BIG NEWS: Obama Waives Bush Law Banning Child Soldiers – ConstitutionSchool

 

Sunday afternoon, President Obama signed a Presidential memorandum, stating the following:
“I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive the application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA [Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008] with respect to Libya, South Sudan, and Yemen…  and the issuance of licenses for direct commercial sales of U.S. origin defense articles; and I hereby waive such provisions accordingly.”


BIG NEWS: Obama Waives Bush Law Banning Child Soldiers – ConstitutionSchool

The US vs. the ‘Shi’ite Crescent’? - JPost - Opinion - Op-Eds

 
The American approach to the Arab world can be criticized for inconsistency on a number of levels.

The US vs. the ‘Shi’ite Crescent’? - JPost - Opinion - Op-Eds

The Defamation Bill is being used as a backdoor means of introducing state regulation of the press

Governments have improved the quality of legislation in recent years by ensuring that measures are scrutinised before beginning their formal parliamentary stages. The Defamation Bill, currently before the Lords, has been through this process and should help reduce the soaring costs of libel actions while balancing the protection of reputation with free expression. It is, therefore, unfortunate that in its final stages, the Bill is being used as a backdoor means of introducing state regulation of the press for the first time since 1695.

On Tuesday, the House of Lords supported a last-minute amendment to set up an arbitration system for people complaining about their treatment by the press. Peers backing the move were critical of newspapers for failing to implement the recommendations of the Leveson inquiry. Yet scarcely 10 weeks have passed since Leveson reported and great progress has been made towards putting in place a regulatory structure that meets most of the inquiry’s aims.

Leveson and the Lords - Telegraph

Virginia moves closer to creating state's own currency | The Daily Caller

Lawmakers in Virginia say they want to keep their options open in case the value of the U.S. dollar ever collapses — so they’re considering minting state coinage.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that a proposal to study the effectiveness of such a plan “sailed through” the state’s lower house this week:

The idea that Virginia should consider issuing its own money was dismissed as just another quixotic quest by one of the most conservative members of the state legislature when [Virginia Del. Robert G.] Marshall introduced it three years ago. But it has since gained traction not only in Virginia, but also in states across the country as Americans have grown increasingly suspicious of the institutions entrusted with safeguarding the economy.

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Virginia City Outlaws Government Drones - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Government domestic surveillance drones are rapidly moving up on the civil liberties agenda. Now one city has become the first in the nation to address this threat head-on: Charlottesville, Va

Virginia City Outlaws Government Drones - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Gadgets for Armageddon - MarketWatch

 When packing for a disaster, people tend to be more concerned with their supply of canned food and bottled water than their iPhone apps, but the makers of a range of gadgets and software say technology can be almost as useful.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, product launches in the emergency tech category were abundant: There was the SpareOne, a $99 backup cellphone (SpareOne) with a GPS locator that makes free emergency calls and operates on a single AA battery, and the Luci, an inflatable solar-powered lamp that retails for $16. An app called Proteg-Go ($1.99 to download and another $1.99 a month) (Proteg-Go) promises to immediately notify friends and family if you’re in an accident or other emergency situation. Also on display were multiple battery-backup devices and charging alternatives (Powering up without a plug) for consumers who anticipate finding themselves without power for a prolonged period, as many Northeast residents did this fall after superstorm Sandy. See 10 things the end of the world won’t tell you

Gadgets for Armageddon - MarketWatch

US begins transporting French troops to Mali: military

Stuttgart, Germany: The US military has started airlifting French troops and equipment into Mali to assist their operation against al Qaeda-linked rebels, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Tuesday.

"At the request of the French government, we have begun flying equipment and personnel from France to Mali," an AFRICOM spokesman, Chuck Prichard, told AFP.

"We expect the mission to last for the next several days. As of yet we've had two flights that have landed and we anticipate more in the coming days."


US begins transporting French troops to Mali: military | NDTV.com

Military Plans to Hide Drones Underwater to Prevent Detection

On January 11, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a weapons program that sounds as sinister as it does science fiction.
In a program it inelegantly calls Upward Falling Payloads, the clandestine military research and development group plans to build weapons vehicles that will be stored dormant underwater for years and then suddenly surface when summoned by remote control and deliver their payloads — including drones — by “falling upward.”

