VIDEO: Blasts rock Baghdad as Arab Summit touches upon Syria
RT - Several explosions have happened at the edge of the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, where an Arab League summit with ten heads of state is taking place. The location was apparently hit by mortar shells.

Reports Israel at the gates of Iran slammed by Baku
RT - Baku has denied reports that an agreement has been reached between Azerbaijan and Israel, granting the latter air base access for potential strikes on Iran. A spokesman from the Azeri defense ministry said the claims are “absurd and groundless”.

Saudi oil minister blasts high prices, offers no action
(Reuters) - Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi blasted "irrationally" high oil prices in a rare opinion piece in the Financial Times on Wednesday, but offered no sign that the kingdom was moving to boost output. "Supply is not the problem, and it has not been a problem in the recent past. There is no rational reason why oil prices are continuing to remain at these high levels," he wrote in the op-ed, published on the FT's website.

VIDEO: N. Korea fuelling rocket ahead of banned launch
RT - North Korea has begun fuelling a rocket for a launch seen by the West as a pretext for testing ballistic missile technology banned by the UN. The United States has suspended its food aid plan to the country.

VIDEO: Labor rage: Arrests as General Strike locks Spain
RT - At least 58 people have been arrested and nine injured in Spain, as thousands take part in a general strike and rally against recent labor reforms. Flag-waving protesters fear the decree will undo employers’ hands and thus rob them of their rights.

VIDEO: UK Threatens To Seize Press TV Property
Alexander Higgins - Press TV: Two months after revoking Press TV’s license in the UK, the British government’s media tool, Ofcom, has forced the channel to pay a 100,000-pound fine, threatening to confiscate Press TV Ltd.’s properties in London, if it does not make the payment.

EU declares war on hackers, threatens long jail terms
RT - Internet hackers will face significantly tougher criminal penalties after a new draft resolution was passed in the European Parliament with an overwhelming majority.

Justices poised to strike down entire healthcare law
LA Times - The Supreme Court's conservative justices said Wednesday they are prepared to strike down President Obama’s healthcare law entirely. Related article/video here.

White House Tries to Rebrand Mandate
Free Beacon - The Obama administration is now referring to Obamacare as a “bi-partisan bill” and calling the unpopular individual mandate “a Republican idea,” following three days of tough questioning by the Supreme Court.

IRS seeks 4,000 agents, $303 million for Obamacare
Washington Examiner - The Internal Revenue Service wants to add about 4,000 agents to hunt down tax cheats and still plans to spend $303 million building a system to oversee Obamacare even though its future looks bleak in the U.S. Supreme Court.

VIDEO: Trayvon Martin Shooter Told Cops Teenager Went For His Gun
ABC News - George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch crime captain who shot dead 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, originally told police in a written statement that Martin knocked him down with a punch to the nose, repeatedly slammed his head on the ground and tried to take his gun, a police source told ABC News.

VIDEO: Ron Paul Draws Capacity Crowd in College Park
March 28, 2012 - Fox 5 Studio interviews Ron Paul. Related article here.

Updated: Video/Photos/Audio-Capacity Crowd Cheers Ron Paul-Complete Speech
Daily Paul - University officials claim the crowd to hear Paul was similar in size to what Obama drew a year ago---they had to turn away hundreds tonight!

Why Does Ron Paul Continue to Pack Houses?
Ron Paul 2012 - Paul, who is in last place among the four Republicans seeking the GOP nomination to run against President Barack Obama (actually Paul is not in last place according to the latest CNN poll, but we’ll let this slide for the moment), spoke Wednesday night to a capacity crowd at the University of Maryland, College Park’s Ritchie Coliseum.

Mitt Romney's 4-car fantasy home
Politico - The renovation may further hinder Romney's ability to connect to the average voter. At Mitt Romney’s proposed California beach house, the cars will have their own separate elevator. There’s also a planned outdoor shower and a 3,600-square foot basement - a room with more floor space than the existing home’s entire living quarters.

Afghan bombing plot on Defense Ministry targeted hundreds - report
RT - Afghan authorities have foiled a bomb plot in the Defense Ministry which had the potential of inflicting massive casualties. As more US troops are killed by “friendly” Afghans, the level of support for the war in US has reached lowest point ever.

Iran warns against foreign intervention, hasty measurers in Syria
Press TV - Iran’s Foreign Minister warns against intervention in Syria, voicing Tehran’s readiness to help with the political process initiated by the Syrian government and UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.

US no longer dominates drug war agenda in Central America
Guatemala Times - The President of Guatemala, Otto Perez put the issue of drug legalization on the SICA agenda in a historic meeting in Antigua, Guatemala on Saturday, despite the efforts of a certain power to get the meeting canceled at the last minute. For the first time 3 Central American Leaders defied the US and send a strong and clear message: we consider the war on drugs failed, we demand that US takes the responsibility, we demand the US pays, we are not paying the price for US failure.

Lawmakers: Move Iraq equipment to Mexico border
AP - Two Texas lawmakers are pushing the Pentagon to hand off surplus combat equipment from Iraq to local law enforcement agencies along the U.S.-Mexico border. The equipment includes Humvees, weapons and night vision goggles.

Japan reactor has fatally high radiation, no water
TOKYO (AP) — One of Japan's crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an internal examination Tuesday that renews doubts about the plant's stability.

Rand Paul Stands Between US War With Iran
Steve Watson - Rand Paul has effectively single handedly blocked a bi-partisan bill to place yet more crippling economic sanctions on Iran, by demanding an amendment to prevent the White House using the legislation as an authorization to attack the country.

VIDEO: Judge Napolitano: Justice Kennedy’s Questioning of Health Care Bill May Prove to Be a Bad Day for Government
Fox News - Judge Andrew Napolitano listened to all of the recordings from the Supreme Court hearings. He told Shepard Smith that after reading the transcript and listening the audio of the argument, it gave him two different impressions.

Political correctness or political insanity? New York City schools ban words, topics from tests
Activist Post - The New York City Department of Education has banned several words in an attempt to be as politically correct as possible, although I see it as pure imbecilic nonsense. There are some 50 words which are officially banned from being used on tests given to students by the city. Some of the more insane choices are: dinosaur, birthdays, wealth, poverty, Halloween, dancing, terrorism, divorce, references to disease, slavery, creatures from outer space, and many more.

The New Black Panthers hunt for Trayvon Martin's killer
RT - A new development in the Trayvon Martin case could cause further pandemonium. This after The New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense is calling for a militia of 5,000 black volunteers to help capture Trayvon’s murderer, George Zimmerman.

VIDEO/PHOTO: Berserk JetBlue captain restrained by passengers
Daily Mail - Update: The wife of a JetBlue captain who went berserk mid-flight forcing passengers to restrain him has defended her husband as it emerged that he may have suffered a 'panic attack'. Clayton Frederick Osbon, 49, screamed 'say your prayers, say your prayers' at terrified passengers after running up and down the aisle shouting 'Iraq, al-Qaeda, terrorism, we're all going down.' A similar story with a flight attendant here.

Ron Paul to Hold Giant Town Hall Meeting in Wisconsin March 29
LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will hold another large college-campus town hall meeting, this time in Wisconsin ahead of the Badger State’s Tuesday, April 3rd primary. Dr. Paul’s campus town hall meeting will take place on Thursday, March 29th at 7:00 p.m. CST at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Stock Pavilion, located at 1668 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706. The event is free and open to the university and general community.

VIDEO: Hostile Anti-Ron Paul Republican County Convention In The State Of Minnesota
US News Press - Last Saturday (3/24/12) I was assisting with the organizing of one of the most hostile, anti-Ron Paul, Republican county Conventions in the State of Minnesota. Here are some of the high points of the convention with video included.

Romney and Paul filed a complaint alleging 'dirty tricks' by Santorum supporters - FINALLY!
CBS News - The campaigns of Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have filed a complaint alleging "serious and prejudicial misconduct" by supporters of rival Rick Santorum at the March 17 Missouri caucus that they say amounted to "voter suppression." The complaint, filed with the state Republican party and several caucus officials and dated Monday, demands that the state party refuse to recognize the delegates from Jefferson County, where the campaigns say the improprieties took place.

Ron Paul First GOP Candidate to Appear on Ballot in All 50 States
LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul is the first candidate among those vying for the GOP nomination to appear on the ballot in all 50 states, and the only candidate aside from moderate-establishment Mitt Romney to have any prospects for 50-state ballot access.

George H.W. Bush to formally back Romney
AP - Formal backing from the 41st president is another sign that the Republican Party is uniting behind Romney as pressure builds on challengers Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich to leave the race.

Romney’s anti-Russian rant continues
RT - In an article entitled “Bowing to the Kremlin,” published in Foreign Policy journal on Tuesday, Romney paints a wonderfully abstract picture of Russia-US relations over the past four years.

Study: Thousands Wrongfully Discharged for Personality Disorders
The study data — obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests — reinforces previous smaller studies from the General Accountability Office and supports claims by others that the military diagnosed combat veterans with personality disorders to avoid paying retirement benefits to servicemembers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Soldier's spirit is fighting fit as he recovers from mysterious illness
The Fayetteville Observer has monitored the progress of Chris Harriss for more than a year. A reporter and a photographer were present when Harriss began physical therapy, and, about a month later, when he got his first intravenous antibiotic treatment. Harriss' wife, Karin, has provided periodic updates throughout the year. Read More...

Wall Street firms admit poor public image and Occupy impact – survey
RT - A new study has revealed that over half Wall Street company executives believe the Occupy movement has had an impact on their business. Up to 94 per cent say their firms got a negative public reaction by action or inaction.

VIDEO: Syria agreed to ceasefire plan
The Envoy - Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan said Tuesday that Syria has agreed to a ceasefire plan, but some implementation details remain to be worked out.

U.S. military will not charge anyone for killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers
Activist Post - The United States military has now decided that they will not charge a single soldier with any crime for their role in the airstrike carried out by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces last year which resulted in the murder of 24 Pakistani soldiers.

Green Climate Fund Wants Immunity from Any Kind of Prosecution
Activist Post - Fox News is reporting that the Green Climate Fund, created by the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is seeking full diplomatic immunity from "any kind of legal process, including civil and criminal prosecution, in the countries where it operates."

Water wars: Shortages may destroy entire nations, warns government report
(NaturalNews) The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) recently released a report entitled Global Water Security that claims water supply issues around the globe will lead to economic instability, civil and international wars, and even the use of water as a weapon in the next several decades.

VIDEO: Tokyo Soil: Blanketed with Fukushima Radiation – Would Be Considered “Radioactive Waste” in U.S.
Washington’s Blog - Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen took 5 random soil samples in Tokyo recently, and found that all 5 were so radioactive that they would be considered radioactive waste in the United States, which would have to be specially disposed of at a facility in Texas.

A Jet Blue captain reportedly went berserk today mid-flight from New York's JFK to Las Vegas
man, believed to be the captain, was heard screaming, "Say your prayers! Say your prayers!" He tried to storm the cockpit, but the co-pilot would not let him in. A frantic flight attendant urged passengers to stop him, prompting four passengers to jump up from their seats and wrestle him to the ground. They held him down until the diverted plane landed safely in Amarillo, Texas. JetBlue said the captain had a "medical condition" and was hospitalized.

69% of Americans Think the US Should Not Be At War In Afghanistan
NY Times - After a series of violent episodes and setbacks, support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

Justices signal possible trouble for health insurance mandate
LA Times - "Are there any limits," asked Justice Anthony Kennedy, one of three conservative justices whose votes are seen as crucial to the fate of the unprecedented insurance mandate.

TSA Blocks Security Expert From Testifying To Congress
Steve Watson - The TSA ensured that a leading security expert, who has been vocally critical of the agency’s screening methods, was barred from speaking before a Congressional hearing yesterday.

Kids All Over America Are Being Put On Buses And Sent To Alternate Locations During Terror Drills
The American Dream - These exercises are often called “evacuation drills” or “relocation drills” and they are more than a little disturbing. Sometimes parents are notified in advance where the kids are being taken and sometimes they are only told that the children are being taken to an “undisclosed location”.

VIDEO: True Updated Delegate Count - Ron Paul RISING!
Daily Paul - The Mainstream media will never truly report the delegate numbers, so that leaves it up to the people to do their work!

YouTube: Ron Paul on CNN w/ Piers Morgan
March 26, 2012 - Piers Morgan discusses Obamacare with Ron Paul.

Israel cuts all ties with UN human rights watchdog over settlement row
RT - Israel is halting all cooperation with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) following the council’s decision to launch a fact-finding mission into the country’s settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Gunmen in Afghan uniform kill three NATO troops
RT - Three NATO soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in two separate incidents, both apparently involving members of local security forces. Two of are believed to have been members of British military staff.

VIDEO: S. Korea threatens to gun down North’s rocket
RT - The South Korean government has threatened to shoot down a North Korean rocket due for launch in April. The rocket mission has sparked international controversy, the US labeling it a test for a long-range missile that could carry nuclear warheads.

Global oil price may hit $240 if Iran closes Hormuz
Press TV - A leading US-based energy consulting firm says oil price may hit $240 a barrel and economic growth may fall by over 25 percent if Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz in reaction to the Western sanctions.

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Move to Unseat US Dollar as Trade Currency
fin24.com - SOUTH Africa will this week take some initial steps to unseat the US dollar as the preferred worldwide currency for trade and investment in emerging economies. Thus, the nation is expected to become party to endorsing the Chinese currency, the renminbi, as the currency of trade in emerging markets.

F-35 - a trillion dollar disaster
RT - After hundreds of billions of dollars and almost ten years past due, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter hits another hurdle.

Former NAACP leader accuses Sharpton, Jackson of 'exploiting' Trayvon Martin
Daily Caller - “His family should be outraged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions,” Rev. C.L. Bryant said in a Monday interview with The Daily Caller. The conservative black pastor who was once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”

VIDEO: Schools Just Became Even More Dangerous — Attack Dogs Waiting For Dissenters
Activist Post - There are many reasons to get your kids out of government schools ranging from physical violence to forced vaccinations. The violence done to children within the school system is now reaching into the areas of mental trauma, as well as forced ideology and politics.

Feeding The Homeless Banned In Major Cities All Over America
Activist Post - What would you do if you came across someone on the street that had not had anything to eat for several days? Would you give that person some food? Well, the next time you get that impulse you might want to check if it is still legal to feed the homeless where you live..... The following are some of the major U.S. cities that have attempted to ban feeding the homeless...

VIDEO: WA State GOP Caught on Hidden Cam Excluding Ron Paul Delegates
Examiner - Election fraud has occurred in every state in the union, but what may be the worst case yet happened on Saturday in Washington State as GOP party ‘officials’ openly attempted to exclude Ron Paul delegates from participating in the 2nd District’s Convention.

VIDEO: Paul on Bloomberg this morning...Drop out? No way!
March 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Ron Paul of Texas, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, talks about the outlook for the election and fiscal policy. Paul speaks with Sara Eisen and Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack." (Source: Bloomberg)

Obama Set for 2nd Term Spouting ‘This is My Last Election, After My Election I Have More Flexibility’
Intel Hub - During a recent meeting between Obama and the Russian president, a pretty interesting comment was made. A comment which would suggest that Obama knows he has been promised a second term by the puppet masters behind the curtain.

VA Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Task Force Report Released
Report Redefines How Care and Services Are Provided. The Department of Veterans Affairs has released the second in a series of annual reports from its Gulf War Veterans Illnesses Task Force, outlining how the department will address the concerns of Veterans deployed during the Gulf War of 1990-1991. The report is available on the Internet at http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/2011_GWVI-TF_Report.pdf (3/26/12)

Twitter sticks together with OWS protesters
RT - Twitter Inc. refuses to give out information on Jeffrey Rae, a prominent OWS protester whose on-the-ground Twitter reporting is followed by thousands. Activists under police scrutiny say a political witch hunt has begun on behalf of “the 1 per cent”.

Report: Israeli soldiers scour Iran for nukes
Ynet - Israel is using a permanent base in Iraqi Kurdistan to launch cross-border intelligence missions in an attempt to find “smoking gun” evidence that Iran is building a nuclear warhead, the Sunday Times reported Sunday. According to Western intelligence sources, Israel has used sensitive equipment during its covert operations to monitor the radioactivity and magnitude of explosives tests. It was also reported that Israeli special forces used Black Hawk helicopters to carry commandos disguised as members of the Iranian military and using Iranian military vehicles.

Report: Iran planned to bomb Israeli ship in Suez Canal
Haaretz - Egyptian paper Al-Ahram reports that two Egyptian citizens received instructions from Iranian agents to attack an Israeli ship, and offered a third man 50 million Egyptian pounds to carry out the act.

Obama urges China to act to rein in North Korea
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama urged China on Sunday to use its influence to rein in North Korea instead of "turning a blind eye" to its nuclear defiance, and warned of tighter sanctions if the reclusive state goes ahead with a rocket launch next month. "North Korea will achieve nothing by threats or provocations," a stern-faced Obama said after a tour of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas resonant with echoes of the Cold War.

VIDEO: Sarkozy: Prosecute and Imprison Readers of “Extremist” Websites
Kurt Nimmo - French president Nicolas Sarkozy didn’t wait long to exploit the terror rampage of Mohammed Merah. Soon after Merah’s death in a stand-off with police, Sarkozy said French citizens who visit “extremist” websites should be treated the same way as those who look at child pornography.

Saudi Arabia And China Team Up To Build A Gigantic New Oil Refinery
The Economic Collapse - Is this the beginning of the end for the petrodollar? The largest oil exporter in the Middle East has teamed up with the second largest consumer of oil in the world (China) to build a gigantic new oil refinery and the mainstream media in the United States has barely even noticed it. This mammoth new refinery is scheduled to be fully operational in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu by 2014.

U.N. Policy Paper Outlines 7 Building Blocks for 'Heavy-Handed' World Government
Activist Post - The policy paper entitled, "Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance" is one of the most blatantly authoritarian among the incrementally more open policy papers that we are witnessing, as global governance continues on its runaway path in the name of saving humanity from itself.... The full text of the article is available for a fee which we paid for access, and we can tell you that it is centered around the "Building Blocks" that form the foundation for the edifice of a one-world government.... (All section titles are paraphrased.)

Poland's Monsanto action lays 1000s of dead bees on Govt steps
Activist Post - On March 15, over 1,500 beekeepers and their allies marched thru the streets of Warsaw, depositing thousands of dead bees on the steps of the Ministry of Agriculture, in protest of genetically modified foods and their requisite pesticides which are killing bees, moths and other agriculturally-beneficial insects around the globe.

VIDEO: Obama Shamelessly Exploits Death of Trayvon Martin
Kurt Nimmo - Obama has exploited the tragic and fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, who was shot by a neighborhood watch captain in a Florida gated community targeted in numerous burglaries. Obama made his comments during a press conference in the Rose Garden announcing a nominee for the World Bank, described as a “multinational development institution” by the New York Times (more accurately described as an international bankster loan shark operation).

Job fair held for illegal aliens (including those with criminal record)
Examiner.com - Harrisonburg, VA - On Tuesday, a group known as Our Community Place held a job fair for those who may have more trouble than others finding work, including illegal aliens. The event billed on the group’s website catered to those experiencing “Challenges with addiction, transportation, no training, health, education, no ID, immigration issues, etc?” And, was “free to anyone in the world and provides refreshments and lunch.”

VIDEO: Geraldo Rivera: Hoodie ‘allowed’ Zimmerman to kill Martin
Raw Story - Fox News host Geraldo Rivera thinks he knows who or what is to blame for the slaying of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin: the hoodie did it. Appearing on Fox News early Friday morning, Rivera conceded that George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who shot Martin, should be investigated, but he urged black and Latino parents to not allow their children to wear hooded sweatshirts. “I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was,” the host ranted.

Ruger Suspends All New Firearms Orders: “Incoming Order Rate Exceeds Capacity to Fulfill Orders”
Off Grid Survival - In the Rise of the Prepper article, we warned that with Guns, Gold and Emergency Food all setting record sales numbers we will likely see major shortages hit the marketplace. As people begin to stock up on preparedness related items in response to the coming election cycle, we will likely see nationwide shortages similar to what happened during the elections in 2008. I fear this is only the beginning.... Here is the Official Statement form Ruger...

Whitney Houston cause of death cover-up? Coroner changes story, blames cocaine, not pharmaceuticals
(NaturalNews) There's something afoot in the changing story about what actually killed Whitney Houston. According to the official coroner's report that was recently released, Whitney Houston died from drowning and cocaine was a "contributing factor." All the other prescription drugs found in her system were dismissed as being totally unrelated to her death.

Nanny State On Steroids: City Plans to Outlaw Smoking in Apartments
Kurt Nimmo - Few argue that smoking is bad for you. However, in Elk Grove, outside of Sacramento, California, government bureaucrats are ready to exploit this fact in order to outlaw people from smoking in their homes.

VIDEO: Students At N.J. Middle School Say Principal Announced Ban On Hugging
MATAWAN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – There is a lot of confusion at Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School, where students say the principal made an unusual announcement last week. “First, I heard over the loudspeaker ‘We are a no hugging school’ and we are…’This is our new policy,’” student John Carelli told CBS 2′s Cindy Hsu on Thursday.

Give Me Liberty Money Bomb
Ron Paul: Our Give Me Liberty Money Bomb is critical for my campaign. I'm prepared to keep fighting all the way to the Republican National Convention if I can continue to count on your support. Please, donate whatever you are able right away to this vital effort.

Jack Hunter: "Let's Take It To 1 Million"
Daily Paul - Despite the party establishment trying to throw up every roadblock imaginable, Ron Paul and his supporters continue to battle forward at the grassroots with great success. The MSM has already decided that Ron Paul just needs to go away. Well, today in Missouri and in countless other caucuses this simply isn’t going to happen. Paul supporters simply refuse to let it happen.

Ron Paul's New Campaign Ad
'Etch A Sketch'

Louisiana GOP Results March 24, 2012
CNN - Santorum 49%, Romney 27%, Gingrich 16%, Paul 6%.

YouTube: Ron Paul Rally 3-23-12: Pineville, Louisiana
The crowd that heard Paul speak Friday at Louisiana College's Guinn Auditorium was large, enthusiastic and young. They cheered often and loudly for his platform of reduced spending, smaller government and greater personal freedoms.

YouTube: Ron Paul Press Conference, Pineville Louisiana
Once again Ron Paul proves he is the best man for the job with his common sense answers to tough questions. This was Q&A session after his speech at Louisiana College in Pineville Louisiana.

Esmeralda County, Nevada - Caucus March 24th
Daily Paul - Landslide for Paul!

BREAKING NEWS: St. Charles Missouri Caucus Rescheduled for April 10th! Video Taping ALLOWED!
ST. CHARLES • A second St. Charles County countywide Republican caucus will be held at 7 p.m. April 10 at the St. Charles Convention Center, the state GOP announced Friday....The session will replace the caucus held last Saturday which disbanded without any delegates selected amid boisterous disputes over caucus rules. Recording devices will be permitted, the state party said.

Ron Paul supporters dominate GOP caucuses in St. Louis, Jackson County
ST. LOUIS - Paul's backers won all 36 delegates here while taking about two-thirds of delegates in Jackson County.... The purpose of today's non-binding caucuses was to choose representatives to a round of Congressional district meetings in April and June that will repeat the process to send 52 delegates from Missouri to the August convention in Tampa, Fla. Paul's supporters cast a majority vote with 158 ballots. The Santorum slate had 74 votes, while Romney's backers mustered 50 votes.

YouTube: Rachel Maddow Thanks The Daily Paul!
MSNBC News March 22, 2012 .

Afghan villagers threatened by US soldiers days before massacre
AP/The Australian RESIDENTS of an Afghan village near where an American soldier is alleged to have killed 16 civilians are convinced that the slayings were in retaliation for a roadside bomb attack on US forces in the same area a few days earlier. In accounts to The Associated Press and to Afghan government officials, the residents allege that US troops lined up men from the village of Mokhoyan against a wall after the bombing on either March 7 or 8, and told them they would pay a price for the attack.

France gunman on U.S. no-fly list
UPI -TOULOUSE, France, March 22 (UPI) -- The gunman who died Thursday when cornered by French police was on the radar of U.S. authorities as well, sources told The Wall Street Journal. Mohammed Merah, 24, was on the U.S. no-fly list because he had been in custody in Afghanistan in 2010 before being sent back to France, sources familiar with the case told the newspaper. The circumstances of Merah's detention in Afghanistan were not clear, and the Journal said U.S. officials said there was no record of him ever being in the custody of the American military.

Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe
Scientific American - Fighting climate change requires a new set of institutions would have to be imbued with heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers.... A policy article authored by several dozen scientists appeared online March 15 in Science to acknowledge this point: “Human societies must now change course and steer away from critical tipping points in the Earth system that might lead to rapid and irreversible change. This requires fundamental reorientation and restructuring of national and international institutions toward more effective Earth system governance and planetary stewardship.”

US reveals Iran petro penalty hit list after exempting allies
RT - The US State Department has revealed the list of 12 countries which may be subjected to American financial sanctions for failing to cut oil imports from Iran.... Four of the countries on America’s anger list are among top 100 buyers of Iranian crude. They are China, India, South Korea and South Africa, with the first two being the two largest buyers. Also targeted by possible financial sanctions are Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Turkey.

Clashes across Syria despite U.N. ceasefire call
(Reuters) - More than a dozen people died in clashes across Syria on Thursday, opposition activists said, as a U.N. Security Council call for an immediate end to the fighting fell on deaf ears. The SOHR, which depends on a network of local contacts for its information, said it was not clear who was behind the killings. Other activists blamed the Syrian army, which has been trying to stamp out insurgents in the area.

A Major AFRICOM & US State Department Campaign to Undermine Chinese Influence in Central Africa
William Engdahl - The entire brouhaha over Joseph Kony appears to be a flank in a major AFRICOM and US State Department campaign especially to undermine Chinese influence in central Africa — now that they have successfully driven the Chinese oil companies out of Libya, and carved out a new “republic” of South Sudan containing much of the oil that fuels China’s economy. That splitting of South Sudan and its oil, for those who did not follow it closely, was a consequence of sending in US and NATO special forces to “stop genocide” in Darfur. George Clooney was also the poster boy for the Darfur action.

Soldiers say they have seized power in Mali
(Reuters) - Renegade soldiers said they seized power in Mali on Thursday and ordered its borders closed, threatening to reignite instability in a Saharan region shaken by the conflict in Libya. The overnight coup bid was led by low-ranking soldiers angry at the government's failure to stamp out a two-month-old separatist rebellion in the north of the west African state.

U.S. condemns Mali coup
(Reuters) - The United States on Thursday strongly condemned a violent coup by renegade Malian soldiers and demanded the return of civilian rule to the west African gold and cotton-producing nation. "We call for the immediate restoration of constitutional rule in Mali, including full civilian authority over the armed forces and respect for the country's democratic institutions and traditions," the White House said in a statement.

Afghan shooting suspect did not pay fraud judgment
(Reuters) - The U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan left for war without paying a $1.5 million judgment for defrauding an elderly client in a stock scheme, and remains shielded from the obligation as long as he remains in the military, legal experts said.

U.S. General suggests troops should stay level after ’12 drawdown
Washington Post -The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Tuesday that, once a scheduled 23,000 U.S. troops are withdrawn by the end of September, he does not expect to consider additional drawdowns until next year.... The United States and NATO have agreed to withdraw all combat troops by December 2014. By then, the U.S.-led coalition will have transferred security authority to Afghan forces throughout the country, Allen said. “But we will still have combat forces in Afghanistan all the way to the end.”

1001 Moonless Kinetic Nights: Presenting The Windows Of Opportunity For An Iranian Attack
Zero Hedge - Following last Friday’s majority vote by the Israel Security Council authorizing Iranian “action” when required, answering the “if“, the only open question remains “when.” As it turns out, based on the following analysis by Rapidan Group, there are only 10 or so distinct 10 day New Moon windows for the remainder of 2012. If one removes the sandstorm prone months of April, July and September, there are 7 periods in which a military strike is realistic.

VIDEO: Australian mining magnate claims Greenpeace has links to CIA
ABC Australia - Mining magnate Clive Palmer has accused the United States government of funding environmental group Greenpeace via the CIA to undermine Australia’s coal mining sector. Mr Palmer made the extraordinary claim over Greenpeace’s plan to use the court system to tie up coal mining applications. He is angry at Greenpeace’s plan to use lawyers to thwart future coal mining projects and claims funding is coming from US environmental charity the Rockefeller Foundation. He alleges it is funded by the CIA and says it is trying to harm Australia’s industry and help American interests.

VIDEO: Mexican Earthquake Coincides With Drill Based Around Exact Same Scenario
Paul Joseph Watson - The video above documents how Mexican Civil Protection (CP) authorities had planned to stage a response drill to an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale on March 20 at 12 noon local time, which is precisely when an earthquake hit Mexico yesterday.... The exercise was being run under the auspices of Mexico’s State Emergency Committee, the government department tasked with responding to natural disasters.

Poland Say Yes to Europe – But ‘No’ to the Euro
Wahington Post - Here in Poland, where dreary communist-style apartment blocks still dominate the landscape, the euro was once hailed as a fast-track ticket to the economic big league. Now, after years of problems in the euro zone, Poles have realized that the big league ticket was in their pockets all along. Their own currency, the zloty, has buffered Poland from the turbulence surrounding it, and few here are in any rush to adopt the euro, even though Poland agreed to do so when it joined the European Union in 2004.

VIDEO: Government Warns of Hezbollah Terror Ahead of Iran Attack
Kurt Nimmo - New York Rep. and House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King said that an Israeli strike on Iran will not be “surgical” and the United States will participate in the attack. Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security said Hezbollah may attack any moment. Appearing on CNN’s “Starting Point,” King said he does not rule out an attack. “There’s no doubt that if Israel does attack Iran, this is not going to be easy, it’s not going to be surgical, and again the U.S. could find itself implicated or involved in it,” he said.

The Executive Order Controversy
American Thinker - The NDRP traces its origin to the Defense Production Act (DPA) of 1950, which attempted to establish a framework for placing the nation on a "war footing" as quickly and in as efficient a manner as possible should events warrant. In an age of highly industrialized warfare, the basic building blocks of military success are composed of mundane elements such as supply chains, resource availability, parts, access to raw materials, and skilled labor.

Marine faces boot for anti-Obama Facebook posts
MSNBC - The Marines on Wednesday told Sgt. Gary Stein — a Camp Pendleton Marine who started the Facebook page called Armed Forces Tea Party — that he is in violation of Pentagon policy barring troops from political activities.... "After reviewing the findings of the preliminary inquiry, the commander decided to address the allegations through administrative action," the Corps said. "I'm completely shocked that this is happening," Stein said. "I've done nothing wrong. I've only stated what our oath states that I will defend the constitution and that I will not follow unlawful orders. If that's a crime, what is America coming to?"

Obama Administration Tries To Shut Down Rush Limbaugh
Paul Joseph Watson - The Obama administration attack dog Media Matters is attempting to shut down free speech by spending $100,000 dollars on radio advertisements in an effort to get Rush Limbaugh off the air in a staggering display of contempt for the first amendment.... The ads, which will run in eight major cities, encourage listeners to call stations which carry Limbaugh’s show and complain about his remarks. Using an approach similar to that which ran Glenn Beck out of Fox News, Media Matters is clearly trying to create momentum behind booting Limbaugh off the air altogether.

Obama: ‘Where’s YOUR birth certificate?’
Daily Mail - President Barack Obama has been keen to move the political conversation away from the question of whether or not he was born in the United States. But today, he was the one that brought it up, albeit as a joke. At the end of an event in Oklahoma on Thursday, a female audience member approached him and said that she was born at the same hospital as the president in Hawaii. He responded: ‘Do you have YOUR birth certificate?’

Mayor Emanuel buys 8,513 more face shields for NATO summit
suntimes.com - Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration is buying 8,513 more face shields for Chicago Police officers at a cost of $757,657 — and demanding delivery in time for the May 20-21 NATO summit — to give every officer on the street a shield that fits over a gas mask and prevents them from being blinded by liquids thrown by protesters.

VIDEO: Birther Controversy Back In spotlight As Arpaio Demands Obama Draft Card
Steve Watson - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the law enforcer leading an independent investigation into the authenticity of the latest release of the Obama birth certificate, has thrust the issue back into the media spotlight by asking for the aid of the U.S. Selective Service System.

VIDEO: "DRIFT" Book About Perpetual Wars
Daily Paul - Rachel Maddow's new book "Drift" argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails.

8 years later, abuse soldier Lynndie England tells of her anguish – but won’t apologize to ‘enemy’
The Daily FORT ASHBY, W.Va. - Eight years before an American soldier shot 16 civilians in Afghanistan, there was another case of tragic military misconduct that ruined lives and threatened to derail a war effort. Today, the former soldier who became the callous, “thumbs-up” emblem of the Abu Ghraib scandal lives with her parents in rural West Virginia, raising the son of the man who perpetrated the worst of the torture at the Iraqi prison. Things are so rough for her, Lynndie England told The Daily in a wide-ranging interview,
that she has trouble finding much reason to feel bad for the detainees she and her colleagues abused.

