‘Syria militants may infiltrate Russia’
Press TV - Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) says the foreign-backed militants in Syria may infiltrate into Russia under the guise of immigrants for sabotage activities.

Iraq situation can get worse: UN envoy
Press TV - The United Nations envoy to Iraq has expressed grave concern over the deteriorating security situation in the country following the recent wave of deadly attacks that killed dozens of people.

American female militant killed in Syria
Press TV - Syrian state-run television reported on Thursday that the 33-year-old Michigan woman, identified as Nicole Lynn Mansfield, and the two others were members of al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.

UNSC votes for extra troops to Abyei
Press TV - The UN Security Council has agreed to increase the number of international peacekeepers in Sudan’s Abyei area by more than 1,100 troops amid new tensions over the disputed territory between Sudan and South Sudan.

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

VIDEO: CIA’s al-Qaeda Mercenaries in Syria Caught with Sarin Gas
Kurt Nimmo - In an effort to up the ante in Syria and force the United States to intervene militarily, the British government on Wednesday sent a letter to United Nations boss Ban ki-moon alleging three new incidents of the al-Assad regime using chemical weapons against so-called rebels.

First S-300 air defense systems already in Syria – Assad
RT - The first batch of S-300 air defense complexes has arrived in Syria, President Bashar Assad said in an interview to Lebanon Al-Manar. Assad also said that Syrian army is battling up to 100,000 foreign mercenaries.

‘We don’t need US military secrets’: Beijing slams White House theft claim
RT - China has dismissed US claims hackers procured blueprints for America’s most advanced weaponry. Beijing stated the allegations underestimate the Chinese people’s intellect and that China is perfectly capable of producing its own weapons.

Police Impose Security Lock Down For Bilderberg 2013
Paul Joseph Watson - The security lock down – which is taxpayer funded - is being coordinated under the dubious guise of an “anti-terror exercise,” which is all the more ironic given the fact that the Honorary President of the Supreme Court of Italy recently fingered Bilderberg itself for being involved in terrorist attacks in Europe which took place under the auspices of Operation Gladio.
* Related Article: British taxpayers to pay ‘millions'...

European council promises to comb U.S. wheat for Monsanto GMO strains
Raw Story - The Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, said it had informed the 27 member states of the problem, “recommending (they) test the consignment of soft white wheat” in question. “In case of a positive confirmed result, the consignment shall not be placed on the market,” it said in a statement.

Japan Cancels U.S. Wheat Order on GMO Fear
Reuters - A strain of genetically modified wheat found in the United States fuelled concerns over food supplies across Asia on Thursday, with major importer Japan cancelling a tender offer to buy U.S. grain. Other top Asian wheat importers South Korea, China and the Philippines said they were closely monitoring the situation...

YouTube: 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory
Jim Corbett - Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.

Mark Schmidter sentenced to 141 days in jail for handing out jury rights flyers
Mark Schmidter began his 141-day jail sentence. His crime? He handed out this jury rights flyer (PDF) to passersby on the sidewalk outside the Orange County Courthouse in Florida. This was something he’d done openly many times before at the same courthouse.
* Related Article: Mark Schmidter Caged for Distributing Jury Nullification Info

VIDEO: Mississippi sued over for-profit prisons that risk inmates’ ‘death, loss of limb
Raw Story - A class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes how a “perpetual state of crisis at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility puts inmates at a “grave risk of death and loss of limbs.”

VIDEO: 14-year-old put in chokehold by police, charged with felony after giving police ‘dehumanizing stares’
Activist Post - A 14-year-old was reportedly choked by Miami-Dade police and charged with a felony count of resisting arrest with violence and disorderly conduct, all for giving police “dehumanizing stares,” clenching his fists and appearing threatening.

YouTube: Reality Check w/ Ben Swann ~ Congress May Call Cincinnati IRS Official Cindy Thomas To Testify
FOX19 - Our exclusive Fox 19 investigation into the IRS scandal has revealed the name of the highest ranking Cincinnati employee associated with this case. Yet to this day, that official has not been called before Congress. Is that about to change?

Several News Outlets Reject Invitation to Off-the-Record Meetings With Eric Holder
The Blaze - A plan by Attorney General Eric Holder to hold meetings with news organizations about guidelines governing investigations that involve reporters has run into snags over the terms of discussions.... Due to the fact that such important meetings will not be on the record, The New York Times, Associated Press and other outlets have refused to attend.

VIDEO: Ted Cruz: Obama administration does not respect First, Second, Fourth or Fifth Amendments
Washington Examiner - On Fox News Thursday afternoon, Sen. Ted Cruz indicated that President Obama should ask for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation.

Tea Party Strikes Back at IRS
Kit Daniels - A constitutional law firm representing these groups sued the Internal Revenue Service and top Obama officials, claiming the IRS effectively denied their tax-exempt status by unlawfully delaying their applications.

VIDEO: Father of Chechen Killed by FBI Says His Son Was Executed to “Shut Him Up”
Kurt Nimmo - Abdulbaki Todashev, the father of Ibragim Todashev, said during a news conference in Russia that his son was executed by the FBI to keep him from talking.
* Related Article/Video: Kill shot? Man linked to Tsarnaev took FBI bullet to top of head

Confirmed: Polk County, FL schools conducted iris scans on students without permission
Michelle Malkin - Florida parents are right to be outraged at the outrageous privacy violations that took place late last week in at least 3 Polk County, Florida schools.

Tell Supermarkets, Food Companies, and Seafood Restaurants to Reject GE Salmon!
Center for Food Safety - Target, Giant Eagle, Meijer and H-E-B have just agreed not to sell genetically engineered fish in their stores! These retail giants join over 55 other food retailers that made similar commitments earlier this year, including Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh and Hy-Vee.

US jobless claims unexpectedly rise to 345,000
Press TV - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, a sign that shows companies are continuing to shed worker.

VIDEO: Illegal Immigrant Mother of Seven Given Food Stamps, Meds, Housing, and Social Security
12160.info - Illegal immigrant and mother of seven, Marita Nelson, receives $240 in food stamps, medications, $700 in Social Security and housing allowance.

Why Is The Smart Money Suddenly Getting Out Of Stocks And Real Estate?
Economic Collapse - If wonderful times are ahead for U.S. financial markets, then why is so much of the smart money heading for the exits? Does it make sense for insiders to be getting out of stocks and real estate if prices are just going to continue to go up?

Increased military suicides linked to multiple concussions - but is that the whole story?
(NaturalNews) New data suggests that a dramatic increase in military suicides is linked to multiple concussions suffered by troops involved in successive roadside bombings and other combat actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, but previous data at least hints that other causes - pharmaceutical drug use including anti-depressants - could be playing a much larger role than is realized.

Assad ready for peace talks, discording opposition sets preconditions
RT - Syria’s ruling regime says it will attend Geneva talks with “good intention” to end the war and with no preconditions. At the same time, discord between Syrian opposition elements is growing, threatening potential talks in June.

Canada imposes new bans on Iran
Press TV - Canada has announced more illegal unilateral sanctions against Iran, including bans on nearly all exports to and imports from the Islamic Republic, in a move to ramp up pressure on Tehran over its nuclear energy program.

Drone reportedly kills top Pakistani Taliban figure as Pakistanis continue to decry drone program
Activist Post - According to Pakistani officials and militants, a leader of the Pakistani Taliban was killed by a drone strike on Wednesday while the people of Pakistan continue to decry the U.S. drone program.

‘Syria will respond to any Israel attack’
Press TV - “Syria will not let any Israeli aggression go unanswered without retaliation. The retaliation will be the same size as the aggression, and the same type of weapons will be used,” the Syrian foreign minister stated.

'Israel to build 1,000 more settler units'
Press TV - The Israeli regime plans to build 1,000 new settler units in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), despite widespread international criticism over the construction of settlements on occupied Palestinian territories, an Israeli NGO says.

American to plead guilty in Afghan carnage
Press TV - An American soldier who was involved in the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers last March is set to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty, his attorney says.

VIDEO: New website reveals extent of secret CIA flight network
RT - A team of academics have launched the world’s largest interactive database detailing suspected CIA rendition flights, many of which may have transported detainees to Guantanamo Bay. Scotland is the only country so far which has raised any questions on the alleged rendition activity on home soil.

Cyprus Bank Deposits Plunge By Most Ever During “Capital Controls” Month
Zero Hedge - In a month in which deposit flight should have been largely contained, Cyprus banks saw a record outflow of 6.4 billion, or 10% of its entire deposit base, in one month!... Unless Cyprus implements some controls that truly work, at this pace its entire banking system will be completely deposit-free in under one year.

Swiss strike deal with US over tax evasion
AFP - Switzerland has accepted a United States demand to settle a dispute over the alleged complicity of Swiss banks in tax evasion by Americans, Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf announced Wednesday.

Gina Rinehart Calls For Sterilization Of The Poor
oathkeepers.org - Conservative billionaire Gina Rinehart called for the sterilization of the poor today, arguing that the only way to alleviate poverty is to stop the “underclasses” from multiplying. In a video uploaded to her official YouTube account, the Australian mining heiress said that income inequality is caused by differences in intelligence, and eugenics is the only answer.

VIDEO: Eric Holder Might Have a Perjury Problem
Breitbart - Last week, and while under oath, Attorney General Eric Holder testified before a House committee that when it comes to "try[ing] to prosecute the press for the publication of material" he has "never been involved in, heard of" such a thing. Watch below at the five-minute mark.

Illinois teacher punished for 'mischaracterizing' Fifth Amendment issue
RT - An Illinois school board has decided to discipline a high school teacher who it says “mischaracterized” the intentions of administrators by advising students of their Constitutional rights before surveying students in his class.

Seven undeniable reasons to homeschool your children
(NaturalNews) So far homeschooling is legal in all 50 states. Some states require no monitoring, some moderate oversight, and a few require close supervision by testing. Here's a color-coded-by-state map that indicates those different levels of acceptance.

House investigator subpoenas all communications on Benghazi
Washington Times - House Republicans’ chief investigator issued a subpoena Tuesday for State Department documents that he said would shed light on how the administration wrote the “talking points” that were used to give a wrong impression of the September terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.

VIDEO: House Judiciary Chairman: Holder Should Resign
newsmax.com - Holder recently testified before the committee that targeting journalists was "not something I've even been involved in." But it's now been reported that Holder personally sanctioned a search warrant labeling Fox News correspondent James Rosen a co-conspirator in leaking national-security secrets. In an exclusive interview Wednesday with Newsmax TV, Goodlatte discusses his probe of Holder.

YouTube: Reality Check: Sen. McCain visits Rebels In Syria, Congressman Questions alQaeda Ties
FOX19 May 28, 2013 - A secret visit to Syria over Memorial Day weekend by Senator John McCain. The Senator, meeting with leaders of the Free Syrian Army, as Washington debates whether or not to arm the rebels. But is arming the rebels a good idea?

VIDEO: Bush’s Invasion of Iraq was Criminal … Obama’s About to Do the Same Thing In Syria
Washington’s Blog - The former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – the highest ranking military officer in the United States – said that the Iraq war was “based on a series of lies”.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tsarnaev now able to speak
NY Daily News - Now able to speak, weeks after being wounded in the neck during his apprehension, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev put in a six-minute phone call to his mother in Dagestan.

VIDEO: Adam Kokesh Cancels D.C. March, Suggests Marches On State Capitols
Liberty Crier - Adam Kokesh talks about his recent arrest at a Marijuana rally and the change in plans associated with the D.C. Gun March.

VIDEO: Colorado Gun Law Opposition Draws Large Crowd
kktv.com - Of the 62 sheriffs in Colorado, 55 back the lawsuit. This includes El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa, who co-hosted the Tuesday night event alongside the Independence Institute research director.

Carroll County Nullifies Maryland Gun Control Legislation With 2nd Amendment Preservation Act
livingnotsurviving.com - In a victory for Maryland concealed carry, open carry, and gun Rights, Carroll County has passed resolution 884-2013, a Second Amendment Preservation Act.

Alaska Gun Store Sells Out Three Weeks of Ammo in Days
Breitbart - According to Anchorage's CBS affiliate KTVA, Alaskan gun stores are feeling the same pinch as gun stores in other parts of the nation right now. In fact, popular calibers like .22 and .308 generally sell out just "minutes" after hitting the shelves in Fairbanks.

VIDEO: Kindergartner Forced To Apologise For Brandishing Tiny Lego Gun
Steve Watson - A six-year-old kindergarten student was punished by school officials and forced to apologise after he “caused quite a disturbance” on the school bus by playing with a tiny plastic toy gun Friday.

21 Facts About Rising Government Dependence In America That Will Blow Your Mind
Activist Post - If you can believe it, more than 100 million Americans are enrolled in at least one welfare program, and more than 70 percent of all spending by the federal government goes to "dependence-creating programs". If we really are "the greatest economy on earth", then why is the number of people dependent on the government absolutely exploding?

Dollar could be in danger as the world’s currency
RT - While the dollar currently constitutes 62 per cent of the $6 trillion in foreign holdings by the world’s central banks, when a historical view is taken into account, Dick Bove, vice president of equity research at Rafferty Capital Markets says the dollar’s actual percentage of total money supply worldwide has gone from 90 per cent in 1952 to about 15 per cent today.

Smithfield Foods sale to Chinese firm gives US pork giant entry to China
Guardian - China's Shuanghui International has made a $4.7bn bid to takeover Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, in what would be the biggest takeover of a US company by a Chinese firm to date – if it passes regulatory hurdles.

The Student Loan Delinquency Rate In The United States Has Hit A Brand New Record High
Economic Collapse - 37 million Americans currently have outstanding student loans, and the delinquency rate on those student loans has now reached a level never seen before. According to a new report that was just released by the U.S. Department of Education, 11 percent of all student loans are at least 90 days delinquent.

Chart of the Day: Epic Plunge in Total COMEX Gold Inventory
silverdoctors.com 5/29/13 - Today’s chart of the day examines the epic plunge in total COMEX gold inventories, as total COMEX registered and eligible gold holdings have nearly been sliced in half over the past 6 months, from nearly 12,000 oz to 7,961 oz, and only a few small withdrawals from breaking the previous lows sit in the 2008 panic low.

Air Force grounds F-15s on Okinawa
Press TV - A day after an F-15 aircraft from the American Kadena Air Base in Japan crashed in the Pacific Ocean, the Air Force was forces to suspended all F-15 flights training at the base. The suspension came after the Okinawa government called for stepped-up safety, according to Stars and Stripes.

China to test ‘digitized’ troops in massive drills
RT - China is to test its modern ‘digitized’ military units in an exercise next month. The Chinese military says developing such units is among its priorities for modernizing the armed forces.

Slash welfare budget, pour money into security - UK
RT - The UK has proposed slashing welfare funding to divert it to the police and armed forces in the wake of the Woolwich attacks, despite MI5 already having been informed enough to have kept tabs on the murder suspects for years.

Hungary torches 500 hectares of GM corn to eradicate GMOs from food supply
(NaturalNews) Lajos Bognar, Hungary's Minister of Rural Development, reported this week that around 500 hectares of GM corn were ordered burned by the government. Hungary has criminalized the planting of genetically modified crops of any kind, and it has repeatedly burned thousands of hectares of illegal GM crops in years past.

No S-300s for Syria, Israel tells Russia
Press TV - Israel has issued a veiled threat to Russia over its plan to sell S-300 air-defense missiles to Syria, implying that it is ready to use force to prevent the delivery of the missiles.

‘US makes plans of Syria no-fly zones’
Press TV - The administration of US President Barack Obama has called on the Pentagon to draw up plans to impose no-fly zones over Syria, a report says. Two unidentified Obama administration officials told The Daily Beast in a report published on Tuesday that the White House request was made just before US Secretary of State John Kerry started his Middle East tour last week.

Russian Warplanes Go on 24-Hour Duty in Snap Alert Drill
rianovosti.com - MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors are going on round-the-clock duty in northern Russia as part of a snap combat readiness check of the nation's aerospace defense capabilities, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

Suspected US drone crashes in Somalia's Lower Shabelle
BBC - A regional governor told Reuters that fighters had shot at the object. The US uses drones in Somalia to support the Somali government and African Union (AU) forces as they battle the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab. The US Africa Command has not confirmed the reports.

Pentagon: The Chinese stole our newest weapons
RT - The designs for more than two dozen major weapons systems used by the United States military have fallen into the hands of the Chinese, US Department of Defense officials say.

Walmart found guilty of dumping hazardous waste nationwide
RT - America’s largest retailer and employer has been fined over $100 million for violating environmental regulations by disposing of fertilizer, pesticide and bleach in sewage systems across the country, among other violations.

Holder Under Investigation for Perjury by House Judiciary Committee
Breitbart - The Hill reports that a panel for the House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath during his May 15 Congressional testimony about the Justice Department's surveillance of reporters.

Washington launches four different investigations into IRS scandal
Daily Caller - Capitol Hill aides spent their Memorial Day weekend scanning hundreds of pages of documents related to the IRS scandal in order to prepare their bosses for what will inevitably be a frantic month of June involving multiple simultaneous investigations into government wrongdoing. By the time lawmakers return to session next week, at least four different investigations will be underway.

IRS Directed to Lock Down All Agency Data
National Review - The Internal Revenue Service is in the process of locking down all computer data across the agency, a sign that investigations into the scandal-plagued agency may be taking a broader sweep than initially anticipated.

Texas Bans Drone Surveillance
Steve Watson - The legislation, House Bill 912, authored by Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Terrell, will make it a Class C misdemeanor for anyone to use a drone for surveillance of an individual without their prior consent. Further distributing any images captured as a result of such activity will be a class B misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $10,000.

An Extensive List of Politicians Paid Off by Monsanto
Natural Society - Democrat, Republican? As long as you can help Monsanto slide its icy tentacles into the food chain, then there's some financial tip available to you.

1 in 4 Americans had difficulty providing food
Press TV - The U.S. is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and yet nearly one-quarter of the nation’s residents recently said they had trouble putting food on the table over the past year, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center.

Opportunities from Fed Interventions As Forces of Inflation Set to Finally Break Loose
silverdoctors.com - “The Fed wants to kill all signs of inflation to hide the damage they’re doing to the middle class. First the Fed leaves food and energy out of the CPI, and then they get the Labor Department to lie about the figures. Their last trick — smash the price of gold and silver.

Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway gets year in prison for bank fraud
mlive.com - U.S. District Judge John Corbett O'Meara sentenced former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway to one year and one day in prison followed by two years of supervised release for bank fraud Tuesday.

Israel military activates in Golan Heights
Press TV - The Israeli regime has launched a large-scale military drill in the occupied Golan Heights amid escalating tensions in the region over Tel Aviv’s recent strikes on Syria.

VIDEO: Israel supplies Gaza hospitals with killer gas
Press TV - Palestinian sources say the Israeli regime has supplied Gaza hospitals with a potentially killer gas to be used for anesthetic purposes.

Jordan to host major 18-nation military drill: Official
Press TV - Citing an official speaking on condition of anonymity, Jordan’s Petra news agency reported on Saturday that troops from countries including the US, Britain, Bahrain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Yemen will take part in the military exercise, dubbed “Eager Lion 2013.”