“The goal is to support the Navy with distributed technologies anywhere, anytime over large maritime areas. If we can do this rapidly, we can get close to the areas we need to affect, or become widely distributed without delay,” said Andy Coon, DARPA program manager. “To make this work, we need to address technical challenges like extended survival of nodes under extreme ocean pressure, communications to wake-up the nodes after years of sleep, and efficient launch of payloads to the surface.”

In an announcement, DARPA reasons that the sea is the perfect place to hid these deadly nodes. Keeping the weapons below the surface will give their attacks the element of surprise and the vastness of the oceans “provides opportunity to simultaneously operate across great distances.”



Military Plans to Hide Drones Underwater to Prevent Detection

Union membership falls to lowest percentage in 76 years | Reuters

 The total number of union members fell by nearly 400,000, from 11.8 percent of the workforce in 2011, the Labor Department report on union membership said. The rate of 11.3 percent of the workforce was the lowest since 1936, when Franklin Roosevelt was president.

Union membership falls to lowest percentage in 76 years | Reuters

McDonald's settles Mich. suit over Islamic diet - seattlepi.com

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — McDonald's and one of its franchise owners agreed to pay $700,000 to members of the Muslim community to settle allegations a Detroit-area restaurant falsely advertised its food as being prepared according to Islamic dietary law.

McDonald's and Finley's Management Co. agreed Friday to the tentative settlement, with that money to be shared by Dearborn Heights resident Ahmed Ahmed, a Detroit health clinic, the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn and lawyers.

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My Response to Your Inaugural Speech, Mr. President - Michael Brown - Page 1

 The president declared it. A pastor prayed it. And woe betide those who differ with this new reality announced at yesterday’s presidential inauguration: Gay is now an official social category as defined and tangible as black or white. Put another way, romantic attraction and sexual desire are now viewed as being as innate and immutable as skin color.

Make no mistake about it. Another significant step was taken yesterday at the inauguration, and what was once associated with the extremist views of radical gay activists is now as American as apple pie. As expressed in the closing prayer of Episcopal pastor Luis León, “We pray for your blessing, because without it we will see only what the eye can see. But with your blessing, we’ll see that we are made in your image, whether brown, black or white; male or female; first generation immigrant or Daughter of the American Revolution; gay or straight; rich or poor.”

Earlier in the festivities, and framing his speech in historic, Constitutional terms, President Obama said, “We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths -- that all of us are created equal -- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall . . . .”
Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall? By Seneca Falls, Obama was referring to a watershed moment in the women’s rights movement that took place in the mid-1800’s in Seneca Falls, New York. By Selma, he was referring to the pivotal Civil Rights marches and protests that took place in Selma, Alabama in the mid-1960’s. And by Stonewall he was referring to the Stonewall Riots that took place in New York City in 1969 when drag queens and their gay friends fought back against the police who raided their bar.

My Response to Your Inaugural Speech, Mr. President - Michael Brown - Page 1

West Point center cites dangers of 'far right' in U.S. - Washington Times

The report also draws a link between the mainstream conservative movement and the violent “far right,” and describes liberals as “future oriented” and conservatives as living in the past.

“While liberal worldviews are future- or progressive -oriented, conservative perspectives are more past-oriented, and in general, are interested in preserving the status quo.” the report says. “The far right represents a more extreme version of conservatism, as its political vision is usually justified by the aspiration to restore or preserve values and practices that are part of the idealized historical heritage of the nation or ethnic community.”

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West Point center cites dangers of 'far right' in U.S. - Washington Times

al Qaeda had help from inside: French Muslim "changed sides" when jihadists stormed the Gas Complex - Atlas Shrugs

Up to five of the al Qaeda-linked Islamists who carried out the most spectacular and bloody hostage in recent years were employees of the gas plant, security sources have revealed.

