Monday, March 3, 2014

Campaign of Cannibalism

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When settlers came to America they had to struggle from the ground up. There was no existing government with which they had to contend. The only government they had, they brought with them in the form of mutual compacts. This was the miracle of self-governance into which most had been born and had become accustomed until the colonies began to create wealth that inflamed the greed of Britain.

As a means to enrich itself, Britain passed laws against the liberty of the settlers; choosing for itself a larger and larger share of the profits from their labor. It took more than a century for the laws to become so oppressive that the colonists began to resist, eventually throwing off that yoke. Ingrained in the American psyche, however, was the thought that they could govern themselves; that they needed no master from whom to beg privileges. All they needed was the liberty to create and the freedom to dare.

Now, as American sloth and apathy (encouraged by would-be masters) has replaced those noble instincts toward self-government and self-reliance the mechanism of strength and liberty is failing.

Goodies from Ol' Remus


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Village Landscape
Jules Dupre 1840-1844


Jules Dupre (Nantes France, 1811 – 1889), French painter, was a leading member of the Barbizon school of landscape painters. 

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 • The Kiev regime announces general mobilization; only 1% to 1.5% of conscripts bother to turn up
• A dozen major cities—pretty much everything southeast of the line that runs from Kharkov to Odessa—are flying the Russian tricolor
• Ukraine's naval flagship is flying Russia's naval flag
• The newly appointed head of Ukrainian navy has defected to the Russian side in Crimea within a few hours of being appointed
• Most of the Ukrainian military units in Crimea have gone over to the Russian side voluntarily, without a single shot fired
• Ukrainian troops from Kirov have been ordered to march on Crimea, but have refused to obey (illegal) orders from Kiev
• During the last two weeks of February 143,000 Ukrainian citizens have requested asylum in Russia.
Dmitry Orlov at cluborlov.com

 Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 did not survive World War II
HistoryRevived at youtube.com 

President Barack Obama spoke Thursday at the White House, where he announced "My Brother's Keeper" - a new initiative to help young men and boys of color succeed.
Dana Ford at cnn.com
Remus says - Another in-your-face "blacks only" multi-million dollar ripoff, and America gets misty-eyed. Those who believe Equal Opportunity means equal opportunity are the new bigots. No wonder there's no market for satire, DC lampoons itself.
Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 did not survive World War II
HistoryRevived at youtube.com 
(Of the 28,000 German pilots in WWII, only 1,200 survived the war. BT)

 The Founding Fathers—the very ones who wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Bills of Rights, our Constitution, who were the first Presidents, Senators, Congressmen—were the very ones who most distrusted the government. Now everyone is expected to trust the government, or they will be called a fascist or racist.
Pastor Dave, letter at survivalblog.com 

art-link-symbol-small-rev01.jpg The case for impeachment of Obama
Articles for impeaching Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors, prepared by Michael Connelly at United States Justice Foundation. A valuable resource, download this list of offenses for your reference file. 


art-link-symbol-small-rev01.jpg The case for impeachment of Obama
Articles for impeaching Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors, prepared by Michael Connelly at United States Justice Foundation. A valuable resource, download this list of offenses for your reference file.

 His EPA is trying to regulate the coal industry out of business.  Coal provides 37% of our electricity.  Do not be alarmed, he is replacing that generating capacity with…well, nothing.  You see, skyrocketing the price of electricity was an objective not a side effect.  If you can't afford it, you won't use it.
William Gensert at americanthinker.com

3 South Ukrainian Cities Want to Join Crimea - Lawmaker

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A senior Crimean lawmaker said on Monday that representatives of three southern Ukrainian administrative capitals expressed willingness to become a part of the autonomous republic if its autonomy is broadened in a referendum.

Deputy speaker of Crimea’s Supreme Council Serhiy Tsekov said Crimean authorities had received calls from “representatives of local administrative bodies” in Mykolaiv, Kherson and Odessa.
“They think that they should be together with Crimea,” he said.

More @ RIANOVOSTI

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NJ Gun Law Critic Targeted By State Police 72 Hours Prior To Hearing

 James Kaleda

News is breaking that an outspoken critic of New Jersey’s draconian gun laws is being actively targeted with an arrest warrant issued by the New Jersey State Police.

With less then 72 hours before a scheduled Law and Public Safety Committee Hearing on Assembly Bill A2006, a New Jersey proposed law to limit magazine capacity to a maximum of ten rounds of ammunition. Additionally the Assembly Bill A2006 would ban more than 30 models of common .22 plinking rifles.  Is it coincidental that the New Jersey State Police should suddenly find need to issue a warrant for Mr. Kaleda’s arrest only days before he would be expected to appear and testify at this type of hearing?

