Category: News

Buckeye Firearms Association

The September 2014 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of1,024,272 is the second highest September on record for the 16-year-old system, even with a decrease of 1.0 percent compared to the September 2013 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,034,701. For comparison, the unadjusted September 2014 NICS figure of 1,447,485 reflects a 4.0 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,392,423 in September 2013.   Continue reading “September 2014 Firearms Sales Checks Second Highest September on Record”

ABC News – by Matthew Lee, AP

Concerned about potential security risks, the U.S. government is taking a close look at last week’s sale of New York’s iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel to a Chinese insurance company.

U.S. officials said Monday they are reviewing the Oct. 6 purchase of the Waldorf by the Beijing-based Anbang Insurance Group, which bought the hotel from Hilton Worldwide for $1.95 billion. Terms of the sale allow Hilton to run the hotel for the next 100 years and call for “a major renovation” that officials say has raised eyebrows in Washington, where fears of Chinese eavesdropping and cyber espionage run high.   Continue reading “US Eyes Sale of NY’s Waldorf Hotel to Chinese Firm”

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Eureka Springs, Arkansas, A modern view of the street where five bank robbers met up with the armed citizenry in 1922.

I found the following true story of community self-defense in a 1970 edition of A Fame Not Easily Forgotten that I picked up at the thrift store for $.98. This slim volume contains many stories of the community of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, including that of its one-time mayor and most prominent and colorful citizen named (and I kid you not) Festus Orestes Butt. But the excerpt I present below is an interesting anecdote of community defense.   Continue reading ““Honor is due to all who participated in the shooting.” Community Defense in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 27 September 1922.”

BBC News

A UN medical worker infected with Ebola has died at a hospital in Germany.

Doctors at the hospital in Leipzig said the man, 56, originally from Sudan, died despite receiving experimental drugs to treat the virus.

More than 4,400 people have died from the outbreak, mainly in West Africa.   Continue reading “Ebola outbreak: UN health worker dies in Germany hospital”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

The increased use of eminent domain to transfer property to powerful political interests, the ramifications of the wars on terrorism and drugs, and the violation of the property rights of bondholders in the auto-bailout case have weakened the tradition of strong adherence to the rule of law in United States. We believe these factors have contributed to the sharp decline in the rating for the legal-system area.

To a large degree, the United States has experienced a significant move away from rule of law and toward a highly regulated, politicized, and heavily policed state.   Continue reading “New Report – The United States’ Sharp Drop in Economic Freedom Since 2000 Driven by “Decline in Rule of Law””

Beacon – by Muckrock

The Federal Communications Commission insists that it does not require police departments to sign a nondisclosure agreement with the FBI before acquiring or deploying cell phone trackers. The FCC’s response contradicts wording found in one such FBI nondisclosure agreement released last month by Tacoma police.

The FBI and FCC have both declined to comment on the discrepancy, and the FBI has rejected another FOIA request for a log of agencies that have signed such nondisclosure agreements.   Continue reading “FCC and FBI disagree over NDA requirement for police StingRays”

Air Force Times – by Patricia Kime, October 6, 2014

Agencies within the Defense Department are hard at work on a potential Ebola vaccine, with safety testing on humans expected to begin as early as next week.

The Pentagon recently received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to start testing the vaccine, VSVΔG-ZEBOV or BPSC1001, for health risks and side effects on people.

It already has been tested for safety as well as performance against the deadly disease in animals, a defense official said Friday.   Continue reading “Potential Ebola vaccines studied by DoD agencies”

Where is the wealth of our nation going?

How did you do in the 3rd quarter?

Wells Fargo 3Q profit up 21 percent

Yahoo News: Wells Fargo’s net income rose to $4.06 billion, or 72 cents per share, matching the forecasts of analysts surveyed by FactSet. In the same period a year ago the bank earned $3.34 billion, or 60 cents per share.   Continue reading “Big Banks’ 3Q Profits Up – Wealth Transfer?”

RT

In a startling admission, counterterrorism agencies said an American suicide bomber who made frequent trips to the Middle East was not under surveillance – and could not be unless there was an informant tipping them off to his activities.

Moner Mohammad Abusalha, a US citizen, made frequent trips to the Middle East before taking his own life by driving 16 tons of explosives into a restaurant used as check point by Syrian soldiers on May 25, 2014. Despite taking several trips prior to killing himself, the Florida-based, 22-year-old Abusalha was not on the radar of the FBI or the database at the National Counterterrorism Center.    Continue reading “American suicide bomber not tracked by US surveillance”

RT

Italian police have arrested a nurse suspected of killing at least 38 of her patients because they, or their relatives, were irritating her. The officials also found a selfie, with the nurse giving a thumbs-up in front of a recently deceased patient.