One of those involved in the "inside job" was of French nationality, the sources told the Daily Telegraph, in what appears to be a blow to those in charge of safety at the highly strategic In Amenas plant, which accounts for 12 per cent of Algeria's gas production.
The unnamed French accomplice is said to have changed sides once his comrades in arms had broken into the desert site in southeastern Algeria after attacking bus at a false checkpoint. He then took part in the kidnapping operation before being killed during the Algerian army assault on the site.

#myjihad al Qaeda had help from inside: French Muslim "changed sides" when jihadists stormed the Gas Complex - Atlas Shrugs

Nazi Germany Timeline

 Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  Read and learn....and then watch! Be sober, be vigilant, for your adversary the devils roams about seeking whom he may devour.  He loves to devour men who are in positions of power so that he can establish his kingdom on the earth...the kingdom of darkness.  A word to the wise is sufficient.....

 
This timeline for Nazi Germany covers the major domestic events between 1933 when Hitler was appointed Chancellor to the year World War Two broke out – 1939. From 1933 to 1934 Hitler consolidated his power so that by the end of 1934 he held supreme power throughout Nazi Germany.

1933

January 4^th: Papen met Hitler at the home of German banker Kurt von Schroeder.

January 15^th: An election in the state of Lippe saw the Nazi Party win 38,000 votes out of a possible 90,000 – 39.6%.

January 22^nd: Oskar Hindenburg, son of the President, and Otto Meissner, Chief of the Presidential Office, met Hitler.

January 28^th: Schleicher resigned as Chancellor when Hindenburg refused to grant him another dissolution of the Reichstag.

January 30^th: Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

February 1^st: Hitler announced his ‘Proclamation to the German People’ and promised new elections for March 5^th. Hindenburg dissolved the Reichstag.

February 4^th: A decree ‘For the Protection of the German People’ gave Hitler the power to ban political meetings and the newspapers of his political rivals.

February 17^th: Goering issued a decree that ordered the police to make “good relations” with nationalists associations (SA + SS) but to make free use of their weapons against the Left.

February 22^nd: Goering united the SA, SS and Stahlhelm into one single police force.

February 23^rd: The first restrictions on homosexual rights groups were introduced.

February 27^th: The Reichstag building was burned down.

February 28^th: ‘The Emergency Decree for the Protection of People and State’ was passed, which led to the suspension of civil rights, a ban on the left wing press and the rounding up and arrest of communist and socialist leaders.

March 5^th: Elections to the Reichstag were held. The Nazis gained 288 seats (43.9% of the votes). The German National Party gained 52 seats (8% of the votes). Combined, this gave the Nazis a majority of support in the Reichstag.

March 6^th: Communist and Socialist Party headquarters were occupied by the state police as were trade union headquarters. Buildings housing publishing companies associated with the left wing were also occupied.

March 9^th: All states that were previously not loyal to the Nazis now had Nazi-loyal state administrations.

March 13^th: Joseph Goebbels set up the Reich Propaganda Ministry.

March 15^th: The German press received its first directive from Goebbels.

March 20^th: Himmler announced the establishment of a concentration camp at Dachau.

March 21^st: The newly elected Reichstag sat for the first time.

March 22^nd: The Interior Ministry set up a racial hygiene department.

March 23^rd: The Enabling Act was passed by the Reichstag that gave Hitler huge personal power.

March 28^th: The first open attacks by the SA against Jewish businesses occurred. Gleichschaltung was introduced – the forcible removal of all known opponent to the Nazis.

April 1^st: An official one-day boycott of Jewish shops took place. Literature produced by the Jehovah’s Witnesses was banned.

April 7^th: A law for the ‘Restoration of the Professional Civil Service’ was introduced that banned all Jews and non-Germans from public service.

April 26^th: The Gestapo (Secret Police) was established by Goering.

May 1^st: Hitler gave his ‘Day of German Labour’ speech.

May 2^nd: Trade unions were banned

May 6^th: The Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Workers’ Front) was introduced to replace trade unions.

May 10^th: ‘Un-German’ books were publicly burned.   

May 19^th: The Reich government took on the task of regulating workers contracts.

