Important Change! Deadline is now the 9th: 6th NC PATCON October 1st – 6th 2014

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Due to extenuating circumstances, the deadline  of the 18th must be changed to the 9th, so please submit now.

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Worry about YOUR community and YOUR family and YOUR friends.

The following article is from Mosby so be forewarned about the language.

You may not agree with his assessment but it is the best wake up call I have seen in a while. The enemy is at our gates. More importantly, our Statist government has unlocked the gates for them to enter. Here is the one essential aspect that was left off his list: Got Faith?

David DeGerolamo

h/t WRSA

Skull-Stomping Sacred Cows….with an important postscript

The “revolution” will only be achieved through the development of relatively small, extremely tight-knit tribes and bands of people, capable of existing within or without the socio-economic mainstream, who spread their message, face-to-face, to individuals and groups with whom the mainstream has lost credibility of intimidation. This autonomy—the collective independence—is the only thing that poses enough of a “threat” to the mainstream status quo, to be effective.

Ultimately however, for that autonomy to be effective, it has to be….real.

You can blame liberals all you want, but doing so is intellectual cowardice. “Statists gonna state.” It’s the nature of the beast. We have LET them achieve their aims. It is only through tribal efforts at the local level that we can reclaim our values. There is no possible agreement between the values of traditional western liberty and the Statist. In rebelling against this, we have to be willing to recognize—and accept at the visceral level rather than the intellectual level—that it is a total war against us.

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ISIS Terrorists Interested in Obama’s Open Border w/Mexico

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h/t Matt Bracken

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An Important Analogy to Remember

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Texas for America

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Obama: We’re Just Noticing The World is ‘Messy’ Because of Social Media

The excuses continue to flow from President Obama.

Obama blamed social media and the nightly news for creating the sense that “the world is falling apart” during a Friday evening fundraiser.

The Hill reports:

Acknowledging “the barbarity” of Islamist militants and Russia “reasserting the notion that might means right,” Obama, though, dismissed the notion that he was facing unprecedented challenges.

“The world’s always been messy … we’re just noticing now in part because of social media,” he said, according to a White House pool report.

“If you watch the nightly news, it feels like the world is falling apart,” said Obama.

The president acknowledged that conflicts in the Middle East posed difficulties, “but it’s been challenging for quite a while,” he said.

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UK terror threat level raised to ‘severe’

The UK’s terror threat level has been raised from “substantial” to “severe” in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria, Home Secretary Theresa May says.

The new alert level rates the risk of an attack on the UK “highly likely”, although Mrs May said there was no evidence to suggest one was “imminent”.

It is the second highest of five possible UK threat levels.

David Cameron promised new legislation would make it easier to take passports from those travelling abroad to fight.

The home secretary already has the power, under the Royal Prerogative, to withhold a passport if it is in the public interest to stop somebody travelling.

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The pResident Needs to Get a Clue

It has been eight months since ISIS took Falujah. And Obama still has no strategy? I am confident that our intelligence and military communities have a strategy. So his declaration that the US has no strategy means he will not approve of a plan in which he may be held accountable. I wonder how much longer our gutted military will be complicit in the destruction of our country? The enemy is at our gates. England knows it. ISIS knows it. And soon, the people of the United States will understand the consequences of a pitiful child holding the office of the Presidency.

David DeGerolamo

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ISIS Sends 2nd Beheading “Message In Blood” Video; Warns Kurds “Huge Mistake Joining Hands With America”

Just hours after hours after another video purporting to show the mass execution of up to 250 Syrian soldiers in the desert, The Independent reports ISIS has released a video apparently showing the beheading of a Kurdish man in Iraq as a warning to Kurds fighting the group in the country. The video, entitled “A Message in Blood” ends with the victim beheaded and the fighters warn others will face the same fate should Kurdish leaders choose to continue an alliance with the US.

Image from the latest beheading clip:

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NC Governor McCrory Unveils Operation Rebrand For Common Core

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Last weekend, NC Superintendent Atkinson tipped her hand on the rebrand strategy for Common Core in North Carolina. This week on the same program, NCSPIN, Governor Pat McCrory repeated the same statements.

In the initial part of the conversation, McCrory made a weak dodge on testing and should be called out — all major tests are Common Core aligned. Hasn’t his Teach For America Alum and Education Advisor, Eric Guckian, told him that yet?

The NCSPIN host confirmed with Governor McCrory that the Governor has been “a big supporter of Common Core”. McCrory answered, ” I am a supporter of Common Core but I also recognize the testing aspect needs some revision and change.”

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It never ceases to amaze me that people believe that voting will change anything. The people who have enslaved us will never release us. But keep voting those R’s and D’s and someday….

David DeGerolamo

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Bill Whittle: Welcome Home

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As a smart man reminded me last week that we cannot revolt against our country for one simple reason. The country is us: WE THE PEOPLE. This simple premise has be stolen from us for one simple reason: WE LET THEM.

Are you tired of paying tribute so that half of the country can “vote” for our slavery? Does anyone believe that our founding fathers would recognize this police state without the rule of law? Got trials? Got rope? Or will we restore the Republic of Bill? Which is really the Republic of the united States.

David DeGerolamo

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California Drought Squeezes Wells

With groundwater levels falling across the Golden State—causing dried-up wells, sinking roadbeds and crumbling infrastructure—the state legislature is considering regulating underground water for the first time.

