Iraq falls to Islamic militants: here's what the media isn't telling you about WHY it's happening
Thursday, June 12, 2014
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Tags: Iraq militants, U.S. occupation, puppet governments
(NaturalNews) The puppet Iraqi government installed at gunpoint by western imperialist nations is collapsing. Iraq is now being overrun by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The oil-rich city of Tikrit has already been captured, and militants are headed for Baghdad, the capitol city of Iraq.
The military surge has sent shockwaves around the world, shining yet another spotlight on the disastrously failed foreign policies of the United States and the Obama administration. While the U.S. military occupation of Iraq began in 2003 under President Bush, Obama pulled most U.S. troops from the nation in 2011, leaving behind a puppet government installed at gunpoint by the USA. That government is now on the verge of total collapse as armed, impassioned Islamic militants are rapidly overrunning the country.
Learn more:
http://www.naturalnews.com/045546_Iraq_militants_US_occupation_puppet_governments.html#ixzz34jBEMHTG
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My comments:
You are watching the beginning of Armageddon. The Islamic false religion precludes any ability in these people to live in freedom. They are incapable of self governance. The reason is their horrible Sharia mentality which is based on lies and false belief.
Are you looking for Solutions for America in Distress
You are in the right place to find out about what is really going on behind the scenes in the patriot movement in America, including solutions from Oathkeepers, Anna Von Reitz, Constitutional Sheriffs, Richard Mack, and many more people who are leading the charge to restore America to freedom and peace. Please search on the right for over 9600 articles.
You will find some conflicting views from some of these authors. You will also find that all the authors are deeply concerned about the future of America. What they write is their own opinion, just as what I write is my own.

Sunday, June 15, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Scientific Misconduct - Substantial Proof
Global Warming caused by man is a huge hoax and government is the perpe-"traitor"!
Various members of the “scientific” community have been providing environmental justifications for numerous federal and global projects. But are they providing honest science, or quackery to justify pre-determined political outcomes? More and more, it appears the latter is true. Global warming has been completely debunked. The judge overhearing the Delta Smelt case essentially called government’s witness a liar. Two environmentalists were arrested for false science within the past week.
Rural communities across the country should jump on this information. Everything the DOI has done or is doing across the entire nation is tainted and suspect.
Two scientists expose the corruption and lies about Global Warming and much more.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
DHS armor in Kalispell Montana reported on June 11th 2014
Report: DHS Armored Vehicles and Support Helicopters Target Small Town of Kalispell, Montana
Read more at
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/06/report-dhs-armored-vehicles-support-helicopters-target-small-town-kalispell-montana/#1IbLv4QEUrPyJCYX.99
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
The Dollar is Done as the world's reserve currency
End of US Dominance : Death of the Dollar Update:
Do something to protect yourself. Get some silver at
http://www.teapartysilver.com/silverforsale.html
Ignore the prices on the website and just call Paul at 800 889 2839 for your best prices.
For more than four years now Michael Maloney has been demonstrating to audiences around the world that every 30-40 years the world has an entirely new global monetary system, that the current monetary system (the U.S. dollar standard) is aging and becoming unstable, and, just like the previous monetary systems, will soon implode.
On June 1st, 2014, at the Cambridge House Investment Conference in Vancouver, Canada, he updated his “Death of the Dollar” presentation and showed how the “Nails in the Coffin of the Dollar Standard” are now coming faster and are more furious than ever before. He believes that there will be a global currency crisis before the end of this decade and that the days of the dollar standard are numbered.
In a second presentation on the same day he makes the most convincing argument yet that there is a massive deflation coming, that there will probably be an overnight devaluation of the dollar and huge overnight revaluation of gold, and, though it will be painful for most, it is the greatest opportunity in history for those who are prepared.
Do something to protect yourself. Get some silver at
http://www.teapartysilver.com/silverforsale.html
Ignore the prices on the website and just call Paul at 800 889 2839 for your best prices.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Will the real Oathkeepers inside the police please stand up?
Is it any wonder that people are starting to hate the police, when they act like this?
Deescalating the Police
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. Rosa Parks
By Jack Mullen:
Americans face a new crisis: police violence against citizens is escalating, blurring the line between criminal and public servant.
Escalating violence against American citizens by police has reached a bifurcation point; Americans are feeling the heat and are beginning to realize something must be done to deescalate police or soon America will join the ranks of hell holes of police crime and violence like Mexico, Haiti, Russia, Uzbekistan and elsewhere where police are independent gangs, violent and undisciplined and devolving into something closer to pirates – stealing property directly from their victims.
Horror stories of police murdering, beating, raping and plundering citizens are daily news in a cities large and small. One city, Albuquerque, NM is now murdering more people per capita than NYPD during arrests, yet NYC is 14 times more populated.......
TED CRUZ – A CASE STUDY ON NATURAL BORN
This
is an excellent article from News with views forwarded by Brenda Hambrick.
Thanks Brenda!
The guy that wrote this did a really great job of explaining
it…first good one that I have seen.
Monday, June 9, 2014
THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE 14th AMENDMENT
The following is a treatise on the unconstitutionality of the Fourteenth Amendment, based upon the most comprehensive research and documentation of every angle in the unlawful procedures involved in its purported adoption.
This work was done, and is offered with a realization that the federal courts are not ready to give consideration to the subject, because the U. S. Supreme Court and inferior courts have used the the 14th Amendment to enlarge upon their ungranted powers without limit or reserve.
Socialist organized and directed violent mass demonstrations and armed rebellion in the nation's capital and in many American cities are extorting from Congress more and more radical legislation. These "laws" threaten basic personal freedom, private property rights and encroach upon and destroy more and more the constitutional right of self-government by the people on state and local levels. Executive orders extend toward further federal control of every aspect of life in the Nation, either by shutting off federal funds to those who will not subscribe to their forced dictums or by court injunctive orders to the same effect.
There lies the greatest danger to our country's future: so that the end result in the next or succeeding generation can only be a deteriorated industrial empire and a weakened national defense, which must result in abject surrender to our mortal enemy,-- world-wide Socialism and Totalitarianism. That is the ultimate end of the subversive use of the unconstitutional 14th Amendment.
