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For all the Liberal "IDIOTS" out there that claim that G.W. Bush had no reason to attack Iraq, this disclosure about Chemical weapons in this article tells the real truth about these weapons of mass destruction that aren't supposed to exist. Now it seems that everyone knows about them. Except the Liberal "Wackos."
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/07/11/Dirty-Bomb-Fears-after-ISIS-Seize-Uranium
By Craig Andresen on August 3, 2014 at 5:58 am
By the time you’re finished reading this article, your teeth will be on fire unless you happen to be a liberal Obama voter, in which case you will claim you see nothing wrong, try to make up excuses that blame others or simply try to laugh it off as nonsense but even the most Kool Aid inebriated know, deep down, that something is wrong.
VERY wrong.
Obama is desperate to be seen as a player on the world stage. He’s been bitch slapped up one side of the stage and down the other throughout his time occupying our nation’s highest office.
Our enemies neither respect nor fear him.
Our allies simply, and for damn good reasons, don’t trust him.
Einstein said that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction and I submit that the laws of physics also apply to liberal politics.
Let me just give you a couple of recent examples.
First, the action…
Obama tells Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel to “show restraint.”
And the reaction?
He gives Hamas $47 million U.S. taxpayer dollars.
The action…
Obama tells the world that American Muslims has been instrumental in weaving the very fabric of our nation.
The REACTION???
Mary and I made the trek from Florida to Chattanooga, TN for me to speak/sing at a rally for Joe Carr co-sponsored by “Beat Lamar” and Conservative Campaign Committee. Tennesseans have launched an enthusiastic grassroots effort to help Carr topple incumbent Obama sycophant Sen. Lamar Alexander in the Republican primary August 7th.
I had the pleasure of meeting Joe Carr the popular Tea Party conservative. Carr is down to earth, upbeat and friendly; a farmer. You can tell a lot about a leader by the way he treats those around him. Carr possesses that Ronald Reagan gift of making whomever he is speaking with feel important; giving them his full attention. A 21 year old black member of our CCC team commented about how much he liked and connected with Carr.
This is very important folks. We desperately need spokespersons to confidently present Conservatism in a positive and inspirational way to educate and attract the low-info masses.
My goal at the rally was to fire up Carr's troops/volunteers. However, the Carr supporters and volunteers “are” fired up. Surprisingly and refreshingly, many of Carr's volunteers are college aged. It was great to see youths who are thinkers rather than emotion-driven, MSM and liberal professor created walking dead Obama zombies.
I generally do not enter an environment and immediately start counting the numbers of minorities represented the way liberals do. However, with team Obama insidiously using race to polarize Americans along racial lines, I could not help noticing the diverse blend of Joe Carr, Beat Lamar volunteers. Voters of varying races and ages are excited about Joe Carr.
Joe Carr truly is a conservative star who gets it. Carr knows what needs to be done and clearly has the conviction and backbone to follow through. Carr talked about the border crisis and vowed to fight the invasion. Tennessee Rep. Carr reminded the audience that his efforts helped Tennessee to enact the toughest illegal immigration laws in the country.
Joe also stated his respect for the sanctity of life. He touched on a variety of topics: lower taxes, less government regulations and restoring constitutional principles.
I got really excited when Carr expressed his eagerness to get to DC to help conservative senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and a list of others which he named off the top of his head.
Carr's speech at the rally was unscripted folks. His bold and confident articulation of Conservatism appeared effortless as it flowed from his heart and soul without notes or a teleprompter.
Patriots, please join our Phone From Home initiative for Joe Carr at: PhoneFromHome@ConservativeCampaign.org
Mary and I are enjoying seeing a lot of the beautiful lush green state of Tennessee. On Monday, August 4th, we are driving to Maryville for me to speak and sing at another Joe Carr rally. Y'all come. http://on.fb.me/1qEdSeC
Joe Carr truly is the real deal.
Lloyd Marcus, Unhyphenated American
Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee
Like Nixon, LBJ recorded all his phone conversations and now Someone has made them public.
The following is talk of beginning Medicare and tying it to Social Security Trust Fund.
But its ALL Politics and Votes. Its still the same ol' same ol'.
SShttp://www.ssa.gov/history/LBJ/lbj.html Trust Fund
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Let our elected officials know we are not going to take it any more.
Politics was never meant to be a career. Just a civic duty.
Politics was never meant to be a career. Just a civic duty.
1. If you have a good case, ARGUE THE LAW.
2. If you have a bad case ARGUE THE FACTS (trying to generate sympathy even though the Law is against you).
3. If you have NO case, ATTACK YOUR OPPONENT. Now doesn't this sound like our current Administration? Nothing to offer so let's just attack the Republicans. Hmmmm.
By: Juan Reynoso, activist - voteforamerica@gmail.com
http://anticorruptionact.org/. STAND FOR AMERICA http://www.teaparty.org/
"Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty."
Texas needs to protect its Border to defend the Texas sovereignty and the sovereignty of The USA. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/html/HC00050I.htm
Wake up America, this invasion of unaccompanied children seeking asylum is the work of the Obama administration, in fact is part of the North America Union agenda, The United States corporate and the financing Banking elite want to control the economics of the American continent; The big picture is the organization of the “North American Union”
This invasion of illegal immigrants is not new for the last 3 years we had knowledge that unaccompanied children from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador enter the US illegally, The Dept. of Home Land Security, The Border Patrol, The Border Governors, congress, The President and the US. Dept. of justice and most Washington politicians have knowledge of this illegal invasion of foreign nationals. The proposed legislations and initiatives to stop this immigration problem from Congress, Home Land Security and the law enforcement is a charade to appease the people that was concern about the issue and send letter to congress asking to protect the border.
