Year: 2016

Professional Troublemaker – by Jonathan Corbett

If you ask a random person living in NYC how hard it is to get a gun license, they will probably tell you that if you want a license to carry a gun, you have to be a cop, work as a security guard, or “know someone” (i.e., be rich and have donated to the right politician or organization).  The thing is, I couldn’t find anyone who didn’t fit into one of those categories who had actually tried, and in light of semi-recent Supreme Court rulings that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right, not limited to “militias,” I figured it was about time to put it to the test.   Continue reading “Is It *Really* Impossible To Get A Gun License in NYC? (Part I)”

Pacific Liberty Blog – by Ethan Blevins

Friday, Judge Beth Andrus held a hearing to determine whether inspections of Seattle residents’ garbage violates the Washington Constitution’s right to privacy. We relied on a Washington Supreme Court case that said government agents cannot sift through garbage cans without a warrant. That includes garbage collectors. They have an invitation to collect–not to inspect.   Continue reading “Washington Supreme Court ruled cops can’t sift through garbage cans without a warrant”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Consider these 3 quotes from Canadian billionaire Rob Kirby who buys and sells gold by the ton.

America is not run by Americans anymore.

Historically, when banks have nothing else they can do, they take us to war.   Continue reading “The American Empire Of Debt To Collapse Before The 2016 Elections?”

The Blaze – by Erica Ritz, January 12, 2013

A Utah businessman is rocking both state and national politics after claiming Utah Attorney General John Swallow helped him broker a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make a federal investigation into his company quietly disappear, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Jeremy Johnson was allegedly told that the price would be $600,000, and claims to have made an initial payment of $250,000 when he was slapped with a federal lawsuit.  Now he says he wants his money back.   Continue reading “Flashback: Indicted Businessman Names Harry Reid as Alleged Recipient of Massive Bribe”

Boston.com – by Kristin Toussaint

Mark Wahlberg was spotted at the Boston Marathon finish line Monday morning filming a scene for his upcoming movie Patriots’ Day.

The Dorchester native was seen in Boston police gear on Boylston Street. Last month he posed in uniform with the Quincy Police Department after filming scenes with a SWAT team.   Continue reading “Mark Wahlberg was filming at the Boston Marathon finish line this morning”

Breitbart – by Julia Hahn

Social media posts, along with Cruz’s campaign website, reveal that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) supporters in the Colorado Republican Party were responsible for crushing an effort to give Colorado the ability to vote in a state primary.

In May of 2015, four Colorado Senate Republicans killed an initiative “to create a presidential primary in 2016,” reported the Denver Post. “Under the bill, Colorado would have held a presidential primary in March that ran parallel with the state’s complicated caucus system… when it came before the Senate Appropriations Committee, four Republicans voted to kill the bill with three Democrats supporting it.”   Continue reading “Revealed: Colorado Lawmakers Who Voted to Scrap Election Are Ted Cruz Delegates”

Nikkei Asian Review

TOKYO — Seismic activity in southern Japan is mystifying geologists and keeping the nation on edge.

The island of Kyushu has been struck by a series of significant earthquakes, with the epicenters moving progressively further inland. The cluster started with the deadly quakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture last Thursday and Saturday. Temblors subsequently rocked the Mount Aso region and neighboring Oita Prefecture.   Continue reading “Unusual quake cluster worries Japan”

CBS News – by Sharyn Alfonsi

BATR

Lest we forget, this country was forged out of a concerted desire to free the shackles of the British Empire, so that colonies could chart their own course for individual state governments. If only people understood this historic fact. Since so few are familiar with the actual cornerstones of the America Revolution and the latest generations know even less, the indoctrination from government schools has stripped out the quest for knowledge of what made America different. Consider a virtual reality time travel back two hundred and forty-one years to the start of the most important revolution of all times.   Continue reading “Time Travel Back to Shot Heard ‘Round the World”

The Week

Why was the IRS created?
When the U.S. was founded, it had no tax-collecting agency and little need for one for the next 80 years. The much smaller federal government of that era was funded largely by customs tariffs and state-collected excise taxes on sugar, liquor, and tobacco. But when the Civil War began, President Abraham Lincoln needed new revenues to cover the immense cost of waging the war, so in 1862 he successfully pushed Congress to create the country’s first income tax, and the Bureau of Internal Revenue to collect it. Continue reading “The IRS’s long history of scandal”

