China Declares “Willing To Engage In A Protracted Confrontation” With Japan As “Prime Target”
Zero Hedge - Official media said that Japan is the "prime target" and it is an "urgent task for China to further train its air force to make full preparation for potential conflicts." Japanese lawmakers, meanwhile, are pushing for a bill "demanding an immediate withdrawal of China's ADIZ."

Chinese jets shadowed US and Japanese planes in new air defense zone
RT - Chinese fighter jets were scrambled and followed US and Japanese planes that had entered the newly-proclaimed Chinese air defense zone in the disputed area of the East China Sea, Xinhua reports.

US Flyover in China-Japan Island Row – Will the Real Provocateur Please Stand Up?
Global Research - Washington’s move to fly nuclear-capable bombers over China’s eastern air defense zone as a forceful endorsement of Japan’s claims over disputed islands is both needlessly confrontational and totally counterproductive.

Karzai condemns US strike that killed toddler, threatens not to sign security deal
RT - President Hamid Karzai has blamed the US for a drone strike on a home in southern Afghanistan that killed a 2-year-old child and wounded two women, vowing that he will not sign a key bilateral security deal if such attacks continue.

VIDEO: Black Friday Exposed as a Scam: Special Report
Infowars.com - David Knight interviews Black Thursday shoppers and exposes some deals that are not as great as they seem.

Black Friday shopping marred by shooting, clashes and arrests (VIDEOS)
RT - Shoppers got more than they bargained for beginning Thursday evening as retail outlets across the United States opened their doors early for annual Black Friday deal seekers, predictably prompting an array of violent episodes from city to city.

And So It Begins: New York Sending Out Gun Confiscation Notices
blacklistednews.com - New York’s SAFE Act is a bad, bad thing. It requires people to register, sell or transfer (out of state) “assault rifles” and “high capacity” magazines. Many Empire State gun and standard capacity ammunition magazine owners have complied. Many have not. So, at some point, the State’s gonna go get ‘em.

15-Year-Old Charged With Terroristic Threat After Lighting Toilet Paper Roll On Fire
Breitbart - Police say a 15-year-old freshman boy faces a second-degree criminally negligent burning charge, a misdemeanor, and a first-degree terroristic threatening charge, a felony, after he ignited a roll of toilet paper in the bathroom of West High School Wednesday morning.

YouTube: Julie Borowski on the Stossel Show with John Stossel
Julie Borowski - This interview aired on the Fox Business network in September. A handful of people on YouTube have uploaded it. So here it is on my channel...

Watch: ObamaScare: Our Entire Economy is About to Get Hit With a Sledgehammer *Micro Documentary*
Mac Slavo - With the Patient Affordable Care Act now actively being integrated into American society, many still have no clue what its after-effects will actually be. Here’s the reality: The pain is coming and if you have yet to experience it in the form of higher insurance premiums, you can be assured that you’re going to feel it very soon in one way or another.

YouTube: Gerald Celente on Economic and Military Trends Across The Globe
David Knight is joined via Skype by Gerald Celente of Trends Journal to discuss the global financial outlook and the history of Governments crashing markets to control a populace.

Bitcoin Passes Price of Gold
silverdoctors.com - Bitcoin surged another 15% overnight, and briefly surpassed the price of gold at $1242 (while gold dipped to $1241)...

UPDATE: ... And then Bitcoin collapses 13% minutes later...
Zero Hedge - It seems the growing tensions in Asia (Japan-China sabre-rattling and Indian capital controls) have prompted more great rotation out of fiat and into digital currency as China/India markets open. For the first time ever, the price of one unit of Bitcoin exceeds the price of an ounce of gold...

“I Work At McDonalds, But I Can’t Afford To Eat There”
zerohedge.com - For Shawndraka Mack, a 100% pay rise from her current $7.60 “would do just fine.” While some employees turn to blood plasma donation, and most are on food stamps (and other benefits), the mother of two teenagers (on Medicaid) told Bloomberg Businessweek, “I love what I do, but I don’t want to work for nothing.”

Happy Thanksgiving from Occupied Afghanistan
Infowars.com - Here’s how U.S. soldiers spend their Thanksgiving. As you celebrate #Thanksgiving, take a moment to remember those who are not home with their loved ones.

US, Israel to threaten Iran with war game
Press TV - The US and Israel are planning to conduct a joint military drill in an effort to threaten Iran towards the end of the six-month period when an interim deal between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany expires.

China sends warplanes to newly established air defense zone
RT - China confirmed that it had flown warplanes over the country’s newly established East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Thursday, state media reported. The zone roused controversy when it was announced last week, as it covered disputed territory claimed by China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

The Iranian Deal: What the Big Six Really Have to Gain
caseyresearch.com - Officials from Iran made a deal with six countries (the US, Russia, China, England, France, and Germany)—in exchange for suspending the world's sanctions on Iran, Iran will curb its nuclear weapons program.... All of these countries have some sort of agenda that they are pushing—and this deal is going to give them exactly what they want.

VIDEO: US 'not leaving' air bases in Afghanistan
Press TV - The United States is ratcheting up pressure against the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai because it has no intentions of leaving major air bases, an analyst says.

First Weather Warfare, Then Ecomical Warfare, Now Biological Warfare? UN agencies launch mass vaccinations for children in typhoon-hit Philippines
News Beacon Ireland - All of this comes nicely packaged as a”humanitarian” endeavour to ease the suffering. Similar to the wars initiated on “humanitarian” grounds. Nothing is as it appears on the surface.

Thanksgiving and the Blessings of Liberty
New American - What originated as a sort of harvest festival among British colonists in the New World has taken on a life of its own. No longer is Thanksgiving a mere celebration of the harvest (a ritual found in many cultures); it has become a symbol of the oft-neglected virtue of gratitude.

NSA Contractors Are Literally Paying Off the Senators in Charge Of Keeping Them in Check
PolicyMic - After passing through the Senate’s Intelligence Committee, the so-called “FISA Improvements Act” is poised to actually do the complete opposite of what its title implies.

Military Urban Operations Training: "Blacked-out" Helicopters Reported in Several Cities
Activist Post - Military training exercises are being conducted over a wide area of the United States. Phoenix, Los Angeles and Dallas news stations were inundated with calls about "blacked-out" helicopters flying low over the cities.

VIDEO: Banning Doorknobs, Frat Parties, And “God Bless America Signs?! Nanny Of the Month
Liberty Crier - They make it their business to mind your business. And recently busybodies have made it their business to ban doorknobs in Vancouver (next stop: your town?)...

Nation’s largest school police force, in L.A., will stop ticketing kids 12 and younger
Public Integrity - Responding to demand for reforms, the nation’s largest school police force — in Los Angeles — will stop issuing tickets to students 12-years-old or younger for minor infractions allegedly committed on or near campuses during school hours.

So who wants to go to K-Mart at 6am on Thanksgiving?! Holiday shopping madness begins as critics say retailers have gone too far
Daily Mail - The holiday shopping bonananza began early this year as lines of customer flocked to K-Mart at 6am on Thanksgiving morning and more than a dozen reailers opened their doors to shoppers one day ahead of the famed-Black Friday shopping day.

Bitcoin Value Passes $1,000 For First Time Ever
Washington Post - At the start of November, one Bitcoin traded for just a bit over $200. By mid-month it had soared to $400. Then, around the time of the Senate hearings, it rose briefly above $900. Earlier Wednesday, the price broke through the psychologically significant $1,000 barrier on Mt. Gox, the most popular exchange for trading Bitcoins for dollars.

Obama: Socialism for Agribusiness Moves Americans Out of Poverty
Kurt Nimmo - All the usual corporate players are behind passing this bill to make sure transnational agribusiness keeps receiving gravy from an increasingly beleaguered American tax payer.

Air Force Sgt. Matt Pinkerton Fires 2 Fatal Shots at Home Intruder - Now Faces 2nd Degree Murder Charge
Freedom Outpost - Through no fault of his own, Matt Pinkerton is now facing the real possibility of being imprisoned for doing what any self respecting, individually responsible person would do – defending himself, his wife, his guests and his home.

Israel Launches Largest Ever Air Force Exercise Day After Iran Deal
Paul Joseph Watson - In what some would see as no coincidence, Israel launched its largest ever international air force exercise just a day after the Iran nuclear “deal” which has left Tel Aviv fuming.

Iran: White House Lying About Details of Nuke Deal
Washington Free Beacon - Iranian officials say that the White House is misleading the public about the details of an interim nuclear agreement reached over the weekend in Geneva. Iran and Western nations including the United States came to an agreement on the framework for an interim deal late Saturday night in Geneva. The deal has yet to be implemented.

Nuclear Deal With Iran Prelude to War, Not "Breakthrough"
Activist Post - Unless Iran plans on turning over its sovereignty and regional influence along with its right to develop and use nuclear technology, betrayal of any "nuclear deal" is all but inevitable, as is the war that is to shortly follow.

Report: More Drone Strike Deaths Since Obama Announced New “Constraint”
Steve Watson - A new report from a leading watchdog on drone missile use concludes that there have been more deaths from strikes in the six months AFTER president Obama announced a new “constraint” on use of the technology than there were in the six months before.

U.S. to Continue Flights in Defense Zone Claimed by China
Bloomberg - The U.S. won’t change its flight operations to comply with China’s newly claimed air-defense zone in the East China Sea, a Pentagon spokesman said.

China Is On A Debt Binge And A Buying Spree Unlike Anything The World Has Ever Seen Before
Economic Collapse - When it comes to reckless money creation, it turns out that China is the king. Over the past five years, Chinese bank assets have grown from about 9 trillion dollars to more than 24 trillion dollars. This has been fueled by the greatest private debt binge that the world has ever seen.

Jesuit Trained Pope Trashes Capitalism in Call for Worldwide Socialism
Kurt Nimmo - Pope Francis released his first encyclical on Tuesday. In addition to restating opposition by the Catholic Church to abortion, the new Pope criticized free market capitalism and advocated wealth redistribution.

Secrecy law approved in Japan — Fear Fukushima cover-ups to worsen
ENENews - Japan’s more powerful lower house of Parliament approved a state secrecy bill late Tuesday [...] Critics say it might sway authorities to withhold more information about nuclear power plants [...] The move is welcomed by the United States [...] lawyer Hiroyasu Maki said the bill’s definition of secrets is so vague and broad that it could easily be expanded to include radiation data [...]

VIDEO: Syria rejects barring Assad from political transition
“The era of colonialism has gone forever,” an official source at Syria’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, in reply to statements by some Western countries and their Arab allies that Assad should have no part in a transitional stage in the Middle Eastern country.

EU: Iran sanction relief could be in Dec. or Jan.
Press TV - The European Union (EU) says the bloc could lift some sanctions against Iran in December or January as part of the deal between Tehran and world powers in Geneva.

VIDEO: EU may freeze data-sharing with US
Press TV - European Union’s justice and right commissioner Viviane Reding has threatened to halt data-sharing arrangements with the United States because of recent revelations about Washington’s spying scandal.

US B-52 bombers snub China air defense zone, fly over disputed islands
RT - Two US military B-52 bombers flew over territorially-disputed islands in the East China Sea without informing China, while two of Japan’s largest airlines also refused to comply with the rules of Beijing’s newly set up air defense zone.

Merck betting $100 million on new China-based pharmaceutical factory
(NaturalNews) A recent Rueters article covered Merck's plan to invest $108 million for a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant to be up and running in China by 2017. This announcement is motivated partly by the anticipation of China by 2017. This announcement is motivated partly by the anticipation of China's annual sick-care spending to soar into the 1 trillion dollar range from 2011's 357 billion dollar expense.

CIA turned al-Qaeda double agents at Guantanamo base called ‘Penny Lane’
London Telegraph - The CIA used a secret base at Guantanamo Bay nicknamed ‘Penny Lane’ to turn some of al-Qaeda’s most dangerous terrorists into double agents, US officials have admitted. Inmates languishing under Guantanamo Bay’s harsh regime were offered cash rewards, “hotel” style rooms and even pornography if they agreed to help the CIA track down and kill fellow al-Qaeda operatives.

Supreme Court to hear 'Obamacare' contraceptive mandate challenge
McClatchy - The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will revisit the controversial health care law dubbed Obamacare, this time to decide whether employers must cover contraception in their insurance plans.

Busting Eight Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance
EFF - We’ve heard from lots of folks who are passionately concerned about the NSA’s mass spying, but are struggling to get their friends and family to understand the problem and join the over a half-million people who have demanded change through stopwatching.us and elsewhere.... So here’s a cheat sheet to help you talk about the NSA spying when you’re with family and friends.

Sandy Hook Report: Adam Lanza Broke Laws to Acquire Guns, Broke More Laws Using Them
Ammo Land - The report lists “a number of crimes” Lanza committed with the stolen guns—including the crime of “Murder Under Special Circumstances,” which was committed twenty-six times—and the report says Adam Lanza “was solely criminally responsible” for all these crimes.

Connecticut judge orders release of Newtown 911 tapes
(Reuters) - A Connecticut judge on Tuesday ordered the release of the 911 tapes of calls from Sandy Hook Elementary School made during the December 14th shooting spree that killed 20 children and six adults.

Bloomberg wants you to start fights about gun control at Thanksgiving
reason.com - On the Mayors Against Illegal Guns' "Demand Action" site, the tone for a holiday frolic is set by the Talking Turkey About Guns page: Everyone has friends and relatives with strong opinions and shaky facts. You can help set the table straight -- all you need is this simple guide to Talking Turkey about guns!

Legalized Theft of Guns
Ammo Land - An anti-freedom policy has been spreading across United States police departments, the legalized theft of citizens guns.... The policy is to impound guns, in extreme cases, all guns that officers come across, whether involved in any crime or not, then to refuse to return the guns until a judge issues an order to return them. As the attorney fees needed to obtain a court order can easily be 10 times what the gun is worth, most people do not bother.

Lara Logan on leave after '60 Minutes' review slams Benghazi story
LA Times - Lara Logan has been ordered to take an indefinite leave of absence from the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes" after an internal review found deep flaws in her reporting about the attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.

Ron Paul: Yellen Dangerous For The Economy
Kitco News - Paul says not much will change. “If anything, it’ll be slightly worse because she is a very aggressive inflator…I think she’ll be dangerous to the dollar and she will not revive the economy.” Paul thinks the Fed is temporarily holding markets in check by making Wall Street people richer and helping out the bankers but it has done nothing for the economy.

Reports: U.S. Unfreezes $8 Billion in Iranian Assets
Washington Free Beacon - The United States released $8 billion in frozen assets to Iran on Sunday in a move meant to ensure Tehran’s compliance with a nuclear pact signed over the weekend, according to top Iranian officials.

Karzai wants US to halt operations on civilians as condition for security deal
RT - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is calling for the United States to cease all military operations on civilian homes and show a clear dedication to the peace process before a security pact is signed, his spokesman said Tuesday.

France Planned False Flag Terror Attack in Britain
Paul Joseph Watson - French intelligence services planned to stage a terror attack in Britain and then blame it on neo-nazis in a bid to assassinate Muslim hate preacher Abu Hamza, according to an investigation by pressure group Hope Not Hate.

US, UK officials worry Snowden still has ‘doomsday’ collection of classified material
RT - US and British intelligence officials say they are concerned about a “doomsday” collection of highly classified, heavily encrypted materials they believe former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden may have stored away. The cache supposedly contains documents with names of US and allied intelligence personnel, seven current and former US officials and other sources told Reuters.

Canada Approves GM Fish Eggs, Environmental Threat
Activist Post - Two Canadian groups are speaking out against the introduction of AquaBounty's genetically engineered salmon: Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) and Islanders Say No to Frankenfish. Could the approval of GM fish eggs be the first major stepping stone in pushing GM salmon into the public arena without full approval?

Israel to send team to US over Iran deal
Press TV - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to send his national security advisor to the US for talks on a pending agreement between Iran and the six major world powers over the country's nuclear energy program.

Permanent Iran nuclear deal would revolutionize oil market
McClatchy - “If Iran really gets back to producing its oil and expanding capacity, the potential is almost as big as the shale gas revolution in the United States,” said Phil Flynn, senior energy analyst for the Price Futures Group. Iran holds the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves and second-largest natural gas reserves, according to the International Energy Agency.

‘German unis get funds from US military’
Press TV - A report shows German universities have received millions of euros in funds from the US military for research projects into munitions and drone software, a report shows.

Pakistan deploys first home-made drones
RT - Pakistan launched its first domestically produced drones on Monday, as police cracked down on demonstrators protesting US drone strikes targeting Islamic militants on Pakistani territory.

Thai protesters besiege 4 more ministerial buildings seeking govt ouster
RT - Thai opposition protesters have targeted several more government ministries on Tuesday in a continuation of their effort to depose Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government. It comes a day after they took over two ministries.

Pro-EU protesters clash with police in Ukrainian capital
RT - Tear gas was reportedly deployed by both sides as pro-EU protesters clashed with police in Kiev. At the same time, jailed ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko has started a hunger strike to demand the president sign the association agreement with the EU.

VIDEO: 'Greeks injecting HIV to claim benefits’
Press TV - In the report, WHO said it estimates that about half of the new HIV infections reported in Greece were self-inflicted “to enable people to receive benefits of 700 euros per month and faster admission” to drug-substitution programs.

'We've got to finish the job': Obama takes on hecklers to doubles down on immigration reform claiming it would boost economy and shrink deficit
Daily Mail - During a token policy appearance Monday in San Francisco, President Obama railed against Republicans for standing in the way of his 'comprehensive' immigration reform plans that would extend an amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.

Halperin: Death Panels Built Into Obamacare
Kurt Nimmo - Halperin said the death panel concept is a cornerstone of Obamacare. “It’s built into the plan. It’s not like a guess or like a judgment. That’s going to be part of how costs are controlled,” Halperin told Steve Malzberg. Halperin makes his comments eight minutes into the above video.

Democratic Staffers: Whoa, Our Rising Healthcare Costs Are ‘Unacceptable’
townhall.com - Welcome to the Obamacare party, people who helped their bosses foist this monstrosity upon an unwilling public. Many of these legislative aides are now saddled with much higher -- "unacceptable!" -- health costs, now that they're fending for themselves on DC's Obamacare exchange.

Your phone is talking behind your back — to your doctor
WTOP |- Your phone knows everything about you — how much you walk, talk and what level of Candy Crush you’re stuck on — but soon it could be spilling secrets to your doctor. More and more physicians are prescribing apps that help track their patients’ illnesses through information collected by their smartphones.

New Gun Shoots “DNA” Bullets
Liberty Crier - A company called SelectaDNA has created a special kind of paintball gun that shoots uniquely-coded DNA pellets. It’s being billed as a highly effective tool against rioters and other disturbers of the peace. The gun comes in pistol and rifle models and shoots a uniquely-coded DNA pellet that marks the target so that they can be apprehended at a less confrontational time for officers.

Revealed: Northrop Grumman’s Unmarked Gray Helicopter Drone
Paul Joseph Watson Next generation UAV to spy on Americans?... It appears to be a smaller version of the company’s MQ-8C Fire Scout helicopter drone, which was tested for the first time earlier this month by the U.S. Navy. Unlike the MQ-8C Fire Scout, the drone seen in the image above has no markings.

U.S. generals now take action to watch Obama
WND - After one of them called for the “forced resignations” of President Obama and congressional leaders in response to multiple grievances, including the alleged political purge of hundreds of senior military officers, two retired U.S. generals are creating a citizens’ commission to scrutinize Obama administration actions on national security and economic issues. Related article.

Secession Movement Growing In Two Surprising States
Ben Swann - The “secession movement” is currently picking up steam in two unlikely states: Colorado and Maryland. Groups of residents in both states cite leftist agendas and high taxes as reasons for wanting to become independent.

YouTube: "I'm Just a Mom!" Daphne Lee Gives Powerful Speech Against NDAA
After making her wait 8 hours, the Clark County Commission decided to hear Daphne Lee speak against the NDAA in Clark County, NV. What followed was one of the most powerful public comments in history.

High School Student in Critical Condition After Being Tazed by Cops
Adan Salazar - The family of a high school student fears he will not survive injuries sustained last Wednesday after school resource officers Tazed him, the family’s attorney has stated.

Young man arrested for marijuana possession dies in jail after guards ignore his severe food allergies
(NaturalNews) According to reports, Michael Ryan Saffioti's pleas for medical assistance during a severe allergic reaction went completely unheard by the jail's wardens and medical personnel, which resulted in the young man dying, one of the latest casualties of the senseless war on marijuana.

During Chilly November, Feds Jet Off To Caribbean Resort At Taxpayer Expense
Washington Times - A group of federal officials skipped chilly Washington this month for a taxpayer-funded trip o the Virgin Islands in the name of protecting the world’s coral reef.

Government books $41.3 billion in student loan profits
USA Today - The federal government made enough money on student loans over the last year that, if it wanted, it could provide maximum-level Pell Grants of $5,645 to 7.3 million college students.

6 Key Ways to Survive a Personal Economic Collapse
Activist Post - With all that is being written about the national economic collapse, people seem to be waiting for some huge event. However, for many North Americans, the collapse is here. This isn’t relegated to only lower income neighborhoods. As an article from a Cincinnati new station stated, “Hunger doesn’t know a zip code.”

Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs
Think By Numbers - About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006.

U.S. Marine predicted own brutal murder by 'ally'
WND’s camera was rolling as Greg Buckley Sr. summoned all his strength and told the heartbreaking story of his Marine son’s violent death to the crowd at the “Reclaim America” rally across the street from the White House Tuesday.

Congressional Budget Office Proposes Cuts to Military and Veterans Benefits
Ryan Guina - The Congressional Budget Office has been tasked with an enormous responsibility – to find opportunities for cutting the federal budget and reigning in the federal deficit. On the docket are over 100 potential budget cuts, some of which would have a direct impact on military and veterans benefits.

A new wave of U.S. mortgage trouble threatens
Reuters - U.S. borrowers are increasingly missing payments on home equity lines of credit they took out during the housing bubble, a trend that could deal another blow to the country's biggest banks. The loans are a problem now because an increasing number are hitting their 10-year anniversary, at which point borrowers usually must start paying down the principal on the loans as well as the interest they had been paying all along.

Major East Coast Winter Storm to Snarl Thanksgiving Travel
accuweather.com - A major winter storm will unfold across the East Coast Tuesday and Wednesday, threatening to create a nightmare for the millions of Thanksgiving holiday travelers--even those elsewhere in the U.S.

Guilty plea in bird deaths at wind farms a first
myfoxny.com - A major U.S. power company has pleaded guilty to killing eagles and other birds at two Wyoming wind farms and agreed to pay $1 million as part of the first enforcement of environmental laws protecting birds against wind energy facilities.

The Environmental Costs of Corn-Based Ethanol
Dr. Mercola - According to the featured article in the Star Tribune, five million acres of conservation land have disappeared while Obama has been in office. To put that into perspective, that’s more than the Yellowstone, Everglades and Yosemite National Parks combined. More corn acres also mean more fertilizers being spread over greater areas and a further decimation of our valuable top soil along with continued mismanagement of dwindling water resources.

More than 11,000 children killed in Syrian conflict - and a quarter of them were SHOT, report reveals
dailymail.co.uk - This report was compiled by the London-based Oxford Research Group. The ORG recorded a total of 11,420 child deaths in Syrian civil war.
It also reveals 764 children were recorded as summarily executed. In addition, 128 children were recorded killed by chemical weapons.

Nuclear Agreement May Result in Israel and Saudi Arabia Attacking Iran
Kurt Nimmo - Israel and Saudi Arabia may cooperate in an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities following the announcement of a six-month interim agreement between the P5+1 and Iran on Sunday in Geneva. Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, characterized the agreement as a major success.

‘Historic mistake’: Netanyahu says world is 'more dangerous place' after Iran deal
RT - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed the international deal over Iran's nuclear program, branding it a “historic mistake.” He accused the P5+1 of allowing Tehran a step further “towards obtaining the world's most dangerous weapon.”

China creates air defence zone over Japan-controlled islands
France 24 -- Beijing on Saturday announced it was setting up an "air defence identification zone" over an area that includes islands controlled by Japan but claimed by China, in a move that could inflame the bitter territorial row.

Latest Snowden Leak Reveals NSA’s Goal To Continually Expand Surveillance Abilities
RT - In a mission statement last year the US National Security Agency described how it would continue to expand its power and assert itself as the global leader in clandestine surveillance, according to a new report based on the Edward Snowden leaks.

Map Shows The NSA’s Massive Worldwide Malware Operations
Business Insider - Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reports the NSA uses malware to infect, infiltrate and steal information from over 50,000 computer networks around the globe. This new, previously unreported scope of the NSA's hacking operation comes from another PowerPoint slide showing a detailed map of every infection leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden.

China, India, once again get virtual pass on CO2 emissions in new climate deal
americanthinker.com - The Kyoto climate treaty was scuttled by the Senate on a vote of 96-0. The reason for it was simple; China and India, two rapidly growing competitors to the US in the economic sphere, were able to carve out special exemptions on CO2 emissions that gave them an unfair competitive advantage over the US.

Obama calls Israel’s Netanyahu for ‘consultations’ on Iran
Press TV - Obama told Netanyahu on Sunday that he wanted to begin consultations “immediately”, after the US and five other world powers reached a deal in Geneva on Iran’s nuclear energy program.

Follow the money: How lobby interests are spinning Iran nuclear deal
RT - Iran’s nuclear deal with the P5+1 group of world powers in Geneva has triggered a spin war which will last for the next 6 months, as many of the parties involved will pursue their own business interests in this situation, journalist Pepe Escobar told RT.

France: EU likely to lift some Iran sanctions in December
RT - EU will likely ease sanctions in place against Iran in December, said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. The announcement comes hot on the heels of a landmark deal over Tehran’s nuclear program that ended a decade of diplomatic deadlock.

'Saudi Arabia seeking atomic bomb’
Press TV - Saudi Arabia is reportedly trying to obtain atomic bombs as Iran and the west reach a deal over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.

Press TV - Libya army on state of alert in Benghazi
Press TV - Colonel Abdullah al-Saiti, a military governor responsible for security in Benghazi, issued a decree on Monday urging all troops to report for duty at their barracks. Benghazi residents have been ordered to stay at home.

Over 1,000 Thai protesters occupy Foreign Ministry in Bangkok – witnesses
RT - More than 1,000 anti-government protesters entered and occupied Thailand’s Foreign Ministry, witnesses from the scene reported. The country’s Finance Ministry building has also been besieged by rioters.

Subcontractor working on Obamacare site under FBI investigation
Daily Caller - Client Network Services Incorporated (CNSI) became a sub-contractor on the Obamacare website in 2012, working hand in hand with QSSI, according to its website. QSSI was one of several contractors hauled before Congress to address the sites troubled rollout in October.

VIDEO: Judge Napolitano Vs. Juan Williams On Obamacare, Social Security
Liberty Crier - Judge Andrew Napolitano strikes to the heart of the matter when he tells Juan Williams that he has abandoned the constitution on some issues.

Sixth Graders Polled On Gay Marriage, Abortion And Gun Control
Mikael Thalen - Parents of a sixth grade student at the Milam Elementary School in Tupelo, Mississippi were shocked when their daughter brought home a political beliefs worksheet that teachers told students to fill out.

Nullification: “Terrifying” And “Stupid”?
The New American - A bill to refuse to enforce the unconstitutional mandates of ObamaCare will come before the South Carolina legislature when it reconvenes in January.

Senate Stalls On NDAA 2014; 507 Amendments Offered
The New American - As part of the fallout of Senator Reid’s detonation of the “nuclear option,” on Thursday the Senate failed to close debate on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014. Senators voted 51-44 to keep debate open on the controversial Defense Department budget.

