Link: http://www.survivallife.com/2013/05/02/some-things-are-never-lost-in-translation/

After a month or two gangs started operating, destroying everything. Hospitals, for example, turned into slaughterhouses. There was no more police. I got lucky – my family at the time was fairly large (15 people in a large house, 6 pistols, 3 Aks), and we survived (most of us, at least).

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/they-are-murdering-small-business.html

The percentage of Americans that are working for themselves has never been lower in the history of the United States... by murdering small business, the bureaucrats are destroying the primary engine of job growth in this country.

Link: http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/china-invades-india-tensions-mount-as-platoon-of-soldiers-slip-across-border-to-claim-disputed-territory/42985

A two week Chinese incursion has left India on the verge of crises, it has today been reported. India says Chinese troops set up a camp on its side of the ill-defined frontier in Ladakh region in the middle of April.

Link: http://investmentwatchblog.com/ron-paul-jim-rogers-on-government-theres-more-chaos-to-come-they-wont-take-our-bank-accountsthey-will-take-our-retirement-accounts-more-taxes-more-debt-mor/

Ron Paul and Jim Rogers spoke at the Sovereign Man: Offshore Tactics Workshop in Santiago, Chile, on March 30 – April 1, 2013. These are clear warnings signs that a rational person simply cannot ignore.

Link: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=70159

Most people feel that a time of great change is upon us. But what kind of change is unfolding, exactly? To answer that question, we must examine current trends and attempt to understand where they are headed.

Link: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=70220

Andy P. Hart, 38, a federal public defender representing a number of detainees at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week, reportedly owing to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Link: http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/02/watching-our-kids-test-scores

LAST WEEK, students across New York finished a set of tests taken over a two-week period designed to measure their proficiency at reading and math against new federal college readiness standards known as Common Core.

Link: http://zen-haven.com/your-children-are-slaves-for-life/

Almost two weeks ago; 5 month old Sammy Nikolayev was showing flu symptoms when his parents took him to Sutter memorial hospital in Sacramento, California. Once there however, the boy’s parents Anna and Alex took issue with several procedures being done to the boy...

Link: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/chomsky-boston-bombings-gave-americans-taste-terrorism-us-inflicts-abroad-every

"It's rare for privileged Westerners to see, graphically, what many others experience daily" April is usually a cheerful month in New England, with the first signs of spring, and the harsh winter at last receding. Not this year.

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article22616

An FBI report shows that only a small percentage of terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil between 1980 and 2005 were perpetrated by Muslims. Princeton University’s Loon Watch compiled the following chart from the FBI’s data:

Link: http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/05/01/still-believe-nature-got-it-wrong-top-10-health-benefits-of-marijuana/?utm_source=Waking+Times+Newsletter&utm_campaign=281cb66746-Waking_Times&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_25f1e048c1-281cb66746-54326665

There is no plant on Earth more condemned than marijuana... Marijuana has been found to suppress cancer, reduce blood pressure, treat glaucoma, alleviate pain and even inhibit HIV. It is an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective. Can you understand more now why it’s illegal?

Link: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m97267&hd=&size=1&l=e

Thirteen years ago I knew very little about Israel-Palestine. Like most Americans, this seemed to be a distant, confusing conflict that had little to do with me. I was unaware –again, like most Americans – that American taxpayers give Israel over $8 million per day, more than we give to any other nation.

Link: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/05/01/you-are-the-hope-paul-craig-roberts/

If there is hope, you are it. You are motivated to find truth. You can think outside the box. You can see through propaganda. You are the remnant with the common sense that once was a common American virtue.

Link: http://charliedavis.blogspot.com/2013/04/obama-condemns-indefinite-detention-and.html

US President Barack Obama today condemned the Guantanamo Bay prison camp run by US President Barack Obama... "The idea that we would still detain forever a group of individuals that have not been tried, that is contrary to who we are...

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/what-is-tpp-its-biggest-global-threat.html

The United States and ten governments from around the Pacific are meeting yet again to hash out the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) on May 15-24 in Lima, Peru. The TPP is one of the worst global threats to the Internet since ACTA.

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/how-did-barack-obama-become-monsantos.html

And when are anti-GMO activist groups going to stop saying they’re “shocked and disappointed” by the president? Shocked and disappointed is polite-speak and politically correct reaction. It’s baloney. Don’t you get it? Obama has never been on your side. He never deserved your trust.

Link: http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/29/izve-a29.html

Information continues to come to light raising questions about the relationship between American intelligence agencies and the Tsarnaev brothers, who are suspected of carrying out the April 15 bombing at the Boston marathon. The brothers’ parents continue to insist that their sons are innocent...

