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Ron Paul: Urgent Message Regarding National ID (Audio)
Source: CampaignForLiberty.com Submitted: 05/15/2013
.  Listen here »
How GMO and Glyphosate Wrecks Health (with Video)
Source: Mercola.com Submitted: 05/13/2013
The more we learn about genetically engineered (GE) foods, the clearer the dangers become. I’ve warned you of the potential dangers of GE foods for many years now, as I was convinced that the artificial combining of plants with genes from wildly different kingdoms is bound to cause problems.

As the years roll on, such suspicions are becoming increasingly validated. In recent weeks, we’ve not only learned that GE corn is in no way comparable to natural corn in terms of nutrition, we’re also discovering the ramifications of dousing our crops with large amounts of glyphosate — the active ingredient in Monsanto’s broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup.

GE crops are far more contaminated with glyphosate than conventional crops, courtesy of the fact that they’re engineered to withstand extremely high levels of Roundup without perishing along with the weed.

A new peer-reviewed report authored by Anthony Samsel, a retired science consultant, and a long time contributor to the Mercola.com Vital Votes Forum and Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has fortunately received quite a bit of mainstream media attention.

Their findings, along with the development of another breed of “gene silencing” crops, makes the need for labeling all the more urgent, and the advice to buy certified organic all the more valid.  Watch here »
Statin Nation: The Great Cholesterol Cover Up (Video)
Source: Mercola.com Submitted: 05/12/2013
--The idea that high cholesterol causes heart disease can be traced back to Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902), a German pathologist who found thickening in the arteries in people he autopsied, which he ascribed to a collection of cholesterol.

Later, Ancel Keys (1904-2004), a well-known physiologist, published his seminal paper known as the "Seven Countries Study1," which served as the basis for nearly all of the initial scientific support for the Cholesterol Theory.

The study linked the consumption of saturated fat to coronary heart disease. However, what many don’t know is that Keys selectively analyzed information from only seven countries to prove his correlation, rather than comparing all the data available at the time -- from 22 countries.

As you might suspect, the studies he excluded were those that did not fit with his hypothesis, namely those that showed a low percentage fat in their diet and a high incidence of death from CHD as well as those with a high-fat diet and low incidence of CHD. When all 22 countries are analyzed, no correlation at all can be found.  Watch here »
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
Source: abcnews.com Submitted: 05/03/2013
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.  Read full article »
Monsanto’s GE Corn Nutritionally Inferior and High in Toxins
Source: Mercola.com Submitted: 05/01/2013
--Here’s a small sampling of the nutritional differences found in this 2012 nutritional analysis:

Calcium:
GMO corn = 14 ppm /
Non-GMO corn = 6,130 ppm (437 times more)

Magnesium: GMO corn = 2 ppm
Non-GMO corn = 113 ppm (56 times more)

Manganese: GMO corn = 2 ppm
Non-GMO corn = 14 ppm (7 times more)

GMO corn was also found to contain 13 ppm of glyphosate, compared to zero in non-GMO corn. This is quite significant and well worth remembering.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “safe” level for glyphosate in American water supplies is 0.7 ppm. In Europe, the maximum allowable level in water is 0.2 ppm. Organ damage in animals has occurred at levels as low as 0.1 ppm... At 13 ppm, GMO corn contains more than 18 times the “safe” level of glyphosate set by the EPA.  Read full article »
It Can't Happen Here (Video - Documentary)
Source: LarkenRose.com Submitted: 05/01/2013
.  Watch here »
It's all well worth watching, but try to watch at least "part 1" (the first 37 minutes.)
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
Source: RollingStone.com Submitted: 04/26/2013
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world's largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.

You may have heard of the Libor scandal, in which at least three – and perhaps as many as 16 – of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion (that's trillion, with a "t") worth of financial instruments. When that sprawling con burst into public view last year, it was easily the biggest financial scandal in history – MIT professor Andrew Lo even said it "dwarfs by orders of magnitude any financial scam in the history of markets."