Rockefeller attaches cybersecurity bill to NDAA 2014
RT - The chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee submitted on Thursday an already-approved cybersecurity bill to be considered as an amendment to next year’s National Defense Authorization Act.

Second Amendment Enables Bad Guys
Kurt Nimmo - So says the Brady Campaign in a recently released video. The bad guy, a cartoon character, is shown buying an illegal gun. The video, narrated by a child, insists this sort of behavior will be corrected by background checks.

Ohio moves one step closer to enacting a new ‘stand your ground’ law
Columbus Dispatch - The bill changes Ohio’s self-defense law so that as long as a person is in a place he or she is lawfully allowed to be, the person has no duty to retreat before using deadly force in defense of one’s self, another person or one’s property.

Sandy Hook report to be released Monday
wcvb.com - The summary of the second-deadliest shooting in U.S. history is expected to be about 50 pages long, according to Mark Dupuis, spokesman for Danbury State's Attorney, Stephen Sedensky, whose office conducted the investigation.

Vermont Confirms Security Breach To Health Care Exchange Website
CBS News - Officials overseeing the Vermont Health Connect website confirmed Friday there was a security breach on the system last month in which one user got improper access to another user’s Social Security number and other data.

Oregon’s Obamacare Exchange Installing “dozens of extra fax lines”
atr.org - Cover Oregon is kicking it old school. Instead of relying on people to apply online, Rocky King, the executive director, wants applicants to apply on a 20 page paper application, and fax it in. Oregon received $305 million to build a website, which according to the CMS website part of the funding was meant to cover the costs associated with “testing, training, and implementation of the IT user interface.” Nothing about fax machines.

DC to begin fingerprinting, taking mug shots of all LEGAL gun owners at police stations
Washington Post - The 1,800 or so criminals who have killed, robbed or assaulted innocent people with guns in the District of Columbia so far this year were hauled into the police station to be fingerprinted, photographed and to undergo a criminal-background check. Now, legal gun owners who have committed no crime are getting the exact same treatment.

Obamacare Is Going To Be The Biggest Expansion Of The Welfare State In U.S. History
Michael Snyder - Can the U.S. government afford to pay for the health care of 38 million more people? As you will see below, Obamacare is going to be the biggest expansion of the welfare state in U.S. history.

Federal Reserve and Wall Street Assassinate US Dollar
Paul Craig Roberts - Since 2006, the US dollar has experienced a one-quarter to one-third drop in value to the Chinese yuan, depending on the choice of base. Now China is going to let the dollar decline further in value. China also says it is considering undermining the petrodollar by pricing oil futures on the Shanghai Futures Exchange in yuan.

Taxpayers Lose $139 Million On Fisker Automotive Loan
Daily Caller - Happy Thanksgiving from the Obama administration. The Energy Department has sold off its $192 million loan guarantee to Fisker Automotive to Chinese billionaire Richard Li for $25 million — the biggest taxpayer loss on a green loan since the failure of Solyndra.

Banks Warn Fed They May Have To Start Charging Depositors
Zero Hedge - ...just like Europe is already toying with the idea of NIRP (and has been for over a year, if still mostly in the rheotrical and market rumor phase), so the Fed’s IOER cut would also result in a negative rate on deposits which the FT tongue-in-cheekly summarizes “depositors already have to cope with near-zero interest rates, but paying just to leave money in the bank would be highly unusual and unwelcome for companies and households.”

DoD Requests Plan to Close Stateside Commissaries
Military.com - Tasked by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to find ways to preserve force readiness amid sharply falling budgets, his comptroller and the Joint Staff have asked the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) for a plan to close all stateside base grocery stores, say military resale community sources.

VIDEO: Solution for BC Hydro’s extortive “smart” meter opt-out fees (Nov 2013)
The Take Back Your Power team sits down with Brian Thiesen of www.bc-freedom.com to learn more about the new Claim of Right & Notice of Default document templates, which are now available for people in BC to keep their analog meter, WITHOUT paying extortive opt-out fees which BC Hydro is attempting to impose.

Frigid Air to Threaten Tornado-Ravaged Midwest
accuweather.com - January-like cold is on the way for areas of the Midwest that were ravaged by tornadoes on Sunday, bringing dangerous and life-threatening low temperatures to those still without power. Thirteen counties in Illinois have been declared state disaster areas by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn in response to Sunday's severe weather.

VIDEO: US senators to work on more Iran sanctions
Press TV - On Thursday, a group of 14 Democratic and Republican US senators issued a statement, saying they would work together to impose the sanctions over the coming weeks. The group said it would work on legislation in this regard and try to pass it as quickly as possible.

US says it wants BSA signed by Kabul by yearend
Press TV - The United States says it wants a key Afghan security pact approved and signed by Kabul by the end of 2013 after President Hamid Karzai said the pact should not be signed until after the country’s presidential election in April 2014.

China Announces That It Is Going To Stop Stockpiling U.S. Dollars
Economic Collapse - China just dropped an absolute bombshell, but it was almost entirely ignored by the mainstream media in the United States. The central bank of China has decided that it is "no longer in China’s favor to accumulate foreign-exchange reserves".

Breaking Bad North Korea
Kurt Nimmo - Ensure monopolization by demonizing the competition.... It looks like North Korea is in the drug business. According to the Washington Post, the government of the latest Eternal Leader, Kim Jong-un, is peddling methamphetamine.

Seven Volcanoes In Six Different Countries All Start Erupting Within Hours Of Each Other
Activist Post - A new island has appeared in the Pacific. A submarine eruption just off Nishino-Shima Island Japan has erupted for the first time in 40 years. The Japanese Navy noticed the explosions as boiling lava met sea water giving rise to plumes of steam and ash.

Pakistan’s Imran Khan to Block NATO Supplies After Drone Strike
antiwar.com - NATO is about to lose access to its primary supply line into occupied Afghanistan, the Khyber Pass, as Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistani Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI), the political party which runs the Khyber Pakhtunkhah Province (KP) through which the supplies travel, has vowed to implement a blockade in retaliation for US drone strikes. Related article.

Swiss Law Would Allow Gov’t To Limit Salaries Of Company Executives
weaselzippers.us - The measures, if approved, would limit the salaries of top managers to no more than 12 times the wage of the lowest-paid worker in the same company.... It is the second time this year the Swiss have voted on top salaries: in March they voted overwhelmingly to curb big bonuses, and to ban golden handshakes and goodbyes.

Radiation dunce Dr. Shunichi Yamashita finally admits giving bad info about Fukushima fallout
(NaturalNews) According to a recently published interview in the Asahi Shimbun, one of five national daily Japanese newspapers, Yamashita demonstrated that he did not even understand the basics of the lingering disaster and that he "did nothing to seek out information so he could give informed opinions about what people should do," says an analysis of the report on the website SimplyInfo.

Mountain Man Arrested for Trying to Feed Himself
LiveLeak.com - Charged with fishing without a license and resisting the arrest for fishing without a license, Mr. Tertegte says he’s being wrongly prosecuted for trying to feed himself. In a packed courtroom, 52-year-old Ernie Tertelgte told the judge “I am a living man protected by natural law and I have the right to forage for food when I am hungry… You are trying to create a fictitious, fraudulent action.”

Dallas Police Ban Free Speech in Dealey Plaza, Threaten Arrests
Paul Joseph Watson - Dallas Police have banned free speech in Dealey Plaza for the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK, threatening to fine people if they hand out fliers or display signs within a 75 feet radius of all major roads in the area.
* Related: Live Video: Fight for Free Speech in Dallas

VIDEO: JFK assassination: US Secret Service Standdown
disclose.tv - Watch as the two secret service men assigned to protect president Kennedy's motorcade are ordered to stand down just minutes before entering Dealey Plaza. They are obviously not happy about being given these orders. It brings up another question: Where was NORAD on 9/11, who was in charge and why?

Was “Mystery Bullet” At Parkland Hospital Supposed To Be The Original Magic Bullet?
Jurriaan Maessen - One of the first nurses present at Parkland Hospital to receive the fatally wounded Kennedy has very recently told an audience she observed a bullet lodged between the president’s ear and shoulder. This bullet, or any mention of it, later completely vanished from the autopsy-reports.

VIDEO: Stabilized Footage of JFK Assassination Shows Car Slowed Down Before Head Shot
gizmodo.com - When it’s bouncing around and playing back at a jittery 18 frames per second, the infamous Zapruder footage of John F. Kennedy’s assassination feels almost unreal. But when it’s stabilized with additional interpolated frames bringing it to a steady 30 frames per second (like we’re used to seeing on TV) it suddenly becomes much more real....

Another JFK-related mystery: Why were the X’s removed?
Dallas Morning News - Threading that needle proved controversial Monday as city workers removed two stretches of pavement marked with white X’s, the spots where Kennedy was shot and killed.... City officials would not comment on the removal of the marks, which observers said have been painted on Elm Street for at least 30 years.

Exclusive: US May Have Let 'Dozens' of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees (Video)
Yahoo News - Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.

10 Obamacare Horror Stories That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Activist Post - Right now, millions of Americans are receiving cancellation notices from their health insurance companies – including many Americans that are in a life or death battle with cancer. By the end of next year, it is being projected that up to 100 million more Americans could have their health insurance policies canceled.

Michigan Senate approves bill to overturn ban on short-barreled firearms
guns.com - Senate Bill 610, sponsored by Sen. Mike Green (R-Mayville), would allow law-abiding gun owners in The Wolverine State to purchase short-barreled rifles or shotguns provided they comply with existing federal law regulating ownership of these restricted firearms.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich is Racist, Says Portland School Official
The College Fix - Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist? That’s right. Apparently, it’s because people in some cultures don’t eat sandwich bread. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland explained in and interview with the Portland Tribune...

Insurance Companies To Get Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts If Not Enough People Enroll In Obamacare Thanks To Obscure Provision In The Law…
weaselzippers.us - So-called “risk corridors” were included in the 2010 health law to compensate insurance companies for major coverage losses in the event that far more older and sick people signed up for health plans than younger, healthy people and drove up their costs after they had set the premiums. If actual claims exceed projections by more than 3 percent under Obamacare, the government will compensate the industry for those losses.

Textbook Tells Fourth Graders ‘White Voters’ Were Unlikely To Support Black President
Mikael Thalen - Fourth grade students in Dupo, Illinois assigned to reading a Common Core approved biography of President Barack Obama are being told that all white voters were unlikely to vote for a black president due to racism.

Senate Democrats eliminate filibusters for most presidential nominations
Washington Post - The partisan battles that have paralyzed Washington in recent years took a historic turn Thursday, as Senate Democrats eliminated filibusters for most presidential nominations, severely curtailing the political leverage of the Republican minority in the Senate and assuring an escalation of partisan warfare.

The Race That Could Unseat Anti-gun Harry Reid As Senate Majority Leader
Liberty Crier - Gun Owners of America is proud to endorse Congressman Steve Daines for Montana’s open U.S. Senate seat. Steve Daines has been a vocal leader for protecting the Second Amendment from the first day he was elected to Congress in 2012. He is a much needed addition in the Senate to stop the Obama/Harry Reid anti-gun push, especially stopping the ratification of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.

Pennsylvania town kicks out anti-gun mayor
Real Clear Politics - Policies that fit “The Big Apple” don't fit a town that is, say, known statewide for its Apple Festival. Just ask Democrat Pete Lagiovane, the mayor of this Franklin County town who won't return to office in January. He lost his bid for re-election — to a seat he won unopposed the last time — in part because he signed up Chambersburg as one of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun cities.

Maryland Will Return To Paper Ballots In 2016
CBS News - Political reporter Pat Warren reports the state is moving toward a paper trail. Maryland voters raised a ruckus in 2004 after the state moved to electronic voting machines that eliminated paper ballots and still raises suspicions.

Senate Banking Committee Votes to Confirm Yellen as Fed Boss
Kurt Nimmo - Janet Yellen moved a step closer to becoming window dressing for the Federal Reserve when the Senate Banking Committee gave her a nod on Monday. The Democrat dominated committee is expected to move Yellen’s confirmation forward to the full Senate later today. A vote is expected in December.

40,000 NATO troops to stage massive European war games
RT - After the 2014 pullout from Afghanistan, NATO is set to stage huge European war games involving 40,000 troops, about seven times the size of the recent drills in the Baltic, with critics in the crisis-hit EU calling it a waste of money.

US troops staying in Afghanistan after 2014 to get local justice immunity - draft pact
RT - US forces that remain in Afghanistan after 2014 will be under the jurisdiction of the US and not be subject to Afghan courts, according to a draft security deal released by Kabul on Wednesday. The measure has been much-debated between the countries.

Atomic mafia: Yakuza ‘cleans up’ Fukushima, neglects basic workers' rights
RT - Homeless men employed cleaning up the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, including those brought in by Japan's yakuza gangsters, were not aware of the health risks they were taking and say their bosses treated them like “disposable people.”

VIDEO: Iran, 6 other states begin new nuclear talks in Geneva
Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton started the second day of the talks by holding a one-on-one meeting in Geneva on Thursday.

China ‘challenging’ US military power
Press TV - A US congressional panel, which advises lawmakers on the national security implications of the relationship between the Washington and Beijing, has warned that China could possess the largest fleet of modern submarine and combatant ships in the western Pacific by 2020.

Cyprus University world first to accept bitcoins for tuition
RT - The University of Nicosia (UNic), one of the major English language universities in the Mediterranean, will become the world’s first to accept bitcoins for tuition. The university will also begin a new Master of Science course in Digital Currency.

US, UK hammered secret deal on all Britons’ private data in last days of Blair
RT - The US National Security Agency has subverted an international agreement in order to save and examine the phone, internet, and other communication records of UK citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing, according to a new report.

Phoenix Residents Freak Out Over DoD Military Exercises
Adan Salazar - The Department of Defense has been conducting training exercises in several cities in Arizona in preparation for “urban operations,” unbeknownst to its citizens.... Phoenix residents were so alarmed to hear swarms of military helicopters flying overhead that they phoned their local news outlet to ask if they had somehow crossed over into a warzone.

The Death Of John Kennedy
Michael Rivero - There have been two official investigations. One concluded Oswald acted alone, the other that there was a conspiracy. After half a century, many of the key documents which could tell the whole story remain classified. John F. Kennedy's brain is still missing from the National Archives.

The Death Of John Kennedy: The Media helped sell the lie of the lone assassin (Photos)
Michael Rivero - I never really looked at the photos in that POST. There was no need to. We all knew what had happened in Dallas, or at least we thought we did, having been so informed by the media and our government. Years later, when Jim Garrison introduced the possibility of a conspiracy to the American people, I finally took a close look at that magazine.

VIDEO: Dan Rather's account from November 25, 1963
Michael Rivero - Dan Rather, at the time an unknown newscaster from a small market Texas TV station, viewed the Zapruder film, then described it to America on the CBS network. As this recording of that broadcast shows, Rather lied to all of America in claiming that the head shot pushed John F. Kennedy's head forward.

Second wave of health plan cancellations looms
Fox News - A new and independent analysis of ObamaCare warns of a ticking time bomb, predicting a second wave of 50 million to 100 million insurance policy cancellations next fall -- right before the mid-term elections. The next round of cancellations and premium hikes is expected to hit employees, particularly of small businesses.

The "Obamacare Shock" - One California Employer's Terrifying True Story
Zero Hedge - My company, based in California, employs 600. We used to insure about 250 of our employees. The rest opted out. The company paid 50% of their premiums for about $750,000/yr. Under obamacare, none can opt out without penalty, and the rates are double or triple, depending upon the plan. Our 750k for 250 employees is going to $2 million per year for 600 employees.

Sick Sandy Hook ‘Game’ Lets You Shoot Kids, Then Preaches On Gun Control
Steve Watson - A sick online ‘game’ allows players to slaughter children with an AR-15 in a recreation of the Sandy Hook school shooting of December 2012, before preaching pro gun control messages at them.

Parents receive threatening letters regarding mandatory medical/dental exams for their kids
policestateusa.com - Under the auspices of keeping children healthy, the government has usurped the role of “parent” away from actual parents. The state — not legal guardians — is determining when and how children should be subjected to outside business influences.

Dad Arrested After Objecting When School Says He Must Wait to Take His Children Home
The Blaze - A Tennessee father was arrested for disorderly conduct last week after objecting to an official school policy that apparently prohibited him from picking up his children on foot ahead of the majority of parents picking their children up in their cars.

One Lawmaker Is Literally Smashing The Belongings Of The Homeless With A Sledgehammer
Economic Collapse - You are about to read about a Hawaii lawmaker that has used a sledgehammer to smash up at least 30 shopping carts that homeless people were using. Yes, you read that correctly. He is actually carrying a sledgehammer around so that he can destroy the belongings of homeless people. He claims that it is his intention "to do something practical that will really clean up the streets".

YouTube: We Are Your Enemy
Kill me, I am Legion. Attack me and make me stronger. Strength and Honor are anathema to you; to us they are the key to salvation here or in the next life.

Hawaii’s Big Island bans biotech companies, GMO crops
RT - The governing council for Hawaii (or Big) Island Tuesday banned biotech companies from operating on the island while barring growth of genetically modified organisms

CELENTE: The U.S. is ‘a Criminal Operation!’
SGT Report - Gerald Celente joins us to discuss the possibility of a March-June 2014 U.S. economic collapse. Celente says, “Look at the facts, they’re rigging the Forex, that’s $5.5 TRILLION per day being traded!

McDonald’s To Low Paid Employees: Sell Your Stuff For Extra Cash
Activist Post - In a recent memo to employees who may be struggling to pay the bills this holiday season, the company launched a new initiative called “Digging Out From Holiday Debt,” in which they provide tips and recommendations on how to increase their net worth and reduce their frivolous spending.

Break the Bank: Build Your Local Economy
Mother Earth News - Today, a resurgence in bartering is underway, as people turn away from our culture’s dominant “buy more stuff” paradigm, and instead take pride and satisfaction in the goods and services they provide, the handiwork of their friends and neighbors, and in helping make their communities more self-reliant.

Shock Interview: Welfare Recipient: “I Get to Sit Home… I Get to Smoke Weed… We Still Gonna Get Paid”
Mac Slavo - While millions of Americans spend half their lives or more toiling for a paycheck, millions more are sitting on the sidelines waiting for the government to issue them their next monthly distribution.

VIDEO: ABC NEWS West Coast Evacuation Due To Fukishima Radiation Possible!
12160.info - Nuclear Engineer Dr. Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, confirmed that ocean currents are carrying the radioactive water to the West Coast....

Fukushima Fallout Damaged Thyroid Glands of California Babies
earthfirstjournal.org - A new study of the effects of tiny quantities of radioactive fallout from Fukushima on the health of babies born in California shows a significant excess of hypothyroidism caused by the radioactive contamination travelling 5,000 miles across the Pacific. The article will be published next week in the peer-reviewed journal Open Journal of Pediatrics.

Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center - Map
netc.com - Our mission is provide free radiation monitoring information from private and government sites to the public. We have about 300 radiation monitoring sites across the United States and Japan and will add more sites in other parts of the Earth, when they become available.

US drone strike rips Yemeni community apart
RT - One drone changed this sleepy farming village forever. Less than an hour from Yemen’s capital, Khawlan is far removed from Al-Qaeda’s operations. But without warning it was thrust into the war on terror," RT's Lucy Kafanov, who visited the community ravaged by a drone attack, reports.

‘Retract Peace Prize’: Russian NGOs blast Obama over ‘killing people’ confession
RT - Two major military-related groups, Officers of Russia and Soldiers’ Mothers, have addressed the Nobel Committee with a request to evaluate the inhumane statements made by the US president about drone warfare.

Obama Plotting to Train Islamic Libyan Forces as Chaos Mounts
New American - According to Adm. William McRaven, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. government plans to train between 5,000 and 7,000 Libyan “security” personnel. The scheme will include both conventional troops and “counterterrorism forces.”

Syrian Military Liberates Strategic Supply Route
Activist Post - In yet another example of the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) march forward with its liberation of Syria from the foreign-backed death squads that have terrorized the Syrian people for the last two years, the SAA has recently announced that it has retaken the strategic village of Qara.

Syria's chemical weapons may be destroyed at sea - sources
(Reuters) - Syria's chemical weapons could be processed and destroyed out at sea, say sources familiar with discussions at the international body in charge of eliminating the toxic arsenal.

Egypt Anti-Terror Officer Gunned Down Before Testimony Against Morsi
Activist Post - Late on Sunday afternoon, an Egyptian officer was gunned down by seven bullets coming from three gunmen in Nasr City, a neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt. The officer, Mohamed Mabruk, had been in charge of the Muslim Brotherhood file at the Interior Ministry’s National Security Agency, according to a statement made by the Interior Ministry.

Getting vaccinated is a civic duty, warn health experts
The Independent - Britons should be given vaccination record cards and be advised it is their “civic duty” to get immunized, experts recommend on Tuesday, warning that increasing migration, an ageing population and the growth of antibiotic resistance is increasing the threat posed by infectious diseases.

US Senate agrees to delay vote on new Iran sanctions
Press TV - During a two-hour meeting with top Democrats and Republicans from the Senate’s Banking, Foreign Relations, Armed Service and Intelligence committees on Tuesday, US President Barack Obama appealed to Senators to temporarily halt voting for additional sanctions against Iran.

Official: Between 60% And 70% Of Obamacare Website Still Not Built
Buzz Feed - “The back office systems, the accounting systems, the payment systems, they still need to be [built],” Deputy Chief Information Officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Henry Chao said. UPDATE: Health and Human Services official says numbers are actually reversed, 30% to 40% of the site still needs to be built.

New Media Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Paul Joseph Watson - Establishment seeks to assimilate or eliminate independent media.... The latest example is buried within the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) and concerns “intellectual property enforcement.” Put simply, the agreement will mandate ISPs to remove online content without the need for a burden of proof or any kind of legal process, greasing the skids for aggressive and disproportionate censorship-driven takedowns.

Texans to Protest Censorship of Free Speech in Dallas JFK Events
Adan Salazar - The anniversary of the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the nation’s 35th president, occurs this Friday... Now in an unprecedented effort to squelch free speech, the City of Dallas has moved to cordon off huge areas of the city and has attempted to prohibit citizens from carrying signs with messages countering the official narrative, and even filming in certain downtown areas.

Coming Soon: A Biometric Fingerprint Scan Just to Leave the Airport?
Paul Joseph Watson - TSA ‘detention pods’ currently being rolled out at major airports across the U.S. have biometric and object-detecting capabilities, according to promotional material from Eagle Security Group, the company that manufactures the devices.

Ohio Supreme Court Affirms Teacher’s Right to Keep Personal Bible on Desk
Rutherford Institute - In a mixed ruling that affirms the First Amendment right of a public school teacher to keep a personal Bible on his desk, while sidestepping larger questions of academic freedom, the Ohio Supreme Court has upheld a school district’s decision to terminate a middle school science teacher who encouraged students to think critically about the school’s science curriculum...

US May Have Let 'Dozens' of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees
ABC News - Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Some D.C. Exchange Plans Cover Elective Abortion but Not Hearing Aids
National Review - Multiple individual plans available on the D.C. health-insurance exchange specifically cover elective abortion but not hearing aids, routine foot-care, and routine eye-care.

International Small Arms Control Standard: The Next Step of the UN Gun Ban
ammoland.com - It’s named the International Small Arms Control Standard (ISACS) and it has been kept secret for years. It’s a child of failure, the failure of decades of attempts to disarm all civilians. Voluntary disarmament didn’t work. Forced civilian disarmament didn’t work. And black markets burgeoned.

Boston police officers wary of GPS for cruisers
Boston Globe - The pending use of GPS tracking devices, slated to be installed in Boston police cruisers, has many officers worried that commanders will monitor their every move while supervisors insist the system will improve their response to emergencies.

North Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock Asked For Saliva, Blood
Liberty Crier - Some drivers along a busy Fort Worth street on Friday were stopped at a police roadblock and directed into a parking lot, where they were asked by federal contractors for samples of their breath, saliva and even blood. It was part of a government research study aimed at determining the number of drunken or drug-impaired drivers.

Establishment Proposes: “Have the Government Give Every Adult a Basic Income”
Mac Slavo - With government intervention now becoming the only viable solution being touted for everything from individual health care and the economy to our personal safety and how we educate our children, it would only make sense that officials in Washington also figure out a way to use their power of confiscation and redistribution to equalize the income playing field.

80 is the new 60 when it comes to retirement
NY Post - Call it the new American nightmare: Running out of money in retirement is scaring the hell out of record numbers of older workers, forcing them to stay in the workforce. Now 80 is the new 60 when it comes to retirement. Many older workers who finally clock out have sharply underestimated their financial needs in retirement, raising the specter of personal financial disaster.

Assange not under sealed indictment, U.S. officials say
washingtonpost.com - Federal prosecutors have not filed a sealed indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, despite persistent rumors that a nearly three-year-old grand jury investigation of him and his organization had secretly led to charges, according to senior law enforcement sources.

Iran Unveils Attack Drone With ’2,000-Kilometer’ Range
Defense News - Iran on Monday unveiled a missile-equipped drone with a range of 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers), the official IRNA news agency reported. “The Fotros drone has an operational range of 2,000 kilometres and can fly at an altitude of 25,000 feet, with a flight time of 16 to 30 hours,” Defence Minister Mohammad Dehgan was quoted as saying.

NIOC world’s 3rd biggest oil company
Press TV - A recent report states that the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) is the world’s third largest oil company despite US-engineered sanctions against the Islamic Republic’s energy sector.

VIDEO: US-Afghan security deal 'up in the air'
Press TV - An agreement between the US and Afghanistan that would allow American troops to remain in the country beyond 2014 is “up in the air,” a scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington says.

Palestine votes at UN General Assembly
Press TV - Palestine has cast its first vote at the United Nations General Assembly, taking another step toward becoming a full member of the UN.

Vietnam banker sentenced to death for fraud
Al Jazeera - A Vietnamese former banker and his business associate have been sentenced to death for their part in the embezzlement of $25 million, state media has reported. The pair were among 11 defendants in the nine-day trial in Ho Chi Minh City, state media reported on Saturday, in a case that has highlighted Vietnam's efforts to show it is stamping out corruption in the face of widespread public anger over the issue.

Tepco Successfully Removes First Nuclear Fuel Rods at Fukushima
Bloomberg - The first of the fuel-rod assemblies at the plant’s No. 4 reactor building was transferred from an underwater rack on the fifth floor to a portable cask just before 4 p.m., the utility known as Tepco said in an e-mailed statement.

Beirut bombing: Twin attacks target Iranian embassy, 23 killed, 146 injured
RT - Two blasts near the Iranian embassy in Beirut killed at least 23 people, injuring 146 and causing havoc and a massive fire in the Lebanese capital. Six buildings were reportedly destroyed in the embassy compound.

Kerry declares the end of the Monroe Doctrine era
Al Jazeera - Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday declared that a nearly 200-year-old policy which had governed Washington's relations with Latin America was finally dead. Known as the Monroe Doctrine after it was adopted in 1823 by former U.S. president James Monroe, the policy had stated that any efforts by European countries to colonize land in North or South America would be viewed as aggressive acts and could require U.S. intervention.

End to privacy? Western firms hawk mass surveillance technology to developing world
RT - Human rights groups are sounding alarms as Western firms sell mass surveillance technology in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, equipping governments and companies new capabilities to snoop on citizens.

