Reuters | Protesters hold a sign during a rally against government cutbacks for social services in Aurora, Illinois, June 18, 2009. Credit: Reuters/John Gress WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The already gloomy conditions of states' economies are set to worsen, according to preliminary survey findin...

 by way of the local Philadelphia ABC affiliate, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has tossed its hat into the ring with regard to Lower Merion School District’s alleged surveillance of students in their own homes by way of remote access to webcam-equipped laptop computers issued by the distr...

Sundaytimes | If your dog is barking mad, help is at hand. You can give it some Prozac. A dog version of the anti-depressant drug has been launched in America and will soon be available in Britain. It will be used to treat a canine compulsive disorder in which faulty genes combine with stress to p...

WLWT.com | Hoskins said he's been in a struggle with RiverHills Bank over his Clermont County home for nearly a decade, a struggle that was coming to an end as the bank began foreclosure proceedings on his $350,000 home.   "When I see I owe $160,000 on a home valued at $350,000, and someone d...

Wakeup1776 | I think the ''official story'' is fishy. Folks who buy in to ''official stories'' hook, line, and sinker as fed to them by the mainstream media (which includes Fox) will no doubt have no problem accepting what they are hearing regarding this latest incident. However, just like 9/11 (...

BEIJING, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- In the Chinese government's most direct warning ever over a Dalai Lama meeting, it has told the United States to "stop interfering in China's internal affairs

NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A New York rabbi has been accused of trying to trick managers of a Connecticut hedge fund into giving $4 million to two schools he works with, prosecutors say. Rabbi Milton Balkany, 63, of Brooklyn, faces federal charges of extortion, blackmail and making false statements...

Menshealth | Before you mindlessly chew your way through another value meal, take these mini-mysteries (conveniently solved below) into account. Sometimes the truth is tough to swallow

blacklistednews.com |  Is the Midwest about to see a massive wave of bank closings?  That is apparently what the FDIC is expecting.  The FDIC is opening up a massive new satellite office in the Chicago area that will be dedicated to managing receiverships and liqui...

GaurdianUK | Recession and the constant threat of terrorist attacks have given new life to the ingrained survivalist instinct Tess Pennington, 33, is a mother of three children, and lives in the sprawling outskirts of Houston, Texas. But she is not taking the happy safety of her suburban existenc...

Foxnews | The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution. In its last assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the evidence that the world was wa...

Presstv | The level of a cancer-causing chemical found in tap water at a military base in North Carolina was intentionally not reported, an AP review finds. An environmental contractor deliberately did not report the level of the dangerously high levels of benzene at Camp Lejeune for a federal h...

CBSNNews | South Carolina Rep. Mike Pitts has introduced legislation that would mandate that gold and silver coins replace federal currency as legal tender in his state. As the Palmetto Scoop first reported, Pitts, a Republican, introduced legislation this month banning "the unconstitutional sub...

NYTimes | JERUSALEM — The initial nods, winks and pats on the back here over the assassination last month of a senior Hamas official in Dubai are turning to puzzlement and concern as mounting evidence, including extensive surveillance videos, points to a remarkably clumsy operation many Israelis dee...

Washington (CNN) -- To the list of instructions you hear at airport checkpoints, add this: "Put your palms forward, please." The Transportation Security Administration soon will begin randomly swabbing passengers' hands at checkpoints and airport gates to test them for traces of explosives.

rithiltz.com | Studies keep showing what we have known for a long time: Fighting foreclosures is a futile — and counter-productive — use of resources. New studies by John Burns Real Estate Consulting and Standard & Poor’s Financial Services conclude that loan mod efforts only serve to delay the...

Washingtons Blog | Forget the claims and allegations that false flag terror - governments attacking people and then blaming others in order to create animosity towards those blamed - has been used throughout history

MK-ULTRA was the code name for a secret CIA mind control program, begun in 1953, under Director Allen Dulles. Its purpose was multifold, including to perfect a truth drug for interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War. It followed earlier WW II hypnosis, primitive drugs research, and t...

Chris Giles wearechangenc.com | In the last 235 years, those freedoms have slowly been chipped away at and lost by a systematic process of false-flag attacks and fear mongering by the government. The attacks of 9/11 are probably the biggest example of this process. Whether you believe in t...