Author: Paraclete

Guerrillamerica – by Samuel Culper III

In the Fall issue of Forward Observer Magazine, I had the great opportunity to interview Matthew Bracken, a former Navy SEAL and prolific author (I know you’ve heard of him), about the future of conflict in America.  A potential scenario he talked about was the “dirty civil war”, where a group of well-meaning Americans goes rogue by doing something really stupid (like indiscriminately killing cops or other officials, for instance).  That event or those actions start a chain reaction of copy cats and reprisals, things get really dirty, really fast, and our nation descends into chaos; one side too uncoordinated and unskilled to make any appreciable gains, and the other too brutal in their pursuit, resulting in too much collateral damage to take control of the situation and gain the support of the populace… thus the inability by both sides to end the conflict.   Continue reading “Local Stability in a “Dirty Civil War””

Breitbart – by Brandon Darby

Leaked internal training documents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reveal Border Patrol agents are now receiving guidelines instructing them that the vast majority of illegal immigrants in the U.S. are off limits to federal agents and are substantially immune to detention and deportation. A trusted federal agent in the CBP provided exclusive copies of the documents to Breitbart Texas and also agreed to an interview on the condition of anonymity.

According to the source, these training documents were required training for U.S. Border Patrol agents and each agent was required to sign their name to confirm receiving the training.   Continue reading “Catch and Release 2.0 — Leaks Highlight Teardown of Immigration Enforcement”

The New American – by Michael Tennant

Food shortages in formerly prosperous Venezuela — a direct and predictable result of the country’s descent into socialism — have become so severe that the government has put the country’s “food distribution under military protection,” Bloomberg reported January 9.

Inflation, rigged foreign-exchange rates, and price controls, along with outright government takeovers of some stores, have caused supplies of basic necessities to dry up. Venezuelans have been forced to go from store to store and stand in long lines — “some stretching for blocks,” according to Bloomberg — in hopes of getting even small amounts of some foods and household products, many of which are being rationed.   Continue reading “Venezuelan Military Occupies Stores; Customers Seize Scarce Groceries”

Guns America Digest – by PAUL HELINSKI

If you think about it, communication with the outside world is going to become really important in the weeks and months after a system collapse or major disaster. You may have food and water for months, but you don’t have it for years. And as I explained in my article on seeds, growing your own food just isn’t that easy. But as several commenters pointed out on the first radio article in this series, there is a strong argument to maintain radio silence. Any experienced radio operator can triangulate your position as soon as you press the send key, and in any survival situation, and you can bet that there will be hostiles out there listening for where they can steal some supplies. Radio silence has to be weighed against the benefits of reaching out to the world outside.   Continue reading “Prepping 101: Radio Silence! – The Mobile Survival HAM Backpack”

Double Prairie Fire in Laos

I was recently browsing YouTube when I happened upon a series of video slideshows featuring a Vietnam War era recording of a helicopter rescue operation which I had read about many years ago in the book “Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG ” by former SOG recon team leader John L. Plaster.

Major Plaster, USAR (ret.), served three 1-year tours in Southeast Asia with the top secret Special Forces covert operations unit, MACV-SOG. Qualified as a paratrooper and a Green Beret weapons and communications NCO, he led intelligence-gathering recon teams deep behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.    Continue reading “Double Prairie Fire in Laos”

A dated article but still, the folks need to be reminded of the attacks levied against them by an out of control regime.

Forbes – by Larry Bell, January 29, 2014

It seems that even wood isn’t green or renewable enough anymore.  The EPA has recently banned the production and sale of 80 percent of America’s current wood-burning stoves, the oldest heating method known to mankind and mainstay of rural homes and many of our nation’s poorest residents. The agency’s stringent one-size-fits-all rules apply equally to heavily air-polluted cities and far cleaner plus typically colder off-grid wilderness areas such as large regions of Alaska and the American West.   Continue reading “EPA’s Wood-Burning Stove Ban Has Chilling Consequences For Many Rural People”

Free North Carolina

In early 1850 Northern Ultras like Wendell Phillips trumpeted that “we are disunionists,” and Horace Mann admitted that Northern intransigence would produce a Southern rebellion against outrage and oppression. Daniel Webster could only produce useless Union speeches which had little effect upon Northern radicals who wanted revolution.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com   Continue reading “Revolution And The Law Of Necessity”

The Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith

The Greenville News:

Jon Bailey spent a Friday afternoon over Christmas break taking his 13-year-old son, Connor, to shoot pistols at Allen Arms Indoor Range in Greenville.