Malnutrition Doubles in the UK as the Economy Collapses
Activist Post - A report in the UK Daily Mail says that hospitalization cases for treatment of malnutrition have doubled over the past 5 years. The increase is linked to Britain’s crippling economic downturn.

Economic Warfare: Philippines Offered $500 Million in Aid
Activist Post - The World Bank is offering the Philippines $500 Million in the form of a loan. Benevolence, or a chance to own more land, people, and resources?

Earthquake Hits Japan Amid Fukushima Fuel Rod Removal
Common Dreams - A strong earthquake has struck Japan's coast south of the Fukushima nuclear plant currently undergoing a dangerous removal of highly radioactive Unit 4 fuel rods, according to online reports

Behind the Pentagon’s doctored ledgers, a running tally of epic waste
Reuters - Because of its persistent inability to tally its accounts, the Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with a law that requires annual audits of all government departments. That means that the $8.5 trillion in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996, the first year it was supposed to be audited, has never been accounted for.

Supreme Court blocks challenge to NSA phone tracking
RT - The Supreme Court announced Monday morning that it would not be considering at this time a complaint filed months earlier that challenged the legality of the National Security Agency’s dragnet telephone surveillance program.

Fourth graders taught about ‘pimps’ and ‘mobstaz’ in Louisiana
Fox News - Fourth grade students in Vermilion Parish, La. were given a homework assignment that included words like “Po Pimp” and “mobstaz,” but school officials said the worksheet was age appropriate based on an education website affiliated with Common Core education standards.

Real purpose of Obamacare is to destroy private insurance, says retired colonel
(NaturalNews) What if the actual intent of the Obama regime's massive healthcare overhaul had nothing to do with expanding coverage to more people and everything to do with intentionally crashing the private insurance market in order to replace it with a government-run, single-payer socialist system?

Exposed: WebMD betrays Americans by pocketing millions to promote Obamacare propaganda
(NaturalNews) As reported by The Washington Times, the federal government awarded WebMD a $4.8 million contract for its agreement to post pro-Obamacare propaganda on its website, including the deceptive article "7 Surprising Things About the Affordable Care Act."

Common Core: Obama Education Plan Sparks Nationwide Protest
Newsmax - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says that some of the opposition to the controversial Common Core state education standards is coming from wealthy "white" mothers upset to learn their children are not as bright as they thought. Opposition has been building to President Barack Obama's new federal school standards for several months.

U.S. Officials Examine Bitcoin at Senate Hearing [...You Can Almost Smell the Panic in the Air]
STG Report - U.S. law-enforcement officials were set to outline the pitfalls and promises of virtual currencies such as bitcoin Monday at the first-ever Senate hearing on the matter.

How Wall Street Manipulates Everything: The Infographics
Zero Hedge - Courtesy of the revelations over the past year, one thing has been settled: the statement "Wall Street Manipulated Everything" is no longer in the conspiracy theorist's arsenal: it is now part of the factually accepted vernacular. And to summarize just how, who and where this manipulation takes places is the following series of charts from Bloomberg demonstrating Wall Street at its best - breaking the rules and making a killing.

Is Walmart's request of associates to help provide Thanksgiving dinner for co-workers proof of low wages?
cleveland.com - Norma Mills of Canton, who lives near the store, saw the photo circulating showing the food drive bins, and felt both "outrage" and "anger."... "That Walmart would have the audacity to ask low-wage workers to donate food to other low-wage workers -- to me, it is a moral outrage."

Federal Court in New York Orders MF Global Inc. to Pay over $1 Billion in Restitution to Customers of MF Global Inc.
cftc.gov - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained a federal court consent Order against Defendant MF Global Inc. (MF Global) requiring it to pay $1.212 billion in restitution to customers of MF Global to ensure customers recover their losses sustained when MF Global failed in 2011.

REPORT: Census 'faked' unemployment data ahead of 2012 election
NY Post - An insider’s account about top down pressure on jobs data—especially during the months leading up to the presidential election—brings a new level of scrutiny to the reliability of official unemployment rates.

Expect a Spike in Turkey Prices This Thanksgiving Due to Anorexic Turkeys
Blacklisted News - I am not making this up. Butterball, the nation's largest producer of turkeys, has announced that it will be shipping out half as many large, fresh never-frozen turkeys to retailers this year. The company says many of its birds had trouble gaining weight during the production process, reports FOX.

Congress Expands Entitlements for Chimpanzees
National Journal - This week, in a moment of sober bipartisan agreement, the House and Senate voted to extend retirement benefits for the nation's research chimpanzees.... With the new bill, funding is secured through 2023. Over the next four years, the Congressional Budget Office says, it will cost $55 million.

GOP Food Stamp Cuts Would Kick 170,000 Vets Out of the Program
12160 - At least 900,000 veterans rely on SNAP. The House Republican version of the farm bill, the five-year piece of legislation that funds nutrition and agriculture provisions, would slash funding for the food stamps program by nearly $40 billion and boot 2.8 million people off the program next year.

Syrian army launches offensive near Lebanon border
AP - Syrian troops clashed with rebels in a mountainous western region Saturday in what appeared to be an offensive to cut an opposition supply route from Lebanon, forcing hundreds to flee for safety across the border, activists and officials said.... Earlier Saturday, activists said fighters from an al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebel group beheaded an allied commander whom they mistook for a pro-government fighter.

State of emergency declared in Libyan capital amid fresh violence
RT - A 48-hour state of emergency was declared in the Libyan capital of Tripoli after fresh clashes erupted on Saturday. Vehicles full of fighters from Misrata headed to Tripoli from the eastern suburb of Tajura, according to media reports.

Report: Israel, Saudi Arabia cooperating on possible attack on Iran
Ynet - With nuclear talks set to resume Wednesday, Sunday Times reports Israel, Saudi Arabia heightening cooperation, in bid to formulate contingency attack plan on Iran should talks succeed in reaching agreement, but fail in halting Iranian nuclear program.

VIDEO: Afghans protest against security deal with US
Press TV - Washington had promised to withdraw all combat forces from Afghanistan by 2014. However, it has been locked in tricky negotiations with Kabul over a strategic partnership beyond 2014 deadline.

UN envoy ‘shocked’ by UK’s ‘unacceptable’ persecution of The Guardian over Snowden leaks
End the Lie - A senior United Nations official responsible for freedom of expression has warned that the UK government’s response to revelations of mass surveillance by Edward Snowden is damaging Britain’s reputation for press freedom and investigative journalism.

GCHQ snoops on hotel reservations targeting diplomats – Snowden leaks
RT - A UK spy agency infiltrated international hotel booking systems for some three years, tracing high profile officials and wiretapping their suites, new leaks reveal. GCHQ’s top secret ‘Royal Concierge’ program tracked 350 hotels across the globe.

Thousands of Greeks mark 40th anniversary of student uprising, protest against austerity (PHOTOS)
RT - More than 16,000 Greeks marched through the streets of Athens on Sunday to protest against austerity and mark the 40th anniversary of the student uprising against the former ruling military junta.

Are Philippines Officials Targeting Areas That Voted for Them as They Distribute Aid to Typhoon Survivors? Shocking Claim That Millions Are Being Left to Fend for Themselves
Daily Mail - The survivors of Typhoon Haiyan are in desperate need of food and water and a huge relief effort is under way – but a shocking claim has emerged from an aid worker in the Philippines that government officials are prioritising aid based on who they think will vote for them.

Failed Monsanto GMO Corn Pushed on African Countries with Help of Bill Gates
Elizabeth Renter - According to a recent statement from the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), failed GM corn from Monsanto is now being pushed on African countries with help from the Gates Foundation. This maize, known as MON810, has been grown in South Africa for 15 years, where it “failed miserably”.

Afghan villagers find the bodies of 6 beheaded contractors in restive southern province
Washington Post - Afghan villagers discovered the beheaded bodies of six government contractors Sunday in the country’s restive south, the apparent victims of insurgents who regularly target state projects, officials said.

YouTube: TPP: High Treason! Obama's Secret Meeting to Give Corporations Ultimate Power
RT - TPP Wikileaks has released another bombshell... Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP is often referred to by critics as "NAFTA on steroids," and would establishing a free-trade zone that would stretch from Vietnam to Chile, encompass 800 million people -- about a third of world trade and nearly 40 percent of the global economy.

TPP’s Intellectual Property section also boosts GMO and drug monopolies
Activist Post - If you think the Monsanto Protection Act was bad... If instituted, the TPP’s IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.

Australia Determined To Forcibly Vaccinate By Intentional and Controlled Release of Aerosolized GMO Vaccine
Natural Blaze - The Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) is on its way to approve a licence application from PaxVax Australia (PaxVax) for the intentional release of a GMO vaccine consisting of live bacteria into the environment in Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.

NHK: Fuel removal at Unit 4 underway — BBC: Concern casks not watertight, rods would contact air...
ENENews - NHK, Nov. 18, 2013: The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun removing nuclear fuel from a storage pool at a damaged reactor building. Workers placed a special fuel transport container in the storage pool at a damaged reactor building. Related article.

Organic Italian jam found to contain radiation from decades-old Chernobyl accident - what is Fukushima doing to our food supply?
(NaturalNews) More than 5,000 jars of organic wild blueberry jam made in Italy have been intercepted and recalled by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in Japan after multiple batches of the fruit spread tested positive for unacceptable levels of radioactive cesium-137.

Rep. Rogers: Crazed al-Qaeda Terrorists Coming to America
Kurt Nimmo - Rep. Mike Rogers, the Michigan Republican who heads up the House Intelligence Committee, is worried about al-Qaeda finding its way into America.... “The number now exceeds 1,000 western jihadists who have shown up, so they’ll have passports, good passports, allows them to travel around Europe, maybe get to the United States,” Rogers warned. “That’s concerning.”

Drone crashes into Navy ship injuring 2 in California
RT - An American drone has malfunctioned and crashed into a guided missile cruiser off the coast of Southern California, causing two injuries, say officials. The incident happened while the vessel was testing a combat weapons system.

Fraudsters Are Exploiting New Health Law
The Wall Street Journal - In the months preceding the Oct. 1 opening of the state-based health-insurance exchanges, consumer complaints about Medicare—many alleging fraud—soared.

Thousands March Against Mainstream Media - Nov 16, 2013
Activist Post - In what started as a national march, quickly organized into and event reaching as far as Australia, Canada, and the UK. Here is an excerpt from the official Page: MARCH AGAINST MAINSTREAM MEDIA is more than just a protest. It is an attack against the credibility of the mainstream media in an attempt to steer its viewers away from its lies and towards alternative media sources....

Militarization of police more widespread than previously thought, especially in small towns
End the Lie - While the trend of police forces becoming increasingly militarized across the United States, thanks in large part to programs like the Pentagon’s 1033 Program, is pretty much common knowledge at this point, it actually goes much further than most realize.

TSA Rolls Out ‘Detention Pods’ at Airport Terminal Exits
Paul Joseph Watson - The TSA is funding the rollout of exit pods at major airport terminals across the country that temporarily detain passengers before they are allowed to leave, another example critics say of how the federal agency’s policies treat travelers as prisoners.

Cops Kill 8 Times More Americans Than Terrorists Do
Activist Post - Since 9/11, and the subsequent militarization of the police by the Department of Homeland Security, about 5,000 Americans have been killed by US police officers. The civilian death rate is nearly equal to the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq. In fact, you are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.

Moody’s downgrades 4 US giant lenders
RT - Moody’s is to cut the credit rating of US major banks, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Bank of New York Mellon. The rating agency thinks the government is now less likely to support the lenders in times of new financial difficulties.

Obamacare: The Final Nail In The Coffin For The Middle Class
Economic Collapse - If there were any shreds of hope left that the stunning decline of the middle class could be turned around, Obamacare has absolutely destroyed them.

Obama Administration Spent $4.4 Billion on State Healthcare Websites
atr.org - According to public data compiled by Americans for Tax Reform, the Obama administration has spent a minimum of $4.4 billion in federal taxpayer dollars on state Obamacare websites. The money was funneled through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of the Kathleen Sebelius-run Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

What THEY Can’t Take: “The Only Thing You Own Are the Skills In Your Hands and the Knowledge In Your Mind”
Activist Post - In the following video from Future Money Trends these same legendary contrarians share words of wisdom about where we are, where we’re going, and how to prepare yourself to prosper during the hard times ahead.

20-Year Army Vet Gets Shocking Notice From Employer Just Before Veterans Day......
Tea Party Command Center - Being a veteran with two decades of service — one who says, “I believe in America and I believe in God so strongly,” reports KCRA-TV in Sacramento — you may find it unsurprising that Hawks has used a familiar signature on his hospital emails: “God Bless America.” Hawks had been using the signature for more than year, he told KCRA, without any problems.

Marine's EPIC Letter Quitting the Military
Daily Paul - To Whom It May Concern: As a disclaimer, I wish to inform the reader that at this point, I have in no way made any decisions regarding my career as a Marine. This is simply to formulate my thoughts, create a discussion, and possibly consider future alternatives to my current path in the Marine Corps...

Yoga provides relief to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
(NaturalNews) It used to be that "yoga" and "veterans" were two words you never heard in the same sentence. But in 2013, yoga for veterans has become a necessary practice for those suffering with PTSD, with classes springing up around the country.

Syria team to visit Russia over Geneva 2
Press TV - Syrian government is scheduled to send a delegation to Moscow for talks with Russian officials regarding the long-awaited international peace conference on the Syrian crisis, known as Geneva 2

US may free ‘tiny’ part of Iran assets
Press TV - US Secretary of State John Kerry says Washington may release only “a tiny portion” of Iranian assets frozen in bank accounts across the world in the event of an agreement on Iran’s nuclear energy.

VIDEO: Israel speeds up illegal West Bank park project
Press TV - Israel has sped up a controversial park project between two Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, near East al-Quds (Jerusalem).... Tel Aviv claims the park is aimed at preserving the environment, but Israeli media have quoted an employee of Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority as saying that the project's real aim is to block Palestinian construction in the area.

Australia rejects raising debt ceiling, hopes to avoid America-style shutdown
RT - Australia’s upper house rejected a proposal to raise the debt ceiling to AU$500 billion ($465 billion), which if not resolved by December 12, could send the country into a US shutdown scenario.

Greek civil servants protest job cuts
Press TV - Greek civil servants have taken to the streets to protest further job cuts required for the country to continue receiving international bailout loans.

Bird flu strain infects human for 1st time
AP - A strain of bird flu that scientists thought could not infect people has shown up in a Taiwanese woman... On a more hopeful front, two pharmaceuticals separately reported encouraging results from human tests of a possible vaccine against a different type of bird flu that has been spreading in China...

Obama Accused of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’
CBN News - According to Egyptian newspaper El Watan, a group of Egyptian lawyers has submitted a complaint charging U.S. president Barrack Hussein Obama with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.

Snowden released up to 200,000 documents to press – NSA chief
RT - Former CIA employee Edward Snowden divulged as many as 200,000 classified documents to the press, says NSA Director General Keith Alexander. The spy chief said the data was leaked in such a way that it did the “maximum damage” to the NSA and the USA.

Japanese government set to borrow additional $30 bn for Fukushima costs
(NaturalNews) The price tag for the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan just jumped $30 billion. The Japanese government has recently announced a new borrowing spree to increase cleanup funds of the dilapidated area from $50 billion to $80 billion.

Some Fukushima fuel rods were damaged before 2011 catastrophe
RT - Three of the spent fuel assemblies that will be pulled from the Fukushima nuclear plant during a year-long operation were damaged before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Japanese facility.

Senior Navy civilians investigated in alleged scheme to defraud military for $1.6 million
Washington Post - Federal authorities are investigating three senior Navy intelligence officials as part of a probe into an alleged contracting scheme that charged the military $1.6 million for homemade firearm silencers that cost only $8,000 to manufacture, court records show.

Obama changes signature healthcare plan after public backlash
RT - Facing public outrage over his signature 'Affordable care act', US President Barack Obama announced major changes in the healthcare plan that will allow millions of Americans who were about to lose their cover to keep it for one more year.

Obamacare Down? Blame the Hackers
Kurt Nimmo - The Obama administration has gained a helping hand from the Department of Homeland Security as it tries to explain why HealthCare.gov is a mess. Government bureaucrats say they are hot on the trail of hackers who reportedly engaged in attacks against the crippled system. DHS officialdom, however, said the attack failed.

Oregonians Opt Out
atr.org - In Oregon, where these trippy 9.9 million dollar ads aired, zero people have signed up for Cover Oregon-- the state’s $300 million dollar Obamacare exchange.... Insurance companies in the state sent out 150,000 cancellation letters, increasing demand, but people still aren’t buying what Cover Oregon is selling: glitchy, government run healthcare.

$1 Billion TSA ‘Chat Down’ Program a Complete Failure
Paul Joseph Watson - The TSA’s $1 billion dollar ‘chat down’ program, where TSA screeners identify suspicious people and talk to them, has been deemed a complete failure by a Government Accountability Office investigation.

DHS Creates New Fusion Centers, Taking Control of Local Police
The New American - As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) doles out billions of dollars to convince local police departments to surrender control to the federal agency, a recent report indicates that intelligence gathered at precincts-cum-surveillance-centers will be shared among all levels of law enforcement.

How The CIA Can Send A Drone After Any Mobile Phone
fastcompany.com - Since 2001, armed Predator drones have been used by the CIA in many foreign nations to attack individuals on the ground. There's a new revelation about them, too: In some cases, the NSA helped the CIA find targets by locking onto their powered-off mobile phones. Even when phones have their batteries removed, it appears the NSA still has the ability to locate them.

Words to avoid using if you don't want the government spying on you
mnn.com - If you use several of these hundreds of words (such as 'pork,' 'cloud,' 'wave' or 'smart'), there's a chance you might get flagged by the government.

CNN Reports on Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons Almost 30 Years Ago
Activist Post - Imagine what they have now. Recent conflicts seem to be fought with sticks and stones compared to what is possible. If these weapons exist, it proves war is controlled Flintstones theater because these weapons would end wars very swiftly. Perpetual war is the goal of those who possess these advanced technologies.

VIDEO: Howard Dean: I Wonder If Obama Has the 'Legal Authority to Do This'
Weekly Standard - Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean questioned whether President Obama has the "legal authority" to carry out the Obamacare fix the White House outlined today...

AZ Schools Lock Students In, Break Fire Safety Laws
Activist Post - Some schools in Arizona are attempting to keep bad guys out by locking students IN. In some districts in the state, officials are putting up fences and gates – without permits – but what they are doing to the school doors is far more disturbing. The schools have been locking doors that would be used in emergency evacuations, thus trapping students in the building in the event of a fire or other life-threatening event.

SC Police Department Gets “U.N. Blue” Tank that is land mine & IED resistant
Ben Swann - On Veterans Day, Columbia, South Carolina became the latest of about 500 communities nationwide to add a military grade armored vehicle to its police force. The para-military vehicle with a “U.N. blue” custom paint job seats nine people, has an armable turret, and costs $658,000.

NJ Christie Will Campaign Against Tea Party/Libertarians With Lindsey Graham
Ben Swann - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently won his second term reelection with a wide margin over his challenger, a democratic state senator. His “landslide victory”, as the mainstream media call it, is deceptive. What the mainstream hasn’t reported was that the race drew the lowest gubernatorial voter turn out in history.

Scotiabank Warns "Yellen Has Ensured An Equity Market Crash Is Inevitable"
Zero Hedge - Yellen had to field several questions about potential market bubbles, but she deflected them aggressively saying that she did not believe that “bubble-like conditions” existed. Basically, she has given the market the green light to “melt-up”. The only question is how much higher will the Fed’s ‘gift’ drive prices?

Gold Trader: “Manufactured” Crash Imminent, Gold to Test June Low Next Week As JPM Guns for $1,000
silverdoctors.com - “At least two big banks, I would say Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, maybe a big hedge fund…are trying to push gold down to that support zone at around $1000. I think they’re already short, and right now they’re letting the reversing dollar do the work for them. I think gold tests the June low by the middle of next week.

The Federal Reserve Is Monetizing A Staggering Amount Of U.S. Government Debt
Economic Collapse - The Federal Reserve is creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air and using that money to buy U.S. government debt and mortgage-backed securities and take them out of circulation. Since the middle of 2008, these purchases have caused the Fed's balance sheet to balloon from under a trillion dollars to nearly four trillion dollars.

Kerry warns Congress against anti-Iran sanctions
PRESS TV - US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Congress that any new sanctions against Iran will be viewed as “bad faith” and can “destroy the ability to” reach an agreement.

Netanyahu: ‘Bad deal’ with Iran will only lead to war
RT - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that lifting sanctions on Iran without demanding sufficient concessions in return will only encourage Tehran on its path to nuclear armament and lead to future conflict.

'World should focus on Israel's nukes'
PRESS TV - A political commentator says the world should focus on Israel’s nuclear weapons program and urge the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to more speedily dismantle their nukes.

Poppy fields forever? Record opium output boosts Afghan warlords’ power base
RT - Despite efforts to curb Afghan’s opium culture, cultivation has hit record levels as NATO forces prepare to exit the country. The UN warned warlords may be the biggest benefactor of the situation.

Russian lawmaker seeks to ban US dollar, predicts 2017 collapse
RT - To protect Russians against the “collapsing US debt pyramid”, a Russian legislator has filed a draft bill to ban circulation of the currency in Russia.

Secret Globalist Treaty Threatens Internet Freedom
Kurt Nimmo - Wikileaks has released a 95 page, 30,000 word document spelling out details on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The secret globalist agreement will have a significant effect on a wide range of issues including internet freedom, medicine, patents, and civil liberties. The cabal will meet in Salt Lake, Utah, between November 19 and 24.

Heartbreaking before and after photos show how Typhoon Haiyan flattened entire city of Tacloban
Daily Mail - It was once a vibrant city, packed with neat rows of colourful homes surrounded by lush green parks. But now all that remains is a husk of Tacloban; the place that so many called home is now a grey and barren wasteland after deadly Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines city, crushing everything in its way.

Volcano in Indonesia displace 5,000
PRESS TV - “So far, 5,265 people have been evacuated from seven villages," local government spokesman Robert Peranginangin said on Wednesday, adding the number of evacuees is expected to rise.

Pentagon abandons plans to buy Russian helicopters amid Syria dispute
RT - The US is cancelling its plans to buy Russian helicopters for the Afghan Air Force from state-owned exporter Rosoboronexport. It comes amid pressure from US lawmakers over Russia’s arms deliveries to Syria, according to a US senator.

Britain rejects EU watchdog plan to probe data-gathering practices - report
RT - The UK has rejected a call from an EU watchdog to probe how security agencies intercept metadata. Documents divulged by Edward Snowden revealed the covert practices of British spy body GCHQ in what has been described as “breach of fundamental rights.”

Ego building? NATO erects $1bn HQ as members slash military spending
RT - NATO is constructing a bold, new headquarters in Brussels, but the $1 billion project is raising eyebrows at a time of economic hardship and military spending cuts. It also suggests the Western military bloc is here to stay.

NHK: Holes near bottom of containment vessel identified for first time at Fukushima plant
ENENews - A camera on the robot captured images of water leaking from 2 holes in the containment vessel [...] TEPCO engineers [...] say one of the leaks looks as if tap water is gushing out. Radiation levels in the area were extremely high at 0.9 to 1.8 sieverts an hour. Engineers suspect that damage to containment vessels at the No. 2 and 3 reactors is also causing similar leaks [...]

Seattle police deactivate surveillance system after public outrage
RT - Police in Seattle, Washington have responded to a major public outcry by disabling a recently discovered law enforcement tool that critics said could be used to conduct sweeping surveillance across the city.

School’s New Spy System Places Children Under Complete Surveillance
Kit Daniels - In a stinging similarity to the telescreens of 1984, schoolchildren will soon be monitored in real-time through surveillance sensors mounted inside the classrooms of a charter school in Oakland, California.

House Republicans to try to impeach U.S. Attorney General Holder
(Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to introduce articles of impeachment against Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday, in the hopes of removing a cabinet member they say has lied to Congress as well as failed to uphold federal law.

White House releases disappointing Obamacare enrollment total: 106,000
Washington Times - The Obama administration said Wednesday that roughly 106,000 Americans had enrolled in private health coverage through Obamacare by selecting a plan during the first month of activity, an expectedly low number of participants as the White House scrambles to fix the overhaul’s main website.

Rand Paul Reveals Barack Obama Wrote The Regulation To Cancel Your Insurance After Obamacare Passed!
silverdoctors.com - According to Senator Rand Paul, who spoke at a luncheon in Charleston, South Carolina on Monday, November 11, the President of the United States himself wrote the regulation to cancel the health insurance of MILLIONS of Americans…3 months after Obamacare was passed!

Americans 34 Times More Interested In Buying Guns Than Obamacare
Zero Hedge - It would appear that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) website – required when purchasing a gun or explosive – is capable of handling large volumes of users…

YouTube: Sen. Rand Paul Questions DHS Nominee Jeh Johnson
Sen. Rand Paul Nov 13, 2013.

Americans’ personal data shared with CIA, IRS, others in security probe
McClatchy - U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no direct ties to the U.S. government and simply had purchased certain books.

Federal Reserve Whistleblower Tells America The REAL Reason For Quantitative Easing
Activist Post - A banker named Andrew Huszar who helped manage the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program during 2009 and 2010 is publicly apologizing for what he has done. He says that quantitative easing has accomplished next to nothing for the average person on the street. Instead, he says that it has been "the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time."

U.S. TREASURY: Ramps Up the Zimbabwe Style Printing Press
silverdoctors.com - In just a few years, the U.S. Department of Treasury Bureau of Engraving & Printing has substantially increased the printing of its largest valued Federal Reserve Note — the $100 bill. The United States is heading for a hyperinflationary collapse. This will not be an economic event, but rather a loss of faith in the Dollar — a statement repeated by Jim Sinclair.

Army Veteran Recalls the Unforgettable Moment When a Judge Told Him: ‘Your Time in Iraq Makes You a Threat to Society’
Breitbart - Army veteran Andrew Chambers recently shared the story of how he was sentenced to ten years in prison after a judge allegedly told him that his service in the Iraq war makes him a “threat to society.” Video of his speech from prison for TEDxMarionCorrectional’s TEDxTalks is now going viral after being posted on Oct. 31.

Beware The Looming "Wave Of Disaster" From Home Equity Payment Resets
Zero Hedge - The estimate is that $30 billion in home equity lines will reset next year, $53 billion in 2015, and then ultimately soaring to $111 billion in 2018 - a looming “wave of disaster” because large numbers of borrowers will be unable to handle the higher payments. This will force banks to either foreclose, refinance the borrower or modify their loans.

Netanyahu halts Israeli plans for new West Bank settler homes following criticism
RT - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for his housing minister to reconsider long-term plans to construct thousands of new homes in the West Bank and in the contentious E1 area outside Jerusalem.

Germany warns US facilities could be targeted in wake of NSA leaks
RT - Officials in Germany have cautioned authorities to prepare for possible attacks against United States facilities overseas as revelations continue to emerge about America’s secretive National Security Agency.

Tepco plans new draining ditch to divert any spills into No. 1 harbor
The Japan Times - The current channel drains into the sea outside the plant’s man-made harbor, which is protected by breakwaters and its water has been partially enclosed to contain radioactive discharges. The new channel, to be completed by the end of March, will drain into the harbor, Tepco said Monday.

Western warships, Japanese troops dispatched to aid ‘corpse-choked’ Philippines
RT - The US and UK have dispatched warships to the typhoon-ravaged Philippines to help facilitate relief efforts. Japan is also set to deploy troops to the country to aid affected areas gruesomely described as a corpse-choked wasteland.

