Washington Post – by Ellen Nakashima

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking bids from companies able to provide law enforcement officials with access to a national license-plate tracking system — a year after canceling a similar solicitation over privacy issues.

The reversal comes after officials said they had determined they could address concerns raised by civil liberties advocates and lawmakers about the prospect of the department’s gaining widespread access, without warrants, to a system that holds billions of records that reveal drivers’ whereabouts. Continue reading “A year after firestorm, DHS wants access to license-plate tracking system”

Activist Post – by Nicholas West

The evolution of “non-lethal” weapons has been disturbing enough (and actually lethal in many cases), but speculation that this developing arsenal would be attached to drones has generally been met with accusations of fear-mongering.

However, the recent announcement that India (a constitutional republic) has now green-lighted drones for controlling “unruly crowds” in its northern capital Lucknow should get any skeptic’s attention. Incidentally, even among highly populated India, the Uttar Pradesh region is a populous area of 204 million people, putting it into the range of most of the United States.      Continue reading “India Becomes First Country to Approve Weaponized Drones For Crowd Control”

The Idealist Revolution

Our modern society is highly dependent upon the “system.” Not only do we rely upon utility services to bring us electricity, water and natural gas, but also on an incredibly complex supply chain which provides us with everything from food to computers. Without that supply chain, most of us wouldn’t know what to do.

This situation is actually becoming worse, rather than better. When I compare my generation (I’m in my 50s) to that of my children, I see some striking differences. In my generation it was normal for a boy to grow up learning how to do a wide variety of trade skills from his father, and seemingly everyone knew how to do basic carpentry and mechanic work. But that’s no longer normal.   Continue reading “8 Survival Skills Your Great-Grandparents Knew (That Most Of Us Have Forgotten)”

Moonbattery

If you exercise your right to bear arms, be very careful who you take up with. Given how grudgingly the authorities acknowledge this precious right, an unscrupulous ex could give you a very hard time:

In the words of Cambria County [Pennsylvania] Sheriff Bob Kolar: some people collect model cars, some people collect motorcycles, some people collect guns.

One middle-aged Cambria County man is a collector of the latter. When an angry lady friend decided to strike out, it was in the direction of those guns that she struck. Continue reading “$1,200 Fine for Having Gun Collection Confiscated”

vaccinationNatural News – by Ethan A. Huff

Imagine a world in which the government has free access to your private medical records for the purpose of ensuring your compliance with official vaccination mandates. The United States is on the cusp of such tyranny with an Immunization Information Systems (IIS) program currently being built by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that will make your vaccination status available to health authorities, healthcare providers and “other authorized stakeholders.”
Continue reading “CDC building ‘police state’ registry system to track your vaccination status”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Michael Boldin

PHOENIX (Apr. 2, 2015) – Today, new Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed a bill that would have allowed gold and silver to be used as “legal tender” in the state, as required by the Constitution.

Introduced by Rep. Mark Finchem and six cosponsors, House Bill 2173 (HB2173) re-affirms gold and silver as legal tender in the state of Arizona on a voluntary basis. It reads, in part: “Legal tender is money and is not subject to taxation or regulation as property other than money.”   Continue reading “Arizona Gov. Vetoes Bill to Authorize Gold and Silver as Legal Tender”

Washington’s Blog

Should We Obey Authority … No Matter What?

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is coordinating with Christian ministers nationwide so that – if the government imposes MARTIAL LAW – the ministers will urge their flocks to OBEY the government.

A number of Christian leaders say that Christians must obey the government … no matter what.   For example, Robert Deffinbaugh – pastor at Community Bible Chapel in Richardson, Texas – says:   Continue reading “Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God”

Michelle-Lael NorsworthyFox News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. –  A federal judge on Thursday ordered California’s corrections department to provide a transgender inmate with sex change surgery, the first time such an operation has been ordered in the state.

U.S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco ruled that denying sex reassignment surgery to 51-year-old Michelle-Lael Norsworthy violates her constitutional rights. Her birth name is Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy.   Continue reading “Judge orders California to pay for inmate’s sex change”

Photo courtesy of Gov. Chris Christie's officeTheBlaze – by Jason Howerton

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Thursday pardoned Shaneen Allen, a single mother arrested last year for bringing her legal handgun into New Jersey from her home state of Pennsylvania. She initially faced a felony charge and years in prison, but was later permitted to enter a pretrial intervention program.

Allen said she believed her Pennsylvania concealed carry permit allowed her to bring her .38-caliber handgun into New Jersey. However, she became a felony suspect as soon as she crossed the state line. She alerted officers in Atlantic County that she was carrying the gun when she was pulled over, which ultimately lead to her arrest.   Continue reading “Gov. Chris Christie Pardons Single Mother in Controversial Gun Case”

Reuters – by SULEIMAN AL-KHALIDI

Syrian military aircraft bombed areas close to its main crossing into Jordan on Thursday, witnesses and a group monitoring the conflict said, hours after insurgents had captured the border post.

Insurgents fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad said they had seized the Nasib crossing in southern Syria late on Wednesday, putting most of 370-km (230-mile) border area stretching up to Israel in the hands of the rebels.   Continue reading “Syrian aircraft bomb area near captured Jordan crossing”

Common Dreams – by Deirdre Fulton

Oregon could become the first state in the country to regulate agricultural use of antibiotics, should lawmakers approve bills that would prohibit giving antibiotics to healthy farm animals and require factory farms to report how the drugs are used in their operations.

