House Majority Leader: Greek debt crisis ‘can happen here’

(RawStory) – The United States must embrace a blend of tax increases and spending cuts to rein in its deficit or face a potentially crippling debt crisis like the one in Greece, a top US lawmaker warned Monday.

Supreme Court, gun control, and the Second Amendment: a reckoning

(ChristianScienceMonitor) – The Supreme Court’s next Second Amendment cases may decide which state and local gun-control laws can stand.

MSM: Weed killer turns male frogs into females

(CNN) – Atrazine, a weed killer widely used in the Midwestern United States and other agricultural areas of the world, can chemically “castrate” male frogs and turn some into females, according to a new study.

Obama is a Liar: Illegal Wars, Fraudulent Bailouts, Egregious Assault on Civil Liberties

(Truthdig) – We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives.

Cyberwar Scam Designed to Destroy Open Internet

(KurtNimmo) – On March 1, Ryan Singel, writing for Wired, accused the government of plotting to destroy the open and freedom-loving internet. Readers of Infowars and Prison Planet have known this for some time, but it is nice to know a quasi-establishment publication is now telling the truth and warning its readers about the threat to liberty posed by the government.

Hooray For Starbucks – Chuck Baldwin

The major news media was replete with reports over the weekend that the coffee company, Starbucks, “has no problem with customers packing heat while placing their orders.”

Video: MSNBC Continues Propaganda Campaign Against Patriot Groups

Anti-patriot propaganda has reached a fevered pitch in the corporate media. In the MSNBC segment below, Contessa Brewer interviews Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Brewer prefaces her interview with Potok — who is now a fixture of the ongoing propaganda campaign — by stating that opposition to the government is “fueled in part by anger over the troubled economy,” the fact Obama is African-American, and “immigration issues” (in other words, illegal aliens streaming across the border). Read More Here

Video: Americans + Bailout = REVOLUTION

Video: War Powers Resolution of 1973: Derailing the Gravy Train for the Dogs of War

(AmericasJourney) – Perpetual war for perpetual peace for perpetual war. Who benefits from this cycle of violence? The video at the bottom of this post provides an artistic perspective – an opportunity for us to reflect upon what we’ve become here in Amerika.

Climategate

(DailyMail) – Coldest winter for more than 30 years… but Met Office defends its long range forecast

After predicting just a 20 per cent chance of a colder than average winter, they were left embarrassed again when official figures revealed it was the coldest for more than 30 years. Read More Here

Economy

(OpEdNews) – The Moral Problem of Neocons like Bunning Who Love to Cut Off Poor Peoples’ Living

The problem with neocons is that they think ‘civilization’ ENDS at the threshold of the “free market” (right wing code for the “economic law of the jungle: the predatory cult of enriching oneself at others’ expense”) Read More Here

(CNN) – USPS to propose 5-day mail schedule, major cuts

The U.S. Postal Service plans to propose Tuesday an adjusted mail service schedule, which will likely cut Saturday delivery. The agency will also suggest closing some branches and expanding its use of self-service kiosks in grocery stores and other popular retail spots, as part of its effort to work its way out of a mountain of debt. Read More Here

(BayNews9) – Medicare payment reductions worry doctors, patients

March begins with a financial blow for doctors, who are facing a major reduction in Medicare payments. Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Video: US economy may take another hit; California faces bankruptcy questions – Video Link Here

(SOTT) – A Titanic Budget in an Ocean of Icebergs: Will the USS Budget Go Down?

If there were a prize for worst headline of the week, even the month, it would surely go to a February 23rd piece in the New York Times headlined online: “Gates Calls European Mood a Danger to Peace.” The bellicose “mood,” so undermining of global peace that our secretary of defense had to go after it, was (according to Brian Knowlton of the Times) the “public and political opposition to the military” spreading across Europe. Who wouldn’t react similarly in the face of such an unnerving phenomenon? After all, should it grow stronger, peace on Earth will surely prove a chimera. Read More Here

(SavannahNow) – Senate leader predicts ‘massive layoffs’

Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers announced Monday morning that “massive layoffs” will be one result in how the legislature copes with a roughly $1 billion shortfall in expected revenue for next year’s budget. Read More Here

New psychiatric disorders flag normal human behaviors as “diseases” – Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) – The Disease Mongering Engine, which I invented a couple of years ago and posted on NaturalNews, was initially created as a joke to demonstrate the ridiculousness of the fictitious diseases that are constantly created by the psychiatric industry. This hilarious online disease generator (http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-…) allows you to instantly create your own fictitious diseases and disorders such as: