Tuesday, December 31, 2013

TERRORISM 101: The Secrets TERRORISTS Don't Want YOU To KNOW!


Alex Jones son breaks down how the globalist use terrorism to get their way and control countries across the world.

This IS ACTUALLY MORE TRUE THAT YOU KNOW !!!

Government Propagandists Fuel Racism in America




Alex covers the media attacks on society and blatant race baiting of the public including MSNBC host Melissa Harris Perry's attack on Mitt Romney's adopted black grandchild.

Government Uses Propaganda to Fan Flames of Hate






The Government Uses Propaganda to Fan the Flames of Hate...


WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Calls on Computer Hackers to Unite Against NSA Surveillance

democracynow.org
January 31, 2013

 video...http://www.infowars.com/wikileaks-julian-assange-calls-on-computer-hackers-to-unite-against-nsa-surveillance/

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed a major gathering of computer experts Monday at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, calling on them to join forces in resisting government intrusions on Internet freedom and privacy. We play highlights from Assange’s speech, as well as the one given by Sarah Harrison, the WikiLeaks member who accompanied Edward Snowden to Russia. We also hear from independent journalist and security expert Jacob Appelbaum, who reveals a spying tool used by the National Security Agency known as a “portable continuous wave generator.” The remote-controlled device works in tandem with tiny electronic implants to bounce invisible waves of energy off keyboards and monitors to see what is being typed. It works even if the target computer is not connected to the Internet.
Transcript
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the Chaos Communication Congress, or CCC, in Hamburg, Germany. One of the speakers at the conference was WikiLeaks’ Sarah Harrison, who accompanied Edward Snowden to Russia and spent four months with him. Harrison addressed the audience after receiving a long standing ovation.
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This article was posted: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 2:02 pm

Over Half a Million Gardasil Vaccines Recalled Due To Glass Particle Contamination

Like some grotesque perversion of Willy Wonka’s Golden Ticket, only 10 vials are contaminated
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
December 31, 2013
In a report that unsurprisingly received little publicity, pharmaceutical giant Merck recalled some 743,000 vaccines earlier this month due to some being contaminated with glass particles.

CDC: "Most of the time, the body naturally fights off HPV before HPV causes any health problems."
CDC: “Most of the time, the body naturally fights off HPV before HPV causes any health problems.”

“On December 16, 2013 CDC was informed by Merck that the company planned to implement a voluntary recall of one lot (lot J007354) of Gardasil® [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (types 6, 11, 16, and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant], due to the potential for a small number of vials to contain glass particles as a result of breakage during the manufacturing process,” a news release on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s website states. 743,360 vials were recalled, and Merck estimates – like some grotesque perversion of Willy Wonka’s Golden Ticket – that only 10 of those vials are contaminated.
Affected vials were distributed between August 20 and October 9, and given the expansive time frame and how long it’s been, the Drug Recall Attorneys Blog suspects “it is likely that some patients have already received injections potentially contaminated with broken glass shards.”
Gardasil claims to somehow “help protect” against human papillomavirus, a virus which “nearly all” sexually active man or woman contracts at least once in their lives, and which the CDC admits “the body naturally fights off” “most of the time.”
“In fact, a recent study published in the journal Vaccine estimates that 90% of HPV infections are cleared from the body within 2 years,” writes Dr. Tyson Perez for GreenMed Info.
Last month, daytime TV host Katie Couric was lambasted by the mainstream media after inviting the mothers of young women who died after receiving Gardasil jabs.
“We guess ABC will do anything to bring Katie out of its ratings hole, because the HPV vaccine has been proven to be absolutely safe for girls,” The Atlantic Wire wrote. According to them, stories about people who died after receiving the vaccine mean it’s “absolutely safe.”

Merck lists swelling, itching, bruising, headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, fainting, and seizures as possible signs of an allergic reaction, however no mention of Guillain-Barré Syndrome or of the multiple reported deaths.
Merck lists swelling, itching, bruising, headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, fainting, and seizures as possible signs of an allergic reaction, however no mention of Guillain-Barré Syndrome or of the multiple reported deaths.