‘Haiyan death toll around 2,500 so far’
Press TV - Filipino President Benigno Aquino says death toll from the super Typhoon Haiyan is closer to 2,000 or 2,500 rather than the 10,000 previously estimated.

"Weather Modification 101" = Dutchsinse video response to Dr. Mahar Lagmay and ABS-CBN News
dutchsinse - Full video response to Dr. Mahar Lagmay and ABS-CBN News.... Below, you will hear a “debunk” video from ABS-CBN News and Doctor Mahar Lagmay, telling a series of half truths, mixed with outright incorrect statements, which dominate this “conversation” attempting to “debunk” the video I produced.

Philippines Typhoon linked to ‘Man-Made’ Microwave Pulses
21stcenturywire.com - In recent years, weather modification has been forced into the spotlight by many independent investigators as well those from scientific fields, including admissions by well-known personalities in science. One such scientist who has acknowledged that this technology exists is theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku…

Canada’s Harper Government Supports Covert Mercenary War on Syria, Funds Al Qaeda Affiliated Rebels
Global Research - Unlike the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, the Harper government has not openly armed the foreign-backed mercenaries.... Actually the Prime Minister has been working, but mostly behind the scenes, over the past thirty months for regime change in Syria. His government’s efforts fall into the following six categories...

Taxing the Sun: Spain's solar police to kick in your door
Blacklisted News - The latest nail in the coffin for Spain’s solar energy producers is an Energy Law amendment which allows inspectors to enter private properties without a court order. It's a move lawyers believe could set a worrying precedent.

The Obamacare Exchange Scorecard: Around 100,000 Enrollees And Five Million Cancellations
Forbes - In the market for individually-purchased health insurance, more than 4.8 million Americans have received notices that their preexisting plans are soon to be illegal, and will be cancelled. Many more cancellation notices are imminent.

Two More States Struggle With Disastrous Obamacare Rollouts
Newsmax - Oregon and Massachusetts are joining the ranks of states with dismal prospects for enrollment in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges. More than a month after Cover Oregon's online enrollment was expected to begin, the system still doesn't work and not one person has signed up, reports The Associated Press.

Congressional Approval at All-Time Low of 9 Percent
CNS News - Only nine percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing - considered the lowest in Gallup’s history of measuring congressional approval, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

Former NSA Head Argues Government Secrecy Is The Same As Personal Privacy
Steve Watson - In a debate with one of the leading reporters to have been involved in the Edward Snowden leaks, former NSA head Michael Hayden argued, ridiculously, that government secrecy is akin to an individual’s private privacy, and so the American public should not be privy to the actions of the NSA.

Soros-linked Group Pushes Sex to Sell Obamacare
Kurt Nimmo - A cabal of wealthy and influential Democrats, under the cover a Colorado-based group called Progress Now, are attempting to push Obamacare on young Americans through a salacious propaganda campaign. “Got insurance?” an online ad posted on the Thanks Obamacare campaign website inquires.

Sen. Hagan wants probe of health law website as her political support drops
McClatchy - Sen. Kay Hagan said Tuesday that she wants federal investigators to examine how contractors who were paid to create the go-to site for the new health insurance law botched it.

Survey: NSA Stasi State Cows Journalists Into Self-censorhip
Kurt Nimmo - A survey conducted recently by the group and published in a paper titled Chilling Effects: NSA Surveillance Drives U.S. Writers to Self-Censor reveals that 85% of writers “are worried about government surveillance of Americans, and 73% of writers have never been as worried about privacy rights and freedom of the press as they are today.”

Reporter fights ruling forcing her to reveal Aurora shooting sources
Aljazeera - New York's highest court began hearing arguments Tuesday over whether state law protects a Fox News reporter from being forced to reveal confidential police sources behind leaked information about James Holmes, the accused killer of 12 people in a suburban Denver movie theater. The decision could have an impact on reporters in New York and nationwide.

Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt
The Guardian - Rolling Jubilee, set up by Occupy's Strike Debt group following the street protests that swept the world in 2011, launched on 15 November 2012. The group purchases personal debt cheaply from banks before "abolishing" it, freeing individuals from their bills. By purchasing the debt at knockdown prices the group has managed to free $14,734,569.87 of personal debt, mainly medical debt, spending only $400,000.

Grid EX II and the Impact of An EMP Attack On America
Dave Hodges - The following material is grim, very grim. Let me get the dramatics out of the way in the very beginning. If a nation-wide EMP attack ever takes place in America, given our present level of preparedness, it will prove to be the most cataclysmic event in human history.

House Voted to Get Banksters Back in the Derivatives Business
Kurt Nimmo - Wholesale destruction of U.S. economy may now continue without interruption... H.R. 992, the Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act, authored primarily by Citibank lobbyists, will allow predatory Wall Street financial institutions to once again engage in high-risk derivatives trading. Losses will be socialized and paid for by the American taxpayer through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC.

Federal Reserve Whistleblower Tells America The REAL Reason For Quantitative Easing
Economic Collapse - A banker named Andrew Huszar that helped manage the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program during 2009 and 2010 is publicly apologizing for what he has done. He says that quantitative easing has accomplished next to nothing for the average person on the street. Instead, he says that it has been "the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time."

Americans' Participation in Labor Force Hits 35-Year Low
CNS News - The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who have a job or are actively seeking one dropped to a 35-year low in October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Radioactive leak found in reactor at S. Carolina nuclear plant, one of the largest in US
RT - A reactor at one of the nation’s largest nuclear power plants has been taken offline due to a radioactive leak within a containment building. "Out of an abundance of caution,” service was temporarily removed from Unit 1 at the Oconee Nuclear Station in western South Carolina early Monday, according to ONS spokeswoman B.J. Gatten.

Geoengineering to reduce climate change could adversely affect rainfall, scientists report
(NaturalNews) Studies now reveal that many unintended consequences come from geoengineering, including mini-droughts, reduced monsoonal rainfall across several continents and depleted ozone levels.

Natural Immunity: 8+ Natural Antibiotics to Replace the Pharmaceuticals for Good
Natural Society - Worried about getting sick? Instead of turning to antibiotics, here are 8+ foods which harness natural antibiotic properties to boost your immune system.

What Science Says About Getting A Flu Shot
Green Med Info - The information contained here was not gathered from internet websites or blogs. It came from peer-reviewed literature written by scientists with the best credentials for commenting on the topic.

How Roundup Weedkiller Can Promote Cancer, New Study Reveals
Green Med Info - Researchers from the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research have recently confirmed the carcinogenic potential of Roundup herbicide using human skin cells (HaCaT ) exposed to extremely low concentrations of the world's best selling herbicide.

Cooking with Roses: How to Use Rose Petals, Leaves and Hips
Mother Earth News - Rose hips contain a whopping 2000 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams of fruit. That vitamin content goes down some if you expose the rose hips to heat while you are making jam or tea, but enough remains to boost your C intake. If you want to preserve as much of the vitamin content as possible, try making infused rose hip vinegar (recipe below) with the raw fruit.

Warm Lemon Water: A Natural Diuretic and Toxin Remover
Natural Society - A simple age-old remedy of drinking hot lemon water can not only help you fit into your pants more easily, but will also naturally cleanse the blood, kidneys, bladder, and other organs so that your body can more easily eliminate toxins from the body.

Astaxanthin found to reduce oxidation, DNA damage and liver cancer formation
(NaturalNews) A study conducted by researchers from India's National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research found that astaxanthin not only can reduce oxidation of the liver but can actually prevent DNA damage and the early stages of liver cancer development.

Research proves chlorella has antioxidative effects, 'should be included as a key component of a healthy diet'
(NaturalNews) In addition to its disease-fighting and nutritional benefits, research shows that chlorella is a powerful antioxidant that even boosts immune system function in healthy people.... Studies have shown that it can alleviate high cholesterol, abnormal blood fat levels, high blood pressure and abnormal blood sugar.

The health benefits of acai berry
(NaturalNews) Acai berries are extraordinarily rich in antioxidants and have a very high ORAC score (Oxygen Radical Absorbency Capacity) that is far superior to any other form of fruit that has been officially tested and categorized. It is also rich in key B vitamins, electrolytes and trace minerals that are necessary for reducing inflammation and improving energy levels.

FDA: Many common cooking spices may contain bug parts, rodent hairs
(NaturalNews) Entitled "Pathogens and Filth in Spices," the report alleges that up to 12 percent of all U.S. spice imports may contain hidden insect filth, while up to 7 percent may contain bacterial contaminants, an obvious push by the agency to further legitimize irradiating cooking spices.

Vaccine fraud exposed: Measles and mumps making a huge comeback because vaccines are designed to fail, say Merck virologists
(NaturalNews) Measles and mumps are making a huge comeback in the United States, but doctors and journalists all make the same critical error in understanding why. They blame "parents who don't vaccinate their kids" as the cause, but the real cause -- as revealed by whistleblowing scientists working for top vaccine manufacturers -- is that measles and mumps vaccines are designed to fail from the start.

Syrian opposition agrees to attend Geneva talks with preconditions – SNC statement
RT - The Western-backed Syrian opposition group has agreed to participate international peace talks, outlining conditions that must be met before they attend in Geneva, the group said in a statement.

US and Israel lose UNESCO voting rights
Aljazeera - UNESCO has suspended the voting rights of the United States, two years after it stopped paying dues to the UN's cultural arm in protest over its granting full membership to the Palestinians, according to a UNESCO source. Related video.

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to face MPs over Edward Snowden intelligence leaks
The Independent - MPs are to question the editor of the Guardian about the publication of secret files leaked by Edward Snowden. Secret service chiefs have claimed the leaks damaged Britain’s ability to foil plots because terrorists have changed the way they operate after learning how to thwart eavesdropping.

GCHQ spoofed LinkedIn site to target global mobile traffic exchange and OPEC – report
RT - The UK’s electronic spying agency has been using spoof version of LinkedIn professional social network's website to target global roaming data exchange companies as well as top management employees in the OPEC oil cartel, according to Der Spiegel report.

10,000 feared killed in Philippines by super typhoon Haiyan (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
RT - An estimated 10,000 people might have been killed in the central Philippine province of Leyte alone, which was almost completely destroyed by the powerful typhoon Haiyan, local authorities said.

Libyan separatists take over oil exports as PM warns of foreign intervention
RT - A separatist Libyan region has announced an establishment of an independent oil company after taking over several commercial sea ports. As Tripoli struggles to regain control, the PM has warned of foreign intervention unless central govt rule restored.

DoD priorities revealed
Defence Web - Enhancing the Reserve force, building up the South African Army and strengthening peacekeeping capacity are some of the Department of Defence’s main priorities, according to its annual report.

Hagel directs military to help Philippine relief effort
McClatchy - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has directed the U.S. Pacific Command to support U.S. humanitarian relief operations in the Philippines after one of the most powerful storms ever devastated the island nation.

North Korea 'executes 80 people for watching foreign films
The Independent - Watching films or television from capitalist countries – especially South Korea - is a serious offence in North Korea, but despite the risk of execution, shows like Desperate Housewives from the US have acquired a large following.

GridEx II 2013: Simulations for Power and Control
The Government Rag - This exercise involves the cooperation of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Simulations of physical and cyber attacks on the power grid could occur during this exercise. These dates also coincide with another first time ever joint humanitarian/disaster relief exercise with the U.S. Army and the Communist Peoples Republic of China Army.

Costly ‘technological marvel’: US Navy christens new class $13bn aircraft carrier
Rt - The US Navy has christened the first of a new class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the 13-billion-dollar USS Gerald R. Ford. The ship, hailed as the most technologically advanced ever built, is expected to join the fleet in 2016.

Chinese troops will have boots on the ground in Hawaii on Tuesday
Canada Free Press - The New York Times reported on GridEx 2’s massive, Nov. 13-14 drill on August 16, but never mentioned the participation of the Peoples Republic of China’s Army. China’s Xinhua Agencies kicked in on November 6 reporting that American and Chinese soldiers will train together in the November exercise.

IRS Advises of Power Outage Ahead of Grid Ex Electricity Drill
Activist Post - Speculation abounds about the coming power grid drills, and a recent alert issued by the IRS.gov web site isn’t helping quell fears. The following message has appeared on at least 50 pages of the IRS.gov web site within the last 48 hours, though the alert is not being displayed on most areas of the site...

Lawmakers Push to Impeach Disgraced Attorney General Holder
New American - According to media reports, the bid to force Holder out of power, if successful, would represent the second impeachment of a cabinet member in American history. Meanwhile, the movement to impeach Obama himself is growing stronger by the day as well — both in Congress and among everyday Americans.

Homeland Security Dept. Continues to Fight Disclosure of Where it Flies Drones
AllGov - Disclosure of more information could allow someone to “piece together the locations” where agency drones “operate or do not operate,” DHS lawyers argued in a brief filed with the court. “This would present a serious threat to future law enforcement investigations and would risk circumvention of the law,” they further argued.

Obamacare’s Biggest Failure So Far: Just 18% Of Uninsured Have Expressed An Interest In Enrolling
Zero Hedge - Sadly, this last nail in Obamacare's coffin, has just been confirmed with a just released Gallup poll which found that a tiny 18% of uninsured Americans - the primary target population for the exchanges - have so far attempted to even visit an exchange website.

Seniors lose insurance and doctors under Obamacare
Daily Caller - Currently, 74,000 Garden State residents are enrolled in Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare Advantage. Nearly half have zero-premium plans. But in 2014, New Jersey Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield is eliminating all zero-premium plans with prescription drug coverage and all but two of its other plans with monthly fees.

DMV Official Pleads Guilty to Giving Driver's Licenses to Hundreds of Illegals...
Breitbart - Three people in Virginia, including a DMV employee, pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to get state IDs or driver's licenses for at least 300 illegal immigrants.

Repeal of “Stand-Your-Ground” voted down in Florida House Committee
legalinsurrection.com - Last evening [Nov 9, 2013] the Florida House conducted a public hearing, judiciary committee debate, and committee vote on HB-4003, which would have done away with Florida’s Stand-Your-Ground law by repealing Florida statute 776.013. Home protection; use of deadly force; presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm.

VIDEO: Ron Paul: Welcome to My New Website
ronpaulmd.com - When I was thinking of the URL for my new personal homepage, I considered many possibilities. Thanks also to all those who sent other suggestions. But I settled on RonPaulMD.com as reflecting a very important area of my life....

Massachusetts Moves To Inspect Gun Owners’ Homes
Kurt Nimmo - In Massachusetts, a bureaucrat wants police to enter private residences and “safeguard” guns under the pretense that violating the Constitution will be good for the children.

Bloomberg employees claim company is self-censoring to keep China happy
theverge.com - Four staffers for news service Bloomberg have alleged to The New York Times that the company has held back a damning investigation into a wealthy Chinese billionaire's ties to the government, fearing the story could lead to Bloomberg's eviction from the country.

Colorado College Job Application Features The Word ‘Queer’
CBS News - A word on job applications at Colorado College has sparked a controversy. The word “queer” appears in the voluntary gender section responses of the applications and the private school in Colorado Springs stands by the wording.

Identity Thieves Get $4 Billion in Tax Refunds
atr.org - The inspector general’s report will attempt to assuage concerns by noting that last year they prevented $12 billion in fraudulent tax refunds from going to identity thieves. But what will be buried in a foot note is the fact that the amount refunded to identity thieves increased by $400,000 million from last year!

Stunning 90 Tons Of Paper Gold Used To Smash Gold Market
King World News - On the heels of continued volatility in global markets, a 42-year market veteran told King World News that a stunning “90 tons” of paper gold selling was used to create the smash in the gold market today.

10 Facts About The Growing Unemployment Crisis In America That Will Blow Your Mind
Economic Collapse - Did you know that there are more than 102 million working age Americans that do not have a job? Yes, I know that number sounds absolutely crazy, but it is true. Right now, there are more than 11 million Americans that are considered to be "officially unemployed", and there are more than 91 million Americans that are not employed and that are considered to be "not in the labor force".

Veterans Day: Discounts and Freebies
Military.com - The following is a list of nearly 100 Veterans Day discounts on goods, services and dining for 2013. Please check back frequently as the list is updated. Check them out...

Remember Armistice Day With Shane
ronpaulinstitute.org - Despite what they might say, today, November 11th, is Armistice Day. It is a day meant to be grateful for the end of a horrific war and the supposed end of wars. A day to pause and reflect on the horrors of an entire continent, an entire civiliztation destroyed by the madness of war. To mourn the dead, the senseless slaughter. It was not meant as it has become, a grotesque celebration and glorification of war.

Final Toast to WWII Doolittle Raiders: 'Rest in Peace'
Breitbart - Known as the Doolittle Raiders, the 80 men who risked their lives on a World War II bombing mission on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor were toasted one last time by their surviving comrades and honored with a Veterans Day weekend of fanfare shared by thousands.

After this year, we mourn in private
Veterans Today - Harry Leslie Smith is 91 years old. He lived through his teens during the Great Depression which in working class England was worse than here, served with the the RAF in WWII and has worked for causes of economic, social and political justice since. He’s still going at it...

Veterans routinely given psychiatric drugs even without diagnosis of mental disorder
(NaturalNews) A major indicator of the deteriorating quality of conventional medical care in the U.S. is its growing reliance on pharmaceutical drugs as a catch-all for pain and disease management. And a new study published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry shows that this dire situation is only worsening, as many conventional doctors are no longer even properly diagnosing patients but instead just handing out medications willy-nilly in order to get patients out the door.

Egypt forces detain MB leading member
Press TV - Egyptian security forces have detained Muslim Brotherhood leading member Mohsen Abu Zaid amid heightened crackdown on the movement.

Bombings kill 30 in, around Baghdad
Press TV - At least 30 people have been killed and many more wounded in bombings in and around the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.

Typhoon Haiyan roars into Philippines
Press TV -The world's strongest typhoon of the year has roared into the Philippines, forcing millions of people in vulnerable areas to move to safer ground and storm shelters.

Japan to begin removal of fuel rods from Fukushima plant
RT - TEPCO is preparing to begin the dangerous task of extracting over 1,500 nuclear fuel rods from the Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant. The risky operation is an essential step in to stabilize the site, in a process that could take decades.

Pakistani Taliban pledges revenge after leader’s death in drone strike
RT - The Taliban announced it will carry out revenge attacks in Pakistan following the death of its leader in a US drone strike. The terror group resolved to strike government installations, political leaders and police in an “unprecedented” wave of violence.

Iraq 2013: Deadliest year since 2008 with 7,000+ killed
RT - With over 7,000 civilian casualties so far, 2013 has already become the deadliest year in Iraq since 2008. In its new project, a timeline of the violence, RT brings the sad record into the spotlight.

Not fast enough: S&P knocks French credit rating to AA from AA+
RT - Francois Hollande, France's most unpopular president on record, continues struggling to find the right cure to dig out of financial crisis. Standard & Poor's cut the credit rating of Europe’s No. 2 economy on Friday citing poor economic growth prospects.

YouTube: Westminster Whitewash: UK spy chiefs deny data harvesting, say Snowden aided Al-Qaida
RT - Well most experts predicted the intelligence bosses were unlikely to find themselves in hot water - unlike the journalists who released Snowden's documents. Let's take a look at efforts the British government has made to plug the leaks.

UK watchdog says investors lose 24 million pounds in carbon credit scam
(Reuters) - Nineteen companies selling carbon credits have been shut in the past 15 months for bilking investors out of 24 million pounds ($38.7 million), British regulators said on Wednesday, warning more firms were trying to sell carbon as a viable option for private investors.

Update: Super Typhoon Haiyan hits Philippines with all-time record winds (VIDEO)
RT - At least three people have been killed and seven injured, with the death toll expected to rise, authorities said. "The super typhoon likely made landfall with winds near 195 mph (313 kph). This makes Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall," Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at US-based Weather Underground, told Reuters.

11 Signs of a False Flag
Activist Post - Throughout history, versions of the false flag attack have been used successfully by governments in order to direct the force of the people toward whatever end the ruling class may be seeking. At times, that end may be war, or it may be the curtailing of domestic civil liberties and basic human rights. In others, it is an economic agenda.

Walmart, Safeway, Others Unplugging From Unreliable Power Grid
offthegridnews.com - Off The Grid News had reported that several large corporations, including Walmart, Safeway, Google, Bank of America and Coca-Cola, are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on systems to generate their own electricity. A Journal article indicates that many other large companies, too, are taking steps to generate their own electricity.

ObamaCare website could only handle 1,100 users a day before launch, docs show
Fox News - The problem-plagued ObamaCare website was only equipped to handle 1,100 users a day before it was launched, documents released by the House Oversight and Reform Committee reveal.

Government Power Grab: FDA To Ban Trans Fats
Ben Swann - The United States is over 17 trillion dollars in debt, the national unemployment rate is over seven percent, and one-sixth of the American population is on food stamps. But fixing those problems is just so hard! So, some courageous politicians have decided to spend time and money dictating what we should be allowed to eat. They do this in the name of “keeping us healthy.”

IRS Refunded $4B to Identity Thieves
Breitbart - The Internal Revenue Service issued $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds last year to people using stolen identities, with some of the money going to addresses in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Ireland, according to an inspector general's report released Thursday. The IRS sent a total of 655 tax refunds to a single address in Lithuania, and 343 refunds went to a lone address in Shanghai.

Snowden 'asked' for colleagues' logins, passwords to access classified NSA data
RT - Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden persuaded 25 fellow workers to give him login keys and passwords at their base in Hawaii that gave him access to classified material he would later disclose as world-renowned the NSA leaks.

Dad ‘unfit parent for refusing son McDonald’s’
NY Post - Attorney David Schorr slapped a court-appointed shrink with a defamation lawsuit for telling the judge deciding a custody battle with his estranged wife that he was an unfit parent — for refusing to take his son to the fast food joint for dinner.

Louisiana food stamp abusers will lose benefits over Wal-mart free for all
bizpacreview.com - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and his administration took steps late Wednesday to strip food stamp benefits from those who loaded up their shopping carts knowing they had insufficient funds in their Electronic Benefits Transfer accounts during a system failure in October.

Father's heartache after police shoot dead son, 19, after he reported van stolen to stop him from buying cigarettes
Daily Mail - A 19-year-old has been shot dead by police after his father dialed 911 to report his truck stolen in order to teach his son a lesson for driving off to buy cigarettes.... Patrol officer Adam McPherson fired six shots into the truck and the 19-year-old later died from two gunshot wounds.

Guns & Ammo Fires Editor After Publishing Editorial Calling for Gun Control
mediaite.com - Guns and Ammo Magazine, the “world’s most widely read firearms magazine,” has fired contributing editor Dick Metcalf after the publication received immense backlash for its December 2013 issue featuring his editorial advocating for gun control.

VIDEO: Ron Paul: Chris Christie Is Just Another John McCain Or Mitt Romney
Liberty Crier - Ron Paul speaks with Neil Cavuto about a potential Chris Christie 2016 Presidential run. Ron Paul says that Chris Christie will go the way of John McCain or Mitt Romney.

Food Bank CEO: Welfare Cuts Causing “Nightmare Ripple Effect”
Paul Joseph Watson - As food banks across the country warn that they are unable to meet demand, the CEO of the Food Bank of South Jersey says that the $5 billion welfare cut which came into effect on November 1st is causing a “nightmare ripple effect” for both businesses and hungry citizens.

How China Can Cause The Death Of The Dollar And The Entire U.S. Financial System
Economic Collapse - The death of the dollar is coming, and it will probably be China that pulls the trigger. What you are about to read is understood by only a very small fraction of all Americans.

IRS’s ‘Volunteer Tax Preparers’ Exhibit Incompetence
atr.org - The Inspector General of the IRS released a report this week that examined the state of the agency’s Volunteer Tax Preparers (VTP) program. The program exists to provide free tax preparation services to low income citizens. However, the findings of the audit show that this program might be doing more harm than good.

Petraeus advised downgrading Swenson’s Medal of Honor bid, probe finds
McClatchy - Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus recommended that the Medal of Honor nomination of former Army Capt. William Swenson be downgraded to a lower award, according to a Pentagon investigation that failed to resolve how Swenson’s papers then disappeared instead of being sent up the chain of command.

Genetically engineered trees under USDA consideration could harm environment - report
RT - As the US Department of Agriculture considers whether to authorize the unrestricted planting of genetically engineered Eucalyptus trees experts are warning that such a policy would not only be unnatural, but negatively impact the environment.

Fracking pinpointed as cause of Texas earthquakes
(NaturalNews) The researchers analyzed 93 separate earthquakes that took place in Texas between March 2009 and December 2010. They found that many of the earthquakes occurred shortly after oil and gas companies had injected carbon dioxide into their wells.

UK’s military base in Cyprus ‘taps into Middle East, Mediterranean comms’
RT -Mideast, North African and European communications are largely controlled by British intelligence, nesting at a UK military base in Cyprus, media reveal. Private, diplomatic and business communications allegedly all come under surveillance.

Tests 'show Yasser Arafat was poisoned with polonium'
The Telegraph - Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, may well have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, Swiss scientists have concluded in findings that may solve a 10-year riddle but torpedo the latest Middle East peace process.

Israel levels Catholic Church property in E. Jerusalem amid ‘massive demolition’ plan
RT - The Catholic Church has lashed out at the Israeli government, after its property in East Jerusalem was bulldozed to the ground. Meanwhile, thousands of Palestinian flats were marked for demolition just before US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit.

Armies and Police Are Being Privatized Around the World and Business Is Booming
StratRisks - In a world where budgets are tight, and bottom lines daunting, it makes sense that governments around the world have to do more with less, or they just have to do less. Surprisingly, one part of the state apparatus that most countries seem happy to outsource is one of its most fundamental—security.

Super typhoon forecast to hit the Philippines
USA Today - A ferocious typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean is taking aim at the fragile islands of the Philippines. Super Typhoon Haiyan has top sustained winds of 175 mph, which is equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

UK intelligence leaders to testify for the first time since Snowden leaks
RT - The United Kingdom’s three primary intelligence chiefs are scheduled to testify in front of parliamentary leaders Thursday in what will be the first time they speak publicly on the revelations disclosed by Edward Snowden earlier this year.

Germany now registering 'genderless' babies with both male and female characteristics
(NaturalNews) They are sometimes referred to as "intersex" people -- individuals with chromosomes, genitalia or even just characteristics that resemble both the male and female sex -- and for the first time ever, they now have their own gender category on birth certificates in Europe.

Senate committee approves funding for NSA, witch-hunt on leakers
RT - Congress has taken the first step towards expanding the abilities of the United States intelligence community by advancing a draft bill that will ensure the government’s spy budget stays intact into next year.

Feds Spent $29 Million on Prescription Drugs for 4,139 Illegal Aliens
CNS News - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) spent almost $29 million to cover Medicare Part D prescription drugs for 4,139 individuals “unlawfully present” in the U.S. and thus ineligible to receive federal health care benefits, according to an audit by Daniel Levinson, inspector general of the Department of Health & Human Services.

Police Search For Non-Existent Drugs By Forcing Man To Undergo Enemas & Cavity Searches
Ben Swann - New Mexico man David Eckert was pulled over on January 3 for failing to fully stop at a Wal-Mart parking lot stop sign. What happened next was far from a routine traffic stop.
* Related Article: More terrorized drivers report forceful rectal inspections...

Adam Kokesh Pleads Guilty To Gun & Marijuana Charges, Faces Six Years In Prison
Ben Swann - On Wednesday, Kokesh pled guilty to to carrying a rifle or shotgun, possession of an unregistered firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition. He also pled guilty to possession of marijuana in Washington, DC. He will now be released from jail while he awaits his sentencing on January 17.

