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"Admiral, that's George Soros' private yacht off the port bow. He's signaling that he has a Chinese court order to seize us as collateral for the President's unpaid political bills."
University student set himself ablaze to protest Iranian regime’s agents for raping his wife and daughter
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 The self-immolation of a Tehran University student in protest to raping his wife and daughter by the clerical regime’s agents has caused a wave of anger and disgust among people. Before putting himself ablaze, this student said in a gathering of students that the regime’s agents had taken his home, confiscated all his properties and the prosecutors of his file had raped his wife and daughter. Two judges by the names of Babaii and Simorghi in the city of Kangavar had raped his wife and daughter. He chanted slogans against Shahroudi, head of the judicial power, and Khamenei, the supreme leader. The Tehran University guards who witnessed the student inflaming himself did nothing to prevent him. After he set himself on fire some students put out the fire by coats and jackets and transferred him to the hospital. The state-run Etemad daily wrote: 'For the fourth time in the last month the news came from Tehran University that a doctorate student in Art burned himself.'
An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations. -- Wikipedia.
If the American electorate can't figure this out we are truly screwed as a country. They are more screwed than we are, for at least we understand the impending collapse and can make preparations to deal with it.
We are not immune to history. We are not exempt from economic laws. We will not save ourselves with elections. We will have to fight for survival. . . on the ground that we now stand.
While I do not believe there is a purely political solution to the present crisis in this, the American experiment in ordered Liberty, I note with interest just how telling this election was - at a local level.
Of course, it remains inexplicable to me how the big-name, outrageously progressive candidates remained in office (Reid, Boxer, et al).
We are indeed two nations within one border.
We are not immune to history. We are not exempt from economic laws. We will not save ourselves with elections. We will have to fight for survival. . . on the ground that we now stand.
Expanding bullets were given the name Dum-dum, or dumdum, after an early British example produced in the Dum Dum Arsenal, near Calcutta, India by Captain Neville Bertie-Clay. There were several expanding bullets produced by this arsenal for the .303 British cartridge, including soft point and hollow point designs. These were not the first expanding bullets, however; hollow point expanding bullets were commonly used for hunting thin skinned game in express rifles as early as the mid 1870s. . .
In 1898, the German government lodged a protest against the use of the Mark IV bullet, claiming the wounds produced by the Mark IV were excessive and inhumane, thus violating the laws of war. The protest, however, was based on the comparison of the wounds produced by expanding and non-expanding bullets from high velocity sporting rifles, rather than a comparison of the expanding .303 British bullets with the previous, large bore service cartridge it replaced, the .577/450 Martini-Henry. Because the energy was roughly the same, the wounds caused by the expanding bullet of the .303 were less severe than the those caused by the larger caliber, solid lead bullet used by the Martini-Henry.
The German protests were effective however, resulting in the ban of the use of expanding bullets in warfare. The British replaced the hollow point bullets with new full metal jacket bullets, and used the remaining stocks of expanding bullets for practice.
The Hague Convention of 1899, Declaration III, prohibits the use in international warfare of bullets which easily expand or flatten in the body, giving as example a bullet with a jacket with incisions or one that does not fully cover the core. This prohibition was an expansion of the Declaration of St Petersburg in 1868, which banned exploding projectiles of less than 400 grams.
Because of the greater effectiveness in disabling or killing the target, the use of expanding rounds remains legal, or even required, in some circumstances. Examples of this are use of appropriately expanding bullets in hunting, where it is desirable to stop the animal quickly either to prevent loss of a game animal, or ensure a humane death of vermin, and in law enforcement or self defense, where quickly neutralizing an aggressor may be needed to prevent further loss of life. -- Wikipedia.
"This is the moment, the dividing line between acquiescence and rebellion. To pay the fine is to agree to subjugation."
Adam Winkler, firearms totalitarian at UCLA.As the Tea Party gears up for big wins on Tuesday, Adam Winkler sounds the alarm on an overlooked part of their radical agenda to overturn gun control laws in America — and their ties to revolutionary militia.
A traditionally hot topic in election season, gun control has been conspicuously absent from the recent candidate debates. This would not be of note if the candidates themselves had no designs on changing the nation’s gun laws. Yet many of the Tea Party candidates, who portray themselves as focused on economic issues like excessive government bailouts and lower taxes, have a radical gun agenda. They seek an extreme roll back of the nation’s gun laws.
Extremism is a term used to describe the actions or ideologies of individuals or groups outside the perceived political center of a society; or otherwise claimed to violate common moral standards. In democratic societies, individuals or groups that advocate the replacement of democracy with a authoritarian regime are usually branded extremists, in authoritarian societies the opposite applies.
In state after state, Tea Party candidates like Rand Paul in Kentucky and Joe Miller in Alaska advocate for the adoption of radical “Firearms Freedom Acts.” These laws, which declare that the federal government has exceeded its constitutional authority by regulating gun sales, are intended to nullify the federal Brady Act, which requires background checks for most gun purchases. Eight states in the throes of Tea Party fervor, including Arizona, Utah, and South Dakota, have already enacted such laws—even though, as a federal court held last month, these laws are clearly unconstitutional.
