CT Post – by NICK TABOR

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The House of Delegates is considering a bill that would link Maryland’s gun registry to its criminal database.

State law requires gun owners to surrender their weapons if they’re convicted of felonies or any violent crimes, but Del. Luiz Simmons, D-Montgomery, said Maryland State Police lack a systematic way of enforcing this. They can’t use their databases to identify gun owners convicted of crimes.   Continue reading “Maryland House bill would link gun, criminal registries”

ewing-51.jpgCBS News

EWING, N.J. – Authorities say one resident was killed in an explosion in a New Jersey housing development that also injured seven workers.

Police say the blast happened Tuesday after a gas line was damaged by contractors who were digging in the area. At least one town home was destroyed in the Trenton suburb of Ewing and 55 others damaged.   Continue reading “One dead as damaged gas line explodes at New Jersey townhouse complex”

AFP Photo / Miguel RogoRT News

Residents of Washington, DC who are found to be in possession of a small amount of marijuana will no longer be charged with a crime after the city council voted Tuesday to reduce the penalty to a small fine.

The members voted 10-1 to drop possession of an ounce or less of cannabis to a civil fine of $25. The council did preserve a law making it illegal to smoke in public, although the maximum penalty for that infraction has been reduced from up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine to up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. That penalty is the same one facing residents who are stopped in public with an open can of alcohol.   Continue reading “Marijuana on its way to being decriminalized in Washington DC”

Reuters / Andrew BurtonRT News

About one in five US soldiers have been found to have a common mental illness such as depression or panic disorder upon enlisting in the Army, according to a new study.

A second study showed that over eight percent of soldiers had contemplated suicide and 1.1 percent had attempted suicide, researchers found via confidential surveys and interviews with 5,428 soldiers at Army bases across the US.   Continue reading “​’How did these guys get in the Army?’ New study delves into mental illness”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The last time a leaked phone call out of Ukraine was released about a month ago ostensibly by the Russian NSA equivalent, one between US assistant sec state Victoria Nuland and the US envoy to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, it was revealed that the real puppet masters behind the Maidan movement, and the true instigators of the Ukraine “revolution” were none other than the “developed” world superpowers, lead by the US. Also revealed were tensions between the US and EU strategies on how to overthrow the current government, culminating with the infamous “Fuck the EU.” Needless to say the US, which implicitly confirmed the recording, was angry at Russia and accused it of using dirty tricks.   Continue reading ““Behind The Kiev Snipers It Was Somebody From The New Coalition” – A Stunning New Leak Released”

Guerrilla America – by SAMUEL CULPER III

For the benefit of quasi-academic exercise, let’s assume that the absolute worst happens in Connecticut (CT): a federal invasion.  (Although the likelihood is low right now, it could be a plausible scenario in another state for the government of tomorrow.)  If I was tasked to analyze and wargame that scenario, my initial key assumptions would be:   Continue reading “Invasion Models”

US NEWS ATTACKS-BUSH 3 KRTMcClatchy DC – by JONATHAN S. LANDAY, ALI WATKINS AND MARISA TAYLOR

WASHINGTON — The CIA Inspector General’s Office has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of malfeasance at the spy agency in connection with a yet-to-be released Senate Intelligence Committee report into the CIA’s secret detention and interrogation program, McClatchy has learned.   Continue reading “Probe sought of CIA conduct in Senate study of secret detention program”

Before It’s News

Facebook is currently working with two anti-gun groups to further restrict firearm discussions on its various pages in a move that will likely lead to the outright censorship of gun topics throughout the social media site.

Facebook has also bought out a drone company as well. Sending 11000 drones to Africa.   Continue reading “Facebook Joins Bloomberg To Ban Pro-Gun Speech, Seek To Limit First Amendment Rights”

World Events and the Bible

(Video, Activist Post) – The fact that the United States leads the world in prison population is becoming common knowledge. Somewhat lesser known is the direct connection between corporate prisons and incarceration rates. There is no starker example of this than Louisiana which leads the world in for-profit prisons and, just coincidentally, happens to have the world’s highest prison population per capita.   Continue reading “Kids For Cash Scheme Exposes Horrors of For-Profit Prisons: Documentary”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuWorld Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Pay attention to the signs taking place in the world, this is a major one. Do not forget1 Thes 5:3.

