Bad Guys Pushing THIS WEEK to Promote Global Tyranny Run By Corporations

Here’s How to STOP Them The pow­ers-that-be are push­ing this week to fast track a hor­ri­ble treaty which would destroy America. The treaty is called the Trans Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship (TPP). The U.S. Trade Rep­re­sen­ta­tive – the fed­er­al agency respon­si­ble for nego­ti­at­ing trade treaties – has said that the details of the TPP are clas­si­fied due to […]

The Free Market is Solving the GMO Problem

When Justin Dammann enters his south­west­ern Iowa corn­field this month, the 35-year-old farmer will sow some­thing these 2,400 acres have not seen in more than a decade — plants grown with­out genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied seeds. The corn, which will head to a proces­sor 20 miles down the road this fall, will like­ly make its way into tor­tilla […]

Russia Says No to One-World Government

Promi­nent Amer­i­can con­ser­v­a­tive thinker and author William Lind explains why the West is gang­ing up on Russia Vic­tor Ole­vich: Almost a quar­ter cen­tu­ry has passed since the end of the Cold War. Yet, both Rus­sia and the West once again find them­selves at the precipice of a new Cold War. Why did Wash­ing­ton choose to […]

Editorial – The Incredible Raisin Heist

Steal­ing is ille­gal, unless the gov­ern­ment is the thief. On Wednes­day the Supreme Court will hear a case on whether the gov­ern­ment can seize a chunk of a business’s prod­uct to reg­u­late prices. This is a big one. Like much gov­ern­ment mis­chief, Horne v. USDA has its roots in the Great Depres­sion and fed­er­al pro­grams to […]

BREAKING: Tennessee Legislature Repeals Common Core

NASHVILLE, April 21, 2015– Yes­ter­day, in a bipar­ti­san vote, the Ten­nessee House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives vot­ed unan­i­mous­ly (97:0) to repeal Com­mon Core. Today, the Ten­nessee State Sen­ate fol­lowed with a (27:1) vote in favor of repeal. “This leg­is­la­tion is a tem­plate for all states to begin a much need­ed jour­ney of sep­a­ra­tion from fed­er­al­ly gen­er­at­ed stan­dards […]

UN Chief Wants Action on $100 Billion Climate Fund

More than five years after Pres­i­dent Oba­ma and oth­er lead­ers agreed on a 2020 goal of rais­ing $100 bil­lion each year from pub­lic and pri­vate sources to help devel­op­ing coun­tries deal with cli­mate change, the Unit­ed Nations wants to see action. Ahead of Earth Day on Wednes­day, U.N. Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Ban Ki-moon is point­ing to a […]

Warrant Issuing Judge in Stanley Children Kidnapping Case Forces Sheriff to Reveal Documents

  Gar­land Coun­ty Deputy Sher­iff Sgt. Michael Wright (left) led a gestapo-type raid of the Stan­ley fam­i­ly home on Jan­u­ary 12, 2015 and kid­napped 7 chil­dren. Pho­to cour­tesy KARK4. – UPDATE 4/15/2015 The judge in Juve­nile Court today has just ordered the fam­i­ly to have a psy­chol­o­gist in the home 20 hours a week to “pro­mote har­mo­ny” in the […]

US Steel Warns Of Layoffs In Arkansas And Texas As Trans-Pacific Partnership Looms

FA Note: The last para­graph pro­vides a clue as to how mega-cor­po­ra­tions will prof­it from this “21st cen­tu­ry trade agreement”. Domes­tic pro­duc­ers have strug­gled amid a wave of Asian steel imports. In this pho­to, employ­ees at a steel fac­to­ry in Dalian, Chi­na. Reuters/China Daily Unit­ed States Steel Cor­po­ra­tion issued lay­off notices to 1,404 work­ers in the […]

The Tip Of The Climate Spending Iceberg

Lock­heed Mar­tin, a recent Wash­ing­ton Post arti­cle notes, is get­ting into renew­able ener­gy, nuclear fusion, “sus­tain­abil­i­ty” and even fish farm­ing projects, to aug­ment its reduced defense prof­its. The com­pa­ny plans to forge new ties with Defense Depart­ment and oth­er Oba­ma ini­tia­tives, based on a shared belief in man­made cli­mate change as a crit­i­cal secu­ri­ty and […]

A Heartless Congressional Blunder!