EU agrees to lift arms embargo on Syrian rebels
RT - The news comes after the failure by EU governments to agree on extending the arms embargo, effectively freeing their hands to supply the Syrian opposition with weapons, said the British Foreign Secretary on Monday in Brussels. The collective sanctions leveled at Syria were set to expire on June 1.

British soldier murder suspect had been held in Kenya for seeking terror training
Raw Story - One of the main suspects in the brutal murder of a soldier in London was arrested in Kenya more than two years ago for seeking terror training, it emerged on Sunday, after police made more arrests.

UK Home Secretary: Expanded Snooping Powers “Essential” Following Woolwich Attack
Steve Watson - Despite the fact that the suspects were already known to MI5 for eight years, and that one of them had even been offered a job as an informant by the intelligence agency, Home Secretary Theresa May urged Sunday that it is “essential” that the security services have greater access to everyone’s communications data.

Scotland: Every Child to Have “State Guardian” From Birth
Paul Joseph Watson - Every child in Scotland is to be assigned a “state minder” from birth under draconian new proposals that would enable the government to spy on families under the justification of preventing “child abuse”.

Medicines kill 18,000 in France yearly
rinf.com - The side effects from prescribed medication is responsible for at least 18,000 deaths each year in France, and the number is more than road accidents and suicides combined.

The Japanese Financial System Is Beginning To Spin Wildly Out Of Control
Economic Collapse - The financial system of the third largest economy on the planet is starting to come apart at the seams, and the ripple effects are going to be felt all over the globe.

Cadmium in rice puts Mao’s self-sufficiency goal at risk
Reuters - The discovery of dangerous levels of toxic cadmium in rice sold in the southern city of Guangzhou, the latest in a series of food scandals, has piled more pressure on China to clean up its food chain – possibly at the expense of Mao Zedong’s cherished goal of self-sufficiency.

Protesters ‘March Against Monsanto’ across US, in over 50 countries in anti-GMO rally
Washington Post - Organizers say two million people marched in protest against seed giant Monsanto in hundreds of rallies across the U.S. and in over 50 other countries on Saturday.... Founder and organizer Tami Canal said protests were held in 436 cities in 52 countries.

A quarter million motorcycles roar into Washington in Rolling Thunder tribute to veterans and missing in action soldiers
Some 900,00 riders, passengers and spectators traveled from across the country for Memorial Day weekend to pay tribute to veterans and those stilling missing in action. The annual event started in 1988, when the Vietnam War was still fresh on the nation's mind.

22yr Old Activist Charged With Making Threats to State Officials for Investigating Sandy Hook
An independent investigator from New York was arrested for asking state officials questions and discussing the investigation on YouTube. The criminal police state is cracking down on activists exercising their right to free speech , and making ludicrous examples out of clearly innocent people.
Activist Jonathan Reich has been charged with making threats to state officials , particularly medical examiner Wayne Carver, after allegedly calling his office and questioning the official Sandy Hook narrative.

Over 450 Sheriffs Will Take a Stand May 31st St. Charles, Mo
WND - Sheriffs and peace officers from across the country will be meeting with likeminded supporters for a national convention focused on one goal: restoring constitutional rule in the United States of America. From May 31-June 1, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, or CSPOA, will be meeting in St. Charles, Mo., for its Heartland of America

VIDEO: Send John McCain to Guantanamo Bay
Paul Joseph Watson - Given the fact that numerous individuals have been sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for “associating with terrorists,” Senator John McCain has now opened himself up to the same fate after he met with FSA rebels in Syria who are admittedly led by and who have pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda terrorists.

Rep. Schiff’s Bill Would Repeal Authorization for Use of Military Force
New American - A California congressman is preparing legislation to repeal the post-9/11 legislation that two presidents have relied on as justification for waging war in several countries simultaneously against persons or organizations believed to be involved in terrorist attacks or the planning of them.

VIDEO: Rand Paul claims Obamacare will include diagnostic codes for injuries sustained from a turtle, walking into a lamppost and burning water skis
Daily Mail - In a little-noticed speech to the Iowa Republican Party this month, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul mocked President Obama's signature health care overhaul, noting the 122,000 new medical diagnostic codes doctors will have to use in order to inform the government about injuries sustained by Americans.

VIDEO: Rand Paul: Obama Losing Moral Authority To Lead
Steve Watson Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Paul asserted that if Obama continues to skirt around the edges of the issues without taking any decisive action, he will lose any moral authority that he still has left as a leader.

Judge Shuts Down Effort by Environmentalists to Outlaw Lead Bullets
Kurt Nimmo - Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled against environmental groups attempting to force the EPA to regulate ammunition as a hazardous toxin.

Video: 2 Dead, 5 Injured In Wild Texas Shooting Spree
From the Trenches - Two Texas residents were shot and killed and five others injured in a bizarre shooting spree that is clearly outlined in this video news report and re-enactment of the crime spree below. Despite the scene outlined below, a complete lockdown on the county never happened in this case as in Boston. Is that proof that this was not an ‘engineered’ event?

ONLINE PETITION- I do NOT support Adam Kokesh's armed march in DC!
whatreallyhappened.com - The only way that we can undermine the potential government propaganda value of Kokesh's stunt is if a million gun-owners and Second Amendment supporters sign this petition to make it clear Adam Kokesh does not speak or act for the majority of American gun owners.

YouTube: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5-27-2013 ~ 'Common Core' Nationalizes & Dumbs Down P.S. Curriculum
Ron Paul: In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the so-called "conservative" Bush administration dramatically increased federal control over education...

YouTube: Monsanto Wins Fight to Take Away State Food Labeling Rights
TheYoungTurks - "Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday offered an amendment to the Senate's major farm bill that would allow states to require labels on genetically engineered foods.

Rand Paul announces 2016 campaign
Political Ticker - "For now, (what) we know for sure is we're going to run for the U.S. Senate," he said, according to a report from The Independent. "The other decision can come later."

VIDEO: Memory Hole: Americans No Longer Know What Memorial Day Stands For
Anthony Gucciardi - As you can see in Mark Dice’s video below, in which Americans have no idea what they are celebrating through cookouts and family gatherings, the very meaning of Memorial Day is entirely lost. Of course Memorial Day, for those who may be unaware, is a day that is set aside as a holiday in order to remember those who have died while serving in any area of the United States military

VIDEO: ‘Veterans being demonized in the US’
Press TV - Veterans are being demonized by the Veterans Affairs and labeled as insane or crazy, according to Susanne Posel, a senior editor at occupycorporatism.com in Oregon. “Attacking the U.S. veterans is not only promoting the pharmaceutical industry and demonizing them as insane; it’s also to sort of do what they’ve done in Communist, Marxist countries, where anybody who is a threat to the government ends up locked up.”

Chill on the Peninsula: Seoul shuns N. Korea's efforts to soothe tensions
RT - North Korea’s apparent attempts to reduce tensions with its southern neighbor found no welcome in Seoul, which has slammed the North’s proposed negotiations and a “two-faced” invitation to commemorate a key 2000 peace conference.

PHOTOS, VIDEO: Taiwan rallies against 'unfair' nuclear power plant referendum
RT - Hundreds of anti-nuke protesters rallied in the Taiwanese capital Taipei calling to vote down a referendum bill and terminate the launch of the island’s fourth nuclear power plant, amid mounting concerns since the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

March against Monsanto: Rallying for our future
RT - The worldwide March Against Monsanto this past Saturday was no mere political demonstration. Rather, it was a worldwide mobilization against corporate greed, the assault on our health and environment, and the oppression of small farmers.

This Memorial Day, I pledge to defend the freedoms our ancestors fought for, even in the face of escalating tyranny
NaturalNews -The story of America is the story of a rag-tag band of passionate individuals demanding freedom from oppression, intimidation and tyranny. They didn't merely demand it with public protests; they demanded it with force... on the streets of Lexington and Concord, the beaches of Normandy and everywhere that the men and women of America have fought to defend the ideals that made America the greatest nation in the world.

Oregon teen to be charged with attempted murder over 'conspiring to top Columbine massacre'
RT- An Oregon high school student has been accused of building at least six bombs in preparation an attack modeled after the notorious 1999 Columbine school shooting.

DOJ probed and grilled NYT government sources
RT - To uncover the source behind the New York Times article that exposed Obama’s order of cyber-attacks on Iran, the FBI seized phone and email logs from the White House, defense department and intelligence agencies, the paper revealed.

FBI killing of man with ties to Tsarnaev: Self-defense or excessive force?
RT - The circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of Ibragim Todashev remain murky, and the FBI has little interest in revealing too much information as the suspect’s death might be a case of excessive force, associate law professor Sahar Aziz told RT.

In Guantanamo, fine words are no substitute for freedom
RT- When President Obama delivered a major speech on America's drone program and the ongoing existence of the Guantanamo prison, the majority of those most affected by the latter - the prisoners themselves - were, ironically, unable to hear his speech.

Security warning over potential national resource scarcity issued by U.S. Intelligence
NaturalNews - Climate change coupled with a dwindling supply of natural resources is likely to trigger major conflicts in the near future, U.S. intelligence agencies are warning. "Demand for food, water, and energy will grow by approximately 35, 40 and 50 per cent respectively...

Yen firms, euro edges up versus dollar in thin trade
Reuters - The yen rose on Monday, staying near a two-and-a-half week high against the dollar, as weak equity markets encouraged investors to take profit on the safe-haven Japanese currency's steep falls.

US Backs Reforms for Bangladesh Garment Sector
AssociatedPress - A U.S. diplomat says Washington backs reforms for Bangladesh's garment industry while encouraging global brands not to pull out their business following last month's building collapse that killed more than 1,100 people in the world's worst garment industry disaster.

Global markets fall on news from Fed, China PMI
RT - The Japanese Nikkei lost 7.3 percent on Thursday, the worst loss in over two years, after China released unexpectedly weak Flash PMI accompanied by hints that the US Federal Reserve could shut down its stimulus program in June.

VIDEO: 'More Italians face economic hardship’
Press TV - Italy’s National Statistics Institute, ISTAT, said in a newly released report that at the end of 2012, around 15 million people were dealing with some form of economic hardship. The report added that over 8.5 million of those people were living in a seriously tough economic situation. The figure has doubled compared to 2010.

Novel Coronavirus Claims First Victim In Africa
thedailysheeple.com - A Tunisian man has died of the novel coronavirus that has claimed lives in the Middle East and Europe. It’s the first recorded case in Africa.

Magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes Russian Far East
Reuters - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck off Russia's eastern coast on Friday, briefly prompting a tsunami scare but causing no casualties or substantial damage, Russian emergency authorities said.... Residents of northern Japan felt the quake but there was no tsunami warning from Japan's meteorological agency.

Syria rebels get 35-ton KSA arms cargo
Press TV - The top commander of foreign-backed militants fighting against the Syrian government says the militants have received a 35-ton arms shipment from Saudi Arabia.

Israel suffers major setback in Scotland
redressonline.com - Israel and its allies have suffered major blow after the Church of Scotland decisively rebuffed its misuse of the scriptures to claim exclusive Jewish rights to Palestine.

French minister says IMF boss Christine Lagarde ‘must resign’ if charged with fraud, embezzlement scam
Daily Mail - Prosecutors suspect that Mrs Lagarde became involved in an unlawful agreement between Nicolas Sarkozy, then President, and Bernard Tapie, a controversial tycoon, while serving as Finance Minister in 2008. The deal allegedly centres on a €403 million payment ordered by an arbitration tribunal to settle Mr Tapie’s long-standing claim that he had been swindled by the State 15 years earlier.

VIDEO: Was the Woolwich Attack a Hoax? (Debunked)
Paul Joseph Watson - People are questioning whether the attack on a soldier in Woolwich yesterday was a fabricated event.
* Related: David Cameron to Arm Woolwich Terrorists?

Japan N-plant struggling to find workers
Press TV - According to current and former nuclear plant workers, the crisis-stricken plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), can hardly find enough workers to keep the plant, situated in the northeastern part of the East Asian country, in stable condition, since most workers prefer to do a job outside the plant involving less exposure to radiation.

Top 10 reasons to join the March Against Monsanto tomorrow! (Saturday, May 25, 2013)
(NaturalNews) The global March Against Monsanto happens tomorrow! Nearly three hundred cities will host what's sure to be hundreds of thousands of protesters and activists around the globe who are taking a stand against Monsanto and GMOs.
* Related Article: Challenging Monsanto: 200,000 in 40 countries to rally against GMO

Official: Holder Approved Warrant for Fox News Reporter's Emails
Breitbart - A law enforcement official has told NBC News that Attorney General Eric Holder is the one who signed the search warrant for the private emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen. The warrant was signed under the guise that Rosen might be a "possible co-consiprator" in violation of the Espionage Act.

VIDEO: Former IRS Head: “I Can’t Recite the Constitution, Sir”
Infowars.com - “You went to law school. Did you study the Constitution?” “I believe I took Constitutional law, but I’m not prepared to take an exam at this time,” Shulman said with a chuckle. “Meaning I’ll answer any of your question but I can’t promise that I’m an expert.”

2 FBI Agents Involved in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Arrest "FALL" Out of Helicopter and Die
12160.info - Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement. The statement gave few details regarding the deaths of Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw, other than to say the helicopter encountered unspecified difficulties and the agents fell a “significant distance.”

Outraged Issa Vows to Call IRS' Lerner Back in Tea Party Probe
newsmax.com - Republican U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa said on Thursday he will call Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner back to testify before his committee on the IRS-tea party scandal after she asserted her constitutional right not to answer questions. "We are obligated to bring Lerner back because she did not properly take the Fifth (Amendment)," Issa said.

VIDEO: IRS Scandal widens to include Humane Society of the United States
Susan Thixton - Fox News is reporting there is a possibility that Lois Lerner, the IRS Official in question of auditing conservative groups was at the same time protecting some existing non-profits. They specifically mention Ms. Lerner's involvement with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) whose non-profit status has been under investigation for several years.

President of CBS News and WH Benghazi fiction-writer are blood brothers
Jon Rappoport - Remember the Benghazi attacks? Remember how the White House rewrote their talking points to scrub out mention of a terrorist attack? Well, here are some new talking points.

New Precedent: Armed Domestic Drone Strikes Will Soon Be Reality
Anthony Gucciardi - With Holder admitting that Americans have already died via drone strikes following his statements that Obama can already initiate drone strikes on US soil, we are now seeing the way paved to go ahead and announce armed drones to fight terrorism here in the US.

Florida Cops Plan to Harass Gun Show Attendees
Kurt Nimmo - ATF works with cops to conduct an undercover operation at gun show. The Tampa Bay Times reports that the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office plans to “strictly enforce a county law mandating background checks for all customers at gun shows” and close down private firearms sales between individuals.

Texas passes bill to train teachers as armed ‘school marshals’
Raw Story - The Texas Legislature on Thursday sent a bill to Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) desk that could mean some teachers will be trained as marshals and sent into classrooms with guns.

YouTube: Marine arrested for Facebook posts sues government
RT - Brandon Raub, a 26-year-old decorated Marine veteran, who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan was arrested and put into a psychiatric institution in August last year for some his Facebook posts. He was detained without charges and was ordered to spend up to 30 days in the psych ward -- but, that court order was later dismissed.

US military sued over secret trial of Manning
Press TV - A coalition of activists and journalists, including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense and the military judge overseeing the case of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.

Israeli sensors search for the S-300 in Syria
stratrisks.com - Israel may act to stop any attempt to transfer Russian-made S-300 surface-to-air missiles from Syria to Lebanon. Such a scenario is possible if the Assad regime in Syria feels it is losing control of the country in a future phase of its civil war. According to reliable sources, at least one shipment of Russian-made S-300 missiles has been transferred to Syria.

Israel prepared to launch war on Syria: Israeli cmdr.
Press TV - On Wednesday, Israeli Major General Amir Eshel said the Tel Aviv regime might launch a sudden war on Syria should Damascus fall. “We have to be ready for any scenario, at a few hours’ notice,” Eshel stated.

Syrian rebels seize military base, kill 40 soldiers: monitor
Reuters - Syrian rebels killed at least 40 soldiers and other fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad as they captured a military base in the northwestern province of Idlib on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

US House cmte. adopts new anti-Iran act
Press TV - The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday passed an anti-Iran act that targets the country’s auto and mining industries as well as its foreign currency reserves. The act allows the US president to subject other Iranian industries, such as engineering, to similar restrictions.

Body of tortured Afghan unearthed near former US Special Forces base says report
RT - Afghan officials have reportedly found the footless body of a local man who went missing a half-year ago. The corpse was unearthed near the former A-Team US Special Forces base – where detainees were tortured and killed, locals claim. Authorities alleged that the grisly discovery is directly connected to Zakaria Kandahari, a notorious wartime collaborator who Afghan officials believe has US citizenship.

N Korean leader sends envoy to China
Press TV - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has sent a high-level envoy to China in a bid to boost ties with the country's most important ally.

VIDEO: Nigel Farage on 12% Tax Rate for Members of EU Parliament: It is Tax Fraud on a Massive Scale!
silverdoctors.com - The European Parliament met Tuesday to discuss the issue of tax evasion throughout the UK and the Eurozone, and how the European Parliament might clamp down on those attempting to protect their well earned wealth from government confiscation.

Revealed Government Documents Show Vaccine Injured Children in Small African Village Used Like Lab Rats
vactruth.com - In December 2012, vaccine tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, Chad, Africa, situated on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Five hundred children were locked into their school, threatened that if they did not agree to being force-vaccinated with a meningitis A vaccine, they would receive no further education. These children were vaccinated without their parents’ knowledge.

China Destroys 3 US Shipments of GM Corn
Green Med Info - Could the global tide in support of GMOs be turning? A new report reveals that the formerly pro-GMO Chinese government, one of the largest consumers of GMO food crops in the world, is beginning to crack down on GM corn shipments from the US that have not followed appropriate biosafety regulations.

Evidence emerges that IRS's own internal probe ended in May 2012, six months before election, but was hidden from legislators
Daily Mail - Rep. Darrel Issa, the committee's chairman, said that the committee learned just yesterday that the IRS completed its own investigation a year before a Treasury Department Inspector General report was completed.

VIDEO: Never in his life': Father of Tsarnaev's friend questions FBI slaying of son
RT - An FBI agent shot Tamerlan Tsarnaev-linked triple murder suspect Ibragim Todashev in Florida, allegedly after the suspect attacked him with a knife. But Todashev’s father Abdulbaki told RT he strongly doubted his son could attack the agent first.... Ibragim “couldn’t take part” in the Boston Marathon bombings as he was undergoing a surgical operation on his tendons in Florida days before the bombings and “had to learn how to walk again,” the father said.

Anti-gun group sues to overturn law requiring every home to have a gun
upi.com - The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence charges the Second Amendment doesn't give government the right to require individuals to possess firearms, the group said on its website.

