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Are mandatory vaccinations acts of violence against children?

This article refers to the parody cartoon found at (http://www.naturalnews.com/028211_v…). This parody cartoon grew out of the idea that vaccines are “shots” that are being increasingly forced upon children and teens. At times, these vaccines are enforced at gunpoint or with the presence of vicious guard dogs — as happened in Maryland two years ago when a court judge ordered thousands of parents to bring their children to court for vaccination or face gunpoint arrest and possible jail time. (http://www.naturalnews.com/022267.html) – Read More Here

Amino acids shown to be effective at treating brain injuries

Researchers from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have found in a lab study that amino acids are highly effective at restoring cognitive function and balancing neurochemical levels in those who have undergone brain trauma. Conducted on mice who had been inflicted with traumatic brain damage, the study holds promising potential for humans with similar injuries. Read More Here

Big Pharma researcher admits to faking dozens of research studies for Pfizer, Merck (opinion)

It’s being called the largest research fraud in medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer’s speakers’ bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals. Read More Here

Mental illness breakthrough: fish oil prevents psychotic disorders

NaturalNews has already reported on the amazing array of health advantages linked to a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, a “healthy” fat found in certain foods such as salmon and walnuts. For example, researchers have documented that omega-3s can help prevent heart arrhythmias and treat depression (http://www.naturalnews.com/027285_o…). These fatty aacids also appear to have an antiaging effect on cells (http://www.naturalnews.com/028046_o…). Get ready to add another remarkable benefit to the list of omega-3 benefits: now scientists have found fish oil supplements containing omega-3s may stop people at high risk for severe mental illness from becoming psychotic. Read More Here

Video: Bomb Iran Drumbeat Picks Up Pace

(KurtNimmo) – It looks like years of incessant propaganda about Iran seem to have paid off. According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans consider Iran to be the “least liked” nation on the planet. “Canada retained its top position in Gallup’s annual country ratings, with 90% of Americans viewing it favorably, unchanged from 2009. Iran continues to rank last, with 10% this year,” Gallup reports. Even the reclusive totalitarian state of North Korea fared better than Iran.

Video: PA School District Used Webcams On School Issued Laptops To Spy On Kids At Home!

(MSNBC) – February 20, 2010

Video: Ron Paul – Allow The Free Market, Not The Fed, To Set Interest Rates

In his latest appearance on CNBC, Ron Paul explains to ‘In Fed We Trust’ author and Bernanke apologist David Wessel why we should end the Federal Reserve’s power to set interest rates and engage in central economic planning. Wessel concedes that the Fed has been too secretive for its own good and has become the victim of public anger against bank bailouts. He goes on to perpetuate the myth that we live in a ‘capitalist democracy’ and that such an organization needs an ‘independent’ central bank. Ron Paul counters that the system is already thoroughly politicized and that we don’t have true capitalism, but crony capitalism and economic interventionism.

Economy

(Slate) – Basically, It’s Over – A parable about how one nation came to financial ruin

In the early 1700s, Europeans discovered in the Pacific Ocean a large, unpopulated island with a temperate climate, rich in all nature’s bounty except coal, oil, and natural gas. Reflecting its lack of civilization, they named this island “Basicland.” Read More Here

(MarketTicker) – Time To Leave Citibank Folks

Seen on a recent Citibank (C) statement: “Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right to require (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal from all checking accounts. While we do not currently exercise this right and have not exercised it in the past, we are required by law to notify you of this change.” Read More Here

(CNBC) – A different kind of Olympic drama: Foreclosure

The Whistler-Blackcombe resort, where the Alpine events such as snowboarding and ski-jumping are being held, could go into foreclosure this week, smack dab in the middle of the Olympics, and be owned in part by the now defunct Lehman Brothers, one of its creditors. Read More Here

(Yahoo) – Frustrated Owner Bulldozes Home Ahead Of Foreclosure

Cleveland leads a slew of Midwestern towns on our annual list, but thanks to high taxes New York and Chicago make it too. Read More Here

(BBC) – George Soros doubles gold investment

US billionaire George Soros has more than doubled his investment in gold, despite calling it the “ultimate bubble” just weeks ago. Read More Here

(Reuters) – U.S. state pension funds have $1 trillion shortfall: Pew

U.S. states face a total shortfall of at least $1 trillion in their funds for employees’ pensions and retirement benefits, and their financial problems are quickly mounting, according to a report released by the Pew Center on the States on Thursday. Read More Here

(FinancialSense) – Complete Crisis Coordination

The subprime debt issue of 2007 blossomed into a global credit crisis. Likewise, the Dubai sovereign debt issue will blossom into a global sovereign debt crisis in similar pathogenesis. The start and end points are located in the Untied States and Untied Kingdom. With the global climax come disruption, restructure, and chaos. Read More Here

Video: (PBS) – How Does Goldman Sachs Make Its Profits?