Pentagon Being Pushed Into New ‘Automated’ Technologies For Its New Hi-Tech Army
21st Century Wire - While the US is weighed down spending fortunes on military industrial pork and other old technologies, it is also burning through its checkbook in R & D and acquisitions of newer applications – all in order to keep ahead of the Chinese Jones’s.

Washington Times ends Sen. Rand Paul column amid plagiarism allegations
Washington Times - Sen. Rand Paul acknowledged Tuesday that he had failed to properly source material in published writings, including a column in The Washington Times, after a string of embarrassing plagiarism accusations surfaced in recent days.

Legal Experts: Even TOTALLY INNOCENT People Should Avoid Talking to Law Enforcement
Washington’s Blog - A law school professor and former criminal defense attorney explains why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police... It’s vital to note, however, that the Supreme Court ruled this year that your silence CAN be used against you… at least until you’re read your Miranda rights. Therefore, if you remain silent when police are questioning you, it is very important to tell the police that you are exercising your right to remain silent.

YouTube: Ben Swann: Free Speech is a Human Right
Ben Swann talks about the role of the first amendment as much more than just a recognition of your right to speech, or just the press.. it is the recognition of your right to believe, say and tell others whatever you like.

Taxpayers Win Big in Kansas City, Missouri
atr.org - Yesterday voters in Jackson County voters rejected an $800 million tax hike by eighty-six percent. esterday voters in Jackson County, Missouri (including the voters of Kansas City) went to the polls faced with Question One. The ballot question would have increased the county sales tax by .5-percent amounting in an $800 million tax hike over the next 20 years.

Colorado Voters Reject Massive Income Tax Hike
atr.org - Despite a $10 million campaign cash advantage for tax hike proponents which was aided by out-of-state money from the likes of Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg, last night Colorado voters overwhelmingly rejected Amendment 66 by a 2 to 1 margin, with 66% voting against the ballot measure that would've scrapped Colorado’s flat income tax and replaced it with a progressive income tax system with a top rate 27% higher than the one currently on the books.

Which America Do You Live In? – 21 Hard To Believe Facts About “Wealthy America” And “Poor America”
Economic Collapse - Did you know that 40 percent of all American workers make less than $20,000 a year before taxes? And 65 percent of all American workers make less than $40,000 a year before taxes.

Coordinated IED blasts strike outside China Communist Party provincial HQ
RT - At least one person has been killed and eight wounded after a series of improvised devices exploded outside an office building of a provincial headquarters of the Communist Party of China in Taiyuan

Big quake near Fukushima would ‘decimate Japan, lead to US West Coast evacuation’
RT - The stricken nuclear plant at Fukushima in northern Japan is in such a delicate condition that a future earthquake could trigger a disaster that would decimate Japan and affect the entire West Coast of North America, a prominent scientist has warned.

Assad advisor: With political will, Syrian crisis over in 2 weeks
RT - “If the various parties have the political will to put an end to the Syrian suffering, to the Syrian crisis, they can do it within weeks. If they can only stop financing the arming [of Syrian rebels] and the smuggling of terrorists across the border from Turkey, 50 percent of the Syrian crisis would be over in two weeks’ time,” Dr. Shaaban said in an exclusive interview to RT.

If India Can Afford a Space Program, Why is the US Gov't Giving Them $98.3 Million This Year?
Activist Post - The Mars Orbiter Mission successfully took off at 09:08 GMT today from the Satish Dhawan Space center on the east coast of India. If it goes into orbit around the red planet, India will become the fourth space agency to have a craft orbiting Mars.

Two More Children Left Paralyzed by Vaccines Before Chinese CDC And WHO Admit Vaccines Cause Paralysis
vactruth.com - In a shocking report, the Global Times reported that an expert from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Wang Yu, has openly admitted that vaccines can cause severe adverse reactions, including swollen organs, epilepsy, and in some instances, the diseases that they were supposed to prevent!

Saudi Arabia urges arming Syria militants
Press TV - Former Saudi intelligence agency chief has demanded sending more arms to foreign-backed Takfiri militants fighting the Syrian government, expressing concern that the continuation of war in the country would endanger Israeli.

Apartheid wall' as border? Israel offers Palestine its demarcation terms – reports
RT - Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank should form the border with a future Palestinian state, Israeli negotiators have reportedly offered Palestinian counterparts as a part of dragging peace negotiations.

VIDEO: Anti-austerity strike brings Greece to halt
Press TV - The strike comes a day after inspectors from the troika of European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) resumed their latest bailout review.

Doreen Hendrickson - IRS Defeated by Hung Jury Against Tax Resister
Activist Post - This morning [Nov 5, 2013], the jury in Doreen Hendrickson’s trial returned to the courthouse and deliberated all day. At around 5pm, they finally emerged and presented their verdict: hung jury. Hung by ONE! What a delightful victory!!!
* Related Article: The IRS vs. Doreen Hendrickson: The Verdict

Russian Radio Propagandists Attack Dave Hodges In Response To Russian Troops In U.S.
TheSleuthJournal - My recent interview on the Voice of Russia has served to convince me that the previous evidence that I have encountered which documents the presence of untold tens of thousands of Russian soldiers on our soil are true and that these Russian soldiers will likely be used to enforce the coming martial law. Why are the Russian soldiers on American soil?

Obama Secret Service Agent: “It’s Worse Than People Know… and I’m Not Trying to Scare You Either”
Mac Slavo - You may have your suspicions about what’s going on behind closed doors at the White House. But according to one of President Obama’s former body guards it’s much worse than we can even imagine.

DHS to Hire “Top Secret” Domestic Security Force
Paul Joseph Watson - The Department of Homeland Security is to spend $19 million dollars on a private security force in Wisconsin and Minnesota, an armed unit that must have a “Top Secret” security clearance according to an official solicitation.

DNC Boss Wasserman Schultz: Nothing Obama Said About ACA “Was Not True”
Kurt Nimmo - Democrats are desperately engaged in damage control mode after Obamacare was revealed to be little more than a scam cooked up with mega-insurance corporations to fleece the American people at gunpoint and it was discovered millions of Americans will lose their coverage.

VIDEO: Ron Paul: Obamacare ‘A Conspiracy Of Stupidity’
Liberty Crier - Ron Paul appears on FOX news to discuss the failures of Obamacare and how it violates the principles of liberty and freedom.

Electronic filing of ammunition sales logs with LAPD proposed
dailynews.com - Under the new proposal, stores would send in electronic versions of the ammo logs, probably on a weekly basis. The LAPD wants to test out the program with a couple of large sports stores to see how effective it can be and then come back in 60 days with recommendations for a city law mandating the system.

TSA Sought Firing Range for Firearms Training Two Weeks Before LAX Shooting
Kit Daniels - Two weeks prior to the LAX airport shooting on Friday, the Transportation Security Administration was searching for a firing range to conduct ongoing “firearms training” using an estimated half-million rounds of ammunition annually.

Feds Move to Pin LAX Shooting On Patriots
Kurt Nimmo - The FBI will assume its traditional role as a political police force in the wake of the LAX shooting. On Monday night, the agency announced it is looking into the political beliefs of Paul Ciancia, the unemployed motorcycle mechanic who allegedly shot and killed a TSA agent last week.

LAX Shooting: A Made-for-TV Drama? Part 1
21stcenturywire.com - The Hype and the Fear’, this episode is courtesy of FOX News. Here’s one ‘couple’ who seemed to get all the right lines in before the camera finally cut…. Most will agree that the acting for camera on this scene of the production was just a bit over the top.

California Police Use Of Body Cameras Cuts Violence And Complaints
The Guardian - Body cameras worn by police in Rialto, California have resulted in better policing – and now other forces may follow suit.

New Pre-Crime Computer Model Deployed in California
Activist Post - Robert Nash Parker is a professor of sociology who has been working with Indio police (city pop. 75,000) to implement a "computer model that predicts, by census block group, where burglaries are likely to occur."

GMO labeling initiative 522 seems to have failed, proving once again that corporate money can buy food secrecy
(NaturalNews) As of this writing, Washington state I-522 looks to have narrowly failed at the ballot box. This link shows election results county by county. At 11:00pm last night, the "no" votes were winning by approximately 55% to 44%.

New York City elects socialist mayor, because why not?
Daily Caller - Bill de Blasio will be the next mayor of the nation’s largest and most important city. He will be the first Democratic mayor of New York City since 1993, when Rudy Giuliani defeated David Dinkins amid high crime rates and racial strife. De Blasio worked in Dinkins’ City Hall, and prior to that volunteered with the radical socialist Sandinista movement in Nicaragua.

McAuliffe Wins in VA, Immediately Begins Campaigning for Clinton
Kurt Nimmo - Fox News and NBC have declared Clintonista operative and former DNC boss Terry McAuliffe the winner of the Virginia governor’s race.

Christie wins big in New Jersey, Democrat takes Virginia in governors' races
(Reuters) - Moderate Republican Chris Christie easily won re-election as New Jersey governor, while a conservative Republican popular with the Tea Party movement narrowly lost his bid for the Virginia governorship, in two races closely watched for signs of voters' moods ahead of the 2016 presidential race.

Are You Prepared For a US Bank Bail-In?
Activist Post - Jim Sinclair, chairman and chief executive officer of Tanzania Royalty Exploration Corp., and whose family started Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers, and others, has been warning of this for a while.

‘No Talks aiming at Assad withdrawal’
Press TV - The Syrian government will not participate in the forthcoming Geneva 2 peace conference if the aim is for President Bashar al-Assad to relinquish power, the country's information minister says.

'Militants blow up Yemen oil pipeline'
Press TV - "Armed terrorists of the al-Qaida group placed a roadside bomb under the pipeline in al-Saed region on Shabwa's eastern outskirts. The huge explosion caused a leak in the pipeline," a local government source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said on Monday.

United Nations “Peacekeepers” Will Now Go On the Offensive in Africa
Kurt Nimmo - Blue helmets will take military action against militias in the war-torn Congo, the Washington Times reported late last week. They will no longer simply stand on the sidelines, but will take an active role in the warfare between rival tribal groups.

N.Korea developing electromagnetic pulse weapons: S.Korea
phys.org - South Korea's spy agency said Monday that North Korea was using Russian technology to develop electromagnetic pulse weapons aimed at paralysing military electronic equipment south of the border.

Death to America? Iran divided on anniversary of US embassy takeover
RT - The 34-year anniversary of the US Embassy takeover in Tehran drew tens of thousands to the largest anti-American rally in years. The size of the demonstration, however, belies the fact that Iranian society is deeply divided over rapprochement with the US.

Anonymous prepares for ‘Million Mask March’ protests around the world
RT - Rallies are expected to soon occur around the globe as protesters aligned with the hacktivist movement Anonymous prepare for mass demonstrations scheduled for Tuesday in hundreds of cities from Sydney to Seattle.

Another earthquake: New 4.9 tremor near Fukushima
RT - A 4.9 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter close to Fukushima Prefecture has struck the eastern coast of Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The tremor was registered at a depth of 20 km. There have not been immediate reports of damage or injuries. No tsunami warning has been issued.

Ron Paul: What Cannot Be Said About Iraq
ftmdaily.com - As post-“liberation” Iraq spirals steadily downward, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was in Washington last week to plead for more assistance from the United States to help restore order to a society demolished by the 2003 US invasion. Al-Qaeda has made significant recent gains, Maliki told President Obama at their meeting last Friday, and Iraq needs more US military aid to combat its growing influence.

Greek Companies Unable To Pay Taxes Explode From 182K To Over Half A Million
Zero Hedge - Within just one month, from the end of August to end-September, the number of corporations that have fallen behind on their taxes soared from 182,785 to 526,477."

We are legion!' Anonymous allies stand up against corruption in global march
RT - Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks to mark their support of the Anonymous hactivist movement are staging protests all around the world on Tuesday. The self-styled legion of activists is opposing corporate and government corruption.

Tepco Tore Down the Natural Seawall Which Would Have Protected Fukushima from the Tsunami
Zero Hedge - The Wall Street Journal noted in 2011: When Tokyo Electric Power Co. broke ground on the now defunct Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power station 44 years ago, the utility made a fateful construction decision that raised the plant’s vulnerability to the tsunami that ultimately crippled its reactors.

US military doctors participate in torture of detainees, report says
RT - An independent report has charged that medical personnel, working under the direction of the Department of Defense and CIA in military defense facilities, violated medical ethics by participating in the torture of detainees.
* Related Article: CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce finds

Arlington, Texas to participate in massive terrorism exercise
Tactical units and first response teams throughout Dallas-Fort Worth will soon participate in the same terrorist preparation exercise implemented in Boston, Mass., only months before the Boston Marathon bombing.
The Arlington Police Department – along with more than 50 first response teams from 16 North Texas counties -- will train in a "multi-disciplinary, full-scale" exercise called Urban Shield on Nov. 9 and 10. Click here for the Facebook Page

Gunman clad in body armor opens fire in New Jersey mall - report
RT - Shots were fired Monday night at the Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, New Jersey, according to several reports. “According to a police source, the shooting began near the Nordstrom’s department store on the second level of the mall. At least eight shots have been fired; the gunman is believed to be wearing body armor,” Pix 11 reported.

TSA union calls for armed guards at every checkpoint
USA Today - The union representing airport screeners for the Transportation Security Administration says Friday's fatal shooting of an agent at Los Angeles International Airport highlights the need for armed security officers at every airport checkpoint.

Houston police: Email, phone scam may cost you $1,000
Houston Chronicle - Dubbed the “relative in distress” hoax, the scam begins when a victim receives an e-mail or telephone call purportedly from relatives or friends who are visiting the area from another country or state and claim to be in trouble, according to the Houston Police Department. The people supposedly in distress say they need money.

Cops Tase Father Trying To Save His 3-Year-Old Son From House Fire
Paul Joseph Watson - A Louisiana, Missouri father was prevented from saving his 3-year-old son from a house fire when cops tased him three times for attempting to enter the burning building.

Dianne Feinstein Cries 'Gun Control' in Wake of LAX Shooting...What Else Is New?
The Daily Sheeple - Even though LAX airport was already considered a "gun-free zone" (aside from roving police patrols curiously removed from checkpoints for reasons unknown in the months leading up to the recent shooting), that didn't stop Senator Feinstein from going on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday to say she'd introduce another bill over it.

Shots Fired At Garden State Plaza Mall In New Jersey — Gunman Reportedly Found Dead
Business Insider | A gunman has been found dead, according to reports, after police responded to reports of shots fired in the Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus, N.J., shortly before 9:30 p.m. ET on Monday.

Four Legal Arguments Why ObamaCare is Bad Law & Ought be Overturned
canadafreepress.com - When it became obvious on the day of ObamaCare’s premier that the Internet websites did not work, some were wildly disappointed, others angry, while another group heaved a sigh of relief. The fact that the legislation may not be fully available for months, or years, gives Americans a unique opportunity to review and potentially revoke this law.

Obama denies ‘you can keep it’ videotaped promises
Daily Caller - President Barack Obama told his enthusiastic supporters Monday night that he never promised what video recordings show him promising at least 29 times.

YouTube: Ron Paul: We Should Have The Right To Opt Out
"The emphasis should be on liberty and freedom of choice. You mentioned that, why don't we have freedom of choice?"...

Fetus Sues Mother -- Case Explores Rights of Fetus
Dr. Mercola - ‘The cocaine mom act’ in Wisconsin allows pregnant women engaging in substance abuse to be arrested or detained in order to protect the fetus In one controversial case, a woman was arrested for refusing to take an anti-addiction drug even though she told her health care provider that she was over the addiction (to painkillers) – and urine tests supported her claims.

Welcome to the United Police States of America
Press TV - No longer is it unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later. What is unusual is our lack of outrage, the relative disinterest of our elected representatives, the media’s abysmal failure to ask questions and demand answers, and our growing acceptance of the status quo...

You Tube: Ron Paul Speaks At Ken Cuccinelli Rally
Former Rep. Ron Paul speaks at Ken Cuccinelli's election-eve campaign rally in Richmond, Virginia.

Crisis Accelerates: Food Banks Running Out of Food
Paul Joseph Watson - The head of the Pennsylvania’s largest food bank has warned that demand for groceries following a $5 billion dollar cut in the food stamp program cannot be met.... From November 1st, $5 billion was wiped off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as a result of a planned stimulus withdrawal. Almost 50 million Americans who are supported by the program face an average loss of $36 dollars a month, which is a significant amount for those living near the poverty line.

SNC sets preconditions for Geneva talks
Press TV - The head of the foreign-backed Syrian opposition says the group will attend the peace talks planned for this month in Geneva only if there is a clear timeframe for President Bashar al-Assad to step down.

CIA drones kill Pakistani Taliban leader
McClatchy - CIA drones on Friday killed the chief of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, when they fired on a compound in the northwestern tribal agency of North Waziristan, according to Pakistani security officials and two commanders of the extremist group. At least two other people were killed.
* Related Article: Pakistan starts peace talks with Taliban

Obama, Iraq’s Maliki pledge to combat al Qaida aggression
McClatchy - President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki met Friday to discuss how their nations might “push back” against a recent spate of violence in Iraq by al Qaida. Neither leader made any new announcements for U.S. commitments.

Australia and US spied on Indonesia during UN summit - report
RT - Australia and the US worked side by side on a large-scale joint surveillance operation on Indonesia, during the 2007 UN climate change conference in Bali, a new report from the NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, has revealed.

More than 10,000 French protesters clash with police over ‘ecotax’
RT - Thousands of people rallied in the town of Quimper in France’s Brittany region on Saturday calling for a complete end to the controversial “ecotax.” Police fired tear gas after demonstrators hurled stones and iron bars.

Edward Snowden Releases “A Manifesto For The Truth”
Zero Hedge - “Citizens have to fight against the suppression of information about affairs of essential importance for the public,” Snowden said in his five-paragraph manifesto. Hence, “those who speak the truth are not committing a crime.” Even with the existence of mass surveillance, spying should not define politics, Snowden said.

Earthquake hits close to Fukushima, tremors felt as far as Tokyo
RT - A 5.0 earthquake was registered on Japan’s east cost in a prefecture neighboring Fukushima. It comes as a top Japanese politician called for acknowledgement of the fact that some Fukushima evacuees would never be able to return to the area.

US vows to consult Israel on Iran deal
Press TV - The US chief nuclear negotiator has reassured Israel that Washington will consult with Tel Aviv about any deal the world powers reach with Iran over its nuclear program.

VIDEO: Israel to raze more Palestinian homes
Press TV - Israel has revealed new plans for demolition of Palestinian houses in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the occupied West Bank, which will leave thousands of Palestinians homeless.

Morsi’s trial adjourned in Egypt as defendants chant anti-military slogans
RT - A Cairo court has adjourned the trial of ousted President Morsi over refusing his prison uniform and the defendants' chanting "Down with the military rule". Morsi and 14 others face charges of inciting the killing of protesters in clashes.

President Putin signs law requiring terrorists’ relatives to pay for damages
RT - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill that forces relatives of terrorists to pay for damages caused by their attacks. It also boosts penalties for launching, participating, or financing militant or terrorist groups.

VIDEO: Court strikes down birth control mandate
The Hill - A federal appeals court on Friday struck down the birth control mandate in ObamaCare, concluding the requirement trammels religious freedom. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — the second most influential bench in the land behind the Supreme Court — ruled 2-1 in favor of business owners who are fighting the requirement that they provide their employees with health insurance that covers birth control.

Document Reveals Talking Points for Defenders of NSA Spying
AllGov - Following the first news reports in June of domestic spying on Americans’ communications, the National Security Agency (NSA) handed out new talking points (pdf) to its top officials urging them to cite the 9/11 attacks as justification for the agency’s controversial surveillance activities.

VIDEO: Judge Napolitano: “The NSA Is Utterly Out Of Control!”
Liberty Crier - Judge Andrew Napolitano joined Fox News’ The Real Story and said pointedly, “The NSA is utterly out of control and either the president doesn’t know what they’re doing, in which case he’s not in charge of the executive branch, or he’s misleading the American public.”

AP slams WH for staged photos; tells press not to use Obama's 'propaganda'
BizPac Review - The Associated Press’ photography director, Santiago Lyon, outed the Obama regime for refusing press photographers access to the White House and instead routinely handing over images taken privately by his own photographers. Lyon called the material “propaganda”...

Police say LAX shooting suspect carried anti-government ‘new world order’ literature
Activist Post - The man suspected of killing a TSA agent and wounding two others at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Friday was carrying what reports call “anti-government literature” during the shooting, according to anonymous police sources.
* Related Article: LAX Shooter Branded a Conspiracy Theorist

TSA Shooting Narrative Disintegrates
Kurt Nimmo - The LAX TSA shooting story is beginning to fall apart as the government and its propaganda dispensing media jostle to exploit the incident as a pretext to further militarize TSA procedures and also demonize official enemies, including Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.... Eye witness and official government versions of event do not coincide.

L.A. Ontario Airport ‘October Drill’ Nearly Identical to LAX Shooting Scene
21stcenturywire.com - Los Angeles Airport Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department took part in an ‘active shooter drill‘ on Saturday, October the 2nd 2013 at L.A./Ontario International Airport.

Drivers: Officers Profiling Specific Cars For Searches
wsbtv.com - ew kind of profiling that could leave you sitting on the side of the road while officers search your car. Four families, an attorney, and even an officer told investigative reporter Jodie Fleischer that officers are violating drivers' rights based on the type of cars they drive.

YouTube: Listen to a Stranger....Gangstalking, this how they do it
The way how the Gangs talkers work, manipulating people to harm others, you can see how easy it is to deceive, poison, corrupt people into committing a crime against an innocent person, impersonating an authority figure.

The Fastest Growing Religion In America Is Witchcraft
Michael Snyder - What is the fastest growing religion in the United States? If you said Christianity, you would be way off. In fact, the most recent numbers show that Christianity is in a serious state of decline in America. If you said Islam, you are much closer to a correct answer. Islam is the fastest growing major religion in the United States. But there is a faith that is growing even faster than Islam. It is called Wicca, and it is currently growing at an astounding pace.

VIDEO: Obamacare Architect Ezekiel Emanuel: "Individual Insurance Market Is Going Away"
thegatewaypundit.com - Obamacare architect Ezekiel Emanuel, a former adviser to the Obama White House, admitted today that, if Democrats have their way, the individual insurance market is going away.

You Also Can't Keep Your Doctor
WSJ - My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.

U.S. government may force doctors to accept Obamacare and Medicare patients, eventually at gunpoint
(NaturalNews) Word from the street is that Kathleen Murphy, a democrat running for the House, wants to make it a legal requirement that doctors accept Medicare and Obamacare patients. Many doctors, of course, have already announced that will not accept such patients because they would go bankrupt if they did.

IRS to Jail Woman Who Owes $0 in Taxes, Seeks Jury Nullification
Activist Post - Doreen Hendrickson is spending what might be the last weekend she has with her family for a few years. On Monday, her jury is expected to return with a verdict on her contempt charge. If she’s found guilty, she will go to jail. The IRS put her husband Pete in jail for 3 years; it is anxious to do the same to Doreen.

Obama Told Aides He’s Gotten “Really Good At Killing People.”
randpaulreview.com - Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book “Double Down: Game Change 2012” notes President Obama commenting on drone strikes, reportedly telling his aides that he’s “really good at killing people.” The quote from the book was first reported in Peter Hamby’s review in the Washington Post.

Photo Of Dummy Presented As Wounded LAX Shooter By Media
Blacklisted News - The New York Post has just released an insanely ridiculous photo claiming to show the Los Angeles airport (LAX) shooter lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood. Anyone who has even just a little bit of common sense should be able to discern that this is completely faked.

Alabama Airport Evacuated Due to Threat
Infowars - The evacuation occurred two days after a mentally disturbed man allegedly killed a TSA agent at LAX in Los Angeles, California. It is not know if the incident in Alabama is related to the TSA or terrorism.

New York Marathon Runners Get TSA Treatment
Kurt Nimmo - New York cops had a tough job today. They “screened” 45,000 runners at the New York Marathon. In addition to the TSA treatment at the start line, the runners were monitored by 1,500 surveillance cameras. Around a hundred mobile cameras filled any gaps.

YouTube: Luke Rudkowski's hotel broken into computer compromised possible framing
We think its best that we make this public for the safety of Luke Rudkowski during his travels abroad....

10 Corporations Control Nearly Everything You Buy, 6 Media Corporations Control Nearly Everything You Read or Watch
Blacklisted News - PolicyMic explains ... Ten mega corporations control the output of almost everything you buy; from household products to batteries. These corporations create the chain of supplies that flow from one another. Each chain begins at one of the 10 super companies.

U.S. Gives 1/3 of Puerto Rico Food Stamps
conservativeinfidel.com - As if it weren’t bad enough that a record 47.7 million people—and growing—get food stamps from the U.S. government, federal records reveal that a whopping 1/3 of Puerto Rico’s population receives them.

Tide Thefts, Cargo Hijacking And Cattle Rustling: Why Is An Epidemic Of Thievery Sweeping America?
Economic Collapse - Desperate people do desperate things, and it appears that Americans are rapidly becoming a lot more desperate. An epidemic of thievery is sweeping across America, and authorities are not quite sure what to make of it.

Navy SEALs ordered to remove ‘don’t tread on me’ Navy Jack from uniforms
Daily Caller - The Navy Jack is the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag, one that has earned a revered place in America’s naval history and a beloved place in sailor’s hearts, through its use for over two centuries.

Welfare Recipients Receive More Benefits than Permanently Disabled Combat Vet and Still Not Happy
conservativeinfidel.com - There is a different group of people in America who are also receiving benefits from the government. However, this group of people have not served their country in war, and even more amazing, they are receiving more in benefits than our disabled combat veterans! And on top of that? They are still complaining and demanding more!

Israeli planes strike Syrian military base - US official confirms to media
RT - Israeli warplanes struck a Syrian air defense base near the port city of Latakia on Thursday, US official have confirmed to media. An Obama administration official told AP that the attack happened overnight on Thursday, but provided no details. Another security official told the news agency that it took place in the Syrian port city of Latakia, and that the targets were Russian-made SA-125 missiles.
* Related Article: Israel Strikes Syria Again

Pakistan starts peace talks with Taliban
Press TV - Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif says his government has started dialogue with the Taliban in the hope of stopping the death of people and police forces.

EU calls for suspension of multi-billion ‘Safe Harbor’ deal over NSA spying
RT - EU leaders are calling for the suspension of a trade pact with the US worth billions of dollars over NSA spying. The 28-nation bloc suspects the so-called ‘Safe Harbor’ deal is being undermined by US espionage and has demanded safeguards for EU citizens.

China demands US explanation on spying charges
Press TV - China has demanded explanation from the US after a report revealed that Australian embassies, including the one in Beijing, have been used in Washington’s spying operations.

Snowden ready to testify in Merkel tapping case – German lawmaker
RT - Whistleblower Edward Snowden has met with a German MP in Moscow. He passed a letter addressed to the German government and federal public prosecutor where he allegedly said he is ready to testify over Washington's probable wiretapping of Merkel’s phone.

Snowden to work for major Russian website - lawyer
RT - Former US spy agency contractor, Edward Snowden, is set to start working for an Internet site in Russia, according to his Russian lawyer. The name of the website hasn’t been disclosed for “security reasons.”

Anonymous Fukushima Workers: We dumped untested water last typhoon, could be criminal...
ENENews - The other day when a typhoon hit, heavy rain almost caused the water in the drain to overflow. [...] We were accused of not measuring the radiation before we released, but there was a reason why we didn’t measure; depending on the result of the measurement it would have been a criminal act.

