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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
PAY ATTENTION! DHS TO PURCHASE 62 MILLION MORE ROUNDS OF AR-15 AMMO – OVER 2 1/2 MILLION ROUNDS TO DATE
Feds attempting to control the market, dry up supply? Purchase in addition to billions of bullets previously bought by feds
by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | APRIL 15, 2015
The Department of Homeland Security is set to purchase over 62 million rounds of ammo typically used in AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, just weeks after the ATF was forced to back down on a ban on M855 bullets.
A posting on FedBizOpps.gov this week reveals that the DHS is looking to contract with a company to provide 12.6 million rounds of .223 Remington ammunition per year for a period of five years – totaling 62.5 million bullets.
The solicitation explains that the purchase is intended, “to achieve price savings over the current .223 Rem duty ammunition.” The bullets will be used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents nationwide for “training” purposes.
The .223 Remington is one of the most common rifle cartridges in use in the United States and is used both in bolt action rifles and semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15 and the Ruger Mini-14.
In 2013, following concerns about the DHS buying large quantities of several different types of ammunition, weapons manufacturers noted that the feds may have been attempting to control the ammunition market by forcing manufacturers to hold back stock from general sale.
“If they periodically do this in increments, they’re going to control how much ammo is available on the commercial market,” a weapons manufacturer told Michael Savage, adding that the contracts with bullet manufacturers stipulate that everything made goes to the government as the number one priority before it is allowed to enter the commercial market.
In March 2013, Californian Congressman Doug LaMalfa and 14 of his House peers wrote a letter to the Department of Homeland Security demanding to know why the federal agency was buying so many rounds of ammunition and whether the purchases were part of a deliberate attempt to restrict supply to the American people.
“The extraordinary level of ammunition purchases made by Homeland Security seems to have, in states such as my own, created an extreme shortage of ammunition to the point where many gun owners are unable to purchase any,” LaMalfa wrote in the letter.
The bulk purchase follows attempts by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to ban M855 ammo, another popular round for AR-15’s used by hunters. The ATF justified the ban by claiming that the bullets were “armor piercing” and a threat to law enforcement officers.
After being on the receiving end of a huge backlash, the feds were forced to back down and ATF director B. Todd Jones subsequently tendered his resignation. Democratic Congressman Steve Israel called the ATF backdown “cowardly” and vowed to revive the ban.
The ATF’s threat to ban the ammo temporarily caused prices of the bullet to surge more than double in price.
Although federal agencies are increasingly hiding their purchases by limiting public information on fbo.gov, it can still be conservatively estimated from available data that the feds have purchased at least 2.11 billion rounds of ammunition since April 2012:
Date Reported Agency Amount Caliber
April ’12 – Feb ’13 Various 2,000,000,000 Various
03/25/13 DHS 360,000 .40 S&W
07/26/13 NOAA 72,000 .40 S&W
07/26/13 Army 2,550,000 7.62x39mm
07/26/13 Army 425,000 9x18mm Makarov
08/19/13 TSA 3,454,000 .357 SIG
02/11/14 DHS 141,000 .308 Remington
04/22/14 DHS 25,000,000 12 Gauge
05/22/14 TSA 24,000,000 .357 SIG
04/15/15 DHS 62,000,000 .223 Remington
TOTAL 2,118,002,000
That’s enough ammo to kill around 30% of the world’s population.
Furthermore, U.S. soldiers were shooting around 5.5 million rounds of ammunition per month during the war in Iraq, or 66 million rounds annually. Using that figure, the feds have stockpiled enough ammo over the past two years to fight a 32-year war.
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VIDEO: OBAMA ADMITS NOTED COMMUNIST “SCHOOLED” HIM ON WHITE RACISM
Barack Obama admitted in a recently unearthed 1995 video that Communist schooled him on white racism
by JIM HOFT | GATEWAY PUNDIT | APRIL 15, 2015
Barack Obama admitted in a recently unearthed 1995 video that Communist schooled him on white racism.
Barack Obama wrote about Frank Marshall Davis in his book Dreams of My Father. Communist Frank Marshall Davis was the subject of a 600 page FBI file. For years there have been rumors that Davis was Obama’s real father.
In a 1995 interview Obama admitted Frank Marshall Davis schooled him in “white racism.”
