NaturalNews
by Mike Adams
It’s the bubble you’ve probably never heard of: The rare earth bubble. And it’s due to pop in 2012, potentially devastating the industries of western nations that depend on these rare elements.
What industries are those? The automobile industry uses tens of thousands of tons of rare earth elements each year, and advanced military [...]

Raw Story
By Daniel Tencer
A lawsuit filed Wednesday by five students in the New York City school system against the NYPD paints a picture of school officers who routinely abuse students and arrest them for non-criminal activities.
The lawsuit (PDF), brought by the American and New York Civil Liberties Unions on behalf of five students aged 13 [...]

NBC News
By Jessica Greene
The first step to legalize marijuana in California is on a roll.
Lawmakers on Tuesday approved Assembly Bill 390 — legislation to tax and regulate marijuana. The Assembly’s Public Safety Committee voted 4-3 on bill at a hearing in Sacramento. The bill will now be passed to the full Assembly on Friday for [...]

What I’ve Seen in Illinois
By Christina Tobin
I’ve spent the last month in my home state of Illinois, fighting for 15 candidates from all ballot-qualified parties who have been caught up in the insane and anti-democratic petition objection process.
Illinois is one of three states that allow any voter to object to the signatures submitted by candidates [...]

An Open Letter to America’s Christians
By Chuck Baldwin
I was led to Christ at the tender age of 5 while sitting on my mother’s lap. I was raised in a devout, churchgoing Christian home. I have been in Gospel ministry all of my adult life (I am 57 years old). I have attended or have degrees [...]

DailyMail.co.uk
A BBC weather forecaster has suggested that the Met Office’s super-computer has a ‘warm bias’ which has stopped it predicting bitterly cold spells like the one we have just endured.
Paul Hudson said the error may have crept into the computer’s climate model as a result of successive years of milder weather.
His claim was rejected by [...]

Guardian
by Owen Bowcott
Obese patients are being “effectively encouraged” to pile on the pounds to qualify for weight-loss operations on the NHS, the Royal College of Surgeons warns today.
The college claims lives are being put at risk as some health trusts require patients to reach higher body mass index (BMI) levels than others before they receive [...]

Telegraph
The Search for Alien Life Should Start on Earth Instead of Outer SpaceThe Search for Alien Life Should Start on Earth Instead of Outer SpaceThe Search for Alien Life Should Start on Earth Instead of Outer Space Prof Davies said: We need to give up the notion that ET is sending us some sort of [...]

The Business Insider
by Vincent Fernando
A shocking report from Brookings exposes just how massive America’s poverty problem is. While substantial reductions in poverty were made during the 1990’s, America’s poor have been rocked by the dual economic downturns since 2000.
The result is that poverty grew at twice the rate of U.S. population growth from 2000 – [...]

National Health Federation
By Dr. Russel Blaylock
Those who are observant have noticed a dangerous trend in the United States, as well as worldwide, and that is the resorting of various governments at different levels to mandating forced vaccination upon the public at large. My State of Mississippi has one of the most-restrictive vaccine-exemption laws in the [...]

RT.com
Swine flu is under scrutiny once again as pharmaceutical companies are being accused of hyping up a “false pandemic”. The Council of Europe has put the virus on its winter agenda, which starts on Monday.
A representative from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe claims the World Health Organization colluded with major drug companies [...]

The Philly
By Daniel Rubin
In the tense new world of air travel, we’re stripped of shoes, told not to take too much shampoo on board, frowned on if we crack a smile.
The last thing we expect is a joke from a Transportation Security Administration screener – particularly one this stupid.
Rebecca Solomon is 22 and a student [...]

Fact or Fiction: Doomsday 2012
By J. Steven David
A big screen filled with epic explosions and momentous floods, thrilling, frightening, but prophetic? Many seem to think so if internet doomsday sites are to be believed, but where exactly is the science? Where are the facts to warrant global panic?
Here’s what we know, the Mayan’s were an [...]

Aol Jobs
By Ed Orum
Nearly one out of two workers in Detroit are unemployed, according to a report by The Detroit News. It’s a figure far higher than the government’s official figure, which is still close to a staggering 30 percent.
But the newspaper says that rate doesn’t take everything into account. For every person who is [...]

Columbia Daily Tribune
By Brennan David
A $200,000 COPS — or Community Oriented Policing Services — technology grant will fund license plate and iris scanners for patrol vehicles and the Boone County Jail. The grant is a small chunk of a $1.45 million grant awarded to the Central Missouri Criminal Justice Information System, which will receive a [...]

New York Times
By William Neuman
First New York City required restaurants to cut out trans fat. Then it made restaurant chains post calorie counts on their menus. Now it wants to protect people from another health scourge: salt.
On Monday, the Bloomberg administration plans to unveil a broad new health initiative aimed at encouraging food manufacturers and [...]

ABC News
By Karen Travers
President Obama told ABC News’ Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government “will go bankrupt.”
The president laid out a dire scenario of what will happen if his health care reform effort fails.
“If we don’t pass it, here’s [...]

Info Wars
By Stephen P. Fuller
Beyond the fear mongering main-stream media, asinine rivalries amongst Americans and rants of Russian analysts lays a serious and potentially deadly conflict on the horizon. This future, and imminent, conflict may or may not shatter our bodies but could certainly decimate the soul and body of our nation.
Not long ago Igor [...]

Career Politicians vs Public Service
By Robert Graves
Lawyers, Carpenters, Doctors, Teachers are all professions.  Respected Careers.  In 1776, these were all careers as well.  What’s the difference between then and now?
CAREER POLITICIANS!
230 years ago, politics wasn’t a career.  It was public service.  You had a job but wanted to put forth time, energy, and ideas to [...]

Info Wars
By Anthony Gucciardi
It takes a lot of disdain for the human race to use a catastrophic event such as the earthquake in Haiti to peddle people out of their hard earned dollar. Unfortunately, this is what the “Hope for Haiti” telethon is all about. The donations will benefit such foundations as the Clinton Bush [...]