via Public Intelligence
The National Security Agency, a secretive arm of the U.S. military, has begun providing Wall Street banks with intelligence on foreign hackers, a sign of growing fears of financial sabotage.
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Oct 31, 2011
Banks Working With NSA and Defense Contractors
via Public Intelligence
Keeping Bee's
I am considering try my hand at bee keeping.
I'm still researching, but I will probably start with a single stack of hives.
This will just be for family use. But.....it could branch. Besides, honey is liquid gold in a SHTF deal.
If anyone has any ideas, tip, or advise. Please let me know.
Thanks
I'm still researching, but I will probably start with a single stack of hives.
This will just be for family use. But.....it could branch. Besides, honey is liquid gold in a SHTF deal.
If anyone has any ideas, tip, or advise. Please let me know.
Thanks
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The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers:
Po-Po the Felon
Let the below from TTAG sink in. Then you realize, "just how many more cities is this happening in" and then the BIG light bulb turns on.
After a group of off-duty Milwaukee cops kicked the crap out of Frank Jude, Jr. in 2004, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal stumbled on the fact that one of the cops involved – the one the federal judge hearing the cases designated the worst of the lot – had a priors before joining the force. When the paper asked the department for a list of other officers on the force who had criminal records, they were given the brush-off. Those records didn’t exist and they weren’t about to start collecting them. So the men and women patrolling the streets of Milwaukee, enforcing laws and employing the use of deadly force when necessary, are held to a lower standard than your average school teacher, bank teller or day care worker…
It's a Choice!!!!!
This is a PRIVATE Christian university. They hire people that will teach the ethos of the school. They are entering into a contract and as such that is one of the employment conditions/clauses.
I support this school 100%.
Being a dick sucker, mud bandit, rump ranger, carpet muncher, etc is not a disease. You are not born with it. It is a lifestyle CHOICE!!!!!!!!!!
Hell the musloids chop people's heads off if they do it. Why aren't all the bleeding heart liberals crying about that???????
Choices. They choose for you not to work there if you do not support their views. GOOD.
Link to Video
Source
I support this school 100%.
Being a dick sucker, mud bandit, rump ranger, carpet muncher, etc is not a disease. You are not born with it. It is a lifestyle CHOICE!!!!!!!!!!
Hell the musloids chop people's heads off if they do it. Why aren't all the bleeding heart liberals crying about that???????
Choices. They choose for you not to work there if you do not support their views. GOOD.
Link to Video
Source
A private Georgia university is reportedly requiring its employees to sign a statement indicating they are not gay or face termination.
Shorter University, a private Christian university in Rome, Ga., is forcing its 200 employees to sign a "personal lifestyle statement" rejecting pre-martial sex, adultery and homosexuality or risk getting fired, WSB-TV reports.
"Our goal is not to offend people," Don Dowless, the school's president, told the station. "Our goal is to declare who we are."
Dowless said if employees indicate a preference for any sexual activity "not agreeable with the Bible," they will be terminated.
"I think that anybody who adheres to a lifestyle that is outside of what the Biblical mandate is -- what the board has passed, including the president -- would not be allowed to continue here," he told the station.
Dowless reportedly says the pledge is legal because the private university does not receive any federal funding.
Some Shorter University students, however, claim the requirement is a form of discrimination.
"Who is one person to judge what somebody else does?" said one student, who spoke anonymously to the station. "It's none of their business." (RT: if you don't like it, don't go to a school that has those values. Other than that STFU)
Students are reportedly not being asked to sign the pledge.
South: SC sheriff to citizens: "Carry a concealed weapon"
"How fast can you can get the barrel of your gun back on the target?"
via Free North Carolina & The Bonnie Blue Blog
via Free North Carolina & The Bonnie Blue Blog
He said Lance "doesn't fight police or men folk -- he just goes after women." He said Lance is not married because, "No woman can stay married to him because he beats them down too much."
Wright said, "It's too bad someone with a concealed weapons permit didn't walk by. That would fix it." He said people are tired of doing the right thing and criminals getting away with their actions.
He encouraged women to walk in groups, and he ended by saying again, "I want you to get a concealed weapons permit. Don't get Mace. Get a firearm."
And then he said, "I think I better stop before I get sanctioned."
Solar Water Distiller
This nifty devise produces up to 5l/day. Might not be bad to have as a back up.
via Global Guerrillas
via Global Guerrillas
Milan-based designer Gabriele Diamanti's "Eliodomestico" solar-powered eco-distiller was recently selected as one of 12 finalists for the Prix Émile Hermès 2011. The small, vat-like still is made entirely from terracotta and zinc-plated metal sheets, and, in keeping with the Italian designer's intention for "Eliodomestico" to be completely open source, "it's designed to be produced (and eventually repaired) by local craftsmen."
