Fracking causes rumbles in California

Published: 06 July, 2012, 01:39

California is one of the largest oil and gas producing states in the US. As the Golden State cashes in on the boom, the oil and gas industry is increasingly using fracking.

Last year about a quarter of all the oil and gas…

Hong Kong customs officers claim their biggest ever single drug bust after uncovering  $98m worth of cocaine

• Huge 649kg haul beats previous largest in city by nearly 100kg
• Record-breaking shipment came from Ecuador and was bound for Southeast Asia or China…

'Bye-bye miss American pie': US pilot mock-sings as missile hits target (VIDEO)

Published: 06 July, 2012, 17:14

In the latest uproar surrounding American troops in Afghanistan, video has been released of an American pilot singing an impromptu rendition of Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’ at the exact moment a rocket strikes Afghans on the ground.

The…

Britain blanketed: Roads turn to rivers and flood warnings across the country as month's worth of rain set to fall in a day

• Environment Agency extends flood alerts to 98 and issues five full warnings
• Yorkshire, the North East, the Midlands and East Anglia are worst-hit
• Experts say risk of…

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July 06, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- The former Countrywide Financial Corp., whose subprime loans helped start the nation's foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress, congressional staff, top government…

By Stephen Lendman…

“The Aliens Are Coming”: Psychological Programmers Versus The Alternative Media…

USAMPS-CivilDisturbanceOps.pdf  A Training Manual for the United States Military to deal with Civil Unrest.

Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.com

Friday, July 6, 2012

A newly leaked US Army Military Police training manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” outlines how military assets are to be used domestically to quell riots, confiscate firearms and even kill Americans on U.S. soil during mass civil unrest.

The document (…

Bizarre power trip behavior of federal agency reaches new level of craziness

Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.com

Friday, July 6, 2012

If you thought the bizarre power trip behavior of the TSA couldn’t get any crazier – think again. According to a friend of political commentator Lew Rockwell, the federal agency is now ordering travelers passing through security to “freeze” on command.…

Missing girl was abducted for Vatican sex parties - priest

ACLU’s new Android app lets users secretly record police misconduct

By Stephen C. Webster

Friday, July 6, 2012 9:16 ED

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/06/aclus-new-android-app-lets-users-secretly-record-police-misconduct/

Defending the Internet — and the corporations that invest in it — from government regulation is the new “End the Fed,” Paul advisors tell BuzzFeed exclusively. A new Paul manifesto: “This is our revolution.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/the-pauls-new-crusade-internet-freedom

Ron and Rand Paul are set today to shift the central focus of their family's long libertarian crusade to a…

Why Ireland scrapped their voting machines

Published on 3 Jul 2012 by…

New York Times: What Do You Get From A Drug War Costing $25 Billion Annually? Cocaine 74 Percent Cheaper Than It Was 30 Years Ago

Ronald Bailey | July 5, 2012…

Suggest you check out the facts about that. Some of them are definitely not true.

The United Nations on Thursday called for a tax on billionaires to help raise more than $400 billion a year for poor countries.

An annual lump sum payment by the super-rich is one of a host of measures including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, currency exchanges or financial transactions proposed in a UN report that accuses wealthy nations of breaking promises to step up…

Malware may knock thousands off Internet on Monday; how to check whether you are vulnerable

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands of…

Swimmers looking for a welcome break from the ongoing heatwave fled in fear when they discovered the small Illinois lake they swam in had evil-looking fish with human-like teeth. The horrific creatures seem to be breeding in the lake far from their native homes of the Amazon River and Papua New Guinea. Area authorities assured the media that the fish are not piranha…