News of the month of January 2011...

Tunisian government falls, Egypt on the brink...

Telegraph: Egypt protests - America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising

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The Irish government for all intents and purposes is falling as well, but to the purpose of the Inter-Alpha banking group, upcoming elections could prove the undoing of the austerity program which is to Ireland what "IceSlave" was to Iceland... Why then are Asian investors rushing to the rescue?...

Asympototix: EFSF first bond issue - 43 Billion Euros of Orders From 500 Investors

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In other international incidents...

Epoch Times: Chinese Pianist Plays Propaganda Tune at White House

NWNoticias: David Rockefeller confronted at Chilean airport during vacations

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Now that the despicable food bill has been signed, big agra-biz is wasting no time in seizing the market. Perhaps this might explain the divide and conquer food fight that appears to be playing out amongst factions in the organic/local food economy...

WholeStory: Urgent Action Needed to Support Organics and Non-GE Crops

Organic Consumers Association: The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?

FarmWars: Food Freedom Betrayed!

In any case, Mother Nature may have the final verdict, giving evidence that the GMO bubble is bursting...

Bloomsberg: Lower corn and soybean output sends prices surging

Meanwhile, animals of a variety of species drop dead around the world...

GoogleEarth: Mass Animal Deaths

Reuters: Researchers Find "Alarming" Decline in Bumblebees

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And humans with U.S. government connections are mysteriously dropping dead as well...

Cryptogon assembles some of the details...

John P. Wheeler III: Former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Member of Council on Foreign Relations, Consultant to Mitre Corporation Found Dumped in Landfill

Julie Powers Schenecker: Russian Linguist, Previously Associated with U.S. Army Intelligence, and Wife of U.S. Army Intelligence Colonel, Who’s ‘Mainly Responsible for the National Security Agency’s Support to Military Operations,’ Shot and Killed Their Two Children in Florida

WashingtonPost: Ashley Turton, former Hill aid, and wife of key White House aid, found dead in burning car

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Then there was Tucson...

KRZog: Killing Two Birds With One Eye

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In police state news...

PrisonPlanet: Big Sis Launches DHS Takeover Of Hotels, Malls & Sports Stadiums

WashingtonPost: Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate

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Virginia moves towards independence...

Virginia's Legislative Information System: House Joint Resolution No. 557

Establishing a joint subcommittee to study whether the Commonwealth should adopt a currency to serve as an alternative to the currency distributed by the Federal Reserve System in the event of a major breakdown of the Federal Reserve System.

Other states are looking to nullify the health care and food safety legislation...

ABAJournal: Bill to Nullify Federal Health Care Law Introduced in Idaho; Other Lawmakers May Follow

LewRockwell: Wyoming Defeats, Georgia Introduces Food Freedom Act

And if push comes to shove...

Garner News: Para-military groups help strenthen forces

But what is this all about? - GPS is dropping in the S.E. U.S...

FAA: GPS Flight Advisory

The Department of Defense will conduct GPS tests on January 20th through February 22nd, 2011. During testing, the GPS signal may be unreliable or unavailable.

Related? - note the launch date: Jan. 20...

AP: Classified satellite launched from California base

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In the rare category these days of good news...

BizJournals: Obama transition vet joins Joule board

Background...

BiofuelsDigest: Joule Unlimited 'Fuel from thin air' comes closer, clearer

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Back to bad news: the toxification of Gulf Coast residents continues...

Institute for Southern Studies: BP's spilled oil is washing up in people

Oilgate: Letter from Louisiana Senator to Obama Regarding COREXIT Poisoning of the Gulf

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: First Study of Dispersants in Gulf Spill Suggests a Prolonged Deepwater Fate

But nevermind the Macondo eruption and BP's sprayers wiping out the Gulf Coast, now the Yellowstone caldera threatens to wipe out an even larger section of the U.S...

Daily Mail: Is the world's largest super-volcano set to erupt for the first time in 600,000 years, wiping out two-thirds of the U.S.?

...and an impending New Madrid earthquake to boot!...

DDDNews: On 199th Anniversary of New Madrid Quake, FEMA urges public to 'Resolve to be ready'

Associated Content: Do Dead Birds and Fish Warn of an Impending New Madrid Earthquake?

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In last month's headline rundown, we gave The Guardian favorable comments for its WikiLeaks coverage; but that was a premature assessment...

CounterPunch: The Guardian's Political Censorship of WikiLeaks

From the hole...

FireDogLake: Bradley Manning Speaks About His Conditions

The flimsy case against him...

RawStory: US can't link Julian Assange to Bradley Manning

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Symbol Susan speaks...

TruthJihad: CIA Asset Susan Lindauer blows the whistle on 9/11, Iraq

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Seymour Hersh speaks on 21st Century Crusades...

Foreign Policy: Seymour Hersh unleashed