More with video @ Ammoland

Arms, 400 kilos of explosives seized from Kiev radicals on Crimean border

Via LH

Armed men in military fatigues stand guard in the small Crimean city of Bakhchisaray on March 3, 2014. (AFP Photo / Genya Savilov)

The self-defense forces guarding the borders of the Ukrainian autonomous republic of Crimea have prevented a large amount of firearms and explosives from being smuggled into the republic by Kiev radicals.

The Cossacks and Berkut troops at the road checkpoint in the Crimean peninsula have confiscated explosives equivalent to 400 kilograms of TNT as well as grenades, rifles and guns, Russia-1 TV channel reports.

The blasting agent was transported in a single batch by a truck, with the local self-defense forces currently investigating the origins and the purpose of the load. They told told RIA-Novosti news agency that the driver and the passenger of the truck were Maidan activists.

More @ RT

Armed men seize Ukrainian border checkpoint at ferry terminal, report says

 Map of Crimea showing key locations

Armed men seized a Ukrainian border checkpoint at a ferry terminal between Russia and Crimea on Monday, Reuters reported, citing Ukrainian border guards.

Russians had been surrounding the ferry terminal for days, but had not taken control of Ukraine's border guard station until now.

The troops seized the checkpoint after guards tried to stop two buses carrying seven armed men, and the next ferry brought three truckloads of soldiers across, a border guard spokesman said, Reuters reported.

Meanwhile, Russian U.N. envoy Vitaly Churkin says ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking him to use military force in Ukraine.

Churkin quoted Yanukovych, who fled to Russia, as saying "the life and security and the rights of people particularly in the southeast part in Crimea are being threatened," and continued: "So under the influence of Western countries there are open acts of terror and violence."

More @ Fox

Government

Via Michael 

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"People want government to do all manner of things, things that if done privately would lead to condemnation and jail sentences. Some want government to give money to farmers, poor folk, college students, senior citizens and businesses. There’s no Santa Claus or tooth fairy. The only way government can give money to one person is to forcibly take it from another person. If I privately used the same method to raise money for a “deserving” college student, homeless person or businessman, I’d face theft charges. Others among us want government to protect wild wolves, bears and the Stephens kangaroo rat even if it results in gross violations of private property and loss of lives. The problem is that some people disagree with having their earnings taken to satisfy someone else’s wishes. They don’t want the Corps of Engineers and Fish and Wildlife Service dictating to them what they can and cannot do with their property to ensure a habitat for the kangaroo rat.

Force and threats must be used. Here’s the question: Could the average American kill a person who resolutely refuses to give up his earnings so Congress can give it to farmers? Could you kill a person who insists on using all of his property, even though some wolves have set up a den on it? You say, “What do you mean, Williams -- kill?” Here’s the scenario: The Corps of Engineers commands me not to remove debris from a drainage ditch on my property, placed there by beavers building a dam, because the debris creates a wetland. I remove it anyway. The Corps of Engineers fines me. I refuse to pay the unjust fine. The Corps of Engineers threatens to seize my land. I say no, you won’t: it’s my land, and I’ll protect it. A politician sends marshals to take it, and I get killed defending it."

-- Walter E. Williams
Columnist, Professor of Economics at George Mason University

Homeowner fatally shoots intruder '4, maybe 5 times'

Via Bearing Arms

 Orange County deputies are investigating this home where a homeowner shot and killed a suspected intruder on Elmhurst Circle near Eatonville.

 Usaf-Ali Castle and his friends couldn't help but smile Saturday morning after surviving a chaotic night at his home just outside Eatonville.

An armed man jumped through one of his windows while he was recording music around 3 a.m.

Castle's friend, affectionately nicknamed "big homie Kash," jumped up from a couch and tackled the intruder, knocking the pistol out of his hand, Castle said.

Castle then picked it up, taking matters into his own hands.

"When they separated, I shot him like four, maybe five times," Castle said.

The intruder died at the home, deputies with the Orange County Sheriff's Office said.

Detectives later identified the armed man as 20-year-old Clifford Johnson.

Johnson had a short rap sheet that dates back to 2008 when he was 14.

Ukraine: Russia demands that 2 warships surrender

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Russia issued an ultimatum Monday, demanding that the crew of two Ukrainian warships in Crimea immediately surrender or be stormed and seized, a Ukrainian military spokesman said.

Four Russian navy ships in Sevastopol harbor were blocking the Ukrainian anti-submarine warship Ternopil and the command ship Slavutych from leaving the dock, waiting for their commanders' responses, spokesman Maksim Prauta said.

Vladimir Anikin, a Russian defense ministry spokesman in Moscow, dismissed the report of a Russian ultimatum as nonsense but refused to elaborate.