PBS NewsHour Correspondent Paul Solman explores the secretive inner workings of Goldman Sachs. View Video Here

The future looks very bleak

The crash of the US economy has begun. Although the reasons for the now-accelerating economic fiasco have been in place for decades, the chickens are only now coming home to roost. The murder weapons used to kill the economy are “free trade,” outsourcing, illegal immigration, special work visa programs, and unrestrained government spending, which have all contributed to the death of what was just a few decades ago the economic powerhouse of the world. Read More Here

APNewsBreak: Top UN climate official resigning

Top U.N. climate change official Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press Thursday that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success to agree on a new global warming deal. Read More Here

French Net Filtering Plan Moves Forward

(PCWorld) – French lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve a draft law to filter Internet traffic, a measure the government says is intended to catch child pornographers. The bill will now go on for a second and final reading. Read More Here

British military insider: World War III is being staged; to initiate between Israel and Iran

(Examiner) – US “leadership” and their corporate media minions are pushing juvenile-level propaganda for war with Iran; lies that anyone can verify with a few moments’ attention. If you haven’t already confirmed the Orwellian-level disinformation, stop and read the above two links now. Read More Here

MSM: 1,000 Architects & Engineers Call for New 9/11 Investigation

(NewsWire) – SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Richard Gage, AIA, architect and founder of the non-profit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Inc. (AE911Truth), will announce a decisive milestone today at a press conference in San Francisco, as more than 1,000 worldwide architects and engineers now support the call for a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. After careful examination of the official explanation, along with the forensic data omitted from official reports, these professionals have concluded that a new independent investigation into these mysterious collapses is needed.

Mr. Gage will deliver the news around this major development, accompanied by signers of the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth petition. The press conference will be held concurrently in 38 cities in 6 countries. http://www.ae911truth.org/info/160 – Read More Here

Report: Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civilians to Be ‘Massacred’

(NewsweekBlog) – The chief author of the Bush administration’s “torture memo” told Justice Department investigators that the president’s war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be “massacred,” according to a report by released Friday night by the Office of Professional Responsibility. Read More Here

Dropping Like Flies – Danny Schechter

They seem to be dropping like flies, as the old saying goes. Now, New Jersey Senator Lautenberg has been diagnosed with Cancer. Earlier in the week, Senator Bayh said Sayonara to the Senate and, a week ago, Jack Murtha of Pennslvania died somewhat mysteriously on the operating table with the Navy now investigating.

Social Security Will Fall To Obama Before The Taliban Do – Paul Craig Roberts

Hank Paulson, the Gold Sacks bankster/US Treasury Secretary, who deregulated the financial system, caused a world crisis that wrecked the prospects of foreign banks and governments, caused millions of Americans to lose retirement savings, homes, and jobs, and left taxpayers burdened with multi-trillions of dollars of new US debt, is still not in jail. He is writing in the New York Times urging that the mess he caused be fixed by taking away from working Americans the Social Security and Medicare for which they have paid in earmarked taxes all their working lives.

Terrorism: The Most Meaningless and Manipulated Word – Glenn Greenwald

(Salon) – Yesterday, Joseph Stack deliberately flew an airplane into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, in order to advance the political grievances he outlined in a perfectly cogent suicide-manifesto.  Stack’s worldview contained elements of the tea party’s anti-government anger along with substantial populist complaints generally associated with “the Left” (rage over bailouts, the suffering of America’s poor, and the pilfering of the middle class by a corrupt economic elite and their government-servants).  All of that was accompanied by an argument as to why violence was justified (indeed necessary) to protest those injustices: Read More Here

World War

(NationalJournal) – What Should Obama Do Next On Iran? – Michael F. Scheuer

The military option should be taken off the table in all instances — save an immediate response to foreign attack — until we elect a president and congress that will abide by the constitutional requirements and machinery for declaring war that were put in place by the Founders. Read More Here

