an impressive amount of studies that suggest that medical marijuana is a safer and more effective way to treat PTSD and anxiety. They submitted it to the State of Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (MDLRA) in an attempt to convince the Michigan Medical Marijuana Review Panel that PTSD should be a qualifying condition for patients to be prescribed medical marijuana. They have also sent in similar packets to New Mexico and Oregon.

US terror drones kill 4 in NW Pakistan
Press TV - An airstrike carried out by US assassination drones has killed four people in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area, which borders Afghanistan, security officials say. US drones fired two missiles on a house in Dattakhel town, 35 kilometres (21 miles) west of Miranshah, the main city in North Waziristan, in the early hours of Friday morning, killing four people and injuring several others, the Pakistani television network Dawn News reported.

Obama employee of Israel: Hezbollah
Press TV - The Lebonese resistance movement of Hezbollah has condemned Barack Obama’s call for listing the group as a terrorist organization, saying the US president is an “employee of Israel.”

Mass Panic In Cyprus: The Banks Are Collapsing And ATMs Are Running Out Of Money
Economic Collapse - European officials are openly admitting that the two largest banks in Cyprus are "insolvent", and it is now being reported that Cyprus Popular Bank only has "enough liquidity to cover the next few hours". Of course all banks in Cyprus are officially closed until Tuesday at the earliest, but there have been long lines at ATMs all over Cyprus as people scramble to get whatever money they can out of the banks.

VIDEO: Protests in Cyprus as government postpones crucial legislation debate
RT - Angry protesters gathered outside the parliament building in Nicosia Thursday to protest against the government’s handling of the banking crisis, while talks aimed at tackling it got moved to Friday.

UN Arms Trade Treaty, Day Two: Focus Is Transfer, Registry of Firearms
New American - On the second day of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) conference, the delegations of several European nations seemed determined to prohibit the government of any nation from violating any regulations imposed as a part of the ATT.
* Related Article: Kerry Commits U.S. To U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Gun Grab

Syrian terrorists to receive UK chemical kits
Press TV - The UK government is supplying hundreds of chemical weapons detection and protection kits to foreign-backed terrorists fighting the popular government of Syria since a European Union

US ‘Elects’ New Syrian Leader…A Guy From Dallas!
Lew Rockwell Blog - In the name of democracy, the US government has supported a variety of armed opposition fighters in Syria seeking to overthrow that country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, who according to a wide variety of sources information enjoys support from the majority of the Syrian people. So to promote democracy in Syria, the US government has taken it upon itself to choose a new leader for Syria.

S&P lowers Cyprus’s sovereign credit
Press TV - Standard & Poor's (S&P) ratings agency has downgraded Cyprus’s sovereign credit rating by one notch saying there are "acute problems" in the Cypriot banking sector.

ECB Gives Cyprus March 25 Liquidity Ultimatum
Zero Hedge - "The European Central Bank raised the stakes in the Cyprus crisis on Thursday, telling Nicosia it had until Monday to agree a bailout with the EU and International Monetary Fund or it would cut off emergency liquidity provision to the country’s banks.

Dark Knight killer James Holmes 'is now a Muslim who prays five times a day'!
Daily Mail - The killer showed off a lengthy, thick beard during a court appearance earlier this month, and a prison source has claimed it is a symbol of his new-found faith. The source said Holmes has turned to Islam as a way of justifying his horrific murder spree in an Aurora, Colorado cinema on July 20 which left 12 people dead and 58 people wounded.

FAA allows Arlington, Texas police to join countless others flying drones domestically
Activist Post - Thanks to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), police in Arlington, Texas have been cleared to fly two small helicopter drones, joining the countless other public entities that have already been given permission to fly drones over the United States

FAA says entrepreneurs can't operate drones, only police and military can
(NaturalNews) If you're a business owner, hobbyist or just a drone enthusiast, you need not apply for a permit with the Federal Aviation Administration to operate a drone. You won't get it, you see, because drone permits are being limited to the police and the military. Welcome to America, 2013, home of the Statist.

Obama Now Global Head of Al-Qaeda
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones - President Barack Obama is now the global head of Al-Qaeda – bankrolling, arming and equipping terrorists around the world in order to achieve his administration’s geopolitical objectives – while simultaneously invoking the threat of terrorists domestically to destroy the bill of rights.

Air Force Selects Horsham's 111th Fighter Wing for New High-Tech Mission
yahoo.com - The U.S. Air Force has chosen the Pennsylvania Air National Guard's 111th Fighter Wing, located in Horsham, to take on a new remotely piloted aircraft mission. The National Guard Bureau has authorized the wing to establish a ground-control station for the MQ-9 Reaper at Horsham Air Guard Base effective Oct. 1, 2013.

New York State Offering $500 to People Who Snitch on Gun Owners
menrec.com - WRGB in Albany has a breaking news story posted to their Facebook page, claiming that the state of New York is offering up bribes for people to rat out those possessing illegal firearms – an interesting development considering the adoption of the new anti-Second Amendment SAFE Act legislation.

VIDEO: Citizen Tells Gun-grabbers: You Are “Coloring Outside the Lines of Constitutional Parameters”
Kurt Nimmo - On March 14, Connecticut resident Mark Steed delivered an articulate response to the state legislature’s plan to roll back the Second Amendment.... “Adam Lanza commits a crime and I’m here to grovel and plead for my rights?” an outraged Steed said

YouTube: Judge Napolitano Takes On CVS Policy Forcing Employees To Turn Over Health Info: ‘It’s A Consequence Of ObamaCare’
3/21/13 - Appearing on America's Newsroom this morning, Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano took on the controversial CVS policy of forcing its employees to submit personal health information as part of receiving health insurance coverage from the company. The outspoken libertarian posited that the unpopular mandate is a consequence of federal micromanagement of health-care through ObamaCare.

Chicago to close 61 schools to trim $1B deficit
USA Today - Move comes amid declining enrollment. Some say blacks will be hit hardest. Faced with declining enrollment, changing demographics and a $1 billion deficit, Chicago officials announced Thursday that 61 schools would be closed and that staff would be replaced entirely at six other low-performing buildings.

Sen. Paul Introduces Amendment to Fix Nation’s Infrastructure Problems
paul.senate.gov - Mar 21, 2013 Today, Sen. Rand Paul introduced Amendment 382, to S.Con. Res. 8, the Budget Resolution, which provides funding of $16 billion towards infrastructure projects for structurally deficient interstate bridges, through offsets in foreign assistance and the Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Budget.

VIDEO: California businesses fuming over retroactive $120M tax grab
Fox News - California's top-end taxpayers -- already steamed over a recent hike in the nation's highest state income tax -- are now fuming over a new $120 million retroactive tax grab on small business owners. In December, the state's tax authority determined that a tax break claimed over the past few years by 2,500 entrepreneurs and stockholders of California-based small businesses is no longer valid and sent out notices of payment.

Big Banks Offer Payday Loans At 300 Percent Interest: Study
Huffington Post - "Despite federal banking regulators’ recognition of the abuses of payday lending and aggressive action blocking previous bank partnerships with payday lenders, a few large banks have begun offering payday loans directly through checking accounts," the study says. Large banks offering the service include Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Regions Bank and Fifth Third Bank.

Cost of New Bus Stop: $1 Million
arlnow.com -A new bus stop on Columbia Pike cost more than $1 million to build, according to a county spokeswoman. The new prototype “Super Stop” at the corner of Columbia Pike and Walter Reed Drive cost $575,000 for construction and fabrication and $440,000 for construction management and special inspections, according to Arlington County Department of Environmental Services spokeswoman Shannon Whalen McDaniel.

The Fed Has Already Imposed A "Cyprus Tax" On U.S. Savers
Zero Hedge - The continued drive by the Fed's monetary policies to artificially suppress interest rates to create a negative interest rate environment for savers is a defacto "tax" on savings. The destruction of principal since the turn of the century, which is far more disastrous than it appears when adjusted for inflation, has ended the dream of retirement for many individuals. So, can the U.S. potentially have a direct tax on savings? It's already happened.

Sinclair - Lagarde’s IMF Disaster Forces Bernanke Out Of Fed
King World News - Today legendary trader Jim Sinclair told King World News that Lagarde’s IMF Cyprus disaster, in stunning fashion, has now forced Chairman Ben Bernanke out of the Fed. Sinclair, who was once called on by former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker to assist during a Wall Street crisis, takes readers on a trip down the rabbit hole that has become know as “The Cyprus Catastrophe” in this extraordinary and exclusive interview...

Why Is The World Economy Doomed? The Global Financial Pyramid Scheme By The Numbers
Economic Collapse - The global financial system is more interconnected today than ever before, and a crisis at one major bank or in one area of the world can spread at lightning speed.... The following is the global financial pyramid scheme by the numbers…

VIDEO: Bernanke: "We Have No Idea How Much Money We're Giving The Banks"
Daily Bail Mar 21, 2013 - "It's hard to calculate exactly how big of a subsidy we're giving the banks. And I certainly never meant to imply to Senator Warren that the issue is solved and gone. It is not solved and gone. I agree with her 100 percent. Too big to fail is still a major problem." Highlight clip from yesterday's press conference.

The Retirement Crisis Is Here For Millions: Income Inequality Now Set To Wreak Its Ugly Revenge
forbes.com - The Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) has today released its report highlighting the intense state of insecurity American workers are experiencing as they look forward—with ever increasing trepidation—to a retirement without sufficient money to see them through. According to the data, American workers have very good reason to be afraid.

VIDEO: Dylan Ratigan quits Soul-sucking MSNBC to become an Organic Farmer to aid Veterans!
Daily Paul - Dylan Ratigan: Dear friend, If you are reading this, you likely know I left a highly-successful, self-titled show at MSNBC last June in search of meaning and purpose in my work and life. I had lost both after 18 years in Manhattan and the chaos surrounding the hollow political debates permeating America’s media and politics....

North Korea threatens to attack US bases in Okinawa, Guam
RT - North Korea has threatened to target US airbases in Okinawa and Guam as it issued an air raid alert on Thursday and ordered its military to stand ready, the country’s state media reported.

Obama: If Syrian regime used chemical weapons, ‘red line’ crossed
RT - Obama’s warning that the deployment of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime would be a “game changer” came during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Obama: Countries must decide for themselves on Iran
ynetnews.com - US President Barak Obama said in a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that each country must make its own decision regarding Iran, when it came down to taking military action. Of his visit, Obama
ad its back.

Iran summons Swiss envoy over Syria
Press TV - The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the Swiss chargé d'affaires to Tehran in protest over the use of chemical weapons by the foreign-backed Syria militants in the northwestern city of Aleppo, which left at least 25 people dead.

S. Korean TV networks, banks suffer suspect cyber attack
Global Post - he South Korean military raised its cyber attack warning level Wednesday after computer networks crashed at major TV broadcasters and banks, with initial suspicions focused on North Korea.

Sinclair - The Next Danger After Putin Crushed IMF In Cyprus
King World News - Sinclair: “The concept that our financial leaders are in some sense geniuses that foresee the future and calculate every move based on their ability to divine what will be the result of their actions, is absolutely false. The IMF made a massive mistake here.

Cyprus government 'to present bailout plan B on Thursday'
BBC - State TV said the plan might include a levy on bank deposits over 100,000 euros. The previous proposals had also included a levy on deposits between 20,000 and 100,000 euros, which had outraged many Cypriots. The new plan is also reported to involve nationalizing pension funds.

UPDATE: Germany Warns That Banks in Cyprus May Remain Closed Permanently
Activist Post - Germany's finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said major Cypriot banks were "insolvent if there are no emergency funds,” according to a BBC report, meaning savers might lose all their money if no deal was reached. (Source)

Jittery Spaniards Seek Safety in Bitcoins
Bloomberg - Since Sunday, a trio of Bitcoin apps have soared up Spain’s download charts, coinciding with news that cash-strapped Cyprus was planning to raid domestic savings accounts to pay off a $13 billion bailout tab. Fearing contagion on the other end of the Mediterranean, some Spaniards are apparently looking for cover in an experimental digital currency.

Swiss to Vote on Central Bank Gold Reserves
silverdoctors.com - A rightwing group has submitted more than 106,000 signatures to the federal authorities, seeking a vote on stopping the sale of gold reserves held by the Swiss National Bank (SNB). It also wants gold bars stored in the US to be returned.

Anti-corruption police raid the home of IMF chief Christine Lagarde
Anti-corruption police today raided the Paris home of International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde. It follows claims that the former French finance minister authorised a £270million payout to a prominent Nicolas Sarkozy supporter when she was finance minister

Fukushima: Rat Linked to Outage at Japan Nuclear Plant
BBC- A rat may have caused this week's power outage at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant, says the Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco).... The power cut shut down cooling systems for four spent fuel ponds at reactors 1, 3 and 4 on Monday evening, although cooling to the reactors themselves was not affected.

McCain and Graham push for US to invade Syria
RT - Syrian government and the opposition accuse each other of using chemical weapons. The US considers this a “red line” – and two US senators are now urging Washington to declare war in response to alleged use of the weapons.

Sheriff proposes ankle monitors for some seniors
Fox News - A northern Utah sheriff's office is floating a unique and unproven idea for keeping seniors with Alzheimer's disease and dementia safe: Give them ankle monitors normally used on criminals on house arrest or parole.

Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically engineered seafood
foe.org - A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 stores across the United States have already committed not to sell genetically engineered seafood if it is allowed onto the market.

NYPD Spent 1 Million Hours Making 440,000 Marijuana Possession Arrests Over Last Decade
Huffington Post - The NYPD spent 1 million hours making 440,000 arrests for low-level marijuana possession charges between 2002 and 2012, according to a new report released Tuesday -- just as legislative leaders in Albany are deciding whether to pass a bill reforming drug laws.

New Hampshire House Approves Medical Marijuana Bill With Record 81% Support!
Liberty Crier - In a huge victory for patients, the New Hampshire House overwhelmingly approved the medical marijuana bill today by a record 286-64 margin.

US study reveals the sneaky way retailers track down shoppers and bombard them with junk mail
Daily Mail - Most shoppers believe the code is needed to complete credit card transactions, but Paul Stephens, a spokesman for the group, told NBC that it is irrelevant when making in-store purchases. When a cashier swipes a credit card the merchant only receives the long number across the front, the expiration date and the shopper's name. However Mr Stephens said that when a zip code is paired with these details, addresses, phone numbers and other specific details can be traced.

US Minimum Wage Should Be $22 An Hour, Says Elizabeth Warren
Huffington Post - Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) made a case for increasing the minimum wage last week during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing, in which she cited a study that suggested the federal minimum wage would have stood at nearly $22 an hour today if it had kept up with increased rates in worker productivity.

Freddie Mac Sues BofA, UBS, JPMorgan Alleging Libor Rigging
Bloomberg - Freddie Mac (FMCC) sued Bank of America Corp. (BAC), UBS AG (UBSN), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and a dozen other banks over alleged manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, saying the mortgage financier suffered substantial losses as a result of the companies’ conduct.

YouTube: Ron Paul: This is Price Fixing at Its Worst - Fox Business 3/20/2013
Former Rep. Ron Paul, (R-Texas), on Federal Reserve policy's impact on the economy on Fox Business Network's After the Bell.

VIDEO: Senate votes to keep White House closed, slaughterhouses open
Washington Times - Senators voted Wednesday to keep the White House closed to public tours, turning back a Republican-led effort to free up money to open the building back up after the sequesters. But at the same time senators did vote to restore money for slaughterhouse inspections, which they said will help make sure the country’s meat-packing plants can continue to operate at full steam despite the sequesters.

Study: MRI could diagnose Gulf War Illness
Navy Times - Veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War suffering from chronic pain and fatigue have brain damage to their white matter, the connective nerve fibers that transmit electrical impulses among the brain’s gray matter, a Georgetown University Medical Center study finds.

