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”

Investment Watchblog

All government agencies see asset freeze in Cyprus-Prime Minister Medvedev

Interesting interview by Medvedev today who admitted that most Russian government agencies use Cyprus for it’s financial transactions.

A few points here:  Continue reading “Russian treasury unable to meet it’s financial obligations”

Tea Addiction Tooth LossHuffington Post

Decades of hard tea drinking led to tooth loss and other bone problems for a 47-year-old Michigan woman, reports the New England Journal of Medicine. After treating the patient for severe pain in her back, arms, legs and hips, her doctor Sudhaker Rao discovered that consuming “astronomical amounts” of highly concentrated tea for nearly 20 years had caused her fluoride levels to spike to more than four times the normal amount.   Continue reading “Tea Addiction Results In Woman’s Tooth Loss”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

We all know the cliché: ‘Don’t mess with Texas.’Well, a new piece of legislation is being proposed to send that message to Washington, when it comes to protecting Texas’ gold.

A lawmaker has proposed a bill to create a Texas Bullion Depository, which would allow the state and its citizens to store gold bullion in its own facility in Texas, with the protection of the state.   Continue reading “Texas May Start Hoarding Gold…Secession Next?”

Biden gun task forceAmerican Vision News – by Joel McDurmon

In a recent interview with NPR on gun control proposals, vice president Joe Biden assiduously avoided the real reason for the Second Amendment: it’s not about hunting Joe! It’s about defense against a tyrannical government.

But in his carefully rehearsed remarks, Mr. Biden let slip the real reason he and other statist politicians want to continue to infringe on our right to bear arms, including an admittedly unpopular ban on “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines: government entities don’t want to be “outgunned”!   Continue reading “Biden: government “tired of being outgunned””

CBS New York

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) – The New York affiliate of the National Rifle Association, joined by sportsmen’s groups, firearms businesses and individual gun owners, has filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking an injunction to stop the state’s new gun control law.

The suit claims the law violates New York State residents’ Second Amendment rights.   Continue reading “N.Y. Gun Rights Advocates File Suit To Block Strictest In The Nation Law”

Joe Biden at City Hall. (photo: nyc.gov)Politicker – by Colin Campbell

As the U.S. Congress debates gun control legislation, two of the countries’ leading advocates on the issue–Vice President Joe Biden and Mayor Michael Bloomberg–held a City Hall press conference today to pressure federal lawmakers to have enough “courage” to vote in favor of the bill when it hits the floor. Standing behind victims’ family members from last year’s massacre at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school, Mr. Biden and Mr. Bloomberg argued the measures being proposed are neither controversial or unconstitutional.   Continue reading “Biden and Bloomberg Team Up to Again Pressure Congress on Guns”

Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith

Reuters:

New York state lawmakers are considering amendments to the state’s sweeping new gun control law, including repealing a ban on magazines that hold more than seven bullets, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday, describing most of the changes as technical.

The law, passed January 15, a month after the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, also requires gun owners to register most guns with the state and requires universal background checks.   Continue reading “The Most Stupid Gun Law Ever Made”