(NNN) – 2013 is the centennial of two developments that dramatically changed the United States — and the world — for the worse: The creation of the Federal Reserve System, and the imposition of the Income Tax through the 16th Amendment. For more than a century, Americans had fought against the creation of a central bank; that fight was lost when the Federal Reserve was created. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – Every week, it seems, we are barraged with bad news about unemployment and our stagnant economy — followed immediately by news that the Dow Jones Index is setting new records, and Wall Street is seeing unprecedented profits. What is going on in our economy? Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – Lasik surgery is advertised as a nearly miraculous surgical method of vision correction. It has been estimated that since Lasik became widely available in the late 1990s, nearly three quarters of a million patients have undergone the laser eye surgery. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – WWE Pro Wrestling champion Glenn “Kane” Jacobs is about to deliver a mental smackdown on Tennessee’s Lieutenant Governor over a debate on the internet tax AKA the “Marketplace Fairness Act”! Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – In his Farewell Address, George Washington famously urged Americans to avoid entanglement in the affairs of other countries. That advice was also shared by Thomas Jefferson and others of the Founding Era. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – Meet the man behind the armed march on Washington DC – Adam Kokesh. There are few, if any, advocates of individual liberty who are as forceful — and as controversial – as Adam Kokesh. A Marine veteran of the Iraq war, Kokesh first courted controversy in 2007 when he participated, in uniform, in protests against that war, which he — like many other veterans — considered unnecessary, immoral, unjust, and counter-productive. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – May 14th, 2013 – Should Obama be Impeached for permitting the IRS to target constitutional educators? After college student Sandra Fluke, an economically comfortable college student, used her congressional testimony to demand taxpayer-subsidized birth control, Rush Limbaugh made disparaging remarks about her character and maturity. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, civil libertarians from across the political spectrum were hopeful that he would overturn many Bush administration policies that had infringed upon the Bill of Rights. During the campaign, then-Senator Obama, who had taught Constitutional law, criticized Bush for his warrantless wiretapping program, for waging undeclared war in Iraq, institutionalizing torture, and indefinitely detaining terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Read the rest of this entry »
(DailyBail) – Start watching at 50 seconds. Brand new video. CBS 60 Minutes interviewed Julia Davis at length – and then cancelled the scheduled airing – because of political pressure.
(NNN) – It was like something out of a Hollywood movie. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, millions of people watched, in real time, as the city was put on lockdown and the citizens were held under martial law, while the FBI searched for the two suspected bombers. Some people have said the use of force was justified because the accused were caught, but is the removal of freedom worth the loss the liberty? Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – Since 9/11 America has seen more and more incursions into the privacy and individual rights of its citizens than ever before all in the name of safety or national security. Congress produces bills every year ranging from a few pages to thousands of page that then must be interpreted and regulations written to enact the new law — all adding to the complexity of what we call our free society. Many of those bills have direct consequences to the American public. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – Located in Northern Alberta, Canada are the tar sands fields. To be clear, tar sands are not crude oil. They are a composite of clay, sand and minerals that also contain low percentages of oil. Comprising an area that same acreage as Florida, these tar sands lie more than 100 feet underneath the pristine forests of Canada. These forest ecosystems are ripped up, trees cleared out and all topsoil is removed. Then, using some of the largest mining equipment on Earth, the tar sands are dug out and sent to be diluted for preparation for transportation via pipelines. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – Since 9/11 we are hearing more and more about drones and the use of drones to do everything from spy on Afghani and Taliban leaders, monitoring farms and ranches in America to killing American citizens in Yemen. The ever expanding reach and capability of the military industrial complex on the one hand helps protect America on the other hand it has produced a machine that can dominate even its own people. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – For over 75 years the consumption and distribution of cannabis in the united states has been against the law. The interest in consuming this illegal drug, however, has continued to grow amongst the American public. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – Is the bank deposit raid in Cyprus the wave of the future? According to Eurozone officials, the unprecedented decision to impose a so-called bailout levy on private bank accounts will indeed be the model for future raids on deposits in Spain, Italy, Portugal, and elsewhere. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – Government is the only human enterprise that prospers through failure. Although its advertised purpose is to protect the lives and property of the citizenry, government persistently and consistently fails to fulfill that mandate — and every time it does, the governing class insists that their failures should be rewarded with new power, more money, and more protection from accountability. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – Although most Americans aren’t aware of the fact, the Korean War is our country’s longest-running military conflict. Although an armistice was signed sixty years ago this July, the war never officially ended. DMZ separating South Korea from the Communist North remains one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints. More than 28,000 U.S. troops are deployed to South Korea. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – Anthony Gregory is a Research Fellow and Student Programs Director at the Independent Institute, a non-profit think-tank in Oakland, California. A graduate of the University of California-Berkley, Mr. Gregory is writing a book in individual liberty and the writ of habeas corpus. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – According to Attorney General Eric Holder, the President of the United States has the power to order the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens in military custody — or to have them summarily executed as enemy combatants by a drone strike — and Congress has no constitutional authority to forbid him to do so. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – In New York State, disabled Iraq War veteran Benjamin Wassell faces a felony prosecution for the supposed crime of selling an AR-15 rifle and six large-capacity clips to undercover police operatives. He is the first to be charged under the so-called SAFE act, New York’s radical new gun law. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – James Corbett of corbettreport.com joins Gary Franchi of WHDT9 on the Next News Network to discuss recent reports of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. They also talk about the new so-called Syrian Prime Minister-in-exile, the possibility of war in the region, and the implications of the government-media nexus. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – Few if any contemporary political figures have had careers as colorful as that of former Alaska Senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel — and fewer are more difficult to fit into a tidy ideological category. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – What would America look like under martial law? Would it be a country in which police are dressed and armed like combat troops, and conduct patrols in armored vehicles of the kind used by the military overseas? Would we see people routinely dragged from their homes by paramilitary teams in raids conducted in the early morning, or late at night? Would we find ourselves under constant surveillance by local and federal law enforcement agencies, or even tracked by unmanned drones? Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – March 13th, 2013 – For some people, the statement “No farms means no food” is obvious. But millions of people never give the matter even a minute’s thought. They simply assume that food spontaneously materializes on the shelves of the local grocery store. Read the rest of this entry »
(NNN) – We could call it an international “currency war,” or we could call it the “new race to the bottom” — but what it amounts to is an unprecedented devaluation of currencies world-wide. Central banks around the world, imitating the Federal Reserve’s so-called “quantitative easing,” are beginning to devalue their own currencies in an attempt to gain market share for their exports. But this will generate inflation that will devastate the purchasing power of consumers who use those currencies. And behind all of this is a specter of hyperinflation — the economic scourge that has historically been the precursor of domestic unrest, political tyranny, and even world war. Read the rest of this entry »
(AJC) – In an interview with WHDT host Gary Franci, Alex Jones explains what really happened with CNN’s Piers Morgan and the larger attempt to shame 2nd Amendment rights and hand all remaining power over the usurpers in Washington. Read the rest of this entry »
