Burglarized Alabama family 'captures intruders after passing them in the street'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2874669/Burglarized-family-captures-intruders-passing-street-way-break-in.html

CITIZENS' ARREST: Moment burglarized family 'captured intruders at gunpoint after passing them in the street as they were on the way back from ANOTHER break-in'

·         Wyatt family's home surveillance system captured break-in on Friday

·         Chris Wyatt was driving nearby when he passed 'the intruders' on Sunday

·         Held them with guns until cops arrived, car 'was filled with stolen goods'

2 in custody after van crashes into Neiman Marcus in Magnificent Mile smash and grab, police say

http://abc7chicago.com/news/police-2-in-custody-after-neiman-marcus-smash-and-grab/429851/

Remove Muslim veil when giving evidence in court, says top woman judge

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11290365/Remove-Muslim-veil-when-giving-evidence-in-court-says-top-woman-judge.html

Yeah, how do you even know for certain who is testifying?

The greenest goodbye: Seattle groupwants to compost the dead

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2014/12/15/22132386.html

Somehow throwing Leftists on the compost heap seems appropriate. LOL!

DOD wants bullet that can change direction after being fired

http://www.stripes.com/news/us/dod-wants-bullet-that-can-change-direction-after-being-fired-1.319419

New .50-caliber bullets that can change direction after they have been fired could make soon make U.S. military snipers more deadly.

The EXACTO program — or Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance — is being developed by California’s Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC at the behest of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, according to a DARPA video posted on Youtube.

“The objective of the EXACTO program is to revolutionize rifle accuracy and range by developing the first ever guided small-caliber bullet,” DARPA officials said in a July statement accompanying the video. “The EXACTO .50-caliber round and optical sighting technology expects to greatly extend the day and nighttime range over current state-of-the-art sniper systems.”

The specially designed ammunition can change direction in midair.

How that is done remains a tightly held secret. The Defense Department and its related agencies declined to comment.

BLOODY END TO SIEGE: Three dead, as police storm Sydney cafe

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2873855/Gunman-takes-hostages-cafe-Sydney.html

BLOODY END TO SIEGE: Two hostages feared dead and Muslim gunman killed as police storm Sydney cafe with assault rifles and stun grenades moments after hostages tried to flee

·         Police stormed the cafe in central Sydney where a gunman held hostages for more than 16 hours

·         Police moved in firing automatic weapons and throwing grenades as hostages were seen fleeing in terror from cafe

·         Live TV footage showed hostages running frantically from the cafe at shortly after 2am in small groups 

·         It came hours after Man Haron Monis was named as the gunman holding people hostage in a Sydney café

·         Iranian refugee, 49, was charged with accessory in the murder of his ex-wife

·         He was also facing multiple charges of sexual assault while claiming to be a 'spiritual healer' 

·         Monis received 300 community service hours for sending hate mail to the families of Australian dead soldiers

·         The siege follows an unsuccessful attempt to have these charges overturned in the High Court on Friday 

·         He forced hostages to hold up black flag with white writing in Arabic, an emblem linked to terror groups

·         An Iranian-born gunman was killed and two of his hostages are feared dead after a dramatic and chaotic firefight brought an end to the terrorist siege at a Sydney cafe.

·         Teams of heavily armed police swooped on the Lindt Chocolat cafe in a hail of gunfire, ending a tense stand-off where a jihadist had been holding around 20 people captive for 17 hours. 

·         There were reports that at least three others were injured, but this could not immediately be confirmed.

The 70th Anniversary of the start of Battle of the Bulge. The U.S. Army's greatest victory.

The 70th Anniversary of the start of Battle of the Bulge. The U.S. Army's greatest victory. The attack began at 5:30AM. "Dusty are our faces but happy are our hearts.." Everybody now, sing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CripLDmoSCg

Ob's stürmt oder schneit,

Ob die Sonne uns lacht

Der Tag glühend heiß

Oder eiskalt die Nacht

Bestaubt sind die Gesichter

Doch froh ist unser Sinn

Ist unser Sinn

Es braust unser Panzer

Im Sturmwind dahin

Whether it storms or snows

Whether the sun shines upon us

The day burning hot

Or the night freezing cold

Dusty are our faces

But happy we are at heart

We're at heart

Our tank roars ahead

Along with the storm wind

The Campus As California-Only the very rich and very poor are left

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-campus-as-california/

Campuses are becoming the haunts of the very wealthy and the poor, with little regard for any in-between — sort of like California.

