An Iranian missile with a North Korean hydrogen bomb is the Obama legacy. The pResident has empowered the axis of evil with the potential to destroy our country and possibly Western civilization. When WW III breaks out and Obama goes to ground in a bunker with the rest of the political elite, I pray that there will be at least one patriot in the military who will reveal his location.
David DeGerolamo
This is getting bad very quickly. Oil is down to $32 per barrel. Gold is going higher as the final refuge. The NYSE is down another 250 points in the past hour.
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David DeGerolamo
I have posted several videos and articles concerning the situation in Oregon. I have not commented personally but I have been following the Hammond case for several months. Some observations:
While I will still reserve my thoughts on this situation to myself for now, I highly recommend everyone read Max Velocity’s assessment. I also recommend that sentient people think long and hard about what they will do in the future because the vortex is spinning out of control around the world.
David DeGerolamo
James McConnell, a 78-year-old Belfast pastor, has been found not guilty of broadcasting “grossly offensive” speech about Islam.
McConnell, who made his remarks at the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle in Belfast in 2014, was charged with improper use of a public electronic communications network and causing a grossly offensive message to be sent by means of a public electronic communications network.
Both are prohibited under the British 2003 Communications Act.
The verdict follows a trial after one of McConnell’s sermons was broadcast online. In it McConnell said: “Islam is heathen, Islam is satanic, Islam is a doctrine spawned in hell.” McConnell compared Muslims to the IRA, saying there were cells of Islamic radicals spread across the United Kingdom. He also said: “Now people say there are good Muslims in Britain – that may be so – but I don’t trust them.”
In going about the blogosphere these last few days, I am rather put off at the number of commentators who are speaking ill of the group who has settled themselves in to act in protest at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
How many actually understand the facts, not the least of which being that both the Bundy’s and the Hammonds have been agregiously abused, for years on end, by a federal agency (BLM) which doesn’t even have Constitutional authority for it’s existence.
In addition to exhibiting a profound failure to comprehend the facts in the matter, these heaviliy opinionated individuals are accusing the group at Malheur with every manner of imagined offense – everything from being “agents provacateur” for the regime, to malfeasance in planning and preparing this action, to being suicidal glory-seekers who care not for the “harm” they will cause the Liberty Movement.
And yet, I can assert with a reasonable level of confidence that, most of those chiding the Malheur group the loudest are also those who have never, and likely will never leave the porch, regardless of how onnerous and abusive the tyranny of an unchained Fed.Gov becomes.
Yes. I’m calling them a bunch of blowhards, naysayers, and bullshitters.
And further, I’m making the accusation that most of them are far more concerned with their perceived “prominence” in the on-line Liberty Community, than they are with actually defending liberty. And in some cases, they are intentionally ‘pissing in the pool’ to sow discord, distrust, and enflame the everpresent parochial rivalries between the followers and supporters of various online forums. This calumny in which they engage, is as worthy of hanging as that of the leftists who aspire to our destruction. For what does it matter, whether destruction come from within or without; it still must be answered the same…
I’ve published a lot of commentary, here and elsewhere, because I beleived it was important to educate, to share information, and yes even to rile folks up and urge them to shake off their lethargy and take up the burdens of defending our liberty and our way of life. But the fact is, that I’ve done more in meat-space than I have online, to contribute to liberty’s preservation. Those who know me personally will attest to that, without question.
In truth I beleive that, absent my real efforts in the real world to be prepared, and to assist others in doing the same, I would not be justified in making many of the statements which I have online. It’s a moral precept which I’ve held my entire adult life, that a persons words are never more trustworthy than their actions. And what, exactly, does that say about the people in the III Community who have never gone out and done anything? Of what value are their opinions?
In all seriousness, ask yourself – aside from banging on a keyboard, what have you **done** for liberty? Because liberty’s continued existence is not dependent upon how many words you’ve written on a blog, nor how many hits your page receives each month. What it **IS** dependent upon is real men, taking action in the real world. Real risks have to be faced, and real work has to be done. So, man up and do at least a bit of it. Otherwise, liberty is a fad which has passed; a bit of stale history fit to join the Edsel and the Sharps rifle in the annals of history.