That was bad enough, but now Libor may have a twin brother. Word has leaked out that the London-based firm ICAP, the world's largest broker of interest-rate swaps, is being investigated by American authorities for behavior that sounds eerily reminiscent of the Libor mess. Regulators are looking into whether or not a small group of brokers at ICAP may have worked with up to 15 of the world's largest banks to manipulate ISDAfix, a benchmark number used around the world to calculate the prices of interest-rate swaps.  Read full article »
Education Is NOT The Same As Schooling (with Video)
Source: YouTube.com Submitted: 04/25/2013
Did high school ever feel somewhat like a prison? Did it ever feel like being in a machine that had its own purposes and goals separate from yours? This feeling is not uncommon, and an examination of the development of the school explains why. Rather than being a tool to educate, the school as we know it today started as a way to produce obedient and loyal subjects, soldiers, and workers. It was never intended to develop the mind in any meaningful way. Education and schooling are often conflated, but there are many important distinctions between the two. Prof. Steven Davies argues that schools are not suited for educating and it is high time we move away from the idea of the school as the only option for delivering education.  Watch here »
I always hated school. I always loved (and still love), learning. Go figure.
Nullification The Rightful Remedy (Video)
Source: YouTube.com Submitted: 04/24/2013
Nullification The Rightful Remedy: What do we do when the federal government steps outside of it's Constitutional boundaries? Do we 'vote the bums out' and hope that the new bums limit their own power? Do we ask federal judges in black robes to limit the federal government's power? Thomas Jefferson and James Madison didn't think so, and neither do we. The rightful remedy to federal tyranny rests in the hands of the people and the States that created the federal government in the first place. It's called Nullification, and it's an idea whose time has come. This documentary explores the history of state nullification, and how it is being used today to push back against the encroachment of federal power.  Watch here »
‘The neo-conservative era is dead’: Ron Paul announces DC think-tank
Source: RT.com Submitted: 04/22/2013
--“The neo-conservative era is dead. The ill-advised policies pushed by the neo-cons have everywhere led to chaos and destruction, and to a hatred of the United States and its people. Multi-trillion dollar wars have not made the world a safer place; they have only bankrupted our economic future. The Ron Paul Institute will provide the tools and the education to chart a new course with the understanding that only through a peaceful foreign policy can we hope for a prosperous tomorrow.”  Read full article »
Tragedy And Hope Made Easy - Chapter 4
Source: JoePlummer.com Submitted: 04/21/2013
--The vast majority of people – people like you and me – never think of money as a weapon. For us, it’s simply something that we earn and then use to purchase products and services. The network, on the other hand, has a much, much deeper understanding of what money is and how to wield its power. For them, money isn’t about acquiring more material goods or services; it’s about acquiring more control over the resources and instruments that govern human behavior. When viewed in this light, their seemingly insatiable desire to accumulate money makes more sense. (More money equals more control.)

However, this doesn’t mean that personal ownership of money is the network’s most effective monetary weapon. In fact, we could take away the personal fortunes of all of its members and, if that’s all we did, their power would remain undisturbed and they would rebuild their fortunes in no time. This is because the network knows something that most of us do not: Control of money, not actual “ownership,” is what truly matters. Where you and I cannot imagine having the ability to control money that doesn’t belong to us; the network cannot imagine having it any other way.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the three primary mechanisms that the network uses to perpetuate its monetary power. They are: 1) The ability to combine and control the earnings of others, 2) The ability to directly confiscate the earnings of others, and 3) The ability to create money out of thin air.  Read full article »
Supreme Court Strikes Down Warrantless Blood Tests In DUI Cases
Source: LibertyCrier.com Submitted: 04/19/2013
Police following up on drunk driving investigations will no longer be able to draw their suspect’s blood without a court order authorizing the search, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.

In a 5-4 decision, with Justices Sonya Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy and Elena Kagan making up the majority, the court ruled that the natural expiration of alcohol in the bloodstream does not constitute “destruction of evidence,” which would otherwise give officers cause for a warrantless search.  Read full article »
Italian Supreme Court President Blames Bilderberg For Terrorist Attacks
Source: PrisonPlanet.com Submitted: 04/14/2013
--The “strategy of tension” refers to a policy under the auspices of Operation Gladio, a NATO cold war “stay behind” project that sought to create an expedient political climate in Europe by having its agents carry out terror attacks which were then blamed on both far left and far right political groups.