…Traditional campuses are becoming like California, where those who got tired of paying high taxes and getting poor services with lots of psychological abuse simply left. Those who remained were mostly the very wealthy and the very poor.

President Obama's Joke Calling Troops 'Santa in Fatigues' Silences Audience

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/12/15/President-Obama-Joke-Calling-Troops-Santa-in-Fatigues-Silenced-Audience

And soon you’ll be like the Salvation Army…you won’t have any guns either.

Iranian Cleric ID'd as Hostage-Taker in Sydney Cafe

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/12/15/iranian-cleric-idd-as-hostage-taker-in-
sydney-cafe/

Background info on the hostage taker in OZ.  According to recent reports the Australian authorities have stormed the café and killed the hostage taker.

How One Muslim in Sydney Decided to Wish Australians a Merry Christmas

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/how-one-muslim-in-sydney-decided-to-wish-australians-a-merry-christmas/

An armed gunman has taken up to 13 people hostage inside a chocolate shop in Sydney while forcing two people to hold what appears to be a black flag with white Arabic writing on it, Sky News Australia reports.

Television footage shot through the store’s windows showed several people with their arms in the air and hands pressed against the glass. The footage showed two people inside the Lindt chocolate shop holding up what appeared to be an Islamic flag.

Zain Ali, the head of the Islamic Studies Research Unit at the University of Auckland, told The Associated Press that it was difficult to read the message because media images showed only the lower part of the flag. But he believed it was the Shahada, or declaration of faith, largely because a black flag with white writing in a contemporary context often contains that message. He said he could make out the word “Muhammad.”

Ali said the Shahada translates as “There is no deity of worship except Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” It is considered the first pillar of Islam’s five pillars of faith, and has been used by groups like Al Qaeda and Islamic State but wasn’t invented by them, Ali said.

No it was invented by Islam’s original terrorist, Mohammed.

The interesting question will be whether this latest Islamic Jihadist came to Australia as a refugee.  He appears to be African, in his 20s or 30s, which means he might be the child of refugees, or even another convert to Islam. The attacks in the UK and Canada were carried out by converts. It’s quite possible that this fellow has joined that murderous club.

4 Reasons People With Schizophrenia Resist Treatment

http://inhealth.healthgrades.com/advances-in-schizophrenia/4-reasons-people-with-schizophrenia-resist-treatment?did=t9_tabtxt2

Interesting. One of the reasons that the threat of institutionalization or increased supervision by court order is needed to keep schizophrenics on their treatment program; otherwise if they are allowed to manage their own treatment they frequently won’t and then will relapse into psychotic behavior, posing a danger to themselves and others. But we don’t confine psychotics anymore, not unless and until they have committed a crime.

Key Takeaways

·         Many people with schizophrenia suffer from anosognosia, which means they don’t understand that they’re sick—and, therefore, may not understand the need for treatment.

·         Antipsychotic medication can cause side effects such as major weight gain, muscle spasms, and reduced sexual drive. This may lead some people to stop taking medication.

·         A successful treatment plan may actually cause some people to stop taking medication, since they feel better and believe that treatment is no longer needed.

·         A fear of stigma may prevent some people from seeking diagnosis and treatment.

A Greek island - yours for the price of a London flat

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/a-greek-island--yours-for-the
-price-of-a-london-flat-9923414.html

Cash-strapped Greeks are selling off their slices of paradise...

...Many are selling islands in response to the ongoing financial crisis in
Europe, said Farhad Vladi, of Vladi Private Islands. Greek property prices
have fallen significantly in the last five years, by as much as 30 per cent
from pre-crisis levels.