“And the conversation finally ends with me having a conversation with a close friend of my maternal grandfather, a close friend of gramps, a black man from Kansas named Frank. Actually at the time a fairly well known poet named Frank Marshall Davis who had moved to Hawaii and lived there. And so I have a discussion with him about the kinds of frustrations I’m having and he sort of schools me that I should get used to these frustrations.”
Via Trevor Loudon:
From the video: In an extraordinary development, film of Obama explicitly and openly identifying “Frank” as Frank Marshall Davis has suddenly surfaced on the Internet. It is described as having been recorded on September 20,1995, with the program originally airing on Channel 37 Cambridge Municipal Television as an episode of the show “The Author Series.” Obama admits the mysterious “Frank” from his book Dreams from my Father is indeed the communist Frank Marshall Davis. But Obama does NOT say Davis was a communist. America’s Survival, Inc. President Cliff Kincaid discusses the significance of this discovery.
Monday, April 13, 2015
WELCOME TO NAZI AMERICA -YOU’RE NEXT…- VIDEO: VETERAN PULLED OVER BY CAMO-WEARING COPS IN ARMORED VEHICLE
VIDEO: VETERAN PULLED OVER BY CAMO-WEARING COPS IN ARMORED VEHICLE
"I didn't know we were in Iraq"
by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | APRIL 13, 2015
A video out of Gainesville, Florida shows a man being pulled over by camoflague-wearing cops driving an armored vehicle, a disturbing reminder that law enforcement in America is becoming increasingly militarized.
The driver was pulled over after he performed a rude hand gesture directed at the cops, but the issue is not about whether or not the man should have been harassed for flipping the bird, or whether he was also engaged in a “sexual act” as another officer claimed.
The issue is why are police officers performing routine traffic patrols in armored vehicles that wouldn’t look out of place in occupied Afghanistan?
“I’m really getting pulled over by a tank right now?” the man, a Navy veteran, states, to which the an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responds “yes sir”.
The man refers to a U.S. Court of Appeals rulingwhich found that a “gesture of insult is not the basis for a reasonable suspicion of a traffic violation or impending criminal activity.”
However, the cop is not interested and instead demands to see the man’s license before making him step out of the vehicle.
The officer then starts to get angry and threatens to arrest the man for “resisting” because he is not obeying orders quickly enough.
Without citing a law, the cop claims that the driver performed an “improper hand signal”. The man responds by expressing his shock that a “safe community” would need tanks patrolling the streets, stating, “I didn’t know we were in Iraq”.
Another cop then objects to being filmed, claiming that the phone camera could be a firearm, before the man is eventually allowed to leave.
Concerns about the militarization of U.S. law enforcement have heightened since last year’s unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
In December, we reported on comments made by a Spokane Sheriff’s Deputy defending the use of an MRAP armored vehicle by saying it was needed to deal with the threat posed by “constitutionalists”.
“I mean, we’ve got a lot of constitutionalists and a lot of people that stockpile weapons, lots of ammunition, they have weapons here locally,” the officer said.
During a New Hampshire city council meeting in 2013, former Marine Corps Colonel Peter Martino, who was stationed in Fallujah and trained Iraqi soldiers, asserted that the Department of Homeland Security was working with law enforcement to build a “domestic army,” because the federal government is afraid of its own citizens. Martino was responding to the city’s Police Chief, who justified the necessity for the acquisition of an armored ‘Bearcat’ vehicle by citing the “threat” posed by libertarians, sovereign citizen adherents, and Occupy activists in the region.
As we have exhaustively documented, the use of armored vehicles is just one sign of how law enforcement authorities are gearing up to deal with civil unrest in America.
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Bilderberg 2015 in Austria Will Be Like None Before It
By Dan Dicks
The annual Bilderberg meeting is set to take place in Austria this June 2015. Today Dan Dicks of Press For Truth is joined on the line by Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars to discuss what some of the key talking points will be on the agenda this year as well as what protesters and journalists can expect in regards to dealing with the "cobra anti terror squad", a whole new level of security for Bilderberg!
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Bilderberg 2015 in Austria Will Be Like None Before It
Activist Post
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:28:00 GMT
The U.S. CDC: A Sock Puppet for the Industry and Hopelessly Corrupt
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
Catherine J Frompovich
Activist Post
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an attorney-at-law, author, and vaccine investigator, spoke before the New Jersey State legislature regarding the oppressive bill that was introduced to do away with religious exemptions for mandatory vaccinations for children in that state. However, before Kennedy’s presentation, he addressed the media with a dissertation that everyone in the USA needs to hear, especially every legislative body at any level of governance and, particularly, regulatory agencies dealing with health, healthcare and vaccines/vaccinations.