Link: http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/29/heal-a29.html

Nearly half of US adults ages 19 to 64—an estimated 84 million people—did not have health insurance for all of 2012, or had coverage that did not adequately protect them from high health care costs.

Link: http://socialistworker.org/2013/04/29/low-wage-america-fights-back

HUNDREDS OF low-wage fast food and retail workers walked off the job and into the Chicago streets on April 24, only two weeks after fast food workers in New York City held another similar walkout and amid an ongoing national campaign against the retail giant Wal-Mart.

Link: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/googles_spymasters_are_now_worried_about_your_secrets_20130429/

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, “The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution,” makes for very scary reading. It is not so much because of what he and co-author Jared Cohen, the director of Google Ideas, have to say about how dictators can use new information technology to suppress dissent; we know those guys are evil. What is truly frightening is that the techniques of the totalitarian state are the same ones pioneered by so-called democracies where commercial companies, like Google, have made a hash of the individual’s constitutionally guaranteed right to be secure in his or her private space.

Link: http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/28_Sinclair_-_The_Elites_Frightening_Plan_To_Control_The_Masses.html

People have to understand that going forward large deposits by ‘non-insiders’ are no longer going to be permitted. The goal of this pre-arranged wealth destruction is to equalize the ‘new rich’ and the ‘upper middle-class.’ Those not on the inside, with the right families and the right companies, are not going to be tolerated in the ‘New Paradigm’ of currency and metal that we are now moving into. So the only means of being able to protect yourself will be to understand the answer to the question, ‘What is the final end game for the most powerful families that are in fact running countries and markets?’....

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/christians-feel-the-heat-of-religious-intolerance-2/

Younas Gill, a self-employed tax accountant, sits on the pavement in Joseph Colony, Lahore, staring at the place where, until about a month ago, his home had stood. It was burnt to ashes on Mar. 9, when a mob of Muslims tore through this Christian neighbourhood in the Badami Bagh district of Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, torching homes and displacing over 150 families

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/28/300707/us-israel-running-alqaeda-in-syria/

From the beginning, it was clear to geopolitical analysts that the conflict in Syria was not "pro-democracy" protesters rising up, but rather the fruition of a well-documented conspiracy between the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia to arm and direct sectarian extremists affiliated with Al Qaeda against the Syrian government."

Link: http://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights-national-security/watch-condoleezza-rice-defends-torture-program-and-confirms

A video meant to be presented at yesterday's dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum featured Condoleezza Rice defending the decision to torture detainees. The clip was obtained by Foreign Policy and is featured below.

Link: http://www.redressonline.com/2013/04/palestine-truth-fighter-alan-harts-farewell/

I join everyone else in saluting Alan Hart. He has given half a lifetime – and his considerable professional skills – to the Palestinian struggle. Now he’s calling it a day.

Link: http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/collecting-rainwater-now-illegal-in-many-states/42532

Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and Colorado, have long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on their own properties because, according to officials, that rain belongs to someone else.

Link: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1678.htm

A grim report prepared for President Putin by Health Minister Dr. Veronika Skvortsova on the growing pandemic in China is now warning that a “global mass death event” is currently underway as the spread of the H7N9 avian flu virus continues to grow and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/glyphosate-trajectory-of-human-misery.html

Glyphosate was first introduced in 1974 and has become the world's most dominant herbicide. It's now generic, so there are many brands and formulations. As a result, it's virtually ubiquitous, found nearly everywhere on earth. It should come as no surprise that sickness is becoming the normal state of health. Chronic diseases, once fairly rare, are now how we live and die. Diseases once seen almost exclusively in the elderly are now being seen in children. Autoimmune and neurological disorders are becoming common.

Link: http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/incredible-nyt-pushing-toxic-cancer-drugs-for-healthy-women-who-have-no-cancer/42534

A taxpayer-funded government task force has issued new guidelines that literally urge healthy women to take toxic cancer drugs “preventively” in order to allegedly decrease their risk of developing breast cancer. As recently promoted by The New York Times (NYT), these shocking new recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) have been issued despite a complete lack of evidence that the dangerous cancer drugs being recommended have any preventive efficacy whatsoever.

Link: http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/while-wronged-homeowners-got-300-apiece-in-foreclosure-settlement-consultants-who-helped-protect-banks-got-2-billion/42549

The obscene greed-and-arrogance stories emanating from Wall Street are piling up so fast, it’s getting hard to keep up. This one is from last week, but I missed it – it’s about the foreclosure/robo-signing settlement that was concluded earlier this year.