June 22^nd: The Social Democrat Party was officially banned.

July 5^th: All political parties other than the Nazi Party were banned.

July 14^th: A ‘Sterilisation Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases’ was passed.

July 20^th: Hitler agreed a Concordat with the Papacy.

September 23^rd: Work on the first autobahns was started.

October 14^th: Hitler pulled Nazi Germany out of the League of Nations and the Disarmament Conference.

November 17^th: The Nazi Party won 92% of the votes cast in an election.

November 27^th: Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude) and the Beauty of Labour organisations were introduced.

December 1^st: A law was passed that safeguarded the unity of the party and the state.

1934

January 20^th: A law was introduced ‘for the ordering of national labour’. Decisions made in the workplace were weighted in favour of the management and against the workers.

January 24^th: Alfred Rosenberg was appointed ideological supervisor of the Nazi Party.

January 26^th: A German-Polish non-aggression pact was signed.

January 30^th: the independence of the state governments was abolished. The ‘Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich’ was passed.

March 21^st: ‘The Battle for Work’ started.

April 20^th: Himmler was made Acting Chief of the Prussian Gestapo.

April 24^th: A People’s Court was established to deal with treasonable offences.

June 17^th: Von Papen, Vice-Chancellor, denounced what the Nazi Party had introduced into Germany.

June 20^th: The SS is made independent from the SA and put in the hands of Himmler who is appointed Reichsfűhrer of the SS.

June 25^th: Austrian Nazis murdered Austrian President Engelbert Dollfuss in the hope that the Austrian Nazi Party can take control of the country.

June 26^th: Von Papen was appointed German envoy to Austria.

June 30^th: Night of the Long Knives occurred when the leadership of the SA was wiped out along with some of Hitler’s political enemies. 

August 2^nd: President Hindenburg died. Hitler declared himself both Chancellor and President. The armed forces in response to the Night of the Long Knives swore an oath of loyalty to Hitler. Hjalmar Schacht was appointed Minister of Economics.

August 19^th: A plebiscite was held in Nazi Germany asking the public if they approved of Hitler’s powers. 90% said ‘yes’.

October 8^th: A Winter Relief scheme was established.

October 26^th: A special party/government department was set up to deal with abortions and homosexuality. Homosexuals were arrested across Nazi Germany.

1935

March 17^th: Compulsory military service was introduced.

June 26^th: A law introducing compulsory labour service was introduced. 

September 15^th: The Reich Citizenship Act (the Nuremberg Laws) forbade Jews to marry German nationals.

1936

April 4^th: Goering was appointed Commissioner of Raw Materials.

August 1^st: Start of the Berlin Olympic Games.

August 16^th: End of the Berlin Olympics.

August 28^th: The mass arrest of Jehovah Witnesses began.

September 9^th: A second Four Year Plan was introduced to make Germany self-sufficient.

October 19^th: Goering was put in charge of the Four Year Plan.

December 1^st: The Hitler Youth movement became a state organisation. All non-Nazi youth movements were banned.

December 13^th: ‘Spring of Life’ (Lebensborn) was set up.

1937

February 10^th: The national bank and the railway system were both put under the control of the state.

March 9^th: The mass arrest of “habitual criminals” started.

1938

January 19^th: The ‘Faith and Beauty’ organisation was set up for women aged between 17 and 21. 

April 22^nd: The employment of Jews in businesses was banned.

November 9^th: Kristallnacht – Night of the Broken Glass.

December 3^rd: The start of the closure of all Jewish businesses occurred along with their compulsory sale to ‘Aryans’.

1939:

January 21^st: Schacht was dismissed as President of the Reichsbank.

August 27^th: Food rationing was introduced.

September 4^th: War Decrees were introduced.

October 14^th: Clothing coupons were introduced.

Nazi Germany Timeline

Bull’s-eye on Bachmann over Islamist threat

 Jamie Glazov, editor of Frontpage Magazine and author of the WND Books hit “United in Hate,” contends Bachmann should be made the committee’s chairman.

