Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-solar-flare-20120712,0,6885961.story

A heavy-duty solar flare erupted on the surface of the sun midmorning Thursday, and it appeared from early data that a solar storm from the X-class eruption was headed toward Earth.

Link: http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/trillion-deficit-Obama-fourth/2012/07/12/id/445188

The U.S. budget deficit grew by nearly $60 billion in June, remaining on track to exceed $1 trillion for the fourth straight year. Through the first nine months of the budget year, the federal deficit totaled $904.2 billion, the Treasury Department reported Thursday. Read more on Newsmax.com: Obama on Track for Fourth Straight Year of Trillion-Dollar Deficit
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Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/07/obama-attacks-largest-medical-cannabis.html

Cannabis is becoming widely recognized for its diverse medical uses, and the trend toward marijuana legalization is clearly on the rise. But someone forgot to tell the Obama administration.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/07/12/250523/israeli-settler-violence-continuation-zionism/

An interview with Ralph Schoenman, author, "Hidden History of Zionism", from Berkeley. The settlements in the West Bank are the little, bloody continuation of this brute policy which is at the heart of Zionist colonization of Palestine. It is an ongoing process with the full might and power of not only the Zionist state but of its sponsors in Washington.”
Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem) has increased sharply since 2009, says a group of UN agencies and NGOs.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172372/Superbugs-chicken-causing-antibiotic-resistant-bladder-infections-linked-million-women-researchers-say.html

The roughly eight million women developing bladder infections in the United States every year may be getting a form of the illness resistant to antibiotics from the chicken they buy at the grocery store.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kimbrell/will-congress-let-monsant_b_1663890.html

The agricultural biotech industry -- well, let's call it what it really is: the chemical industry -- has gone on the offensive as never before with a set of slippery policy riders to the House Farm Bill. It's a new low even for an industry that has spent years and tens of millions of lobbying dollars trying to dismantle the basic safeguards that stand between a regulated, healthy food supply and the profit margins chemical industry executives pine for. If passed, these riders would undermine the few laws that are currently in place to protect farmers' rights, our health and our environment from the many adverse impacts of genetically engineered (GE) crops.

Link: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/27-things-that-every-american-should-know-about-the-national-debt

The U.S. government has stolen $15,876,457,645,132.66 from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day day. The 15 trillion dollar binge that we have been on over the past 30 years has fueled the greatest standard of living the world has ever seen, but this wonderful prosperity that we have been enjoying has been a lie. It isn't real. We have been living way above our means for so long that we do not have any idea of what "normal" actually is anymore.

Link: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/they-want-to-sterilize-american-women-new-obamacare-regulation-makes-sterilization-100-free

Did you know that sterilization will not cost women a penny under Obamacare? A new regulation that goes into effect on August 1st requires that health plans cover sterilization for all women with "reproductive capacity". That includes teenage girls. According to the new regulation, women must have access to sterilization "without having to pay a co-payment, co-insurance or a deductible." So women will not have to pay a single penny out of pocket if they want to get sterilized.