Common Dreams – by Michael Winship

Back in January, a month after the Newtown school slayings and just a few days before his second inauguration, Barack Obama announced he would “put everything I’ve got” into the fight against gun violence.

Part of his effort – and an end run around a Congress reluctant to make any move that might rile the National Rifle Association – was a group of 23 executive actions that, according toThe New York Times, “he initiated on his own authority to bolster enforcement of existing laws, improve the nation’s database used for background checks and otherwise make it harder for criminals and people with mental illness to get guns.”   Continue reading “Guns Lost, Stolen or Strayed”

Ecology News – by Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd

VANCOUVER, BC – There is now a sufficient threshold of prima facie evidence to reasonably conclude that that the Calgary floods of June 2013, which are estimated to cost billions in property damage and affect the Canadian economy as a whole,  were in fact an act of environmental warfare in the form of an intentional weather warfare attack against the people of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and environs. Environmental warfare is banned under the 1978 Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD), to which Canada, the United States and Russia are all parties.   Continue reading “Prima Facie forensic evidence of weather warfare attack in June 2013 Calgary floods: Canadian media and officials silent”

Article imageNation of Change

Something is looming in the shadows that could help erode our basic rights and contaminate our food.  The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has the potential to become the biggest regional Free Trade Agreement in history, both in economic size and the ability to quietly add more countries in addition to those originally included.  As of 2011 its 11 countries accounted for 30 percent of the world’s agricultural exports.  Those countries are the US, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Viet Nam.  Recently, Japan has joined the negotiations.   Continue reading “Trans-Pacific Partnership and Monsanto”

Huffington Post – by Hunter Spirit

A University of Virginia student says she was put in jail after buying cookie dough, ice cream and a pack of bottled water that state agents mistook for beer, according to multiple reports.

Elizabeth Daly, 20, says she was in her car in the parking lot of a Charlottesville, Va., grocery store in April when she was approached by seven plainclothes agents from the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, one of whom she says pulled a gun on her, according to the Charlottesville Daily Progress.   Continue reading “Elizabeth Daly, College Student, Says She Spent Night In Jail After Buying Bottled Water”

Town Hall – by Leah Barkoukis

If you’re sick of high gas prices, too bad—they’re not going down, according to outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

“Gas prices aren’t going down,” he said in his final press conference, “they are not going to go down.”   Continue reading “Transportation Secretary: Gas Prices Will Never Go Down”

coloradomags12.jpgFox News

With just days to go before Colorado’s strict new gun control law is set to take effect, gun accessories manufacturer Magpul says it plans to distribute 1,500 30-round magazines to gun owners for free.

The company, which has vowed to leave the state over the law, will take part in what organizers are calling a “Farewell to Arms Festival,” on Saturday in Glendale, KDVR.com reports.   Continue reading “Colorado company to give away ammunition magazines ahead of ban”

(Image credit: Abode of Chaos/Flickr)End the Lie – by Richard Cottrell

Points of detail are important.

Edward Snowden is not an NSA sub contractor. He worked for the ‘consultancy’ Booz Allen Hamilton which is a shop front for the CIA, not the NSA. First warning.

Second. None of the ‘secrets’ he revealed are even vaguely secret, since the information concerning NSA snooping on foreign powers was already in the public realm, many times over. The problem is that newspapers and journalists intoxicate themselves with spy stories and rarely bother to sift through all the parallel information. Takes too long.   Continue reading “Edward Snowden: the Manchurian Candidate”

Common Dreams – by Tom Gitlin

Only Martians, by now, are unaware of the phone and online data scooped up by the National Security Agency (though if it turns out that they are aware, the NSA has surely picked up their signals and crunched their metadata).  American high-tech surveillance is not, however, the only kind around.  There’s also the lower tech, up-close-and-personal kind that involves informers and sometimes government-instigated violence.  Continue reading “The Wonderful American World of Informers and Agents Provocateurs”

Gold Silver Worlds – by  Taki Tsaklanos and GE Christenson

Unsustainable trends can survive much longer than most people anticipate, but they do end when their “time is up” – at the culmination of their time cycles. Examples of these trends include deficit spending, exponential debt increases, overpriced bond markets, and unbacked paper currencies, to name a few. In an effort to bring clarity in how and when these trends could change direction we analyzed more than 20 different cycles. They almost unanimously point to tectonic shifts in the months and years ahead … starting now. We have been warned.   Continue reading “2013 – Start of Seismic Shifts in Money, Metals, Markets”

Before It’s News

Even with the most cursory examination, lending can be seen as mostly a no-risk, ‘asset-secured’ business, in its simplest form seeing borrowers liable only for the original loan, which is secured against the borrower’s assets, plus interest.