Gladio was designed to demonize political opposition and “force the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security,” according to the testimony of former Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra. In 2000, an Italian parliamentary investigation found that the 1980 Bologna train bombing, which killed 85 people, was carried out by “men inside Italian state institutions and … men linked to the structures of United States intelligence.”
“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game,” Vinciguerra explained in sworn testimony.

“The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened,” he added.

Imposimato stated that he was given the document by a former Ordine Nuovo terrorist. Members of Ordine Nuovo (Italian for “New Order”) participated in numerous deadly terrorist attacks, including the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, the 1970 Rome-Messina train attack, the 1974 Piazza della Loggia bombing in Brescia, and the Italicus Express bombing in 1974.  Read full article »
DIY Multi-Purpose Tractor (with Video)
Source: PopSci.com Submitted: 04/11/2013
Marcin Jakubowski didn’t study fusion physics to become a farmer. But the Polish-American scientist grew more disillusioned with academia the longer he worked toward his doctorate. Researchers withheld data to compete for grants, he says, instead of collaborating to solve big problems. “The further I went in my Ph.D. program, the less value I felt I was contributing to society,” he says. Seeking a fresh start, Jakubowski bought 30 acres of Missouri farmland and a tractor. Life in relative seclusion proved uneventful until, one day in 2008, his tractor broke down for the second and last time, spurring him to start an open-source industrial revolution.

To Jakubowski, the tractor seemed designed to fail. Why should he sink more money into fixing it or buy a replacement? He wanted a simple and useful machine, and one he could repair and upgrade on the fly. “It boiled down to lower cost in the long run,” he says.

Jakubowski built the first LifeTrac, as he calls his DIY tractor, in three months for $6,000—about $30,000 less than a comparable mass-produced model. Seeing room for improvement, he built a second prototype in just six days. He posted his progress on the tractor and other machines to an online wiki, which attracted followers, who suggested their own design tweaks. Some even visited in person to help with builds—and Open Source Ecology took off.  Read full article »
School: Americans Don’t Have Right to Bear Arms
Source: Foxnews.com Submitted: 04/10/2013
The father of a Connecticut child is furious after discovering that his son’s school is teaching students that Americans don’t have a Second Amendment right to bear arms.

--“This means that the rights of this amendment are not extended to the individual citizens of the states,” the worksheet reads. “So a person has no right to complain about a Second Amendment violation by state laws.”  Read full article »
Bitcoin Goes Parabolic
Source: PrisonPlanet.com Submitted: 04/10/2013
Bitcoin is a powerful, game-changing crypto currency that may literally change the world. It’s a huge threat to centralized banks and government currency controls because it’s entirely decentralized, anonymous and virtually impossible to track. Bitcoin is the “underground railroad” of money, and it has an important role to play in the epic battle between liberty vs. slavery.

But because bitcoin is a currency whose value is based on the psychology of human beings, it is subject to booms and busts. Bitcoin has enjoyed a meteoric rise from roughly $20 per bitcoin in February to almost $200 per bitcoin today. (Yes, nearly a 1000% return in less than two months.) This has happened for several reasons, but primarily because the Cypriot bank thefts taught people that “money in the bank” isn’t any safer than money anywhere else. So why not invest in a crypto-currency that can’t be stolen by the banks?

As Europeans and Russians were funneling unprecedented sums of money into bitcoin over the past few months, Asians began to dump speculative money into the system. Today, Chinese investors (i.e. “gamblers”) are pumping huge sums of cash into bitcoin, hoping to double or triple their money as the currency continues its red hot rise.  Read full article »
Early Neutering: We'll Call This Myth Busted...
Source: Healthypets.mercola.com Submitted: 04/10/2013
--My goal with regard to pet sterilization is simply to provide information to pet owners about the risks, since there is much information readily available about the benefits. In this case, where early spaying has been widely promoted as a way to prevent mammary tumors in female dogs, in light of the findings of the U.K. systematic review, I feel compelled to let pet owners know there is scarce scientific evidence available to back up that widely held belief.

If your dog is not yet spayed or neutered, I can offer some general recommendations for timing of the procedure:  Read full article »
Vote Rigging = Big Money and Big Power
Source: BBVForums.org Submitted: 04/08/2013
--When you understand that whoever controls the Internet server controls the election, and that with online voting, the public loses its ability to see or authenticate any of the essential processes; when you learn that a technology official who has admitted to taking $860,000 in bribes,[2] planned to set up his own Internet voting system for New Orleans; when you discover that around this time, the same guy setting up the Internet voting system was making ten-thousand-dollar bets on election outcomes[3], you realize that Internet voting is nothing more than a large number of people acting dumb in the dark.

