httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQexLYK-X88
From YouTube:
After a late start, and a “ten minute break” that lasted more than a half hour, the NJ Senate committee on gun control decides to cut off public comment on the proposed gun control bills at 4 o’clock. The chairman and most of the committee then refuse to honor the pledge of allegiance. This took place at the NJ Senate gun control hearings in Trenton on April 30, 2013.
h/t John P
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lHC6Q7oJQM
Syrian forces seize al-Qusayr
Shortly after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pledged Sunday, May 19, to maintain Israeli operations in Syria against the passage of advanced Iranian weapons to the Lebanese Hizballah, Syrian troops and their Hizballah comrades stormed Al-Qasayr, the northwestern town which commands the high road from Syrian Homs to Lebanon’s Hermel Mountains.
This was a major victory: Iranian arms for Hizballah can now go through from Syria to destination unobstructed.
In more than two years of battling the Assad regime, this was one of the rebels’ most devastating losses after three weeks of bitter fighting and the last of a whole row of recent setbacks.
Bashar Assad in contrast has gained huge advantages from his al Qusayr victory, as DEBKAfile’s military sources report:
1. It cuts off the Syrian rebels’ main supply and communications route via Lebanon through which their Arab backers Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE to send them fighters, arms and funds.
2. Rebel positions in the nearby town of Homs become increasingly vulnerable, as the Syrian army regains control of the main highway links between Damascus, Homs and Aleppo.
http://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2013/05/i-never-noticed-this.html
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And it seems to be true:
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Preparation
The frost in the air comes not from weather.
The frost in the air comes from the fool crown’s tether.
Those who would dare to bring up a scare
Will bring the disgusted together.
They march to the tune of a different songbird,
The crown didn’t listen and got the wrong words.
These souls understood there’s a much greater Good,
And that’s what the strong should prefer.
They gathered together to forge a new plan,
A country whose power was bestowed on man.
In the heat of the day and with so much to weigh,
One said, “I don’t know if we can.”
Undaunted, three souls chose to work even harder.
Together they formed a triumvirate of ardor.
The first brought the form, the second transformed
Ideas aged kept in their larder.
The third of the members interpreted well
The meanings of phrases so none could dispel
The message that wrought the authors’ true thoughts.
They now had a story to tell.
The assemblage was gathered and asked to please ponder
If they’d willingly risk their lives, wealth, and honor.
Fifty-six men agreed that they had to secede
From the crown that ruled from a’ yonder.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50xa7mluFQI
The Internal Revenue Service claims the disclosure of conservative groups’ confidential information to investigative journalism outfit ProPublica was “inadvertent and unintentional.”
After the IRS admitted to deliberately targeting conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, ProPublica reported it had received nine still-pending applications as part of its request for information about 67 nonprofits last year. The pending applications should have remained confidential.
“When these two issues were previously raised concerning the potential unauthorized disclosures of 501(c)(4) application information, we immediately referred these cases to TIGTA [Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration] for a comprehensive review. In both instances, TIGTA found these instances to be inadvertent and unintentional disclosures by the employees involved,” read an IRS statement to ProPublica sent Friday.
ProPublica bills itself as an independent nonprofit investigative journalism outlet, but has been described as liberal by its detractors and is supported in part by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
Source: TheBlaze
Hi Jim,
Three days ago something very bad happened to me. The manager from my US Bank branch left me a voice message telling me that my accounts were frozen until I called her and answered some questions. I called back and was told that I had a number of suspicious transactions and because this was a brand new account she was compelled to investigate. Specifically she informed me that I had two large wire transfers from Peru and two payments to American Precious Metals Exchange. She asked me to explain the nature of these transactions. I asked her if this was part of Patriot Act Compliance and she said that it was. She acted surprised that I even was aware of this process. I told her that I thought this was outrageous and that I would not give her this information. She told me that if I didn’t, that they would likely close my accounts. Having worked on Patriot Act Compliance in the past myself, I also understood that reporting would be sent to the IRS regarding “suspicious” activity regardless of whether I responded to her questions or not. I decided to cooperate and told her that the incoming wires were payment from my employer – a major mining company that is in feasibility stage for a large copper project in Peru. Then she asked me what I purchased from APMEX. I said that she could probably figure that out based on the company name. She said that wasn’t good enough and insisted that I needed to tell her what I had purchased. I said coins and that satisfied her.
