
h/t Kathie P
A BRICS Bank – as an IMF alternative and to enable nations to become less dependent on the global reserve currency – was originally discussed at The BRICS Summit in 2012. Then at the 2014 BRICS Summit, the framework for The BRICS Bank was approved as “a system of measures that would help prevent the harassment of countries that do not agree with some foreign policy decisions made by the United States and their allies.” Headquartered in Shanghai and chaired by Russia, this week saw what appears to be the final step in the creation of BRICS New Deverlopment Bank as RT reports, The Russian State Duma has ratified the $100 billion BRICS bank that’ll serve as a pool of money for infrastructure projects in Russia, Brazil, India, China and South Africa. It is expected to start fully functioning by the end of 2015. Isolated?
The Russian State Duma has ratified the $100 billion BRICS bank that’ll serve as a pool of money for infrastructure projects in Russia, Brazil, India, China and South Africa, and challenge the dominance of the Western-led World Bank and the IMF.
The New Development Bank is expected to start fully functioning by the end of 2015, according to the Russian Finance Ministry.
“We don’t want to scare everybody, but we are preparing for full-scale war,” warns Vadym Prystaiko – Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister – telling CBC during a stunning interview that “what we expect from the world is that the world will stiffen up in the spine a little.” Demanding that West provide ‘lethal weapons’ Prystaiko rages “everybody is afraid of fighting with a nuclear state. We are not anymore.” Coming just a week after the Minsk Summit ‘peace’ deal and with Germany having warned they are likely unable to stop arms being supplied to Ukraine, Prystaiko concludes, “we would like [The West] to send lethal weapons to Ukraine… weapons to allow us to defend ourselves.”
Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister says he is preparing for “full-scale war” against Russia and wants Canada to help by supplying lethal weapons and the training to use them.
Vadym Prystaiko, who until last fall was Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada, says the world must not be afraid of joining Ukraine in the fight against a nuclear power.
In an interview with CBC Radio’s The House airing Saturday, Prystaiko says the ceasefire brokered by Germany and France was not holding.
Imagine this scenario – while at your favorite Charlotte, NC restaurant your eight year old daughter tells you that she has to use the bathroom. However when she opens the restroom door she notices that there are two adult men inside. Does this sound far fetched to you?
The scene above might be totally legitimate if a proposal in Charlotte is passed. The city of Charlotte, NC is voting on March 2 to pass a city ordinance which makes all public and private restrooms as gender neutral. For example this would allow any man who says that he identifies as a woman to enter women’s restrooms. In addition any private businesses who do not comply could be fined if they do not adhere to the ordinance.
“I cannot see why City Council would even consider this,” says Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association said. “It is not only ridiculous, it’s unsafe”.
Frankin Graham is speaking out against the proposal which brings up many issues including safety from sexual predators. From billygraham.org:
“And it’s a concern that’s not unfounded in other parts of the country. At Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington, where a similar ordinance was passed, a 45-year-old man who identifies himself as a woman was seen naked—genitalia exposed—in the women’s locker room by girls as young as 6 years old (the locker room is shared with a high school swim team and a children’s swim academy).”
Charlotte City Council Contact Info
Mayor Dan Clodfelter
Telephone: 704-336-2241
Shamelessly ‘ripped’ in its entirety from The Art of Not Being Governed …
Republished here for the enjoyment of readers whose brains have not atrophied.
Written by Robert F. Eschauzier.
Semantic precision – for the purpose of this post, “anarchy” means a complete absence of coercive rulers; “social good” means a beneficial economic or social result for ALL participants in a given transaction or activity.
Frequently we hear statists proclaim that anarchy can never work. Let’s give that some thought.
For starters, they invariably neglect to define that term as they understand its meaning. The implication that must be drawn however is that they view anarchy, not as defined above, but as just another political system like democracy. The thought that anarchy, since it involves no ruler(s), is in fact the absolute opposite of a political system never seems to occur to them.
The idea that anarchy should or could somehow be made to work (or not) is utter nonsense. Anarchy is best described not as a working system but as a “state of being”. A society or division of labor process that is in anarchy is in constant spontaneous flux. Its observable rate of change takes place at such a rapid rate and with such near infinite numbers of variables and combinations as to be impossible to catalogue, let alone be managed with any justifiable confidence in the outcome.

The Obama administration has named a national security threat it believes is more dangerous than even the Islamic State terrorists beheading, crucifying and burning innocent human beings: Right-wing extremists.
According to CNN, “A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security this month and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists.”
CNN doesn’t cite specific sources, but it says the new intelligence report references “24 violent sovereign citizen-related attacks across the U.S. since 2010.”
“Some federal and local law enforcement groups view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as equal to – and in some cases greater than – the threat from foreign Islamic terror groups, such as ISIS, that garner more public attention.”
CNN reported, “The government says these are extremists who believe that they can ignore laws and that their individual rights are under attack in routine daily instances such as a traffic stop or being required to obey a court order.”
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Article IV, Section 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Is not the body politic of the state the people? Then the people are sovereign over the creature that they created. What else would you expect the government which has broken out of its boundaries set by the people to do?
So now the people who point out that we do not have to obey unConstitutional or unjust laws are a bigger threat to the country than ISIS? Or are the facts the bigger threat to a lawless government run by domestic enemies?
But isn’t this what the government wants? They want law enforcement to be on guard against the people. And they want the people to be on guard against law enforcement. Who wins? Not the people. Not law enforcement. So what is the government’s goal if not to divide us so that they remain in power? Or in other words, we remain in chains.