It is hoped that this treatise, exposing the absolute unconstitutionality of the l4th amendment, will be given sufficient general circulation and publicity to awaken a "consensus" of public sentiment to reach the seats of power in Washington, D. C., so that ultimately the stamp of unconstitutionality may be placed upon the 14th amendment, and constitutional government and national sanity once more may prevail.
Cites and References:
Congressional Record.
Senate, 84th Con. 1st Session., Vol. 101, pp. 7119 to 7124;
Senate, 86th Con., 2nd Session., Vol. 106, pp. 4036 to 4038;
Senate, 89th Con., 1st Session., Vol. III, pp. 10669 to 10671.
Congressional Record.
Senate, 84th Con. 1st Session., Vol. 101, pp. 7119 to 7124;
Senate, 86th Con., 2nd Session., Vol. 106, pp. 4036 to 4038;
Senate, 89th Con., 1st Session., Vol. III, pp. 10669 to 10671.
See the entire article here: http://www.barefootsworld.net/14uncon.html
Thursday, June 5, 2014
The Largest Robbery of the American People in History!
When the general public in Amerika finally figures this out there will be blood running in the streets.
My friends we have been had for over 100 years by this den of thieves. They have stolen all our wealth. They have robbed us blind starting from before any of us were born, and they have eaten out our substance as a country and as individuals. BOYCOTT THE BANKS. Pull your money, if you have any left, from any bank. Don't keep any money in any bank of any kind.
My friends we have been had for over 100 years by this den of thieves. They have stolen all our wealth. They have robbed us blind starting from before any of us were born, and they have eaten out our substance as a country and as individuals. BOYCOTT THE BANKS. Pull your money, if you have any left, from any bank. Don't keep any money in any bank of any kind.
Classic 1977 Mercury for sale to finish Oathkeepers radio project.
Hi Everyone,
I had published several articles about how we are
setting up emergency communications for Oathkeepers safety.
I had said we would finish the project "one
way or another".
Here are the articles. http://www.paulstramer.net/2014/05/communications-at-bundy-ranch-and.html
and the update here: http://www.lincolncountywatch.org/Oathkeepers/vanpics.html
Well I didn't get one thin dime from the PayPal
button so far, but Oathkeepers has found the radio, powersupply, signal link,
and some antenna stuff,
and Rocky, our main ham guy in Florida sent that up
here. I should have it all mounted in the van and ready to go this week some
time.
We have lots more to do. After I get the van done
and show you some pictures we want to finish the project with the case with
portable magnet mount antennas,
so we can fly and check it all, then rent a vehicle
and in a matter of 30 minutes have it all running in that vehicle. This will
take a bit more money, and time,
but that way we can use this same gear instead of
buying yet another HF radio.
So to get that done I am selling my classic 1977
Mercury Marquis. I had this car advertised about 4 years ago at this
page.
It didn't sell then so I added some more TLC by
doing a tuneup, putting new tires on the original steel wheels that came with
the car and the full hubcaps that
also came on the car, with new plug wires and
plugs, and new distributor. This is a 460 and is one heck of a road machine.
With dual glass packs with resonators, and completely rebuilt carb this thing
develops lots of horses and torgue, and still gets about 15 to 17 MPG when you
drive it easy. I dare you to drive it easy.
This is the toughest drive train Ford ever built
with a C6 tranny and 9 inch rear end. They put this in millions of vehicles and
many are still on the road today.
In any case there will be no reasonable offer
refused. I am asking $3900. The car has less than 65,000 actual miles and is in
great shape.
Paul Stramer KC7MEZ 800 889 2839 pstramer@eurekadsl.net
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
They will kill you with a drone and you won't see it coming.
Jeremy Scahill: Australia ‘Fully In Bed’ With U.S. Drone Strikes Against It’s Own Citizens
The US has actually killed Australian citizens with drones on Australian soil.
Read more and watch the video at
http://libertycrier.com/jeremy-scahill-australia-fully-bed-u-s-drone-strikes-citizens/#doX2480XwzOaML3Y.99
The US has actually killed Australian citizens with drones on Australian soil.
Read more and watch the video at
http://libertycrier.com/jeremy-scahill-australia-fully-bed-u-s-drone-strikes-citizens/#doX2480XwzOaML3Y.99
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Sunday Prayers for Patriots - 5th Sunday after Easter
EPISTLE (James I. 22‑27.) Dearly Beloved, Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass: for he beheld himself and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was. But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless, and widows in their tribulation, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.
The Evil Influence of Psychiatry: The true shadow government
The shadow government you have never seen:
See Ron Paul in this video. This is how they will put you in jail for being independent, and believing in freedom. Mental health screening is a violation of your privacy and your life. Never submit.
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Only "Extremists" Believe They Have a Right to be Left Alone
This article by William Norman Grigg deserves to be reprinted in it's entirety all across this land.
By William Norman Grigg
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/william-norman-grigg/think-you-have-the-right-to-be-left-alone%E2%80%A8/
Ernie Wayne terTelgte is a poor man from a tiny village in Montana who believes that nature gives him a license to live. Barack Obama is a wealthy and privileged man residing at the seat of power who believes his position gives him a license to kill. Naturally, the Tolerance Commissars are pretending that the former is a menace to society, because of the contempt he displays for the system that facilitates the crimes committed by the latter.
Last August, terTelgte was fishing at Three Forks Pond with his eleven-year-old son when they were accosted by Adam Pankratz, who is employed as a warden by the Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Service.
When Pankratz saw terTelgte reeling in a fish, the warden asked if he had a fishing license. TerTelgte replied that he didn’t need one. Pretending to concede the point, the warden persisted in demanding that terTelgte provide identification. When both teTelgte and his son quite sensibly refused the demand, Pankratz called for assistance, and Three Forks Police Officer Colter Metcalf quickly arrived.
Officer Metcalf made a brief and unsuccessful attempt to learn terTelgte’s identity.
Pankratz later said that he and Metcalf were concerned by the fact that terTelgte’s “body language” was “tense,” that his language was “curt,” and that he kept telling them to “walk away” and “just leave me alone.” This is a description of someone whose behavior was defensive. But Pankratz and Metcalf, as representatives of the coercive caste, insisted on escalating the encounter by arresting him for “obstruction.”
“We didn’t want it to go this far, especially with the son … but we couldn’t identify him,” Pankratz complained, assuming that a tax-funded aggressor is entitled to sympathy because of his occupation.
