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Imagine you’re on a nice, long train ride in the United States. You close your eyes for a quick nap and wake up in… China? Yup. That could happen if China goes through with a proposed high-speed railway linking it to the U.S.

The project, nicknamed the “China-Russia-Canada-America” line, would be over 8,000 miles long and was first reported in China’s state-run Beijing Times newspaper. The paper interviewed a railway expert from the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Continue reading “China considering building high-speed railway to U.S.”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The most significant geopolitical event of the day is the east Ukraine independence referendum taking place in various cities across the region, less than two months after the Crimean case study which saw the region split away from Ukraine and join Russia, despite the fervent warnings by Kiev and the west that the result of the “rigged election” would not be accepted by anyone. As it turned out then, it only needed to be accepted by Russia which promptly took over the Black Sea territory.   Continue reading “East Ukraine Votes For Independence: Turnout Reported “Off The Charts””

FBI Drafts Law to Require Websites to Grant Backdoor Access to Government AgenciSCG News

I’m sure you’ve heard about PRISM, the NSA’s surveillance program which enlisted the cooperation of tech giants like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft (and thereby Skype). That program involved companies voluntarily granting the U.S. government backdoor access to user communications and data. This was a scandal, and of course the companies involved were not about to reveal the technical methods used to grant that access. In the case of Microsoft, we have specific documents from the Snowden leaks which show that Microsoft helped the NSA by developing a way to break their own encryption, thereby allowing real time monitoring of Skype audio and video. If you think that’s creepy, wait till you hear what they are trying to do next.   Continue reading “FBI Drafts Law to Require Websites to Grant Backdoor Access to Government Agencies”

Charleston Voice

Center for Defense Information{CDI}
1500 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20005

Formed in 1973 as a project of the tax-exempt Fund for Peace(FFP). CDI and its sister FFP projects – the Center for National Security Studies(CNSS) and the Center for International Policy(CIP) – are spin-offs from projects initiated by the Institute for Policy Studies(IPS), the Washington-based , internationally active revolutionary think-tank. CDI director Gene R. LaRoque has worked closely with IPS cofounder Richard Barnet, and longtime IPS fellow Earl C. Ravenal as a CDI advisor.   Continue reading “Center for Defense Information{CDI} and its Marxist Sphere of DC Influence”

Ukranian_PartisansThe Captain’s Journal – by HERSCHEL SMITH

Politico Magazine:

It is here in the forest that you leave behind, once and for all, Ukraine’s cosmopolitan present and take a step back into its violent past—as well as glimpse what could become its bloody future. It is here, locals say, where Ukraine’s fate could be decided once again.

Continue reading “Yuppie, Get Your Gun!”

American Rifleman – by Bruce Canfield

Early 1942 was a time of crisis for the Allies. The Japanese had dealt America’s Pacific fleet a crippling blow on Dec. 7, 1941, and just a few months later would force the surrender of the Philippines. On the other side of the world, most of Western Europe was under the heel of the Nazi jackboot, and the seemingly invincible Wehrmacht was sweeping across the steppes of the Soviet Union. Against that bleak backdrop, Allied planners were tirelessly exploring ways to stem the Axis aggression and take the fight to the enemy.   Continue reading “The Liberator Pistol”

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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — One of the two officers at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen who shot and killed a pair of suspected al-Qaida gunmen was getting a haircut at a barbershop when the attempted abduction took place, Yemeni security officials said Sunday.

The attempted kidnapping April 24 is the latest evidence of al-Qaida’s expanding presence in the capital, a serious challenge to the authority of the already weak central government. It also could strain ties between Yemen and the U.S., which has launched an aggressive campaign of drone strikes against suspected al-Qaida fighters in the country.   Continue reading “Americans in Yemen shooting were getting haircuts”

CenturyLink – by Martin Griffith, AP

Dozens of people rode their ATVs and motorcycles on an off-limits trail in southern Utah on Saturday in a protest against what the group calls the federal government’s overreaching control of public lands.

San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge said from 40 to 50 people, many of them waving American flags and some carrying weapons, drove about a mile down Recapture Canyon near Blanding and then turned around. Hundreds attended a rally at a nearby park before the protest.   Continue reading “Dozens of protesters ride in off-limits canyon”

Yahoo News

(Reuters) – A Veterans Affairs healthcare coordinator was placed on administrative leave on Friday following revelations of an email sent last year outlining a scheme for masking delayed treatment of patients at a VA medical facility in Wyoming, CBS News reported.

The report comes as Veterans Administration Secretary Eric Shinseki faces increased pressure to resign over charges his department allowed deadly delays in care at some of its hospitals for veterans.   Continue reading “Veterans Affairs worker in Wyoming placed on leave in patient delay scandal – report”

The Daily Caller – by Barbara Baird

And so it begins. Quite possibly, one of the most interesting gun control battles in a long time will be held in the world of Mom-dom. Soccer moms from across this land will put on the shoulder pads of pro- or anti-gun control sides and head out for knock-down, drag-out media wars. The field will get bloodied and believe me, there will not be any Kool-Aid moms in white pants running around in this scenario.   Continue reading “Bring it: ‘NRA Moms’ vs. Bloomberg’s ‘Moms Demand Action’”

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the annual Transforming Transportation conference at the World Bank in Washington,DC on January 18, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)The Daily Caller – by Chris Cox

Michael Bloomberg, the 15th-richest man in the world, has announced that he is going to spend $50 million on a “grassroots” campaign against the National Rifle Association. In politics, that is a huge amount of money—far more than the amount of money the NRA has been able to spend on politics in the last several years. Other billionaires, including Warren Buffett, have announced that they, too, will support Bloomberg’s campaign.   Continue reading “Michael Bloomberg Will Haunt You In The Afterlife”

Daily Finance – by Matt Furber

Montana is braided with rivers formed as snowmelt from the upper reaches of the Rocky Mountains drains off the Continental Divide.

Fished for thousands of years, these rivers have inspired writers and artists. And sometimes even business owners.

When he was 15, K.C. Walsh spent a summer on one of those rivers, the Bitterroot near Missoula, fishing with his grandfather. “It was just a magical time. In the back of my mind I always thought, how am I going to get back to Montana?” Walsh says.
Continue reading “For Montana Clothier, Gone Fishin’ Is a Way of Business”

Militia to be demonized as radicals by media during upcoming BLM protestIntellihub

Media rhetoric has just shifted into second gear and is building steam fast.

In fact, the Las Vegas Sun and others have already reported that Bundy Ranch militiamen and women along with members of the Citizens Action Network headed to Utah in preparation to protest the BLM Saturday.

However, proponents of the BLM say that the protesters are nothing more than Ted Nugent fans and Obama hating gun lovers seeking to wage war with the BLM. Rhetoric from the Denver Post reads, “San Juan County residents who support Saturday’s protest ride identify themselves on their Facebook pages as fans of Bundy and guns-rights rocker Ted Nugent.   Continue reading “Militia to be demonized as radicals by media during upcoming BLM protest”