An "Oh Sh!t" Moment
This is one of those moments where....well you know.
Don't you just hate it when you're paragliding through the Indian Himalayas and some eagle comes along and fucks your shit up? I know I do. But this Ruskie handles it like a champ. One reserve chute deployment and a hard landing later, all is well. Even the eagle survives.
A Beacon for Everyone
Another "Beacon" of the alternative energy goes down in flames.
How many more of these do we get to read about.
Maybe a little application of tar & feathers wouldn't be to far out of line????
Second Energy Department-backed company goes bankrupt
A Massachusetts company that received a $43 million Energy Department loan guarantee last year filed for bankruptcy Sunday, a step certain to fuel criticism of federal green energy financing in the wake of the solar company Solyndra’s collapse.
Beacon Power had received federal loan guarantee to help build an energy storage plant in Stephentown, New York that began operating in January. The Treasury Department’s Federal Financing Bank provided the loan.
Beacon sought bankruptcy protection two days after the White House ordered an independent 60-day evaluation of the Energy Department's loan programs aimed at ensuring effective management and monitoring.
Imagine that...2 days fter a review of the DOE loan guarantee, they decide they can't handle it.
Oscar the IED
At a time when Amerika is struggling with these massive payoff's, scandal rocked pResident, crazy inflation & more...
We bring you this to a region far away that hasn't changed in 1400 years with how they act.
Jihad Sesame Street
The TV show has a new cast of local characters led by a vivacious 6-year-old girl named Rani who loves cricket and traditional Pakistani music. Her sidekick, Munna, is a 5-year-old boy obsessed with numbers and banging away on Pakistani bongo drums, or tabla.
The U.S. is bankrolling the initiative with $20 million, hoping it will improve education in a country where one-third of primary school-age children are not in class. Washington also hopes the program will increase tolerance at a time when the influence of radical views is growing.
Yep Oscar's trash can is really a IED.
UPDATE: 11:25am
Imagine what would happen is Bert & Ernie were boyfriends?
Saudi Arabia: Footage Surfaces of “Sorcerer” Being Publicly Beheaded…
Palestinians Granted Membership in U.N.
It's gonna get real interesting with this tidbit of news. Watch for the fur to fly.
Palestinians Granted Membership in U.N.
The U.N. cultural agency approved a request to admit Palestine as a full member, a highly divisive bid that's part of the Palestinians' broader push for greater international recognition.
U.S. lawmakers have threatened to withhold some $80 million in funding to UNESCO if it approves Palestinian membership.
Oct 30, 2011
Liberty: A Call to Action
Kerodin has done some outstanding work and writing for us in the liberty movement.
Below are four links to his latest writings on how we need to move forward.
Take the time to visit his site. Below the jump are the links and some snippets from the posts. Read the rest there and educate yourself.
Below are four links to his latest writings on how we need to move forward.
Take the time to visit his site. Below the jump are the links and some snippets from the posts. Read the rest there and educate yourself.
Swap Shop: Greek Edition
Everyone has value. You just have to figure out what you can do to market your "inner wealth".
Get a jump on everyone else and have it lined out before it goes tit's up.
It didn't take the Greeks that long to figure out how to saddle the horse.
Get a jump on everyone else and have it lined out before it goes tit's up.
It didn't take the Greeks that long to figure out how to saddle the horse.
Show Him Your Badge
A federal agent shows up at a farm and demands to check out the property. The farmer says OK, but tells him not to go over to one pasture. Then the agent arrogantly tells him he has a badge from the federal Environmental Protection Agency and can go wherever he darn well pleases. The farmer says OK. A few minutes later, the agent is running for his life from a bull. The agent calls for help, so the farmer goes to the fence and yells: "Show him your badge."
via Free North Carolina
Their latest battle is to stop destruction of four hydroelectric dams along the Klamath River – an action driven by environmentalists and the Obama administration.
Mergers
Looks like ol' Kenny is consolidating his forces.
via PPJG
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s order to combine the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) into the Bureau of Land Management WITHOUT Congressional Approval
You Cannot Make a Knowledgeable & Prudent Decision Under the Law
via Gateway Pundit and Michael Berry Show
A Texas gun trainer released an ad this week for his handgun training class. He bans liberals from the class saying:
“If you are a socialist liberal and/or voted for the current campaigner in chief, please do not take this class. You have already proven that you cannot make a knowledgeable and prudent decision under the law.”Agreed.
The ad also bans non-Christian Arabs and Muslims from taking the class.
Oct 29, 2011
Oakland Cops Violate The Laws Of War
Via Market Ticker
There's outrageous, then there's truly outrageous.
