Cossacks are patrolling for Islamic Terrorists

Calling All Cossacks

Russia mobilizes against Islamic Terrorists.

(BBC News)  -  Russian security forces in the city of Volgograd have detained more than 700 people in a crackdown following two bomb blasts which killed 34.

Thousands of police officers are conducting checks on public transport, stopping cars and questioning drivers as well as other individuals at markets and shops.

Cossacks - traditional paramilitary enforcers in southern Russia - are patrolling the streets and buses to help police, as are local volunteers known as druzhinniki.

Russian investigators believe that both suicide bombers were men who had arrived in Volgograd from the North Caucasus, a security source told Interfax news agency.

The bombings were similar to previous indiscriminate attacks by Islamist militants operating from the North Caucasus, where violent Islamic anti-Moscow separatism is rife.

No group has said it carried out the attacks, but analysts say the bombings could have been an effort to derail the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which begin next month.

The first bomb attack took place at the city's main railway station, and the second - the following day - ripped through a trolleybus.

Volgograd was in mourning during the traditional New Year holiday - and the mourning period only ends on Friday. The city, called Stalingrad in Soviet times, is a powerful symbol for Russian patriots, because of its key role in the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War Two.

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Video of blast scene after second bomb attack in Russia's Volgograd

Cossacks are helping police with spot checks on Volgograd's streets.

The Religion of Peace™
The Religion of Peace brought eternal peace to 34 helpless people.

Random Thoughts - Americans Used To Work

January 1937
"Part of the family of a migrant fruit worker from Tennessee, camped near the packinghouse in Winter Haven, Florida."  35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.  Translation:  Americans of European heritage used to pick crops.

These pictures struck me.

Back in the olden days, before the welfare state, Americans of all ethnic backgrounds worked on farms.  Hell, my Mom picked crops in Iowa on the family farm.

But today businesses bribe Democrat and Republican politicians with campaign cash to pay welfare to Americans not to work (at American wages) and then to import foreigners at lower wages to fill an artificially created "labor shortage".

As 2014 progresses the political liars talk about immigration "reform".  But remember 80% of that reform is all about importing and legalizing millions of new workers to compete directly against Americans for a limited number of jobs and to drive wages down.

Back When Americans Worked
African American Migrant Workers sort Beans in Southold, New York, c. 1930's.

Back When Americans Worked
Japanese mother and daughter, agricultural workers near
Guadalupe, California.  March, 1937.

Americans Are Lazy Bastards
Welcome to the new and "improved" 21st century America.  Work?  That is for suckers.  Just keep sending that Marxist re-distributed taxpayer cash to my EBT card please.
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See our article:   New Yorkers refuse to do 'Dirty Jobs'

Uruguay's neighbors now considering legalization of pot

Ending the Insane Drug War

• The cultivation of up to six cannabis plants per family is now legal in Uruguay. As well as growing the drug, Uruguayans will also be able to purchase marijuana in pharmacies once they have registered in a nationwide database. There will be a cap on the amount of marijuana that can be bought every month which will initially be set at 40 grams.
• Drug Cartel crime will vanish overnight and new legal businesses will open. 

Argentina has given the first sign that Uruguay’s groundbreaking cannabis reform just may have started a domino effect across Latin America.

Following the momentous vote by its smaller neighbor’s senate this month — making it the first nation in the world to completely legalize the soft drug — Argentina’s anti-drug czar Juan Carlos Molina has called for a public discussion in his country about emulating the measure.

“Argentina deserves a good debate about this,” Molina told local radio. “We have the capacity to do it. We should not underestimate ourselves,” reports the Global Post.

Crucially, Molina, a Catholic priest appointed earlier this month by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as head of her government’s counternarcotics agency, said his boss also wanted a new approach.

His comments are the clearest sign yet that Uruguay’s strategy — aimed at breaking the link between the lucrative marijuana trade and organized crime — has kicked off a trend in a region that long ago wearied of the bloodshed, expense and failed results of Washington’s “war on drugs.”

Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance, predicted that the 16-13 vote in Uruguay’s upper house would prompt more governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to consider relaxing prohibitionist pot laws.

“In the same way that Colorado and Washington had a catalytic impact on opinion across the US, this bold move by Uruguay is helping to shape the debate in Latin America,” he said.

Many Latin American countries already permit — or at least do not punish — possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use.

Yet until Uruguay’s reform, no country in the region allowed the production or sale of cannabis. That has resulted in a confusing situation in which drugs bought illegally can be consumed lawfully.

Article 299 of Peru’s Criminal Code, for example, allows the possession of up to 8 grams (roughly a quarter of an ounce). Yet Peru, now the world’s largest cocaine producer, is one of Washington’s staunchest allies in the war on drugs.