The increase in unaccompanied children seeking asylum, it is not a refugee problem, in reality this is an acceleration of the Agenda to form the North American Union, it is not the lack of capacity from the Border Patrol to secure our Borders, but the deliberate actions of our government to reemphasizes the people and Congress’s that our immigration system is broken and that will be fix by passing the comprehensive immigration reform that will address the invasion and the 12 million illegal immigrants that are in our country illegally for many years.
The truth is that our government plan and executed the demise of the core of the citizenry of our country to form a country without a firm ideology and principles by promoting the immigration of a multiplex ideology, principles language, religion and morality, we cannot communicate and we are complete divide and easy to control; that is their plan and look like they have accomplished, the creation of a “babel tower”; divided by the language, principles and ignorant of our constitution or what American stand for.
Fellow Texans we are in the last days of the USA being a sovereign country, accountable to the American people. With the North American Union come the demise of our constitutional rights and our freedom and also the enslaver of the people of Mexico, The USA and Canada. The control of natural resources and human capital is the objective of the American elite through the North American Union; no borders or laws that prevent them to have absolute control of the people and the economic. Fellow Texans we, California, Arizona and New Mexico are the hope of America. Being the USA as we are today is a must, our constitution must be defended at all cost it guarantees our freedom and our state sovereignty. We Texans had to contend with this open border issue since Ronald Reagan, the amnesty of 1986 and the free trade promote by Reagan was the beginning of the end of our United States.
We must support Rick Perry and defend and secure our border, the price of this open border policy and the promotion of the North American Union is too high to bear; our freedom, liberty and our constitution must never be compromise. The greed for power and money are the evil that is destroying our country.
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Sources for this article include:
Texas’ Sovereignty under the 10th Amendment
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/12227/
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?194226-HCR-50-The-Texas-Sovereignty-bill-passes!
California is a sovereign State.
http://section520.org/cal.html
Arizona and New Mexico are a sovereign State.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/sovereignty-for-new-mexico.html
US Visa waiver – I-94W forms- were implemented to facilitate the invasion of illegal immigrants.
By Craig Andresen on August 1, 2014 at 5:11 am
It’s never a matter of what to write for the Fume…quite the opposite in fact.
The HARD part is narrowing it DOWN but if we can’t find a way to laugh at liberal insanity…we’ll all go screaming into the night.
It’s been a rough week folks so, let’s dive right in…
It’s FRIDAY and…
I’m fuming.
So, this is interesting…and telling.
Members of our military are reporting that they were told not to eat or drink…in front of Muslims…during the month of Ramadan.
SERIOUSLY???
Apparently, Ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong is the month of FASTING for TERRORIST BARBARIANS and according to Bridge Commander Col. Kevin Glasz, while THEY observe fasting…WE must observe…POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!
According to an email from Glasz to the troops…“This is a period of great personal restraint and commitment in addition to renewed focus on worship. I’d like to encourage you to learn just a little more about this religion, but more importantly, I’m asking you to be considerate and do not consume food or drink in front of our Muslim colleagues; it is a simple, yet respectful action.”
Let me try to put this in terms this BRASS ASS might understand…
I am probably not alone in noticing that the mainstream media's deplorable unfair treatment of Israel is strikingly similar to how it treats the Tea Party. In both cases, the MSM has chosen a side, spinning its reporting to brand the victims intolerant, racist and hate-filled aggressors.
Israel was minding its own business when it was attacked by Hamas, showering Israeli towns with thousands of rockets. Hamas seeks the total destruction of Israel. If it were not for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, millions of Israelis would be dead.
Now get this folks. It does not get more cold, calculating and satanically evil than this. Hamas stores and launches its rockets from civilian sites, schools, hospitals, mosques and more.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the situation perfectly when he said Israel is using its Iron Dome to defend its people from missiles launched by Hamas who use their people to shield their missiles. So when Palestinian civilian casualties obviously far exceeded those of the Israelis, the MSM went postal on Israel; machine-gunning Israel with negative stories.
The truth is Israel has shown remarkable compassion and restraint, going above and beyond to avoid harming civilians.
Before bombing a Hamas target, Israel texts, makes phone calls and even fires warning firecrackers to alert civilians, begging them to evacuate the premises. Who in the world fights a war in such a humane manner?
Still, the MSM flooded the worldwide airways with images of suffering and dying Palestinian women and children, purposely deleting crucial facts to misrepresent the truth to shape public opinion against Israel. This is exactly what the MSM has done to the Tea Party.
By the way, Israel's lifesaving Iron Dome system is the same technology launched by Ronald Reagan (Strategic Defense Initiative) that was heavily mocked by liberals and the Democrats. Sen. Ted Kennedy laughed at Reagan describing his initiative as a misleading Red-Scare tactic and reckless Star Wars scheme.
The Tea Party which consist of mostly middle-aged adults, seniors, parents and grandparents was birthed in response to Obama's shock-and-awe attacks on our freedoms and unprecedented unlawful power grabs.
Obama's desire to fundamentally transform America was hidden in plain sight before his historic election. The millions of white voters who put the first black man in the White House were blinded by MSM hype and their desire to make amends for America's sin of slavery.
