The Hypocrisy Of The Left…

Posted on June 6, 2013 by DRenegade

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Qusayr was a debacle for the West and Israel: Aftershocks in Lebanon, Golan and Gaza Strip

Posted on June 6, 2013 by DRenegade
Syrian troops capture al Qusayr

Syrian troops capture al Qusayr

The Syrian rebels’ defeat in the key town of al Qusayr, Wednesday, June 6, was also a major strategic debacle for the US, Israel and Western Europe, the price they paid for leaving allied Syrian-Hizballah troops orchestrated by Iranian officers a clear field to win the day. The Syrian-Hizballah machine is now ready to capitalize on its victory and roll into Aleppo and southern Syria to extinguish rebel resistance there too. Israel is next in its sights.

Five months ago, on February 26, an exclusive DEBKAfile video report, entitled “Bashar Assad, Ali Khamenei, Vladimir Putin and Hassan Nasrallah Have Won the War,” revealed how step by step Bashar Assad was turning the tide of war and recovering the initiative, backed by a broad alliance of Russia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Hizballah.

This alliance is already at work building on its success – not just in the Syria conflict, but beyond its borders too.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has posted 20,000 troops on the Syrian border to seal it off against the passage of Sunni and al Qaeda reinforcements for the Syria rebels. Iraqi commandos are preparing to launch raids against al Qaeda-linked forces in eastern Syria. The Nusra Front, for instance, appears to have vanished from the battlefield and keeping a low profile.

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Why Work? Obama Will Buy Your Vote (and Liberty)

Posted on June 6, 2013 by DRenegade

Employment: A 30-year low

Employment is still near a 30-year low

Forget the unemployment rate. The employment rate — the percentage of adult Americans who hold a job — has barely budged in the past three years.

It’s hovering near its lowest level in three decades, and it’s unlikely to improve when the Labor Department releases its May jobs report on Friday.

About 58.6% of the civilian population over age 16 had a job as of April, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This rate — officially called the “employment-population ratio” — has been stuck in that range for several years. The last time it was this low was in 1983.

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NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily

Posted on June 6, 2013 by DRenegade

Phone records data

The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.

The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an “ongoing, daily basis” to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.

The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on July 19.

Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered.

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Jamie Dimon: Prepare for more volatility

Posted on June 6, 2013 by DRenegade
Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon

It’s going to be scary out there in the markets until we reach a more normal interest rate environment. That was the message delivered by JPMorgan (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon to delegates at the Fortune Global Forum in Chengdu, China on Thursday.

“It’s a different world when central banks are managing interest rates,” Dimon said, referring to the Federal Reserve’s orchestrated effort to keep long-term rates low. He reminded the audience that 10-year bond rateshaven’t been set by the Fed since World War II, and rates didn’t normalize until around 1950. “Until it gets back to normal [this time], it’s going to be scary and volatile.”

But Dimon emphasized that the long-term trend still looks positive, and that most people tend to overreact to the dramatic ups and downs in the market. It was a timely reminder, as the Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq suffered their worst losses in two months on Wednesday. Dimon pointed out that the U.S. economy is still growing, albeit it not as fast as it should. In Europe, he said it remains to be seen what will happen, but he said the economic crisis there “could have been worse.”

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The Terrible Future Of The Syrian War

Posted on June 6, 2013 by DRenegade

by Brandon Smith

The last war America fought openly through proxy was the Vietnam War. The idea was not necessarily “new”; General Smedley Butler’s exposé on his career as a conqueror-for-hire, titled War is a Racket, uncovered a long history of bloodshed by U.S. government and corporate interests in third world countries designed to destroy sovereign nations and plunder their resources. This was done through the use of mercenaries for hire, military men acting covertly or guerrilla forces with a pre-existing agenda supplied through back channels.

After our defeat in Vietnam, our government set forth on a program of private warfare.  The “School of the Americas” was formed, also known as the School of Assassins, in Fort Benning, Georgia.  The combat academy churned out some of the most unstable monsters in third world politics.  The U.S. trained and conditioned agents for violent social change and military overthrow, who were then implanted around the world (mostly in Central and South America).  These agents then initiated war fever in the name of cementing U.S. interests around the globe.  Their horrifying methods were seen as a means to an end.