The insurrectionist motive behind these laws is most obvious in Wyoming’s version of the Firearms Freedom Act. If a federal official tries to enforce federal gun laws in that state, he faces up to a year in jail.
Despite gussying up their arguments in the language of federalism and states’ rights, these laws are intended to eliminate gun control. Advocates have no intention of pushing state legislatures to require background checks. And the impact of these laws, if upheld, would be far broader than background checks. Federal bans on the possession of firearms by drug users and domestic batterers could also be undermined, as would basic gun dealer record-keeping laws used to solve gang crime.
Rand Paul showed his true colors with a campaign promise that, if elected, he “will fight all attempts at gun control in the U.S. Senate.” He didn’t say “all attempts at ineffective gun control” or “all attempts other than those well designed to keep criminals from having guns.” He was unambiguous: no gun control period.
Many of the Tea Party candidates claim to carry the mantle of Ronald Reagan’s policies. But their approach to gun control couldn’t be more different. Reagan vigorously endorsed the Brady Act, which was named after his press secretary, who was seriously injured by a bullet intended for Reagan.
When Ronald Reagan was Governor of California, he supported a law banning people from carrying loaded weapons on public streets. “There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons,” he told reporters. Although touting Reagan on his website, Joe Miller apparently believes that everyone should be carrying a loaded weapon on the streets today. In July, he asked his supporters to attend a parade with their guns openly displayed. Video of the rally shows rows of men with military-style rifles slung over their shoulders, handguns strapped to their belts, and Joe Miller for Senate signs in their hands.
Make no mistake: when it comes to guns, they’re talking about a revolution.
Another key sign of the Tea Party candidates’ gun rights extremism is their endorsement by Gun Owners of America, the second most prominent gun rights organization behind the NRA. GOA founder Larry Pratt argues that the NRA doesn’t support gun rights strongly enough and GOA touts itself as the “only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington.” GOA has backed Tea Party candidates nationwide, like Christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle—candidates shunned by the NRA and the Republican Party establishment.
Now a major player in the Tea Party, Pratt is also usually credited with starting the crazed patriot militia movement in the 1990s.
Although the militias lost their luster after one of their supporters, Timothy McVeigh, bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, they’re seeing a comeback under the Obama Administration — despite the fact that the President has shown no interest in new, restrictive gun laws. Obama has actually loosened rules on guns in national parks and on Amtrak, disappointing activists in his party and earning the President an “F” rating from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. In the world of the Tea Party, however, facts don’t matter. They seem to know for certain that Obama is coming to get their guns.
In mainstream gun rights circles, firearms are valued primarily as a means of self-defense against criminals. For militias and Tea Party candidates, however, guns are for revolution. In Nevada, Sharron Angle gave voice to the militia movement’s views in January when, in a radio interview, she warned if elections don’t force officials like Harry Reid out of office, the people may be forced to turn to “Second Amendment remedies.”
Angle’s statements would be easier to dismiss as the ranting of a fringe candidate were she, well, fringe. Her views are shared by other Tea Partiers favored to win in November. Joe Miller, for instance, has been called “a friend of patriots” by Norm Olson, commander of the Alaska Citizens Militia. Ken Buck in Colorado refused to prosecute gun store owners who violated federal law when he was a U.S. Attorney, believing the federal government had no authority to regulate gun sales.
The Tea Party candidates want Americans to believe they’re only interested in economics or federalism. Make no mistake: when it comes to guns, they’re talking about a revolution.
I saw this photo on Drudge and was fascinated. Who is it that all these folks are praying to? I mean, it doesn't have to be the God of Abraham and David. Some of the most fervent praying I've ever seen was in a casino in front of slot machines. So I did some research and maybe I have a candidate:African-initiated religious groups in colonial time have been discussed in different contexts. Scholars stressed their impotance as „a place to feel at home“ (Welburn) in a period of deep economic, political and social changes, their ways of developing anticolonial protest and their opportunities in opposing white missionary cultural arrogance. The proposed paper will deal with a religious group in terms of its social, political and religious meaning as well, but also with its function as a space to produce and an vehicle to transport popular culture. The Dini ya Msambwa was founded in Western Kenya in the 1940ies. Its founder Elijah Masinde was a young man and a famous former football-player. Masinde received the order from God to create a religion to which polygynists, men and women, young and old alike could belong to. Furthermore Masinde was told, that he himself was the new black Messiah and that all Europeans would soon leave the country. The message soon found many followers, especially among young people. Members of the movement, dressed in special uniforms, preached on market places to spread the message. Their songs became very popular. Belonging to the movement was connected to certain ways of cooking, eating, dressing, healing and cleaning, often resuscitating traditional manners. Masinde attributed great importance to traditional custums giving thereby himself and his religion a certain legitimacy. Tradition was connected to the refusal of everything European, including European colonial power in Africa. At the same time the movement appropriated Christian and Islamic symbols, rituals and ideas, put them in new contexts of meanings and created a new religious culture. Considering the remarkable number of members belonging to the circumcision group of Elijah Masinde and the young members in general in the 1940ies, it can be argued, that Dini ya Msambwa was not only a religious movement but also a youth movement. In creating their own signs and norms they developed a counter-society (Buijtenhuijs), which can be understood as the creation of a youth culture, separating the Dini ya Msambwa from their outsiders. Dini ya Msambwa is not only an example for the close relation between religion and culture. It also shows the importance of such movements to make und hold precolonial culture and history valued and popular while creating a hybrid culture of appropriation and protest. -- Religion, Protest and Culture in Western Kenya by Christiane Reichart-Burikukiye.
