Does carrying openly make you a target to potential armed gun thieves? Guns America – by S.H. BLANNELBERRY, October 9, 2014

This story’s gone viral, sparking all sorts of debate about whether open carry is really the way to go when one can in many cases opt to carry concealed.

Local media reports that a Gresham, Oregon, man was openly carrying a handgun this past Saturday when he was robbed at gunpoint by another man.   Continue reading “Does carrying openly make you a target?”

Jon Rappoport

Scott Faber (twitter) testifies before Congress. Wobbly drum roll, sour cymbal crash.

Faber is the executive director of Just Label It (twitter), a group that wants mandatory labeling of foods containing GMOs. He’s also the VP of Governmental Affairs for the powerful Environmental Working Group (twitter).   Continue reading “Scott Faber: “No one is seeking to ban GMO crops.” W-h-a-t?”

Before It’s News – by Danser

Randy Wymore, Ph.D., a medical school professor at Oklahoma State University at Tulsa who has become an unexpected champion of the Morgellons community. He was doing an Internet search on muscle fibers in the spring semester of 2005 when he stumbled onto a Web site discussing a fiber disease. Intrigued, he read for a moment, thought it seemed crazy, closed the link and went back to his other work. But the topic nagged at him, and a few days later he called up the search again.   Continue reading “Morgellons Disease; Where is the Research? Where is the CDC?”

Photo: sharyn morrow - flickr.com/photos/sharynmorrow/ - Flickr Creative CommonsReset – by Marguerite Arnold

According to a report this year from the esteemed Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), fatal overdoses caused by prescription painkillers dropped dramatically in states where cannabis is legal for medical and recreational use.

Access to medical cannabis, according to the study, is responsible for an overall 25% drop in fatalities associated with prescription drugs taken for chronic pain.  The study also expects such fatalities to continue to drop as cannabis reform across the country allows more people to legally access the drug for medical purposes.   Continue reading “Study: Painkiller Overdose Deaths Decrease Dramatically In 420-Friendly States”

palestine-flag1Global Research – by Joanne Maria McNally

With the recent failed bid by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Arab League at the UN security council, to try and end Israelis’ occupation of Palestinian land and to create a Palestinian State within the 1967 borders, it seems an appropriate moment to review the situation for Palestinians since 1915.

What is the background to the demonization and brutalization of Palestinians? Most of all, why is the international community was assisting properly and why has it not assisted the Palestinians in protecting or restoring their inalienable rights over decades? Why is their situation so brutally upside-down almost a century after they were supposed to be independent and determining their own state affairs?   Continue reading “The Harvesting of Palestine. The Zionist Project Prevails?”

Harry ReidUSA Today – by Catalina Camia

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid is in a Las Vegas hospital following injuries sustained while exercising at home.

A statement issued Friday by Reid’s office said doctors expect a “full recovery.”

“A piece of equipment Senator Reid was using to exercise broke, causing him to fall and break a number of ribs and bones in his face,” according to a statement issued by his office. “Senator Reid will return to Washington this weekend and be in the office Tuesday as the Senate prepares to reconvene.”    Continue reading “Sen. Harry Reid in hospital with broken ribs, bones”

debtors-prison-comicSHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

A special report highlights the growing disparity in America, and the issues many are having in keeping up with payments, which can even lead to incarceration for failure to pay – in spite of constitutional protections.

Thanks in part to the growing trend of private collection agencies – including those who service fines and penalties assessed by government agencies – the inability or failure to pay debts is resulting in arrest warrants, mounting costs and, yes, jail time.   Continue reading “Specter of Debtors’ Prisons Looms Over Americans Who Just Can’t Pay: “You Can’t Squeeze Blood From a Turnip””

ABC News

California on Friday will start taking driver’s license applications from the nation’s largest population of immigrants in the country illegally.

The state Department of Motor Vehicles expects 1.4 million people will seek a license in the first three years of a program aimed at boosting road safety and making immigrants’ lives easier.   Continue reading “Illegals to Seek California Driver Licenses”

The son in the crime duo was on the lam for 90 minutes after the traffic stop and gun fight before he turned himself in, police said.USA Today – by Doug Stranglin

The two bodies found in the back of a pickup truck have been identified as a North Carolina couple allegedly shot by a father and son from Texas who went on a multi-state crime spree that ended in the bizarre roadside shooting of two West Virginia police officers.

The rampage unraveled Thursday when the two Lewisburg officers pulled over a white Chevy SUV that allegedly had stolen plates from North Carolina. After stopping the vehicle, a man later claiming to be the first driver’s father pulled over nearby in a red pickup truck, according to N.C. Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins Jr, WRAL-TV reports.   Continue reading “Bodies found in pickup after shootout with W. Va. cops”

WeaponsMan

One of the things that many builders find daunting about the idea of manufacturing firearms completely from scratch, is manufacturing a rifled barrel. There are two tough nuts to crack with barrel making. The first is deep hole drilling, which is still called in industry “gun drilling,” because the technology of deep hole drilling, which today has many industrial applications, was initially developed for making gun barrels. Gun drilling will be dealt with separately; today, we’re going to talk about rifling a drilled (and, usually, reamed to precise size) barrel blank.   Continue reading “Small- and Home-Shop Rifling Machines”

Open Carry Tarrant County members marched on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014, in the 1400 block of North Collins Street.Star Telegram – by Susan Schrock

A local gun-rights group is fired up after Arlington police arrested two of its members over the weekend, saying they interfered with a traffic stop and an emergency domestic disturbance call.

Open Carry Tarrant County is urging members to march from the Arlington Police Department to City Hall on Jan. 10 with their rifles and black-powder pistols to demand the return of arrested members’ guns.   Continue reading “Arlington police arrest 2 open-carry advocates”

New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman.Consortium News – by Robert Parry

Among honest and knowledgeable people, there really isn’t much doubt about what happened in Ukraine last winter. There was a U.S.-backed coup which ousted a constitutionally elected president and replaced him with a regime more in line with U.S. interests. Even some smart people who agree with the policy of going on the offensive against Russia recognize this reality.

For instance, George Friedman, the founder of the global intelligence firm Stratfor, was quoted in an interview with the Russian liberal business publication Kommersant as saying what happened on Feb. 22 in Kiev – the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych – “really was the most blatant coup in history.”   Continue reading “The Liberal Idiocy on Russia/Ukraine”

A very telling article from 1949. Looks as though we’ve not gotten very far since then.

JTA – August 5, 1949

LAKE SUCCESS (Aug. 4)

Israel’s representative to the U.N. today warned the Security Council against making a decision which would expose the entire Middle East to an unbridled armaments race.   Continue reading “Eban Warns U.N. Security Council Against Encouraging Armaments Race in Middle East”

ABC News

A St. Louis man was charged Thursday with making threats against police and the St. Louis City Justice Center on Twitter.

Jason Valentine, 35, faces 10 felony counts of making a terrorist threat, the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office said Thursday.

Valentine is being held on a $100,000 cash-only bail, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which did not specify which jail. It wasn’t clear from online court records whether he has an attorney or when his first court appearance would be.   Continue reading “St. Louis Man Charged With Threatening Police”