Since terTelgte had no legal duty to present identification (Montana code authorizes “stop and frisk”-style harassment of citizens, but doesn’t specify that citizens have a duty to identify themselves), the arrest was unlawful. As is the case elsewhere, Montana state statutes authorize police to abduct citizens without legal justification if this is done “under the peace officer’s official authority.”
Plucking a fish from a “publicly owned” pond without a license is considered an offense, despite the fact that entailed no violation of property rights. (If it did, who is the victim, and what injury did he sustain?) Violently abducting a human being who has done no harm to anyone, on the other hand, is regarded as a “lawful” act, assuming that the kidnapper is accoutered in the officially prescribed costume.
To his credit, the victim was non-cooperative but non-violent. This wasn’t true of the assailants, of course. After Metcalf threatened to attack terTelgte with pepper spray, Pankratz kicked his legs out from beneath him.
Rather than mounting a violent defense against his captors, terTelgte simply sat motionless on the ground, forcing them to pick him up and carry him to the police car.
During his arraignment before Three Forks Municipal Judge Wanda Drusch, terTelgte refused to defer to her authority or play his expected role as a penitent and submissive suspect.
“I was searching for something to put in my stomach as I am … allowed to do by universal law,” he declared. “I am the living man and I have the right to forage for food when I am hungry.”
The “trial” last November — if the proceedings merit that description — was attended by 32 police officers from ten agencies, brought together by shared concern that the defendant’s defiance might prove contagious. TerTelgte was denied the right—supposedly protected by the Constitution – to cross-examine witnesses or to introduce evidence on his own behalf.
To the surprise of nobody, terTelgte was quickly found guilty of the supposed offense of obstructing the unwarranted harassment of armed state
functionaries, and refusing to cooperate in his own abduction. Although his jail sentence was suspended, terTelgte later spent 30 days behind bars for “contempt” after he declined to take off his hat in the courtroom during a subsequent appearance on another charge of “resisting arrest.”
TerTelgte is clearly eccentric; he might even be considered obnoxious by some. It is reasonable to conclude that his actions have been unwise, a violation of the principle that each of us has trouble enough and shouldn’t be seeking to borrow more. But he is patently harmless. There is no evidence that he has ever injured or defrauded anybody, which certainly can’t be said of the government functionaries who assaulted and caged him, or the criminal entity that employs them.
It is the zeal to prolong the pretense of the Regime’s legitimacy that led the Southern Poverty Law Center to identify terTelgte as a public enemy, an exponent of what that self-appointed Stasi calls “sovereign citizen ideology.”
Stated in its broadest terms, the “sovereign citizen” concept holds that some people can exempt themselves from the law through the use of esoteric legal concepts expressed in impenetrable language. From that perspective, people who utter or publish the appropriate conjurations can seize the property of others, issue fraudulent financial instruments, and employ lethal violence against those who seek to hold them accountable.
Assuming that this is an accurate description, at least some “sovereign citizens” are attempting to mimic the criminal behavior of those who presume to rule the rest of us. The SPLC and allied “watchdog” groups offer no objections to the routine practice of fraud and exercise of lethal aggressive violence by the most dangerous element of our society. They simply want to preserve that element’s monopoly on the privilege of committing criminal aggression.
This is why the SPLC professes alarm that outrage over the terTelgte case has prompted some Montana residents to create a citizens’ grand jury to investigate allegations of abuse and official misconduct. SPLC flack David Neiwert breathlessly – and perhaps hopefully – writes that this could lead to a rural “showdown” akin to the April 12 confrontation in Bunkerville, Nevada.
William Wolf, who has organized efforts to create the citizens grand jury, has suggested that his group might arrest Rick West, the Justice of the Peace who sent terTelgte to jail for thirty days on a contempt charge. Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin described this as “unacceptable,” accusing Wolf and his allies of “crossing a line they can’t cross.”
“When there are threats like this, not only does it affect that person, it affects their family,” mewled Gootkin in a television interview. “For someone in the family to live in fear, that’s not the way things work. When you start talking about arresting people and kidnapping people … that’s unacceptable and nothing good comes from that.”
It’s appropriate that Gootkin uses the terms “arrest” and “kidnap” interchangeably, given that the latter is properly applied to what was done to terTelgte. The public record is barren of any recognition by Sheriff Gootkin that terTelgte’s abduction traumatized his eleven-year-old son and made him “live in fear.” Apparently the impact of violence on Mundanes and their children doesn’t concern the Sheriff.
Gootkin also berated members of the proposed citizens’ grand jury for “bypassing” the criminal justice system. The real scandal here is the effective destruction of the grand jury, which was intended to be a citizens’ assembly rather than a government entity.
From the Founding era until the early 20th Century, grand juries were bodies that could carry out independent investigations of official corruption and deliver “presentments” to prosecutors in search of redress. Constitutional scholar Roger Roots observes that the grand jury, “in its primal, plenary sense … was a group of men who stood as a check on government, often in direct opposition to the desires of those in power.”
Writing in the Fordham Law Review, Kevin K. Washburn points out that the grand jury “came to us as an institution that was respected for its profound ability to protect local communities – indeed, possibly rebellious ones – from central government authority. It was, in essence, a local check on Crown authority.” In that capacity, grand juries not only conducted rigorous review of facts, but also “nullification of validly enacted laws,” Washburn continues.
During the reign of FDR, an executive branch Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure – an unaccountable body with no legislative mandate – imposed regulations intended to destroy the independence of grand juries. As a result, “the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor, who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury,” wrote federal District Judge William J. Campbell, who urged the formal abolition of the institution in the interests of efficiency.
Judge Campbell offered those observations in 1973. Since that time, the US criminal “justice” system has reached almost Soviet levels of prosecutorial efficiency. Under the reign of Josef Stalin, Soviet procurators were ordered to achieve a 100 conviction rate. In the current federal system, notes Lew Rockwell, the defendant “wins once every 212 times.”
Once the grand jury was re-purposed as an arm of the state, prosecutors were free to commit routine due process violations and destroy what remained of the institution of trial by jury. “Waiving the Criminal Justice System,” a study recently published by the University of Texas School of Law, describes how the adversarial process through which the state must prove the guilt of a defendant has been supplanted with a system of administrative law in which prosecutors extract plea bargains in exchange for relatively lenient sentences. This is why federal prosecutors win well more than ninety percent of their cases through plea bargains, rather than jury trials.