Obama threatens rare earth trade war against China - but why?
(NaturalNews) Since the U.S. no longer mines any rare earth metals and elements from its own earth, the import of these critical manufacturing components from China is necessary to maintain a steady supply of fancy electronic gadgets and war paraphernalia, two of the primary industrial sectors that are keeping the American economy from all-out collapsing. But paper tiger Obama's latest round of litigative grandstanding appears to be nothing more than a desperate election season ploy, as it is unlikely that the lawsuit will come to much in the end.

Monsanto ‘Biotechnology Book for Kids’ Caught Brainwashing Children
Anthony Gucciardi - Facing direct opposition from the public, biotechnology giants like Monsanto and Dow are now making a disturbing attempt to brainwash developing minds into accepting their genetically modified foods using blatant lies and propaganda. In a last ditch effort to potentially sway public opinion, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has launched the “Biotechnology Basics Activity Book” for kids. With the intent to be used by ‘agriculture and science teachers’, the activity book spreads absurd lies about GMO crops — even going as far as to say that they ‘improve our health’ and ‘help the environment’.

Illinois House kills audio recording bill
David Thomas - The Illinois House killed a bill Wednesday that would have allowed citizens to make audio recordings of police officers in public places. Video recordings without sound already are legal in Illinois.

New Georgia state bill bans illegal immigrants from colleges
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sen. Barry Loudermilk, a Republican from Cassville and the lead sponsor of the bill, spoke in favor of his bill. “One of the arguments you may hear today,” Loudermilk told the committee, “is what is wrong about allowing someone who may be here illegally to take one of the seats in one of our colleges or universities, if they just want to better themselves and they want to become a productive member of our society. Well, that is a good argument to make. However, it is a federal crime to hire someone who is illegally in this country.”

9/11 Insider Trading – the Facts Laid Bare
Global Research - Is there any truth in the allegations that informed circles made substantial profits in the financial markets in connection to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, on the United States?

Now! ‘Give Me Liberty’ Money Bomb
Daily Paul - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's “Give Me Liberty” money bomb takes place on March 23rd. “The truth is, right now our campaign is in the very heat of the battle against the establishment,” Ron Paul National Campaign Manager John Tate wrote in an email Monday.

You Tube: Ron Paul on The Kudlow Report CNBC
March 22, 2012 - Rep. Ron Paul, discusses his views on Washington's budget battle, the Federal Reserve, spending, and pipeline politics.

VIDEO: We Are Winning! Rally outside NBC Studios by LA grassroots
Daily Paul - Ron Paul came to Southern California this Tuesday (March 20th) to appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. While being interviewed, the Ron Paul grassroots in LA amassed on the streets surrounding NBC studios with a remarkable show of support. Someone created the largest Ron Paul banner I've seen (30 foot). I created this video documenting the day, featuring an original song created on the spot by Mallori Elena and the other guy who's name I am searching for.

VIDEO: Ron Paul's Personal Video Request
Daily Paul - When Ron Paul talks, people listen. Seriously - it is impossible to refuse his request, especially a personal one like this...

St. Charles County GOP Chair Says Caucus Letter ‘Actually Drafted by Santorum’s Campaign Team’
Bob McCarty - A few days after the 2012 St. Charles County Republican Presidential Caucus ended badly, a member of the St. Charles County GOP Central Committee shared with me the content of an email message that was sent to members by Chair Eugene Dokes early Wednesday morning. Attached to the message, the subject of which was “Re: A second Caucus or…,” was a letter that Dokes explained “was actually drafted by Santorum’s campaign team.”

GOP Insiders Suggest Ron Paul Cannot Legally Be Part Of RNC Ballot
Steve Watson - GOP insiders are beginning to float the idea that Congressman Ron Paul cannot legally be on the first ballot at the national convention in Tampa this August because he will not have enough delegates from enough states.

Santorum: Obama better option than Romney
The Ticket - Rick Santorum suggested that re-electing President Barack Obama would be better than electing Republican rival Mitt Romney, a statement that is arguably his toughest criticism of Romney to date.

YouTube: MSNBC Hit Piece on Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich
Mar 20, 2012 - Ron Reagan: "Ron Paul's Base Will Never Grow Beyond 10 Percent." Appearing on MSNBC, Ron Reagan writes off Dr. Paul's chances of growing his support during the election process.

YouTube: Steve Vincent and the Los Angeles campaign for Ron Paul
Steven gives a strategy to help Ron Paul win in California and his supporters win seats on the Los Angeles Republican Central Committee.

VIDEO: US accuses Iran of shipping arms to Syria
RT - The US and Britain have accused Iran of supplying weapons to Syria at a United Nations meeting. Meanwhile Russia has warned against turning up the heat on Tehran. During a Wednesday briefing at the UN Security Council in New York, American, British and French diplomats expressed their concern at reports that Iran had violated UN sanctions by supplying arms to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

UN chief urges cease-fire in Syria to speed up aid
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian regime troops and rebels clashed anew on Thursday as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said the Security Council sent a clear message to Damascus that all violence must stop immediately to allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid.

BREAKING: Toulouse shooter 'killed in gunfire', 3 officers wounded in raid
RT - French police have officially confirmed the suspected serial killer Mohammed Merah is dead after putting up resistance. Reports coming in now that three police commandos have been wounded in the raid on the suspect's flat, one of them seriously. The heavily-armed militant, who claimed he was with Al-Qaeda, has been cornered in an apartment building for more than 30 hours.

Kuwait says Iran has assured it will not shut Hormuz
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has assured Kuwait it will not try to close the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping route, Kuwait's ruler said in remarks carried by state-run news agency KUNA on Tuesday. Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah said Kuwait nevertheless had been working for "a long time" on building up an oil stocks outside the Gulf to ensure steady supplies to customers. After threats by Iran that it could shut the most important oil transit channel in the world, if Western governments stop it from selling crude, Kuwait's emir and other Gulf leaders have sought assurances that Tehran will not follow through with the threats.

Jeffrey Goldberg: Iran Will Not Target U.S. Warships If Attacked
Kurt Nimmo In an article posted on the Bloomberg website, the neocon propagandist, Jeffrey Goldberg, tells us an attack on Iran is “historically inevitable” and will not result in World War Three.... Goldberg faithfully follows the Israeli propaganda narrative: the attack on Iran will be limited to striking nuclear targets that supposedly represent an “existential threat” to not only the Jewish state, but the entire world.

US exempts 10 EU states plus Japan from Iran sanctions
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement on Tuesday that the exemption covers financial institutions from 11 nations - Belgium, Britain, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain, AFP reported. "The actions taken by these countries were not easy…. They had to rethink their energy needs at a critical time for the world economy and quickly begin to find alternatives to Iranian oil, which many had been reliant on for their energy needs," she added.

VIDEO: Pentagon’s Iran Buildup Call for Adding Laser Weapons
Bloomberg - The U.S. Central Command plans to bolster military capabilities against Iran by fielding new laser target-trackers for machine guns, enhanced sensors for underwater vehicles, improved protection against drone attacks and upgrades of U-2 spy planes.... “There’s no significant area where I’ve got to come in and say, we’ve got a big problem here.” Central Command commander General James Mattis told the House Armed Services Committee on March 7. “They’re just areas I want to make certain we maintain our edge.”

VIDEO: French Terror Attack: All the Hallmarks of an Intelligence Psy-op and False Flag
Kurt Nimmo - Mohammed Merah, the suspect in the killing of seven people outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, fits the pattern of an al-Qaeda intelligence asset. According to the BBC, he was on the radar of French authorities because of visits he made to Afghanistan and the “militant stronghold” of Waziristan in Pakistan. More specifically, Merah was handled by France’s DCRI intelligence service “for years,” according to Claude Guéant, the interior minister.

VIDEO: Are Middle East & African Wars Really About Protecting the Immoral Global Banking System & Fighting Gold?
Zero Hedge - In a speech retired US Army General Wesley Clark gave in August of 2001, we are reminded that many wars and major military theater operations are planned years or sometimes even decades in advance and that the excuses to justify them are likely fabricated.... Upon deeper investigation, it also seems highly likely that the Western global banking cartel has been involved in some capacity in the industrial-military complex planning of these invasions and government overthrows in Africa and the Middle East due to the peculiarly timed nature of these events.

Chinese spies target Taiwan's US-made defenses
AP - Air force Capt. Chiang — he was identified only by his surname — was the fourth Taiwanese in only 14 months known to have been picked up on charges of spying for China, from which the island split amid civil war 63 years ago. While Taiwan's Defense Ministry did not disclose details of his alleged offense, his base in the northern part of the island hosts the air force's highly classified radar system and U.S.-made Patriot surface-to-air missiles, both vital to the island's aerial defense.

Health professionals anticipate extremely dangerous mass withdrawals as Canadian drug ban takes effect
(NaturalNews) Beginning March 1, 2012, the controversial painkiller drug OxyContin (oxycodone) will no longer be available for prescription in Canada. Numerous media sources report that Health Canada has officially nixed the drug, which is an opioid-based drug similar to heroin, because of widespread abuse, particularly among Canada's First Nations, which are aboriginal nations in Canada similar to Native American reservations in the U.S.

Sheriff Joe Warns: 'Tons' more shocking info on Obama
WND - “America’s toughest sheriff” says there is “tons” more potentially shocking information on Barack Obama in connection with his probe into the president’s eligibility, and he calls the media’s suppression of his findings of a likely forged presidential birth certificate and Selective Service Card “probably the biggest censorship blackout in the history of the United States.”

Birthers' sue to force state to verify eligibility
LA Times - Undeterred by documentary evidence and repeated judicial rejection, a group of conspiracy theorists who say President Obama was born in Africa have sued the California secretary of state to demand that she verify the eligibility of all presidential candidates before putting them on the November ballot.... The lawsuit filed by Republican primary write-in candidate John Albert Dummett Jr., Markham Robinson of the American Independent Party of California and five others also alludes to "questions concerning the eligibility" of Mitt Romney to vie for the role of commander in chief.

VIDEO: More Marines Voicing Disapproval of Obama
The Marine Corps Times previews its cover story about anti-Obama Marines at their 'Battle Rattle' blog. According to the article, of the 792 active-duty troops and mobilized reservists who responded to this year's Military Times Poll, 44 percent said that they disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job as commander in chief.

Supreme Court voids part of medical leave act
LA Times - Reporting from Washington—State workers who are denied unpaid sick leave required by federal law cannot sue the states, the Supreme Court said in a victory for states' rights that some liberal advocates saw as a bad omen for President Obama's healthcare law. The 5-4 decision is a setback for millions of employees of state agencies and state colleges, and it voided in part a provision in the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. Among other things the act said that employees had a right to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to recover from an illness or childbirth.

Wal-Mart to pay $2-million state penalty
LA Times - The retailer failed to comply with a 2008 judgment that directed it to fix pricing errors. An investigation had found that 164 Wal-Mart stores in California scanned some items at higher prices than advertised.

Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities All Over America
Economic Collapse - Sometimes a well-timed sandwich or a cup of warm soup can make a world of difference for a homeless person. But many U.S. cities have decided that feeding the homeless is such a threat that they had better devote law enforcement resources to making sure that it doesn't happen. This is so twisted. In America today, you need a "permit" to do almost anything. We are supposed to be a land of liberty and freedom, but these days government bureaucrats have turned our rights into "privileges" that they can revoke at any time. The following are some of the major U.S. cities that have attempted to ban feeding the homeless.

VIDEO: Human Rights Watch jump on sinking KONY 2012 ship
Tony Cartalucci - If you thought KONY 2012 was wrong, wait til you see HRW’s Kony video – classic brainwashing. Human Rights Watch (HRW) during the height of the Kony 2012 hysteria, dusted off one of its old propaganda videos titled, “Joseph Kony – LRA” uploaded on November of 2010, to try and capitalize on the attention Invisible Children raised earlier this month. However, the Kony 2012 campaign imploded just as fast, and perhaps even more spectacularly than it rose – with vast numbers of people pointing out the untenable narrative it attempted to peddle and the fact that it served as nothing more than a pretext for an expanded US AFRICOM presence in Africa.

40 Weird Facts About The United States That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Economic Collapse - Some of the weird facts about the United States listed below may be difficult for you to believe. Others are likely to completely shock you. Hopefully there is a little something for everyone in this article, and hopefully you will learn some new things from reading it.

Controversial Painter Depicts Obama With Burning Constitution
CBS News - Jon McNaughton, a controversial artist who often mixes religion and politics in his work, has released a new painting. In “One Nation Under Socialism,” President Obama holds the U.S. Constitution as it burns. While McNaughton previously depicted Obama stepping on the nation’s founding document, “One Nation Under Socialism” glowers directly as if challenging the viewer. His right hand is holding the Constitution and his left hand is pointing to the flames. McNaughton tells CBSDC that the hands “represents his recognition of what is happening (to the Constitution) as it goes up.”

YouTube: Wake Up America - Jon McNaughton
Every man, woman and child in America is enslaved to the national debt. As an artist, I have painted my vision of the dire circumstances that surround us. Now, more than ever, each American must make a choice: we must unlock the shackles that enslave us, or will we lose our freedom. It is my hope and prayer that America will "wake up" before it is too late.

From the Connecticut Campaign For Liberty (My blood pressure just went up)
Daily Paul - Do you want to be forced to put a tracking device on your car so the state can see where you are? On March 14, the General Assembly Joint Transportation Committee voted unanimously to advance SB 288, an act requiring a study into the feasibility of placing Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tracking devices on your vehicle. Vehicles outfitted with RFID tracking devices could potentially be monitored at all times. From the moment you leave your garage in the morning until you return, Big Brother can track your location.

Forced Warrantless DNA Collection Violates Fourth Amendment
EFF - Given the incredibly sensitive information that DNA can reveal about a person - details like a person's medical history, predisposition to disease and even sexual orientation - government access to this information must be strictly limited. But a recent decision (PDF) by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found no constitutional problems with the government's ability to collect DNA from recent arrestees without a search warrant.

Congressmen, Senators Join Massive Grassroots Initiative to Label GMOs
Activist Post - Joining more than 900,000 individuals who have signed the ”Just Label It” campaign since October -- 55 Republican and Democrat politicians (see all 55) from both the House and Senate signed a letter in support of GMO food labeling. The representatives represent the shockingly high statistic of 92% who state that they support the labeling of GMOs according to a number of studies.

VIDEO: How Legal, Medical Marijuana Got One Couple's Children Violently Snatched Away
Alternet - The outrage over this incident has driven several local residents to come forward with similar complaints regarding the misconduct of the BINTF and Child Services Division of Butte County (which leads all of California’s large counties in the percentage rate of permanent removal of children from parents). As a result, the NORML Women’s Alliance has filed an official request for an investigation by the Grand Jury in Butte County (including a financial audit). (NOTE: The video of the arrest contains disturbing language.)

Ron Paul to Hold Giant Town Hall Meeting in Maryland
Ron Paul’s college campus town hall meeting, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Wednesday, March 28th at the University of Maryland. The event will commence at 7:00 p.m. EST inside the University of Maryland’s Ritchie Coliseum [Map].... “The University of Maryland chapter is one of our strongest in the country, recruiting more than 2,000 supporters for the campaign so far.

YouTube: Ron Paul on Cavuto: Paul Ryan’s Budget Doesn't Cut Anything of Substance
Fox Business March 21, 2012.

Ron Paul Supporters Attempt To Reconvene Scott County, Iowa GOP Convention
Iowa Republican - A group of Ron Paul supporters who are upset with the results of the Scott County GOP convention is contacting all of the county’s delegates and alternates, encouraging them to reconvene on Thursday. The group is led by Paul campaign volunteer Michael D. Elliott, who earlier threatened a lawsuit against the Scott County GOP following the March 10 convention. He is reportedly bothered that the delegate slate for district and state convention did not include enough Paul supporters. Elliott was elected as an alternate.

Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Inquirer Reminds us why we Got Rid of Santorum
Daily Paul - Santorum is despised by the establishment Republicans in Pennsylvania. He has not received a single endorsement from any public figures in his own home state. Although he is currently polling ahead of Romney... The Republican Leadership Conference is being held this weekend in Harrisburg... Ron Paul is from Pittsburgh, he can do well here, especially considering that Santorum is about to get roasted by the press.

VIDEO: Top Romney Adviser Says Romney Can Change His Positions After The Primaries: ‘It’s Almost Like An Etch A Sketch’
Think Progress - Mitt Romney can’t be held accountable for his extreme right-wing views, at least according to his campaign’s senior adviser, who said the candidate should be given a “reset button” on any positions he’s taken during the primary campaign if he wins the nominations and faces off against President Obama in the fall.

DHS Turns Over Occupy Wall Street Documents to Truthout
Truthout - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) closely monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement, providing agency officials with regular updates about protests taking place throughout the country, responding to requests from fusion centers for intelligence on the group and mining Twitter and other social media for information about Occupy's activities, according to hundreds of pages of internal documents DHS released to Truthout Wednesday morning in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Occupiers in Union Square Stormed in Late Night Raid
Live updates: 6:07 AM: Park officially re-opened. 5:20 AM: via Twitter: ¨The NYPD have officially fled the scene of their crime.¨ Tonight, at least four people were arrested, books needlessly destroyed, and one woman knocked unconscious by police brutality -- all for the ¨crime¨ of laying down in a public park. 4:37 AM: Most police appear to be leaving in advance of the arrival of rush hour traffic when public wakes up. Occupiers return to park, laying down again. Chanting ¨goodbye!¨ at NYPD.

VIDEO: Outlaw Occupy: Herd ‘EM Up – 6,700 Dirty Hippies Arrested So Far
Alexander Higgins - Watch this [RT] video and let me know if you feel that America has become a totalitarian police state with an outlawed Constitution.

VIDEO: End The TSA Tyranny – It’s Time To #OccupyTheTSA
Alexander Higgins - It is time for the public to #OccupyTheTSA and demand in a voice of solidarity that they end their tyrannical obtrusive campaign of beta-testing the public.... Let’s use the hashtag #OccupyTheTSA in tweets on Twitter accompanied by links to articles and videos to raise awareness of TSA tyranny and send them the message that We are Fed Up.

Serious concerns over North Korea, Iran to come up in Seoul
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Wednesday world leaders visiting Seoul for a nuclear summit next week will discuss North Korea and Iran's "illegitimate" atomic activities, angering the North that said such talk would be a "declaration of war". Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan told Reuters that while nuclear weapons and proliferation issues were not on the formal agenda at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul from Monday, Iran and North Korea would clearly be key issues on the sidelines.

U.S. lacks "proof" on Afghan shooting: suspect's lawyer
(Reuters) -"I'm very concerned now they don't have much proof of anything," attorney John Henry Browne told Reuters after meeting with U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales on Tuesday for a second day in a military detention center in Kansas.... Bales, 38, a four-tour combat veteran, has not yet been charged, but Browne told reporters on Tuesday he expected his client to be charged with "homicide and a bunch of other charges" on Thursday. He added that the case could stretch over two years.

Accused soldier's lawyer plans trip to Afghanistan
Christian Science Monitor - The lawyer for the Army staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians questioned Tuesday the quality of the evidence against his client and said he planned to travel to Afghanistan to gather his own. John Henry Browne said he met with Robert Bales for 11 hours over two days at Fort Leavenworth, where his client is being held. He added that there was still a lot he didn't know about the March 11 shootings.

Toll rises as UN Security Council discusses Syria
At least 30 people were killed in Syria on Tuesday as the UN Security Council discussed the violence and long-time Damascus ally Russia said President Bashar al-Assad had "made a lot of mistakes." Moscow's comments came as UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan and Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi called for a united international stand on the crisis.

Al-Qaida claims responsibility for Iraq attacks
BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida's front group in Iraq claimed Wednesday it was behind a wave of attacks that killed 46 people across the country and said the violence shows how weak government security is heading into next week's Arab League summit in Baghdad.

Attacks kill 46 across Iraq ahead of Arab summit
BAGHDAD (AP) — Insurgents plotting to derail next week's Arab League meeting in Baghdad unleashed bloody attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, killing 46 people. The government vowed not to be scared off from hosting the summit — the first in the country in a generation and a chance to prove it is moving toward normalcy after years of war.

US prepares to give up night raids in Afghanistan
RT - Night raids became the most hated and intimidating tactic used by US forces against civilians in Afghanistan. Even still, the military sees it as the most effective anti- terrorist tool. Those nights might be coming to end, however, as the Obama administration mulls ceding the tactic after this month’s massacre in Kandahar.

Afghanistan suspect had shaky business dealings
AP - The U.S. suspect in the slaughter of 16 villagers in Afghanistan has a trail of shaky financial dealings - from working in penny-stock boiler rooms that drew numerous client complaints, to an unpaid $1.5 million fraud judgment, to a failed investment partnership with a former high school football teammate, records show.

‘Fairytales!’ No Russian warships, anti-terror squads in Syria
RT - According to a statement released by the Russian Defense Ministry: There are no Russian combat ships on missions off Syrian shores. The Iman auxiliary vessel (tanker) has been in the port of Tartus for the last 10 days with the task of providing supplies to the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and the North Sea Fleet that are currently protecting the navigation through the Bay of Aden. The crew of the Iman is manned by civilians with a security formation joined with them.

HRW: Syrian ‘Protesters’ Carrying Out Torture, Executions
Paul Joseph Watson - A report by the independent Human Rights Watch organization confirms that Syrian opposition forces, euphemistically described as “protesters” by the mainstream media, are carrying out kidnappings, executions and torture against Syrians deemed loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad.

Israeli settlers grab West Bank water springs – UN report
RT - Israeli settlers have taken over dozens of natural water springs in the West Bank, limiting or barring Palestinians from access to much-needed fresh water, according to the UN report. Israelis deny that the access has been banned. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it had surveyed 530 springs in the West Bank to find out that at least 30, mostly in areas where Israel retains military control, were taken over by the settlers. With Palestinians unable to access them at all.

Stratfor Emails: Google Behind Middle East Regime Change
Kurt Nimmo - The recent Wikileaks Stratfor email dump adds more detail to the picture. Communication between Stratfor and Google reveals a number of players working behind the scenes to topple Arab an Muslim governments and help install “democratic” (read: establishment friendly) regimes in the Middle East. An article posted on the al-Akhbar website names two:

Rescue creditors: Greece may miss debt target
BERLIN (AP) -- Greece's international creditors see "significant risks" that the country might fail to bring down its debt burden within targets, meaning it would require more rescue loans. In a document seen by The Associated Press on Tuesday, they say Greece's program of austerity measures and structural reforms "could be accident prone."

Vatican bank image hurt as JP Morgan closes account
Reuters – JP Morgan Chase is closing the Vatican bank’s account with an Italian branch of the U.S. banking giant because of concerns about a lack of transparency at the Holy See’s financial institution, Italian newspapers reported. The move is a blow to the Vatican’s drive to have its bank included in Europe’s “white list” of states that comply with international standards against tax fraud and money-laundering.

7.4 quake hits Mexico, damaging hundreds of homes
AP - A strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit southern Mexico on Tuesday, damaging some 800 homes near the epicenter and swaying tall buildings and spreading fear and panic hundreds of miles away in the capital of Mexico City.... Hours after the shaking at noon local time (18:02 GMT), there were still no reports of death or serious injury, even after a less powerful, magnitude-5.1 aftershock was felt in the capital and several other aftershocks near the epicenter in a mountainous rural region.

Obama's Executive Order: A preparation for war with Iran?
RT - Reporters have questioned the Obama administration on if the recent move was in preparation for war with Iran, but the question was laughed off. Charlie McGrath, founder of WideAwakeNews.com, joins us to discuss if this new Executive Order is a laughing matter.

Utah governor signs law mandating 72-hour wait for abortion
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Utah's Republican governor signed a law extending a required waiting period for women seeking an abortion to 72 hours on Tuesday, even though a similar requirement in South Dakota has been blocked in court, a spokeswoman said.

Holding a gun may make you think others are too
NEW YORK (AP) -- NEW YORK (AP) -- No one knows what led a Florida neighborhood watch captain to shoot Trayvon Martin, a teenager carrying no weapon. But a new study raises an intriguing question: Could the watch captain have been fooled into thinking the youth was armed in part because he himself was holding a gun?

VIDEO: Eastern European Woman Warns America About Realities of Communism
Infowars - Many collectivists will romanticize about the days of communism, having us believe that those were the golden years of human social and economic evolution. The video below is a brief interview with an East German woman who attempts to set the recod straight with regards to the wonders of socialism and the days of communism from experiences in her former country. [This video parallels to what is happing now in America.]

Stratfor Emails: US Government Contractor Was Involved In Gaddafi Killing
Steve Watson - Emails obtained from intelligence gathering outfit Stratfor and leaked by Wikileaks show that a former director of Blackwater, the US mercenary contractor organization, was sent by the US government to fight alongside rebels in Libya, and was even involved in the killing of Muammar Gaddafi. In addition, a US government committee has now overseen the mercenary’s assignment to Syria where he is tasked with protecting rebel fighters and finding ways to “help in regime change.”

Navy Exercise Trains Military to Deal with Soldiers Who Go Postal After Multiple Tours of Duty
Kurt Nimmo - Exercise Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield 2012 is now underway around the country on 44 Navy installations.... “The Exercise Plan requires full implementation and sustainment of elevated force protection conditions for at least 48 hours and is anticipated to be from about 12 p.m. on Thursday, March 22 to 12 p.m. Saturday, March 24,” reports TheBayNet. WAVY-TV 10 in Norfolk, Virginia, reports that the Navy conducted “chilling scenarios” at Joint Expeditionary Base Little-Creek Fort Story in Hampton Roads on Monday.

Law to expand New York’s DNA databank signed
empirestatenews.net - A bill that makes New York State the first "all crimes DNA" state in the nation, by requiring DNA samples be collected from anyone convicted of a felony or Penal Law misdemeanor was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo who was joined by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. In addition, the new law also significantly expands defendants' access to DNA testing and comparison both before and after conviction in appropriate circumstances, as well as to discovery after conviction where innocence is claimed.

You Tube: Cop Arrests NBC Reporters, Says Your First Amendment Right Can Be Terminated
Video footage of the arrest on March 19, 2012.

Illinois GOP Primary results
CNN - Romney 47%, Santorum 35%, Paul 9%, Gingrich 8%. The state has a total of 69 delegates. Of that number, 54 are tied to the primary and will be awarded proportionally. Twelve are statewide delegates who will be selected at a state convention and three are unpledged RNC delegates.

Ron Paul to Hold Two Large Town Hall Meetings in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will hold two large town hall meetings on college campuses in Louisiana, continuing the 12-term Congressman from Texas’ tradition of attracting large crowds of supporters and undecided voters. The college campus town hall meetings will occur on Friday, March 23rd beginning in the afternoon. Both events are free and open to the public as well as the university communities.

Maddow admits GOP and media clueless to actual delegate count!
MSNBC Rachel Maddow March 20, 2012 - "Have you seen the ballet?"

YouTube: Ron Paul on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
NBC March 20, 2012.

YouTube: Tim Johnson Of Illinois "Ron Paul Is A Bastion Of Integrity"
MSNBC News March.20, 2012.

Win Texas and California with this Simple Plan
Daily Paul - Find 3-4 politically apathetic or disgusted friends or relatives who don't intend on voting. Ask them to do you a big favor by going to the polls with you and voting for Dr. Paul. Spare them the details. Just beg them to do this 'cause its important to you and to the country. They will probably agree because they like you and now you'll owe them a favor. Don't waste time trying to convert anyone. This is much more effective. Fill out a registration card from the state elections website, have them sign it, and mail it in for them before the deadline.

Ron Paul Issues Statement on Latest House GOP Budget Plan
Business Wire - Congressman and 2012 GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul issued the following statement today regarding the latest budget proposal by the House Republican leadership..... “Today, the House Republican leadership released a budget meant to be an alternative to President Obama's budget plan, which was filled with more debt, more deficits, and more taxing and spending. Unfortunately, the House Republican proposal doesn't go far enough to address the extreme fiscal problems we face as a nation...."

Is Ron Paul Winning?
In the states that have voted so far, Paul has received 973,925 votes, versus 451,797 in 2008, a 115 percent increase… Still, the trend is unmistakable. Paul has increased his electoral standing in 28 of the 31 states that have voted so far. And he’s made sizeable gains in some states. In Florida, for instance, he won 116,776 votes this year, an 85 percent increase from the 62,887 votes he got in 2008…

Ron Paul Makes History in Hawaii’s Inaugural GOP Caucus
HONOLULU, Hawaii – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul made history in Hawaii’s first-ever Republican caucus last week, winning neighbor islands Maui and “Big Island.” The Aloha State held its first-ever Republican presidential caucus last Tuesday. In anticipation of what turnout might be, the Republican Party of Hawaii was buzzing with curiosity and excitement leading up to caucus day. Turnout predictions under discussion ranged from 4,000 to 6,000 voters. An air of success and celebration was palpable last Tuesday, when it was learned more than 10,000 Hawaiians participated.

YouTube: Ron Paul supporters get angry
RT - In the past Ron Paul and his supporters have expressed concerns about possible election fraud. Throughout the primaries Ron Paul has been encircled by thousands of people every place he goes. To many it seems the votes don't equal to voter turn at the polls and on Monday several Paul supporters started some commotion at the Missouri Caucus claiming they just want to be heard. Brad Friedman, an investigative journalist, joins us with his take on why Ron Paul supporters are getting angry.

Ron Paul Is Winning ANOTHER Caucus, And The Media Isn't Telling You About It
Business Insider - While Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum duke it out for delegates in high-profile primaries like Illinois and Pennsylvania, Ron Paul's quiet pursuit of delegates appears to be paying off. Early results from Missouri's caucuses this weekend show that the long-shot libertarian candidate is significantly outperforming his rivals in the race for delegates. Senior campaign advisors tell Business Insider that Paul appears to have picked up the majority of Missouri's delegates, despite having lost the state's nonbinding primary to Rick Santorum.

Ron Paul blasts Obama for killing Americans
RT - Responding to Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent justification for the extrajudicial killings of three American citizens on foreign soil, Republican Party candidate Ron Paul has penned a scathing op-ed condemning the White House for circumventing the US Constitution. Earlier this month Holder spoke at Chicago’s Northwestern Law School to discuss last year’s execution of alleged terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki and two other US-born clerics in Yemen, a decision he says the White House still defends despite criticism from citizens and lawmakers alike.

YouTube: Ben Swann Interview - Lose our vote, lose our freedom - GOP Delegate fraud
55KRC talk radio.

YouTube: Ron Paul right, US deep into fascism
RT - United States presidential contender Ron Paul has warned that his country is slipping into a twenty-first century fascist system with a broke government ruled by big business. Stephen Lendman, radio host and author agrees that current US policies are evidence that the country has indeed developed a fascist system.

After 10 Years In The Marines, Sgt. Rex Gets To Be A Pet Dog
Business Insider - Cpl. Leavey developed a bond with Rex while working together during two deployments. As the two patrolled a road in 2006, an IED was detonated injuring both, resulting in Cpl. Leavey's retirement. Leavey attempted to adopt Rex at that time, however he recovered and was cleared to work as military dog. Now, five years later, as Rex was to retire for good, Leavey renewed her adoption efforts and recruited extra help in the form of Sen. Schumer and veterans groups in New York, reported Martinez.

Sometimes The Only One Who Can Remind Troops How To Feel Is A Dog
Business Insider - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is expensive, not just in dollars, but the number of medically dependent U.S. men returning home from war, and the unsettling number who take their own lives. When so many troops began arriving home from Afghanistan and Iraq suffering from PTSD, Rick Yount decided to do something about it. Yount's a former social worker who combined his experience as a social worker and service dog trainer, founding "Paws for Purple Hearts" to assist troops suffering from PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI).

As Occupy Arrestees Arraigned, Iris Scans Affect Bail
villagevoice.com - The first of the more than 70 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested Saturday afternoon and evening were arraigned yesterday in Manhattan Criminal Court....But protesters and their legal advisers were surprised yesterday to learn that the size of their bail was being affected by whether defendants were willing to have the distinctive patterns of their irises photographed and logged into a database.

Classified U.S. War Game Sees Perils of Israeli Strike Against Iran
NY Times - A classified war simulation held this month to assess the repercussions of an Israeli attack on Iran forecasts that the strike would lead to a wider regional war, which could draw in the United States and leave hundreds of Americans dead, according to American officials. The officials said the so-called war game was not designed as a rehearsal for American military action — and they emphasized that the exercise’s results were not the only possible outcome of a real-world conflict.