Time is short. Whether any of us “likes” the situation at the Malheur compound, it is *REAL*. And it will have consequences. But those consequences were coming anyway. It’s been years now in which the only remaining question (at least in my mind) has been the particulars of the event which will ignite the comming conflict – and who are we, to question those particulars when finally they arrive? Therefore, attempting to assign blame to the men at Malheur is pointless, and detrimental to our cause, when our efforts should be directed forward, planning and preparing for the *next* even in the Liberty Games, not armchair quarterbacking that which is already done.
As I have elsewhere stated recently, it’s about momentum. The team that can’t maintain momentum and cohesion, looses. Period. So let the men at Malheur do what they’re doing, and be grateful that they have contributed somethign real to the effort. Meanwhile, be looking for a way that you can contribute something real and substantial…
Otherwise, you’re just another among a wide field of blowhards, naysayers, and bullshitters – a group whose support and allegiance I have no interest in preserving
…because half of nothing, ist still NOTHING.
Et nunc, recedere.
The Obama administration is seeking to significantly boost the number of staffers in the Department of Justice’s pardon office, leading some to speculate that the president is getting set for an end-of-administration effort to grant clemency to a range of criminals.
The Justice Department recently posted on its website a job listing seeking 16 lawyers for new spots in its Office of the Pardon Attorney, which codifies petitions for clemency and makes recommendations to the attorney general for clemency.
The new lawyers will assist “the President in the exercise of executive clemency,” according to the job description.
The department’s move to beef up staff in the pardon office has prompted speculation that President Obama will pursue a final term effort to grant clemency to a range of criminals, particularly drug offenders.
A very thoughtful friend once told me that I had bypassed teaching some important lessons, simply because I had learned them decades before… that they had passed out of my active consciousness and I was taking them for granted.
So, this week, I’d like to publish an article from someone who is currently young. 
This is the story of a young man named Moritz Bierling. I talk a lot about doing, rather than talking, and I’m please to post this because it’s all about doing.
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It was in 2013 that I first encountered freedom philosophy, after randomly stumbling upon this weirdly beautiful term, “libertarianism,” on a blog in some lonely corner of the Internet. An iTunes search later I was listening to a podcast explaining what is now the cornerstone of my personal ethics: the non-aggression principle.
Like so many libertarians before me, I learned about the fact that laws are opinions with a gun, that unencumbered human action in entrepreneurship and science was the cause for prosperity, and that government was not there to protect me; quite the opposite. Going down that never-ending rabbit hole was an intense journey of disorientation, as one firmly held belief after another was exposed as a socially conditioned illusion I had fallen victim to; and the journey continues to this day.
But now that I knew all of this, what was I to do about it?
Deciding what to do had been the result of one year alternating between intellectual exhilaration (when learning something new) and extreme bouts of depression (upon realizing the implications). It took me six more months to follow through on my commitment. On the 26th of September 2014, with €2,000 in my bank account and a gold medal in my hand, I boarded a plane to Santiago, Chile, where I would spend the next two months at an entrepreneurship bootcamp.
The eight weeks I spent at the bootcamp were the time when I felt the most alive up to that point in my life. I reflected deeply on the power of radical self-reliance with Emerson, stayed up long nights to code an Android app, and started businesses with some of the brightest people I’ve ever met. I lost and won some money, gained a great deal of experience, and in the process:
All of this was only possible because I was willing to leave behind the well-trodden path, was fortunate to work with trustworthy individuals with whom I shared basic values, and trusted enough in my ability to adapt and to put my money (and time and effort) where my mouth was.
by Brandon Smith
If internationalists were to get their way fully with the world and future historians write their analysis from a globalist perspective of the defunct American nation, they will probably say simply that our collapse was brought about by our own incompetence – that we were our own worst enemy. Yes, they would treat America as a cliché. They will of course leave out the destructive influences and engineered disasters of elitists, that would just complicate the narrative.
My hope is that we do not prove these future historians correct, and that they won’t have an opportunity to exist. My work has always been designed to help ensure that resistance thrives, but also that it is pursued in the most intelligent manner possible.
