via businessinsider.com Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a “very senior person” at the White House warned him in an email that he would “regret doing this,” the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester. CNN host Wolf Blitzer said that [...]

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If we can’t even cut federal spending by 2.4 percent without much of the country throwing an absolute hissy fit, then what hope does America have?  All of this whining and crying about the sequester is absolutely disgraceful.  The truth is that even if the sequester goes into effect, the U.S. government will still take [...]

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via theeconomiccollapseblog.com Will oil soon be traded in a currency that is thousands of years old? What would a “gold for oil” system mean for the petrodollar and the U.S. economy? Are Russia and China hoarding massive amounts of gold because they plan to kill the petrodollar? Since the 1970s, the U.S. dollar has been [...]

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Posted on February 13, 2013 by Bob G. There have been 0 comments By – Bob G. So what does one of the biggest gold bulls out there have to say about recent action that has been anything but bullish for the precious metal? “It’s hardly any move. These are small moves and the media [...]

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Obama weighing executive actions on housing, gays and other issues By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Published: February 10 President Obama is considering a series of new executive actions aimed at working around a recalcitrant Congress, including policies that could allow struggling homeowners to refinance their mortgages, provide new protections for gays and lesbians, make buildings more energy-efficient [...]

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NASA: Asteroid will come close next week, but miss earth

February 11, 2013

WASHINGTON — A close encounter of the rocky kind is set for Feb. 15 when an office-building-size asteroid will speed past the earth faster than a bullet and closer than some communications and GPS satellites. It will be the nearest recorded brush with a space rock so large, NASA scientists said Thursday. The good news: [...]

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Findus Beef Lasagne Meals 100% Horsemeat

February 8, 2013

Tests on Findus beef lasagne have revealed that some of the ready meals were made entirely from horsemeat. Findus analysed 18 of its beef lasagne products and found 11 meals contained between 60% and 100% horsemeat, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) said. There is no evidence to suggest the horsemeat found in the Findus beef [...]

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California seeking to ban and confiscate all semi-automatic firearms?

February 8, 2013

via cbsnews.com California is seeking to be the largest violator of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, out doing even New York’s recent bans. The proposed laws even go against current legal gun owners hinting at a confiscation. This is very scary and citizens of California need to call their representatives and urge them to [...]

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Do Wall Street Insiders Expect Something Really BIG To Happen Very Soon?

February 8, 2013

Why are corporate insiders dumping huge numbers of shares in their own companies right now?  Why are some very large investors suddenly making gigantic bets that the stock market will crash at some point in the next 60 days?  Do Wall Street insiders expect something really BIG to happen very soon?  Do they know something [...]

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Senators seek deal on gun-sale background checks – Yahoo! News

February 8, 2013

via news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan quartet of senators, including two National Rifle Association members and two with “F” ratings from the potent firearms lobby, are quietly trying to find a compromise on expanding the requirement for gun-sale background checks. A deal, given a good chance by several participants and lobbyists, could add formidable [...]

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10-year-old Va. boy arrested after toy gun found in his backpack – DC Breaking Local News Weather Sports FOX 5 WTTG

February 7, 2013

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A 10-year-old boy has been charged after bringing a toy gun on a school bus in Alexandria. The boy is a fifth grade student who attends Douglas MacArthur Elementary School. The trouble for him started Monday afternoon on the school bus ride home. According to Alexandria Police, the boy showed the toy [...]

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Rise Of The Droids: Will Robots Eventually Steal All Of Our Jobs?

February 6, 2013

via theeconomiccollapseblog.com Will a robot take your job? We have entered a period in human history when technology is advancing at an exponential rate. In some ways, this has been a great blessing for humanity. For example, I am absolutely blown away by all of the things that my little iPod can do. But on [...]

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FBI: Ala. captor rigged bunker, waged ‘firefight’

February 6, 2013

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to coax an Alabama man into freeing a kindergartner held hostage an underground bunker, the captor was making plans of his own, authorities say. He rigged the bunker with explosives, tried to reinforce it against any raid, and when SWAT agents stormed [...]

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Bankrupt, Decaying And Nearly Dead: 24 Facts About The City Of Detroit That Will Shock You

February 4, 2013

via theeconomiccollapseblog.com If you want to know what the future of America is going to be like, just look at the city of Detroit. Once upon a time it was a symbol of everything that America was doing right, but today it has been transformed into a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole. Detroit was once the [...]

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Authorities mum about talks with alleged abductor

February 2, 2013

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — As a police standoff with an Alabama man accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker entered its fifth day, authorities were saying little except that their talks with the 65-year-old loner were continuing through a ventilation pipe. Negotiators were still trying late Friday to persuade Jimmy [...]

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Marine survey lists concerns on women in combat

February 2, 2013

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Male Marines listed being falsely accused of sexual harassment or assault as a top concern in a survey about moving women into combat jobs, and thousands indicated the change could prompt them to leave the service altogether. The anonymous online questionnaire by the Marine Corps surveyed 53,000 troops last summer, with [...]

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242 Sheriffs and 5 State Sheriffs Associations Saying ‘NO’ to Obama Gun Control | CSPOA

February 1, 2013

inShare17 Sheriffs have risen up all over our great nation to stand up against the unconstitutional gun control measures being taken. The following is a list of sheriffs and state sheriff’s associations from who have vowed to uphold and defend the Constitution against Obama’s unlawful gun control measures.  I applaud these public servants for their [...]

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