Beaning a guy with either a "less lethal" round in the head or (as has been more-recently claimed) a launched gas grenade is bad enough. In fact, that sure looks to me to be felonious assault and I want to know where the investigations and indictments are.
But that's not the worst of it.
Here's a guy who claims (and has the projectile extracted from his body to prove it) that he was shot with a rubber round while carrying the original wounded man.
You can't fire upon people rendering medical assistance to a soldier in combat - that's a war crime!
Never mind that the Oakland cops claim they didn't fire any rubber rounds. So the one removed from this person's body, which he has possession of, came to be there.... exactly how?
What sort of country do we live in again?
The officer(s) involved in this outrage must stand trial. All of them.
Occupy Phoenix: When to Kill a Cop
The Occupy groups have decided to openly come out with a "How To" guide on the justification to kill LEO. what is amazing is that these leftie groups want to & are quoting the Constitution.
Read it all and make your own conclusions. But it sure sounds like the things we say.
Via Hot Air
Link to PDF Flier
Read it all and make your own conclusions. But it sure sounds like the things we say.
Via Hot Air
Link to PDF Flier
The letter is blatantly anti-government and anti-law enforcement in nature. It not only condones but even encourages citizens to kill any “government agent” (i.e. law enforcement officers), who in their perception violates their rights. Examples are given in the document, of “illegal” search and seizure, sobriety and border checkpoints, airport security, etc… In essence this document states that citizens have the right and moral obligation to resist any action by law enforcement that is viewed as a violation of the citizen’s rights, and often-times resistance involves killing officers.Read the comments at Hot Air. Same ole sheeple responses.
Oct 26, 2011
Canada Abolishes Rifle & Shotgun Registration
Americans need to sit up and take notice of this. Firearm laws are unconstitutional as it stands, but if Canada can make these moves, We can move forward in our fight.
via The Blaze
via The Blaze
Canada’s Conservative government introduced legislation Tuesday to scrap a controversial law that requires the registration of rifles and shotguns.
The new bill will repeal the requirement to register long guns, and calls for the destruction of all records pertaining to the registration of long guns currently contained in the Canadian Firearms Registry.
Dancing with the Devil
via Drudge
Euro zone leaders intend to scale up their emergency fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, to around 1.0 trillion euros, EU sources said on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, reports also surfaced Wednesday night that French President Nicolas Sarkozy will speak with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday about boosting the EFSF. Reuters and the Wall Street Journal both cited unnamed European Union sources.
She Can't Take Much More Capt.
Via Drudge
Euro Cratering
Parliamentary Brawls
At least two deputies from the Northern League, a member of the ruling center-right coalition, fought with members from the opposition FLI party of speaker Gianfranco Fini. Two deputies grabbed each other by the throat as other parliamentarians rushed to separate them.
Insider: A manufactured threat against the President of theUnited States
Whitehouse Insider lays it out.
Ulsterman: So what is it? Pull what off?
Insider: A manufactured threat against the President of theUnited States. Something easily digested by the media and the American public. Not a real threat – something totally of their own making. They will use it if they need to – got no doubt whatsoever about that. Jarrett has approved the idea…and did so a long time ago. There were whispers of it during the 2008 campaign. McCain was so god-awful it never reached a serious consideration…but the plan was discussed. If needed – they were willing to go that route. It would be the ultimate use of the race card in the history of American politics. And…it would likely work if they got away with it.
WHITE HOUSE INSIDER: “President Obama Gets Off On It”
Insider: All the ingredients are in place. Falling approval ratings. A big uptick in divisive racial talk…the GOP primary race gettin’ on, which has upped the anti-Obama rhetoric. Occupy Wall Street stuff. An aborted terrorist attack inAmerica. The president crisscrossing the country talking the same old sh-t, except playing the victim card even more than before…don’t tell me for a second some of this isn’t all being played out for a very specific possibility. If needed, they will try and pull it off. I got no doubt about it now. None.Ulsterman: So what is it? Pull what off?
Insider: A manufactured threat against the President of theUnited States. Something easily digested by the media and the American public. Not a real threat – something totally of their own making. They will use it if they need to – got no doubt whatsoever about that. Jarrett has approved the idea…and did so a long time ago. There were whispers of it during the 2008 campaign. McCain was so god-awful it never reached a serious consideration…but the plan was discussed. If needed – they were willing to go that route. It would be the ultimate use of the race card in the history of American politics. And…it would likely work if they got away with it.