US soldier 'can't recall' Afghan massacre
AFP - The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers does not remember the incident, his lawyer said Monday, but the Pentagon has announced that he could be charged within days. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales -- who prosecutors say returned to his base and turned himself in after the shooting rampage could face the death penalty if convicted, according to US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

Explosions across Iraq kill at least 43
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 16 near-simultaneous explosions struck cities and towns across Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 43 people and wounding more than 200, despite a massive security clampdown ahead of next week's Arab League summit.

Pakistan parliament committee demands end to U.S. drone strikes
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) A NATO cross-border air attack on November 26 that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers created a deep crisis in relations and prompted Pakistan to review its relationship with the United States, a source of billions of dollars in aid. Pakistan halted overland supplies to U.S.-led NATO troops in Afghanistan in protest and forced U.S. personnel off a base that had been used to launch drone strikes on militants in Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun areas along the Afghanistan border.

VIDEO: Russian troops enter Syria
ABC News - A Russian military unit has arrived in Syria, according to Russian news reports, a development that a United Nations Security Council source told ABC News was "a bomb" certain to have serious repercussions. Russia, one of President Bashar al-Assad's strongest allies despite international condemnation of the government's violent crackdown on the country's uprising, has repeatedly blocked the United Nations Security Council's attempts to halt the violence, accusing the U.S. and its allies of trying to start another war.

Heavy firefights erupt in Damascus
RT - Syrian security forces have raided a den of armed terrorists in a house in western Damascus, state media reports. The fighting lasted for two hours with grenade blasts and machine gun fire being heard from the district of al-Mezzeh, witnesses say.

U.S. Navy sending even more high-tech military hardware to the Persian Gulf
Activist Post - Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the Navy’s senior officer, revealed that the massive surge of aircraft carriers and their accompanying support vessels was just the beginning of a much larger effort. The new surge will expand the power the American Navy has in the region quite a bit, and some of the new cutting-edge technology makes even the so-called commando mothership seem tame. For starters, the United States Navy will be doubling the minesweeping vessels stationed out of Bahrain in the coming months from the current four to eight.

The Pirate Bay to Fly ‘Server Drones’ to Avoid Law Enforcement
U.S. News & World Report - The world’s largest and most resilient BitTorrent site plans to redefine “cloud computing” with a plan to move at least some of its servers onto unmanned drones miles above Sweden. In a Sunday blog post, The Pirate Bay announced new "Low Orbit Server Stations" that will house the site's servers and files on unmanned, GPS-controlled, aircraft drones.

Sweden moving towards cashless economy
AP) STOCKHOLM - Sweden was the first European country to introduce bank notes in 1661. Now it's come farther than most on the path toward getting rid of them. "I can't see why we should be printing bank notes at all anymore," says Bjoern Ulvaeus, former member of 1970's pop group ABBA, and a vocal proponent for a world without cash.

China poised to limit use of mental hospitals to curb dissent
LA Times - With no arrest papers and no trials required, Chinese authorities commonly resort to forced psychiatric hospitalization if someone is considered a troublemaker but hasn't committed a crime. The tactic is frequently used to silence dissidents, political activists and people who make themselves a nuisance with complaints about unpaid wages, confiscated land and other injustices. Now, for the first time, Chinese lawmakers have drafted a law spelling out when people can be confined to psychiatric hospitals against their will.

Doctors at several Canadian hospitals routinely accepted bribes from patients to expedite surgeries in publicly funded health care
(NaturalNews) One of the major pitfalls of government-run universal health care is long waiting lists for patients who require involved procedures, a situation that often devolves into a "black market" of medical care where patients willing and able to fork over large cash sums are able to move to the front of the line for medical procedures. And this is precisely what has been taking place in Montreal, Canada, where doctors have allegedly been charging patients thousands of dollars in secret fees in order for them to gain priority in receiving medical care.

Gas Hits $10 A Gallon…In Paris
Wolf Richter - Fuel is taxed heavily in France (and in Europe), which explains part of the difference in price to the US. But now there is an additional reason. In 2008, when gasoline in the US hit all-time highs, the euro was strong against the dollar, and since oil is priced in dollars, Europeans got a sweet deal, or at least they didn’t feel the pain as much. But the weaker euro has changed the scenario, and record gas prices have been washing over the Eurozone for months.

BRICS Bank May Challenge IMF
IPS - India’s proposal to set up a bank of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) will top the agenda at the summit of the group in New Delhi Mar. 28.

Body Scanners To Be Used At Events During Olympics
Steve Watson - Radiation firing body scanners are set to be used by events organizers during the Olympics in London as part of a huge security lockdown from 27 July to 12 August.

France Bans GM Corn Amid Mass US Protests against Monsanto
Global Research “Due to the proximity of the planting season,” said Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire along with Francois Fillon, Minister for Ecology and Sustainable Development, in a press release on Friday, authorities “decided to take a precautionary measure to temporarily prohibit the cultivation of maize MON810 on the national territory to protect the environment.” All prior plantings of MON810, trade name YieldGard, become illegal on March 20. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Monsanto announced in January that it would not sell genetically modified corn in France due to public opposition.

30 million Chinese live in caves
LA Times - Some are basic, others beautiful, with high ceilings and nice yards. 'Life is easy and comfortable here,' one cave dweller says.

VIDEO: Postman: Ayers family put 'foreigner' Obama through school
WND - Allen Hulton, who was commended for 39 years of honorable service with the USPS, has given a sworn affidavit to investigators commissioned by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio to determine whether Obama is eligible for Arizona’s 2012 election ballot.... Hulton says that in conversations with Mary Ayers while on his route he learned of the couple’s enthusiasm and support for a black foreign student. One bright, warm Chicagoland day, he recounts, he met the student who fit Mary Ayers’ description in front of the Ayers home in Glen Ellyn, Ill. That young man, Hulton is convinced, was Barack Obama.

VIDEO: Woman Fined $6,000 For Planting Flowers In Her Front Yard
CBS - PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (CBS) – Kimberly Bois’ tiny front yard garden isn’t much to look at right now. But in a few weeks, it’ll be in full bloom, and every blossom will cost her dearly. Even though she says her builder gave her permission to do a little planting, the current condo board now says she’s in violation. They’re charging the Portsmouth, New Hampshire homeowner $50 a day for being so petal pushy. That fine has reached close to $6,000, plus the board’s legal fees.

NSA Utah ‘Data Center’: Biggest-ever domestic spying lab?
RT - The biggest-ever data complex, to be completed in Utah in 2013, may take American citizens into a completely new reality where their emails, phone calls, online shopping lists and virtually entire lives will be stored and reviewed. Utah sprang to media attention when the Camp Williams military base near the town of Bluffdale sprouted a vast, 240-acre construction site. American outlets say that what's hiding under the modest plate of a Utah Data Complex is a prospective intelligence facility ordered by the National Security Agency.

More Americans Giving Up Citizenship Than Reported
Overseas Exile - Record number of Americans renouncing citizenship.

VIDEO: Cop Arrests NBC Reporters, Says “Your First Amendment Right Can Be Terminated”
Steve Watson - Two NBC journalists were handcuffed and threatened by Chicago police after attempting to report on the murder of a 6-year-old girl yesterday, NBC Chicago reports. Another NBC journalist was also detained by police outside Mt. Sinai Hospital, where the girl had been taken following a fatal shooting during city wide violence over the weekend. Police were called to the hospital shortly after reporters arrived on the scene. The journalists said they has already moved away from a public sidewalk and across the street at the request of the police.

Chicago officials deny permit for May 20 NATO protest march
After approving a parade permit for a group protesting the G-8 and NATO summits in Chicago, the city has denied an identical application by the same group seeking to move their parade one day later in the wake of the White House’s decision to move the G-8 conference.

Big Brother Bloomberg Bans Food Donations
The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless. In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can’t assess the nutritional content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans.

Feds let Mexican gun-running suspect go
LA Times - Federal agents stopped the main target of the ill-fated Operation Fast and Furious in May 2010. After they questioned him, he disappeared back into Mexico, and the program went on to spiral out of control.

VIDEO: The Vetting – Holder 1995: We Must ‘Brainwash’ People on Guns
Breitbart - Breitbart.com has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public campaign to "really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way." Holder was addressing the Woman's National Democratic Club. In his remarks, broadcast by CSPAN 2, he explained that he intended to use anti-smoking campaigns as his model to "change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, DC" about guns.

If a President Has a Power to Assassinate You...
Lew Rockwell - If a president of the U.S. has a power to assassinate American citizens, then, logically, this means that he also has punitive powers that stop short of killing, since killing is for most of us just about the worst thing that can be done to us.

VIDEO: Burnsville Man Arrested, Jailed for Siding Code Violation
KSTP-TV Minnesota - A Burnsville man on his way to work was arrested and thrown in jail without bond, and then subjected to electronic home monitoring.... Burnsville city leaders say Mitch Faber’s dealings with the law all stem from his failure to properly put up siding on his house. Faber says he had every intention of completing the stucco and decorative rock project on his home but he ran into money troubles when the economy soured. Burnsville leaders say they had no choice to enforce the law.

VIDEO: TSA screeners still subject wheelchair-bound toddler to invasive tests
Daily Mail - On his way to a family vacation in Disney, the terrified boy, who was in a cast for a broken leg, underwent an invasive pat down and was swabbed for explosive residue. Despite constant assurances from his father that 'everything is ok', he physically trembles with fear and asks his parents to hold his hand.

VIDEO: Health Ranger interview with former FBI Dale Carson Part 1 - protecting your rights Feb 2012
The Health Ranger interviews former FBI agent and present-day defense attorney Dale Carson, who is the author of "Arrest-Proof Yourself," an amazing book that helps you learn how to protect your basic rights during or in order to avoid arrest. Dale tells us why there is "no due process in the streets" and what we can do to protect our basic rights by knowing the proper way to behave when confronted with law enforcement.

VIDEO: BREAKING ELECTION FRAUD: Why Did ABC-TV Post Illinois GOP Primary Results 24 Hours Early?
Posted tonight – MONDAY, March 19th – on the web site of Chicago ABC News Affiliate WLS-TV are the following election results, clearly labeled as “Illinois Races, Federal Offices”. If we have this wrong, please let us know why this information exists in ANY form. Or, if we are indeed living in a banana republic, copy that. You now have our blessing to move out of the country. Enlarged screenshot here (click on screen). Some people on the Daily Paul think it maybe "test data'. Read comments here.

Illinois Primary - March 20 - Open Thread
Daily Paul - Please post your news, observations and insights in the comments section below. Check back here for the results. Click here for the Daily Paul Illinois Primary Voters Kit.

YouTube: Ron Paul on CNBC: 3/19/12
CNBC's Maria Bartiromo speaks to Texas Congressman and Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul about his plans if he fails to win any single state.

Ron Paul Give Me Liberty Money Bomb
Dr. Ron Paul is leading the way. But right now, the establishment is pulling out all the stops to derail our R3VOLUTION. And without an immediate influx of $1 million, I am afraid they will succeed. That's why we're joining with the grassroots and holding a "Give Me Liberty" Money Bomb on March 23 to help Ron Paul raise the funds necessary to continue racking up critical delegates in state-after-state.

Ron Paul's Fundraising Drops from 2008
Washington Times - The latest report, covering up through the end of February, shows Mr. Paul has raised $33.1 million this cycle. But that's $1.1 million short of where he was at the end of February in 2008. His operating expenses have also been higher this time — $32.8 million, as compared to $28.8 million spent in 2008. But the spending has apparently paid off in the election results. He has improved his vote total in nearly every state this year, with the exceptions being states that changed their formats from 2008.

Ron Paul Returning to The Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno - Tue March 20, 2012
Daily Paul - Presidential candidate Ron Paul will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Tuesday, March 20th at 11:30 p.m. Eastern. Check local listings for times in your area.

VIDEO: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 3/19/12
The Demolition of Due Process and the Rule of Law

State sunshine laws
State sunshine laws are the laws in each state that govern public access to governmental records. These laws are sometimes known as open records laws or public records laws, and are also collectively referred to as FOIA laws, after the federal Freedom of Information Act.

NYPD goes after OWS protester's tweet
RT - New York Police are investigating an alleged online threat to murder police officers in support for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Iran presses ahead with dollar attack
Last week, the Tehran Times noted that the Iranian oil bourse will start trading oil in currencies other than the dollar from March 20.... “The dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme is nothing more than a convenient excuse for the US to use threats to protect the 'reserve currency’ status of the dollar,” the newspaper, which calls itself the voice of the Islamic Revolution, said.

Syrian troops and gunmen clash in the capital
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian security forces clashed Monday with gunmen in an upscale neighborhood of the capital Damascus that is home to embassies and senior officials in one of the worst confrontations in the tightly-controlled city center in the country's yearlong uprising. At least three people were killed.

VIDEO: Bob Geldof Tells Arabs: Stop Breeding Or Nature Will Intervene
Jurriaan Maessen - At the second Gulf Intelligence Food Security Forum held on March 16 in the United Arab Emirates, self-proclaimed global citizen “sir” Bob Geldof told his audience in so many words they should stop having children or nature would do it for them. “They either find a cultural way to make this acceptable or they’re going to have an anthropogenic critical event”, Geldof told a reporter after the event.

Nurses charged in 16 'mercy' killings in Uruguay
Prosecutors in Uruguay have filed murder charges against two nurses for at least 16 'mercy' killings, and jailed the suspects. The male nurses, 39 and 46, were charged with homicides of patients both at a private Neurological Intensive Care Center and a public hospital's intermediate-level care unit.

Proposed UN Environmental Constitution For The World Would Establish An Incredibly Repressive System Of Global Governance
Activist Post - This proposed UN environmental constitution for the world is incredibly detailed. The U.S. Constitution only has 7 articles, but the UN document has 79 articles. If the U.S. eventually ratifies this treaty, any national, state or local laws that conflict with this covenant will be null and void. This is potentially one of the greatest threats to our national sovereignty that we have ever seen and we need to warn the American people about it. Essentially what this proposed environmental covenant does is it takes the sustainable development principles underlying Agenda 21 and turns them into global constitutional law.

‘Mossad, CIA agree Iran has yet to decide to build nuclear weapon’
Haaretz Israel’s intelligence services agree with American intelligence assessments that there is not enough proof to determine whether Iran is building a nuclear bomb, according to a report published Sunday in the New York Times.

At least 27 killed as twin bombings strike Damascus security structures (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
RT - Twin explosions have shaken the Syrian capital, killing at least 27 people and injuring some 140, state TV says. Syrian media has dubbed the blasts “terrorist attacks.”

Afghan massacre suspect identified as Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales
RT - The US soldier suspected of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, whose name had previously been kept a secret, is Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, CNN reports.

VIDEO: 'US wants to redraw Middle East map’
RT - The map the Pentagon wants to see in the Middle East would leave Syria without access to the oil-rich Mediterranean Sea, and with the goal of redirecting oil flows to China and Europe, researcher William F. Engdahl told RT.

New Fukushima Cessium-137 Threat
Kurt Nimmo - Corporate media ignoring major and potentially catastrophic development at Fukushima nuclear plant. Kyodo News reported on March 15 that “that the clarity of water inside the spent fuel pool of the No. 4 unit may have deteriorated based on a survey conducted by a camera,” according to Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant operator.

The Disabled to Be Used for Slave Labor: UK Government Plan
Gaia Health - As part of the current UK government’s overhaul of the health and welfare systems, people with disabilities—including those diagnosed with terminal cancer, stroke victims, accident victims, those pressed into taking antipsychotics, and any others deemed needy of “work experience”—will be forced to labor for free, with no end in sight, or face losing their already meagre benefits.

Homeopaths under assault in Australia after NHMRC threatens to declare their work unethical
(NaturalNews) A draft document not intended for public release has revealed that the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) in Australia is planning to nix homeopathy from its list of covered medical treatments. The Age reports that the draft paper, which was recently leaked to reporters, dubs homeopathy an "unethical" form of medical treatment, and alleges that patients who choose homeopathy over conventional medicine could be putting themselves at risk.

Monsanto, Sinochem in talks to sow seeds of cooperation
China Daily - A unit of Sinochem Corp, a major State-owned agrichemicals conglomerate, is in talks with the US-based crop-biotechnology company Monsanto Co about cooperation in tapping China's vegetable-seed market.... Analysts said that if the companies combined their respective strengths, they could reshape China's vegetable market, which has long been dominated by multinational companies, and put fresh pressure on the nation's smaller seed companies.

Lawyer prepares to meet Afghan killings suspect
SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle defense attorney prepared to meet Monday with Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is facing formal charges in an attack on two slumbering Afghan villages that left 16 people dead, including nine children.... Bales, 38, hasn't been charged in the March 11 shootings, which have endangered relations between the U.S. and Afghanistan and threaten to upend U.S. policy over the decade-old war. But formal charges are expected to be filed within a week and if the case goes to court the trial will be held in the United States, said a legal expert with the U.S. military familiar with the investigation.

POLICE STATE USA: New Obama Executive Order Seizes U.S. Infrastructure and Citizens for Military Preparedness
Global Research - In a stunning move, on March 16, 2012, Barack Obama signed an Executive Order stating that the President and his specifically designated Secretaries now have the authority to commandeer all domestic U.S. resources including food and water. The EO also states that the President and his Secretaries have the authority to seize all transportation, energy, and infrastructure inside the United States as well as forcibly induct/draft American citizens into the military. The EO also contains a vague reference in regards to harnessing American citizens to fulfill “labor requirements” for the purposes of national defense.
***Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness

VIDEO: FEMA Corps To Be Brownshirts For Homeland Security Emergency Response?
Aaron Dykes - Homeland Security has announced the creation of a new FEMA corps to tap volunteers for disaster/emergency responses. The program is a partnership between FEMA and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), itself managed under the Homeland Security umbrella. The Department of Homeland Security plans to start with 1,600 volunteers dispatched across the country and specially trained to provide “critical disaster services” during an emergency response. Volunteers are not FEMA employees, but will wear branded uniform clothing and will be directed by FEMA. DHS boasts that the entry level positions will prepare these trainees for careers in the ever-bloating disaster response bureaucracy.

Texas Mayor Officially Cancels Agenda 21 Membership
The city of Irving, Texas has officially withdrawn its membership from ICLEI -- the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. This NGO was established in 1990 and is the action division of the policies laid out under the UN's Agenda 21 plan -- the globalist initiative to usher in a post-industrial world for the 21st century through the creation of local laws and requirements for city planning that essentially erase personal property rights and even steal land under a "sustainable" umbrella.

Globalists Pull Plug on Kony 2012 with Spectacular Crash and Burn
Activist Post - Over the past week, as Invisible Children and their corporate sponsors performed desperate damage control, ties between the alleged "charity" and the US State Department, Wall Street speculator George Soros and his Open Society Institute, and a myriad of corporate-funded foundations began surfacing and spreading just as quickly as their documentary Kony 2012 rose to fame.

Senators terrified with abuse of Patriot Act’s secret laws
RT - In a joint letter to Attorney General Eric Holder sent Thursday, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Mark Udall (D-Colorado) plead with the government to provide the American people with the facts behind what the Patriot Act can let America’s top investigators do. The lawmakers, who have rallied for disclosure of these details for more than two years, say citizens would be “stunned” to learn what the government believes it can get away with under the law.

Ron Paul: “The Patriot Act was written many, many years before 9/11..."
Washington Blog Dec, 9, 2011 - The Patriot Act was planned before 9/11. Indeed, former Counter Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke told Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig: After 9/11 the government drew up the Patriot Act within 20 days and it was passed. The Patriot Act is huge and I remember someone asking a Justice Department official how did they write such a large statute so quickly, and of course the answer was that it has been sitting in the drawers of the Justice Department for the last 20 years waiting for the event where they would pull it out.

CIA Head: We Will Spy On Americans Through Electrical Appliances
Steve Watson - Speaking at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s technology investment operation, Petraeus made the comments when discussing new technologies which aim to add processors and web connections to previously ‘dumb’ home appliances such as fridges, ovens and lighting systems.... “Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing,” Petraeus said.

The Department of Homeland Security plans to build a high-risk virus research center in the heart of America
(NaturalNews) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is set to begin construction on a new high-risk bio-weapons research facility on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, though critics say the decision is fraught with risk because of the potential for damage from nearby earthquake fault lines.

VIDEO: Don’t want to be groped by the TSA or go through a body scanner? Just pay $100!
Activist Post - As of now, selected frequent flyers and “Trusted Travelers” as defined by Customs and Border Protection (another DHS agency) are the only people who are able to participate in the new “PreCheck” program.... So far, almost 100,000 people on American Airlines alone have signed up for the TSA’s program, which translates to a whopping $10,000,000 in fees will be gathered just from passengers of this single airline.

VIDEO: Ron Paul on TSA Pat Downs - We're Like Cattle
Fox News Mar 16, 2012.

VIDEO: Bob Barr Files Lawsuit Against TSA Over ‘Drudge’ Controversy
Paul Joseph Watson - The lawsuit seeks to discover if there was internal TSA discussion of individuals and websites that promoted the national opt out day, including prominent critics of the TSA like Matt Drudge and Alex Jones. Liberty Guard’s original FOIA request sought to obtain all internal TSA material that mentions the terms “Matt Drudge”, “Drudgereport.com”, “Alex Jones”, “PrisonPlanet.com”, “John Tyner”, “national opt-out day”, “Opt-Out Alliance” and “domestic extremists.”

Obama Fanatic Found Guilty of Threats to Kill Sheriff Joe and Family
Police Patrol A Tennessee man who threatened to put “a thousand bullet holes” in Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been sentenced to supervised probation for the online threat.

VIDEO: As Chuck E. Cheese Goes So Goes America
The American Dream - Why are wild brawls breaking out at Chuck E. Cheese restaurants all over the United States? Sadly, the epidemic of Chuck E. Cheese fights that we have seen in recent months is just another symptom of what is happening to America on a larger scale. The truth is that the fabric of our society is slowly but surely coming apart, and the rest of the world is laughing at us.... So what has changed?

5 Reasons Why American Riots Will Be The Worst In The World
Go to The Greatest Truth Never Told for more information like this. The Greatest Truth Never Told (TGTNT) is a video series that has been 7 years in research and development. It is centered around the truth that humanity has been enslaved over and over again throughout history.

VIDEO: Puerto Rico Republican Primary Results
CNN - Romney 83%, Santorum 8%, Gingrich 2%, Paul 1%... Romney said he would have "no preconditions" on language for Puerto Rico to gain statehood, though during a CNN debate in January he said English should be the nation's official language.

Missouri GOP Primary Results
MSNBC March 17, 2012 - Rick Santorum 55%, Mitt Romney 25%, Ron Paul 12%.

Largest MO Caucus Adjourns WITHOUT Conducting Business – No Delegates Selected
Examiner - The [St Charles County] Caucus meeting was NEVER brought to order. Standing rules established by the Central Committee included the prohibition of cameras, video or sound recording. This did not sit well with the caucus goers.... Central Committee Chairman, Eugene Dokes refused to gavel the meeting to order until the camera was put away. Caucusgoers sided, quite vocally, with the cameraman! And at that moment Stokes lost control of the caucus! No business was conducted. No delegates were selected. Attendees were threatened with arrest for trespassing if they did not immediately vacate the premises. The entire affair was a comedy of mismanagement. Daily Paul Comments here.

FLASHBACK 2008: Ron Paul supporters take control of St. Charles County's Republican caucus
STL Today - March 22, 2008 - Although Paul received just 3.8 percent of the vote during the primary race in St. Charles County, the Paul supporters were in the majority of the 131 people who attended the March 15 caucus. They quickly elected Brent Stafford, a Paul supporter from O'Fallon, as chairman.... The Paul supporters filled 241 of the 274 delegate slots from St. Charles County.

Police Intervene, Arrest Ron Paul Backers at Missouri Caucus
ABC News - Police and organizers shut down proceedings at one of Missouri’s largest caucuses today, as Ron Paul supporters feuded with local GOP leaders.

VIDEO: Ron Paul supporters say GOP cheated them out of delegates
Athens Banner-Herald - Supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul are complaining that other Clarke County Republicans shut out their slate of delegates at the county convention Saturday. The libertarian-leaning Texas congressman’s supporters are trying to win election as delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., in August, libertarian activist Carter Kessler said. They claim the Clarke County GOP broke its own rules by electing a slate of delegates that excluded Paul supporters over their objections.

VIDEO: St. Charles MO Hijacked Caucus 2012
Kenneth Suitter was required to turn off his recording device or be arrested. As you can hear from this video, the crowd felt it was OK to record this OPEN, PUBLIC, TRANSPARENT meeting.

I'm "THE Camera Man"
Daily Paul - I'm one of the St. Charles County Coordinators for Ron Paul. This is my account of the caucus hijacking on March 17.... Before the caucus began, I was told, by the then acting chairman, to turn off my video camera (which was in plain view, mounted on a tripod in the bleachers). I immediately shouted "TRANSPARENCY" and about half the gymnasium started booing at the chairman's demands.

Elderly Voters Shut Out
STL Today - In Ballwin, participants were shut out of an appearance by White House hopeful Rick Santorum because the City Council chambers had reached its 118-person capacity. “We have had people who left, elderly who could not find a place to sit,” said Craig Borchelt, a Mitt Romney organizer. “There was a guy out here with a cast — he finally sat down on the grass.” The caucus was moved outside the building to accommodate the crowd.

Fox News: "We are Having a Problem with Voter Fraud Right Now"
Fox News gets Judge Napolitano opinion on the voter ID controversy in Texas.

YouTube: Ron Paul Wants Us To Pursue Election Fraud Investigations
Dr Paul has appealed to anyone who can find or produce evidence to do so. He is too busy with the campaign. If you are a lawyer, detective or investigator or can help in any way please do. Ron Paul on FM 93.9 KSSZ Columbia, MO Radio 03/16/12.

YouTube: Ball Booth :30
Humorous campaign ad for Ron Paul uploaded by TheRevolutionPAC on Mar 16, 2012.

U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, a Ron Paul protege, seeks a GOP 'revolution'
Detroit News - As a young Michigan State representative with a penchant for casting the sole "no" vote on legislation in Lansing, Justin Amash wondered how his independent streak would fare in Congress. So Amash flew to Texas in early 2010 to ask advice from someone with a history of bucking the establishment in Washington: U.S. Rep. Ron Paul.

YouTube: The New Revolution - 2012 Phenomenon
Brace yourself for The New Revolution, A 2012 Phenomenon. Nationwide Movement Igniting the World. Birth of a New Generation.

OCCUPY: 'This Is Our Spring Offensive'
(Reuters) - The park remained closed on Sunday with a sprinkling of police surrounding it, keeping the area clear while crews cleaned up following Saturday night's protests. A sweep just before midnight, when roughly 300 demonstrators had gathered in the park, capped a day of protests and marching in lower Manhattan. The New York Police Department said it arrested 73 protesters between Saturday afternoon and early Sunday morning.

VIDEO: Occupy Wall Street Activist Cecily McMillan Allegedly Beaten By NYPD
NY Observer - Cecily McMillan, an Occupy Wall Street activist once profiled in Rolling Stone, suffered a seizure Saturday night during protest action near Zuccotti Park. Many on-scene reported Ms. McMillan had trouble breathing after she was tackled and handcuffed by law enforcement.

NATO helicopter crash kills 16 people in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) - A NATO helicopter crashed into a house on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and four Afghan civilians on the ground, Turkey's general staff and a senior Afghan police official said.... KABUL (Reuters) - A NATO helicopter crashed into a house on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and four Afghan civilians on the ground, Turkey's general staff and a senior Afghan police official said.

North Korea's plan for rocket launch stirs regional concern
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday it will launch a long-range rocket carrying a "working" satellite to mark the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung's birth next month, sparking regional condemnation that it was in breach of a U.N. resolution.

U.S. May Sanction India Over Level of Iran-Oil Imports
Bloomberg - India has failed to reduce its purchases of Iranian oil, and if it doesn’t do so, President Barack Obama may be forced to impose sanctions on one of Asia’s most important nations, Obama administration officials said yesterday. A decision to levy penalties under a new U.S. law restricting payments for Iranian oil could come as early as June 28, according to several U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

YouTube: Israel added Uranium to orange juice
RT - Juice laced with uranium is just one of many clinical trials allegedly conducted at Israel's Negev nuclear plant, claims investigative journalist Yossi Melman. Melman has accused the plant's management of forcing its workers to take part in life-threatening experiments for the sake of nuclear developments. They also claim the government and the military are involved in a cover-up of the tests.

Afghanistan wants early takeover of security: Karzai
AFP - Afghanistan wants to take over control of the nation's security in 2013 not 2014 and for US troops to pull out of villages, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday, just days after a US soldier massacred 16 villagers. Karzai told visiting US defence chief Leon Panetta that "Afghanistan is ready to take overall security responsibility", a statement from his office said. "Our demand is that this process should be executed sharply and the responsibility should be handed over to to Afghans."

Karzai demands U.S. troops leave village outposts; Taliban suspends peace talks with U.S.
Washington Post - President Hamid Karzai demanded Thursday that the United States pull back from combat outposts and confine its troops to military bases in Afghanistan, an apparent response to Sunday’s shooting rampage by a U.S. staff sergeant. Meanwhile, the Taliban said it was suspending preliminary peace talks with the United States because of Washington’s “alternating and ever-changing position,” and accused U.S. officials of reneging on promises to take meaningful steps toward a prisoner swap.

VIDEO: Afghan lawmaker accused the United States of showing "a fake video
CNN - Muhammad Naim Lalai said he was one of several Afghan officials shown a surveillance video on the soldier's base in Kandahar province. "We were shown a video in which a soldier climbs the wall of a military base and then goes indoors and pulls his bullet-proof jacket off and then puts his arms up to surrender himself," Lalai told CNN, expressing doubt that the video was genuine.

Meanwhile... Obama Fills Out 2012 NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket
Obama shows us what's really important!

YouTube: Netanyahu to Obama - "You are the Great Satan and we are the little Satan"
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says the U.S. and Israel stand together on security and against Iran. This is what Netanyahu said to Obama.... Listen to all the Remarks by PM Netanyahu and President Obama Prior to Their Meeting in it's entirety here. (Netanyahu starts speaking at the 5:15 minute mark.)

VIDEO: SWIFT financial service cuts Iran
RT - SWIFT, the Brussels based transaction provider, announced it has been instructed to cut services to Iranian financial institutions that are subject to European sanctions, in order to comply with the EU Council directive. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, is crucial to Iran’s oil and other trade. The EU Council decision prohibits companies such as SWIFT from continuing to provide specialized financial messaging services to EU-sanctioned Iranian banks.

VIDEO: Brzezinski: Syria is Not Libya
Kurt Nimmo - Former Carter national security adviser and trusted Rockefeller minion Zbigniew Brzezinski has stated that military intervention in Syria will not work as it did in Libya. Although he currently opposes direct military intervention, Brzezinski said that if Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and neighboring Arab nations support “a course of action that they think is needed for resolving the Syrian problem,” the United States will “fully support” it.

Australian 'special forces gathering intelligence in Africa'
Telegraph - The Sydney Morning Herald said 4 Squadron of the elite Special Air Service (SAS) had mounted dozens of clandestine operations in places such as Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Kenya in a role normally carried out by spies. Citing a government source, it said the missions by the previously unknown squadron were believed to involve terrorism intelligence gathering amid concerns about the threat posed by the Islamist al-Shebab militia.

Italian mayor bans dying over lack of space in local cemetery
RT - The mayor of small town in Italy’s south has surprised residents with an order that seems impossible to obey: don't die, as the local cemetery is short of space. ­The 4,000 residents of Falciano del Massico, a town some 50 kilometers north of Naples, have been challenged with a recent order by mayor Giulio Cesare Fava. The document reads that “it is forbidden for residents … to go beyond the boundaries of earthly life, and to go into to the afterlife.”

FBI Warns of Homegrown Violence After Afghan Massacre
ABC - "The FBI and DHS [Department of Homeland Security] are concerned that this event could contribute to the radicalization or mobilization of homegrown violent extremists [HVEs] in the homeland, particularly against U.S.-based military targets which HVEs have historically considered legitimate targets for retaliation in response to past alleged U.S. military actions against civilians overseas," the FBI and DHS said in a joint "awareness bulletin" to law enforcement agencies Wednesday. The bulletin noted that there is no specific threat at this time and said it is "unlikely".... "However," the bulletin says, "[the killings] will likely be incorporated into violent extremist propaganda and could contribute to an individual's radicalization to violence."

VIDEO: Jeremy Scahill: Obama after whistleblowers worldwide
RT - The United States encourages the Freedom of the Press both in America and abroad — at least they claim. But in actuality, the Obama administration is going out of their way to keep journalists from exposing the truth.

YouTube: Phony Kony 2012 Warning
The Heretic presents: Phony Kony 2012... a Warning against propping up yet another African puppet.

VIDEO: "It began with people being schooled to be stupid”
This video is actually about how government-run schooling contributed to the rise of socialism, imperialism and eventually fascism in Germany between the 1890s and 1940s. Critical Thinking Question: In school we are led to believe that we are all living in an ideal vision of what society should be... But who's vision is it? And what were their ideals?