But that's not all. While the New Orleans bid-rigging and kickback scheme focused on Nagin, Meffert and St. Pierre, money flowed through Ed Burns, in his position as president of state and local government contracts at Ciber, Inc.,[4] a company that in addition to acting as a conduit in the New Orleans technology money, acted as the "Independent Testing Authority" -- ITA, that handled testing for most of the voting systems in use in America today, and signed off on them, enabling election officials everywhere to tell us not to worry, the machines are safe, they have been "tested and certified."  Read full article »
For The First Time, Majority of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization
Source: Gawker.com Submitted: 04/07/2013
The first national poll to ask potential voters their thoughts on marijuana since two states legalized the drug back in November has found that support for legalization is now a majority opinion for the first time since the question was first asked by Gallup back in 1969.

52 percent of American adults told the Pew Research Center they supported marijuana legalization, compared with 45 percent who opposed it.

Support gained 11 percentage points since the last Pew poll on the subject was conducted in 2010.  Read full article »
Unrelated comment:

STILL trying to wrap up chapter 4 of Tragedy and Hope Made Easy....going to extend the timeline by a couple weeks, but hope to get it posted at http://TragedyandHope.INFO before then.
Destroy CIA torture evidence, get a promotion?
Source: RT.com Submitted: 03/31/2013
--The acting director, who is allegedly in her 50s and speaks multiple languages, is thought to have served as chief of staff of the former head of the clandestine service, Jose Rodriguez. According to former officials who spoke to the Washington Post, Rodriguez and the woman repeatedly asked for permission to have the videotapes destroyed and were always denied. In 2005, they went ahead with the destruction anyway, ordering their staff to get rid of the evidence.

Despite this questionable decision, the woman now heads the clandestine service herself and may keep the position permanently if the agency decides to overlook her history. The position is crucial to the CIA’s operations, since it is in charge of sending American spies overseas. The clandestine service also runs the agency’s drone campaign.

--Due to an internal investigation regarding her involvement in the destruction of evidence, it is unclear whether the new director will remain in the position. Recently-appointed CIA head John Brennan, who was sworn into office this month, announced that he is evaluating several candidates for this position with the help of three former agency officers.  Read full article »
When The Global Elite Confiscate Your Money (Recommended)
Source: PrisonPlanet.com Submitted: 03/30/2013
As I wrote about the other day, no bank account, no pension fund, no retirement account and no stock portfolio will be able to be considered 100% safe ever again.

And once the global derivatives casino melts down, there are going to be a lot of major banks that are going to need to be “bailed in”.

When that day arrives, they are going to try to come after your money. So don’t leave your entire life savings sitting in a single bank...  Read full article »
Central Bankers Want Personal Savings Accounts To Pay For Bailouts? (Video)
Source: LibertyCrier.com Submitted: 03/23/2013
A stunning situation is unfolding on the island of Cyprus.

Like other countries in Europe, Cyprus is in a debt crisis and is seeking a bailout from European central bankers.

But it is the way the EU and Cyprus government has tried to help pay for the bailout that has the entire world paying attention. Ben Swann breaks this story down in Reality Check.  Watch here »
The Fallibility of "Peer Review"
Source: The-Scientist.com Submitted: 03/20/2013
--According to a recent analysis published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, about 67 percent of 2047 studies retracted from biomedical and life-science journals (as of May 3, 2012) resulted from scientific misconduct. However, the same PNAS study indicated that about 21 percent of the retractions were attributed to a scientific error. This indicates that failures in peer-review led to the publication of studies that shouldn’t have passed muster. This relatively low number of studies published in error (ca. 436) might be the tip of a larger iceberg, caused by the unwillingness of the editors to take an action.

