Archive for August, 2011

Study Shows Powerful Corporations Really Do Control The World’s Finances

| August 27, 2011 | 1 Comment

(Bob Yirka) For many years conventional wisdom has said that the whole world is controlled by the monied elite, or more recently by the huge multi-national corporations that seem to sometime control the very air we breathe. Now, new research by a team based in ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, has shown that what we’ve suspected all along, [...]

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Mayor Orders Cops To Remove Citizen At Council Meeting For Stating His Name

| August 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Infowars) Ron Paul supporter and anti-drug war activist Ronnie Reeferseed was hauled away from an Austin City Council meeting and banned for a year for stating his name in a mildly satirical manner, in yet another example of how local officials are increasingly engaging in petty power trips to oppress the free speech rights of [...]

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5.9 Earthquake in Virginia Felt In Maryland

5.9 Earthquake in Virginia Felt In Maryland

| August 23, 2011 | 1 Comment

(Thomas Dishaw) A powerful 5.9 earthquake was felt in Maryland today. Centered northwest of Richmond, Virginia shook the Baltimore area to a shocking standstill. No major damage was reported. The earthquake was felt as far north as Rhode Island. Below are some pictures of damage in the Canton Safeway.

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Big Brother Bloomberg Pushes For Traffic Light Cameras On Every Corner

| August 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

(ERIN EINHORn) Mayor Bloomberg wants to blanket the city with red light cameras – and maybe even publish the names of scofflaws who blow through intersections. “I think we should have ‘em on every corner if we could,” the mayor said of the controversial cameras that trigger tickets to drivers caught running red lights. “If [...]

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Ron Paul: “They’re Setting The Stage For Violence In This Country”

| August 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Paul Joseph Watson) In a response to a question asked by Infowars correspondent Robert Wanek at Iowa State University during the recent Ames straw poll, Ron Paul said that the federal government was preparing for civil unrest and martial law in the United States. Paul was asked for his opinion on whether H.R. 645 (The [...]

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Scientists Alter Chicken DNA To Create Embryo With ‘Alligator-Like’ Snout

| August 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Daily Mail) Experts changed the DNA of chicken embryos in the early stage of their development, enabling them to undo evolutionary progress and give the creatures snouts which are thought to have been lost in the cretaceous period millions of years ago. The scientific revelation of ‘rewinding’ evolution could pave the way for scientists altering [...]

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Video-The Stock Market Is Owned By The Govt

| August 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

The truth has been so twisted and turned that our belief system in America has become our biggest enemy. We believe that the stock market is an independent structure, operating within government guidelines… But when we open up government’s Institutional Fund and Pension Fund investment portfolios and asset listings, we can easily find that the [...]

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Every Hour Of T.V. Takes 22 Minutes Off Your Life

| August 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Jenny Hope) Every hour spent watching TV, DVDs and videos as an adult reduces life expectancy by almost 22 minutes, a study suggests. And viewing TV for an average of six hours a day can cut short your life by five years. The research claims that a sedentary lifestyle is as bad for health as [...]

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10 New Ways That The Government Will Be Spying On You

| August 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

(American Dream) Are you ready for Big Brother 2.0? If you think that the hundreds of ways that the government watches, monitors, tracks and controls us now are bad, just wait until you see what is coming. We live in an age when paranoia is running wild. As technology continues to develop at an exponential [...]

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21 Books The Ruling Elite Doesn’t Want You To Read

| August 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Rick Gedeon) The sole purpose of COINTELPRO was to destroy individuals and groups perceived as threats to the status quo in the United States. COINTELPRO was “officially” ended in 1971—although it never really ended. After the 911 attacks, the government went at it again, but this time with a scared and more dumbed-down complicit public. [...]

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Monsanto’s 5 Most Dubious Contributions To The Planet

| August 15, 2011 | 1 Comment

(Oliver Lee) Oh, Monsanto, you sly dog. You keep trying to make us believe you are “committed to sustainable agriculture” with your canny advertisments on American Public Media, even as you force-feed farmers your lab-grown Frankenseeds that expire every year (which are, let’s be honest, opposite of sustainable). But we shouldn’t be surprised by the [...]

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The Revitalized Eugenics Movement And The FDA’S Role

| August 13, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Byron Richards) On July 29, 2011 the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health sounded the population alarm bell in the international science journal, Science, advocating for international contraception efforts to be funded by wealthy countries. On August 1, 2011 the Obama administration announced its plan to force health [...]

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Mark Of The Beast-Electronic Skin Tattoo Has Medical, Gaming, Spy Uses

| August 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

(afp) A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a US study published Thursday. The micro-electronics technology, called an epidermal electronic system (EES), was developed by an international team of researchers from the United States, China and Singapore, [...]

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A New And Dangerous Terrorist Organization

| August 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Mr. Average) There has risen a new and extremely dangerous terrorist organization that has the ability to destroy America. It can increase our unemployment to the point that sparked riots in Great Britain. It can destroy our financial standing in the world. It has and can again stagnate our country. Vice President Joe Biden has [...]