YouTube: Police Department Shut Down After Child Taser Cover UP
MOUNT STERLING, Ohio — A town\'s police department has been closed amid claims of a cover up after an officer allegedly used a taser to subdue a nine-year-old boy. Nearly 2,000 residents of Mount Sterling, in Ohio, have been left without local law enforcement after their police chief was suspended while officials investigated the incident.

Wisconsin to ban some abortion coverage, re-focus sex education
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Wisconsin lawmakers have approved controversial measures to block the state's new health insurance exchange from covering abortions and require sex education classes to emphasize abstinence as the preferred method of birth control. The laws ban private insurers from offering abortion coverage in the plans they offer through the state-run exchange where thousands of Wisconsin residents will buy subsidized coverage under President Obama's healthcare overhaul.

SONG: To Ron Paul Supporters
Daily Paul - The song presented herein is titled To Ramona by Bob Dylan. After thinking deeply about the title at around 4:20 one afternoon, I came to the conclusion that it is an anagram for "To a man or ..." (a woman, being the obvious implication),' i.e. to the human race. The lyrics address the human condition so presciently, and on this fine Friday, I direct them to Ron Paul supporters everywhere. Since the original by Dylan is unavailable on YouTube, here is the best cover available, by Sinéad Lohan. Lyrics below the break, and well worth pondering, especially on a Friday, late afternoon... [A clearer version here.]

NEED: Parliamentarian needed Saturday March 17th in Springfield, MO! Please help!
Daily Paul - We direly need a parliamentarian for the Greene County Caucus located in Springfield, MO on Saturday March 17th at 8am. This is a very large county with 111 delegates that will be sent to both the 7th District Congressional and Missouri State Caucus. If we win this county, we will have secured 1/3 of the Congressional Caucus and all but guaranteed 3 delegates for Ron Paul at the National Convention. If you are an expert in Robert's Rules of order please contact me...

Ron Paul Attracts 1,500-plus Voters to Giant Outdoor Town Hall Meeting in Missouri
ST. LOUIS, Missouri – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul attracted today a remarkable 1,500-plus supporters and undecided voters to an outdoor town hall meeting held in Missouri. The Mizzou event occurred on the heels of last night’s University of Illinois campus town hall meeting that drew an incredible 4,600-plus supporters and undecided voters. Both events were organized by ‘Youth for Ron Paul’ (YFP), an initiative of the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign.

Thousands Turn Out for President Paul in Missouri
Daily Paul - Ron addressed several thousand this afternoon on the University of Missouri campus. As always, his speech was peppered with words and phrases you'll never hear from the other candidates, or the incumbent, or the mainstream media: the Patriot Act is the "Repeal the Fourth Amendment Act"; Washington is full of "warmongers" and "tyrants"; a preemptive strike is "a fancy word for starting a war"; another candidate is a "theocrat"; tolerance consists of "allowing people to do things you don't approve of, and letting them bear the consequences", etc.

GOP Insiders: Paul on track to get more delegates than Romney in Iowa
The End Run - The Huffington Post, quoting "state insiders", is now reporting that "Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are best positioned to win the most delegates in Iowa as the Republican primary process moves forward, making Mitt Romney the odd man out, state insiders told The Huffington Post."

Ron Paul Competitive Against Obama in Latest Rasmussen Poll
Business Wire - Outperforming one-time 'front-runners,' Paul remains on track to defeat incumbent President

VIDEO: Ron Paul: Crowd of 5,000 in Illinois, but he's not winning?
All Voices - I do not understand why thousands of people keep showing up for the Paul rallies -- yet he is not winning the race for the Republican nomination? Could it be from messy caucuses? Could it be voter fraud? Do other candidates get this kind of reception? Something does not add up here... Is the "establishment" in control of the mainstream media? Is that why most people don't hear about the crowds that come to see Ron Paul? What is going on in this country? Surely these caucuses or "beauty contests" can't mean anything if they are not being handled correctly, can they?

PHOTO: Now, Compare Gingrich's Rally in Illinois

AUDIO: Ron Paul Senior Advisor Bruce Fein talks Impeachment Resolution and Republican Convention Outlook
Bruce Fein Senior Advisor for Ron Paul 2012 campaign and author of Congressman Walter B Jones H. CON. RES. 107M joins Daily Paul Radio with Kurt Wallace for ‘Ron Paul Senior Advisor Bruce Fein talks Impeachment Resolution and Republican Convention Outlook’ to discuss the resolution’s purpose moving forward, the support for this legislation and Leon Panetta’s statement regarding whether or not the administration would even talk to congress prior to military action in Syria as impeachable.

Revealed: Electronic voting system hacked in DC
RT - When Washington, DC decided to try out an Internet voting system to make casting absentee ballots as easy as clicking a mouse, they dared hackers to compromise the contest. It was a feat accomplished in less than two days.... “Within 48 hours of the system going live, we had gained near complete control of the election server," researchers from the University of Michigan explain in a write-up of their 2010 hack of an e-voting system that DC was debating on pushing live.

PHOTO: The Romney family misspells its own name ... a Freudian slip?
A picture can speak a thousand words...

VIDEO: Iraq War Veteran Accused In 6 Murders Tells Detective He Has ‘Killer Gene’
SANTA ANA (CBS) — Disturbing new details are being released about the Iraq war veteran accused of at least six brutal murders in Orange County. Itzcoatl Ocampo’s alleged victims include four homeless men. Now, a secret grand jury transcript obtained by the Orange County Register reveals that 23-year-old Ocampo joined the Marines to become a killer and was disappointed when he spent his time in Iraq driving a truck. Ocampo also told a detective that he targeted the heads of his victims because he learned it was a quick kill in the movie “Terminator 2”.

VIDEO: Occupy-Monsanto to wear bio-hazmat suits
Press TV - On Friday, March 16, 2012, Occupy Monsanto's agents of change with the Genetic Crimes Unit (GCU), a group designed to protect America from genetically modified foods, will wear bio-hazmat suits when they visit Congress. The group will gather at Capitol South Metro station at noon on March 16 to highlight how chemical company Monsanto is contaminating our political process.

What Has Occupy Been Up To? 6 Great Actions You Can't Miss This Spring
AlterNet - While most of the occupations around the country, and around the world, have been dismantled (most recently Occupy London last week) and Occupy has less of a physical presence in that there are not as many occupied public spaces, this does not mean that Occupy, as a movement, is any less real.... “Occupy, of course, has not gone away because the issues and problems it brought up and the questions it has asked of society have also not gone away.”

Afghans angry over removal of accused US soldier
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan lawmakers expressed anger Thursday over the U.S. move to fly an American soldier accused of killing 16 civilians out of the country to Kuwait, saying Kabul shouldn't sign a strategic partnership agreement with Washington unless the suspect faces justice in Afghanistan.

U.S. troops numb, uncertain after Afghan massacre
LAKEWOOD, Washington (Reuters) - Around the home base of the American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians there is a sense of dedication to a tough job, but stress from years of battle in repeated tours in the "sand box" of Iraq and Afghanistan is eating away at troops. "A lot of the guys, especially those with a lot of deployments, have built up a numbness to people being killed or hurt," said one veteran of six tours abroad, including Iraq and Afghanistan, describing his own reaction to the weekend shooting. "The people who hate us are going to put a bad spin on us no matter what we do." The 33-year-old sergeant says he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. He asked not to be identified, since the base has told soldiers not to speak with media.

Supporters of Syrian regime rally in Damascus
BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands poured into the streets of the Syrian capital Thursday in a show of support for the regime as soldiers tightened their siege in opposition areas on the one-year anniversary of the country's uprising. Rallies to commemorate the start of the revolt have been planned in cities across Syria and abroad, but local activists report increased army presence near opposition strongholds in an apparent attempt to quash dissent.

France against arming Syrian opposition
France is opposed to calls for foreign powers to arm the opposition groups fighting Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, fearing a descent into civil war, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Thursday.

1,000 Syrian refugees flee to Turkey 'in single day'
Around 1,000 Syrian refugees, including a defecting general, have crossed into Turkey in the last 24 hours, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, the first anniversary of the Syrian revolt. "The number of Syrian refugees currently staying in Turkey boomed by 1,000 in a single day and climbed to 14,700 total," ministry spokesperson Selçuk Ünal told reporters in Ankara.

Obama, Cameron discussed tapping oil reserves
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the possibility of releasing emergency oil reserves during a meeting on Wednesday, two sources familiar with the talks said, the first sign that Obama is starting to test global support for an effort to knock back near-record fuel prices. Obama raised the issue during a broad bilateral meeting at the White House, according to a UK official with knowledge of the discussion.... Discussions could last as long as several months before any decision is made, one of the sources said.

‘US warns Iran: Accede or be attacked’
Jeruslaem Post - The United States asked Russia to send Iran a message that the upcoming round of nuclear talks is its last chance to avoid a military confrontation this year, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported Wednesday according to a diplomatic source. The unusually stark warning by the US was passed on by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, after the two met in New York on Monday, the diplomatic source told the Russian newspaper.

Panetta a target? Car explodes on Afghan runway as Defense Sec. lands
RT - A vehicle drove onto the runway at Camp Bastion, the main British military base in Afghanistan, then burst into flames at roughly the same time the US Defense Secretary arrived this morning. A pickup truck drove at high speed onto the ramp where Leon Panetta's plane was intended to stop.... Though it is not yet clear whether the explosion was a coincidence, or if Panetta was the target of a suicide attack, the base was put on lockdown after the incident. “It's too early to say right now,” Kirby said. ”It may have been a coincidence.”

VIDEO: In 'highly unusual' move, Marines asked to disarm before Leon Panetta speech
MNBC - In a highly unusual move, around 200 U.S. Marines were asked to leave their weapons outside the tent where U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was set to speak during his trip to Afghanistan on Wednesday. Although the military said the order was not given in response to Sunday's shooting of 16 Afghan civilians allegedly by an American soldier, it possibly underlined how high tensions were running after the incident.

White House to share missile-defense secrets with Russia?
American authorities could soon be sharing classified data on their missile defense system with Russia in an effort to recruit their former Cold War foe to prepare against possible rocket strikes. Officials from within the White House tell reporters this week that Washington is considering talks with Moscow that could lead to both nations exchanging top-secret intelligence involving their respective missile-defense systems.

Palestine children traumatised by Israeli jail-report
RAMALLAH, West Bank, March 13 (Reuters) - Of the hundreds of Palestinian children locked in Israeli jails each year, the vast majority suffer nightmares, bed-wetting and anxiety after their release, Save the Children said in a report published on Monday. The charity said that since 2000, the Israeli army had detained more than 8,000 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and prosecuted children as young as 12 in military courts, most of them suspected of rock-throwing.

Israel targets Palestinian solar panels in bid for West Bank dominance
RT - Hundreds of Palestinians will be left without electricity should Israel’s order for the demolition of 8 solar panels in the West Bank go ahead, in what many say is an attempt to drive Palestinians out of the Israeli-controlled part of the territory.... The panels were constructed by international charities, but the Israeli authorities say they were built without permission.

VIDEO: Wag the dog: How to cook-up Syrian drama
RT - Some mainstream news channels have been recently caught carrying dubious footage from Syria. It fuels the debate over media's role in legitimizing possible military intervention in the country.

Eurozone formally approves second Greek bailout
Press TV - "Euro area member states have today formally approved the second adjustment program for Greece," Luxembourg Prime Minister and the chairman of the eurozone finance ministers, Jean-Claude Juncker said in a statement on Wednesday. Juncker said that the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) has been authorized by eurozone governments to release a "first installment" of 39.4 billion euros to Greece under the scheme, to be disbursed in several tranches.

The UK Government's Latest Moneymaking Scam - 100 Year Gilt
Activist Post - In next week's budget Chancellor George Osbourne will announce that the government is to begin offering 100-year gilts - bonds which offer a fixed rate of interest, and which will not be repaid until next century. The bankrupt British government is attempting to persuade us to exchange our money for a piece of paper that we are expected to trust will have at least the same value when our grandchildren own it in the early 22nd century.

Critics warn that thousands of Britons could be extradited under plans for EU states to be given access to our DNA bank
Daily Mail - Police across the EU are to be given open access to the UK’s national DNA database, it was confirmed last night. There is particular concern that innocent people could be identified as suspects – after evidence emerged from the Netherlands, which has been running the scheme for four years, of a worryingly high number of ‘false positive’ results.

YouTube: Would Syria airstrikes be an impeachable offense?
Reality Check - Ben takes a look at statements by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta over who has the authority to wage war 03-13-12.

Police drones to be equipped with non-lethal weapons?
RT - Law enforcement near Houston, Texas will soon have a $300,000 robotic surveillance drone in their arsenal, and if Montgomery County’s chief deputy has his say, it’s only a matter of time before that aircraft will be equipped to fire from above. Discussing a new deal that will give the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office near Houston, Texas an unmanned, robotic spy drone, Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel tells The Daily that he hasn’t rule out adding weaponry to the lightweight aircraft.... On the topic of tacking a tear gas dispenser or a firearm that shoots non-lethal rubber bullets, McDaniel says it could eventually be an idea the department decides to go with.

VIDEO: Cafferty: Thanks to Military Industrial Complex, We’re Still in Afghanistan
Kurt Nimmo - CNN’s Jack Cafferty is right. It is the military industrial complex and its hip pocket politicians that are responsible for dragging out the war in Afghanistan. He says it is time to bring the troops home. It’s refreshing to see this sort of commentary from CNN despite the fact it pushed government propaganda for the invasion in the first place and is now paving the way with all sorts of absurd government and neocon propaganda for an attack on Iran and Syria. It’s called playing both side of the fence.

When a Congressman Becomes a Lobbyist, He Gets a 1,452% Raise (on Average)
The Republic Report - Selling out pays. If you’re a corporation or lobbyist, what’s the best way to “buy” a member of Congress? Secretly promise them a million dollars or more in pay if they come to work for you after they leave office. Once a public official makes a deal to go to work for a lobbying firm or corporation after leaving office, he or she becomes loyal to the future employer.... Our research effort uncovered the partial salaries of twelve lawmakers-turned-lobbyists....

Active ‘Patriot’ Groups in the United States in 2011
The Southern Poverty Law Center identified 1274 anti-government “Patriot” groups that were active in 2011. Of these groups, 334 were militias, marked with an asterisk, and the remainder includes “common-law” courts, publishers, ministries and citizens’ groups. Generally, Patriot groups define themselves as opposed to the “New World Order,” engage in groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme antigovernment doctrines. Listing here does not imply that the groups themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities, or are racist.

Major US Airport To Evict TSA Screeners
Paul Joseph Watson - One of America’s busiest airports, Orlando Sanford International, has announced it will opt out of using TSA workers to screen passengers, a move which threatens the highly unpopular federal agency’s role in other airports across the nation. “The president of the airport said Tuesday that he would apply again to use private operators to screen passengers, using federal standards and oversight,” reports the Miami Herald.

Tornadoes will not deplete FEMA disaster fund
HSNW 3/14/12 - The latest series of tornadoes that raged across the Midwest and South will not deplete the U.S. disaster fund, which was only recently reloaded by Congress last year, officials said. An unnamed Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) official speaking to Reuters said the agency’s Disaster Relief Fund has about $3.7 billion in it thanks to additional assistance from Congress after the series of major natural disasters across the country resulted in roughly $13 billion of disaster spending last year.

VIDEO: Philly Mayor Bans Outdoor Feeding Of Homeless
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has announced a ban on the feeding of large numbers of homeless and hungry people at sites on and near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Mayor Nutter is imposing the ban on all outdoor feedings of large numbers of people on city parkland, including Love Park and the Ben Franklin Parkway, where it is not uncommon for outreach groups to offer free food. Nutter says the feedings lack both sanitary conditions and dignity.

Wyoming Native American tribe gets rare permit to kill bald eagles
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has taken the unusual step of issuing a permit allowing an American Indian tribe in Wyoming to kill two bald eagles for religious purposes. The agency's decision comes after the Northern Arapaho Tribe filed a federal lawsuit last year contending the refusal to issue such permits violates tribal members' religious freedom. Although thousands of American Indians apply for eagle feathers and carcasses from a federal repository, permits allowing the killing of bald eagles are exceedingly rare, according to both tribal and legal experts on the matter.

VIDEO: Ron Paul Enjoys MASSIVE Turnout
Daily Paul - The crowds are getting BIGGER...! Paul spoke for about an hour before an estimated 5,000 people, many of them chanting, "President Paul, President Paul," Wednesday night at Huff Hall on the University of Illinois campus.

Thousands hear Ron Paul at UI
The News-Gazette - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said America needs to shrink the size of government and restore individual liberty. "The enthusiasm for personal liberty has to be restored and has to be renewed," he said. Paul spoke for about an hour before an estimated 5,000 people, many of them chanting, "President Paul, President Paul," Wednesday night at Huff Hall on the University of Illinois campus. The event had to be moved to Huff from Foellinger Auditorium because demand for tickets exceeded the seating capacity at Foellinger. Paul said his UI appearance may have been the largest turnout for one of his rallies during his campaign.

VIDEO: BREAKING NEWS: Athens-Clarke County, GA Republican Delegate Fraud
RunRonPaul.com - On Saturday March 10th, in Athens, GA, the democratic process was trampled on. The Athens-Clarke county GOP met to hold their annual county convention. The convention was held to nominate, approve, and pass slates of delegates to the party’s district and state conventions. County chairman Matt Brewster and nominating committee chairman John Elliot blatantly broke the rules of their own party when they improperly, and without a majority, passed delegate slates and adjourned the convention amidst cries for “division”, which is a call for a standing head count. With that, many sitting precinct delegates were disenfranchised, and the convention was improperly closed.

Voter ID becomes law in Pennsylvania, opponents vow legal fight
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls became law in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of Republican-led efforts to impose stricter controls at the ballot box. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed the act into law, saying it set a "simple and clear standard to protect the integrity of our elections." "I am signing this bill because it protects a sacred principle, one shared by every citizen of this nation," the Republican governor said. "That principle is one person, one vote." Opponents, who say the measure seeks to suppress voter turnout, vowed to challenge it in court.

Santorum doesn't seem to mind offending Puerto Rico
Campaigning in Puerto Rico, Rick Santorum doesn't show any signs that he wants to pander Wednesday, telling voters (erroneously) that they must declare English their only official language to achieve statehood.... As Reuters helpfully points out, there actually isn't a federal law mandating English as the national language, though some states have chosen to pass one themselves. Putting aside the fact that Santorum made a mistake, he also seems rather unstrategic in a territory in which both English and Spanish are listed as official languages and where people are pretty attached to their Spanish-speaking heritage.

Dr. Paul Coming to the University of Missouri - Columbia, Thursday 3/15/12 - Noon
Daily Paul - Thanks to a LOT of dedicated Paul support in Central Missouri, Dr. Paul will be at the University of Missouri in Columbia at Noon on Thursday, March 15th, 2012 -- just two days before the Missouri Caucus! Pack up the car, truck, van, bus or bike and we will see you there.

NBC pulls Ron Paul's last embed
A couple weeks back I noted that Ron Paul, the lonely delegate hunter, had only one full-time, embedded reporter on his trail: Anthony Terrell of NBC News. Other reporters have provided some coverage of the candidate, but for the last few weeks Terrell was the only proverbial boy on the bus. But now, Ron Paul is officially embedless. Earlier this week, NBC decided that Terrell would transition off the trail and back to his job with MSNBC, though a spokesperson there would not comment on the move. Meanwhile, outlets that have been providing frequent but not full coverage, including Fox News, have no intention of putting a reporter back out full-time.

Oregon GOP Willing To Hold Debate With 3 Presidential Candidates
The Daily Astorian - The Oregon Republican Party says it's prepared to move forward with plans for a debate featuring three of the GOP presidential candidates. Mitt Romney has declined to participate in a Presidential Primary debate in Portland. Newt Gingrich has accepted a debate invitation. Debate organizers have not yet heard from the campaigns for Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. The debate is scheduled to take place at OPB on Monday, March 19th. PBS and NPR have agreed to air the debate live, on public television and radio stations.

Hawaii - robocalls sent Ron Paul supporters to Hawaii Tourism Website!
Just received my robo-call message from Ron Paul--actually two, one on my hone phone and one on my cell. I think the script he used had the wrong website for caucus locations, though. I thought I heard "http://www.gohawaii.com" when it should be http://www.gophawaii.com. (gohawaii.com is the state tourism website).

Obama Plays Bin Laden Card In Re-election Effort
Steve Watson - The Obama 2012 campaign has launched it’s reelection campaign by drawing on the mythical version of events played out last year following the supposed assassination of Osama Bin Laden. The campaign will release a 17 minute video later this week, narrated by hollywood actor Tom Hanks, as an opening salvo in the struggle to win a second term for the president. An action movie-style teaser clip released yesterday solely highlights the so called Bin Laden raid and features vice president Joe Biden and former president Bill Clinton talking up the event.

Obama's Top Campaign Bundlers Among State Dinner Guests
ABC - More than three dozen of President Obama’s top re-election campaign financiers are guests at tonight’s White House state dinner in honor of British Prime Minister David Cameron. They include Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, media mogul Fred Eychaner, Pfizer executive Sally Susman, Stoneyfield Farms president and CEO Gary Hirschberg, and Microsoft executives Suzi Levine and John Frank. Several have each raised more than half a million dollars for 2012, according to estimates provided by Obama’s campaign.

VIDEO: Veterans enraged over American flag with Obama's face in place of stars
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. —Tempers are flaring over a version of the American flag flying in Lake County. A veterans group says the flag is an outrage. The flag, which features a picture of President Obama, was taken down Tuesday afternoon. Korean war veteran Don Van Beck said his blood was boiling. "I can't describe how upset was because you just don't do that to the American flag," Van Beck said. Van Beck found it flying outside Lake County Democratic headquarters under the stars and stripes.

VIDEO: Occupy Miami raided by SWAT teams
RT - Dozens of cops equipped with shotguns and assault rifles stormed a Miami, Florida apartment building on Tuesday, drawing weapons at peaceful protesters and children with the local Occupy Wall Street campaign that were lawfully residing inside.... Now for the second time in only six weeks, cops donned in SWAT-team style gear and brandishing weapons swarmed the residence of several occupiers again, allegedly acting on reports that the residents inside were stockpiling weapons to use in an upcoming demonstration.

US considers Afghan trial site for accused shooter
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — No decision has been made yet about whether to hold the trial of the soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in Afghanistan, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday. Afghan lawmakers have demanded that the U.S. staff sergeant face a public trial inside Afghanistan and have called on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to suspend any negotiations with the U.S. on a long-term military pact until this happens. "No final decision has been made yet" on the location of the trial, said Col. Gary Kolb, a U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan.

Israel issues travel warning on Turkey
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is calling on its citizens to stay away from Turkey because of intelligence warning of imminent attacks against sites frequented by Jews and Israelis there. The prime minister's counterterrorism office issued the warning late Tuesday. It said "terror groups are planning to carry out attacks against Jewish and Israeli sites inside Turkey in the coming days." Last month Israel blamed Iran for attacks in Thailand and India. An Israeli diplomat's wife was wounded in India.

Russia says it will keep selling weapons to Syria
AP - Russia has no intention of curtailing military cooperation with Syria despite calls from the West to stop arming President Bashar Assad's regime, a senior Russian government official said Tuesday. Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Russia will abide by existing contracts to deliver weapons to Syria despite Assad's yearlong crackdown on the opposition, in which over 7,500 people have been killed. "Russia enjoys good and strong military technical cooperation with Syria, and we see no reason today to reconsider it," Antonov told reporters.

Official: Chinese bank cold on Iran-Pak gas deal
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A state-owned Chinese bank that had agreed to finance the Pakistani section of a gas pipeline from Iran that is opposed by the United States is no longer interested in the project, a Pakistani finance ministry spokesman said Wednesday. Finance Ministry spokesman Naveed Iqbal said he didn't know why the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China was apparently backing out, but said "the geopolitical situation" had previously been cited by the petroleum ministry as the reason. The U.S. has warned Pakistan and companies assisting the project could face sanctions if they go ahead.

Koran-burning probe clears troops of malicious intent
Washington Times - The Pentagon said Tuesday that a joint NATO-Afghan investigation into the burning of Korans at Bagram Air Field has been completed. The investigation found that the “disposal process” of the Korans was improper but was not a malicious act intended to show disrespect for Afghans or Islam.

A Perimeter Approach to Security and the Transformation of the U.S.-Canada Border
Dana Gabriel - Through a series of bilateral meetings, U.S. and Canadian officials are busy working out the details of the perimeter security action plan. This includes a recent joint crime forum that dealt with border and law enforcement issues. These various discussions are part of the implementation process which when finished would bring about the complete transformation of the northern border and another step closer in the creation of a fully integrated North American security perimeter.

Al Jazeera exodus: Channel losing staff over ‘bias’
RT - Bureau Managing Director Hassan Shaaban reportedly quit last week, after his correspondent and producer had walked out in protest. A source told the Lebanese paper Al Akhbar that Al Jazeera’s Beirut correspondent Ali Hashem had quit over the channel’s stance on covering events in Syria. "… his position [which] changed after the station refused to show photos he had taken of armed fighters clashing with the Syrian Army in Wadi Khaled. Instead [Al Jazeera] lambasted him as a shabeeh [implying a regime loyalist],” a source told Lebanese press.

No damage reported after quake in north Japan; 50 cm tsunami warning issued
TOKYO (Reuters) - There were no immediate reports of damage after northern Japan was hit by an earthquake which the Japan Meteorological Agency said had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8. The epicenter of the quake was in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern Japan, the agency said, adding that a tsunami warning for a wave with an estimated height of 50 cm had been issued.

BBC Blames Iran in Attack as Cyber War Rages
Kurt Nimmo - The BBC claims Iran engineered a sophisticated cyber-attack on its Persian service. Director-general Mark Thompson said Iran attempted to jam BBC broadcast satellites and overload its London phone lines with automated calls. “There was a day recently when there was a simultaneous attempt to jam two different satellite feeds of BBC Persian into Iran, to disrupt the Service’s London phone-lines by the use of multiple automatic calls, and a sophisticated cyber-attack on the BBC,” he said.

British Women Sue After Crucifix Necklaces Cost Them Their Jobs
Time - A landmark court case over the rights of Christians to wear religious symbols at work is raising a debate about discrimination and the position of believers in British society. Two British women have brought a case in front of the European Court of Human Rights after both were removed from their jobs after refusing to take off or cover their crosses, the Sunday Telegraph reports.

VIDEO: New EU egg laws put farmers in firing line
RT - The ongoing financial crisis is not stopping Brussels from tightening the screws on Europe's economies. On January 1, 2012, the “Welfare of Laying Hens” directive made the businesses of 30 per cent of European egg producers illegal. The directive bans the use of battery cages for hens, and requires at least 750 square centimeters of cage space per hen. “That's good for the hens, but not so much for the people working on this farm,” says the owner of the Eierveiling Egg Farm, Michel Van Hees.

Number of Troops to be Deployed in London Outnumbers Those in Afghanistan
London Guardian - n addition to the concentration of sporting talent and global media, the London Olympics will host the biggest mobilization of military and security forces seen in the UK since the second world war. More troops – around 13,500 – will be deployed than are currently at war in Afghanistan. The growing security force is being estimated at anything between 24,000 and 49,000 in total. Such is the secrecy that no one seems to know for sure.

EDITORIAL: Germany proposes a Drudge Tax
Washington Times - German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government to tap into the cash reserves of Internet search engine giant Google to bolster that country’s ailing publishing industry. The second item on the coalition’s list of priorities released last week was a proposal to slap online news aggregators with a tax. “Online commercial vendors, such as search engines and news aggregators, should in the future pay a fee to publishers for the distribution of press products (such as news articles) on the Internet,” the document explains. Any business that links to a news article with a brief excerpt is subject to the scheme.

CCTV at petrol stations will automatically stop uninsured cars being filled with fuel
Mirror News (UK) - Cameras at petrol stations will automatically stop uninsured or untaxed vehicles from being filled with fuel, under new government plans. Downing Street officials hope the hi-tech system will crack down on the 1.4million motorists who drive without insurance. Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras are already fitted in thousands of petrol station forecourts. Drivers can only fill their cars with fuel once the camera has captured and logged the vehicle’s number plate.

Dick Cheney cancels Toronto visit over security concerns
CBC News - Cheney, whom the protesters denounced as a war criminal, was slated to talk about his experiences in office and the current American political situation at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on April 24. However, Ryan Ruppert, of Spectre Live Corp., said Cheney and his daughter Elizabeth had begged off via their agent.

VIDEO: Occupy Protestor Loses Eye After Police Stun Grenade Peaceful Crowd
Alexander Higgins - A peaceful protestor loses an eye after police fire stun grenades at students trying to occupy a building during a rally against college tuition hikes in Montreal.

Lawmakers Push For US Invasion Of Africa Following Kony 2012 Fraud
Paul Joseph Watson - Two House lawmakers have introduced a resolution that seeks to deepen US Military involvement in Africa on the back of the Kony 2012 hoax, despite the fact that Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army have been virtually inactive for six years. “The resolution, introduced by Reps. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. and Ed Royce, R-Calif., calls for, among other things, expanding the number of regional forces in Africa to protect civilians and placing restrictions on individuals or governments found to be supporting Kony,” reports CBS News.

‘Syria Danny’ Tours US Begging For Military Intervention
Paul Joseph Watson - Danny Abdul Dayem, the establishment media’s poster child for a western military intervention in Syria, is touring America begging for a US-led assault on his homeland, despite being exposed as having faked war propaganda for the purposes of a CNN interview. Although denying he is in the pay of CNN or any government, Dayem has been flying back and forth between Syria and the United Kingdom for months, and he has now arrived in America to begin a series of visits to Islamic centers to advocate a NATO bombardment to oust President Bashar Al-Assad.

CIA’s al-Qaeda “LAX Bomber” to Get Longer Sentence After Cooperating with Feds
Kurt Nimmo - It looks like al-Qaeda operative Ahmed Ressam will probably spend the rest of his life in federal prison. Ressam was convicted in the millennium bombing plot of 1999. Halfway through serving his 22-year sentence a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of sending the case back to a federal judge in Seattle for a third round of re-sentencing.

VIDEO: FEMA has refused financial and any aid to the town of Harrisburg Illinois, for low interest loans. They were wiped out completely by a tornado
FEMA is refusing to help U.S. citizens with low interest loans after they were completely wiped out by tornadoes. One town Harrisburg, Illinois was leveled by a tornado, there is nothing left there. Yet FEMA is refusing financial assistance due to "the damage not being bad enough throughout the state."... Now - I would like to link this FEMA document of what they did for the town of Joplin Missouri last year, which was wiped out by a tornado. How come they will help one town, but not another wiped out?

VIDEO: Foreign exchange students sexually abused in program overseen by State Department
MSNBC - Dozens of high school foreign exchange students have been raped, sexually abused, or harassed by American host parents in towns and cities across the country, an NBC News investigation has found. In one of the most egregious cases, at least four exchange students were sexually abused over the course of two years by the same host father, even after the first victim sounded alarms. “He said ‘this is American culture,’ and I should get used to it,” Christopher Herbon of Germany told NBC News in an exclusive interview to be broadcast Wednesday night on Rock Center.

YouTube: Agenda 21 for Public Officials
What is agenda 21? What is Smart Growth? What is sustainable development? This video provides a description of Agenda 21/sustainable development and how it affects your property rights. While it is important to be good stewards of our planet, the sustainable development movement has been co-opted by an aggressive agenda to rewild America (The Wildlands Project) and reduce automobile usage and unnecessary travel by gradually shifting people into high density urban areas supported by mixed use dwellings (Smart Growth.)

VIDEO: Ron Paul Visits Springfield, Missouri
Part 1 of 4.

2012 GOP Primary & Caucus Results
Mississippi: Santorum 33%, Gingrich 31%,Romney 30%, Paul 4%.
Alabama: Santorum 35%, Gingrich 29%, Romney 29%, Paul 5%.
Hawaii: Romney 45%, Santorum 25%, Paul 18%, Gingrich 11%.
American Samoa: Results not in.

VIDEO: Ron Paul Has The Biggest Caucus!
Daily Paul - Mary Willison interviewed on Russia Today.

YouTube: Ron Paul's Fight to the Finish - MSNBC 03/13/12
Ron Paul's Fight to the Finish. "There are four of us in the race and of course, Romney looks like he's ahead, but he's far from having it won", says Rep. Ron Paul, (R-TX), discussing his hopes for big wins in Alabama and Mississippi today and why he intends to fight on through the GOP primary race.

YouTube: The FDA And The Drug Companies Are in Bed Together
Ron Paul on the FDA.

YouTube:"The only candidate I trust is Ron Paul" - Professor Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan
CNBC Squawk on the Street March 13, 2012 - The only candidate I trust is Ron Paul", says Nassim Taleb, "The Black Swan" author. He also shares what he fears will be the next "black swan" event for the U.S. economy.

