Category: News

Survival Blog – by James Wesley Rawles

I often have SurvivalBlog readers forward me alarmist e-mails, warning of “total disarmament” of the civilian populace. While there indeed may be plans or schemesto disarm Americans, I don’t consider these threats credible. Let me explain why: I would conservatively estimate that there are about 316 million firearms in private hands in the United States. Of these, less than 10% are logged in any formal registry. Perhaps another 30% have Form 4473s filed with the FFL dealers where they were first purchased, but that is a fractured mishmash of records with a quite perishable life span. It is notable that we live in a very mobile society, where most families move every three or four years. And in most states, there are no record keeping requirements for secondary sales of firearms. So to call the accumulation of 4473 forms a de facto registration system is laughable.
Continue reading “Why Civilian Disarmament in the U.S. is Just a Statist Fantasy”

The Age – by Ross Gittins

IF YOU’VE ever suspected politics is increasingly being run in the interests of big business, I have news: Jeffrey Sachs, a highly respected economist from Columbia University, agrees with you – at least in respect of the United States.

In his book, The Price of Civilisation, he says the US economy is caught in a feedback loop. ”Corporate wealth translates into political power through campaign financing, corporate lobbying and the revolving door of jobs between government and industry; and political power translates into further wealth through tax cuts, deregulation and sweetheart contracts between government and industry. Wealth begets power, and power begets wealth,” he says.
Continue reading “The four business gangs that run the US”

Georgetown Law Professor, Louis Michael Seidman, is openly advocating for removal of the Constitution of the United States of America.  Montana State Representative Jerry O’Neil is advocating adding to the Amendments in the Constitution in order to strengthen our national sovereignty and gun rights.  Senator Dianne Feinstein has openly stated that she would enact total bans on firearms to be followed by confiscation.  And New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg makes no secret of the fact that he would see the American people completely disarmed and even told what they can eat and drink by the government.

Literally every day we are hearing those who have taken an oath to protect and defend our Constitution attacking our liberties and freedoms contained therein.  They are asking questions like, “How much personal privacy should we as individuals have to surrender to the collective they represent?” and “Should nativity scenes and crosses across our land be removed?” as more and more Masonic imagery is being thrown in our faces, “What shall be considered hate speech and thus be forbidden under pain of punishment?” and “Should they be allowed to remove websites that challenge government authoritarianism?”
Continue reading “Communist Party in the United States Openly Advocating Insurrection”

Offspectrum with James Farganne

On July 20, 2012, we were given by our lamestream media to believe that a timid graduate student with no firearms experience switcherooed into ultimate commando mode and shot up a theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring dozens more.

According to the talking heads, he certainly dressed for the occasion, wearing thousands of dollars of military-grade body armor that he could not have sourced nor afforded. Somehow he also possessed the expertise to trick out his apartment with elaborate booby traps. Yet after being apprehended, drooling and dazed, slumped over the steering wheel of his car, he warned the cops about the booby traps — because hey, that’s why he had gone to all the trouble of setting them up in the first place. So that no one would get hurt. That’s obvious, right?
Continue reading “The Dark Knight Rises With Slasher Zombies”

The Organic Prepper

In a war, it appears that it’s easy to become just as bad as the monsters that you are fighting.

Just ask the survivors of a killing spree in Afghanistan last March, when US soldiers went on a rampage, killing 17 civilians, 9 of them children. Only one soldier, Army Staff Sgt Robert Bales, was charged but the witnesses have a different story:

One mother-of-six, whose husband was killed during the incident, believes there were as many as 20 people involved.
Continue reading “Morality: The Hard Line Between Revolutionary and Terrorist”

The unemployment rate remained at 7.8% for the month of December.  The December job growth by sector went as follows:

Construction was up by 30,000 jobs.  This would consist of illegal aliens rebuilding the East Coast after Superstorm Sandy at substandard wages with no benefits.  And of course we the taxpayers will be picking up the tab, so where is the gain?

Next we had health care up by 45,000.  This would be new private contractors to administer Obamacare to be paid for by we the taxpayers.  No gain.

Food service was up by 38,000.  This one I simply do not believe as it is my personal experience, which is bolstered by the reality of diminished Christmas sales that expendable income is disappearing with the devaluation of the dollar.
Continue reading “Arrogance, Deceit, and Lies make up December’s Job Report”

Yahoo News – by CHRIS CAROLA and MICHAEL HILL | Associated Press

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Four gun shows, all about an hour’s drive from Newtown, Conn., all canceled.

A show in White Plains, N.Y., — brought back a few years ago after being called off for a decade because of the Columbine shooting — is off because officials decided it didn’t seem appropriate now, either. In Danbury, Conn. — about 10 miles west of Newtown — the venue backed out. Same with three other shows in New York’s Hudson Valley, according to the organizer.

Continue reading “Some gun shows canceling after Conn. mass shooting”

Reuters – by Yereth Rosen

The quake occurred about 60 miles southwest of Port Alexander at a depth of about 6 miles at 0858 GMT, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which downgraded the magnitude from an initial 7.7.

The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, issued a tsunami warning for coastal areas of southeast Alaska and Canada’s British Columbia, but this was later cancelled.
Continue reading “Quake measuring 7.5 strikes off Alaska”

Moonbattery – by Dave Blount

The right to bear arms isn’t required only to defend us from criminals. Above all, we need it to defend us from progressive statists — such as Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and folks who publish editorials in the Des Moines Register like Donald Kaul. Sandy Hook served as a pretext for the following homicidal bile: Continue reading “Des Moines Register Editorial Calls for Killing Gun Owners”

ABC News – by Josh Haskell

Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and husband Mark Kelly met Wednesday with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, a man who shares their passion for stricter gun laws.

