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Despite the Pretense that the U.S. and Israel Are Not Intervening In Syria’s Civil War, They Are Both At War With Syria.
Israel claims it bombed a weapons convoy, while Syria claimed that a research facility was hit. Who is right?
Both. Continue reading “U.S. Approved Israeli Bombing of Syria … and May Join the War at Any Moment”
Blacklisted News – by Lee Rogers
In my previous article we analyzed the various gun control bills that have been proposed in the U.S. Senate. In this article we are going to take a look at the different gun control bills that have been proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives.
It is important to note that all gun control bills are unlawful and in violation of the second amendment of the Constitution. The second amendment clearly states that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Attempts at gun control infringe on an individual’s right to bear arms. It is that simple. Continue reading “A Summary of the U.S. House’s Latest Gun Control Proposals”
New York Times – by Michelle Alexander
THOUSANDS of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury’s believing their word over a police officer’s are slim to none. As a juror, whom are you likely to believe: the alleged criminal in an orange jumpsuit or two well-groomed police officers in uniforms who just swore to God they’re telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but? As one of my colleagues recently put it, “Everyone knows you have to be crazy to accuse the police of lying.”
But are police officers necessarily more trustworthy than alleged criminals? I think not. Not just because the police have a special inclination toward confabulation, but because, disturbingly, they have an incentive to lie. In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn’t be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so. Continue reading “Why Police Lie Under Oath”
Business Week – by Patrick Donahue and Jonathan Tirone
Vice President Joseph Biden said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must relinquish power, as a top diplomat said the United Nations has to step into an expanding conflict that the warring parties can’t resolve.
“President Assad, a tyrant hellbent on clinging to power, is no longer fit to lead the Syrian people and he must go,” the U.S. vice president told an audience today at the Munich Security Conference in the Bavarian capital. UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told the conference late yesterday that the world body is the only institution that can end the conflict. Continue reading “Biden Says Syria’s Assad ‘Hellbent’ on Power, Must Go”
What is the definition of Insurrection?
Here it is: The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
Does it define the present state we are in? It is not always the people in revolt. It is the Federal Government defying the Constitution and the rule of law. Using the end justifies the means, breaking the law all the way. President Barrack Obama’s actions have been an act of war against the American people. He swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. Everything he has done has been to undermine the Constitution. He sees himself as a law unto himself. He is acting as a dictator or a king making edicts or decrees. Continue reading “Is Our Government Involved in Insurrection Against the People? This is Why They Hate the Second Amendment.”
Every day, billions of emails and phone calls flow through communications networks in countries across the world. Now, one American company has built technology capable of spying on them all—and business is booming.
Verint, a leading manufacturer of surveillance technologies, is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., in a small cluster of nondescript buildings that also includes the office of a multinational cosmetics supplier and some electronics companies. Continue reading “Meet the American Company Helping Governments Spy on “Billions” of Communications”
Department of Energy Wants to Let Radioactive Scrap Metal Back into Consumer Products.
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that any amount of radiation – no matter how small – can cause cancer and other serious health effects.
(Current safety standards are based on the ridiculous assumption that everyone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s – and that radioactive particles ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the outside of the body. In the real world, however, even low doses of radiation can cause cancer. Moreover, small particles of radiation – called “internal emitters” – which get inside the body are much more dangerous than general exposures to radiation. See this and this. And radiation affects small children much more than full-grown adults.) Continue reading “Government to Dispose of Radioactive Waste By Putting It In Our SILVERWARE”
The PPJ Gazette – by Marti Oakley
While we have been diverted with the government’s plan to disarm us, that fine collection of corporatists, new world order advocates and United Nations servants have been busy using the federal register to implement United Nations Bio-regions within the United States. While these land and resource thefts will be accompanied by some fluffy scripts about how they are saving the planet for future generations and how the federal government and the United Nations are the only ones able and willing to protect these vast resource rich areas, the fact is, the plans they have for these areas have nothing to do with preservation or protection. This is all about money and stealing from the states and their communities’ any and all resources that can be sold to corporations for massive profits. Continue reading “A Devil’s bargain: Pacific Southwest to become UN Bio-region”
KRQE News 13 by Crystal Gutierrez
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A federal search warrant affidavit outlines the massive raid that seized nearly 1,500 firearms from the home and business of an Albuquerque man and why the feds were after him.