Couric also interviewed one of the researchers whose work helped develop the vaccine, Dr. Diane Harper. The University of Louisville professor hinted she’d reversed her position on the efficacy of the vaccine. “..Gardasil doesn’t last long enough to prevent cervical cancer and HPV infections are something that women continue to get throughout their lifetime,” Harper said to Merck’s chagrin, adding that 10 to 15 percent of children up to age 11 already showed signs of HPV infection, indicating an “underlying infection rate already that’s there.”
Back in October 2012, a report in the British Medical Journal highlighted a case in which a 16-year-old girl experienced premature ovarian failure after receiving HPV vaccinations, and numerous instances of permanent disabilities and deaths have been reported as a result of HPV vaccines.
Despite the CDC admitting to “22,000 adverse event reports occurring in girls and women who received HPV vaccines” (more than 1,671 of which were categorized as “serious,”), legislation is being introduced in 42 states to either make the vaccine a requirement or fund HPV awareness.
“About 2 of those states enacted such legislation. New Hampshire provides the vaccination free of charge, and Virginia requires the HPV vaccine for all female students entering the sixth grade,” the Drug Recall Attorneys Blog reports.
Despite the seriousness of the charge, Merck is optimistic people who receive glass particle injections will only experience “mild reactions.” However, according to the Attorneys Blog, the law firm of Pintas & Mullins “are currently reviewing cases of serious injury caused by broken glass in vaccine vials.”
H/T: The Healthy Home Economist
This article was posted: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 9:50 am

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Former MSNBC Host Told Not to Warn Public About Fukushima

“Because the official government position is that it’s safe”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
December 31, 2013
Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur was told not to warn the public about the danger posed by the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant during his time as a host on the cable network.

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“I was on MSNBC at the time when this happened, I said, “Don’t trust what the Japanese government is saying, they’ll say trust what the electric power company is saying. Go, go, go, get outta there. Get as far away from that plant as you can. It’s literally a core meltdown.” And they always don’t want people to panic, so they were always like, “Oh it’s going to be okay.” [...] I’m like, “You’re crazy man, don’t be anywhere near that reactor.” And I remember at the time, of course not at The Young Turks, but on cable news, people were like, “Hey Cenk, you know, I don’t know that you want to say that, because the official government position is that it’s safe.” Oh, is that the official government position? Now go explain that to the people who served on the USS Ronald Reagan.”
Uygur previously revealed how MSNBC president Phil Griffin ordered him to tone down his show because “people in Washington” were concerned about Uygur being too combative towards “those in power.” Despite the fact that his show had good ratings, Uygur walked away from the network to create his own online broadcast.
Uygur’s reference to the USS Ronald Reagan concerns recent revelations that 71 U.S. sailors who helped during the initial Fukushima relief efforts returned with thyroid cancer, Leukemia, and brain tumors as a result of being exposed to radiation at 300 times the safe level.
The sailors are suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which repeatedly lied in an effort to downplay the severity of the situation.
Now that radioactive debris is hitting the West Coast of North America, numerous different animals and sea life are suffering from mysterious diseases, including 20 bald eagles that have died in Utah over the last few weeks alone.
Top scientists have warned that if another major earthquake hits Fukushima, which is almost inevitable, it would mean “bye bye Japan” and the complete evacuation of the west coast of North America.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
This article was posted: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 6:00 am

Volgograd Bombings Follow Saudi Threat to Attack Russia

Prince Bandar warned Putin, “The Chechen groups….are controlled by us”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
December 30, 2013
Twin blasts targeting a train station and a trolley bus in the city of Volgograd which killed at least 31 people follow a threat by Saudi Arabia to attack Russia using Chechen terrorists if Moscow did not withdraw its support for President Assad in Syria.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuVSuSiKfYI
The first attack took place at Volgograd-1 station on Sunday morning, killing 17 people. CCTV footage shows an orange blast behind the main doors of the station, smashing windows and sending debris out into the street. The prime suspect is a female suicide bomber.
The second attack occurred near a busy market in Volgograd’s Dzerzhinsky district. A bus packed with people on their morning commute was ripped apart by a suicide bomber, killing 14.
Although no group has claimed responsibility for the blasts, suspicion immediately fell on Islamists from the North Caucasus region who routinely attack soft targets in Russia.
While the media has concentrated on the threat such groups pose to February’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, no scrutiny has been given to a warning issued by Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan back in August when he told Vladimir Putin that Saudi Arabia would activate the Chechen terrorist groups it controls to target Russia if Moscow refused to abandon its support for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
As we reported at the time, the threat was made during a closed-door meeting between Prince Bandar and Putin at the beginning of August.
According to a transcript of the comments made during the meeting by Middle Eastern news agency Al Monitor, Bandar made a series of promises and threats to Putin in return for Moscow withdrawing its support for Assad in Syria.
“I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year,” Bandar allegedly stated, adding, “The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us.”
Bandar made it clear that his position was supported by the US government.
This “guarantee” to stop the Chechens from attacking the Sochi Olympics was also obviously a veiled threat that if Russia did not abandon Assad, terrorist attacks would be given the green light.
Given that Russia did not abandon Assad and indeed virtually single-handedly prevented a US military strike on Syria, much to the chagrin of Saudi Arabia which is the primary supplier of anti-Assad rebel jihadists, are we to believe that the Volgograd bombings are evidence of Bandar following through on his threat?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVqn-IKpDn4&feature=player_embedded
original article -  http://www.infowars.com/volgograd-bombings-follow-saudi-threat-to-attack-russia/

