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Most of the time, no one actually expects the S to HTF on that particular day.
Most folks don’t go through their lives expecting one specific event to occur, and then have it unfold according to a predetermined script.
Two weeks ago, I didn’t get up in the morning expecting some jerk to get mad at his girlfriend, light a tree in her yard on fire, and set off a 100,000 acre forest fire. But he did. Continue reading “Prepping: The Only Way to be Ready for Anything is to be Ready for Anything”
The New American – by Selwyn Duke
A government advisory commission assembled in the wake of the tragic Sandy Hook shooting has issued a proposal for preventing similar events that is raising eyebrows:
Monitor certain homeschoolers.
The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission (SHAC), consisting of 16 educators, local and state officials, and “behavioral experts,” was created 18 months ago by Governor Dannel Malloy after 20-year-old Adam Lanza committed the Connecticut mass shooting that transfixed the nation in December 2012. Lanza, “described as being ‘dark and disturbed’ before his death … coldly murdered his own mother in their expensive home near Newtown, Connecticut. Continue reading “Government Plan to Stop School Shootings: Monitor Homeschoolers”
The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges
In the face of an Ebola outbreak, the government should be deploying the military at all border entry points and in airports for the purpose of establishing quarantine zones for passengers suspected of exposure to the Ebola virus. All flights, to and from Africa, should be banned from entering U.S. airspace. Instead of protecting America, this administration is sending 3,000 soldiers, untrained in dealing with Ebola outbreaks, to Africa for reasons that nobody can seemingly identify? Why? We continue to leave our southern border completely open and Ebola, in the form of a bio-terror weapon can and will be brought into the United States. Again, I ask why? The CDC owns the patent on Ebola and every strain of the virus up to 70% of the variance from the original pathogen. Continue reading “How Ebola Will Irreversibly Transform America”
Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville
In what is more proof that the NATO operation against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is merely Libya 2.0, the Obama administration is now stating that it is open to the possibility of establishing a “no-fly zone” over Syria.
The statements, made by both Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and General Martin E. Dempsey, are supposed to hinge upon an agreement with Turkey, that is itself calling for a “buffer zone,” one of the wishes of NATO since the very beginning of the Syrian crisis. Continue reading “Libya 2.0? US Says ‘No-Fly Zone’ Over Syria A Possibility”
Electronic Frontier Foundation – by Cindy Cohn
Update 9/26/14: Recently Apple has announced that it is providing basic encryption on mobile devices that they cannot bypass, even in response to a request from law enforcement. Google has promised to take similar steps in the near future. Predictably, law enforcement has responded with howls of alarm.
We’ve seen this movie before. Below is a slightly adapted blog post from one we posted in 2010, the last time the FBI was seriously hinting that it was going to try to mandate that all communications systems be easily wiretappable by mandating “back doors” into any encryption systems. We marshaled eight “epic failures” of regulating crypto at that time, all of which are still salient today. And in honor of the current debate, we’ve added a ninth. Continue reading “Nine Epic Failures of Regulating Cryptography”
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man who was shot after he beheaded one woman and attacked another at an Oklahoma food processing plant from which he had just been fired has regained consciousness and has been interviewed by detectives, police said Saturday.
Alton Nolen, 30, remains hospitalized in stable condition following Thursday’s attack at the Vaughan Foods plant in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, Police Sgt. Jeremy Lewis said. He said Nolen will be charged with first-degree murder and assault and battery with a deadly weapon, and that he may also face federal charges. Continue reading “Police: Man Accused in Oklahoma Beheading Is Awake”
Breitbart – by DANIEL NUSSBAUM
A “swarm” of more than 600 earthquakes in just 24 hours struck the Mammoth Lake region of California, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, between Thursday and Friday morning.
According to the Los Angeles Times, at least 109 earthquakes were magnitude 2.0 or greater, while at least six were magnitude 3.0 or greater. However, most of the earthquakes were much smaller in power. Continue reading “More Than 600 Earthquakes in 24 Hours Hit Mammoth Lake, CA”
Breitbart – by Kristin Tate and Bob Price
MOORE, Oklahoma — Following the brutal beheading of a woman in an Moore, Oklahoma, a photo began circulating the web allegedly showing a large group of Muslims at a press conference reading from the Koran and shouting “praise Allah!”
Breitbart Texas asked a Moore Police Department Public Affairs Officer, Jeremy Lewis, if a group of Muslims were in fact protesting after the press conference yesterday. Continue reading “Oklahoma Police Say ‘Muslim Protest and Chanting’ Report Is False”
SANAA (Reuters) – An al Qaeda splinter group said it launched a rocket toward the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, wounding several guards, to retaliate for a purported U.S. drone strike in a northern province of Yemen the day before.
The U.S. State Department said it had no indication that the embassy was the target of the attack and that none of its staff were wounded. Continue reading “Al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen say fire rocket toward U.S. embassy”
On Friday morning, police in Moore, Oklahoma released the identity of the suspect in the brutal beheading of a woman at her workplace: Alton Nolen, who now goes by Jah’Keem Yisrael. Nolen is a convert to Islam, and local press reports that he had attempted to convert other employees at Vaughan Foods, where the murder took place.