Kennedy explained that he is not against vaccinations per se, and his six children all are vaccinated. His vaccine research began because of his work with educating about mercury contamination from coal burning power plants. At the lectures he would give, mothers would tell him about mercury being injected into their children via vaccines, and that he should investigate what that mercury does to kids, since many of them told of their children’s health problems after being vaccinated.
That was the beginning of his research, which ended in his book, Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak.
As a result of all the research his team did, he came to the conclusion the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “is a cesspool of corruption” and a “sock puppet” for the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry! As matter of fact, these are his exact words: "a troubled agency, in fact, a cesspool of corruption." It’s pervasive and “hopelessly corrupt and dysfunctional.” Based upon that, Kennedy contends that no one should be mandated to take vaccines because the science cannot be trusted.
Furthermore, Kennedy says, “Today, there are 271 new vaccines in CDC's pipeline . . . awaiting approval to be put on the schedule, and each one of those new vaccines could mean upwards of a billion dollars to the companies that own the patents. And Paul Offit has said that he believes that children can get as many as 10,000 vaccines safely. There's never been a study by the CDC of the cumulative impact of these vaccines.”
Kennedy went on to point out that there have been four federal studies done in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2014 that all pointed out how dysfunctional the CDC truly is, but nothing is done about it! However, he does connect some of the dots when he points to “follow the money.”
According to Kennedy,It [vaccine pharmaceutical industry] contributes $2.6 billions a year in lobbying--twice what oil and gas spends. . . . It gives $31 million a year to federal political candidates. . . . The regulatory agency has been undermined. The CDC today, because of these financial conflicts, is a sock puppet for the industry it's supposed to regulate. [CJF emphasis added]One issue he bats out of the ballpark, I think, is when he accuses the media, who were present, of not reporting on vaccine issues. I applauded when I heard those comments. This is what made me cheer:And then of course, you have the press. . . . The pharmaceutical industry, I believe, is the number one advertiser. The pharmaceutical industry spends between 3.4 and 5.4 billion dollars annually on TV, newspaper and radio advertising. It's the number one advertiser. It targets the network news division. It's the number one advertiser on network news. And what I've seen is that time and time again is that these stories do not ever make it into the newspapers and they do not make it onto the national press because of some other considerations.
The pharmaceutical industry has a very good scare tactic which is, if you say anything bad about the CDC vaccine program or you question the safety of vaccines, people will stop vaccinating and children will die. So. . . journalists, and news divisions and editors often times will listen to that ,and sometimes they're looking at the cash that's coming in, but they will not run these stories. And in the long run, that's a big problem because Americans are reading the science anyway, even if you guys aren't reporting it. [CJF emphasis added]As an aside, scare tactics were used by Big Pharma to get the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-660) enacted. They threatened to stop making vaccines, if they didn’t get their “get out of jail free card.” Congress caved and U.S. children have suffered untold horrors from vaccines and vaccinations ever since.
Kennedy talks about the CDC’s epidemiologist Verstraeten’s 2000 study that found a correlation between mercury and autism, but was reworked to ‘prove’ there was no connection between mercury in vaccines and ASD; the CDC’s Bill Thompson, PhD, nightmare embarrassment wherein he names names as to who ordered the lies at CDC: Frank DeStefano and the former head of the CDC, Julie Gerberding! Kennedy says that Thompson has 100,000 pages of damning documents and wants to testify before Congress. He also cites the MMR vaccine mumps active efficacy ratings fudged for years and about which Merck & Company apparently lied to keep that vaccine’s license, according to two whistleblowers and a lawsuit.
Kennedy tells the cold, hard factual facts about vaccine science and politics. All those members of the U.S. House of Representatives who signed onto House Resolution 117 ought to be made to listen to Kennedy’s explanation of the science that was uncovered and to the constitutional attorney who followed him. Plus, retract that asinine resolution!
Here is the video of that outstanding presentation by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
At 34 on the timeline, the Constitutional issues with any bill/law doing away with the religious exemption to vaccines/vaccinations are discussed. It’s an entanglement with religion that is unconstitutional. It amounts to a deprivation of due process, and as the attorney said, a “trifecta of violations” impacting fundamental human and constitutional rights!
