'Years before a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital bused a homeless, schizophrenic man to Sacramento without arranging contacts or a plan for care, a different hospital ditched Gabino Olvera on Skid Row in Los Angeles. Olvera, homeless and paraplegic, still dressed in his hospital gown and connected to a catheter bag, was found dragging himself along a gutter in 2007.'

Read more: Los Angeles to go after Vegas hospital accused of dumping more than 1500 patients across state lines, including a 'paraplegic, still dressed in his hospital gown and connected to a catheter bag, found dragging himself along a gutter'

'Lord Lane cut Brooke’s sentence to six months, which meant he was immediately freed from jail, having already served a few months of his sentence. Lord Lane said:

“It is not inappropriate, perhaps, in view of the puerility of this type of behaviour, to compare it rather to a schoolboy collecting cigarette cards in olden times, because the duplicates were handed on to other adults, three of four of them only, who were likewise minded to indulge in this sort of puerility. To that extent the distribution was by no means of the most vicious sort.'

Read more: The Lord Chief Justice compared images of child abuse with ‘collecting cigarette cards’

'Freedom is a powerful word for most of us. Here in America people are always talking about freedom, living in a free country, defending freedom and maintaining our freedom. Some like to say – freedom isn’t free. In the course of daily life, most people like to think of themselves as free, that they have freedom of choice, at least to some extent. When people’s freedom is taken away, such as when going to prison or losing a cherished right and suffering results, there can be an impulse to fight to regain that freedom. Yet if we really take a close look at our lives both internally and externally, how much freedom do we actually have?'

Read more: Are You Really Free?

'I know it. You know it. We all know it. It’s the elephant in the room that the subservient cowards in the mainstream media are too afraid to mention; the banking industry is run and controlled by criminals.

Among the growing mountain of evidence that has been gathered over the decades to prove this accusation, a former Scotland Yard Fraud Squad detective has now spoken out.'

Read more: How The British Banking Industry Became An Organised Crime Enterprise

'Police take a DNA sample from a child every 10 minutes in England and Wales, figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveal today (20 May).

New research by the charity has found that officers took swabs from almost 54,000 boys and girls aged 17 or under during 2011.

They included at least 368 10-year-olds and 1,030 11-year-olds, meaning that on average officers took samples from 27 primary school-age children every week. Many of the children required to give a sample will not have been charged with a criminal offence.'

Read more: Police take DNA samples from children every ten minutes

“You won’t recognize Canada when I get through with it.”

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'Things are going well for the Syrians on the ground. In less than 90 days the Syrians will have a force of 150,000 newly trained volunteers ranging in age from 18 to 26 to augment their regular army. This will greatly increase Syria's ability to respond quickly to attacks from NATO's mercenaries. Over 100,00 Syrians have been killed by the invading thugs. They have butchered unarmed women and children. They have burned down mosques and churches. They gouged out the eyes of priests. In 90 days the NATO countries will have to give up on this foolish proxy war against Iran through Syria.

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and Ayatollah Khamenei were photographed together on a stage in Iran as a message to Israel and Obama. Nasrallah has since vowed to get even more weapons. He will be able to use them because he is doubling the size of his military.'

Read more: Good News From Benghazi, The IRS, Syria And Obama

'Retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target and Costco are utilizing biometric identification for accurate management of goods, while hoping to incorporate the biometric checkout where customers can use their fingerprint or retina to pay for their items without having to use their credit/debit cards or write a check.

By having employees scan their fingerprints into a corporate database, retail corporations can reduce theft and eliminate payroll confusion; however this initiative is really about collecting biometric data to store and use at a later date.

Perhaps customers could wave their smartphone over a scanner to be identified at a retail store without having to use their eyes or hands.'

Read more: Tech Corps Hope to Replace Your Wallet With Biometric Identification

And it is Stone Age bollocks anyway.

'Angelina Jolie's bizarre announcement that she had both of her healthy breasts surgically removed to "prevent" cancer has turned into a PR nightmare. Not only has Natural News revealed the hidden agenda of corporations patenting and owning human genetic code so they can reap trillions in profits from genetic slavery, now a New Jersey kindergarten teacher is blasting Angelina Jolie for promoting an elitist procedure only affordable to the ultra-wealthy.

"That's good for her; she's got the best health care and she's got money. She doesn't have to worry about taking off of work. She doesn't have to worry about taking care of her family, cooking or cleaning -- the things that the normal woman would have to do," said Debbie Gentile-Abbood in a NY Post article.'

Read more: Angelina Jolie backlash grows as everyday moms blast elitist double mastectomy as affordable only by ultra rich

'The list of antidepressants that can cause sudden death is growing exponentially, with citalopram - under the brand names Celexa and Cipramil - the latest such drug to be added, according to a new study.