(Video, Ynet) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants an accord with the Palestinians, but the onus is on them to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, he told the annual conference of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC on Tuesday.   Continue reading “Netanyahu at AIPAC: Ready for ‘historic peace’, but Palestinians must recognize Jewish state”

Before It’s News

Putin is not playing games with the west. He just announced that if the U.S. imposes sanctions on Russia, Russia will default on all loans from the western world and the western banking system. Now Putin is playing hard ball with the west.

Obama is in a game with a seasoned war veteran, and a man who has no fear of the US and the western powers. It will be interesting to watch Obama squirm his way out of this situation.    Continue reading “Russia Warns It Will Dump The U.S. Dollar And Stiff The Western Banking Cartel”

Papers, Please!

At first blush, a lawsuit filed last week by the ACLU on behalf of a sociology professor at Indiana University wrongly detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection seems to be about whether CBP is exceeding the limitations on its police powers, and detaining US citizens for purposes unrelated to customs and borders.

That’s bad, but unsurprising in light of the history of abuse of limited administrative search powers as a pretext for unrelated police purposes by CBP and other DHS components, notably the TSA.   Continue reading “DHS uses email intercepts to question US citizen about her sex life”

Mother Jones – by Asawin Suebsaeng

Here’s one way the US government is trying to combat terrorism without the use of controversial explosions. A tiny portion of your tax dollars—just a few million dollars annually—is funding the State Department’s trolling of jihadists on Twitter.

One of the State Department’s official (and verified) Twitter accounts, called “Think AgainTurn Away” and going by the handle “@ThinkAgain_DOS,” is devoted to speaking “some truths about terrorism” online. If you follow the account, you’ll notice that this truth often manifests itself in the form of the State Department directly tweeting at Islamists and their supporters in English, and countering their beliefs.   Continue reading “The State Department Is Actively Trolling Terrorists on Twitter”

Computer World – by Robert L. Mitchell

Privacy is under attack from all quarters, but even today, there are things you can do to protect your personal data. Here are some tips.

Who says privacy is dead? While it’s true that marketers, the government, data aggregators and others are gathering and analyzing more data than ever about every individual, you can still exert some control over what’s out there, who’s tracking you and what they do with that information.   Continue reading “The paranoid’s survival guide, part 1: How to protect your personal data”

Washington’s Blog

New Ooga Booga No Longer Effective … So Government Switches Back to Tried-And-True Old-Timey Ooga-Booga

Preface: I’m not siding with Putin on the Ukrainian dispute. I don’t like Communism.  I was born in the U.S. and have lived here all of my life.  I hate Stalin with a passion – a man who killed countless protesters, and sent numerous others away to insane asylums – and have railed against the “useful idiots” who naively supported the Soviets. I also think that Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat.  I’m just pointing out that the U.S. Government is completely overreacting and fear-mongering. This is taking place on the other side of the world, and doesn’t effect America’s national security (although we may have heavily invested in the outcome).   Continue reading “The Americans’ Fear of Islamic Terrorists Has Worn Off, So the Government Pulls Out the EVIL RUSSIAN Card Again”

Truth Dig – by William Pfaff

What did Washington expect to gain from a successful coup d’état in Ukraine? It gained little enough from the “Orange Revolution” in 2005, that first put Viktor Yuschenko and Yulia Tymoshenko into power in independent Ukraine. Their power produced rivalry, as well as a return of corruption to national government (the Orange Revolution, so-called, was itself inspired by popular protests against corruption in the preceding government of Viktor Yanukovych, causing his ouster). Yanukovych, of course, returned to power in 2010 (with 48 percent of the vote), after which Yulia Tymoshenko was conveniently charged and imprisoned on corruption charges.    Continue reading “What Happens Now in Ukraine?”