Breitbart -by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY

On Tuesday, an estimated 175 Tea Party activists protested outside the IRS office in the suburban Chicago community of Downers Grove. Here’s a report from someone who attended the event:

What surprised many was a Homeland Security vehicle came past the protest twice. As you can see from the picture, the vehicle had tinted windows so we are unsure if there were any cameras inside. Were pictures taken of the attendees? Will any of the attendees now be further targeted by the IRS or Homeland Security?   Continue reading “Homeland Security Monitors Tea Party Protests at Chicago, Los Angeles, and St. Louis IRS Offices”

The Petition

Whereas the 2nd Amendment recognizes the right of the people to keep and bear arms, and whereas the right to keep and bear arms need not be demonstrated, and whereas Adam Kokesh’s planned armed march into Washington DC is an unnecessary and dangerous provocation that may be used to demonize guns and gun owners, the undersigned petitioners, while supporting the right to keep and bear arms, state their opposition to Adam Kokesh’s planned armed march into Washington DC on July 4th, 2013.

Continue reading “I do NOT support Adam Kokesh’s armed march in DC!”

NBC News – by Richard Esposito, Pete Williams and Matthew DeLuca

A man with ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed after attacking an FBI agent during questioning in Florida, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.

The man who was shot, Ibragim Todashev, 27, allegedly attacked an agent with a knife. He was not suspected of having played any role in the bombing that killed three people and injured scores more in April, but he did confess to being involved in a brutal Boston-area slaying two years ago, investigators said.   Continue reading “Man with ties to Boston bombing suspect shot during FBI questioning”

LA Times- by Richard Simon and Melanie Mason

WASHINGTON — A top Internal Revenue Service official invoked the 5th Amendment and declined to testify Wednesday before a House committee investigating the agency’s mishandling of applications by some conservative groups for tax-exempt status.

Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’ exempt organizations unit, spoke deliberately and crisply in her opening remarks to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the first time she has appeared before Congress since she revealed earlier this month that the division she oversaw inappropriately screened and questioned tea party and other groups seeking nonprofit status.   Continue reading “Top IRS official pleads the 5th Amendment at testy House hearing”

Mass Privatel

Wisconsin – Police work that has traditionally been conducted in public view is increasingly being shielded, as insurance companies and municipal attorneys throughout Wisconsin push departments to withhold names from reports due to liability concerns.

A long-ignored federal privacy law is driving the redactions, interpreted by some municipal leaders to overrule a state public records law that says the full reports should be released.    Continue reading “Secret arrests by police in Wisconsin is this Big Brother’s future for Americans?”

ars technica – by Casey Johnston

NASA has bestowed a $125,000 grant upon a research corporation to pursue the development of 3D-printable food, according to a report from Quartz. Anjan Contractor, who runs Systems & Materials Research Corporation, hopes to design a system that will turn shelf-stable cartridges of sugars, complex carbs, and protein into edible food on demand.   Continue reading “3D-printable food? NASA wants a taste”

Antiwar.com – by Kelley B. Vlahos

WASHINGTON – Antiwar.com is taking the FBI to court.

The website’s founder and managing editor Eric Garris, along with longtime editorial director Justin Raimondo, filed a lawsuit in federal court today, demanding the release of records they believe the FBI is keeping on them and the 17-year-old online magazine.   Continue reading “Antiwar.com Sues FBI After Secret Surveillance”

Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to allow illegal immigrants who get legal status to begin collecting tax-welfare payments, as the panel spent a fourth day working through amendments to the massive immigration bill and party-line splits began to emerge.

In one major change, the committee voted 17-1 to make a third drunken-driving conviction a deportable offense for the newly legalized immigrants if at least one of those offenses occurs after they are approved for legal status.   Continue reading “Senate panel OKs tax-welfare benefits for newly legal immigrants”

AlterNet – by  Iulia Filip

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (CN) – A woman died on a courthouse floor because Alabama sheriff’s deputies refused to give her her medicine – after arresting her for an old traffic ticket, the woman’s daughter claims in court.