And even Chile, which has many conservative laws thanks to its constitution drafted during the Pinochet dictatorship, permits individual adults to privately consume unlimited quantities of any drugs, including even seriously harmful substances such as amphetamines and crack.

Some 70 percent of all women in Latin American jails are there for drug offenses, according to a recent report by the International Drug Policy Consortium. Many of them were convicted for acting as mules to transport forbidden substances clandestinely, including the dangerous practice of hiding their illicit cargo in their own bodies.

Many governments in the region are already in favor of dropping, or at least relaxing, the hard-line prohibitionist approach to drugs first launched by the Nixon administration — which has failed to stem rising consumption of cannabis, cocaine and other banned substances over the last 40 years.

Also see:  RT News.

Follow the Money
In the U.S. it is perfectly legal for giant pharmaceutical corporations (who "donate" millions to Congressmen) to distribute highly dangerous and addictive drugs in every city.  They even advertise their dangerous drugs 24-7 in endless TV ads.  But for reasons unknown people are not allowed by the government to self-medicate with pot.  Maybe, just maybe, it is because big pharm is not able to make any money off self-medicating.

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica sign the bill to legalize pot.

Supporters of legalizing marijuana demonstrate outside Uruguay's Senate.

Is The NSA Quartering “Digital” Troops Within Our Homes?

"We represent your King and the legal government. 
Do what we say or we will kill you."

 

Are “Digital” Troops in Our Homes? 

• Are Federal digital troops being sent into our digital devices like British Troops were sent into American Colonists’ homes?

(Washington's Blog)  -  We have extensively documented that the U.S. government is trampling virtually every single Constitutional right set forth in the Bill of Rights.

One of the few rights which we thought the government still respects is the the 3rd Amendment, which prohibits the government forcing people to house troops:

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

But security expert Jacob Appelbaum notes that the NSA may be digitally violating the 3rd Amendment.

By way of background, this week Appelbaum was the main force behind an expose in Spiegel – and gave a must-watch talk – on the NSA’s systemic offensive programs to commandeer computers and computer systems, phone connections and phone systems, and communications networks of all types.

Appelbaum shows that the NSA has literally taken over our computer and our phones, physically intercepting laptop shipments and installing bugware before themselves shipping the laptop on to the consumer, installing special hardware that overcomes all privacy attempts, including “air gaps” (i.e. keep a computer unplugged from the Internet). Appelbaum also notes that spyware can suck up a lot of system resources on a computer or smartphone.

And he says this is the digital equivalent of soldiers being stationed in our houses against our will.

The parallel might not be as far-fetched as it may seem at first …

The NSA itself says that it’s in the middle of a massive cyber war. As such, malware, physical spying devices and offensive internet workarounds are literally the main troops in the NSA’s offensive cyber army.

Quartering meant that Colonial Americans had:

• No control over when the British troops came and went

• No say in what resources they consumed

• And no privacy even in their own castles

Similarly, mass NSA spying means that modern day Americans have:

• No control over when military presence comes or goes from our computer and phones (NSA is part of the Department of Defense)

• No say in what resources the spies suck up (remember, Applebaum says that spying can use a lot of resources and harm performance)

• And no privacy even in the deepest inner sanctuary of our electronic home base

Colonial Americans lost the quiet use and enjoyment of their homes. Modern Americans are losing the quiet use and enjoyment of our digital homes because the NSA is stationing digital “troops” inside our computers and phones.

Just as the Colonists’ homes were no longer theirs … our computers and phones are no longer ours.

Happy New Year

Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult

Pennsylvania Citizen Sues Over ‘Voluntary’ Cheek Swabs

Big Brother is Collecting Your DNA

So-called "private" companies are acting as agents for the Federal government and are collecting your DNA for "study".

Following reports that police in Reading, Pennsylvania, participated in a national survey, in which random citizens were pulled over and asked for “voluntary” cheek swabs, a courageous resident filed a lawsuit against the city, its mayor and several others claiming his Fourth Amendment rights were violated.

See our last article Federal agents are taking your DNA at roadside checkpoints.

“Nothing about this incident was ‘voluntary’ in my case,” Reading resident Ricardo Nieves stated at a City Council meeting two weeks ago, prior to pursuing the federal suit. “I feel this incident is a gross abuse of power on so many levels. I’m not a legal expert, but being forced off the road and unlawfully holding me against my will for any period of time, I would consider my liberty to be compromised and falsely imprisoned.”

Nieves was irked when on Friday, December 13, he drove up to a street where police lights were flashing and orange security cones lined the lane reports Infowars News.

According to the suit, Nieves was driving in the right hand lane and that the left lane “was full of traffic such that he could not pull over to change lanes.”

