..are you considered "Terrorist" material?
Senator Paul thinks so...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXKfEsgLLRU
"In the speech Rand Paul warns Americans that “Someone who has guns, someone who has ammunition that is weather proofed, someone who has 7 days of food in their house” can be considered a potential terrorist by the federal government."
Published December 13, 2011
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LIEGE, BELGIUM – Attackers threw explosives in the Belgian city of Liege, killing two people and wounding at least a dozen others Tuesday.
Belgian newspaper Le Soir said witnesses reported four explosions. Local media reported that witnesses also heard a series of smaller explosions or gunfire.
One of the attackers is believed to have killed himself following the attack. Local media reported that a second attacker was arrested by police near the city cathedral.
Police were also searching for at least one other attacker.
Earlier reports described how one man aged in his 40s was involved in the initial attack. The man reportedly launched four grenades from a platform above a bakery in the town in eastern Belgium.
The grenades were reportedly launched by the man toward a crowded bus stop.
The area around Place St. Lambert has been cordoned off by police. Frantic people took refuge inside shops and businesses in and around the square.
Heavily-armed security personnel and medical teams remain at the scene.
Yes the same thing happend in Mombai, Inda a few years back... remember?
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch: http://tinyurl.com/7zek59n
Pack of violent robbers strikes in Richmond; 3rd time in 22 hours
By JOE MACENKA
November 09, 2011
Robbers traveling in packs struck Tuesday in downtown Richmond for the third time in 22 hours, and police are investigating the possibility that the three crimes are connected.
The latest robbery occurred at 4:40 p.m. at the Harrison Mini Mart in the 900 block of North Harrison Street, in the city's Carver neighborhood, and resulted in a store clerk being hospitalized.
Richmond police Capt. Yvonne Crowder said a group of six to seven black males, all appearing to be in their early 20s and wearing white T-shirts covering their faces -- and one brandishing a handgun -- entered the store and ordered the clerk to the floor. The clerk was struck over the head repeatedly and the men robbed the store of an undetermined amount of cash.
The clerk was taken to VCU Medical Center to be treated for injuries that Crowder said were not believed to be life-threatening.
Tuesday's robbery occurred a short distance northwest of two robberies Monday night that were also carried out by groups of young men.
The first occurred at 6:46 p.m. in the 100 block of East Broad Street, where a victim was robbed by four to five young men who knocked him to the ground and struck him in the forehead. He was treated for a head laceration.
At 7:36 p.m. Monday, two victims were robbed in Abner Clay Park, in the 200 block of West Clay Street, by a group of at least six young men, including one with a handgun. Both victims were struck in the head in that robbery.
Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers anonymously at (804) 780-1000.
Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.: Damn the Constitution, Obama's Got Stuff to Do...
As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending congressional elections for the next couple of years. 
Is this what the "Occupy" protestors really think about America. At least they are ignorant enough to not know that the real American flag has 13 stars and stripes! Probalbly few can identify all 13 colonies.... a sad state of the American population, Jefferson would not approve...
“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education” T. Jefferson
Coming for you because you have something someone else wants, needs, thinks.... Into your home, against your will, threatening you and your family?? It has happend and will happen again!
"They were standing on his steps. One shouted, " 'Something's going to happen now!' " LaVelle recalled in an interview Friday at his house. LaVelle got nervous and went back inside, locking his door with a deadbolt.
But the attackers pounded on his front windows and kicked his wooden door so hard, it flew open and some of them entered his house.
"The first guy hits me with a pipe. The second guy knocks me in the face. All I'm hearing is my wife and kids screaming," said LaVelle, who feared that the next time they saw him, he would be in a casket.
He said that he was able to push the attackers out the door, but then a third man - who had a gun - tried to extend his arm. LaVelle grabbed onto the gunman's lower arm and shoulder so he couldn't raise the weapon."
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"The residents, many confused and lacking official information, hoped to receive a month of food stamps for food ruined by floods and power problems caused by the hurricane."
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Thanks to Philly CBS for the story
What is happening to our national stockpile? Drought in Texas, floods in the Mississippi and East coast...
Cheap beef today, expensive next year!
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So where exactly is this going to come from?