“We see a hero! Michele Bachmann. She’s a hero. She should be chairing that committee,” said Glazov, who holds a Ph.D. in history with a specialty in Russian, U.S., and Canadian foreign policy.

His comments came as he was interviewed by Robert Spencer, founder of JihadWatch.org, who has written a dozen books, including several New York Times bests-sellers. Spencer repeatedly has expressed alarm over the growing influence of Muslim Brotherhood-related figures in the Obama administration.
Among his books is “Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs.” In it, Spencer describes how Americans “unwittingly” advance the jihadist agenda “through endeavors designed to acclimate and subject us to Islamic law – just the way Osama bin Laden wanted it.”

He said the strategy Bachmann has spotlighted is to “subvert the country from within – by gradually Islamizing America” with the “ultimate goal” of “nothing less than the adoption of Islamic law in the United States.”

The infiltration already has been documented.

Earlier this month in a move that affirmed the concerns of five much-maligned GOP members of the House, including Bachmann, and the evidence presented in an investigative book, an Egyptian magazine said six American Muslim leaders who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who have significant influence on U.S. policy.

The report is from Egypt’s Rose El-Youssef magazine, which on Dec. 22 said the six men turned the White House “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

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Lawmaker Denounces Federal Program Promoting Islamic Culture | FOX News & Commentary: Todd Starnes

 


 Libraries that participate in the government program will receive 25 books about the Islam, along with films and access to the Oxford Islamic Studies Online. The libraries will also be required to host community discussions about the Muslim faith and culture.

Lawmaker Denounces Federal Program Promoting Islamic Culture | FOX News & Commentary: Todd Starnes

Inauguration: A National Day Of Mourning : Personal Liberty Digest™

Obama is the biggest spender of any politician in world history.
Not to be outdone, Tim Geithner is the biggest-spending Treasury Secretary in history ($13.6 trillion).
Under Obama, the national debt has increased by 50 percent. Obama is on track to add $12 trillion to the national debt: a staggering three times more than George W. Bush added in his eight years as President:
In only the past 16 months, the Obama Administration added $2.1 trillion to the national debt, which is why we need the debt ceiling raised again.
Under Obama, the national debt now exceeds the entire output of the U.S. economy.
Obama is not only the first President in history to produce four consecutive years of deficits above $1 trillion, but those four years’ worth of deficits are more than produced by all other Presidents in history combined.
The national debt is increasing by a mind-boggling $3 million dollars per minute.
What did we get for all that spending and massive debt?
The U.S. credit rating has been downgraded for the first time in our history. With Obama’s re-election, get ready for more credit downgrades to come.
The net worth of the average American is down a whopping 40 percent.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, household income has fallen for all four years under Obama. It’s down a startling $4,000 per family since Obama became President.
The housing collapse is now deeper than at the peak of the Great Depression.
Unemployment was more than 8 percent for an unimaginable 43 consecutive months. That’s more months of unemployment above the 8 percent level than during all the Presidencies from Harry Truman’s to the younger Bush’s combined.

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A National Day Of Mourning : Personal Liberty Digest™

Experts: In the coming drone world, current law inadequate

 
Big Brother and Big Business may soon be able to easily spy on American citizens using surveillance drones, security and civil liberties experts warn.

That’s because as technology inches closer to science fiction, U.S. law has failed to keep up.

Fourth Amendment and other personal privacy protections may not be enough to shield citizens from drone surveillance and tracking, which are closer to becoming commonplace than most Americans realize.

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Experts: In the coming drone world, current law inadequate - Washington Times

The real reason Obama is going after our guns.

 Glenn Beck says it for the purpose of stirring up an insurrection....we shall see.
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The real reason Obama is going after our guns. « The Radio Patriot

NYPD looks to GPS bottles to combat pill bandits

NEW YORK -- Police in New York City plan to combat the theft of painkillers and other highly addictive prescription medicines by asking pharmacies around the city to hide fake pill bottles fitted with GPS devices amid the legitimate supplies on their shelves.

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NYPD looks to GPS bottles to combat pill bandits - AP State News - The Sacramento Bee