Year: 2014

Huffington Post – by Nigel Duara

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has affirmed the legality of the U.S. government’s bulk collection of phone and email data from foreign nationals living outside the country — including their contact with U.S. citizens — in denying a man’s motion to dismiss his terrorism conviction.

It was the first legal challenge to the government’s bulk data-collection program of non-U.S. citizens living overseas after revelations about massive, warrantless surveillance were made public by former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden.   Continue reading “Federal Judge Rules Warrantless Bulk Surveillance Is Legal”

Town Hall – by Michelle Malkin

Imagine how much better off America’s veterans would be if the federal government spent more time delivering actual care and less time compiling tyrannical lists. The death-inducing secret waiting lists for patients are just the tip of the iceberg.

Did you know, for example, that the VA keeps a database on “disgruntled” and “disruptive” vets that results in arbitrarily restricted care?   Continue reading “Exposed: How the VA Red-Flags ‘Disruptive’ Vets”

USA Today – by Jim Michaels

WASHINGTON – The first contingent of U.S. military advisers arrived in Iraq Tuesday to assess conditions and begin assisting Iraqi security forces after Islamist militants have seized several key cities.

The Pentagon said 90 American personnel arrived from outside the country, and 40 were already in Iraq as part of the U.S. Embassy’s defense staff.

The advisers are part of up to 300 military personnel authorized by President Obama last week in response to the crisis in Iraq, where a Sunni extremist group, called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has taken control of Mosul, Iraq’s second-biggest city, and other towns in recent weeks.   Continue reading “U.S. military advisers begin work in Iraq”

Govt Slaves

(Pamela Wood)  Michael Anthony Peroutka and David Whitney, who are vying for the same seat on the Anne Arundel County Council, are members of the League of the South, an organization whose stated goal is the secession of Southern states.

Peroutka also believes elected officials should return to a “Biblical worldview” of the founding fathers, and Whitney preaches at his Pasadena church that God is essential in government and that current political leaders are “wicked and corrupt.”   Continue reading “SPLC Labels Two “Constitution Teaching Candidates” Extremists”

Has anyone got a land patent for their property?  If so, is it really worth it?

Defend Rural America – by Kirk MacKenzie

Private property was created in the United States of America through the issuance of land patents that transferred title of public lands to named individuals, and to their heirs and assigns forever. Each patent was signed by the President of the United States in office at the time. These transfers were direct from the national government to the individual. The States were not involved. Present-day parcels can be traced back to their original patents. Every private parcel, ranch, or farmland in the country has a land patent associated with it.   Continue reading “Land Patents – The Perpetual Creation of Private Property”

CNN – by Danielle Dellorto

The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has hit “unprecedented” proportions, according to relief workers on the ground.

“The epidemic is out of control,” Dr. Bart Janssens, director of operations for Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement.

There have been 567 cases and 350 deaths since the epidemic began in March, according to the latest World Health Organization figures.   Continue reading “Ebola epidemic in West Africa ‘out of control’”

Breitbart- by Brandon Darby

MCALLEN, Texas—In one weekend, the U.S. Border Patrol prevented murder suspects, multiple sex offenders, and an MS-13 gang member from entering the interior of Texas after they illegally entered into the U.S. from Mexico. The arrests occurred in the Rio Grande Valley sector, ground zero of the current border crisis.

The murder suspect was caught approximately 85 miles from the border in Texas, near the town of Falfurrias. He is a Guatemalan who is wanted for alleged murder in the State of Florida.   Continue reading “Murder Suspects, Sex Offenders, and MS-13 Gangster Caught at Texas Border”

Rense.com – by Novorus.info, Translation by Piotr Bein

Washington knows that time is on Russia’s side. So in 2-3 days a false flag is planned that would radically change the Ukrainian crisis and force Russia to invade.