Global Warming Scientists Still Trapped In Record-Level Antarctic Ice

“Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change,” scientists say as rescue ships fail to breach ice to save them
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
December 30, 2013
The scientific ship currently trapped in Antarctic ice is carrying a team of climate change scientists who keep harping the dangers of “global warming” even after multiple rescue ships failed in their attempts to save them.
On Christmas Day, the ice-strengthened MV Akademik Shokalskiy got stuck in Antarctic ice during her Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Australian global warming professor Chris Turney.
“Bad news: [Rescue ship] Aurora couldn’t get through,” Turney tweeted earlier today. “Tried twice [but] low visibility and heavy ice. [She's] returning to open water.”
“Try again tomorrow?”
Turney and his team launched this voyage to study “ocean warming” while retracing the route of the original Australasian Antarctic Expedition, which was launched in 1911 by Australian geologist Douglas Mawson.
The official web site for the expedition suggests that the ice in East Antarctica, where the Akademik Shokalskiy is stranded, is threatened by this “warming.”
“There is an increasing body of evidence, including by the AAE members, that have identified parts of the East Antarctic which are highly susceptible to melting and collapse from ocean warming,” the site continues.
But as blogger Anthony Watts points out, Mawson’s team landed in Antarctica under much warmer conditions in 1912:
Additionally, the National Snow & Ice Data Center reports that the current extent of the Antarctic sea ice is two standard deviations above normal:

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration even announced back in September that Antarctic ice reached its largest extent since measurements began in 1979.
Yet Turney’s team is still defiant to these facts even as they stay stranded in record levels of ice that rescue ships have not yet breached.
“Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change,” they announced. “But here it is building up.”
Original Article....  http://www.infowars.com/global-warming-scientists-still-trapped-in-record-level-antarctic-ice/

Pope Francis Calls for Power to Move Away from Vatican



Pope Francis greets a crowd in the Vatican on November 24 
Pope Francis has pioneered a more informal style as pontiff

 BBCNEWS.com
Pope Francis has called for power in the Catholic Church to be devolved away from the Vatican, in the first major work he has written in the role.
In the document, he says he is open to suggestions to changes in the power of the papacy.
He also warns that rising global economic inequality is bound to explode in conflict.
Since becoming Pope in March, Francis has struck a markedly different tone to his predecessor on several issues.
In his "apostolic exhortation", Pope Francis said he preferred a Church that was "bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security".
The document suggests major changes are on the way, with Francis noting that the Church has to get over an attitude that says: "We have always done it this way," the BBC's David Willey reports from Rome.
It represents an ambitious programme to try to rekindle his church's missionary zeal, our correspondent says.
However, the document reiterates the Church's opposition to the ordination of female priests, saying this is "not a question open to discussion".
The document also touches on inter-faith relations, urging Christians to "embrace with affection and respect Muslim immigrants to our countries in the same way that we hope and ask to be received and respected in countries of Islamic tradition".
'Idolatry of money' Last month Pope Francis held his first meeting with a special group of cardinals to consider ways to reform the Vatican bureaucracy after saying in a newspaper interview that the Vatican had become too self-interested and needed to be inclusive.
Read more.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25102720


Monday, December 30, 2013

Japan Radiation Poisoning America?