First Physical Evidence of Gulf War Illness Discovered in Veterans' Brains
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers for the first time have discovered that veterans who suffer from “Gulf War Illness” have physical changes in their brains that may account for pain from actions as simple as putting on a shirt.

Geologist: Giant sinkhole is now 13 acres — Subsidence zone more than 20
ENENews - It’s about 1,000 feet across here now, 600-700 feet across here. It was 12 acres when this was done, with settlement over 20 acres, but the recent sloughing in that you heard about was in this area this weekend. And John estimated another acre went into the sinkhole so now it’s probably on the order 13 acres in the sinkhole, with settlement over a larger area. Watch the presentation here.

Bizarre phenomenon of fish changing genders is happening all over the world
(NaturalNews) What's going on in the Northland waters near Minnesota? Well, scientists and other experts aren't quite sure - yet. Not just one type but almost all kinds of fish, to include some of the most popular gaming fish like bass and walley, are changing.

NATO reveals Syria intervention plans
Press TV - Admiral James Stavridis, commander of US European Command, said at the Senate Armed Services Committee that US military would be ready to take part in the aggression, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

UN welcomes Congo warlord’s surrender
Press TV - The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) has welcomed the surrender of fugitive Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for a string of war crimes.

North Korea threatens US over bombers
Press TV - North Korea has threatened to take military action against the United States and its allies if Washington continues to fly nuclear-capable bombers over the Korean Peninsula.

YouTube: UN official tells US to stop drone strikes
RT - With America's drone capabilities expanding, the United Nations has stepped in and is demanding the US stop conducting unmanned airstrikes in Pakistan. The UN is calling the drone program a violation of the country's sovereignty and the attacks are being carried out without the consent of the people of Pakistan.

Syria rebels and regime blame each other for 1st alleged chemical weapons attack
CBS News - The Syrian government accused rebels of firing a chemical weapon for the first time on Tuesday in the north of the country, killing at least 25 people in the war-torn Aleppo province. Rebels quickly denied the report and accused regime forces of firing a chemical weapon on a long-range missile.

YouTube: Ben Swann Full Disclosure: US Funding Al Qaeda in Syria. The Story You Haven't Heard
Ben Swann Full Disclosure talks with Emilio Ibrahim, a Syrian man living in Damascus about the U.S. and Saudi funding of Al Qaeda fighters who are leading the so called Syrian revolution.

MI6, CIA knew Iraq had no WMDs
Press TV - Britain and U.S. spying agencies had ignored intelligence before invasion of Iraq that the country had no active weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), it has been revealed.

US to deploy missile system in Romania
Press TV - Bucharest says the United States is going ahead with deploying controversial anti-missile interceptors in Romania despite opposition from Russia. Romanian Defense Minister Mircea Dusa says the missile system will most likely be deployed in 2015.

Sinclair - Cyprus Disaster Is Much Bigger Than Being Reported
King World News 3/19/13 - Sinclair: “If people believe that $13 billion is the total of this bailout, they are out of their minds. $130 billion is not the true total of even the Russian deposits in Cyprus banks. One important Russian businessman, in his various business enterprises, would have $100 billion on deposit himself. 10% of all deposits in Cypress could be $500 billion or more because Cyprus is the banking entity for Russia, not Switzerland or Grand Cayman.

Cypriot lawmakers reject deposits seizure bill
AP - Cypriot lawmakers on Tuesday rejected a critical draft bill that would have seized part of people's bank deposits in order to qualify for a vital international bailout, with not a single vote in favor.

Sheriffs Ready to Defy Colorado Governor: "Won't Bother Enforcing" Gun Control
Activist Post - The set of five bills was approved by the Senate on Monday. Democrat sponsors of the legislation invoked Colorado's mass shootings, as well as Newtown, CT to justify measures such as limited capacity magazines and more extensive background checks. (Source) An outright ban and gun confiscation was issued by Senate Bill 197 for anyone convicted of domestic violence.

Tennessee Bill Would Abolish Civil Forfeiture
ij.org - A new bill would eliminate civil forfeiture in Tennessee. Unlike criminal forfeiture, under civil forfeiture police do not need to convict or even charge a property owner before seizing his property. Civil forfeiture turns “innocent until proven guilty” on its head by forcing owners to prove their innocence to recover the seized property.

You Bought It, You Own It: Supreme Court Victory for Common Sense and Owners’ Rights
EFF 3/19/13 - In a long-anticipated decision, the Supreme Court held today that the first sale doctrine applies to works made outside of the United States. In other words, if you bought it, you own it—no matter where it was manufactured. That’s a major victory for consumers, and also libraries, used bookstores, and all kinds of groups that depend on the right to lend or resell the goods they’ve legally purchased.

YouTube: NYPD cops accused of killing Brooklyn teen identified
RT - It has been a little over a week since 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot and killed by NYPD officers in Flatbush, Brooklyn. According to reports, Sergeant Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova are being accused of shooting the teen a total of seven times. Members of the community have hit the streets demanding justice.

VIDEO: Carl Gallups Talks CPAC Meetings About Obama's Identity Document Fraud
Carl Gallups: As you know, I went to CPAC and Washington D.C. with Lt. Mike Zullo, lead investigator with the Sheriff Arpaio Obama Birth Certificate Fraud Case. We went there to see if we could network with, and arrange meetings with, high-ranking officials, at many levels, in an attempt to move the case forward. We believe we have accomplished what we set out to do.... Full transcript of the video.

Assault weapons ban now unlikely to pass. What happened?
csmonitor.com - Majority leader Reid says the assault weapons ban will not be included in the gun control legislation he'll bring to the Senate floor, giving the other measures a better chance at passage.

Magpul Confirms Plan To Immediately Leave Colorado
Apparently Gov Hickenlooper has announced that he will sign HB 1224 on Wednesday. We were asked for our reaction, and here is what we said: We will start our transition out of the state almost immediately, and we will prioritize moving magazine manufacturing operations first. We expect the first PMAGs to be made outside CO within 30 days of the signing, with the rest to follow in phases.

Mont. Bill Protecting from Backdoor Medical Gun Confiscation Moves Forward
Mikael Thalen - A bill that would prohibit medical providers in Montana from refusing to treat patients who choose not to answer questions about gun ownership passed its hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, 62-38.... Although Kern’s bill does not currently prohibit healthcare providers from asking the question, there is talk in the Montana Senate to amend the bill further to disallow gun ownership questions from being asked entirely.

If You Can’t Find Cigarettes In NYC Soon It’ll Be Because Mayor Bloomberg Hid Them
Consumerist - Just like Chumbawamba, when New York City Mayor Bloomberg gets knocked down, he gets up again. Not one to let that pesky judge’s ruling that his ban on large sugary drinks was invalid bug him, Bloomie’s got his sights retrained on anti-smoking efforts. His plan? Just hide all the cigarettes.

USMint Sells Nearly 3/4 Million Silver Eagles in 1 Day Post Cyprus Announcement!
silverdoctors.com - The USMint reported an astonishing 638,500 silver eagles sold Monday as the Cypriot wealth confiscation news over the weekend has resulted in a massive increase in physical gold and silver purchases throughout Europe and the US.

US Regulator: Bitcoin Exchanges Must Comply With Money-Laundering Laws
arstechnica.com - The federal agency charged with enforcing the nation’s laws against money laundering has issued new guidelines suggesting that several parties in the Bitcoin economy qualify as Money Services Businesses under US law. Money Services Businesses (MSBs) must register with the federal government, collect information about their customers, and take steps to combat money laundering by their customers.

VIDEO: Chase Bank customers temporarily see '0' balance
ABC News - Millions of Chase Bank customers across the U.S. who use online and mobile banking saw their checking and savings accounts with a zero balance on Monday. The banking giant said the problem was an internal glitch.

A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran
truthdig.com - I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded....

TSA agents 'humiliated' Marine who lost both legs to an IED
The Daily Caller - Transportation Security Administration officers “humiliated” a Marine who lost both legs to an Improvised Explosive Device by requiring the wheelchair-bound Marine to stand and walk. They also had him remove both his prosthetic legs, according to a letter from Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-California)

‘French forces use banned arms in Mali’
Press TV - According to a recent report published by the Algerian newspaper al-Khabar, a fighter group known as Ansar Dine said in a statement issued in the town of Gossi that French-led troops use internationally banned weapons in northern Mali. The statement said French-led soldiers employ weapons containing depleted uranium with high explosive power to bomb the caves in Adrar des Ifoghas Mountains in northern Mali.

SANA: Chemical weapons used by militants
Press TV - Militants fighting against President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria have been using chemical weapons, official SANA news agency says, adding that at least 15 people were killed in a chemical attack in the northwestern city of Aleppo.

Israeli jets fire flares over Lebanon
Press TV - On Monday, the aircraft fired the flares to illuminate the night sky for reconnaissance purposes, The Daily Star reported, citing unnamed security officials. Earlier in the day, the Lebanese Army said four Israeli warplanes penetrated the country’s airspace and flew over several areas of the country in blatant violation of a UN Security Council resolution. Israel violates Lebanon's airspace on an almost daily basis, claiming the flights serve surveillance purposes.

Palestinians say no to Obama visit
Press TV - Obama is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Wednesday, and is likely visit the occupied West Bank the following day. Many Palestinians accuse the US president of following the path of his predecessors and unfairly favoring the Israeli regime. They accuse Obama of not doing enough to stop Israel’s illegal settlement activities as well as the arbitrary arrest of Palestinians by Israeli troops.

Blame game: France, Germany insist savings levy was Cyprus's decision
RT - As outrage mounts over an unprecedented bank tax in Cyprus, Europe's biggest economies, France and Germany, have put the blame for the bank levy on Cyprus. Banks all over the country, meanwhile, will remain shut pending parliament’s decision.

Strategic U.S. bombers fly practice nuclear strikes in Korea
freebeacon.com - United States B-52 bombers carried out simulated nuclear bombing raids on North Korea as part of ongoing U.S.-South Korean military exercises, Pentagon officials said on Monday.

VIDEO: Obama and Netanyahu to Discuss Attacks Inside Syria
Kurt Nimmo - According to the establishment media, Obama will resist Israeli pressure to immediately attack Iran in response to its imaginary nuclear weapons program. Last week, during an Israeli Channel 2 news interview, Obama said Iran will be capable of producing a nuclear weapon in a year and hinted action against the undocumented program will come within a year.

U.N. Think Tank Opening Office in Bahrain, with Bahraini Government Funding
ProPublica - As Bahrain enters the third year of a crisis sparked by Arab Spring protests in 2011, the government continues to bar many human rights advocates [1] and [2] journalists [3] from entering the country. But one non-profit group is not only being welcomed into the tiny Gulf kingdom, it’s opening an office there. And it’s doing so with funding from Bahrain’s ruling monarchy.

Banking Chief Calls For 15% Looting of Italians’ Savings
Paul Joseph Watson - News that the International Monetary Fund initially demanded to loot a shocking 40% of savings from the private bank accounts of Cypriots underscores how residents of the Mediterranean country could be the latest victims of the infamous “IMF riot,” as the chief economist of the German Commerzbank calls for Italians to be similarly plundered for 15% of their savings.

STOCKS TANK: Markets Dive All Around The World Thanks To Tiny Cyprus
Business Insider Mar. 18, 2013 - The news on Saturday that to bail out Cypriot banks, depositors would get slapped with an instant one-off haircut/tax/stability levy has stunned the world (even though it had been rumored as a possibility for awhile). The fear is that Europe has just crushed the trust of depositor holders everywhere, who now must wonder whether their money in the bank is actually good or not.

Argentina Makes Grab for Pensions Amid Crisis
WSJ - The move came as wealthy nations unveiled fresh steps to fight the credit crunch. The U.S. Federal Reserve said it would bolster money-market funds, which have faced withdrawals, by lending as much as $540 billion to the industry. France said it would inject $14 billion into six banks on condition they agree to increase their lending... Argentine President Cristina Kirchner said the move to take over the private pension system was aimed at protecting investors from losses resulting from global market turmoil.

VIDEO: Senator Lindsey Graham Questioned On Drones
Liberty Crier - WeAreChange questioned Senator Lindsey Graham on Obama’s Disposition Matrix (kill list) and the ability to use drone strikes on American citizens.

Trial opens for NYPD stop-and-frisk challenge
NY Post - Many of the 5 million New Yorkers stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked by police in the past decade were wrongly targeted because of their race, lawyers for four men who said they were illegally stopped said Monday... The lawsuit, now a class-action, seeks a court-appointed monitor to oversee changes to how the police make stops.

VIDEO: Maryland Senate Approves Bill That Allows Caregivers To Possess Medical Marijuana
CBS News - The Senate Thursday voted unanimously that caregivers whose patients qualify for medical marijuana can be exempted from fines and jail time.

Satellite Shortages May Choke Off Military Drone Expansion
NDIA - The bandwidth crunch is expected to worsen in coming years as the Pentagon increases deployments of remotely piloted aircraft for around-the-clock surveillance in many parts of the world. Anticipated requirements for satellite communications will far outstrip capacity, officials have predicted.

Las Vegas to Introduce Anti-NDAA Resolution
Activist Post - The fight against indefinite military detention continues. Yesterday, the Las Vegas City Council and the Clark County Commission drafted anti-NDAA legislation to protect the Constitutional rights of their constituents.

VIDEO: Thousands Line Up Outside Cal Expo Gun Show To Buy Ammunition
CBS Sacramento - Thousands of people lined up for hours outside Cal Expo to buy ammunition. The line wrapped around the building for the first day of the two-day gun show.... “What many people are coming for is ammo because there isn’t any available in the traditional channels,” said gun show owner Bob Templeton.

Lanza “Score Sheet” Suggests Sandy Hook Massacre was Plotted For Years, Cops Say
NY Daily News - Law enforcement reportedly discovers a sickeningly thorough 7-foot-long, 4-foot-wide spreadsheet with names, body counts and weapons from previous mass murders and even attempted killings. 'It sounded like a doctoral thesis, that was the quality of the research,' an anonymous law enforcement veteran said.

The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery Shows That No Bank Account, No Retirement Fund And No Stock Portfolio Is Safe
Economic Collapse - Up until now, most people assumed that private bank accounts were untouchable and that deposit insurance actually meant something. Now we see that there is no pile of money that is considered "off limits" by the global elite and deposit insurance means absolutely nothing.

YouTube: Judge Napolitano: Government Can Steal Your Money
Judge Napolitano: "The people who have more than $100,000 in the bank are targets for any government that's looking for money to shore up its own inability to manage its finances."

JPMorgan wins dismissal of silver price-fixing lawsuit
Reuters - U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson in Manhattan said the investors, who bought and sold COMEX silver futures and options contracts, failed to show that JPMorgan manipulated prices at their expense, including by amassing huge short positions that were not justified by market events at the time.

Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat
CNS News - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of “high public-health significance."

US promises S. Korea all military resources
Press TV - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter promised to provide South Korea with every military resource under the U.S. nuclear umbrella, at a time of heightened tensions with North Korea. Carter was in Seoul on the second leg of a four-nation tour of U.S. allies and partners in Asia including Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Syrian troops kill scores of militants
Press TV - The Syrian army has clashed with foreign-backed militants fighting against the government in several parts of the country, killing a large number of them. According to Syria’s official news agency SANA, Syrian soldiers clashed with militants in Aleppo, Homs, suburbs of Damascus and Idlib on Sunday.