Fukushima taboo? Politician draws Japanese Emperor into nuclear controversy
RT - An anti-nuclear lawmaker broke a taboo, drawing heavy criticism in Japan, by handing the Emperor a letter of concern over the issue of the growing Fukushima radiation and the impact on children’s health.

Mysterious Hooded Men & Occult Circles Appear Globally
Paul Joseph Watson - Who are these mysterious hooded men that have been showing up at soccer games in Europe wearing occult-style symbolic robes? The answer could also serve to inform us about what’s behind the secretive ‘Google Barges’ being built on the east and west coast of America.

The blame game: NSA chief points finger at US diplomats in spy scandal
RT - In an unexpected twist in the NSA scandal, spy chief Keith Alexander has blamed US diplomats for ordering surveillance on EU politicians. Meanwhile, State Secretary John Kerry has admitted espionage “reached too far,” alleging it was on “automatic pilot.”

Is China Exporting Household Goods with Spy Devices in Them?
Activist Post - Reports are emerging from the Russian state media that ordinary looking clothing irons imported from China were found to be bugged with microphones and devices that would attempt to connect to any WI-FI source within 650 feet in order to upload a virus that would effect any computer connected to the same network.

All-Time High Unemployment: The Economic Depression In Europe Just Keeps Getting Deeper
Economic Collapse - The unemployment rate in the eurozone is higher than it has ever been before. This week we learned that eurozone unemployment came in at an all-time high of 12.2 percent for September.

Taiwan detects US beef with banned feed additive
Voice of Russia - A 300-kilogram shipment was found to contain zilpaterol hydrochloride--a feed additive known by the brand name Zilmax and barred by some Asian and European countries--when beef tenderloin products were tested by officials in Taiwan's Taoyuan County, according to the US Meat Export Federation.

Food stamp Amount Chart
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US Army and China disaster relief exercise in Hawaii same time as GridEx II / GridSecCon
(Hawaii News Now) – HONOLULU (AP) – The U.S. Army will host China’s military in Hawaii next month for an annual disaster relief exercise. U.S. Army Pacific said Wednesday the two countries will practice providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to a fictional third country during the Nov. 12-14 exchange.

CSPOA Press Release - Today, October 31, 2013, Sheriff Nick Finch won his case in a farce of trial in Liberty County, Florida

Sheriff Nick Finch Reinstated After Jury Acquits
WCTV - It took a jury less than an hour-and-a-half to come back with a verdict in the official misconduct trial of the former Liberty County sheriff. That verdict was not guilty; and Nick Finch has already been reinstated as sheriff.
* Related Video: Sheriff Mack: Judge Looks to Make An Example...

Rand Paul: NSA may spy on Obama
The Hill - In an interview with Bloomberg, Paul noted that the NSA has acknowledged that it collects data, such as phone numbers, call times and call durations, on all U.S. phone calls. "My question is, are they tapping the president's phone, also?" Paul asked on Bloomberg's "Political Capital." "He's got a cellphone … I mean, think about it."

Ted Cruz criticizes DOJ for arguing international treaty can trump the Constitution
Washington Examiner - Justice Department attorneys are advancing an argument at the Supreme Court that could allow the government to invoke international treaties as a legal basis for policies such as gun control that conflict with the U.S. Constitution, according to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

Obama halted NSA spying on IMF and World Bank headquarters
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama has ordered the National Security Agency to stop eavesdropping on the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank as part of a review of intelligence gathering activities, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.

Closed Senate committee passes bill that cements bulk NSA record collection
RT - In a closed session, the US Senate Intelligence Committee approved legislation that codifies into law the NSA’s bulk collection of domestic telephone metadata.

Report: Obamacare got six enrollees on Day 1
yahoo.com - Its touted the number of visitors to the troubled HealthCare.gov website – 4.7 million – but hasn't released the actual number of enrollments. But according to CBS News, notes from a "war room" meeting the day after the Affordable Care Act launched on Oct. 1 say "six enrollments have occurred so far." By the end of Day 2, enrollments totaled 248 nationwide.

Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare
U.S. News & World Report - Though top-ranked hospitals like Case Medical Center accept plans from dozens of private insurers, if you buy your insurance on the Obamacare exchanges your options for treatment may be limited.

Court overrules religion: Catholic business owners must offer contraceptive services under Obamacare
(NaturalNews) Whether "religious" or not, everyone is free to experience, think and believe how they want, especially when it comes to their healthcare and the healthcare services their business offers and pays for.

Citigroup Written Legislation Moves Through the House of Representatives
libertyblitzkrieg.com - Five years after the Wall Street coup of 2008, it appears the U.S. House of Representatives is as bought and paid for as ever. We heard about the Citigroup crafted legislation currently being pushed through Congress back in May when Mother Jones reported on it. Fortunately, they included the following image in their article...

United Nations To Destroy Property Rights of Thousands Around Alamo
Kit Daniels - UNESCO won’t grant Alamo “World Heritage” status without property restrictions in “buffer zone.”

US court blocks NYPD stop-and-frisk ruling and removes judge from case
The Guardian - A federal appeals court has blocked a judge's ruling that demanded changes to the New York police department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy and ordered she be removed from the case.

Hallmark Nixes Word “Gay” From “Deck the Halls” Lyrics
nbclosangeles.com - Out with "gay" and in with "fun." Those are the directives from a popular card and keepsake company giving a centuries-old Christmas carol a modern makeover because without the change, the company said, the word’s multiple meanings "could leave our intent open to misinterpretation."

Bonus bite: Wall Street bankers fear lower pay in 2013
RT - Only half of Wall Street bankers expect a bonus larger than the average $121,900 awarded last year, and senior employees could receive massive pay cuts if fourth quarter results aren’t on a par with the first three.

Jim Sinclair: Gold Will Be $50,000 Per Ounce, Gold Confiscation, Dollar Gets Hammered
usawatchdog.com - Renowned gold expert Jim Sinclair says financial calamity is just around the corner for America. Sinclair contends, “We are facing the annihilation of currency. We are facing the shift of America as the leading and most influential nation of the world to some form of banana republic. . . .

Why There Are No New Jobs In America
Activist Post - This animated clip was released by Stansberry Media in early November 2012. It was created in the wake of President Obama’s infamous “you didn’t build that” speech from earlier that year, which many entrepreneurs took as a slap in the face and made a mockery of their hard work and dedication towards designing, building, and growing their businesses.

When Veterans Get Food Stamps Cut, It's Time to Prioritize Our Budget
Huffington Post - On Friday, unless Congress acts (which would be an exception, not a norm), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, or food stamps, will be cut for as many as 900,000 veterans and their families, according to a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Syrian army launches offensive near Lebanon border
AP - Syrian troops clashed with rebels in a mountainous western region Saturday in what appeared to be an offensive to cut an opposition supply route from Lebanon, forcing hundreds to flee for safety across the border, activists and officials said.... Earlier Saturday, activists said fighters from an al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebel group beheaded an allied commander whom they mistook for a pro-government fighter.

State of emergency declared in Libyan capital amid fresh violence
RT - A 48-hour state of emergency was declared in the Libyan capital of Tripoli after fresh clashes erupted on Saturday. Vehicles full of fighters from Misrata headed to Tripoli from the eastern suburb of Tajura, according to media reports.

Report: Israel, Saudi Arabia cooperating on possible attack on Iran
Ynet - With nuclear talks set to resume Wednesday, Sunday Times reports Israel, Saudi Arabia heightening cooperation, in bid to formulate contingency attack plan on Iran should talks succeed in reaching agreement, but fail in halting Iranian nuclear program.

VIDEO: Afghans protest against security deal with US
Press TV - Washington had promised to withdraw all combat forces from Afghanistan by 2014. However, it has been locked in tricky negotiations with Kabul over a strategic partnership beyond 2014 deadline.

UN envoy ‘shocked’ by UK’s ‘unacceptable’ persecution of The Guardian over Snowden leaks
End the Lie - A senior United Nations official responsible for freedom of expression has warned that the UK government’s response to revelations of mass surveillance by Edward Snowden is damaging Britain’s reputation for press freedom and investigative journalism.

GCHQ snoops on hotel reservations targeting diplomats – Snowden leaks
RT - A UK spy agency infiltrated international hotel booking systems for some three years, tracing high profile officials and wiretapping their suites, new leaks reveal. GCHQ’s top secret ‘Royal Concierge’ program tracked 350 hotels across the globe.

Thousands of Greeks mark 40th anniversary of student uprising, protest against austerity (PHOTOS)
RT - More than 16,000 Greeks marched through the streets of Athens on Sunday to protest against austerity and mark the 40th anniversary of the student uprising against the former ruling military junta.

Are Philippines Officials Targeting Areas That Voted for Them as They Distribute Aid to Typhoon Survivors? Shocking Claim That Millions Are Being Left to Fend for Themselves
Daily Mail - The survivors of Typhoon Haiyan are in desperate need of food and water and a huge relief effort is under way – but a shocking claim has emerged from an aid worker in the Philippines that government officials are prioritising aid based on who they think will vote for them.

Failed Monsanto GMO Corn Pushed on African Countries with Help of Bill Gates
Elizabeth Renter - According to a recent statement from the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), failed GM corn from Monsanto is now being pushed on African countries with help from the Gates Foundation. This maize, known as MON810, has been grown in South Africa for 15 years, where it “failed miserably”.

Afghan villagers find the bodies of 6 beheaded contractors in restive southern province
Washington Post - Afghan villagers discovered the beheaded bodies of six government contractors Sunday in the country’s restive south, the apparent victims of insurgents who regularly target state projects, officials said.

YouTube: TPP: High Treason! Obama's Secret Meeting to Give Corporations Ultimate Power
RT - TPP Wikileaks has released another bombshell... Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP is often referred to by critics as "NAFTA on steroids," and would establishing a free-trade zone that would stretch from Vietnam to Chile, encompass 800 million people -- about a third of world trade and nearly 40 percent of the global economy.

TPP’s Intellectual Property section also boosts GMO and drug monopolies
Activist Post - If you think the Monsanto Protection Act was bad... If instituted, the TPP’s IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.

Australia Determined To Forcibly Vaccinate By Intentional and Controlled Release of Aerosolized GMO Vaccine
Natural Blaze - The Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) is on its way to approve a licence application from PaxVax Australia (PaxVax) for the intentional release of a GMO vaccine consisting of live bacteria into the environment in Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.

NHK: Fuel removal at Unit 4 underway — BBC: Concern casks not watertight, rods would contact air...
ENENews - NHK, Nov. 18, 2013: The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun removing nuclear fuel from a storage pool at a damaged reactor building. Workers placed a special fuel transport container in the storage pool at a damaged reactor building. Related article.

Organic Italian jam found to contain radiation from decades-old Chernobyl accident - what is Fukushima doing to our food supply?
(NaturalNews) More than 5,000 jars of organic wild blueberry jam made in Italy have been intercepted and recalled by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in Japan after multiple batches of the fruit spread tested positive for unacceptable levels of radioactive cesium-137.

Rep. Rogers: Crazed al-Qaeda Terrorists Coming to America
Kurt Nimmo - Rep. Mike Rogers, the Michigan Republican who heads up the House Intelligence Committee, is worried about al-Qaeda finding its way into America.... “The number now exceeds 1,000 western jihadists who have shown up, so they’ll have passports, good passports, allows them to travel around Europe, maybe get to the United States,” Rogers warned. “That’s concerning.”

Drone crashes into Navy ship injuring 2 in California
RT - An American drone has malfunctioned and crashed into a guided missile cruiser off the coast of Southern California, causing two injuries, say officials. The incident happened while the vessel was testing a combat weapons system.

Fraudsters Are Exploiting New Health Law
The Wall Street Journal - In the months preceding the Oct. 1 opening of the state-based health-insurance exchanges, consumer complaints about Medicare—many alleging fraud—soared.

Thousands March Against Mainstream Media - Nov 16, 2013
Activist Post - In what started as a national march, quickly organized into and event reaching as far as Australia, Canada, and the UK. Here is an excerpt from the official Page: MARCH AGAINST MAINSTREAM MEDIA is more than just a protest. It is an attack against the credibility of the mainstream media in an attempt to steer its viewers away from its lies and towards alternative media sources....

Militarization of police more widespread than previously thought, especially in small towns
End the Lie - While the trend of police forces becoming increasingly militarized across the United States, thanks in large part to programs like the Pentagon’s 1033 Program, is pretty much common knowledge at this point, it actually goes much further than most realize.

TSA Rolls Out ‘Detention Pods’ at Airport Terminal Exits
Paul Joseph Watson - The TSA is funding the rollout of exit pods at major airport terminals across the country that temporarily detain passengers before they are allowed to leave, another example critics say of how the federal agency’s policies treat travelers as prisoners.

Cops Kill 8 Times More Americans Than Terrorists Do
Activist Post - Since 9/11, and the subsequent militarization of the police by the Department of Homeland Security, about 5,000 Americans have been killed by US police officers. The civilian death rate is nearly equal to the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq. In fact, you are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.

Moody’s downgrades 4 US giant lenders
RT - Moody’s is to cut the credit rating of US major banks, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Bank of New York Mellon. The rating agency thinks the government is now less likely to support the lenders in times of new financial difficulties.

Obamacare: The Final Nail In The Coffin For The Middle Class
Economic Collapse - If there were any shreds of hope left that the stunning decline of the middle class could be turned around, Obamacare has absolutely destroyed them.

Obama Administration Spent $4.4 Billion on State Healthcare Websites
atr.org - According to public data compiled by Americans for Tax Reform, the Obama administration has spent a minimum of $4.4 billion in federal taxpayer dollars on state Obamacare websites. The money was funneled through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of the Kathleen Sebelius-run Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

What THEY Can’t Take: “The Only Thing You Own Are the Skills In Your Hands and the Knowledge In Your Mind”
Activist Post - In the following video from Future Money Trends these same legendary contrarians share words of wisdom about where we are, where we’re going, and how to prepare yourself to prosper during the hard times ahead.

20-Year Army Vet Gets Shocking Notice From Employer Just Before Veterans Day......
Tea Party Command Center - Being a veteran with two decades of service — one who says, “I believe in America and I believe in God so strongly,” reports KCRA-TV in Sacramento — you may find it unsurprising that Hawks has used a familiar signature on his hospital emails: “God Bless America.” Hawks had been using the signature for more than year, he told KCRA, without any problems.

Marine's EPIC Letter Quitting the Military
Daily Paul - To Whom It May Concern: As a disclaimer, I wish to inform the reader that at this point, I have in no way made any decisions regarding my career as a Marine. This is simply to formulate my thoughts, create a discussion, and possibly consider future alternatives to my current path in the Marine Corps...

Yoga provides relief to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
(NaturalNews) It used to be that "yoga" and "veterans" were two words you never heard in the same sentence. But in 2013, yoga for veterans has become a necessary practice for those suffering with PTSD, with classes springing up around the country.

Syria team to visit Russia over Geneva 2
Press TV - Syrian government is scheduled to send a delegation to Moscow for talks with Russian officials regarding the long-awaited international peace conference on the Syrian crisis, known as Geneva 2

US may free ‘tiny’ part of Iran assets
Press TV - US Secretary of State John Kerry says Washington may release only “a tiny portion” of Iranian assets frozen in bank accounts across the world in the event of an agreement on Iran’s nuclear energy.

VIDEO: Israel speeds up illegal West Bank park project
Press TV - Israel has sped up a controversial park project between two Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, near East al-Quds (Jerusalem).... Tel Aviv claims the park is aimed at preserving the environment, but Israeli media have quoted an employee of Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority as saying that the project's real aim is to block Palestinian construction in the area.

Australia rejects raising debt ceiling, hopes to avoid America-style shutdown
RT - Australia’s upper house rejected a proposal to raise the debt ceiling to AU$500 billion ($465 billion), which if not resolved by December 12, could send the country into a US shutdown scenario.

Greek civil servants protest job cuts
Press TV - Greek civil servants have taken to the streets to protest further job cuts required for the country to continue receiving international bailout loans.

Bird flu strain infects human for 1st time
AP - A strain of bird flu that scientists thought could not infect people has shown up in a Taiwanese woman... On a more hopeful front, two pharmaceuticals separately reported encouraging results from human tests of a possible vaccine against a different type of bird flu that has been spreading in China...

Obama Accused of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’
CBN News - According to Egyptian newspaper El Watan, a group of Egyptian lawyers has submitted a complaint charging U.S. president Barrack Hussein Obama with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.

Snowden released up to 200,000 documents to press – NSA chief
RT - Former CIA employee Edward Snowden divulged as many as 200,000 classified documents to the press, says NSA Director General Keith Alexander. The spy chief said the data was leaked in such a way that it did the “maximum damage” to the NSA and the USA.

Japanese government set to borrow additional $30 bn for Fukushima costs
(NaturalNews) The price tag for the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan just jumped $30 billion. The Japanese government has recently announced a new borrowing spree to increase cleanup funds of the dilapidated area from $50 billion to $80 billion.

Some Fukushima fuel rods were damaged before 2011 catastrophe
RT - Three of the spent fuel assemblies that will be pulled from the Fukushima nuclear plant during a year-long operation were damaged before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Japanese facility.

Senior Navy civilians investigated in alleged scheme to defraud military for $1.6 million
Washington Post - Federal authorities are investigating three senior Navy intelligence officials as part of a probe into an alleged contracting scheme that charged the military $1.6 million for homemade firearm silencers that cost only $8,000 to manufacture, court records show.

Obama changes signature healthcare plan after public backlash
RT - Facing public outrage over his signature 'Affordable care act', US President Barack Obama announced major changes in the healthcare plan that will allow millions of Americans who were about to lose their cover to keep it for one more year.

Obamacare Down? Blame the Hackers
Kurt Nimmo - The Obama administration has gained a helping hand from the Department of Homeland Security as it tries to explain why HealthCare.gov is a mess. Government bureaucrats say they are hot on the trail of hackers who reportedly engaged in attacks against the crippled system. DHS officialdom, however, said the attack failed.

Oregonians Opt Out
atr.org - In Oregon, where these trippy 9.9 million dollar ads aired, zero people have signed up for Cover Oregon-- the state’s $300 million dollar Obamacare exchange.... Insurance companies in the state sent out 150,000 cancellation letters, increasing demand, but people still aren’t buying what Cover Oregon is selling: glitchy, government run healthcare.

$1 Billion TSA ‘Chat Down’ Program a Complete Failure
Paul Joseph Watson - The TSA’s $1 billion dollar ‘chat down’ program, where TSA screeners identify suspicious people and talk to them, has been deemed a complete failure by a Government Accountability Office investigation.

DHS Creates New Fusion Centers, Taking Control of Local Police
The New American - As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) doles out billions of dollars to convince local police departments to surrender control to the federal agency, a recent report indicates that intelligence gathered at precincts-cum-surveillance-centers will be shared among all levels of law enforcement.

How The CIA Can Send A Drone After Any Mobile Phone
fastcompany.com - Since 2001, armed Predator drones have been used by the CIA in many foreign nations to attack individuals on the ground. There's a new revelation about them, too: In some cases, the NSA helped the CIA find targets by locking onto their powered-off mobile phones. Even when phones have their batteries removed, it appears the NSA still has the ability to locate them.

Words to avoid using if you don't want the government spying on you
mnn.com - If you use several of these hundreds of words (such as 'pork,' 'cloud,' 'wave' or 'smart'), there's a chance you might get flagged by the government.

CNN Reports on Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons Almost 30 Years Ago
Activist Post - Imagine what they have now. Recent conflicts seem to be fought with sticks and stones compared to what is possible. If these weapons exist, it proves war is controlled Flintstones theater because these weapons would end wars very swiftly. Perpetual war is the goal of those who possess these advanced technologies.

VIDEO: Howard Dean: I Wonder If Obama Has the 'Legal Authority to Do This'
Weekly Standard - Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean questioned whether President Obama has the "legal authority" to carry out the Obamacare fix the White House outlined today...

AZ Schools Lock Students In, Break Fire Safety Laws
Activist Post - Some schools in Arizona are attempting to keep bad guys out by locking students IN. In some districts in the state, officials are putting up fences and gates – without permits – but what they are doing to the school doors is far more disturbing. The schools have been locking doors that would be used in emergency evacuations, thus trapping students in the building in the event of a fire or other life-threatening event.

SC Police Department Gets “U.N. Blue” Tank that is land mine & IED resistant
Ben Swann - On Veterans Day, Columbia, South Carolina became the latest of about 500 communities nationwide to add a military grade armored vehicle to its police force. The para-military vehicle with a “U.N. blue” custom paint job seats nine people, has an armable turret, and costs $658,000.

NJ Christie Will Campaign Against Tea Party/Libertarians With Lindsey Graham
Ben Swann - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently won his second term reelection with a wide margin over his challenger, a democratic state senator. His “landslide victory”, as the mainstream media call it, is deceptive. What the mainstream hasn’t reported was that the race drew the lowest gubernatorial voter turn out in history.

Scotiabank Warns "Yellen Has Ensured An Equity Market Crash Is Inevitable"
Zero Hedge - Yellen had to field several questions about potential market bubbles, but she deflected them aggressively saying that she did not believe that “bubble-like conditions” existed. Basically, she has given the market the green light to “melt-up”. The only question is how much higher will the Fed’s ‘gift’ drive prices?

Gold Trader: “Manufactured” Crash Imminent, Gold to Test June Low Next Week As JPM Guns for $1,000
silverdoctors.com - “At least two big banks, I would say Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, maybe a big hedge fund…are trying to push gold down to that support zone at around $1000. I think they’re already short, and right now they’re letting the reversing dollar do the work for them. I think gold tests the June low by the middle of next week.

The Federal Reserve Is Monetizing A Staggering Amount Of U.S. Government Debt
Economic Collapse - The Federal Reserve is creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air and using that money to buy U.S. government debt and mortgage-backed securities and take them out of circulation. Since the middle of 2008, these purchases have caused the Fed's balance sheet to balloon from under a trillion dollars to nearly four trillion dollars.

Kerry warns Congress against anti-Iran sanctions
PRESS TV - US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Congress that any new sanctions against Iran will be viewed as “bad faith” and can “destroy the ability to” reach an agreement.

Netanyahu: ‘Bad deal’ with Iran will only lead to war
RT - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that lifting sanctions on Iran without demanding sufficient concessions in return will only encourage Tehran on its path to nuclear armament and lead to future conflict.

'World should focus on Israel's nukes'
PRESS TV - A political commentator says the world should focus on Israel’s nuclear weapons program and urge the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to more speedily dismantle their nukes.

Poppy fields forever? Record opium output boosts Afghan warlords’ power base
RT - Despite efforts to curb Afghan’s opium culture, cultivation has hit record levels as NATO forces prepare to exit the country. The UN warned warlords may be the biggest benefactor of the situation.

Russian lawmaker seeks to ban US dollar, predicts 2017 collapse
RT - To protect Russians against the “collapsing US debt pyramid”, a Russian legislator has filed a draft bill to ban circulation of the currency in Russia.

Secret Globalist Treaty Threatens Internet Freedom
Kurt Nimmo - Wikileaks has released a 95 page, 30,000 word document spelling out details on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The secret globalist agreement will have a significant effect on a wide range of issues including internet freedom, medicine, patents, and civil liberties. The cabal will meet in Salt Lake, Utah, between November 19 and 24.

Heartbreaking before and after photos show how Typhoon Haiyan flattened entire city of Tacloban
Daily Mail - It was once a vibrant city, packed with neat rows of colourful homes surrounded by lush green parks. But now all that remains is a husk of Tacloban; the place that so many called home is now a grey and barren wasteland after deadly Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines city, crushing everything in its way.

Volcano in Indonesia displace 5,000
PRESS TV - “So far, 5,265 people have been evacuated from seven villages," local government spokesman Robert Peranginangin said on Wednesday, adding the number of evacuees is expected to rise.

Pentagon abandons plans to buy Russian helicopters amid Syria dispute
RT - The US is cancelling its plans to buy Russian helicopters for the Afghan Air Force from state-owned exporter Rosoboronexport. It comes amid pressure from US lawmakers over Russia’s arms deliveries to Syria, according to a US senator.

Britain rejects EU watchdog plan to probe data-gathering practices - report
RT - The UK has rejected a call from an EU watchdog to probe how security agencies intercept metadata. Documents divulged by Edward Snowden revealed the covert practices of British spy body GCHQ in what has been described as “breach of fundamental rights.”

Ego building? NATO erects $1bn HQ as members slash military spending
RT - NATO is constructing a bold, new headquarters in Brussels, but the $1 billion project is raising eyebrows at a time of economic hardship and military spending cuts. It also suggests the Western military bloc is here to stay.

NHK: Holes near bottom of containment vessel identified for first time at Fukushima plant
ENENews - A camera on the robot captured images of water leaking from 2 holes in the containment vessel [...] TEPCO engineers [...] say one of the leaks looks as if tap water is gushing out. Radiation levels in the area were extremely high at 0.9 to 1.8 sieverts an hour. Engineers suspect that damage to containment vessels at the No. 2 and 3 reactors is also causing similar leaks [...]

Seattle police deactivate surveillance system after public outrage
RT - Police in Seattle, Washington have responded to a major public outcry by disabling a recently discovered law enforcement tool that critics said could be used to conduct sweeping surveillance across the city.

School’s New Spy System Places Children Under Complete Surveillance
Kit Daniels - In a stinging similarity to the telescreens of 1984, schoolchildren will soon be monitored in real-time through surveillance sensors mounted inside the classrooms of a charter school in Oakland, California.

House Republicans to try to impeach U.S. Attorney General Holder
(Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to introduce articles of impeachment against Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday, in the hopes of removing a cabinet member they say has lied to Congress as well as failed to uphold federal law.

White House releases disappointing Obamacare enrollment total: 106,000
Washington Times - The Obama administration said Wednesday that roughly 106,000 Americans had enrolled in private health coverage through Obamacare by selecting a plan during the first month of activity, an expectedly low number of participants as the White House scrambles to fix the overhaul’s main website.

Rand Paul Reveals Barack Obama Wrote The Regulation To Cancel Your Insurance After Obamacare Passed!
silverdoctors.com - According to Senator Rand Paul, who spoke at a luncheon in Charleston, South Carolina on Monday, November 11, the President of the United States himself wrote the regulation to cancel the health insurance of MILLIONS of Americans…3 months after Obamacare was passed!

Americans 34 Times More Interested In Buying Guns Than Obamacare
Zero Hedge - It would appear that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) website – required when purchasing a gun or explosive – is capable of handling large volumes of users…

YouTube: Sen. Rand Paul Questions DHS Nominee Jeh Johnson
Sen. Rand Paul Nov 13, 2013.

Americans’ personal data shared with CIA, IRS, others in security probe
McClatchy - U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no direct ties to the U.S. government and simply had purchased certain books.

Federal Reserve Whistleblower Tells America The REAL Reason For Quantitative Easing
Activist Post - A banker named Andrew Huszar who helped manage the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program during 2009 and 2010 is publicly apologizing for what he has done. He says that quantitative easing has accomplished next to nothing for the average person on the street. Instead, he says that it has been "the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time."

U.S. TREASURY: Ramps Up the Zimbabwe Style Printing Press
silverdoctors.com - In just a few years, the U.S. Department of Treasury Bureau of Engraving & Printing has substantially increased the printing of its largest valued Federal Reserve Note — the $100 bill. The United States is heading for a hyperinflationary collapse. This will not be an economic event, but rather a loss of faith in the Dollar — a statement repeated by Jim Sinclair.