David DeGerolamo

by Simon Black
Lenovo Group, the largest computer manufacturer in the world, has made a rather stunning admission that they have been pre-installing tracking software on their PCs.
The tracking software is made by a company called Superfish, which apparently paid some “very minor compensation” to Lenovo for putting the software on people’s computers.
The Superfish program is a total disaster.
It has image recognition algorithms which essentially monitor what a user is looking at… then suggests relevant ads based on what it thinks you might like.
This is not only REALLY high up on the creepy scale, it also completely destroys Internet security.
Whether you’re buying something online or accessing Internet banking, the Superfish program essentially cuts the secure link between you and sensitive websites that you’re trying to access.
According to the first user who found the vulnerability a few weeks ago, “[Superfish] will hijack ALL your secure web connections (SSL/TLS) by using self-signed root certificate authority, making it look legitimate to the browser.”
This means that the tracking software basically fools a web browser into believing that a connection is secure when it’s not… all for the purpose of pushing more ads in your face.
This scheme is so powerful that even if users uninstall the Superfish software, the security breach still remains.
This is so flagrant I have to imagine that even the NSA is shocked.
Have you had enough yet? I do not see the need to go on a discourse about how our country has been usurped by domestic enemies. At this point, you are either sentient, complicit or stupid. Apathy is no longer an option.
If you are sentient, your course of action depends on your level of Sacred honor. I don’t need to explain that time has run out.
David DeGerolamo
| Short Title: Notice to Vote Absentee Ballot W/out Photo ID. | (Public) | |
| Sponsors: | Senators Bryant, Robinson, and Foushee (Primary Sponsors). | |
| Referred to: | ||
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE COUNTY BOARDS OF ELECTIONS TO NOTIFY A REGISTERED VOTER OF THE OPTION TO COMPLETE A WRITTEN REQUEST FOR AN ABSENTEE BALLOT AT A ONE‑STOP VOTING LOCATION WHEN THE VOTER PRESENTS WITHOUT AN ELIGIBLE FORM OF PHOTO IDENTIFICATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 163‑166.13 reads as rewritten:
“…
(c) Any Except as provided in subsection (c1) of this section, any voter who does not comply with subsection (a) of this section shall be permitted to vote a provisional official ballot which shall be counted in accordance with G.S. 163‑182.1A.
(c1) Any voter voting in person in accordance with G.S. 163‑227.2 who does not comply with subsection (a) of this section shall be notified of the option and permitted to complete a written request for an absentee ballot in accordance with G.S. 163‑227.2(b1).
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SECTION 2. G.S. 163‑227.2 is amended by adding the following new subsection to read:
“(b1) Any voter who fails to present an eligible form of photo identification in accordance with G.S. 163‑166.13 shall be notified of the option and permitted to complete a written request form for an absentee ballot at the one‑stop absentee voting location in accordance with G.S. 163‑230.2. The county board of elections shall provide to the voter notice of each of the following:
(1) The option to complete a written request form for an absentee ballot at the one‑stop absentee voting location, so long as the completed request form is received by the county board of elections not later than 5:00 P.M. on the Tuesday before the election as provided in G.S. 163‑230.1(a).
(2) The option to complete the request form using the last four digits of the voter’s social security number as provided under G.S. 163‑230.2(a)(4)c. or by providing a copy of any of the documents under G.S. 163‑166.12(b)(2).
(3) The instructions for completing the absentee ballot in accordance with G.S. 163‑230.1, along with the deadlines for returning the absentee ballot.
(4) The means by which the voter may transmit the executed ballot to the county board of elections as provided in G.S. 163‑231, including through delivery in person to an election official at a one‑stop voting location.
Upon receiving notice pursuant to this subsection, a voter shall sign a form acknowledging that the voter was notified of the option to complete the absentee ballot and opted to (i) complete the request for an absentee ballot, (ii) take the application for an absentee ballot with him or her, or (iii) declined the option to complete or receive the absentee ballot. The list of names of those voters who signed an acknowledgment is a public record.
The State Board of Elections shall promulgate rules requiring signage to be displayed at all one‑stop absentee voting locations notifying voters who do not have eligible photo identification of the option to complete a written request form for an absentee ballot as provided in this subsection.”
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
h/t NCFire
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has gently pushed back at the inference that his government does not know the details of a proposed agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, after the State Department confirmed that it is not sharing everything about the negotiations with the Israelis.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran is relentlessly pursuing nuclear weapons with the express purpose of destroying the state of Israel,” Netanyahu told visiting U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-Ga.).
“The P5+1’s latest proposal won’t stop them,” he continued, referring to the group of U.N. Security Council permanent members and Germany which is negotiating a deal with Tehran.
“The Iranians of course know the details of that proposal and Israel does too. So when we say that the current proposal would lead to a bad deal, a dangerous deal, we know what we’re talking about.”
From Publius Huldah
The Tar Heel Tea Party in Asheville, N.C. is putting on an event where I will tell you the TRUTH about Article V issues, and why an Article V convention is so dangerous that James Madison “trembled” at the prospect of such a convention.
Location: Skyland Fire Department, 9 Miller Road E., Asheville, NC 28805
Date: Feb 26, 2015
Time: 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time
My host, Fremont Brown, would like you to send him a note if you can be there: fremont@tarheelteaparty.org
Here is the write up at their website about the event: http://tarheelteaparty.org/?p=13929
If you are near there, please come! If you have friends near there, please forward!