This seems to be right out of a George Orwell novel:
In late 2013, the then newest issue of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM for short) defined a new mental illness, the so-called oppositional defiant disorder or ODD.
As TheMindUnleashed.org informs us, the definition of this new mental illness essentially amounts to declaring any non-conformity and questioning of authority as a form of insanity. According to the manual, ODD is defined as:
[] an ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior, symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.
SO IF YOU DISAGREE WITH AUTHORITY, YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL!!
I believe that grand experiment is drawing to a close. Why would you want to be a member when there are some deadbeat countries in it sucking the air out of the more industrious ones ? The Italians sit on their dead asses while the Germans work theirs off. Kinda sounds like welfare here doesn't it ?
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I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.- Hank Rearden
As war wages over the genetic modification of the food supply, mega biotech companies have already begun launching campaigns to release millions of GMO insects in the Florida Keys region that have been cross-bred with the herpes simplex virus and E. coli bacteria.
With petitions against the release already amassing 130,000 signatures, British researchers are currently seeking government approval to initiate the unprecedented release. It was back in December of 2014 that we first revealed to you that these mosquitoes were already being shipped inside the United States, showing the confidence of the biotech lobbyists and researchers that they are in fact going to be granted the stamp of approval by the Food and Drug Administration to release the GMO insects.
As the Associated Press reports today on the issue, we are entering into a whole new territory of genetically modified creations:
Enter Oxitec, a British biotech firm that patented a method of breeding Aedes aegypti with fragments of genes from the herpes simplex virus and E. coli bacteria as well as coral and cabbage. This synthetic DNA is commonly used in laboratory science and is thought to pose no significant risks to other animals, but it kills mosquito larvae.
Oxitecs lab workers manually remove modified females, aiming to release only males, which dont bite for blood like females do. The modified males then mate with wild females whose offspring die, reducing the population.
Oxitec has built a breeding lab in Marathon and hopes to release its mosquitoes in a Key West neighborhood this spring.
With the seemingly-imminent roll out of GMO pigs alongside the release of genetically modified insects within the United States, it is now obvious that the new war over the supply exists not only over staple crops and seeds but the oncoming wave of genetically augmented animal and insect life.
Would you be concerned with being stung by a genetically modified mosquito?
Instead of stocking up on filling staples like bread and milk, East Coast residents are running to grocery stores to get kale ahead of the big blizzard thats expected to slam parts of the US.
People from New Jersey to Maine are preparing to get hit with two to three feet of snow at the beginning of this week. Weather forecasters have warned of a crippling and potentially historic snowstorm.
With public transportation shut down in some areas, theres been a run on food in city grocery stores and lines have stretched down the block at some locations in New York City.
Panicked blizzard preppers took to Twitter and Instagram to document a kale shortage in New York and Boston.
A member of my staff caught an obscure resolution that was introduced in the US House of Representatives last weekResolution no. 41.
The fact that there was essentially no coverage of this Resolution really shows how the mainstream media is completely turning a blind eye to the true fiscal situation of the United States of America.
The entire point of the resolution is to say that the federal government is broke.
It cant pay its own bills, and therefore is shouldnt be responsible to pay anyone elses either.
It doesnt take a rocket scientists to figure out what a bankrupt government will dojust like any thief, theyll go after easy targets first.
The easiest target of all is future generations.
Theyre going to run up the debt as high as they can, which essentially means pulling future tax revenues into today. Its the easiest tax of all, because unborn children do not vote.
The estate tax is another one to watch out forbecause, like unborn children, dead people dont vote either.
We had a great podcast yesterday about retirement savings, where theres an easy $5 trillion treasure chest for them to raid.
And, of course, theres the greatest tax of all, the inflation tax, which decreases the standard of living for most of the population as the cost of living rises much faster than incomes.
This Resolution is a pretty scary dose of honesty. But again, whats even more concerning is that it was just ignored and has objectively a zero percent chance of passing.
I do encourage you to check it out thougheven the government is admitting its finished.