Steve Elwart
WND.com 



 Some tuna caught off California is showing evidence of radiation poisoning. (RT photo)
Like a slow-motion train wreck, the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster is still causing damage long after the world’s media has left the news story behind.   The nuclear disaster in Japan is finally impacting the United States in some very disturbing ways. You'll be disgusted by what's happening to wildlife and the U.S. food supply.
 .........There have been many other reports of fish and sea-creature populations dying in the Pacific. Also, there have been many discoveries of cesium–137 in high concentrations in seafood caught in the Pacific and sold in North America. There have also been many reports of unexplained deaths among wildlife:
  • There is an epidemic of sea lion deaths due to starvation along the California coastline. The question is: why are they starving? Has the food chain been disrupted?
  • Along the Pacific coast of Canada and the Alaska coastline, the population of sockeye salmon is at a historic low
  • Something is causing fish all along the west coast of Canada to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs
  • Experts have found very high levels of cesium–137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast, affecting the food chain in a process called “biomagnification”
As of now, there has been no direct correlation between these events and Fukushima, but the timing of the events and some contributing factors are giving scientists pause and are giving substance for calls for more studies.
While the evidence may circumstantial at this point, it is enough for countries to take action.
Due to radiation fears, Fukushima Prefecture fishermen have had to dump most of their catch. Two years into the nuclear disaster, South Korea still bans Japanese fish and seafood imports from eight Japanese prefectures. The ban covers an area of Japan that exported 5,000 metric tons of fishery products, or about 13 percent of the 40,000 total tons imported last year to South Korea.
In eastern Japanese ports outside of the prefecture, hundreds of pounds of fresh fish are sent to Onjuku, a small town a few hours away from Tokyo.
Once they arrive, samples of the fish are checked for radiation in a move to restore the world’s confidence in Japan’s food supply in the wake of Fukushima.
Japan’s Marine Ecology Research Institute, or MERI, operates out of Onjuku and is charged with the testing. MERI was established in the mid 1970s to certify that fish supplies remain safe despite wastewater discharge from the nuclear plants. It is now working overtime to assure the world that Japan’s fish are safe to eat.
Even with these assurances, many buyers are not sure just how much to trust the quasi-government laboratories. The U.S. has recently banned agricultural and fishery imports from 14 prefectures in Japan, up from the eight that South Korea banned.
Read Entire Article here......  http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/japan-radiation-poisoning-america/


I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on

Few of the politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits of drones have a real clue how it actually works (and doesn't)
Heather Linebaugh
theguardian.com,
 Whenever I read comments by politicians defending the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Predator and Reaper program – aka drones – I wish I could ask them some questions. I'd start with: "How many women and children have you seen incinerated by a Hellfire missile?" And: "How many men have you seen crawl across a field, trying to make it to the nearest compound for help while bleeding out from severed legs?" Or even more pointedly: "How many soldiers have you seen die on the side of a road in Afghanistan because our ever-so-accurate UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicle] were unable to detect an IED [improvised explosive device] that awaited their convoy?"
Few of these politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits of drones have a real clue of what actually goes on. I, on the other hand, have seen these awful sights first hand.
Hermes 450 drone
Entire article here... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-us-military

GMO: Scientists Create Glow-in-the-Dark Pigs

 Daily Mail
December 27, 2013
Chinese scientists have created the world’s first glow-in-the-dark pigs that emit a fluorescent green light.
The piglets acquired their bizarre ability to glow under ‘black’ or UVA light after their embryos were injected with DNA from a jellyfish.
Experts claim that the 10 young animals should live as long as any other pig and that the findings could help develop cheaper drugs for humans.

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Obama’s Vacation Rattled by Protests

 Reuters
December 29, 2013

The serenity of President Barack Obama’s Hawaiian vacation was rattled a little on Saturday when demonstrators aired grievances against unmanned aircraft and other issues in a small protest zone near the first family’s upscale rented house.
Returning from an early morning gym visit at nearby Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Obama’s motorcade passed a few dozen protesters holding signs with slogans including “Drones: Unethical and Illegal,” “U.S. Bases Out” and “Close Guantanamo Now.” Others expressed their opposition to genetically modified foods.
It marked a second day of peaceful protest surrounding Obama, who is spending a two-week vacation in Kailua with wife Michelle, daughters Malia and Sasha, the first lady’s mother, Marian Robinson, and the family’s Portuguese Water Dogs, Bo and Sunny.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Breaking: Whistleblower Reveals U.S. State Dept. Ships Arms Directly to al-Qaeda

The murder of Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi was an organized hit to cover up direct arm deals
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
September 25, 2013
A former CIA gun runner revealed that the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in order to cover up the U.S. State Department’s direct arm shipments to al-Qaeda.
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0jpALcoenY
 Discussion on Benghazi attack starts around the 37:00 mark.

