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April 18, 2013

UPDATES:Unimaginable Devastation to Small Town After Fertilizer Plant Blew Up

UPDATE x2: Video of what looks to be a missle blowing up Fertilizer Plant that was on fire.

UPDATE x1: Aerial footage from the scene of the devastation in Texas plus notice of largest hospital drill ever held in the area.

Scenes from the devastation to the town where the West Fertilizer Co. plant that blew up yesterday evening is unimaginable. It is being reported that 15 have died, five being firefighters and one police officer, and a hundred more injured. These are preliminary reports and officials are expecting these numbers to increase as search and rescue teams go through the rubble. [Read more…]

April 16, 2013

REPORT: U.S. TREATMENT OF TORTURE DETAINEES' AND WHO'S RESPONSIBLE

Washington — The Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment is an independent, bipartisan, blue-ribbon panel charged with examining the federal government’s policies and actions related to the capture, detention and treatment of suspected terrorists during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. [Read more…]

April 11, 2013

Now We Know Why LBJ Remained Silent About Richard Nixon's 'Treason'

Charles Tasnadi/Associated Press

Recently, the BBC exposed recordings made by then President Lyndon B. Johnson detailing his knowledge of then candidate Richard Nixon’s deliberate sabotage of the Paris Peace Talks between the US and South Vietnam. [Read more…]

An insult to breasts everywhere!

Remember the old say a “picture is worth a thousand words?” Well, it’s true.

Why any self-respecting woman would bare her breasts to anyone, let alone Putin and Merkel, is well…funny! The entirety of this group called FEMEN is a joke and an insult to breasts everywhere! But the looks on the faces in this photo are priceless. [Read more…]

Sundown in America…

by David A. Stockman
The New York Times

Artwork by Mark Pernice

GREENWICH, Conn.

The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be very afraid. [Read more…]

April 6, 2013

Warning: You Are About to Read a "Forbidden" Column

by Diana West
Syndicated Coulumn

Get ready for the last straw.

First, though, I’d like to suggest that anyone reading this column in a local newspaper or news site pat the editor on the back for publishing what in our neo-medieval world of fear amounts to a “forbidden” column. [Read more…]

April 5, 2013

DAVID VS MONSANTO DOCUMENTARY ON GMO

Here’s a movie worth watching over the weekend –

“Imagine that a storm blows across your garden and that now, genetically-manipulated seeds are in your crops. A multi-national corporation pay you a visit, demand that you surrender your crops – and then sue you for $200 000 for the illegal use of patented, GM seeds. In this definitive David and Goliath battle, [Read more…]

Digital Disconnect: Robert McChesney on "How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy"

What was once seen as a “new economic” engine designed to bring unvarnished information to the masses has been taken over by the robber barons known as Digital Cartels. Robert McChesney, author of Digital Disconnect, discusses how Big Corporations are dominating not only the internet but access to it. He elaborates how digital empires like Google, Twitter, Verizon, Amazon, Comcast to name a few have grown into “Digital Cartels” wielding enormous power over internet users including invasion of every user’s privacy. [Read more…]

To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me If only I had a tiger mom or started a fake charity.

This sassy young gal has written what so many young adults experience after working hard to get into the college of their choice. Suzy Lee Weiss’ academic record is stellar boasting a 4.25 GPA and a 2010 SAT score complimented by hours of community service, but none of that appeared solid enough to to get into several schools in which she applied. [Read more…]

April 4, 2013

How Can Blacks Love Obama So Much When They're Doing So Bad?

This is a question many keep asking resulting in few logical answers. Hats off to host of Black Agenda Report radio Yvette Carnell and Pascal Robert’s for tackling this mystery. They ask “Is there a disconnect between the actual economic well-being of African Americans and their uncritical, unconditional love for their first black president? [Read more…]

Reality Check – One Glaring Oversight in U.N. Arms Treaty?

Now why would the negotiators of the UN Arms Treaty omit governments from selling arms to non-state groups such as is happening right now in Syria? The US, Qatar, Saudi’s and Turkey are all selling weapons to “Al Qaeda led groups in the Free Syrian Army.” Why was the treaty leave this out?

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April 3, 2013

HB 638 – AS INTRODUCED 2013 SESSION – AN ACT recognizing the original Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

“In 1810, a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibited titles of nobility and which later became known as the original Thirteenth Amendment, was introduced, passed both houses of Congress, and was sent to the states for ratification.” [Read more…]

March 29, 2013

Is the Escalation in Cancer Linked to Nuke Testing Beginning the 1940's?

“The warnings about fallout from nuclear tests six decades ago often noted that cancers from the radiation would probably not begin appearing in large numbers for many years. But that time is now – and medical experts are wondering whether the surge in some cancers is a result, writes John LaForge.” [Read more…]

Hitler Survivor Condemns Gun Control 'KEEP YOUR GUNS, BUY MORE GUNS' – Katie Worthman

An Australian survivor of Hitler’s then the Soviet Communist’s Occupation says to an American audience “KEEP YOUR GUNS” and “BUG MORE GUNS!” Katie Worthman also speaks to Hitler’s “Gun Registration” program and why it is not only a back-door way to confiscate guns, but how Hitler’s Army did it. [Read more…]