IntelliStreets
Coming soon to a city near you. Big brother wants to know your everything, everywhere & everyhow.
via InfoWars
via InfoWars
Farmington Hills-based Illuminating Concepts is about to launch its first “Intellistreets” concept installation in Farmington Hills.read the rest
Farmington Hills is using federal grant money to become the first site in the world to feature the Intellistreets system, a lighting pole system that combines energy conservation, homeland security features, audio entertainment, traffic control, advertising and more.
Tenacity of the Left
Bill Ayers still at it. Still needing a 55gr lobotomy.
via Gateway Pundit
via Gateway Pundit
On October 20th, 2011 the Obama-endorsed Occupy Chicago activists invited unrepentant domestic terrorist turned University of Illinois professor, Bill Ayers, to lead a “teach-in” on the virtues of confrontational tactics. The teaching session was dubbed “non-violent disobedience” in the anti-capitalist revolution.
Bill Ayers told the young leftists about how he met with the North Vietnamese to discuss fomenting revolution in America. The meeting was held on the street in downtown Chicago. The young activists lapped it up.
Writing on the Wall
Understand what this means and the doors it has kicked open.
via Fox
via Fox
A Florida appeals court has rejected a request to block a Hillsborough judge from upholding Islamic law in a case involving the former trustees of a local Tampa mosque that has garnered the national spotlight.
The state's 2nd District Court of Appeal on Friday denied without comment a petition filed by the mosque, known as the Islamic Education Center of Tampa, which is challenging Hillsborough Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen’s ruling in March that he intended to cite “ecclesiastical Islamic law” in the case, the St. Petersburg Times reported
Oct 25, 2011
obama Sayings
link
Said Obama: “These president years are dog years. . . I may be gray, but I’m not tired. My passion is still there.My vision for this country is still there.” I'm just a bitch in heat
Said Obama: “These president years are dog years. . . I may be gray, but I’m not tired. My passion is still there.
America's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
This goes right along with Kerodin's post on Islam Rising & one from WSRA.
DoJ is showing how big a dhimni they can be by erasing all references to islam from all training manuals related to terrorist training..
link
While at the same time leading islamo-fanatics sucked up to the same DoJ referenced above to make criticizing islam a crime. Never mind the 1A thingy.
link
It's only a matter of time before obama becomes the next Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Lord knows he's just as crazy.
DoJ is showing how big a dhimni they can be by erasing all references to islam from all training manuals related to terrorist training..
link
Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed on Wednesday that the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive.
While at the same time leading islamo-fanatics sucked up to the same DoJ referenced above to make criticizing islam a crime. Never mind the 1A thingy.
link
Top Justice Department officials convened a meeting Wednesday where invited Islamist advocates lobbied them for cutbacks in anti-terror funding, changes in agents’ training manuals, additional curbs on investigators and a legal declaration that U.S. citizens’ criticism of Islam constitutes racial discrimination.With Obama baby daddy thing becoming more & more prevalent. All the nodes and point are leading back to the pResident being the heir of the islamo-radical-militant-black posse group, that's know to troll polling stations.
The department’s “civil rights lawyers are top of the line — I say this with utter honesty — I know they can come up with a way” to redefine criticism as discrimination, said Sahar Aziz, a female, Egyptian-American lawyer.
“I’d be willing to give a shot at it,” said Aziz, who is a fellow at the Michigan-based Muslim advocacy group, the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding.
None of the Islamist advocates of civil rights officials in attendance, including Perez, objected to Aziz’s call for free-speech restrictions.
It's only a matter of time before obama becomes the next Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Lord knows he's just as crazy.
Mexican ID Becomes Valid ID in Sonoma County
via NBC Bay Area
In Sonoma County, a California driver's license is accepted as valid identification -- but so is a card issued by the Mexican consulate.
Transparent as Night
By none other than DoJ....
New FOIA Proposal
A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do.
Under current FOIA practice, the government may withhold information and issue what’s known as a Glomar denial that says it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records.
The new proposal – part of a lengthy rule revision by the Department of Justice – would direct government agencies to “respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist.”
New FOIA Proposal
A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do.
Under current FOIA practice, the government may withhold information and issue what’s known as a Glomar denial that says it can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records.
The new proposal – part of a lengthy rule revision by the Department of Justice – would direct government agencies to “respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist.”
Big Apple Gunwalker
Police Busted for Allegedly Smuggling Guns
Eight current and former NYPD officers and one New Jersey corrections officer have been arrested on charges that they were running a gun-smuggling ring that dealt weapons in New York City.
The officers arrested include five active-duty officers assigned to Brooklyn, three retired officers and one New Jersey corrections officer. They were picked up by FBI agents and NYPD Internal Affairs investigators early Tuesday.
The Little One's
The socialist left want to corrupt our young children to do their bidding. The "last frontier" for them to make the world in their sick view.