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Petition Calls For Sesame Street’s Bert And Ernie To Be Married

| August 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Frances Romero )Although Sesame Street’s creators have never said the two characters are gay, viewers have long speculated that roommates Bert and Ernie are more than just friends. Perhaps a new petition, started by Illinois resident Lair Scott, was prompted by the changing tide in the U.S.: in June, New York became the sixth — [...]

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Riots Break Out Around Globe Amid Economic Anxiety

| August 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

( Mark Koba) London is reeling from three nights of rioting that’s poured hundreds of people into the streets, leaving several local neighborhoods in shambles. One man is dead, dozens injured and arrested. Leon Neal | AFP | Getty Images Two police cars and a large number of buildings were on Saturday set ablaze in [...]

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Please Don’t Riot……It’s Just What “They” Want

Please Don’t Riot……It’s Just What “They” Want

| August 9, 2011 | 1 Comment

(David Icke) As I travel around America it is clear that this country is on the brink of an economic catastrophe the like of which it has never seen. And, of course, it is not alone. A similar story can be told around the world. The foreclosure figures are fantastic as families and others lose [...]

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Stocks End Sharply Higher, Dow Surges 400

| August 9, 2011 | 1 Comment

( JeeYeon Park) Stocks saw its biggest one-day gain since May 2010 Tuesday after a wild market session as investors snapped up beaten-down stocks and following a Fed statement to keep interest rates near zero for at least two more years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 429.92 points, or 3.98 percent, to close at [...]

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Police To Carry Out On-The-Spot Fingerprinting Even For Minor Traffic Offenses

| August 8, 2011 | 1 Comment

(Anna Edwards) Police are now armed with a device that can scan fingerprints so they can correctly identify suspects who lie about their details. In what sounds like something out of George Orwell’s dystopia 1984, suspects can now be finger printed in the street thanks to the new hand-held police gadget. The mobile identification service [...]

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Dow Skids 600, Worst Day Since Credit Crisis

| August 8, 2011 | 2 Comments

(JeeYeon Park) Stocks took a sharp nosedive in another choppy day Monday to finish at session lows as investors fled from risky assets following S&P’s downgrade of U.S.’s credit rating last week in addition to ongoing economic jitters. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 634.76 points, or 5.55 percent, to finish at 10,809.85, well-below the [...]

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30,000 College Students Kicked Out Of Food Aid Program In Michigan

| August 8, 2011 | 3 Comments

(Paul Egan) Michigan has removed about 30,000 college students from its food stamp program — close to double the initial estimate — saving about $75 million a year, says Human Services Director Maura Corrigan. Federal rules don’t allow most college students to collect food stamps, but Michigan had created its own rules that made nearly [...]

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Gold Soars Above $1,700 On S&P Downgrade

| August 8, 2011 | 2 Comments

(Reuters) – Bullion roared to record highs above $1,700 an ounce on Monday as an unprecedented downgrade to the U.S. credit rating sent investors scrambling out of riskier assets, hammering equity markets and the dollar. Both U.S. gold futures and cash gold could rise further if pledges by the Group of Seven nations to support [...]

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Seal Team 6 Crash Was An Inside Job

Seal Team 6 Crash Was An Inside Job

| August 7, 2011 | 1 Comment

(Alex Jones)  This is reportedly the largest one day loss of troops in the 10 year war in Afghanistan and it just happens to be Seal Team 6. So now we are to buy that the men who took out OBL died in a helicopter crash months after pulling off the raid. Our inside sources [...]

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Big Spring, Texas To Recycle Urine In The Face Of Massive Drought

| August 7, 2011 | 3 Comments

(Dean Praetorius) The thought of drinking your own urine might be disgusting to some people, but one Texas town thinks it might be the best option in the face of one of the state’s worst droughts ever. Big Spring, Texas, home to the Colorado River Municipal Water District, will be experimenting with reprocessing wastewater produced [...]

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Israel Exchange Halted After Following Saudi Stocks In Crashing Over 5% At Opening

| August 7, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Alexander Higgins) The first two markets to open following news of the U.S. AAA credit rating cut, Saudi Arabia and Israel, both immediately crashed over 5% after the opening bell. Here is a prelude to what U.S., European, Asian markets face when they open tomorrow morning. Earlier Zero Hedge reported Saudi Arabia stocks crashed 5.5% [...]

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Obama’s White House Enjoys Pay Raises, While Middle America Evaporates

Obama’s White House Enjoys Pay Raises, While Middle America Evaporates

| August 7, 2011 | 2 Comments

(Thomas Dishaw) White House staffers enjoyed a hefty raise this year,some upwards of  83% over last year.  Some notables in this class are Matthew Vogel who received a $59,000 raise. He is the Special Assistant To The President for Economic Policy. The way the economy has been performing he should be getting fired,not rewarded with [...]

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Chinese Boy Kept As Slave By Uncle,Chained Up With A Dog

Chinese Boy Kept As Slave By Uncle,Chained Up With A Dog

| August 6, 2011 | 2 Comments

(Daily Mail)  This 12-year-old Chinese boy has been chained up by his uncle for the past two years. It’s claimed that this is for his own safety because he’s mentally handicapped – but most people will find these images truly shocking. Cai Changqing, from Erlongshan village in Harbin, north-east China’s Heilongjiang Province, is shackled each [...]

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