Obviously, this left me in shock, but it gets worse. One day later my wife gets a notice delivered by UPS from US Bank. She has a different last name and the bank is a different branch. She has had the account open for almost 20 years. The notice said that they must speak to her immediately. She called them today and found out that her account had already been frozen and that they need to know why she had received a check from me for $6,000 and why she had written a check to APMEX. Just like me she was asked to tell them what she had purchased from APMEX and she told him. She was also asked why I had written her a check for $6,000 and she told them it was to pay bills. For the record, my wife voted for Obama twice and she is a hardcore Liberal. She is also public school teacher. She was almost crying as she related what had happened to her.
It is worth mentioning that this all occurred within weeks of me joining the NRA, National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO) and signing a number of petitions and contacting a large number of Senators and Representatives to encourage them to vote against gun control. In addition I have been selling off my gun collection and ammo on the ARMSLIST website here in Colorado. Clearly in my mind I have been targeted do to some combination of this activity.
Despite the 6.5% stock market rally over the last three months, a handful of billionaires are quietly dumping their American stocks . . . and fast.
Warren Buffett, who has been a cheerleader for U.S. stocks for quite some time, is dumping shares at an alarming rate. He recently complained of “disappointing performance” in dyed-in-the-wool American companies like Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Kraft Foods.
In the latest filing for Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett has been drastically reducing his exposure to stocks that depend on consumer purchasing habits. Berkshire sold roughly 19 million shares of Johnson & Johnson, and reduced his overall stake in “consumer product stocks” by 21%. Berkshire Hathaway also sold its entire stake in California-based computer parts supplier Intel.
With 70% of the U.S. economy dependent on consumer spending, Buffett’s apparent lack of faith in these companies’ future prospects is worrisome.
Unfortunately Buffett isn’t alone.
“I think an arrogance at the IRS came across in bright colors, and I think that was very disconcerting to all of us,” Camp said. “I think as you saw the hearing go on, members became even more frustrated with that. In the sense that, again, they weren’t really telling us why they didn’t inform us as representatives of the American people, when we’d been inquiring after this for more than two years, and not only that, gave us assurances that this wasn’t going on in hearings.”
Russia delivers Yakhont missiles, warships to Assad; Lavrov: Arms deal won’t change regional balance of power.
Russian Yakhont anti-ship cruise missile.
Russia sold advanced Yakhont antiship cruise missiles to Syrian President Bashar Assad, outfitted with an advanced guidance system that makes them more effective than the older version of the missile Russia sold to Syria, The New York Times cited two American officials as saying on Thursday.
These missiles will allow Syria to thwart any attempt by international forces to reinforce Syrian rebels by imposing a naval embargo or no fly zone, Nick Brown the editor in chief of IHS Jane’s International Defense Review told The New York Times.
Fox News: Israeli commandos returning from Syria.
1. President Barack Obama’s inability to make up his mind on whether the US should intervene militarily in Syria – even in a limited way, such as the imposition of no-fly zones or finding a way to supply non-Islamist Syrian rebel groups with sorely needed weapons.
2. The US president’s refusal to recognize that chemical weapons have already been used in Syria. His reaction to the file put before him in the White House Friday, May 17, by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan – with evidence from physicians treating wounded Syrians – remained dismissive. “The US has seen evidence of chemical weapons being used in Syria,” he said, adding however, “it is important to get more specific details about alleged chemical attacks.”
This comment was interpreted as the US president’s acceptance of the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian war so long as it was on a limited scale. Obama, like Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, has therefore waved away another red line for military intervention in the Syria conflict, by closing his eyes to the evidence.
Former Israeli defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer was more realistic last week when he brusquely brushed aside a radio interviewer’s query by saying: Of course, Assad has used chemical weapons and isn’t it obvious that he has already transferred to Hizballah both chemical substances and other advanced weapons?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL_XsuYYZaM
From YouTube:
COTATI, CA — Police are called out to an apartment for a noise compliant by the neighbors. The three occupants inside non-aggressively exercise their fourth amendment right, refusing the police entry as they demand at gun point to let them inside without a search warrant or probable cause.
h/t Matt Bracken