Because the MSM is in favor of Obama's transformation of America, MSM fellow “transformers” demonized the millions of white former Obama supporters in the Tea Party.
The MSM's goal is to brand all opposition to Obama's socialist/progressive agenda hatred for a black president. Blatantly and shamelessly the MSM is shaping public opinion against the Tea Party, instilling division and racial hate.
I pray that our Tea Party leaders will take a cue from Israel's strong, brave and courageous Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Regardless of worldwide public opinion and slings and arrows launched by the MSM, Netanyahu will not be intimidated into not defending, protecting and making decisions in the best interest of his people.
We do have a hand full of character driven leaders who have consistently displayed the same backbone as Netanyahu. My list of Tea Party conservative all stars include Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Ken Cuccinelli, Steve Lonegan, Mike Sullivan, Trey Gowdy and Joe Carr to name a few.
These people are human beings. They need our encouragement and support to remain strong; keeping their heads down to avoid the Left's punches while landing right hooks to the head of our evil relentless Nemesis.
The MSM obviously seeks the destruction of Israel and the Tea Party. Like He is with Israel, God is on the side of the Tea Party. I thank God for giving Israel Netanyahu.
With great anticipation, I await the emergence of our charismatic conservative leader who will boldly articulate conservatism; someone who will lead the charge to restore our great nation to a new day of American Exceptional-ism.
Lloyd Marcus, Unhyphenated American
Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee
Never in the history of war and peace has the use and misuse of language so obfuscated the nature of events as with the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. By now there are 67 years of multi-layered narrative that confuse the situation which is basically an issue of population exchange characterized as a military occupation. Not only have events somewhat analogous to this conflict come and gone with much less scrutiny, but population transfers in the nation building process have resolved or nearly resolved themselves with relative ease without the interference of global P.R. battles which notoriously misappropriate the true nature of events.
Generally speaking, transfers under the watch of the Great Powers were aimed at expanding Western style democracy through the construction of nation-states. For example, the population transfers and property exchanges in the division of India and Pakistan, Balkan population exchanges in the post-Ottoman states, the relocation of Muslim inhabitants of Greece to Turkey and of Orthodox Christians in Turkey to Greece, all of which naturally involved territorial disputes, were organized to increase homogeneity and, in the end, to minimize conflict and to stabilize national boundaries. This is part of the modernization process which has made possible a world in which a United Nations, a European Union, formalized international law, and national accountability can exist, among other things that we take for granted with respect to their civilizing roles and their origins in Western history.
When it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict, however, public relations battles have taken center stage, obscuring the democratization process with devastating consequences. When Israeli national defense is characterized as genocide, when the preservation of its national identity is called apartheid, when suicide bombings are seen as being a legitimate means of self-defense and the innocent victims of these bombings are cast as the villains, then reason is turned on its head and innocent lives are constantly under the threat of brutal violence.
There are a few basic concepts that have become common parlance when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict. First, there is the “Israeli occupation”. Secondly, there is the “Palestinian refugee”, and last but certainly not least, the “Palestinian right of return”. This is not to mention more marginal but equally divisive rhetorical weapons such as “genocide”, “war crimes”, and “pariah state”, all targeting Israel. Other myths include that of “stolen Arab land”, the “homeless Palestinian refugee”, and the “immigration of alien Jews who displaced a Palestinian people”. Furthermore, omissions such as the extent of Arab immigration to Israel are intentionally left out to create illusions such as that of the presence of a “native Palestinian people”. What really existed was a multiethnic expression of loosely organized peoples living under Ottoman Turkish rule. In order to properly understand the conflict as a whole, the narratives that disguise what is really happening have to be deconstructed. It has come to the point where truth and fiction are so intermingled that one cannot tell them apart. The mixing of truth and untruth has become so thorough that a de-structuring of the whole narrative is in order.
I will start with the so-called “military occupation”. First of all, let’s put everything in its proper context. One should bear in mind that the controversy surrounding British involvement in the middle east sways between two poles. In the traditional view, the British entered the middle east as advocates of Arab independence and of a national Jewish homeland. According to the popular view, British advocacy was just a facade for the aggrandizement of its Empire. After WWI, it fell to the British to partition and define loosely structured “geographic expressions” whose populations had not yet evolved into sovereign nation states. The British mandate period involved creating a middle-east that was democratic and modern. Indeed, the process of partitioning is another example of where a misleading narrative has come to demonize a specific group, in this case, the British. The British Empire has come to be understood as the cause of almost every difficulty that besets the peoples formerly under British rule. The expansion of the British empire, however, carried with it the general intention of imparting its mode of civilization to the rest of the world. Without the influence of the West in general and of the modern British state in particular, the middle-east after WWI would have likely remained in a state of pre-modern backwardness. When Napoleon arrived in Egypt in 1798, conquering it without much resistance, he found a declining civilization that has since had to contend with its Western neighbor. Swaying between Westernization and radicalization, the Muslim world has been struggling to assert itself in the face of the Great Powers. This basic pattern governing the relationship between the West and Islam is repeated in the relation between Israel and the Palestinians.
