Sunday, September 28, 2014
The U.S. Forest Service Wants to Fine You $1,000 for Taking Pictures in the Forest
Via Cousin John
Nice photo. That'll be $1,000, please.
This week's most profoundly wrongheaded display of nonviolent press infringement comes from an unlikely source: The U.S. Forest Service. New rules being finalized in November state that across this country's gloriously beautiful, endlessly photogenic, 193 million acres of designated wilderness area administered by the USFS, members of the press who happen upon it will need permits to photograph or shoot video.
And yes, it does sound like one of the dumbest things you've ever read.
"It's pretty clearly unconstitutional," said Gregg Leslie, legal defense director at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Alexandria, Va. "They would have to show an important need to justify these limits, and they just can't."Wait! It gets better.
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French President Hollande Says "ISIS Terror Caused by Global Warming"
Via Lone Voice Blog
The most interesting intersection ever – where the War on Terror meets Climate Change…
The hype surrounding ISIS/ISIL is being ramped-up in North America and Europe, with the chief driver of the fear being an alleged series of beheadings that no one can rightly verify as real. Real or fake, the beheading videos were used as a powerful public relations springboard to market ‘fresh airstrikes’ in Iraq and Syria to emotionally vulnerable western audiences.
There’s also intense media speculation about the amount of black market oil money ISIS terror gangs are making in Syria and Iraq, and huge hype around ‘Coalition efforts to cut off the terror dollars’. It’s a mess, but we’ll give you some key answers here.
As this year’s UNGA 2014 gets underway, the French leader is really stretching it in an attempt to bring the world together in group fear moment…
The Killing of Herve Gourdel
The most interesting intersection ever – where the War on Terror meets Climate Change…
The hype surrounding ISIS/ISIL is being ramped-up in North America and Europe, with the chief driver of the fear being an alleged series of beheadings that no one can rightly verify as real. Real or fake, the beheading videos were used as a powerful public relations springboard to market ‘fresh airstrikes’ in Iraq and Syria to emotionally vulnerable western audiences.
There’s also intense media speculation about the amount of black market oil money ISIS terror gangs are making in Syria and Iraq, and huge hype around ‘Coalition efforts to cut off the terror dollars’. It’s a mess, but we’ll give you some key answers here.
As this year’s UNGA 2014 gets underway, the French leader is really stretching it in an attempt to bring the world together in group fear moment…
The Killing of Herve Gourdel
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New York’s Notorious Slave Ships
In
the post-Revolution era, African slavery was waning as cotton production
was a laborious task and not worth cultivating on a large scale until
Eli Whitney of Massachusetts revolutionized the industry in 1793.
Thereafter, New England mills could not live without raw slave-produced
cotton, Manhattan lenders ensured plantation owners that money was
available for plantation expansion, and New England slavers continued to
import the labor supply.
Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman
North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission
"Unsurpassed Valor, Courage and Devotion to Liberty"
"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"
New York’s Notorious Slave Ships
“In
the decade 1850-1860 Great Britain maintained consulates in six
Southern ports: Norfolk, -- changed to Richmond in 1856 – Charleston,
Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston.
[Consul
G.P.R.] James [in Norfolk and Richmond] . . . considered that
Virginians were very kind to their slaves and that slavery was an injury
to masters rather than Negroes. One of the proprietors of the Richmond
“slave warehouse” was, wrote his son Charles later, an “unmistakable
Yankee,” said to be very humane to his charges, “but the business was
regarded as infamous. I heard a respectable man denounced for accepting
his hospitality.”
At
Niagara Falls, James saw a runaway Negro belonging to one of his
Norfolk neighbors; he had found it difficult to make a living and was
cold and he begged the consul to ask his owner to take him back.
[Consul]
Henry G. Kuper of Baltimore gave assurance that the slave trade was
being extensively carried on by many American citizens, especially in
New York . . . with the connivance of Spanish authorities in Cuba where
most of the cargoes were conveyed . . . Consul Edward W. Mark wrote from
Baltimore that at any moment twenty vessels might be found under
construction at that port, admirably adapted for the slave trade. Some
were built expressly for the trade by “respectable houses,” which would
not enter the trade themselves but merely executed the orders they
received.
Mark
believed, however, that in Baltimore little countenance was given to
the trade. It was carried on rather “from New York and the eastern parts
of the Union . . . and generally by New England and foreign firms.”
[In
1858 Consul] Molyneaux of Savannah told the story of a Charleston
mercantile house . . . which proposed to send the ship Richard Cobden . .
. on a [suspicious] voyage to Africa to bring “free emigrants” to a
United States port. The collector of the port appealed to United States
Secretary of the Treasury Howell Cobb who pronounced the proposal
illegal.