VIDEO: Alabama Election Fraud -Video Proof!? Wow!
Daily Paul - This is happening a lot around AL right now... I recorded this clip, and then hours later my grandmother went in to vote. I told her to scan her ballot using the other machine (She too is a Paul supporter), and the exact same thing happened to her. We both were told we had to put our ballots in a box to be counted later.

VIDEO: GOP Intimidation of Ron Paul Delegates
LRC - If you've ever been a Ron Paul delegate, you know that the GOP central committees will employ every trick in the book to avoid having to seat Ron Paul delegates. They will freely ignore their own bylaws, apply rules in such a manner as to only exclude Paul delegates, and will liberally employ intimidation tactics through verbal abuse, and even physical manhandling of delegates. In the end, if everything else fails, they'll attempt to get you to switch your vote by begging you to be a "team player" and by claiming that Romney is electable and that your dissent will keep Obama in power.

3 Reasons It's Important to Support Ron Paul to Win the Nomination and Presidency
Huffington Post - 3. Are Ron Paul's ideas crazy? Dr. Ron Paul's ideas about the U.S.'s economy, national defense and our Constitution are as real and solid as ideas had by another famous leader who was also initially not listened to. Winston Churchill saw the danger of Hitler leading Germany long before it became readily apparent. Others wanted to believe that everything was fine and that Hitler was being honest about his intentions.

VIDEO: Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk 3/12/12
An Administration Gone Rogue

VIDEO: Rick Santorum: "Vote for Ron Paul" if you want limited government
Daily Paul I thought this had to be a joke, but clicked on it anyway. And sure enough, he said it. I'd think this really needs to go viral....

VIDEO: Exclusive: O'Keefe Video Exposes Voter Fraud-Friendly Policies in Vermont
Breitbart.com - The video, a sequel to O'Keefe's "Primary of the Living Dead" in New Hampshire, shows a Veritas agent entering various voting places around the state of Vermont, giving a different name each time. Each time, he is given a ballot without showing an ID, to his disbelief. In the video, the agent repeatedly requests (but does not take) a Republican primary ballot. As he explained to Breitbart.com: "We wanted to remind viewers this is not a partisan issue. This is a situation wherein anyone -- Republican or Democrat -- can exploit the system."

Have You Occupied Wall Street? NYC Wants Your Twitter Data
Alex Fitzpatrick - If you've taken part in Occupy Wall Street, then the New York County District Attorney's Office might want to take a peek at your Twitter data. The DA's office has sent subpoenas to Twitter asking for the data of a handful of people arrested last year as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Twitter has been sending those users the text of the subpoenas via email.

U.S. soldier could get death penalty for Afghan shootings
The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghans could be executed if convicted, the Pentagon chief said, as President Barack Obama warned a war-weary public against a rushed exit from Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters aboard his plane en route to Kyrgyzstan that the shooting suspect would be brought to justice under the US military legal code, which allows for the death penalty in some cases.

Obama warns against ‘rush to the exits’ in Afghanistan
President Barack Obama said Monday that the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier made him "more determined" to stick to his plan to bring U.S. troops home but warned against a "rush to the exits" that could endanger America's interests.... "But what we don't want to do is to do it in a way that is just a rush for the exits," he stressed. "We've got to make sure that the Afghans can protect their borders and prevent Al-Qaeda from coming back, and so we're going to have to do it in a responsible way."

Panetta seeks to boost support for Kyrgyzstan base
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is meeting with Kyrgyzstan's leaders to stress that America needs the continued use of the U.S. air base there beyond the end of its contract in 2014, largely as a transit center to bring troops home from Afghanistan. A senior U.S. official traveling with Panetta to Kyrgyzstan said the U.S. believes there may be some "wiggle room" for additional negotiations for a longer term contract.

Guatemala sentences soldier to 6,060 years for massacre
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan court sentenced a former special forces soldier to 6,060 years in prison on Monday for participating in a 1982 massacre that claimed 201 lives. Pedro Pimentel, 55, was deported from Los Angeles, California to Guatemala last year to face charges of murder and crimes against humanity and is the fifth soldier to be sentenced in the Central American nation for his role in the Las Dos Erres massacre at the height of the country's brutal civil war.

Global media watchdog names enemies of Internet
PARIS (AP) -- The Arab Spring is changing the face of Internet freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders, which released its latest "Enemies of the Internet" list Monday. The annual report classifies as "enemies" countries that severely curtail freedom of expression on and access to the Web. It also draws up a list of states "under surveillance."... The group added Bahrain to its enemies list, citing a news blackout and harassment of bloggers in an attempt to quell a yearlong Shiite-led rebellion against the Sunni monarchy.

Afghans doubt US lone assassin claim
Kabul - Afghans expressed doubt on Monday that a single US Army soldier could have shot and killed 16 civilians in houses over 2km apart and burned the bodies afterward.... The US military has said there is no indication that more than one soldier carried out the attacks in two villages in Kandahar province before dawn Sunday. The soldier blamed for the shootings is in custody. But villagers told Afghan officials they heard shots being fired from several directions.

'Several drunk troops behind bloodbath, laughed on shooting-spree, burned corpses'
RT - Neighbors at the village where the killings took place said they were awoken past midnight by crackling gunfire: "They were all drunk and shooting all over the place," Reuters cites Agha Lala, a villager in Kandahar's Panjwayi district. Lala's neighbor Haji Samad lost all of his 11 relatives in the rampage, including children and grandchildren. He claims Marines “poured chemicals over their dead bodies and burned them.”

YouTube: U.S. Soldier Opens Fire On Afghan Civilians! Taliban Claiming MANY U.S. Soldiers Involved
CNN March 11, 2012.

U.S. soldier in Afghan massacre had brain injury says official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army staff sergeant accused of the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan on Sunday was treated for traumatic brain injury after being in a vehicle that rolled over in Iraq in 2010, a U.S. official said on Monday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was premature to state whether there was any link between the 2010 injury and the Afghanistan incident.

YouTube: Intolerable Israel-News Analysis-03-11-2012
Press TV March 12, 2012 - During these very harsh economic times, do you think Americans could use an extra 15 million dollars per day to be spent on themselves? For sure, most Americans would jump at the opportunity. However, Americans have NEVER been asked if they support giving 15 million dollars a day to Israel, which is what they do every day.

Israelis build the world’s biggest detention centre
The Independent - Israel is to begin construction soon on a vast detention facility in the Negev desert to house the thousands of immigrants that cross illegally into Israel from Egypt every year. Human rights groups fear that the detention centre, the largest of its kind in the world, with a capacity to hold 8,000 migrants, will turn into a festering refugee camp, and deprive those escaping persecution at home of their rights to seek asylum in Israel.

YouTube: US assassination drone strikes kill 64 in Yemen in 3 days
Press TV March 12, 2012 - US assassination drone strikes have killed at least 64 people in southern Yemen during attacks in the past three days on the provinces of Abyan and Bayda.

PHOTOS: Aircraft Carrier Enterprise Sets Off On Final Journey – Direction Iran
Zero Hedge 3/11/2012 - Today at noon Eastern, the storied aircraft carrier Enterprise, aka CVN-65, left its home port of Naval Station Norfolk one final time for its final voyage with a heading: Arabian Sea, aka Iran. There in a week it will join CVN 72 Lincoln and CVN 70 Vinson, as well as LHD 8 Makin Island, all of which are supporting any potential escalation of "hostilities" in the Persian Gulf region.

KONY 2012, Invisible Children’s Pro-AFRICOM & Museveni Propaganda
Black Star News Invisible Children’s(IC) goals initially may have been to publicize the plight of children caught in Uganda’s decades-long conflicts; lately, IC has been acting as apologists for General Yoweri K. Museveni’s dictatorship and the U.S. goal to impose AFRICOM (the U.S. Africa Military Command) on Africa. IC has produced a brilliant film.... It’s a classic as propaganda pieces come. The short but overwhelmingly powerful film uses all the best tear-jerk techniques. In the end, the film denounces Joseph Kony, the leader of the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army, while giving the impression that Museveni’s dictatorship and his brutal military, which was found liable for war crimes in Democratic Republic of Congo by the International Court of Justice, has nothing to do with the atrocities committed against children in Uganda.

Burger burden: UN proposes junk food tax
RT - “Junk food” should attract additional taxes, says the report from the United Nations Organization. Such a “sin tax” should be introduced for all kinds of snacks, sodas and hamburgers in all parts of the world to help the estimated billion people who suffer from undernourishment, as well as another billion who remain overweight or obese, the UN insists.

45,000 caught cheating at Britain’s universities
The Independent - Over the past three years, more than 45,000 students at 80 institutions have been hauled before college authorities and found guilty of "academic misconduct" ranging from bringing crib-sheets or mobile phones into exams to paying private firms to write essays for them.

Christians were dragged from St Paul’s while they prayed
The Independent - A group of Anglican clerics have called on St Paul’s Cathedral to fully explain why praying Christians were dragged by police from the steps of the famous landmark during the eviction of the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp. Five praying Christians were forcibly removed from the cathedral steps during the operation, despite the fact that an eviction order had only been granted for the land opposite St Paul’s which is owned by the City of London Corporation.

London Olympics security bill: how it soared to more than $1.5billion
Guardian - Last summer, five years after London was chosen to host the Games, and less than 12 months before the start of the Olympics, the event's organising committee, Locog, realised it had a problem. It had totally underestimated the number of staff needed for security, a miscalculation that became obvious when it began to inspect some of the completed arenas last August.... Instead of 10,000 staff at the 34 Olympic venues, Locog stated at least 20,000 would be needed, and probably more. And the committee was not entirely sure where these extras would come from.

WIND FARMERS HIRE SWAMPIES
Express - AN “ARMY of eco-warriors” is being hired by wind farm lobbyists to fight for onshore farms in one of the most beautiful parts of Britain, writes Kirsty Buchanan....Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies said his constituents would fight to protect their area, adding: “What is planned is the complete desecration of Mid Wales, transforming it into a wind farm landscape.”

Protesters link arms around the world to decry nuclear power
AFP - In Japan, tens of thousands rallied near the crippled plant, demanding an end to nuclear power as the nation held memorial ceremonies for a disaaster that claimed almost 20,000 lives.... Demonstrators in France's Rhone valley formed a human chain that organisers said stretched for 230 kilometres (140 miles) and consisted of about 60,000 people. The region has Europe's highest concentration of nuclear reactors, demonstrators said.... Activists across Germany carried out similar protests, with organisers claiming as many as 50,000 people turned out across the country.... [ Also, there were demonstrations in Australia, Taiwan, Spain, Switzerland, but none in the U.S.]

YouTube: TSA Harasses and Gropes Quadruple Amputee
Jeff Lewis is a nationally known motivational speaker and a quadruple amputee. Even though he is well known by the TSA and other airport staff. He is routinely subjected to demeaning enhanced pat downs by TSA staff.

Congressman Amash (R-MI) says "No RFID Chips In Driver's Licenses"
Campaign for Liberty - Rep. Amash sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano urging her to reverse a new policy that requires some states to implant radio frequency identification (RFID) chips into the states’ driver’s licenses. His letter is below:


VIDEO: Microwave-goodbye weapon: 'Heat ray' crowd dispersal cannon unveiled
RT - The “Active Denial System” is a non-lethal weapon primarily designed for crowd control. A video was uploaded on YouTube by USFORCESTV channel of the US military testing a new super high frequency (SHF) weapon. Rumors have long been spread about a “cannon”, which can be mounted on a military vehicle to disperse crowds with the help of a high-powered beam of electromagnetic radiation. Hearsay still causes the US Department of Defense deny it has spent $120 million on a mobile microwave oven.... A person affected by ADS feels a sudden blast of heat that many compare to opening a very hot oven. The target feels pain and reflexively steps or runs away.

US Congress Bill Authorizes Wiretapping of Border Tunnel Builders
InSight March 9, 2012 - In response to the rising number of smugglers' tunnels found along the US-Mexico border, the House Judiciary Committee passed a bill on Tuesday that would authorize the use of wiretapping to investigate and prosecute those conspiring to build such passageways.

RON PAUL is coming to the University of Illinois this Wednesday, March 14th at 7pm!
Daily Paul - Due to the overhwelming demand for tickets, this event has been moved to a new venue...

GOP Beauty Contests, Tuesday March 13: Alabama, Hawaii, Mississippi, American Samoa
Daily Paul - On March 13, 2012 primaries will be held in Alabama (Primary), Hawaii (Caucus), Mississippi (Primary) and American Samoa (Caucus). Please post your news, observations and insights in the comment section below.

Fox & CBS: GOP & Newt Moving Towards RP Foreign Policy
Daily Paul - On the Sunday morning news circuit today, Newt and other republicans are moving towards RP's foreign policy. They want to get out of Afghanistan and don't believe being in the middle of these Middle Eastern countries is good and rather counterproductive. They mentioned Ron Paul being against from the start what Republicans are now saying:

YouTube: Jesse Benton MSNBC Interview - March 11, 2012
Broadcast: Weekends With Alex Witt, MSNBC.

YouTube: More Maine caucus corruption: 'We don't want your type in our delegation'
Andrew Ian Dodge candidate for the U.S. Senate speaking to Michelle Anderson from the North of Bangor Blog about Charlie Webster and the Maine Republican caucus fiasco. Dodge has left the Republican party over the fiasco. He explains that a friend witnessed one chairman of a caucus in Maine ask for volunteers to be delegates. When three people stood up who were wearing Ron Paul stickers, the chairman told them he didn't want their type in the delegation.

Obama administration blocks Texas voter ID law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday blocked a new Texas law requiring voters to show photo identification before they can cast a ballot out of concerns it could harm some Hispanic voters who lack such identification. The state law approved in May 2011 required voters to show government-issued photo identification, which could include a driver's license, a military identification card, a birth certificate with a photo, a current U.S. passport, or a concealed handgun permit.

Wisconsin judge issues permanent halt to voter ID law
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A Wisconsin judge issued a permanent injunction on Monday blocking the state from implementing a new law requiring voters to present identification at polling stations. WisPolitics.com said the decision by a Dane County judge in Madison follows a temporary halt issued by another judge on March 7. Wisconsin is the second state to have its voter identification law blocked on Monday. Earlier, the U.S. Justice Department halted a Texas law, saying it discriminated against Hispanic voters.

YouTube: Veterans for Ron Paul, Ron Paul is the Choice of the Troops March on the RNC
Following a hugely successful Ron Paul is the Choice of the Troops March on the White House, veterans, active duty, and supporters from all over the country will be marching on the Republican National Convention to coincide with the second ballot. I am a three tour disabled combat veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan...my mission now is to serve my country by doing all I can to garner votes for Dr. Paul and spread the message of Liberty. There is no doubt in my mind as to why Dr. Paul receives more campaign donations than all other candidates including Obama COMBINED. Welcome to the Revolution.

Psychiatric Diagnoses Used to Avoid Paying Benefits to Soldiers
Gaia Health - News over the last day about an American soldier in Afghanistan going berserk and killing at least 16 Afghanis, including 9 children, is absolutely tragic. There’s certainly a guilty party in this: the United States military. There are limits to what a person can go through. The soldier in question was on his fourth rotation! People snap when they’ve been through too much—and I will not stand in judge of the person who does. But the military does. It is, in fact, a carefully manipulated game that’s played with psychiatrists and their utterly fraudulent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).
 

Anti-Occupy Protest Takes on Bird Killing Wind Turbines
An anti-Occupy Wall Street movement (who call themselves "Occupy Occupy D.C.") protested bird killing wind turbines today at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. The group gathered "to highlight the threat that wind, a celebrated alternative energy source, poses to the American bird community," according to a press release sent out by the National Center for Public Policy Research, which sponsors Occupy Occupy D.C. The target of today's protest are environmentalists who believe wind energy is a viable substitute to other forms of energy, such as coal or nuclear energy.

Wall Street Protesters Complain of Police Surveillance
NY Times - On Nov. 17, Kira Moyer-Sims was near the Manhattan Bridge, buying coffee while three friends waited nearby in a car. More than a dozen blocks away, protesters gathered for an Occupy Wall Street “day of action,”.... Then, Ms. Moyer-Sims said, about 30 police officers surrounded her and the people in the car. All four were arrested, said Vik Pawar, a lawyer for Ms. Moyer-Sims and two of the others, and taken to a police facility in the East Village. He said officers strip-searched them and ignored their requests for a lawyer... “I felt like I had been arrested for a thought crime,” she [Ms. Moyer-Sims] said.

Obama Signs “Anti-Occupy” Law
In These Times - The new bill [H.R. 347] modifies a 1971 law that restricted entering or blocking public areas cordoned off by the Secret Service while a protected individual is passing through, or during major public events like the Super Bowl or party nominating conventions. Violators can face up to a year in jail; if they’re carrying a dangerous weapon, it’s ten.... This has major implications for anyone planning protests at the NATO or G8 conferences later this spring, including Occupy.

US troops on high alert after Kandahar rampage
RT - The US Embassy in Kabul warns of anti-American feelings over the recent rampage against the innocent which killed 16 villagers, including nine children. Taliban militants vow revenge and decisive measures. The Taliban said in a statement on Monday it would “take revenge from the invaders and the savage murderers for every single martyr,” AFP reports. The US is “arming lunatics in Afghanistan who turn their weapons against the defenseless Afghans,” the statement reads. Washington hurried to offer its condolences, warning American citizens over possible retribution for the attacks.

Iranian media continues to be attacked by foreign entities
Activist Post - A string of attacks on Iranian media continues with reports of jamming signals coming from an unknown location interrupting broadcasts for two hours. According to Iran’s Press TV, broadcasts of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’s (IRIB) international channels on the Hotbird satellite provider were cut out for two hours by these signals. High-power jamming signals were transmitted on the 12437 MHz frequency from 9:00 to 11:00 GMT on Saturday, March 10, 2012. During this time, the broadcasts of the IRIB’s international channels were interrupted on multiple occasions.

The Spymaster: Meir Dagan on Iran's threat
(CBS News) Meir Dagan has been described as "hard-charging" and "stops at nothing." For more than eight years, Dagan made full use of those qualities as chief of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, where he focused on keeping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. When that job ended, Dagan did something unheard of for an ex-Mossad chief: he spoke out publicly, voicing opposition to Israel launching preemptive airstrikes against Iran's nuclear facilities anytime soon. Dagan believes the Iranian regime is a rational one and even its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - who has called for Israel to be annihilated - acts in a somewhat rational way when it comes to Iran's nuclear ambitions. Lesley Stahl reports.

Egypt moves toward anti-U.S. vote
Politico - CAIRO - Egypt’s parliament moved Sunday toward a vote to order an end to more than $1 billion in U.S. aid, a reflection of tensions with Washington over the case of Americans charged with illegal activity by their pro-democracy groups. The United States was angry enough over the charges against the American workers that it threatened to cut off aid to Egypt. The measure in the Islamist-dominated Egyptian parliament, probably just symbolic, showed that there is considerable anger in Cairo over charges that U.S. pressure led to interference in the judicial process.

VIDEO: US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar
BBC - A US soldier in Afghanistan has killed at least 16 civilians and wounded five after entering their homes in Kandahar province, senior local officials say. US officials have apologised repeatedly for the incident at a Nato base in Kabul, but they failed to quell a series of protests and attacks that killed at least 30 people and six US troops.... Local people have reportedly gathered near the base in Panjwai district to protest about Sunday's killings, and the US embassy is advising against travel to the area.... The soldier - who had reportedly suffered a breakdown before the attacks - is said to have handed himself over to the US military authorities after carrying out the killings.

Iron Dome Foils 90 Percent of Missiles
Israel National News - The Iron Dome system has intercepted 90 percent of missile attacks on urban centers during the latest rocket bombardment from Gaza.... The problem with the Iron Dome is its cost and the lack of enough systems to defend all of Israel. The United States is providing funds to Israel to buy more of the made-in-Israel systems, each one of which costs more than $100 million.

Moody's: Greece has defaulted
RT - Moody's Investors Service considers Greece to have defaulted per its default definitions. The announcement comes despite Athens reaching a deal with private creditors for a bond exchange that will shave €107 billion from its €350 billion debt.

Official: US govt already seized hundreds of foreign domains
RT - US seizure of a Canadian gambling website caused online outcry as it was registered abroad and thought to be outside American jurisdiction. But this is far from isolated; it has emerged that the US has seized hundreds of foreign domain names. Operation “In Our Sites”, an initiative run by US and Immigration Customs Enforcement, is dedicated to shutting down illegal websites that it believes are involved in the distribution of copyright goods and copyright works. It was initially created in 2010 to police US-owned domains, but now appears to have extended its reach using federal court orders to shut down websites.

NYPD officer thrown in psych ward by superiors after revealing systemic corruption
Activist Post - Adrian Schoolcraft of the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) 81st precinct in Brooklyn noticed some disturbing trends within the department and in response to his brave move to step forward, his superiors had him thrown in a psychiatric ward.

Homeland Security infiltrating higher education by establishing Big Brother campus recruiting, surveillance schemes
(NaturalNews) The total government control and surveillance nightmare portrayed in the book 1984 has all but fully arrived in the United States as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now implementing its abhorrent spying and recruitment programs at American institutions of higher learning.

YouTube: FBI Director Can't Answer Basic Question About Due Process
Fox News - Judge Napolitano explains Obama’s sabotage of the Constitution.

Obama signs anti-protest Trespass Bill
RT - Only days after clearing Congress, US President Barack Obama signed his name to H.R. 347 on Thursday, officially making it a federal offense to cause a disturbance at certain political events — essentially criminalizing protest in the States.

Smith & Wesson Reports Surging Gun Purchases On Back of Fears Over Obama Re-Election
Paul Joseph Watson - “Shares in Smith & Wesson Holding Corp (SWHC.O) shot up nearly 18 percent to their highest in more than two years on Friday, after the gun maker hiked its full-year sales forecast on a higher order backlog, reflecting strong demand for its guns and rifles,” reports Reuters.

VIDEO: Maryland Cops To Be Trained On US Constitution After Illegally Arresting Protesters
Steve Watson - State police in Maryland have been ordered to undergo training on the First and Fourth Amendments following a 2008 incident during which 18 pro-life protesters were arrested, shackled and strip searched. The incident occured when members of the group Defend Life peacefully demonstrated on public property in Hartford County in August, 2008, as part of their “Face the Truth” campaign.

Camo Cops Respond to Terror on Pittsburgh Campus
Infowars.com - On Thursday, an al-Qaeda gunman attacked Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Not really. It was an employee at the clinic who went postal and killed a fellow worker and shot several others, which gave the cops an excuse to prepare for combat and march around campus in camouflage with automatic weapons as if ninja jihadists armed with AK47s and RPGs were on the loose. This sort of combat mentality is now standard procedure in response to drug dealers, domestic disputes, and other common law enforcement situations.

VIDEO: TSA Threatens MSM Reporters Over Coverage Of Body Scanner Story
Steve Watson - Now Corbett, who was the first person in the country to sue the TSA over the body scanners, says that two mainstream media journalists have contacted him to make it known that the TSA warned them off the story. “I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds,” writes Corbett. “One South Florida reporter told me that he had been “strongly cautioned” by the TSA not to cover this story. Absolutely unbelievable” Corbett later updated his post to say that another reporter had also been “strongly cautioned” not to cover the story.

Pennsylvania's Harrisburg to Skip Two Debt Payments
CNBC - Pennsylvania's distressed capital city, Harrisburg, will skip $5.3 million of debt payments due next week, the first time the city has defaulted on its general obligation bonds, to ensure there is enough cash to fund vital services.

VIDEO: US flight attendant tells terrified passengers their plane is going to crash
Telegraph - A flight attendant who began "ranting" at passengers that the plane they were on would crash is in hospital after being restrained. The incident happened while the American Airways aircraft was about to take off from Dallas Fort Worth Airport on its way to Chicago... A group of passengers is understood to have tackled the woman who was “kicking and screaming” as she was forced to surrender the intercom.... The reason for the flight attendant’s outburst is not known, but one passenger told local reporters that the crew had informed him the woman had stopped taking her medication, causing her to have paranoid delusions.

Ron Paul gets first win in Virgin Islands but all news agencies report Romney
Examiner - Ron Paul 29% (112 votes), Mitt Romney 26% (101 votes), Rick Santorum 6% (23 votes). These are the official results from the Virgin Islands GOP, yet AP and therefore most major mainstream news organizations that receive information from them are reporting that somehow Mitt Romney has just won the contest in the Virgin Islands. Here is an example of headlines at USA Today publishing AP's account of the "facts" which hit the net just 15 minutes ago and well after the real results have been available for the world to see.

VIDEO: Jack Hunter Blasts MSM For Not Reporting Ron Paul Winning U.S. Virgin Islands Caucus
Daily Paul - Jack Hunter Blasts MSM: MSM Changes Rules In Not Reporting Ron Paul Winning U.S. Virgin Islands Caucus. A math lesson for the mainstream media:

YouTube: Ron Paul Openly Muses About the Possibility of GOP Election Fraud
The whole sorry criminal saga goes on and on and at last Ron Paul calls it for what it is.

Caucus and Convention Results: Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Nevada, Minnesota, and Virgin Islands! + Much More!
Daily Paul - I've been watching closely and I have seen results posted here on DP recently from Conventions and Caucuses in Alaska, California, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, the Virgin Islands, Rhode Island and even Georgia.

Ron Paul contingent in Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade!
Daily Paul - We ('Ron Paul for President') have been approved to join the official St. Pat's Day parade in South Boston on Sunday, March 18. Parade steps off at 1:00 PM. This is the second largest St. Pat's parade in the country with tens of thousands of viewers along the route and more on TV. It is only a week away and so preparations must begin now to join the parade. We need to raise $350 ($150 out of parade fee of $500. is pledged) to participate.

RCP: Romney Really Might NOT Have the Delegates by June
Real Clear Politics - The Republican primary has revealed distinct geographic tendencies. Mitt Romney is dominant in New England and in the West. Newt Gingrich has run well in the Deep South, while Rick Santorum has done well in caucus states, the Great Plains, and the peripheral South (it remains to be seen whether his support has bled into Gingrich's strength in the Deep South). That leaves the Midwest as a battleground between Romney and Santorum.

Kansas GOP Primary Results
CNN March 10, 2012 - Santorum: 51% (15,290 votes) Romney: 21% (6,250 votes) Gingrich:14% (4,298 votes) Paul 13 % (3,767 votes)

Wyoming GOP Primary Results
CNN March 10, 2012 - Romney: 39% (822 votes) Santorum 32% (673 votes) Paul 21 % (439 votes)

Ron Paul Draws 2,500-plus Voters to St. Charles County Missouri Town Hall
ST. LOUIS, Missouri – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul attracted a remarkable 2,500-plus voters at a massive town hall meeting held in St. Charles County, Missouri today. The standing-room-only St. Charles County Town Hall Meeting with Dr. Paul and thousands of voters took place at 3:00 p.m. CST at Lindenwood University...

VIDEO: Dr. Paul @ Kansas U, Lawrence w/2,000+ Capacity Crowd on Big 12 Game Night!
Daily Paul - Looks like the MSM is up to their old tricks again: AP reports "hundreds," yet Dr. Paul states over TWO THOUSAND! My personal rule of thumb? Whenever AP 'reports' on a RP Rally attendance, add 1,000~2,000. Because they, without fail, always under report it by a thousand, in almost every article.

PHOTO: Ron Paul Rally vs. Rick Santorum Rally in Kansas
Daily Paul.

Georgia convention has Ron Paul Delegates trying to come out of the woodwork!
Washington Times - Ron Paul’s Georgia supporters succeeded in taking over a delegate-selection convention in a populous county on Saturday and nearly succeeded in another densely populated urban-suburban county. The Texas congressman’s forces took over the DeKalb County delegate-selection convention in eastern metropolitan Atlanta. The mostly young, well-educated and well off Paul partisans nearly did so in Cobb County in northern metropolitan Atlanta, Republican convention participants in the state told The Washington Times. Party regulars called the Paul supporters’ efforts a “hijacking.”

NEVADA: Report on the Clark County, GOP Convention. WE OWNED IT!
Daily Paul - It started out with an informal roll call. The MC asked how many people were there supporting Santorum. A small handful stood up. How many for Gingrich? Actually a few more than I expected, but still not very many. How many for Romney? A whole bunch stood up and started cheering for Mitt. I guess they were as motivated as Romney supporters could be. Then he asked how many of us were for Ron Paul. And a giant Army stood up!!! And we hollered like Spartan Warriors ready for battle.

How did Ron Paul lose Alaska?
Alaska Dispatch - Paul enjoys a deep volunteer base here. His supporters were organized on Tuesday night. It would seem, though, that the campaign simply wasn't able to convert that enthusiasm into victory. Ron Paul for Alaska campaign chief Evan Cutler said the candidate's supporters and organizers who were out at the polls Tuesday night harbored other suspicions. "People were turned away at the polls that were registered to vote due to confusion among the poll volunteers. Voter registration databases were outdated," Cutler said his organizers reported, going on to add that, "younger voters, voters of a certain demographic were turned away" and that the campaign had conducted exit polling across the state and that numbers reported by the state party leaders "didn't jibe."

VIDEO: Ron Paul’s Delegate Strategy Prepares to Launch
MSNBC Rachel Maddow.

YouTube: Ron Paul's Reaction to Jobs Report and Super Tuesday
CNBC March 9, 2012 - At the 5:25 minute mark, Ron Paul is asked why his support hasn't translated into votes at the polls. Ron Paul's response was "Well, you will need to read all the stories on how they count the votes to be fair because there is a lot of things going on. We can put 4000 people in a precinct and come up with 2000 votes and we actually know where are votes are. So, we have a lot of things to contend with, not only the philosophy and the challenge of the status quo, but we also have to challenge the system that can't bear the thought that we would get a lot of credit for what we are doing."

YouTube: Rachel Maddow "Rick Santorum has failed to collect enough signatures to make it onto the ballot"
MSNBC - A funny thing happened on the way to Santorum. Rachel Maddow Slams Rick Santorum.

YouTube: Former CIA Officer Robert Steele Slams Rick Santorum
Former CIA Officer Robert Steele Slams Rick Santorum and supports Ron Paul. Robert David Steele Vivas (b. July 16, 1952 New York City), is known for his promotion of open source intelligence (OSINT).[1] He is a former United States Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer for twenty years and was the second-ranking civilian (GS-14) in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence from 1988--1992.[citation needed] Steele is a former clandestine services case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency.[2] He is the founder and CEO of OSS.Net as well as the Golden Candle Society. Steele also was a member of the Adjunct Faculty of Marine Corps University in the mid-1990s.

VIDEO: Ron Paul Phone From Home Walkthrough
Daily Paul - Lets get busy!!!! phone.ronpaul2012.com

VIDEO: Announcing the Veterans for Liberty Super PAC & VFRP March August 27th on the RNC
Adam vs The Man - We are asking all military veterans and active duty troops (in full observance of military regulations regarding political speech) who can furnish proof of service, to join us at FOB Domestic Defense the week of August 27th where food, campsites, GP tents, and cots will be provided for the entire duration of the RNC.... For more information about how to get involved and support this event, please go to Ron Paul Choice of The Troops. Also visit the Veterans for Ron Paul forum.

YouTube: Adam Kokesh: Veterans for Ron Paul Planned March on RNC - Ron Paul 2012!
Popeye of FederalJack.com is joined by Adam Kokesh for an in depth discussion on a variety of topics focusing around the planned Veterans for Ron Paul march on the Republican National Convention.

YouTube: Soldiers Deck of Cards
A Veterans tribute with just a pack of cards and a beautiful ending.

Afghanistan, U.S. to sign prison transfer deal: officials
KABUL (Reuters) - The United States and Afghanistan are expected to sign a deal on the transfer of U.S.-run detention centers to Afghan authorities on Friday, two Afghan officials said, improving the prospects of a strategic partnership allowing long-term U.S. involvement in the country.... The Strategic Partnership Agreement, which Washington and Kabul have been discussing for over a year, will be the framework for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan beyond 2014, when the last foreign combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan. Afghanistan wants the United States and NATO to agree to stop carrying out night raids on Afghan homes as a precondition for signing an agreement with Washington and a timeline to assume control over detention centers.

Italy president condemns Britain in Nigeria raid
ROME (Reuters) - President Giorgio Napolitano on Friday condemned Britain's failure to inform Italy before launching a botched raid in which an Italian and British hostage were killed in Nigeria, calling it "inexplicable" and demanding an explanation. Prime Minister David Cameron said the two hostages were killed by their Islamist captors during the joint British-Nigerian raid in northwestern Nigeria on Thursday. "The behaviour of the British government in not informing Italy is inexplicable," Napolitano told reporters on the sidelines of a conference.

21 dead in Syria, tanks shell Homs
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces killed 21 people around the country on Friday, activists said, with at least nine people killed by tank shelling in opposition districts of the central city of Homs. The resumption of heavy shelling comes after a few days of relative calm during which U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos visited Homs and said part of the city had been completely destroyed.