This is a lamentable state of affairs, and, to many observers, a familiar story. This study, however, breaks new ground by showing that prosecutors at both the state and federal levels require defendants to waive due process rights that are vital for post-conviction appeals – such as the right to effective assistance of counsel, and the right to obtain exculpatory evidence that can be used to overturn a conviction or at least obtain a new trial.
In the American tradition, the purpose of a trial was to establish the truth of an accusation against a defendant who is presumed to be innocent. The purpose of our post-constitutional criminal system is to ratify the defendant’s guilt, irrespective of the facts or the law. This is not the doing of eccentrics and “extremists” like Ernie terTelgte, but rather of the respectable people who employ the exercise and the threat of violence to force others to submit to their will – and who can rely on the unconditional support of the SPLC and others of their contemptible ilk.
Roughly a week ago, while the SPLC was pretending that terTelgte and his supporters are a threat to the republic, the US Supreme Court put an end to the illusion that something worthy of being called a republic still exists, or that citizens have any reasonable expectation that, if accused of an offense, they have a right to a trial of some kind.
The High Court refused to hear an appeal filed by Chris Hedges and several other activists challenging a provision of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act under which the president can order the indefinite military detention – without trial or legal recourse — of any U.S. citizen he regards as an enemy of the state.
That provision was struck down as unconstitutional by US District Judge Katherine Forrest, who ruled that it could lead to the seizure and imprisonment of people who exercised rights supposedly protected by the First Amendment. As is their habit, the executive branch’s legal minions greeted that ruling with an indifferent shrug and filed an appeal before a more complaisant federal judge, who ruled that no citizen has legal standing to challenge the NDAA. That ruling was left undisturbed by the Supreme Court.
As a result, summarizes progressive commentator Thom Hartman, the military “now has the power to label us terrorists, capture us, lock us up in jail, and hold us there without any regard for our Constitutional rights to due process or a fair trial.” That power very nicely compliments Obama’s routine practice of executing people without the benefit of trial – including at least one teenaged U.S. citizen.
Ernie terTeglte’s view of sovereignty is that he has a right to feed himself and be left alone. Barack Obama’s view of sovereignty is that of Vladimir Lenin – the supposed right of the Dear Leader to exercise “power without limit, resting directly on force, restrained by no laws, absolutely unrestricted by rules.” Not surprisingly, the SPLC and its allies consider the first view unacceptable, and regard the second as mandatory.
By William Norman Grigg
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/william-norman-grigg/think-you-have-the-right-to-be-left-alone%E2%80%A8/
Ernie Wayne terTelgte is a poor man from a tiny village in Montana who believes that nature gives him a license to live. Barack Obama is a wealthy and privileged man residing at the seat of power who believes his position gives him a license to kill. Naturally, the Tolerance Commissars are pretending that the former is a menace to society, because of the contempt he displays for the system that facilitates the crimes committed by the latter.
Last August, terTelgte was fishing at Three Forks Pond with his eleven-year-old son when they were accosted by Adam Pankratz, who is employed as a warden by the Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Service.
When Pankratz saw terTelgte reeling in a fish, the warden asked if he had a fishing license. TerTelgte replied that he didn’t need one. Pretending to concede the point, the warden persisted in demanding that terTelgte provide identification. When both teTelgte and his son quite sensibly refused the demand, Pankratz called for assistance, and Three Forks Police Officer Colter Metcalf quickly arrived.
Officer Metcalf made a brief and unsuccessful attempt to learn terTelgte’s identity.
Pankratz later said that he and Metcalf were concerned by the fact that terTelgte’s “body language” was “tense,” that his language was “curt,” and that he kept telling them to “walk away” and “just leave me alone.” This is a description of someone whose behavior was defensive. But Pankratz and Metcalf, as representatives of the coercive caste, insisted on escalating the encounter by arresting him for “obstruction.”
“We didn’t want it to go this far, especially with the son … but we couldn’t identify him,” Pankratz complained, assuming that a tax-funded aggressor is entitled to sympathy because of his occupation.
Since terTelgte had no legal duty to present identification (Montana code authorizes “stop and frisk”-style harassment of citizens, but doesn’t specify that citizens have a duty to identify themselves), the arrest was unlawful. As is the case elsewhere, Montana state statutes authorize police to abduct citizens without legal justification if this is done “under the peace officer’s official authority.”
Plucking a fish from a “publicly owned” pond without a license is considered an offense, despite the fact that entailed no violation of property rights. (If it did, who is the victim, and what injury did he sustain?) Violently abducting a human being who has done no harm to anyone, on the other hand, is regarded as a “lawful” act, assuming that the kidnapper is accoutered in the officially prescribed costume.
To his credit, the victim was non-cooperative but non-violent. This wasn’t true of the assailants, of course. After Metcalf threatened to attack terTelgte with pepper spray, Pankratz kicked his legs out from beneath him.
Rather than mounting a violent defense against his captors, terTelgte simply sat motionless on the ground, forcing them to pick him up and carry him to the police car.
During his arraignment before Three Forks Municipal Judge Wanda Drusch, terTelgte refused to defer to her authority or play his expected role as a penitent and submissive suspect.
“I was searching for something to put in my stomach as I am … allowed to do by universal law,” he declared. “I am the living man and I have the right to forage for food when I am hungry.”
The “trial” last November — if the proceedings merit that description — was attended by 32 police officers from ten agencies, brought together by shared concern that the defendant’s defiance might prove contagious. TerTelgte was denied the right—supposedly protected by the Constitution – to cross-examine witnesses or to introduce evidence on his own behalf.
To the surprise of nobody, terTelgte was quickly found guilty of the supposed offense of obstructing the unwarranted harassment of armed state
functionaries, and refusing to cooperate in his own abduction. Although his jail sentence was suspended, terTelgte later spent 30 days behind bars for “contempt” after he declined to take off his hat in the courtroom during a subsequent appearance on another charge of “resisting arrest.”
TerTelgte is clearly eccentric; he might even be considered obnoxious by some. It is reasonable to conclude that his actions have been unwise, a violation of the principle that each of us has trouble enough and shouldn’t be seeking to borrow more. But he is patently harmless. There is no evidence that he has ever injured or defrauded anybody, which certainly can’t be said of the government functionaries who assaulted and caged him, or the criminal entity that employs them.