Chicago School Closings Vote: Board Of Education Votes To Shutter 50 Public Schools
Huffington Post - The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close fifty Chicago Public schools, one of them delayed a year, in the nation's third-largest district making it the largest single wave of planned public school closures in U.S. history.

U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes
NY Times - One day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.

VIDEO: Bill Drafted In Secret Would Block Release Of Some Newtown Massacre Records
courant.com - The staffs of the state's top prosecutor and the governor's office have been working in secret with legislative leaders on a law to withhold records related to the police investigation into the Dec. 14 Newtown elementary school massacre.

YouTube: Reality Check Exclusive: Cincinnati agent giving orders in IRS scandal?
The claim that the ongoing IRS scandal is limited to low level employees is falling apart. Read more at Fox19.

VIDEO: Democrat Rips Into IRS Commissioner During Congressional Hearing
5/22/13 - Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, tore into former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman on Wednesday during hearings into the revelation that the IRS had targeted conservative groups with undue scrutiny. Cummings insisted that Shulman's excuses for not informing the congress of the targeting when he was made aware of it were "not good enough."

YouTube: Rep. Jim Jordan - IRS Hearings
May 22, 2013 - Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) questions Douglas Shulman at the IRS hearings. When asked if he is being square with his answers, Shulman replies "Excuse me?"

Investigative journalists threatened with felony for exposing security flaw
RT - Investigative journalists with Scripps News Service have discovered a major security lapse, in turn accessing the private data of tens of thousands of cell phone customers in the United States.

VIDEO: Cops Being Trained That Cell Phones Could Be Guns
Paul Joseph Watson - A recent case where a police officer attempted to seize a cell phone by claiming it could be a weapon underscores how cops are now being trained to treat phones as potential guns in an underhanded effort to prevent people from recording police activity.

Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act!
Alliance for Natural Health - ANH-USA has spoken with the office of Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and we have confirmed that the senator is planning to introduce an amendment to the upcoming Senate Farm Bill which would repeal the provision.

Clients Denied Gold At Major Banks As Shortage Intensifies
King World News - Today Egon von Greyerz told King World News that clients are having tremendous problems getting their physical gold out of Swiss banks as well as other major banks as the shortage intensifies. Greyerz also discussed the fact that refiners simply cannot keep up with demand, “no matter how much they produce.”

Gold To Advance A Stunning $2,000+ From Current Levels
King World News - Top Citi analyst Tom Fitzpatrick’s team sent King World News three extraordinary gold charts illustrating why gold is headed for a massive $2,000+ gain from current levels. KWN is pleased to share this information with with our global readers. Below is what top Citi analyst Fitzpatrick’s team had to say along with three very powerful charts.

Bernanke: “No Tapering”, Silver Smashed, then Crashed
silverdoctors.com - Bernanke confirmed that QE will continue to Infinity… stating that premature tightening risks slowing or ending the recovery. Silver instantly popped .70 higher on the news…and was promptly smashed back to $22.40!

Will It Be Inflation Or Deflation? The Answer May Surprise You
Economic Collapse - The next major financial panic will cause a substantial deflationary wave first, and after that we will see unprecedented inflation as the central bankers and our politicians respond to the financial crisis.... The following are some of the major deflationary forces that are affecting our economy right now...

17 Great American Companies That Keep Mountains Of Cash Overseas Just Like Apple Does
Business Insider - Apple finds itself in front of a Senate Subcommittee today, defending its elaborate practice of keeping cash offshore in order to minimize their tax liability. The thing is, Apple is far from the only company that does this.

No Arrests On Wall Street, But Over 7,700 Americans Have Been Arrested Protesting Big Banks
thecontributor.com - While Wall Street has escaped prosecutions, thousands of Americans have been arrested in the course of protests against the banks. As of May 2013, that number is 7,736 — according to the website Occupy Arrests, which tracks arrests.

'I never knew people could love an old man so much': WWII vet, 91, 'saved from daughter's eviction' after $138,000 raised online
newsforage.com - A 91-year-old WWII veteran fighting to prevent his daughter from evicting him from his Ohio home has raised more than $138,000 from online donors to buy back his home, easily surpassing his goal.

A US Senate panel votes to arm foreign-backed militants in Syria
Press TV - On Tuesday, democratic chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Robert Menendez, introduced the bill which authorizes the US government to directly back foreign sponsored militant groups with arms.

Syria calls on UN to end Israeli violations
Press TV - The Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry has called on the UN Security Council to terminate the violations made by Israel, restating Syria’s right to respond to any breach of its sovereignty.

India pledges aid to Afghanistan
Press TV - New Delhi has vowed to increase its reconstruction aid to Kabul as Afghan President Hamid Karzai wraps up a three-day visit to India.

Israel warns Syria over targeting military vehicle in Golan
Press TV - Israel’s military chief has severely warned Syria against more attacks hours after Syrian troops targeted an Israeli military vehicle in the occupied Golan Heights.

Main al-Nusra Front commander killed in Qusayr clashes
Press TV - The main commander of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front has been reportedly killed in clashes with the Syrian army in the western city of al-Qusayr.

42 die in another day of carnage in Iraq
Press TV - Forty-two people have been killed and dozens others injured in several attacks across Iraq, according to Iraqi security and hospital sources.

‘Terror drones mostly kill civilians’
Press TV - A new report shows that US assassination drones in Pakistan have killed “scores of innocent civilians” instead of targeting terrorists.

‘Guantanamo guards shot my client 5 times for no reason’
RT - Over 100 Guantanamo prisoners continue their hunger strike in protest against unlawful – and as it turns out, violent – detention. RT met with the lawyer of inmate Moath al Alawi, who has been shot by guards, denied medical treatment and force-fed.

Anthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon advisor's biotech firm
LaTimes.com - Biowarfare consultant Richard J. Danzig urged the government to stockpile a type of anthrax remedy. But he had a stake in one such drug's success. Read More...

VIDEO: Armed DHS Guards Protect IRS From Tea Party Protesters
Paul Joseph Watson - The DHS appears to have finally found a use for all those bullets it’s been buying. At a Tea Party protest outside an IRS building in St. Louis yesterday there were no regular police – only armed Homeland Security guards.

5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy and Other Leak Investigations
EFF - As we wrote last week, by obtaining the call records of twenty AP phone lines, “the Justice Department has struck a terrible blow against the freedom of the press and the ability of reporters to investigate and report the news." But there are several other important lessons that this scandal can teach us besides how important free and uninhibited newsgathering is to the public’s right to know.

DHS to be granted total dictatorial power in immigration bill, all laws nullified, voters silenced
(NaturalNews) Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, has entered a letter into the congressional record from law enforcement personnel around the country who are warning S.744, officially titled the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act," would grant sweeping, discretionary powers to "political appointees" - bureaucrats - while stripping law enforcement of authority.

YOU ARE CRAZY: New Psychiatric Guidelines Target Hoarding, Child Temper Tantrums, and a Host of Other “Illnesses”
Mac Slavo - In the next few weeks the American Psychiatric Associations is releasing their updated fifth version their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5); the so-called ‘bible’ of psychiatric diagnoses. The new manual promises to take mental illness and the use of prescription drugs to a whole new level.

Texas Legislature Passes 'Merry Christmas Bill'
Newsmax - The Texas Legislature has gone on the offensive in the so-called War on Christmas, passing a bill making it legal for teachers to say, Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah during the December holidays. Gov. Rick Perry plans to sign the bill into law.

Top IRS official will invoke the Fifth Amendment in congressional hearing
Daily Mail - The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Lois Lerner, who heads up the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt division, plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a hearing Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs.

Rand Paul Calls for Independent Investigation of IRS Scandal
Kurt Nimmo - Paul said the IRS scandal will create “such a level of distrust” that there is “going to have to be some kind of independent commission” to conduct an investigation.
* Related Video: C_SPAN: Rand Paul Call For Independent Commission...

Anti-war.com sues FBI
antiwar.com - The website’s founder and managing editor Eric Garris, along with longtime editorial director Justin Raimondo, filed a lawsuit in federal court today [5/21/13], demanding the release of records they believe the FBI is keeping on them and the 17-year-old online magazine.

DOJ Seized Records of Five Fox News Phone Numbers
New Yorker - The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed in the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, on October 13, 2011.

VIDEO: Half of America wants Obama impeached
WND - Editor’s note: This is another in a series of “WND/WENZEL POLLS” conducted exclusively for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies.

Monsanto Sees ‘Elitism’ in Social Media-Fanned Opposition
Bloomberg - Monsanto opponents who want to block genetically modified foods are guilty of “elitism” that’s fanned by social media and fail to consider the needs of the rest of the world, Chief Executive Officer Hugh Grant said.

Governor Kills Funding For Florida Snitch Program
Paul Joseph Watson - Florida Governor Rick Scott has killed funding for a controversial “violence prevention program” in Florida which caused a public backlash after the Sheriff’s office in Palm Beach County encouraged people to report on their neighbors for anti-government rhetoric.

Senate panel approves immigration bill
AP - Far-reaching legislation that grants a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night

Schumer-Rubio Amnesty Would Legalize 45 Percent of ICE Criminal Caseload
cis.org - One of the most alarming effects of the Schumer-Rubio amnesty, if enacted in anything close to its current form, would be the legalization of tens of thousands of illegal aliens who have already been a public safety threat in their community.

Ted Butler: Blockbuster in Gold as JP Morgan Likely Acquired 10 M oz of Gold Liquidated by GLD
silverdoctors.com - One of the key considerations in gold has been the redemption of more than 10 million ounces (over $15 billion) since year end from the world’s largest gold Exchange Traded Fund, GLD. I believe that the big buyer of the 10 million ounces of gold liquidated in the GLD was JPMorgan, either alone or with other collusive commercial banks.

YouTube: Sen. Paul Defends Apple Against HSGAC Subcommittee - PART 1
May 21, 2013 - Sen. Rand Paul attends the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Subcommittee hearing that called for executives of Apple to testify on the companies tax practices. In the hearing, Sen. Paul defended the job-creating efforts Apple has made and lambasted his fellow Members for perpetuating a U.S. tax code that hinders corporate growth and productivity.

Ceiling suspended: US takes on $300bn in new debt after hitting $16.7 trillion
RT - Citing ‘extraordinary measures’, the US Treasury has further delayed tackling America’s debt, and will wait until Labor Day, September 2nd, to revisit the burgeoning crisis. The ceiling has been lifted, and the Treasury has promised it will keep cash pumping into government spending programs beyond the debt limit through a series of emergency cash tools.

US suspends yet another top Army commander for sexual misconduct
Press TV - The US Army has suspended the commander of a major training camp for adultery and physical abuse allegations in yet another case of persisting sexual misconduct charges filed against senior American military officers.

VIDEO: Live updates: Oklahoma City tornado: 91 feared dead
Guardian - Half-mile-long tornado hits Moore. At least 20 children among dead. Barack Obama declares major disaster. The Guardian picture desk has a rolling blog capturing the key pictures of the day.

VIDEO: Democratic Senator uses Okla. tornado for anti-GOP rant over global warming
Daily Caller - While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

VIDEO: Dozens of children feared dead after massive tornado strikes Oklahoma
RT - At least 51 casualties including children have been reported after a historic tornado swept through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, devastating hundreds of buildings including two schools. Meteorologists reported winds up to 200 miles per hour.

Senate passes water infrastructure bill
HoustonTomorrow - The Water Resources Development Act, the first law of its kind in six years, would authorize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with flood control efforts, port improvements, wetlands restoration and coastal storm protection. The $12.5 billion bill drew overwhelming support from Democrats and Republicans.
* Related Article: Senate Bill 601 Lacks Fiscal Responsibility

As Towns Say No, Signs Of Rising Resistance To Smart Meters
NY Times - In October, the City Council of this Central Texas town voted unanimously to purchase advanced electric meters, known as smart meters, for the city-owned electric utility. But some residents resisted, and the smart meter vote played a large role in last weekend’s recall of the city’s mayor and the electoral defeat of two council members.

Discover the seven most nutrient-dense foods on earth
(NaturalNews) The superfood tag is awarded to nutrient-dense foods, which pack more nutrients or antioxidants per bite than most other foods.

A little bit of thyme will do much more than just enhance the taste of your foods
(NaturalNews)The plant grows as a perennial and is more suited to a hot and sunny environment. It's definitely an excellent source of vitamin K, iron and manganese. Thyme can effectively assist in ridding the body of different toxic elements causing health conditions such as respiratory, digestive and acne problems.

Study: Deadly 'superbug' MRSA now being found at U.S. wastewater treatment plants
(NaturalNews) Using reclaimed water to irrigate lawns, parks, gardens, and various other types of landscaping is common in many communities across the U.S... But a new study headed by researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health suggests that this practice may no longer be safe, as antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are now being detected in both influent and effluent water samples at wastewater treatment plants nationwide.

Hospital Less Safe Than Home for Childbirth: Study
Gaia Health - Modern medicine has medicalized it, falsely claiming that it’s evidence-based. It is not, and a new Cochrane Collaboration Review clearly documents that fact. The medicalization of birth is doing untold harm to mothers and babies, intervening where none is needed and devastating his most significant of life’s events.

Misguided scientists declare all-natural amino acid compound in red meat to be 'bad for the heart'
(NaturalNews) The anti-meat segment of the mainstream scientific community has come out with yet another new study condemning meat as damaging to human health, this time claiming that an all-natural, amino acid-producing substance naturally found in red meat causes heart damage.

Homeopathic and herbal remedies: A disaster plan for emergency preparedness
(NaturalNews) To protect against a bioterrorism attack such as anthrax, plague or smallpox, perform a bioterrorism risk assessment to put in place an effective disaster plan for survival.

Los Angeles goes after Vegas hospital for dumping 1500 patients
RT - The city of Los Angeles is pursuing a criminal investigation of a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas, which has allegedly put 1,500 patients on buses and sent them out of state over the past five years.

4 Ways to Support the Largest Organ of Detoxification: The Skin
Natural Society - Our skin is the largest organ we have that helps to detoxify our cells so that we can stay healthy. Here are a few important ways to help the skin detox.

The Importance of Blood Flow and the Symbolism of Circulating Blood
Natural Society - Circulating blood is what keeps our immune system healthy and our heart pumping. It literally gives life, so keep your blood healthy.

4 Natural Treatments and Prevention Tips for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Natural Society - Multiple sclerosis is a bit of a mystery, but rest assured - there are numerous lifestyle tips for preventing and treating multiple sclerosis naturally.

Surgeons now cutting out healthy prostate glands of men who carry BRCA gene
(NaturalNews) According to an IBtimes article, a British man is the first person to have had his prostate gland surgically removed because he carries the BRCA2 "breast cancer" gene that's related to the BRCA1 gene suddenly made famous by Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy.

VIDEO: 'Smart Rifle’ Guarantees 100% Long Range Accuracy, Begins Shipping To Gun Owners This Week
ABC News - The company, TrackingPoint, has said its “world’s first” long range Precision Guided Firearms (PGF) integrate precision hardware, digital optics, and tracking technology to deliver an unmatched shooting experience. The line of rifles starts at about $22,500 and each comes packaged with an iPad mini including the interactive TrackingPoint mobile app.

VIDEO: Robo Raven: New 3D-Printed Drone Mimics Nature
Activist Post - he latest drone to come out of development utilizes 3D-printed components to produce a first of its kind: independently flapping wings. So effective is its mimicry, that product developers documented Robo Raven being attacked by a real hawk in the promo video below from Maryland Robotics Center...

Report: Assad preparing missile strike against Tel Aviv in case attacked again
Haaretz - The Syrian army is deploying advanced surface-to-surface missiles aiming at Israel in the aftermath of the alleged Israeli strikes, The Sunday Times reports.

VIDEO: Al-Qaeda’s Syrian wing takes over the oilfields once belonging to Assad
The Telegraph - Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing is helping to finance its activities by selling the product of oilfields that once helped to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

Militants from 29 states in Syria: Assad
Press TV - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says militants from 29 different countries are now fighting against the government in different parts of the country.

US drone in Yemen kills four
Press TV - The officials said the attack took place around dawn in an area called Deyqa in Abyan province. Officials spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to brief the media, according to AP.

Gunmen raid military posts in Benghazi
Press TV - Libyan military sources say unknown heavily-armed assailants have attacked at least three army posts in the troubled eastern city of Benghazi.

Powerful blast hits northern Afghanistan
Press TV - The Taliban militants have recently announced the start of their annual "spring offensive" against US-led and Afghan forces, vowing a new wave of attacks across Afghanistan.

North Korea Test Fires Four Missiles Off Coast Over Weekend
Bloomberg - North Korea fired four short-range missiles over the weekend as it showcased its military ambitions in defiance of international sanctions and diplomatic efforts to convince the totalitarian state to return to talks.

Iraq violence: Dozens killed in blasts targeting Sunnis
BBC - More than 60 people have been killed and dozens hurt in several bomb attacks apparently targeting Sunnis, in Iraq’s worst day of violence for months.

‘France to buy drones from US, Israel’
Press TV - French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says his country is in talks with the Unites States and Israel to purchase surveillance drones in a bid to enhance its military capabilities.

UK MPs set to pocket a £10k pay rise
Press TV - British Members of Parliament (MPs) have been prepared for a dramatic future pay rise of around £10,000 in a move that could spark public anger.

Fukushima ; Rice planted in former no-go zone
Japan Times - It is the first time since the March 2011 core meltdowns that rice intended for sale has been planted in any former hot zone within 20 km of the power plant.... Miyakojimachi was reclassified in April 2012 as an area where evacuation orders might be lifted. Residents can enter without permission during the daytime but aren’t allowed to stay overnight.

National Scout Jamboree 2013 False Flag Insider Warning. Nevada Governor 2014 David Lory VanDerBeek
Gov. David Lory VanDerBeek - Let me be clear, my objective in sharing prior knowledge of a mass casualty terror drill is to prevent criminal elements in the government from taking this drill live at the jamboree. I want the good people in government to feel confident in maintaining accountability over one another. As an Eagle scout myself, I want the scouts to have a great jamboree.

VIDEO: Reality Check: FOX19 Uncovers 5th Local IRS Worker Allegedly Connected To Scandal
Liberty Crier - FOX19 has exclusively learned that as many as five people may be the first Cincinnati Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees to face disciplinary action, and possibly even criminal charges, for allegedly targeting Tea Party and Liberty groups applying for non-profit status.

A video released Sunday is raising serious questions about government motivations to silence major pro-gun voices in this country
Truth Stream Media 5/19/13 - The video clearly shows what appears to be another activist putting something into Adam’s back pocket as the cops are dragging them away. This man has reportedly been identified as Don Dezarn, a Libertarian running for New Jersey Senate who was also arrested at the event.
* Related Article/Video: Adam Kokesh Arrested At Pro-Marijuana Rally...

Effective Immediately: All Semi-Automatic Pistols Sold In California to Require “Micro Stamp” Ballistic Identification
Mac Slavo - In a controversial move that some believe will essentially lead to a de facto ban on semi-automatic handguns, Attorney General Kamala Harris announced that, effective immediately, all new semi-automatic firearms sold in the State of California will require a unique microstamp on every shell ejected when a gun is fired.