Evacuation warning issued to South Korean islanders
Press TV - A North Korean website close to Pyongyang has warned people residing in Southern islands and border areas to leave their residences. The Uriminzokkiri website warned on Saturday that Southern islands including Yeonpyeong are in the danger zone. "Even an accidental spark by the belligerents in their war games can grow into a fire,” the website said.
* Related BBC video

Iran Navy warns off Australian plane
Press TV - Commander Siavosh Jarreh said on Sunday that the Australian aircraft was approaching the Iranian fleet, which comprised of a helicopter carrier and a destroyer, for imaging. “Immediately after receiving the warning, the Australian reconnaissance plane changed its flight course, but it began dropping submarine detection devices…all of which was picked up by [our] marines,” he added.

Drone strikes in Syria? CIA ‘boosting’ intelligence force to ‘size up’ Syrian extremists
RT - “The CIA has stepped up secret contingency planning to protect the United States and its allies as the turmoil expands in Syria, including collecting intelligence on Islamic extremists for the first time for possible lethal drone strikes,” according to current and former US officials, reported in the LA Times.

M23 rebels rout rivals in eastern Congo
Press TV - On Saturday, sources in the United Nations and the M23 rebel group said that hundreds of Ntaganda men have fled into Rwanda or surrendered to UN peacekeepers after being defeated by the M23 rebels.

Dispute over high-risk prisoners threatens to disrupt U.S.-Afghan talks
Washington Post - A dispute over the fate of about three dozen militants held by U.S. forces in Afghanistan has disrupted negotiations over a long-term security agreement to leave U.S. troops in the country after 2014.

VIDEO: Panicked Europeans Rush ATMs as Leaders Seize Funds Directly From Bank Account Holders
Mac Slavo - As of right now, citizens of Cyprus are scrambling to withdraw funds from their bank accounts after the EU, with agreement from the Cypriot government, announced they will decimate funds held in personal bank accounts to the tune of up to 10% of existing deposits.
* UPDATE: Cyprus Parliament Delays Bailout Vote...,

Saxo Bank CEO: “This Is Full-Blown Socialism And I Still Can’t Believe It Happened”
Zero Hedge - This is a breach of fundamental property rights, dictated to a small country by foreign powers and it must make every bank depositor in Europe shiver.... Depositors in other prospective bailout countries must be running scared – is it safe to keep money in an Italian, Spanish or Greek bank any more?... This is a major, MAJOR game changer and the fallout will be with us for a long time to come.
* Related Article: Europe Does It Again...

New data reveal scale of China abortions
ft.com - Chinese doctors have performed more than 330m abortions since the government implemented a controversial family planning policy 40 years ago, according to official data from the health ministry.

YouTube: Gun Control in America is Against the Law’… A Message to Rachel Maddow From Sheriff Richard Mack
CPAC 2013 Sheriff Richard Mack has a message for Rachel Maddow and others about the 2nd amendment and "gun control" No mincing words here.

SWAT officer attracts ridicule after he's pictured with his rifle sight on backwards
Daily Mail - A SWAT team in upstate New York is being mocked as an example of the difference between military and police training after an officer was captured peering through a backwards sight on his combat rifle.

Texas bill to allow government hacks to trespass onto private property without warrant
(NaturalNews) Legislation currently and quietly making its way through the Texas State Senate threatens to overtly trample the personal property rights of Lone Star State residents in the name of protecting public health. If passed, Senate Bill 186 would allow government officials to illegally trespass onto private property without a warrant, and the bill uses the alleged need to treat stagnant water that some say could be harboring West Nile virus as the excuse to do so.

VIDEO: Secretary of State Kerry Backs U.N. Gun Treaty
Kurt Nimmo - The United Nations treaty is well-timed – it arrives precisely as Congress prepares to vote on legislation targeting the Second Amendment in the wake of Sandy Hook. The United Nations begins working on the stalled treaty again on March 18, “I am confident that member states will overcome their differences and muster the political will needed to agree on this landmark treaty,” United Nations boss Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.

Colt shuts plant, workers talk to Conn. lawmakers
Yahoo! News - The president of one of the nation's oldest gun manufacturers closed down his Connecticut factory Thursday morning and bused 400 of his workers to the state Capitol so they could personally urge lawmakers not to pass gun control legislation that they say could risk their livelihoods.

Colorado sheriff says new state gun laws won't be enforced
Denver Post - Gun policy should not be guided by gut-level reactions to mass shootings in Aurora last July and at a Connecticut elementary school last month, the County Sheriffs of Colorado says in a position paper outlining a tough stance against legislation expected to be proposed soon by state Democrats.

Crime Lab Scandal Leaves Mass. Legal System In Turmoil
npr.org - Annie Dookan, a former Massachusetts crime lab chemist, is accused of falsifying evidence in as many as 34,000 cases. The state's criminal justice system is now reeling as former defendants are challenging their convictions and hundreds have already been released.

VIDEO: Reality Check: Justice Department Plagued With In-fighting, Racism & Political Favoritism?
Liberty Crier - A new report by the Office of the Inspector General is pointing to shameful behavior by lawyers in the justice department during the last two presidential administrations.

Texas School Lesson Blames America for 9/11
Caffeinated Thoughts - A parent in Corpus Christi, TX was shocked by what her son brought home one afternoon. Kara Sands said that her son and other 5th Graders at Flour Bluff Intermediate School had watch a video entitled “Remembering 9/11.” She said she was shown this video, after the fact, was shocked by what she saw. Sands said, “This appalling video blames our country for the the murders of over 3,000 people.”

VIDEO: Feds Swarm Metra Train After Detecting Nuclear Risk
CBS News - Sources say the agents were members of the elite TSA VIPR team on the 5:04pm Union Pacific. West line. They were carrying hand-held nuclear-detection devices that picked up a reading.

AUDIO: Obama couldn't eat at Hill meeting without food ‘taster’
Daily Caller - Following President Obama’s lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins described the food served and said the president was not able to eat since his “taster” was not present.

Ron Paul's Podcast Nation Goes Live!
Daily Paul - Link to Ron Paul’s Podcast Nation here.

Rand Paul wins The Washington Times-CPAC 2013 Straw Poll
The Washington Times - Sen. Rand Paul won the 2013 Washington Times-CPAC presidential preference straw poll Saturday, and Sen. Marco Rubio was a close second, easily outdistancing the rest of the field and signaling the rise of a new generation of conservative leaders who will take the Republican Party into the 2016 election. Mr. Paul won 25 percent of the vote, and Mr. Rubio collected 23 percent.

YouTube: Ron Paul Texas Straight Talk 3/18/2013 "The Congressional Budget Debate Is Just A Sideshow"
Federal spending once again dominated the debate in Washington last week, as House Republicans and Senate Democrats began work on their ten-year budget plans. Contrary to claims, neither party's budget reduces spending. While the Republican plan increases spending a little less than the Democrat plan, it would still spend $5 trillion in 2023, an almost two trillion dollar increase over this year's budget.

VIDEO: Surprise! Drone Industry Report Says Drones are Great for the U.S. Economy
Activist Post - A report entitled, "The Economic Impact of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the United States" is clear in its conclusion that competition for jobs and tax dollars created by drone tech development is likely to provide the impetus to loosen state regulations on drone use. The AUVSI is projecting 70,000 new jobs in the first three years of full integration.

US soldier to undergo ‘sanity board’
Press TV - Robert Bales, 39, will undergo a “sanity board,” to be conducted by three doctors at the joint Base Lewis-McChord in the US state of Washington, a US army spokesman said. The examination, which is meant to determine if he is fit to stand trial, will begin on Sunday and completed by May 1.

Hackers vow to wipe Israel off Internet
Press TV - “Hacktivists Starting Cyber Attack against Israel on 7th of April,” Anonymous wrote on Twitter, calling on hackers around the world to participate in the second of a series of cyber attacks known as ‘OpIsrael.’

S Korea, US conduct drills amid tensions
Press TV - South Korean and US military forces took part in a joint base defense training operation at the Osan US Air Base in the city of Pyeongtaek in the southwestern part of the East Asian country on Thursday.

Iran non-oil exports surpass $29 billion
Press TV - Despite the US-engineered sanctions imposed on Iran, the country has managed to export nearly USD 30 billion worth of non-oil goods, excluding gas condensate, over an eleven-month period.

Iran eyes stopping oil exports: Ahmadinejad
Press TV - “We (Iran) plan to get to the point where we would not need to export crude oil anymore. The number of our oil refineries should double in such a case, and it would be of great benefit to our country,” Ahmadinejad said on Thursday.

VIDEO: 'UK behind EU media war on Iran'
Press TV - “I think the EU is really just reacting to government pressure particularly from Britain that as you know has imposed a broadcasting mini-war with Iran,” Christopher Walker, political commentator from London said in an interview with Press TV.

VIDEO: 17 Signs That A Full-Blown Economic Depression Is Raging In Southern Europe – Is The U.S. Next?
Economic Collapse - When you get into too much debt, eventually really bad things start to happen. This is a very painful lesson that southern Europe is learning right now, and it is a lesson that the United States will soon learn as well.

New Pope Tied to Argentina’s Dirty War
Kurt Nimmo - Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires who was elected Pope by the papal conclave on Wednesday, was intimately involved in Operation Condor’s “Dirty War” in South America.

Swarms of Locusts Descend on Israel and Egypt
Intel Hub - Along the border of Egypt and Israel millions of locusts have mysteriously appeared in giant swarms across the area. This problem was first reported weeks ago but has continued in intensity, destroying crops and creating a widespread disturbance in travel and trade.

Federal action against patriot groups in US
Before It's News - Today [3/11/13] at 10AM there was a very large meeting at the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) headquarters in Clarksburg, WV. The meeting was held in an auditorium and included everyone – from agents to the secretaries. The meeting was organized by the Director of the Biometric Identification Management Agency (BIMA), Colonel Bolo (ret.).

Florida Residents Report Mysterious Black Military Aircraft
Kurt Nimmo - It used to be a favorite pastime of the establishment media and its snobbish intelligentsia to poke fun at the “black helicopter crowd,” who they dismissively wrote off as loons and conspiracy nuts.

Feinstein Assault Weapons Ban Pass Out of Committee
AmmoLand March 14, 2013 - President Obama and Sen. Dianne Feinstein are now one step closer to victory in their war against responsible, law-abiding gun owners. This morning, Sen. Feinstein’s sweeping modern sporting rifle and magazine ban was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a straight party line vote (10-8). Sen. Chuck Schumer’s “universal background check” bill also passed out of the committee. Both bills now head to the floor of the U.S. Senate.

VIDEO: Explosive Exchange at Gun Hearing Between Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein
Weekly Standard - "I'm not a sixth grader ... it's fine you want to lecture me on the Constitution. I appreciate it. Just know I've been here for a long time. "

VIDEO: Leading Candidate for Kerry's Empty Senate Seat is a Proud Gun Grabber
Activist Post - Congressman Ed Markey is running on a gun confiscation platform to fill John Kerry's Massachusetts Senate seat. Earlier this week, Rep. Markey posted his new campaign commercial which alludes to the Sandy Hook tragedy and vows that he "wants these guns off the streets".

Oklahoma House of Representatives Passes ObamaCare Nullification Bill
The New American - Standing as a bulwark of liberty, the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill protecting citizens of the Sooner State from the unconstitutional provisions of ObamaCare.

New ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ Gives Monsanto Power Over US Government
Natural Society - A massive petition to stop what has been labeled as the ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ has been launched by Food Democracy Now, detailing what could come if the legislation is signed into law within the coming days or weeks.... Federal courts would be powerless to regulate the sale and even cultivation of illegal and dangerous GMO crops, succumbing instead to the power of the biotech industry and Monsanto. More petitions here and here.

Wary of Attack With Smallpox, U.S. Buys Up a Costly Drug
NY Times - The United States government is buying enough of a new smallpox medicine to treat two million people in the event of a bioterrorism attack, and took delivery of the first shipment of it last week. But the purchase has set off a debate about the lucrative contract, with some experts saying the government is buying too much of the drug at too high a price.

Military Training over Miami with simulated gunfire for the next few nights. Starting- 3/14/13 to ?
sherriequestioningall.com - A press releases issued by Miami Dade County advises that the exercise includes the use of military helicopters and simulated gunfire. The training is meant to prepare participants for combat missions in urban areas and to prepare forces for upcoming overseas missions, according to the release.

Enraged protesters battle cops in Brooklyn streets during third night of rioting after it's revealed that 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot in the back
NY Daily News - As fights between cops and angry teens erupted in East Flatbush, 46 were arrested Wednesday night. Police struggled to control a furious crowd that broke away from a planned peaceful vigil.

VIDEO: No New Truck for Women Shot During Dorner Manhunt
NBC News - After the LAPD asked two newspaper delivery women to pay taxes on a truck the department vowed to donate to them, the victims – who were shot at more than 100 times during a frenzied manhunt for Christopher Dorner – rejected the replacement truck, worth more than $30,000.

VIDEO: Rand Paul @ CPAC: "The GOP of Old Has Grown Stale and Moss Covered"
Daily Paul - SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere.

CPAC 2013 - Schedule - Live Links - Open Thread
Daily Paul - Thursday marks day one of the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference – an annual gathering in Washington, D.C. where members of the GOP meet to cement their ideology and try out potential presidential nominees for the coming years.

VIDEO: CPAC Muddle Mirrors GOP Mess
Politico - Establishment Republicans are angry that popular GOP governors Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell are being snubbed, but conservatives, seeing Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush invited, are moaning that a traditional movement event has been annexed by the country club crowd.

VIDEO: Update: New Bill Requires Gold & Silver Registration
Daily Bail - The slippery slope to confiscation has now begun. Rick Santelli provides an update on legislation that requires every gold and silver transaction to be registered with the State. Here are the basics. The bill, SB-3341, introduced in 2012, passed the Illinois Senate and is currently awaiting action by the House.

YouTube: How Your Taxes Are Actually Spent
Great video showing how over 50% of your tax goes straight to funding war. And while they pretend they don`t have enough to fund schools and hospitals, you know they are lying.

10 Hilarious Examples Of How Clueless Our Leaders Are About The Economy
Economic Collapse - Sadly, many Americans are not even going to see the crash coming because they still have faith in the "experts". They haven't figured out that the "experts" really do not know what they are doing. The blind are leading the blind, and in the end the results are going to be absolutely tragic.

US war in Iraq costs over USD 2 trillion, 189,000 lives: Study
Press TV - The report released by the US-based Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University stated that the amount owed to veterans may rise to USD six trillion over the next four decades if interest is included. The report, drawn up by about 30 academics, also said at least 189,000 people have been killed since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Headwind to Housing Recovery? Foreclosures Flare-Up Again
CNBC News - Bank repossessions, the final stage of the foreclosure process are down 29 percent from a year ago, but foreclosure starts, which are the first stage of the process, jumped 10 percent in February from the previous month. This after falling for three consecutive months.

France, UK may arm Syrian rebels 'without EU support,' despite embargo
RT - Paris and London will call for an early unscheduled EU meeting on the Syrian arms embargo in order to lift the ban. If the union does not end the embargo, the two nations will still arm the Syrian rebels, France said.

VIDEO: Ex-CIA analyst: CIA role in Iraq, Syria ‘embarrassing’ for US
Press TV - Former senior CIA analyst David McMichael says it’s “embarrassing” for the U.S. to back Syria-based terrorist groups fighting the Bashar al-Assad government while simultaneously ramping up support to Iraq's Counterterrorism Service to better fight al- Qaeda there which has close ties to the terrorist group Jabhat al Nusra of Syria.

German government OKs plan for structurally balanced 2014 budget, no new borrowing in 2015
Washington Post - Germany’s Cabinet approved a draft budget proposal Wednesday that foresees the government getting by without new borrowing from 2015 — a plan hailed by the finance minister as a “strong signal” for the rest of the Europe that comes as the country prepares for elections in September.