Ill quote from the Resolution now without comment and wish you a very pleasant weekend:
Whereas the Federal Government is operating at an annual deficit and is increasing its outstanding debt every year;
Whereas the Federal Government, as of January 2015, is carrying more than $18.0 trillion in debt, of which $13.0 trillion is owed to the public and $5.08 trillion is owed to Social Security and other trust funds;
Whereas foreign governments, individuals, and corporations as of October 2014 own 47 percent of Federal debt held by the public;
Whereas Social Securitys unfunded liabilities in 2014 are $10.6 trillion over 75 years and $24.9 trillion over the infinite horizon;
Whereas the Federal debt held by the public is expected to increase by more than $7 trillion from 2014 to 2024 according to the Congressional Budget Office;
Whereas more than 16 percent of the entire Federal budget goes directly to States and local governments;
Whereas more than 22 percent of total State and local government general revenue comes from the Federal Government according to Census Bureaus latest Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finance;
Whereas several State and local pension plans are expected to fully exhaust their funds within ten years.
The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives collaborated on plans to monitor gun show attendees using automatic license plate readers, according to a newly disclosed DEA email obtained by the ACLU through the Freedom of Information Act.
The April 2009 email states that DEA Phoenix Division Office is working closely with ATF on attacking the guns going to [redacted] and the gun shows, to include programs/operation with LPRs at the gun shows. The government redacted the rest of the email, but when we received this document we concluded that these agencies used license plate readers to collect information about law-abiding citizens attending gun shows. An automatic license plate reader cannot distinguish between people transporting illegal guns and those transporting legal guns, or no guns at all; it only documents the presence of any car driving to the event. Mere attendance at a gun show, it appeared, would have been enough to have one's presence noted in a DEA database.
When it comes to taking a chainsaw to the future of America, nobody seems more eager than Barack Obama. Despite the fact that the U.S. national debt is on pace to approximately double during his eight years in the White House, he has just proposed a budget that would take government spending to crazy new heights. When Barack Obama took the oath of office, the U.S. national debt was 10.6 trillion dollars. Today, it has surpassed the 18 trillion dollar mark. And even though we are being told that deficits are going down, the truth is that the U.S. national debt increasedby more than a trillion dollars in fiscal 2014. But that isnt good enough for Obama. He says that we need to come out of this period of mindless austerity and steal money from our children and our grandchildren even faster. In addition, Obama wants to raise taxes again. His budget calls for 2 trillion dollars in tax increases over the next decade.
President Obama met with American Muslim leaders this afternoon, according to the White House schedule, but so far the administration is unwilling to reveal who attended the meeting, which was closed to the press.
The White House released a readout of the meeting explaining that Obama discussed a range of domestic and foreign policy issues including Obamacare, police fairness, anti-Muslim discrimination, and the upcoming Summit on Countering Violence Extremism.
The President discussed the need to continue countering ISIL and other groups that commit horrific acts of violence, purportedly in the name of Islam, the readout continued.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest defended the meeting during his daily press briefing, pointing out that it wasnt unusual for the president to meet with a wide variety of communities from across the country.
Sometimes that includes religious leaders; sometimes that includes leaders that are involved in academia or other specific issue areas, he explained.
But the White House was unwilling to release the names of leaders who attended the meeting.
President Barack Obama has promoted his recent executive action on immigration by arguing that hes only deferring action holding off on enforcement of the current immigration laws until an immigration reform he approves of passes Congress. But that's not really true; in fact theres a way for illegal immigrants immediately to receive amnesty bonuses, as Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska terms it.
Heres how. A recent Homeland Security Committee hearing on immigration revealed an alarming consequence of President Obamas executive amnestythat illegal immigrants with deferred status may be able to receive the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Moreover, this person, who is here in the U.S. unlawfully, could be able to file an amended tax return for up to the last three tax years, possibly receiving upwards of $24,000 in tax credits.
Gallup CEO Jim Clifton told CNBC he might suddenly disappear for telling the truth about the Obama unemployment rate.
The real Obama unemployment rate has never recovered and is still above 10%.
Wall Street on Parade reported:
Years of unending news stories on U.S. government programs of surveillance,rendition and torture have apparently chilled the speech of even top business executives in the United States.
Yesterday, Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO of Gallup, an iconic U.S. company dating back to 1935, told CNBC that he was worried he might suddenly disappear and not make it home that evening if he disputed the accuracy of what the U.S. government is reporting as unemployed Americans.
The CNBC interview came one day after Clifton had penned a gutsy opinion piece on Gallups web site, defiantly calling the governments 5.6 percent unemployment figure The Big Lie in the articles headline. His appearance on CNBC was apparently to walk back the lie part of the title and reframe the jobs data as just hopelessly deceptive.
I would be willing to bet that the Commie bastages still want US money!
