Sen. Max Baucus, (D-MT) is questioned by media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington December 31, 2012. REUTERS/Mary F. CalvertReuters – by Lisa Lambert

(Reuters) – Legislation allowing states to collect sales taxes on goods sold over the Internet made its way to the Senate floor on Thursday – a sign that a decades-long struggle by states to tax businesses beyond their borders could end this year.

In February, both chambers took up, with bipartisan support, identical bills that would clear the way for states to collect the so-called “Amazon tax.” On Thursday, the Senate debated incorporating the legislation as an amendment to its budget resolution.    Continue reading “State online sales tax bill takes the stage at Senate”

RIA Novosti

WASHINGTON, March 21 (RIA Novosti) – A former Chinese contractor with the NASA appeared in US federal court Thursday, his lawyer said, after he was arrested following an attempt to fly back to China carrying laptops, hard drives and SIM cards in his bags.   Continue reading “Chinese NASA Worker in US Court Over Computer Cache”

The Organic Prepper

Preparing for the worst can be exhausting.

While generally speaking, preparedness activities and awareness provide peace of mind for me, there are days that I just don’t want to see another mylar bag or read the next scary headline trumpeting our imminent collapse.   Continue reading “Take a Break: 20 Ways to Keep Your Prepper Mojo”

2009-04-30-AFOSKVoting American

How can anyone ever forget that Air Force One Photo Op Ordered by President Obama early in his first term?  Air Force One buzzed New York City complete with fighter escort.  New Yorkers watched in horror as they thought 9/11 was happening all over again.

Some say Air Force One is capable of ‘Time Travel’ but I don’t believe that…   Continue reading “The History of President Obama’s Vehicle Debacles in the News”

I don’t even know how to address this. Something very funky is going on and it had been predicted in part by a number of “prophets of doom.”

I find it difficult to believe most of them. But for some reason I can’t quite pin down when I begin connecting dots of verified info in these videos I find that the suggestion of a false flag is very strong. And that TPTB are desperate now. They see the writing on the wall, THE GIG IS UP!    Continue reading “3-22-13 False flag?”

Activist Post

The rider (Sec. 735) that would prevent courts from halting illegally planted GM crops (sometimes courts find fault with USDA-approved GM fields) slipped into the Senate Continuing Resolution spending bill HR 933 blind-sided an angry populace last week, giving little time to voice complaint before it was to go through the Senate.

On Wednesday morning, HR 933 passed with the new rider dubbed by activists as the Monsanto Protection Act therein. The rider has nothing to do with proposed government spending to keep it running for the next six months.   Continue reading “Alert: Monsanto Rider Slips Through Senate, Hour Glass Running…”

The Extinction Protocol

March 22, 2013 – NORTH KOREA – North Korea was rattling its sabers and sparking fears overnight. Its military is now threatening South Korea, Japan, and the United States saying that war is coming. The statement from military leaders have said: “Outbreak of war in Korea is now just a matter of time. Nothing can prevent war from breaking out.”   Continue reading “Saber rattling intensifies: North Korea warns war is coming”

Lew Rockwell – by David Franke

Americans are being bombarded with an immense propaganda campaign that says we need tougher gun-control laws in order to reduce the number of gun murders. The evidence is just the opposite. The states with the toughest gun-control laws have 60% more gun murders than the states with the least restrictive gun laws.

And that evidence, ironically, comes from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence – one of the nation’s leading advocates of tougher gun laws.   Continue reading “Gun-Control Laws = 60% More Gun Murders”

Washington Post – by Olga Tanas and Ilya Arkhipov

Russia spurned Cyprus’s offers of assets for a bailout as the island nation’s lawmakers begin debate on legislation to avert a financial collapse.

“I think we aren’t able to get the support that we wanted to get,” Cypriot Finance Minister Michael Sarris said in an interview after checking out of the Lotte Hotel in Moscow. “But we must go back home because things are getting serious.”   Continue reading “Russia Rejects Cyprus Financial Rescue Bid as Deadline Looms”

European Central Bank CyprusHuffington Post – by MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and ELENA BECATOROS

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cypriot politicians moved Thursday to restructure the country’s most troubled bank as part of a broader bailout plan that must be in place by Monday to avoid financial ruin. Concerned customers rushed to get cash from ATMs as bank employees protested.

Cyprus has been told it must raise 5.8 billion euros ($7.5 billion) if it is to receive 10 billion euros ($12.9 billion) from its fellow eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund. If it does not find a way by Monday, the European Central Bank said it will cut off emergency support to the banks, letting them collapse.   Continue reading “Cyprus Has 4 Days To Create New Plan To Avoid Bankruptcy, European Central Bank Warns”

Sad. We need these guys to stay alive.

