United Liberty – by Jason Pye

In an interview with Time, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that she doesn’t know if a majority of House Democrats will support President Barack Obama’s rush to war with Syria.

“I don’t know. I think it would be important to get a majority in the Congress,” said Pelosi in response to a question about support in the Democratic caucus for military strikes against Syria. “But I don’t know if it’s important how you would break it down. These issues are not really partisan.”   Continue reading “Pelosi is unsure that House Democrats will back Syria intervention”

torWashington Post – by Brian Fung

This week, we learned that the NSA had managed to circumvent much of the encryption that secures online financial transactions and other activities we take for granted on the Internet. How? By inserting backdoors into the very commercial software designed to keep sensitive medical records, bank files and other information private.   Continue reading “The feds pay for 60 percent of Tor’s development. Can users trust it?”

The DC Caller – by Reza Kahili

As Congress debates whether to support President Obama’s call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.

Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that “[w]e will support Syria to the end.”   Continue reading “Iran threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obama family if US hits Syria”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

Russian Navy spokesmen said Friday that the fleet building up in the Mediterranean can answer any development after the Smetlivy guided missile destroyer set sail for the Mediterranean. DEBKAfile: Since Wednesday, Moscow has reported six warships have been sent out to reinforce the Russian fleet on hand opposite Syria.

Western naval sources reported Friday that a Chinese landing craft, the Jinggangshan (photo below), with a 1,000-strong marine battalion had reached the Red Sea en route for the Mediterranean off Syria.  With a displacement of 19,000 tons, the amphibious warship is 210 meters long and 28 meters wide and can carry helicopters, armored fighting vehicles, boats and landing craft as well as nearly 1,000 soldiers, Jiangxi Daily said.   Continue reading “China Sends 1000 Marines To Syrian Coast, Russia Sends More Warships”

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

Reports are coming out, via the two videos below, that the Syrian government and Army is sending reinforcements to the Christian village of Ma’loula. where they have been battling the Obama backed Syrian rebels.

According to the details of one report the historic village of Ma’loula,is on a UNESCO list of world heritage sites, is home to two of the oldest surviving monasteries in Syria, was briefly infiltrated by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, before they were forced to pull out hours later following heavy clashes with Syrian troops.   Continue reading “Syria Gov. Protecting Christian Village From Rebels”

McClatchy – by Katie Terhune, Idaho Statesman

Two-thirds of Americans cannot name a single Supreme Court justice, former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor told the crowd that packed into a Boise State ballroom to hear her Thursday.

About one-third can name the three branches of government. Fewer than one-fifth of high school seniors can explain how citizen participation benefits democracy.   Continue reading “Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, in Boise, laments ‘alarming degree of public ignorance’”

Orig.src.Susanne.Posel.Daily.News dsc_1570Occupy Corporatism – by Susanne Posel

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun an initiative to discover the viability of sequencing American infant’s DNA through the “heel stick” blood drawn screening conducted on newborns in hospitals to determine the propensity toward life-threatening diseases.

This scheme will cost $25 million over 5 years to understand each individual genetic code in lieu of having DNA routinely mapped and stored in a medical record.   Continue reading “Gov Wants to Sequence DNA of All Infants Born in US”

The New Boston Tea Party

Going Commie, indoctrination begins at an early age, the earlier the better; to convince mature adults takes facts, but to influence a young malleable mind is relatively easy. Children that have not been exposed to the world can be corrupted with little or no effort. A paradigm model utilized by Mao was convincing enough to allure millions upon millions to the cause – the tool for indoctrination was Mao’s Little Red book of quotations; an inspirational political and military document.    Continue reading “Common Core – Red Indoctrination”

Russian WarshipsThe ‘special cargo’ that ship is carrying is WWIII, if Obama caves in to AIPAC and bombs Syria.

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A Russian warship carrying “special cargo” will be dispatched toward Syria, a navy source said on Friday, as the Kremlin beefs up its presence in the region ahead of possible US strikes against Syria.   Continue reading “Russia Sends Warship with ’Special Cargo’ toward Syria”

The Wall Street Journal – by Sean Gardiner

A New York Police Department officer and two of his brothers were arrested for allegedly trafficking high-powered firearms out of the United States and into the Philippines, federal law-enforcement officials announced on Friday.

Rex Maralit, a 44-year-old officer assigned to police headquarters in Lower Manhattan, was arrested on charges of conspiring with his brothers to violate the Arms Export Control Act and engage in unlicensed firearms dealing, law-enforcement officials said.   Continue reading “New York Police Officer Arrested For Trafficking Illegal Guns”

parks.JPGCleveland – The Plain Dealer – by John Caniglia

OBERLIN, Ohio — Oberlin, a bastion of liberalism, is bracing itself to deal with a state gun law that many residents and officials oppose.

City Council is reluctantly mulling a change to its law that prevents firearms in city parks, as it conflicts with an Ohio statute that permits guns in most public places, including parks. If City Council does not rescind the measure, gun owners can take the city to court. Cleveland lost a similar fight over a guns-rights issue in 2010.  Continue reading “Oberlin’s law on firearms in parks makes city a target for gun litigation”

New York Times – by NICOLE PERLROTH, JEFF LARSON and SCOTT SHANE

The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents.

The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents show.   Continue reading “N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web”

PentObama2.jpgFox News

Even as Congress considers President Obama’s push for military strikes on Syria, the details of that plan continue to change by the day — with one source telling Fox News that military officials have been asked to revise their plans 50 times since the Pentagon first began considering a “limited” action.

Still to be resolved is what method of attack the U.S. would use. While missile-equipped ships are at the ready in the Mediterranean Sea, a senior defense official told Fox News that the possibility of launching military aircraft strikes was one of the range of options presented to Obama.   Continue reading “US military has revised Syria strike plan 50 times, source says”