Californians have long battled over rights to rivers, lakes and other surface-water supplies, but the drought is finally shifting the focus to groundwater, which accounts for about 40% of water used in normal years—and up to 60% in drought years, as other sources dry up.

“Groundwater was kind of out of sight, out of mind,” said Lester Snow, executive director of the California Water Foundation, a nonprofit policy group in Sacramento, and former director of the state Department of Water Resources.

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Ann Barnhardt: The “Gone Concern Buffer”, aka Seizing Your Bank Deposits

This came across the transom a couple of days ago, and SHTFplan.com has covered it here, but this REALLY needs to be pushed and publicized.  You’ve GOT to get your wealth out of banks – most especially the big ones.  This is truly sinister, and straight from the mouth of the Vice Chairsatan of the Fed, Stanley Fischer, and a speech given on August 11th at “The Great Recession–Moving Ahead,” a Conference Sponsored by the Swedish Ministry of Finance, in Stockholm, Sweden, as posted on the Federal Reserve Bank’s official website.

Additional steps have been taken in some countries. For example, in the United States, capital ratios and liquidity buffers at the largest banks are up considerably, and their reliance on short-term wholesale funding has declined considerably. Work on the use of the resolution mechanisms set out in the Dodd-Frank Act, based on the principle of a single point of entry–though less advanced than the work on capital and liquidity ratios–holds the promise of making it possible to resolve banks in difficulty at no direct cost to the taxpayer.As part of this approach, the United States is preparing a proposal to require systemically important banks to issue bail-inable long-term debt that will enable insolvent banks to recapitalize themselves in resolution without calling on government funding–this cushion is known as a “gone concern” buffer.

“Bailing-in” is what happened in Cyprus last year.  Remember that?

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h/t WRSA

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The Road To World War 3: Russia And Ukraine Are Now Engaged In A Shooting War

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Russian soldiers and Ukrainian soldiers are now shooting at each other in eastern Ukraine.  Could this conflict ultimately lead us down the road to World War 3?  This week, a very robust force of “tanks, artillery and infantry” has opened up a “third front” in the Ukrainian civil war in a part of southeastern Ukraine that had not seen much fighting yet.  Exhausted Ukrainian forces are suddenly being pushed back rapidly and many outsiders are wondering how the nearly defeated rebels were able to muster such impressive military strength all of a sudden.  But it really isn’t much of a mystery.  The tanks, artillery and infantry came from inside Russia.  In recent days, Ukrainian units have captured ten Russian paratroopers and there have even been funerals for Russian paratroopers that have been killed in action back home in Russia.  Even though it has become exceedingly obvious that Russia is now conducting a stealth invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is still choosing to deny it.  But if he did publicly admit it, that would be even more dangerous.  Barack Obama would be forced into a position of either having to do something about the Russian invasion or look weak in the eyes of the public.  And as the Russians have already shown, they are more than willing to match any move that the Obama administration makes.

There has already been much written about who is to blame for all of this, and I am sure that much more will be written about who is to blame in the future.  The western world is blaming “Russian aggression” for the mess in Ukraine.    In return, the Russians point out that it was westerners that funded and organized the groups that violently overthrew the democratically-elected government of Ukraine.  To the Russians, the current government of Ukraine is made up of neo-Nazi terrorist usurpers that are attempting to brutally oppress millions of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine.

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The Virtual ACE

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by Sam Culper

One great thing about you learning intelligence through the Culper Institute is that we can now start doing practical exercises via the web.  The common denominator of all students is that they’ll all have at least the same basic understanding of the intelligence process. This standardized training and understanding of intelligence means that we can all move forward and start tackling intelligence projects because everyone will be on the same page.

Enter the online Analysis & Control Element (ACE), or the Virtual ACE.  Earlier this year during Poseidon Compass, we did a trial run of the Virtual ACE and identified some things that worked and some that didn’t.  We’ve worked out a few kinks, and I think we’re finally ready to start running live, practical exercises.

That means we’re taking volunteers… Now, we’ve done this sort of thing before, had a lot of volunteers and only a few people committed to stick it out.  So to volunteer, you must be a graduate of IA 101: Introduction to Intelligence Analysis, which is free to complete.  Lesson One is already published, and Lesson Two will be posted shortly.  The future desperately needs intelligence collectors and analysts, so please continue to learn.

All ACE team members will be assigned to a cell and given an objective.  We can discuss these things on the ACE Forum, run through some structured intelligence techniques, and eventually publish a finished intelligence product.  Maybe we can get some Virtual ACE challenge coins minted and sent out for everyone who sees out the product to the end.

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Open Letter of Warning to Governor Nixon From Missouri Oath Keepers

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This is an Assault on the Bill of Rights

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. – Marine General Smedley Butler – Two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor.

Governor Nixon:

The events in Ferguson have shown us daily that the looting and violence by a few is not being stopped, while the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition government for redress of grievances is not being respected. The current riot control tactics of the local police, rooted in outmoded techniques developed in the 1950’s – and only made worse by the ongoing militarization of our police – are failing the people of Ferguson, giving them a false choice between rampant looting on the one hand, and hyper-militarized police and curfews on the other (which also fail to stop the looting, leaving the mistaken impression among many of the American people that even moremilitarization and curtailment of free speech and assembly is needed).  Our local boots on the ground, made up of retired police officers, military veterans, and intelligence workers (with critical input from current serving Missouri police officers) have answers that could provide the people of Ferguson the relief they need and deserve while respecting their rights.   It is time to change a losing game.

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h/t Moonbranch Botanicals

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