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1st Amendment Violated as Facebook Assists Police in Pre-Crime Investigations

By Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
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On August 16th former US Marine Brandon Raub was arrested for posting his opinion about the US government on his Facebook page [2]. Raub is currently being held in a psychiatric ward. In a statement by Raub, he explains [3]: “I’m currently in John Randolph in the psychiatric ward being held against my will. T

40% of Food Wasted in U.S.???

Source: Los Angeles Times[1]

Americans are throwing out nearly every other bite of food, wasting up to 40% of the country’s supply each year – a mass of uneaten provisions worth $165 billion, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

An average family of four squanders $2,275 in food each year, or 20 pounds per

Facebook, the CIA, DARPA, and the Tanking IPO

No FacebookThe big infusion of cash that sent Mark Zuckerberg and his fledgling college enterprise on their way came from Accel Partners, in 2004.

Jim Breyer, head of Accel, attached a $13 million rocket to Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) , and nothing has ever been the same.

Earlier that same year, a man named Gilman Louie joined the board of the National Venture

US Drone Strikes Target Rescuers in Pakistan – and the West Stays Silent

Source: Guardian.co.uk[1]

The US government has long maintained, reasonably enough, that a defining tactic of terrorism is to launch a follow-up attack aimed at those who go to the scene of the original attack to rescue the wounded and remove the dead. Morally, such methods have also been widely condemned by the west as a hallmark of savagery. Yet,

Uncle Sam Needs YOU for a Bailout: 6 Reasons Another Big Banking Crisis Is Coming Our Way

Surprise, surprise! Last week, the Justice Department announced it wasn’t going to prosecute Goldman Sachs or its employees for its shady activities during the mortgage crisis. The same day, Goldman disclosed in a regulatory filing that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had dropped an investigation into a troubled $1.3 billion r

Barbarians at the Gate: Terrorism, the US, and the Subversion of Russia

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By Eric Draitser
StopImperialism[1]

The shootings and bombings in Ingushetia and Dagestan[2] this week rekindled a long-standing, brutal campaign of violence and terrorism in Russia’s Caucasus region – one that has seen more than its share of terror stretching back to the Chechen “rebellion” of the 1990s.  However, in examining the recent attacks, it

26 Dead in Texas Due to West Nile Virus

Aedes aegypti biting human

U.S. health officials say there's been an alarming increase in the number of West Nile cases with Texas being hit hardest.

So far there have been more than 1,100 cases reported through the middle of August. That's three times as many as usually seen at this point in the year. About half the cases are in Texas.  Most West Nile infections are

Lawyer James Koutoulas Tells Rick Santelli: 'We Plan To Pursue Criminal Charges Against Jon Corzine In All 50 States'

"I will take this to all 50 states.  And we will win.  We will get a conviction of Jon Corzine.  And the next time a sociopath CEO says 'Do I go out of business or do I cheat,' he's gonna think about PresidentObama's[1] biggest fundraiser in an orange jumpsuit in state prison."

Kansas Jury Refuses To Recognize Marijuana Laws

This has happened before[1] in parts of the country where you might not expect it and seems to be a growing trend which the government would rather you not know about. Via Reason[2], a Kansas defense attorney recounts the turn of events:

I had a jury trial this morning on level 3 possession with intent MJ, level 4 possession drug

Labor Department Spends Stimulus Funds for Ads During Olbermann, Maddow Shows

Source: Washington Times[1]

The Labor Department paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funds to a public relations firm to run more than 100 commercials touting the Obama administration’s “green training” job efforts on two MSNBC cable shows, records show.

The commercials ran on MSNBC on shows hosted by Rachel Maddow

What 40 Years Of Gold Confiscation By The US Government Looks Like

Source: Zero Hedge[1]

The chart below, which is a time series showing the total “Gold Held by the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve[2]” (which for all intents and purposes are interchangeable), demonstrates vividly the moment when the US government enacted Executive Order 6102, aka the “forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold

CIA spies ‘smuggle 14 Stinger missiles into Syria so rebels can take out regime warplanes’

By Chris Hughes
Daily Mirror
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CIA spies have smuggled up to 14 Stinger missiles into Syria so rebels can defend themselves from air strikes.

The ground-to-air weapons have been delivered across the Turkish border to the Free Syrian Army and were partly paid for by Saudi Arabia, a security source claimed.

President Bashar al-Assad’s MIG-23 w

Fukushima fish carrying 258 times the ‘safe’ level of radiation

Source: RT

A pair of fish captured near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have shown to be carrying record levels of radiation. The pair of greenlings are contaminated with 258 times the level government deems safe for consumption.

The fish, which were captured just 12 miles from the nuclear plant, registered 25,800 becquerels of caesium per

What Happened After Europe’s Last Three Currency “Unions” Collapsed

Source: Zero Hedge[1]

It may come as a surprise to some of our younger readers, that the Eurozone, and its associated currency, is merely the latest in a long series of failed attempts to create a European currency union and a common currency. Three of the most notable predecessors to the EUR include the Hapsburg Empire, the Soviet Union, and

US corn, soy prices hit records as drought lingers

Source: AFP[1]

US corn and soybean prices closed at new record highs Tuesday as a new survey showed worse-than-expected crop damage from a brutal drought across the country’s central breadbasket.

The price of corn jumped 1.7 percent to $8.3875 a bushel, while soybeans finished at $17.3025 a bushel, up 2.8 percent from Tuesday.

That left the corn

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