Mandatory Sex Ed for NYC Schools
Deviant Sex Ed
Our Little Democrats
Mandatory Sex Ed for NYC Schools
Middle school students will be assigned "risk cards" that rate the safety of different activities, the paper says, from French kissing to oral sex.
The workbooks for older students direct them to a website run by Columbia University, which explores topics such as sexual positions, porn stars, and bestiality. The lessons explain risky sexual behavior and suggest students go to stores to jot condom brands and prices
Deviant Sex Ed
teaching middle-schoolers about mutual masturbation is “neutral” between competing views of morality; the idea of “value free” sex education
he was encouraged to disregard what you told him about sex, and to rely instead on teachers and health clinic staff members?
Our Little Democrats
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, interrupted an interview with a reporter Saturday in Charleston to speak with two elementary-school age children that she quickly labeled “little Democrats.”
“We are leaving no stone unturned,” she said once she returned to the interview.
Oct 24, 2011
American Grown...How About American Ho
In reality, it should be "American Ho". The different pictures speak for themselves.
So It Begins...
Looks like the pResident is starting his bypassing of Congress entirely. He needs to be removed completely from the Whitehouse.
Bypassing Congress
Bypassing Congress
President Barack Obama this week will announce a series of actions to help the economy that will not require congressional approval, including an initiative to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages, according to a White House official.
Oct 22, 2011
EBS & Pavlov's Dog
FNC had a post on EBS going off nationwide on Nov9.
http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2011/10/did-you-know-feds-will-temporarily-cut.html
It's 5:30pm CST and all Houston channels just popped the EBS for no reason. weather is clear and there was no announcement after the tone.
getting us ready.
Pavlov's dog.
http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2011/10/did-you-know-feds-will-temporarily-cut.html
It's 5:30pm CST and all Houston channels just popped the EBS for no reason. weather is clear and there was no announcement after the tone.
getting us ready.
Pavlov's dog.
Oct 21, 2011
Shooting range wins lawsuit with developer
This is local news for me and a big win for 2A, property rights, etc.
The plaintiff in this was a property developer out of Dallas, a dark blue city, so it will make sense to all.
The owner, defendant, is a good man who is like most of us.
I had to wait 2 weeks on the electronic edition to come online. One of the good things about living in a small rural town.
via Polk County Enterprise
LIVINGSTON – Bear Arms shooting range and gun store reopened this week after a week of litigation in District Court concerning a claim of negligence and trespass filed by Anthony Properties Development, LP, Four Corners Properties Owners Association, and two individuals. A verdict was delivered Friday, Sept. 30 after close to eight hours of deliberation split between two days.
The jury found a preponderance of the evidence in favor of the defendants in all claims with the exception of question 1.B concerning negligence in regard to maintenance of the range. As for the design and operation of the range, the jury found that the defendants were not negligent, and that negligence on behalf of the defendants did not cause any occurrence or injury in question, or result in a trespass upon the land of the plaintiffs.
The hearing began around 9 a.m. Tuesday and lasted until Thursday afternoon with a large volume of evidence and testimony presented by both sides. The plaintiffs submitted projectiles recovered from various locations within their properties behind Bear Arms shooting range as well as sections of a tree that allegedly fell from the Phillips’ property onto the plaintiffs with projectiles lodged within as physical evidence during the trial.
There was also a video deposition of a college physics professor presented early in the trial examining mathematically the potential for various hypothetical projectiles fired from the shooting range to reach Four Corners Estates and the conditions required to achieve that outcome. A suspected bullet hole in a carport three-quarters of a mile away was also identified, but no projectile was found associated with that particular testimony.
The defense consisted mostly of testimony as to the character of the owner/ operator, James Phillips, and witnesses testifying as to the safe operation of the shooting range. The safety benefits to the community for Bear Arms’ role in teaching proper firearm use and maintenance and the distance from other fullservice shooting ranges were brought in to counter claims that the business was a public nuisance.
Defense Attorney Cecil Berg raised the question of speculation vs. fact in his closing arguments calling the body of the plaintiffs’ case speculation. A crucial part of that accusation lies in the fact that the property in question had been a hunting lease for at least 30 years, according to the defense, suggesting a higher likelihood that the projectiles found on the plaintiffs’ properties originated from sources other than the shooting range.
The plaintiff’s attorney Travis Kitchens followed with a solid review of the case brought thus far, closed with an empathetic appeal to the jury, asserting that their interpretation of the evidence presented was true.
Then began the long wait.