Sue Collins, an activist, made remarks that religious freedom is paramount. However, the only religion that the bill will allow is pharmaceutical religion, which pharmaceutical companies dictate. She further emphasized that everyone not follow the only religion the pharmaceutical industry will allow citizens to practice—Pharma’s idea of religion.
Resource:
RFK Jr. Speaks Out on Vaccine Mandates & Safety at New Jersey State Capital in TrentonCatherine J Frompovich (website) is a retired natural nutritionist who earned advanced degrees in Nutrition and Holistic Health Sciences, Certification in Orthomolecular Theory and Practice plus Paralegal Studies. Her work has been published in national and airline magazines since the early 1980s. Catherine authored numerous books on health issues along with co-authoring papers and monographs with physicians, nurses, and holistic healthcare professionals. She has been a consumer healthcare researcher 35 years and counting.
Catherine’s latest book, published October 4, 2013, is Vaccination Voodoo, What YOU Don’t Know About Vaccines, available on Amazon.com.
Her 2012 book A Cancer Answer, Holistic BREAST Cancer Management, A Guide to Effective & Non-Toxic Treatments, is available on Amazon.com and as a Kindle eBook.
Two of Catherine’s more recent books on Amazon.com are Our Chemical Lives And The Hijacking Of Our DNA, A Probe Into What’s Probably Making Us Sick (2009) and Lord, How Can I Make It Through Grieving My Loss, An Inspirational Guide Through the Grieving Process (2008)
The U.S. CDC: A Sock Puppet for the Industry and Hopelessly Corrupt
Activist
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:27:00 GMT
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Family Refuses Police ‘Hush Money’ after Son with Down Syndrome Beaten
FAMILY REFUSES POLICE ‘HUSH MONEY’ AFTER SON WITH DOWN SYNDROME BEATEN
Family demands reform over cash
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by CASSANDRA FAIRBANKS | FREE THOUGHT PROJECT | APRIL 12, 2015
We have reported on the despicable actions of San Diego Sheriff’s Deputy, Jeffrey Guy and his long history of excessive force accusations many times now, here at The Free Thought Project.
Guy rose to brutality infamy after he beat and pepper sprayed 22-year-old Antonio Martinez, a man with down syndrome and the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. Despite admitting under oath that he had no reasonable suspicion to believe Martinez was ever involved in a crime, he still says he would do it all over again today. The case is now about to head to trial.
The Martinez family previously stated that they would be willing to settle out of court under three conditions. They wanted the department to apologize, release their policy on dealing with the mentally disabled, and have Deputy Guy volunteer for the Special Olympics. The department so far has rejected these simple conditions.
The incident began when the 4’11” Martinez was walking to his family’s bakery on Dec. 20, 2012. Guy yelled at him to stop, simply because the young man was wearing a black hoodie. When Martinez did not stop, Deputy Guy became angry at him for “exercising his constitutional right not to stop for a consensual detention,” the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit continues on to say that the deputy “looked Tony in the face and then unloaded a canister of highly irritating pepper spray into Tony’s face and eyes,” beat him with a weighted baton, slammed his face into the pavement and cuffed him. While the beating was taking place, Martinez’ sisters were screaming at the officer that their brother has down syndrome, unsuccessfully attempting to appeal to the officer’s humanity- something that he clearly lacks.
After Martinez was handcuffed, other deputies jumped in, and Martinez was taken to the hospital, detained, and then jailed for 5 hours; essentially kidnapped. He was charged with resisting arrest despite the fact that there was no reason to stop him in the first place. Deputy guy testified that this was necessary to “document” the incident.
The family was reportedly offered an unknown but “substantial amount” to settle and quiet down, but they are determined to cause change and opted to go to trial in an attempt to force reform.
The Martinez family is open to a settlement “if they cooperate with us and show us what changes they will make,” Jude Basile who is representing the Martinez’ told U-T San Diego.
In response to the incident, the department reportedly “issued a bulletin” for deputies who encounter the mentally ill. It is unknown how the magical bulletin can replace the training provided in Crisis Intervention Training, a course which should be mandatory for all officers to learn how to de-escalate situations.
The department also maintains that this is not a systemic issue. A search for the words “mentally ill” will provide a basis for a good argument against their statement.
