I’m loathe to do so, but I regrettably believe it has become necessary to suggest a new holiday. It wouldn’t be something marked by fireworks and celebration, but instead it would be a day of mourning known as “Total Dependence Day.”

It would begin at the stroke of midnight on the fourth day of July, so immediately after celebrating “Independence Day”, you would have to stop the party, and reflect on the reality that our hard-won freedom has been lost due to our total dependence on government and gadgetry, and that many of us would be reduced to tears if not supplied with the endless cheap entertainment that now dominates our culture and our free time.    Continue reading “Total Dependence Day”

Before It’s News

The FDA owns a patent on cannabis, recognizing its medicinal value by labeling it as a schedule I narcotic but “with no accepted medical uses”… except in conditions that require a schedule 1 narcotic that are not defined? A patent on a Natural medicine that has been proven to cure skin- and  ovarian cancer, and has medicinal applications  for dozens of illnesses?

These two two positions are in stark contradiction with one another, a kind of bureaucratic oxymoron… Either deliberate or just a ‘schedule one’ bureaucratic oversight?   Continue reading “What’s REALLY Wrong With Non-Psychoactive, RAW Cannabis as a Medicine if it REALLY Works?”

American Everyman – by willyloman

An amazing video has surfaced showing Super Spy Edward Snowden preparing to make his great escape from the transit area in Moscow. As you can see from this video, Snowden disguised himself as a black Muslim and jived his way past the tight security and onto the plane. An amazing bit of Bourne Identity type super duper spying on Edward’s part if you ask me. Continue reading “BREAKING: How Edward Snowden Escaped Transit Area in Moscow!”

Vandenberg Air Force Base, California (Reuters / Gene Blevins)RT News

A $214-million test launch of the only US defense against long-range ballistic missile attacks failed to hit its target over the Pacific Ocean, according to the Missile Defense Agency. There have been no successful interceptor tests since 2008.

In Friday’s test, a ground-based interceptor missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and was expected to hit its target – a missile launched 4,000 miles away from the Kwajalein Atoll.   Continue reading “US ABM test failure mars $1bn N. Korea defense plan”

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Gas chambers could be brought back to life in the state of Missouri, where the attorney general has indicated replacing lethal-injection with the long-forgotten and controversial means of execution before the former’s drug supply runs out.

“As each supply expires, the department’s ability to carry out lawfully imposed capital sentences diminishes,”  Attorney General Chris Koster said in a motion filed with the court. “Unless the court changes its current course, the legislature will soon be compelled to fund statutorily-authorized alternative methods of execution to carry out lawful judgments.”   Continue reading “‘Machinery of Death’: Gas chamber may be revived in Missouri”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

UPDATE:  At least 30 buildings are on fire and 60 people are missing and scores may be dead but rescue workers cant get in to help anyone because of the heat.

A train carrying crude oil derailed in the town of Lac-Megantic, Que., early Saturday morning, sending giant flames into the air and prompting a mass evacuation.  The derailment forced hundreds of people from their homes in Lac-Megantic, which is located about 250 kilometres east of Montreal. A number of the train’s 73 cars exploded, causing a fire that spread to several of buildings in the community.   Continue reading “Train Derails, Explodes In Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Town Center Ablaze, Entire Town Evacuated, 60 Missing, Scores Feared Dead”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Saturday he would grant asylum, if requested, to former U.S. intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden. Morales’ offer came after two other leftist Latin American leaders – Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega – also said they would help the U.S. fugitive, who is believed to be holed up in the transit area of a Moscow international airport.   Continue reading “Bolivia Offers Edward Snowden Asylum”

GAS-OIL PRICESThe Republic – by Stephen Singer

HARTFORD, Connecticut — In another sign that natural gas is outpacing costlier heating oil, a Texas energy company is proposing to install new pipelines, replace others and build transmission stations in the heavily populated, 200-mile New York-to-Boston corridor.

The preliminary plan proposed by Algonquin Gas Transmissions, a unit of Spectra Energy in Houston, would build and replace about 44 miles of pipeline in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island, install a new pipeline to span the Hudson River in New York and build compressor stations to boost gas flow.   Continue reading “Power plants balk at upgraded natural gas pipeline eyed for suburban New York City to Boston”

A crewmen directs a pipe for TransCanada's Keystone XL project as it's lowered into the ground in Wood County, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in Winnsboro. (Cody Duty / Houston Chronicle) Photo: CHRON, Staff / © 2012 Houston ChronicleBeaumont Enterprise – by Jennifer A. Dlouhy

The northern leg of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline may be mired in controversy, but the southern portion of the project is almost complete, company officials said Friday.