Yisrael is a graduate of Idabel High School in nearby Idabel, Oklahoma, about four hours southeast from Moore where the attack occurred. Nolen was a football player and, by available accounts, not a religious person at the time. A teammate, speaking to Truth Revolt, describes him as “normal” and “a good football player, but not great.” Continue reading “Beheading Suspect Fired After Argument Over Stoning Women”
I’m sorry, but correct me if I’m wrong. HE WAS NOT BORN IN THIS COUNTRY, SO THEREFORE HE’S INELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT!!!! Why is there even a straw poll? He CANNOT run. PERIOD! END OF STORY!
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz won the Value Voters Summit presidential straw poll on Saturday. Continue reading “Cruz clinches straw poll gold”
A second and equally interesting, D.C. Whispers report in the same week. If you have not yet read the initial update, please do so as it will greatly benefit your understanding of the follow-up post here. It appears President Obama was given an ultimatum by the Pentagon with a strong assist from a high ranking member of the Senate – an ultimatum that proved influential enough that it convinced Senior White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett herself. Continue reading “D.C. Whispers: “Mr. President, You Have No Choice. You’re Exposed Here.””
FreedomPop, a company that sells wireless hotspot devices with free mobile data, is planning to offer a full-blown cellular service with free voice calls and text messages this summer.
According to AllThingsD, FreedomPop has been amassing a pile of refurbished phones that once ran on Sprint’s 4G WiMax network, such as the Samsung Galaxy SII and HTC Evo 4G, and plans to sell them for under $200 with no contract. In exchange, FreedomPop subscribers will get 500 MB of data and 200 voice minutes (via VoIP) per month, plus unlimited text messages. Continue reading “FreedomPop’s Free Wireless Would Be Cool If It Wasn’t So Shady”
New York Daily News – by Shayna Jacobs
A garment worker who had a pink tote bag full of hotly sought after new iPhones is iRate with cops she says falsely arrested her and accused her of trying to sell them.
Hui Lin, 51, says she spent days camped out in front of the Fifth Ave. Apple store so she could buy a dozen iPhone 6s for her sons, nieces and nephews.
“They’re desperate for the iPhones — the new models,” the Chinese immigrant said of her family, adding, “An iPhone costs three weeks of wages!” Continue reading “Woman claims NYPD cops made up story she was reselling iPhones”
Residents of Sunset Park, Brooklyn march to protest police brutality in the wake of several videos showing violent arrests.
It comes as police say an officer involved in one of the arrests has been placed on modified duty.
Protesters marched from 46th Street and 5th Avenue to the 72nd police precinct station house. Continue reading “Brooklyn Resident Protest Alleged Police Brutality Following Video Leak”
Biz Pac Review – by Cheryl Carpenter Klimek
A New York news anchor didn’t know the mic was on and the live camera rolling on Wednesday when he and a reporter cursed and joked about government assistance programs.
News 12 The Bronx anchor Matt Pieper and reporter Amy Yensi were preparing to report on the need for school crossing guards in certain areas, according to TV Spy, when they made the following remarks: Continue reading “Anchor on hot mic bashes government assistance programs using colorful language, angers viewers”
The Guardian – by Chris Johnston
Mark Reckless, the Tory MP for Rochester and Strood, has become the second Conservative member to defect to Ukip in the space of two months.
The eurosceptic politician said he had not taken the decision lightly but claimed the Conservative leadership was “part of the problem that is holding our country back”.
The surprise announcement, which comes on the eve of the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, is a further blow to David Cameron eight months before the general election.Appearing on stage to a rapturous reception at the Ukip conference in Doncaster, he said voters felt “ripped off and lied to”, adding: “Today I am leaving the Conservative party and joining Ukip.” Continue reading “Tory MP Mark Reckless defects to Ukip”
Washington Post – by Matt Schudel
James A. Traficant Jr., an iconoclastic nine-term Ohio populist in the U.S. House of Representatives who was convicted on corruption charges in 2002, becoming the second member of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War, died Sept. 27 at a hosptial in Youngstown, Ohio. He was 73.
A family spokeswoman, Heidi Hanni, confirmed his death to reporters. The former congressman was injured in a tractor accident on his farm near Greenford, Ohio, on Tuesday. A former aide told reporters in Ohio that he apparently had a heart attack while driving the tractor, which overturned inside a building and left the former congressman trapped underneath. Continue reading “James A. Traficant Jr., colorful Ohio congressman expelled by House, dies at 73”
Watch this lady accidentally fall off a building soon.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says it “categorically rejects” allegations made by a former examiner that the Fed has become deferential to America’s biggest banks and fails to effectively regulate them.
The New York Fed was responding to a story on news site ProPublica and radio show This American Life that alleges a culture of deference to banks such as Goldman Sachs. Continue reading “New York Fed denies deference to big banks”
When you look at it from the perspective of limiting the federal government to its “enumerated powers”, it all becomes very easy and clear. We haven’t been looking at it this way because we are so ignorant of our Constitution that we don’t know that it delegates “enumerated powers” only to the federal government.
The Truth is, that when WE THE PEOPLE “created” the federal government, we itemized (“enumerated”) in the Constitution all the powers WE delegated to it. Continue reading “May the Federal Government Lawfully Make ANY Restrictions on Our Guns & Ammo?”
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