The research, published recently in the British Medical Journal, revealed that the drug tends to cause a lengthening of the Q-T interval, a part of the cycle of heart beat measured by an electrocardiogram, or what is more commonly known as an EKG or ECG. Indeed, a number of drugs are known for creating this phenomenon, the most notable among them being methadone, which has been documented as causing sudden death in some patients, especially when dosages are increased too rapidly.'

Read more: List of dangerous antidepressants that cause sudden death is rapidly expanding

'Media sources confirm the seizure of an Israeli military vehicle in Al Qseir inside Syrian territory. The vehicle’s licence plate corresponds to that of the Israeli military with a black background and the letter Tsade (צ) (see image below)

Al Qseir is a strategic border town on the Northern frontier of Lebanon. Occupied by rebels, it was taken back by Syrian forces on Monday.'

Read more: Covert Israeli Forces Inside Syria Within Rebel Ranks? Israeli Military Vehicle Seized: Report

'Particularly now that wireless communications are so closely integrated into our daily lives, electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are all around us.

Our cities, especially the larger ones, are perpetually shrouded in an invisible electrosmog, a ‘sea’ of EMFs through which we swim every day. But does this momentous development in civilisation come with health effects – and if so, can we do anything to reduce them?'

Read more: Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Extremely Low-Frequency (ELF) and Radiofrequency (RF): What are the Health Impacts?

'The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says it is the "leading edge" of drone deployment in the United States. Since 2005, DHS has been purchasing Predator drones - officially called unmanned aerial systems (UAS) - to "secure the border," yet these unarmed Predator drones are also steadily creeping into local law enforcement, international drug-interdiction and national security missions - including across the border into the heart of Mexico.

DHS will likely double its drone contingent to two dozen unmanned UAS produced by General Atomics as part of the border security component of any immigration reform. The prominence of border security in immigration reform can't be missed. The leading reform proposal, offered by eight US senators, is the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 - which proposes to spend $6.5 billion in additional "border security" measures, mostly high-tech surveillance by drones and ground surveillance systems.'

Read more: Drones Over the Homeland: From Border Security to National Security

'The 13-year-old Qaryut boy attacked by settlers on 16 May completed an operation on his lower leg and foot on Friday and has since been released to recover at home. He also provided a full account of his attack and the time he spent in an Israeli jeep untreated and tortured for information he neither had nor could speak of due to the pain from his untreated injury.

The boy said he was alone on his land near the illegal settlement of Eli when he was attacked. His friend was coming to join him when settlers began shooting at the boy. He ran, but fell from a big drop in the land, being on the mountainside. Settlers pursued him but he dragged himself on his stomach by some bushes. He was in great pain but kept quiet, afraid of settlers or soldiers finding him and continuing to attack him. After some time, his phone rang when his sister and friend called him. The soldiers then found and descended on him, threatening him with their guns while he lay, unable to move, on the ground.'

Read more: 13 year-old Palestinian boy shot at by settlers, tortured by soldiers and denied medical attention

'Inside a long corridor less than two meters wide, a dim ray of light sneaks through a small opening at the top of the basement where a border tunnel begins. A Palestinian child named Mohammad enters the tunnel in Gaza and walks thousands of meters in the dark to the other end, in Egypt.

Dozens of Gaza's children repeatedly pass through these "crossings of death" — the tunnels separating the border between Egyptian Rafah and Palestinian Rafah. They do so because they are poor. They do so despite the danger that the tunnels might collapse. Lately, Egyptian security forces have been flooding the tunnels with sewage.

The tunnels are a way for the people of Gaza to get essentials, which are being otherwise prevented from reaching them by Israel’s seven-year-old blockade. According to local estimates, it is believed that 10,000 people work in the tunnel business.'

Read more: The Children of Gaza’s Tunnels

'Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has drawn parallels between the policies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Nazi invasion of his country in 1944 during the course of the Second World War.

“The Germans have already sent cavalry to Hungary - they came in form of tanks. Our request is that they don't send any. It didn't work out,' Orban told state broadcaster Kossuth Radio.

The Hungarian leader’s comments came after Merkel said last week that she "would do everything to put Hungary in the right direction, but we won't be sending in the cavalry straight away."

Read more: Merkel policies likened to Nazi invasion

'The military said in a Tuesday statement that the gunfire from Damascus damaged a military vehicle without causing any injuries.

The statement added that the Israeli soldiers “returned precise fire.” Tel Aviv has recently boosted military activities in the occupied Golan Heights, where clashes between Syrian forces and foreign-sponsored militants have spiked dramatically in recent weeks.'