Peer review is clearly an imperfect process, to say the least. Shoddy reviewing or reviewers have allowed subpar science into the literature. We hear about some of these oversights when studies are retracted due to “scientific error.” Really, the error in these cases lies with reviewers, who should have caught such mistakes or deceptions in their initial review of the research. But journal editors are also to blame for not sufficiently using their powers to retract scientifically erroneous studies.  Read full article »
Family’s Home Raided over Facebook Photo of Child’s Rifle
Source: Foxnews.com Submitted: 03/20/2013
--“To make someone go through this because he posted a picture of his son with a .22 rifle on his Facebook page is pretty outrageous,” he said. “Does that mean that anyone who posts a picture like that has to consent to a home inspection and a gun inspection? I don’t think so.”

Nappen said they are considering taking legal action against the state for the late night raid.
  Read full article »
Organic Awareness is Growing - The Fight for GMO Labeling Continues
Source: Mercola.com Submitted: 03/19/2013
--This is indeed a huge problem, as numerous polls and surveys have shown that otherwise health-conscious Americans do not understand the qualitative difference between organic and so-called “natural” products. Contrary to reality, the majority of consumers believe the “natural” label equates to “almost organic,” and many believe the “all-natural” label means a product is better than organic! That’s the power of word-association, and these industries are well aware of how the word natural “feels” to consumers who are in the dark about the regulatory differences between the labels... As stated by Cummins:

“This is outrageous, given that organic food and products, by law and by third-party certification, are produced without the use of synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, animal drugs, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), irradiation, nanoparticles, or sewage sludge, whereas so-called 'natural' products are unregulated.”  Read full article »
You Are An Anarchist. The Question Is: How Often?
Source: Fee.org Submitted: 03/15/2013
--Consider Cambodia in the late 1970s. The Khmer Rouge government intentionally killed more than two million of its own citizens. That’s an average of eight percent of the population killed each year while government simultaneously inflicted countless other horrors. Do you think the Cambodian people, faced with that government, would have been better off with no government at all? Congratulations. You are, sometimes, an anarchist.  Read full article »
Food & Drug Attorney Exposes Pharmaceutical Monopoly (Video)
Source: InfoWars.com Submitted: 03/15/2013
Alex welcomes American attorney, columnist, lecturer, and author Jonathan W. Emord to discuss Big Pharma's government-enforced monopoly on "therapeutic claims," as well as his legal victories against the FDA.  Watch here »
Could Blue Light Replace Antibiotics?
Source: Mercola.com Submitted: 03/15/2013
In the study, lab animals were infected with P. aeruginosa. Incredibly, ALL of the animals treated with blue light survived while 82 percent of the controls died. Could this possibly be the beginning of a whole new treatment paradigm for infections? Clearly, we’re nearing the end of the road of the antibiotic era, as antibiotic-resistance spreads.

Blue light therapy has also been shown effective against MRSA and other resistant bugs, offering new hope for effective treatments.

In a previous study published in 2009,3 over 90 percent of community acquired and hospital acquired strains of MRSA were successfully eradicated within mere minutes of exposure to blue light.  Read full article »
1970s Global Cooling Alarmism
Source: PopularTechnology.net Submitted: 03/13/2013
During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls. This media hype was found in newspapers, magazines, books and on television;  Read full article »
Fiat Bitcoins VS Fiat Federal Reserve Notes (w/ Video)
Source: JoePlummer.com Submitted: 03/11/2013
There are three really big problems with the FED's monetary system:

1. All of the "money" that the FED creates is inextricably tied to debt. In other words, the money that the FED creates only exists because a person, business, or government has borrowed it into existence. If the loan (which created the money) is repaid, those loaned dollars cease to exist. They disappear from the economy and will not return until another loan is made. This is a debt trap that our society cannot escape and it only grows deeper and more dangerous with the passage of time.  Read full article »
"Legalized Plunder of the American People" - G. Edward Griffin (Video)
Source: Casey Research Submitted: 03/05/2013
.  Watch here »
Chains of A Global Debt System (Video)
Source: InfoWars.com Submitted: 03/05/2013
Katherine talks with Adrian Salbuchi, an internationally-renowned Argentine author, political analyst, speaker and radio television commentator.  Watch here »
The "IMF Riot" - Coming to America?
Source: InfoWars.com Submitted: 03/03/2013
--As respected investigative reporter Greg Palast exposed in 2001, the global banking elite, namely the World Bank and the IMF, have honed a technique that has allowed them to asset-strip numerous other countries in the past – that technique has come to be known at the “IMF riot.”