From Drudgereport.com
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GLD, in pre-market trading is up $4.51/oz.
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September 17th, 2011 is set to be a Day of Rage. The leftists call this a non-violent event, yet their website, Craigslist ads and Facebook postings include information on how to resist arrest, protest in jail and fight the legal system. The anarchists, Marxists and communists have put together a plan, from start to finish, to takeover America. There will be trouble. The only real question, at this point, is what are the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the NSA and others going to do to stop this? So far, no one in the media is talking about this insurrection, aside from Glenn Beck who told of it months ago. What will you and your family do to do be safe and save our way of life? It is obvious that the commander in chief has no intention of stopping this coming event, these are, after all, his political base.
Friday's news on GDP shows the double dip has arrived — an expansion of only 1.3 percent and consumer spending up 0.1 percent in the second quarter. Astonishingly low by any account. The debt ceiling trouble and lack of a longer term resolution to the deficit will make it worse.
The U.S. has entered a second recession. It may not be as bad as the first. Economists say that the Great Recession began in December 2007 and lasted until July 2009. That may be the way that the economy was seen through the eyes of experts, but many Americans do not believe that the 2008-2009 downturn ever ended. A Gallup poll released in April found that 29 percent of those queried thought the economy was in a “depression” and 26 percent said that the original recession had persisted into 2011.
It is any wonder that many Americans believe that the economic downturn is still in progress? Home prices have fallen to 2002 levels. Values have dropped nearly 50 percent in parts of Florida, California, Nevada and Arizona. Property values are also down that much in parts of troubled big cities like Detroit. Estimates are that as many as 11 million homes have underwater mortgages. Banks have inventories of as many as 2 million foreclosed homes which have not even been released to the market. Home prices could fall another 10 percent if current trends persist.
Perhaps the most powerful argument that the recession never ended or that a new one has begun is the persistence of unemployment. Fourteen million people are out of work. A third of those have been jobless for more than a year. May employment data showed the jobless rate rose unexpectedly and that the economy added only 58,000 jobs. Experts believe that the unemployment rate will not improve significantly until the monthly gain in jobs is consistently 300,000 jobs or more. And, at that rate the gains would have to go one for more than two years to bring the economy back to what is traditionally considered a reasonable unemployment figure.
There are several signs that a recession is firmly in place again and that the downturn could last for several quarters. Most are already easy for the average American to see.
1. Inflation
There is almost nothing that damages consumer confidence as badly as a rapid rise in prices. Starbucks recently increased the price of a bag of coffee by 17 percent because wholesale prices have risen by almost twice that rate in the last year. Cotton prices nearly doubled in 2010 but have fallen this year. But, apparel is made months in advance of when they reach store shelves. Summer clothing prices are up as much as 20 percent. That may change in the fall, but for the time being, the consumer’s ability to buy even the most basic clothing has been undermined. Consumers today pay more for sugar, meat, and corn-based products as well.
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2. Investments have begun to yield less
Part of the recovery was driven by the stock market surge which began when the DJIA bottomed below 7,000 in March 2009. The index has risen above 12,000 and the prices of many stocks have doubled from their lows. As result, American household nest eggs that were decimated by the collapse of the market have rebounded and enabled people to splurge on themselves. However, the market has stumbled in the last quarter. The DJIA is up only 1 percent during the last three months and the S&P 500 is down slightly.
Americans, though, have few other places to put their money. Ten-year Treasuries yield about 3 percent. Gold was a good investment over the last year, but it has begun to falter as well. The market may not be a friend to investors for quite some time.
3. The auto industry
The auto industry has staged an impressive comeback, although its profitability is based as much on the layoffs it has made over the last five years as generating new sales. GM and Chrysler have emerged from bankruptcy. Year-over-year monthly sales improved late last year and through April. May sales stalled. GM’s revenue dropped by 1 percent compared to May of 2010. Ford’s sales were down about as much. There are many reasons for this trend including high gas prices and the constrained manufacturing capacity of the Japanese automakers because of the earthquake. Consumers also may be deferring big purchases because they are worried about their economic prospects. Slow car sales are not just a sign of lagging consumer confidence. They also may be a harbinger of tougher times ahead. These companies shed several hundreds thousand jobs before and during the last recession. Car firms have only just begun to hire again, but that trend will die with a plateau in sales.
