Information Clearinghouse – by Ellen Cantarow

More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything that grew, breathed air, and drank water. The Marshall Islands were also struck. This formerly pristine Pacific atoll was branded “the most contaminated place in the world.” As their cancers developed, the victims of atomic testing and nuclear weapons development got a name: downwinders. What marked their tragedy was the darkness in which they were kept about what was being done to them. Proof of harm fell to them, not to the U.S. government agencies responsible.   Continue reading “Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania”

If it was ‘stolen’ in April, why wait until now to ask for help?

KBZK Montana News 7

RED LODGE – About 559 pounds of explosives were stolen from a bunker near Red Lodge.

Now, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), and the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) are asking for the public’s help in the case.   Continue reading “Hundreds of pounds of explosives stolen from Montana bunker”

Has a source for ammuniton manufacturing equipment been cut off by government edict during a time of unprecedented market shortages?The Examiner – by David Codrea

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives is looking for evidence of a rule that the government has exercised its Munitions List regulatory authority to cut off the importation of ammunition manufacturing equipment from China, Gun Rights Examiner was told today by a representative of ATF‘s Office of Public and Governmental Affairs.   Continue reading “ATF checking on Chinese ammo manufacturing equipment import cutoff report”

Help the Sheeple – by The Eye is Watching

According to an article on NPR, several anti gun politicians and groups want people whose names appear on the “no fly” list and terrorism watch list to be banned from purchasing guns.

This sounds good on the surface, right? Keep weapons out of the hands of terrorists?   Continue reading “Democrats Want People on “No Fly List” to Lose Gun Rights Without Due Process”

Forbes – by Andy Greenberg

Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world’s first entirely 3D-printable handgun.

Now he has.

Early next week, Wilson, a 25-year University of Texas law student and founder of the non-profit group Defense Distributed, plans to release the 3D-printable CAD files for a gun he calls “the Liberator,” pictured in its initial form above. He’s agreed to let me document the process of the gun’s creation, so long as I don’t publish details of its mechanics or its testing until it’s been proven to work reliably and the file has been uploaded to Defense Distributed’s online collection of printable gun blueprints at Defcad.org.   Continue reading “This Is The World’s First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun”

An Air Force MQ-9 Reaper. (AFP Photo / Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.)RT News

The strike of a British Reaper drone, which took place in Afghanistan on Tuesday, is the first drone to be used in an attack controlled from a base situated on UK soil.

“A Reaper remotely piloted aircraft system, operated by pilots from 13 Squadron located at RAF Waddington, has fired a weapon during a mission supporting UK forces on the ground in Afghanistan,” a spokesperson of UK’s Ministry of Defense said.   Continue reading “UK operates first drone strike from own territory”

AFP Photo / David McnewRT News – by Robert Bridge

More Americans now die of suicide than from car accidents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a disturbing statistic that some experts say points to the true depths of the US economic crisis.

From 1999 to 2010, the suicide rate among US citizens between the ages of 35 to 64 soared by about 30 per cent, to 17.6 deaths per 100,000 people, a jump from 13.7.   Continue reading “US suicide rates surge, surpass road fatalities”

AG Holder: Feds Will Ignore State Laws and Enforce Gun GrabThe New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

Attorney General Eric Holder has written to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (shown), informing him that the Obama administration considers state attempts to protect the Second Amendment “unconstitutional” and that federal agents will “continue to execute their duties,” regardless of state statutes to the contrary.   Continue reading “AG Holder: Feds Will Ignore State Laws and Enforce Gun Grab”

Arkansas Senator Pryor’s Troubles Continue to MountThe New American – by Bob Adelmann

In a veiled threat directed at Democratic Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas (shown), Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in his role as co-founder of the anti-gun group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), said last Thursday that any lawmakers who are “going with the NRA” are “going against the lives of our children.” When asked directly if that meant that his group was going to target Pryor, the senior senator from Arkansas, Bloomberg sidestepped a direct answer:   Continue reading “Arkansas Senator Pryor’s Troubles Continue to Mount”

Lew Rockwell – by Thomas DiLorenzo

As I previously blogged, the sheriff of Palm Beach County, Florida, one Rick Bradshaw, recently got a million-dollar grant from the state legislature to use to spy on citizens and recruit people to spy on and “report” their neighbors if they think they are too critical of government.  He wants people to report “the guy down the street who hates the government . . .”  Then the governmental critic will be sent for mental health evaluation, and his life possibly ruined.   Continue reading “Will Rush Limbaugh Be Sent to a Mental Hospital?”

FBI Wants Real-time Warrantless Access to Online CommunicationThe New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

The Obama administration is attacking the Fourth Amendment on every possible front. The latest assault would require Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, etc. to submit to real-time warrantless wiretaps on customer accounts. Tweets, Facebook posts and direct messages, email, all conversations on messenger apps, and all other online communications would be subject to real-time federal monitoring without first obtaining a warrant to conduct the surveillance, as required by the Constitution.   Continue reading “FBI Wants Real-time Warrantless Access to Online Communication”

Reason – by Andrew Napolitano

Here they go again. The Obama administration has asked its allies in Congress to introduce legislation that would permit the feds to continue their march through the Fourth Amendment when it comes to obtaining private information about all of us.

The Fourth Amendment, which guarantees the right to be left alone, was written largely in response to legislation Parliament enacted in the colonial era that permitted British soldiers to write their own search warrants and then use those warrants as a legal basis to enter private homes.   Continue reading “Obama Continues His War on the Fourth Amendment”