VIDEO: Ron Paul’s Podcast Nation #12 ~ IRS Targets
Liberty Crier - Right after President Obama told students in Ohio NOT to listen to those who say ‘government tyranny is right around the corner’ we learn about the IRS targeting opponents of big government and the Justice Department seizing reporters phone records without warrants.

‘Monsanto Protection Act 2.0′ Would Ban GMO-Labeling Laws At State Level
ibtimes.com - An amendment inserted into the 2013 Farm Bill passed by the House of Representatives’ Agriculture Committee Wednesday would revoke the ability of individual states’ lawmakers to pass GMO-labeling laws, food advocates warn.

Terrorists given new identities allowed to board commercial flights, watchdog finds
Washington Post - An investigation of the Justice Department’s witness protection program uncovered glaring security problems that allowed terrorists who had been given new identities after cooperating with U.S. prosecutors to board commercial flights in the United States.

VIDEO: The Scathing Speech That Just Got a Standing Ovation During the IRS Hearing
The Blaze - The gallery at the House Ways and Means Committee Friday had to be called to order after it burst into applause and some gave a standing ovation following an impassioned diatribe against the IRS by Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Mike Kelly.

VIDEO: IRS officials want to hear your prayers, really
iroots.org - In a stunning and sadly comic moment, IRS commissioner Steven Miller was unable to answer whether it was appropriate for the IRS to demand the contents of a conservative group’s prayers. Rep. Aaron Schock also revealed that the pro-life group had been asked if they do education on “both sides of the issue.”

VIDEO: IRS Scandal: A Managerial Problem
Kurt Nimmo - According to Salon, there was no political motive behind the IRS move to target patriot groups. Instead, the scandal is about “much confusion, poor training, unclear directives and what seems to be pretty lousy, or, at least, extremely ineffective management.”

HEROES: List Of 54 Colorado Sheriffs Suing Over Gun Control Legislation
coloradopeakpolitics.com - The Independence Institute, along with 54 of Colorado’s County Sheriffs, has filed suit against the extreme gun control legislation pushed through the legislature this year by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s lobbyist.
* Related Video: Press Conference: 54 Colorado Sheriffs File Suit...

VIDEO: Urgent Message from Ron Paul: Stop the National ID Card system in ‘Gang of 8′ bill
redalertpolitics.com - In a video created by Paul’s nonprofit, Campaign for Liberty, Paul claims the ‘Gang of Eight’ senators are “working with President Obama to sneak this massive National ID power grab into a new ‘immigration reform’ law that’s being used as a cover for all sorts of statist madness.”

The dollar – and the USA – is toast
Exclusive: Lord Monckton sees China prepping for final collapse of America. The once-mighty United States is now the most indebted nation on Earth.

Silver Smashed 10% on Globex Open, Tests $20
silverdoctors.com - Precisely as we warned listeners on this week’s SD Metals & Markets, silver was greeted with an epic waterfall smash on Sunday’s Globex, plunging 10% to just over $20/oz moments after the open.

Budget conferees vote not to fund DPS fusion center
mystatesman.com - In a surprising move, Texas House and Senate budget negotiators have agreed to wipe out funding for the Department of Public Safety’s fusion center, part of a nationwide intelligence gathering initiative that has generated controversy in Washington.

Economic insanity: Obama spends $11 million to create each 'green' job
(NaturalNews) There has been nothing you could call "successful" about President Obama's so-called "green energy" initiatives, but the worst thing of all is the billions in taxpayer dollars he has utterly wasted on failed companies who were trying to push unproven, and ultimately failed, initiatives.

VA Whistleblower Ignites Firestorm Over Vets' Illnesses
TheAmericanConservative.com - Epidemiologist says VA hid and manipulated data regarding burn pits and Gulf War syndrome. Read More...

Sex assault victims labeled as mentally ill and forced out
Press TV - Accounts from members in every branch of the military show that those who disclose a sexual assault face commanders who often disregard their reports and send them to uniformed counselors, who subsequently find them to be mentally unfit for duty, a seven-month San Antonio Express-News investigation shows.

Former US drone pilot quits, regretting bombing innocents, including children
Press TV - A former US assassination drone pilot says he quit the force after feeling “numb” about seeing a child and other civilians blown away in his remote bombing of targets in Afghanistan and realizing he has unconsciously developed a desire to kill.

How the IRS Launders Veterans Disability Checks
Kevin E. Lake - The IRS has mastered the art of breaking their own laws, one case in particular; using banks to launder and then steal disabled veterans' disability checks.

Russian warships enter Mediterranean to form permanent task force
RT - Warships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet have entered the Mediterranean for the first time in decades. Russia’s Navy Chief says the task force may be reinforced with nuclear submarines, as the country starts building up a permanent fleet in the region.

Unmoved by Israel, Russia will send top air-defense system to Assad
timesofisrael.com - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly warned Russian President Vladimir Putin in an emergency face-to-face meeting on Tuesday that Moscow’s sale of the S-300 missile defense system to Assad could push the Middle East into war.

Rebels film execution of 11 Syrian soldiers, as Obama continues anti-Assad rhetoric
RT - As a new video is published showing fighters of the Al Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front in Syria executing 11 men they say are Bashar Assad’s soldiers, Obama talks to Turkey’s Erdogan, renewing threats of action against the Syrian government.

US moving 200 Marines to Sicily for Libya protection
Telegraph - Italy has announced the United States was transferring 200 marines and two planes to its base at Sigonella in Sicily to deploy in Libya in case US diplomats come under attack as they did last year.

From Petrodollar To Petrogold: The US Is Now Trying To Cut Off Iran's Access To Gold
Zero Hedge - The US is moving to broaden its 'blockade' efforts of Iran to the movement of pure gold into the Islamic Republic. The US-led embargo of Iranian crude succeeded in slowing the flow of petrodollars into the nation but as Foreign Affairs committee chairman Edward Cohen remarked, there is "no question that there is gold going from Turkey to Iran."

Pentagon plans to fight ‘War on Terror’ for another 20 years
RT - Speaking to the Senate Armed Services early Thursday, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations Michael Sheehan said the Pentagon has no plans to pull out of its almost 12-year-old war overseas. When asked for his take on how long the war on terror could go on for, Sheehan told lawmakers, “At least 10 to 20 years.”

House Votes to Fully Repeal Obamacare for Third Time
ABC News - The House of Representatives voted today to repeal the entire Affordable Care Act, 229-195. This was the third vote for full repeal, and the 37th overall vote the House has taken to disrupt, dismantle, defund or repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act.

IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office
ABC News - Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.

VIDEO: Bachmann: Every weekend people tell me they want Obama impeached
Press TV - Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told a crowd at a tea party rally that she's asked every weekend why Congress isn't working to impeach President Barack Obama.

Emails show the then CIA-chief David Petraeus objected to Obama administration's version of Benghazi terror attack events
Daily Mail - The White House on Wednesday released 100 pages of emails detailing discussion inside the administration over last year's deadly attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Among the details, the documents show that then-CIA Director David Petraeus objected to the final version that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the assault.

YouTube: Sen. Paul Appears on Fox's America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer- 5/16/2013
Sen. Paul appears on America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer to discuss the Benghazi attacks.
* Related Video: Rand Paul on CNN...

VIDEO: McConnell: IRS Can’t Be Trusted to Implement Obamacare
newsmax.com - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tells Newsmax TV that the current scandal facing the Internal Revenue Service proves that the agency cannot be trusted to implement Obamacare.

VIDEO: Reality Check – IRS and AP – Obama Administration Under Fire
Liberty Crier - Ben Swann Reality Check. To call it a rough week for the Obama Administration might be an understatement.

VIDEO: Police Department Forced To Borrow Ammo From Local Resident
Steve Watson - In Proctor, Minnesota, the police chief has become so exasperated with trying to find a supplier that he issued a request to members of the public for help meeting the department’s ammo needs.

D.C. Moves to Force Gun Owners to Buy Prohibitive Liability Insurance
Kurt Nimmo - California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania have also proposed forcing gun owners to buy liability insurance. Democrat City Council member Mary Cheh proposed the law. It requires residents purchase at least $250,000 in insurance coverage before city government would consider applications to register a firearm.

Arizona Man Winds Up Jailed, Unemployed and Homeless After Photographing Courthouse
PINAC - Raymond Michael Rodden was bored this week, so he drove to downtown Phoenix and began walking around, snapping photos of the federal courthouse and the state capitol with his iPhone.

VIDEO: Debate: Why the Internet Tax Bill is Bad for the Economy
Activist Post - Reps. Ron DeSantis (FL-6), Thomas Massie (KY-4) participate in a special order floor speech against the National Internet Tax Mandate, the so-called "Marketplace Fairness Act," H.R. 684 and S. 743.

Senate Subcommittee Investigating Apple’s Offshore Tax Practices
Infowars.com - In lieu of the recent IRS scandal it might seem a little like a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Nevertheless, it looks like Apple CEO Tim Cook will be appearing in front of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Tuesday, May 21, to explain why the company is borrowing money to pay investors when they have $102 billion in offshore funds.

Controlling the Beginning Stages of Hyperinflation by Manipulating the Precious Metals
silverdoctors.com - The tactic by the Fed and Central Banks is to inflate the stock markets while manipulating the price of gold and silver lower. This achieves two goals: 1) it reassures the public’s faith by pumping up stock prices while the economic indicators continue to deteriorate and 2) it elevates the dollar while it destroys market sentiment in the precious metals.

10 Amazing Charts That Demonstrate The Slow, Agonizing Death Of The American Worker
Economic Collapse - The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming an endangered species.

Army Regulation 40-562 - Immunizations and Chemoprophylaxis
Describes role for the Military Vaccine Office, Describes standards for military immunization delivery, including quality improvement mechanisms, Establishes that electronic immunization tracking systems are the preferred record for immunization data
Provides guidance on managing Service personnel who lose immunization records, Describes a procedure for dispersing immunization during initial military training into 2 clusters, the first to reduce imminent risk of contagious disease in settings of intimate or household contact and the second for other vaccine-preventable diseases and more!!

Counterproductive': UN General Assembly votes to condemn Assad's forces in Syria war
RT - The UN General Assembly voted to pass an Arab-backed draft resolution that strongly condemns the Assad government and embraces the political viability of the Syrian National Coalition. Russia’s UN envoy characterized the resolution as “counterproductive.”

KBR Tells U.S. Army it will Cost $500 Million and Take 13 Years to Close out Its Iraq Contract
allgov.com - The recipient of the largest government services contract in U.S. history has told military officials it will take another 13 years and half a billion dollars to finish off its work stemming from the Iraq war.

Spanish Minister of Economy Confirmed For Bilderberg 2013
Jurriaan Maessen - Another elected official is confirmed for Bilderberg 2013, this time the spanish Minister of Economy and Competitiveness and former Lehman Brothers advisor, Luis de Guindos. The minister will be attending at the request of Bilderberg’s Spanish steering committee member Juan Luis Cebrián.

VIDEO: CEO sentenced to death with immediate execution for financial fraud of 640 million yuan
liveleak.com - In the morning of May 15, Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court of Wenzhou Xin Investment Consulting Co., Ltd. Executive Director and General Manager Lin (female, 39 years old, Wenzhou Ruian) financial fraud case first instance verdict,

Israel Hints at New Strikes, Warning Syria Not to Hit Back
NY Times - In a clear warning to Syria to stop the transfer of advanced weapons to Islamic militants in the region, a senior Israeli official signaled on Wednesday that Israel was considering additional military strikes to prevent that from happening and that the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, would face crippling consequences if he retaliated.

Anti-Syria UN resolution to intensify extremists’ crimes: Iran
Press TV - On Wednesday, the UN General Assembly approved an Arab-backed nonbinding resolution against Syria by a vote of 107-12, with 59 abstentions. Brazil, South Africa, India, and Indonesia were among the 59 countries that abstained.

US obstructing global disarmament: Iran
Press TV - Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi says the United States’ opposition and lack of commitment to various international disarmament conventions are obstacles to advancing the issue of global disarmament.

Bomb hits convoy of foreign forces in Kabul, 5 US soldiers killed
Press TV - Five US soldiers have been killed in a bomb blast that hit a convoy of vehicles transporting foreign forces in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Press TV reports.

CAR slid into anarchy, UN envoy says
Press TV - The Central African Republic (CAR) has slid into "a state of anarchy," with massive unrest and large-scale displacement across the country, a UN envoy says.

Britain hit by SNOW as 65mph winds sweep across the country and a month's worth of rain falls in just 24 hours
Daily Mail - Villagers woke yesterday to discover two inches of snow in rural Shropshire, while blizzards caught walkers and cyclists by surprise on the Cumbrian Pennines.

Something is rotten in the Denver airport (13 Photos)
TheChive.com - Hints that the Denver airport is hiding something big are everywhere. Visitors to the Denver Airport will immediately notice a number of mysterious masonic symbols and murals clearly depicting the end of the word. They're hard to miss. Many believe these murals hold a deeper meaning which can be gleaned by the initiated of the New World Order and Freemasons. Let's have a look.

VIDEO: AP Waited A Week To Publicize Telephone Probe
Infowars.com - The hole just keeps getting deeper and deeper. Appearing before the House Judiciary Committee today, Attorney General Eric Holder repeatedly played the old “I was recused” card.

Obama fires acting IRS commissioner as pressure grows
Daily Mail - President Barack Obama has thrown his acting IRS commissioner overboard, making Steven Miller the highest-ranking political casualty thus far in a series of scandals that have swept his administration in recent weeks.

IRS Gave Preferential Treatment to Liberal Nonprofits
Kurt Nimmo - The IRS doled out nonprofit status to dozens of leftist organizations while leaving tea party and constitutionalist groups in the dust, according to USA Today.

IRS exec got $42k in bonuses in three years
Washington Examiner - Lois Lerner, the senior executive in charge of the IRS tax exemption department and the federal employee at the center of the exploding scandal over the IRS targeting of conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel non-profits, was given $42,531 in bonuses between 2009 and 2011.

House Bill Calls for IRS Hiring Freeze
Kurt Nimmo - Greta Van Susteren reports today that Republican Rep. Randy Forbes of Virginia has introduced legislation to impose a hiring freeze on the federal taxation agency. The bill is aimed at preventing the feds from using the IRS to implement Obamacare.

Authorities hunting for nuclear gauge lost in West Virginia
RT - A portable gauge containing dangerous radioactive material fell off the back of a truck in West Virginia, and officials are offering a reward for the missing device.

What Are These Weird Street Signs Being Installed in Las Vegas?
Paul Joseph Watson - Strange new street signs being installed across Las Vegas are prompting suspicions from concerned readers, one of whom sent us the following images. Are these new signs part of the nationwide ‘Intellistreets’ rollout of so-called “smart” hubs that eavesdrop on conversations?

VIDEO: TSA Now Confiscating Pressure Cookers?
Steve Watson - Two different reports in the last week have suggested that the TSA has confiscated pressure cookers from people traveling through airports.

VIDEO: Seatbelt Laws Can Be Deadly
lewrockwell.com - That’s what happened to Deland, Florida resident Marlon Brown about a week ago. Brown was killed – run over – by Deland Police Officer James Harris, who pursued him with his squad car after Brown tried to run away on foot after being stopped over a seatbelt violation.

Lies, Lies, and More Lies - Your Government in Action
Activist Post - Great video breakdown of Benghazi, IRS and AP scandals revealing Obama's culture of corruption.

VIDEO: Prop C, LA Measure To Overturn Citizens United, Will Be Voted On By Angelenos Next Week
Huffington Post - When Angelenos go to the polls next week to choose the next mayor of Los Angeles, they will be the largest electorate to vote on a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling.

Latest Waterfall Sends Gold & Silver to $1300 & $22 Handles!
silverdoctors.com - Once again after trading in a tight consolidation range throughout the Asian and London sessions, gold and silver have just been greeted with a vertical Demon Drop Waterfall smash, sending gold back to a $1300 handle, and silver to $22.41. A re-test of the correction lows of $22.005 and $1320 appears imminent.

JP Morgan Eligible Gold Inventories Fall Another 14%!
silverdoctors.com - JP Morgan drops another 22,759 oz of gold (14%) from their Eligible Inventories. They now only have a mere 137,377 oz available in their Eligible Category! Furthermore, 32,049 oz of gold were withdrawn from Scotia Mocatta’s Eligible inventories, now reducing the total gold in the Comex vaults below 8 million oz.

House panel set to OK cut in food stamp program
Yahoo News - The House bill would cut about $2.5 billion a year - or a little more than 3 percent - from the food stamp program, which is used by 1 in 7 Americans.

Pregnant Mom Of 4 Sentenced To Prison For Refusing To Serve In Iraq
Private First Class Kimberly Rivera, mother of four children and pregnant with a fifth, was sentenced on April 29 to 14 months imprisonment, which was lowered to 10 months based on a plea agreement.
After serving a tour of duty in Iraq in 2006, she found herself unable to return.

US building military base near Iran
Press TV - Press TV’s correspondent in Afghanistan says the base is being built in an area known as Chahlang in Farah province. The site of the construction is three kilometers from the Iranian border.

Netanyahu visits Putin in bid to sway Russia on Syria
AFP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to warn Moscow against sending arms to Syria as alarm grows over the spiralling death toll in the conflict.

Syrian Rebel Eats Soldier's Heart: Paid For By The U.S. Taxpayer
Activist Post - In a shocking video that has recently emerged out of Syria, Syrian “rebel” leader Abu Sakkar is seen cutting out the heart of a Syrian soldier and then biting it for the camera to see. Shortly before biting the man’s heart, Sakkar states to the camera “I swear to God we will eat your hearts and your livers.”

Germany to investigate Western pharm companies over ‘human guinea pig’ drug trials
RT - German authorities are planning to launch an investigation into tens of thousands of patients in former East Germany who were allegedly used for drug trials without their consent “as guinea pigs,” after a media report sparked a wave of outrage.

US won’t attend Iran-led UN disarmament councils
Press TV - The Obama Administration has announced that they will no longer allow their ambassador to attend UN Conference on Disarmament meetings because the rotating chairman position has passed to Iran.

ICC investigating attack on Gaza flotilla
Press TV - The International Criminal Court says it has launched a preliminary investigation into Israel's deadly attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in 2010 to see if war crimes or crimes against humanity had been committed.

Canada Contributes to Illegal Occupation of Palestine
rinf.com - While the Harper Conservative government has loudly proclaimed its close ties to Israel, most Canadians would be surprised to learn the Tories have decided to make the two countries blood brothers. In the international affairs equivalent of a Mafia initiation ceremony Canada has sworn undying loyalty and to be a faithful soldier in Israel’s cause.

Leaving Afghanistan to cost US $7bn
Press TV - The U.S. military never does anything cheap, and that includes withdrawing troops. Officials had been reporting vaguely about the costs of Afghan withdrawal rising, and analysts now say it could cost in excess of $7 billion.

BP, Shell London headquarters raided over oil price rigging allegations
Press TV - Two of Britain’s biggest oil companies British Petroleum (BP) and Royal Dutch Shell have been raided by European regulators over allegations of manipulating the oil price since 2002.

