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BURBANK, Calif.  — The body of an FBI agent who vanished more than two months ago has been found near his home in Southern California.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller says two hikers found the body of 35-year-old Steven Ivens on Monday in a wooded area behind a Burbank church. Ivens' gun was found near his body.

The cause and time of death will be determined by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.…

Deadly Ebola virus claims more lives in Uganda   

Published: 01 August, 2012, 18:23

Ugandan authorities are struggling to contain an outbreak of Ebola in the western provinces of the country. Suspected cases are refusing treatment, fearing they may get infected with the virus in hospital if they don’t already have…

The leaders of smaller and less industrialised nations are not madmen (whatever the media claims). They also are…

Aaron Dykes

Infowars.com

July 31, 2012

While mainstream press have been hailing the virtues of the alliance between al Qaeda, the Syrian Free Army and the West in opposing Assad in Syria, they’ve also been caught once again “faking the war” to play up…

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil -Gore Vidal. 

“My ex-husband wasn’t a bad guy until he started reading Ayn Rand. Then he became a completely selfish jerk who destroyed our family, and our children no longer even talk to him.”

I don’t approve of religion. It is a sign of a psychological weakness. I regard it as an evil.”

Actually, again inconsistent, Rand did have a God. It was herself. She…

Are we rapidly approaching a moment of reckoning for the global financial system?  August is likely to be a relatively slow month as most of Europe is on vacation, but after that we will be moving into a “danger zone” where just about anything could happen.  Historically, a financial crisis has been more likely to happen in the fall than during any other time, and this fall is shaping up to be a doozy.

Much of the focus of the financial…

When are we going to really investigate what and who caused the financial crises at home and around the word? It is time to do it now.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/bankers_behind_bars_f/

by Tom Fitton

Whether we’re talking about Obamacare favors for union bosses or illegal payments to ACORN and its spinoffs, the Obama administration knows how to take care of its “friends,” and that includes the crazies from “La Raza.”

On July 18, 2012, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)…

By Paul McGuire

July 30, 2012

NewsWithViews.com

All U.S. citizens, including babies, will receive a mandatory microchip soon. This is not some dark conspiracy; it has been openly discussed and placed in various pieces of…

Y-12 protesters arraigned for federal trespassing; more charges could follow

The early-morning intrusion at Y-12 was an unprecedented security breach at the Oak Ridge plant, which enriched the uranium for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II and continues to be a mainstay of the U.S. nuclear defense…

Man arrested for carrying gun into Thornton movie theater

THORNTON, Colo. — Some would argue that this is not the time to bring a gun into a theater. But police said James Mapes told them it is exactly the time, telling authorities he brought a gun into a Thornton movie theater Sunday for his own protection.

His handgun was strapped…

Barak Ravid

Haaretz

July 29, 2012

U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon shared Washington’s contingency plans for a possible attack on Iran with Israel’s PM, according to a senior American official.

The U.S. national security adviser has shared with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the…

There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation. Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were much simpler. The control of information flow was easily directed. In fact, during the early Middle-Ages in most European countries commoners were not even allowed to own a Bible, nor was the Bible allowed to be interpreted from Latin to…

"As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia, and Sudan."  



Former Nato Commander General Wesley Clark…

TheIntelligenceReport.07.26.12.06pm.mp3

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The Intelligence…

HOW WELL"REPRESENTED" DO YOU FEEL?

Let us take a look at the state of America’s economy and some very sobering facts that point to poor if not intentionally destructive leadership. That failure in leadership goes all the way to the top on Capitol Hill, and it’s not Congress either.

Historically terrible changes



Poverty is at it’s highest point among the population since such figures were recorded in 1959. 1 out of every 7 persons in the US is now receiving food stamps and the federal…