A video has emerged of a gun control advocate at a Second Amendment rally in Philadelphia arguing that not only guns but knives, nails, forks and anything with a sharp edge should be banned and that the government should develop new kitchen utensils that are unable to harm people in order to keep everybody safe
Published: June 29, 2013
By NANCY BENAC and ALICIA A. CALDWELL — Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of "Reefer Madness" to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of "Just Say No."
The next 25 years took the nation from Bill Clinton, who famously "didn't inhale," to Barack Obama, who most emphatically did.
And now, in just a few short years, public opinion has moved so… Continue
US Army restricts access to Guardian website over secrets in NSA leak stories
Published time: June 28, 2013 06:39 Edited time: June 28, 2013 08:02
The US Army confirmed on Thursday that access to The Guardian newspaper’s website has been filtered and restricted for its personnel. The policy is due to classified documents described in detail in the stories.…
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!! Mark Matheny June 24, 2013 Have you noticed the size of the packages at your local food store lately? In order for companies to hide the effects of inflation (the printing and adding of money into the supply of money), companies are simply reducing the amount of ounces given, and still charging the same…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reportedly plans to supervise the construction of a mysterious five-story underground facility named “Site 911” for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at an Israeli Air Force base near Tel Aviv, Israel.…
The National Security Agency better known as the NSA has long been hidden as an agency that's all powerful and has computers and surveillance that's beyond anything we can imagine. They can monitor and intercept all telephone calls, emails instant messenger and all communications on the Internet. If they can do this then why did 911 happen? We will take a look at NSA Whistle blower Edward Snowden and what he did and what may happen to him. Join Mario and I as we take on the topic of the…
BY JEREMY PAWLOSKI | Staff writer • Published June 26, 2013
A former Joint Base Lewis-McChord employee accused of infiltrating an Olympia anti-war group has admitted he accessed an email listserv maintained by the group in 2007 for attorney-client communications, then forwarded the information to police, according to documents filed in federal court in Tacoma.
Attorneys state in a recent court filing that John Towery accessed the activists’ listserv because he was… Continue
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Governor, Republicans claim talks going well, but no deal yet
MIKE BAKER | The Associated Press • Published June 25, 2013
Thousands of state workers received notifications Monday that they could be temporarily laid off starting next week, even as Gov. Jay Inslee expressed an upbeat tone about budget talks that could avert a government shutdown.
Inslee’s financial managers directed agencies to start sending notices because lawmakers have not been able to finalize… Continue
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As many of You know, I have been managing at the behest of a friend. Sadly, My friend cannot pay the rent any longer on My 16X16 cabin ($300 mo/inc util, plus phone & interweb) and there is no work for old arthritic ladies in these parts.
So... I will likely be packing My stuff and figuring out what to do with My two cats - breaking My heart to have no place for the two I rescued from certain death at the shelter, and who I adore with all My heart... Maybe I will hitchhike to…
What happened to friendly neighborhood cops? The drug and terror wars happened. Via Oregon DOT/Flickr
In 2007, journalist Radley Balko told a House subcommittee that one criminologist detected a 1,500% increase in the use of SWAT teams over the last two decades. That's reflective…
The violation of civil liberties in the name of security has had a profound impact on those who came of age after 9/11
When Darrell Anderson, 22, joined the US military he knew there was going to be a war, and he wanted to fight it. "I thought I was going to free Iraqi people," he told me. "I thought I was going to do a good thing."
Until, that is, he realised precisely what he had to do. While on patrol in Baghdad, he thought: "What are we doing here? Are we looking for…
We will simplify the planning process by breaking down to three survival environments: 1) Inner city. Here you have little or no natural resources, city services provide most or all of the basic needs such as water, sanitation, and the energy sources used to cook and heat. The local population density is high, meaning resource competition will be high. 2) Urban. This would be neighborhoods removed from the city yards and some degree of natural foliage. Most basic services are provided by…
This scandalous statistic is revealed by Nicholas D. Kristof in an op-ed for the New York Times:
Here’s a window into a tragedy within the American military: For every soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25 veterans are dying by their own…
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