In debt-ridden Greece, further military cuts are hard to make
LA Times - Politicians and defense experts say the cuts are strangling the nation's defense capabilities, sapping military morale and feeding far-right nationalism, even murmurs of a possible military rebellion.... Yet despite the cuts, Greece continues to spend the largest per capita amount for defense of any nation in the European Union.

N Korea scraps armistice with South
Press TV - North Korea’s armed forces ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday that “warmongering” was coming from the US and its “puppets” in South Korea.

N Korea threatens to wipe out island in South
Press TV - In a visit Monday to border artillery units, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un briefed artillery officers on turning Baengnyeong Island into "a sea of flames," Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday. "Once an order is issued, you should break the waists of the crazy enemies, totally cut their windpipes and thus clearly show them what a real war is like," Kim said.

US renews waiver on Iran oil sanctions
Press TV - US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Wednesday that waivers have been granted to Japan, Belgium, Britain, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain. This means banks in these countries have been given a third consecutive 180-day reprieve from the threat of being cut off from the US financial system.

Iran nuclear activities peaceful: Amano
Press TV - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has acknowledged that Iran is using its nuclear energy program solely for peaceful purposes. “Iran has a comprehensive agreement with the IAEA and Iran is subject to UN Security Council resolutions which are legally binding. This is the standard,” IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said at a joint press conference with Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on Wednesday.

China’s Drone Swarms Rise to Challenge US Power
Live Science - China is building one of the world's largest drone fleets aimed at expanding its military reach in the Pacific and swarming U.S. Navy carriers in the unlikely event of a war, according to a new report.

Nine terrifying facts about America’s biggest police force
salon.com - The NYPD is the biggest police force in the country, with over 34,000 uniformed officers patrolling New York’s streets, and 51,000 employees overall — more than the FBI. It has a proposed budget of $4.6 billion for 2013, a figure that represents almost 15 percent of the entire city’s budget.

Local police becoming militarized through acquisition of surplus military equipment
(NaturalNews) The American Civil Liberties Union, for example, is openly inquiring about what kind of military weapons and gear are being handed over to local law enforcement agencies. The group says it is concerned that gear like flash-bang grenades, shock cuffs, and even tracking devices that are going to police "are leading to more aggressive policing, especially in poor neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color," St. Louis-based CBS affiliate KMOX reported.

YouTube: Militarization of Police: Peace Officers to Storm Troopers | Big Brother Watch
RT - Abby Martin takes a look at the growing militarization of local police departments and the evolution of riot police gear over the last 50 years.

Complete post of FBI Terrorist Watchlist Pamphlets
Shades of Thomas Paine - Here is the complete list of FBI pamphlets listing potential terrorist activities for various businesses.

VIDEO: LA Times Announces: White Men are Terrorists
Kurt Nimmo - The establishment media wasted little time after the Southern Poverty Law Center sent a letter to the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security demanding the mailed fist of the state crack down on Americans expressing opposition to an increasingly tyrannical federal government.

VIDEO: Gov’t Wants Volunteers to Wear ‘White Guilt’ Bracelets
Aaron Dykes - In Wisconsin, volunteers in AmeriCorps are encouraged to cope with their “white privilege” by wearing a white bracelet, while reminding themselves to examine their status in society and talking with ‘friends of color’ to encourage their transformation.

Church Holds ‘Second Amendment Sunday,’ Encourages Kids to Make ‘assault pop-tarts’
Adan Salazar - The Grace-Gospel Fellowship Church in Bensenville, Illinois held its first “Second Amendment Sunday” this past weekend where children were encouraged to create gun-shaped pastries and “combat” cupcakes, a strategy aimed at countering the wave of anti-gun paranoia sweeping the country.

Will Pennsylvania Be the First in U.S. to Label GMO?
Activist Post - Pennsylvania has now added itself to the list of more than 20 states which are formally rejecting the notion suggested by Monsanto et al. that their science is perfectly sound and consumers must accept whatever latest food incarnation they would like to fill the population with.

VIDEO: Judge Napolitano: CNN’s Piers Morgan Says ‘People Occasionally Need the Nanny State’
Liberty Crier - Judge Napolitano discusses the recent ruling to strike down Mayor Bloomberg’s attempted soda ban.

VIDEO: Justin Amash Announces Possible Senate Run In 2014
reason.com - U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, a young firebrand in the lower chamber who has championed a Ron Paul-style of libertarian politics, said Monday he is "certainly open" to a run in 2014.

Obama: 'We Don’t Have an Immediate Crisis in Terms of Debt'
Weekly Standard - Obama admitted he wasn't going to balance the budget. But, he said, it's not his goal. "Look, balancing the budget in part depends on how fast you grow. You remember– you were in the Clinton administration. The reason that you guys balanced it was a combination of some tax hikes, some spending cuts, and the economy grew," said Obama.

Over 300,000 fed employees owe $3.5 billion in back taxes, says IRS
Examiner - Did you know that you were in arrears to the federal government to the tune of $3.5 billion? Actually, you aren’t, but your money is. A report released on Tuesday by the IRS reveals that 312,000 federal workers and retirees failed to pay their federal income taxes on time in 2011. Since their salaries come out of funds collected from you, the taxpayer, “your money” is delinquent.

When the IRS is less forgiving than creditors
marketwatch.com - As my colleague Jennifer Waters reported this week, the Internal Revenue Service expects people to pay taxes on forgiven debt of $600 or more.

EXCLUSIVE - U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances
Reuters - The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country... The proposed plan represents a major step by U.S. intelligence agencies to spot and track down terrorist networks and crime syndicates by bringing together financial databanks, criminal records and military intelligence.

Obama says US won’t balance budget in next 10 years
AFP - President Barack Obama warned Tuesday America will not balance its budget within a decade because Republican plans to do so would entail slashing social programs many citizens rely on for support.... "You've essentially got to either tax middle class families a lot higher than you currently are, or you can't lower rates the way he's promised."

New Jersey Woman Arrested for Reciting Constitution at Tax Meeting
Kurt Nimmo - Police in Clayton, New Jersey, confiscated two guns from a woman after she complained about county government moving to raise her property taxes and inspect her property without a search warrant. Eileen Hart of Franklin Township was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and harassing officials from the Gloucester County Office of Assessment and Appraisal Systems, Inc.

25 disturbing facts about psych drugs, soldiers and suicides
(NaturalNews) Here are 25 disturbing facts about psych drugs, soldiers and suicides. They are disturbing because everybody seems to be pretending there is no link between psychiatric drugs and soldier suicides. So soldiers and veterans keep dying while the Pentagon (and the VA) keep pretending they don't know why.

Whistleblower: Veterans Affairs Covered Up Data on Mental Health, Gulf War Syndrome
Daily Beast - The Department of Veterans Affairs routinely disseminated false information about the health of America’s veterans, withheld research showing a link between nerve gas and Gulf War syndrome, rushed studies out the door without taking recommended fixes by an independent board, and failed to offer crucial care to veterans who came forward as suicidal.

VIDEO: Sequester cuts hit tuition for soldiers, aid for homeless veterans
Fox News - The $85 billion in cuts that went into effect at the beginning of the month will not spare soldiers and veterans, with a wave of cuts being announced for tuition assistance and a program that helps homeless veterans get back on their feet.... Under a federal housing program that helps roughly 100,000 Americans, homeless and formerly homeless veterans will lose assistance due to the sequester.

UN deploys peacekeepers to S. Sudan
Press TV - Hundreds of UN peacekeepers have been deployed to a volatile state in South Sudan before an expected government offensive against a militant group in the country.... “We are expecting a military operation against David Yau Yau to happen quite soon,” UNMISS chief Hilde Johnson said, adding, “If the military operations start… we will have to be present on the ground to protect civilians to the maximum extent possible.”

China offers Pakistan loan for IP project
Press TV - China has offered Pakistan a USD-500-million loan to complete its joint gas pipeline project with Iran, despite threats by the United States to impose sanctions against Islamabad.

VIDEO: EU utterly confused over Press TV bans
Press TV - The European Union (EU) officials are utterly perplexed following the bloc’s imposition of travel ban and financial restrictions against two senior directors of Press TV. On Tuesday, the European bloc blacklisted Press TV CEO Mohammad Sarafraz and Newsroom Director Hamid Reza Emadi for airing a 10-second interview with Iranian-Canadian journalist, Maziar Bahari, in 2009 following post-election riots in Iran.

Oregano Oil Is A Health Hazard Says Health Canada
preventdisease.com - Health Canada, the same agency who raids Naturopathic Doctors and insists natural supplements are drugs, is once again declaring war on the natural health products (NHP) industry by stating that carvacrol, an ingredient at relatively high levels in oregano oil, is toxic to humans.

VIDEO: Unreal Combat Footage Shot From Syrian Government Tank Shows Complete Devastation
Business Insider - The footage below, uploaded to YouTube by the U.K.’s Channel 4, gives a startling glimpse into the Syrian war from an unusual perspective — the turret of a Syrian government tank. The video shows Darya, a suburb of Damascus, nearly devastated with the Syrian regime patrolling and shooting at rebel positions.

US threatens Pakistan with sanctions over Iran gas pipeline
RT - The US has threatened Islamabad with sanctions over Pakistan’s partnership with Iran to construct a section of a gas pipeline. Washington said that the much-delayed $7.5-billion project violates sanctions on Iran, a claim denied by Pakistan.

EMF on trial: Australia and Israel cases may be precedent-setting
takebackyourpower.net - Over the past two weeks, there have been two interesting court cases regarding the health effects of electromagnetic frequencies (EMF). Although these cases aren’t as precedent setting as the Italian court case that affirmed tumor risk from long-term use of a cell phone, they are raising awareness of EMF as a health concern.

Latin American Communities Fight to Protect Heirloom Seeds From Monsanto
Waking Times - In small Latin American countries, such as Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, most farmers do not know the pros and cons of using genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). Many do not even know what GMO means. But Monsanto is changing all of this with an aggressive strategy to expand internationally, threatening many varieties of natural corn seed available throughout this region.

Hogwash Update - Latest Number Of Floating Chinese Pigs: 5,916 And Rising Fast
Zero Hedge - The Shanghai municipal government said in an online announcement that 5,916 swine carcasses had been retrieved from Huangpu River by 3 p.m. Tuesday, but added that municipal water remains safe." At what point will the dead pigs begin to pose a health challenge? 10,000? 100,000? What is the maximum Chinese Surgeon General RDA of dead pig in one's drinking water?

VIDEO: Michigan Senate Votes 37-0 to Defeat NDAA
Activist Post - In a vote of 37-0 (1 absent), the Michigan Senate joined the growing list of of states and municipalities throughout America in passing their version of the Liberty Preservation Act, released by the Tenth Amendment Center. Senate Bill 94 (SB94) now proceeds to the Michigan State House.

No medals for drone pilots: Hagel puts a hold on cyberwarfare award
RT - Only two weeks into his role as the head of the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the DoD to stop production on a medal that would have been awarded military drone pilots.

YouTube: Rand Paul: Time To Bring Troops Home, Cut Foreign Aid, And Fix Entitlements
CNN's Situation Room 3/11/2013 - Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) urged that the United States bring its troops home from a costly war in Afghanistan, cut foreign aid especially to potentially hostile countries like Egypt, and take serious steps towards reforming entitlements and the tax code.

VIDEO: Democrats, Republicans and NRA work together on gun confiscation
Kurt Nimmo - According to sources cited by Ammoland.com, the “NRA is cutting back room deals to centralize gun owner data collection into the Obama/Holder massive government data base.” Republicans are working with Democrats to pass legislation that will require records be kept on all gun sales and also move to streamline and improve the database.

Kentucky: Right-to-Carry Reform Bill Passes House, Heads to Governor for Signature
ammoland.com - Last week, Senate Bill 150 passed in the Kentucky House of Representatives by an overwhelming 90-6 vote. Sponsored by state Senator Brandon Smith (R-30), SB 150 is critical to your inherent right to self-defense as it eliminates several discriminatory and arbitrary provisions in Kentucky’s current concealed carry laws that may prevent you from obtaining a Concealed Deadly Weapons License (CDWL).

California Seizes Guns as Owners Lose Right to Keep Arms
Bloomberg - Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying 40-caliber Glock pistols, nine California Justice Department agents assembled outside a ranch-style house in a suburb east of Los Angeles. They were looking for a gun owner who’d recently spent two days in a mental hospital.... California is the only state that tracks and disarms people with legally registered guns who have lost the right to own them, according to Attorney General Kamala Harris.

Idaho House approves bill to make gun confiscation a criminal offense
Mikael Thalen - H.B. 219, or the “Idaho Federal Firearm, Magazine and Register Ban Enforcement Act,” approved Monday 55 – 13, could bring fines of up to $1,000 and a year jail time to any local officials who engage in confiscation, including assistance in such acts with any federal agents.

NYPD program patrols inside private buildings; residents say they're unfairly stopped
Fox News - New York Police Department officers are patrolling inside private apartment buildings in a program known as Operation Clean Halls. The program has been lauded by some residents who say they feel safer but vilified by others who say they're being harassed at home. Many complain they're illegally stopped and arrested.

School Calls Cops Over Water Pistol; Vows To Track Down Owner Using Surveillance Cams
Steve Watson - School officials are now on the hunt for the culprit who brought the water pistol on to school grounds. “You can’t take any of that stuff lightly today,” Superintendent DeRuosi said, adding that state of the art surveillance cameras that were recently installed as part of the school’s renovation, will help track down the student responsible, and allow officials to hold him or her responsible for such a heinous action.

YouTube: Ben Swann Interviews Ron Paul About His Upcoming Homeschool Event In Cincinnati
Ben Swann talks to Dr. Ron Paul about his upcoming keynote address at the Midwest Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 6, 2013.

Young girl scout petitions for GMO-free cookies, setting example for children
(NaturalNews) A young Orange County, California girl scout, Alicia Serratos, has started a Change.org petition to stop making Girl Scout cookies with GMO ingredients. Although the source article for this story had the petition signature count at 100, as of this writing on Sunday night, March 10, 2013, the signature count was 1,000.

Online poll: Rand Paul the conservative pick for president in 2016
Daily Caller - Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is leading an online poll being conducted by Contract From America as the conservative pick for president in 2016. With 190,000 votes cast as of Monday morning, Paul leads, with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio rounding out the top three. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are running in last place, ranked 32 and 31 respectively.

Which 'Patriotic' US Companies 'Invested' The Most Cash Overseas Last Year?
Zero Hedge - A Wall Street Journal analysis of 60 big U.S. companies found that, together, they parked a total of $166 billion offshore last year. That shielded more than 40% of their annual profits from U.S. taxes, though it left the money off-limits for paying dividends, buying back shares or making investments in the U.S.

47 Reasons the IRS Is Unprepared to Enforce Obamacare
Americans for Tax Reform - The GAO reports that the IRS has 47 different taxes and regulations it must enforce under Obamacare. They're not ready.

AUDIO: Sen. Ted Cruz: "I Will Use 'Any Procedural Means Necessary' To Force Vote on Defunding Obamacare
CNS News - When the U.S. Senate this week takes up the continuing resolution to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2013, Sen. Ted Cruz (R.-Texas) will offer an amendment that will prohibit funding for the implementation of Obamacare during that period.

With Twinkies Set To Return, Ebay "Collectible" Buyers Get Harsh Lesson In US Bankruptcy Law
Zero Hedge - Remember when greed-stricken Capitalist eBay'ers bid a single-Twinkie up to $8000.00? It appears our rather prescient note that they may regret not comprehending the US bankruptcy process was spot on as NBC News reports that the new owners of the Hostess Brand "look forward to having America's favorite snacks back on the shelf by this summer."

Veterans Waiting more than a Year for Benefits have Grown from 11,000 to 245,000 under Obama
allgov.com - Barack Obama promised before he became president to revamp veterans affairs so that fewer of America’s wounded warriors would have to wait upwards of a year for their benefits. Instead, the number of those waiting for help from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has exploded by 2,000%.

