The move has infuriated relatives of British servicemen killed in the conflict. One grieving father, already angered by the failure of Sir John Chilcot to publish his report into the Iraq War more than six years after starting his inquiry, said the Americans should lift the ‘veil of secrecy’ to expose how ‘we were led to war based on lies and deceit’.

Last night, a Chilcot Inquiry source refused to confirm or deny whether Sir John had studied the newly classified US documents, except to say his report ‘only covered the UK Government’s involvement’. Sir John is coming under increasing pressure to publish his findings, which are not likely to be completed until next year at the earliest. After David Cameron said on Friday that he found the delay ‘frustrating’, inquiry sources indicated Sir John would break his silence this week to tell the dead soldiers’ families that he understands their ‘anguish’.

Reg Keys, whose son Lance Corporal Thomas Keys was killed in a mob ambush in Iraq in June 2003, said: ‘We are not talking about an investigation into the price of milk – we are talking about more than 3,000 injured soldiers, who want to know why we were led to war based on lies and deceit. I have now come to accept I am unlikely to find out the whole truth in my lifetime.’

More than 40 percent contained Staphylococcus aureus. Almost 20 percent contained Clostridium perfringens, which causes nearly 1 million cases of food poisoning annually, many related to beef. A significant amount also contained superbugs, bacteria that are resistant to three or more classes of antibiotics. A key reason is the overuse of antibiotics on cattle farms.

"That practice can lead to the creation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a major public health problem. If you get sick from these bugs, your infection can be difficult to treat," said Urvashi Rangan, PhD, director of Food Safety and Sustainability at Consumer Reports. But the tests revealed some good news. Ground beef from cows that are grass-fed and raised without antibiotics were three times less likely to have superbug bacteria.

"This study is significant, because it's among the largest scientific studies to show that sustainable methods of raising cattle can produce cleaner and safer ground beef," Rangan said. When shopping for ground beef, Consumer Reports recommends choosing ground beef labeled as "no antibiotics," "grass-fed," or "organic." Even better is "organic and grass-fed" beef, which in their tests was less likely to contain bacteria and superbugs. That beef also comes from animals raised in more humane conditions.

No matter what beef you buy, Consumer Reports says cooking to 160 degrees Fahrenheit is the safest temperature for your meat so that the bacteria is killed.

All of these countries have good reason to be concerned about Beijing’s recent devaluing of the yuan. Nearby nations have seen the value of their currency plummet, and the Chinese stock market has been erratic for several days, reports CNN Money. This stands in stark contrast to the positive turn of events that helped investors make a killing during the past decade. In fact, between 2005 and earlier this year, the yuan’s value versus the US dollar had risen by 33 percent.

Many people were apparently lulled into a false sense of security due to their belief that the Chinese government would never allow the yuan to drop so low that it could seriously damage the country’s economy. Additionally, most Asian nations have a large stockpile of foreign exchange reserves, and this should make it possible for them to weather most financial storms. However, the main lesson of the 1997 crisis highlights that no area is fully protected from the fluctuations of the market, and there are numerous events that can trigger a financial chain reaction.

To make matters even worse, the global market crash clock is now sitting at just one minute to midnight. This has been caused by eight main factors, according to the Telegraph UK, including China’s slowdown, declining resource sector prices, the Global Commodity collapse, credit market issues, an overvalued US market, huge interest rate increases, the UK’s bull market and the central banks spiraling out of control.

With so many financial issues happening throughout Asia and in Greece, financial experts believe it may only be a matter of time before the situation gets worse. Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, is one of them. He told Newsmax TV that the US dollar is about to burst as well, which could be devastating for America, China and many other nations worldwide. It is impossible to know if or when this will really happen, but this might not be the best time to invest in any high risk ventures.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) wants to more than double the maximum permitted level for the sweetener Acesulfame potassium in chewing gum, from 2000 mg/kg to 5000 mg/kg. The sweetener contains methylene chloride. Health advocates claim long-term exposure to the substance can cause nausea, headaches, impairment of the kidneys and liver and even cancer.

FSANZ say Acesulfame potassium - which is contained in more than 4000 food and beverages - is safe. Numerous studies from the US Food and Drug Administration had also ruled it was safe. But Consumer New Zealand board member Sue Kedgley yesterday branded the proposal to increase the limit as "ludicrous".

"Consumers would be wise to avoid all artificial sweeteners, and chewing gum for that matter," she said. "People chew gum a lot and because it mixes with saliva, the sweeteners are absorbed into the body quickly. FSANZ has an extremely permissive stance to these sweeteners. It should be lowering levels, not increasing them. Anyone who uses chewing gum should look up the ingredients. Acesulfame is one of the most controversial ingredients in the food supply chain."

Such has been the skin-crawling reality for the past two months in the high-desert communities at the foot of the Sierra Nevada's eastern slopes, where residents have seen an explosion of the black-and-red seed bug species Melacoryphus lateralis.

"They're in everything. There's no way to get rid of them or eradicate them. They're just here," said Blair Nicodemus, 33, of Lone Pine, while driving with a bug creeping on his windshield. "Sometimes there will be these micro-plumes that'll come through where there will be just thousands of them, and they'll be all over you… I'm sure I've eaten at least two dozen, because they get into your food."

