Video: Ron Paul – The American Empire Can’t Afford Another War

Alex welcomes back Congressman Ron Paul to the show to discuss the latest on Iran, legislation in the house, and more. Dr. Paul is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. During the 1960s, he served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force.

9/11 Heroes Blast Obama: Forget The Mosque, We’re Dying

(SteveWatson) – Responders find Obama’s choice to address hyped controversy “disturbing” in face of abject silence over toxic dust health epidemic

None Dare Call It Tyranny – Sheldon Richman

(FFF) – If you want to know what tyranny is like, look around.

The national government — specifically the executive branch — can do pretty much what it wants. It could bomb Iran tomorrow without a declaration of war from Congress. It can — and does — conduct secret wars and covert operations against countries that have done nothing to us. Of course, they are secret only to the ignorant taxpayers who must finance them and perhaps suffer when the provoked retaliation occurs. It can have men behind PlayStation consoles in Nevada fire Hellfire missiles from aerial drones on people in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere.

This tyrannical government can send any foreigner picked up anywhere in the world to third countries known for torturing prisoners. It can hold people accused of nothing indefinitely in prisons in Cuba and Afghanistan and torture them into making false confessions. It can conduct a war crimes trial in a military kangaroo court for a man, Omar Khadr, held captive for eight years after he was picked up at the age of 15 during a U.S. assault on villagers near Kabul. His torture-induced “confessions” will be admissible. All this is in violation of commitments under the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict not to treat children in war as though they were adults.

It can assassinate even American citizens abroad without a scent of due process.

John Bolton at CPAC: The Benefits of Nuking Chicago

(MotherJones) – Former UN Ambassador John Bolton believes the security of the United States is at dire risk under the Obama administration. And before a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Thursday morning,  he suggested, as something of a joke, that President Barack Obama might learn a needed lesson if Chicago were destroyed by a nuclear bomb.

Appearing at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the nation’s largest annual conference of conservative activists, Bolton, one of the hardest hardliners of the George W. Bush administration, spoke at length about Obama’s naiveté and how various nations – Russia, North Korea, Iran – will be exploiting the new president. The most dramatic moment of his speech may have been when he cracked a joke about the nuking of Obama’s hometown.

“The fact is on foreign policy I don’t think President Obama thinks it’s a priority,” said Bolton. “He said during the campaign he thought Iran was a tiny threat. Tiny, tiny depending on how many nuclear weapons they are ultimately able to deliver on target. Its, uh, its tiny compared to the Soviet Union, but is the loss of one American city” – here Bolton changes his tone subtly to prepare for the joke – “pick one at random – Chicago – is that a tiny threat?”

Bolton wasn’t the only one who thought this was funny. The room erupted in laughter and applause.

Bombshell: Barack Obama conclusively outed as CIA creation

NEWS ALERT: Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen is scheduled to appear live on the Alex Jones Show tomorrow THURSDAY AUGUST 19 at 1 PM EST / 12 NOON CST, to reveal his groundbreaking series on Barack Obama’s true origins. Madsen will share the bombshell revelations and extensive information from the following three articles– and even more that has not yet been revealed. Tell your friends, family and contacts to tune in and learn the truth. Also visit the Wayne Madsen Report for further research and other exclusive reports. Read More Here

Video: Jack Cafferty Mentions Infowars.com

(CNN) – CNN’s Jack Cafferty quoted Paul Craig Roberts, who wrote for Infowars.com on August 16: “Without a revolution, Americans are history.”

Junk food-addicted rats chose to starve themselves rather than eat healthy food

(NaturalNews) – A diet including unlimited amounts of junk food can cause rats to become so addicted to the unhealthy diet that they will starve themselves rather than go back to eating healthy food, researchers have discovered.

In a series of studies conducted over the course of three years and published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Scripps Florida scientists Paul Johnson and Paul Kenny have shown that rats’ response to unlimited junk food closely parallels well-known patterns of drug addiction — even down to the changes in brain chemistry.

“What we have are these core features of addiction, and these animals are hitting each one of these features,” Kenny said.

