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The mother of a -12-year-old boy who brought a grenade to school for show-and-tell related to World War II lessons has been arrested.
Johnson Academy in Stratford was placed on lockdown around 10:30 a.m. Friday and students were evacuated to the auditorium until a State Police bomb squad determined the grenade was a simulator used for training. Continue reading “Mom Arrested After Son Brings Simulated Grenade to Show and Tell”
Wall Street Journal – by Jack Nicas
DURHAM, N.C.—It took Chuck Pell less than a minute to build his drone.
He folded a piece of paper 11 times, clipped on a battery-powered plastic propeller and rudder, then opened an app on his iPhone.
Next he flung the aircraft skyward, steering it above the trees with turns of his phone. The plane soared out of sight. Continue reading “Paper Planes Transform Into Tiny Drones”
Common Dreams – by Tom Engelhardt
The United States has been at war — major boots-on-the-ground conflicts and minor interventions, firefights, air strikes, drone assassination campaigns, occupations, special ops raids, proxy conflicts, and covert actions — nearly nonstop since the Vietnam War began. That’s more than half a century of experience with war, American-style, and yet few in our world bother to draw the obvious conclusions.
Given the historical record, those conclusions should be staring us in the face. They are, however, the words that can’t be said in a country committed to a military-first approach to the world, a continual build-up of its forces, an emphasis on pioneering work in the development and deployment of the latest destructive technology, and a repetitious cycling through styles of war from full-scale invasions and occupations to counterinsurgency, proxy wars, and back again. Continue reading “Post-9/11 US Foreign Policy: A Record of Unparalleled Failure”
As tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors cross into the United States illegally from Mexico, the Obama administration admits it didn’t anticipate how many would come — and it is asking Congress “for additional (taxpayer) resources to meet this challenge.”
“So there is a request to the appropriators for just over $2 billion to support HHS (Health and Human Services) facilities in particular,” a senior administration official told reporters on a White House conference call Monday.
The administration also is requesting another $160 million in “additional support” for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Border Patrol and immigration agencies. Continue reading “WH Wants ‘Just Over $2 Billion’ From Taxpayers to House Children Crossing Into U.S.”
Wall Street Journal – by ALI A. NABHAN And MATT BRADLEY
BAGHDAD—Al Qaeda-inspired militants seized control of Iraq’s second-largest city on Tuesday in a brazen military operation that underscored the weakness of the Baghdad government across vast swaths of the country.
Hours after government forces fled Mosul in disarray following four days of fighting, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared a nationwide “state of maximum preparedness” but didn’t indicate whether government forces were mobilizing to retake the Iraqi city, 220 miles north of the capital Baghdad. Continue reading “Militants Overrun Iraq’s Second-Largest City As Government Forces Flee”
Update: TROUTDALE, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A gunman and one Reynolds High School student are confirmed dead following a shooting inside the Troutdale school.
Law enforcement officials offered few other details concerning the shooting during a 10 a.m. media update, but offered condolences and praising students and staff for prompt, organized reactions. Continue reading “Student, shooter dead at Reynolds High School, Troutdale, Oregon”
It’s interesting to step over to the dark side sometimes and read the “liberal” perspective on current events. I stumbled across a perfect example of liberal bias this morning when I read an article on a website called “Truthout”. The author was reflecting on the Las Vegas shooting and an incident in Georgia that also took place this weekend. Continue reading “I’m a terrorist…You’re a terrorist….Hey! We’re all right wing extremist terrorists!”
Canada – -(Ammoland.com)- With the announcement by Sun News Network to stop bestowing notoriety on persons accused of mass murder, the Canadian media are showing signs of maturation and public responsibility.
It goes against the grain for a news agency to intentionally withhold information during major events like mass murder. Kudos to Sun News for adopting a policy for the greater good.
Continue reading “Kudos To Media That Refuse To Make Mass Killers Famous”
The Telegraph – by Johnny Clark
MOULTRIE, GA. — A Georgia consortium is poised to be a leader in unmanned aerial vehicle technologies for farming.