When the loan is payed back, the bank profits in the accepted perception of what a bank does for a living – it gives low interest to depositors and takes a slightly higher interest from borrowers, their profit being the difference in interest rates.   Continue reading “A Short, Sharp, Close Look at Ordinary Commercial Banking Profits”

JB Campbell: Extremism Online

That used to be the question.  Today, the answer’s pretty obvious, due to admissions by the IRS’ top extortionists:  “No mas.”  The main admission, other than that the 5th Amendment is for the protection of innocent people, was that the income tax is voluntary.

I’m sorry to admit that I did volunteer to file and pay one time, back in ’76 for the year 1975.  That was my first year as a drilling foreman with ARCO, starting out in Hobbs, New Mexico.  I’d made pretty good money as a longshoreman and diver in Texas in the early ‘70s before two years of working for nothing in Rhodesia, but it had never occurred to me to file a tax return, since taxes were withheld from my paycheck and I just figured, Keep it, you rat bastards.  I’m not going to okay you robbing me by asking for some of it back.  While I did “volunteer,” I didn’t know it.  I’d figured I had a gun to my head.   Continue reading “To Pay or Not to Pay”

Space Weather

A strong (Kp=7) geomagnetic storm is in progress on June 28-29 as Earth passes through a region of south-pointing magnetism in the solar wind. The storm has sparked Northern Lights photographed in the USA as far south as Kansas. Christian Begeman sends this picture from a farm outside Hartford, South Dakota:   Continue reading “Strong Geomagnetic Storm in Progress”

dollars6 28Buzz Flash – by Mark Karlin

As reported in a Thursday evening, June 27, BuzzFlash at Truthout update to the chilling San Diego (SD) city attorney prosecution of Jeff Olson, an SD Judge placed an unprecedented gag order on a misdemeanor trial — in particular muzzling Olson. But it also apparently included witnesses, the jury and others.

Judge Howard Shore also chastised the Mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner. Filner apparently in the judge’s eyes had the temerity to call the trial of Olson a waste of time and taxpayer money. According to the San Diego Reader, Filner sent out a memorandum on June 20 that read in part:   Continue reading “San Diego Judge Puts Unprecedented Gag Order on Sidewalk Chalk Protestor Trial”

Freedom Outpost – by Dean Garrison

Looking away won’t make this problem disappear. Your government is in bed with terrorists. If you can look at this picture without wanting to vomit then you are obviously tougher than most. The Facebook Page Syrian Truth posted this picture on June 21st. Here is a translation of the verbiage with the photo courtesy of Raymond Ibrahim:

According to Syrian Truth’s Facebook page, the above photo is of a toddler living in the Deir ez-Zor Governate in eastern Syria, bordering Iraq. Continue reading “Toddler Forced To Watch Execution Of Parents While Chained By Obama-Backed Syrian Rebels”

WatermasterHerald and News – by DEVAN SCHWARTZ 

Having nearly completed water irrigation shutoffs on the Sprague River, the watermaster and his team have moved to the Williamson this week.

In the next couple of weeks, shutoffs also are expected on the Wood River — the third of the big three in the upper Klamath Basin.   Continue reading “Water Shutoffs Continue in Klamath County, Oregon”

NDAA-rainboyOath Keepers – by Elias Alias

Our man in South-West Oregon is Tom McKirgan. I have enjoyed speaking with, and working with, Tom this year as he pushes the envelope for freedom in his neck of the woods. Right now, Tom is working in tandem with PANDA Oregon’s State Team Leader Shane Ozbun of Eugene, Oregon, to fight at the Coos County Commission for a resolution banning the NDAA-2012 in Coos County. Of the three Commissioners, one is friendly to the cause of rejecting/nullifying NDAA-2012, but the other two are opposed to such a resolution.   Continue reading “PANDA and OATH KEEPERS Under Fire In Oregon”

A protester kicks a banner with the face of U.S. President Barack Obama as they protest against his visit, in Pretoria, June 28, 2013. Obama heads to South Africa on Friday hoping to see ailing icon Nelson Mandela, after wrapping up a visit to Senegal that focused on improving food security and promoting democratic institutions. Obama is in the middle of a three-country tour of Africa that the White House hopes will compensate for what some view as years of neglect by the administration of America's first black president. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: POLITICS) CIVIL UNREST)New York Daily News

South Africans protesting a visit to their country by U.S. President Barack Obama rallied on Friday a few blocks from well-wishers at a hospital in Pretoria where anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is critically ill.

Obama, on a three-nation tour of Africa, was due to arrive in South Africa on Friday with White House officials saying they will defer to Mandela’s family on whether the first African-American president of the United States will visit South Africa’s first black president.   Continue reading “Protesters rally against Obama’s South Africa visit near hospital where critically ill Nelson Mandela is receiving treatment”