LOS ANGELES, California An emotionally-charged and highly divisive vote took place at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on Sunday as pro-Israel students attempted to thwart two different divestment resolutions at the UC Student Association (USCA). Both divestment resolutions subsequently passed, including one which called for divestment from most of the world, including the United States.
The first resolution called for divestment from certain American companies that do business in Israel. The second resolution called for divestment from American, Mexican, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Brazilian, Sri Lankan, and Egyptian government bonds.
So UC Student Association just called for divestment from America. As an alum Im very sad to see student political power wasted #UCSADivest Max Samarov (@MaxSamarov) February 8, 2015
The student-backed board passed both divestment resolutions with an initial vote of 11 yes vote, 1 no vote, and 3 abstentions before a revote determined the final tally to be 9-1-6. The vote was held at UCLAs Tom Bradley Hall. The vote comes just days after UC Davis passed a similar resolution.
Several familiar faces from a Block the Boat occupation in Long Beach and a meeting hosted by the Muslim Student Association (MSA) in Berkeley who intended to stop Bill Maher (Block the Bigot) from speaking at the UC Berkeley mid-year commencement were also present.
Im not afraid of passing the resolution. Im afraid of us leaving here and walking in different directions, one of the days speakers said.
Among the students who co-wrote the divestment from Israel resolution was Rahim Kurwa. Breitbart News had initially been blocked by organizers from entering the hall to observe the vote.
Taher Herzallah, who is the National Campus Coordinator for the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) had stated during the AMPs meeting in Chicago this past December that Israelis have to be bombed, they are a threat to the legitimacy of Palestine and it is wrong to maintain the State of Israel. It is an illegitimate creation born from colonialism and racism.
The United States has accepted two new immigrants for each additional job created since 2000, according to federal data.
The data shows that 18 million legal and illegal immigrants settled in the United States from 2000 to 2015, while only 9.3 million additional jobs were created, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors a reduced level of immigration.
After subtracting deaths, departures and retirements among the immigrants, the working-age population of immigrants grew 12 million since 2000, according to data at the Bureau of Labor Standards, said Steve Camarota, the author of the CIS study.
The working-age population of Americans aged 16 to 65 also grew by 16 million, Camarota told The Daily Caller. Thats a combined working-age population increase of 28 million, which is three times the number of jobs added since 2000.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress on Wednesday that even illegal immigrants who didnt pay taxes will be able to claim back-refunds once they get Social Security numbers under President Obamas temporary deportation amnesty.
During a heated discussion over gay marriage, CNN morning Anchor Chris Cuomo opined that the unalienable rights endowed to all Americans do not come from God.
In a move clearly intended by the Obama Administration to suppress the acquisition, ownership and use of AR-15s and other .223 caliber general purpose rifles, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives unexpectedly announced today that it intends to ban commonplace M855 ball ammunition as armor piercing ammunition. The decision continues Obamas use of his executive authority to impose gun control restrictions and bypass Congress.
It isnt even the third week of February, and the BATFE has already taken three major executive actions on gun control. First, it was a major change to what activities constitute regulated manufacturing of firearms. Next, BATFE reversed a less than year old position on firing a shouldered pistol. Now, BATFE has released a Framework for Determining Whether Certain Projectiles are Primarily Intended for Sporting Purposes Within the Meaning of 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(17)(c), which would eliminate M855s exemption to the armor piercing ammunition prohibition and make future exemptions nearly impossible.
For the first time in History, the United States -- read "In GOD we trust" -- has a President who is not Christian.......
On Sunday night, White House press secretary Josh Earnest issued a statement condemning the actions of Islamic State Militants after they released a video of the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians.
The statement from the White House described the victims as innocents and citizens, but made no mention of the victims faith.
The United States condemns the despicable and cowardly murder of twenty-one Egyptian citizens in Libya by ISIL-affiliated terrorists, the statement read, offering condolence to the victims families.
The ISIS video was directly targeted at Christians, citing their faith as the reason for their death.
A caption in the video described the victims as the people of the cross, followers of the hostile Egyptian church.
If you are caught driving while intoxicated and happen to be an American citizen then youre going to be arrested, fined, and potentially jailed and rightfully so, as by driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs you are putting the lives of others in danger when you drive on public roads.
But, as weve come to learn in recent years, if you are an undocumented alien who has entered this country illegally, the laws dont really apply to you. You not only get to break the law by entering the United States without authorization, but you also get free health care, housing, food and tax refunds even if you falsified your employment paperwork.