Army Veteran Recalls the Unforgettable Moment When a Judge Told Him: ‘Your Time in Iraq Makes You a Threat to Society’
Breitbart - Army veteran Andrew Chambers recently shared the story of how he was sentenced to ten years in prison after a judge allegedly told him that his service in the Iraq war makes him a “threat to society.” Video of his speech from prison for TEDxMarionCorrectional’s TEDxTalks is now going viral after being posted on Oct. 31.

Beware The Looming "Wave Of Disaster" From Home Equity Payment Resets
Zero Hedge - The estimate is that $30 billion in home equity lines will reset next year, $53 billion in 2015, and then ultimately soaring to $111 billion in 2018 - a looming “wave of disaster” because large numbers of borrowers will be unable to handle the higher payments. This will force banks to either foreclose, refinance the borrower or modify their loans.

Netanyahu halts Israeli plans for new West Bank settler homes following criticism
RT - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for his housing minister to reconsider long-term plans to construct thousands of new homes in the West Bank and in the contentious E1 area outside Jerusalem.

Germany warns US facilities could be targeted in wake of NSA leaks
RT - Officials in Germany have cautioned authorities to prepare for possible attacks against United States facilities overseas as revelations continue to emerge about America’s secretive National Security Agency.

Tepco plans new draining ditch to divert any spills into No. 1 harbor
The Japan Times - The current channel drains into the sea outside the plant’s man-made harbor, which is protected by breakwaters and its water has been partially enclosed to contain radioactive discharges. The new channel, to be completed by the end of March, will drain into the harbor, Tepco said Monday.

Western warships, Japanese troops dispatched to aid ‘corpse-choked’ Philippines
RT - The US and UK have dispatched warships to the typhoon-ravaged Philippines to help facilitate relief efforts. Japan is also set to deploy troops to the country to aid affected areas gruesomely described as a corpse-choked wasteland.

‘Haiyan death toll around 2,500 so far’
Press TV - Filipino President Benigno Aquino says death toll from the super Typhoon Haiyan is closer to 2,000 or 2,500 rather than the 10,000 previously estimated.

"Weather Modification 101" = Dutchsinse video response to Dr. Mahar Lagmay and ABS-CBN News
dutchsinse - Full video response to Dr. Mahar Lagmay and ABS-CBN News.... Below, you will hear a “debunk” video from ABS-CBN News and Doctor Mahar Lagmay, telling a series of half truths, mixed with outright incorrect statements, which dominate this “conversation” attempting to “debunk” the video I produced.

Philippines Typhoon linked to ‘Man-Made’ Microwave Pulses
21stcenturywire.com - In recent years, weather modification has been forced into the spotlight by many independent investigators as well those from scientific fields, including admissions by well-known personalities in science. One such scientist who has acknowledged that this technology exists is theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku…

Canada’s Harper Government Supports Covert Mercenary War on Syria, Funds Al Qaeda Affiliated Rebels
Global Research - Unlike the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, the Harper government has not openly armed the foreign-backed mercenaries.... Actually the Prime Minister has been working, but mostly behind the scenes, over the past thirty months for regime change in Syria. His government’s efforts fall into the following six categories...

Taxing the Sun: Spain's solar police to kick in your door
Blacklisted News - The latest nail in the coffin for Spain’s solar energy producers is an Energy Law amendment which allows inspectors to enter private properties without a court order. It's a move lawyers believe could set a worrying precedent.

The Obamacare Exchange Scorecard: Around 100,000 Enrollees And Five Million Cancellations
Forbes - In the market for individually-purchased health insurance, more than 4.8 million Americans have received notices that their preexisting plans are soon to be illegal, and will be cancelled. Many more cancellation notices are imminent.

Two More States Struggle With Disastrous Obamacare Rollouts
Newsmax - Oregon and Massachusetts are joining the ranks of states with dismal prospects for enrollment in the Obamacare health insurance exchanges. More than a month after Cover Oregon's online enrollment was expected to begin, the system still doesn't work and not one person has signed up, reports The Associated Press.

Congressional Approval at All-Time Low of 9 Percent
CNS News - Only nine percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing - considered the lowest in Gallup’s history of measuring congressional approval, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

Former NSA Head Argues Government Secrecy Is The Same As Personal Privacy
Steve Watson - In a debate with one of the leading reporters to have been involved in the Edward Snowden leaks, former NSA head Michael Hayden argued, ridiculously, that government secrecy is akin to an individual’s private privacy, and so the American public should not be privy to the actions of the NSA.

Soros-linked Group Pushes Sex to Sell Obamacare
Kurt Nimmo - A cabal of wealthy and influential Democrats, under the cover a Colorado-based group called Progress Now, are attempting to push Obamacare on young Americans through a salacious propaganda campaign. “Got insurance?” an online ad posted on the Thanks Obamacare campaign website inquires.

Sen. Hagan wants probe of health law website as her political support drops
McClatchy - Sen. Kay Hagan said Tuesday that she wants federal investigators to examine how contractors who were paid to create the go-to site for the new health insurance law botched it.

Survey: NSA Stasi State Cows Journalists Into Self-censorhip
Kurt Nimmo - A survey conducted recently by the group and published in a paper titled Chilling Effects: NSA Surveillance Drives U.S. Writers to Self-Censor reveals that 85% of writers “are worried about government surveillance of Americans, and 73% of writers have never been as worried about privacy rights and freedom of the press as they are today.”

Reporter fights ruling forcing her to reveal Aurora shooting sources
Aljazeera - New York's highest court began hearing arguments Tuesday over whether state law protects a Fox News reporter from being forced to reveal confidential police sources behind leaked information about James Holmes, the accused killer of 12 people in a suburban Denver movie theater. The decision could have an impact on reporters in New York and nationwide.

Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt
The Guardian - Rolling Jubilee, set up by Occupy's Strike Debt group following the street protests that swept the world in 2011, launched on 15 November 2012. The group purchases personal debt cheaply from banks before "abolishing" it, freeing individuals from their bills. By purchasing the debt at knockdown prices the group has managed to free $14,734,569.87 of personal debt, mainly medical debt, spending only $400,000.

Grid EX II and the Impact of An EMP Attack On America
Dave Hodges - The following material is grim, very grim. Let me get the dramatics out of the way in the very beginning. If a nation-wide EMP attack ever takes place in America, given our present level of preparedness, it will prove to be the most cataclysmic event in human history.

House Voted to Get Banksters Back in the Derivatives Business
Kurt Nimmo - Wholesale destruction of U.S. economy may now continue without interruption... H.R. 992, the Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act, authored primarily by Citibank lobbyists, will allow predatory Wall Street financial institutions to once again engage in high-risk derivatives trading. Losses will be socialized and paid for by the American taxpayer through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC.

Federal Reserve Whistleblower Tells America The REAL Reason For Quantitative Easing
Economic Collapse - A banker named Andrew Huszar that helped manage the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program during 2009 and 2010 is publicly apologizing for what he has done. He says that quantitative easing has accomplished next to nothing for the average person on the street. Instead, he says that it has been "the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time."

Americans' Participation in Labor Force Hits 35-Year Low
CNS News - The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who have a job or are actively seeking one dropped to a 35-year low in October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Radioactive leak found in reactor at S. Carolina nuclear plant, one of the largest in US
RT - A reactor at one of the nation’s largest nuclear power plants has been taken offline due to a radioactive leak within a containment building. "Out of an abundance of caution,” service was temporarily removed from Unit 1 at the Oconee Nuclear Station in western South Carolina early Monday, according to ONS spokeswoman B.J. Gatten.

Geoengineering to reduce climate change could adversely affect rainfall, scientists report
(NaturalNews) Studies now reveal that many unintended consequences come from geoengineering, including mini-droughts, reduced monsoonal rainfall across several continents and depleted ozone levels.

Natural Immunity: 8+ Natural Antibiotics to Replace the Pharmaceuticals for Good
Natural Society - Worried about getting sick? Instead of turning to antibiotics, here are 8+ foods which harness natural antibiotic properties to boost your immune system.

What Science Says About Getting A Flu Shot
Green Med Info - The information contained here was not gathered from internet websites or blogs. It came from peer-reviewed literature written by scientists with the best credentials for commenting on the topic.

How Roundup Weedkiller Can Promote Cancer, New Study Reveals
Green Med Info - Researchers from the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research have recently confirmed the carcinogenic potential of Roundup herbicide using human skin cells (HaCaT ) exposed to extremely low concentrations of the world's best selling herbicide.

Cooking with Roses: How to Use Rose Petals, Leaves and Hips
Mother Earth News - Rose hips contain a whopping 2000 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams of fruit. That vitamin content goes down some if you expose the rose hips to heat while you are making jam or tea, but enough remains to boost your C intake. If you want to preserve as much of the vitamin content as possible, try making infused rose hip vinegar (recipe below) with the raw fruit.

Warm Lemon Water: A Natural Diuretic and Toxin Remover
Natural Society - A simple age-old remedy of drinking hot lemon water can not only help you fit into your pants more easily, but will also naturally cleanse the blood, kidneys, bladder, and other organs so that your body can more easily eliminate toxins from the body.

Astaxanthin found to reduce oxidation, DNA damage and liver cancer formation
(NaturalNews) A study conducted by researchers from India's National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research found that astaxanthin not only can reduce oxidation of the liver but can actually prevent DNA damage and the early stages of liver cancer development.

Research proves chlorella has antioxidative effects, 'should be included as a key component of a healthy diet'
(NaturalNews) In addition to its disease-fighting and nutritional benefits, research shows that chlorella is a powerful antioxidant that even boosts immune system function in healthy people.... Studies have shown that it can alleviate high cholesterol, abnormal blood fat levels, high blood pressure and abnormal blood sugar.

The health benefits of acai berry
(NaturalNews) Acai berries are extraordinarily rich in antioxidants and have a very high ORAC score (Oxygen Radical Absorbency Capacity) that is far superior to any other form of fruit that has been officially tested and categorized. It is also rich in key B vitamins, electrolytes and trace minerals that are necessary for reducing inflammation and improving energy levels.

FDA: Many common cooking spices may contain bug parts, rodent hairs
(NaturalNews) Entitled "Pathogens and Filth in Spices," the report alleges that up to 12 percent of all U.S. spice imports may contain hidden insect filth, while up to 7 percent may contain bacterial contaminants, an obvious push by the agency to further legitimize irradiating cooking spices.

Vaccine fraud exposed: Measles and mumps making a huge comeback because vaccines are designed to fail, say Merck virologists
(NaturalNews) Measles and mumps are making a huge comeback in the United States, but doctors and journalists all make the same critical error in understanding why. They blame "parents who don't vaccinate their kids" as the cause, but the real cause -- as revealed by whistleblowing scientists working for top vaccine manufacturers -- is that measles and mumps vaccines are designed to fail from the start.

Syrian opposition agrees to attend Geneva talks with preconditions – SNC statement
RT - The Western-backed Syrian opposition group has agreed to participate international peace talks, outlining conditions that must be met before they attend in Geneva, the group said in a statement.

US and Israel lose UNESCO voting rights
Aljazeera - UNESCO has suspended the voting rights of the United States, two years after it stopped paying dues to the UN's cultural arm in protest over its granting full membership to the Palestinians, according to a UNESCO source. Related video.

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to face MPs over Edward Snowden intelligence leaks
The Independent - MPs are to question the editor of the Guardian about the publication of secret files leaked by Edward Snowden. Secret service chiefs have claimed the leaks damaged Britain’s ability to foil plots because terrorists have changed the way they operate after learning how to thwart eavesdropping.

GCHQ spoofed LinkedIn site to target global mobile traffic exchange and OPEC – report
RT - The UK’s electronic spying agency has been using spoof version of LinkedIn professional social network's website to target global roaming data exchange companies as well as top management employees in the OPEC oil cartel, according to Der Spiegel report.

10,000 feared killed in Philippines by super typhoon Haiyan (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
RT - An estimated 10,000 people might have been killed in the central Philippine province of Leyte alone, which was almost completely destroyed by the powerful typhoon Haiyan, local authorities said.

Libyan separatists take over oil exports as PM warns of foreign intervention
RT - A separatist Libyan region has announced an establishment of an independent oil company after taking over several commercial sea ports. As Tripoli struggles to regain control, the PM has warned of foreign intervention unless central govt rule restored.

DoD priorities revealed
Defence Web - Enhancing the Reserve force, building up the South African Army and strengthening peacekeeping capacity are some of the Department of Defence’s main priorities, according to its annual report.

Hagel directs military to help Philippine relief effort
McClatchy - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has directed the U.S. Pacific Command to support U.S. humanitarian relief operations in the Philippines after one of the most powerful storms ever devastated the island nation.

North Korea 'executes 80 people for watching foreign films
The Independent - Watching films or television from capitalist countries – especially South Korea - is a serious offence in North Korea, but despite the risk of execution, shows like Desperate Housewives from the US have acquired a large following.

GridEx II 2013: Simulations for Power and Control
The Government Rag - This exercise involves the cooperation of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Simulations of physical and cyber attacks on the power grid could occur during this exercise. These dates also coincide with another first time ever joint humanitarian/disaster relief exercise with the U.S. Army and the Communist Peoples Republic of China Army.

Costly ‘technological marvel’: US Navy christens new class $13bn aircraft carrier
Rt - The US Navy has christened the first of a new class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the 13-billion-dollar USS Gerald R. Ford. The ship, hailed as the most technologically advanced ever built, is expected to join the fleet in 2016.

Chinese troops will have boots on the ground in Hawaii on Tuesday
Canada Free Press - The New York Times reported on GridEx 2’s massive, Nov. 13-14 drill on August 16, but never mentioned the participation of the Peoples Republic of China’s Army. China’s Xinhua Agencies kicked in on November 6 reporting that American and Chinese soldiers will train together in the November exercise.

IRS Advises of Power Outage Ahead of Grid Ex Electricity Drill
Activist Post - Speculation abounds about the coming power grid drills, and a recent alert issued by the IRS.gov web site isn’t helping quell fears. The following message has appeared on at least 50 pages of the IRS.gov web site within the last 48 hours, though the alert is not being displayed on most areas of the site...

Lawmakers Push to Impeach Disgraced Attorney General Holder
New American - According to media reports, the bid to force Holder out of power, if successful, would represent the second impeachment of a cabinet member in American history. Meanwhile, the movement to impeach Obama himself is growing stronger by the day as well — both in Congress and among everyday Americans.

Homeland Security Dept. Continues to Fight Disclosure of Where it Flies Drones
AllGov - Disclosure of more information could allow someone to “piece together the locations” where agency drones “operate or do not operate,” DHS lawyers argued in a brief filed with the court. “This would present a serious threat to future law enforcement investigations and would risk circumvention of the law,” they further argued.

Obamacare’s Biggest Failure So Far: Just 18% Of Uninsured Have Expressed An Interest In Enrolling
Zero Hedge - Sadly, this last nail in Obamacare's coffin, has just been confirmed with a just released Gallup poll which found that a tiny 18% of uninsured Americans - the primary target population for the exchanges - have so far attempted to even visit an exchange website.

Seniors lose insurance and doctors under Obamacare
Daily Caller - Currently, 74,000 Garden State residents are enrolled in Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare Advantage. Nearly half have zero-premium plans. But in 2014, New Jersey Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield is eliminating all zero-premium plans with prescription drug coverage and all but two of its other plans with monthly fees.

DMV Official Pleads Guilty to Giving Driver's Licenses to Hundreds of Illegals...
Breitbart - Three people in Virginia, including a DMV employee, pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to get state IDs or driver's licenses for at least 300 illegal immigrants.

Repeal of “Stand-Your-Ground” voted down in Florida House Committee
legalinsurrection.com - Last evening [Nov 9, 2013] the Florida House conducted a public hearing, judiciary committee debate, and committee vote on HB-4003, which would have done away with Florida’s Stand-Your-Ground law by repealing Florida statute 776.013. Home protection; use of deadly force; presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm.

VIDEO: Ron Paul: Welcome to My New Website
ronpaulmd.com - When I was thinking of the URL for my new personal homepage, I considered many possibilities. Thanks also to all those who sent other suggestions. But I settled on RonPaulMD.com as reflecting a very important area of my life....

Massachusetts Moves To Inspect Gun Owners’ Homes
Kurt Nimmo - In Massachusetts, a bureaucrat wants police to enter private residences and “safeguard” guns under the pretense that violating the Constitution will be good for the children.

Bloomberg employees claim company is self-censoring to keep China happy
theverge.com - Four staffers for news service Bloomberg have alleged to The New York Times that the company has held back a damning investigation into a wealthy Chinese billionaire's ties to the government, fearing the story could lead to Bloomberg's eviction from the country.

Colorado College Job Application Features The Word ‘Queer’
CBS News - A word on job applications at Colorado College has sparked a controversy. The word “queer” appears in the voluntary gender section responses of the applications and the private school in Colorado Springs stands by the wording.

Identity Thieves Get $4 Billion in Tax Refunds
atr.org - The inspector general’s report will attempt to assuage concerns by noting that last year they prevented $12 billion in fraudulent tax refunds from going to identity thieves. But what will be buried in a foot note is the fact that the amount refunded to identity thieves increased by $400,000 million from last year!

Stunning 90 Tons Of Paper Gold Used To Smash Gold Market
King World News - On the heels of continued volatility in global markets, a 42-year market veteran told King World News that a stunning “90 tons” of paper gold selling was used to create the smash in the gold market today.

10 Facts About The Growing Unemployment Crisis In America That Will Blow Your Mind
Economic Collapse - Did you know that there are more than 102 million working age Americans that do not have a job? Yes, I know that number sounds absolutely crazy, but it is true. Right now, there are more than 11 million Americans that are considered to be "officially unemployed", and there are more than 91 million Americans that are not employed and that are considered to be "not in the labor force".

Veterans Day: Discounts and Freebies
Military.com - The following is a list of nearly 100 Veterans Day discounts on goods, services and dining for 2013. Please check back frequently as the list is updated. Check them out...

Remember Armistice Day With Shane
ronpaulinstitute.org - Despite what they might say, today, November 11th, is Armistice Day. It is a day meant to be grateful for the end of a horrific war and the supposed end of wars. A day to pause and reflect on the horrors of an entire continent, an entire civiliztation destroyed by the madness of war. To mourn the dead, the senseless slaughter. It was not meant as it has become, a grotesque celebration and glorification of war.

Final Toast to WWII Doolittle Raiders: 'Rest in Peace'
Breitbart - Known as the Doolittle Raiders, the 80 men who risked their lives on a World War II bombing mission on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor were toasted one last time by their surviving comrades and honored with a Veterans Day weekend of fanfare shared by thousands.

After this year, we mourn in private
Veterans Today - Harry Leslie Smith is 91 years old. He lived through his teens during the Great Depression which in working class England was worse than here, served with the the RAF in WWII and has worked for causes of economic, social and political justice since. He’s still going at it...

Veterans routinely given psychiatric drugs even without diagnosis of mental disorder
(NaturalNews) A major indicator of the deteriorating quality of conventional medical care in the U.S. is its growing reliance on pharmaceutical drugs as a catch-all for pain and disease management. And a new study published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry shows that this dire situation is only worsening, as many conventional doctors are no longer even properly diagnosing patients but instead just handing out medications willy-nilly in order to get patients out the door.

Egypt forces detain MB leading member
Press TV - Egyptian security forces have detained Muslim Brotherhood leading member Mohsen Abu Zaid amid heightened crackdown on the movement.

Bombings kill 30 in, around Baghdad
Press TV - At least 30 people have been killed and many more wounded in bombings in and around the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.

Typhoon Haiyan roars into Philippines
Press TV -The world's strongest typhoon of the year has roared into the Philippines, forcing millions of people in vulnerable areas to move to safer ground and storm shelters.

Japan to begin removal of fuel rods from Fukushima plant
RT - TEPCO is preparing to begin the dangerous task of extracting over 1,500 nuclear fuel rods from the Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant. The risky operation is an essential step in to stabilize the site, in a process that could take decades.

Pakistani Taliban pledges revenge after leader’s death in drone strike
RT - The Taliban announced it will carry out revenge attacks in Pakistan following the death of its leader in a US drone strike. The terror group resolved to strike government installations, political leaders and police in an “unprecedented” wave of violence.

Iraq 2013: Deadliest year since 2008 with 7,000+ killed
RT - With over 7,000 civilian casualties so far, 2013 has already become the deadliest year in Iraq since 2008. In its new project, a timeline of the violence, RT brings the sad record into the spotlight.

Not fast enough: S&P knocks French credit rating to AA from AA+
RT - Francois Hollande, France's most unpopular president on record, continues struggling to find the right cure to dig out of financial crisis. Standard & Poor's cut the credit rating of Europe’s No. 2 economy on Friday citing poor economic growth prospects.

YouTube: Westminster Whitewash: UK spy chiefs deny data harvesting, say Snowden aided Al-Qaida
RT - Well most experts predicted the intelligence bosses were unlikely to find themselves in hot water - unlike the journalists who released Snowden's documents. Let's take a look at efforts the British government has made to plug the leaks.

UK watchdog says investors lose 24 million pounds in carbon credit scam
(Reuters) - Nineteen companies selling carbon credits have been shut in the past 15 months for bilking investors out of 24 million pounds ($38.7 million), British regulators said on Wednesday, warning more firms were trying to sell carbon as a viable option for private investors.

Update: Super Typhoon Haiyan hits Philippines with all-time record winds (VIDEO)
RT - At least three people have been killed and seven injured, with the death toll expected to rise, authorities said. "The super typhoon likely made landfall with winds near 195 mph (313 kph). This makes Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall," Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at US-based Weather Underground, told Reuters.

11 Signs of a False Flag
Activist Post - Throughout history, versions of the false flag attack have been used successfully by governments in order to direct the force of the people toward whatever end the ruling class may be seeking. At times, that end may be war, or it may be the curtailing of domestic civil liberties and basic human rights. In others, it is an economic agenda.

Walmart, Safeway, Others Unplugging From Unreliable Power Grid
offthegridnews.com - Off The Grid News had reported that several large corporations, including Walmart, Safeway, Google, Bank of America and Coca-Cola, are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on systems to generate their own electricity. A Journal article indicates that many other large companies, too, are taking steps to generate their own electricity.

ObamaCare website could only handle 1,100 users a day before launch, docs show
Fox News - The problem-plagued ObamaCare website was only equipped to handle 1,100 users a day before it was launched, documents released by the House Oversight and Reform Committee reveal.

Government Power Grab: FDA To Ban Trans Fats
Ben Swann - The United States is over 17 trillion dollars in debt, the national unemployment rate is over seven percent, and one-sixth of the American population is on food stamps. But fixing those problems is just so hard! So, some courageous politicians have decided to spend time and money dictating what we should be allowed to eat. They do this in the name of “keeping us healthy.”

IRS Refunded $4B to Identity Thieves
Breitbart - The Internal Revenue Service issued $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds last year to people using stolen identities, with some of the money going to addresses in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Ireland, according to an inspector general's report released Thursday. The IRS sent a total of 655 tax refunds to a single address in Lithuania, and 343 refunds went to a lone address in Shanghai.

Snowden 'asked' for colleagues' logins, passwords to access classified NSA data
RT - Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden persuaded 25 fellow workers to give him login keys and passwords at their base in Hawaii that gave him access to classified material he would later disclose as world-renowned the NSA leaks.

Dad ‘unfit parent for refusing son McDonald’s’
NY Post - Attorney David Schorr slapped a court-appointed shrink with a defamation lawsuit for telling the judge deciding a custody battle with his estranged wife that he was an unfit parent — for refusing to take his son to the fast food joint for dinner.

Louisiana food stamp abusers will lose benefits over Wal-mart free for all
bizpacreview.com - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and his administration took steps late Wednesday to strip food stamp benefits from those who loaded up their shopping carts knowing they had insufficient funds in their Electronic Benefits Transfer accounts during a system failure in October.

Father's heartache after police shoot dead son, 19, after he reported van stolen to stop him from buying cigarettes
Daily Mail - A 19-year-old has been shot dead by police after his father dialed 911 to report his truck stolen in order to teach his son a lesson for driving off to buy cigarettes.... Patrol officer Adam McPherson fired six shots into the truck and the 19-year-old later died from two gunshot wounds.

Guns & Ammo Fires Editor After Publishing Editorial Calling for Gun Control
mediaite.com - Guns and Ammo Magazine, the “world’s most widely read firearms magazine,” has fired contributing editor Dick Metcalf after the publication received immense backlash for its December 2013 issue featuring his editorial advocating for gun control.

VIDEO: Ron Paul: Chris Christie Is Just Another John McCain Or Mitt Romney
Liberty Crier - Ron Paul speaks with Neil Cavuto about a potential Chris Christie 2016 Presidential run. Ron Paul says that Chris Christie will go the way of John McCain or Mitt Romney.

Food Bank CEO: Welfare Cuts Causing “Nightmare Ripple Effect”
Paul Joseph Watson - As food banks across the country warn that they are unable to meet demand, the CEO of the Food Bank of South Jersey says that the $5 billion welfare cut which came into effect on November 1st is causing a “nightmare ripple effect” for both businesses and hungry citizens.

How China Can Cause The Death Of The Dollar And The Entire U.S. Financial System
Economic Collapse - The death of the dollar is coming, and it will probably be China that pulls the trigger. What you are about to read is understood by only a very small fraction of all Americans.

IRS’s ‘Volunteer Tax Preparers’ Exhibit Incompetence
atr.org - The Inspector General of the IRS released a report this week that examined the state of the agency’s Volunteer Tax Preparers (VTP) program. The program exists to provide free tax preparation services to low income citizens. However, the findings of the audit show that this program might be doing more harm than good.

Petraeus advised downgrading Swenson’s Medal of Honor bid, probe finds
McClatchy - Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus recommended that the Medal of Honor nomination of former Army Capt. William Swenson be downgraded to a lower award, according to a Pentagon investigation that failed to resolve how Swenson’s papers then disappeared instead of being sent up the chain of command.

Genetically engineered trees under USDA consideration could harm environment - report
RT - As the US Department of Agriculture considers whether to authorize the unrestricted planting of genetically engineered Eucalyptus trees experts are warning that such a policy would not only be unnatural, but negatively impact the environment.

Fracking pinpointed as cause of Texas earthquakes
(NaturalNews) The researchers analyzed 93 separate earthquakes that took place in Texas between March 2009 and December 2010. They found that many of the earthquakes occurred shortly after oil and gas companies had injected carbon dioxide into their wells.

UK’s military base in Cyprus ‘taps into Middle East, Mediterranean comms’
RT -Mideast, North African and European communications are largely controlled by British intelligence, nesting at a UK military base in Cyprus, media reveal. Private, diplomatic and business communications allegedly all come under surveillance.

Tests 'show Yasser Arafat was poisoned with polonium'
The Telegraph - Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, may well have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, Swiss scientists have concluded in findings that may solve a 10-year riddle but torpedo the latest Middle East peace process.

Israel levels Catholic Church property in E. Jerusalem amid ‘massive demolition’ plan
RT - The Catholic Church has lashed out at the Israeli government, after its property in East Jerusalem was bulldozed to the ground. Meanwhile, thousands of Palestinian flats were marked for demolition just before US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit.

Armies and Police Are Being Privatized Around the World and Business Is Booming
StratRisks - In a world where budgets are tight, and bottom lines daunting, it makes sense that governments around the world have to do more with less, or they just have to do less. Surprisingly, one part of the state apparatus that most countries seem happy to outsource is one of its most fundamental—security.