Ayunna Johnae London sued St. Clair County Sheriff Terry Surles, jail administrators Austin Nash and Terry Marcrum, Southern Healthcare Partners, and its employee Jennifer Eisel, in Federal Court.   Continue reading “Elderly Woman Dies in Court “Gasping for Breath” After Sheriff’s Deputies “Callously” Refused to Give Her Medication, Daughter Claims”

Think Progress – by Nicole Flatow

A major U.S. private prison operator known for inmate abuse, violations, and disregardfor the truth reported a 56-percent spike in profit in the first quarter of 2013, due in part to its new strategy for drastically reducing its taxes, the Associated Press reports. During a conference call touting its success, representatives at GEO Group boasted that the company continues to have “solid occupancy rates in mid to high 90s” and that they are optimistic “regarding the outlook for the industry,” in part due to a “growing offender population.” GEO Senior Vice President John Hurley assured investors during the call:   Continue reading “Private Prison Profits Skyrocket, As Executives Assure Investors Of ‘Growing Offender Population’”

American Everyman – by Scott Creighton

A democratic senator from Rhode Island, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, had this to say  about the tornado that touched down in Oklahoma yesterday, at least partially blaming those who question man-made global warming, people he calls “extremists”, for the tornado and pretty much everything else bad that has (will) happen across the country:   Continue reading “Oklahoma Tornado: A Little Perspective – It’s Not the Worst In History and It’s Not the Fault of “Extremist” Global Warming Deniers”

Before It’s News – by Tom Dennen, the paranoid historian

US Department of Energy study projected that African oil production would rise 91 percent between 2002 and 2025. 

The United States is the largest consumer of oil in the world, China the second largest – is there going to be a fight over African oil?   Continue reading “Oprah Builds a School, Michelle, Hillary tour, Now Obama Plans June Visit to South Africa. Why? Because 25% of US Oil Imports Now Come from Africa?”

The Prepper Project – by Chet

If you are looking for a list of items you should stock in your medical kit for treating a traumatic injury, then here’s our list of 21 Medical Kit Must Haves for treating a gunshot wound when the SHTF.

While some critics argue that a Medical Kit won’t help someone who doesn’t know how to use it, I would argue that it would be better to have a medical kit like this, and be out trying to recruit a doctor who has surgical skills, then to find someone with the skills, but have no supplies for them to use.   Continue reading “21 Medical Kit Must Haves”

Jim Stone Freelance

Adam Kokesh, a trojan horse “gun rights supporter” is doing what it takes at EXACTLY the right time to get guns banned once and for all.

Due to difficulties I am experiencing with posting this at this time, I am just going to cut to the chase – Adam Kokesh is a Jew. Jews are FAMOUS for faking movements that produce the opposite of what they pretend to ask for. Jews want guns banned and taken out of non Jewish hands. It is as simple as that.    Continue reading “Armed march on Washington DC likely to take place during a constitutional convention”

syria-mapGlobal Research

Media sources confirm the seizure of an Israeli military vehicle in Al Qseir inside Syrian territory.

The vehicle’s licence plate corresponds to that of the Israeli military with a black background and the letter Tsade (צ) (see image below)

Al Qseir is a strategic border town on the Northern frontier of Lebanon. Occupied by rebels, it was taken back by Syrian forces on Monday.   Continue reading “Covert Israeli Forces Inside Syria Within Rebel Ranks? Israeli Military Vehicle Seized: Report”

Who What Why – by Dave Lindorff

The horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon, to hear the FBI and the Boston Police tell it, is solved: One bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is dead, gunned down by police and then run over for good measure by his fleeing brother Dzhokhar, who was captured a day later in a citywide manhunt, after being hit by a fusillade of police bullets fired into a trailered pleasure boat he was hiding in.   Continue reading “Official Story Has Odd Wrinkles: A Pack Of Questions About The Boston Bombing Backpacks”