Read more: ‘Israel forces fired at target in Syria’

'A massive tornado has ripped through part of the Central US state of Oklahoma, near its Oklahoma City capital, killing 91 so far, including many elementary school children, and leaving a trail of devastation with winds of up to 200 miles (320 km) per hour.

The killer tornado struck the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore Monday afternoon, flattening homes, two schools and a hospital, leaving at least 120 injured with numerous people reported missing.  According to the National Weather Service, the dangerous storm system remains a threat to as many as 10 more US states as more twisters are expected to emerge from it.'

Read more: Massive twister kills at least 91 in central US state of Oklahoma

'The deployment came after a video released by the kidnappers, showing seven abductees taken hostage since last week, asking Morsi and Defense Minister Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to meet the demands of the abductors.

According to security officials, abductors demanded earlier the release of political prisoners, among whom Hamada Abou Sheita, who is sentenced to death over a deadly attack on a police station in North Sinai in 2011.

The Egyptian president rejected any talks with “criminals” at a Sunday meeting with heads of several political parties, saying, “We won't be subjected to blackmailing."'

Read more: Egypt sends more troops to Sinai after abduction of security forces

Croatia RIP. Cause of Death: Suicide

'Britain has given the greenlight to Croatia to join the European Union after years of intensive talks by ratifying the country’s accession treaty to the bloc. British Foreign Office said London has sent the ratification documents to the Italian government’s depositary authority for the Treaty of Rome.

The ratification, ahead of Croatian President Ivo Josipovic's visit to Britain later this week, means Croatia will become the 28th EU members from July 1, 2013 if other EU members also deposit their ratification documents with the Italian authority before that date.'

Read more: UK ratifies Croatia EU accession treaty

When asked which book she would take were she to be an isolated castaway, the author of The Color Purple chose Icke’s Human Race Get Off Your Knees.

But, of course, Alice, a brilliant author, poet and activist, is suddenly 'bizarre' and 'weird' the moment she is in any way complimentary about me. Yawn, yawn. If media people like Liam O'Brien only realised how numbingly predictable they are.

'I am a Dalek, I am a Dalek ... David Icke is mad so anyone who likes his books must be mad ... activate, activate, exterminate, exterminate ... I am a Dalek, I am a Dalek ...'

Why don't the Liam O'Briens of the media (the vast majority) put aside their ignorance and arrogance long enough to produce a touch, even a smear, of humility and inquisitive open-mindedness sufficient to ask the simple and obvious question: why would a highly intelligent woman like Alice Walker say such things?

Ooops, sorry, I am being silly now.

'Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.' – Albert Einstein

‘Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologise for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right, and you know it, speak your mind. Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

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'Coronation Street star Neville Buswell has denied he flashed an underage girl in the 1960s.

His comments follow reports police in Lancashire had interviewed two women about historic allegations of inappropriate behaviour in the last week. Mr Buswell said he had never met the woman involved and denied any wrong-doing.'

Read more: Coronation Street star Neville Buswell denies allegations he flashed underage girl

'Bakersfield, CA. resident, David Silva, was executed for being drunk in his own home. He was executed by the Kern County Sheriff’s Department. What happened to Silva was clearly an abuse of power but is representative of what the federal government has in store for all of America in which the people are the enemy of law enforcement and will treated accordingly.

The Tenth Amendment provides for the division of power and law enforcement between the federal, state and local governments. Unfortunately, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is changing the face of local law enforcement.'

Read more: DHS Training Local Police to Enforce Martial Law

'If you’re reading the “signs of the times” like any thinking person, the apparent world outlook isn’t good. While phony political processes cloud the air with smoke, mirrors and idiotic political air horns, UN and foreign troops are reportedly training on American soil and massive arms and munitions buildups continue at the behest of an enemy government.

Our own.

All with no visible signs of anything being warranted, nor of a population being warned of impending disaster.  Despite this obvious reality in every sphere of society the world marches on towards certain chaos.'

Read more: The Outlook Ain’t Pretty – But Looking Up Is Great!

'Fears that a new generation of debit cards could be hitting shoppers with phantom charges grew last night after a string of complaints.

They say money was taken from their contactless payment cards – even when they did not try to use them – at stores including Marks & Spencer. The latest incidents come after similar complaints from shoppers at other stores and outlets.'

Read more: Contactless cards hit shoppers with phantom charges: String of complaints after customers paid for items when plastic was in their pockets

'This documentary recounts the story of the veterans who withdrew from the US army after realizing the truth to the made-up excuses of the US for Iraq & Afghanistan wars.'

'For more than 100 years, the Anna Louise Inn in downtown Cincinnati has been a safe, serene place that thousands of struggling women came to know as home.

But after losing a two-year fight with a Fortune 500 company determined to buy their beautiful, 104-year-old property and turn it into a boutique hotel — even though it wasn't for sale — the women of the Anna Louise Inn have to leave the neighborhood.

