Sunday, March 30, 2014
Armed Man Gathers People Together in Dollar General Breakroom, but Concealed Carry Holder Saves Them
Via Georgia Heritage Council
When Kevin Mclaughlin entered the Dollar General in Orrville, Alabama, he probably didn’t expect it would be the last thing he would ever do. Brandishing a pistol, the man began herding people into the breakroom. But concealed permit holder Marlo Ellis waited until the right moment to gun down the potential murderer, which led many to call him a ‘Good Samaritan’ and a true hero.
When Kevin Mclaughlin entered the Dollar General in Orrville, Alabama, he probably didn’t expect it would be the last thing he would ever do. Brandishing a pistol, the man began herding people into the breakroom. But concealed permit holder Marlo Ellis waited until the right moment to gun down the potential murderer, which led many to call him a ‘Good Samaritan’ and a true hero.
More @ IJ Review
Russia's Military Begins Nuclear War Drill
Via III Percent Patriots
While much Western attention has been bestowed on Russia’s military
buildup near Ukraine, Moscow also began a massive nuclear offensive
exercise on Thursday.
According to the Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, on Thursday Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces began a massive three-day exercise involving 10,000 soldiers and 1,000 pieces of equipment from more than 30 units. The major purpose of the drill, according to the report—which cites multiple senior Russian military officers—is to ensure Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces have sufficient readiness to conduct offensive operations involving the massive and simultaneous use of nuclear missiles.
Global Security Newswire previously carried a story on the nuclear exercise, also citing the Nezavisimaya Gazeta article. GSN described the exercise as “as practice for a large-scale nuclear offensive.” It added: “Exercise participants were set to position and prepare missile-firing units for launch, and to practice various administrative and support functions for the operation.
As Russia’s conventional military capabilities have deteriorated following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow has become increasingly reliant on operationalizing its nuclear arsenal. This has been reflected in successive Russian security documents. For example, Russia’s 1997 national security concept stated that Russia would use its nuclear arsenal “in case of a threat to the existence of the Russian Federation,” whether that threat came in the form of nuclear weapons or from a conventionally superior military power.
& remember, they believe they can win one.
According to the Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, on Thursday Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces began a massive three-day exercise involving 10,000 soldiers and 1,000 pieces of equipment from more than 30 units. The major purpose of the drill, according to the report—which cites multiple senior Russian military officers—is to ensure Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces have sufficient readiness to conduct offensive operations involving the massive and simultaneous use of nuclear missiles.
Global Security Newswire previously carried a story on the nuclear exercise, also citing the Nezavisimaya Gazeta article. GSN described the exercise as “as practice for a large-scale nuclear offensive.” It added: “Exercise participants were set to position and prepare missile-firing units for launch, and to practice various administrative and support functions for the operation.
As Russia’s conventional military capabilities have deteriorated following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow has become increasingly reliant on operationalizing its nuclear arsenal. This has been reflected in successive Russian security documents. For example, Russia’s 1997 national security concept stated that Russia would use its nuclear arsenal “in case of a threat to the existence of the Russian Federation,” whether that threat came in the form of nuclear weapons or from a conventionally superior military power.
More @ The Diplomat
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Night Falls on Civilization
Via Sioux
The World's Fair to Earth Hour marks the journey of a civilization across the sky from light into darkness. In our new post-civilizational time, we no longer celebrate human accomplishment by seeing a vision of the future, instead we turn off the bright lights of civilization and sit in the dark for an hour to atone for our electrical sins.
Earth Hour stigmatizes human accomplishment as the root of all evils and treats the lack of accomplishment as an accomplishment. For all the pretense of activism, environmentalism celebrates inaction.
Don't build, don't create and don't do-- are its mandates. Turn off the lights and feel good about how much you aren't doing right now.
Humanity is what is wrong with the world. It began with fire, then the wheelbarrow, the lever and the ax, the mason, the carpenter, the scientist, the visionary. It can end with you.
Just turn out the lights.
The World's Fair to Earth Hour marks the journey of a civilization across the sky from light into darkness. In our new post-civilizational time, we no longer celebrate human accomplishment by seeing a vision of the future, instead we turn off the bright lights of civilization and sit in the dark for an hour to atone for our electrical sins.
Earth Hour stigmatizes human accomplishment as the root of all evils and treats the lack of accomplishment as an accomplishment. For all the pretense of activism, environmentalism celebrates inaction.
Don't build, don't create and don't do-- are its mandates. Turn off the lights and feel good about how much you aren't doing right now.
Humanity is what is wrong with the world. It began with fire, then the wheelbarrow, the lever and the ax, the mason, the carpenter, the scientist, the visionary. It can end with you.
Just turn out the lights.
More @ Sultan Knish
40 year old woman hears for the first time
My Friend Joe Milne who suffers from Ushers syndrome, was deaf from birth. She had bilateral cochlea implants fitted which allow her to hear for the first ever, this is the moment they are switched on!
The Disturbing Truth Behind Your Next Income Tax Return
Via avordvet
Editor’s Note: If you’re like millions of Americans, you’re sweating to meet the April 15 tax deadline.
But as today’s guest writer, Jeffrey Tucker, reveals, that Washington takes a portion of your income from you is the least of your problems.
That’s because the income tax allows an outrageous level of intrusion into your private life… including the news that the IRS now considers it completely legal to demand access to your email archive.
To find out exactly what powers the IRS has over your private communication… and how you can minimize the amount of money you hand over to Uncle Sam… read on.
The least of the problems with income tax is that it takes your
money. The really big problem is that the income tax takes your life. It
gives the government direct access to the things you own and sets up
the political-bureaucratic sector to be the final arbiter of what you
can and cannot consider to be yours.
