Senate Dems Block Veterans Bill

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

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Eloi: Political Correctness ‘Triggering’ Dangerous Herd-like Mentality

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

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From YouTube:

The Eloi wanted to live in harmony, without discomfort or fear. So, in HG Well’s Time Machine, they did…until they were eaten by the Morlocks. See, people need to be confronted with things, so their amygdala knows how to handle unpleasant things in the future. Now, some universities are requesting there be trigger warnings on impolitically correct books, etc. Hear Bill Whittle explain how this is going to deliver us to the Morlocks.

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Biggest attack in years kills 31 in China’s troubled Xinjiang

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

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Explosives hurled from two vehicles which ploughed into an open market in China’s troubled Xinjiang region killed 31 people on Thursday, state media reported, the deadliest act of violence in the region in years.

China called the attack in the regional capital of Urumqi a “serious violent terrorist incident” and domestic security chief Meng Jianzhu vowed to strengthen a crackdown on the “arrogance of terrorists”. Ninety-four people were wounded.

China has blamed a series of knife and bomb attacks in recent months on separatist militants from Xinjiang, the traditional home of the ethnic Muslim Uighurs.

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Tom Steyer: Green Energy Presents Opportunity ‘to Make a Lot of Money’

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

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Tom Steyer raising campaign funds for climate change

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Thanks Peter, I Needed a Laugh Today

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

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Where Is Our Good Character – Continued by Francis Porretto

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

Character can be variously interpreted, but among American men, it’s traditionally been held to comprise an interlocking set of personal virtues:

  • Honesty,
  • Responsibility,
  • Justice,
  • Courage.

Those virtues are at the heart of the American mythos: our notions about what we are as a nation and our pre-eminence in the world. Our convictions about ourselves propelled us into several wars in which, strictly speaking, there was no American interest at stake. We’ve upheld the mythos in all but a very few occasions.

Well, actually, we didn’t. Our men at arms have upheld it for us. The rest of us mostly watched it on TV.

An informal, popular definition of the “manly man” is “the man who runs toward the sound of the guns.” This might overemphasize the martial mindset, but it is nevertheless striking in its penetration. He who exhibits personal courage – who willingly moves toward strife and violence, on the chance that he can contribute usefully to the resolution thereof – is more likely than not to possess the other critical virtues that make up character. He who hangs back, hoping that others will do what’s necessary, is more likely than not to be weak in the other virtues as well.

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Tyranny Explained

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

Still, here are a few words via Bill Bonner from Acting Man blog, who explains that…

Government’s primary concern is not to protect its citizens or their economy. Instead, it aims to transfer more power, status, and wealth to the elite who control it (the oligarchs).

And to do that, it must keep the masses (the poligarchs) sedated. As Charles Hugh Smith, chief writer at OfTwoMinds.com, explains:

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Prepper Group Dynamics

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

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Filmed at the Heritage Lifeskills III event in Waynesville, NC on May 16th, 2014.

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While I disagree with some of the points in this video, I recommend every prepper group use this for a group meeting. It will generate a lively discussion, make you address some “holes” and may save some lives.

David DeGerolamo

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Doug Hagmann: The single most dangerous question to Obama about Benghazi

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

Although numerous unanswered questions continue to plague the Obama White House about the criminal and murderous events of the Benghazi attacks on September 11, 2012, there is one single question that needs to be asked with absolute precision and answered with authenticated specificity.

It is the question that Obama and a very small contingent of his innermost circle fear the most, for it is my professional investigative assessment, based on insider information, that the answer to this question alone will cause the immediate demands for the impeachment and removal from office of Barack Hussein Obama. It is this precise question:

Where exactly within the White House was Barack Hussein Obama, from the time he left the Oval Office at approximately 7:30 p.m. ET, until the following day when he boarded Air Force One destined for Las Vegas, who was he with, and what were the exact nature of his activities during this period?

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Reparations: the New Victim Card

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

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Rouhani: The U.S. Owes Iran Reparations for ‘Hostile Policies’

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is demanding that the Obama administration pay Tehran reparations for “hostile policies” that have cost the Iranian people “much loss and damage,” according to the country’s state-run media.

Rouhani said that reparations from the United States would make him more willing to negotiate in good faith with the United States and increase steps to broaden ties between the nations, according to an interview he gave Wednesday evening on China’s CCTV network.