Nieves’ lawsuit, obtained by Courthouse News, further states an officer “stepped out into plaintiff’s lane of traffic, blocked his further advance, and flagged him to pull off the public road into a parking lot on Laurel Street.”

There, Nieves says a woman with a clipboard walked up to him, stated he was not being “pulled over” and proceeded to ask if he would participate in a survey. According to the lawsuit, the woman explained “the purpose of the stop was a survey of drivers’ behavior and that she wanted to take a cheek swab to check for the presence of prescription drugs.”

Knowledgable of his Fourth Amendment rights, which are supposed to protect U.S. citizens from unreasonable and unwarranted searches absent of probable cause, Nieves repeatedly refused the surveyor’s request for a cheek swab, and after five minutes ultimately asserted “very firmly, ‘No. Thank You.’”

When Nieves researched the checkpoint, it disturbed him to find it was conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, commissioned by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration at the behest of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

He also found out it was conducted with the full cooperation of the city of Reading and its police department and that they were awarded a considerable sum for their part.

“The checkpoint was part of a $7.9 million, three-year survey by the agencies, which has been conducted several times since the 1970s,” reported the Reading Eagle.

“This was nothing more than a gross abuse of power and federal intrusion of my rights,” Nieves told Alex Jones during a live interview after his story broke nationally.

Muslim religious authorities hunt Christians who used ‘Allah’ illegally

Muslims Terrorize Malay Christians

The Muslim majority cracks down on Christians

for daring to utter a word out loud.

The Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) officials in Mayaysia are looking for a Christian group that dared to use the word “Allah” in their worship illegally last weekend.

Malay newspapers had reported that the Christian group had allegedly used “Allah” at their Sunday function at a hotel in Klang, reigniting the battle for the word which is now before the country's apex court.

A Court of Appeal ruling decided that the home minister has the power to restrict use of the world reports the Malaysian Insider.

 

The Malaysian Government and religious authorities have not only gone to restrict Christians from using the word but have now started a campaign to outlaw Shia Islam in the country.

There are only some 1,500 Shias but the number cannot be independently verified.

Malaysia court rules non-Muslims can't use 'Allah'
Muslim demonstrators pray outside the Court of Appeal in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 14, 2013. A Malaysian appeals court upheld a government ban against the use of the word "Allah" to refer to God in non-Muslim faiths, overruling claims by Christians in this Muslim-majority nation that the restriction violates their religious rights. "Allah" is the Arabic word for God and is commonly used in the Malay language to refer to God.  (Associated Press)
See more at the San Diego Union-Tribune.

In the latest case, deputy director of Jais Ahmad Zaki Arshad said they had yet to get proof that the Christian group had used the word “Allah” in their meeting.

"We are seeking the assistance of the hotel management to view footage of the closed-circuit television camera to check on the validity of the claim. We cannot act, based on a photograph in a newspaper," Ahmad Zaki told The Malaysian Insider.

He said the department was seeking the cooperation of the event organisers to come forward to facilitate investigation.

"A photograph is insufficient evidence to act."

Religions in Malaysia

Ahmad Zaki was referring to Utusan Malaysia's report on Monday which carried a photograph of the event, with the words, “International Full Gospel Fellowship: Keluarga Allah satelit Nilai dan satelit Puchong, 'Dari dalam gelap akan terbit terang’,” on a backdrop.

The department is investigating the case under a 1988 enactment which bars non-Muslims from using the word “Allah”.

The daily had reported that some 200 people had attended the gathering, organised by International Full Gospel Fellowship.

The report said those present sang songs containing the word “Allah”. Following this, two Muslim groups have called for action against a Christian group for allegedly using the word “Allah” at their function.

In their reaction, Pertubuhan Ikatan Kebajikan dan Dakwah Selangor (Ikddas) and Perkasa Selangor chapter urged Jais to investigate and act on the matter.

“From a legal perspective, it is clear the use of the word 'Allah' is prohibited to non-Muslims. If the organiser uses the sacred word in a non-Islamic function, then Jais should not hesitate to take action against them,” Ikddas president Rosdi Long told Utusan.

Selangor Perkasa chief Abu Bakar Yahya said it was inappropriate for non-Muslims to use the word, saying the Selangor sultan had issued a decree on the matter.

Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, who is also the Islamic religious head, recently called on non-Muslims in his state not to refer God as “Allah” and ordered that the word not be used in the Bible and in the Bahasa Malaysia section of Catholic weekly, Herald.

This, he said, was to avoid causing confusion among Muslims in Selangor.

On October 14, the Court of Appeal ruled to uphold the Home Ministry's ban on Herald's use of the word “Allah”. – December 25, 2013.

Malaysian Christians attend a mass at church.