Poroshenko was instructed to increase pro-peace rhetoric, while Russian-speaking mercenaries of the private form Academi deployed to Hungary (cities Debrechen and Mishkolc) are combat ready. Since June 20, the highest activity is observed in Mishkolc: arms and equipemt are loaded onto military and civilian trucks. At any moment there are 60 to 80 trucks being loaded. A railway train is also being loaded. All this to transfer some 10 thousand well-equipped soldiers, not counting their command and support troops, to S.E. Ukraine. They were issued Ukrainian uniforms (possibly Russian, too). Continue reading “NATO Killers Readying To Cleanse Russians In Ukraine?”

Press TV – by Brett Redmayne-Titley

Your bank has almost zero cash.

“I’m sorry, Sir. We are unable to cash this check,” were the ominous words delivered to me by a fresh faced, none-too-friendly, Wells Fargo Bank manager. He had just kept me waiting ten minutes while in consultation about my transaction. Returning to his cubicle he sat down quickly, now looking at me intently through narrowed eyes.   Continue reading “Failing world banks prepare to steal your savings”

Activist Post – by Tony Cartalucci

Make Magazine recently featured a tutorial on constructing a FM pirate radio transmitter using a Raspberry Pi board. Raspberry Pis are single board computers that go for about $55 and are regularly used as the centerpiece for a wide variety of projects ranging from art installations to automation and everything in between.

The FM transmitter will broadcast stored media within a limited range to any FM radio receiver nearby. It is a versatile proof of concept that can be used as is to “cover your home, DIY drive-in movie, a high school ball game, or even a bike parade.” In the comment sections below the entry, readers could already be seen expanding the parameters of the project to add more options and increase its utility. Continue reading “Pirate Radio Station for $55 Could Help Decentralize Big-Telecom”

The Fresno Bee

SANTA ANA, CALIF. — The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will no longer detain inmates past their scheduled release dates in order to hold them for federal immigration authorities.

The Orange County Register reports (http://bit.ly/1v2xSZD ) the agency announced Monday that it was expanding its recent policy on immigration holds to include all inmates.   Continue reading “Orange County sheriff ends all immigration holds”

The Guardian – by Patrick Kingsley

The Clanging of the Swords IV sounds like the latest in a series of Hollywood action movies. It looks like one, too. A feature-length film released online a few weeks ago, Swords IV includes a slow-motion bomb sequence reminiscent of The Hurt Locker, aerial footage that nods to Zero Dark Thirty, and scenes filmed through the crosshairs of a sniper rifle that wouldn’t look out of place in a first-person shoot-’em-up.

But Hollywood this is not. Perhaps surprisingly, The Clanging of the Swords IV is the work of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), the extremist jihadist group that has led the insurgency against the authoritarian Iraqi government in recent weeks, and which runs parts of northern Syria.     Continue reading “Who is behind Isis’s terrifying online propaganda operation?”

RT News

Nine people are feared dead after self-defense forces in the Donetsk region shot down a Ukrainian army helicopter, which was used for transporting military cargo, a Kiev spokesman said.

The Mi-8 helicopter was downed “at about 5 pm local time at Karachun Mountain near Slavyansk by a rocket fired from a portable air defense system,” eastern Ukraine military operation spokesman, Vladislav Seleznyov, wrote on his Facebook page.    Continue reading “Militia down chopper near Slavyansk, 9 feared dead – military spokesman”

Natural News – by J.D. Heyes

According to the Los Angeles Times, a recent analysis of cost data projections by the Department of Health and Human Services regarding government expenditures related to Obamacare found that initial costs for the program were billions of dollars higher than projected.

It should be noted that, within a few days of the LA Times report (which can be read here), the paper essentially retracted its conclusions, but more on that in a moment. Continue reading “Obamacare subsidies to reach $11 billion; healthcare system running entirely on unsustainable debt spending”

Wake Up World – by Zen Gardner

I love the expression, “What if they had a war and nobody came?” I feel the same about the matrix and the awakening.

What if the matrix had nowhere to manifest?

Our idea of self is contrived. It’s broadcast at us from birth and reinforced by the world around us. It’s on this false, heavily reinforced self-screen on which they are able to project their manipulated worldview. We cooperate, believe their paradigm to be the only one, and help pass it on to succeeding generations.   Continue reading “Synchronicity – Letting It Go”