Greece averts immediate default with bond success
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece averted the immediate risk of an uncontrolled default on Friday, winning strong acceptance from its private creditors for a bond swap deal which will eat into its mountainous public debt and clear the way for a new international bailout. The finance ministry said creditors had tendered 85.8 percent of the 177 billion euros in bonds regulated by Greek law. This would reach 95.7 percent of all privately-held Greek debt with the use of "collective action clauses" to enforce the deal on creditors who refused to take part voluntarily.

Israeli newspaper: US offered Israel advanced weaponry in exchange for delaying Iran attack
Fox News - The US offered to give Israel advanced weaponry -- including bunker-busting bombs and refueling planes -- in exchange for Israel's agreement not to attack Iranian nuclear sites, Israeli newspaper Maariv reported Thursday. President Barack Obama reportedly made the offer during Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington this week. Under the proposed deal, Israel would not attack Iran until 2013, after US elections in November this year. The newspaper cited unnamed Western diplomatic and intelligence sources.

Stratfor leaks: NATO commandos in illegal special ops in Syria
RT - Undercover NATO troops are already in Syria despite denials from their parent governments, according to a leaked brief. The information comes from a hacked email from leading private US intelligence agency Stratfor, whose correspondence has been released by Wikileaks since February 27. The email appears to be written from the address of Reva Bhalla (bhalla@stratfor.com), the company’s director of analysis, for internal use, and details a confidential Pentagon meeting in December. The consultation is alleged to have been attended by senior analysts from the US Air Force, and representatives from its chief allies, France and the United Kingdom.

VIDEO: Russia blasts NATO over Libya - and Libya over Syria
RT - Russia says that NATO should apologize for causing civilian casualties during their air raids in Libya in 2011 and pay compensation. Moscow has also accused Libya’s new government of training Syrian rebels and instigating terrorism. Russia’s UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin issued his sharp criticism while speaking at Wednesday’s meeting of the UN Security Council.

YouTube: Celente: Hawks circling over Iran as only ally Syria on ropes
RT - The White House may be claiming it wants a diplomatic solution in Syria, but it seems it may not have faith in its own convictions.The Pentagon has been ordered to review its potential options. Gerald Celente, publisher of the Trends Journal talks to RT, claiming Washington might be contemplating a military operation, because bringing down the Syrian regime would weaken Iran.

PM Cameron: Iran building nuclear missiles capable of hitting London
Mail Online - Iran is developing nuclear missiles capable of hitting London, David Cameron warned yesterday.... His comments appeared to move Britain a step closer to war against the hardline Islamic regime. He told MPs the Tehran government was trying to develop ‘intercontinental missiles’. And he repeatedly stressed that ‘military action’ against Iran was not ‘off the table’. ‘I don’t believe that an Iranian nuclear weapon is just a threat to Israel,’ he said.

"Dr Doom" sees Iran-Israel clash, says buy precious metals
(Reuters) - Political risk in the Middle East has increased significantly with war between Iran and Israel almost inevitable, and precious metals and equities investments offer some safety, Swiss money manager and long-term bear Marc Faber said on Tuesday. "Political risk was high six months ago and is higher now. I think sooner or later, the U.S. or Israel will strike Iran - it's almost inevitable,"

Greece in last ditch scramble to avoid default
Telegraph - Greece is on the verge of completing the largest sovereign debt restructuring in history, but doubts remain over whether the stricken country can avoid a default.

Biden Rejects Drug Legalization Talks in Mexico
StopTheDrugWar - On the first day of a two-day trip to consult with Mexican and Central American leaders Monday, US Vice President Joe Biden was quick to pooh-pooh any talk about drug legalization. The topic has become an increasingly hot one in the region, as Mexico's drug wars bleed over into its neighbors to the south, and some regional leaders are now calling for discussion of legalization.

155 Resignations From World Banks, Investment Houses, Money Funds
American Kabuki - It is not known under what circumstances these individuals have left their positions, I make no judgement on that. I find the timing of so many resignations extremely curious and a temporal marker in history of high significance.... This list includes Banks, Investment Houses, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Equity Funds, Savings Retirement Funds and other shadow banking organizations. The line is very blurry between these entities, some are owned by banks some are banks, some invest in banks as well as owning entire industries (common in Hong Kong and Japan).

VIDEO: British MPs: Drunk on power or just drunk?
RT - British drinking culture is famous worldwide, being successfully exported abroad with countless pubs in seemingly every city. Mixing alcohol with political tradition, though, is something Britain mercifully reserves for internal use. British MPs are elected to solve the UK's pressing problems, but some of them are in true need for some help to counter a certain vicious habit. Quite possibly there is an elegant explanation to why there is so much shouting and jeering in houses of British Parliament.

New allegations of voting irregularities come to light in Toronto: CBC
The Star - Alleged voting irregularities in the 2011 federal election have taken a new twist with accusations that hundreds of unregistered voters cast ballots in the Eglinton-Lawrence riding, according to CBC. The Conservative Party has been dogged for weeks now with allegations that it was behind so-called robo-calls and other dirty tricks that critics says swung the results in its favour.

Report: Fracking Could Cause a New Global Water Crisis
Common Dreams - [C]ountries around the world are grappling with how to address the push to drill and frack. In Europe, while France and Bulgaria have banned fracking in the face of strong public opposition, Poland has welcomed the industry. In China and Argentina, shale gas extraction is being developed with government support. In South Africa, pending an environmental review, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell may be granted permission to extract shale gas. These countries would be wise, Food & Watch believes, to learn the lessons of communities in the U.S. that have had their water and environment damaged by fracking.

Andrew Wakefield's Co-author Exonerated of Professional Misconduct in MMR Paper
The Canary Party - World renowned pediatric gastroenterologist Prof. John Walker-Smith won his appeal today against the United Kingdom’s General Medical Council regulatory board that had ruled against both him and Andrew Wakefield for their roles in the 1998 Lancet MMR paper, which raised questions about a link to autism.... The paper called for further study of a possible association between bowel disease and developmental delay, including cases of autism. It also noted that eight of the children’s gastrointestinal and autistic symptoms began shortly after they received the MMR vaccination.

Things often overlooked by preppers
Remembering key items such as food, water, lanterns or other light sources is easy. It's often the little things we use every day that are forgotten.

Can the President Kill You? by Andrew P. Napolitano
Can the president kill an American simply because the person is dangerous and his arrest would be impractical? Can the president be judge, jury, and executioner of an American in a foreign country because he believes that would keep America safe? Can Congress authorize the president to do this?

VIDEO: Pentagon Launches Desperate Damage Control Over Shocking Panetta Testimony
Paul Joseph Watson - The Pentagon is engaging in damage control after shocking testimony yesterday by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at a Senate Armed Services Committee congressional hearing during which it was confirmed that the U.S. government is now completely beholden to international power structures and that the legislative branch is a worthless relic. During the hearing yesterday Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey brazenly admitted that their authority comes not from the U.S. Constitution, but that the United States is subservient to and takes its marching orders from the United Nations and NATO, international bodies over which the American people have no democratic influence.

Resolution Calls for Impeachment if Obama Does Not Seek War Authorization from Congress
Kurt Nimmo - Rep. Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican, has introduced H. Concurrent Resolution 107, which calls on the House, the Senate Concurring, to prevent Obama from starting another war without authorization from Congress. The resolution was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary on March 7. Obama has violated article I, section 8, clause 11 of the Constitution.... Rep. Jones’ resolution states that any use of military force by Obama without explicit consent and authorization of Congress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution. The resolution reads as follows... Related article here.

List of 388 Who Voted To End Your First Amendment Right To Assemble To Petition The Government
Rebel's Blog - I have decided to also list all trips to Israel so the voters know who is listens to Netanyahu and not to us. The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011 repeals our right to peacefully assemble and petition the government with our grievances. In fact it is now illegal to assemble in front of Congress if even one member might be inside.

VIDEO: Gingrich Falls Asleep at AIPAC, Wakes Up More Than a Little Confused
The Blaze - Moments before he was slated to speak via live video stream before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich was caught on camera sleeping rather soundly. After he awoke, however, things became even more bizarre as it seemed the former House Speaker was either thinking about the secretary of defense or was talking about him with someone not seen. You can hear Gingrich say: “Listening to Panetta is not a relaxing experience.” He then slipped back into his stupor.

DHS Mission Creep: They Are Now Helping Arrest Prostitutes
Kurt Nimmo - It turns out the DHS is not only protecting us from supposed terrorists, but prostitutes too. A South Dakota television station reported on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security assisted in tracking down and arresting one Miaisha McCoy, who was allegedly plying the world’s oldest trade at a Sioux Falls hotel.

VIDEO: TSA Tacitly Admits $1 Billion Dollar Body Scanner System Is Critically Flawed
Paul Joseph Watson - On the TSA’s official blog, the agency attempts to discredit Corbett by describing him as “some guy” who launched a “crude attempt to allegedly show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures.” However, nowhere in the response does the TSA actually address or attempt to disprove Corbett’s demonstration that the body scanner can be easily fooled. In labeling Corbett’s successful effort to evade the body scanner as “crude,” the TSA has inadvertently admitted that its $1 billion dollar body scanner system can be defeated by “crude” methods.

Coercive Nannies
Jeffrey Tucker -The phrase “nanny state” captures the spirit of this push to regulate our consumption in all areas of life. But the phrase misses the mark when it comes to the methods themselves. Nannies are respectable market institutions. To be sure, if you hired a nanny with jackboots, Tasers and guns with real bullets who punished disobedience with jail and even death, that would be a closer approximation to what we are dealing with every day in the Land of the Free.

US Deported 1.3 Million Illegal Immigrants Nearly 60 Years Ago
Examiner - While we are constantly being told by President Obama and Republican contenders such as Newt Gingrich that we simply “cannot deport millions of people.” However, history proves this to be a lie.

8 Women File Lawsuit, Accuse Military Of Having 'High Tolerance For Sexual Predators In Their Ranks'
Huffington Post - The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, accuses the military of having a "high tolerance for sexual predators in their ranks" and fostering a hostile environment that discourages victims of sexual assault from coming forward and punishes them when they do. The suit claims the Defense Department has failed to take aggressive steps to confront the problem despite public statements suggesting otherwise.

The Verdict: Hang Up Don't Fall for Jury Duty Scam
FBI.gov - The phone rings, you pick it up, and the caller identifies himself as an officer of the court. He says you failed to report for jury duty and that a warrant is out for your arrest. You say you never received a notice. To clear it up, the caller says he'll need some information for "verification purposes"-your birth date, social security number, maybe even a credit card number. his is when you should hang up the phone. It's a scam.

Former Lobbyist Jack Abramoff says 'Ron Paul is a rarity and can't be bought'!
Daily Paul - Ron Paul 2012! Great clip to pass along! Excellent material for a powerful ad! Original interview with Abramoff on the Power Hour. His best statements come in at about the 5:10 mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch...

VIDEO: Radio Host Michael Medved says Russia does not have international interests
Daily Paul - Radio Host Michael Medved thinks that our national security would be in peril if we didn't have bases around the world. However, he cannot explain why other countries national security is not in peril, even though they do not have bases around the world. In order to defend this position he says Russia does not have international interests... to the level of United States. I think the Russians would beg to differ. Obviously, all countries have international interests. It is arrogant and slanderous to claim that other countries don't have international interests. It is a huge double standard that irks the rest of the world.

VIDEO: Doug Wead, Jesse Benton & Brian Doherty's Take on Super Tuesday
Daily Paul - Brian Doherty, one of the few good guys at Reason Magazine, and the author of soon to released (May 15, 2012) semi-authorized biography of Dr. Paul, Ron Paul's rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired on RT America to discuss his take on the direction of the Campaign, and what Super Tuesday really means in grand scheme of things...

YouTube: 16,022 Votes Stolen by Voting Machines
Watch as the Deibold Machine FIXES the total.

The Influence Industry: Obama gives administration jobs to some big fundraisers
Washington Post - Obama campaigned on what he called “the most sweeping ethics reform in history” and has frequently criticized the role of money in politics. That hasn’t stopped him from offering government jobs to some of his biggest bundlers, volunteer fundraisers who gather political contributions from other rich donors. More than half of Obama’s 47 biggest fundraisers, those who collected at least $500,000 for his campaign, have been given administration jobs. Nine more have been appointed to presidential boards and committees.

Sarah Palin refuses to rule out presidential run saying 'anything's possible'
Telegraph - The former Republican vice-presidential candidate told a CNN reporter she would “seriously consider whatever I can do to help our country” when asked if she would agree to being put forward if the party faced a brokered convention. The Tea Party darling also indicated she would consider running in the 2016 presidential race, if asked.

Roe-Kucinich lead Charge For Gulf War Illness Research-Help the Gulf War Veterans
Veterans Today - The battle for Gulf War Illness Research Funding on the Hill is in full swing and we need all to call their US Representatives in their DC office and ask for their Veterans Staffer to discuss getting Representatives to sign on to this Effort. Letters, EMails, and Petitions all efforts are welcomed and needed. This has gone on too long and the Gulf War Veterans Need and Deserve Support. Here is the Dear Colleague Letter that has been sent to every US Representatives office in DC.

Judge sets stage to take over Oakland's troubled cops
(Reuters) - After weeks of raucous street demonstrations, Oakland city leaders finally decided one chilly morning last fall to remove a downtown campsite that had become a national symbol of the Occupy movement. Protesters made makeshift gas masks and braced for a fight with the much-maligned Oakland Police Department.

Anti-Occupy Movement Rallies Against ‘Obama's War on Nature’
Weekly Standard - The anti-Occupy Wall Street movement—or Occupy Occupy D.C., as they call themselves—held a rally today at Freedom Plaza to call for a “Cease Fire in Obama's War on Nature.” In particular, the rally goers in favor of freedom came out today to protest “the Obama Administration's new policy to kill the barred owl in deference to the spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest,” according to a press release announcing the event.

Hunt for missing US troops set to resume in North Korea
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wounded in both legs and wearing a U.S. Army field coat peppered with bullet holes, 1st Lt. Robert Schmitt led a desperate U.S. hilltop assault against advancing Chinese forces in one of the bloodiest battles of the Korean War. He never returned. The hunt for thousands of fallen American troops like Schmitt, missing from a conflict fought six decades ago, is about to resume in North Korea as tensions ease between the wartime enemies.

VIDEO: Panetta: 'International Permission' Trumps Congressional Permission For Military Actions
Breitbart - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta appeared at a Senate Armed Services Committee congressional hearing, where he said “legal basis” was needed to initiate a no-fly zone over Syria.

US Syria mission still possible - but at what price?
RT - The Syrian crisis and the risks for US involvement were discussed on Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, where US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Among the military options, Dempsey envisaged the enforcement of a no-fly zone and humanitarian relief. Panetta added that other non-lethal assistance was also being considered. But Dempsey warned that a long-term air campaign would pose a challenge because Syrian air defense systems are a lot more advanced than those Libya had, and are mostly located in populated areas.

Australian children to be sterilized without parental consent under new eugenics law
(NaturalNews) The Government of Western Australia's Mental Health Commission (WAMHC) has basically conjured up a proposal for new mental health legislation that bypasses parental involvement in the mental health treatment process, and instead tasks children under age 18, and of any age, with making the decision about whether or not to be sterilized, or whether or not to have their brain tissue destroyed with psychosurgery procedures. If a "mental health professional" can convince children that they need such treatments for their own good, in other words, than Australia's youngest members of society will be open game for the eugenicist agenda.

Government concerned over Iranian ‘smart concrete’ withstanding bunker-busting bombs
digitaltrends.com - With tensions increasing between the United States and Iran, concerns have begun to arise over Iranian “smart concrete,” which officials believe may be able to withstand US bunker busters should military operations become a reality.... According to a recent article in the Economist, Iran happens to be good, very good, at developing what is known as “ultra-high performance concrete” (UHPC). Because of its geographical position, the county is under constant threat of earthquakes.

AP Exclusive: Iran may be cleaning up nuke work
VIENNA (AP) — Satellite images of an Iranian military facility appear to show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the site, indicating an attempted cleanup of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The assertions from the diplomats, all nuclear experts accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency, could add to the growing international pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, which Tehran insists is for peaceful purposes.

Al-Qaida claims responsibility for Yemen attack
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a daring weekend assault on a military base in southern Yemen, killing nearly 200 soldiers, the bloodiest battle in a year of turmoil.

VIDEO: Not the Video Breitbart Died For: Leaked Obama Vid Already Aired on PBS in 2008
Infowars - This is surely not the video that Andrew Breitbart was dying to release at the 2012 CPAC conference weeks before his untimely death. As predicted by Alex Jones, Mancow Mueller and others, the public will be distracted with less than bombshell issue while the real revelations Andrew Breitbart said he held likely ‘go with him to the grave,’ as Mancow put it earlier today.

‘Mancow’ Muller: Breitbart Was Murdered
Paul Joseph Watson - Muller said he was speaking with Breitbart “every other day” about a TV show he had lined up on a major network on which Breitbart would make regular appearances in a segment called “Breitbart predicts”. “The house of cards is coming down, I have information that will destroy Barack Obama, it’s over,” Muller says Breitbart told him, and that the information would be released March 1st.

FLASH: HOUSE BANS BARNEY FRANK FROM SPEAKING FOR DAY
Washington Examiner - Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., received a day-long ban from speaking on the House floor today, and the comments he had made were removed from the record, after he violated House rules with a personal attack on Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas.

VIDEO: CNN Botches Effort To Refute ‘Syria Danny’ Propaganda Scandal
Paul Joseph Watson March 7, 2012 - Following our exposé yesterday morning, which documented how Dayem, who has become the establishment media’s poster child for a military invasion of Syria... CNN’s Anderson Cooper invited him to engage in damage control during last night’s show.... During the interview with Cooper, Dayem only succeeds in virtually admitting the fact that the video is suspect. Asked how the footage was leaked, Dayem starts to say ‘we should have deleted it’ before hastily stating, “this has all been deleted.”

VIDEO: Breitbart and the CIA’s Heart Attack Gun
Kurt Nimmo - During Senate testimony in 1975 into illegal activities by the CIA, it was revealed that the agency had developed a dart gun capable of causing a heart attack. “At the first televised hearing, staged in the Senate Caucus Room, Chairman Church dramatically displayed a CIA poison dart gun to highlight the committee’s discovery that the CIA directly violated a presidential order by maintaining stocks of shellfish toxin sufficient to kill thousands,” a Senate web page explains.

White House Fuels Limbaugh Death Threats As Media Matters Lies
Jeffrey Lord - In an extraordinary development reported exclusively by Dan Riehl over at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government, the Democrats’ deliberate refusal to accept Rush Limbaugh’s apology, coupled with the President’s attack on Rush, has fueled a stunning surge in death threats against the conservative champion.

Three blind mice
RT - Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham are just about as close as anyone in the US Senate. They travel together, make joint media appearances and seem to sing the same song in their appeals to the American people. That song often revolves around the need for more war. Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn), Lindsey Graham (R – SC) and John McCain (R-AZ) stick together through thick and thin. They are frequently seen side by side, both physically and politically, and the most common speech they seem to give has to do with the need for more war. Brian Becker, National Coordinator for the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition, said, “These three haven’t met a war that they don’t like.”

State Power Can Hold Corporate Monopolies Accountable
Cassandra Anderson - The commerce clause is the most common excuse that the federal government uses to foist unsafe or unnecessary regulations on the States and the People. Simply put, the commerce clause was created to keep trade flowing and to prevent tariffs on trade between the states. Over time, the federal government usurped power from the states and and now controls commerce, which means that they have control over everything that may cross state lines. You can view a full constitutional explanation from Judge Napolitano [VIDEO] about how the commerce clause has been distorted.

YouTube Restricts Video Of Engineer Proving How Useless TSA Scanners Are
Steve Watson - Google/YouTube has placed restrictions on yet another video that exposes the fraudulent claims of the TSA and highlights how the federal agency’s security theatre is part of a wider social manipulation agenda.... The video shows Corbett carrying a metal case through the scanner, away from his body in his side pocket. Corbett explains that because metallic objects appear as black on the image the scanners produce, the machines do not pick up such objects if they are obscured by the background, which is also black.

Homeland Security To Have Immigrant Exit Tracking System Ready Within ‘Weeks’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is finalizing its plan for a biometric data system to track when immigrants leave the United States and will present it to Congress within “weeks,” a top department official told a House Homeland Security subcommittee Tuesday. An exit system to track who is leaving the country and when has been sought since before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. DHS officials, including Secretary Janet Napolitano, have agreed with the need for such a program but have previously said it would be too costly.

Big Sis and DHS Move On Campus
Kurt Nimmo - On Thursday of last week, DHS boss Janet Napolitano appointed University of Montana President Royce Engstrom to a newly formed council, the Homeland Security Advisory Council. It is made up of 19 university and college heads from around the country and will “advise the department on a wide range of issues from how the DHS can better recruit from campuses to emergency preparedness,” according to The Kaimin, a University of Montana campus newspaper.

VIDEO: Colorado court says students can carry guns on campus
DENVER (Reuters) - The University of Colorado overstepped its authority when the school's board of regents imposed a ban on the carrying of concealed weapons at its four campuses, the state's Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In overturning the policy, the court said that a concealed -carry law passed by the state legislature trumped the school's ban because it did not carve out an exception for the state's flagship university. "We hold that the (concealed carry law's) comprehensive statewide purpose, broad language, and narrow exclusions show that the General Assembly intended to divest the Board of Regents of its authority to regulate concealed handgun possession on campus," the ruling said.

Protesters: We're still coming to Chicago for NATO
CHICAGO (AP) - Protesters who've been planning for months to converge on Chicago for a pair of important world meetings this spring say they have a message: No G-8? No problem.

School tests California law that allows ‘parent takeover’ via petition
Infowars - Editor’s Note: On the surface, this issue could be viewed as a positive, pluralistic development.... But upon closer examination, we should note here that this ‘Parent Revolution’ is a Los Angeles organization - funded in part by international eugenicist outfit the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This alone, warrants further investigation into the aims and long-range goals of this Parent Revolution. Will their long-range goals conflict with home schooling, or will the Gates Foundation intervene with policies on forced vaccinations...These are key questions.

Maryland drops charges against doctors over late-term abortions
(Reuters) - A Maryland prosecutor has dropped murder charges against two doctors accused of performing late-term abortions on fetuses that could have lived outside the womb, in a case that drew national attention as a test of fetal homicide law.

YouTube: Ron Paul - Predictions in Due Time
This is Ron Paul's famous Predictions speech from April 24, 2002. This is the original video compiling recent images and video to give his speech a chilling effect. "I have no timetable for these predictions, but just in case, keep them around and look at them in 5-10 years. Let's hope and pray that I'm wrong on all accounts. If so, I will be very pleased.

VIDEO: Reality Check: What the 'real' Republican delegate numbers look like
(FOX19) - It's the night after Super Tuesday and there are a lot of questions about where the Republican candidates stand on delegates. The A.P. and Fox News have their numbers. But what are those numbers based upon? How accurate are they? Plus, what about those "unbound delegates".

YouTube: Jack Hunter: Still Winning
A message from Jack Hunter to Ron Paul supporters after Super Tuesday 2012.

YouTube: North Dakota Caucus STOLEN from Ron Paul?
An inside look into the North Dakota Caucus shows Ron Paul with a HUGE lead.

So, tell me again why the GOP keeps insisting that Ron Paul is losing!
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VIDEO: Jim Rogers was recently asked who is best for the economy - Obama, Santorum, or Romney.
Jim Rogers was recently asked who is best for the economy - Obama, Santorum, or Romney.

Ron Paul to Campaign in Missouri on Saturday
ST. LOUIS, Missouri – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will campaign in Missouri this Saturday, March 10th. The 12-term Congressman from Texas will hold two town hall meetings ahead of the March 17thcaucus. Details of the events are as follows....

Kansas State TEA Party Convention & Presidential Straw Poll
Presidential candidate Ron Paul will speak at the Kansas State TEA Party Convention & Presidential Straw Poll at the Century II Convention Hall , 225 W Douglas, Wichita, Kansas on Friday, March 9th at 3:30 p.m. Central. Calendar of Events listed here.

RON PAUL has the MOST 2nd place finishes to DATE! More than any other candidate
Daily Paul - For all of you detractors on the Paul and all the detractors on the MSM. Paul has the most second place finishes to date, and as the primaries move on, Paul is getting stronger. So Far Paul has 9 second place finishes. More than likely we have gotten the majority of delegates in these states: NH, MN, WA, VA, VT, ND, Maine, Idaho, and Alaska. Paul has four - 3rd place finishes, more than likely the most delegates in 2 of those states: IA, NV, MO (no caucus yet) and MA (caucus still to come).

AUDIO: Exclusive: Post Super Tuesday Ron Paul Campaign Update with Jack Hunter
Daily Paul Radio - Jack Hunter the official blogger for Ron Paul 2012 campaign and commentator at Daily Caller joins Daily Paul Radio with Kurt Wallace for ‘Exclusive Post Super Tuesday Ron Paul Campaign Update with Jack Hunter’ to discuss the results and reactions from Super Tuesday results as well as the fight for liberty and the establishment efforts to stop the message in the Republican party and the mainstream media.

Romney's 6 Wins (Out of 10) on Super Tuesday May Mean Brokered Convention
New American - GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney won a majority of the 10 “Super Tuesday” presidential primary and caucus states March 6, though the unconvincing victory has many pundits wondering when Romney will be able to land the “knockout" blow against his rivals. If Romney does not garner the requisite 1,144 delegates needed to clinch the nomination by the time Republicans meet in Tampa during the week of August 27, the result may be a "brokered" convention.

ATTENTION: Other than taking 1st, the scenario is playing out perfectly!
Daily Paul - To all of the Ron Paul supporters around the country, other than taking each state with a 1st place, all the pieces are falling in place for a brokered convention. It is looking as if there will not be enough first round votes to take the GOP nomination, so then all of you Ron Paul supporters that have clawed your way to those delegate spots in place of Romney, Santorum and Gingrich supporters, you will be free to vote. This is Paul's strategy and it's falling perfectly into place. Keep it up, keep pushing, we will do this.

VIDEO: MSNBC Completely Leaves Out Ron Paul In Super Tuesday TV Intro
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11 Reasons Why The Rest of the Country Should Switch to Caucuses
Daily Paul - There’s been lots of hemming and hawing in the media about the caucuses. I suspect a lot of that comes from people who have not taken the time to learn the process. After campaigning in a dozen or so states over the last two election cycles and seeing the different ways caucuses are run, I’ve concluded that concerned voters should want a caucus. Here’s why...

Thousands of criminals could be able to vote in Calif. primary
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The nonpartisan League of Women Voters and two prisoners' rights groups sued California elections officials on Wednesday, claiming that tens of thousands of criminals being shifted to county jails and community supervision should be eligible to vote. The state's new realignment law that took effect in October is sending lower-level offenders to county jails instead of to state prisons, where they are barred from voting. It also ends parole for many ex-convicts, substituting a similar program called "post-release community supervision" instead.

Tea Partiers for Santorum?
The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf writes: CNN’s Michigan exit poll had a nugget of information that caught my eye: Republican voters who “strongly supported” the Tea Party favored Rick Santorum - 45 percent of that subgroup cast a ballot for the former Pennsylvania senator… These results underscore the chasm that separates what Tea Partiers say they care about and their revealed preferences.

Veteran denied voting rights over lack of ID
RT -Retired US Marine Tim Thompson walked into his neighboring polling place on Super Tuesday, but once inside he faced exactly what he feared: even with a voter registration card — and a career serving his country — he wasn't allowed to vote. Thompson, 55, had a feeling this would happen. In his home state of Tennessee, a Republican-majority legislature recently saw to it that a new law made it all the way to Governor Bill Haslam’s desk — where the state’s top politician extended his seal of approval to a controversial bill that has Thompson and others riled up. Under Tennessee's new Voter ID legislation, only certain, state-issued identification cards count inside polling centers on Election Day.

U.S. Army Suicides Rising Sharply, Study Finds
WEDNESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Suicides among U.S. soldiers rose 80 percent from 2004 to 2008, an Army study found. As many as 40 percent of these suicides may have been linked to combat experience in Iraq, yet nearly a third of the soldiers who committed suicide saw no combat at all, said the researchers, from the U.S. Army Public Health Command.... "A troubling finding was that over 25 percent of the soldiers who committed suicide carried a primary diagnosis of an adjustment disorder," said Simon Rego, supervising psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. "Adjustment disorder" is a catchall term for emotional problems resulting from being in a stressful environment, such as combat.

VIDEO: AIPAC pushing for war with Iran?
RT - It’s annual tradition...more than 13,000 people gathering in the nation’s capital for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference. “It gives people across the country a chance to revitalize their pro-Israel roots,” said attendee Howard Abrams. “It is very important that the United States will back up Israel and indeed the United States is committed to backing up Israel,” said another visitor. AIPAC is considered to be one of the most powerful lobbying groups in America, and they hold the conference each year showcasing American-Israeli unity. But just how much power the group has over U.S. foreign policy stirs controversy.

UN agrees nuclear talks with Iran
AP/The Independent - The European Union said today that world powers have agreed to a new round of talks with Iran over its nuclear programme, as Tehran gave permission for inspectors to visit a site suspected of secret atomic work.… EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the US, the UK, China, Russia and France – and Germany agreed to a new round of nuclear talks with Iran.

Al Qaeda says Yemen attack follows U.S. troop increase
ADEN (Reuters) - The Yemeni branch of al Qaeda said Tuesday it attacked a U.S. intelligence officer after U.S. soldiers were sent to the country, whose new leader has vowed to fight the militant Islamist group. In a statement posted on an Islamist website, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said the attack last week came after surveillance showed a rising U.S. military presence in the southern city of Aden. The Pentagon confirmed the attack but disputed the group's claim that it succeeded in killing its target. The identify of the person who came under attack has not been made public.

VIDEO: Eastern Libya declares autonomy (flying the al-Qaeda flag)
RT - Cyrenaica, the eastern region of Libya, has elected a regional congress and declared semi-autonomy from the capital Tripoli. The “blatant call for fragmentation” of the country was condemned by Libya’s ruling NTC.... This is a blatant call for fragmentation,” said Fathi Baja, the head of political committee of the NTC. “We reject it in its entirety. We are against divisions and against any move that hurts the unity of the Libyan people.”

Leaked Email: Pentagon Admits Plan To Direct Terror Attacks Inside Syria
Paul Joseph Watson - A shocking email leaked as part of the Wikileaks Stratfor data dump reveals that the Pentagon is planning to direct terror attacks and assassinations inside Syria in a bid to topple President President Bashar al-Assad. The email, written by Reva Bhalla, Stratfor’s Director of Analysis, contains details of a December 6 Pentagon meeting attended by members of the USAF strategic studies group along with four military officers at the Lieutenant Colonel level, “including one French and one British representative.”

Syrians bombard rebels, Obama says Assad will fall
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian tanks bombarded opposition areas in Homs overnight and the Red Cross tried for a sixth day to gain access to Baba Amr, a fallen rebel stronghold where activists have reported bloody reprisals by President Bashar al-Assad's forces. President Barack Obama said it was only a matter of time before Assad left office, describing Syria's turmoil as "heartbreaking and outrageous," but opposed a call by a senior U.S. senator for American military action to force him out.

UN humanitarian chief in Syria to urge aid access
BEIRUT (AP) -- The U.N. humanitarian chief headed to the shattered central Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday, where activists have accused regime forces of trying to cover up evidence of a monthlong military assault and alleged execution-style killings

Journalist arrested in New Delhi bomb attack
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Police arrested an Indian journalist in connection with last month's bombing of an Israeli diplomatic vehicle in New Delhi, authorities said Wednesday, the first apparent breakthrough in an attack that Israel accused Iran of orchestrating.

Terror indictment unveiled for Norway massacre
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Norwegian prosecutors on Wednesday formally indicted Anders Behring Breivik on terror charges, more than seven months after he confessed to attacks that killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage.

Sickening indignity: Terminally ill patients face repeat fit-to-work tests
Mirror News UK - Thousands of terminally ill and disabled people are being forced to repeatedly undergo assessments to see if they can go back to work. Some 2,020 MS sufferers, 440 patients with Parkinson’s disease and dozens of dementia victims have all been through multiple “work capability assessments” – which they must pass to receive their benefits. Another 16,750 people with cancer have been forced to go through the process every two years... Charities reacted with anger and disbelief to the shocking figures, which come the day after David Cameron railroaded a raft of draconian benefit cuts through Parliament.

VIDEO: 'Syria Danny’ Caught Staging CNN War Propaganda Stunt
Paul Joseph Watson - Astounding footage has emerged of ‘Syria Danny’ – the dubious “activist” who appears on mainstream news every week begging for a US or Israeli military invasion – in which he apparently coordinates gunfire and explosions to be staged during his interview with CNN.