More than 70 percent of antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used on livestock and poultry—and not primarily to treat sick animals. Instead, factory farms often put antibiotics into the daily feed and water of healthy animals, to promote growth and prevent disease due to overcrowded and dirty conditions.   Continue reading “Oregon Seeks to Become First State to Limit Antibiotic Use at Factory Farms”

Yahoo News – by JULIET LINDERMAN AND MEREDITH SOMERS

BALTIMORE (AP) — The driver killed in a violent confrontation at a National Security Agency gate was a transgender sex worker in Baltimore, according to those who knew her, and she was remembered Wednesday as a friendly but troubled loner.

Ricky Shawatza Hall, 27, was killed Monday when NSA police opened fire on a stolen car that then crashed into a police vehicle. A passenger and an officer were wounded.   Continue reading “Driver Killed at NSA Gate Was Transgender Sex Worker”

Telegraph – by Mehreen Khan

The Israeli government has submitted its application to become a founding member of a controversial Chinese-led development bank, in a move that is likely to cause consternation in Washington.

Newly re-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a letter to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) by the March 31 deadline, according to the country’s foreign ministry.

Continue reading “Israel applies to become founding member of China development bank”

The Free Thought Project – by Cassandra Fairbanks

Knox County, TN– Sgt. Paul Story of the Knock County Sheriff’s Office will reportedly not be disciplined after pulling his gun and threatening a man while off-duty and in line at a RedBox kiosk.  Audio of the incident was captured when he called 9-1-1 to request an on-duty officer’s assistance.

The obscenity-laced exchange began when Sgt. Story accused Timothy Nelson of cutting in line.   Continue reading “Cop Pulls Gun, Threatens to Arrest Man After Accusing Him Of Cutting In Line At RedBox Kiosk”

Economist – by MSLJ

CONVICTED of racketeering, 11 educators were handcuffed on April 1st for their roles in a cheating scandal within Atlanta’s public schools (APS) that stretches back to 2001. The criminal investigation that led to the beginning of the trial last August involved more than 50 schools and hundreds of interviews with pupils, parents and staff. One teacher was acquitted.

And how did it all begin? Suspiciously high scores on the Criterion-Reference Competency Test, standardised exams that assess competency in maths, English and other skills, prompted first a local newspaper, and then Georgia’s former governor Sonny Perdue, to start asking questions.    Continue reading “Performance anxiety”

Rio Ranch lunchEAG News – by Kyle Olson

RIO RANCHO, N.M. – There’s one group of young eaters who like Michelle Obama’s school lunch program: pigs.

New Mexico’s Galloping Grace Youth Ranch is accepting fruits and vegetables thrown away by students at several elementary schools in the Rio Rancho area and collects some five tons per week.

“It’s really whatever they don’t eat coming off of their trays, so when they get up to the trash cans they will scrape it into one of our buckets that we pick up on a daily basis,” ranch CEO Max Wade tells KRQE.   Continue reading “Michelle O’s ‘healthy’ lunches going to the pigs — literally”

Former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the the agency's targeting of tea party groups, where she invoked her constitutional right not to incriminate herself. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)Politico – by JOHN BRESNAHAN and RACHAEL BADE

The Justice Department will not seek criminal contempt charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner, the central figure in a scandal that erupted over whether the tax agency improperly targeted conservative political groups.

Ronald Machen, the former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a seven-page letter this week that he would not bring a criminal case to a grand jury over Lerner’s refusal to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March 2014. The House approved a criminal contempt resolution against Lerner in May 2014, and Machen’s office has been reviewing the issue since then.   Continue reading “DOJ: No contempt charges for former IRS official Lois Lerner”

USCCA Gun a DayAmmoland

Every April for the last 2 years, the United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) has given away 30 brand-new guns through their “Gun-A-Day” promotion. The company is on track to repeat their efforts again this year!

West Bend, WI – (AmmoLand.com) On April 1st, the US Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) kicks off their annual Gun-A-Day Giveaway promotion spanning the entire month of April, and it’s no joke…   Continue reading “USCCA to Give Away a Gun Each Day in April”

Amnesty International USA

There is growing evidence that the Saudi Arabian-led military coalition is failing to take precautions to prevent civilian deaths amid ongoing airstrikes on sites around Yemen, Amnesty International said, as it confirmed that at least six civilians, including four children, were among 14 people who burned to death in further strikes early this morning.

The attacks, carried out at around 2 AM in Ibb governorate, were apparently targeting a Huthi checkpoint as well as fuel supplies along the road between Yareem and Dhammar. The dead included four children and two women, as well as eight men, but it is unknown if any of those were fighters. At least 31 others were hospitalized with burns and shrapnel wounds.   Continue reading “Yemen: At least six civilians burn to death in further airstrikes overnight”

Channel News Asia

TOKYO: The world’s oldest person, Misao Okawa, died in Japan on Wednesday (Apr 1), a month after celebrating her 117th birthday.

The nursing home where she lived in Osaka said she breathed her last around 7am (10pm GMT Tuesday).

On the occasion of her birthday early last month, Okawa, a mother of three, grandmother of four and great-grandmother of six, was one of only a handful of people still alive who had been born in the 19th century.   Continue reading “World’s oldest person dies at 117 in Japan”