(TheGuardian) – Behind Clinton’s Tough Talk on Iran

The goal of Hillary Clinton’s rhetoric Seems to be to promote conflict and convince Americans Iran is a threat to their security Read More Here

(PressTV) – Russia rebuffs Israel over tougher sanctions on Iran

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced that Moscow is against imposing “crippling sanctions” on Iran over its nuclear energy program. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Russia stands by S-300 delivery to Iran

The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister says his country has every intention of delivering the advanced S-300 air defense missile systems to the Islamic Republic. Read More Here

(AP) – Russia to put military base in Georgia’s Abkhazia

President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia is to station a permanent military base in Georgia’s breakaway republic of Abkhazia. Read More Here

(Monitor) – Why US ignores China and sells arms to Taiwan

Riling China, the US’s newest $6.4 billion sale includes 60 Blackhawk helicopters, Patriot missiles, and sophisticated command-and-control software. Read More Here

(PressTV) – No common Iran stance between Russia, US

Russia has rejected claims by US officials that Moscow and Washington have a common policy toward Iran concerning its nuclear program. Read More Here

(WashingtonPost) – N.Korea vows to bolster nuclear force as deterrent

North Korea has vowed to bolster its nuclear force unless the United States drops its “hostile policy” toward the reclusive communist nation, adding that its atomic program could not be traded for economic aid. Read More Here

(MonstersAndCritics) – Germany threatens Iran with sanctions

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle warned Iran on Friday that it faces new sanctions if it continues to conceal details of its controversial nuclear programme. Read More Here

(Haaretz) – Netanyahu says world inching closer to Israel’s position on Iran

The ‘gap in understanding’ between Israel and the world over Iran is narrowing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday.Read More Here

(PressTV) – Leader: US enraged by Iran’s unity, resistance

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US is enraged by the Iranian nation’s firm stand against the West. Read More Here

(CNN) – Iran’s supreme leader: We do not seek atomic bombs

Iran’s supreme leader said Friday the Islamic republic isn’t seeking and doesn’t believe in pursuing nuclear bombs. Read More Here

(AP) – Iran vows to stand by Hezbollah against Israel

Iran’s president on Thursday said that if the Israelis launch a new war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the militant group should retaliate strong enough to “close their case once and for all.” Read More Here

(WPost) – World news roundup: Argentina accuses Britain of ‘whipping up’ war

Argentina accused Britain of “whipping up the specter of war” on Thursday after Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted that Britain has sufficient protection in place on the Falkland Islands amid escalating tensions over oil and gas exploration Read More Here

(AntiWar) – New IAEA Chief Uses Last Week’s ‘Technical Violation’ to Raise Fears of Iran’s Nuclear Program

A new report issued by the IAEA today rehashed complaints about what was referred to as a minor, technical violation last week, and declared that it “raises concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile.” Read More Here

Video: Chossudovsky – US Will Start WW3 by Attacking Iran

(RussiaToday) – February 19, 2010 – A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel Chossudovsky, who’s from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, because the U.S. is planning for war.

Real, Uglier American Unemployment

(GlobalResearch) – Can you trust national averages? As bad as the jobless data you hear are, you have not been told the whole truth. If you think the terrible impact of America ’s Great Recession is shown by an official unemployment rate of about 10 percent, think again.

The End of Obama’s Vision of a Nuke-Free World – Scott Ritter

(TruthDig) – As any student of foreign and national security policy well knows, the devil is in the details. Back in April 2009, in a speech delivered in Prague, the Czech Republic, President Barack Obama articulated his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. Since that time, however, the Obama administration has offered very little of substance to push this vision forward. When one looks past the grand statements of the president for policy implementation that supports the rhetoric, one is left empty-handed. No movement on ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). No extension of a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia (START). No freeze on the development of a new generation of American nuclear weapons. Without progress in these areas, any prospects of a new approach to global nuclear nonproliferation emerging from the May 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference are virtually zero.

Iran May be Next Target of Misguided Military Adventurism

(GlobalTimes) – In early 2008 a mobile air-defense unit set up camp in a wooded area just across the road from my Tehran apartment. Suddenly, we began to take the recent speculation of a possible air attack on Iran very seriously. My wife and I even considered putting sticky tape on the windows to prevent glass fragmentation in the event of an explosion.