About
the same time the Lydia Gibbs, a vessel of one-hundred and fourteen
tons of Northern build, sailed from Charleston under one Watson, a
Scotchman naturalized in the United States. He took it to Havana where
it was sold to unknown persons for $12,000. Watson was to receive
$6,000 more if he escaped detection, and in addition a certain
percentage of the slaves he should succeed in landing in Cuba.
[In
July 1858 Charleston Consul Robert Bunch] wrote that the brig Frances
Ellen had cleared from Charleston for Africa, supposedly to engage in
the slave trade; that the firm of Ponjand and Lalas, two Spaniards,
which sent it out, was believed to be regularly engaged in this traffic
[and] intended to land five or six cargoes in Texas . . .
In
December, 1859, the South Carolina legislature received from the New
York assembly a set of resolutions passed by the latter body, condemning
the slave trade and urging the Southern States not to connive at or
encourage the odious traffic. South Carolina returned the resolutions
to the senders without comment and Bunch, though agreeing with the New
York sentiments, dryly noted that the action was not “happily received,”
“as it is notorious that, during the present year, at least ten slavers
have been fitted out in New York for one in the entire South.”
(The
South in the 1850’s as Seen by British Consuls, Laura A. White, The
Journal of Southern History, February 1935, excerpts, pp. 29, 31, 36-41)
Congressmen Rake In $608 an Hour
VERBATIM
That figure was calculated by liberal activist Ralph Nader, assuming 10-hour workdays. He sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner on Monday, writing: "While millions of Americans are working more and more for less and less, you and your House of Representatives seem to have no problem working less and less for more and more."
The House took a five-week vacation from Washington on August 1 and returned on September 8.
After two four-day workweeks, members left Washington again on September 18 and are not due to return until November 12 for a lame-duck session following the midterm elections.
Their hourly wage for the eight days is several times the hourly compensation of anesthesiologists, one of the country's highest-paid professions at an average of $113 an hour, The Hill reported.
The Senate took the same break in August and also worked just two weeks in September before leaving to campaign for the elections.
Legislators and their aides argue that time spent in Washington constitutes only part of their job, and they also spend considerable time meeting with and serving constituents in their home districts and states, The Hill noted.
But Nader said in an interview: "You are paid by the taxpayer to work in Congress at least a 40-hour week. If you want to do anything back home after that, that's discretionary time. They don't pay you to campaign for your re-election."
Even when they are in Washington, lawmakers devote much time to non-legislative matters. After the 2012 elections, new members of Congress were reportedly advised to set aside four hours a day for fundraising phone calls during their 10-hour workday.
Nader's letter comes in the wake of a Gallup poll showing that in August just 13 percent of Americans approved of the way Congress is handling its job, while 83 percent disapproved — and 53 percent said they "strongly disapprove."
The last time Congress' approval rating was over 50 percent in a Gallup poll was in April 2003, at 58 percent, during President George W. Bush's first term.
The approval rating stood at 84 percent in October 2001, immediately following the 9/11 attacks.
“Copblock” Is a TERRORIST Site, And People Who Visit It Are Terrorists
Via avordvet
The ongoing disintegration of what was once a free country into an authoritarian fascist police state under the helm of El Presidente Barack Obama is now evolving. With Barry exercising the divine right of a king in launching yet another war in the Middle East - without the approval of Congress - the forces of government must be free to operate with total impunity in The Homeland. The war on terror which is now well into its second decade has served to restrict civil liberties, enable a criminal government, justify the expansion of a massive surveillance state and transform a good number of our law enforcement personnel into thugs.
Now I am going to be right up front with my standard disclaimer that not all cops are bad. The vast majority are good people tasked with doing a dangerous and thankless job. But there are increasingly more exceptions in the post 9/11 era. The federal government bears a large brunt of the responsibility for encouraging the locals to militarize through the 1033 Program as well the exertion of fed influence through the proliferation of fusion centers.
The ongoing disintegration of what was once a free country into an authoritarian fascist police state under the helm of El Presidente Barack Obama is now evolving. With Barry exercising the divine right of a king in launching yet another war in the Middle East - without the approval of Congress - the forces of government must be free to operate with total impunity in The Homeland. The war on terror which is now well into its second decade has served to restrict civil liberties, enable a criminal government, justify the expansion of a massive surveillance state and transform a good number of our law enforcement personnel into thugs.
Now I am going to be right up front with my standard disclaimer that not all cops are bad. The vast majority are good people tasked with doing a dangerous and thankless job. But there are increasingly more exceptions in the post 9/11 era. The federal government bears a large brunt of the responsibility for encouraging the locals to militarize through the 1033 Program as well the exertion of fed influence through the proliferation of fusion centers.
