21st Century Wire

Before Federal trolls or indoctrinated government “true believers”, starts spreading their slurs, you had better gauge the sentiment in the real America.

Seventy-two percent of Americans, in a Gallop poll say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a record high in the nearly 50-year history of this question. Yet the “so called” authorities would have you accept that only a conspiracy theorist thinks that the great protectors of law and order are capable of routing out Christians, 2nd Amendments advocates, ’911 Truth’ proponents, Tea Party members, Patriot-Liberty groups or ‘Global Warming deniers’, and confining them to prison gulags (bear in mind, it wouldn’t be the first time in history this has happened by government). So when the House introduced HR 645, in 2009 that directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations, every citizen should feel threatened by its own government. Continue reading “Martial Law Feasibility Study for the ‘Homeland Security Society’”

Philip ColemanPolice State USA

CHICAGO, IL — An investigation regarding the in-custody death of a mentally ill man has revealed that police tasered him a total of 16 times while shackled.  Video shows that police used the taser as a compliance tool in a jail cell and were laughing during the incident.  The man was also tased repeatedly as he was taken to court and then to the hospital, until he died.   Continue reading “Chicago jailers laughed while fatally tasing mentally ill man 16 times”

Department of Defense – by Terry Moon Cronk

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2014 – U.S. forces along with those from more than 20 other nations will begin military exercises in Jordan next week.

Pentagon Spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said today Eager Lion 14 will begin May 25 in what will be Jordan’s fourth annual, large-scale multilateral military exercises.   Continue reading “U.S. Troops to Take Part in Jordanian Exercise”

Patriot Rising

Police work to dispel “negative public perception” of use of military vehicles domestically

Police in the Wisconsin town of Neenah have reassured residents that military trucks obtained from the U.S. Army now being deployed for domestic law enforcement duties won’t be used to fire on the locals.   Continue reading “Wisconsin Police Reassure Residents They Won’t Be Shot at From Military Truck”

Reuters

TOKYO May 19 (Reuters) – Japanese utility Tohoku Electric Power Co said on Monday it would buy more liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the U.S. Cameron project, increasing its purchase to 570,000 tonnes per year, using U.S. Henry Hub natural gas-linked prices.

Tohoku said it signed a basic pact with GDF Suez, which holds a 16.6 percent stake in the Cameron LNG project, to buy 270,000 tonnes per year of LNG for 20 years from 2018 or 2019.   Continue reading “Japan’s Tohoku to buy more LNG from US Cameron project”

Huffington Post- by Zach Carter and Kate Sheppard

WASHINGTON — The European Union is pressing the Obama administration to expand U.S. fracking, offshore oil drilling and natural gas exploration under the terms of a secret negotiation text obtained by The Huffington Post.

The controversial document is an early draft of energy policies that EU negotiators hope to see adopted under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal, which is currently being negotiated. The text was shared with American officials in September. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative declined to comment on the document.   Continue reading “Read The Secret Trade Memo Calling For More Fracking and Offshore Drilling”

E&E News – by Mike Lee, May 16, 2014

People who disclose confidential information about hydraulic fracturing chemicals in North Carolina would be subject to criminal penalties and civil damages, under a bill in the state Legislature.

The “Energy Modernization Act,” which was introduced yesterday, would make it a Class I felony to disclose trade secrets related to hydraulic fracturing, while spelling out how the information is supposed to be provided to emergency workers. Class I is the lowest-level felony, punishable by a few months’ imprisonment.   Continue reading “N.C. bill would make it a felony to disclose fracking chemicals”

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Two Ice Floes – by Mrs. Cog

If you are one of the many people who have a home with a lawn, but know something wicked this way comes, you may have said to yourself, “I have plenty of room in the yard, so I can grow my own food if I need to.” I have heard this from a number of people lately.

Should this be your ‘Plan B’ for extreme food inflation or shortages, you might want to get a jump start on the work involved because it is not easy and involves a number of factors you may not have considered. I know because we are currently undertaking just such a task.   Continue reading “Is Plan B to Turn Your Lawn into a Garden?”

Common Dreams – by Jon Queally

According to new NSA revelations at the The Intercept on Monday—reported by Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras—the U.S. National Security Agency “is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas.”

Based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the surveillance program in the Caribbean nation, known as much in the U.S. as home for off-shore banking and shell corporations as for its luxurious resorts, “is part of a top-secret system – code-named SOMALGET” which has been executed without the knowledge of the Bahamian government.   Continue reading “NSA in the Bahamas: ‘Data Pirates of the Caribbean’”

Border PatrolUS Border Patrol Retiree Blog

President Obama has taken extraordinary steps to restrict immigration law enforcement in our nation’s interior.  Ex-DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano was all too willing to support Obama’s anti-enforcement ideology by implementing enforcement policies that effectively gifted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have had their hands tied to such an extent that an illegal alien who slips past the Border Patrol now faces little risk of being arrested and deported.   Continue reading “Demonizing The Border Patrol Is Part Of Comprehensive Immigration Reform”

constitutionThe Daily Sheeple

Nearly two years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts deemed the ACA’s individual mandate penalty a “tax” and saved Obama’s signature law.

But did he really save it – or did he doom it?

Many legal experts have disputed the classification of that provision of Obamacare as a “tax” – the ACA itself refers to it as a “penalty”.   Continue reading “The Obamacare “Tax” is Likely Unconstitutional, and Here’s Why”

AFP Photo / Paul J. RichardsRT News

The state of California is looking to pass a law stating the federal government would need a warrant from a judge if it wants to search residents’ cellphones and computer records. The bill passed the state senate with just one person voting against.

The bill was introduced following information that was leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who showed that US citizens had been subject to massive internal surveillance by the NSA.   Continue reading “Giving NSA the boot – California bids to end spying on its citizens”

Yahoo News – by Candice Choi

NEW YORK (AP) — Chipotle is asking customers not to bring firearms into its stores after it says gun rights advocates brought military-style assault rifles into one of its restaurants in Texas.

The Denver-based company notes that it has traditionally complied with local laws regarding open and concealed firearms.    Continue reading “Chipotle: Don’t bring guns in our stores”

Independent – by Adam Withnall

Thousands of sheep in Australia are believed to have died after eating a poisonous plant that makes them “bash their heads on posts and rocks until they crack open”.

The usually-rare toxic plant, misleadingly named the “Darling pea”, has spread rapidly in the aftermath of bushfires in New South Wales – which themselves caused devastation for sheep farmers in the area. Continue reading “Thousands of sheep in Australia die from ‘banging their heads till they crack open’ after eating poisonous plant”