It is the zeal to prolong the pretense of the Regime’s legitimacy that led the Southern Poverty Law Center to identify terTelgte as a public enemy, an exponent of what that self-appointed Stasi calls “sovereign citizen ideology.”
Stated in its broadest terms, the “sovereign citizen” concept holds that some people can exempt themselves from the law through the use of esoteric legal concepts expressed in impenetrable language. From that perspective, people who utter or publish the appropriate conjurations can seize the property of others, issue fraudulent financial instruments, and employ lethal violence against those who seek to hold them accountable.
Assuming that this is an accurate description, at least some “sovereign citizens” are attempting to mimic the criminal behavior of those who presume to rule the rest of us. The SPLC and allied “watchdog” groups offer no objections to the routine practice of fraud and exercise of lethal aggressive violence by the most dangerous element of our society. They simply want to preserve that element’s monopoly on the privilege of committing criminal aggression.
This is why the SPLC professes alarm that outrage over the terTelgte case has prompted some Montana residents to create a citizens’ grand jury to investigate allegations of abuse and official misconduct. SPLC flack David Neiwert breathlessly – and perhaps hopefully – writes that this could lead to a rural “showdown” akin to the April 12 confrontation in Bunkerville, Nevada.
William Wolf, who has organized efforts to create the citizens grand jury, has suggested that his group might arrest Rick West, the Justice of the Peace who sent terTelgte to jail for thirty days on a contempt charge. Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin described this as “unacceptable,” accusing Wolf and his allies of “crossing a line they can’t cross.”
“When there are threats like this, not only does it affect that person, it affects their family,” mewled Gootkin in a television interview. “For someone in the family to live in fear, that’s not the way things work. When you start talking about arresting people and kidnapping people … that’s unacceptable and nothing good comes from that.”
It’s appropriate that Gootkin uses the terms “arrest” and “kidnap” interchangeably, given that the latter is properly applied to what was done to terTelgte. The public record is barren of any recognition by Sheriff Gootkin that terTelgte’s abduction traumatized his eleven-year-old son and made him “live in fear.” Apparently the impact of violence on Mundanes and their children doesn’t concern the Sheriff.
Gootkin also berated members of the proposed citizens’ grand jury for “bypassing” the criminal justice system. The real scandal here is the effective destruction of the grand jury, which was intended to be a citizens’ assembly rather than a government entity.
From the Founding era until the early 20th Century, grand juries were bodies that could carry out independent investigations of official corruption and deliver “presentments” to prosecutors in search of redress. Constitutional scholar Roger Roots observes that the grand jury, “in its primal, plenary sense … was a group of men who stood as a check on government, often in direct opposition to the desires of those in power.”
Writing in the Fordham Law Review, Kevin K. Washburn points out that the grand jury “came to us as an institution that was respected for its profound ability to protect local communities – indeed, possibly rebellious ones – from central government authority. It was, in essence, a local check on Crown authority.” In that capacity, grand juries not only conducted rigorous review of facts, but also “nullification of validly enacted laws,” Washburn continues.
During the reign of FDR, an executive branch Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure – an unaccountable body with no legislative mandate – imposed regulations intended to destroy the independence of grand juries. As a result, “the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor, who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury,” wrote federal District Judge William J. Campbell, who urged the formal abolition of the institution in the interests of efficiency.
Judge Campbell offered those observations in 1973. Since that time, the US criminal “justice” system has reached almost Soviet levels of prosecutorial efficiency. Under the reign of Josef Stalin, Soviet procurators were ordered to achieve a 100 conviction rate. In the current federal system, notes Lew Rockwell, the defendant “wins once every 212 times.”
Once the grand jury was re-purposed as an arm of the state, prosecutors were free to commit routine due process violations and destroy what remained of the institution of trial by jury. “Waiving the Criminal Justice System,” a study recently published by the University of Texas School of Law, describes how the adversarial process through which the state must prove the guilt of a defendant has been supplanted with a system of administrative law in which prosecutors extract plea bargains in exchange for relatively lenient sentences. This is why federal prosecutors win well more than ninety percent of their cases through plea bargains, rather than jury trials.
This is a lamentable state of affairs, and, to many observers, a familiar story. This study, however, breaks new ground by showing that prosecutors at both the state and federal levels require defendants to waive due process rights that are vital for post-conviction appeals – such as the right to effective assistance of counsel, and the right to obtain exculpatory evidence that can be used to overturn a conviction or at least obtain a new trial.
In the American tradition, the purpose of a trial was to establish the truth of an accusation against a defendant who is presumed to be innocent. The purpose of our post-constitutional criminal system is to ratify the defendant’s guilt, irrespective of the facts or the law. This is not the doing of eccentrics and “extremists” like Ernie terTelgte, but rather of the respectable people who employ the exercise and the threat of violence to force others to submit to their will – and who can rely on the unconditional support of the SPLC and others of their contemptible ilk.
Roughly a week ago, while the SPLC was pretending that terTelgte and his supporters are a threat to the republic, the US Supreme Court put an end to the illusion that something worthy of being called a republic still exists, or that citizens have any reasonable expectation that, if accused of an offense, they have a right to a trial of some kind.
The High Court refused to hear an appeal filed by Chris Hedges and several other activists challenging a provision of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act under which the president can order the indefinite military detention – without trial or legal recourse — of any U.S. citizen he regards as an enemy of the state.
That provision was struck down as unconstitutional by US District Judge Katherine Forrest, who ruled that it could lead to the seizure and imprisonment of people who exercised rights supposedly protected by the First Amendment. As is their habit, the executive branch’s legal minions greeted that ruling with an indifferent shrug and filed an appeal before a more complaisant federal judge, who ruled that no citizen has legal standing to challenge the NDAA. That ruling was left undisturbed by the Supreme Court.
As a result, summarizes progressive commentator Thom Hartman, the military “now has the power to label us terrorists, capture us, lock us up in jail, and hold us there without any regard for our Constitutional rights to due process or a fair trial.” That power very nicely compliments Obama’s routine practice of executing people without the benefit of trial – including at least one teenaged U.S. citizen.