VIDEO: AP probe: White House claims no knowledge, Justice Dept defends actions
RT - The White House has denied any prior knowledge of the Justice Department’s investigation of the Associated Press. US Attorney General has defended the probe, saying the “aggressive action” was in response to national security being put at risk.

VIDEO: Benghazi, IRS, AP scandals -- will buck ever stop with Obama?
Fox News - The first question for White House spokesman Jay Carney at Tuesday's press briefing went right to the heart of the growing crisis facing President Obama: In the matters of the Benghazi terror attack, the IRS targeting conservative groups, the Justice Department going after AP phone records, “…doesn’t responsibility for setting tone, setting direction ultimately rest with the president?”

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder to gun, ammo makers: Missouri is open for business
Activist Post - Lt. Governor Peter Kinder today urged Gov. Nixon and legislative leaders to back efforts to recruit firearms manufacturers to Missouri.... Meanwhile, Joplin State Rep. Bill White has filed legislation that would give similar businesses tax incentives to relocate to Missouri.

U.S. Taxpayers Footing Bill That Promotes Monsanto Abroad: Report
Huffington Post - A review of 926 diplomatic cables of correspondence to and from the U.S. State Department and embassies in more than 100 countries found that State Department officials actively promoted the commercialization of specific biotech seeds, according to the report issued by Food & Water Watch, a nonprofit consumer protection group.

Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’
Long Island Press - By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries.

VIDEO: National Journal's Ron Fournier Obama's 'Chilling' Message To Whistleblowers: 'We're Watching You'
xrepublic.tv 5/14/13 - Ron Fournier, editorial director for the National Journal, tore into the White House in an appearance on MSNBC on Tuesday over the news that the Department of Justice had obtained two months of telephone records.

VIDEO: Rand Paul: AP Phone Spying Proves Obama is “Drunk on Power”
Daily Paul - Senator Rand Paul responded to the barrage of scandals to hit the Obama administration, from Benghazi, to the IRS targeting conservatives, to the Justice Department spying on Associated Press reporters, by accusing President Obama of being “drunk on power.”

VIDEO: California Police Break into Private Residence, Taze Person Filming
Infowars.com - Displaying utter disregard for the US Constitution, one of four police officers announces they will enter the home due to a domestic violence call, as the persons inside the house argue, “There is no domestic violence, just an argument with yelling,” and relay sections of the Fourth Amendment that dictate probable cause and a warrant be obtained prior to police entering someone’s home.

Shootings by Philly Police Soar as Violent Crime Plummets
Philly.com - The number of shootings by police in 2012 resulting in death or injury climbed to the highest level it’s been in 10 years. Philadelphia police shot 52 suspects last year while responding to calls for reported crimes. Of those shot, 15 people died. And the city's own police watchdog says the department hasn't provided a reason for the increase.

YouTube: Government Orders Youtube to Censor March on Monsanto, D.C. & Protest Videos
They are attacking are freedom of speech on the world wide web!

Amid Economic Collapse, South Carolina Approves Another $1M for Police State
Activist Post - A little over a week ago, on May 7, 2013 and in the midst of a worldwide economic depression, Columbia, South Carolina City Council members met to discuss the funding of a million dollar project even as the State government continued its regularly scheduled hysteria over budgets, spending, and deficits.

Feds seize money from Dwolla account belonging to top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox
arstechnica.com - The Department of Homeland Security has apparently shut down a key mobile payments account associated with Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange.

VIDEO: Florida Intentionally Shortened Yellow Traffic Light Lengths To Raise 50 Million In Additional Ticket Revenues
wtsp.com - A subtle, but significant tweak to Florida's rules regarding traffic signals has allowed local cities and counties to shorten yellow light intervals, resulting in millions of dollars in additional red light camera fines.

Progressive Group: IRS Gave Us Conservative Groups' Confidential Docs
Breitbart - The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.

IRS Flagged "Patriot" Groups Beyond Cincinnati, Report
Activist Post - The scope of the investigation has widened to include Washington D.C. and California after the Washington Post received documents to suggest that the same focus on conservative-based groups was being undertaken in those locations as well.

KMOV Anchor: The IRS is targeting me
Politico - Larry Conners, a veteran local news anchor at KMOV Channel 4 in St. Louis, says that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting him since an April 2012 interview he conducted with President Obama -- a fact that he dismissed as coincidence until the recent reports about the IRS targeting conservative groups.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: Cleta Mitchell to Newsmax: IRS Scandal Reaches to White House
Newsmax - Cleta Mitchell, one of Washington's most respected elections attorneys, told Newsmax she has tangible proof that high-ranking IRS officials in Washington were fully aware of the agency's campaign to target conservative groups for heightened scrutiny, despite their denials.

Wells Fargo sued on claims it wrongfully litigated California man to death
RT - Larry Delassus’ heart stopped on December 19, 2012 during a court hearing against Wells Fargo, the bank that had for two years demanded he pay more than ten thousand dollars of his neighbor's late property taxes and is now being sued for wrongful death.

Fort Hood assault prevention chief under investigation
USA Today - A sergeant in charge of sexual assault prevention at Fort Hood is under investigation for sexual assault, the Pentagon announced Tuesday night. The soldier, whose name has not been released, is being investigated for abusive sexual contact, pandering, assault and maltreatment of subordinates.

Britain to double aid to Syrian opposition in 2014 – Cameron
rinf.com - Britain will double support for the Syrian opposition in 2014 with shipping more non-lethal military aid both PM David Cameron and President Obama agreed to pressure on Assad while meeting in Washington.

Uganda: Immunization -- Parents to Face Arrest
Dr. Mercola - Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children will be punished severely, and the decision treated as a crime, according to a warning issued earlier this month by Ugandan President Museveni.

US military moves forces closer to Libya
Press TV - Washington has dispatched more troops closer to Libya in the wake of the attack on a US consulate in the North African country so diplomatic personnel can be protected or evacuated in case of any potential threat, the Pentagon has announced.

Iran stresses Mali sovereignty, integrity
Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi has expressed support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Mali, urging the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to employ its potentials to settle the crisis in the African country.

Israel tanks, bulldozers invade NE Gaza
Press TV - A number of Israeli tanks and bulldozers infiltrated into Palestinian-owned lands in the town of Beit Hanoun on Monday. The Israeli forces also entered Beit Hanoun last week, razing Palestinian farmlands and forcing the farmers to leave the area.

EU releases bailout funds for Cyprus
Press TV - The European Union has handed over the first installment of a 10-billion-euro bailout to Cyprus as part of the aid package agreed earlier this year.

France’s Socialist Government Moves to Impose Smartphone Tax
Kurt Nimmo - France’s recently elected socialist government has announced it plans to further stifle innovation and wealth creation by imposing a tax on smartphones and tablets.

Half Of Families Suffer In Hospital Under Socialist Medical System, UK Study Finds
Telegraph - Patients routinely struggle to get the treatment they believe they need and experience rudeness, neglect and in some cases physical abuse, according to polling by YouGov.

Hungry? Lacking protein? Eat an insect, UN says
RT - The UN has been working on ways to end world hunger for decades, but their newest idea does not involve economics, politics, or even food: The organization is now advising people to eat more insects.

Top Democrat calls for public testimony on Benghazi
htrnews.com - The top Democrat on the House Oversight panel said Monday that the authors of an independent investigation into the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya, should answer questions about their work at a congressional hearing, not in a private deposition that the Republicans want.

Police Drone Crashes into Police
Gizmodo - The Montgomery County (Texas) Sheriff's Office had a big day planned. After becoming the first department in the country with its own aerial drone ($300,000!), they were ready for a nice photo op. And then the drone crashed into a SWAT team. The Examiner reports a painfully contrived police action-athon... [Note: The article was recently removed from Examiner's site.]

YouTube: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5/13/13: What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi
Ron Paul: Congressional hearings, White House damage control, endless op-eds, accusations, and defensive denials. Controversy over the events in Benghazi last September took center stage in Washington and elsewhere last week. However, the whole discussion is again more of a sideshow....

Why is Obama Hiding 6,000-Page Report on Bush-Era Torture and Why is Torture Still Allowed?
allgov.com - President Barack Obama is currently blocking the release—or allowing the CIA to block the release—of a comprehensive Senate report on the use of torture by the George W. Bush administration CIA that is said to conclude that torture was not an effective or reliable method of interrogation and that the agency repeatedly misled the White House, the Justice Department, and Congress about its interrogation efforts.

Shackles, masks and nasal tubes: Gitmo revises force-feeding techniques
RT - Hunger strikers being force-fed at Guantanamo Bay must wear masks over their mouths while being shackled to a restraint chair for up to two hours. Authorities have revised the way they feed the strikers, comparing their techniques to battlefield tactics.

Aurora cinema shooting: Judge approves ‘truth serum’ interrogation
RT - James Holmes, the student accused of the ‘Batman’ movie massacre in a Colorado cinema, could be given a truth serum as part of a narcoanalytic interview to determine whether he is insane, as a judge enters a not guilty plea on his behalf.

Government obtains wide AP phone records in probe
AP - The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

Philly abortion doctor guilty in 3 babies' deaths
Breitbart - A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's debate over abortion.

VIDEO: CNN Calls for Real-time Police State Surveillance
Kurt Nimmo - In order to prevent terrorist attacks, CNN argues, there must be real-time surveillance cameras planted everywhere. Panopticon technology is required if we are to expect government to protect us from terrorists and other miscreants, the corporate media network says.

911 And Witness Calls Of David Silva Beating And Murder By Eight Policeman
Liberty Crier - Kern County deputies beat an intoxicated man to death in the street Tuesday night, then detained and intimidated witnesses, confiscated video evidence, and arrested another man who spoke out. David Silva was beaten with batons, left in a pool of blood until an ambulance finally arrived after he was already dead.

VIDEO: Man Loses $160,000 In New 'Policing For Profit' Case
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - NewsChannel 5 has uncovered a brand new "policing for profit" case -- a case that resulted in a New York man losing a $160,000 on a Tennessee interstate. Even more startling, critics said, the case exposes a major loophole around a new law that's supposed to crack down on such abuses.

VIDEO: Officials found guilty in Obama, Clinton ballot petition fraud
Fox News April 26, 2013 - A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all counts.

Revealed: The 55 questions the IRS asked one tea party group
Daily Mail - The Internal Revenue Service wrote to the Richmond Tea Party last year demanding to know the names of all its financial donors and volunteers, as part of a 55-question inquisition into its application for tax-exempt status, MailOnline has learned.

VIDEO: Lou Dobbs Rips 'Nixonian' Obama For Lying 'Through His Teeth' About IRS
5/13/13 - Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs stopped by Megyn Kelly's show on Monday afternoon to offer his reaction to President Obama's press conference — during which he responded to the IRS scandal involving the agency's targeting politically conservative groups. Dobbs didn't take well to Obama's reaction and went after him for flat-out lying.

FLASHBACK: Former IRS Chief Told Congress His Agency Does Not Target Tea Party Groups
xrepublic.tv - BuzzFeed has unearthed a clip showing the IRS' own former head asserting that his agency absolutely does not target any groups for increased scrutiny based on political beliefs.

Obamacare: Taxpayers Must Report Personal Health ID Info to IRS
atr.org - When Obamacare’s individual mandate takes effect in 2014, all Americans who file income tax returns must complete an additional IRS tax form. The new form will require disclosure of a taxpayer’s personal identifying health information in order to determine compliance with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.

Detroit's Emergency Manager Offers Dire Report on City
NY Times - In a report to be presented to Michigan’s treasurer on Monday, Kevyn D. Orr, the emergency manager appointed in March to take over operations here, described long-term obligations of at least $15 billion, unsustainable cash flow shortages and miserably low credit ratings that make it difficult to borrow.

South Korea, US begin naval exercise
Press TV - The United States and South Korea have launched a two-day naval exercise in the waters around the Korean Peninsula amid regional tensions.
* Related: N Korea slams US ‘military provocation’

Syrian army seizes control of 3 towns
Press TV - Syrian troops have gained more ground in their battles against foreign-sponsored militants, and established full control in three towns in the provinces of Homs and Dara’a.

‘Syria militants hit Lebanese town’
Press TV - The foreign-sponsored militants in Syria have fired mortars into the Lebanese town of Hermel near the Syrian border, Lebanon’s state media say.

Australian Telegraph newspaper: Unvaccinated children should be raised as outcasts
(NaturaNews) In a new low for even the mainstream media, the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers in Australia are pushing a campaign of outright medical child abuse they call "NO JAB NO PLAY." ... It's a new low for even the Telegraph. Click here to see the campaign push by the newspaper.

Syrians hold pro-Assad demo in Lebanon
Press TV - Hundreds of Syrians in Lebanon have staged a demonstration in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Lebanese city of Sidon.

Lebanese sources: Intense Israeli air, ground activity
debka.com - Various Lebanese sources report intense Israeli military activity Sunday along the Israeli-Syrian and Lebanese borders.

Tanzanian troops arrive in eastern Congo
Press TV - A contingent of about 100 Tanzanian soldiers has arrived in Congo to join a United Nations mission aimed at neutralizing armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Greece’s youth unemployment hits 60%
Daily Mail - While the overall unemployment rate rose to 27 per cent, according to statistics service data released on Thursday, joblessness among those aged between 15 and 24 jumped to 64.2 percent in February from 59.3 percent in January.

Vietnam suspends vaccine after 9 kids die
zeenews.com - Vietnam has suspended the use of Quinvaxem vaccine until the World Health Organisation (WHO) gives a report, following the death of nine children after receiving the vaccine since November 2012, state media reported. Quinvaxem is a preventative inoculation against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis or whooping cough, hepatitis B and H and influenza Type B.

VIDEO/Article: John McCain Defends Obama Against Impeachment For Benghazi....
Senator John McCain, who famously defended his then presidential opponent Barack Obama against an islamaphobic supporter during a 2008 campaign rally, defended now President Obama once again on ABC's This Week Sunday, cautioning his Republicans colleagues to cool it with talk of impeaching the President over the Benghazi attacks and its aftermath.

YouTube: National Press Club: Karen Vaughn, Mother of Seal Team 6 Member Speaks Out
Karen Vaughn: “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. It is now time to change the things I cannot accept.” Full National Press Club video and article here: Before Benghazi, There Was Extortion 17

VIDEO: Washington Post Blames Gangland Shooting on Second Amendment
Paul Joseph Watson - Despite the fact that the FBI described the shooting at a New Orleans Mother’s Day parade as “a flare-up of street violence” and not a targeted attack, the Washington Post cited the incident as another reason to push through draconian gun control measures. 19 people were injured yesterday...

YouTube: Whistleblower Greg Hicks Told To Take Desk Job or Be Terminated
NewsmaxTV - The attorney for Benghazi whistleblower Greg Hicks, Victoria Toensing tells The Steve Malzberg Show that the State Department is lying when they say her client was not demoted to a desk job for his role in speaking out. She says he was told take the job or leave the department.

VIDEO: Presidents of ABC and CBS News Have Siblings Working at White House With Ties to Benghazi
newsbusters.org - "CBS News President David Rhodes and ABC News President Ben Sherwood, both of them have siblings that not only work at the White House, that not only work for President Obama, but they work at the NSC on foreign policy issues directly related to Benghazi."

VIDEO: Door-to-door Search in New Orleans After Shooting
Infowars.com - Police are conducting a door-to-door search following a shoot-out during a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans today. According to WWLTV in New Orleans, 12 people were shot and EMS took nine people to University Hospital. Three victims are in critical condition.

VIDEO: CBS Anchor Scolds: ‘We’re Getting the Big Stories Wrong Over and Over Again’
The Blaze - “Our house is on fire,” Pelley told an audience at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. “These have been a bad few months for journalism. We’re getting the big stories wrong over and over again.”

VIDEO: CNN Anchors Fake a Satellite Interview in the Same Parking Lot
happyplace.com - Yes, those are all the same cars. Apparently they thought we wouldn’t notice because Nancy is on the right side of the screen, when in reality she is to Ashleigh Banfield’s left. See The Atlantic Wire’s excellent breakdown of the shots to see exactly what happened.

Newtown panel: Tear down Sandy Hook, rebuild
Yahoo! News - The plan approved by the Sandy Hook School Building Task Force now goes to the local school board and ultimately will have to be approved by residents at a referendum.

Establishment Media Attacks Rand Paul for Saying Globalists Plotting Against Constitution
Kurt Nimmo - The Washington Post has attempted to write-off Kentucky Senator Rand Paul as a fringe kook for opposing the United Nations’ Small Arms Treaty.

VIDEO: Why Are Police Simulating Armed “Angry Parents” Laying Siege to Schools?
Mac Slavo - There is a new national threat that has, apparently, been making headline news all over the country in recent years. According to law enforcement officials in Washington that domestic terror threat involves armed and angry parents acting in concert to take over a school.

Montgomery County, Maryland asks residents to hand over their guns
The Examiner - Montgomery County residents handed over 111 guns, 11 BB guns, 10,000 rounds of ammunition and a grenade at Saturday's statewide gun turn-in day, according to county police spokeswoman Lucille Baur.

Security concerns after 500 pounds of still-missing explosives stolen from federal bunker
Fox News - Around the same time the nation was transfixed on the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers last month, thieves on the other side of the country pulled off a little-noticed heist -- swiping 559 pounds of explosives from a federal storage facility in Montana. As of Friday, not one ounce of it has been found.

US Business Owners Can Be Fined and Imprisoned for Supporting Israeli Boycott
Activist Post - The anti-boycott laws, enforced by US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security under the Export Administration Act, discourage and even outlaw "furthering or supporting" the Israeli boycott.... The penalties for taking part in the boycott range from fines of tens of thousands of dollars to multiple years in prison.

Seems like a good executive order...but clearly it does nothing
Daily Paul - I'm no fan of EO's [Executive Orders] but this one from May 9th regarding government transparancy seems like one I could get behind...until you read the last paragraph.

VIDEO: FAA refuses to tell town officials what the low-flying, mystery aircraft is
CBS Boston - Every night for nearly the last two weeks, residents have spotted a low-flying aircraft doing loops over the city. WBZ has learned the FAA knows what’s going on, but the agency isn’t telling.

Breaking: Vermont House Passes Game-Changing GMO Labeling Bill
Natural Society - In a legislative blow against GMO giant Monsanto and major food corporations who wish to keep you in the dark over what you’re eating on a daily basis, the Vermont House has passed a significant new GMO labeling bill known as H. 112 by a count of 99-42.
* Related Article/Video: GMOs Hiding In Almost All Food...And?

Not Good Enough for Pet Food - Chinese Organic Food Scrutinized at Congressional Hearing
Cornucopia - The House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats gathered information today regarding concerns being raised about imports of food from China that are entering the U.S.

Bloomberg Rocked By Terminal Spying Scandal
Huffington Post - According to news reports on Friday, journalists at Bloomberg News have been spying on some of the 315,000 customers that use the market-data terminals, sold by a separate unit of Bloomberg and the primary revenue source for the company. Those customers include Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, whose traders and bankers are reportedly furious with Bloomberg for what they perceive as a violation of their privacy.

