100 Years Old And Still Killing UsThe Economic Collapse – by Michael

Did you know that the greatest period of economic growth in American history was during a time when there was absolutely no federal income tax?  Between the end of the Civil War and 1913, there was an explosion of economic activity in the United States unlike anything ever seen before or since.

Unfortunately, a federal income tax was instituted in 1913, and this year it turned 100 years old.  But there was no fanfare, was there?  There was no celebration because the federal income tax is universally hated.  Sadly, most Americans just assume that there is no other option to an income tax.  Most Americans just assume that it has always been with us and that it will always be with us.    Continue reading “100 Years Old And Still Killing Us: America Was Much Better Off Before The Income Tax”

A Giant African land snail is seen in this handout picture from the Florida Department of Agriculture Division of Plant Industry taken September 9, 2011. REUTERS/Florida Department of Agriculture Division of Plant Industry/HandoutYahoo News – by Barbara Liston | Reuters

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of one of the world’s most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster.

More than 1,000 of the mollusks are being caught each week in Miami-Dade and 117,000 in total since the first snail was spotted by a homeowner in September 2011, said Denise Feiber, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Continue reading “Florida battles slimy invasion by giant snails”

Photo credit: WTVDMy Fox 8 WGHP – by Ryan Sullivan

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Two men who attempted to invade a Fayetteville home early Friday morning died after a gun fight with the homeowner, according to WTVD.

WTVD reports the exchange of gunfire happened shortly after 3:30 a.m. at a house in the 7500 block of Levi Road.   Continue reading “Suspects dead after attempted home invasion in Fayetteville”

PhotoNorthwest Ohio – by Bryant Maddrick

TOLEDO — An attempted burglary early Saturday ends with one man dead.

It happened around one this morning at this home on the 4500 block of Douglas Road. police say the homes owner, 45-year old Bryan Loyer woke up to an intruder attempting to kick in his side door.   Continue reading “Man killed by homeowner in attempted burglary”

Public Intelligence

The Department of Defense has issued an instruction clarifying the rules for the involvement of military forces in civilian law enforcement.  The instruction establishes “DoD policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures for DoD support to Federal, State, tribal, and local civilian law enforcement agencies, including responses to civil disturbances within the United States.”   Continue reading “DoD Issues Instructions on Military Support of Civilian Law Enforcement”

Protein Wisdom

Earlier in the week I posted on the New York man who had his firearm confiscated, purportedly for being on anti-depressant drugs (which I noted at the time is a treatment for a fairly common malady; making the confiscation akin to seizing someone’s broken arm for the crime of wearing a cast). As the story broke and started gaining narrative steam, NY state law enforcement (Erie) suggested that the whole thing had been an honest record-keeping mistake and that the mental health aspect of the story as it had been reported wasn’t true.   Continue reading “NY’s Cuomo and DHS lie, collude on gun confiscation gambit?”

Jon Rappoport

It’s now being suggested that Google Glass, the computers worn over the eyes, can be used to catch rogue stock traders before they wander off the reservation and destroy the firms they work for.

Google Glass records everything the wearer sees and says. So if all brokers are ordered to have them, their every move can be observed by company spies. Wonderful, right?   Continue reading “Google Glass: obedience to the Matrix”

Clothing stores, like this one in Belfast, Northern Ireland, feature t-shirts with the image of Marxist freedom fighter Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Hollywood and counterculture hipsters romanticize the life of a man who executed thousands and said "the victory of Socialism is worth millions of atomic deaths." /Wikimedia CommonsThe Daily Cougar – by Sarah Backer

Next time you see someone sporting a shirt or anything with the visage of Marxist freedom fighter, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, stop and ask them what they know about this romanticized symbol of revolution.

Chances are it’s not too much.   Continue reading “Che: A revolution in pop culture misrepresentation”

21st Century Wire

LONDON – The ‘legacy thing’ is especially hard to manage when large swaths of the population feel that a former political puppet was completely on the wrong side of history.

Just ask Tony Blair, who is a shoe-in to grace the annals of history as one of most evil, money-orientated and unapologetic leaders in history. But this year’s fury has been reserved for the ‘The Iron Lady’, who many Britons believe laid the groundwork for the elitist, dysfunctional, closing society and greed-plagued political culture the country is unfortunately witnessing today.   Continue reading “BBC Shoot Themselves in Foot Again Trying to Preserve Thatcher’s Thorny Legacy”

Mr. Conservative – by Bookworm

History has shown us that one of the most dangerous things an individual can have in a totalitarian state is an opinion. In Hitler’s German, Mao’s China, or Stalin’s Soviet Union, it was always the same – have an opinion, go to jail.

