Bedridden and on oxygen, Lona Varner of El Reno, Oklahoma, was zapped by police using Taser guns after she acted in an “aggressive” manner in her bed. Officers showed up at Varner’s residence after her grandson, Lonnie Tinsley, called 911 seeking medical assistance for his grandmother. But instead of helping the 86-year-old woman, police officers Thomas Duran and Joseph Sandberg Tasered... 

One of the ships impounded by Israel when it raided the flotilla of aid vessels off Gaza. Boarding party troops in deadly flotilla raid confiscated cards and spent on them, claim campaigners who were on board. Israeli troops have been accused of stealing from activists arrested in the assault on the Gaza flotilla after confiscated debit cards belonging to activists were subsequently used. In their... 

A boat captain working to rescue sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico says he has seen BP ships burning sea turtles and other wildlife alive. Captain Mike Ellis said in an interview posted on You Tube that the boats are conducting controlled burns to get rid of the oil. “They drag a boom between two shrimp boats and whatever gets caught between the two boats, they circle it up and catch it on fire.... 

Let’s establish right up front that not all Democrats are with Obama, and therefore, not all Democrats are on the wrong side of the fight for freedom, liberty and states’ rights. Former Marine and Constitutional Democrat Tim Curtis is running for congress in the heavily Democratic 11th district in Florida, and because Tea Party and 912 folks still think it’s all about R’s and D’s, he has... 

Hours after the Israeli government announced that it was intending to issue a new “banned goods” list for the Gaza Strip, focused on placating international demands to allow more food and humanitarian goods into the tiny enclave, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a pledge that the move would actually “tighten” the blockade. “Our friends around the world are getting behind our... 

Government would have “absolute power” to seize control of the world wide web under Lieberman legislation The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Jewish senator Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response... 

In a previous story SHTFplan noted that Reports Surfacing of Multi-State National Guard Mobilizations. Further information made available after our report, much of which was published in the comment section by contributors who scoured the web for more information on the subject, suggests that the report was true and that national guard units had indeed been called up for training and possible deployment... 

Racial conflicts in the French National Soccer team is a luck for Mexico who has humiliated France 2-0, leaving France to be at the bottom of Group A Despite showing to the public an image of racial harmony, nothing seems right anymore in the French national soccer team, due to internal racial conflicts, France is definitively eliminated for the next stage and will be at the bottom of group A, below... 

Children of the Kalash tribe in Northern Pakistan For centuries, the blond-haired, blue-eyed people of the Kalash tribes of North West Pakistan have lived a libertine lifestyle. The group, believed to be descendants of Alexander the Great’s invading army, were shielded from conservative Islam by the steep slopes of their remote valleys. While Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians were slowly driven out... 

Australians need to get outraged over Female Genital Mutilation legalization! Female Genital Mutilation can kill women and their babies!! Australian doctors may soon perform genital mutilations on baby girls in a bid to curb a dangerous rise in backyard surgeries, according to a report. The Royal Australian New Zealand College of Obstetricians is considering allowing doctors to carry out “ritual... 

More Hope and Change Barack Obama gave his marching orders: Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun” Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!” Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!” Obama To His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard” Obama to BP: “We talk to these folks… So I know whose a$$ to kick.” Now... 

Facing a number of technical challenges, the Federal Aviation Administration said today it added another research project designed to better understand how unmanned aircraft can be brought safely into the national airspace. The FAA set a two-year research and development agreement with Insitu – an independent subsidiary of Boeing and the New Jersey Air National Guard that will help FAA... 

The United States is using its citizens as guinea pigs to test biological weapons and simulate germ warfare attacks in different locations across the country, reports say. With the spread of some unknown diseases in the US, speculations started soaring that Washington is engaged in covert biological warfare activities which involve the use of chemical and biological weapons against human beings. According... 

One of my readers, in the comments section below, wrote the following in response to my last column on Israel’s hijacking of the Gaza flotilla: “Again I ask the question: What do the Israelis have on our politicians that makes them such whores? Dirty pictures? Threats of withholding campaign contributions? It’s really embarrassing as well as infuriating to see congress with its collective pants... 

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen (left), commander in charge of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill response, speaks to reporters in flight over the spill on Wednesday. Alongside is Capt. Steve Truhlar, commanding officer of the Coast Guard Training Center in Mobile, Ala. The Obama administration ran afoul of environmentalists Wednesday by approving a new oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, even as millions of gallons...