The distinction between the West and the Muslim world, and the association of Israel with the West, often go unnoticed. The West and Islam are two distinct historical entities with two different yet combining histories. Furthermore, since the United States’ recognition of Israel’s independence in 1948, Israel has come to be closely associated with the West. Israel integrated the values and institutions of Western culture and government into the fabric of its national existence, while preserving its Jewish essence, albeit at the cost of much assimilation. To the extent that Israel has become a Western phenomenon, the “Jew” has also become “Western”. Never before in history has the Jew been so closely associated with the white man. So close, in fact, that the Jew and Israel are, according to the prevailing anti-Western narrative, guilty of the same so-called crimes that the West has been charged with, which brings us back to the so-called “occupation”. One of the thematic charges brought against the West is “imperialism” which involves colonial occupation and territorial expansion, not always at the cost of the colony, as propaganda would have us believe. Israel has been characterized as the Western Imperialist and charged with the same crimes in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This is because both Western Imperialism and the Arab-Israeli conflict have been misunderstood, wrongly defined, and misrepresented.
A military occupation involves one national authority taking over that of an existing sovereign. The German occupation of France in WW2 is an example. Under occupation the territory is not annexed, rather, authority is transferred. After WW2, the 4th Geneva Convention established international laws for the purpose of protecting civilians in war zones and in order to return the occupied state to its former authority rather than run the risk of annexation. These laws evolved out of the response to the excesses of the axis powers and they are informed by international law theory that goes back to Hugo Grotius in modern times, and as far back as St. Augustine’s theory of Just War which comes down to us from the 4th century CE and remains the implicit philosophical groundwork for modern international law concerning war. Such philosophy is foreign to the Muslim world and its take on war and peace. Israel, on the other hand, has internalized the just war theory as part of its own process of modernization and Westernization. One would not be hard pressed, in fact, to find that St. Augustine’s moral reflections on war come from the very ideas laid down in the Torah itself.
The relation of Israel to the so-called Palestinians does not fit the definition of an occupation because there is no sovereign state that is being occupied. What we have come to call “Palestine” is the West bank and the Gaza strip. Under Ottoman rule, before and during WWI, “Palestine” (so named since the expulsion of the Jews by the Romans in 70 CE) included what is now Israel, Jordan, Gaza, and the West bank. It was split in half, one piece for the Arabs (Transjordan) and one for the Jews (Israel). Needless to say, it is not so simple as it looks on paper, but it is also not so complex as it has come to seem. When Pakistan and India were divided, Muslims in India migrated to Pakistan and Hindus in Pakistan migrated to India. This paints a neater picture than reality because it does not bear out the details of the complex process of how a nation state evolves. But the general idea is clear, and the basic point is simple. When nation states were delineated by the British, a basic plan was set in motion that was reasonably accommodated in reality. The boundaries of the nation were drawn, with population exchanges and property transfers being part of the process of streamlining the nation building process. Let us not forget that the lines for these nations were not imagined out of thin air by the British, they were refined. The forms of the modern nation states are approximations of geographic and demographic expressions that have taken shape over the course of history. The influence of the West involved modernizing and streamlining these natural expressions such that national, linguistic, political and cultural boundaries neatly matched up, enabling peoples that were formerly ruled by foreign entities to achieve national sovereignty. The final product is the modern map as we know it.
When Palestine was cut in half during the British mandate period, this streamlining process, together with the general British goal of connecting the totality of the empire from the Atlantic to the mid-Pacific by incorporating Palestine, were interrupted. Neither before nor after the war of 1948 did the Arab nations absorb the overflow of Arabs who remained in and around Israel. The same thing happened in a much more definitive way in the aftermath of the 1967 war. Upon gaining the territories called Gaza and the West bank in a successful defensive war, Israel did not annex those regions – which it could justifiably have done under the circumstances – nor did the Arab nations absorb the Arab refugees that remained there. This tactic of refusing to absorb refugees was the common tactic all along on the Arab side. If the refugees are not absorbed by their Arab brethren, then the Israelis can easily be cast as occupiers while the Arabs in limbo can be cast as “displaced homeless native refugees”. Furthermore, the idea of placing the responsibility on Israel to absorb refugees who are violently opposed to Israel’s very existence is not within the boundaries of reason by any stretch of the imagination. If the public believes the narrative that charges Israel with genocidal imperialism against a so-called native Palestinian people, then a “Palestinian nationalism” can be constructed ex post facto, so long as the public, and the so called Palestinians believe that a native Palestinian people existed as a national entity before the refugee problem. Today this myth has become a common assumption. It is taken for granted in the public sphere of debate regarding the crisis.
What is commonly referred to as the “Israeli occupation” is in fact a matter of “territorial dispute”. This is because there was no Palestinian national state to be occupied in the first place. The so called occupation is really an unresolved population exchange. The territories will remain contested until the national status of Israel is conclusively defined, and the Arabs called Palestinians are allowed to return to the lands of their brethren to become citizens. Without these appropriations the so-called “peace process” will continue with no end in sight.
Vladimir Putin's recent outrages, from his unflinching support for the murderous regime of Bashar Assad in Syria to its violent and illegal annexation of parts of Ukraine to his apparent complicity in shooting down a civilian airliner last week, killing more than 290 innocent people, are affronts to the civilized world.
We can send a message to Putin: Boycotting Russian fish strikes at the heart of a strategic, $2.4 billion Russian export and supports one of America’s most proud industries!
A new petition has been started by former U.S. Congressman George Hochbrueckner, calling on Congress and the White House to ban imports of Russian fish, which has infiltrated American restaurants, supermarkets, and homes under the guise of American seafood (the FDA shockingly allows Russian pollock to be sold as "Alaska" pollock)! You may have seen op-eds about the campaign in The Daily Caller and The Hill this week.