He showed Connor how to load, aim and fire the weapon, but he also instructed him on what to do if he ever saw friends playing with a gun or found a gun lying around. Continue reading “Gun Rights Education In South Carolina”

War is Boring – by Joseph Trevithick

The North Carolina Army National Guard has quietly stood up a new commando detachment for secretive missions around the world.

On Oct. 18th, federal and state officials held a ceremony marking the creation of Special Operations Detachment-X—a.k.a., SOD-X — in the capital Raleigh. The Guard already has 10 commando detachments spread across the country.   Continue reading “America Has a New Commando Unit”

TASS

MOSCOW, December 30. /TASS/. The US private military company Academi (formerly known as Blackwater) has confirmed its readiness to start training a Ukrainian battalion for street fighting, a military-diplomatic source told TASS on Tuesday.

“The private military company Academi has confirmed to the Kiev authorities its readiness to start training an experimental battalion of 550 men as of January at the request of Ukraine’s General Staff,” the source said.  Continue reading “Former US firm Blackwater to train Ukrainian military for street fighting”

Al Monitor

Those concerned with current East-West relations often use the term “Silk Road.” Referring to this term, in writing and literature, is more like retrieving old photographs from a bygone ancient era rather than having an outlook onto the future. This road, which spread economic prosperity, cultural diversity and interaction across Asia, Africa and Europe, is not a component of modern geography but of ancient history.   Continue reading “China planning Silk Road 2.0 through the Middle East”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

It looks like the Army will be getting a whole new pistol system sometime in the foreseeable future.

The Army has been considering an upgrade to its aging arsenal of Beretta M9 pistols and it looks like a new version of that pistol will not be the way they go.   Continue reading “Army Officially Announces It’s Rejection of Beretta M9A3”

Zero Gov – by John Meyers

“Jesus turned water into wine, I turned it into damn likker” – Popcorn Sutton

Appalachia’s history is largely comprised of tales of resistance of one form or another.  The poster child of Appalachia’s rebellion against unjust authority has always been the Moonshiner, the maker of non-government approved distilled spirits. These spirits were commonly referred to in the southern lexicon as moonshine, mountain dew, white lightning, “painter piss,” or perhaps more simply “likker.” There is no moonshiner more infamous than the Smoky Mountain’s own, Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton. He was not only one of the most famous makers of illicit liquor, but he also led his entire life in defiance of government authority and was quite a character to boot.   Continue reading “Popcorn Sutton: Whiskey Rebel”

May I submit an idea …..

If we started a road sign campaign, I believe the gained exposure would start a rolling effect. Most readers are widely located throughout the Republic. That gives us the broad brush to work with.

Now for the signs.

There’s most likely, located near each of us, a supplier of corrugated plastic sheeting. This usually sells for about ten dollars for a sheet 4’x8′.   Continue reading “Attention: Marketing the Message”

Straight Line Logic – by Robert Gore

What would it take to overthrow the U.S. government? The question may seem academic, but all governments fail. The U.S. government will too, for the usual reasons: its ever increasing size, rapacity, and attempts to control all aspects of life; the corresponding shrinkage of its constituents’ liberty; imperial overreach; welfare-state bread and circuses; debt; spreading poverty; crony capitalism, rampant corruption; widening income disparities, and oligarchic arrogance. As clearly odious as the government is, shouldn’t we do all we can to move it towards its inevitable rendezvous with failure?   Continue reading “Revolution In America”