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The Pentagon will expand its cyber security force from 900 personnel to a massive 4,900 troops and civilians over the next few years following numerous concerns over the dangerously vulnerable state of their defenses, according to US officials.

The Washington Post exposed details of the plan for the wide-scale expansion late on Sunday.  An official confirmed that plans for an extremely significant expansion were underway, but remained ambiguous about the precise figure. Continue reading “Pentagon to increase cyber security force fivefold – report”

Freedom Outpost – by Publius Huldah

The latest round of rubbish flooding our in boxes is an ignorant rant claiming that the Dick Act of 1902 (which respects our Right to be armed) can’t be repealed because to do so would “violate bills of attainder and ex post facto laws”.

Who dreams up this stuff? Does anyone check it out before they spread it around?

Of course we have the God-given right to keep and bear arms, to self-defense, etc., etc. Our Declaration of Independence (2^nd para) recognizes that our Rights come from God and are unalienable. Continue reading “The Truth About Gun Control, the Dick Act of 1902, Bills of Attainder & Ex Post Facto Laws”

Wired – by DAVID KRAVETS

A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.

Aaron Tobey claimed in a civil rights lawsuit(.pdf) that in 2010 he was handcuffed and held for about 90 minutes by the Transportation Security Administration at the Richmond International Airport after he began removing his clothing to display on his chest a magic-marker protest of airport security measures.

“Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,” his chest and gut read. Continue reading “Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest”

Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die

Image left is a live meteor detection chart for January 28th, 2013 around midnight. EST.

From Virginia to Ohio, people are reporting sightings of fireballs and meteors shooting across the sky Sunday night around 9:30 pm Eastern time. Hundreds of reports of spectacular fireballs have rushed into news stations across the Eastern half of the United States in many states while reports to the American meteor society are making many people wonder whether or not what they witnessed in the sky was a fireball or meteor afterall. From WSET in Virginia: Continue reading “‘Fireballs’ Light Up Skies From Virginia To Ohio To New York”

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PANDA Wyoming announces the introduction of HB 114, the Wyoming Liberty Preservation Act, and issues a call to action to ensure it passes committee. 

On December 31^st, 2011, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, containing provisions which authorized the indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition (and assassination) of anyone around the world without charge or trial. This law marked one of the darkest eras in American history, declaring the United States a battlefield and legally subject to the laws of war. Continue reading “Wyoming to Battle NDAA indefinite detention on Tuesday”

Survival Blog – by James Wesley, Rawles

This is a standing invitation to my fellow Americans: If congress ever enacts a law mandating the registration and/or a production ban of detachable magazine semiautomatic rifles then you are hereby invited to the town square of your local community. There, burn barrels will be set up and we will publicly burn Form 4473s, FFL Bound Books, state and local registration records, and the sales receipts for every firearm in the United States. On that same day, FFL holders and public officials holding electronic firearms records will simultaneously erase those records, permanently and irretrievably. (Using special file erasure software such as Blancco,X-Ways, and Stellar Wipe, or though the physical destruction of disk drives.) Continue reading “Nunc Pro Tunc: The Coming Day of Burn Barrels and Blessings”

AOL – by David Schepp

North Carolina public-school employee Michelle Fish can’t take a gun to school. But that didn’t stop the 42-year-old elementary school librarian from recently participating in a daylong seminar on how to handle and carry a gun.