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Deadly Raid on Ukraine Army Checkpoint

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

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At least 13 Ukrainian soldiers (and reportedly at least 20 pro-Russian supporters) were killed today as WSJ reports fighting flared across breakaway regions in the east just days before a presidential election the rebels have vowed to block. Markets have forgotten that the US-Europe-Russia-China-Ukraine tensions continue and the major event risk this weekend but the last 24 hours have seen several attacks with the highest number of casualties since the conflict began 2 months ago. Separatists near Luhansk blew up a bridge over the Siverskiy Donets river near Novodruzhesk in several hours of fighting, Interfax reported, citing witnesses. The worst fighting appeared to take place near Volnovakha, on the road from the regional capital, Donetsk, to Mariupol, where there hadn’t been heavy separatist fighting before.. and the dismal episode was caught on tape.

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House votes to shut down NSA phone-snooping

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade


In an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago, the House on Thursday approved a bill to cancel the government’s bulk-data collection programs, including the NSA’s phone-records snooping.

Less than a year after the program was first revealed by former government contractor Edward Snowden, the 303-121 vote to halt bulk data collection shows just how quickly a consensus developed against the NSA’s secret program.
“This is the end of secret laws,” said Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the author of the original Patriot Act, who said he felt betrayed by the way the government used that law. “We have turned the tables on the NSA, and say we are watching you — and we will.”

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Schumer: Obama will act on immigration if GOP doesn’t

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

Senate Democratic leaders say President Obama will act unilaterally to reform the nation’s immigration system if House Republicans fail to pass legislation by the end of July.

“They have about a six-week window, from June 10 after the last Republican primary until the August recess. If they don’t pass immigration reform them, the president will have no choice but to act on his own,” said Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third-ranking Senate Democratic leader and author of the comprehensive Senate immigration reform proposal.

“The only blame will fall on the House Republicans who against the wishes of their party and the American people who are just following Steve King’s dictates and refusing to move,” he said, referring to Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), an outspoken opponent of increasing immigration flows.

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Get Ready for the Next Terror

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

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If I had to bet, I think I’d put my money on some type of “cyberwar” event coming in the not-too-distant future. But whether it’s that or something else, a new terror will be coming. That much is more or less inevitable.

The reason is easy: We have people with control-biased minds in positions to create such events, or at least to make the most of them when they do occur.

The Problem

Put bluntly, our problem is that our current world systems place people with dominator minds into power over everyone else. We can call this the “alpha gorilla” model. These people need power over others. They get comfort and/or a thrill from dominance. And they certainly get rewards from it.

To illustrate, here’s an image I pulled from the newsfeed just this morning:

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The faces and the slogans change, but the need to dominate drives such people into positions of power, whether it be in national governments, police enforcement, or bureaucracies that control other people’s movements. As Robert Heinlein wrote:

Political tags, such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth, are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Those who desire to control others, however, have a problem: In order to accomplish their “great ends,” they need the peaceful people – those who have no desire to dominate others – to obey them and to pay for their plans.

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Strategies to Achieve Financial Well-Being

Posted on May 22, 2014 by DRenegade

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People suffering negative psychological effects from the Great Recession are seeking help in a new branch of psychology called financial therapy, Forbes reports. The Great Depression already demonstrated how financial trauma can leave psychological scars, and the Great Recession has provided enough new case studies to generate a professional publication, the Journal of Financial Therapy. Contributing researchers say that even professional financial planners experienced symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder during the recent economic crisis. If you’re experiencing mental or emotional anguish as part of the fallout from the Great Recession, economic psychology is a field that has attracted hundreds of specialists since its inception in 2010 and has identified ways to heal your fiscal wounds and improve your overall well-being.

Question Your Financial Assumptions

Drawing from cognitive psychology, financial therapy treats beliefs and attitudes that may be contributing to money management behavior problems. Financial writer Miranda Marquit identified on FreeFromBroke.com several of the most common beliefs fueling financial failure.

One widespread assumption promoting financial dysfunction is the attitude, “I’ll wait until I start making more money to start saving.” This makes saving a low priority, resulting in saving getting delayed until a crisis arrives and the savings that were put off until tomorrow aren’t there today. To counter this, adopt a new attitude: It’s important to begin saving now, even if you have to start small.

Other problematic assumptions involve tolerating excessive debt, procrastinating to address long-term financial issues and equating possessing goods with being rich. Financial therapists and consultants have developed specialized personality quizzes to help you identify some of your own beliefs and attitudes about money.

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