Month: August 2013

The Sleuth Journal

You may have heard about this — it’s crazy. We’ve entered an age where copying-and-pasting a link can land you in jail.

Barrett Brown, a journalist who often reported on the activities of Anonymous, has been locked up for almost a year for just that. Barrettcopy-and-pasted a link from one chatroom to another to share with his peers during his research on the activities of private intelligence firm, Stratfor. The link contained data which had been hacked but was already publicly available information at that point. Now he’s facing 105 years in prison.   Continue reading “Prison For Copy and Paste?”

AmmoLand – by Jeff Knox

Manassas, VA –(Ammoland.com)- About a month after the US Senate voted down a series of gun control amendments back in April, an article in the New Republic magazine boldly declared “This is How the NRA Ends: A Bigger, Richer, Meaner Gun Control Movement has Arrived.”

The article was a long diatribe regurgitating much of the stale tripe and distortion we’ve been hearing from the anti-rights movement for decades, and singing the praises of the movement’s new messiah, Mike Bloomberg, the three-term Mayor of New York City.   Continue reading “Nanny Bloomberg’s War on the Constitution”

Slow Facts – by Rob Morse

Besides the low-information urban voter, California hunters face three challenges new challenges.  First, lead ammunition might be outlawed in California.  The second challenge is that California has a long dry season and a no-burn wildfire policy for wild lands and mixed use terrain.  Finally, non-lead ammunition can spark fires.  Put those three things together and California hunters need to their problems before California Assembly Bill 711 becomes law.  The bill banning lead ammunition has passed the State Senate but has only had its first reading in the California State assembly.   Continue reading “California Gun Owners Stalked and Targeted by New Legislation”

Atlantic Wire – by Phillip Bump

Newly declassified documents, obtained by George Washington University’s National Security Archive, appear to for the first time acknowledge the existence of Area 51. Hundreds of pages describe the genesis of the Nevada site that was home to the government’s spy plane program for decades. The documents do not, however, mention aliens.

The project started humbly. In the pre-drone era about a decade after the end of World War II, President Eisenhower signed off on a project aimed at building a high-altitude, long-range, manned aircraft that could photograph remote targets. Working together, the Air Force and Lockheed developed a craft that could hold the high-resolution cameras required for the images, a craft that became the U-2. Why “U-2”?   Continue reading “Government Now Admits Existence Of Area 51”

Information Clearinghouse – by Thom Hartmann

What does America do when she no longer needs her slaves or surplus workers?

The 1880’s reconstruction era was the first time in our history that America had seen a large surplus of non-white labor.

In the 1870’s many former slaves were integrated into the labor force, but white backlash in the 1880’s and 1890’s led to a permanent underclass through nearly a century of “separate but equal.”   Continue reading “What Do You Do When You No Longer Need Your Slaves?”

‘MILLION MUSLIM MARCH’ TO BE HELD ON 9/11 ANNIVERSARY – AND THE GROUP BEHIND IT IS JUST AS RADICAL AS YOU’D EXPECT

The Blaze – by Jason Howerton

A radical Muslim political advocacy group has sparked controversy with its plans to hold a “Million Muslim March” on Washington, D.C., on the 12th anniversary of the 9/11. The gathering is intended to condemn the discrimination of Muslims following 9/11 and urge the U.S. government to reveal the “truth” about the attack.    Continue reading “Million Muslim March Labeled “Radical” for “Truther” Affiliation”

Arizona Daily Star – by Doug Kreutz

The widow of one of the 19 firefighters killed in a June 30 wildfire near Prescott Thursday called for a special session of the Arizona Legislature to address benefits issues for firefighters’ families.

Roxanne Warneke, widow of firefighter BillyWarneke of the Tucson area, said her husband was one of 13 seasonal employees on the stricken Granite Mountain Hotshots unit. Their families are slated to receive fewer financial benefits than the six permanent members.   Continue reading “Widow: Arizona lawmakers must address hotshot crew benefits”

US Senator David Vitter – August 7, 2013

(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) today is urging the President and Congressional leadership to change the recent decision by the Office of Personnel and Management (OPM) that requires that all Members of Congress, all Congressional staff, the President, Vice President, and all political appointees in the Administration must purchase their health insurance on the Obamacare Exchange without the help of taxpayer-funded subsidies. Vitter plans to work on a legislative fix in September if the Administration does not act first.   Continue reading “Obamacare Fix for Bureaucrats is Why American People Despise Congress”

World Events and the Bible

Reuters – by Eric Beech

The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since 2008, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

Most of the infractions involved unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order, the paper said.    Continue reading “NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year: report”

The Guardian – by Richard Luscombe

The father of a Chechen man shot and killed by FBI agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombing has hired two prominent Florida civil rights attorneys in his attempt to uncover the truth about his son’s death.

Abdulbaki Todashev spoke at a Tuesday press conference in Tampa at which the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim advocacy group, announced that lawyers Barry Cohen and Eric Ludin had been retained to represent the dead man’s family as three separate investigations into the 22 May shooting progressed.   Continue reading “Lawyers to investigate FBI shooting death of Boston suspect’s friend”

Anyone want to bet whether or not this toxic gunk is being sprayed over Martha’s Vineyard?

Zen Gardner

[A gripping, true account of a brave woman who dared to take action. Save this story, it has been “disappeared” so many times and from so many places on the internet it took me almost a year to finally get a full copy. This wonderful woman has not been daunted by these incidents and continues in her campaign for truth and exposure to this day, sharing research and information as fast as she can for the empowerment of others. – Zen]   Continue reading “Chemtrail Researcher Harrassed by Mercenaries”

For those in the know, or for those who are not.  Time is running short.

Jobs Growth Prosperity Economic Action Plan 2013

Chapter 3.2

NBC Washington

Approximately 1,000 dead fish have been found floating in a pond at the National Mall, the National Park Service has confirmed.

Park Service employees spent Thursday scooping up the dead bluegills out of the Constitution Gardens pond into trash bags.

However, the number is not unusual for that pond, officials said, due to the construction and design of the area.   Continue reading “Hundreds of Dead Fish Found in Pond at National Mall”

Max Velocity Tactical

I received an interesting email about rationalizing training with combat; a request for a blog post on the subject. The question posed is here:

“……we trained a great deal of the drills and principles you teach, but I never saw combat.  One thing I don’t understand completely is how the drills relate to actual combat, in the details.  I have watched lots of helmet-cam combat footage from GWOT, and it never looks anything like the drills, or even like the footage of the drills being run live-fire.  The GWOT footage, even when SOF is involved, is best often described as “hiding behind a wall spraying bullets at the desert”.   Continue reading “Rationalizing Training Drills with Combat Reality”