In their first study, the researchers fed rats on either a balanced diet or on the same diet plus unlimited access to junk foods purchased at a local supermarket, including processed meats and cakes. Within a short time period, the rats on the junk food diet began to eat compulsively and quickly became overweight.

Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother

(FastCompany) – We’ve all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian future, where the public is tracked everywhere they go, from shopping malls to work to mass transit to the privacy of their own homes. The technology is here. I’ve seen it myself. It’s seen me, too, and scanned my irises.

Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) announced today that it is rolling out its iris scanning technology to create what it calls “the most secure city in the world.” In a partnership with Leon — one of the largest cities in Mexico, with a population of more than a million — GRI will fill the city with eye-scanners. That will help law enforcement revolutionize the way we live — not to mention marketers.

“In the future, whether it’s entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your medical records pulled up, everything will come off that unique key that is your iris,” says Jeff Carter, CDO of Global Rainmakers. Before coming to GRI, Carter headed a think tank partnership between Bank of America, Harvard, and MIT. “Every person, place, and thing on this planet will be connected [to the iris scanner system] within the next 10 years,” he says. Read entire article

New study: 85% of Big Pharma’s new drugs are “lemons” and pose health risks to users

(NaturalNews) – For years, natural health proponents have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of new drugs being pushed on consumers. But is that a one-sided, inaccurate view? Not at all. In fact, new research now shows the problems with Big Pharma’s hugely hyped medications are far worse than most people have even dreamed. Independent reviewers found that about 85 percent of new drugs offer few if any new benefits — but they carry the risk of causing serious harm to users.

According to Donald Light, Ph.D., a professor of comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey who authored the study, the pharmaceutical industry is a “market for lemons” and Big Pharma spends a fortune to sell those lemons to the public.

Scientists discover that radiation causes breast cancer (gee, really?)

(NaturalNews) – Girls who undergo chest radiation as a cancer treatment are significantly more likely to develop breast cancer as little as eight years later, according to a study conducted by researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

“Risk in women treated before puberty is not lower than that in those treated during adolescence, as suggested by some early studies,” they wrote.

The researchers reviewed the results of 12 prior studies that had looked at breast cancer risk in female survivors of childhood cancers. They found that patients who have undergone chest radiation as children suffer from an increased risk of breast cancer as little as eight years later.

Economy

(Bloomberg) – China Drains Obama Stimulus Meant for U.S. Economy – The global economy is like fried ice cream: If you don’t act fast, it turns into a mess – Read More Here

(Breitbart) – Video: Chaos Erupts in California as Over-Taxed Residents Express Outrage

The city of Bell, CA has recently been exposed for having corrupt and overpaid city officials receiving salaries larger than the President of the United States. Residents who have recently learned they were over-taxed to pay for the government workers took control of a City Council meeting and demanded resignations. View Video Here

(GoldSeek) – US Prepares For Gold Standard – Read More Here

(NeithercorpPress) – The Purpose Behind Engineered Economic Collapse – “From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.” — Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. , 1913 – Read More Here

(McClatchy) – Thousands apply for jobs at California McDonalds restaurants – Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – Deceptive Economic Statistics – While the economists lied the US economy died – Paul Craig Roberts – Read More Here

(USAToday) – Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing – Read More Here

(Reuters) – US Says Bankruptcies Reach Nearly 5-Year High

U.S. bankruptcy filings have reached the highest level since 2005, government data released on Tuesday show, as the economy slows and the unemployment rate hovers just below double digits. Read More Here

(Spiegel) – Tensions Rise in Greece as Austerity Measures Backfire

The austerity measures that were supposed to fix Greece’s problems are dragging down the country’s economy. Stores are closing, tax revenues are falling and unemployment has hit an unbelievable 70 percent in some places. Frustrated workers are threatening to strike back. Read More Here

(CommonDreams) – Death and Joblessness: How Suicide Dogs the Long-Term Unemployed – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Accountability and Transparency in the World of Big Money: Banks too Big to Fail and too Big to Jail – Danny Schechter

AS BANKS SETTLE FRAUD COMPLAINTS, WHAT HAS REALLY BEEN SETTLED IN THE CONFLICT WITH THE BANKSTERS? Read More Here

(WebOfDebt) – Axing the Bankers’ Money Tree: Homeowners’ Rebellion against Wall Street – Ellen Brown