Ridgecrest Mayor Peggy Breeden said some people in town use umbrellas while getting gas because of the swarms overhead. She's fielded many dozens of concerned calls and never seen anything like this in her 33 years there. She put together a notice this week to post around town explaining to visitors that the bugs are a harmless nuisance in the hopes that they'll return when the bugs die down. That said, Breeden joked, "If frogs come, we're all leaving."

Even more interesting than that was the mention that one of the IMF’s Executive Directors is also a Vice President of the BRICS Bank. According to the IMF website…

“The Executive Board (the Board) is responsible for conducting the day-to-day business of the IMF. It is composed of 24 Directors, who are appointed or elected by member countries or by groups of countries, and the Managing Director, who serves as its Chairman. The Board usually meets several times each week. It carries out its work largely on the basis of papers prepared by IMF management and staff.”

One of those Board members is this man… Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr …who was selected on June 11 as a Vice President of the BRICS Bank. And who trained this Mr Batista?…

1977 Bacharel em Ciencias Economicas – Pontifica Univeridade Catolica-RJ [A Jesuit University]

1978 - Master of Science in Economic history – University of London

If we look again at the BRICS Post article that announced Batista’s selection to the BRICS Bank, it offers an additional bit of interesting information… “The first meeting of the bank’s board of governors will be in early July during the BRICS summit in Russia, at which it will formally appoint its president and vice-presidents…

“Zhu Xian, vice-president of the World Bank, has been picked by China as one of the four vice-presidents.” So who will be running the “fresh, new” BRICS Bank? Guys who hang out at Davos, who help run the “tainted, old” IMF and World Bank, and who are trained by the London Establishment and the Vatican Jesuits.

As LifeNews previously reported, tens of thousands of pro-life advocates are planning to protest at over 300 Planned Parenthood locations in response to seven videos showing their top executives haggling over the cost of aborted babies’ body parts and discussing ways to alter procedures to obtain organs for harvesting. Unbelievably, the newest video catches the abortion company dissecting the brain of a live baby after an abortion.

In a press release, the “Catholic” group writes, “Women’s health clinics across the country will again be harassed by the anti-choice movement this weekend. In response, Catholics organized to remind clinic staff that we stand with Planned Parenthood and support the important work they do. Today, Catholics for Choice delivered cakes and messages of goodwill to women’s clinics on behalf of Catholic supporters, showing that only a small minority of Catholics agree with the extremist voices of the bishops on the question of abortion.”

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US had long sought to incite “third-party” states against Iran but “such third parties are only deceived puppets,” the Islamic republic’s Fars news agency reported. “The root cause of the problems returns to their real enemies, the US and Israel,” he said. The bullying powers, as he called them, are conspiring “against the Quran and not Shiism and Iran, because they know that the Quran and Islam are the center of awakening nations.”

Iranians, he said, “have realized that their real stubborn enemy is the world arrogance and Zionism and that’s why they chant slogans against the US and Zionism.” Khamenei was speaking to Iranian officials in charge of the Hajj — the annual pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims from all over the world undertake.

He explained to them that the pilgrimage to Mecca was a prime opportunity for Iranians to convey their aforementioned insights to other Muslims and thus encourage Islamic unity against its true enemies.

According to Sheikholeslam, Iran “will do everything to renew” its support for Hamas, which Tehran lessened in retaliation to the Sunni group’s opposition to the regime of Bashar al-Assad after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. Sheikholeslam’s comments are the latest in a series of threats issued against Israel by Iran since the Islamic Republic signed a nuclear agreement with the P5+1 powers last month.

A video posted on a website linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), titled “Preparation of the complete destruction of Israel by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Islamic Revolution in Iran,” called for Israel’s “erasure from the annals of history,” according to another report in The Times of Israel on Wednesday. The clip depicts an invasion of Jerusalem by an Islamic army that includes Hamas and Hezbollah among its ranks.

Earlier this week, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on his English-language Twitter account that Iran will “take all possible means to support anyone who fights Israel, is against the Zionist regime and supports resistance.”

The agreement would not prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear device that it could detonate at high altitude over the US to create an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that would destroy the nation’s critical infrastructure, write James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Peter Vincent Pry, executive director of the EMP task Force on National and Homeland Security, in the Washington Times. Iran could obtain such a device relatively easily “by cheating in the use of the nuclear infrastructure permitted them under the agreement,” they assert. “Because an EMP destroys electronics directly but people indirectly, it is regarded by some Muslim scholars as a ‘Shariah-compliant’ use of a nuclear weapon,” Woolsey and Pry explain.

Pry suggested to WND that the Obama administration may already know that Iran has a nuclear EMP capability that could “threaten America’s existence.” “Does this explain why Obama is virtually abandoning the Middle East to Iran, abandoning longstanding US allies, is appeasing Iran and even apparently trying to forge a new strategic relationship that replaces Israel with Iran as the primary US partner in the Middle East?” Pry asked.

“And the EMP could damage the necessary means to identify the attacker and US retaliatory capabilities,” they said. Urging Congress to oppose the Iranian agreement, they added, “One Iranian nuclear weapon is one too many for an Iran ruled by theocratic totalitarian genocidal imperialists.”