Dubbed the Gulf Coast Pipeline, that southern leg is on track to begin carrying up to 700,000 barrels of oil per day from Cushing, Okla., to Nederland by the end of the year. Eventually, TransCanada expects to be able to ramp up capacity to 830,000 barrels per day.   Continue reading “TransCanada pipeline to Nederland to move 700K barrels of oil this year”

Mack WorleyExaminer – by MIKAEL THALEN

A decorated Air Force veteran pleaded not guilty this morning to a charge of “trespassing with a weapon capable of producing bodily harm,” after being arrested by police in Vancouver, Washington, for legally open carrying an AR-15 rifle.

Last Saturday, Mack Worley, eager to exercise his second amendment, open carried his rifle while grabbing a soda and viewing a fireworks stand before attempting to walk back to his car.   Continue reading “Veteran Arrested And Charged For Legally Open Carrying AR-15”

Lawrence O'Donnell and friends want us to shut up voluntarily--for nowExaminer – by Kurt Hofmann

With “gun violence” continuing to plummet (while gun sales continue to soar), the gun prohibitionists are apparently running low on “gun violence” to exploit, and are thus reduced to blaming their favorite bogeyman, the NRA, for violence committed (or at least attempted) without guns. St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner noted in April that some were blaming the NRA for the Boston bombing. Politico quoted MSNBC’s resident socialist (oops–that doesn’t narrow things down much, does it?) Lawrence O’Donnell, claiming that without the NRA’s influence, the black powder used in the bombs would have had chemical “taggants” to help trace the bomb-making materials:   Continue reading “Running low on ‘gun violence,’ gun-haters now blame NRA for attempted poisonings”

Illinois State Rifle AssociationAmmoLand – by Richard Pearson

Illinois –(Ammoland.com)- On behalf of myself along with the officers and directors of the Illinois State Rifle Association, I would like to wish each of you and your families a happy Independence Day.

With all that’s been going on both at home and abroad lately, it’s easy to wonder at times whether July 4th remains as a celebration of our independence or whether the day now serves as a memorial to the independence we once had.   Continue reading “Remembering a Happy Fourth & the State of Concealed Carry Legislation in Illinois”

policeNatural News – by Mike Adams

America is rapidly devolving into the oppressive police state we’ve been warning readers about. Right now, cops are exhibiting thuggish, out-of-control “mafia” behavior as they run loose across America, terrorizing innocent citizens, shooting up the vehicles of people who are merely driving cars on public roadways, taking warrantless blood draws from drivers, shooting pet dogs of peoplewho are merely filming police, raiding farmers at gunpoint over raw milk and terrorizing young women for buying bottled water and cookie dough.   Continue reading “Militarized police gone wild across America; terrorizing citizens, shooting pet dogs, behaving like occupying military force”

Breitbart – by Mike Flynn

The release of the June Jobs’ Report Friday was something of a relief for the markets. The Labor Department reported that the economy gained 195,000 jobs in June, which beat economists’ expectations. The Department also reported that the economy gained 70,000 more jobs in April and May than it originally estimated. The report, however, also provides clear evidence that the the nation is splitting into two; only 47% of Americans have a full-time job and those who don’t are finding it increasingly out of reach.    Continue reading “Only 47% of Adults have Full-Time Job”

(Image credit: kesou422)End the Lie -by Madison Ruppert

Protests against the surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency (NSA) are occurring across the United States under the banner of the “Restore the Fourth” campaign.

Restore the Fourth is supported by a wide range of groups and companies from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to the Freedom of the Press Foundation to Mozilla.   Continue reading “Restore the Fourth: protests against NSA surveillance programs sweep the nation”

The Lid – by Jeff Dunetz

Fast and Furious is the Scandal that wont go away. Even though Attorney General Eric Holder refuses to release the documents which may prove that he lied about the scandal, we do learn a little more about this scandal every day.  The latest revelation is that one of those guns the ATF allowed to be sold to the Mexican Drug Cartels was used to kill a Mexican Police Chef.    Continue reading “Mexican Police Chief Killed with Fast and Furious Gun”

metadataNatural News – by J. D. Heyes

If there is one thing you need to remember at all times in the Electronic Age, it is that privacy no longer exists. Every electronic device, every electronic communication, every electronic anything betrays your sense of privacy in every imaginable way, and that is also true of a seemingly innocuous item – the photo.

If taken with a smartphone – as many photos these days certainly are – then the government, as well as ordinary folk (including those who mean you harm) can use metadata embedded in that photo you just tweeted or posted on Facebook to find out your exact coordinates. That includes where you live, if that’s where you sent or posted the photo from, according to a new investigative report by McClatchy Newspapers:   Continue reading “Every picture you take is secretly encoded with your GPS location”

hagel-dempsey-600x400-ts300Global Research – by Prof Michel Chossudovsky

“[US Defense Secretary] Hagel and [US Chief of Staff General] Dempsey were walking a fine line … expressing concern while attempting to avoid the impression that the U.S. was manipulating events behind the scenes.” (Military.com, July 3, 2013)

The protest movement is directed against the US and its proxy Muslim Brotherhood regime.    Continue reading “Was Washington Behind Egypt’s Coup d’Etat?”