Huffington Post – by Foster Klug

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday deported an elderly U.S. tourist, apparently ending the saga of Merrill Newman’s return to the North six decades after he advised South Korean guerrillas still loathed by Pyongyang.

North Korea made the decision because the 85-year-old Newman, who was detained since late October, apologized for his alleged crimes during the Korean War and because of his age and medical condition, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.   Continue reading “Merrill E. Newman, American Vet Detained In North Korea, Reportedly Deported”

RBS said there had been a "deliberate" surge in internet traffic aimed at its NatWest websiteBT.com

Royal Bank of Scotland said its websites were the victim of a cyber attack that left some customers unable to access their accounts in the group’s second computer crash in less than a week.

The group’s sites went down for about an hour today and yesterday evening after a “deliberate” surge in internet traffic aimed at its NatWest website, according to the lender.

It said sites were now back up and running and there was no risk to customers.   Continue reading “Cyber attack on RBS websites”

NC Renegade – by David

David,

I read your article and the Esquire piece on Batemen and got furious. I wrote him and the banter is below.

I am waiting to reply to his arrogant response. I am thinking that waging war on law abiding US citizens is not treason? Did we not fight the Revolutionary war on the basic principles we are being subjected to today? Does he really think this Congress would declare a war given the track record of their reluctance to do so ever since Korea?   Continue reading “Lt. Col. Robert Bateman’s Response to A Patriot”

American Free Press – by Pete Papaherakles

As South Africa’s 95-year-old Nelson Mandela lies in the hospital, the worldwide media portrays him as a larger-than-life heroic figure and the liberator of his people. But is that truth or fiction? And how will honest historians judge him?

The official story goes something like this: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in 1918 into the Thembu tribe’s royal family. He studied law at two prestigious universities and became involved in “anti-colonial politics,” joining the African National Congress (ANC). He was committed to non-violent protest in gaining sovereignty for blacks. In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government and was sentenced to life in prison.   Continue reading “The Real Mandela”

Washington’s Blog

CIA Central In Mandela’s Arrest … Kept Him On Terrorist List Until 2008

Everyone from President Obama to the mainstream news is lionizing Nelson Mandela.

But the New York Times reported in 1990:   Continue reading “U.S. Lionizes Mandela In Death … But Labeled Him a Terrorist While He Was Alive”

Main Street USA –Lt. Col. Robert Bateman-styleExaminer – by David Codrea

A firestorm has been started on Esquire’s The Politics Blog with a Tuesday opinion piece by Lt. Col. Robert Bateman titled “It’s time to talk about guns and the Supreme Court.” He not only takes SCOTUS and Justice Antonin Scalia to task for their Heller decision interpretation of the Second Amendment, but goes on to propose citizen disarmament edicts that dispense with false assurances given by some in the gun ban camp that nobody wants to take our guns away.

Bateman does, big time, and makes no bones about it. In a way, he’s done us a service by giving a glimpse of the end game less candid incrementalists are inching toward.   Continue reading “Military officer calls for nationwide gun-grab”

Storm: This NOAA satellite image taken early Friday shows clouds streaming from the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, associated with a strong Arctic frontDaily Mail

A biting Winter storm has blasted the South and Midwest with ice and snow – leaving more than a quarter of a million people without power, grounding hundreds of flights and causing treacherous conditions for travelers.

Two people have died in traffic accidents on roads in Texas, where temperatures plunged below freezing on what residents dubbed ‘Ice Friday’.   Continue reading “South and Midwest blasted by bitter Winter storm as snow and ice grounds hundreds of flights and leaves nearly 300,000 without power”

Arkansas ToothpicksAmmoLand

Gilbert, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- The first detailed scholarly analysis of knives and the Second Amendment has been published in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (vol. 47, pages 167-215).

Authored by noted Second Amendment scholars David Kopel, Clayton Cramer and Joe Olson, the paper makes the case for knives as “arms” protected by the Second Amendment, supporting one of Knife Rights’ foundational tenets.   Continue reading “‘Knives and the Second Amendment’ Legal Article Published”

FirearmsCoalition.orgAmmoLand – by Jeff Knox

Manassas, VA –-(Ammoland.com)- Rights advocates around the country need to be on the lookout for an insidious new tactic being launched by Mike Bloomberg and his mercenary minions.

Their latest line of attack is mental health. This actually isn’t so much a new approach as a refocusing and turbo charging of an older plan.   Continue reading “Mental Health – The Next Gun Rights Assault”

ECIG.jpgNow I use one of these and the statement that these could cause people to get hooked on nicotine is false. You can get 0% nicotine liquid to put in them. Although I’m not 100% convinced that vapor is that good for you eather I do feel better when using that rather than smoking cigarettes.

Fox News

New Yorkers who say electronic cigarettes helped them quit smoking asked city lawmakers at a hearing this week not to ban the nicotine inhalers from restaurants, workplaces and other indoor spaces, saying there isn’t enough evidence they pose a health risk to justify their exclusion.   Continue reading “New York City proposal seeks ban on electronic cigarette use in public”

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go;
Take a look in the five and ten glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in every store
But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
On your own front door.

A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben;
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen;
And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again. School days school days dear old golden rules day don’t have to study don’t have to go look out the window it’s starting to snow   Continue reading ““It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas””

Max Velocity Tactical

Here is the difference between a terrorist and a freedom/resistance fighter, in my opinion:

A terrorist engages in indiscriminate killing in order create fear and further his agenda, which will include the killing of innocents, children, with tactics such as bombs/attacks in crowded public places.

A Freedom/Resistance fighter will engage legitimate targets, whether military or enemy facilitators. They will not target innocents or children.   Continue reading “Terrorist Vs. Freedom Fighter”

formationMax Velocity Tactical

This in via email, from SP:

“I posed a question in the SWAT Threat thread concerning if/how/when/should someone that has just escaped a no-knock raid thus taking to the hills, and whether at some point the person is going to have to put their position forward to the media justifying their actions (MSM or alternative media), and if so how important would it be.

Chuck replied to the question and posed the concept of the Information Operations will be just as important as Kinetic Operations.   Continue reading “Fugitive Media Management!”

Max Velocity Tactical

A reader sent me this link to a long thread at Small Wars Council. Honestly, I groaned inwardly: I haven’t read the thread in its entirety. However I’m going to take the opportunity to comment on squad size and organization.

The topic of squad size and organization is a big one, with lots of opinions, and we could go on forever and get wrapped around the axle. I will simply give a quick opinion, and what I think is a utilitarian approach.   Continue reading “The Squad – Size and Organization”

Mexico Radioactive TheftAP The Big Story

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican government official says six people being tested for possible radiation exposure are suspects in the theft of truck carrying cobalt-60.

The official says the six were arrested Thursday and taken to the general hospital in Pachuca for observation and testing for radiation exposure.   Continue reading “6 Detained in Mexico Theft of Radioactive Material”