Status: Not Logged In; Sign In USA Doors Locked, Dems Banned As Missouri Honors Limbaugh Five Facts That Put America To Shame Mississippi Highway Killer Sought - May Be Phony Cop (Video) USA - POLITICS Republican extremism makes democracy dysfunctional States most likely to REJECT austerity to lower unemployment are Republican Debate to Ban Homosexual Cures (Video) USA - ELECTIONS About That Obama Enemies List Romney’s Budget Fairy Tale Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts USA - CONSTITUTION & LAW Trayvon Stood His Ground - Trayvon Martin Autopsy Shows Wounds on His Hands HOW CAN ZIMMERMAN CLAIM SELF-DEFENSE, WHEN HE WAS AGGRESSIVELY FOLLOWING TRAYVON (Against Police Advice)? The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death Trayvon Martin shooting targets pulled as mother calls for US gun law review USA - 9/11 Paul Craig Roberts: False Flag Attack USA - WAR Scott Camil: Why are we still in 'Vietghanistan?' Unapologetic Liberals Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - the hospital of horrors USA - 'WAR ON TERROR' Greenwald: Assange + RT drives US mainstream berserk (Video) CIA thwarts 'undetectable' al-Qaida bomb plot Bin Laden: Everyone Is Missing the Big Picture USA - MILITARY Rape victims say military labels them 'crazy' Veteran receives Purple Heart for Brain Injury 5 years ago (Video) Army nurse who died during Skype chat with wife not shot, investigation finds --- Captain Bruce Clark's wife had stated she saw a bullet hole behind her husband, but army found no signs of trauma USA - ECONOMY A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College Florida farm workers tell how drugs, debt bind them in modern slavery Forget the 1%. The Rise and Rise of the Super-Rich (the top 0.1%) USA - BORDERS Why Is the State Department 'Arming' Mexico's Intelligence Agencies with Advanced Intercept Technologies? Arizona Immigration Law Sponsor Russell Pearce Defends Past Friendship With Neo-Nazi Gunman USA - BLATHERING BIRTHERS Orly Taitz Booted From California Court of Appeal in Election Fraud Case USA - WAR ON SCIENCE BUSINESS & FINANCE Ex-Financial Regulator William Black: Austerity is Sinking Economies from Europe to U.S. Now We Know Why The FBI Is Investigating JP Morgan JPMorgan's Dimon to face calls to split top roles WORLD NEWS Former Liberian President Charles Taylor "GW Bush ordered & admitted to torture" (Video) US tells Guatemala it will not return adopted girl Private investigators are selling access to financial and criminal records UNITED KINGDOM (ex-Murdoch editor) Rebekah Brooks to be charged with perverting the course of justice Occupy pitch tents outside Bank of England Sonic device deployed in London during Olympics EUROPE Cost of Greek exit from euro put at $1tn Keiser Report: Central Bank Monarchs (E287) Germany Still Locates 40,000 War Casualties a Year LATIN AMERICA CARIBBEAN SOUTH AMERICA 'They're killing us': world's most endangered tribe cries for help --- Logging companies keen to exploit Brazil's rainforest have been accused by human rights organisations of using gunmen to wipe out the Awá, a tribe of just 355. MEXICO Mexican journalist found dead --- Authorities believe Regina Martínez, who often wrote about drug cartels in Veracruz, was murdered CANADA SCANDINAVIA Anders Behring Breivik trial: survivors tell of hiding under bodies Breivik rails at psychiatrists for calling him insane RUSSIA Putin promises a strong Russia on world stage Russians Clash with Police on Eve of Putin's Inauguration CAUCASUS REGION MIDDLE EAST Syria: Damascus explosions - live updates IRAQ IRAN Iran hangs 'Israel spy' over nuclear scientist killing Iran Discovers 26 Trillion Cubic Feet of Natural Gas AFGHANISTAN British servicemen shot dead by Afghan police force members Why I refused to return to fight in Afghanistan's brutal occupation PAKISTAN Relatives of man killed by CIA contractor found dead Kidnapped British doctor found beheaded in Pakistan Safe passage to ‘moderate’ Afghan Taliban PALESTINE Palestinian Hunger Games ‘Washington Post’ cartoon mocking future Palestinian state signals crumbling of two-state paradigm ’60 Minutes’ profiles Palestinian Christians, Michael Oren falls on his face ISRAEL Latest Lunacies from the Only Democracy in the Middle East State of Israel Dispossesses Negev Bedouin Israeli woman arrested for denying husband divorce (until the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court hears her case in July) AFRICA 'Dead' man wakes up at funeral that becomes celebration --- Egyptian hospital officials had declared him dead after heart attack Three Big Reasons To Be Bullish On Africa Mali Crisis Worsens West Africa Food Crisis ASIA Thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh discovered by customs officials in South Korea North Korea’s new missiles are fakes: analysts China assisting North Korean missile program: U.S. Defense Secretary INDIA The secret to writing a bestseller in India Indian Hospital: Episode 1 We go inside a hospital with a difference, where making a profit and providing free medical care goes hand-in-hand. India tests long-range nuclear missile --- India launches nuclear-capable missile that would give it capability of striking major Chinese cities for the first time SOUTHEAST ASIA Philippines: Island inferno: 5,400 homeless, 100 plucked from ashen waters Vietnam bloggers battle tightening censorship Text Messaging Thai Grandpa Died Serving Ridiculous 20-Year Sentence --- he was made an