Family demands reform over cash.
Family Refuses Police ‘Hush Money’ after Son with Down Syndrome Beaten
Cassandra Fairbanks
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:16:01 GMT
Police Records Shed Light on Secret Military Training in USA
Pentagon absorbs local police in federalization scheme.
Police Records Shed Light on Secret Military Training in USA
Mikael Thalen
Sat, 11 Apr 2015 19:01:47 GMT
The Whitehouse’s New Executive Order On Cyber Crime is (Unfortunately) No Joke
Nadia Kayyali and Kurt Opsahl
Activist Post
On the morning of April 1st, the Whitehouse issued a new executive order (EO) that asserts that malicious “cyber-enabled activities” are a national threat, declares a national emergency, and establishes sanctions and other consequences for individuals and entities. While computer and information security is certainly very important, this EO could dangerously backfire, and chill the very security research that is necessary to protect people from malicious attacks.
We wish we could say it was a very well-orchestrated April Fool’s joke, but it appears the Whitehouse was serious. The order is yet another example of bad responses to very real security concerns. It comes at the same time as Congress is considering the White House’s proposal for fundamentally flawed cybersecurity legislation.
That perhaps shouldn’t be surprising, since so far, D.C.’s approach to cybersecurity hasn’t encouraged better security through a better understanding of the threats we face (something security experts internationally have pointed out is necessary). Instead of encouraging critical security research into vulnerabilities, or creating a better way to disclose vulnerabilities, this order could actually discourage that research.
The most pernicious provision, Section 1(ii)(B), allows the Secretary of the Treasury, “in consultation with” the Attorney General and Secretary of State, to make a determination that an person or entity has “materially … provided … technological support for, or goods or services in support of any” of these malicious attacks.
While that may sound good on its face, the fact is that the order is dangerously overbroad. That’s because tools that can be used for malicious attacks are also vital for defense. For example, penetration testing is the process of attempting to gain access to computer systems, without credentials like a username. It’s a vital step in finding system vulnerabilities and fixing them before malicious attackers do. Security researchers often publish tools, and provide support for them, to help with this testing. Could the EO be used to issue sanctions against security researchers who make and distribute these tools? On its face, the answer is…maybe.
To be sure, President Obama has said that “this executive order [does not] target the legitimate cybersecurity research community or professionals who help companies improve their cybersecurity.” But assurances like this are not enough. Essentially, with these words, Obama asks us to trust the Executive, without substantial oversight, to be able to make decisions about the property and rights of people who may not have much recourse once that decision has been made, and who may well not get prior notice before the hammer comes down. Unfortunately, the Department of Justice has used anti-hacking laws far too aggressively to gain that trust.
As several security researchers who spoke up against similarly problematic terms in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act recently pointed out in an amicus brief:It’s clear that security researchers play an essential function. It was researchers (not the government) who discovered and conscientiously spread the news about Heartbleed, Shellshock, and POODLE, three major vulnerabilities discovered in 2014. Those researchers should not have to question whether or not they will be subject to sanctions.There are relatively few sources of pressure to fix design defects, whether they be in wiring, websites, or cars. The government is not set up to test every possible product or website for defects before its release, nor should it be; in addition, those defects in electronic systems that might be uncovered by the government (for instance, during an unrelated investigation) are often not released, due to internal policies. Findings by industry groups are often kept quiet, under the assumption that such defects will never come to light—just as in Grimshaw (the Ford Pinto case). The part of society that consistently serves the public interest by finding and publicizing defects that will harm consumers is the external consumer safety research community, whether those defects be in consumer products or consumer websites.
To make matters worse, while most of the provisions specify that they apply to activity taking place outside of or mostly outside of the US, Section 1(ii)(B) has no such limitation. We have concerns about how the order applies to everyone. But this section also brings up constitutional due process concerns. That is, if it were to apply to people protected by the U.S. Constitution, it could violate the Fifth Amendment right to due process.
As we’ve had to point out repeatedly in the discussions about reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, unclear laws, prosecutorial (or in this case, Executive Branch) discretion, coupled with draconian penalties are not the answer to computer crime.
Please visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where this article first appeared, for the latest news in digital privacy and civil liberties.
The Whitehouse’s New Executive Order On Cyber Crime is (Unfortunately) No Joke
Activist
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:51:00 GMT