BACKFIRE: Company Stock Plummets After Limbaugh Ad Drop
On Saturday, Carbonite CEO David Friend released a statement on his company’s website declaring that Carbonite had decided to “withdraw” advertising from Rush Limbaugh’s radio show in the wake of his controversial remarks involving Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke because it will “ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse”:

YouTube:: SUPER TUESDAY CNN SLIP: Ron Paul has HUGE voter support!
CNN reporter forgot to zoom in on Ron Paul and under report the count of the crowd gathered in support of him on this Super Tuesday in North Dakota. He even admitted that the crowd OF VOTERS was far larger than any other candidates at over 2,000.

Total Delegate Count
CNN Election Center.

Romney pads delegate lead with Super Tuesday wins
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney padded his lead in the race for delegates Tuesday by winning Republican presidential contests in six states. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum added delegates by winning contests three states, while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won the primary in Georgia, the state he used to represent in Congress. Romney won at least 212 Super Tuesday delegates and Santorum won at least 84. Gingrich won at least 72 delegates and Texas Rep. Ron Paul got at least 22.

2012 Republican Popular Vote
Real Clear Politics.

Obama Loses 'Dem' Primary in 15 Oklahoma Counties
With 98 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday, Obama won 57 percent of the vote. Four other candidates combined for 43 percent of the vote, including anti-abortion activist and Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry who received 18 percent of the vote. According to Democratic Party rules, Terry is eligible for a delegate since he won more than 15 percent of the statewide vote. Terry beat Obama in 12 counties, mostly in western Oklahoma. Terry acknowledges he can't win the presidency but says he hopes to cause Obama's defeat in the fall.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich suffers primary defeat in Ohio
Washington Post - Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), the two-time presidential candidate and icon of the antiwar left, suffered a bruising primary defeat Tuesday as a new Republican-drawn congressional map threatened to end the career of one of the most colorful figures in Congress.

VIDEO: MSNBC Hosts Grieve Over Kucinich Loss In Ohio
Real Clear Politics - "That's amazing," a shocked Rachel Maddow reacted to the news that Dennis Kucinich lost his primary race on Super Tuesday. Kucinich lost his district after Ohio redrew their Congressional lines, leaving him to run in a nearby district against an incumbent Democrat. "That means that there's not going to be a Dennis Kucinich in Congress anymore, which is almost hard to believe. He has been a singular force for his, not only for his ideological position but he's just been such a character," Maddow lamented.

Super Tuesday Results

YouTube: Ron Paul Addresses ND Republican Caucus
C-SPAN - Ron Paul is in Fargo, North Dakota to address a Republican Caucus taking place in the state. North Dakota is one of three states holding a caucus today, while seven states hold primaries.

YouTube: Ron Paul on FOX News - Super Tuesday
March 6, 2012

YouTube: Ron Paul Interview with Laura Ingraham
@1:56 Paul: I have a personal opinion. I think more wars are what the world doesn't need. I think fear of what the Iranians are doing is way overblown considering the fact that I was very much involved with the military in the 1960's and we had to deal with the Soviets. How could you deal with a more ruthless, powerful nation than ever. But from a political viewpoint Israel should do what they want to do. They've given way too much of their sovereignty up to us...for us to tell Israel what to do I don't agree with that.

Dinosaur Media Misquotes Ron Paul, Jumps On Congressman Over Tornado Comments
Steve Watson - Appearing on CNN Sunday, Paul was asked his opinion on FEMA’s management of the recent aftermath of the destructive tornados in the Midwestern states. Paul explained that he was not an advocate of the federal government having authority and responsibility over such situations, that he does not support the notion of federal money, and that the states should be allowed to take care of their own. Of course, being the attack dog hacks that they are, corporate media minions immediately poured forth with headlines such as “Ron Paul: Victims of Midwestern tornado outbreak should not get federal aid” and “Ron Paul: No Federal Financial Aid For Tornado Victims”.

Huge Ron Paul Banner in Worcester MA
Daily Paul - Hopefully his art will inspire a few undecided voters to cast their vote and support for the only candidate who will restore our liberties and freedoms, Ron Paul!

Judge temporarily blocks Wisconsin voter ID law
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked enforcement of the state's voter identification law, just weeks away from its April 3 presidential primary. Dane County Judge David Flanagan issued the temporary injunction as part of a lawsuit brought by the NAACP, which argued the law disenfranchises voters, many of them minorities, who do not possess acceptable identification.

Vets prone to drug addiction get risky painkillers
CHICAGO (AP) -- Morphine and similar powerful painkillers are sometimes prescribed to recent war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress along with physical pain, and the consequences can be tragic, a government study suggests. These vets are at high risk for drug and alcohol abuse, but they're two times more likely to get prescriptions for addictive painkillers than vets with only physical pain, according to the study, billed as the first national examination of the problem. Iraq and Afghanistan vets with PTSD who already had substance abuse problems were four times more likely to get these drugs than vets without mental health problems, according to the study.

Mass arrests at Occupy Education protest at California State Capitol
RT - A lengthy standoff between protesters and police in and outside of the California State Capitol Building ended with nearly 70 demonstrators arrested late Monday during an Occupy rally in Sacramento. A mass protest was waged all day Monday at the headquarters of the California State government, branded under the campaign “Occupy Education.” Demonstrators aligned with the OWS movement, many in particular with the Occupy Sacramento offshoot, were meeting to protest the increasing cost of tuition at state schools.

Netanyahu Has Made Up His Mind to Attack Iran
Kurt Nimmo The Algemeiner, billed as the fastest growing Jewish newspaper in America, is reporting that Israeli PM Netanyahu has made up his mind and Israel will attack Iran, probably before the election. The newspaper cites a “senior American official” who allegedly told Israel’s government regulated Channel 2 that the decision was made by Netanyahu and his coalition of Likudniks to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. The report was aired prior to Netanyahu’s speech before AIPAC, the powerful Israeli political action committee that calls the shots on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

YouTube: Escobar: Putin not part of NWO, labelled evil by elites
RT - It's official - Vladimir Putin has won the presidential race to become Russia's leader for a third term. Official results have given him almost 64 per cent of the vote. Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar in Thailand says that despite the Russian people making their choice clear, the U.S. is still on a mission to vilify the country...

China military spending to top $100 billion in 2012, alarming neighbors
Washington Post - China’s Communist Party rulers plan to boost military spending by 11 percent this year, passing the $100 billion mark for the first time and renewing questions about the country’s long-term intentions. The new spending plan comes as China’s neighbors are increasingly unnerved by the country’s growing assertiveness in pressing territorial claims and as the Obama administration has announced a strategic “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific region.

Lakota arrests underway halting tarsands pipeline trucks
Lakotas Alex White Plume, Debra White Plume, Andrew Ironshell, Sam Long Black Cat and Don Iron Shell, were arrested at a blockade of tarsands pipeline trucks. Debra White Plume, released from jail in Kyle, South Dakota, said Monday night, "Alex, myself, Sam Long Black Cat, Andrew Iron Shell and Terrell Eugene Iron Shell were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct." "We formed a blockade to stop tarsands oil mine equipment from passing our lands.

VIDEO: Netanyahu: Israel 'reserves right' to strike Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Obama that Israel would decide for itself whether to strike Iran.... n a sit-down earlier today with the president in the Oval Office, Netanyahu pushed back against the administration’s repeated attempts to dissuade Israel from attacking Iran. “Israel must reserve the right to defend itself and after all, that’s the very purpose of the Jewish state to, restore to the Jewish people control of our destiny,” said Netanyahu, who is meeting with the president in advance of his speech later today before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference.

Greek default looms as voluntary debt deal looks set to fail
Telegraph - Authorities in Athens are ready to enforce the controversial collective action clauses, or CACs, to impose the restructuring deal on all bondholders as the number of voluntary agreements look set to fall short of the required amount. Credit rating agencies have warned they will declare Athens to be in default if the CACs are triggered which would be a dramatic culmination to a three-year rollercoaster ride for Athens, the eurozone and global markets.

Iceland puts former PM on trial over crisis
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland began the trial Monday of former prime minister Geir Haarde for failing to prevent a 2008 financial crash, thought to be the only prosecution in the world of a political leader over the crisis.... "None of us realized at the time that there was something fishy within the banking system itself, as now appears to have been the case," Haarde told the court in opening questioning from the special prosecutor investigating crimes linked to the crisis.

Canadian government “ready to talk” about Iceland adopting our currency?
CANADA - "Canadian ambassador to Iceland Alan Bones had planned to deliver remarks to a conference on the future of the Icelandic krona, making it clear that if Iceland decided to adopt the Canadian dollar, with all its inherent risks, Canada was ready to talk," the article notes. However, Bones' Saturday speech was cancelled abruptly. "Once we got wind of [the speech] and it went through the approval channels ... The decision was made that it's not an appropriate event for him to speak at," Joseph Lavoie, Foreign Minister John Baird's press secretary, told the Globe.

Mexico asks Biden to stop US arms, money flow
MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Feliple Calderon told Vice President Joe Biden on Monday that Mexico wants the United States to do more to halt the flow of weapons and drug money to south of the border. Calderon's request came during a meeting in the presidential residence in Mexico City, where Biden is on a one-day visit. He heads to Honduras on Tuesday. Mexico's president "repeated the urgent need to strengthen actions against the trafficking of weapons into our country and money laundering," his office said in a statement.

CSIS says surprise visits to people at work a ‘legitimate strategy’
The Star - Canada’s spy agency considers surprise workplace visits to be a “legitimate investigative strategy” despite persistent public concerns about the practice, a newly disclosed policy memo says. The memo surfaced recently further to a complaint lodged by an Ottawa woman who took exception to being visited by Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers at her office. The previously secret document shows that CSIS makes it a point to suddenly turn up at people’s offices in order to intimidate them, said Paul Champ, the woman’s lawyer.... “It’s about catching people off guard and unsettling them. They know that it causes fear in people, and that’s precisely why they do it.”

VIDEO: The Toronto Hearings on 9/11: Uncovering 10 Years of Deception - Preview
Press for Truth - In 2011, experts and scientists from around the world gathered in Toronto, Canada to present new and established evidence that questions the official story of 9/11. This evidence was presented to a distinguished panel of experts over a 4 day period. Through their analysis and scientific investigations, they hope to spark a new investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001.

VIDEO: 3/5/2012 -- 6.1 magnitude earthquake -- Argentina South America + Global Earthquake Swarm
We are in the middle of a moderate GLOBAL earthquake swarm. A series of moderate to large sized earthquakes has struck around the Pacific ring of fire .... BE ALERT of a possible sizable earthquake(s) over the next few DAYS... West Coast USA -- Baja .. north through Mono Lake CA -- then northwest to Vancouver Island British Columbia -- also along the edge of the north American Craton (laurentia) BE ALERT as well --- the threat of a possible 5.0M+ earthquake in the near term exists.

Bill Gates: One of the World’s Most Destructive Do-Gooders?
Dr. Mercola - COMMENT (Infowars.com): Dr. Mercola has been the latest among many credible voices to sound an important note of alarm at the pace and scope of the Gates Foundation and Monsanto-led effort to push genetically modified crops on the developing world under the cover of philanthropy, enabling a hostile Corporate takeover to monopolize global and regional industries all while posing as a savior with false solutions that endanger our world. To stress the importance and depth of this issue, we have added numerous other vital links on this topic.

McCain calls for US-led strikes on Syria without UN mandate
RT - Taking the Senate floor, McCain said there will be no UN mandate for the air strikes he deems the only way to stop the violence – but that a mandate isn’t necessary. All the Arizona senator needs, apparently, is a somewhat dubious – and violent – precedent. “NATO took military action to save Kosovo in 1999 without formal U.N. authorization. There is no reason why the Arab League, or NATO, or a leading coalition within the Friends of Syria contact group, or all of them speaking in unison, could not provide a similar international mandate for military measures to save Syria today”, he said.

Tea Party Marine Investigated for Disloyalty to Obama
Kurt Nimmo - Gary Stein faces legal hurdle for questioning Obama’s response to soldiers burning Koran. The Armed Forces Tea Party reports that Camp Pendleton Marine Gary Stein is being officially investigated for making disloyal comments about Obama. “The comments in question were made by his personal Facebook profile during a discussion about ‘NATO allowing the trial of US Troops for burning the Koran’ on a Facebook Group and since been deleted,” a post today explains.

Security fears? Chicago G8 Summit canceled, relocated to Camp David
RT - Amid concerns over thousands of protestors descending on Chicago, Illinois for the G-8 Summit this spring, the event have been moved to the presidential compound at Camp David, Maryland, around an hour outside of Washington. Leaders from the United States, Russia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and European Union were expected to arrive in Chicago this May for the annual meeting of the world’s largest economies. Protesters also had plans for the Windy City, however, and demonstration groups including Occupy Wall Street offshoots had begun orchestrating events to coincide with the meeting.

Judge Orders Obama Administration to Release Classified Document
All Gov - The case is a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit filed by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) in 2001 against the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). CIEL requested USTR turn over a one-page position paper concerning a U.S. negotiating position in negotiations to create a free-trade area among 34 nations in the western hemisphere that eventually went nowhere.

U.S. defends killing Americans who join al Qaeda
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Obama administration asserted on Monday a right to kill Americans overseas who are plotting attacks against the United States, laying out specific details for the first time about a policy that critics argue violates U.S. and international law. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said that Americans who have joined al Qaeda or its affiliates can be targeted for lethal strikes if there is an imminent threat to the United States and capturing them is not feasible.

Hacked Stratfor Emails: Osama’s Body Not Dumped at Sea
Kurt Nimmo - According to “shadow CIA” Stratfor email hacked by Anonymous and released by Wikileaks, Osama bin Laden was not dumped at sea after he was supposedly killed at his hideout in Pakistan. Instead, his body was shipped via a CIA plane to a mortuary located at a military medical institute in Dover, Delaware. Osama’s body was allegedly delivered following Obama’s boasting about the dubious raid. “Reportedly, we took the body with us. Thank goodness,” said Stratfor CEO George Friedman in an email dated May 2, 2011.

VIDEO: Troops Used For Crowd Control At Austin, Texas Kite Festival
Paul Joseph Watson - Uniformed troops from the Texas State Guard were used for the purposes of crowd control during the Zilker Kite Festival in Austin this past weekend, with video showing the troops ordering parents and children to board school buses at the end of the event. Disturbing footage of the troops controlling the movement of attendees was filmed by Infowars reporters, in addition to a police helicopter circling above. However, the website of the Zilker Kite Festival attempted to downplay the Guard’s involvement as if it was completely normal.

Maryland Gun Law Found Unconstitutional (Good and compelling reason no longer applies)
BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland’s requirement that residents show a “good and substantial reason” to get a handgun permit is unconstitutional, according to a federal judge’s opinion filed Monday. States can channel the way their residents exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms, but because Maryland’s goal was to minimize the number of firearms carried outside homes by limiting the privilege to those who could demonstrate “good reason,” it had turned into a rationing system, infringing upon residents’ rights, U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg wrote.

Some say re-election fear is driving gun sales in Fort Worth, elsewhere
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Enthusiasts are stocking up on guns and ammunition, and some in the industry are wondering whether sales are spiking as they did after Democrat Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008. That rush created a nationwide shortage. "We're at the top of the roller coaster and we're about to plummet down the side," said DeWayne Irwin, owner of the Cheaper Than Dirt gun store in north Fort Worth, which set a sales record for the month of February. "It's fixing to happen again. I don't know if it will be to the same extent it was before, but I see it coming.

Weaponizing the Body Politic
Antiwar.com - So much money has gone into armoring and arming local law-enforcement since 9/11 that the federal government could have rebuilt post-Katrina New Orleans five times over and had enough money left in the kitty to provide job training and housing for every one of the record 41,000-plus homeless people in New York City. It could have added in the growing population of 15,000 homeless in Philadelphia, my hometown, and still have had money to spare. Add disintegrating Detroit, Newark, and Camden to the list. Throw in some crumbling bridges and roads, too.

YouTube: Michael Scheuer: Israel owns the Congress
Fox News March 3, 2012 - Lou Dobbs interviews former CIA operative, head of the Bin Laden Tracking Unit, Michael Scheuer.

Loughner’s Forced Psychiatric Drugging by Prison Doctors Upheld on Appeal
Bloomberg March 5, 2012 - Federal prison doctors may force antipsychotic drugs on Jared Lee Loughner, charged with killing six people and trying to assassinate U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, on the grounds he is a danger to himself, a U.S. appeals court ruled. The San Francisco-based court ruled today by a 2-1 vote that there was no violation of Loughner’s constitutional due process rights when prison doctors were permitted to forcibly medicate him with antipsychotic drugs.

YouTube: Andrew Breitbart Just Another Weird Death
I don't know if he was killed, but if you look at the huge list of other suspicious deaths, it is not out of the realm of possibility. There is nothing wrong questioning the perceived reality. Go to The Greatest Truth Never Told for more information like this.

USA #1?  40 Embarrassing Things That America Is The Best In The World At
American Dream - Is the USA still #1? Well, there are many things that America is still the best in the world at, but unfortunately a lot of those categories are nothing to be proud of.... America is a complete and total mess and just "tweaking" a few things here and there is not going to return this nation to its former glory. We have forgotten the things that once made us great, and if we do not return to them we will continue to fall apart as a nation. With that being said, the following are 40 embarrassing things that America is the best in the world at....

Convicted killer got unemployment while in L.A. jail
AP - Sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker said Saturday that Anthony Garcia, nicknamed "Chopper," received more than $30,000 in fraudulent unemployment while in Los Angeles County jail from 2008 to 2010.

Ron Paul to Speak in Fargo, North Dakota at Statewide Caucus on Super Tuesday
BISMARCK, North Dakota – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will return to North Dakota on March 6th – Super Tuesday – to speak at a Fargo mega-caucus... North Dakota has no voter registration of any kind including no political party enrollment. Those eligible to caucus must be 18 years of age by Election Day in November, and they must bring government ID or proof of 30-day residency such as a utility bill. State residents from all over North Dakota may vote at any caucus location statewide, making North Dakota caucusing rules among the most open nationally.

YouTube: Ron Paul Interview With Cavuto On Oil & The Dollar
Fox News March 5, 2012.

VIDEO: Complete Ron Paul Speech-Idaho Falls
C-Span Monday, March 5, 2012 - Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) addressed supporters at a town hall meeting in the Idaho Falls Civic Auditorium. An extremely enthusiastic crowd!

Ron Paul Draws More Than 2,000 Voters to Idaho Falls Town Hall Meeting
2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul attracted a remarkable over 2,000 supporters and undecided voters to his town hall meeting in Idaho Falls, continuing his tradition of drawing huge crowds in the Gem State.

2,400 Idahoans Pack U. of Idaho Kibbie Dome for Ron Paul Event
BOISE, Idaho - Second appearance by the only presidential candidate in 30 years demonstrates momentum ahead of ‘Super Tuesday’ caucus BOISE, Idaho – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul drew a crowd of 2,400 supporters in Moscow, Idaho today, demonstrating his popularity among voters in the crucial northern region of the Gem State.... This event clearly broke the record for turnout in lieu of this being the second such event within the same Latah County city of less than 24,000.

Ron Paul slams “counterfeit” conservatives
RT - After his rivals accused presidential hopeful Ron Paul of working to help the campaign of Mitt Romney, the congressman from Texas is taking on the Republican Party frontrunner — and the rest of the GOP establishment — with his latest mailer. Some Republican voters in the state of Oklahoma received a political ad from Representative Ron Paul in their mailboxes this week urging them to discredit the congressman’s competition, which he considers a collective of “counterfeit” conservatives.

YouTube: Ben Swann On Fox News Panel About Ohio Primary
Fox News March 5, 2012 - Ben Swann of the now well known reality check on Fox affiliate WXIX shares his input on the upcoming Ohio primary on FNC. "It's really right now, from what we can tell, a race between Romney and Paul right now for the lead in terms of delegates."

Super Tuesday is Tomorrow ( TODAY ) Open Thread
Daily Paul - Ten states vote on Super Tuesday... Post your news, observations and insights in the comment section below. Click here for the full GOP Primary Schedule,

Romney's Cousins United for Ron Paul - Will Speak at Idaho Caucuses to a Heavy Mormon Vote
Slate.com - Well, this is a funny way for Ron Paul's campaign to battle the (largely true) narrative that it's working hand-in-glove with Mitt Romney. Days after concluding a small ad campaign attacking Romney in Washington, Paul's team has announced the endorsements of five Romney family relatives in Montana, Washington, Utah, and Idaho -- all will speak at Idaho caucuses, where a heavy Mormon vote is expected to boost Romney to a win.

Ben Swann to be on the "All Star Panel" for Super Tuesday
Daily Paul - Ben Swann was selected by Bret Baier to be on the Fox News Channel "All Star Panel" for Super Tuesday at 6:00 EST.

Ron Paul Draws 1,100-plus Crowd in Fairbanks, Alaska
Ron Paul 2012 - 750-plus inside venue, over 200 in overflow areas, and over 100 outside brave cold to see Dr. Paul. 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul drew more than 1,100 supporters to his Fairbanks town hall meeting, the first of two stops he is making in Alaska today. The Congressman’s Fairbanks Town Hall Meeting took place at 1:00 p.m. AKST in the Gold Ballroom of the Westmark Hotel & Conference Center, located at 813 Noble Street, Fairbanks, AK 99701.

Ron Paul: "I Think Sanctions Give Iran Motivation To Want A Nuclear Weapon"
Zero Hedge - There are those who say that while they agree completely with Ron Paul’s economic policy of fixing the #1 issue that ails America (as a reminder, total US debt/GDP would only decline under a Ron Paul presidency) they disagree with Paul on his foreign policy. We wonder why when all he does is instead of appealing to the jingoism of warmongers and patronizing the basest of herd instincts, he simply tells the truth. Such as on Today’s State of the Union show on CNN when asked if Obama has done “enough” to force Iran to stop its nuclear development via sanctions and others, his reply was spot on: “I think he gets too much involved. I think sanctions gives the motivation for them to want a nuclear weapon.

Obama Honors Iraq War Vets
President Barack Obama is honoring the more than 1 million American troops who served in Iraq by welcoming a small cross-section to a formal dinner at the White House on Wednesday night. The dinner for 200 – about half military personnel or veterans and the rest their guests – will include service members from all 50 states and the US territories. Some service members believe something more expansive is warranted to recognize those who served in Iraq.

Vets feel abandoned after secret drug experiments
As one veteran states: "I really felt a duty to my country to go and serve," he said. "Things were different back then. You believed in your government. And you just wouldn't think they would give you something that would harm you intentionally." 
** Related: Declassified Document: U. S. Army - Chemical Research and Development Laboratories Technical Report

VIDEO: New York City declines to prosecute Naomi Wolf for Occupy arrest
Guardian - Naomi Wolf will not do hard time for walking on a sidewalk as part of an Occupy Wall Street demonstration last October. New York officials have announced they have declined to prosecute, and the case has been dismissed. Wolf, a Guardian contributor, was arrested in New York after a confrontation with police officers who had set up cordons to restrict the movement of Occupy protesters outside an event for the Huffington Post, to which she also contributes.

Obama seeks to calm Israeli fears over Iran
AFP -US President Barack Obama and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu go into key talks on the Iranian nuclear stand-off on Monday, with each publicly seeking to stake out some common ground. While Obama in an address to the powerful pro-Israel lobby on Sunday criticized "loose talk of war" he also gave a strong nod to Israel's refusal to contemplate a nuclear-armed Iran. "No Israeli government can tolerate a nuclear weapon in the hands of a regime that denies the Holocaust, threatens to wipe Israel off the map, and sponsors terrorist groups committed to Israel's destruction," he said, to applause from members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

World stocks down after Obama's tough talk on Iran
AP - World stock markets fell Monday as tough talk by President Barack Obama over Iran's nuclear program and uncertainty over Greece's ability to clear the next hurdle in its debt reduction plan unnerved investors. Benchmark oil hovered below $107 per barrel while the dollar gained against the euro but fell against the yen.

Global oil prices may hit $200 if Israel attacks Iran
Press TV - In an interview with the NDTV Profit network, Amrita Sen, a commodity strategist at Barclays Capital, noted that the price hike would have a powerful negative impact on Europe’s ailing economies which are already suffering from a euro weak against the dollar. The expert added that there are other factors at work which may further worsen the negative effects of such an oil shock.

VIDEO: Won’t hesitate to use force to defend US – Obama on Iran
RT - The US President said his country will do everything it takes to defend national interests, and that a military attack to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is possible. Addressing the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee's policy conference, Obama quoted Roosevelt and said he would “speak softly, but carry a big stick”. At the same time, however, the President appealed to the powerful lobbying group, calling for more time to allow sanctions to further isolate the Islamic Republic.

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Western shock: Libyans destroy NATO ally war cemetery
RT - Deep shock and outrage are the reactions in the Western world after former Libyan rebels in Benghazi attacked and desecrated a WWII cemetery of those who “liberated” them from Gaddafi’s “tyranny”.... There is speculation that this was done to punish NATO, or the US, for American soldiers burning numerous copies of the Koran in Afghanistan, an act which provoked violent riots by Muslims.

NATO’s New Libya: Rebels cage black Africans in zoo, force feed them flags
RT - A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag.

Spain's unemployment rate hits 22.9%
Independant - The number of people claiming unemployment benefit in Spain rose by 112,269 in January, taking the overall figure to 4.7 million. Spain's unemployment rate stands at 22.9%, the highest in the 17-nation eurozone.

Putin claims victory in Russia's presidential election, backed by exit polls, early vote count
MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin claimed victory in Russia's presidential election before tens of thousands of cheering supporters Sunday, even as the opposition and independent observers insisted the vote had been marred by widespread fraud.

Russia ready to restore diplomatic ties with Georgia
RT - Moscow says it is ready to go for a mutual visa-free regime with Georgia, and has suggested restoring diplomatic ties between the two countries. “We were and are interested in strengthening ties between the nations of Russia and Georgia. We are ready to implement a no-visa regime for Georgian citizens on a mutual basis,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich said Friday.

Japan invents speech-jamming gun that silences people mid-sentence
Fox News - Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable "SpeechJammer" gun that can silence people more than 30 meters away. The device works by recording its target's speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects the brain's cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter before silencing them completely.

YouTube: Did we almost lose Tokyo? RT interviews Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear
RT - Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann.... On Wednesday - Japanese Scientists announced that twice as much radioactive cesium than estimated blew out of the plant after the earthquake and tsunami. That's about 40,000 trillion bequerels. And it took just 18 days for those radioactive particles to encircle the planet - turning up in places as far away as Vermont. French scientists are now calling on Japan to remain vigilant in its inspections of fruit, milk, and game to prevent further radiation contamination.

What if the NDAA Grabs YOU???
Could this happen to you?

Senators accuse Saudi Arabia of 9/11 involvement
RT - Two former American senators [Bob Graham and Bob Kerrey] involved in federal inquiries that dealt with the September 11 terrorist attacks are asking the US to re-examine the possibility that Saudi Arabia played a pivotal role in the tragedy.... In a statement filed with the court this week, both senators say the US was too quick to exonerate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi High Commission from involvement in the terrorist attacks. The District Court in New York will hear arguments later this month to see if it is viable to reintroduce the Saudis as a defendants in the In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001 litigation.

Andrew Breitbart: Coroner wants to ‘cover all the bases’
LA Times - The Los Angeles County coroner's office said it is awaiting the results of toxicology tests before releasing an official cause of death for conservative author and activist Andrew Breitbart, who died unexpectedly Thursday at age 43. A source familiar with the investigation told The Times the tests are routine in a death of someone so young. An autopsy was completed Friday, and the tests are expected to take several weeks.

Pennsylvania Ballot Challenge Dismissed: Obama Didn't Sign Candidate Affidavit Affirming NBC
Without reaching the merits of the challenge, Pennsylvania Judge Keith B. Quigley dismissed the ballot challenge lodged against Barack Hussein Obama II by Charles Kerchner and fellow Pennsylvanian Dale Laudenslager.... The court refused to hear any arguments from the objectors’ attorney, Karen L. Kiefer, that Obama has not proven to any controlling legal authority his exact citizenship status or true legal identity. The court ruled that it is not their jurisdiction to determine candidate eligibility and legal identity for presidents and dismissed the case.

VIDEO: New film blasts Obama's Israel record
Foreign Policy March 2, 2012 - One day before the AIPAC conference kicks off in Washington, an anti-Obama pro-Israel group is widening its criticism of President Barack Obama's record on Israel -- while the White House defends its treatment of the relationship.

VIDEO: Obama Likens Himself To Gandhi And Nelson Mandela
"The civil rights movement was hard. Winning the vote for women was hard. Making sure that workers had some basic protections was hard," President Obama said at a fundraiser while talking about how difficult it is to bring about "change" in politics. "Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual," Obama said.

US may use CIA cloak to hide Afghan presence
RT - The Pentagon is reportedly deliberating over putting elite troops and Special Forces in Afghanistan under CIA control. The move would reduce official US presence with a view to meeting Obama’s promise of total withdrawal from the country by 2014.... It is one of several initiatives currently under discussion in the Pentagon, according to AFP sources. The proposals have not yet been presented to US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

Air Force shoots down its own Afghan super-spy
RT - A lot of hot air comes out of Washington, but for now none of it will be inflating the surveillance blimp that the Pentagon has been working on. Research has been halted on the Blue Devil Block 2 — but only after spending $140 million on it already.... The Pentagon has already spent millions of dollars on the massive aircraft, but with the price tag now expected to amount to a figure substantially larger than originally assumed, the latest budget figures reveal that the Air Force won’t be allocating any funds for further research.

Breitbart: “Wait ‘Til They See What Happens March 1st”
Paul Joseph Watson - Breitbart died hours before planned release of damning Obama footage. Speaking to Lawrence Sinclair of Sinclair News, Breitbart stated, “Wait til they see what happens March 1st.” It’s almost certain that Breitbart was referring to his plan to release damning footage of President Obama that he had been promising to reveal throughout the month of February.

VIDEO: Breitbart’s Obama Footage To Be Released Within Two Weeks
Paul Joseph Watson - Speaking to Sean Hannity, filmmaker Bannon said the footage will be revealed “in a week or two,” and that Breitbart had been “very systematic about going through this thing,” before his untimely death in the early hours of Thursday morning.

VIDEO: Breitbart’s Footage Shows Obama ‘Palling Around’ With Terrorists
Paul Joseph Watson - The footage that Andrew Breitbart planned to release just hours after his untimely death would have proven hugely damaging to President Obama’s re-election hopes, because it shows Obama fraternizing with Weather Underground terrorists whose goal it was to set up a Communist dictatorship inside the United States.

The FBI Can’t Find Many of Its GPS Trackers Now That They’re Turned Off
Gizmodo - The US Supreme Court had outlawed the warrantless use of GPS trackers so the FBI complied by shutting down all its devices but now is apparently having trouble actually retrieving the hardware. Because the GPS units are turned off. And the FBI has no idea where they are unless they're on.

VIDEO: West Virginia Unveils App for Suspicious Activity Reporting
Public Intelligence - Virginia Intelligence Fusion Center Director Thom Kirk together announced a new mobile app, that enables West Virginians to submit tips concerning suspicious criminal and terrorist activity, is now available for smartphones. ...the app sends submitted information, including photos and texts, to the Fusion Center where the information can help authorities react to and prevent incidents from occurring.

VIDEO: TSA forces woman to prove breast pump real
Lihue, HI (KITV) -- A Hawaiian mom says she was humiliated when asked to prove her breast pump was real at an airport.... She claims agents told her she couldn't take the pump on the plane because the bottles in her carry-on were empty. "I asked him if there was a private place I could pump and he said no, you can go in the women's bathroom. I had to stand in front of the mirrors and the sinks and pump my breast in front of every tourist that walked into that bathroom. I was embarrassed and humiliated and then angry that I was treated this way.

Judge Issues Lifetime Driving Ban on 17-Year-Old to 'Send Message About Reckless Driving'
CBS Connecticut/AP - Judge William Guglietta revoked Lyle Topa’s license for the rest of his life on Tuesday in connection with the Oct. 23 crash in Charlestown. Topa and three other Chariho High School students were injured when their car crashed into a tree. One passenger was in a coma for weeks. Topa was driving with a suspended license at the time of the accident, according to The Westerly Sun.

BREAKING: $10,000 Anti-Fraud Reward Bomb to Prove the Vote
Daily Paul - Anonymous donors have promised $10,000 in funds to secure and confirm the vote. The goal is to prevent electronic fraud in the primaries and deception/chicanery in the caucuses. The donor will gift $100.00 to any RP supporter who confirms the vote at the big precincts, the major sites of vote rigging. Sign up, now. (Deadline has been extended!!!)

VIDEO: Oklahoma Delegates for Ron Paul Fight To Be Counted And Win
World Under Control - In Oklahoma there was a problem with the registration of delegates which meant that many Ron Paul delegates were rejected when they reached the GOP convention. Despite everyone turning up with a voter registration card, the officials claimed they couldn’t verify that they were registered to vote. After taking a ballot from all delegates, the majority voted for the delegates to be added to be accepted.... As great as caucuses and primaries may be for entertainment, the real winning votes are from delegates and Ron Paul expressed that he feels confident with the amount he is getting. If you are able to be a delegate click here.