UN accuses NKorea of rights violations
Press TV - Marzuki Darusman presented a report at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday over the rights situation in North Korea, citing cases of rights violations there. It came after reports said that the European Union and Japan circulated a resolution draft, backed by the United States, at the UNHRC in Geneva on Friday. It called for a formal commission of inquiry for a year to probe Pyongyang’ human rights situation.

Afghan villagers want US forces out
Press TV - The villagers accuse the US Special Forces and their Afghan partners of intimidation through unprovoked beatings, mass arrests, and forced detentions, The Associated Press reported on Monday.

German Air Force plans to leave West Texas post
kwes.com - Reorganization of the German Air Force means the overseas troops will leave a West Texas post after a relationship spanning nearly 60 years.... Col. Heinz-Josef Ferkinghoff says operations will be moved to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico where Germany already has a flight training center. The German Air Defense Center will return to Germany within five years.

US Drones bombing Africa operated from RAF bases in the heart of the Lincolnshire countryside
Daily Mail - An RAF base in Britain is being used by America in its controversial drone warfare campaign, it was claimed last night. Documents seen by The Mail on Sunday reveal that the United States has established a drone ‘operations centre’ in the heart of the Lincolnshire countryside which could be used to co-ordinate attacks in the Middle East and Africa.

Senate bill would waive visa requirement for Israelis
timesofisrael.com - Lawmakers seek to exempt Israel from rule on non-immigrant refusal rate, paving way for easier entry into US.... The bill, introduced by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) in time for last week’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual policy conference, mandates the inclusion of Israel in a program that allows citizens of designated countries to enter the United States without a prearranged visa.

Obama to visit Church of Nativity, Iron Dome to be moved to airport for photo-op
haaretz.com - Bethlehem church recently recognized by UN as Palestinian World Heritage site; ream of about 50 people, including diplomats, security personnel and White House Representatives, landed in Israel on Sunday evening ahead of the U.S. president's arrival on March 20, met top-ranking Israeli officials to prep for visit.

2,800 pigs dumped in Shanghai river raises concern
AP - A surge in the dumping of dead pigs upstream from Shanghai - with more than 2,800 carcasses floating into the financial hub through Monday - has followed a police campaign to curb the illicit trade in sick pig parts. The effort to keep infected pork off dinner tables may be fueling new health fears, as Shanghai residents and local media fret over the possibility of contamination to the city's water supply, though authorities say no contamination has been detected.

Biggest Bavarian brewer bans GM from beer
thelocal.de - Germany's biggest beer company - Bavarian brewery Oettinger – has begun producing beer free from genetically modified ingredients, it was reported on Monday. The move was in response to requests made by consumers for more transparency from the brewery, owner and CEO Dirk Kollmar said.

DHS To Purchase MORE Firearms As Arms Build-Up Intensifies
Paul Joseph Watson - Just days after announcing a 5-year, $4.5 million contract with Heckler & Koch, the Department of Homeland Security has released details of an identical agreement with weapons manufacturer Sig Sauer, as Forbes publishes an article calling for a “national conversation” about the DHS arms build-up that has been dismissed by the media as a conspiracy theory.

Forbes: 1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo For Homeland Security? It's Time For A National Conversation
Forbes - If Obama doesn’t show any leadership on this matter it’s an opportunity for Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, to summon Secretary Napolitano over for a little national conversation. Madame Secretary? Buying 1.6 billion rounds of ammo and deploying armored personnel carriers runs contrary, in every way, to what “homeland security” really means. Discuss.

Colorado Sheriffs: Senate Dems. Threatening Pay Freezes Over Gun Control Opposition
Steve Watson - Sheriffs in Colorado have accused Senate Democrats of threatening to withhold pay raises as payback for the law enforcers’ opposition to multiple draconian gun control bills currently making their way through the legislature.

Another OK City Bombing: Establishment Media Ramps Up Fear of Patriots
Kurt Nimmo - No word yet if the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department will act on a letter sent on March 5 by the Southern Poverty Law Center to Attorney General Holder and DHS boss Napolitano. The letter calls for the government to get serious about cracking down on “extremist groups” before another Oklahoma City bombing takes the nation by surprise.

The Department of Justice Did NOT Disclaim Murder of Americans by Drone
Washington’s Blog - A memo leaked to the press shows that the Administration has adopted a virtual limitless definition of imminence: “The condition that an operational leader present an ‘imminent’ threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future.”

Second Drone Spotted Over New York?
Paul Joseph Watson - For the second time within a week, police are investigating reports of an unmanned drone spotted flying over New York within three miles of LaGuardia Airport.

Court curbs Homeland Security laptop searches at U.S. border
Washington Times - A federal appeals court on Friday said Customs and Border Protection officers cannot confiscate or download every laptop or electronic device brought into the U.S., ruling that people have an expectation their data are private and that the government must have “reasonable suspicion” before it starts to do any intensive snooping.

VIDEO: Judge halts mayor's soda ban, calls it 'arbitrary and capricious'
NY Post - Before the stunning ruling by New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling, restaurants, movie theaters, sports venues, convenience stores and other places regulated by the city's health department would have been prohibited -- starting tomorrow -- from selling sugary drinks of more than 16 ounces. Tingling permanently stopped the city from enforcing the ban.

60% of Americans have given up on saving for retirement
time.com - That’s the alarming conclusion in a new report from the Deloitte Center for Financial Services, which found that 60% of preretirees believe health care costs will consume their savings no matter how much they save. Similarly, 39% believe investment returns won’t be high enough to provide decent retirement income regardless of how much they manage to put away.

AUDIO: Homeless Houston Veteran Cited for Dumpster Diving in Search for Food
news92fm.com - Scouring for his next meal in a dumpster downtown, a homeless man is ticketed by Houston Police. Now, opponents point to the citation as validation of arguments against the city’s homeless feeding ordinance.
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Afghan Leader Alleges U.S., Taliban Colluding
infowars.com - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday criticised the Taliban for holding daily talks with the United States as they also launch suicide attacks that kill civilians and children. The Islamist militants deny re-opening talks after they broke off tentative contact with the US in Qatar in March last year due to failed attempts to negotiate a prisoner exchange.

US, Afghan forces clash in Wardak
Press TV - US Special Forces and Afghan police exchange fire in Afghanistan's eastern province of Wardak, with immediate reports putting the death toll from the clash at five. The fatalities include at least two US soldiers and three Afghan policemen in what has been described as an "insider attack."

US, UK and France training Syrian rebels in Jordan - reports
RT - Foreign instructors are training Syrian rebels in modern warfare in Jordan, suggest media reports from Europe. Sources claim the trainees will be the security force if Assad goes, while the combat skills they are being taught distort the picture.

Nigerian troops kill 52 militants
Press TV - Nigerian security forces say they have killed 52 members of the Boko Haram militant group, and also arrested 70 of them. The militants had been killed over 10 days of fighting in the northeastern Borno state, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, spokesman for the Nigerian military's Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno state, said on Saturday.

South Korea, US begin joint military drills amid warnings from North
Press TV - The United States and South Korea have launched their annual joint military exercises near the Korean Peninsula despite warnings from North Korea. Following the start of the week-long drills on Monday, Pyongyang cut off its hotline with Seoul.

YouTube: Ron Paul: Spirit of Liberty Lives in Canada - 2013 Manning Networking Conference
Former Congressman Ron Paul speaks at the 2013 Manning Networking Conference.

Mexico is going to organize an audit of their gold stored at the Bank of England
The Real Asset - Financial journalist Guillermo Barba, writes that that the Mexican Superior Audit of the Federation (“ASF” in Spanish) has made an official ‘recommendation’ that the Bank of Mexico “should “make a physical inspection with the counterparty that has the gold under its custody, in order to be able to verify and validate its physical wholeness and the compliance with the terms and conditions of dealing with this Asset…” It was verified by the ASF that this has never been done by Banxico.”

US-British Al Qaeda Airlift: 3,000 Tons of Weapons Fuel Syria’s Destruction
Tony Cartalucci - The US and Britain have already been arming terrorists operating in Syria for some time, including a massive airlift of 3,000 tons of weapons, sent across Syria’s borders with Jordan and NATO-member Turkey.

China Says It Won’t Forsake North Korea, Despite Support for U.N. Sanctions
NY Times - China’s foreign minister said Saturday that Beijing would not abandon North Korea, reiterating China’s longstanding position that dialogue, not sanctions, is the best way to persuade the North to abandon its nuclear weapons.

VIDEO: Spain takes to streets in tens of thousands against unemployment, economic scandals
RT - Tens of thousands of demonstrators are marching in dozens of Spanish cities to protest record unemployment rates and the government’s handling of the economic and corruption scandals. It comes just after Spain’s jobless figure hit the 5 million mark.

UPDATE: Number Of U.S. Gun Makers Refusing Sales To Gov't In 'Firearms Equality Movement' Triples In Two Weeks
CNS News - On February 22, "Right Views" reported that a growing number of firearm companies have suspended the sale of guns to states, counties, cities and municipalities that restrict their citizens' rights to own them. In just two weeks, the number of companies participating in what has been named the "Firearms Equality Movement," has more than tripled from 34 companies to 118.

Gabby Giffords's Husband Buys AR-15
Breitbart - Mark E. Kelly, gun-control proponent and husband to former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, recently purchased an AR-15 (an "assault weapon," he called it)—which he now says he intended as an illustration of the need for more stringent gun laws.

Boy Stops Murder Plot With Gun; National Media Ignores Story
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones - Here’s another pro-second amendment story that you will never see on the major news networks – a Texas boy who watched his sister and mother being raped during a home invasion by two men who later abandoned a plan to murder the three victims was able to grab a handgun and send the two individuals fleeing.

TSA screeners allow fed agent with fake bomb to pass through security at Newark Airport
NY Post - An undercover TSA inspector with an improvised explosive device stuffed in his pants got past two security screenings at Newark Airport — including a pat-down — and was cleared to get on board a commercial flight, sources told The Post yesterday.

VIDEO: NYPD Cop Hits Supreme Court Judge In The Throat
Liberty Crier - A New York state Supreme Court Judge got a taste of what it’s like on the other side of the law after being attacked by a police officer while standing on the sidelines of the scene of a crime.

80,000 US prisoners in isolation units
Press TV - An estimated 80,000 American prisoners spend 23 hours a day in closed isolation units for 10, 20 or even more than 30 years, according to a report by NPR. Amid growing evidence that solitary confinement causes mental breakdown, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has decided for the first time to review its policies on solitary confinement, the report said.

YouTube: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 3/11/13: On Rand's Filibuster and the Growth of Executive Power
Full transcript coming soon!

Air Force removes remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) airstrike number from summary
airforcetimes.com - As scrutiny and debate over the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the American military increased last month, the Air Force reversed a policy of sharing the number of airstrikes launched from RPAs in Afghanistan and quietly scrubbed those statistics from previous releases kept on their website.

Maine joins 29 other states considering legislation to restrict police use of drones
Activist Post - The legislation in Maine, which is waiting on a vote in the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee, seems similar to that being considered in other states in that it “would limit the ability of state and local police to use drones and require a warrant before the unmanned vehicles are deployed in an investigation” according to the Portland Press Herald.

Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution—without Bill of Rights
Yahoo! News - Hours after CIA Director John Brennan took the oath of office—behind closed doors, far away from the press, perhaps befitting his status as America's top spy—the White House took pains to emphasize the symbolism of the ceremony.

VIDEO: The New Super Brochure "The Right to Bear Arms." is here! Help STOP Gun Control NOW!
Daily Paul - Over the next few months, Super Brochures will be going out across the country. For the first time, people in the comfort of their own homes will learn about important issues like the SAFE ACT or U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. They will see the anti-gun statue in front of the U.N. building and take the pledge to protect the 2nd Amendment.

South Dakota Backs Guns in Class for Teachers
NY Times - South Dakota became the first state in the nation to enact a law explicitly authorizing school employees to carry guns on the job, under a measure signed into law on Friday by Gov. Dennis Daugaard.

VIDEO: Armed Protesters "Swarm The State Capitol" In Olympia Washington
Daily Paul - March 09, 2013 KONG TV News. Link to article.

Michigan Elementary School Confiscates “Insensitive” Cupcakes
Activist Post - Why? you may be asking yourself. Oh my gosh, were the cupcakes poisoned? Were there razor blades baked inside of them, fiendishly awaiting the opportunity to cut little mouths? No. It’s WORSE. They had plastic green army guys on them.

School now offering counseling to kids upset by strawberry-tart gun!
Jon Rappoport - First, a teacher at the Park Elementary School in Baltimore flips out, because 7-year-old Josh Welch bites his strawberry tart, trying to make it look like a mountain—but it ends up looking (sort of) like a gun.... Now, an assistant principal at the school has sent a letter to parents offering counseling to kids who may have been upset by the incident. I kid you not.

‘Toaster Pastry Gun Freedom Act’ proposed in Maryland
Daily Caller - A Maryland state senator has crafted a bill to curb the zeal of public school officials who are tempted to suspend students as young as kindergarten for having things — or talking about things, or eating things — that represent guns, but aren’t actually anything like real guns.

VIDEO: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read
CBS New York - Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system.... In sheer numbers it means that nearly 11,000 kids who got diplomas from city high schools needed remedial courses to re-learn the basics.

'It is a scam': Judge rejects Elmwood speed cameras
cincinnati.com - In a scathing ruling Thursday, a Hamilton County judge found that the village ordinance that allowed Elmwood Place to install the controversial cameras is invalid and unenforceable.

Whole Foods announces mandatory GMO labeling by 2018; here's how it happened
(NaturalNews) In a huge victory for the alternative media and grassroots activism, Whole Foods announced on Friday that it would require GMO labels on all products by 2018.

The Chart That Proves That The Mainstream Media Is Lying To You About Unemployment
Economic Collapse - The mainstream media is absolutely giddy that the U.S. unemployment rate has hit a "four-year low" of 7.7 percent. But is unemployment in the United States actually going down?

Fed Injects Record $100 Billion Cash Into Foreign Banks Operating In The US In Past Week
Zero Hedge - As the most recent H.8 statement makes very clear, soared from $836 billion to a near-record $936 billion, or a $99.3 billion reserve "reallocation" in the form of cash - very, very fungible cash - into foreign (read European) banks in one week.

New York Stock Exchange prepares disaster backup plan
Reuters - The New York Stock Exchange is readying plans to be able to operate without human traders in case another disaster, such as Superstorm Sandy, forces the shutdown of its historic trading floor in downtown Manhattan, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Demand for Silver Coins Jumps 148%; Investors Start Pouring In
silverdoctors.com - In February 2013, the U.S. Mint reported that it sold almost 3.7 million ounces of silver in coins. In the same period of 2012, it sold 1.49 million ounces of silver. Simple calculation would show that’s an increase of more than 148% in demand for silver coins in one year!

Israeli soldiers raid al-Aqsa Mosque
Press TV - Israeli forces have raided the al-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) firing tear gas to disperse Palestinian worshippers who were trying to perform Friday's prayers at the site.

North Korea ends peace deal with South
Press TV - North Korea has canceled all agreements on non-aggression with South Korea and cut the hotline between Pyongyang and Seoul, following the UN approval of a new series of sanctions against the country.... The CPRK stated that the pact would be canceled as of Monday, when North Korea also planned to scrap the 1953 armistice agreement that put an end to the three-year-long Korean War.

France says war on Mali not over yet
Press TV - On Friday, Le Drian said on Europe 1 radio, “We have accomplished a large part of the work… It’s not completely finished. There are still two pockets (of resistance).” The French minister also stated that securing the region around Mali’s northern city of Gao was one of the challenges for France and added that the French troops were in “face-to-face combat” with local fighters.

