we ALL should understand one very important situation - SOMETHING BIG IS GOING ON and we are not supposed to know about it until it's too late. All we have, for the most part, is our ability to piece matters together and try to come up with some idea about, and response to, what's going on. And nine-times-out-of-ten, the info we get wind of is 'well after the fact.'  So what can we do about getting 'up to speed' faster? …

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The US Army has completed a two-week demonstration of a new ground-based sensor system for its drones. It now hopes to get the drones certified for domestic flights, but critics are concerned that their use could breach privacy rights.…

In 2007, Morgan Stanley paid out $4.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by its clients after Morgan Stanley charged them to buy and "store" precious metals for them,  but neither bought or stored the metals.

(Similarly, a 2011 class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in New York accused UBS Financial Services of misleading silver…

By Dr. Mercola

Brazil, the second-largest producer of genetically modified (GM) crops (after the U.S.), is the latest country to take a stand against biotech giant Monsanto, which could end up handing over at least $2 billion as a result.

A war has been waging against Monsanto in Brazil for nearly a decade, virtually ever since the country legalized farming of GM crops in 2005.

Since then, Monsanto has been charging Brazilian farmers double –…

Report: Palestinian confessed to poisoning Arafat in 2006

Friday, July 6, 2012

America's Farmers Fight Monsanto's Scorched Earth Legal Campaign Of Threats And Intimidation…

Lets Propose Government Free Zones. A Zero Tolerance Policy to Tyranny and the Nanny State

Anti-Obama reporter says he's being watched by drones

Published: 06 July, 2012, 20:22

Journalist Joseph Farah says the aircraft he saw hover above his rural Northern Virginia home recently was a government surveillance drone, and he believes the unwelcome visit was just a step in the Obama administration’s war against…

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…

By Press TV



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…