In April 2001, Palast obtained leaked World Bank documents that outlined a four step process on how to loot nations of their wealth and infrastructure, placing control of resources into the hands of the banking elite.

One of the final steps of the process, the “IMF riot,” detailed how the elite would plan for mass civil unrest ahead of time that would have the effect of scaring off investors and causing government bankruptcies.

“This economic arson has its bright side – for foreigners, who can then pick off remaining assets at fire sale prices,” writes Palast, adding, “A pattern emerges. There are lots of losers but the clear winners seem to be the western banks and US Treasury.”

In other words, the banking elite creates the very economic environment – soaring interest rates, spiraling food prices, poverty, lower standards of living – that precipitates civil unrest – and then like a vulture swoops down to devour what remains of the country’s assets on the cheap.

We have already seen this process unfold in places like Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Greece and Argentina. Next on the chopping block are Spain, Italy, Britain and France – all of which have seen widespread riots over the last two years.  Read full article »
Palast's article is available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2001/apr/29/business.mbas
Pentagon: Cuts Could Hamper Ability To Invade Countries For No Reason
Source: NewYorker.com Submitted: 03/03/2013
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States’s ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today.

The Pentagon made this gloomy assessment amid widespread fears that the nation’s ability to wage totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts may be in peril.

“Historically, the United States has stood ready and able to throw billions of dollars at a military campaign with no clear rationale or well-defined objective,” said spokesman Harland Dorrinson. “Our capacity to wage war willy-nilly is now in jeopardy.”  Read full article »
The Hidden History of Water Torture
Source: AntiWar.com Submitted: 03/02/2013
--In 1901, an American officer was sentenced to 10 years at hard labor for waterboarding a Filipino prisoner. By the late 1940s, the centuries-old practice was so reviled that significant prison time or even death lay in store for those using it. In the late 1960s, it was still viewed as a cruel and unusual punishment, even if U.S. troops who tortured Vietnamese and American captives weren’t subject to prosecution for it. In the twenty-first century, as water torture moved from Southeast Asian prison showers to the White House, it also morphed into an “enhanced interrogation technique.” Today, the president’s pick to head the CIA refuses even to label waterboarding as “torture.”

What does it say about a society when its morals and ethics on the treatment of captives go into reverse? What are we to make of leaders who authorize, promote, or shield such brutal practices or about citizens who stand by and allow them to happen? What does it mean when torture, already the definition of “cruel,” becomes usual?  Read full article »
It's Not Gun Control... It's People Control (Video)
Source: YouTube.com Submitted: 03/01/2013
Obama's Former Secret Service Agent Slams Gun Control on Fox & Friends.  Watch here »
Top 10 Lies and Misconceptions Spread By Mainstream Nutrition (Highly Recommended)
Source: Mercola.com Submitted: 02/24/2013
Lie # 1: 'Saturated Fat Causes Heart Disease'

--The truth is, saturated fats from animal and vegetable sources provide the building blocks for cell membranes and a variety of hormones and hormone-like substances, without which your body cannot function optimally. They also act as carriers for important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Dietary fats are also needed for the conversion of carotene to vitamin A, for mineral absorption, and for a host of other biological processes.

In fact, saturated is the preferred fuel for your heart! For more information about saturated fats and the essential role they play in maintaining your health, please read my previous article The Truth About Saturated Fat.

Lie # 2: 'Eating Fat Makes You Gain Weight'

The low-fat myth may have done more harm to the health of millions than any other dietary recommendation as the resulting low-fat craze led to increased consumption of trans-fats, which we now know increases your risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease—the very health problems wrongfully attributed to saturated fats...

To end the confusion, it's very important to realize that eating fat will not make you fat!  Read full article »
Rand Paul Discusses Drone Strikes Within the United States (Video)
Source: YouTube.com Submitted: 02/22/2013
.  Watch here »
Reality Check: Growing national divide over guns and gun control (Video)
Source: Fox19.com Submitted: 02/21/2013
Law-abiding gun owners push back against new restrictive legislation.  Watch here »
YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO “DEAR JOHN” THE STATE
Source: DownsizeDC.org Submitted: 02/19/2013
Thomas Jefferson said that it was immoral to compel a man to furnish the funds for that which he abhors. The State does exactly this on countless issues. Can we ever grow beyond this?