Ernie terTeglte’s view of sovereignty is that he has a right to feed himself and be left alone. Barack Obama’s view of sovereignty is that of Vladimir Lenin – the supposed right of the Dear Leader to exercise “power without limit, resting directly on force, restrained by no laws, absolutely unrestricted by rules.” Not surprisingly, the SPLC and its allies consider the first view unacceptable, and regard the second as mandatory.
Jury Nullification objections Rebutted - Yours rights on a jury explained.
This jury nullification right is your most powerful vote in our system.
In a time when almost all courts are corrupt, and operating under commercial and admiralty law in contravention to the US Constitution this may be the only way to get justice in that system.
The judges don't want you to know this. The prosecutors and the government don't want you to do this. This may be the only way to inject the eternal laws of our creator into an otherwise totally corrupt and evil system of de-facto judgement that has been hijacked by bar attorneys who KNOW what they are involved in and are using it to line their own pockets and create their empire.
Naturally they will scream and holler when someone makes this knowledge public because it threatens that power and their whole profession. Juries can completely ignore instructions from a judge, and they can completely nullify evil so called laws which are in opposition to the rights that the Constitutions safeguard.
That has always been the case in our country, and long before our country was founded it was the case in common law.
Remember the 7th amendment " In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."
I challenge anyone to find anywhere in this land any Court that examines according to the rules of common law! They are ALL ruling for the government according to commerce and admiralty, and the lawyers and prosecutors, and judges all KNOW .. So they are all breaking their oath before God to the US Constitution every day.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/steve-silverman/say-yes-to-jury-nullification/
8 Jury Nullification Objections Rebutted By Steve Silverman Flex Your Rights May 23, 2014
A recent Chicago Tribune editorial targets a new fully informed jury bill introduced by the New Hampshire House of Representatives. The bill would strengthen the current state law passed in 2012 that allows lawyers “to inform the jury of its right to judge the facts and the application of the law in relation to the facts in controversy.” The editorial is noteworthy, because it deploys the most common legal establishment objections to jury nullification. ......
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/steve-silverman/say-yes-to-jury-nullification/
In a time when almost all courts are corrupt, and operating under commercial and admiralty law in contravention to the US Constitution this may be the only way to get justice in that system.
The judges don't want you to know this. The prosecutors and the government don't want you to do this. This may be the only way to inject the eternal laws of our creator into an otherwise totally corrupt and evil system of de-facto judgement that has been hijacked by bar attorneys who KNOW what they are involved in and are using it to line their own pockets and create their empire.
Naturally they will scream and holler when someone makes this knowledge public because it threatens that power and their whole profession. Juries can completely ignore instructions from a judge, and they can completely nullify evil so called laws which are in opposition to the rights that the Constitutions safeguard.
That has always been the case in our country, and long before our country was founded it was the case in common law.
Remember the 7th amendment " In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."
I challenge anyone to find anywhere in this land any Court that examines according to the rules of common law! They are ALL ruling for the government according to commerce and admiralty, and the lawyers and prosecutors, and judges all KNOW .. So they are all breaking their oath before God to the US Constitution every day.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/steve-silverman/say-yes-to-jury-nullification/
8 Jury Nullification Objections Rebutted By Steve Silverman Flex Your Rights May 23, 2014
A recent Chicago Tribune editorial targets a new fully informed jury bill introduced by the New Hampshire House of Representatives. The bill would strengthen the current state law passed in 2012 that allows lawyers “to inform the jury of its right to judge the facts and the application of the law in relation to the facts in controversy.” The editorial is noteworthy, because it deploys the most common legal establishment objections to jury nullification. ...
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Robber Barons Stealing your Wealth under the color of "Law" called Admiralty?
When the American people find out
that this is all true, and that they have been robbed by these
robber barrons all their lives of every bit of prosperity, and once the
government is no longer satisfied with peace and starts the violence they almost
started at the Bundy ranch, there will be an instant bloody revolution starting
in America and spreading world wide to rid the world of these evil
perpe-traitors of fraud and deception who are manipulating the whole of the
world's wealth unlawfully by fraud and deception, threat, duress. coercion and
intimidation, and by democide (the murder of a people by their own government)
so that they alone can have all the wealth for themselves. The corrupt courts
in America will run with the blood of the corrupt judges and their
co-conspirators. The judges will run from the country, and the people will
pursue them to the ends of the earth.
My friends, we have NEVER IN OUR LIFETIMES been really free of this evil.
If you think these statements are radical, and that
I am nuts, then you are obligated to read the evidence below
that will convince you that what I have said is true.
I didn't write the article below. But I have known
most of this for years. DID THEY HAVE YOUR PERMISSION TO DO THIS? I think not.
Is your state, city, or county listed on Dun and Bradstreet as a corporation.
YES it probably is. Did they have your permission to do that ? NO.
They treat us as cattle, like they treat Cliven
Bundy and all the ranchers as cattle to do with as they please. There will be
repercussions for that.
The one thing the government can't do is leave you
alone and in peace to live and work and raise your families in prosperity. They
won't. Their evil satanic course won't let them. They will get violent at some
point. They almost did at the Bundy ranch.
The article below explains why they are doing it
and how they are doing it to steal all your wealth. They will steal your whole
life if you let them, and they won't give a damn. They are NOT going to stop,
unless we make them stop.
Let me say this about freedom. There are those in
this world who WANT TO BE TOO FREE. They want to be free of God's
laws. They will have nothing of the moral laws, and that, my friends is
the worst form of slavery. They are slaves to satan, the ultimate rebel. They
rebel against all lawful authority and set themselves up as if they were God
Himself, which they know they can never be, and for which their leader, satan,
has already been judged for all eternity. So in their misery, they trade their
whole eternity, for what they can get out of this short life.
God have Mercy on them. They know they are already
lost for all eternity, so they are just as evil as they can be while they are
here, perhaps wishing that in the end they can escape the punishment of their
deeds by ceasing to exist. Sorry boys, but that will never happen. You will
wake up dead and buried in Hell and wish you had just done things differently
here on earth for a few years, and availed yourself of God's mercy and love
instead. But alas it's too late.
Part of the proof of what is contained in the
article below resides in the Mack/Printz decision where Justice Antonin Scalia
talkes about the two jurisdicitons of federal and state. I suggest you read
that after this article. Here are the links.