William Robert “Tosh” Plumlee started his career as a CIA contract pilot in the late 1950s, delivering guns and ammunition on behalf of the agency to Fidel Castro.
Plumlee confirmed that such arm deals are still common today, with the State Dept. shipping arms to al-Qaeda via the CIA.
During an interview with Alex Jones, Plumlee pointed out that Pat Smith, the mother of an information management officer also killed during the Benghazi attack, received little information from the Obama administration about her son’s murder.
“I began to wonder ‘why won’t they tell her anything?’” He asked. “Then a contact of mine in the Middle East, a high-ranking NATO official, mentioned to me that he had reports that the ambassador [J. Christopher Stevens] had been complaining about the dispatches and cables that he had got from the State Department about the weapons being received and [Islamic] radicals armed, including Stinger missiles.”
According to Plumlee, Steven was ordered to stand down after he asked the State Dept. what he should do about the American arm shipments to al-Qaeda.
“The ambassador and his people had written a series of field reports and cable dispatches advising our State Department that the rebel factions had been armed with U.S. weapons,” he said. “Now my contention is this: if that is the case, why is that classified as a national security matter?”
Plumlee mentioned that Steven’s field notes have not been released by the State Dept.
These revelations suggest that after Stevens told the State Dept. that he did not want al-Qaeda receiving heat seeking missiles, he was killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi which was designed to take out witnesses to the arms transfer and to suppress Stevens’s reports.
The Obama administration then blamed the attack entirely on Islamic protestors enraged by the film Innocence of Muslims while refusing to answer why U.S. special forces were ordered not to aid Stevens and others during the assault.
The missiles in question, as well as the other weapons given to al-Qaeda, were transported to Libya by C-130s under the Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) program, which operates within the State Dept.
As explained by New York Times best-selling author and former journalist Jim Marrs, the DCS program oversees the shipment of U.S. weapons and training to countries around the world.
Through its own internal investigations, the State Dept. admitted that firearms supplied by the DCS have ended up in the hands of foreign enemies.
Tying it all together, Plumlee stated that the weapons given to al-Qaeda were “U.S. made weapons that came from the DCS program, illegally transported by C-130s” into countries such as Turkey and Jordan and were “dispatched from CIA safe houses to the Syrian rebels.”
As we have documented in the past, the Syrian rebels are predominantly al-Qaeda fighters who want to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in order to install an Islamic state in Syria.
If al-Qaeda controls Syria, other nations could easily take advantage of the ensuring chaos and Syria’s reduced sovereignty by extracting trillions of dollars in oil revenue from the country.
The Syrian rebels led by the Jabhat al-Nusra Front, the direct offshoot of al-Qaeda in Iraq, were described as the “most effective fighting force in Syria” after filling the void left by the secular Free Syrian Army.
Suffering from severe shortages in weapons and supplies, the Free Syrian Army began losing soldiers to the better armed and equipped al-Nusra Front.
Now it is known why the al-Nusra Front, and al-Qaeda worldwide, never seem to lack arms: they are receiving weapon shipments directly from the State Dept.
This article was posted: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 4:23 pm

New York Times Report Covers Up Truth Behind Benghazi

Aaron Klein
WND
December 29, 2013

An extensive New York Times investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack is filled with misleading information, including details contradicted by the U.S. government, Benghazi victims and numerous other previous news reports. The report, entitled, “A Deadly Mix in Benghazi,” was authored from Benghazi by Times writer David D. Kirkpatrick.
One of the main contentions of the Times piece is that “contrary to claims by some members of Congress,” the Benghazi attack “was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam.”
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RELATED: Whistleblower Reveals U.S. State Dept. Ships Arms Directly to al-Qaeda

Exposed: The Soviet Union spent $1 billion on mind-control program

 news.com.au
December 29, 2013
 At the time, the Soviet Union and the United States were in an arms race of a bizarre, unconventional kind – that has been exposed in a new report.
Beginning in 1917 and continuing until 2003, the Soviets poured up to $1 billion into developing mind-controlling weaponry to compete with similar programs undertaken in the US.
While much still remains classified, we can now confirm the Soviets used methods to manipulate test subjects’ brains.
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Lawmakers Blast Snowden’s Call to Stop Surveillance

Fox News
December 29, 2013
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who attacked Snowden, also introduced CISPA.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who attacked Snowden, also introduced CISPA.