While most of the 60 women living there are relieved that the fight with Western & Southern Insurance Group appears over, they can't help but also feel sad and angry.'

Read more: Century-old battered women's home sued into submission by bank across the street to make way for boutique hotel

'The German Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Ilse Aigner, said "I have come to the conclusion that there are legitimate grounds to accept that genetically modified corn from the MON810 strain constitutes a danger to the environment."

MON810 is mostly cultivated in the EU for animal feed - and is now due for re-authorisation under EU rules after the expiry of its ten-year license. Besides Germany, five countries have already banned the planting of it: France, Greece, Austria, Hungary and most recently, Luxembourg.'

Read more: Germany bans Monsanto's maize

'Five hundred children were locked into their school, threatened that if they did not agree to being force-vaccinated with a meningitis A vaccine, they would receive no further education. Within hours, one hundred six children began to suffer from headaches, vomiting, severe uncontrollable convulsions and paralysis.'

Read more: Revealed Government Documents Show Vaccine Injured Children in Small African Village Used Like Lab Rats

'There is no good reason to keep throwing good money after bad in a failed, ill-founded policy. It’s long past time for a fundamental rethinking of the American government’s blank check to Israel.

According to the Congressional Research Service , the amount of official US aid to Israel since its founding in 1948 tops $112 billion, and in the past few decades it has been on the order of $3 billion per year.[6](In 2011, for example, this amounted to over $8.2 million every single day.)

But this money is only part of the story. For one thing, Israel gets its aid money at the start of each year, unlike other nations.[7] This is significant: It means Israel can start earning interest on the money right away. And it costs the US more than the typical year-end disbursements because the US government operates at a deficit, so it must borrow this money to pay Israel and then pay interest on the amount all year.'

Read more: The Staggering Cost of Israel to Americans

'Familiar ring? Just changed the names to protect the innocent First Casualty of war: Truth.

Islam, one of the three Abrahamic religions based on the Ten Commandments, holds that there have been one hundred and twenty thousand ‘Prophets’ or Messengers since Abraham, including Jesus, all tellling the same story: Love your neighbor… Do unto others…

How many times do we have to be told?'

Read more: Conspiracy ‘Theories’ First Rejected As Either Treason or Madness, Then Ridiculed, Then … Accepted As Common Knowledge.

'The United States government claims 100% ownership over all your DNA and reproductive rights. This astonishing revelation has emerged from the fact that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office claims the power to assign ownership of your DNA to private companies and universities who apply for patents on your genes.

To date, more than 4,000 genes have been assigned ownership to corporations and universities by the U.S. patent office. Such an assignment of ownership proves that the government believes it owns 100% of all human genes -- you cannot transfer ownership of something unless you first own it yourself.'

Read more: US government claims 100% ownership over all your DNA and reproductive rights; genetic slavery is already here

'Freedom activist Adam Kokesh of Adam vs. the Man was violently dragged from a "Smoke Down Prohibition" protest in Philadelphia just a few hours ago. According to his Facebook page, Adam is being charged with "resisting arrest" but is refusing to be booked for the charge which is obviously false.

The YouTube video of the arrest shows Adam Kokesh clearly NOT resisting, holding his hands up in a surrender posture and trying to maintain his balance while a gang of police drag him away from the event.

According to Adam Kokesh supporter "Brother Lucas," Kokesh never even smoked pot during the protest, so his arrest is sending shockwaves across the liberty movement because it appears to be illegal and unjustified.'

Read more: Adam Kokesh violently dragged from public protest by police, arrested for 'resisting arrest'

'Reliable sources in Washington D.C. have informed the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach one or more "Monsanto Riders" or amendments to the 2013 Farm Bill that would preempt or prohibit states from requiring labels on genetically engineered (GE) foods.

In response to this blatant violation of states' rights to legislate, and consumers' right to know, the OCA and a nationwide alliance have launched a petition http://salsa3.salsalabs.com to put every member of Congress on notice: If you support any Farm Bill amendment that would nullify states' rights to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs), we'll vote - or throw - you out of office.'

Read more: Genetically modified democracy: Monsanto moves to obliterate states' rights to label GMOs

'On April 23, representatives from Stop Smart Meters UK spoke to British MP’s about the clear and present risks which ‘smart’ meters would impose upon British families.

Dr Liz Evans spoke of health effects, saying there are hundreds of studies showing “evidence of harm could be acute”, including possible “chronic effects from long term exposure such as cancer, infertility, dementia, genetic damage, immune system dysfunction and damage to foetuses”.'

Read more: British MPs told of ‘smart’ meter risks: UK rollout delayed by over a year