Recent Rulings Could Shield 62 Million Homes from Foreclosure Read More Here

(MailOnline) – Green taxes could treble by 2020, costing taxpayers more than £16billion a year – Read More Here

World War

Video: Military Warned to Not Watch/View Wikileaks info or be “Court Marshalled!” – Alex Jones Tv – Video Link Here

(KurtNimmo) – Air Force Issues Memo Warning Soldiers, Employees Not to Read WikiLeaks Docs

An Infowars.com reader at the Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida sent the memo below, originally posted on the 482 FW Community Bulletin Board. The memo instructs government personnel to not access the Wikileaks website or download “publicized classified information,” namely over 70,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan. “Looks like they don’t want us government employees to know the truth,” remarked the person who sent the memo.

In essence, the memo confirms that the Pentagon is monitoring the web activity of its soldiers and employees. Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – Racketeers for Capitalism – Cindy Sheehan

“I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.”
Today, (August 17) we learn that in Afghanistan, three U.S. troops, three NATO troops and at least seven civilians were killed. This is another grim marker along the Imperial Road to Ruin as Barack Obama’s regime has managed to kill as many troops in Afghanistan in 19 months as the Bush stain did in seven years. Read More Here

(Makow) – Why Rudolf Hess Was Murdered – “I have come here, in Great Britain, to save humanity,” he said. “I am Rudolf Hess.” – Read More Here

China

(GlobalResearch) – US-Vietnam Military Cooperation Directed Against China – Read More Here

Palestine

(PressTV) – Israeli fighters launch 4 attacks on Gaza

The Israeli Air Force has launched four aerial attacks on the southern Gaza Strip, but fails to inflict any injuries on the targeted Palestinians. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Video: Israel Threatens to Kill Lebanese Women on Gaza Aid Ship – Video Link Here

Iran

(KurtNimmo) – CIA Launches “Counterproliferation Center” as Iran Attack Rhetoric Kicks Into High Gear

As the rhetoric heats up in preparation for an attack on Iran, the CIA has announced it will christen a “counterproliferation center to combat the spread of dangerous weapons and technology, a move that comes as Iran is on the verge of fueling up a new nuclear power plant,” reports the Associated Press. Read More Here

(PressTV) – ‘Iran will block Hormuz if attacked’

“The first action would be to take full control of the Strait of Hormuz whereby we wouldn’t allow any move by anybody”, the top military official underlined. Read More Here

(KurtNimmo) – CIA Launches “Counterproliferation Center” as Iran Attack Rhetoric Kicks Into High Gear

As the rhetoric heats up in preparation for an attack on Iran, the CIA has announced it will christen a “counterproliferation center to combat the spread of dangerous weapons and technology, a move that comes as Iran is on the verge of fueling up a new nuclear power plant,” reports the Associated Press. Read More Here

Iraq

(LegitGov) – U.S. to Double Mercenary Forces in Iraq After 2011 Military Pullout – Read More Here

(LondonGuardian) – Iraq suicide bombing kills scores of military recruits

At least 60 Iraqi army recruits and soldiers were killed and dozens more injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army base in the centre of Baghdad this morning. Read More Here

(MSNBC) – Video: This Wont Be The End Of US Combat In Iraq –

Video: How Television Works

Devon Grey’s new trilogy, The Corporate Media Survival Guide introduces viewers to television’s hidden technology and the unspoken corporate agenda that surrounds it.

Segmented into five informative and entertaining sections, ‘How Television Works’ is a must see for anyone curious about who controls television, why producers alter their programming to appease corporate sponsors, and what detrimental affects television has on human brain chemistry, attention span and behaviour.

Video: Hidden Illuminati subliminal message in Delta Sink commercial

Video: Corbett Report Interviews 9/11 Researcher Aidan Monaghan

(CorbettReport) – Aidan Monaghan of 911Blogger.com joins The Corbett Report to discuss his tireless efforts to uncover government documents about 9/11 via Freedom Of Information Act requests. We discuss some of the information he has uncovered and how others can follow in this fruitful area of research.