Though all of the afformentioned benefits have crossed the line as many hardworking Americans struggle to make ends meet for their own families while also paying for the free ride being given to illegal immigrants, the latest move by the Obama administration is nothing short of outrageous.
It is not only a slap in the face to Americans who are fed up with what are essentially two different legal systems, the new policy will result in the deaths of countless Americans.
According to Judicial Watch, the Obama administration has ordered all Border Patrol agents to stop apphrehending illegal aliens who have been detained for drunk driving.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Not only are illegal aliens being released and their violations of U.S. immigration law being ignored, but now, even if they are hammered drunk the Border Patrol has been advised to let them go on their way while under the influence.
He did break the law, but the law is absurd. I did break the law to my shock, Gordon Van Gilder tells me over the phone. He sighs. Legally, theyre right. The they in this equation is the state of New Jersey. The I is Van Gilder, a 72-year-old retired schoolteacher from the town of Millville. And that law-breaking? Well, that could be extremely costly indeed. For transporting a 300-year-old flintlock pistol without a concealed-carry license, Van Gilder has been charged with a second-degree felony specifically, with unlawful possession of a handgun and he is facing a maximum of ten years in state prison. This, he suggests, is unbelievable. Van Gilders ordeal began last November, when the car he was traveling in was pulled over by police. At the time, he and a friend were on their way back from a meeting with an antique dealer. Im very interested in the 18th century, both here and in Britain, he tells me over the phone. Ive collected a lot of 18th-century items. I have some things from the Continental Army, including some personal documents letters and so on. But Im more interested in the things they made. My house is full of 18th-century furniture. I have little spoons, glassware. Its an obsession of mine. Im not a gun collector per se, but I think theyre interesting. The gun in question, Van Gilder says, was probably made about 1765 in Belgium for the British market. A dealer found it in Pennsylvania, and held it for him. I paid $800 for it. Its a boxlock pistol, so theres no hammer. Its beautiful. Having picked the gun up, Van Gilder and his friend first went to lunch, and then they headed home. My friend was driving because my arm is shot, Van Gilder recalls. On the way home, the pair were pulled over by a local sheriff. According to Van Gilder, the detaining officer told him that he wanted to search the car, and threatened him with dogs if he refused. I didnt mind, he tells me, but he wanted to make sure that the officer knew that there was a flintlock pistol in the glove compartment, and that he had just purchased it. Oh, man, Gilder says. Immediately, he wanted to arrest me. But when he called the undersheriff, he was told, No, its a 250-year-old pistol; let him go. The officer did as he was told, and gave the pistol back. The next morning, however, he came back with three cars and three or four sheriffs. Van Gilders says, He told me, I should have arrested you last night. So he did. They led me away in handcuffs and, at the station, chained me by my hands and feet to a cold stainless-steel bench. Ive never been handcuffed in my life or arrested, even, Van Gilder explains. I was embarrassed and ashamed. The only prisoner there was myself: a 72-year-old English teacher. I was really ashamed. Before long, Van Gilder had been charged and the gun had been taken away for ballistics testing, almost certainly never to be returned. (That the department believes that a ballistics test on a flintlock pistol can be useful should give you some indication of who were dealing with here.) Theyve angered me, Van Gilder concedes. But technically, by New Jerseys law, the officer was probably right. That, sadly, is true. Indeed, according to Van Gilders lawyer, Evan Nappen, Gordon has fallen foul of a fundamental flaw in New Jerseys law. Classifying this pistol as a weapon, Nappen says, is absolutely absurd. Were talking about a crime that carries a minimum mandatory sentence of between three and a half and five years. The federal government, Nappen notes, doesnt even consider this gun a weapon. (By the terms of the 1968 Gun Control Act, few firearms manufactured prior to 1898 are subject to federal law.) This is an original flintlock that predates the founding of the country, and was made before New Jerseys laws were passed. But theyre treating it the same as if it were a .44 Magnum. The idea that he was breaking a law, Nappen concludes, never crossed Van Gilders mind. Its an antique. He had no intention of shooting it. It wasnt loaded. There was no flint, no powder, and no ball.
As President Barack Obama continues to receive criticism for his refusal to use the term Islamic extremism, some federal authorities and law enforcement groups in the United States assert that anti-government groups pose a bigger threat than ISIS.