"People have less income and are looking for other sources to liquidate
assets," said Mr Vladi. Both rich families and poor farmers who had been
hoping that real estate prices would recover have decided to cut their
losses and sell, he explained.

The fact that Athens introduced a land tax this year, has increased the
incentive for people to cash in their off-shore asset, he added.

National Guard Birthday

http://www.military.com/national-guard-birthday?comp=1198882887570&rank=6

The Worst States for Black Americans - 24/7 Wall St.

http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/12/09/the-worst-states-for-black-am
ericans/

You'll never guess which one the article listed as number one. No go ahead
and guess!

Storm Shows Americans Are Totally Unprepared: "I have no food, I have no cash, so I'm trying to forage for something

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/storm-shows-americans-are-totally-unpr
epared-i-have-no-food-i-have-no-cash-so-im-trying-to-forage-for-something_12
122014

As the biggest storm in five years took aim at California this week cities
across the state distributed sandbags, cancelled school and warned residents
to prepare for power outages. And though the storm didn't really live up to
the media hype, some people did take the warnings to heart and made last
minute trips to the grocery store to stock up on foodstuffs and other
supplies just so they wouldn't have to go out in the rain.

But not everyone was prepared. One San Francisco resident in particular
highlights just how susceptible America is to disasters and what to expect
in the event of a widespread emergency.

"I thought we were going to watch tv all day, but now the power's out," Beth
Ludwig said. Her mom added that the kids had never experienced a power
outage before.

Georgia Virgili was one of the hundreds of thousands in the Bay Area who
lost most of the conveniences of modern life.

"I didn't have power," Virgili said. "I couldn't get my car out of the
garage, I have no food, I have no cash, so I'm trying to forage for
something." (CBS)

The storm that swept California over the last 48 hours wasn't really that
severe. Moreover, the public had nearly three days of advanced warning that
it was coming. Yet, even this was apparently not enough to convince people
to make even the most basic of preparations.

Mr. Virgili was totally unprepared, as are about 99% of Americans based on
recent preparedness surveys conducted by The Discovery Channel.

The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-vanishing-male-worker-how-america-fell-
behind/ar-BBgGtwh

Mexican Hitman Lifts Lid On Mass Killing And Corruption

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hitman-lifts-lid-on-mass-killing-and-cor
ruption/ar-BBgG0gh

A Mexican hitman, who claims to have killed as many as 900 people, has told
Sky News how the police and the military are often involved in the planning
and execution of his murders.

"Carlos" has been a paid killer for more than 25 years - working for drug
cartels, politicians and the military.

We met the hitman in Tepito market - one of the most dangerous places in the
whole of Mexico City, despite being at the heart of its smartest district.

The assassin said the network of cartel power is so entrenched in society
and powered by so much money that it is unstoppable.

"On some occasions, we have to go to places where weapons are not allowed
and then they (police) meet us.

"They take us to a hotel and they provide all the weapons that we may need,
money and everything so that one can do the job one has to do."

The abduction of 43 students last September has forced Mexico into
confronting its crime problems.

Carlos believes that the students are already dead, and uses a chilling
example from his own experience to explain why he is so certain.

"Let me tell you a story. Some protestors came. We let them in and then we
closed the road, we closed the entrance, we closed the exit. When they were
stuck in the middle we killed them all," he recounted.

"Then a (rubbish) truck from the army came and collected them all. Then
street sweeper machines went past. They opened the road again, as if nothing
had happened.

"The students are dead, it is more convenient. For kidnapping you get 160
years, for killing its 35. It's a huge difference, don't you think?"

Mexico is described by many as a "Narco State", where government and civil
society appear powerless against drug money, cartels, corruption and
terrible violence - committed on an almost daily basis.

This country bordering the United States and Central America has become a
transit point for drugs across the world.

The revenues are mind-blowing - tens of billions of dollars a year.

The demand for what it can deliver to affluent societies is insatiable.

It is the root of the problem of course, and widespread poverty, combined
with the need to make a living, are the crumbling foundations of a state
teetering on the edge of disaster.