As I write this, China’s stock market has crashed 7% and was shut down by Chinese authorities who are once again initiating outright intervention to stem the tide. U.S. markets are quickly tracking lower. Oil is plummeting.
Relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran have turned ugly, with Iranian protesters overtaking the Saudi embassy and both sides vowing vengeance. Many Americans won’t care much about this because they think it has nothing to do with them. They don’t realize that Saudi Arabia has already publicly suggested a depeg from the U.S. dollar, effectively ending the decades-long relationship between the greenback and oil. The Iranian event and U.S. ties to both nations only make the fall of the dollar’s petro-status more likely in the near term. With the U.S. in the middle, “taking a side” will be a demand. I believe the U.S. government will NOT take a side, and this will elicit a furious response from Saudi Arabia (a currency depeg).
German officials have announced that about 1,000 young men…were involved in a coordinated attack against at least 90 women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve. The women were harassed, molested, raped and robbed by the men in an assault authorities described as “unprecedented” in both scale and nature. Police chief Wolfgang Albers said it was “a completely new dimension of crime,” adding that a volunteer policewoman was one of the victims. The assault went unreported for days in most cases.
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We have heard the saying “when seconds count, the police are minutes away”. In this case, the police just watched; no arrests were made. The “government” censored the media’s reporting of the event.
Keep chanting the Obama mantra: “Islam Is Peaceful”. It will not help us as the attacks here will continue but it will be politically correct for the parameters set out by our transgendered government.
David DeGerolamo
Barack Obama took to the airwaves yesterday to announce his new round of gun control executive orders, and dab at his eyes with stinging, jalapeño-juice stained fingers in order to feign whatactual humans call “tears.”
Declaring for the umpteenth time that he is being driven by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “fierce urgency of now,” the president listed measures intended to close the “gun show loophole,” prevent firearms ownership by Social Security recipients who need help managing their affairs, enable (and/or require) physicians to report people with mental instability to the FBI (“the patient was wearing a Donald Trump Make America Great Again campaign hat”), and possibly require people selling only one gun to first obtain a costly seller’s license which takes the government months to process. Or longer, if Lois Lerner is in charge.
However, the executive orders weren’t entirely one-sided. According to the president, even buyers who have been repeatedly convicted of violent crimes and are certifiably insane can still spend up to $150 billion a year on guns, threaten their neighbors, stockpile arms, fire missiles at American aircraft carriers, and…no, wait, that’s his deal with Iran.
by Ann Corcoran
I think if I were Jodi Harpstead, LSS of Minnesota’s CEO I wouldn’t be going to St. Cloud and bragging about their role in creating the largest communities of Somalis outside of Africa and on top of that saying ‘no one is getting rich doing this work.’
Somalis have been resettled for decades in Minnesota thanks originally to three federal resettlement contractors (there are more now), but the original three working for the US State Department are Lutheran Social Services, Catholic Charities and World Relief. See my 2011 report here at RRW.
Here is the story in the St. Cloud Times, yesterday.
Harpstead doesn’t understand why there should be resistance to changing the demographic make-up of small American cities and towns.
The state leader of a nonprofit organization that helps resettle refugees in Minnesota told a St. Cloud audience Tuesday that the recent negative response to Lutheran Social Service’s longstanding program was one of her biggest frustrations of the past year.
The leader of a group of self-styled militiamen who seized a remote U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon said on Tuesday their plan was to help local residents regain their rights from the federal government, and “then we will go home.”
The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and the small town of Burns have been thrust into the spotlight by the takeover, which began on Saturday and marked the latest protest over federal management of millions of acres (hectares)of land in the West.
“We do have a plan,” protest leader Ammon Bundy told reporters at the refuge. “We see a time coming very soon when the community will begin … to take that over, so they can claim their own rights, so that they can stand strong enough to defend them. And then we will go home.”
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake detected near North Korea’s nuclear test site appears to have been artificial, according to South Korea’s meteorological service, raising the prospect the isolated regime tested a nuclear device. As Bloomberg reports, the “earthquake” follows North Korea’s threat in September that it is ready to use atomic weapons against the U.S. at any time and that its main nuclear facility was fully operational. The Pentagon is reportedly “looking into” the quake reports.