The Department of Homeland Security circulated an intelligence assessment earlier this month which focuses on right-wing sovereign citizens and other domestic extremists.
Some federal and local law enforcement groups view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as equal to and in some cases greater than the threat from foreign Islamic terror groups, such as ISIS, that garner more public attention, reports CNN.
While hyping the threat posed by sovereign citizens, who have been involved in sporadic violent confrontations mainly targeting police officers over the last five years, the DHS has completely dismissed intelligence obtained by Judicial Watch that ISIS militants stationed in Juarez, Mexico could be planning attacks inside the United States.
ISIS militants are openly bragging about the fact that they have sleeper cells within the country waiting to conduct devastating attacks on U.S. soil as the Obama administration frets about not using the term Islamic while worrying about right-wingers committing traffic violations.
As we have exhaustively documented, the federal government has consistently downplayed the threat of Islamic terror in favor of pushing hysteria about right-wing extremism.
Trying to explain his controversial comments that President Obama doesnt love America, Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he believes the President has been influenced by communism and socialism.
Look, this man was brought up basically in a white family, so whatever he learned or didnt learn, I attribute this more to the influence of communism and socialism than to his race, Giuliani told the Daily News.
I dont (see) this President as being particularly a product of African-American society or something like that. He isnt, the former mayor added. Logically, think about his background. . . The ideas that are troubling me and are leading to this come from communists with whom he associated when he was 9 years old through family connections.
When Obama was 9, he was living in Indonesia with his mother and his stepfather. Giuliani said he was referencing Obamas grandfather having introduced him to Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Communist Party.
Wayne Barrett: What Rudy Giuliani knows about love a response to his 'doesn't love America' critique of Obama
The former mayor also brought up Obamas relationship with quasi-communist community organizer Saul Alinsky and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
#10. I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.
#9. I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15%+ isn't.
#8. I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
#7. I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
#6. I vote Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. I am also thankful that we have a 911 service that gets police to your home in order to identify your body after a home invasion.
#5. I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.
#4. I vote Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits and we should take away Social Security from those who paid into it.
#3. I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrat Party sees fit.
#2. I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.
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#1 reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay $billions$ for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher or fish here in America. We don't care about the beetles, gophers, or fish in those other countries.
The ATF is trying to ban M855 AR-15 ammunition by declaring it armor piercing, despite the ammo containing lead which exempts it from the classification according to law.
To be considered armor piercing under 18 U.S.C. 921 (a)(17)(B), a bullet must have an entirely metal core or have a jacket weighting more than 25% of its weight, which wouldnt include M855 rounds because their bullets are partly lead.
That's .223 that you may use
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The Bethlehem-based news agency Maan has cited a Kuwaiti newspaper report Saturday, that US President Barack Obama thwarted an Israeli military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2014 by threatening to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.
Following Obama's threat, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was reportedly forced to abort the planned Iran attack.
The new California law AB 60, an attempt to license the roughly 1.5 million illegal aliens in the state, has already licensed 110,000 immigrants since going into effect in January.
When a similar attempt was initially made in Nevada, the illegal residents failed the test 90% of the time. The ACLU attests that the failure rate can be due to the language barrier; Gloria Cruz of the San Diego ACLU told ABC 10 News that the need to apply online or with the DMVs touchscreen had left immigrants with great difficulties to overcome. California applicants have faced similar difficulties with the written test
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Monday that President Obama is "very interested" in the idea of raising taxes through unilateral executive action. "The president certainly has not indicated any reticence in using his executive authority to try and advance an agenda that benefits middle class Americans," Earnest said in response to a question about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) calling on Obama to raise more than $100 billion in taxes through IRS executive action. "Now I don't want to leave you with the impression that there is some imminent announcement, there is not, at least that I know of," Earnest continued. "But the president has asked his team to examine the array of executive authorities that are available to him to try to make progress on his goals..."
The latest case zero tolerance madness has occurred in Colorado Springs, as a first-grader has been suspended from school for pointing his fingers in the shape of a gun.
Its a familiar tale, as Elijah Thurston became just another in a long list of children to be punished for innocent imaginary play.
The boy allegedly made the gun shape with his hand and said, Youre dead while pointing at another child in his class.
An article featured in the left-leaning news outlet Mother Jones this week declares the act of eating three meals a day to be racist.
In a piece entitled, Why You Should Stop Eating Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, writer Kiera Butler asserts that strict adherence to mealtimes is not only anti-science, but racist as well.