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Proposal for election day 2012 RTC's below. A couple of us in Atlanta are on board. Please let me know your level of support for this. If you like it, please pass on.
"Restore the Constitution" Open Carry Rallies, Election Day 2012
Situation: For a variety of reasons, a majority of the electorate supports big-government programs and policies that violate the Constitution, such as minimum wage, federal drug and gun laws, and the use of the IRS as a tool to modify behavior and influence the economy. This majority votes for candidates that will continue these and many other collectivist, unconstitutional policies.
Mission: Target this audience, the electorate itself, with armed RTC rallies held as close to polling locations as possible on election day 2012 as well as preparation rallies in the weeks and months leading up to election day 2012. Remind the voters that there is a small but highly motivated group that is willing to take to the streets with their guns over the fact that the government has gotten too big.
Execution: Organizers will already have some structure in place, having participated in C4L, End the Fed, Tea Party, RTC and other "restorationist" events in their area. The next step is to research local firearms carry laws, find the location as close to the polls as possible in their areas and, if necessary, apply for permits and take steps to notify law enforcement of plans to hold an armed demonstration. For example, in Atlanta, I plan on holding an armed RTC at one or more intersections as close to a major polling location, the Claudia Lawson Dekalb County government complex on Memorial Drive, as possible. "As close as possible" will be determined by researching the law, notifying police by applying for a permit, and holding armed "mini-RTCs" at the planned site in the months leading up to the 2012 elections. How close one can get to the polls with weapons will vary from state to state. To avoid any allegation of brandishing weapons, all pistols should be holstered, and all rifles should be slung on the back. No exceptions. Anyone brandishing weapons is not a part of this.
Some sign suggestions: "Restore the Constitution" "This is NOT a Democracy" "My rights are NOT subject to majority opinion" "My rights are NOT subject to your vote"
The "I-word," intimidation is not a part of our message or what we are doing. Ditto for the word "suppression." This is not intended to be a voter intimidation or suppression effort. This is an effort to educate and remind the voters, not to scare them. The sight of civilian activists with slung rifles, holstered pistols, and restorationist signs ought not scare Americans. Our rights to assemble and bear arms are in the Constitution for a reason.
Admin and logistics: Big "restore" banners and signs from 4-19 already held by RTC organizers could be used. Homemade signs, however, are all that are necessary to convey the message.
Command and Control: Not too much "top down" leadership. Local leaders know who they are, and leaders naturally emerge. Use Muster 4-19 Ning site as well as restoretheconstitution.wordpress.com to find other RTC'ers and coordinate activities.
Thank you for your time,
-Dan Almond
"The Future is fun!
The Future is Fair!
You may already have won!
You may already BE THERE!"
-- Firesign Theatre, "I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus."
"We're bringing the war back home
Where it ought to have been before!" -- Firesign Theatre
Army Copters to Start ‘Flying Over Your Neighborhood’
Shortfalls with the Army’s Black Hawk helicopter has led Army aviation units in Iraq and Afghanistan to use the UH-72A Lakota, a light non-combat helicopter, to fill the gap. But at the Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington D.C., the Army’s project manager, Colonel Neil Thurgood, says that the vast majority of the Lakotas are going to go to the National Guard to aid in civilian disaster relief.
The Lakota, a “maneuverable, agile aircraft” that EADS has put in production since 2007, is increasingly able to talk with civilian law enforcement and homeland security, Thurgood said at a panel discussion. “You’ll be seeing more of those in your neighborhoods, flying over.”
Most importantly, new communications equipment gets the Lakota talking with the police patrol car below. The helicopter has P-25 public disaster band radio. Cameras on the nose flash aerial pictures of the aftermath of a disaster to “any of the agencies, state, national or federal, involved in process,” Thurgood said. A sensor operator in the rear of the copter can map and track the movements of cops, firefighters, ambulances and other disaster-relief officials on the ground.
That’s an improvement the Army learned the hard way. During Hurricane Katrina, the military discovered that it tracks locations using grid coordinates. Police and firefighters use street intersections. Neither knew immediately what the other meant.
These days, the Lakota is going to be in the toolkit of National Guardsmen who’ll be the frontline military points of contact with law enforcement and homeland security during the next hurricane or tornado. The Army’s going to buy 230 Lakotas; 210 of them are going to the National Guard.
But the helicopter isn’t just going to be used in disaster-relief missions. “We’ve used it along the southern border,” Thurgood said. If you live in a border town, expect to hear it flying overhead."