Fish was one of a dozen or so educators in the Tar Heel State who attended the free firearms training course at Triangle Krav Maga combat center in Cary, just west of the capital, Raleigh. Continue reading “Teachers And Guns: An Educator Explains Why She Learned To Shoot”

Cop Block – by William Steinberg

On the afternoon of October 2, 2006 my close friend of 20 years James Woodson was standing in the courtyard of his apartment building talking to his wife of 6 months, Pena. He had just gotten home from work, had gotten his mail and was lingering by the pool which was surrounded on three sides by a two story apartment building with the fourth side being open to the street. Fifteen witnesses in the apartment and on the street heard the gunshot and smelled gun smoke. Woodson fell instantly and was unresponsive, though in the panic the .38 caliber bullet wound in the left center of his back went unnoticed until he arrived at the hospital 20 minutes later, where he was pronounced dead. Continue reading “Cops covering cops who commit murder”

Haaretz Daily Newspaper – by DPA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused Iran of planning another “Holocaust,” as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“Holocaust denial is continued energetically by a central state in the world,” he told his cabinet in Jerusalem.

“Not by groups. Not by single individuals. Not by marginal elements. But by Iran, whose leaders on a daily basis and at the United Nations and any other platform deny that the Holocaust occurred, while at the same time they prepare what they believe will be an additional Holocaust: The destruction of the Jewish state.” Continue reading “Netanyahu: Iran preparing for another Holocaust”

The Blaze – by Jason Howerton

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to acquire 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO “personal defense weapons” (PDW) — also known as “assault weapons” when owned by civilians. The solicitation, originally posted on June 7, 2012, comes to light as the Obama administration is calling for a ban on semi-automatic rifles and high capacity magazines.

Citing a General Service Administration (GSA) request for proposal (RFP), Steve McGough of RadioViceOnline.com reports that DHS is asking for the 7,000 “select-fire” firearms because they are “suitable for personal defense use in close quarters.” The term select-fire means the weapon can be both semi-automatic and automatic. Civilians are prohibited from obtaining these kinds of weapons. Continue reading “If ‘Assault Weapons’ are bad, Why does DHS want to buy 7000 of them for ‘Personal Defense’”

The communists began their new campaign for gun confiscation yesterday, assembling at the Washington Mall for a silent march down Constitution Avenue.  How ironic.  Of course this so called protest was sanctioned by the soviet insurgent government.  No billy clubs and tear gas for these traitors and only positive coverage in the mainstream propaganda machine.

Imagine a march centered on a desire to diminish our 2^nd Amendment.  The United States is a Republic and our people’s Bill of Rights absolutely cannot be altered by anyone within any of the three branches of government, as our Bill of Rights represents our power as individuals.  Our rights are inalienable and hence the power they represent is absolute without exception or infringement.  Continue reading “Communists Converge on Washington Mall for Gun Confiscation”

Gulf News Weekend Review – by Cindy Chang

Companies operating ‘maternity hotels’ cater to pregnant women from Chinese-speaking nations who want an American-citizen newborn.

USA Baby Care’s website makes no attempt to hide why the company’s clients travel to Southern California from China and Taiwan. It is to give birth to an American baby. “Congratulations! Arriving in the US means you’ve already given your child a surefire ticket for winning the race,” the site says in Chinese. “We guarantee that each baby can obtain a US passport and related documents.” Continue reading “LA’s cottage industry of birth tourism”

Moonbattery – by Dave Blount

Another reminder that the most radical excesses of the acid-crazed flower child era are now effectively mainstream:

Left-wing ’60s radical and onetime domestic terrorist Bill Ayers will be a keynote speaker at the Association of Teacher Educators annual conference in Atlanta next month. Continue reading “Keynote Speaker for Association of Teacher Educators: Bill Ayers”

Before It’s News- by Alton Parish

As the gun control debate continues, Kevin D. Bradford, an associate professional specialist in marketing at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, says the focus should be on those who distribute guns, not solely on those who buy them.

Bradford and a team of researchers conducted a first-of-its-kind study on the ways guns move from legal channels into the hands of criminals. In “Counter-marketing in the Courts: The Case of Marketing Channels and Firearms Diversion, published in the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, they examined 28 thousand pages of court documents, looking at what kinds of guns were used in violent crimes and what kinds of safeguards specific gun manufacturers had in place for distribution. Continue reading “Gun Control: Focus On Manufacturers, Not Just Buyers, Study Shows”