A statewide working group that includes state and federal government, industry and academia, has been working since 2009 to develop a type of drone that can save a farmer’s time and resources during the growing season. Continue reading “Unmanned aerial vehicles are flying to the farm”
The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton
The mainstream media is officially having a full-on field day with the Vegas shooters’ online postings, demonizing the patriot movement and basically anyone critical of the government.
In case you haven’t seen the news, the main report is that 31-year-old Jerad Miller and his 22-year-old wife Amanda shot two police in cold blood at a Las Vegas CiCi’s Pizza, left a Gadsen “Don’t Tread on Me” flag on one cop’s body and a Nazi swastika on the other’s before heading over to the Walmart across the street and yelling about how the revolution had begun. Continue reading “Critical of the Gov’t? Pro Liberty? Pro Gun? Get Ready to Be Lumped in with the Vegas Shooters”
In Part 2 of his most EXPLOSIVE interview ever, Hat Trick Letter editor Jim Willie was on fire, dropping numerous new BOMBSHELLS for SD listeners:
Continue reading “Jim Willie: Japan, Saudis, & Germany Will Turn Against US, Join Russian Alliance”
BuzzFeed – by Tasneem Nashrulla
The Bodyguard Blanket, made by ProTecht, is a bulletproof 5/16-inch pad that the company says is made from the same materials used by the U.S. military.
Steve Walker, a podiatrist who conceptualized the blanket, told The Oklahoman that the idea came to him after two tragedies: the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and the tornadoes in Oklahoma. He said the idea was to “stop that blunt-force trauma when that rubble is falling down on a child.”
Personal Liberty Digest – by Brandon Smith
Just a couple days ago, two armed assailants, a married couple purported by the mainstream media to be “white supremacists” and “conspiracy theorists,”ambushed two police officers at a CiCi’s Pizza in Las Vegas, killing the officers and one bystander after screaming, “This is a revolution!” The suspects then reportedly covered one officer’s body with a Gadsden Don’t Tread On Me flag and then fled to a Walmart, where they committed suicide. Yes, it reads like a Southern Poverty Law Center fantasy story; and in many ways, it is.
As I write this, the MSM has not officially blamed any particular scapegoat group or political organization. But I suspect that they will follow the pattern they have always followed, which is to equate the actions of one or two psychotics with the beliefs and principles of the liberty movement in general. Continue reading “A Second American Revolution Is Now Inevitable”
“I support Israel not only because I worship a Jew but because of what the Bible says about Israel and the future of Israel.”
In one sentence, the son of evangelical pastor Billy Graham was able to convey all of the intellectual depth behind the Christian Zionist movement. Continue reading “The Heart of Zionism”
A sense of disbelief and distress is quickly rippling through the U.S. artisan cheese community, as the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced it will not permit American cheesemakers to age cheese on wooden boards.
Recently, the FDA inspected several New York state cheesemakers and cited them for using wooden surfaces to age their cheeses. The New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets’ Division of Milk Control and Dairy Services, which (like most every state in the U.S., including Wisconsin), has allowed this practice, reached out to FDA for clarification on the issue. A response was provided by Monica Metz, Branch Chief of FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition’s (CFSAN) Dairy and Egg Branch. Continue reading “Game Changer: FDA Rules No Wooden Boards in Cheese Aging”
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Five Americans troops were killed in an apparent friendly fire incident in southern Afghanistan, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday, in one of the worst such incidents involving United States or coalition troops since the start of the nearly 14 year war.
The official insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly to journalists. Continue reading “5 US troops killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan”
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2005: At the Height of the Iraqi War:
• 20,000: number of non-Iraqi security contractors
Of these, 5-6,000 were British, American, South African, Russian or European; another 12,000 are from Third World countries, such as Fiji, Colombia, Sri Lanka, and India.
• 15,000 Iraqi security contractors
Most were hired mainly by the British security firm Erinys to guard Iraq’s oil infrastructure. Continue reading “Have Guns, Will Travel
: The Big Money World of Private Security”
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