More crisis response headed to AFRICOM amid terrorism concerns
Stars and Stripes - A new Africa-focused Marine crisis response unit could soon be in place as part of a broader effort to beef up Africa Command’s ability to confront emerging terrorism threats on the continent, its commander Gen. Carter Ham told a Senate committee on Wednesday.

Bankers Get Death Penalty After $2.6B Scandal
AFP - The outcome of the biggest banking fraud case in Iran’s history was made official on February 18. According to Associated Press, four bankers have been sentenced to death in Iran for their role in a $2.6B scandal, while two more bankers were given life sentences, and 33 more accomplices will spend up to 25 years in jail, the chief prosecutor was quoted as saying.

VIDEO: Shadowy Syrian Opposition Group Kidnaps United Nations Peacekeepers
Kurt Nimmo - In a move that may give Israel a pretext to cross a United Nations buffer zone in Syria, a shadowy Syrian rebel group armed with weapons provided by Saudi Arabia and Qatar has kidnapped 21 Filipino United Nation peacekeepers.

State TV airs footage of Israeli spy gear found in Syria
Press TV - Syrian authorities say they have discovered advanced Israeli spying devices, which further proves Tel Aviv’s involvement in the foreign-backed militancy in the Arab country. The state Syrian television on Thursday aired footage of rocks made of fiber material, used to "camouflage" surveillance cameras found on the Syrian coast.

Iran earns some $13bn from petrochemical, polymer exports: Report
Press TV - Iran has earned nearly USD 13 billion from exporting petrochemical and polymer products from the giant offshore South Pars Gas Field to mainly European and Asian countries since March 2012, says one report.

Malaysia Invaded – 100′s of Terrorists Land on Beaches, Western Media Mute
Tony Cartalucci - Hundreds of heavily armed terrorists have crossed from the Philippines and landed in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah. Dozens are already dead, and the Malaysian military has brought in aircraft and armor to confront the audacious, bizarre invasion, scattering militants into the jungles of Borneo island.

North Korea vows ‘preemptive’ nuclear strike against US
Press TV - “Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to preemptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest,” said a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman in a statement on Thursday.

US squandered USD8 billion in Iraq: Report
Press TV - According to the report, which provides an overall assessment of SIGIR’s mission in Iraq’s reconstruction, the United States has achieved little in its efforts to rebuild the war-torn country. The United States’ eight-year war in Iraq led to the death of at least 5,000 American soldiers and cost Washington some USD800 billion, the report said.

Australian Scientists on Brink of Creating GM Disease-free Chickens
news.com.au - CSIRO AAHL head of animal biosecurity research Dr John Lowenthal said the project had been made public several years ago but was now at a critical stage. Interfering with RNAs is a technology that allows scientists to control or silence particular genes, leading to the production of "transgenic" chickens.

Leaked Pentagon report warns of F-35 visibility risks
Press TV - The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the military’s most expensive main warplane of the future, has a huge blind spot directly behind it. Pilots say that could get them shot down in close-quarters combat, where the flier with the better visibility has the killing advantage.

VIDEO: Paul Fires Back! Senators McCain, Graham think 'whole world is a battlefield'
The Hill - Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted fellow GOP Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday, saying the two “think the whole world is a battlefield.” Paul criticized the hawkish senators for thinking the laws of war should take precedence over the Bill of Rights. The two had criticized Paul’s statements about drone policy during the Kentucky Republican’s nearly 13-hour filibuster on Thursday.

AWOL: Meet The GOP Senators Who Refused to Stand With Rand
Breitbart - The following Republicans were either at the Washington Wizards game, maybe at Starbucks, or were attending to some other pressing issue that was more important than supporting a member of their party who had the audacity to expect the White House to answer a basic, fundamental constitutional question.

VIDEO: The White House finally answers Rand Paul's question
Washington Examiner - White House Press Secretary Jay Carney quoted from the letter that Holder sent to Paul today. “Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on an American soil?” Holder wrote, per Carney. “The answer is no.”

VIDEO: Florida State Senator Files Bill Requiring Anger Management before Buying Ammunition
First Coast News - State Senator Audrey Gibson, a Democrat representing District 9, said she is surprised at the reaction the bill she filed Friday is getting. She intended the bill to reduce anger not cause anger, but she says her office has gotten phone calls not only from Floridians but even some from out of state.

YouTube: Police Nationwide Say "You're On Your Own"
Project Veritas visited police stations nationwide and asked law enforcement officials how they could protect themselves in the event of an armed break-in. "Go get some bleach. Go get ammonia," one officer instructed. Yet another officer instructed the undercover journalist to, "lock yourself in a bedroom" and "start yelling and screaming."

VIDEO: Judge Napolitano Reacts to Possible Drone Sighting Near New York's JFK Airport
Liberty Crier - Judge Napolitano discusses the legal implications of a suspected drone sighting near the JFK Airport in New York and reviews the Obama’s implication that he will use drone strikes against American citizens suspected of terrorism.

VIDEO: DNA tests for people convicted of misdemeanors could be allowed under Colorado bill
thedenverchannel.com - Denise Maes, director of public policy for the Colorado ACLU, agreed DNA can be a good crime fighting tool, but said it comes with serious civil liberty issues. "It's far more invasive than [fingerpringting]," she said. "Fingerprinting tells you the identity of an individual, DNA will tell you who your family is and what your medical history is. That's now going to be in large database."

Cancer victim kept in solitary confinement for 2 years without trial wins millions
RT - A 59-year-old cancer-stricken man spent two years in solitary confinement in a New Mexico prison, where he suffered from tooth decay, bedsores and a deterioration of mental health. His crime? Drunk driving. And the man was never even convicted. Now, former inmate Stephen Slevin has received a $15 million settlement to compensate for the torture he endured in the New Mexico jail cell.

Silver Shortage Intensifying, Will Result in a Buying Panic
silverdoctors.com - When it comes to real physical “hold in your hand” metal, there is NO ONE selling. If no one is selling then how is it that the price could go down? …COMEX and LBMA! The paper markets, that’s how. Paper contracts that are “sold” with no Silver, no Gold backing them AND no intention of ever delivering have hit the markets to knock prices down.

VIDEO: Eric Holder Admits Some Banks Are Just Too Big To Prosecute
Huffington Post - When the Attorney General of the United States admits some banks are simply too big to prosecute, it might be time to admit we have a problem -- and that goes for both the financial and justice systems.

FAA says 173 air traffic control towers will close on April 7
CNN News - The federal government will close 173 air traffic control towers at small- and medium-size airports on April 7 because of forced spending cuts, the Federal Aviation Administration told tower operators Tuesday. It will close another 16 towers on September 30, the end of the fiscal year.

Should You Move To Another Country To Escape The Collapse Of America? 10 Questions To Ask Yourself First
Economic Collapse - Why are so many people leaving the United States right now? Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of Americans have decided that moving to another country is the best way to prepare for the collapse of America. According to the U.S. State Department, an all-time record of more than 6 million Americans are now working or studying overseas.

VIDEO: Feinstein: All vets are mentally ill and government should prevent them from owning firearms
Kurt Nimmo - During the Senate Judiciary meeting today to markup a potpourri of bills designed to deny the American people their rights under the Second Amendment and disarm them, Senator Dianne Feinstein opposed an amendment to her so-called assault weapons ban legislation that would allow veterans to continue buying firearms the bill would outlaw.

VIDEO: Marine Corps Veteran Questions DHS on Huge Ammo Buys
Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson - Commenting on the DHS’s procurement of roughly 2 billion hollow point bullets over the course of the last year, former Marine Richard Mason told reporters with WHPTV News in Pennsylvania that he has serious concerns. “We never trained with hollow points, we didn’t even see hollow points my entire four and a half years in the Marine Corps,” Mason said.

VIDEO: UN asks US, UK to release Iraq war docs
Press TV - "Despite this clear repudiation of the unlawful actions carried out by the Bush-era CIA, many of the facts remain classified, and no public official has so far been brought to justice in the United States," UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism Ben Emmerson said in a report to the UN Human Rights Council.

Washington, Beijing set to expand UN sanctions on Pyongyang
Press TV - The resolution targets North Korean diplomats and adds the names of three individuals as well as the government's Second Academy of Natural Sciences and Korea Complex Equipment Import Corporation to the UN blacklist for a travel ban and assets freeze. Furthermore, under the new resolution inspections of suspicious land, sea or air cargos will become mandatory.

UN mulls deployment of special force to Congo
Press TV - The UN chief stated that the special force “will have the ability to conduct, with or without the FARDC (the Congolese army), offensive operations against all armed groups that threaten the peace in eastern DRC."

UK to send armoured vehicles to Syrian opposition
BBC News - The UK is to provide armoured vehicles and body armour to opposition forces in Syria "to help save lives", Foreign Secretary William Hague has said. It will offer millions of pounds in "non-lethal" equipment, including search and rescue, communications, and disease-prevention materials.

Russian Leader Demands Investigation of Chavez Death
Paul Joseph Watson - “How did it happen that six leaders of Latin American countries which had criticized US policies and tried to create an influential alliance in order to be independent and sovereign states, fell ill simultaneously with the same disease?” Zyuganov told Russian state television, urging an investigation under “international control” into Chavez’s death.

Russia launched massive nuclear drill, Pentagon alarmed
Washington Times - The exercise raised concerns inside the Pentagon and with the U.S. European Command because it was the largest exercise of its kind in 20 years and involved heightened alert status of Russian nuclear forces. The nuclear drills were part of other military maneuvers in Russia carried out between Feb. 17 and Feb. 21.

New Leader Bans Extravagance for Chinese Congress
AP - Military officials descending on China's capital for the country's biggest political event have been told to bring their own toiletries. Legislative delegates arriving at the airport no longer find welcoming teams of photogenic, waving women, and police aren't clearing their way through Beijing's traffic snarl. Once feted with banquets of lobster and sharks' fin, the delegates now serve themselves at drab buffets, and stay in guesthouses instead of luxury hotels.

VIDEO: After almost 13 hours, Rand Paul ends Brennan filibuster
Washington Times - The Kentucky Republican held the floor for almost 13 hours, effectively blocking a vote on the nomination of John O. Brennan, whom Mr. Obama has tapped to be CIA director. He said he would relent only if the administration publicly vowed not to target Americans on U.S. soil.

VIDEO: Ten. Ted Cruz makes Twitter history by reading tweets for Rand Paul filibuster on the Senate floor
Washington Examiner - As Sen. Rand Paul R-Ky. approached the 8-hour mark of his filibuster in protest of the Obama administration’s drone program, his colleague Sen. Ted Cruz R-Texas approached the Senate floor to read tweets in support.

Nevada Politician Uncovers FEMA Plans for Zombie UFO Crash Disaster Drill on April 27
Intel Hub - This is where all that money that gets stolen from your paycheck goes to, a Zombie UFO Crash Drill, brought to you by FEMA and the US taxpayers. Opposing Views Broke the story of David Lory VanDerBeek, who is running for Governor in Nevada in 2014. He recently posted a screenshot from the FEMA website of a supposed Zombie UFO Crash Disaster full-scale exercise drill planned for April 27th, 2013, from 9:00am to 5:00pm.

SPLC Sends Eric Holder a Letter Warning That Conspiracy Minded Groups are Growing in Numbers
Intel Hub - The SPLC has pulled a new publicity stunt to attack “patriot” groups and “conspiracy minded” people in the US, equating them with domestic terrorists. They sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder (one that he was probably expecting) noting a rise in anti government sentiment, and pointing out that a good portion of this was a result of recent gun control measures.

Nelson, Ga looks to make gun ownership mandatory
wsbtv.com - One police officer patrols Nelson, Georgia for eight hours during the day. That leaves 16 hours overnight when the city is basically unguarded. "When he's not here we rely on county sheriffs--however it takes a while for them to get here," said Nelson City Councilman Duane Cronic. That's why Cronic proposed the ordinance.

Top U.S. Commander says it is possible to bring Iran to its knees
Kurt Nimmo - Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina who formulated a resolution calling for a green light to attack Iran in response to its illusory nuclear weapons program, asked [General] Mattis if it is possible for the United States and Israel to “bring them to their knees.” “Yes sir,” the general replied. “There are a number of means to do that, perhaps even short of open conflict. But certainly that’s one of the options I have to have prepared for the President.”

VIDEO: CIA developed a sudden cancer gun back in the 1970s
Kurt Nimmo - For the naysayers who dispute that the CIA was responsible for the cancer death of Hugo Chavez, note the device in the following video. It is a dart gun developed in the 1970s (or possibly earlier) by the CIA.

VIDEO: Rand Paul's Brilliant Defense of Civil Liberties Against Drones
Activist Post - Today, Sen. Rand Paul took to the Senate floor to participate in an active filibuster of President Obama's nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan. Sen. Paul spoke for two hours about the importance of civil liberties and the Constitution during a time where America is declared a battlefield in the war on terror.
* Related Article/Video: Government Emergency Alert Test Interrupts Rand Paul Filibuster

TSA announces biggest loosening of security since 9/11
RT - While TSA continues to trash water bottles and confiscate lotions, the agency is now allowing air passengers to bring pocketknives, golf clubs and hockey sticks onto their flights – all of which could be used as deadly weapons. “This policy was designed to make the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer,”
* Related Video: TSA's Pocket Knife Decision Outrages Flight Attendants

VIDEO: DHS plans to release 5,000 illegal immigrants due to sequestration
Washington Examiner - House investigators learned Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials developed plans to release about 5,000 illegal immigrant detainees, although Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has denied responsibility for the decision.

VIDEO: Media Portrays DHS Ammo Purchases as Conspiracy Theory
Paul Joseph Watson - Media circles the wagons, goes into desperate damage control... The latest examples include Media Matters and Raw Story, both of which attacked Fox Business host Lou Dobbs for daring to raise the issue on his March 4 broadcast during an interview with the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre.

VIDEO: Ex-DEA Chief Lobbying Holder to Nullify Marijuana Legalization Owns a Drug Testing Company
Activist Post - Nine former Drug Enforcement Agency administrators urged Attorney General Holder today to sue Colorado and Washington in order to nullify the recently passed marijuana legalization ballot measures in those states.

Wash. state bill allows police to search students without parental consent
Examiner - A Washington state bill, S.B. 5618, that would allow police officers, or "school resource officers," to search students without probable cause or parental consent, passed the State Senate Monday, 30-19.

Chart: Proof the Fed is Juicing the Markets
Fox News - Charles Brady, senior editor of the FOX Business Network, has put together a remarkable chart that clearly shows the Federal Reserve’s monetary easing policies are not going into the U.S. economy, but instead into the stock market.

First Record Dow, Then Record Gas And Grocery Prices
Activist Post - The mainstream media would like you to believe the rising Dow is somehow tied to an improving economy. "Look," they say, "Housing and auto sales are rising...home prices are recovering ... companies are hiring more ... Even you skeptical radicals with your free market obsession have to admit that the central bank is doing the good it's supposed to do!"

The Dow Hits An All-Time High! Translation: A Bubble Is Always Biggest Right Before It Bursts
Economic Collapse - Reckless money printing by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has pumped up the Dow to a brand new all-time high. So what comes next? Will the Dow go even higher? Hopefully it will. In fact, it would be great if the Dow was able to hit 15,000 before it finally came crashing down. That would give all of us some more time to prepare for the nightmarish economic crisis that is rapidly approaching.

'Sequester' won't interrupt collection of new Obamacare taxes
The Hill - Implementation of the taxes and fees from President Obama’s healthcare law is on track despite the cutbacks at the IRS from sequestration.