Shut Them Down! – Payday Loan Companies Are Making Billions Preying On The Misery Of The Poor
Economic Collapse - The typical payday loan requires borrowers to pay about 15 dollars for every $100 that they borrow for two weeks. That comes out to a yearly rate of about 391 percent. And the payday loan companies know exactly who to target. They have set up thousands of shops in the poorest communities all over the nation over the last several decades.

VIDEO: Firestorm Over IRS Targeting of Patriot Groups
Kurt Nimmo - A report by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General reveals that senior IRS officials were aware agents singled out nonprofit groups with the words “Tea Party” and “patriot” in their paperwork.
* Related Video: Reality Check Special: Tea Party Groups vs. IRS

Michigan school district lays off all its teachers
Yahoo! News - The Board of Education in Buena Vista, Mich., has declared a financial emergency. The school district lacks the funds to pay teachers for the rest of the school year, MLive.com reports.

Marine Corps studying spike in suicides
The U.S. Marine Corps wants to know why. Though the Corps has previously studied suicides and attempted suicides, it is launching a project this year to examine the complex reasons that Marines are dying by their own hand. A team of researchers, including a professor at Marian University in Fond du Lac, will interview relatives and friends of active-duty Marines who died by suicide between 2010 and 2012. Their reports for the Marine Corps Suicide Prevention Psychological Autopsy Project will be used to identify suicide risk factors or trends that might be unique to Marines.

US drone strikes illegal – Pakistani court
RT - A high court in Pakistan has ruled that US drone strikes in the country's tribal belt should be considered war crimes, since the attacks resulted in the deaths of innocent people.

Turkey to support potential US-led no-fly zone on Syria
Press TV - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara will support the United States if Washington plans to impose a no-fly zone on Syria.

North Korea calls US-South Korea summit prelude to war
Press TV - North Korea on Friday called this week's summit between the U.S. and South Korean presidents a prelude to war against Pyongyang, the Associated Press reports. The North has described South Korean President Park Geun-hye's visit to Washington as a "despicable sycophantic trip to please her master."

US Navy confirms nuclear-powered Nimitz visit to South Korean port
Press TV - The U.S. Navy officially confirmed Friday that the nuclear-powered USS Nimitz will, indeed, visit Busan this weekend.

IMF sees first Cyprus bailout loan this month
Economic Times - The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said it would likely disburse its first bailout loan to Cyprus after next week's board meeting.

Spain's royal family in danger of losing crowns
USA Today - The former treasurer of Spain's ruling party – indicted. The former head of the country's Supreme Court – resigning in disgrace. These are a few of the 1,600 cases involving embezzlement, tax evasion, kickbacks and Swiss bank accounts by high-level officials that have hit the desks of prosecutors since the euro crisis began five years ago and devastated Spain.

US sending $100mln aid package to Syria
RT - The US has announced that it will provide an additional $100 million in humanitarian aid for Syria, which will bring the total provided aid to $510 million. US Secretary of State John F. Kerry announced the new aid during his visit to Rome on Thursday, detailing that the funds will be used to support 1.4 million Syrian refugees that have been displaced during the civil war.

Hezbollah: Israel struck to break Syria resistance
Press TV - Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the recent Israeli strikes against Syria were meant to force the country to abandon resistance against Israel.

VIDEO: Al-Qaeda Now in Control of CIA’s Covert War in Syria
Kurt Nimmo - The Guardian reported Wednesday that the CIA’s Free Syrian Army is losing mercenaries to a better equipped, more disciplined and religiously motivated al-Nusra.

Britain introduces new ploy to arm terrorists in Syria
Press TV - The British government has been circulating a discussion paper to EU member states in Brussels in yet another attempt to arm terrorists fighting the popular government of president Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

YouTube: Author and scholar Phyllis Bennis discusses likely impact of Hawking's boycott on Israel
Phyllis Bennis: Hawking's boycott of Israel will shake Israeli public the way sports boycott affected South Africa.

Brazil Gears Up To Supply Non-GM Soy To India
Green Med Info - Following news that China is ordering non-GM soy from Brazil, the non-GM soy producers of Brazil are gearing up to sell their crop to India as well. Soon all countries outside the GM-producing Americas will be sourcing non-GM soy. Except, that is, the UK, which is now stuck in a GM ghetto.

VIDEO: Congresswoman: Obama Gave Benghazi Stand Down Order
Paul Joseph Watson - In comments that went largely unnoticed, Missouri Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R) directly blamed President Obama for ordering the stand down which facilitated the assault on the US consulate in Benghazi.

Ohio county strong arming citizens into getting revenue – compliance sweep of unlicensed dogs has seized 100 so far, threat to euthanize!
Almost 100 pets have already been seized by the Allen County Dog Warden since beginning a compliance sweep in recent days.
Allen County dog owners who haven’t licensed their dogs this year better do one of two things immediately: buy a license today or hide their family dog(s)! The Dog Warden is doing a clean sweep of unlicensed pets.

Benghazi Debate Focuses on Interpretation of Early E-Mail on Attackers
NY Times - House Republicans on Thursday intensified their criticism of the Obama administration for its handling of the assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, with Speaker John A. Boehner calling for the release of an e-mail that he said showed that State Department officials believed from the start that “Islamic terrorists” were linked to the attack but have declined to say so publicly.

VIDEO: Judge Napolitano: Hillary Clinton Could Be Prosecuted Over Benghazi Testimony
xrepublic.tv - Judge Andrew Napolitano is going on the record saying that if Hillary lied, yes, she could be prosecuted. Since we know she has lied, it's time to prepare to charge her. Here's the relevant quote from the interview...

VIDEO: Clinton, Rice Presented Awards For Public Service On Same Day As Benghazi Hearing
Steve Watson - As State Department employees divulged information regarding woeful failures and dereliction of duty on behalf of both Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice over the Benghazi terror attack, both the former Secretary of State and the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. were receiving awards for being great public servants.

VIDEO: Ben Swann: Congress and GAO now investigating DHS ammo stockpiling + Benghazi Special
FOX19 May 07, 2013 - For months now, the Internet has been buzzing with rumors of massive ammo buys by the U.S. government. Now, some members of Congress have taken notice and have begun holding hearings about just how much ammo is being bought and for what purpose.

‘Our homeland defense system failed’ - Congress holds first hearing on Boston bombing
RT - Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis entertained questions from the United States House Committee on Homeland Security Thursday morning as lawmakers learn if last month’s terrorist attack could have been prevented.

Republicans Are Refusing To Appoint Members To Obamacare's Most Notorious Panel
Business Insider - One of the most politically intense fights over the Affordable Care Act was over the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, infamously dubbed a "death panel" by Republicans during the 2010 elections.

VIDEO: HHS budgets $150m to teach people how to enroll in Obamacare
Washington Examiner - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday that HHS will spend $150 million to teach people how to enroll in the Obamacare exchanges, after a Democratic senator scolded her for running a poor “public information campaign.”

Is the FDA Protecting the Public From Self-Sufficiency and Whole Foods With LDS Cannery Crackdown?
Activist Post - ALL LDS [Latter Day Saints] Canneries east of the Mississippi will no longer be canning any food. The FDA, in their infinite, expert opinions–said with the greatest of sarcasm–has managed to FINALLY create such a set of conditions which are impossible for the LDS Church to comply with.

Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why
Despite the 6.5% stock market rally over the last three months, a handful of billionaires are quietly dumping their American stocks . . . and fast.
Warren Buffett, who has been a cheerleader for U.S. stocks for quite some time, is dumping shares at an alarming rate. He recently complained of “disappointing performance” in dyed-in-the-wool American companies like Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Kraft Foods.

House passes 'Pay China First' Act
RT - The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday that would require the government to begin paying back foreign nations before spending funds on domestic items.

Eastern Hemisphere Physical Gold Buying is Going to be the Federal Reserve’s Waterloo!
silverdoctors.com - Connecting all the dots, there is no question in my mind that the big price smashing of gold in mid-April was an operation designed to shake loose enough 400 oz. gold bars out of GLD in order to satisfy the enormous delivery demands coming from Asia, India and even

America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A Revenue Generating Surveillance Grid
Economic Collapse - What do speed traps, parking tickets, toll roads, speed cameras and red light cameras all have in common? They are all major revenue sources for state and local governments.... According to the National Motorist Association, issuing speeding tickets raises somewhere between 4.5 billion and 6 billion dollars in the United States each year. within Europe.

Sen. Warren Introduces Bill To Lower Rates On Student Loans To .75% For One Year
Consumerist - While commercial and personal borrowers are currently enjoying historically low interest-rates on loans, and big banks are able to obtain loans at less than one percent interest, student borrowers have had to fight against lawmakers looking to raise interest rates on federally subsidized student loans.

Jordan summons Israeli envoy
Press TV - The Israeli ambassador was summoned on Wednesday by Jordan’s Interior Minister Hussein Majali, who is also acting foreign minister, Jordan’s official news agency Petra reported.

Israel exploited loophole to take 1,000 DNA samples from African refugees
RT - Israeli police have admitted to collecting some 1,000 DNA samples from African refugees who have arrived in the country since 2012, after using a security-related clause to open criminal cases against some of the immigrants.

Putin slams ISAF for turning blind eye to Afghanistan drug production
RT - The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) does almost nothing to eradicate drug production in Afghanistan, and this drug-trafficking problem will likely worsen in the near future, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.

Italy appeals court sentences ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi to 4 years in jail over tax fraud
RT - Italy appeals court has upheld the tax fraud conviction against former PM Silvio Berlusconi sentencing him to four years in prison.

Israel Rescues Al-Qaeda Terrorists From Syria
Paul Joseph Watson - Israel is sending military vehicles into Syria to pick up wounded Al-Qaeda terrorists involved in the fight against the Syrian Army before patching them up and sending them back into battle, another startling example of how the Zionist state is working with its supposedly sworn enemies to topple President Bashar Al-Assad.

Israel approves 296 new settler units
Press TV - The Israeli regime has approved the construction of 296 new illegal settler units in the so-called Beit El settlement in the occupied West Bank, despite international condemnation.

US wants to keep nine bases in Afghanistan: Karzai
Press TV - Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed Thursday to obtain concessions from the United States in negotiations to sign a security pact, saying Washington wanted to retain nine military bases in the country, according to AFP.

Japanese claim on Okinawa challenged in China
RT - China’s leading newspaper has upped the ante in the country’s intensifying territorial dispute with Japan, claiming its high time both sides “re-examine” who has sovereignty over Okinawa – which hosts a massive US military contingent.

Pentagon removes 17 officers from duty to launch its most powerful nuclear missiles
RT - In an unprecedented action, the Air Force has removed 17 of its officers from a base at which they had the authority to control and launch nuclear missiles at the president’s command, thereby leaving the mission significantly understaffed.

VIDEO: Latest On Benghazi: Continual Live Updates
Infowars.com - Whistleblower: Hillary Was ‘The Only Person’ Who Could’ve Authorized More Benghazi Security

SEAL Team 6 Families to Blame Government For Deaths
Paul Joseph Watson - With the administration already reeling over today’s Benghazi revelations, a press release on the ‘Tea Party Command Center’ website promises “never before revealed information” about the circumstances behind the incident.

VIDEO: The Real Benghazi Story: U.S. Op to Arm al-Qaeda in Syria
Kurt Nimmo - Last November, we reported that the murder of ambassador Christopher Stevens wasn’t about a lame anti-Muslim video. It was connected to an arms shipment as part of the on-going “creative destruction” of the Middle East and North Africa.

Two-thirds of senators to vote on U.S.-Mexico border without having seen it
Washington Times - President Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano have said the border is secure and that the only way to improve it is to legalize illegal immigrants, which they argue will help authorities focus on illegal crossings and major criminals. But lawmakers journeying to the border to see for themselves often come back with a different impression.

Americans Convinced Gun Homicides Soar Despite Actual Plunge In Gun Crimes
Zero Hedge - Reuters reports that while gun-related homicides are down 39% from the 1993 peak, only 12% of people believe that gun crimes have fallen. Non-fatal firearm crimes declined by 69% to 467,300 in the same period but 56% of Americans believe that gun crime is higher now than it was 20 years ago, the Pew Research Center said its poll showed.

VIDEO: Sen. Manchin: Background Checks “Expand Second Amendment”
Kurt Nimmo - Democrat Senator Joe Manchin is trying to get another background check bill through the Senate following last month’s defeat of a bill he introduced with Republican Senator Patrick Toomey. “I truly believe the background check bill is possible to get passed,” Manchin told CBS News on Tuesday.

Texas House Blocks Federal Gun Control 102-31
Anthony Gucciardi - Introduced by Representative Matthew Krause, House Bill 928 is among the many pro-Second Amendment pieces of legislation that have either been passed or are currently going through the legal system around the nation.

Maryland To Become 19th State Legalizing Medical Marijuana
CBS News - Gov. Martin O’Malley will sign legislation to make Maryland the 19th state to approve a medical marijuana program, his spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday, but it remains unclear when the program will be up and running.

Cleveland horror house: Neighbors say police ignored their suspicions in past years
Press TV - What the neighbors saw was terrifying and dehumanizing... Yet the gut-wrenching reports couldn’t persuade the Cleveland cops to go inside the rundown house - where three women kidnapped between 2002 and 2004 were held hostage by the vile homeowner, officials said.

VIDEO: Cop Attacks Special Needs Student For Not Having Shirt Tucked In
Liberty Crier - A police officer slams a special needs student to the ground and puts him in a life threatening hold for not having his shirt tucked in. This is a perfect example of why we should never put police officers in our schools as suggested by the NRA.

It’s Dishonest to Talk about Benghazi Without Talking About the Syrian War
Washington's Blog - Both parties are avoiding the bigger picture … The fact that Democrats and Republicans alike have been using Benghazi as the center of U.S. efforts to arm the Al Qaeda-affiliated Syrian rebels. Specifically, the U.S. supported opposition which overthrew Libya’s Gadaffi was largely comprised of Al Qaeda terrorists.

No verdict on seventh day of jury deliberation in U.S. abortion doctor case
Reuters - A Philadelphia jury ended its seventh day of deliberations on Wednesday without a verdict in the murder trial of a doctor accused of killing babies and a patient during late-term abortions at a clinic that served low-income women.

VIDEO: Early 2016 Poll: Rand Paul Holds 19 Point Lead In Iowa
Daily Caller - A poll conducted by Illinois-based pollster McKeon & Associates for Freedom to Choose PAC, a pro-gun group, found Paul with an early lead over other possible presidential contenders.

Are We On The Verge Of Witnessing The Death Of The Paper Gold Scam?
Economic Collapse - The legal claims on physical gold far exceed the amount of physical gold that the banks actually have by a very, very wide margin. And right now the bankers are scared out of their wits because their warehouses are being drained of physical gold at a frightening rate.

Upton reacts to latest Palisades leak
wmuk.org - Upton says he will tour the Palisades plant on Monday, May 13th, along with Nuclear Regulatory Commission member Kristine Svinicki. Congressman Fred Upton says he's "outraged" by a new leak at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant near south Haven.

Jordan MPs vote to expel Israeli envoy
Press TV - The Jordanian Parliament has voted to expel the Israeli ambassador to Amman and recall the country’s ambassador to Tel Aviv.

‘US knew about Israeli raids on Syria’
Press TV - Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani says the United States and certain Arab states had been informed of Israel’s intention to carry out air strikes against Syria in advance. “We have accurate information that the US and some Arab countries had prior knowledge of the recent incidents in Syria and the bombardment of several areas in the country,” Larijani said on Tuesday.

‘West seeks to spread war in Syria’
Press TV - The West and its regional allies seek to spread the conflict in Syria by aiding the militants operating in the country and refusing to facilitate a political resolution of the conflict, says a British journalist. “If they were genuinely interested in saving lives …[,] western leaders would be using their leverage with the rebels' regional sponsors to negotiate a political settlement,” Seumas Milne wrote in an article in the Guardian on Tuesday.

Israel arrests Palestinians in West Bank
Press TV - Israeli forces have arrested 16 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank, media reports say.

Russia, US to push for global Syria conference to bring conflicting sides to table
RT - Russia and the US reiterated their commitment to bringing the sides of the Syrian conflict to the negotiating table, and have announced an international conference to be called by the end of May which will serve as a follow-up to the Geneva communiqué.

IDF complains to UN over Syrian mortars that land in Israel
jpost.com - The IDF on Monday filed a complaint with the UN over two mortal shells that were launched from Syria and exploded in the Golan Heights. The mortars landed in open areas and no injuries were reported. Initial indications were that the shells were accidentally fired into Israel in the midst of a battle between the Syrian army and rebels.

YouTube: Syria: Media War of Words | Weapons of Mass Distraction
RT - Abby Martin takes with a look at the conflicting reports about chemical weapons being used in Syria, news of Israeli airstrikes in Damascus, and the importance of taking information from the corporate media on this issue with a grain of salt.

Syria Traffic Goes "Dark" As Country Disappears From Internet
Zero Hedge - While there have been no new military attacks on Syria since Sunday morning, something more peculiar happened in the past few hours, when according to Akamai and various other Internet traffic trackers, Syria has literally gone "dark", or, as Umbrella Security Labs describes it, as if "Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet."

Land grab: Israeli govt backs bill to forcibly relocate up to 40,000 Bedouin villagers
RT - Israeli Cabinet ministers are backing a draft law to demolish Bedouin villages in the country's Negev Desert and relocate residents to state-approved settlements. If adopted, the country's latest ethnic cleansing project will affect tens of thousands.

North Korea removes missiles from launch sites
RT - In a sudden de-escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang has removed two of its ballistic missile units from their launching positions, US officials confirmed. Two Musudan missiles, capable of hitting targets 2,500 miles away, were withdrawn from a launch site in the eastern part of the country and moved to a storage facility, several US officials who chose to remain anonymous told the media.

Police Confirm Bilderberg 2013 to Take Place in Watford, UK
Paul Joseph Watson - Hertfordshire Police have confirmed that the 2013 Bilderberg Group meeting will take place at the Grove luxury hotel in Watford, United Kingdom early next month as over 100 of the world’s most influential power brokers will meet clandestinely to discuss global policy behind closed doors.

May 25 ‘March Against Monsanto’ planned for over 30 countries
March Against Monsanto - Currently, marches are being planned on six continents, in 36 countries, totaling events in over 250 cities, and in the US, events are slated to occur simultaneously at 11 a.m. Pacific in 47 states.

VIDEO: White House Refuses To Address Questions On Benghazi Stand Down Order
Steve Watson - In a remarkable exchange Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney failed to directly address questions regarding explosive claims by a whistleblower that US Special forces personnel were ordered to stand down as the attack on the US embassy was taking place.

Brewer signs bill authorizing volunteer state militia
azcapitoltimes.com - Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill creating a state militia that she could deploy at any time, and for any reason. The bill, SB1495, creates a volunteer state militia, separate and apart from the National Guard.