The jury asked questions and sent for exhibits numerous times before coming to their decision, suggesting a careful examination of the case. After the verdict was delivered, Berg commented “the State has passed legislation effective Sept. 1 that is designed to stop these kinds of lawsuits.” When asked to define “these kinds” Berg responded “those without a basis in law or fact.If this lawsuit were filed today it wouldn’t make it to trial.”
Frank Nuchereno, President of Anthony Properties, expressed disappointment over the verdict and added that the goal of the lawsuit was not to shut down the range. “This was a complicated case and I believe many people were really not aware of our position,” said Nuchereno. “Our goal was simply to require Bear Arms to put a safety program together that will forever keep their bullets on their property.”
The plaintiff in this was a property developer out of Dallas, a dark blue city, so it will make sense to all.
The owner, defendant, is a good man who is like most of us.
I had to wait 2 weeks on the electronic edition to come online. One of the good things about living in a small rural town.
via Polk County Enterprise
LIVINGSTON – Bear Arms shooting range and gun store reopened this week after a week of litigation in District Court concerning a claim of negligence and trespass filed by Anthony Properties Development, LP, Four Corners Properties Owners Association, and two individuals. A verdict was delivered Friday, Sept. 30 after close to eight hours of deliberation split between two days.
The jury found a preponderance of the evidence in favor of the defendants in all claims with the exception of question 1.B concerning negligence in regard to maintenance of the range. As for the design and operation of the range, the jury found that the defendants were not negligent, and that negligence on behalf of the defendants did not cause any occurrence or injury in question, or result in a trespass upon the land of the plaintiffs.
The hearing began around 9 a.m. Tuesday and lasted until Thursday afternoon with a large volume of evidence and testimony presented by both sides. The plaintiffs submitted projectiles recovered from various locations within their properties behind Bear Arms shooting range as well as sections of a tree that allegedly fell from the Phillips’ property onto the plaintiffs with projectiles lodged within as physical evidence during the trial.
There was also a video deposition of a college physics professor presented early in the trial examining mathematically the potential for various hypothetical projectiles fired from the shooting range to reach Four Corners Estates and the conditions required to achieve that outcome. A suspected bullet hole in a carport three-quarters of a mile away was also identified, but no projectile was found associated with that particular testimony.
The defense consisted mostly of testimony as to the character of the owner/ operator, James Phillips, and witnesses testifying as to the safe operation of the shooting range. The safety benefits to the community for Bear Arms’ role in teaching proper firearm use and maintenance and the distance from other fullservice shooting ranges were brought in to counter claims that the business was a public nuisance.
Defense Attorney Cecil Berg raised the question of speculation vs. fact in his closing arguments calling the body of the plaintiffs’ case speculation. A crucial part of that accusation lies in the fact that the property in question had been a hunting lease for at least 30 years, according to the defense, suggesting a higher likelihood that the projectiles found on the plaintiffs’ properties originated from sources other than the shooting range.
The plaintiff’s attorney Travis Kitchens followed with a solid review of the case brought thus far, closed with an empathetic appeal to the jury, asserting that their interpretation of the evidence presented was true.
Then began the long wait.
The jury asked questions and sent for exhibits numerous times before coming to their decision, suggesting a careful examination of the case. After the verdict was delivered, Berg commented “the State has passed legislation effective Sept. 1 that is designed to stop these kinds of lawsuits.” When asked to define “these kinds” Berg responded “those without a basis in law or fact.If this lawsuit were filed today it wouldn’t make it to trial.”
Frank Nuchereno, President of Anthony Properties, expressed disappointment over the verdict and added that the goal of the lawsuit was not to shut down the range. “This was a complicated case and I believe many people were really not aware of our position,” said Nuchereno. “Our goal was simply to require Bear Arms to put a safety program together that will forever keep their bullets on their property.”
The Puppeteers
via Ulsterman Report
Ulsterman: What? Let what happen?
JustiaGate
Most of us have known this was happening .
via Ann Barnhardt
Link to a detailed report of this and here
via Ann Barnhardt
The definitive online law library service Justia.com has been caught red-handed via web caching services as having fraudulently removed all references to the definitive "Natural Born Citizen" SCOTUS decision, Minor vs. Happersett, from it's entire library.
Link to a detailed report of this and here
New evidence conclusively establishes that 25 U.S. Supreme Court opinions were sabotaged then republished at Justia.com during the run up to the ’08 election. My prior report documented the scrubbing of just two cases. But last week, a third sabotaged case was discovered which led to a thorough examination of all US Supreme Court cases which cite “Minor v. Happersett” as they appeared on Justia.com between 2006 and the present.
Channeling Joesph Menegle
Looks like Herr Jerry Brown decided to channel Joseph Menegle when signed AB 499 in law for the serfs of the Democratic Socialist State of Kalifornia.