I encourage you all to sign our petition on change.org and share with all your friends! We need national support to send a message to Vladimir Putin that we won't stand for his violent behavior, nor his attempts to undermine hard-working American workers.
For more information, read our website www.justsaynyet.org, follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Please share with all your friends!
As recent events continue to show us, one never knows when either a man-made or natural disaster can strike. Normal, routine, everyday life can change in the twinkling of an eye. Part of being a responsible adult (especially if one has a family to protect and care for) is to be mentally and physically prepared to face a wide variety of crisis and scenarios. SHTF scenarios unfold everyday across the world and have claimed the lives of countless millions. It doesn't take a genius to realize that the increasing complexity and fragility of our modern technological society and financial systems, increased concentration of governmental power, and deepening ideological divides are a cause for concern. While we are blessed to live the relatively comfortable and secure lives that we do, there is no guarantee that cannot change overnight. It is far better to be prepared for a serious crisis that never happens, than be unprepared for the one that does. There are many useful hints, tips, and ideas you can easily implement to not only survive, but perhaps even thrive, in a moment of crisis. Here are just a few ideas for your consideration.
Use solar-powered lawn lights instead of candles
This is a 'trick' I just recently heard about and I can only wonder why I hadn't actually thought of such a simple but effective idea before. Pick up a dozen or so at your local big box store and stick them in the plants in your windowsill and you'll have all the light you'll ever need if you lose your electric power. At that time you can spread them around the house in other potted plants or even in vases giving you lots of long-lasting and comforting light without having to dip into your all important and limited stash of candles. Plus, you are actually a little less likely to burn down your humble abode by following this advice. These are cheap, found nearly everywhere, and can be purchased for as little as 99 cents a piece. There is no reason any home should be without them. Such simple, easy to use, and inexpensive technology is your friend. Take advantage of it.
Use bleach or natural sunlight to purify water
A clean and safe water supply or stockpile is underrated and often not spoken about. Whether it's kept in the back of the guest closet, in the crawl space, or under the bed, you need to be storing water. But if not, you still need to be able to purify any water you may have to collect from local lakes, streams, or rain runoff in an extended emergency situation.
If you are using water from a stream or lake pour the water through two coffee filters and into a clean, airtight container. The coffee filters will remove large particles of impurities. Let the water stand for 15 minutes so it can settle. Fill a liquid dropper with bleach and then add eight drops of bleach to the water. Mix well. Wait 30 minutes, then smell the water. The water should have a very faint bleach odor that is present but barely noticeable. If you cannot smell the bleach, add two more drops and mix it again. Do not exceed 16 drops of bleach per gallon of water. If you purifying water that came from a safe well or municipal water system you can skip the first and last steps.
I believe it is better to add the bleach just prior to drinking versus adding the bleach before storing it. Some sources say that is perfectly acceptable to skip the bleach step if the stored water came from an already chlorinated source. Either way, definitely keep a gallon of new and unopened bleach around 'just in case.' The active ingredients do start to break down over time so rotate your emergency water purification bleach bottle once a year or so. For just a couple of dollars you can reliably purify thousands of gallons of water in a SHTF scenario. And that simple fact may save your life someday.
The SODIS method of water purification, on the other hand, uses the natural UV rays from the sun to purify water stored in clear water or soda bottles. Used effectively around the world, this method does not seem to be as well-known in the U.S. but would be a good trick in a pinch and when other water purification methods may not be available. I do not rotate my water storage (though it is kept in a cool, dry place) and will just line even several year old water up along the roof gutter for a days worth of sunning before deeming them good and safe to drink if I need to. Obviously, the cleaner the water source you are starting out with the better off you'll be. Just remember, it only works with clear bottles.
Keep the extent of your preparations and supplies a secret
This is a hard thing for most people to do, especially in the age of Facebook, blogging, and the Internet. Perhaps it is a bit hypocritical of me to say so in a publicly posted article, but the truth is that Operational Security must be exercised if you store or stockpile extra weapons, ammunition, food, or supplies. Human nature is such that it is in fact very hard to not be tempted to 'show off' your preps and hard work to those around you. But the opposite must be practiced. Do not advertise the fact to random people, your neighbors, and friends who do not share your viewpoint when it comes to preparedness. By doing so you only make yourself a serious target if, God forbid, any serious WROL or SHTF scenario was to unfold. Networking with like-minded individuals is advisable but showing off your "stash" to all the neighbors and everyone who ever stops by the house may be very tempting, but it is extremely unwise.
If you are making the necessary preparations to keep your family and yourself safe, secure, and supplied in a crisis then do not, under any circumstances, let a careless (or purposeful) word, FB post, or YouTube video compromise all the hard work and financial outlay you have already committed to that cause. The veneer of civilization and civil behavior is a thin one at best and it is in your best interest to remember that. A bunch of unexpected mouths showing up at your door expecting you to feed or supply them in a crisis situation because of your past "indiscretions" can only end badly for all involved. Remember to lay low, keep calm, keep quiet, and be smart if you are suddenly thrust into a serious man-made or natural disaster. Advertising your preps before hand is foolish, and advertising them during such a time can potentially have deadly results. Loose lips will indeed sink your ship, endanger your loved ones, and sabotage your own efforts to be prepared in a world of surprises.
