New America Now – by Jonathan Turley

Below is a column in the Sunday Washington Post.  The column addresses how the continued rollbacks on civil liberties in the United States conflicts with the view of the country as the land of the free.

If we are going to adopt Chinese legal principles, we should at least have the integrity to adopt one Chinese proverb: “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.”  We seem as a country to be in denial as to the implications of these laws and policies.   Continue reading “10 Reasons The U.S. Is No Longer The Land Of The Free”

OK, this is 164 years old. Change a few names and it could very well have been written yesterday. Truth is timeless!

Transcendentalists – by Henry David Thoreau

[1849, original title: Resistance to Civil Government]

I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe–“That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have.   Continue reading “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”

Information Clearinghouse – by Conor Friedersdorf

The term is a euphemism that obscures the gravity of what its advocates are suggesting — a U.S. air attack on Syria.

Kudos to Josh Rogin for breaking the news that “the White House has asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for a no-fly zone inside Syria.” But wouldn’t it be a more powerful story without the euphemism?   Continue reading “Let’s Be Clear: Establishing a ‘No-Fly Zone’ Is an Act of War”

cartels-through-texasTexas Nationalist Movement – by Dave Mundy

What had been an open secret is no longer secret: Mexican drug cartels are now openly carrying their war into Texas.

The question is whether or not the federal government is intentionally allowing it to happen.

In spite of assurances from Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano (“the border’s never been more secure”), a cartel hit man pulled off a trademark, brutally violent execution in the quiet suburb of Southlake Wednesday night.   Continue reading “Cartels: Coming to a Town Near You”

Constitutional Sheriffs Convention Focus: States’ Rights, 2nd AmendmentThe New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

For two days beginning on Friday, May 31, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) is holding a convention (see video below) at the Ameristar Casino Resort and Spa in St. Charles, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.

As explained on the group’s website, the purpose of the convention is “to equip sheriffs, peace officers and public officials with the necessary information and public support to carry out their duties in accordance with their Oaths of Office.” (See also the video below.)   Continue reading “Constitutional Sheriffs Convention Focus: States’ Rights, 2nd Amendment”

AlterNet – by William Dotinga

Killing not a cure for depression, family says.

A California sheriff’s deputy needlessly Tasered and then shot a man to death after his father called 911 seeking help for his son’s depression, the family claims in court.

Parents and two brothers of the late George I. Ramirez sued Stanislaus County, its sheriff’s department, Sheriff Adam Christianson, and Deputy Art Parra Jr. in Federal Court.   Continue reading “Cops Taser Then Shoot Man to Death After Family Calls 911 for Help for His Depression”

solitary confinement via Fer Gregory / ShutterstockRaw Story – by David Edwards

Two civil rights groups have sued the state of Mississippi for alleged human rights abuses at one of the state’s for-profit prisons.

A class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) describes how a “perpetual state of crisis at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility puts inmates at a “grave risk of death and loss of limbs.”   Continue reading “Mississippi sued over for-profit prisons that risk imates’ ‘death and loss of limbs’”

Breitbart – by BEN SHAPIRO

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing says that Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, who has threatened to take the city into bankruptcy over its unsustainable finances, is bluffing. “I think he’s using it, at this point, judiciously to make sure that he can use it as leverage more than anything else,” Bing told the press. “He said to me, more than once, ‘[bankruptcy] is not where I want to go, but at least it’s on the table, and if I have to go there, nobody’s gonna like it.’”   Continue reading “Detroit Mayor: Let’s Force Employees to Live in City Limits for 7 Years”

Syria Report

Major reports by two Turkish daily newspapers detail the arrest of twelve suspects linked to the Reyhanlı bombings on May 11 in which 51 people were killed and 140 injured. The 12 suspected Al-Qaeda members were arrested in Adana, southern Turkey and anti-terrorist police seized among other items, 2 kilograms of the sarin nerve agent.

Zaman reports that the dawn raid took place on Monday, 27 May following intelligence gathered on the cell.   Continue reading “Chemical Weapons Found in Turkey Al-Qaeda Raid”

Reuters

(Reuters) – Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR.N) said it appointed former CIA Director David Petraeus as chairman of the newly created KKR Global Institute, which will study the investment implications of global macroeconomic, social and geopolitical issues.

Petraeus will also support KKR’s investment teams in the diligence process, particularly in considering investments in new geographies, KKR said on Thursday.   Continue reading “KKR names former CIA head Petraeus as chairman of new institute”

The Sydney Morning Herald – by Peter Mitchell, Tom Hays and Raphael Satter

US prosecutors have announced what they say is the biggest international money laundering prosecution in history – a $US6 billion ($A6.2 billion) trail that allegedly includes $US36.9 million ($A38.4 million) deposited in Westpac Bank accounts.   Continue reading “Westpac caught up in world’s biggest money laundering sting”

During-the-scheme-parents-are-secretly-monitored-by-maternity-staff-to-judge-their-parenting-skillsExpress – by Ben Borland

PARENTS are being secretly judged on their views on race and diversity while in hospital with their newborn babies under the SNP Government’s latest assault on family life.

In a further twist, the same health board is asking children – some of them still at nursery school – to rate their parents or carers on a scale of 1-10.   Continue reading “Scotland: State snoops checking out new parents”

starve monsantoThe Organic Prepper

Monsanto seems intent on taking over the food supply of the entire world.  Their sterile, toxic seeds are in every corner of the globe.  Hungary recently made headlines for burning 1000 acres of fields of GMO crops to the ground. Dozens of nations have banned, or at the very least, regulated, GMO crops and products.  The heat is on the monolithic seed corporation, and it’s time to turn the temperature up even more in North America.  The federal government has made no secret of their support of Monsanto, so it’s up to us, the consumers, to starve them out.   Continue reading “10 Ways to Starve a Multi-National GMO Conglomerate”

wheatNatural News – by Mike Adams

The genetic apocalypse we’ve been warning about for years may have already begun. The USDA just announced they found a significant amount of genetically engineered wheat growing in farm fields in Oregon. As the USDA announced yesterday, “…test results of plant samples from an Oregon farm indicate the presence of genetically engineered (GE) glyphosate-resistant wheat plants.”   Continue reading “GMO genetic pollution alert: Genetically engineered wheat escapes experimental fields planted across 16 states”

Since the Christian Science Monitor doesn’t allow comments in its articles, I emailed them the following letter, in the hopes they’ll clarify what it is they are babbling about.

They must be on some kind of mind-altering substance, as evidenced by this article:   Continue reading “Christian Science Monitor Staff Taking Drugs?”

Isfahan nuclear facility - AP - 2005Haaretz – by Amos Harel

Article co-written by retired generals James Cartwright and Amos Yadlin states that it would be preferable for the U.S., rather than Israel, to carry out an attack on Iran.

A theoretical scenario for a military assault on nuclear sites in Iran by the end of this year was published on Wednesday by two former senior officers from Israel and the United States. The officers state that the international community must first exhaust non-military efforts to pressure Iran and conclude that, if an attack is necessary, it is preferable to come from America rather than Israel.   Continue reading “Israel and U.S. generals draw up theoretical scenario for attack on Iran”