Before It’s News – by Deborah Dupre

An active-duty Marine shot and killed two fellow Marines at the Corps Base Quantico in Virginia before committing suicide early Friday. While no motive is known or publicly released, it is known that hidden wounds of U.S. military aggression and violence against innocent people link to 18 suicides daily among veterans and suicides kill more American troops than war.   Continue reading “Hidden Wounds: Marine Shoots 2 Marines, Self Dead at Quantico Base”

SOTT – by David Ferguson, Raw Story

A 40-year-old Pennsylvania man who was out on bond strapped himself into a suicide vest on Tuesday and blew himself up outside his landlord’s house, killing himself and injuring two others in a blast that leveled the building. According to Pittsburgh’s WPXI Channel 11, Brad Kollar was due in court Tuesday morning on charges of running an automobile chop shop and of possessing bomb-making materials.    Continue reading “Pennsylvania suicide bomber levels landlord’s home in supposed act of revenge”

Louisiana Supreme CourtNOLA – by Claire Galofaro

An Orleans Parish judge on Thursday ruled that the state statute forbidding certain felons from possessing firearms is unconstitutional, in the wake of a constitutional amendment passed last year that made the right to bear arms a fundamental one in Louisiana. The issue will now go straight to the state Supreme Court, which must decide whether the statute infringes on Louisiana citizens’ now-enhanced right to gun possession.    Continue reading “New Orleans judge rules statute forbidding felons from having firearms unconstitutional after ‘fundamental right’ amendment”

A guard walks through a cellblock inside Camp V, a prison used to house detainees at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Bob StrongReuters – by Jane Sutton and David Alexander

(Reuters) – About 24 Guantanamo prisoners involved in a hunger strike that began six weeks ago are upset by the U.S. government’s failure to close the detention camp and hope to gain publicity for their plight, a Marine Corps general said on Wednesday.

General John Kelly, the head of U.S. military forces in the Latin America region, flatly rejected allegations from some prisoners that copies of the Koran had been mishandled, calling the claims “nonsense.”   Continue reading “Guantanamo hunger strike stems from frustration: U.S. general”

Common Dreams – by Robert Kuttner

The Cyprus banking crisis presents, in microcosm, everything that is perverse about the European leaders’ response to the continuing financial collapse. And bravo to the Cypriot Parliament for rejecting the EU’s insane demand to condition a bank bailout on a large tax on small depositors.   Continue reading “Cyprus: The Mouse that Roared”

Information Clearinghouse – by Judge Andrew Napolitano

In 1798, when John Adams was president of the United States, the feds enacted four pieces of legislation called the Alien and Sedition Acts. One of these laws made it a federal crime to publish any false, scandalous or malicious writing — even if true — about the president or the federal government, notwithstanding the guarantee of free speech in the First Amendment.   Continue reading “The Tyranny Of The Majority The Patriot Act’s Mandated Silence”

“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” –David Hume

In the aftermath of the highly suspicious Sandy Hook incident, Americans have experienced a predictable escalation of the elite’s ongoing efforts to destroy their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

A disarmed civilian population has long been a principle ambition of the globalist elites. As patriots are well aware, an armed population is the last line of defense against tyranny.   Continue reading “The Growth of American Fascism: From LBJ to Obama”

imageInformation Clearinghouse – by Stuck in Palestine

US President Barack Obama, uncompromising civil rights defender and national change guru, arrived in Palestine today – a move that some of his Republican opponents didn’t even think was geographically possible.   Continue reading “This is Ridiculous Freedom Arrives in Palestine (you’re welcome)”

coltfactory.JPGFox News – by Joshua Rhett Miller

Colt’s Manufacturing, the company that has made the iconic gun dubbed “The Peacemaker” for more than a century, could pull up its Connecticut stakes after coming under fire in the national debate over the Second Amendment.

President and CEO Dennis Veilleux said the pro-gun control climate that has taken hold in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre and other firearm attacks has left him feeling unwelcome in the state his company has called home for 175 years. Proposed laws being debated by the Legislature and pushed by Gov. Dannel Malloy include a new gun offender registry, an expanded assault weapons ban, ammunition restrictions and a ban on bulk purchases of handguns. Veilleux said those measures have put Colt and its nearly 700 employees in the crosshairs.   Continue reading “Colt to bolt? Gun maker’s boss says company feels unwelcome in Connecticut”