Plan on bugging in, not bugging out
There is a huge amount of talk in Prepper circles about the need to 'bug out.' Everyone's secret fantasy seems to be to go play "Wolverines" in the nearest forest or hole up at some secret survival retreat in the wilderness at the first sign of serious trouble. The truth is not one out of a thousand people would survive a month in the wilderness (let alone in the middle of winter) and most do not have the financial resources to purchase the type of Bug Out location that would be of any true benefit in a major emergency. The average modern man doesn't really have the knowledge anymore to survive as Jeremiah Johnson if he were just thrust into the wilderness. And those woods would get crowded pretty darn fast as undoubtedly a great many people share the same half-baked scheme if worse comes to worse.
The reality is that one should plan to hunker down and bug in except in the most dire of extreme emergencies. And there are numerous ways one can strengthen and fortify ones own home to make it less of a target and more defensible if necessary. I was forced from my home and played refugee for four days following a massive tornado that ripped through my hometown a few years ago. I was given fifteen minutes to get out by the local police so I know the value of being prepared to leave if one has too and the importance of having a place in mind to go (in this case to my brothers home a few miles up the road). But I also know that leaving your home base of supplies, comforts, and frankly all 'your stuff' simply sucks and the minute you hit the road without a very well stocked and friendly place to go you are really simply becoming a refugee. And refugees quickly become hungry, desperate, and victimized in a serious crisis and have since the beginning of time. Ask the stinking, desperate hordes that got stuck in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina about how having to rely on government help during an emergency can work out.
The other thing that no one seems to think about that if you tried to get out of dodge along with the rest of the lemmings you will get hopelessly stuck on some clogged roads with a bunch of increasingly desperate, panicky, and potentially dangerous other people. Unless your life or humble abode is in immediate danger or you were smart enough to perhaps decipher some early warning signs of a disaster and hit the roads before the Golden Horde, you will probably simply not be able to reach your perceived sanctuary at Grandma's house in the country. Think about how bad it is during rush hour if there is even a single accident. Multiply that by a thousand fold during a true SHTF crisis. Now take the time to rethink that bug out plan again. You either have to get out extremely early, or hunker down.
If you can, it is best to hunker down, fortify your home as best you can, lie low, and try to ride out the first wave of panic and violence. Stay inside, wisely use your stockpiled supplies, have your defensive arms at the ready, and avoid drawing any attention to yourself whatsoever from anyone including LEO's (law enforcement officers) who can often get both trigger happy and extremely gun grabby in a SHTF scenarios. If you absolutely must leave your home, then do have a very specific place in mind to go that is safe, dry, stocked, and with reasonable accommodations that is as close as possible to your current location. The closer it is the more reasonable chance of you actually being able to reach it in a serious and scary situation. Generically "heading for the hills" on the other hand is not a plan, but merely an act of desperation and thinking that you can easily flee to Aunt Betty's country farmhouse 300 miles away is probably little more than a pipe dream.
Get to know your neighbors
This is far more important than most people realize. You do not need to fully blab all your secrets and reveal all your preparations to everyone on the block or be an annoying idiot, but it is a very good idea to be on a cordial and first name basis with all your neighbors in case you may ever have to turn to them for help or assistance. In a crisis scenario they will undoubtedly have ideas, skills, resources, and tools that you do not. The ability to quickly band together can be imperative for safety when needed and even possibly save your life or property. You should not live in just a sea of strangers on your block but at minimum have a decent, friendly relationship of some sort if possible with those around you. You do not need to be everyone's best buddy on the block, but you should be able to easily show up on their front door without them seeing you as a stranger or even as potential prey or danger instead of a friendly neighbor if things 'go south' quickly. Friendly relations before a SHTF fan event can quickly turn into an important 'we need to stick together' alliance afterwards.
I live on a cul-de-sac where everyone knows everyone to one degree or another and some of us know each other quite well. I regularly share fresh eggs from my backyard chickens and extra harvest from my garden with all my neighbors. And the casual wave as one drives by or the friendly greeting at the mailbox can pay handsome dividends in the end. Such gestures costs you absolutely nothing more than the most minimal of effort. My neighborhood banded together magnificently when it was hit hard by the tornado that I referenced earlier and the lessons I learned from that experience have stuck with me to this day.
In conclusion, let me state that reasonable "prepping" is not paranoia but merely insurance to help you get through an unexpected, potential crisis in the future. It is wise to prepare for the unexpected and be ready to respond effectively to "disagreeable" future events that may unfold without warning. Planning ahead dramatically decreases your chances of being a frightened refugee or merely another desperate person in a sea of others if disaster strikes. It buys you valuable time to adapt to a fluid and potentially dangerous situation and will help you keep a clear head when possible panic rears its ugly head. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst should be your motto and adapted into your everyday life.
By AG
WHEN Egypt had initially put in MORSI, with the pressure from Obama and Valerie Jarrett due to her involvement in the Muslim Brotherhood. The plan was that Egypt after receiving the Tanks and Fighter Jets sent from Obama to Egypt, this was the first stage. Than it was Morsi that was going to join forces with Hamas; due to the affiliation with the muslim Brotherhood. However that all went sour, when Morsi tried to force his hand on the Egyptian people with Sharia law;
At that point the Egyptian people that have been Americas ally's for many many years, was now in a catch 22. So they did what any Sovereign nation would and should do, they removed the cancerous tumor Morsi. And in time the truth will come out that Morsi was in fact involved in the attack on Benghazi.
Obama famously failed to act when warned that ISIS was preparing to mount an offensive in Western Iraq. This left ISIS free to conquer, with virtually no resistance, city after city in the defense of which American soldiers have shed blood.