The sad and disturbing reality is that most wars fought by our country over the course of the past century have not been fought on principle. Instead, they have been fought for profit and for the consolidation of power and oligarchy.

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25 Signs That Military Veterans Are Being Treated Like Absolute Trash Under The Obama Administration

Posted on June 5, 2013 by DRenegade
Why does the Obama administration treat our military veterans like human garbage?  Every year on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Barack Obama and our other politicians make very nice speeches, but the truth about how they feel about our veterans can be seen in how they are treated every single day. In the United States today, there are well over half a million veterans that have been waiting for at least 125 days to have their benefit claims processed. Many of them will ultimately have their claims sent back or denied just so a government employee somewhere can get a bigger bonus. Meanwhile, conditions at VA facilities all over the country are absolutely abysmal, and many veterans have to wait more than half a year just to get an appointment at one of those facilities. Once you start looking into how this country really treats military veterans, it becomes easier to understand why 22 military veterans commit suicide in America every single day.  Our vets have a higher rate of unemployment, a higher rate of poverty, a higher rate of homelessness, a higher rate of depression and a higher rate of divorce then the general population. It is a crying shame. One of the ways that any society is judged is by how it treats military veterans, and the truth is that America has failed miserably. This has been particularly true since Barack Obama has been in the White House. The following are 25 signs that military veterans are being treated like absolute trash under the Obama administration…

1. The average claim for veteran benefits takes more than half a year to be processed.

2. The Department of Veterans Affairs has a backlog of more than half a million overdue claims for benefits that are at least 125 days old.

3. In 2009, the number of veterans that had been waiting for more than a year to have their benefits approved was 11,000. Today, that number has soared to245,000.

4. Thousands upon thousands of military veterans that are waiting for their claims to be processed are dealing with absolutely horrible injuries…

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A Quest To Pursue Rightful Liberty

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Hans

A Quest has three stages: a Call To Adventure, a Journey, and a Return.

Over the last several years, people with whom I am acquainted have been ‘called’ and are engaged in the ‘journey’ to accomplish one or more of the following:

  • Reduce the size and scope of government
  • Restore the Constitution
  • Recover our lost liberty

When the discussion gets intense, someone will introduce Thomas Jefferson’s definition of Rightful Liberty … and the room goes quiet.

Different reasons, often as many as there are persons in the room, are offered as to why this definition is impractical.  I have no interest to debate the objections in this forum.

Jefferson’s’ definition should be easily embraced as the compelling vision, the goal, the desired end-state for participants in the “liberty movement”.  Yet it is not.

I presume those who object must either have an undisclosed competing vision, or are merely unable to define a path to achieve Rightful Liberty as a desired outcome.

What follows is my attempt to complete the Quest.  This is the ‘Return’ – an effort to prescribe the actions necessary to achieve the goal.  It is informed by a minimalist world-view often described as “Two Rules For Civil Society”:

  • do not encroach upon others or their property
  • do everything you agreed to do

The achievement of rightful liberty requires deconstruction of government at both the National and State levels.  For the sake of simplicity, I accept the Founders’ view of a Federation among the several States.

This draft is in the form of a bill to be acted upon by the legislature.  It prescribes how the North Carolina General Assembly could begin a Quest for Rightful Liberty.

There are unexplored implications and certain dangers in this proposal.

UPDATE 6 September 2013 

If I were to revise this ‘proposal’, details of Section 2 Prescribed Actions would be heavily influenced by my recent article entitled: “In Search of Mr Jefferson’s Liberty“.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

BILL ###

Short Title: NC Rightful Liberty ACT 

Continue reading →

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The Terrifying Future of The United States

Posted on June 5, 2013 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rwmD4c_NxI

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Detroit in Ruins: Fifty Years of Liberalism Has Destroyed the Motor City

Posted on June 5, 2013 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xQctcXK0A#t=1s

From YouTube:

It was once the capital of the world’s auto industry, but Detroit now faces imminent bankruptcy, according to its Emergency Fiscal Manager. How did Detroit go from America’s industrial crown to an industrial dumpster?