Pentagon Bracing for a Snap Offensive Against Venezuela

(StrategicCultureFoundation) – The US SOUTHCOM electronic surveillance base has been functioning in Aruba for several years. One day, an individual looking like a typical American, wearing shorts, a Hawaii shirt, and sunglasses, walked into it effortlessly and started roaming around. The US marines must have been too tired of the heat and assumed he actually was one of their countrymen – the base has been hosting numbers of visitors from the US recently amid the preparations for serious operations against Venezuela.

Towards a Global Systemic Crisis of the World Economy

(Leap2020) – LEAP/E2020 is of the view that the effect of States’ spending trillions to « counteract the crisis » will have fizzled out. These vast sums had the effect of slowing down the development of the systemic global crisis for several months but, as anticipated in previous GEAB reports, this strategy will only have ultimately served to clearly drag States into the crisis caused by the financial institutions.

The Information Super-Sewer: Will the Internet be Hijacked by Corporate Interests

(Truthdig) – The Internet has become one more tool hijacked by corporate interests to accelerate our cultural, political and economic decline. The great promise of the Internet, to open up dialogue, break down cultural barriers, promote democracy and unleash innovation and creativity, has been exposed as a scam. The Internet is dividing us into antagonistic clans, in which we chant the same slogans and hate the same enemies, while our creative work is handed for free to Web providers who use it as bait for advertising.

The Future of the Dollar

(FutureofDollar) – The World is concerned that the dollar cannot play the role of the main reserve currency any longer after the financial crisis sparked by the collapse of the U.S. mortgage market led to the worst global recession since the 1930s. The Government’s stimulus packages, financial bailouts, the need to support liquidity in Treasuries, keeping interest rates at the lowest level under the circumstances of low economic growth, high unemployment and low tax collection make it print more dollars. This leads to a high risk of substantial inflation, or hyperinflation in a long-run.

Impending Explosion: U.S. Intensifies Threats To Russia And Iran – Rick Rozoff

(StopNato) – Washington and its NATO allies launched two of the three major wars in the world over the past eleven years in March – against Yugoslavia in 1999 and against Iraq in 2003. The war drums are being pounded anew and the world may be headed for a catastrophe far worse than those in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq.

“Mass Casualties”: The Dark Underbelly of Occupation, an Army Medic’s Account – Dahr Jamail

“Look around,” the drill sergeant said. “In a few years, or even a few months, several of you will be dead. Some of you will be severely wounded or so badly mutilated that your own mother can’t stand the sight of you. And for the real unlucky ones, you will come home so emotionally disfigured that you wish you had died over there.”
“It was Week 7 of basic training … eighteen years old and I was preparing myself to die,” said Michael Anthony in “Mass Casualties: A Young Medic’s True Story of Death, Deception and Dishonor in Iraq.”
(Truthout) – The book is more than a simple memoir about a difficult experience. It is an insider’s scathing testimony of an ongoing illegal and unethical military action in a distant, once-sovereign state, by the US. Perhaps, this fresh account will raise some outcry over an issue that has all but dropped out of the American public’s radar.

IAEA Letter Fuels CNN Alarmism Over Iran – Rick Sanchez Speculates About Non-Existent Iranian ‘Nuclear Missile’

Fueled by an unfortunately worded letter by the IAEA about a “technical violation” allegedly made by Iran last week in its civilian nuclear program, CNN’s Rick Sanchez is now speculating about the possibility of Iran “building some kind of nuclear weapon,” even though one of his guests from MIT made it clear this threat was totally illusory.

Grounds for Hope and Despair – Paul Craig Roberts

My February 16 column, A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs, received confirmation from high places on the very day it appeared. Popular Indiana Democratic U.S. Senator Evan Bayh announced that he was quitting the Senate. Yahoo News gave this account:
“In an interview on MSNBC this morning, newly retiring Sen. Evan Bayh declared the American political system ‘dysfunctional,’ riddled with ‘brain-dead partisanship’ and permanent campaigning. Flatly denying any possibility that he’d seek the presidency or any other higher office, Bayh argued that the American people needed to deliver a ‘shock’ to Congress by voting incumbents out in mass and replacing them with people interested in reforming the process and governing for the good of the people, rather than deep-pocketed special-interest groups.”