It now appears another young girl has died because of Guardasil.
via PPJ Gazette
The fatality of a 14 year old California girl was entered into the VAERS database on August 23, 2011 – 134 days after her death in April. The latest Gardasil victim died of cardiac arrest 14 days after vaccination. According to VAERS report # 430780 , the adolescent was vaccinated on March 28, had no other life-threatening illnesses, and received no other vaccinations.
The VAERS write up includes this statement: “Found dead in bed in a.m. by family. Pathologist stated cause of death as consistent with cardiac insufficiency, due to cardiac arrhythmia, due to probable early cardiomyopathy. Child Death Review Team felt this death was consistent with a diagnosis of sudden cardiac death.”
The untimely and sad passing of this innocent previously healthy young girl now marks the 4th death post-HPV vaccination in the state of California. Janny Stokvis, VAERS Analyst for SANE Vax Inc. who found the latest VAERS fatality also reports that there have been 1548 adverse injuries* from Gardasil and Cervarix reported in the state.
California VAERS Reports on Adverse Injuries from HPV 4 Gardasil & HPV 2 Cervarix
Life Threatening – 25
Serious – 102
Emergency Room/Doctor Visits – 680
Hospitalization – 57
Extended Hospital Stays – 14
Did Not Recover – 249
Disabled – 46
Death – 4: ages 14, 19, 13, 16
*1 to 10% of the vaccinated population reporting
BEYOND FARMERS MARKETS...
via Global Guerrillas
As we are pulled inexorably into an era of global economic depression and political neo-feudalism, the globally sourced retail supply chains we rely upon will wilt and wither. Many, if not most, of the local retailers and big box stores in our communities will disappear either through an inability to secure globally manufactured product (due to a plethora of factors from political instability to bankruptcy) or a lack of local demand (nobody will be able to afford it). Local strip malls will turn into miniature ghost towns and community life will whither away as people bunker themselves in their homes waiting for the government or Wall Street to rescue them. Unfortunately for them, that rescue won't be coming.
In contrast, retail commercial activity within resilient communities will be growing and in some cases exceeding the activity seen before the depression. The reason? The effort these communities made in building locally viable open markets that promoted the wares of local producers.
In most cases, these open markets started as farmers markets that showcased the products of local organic farmers and gardeners. As the economy worsened the number of farmers/gardeners selling local food increased (many travelling from communities that didn't run a local market), flooding the market with fresh product. With the volume increasing, local market masters (the people in charge of maintaining an open market's viability as a venture) banded together to help smooth the availability of product across different communities and establish simple quality control systems (like Agritrue). Next, given the availability of space in the community centers as branded commercial businesses folded, these farmers markets migrated to the town centers. Over time, the market amenities were improved and interior space was secured to allow all weather operation.
With the establishment of a thriving hub of commerce in the community center, two new innovations were possible:
First, these open markets began to include days to allow local makers to showcase their capabilities in making (to order) everything from flatware to furniture to appliances. While some used traditional methods of craft-work (either by hand or machine) or artistic technique, most of the new makers used inexpensive CNC machines to fabricate a plethora of items locally. People visiting on these market days where able to work directly with the maker to help select, customize or fit the design of the on-line designs for the products they were buying to order. They were also able to help select the locally approved materials that the products were made with depending on local availability and cost.
Second, the food production system was expanded vertically to allow for the creation of processed foods. In other words, the community added a food processing co-op that enabled commercial scale food prep, canning/storage, and professional abattoir (slaughterhouse) services. This commercial level facility allowed local producers to radically increase the number of processed foods made available at the market (or those people in the community that just wanted to DIY lots of food for themselves and their families). They also helped set up some larger farms/orchards on unused/foreclosed land and integrated this farming into the fabric of the community. Soon after that, a community restaurant was opened nearby, to utilize the locally grown products and processed foods. Entertainment was quick to follow, and most market days featured entertainers working the marketplace from when it opened until well into the night.
In time, the open market became a vibrant hub of the resilient community's economy.
NOTE: This is one method of approach, there will be many. It's meant to get you thinking on ways to build a thriving local economy in your community. There's lots more of this in "The Networked Resilient Community" book I'm working on. Remember: produce everything you can locally, virtualize the rest.
MIT Develops New Radar Technology: Military Could See Through Walls
Read between the lines
via ABC News
via ABC News
"It can be powerful during military operations especially in urban combat situations," said Charvat.
The device works by emitting frequency waves at a low-power microwave signal. That signal will hit in the direction of the target, in this case a wall. Each time a wave hits the wall only some of it is absorbed inside of the wall, a tiny portion actually gets through. Once the waves go through the wall, they propagate whatever is behind the wall and pass back through that wall and into the radar's receivers.