Mexico is in trouble. It is failing. A black market culture where anything
can be bought is all-pervading. Nobody is above this. Absolutely nobody.

Massad Ayoob: GRAND JURIES

http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/2014/12/10/grand-juries/

When liberals become totalitarians and Republicans become toadies

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/when-liberals-becom
e-totalitarians-and-republicans-become-toadies

"The Obama Administration represents the final stage of liberal descent into
totalitarianism with the adoption of 1960s radicalism as the core strategy,
an approach that both then and now advocates a rapid fundamental
transformation of the United States through confrontation with little
respect for the Constitution or the democratic process."

"That would not, however, be an issue if there were some resistance to such
an ominous trend."

GUN WATCH: Florida Open Carry Ban may be Unconstitutional; 4th District Court to Rule

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/12/fl-open-carry-ban-may-be.html

The case started back in 2012, when Dale Lee Norman walked down the street
with his pistol showing.  He had recently obtained his concealed carry
permit, and did not realize that his firearm was completely exposed.

 He was convicted of the open carry of a firearm.  His case was appealed to
the 4th Circuit court of appeals.   The state Advocate General fought very
hard to keep the case from being appealed.   The issue went all the way to
the State Supreme Court, which ruled for Norman, to allow the 4th Circuit to
hear the case.

 The 4th Circuit has now heard the case.   All evidence has been presented
and briefs filed.  The oral arguments were heard in the middle of November.
From wptv.com:

There's no timeline on when the ruling of that case will be made. Florida
does allow open carry on a very limited basis. You can under Florida law
open carry your firearm if you are fishing, hunting or camping or on the way
to or from.
Open carry has even been getting some positive coverage in Florida media.

 Florida is one of only six states that ban the open carry of handguns.
Texas is expected to end its ban in 2015.   If the Florida 4th Circuit finds
the state ban unconstitutional, that will leave only New York, Illinois,
California and South Carolina with open carry bans.

 Most states do not require a license to carry a firearm openly.  Missouri
is the last state to reform its firearms law to remove restrictions on open
carry.

Obama's War On Doctors

http://www.dickmorris.com/obamas-war-doctors-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/?utm
_source=dmreports&utm_medium=dmreports&utm_campaign=dmreports

What a racket, eh?!

As beef prices rise, cattle herds go missing in Idaho

http://newsok.com/as-beef-prices-rise-cattle-herds-go-missing-in-idaho/article/feed/770719

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than 150 cattle valued at about $350,000 have been reported missing in southeastern Idaho, and authorities aren't excluding modern-day cattle rustling as beef prices have soared.

FILE -- In this Nov. 11, 2004 file photo, livestock stand in a feedlot outside Caldwell, Idaho. More than 150 cattle valued at about $350,000 have been reported missing in southeastern Idaho, and authorities suspect modern-day cattle rustling as beef prices have soared. Three ranchers say roundup searches in recent weeks in the hills and gulches on the remote summer range where the cattle graze have come up empty in Bingham and Bonneville counties. The losses include a herd of 50 Black Angus consisting of 25 cows and 25 calves valued at $150,000. Another herd of 41 cow-calf pairs, meaning 82 animals total, plus 10 cow-calf pairs, or 20 animals, all valued at about $200,000, from another rancher are also reported missing. (AP Photo/Troy Maben, File)

Three ranchers say roundup searches in recent weeks in the hills and gulches on the remote summer range where the cattle graze have come up empty in two counties.

Law enforcement officials say they have little to go on because it's not clear when the cattle might have disappeared after being turned out early last summer.

U.S. cattle industry officials say beef prices are at record highs due to a combination of factors that include past droughts that caused cattle numbers to shrink and increased demand for beef on a global scale following the Great Recession.

East Bay homeowner shoots burglary suspect - Homeonwer alerted to burglar presence by Smart Phone

http://www.insidebayarea.com/News/ci_27112470/Antioch:-Homeowner-shoots-burg
lary-suspect

This is like the plot from an old "Film Noir" crime movie were a person gets
a telephone call warning him or her that the murderer is in the house...but
with a 21st Century high tech flair.

