Month: August 2014

New York Times – by MICHAEL R. GORDON and HELENE COOPER

WASHINGTON — The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the Sunni militants in Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday.

“This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated,” said the chairman, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, in his most expansive public remarks on the crisis since American airstrikes began in Iraq. “Can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization that resides in Syria? The answer is no.”   Continue reading “U.S. General Says Raiding Syria Is Key to Halting ISIS”

Off the Grid News – by Kimberlee Hertzer

Like a competitive game of Monopoly, big corporations are snatching up all the food companies, meaning that out of the thousands of products on your grocery store shelf, 90 percent of them are owned by 10 companies. Yes – just 10 companies.

Business Insider recently published a graphic that showed how these corporations control nearly everything we buy at the grocery store.   Continue reading “These 10 Big Companies Control Just About Everything You Eat”

Clash Daily

Kurdish women are bad-ass. You’ll never guess why they’re the ones on the frontline’s against ISIS. Check this out…

The Kurds have adopted a rather unique strategy for not only eliminating their targets, but also humiliating them along the way.

According to WZ, Kurds are deploying whole units comprised of female fighters to the front line, which has boosted their recruitment numbers, and given them a psychological edge over ISIS. One female fighter explained why the Kurds have decided to put women in the thick of the battle, and it’s sure to make radical Islamists go crazy.   Continue reading “Kurds Send All-Female Soldiers To Fight ISIS, The Reason Why is Hilarious”

Freedom Outpost – by James Franklin

Even the mainstream media can no longer ignore US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) refusal to follow or enforce federal law.

ICE and US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have become possibly the world’s largest human trafficking organization, using buses and commercial airlines to openly transport illegal aliens all over the United States; even as far away as Alaska, Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands.   Continue reading “Homeland Security ‘Partnered With’ UN Migration Organization, Triggered Border Crisis”

ZME Science – by Mihai Andrei

Depending on where you live, bike stealing can be a distant threat or a constant worry, but in most parts of the world, people would rather be safe than sorry, tying their bikes to trees or fences or whatever they could find. But that may very well change in the near future: three engineers from Chile have developed a bike which they claim is impossible to steal.

The Yerka Project is a currently a prototype which runs around and shows the frame of the bike unlatching so that, along with the seat post, the bike frame itself can close around a stationary object. Basically, the frame of the bike itself becomes the lock. If you want to break the lock, you have to break the bike – so there’s no point in stealing it whatsoever. From what I can see from the video they published, it takes about 30 seconds to tie it up, so it’s not a drag either.   Continue reading “Engineers create the first unstealable bike”

Tea Party News Network – by Greg Campbell

Please sign the petition to keep this monster behind bars

In early January of 2007, a young man and woman were abducted from a parking lot, tortured, sexually assaulted and brutally murdered. The murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom went widely underreported. Many have felt that this was due to the nature of the crime- Christian and Newsom were murdered by black assailants and the victims were white.

Thanks to a revolving-door American penal policy, one of the murderers may soon be out of prison for “good behavior.”   Continue reading “OUTRAGEOUS: Brutal Double-Murderer Eligible for Parole 7 Years After Tortures, Murders”

Yahoo Finance

WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired – Aug 21, 2014) –Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeking “Incident Reports” of alleged sexual misconduct throughout 2013 by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Dulles, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Los Angeles airports (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:14-cv-01179)). The lawsuit was filed on July 11, 2014.

The Judicial Watch lawsuit was filed pursuant to a March 5, 2014, FOIA request seeking the following:   Continue reading “Judicial Watch Sues TSA Over Cover-Up: Passenger Complaints “Assaults Relating to Sexual Misconduct””

Breitbart – by John Sexton

Thirty states plus the District of Columbia have sought the Center for Disease Control’s help identifying potential cases of Ebola.

The map above is based on a list of those states provided to Breitbart News Thursday by the CDC. The list shows (in bright red) all the states which have asked for the CDC’s help with potential Ebola cases since July 27th.

When contacted for consultation, the CDC examines the patient’s symptoms and travel history to decide whether or not a blood test is needed. In most cases, the CDC is able to rule out Ebola without the need for a blood test.   Continue reading “CDC: 30 States plus DC have requested help with possible ebola cases”

Washington’s Blog

The Guys We Armed Are Now Threatening to Blow Us Up

American foreign policy is on par with the Keystone Cops or the Three Stooges.

Today, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said ISIS is going to attack America … and the threat is even worse than 9/11.   Continue reading “The Insane Terrorist Group We Armed and Supported Now Greater Threat to U.S. than 9/11”

The Prepper Project – by Liz Bennett

I am frequently surprised by the approach many Preppers take to their Bug-Out plans, especially those who expect to drive to their retreat location.  Many seem to feel that this will be no different than driving out of their home area for a vacation, which is beyond my comprehension.  I say that because if things are bad enough that Preppers are headed for their retreat locations one would think that travel could be difficult if not impossible.

Closed roads, quarantine situations, hostile locals, gridlock, civil unrest, martial law, are examples of the types of things a Prepper might encounter when trying to bug-out to their retreat.  So you must plan your bug-out in a way that avoids, or at least minimizes, such situations.   Continue reading “Will You Die Getting To Your Bug Out Location?”

WeaponsMan

We’ve discussed physical security a lot here, and have also discussed gun safes at some length. In the course of normal operations, things other than guns may come to lodge in your gun safe. This is, in general, not a good idea, unless the safe is a commercial safe, professionally installed, and therefore very difficult to brute-force open.

A typical gun safe can only trouble a burglar by imposing delay, inconvenience, and the necessity to break such noise and light discipline as burglars may possess. These things are still worth doing, but against this you must set the fact that you have consolidated a great deal of burglar bait in one place. There are things that we do not advise storing in a gun safe, and things other than guns that should be in your gun safe. Three basic rules apply:   Continue reading “What’s in Your Gun Safe? No, Besides the Guns?”

Press TV

At least 10 Palestinians, including six members of one family, lost their lives in an overnight attack on their homes in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza.   Continue reading “Gaza body count mounts to 2,065 as Israel intensifies attacks”

AOL – by Ryan Gorman

An Oklahoma City police officer has been arrested on rape, sodomy and sexual battery charges for acts committed during traffic stops.

The arrest of Daniel Holtzclaw, 27 and on the force since 2011, was announced during a Thursday afternoon press conference. Police Chief Bill Citty called him a “serial rapist.”

Authorities know of at least seven women he sexually assaulted while on duty, Citty said, but acknowledged there may be several more victims who have yet to come forward. Continue reading “OKC cop accused of rape, sexual assault of at least 7 women during traffic stops”