Only moving images can be detected, so an image such as a couch or nonmoving appliance would not show up on the monitor. Images appear as red blobs moving about the screen and it looks as the image would be away and across from the actual radar. The researchers are currently working on a detection algorithm that would convert these red blobs into a cleaner image.
Oct 20, 2011
Federal Reserve Board Rife With Conflict of Interest, GAO Report
Tell us something we didn't already know.
Link
Link
The makeup of the Federal Reserve’s board of directors poses a conflict of interest and there is concern that several financial firms and corporations could have reaped monetary benefits from their executives’ close ties to the Fed, according to a new report released today by the Government Accountability Office.
Bed Time Reading Material
Some good bed time reading material
Route Clearance (RC) Operations Handbook
Route Clearance (RC) Operations Handbook
64 pages. Route clearance (RC) operations for Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan are much different from RC operations for Operation Iraqi Freedom in terms of the terrain, seasonal weather, level of infrastructure, volume of insurgent threats, sources of improvised explosive device (IED) components, and motivation for IED emplacement. The purpose of this supplement is to focus on RC in Afghanistan.
U.S. Army Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles Handbook
168 pages. This book will familiarize Warfighters and leaders with the MRAP vehicle, its capabilities and limitations, and planning considerations for its employment. The information found in this book does not replace or override any safety precautions, warnings, notes in existing technical and/or operator manuals, or unit standing orders or operating procedures.
USJFCOM Combat Observation and Decision-Making in Irregular and Ambiguous Conflicts (CODIAC)
79 pages. CODIAC integrates the USMC Combat Hunter principles, along with proven battlefield decision-making and irregular warfare instruction from across the Joint services. The goal of CODIAC is to enhance the ability of individuals and small teams to address irregular challenges by training enhanced observation, battlefield sensemaking, human terrain pattern recognition, and environmental analysis (including knowledge of combat tracking)
Contact
Update to my earlier post here and here about Qaddafi.
Public Intelligence has a good amount of pics of him after his capture. Most are very graphic.
It would appear that the head wounds have contact burns on them.
Pics after the jump.
Public Intelligence has a good amount of pics of him after his capture. Most are very graphic.
It would appear that the head wounds have contact burns on them.
Pics after the jump.
Nanny State & Those Sucking the Gubmint Tit
via Fox
Fat POS who serves no purpose in life or society
A man living as an "adult baby" in California claims the federal government will allow him to continue collecting Social Security disability checks.
Get a fucking job
Thornton claimed that his disability benefits were based not on his lifestyle as an adult baby, but on a range of conditions -- from post-traumatic stress disorder to ADHD to spinal problems to depression. "All my illnesses have had extensive testing," he wrote on his site.Oh but wait he CAN make money
Coburn wrote to Inspector General Patrick P. O'Caroll Jr with the following opinion. "Given that Mr. Thornton is able to determine what is appropriate attire and actions in public, drive himself to complete errands, design and custom-make baby furniture to support a 350-pound adult and run an Internet support group, it is possible that he has been improperly collecting disability benefits for a period of time."
So while we all pay for fat piece of shit to suck on his binky and shit his diaper, he lays up in his crib and tells all of us to FUCK YOU.
I got 2 words for him.
Smile Motherfucker
J&G Sales on 12ga Buckshot
Most are prices at $6.75/10rd box and +25 boxes for $5.99/box
Assassinations & What Not's
Is our Govt openly assassinating Heads of Sates?
Via Ch26 Houston
A U.S. Predator drone, along with a French fighter jet, fired on the convoy said to be carrying Muammar Qaddafi in the moments before his death, a U.S. defense official told Fox News on Thursday.
The official said the drone and French jet fired on a "large convoy" leaving Qaddafi's hometown of Sirte. A French defense official earlier said about 80 vehicles were in the convoy -- the official said the strike did not destroy the convoy but that fighters on the ground afterward intercepted the vehicle carrying Qaddafi.
President Obama said Thursday that the death of Qaddafi ends a "long and painful chapter" for the Libyan people.
The president, speaking in the Rose Garden, announced that Libyans have "won their revolution."
"Today we can definitively say that the Qaddafi regime has come to an end," he said.
Qaddafi died of wounds suffered during his capture near Sirte, according to a spokesman for the National Transitional Council in Libya.
Active Targeting
Looks like some on has decided to take the founders route.
via The Hill
The email threat against Schilling states, "I will pay $75,000 for ASSASSINATING Illinois Congresswoman (sic) Bobby Schilling and any US Congressman, US Senator and FBI, CIA and NSA DIRECTORS and their FAMILY MEMBERS regardless of their age,” according to local news reports.
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