Washington’s Blog

The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21 Years Total Since Its Birth

In 2011, Danios wrote:   Continue reading “America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776”

Maine Republic

What to Expect on April 19, 2016

1. The Rock:  I expect the UN Corp doing business as the IMF (which is merely doing-business-as the “UNITED STATES” and as the “United States Treasury”) to try to stick us with all their debts, because they are crooks and they naturally don’t want to pay their own debts out of their own profits. They are basically trying to stage a repeat of what FDR did back in the 1930’s when he got the clueless Americans to assume and pay the debts of the “United States of America, Inc.” — a bankrupt privately owned and operated governmental services corporation – under conditions of constructive fraud and semantic deceit.   Continue reading “What to Expect on April 19, 2016, by Anna von Reitz”

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Washington Examiner – by Rudy Takala

The IRS is struggling to ensure that illegal immigrants are able to illegally use Social Security numbers for legitimate purposes, the agency’s head told senators on Tuesday, without allowing the numbers to be used for “bad” reasons.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen made the statement in response to a question from Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., during a session of the Senate Finance Committee about why the IRS appears to be collaborating with taxpayers who file tax returns using fraudulent information. Coats said that his staff had discovered the practice after looking into agency procedures.    Continue reading “IRS chief: Agency encourages illegal immigrant theft of SSNs to file tax returns”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

The Environmental Protection Agency is not protecting underground drinking water supplies from oilfield contamination and in several instances has allowed companies actually to dump wastewater into aquifers, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report.

The report blasts the EPA for its oversight in California, where, since 2014, the state has allowed oil companies to violate safe-drinking water laws. An AP analysis in 2015 found that California had handed out 2,000 permits giving oil companies permission to dump wastewater into federally protected drinking water. The tragedy impacted at least 11 aquifers.   Continue reading “The Government Just Admitted It Allowed The Poisoning Of Drinking Water”

Yahoo News

BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. has agreed to deploy more than 200 additional troops to Iraq and to send Apache helicopters for the first time into the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the first major increase in U.S. forces in nearly a year, U.S. defense officials said Monday.

The uptick in American fighting forces — and the decision to put them closer to the front lines — is designed to help Iraqi forces as they move to retake the key northern city of Mosul.   Continue reading “US to send 200 more troops, Apache helicopters, to Iraq”

Illegal Alien Crime Report

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) – A Longview man was arrested after a homeowner thwarted a burglary Monday.

Police say that about 10:56 p.m., officers were dispatched to a home in the 800 block of Spring Street. When they arrived, the victim told them that a suspect, later identified as Kevin Mitchell Gonzales, 28, of Longview, attempted to enter the garage without permission.   Continue reading “Armed Illegal Alien Breaks Into Texas Home, Is Badly Beaten By Homeowner”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Hey, it’s only someone’s freedom at stake. Why try harder? (via Fusion.net)

A lab technician for the State Police allegedly faked results in a drug case, and has drawn into question 7,827 criminal cases on which he worked, according to state officials.
Continue reading “Over 7,800 Prosecutions Questioned After NJ Lab Tech Caught Faking Drug Test Results”

Natural News – by David Gutierrez

A former DARPA scientist who held a top security clearance has warned that transmissions from cell phone towers constitute a “terrorist act” against the civilian population.

Dr. Paul Batcho holds a PhD from Princeton University, and spent nearly three years working for DARPA at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the field of computational physics.   Continue reading “CLAIM: Cell towers across the USA are broadcasting brain resonance frequencies to disrupt human minds, says former DARPA scientist”

AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trust in the news media is being eroded by perceptions of inaccuracy and bias, fueled in part by Americans’ skepticism about what they read on social media.

Just 6 percent of people say they have a lot of confidence in the media, putting the news industry about equal to Congress and well below the public’s view of other institutions. In this presidential campaign year, Democrats were more likely to trust the news media than Republicans or independents.   Continue reading “Only 6 Percent of Americans Trust The Media”