The Kalamazoo SWAT Team (Source: Tyler Tjomsland / Kalamazoo Gazette)Police State USA

KALAMAZOO, MI — A family was terrorized and accosted when a masked paramilitary outfit unexpectedly broke through their back door.  Frightened children hid in a closet as the masked invaders spent hours tearing apart all the possessions in the home.  The family assumed they were being attacked by robbers, but it turned out to be a SWAT team sent from the local “Department of Public Safety.”

The incident happened on May 1st, and has been the source of continued nightmares for the two children who experienced it, ages 7 and 8.   Continue reading “Kids traumatized after SWAT team ransacks wrong home”

Christian Mercenary – by T.L. Davis

America has been on the brink of implosion for several years, even decades. Only those who were active during the Ruby Ridge and Waco actions of the federal government against the lives and liberties of their targets know how close America was to outright rebellion in the 1990’s. 

Bunkerville will go down as another event in the counter-revolution. Yes, of course, the revolution has already taken place overthrowing the U.S. Constitution in favor of judicial dictate: a cooperation of high political office and the judiciary has sanctioned the overthrow. It is now an oligarchy where a few high offices and corporate leaders steer the nation toward control and away from individual liberty.
Continue reading “Consider This, Mr. Federal Agent”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

$250 Million homes in Europe, $150 Million homes in the US, and as Bloomberg notes Million-dollar homes in the U.S. are selling at double their historical average while middle-class property demand stumbles, showing that the housing recovery is mirroring America’s wealth divide. As CoreLogic notes, “the real estate market is the ultimate reflection of confidence, wealth and income,” as purchases costing $1 million or more rose 7.8% in March, while sales of homes costing less than $250k plunged 12%, as “the same factors driving the income stagnation in the middle are driving the income momentum at the top.” The luxury markets are indeed on fire as foreign (and domestic) super-wealth floods into real estate but as NewEdge’s van Batenburg notes, echoing ur very words, “The American Dream is dead for everybody but the happy few who have enjoyed the tailwinds of the appreciating stock market.”   Continue reading ““The American Dream Is Dead For Everyone But A Happy Few””

Staight Line Logic – by Robert Gore

If you were offered a glass of poison to drink, you would refuse. How about a “compromise” at half a glass? Why is compromise extolled as a political virtue? If smart meets stupid halfway on an issue, then does it again and again, after the fifth iteration smart is 96.875 percent of the way to stupid. If you are on the stupid side of an issue and cannot win an immediate victory, nothing serves your purposes so well as compromise, which is how statists usually serve up their poison. By even the second iteration (75 percent), smart is beyond retrieval.   Continue reading “Cheer Up, You’ll Be 1.5625 Percent Free!”

peacekeeper-app-copblock-628x356The Free Thought Project – by Liz Reitzig

As difficult as it may be to acknowledge, the unfortunate truth is that we are in a place today where domestic police brutality has taken a dramatic toll on innocent lives. Another casualty of the inflated police aggression is the well-based distrust of the law enforcement system. Taking true stock of the situation, we see that deaths of Americans at the hands of American police officers has surpassed deaths of American soldiers in the Iraq war in part, because our police force is overly militarized. Our distrust is a measured response to a real problem.   Continue reading “Meet the Future of Security, Cops May Soon Find Themselves Obsolete”

Rocky Mountain Corn

Have you ever chased a slick-skinned, sixteen inch bullfrog around the kitchen while your mama’s hollering, “get that frog out of my house”? Fried frog legs were a staple when I was growing up. Not the whole frog, just the back legs. Nothing better – nothing tastier, more succulent than fried frog legs. Yep, its true. Those legs would twitch and sometimes jump clean out of the pan. Always keep the lid on. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County had nothing on these big boys once they warmed up from the ice chest.   Continue reading “Fried Frogs and Commissars”

Christian Mercenary – by T.L. Davis

Bunkerville represents the first action of the people’s resistance against an unconstitutional governmental bureaucracy turned paramilitary unit. We are likely to see more as time goes on, because there is not a bureaucracy that has not been turned into a paramilitary unit. 

The principle lost in all of this militarization of bureaucrats is that they generally interact with citizens, not enemy combatants or criminals; they are not headed by someone who can be voted out of office, like a sheriff, or held to account by a city council who can be voted out of office. We are not capable of voting out of office the Director of Homeland Security and impeaching a president is something the corrupted officials will not consider in today’s oligarchy. These are highly armed bureaucrats already infamous for their hostility toward the general public primarily because they are impervious to public opinion. 
Continue reading “Bunkerville Remains The Flash Point”

Hikers in Recapture Canyon stride past a rock formation that features "Bubba Glyphs." Also, the ground in the calm canyon is dotted withDenver Post – by Nancy Lofholm

Recapture Canyon is a calm place of cottonwood shade, sinuous streams, beaver ponds and bird song. Ancient cliffside dwellings and ground dotted with potsherds lend it an aura of quiet mystery.