VIDEO: Governor: Leaks can’t be stopped at U.S. nuclear site
ENENews - Bloomberg, March 6, 2013: Washington Nuke Leak May Be Years From Answer, Inslee Say [...] Washington Governor Jay Inslee said it may take as much as four years to begin transferring radioactive sludge from leaking underground tanks at the former nuclear weapons production complex known as the Hanford Site.

Venezuela accuses US of killing Chavez
Press TV - Caracas accused the US embassy’s Air Force attache, Colonel David Delmonaco, and assistant air attache, Major Devlin Kostal, of trying to stir up a military plot against the Venezuelan government. Washington confirmed that the two officials were employed at the embassy, saying Delmonaco was en route back to the US, and Kostal was in America at the time.

Syria militants in tremendous disarray: Webster Tarpley
Press TV - The Saudi regime has claimed that it has a moral responsibility to assist the militant groups in Syria. In January, Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi intelligence chief, also called for sending heavy weapons such as anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons to the militants.

VIDEO: AIPAC Confab Signals Iran Endgame
Kurt Nimmo - Last month’s hope of a constructive outcome during nuclear talks between Iran and the West in Kazakhstan were dashed this week as the AIPAC meeting commenced in Washington. 2013 AIPAC confab dwells on Iran attack. On Monday, Joe Biden made it clear that Obama is behind an attack on Iran. He told attendees Obama’s policy “is to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Period. Period. End of discussion.”

N. Korea vows to scrap ceasefire if South, US continue military drill
RT - North Korea has threatened to scrap the armistice which ended the 1950-53 Korean War if the South and US continue with an ongoing military drill.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dies of cancer
Press TV - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, Vice President Nicolas Maduro has announced.... Hours before Chavez’s death, the Venezuelan vice president stated that someday there will be "scientific proof" that the socialist leader was infected with cancer by "imperialist" enemies.

Venezuela expels two US embassy officials amid Chavez cancer conspiracy
RT - Vice President Nicolas Maduro said President Hugo Chavez's enemies had poisoned him with cancer before announcing that two US Air Force officials would be expelled from the country for spying on the military and plotting to destabilize the country. Maduro identified one American as the Air Force attaché and said he had 24 hours to leave the country.

Nuclear revival: Japan to re-launch six reactors in 2013
RT - Japan’s major supplier of nuclear power generating equipment, France’s Areva group, has announced Tokyo’s plans to restart six reactors by the end of 2013. The other reactors will be restarted later – except the Fukushima-type made in the US.

VIDEO: Universal Background Check: Registration and Confiscation
Kurt Nimmo - Oklahoma Republic senator Tom Coburn knows that if a universal background check system is implemented it will eventually lead to registration of all firearms in the United States. Coburn is the main hurdle posited between Obama, his allies in Congress and the Democrat dream of America stripped of its historical right to own firearms. The Canadian example: universal registration leads to confiscation.

VIDEO: Troops Deployed Ahead of Economic Collapse & Gun Confiscation
Aaron Dykes - The economic collapse, and ensuing civil unrest is coming – or so we’ve been told. Why else would Homeland Security buy up more than 2 billion bullets, purchase more than 2700 tanks and stock pile weaponry all while government white papers outline preparations for a martial law containment of society?

YouTube: Rand Paul EXPOSES: Obama Can Kill Americans w/ Drones
Rand Paul exposes Obamas ability to attack American Citizens with drones. This is unconstitutional and basically gives him a license to kill!

Holder: Obama Can Kill Citizens on US Soil Without Due Process
Activist Post - Battlefield USA just ratcheted up one notch with comments made by Attorney General Eric Holder to Senator Rand Paul.... AG Holder would not rule out a drone strike against an American citizen on U.S. soil if he were to "imagine an extraordinary circumstance." Worse yet, the nation's leading legal adviser said unequivocally that it would be constitutional.

VIDEO: Leaked Document: Military Internment Camps in U.S. to be Used for Political Dissidents
Activist Post - Internment camps for political dissidents in the U.S. aren't a conspiracy theory. The Department of Defense document entitled "INTERNMENT AND RESETTLEMENT OPERATIONS" or FM 3-39.40 proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt. Link to full document HERE.

VIDEO: Police Deploy ‘Minority Report’ Style Robot Drones In Standoff With Ohio Man
Steve Watson - Police in a small Ohio town responded to a disturbance involving an inebriated armed man by sending in two spy drone robots. When the man shot one of the droids, he was charged with vandalism of government property.... Of particular concern, however, are the gizmos that are designed to enter people’s homes.

Pilot reports mystery black ‘drone’ at JFK
New York Post - The Alitalia pilot spotted the unmanned craft — described as “a black drone” — hovering just 200 feet from his jet about three miles east of the airport as he made his approach from Brooklyn. “He was very clear as to what he saw,” a source said. The pilot told investigators the object was flying at about 1,800 feet and looked like “a black drone about a meter square, with helicopter rotors on the corners.”

VIDEO: Military Patrol Austin Kite Festival in Martial Law Prep
Aaron Dykes - For the second year in a row, troops controlled civilian transportation at the Austin Kite Festival, which took place Sunday, March 3, utilizing disaster training to facilitate crowds numbering more than 30,000 against an otherwise idyllic early spring park scene.

VIDEO: RARE! Dr. Ronald Ernest Paul Rockin' an AR15! No Really! From 1989
Daily Paul - Is the right to firearms really essential? Doctor and Congressman Ron Paul reminds us that freedom to defend yourself is natural and proper.

YouTube: Top 2: The Biggest Threat To Electoral System You've Never Heard Of
Ben Swann Interviews Christina Tobin of Free and Equal Elections about top 2. Prop 121 in Arizona was defeated last November after this interview but now Top 2 is now spreading to Montana.

TSA Sealed $50-Million Sequester-Eve Deal to Buy New Uniforms
CNS News - The impending sequester did not prevent the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from acting in late February to seal a $50-million deal to purchase new uniforms for its agents–uniforms that will be partly manufactured in Mexico.

VIDEO: Sen. Paul on Cavuto: Economic Recovery Is Illusory, A False Sense Of Prosperity
Daily Paul - Speaking on the sequester and the economy March 5, 2013.

New York's Homelessness Worst Since The Great Depression
Salon.com - State and local governments nationwide have struggled to accommodate a homeless population that has changed in recent years - now including large numbers of families with young children. As the WSJ reports, more than 21,000 children - an unprecedented 1% of the city's youth - slept each night in a city shelter in January, an increase of 22% in the past year; as homeless families now spend more than a year in a shelter, on average, for the first time since 1987.

253.5B—Obama Borrowed Nearly 6x as Much in February as Sequester Cuts All Year
CNS News - During the month of February–as President Barack Obama was warning Americans they would see dramatic effects in their lives if “sequestration” of some planned federal spending kicked in–the federal government’s debt climbed by $253.5 billion. That one-month increase in the debt was nearly six times as much as the $44 billion in spending cuts the Congressional Budget Office estimates will take place in all of fiscal 2013 as a result of sequestration.

Marines' 'Poster Boy' for Suicide Prevention Kills Self
When Clay Hunt killed himself at his Houston apartment last week, he became exactly the sort of grim military statistic he'd battled so hard against.... "He tried everything," said his best friend Jake Wood, a fellow Marine. "He tried the medication, he tried (humanitarian) service, he tried moving back closer to family. He tried everything under the sun, and he was fully self-aware."

UK Foreign Secretary in Mali to support French-led war
Press TV - British Foreign Secretary William Hague has set foot on Malian soil as part of the UK government’s attempts to help France’s war on the West African country.

Iran slams UN human rights report
Press TV - The Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Committee (HRC) has dismissed a recent report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, saying the report aims at intensifying pressure on the Islamic Republic.

‘US, China agree regarding N Korea’
Press TV - UN diplomats say the United States and China have reached agreement on a new draft to impose further sanctions against North Korea over its recent nuclear test. American and Chinese diplomats are expected to tell members of the UN Security Council at a meeting later on Tuesday about progress in their talks about Pyongyang’s third underground nuclear test.

Czech president charged with treason
Press TV - Lawmakers in the Czech Republic's Senate have voted to file high treason charges against conservative President Vaclav Klaus over his amnesty of thousands of inmates serving short prison terms. Senate Speaker Milan Stech said on Monday that legislators in the 81-seat upper house of parliament voted 38-30 to file a motion at the Constitutional Court, The Associated Press reported.

VIDEO: 60 Minutes: China’s real estate bubble
stopforeclosurefraud.com - This is a shocking video. The U.S. might just have been topped on this never-ending busting real estate bubble! So where is the money coming from and why continue to build?

Ex-Russian General: America Must Be Kept at Gunpoint
Paul Joseph Watson - Retired Russian General Leonid Ivashov told Pravda in a recent interview that America must be held at gunpoint by means of of tactical nuclear weapons which “should constantly be aimed at the United States.”

Locust alert in Middle East as plague descends on Egypt and creates panic in Israel
Daily Mail - A swarm of an estimated 30 million insects has been devastating crops in Egypt, fueling apocalyptic fears because of the infestation’s proximity to the Bible story of Passover in which a swarm of locusts, the eighth of ten plagues, is imposed on Egyptians by God for enslaving and abusing ancient Hebrews.

Vatican Nightmare Continues: Cardinal Admits To Unsuitable ‘Sexual Conduct’
Business Insider - The admission of guilt from O'Brien — formerly the most senior person in the UK Catholic Church — came after decades-old accusations from four priests became public last month. The priests had listed a number of accusations against the Cardinal, including reports of "inappropriate approach", "inappropriate contact" and "unwanted behavior".

VIDEO: Dietitians of The New World Order
Activist Post - Here is a chance to see what goes on at a global dietitians conference. A walk through the 16th International Congress of Dietetics located in Sydney, Australia.... The goal of the International Congress of Dietetics is to standardize nutrition practice globally. Companies such as McDonald's Mars, Nestle, Pepsi, Pfizer, Abbot, Kellogg's and Unilever are major partners with Dietetics associations globally.

Iceland tests [for horse meat] find meat pies contain no meat at all
CBC News - Here's one they weren't expecting — meat pies with no meat. When officials in Iceland began hearing about horsemeat being secreted into beef products around Europe, they decided to run tests to ensure the same thing wasn't happening in Iceland.

Martial Law: Tucson City Council Hands Authority Over to Military
Kurt Nimmo - On February 20, 2013, the Tucson, Arizona City Council passed a resolution allowing the U.S. Air Force to “make appropriate decisions when balancing National Security and community needs when it comes to their existing and future military mission and assignments.” In other words, the resolution allows the military to reject decisions made by the people of Tucson.

YouTube: First US city bans drones
RT - Charlottesville, Virginia, home to Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia, has a long history of being a voice for freedom. Now it can add freedom from drones to the list, as Charlottesville's anti-drone resolution is the first of its kind in the nation.

Nurse hailed by boss for refusing CPR to dying patient
RT - After a 911 dispatcher pleaded with a nurse to perform CPR on a woman at her living facility, the nurse refused, letting the 87-year-old die because of her failure to help. The California-based Glenwood Gardens living facility is now defending the actions of its nurse, claiming the woman followed policy in refraining from helping the old woman – even though the 911 dispatcher asked her to.

Warning: Indiana State Senate Votes for Constitutional Convention Urgent!
Daily Paul - This must be halted in the Indiana State House Committee or on the Indiana State House floor. If it gets to newly elected Indiana Governor Pence desk it shall be too late. Indiana will be the 34th state to official pass legislation asking for an Article V Convention. It does not take thirty eight individual states to call for Constitutional convention, but merely thirty four. Read more here.

VIDEO: St. Louis Residents Get “Strange” Text Message From Feds
Paul Joseph Watson - Thousands of St. Louis residents reported receiving a “strange” text message from the government over the weekend, unaware that their cell phones had been automatically enrolled into a FEMA alert program that they cannot opt out of completely.

VIDEO: 'Homeland' Buys 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks
thegatewaypundit.com - The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.

Gun Companies Boycotting Law Enforcement In Anti-Gun States Grow By More Than 700% In 1 Week
12160.info February 25, 2013 - The list of companies that have decided to stop selling firearms and ammunition to law enforcement agencies, in states that are hostile to the Second Amendment and putting forth gun control legislation, is growing and has grown more than seven times the number that I informed you about one week ago today.

Houston Cops Push for Law to Grab Guns from Citizens
Kurt Nimmo - A proposed law will amend the mental health code of Texas and allow police to confiscate a weapon taken from a person they determine is “experiencing a mental health crisis and has been found to be a danger to himself or others and is being transported by police for an emergency mental health evaluation,” according to the Associated Press.

VIDEO: North Carolina Sheriff Joins Chorus Asking Citizens to Arm Themselves
ABC 11 - Vance County Sheriff Peter White is suggesting residents arm themselves against a recent violent crime wave.... "Now I'm not trying to shift the blame, I want to make sure everybody's clear on this, but you know -- do what you can to protect yourself," White said.

Poll: Almost Half Of Americans Believe They Have Right To Shoot Down Government Spy Drones
Steve Watson- In a stark about turn, most Americans now have significant reservations about the use of drones by government and law enforcement.... In addition, 47 percent of respondents to the latest poll said they believe they have a right to destroy a UAV if it flies over their house without their permission.

K-12 Student Database Will Share Information with 'Private Companies Selling Educational Products and Services'
cryptogon.com - An education technology conference this week in Austin, Texas, will clang with bells and whistles as startups eagerly show off their latest wares. But the most influential new product may be the least flashy: a $100 million database built to chart the academic paths of public school students from kindergarten through high school. In operation just three months, the database already holds files on millions of children identified by name, address and sometimes social security number.

YouTube: Judge Napolitano: Obama Administration Doesn't Understand Economics 101
Judge Napolitano argues that the government makes an economic mistake when it raises taxes too high "because people that are able to control their income will defer it or receive the income in other ways, end up earning less and paying the government less."

Jim Sinclair: Gold Will Run to $4990
silverdoctors.com - For the first time, Sinclair gives his target for full valuation of gold of $4990/oz, and states that the return of gold to a global monetary role will usher in the greatest economic expansion the world has ever seen.

YouTube: Ron Paul Texas Straight Talk 3-4-2013 ~ The Sequester Crisis And What Should Be Done
Despite what the media and politicians would have us believe, the United States did not collapse last Friday when the package of spending reductions known as "sequestration" went into effect. The financial markets hardly blinked, as they have come to be more skeptical about these periodic government-hyped "crises."

Tax Bicyclists For Exhaling CO2 When They Ride, Says Wash. Rep
Activist Post - Taxing the air we breathe may be coming to Washington state. Yes, the insane taxing of every behavior is rising to a whole new level with the proposed "bike tax" in Washington. According to lawmakers who proposed the bike tax, it would help raise $1 million over the next decade to be used for road maintenance. The new $25 tax will be applied on every bike sold for over $500 in the state.

Banks Find More Wrongful Foreclosures Among Military Members
NY Times - The nation’s biggest banks wrongfully foreclosed on more than 700 military members during the housing crisis and seized homes from roughly two dozen other borrowers who were current on their mortgage payments, findings that eclipse earlier estimates of the improper evictions.

Mortgage Settlement Relief Fails To Reach Millions Of Foreclosed Homeowners
Huffington Post - "The settlements are unlikely to provide meaningful relief to any significant fraction of any of the homeowners it sets out to help," said Diane Thompson, a foreclosure lawyer at the National Consumer Law Center. Instead, she said, the deals are "window dressing." They require banks to meet certain financial targets, but don't require they direct money to help struggling borrowers avoid foreclosure, she said.

50 fighters killed in northern Mali’
Press TV - At least 50 local fighters have been killed in heavy fighting in northern Mali as the French-led war in the African country goes on. An unnamed Malian military source said that the fighters had been killed in clashes since Friday, adding the fighting continued on Sunday near the northern town of Gao.