The history of religious liberty teaches crucial lessons.

For example, a man named Tyndale was burned at the stake for distributing an English language Bible. His goal to let the plough-boy read the scriptures threatened the establishment’s monopoly control of information.

Another lesson is that most colonies had established church denominations, paid for with tax dollars. Even "dissenters," were required to fund The State Church. This colonial practice continued even AFTER we defeated the British.

Without those taxes the other side imagined anarchy and chaos."Why, if there's no established church," they asked,"how shall we ensure the development of moral character?" They claimed the decision to end state support for churches was anti-religion and would lead to their demise. The superabundance of houses of worship in virtually every city and village in our country today illustrates that the opposite happened. The absence of the tax made these churches more entrepreneurial and responsive to change. But the absence of a tax for the state denomination was a very real fear at the time, even to guys like Patrick Henry.

Does conscience only matter when it comes to religion, or should freedom of conscience extend to all peaceful life choices? Is there some part of Jefferson's vision that we've yet to fulfill?  Read full article »
A Brief and Bloody History of Gun Control
Source: StoryLeak.com Submitted: 02/18/2013
Taking a look back to a 1993 survey establishes a basic foundation to build upon. This was a survey involving 4,977 different households and gives us a general understanding of how frequently firearms are used in a defense situation severe enough to which individuals stated that if they had not used the firearm, they reported that they or someone else in the home would have certainly be killed. So in other words, the firearm saved the lives of one or more individuals from a hostile criminal. This excluded military, police, and security guards.

Applying the results of the 1993 survey to the United States population, we find that around 162,000 people are saved per year using a firearm. To put that into perspective, that’s 152,854 more people saved per year than killed — and that’s not discriminating against the 9,146 death toll that includes many self defense cases and so on.

But what about a potentially life threatening scenario diffused by a firearm? Based on a study published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, United States citizens defend against these situations an astounding 989,883 times per year. As these situations are diffused before they become lethal, there’s no telling how many would have resulted in homicides on behalf of the criminal. Even if it were a fraction, it would still be hundreds of thousands more lives saved than lost each year.  Read full article »
Piers Morgan ignores the violent crime rate in the UK and, instead, focuses only on the "low number of gun homicides."

Well, there are a few other "low numbers" that he probably doesn't want to discuss:

The "low number" of law-abiding women in the UK (zero) who were able to prevent being raped because they had a gun.

The "low number" of law-abiding home owners in the UK (zero) who were able to protect their family from home invasion because they had a gun.

The low number of law-abiding citizens in the UK (zero) who thwarted a robbery, stabbing or even a murder because they had the RIGHT to carry and use a gun in self defense.

...Conveniently, gun grabbers abandon their "if-it-saves-one-life" argument when the life-saving benefits of an armed citizenry are presented.
Obama Nominates Torture Supporter; Torture Whistleblower Goes to Jail (Video - Recommended)
Source: Blacklistednews.com Submitted: 02/17/2013
.  Watch here »
If the leader of the free world can lie with such impunity we are doomed
Source: Telegraph.co.uk Submitted: 02/17/2013
--Obama's war on climate change is a war against a chimera. He is enlarging the state, holding back the economic recovery, restricting freedoms, driving up the price of energy and killing jobs in order to deal with a problem which only exists in the discredited computer projections of a shameless cabal of grant-troughing activist scientists increasingly out of touch with real world data.  Read full article »
Is DHS and DOD 'Conducting Desensitizing Exercises' (Recommended)
Source: LewRockwell.com Submitted: 02/13/2013
Just a couple years ago we reported that the U.S. military was involved in war gaming scenarios that included training for such things as large scale economic collapse and civil unrest. Photos from the training exercises showed simulated situations that included protesters holding up “We Need Food Now” signs. It was a clear sign that the government is preparing for just such an event, and that they were training military personnel to respond in the capacity of a domestic police force.

The warnings we and others issued were ignored by most of the population and dismissed by many as nothing more than conspiracy theory and fear mongering.

A few years on, the military continues to step up exercises focused on urban deployment and as recently as last month held live exercises in heavily populated US metropolitan areas.  Read full article »
Well written; covers a lot of important information that gets nearly zero MSM exposure.