And late Thursday, ABC News learned that Giffords and Kelly plan to visit Newtown, Conn., on Friday for a private visit with families.
Continue reading “Gabrielle Giffords Headed to Newtown After Bloomberg Meeting”

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff

Government watchdog groups are concerned that the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) has been loaning out sophisticated, expensive drones to local law enforcement, and in the process turning the military’s hottest new weapon on Americans.

In one of the first known instances of domestic drone use, in 2011 DHS loaned one of its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to police in North Dakota in order to spy on a farmer, Thomas Brossart, who had refused to give back some cows that had wandered onto his property. The Brossart case was the first known drone-aided arrest.
Continue reading “Homeland Security Quietly Runs “Loan-a-Drone” Program for Local Law Enforcement”

Well the 113^th Congress is convened, let the treachery begin.  All the new Senators and Congressmen were sworn in yesterday.  I assume that entails an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.  I wonder how many minutes, hell seconds, passed before the first violation occurred.

New jobless claims came in at 372,000 for the week and not so much as a mention of this ongoing catastrophe.  However there was a lot of talk about immigration reform and gun control.  I guess this shows where the communist agenda lies.
Continue reading “Time to Cut to the Chase – You are either for us or agin us”

Independence Institute – by Dave Kopel

This Article reviews the British gun control program that precipitated the American Revolution: the 1774 import ban on firearms and gunpowder; the 1774-75 confiscations of firearms and gunpowder; and the use of violence to effectuate the confiscations. It was these events that changed a situation of political tension into a shooting war. Each of these British abuses provides insights into the scope of the modern Second Amendment.

Furious at the December 1773 Boston Tea Party, Parliament in 1774 passed the Coercive Acts. The particular provisions of the Coercive Acts were offensive to Americans, but it was the possibility that the British might deploy the army to enforce them that primed many colonists for armed resistance. The Patriots of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, resolved: “That in the event of Great Britain attempting to force unjust laws upon us by the strength of arms, our cause we leave to heaven and our rifles.” A South Carolina newspaper essay, reprinted in Virginia, urged that any law that had to be enforced by the military was necessarily illegitimate.
Continue reading “The American Revolution against British Gun Control”

With all of the escalating homicidal behavior besetting the world at the hands of Americans, it is reasonable indeed to seek resolution. It seems we can’t overcome the grief of one massacre before we’re faced with another. Good then that we each possess the strength to cope with the misfortunes of others or we would be a national wreck, unlike now as we sail toward the edge of the fiscal cliff, secure under the steady guidance of our government. While they don’t slow our mad rush into the abyss, they will on occasion activate the turn signals so we can feel hopeful.
Continue reading “Into Whose Arms”

The Watchdog Blog – by JEFF HORSEMAN

Earlier we covered the outrage that erupted when a New York newspaper published an online map showing the names and addresses of people with handgun permits in two counties. Critics said the map endangered the public and violated gun owners’ right to privacy.

The Journal News’ publisher defended the map, which was created using information obtained from public records requests. It accompanied a story about the debate over how much the public should know about gun ownership.
Continue reading “New York county refuses to release gun info”

Mainstream propaganda has jettisoned back into the idiocy in an attempt to pull our minds away from the treachery of a fraudulent election and its end result, the status quo theft of America into the future.  We are going on five years now of “We need to address the problem of jobs” and rather than hear an opposing view from either side of the false left-right paradigm, both are quite content to allow the lie of a 7.9% unemployment rate to stand.

We have gone over this many times but in the interest of keeping the record straight, we continue to lose more net jobs in America, day by day, through NAFTA, CAFTA, and GATT.  Those of us still working continue to pay cash to international corporations based in the United States to move the jobs of our brothers and sisters out of this country.
Continue reading “The BS Mainstream and the Lull before the Storm”

Alternet – by Matt Stoller

Throughout the months of November and December, a steady stream of corporate CEOs flowed in and out of the White House to discuss the impending fiscal cliff. Many of them, such as Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, would then publicly come out and talk about how modest increases of tax rates on the wealthy were reasonable in order to deal with the deficit problem. What wasn’t mentioned is what these leaders wanted, which is what’s known as “tax extenders”, or roughly $205B of tax breaks for corporations. With such a banal name, and boring and difficult to read line items in the bill, few political operatives have bothered to pay attention to this part of the bill. But it is critical to understanding what is going on.
Continue reading “8 Huge Corporate Handouts in the Fiscal Cliff Bill”

Congressman Ron Paul

As I prepare to retire from Congress, I’d like to suggest a few New Year’s resolutions for my colleagues to consider.  For the sake of liberty, peace, and prosperity I certainly hope more members of Congress consider the strict libertarian constitutional approach to government in 2013.

In just a few days, Congress will solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic.  They should reread Article 1 Section 8 and the Bill of Rights before taking such a serious oath.  Most legislation violates key provisions of the Constitution in very basic ways, and if members can’t bring themselves to say no in the face of pressure from special interests, they have broken trust with their constituents and violated their oaths. Congress does not exist to serve special interests, it exists to protect the rule of law.
Continue reading “Ron Paul: New Year’s Resolutions for Congress”