Reuters Investigates – by Koh Gui Qing and John Shiffman

BEIJING/WASHINGTON – In August, foreign ministers from 10 nations blasted China for building artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea. As media around the world covered the diplomatic clash, a radio station that serves the most powerful city in America had a distinctive take on the news.

Located outside Washington, D.C., WCRW radio made no mention of China’s provocative island project. Instead, an analyst explained that tensions in the region were due to unnamed “external forces” trying “to insert themselves into this part of the world using false claims.”   Continue reading “Beijing’s covert radio network airs China-friendly news across Washington, and the world”

Western Rifle Shooters

[Recently], She-who-must-be-obeyed and I took an excursion train from Spencer, NC to Asheville, NC. It went from Spencer, down through Salisbury, and then through every small to mid-sized town on the way to Asheville. It was a nice ride that I would recommend to anybody. I did, however, make a few more interesting observations along the way.

I’ve heard people talking about using railroad right-of-ways as a means of low profile transit post SHTF. It is true that they are further out of the public eye than interstates and major highways. However, unlike interstates and major highways, they do not have a way of bypassing any town or major city. Continue reading “Trolls Live Under Bridges”

Bloomberg – by John Lauerman

There are 70,000 ways to get sick, hurt or mortally injured, and the U.S. is making them official.

On Thursday, U.S. hospitals, doctors and other care providers have to start using internationally developed standards called ICD-10 codes to bill government programs and private insurers in the nation’s $2.9 trillion-a-year health-care system. The codes cover everything from parrot bites to getting sucked into a jet engine.   Continue reading “There Are Now Officially 70,000 Ways to Get Sick or Die”

Trains – by Fred Frailey, Sept 9, 2015

In a candid letter to a U.S. senator, BNSF Railway’s chief executive, Carl Ice, said September 9 that BNSF would in effect shut down most of its network rather than violate a federal law mandating that positive train control be operational by December 31. CSX Transportation has said it, too, questions whether it should violate federal laws, and other Class I carriers are likely to follow suit. This set up the real possibility of a national transportation crisis at the beginning of 2016. The public may be unaware of how closely the U.S. economy is tied to railroads, but the reality is that without railroads, this country will quickly cease to function normally. Imagine, for instance, no electricity to heat homes.   Continue reading “BNSF: We will shut down”

Breitbart News

In a long and often emotional interview with Ginni Thomas before his speech on Thursday at the Rally against the Iran Deal in Washington, D.C., Glenn Beck explained his mission to relocate Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS into the United States, even if that requires facilitating their illegal entry and his imprisonment.   Continue reading “Glenn Beck In His Own Words: I’ll Save More People Than Schindler”

Come and Make It

BBC has reported on a foul smelling substance called skink water

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34227609

Police departments in the United States are reported to have bought a foul-smelling liquid developed in Israel to repel protesters. What is “skunk” and how is it used, asks Yolande Knell.

It is a truly putrid stench. Palestinians who have been sprayed describe it as “worse than raw sewage” and “like a mixture of excrement, noxious gas and a decomposing donkey”.   Continue reading “People Repellant”

RT

A drone enthusiast has built a home-made helicopter from the parts of 54 unmanned aerial vehicles and posted footage of his test flight online.

YouTube user gasturbine101 has invented a flyable personal helicopter he calls The Swarm Manned Aerial Vehicle Multirotor Super Drone.   Continue reading “British man builds helicopter from 54 drones & garden chair”

David Swanson

This happened some 63 years ago, but as the U.S. government has never stopped lying about it, and it’s generally known only outside the United States, I’m going to treat it as news.