West media criticized for TV ban silence
Press TV - The Western media outlets have come under fire for their silence on attempts by the Israeli-French CEO of the European satellite provider Eutelsat to take Iranian television networks off the air in violation of the freedom of speech.

France, Turkey plot to assasinate Assad: Report
Press TV - A Lebanese news website says it has obtained a documentary movie revealing a plot hatched by French and Turkish spy agencies to assassinate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

AIPAC to lobby for full aid and Iron Dome funding; Finance Minister: I hope we will not be hurt by US economic difficulties
jpost.com - In Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual policy conference will open on Sunday, and end with a day of Capitol Hill lobbying on Tuesday, which will include a push to provide Israel its full $3.1 billion in military aid for both 2013 and 2014, as well as $211 million in additional funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system.

Israel ‘to delay settlement starts for Obama trip’
Raw Story - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has banned settler housing tenders being issued for the West Bank and east Jerusalem when US President Barack Obama visits this month... Netanyahu had told officials the “suspension” did not amount to a freeze in settlement construction, and that it would only be in place up until the end of Obama’s trip to avoid “embarrassing” leaders.

Hospital hired me to fiddle death figures: Expert claims NHS ordered cover-up
Daily Mail - A whistleblower claimed last night that she was hired by an NHS hospital to fiddle its shocking death rates.... The data recorder says she was suspended after refusing to take part in a cover-up, and even claims she was ordered not to put her concerns in writing in case they reached the Press.

Bill Gates New Push to End Polio
Intel Hub - Now Gates is on a mission to vaccinate children in other countries for Polio. Let’s take a look into the mind of Gates as he writes; The global health community has a detailed plan to finish the job. This plan says that if the world supplies the necessary funds and political commitment, we will certify the eradication of polio by 2018.

India’s Spies Want Data on Every BlackBerry Customer Worldwide
StratRisks - There are about 79 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide—and India’s government wants to hand its spy agency data on every one of them.

KFC Halts Chicken Supply from 1,000 Chinese Farms After Antibiotics Scare
(NaturalNews) KFC is dropping more than 1,000 farms from its network of suppliers in China to make sure the food it serves is safe after a scandal over tainted chicken hurt company sales in that key (meaning large) emerging market last year.... Yum officials said the company was aware of the problem via testing by a third party in 2010 and 2011 but did not report the findings to authorities, according to a statement by the Shanghai government in December.

Taco Bell Latest to Admit to Horsemeat in Beef Products
Natural Society - Taco Bell and two other major companies are the latest processed food industry juggernauts to be blasted in the news for their products containing horsemeat in the UK after the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) found horse DNA in the third wave of test results on major food distributors and manufacturers.

Carrier cancelation fuels sequester fight
Press TV - The Pentagon’s decision to cancel a carrier group’s deployment to the Middle East has become a political flashpoint in the growing fight over how and what the Obama administration is cutting under sequestration.

Do We Live in a Country Run By Idiots? I don’t Think So!
Intel Hub - A few days ago I was listening to professional disinformer Sean Hannity when he mentioned a funny joke currently running among Republicans. According to it, you know you live in a country run by idiots if …

'CIA killed 9/11 author in black ops hit'
Press TV - A former US National Security Agency officer [Wayne Madsen] says the 9/11 investigative author Philip Marshall and his children were killed in a “black ops hit” by the CIA, dismissing the suicide hypothesis.... “It seems that Philip Marshall had gotten his hands on some kind of explosive information as he [Madsen] put it. And, he was planning to publish this in his next book,” he added.

DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones
CNET - Homeland Security’s specifications for its drones, built by San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, say they “shall be capable of identifying a standing human being at night as likely armed or not,” meaning carrying a shotgun or rifle. They also specify “signals interception” technology that can capture communications in the frequency ranges used by mobile phones... Related article: US citizens urged to oppose drone surveillance

Maryland Senate Passes Governor O’Malley’s Gun Control Bill
New American - After 10 hours of intense debate, the Maryland Senate passed Governor Martin O’Malley’s gun control measure handily late Thursday afternoon, 28-19, with all 12 Republicans and a handful of Democrats voting against the bill.

VIDEO: Popular Standard Shotgun Could Be Banned Under Proposed Bill
CBS Denver - A popular hunting shotgun could be banned under one of the bills moving through the state Capitol. “They’re coming after the standard shotgun,” Brophy told CBS4 Political Specialist Shaun Boyd. Brophy says if Democrats succeed in passing a bill limiting large capacity magazines in Colorado, they’ll outlaw the most popular selling firearm for hunting.
* Related Article: Senate limits testimony in gun bill hearings...

VIDEO: Kentucky Senate Passes Bill Blocking Federal Gun Laws
xrepublic.tv - The Senate has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would prohibit Kentucky from enforcing any federal gun control laws if they're enacted.

DHS Censors Information About Firearms Purchase
Paul Joseph Watson - Despite the fact that documents pertaining to government activity are only supposed to be redacted for national security reasons or if authorized by Congress, a new entry posted on the FedBizOpps website pertaining to the DHS’ plans for a $1.5 million contract with firearms manufacturer Remington contains numerous blacked-out sections.

VIDEO: 7-Year-Old Suspended, Teacher says he shaped pastry into gun
Fox Baltimore - Children at Park Elementary School went home with a letter today explaining there was a disruption in school. Seven year old Josh Welch, and his father, say the disruption lead to a two day suspension for the second grader in Brooklyn Park.

VIDEO: This Is How We Resist
Mac Slavo - The motto of our modern police state is, “if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.” We must respond by staying true to the fourth amendment: “If I’m not doing anything wrong, and you have no probable cause, evidence or warrant, then I respectfully demand that you let me go about my business.” It works. Really.

Grocery loyalty card purchases surveilled by insurance companies to raise rates and deny claims
(NaturalNews) I warned Natural News readers about this years ago: those grocery store "loyalty cards" that they push on you to enjoy discounts on groceries are actually a behavior surveillance technology that's used to capture and profile your grocery purchasing patterns. This data is then sold off to insurance companies who use it to raise your rates by linking your grocery purchases with the risk of disease.

12 Things That Just Happened That Show The Next Wave Of The Economic Collapse Is Almost Here
Economic Collapse - Right now, events are unfolding in Europe and in the United States that are pushing us toward the next major crisis moment. I sincerely hope that we have some more time before the next crisis overwhelms us, but as you will see, time is rapidly running out.

Gold and Silver Approved as Legal Tender by Arizona Senate
Activist Post - Arizona may become the second state, after Utah, to recognize gold and silver as legal tender authorized for payments of debts and taxes.

VIDEO: Ron Paul: Sequester Is Just A Fear Tactic – CNBC 3/1/2013
Liberty Crier - Small-town USA reacts to the sequester. How it’s being felt by the average American, with former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) CNBC’s Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.

Shock! $307 Billion paid to Africa while America goes over cliff
From the Trenches - The “Alliance For An Affordable Internet” is a public-private partnership which intends to build a huge, expensive African Internet. Its headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, now dubbed “Africa’s Silicon Valley”.... The partners of “Alliance For An Affordable Internet” include the U.S Department of State, the World Wide Web Foundation and five Silicon Valley computer giants (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Intel and Cisco Systems).

YouTube: "Wealth Inequality in America" - Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America
The reality is often not what we think it is.

Army denies requests to reveal results of PTSD study
Raw Story - The probe centers on Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington, where some soldiers claim their PTSD diagnoses have been wrongly changed to save the government money. The review was launched after an Army psychiatrist at Madigan gave a lecture citing a memo that claims veterans suffering from PTSD could get up to $1.5 million in health benefits over their lifetimes.

Iran hopeful about future of P5+1 talks
Press TV - Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says he is “optimistic and hopeful” about the future of Tehran’s talks with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany. In an interview with Austrian broadcaster ORF on Thursday, Salehi said, "We are heading for goals that will be satisfactory for both sides. I am very optimistic and hopeful.”

Iran asks UN to hold Israel accountable
Press TV - In a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Mohammad Khazaei called on the world body to pay attention to the harsh conditions of Palestinians kept in Israeli prisons. The United Nations should announce that the Israeli regime must be held accountable for violation of ‘international rights,’ Khazaei said.

'US, South Korea begin joint military drill'
Press TV - Washington and Seoul are set to launch annual joint military exercises as thousands of US troops have gathered in South Korea amid heightening tensions in the Korean Peninsula, a report says. The troops reportedly arrived in South Korea on Friday. Over 10,000 American troops along with South Korean personnel are slated to hold joint air, ground and naval field training exercises called Foal Eagle in March and April.

Kerry Pledges $60 Million in Aid to Syrian Opposition Forces
LA Times - In case you didn’t get the memo – Al-Qaeda – the same group the U.S. accuses of carrying out the most devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history, is now our ally in Syria.

British terror suspects quietly stripped of citizenship… then killed by drones
The Independent - The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – with two of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks.

Mortgage interest to double for thousands of borrowers as banks impose huge tracker rate hikes
Daily Mail - Thousands of Bank of Ireland and Bristol & West borrowers customers face a doubling of interest on mortgage payments this year after the banks decided to ramp up tracker rates.... The move will add £240 per month, or £2,850 year on a £200,000 mortgage. Some 15,000 customers in total will be affected.

VIDEO: Bradley Manning Leaks Meant to Enlighten The Public on US Policy: U.S. Is ‘Obsessed With Killing’ Opponents
LA Times - Army Pfc. Bradley Manning pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that he illegally acquired and transferred highly classified U.S. materials later published by WikiLeaks, saying he was motivated by a U.S foreign policy that “became obsessed with killing and capturing people rather than cooperating” with other governments.

VIDEO: Reality Check: VP Biden, “No Law Abiding Citizens Fears 2nd Amendment Infringement”.
Liberty Crier - This weekend hundreds of people turned out for peaceful protests across the Tri-State for what has been billed as a “Day of Resistance”. Are these people really concerned about their second amendment rights? Vice President Joe Biden says “No”.

Montana Anti-NDAA Bill Moves to Senate With 98-0 Vote
Activist Post - The Montana House Judiciary Committee voted 20-0 last week to support HB522 (link to full text below) that would make it illegal to cooperate in any way with indefinite detention sections 1021 and 1022 of the NDAA.

Documents Reveal US Marshals Using Spy Drones
Steve Watson - Documents obtained by the ACLU have revealed that the U.S. Marshals Service has experimented with using drones for domestic surveillance. The documents, available on the ACLU website, were released via a Freedom of Information Act request.

It’s Official, the Fourth Amendment is Dead
Kurt Nimmo - On Tuesday, the Supreme Court disemboweled the Fourth Amendment. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled that citizens cannot challenge government wiretapping laws, in particular the unconstitutional Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and, more recently, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

VIDEO: Guntersville Council Withdraws Proposed Emergency Management Ordinance
whnt.com - The city of Guntersville is not passing a law to let them take people’s guns away, and held a one minute long council session to make that clear. Mayor Leigh Dollar said a proposed ordinance to establish municipal actions as needed in case of disaster of emergencies became misinterpreted and misrepresented.

VIDEO: Oregon Proposed gun law could bring warrant-less searches
12160.info - "The big new addition to this bill is warrantless searches by police," said Kevin Starrett with the Oregon Firearms Federation, "and that astonishes me that legislators like Mark Hass, Mitch Greenlick and Ginny Burdick would introduce a bill saying your home is no longer a castle and police can come in whenever they want that's a really frightening new addition."

VIDEO: Thousands Attend Albany Gun Rally
wgrz.com - Gun-rights supporters filled the West Capitol Park on Thursday to protest the state's gun-control law, seeking a repeal of the law and a condemnation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.... Sen. James Seward, R-Milford, Otsego County, said he would like to see a full repeal of the law signed on Jan. 15. He said that is unlikely, though, and will hope an expected lawsuit to toss the measure will be successful.
**Related: Photos from the rally

VIDEO: Gun rights advocate John Lott, Jr. and Piers Morgan Clash in Fiery Debate
The Blaze - The interview was, at many times, tense as Morgan continuously talked over his guest, causing Lott to become increasingly frustrated. At one point, Morgan calmly told Lott, “I’m going to keep talking, so I suggest you keep quiet.”

Florida cops raid disabled activist hours after she’s linked to marijuana bill
Raw Story - Law enforcement officials in Florida say that it’s a coincidence that the home of wheelchair-bound activist was raided just hours after her name was linked to an effort to legalize medical marijuana in the state.... Jordan is a high-profile activist who suffers from ALS — or Lou Gehrig’s Disease — and has claimed that medical marijuana has helped her to extend her life and even outlive many of her doctors.

Sequester begins, with no end in sight for across-the-board cuts
The Hill - Barring unexpected developments, President Obama will issue an order at some point on Friday — perhaps as late as 11:59 p.m. — cancelling some $85 billion in spending across the federal government.... Obama is scheduled to host congressional leaders at the White House, but few expect that meeting to spark progress on undoing the cuts that both sides have bemoaned as foolish.

This Year’s Subsidy to Wall Street = the Amount of This Year’s Sequester Cuts
Washington's Blog - Since we’ve bailed out the 10 largest banks $83 billion this year alone, should they give it back to us by paying into the U.S. Treasury the amount of this year’s sequester? After all, it’s the same amount.

Jim Sinclair: Gold to Place Significant Bottom Between 2/28 & 3/27, Launch to $3,500/oz!
silverdoctors.com - Legendary gold trader Jim Sinclair, who called the top of the last bull market in gold to the day, liquidating his entire personal gold position overnight the day gold topped, has come out and officially stated that gold will make a significant long term bottom in the next month. Specifically, Sinclair states that gold will place a bottom between today, 2/28, and 3/27, and that Thereafter gold is released to the upside which will be a minimum of $3500.

Consumer Spending Drought: 16 Signs That The Middle Class Is Running Out Of Money
Activist Post - Is "discretionary income" rapidly becoming a thing of the past for most American families? Right now, there are a lot of signs that we are on the verge of a nightmarish consumer spending drought. Incomes are down, taxes are up, many large retail chains are deeply struggling because of the lack of customers, and at this point nearly a quarter of all Americans have more credit card debt than money in the bank.

VIDEO: JC Penney Posts a Huge Loss; Shares Tumble
CNBC - J.C. Penney delivered the latest dismal news from the retail sector, reporting a much larger-than-expected loss as same-store sales fell sharply.... Concerns have been mounting about the American consumer amid the triple threat of higher gas prices, increased payroll taxes and delayed tax refunds.

VIDEO: Subway Founder: Subway Would Not Exist If Started Today Due to Government Regulations
freebeacon.com - President and founder of Subway Fred Deluca described some of the challenges payroll tax increases and Obamacare have presented small business franchisee owners Wednesday on CNBC. Deluca said the number one issue facing Subway franchisee owners is how Obamacare will impact their expenses, noting any increase in costs will be passed along to the consumer through higher prices.

YouTube: Money As Debt - Full Length Documentary
Essential viewing on money and the banking system. Money As Debt is a fast-paced and highly entertaining animated feature by artist & videographer, Paul Grignon. It explains today's magically perverse DEBT-MONEY SYSTEM in terms that are easy to understand.

VIDEO: 7 Years for a 30 Round Clip: New York Prosecutes Vet
Infowars.com - Nate Haddad was arrested around the same time New York passed the most restrictive gun law in the country. Haddad was charged with five counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree, a Class D Felony in New York State punishable by up to seven years in prison. His crime? He wanted to sell 30 round clips for an AR-15, the poster child weapon for gun-grabbers in New York and Washington, D.C.

Condo Association Taking Heat For Telling Soldier To Take Down American Flag
The Consumerist - The property manager of a condo complex in Alabama is learning that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to demand that a resident, a Staff Sergeant, take down the American flag hanging outside of his home.
* Update: Soldier’s Flag Still Flies...