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Capitol Confidential – by Jimmy Vielkind

Tired of what they say is the Legislature’s “diminished” status as a “lap dog” for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Republicans in the State Assembly proposed amending the state Constitution to forbid legislative activity after midnight.

Over two dozen legislators gathered for a Tuesday morning press conference to push for the amendment, which would also make it harder for a governor to waive a required three-day waiting period for bills with a “message of necessity.” While this issue has simmered for years, the legislators were spurred by their unhappiness with Cuomo’s push for a gun control measure that was voted on less than 24 hours after it was unveiled. Continue reading “Comparing Cuomo to dictator, GOP pushes for sunlight”

PANDA Unite – by Emilie Rensink

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The “Washington State Preservation of Liberty Act” introduced on Wednesday condemns and criminalizes the use of the 2012 NDAA‘s provision purportedly authorizing the indefinite detainment of U.S. citizens.

After news of H.B. 1581’s introduction caught wind, an Internet campaign went viral asking activists to contact their Washington state representatives to co-sponsor the legislation. Continue reading “Washington State’s Anti-NDAA Bill Introduced with Viral Support”

Daily Paul – by Billy Bernardo

I don’t pretend to be a Chris Kyle expert. I never even heard of him before this past weekend. I just know what I have recently read.

Apparently, the guy’s first kill in Iraq was a woman holding a baby in one hand, a grenade in the other. She obviously cares a lot about whatever she is standing up for. Obviously this is not some Al Queda that came in to fill the vacuum of the Sadam-less Iraq. This is an Iraqi woman, standing up to the invader. Continue reading “Chris Kyle’s first kill, with no regrets”

Daily News

Be Your Own Leader – by Dana Gabriel

The U.S. and Canada have made significant progress in advancing the Beyond the Border deal and continue to implement various perimeter security initiatives. Without much fanfare, they have signed an immigration agreement that would allow them to share biographic and at a later date, biometric information. As part of a North American security perimeter, both countries are further harmonizing border security and immigration measures. Canada is further taking on U.S. security priorities and this could include a bigger role in the war on terrorism. Continue reading “U.S.-Canada Harmonizing Border Security and Immigration Measures”

Island Packet News – by Anne Christnovich

About 150 Marines and sailors will hold “realistic urban training” in Jasper County later this week as part of pre-deployment training.

The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit will train within Ridgeland town limits Thursday through Saturday. Times and exact locations for the training are not being announced, according to 2nd Lt. Gerard R. Farao. Continue reading “Marines, sailors to ‘invade’ Jasper County, South Carolina for training mission”

Washington’s Blog

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.”

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”

Lone Star Watchdog

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.”

Slate – by Ryan Gallagher

Washington’s Blog

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”

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.