VIDEO: D.C. Police Chief: We Will Arrest Adam Kokesh and Open Carry Protesters
Infowars.com - District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier says she will arrest Adam Kokesh and any other protesters who violate the district’s gun laws. “Passing into the District of Columbia with loaded firearms is a violation of the law and we’ll have to treat it as such,” she told NewsChannel 8.

Eyewitnesses: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Did Not Shoot Boston Cop
Paul Joseph Watson - Eyewitnesses to the shootout involving the alleged Boston bombers have thrown up another contradiction to the official narrative, asserting that MBTA Transit Police Officer Richard H. Donohue Jr. was not shot by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev but by other cops in a friendly fire incident.

VIDEO: Mother Of Slain Benghazi Victim Rips Hillary Clinton: "I Blame Her"
realclearpolitics.com - Pat Smith's son Sean Smith, a State Department information officer, was one of four Americans killed during the attack.

Biden Wants Pastors, Rabbis and Nuns to Tell Their Flocks: Enacting More Gun Control Is the Moral Thing to Do
12160.info - Biden met for two-and-a-half hours Monday with more than a dozen leaders from various faith communities – Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh, to name a few. Both Biden and the faith leaders encouraged each other not to give up on what has been an arduous and thus far fruitless effort by Biden and President Barack Obama to pass new gun laws in the wake of December’s schoolhouse shooting in Connecticut.

VIDEO: Virginia Students Suspended for Pointing Pencils and Making Gun Noises
Adan Salazar - Late last week, seven-year-old Christopher Marshall was taking on the role of a marine and his friend “a bad guy” when their teacher spotted them pointing pencils at each other and pretend shooting.

All Depositors Everywhere Should be Scared for their Money-Rick Ackerman
silverdoctors.com - Trader and forecaster Rick Ackerman says, “As far as the Fed getting off the easing regimen, it’s not possible . . .You’d kill the system right now. There’s no way out, and although we put off the day of reckoning, it can’t be put off indefinitely.”... Ackerman fears confiscation of bank deposits and says, “All depositors everywhere should be scared for their money.

10,962,532: U.S. Disability Beneficiaries Exceed Population of Greece
CNS News - The total number of people in the United States now receiving federal disability benefits hit a record 10,962,532 million in April, which exceeds the 10,815,197 people who live in the nation of Greece.

The Price Of Copper And 11 Other Recession Indicators That Are Flashing Red
Activist Post - There are a dozen significant economic indicators that are warning that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession. The Dow may have soared past the 15,000 mark, but the economic fundamentals are telling an entirely different story. If historical patterns hold up, the economy is heading for a very rocky stretch.

YouTube: Economic Collapse This Year - Mike Rivero
FinanceAndLiberty.com - Elijah Johnson interviews Mike Rivero.

Report: Legalizing Illegal Immigrants to Cost $6.3 Trillion
Washington Times - The Heritage Foundation said Monday that legalizing illegal immigrants would cost taxpayers a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years — releasing a report that ignited a venomous battle over an immigration bill and who is truly representing the conservative movement in the debate.

Social Security Goes After Man For Overpayment To His Mom… From 42 Years Ago
Consumerist - Back in 1971, someone at the Social Security Administration goofed and overpaid a woman to the amount of $895. This past January, 42 years after the fact, that woman’s son says he received a letter from the SSA telling him to pay up or have that money docked from his tax refund.

Air Force brochure for rape victims: ‘It may be advisable to submit’
Raw Story - A sexual assault “prevention and response” brochure issued by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) advises victims to consider submitting to their attack, Wired magazine reported on Tuesday. “It may be advisable to submit than to resist,” the guide (PDF) said in a section labeled, “If you are attacked,” saying victims should make that decisions based on the circumstances behind their attack while being “especially careful” if their attacker has a weapon.

Fire burning next to buried nuclear waste near St. Louis
ENENews - St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 8, 2013: The most recent air quality data from the state Department of Natural Resources showed a potential short-term health risk from high levels of hydrogen sulfide on three afternoons in February. Earlier testing showed levels of benzene near the landfill’s property line that would be unhealthy with long-term exposure. Measurements of radioactivity and carbon monoxide have not reached levels of concern, according to the agency.

Source: Israeli Airstrike on Syria Coordinated With Al-Qaeda Militants
Paul Joseph Watson - Israel’s airstrike on Syria was timed to precede an Al-Qaeda-led rebel offensive against President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces according to Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence sources, underscoring once again how jihadists are doing the dirty work of the very powers they claim to oppose.

VIDEO: 'Israel, al-Qaeda ties out in open'
Press TV - “The Syrian government is having more and more success in reestablishing sovereignty…and so in a last-ditch desperate measure, this unholy alliance as you put it very aptly, between Israel and al-Qaeda has come right out into the open,” Dr. Kevin Barrett said during an interview with Press TV.

Ban concerned over Israel aggression
Press TV - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed grave concern over the Israeli regime’s recent aggression against Syria.... "The secretary-general urges respect for national sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries in the region, and adherence to all relevant Security Council resolutions," Nesirky also said.

In Wake of US-Israeli Attack on Syria, UN Reveals Terrorists Not Government Used Sarin Gas
Activist Post - The reasoning behind recent US-Israeli attacks on Syria has been undermined further as the UN reveals Western-backed terrorists, not the Syrian government, deployed sarin gas during the two-year conflict.

N Korea warns against provocation
Press TV - North Korea has warned against any provocation during the upcoming South Korea-US military drills, saying it is ready to counterstrike if a "single shell" drops across the disputed Yellow Sea maritime border.

3.5k European Council workers on strike
Press TV - Around 3,500 European Council staff members have gone on strike in protest against austerity measures.

'Worse than AIDS' - sex 'superbug' discovered in Japan called disaster in waiting
RT - Doctors are warning that a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea could be more deadly than AIDS, and are urging members of US Congress to spend $54 million for the development of a drug that would fight it.

Attacking Iran arms in Syria claim psyops
Press Tv - A senior Iranian commander has dismissed a media report that Israel targeted a shipment of Iranian weapons in a recent act of aggression against Syria, describing it as psychological warfare.

Russia flies strategic bombers near US
Press TV - Russian strategic bombers conducted flights near the U.S. defense zone close to northern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands last week, Moscow’s latest incident of nuclear saber-rattling against the United States, according to defense and military officials.

Warning! Anonymous Teams up with al-Qaeda!
Kurt Nimmo - How best to pass a raft of new “cybersecurity” legislation? Make it look like Guy Fawkes Anonymous hackers have teamed up with al-Qaeda. Just such collaborative attacks, dubbed #OpUSA, for Operation USA, will begin Tuesday, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government
(NaturalNews) A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety Agency."

Amid new security threats, some in Congress look to update 9/11 law
Reuters - Now, as criticism grows that the law has been stretched well beyond its original intent to go after militant groups that did not even exist on 9/11, some Democrats and Republicans have begun writing legislation to update the nearly 12-year-old resolution.

VIDEO: Clinton sought end-run around counterterrorism bureau on night of Benghazi attack, witness will say
Fox News - On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a "whistle-blower" witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress, Fox News has learned.

60 Minutes Propaganda: “Counterinsurgency Cops” in Massachusetts
Kurt Nimmo - In the brazen propaganda piece below, CBS’ 60 Minutes lavishes praise on the latest gimmick in the militarization of police.

AUDIO: US Senator Inhofe: Big Sis Buying Ammo To Dry Up Supply
Steve Watson - Appearing on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on WABC in New York, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. said that the Obama administration was attempting to “dry up the market” and deprive gun owners of bullets.

Missouri Welcomes Gun Manufacturers to Missouri with Land and Legislation
Activist Post - A cooperative project is underway to bring firearms and accessories manufacturers and distributors to the Howell County Ozarks region of Missouri. The project was initiated by a listener of the Americas Voice Now radio program who volunteered to put up one of three parcels of land to any manufacturer or distributor who would move to the region.

Gun Business Exodus Begins In Colorado
Daily Caller - HiViz Shooting Systems, a gun-parts manufacturer in Fort Collins, Colo., will move its operations up the road to Laramie, Wyo., making good on its threat to pull up its Colorado roots after Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law several controversial gun control measures earlier this year.

VIDEO: Obama Urges Grad Students to “Reject” Warnings About “Government Tyranny”
Paul Joseph Watson - President Barack Obama gave a speech to Ohio State University graduates yesterday during which he urged them to “reject” warnings about government “tyranny” and to place more trust in the state.

Big business paid US $36bn to avoid jail
Press TV - Record fines adding up to $36 billion have been paid out in the last 12 years by multinational corporations to the U.S. government to settle charges of corruption and fraud.

Silver Coin Collectors and Pawn Shops are Getting Duped: “Very High Quality Fakes”
Mac Slavo - Counterfeiting silver isn’t new, and numerous fake 100 ounce silver bars and U.S. Morgan dollars have been discovered to date. But now the scammers have turned their sights on the official one ounce bullion coin of the United States – the American Silver Eagle.

VIDEO: North Texans Spend Millions On Non-Existent Federal Taxes
CBS News - CBS 11’s I-Team has obtained a study that says Oncor, the giant electric utility company in North Texas, is collecting hundreds of millions of dollars from customers for federal taxes that don’t exist.

11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Should Be Abolished
Economic Collapse - If the American people truly understood how the Federal Reserve system works and what it has done to us, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately.

EPA Slapped with Lawsuit over Ongoing Bee Deaths
Dr. Mercola - The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to protect bees from neonicotinoid pesticides, according to a lawsuit against the agency, filed by beekeepers and environmental groups. Said Paul Towers, spokesperson for the Pesticide Action Network (PAN),

Woman’s Survival Garden Seized and Destroyed by Authorities
A woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma is suing the city’s code enforcement teams after they illegally cut down her entire survival garden. Denise Morrison, who started the garden after becoming unemployed, had over 100 medicinal and edible plants in her front and back yard.

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 Video: Syrian Bomb Leaves Mushroom Cloud

RT has managed to speak to local journalist Abdallah Mawazini, for a report on the latest developments. “When the explosion happened in Damascus, all the houses were shaken. There was dust everywhere.  ”Everyone woke up, most of the people ran downstairs – to make sure they are safe. Now we are getting more information. The sound of the explosion was heard everywhere in Damascus. People are scared.”


Crushing response awaits Israel for aggression against Syria: Iran
Press TV - Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says Israel’s acts of aggression against Syria will not go unanswered and Tel Aviv will receive a “crushing response.”

Tel Aviv will suffer again over attack on Syria: Syrian deputy FM
Press TV - In an exclusive interview with the CNN on Sunday, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad said, “When they attack, this is a declaration of war. This is not something that is (new).”

Israeli PM visits China after Syria strikes
AP - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Israel after a meeting of his security Cabinet and arrived in China for a scheduled visit on Monday, a possible indication that Israel does not expect an immediate retaliation.

Turkey to hold drills near Syria border
Press TV - Turkey’s army will stage military exercises in the southern province of Adana near the border with Syria amid the ongoing turmoil in its neighboring Arab country.

Intelligence alert over terror attack on US consulate in Mumbai
India Times - The Western Naval command headquarters has alerted the city police about the threat of a bomb attack on the US consulate here on July 21. The intelligence was shared with reference to an anonymous letter received by the consulate-general and American Centre in Kolkata, threatening to attack both places.

Unprovoked Attack on Syria: US-backed Israel Commits Egregious International Crime
Tony Cartalucci - Unprovoked, Israel has attacked Syria numerous times over the past 2 days, including attacks on the Syrian capital of Damascus, in what appears to be a series of intentional provocations designed to drag the region into a wider conflict its US sponsors can then enter militarily.

‘Israel used depleted uranium shells in air strike’ – Syrian source
RT - Israel used "a new type of weapon", a senior official at the Syrian military facility that came under attack from the Israeli Air Force told RT. “When the explosion happened it felt like an earthquake,” said the source, who was present near the attack site on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday morning. “Then a giant golden mushroom of fire appeared. This tells us that Israel used depleted uranium shells.”

VIDEO: Israeli Air Strike Targeted Chicken Farm, Civilian Infrastructure
Live Leak - In addition to an arms site, Israel’s air strike on Syria targeted civilian infrastructure as well as a chicken farm.

Did Israel Invade Lebanon?
Kurt Nimmo - According to the Israeli intelligence asset DEBKAfile, the IDF crossed into Lebanon following a second Israeli attack on a military research facility located on the outskirts of Damascus early Sunday morning.

Karzai denies CIA cash bought support of Afghan warlords, asks US to continue payments
RT - Afghan President Hamid Karzai denies that CIA cash delivered to his office each month was used to buy the support of warlords who could tip the country into another civil war. Karzai insists the cash was used for above-board purposes.

China food scandal: Rat meat sold as lamb meat
(NaturalNews) Chinese authorities say they broke up a 900-person criminal ring that harvested meat from rats and other animals to be modified and sold as lamb meat. This "rat meat" appeared in markets in Jiangsu province and Shanghai.

DHS Seeks Millions More Rounds of Ammunition
Paul Joseph Watson - The Department of Homeland Security has released a market survey asking companies if they are able to provide 2 million rounds of ammunition within a short time period, increasing concerns that the federal agency is continuing its arms build up in preparation for domestic unrest.

VIDEO: Tsarnaev's widow under new scrutiny as investigators find radical Islamist material on her computer
RT - Investigators are ramping up their focus on Katherine Russell, the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect and alleged planner Tamerlan Tsarnaev after an inspection of her computer turned up radical Islamist material, law enforcement sources said.

Lock Down Garden Grove: Dangerous Mental Patient on the Loose
Infowars.com - Should the residents of Garden Grove, California expect their city to be locked down? After Boston was locked down as cops pursued an unarmed teenager, it may be a possibility.

Radio Host to Lead Armed March on DC July 4th 'To Put Gov't on Notice that We Won't be Intimidated'
CNS News - Libertarian activist and radio host, Adam Kokesh plans to lead an armed march on Washington, D.C. this Independence Day. Launched as a group on Facebook, the "Open Carry March on Washington" hopes to get 1,000 supporters to march into the nation's capital with loaded rifles.

VIDEO: Kent State was 43 years ago May 4th
Daily Paul - "Ohio" is a protest song written and composed by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, and performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Here is an in depth article...

Nuclear incident drills to start Monday across Montana
greatfallstribune.com - A national exercise, known as NUWAIX 2013, which is executed by U.S. Northern Command and sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, will bring about 1,000 people to Montana throughout the exercise.

The New Normal: Boston Bombing Suspect Interrogated Without Counsel
Kurt Nimmo - According to lawyers Derege Demissie and Susan Church, Robel Phillipos, the teenager accused of lying to investigators after the Boston Marathon bombings, was interrogated without the benefit of a lawyer.

RT Claims Boston Bombing Was A False Flag Attack
Liberty Crier - From the Youtube Description: Triggers pulled on 4th, 2nd & 1st Amendments distracted by flag waving; clunky FBI propaganda; and unleash the War on Bathtubs. Seek truth from facts with former Marine Corps officer James Fetzer, editor of Storyleak Anthony Gucciardi, the Corbett Report’s James Corbett, Questioning the War on Terror author Kevin Barrett, Boston eyewitnesses, and Fmr. Rep. Ron Paul.

Post-Boston: Now You Have to Prove You’re Not a Terrorist
Kurt Nimmo - In a Christian Science Monitor article covering the case of Cameron D’Ambrosio – the teenager who supposedly made terroristic threats on his Facebook page – a New York cop is quoted as saying government needs to implement a zero tolerance approach to online speech after the Boston bombing.

875,000 On Suspected Terrorist Watch List
Reuters – The number of names on a highly classified U.S. central database used to track suspected terrorists has jumped to 875,000 from 540,000 only five years ago, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said.

Guantanamo Camp Burns Through $900,000 A Year Per Inmate
Reuters - The Pentagon estimates it spends about $150 million each year to operate the prison and military court system at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, which was set up 11 years ago to house foreign terrorism suspects. With 166 inmates currently in custody, that amounts to an annual cost of $903,614 per prisoner.

VIDEO: Free Shotguns In Chicago: Armed Citizen Project Wants To Arm Single Women, Homeowners
Huffington Post - A gun advocacy group announced this weekend their hope to distribute free shotguns to unarmed people living in some of the most high-crime areas of 15 U.S. cities, including Chicago.

VIDEO: DeMint on Immigration: If people read the bill, it will be blocked
National Review - ”There’s no reason we can’t begin to fix our immigration system so that we won’t make [these problems] worse. But the bill that’s being presented is unfair to those who came here legally, it will cost Americans trillions of dollars, it will make our unlawful immigration system worse.”

U.S. Will Need to Create 'Unprecedented' 35 Million New Jobs if Immigration Bill Passes
CNS News - Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, held a conference call today on the immigration bill proposed by the "Gang of 8" and said it will bring 30 million immigrants to the United States over the course of 10 years and would devastate the American workforce.

YouTube: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5-6-2013 ~ Federal Reserve Blows More Bubbles
Last week at its regular policy-setting meeting, the Federal Reserve announced it would double down on the policies that have failed to produce anything but a stagnant economy. It was a disappointing, but not surprising, move.

US suicide rates surge, surpass road fatalities
RT - More Americans now die of suicide than from car accidents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a disturbing statistic that some experts say points to the true depths of the US economic crisis.

Brewer stops plans to make gold, silver legal tender in Arizona
East Valley Tribune - Gov. Jan Brewer refused Thursday to make Arizona the second state in the nation to declare privately minted gold and silver coins, bars and ingots to be legal tender in the state. In vetoing the measure, Brewer said she shares the concerns of proponents that the dollar isn't worth what it used to be. And she said it's likely to get worse "as a result of an unsustainable federal deficit.''

VIDEO: Hagel: US administration mulls arming Syrian rebels
RT - The US is rethinking arming Syrian opposition fighters, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said. Speaking at a Pentagon news conference, he stressed the Obama administration is considering a range of options.

N Korea nukes could reach US: Pentagon
Press TV - The Pentagon said in a report to the US Congress issued on Thursday that North Korea’s Taepodong-2 missile, with continued development, might finally become capable of reaching parts of the United States if it is configured as an intercontinental ballistic missile.

'France to slide into recession in 2013’
Press TV - The European Commission says France will enter into recession in 2013 with a negative growth of 0.1 percent, Spain’s budget deficit will resurge to seven percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014, and Cyprus will head into sharp recession with its GDP predicted to fall 12.6 percent over the next two years.

IMF sees little alternative to austerity
Press TV - “Returning to out-of-control deficits is not an option. Stimulus programs are impossible as these could only be financed by more debt,” said Lagarde.

'US rights report aims to pressure Iran'
Press TV - Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani says the US State Department’s "fake" human rights report against Iran simply aimed to exert more pressure on Tehran.

Bolivia expels USAID for conspiracy
Press TV - Bolivian President Evo Morales says he will expel the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from the country, accusing the agency of seeking to "conspire against" the Bolivian people and government.