Economic Crisis: The Sovereign Debt Bubble – Bob Chapman

(GlobalResearch) – When the next census is over America will probably have 320 million people. The number of Americans 50 years ago was about 184 million. Our budget then was about $100 billion. Today it is supposed to be $3.8 trillion. We call that spending gone wild. Government control of the economy has become bigger and all consuming at what will prove to be an unsustainable pace. Markets are telling us the world has serious sovereign debt problems as witnessed recently with the financial debacles in Ireland and now Greece with others to follow.

Video: Glenn Beck Associates Tea Parties With Austin Bomber, Asks If Austin Bomber Is “Radical Constitutionalist”

Coaxed in rhetoric and uncertainty Glenn Beck on his TV show immediately after the Austin plane attack clearly suggested there may be a relation between the bomber and the Tea Party movement. He went into a scripted screed about how the tea parties need to get away from anyone calling for a revolution, “whether it’s a Tea Party revolution or a communist one.” Read More Here

Video: Fed Ops in Texas – Alex Jones on Russia Today

Russia Today – February 19, 2010

Head Of Greek Debt Office Replaced By Former Goldman Investment Banker

(ZeroHedge) – And so the tragicomic becomes surreal. Yesterday’s news about the departure of the head of the debt management agency, Spyros Papanicolaou, was somewhat of a yawner, until we realized that his replacement would be none other than Petros Christodoulou, who until today was head of Private Banking and Group Treasury at the National Bank of Greece (reporting directly to the CEO of the NBG Tamvakakis), as can be seen on the org chart below. Yet was is oddest, is that Mr. Christodoulou worked not only as head of derivatives at JP Morgan but also held comparable posts at Credit Suisse, and… wait for it, Goldman Sachs… Uh, say what? Read More Here

MSM: Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle – Matt Taibbi

(RollingStone) – On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs. Fast becoming America’s pre-eminent Marvel Comics supervillain, the CEO used the call to deploy his secret weapon: a pair of giant, nuclear-powered testicles. In his message, Blankfein addressed his plan to pay out gigantic year-end bonuses amid widespread controversy over Goldman’s role in precipitating the global financial crisis.

Video: Playstation 3 – The Future Of Big Brother Surveillance?

(ConspiringTimes) – A U.S. Military research team recently built a supercomputer with over 2,000 PlayStation 3 game consoles. The 500 TeraFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster is almost 100,000 times faster than any high-end processors in existence today.

This is an insanely powerful and fast computer for those of you that are computer illiterate.

Video: Nuclear Iran – Fueled by fear?

(RussiaToday) – The United States is not giving up its request for tougher sanctions on Iran, after Iran has kept up their enrichment of uranium program. Is it simply fear about nuclear weapons that is fueling this fight or is there more to it? William Weddin says the United States has sought to undermine democracy in Iran and has pushed it to be a military dictatorship ever since the Iranian revolution.

Another Neocon Attack on Ron Paul

(LewRockwell) – Religious rightist Michael Gerson, a Karl Rove disciple and Bush speechwriter, was rewarded with a perch at the once influential Washington Post. So his attempt at thought control, while despicable, is also predictable. Oh for the days of that fake Brit and real CIA agent Bill Buckley, when he could expel Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard,  John T. Flynn, Albert Jay Nock, and anyone else who refused to back the warfare state, from…from…the pages of his mag, I guess. Funny how establishment types still tell these fairy tales to warm themselves around the fires of burning books. It never worked outside the MSM. And now, thanks to the internet, Rand, Rothbard, and the rest are almost infinitely more influential than the excommunicating Bill, whose forgettable encyclicals have disappeared along with him. Read More Here

Attack in Austin: Outraged “Lone Wolf” or False Flag Op?

(KurtNimmo) – It is relatively easy to dismiss the Obama supporters over at Daily Kos for their immediate declarations that Joe Stack, the alleged Austin kamikaze IRS bomber, was a Tea Party fanatic. Daily Kos, after all, is operated by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the former Reagan youth with connections to the CIA.

Video: Bill O’Reilly Supports Gun Confiscation During Weather Emergencies

Bill O’Reilly interviewed the founder of the Oathkeepers tonight. During their discussion O’Reilly supported gun confiscation during hurricanes. He told the Oathkeeper that his views on the Second Amendment were extreme.

Video: Romney at CPAC – It’s the Banksters, Mitt

(KurtNimmo) – Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney told the gathered at CPAC Obama needs to stop blaming Bush for the deficit and high unemployment. “When it comes to pinning the blame, let’s pin the blame on the donkey,” Romney told at the event that should be renamed NeoconPAC.