By GENE JOHNSON   06/23/11 07:11 PM ET  

SEATTLE -- Two men intent on attacking a military recruiting station to inspire Muslims to defend their religion from U.S. actions abroad were snared by FBI agents in a terror plot sting, authorities said Thursday.

Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, also known as…

The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime estimates the nation's coca crop at 155,000 acres in 2010, down from 182,500 acres in 2009.

Soldiers eradicate coca plants in Shinahota, Bolivia. (Juan Karita / Associated Press / March 29, 2011)…

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By M. Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie And Contributing Writer

June 22nd, 2011…

Obama releasing 30M barrels from US oil reserve to offset Mideast turmoil, high gas prices

FILE - In this June 13, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Miami. Wary of a new surge in gas prices, the Obama administration has decided to release 30 million barrels of oil from the country's emergency reserve as part of a broader international response to lost oil…

June 22, 2011 by Jack Blood

Before the Global Economic 911 (inside job) Tsunami hit – Iceland was presumably “sovereign” – This IMF card trick has been played before in Central, South America, Africa, Asia, and is now coming home to roost in…

The Associated Press

Published: 22 June, 2011, 17:06

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Moscow, saying that it wants to see Washington take a more constructive approach toward maintaining security in the Black Sea region, has slammed the visit of a US guided-missile cruiser to the Batumi port in Georgia.

­"The ongoing maneuvers of the USS Monterey, a…

Dozens of al-Qaida militants battled their way out of prison Wednesday in the latest sign that Yemen's political upheaval has emboldened them to challenge authorities in the country's nearly lawless south, security officials said.

By AHMED AL-HAJ

Associated Press

Dozens of al-Qaida militants battled their…

 

Galliano told the court that he began abusing drugs and alcohol in 2007 against the backdrop of financial crisis and the death of a close friend.

Photograph by: Francois Guillot, AFP/Getty Images

Fashion designer John Galliano told a French court…

Stephen Bannon's 'The Undefeated,' opening in some theaters July 15, is a two-hour encomium to the former Alaska governor, tracking her rise to prominence in the state.

Kenneth E. Melson's exit would be the biggest response yet to the uproar over an operation that allowed the sale of weapons to suspected agents of Mexican drug cartels.

Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, in 2009. (Eric Gay / Associated Press / August 13,…

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By EDWARD WONG

Published: June 22, 2011

BEIJING — The Chinese vice foreign minister warned the United States on Wednesday to stay out of the increasingly tense territorial…

A U.S.soldier who had most of his leg muscle blown off in Afghanistan has become the first to see it grow back in a pioneering experimental operation.

Marine Isaias Hernandez lost 70 per cent of his right thigh muscles when an enemy mortar exploded as he tried to carry out repairs to a truck in Afghanistan.

With such severe muscle damage Hernandez would ordinarily have had his leg amputated.

But a re-think in the way soldiers are treated led to the wounded warrior being injected…

By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, June 21, 9:34 AM

From Staff And Wire Reports The Spokesman-Review

An executive at the company that provides red-light cameras in Spokane has been suspended after a newspaper in Western Washington discovered he misrepresented himself as a local resident on its website and made comments to promote business in the area, a company spokesman said Friday.

Bill Kroske, the vice president of business development at American Traffic Solutions…

Thomas Clouse The Spokesman-Review

The decision by Superior Court Judge Jerome Leveque overturns a previous Municipal Court ruling that found no legal problem with the method used to electronically affix a Spokane police officer’s signature to a ticket in Arizona before mailing the $124 citation to the car’s…

-by developing patent to automatically disable iPhone cameras at concerts (and police or government abuse incidents?)

Friday, June 17, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

NaturalNews) As annoying as many are, the steady stream of garbled, shaky video clips of musical concert performances that get uploaded to YouTube every day could become a thing of the past, at least for Apple iPhone users. According to a recent report from Business Insider, Apple has filed a patent…

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A few residents increasingly frustrated by federal agents driving through their property near the U.S.-Canada border chained, and in some cases, locked their gates Thursday, June 16, to stop the vehicles from coming on their land.

Real estate agent Dennis Hill, who is an advocate for the residents, said that in addition to…

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Detroit entrepreneur surprised university engineers here recently, when he invented a heat-treatment that makes steel 7 percent stronger than any steel on record – in less than 10 seconds.

In fact, the steel, now trademarked as Flash Bainite, has tested stronger and more shock-absorbing than the most common titanium alloys used by industry.

Now the entrepreneur is working with researchers at Ohio State University to better understand the science behind the…