But this canyon — so close to Blanding, Utah, that locals there consider it their wild backyard — is also the site of a long-standing but escalating anti-federal government, Cliven Bundyesque furor.   Continue reading “Recapture Canyon, Utah, to be site of next BLM showdown”

Activist Post – by Amanda Warren

Brandon Carpenter is from Maine, but will remain in Sulphur, Louisiana until he gets justice for his dog, Arzy. It was there, while traveling with a friend, that they sought temporary shelter from rain in an open box truck in a parking lot belonging to the local city paper. Arzy was a Lab-mix dog that was tied by a 3-foot leash.

Soon after, Officer Brian Thierbach pulled in and began arresting them for trespassing. While they were under arrest Carpenter heard his dog get shot and watched it die as he was in handcuffs.
Continue reading “Officer Shoots Tied Dog After Playing With It, Lies About Attack”

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Americans Turn Anti-War

The American people are now overwhelmingly opposed to more war in Ukraine, Syria, Iran and elsewhere.

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows:   Continue reading “Polls: Americans Are Sick of the War On Terror, War On Drugs … And All of the Other Failed U.S. Wars”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

On April 29th, Point Loma, California, resident Keith Groves climbed out of bed naked, retrieved his handgun, and confronted the burglar who had broken into his garage.

According to ABC10 News, “Groves heard a crashing sound and then another at 4:22 a.m.” He “looked out and saw that the garage door was open and [his] kitchen window was broken.”   Continue reading “Armed, Naked Homeowner Bests Intruder”

Starving the Monkeys

I have kept quiet about the evolving Bundy situation because, simply, everything that has been needed to be said about this evolution has already been well said by others. I choose to not comment about who should do or should have done what and when. 

Instead, I want to discuss the paradox faced by the federal government in this, the latest SWAT-style kabuki of their own creation, and what their alternatives are, now that it has grown out of control of the original simple-minded script: “Hey, fellas, let’s gear up and put that hayseed rancher in his place.” Oops.
Continue reading “The Bundy Paradox”

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“We Are No Longer a Nation Ruled By Laws”

Pulitzer prize winning reporter Chris Hedges – along with journalist Naomi Wolf, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, activist  Tangerine Bolen and others – sued the government to join the NDAA’s allowance of the indefinite detention of Americans.

The trial judge in the case asked the government attorneys 5 times whether journalists like Hedges could be indefinitely detained simply for interviewing and then writing about bad guys.   Continue reading “Supreme Court Refuses to Uphold the Constitution: Allows Indefinite Detention”

III Percent Patriots- by Kerodin

Your Team is out on a caper, delivering hearty doses of F#@k You and free back-fists to Commies down near the Piggly-Wiggly, where Red Team has HQ near the bread lines.  Red Team suddenly gets reinforced and your guys have to beat feet back to the bat cave.  With a head count you realize Bubba didn’t make it.  One of your guys confirms Bubba didn’t catch a face full of M4 bad luck, but he did get his arse knocked the F out and hog-tied in a Red Team van.

Bubba’s a good ol’ boy.  His wife is a peach and makes great cobbler.  His curtain-climbers are cute as hell.  Everyone likes Bubba.  Your Intel guys don’t know where the Red Team executive conference room is located – the one with the torches and ballpeen hammers.  So a rescue isn’t happening.   Continue reading “A member of your Team has been captured – now what?”

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BLM APPROVES 51 RENEWABLE PROJECTS ON PUBLIC LANDS.Solar Industry Magazine (4/24, Caley) reports on an “approval spree” by the Bureau of Land Management that has resulted in 51 renewable energy projects being approved for construction on public lands since 2009. The approvals are in pursuit of a goal of approving 20 gigawatts of such projects by 2020 in line with President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. Mentioned are the Ocotillo Sol Solar Project, which will supply San Diego Gas & Electric with electricity, the 300-megawatt Stateline solar farm project, and the 250-megawatt Silver State South solar project. To receive BLM approval, each of these projects had to reduce its footprint and acquire land for habitat preservation. Continue reading “On Power And Politics”

Photographs sent to The Telegraph and posted on social media sites showed at least four excavatorsThe Telegraph- by Tom Phillips

Demolition teams began destroying parts of a Chinese church that has become a symbol of resistance to the Communist Party’s draconian clutch on religion, activists and witnesses said on Monday.

Sanjiang church in Wenzhou, a wealthy coastal city known as the “Jerusalem of the East”, made headlines earlier this month when thousands of Christians formed a human shield around its entrance after plans for its demolition were announced.  

Continue reading “China accused of anti-Christian campaign as church demolition begins”

Opposing Views – by Michael Allen

The drought in California has caused 45 water agencies in the state to enforce mandatory limits on water use.

Citizens are encouraged to turn in neighbors who are suspected of wasting H2O to water-waste patrols.

These water patrols teach people to avoid wasting water on driveways, lawns and swimming pools, but can also cite residents for repeated violations.   Continue reading “California Cities Start Water-Waste Patrols, Encourage Residents to Snitch”