I'm Sick and Tired of the Blackout! I’ll put another $2,000 dollars on the table if someone will help me!
Daily Paul - I’m trying to FIRE-UP the Super Brochure direct mail effort to Missouri. Anonymous donors gave $8000, and I can’t believe it: it’s not even near being matched, not even close. What a great opportunity it is. And we can do it. Just talked with famous talk show hostess, Joyce Riley. She says there’s major interest in Missouri in Dr. Paul. They “just have to see/hear his message.” Missouri can be ours. And it’s a caucus; there are many caucus chairs that are in our favor. I know of an entire HFS in Sedalia where all the employees are going to vote for him. The others just don't know about him. That's where the SB comes in.

GOP Primary Schedule
Super Tuesday is this Tuesday, March 6, 2012.

Super Tuesday's stakes are super high -- but the battle for GOP nomination is far from over
Detroit Free Press: With 10 states voting, Super Tuesday will be huge in the Republican presidential nominating process. But it won't end it.... This is what's really on the line Tuesday. If one of the candidates wins a plurality of the delegates awarded, a plurality of the votes cast, or the most states, he will claim front-runner status, no matter how many states he has won so far.

Republican Presidential Washington Primary Results
Politico - Mitt Romney 37.6%, Ron Paul 24.8%, Rick Santorum 23.8%, and Newt Gingrich 10.3%.

POLITICS: Local GOP apologizes for turning 1,500 away from caucuses in Kennewick
tri-cityherald.com - Kennewick About 1,500 people were turned away from pooled Benton County caucuses in Kennewick by event organizers after rooms at the Three Rivers Convention Center reached capacity this morning.... Ray Swenson, a Richland lawyer, criticized local GOP officials for poor organization and said the results today should be invalidated. "I think it's illegal," Swenson shouted to a gathered crowd, many of whom were filming him with cell phone cameras. "The Republican party leadership is taking away our freedom." Swenson told the Herald he may file a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the caucus results.

Daily Paul Eyewitness: Several Hundred People Turned Away-Benton County WA - PHOTOS ADDED!
Daily Paul - I hope that the spotlight is shined on Benton County for cutting off hundreds of people who have the right to vote. Unbelievable! It should be national news!...They did not have room to accommodate everyone .... They asked us to go home, and people began booing, hissing, and shouting. Then the chanting began, "We have a right to vote! We have a right to vote!"

"Chaos" in WA; Attendance Beyond Capacity-Update: Fraud Reported-Google Has Results
"Chaos!!! Thurston county is total chaos! Maximum occupancy at both locations hundreds if not thousands waiting to get in." reported by Ron Paul supporter Matthew Edward Hayward. And Doug Hawks reports from the Redmond caucus: "hundreds caucusing; lots of Ron Paul supporters here" SEE UPDATES FOUR thru SIX at end of post for Fraud allegations.

YouTube: Ron Paul Interview with Candy Crowley on CNN “State of the Union”
Airing Date March.04, 2012.

YouTube: Ron Paul Interview with Bob Schieffer on CBS “Face the Nation”
Airing Date March.04, 2012. Ron Paul joins Face the Nation from Fairbanks, Alaska where he is currently campaigning.

YouTube: Ron Paul Washington State Post Caucus Speech
Ron Paul gives a speech after the Washington State Caucus on March 3, 2012.

VIDEO: Dr. Paul's TownHall @ Spokane, Ridgefield/Vancouver, & Seattle WA - March 2nd
Daily Paul - Looks like another capacity crowd!

YouTube: Hidden camera in MN voting 2012 - A must view
ProjectVeritas.com Investigation: Election officials advise no ID necessary to register Timothy Tebow and Thomas Brady to vote in Minnesota. Absentee ballots are discussed, voter registration forms are given out, and Election officials blow the whistle on potential fraud in their own state.

How Ron Paul's Minions Plan to Hijack the GOP Convention
The Daily Beast - In an e-mail to supporters, Charles Gregory, Georgia State Coordinator for Ron Paul 2012, wrote: “It is my personal recommendation that you dress professionally and not overtly identify yourself as a Ron Paul supporter. Your position should simply be: “I'm here to send Obama home, that's all I care about.” If asked who you support—just say you ‘haven't made up your mind yet but they're all better than what we've got now,’ etc."

VIDEO: Ron Paul brings sexy back: ‘The Deal’ with Jack Hunter
In this installment of Jack Hunter’s Daily Caller video commentary series “The Deal with Jack Hunter,” Jack says that “most tea partiers would agree that balancing the budget and reducing the debt is their top priority. The question today is, for which presidential candidate is this a top priority.” He argues that Ron Paul is that candidate. ”When it comes to real fiscal conservatism,” he says, “Ron Paul remains the sexiest candidate in this race.”

VIDEO: Santorum with Specter in 1995 to “Protect a Woman’s Right to Choose”
The campaign released this as an “In Case You Missed It” release today and just wanted to further make sure nobody missed it. Wow. Just wow. Is there no end to the chronic flip-flopping from every Republican presidential candidate except Ron Paul?

Protesters Occupying Monsanto Corp. Arrested
Activist Post - In the call to action statement provided by Occupy Portland, the movement stated that the protest was to highlight the fact that “corporations buy off legislators and craft legislation that serves the interests of corporations and not people.” According to Occupy DC, about 12 members were arrested.

UN, Russia and China urge Syria to let in UN envoy
RT - Russia and China have joined the UN Security Council’s calls for the Syrian government to allow humanitarian aid workers immediate access to the embattled city of Homs. The Syrian military has said it will only let the Red Crescent in in the morning.

Red Cross says aid convoy heading to Syria's Homs
BEIRUT (AP) — The Red Cross dispatched an aid convoy to an embattled neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs Friday, and the U.N. said it was alarmed by reports of execution-style killings after the Syrian army seized the area from rebel forces.

France announces it's closing embassy in Syria
BRUSSELS (AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy says his country is closing its embassy in Syria. Sarkozy made the announcement in Brussels on Friday, a day after two French journalists, one of them injured, escaped to Lebanon after being trapped for days in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.

Afghan attack on NATO convoy wounds seven
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a NATO convoy in the insurgency-hit southern province of Kandahar Friday, wounding seven people including four soldiers, an official said. "A suicide attacker rammed his explosives-laden motorcycle into a convoy of NATO troops in Dand district injuring four foreign soldiers, one policeman, one translator and one civilian," provincial governor Toryalai Weesa told AFP.

2 US troops killed in Afghanistan following Koran burning
Fox News - Two American soldiers were killed Thursday in a shooting by an Afghan soldier and a literacy teacher at a joint base in southern Afghanistan, officials said, the latest in a series of deaths as anti-Americanism rises following the burning of Korans by U.S. soldiers.

US troops tread carefully amid Korea tensions
OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) — Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down. But this is the DMZ. The last time anyone tried cutting trees here was 36 years ago, and it set off a melee with the North Koreans. Two U.S. soldiers were hacked to death with their own axes, touching off Operation Paul Bunyan, a full-scale mobilization of fighter jets, B-52 bombers and an aircraft carrier strike group that brought the two sides dangerously close to conflict.

Nick Clegg urged to act after Lib Dem peer says Israel will not last for ever
Guardian - A Liberal Democrat peer [Jenny Tonge] has said Israel will not last for ever, with her remarks prompting calls for the party's leader, Nick Clegg, to take disciplinary action.... "Beware Israel," she said. "Israel is not going to be there for ever in its present form. One day, the United States of America will get sick of giving £70bn a year to Israel to support what I call America's aircraft carrier in the Middle East – that is Israel. One day, the American people are going to say to the Israel lobby in the USA: enough is enough." She added: "Israel will lose support and then they will reap what they have sown." Jenny Tonge later resigns.

VIDEO: Sarkozy, booed by protesters, hides in bar
RT - Campaigning in Bayonne, a town in France’s southwestern Basque region, President Nicolas Sarkozy was booed by hundreds of protesters. The French leader escaped to a café under the protection of riot police. The president was jeered as he got out of his car heading, to a bar to meet with voters. Protesters mobbed the president, threw eggs and cried insults at Sarkozy, causing him to seek refuge in Bar du Palais. The protesters are believed to be Basque separatists and opposition Socialist party loyalists. People shouted “Nicolas, get out” in the Basque language.

Russia accuses US of meddling in presidential vote
AFP - Russia on Thursday accused the United States of trying to influence its election process by funding opposition groups in advance of Vladimir Putin's expected return to the Kremlin in the weekend poll. "The days when Russia could be lectured or preached to are over," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published in the online edition of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta government daily.

Libyan Gov't to Give $100M to Syrian Rebels
The Libyan government – formerly Libya's opposition forces – has decided to give $100 million in humanitarian aid, including food and medicine to Syria's opposition civilians and activist rebel forces. It was not made clear exactly how the aid would make its way to those who so badly need it. In addition, Syria's opposition forces have received permission to open an office in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, a government spokesman said Wednesday.

UPDATE: Saudi Officials Deny Reports Of Pipeline Explosion After Crude Oil Hits $110, But We Have Photos That Could Tell A Different Story
Business Insider - Earlier, Zero Hedge cited reports that a Saudi oil pipeline had exploded—both from Iranian Press TV as well as a blog titled The Arab Digest. Immediately following Zero Hedge's report, the price of oil shot upwards, hitting $110 per barrel momentarily. That's the highest price of crude since May 4, 2011. We think the reason that this headline had such an impact on markets is because the report that's generally being cited—that from The Arab Digest—suggests that the explosion is related to the Arab Spring protests.

Sheikh Fidel: Cuba drills for oil – U.S. complaining about potential spills
Washington Post - A recent U.S. Geological Survey says there could be 5 billion barrels of undiscovered oil reserves in the north Cuba basin. As Cuba finally taps its oil reserves, the U.S. claim they are ‘unprepared for spill’ Drawing up contingency plans to confront a possible spill is much more difficult because of the economic embargo against Cuba. U.S. law bars most American companies — including oil services and spill containment contractors — from conducting business with the communist island. The embargo, now entering its 50th year, also limits direct government-to-government talks.

Britain eyeing share in Somalia's future energy industry
Press TV - Last week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron hosted an international conference on Somalia where he pledged more aid, financial help and measures to fight terrorism in the African nation. The Guardian report, however, described the summit as talks between British officials and Somali counterparts over exploiting intact oil reserves in the arid northeastern part of Somalia.... Experts say London’s involvement in the future Somali oil industry could prop up the UK’s weakened economy, at a time it has resorted to austerity measures to avoid a budget deficit.

UK fuel poverty deaths ‘horrifying’
Press TV - A research study carried out by fuel poverty expert Professor Christine Liddell of the University of Ulster has revealed that nearly 8,000 people die during winter as a result of fuel poverty, reported the Independent on Tuesday.... Transform UK, the leading organization which campaigned for the Energy Bill Revolution, severely criticised the British government for failing to tackle fuel poverty as it described the figures as “horrifying.”... “These deaths are totally preventable. This is perhaps the greatest test of whether this Government has an ounce of true compassion and moral fibre,” he added.

Radioactive Seafood: Imported fish consignment held back pending tests
Sri Lanka Daily News - The Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) has detected fish consignments imported to Sri Lanka that were contaminated from radio active substances in the seas following the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, AEA chairman Dr Ranjith Jayawardene said... He noted that the AEA discovered salmon and other fish consignments which were slightly contaminated by radioactive substances last November and also last week during checks.

Scientists: Far more cesium released than previously believed
A mind-boggling 40,000 trillion becquerels of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 11 disaster, scientists say. Michio Aoyama, a senior researcher at the Meteorological Research Institute, released the finding at a scientific symposium in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Feb. 28. The figure, which represents about 20 percent of the discharge during the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, is twice as large as previous estimates by research institutions both in Japan and overseas.

VIDEO: Arpaio says congressional investigation good next step
WND - Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County today defended the work of his volunteer Cold Case Posse from charges by reporters at a news conference that he was accusing Barack Obama of forgery and that his investigation overlooked the “work” of the 50 states where Obama already was investigated. “I’m not accusing him of lying or a crime,” Arpaio said, “We have documented evidence of violations of the law. We’re investigating those crimes.”

VIDEO: WND’s Michael Thompson interviews Joe Arpaio following the press conference
NOTE: In case you missed the news conference of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “Cold Case Posse,” WND plans to have the entire event available in 15-minute increments beginning Friday morning at this very same page you’re reading now.

Two 30-second MTV ads warn Americans what NDAA authorizes under ‘law’
Examiner - MTV created two public service announcements to encourage young Americans to understand and stand for their civil rights. The 2006 Military Commissions Act and 2012 NDAA "legislated" dictatorial authority to declare any person a "terrorist supporter," seize such persons, and hold them indefinitely and without rights. The two-minute video here is Defense Secretary Panetta claiming US law allows assassinating Americans if government merely says an American is guilty of a crime.

The Startling Disconnect of Humanity: How Corruption and Injustice Roam Free
Natural Society - Some individuals are satisfied with a ‘just getting by’ attitude — a severe lack of personal contribution based on their desire to make sure that they themselves are fully content. This is the individual who sits idle as atrocities are committed across the globe, saying “it can’t happen to me.” Many people may not be inherently bad, and they may not go out of their way to cause others loss or pain, but while not going out of their way to contribute something meaningful either. This ‘idle’ mindset allows for widespread corruption as there is not a large body of individuals ready to resist it.

In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)
Big Government - Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles. We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior. Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love.

Andrew Breitbart's death to be reviewed by L.A. County coroner
LA Times - The Los Angeles County coroner's office will review the death of conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who collapsed and died Thursday while taking a nighttime walk near his Westwood home. Given his young age -- he was 43 -- and the unexpected manner in which he died, authorities will conduct an autopsy to help determine a specific cause of death. Breitbart's father-in-law, actor Orson Bean, said in an interview with The Times that Breitbart was found collapsed near his home about 12:30 a.m. Paramedics took him to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, but doctors were unable to revive him.

C-SPAN VIDEO: Will Damning Obama Footage Still Be Released After Breitbart’s Death?
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones - Breitbart’s untimely death has shocked the media world and left some to question whether or not damning footage of Obama in his youth, which Breitbart announced he had obtained only last month, will still be released. According to some observers, the footage threatened to sink Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. “I’ve got video from his college days that show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008 – the videos are going to come out,” Breitbart told a crowd during a CPAC speech in February, adding that the video shows Obama meeting “a bunch of silver pony tails” like Bill and Bernardine Dohrn (Weather Underground members), who radicalized him.

VIDEO: Breitbart on why the media tends to ignore Fast and Furious 2/18/12
Daily Caller - The Operation Fast and Furious scandal is one that the establishment media refuses to cover fully, conservative media icon Andrew Breitbart said in a recent interview with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas. Fast and Furious happened, Breitbart explained, “for the purposes of creating a narrative that they could use in America to try and thwart our Second Amendment constitutional rights. I don’t think the most sinister screenwriter could imagine a government that would abide by that, let alone the media to cover that up.”

Holder loses cool during House hearing when asked about Fast and Furious
Daily Caller - A visibly frustrated Attorney General Eric Holder slammed the table when responding to a question about Operation Fast and Furious during a Tuesday budget hearing.... “That was a fundamentally flawed program, fundamentally flawed,” Holder said of Fast and Furious. “And, I think that I can agree with some of my harshest critics that there are legitimate issues that need to be explored with regard in which the way Fast and Furious was carried out.” “But, I think one thing that also has to be understood is that once this was brought to my attention” — Holder said before slamming his hand on the committee room table he was sitting at — “I stopped it. I stopped it.”

The prohibition of drugs has been an abject failure with a devastating human cost
The Independent- In the years since President Nixon’s declaration, the US government has spent trillions of dollars attempting to destroy the illegal drugs trade – both at home and abroad. The U.S. federal government spent over $15 billion dollars in 2010 on the war on drugs, at a rate of around $500 per second. The human consequences are even more troubling. Around 90 per cent of all cocaine consumed in the US comes via Mexico – a place where, since 2006, over 47,000 people have been killed in President Philip Calderon’s violent battle with the drug cartels.

Transgender hormone treatments, abortion access, dental work – for detained illegals
Daily Caller - Hormone treatments for transgendered detainees, abortion services and extensive outlets for complaints — these are just a few of the reasons Texas Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith is not pleased with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) recently released Performance-Based National Detention Standards.... “The Obama administration’s new detention manual is more like a hospitality guideline for illegal immigrants,” Smith wrote in a statement. “The administration goes beyond common sense to accommodate illegal immigrants and treats them better than citizens in federal custody.”

VIDEO: Ron Paul on CNN w/ Piers Morgan 03/01/12
CNN - In the wake of Mitt Romney's three state victories this week – and looking ahead to Super Tuesday – this evening "Piers Morgan Tonight" welcomes Ron Paul for a candid interview.

Corporate Media Officially Stops Covering Paul Campaign
Steve Watson - As Dylan Byers of Politico reports, NBC News is the only media organization that still has a reporter covering Ron Paul full-time. With only four candidates remaining in the race for the GOP nomination, with Super Tuesday looming, and with the Republican national convention just six months away, you would think that mainstream media organizations would have dispatched at least one reporter to cover each of the candidates campaigns. Not so for Ron Paul, however. “I’m the only dedicated embed consistently covering Ron Paul,” NBC’s Anthony Terrell has declared.

Liberty is for Kids, Horse Racing is for Horses
Priscilla Jones - A few weeks ago, my 85-year-old grandmother said she and grandpa were disgusted with the field of Republican presidential candidates, but they were considering casting their not-Obama votes for Santorum due to his religious beliefs. Shocked, I asked what their objections were to Ron Paul and she said, “Well, he dropped out! We don’t hear anything about him on the news!”

Ron Paul Campaign Demands Transparency in Washington Caucus
News Tribune - Ron Paul's presidential campaign on Wednesday threatened to fight the seating of some Washington delegates to the Republican National Convention, saying there is a lack of transparency in how party officials from the state's largest county are chosen. Paul's claim came three days before Washington's Republican caucuses on Saturday....The Paul campaign said the King County GOP violated party rules by not revealing the names of certain party officials, known as precinct committee officers, who will take part in the caucuses.

Ron Paul making plans for rallies in Fairbanks, Anchorage
Fairbanks Daily News - Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul plans to visit Alaska on Sunday, two days before the state casts its vote in the race for the Republican nomination, according to campaign staff.... The confirmation comes after much speculation about a possible visit by Paul, whose libertarian-leaning politics some say are a good fit for the state and could possibly yield a strong finish for the candidate.

VIDEO: Ron Paul Wins CLEAN Elections; How To Have a Transparent Vote Count
Daily Paul - The video shows how vote counts/elections are fixed and how to run clean transparent vote counting. Featuring Clark Co. NV vote count as an example.

‘We Don’t Have Any’ Problem of Illegal Immigrants Voting in U.S., Dem Congressmen Say
Two congressional Democrats who oppose tougher voter ID and voter registration laws told CNSNews.com that such laws are not needed because, they claim, documented voter fraud by illegal aliens is nonexistent. At a discussion panel on voter identification (ID) laws held at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 17, CNSNews.com asked Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.): “What should be done in regards to illegal immigrants voting?” Lewis replied, “I don’t know of any... I just think that’s a lot of say-and-do about nothing. That’s not happening.”

Nevada Supreme Court holds MERS assignments valid
Housing Wire - The Nevada Supreme Court ruled in two separate cases that a mortgage assignment from Merscorp, parent company of registry Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, does not invalidate a foreclosure.... MERS was created to record mortgage assignments as loans move through the securitization process. In the Volkes v. BAC Home Loans Servicing case, the plaintiff claimed a foreclosure was invalidated by a MERS loan assignment. The Nevada Supreme Court validated the assignment, saying it does not impede on MERS ability to foreclose.

Clinton defends administration record on Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is dismissing Republican criticism of President Barack Obama's record in supporting Israel and says U.S. aid would be the highest ever. Pressed at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Clinton told lawmakers Wednesday that the administration has pledged its strong support for Israel and put more money behind that pledge than any other administration. Obama is seeking $3.1 billion in military assistance for Israel in next year's budget, which would make it the largest recipient of U.S. aid.

Western sanctions tighten squeeze on Iran oil exports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Western trade sanctions against Iran are strangling its oil exports even before they go into effect, a U.S. advisory body has found, amid warnings that any shortages will only push up crude prices and strain a weak global economy. With crude prices trading around 10-month highs and limited spare production capacity worldwide, the United States may offer Iran's biggest customers waivers from the oil sanctions, which take effect June 28.

Israel unveils sophisticated shelters in Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Underneath the plaza outside Israel's Habima national theater, Israel has put the finishing touches on a new gathering place that it hopes will never host a crowd: the country's most advanced public underground bomb shelter. The shelter, four stories underground and with space for 1,600 people, is usually a parking lot. It is also part of Tel Aviv's elaborate civil defense infrastructure. City officials have been beefing up shelters and emergency services in recent months at a time of rising tensions with Iran and militant groups in the Gaza Strip.

Afghan government calls for trial for Quran-burning soldiers
WND - In a development that could chill the dedication of every soldier in the field, the U.S. government has refused to deny reports by the government of Afghanistan that NATO has agreed to have the soldiers who burned copies of the Quran face trial.... “NATO officials promised to meet Afghan nation’s demand of bringing to justice, through an open trial, those responsible for the incident and it was agreed that the perpetrators of the crime be brought to justice as soon as possible,” the statement said.... U.S officials were unwilling to state emphatically that the soldiers would not be turned over to the Afghan legal system for burning the Qurans.

Senators: U.S. Forces at Risk Due to Syrian 'Chemical Weapons'...
US News - The senators want the Obama administration to spell out the planning it has done to prepare for and "address" the potential that the Assad regime's stockpiles of chemical weapons might go missing. "In the event of a regime collapse, it is difficult to overstate the danger these weapons could pose to allies and U.S. forces in the region if they fall into the wrong hands," the letter states.

Britain closes its embassy in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Britain's foreign secretary says the U.K. is closing its embassy in Syria and withdrawing all diplomatic staff amid a worsening security situation in the country. William Hague said Thursday that he judged "that the deterioration of the security situation in Damascus puts our embassy staff and premises at risk."

Super-human brain technology sparks ethics debate
LONDON (Reuters) - A British ethics group has launched a debate on the ethical dilemmas posed by new technologies that tap into the brain and could bring super-human strength, highly enhanced concentration or thought-controlled weaponry. With the prospect of future conflicts between armies controlling weapons with their minds, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics launched a consultation Thursday to consider the risks of blurring the lines between humans and machines.

81% of Israelis Oppose Unilateral Strike on Iran
Despite all of the warmongering hysteria, the overwhelming majority of all Israelis oppose a unilateral strike on Iran. Only 19 percent of Israelis support an attack against Iran without the backing of the United States, a new poll released on Wednesday found. In the poll conducted by Shibley Telhami, Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow and the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, 42% of respondents said they support a strike against Iran only if there is US support for the move. Nearly a third (32%) of those polled oppose an attack regardless of US support.

Obama vetoed military intervention in Syria?
RT - According to DC-insiders speaking with Israeli news outlet Debka, the US military submitted plans to Obama for an American military intervention in Syria which would be coordinated in cooperation with other allied nations across the Western and Arab world. The president has reportedly vetoed plans in that incarnation though, instead hoping that by setting up “humanitarian corridors” in the most war-torn section of Syria, the US can aid the Assad opposition without militarizing the rebels.

North Korea agrees to nuclear moratorium, US to give food aid
Reuters - North Korea agreed on Wednesday to stop nuclear tests, uranium enrichment and long-range missile launches, and to allow nuclear inspectors to visit its Yongbyon nuclear complex to verify the moratorium has been enforced. The breakthrough, announced simultaneously by the US state department and North Korea's official news agency, paves the way for a resumption of six-party disarmament negotiations with Pyongyang and follows talks between US and North Korean diplomats in Beijing last week.

Egypt lifts travel ban on American democracy workers charged with fomenting unrest
AP/Washington Post - Egypt lifted a travel ban Wednesday on seven Americans charged with fomenting unrest by working for illegally funded pro-democracy groups, signaling an end to the worst crisis in Egypt-U.S. relations in 30 years.... Defense lawyer Tharwat Abdel-Shaheed said the seven Americans, including the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, could only leave the country if they post bail of 2 million Egyptian pounds (about $300,000). They have also signed pledges to attend their next hearing. “The ban was lifted on humanitarian grounds, but the bail is way too high,” Abdel-Shaheed, who represents some of the American defendants, told The Associated Press.

Two Years of Tweets Now For Sale to Marketers
All Gov - Twitter partner DataSift is now offering companies access to two years of tweets, making available a vast amount of market-research information. Through its new program Historics, the United Kingdom-based Datasift is providing businesses with the ability to search and analyze Twitter feeds from 2010 and 2011.... DataSift claims that it has a waiting of 1,000 companies wanting to subscribe to the service, which will cost a minimum of $1,000

Nuclear Firms Made Japanese Gov Drop Tsunami Warning 8 Days Before Fukushima
All Gov - At the behest of nuclear power companies, government officials in Japan softened language relating to the threat of earthquake-produced tsunamis only eight days before last year’s disaster. In early March 2011, representatives of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Tohoku Electric Power Co. and Japan Atomic Power Co. asked the secretariat of the Earthquake Research Committee to amend a draft document discussing the possibility of a huge tsunami striking the northeast part of the country.

Canadian addiction experts call for national strategy to tackle prescription drug addiction
(NaturalNews) With addictive painkiller OxyContin being phased out in Canada, health experts are calling for a national strategy to confront prescription painkiller abuse. OxyContin is the most well known form of the narcotic painkiller oxycodone (technically, oxycodone hydrochloride). Like other opioid drugs such as morphine and heroin, oxycodone has high addictive potential.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio to release investigation of Obama's eligibility
WND - The event is tomorrow at 1 p.m. Mountain Standard Time in Phoenix, 3 p.m. Eastern, and will be live-streamed by WND. The topic of discussion will be an investigation by Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse into concerns about Obama’s eligibility. It’s the first time an official law enforcement report has addressed many of the allegations about the presumptive 2012 Democratic nominee for president.... Top national media organizations have indicated their plans to attend, and bookings for radio and television reports are in the works.

American in NYC bomb case indicted
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jose Pimentel, an American Muslim convert accused of building a pipe bomb, has been formally indicted by a grand jury on terrorism charges, authorities said on Wednesday. Pimentel, 27, will appear in a Manhattan court on March 13 to enter a plea on the charges, which include weapons and conspiracy counts. The indictment was released by the Manhattan district attorney's office.... Authorities have said he planned to attack post offices, police stations and military personnel in and around New York City.

Judge blocks Arizona immigration law's day labor rules
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A federal judge blocked Arizona on Wednesday from enforcing a part of the state's immigration law that prohibits vehicle occupants from stopping traffic to pick up day laborers waiting for work. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, in issuing a preliminary injunction, ruled that plaintiffs seeking to overturn the law were "likely to succeed on the merits of their claim" that the rules violate the First Amendment.... The section of the controversial law Bolton blocked on Wednesday sought to target people who employ migrant workers in the country illegally, many of whom gather in store parking lots and on curbsides in Phoenix to tout for work.

Court says immigrant food-stamp cuts constitutional
(Reuters) - Washington state did not violate the constitutional rights of legal immigrants when it discontinued their food stamp benefits, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld state budget cuts that eliminated food assistance benefits for certain legal immigrants, reversing a lower court that had blocked the money-saving measure. "States constitutionally can do precisely what Washington did here: provide supplemental benefits when the state's coffers bulge, but eliminate them when the state's resources diminish," the three-judge panel wrote.

19 Signs That America Has Become A Crazy Control Freak Nation Where Almost Everything Is Illegal
Activist Post - Do you think that you are free? Most Americans would still probably answer "yes" to that question, but is that really the case?... In America today, there is no possible way that any of us could ever read all of the laws that apply to us. Most of us just live our daily lives and try to do the "right" thing. But there is no guarantee that men with guns will not show up at your door one evening because of some obscure regulation that you have broken. The following are 19 signs that America has become a crazy control freak nation where almost everything is illegal.

The great government hoax of public safety
(NaturalNews) As the tyranny of destructive government envelops our once-free society, have you noticed how oppression, censorship and government aggression against the people is always defended as somehow protecting public safety? Consider these astonishing contradictions:

Obama orders ‘waivers’ to new rules on detaining terrorism suspects
Washington Post - President Obama issued an order Tuesday night laying out broad new waivers that allow U.S. law enforcement agencies to retain custody of al-Qaeda terrorism suspects rather than turn them over to the military. The new waivers are Obama’s response to a law passed by Congress last year that requires that alleged al-Qaeda terrorists who are not U.S. citizens be held in military custody rather than being processed through the civilian court system. Key GOP senators said Tuesday night that the president’s measures raised “significant concerns,” and they vowed to hold a hearing to scrutinize them.

YouTube: America: the best government the corporations can buy?
RT Feb 28, 2012 - Today the Supreme Court took on a case that could decline whether or not corporations can be sued over torture. The case involves about a dozen Nigerian activists that say Shell Oil's parent company helped the Nigerian government in violently cracking down on anti-oil protesters. But the multinational company argues - they are not liable because they are not "Natural persons." In other words, since corporations are not people, they cannot be sued for human rights violations. Caroline Heldman of Occidental College has had her say on the matter.

YouTube: Ron Paul questions Hillary Clinton - IRAN, IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
Foreign Affairs Hearing 02/29/12: Ron Paul questions Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat
AlterNet - This is not a problem we can solve by going vegetarian or vegan, or buying organic and fair trade.... It is time -- now, not next year -- to de-occupy Walmart. And Archer Daniels Midland. And Tyson Foods. And Monsanto. And Cargill. And Kraft Foods. And the other large corporations that decide what ends up on our plates. Take all our money out, public and personal, from our shopping dollars to school district lunch contracts to the corporate subsidies that uphold these firms' grip on our food supply, and invest it in a new system that's economically diverse and ecologically sustainable.

YouTube: Ron Paul Ad – Three of a Kind
One man stands apart from the vision of bigger government. Ron Paul

Ron Paul Returns to Washington and Idaho for Campaign Swing
Ron Paul 2012 - Visits Evergreen State on Friday, March 2nd and Gem State on Monday-Tuesday, March 5th to 6th BELLEVUE, Washington – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will return to Washington and Idaho for a series of campaign events in the run-up to the states’ respective Saturday, March 3rd and Tuesday, March 6thcaucuses. This is a partial listing of campaign events [...]

Help Ron Paul in Washington - Caucus SATURDAY!
Daily Paul - The help of fellow patriots from OUTSIDE Washington State is desperately needed on caucus day March 3rd. In Washington State, most caucuses are held in pooled locations where in many cases over 200 precincts meet in one location. We have a need for 150 out of state patriots to help keep the caucus counts honest, man tables and be a presence at pooled locations in the Seattle area from 8:30 AM to approx 11:30 AM.

How Santorum Helped Fuel the Housing Bubble
Ron Paul 2012 - Writes Charles C. Johnson at BigGovernment.com: One of the consistent refrains from the Rick Santorum campaign is that he opposes government bailouts, but as a senator, he supported the something-for-nothing policy most responsible for the housing bubble. Like George W. Bush and other “compassionate conservatives,” he was naively obsessed with affordable housing for low-income potential home buyers, a mismanaged cause that led to billions in loan defaults and which the IRS called a “scam.”

NJ Today Endorsement: Ron Paul Deserves GOP Nod For President
February 29, 2012 - Congressman Ron Paul deserves the Republican Party nomination for president because he would prove to be the most dramatic contrast with Barack Obama and right now the nation would benefit by a clear distinction between the philosophy offered by Democrats and that of the GOP.

YouTube: Carol Paul Interviewed by Cynthia S. Kennedy, Reno Nev. February 2012
As Ron Paul is in the spotlight, Carol has a down-home chat with Cynthia in a somewhat shaded corner of the room... Delightful!

VIDEO: Gun Rights vs. Voting Rights in America
RT - As the second amendment is increasingly celebrated and the number of gun owners expand…the right to vote – listed in the 15th, 19th and 26th amendments…is narrowing. And new policies and initiatives mean as many as five million eligible voters will lose that right to choose who the next person is to occupy the white house. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the 14 states listed below have already passed measures to make voting more difficult, not less....

New York protest tries to kick off revival of Occupy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 10 Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were arrested in New York City on Wednesday during protests that failed to pull in big crowds or draw much attention on what organizers had hoped would be a nationwide day of revival for the movement. A similar protest in wet and cold weather in Portland, Oregon, drew a crowd organizers said numbered about 500 people and saw at least seven arrests. The coast to coast demonstrations were aimed at revving up the movement known as "Occupy," which has been relatively quiet in the months since police cleared encampments in New York, Oakland and other major cities.