Link: http://intellihub.com/2013/03/28/scientists-claim-40-of-population-is-infected-with-mind-control-parasite/

Recently a team of scientists made a statement claiming that up to 40% of people are infected with brain parasites that have the ability to alter human behavior. Joanne Webster, professor of parasite epidemiology at Imperial College London, explains that many parasites favor the brain, “because it shelters them from the full fury of the immune system”. But, she says, “it also gives them direct access to the machinery to alter the host’s behavior”.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/28/300635/israeli-warplanes-strike-gaza-strip/

Over 160 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed and about 1,200 others were injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip from November 14 to 21, 2012.
Israeli warplanes have carried out three airstrikes on Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip, witnesses say. Palestinian witnesses said that the Israeli aircraft bombarded areas in the southern town of Khan Younis and near the town of Rafah in southern Gaza during the early hours of Sunday.

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2013/04/29/what-israel-is-really-after

This is sheer misdirection - deliberate or otherwise. Undisputedly, Syria and Iran have been staunch allies since the Iranian Revolution in their joint cause to protect the Palestinian rights and to stand up to Israel and America; and any change in Syria may adversely affect Iran (as it would Russia). But this is a secondary consideration. The generally accepted narrative takes the focus away from the primary reason for the current assault on Syria - Israel.

Link: http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2013/04/26/the-terror-of-capitalism/

On Wednesday, April 24, a day after Bangladeshi authorities asked the owners to evacuate their garment factory that employed almost three thousand workers, the building collapsed. The building, Rana Plaza, located in the Dhaka suburb of Savar, produced garments for the commodity chain that stretches from the cotton fields of South Asia through Bangladesh’s machines and workers to the retail houses in the Atlantic world. Famous name brands were stitched here, as are clothes that hang on the satanic shelves of Wal-Mart. Rescue workers were able to save two thousand people as of this writing, with confirmation that over three hundred are dead. The numbers for the latter are fated to rise. It is well worth mentioning that the death toll in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City of 1911 was one hundred and forty six. The death toll here is already twice that. This “accident” comes five months (November 24, 2012) after the Tazreen garment factory fire that killed at least one hundred and twelve workers.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/28/europe-insecticides-ban-save-bees

Europe is on the brink of a landmark ban on the world's most widely used insecticides, which have increasingly been linked to serious declines in bee numbers. Despite intense secret lobbying by British ministers and chemical companies against the ban, revealed in documents obtained by the Observer, a vote in Brussels on Monday is expected to lead to the suspension of the nerve agents.

Link: http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/27_Eric_Sprott_-_Silver_To_Skyrocket_Hundreds_Of_Dollars_in_Price.html

“These policies of supporting the financial system or the banking system are not going to work. QE1 didn’t work, QE2 didn’t work, now we’ve got QE3 and Japanese money printing. Central banks are (also) now buying stocks. How much lunacy do we have to have? Just think through it a little. It has to stop some day. We just can’t keep accelerating this without one of two things happening: You are going to get a financial collapse, or you are going to get hyperinflation....

Link: http://silverdoctors.com/jim-sinclair-the-big-dirty-secret-is-out-there-is-no-gold/

Thanks to the revelation brought to the world regarding the paper gold fraud, certain gold shares will now advance by many hundred percents. Some are likely ten baggers like in the 1980s. Good growing intermediate tier producing gold shares will lead gold majors, gold and all equities now to new highs in its own unprecedented bull market as the successful short of gold share hedge funds sitting with huge shorts have become complacent. There is a new definition to the right gold companies. They are the holders of the real physical supply.

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article22595

Police and protesters have clashed at an anti-government demo in the Spanish capital, Madrid, with bottles thrown and officers making baton charges. The government is set to reveal a new plan to turn the economy around.

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article22596

The alliance of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, Jordan and the western powers has in its sights the taking out of Syria as a key ally of Iran, and with it Hezbollah in Lebanon. The use of chemical weapons by Syria’s Bashir Assad would be, said Barack Obama last year, a ’game changer’ and a ’red line’.

Link: http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/5849-israeli-forces-uproot-more-than-700-olive-trees

On Thursday evening Israeli occupation forces uprooted more than 700 olive trees in Al-Arroub neighbourhood to the south of the West Bank city of Jenin. A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Najat abu-Baker, confirmed that Israeli occupation forces uprooted the seven-year-old olive trees from the Palestinian farms near to the Israeli settlement of Dotan.