In a response to a question asked by Infowars correspondent Robert Wanek at Iowa State University during the recent Ames straw poll, Ron Paul said that the federal government was preparing for civil unrest and martial law in the United States. Paul was asked for his opinion on whether H.R. 645 (The National Emergency Centers Establishment Act) could lead to Americans being incarcerated in detention... 

A frightening report prepared by Russia’s foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) circulating in the Kremlin today states that the United States has moved even closer to becoming an all-out police state after President Obama issued a secret order yesterday allowing US military forces to begin conducting raids against American civilians. According to this GRU report, an American law called... 

Astronomers and other outer space experts are speaking out on a comet expected to make a close call with colliding into Earth later this year. The consequences could be dire, so why are so many people unaware of it? “I think it’s worth a raised eyebrow” says author Brooks Agnew. He’s done a lot of research on Elenin and tells RT that there are some rather strange coincidences regarding the... 

A seventh grade special-education student in Missouri is suing the school district for their actions involving repeated rapes she was subjected to on school grounds. Not only did the educators in the Republic School District not believe the girl’s cries of rape a few years ago, but they responded by reprimanding her for it and forcing her to fork over a hand-written apology to the alleged assailant,... 

Duília de Mello, Brazilian researcher at NASA, will talk about blue bubbles, isolated stars outside of galaxies. Rio is again the scene of debates on the latest discoveries in astronomy from the workshop of the series “The Evolving Universe”, PUC-Rio, that from 15-19 August will feature more than 40 lectures by researchers from South America, the U.S. and Europe. The event was conceived... 

After just a few days of calm, stock markets heaved again on Thursday, sending major American indexes down as much as 5 percent on persistent worries about the economy and Europe’s debt problems. The turmoil of last week returned with a vengeance as investors dumped stocks of companies that would suffer if worldwide growth slowed and the United States, in particular, broached another recession. But... 

The newfound gas-giant planet TrES-2b is black with a slight red glow, experts estimate. Scientists have discovered a Jupiter-size gas giant planet in our galaxy, dubbed Coal-Black planet, as the darkest world in the universe, which reflects almost no light. Researchers indicate that the inky planet absorbs 99% of the light its star sends its way and reflects only one percent of the light that strikes... 

President Barack Obama’s bus During a three-day tour by bus of the Midwest, President Obama provided an early snapshot of his reelection strategy, one in which he’ll try to convince voters that his approach offers the rational path and seek to define Republicans as so unwilling to compromise they would risk financial chaos. And despite alarming levels of unemployment and a volatile market,... 

On a warm July night, 40 young people swarmed an Ottawa convenience store in one of Canada’s first “flash robs.” Close to midnight on a hot summer’s night in July, the Quickie convenience store in Ottawa’s west end was virtually empty. The next minute, 40 or so youth descended en masse. As they marched in they grabbed everything in sight. The next minute, like a well-oiled many-tentacled... 

Congressman Ron Paul won 4,671 votes in today’s Iowa Republican Straw Poll, topping Governor Mitt Romney’s vote total from 2007 and drawing a near statistical tie with today’s winner at 27.6 percent of the vote versus 28.5 percent. Dr. Paul’s finish earned him a strong second place and it was the fourth highest vote total ever received by a candidate at the important test of candidate strength. Said... 

Research Reveals Genetic Link to Human Intelligence A recent study mainly conducted in the University of Manchester has revealed the first direct biological evidence for a genetic contribution to people’s thinking skills. University of Manchester scientists in collaboration with colleagues in Edinburgh and Australia, by testing people’s DNA for genetic variations, found out the existence... 

Police departments in several cities around the country are investigating what appear to be incidents of “flash mob”-generated violence, in which packs of dozens or even hundreds of youths appear seemingly out of nowhere to commit assaults, robberies and other crimes against innocent bystanders. The motive and circumstances surrounding the attacks that have resulted in numerous arrests... 

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a once-per-day HIV treatment that combines its Gilead Sciences Inc.’s drug Truvada with Johnson & Johnson’s drug Edurant, Gilead said Wednesday. The combination pill is called Complera, and it is approved for patients who have not previously been treated for HIV. Gilead’s drug Truvada is a combination pill containing the drugs emtracitabine... 

University of Portsmouth scientists have suggested that an enormous bird, called Samrukia Nessovi after the mythical Kazakh Phoenix, actually existed at the time of the dinosaurs. The ostrich-like prehistoric creature which lived alongside dinosaurs around 83 million years ago, could have stood about 10 feet tall according to recent research publish in Discovery News reports. Researchers suggest in... 

How far does the stock market have to go down before we officially call it a crash? The Dow is now downmore than 2,000 points in just the last 14 trading days. So can we now call this “The Stock Market Crash of 2011″? Today the Dow was down 519 points. Yesterday, an announcement by the Federal Reserve indicating that the Fed would keep interest rates near zero until mid-2013 helped the Dow surge...