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13 States Considering Alternative Currencies

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:05:38 +0000

Source: CNN A growing number of states are seeking shiny new currencies made of silver and gold. Worried that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. dollar are on the brink of collapse, lawmakers from 13 states, including Minnesota, Tennessee, Iowa, South Carolina and Georgia, are seeking approval from their state governments to either issue their own [...]

Genetically Modified Foods Not Served in Monsanto Cafeteria

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:50 +0000

By Crisis Boom The fight to ban genetically modified foods has won more converts — some employees of Monsanto the company that is doing the most to promote GM products. The Independent newspaper reports that there is a notice in the cafeteria of the Monsanto pharmaceutical factory is High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, advising customers “as far as practicable, [...]

FDA: “Your Body Is A Drug—And We Have The Authority To Regulate It!”

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:51:05 +0000

Source: anh In another outrageous power-grab, FDA says your own stem cells are drugs—and stem cell therapy is interstate commerce because it affects the bottom line of FDA-approved drugs in other states! We wish this were a joke, but it’s the US Food and Drug Administration’s latest claim in its battle with a Colorado [...]

Self-Guided Bullet Spots, Steers, and Nails Its Target (video)

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:51:32 +0000

Source: Wired The U.S. military has been after self-guided bullets for years. Now, government researchers have finally made it happen: A bullet that can navigate itself a full mile before successfully nailing its target. The breakthrough comes courtesy of engineers at Sandia National Laboratory, owned by Lockheed Martin. They’ve successfully tested a prototype of the bullet at distances [...]

U.S. Detained and Deported Irish and British Citizens Over Idiotic Twitter Messages

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:45:12 +0000

Source: The Sun TWO pals were barred from entering the US after innocent tweets joking about “destroying America” were picked up by the country’s anti-terror cops. US special agents monitoring Twitter spotted Leigh Van Bryan’s messages weeks before he left for a holiday in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting. Leigh, who also quipped about “digging [...]

Mexican Swine Flu Outbreak Kills 29, Infects Nearly 1,500

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:12:06 +0000

Source: BNO – Intelhub MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) — An ongoing swine flu outbreak in Mexico has left at least 29 people dead and nearly 1,500 others infected, health officials confirmed on Saturday. Thousands more are also ill as the country faces several types of flu this season. Since the start of the ongoing winter season, [...]

Cocaine “accidentally” sent to UN headquarters

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:23:23 +0000

Source: AFP Bags containing 16 kilogram of cocaine that Mexican drug traffickers recently lost has turned up in an unlikely place – the United Nations in New York. Two fake UN bags containing the drugs – which experts said had a street value of about $US2 million ($1.9 million) – set off a security alert when [...]

Meet the CIA’s robotic animal agents: Charlie the spy fish and the robo-dragonfly

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:38:49 +0000

Source: IO9 The CIA recently created accounts on Flickr and YouTube. Most of what’s been uploaded is underwhelming and weirdly mundane — for example, you can learn about a satisfying career as a K-9 bomb-sniffing dog — but there are some oddly intriguing mechanical animals on display, namely the robo-fish Charlie and a “dragonfly insectothopter,” which the CIA claims was [...]

LAPD: Joint Military Drills In Downtown LA

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:36:14 +0000

Source: Phantom Report Maybe the Military Equipment Movement 1\19\12 near Santa Cruz, Southbound is headed toward Los Angeles, CA for the joint military| LAPD exercise. If you are a 11Bravo veteran [US ARMY], you know the branches of the military have Urban Warfare training centers. Fort Bragg, Twenty nine Palms, etc… Military exercises designed to familiarize/operate in an [...]

Witnesses Document Potential Vote Fraud in S.C. Primaries

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:25:40 +0000

Source: Activist Post After Newt Gingrich’s stunning victory in the South Carolina Republican primaries on Saturday, there are now questionssurrounding the vote counting process that took place Saturday night. Indeed, some individuals who witnessed the actual certification of the vote are beginning to question whether or not the outcome is a result of clever campaigning, or that [...]