Truth Revolt – by Yehuda Remer

Erika Soto Lamb, Communication Director for Everytown for Gun Safety, admitted to conservative radio and television journalist Dana Loesch that the anti-gun group (which includes Mayors Against Illegal Guns) has armed security while in Indianapolis.

When asked by Loesch why her group is employing armed security, Lamb said, “We have armed security because other people on your side of the debate threaten our lives.  I wish it weren’t the case, but it is.”   Continue reading “Anti-Gun Group Admits They Use Armed Security”

Common Dreams – by Jon Queally

The Senate Intelligence Committee and the Obama administration agree on this: the American people should not know the number of people killed by U.S. drone attacks overseas, nor should they hope to understand the circumstances under which such lethal killings are authorized or executed.

This high-level agreement was confirmed on Monday after a “modest” provision designed to add transparency to the US drone assassination program was killed in the Senate committee following objections by the Obama administration’s intelligence chief.   Continue reading “Senate Agrees: US People Can’t Know Overseas Drone Death Toll”

Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos

In an unprecedented legal action, the small Pacific nation and former U.S. nuclear testing site of the Marshall Islands has filed lawsuits “on behalf of all humanity” at the International Court of Justice against the U.S. and 8 other nations for their “flagrant denial of human justice” by failing to work towards nuclear disarmament.

The nations cited by the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) are the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China — all parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, as well as nuclear-armed Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea — which are not parties to the NPT but which the challenge says are “bound by customary international law.”   Continue reading “‘David Against Nuclear Goliaths’: Nation Wages Legal Fight ‘for All Humanity’”

A cow stands in her pen at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in CastelarDaily Mail – by ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD

On Friday, the Obama administration stated that it would make a multi-pronged attack on cow flatulence, in an attempt to cut methane emissions.

As a result, windy cows have come under renewed scrutiny by scientists, who plan to capture their harmful emissions and convert them into ‘green’ energy.    Continue reading “Now THAT’S wind power! Cows wear BACKPACKS to capture their ‘emissions’ and become miniature power stations”

Common Dreams – by Nick Turse

What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things — especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.  For years, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has maintained a veil of secrecy about much of the command’s activities and mission locations, consistently downplaying the size, scale, and scope of its efforts.   At a recent Pentagon press conference, AFRICOM Commander General David Rodriguez adhered to the typical mantra, assuring the assembled reporters that the United States “has little forward presence” on that continent.  Just days earlier, however, the men building the Pentagon’s presence there were telling a very different story — but they weren’t speaking with the media.  They were speaking to representatives of some of the biggest military engineering firms on the planet.  They were planning for the future and the talk was of war.     Continue reading “Our Big, Fat, Not-So-Secret War in Africa”

Common Dreams – by Julian Sanchez

The American intelligence community is forcefully denying reports that the National Security Agency has long known about the Heartbleed bug, a catastrophic vulnerability inside one of the most widely-used encryption protocols upon which we rely every day to secure our web communications. But the denial itself serves as a reminder that NSA’s two fundamental missions – one defensive, one offensive – are fundamentally incompatible, and that they can’t both be handled credibly by the same government agency.   Continue reading “The NSA’s Heartbleed Problem is the Problem with the NSA”

An Oregon woman who was threatened with eviction if she did not remove the American flag from her front window has now been asked to place the “colored drape” on a flag pole. (Photo credit should read RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images)CBS Seattle -by Benjamin Fearnow

Clackamas County, Ore. (CBS SEATTLE) – An Oregon woman who was threatened with eviction if she did not remove the American flag from her front window has now been asked to place the “colored drape” on a flag pole.

Elodia Royce, 58, received a notice two weeks ago that she would face eviction after a neighbor complained to the landlord about the “colored drape” placed in her window. But the “colored drape” is an American flag she has displayed for six years in support of herfamily and friends who have served in the military,KGW-TV reports.   Continue reading “Grandmother Gets Eviction Notice Labeling American Flag A ‘Colored Drape’”

Common Dreams – by Lauren McCauley

Although a notorious recipient of “corporate welfare,” Walmart has now admitted that their massive profits also depend on the funding of food stamps and other public assistance programs.

In their annual report, filed with the Security and Exchange Commission last week, the retail giant lists factors that could potentially harm future profitability. Listed among items such as “economic conditions” and “consumer confidence,” the company writes that changes in taxpayer-funded public assistance programs are also a major threat to their bottom line.   Continue reading “Walmart Admits: ‘Our Profits’ Depend on ‘Their Poverty’”

Tech Dirt – by  Mike Masnick

Over the past few months, one thing we keep hearing over and over again from defenders of the intelligence community is that everything is under control and “legal” because Congress has powerful oversight. We’ve shown, repeatedly, how that’s something of a joke. The intelligence community has lied repeatedly, has withheld documents and is generally nonresponsive to oversight attempts by Congress. And, with the reports that the CIA spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee, we also find out that for all the bluster and talk of oversight, folks in Congress are actually scared by the intelligence community.    Continue reading “Nancy Pelosi Admits That Congress Is Scared Of The CIA”

The immigration bill currently moving through the Senate would nearly double the number of Border Patrol agents.The Daily Caller – by Neil Munro

Top administration officials have directed 21,000 border patrol officers to retreat whenever illegal immigrants throw rocks at them, and to avoid getting in front of foreign drug-smugglers’ vehicles as they head north with their drug shipments.

“Agents shall not discharge firearms in response to thrown or hurled projectiles… agents should obtain a tactical advantage in these situations, such as seeking cover or distancing themselves,” said the instructions, issued Mar. 7, under the signature of Michael Fisher, chief of U.S. Border Patrol.   Continue reading “DHS tells American border guards to run away from illegal immigrants hurling rocks at them, fleeing in vehicles”

Who Controls America?

Most U.S. Federal gun control legislation has been written, introduced, and sponsored by Jewish Congressmen and Jewish Senators.

U.S. Federal Gun Control Legislation, 1968 – present

1968: The Gun Control Act of 1968 comes from Congressman Emanuel Celler’sHouse bill H.R.17735. It expands legislation already attempted by the non-Jewish Senator Thomas Dodd. America’s biggest and most far-reaching gun law came from a Jew.   Continue reading “Who is Behind Gun Control?”

Truth Dig – by Kasia Anderson

Gold has drawn glowing praise in the last six years or so, since the onset of the recent recession—and now, according to a duo of researchers, it ought to be the subject of a different kind of attention that calls into question the way its price is set.

The London gold fix is the focus of a draft paper by Rosa Abrantes-Metz and Albert Metz, as the Sydney Morning Herald reported earlier this week:    Continue reading “Researchers Suggest Banks Might Be Rigging Gold Prices”