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Obama to Ignore Senate, Sign 2nd Amendment-Violating UN gun treaty

Obama to Ignore Senate, Sign 2nd Amendment-Violating UN Gun Treaty A majority in the U.S. Senate has told President Barack Obama not to do it. There’s no doubt that an overwhelming majority of Americans would oppose it — if the media ever told them about it. Nonetheless, this past Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that Obama will sign a controversial gun-control treaty promulgated by the United Nations. “We look forward to signing it as soon as the process of conforming the official languages is completely satisfied,” Kerry said in a prepared statement. Although the treaty is being touted…

By Edward Morrissey More than 50 years ago, Ike all but predicted the factors that led to the NSA’s massive snooping enterprise More than 52 years ago, Dwight David Eisenhower gave his final speech as president. Eisenhower had led the American fight in Europe during World War II, and played a major part in America’s transformation from a nation of industrial might and relative isolation into the first superpower of the modern age. The U.S. filled the role played by the British Empire for the previous few centuries, especially when the Soviet Union seized eastern Europe and threatened to spread…

Police set up roadblocks to ‘voluntarily’ collect DNA, blood samples from innocent Americans

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger When a group of uniformed men wearing guns sets up a road block then ask you to “volunteer” a DNA sample and blood sample, it stretches the definition of “volunteer.” But that’s what happened in Alabama yesterday as off-duty cops in two counties set up DNA collection roadblocks and stopped cars to ask if drivers wanted to “volunteer” DNA swabs and blood samples. It was all part of a study being conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, which is probably studying what percentage of the sheeple population will allow the…

Supreme Court: Likely expansion of DNA databases prompts questions By William G. Schulz Photo shows a man getting a DNA cheek swab. The standard cheek swab to collect DNA, the Supreme Court has ruled, is not invasive and thus not a violation of privacy. Credit: Andrew Kelly/Reuters/Newscom This week’s Supreme Court decision allowing law enforcement, without a warrant, to collect DNA samples from suspects taken into custody and before an arrest has raised a number of scientific concerns. Although the case—Maryland v. King—centered on constitutional issues of privacy, experts say the decision will likely fuel an enormous expansion of the…

‘Quit Google, Facebook’ suggests tech expert as surveillance scandal deepens

by Chris Baraniuk A best-selling author and technology expert has said that web users should boycott internet giants like Google and Facebook if it is confirmed they were involved in a US surveillance programme referred to as Prism. In an interview with Wired.co.uk, Professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School suggested that consumers had a responsibility to leave social networks found out to be collaborating secretly with intelligence services such as the US National Security Agency: “Quit Facebook and use another search engine. It’s simple.” He added, “It’s nice to keep in touch with your friends. But I think…

West, TX denied reconstruction funds despite Obama’s pledge

Valley Mills Fire Department personnel walk among the remains of an apartment complex next to the fertilizer plant that exploded yesterday afternoon on April 18, 2013 in West, Texas (AFP Photo / Erich Schlegel) The recent deadly blast at a West, Texas fertilizer plant resulted in an estimated $57 million in damages, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide funds to help rebuild the devastated town. West Mayor Tommy Muska told AP that the town desperately needs $57 million for repairs, $40 million of which is required to rebuild a school that was destroyed when the fertilizer…

Jordan wargames: Patriot batteries, F-16s and 4,500 US troops near Syrian border

US F-16 Fighting Falcon (AFP Photo) Air Force, Arms, Army, Jordan, Military, Missile defense, Politics, Security, USA, War Multinational military exercise ‘Eager Lion’ has been launched in Jordan amid condemnation from neighboring Syria and its ally Russia. The US brings Patriot missile batteries to the Syrian border, which could remain deployed afterwards. The exercises will last for 12 days, bringing together about 8,000 personnel from 19 countries, mostly Arabic, but also including the US and Europe. The maneuvers will also involve some 3,000 Jordanian and 500 British troops. ‘Eager Lion’ – which is being conducted only 120km from the…

Chabad emissary at Stanford University uses search engine giant’s new technology to get Jewish students to put on tefillin Ynet While 8,000 lucky people have been picked by Google to try out its Internet-connected glasses, Chabad emissary at Stanford University decided recently to share Google Glass with any Jewish student wishing to put on tefillin. According to the Chabad On Line (COL) website, dozens of young Jews accepted Rabbi Dov Greenberg’s offer to put on tefillin. They also donned the Google Glass to see the Shema blessing, in Hebrew and transliterated English, on a screen to be recited as…

Israel-Vatican deal on land use said imminent

By By Gavriel Fiske Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin was in Rome for high-level negotiations with Vatican officials over several outstanding land and building issues revolving around properties owned by the Holy See in Israel. Elkin visited the Holy See to continue decades-long talks on a comprehensive land deal between Israel and the Vatican, Maariv reported Thursday. Elkin told the Hebrew daily that, after meeting with the Vatican negotiating team and then separately with Pope Francis I, he thought an agreement would be signed by the end of the year, which would pave the way for the new pope’s promised…

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Obama to Ignore Senate, Sign 2nd Amendment-Violating UN gun treaty

We should have listened to Eisenhower

Police set up roadblocks to ‘voluntarily’ collect DNA, blood samples from innocent Americans

DNA Ruling Raises Science Concerns

‘Quit Google, Facebook’ suggests tech expert as surveillance scandal deepens

West, TX denied reconstruction funds despite Obama’s pledge

Jordan wargames: Patriot batteries, F-16s and 4,500 US troops near Syrian border

Google Glass for a mitzvah

Israel-Vatican deal on land use said imminent

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