ANTIOCH -- A man was shot and wounded by a homeowner in Antioch on Wednesday
after he and another suspect allegedly broke into an occupied house, police
said.

Police said a man was working in his upstairs home office in the 4000 block
of Via Dora Drive around 12:40 p.m. when his wife called to tell him she'd
received a motion alert from their home alarm system on her phone.

The man armed himself with a gun and went to check the rest of the house,
where he found a man and woman going through his belongings, according to
police.
"He confronted the two subjects at gunpoint, and fearing for his life, fired
several rounds from his firearm," police said in a statement.

The suspects fled from the home, still carrying some of the man's property,
and arrived a short time later at a hospital.

Police said the male suspect, a 21-year-old resident of both Vallejo and San
Francisco with prior felonies, sought treatment for multiple gunshot wounds
that are not believed to be life-threatening.

The female suspect, a 19-year-old also from Vallejo and San Francisco, was
uninjured.

Both were arrested in connection with the home invasion.

Police said the homeowner involved in the shooting was not injured but
"quite shaken up by the incident" and is fully cooperating with their
investigation.

Ronald Reagan tells joke about Democrats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK3Eo9cScEQ

Mexico-The Voices Of The Dead-The Cartel War enters the Eighth Year

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/mexico/articles/20141206.aspx

An estimated 60,000 people have been killed or “disappeared” in cartel-related violence.” Keep in mind that that is more people than the USA lost in eight years of fighting in Vietnam: 58,300.

Hillary Says We Should Empathize With Our Enemies

http://www.dickmorris.com/hillary-says-empathize-enemies-dick-morris-tv-lunc
h-alert/?utm_source=dmreports&utm_medium=dmreports&utm_campaign=dmreports

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget who they are."
                                 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Memo From Middle America: Mexico's Guerrero State Is "Violent And Dysfunctional"-And Amnesty Will Bring More Of It Here

http://www.vdare.com/articles/memo-from-middle-america-mexicos-guerrero-stat
e-is-violent-and-dysfunctional-and-amnesty-will-bring-more-of-it-here?stf=an
%20outing%20when

The big news in Mexico for the past few months: the ongoing turmoil
resulting from the Iguala Atrocity-a massacre/kidnapping/ official
corruption trifecta in southern Guerrero state.

Protests have been going on throughout Mexico and abroad, along with calls
for the president to step down. In Guerrero itself, demonstrators have been
smashing and burning buildings, occupying city halls and radio stations,
plundering supermarkets, and the state governor resigned.

It's a horrible case, and apparently only the tip of the iceberg, both in
terms of the tragedies themselves, and the evidence of official corruption.
And it raises this question: how much of this is going to be imported into
the United States in the next few years?

A summary: On September 26th in Iguala, police and gang members, working
together, attacked college students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Normal
School in nearby Ayotzinapa and others bystanders, killing six. Then, 43
students were turned over to the criminal gang called Guerreros Unidos, an
offshoot of the Beltran Leyva cartel.

Not that it justifies the attack, but the Ayotzinapa school is crazy even by
Mexico's standards of politicized teacher colleges-it's an all-male, Leftist
institution run by student/activists. [At college of missing Mexican
students, history of revolutionary zeal, By Tim Johnson, McClatchy, October
13, 2014] Last year, a group of Ayotzinapa students set a gas station on
fire, causing the death of a worker.

In what appears to be a longstanding tradition, the Ayotzinapa students
routinely hijack buses in order to travel. The students in this group were
on such an outing when they were attacked. [In 'untamed Mexico' a mass grave
and a challenge for a president, By David Agren, Correspondent Whitney
Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, October 12, 2014]

In early October, mass graves were discovered, and it was immediately
assumed that at least some of the students had been buried there.

But none of the DNA matched that of the students. It turns there are various
mass graves in the vicinity, with burned and dismembered bodies. So this is
not an isolated case.
Read More:

Andrew Klavan: #GamerGate Forever!

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/truthrevolt-org/andrew-klavan-gamergate-for
ever/

Fight for your right to do things that bother the Lefties.