4. Oil prices
Oil prices are supposed to drop as the economy slows as they did in 2008 and early 2009 when crude fell from over $140 to under $50. That drop at least allowed consumers and businesses like airlines to more easily afford fuel. Recently, crude has moved back above $100 and appears to be stuck there regardless of the economic situation. American budgets have been hurt by the rising cost of gas. Americans of more modest means have been particularly affected. A slowdown in driving usually also leads to a decline in the retail sector as consumers reduce unnecessary travel to stores. The impact on other businesses is just as great. Airlines suffer and so do firms which rely on petrochemicals. OPEC, for now, has signaled it will not increase production.
5. The federal budget
The federal budget deficit has decimated any chance for another economic stimulus package which many prominent economists like Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman say is essential to create a full recovery. His theory has become more of an issue as GDP growth slows to a rate of 2 percent. The first $787 billion Obama stimulus package may have saved some American jobs, but it is long over and did not work if a drop in unemployment and a sharp improvement in GDP were its primary goals. The deficit has caused a call for severe austerity measures which have already become part of the economics policies of countries from Greece to the U.K. to Japan. Job cuts in the U.S. will not be restricted to the federal level. A recent UBS Investment Research analysis predicted that state and local governments will cut 450,000 jobs this year and next. That process is already well underway. States like California and New York currently run massive deficits and the rates they must pay on bonds has risen accordingly. Newspaper headlines almost daily report on battles between state unions and governors over employment and benefits.
6. China economy slows
A slowdown in the Chinese economy is usually seen as a cause of global commodity price inflation, but the effects cut two ways. China’s appetite for energy and raw materials may fall. But, the demand for goods and services by its very large and growing middle class drops as well. Chinese purchaser manufacturing and export numbers have fallen as the central government has tightened the ability to borrow money. US exports to China are key to the health of many American businesses. John Frisbie, the president of The US-China Business Council, recently said, "Over the last decade we have seen exports to China rise from $16.2 billion to $91.9 billion — a 468 percent increase.” As that rate slows, it has a profound effect on tens of thousands of American companies and their employees. U.S. firms with large operations in China are also effected. GM is one of the two largest car firms in China along with VW. Large U.S. corporations like Wal-mart and Yum! Brands rely significantly on China to boost global sales. Without vibrant consumer spending in China, American companies will suffer.
7. Unemployment
Unemployment creates two immediate problems. People without jobs drastically curtail their spending, which will ultimately affect GDP growth. The second is the need for tens of billions of dollars every year in government aid to keep the unemployed from becoming destitute. That support has increased deficits and the domino effect is that cash-strapped governments need to make more spending cuts. It may be the biggest challenge the economy faces.
Unemployment has worsened because people over 65 to continue to work because the values of their homes — which they once counted on as the financial basis of their retirements — have dropped so sharply. Older Americans also fear that cuts in Medicare and perhaps Social Security are inevitable which increases the cost of their golden years. The jobs that older Americans have taken are often ones that younger Americans might have. People in their 20s must accept low wages to enter the workforce. This has delayed their prime consuming years well into their 30s which will damage GDP recovery now and for another decade.
The worst of the unemployment problem is the roughly 5 million Americans who have been unemployed for over a year. Their unemployment benefits have run out in many cases. The burden of their care falls to their families, friends, community organizations and non-profits. A family which has to support an unemployed person may be a family which cannot spend beyond its basic needs. To the extent that the federal or state governments can support the unemployed, the cost to run support programs increases.
8. Debt ceiling
The United States debt ceiling, currently at $14.294 trillion, will probably be raised before the government has to cut back essential services on Aug. 2. It might seem that the economic and employment effects of the debt cap are the same as the deficit, but they are actually more insidious and longer term. The first by-product of debt reduction, or at least a slowdown in its growth, is a combination of higher taxes and a lower level of government services. Higher taxes usually slow economic improvements, particularly when they are not coupled with stimulus measures.