What’s completely discouraging is that America is starting to be the same kind of state. People who are using their First Amendment free speech rights to raise important issues are increasingly finding themselves carted off to jail, or running the risk that their children will be wrenched from their arms and placed into the state system.   Continue reading “Man Charged With Terrorism For Criticizing School Security”

Albany Public Schools Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard speaks about a Nazi-themed assignment given to students during a news conference on Friday, April 12, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Vanden Wyngaard said a high school English teacher could face disciplinary action for giving the writing assignment that asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany. Photo: Mike GrollThe Times Union

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A high school English teacher who had students pretend to be Jew-hating Nazis in a writing assignment has been placed on leave.

The teacher at Albany High School caused a storm of criticism after having students practice the art of persuasive writing by penning a letter to a fictitious Nazi government official arguing that “Jews are evil.”   Continue reading “NY teacher who assigned Nazi letter put on leave”

Before It’s News – by Monica Davis

An attack on Word Press is growing in intensity. Analysts say a monster botnet with over 90,000 servers is trying to log onto the system, using massive numbers of usernames and passwords. Security analysts say the attacks have increased in the last few months.   Continue reading “Attack On Word Press Is Trial Run For Shutting Down Internet”

The Liberty Zone – by Nicki

It is a well known fact that criminals do not purchase guns legally. They do not go to stores. They do not undergo background investigations. They do not fill out necessary paperwork. They purchase cheap, throwaway guns, steal them, or obtain them from friends or family.

A Bureau of Justice Statistics publication from 2001 confirmed that among state inmates possessing a gun, fewer than 2% bought their firearm at a flea market or gun show, about 12% from a retail store or pawnshop, and 80% from family, friends, a street buy, or an illegal source. A more recent BJS study showed that from 2005 through 2010, 86% of burglaries and 75% of other property crimes involving a stolen firearm were reported to police.   Continue reading “Law Abiding Citizens Forced to Pay for Criminal Acts of Others”

Press TV

A political analyst tells Press TV that the Free Syrian Army is a subsidiary of the CIA and they want to destroy Syria and it is obvious they do not care for the Syrians.

This is while the United States has updated its military options for a direct intervention in Syria to aid the militants fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.    Continue reading “US conducts false flag operation in Syria: Randy Short”

Daily Caller

California lawmakers are pushing a bill that would exempt the state from federal laws authorizing indefinite detention of citizens.

The California Public Safety Committee voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of the California Liberty Preservation Act, which was introduced by Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly.   Continue reading “California bill to nullify NDAA unanimously passes committee”

Kim KFellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

The city of Los Angeles is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Unfunded liabilities for L.A.’s three public pension funds approach $27 billion; this for a city that already has a budget deficit and is struggling to pay its bills. In a 2010 Wall Street Journal editorial, former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan predicted that the city would go bankrupt by 2014.   Continue reading “Bankrupt Los Angeles sends 10 sheriffs to escort trash”

Star of DavidVine of Life

The so-called Star of David is a Satanic symbol. Satanists and occult practitioners use it for calling Satan and demons!
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Former Satanist, Bill Schnoebelen (now born again Christian)
“A hexagram must be present to call forth a demon” and ” it is a very powerful tool to invoke Satan”. “To the sorcerer, the hexagram is a powerful tool to invoke Satan.” In fact, the word “hex” — as to put a “hex” or “curse” on people — comes from this word.    Continue reading “You Decide: Hexagram–Star Of David Or Star Of Lucifer?”

The historic Gadsden Flag is the center of controversy in New York State.The Examiner – ANTHONY MARTIN

The state of New York has been running a series of ads on various television outlets touting its new supposed business-friendly environment. The ad claims that taxes have been lowered to their lowest level in many decades, that new incentives have been approved to attract business to the state, and that all of the ingredients are in place for businesses to flourish.

Aside from the fact that the ad campaign is designed to slow the mass exodus of business and industry from the state, similar to what is occurring in California, Illinois, and Colorado, business owners had best be thinking long and hard before a decision is made to relocate to New York.   Continue reading “New York attacks First Amendment in addition to guns”