Illustrating this point is the bitter news that the IRS has considered it completely legal to demand access to your email archive whenever it wants. This news came about because of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Editor’s Note: If you’re like millions of Americans, you’re sweating to meet the April 15 tax deadline.
But as today’s guest writer, Jeffrey Tucker, reveals, that Washington takes a portion of your income from you is the least of your problems.
That’s because the income tax allows an outrageous level of intrusion into your private life… including the news that the IRS now considers it completely legal to demand access to your email archive.
To find out exactly what powers the IRS has over your private communication… and how you can minimize the amount of money you hand over to Uncle Sam… read on.
The Disturbing Truth Behind Your Next Income Tax Return
By Jeffrey Tucker, Executive Editor, Laissez Faire Books
By Jeffrey Tucker, Executive Editor, Laissez Faire Books
Illustrating this point is the bitter news that the IRS has considered it completely legal to demand access to your email archive whenever it wants. This news came about because of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
More @ Bonner & Partners
North Carolina Patriots of ’61 – Captain Joseph J. Davis of Louisburg
Captain
Joseph Jonathan Davis of Company G, Forty-seventh North Carolina
Regiment, was born near Louisburg 13 April 1828 of distinguished
ancestry. His parents were Virginians who had moved to North Carolina
after marriage, and sent their son to be educated at Louisburg Academy,
Wake Forest College, College of William and Mary, and later to study law
at the University of North Carolina where he graduated in 1850.
When
war was declared he raised a company of men and though knowing little
of military tactics, led them bravely in battle in Pettigrew’s Brigade.
On the third day at Gettysburg he was one of those who went farthest
during Pettigrew’s Charge, but captured by the enemy twenty yards from
General Armistead when he fell. Wounded in the shoulder on the first
day of battle, a Northern doctor had to cut the sleeve off his coat as
it was stiff with blood.
He
was sent first to Fort Delaware, later to Johnson’s Island on Lake
Erie. Paroled on 24 February 1865, he was sent to City Point, Virginia
to await exchange – returning home on 3 April,
a few days before Appomattox. He was active in the State Legislature
1868-1870 as North Carolina fought carpetbag rule, then resumed the
practice of law. Davis was elected to the United States Congress
1875-1881 and later elected to the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He
passed away after ten years on the bench, 7 August 1892, and was buried
in Louisburg’s Oaklawn Cemetery. It is said of Captain Davis that he led
“a most useful life, crowed with honors, a man in whom there was no
guile, one of God’s noblest creatures.”
(Confederate Veteran, April 1930, pg. 140)
North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial
“The Official Website of the North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission”
Common Core emerges as potent election issue for fed-up parents
Parents across the country may hold the key to this year's mid-term elections as they vent their anger over the implementation of a controversial education achievement measure called the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the initiative in a bid, they say, to improve education standards in Math and English, and give new life to what many view as a sagging education system. Indiana recently voted to back out of Common Core.
But many parents see the initiative as a bid by the federal government to take over the education system. They are also angry over the "data mining" of students' personal information, and say the stepped-up standards are not age-appropriate and are leading to anxiety and depression in their children.
More @ Fox
The world's best and worst cities
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Each year the human resources consulting firm Mercer ranks the world's major cities according to a number of factors to determine their desirability or undesirability as places to live.
And for the 11th consecutive year, Baghdad, Iraq, is at the bottom of the list.
Mercer's rankings are designed "to help multinational companies and other employers compensate employees fairly when placing them on international assignments," according to the company's website.
Factors considered include political stability, crime rate, air pollution, media censorship, limitations on personal freedom, medical services, public transportation, traffic congestion, recreation, and climate.
Baghdad, the violence-plagued Iraqi capital, again ranks last, at No. 233 out of 233 cities, followed by Bangui, Central African Republic (No. 222); Port-au-Prince, Haiti (221); N'Djamena, Chad (220); and Sana'a, Yemen (219).
Vienna, Austria, is rated as the best city to live in, followed by Zurich, Switzerland; Auckland, New Zealand; Munich, Germany; and Vancouver, Canada.
The German cities of Dusseldorf and Frankfurt are also in the top 10 of the Mercer Quality of Living Survey 2014.
"European cities enjoy a high overall quality of living compared to those in other regions," said Slagin Parakatil, senior researcher at Mercer. "Healthcare, infrastructure, and recreational facilities are generally of a very high standard."
The lowest-ranked city in Europe is Tbilisi, Georgia, at No. 191 overall.
In North America, Ottawa, Canada, is second behind Vancouver, at 14 overall, followed by Toronto (15) and Montreal (23) in Canada, and San Francisco (27).
Mexico City is the lowest in North America, at No. 122, followed by Detroit (70), St. Louis (67), Houston (66), and Miami (65).
The top-ranked cities in Central and South America are Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe (69), and San Juan, Puerto Rico (72). The lowest-ranked after Port-au-Prince are Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Caracas, Venezuela.
Singapore is tops in Asia (25), followed by Tokyo (43). At the bottom is Dushanbe, Tajikistan (209).
In the Middle East and Africa region, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is highest-ranked at 73, and Baghdad, of course, is the lowest.
"The Middle East and especially Africa remain one of the most challenging regions for multinational organizations and expatriates," said Parakatil.
White Cargo
Via NC Renegade
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas.
They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.
But, are we talking about African slavery? King James II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbor.
The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.
Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.
| In Memory Of The Irish Victims Of Slavery |
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They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas.
They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.
But, are we talking about African slavery? King James II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbor.
The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.
Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.