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From bank safe to gun safe

Posted on June 5, 2013 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ULfoHTD8cM

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Megyn Kelly Questions Jim McDermott’s Treatment of Witnesses

Posted on June 5, 2013 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDot3MYoZ8

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NC Driver Permits for Illegal Immigrants?

Posted on June 5, 2013 by DRenegade

Response to Dr. Weeks
by Mike Scruggs

Dr. Greg Weeks’ casual dismissal of two of my points regarding the insanity of a handful of NC Republican legislators proposing to allow illegal immigrants to be issued NC Drivers’ Permits (NC House bill H786) contradicts the substantial evidence cited. Apparently, he scanned my references a bit too quickly.

Here are the conclusions drawn again:

  1. Voting for amnesty and other liberal immigration policies does NOT increase Hispanic votes for Republicans.
  2. Voting for amnesty and other liberal immigration policies, however, significantly diminishes non-Hispanic conservative support for Republicans. [And probably Hispanic conservative support, too]

Here are the two main references given in more detail:

The first was a February 2013 Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Backgrounder by Dr. George Hawley entitled “Pro-Immigration Congressional Republicans Do Not Perform Better Among Latino Voters.” Dr. Hawley teaches political science at the University of Houston. A more technical version of the study was published in the then current issue of the academic journal, Social Science Quarterly. I strongly encourage Dr. Weeks and anyone else to read it: Continue reading →

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FRANCE BANS SHIPMENT OF GOLD & SILVER IN THE MAIL!

Posted on June 5, 2013 by DRenegade

As the western financial collapse nears, the banksters are furiously working to shut down every financial exit available to the public to preserve their wealth from bankster confiscation.
France has just taken capital controls to a new level, banning the shipment of physical gold, silver, and cash through the mail, effectively shutting down the precious metals trade in France!

From Market Update, via Google Translate:

In France, a new law that sending gold, silver and cash prohibits. Companies gold coins on sale and send by post can not exercise this new law work. Sites are also traders who are prevented by the new law. Operates like eBay

In September 2011, the French government took all measures to limit. anonymous cash purchases of gold and silver Since then, every purchase of bullion with a value of more than € 450 per bank transfer happen. With the new law since June 1 this year in force is also sending by post of banknotes and precious metals restricted.

The new legislation can be found on this website , where under Chapter I, the following Article D1 of the universal postal service and the postal service obligations is:

“L’insertion the billets de banque, the pièces et de metaux precieux est interdite dans les envois postaux, y compris dans les envois à valeur déclarée, lesson envois recommandes et les envois faisant l’objet de leur formalités attestant dépôt et leur distribution. “

Loosely translated the law says that inserting banknotes, coins and precious metals is prohibited in mail. That includes insured and registered mail shipments.

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U.S. Gives Saudi Airlines ‘Unrestricted’ Access to American Skies

Posted on June 5, 2013 by DRenegade

saudi

The United States and Saudi Arabia have signed an Open Skies agreement that will “permit unrestricted air service by the airlines of both countries between and beyond the other’s territory.”

The agreement means Saudi airlines may fly from any point in the kingdom to any point in the United States, and that U.S. airlines may fly from any point here to any airport in Saudi Arabia.

The deal was signed May 28 in Jeddah by U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James B. Smith and Dr. Faisal bin Hamad Al-Sugair, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Director of the General Authority of Civil Aviation.

In addition to permitting each nations’ airlines to provide unrestricted air service to any point in the other country, the agreement also eliminates restrictions on how often the carriers can fly, the kind of aircraft they can use and the prices they charge.

“Saudi Arabia is a valued and close partner of the United States,” Kerry Humphrey of the State Department’s Bureau of Economic & Business Affairs told CNSNews.com. “This agreement not only reflects the excellent state of our bilateral relations, but also promises to facilitate further development of those relations with regard to tourism and trade.”

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