Vaccines and Your Pet’s Immune System
Source: Healthypets.mercola.com Submitted: 02/10/2013
When I discuss ways to keep your pet’s immune system healthy, I always discourage over-vaccinating. The role of vaccines is to stimulate the immune system to respond. Repeated vaccinations can excite the immune system to such a degree that it becomes hypersensitive. This in turn can prompt it to overreact to benign environmental irritants like pollen, which can lead to a chronic allergic condition. It can also cause the immune system to launch an attack against an organ or system within your pet’s own body, creating an autoimmune disease.  Read full article »
It's good that doctors can freely talk about how over vaccination harms four-legged animals. ...you can draw your own conclusions about the "possibility" of it causing harm to the two-legged variety.
The Bankers Play by Their Own Rules (Video - Recommended)
Source: BillMoyers.com Submitted: 02/08/2013
“The rule of law isn’t really the rule of law if it doesn’t apply equally to everybody. If you’re going to put somebody in jail for having a joint in his pocket, you can’t let higher ranking HSBC officials off for laundering $800 million for the worst drug dealers in the entire world,...”  Read full article »
Ever feel like some people are "untouchable?"
If you'd like to confirm your suspicion, watch the video above.

Unrelated comment: My wife and I made it out of New Hampshire a few days before the big storm hit. We're back in Ohio and trying to get everything unpacked and squared away. Hope to get started on Chapter Four of "Tragedy and Hope Made Easy" in about two weeks.
Tragedy And Hope Made Easy - Chapter 3
Source: StopTheLie.com Submitted: 02/03/2013
--Carefully selected, managed and manipulated, Wilson was used to create the essential funding mechanism for the network’s “revolutionary adjustment” of U.S. society. More specifically, two powers the network did not possess when Wilson was elected (the power to tax U.S. income and the power to control the nation’s money supply) were granted shortly after he took office. Armed with these two instruments, the network has bled the U.S. of wealth and sovereignty ever since. (The megalomaniacal fantasies that House expressed in his novel were brought to life through the real-life character of Woodrow Wilson. Or, as House stated himself: “I was like a disembodied spirit seeking a corporeal form. I found my opportunity in Woodrow Wilson.”)[14]  Read full article »
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U.S. virologists intentionally engineer super-deadly pandemic flu virus
Source: NaturalNews.com Submitted: 02/02/2013
...for the alleged purpose of learning how H5N1 might mutate at some point in the future to become more of a threat to humans, Fouchier and Kawaoka deliberately induced these mutations in test ferrets with complete success. In the process, they essentially discovered a way to potentially spark a global flu pandemic with the potential to kill or seriously injure billions of people.  Read full article »
Gun Owners Refuse to Register Under New York Law
Source: TheNewAmerican.com Submitted: 01/27/2013
After Democrats in New York rammed a sweeping assault on the right to keep and bear arms through the legislature that failed to exempt police officers from the draconian restrictions, gun owners and even some lawmakers are planning what has been dubbed potentially the largest act of civil disobedience in state history. According to news reports, gun rights activists are urging everyone to defy far-left Governor Andrew Cuomo’s new registration mandate while daring authorities to “come and take it.”

--Threats of imprisoning gun owners for up to a year and confiscating their weapons are already being issued by governor’s office, headed by a rabid anti-Second Amendment extremist who suggested before the bill passed that “confiscation” of all semi-automatic rifles was being considered. If tens or even hundreds of thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens refuse to comply, however, analysts say New York would either have to start raising taxes and building a lot more prisons, or give up on the scheme that experts say will do nothing to reduce violence and that lawmakers say is aimed at eventual confiscation.  Read full article »
Piers Morgan Falls Ill Days After Public Flu Shot with Dr. Oz
Source: NaturalSociety.com Submitted: 01/24/2013
Just two days after it was reported that GlaxoSmithKline’s Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine has actually caused a whopping 800 cases of narcolepsy in children according to Reuters, a major publicity stunt for the efficacy of the flu shot as presented by CNN has crashed and burned. After receiving his very first flu shot live on air from vaccine advocate Dr. Oz in attempt to showcase the ‘safety and effectiveness of the shot’, Piers Morgan has now developed flu-like symptoms that even he and his guest have attributed to the reception of the shot.  Read full article »
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