Read the article and then tell me what you think. I will reserve my opinion about how the Vatican fits in all this for another article.
Paul
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 01:28:41 -0700
From: vincent_burns@yahoo.com
Subject: Interesting article about Maritime Law from Veterans Today
To: vincent_burns@yahoo.com
Interesting
article about Maritime Law
Monday, May 19th, 2014 | Posted by Cara St. Louis
Happily Walking the Plank
Happily Walking the Plank
.by Cara St.Louis
"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to
govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters"
Two things everyone on the planet needs to know. We have had a system of
'legal' fiction imposed upon us called maritime law. It is a fiction. There is
no such thing except aboard a ship at sea.
Second, those in the United States, please recall that each of the fifty
states is sovereign. That has never ever been dissolved, never would be, and the
states had collectively agreed to act as a body for certain purposes. That body
and the states within it, are being illegally managed by the separate
corporation that is Washington DC.
There are three such corporations: Washington DC, The City of London, and
Vatican City.
Here's the third thing everyone needs to know, actually:
FULLY CONSTITUTED STATES
11 States have constituted the Administration of the Common Law Jury in all
counties: New York 2-27-14; Florida 3-15-14; Connecticut 3-15-14; Rhode Island
3-15-14; New Jersey 3-22-14; New Hampshire 3-29-14; Arizona 3-31-14;
Massachusetts 4-1-14; Maryland 4-5-14; Maine 4-12-14; Washington 5-18-14
Next time you see anything visual. a photo or a news report or a video or
even a film that includes a courtroom or perhaps a political press conference,
have a good look at the flags flying in the picture. No matter what country is
represented by such flag, if it bears a gold braid border it is a signal that
this entity is under "maritime law." That means that a courthouse is a ship,
essentially, and the judge is the captain of the ship in the wheelhouse.
The gold fringe is not part of the American flag known as the Stars and
Stripes, but it is a legal symbol indicating that the court, government
building, school or soldier is operating under British Maritime Law and the
Uniform Commercial Code; military and merchant law.

Global financial and political powers have been able to accomplish this,
inflicting an artificial legal system upon humanity, by creating a system in
which each child is registered essentially as cargo via the document known as a
birth (berth) certificate, having been 'delivered' in a 'ward'. Just as a ship
comes into a port and needs to file a 'manifest' listing its contents, you come
out of your mother's 'water' when you are born. You dock in a berth.
Each berth certificate, upon which all personal data is spelled out in
capital letters indicating that it is, in fact, cargo, has upon it somewhere a
serial number. This number is your berth certificate number, which indicates you
are owned by a corporation and it allows the cargo registered (you) to be traded
on the New York Stock Exchange. And, believe me, we are traded and traded and
traded some more.
Corporate Washington DC agreed to this in 1933 when the USA, bankrupt to its core, borrowed money from the Rothschild banks and consigned each and every citizen from that time forward be held as collateral against the loan. We are truly 'human resources.' The complete picture of this is beyond the scope of this article, however the facts are readily available.
There has been an over-riding movement, called the Freeman Movement, which
has taken up the cause of undoing the spell. However, I contend that the
unprecedented abuses taken upon the inhabitants of the United States throughout
the 20th century and until today, those perpetrated at an exponentially rapid
rate by every administration since Lyndon Johnson (with emphasis on Bushes,
Clinton, and Obama) have set the scene for a true remembering of sovereignty by
each and every state.
There are two kinds of law on this planet. Just two. Maritime Law (British
Admiralty Law which conforms to the Universal Commercial Code) and Civil Law
(the Law of the Land).(1)
Let us then for the sake of humanity, state that there is a false
legal system laid upon us, like a thick blanket that chains us, binds us, and
keeps us from feeling the sweet sun on our backs.
Is there then a bona fide legal system? Is there a state of being in which
humanity has sole ownership of its sovereign self? Yes. It is Natural or Common
Law. This truly is the legitimate law of the land.
Essentially the current system of maritime law courts treat each person who
appears before the judge (captain) therein as the corporate fiction invented for
the purposes of trading berth certificates on the stock exchange. You need never
accept that this fiction is you because it isn't. Each court sets a verbal trap
and unwary or unsure persons before the captain of that ship may walk right into
an invitation to concede that you are, in fact, the Strawman they created,
responsible in ways that are unnatural, inhuman, and illegal.
Ultimately when you walk into a court of law, you are being governed by the
bylaws of a Corporation and not by your Constitution. There are courts that
decide if a matter is Constitutional or Unconstitutional, but they are merely
looking out of their legal domain and into ours, for we the people, are the only
body or group that considers itself under the Constitution.
Any gathering in which you may be levied some sort of penalty for an act or
omission of the same in which the gold-fringed flag is flying is attempting to
use Maritime Law. How is this possible on dry land?
US Code, Title 18 B 7, as follows:
Admiralty Jurisdiction is applicable in the following locations:
1) the high seas
2) any American ship
3) any lands reserved or acquired for the use of the United States, and under the exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction thereof, or any place purchased or otherwise acquired by the United States by consent of the legislature of the state. In other words, mainland America.
2) any American ship
3) any lands reserved or acquired for the use of the United States, and under the exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction thereof, or any place purchased or otherwise acquired by the United States by consent of the legislature of the state. In other words, mainland America.

This is as unconstitutional as it is possible to be and thoroughly
illegal.
Forty-eight states have joined this critical project. If a state accepts
this system, as have the above 11 so far, all counties are under Common Law
jurisdiction. In order to get hold intellectually and spiritually of what that
means, remember that in the US, county sheriffs actually have more power than
the President. Our country was set up this way as a safeguard and we need it now
more than ever.
However, this vital information has been kept from the US citizenry for
long enough that it is in danger of being forgotten despite it being the true
law of the land.
From one of the projects putting this together (link at the end):
DUTY OF THE "COMMON LAW" GRAND JURY
- If anyone's unalienable rights have been violated, or removed, without a
legal sentence of their peers, from their lands, home, liberties or lawful
right, we [the twenty-five] shall straightway restore them. And if a dispute
shall arise concerning this matter it shall be settled according to the judgment
of the twenty-five Grand Jurors, the sureties of the peace.