A number of economists have pointed out the expense reduction alone will not sharply improve the United States balance sheet. The increase in Medicare and Social Securities costs, brought on by an aging population, are also likely to trigger a need for higher taxes. Tax increases could keep the economic growth of the US on hold for years. The taxation of companies decreases and often eliminates profits, particularly during an already troubled economic period. Profits which disappear usually cause cuts in purchasing and jobs. Taxes on wages and inheritance undermines consumer spending. And, a growth in national debt from already all-time highs will increase the borrowing costs of the U.S. That, in turn, drives up interest rates for everything from mortgages to credit cards.
9. Access To credit
The lack of access to credit has hurt the economic activity or both individuals and small businesses. Many very large companies can borrow money at rates as low as 2 percent because of their strong cash flows and balance sheets. Banks have been much less willing to loan money to companies with under 100 workers because these firms often rely on a few customers for revenue and usually have very little money on hand.
Early in June, the House Small Business Committee held hearings and among its findings were that concerns about risk and a slow economy has made financial institutions reluctant to lend to small businesses, the main driver of economic growth. Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-Mo.) said Congress will need to “bridge the gap” between the two sides. There is no plan to accomplish that. Individual borrowers find themselves in a similar position. The cost of credit cards debt is still above 20 percent in many cases although the Federal Reserve loans money to large financial firms for interest rates close to zero.
Potential home buyers, who might help break the gridlock of slow house sales, often find that banks want down payments as high as 20 percent. The median down payment in nine major U.S. cities rose to 22 percent last year on properties purchased through conventional mortgages, according to an analysis done for The Wall Street Journal by real-estate portal Zillow.com. That percentage doubled in three years and represents the highest median down payment since the data were first tracked in 1997. Homes which are not sold often put such great burdens on owners that they are barely consumers of the goods and services that drive GDP. Home builders have continued to struggle. Construction jobs, which were a huge amount of the employment base in states like Florida, have not returned.
10. Housing
Housing is considered by many economists to be the single largest drag on the American economy, and the housing market has gotten much worse in the last two months. A report from The New York Federal Reserve published early this year said: “When home prices began to fall in 2007, owners’ equity in household real estate began to fall rapidly from almost $13.5 trillion in 1Q 2006 to a little under $5.3 trillion in 1Q 2009, a decline in total home equity of over 60 percent.”
Real estate research firm Zillow reported on more recent developments. “Negative equity in the first quarter reached new highs with 28.4 percent of all single-family homes with mortgages underwater, from 27 percent in Q4.” Many homeowners who want to sell their homes cannot do so because they cannot afford to pay their banks at closing. Whether for good or ill, the American home was the primary source for money used for retirements, college educations and the purchases of many expensive items such as cars.
Economists point out the this leverage helped contribute to the credit crisis as people could not cover the costs of home equity loans as real estate values collapsed. This may be true, but the drop in value happened so quickly that the balance sheets of millions of Americans were destroyed. Their ability to consume was severely damaged, further harming GDP. High mortgage payments bankrupted or nearly bankrupted people who have lost jobs or have found that their incomes had stagnated. The building industry became a shambles overnight. And, whatever the effects have been over the last three years, they are getting progressively worse as home values drop to decade lows. There is no relief in sight because potential buyers worry that price erosion has not ended
Have you been watching the news lately, or more importantly reading between the lines?
DENVER -- Police are trying to identify a gang of men who are beating couples with baseball bats and robbing them in downtown Denver.
CHICAGO—Police here are girding for another weekend of "flash mob" attacks after arresting 29 people in connection with a recent rash of assaults and robberies in and around the city's tony shopping and dining district.
Philiadelphia-- A return trip from last night's fireworks show in Center City turned into the commute from hell for hundreds of Market-Frankford Line riders as a flash mob struck and robbed a passenger at 30th Street Station.
Milwaukee- "Clearly we had mob-like behavior in the incidents involving the robberies at Reservoir Park as well as the ransacking of the BP station. . . . Certainly we had elements of mob-like behavior that challenged us on July 3,"
WOODBRIDGE, Va. - Prince William County Police are on the lookout for a group of muggers that has an appetite for pizza and beating people up. There were two attacks Saturday night in Woodbridge. One victim had to be flown to a hospital.