Here in our little U.S. bubble we’ve heard of a couple versions of a film called The Manchurian Candidate. We’ve heard of the general concept of “brainwashing” and may even associate it with something evil that the Chinese supposedly did to U.S. prisoners during the Korean War. And I’d be willing to bet that the majority of people who’ve heard of these things have at least a vague sense that they’re bullshit.   Continue reading “U.S. Drops Fleas With Bubonic Plague on North Korea”

The Daily Beast – by Justin Glawe

A detective who worked narcotics with an undercover officer walked up to a car, shot his fellow officer twice, and then seven more times against the victim’s pleas.

The number of signs that Albuquerque Police Lieutenant Greg Brachle ignored or didn’t see before putting nine .45-caliber bullets into his fellow officer’s body are simply staggering. Continue reading “Trigger-Happy Cop Shot One of His Own and Kept Blasting Away”

Business Insider – by Sam Ro

Shares of the gunmaker are up more than 10% following the release of the company’s better-than-expected quarterly earnings report.

“Our first-quarter results exceeded our expectations for sales and net income in both our firearms and accessories divisions,” CEO James Debney said. “Higher revenue in our firearms division was driven by strong orders for our M&P 15 Sport rifles, our Thompson/Center Venture bolt-action rifles and our M&P Shield polymer pistols.”   Continue reading “Smith & Wesson’s investors celebrate Friday”

Fox News

DETROIT –  A suburban Detroit official is trying to extinguish the use of personal flamethrowers, which are being sold online by two Midwest companies, in his city.

The companies, located in the Detroit area and Cleveland, claim their devices can be used for recreation or to control weeds and insect hives, clear snow and ice, clear brush and start a bonfire.   Continue reading “Detroit-area mayor seeks citywide ban on personal flamethrowers due to safety concerns”

Alt-Market – by Brandon Smith

In the mind of a schizophrenic person, internal elements of fantasy (negative and positive) are made manifest in the psyche and projected out onto the real world. Often, the daydream images of the mind are not merely images to them. Rather, what they imagine subconsciously becomes reality. Their faculties of observation become so limited, either due to a reaction to trauma or merely an inherent inability to cope, that they cannot decipher between fact and fiction. A person could go on like this for quite some time if all his needs are provided for by someone else. But the moment that support ends (and it will), the realities of necessity, not to mention supply and demand, take hold. One cannot live in a schizophrenic world indefinitely.   Continue reading “Economic Reality Now Catching Up To Market Fantasy”

Radio Free Redoubt – by JOHN JACOB SCHMIDT

As the headlines read, three men were arrested in North Carolina yesterday (03 Aug 15).  The Headline Revealed several implications the left, and the government, want you to have hard wired into your psyche.

A.  Feds accuse men of ‘Prepping’.

Implication: The word ‘Prepping’ wasn’t used by mistake.  In multiple jurisdictions federal and state agencies have been asking for help reporting anything suspicious, including activities associated with ‘preppers’.  Prepper = Evildoer (in the New Speak)   Continue reading “Fear Of Martial Law… And Other Crimes”

Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith

NYT:

The shooting looked bad. But that is when the professor is at his best. A black motorist, pulled to the side of the road for a turn-signal violation, had stuffed his hand into his pocket. The white officer yelled for him to take it out. When the driver started to comply, the officer shot him dead.

Continue reading “William J. Lewinski Trains Police To Shoot First And Let Him Handle The Fallout”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

A Texas farmer finally received land back that was taken from him by a court and given to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) more than thirty years ago. The victory puts land back into his undisputed possession and control that has been in his family since 1904. It also brings hope and a pathway to victory for other farmers who stand to lose up to 90,000 acres of land to the BLM.

Tommy Henderson met with BLM officials on the steps of the Clay County Courthouse in Henrietta, Texas, where he was presented a patent from the U.S. government bestowing rights to ownership and use of the property, according to an article by Lynn Walker in theWichita Falls Times Record News. Henderson told the Times Record he hopes this will pave the way for dozens of other Red River land owners in Texas who are battling to keep their land from being taken by the BLM.   Continue reading “Texas Farmer Wins 30 Year Battle with BLM – Gets Land Back”