1968 Shelby GT500 Fastback 428 CI, 4-Speed
Shelby serial number 1854, this 1968 Shelby GT500 Fastback was produced on February 8, 1968 and rolled off the assembly line finished in delicious Candyapple Red and packing the Shelby-tuned 428 CI Police Interceptor engine mated to a 4-speed manual transmission. One of only 405 built with that powertrain combination, it also incorporated a 3.50:1 rear axle ratio, power front disc brakes and power steering, Interior Décor Group with Sport Deck rear seat, tilt-away steering column, AM radio, extra cooling package and wheel lip moldings.
More @ MECUM
North Carolina’s Horrid Fragment of Feudal Despotism
Holden Impeachment
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"Holden's impeachment is demanded by a sense of public virtue and due regard to the honor of the state. He is an exceedingly corrupt man and ought to be placed before the people as a public example of a tyrant condemned and punished."
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”He viewed the “all men are created equal” phrases in State constitutions as being “forced upon the people . . . by carpetbag doctors of pseudo-socio-science, while Federal bayonets held the outraged white people at bay. As soon as those doctors were run out, nearly all the States returned to George Mason’s phrase: "That all men are born equally free and independent."
Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman
North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission
"Unsurpassed Valor, Courage and Devotion to Liberty"
"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"
North Carolina’s Horrid Fragment of Feudal Despotism
“Inequality
will exist as long as liberty exists. It unavoidably results from that
very liberty itself.” Alexander Hamilton, 26 June 1787
“American
high school and college textbooks are loaded with equalitarian
propaganda, all pointing to the Declaration of Independence equality
clause as the “American dream” or the “American creed.”
No one
questions the right of all men to equal justice under law, but
propagandists have carried the doctrine beyond equality of rights to
equality of things . . .
The
Declaration of Independence never became living law in America, and no
provision of the Federal Constitution or Bill of Rights can be traced to
it and . . . its influence on State constitutions and bills rights has
been insignificant.
It
was written to serve the temporary purposes of a sanguinary conflict.
It was and perhaps will always be history’s most effective piece of
propaganda, but it neither grants nor protects human rights. The
Declaration of Independence does not say that all men are equal. It
says they were “created” equal. There equality ends.
The
[United States] Constitution proclaims in its preamble that it was
established “to . . . insure domestic tranquility . . . and secure the
blessings of liberty.” Nowhere does it hint a purpose to insure or
impose equality of men or things.
For
decades after 1776 North Carolina’s Bill of Rights proclaimed “that all
men are born equally free and independent.” There must surely be some
explanation as to why people who had lived under the maxims of George
Mason since 1776 should suddenly change in 1868.
The
Constitution of 1868 was framed in a convention called under the
reconstruction acts of [the Northern] Congress, by Major General
[Edward] Canby. It assembled at Raleigh, January 14, 1868. Federal
soldiers stood guard over deliberations. The same equality clause was
inserted in the bills or rights of many Southern States while the
natural leaders of the white people were held at bay by Federal
bayonets. See for examples, the Alabama Bill of Rights, the Louisiana
Bill of Rights of 1868, South Carolina’s of 1868 and Florida’s of 1868.
As
is well-known by those the least familiar with American history,
shortly after the Federal troops were withdrawn [in 1877], the white
people of the South quickly expelled the carpetbaggers and subdued the
scalawags and recaptured the State governments. Every one of those
States, with one exception, promptly called a constitutional convention
according to its own wishes in place of those imposed upon it by
military might.
All
struck the doctrine of human equality from their constitutions, except
North Carolina. Why North Carolina should have retained that doctrine in
her Bill of Rights is a mystery. There it stands on parchments as a
horrid fragment of feudal despotism imposed on a proud and helpless
people by superior force.”
(Equality Versus Liberty, the Eternal Conflict, R. Carter Pittman, August, 1960; www.rcarterpittman.org)
Why did the Nazis attack the Soviet Union?
As with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, once more, what seems foolhardy to Americans in the 21st century may not have seemed so to Nazi Germany.
True, the Germans each month were receiving generously priced Soviet products, many on credit; but Hitler (wrongly) felt that he could nevertheless steal food, fuel and raw materials from the east more cheaply than buying them. And while the Germans were paranoid about opening a two-front war – like the one that had plagued them between late 1914 and 1917 – Hitler argued that the western front was all but somnolent. British strategic bombing in 1941, remember, was still mostly erratic and ineffective.
In any case, Hitler was more paranoid about a British embargo and blockade that might cut off fuel and food in the manner of 1918; with the acquisition of the great natural reserves of the Soviet Union, especially its Caucasian oil, the Nazis believed they would become immune from the effects of a maritime blockade.
More @ WND
CBM: Over The Rainbow - Band of Oz
Band of Oz has been making Beach Music special since the mid '60. Here I have shared two versions of Over the Rainbow to show how they have evolved yet remained constant for the past 45+ years.
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