Last week rifles lined the lawn of a northeast Albuquerque home that belonged to Robert Adams. Homeland Security Investigations was also busy loading hundreds of handguns into boxes. Continue reading “Feds seized nearly 1,500 guns in raid”
New York Times – by JENNIFER MEDINA and LAURIE GOODSTEIN
LOS ANGELES — Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, who retired less than two years ago as the leader of the nation’s largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, was removed from all public duties by his successor, Archbishop José H. Gomez, as the church complied with a court order to release thousands of pages of internal documents that show how the cardinal shielded priests who sexually abused children.
The documents, released as part of a record $660 million settlement in 2007 with the victims of abuse, are the strongest evidence so far that top officials for years purposely tried to conceal abuse from law enforcement officials. The files, which go from the 1940s to the present, are the latest in a series of revelations that suggest that the church continued to maneuver against law enforcement even after the extent of the abuse crisis emerged. Continue reading “Cardinal in Los Angeles Is Removed From Duties”
Late last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein reintroduced her much anticipated gun ban. Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee spent several hours discussing her bill and other gun control proposals. Her bill (S. 150) would ban millions of shotguns, rifles and handguns that Americans legally own, and possibly –depending on statutory interpretation — could ban all magazines of whatever size. It would do this by supercharging the 1994 semi-auto ban by:
* Banning all semi-autos with just one cosmetic feature (pistol grip, forward grip, folding stock, grenade launcher, barrel shroud, threaded barrel); Continue reading “Feinstein’s Gun Ban to Affect Millions of Law-abiding Gun Owners”
The Daily Paul – by carlsbaddj
4:50 AM… Federal Agents pull up, two Flash Bang Grenades and then…a recorded message?
“Federal Agents enforcing a search warrant” (Neighbors name) “Please come out of your house with your hands up”
Repeatedly played over a loud speaker while the agents waited in defensible positions out front. Continue reading “4:50 AM… Federal Agents pull up, two Flash Bang Grenades and then…”
The family of a 7-year-old New York boy is suing police and the city for $250 million, saying cops handcuffed and interrogated the boy for ten hours after a scuffle over lunch money at school. Continue reading “Seven-Year-Old Handcuffed Over Lunch Money Dispute”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thanks to your overwhelming support, and the support of other organizations and individuals, Wyoming House Bill 114, the Wyoming Liberty Preservation Act, passed committee 6-3 and will now advance to the House floor. On Tuesday evening, at the head of a media firestorm, the Transportation Committee held a hearing on the bill, and passed it with a decisive 6-3 vote.
Our battle however, is not yet over. HB 114 will be debated on the House floor within the next few days. The deadline for bills to be heard on the house floor is Monday, February 4th, and, if the bill has not come up in committee of the whole by then, it will die due to lack of time left in the session. Continue reading “VICTORY: Wyoming Anti-NDAA Bill passes Committee 6-3, on its way to the House”
Sheriff Terry Maketa of Colorado’s El Paso County has promised his constituents that he “will actively oppose any effort that infringes upon your second amendment rights.”
“Like every elected official in the state, I took an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Colorado,” wrote Maketa in an open letter to El Paso County residents. “This means all rights.” Continue reading “Why is it a “Crime” to Disarm a Uniformed Aggressor?”
There’s been another mass shooting in America, this one at an office complex in Glendale, Arizona.
Here’s what we know so far. Stay tuned for frequent updates.
1. Five People are Reportedly Injured Continue reading “Glendale Arizona Office Shooting: Top 10 Facts You Need to Know”
As the U.S. government continues to expand surveillance and monitoring systems to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars within the borders of the United States, a recent announcement regarding the country’s southern air defense systems is raising eyebrows.
Our southern border is, in part, protected by the Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS), which utilizes moored balloons hovering at about 15,000 feet to identify low flying aircraft and missiles that may penetrate the border and cross into U.S. airspace. Continue reading “Obama to Shut Down Southern Air Defense Systems: “It Will Be Open Season for Terrorists Flying In With Nukes, Low Altitude Missiles, Or Even Full Scale Invasion of America””
