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”

Barbara Boxer, the chair of the Senate environment and public works committeeGuardian – by Glenn Greenwald

In order for the US to permit citizens of a foreign country to enter the US without a visa, that country must agree to certain conditions. Chief among them is reciprocity: that country must allow Americans to enter without a visa as well. There are 37 countries which have been permitted entrance into America’s “visa waiver” program, and all of them – all 37 – reciprocate by allowing American citizens to enter their country without a visa.   Continue reading “Barbara Boxer, AIPAC seek to codify Israel’s right to discriminate against Americans”

The Organic Prepper

There’s a dirty little secret in some organic fruit orchards.

That juicy apple or pear that you just paid triple the price for may have been sprayed with antibiotics.

Yep – that’s right.  The USDA has approved “new options for organic producers and processors.”   Continue reading “Poison Apples: “Organic” Fruit can be Tainted by Antibiotics until Fall 2014”

gunNatural News – by Mike Adams

A civil war looks likely to break out in America, and it will pit gun rights advocates (people who love liberty) against gun control zealots (people who hate freedom and love tyranny). The battle lines are being drawn right now as gun manufacturers are leaving anti-Constitution states like Connecticut and Colorado and relocating to pro-Constitution states like Texas and Arizona.   Continue reading “Civil war battle lines being drawn as Magpul, Colt, Beretta and other gun manufacturers relocate to pro-Constitution states”

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”

Fox News

GOMA, Congo –  A top Congolese official says 12 senior army officers have been arrested on charges of responsibility for mass rapes committed by several army units in eastern Congo in November 2012.

Justice Minister Wivine Mumba confirmed the arrests to The Associated Press Saturday. The arrests come more than two weeks after the United Nations pressed the Congolese government to take action in the case.   Continue reading “Congo: 12 senior army officers to be charged with mass rapes”

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”

Guns For SaleAlabama.com – by Challen Stephens

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Around 1 p.m., the line out the door stretched 60 or 70 people long. But waits were running only 25 to 30 minutes, as customers steadily streamed out of Larry’s Pistol & Pawn laden with Ruger rifles and boxes of Hornady cartridges.   Continue reading “Half-hour long lines for guns and ammo in north Huntsville”

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”

The New York Times – by PETER LUDLOW

Around 400 B.C., Socrates was brought to trial on charges of corrupting the youth of Athens and “impiety.” Presumably, however, people believed then as we do now, that Socrates’ real crime was being too clever and, not insignificantly, a royal pain to those in power or, as Plato put it, a gadfly. Just as a gadfly is an insect that could sting a horse and prod it into action, so too could Socrates sting the state. He challenged the moral values of his contemporaries and refused to go along with unjust demands of tyrants, often obstructing their plans when he could. Socrates thought his service to Athens should have earned him free dinners for life. He was given a cup of hemlock instead.   Continue reading “Hacktivists as Gadflies”