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Silver Takes Off - Up a BUCK Since Yesterday Close
• Kitco.comI've been watching for this - the graph says it all! GOT SILVER? (It jumped to $31.73 by the time I finished posting this! - Ed)
Google Inc. Move Over Traitor!
• www.patriotradionews.comAround the 27:57 mark… Glenn Beck and obviously NewsCorp unleashes on Google Inc. The story Beck weaves is one of Google deeply involved in domestic spying, with deep intelligence connections to factions within the intel community.
Chemtrail articles bring world-wide response
• www.wmicentral.comTwo articles published in the Dec. 24 edition of The Independent that dealt with the controversial subject of chemtrails have brought in responses from people across the globe.
Fox faces fallout over misleading footage before Ron Paul interview
• Michael Calderone, The CutlineOn Tuesday, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer asked Ron Paul to respond to the chorus of boos that greeted news the insurgent small-government Texas congressman had won the Conservative Political Action Conference's presidential straw poll for the second
Ray McGovern Brutalized and Left Bleeding
• Boiling Frog(Sibel Edmonds)As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday, condemning governments that arrest protesters and do not allo free expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience
Paul Craig Roberts: The Shame of Being an American
• LewRockwell.com"The indispensable people” had to suffer the hypocrisy of the U.S. Secretary of State delivering a speech about America’s commitment to Internet freedom while the U.S. Department of Justice (sic) brought unconstitutional action against Twitter...
US government accidentally shuts down 84,000 websites during child porn raid
• RawstoryApproximately 84,000 websites were shut down and wrongfully accused of having links to child pornography as part of "Operation Protect Our Children," a new joint operation between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (D
In sharp reversal, U.S. agrees to rebuke Israel in Security Council
• Foreign PolicyThe US informed Arab governments it will support a UN Security Council statement reaffirming the 15-nation body "does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity," aimed at avoiding vetoing a stronger Palestinian resolution cal
Sacred Cows: Why Lawmakers Are Stuck on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Fixes
• ABC News (video)Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security have ballooned to 57% of the government budget this year and are widely cited as the most significant contributors to the federal deficit, something all Americans want to see aggressively brought under control.
'Day of rage' kicks off in Libya
• al-JazeeraProtesters in Libya have defied a security crackdown and taken to the streets in four cities for a "day of rage," inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, reports say. Several hundred supporters of Muammar Gaddafi, the country's longtime leader
Congressman targets federal funding for the war on drugs
• RawstoryColorado Congressman Jared Polis has offered two amendments to the House continuing resolution that would eliminate much of the federal funding for the war on drugs in the United States. The House is currently debating HR 1, the Full Year Continui
Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA
• AFPA powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said. The massive sunspot, which astronomers say is the size of Jupiter, is th
Carnivorous Plant Snaps Shut With 600 Gs
• LiveScienceA carnivorous plant that lives in bogs worldwide traps its prey in less than a millisecond, more than 100 times faster than a Venus flytrap can manage. Utricularia, a genus of rootless carnivorous plants, is better known by its common name, bladderwo
Plant or Animal? Mysterious Fossils Defy Classification
• LiveScienceThese fossils were discovered in the black shale of what is called the Lantian Formation in China, and they date back to the first part of the Ediacaran Period, the time when life became big, or at least visible to the naked eye. "Animals in the Edia
Tempe businessman's signs illegal, city says
• APTempe businessman Brian Epstein says he just wants to be patriotic by decorating his car wash with red, white and blue stars and stripes for Presidents Day. The city says his star-spangled signs are illegal, no matter how much they may remind people
Group of Short Ecuadoreans Holds Anti-Aging Secret
• LiveScienceA group of short-statured Ecuadoreans has surprised scientists, not for its members' dwarfism, but because they are also immune to cancer and diabetes. Now scientists have figured out the group's healthy secret. The individuals have Laron syndrome,
Ancient Cannibals Crafted Cups from Human Skulls
• LiveScienceIt seems as though ancient cannibals had a "waste not, want not" attitude, suggests the discovery of Ice Age cups made from human skulls — what may be the earliest ones known, scientists say. Human skulls have been made into macabre cups and bowl
Is MERS attempting to put the genie back into the bottle with yesterdays Announcement?
• The Hallmark Abstract SentinelMERS - The Mortgage Electronic Registration System issues an Announcement that appears to be an attempt to put the genie back into the bottle Summary: MERS has told its members not to foreclose in its name on home loans, effective immediately.
Baghdad wants U.S. to pay $1 billion for damage to city
• Reuters[now that we finished driving the Sunni's out] Iraq's capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city not by bombs but by blast walls and Humvees since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
The War of 1812 and Anti-Federalist Betrayal
• Becky ChandlerFebruary 17 is the anniversary of the official end of the worthless, destructive and unnecessary War of 1812, which was a product of the treasonous betrayal by the Jeffersonian Republicans of their anti-federalist principles, and the total defeat of
Simple Life Changes Could Stop Millions of Cancers
• arclein"It is distressing that even in 2011, people are dying unnecessarily from cancers that could be prevented through maintaining a healthy weight, diet, physical activity and other lifestyle factors," Martin Wiseman, a WCRF medical and scientific advi
3D Film On The 32,000 Year Old Cave Paintings of Chauvet, France
• Spiegel.de/internationalWerner Herzog's new film "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" is a stunning 3D documentary about a cave in France that is home to the world's oldest known human art.
Hidden Leg Revealed in Snake Fossil
• arcleinA novel X-ray imaging technology is helping scientists better understand how in the course of evolution snakes have lost their legs. The researchers hope the new data will help resolve a heated debate about the origin of snakes: whether they evolve
La Nina Pacific Ocean Cooling Pulls Global Temps Below Norms
• arcleinGlobal climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade January temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.: -0.01 C (about 0.02 degrees Fahrenheit) below 30-year average for January.
Foreclosure-Gate: MERS Caves
• Market-ticker.orgForeclose in your own name, and come to court with your documents - real ones (if you have them, and I bet in many cases they no longer exist!) or buzz off for the next three months. That ought to have a really interesting impact on the housing...
US military HQ in Mideast watching Gulf unrest
• APUnrest surging through the Arab world has so far taken no toll on the American military. But that could change if revolt washes over the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain — longtime home to the U.S. Navy's mighty 5th Fleet and arguably the Middle
Burn Therapy Breakthrough
• arcleinThe Skin-cell Gun works essentially like a sophisticated paint spray gun. It was developed by Professor Joerg C. Gerlach and colleages of the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburg’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The conc
Compulsion in religion
• www.examiner.comWarning. Caveat Emptor. Buyer beware. Providing an exegesis of a Quranic verse is an ambitious task for a layman such as me, and I am unqualified. Everything right and true is from Allah, not from Al Azhar, not from Al Jazeera, not from Al Qaida, but
John Conyers Sees no Intrusion on our LIBERTY with Obamacare MANDATE
• www.drscoundrels.comRepresentative John Conyers, D – Michigan, said today that the Federal Government MANDATING that we Americans buy their required health care insurance is NOT an infringement of our liberty. I know – difficult to comprehend how this man...
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