Daniela Poggiali, 42, a hospital nurse was arrested in her native town of Lugo in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, a province of Ravenna, reported Corriere della Sera, an Italian daily newspaper.   Continue reading “Italian nurse arrested over killing 38 patients who irritated her”

RT

A local guerrilla campaign has taken root in Syria, targeting Islamic State [IS] militants in the eastern part of the country where IS has established a stronghold.

The newly emergent guerrilla group, which calls itself “White Shroud” – in an apparent reference to the Islamic death shroud – says its goal is to respond to the notorious brutality of IS by instilling fear into its fighters, the Syrian group’s leader, who identified himself as Abu Aboud, told Reuters.   Continue reading “Syrian guerrilla group goes head-to-head against Islamic State”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

In the first quarter of 2015, I’ll be launching a new “low-tech technology” solution that will become an instant must-have among people who want to be more self-reliant. The timing of the Ebola outbreak makes this solution even more urgent, so I’m shifting my present priorities to really focus on this project and complete all the R&D and manufacturing steps necessary to bring this to the world as soon as possible.

While it’s too early to reveal the exact nature of this invention, it’s a surprisingly low-tech solution that needs no electricity to operate and contains no circuit boards. It is therefore EMP-proof. It will also continue to function during a power grid failure, a nuclear catastrophe or a viral pandemic. There are no pumps, gears or circuits in this system, and it does not consume any fossil fuels to operate.   Continue reading “Health Ranger to launch revolutionary EMP-proof technology delivering sustainability breakthroughs for food, water, nutrition and medicine”

The New American – by Bob Adelmann

With oil production from the Bakken formation in North Dakota now exceeding one million barrels a day and the Eagle Ford and Permian Basin oil fields in Texas producing more than three million barrels per day, prices for crude are dropping worldwide and pushing gasoline prices down along with them.

Crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit a 52-week low of $83.59 a barrel last Friday, while Lundberg just reported average prices for gasoline across the country have dropped to $3.26 per gallon. As recently as May 2, gas in the United States cost $3.72 a gallon. Continue reading “OPEC Continues to Unravel”

The New American – by Alex Newman

The global government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published a new report this month demanding further integration of North America, calling for deeper “cooperation” on everything from energy, law enforcement, and healthcare to labor regulations, trade, and education. With the globalist architects well aware of how unpopular their sought-after “North American Union” scheme remains among the public, the CFR appears to have toned down some of its extreme anti-sovereignty rhetoric. Instead, the new report emphasizes what the outfit called a “new focus” on North America dealing primarily with energy, “community,” and “security.” The scheme, however, remains just as radical.   Continue reading “CFR Globalists Outline Strategy for “North American Community””

BATR

The Comité De Salut Public during the French Revolution exhibited a pattern for nightmares far removed from their stated purpose as a Committee of Public Safety. The reign of terror that arose from the shambles created by the Society of the Jacobins, based upon extreme egalitarianism, actually produced a most violent outcome.  If you are one of those lost souls who cling to the latest narrative from the designer media reporting machine, the fear factor is working overtime. What can be more impartial than the threat of succumbing to an Ebola epidemic? Well, if you believe this hysteria, maybe the imminent acts of terror from those Islamic fascists; now called ISIS, will get your blood pressure to spike. Both share a paranoia manufactured in the labs of mind control more than in the actuary records of fact.   Continue reading “In Search of an Ebola and ISIS Free Zone”

Yahoo News – by Jason Sickles

DALLAS — The Texas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for the first person to die of the virus in the U.S. has been identified as 26-year-old Nina Pham.

Health officials have not released the nurse’s name, but Yahoo News identified Pham through public records and a state nursing database.

Then on Monday, Pham’s family confirmed her identity to Dallas ABC News affiliate WFAA.   Continue reading “Nina Pham identified as Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola”

Washington’s Blog

CDC’s Double-Standard Regarding Ebola

CNN notes that CDC tells healthcare workers that they only need goggles and a cloth face mask when treating Ebola carriers … but CDC personnel themselves wear full respirators and hazardous materials suits when visiting the same hospitals (2:02-2:26 & 4:00-5:30 into video).

In the clip, the Vice President of the National Nurses Union – and the President of the California Nurses Association/National Nurse Organizing Committee – says:   Continue reading “Hypocrisy: CDC Tells Healthcare Workers They Don’t Need Respirators … But When CDC Personnel Visit Ebola Patients, They Wear Respirators”

The Free Thought Project – by Cassandra Rules

St Louis, MO — On Sunday’s action for the Ferguson October Weekend of Resistance, demonstrators gathered at the site of the killing of VonDerrit Myers for another very secretive act of civil disobedience.

When protesters arrived in the area, police had once again set up check points at all side streets leading to the location.  Non residents were not permitted to enter, and residents were forced to provide identification to be able to get to their homes.   Continue reading “Massive Demonstration at St Louis University for Mike Brown and VonDerrit Myers”