example of by the Thai government's crackdown on "lese majeste", the crime of slandering the Thai monarchy - including Facebook 'likes' and the Internet CHINA Heavy rain, hail kill 37 in North West China (similar 'freak' hail storm last year in China) Chen Guangcheng says Chinese police taking revenge against family ---- Activist claims police have detained sister-in-law and nephew in 'crazy retaliation' as he prepares to travel to US US scrambles to resolve wrangle over blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng JAPAN Boy's football lost in tsunami found in Alaska AUSTRALIA PACIFIC ISLANDS EDITORIAL Legalize Pot, Save Public Education, and end Student Indebtedness Watching propaganda in a Missouri synagogue BOOK REVIEW Lee Greenwood, author "Does God Still Bless the USA?" (Video) "You can put things in cigarettes you can't put in dog food." The book Big Tobacco doesn't want you to read Will Allen "The Good Food Revolution" (Video) MEDIA REVIEW UPDATED: Fox News Smears Obama As A Drug Dealer (twice in one night) Rush Limbaugh Ad Boycott Cost Cumulus Radio 'Millions,' CEO Says Story of vengeful jilted dentist WAS too good to be true SCIENCE Yogurt diet leads to ‘swaggering’ mice with larger testicles Oetzi the Iceman's blood is world's oldest ANIMAL PLANET Cat cam reveals feline hijinks Why Is the Government Killing Bald Eagles? Saving a Frog That Can Kill 10 People in Minutes Flat ENVIRONMENT Mercury recycling could save lives 90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide Bringing back San Juan Capistrano's swallows is one tough mission ALTERNATIVE ENERGY The U.S. Is Now EXPORTING Oil, But the Oil Companies Are Gaming the System By Switching To a Different Benchmark to Keep U.S. Oil Prices HIGH … And the Keystone Pipeline Will Create Even HIGHER U.S. Prices (Large) Wind farms can increase night time temperatures, research reveals SPACE A Gigantic High-Resolution Photo of Earth ScienceCasts: The Super Moon of May 2012 TECHNOLOGY Are Virus-Powered Cell Phones Around the Corner? Google gets Nevada driving licence for self-drive car Homemade cars from Poland circa 1960 INTERNET & COMPUTERS Ubuntu GNU/Linux soon to ship on 5% of all new PCs Criminal Creativity: Untangling Cover Song Licensing on YouTube What Your Klout Score Really Means CONSPIRACY OR COINCIDENCE? Conservative author Jonah Goldberg drops claim of two Pulitzer nominations GOPers flock to Roger Ailes’s Fox News office Art Nadel and the Wall Street Wise Guys MERCENARIES & WAR PROFITEERS CRIME & CORRUPTION Civil rights lawsuit filed against Ariz. sheriff Man Straps Four Children To Car Hood, Drives Drunk, Indiana Cops Say Conrad Black leaves prison and steps into controversy over move to Canada DISINFO, SPIN & LIES [citation needed] CARGO CULT SCIENCE Archeologists Discover Mayan Hieroglyphs Showing the World Continuing for Thousands of Years Past 2012 Do You Still Believe in Global Warming? The Wingnuts Reply. Rush Limbaugh's Science Lesson of the Day HEALTH Cancer Breakthrough Does Eating Corn Syrup Kill Your Memory? On Second Thought, GOP Will Just Repeal Obamacare RELIGION Church Sues Woman for $500K After Negative Google Review The American Taliban Publishes it's Student Guidebook A double standard of self-determination SPORTS Seattle skier falls down 200 ft crevice (Video) Paralyzed athlete completes marathon in sixteen days with bionic legs I'll Have Another Wins 2012 Kentucky Derby At Churchill Downs TRAVEL HISTORY World War II Fighter Plane Found in Egyptian Desert (**Click image to start or stop slideshow) I Am the West - Otis Halfmoon (Nez Perce) (Video) Political Aspects of Full Employment HUMOR SNL’s Best Mother’s Day Sketches New Ann Romney Q&A Coming to your Town Donald Trump's “ewww” de toilette DARK HUMOR ENTERTAINMENT “Sherlock’s” masterful return 30 Rock pulls off live coup MOVIE REVIEW Tony Kushner on the Overlooked "Radicalism" and Lessons of Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency -- He is writing the screenplay for an upcoming Steven Spielberg movie about Abraham Lincoln Review: 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' Film Review: "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" MUSIC New Orleans Jazz Fest ARTS 5 year old art prodigy (Video) How to make ginger wine --- Ginger wine takes a while to ferment, so start some now and it'll be there to warm you up come winter Cooked to Perfection LIFESTYLE Online sharing, how much is too much? Santa Monica has most adulterers in Los Angeles County, website says Be in the Office Without Being in the Office MISCELLANEOUS Stranded at Sea, Princess Cruises Ignores Distressed Boat, 2 Die (Video) Organic Beekeeping for Beginners: Which Hive is Best? Apocalypse Prep: How to Preserve Food Without a Fridge OBITUARIES Junior Seau dies, reportedly of gunshot wound (possible suicide) Watergate Figure, Evangelist Chuck Colson Dies At 80 Dick Clark – a rockin' life in clips TPF ADMIN ALERTS TPF WEEKLY BLOGS EVENTS, PROTESTS & BOYCOTTS StandWithUs: Destroying Human Rights at UC San Diego NYPD Raids Activists’ Homes Before (May 1st) Occupy Wall Street Protests (Click image to start/stop slideshow) Occupy Prepares for May Day: No Work, No School, No Banking (Click image to start/stop slideshow) WEBSITE, BLOG & FORUM REVIEW Freerepublic goes Jonestown! We are the resistance!! Perhaps the last line of resistance!! Let's put this FReepathon to bed. We have bigger fish to fry. (LOL!) 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