More @ Townhall

'Gay' U.S. soldiers caught in astonishing act: Sellout crowd attends LGBT fundraiser on military base


Almost seven decades after being the scene of one of the most ferocious and protracted battles of World War II – a site of legendary valor and sacrifice on the part of American soldiers – some U.S. service personnel stationed in Okinawa today are treating the world to another kind of display: “Gay” and lesbian service personnel performing in drag, to raise funds for their activities, to a sellout audience.

As reported Sunday, openly homosexual service members at Okinawa’s Kadena Air Base took to the stage and performed as “drag queens” and “drag kings” Saturday “on a military installation in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender troops.”

According to the story by Stars and Stripes, which has published news for the military community continuously since WWII, “six servicemembers – gay, lesbian and straight – donned heavy makeup to dance and lip sync songs such as ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’ for a raucous capacity crowd at the Rocker NCO Club at Kadena Air Base. The event was a fundraiser for the recently formed Okinawa chapter of OutServe-SLDN, which is the largest nonprofit advocate for the military’s LGBT community.”

More @ WND

Film Star Sean Connery Urges Scots to Leave UK

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Film star Sean Connery is urging fellow Scots to vote for independence when a referendum is held in September.

The longtime independence advocate says in The Sun on Sunday newspaper that the opportunity to separate from the rest of Britain is too good an opportunity to miss.

He says independence would galvanize the film and creative industries, creating new jobs in Scotland.

More @ Newsmax

Google launches atlas charting everything from the Civil War to Biblical landmarks to Earth by night

Via WiscoDave

 Google's Maps Gallery works like an interactive, digital atlas where anyone can search for and find maps. Collections can be seen on Google Earth and they feature historic city plans, deforestation changes and battles, including this map of the American Civil War. It plots the major land campaigns, Union and Confederate troop movements, major Union naval campaigns, roads, railroads, dates of capture by Union forces and more


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  • Google’s Maps Gallery works like an interactive, digital atlas where anyone can search for and find maps
  • Collections can be seen on Google Earth and feature historic city plans, deforestation changes and battles
  • The project was set up to let organisations, publishers, governments and more make their maps available online
  • Each map is laid on top of Google maps and comes with a description, as well as the option to buy print copies
  • The majority also come with a transparency slider that lets users see exactly how the old map relates to the new
  • The National Geographic maps have their own section within the Gallery and feature wall maps, reference maps, as well as other maps especially created by National Geographic for its magazine or supplements
  • Other maps featured were created by Nasa, World Bank Group and the United States Geological Survey 
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  • More @ Daily Mail


  • Supreme Court Declines Romeike

       


    March 3, 2014

    Dear Members and Friends of Homeschooling,

    Romeike familyToday, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Uwe and Hannelore Romeike’s asylum case. We knew it was an uphill battle since the Court only accepts 80–100 out of nearly 10,000 requests each year. While we are disappointed, the court’s decision in no way changes our commitment to fight for the Romeikes and homeschooling freedom. The court’s decision is not a decision on the merits of the case—however, it was the last judicial hope for the family.

    But we will not give up and see this family returned to Germany where they will face certain persecution. Even now, we have been working with supportive members of Congress to introduce legislation that could help the Romeikes and others who flee persecution. We will keep you informed as the legislation progresses. We will undoubtedly need your help at the right time. Although our judicial efforts on behalf of this courageous family are over for now, we are resolved to fight on for them and homeschooling freedom.

    We are deeply grateful for the support and prayers of our members, friends, and allies over the course of this case and especially this past week. Please continue to pray as we review all possible options for the Romeikes. For more information, visit hslda.org/romeike.

    For Liberty,
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    Michael P. Farris
    Chairman, HSLDA

    Russian forces: "complete operational control of the Crimean Peninsula"

     An image provided to CNN by a local resident shows Russian tanks on the move in Sevastopol, Ukraine.
      An image provided to CNN by a local resident shows Russian tanks on the move in Sevastopol, Ukraine.  
    As Ukraine's new leaders accused Russia of declaring war, Russia's Prime Minister warned Sunday that blood could be spilled amid growing instability in the neighboring nation.

    Kiev mobilized troops and called up military reservists in a rapidly escalating crisis that has raised fears of a conflict. And world leaders pushed for a diplomatic solution.

    In a post on his official Facebook page, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called the recent ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych a "seizure of power."

    "Such a state of order will be extremely unstable," Medvedev said. "It will end with the new revolution. With new blood."

    Officials said signs of Russian military intervention in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula were clear.
    Russian generals led their troops to three bases in the region Sunday, demanding Ukrainian forces surrender and hand over their weapons, Vladislav Seleznyov, spokesman for the Crimean Media Center of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, told CNN.

    More @ CNN

    Appalachian Journey, Alan Lomax