Now Obama is receiving new warnings, this time from the Kurds in Northern Iraq. In fact, according to the Washington Post, the Kurds are “pleading for U.S. military aid.”
Unlike the Iraqi government, the Kurds possess a viable military that is prepared to fight ISIS. Indeed, they are fighting ISIS, and fairly effectively.
However, the Kurds now have a 650 mile border to defend, thanks to the abandonment of the area by Iraq’s military forces. Thus, the Kurdish forces are stretched extremely thin.
The Kurds should be receiving a share of the weapons the U.S. is supplying to the Iraqi government. But that, of course, isn't happening. Mansour Barzani, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s intelligence and security chief, told the Post that Baghdad hasn’t provided “a single bullet.
Meanwhile, says the Post, the ISIS forces attacking the Kurds have seized weapons worth hundreds of millions of dollars from retreating Iraqi soldiers. In effect, Baghdad is supplying ISIS while providing the Kurds with nothing.
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the Obama administration has rejected Kurdish pleas for arms with which to fight ISIS. Its rationale is that assistance must come through the central government.
But the central government is (a) dysfunctional and (b) unwilling to lift a finger to help the Kurds in any case. In fact, the Iraq government’s unwillingness to “play nice” with the Kurds has been part of the Obama administration’s rationale for not doing more to help the government.
Unlike the government of Iraq, the Kurds are ready and willing to inflict defeat on ISIS. With assistance from the U.S. in the form of weaponry, the Kurds would probably be able to inflict that much-needed defeat.
It seems criminal for Obama to deny this assistance in the name of defending the interests of a central government that Obama has condemned for its dealings with the Kurds (among others).
ISIS is looking to establish a caliphate, and making good progress toward that end. Meanwhile, Obama dithers, using the Iraq government’s poor treatment of the Kurds as an excuse for not doing more to help it fight ISIS, and the Kurd’s natural animosity to the government as an excuse for not helping them.
It’s almost as if Obama is indifferent to the progress of ISIS and willing to embrace any excuse for standing idly by in the face of that progress.
By Craig Andresen on July 31, 2014 at 5:15 am
Jumping the shark is the term used in show business when any particular series, movie or television, has gone past the point of no return with something so inane and ridiculous that people, even their die-hard fans, simply give up and stop watching.
It originated when Fonzie used water skis to jump over a tank with a live shark swimming in it and basically, that was the end of any interest in Happy Days.
The Obama regime has, officially, jumped the shark.
All but the completely Kool Aid soaked liberal/socialists and progressives, those so overtly inebriated on the juice that they can no longer utter a three word sentence, are now asking themselves…What in THE HELL???
Folks, you cannot make this stuff up. They actually said these things and there is no turning back because…they actually MEANT to say these things.
First…let’s lend an ear or an eye to the shark-jumping words of one Hillary Clinton…
I have read the phone message message. I don't know who thought that up, but you are preaching to the choir. By identifying your message as the tea party in the opening statement, people will hang up. You need to hit them where it will hurt most, in their pocket book, in the lives of their children, and in the communities where they live. The truth of the matter is that they need to be scared into opening their eyes to the dangers of how this border crisis, and obama in general will affect them.
The opening should say:
Your job could be at risk if millions of illegals are granted any sort of amnesty by president obama. Only 25 percent of the illegals at the border are children, the rest are adults, and families as well as many others being teenage gang members, and criminals. Some of these are diseased children who will be allowed to start school in the fall putting your own children at risk. Your local communities will have to pay for food, housing, school, and medical treatment putting a burden on already broke local governments. President obama has done nothing to stop illegals entering this country and in fact has issued a change to the immigration law to allow them to come in. Congress writes and changes laws and the president enforces them. We as a country must stop president obama from acting as a dictator, no matter what race, creed, political party or opinion you have, he is not above the law. This is not just about illegals at the border, this is about our constitution, our freedoms and the future of our children and grandchildren. Please allow us to call you back to explain our plan to stop this president from putting Americans out of work, creating a healthcare crisis, and giving citizenships to millions of people who break our laws.
This may be too technical for some to grasp, but we need to not turn people off with too many issues, if we can get them to come together on the border issue and see what obama is dong there then maybe they will be open to others. The border issue will eventually affect all Americans with a domino affect overload all our systems ( obama's plan) , especially if he gives blanket amnesty to all illegals (10-20 million or so)in this country. As we know Boehner is afraid to do anything but bluster, and the Senate is handcuffed by Harry Reid, so Congress is worthless.
Just a thought
The root cause of the border crisis is directly attributable to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty created under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) plan. DACA created the incentive for illegal aliens to break our laws as Obama deliberately undermined our nation’s sovereignty by simply creating his own. American’s must realize that this administration is solely responsible for the breakdown of our southern border. The factual evidence cannot be refuted.
This map is provided by NumbersUSA and it outlines how systematically widespread the relocation of unaccompanied minors has become throughout our country. Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and Oklahoma have literally been invaded. As of today, 16 states have confirmed “relocation centers” that are currently responsible for housing illegal immigrants.
The map below outlines the states who have implemented these centers (red triangles), proposed centers (yellow), and rejected centers (blue pins).
These states were not chosen at random either. The evidence proves this in the form of grants awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services to Non-Profit Private Non-Government Organizations. The grants were specifically awarded to organizations under the Office of Refugee Resettlement. While there are hundred’s of organizations who were awarded grants, they pale in comparison to the amount awarded to the Baptist Child and Family Services organization and the Southwest Key Programs.