Edward Snowden’s recent TV appearance in which he called for a halt to widespread NSA surveillance got low grades Sunday from Congress, as one of his legal advisers suggested the Supreme Court will ultimately decide on the issue of government spying. Michigan GOP Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Snowden’s release of classified documents this summer jeopardized the safety of troops in Afghanistan and gave nations such as China and Russia valuable insight into how America’s intelligence services operate.
“That’s who the messenger is,” Rogers told “Fox News Sunday,” several days after Snowden, now in Russia, said in a Washington Post interview that he was trying to make the NSA better, had “already won” and achieved what he’d set out to do.
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Social workers are weighing in and taking away children from parents

By Sophie Jane Evans

Obese children have been taken away by social workers after being overfed by their families, it has been revealed.
The super-size youngsters were placed in care across the UK amid fears their weight was wrecking their health.
One child had a Body Mass Index (BMI) measurement of 35 - the equivalent of a six-foot man weighing 19st.
It comes as an increasing number of parents give in to their children's cravings for unhealthy food - a phenomenon known as 'killing with kindness'
In the past year alone, five British children have been taken from their families because of overfeeding, according to a survey by the Sunday Express.
These include two in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, one in Oxfordshire, one in Salford, and one in Hounslow, London.
And the year before, five other obese youngsters were placed in care in Sheffield, Portsmouth, Lincolnshire, Slough and Harrow, London.
Professionals say families' gross over-eating can be one of the factors that leads to their children being taken into care.
A social worker told the Sunday Express: 'Only in extreme cases would we take a child into care just because of their weight as we would seek to work with the family to improve their eating habits.'
See Article here... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530595/Social-workers-taking-away-children-parents-feed-much.html

At least 15 dead as blast rips through railway station in southern Russia

At least 15 people were killed in a blast at a railway station in the city of Volgograd, central Russia, according to the regional government. A female suicide bomber is suspected to have carried out the attack, says the National Anti-terrorism Committee.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lusGwpEPU6E

For more on the story, go to RT’s Live Updates
According to preliminary reports, he number of dead has risen to 15 people, with a further 27 sent to hospital, a child among them,” a regional government spokesman told Interfax news agency.
The incident is now being treated as an act of terrorism, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.
The anti-terrorism committee has released a statement, saying that “there was a massive explosion, resulting in a number of fatalities. The explosion is thought to have been carried out by a female suicide bomber.”
At 12.45 we got informed that a boom or a blast was heard in the building of the railway station, Volgograd-1. Smoke was reported,” Svetlana Smolyaninova, police spokesperson, said according to RIA Novosti.
Interfax’s source said that “the blast happened near the metal detectors located at the entrance to the station.”
One witness told the agency that he saw “two bodies lying in front of the entrance, pieces of shattered glass are everywhere, there’s a ton of rubble there.” He added that “apparently, the explosion led to a fire, which the firefighters quickly put out.
Another witness said that the windows on both levels of the station have been shattered and that “the police have cordoned off the area, nobody’s allowed on the premises. There’s a very heavy police presence, emergency mnistry officials, bomb squads… it’s understandable that people are afraid, but there aren’t any screams or panicking.”
There are multiple ambulances rushing to the scene, witnesses at the scene say. The wounded are being loaded onto stretchers as the evacuation of the building continues.
At present, the building has been sealed. The cause of the explosion has not yet been reported.
Volgograd is a city of around 1 million people, about 690 km northeast of Sochi and close to Russia’s volatile region of North Caucasus. The city saw a terrorist attack just in October, when a suicide bomber blew herself up in a bus, killing six people and injuring more than 30 others.
On Friday, a car bomb killed three people in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk.

DNC sends email defending Obama from impeachment possibility

      The Democratic National Committee (DNC) sent out a paranoid email Saturday evening urging supporters to vote for Democrats so that Republicans can’t impeach President Obama.
      The email, subject line “Impeachment,” was sent to Obama for America supporters, imploring them to contribute to the DNC’s 2014 efforts. “What do these people all have in common?,” the email asked, featuring quotes from Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Rep. Kerry Bentivolio of Michigan, and Rep. Blake Farenthold of Texas discussing the possibility of impeaching Obama for one of his numerous instances of presidential misconduct.
The DNC email discussed the “I-Word” and said that “Republicans are actually excited about the idea.”  Complete Article.... http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/28/dnc-sends-email-defending-obama-from-impeachment-possibility/