Super typhoon forecast to hit the Philippines
USA Today - A ferocious typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean is taking aim at the fragile islands of the Philippines. Super Typhoon Haiyan has top sustained winds of 175 mph, which is equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

UK intelligence leaders to testify for the first time since Snowden leaks
RT - The United Kingdom’s three primary intelligence chiefs are scheduled to testify in front of parliamentary leaders Thursday in what will be the first time they speak publicly on the revelations disclosed by Edward Snowden earlier this year.

Germany now registering 'genderless' babies with both male and female characteristics
(NaturalNews) They are sometimes referred to as "intersex" people -- individuals with chromosomes, genitalia or even just characteristics that resemble both the male and female sex -- and for the first time ever, they now have their own gender category on birth certificates in Europe.

Senate committee approves funding for NSA, witch-hunt on leakers
RT - Congress has taken the first step towards expanding the abilities of the United States intelligence community by advancing a draft bill that will ensure the government’s spy budget stays intact into next year.

Feds Spent $29 Million on Prescription Drugs for 4,139 Illegal Aliens
CNS News - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) spent almost $29 million to cover Medicare Part D prescription drugs for 4,139 individuals “unlawfully present” in the U.S. and thus ineligible to receive federal health care benefits, according to an audit by Daniel Levinson, inspector general of the Department of Health & Human Services.

Police Search For Non-Existent Drugs By Forcing Man To Undergo Enemas & Cavity Searches
Ben Swann - New Mexico man David Eckert was pulled over on January 3 for failing to fully stop at a Wal-Mart parking lot stop sign. What happened next was far from a routine traffic stop.
* Related Article: More terrorized drivers report forceful rectal inspections...

Adam Kokesh Pleads Guilty To Gun & Marijuana Charges, Faces Six Years In Prison
Ben Swann - On Wednesday, Kokesh pled guilty to to carrying a rifle or shotgun, possession of an unregistered firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition. He also pled guilty to possession of marijuana in Washington, DC. He will now be released from jail while he awaits his sentencing on January 17.

Pentagon Being Pushed Into New ‘Automated’ Technologies For Its New Hi-Tech Army
21st Century Wire - While the US is weighed down spending fortunes on military industrial pork and other old technologies, it is also burning through its checkbook in R & D and acquisitions of newer applications – all in order to keep ahead of the Chinese Jones’s.

Washington Times ends Sen. Rand Paul column amid plagiarism allegations
Washington Times - Sen. Rand Paul acknowledged Tuesday that he had failed to properly source material in published writings, including a column in The Washington Times, after a string of embarrassing plagiarism accusations surfaced in recent days.

Legal Experts: Even TOTALLY INNOCENT People Should Avoid Talking to Law Enforcement
Washington’s Blog - A law school professor and former criminal defense attorney explains why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police... It’s vital to note, however, that the Supreme Court ruled this year that your silence CAN be used against you… at least until you’re read your Miranda rights. Therefore, if you remain silent when police are questioning you, it is very important to tell the police that you are exercising your right to remain silent.

YouTube: Ben Swann: Free Speech is a Human Right
Ben Swann talks about the role of the first amendment as much more than just a recognition of your right to speech, or just the press.. it is the recognition of your right to believe, say and tell others whatever you like.

Taxpayers Win Big in Kansas City, Missouri
atr.org - Yesterday voters in Jackson County voters rejected an $800 million tax hike by eighty-six percent. esterday voters in Jackson County, Missouri (including the voters of Kansas City) went to the polls faced with Question One. The ballot question would have increased the county sales tax by .5-percent amounting in an $800 million tax hike over the next 20 years.

Colorado Voters Reject Massive Income Tax Hike
atr.org - Despite a $10 million campaign cash advantage for tax hike proponents which was aided by out-of-state money from the likes of Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg, last night Colorado voters overwhelmingly rejected Amendment 66 by a 2 to 1 margin, with 66% voting against the ballot measure that would've scrapped Colorado’s flat income tax and replaced it with a progressive income tax system with a top rate 27% higher than the one currently on the books.

Which America Do You Live In? – 21 Hard To Believe Facts About “Wealthy America” And “Poor America”
Economic Collapse - Did you know that 40 percent of all American workers make less than $20,000 a year before taxes? And 65 percent of all American workers make less than $40,000 a year before taxes.

Coordinated IED blasts strike outside China Communist Party provincial HQ
RT - At least one person has been killed and eight wounded after a series of improvised devices exploded outside an office building of a provincial headquarters of the Communist Party of China in Taiyuan

Big quake near Fukushima would ‘decimate Japan, lead to US West Coast evacuation’
RT - The stricken nuclear plant at Fukushima in northern Japan is in such a delicate condition that a future earthquake could trigger a disaster that would decimate Japan and affect the entire West Coast of North America, a prominent scientist has warned.

Assad advisor: With political will, Syrian crisis over in 2 weeks
RT - “If the various parties have the political will to put an end to the Syrian suffering, to the Syrian crisis, they can do it within weeks. If they can only stop financing the arming [of Syrian rebels] and the smuggling of terrorists across the border from Turkey, 50 percent of the Syrian crisis would be over in two weeks’ time,” Dr. Shaaban said in an exclusive interview to RT.

If India Can Afford a Space Program, Why is the US Gov't Giving Them $98.3 Million This Year?
Activist Post - The Mars Orbiter Mission successfully took off at 09:08 GMT today from the Satish Dhawan Space center on the east coast of India. If it goes into orbit around the red planet, India will become the fourth space agency to have a craft orbiting Mars.

Two More Children Left Paralyzed by Vaccines Before Chinese CDC And WHO Admit Vaccines Cause Paralysis
vactruth.com - In a shocking report, the Global Times reported that an expert from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Wang Yu, has openly admitted that vaccines can cause severe adverse reactions, including swollen organs, epilepsy, and in some instances, the diseases that they were supposed to prevent!

Saudi Arabia urges arming Syria militants
Press TV - Former Saudi intelligence agency chief has demanded sending more arms to foreign-backed Takfiri militants fighting the Syrian government, expressing concern that the continuation of war in the country would endanger Israeli.

Apartheid wall' as border? Israel offers Palestine its demarcation terms – reports
RT - Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank should form the border with a future Palestinian state, Israeli negotiators have reportedly offered Palestinian counterparts as a part of dragging peace negotiations.

VIDEO: Anti-austerity strike brings Greece to halt
Press TV - The strike comes a day after inspectors from the troika of European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) resumed their latest bailout review.

Doreen Hendrickson - IRS Defeated by Hung Jury Against Tax Resister
Activist Post - This morning [Nov 5, 2013], the jury in Doreen Hendrickson’s trial returned to the courthouse and deliberated all day. At around 5pm, they finally emerged and presented their verdict: hung jury. Hung by ONE! What a delightful victory!!!
* Related Article: The IRS vs. Doreen Hendrickson: The Verdict

Russian Radio Propagandists Attack Dave Hodges In Response To Russian Troops In U.S.
TheSleuthJournal - My recent interview on the Voice of Russia has served to convince me that the previous evidence that I have encountered which documents the presence of untold tens of thousands of Russian soldiers on our soil are true and that these Russian soldiers will likely be used to enforce the coming martial law. Why are the Russian soldiers on American soil?

Obama Secret Service Agent: “It’s Worse Than People Know… and I’m Not Trying to Scare You Either”
Mac Slavo - You may have your suspicions about what’s going on behind closed doors at the White House. But according to one of President Obama’s former body guards it’s much worse than we can even imagine.

DHS to Hire “Top Secret” Domestic Security Force
Paul Joseph Watson - The Department of Homeland Security is to spend $19 million dollars on a private security force in Wisconsin and Minnesota, an armed unit that must have a “Top Secret” security clearance according to an official solicitation.

DNC Boss Wasserman Schultz: Nothing Obama Said About ACA “Was Not True”
Kurt Nimmo - Democrats are desperately engaged in damage control mode after Obamacare was revealed to be little more than a scam cooked up with mega-insurance corporations to fleece the American people at gunpoint and it was discovered millions of Americans will lose their coverage.

VIDEO: Ron Paul: Obamacare ‘A Conspiracy Of Stupidity’
Liberty Crier - Ron Paul appears on FOX news to discuss the failures of Obamacare and how it violates the principles of liberty and freedom.

Electronic filing of ammunition sales logs with LAPD proposed
dailynews.com - Under the new proposal, stores would send in electronic versions of the ammo logs, probably on a weekly basis. The LAPD wants to test out the program with a couple of large sports stores to see how effective it can be and then come back in 60 days with recommendations for a city law mandating the system.

TSA Sought Firing Range for Firearms Training Two Weeks Before LAX Shooting
Kit Daniels - Two weeks prior to the LAX airport shooting on Friday, the Transportation Security Administration was searching for a firing range to conduct ongoing “firearms training” using an estimated half-million rounds of ammunition annually.

Feds Move to Pin LAX Shooting On Patriots
Kurt Nimmo - The FBI will assume its traditional role as a political police force in the wake of the LAX shooting. On Monday night, the agency announced it is looking into the political beliefs of Paul Ciancia, the unemployed motorcycle mechanic who allegedly shot and killed a TSA agent last week.

LAX Shooting: A Made-for-TV Drama? Part 1
21stcenturywire.com - The Hype and the Fear’, this episode is courtesy of FOX News. Here’s one ‘couple’ who seemed to get all the right lines in before the camera finally cut…. Most will agree that the acting for camera on this scene of the production was just a bit over the top.

California Police Use Of Body Cameras Cuts Violence And Complaints
The Guardian - Body cameras worn by police in Rialto, California have resulted in better policing – and now other forces may follow suit.

New Pre-Crime Computer Model Deployed in California
Activist Post - Robert Nash Parker is a professor of sociology who has been working with Indio police (city pop. 75,000) to implement a "computer model that predicts, by census block group, where burglaries are likely to occur."

GMO labeling initiative 522 seems to have failed, proving once again that corporate money can buy food secrecy
(NaturalNews) As of this writing, Washington state I-522 looks to have narrowly failed at the ballot box. This link shows election results county by county. At 11:00pm last night, the "no" votes were winning by approximately 55% to 44%.

New York City elects socialist mayor, because why not?
Daily Caller - Bill de Blasio will be the next mayor of the nation’s largest and most important city. He will be the first Democratic mayor of New York City since 1993, when Rudy Giuliani defeated David Dinkins amid high crime rates and racial strife. De Blasio worked in Dinkins’ City Hall, and prior to that volunteered with the radical socialist Sandinista movement in Nicaragua.

McAuliffe Wins in VA, Immediately Begins Campaigning for Clinton
Kurt Nimmo - Fox News and NBC have declared Clintonista operative and former DNC boss Terry McAuliffe the winner of the Virginia governor’s race.

Christie wins big in New Jersey, Democrat takes Virginia in governors' races
(Reuters) - Moderate Republican Chris Christie easily won re-election as New Jersey governor, while a conservative Republican popular with the Tea Party movement narrowly lost his bid for the Virginia governorship, in two races closely watched for signs of voters' moods ahead of the 2016 presidential race.

Are You Prepared For a US Bank Bail-In?
Activist Post - Jim Sinclair, chairman and chief executive officer of Tanzania Royalty Exploration Corp., and whose family started Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers, and others, has been warning of this for a while.

‘No Talks aiming at Assad withdrawal’
Press TV - The Syrian government will not participate in the forthcoming Geneva 2 peace conference if the aim is for President Bashar al-Assad to relinquish power, the country's information minister says.

'Militants blow up Yemen oil pipeline'
Press TV - "Armed terrorists of the al-Qaida group placed a roadside bomb under the pipeline in al-Saed region on Shabwa's eastern outskirts. The huge explosion caused a leak in the pipeline," a local government source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said on Monday.

United Nations “Peacekeepers” Will Now Go On the Offensive in Africa
Kurt Nimmo - Blue helmets will take military action against militias in the war-torn Congo, the Washington Times reported late last week. They will no longer simply stand on the sidelines, but will take an active role in the warfare between rival tribal groups.

N.Korea developing electromagnetic pulse weapons: S.Korea
phys.org - South Korea's spy agency said Monday that North Korea was using Russian technology to develop electromagnetic pulse weapons aimed at paralysing military electronic equipment south of the border.

Death to America? Iran divided on anniversary of US embassy takeover
RT - The 34-year anniversary of the US Embassy takeover in Tehran drew tens of thousands to the largest anti-American rally in years. The size of the demonstration, however, belies the fact that Iranian society is deeply divided over rapprochement with the US.

Anonymous prepares for ‘Million Mask March’ protests around the world
RT - Rallies are expected to soon occur around the globe as protesters aligned with the hacktivist movement Anonymous prepare for mass demonstrations scheduled for Tuesday in hundreds of cities from Sydney to Seattle.

Another earthquake: New 4.9 tremor near Fukushima
RT - A 4.9 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter close to Fukushima Prefecture has struck the eastern coast of Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The tremor was registered at a depth of 20 km. There have not been immediate reports of damage or injuries. No tsunami warning has been issued.

Ron Paul: What Cannot Be Said About Iraq
ftmdaily.com - As post-“liberation” Iraq spirals steadily downward, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was in Washington last week to plead for more assistance from the United States to help restore order to a society demolished by the 2003 US invasion. Al-Qaeda has made significant recent gains, Maliki told President Obama at their meeting last Friday, and Iraq needs more US military aid to combat its growing influence.

Greek Companies Unable To Pay Taxes Explode From 182K To Over Half A Million
Zero Hedge - Within just one month, from the end of August to end-September, the number of corporations that have fallen behind on their taxes soared from 182,785 to 526,477."

We are legion!' Anonymous allies stand up against corruption in global march
RT - Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks to mark their support of the Anonymous hactivist movement are staging protests all around the world on Tuesday. The self-styled legion of activists is opposing corporate and government corruption.

Tepco Tore Down the Natural Seawall Which Would Have Protected Fukushima from the Tsunami
Zero Hedge - The Wall Street Journal noted in 2011: When Tokyo Electric Power Co. broke ground on the now defunct Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power station 44 years ago, the utility made a fateful construction decision that raised the plant’s vulnerability to the tsunami that ultimately crippled its reactors.

US military doctors participate in torture of detainees, report says
RT - An independent report has charged that medical personnel, working under the direction of the Department of Defense and CIA in military defense facilities, violated medical ethics by participating in the torture of detainees.
* Related Article: CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce finds

Arlington, Texas to participate in massive terrorism exercise
Tactical units and first response teams throughout Dallas-Fort Worth will soon participate in the same terrorist preparation exercise implemented in Boston, Mass., only months before the Boston Marathon bombing.
The Arlington Police Department – along with more than 50 first response teams from 16 North Texas counties -- will train in a "multi-disciplinary, full-scale" exercise called Urban Shield on Nov. 9 and 10. Click here for the Facebook Page

Gunman clad in body armor opens fire in New Jersey mall - report
RT - Shots were fired Monday night at the Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, New Jersey, according to several reports. “According to a police source, the shooting began near the Nordstrom’s department store on the second level of the mall. At least eight shots have been fired; the gunman is believed to be wearing body armor,” Pix 11 reported.

TSA union calls for armed guards at every checkpoint
USA Today - The union representing airport screeners for the Transportation Security Administration says Friday's fatal shooting of an agent at Los Angeles International Airport highlights the need for armed security officers at every airport checkpoint.

Houston police: Email, phone scam may cost you $1,000
Houston Chronicle - Dubbed the “relative in distress” hoax, the scam begins when a victim receives an e-mail or telephone call purportedly from relatives or friends who are visiting the area from another country or state and claim to be in trouble, according to the Houston Police Department. The people supposedly in distress say they need money.

Cops Tase Father Trying To Save His 3-Year-Old Son From House Fire
Paul Joseph Watson - A Louisiana, Missouri father was prevented from saving his 3-year-old son from a house fire when cops tased him three times for attempting to enter the burning building.

Dianne Feinstein Cries 'Gun Control' in Wake of LAX Shooting...What Else Is New?
The Daily Sheeple - Even though LAX airport was already considered a "gun-free zone" (aside from roving police patrols curiously removed from checkpoints for reasons unknown in the months leading up to the recent shooting), that didn't stop Senator Feinstein from going on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday to say she'd introduce another bill over it.

Shots Fired At Garden State Plaza Mall In New Jersey — Gunman Reportedly Found Dead
Business Insider | A gunman has been found dead, according to reports, after police responded to reports of shots fired in the Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus, N.J., shortly before 9:30 p.m. ET on Monday.

Four Legal Arguments Why ObamaCare is Bad Law & Ought be Overturned
canadafreepress.com - When it became obvious on the day of ObamaCare’s premier that the Internet websites did not work, some were wildly disappointed, others angry, while another group heaved a sigh of relief. The fact that the legislation may not be fully available for months, or years, gives Americans a unique opportunity to review and potentially revoke this law.

Obama denies ‘you can keep it’ videotaped promises
Daily Caller - President Barack Obama told his enthusiastic supporters Monday night that he never promised what video recordings show him promising at least 29 times.

YouTube: Ron Paul: We Should Have The Right To Opt Out
"The emphasis should be on liberty and freedom of choice. You mentioned that, why don't we have freedom of choice?"...

Fetus Sues Mother -- Case Explores Rights of Fetus
Dr. Mercola - ‘The cocaine mom act’ in Wisconsin allows pregnant women engaging in substance abuse to be arrested or detained in order to protect the fetus In one controversial case, a woman was arrested for refusing to take an anti-addiction drug even though she told her health care provider that she was over the addiction (to painkillers) – and urine tests supported her claims.

Welcome to the United Police States of America
Press TV - No longer is it unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later. What is unusual is our lack of outrage, the relative disinterest of our elected representatives, the media’s abysmal failure to ask questions and demand answers, and our growing acceptance of the status quo...

You Tube: Ron Paul Speaks At Ken Cuccinelli Rally
Former Rep. Ron Paul speaks at Ken Cuccinelli's election-eve campaign rally in Richmond, Virginia.

Crisis Accelerates: Food Banks Running Out of Food
Paul Joseph Watson - The head of the Pennsylvania’s largest food bank has warned that demand for groceries following a $5 billion dollar cut in the food stamp program cannot be met.... From November 1st, $5 billion was wiped off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as a result of a planned stimulus withdrawal. Almost 50 million Americans who are supported by the program face an average loss of $36 dollars a month, which is a significant amount for those living near the poverty line.

SNC sets preconditions for Geneva talks
Press TV - The head of the foreign-backed Syrian opposition says the group will attend the peace talks planned for this month in Geneva only if there is a clear timeframe for President Bashar al-Assad to step down.

CIA drones kill Pakistani Taliban leader
McClatchy - CIA drones on Friday killed the chief of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, when they fired on a compound in the northwestern tribal agency of North Waziristan, according to Pakistani security officials and two commanders of the extremist group. At least two other people were killed.
* Related Article: Pakistan starts peace talks with Taliban

Obama, Iraq’s Maliki pledge to combat al Qaida aggression
McClatchy - President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki met Friday to discuss how their nations might “push back” against a recent spate of violence in Iraq by al Qaida. Neither leader made any new announcements for U.S. commitments.

Australia and US spied on Indonesia during UN summit - report
RT - Australia and the US worked side by side on a large-scale joint surveillance operation on Indonesia, during the 2007 UN climate change conference in Bali, a new report from the NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, has revealed.

More than 10,000 French protesters clash with police over ‘ecotax’
RT - Thousands of people rallied in the town of Quimper in France’s Brittany region on Saturday calling for a complete end to the controversial “ecotax.” Police fired tear gas after demonstrators hurled stones and iron bars.

Edward Snowden Releases “A Manifesto For The Truth”
Zero Hedge - “Citizens have to fight against the suppression of information about affairs of essential importance for the public,” Snowden said in his five-paragraph manifesto. Hence, “those who speak the truth are not committing a crime.” Even with the existence of mass surveillance, spying should not define politics, Snowden said.

Earthquake hits close to Fukushima, tremors felt as far as Tokyo
RT - A 5.0 earthquake was registered on Japan’s east cost in a prefecture neighboring Fukushima. It comes as a top Japanese politician called for acknowledgement of the fact that some Fukushima evacuees would never be able to return to the area.

US vows to consult Israel on Iran deal
Press TV - The US chief nuclear negotiator has reassured Israel that Washington will consult with Tel Aviv about any deal the world powers reach with Iran over its nuclear program.

VIDEO: Israel to raze more Palestinian homes
Press TV - Israel has revealed new plans for demolition of Palestinian houses in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the occupied West Bank, which will leave thousands of Palestinians homeless.

Morsi’s trial adjourned in Egypt as defendants chant anti-military slogans
RT - A Cairo court has adjourned the trial of ousted President Morsi over refusing his prison uniform and the defendants' chanting "Down with the military rule". Morsi and 14 others face charges of inciting the killing of protesters in clashes.

President Putin signs law requiring terrorists’ relatives to pay for damages
RT - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill that forces relatives of terrorists to pay for damages caused by their attacks. It also boosts penalties for launching, participating, or financing militant or terrorist groups.

VIDEO: Court strikes down birth control mandate
The Hill - A federal appeals court on Friday struck down the birth control mandate in ObamaCare, concluding the requirement trammels religious freedom. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals — the second most influential bench in the land behind the Supreme Court — ruled 2-1 in favor of business owners who are fighting the requirement that they provide their employees with health insurance that covers birth control.

Document Reveals Talking Points for Defenders of NSA Spying
AllGov - Following the first news reports in June of domestic spying on Americans’ communications, the National Security Agency (NSA) handed out new talking points (pdf) to its top officials urging them to cite the 9/11 attacks as justification for the agency’s controversial surveillance activities.

VIDEO: Judge Napolitano: “The NSA Is Utterly Out Of Control!”
Liberty Crier - Judge Andrew Napolitano joined Fox News’ The Real Story and said pointedly, “The NSA is utterly out of control and either the president doesn’t know what they’re doing, in which case he’s not in charge of the executive branch, or he’s misleading the American public.”

AP slams WH for staged photos; tells press not to use Obama's 'propaganda'
BizPac Review - The Associated Press’ photography director, Santiago Lyon, outed the Obama regime for refusing press photographers access to the White House and instead routinely handing over images taken privately by his own photographers. Lyon called the material “propaganda”...

Police say LAX shooting suspect carried anti-government ‘new world order’ literature
Activist Post - The man suspected of killing a TSA agent and wounding two others at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Friday was carrying what reports call “anti-government literature” during the shooting, according to anonymous police sources.
* Related Article: LAX Shooter Branded a Conspiracy Theorist

TSA Shooting Narrative Disintegrates
Kurt Nimmo - The LAX TSA shooting story is beginning to fall apart as the government and its propaganda dispensing media jostle to exploit the incident as a pretext to further militarize TSA procedures and also demonize official enemies, including Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.... Eye witness and official government versions of event do not coincide.

L.A. Ontario Airport ‘October Drill’ Nearly Identical to LAX Shooting Scene
21stcenturywire.com - Los Angeles Airport Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department took part in an ‘active shooter drill‘ on Saturday, October the 2nd 2013 at L.A./Ontario International Airport.

Drivers: Officers Profiling Specific Cars For Searches
wsbtv.com - ew kind of profiling that could leave you sitting on the side of the road while officers search your car. Four families, an attorney, and even an officer told investigative reporter Jodie Fleischer that officers are violating drivers' rights based on the type of cars they drive.

YouTube: Listen to a Stranger....Gangstalking, this how they do it
The way how the Gangs talkers work, manipulating people to harm others, you can see how easy it is to deceive, poison, corrupt people into committing a crime against an innocent person, impersonating an authority figure.

The Fastest Growing Religion In America Is Witchcraft
Michael Snyder - What is the fastest growing religion in the United States? If you said Christianity, you would be way off. In fact, the most recent numbers show that Christianity is in a serious state of decline in America. If you said Islam, you are much closer to a correct answer. Islam is the fastest growing major religion in the United States. But there is a faith that is growing even faster than Islam. It is called Wicca, and it is currently growing at an astounding pace.

VIDEO: Obamacare Architect Ezekiel Emanuel: "Individual Insurance Market Is Going Away"
thegatewaypundit.com - Obamacare architect Ezekiel Emanuel, a former adviser to the Obama White House, admitted today that, if Democrats have their way, the individual insurance market is going away.

You Also Can't Keep Your Doctor
WSJ - My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.

U.S. government may force doctors to accept Obamacare and Medicare patients, eventually at gunpoint
(NaturalNews) Word from the street is that Kathleen Murphy, a democrat running for the House, wants to make it a legal requirement that doctors accept Medicare and Obamacare patients. Many doctors, of course, have already announced that will not accept such patients because they would go bankrupt if they did.

IRS to Jail Woman Who Owes $0 in Taxes, Seeks Jury Nullification
Activist Post - Doreen Hendrickson is spending what might be the last weekend she has with her family for a few years. On Monday, her jury is expected to return with a verdict on her contempt charge. If she’s found guilty, she will go to jail. The IRS put her husband Pete in jail for 3 years; it is anxious to do the same to Doreen.

Obama Told Aides He’s Gotten “Really Good At Killing People.”
randpaulreview.com - Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book “Double Down: Game Change 2012” notes President Obama commenting on drone strikes, reportedly telling his aides that he’s “really good at killing people.” The quote from the book was first reported in Peter Hamby’s review in the Washington Post.

Photo Of Dummy Presented As Wounded LAX Shooter By Media
Blacklisted News - The New York Post has just released an insanely ridiculous photo claiming to show the Los Angeles airport (LAX) shooter lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood. Anyone who has even just a little bit of common sense should be able to discern that this is completely faked.

Alabama Airport Evacuated Due to Threat
Infowars - The evacuation occurred two days after a mentally disturbed man allegedly killed a TSA agent at LAX in Los Angeles, California. It is not know if the incident in Alabama is related to the TSA or terrorism.

New York Marathon Runners Get TSA Treatment
Kurt Nimmo - New York cops had a tough job today. They “screened” 45,000 runners at the New York Marathon. In addition to the TSA treatment at the start line, the runners were monitored by 1,500 surveillance cameras. Around a hundred mobile cameras filled any gaps.

YouTube: Luke Rudkowski's hotel broken into computer compromised possible framing
We think its best that we make this public for the safety of Luke Rudkowski during his travels abroad....

10 Corporations Control Nearly Everything You Buy, 6 Media Corporations Control Nearly Everything You Read or Watch
Blacklisted News - PolicyMic explains ... Ten mega corporations control the output of almost everything you buy; from household products to batteries. These corporations create the chain of supplies that flow from one another. Each chain begins at one of the 10 super companies.

U.S. Gives 1/3 of Puerto Rico Food Stamps
conservativeinfidel.com - As if it weren’t bad enough that a record 47.7 million people—and growing—get food stamps from the U.S. government, federal records reveal that a whopping 1/3 of Puerto Rico’s population receives them.

Tide Thefts, Cargo Hijacking And Cattle Rustling: Why Is An Epidemic Of Thievery Sweeping America?
Economic Collapse - Desperate people do desperate things, and it appears that Americans are rapidly becoming a lot more desperate. An epidemic of thievery is sweeping across America, and authorities are not quite sure what to make of it.

Navy SEALs ordered to remove ‘don’t tread on me’ Navy Jack from uniforms
Daily Caller - The Navy Jack is the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag, one that has earned a revered place in America’s naval history and a beloved place in sailor’s hearts, through its use for over two centuries.

Welfare Recipients Receive More Benefits than Permanently Disabled Combat Vet and Still Not Happy
conservativeinfidel.com - There is a different group of people in America who are also receiving benefits from the government. However, this group of people have not served their country in war, and even more amazing, they are receiving more in benefits than our disabled combat veterans! And on top of that? They are still complaining and demanding more!