The Baptist Child and Family Services (BCFS) is labeled as “a global system of non-profit health and human service organization’s operating programs throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa”. In the United States their principle offices are located in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
To say that this organization is massive would be an understatement given that HHS has awarded them $280 million this year alone. When you combine that with the $61 million in 2013, $64 million in 2012, $18.9 million in 2011, and $11.7 million in 2010, the total equals $457 million. In short, BCFS has been awarded more money this year then all of the previous years combined, but why?
The answer comes in the form of an official BCFS announcement given after they had been awarded $190 million on July 7, 2014. According to the announcement, “BCFS will be expanding with 6 new regional hubs for BCFS’ new family support and evaluation programs“. The new hubs will be located in, “New York, N.Y., Miami, FL., Houston, TX., Dallas, TX., Sacramento-area, CA., Los Angeles area, CA.”
The President and CEO of the company is Kevin C. Dinnin. According to the San Antonio Business Journal, “Dinnin concluded FY 2012 with more than $100 million in revenue”. Meaning, his nonprofit organization made $36 million that year.
BCFS actually has its own Emergency Management Department (BCFS-EMD) which, according to the official BCFS-EMD website “is a nonprofit partner of federal, state, and local government and private industry”. These are the so called “Brown Shirts” who have been tasked to convert military bases throughout the country into shelters.
They have been tasked to Joint Base Lackland, SA., Fort Still, OK., Joint Base Lewis – McChord in Dupont, Wash., and Naval Base Ventura County, in Port Hueneme, Calif.
The second organization, Southwest Key Programs, is just as concerning as BCFS. According to their official website, Southwest Key is “the largest provider of services to unaccompanied alien children in the United States”. Similar to BCFS, they are connected to the Office of Refugee Resettlement of Health and Human Services.
Southwest Key currently has over 65 operating programs throughout the country. They have 4 in California, 3 in Arizona, 18 in Texas, 15 in Georgia, 1 in Wisconsin, 1 in Delaware, and 2 in New York.
Health and Human Services awarded Southwest Key its largest grant with $122 million this year, following a pattern similar to BCFS. When you combine that with $86 million in 2013, $50 million in 2012, $35 million in 2011, and $30 million in 2010, the total equals $324 million.
The $122 million awarded to Southwest Key this year suggests that they will continue to expand and their ideology is driven by something much more sinister than the “pursuit of happiness”.
The President and founder of Southwest Key is Dr. Juan Sanchez. Mr. Sanchez founded the program in 1987 and today it has become the 4th largest hispanic-led nonprofit organization in the country. Juan Sanchez also serves on the board of the National Council of La Raza.
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With some exceptions, pundits and politicians alike are, for the most part, stifling meaningful discussions about impeachment, choosing instead to dwell on the electoral ramifications of impeachment rather than upon the dangerous impact of a lawless Chief Executive on the Rule of Law.
Talk about a ruinous equation: an ignorant and apathetic electorate + a lawless Chief Executive + a politically weakened/undermined Congress = Tyranny.
Though impeachment is THE constitutional remedy to Executive overreach, in the absence of public support for such a remedy, and with their future Senatorial political fortunes at stake, Republicans simply have no reasonable recourse but to sue. And, quite naturally, the Democrats are demeaning that remedial effort as well.
To my knowledge, Congress's suing a Chief Executive on the grounds that he has violated the Constitution and the separation of powers doctrine clearly breaks new constitutional ground. And who really knows how it will all play out.
Let's say the court accepts the case and rules in favor of Congress. A long shot, but a possibility. Then what? Since the court has no executive authority, it's ruling would be just that--a ruling without teeth, but, presumably, with some measure of moral authority. Given that scenario, it can only be hoped that Obama would relent. But, if he doesn't back off, then what? In that case, my guess is that public support for impeachment might well appreciably increase, thus, perhaps, persuading Obama to back off. But, what if Obama still doesn't back off even then?
The political gamemanship and wonky calculations aside, when the Chief Executive overreaches his Art II constitutional authority--something Obama clearly has done--thus violating his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, our Founders would have quickly and unreservedly counseled impeachment and removal. In the absence of impeachment, the Founders, to a man, would have encouraged the States and We the People to take all appropriate remedial actions to stop Executive overreach in order to defend our Liberty and our Republic.
As originally designed, we must always bear in mind that determining what is and what is not constitutional rests ultimately with the People. Thus, the burning question becomes this: what will the People and the States, their immediate fiduciary agents, do to restore constitutional order if Obama--or any lawless Chief Executive in the future--cannot be effectively checkmated and stopped by impeachment? The constitutional options are crystal clear: Civil Disobedience, Nullification, Secession, Rebellion. Of course, the People are certainly within their power to simply yield to the lawlessness, a predilection, I'm afraid, which, among too many Americans today, is becoming more and more apparent.
We have over two more years ahead of us to somehow contend with this runaway, transformational Chief Executive. Will he be effectively reigned in before being permitted to plunge the country into chaos, dictatorship or disunion? As God is my judge, I simply do not know how to answer that troubling question. But, disturbingly, the vision of a compliant, shackled American population continues to assail my thoughts.
Personally, whatever remedial actions espoused by our Founders which will restore constitutional order and the Rule of Law is fine by me and should be single-mindedly pursued by us all. But, why do I again feel like a majority of one.