Pentagon deploys small number of troops to war-torn Mali
Washington Post - The Pentagon has deployed a small number of troops to Mali to support allied forces fighting there, despite repeated pledges by the Obama administration not to put “boots on the ground” in the war-torn African country.

U.S. Denounces North Korea Sentencing
WSJ - The Obama administration lashed out at North Korea and called for the immediate release of an American citizen sentenced by Pyongyang this week to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly committing "hostile acts" against the isolated communist country.

‘UK paid a high price in Afghanistan’
Press TV - British Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted that Britain has "paid a very high price” in Afghanistan after the Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirmed new casualties in the Asian country.

H7N9 bird flu causes 27th death in China
Press TV - Medical experts worry about the possibility of the H7N9 virus mutating into a form easily transmissible between humans. Chinese health authorities have confirmed the so-called "family clusters", where members of a single family have contracted the virus.

Senior Scientists Attack Chinese Researchers for Creating New Strains of Influenza Virus
The Independent - Experts warn new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human flu could escape causing global pandemic killing millions.

Tsarnaevs planned Independence Day attack, Dzhokhar tells investigators
RT - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, has told FBI interrogators that he and his brother had considered suicide attacks for the Fourth of July, the United States' Independence Day, before settling on April 15.

South Carolina House passes nullification bill to make Obamacare a crime
rawstory.com - The South Carolina state House on Wednesday passed a so-called “nullification” bill that is declares President Barack Obama’s health care reform law to be “null and void,” and criminalizes it’s implementation. The South Carolina Freedom of Health Care Protection Act was passed by a state House vote of 65 to 39.

Americans Warned: Home Schoolers Stripped of Rights
Recently, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has said that home schooling is not a parent’s right. It is a statement some are saying should frighten American parents. Two of the worst nations for home-schoolers are Germany and Sweden. If you want to see what things might be like if home schooling was banned in America, travel to Sweden, where the government controls education and the home schooling movement has been crushed.

Mo. Gov. Nixon caught red-handed in concealed carry permit holder list leak scandal
redalertpolitics.com - Not only has Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon now admitted that he lied about submitting the names of concealed carry license holders to the federal government, but there’s a paper trail to boot. New evidence proves that Nixon, a Democrat, had not ordered his administration to submit the lists, but that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano personally thanked him for doing so in a letter.

Missouri moving to protect parental rights from federal tyranny over medicine, education and discipline of children
(NaturalNews) A number of Missouri lawmakers are supporting an amendment to the state constitution that essentially formalizes the fundamental right of parents to raise their children as they see fit.

Bloomberg Refused Second Slice of Pizza at Local Restaurant
From the Trenches - The owners of Collegno’s Pizzeria say they refused to serve him more than one piece to protest Bloomberg’s proposed soda ban, which would limit the portions of soda sold in the city.

New York Shop Fined $60,000 for Selling Lighter Gun Look-alike
NY Daily News - US Camera & Computers says the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs was “arbitrary and capricious” when it fined the store in 2011.

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VIDEO: MSNBC Guest Who Attacked Infowars Exposed
Paul Joseph Watson - Roger Nicholson accused Infowars of being insensitive to Boston victims yet jokes on video about people being blown up. [Warning explicit language in second video]

VIDEO: Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton Guilty Of "Dereliction Of Duty" On Benghazi
realclearpolitics.com - We've been asking for months to interview those who were there. How can we try to prevent something like this from happening again if we don't exactly know what happened and what went wrong there.

VIDEO: Report: U.S. Government Worked with Bin Laden and His Top Lieutenant 3 Months AFTER 9/11
washingtonsblog.com - The ACLU described [Former FBI translator] Edmonds as: The most gagged person in the history of the United States of America. And famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says that Edmonds possesses information “far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers”.

VIDEO: Obama’s SS is Here NOW
John Galt - The name which struck terror into the German people who still believed in freedom and wanted their nation to remain a peaceful, respectable member within the international community. Nazi Germany’s SS was a force for terror and intimidation, creating an aura of fear within the citizenry and horror for the remainder of the world watching the spectacle of a police state far more brutal than any in human history up to that time.

Obama Makes May 1st "Loyalty Day" for Citizens to Reaffirm Allegiance to US
Activist Post - In a Presidential Proclamation signed April 30th, President Obama declared May 1st to be "Loyalty Day" in America from this day forward so citizens can reaffirm their allegiance to the United States.

Floridians Encouraged to Report Neighbors Who “Hate Government”
Paul Joseph Watson - A new $1 million dollar program led by Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw aimed at “violence prevention” is encouraging Floridians to report their neighbors for making hateful comments about the government, a chilling reminder of how dissent is being characterized as an extremist threat.

It’s Not About Guns: Gun Control Is People Control
Anthony Gucciardi - Gun free zones don’t lower crime rates or even prevent mass shootings, so what do they do? Gun control allows megalomaniacal politicians to exercise control over law-abiding citizens through unconstitutional legislation that paves the way towards eroding the Bill of Rights at large.

Statistics Show You Are NOT Going to Be Killed by Terrorism
washingtonsblog.com - The U.S. Department of State reports that only 17 U.S. citizens were killed worldwide as a result of terrorism in 2011. That figure includes deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq and all other theaters of war. In contrast, the American agency which tracks health-related issues – the U.S. Centers for Disease Control – rounds up the most prevalent causes of death in the United States...

Court OKs Barring Smart People From Becoming Cops (Really)
reason.com - Reader Ryan McCormick sends this amazing story from ABC News. Robert Jordan wanted to be a cop and he applied for a job as such in New London, Connecticut. His problem? He scored too high on the IQ proxy test and was thus excluded from consideration.

Feds Investigating Blythe Masters Over Energy Market Manipulation, Obstruction of Justice, Perjury
silverdoctors.com - The NYTimes Dealbook reports tonight that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) intends to take action against JP Morgan and Blythe Masters over manipulative trading schemes in the Michigan and California energy markets.

IRS to Spy on Our Shopping Records, Travel, Social Interactions
Washington’s Blog - Starting this year, the IRS tools will be able to track all credit card transactions, for starters. The agency has also instructed agents on using online sources such as social media and e-commerce sites including eBay, as well as the rich data generated by mobile devices.

Video of Bagram Plane Crash Emerges
An unidentified individual has allegedly captured Monday’s cargo plane crash near Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, that killed its seven crew members.
The video was posted to Live Leak and You Tube Tuesday. Pentagon officials have seen the video and are working to confirm its authenticity. Read More...

North Korea sentences American to 15 years hard labor
RT - North Korea’s Supreme Court has sentenced Kenneth Bae, an American citizen, to 15 years' hard labor on charges that he committed crimes against the state.

US training al-Qaeda in Jordan: Report
Press TV - Fresh evidence has surfaced shedding light on the role of foreign countries, the US in particular, in providing training and assistance to the militants and al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria.

UN calls force-feeding at Guantanamo ‘torture’
endthelie.com - The UN bases its position on that of the World Medical Association, which consists of 102 nations including the United States, Coville explained. The international organization, a watchdog for ethics in healthcare, said back in 1991 that forcible feeding is “a form of inhuman treatment” and “never ethnically acceptable.”

Syrian army advancing in city of Homs
Press TV - The Syrian army has made advancements against the foreign-backed militants in the western city of Homs, gaining control of the city’s central district of Wadi al-Sayeh.

‘M23 suspends peace talks with Congo’
Press TV - The March 23 movement (M23) rebels say they have put peace talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo’s government on hold over a UN mandate authorizing a brigade to attack the militant group in the country’s east.

Portuguese protest spending cuts
Press TV - The Wednesday’s protests targeted not only the country’s political leaders but also officials of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, who are in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, for a quarterly evaluation of Portugal’s €78-billion (about $102 billion) bailout program.

Stealing Syria’s Oil: The EU Al-Qaeda Oil Consortium
Global Research - The decision of the European Union to lift the embargo on Syrian government’s energy exports by importing oil from the ‘armed opposition’ is another flagrant violation of international law.

VIDEO: Boston police take three Boston Marathon bombing suspects into custody
news.yahoo.com - A spokeswoman at the Boston police department directed all questions on the suspects to the FBI, which has yet to disclose their identities. The Boston Globe reports, citing an unnamed police source, that the suspects are three college students and that they are suspected of aiding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after he allegedly bombed the marathon.

Guantanamo attorney dead in apparent suicide
RT - The body of Andy P. Hart, a 38-year-old US federal public defender, was found last week with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to Truthout, an investigative blog, news of the attorney’s death came only this Wednesday from an investigator working on Guantanamo detainees’ habeas corpus petitions. That investigator requested anonymity.

The Defense-VA-Vendor Conference Nobody Wants You to Know About
An outfit called the Defense Strategies Institute will hold a conference in Alexandria, Va., May 15-16 on the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments’ planned integrated electronic health record featuring high ranking speakers from both departments. Any vendor who wants to attend can do so. But the media will be prohibited.
Why no press coverage of a discussion that affects every member of the military and millions of veterans?

Pentagon May Court Martial Soldiers Who Share Christian Faith
Breitbart - The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense...Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis...”.

VIDEO: DIY Law Enforcement in Cash-Strapped Oregon County
Liberty Crier - “They will not send an officer out, so we are on our own totally,” says Sam Nichols, co-founder of Citizens Against Crime. CAC is a group of around 20 armed volunteers who have been conducting routine patrols in and around O’Brien, Oregon since last summer. CAC patrols “are always a minimum of two people,” says Nichols, precisely because they want to avoid the kind of thing “that happened in Florida, the case where Zimmerman shot the boy.”

US senators introduce bill to prevent government departments from stockpiling ammo
(NaturalNews) The bill, according to a statement from Sen. Inhofe, would require the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a report on the purchasing of ammunition by federal agencies, except the Department of Defense, and its effect on the supply of ammunition available to the public.

Explosive Gun Control Documentary ‘Disarmed’ by Anthony Gucciardi Released For Free Online
Anthony Gucciardi - The explosive gun control documentary Disarmed: A History of Gun Control, which examines the true statistics behind firearm use and gun control legislation, has released for free online.

US Army Warns of May 2nd Terror Threat
Paul Joseph Watson - The Department of Defense and the US Army are warning of a possible terror threat to coincide with the second anniversary of the death of Osama Bin Laden, according to a memo sent to Infowars by a source based at Fort Hood.

VIDEO/ARTICLE: FBI Whistleblower Says That The CIA Was Involved in The Boston Bombings
Intel Hub - FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds who is familiar with Graham Fuller’s involvement in backing terrorist operations overseas has stepped forward with new details about Fuller.

Oregon Teachers Traumatized by Unannounced Shooter Drill
thedailysheeple.com - Panic erupted on Friday at Pine Eagle Charter school in rural Oregon when two masked men carrying handguns burst into a teachers’ lounge and opened fire. After the initial chaos, the terrified teachers realized the guns were firing blanks and that they were the subject of an unannounced shooter drill.

Poll: More Republicans think armed revolution is needed, truth about Sandy Hook school shooting being covered up
nj.com - The poll found that overall, 29 percent of Americans think an armed revolution might be needed in the next few years, with another 5 percent unsure. Only 18 percent of Democrats took that view, compared with 44 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of independents.

Nullify the Fed! Arizona Constitutional Tender Bill on the Governor’s Desk for a Signature
Activist Post - The Arizona state senate concurred with the house on Senate Bill by a vote of 18-0, sending the legislation to Governor Jan Brewer’s desk for a signature. SB1439, the Constitutional Tender Act, allows businesses and the state government to accept payments in gold or silver. It specifies that legal tender in Arizona consists of all of the following...

You Are The Hope — Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts.org - If there is hope, you are it. You are motivated to find truth. You can think outside the box. You can see through propaganda. You are the remnant with the common sense that once was a common American virtue.

Bank of Ireland doubles tracker rate mortgages overnight affecting 13,500 UK customers
Thousands of homeowners are facing a huge increase in their mortgage repayments after the Bank of Ireland doubled rates overnight.

Foreign Holdings of US Securities Have Exploded
CNBC News - Foreigners now hold more than $13 trillion in American securities, a record set as the U.S. seeks to assert itself as the safest port in troubled global waters. China and Japan combined owned more than $3.4 trillion, including $2.4 trillion in debt, a number that has grown since the data set was compiled.

Only a Question of “When” That the Lights Get Turned Off & Deliveries of Metals Cease!
silverdoctors.com - ABN Amro notified customers 2-3 weeks ago that their supposedly ALLOCATED metal would not be delivered. How can this be IF it was truly “allocated”? The only plausible reason that customer “allocated” metal would not be delivered is because it was previously “re” allocated to someone else and is no longer in the vault. There can be NO other explanation.

VIDEO: 22 Facts That Prove That The Bottom 90 Percent Of America Is Systematically Getting Poorer
Economic Collapse - The United States is supposed to be a land of opportunity with a vibrant free market system that enables average people to make better lives for themselves. Unfortunately, free enterprise is being strangled to death in the United States today. Entrepreneurs and small business are being pounded into oblivion by rules, regulations, red tape and oppressive levels of taxation.

Militants carry out new chemical attack near Idlib: Syria UN envoy
Press TV - Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations says the foreign-backed militants in the Arab country have used chemical material against civilians during an attack on a town near Idlib.

Many militants slain outside Damascus
Press TV - Syrian army soldiers have killed dozens of foreign-sponsored militants during mop-up operations on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.

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

Israel in the room? Egypt quits nuke talks over ‘inefficiency’ in Middle East
RT - Egypt said it quits Non-Proliferation Treaty talks to protest the failure of the parties involved to implement a resolution aimed to free Middle East from nuclear weapons. Although not articulated, Israel is said to be the reason for the withdrawal.

Cyprus MPs approve EU-IMF bailout deal
Press TV - The approval means that the nearly bankrupt government of the eastern Mediterranean island nation can now receive a first tranche of the 10-billion-euro ($13 billion) loan in May. The sources said that the deal will include a tax of up to 40 percent on deposits of over 100,000 euros in Cyprus’s two biggest banks.

YouTube: Dramatic Footage: Boeing 747 Crashes At Bagram Airfield
RT - The Taliban has reportedly claimed responsibility after a civilian cargo aircraft crashed at Bagram Air Field near the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, killing all seven people aboard.

Breakthrough: High-level conference in Germany merges discussion about NATO policy with 9/11 truth
911blogger.com - The German Section of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) and the Centre of European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen, Germany, organized a high-level conference that took place from 26 - 28 April 2013 at the University of Bremen. Title: "Quo vadis NATO? - Challenges for Democracy and Law".

$3.1b missing in Canada anti-terror fund
Press TV - The Canadian government has been unable to account for 3.1 billion Canadian dollars in anti-terrorism funding, the auditor general says.

West's WMD Lies Fray as Syrian Army Overruns Terrorist Proxies
Activist Post - According to the White House itself, there is no evidence that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons of any kind during the two-year conflict the West itself has created and continues to perpetuate. Indeed, a letter from the White House via the Washington Post exposed just how tenuous the evidence actually is (emphasis added)...

EU Announces Potential Ban on Neonicotinoid Pesticides Linked to Bee Deaths, Environmental Collapse
Natural Society - In a major victory for environmental preservation, the European Union has announced a potential history-making ban on neonicotinoid pesticides that have been linked to the death of bees worldwide.

‘Uncle Ruslan’ aided terrorists from CIA official’s home
madcowprod.com - The uncle of the accused Boston Marathon bombers incorporated, in 1995, a company called the “Congress of Chechen International Organizations. ”Even as the company was sending aid to Islamic terrorists in Chechnya, its listed address was in the home of former top CIA official Graham Fuller.

VIDEO: Boston Bombers During Shootout: “We Didn’t Do It!”
Paul Joseph Watson - Video footage from the scene of the shootout with the alleged Boston bombers appears to contain audio of the suspects screaming out, “We didn’t do it!” as police fire on the two brothers.

Disturbing report indicates Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s requests for a lawyer were ignored
Activist Post - While reports indicating that Tsarnaev’s Miranda rights were being withheld were disturbing enough, this new aspect pointed out today by Glenn Greenwald is far worse.

Syrian Chemical Weapons: Globalist Mag Says Kucinich is Infowars Conspiracy Theorist
Kurt Nimmo - Foreign Policy is portraying former Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich as a conspiracy theorist for suggesting that allegations Syria used chemical weapons are part of a manufactured pretext for war. John Hudson, who writes on national security issues for the magazine, believes Kucinich may have been influenced by Infowars.com and Wikileaks.

YouTube: Ron Paul: We're Already Very Much Involved in Syria - Cavuto 4/29/2013
Former Rep. Ron Paul, (R-Texas), on how the U.S. should deal with Syria on Fox Business' Cavuto.

Obama administration officials threatened whistle-blowers on Benghazi, lawyer says
Fox News - At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress.

Backlog on Gun Orders Hits 2 Million
Paul Joseph Watson - While questions continue to swirl about the Department of Homeland Security’s huge ammo buying spree, Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain firearms, with backlogs surging despite Sturm, Ruger gun shipments surpassing 500,000 for the first time in history.

10 Tips to Make Sure Your Activist Group Isn't Set Up by the Feds
Activist Post - The FBI and federal government have been caught red-handed setting up groups, staging terrorists attacks, staging drills, creating patsies, and infiltrating activist groups. Here are 10 good tips to avoid the embarrassment of your group ending up in the headlines as another excuse to further the police state agenda.

Jury weighs fate of abortion doctor in murder trial
Reuters - Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, who ran the now-shuttered Women's Medical Society Clinic, could face the death penalty if convicted by the jury in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia. The case focuses on whether the infants were born alive and then killed.

US Mint Sells Record 4 Million Silver Eagles in April, On Pace to Sell 55M ASE’s in 2013!
silverdoctors.com - The US Mint updated Silver Eagle sales totals Monday evening for the first time in a week, and now report a massive 3,975,500 ASE’s sold with 1 day remaining in the month, an all-time sales record for April.

Connecticut Begins Gold Dealer Shutdown
Activist Post - Even if Connecticut's plan to track all gold sales isn't a harbinger for a modern day Roosevelt-like ban on gold ownership, it will at the very least drive gold bullion dealers out of business with the cost of complying with the new regulation. That will create artificial scarcity in Connecticut and could set a precedent for other US States. From the Connecticut General Assembly website...

Criminal Mafia: JPM’s New CIO is Also Head of Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee
silverdoctors.com - Any conflict of interest here? Nah, I’m sure that whenever he gets done “advising” the Treasury he would never…NEVER let his knowledge influence the investment decisions at JP Morgan!

IT'S STARTING: Obamacare Tax Hike Train Wreck
Americans for Tax Reform - Asked about Senator Max Baucus’s recent “train wreck” comments, President Obama today said, “A huge chunk of it [Obamacare] has already been implemented.” Unmentioned was the wave of destructive Obamacare tax increases that will begin to hit Americans during the 2014 tax filing season and beyond...

Case Worker: Illegal Aliens Got Food Stamps by the “Vanload”
Judicial Watch - For decades the U.S. government has knowingly given illegal immigrants food stamps, according to a former certification case worker who denounced the costly practice back in the 1980s but was essentially ordered to keep a lid on it.