Israel have confirmed plans to steal more land that currently belongs to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.  The Israeli regime have said they will seize a large tract of fertile land in order to expand its illegal settlement construction along the West Bank. Presstv.com reports: The decision had already been taken to capture the territory and “the lands are in the final stages of being declared” Israeli lands, Reuters quoted a unit in the Israeli Ministry for Military Affairs, which coordinates Tel Aviv’s activities in the occupied territories, as saying.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan is turning Turkey into a police state, by granting powers to the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) and banning independent journalism and activism in the country.  Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), under Erdogan’s leadership, is transforming Turkey into an authoritarian police state where the MIT act as Erdogan’s “Praetorian Guards”, notes independent scholar Dr. Can Erimtan.

Southern California Gas Corporation have said that current efforts to plug the enormous methane gas leak in Porter Ranch, California are destabilizing the situation and risking a bigger “blowout” at the facility.  A blowout would increase the already dangerous levels of methane in the air that millions of Californian’s breathe in, in a way that “could be catastrophic,” the Public Utility Commission say.

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

Warning Signs Of A Recession

In late 2007, I was giving a presentation to a group of about 300 investors discussing the warning signs of an impending recessionary period in the economy. At that time, of course, it was near “blasphemy” to speak of such ills as there was “no recession in sight.”

An international lawyer has claimed that in order to win presidential elections in the USA candidates must show their loyalty to Wall Street, the military-industrial complex, and Israel in order to get funded.  Barry Grossman, lawyer and political analyst, told Iranian state media that the U.S. election system is run by the corporate elite with political candidates acting as puppets for their shadowy masters. Uprooted Palestinians reports: “Two things win elections in the United States – 1. money and 2.