MAGNA CARTA, JUNE 15, A.D. 1215, 52. (2)
And:
Power of the Grand Jury - In a stunning 6 to 3 decision Justice Antonin
Scalia, writing for the majority, confirmed that the American grand jury is
neither part of the judicial, executive nor legislative branches of government,
but instead belongs to the people. It is in effect a fourth branch of government
"governed" and administered to directly by and on behalf of the American people,
and its authority emanates from the Bill of Rights, see United States -v- Williams (3)
The questions are then, why is maritime law a bad thing and what can a
common law court do about it? Neither I nor my children nor anyone I know has
agreed to become this 'corporate strawman' and abide by the Uniform Commercial
Code, based on Roman Canon Law, of Maritime Law.
Trading me on the New York Stock Exchange would suggest that I am owned,
that I am property. In fact, that is not the case. I am a natural human being
and so are you. My actions as I go through this life will not be judged and
dictated by the Universal Commercial Code, for I am not cargo.
I am a natural human. The reality, the law of the land, the spiritual
truth, is just under the surface. If, in fact, 48 US sovereign states elect to
establish these Grand Juries, then the very nature of the classification of what
a misdeed is will change drastically. Much of our freedom will be restored as a
matter of course. We can expect massive crackdowns.
However, it remains that, true to the original intent of the original Bill
of Rights, the states are absolutely sovereign. It was intended to be that way
and it will be that way again.
1. Jordan Maxwell
2. http://www.nationallibertyalliance.org/
3. http://www.nationallibertyalliance.org/
2. http://www.nationallibertyalliance.org/
3. http://www.nationallibertyalliance.org/
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Update: Radio Project for Oathkeepers
Several of you have asked exactly what we are wanting to do with the donations we are getting for this Oathkeepers radio project. Here is a page that shows the radios and explains a bit about how they are set up.
http://www.lincolncountywatch.org/Oathkeepers/vanpics.html
http://www.lincolncountywatch.org/Oathkeepers/vanpics.html
Thursday, May 15, 2014
These "No Knock" raids need to stop. This isn't Nazi Germany.
No Knock Raid Results in Multiple Cops Shot - One Killed
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/05/no-knock-raid-results-multiple-cops-shot-one-killed/#JXArXIfWAA4OgQL2.99
A lot of people — innocent people — and their pets have wound up dead during no knock raids in recent years in this country.
A no knock raid is when officers can serve a warrant on a house without notifying the residents first. At all. Period. Without ringing the doorbell, calling first, a knock, nothing. Police typically do it in the middle of the night or in the wee hours of the morning, too, when people are more likely to be asleep. The majority of these raids aren't even for violent crimes or imminent threats to life and limb, but drug crimes.
So a lot of people tend to die. It’s a pretty stupid way to enforce laws.
We live in a country where the citizenry are armed. If it’s the middle of the night and you hear someone busting through your front door, and if you exercise your 2nd Amendment rights by owning a firearm, your first reaction is going to be to draw that firearm to protect yourself and your family.
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/05/no-knock-raid-results-multiple-cops-shot-one-killed/#JXArXIfWAA4OgQL2.99
Monday, May 12, 2014
Nevada ranchers fight feds for survival in changing times
By BEN BOTKIN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
EUREKA
Cliven Bundy might be Nevada’s most well-known rancher now, but he’s not the only one trying to eke out a living on dry, inhospitable rangeland.
Ranching on federal public lands is diminishing, and remaining ranchers in Nevada and throughout the West have become a hardy breed of survivors in changing times. Like the generations of ranchers before them, they deal with disease in cattle, swings in beef prices and drought.
In the past couple of decades, their work and way of life have faced growing threats: increased red tape from the federal government, reductions to their herd sizes and resistance from federal officials who fret about lawsuits from powerful environmentalist groups.
The numbers are telling. Nevada has 797 grazing allotments for ranching on 43 million acres of public lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM has given 2 million animal-unit months, or AUMs, to Nevada ranchers. One AUM allows a head of cattle, or a cow and its calf, to graze for one month on public lands.
Read this entire article here:
The whole story of the Diamond Bar Ranch tyranny by the US Forest Service.
I couldn't finish reading this article. If this doesn't make your blood boil there is something radically wrong with your conscience.
VIDEO AGENDA 21 – Nightmare on the Diamond Bar Ranch
VIDEO
AGENDA 21 - Nightmare on the Diamond Bar Ranch
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/video-agenda-21-nightmare-on-the-diamond-bar-ranch/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/video-agenda-21-nightmare-on-the-diamond-bar-ranch/
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On Sunday, May 11, 2014 10:49 PM, Paul
Stramer at Eurekadsl.net wrote:
‘We Kill People Based On Metadata’
Supporters of the National Security Agency inevitably defend its sweeping collection of phone and Internet records on the ground that it is only collecting so-called “metadata”—who you call, when you call, how long you talk. Since this does not include the actual content of the communications, the threat to privacy is said to be negligible. That argument is profoundly misleading.
Of course knowing the content of a call can be crucial to establishing a particular threat. But metadata alone can provide an extremely detailed picture of a person’s most intimate associations and interests, and it’s actually much easier as a technological matter to search huge amounts of metadata than to listen to millions of phone calls. As NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker has said, “metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.” When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment “absolutely correct,” and raised him one, asserting, “We kill people based on metadata.”
Read more at http://libertycrier.com/kill-people-based-metadata/#yCxOcm5pMQwRlYoz.99
Amateur radio more Space Age than Digital Age gaining popularity
By JOHN PRZYBYS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
There’s something almost majestic about the array of electronic equipment displayed in what once was a bedroom of Jerry Sobel’s home and what now resembles the radio shack of a movie-screen submarine.
On a set of double wooden shelves is a receiver from the ’50s, two transceivers, and an amplifier Sobel built from a kit during the ’70s. There’s a snaky gooseneck microphone and a desk microphone. And, there’s a handheld FM device that looks like a walkie-talkie a kid might play with but which can do things a kid’s walkie-talkie can only dream of.
But it’s the strange assemblage of characters — K0MBB — affixed to a speaker and on the wall that explains what all of this cool stuff is about. It’s the amateur radio call sign of Sobel, president of the Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club (www.LVRAC.org) and practitioner of a not-so-retro electronic art that’s more popular than ever.
Read the rest of the article here:
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