Las Vegas- In May, 20 teens were caught on camera as they robbed a convenience store and stole about $600 worth of merchandise and the clerk's cellphone. They were in and out in a matter of minutes. "It became a feeding frenzy," store owner Jon Athney told KLAS-TV. "They were in the store for three minutes and 30 seconds. ... It's a pretty scary thing."
Imagine this happening at your house.....
When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
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Record heat is extending over the midwest, (126 in Newton, Iowa) combined with the recent spring floods, the "Bread Basket" of America is not going to have a banner year nor a bumper crop.
A recent Wall Street Journal article touches more upon the subject of corn futures and how they are rising based on harvest forecasts. "U.S. corn futures jumped as a heat wave baking the Corn Belt caused the government to scale back its view of the upcoming crop and fueled expectations of further downward adjustments"
Bottom line, food, from Corn Flakes to corn fed beef is going to be more expensive come fall and next spring.
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The recently exposed ATF led Operation “Fast and Furious” has not saturated the media as it should. Budget dilemmas, economy, Casey Anthony, and other topics such as the withdrawal of surge troops in Afghanistan have played as distractionary news topics. These topics have shielded the United States government from possible violations of U.S. and international laws.
According to the Congressional Research Service, the United States is the leading nation state responsible for legal and illegal weapon sales globally with an estimated $18.55 billion in annual sales. The two runners up nations are Russia and France with an estimated average of $4.5 billion in sales annually—three times less than U.S. sales. The great majority of these weapons, specifically the illicit and or illegal sales of such, contribute to the global atrocity of the estimated 60-90% of the 100,000 plus international conflict deaths each year.
Interestingly enough, our U.S. State and Defense Departments have worked tirelessly in the destruction of small arms and light weapons in recent years. Their initiatives within the State Department alone has contributed to the destruction of over 800,000 weapons and over 80 million rounds of ammunition since its program inception. For some reason though, our own Justice Department led by Attorney General Eric Holder has initiated its own program known as “Operation Fast and Furious” that inevitably countered our own Defense and State Departments programs and violated numerous national laws.
Laws founded in programs such as the U.S. Gun Control Act, the National Firearms Act, the Arms Export Control Act, and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) have been established to specifically prevent and criminally prosecute those in violation. Leaders of the ATF and Eric Holder have broken numerous U.S. laws along with international laws which could jeopardize Barrack Obama’s Presidency—these international laws can be found in the United Nations institute for Disarmament for Small Arms Proliferation.
No one will truly know the reason why the U.S. Justice Department implemented this illegal arms initiative. While people may not know the reason, with enough advocacy and awareness of the incomprehensible and arguably illegal activities within this current administration, some light may eventually be shed among our elected officials where a comprehensive investigation will result that could eventually lead to criminal charges. An investigation could amount similar to that which just occurred this past Thursday.
In fact, after years of advocacy and awareness pertaining Hezbollah, Hamas, Lebanese, and Iranian activities inside Latin America, finally, the House Homeland Security Subcommittee met on Thursday exemplifying austere threats on the United States southern border. After the hearing, U.S. Rep. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y. said, “I am getting the sense that we are sitting ducks here.” While this hearing pertained specifically to Islamic Terrorists and rogue regimes infiltrating Latin America, imagine what a representative like Kathy Hochul must be thinking knowing U.S. weapons, hand delivered by our ATF, could inevitably now be in the hands of Islamic terrorist operatives living and operating alongside narco-terrorists like Mexico’s notorious Los Zetas?
Casey Anthony, troop withdrawals, the economy, etc. have all shared the majority of primetime evening news lately. Sure, some outlets have marginally covered the ATF fiasco but not enough. Topics like the aforementioned have likely played as a distractionary measure to safeguard some members within this current administration. It is critical to understand though, that as of lately, some members reigning within our national spheres have violated U.S. and possibly even international laws.
Kerry Patton is the Co-Founder of the National Security Leadership Foundation, a non-profit organization pending 501c (3) status. He has worked in South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, focusing on intelligence and security interviewing current and former terrorists, including members of the Taliban. He is the author of “Sociocultural Intelligence: The New Discipline of Intelligence Studies” and the children’s book “American Patriotism.” You can follow him on Facebook.
One of the more chilling things to consider...It has happened in the past and will happen again.
The Bubonic plague, the Spanish flu, Avian flu....
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