A Teacher’s Per­spec­tive on the “Every Child Achieves Act of 2015” by Dawn Hoagland, gut­sy pub­lic school teacher and reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to ABCSOFDUMBDOWN.BLOGSPOT.COM The “Every Child Achieves Act” has passed unan­i­mous­ly out of the Health, Edu­ca­tion, Labor, and Pen­sion Com­mit­tee in the Sen­ate. The usu­al sus­pects are singing its prais­es while the peo­ple who actu­al­ly read […]

Virginia Enacts Law To Protect Landowners From Predatory Land Trusts

Martha Bone­ta In a sting­ing repu­di­a­tion of the con­duct of a Vir­ginia envi­ron­men­tal group once viewed as polit­i­cal­ly invin­ci­ble, Gov. Ter­ry McAu­li­ffe (D) March 10 signed into law bipar­ti­san leg­is­la­tion that — for the first time — pro­vides rur­al landown­ers the means with which to defend them­selves against bul­ly­ing by land trusts. The land­mark leg­is­la­tion, […]

Morris: Obama Sneaking in ‘Unrestricted Immigration’ in TPA Trade Deal

Mon­day on New­max TV’s “America’s Forum,” polit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor Dick Mor­ris said the Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship (TPA) fast track being sup­port­ed by many Repub­li­cans has a pro­vi­sion that allows for the “free flow of work­ers” between coun­tries, essen­tial­ly cre­at­ing a back­door to “unre­strict­ed immigration.” Mor­ris said, “This is huge. I hope every­body lis­ten­ing takes action call your […]

Police Must Respect the Right of Citizens to Record Them

“I’m ask­ing all the cit­i­zens of North Charleston to con­tin­ue taping.” That is what Coun­cil­woman Dorothy Williams said in response to the shoot­ing death of Wal­ter Scott. She and oth­ers rec­og­nize that the sto­ry would have been very dif­fer­ent with­out the video show­ing that a white police offi­cer shot the unarmed black man sev­er­al times […]

Want to Record The Cops? Know Your Rights

There are some very dis­turb­ing videos cir­cu­lat­ing the Inter­net right now, depict­ing the deaths of unarmed civil­ians at the hands of trained, armed men. Many of these videos even show indi­vid­u­als being shot in the back, or as they try to flee. These are videos of police offi­cers in Amer­i­ca killing unarmed black men like Oscar […]

Testimony of Terry Backs, St. Ignatius, MT

FA Note: The pro­posed CSKT (Con­fed­er­at­ed Sal­ish and Koote­nai Tribes) Com­pact involves a lot of con­sti­tu­tion­al and legal issues, includ­ing tak­ing exist­ing off-reser­va­tion water rights from thou­sands of irri­ga­tors, fam­i­ly farms,  and oth­er legit­i­mate water rights hold­ers, and grant­i­ng them to the tribes. Below is one tes­ti­mo­ny sub­mit­ted at a leg­isla­tive hear­ing April 11 in […]

Surprised Solar Customers Find Themselves With Liens

A SORRY PURCHASE: SolarCi­ty pan­els cov­er the roof of Jeff Leeds’ home. The pan­els have been noth­ing but trou­ble, he says. Part 6 of 6 in the series SolarCity Jeff Leeds says installing SolarCity’s pan­els on the roof of his home in the North­ern Cal­i­for­nia city of El Grana­da was the sor­ri­est day of his life. Agree­ing […]

Moose Calf Mystery Solved: Too Many Wolves

Mech study shows a steep increase in wolf numbers coincided with a sharp decline in moose calf survival Some­times, no mat­ter how hard you try to avoid it, the answer to your ques­tion is star­ing you in the face. And it appears that could well be the case as it relates to the declin­ing moose […]

Floodplain Executive Order: Latest Obama Power Grab

Another illegal action unlikely to be challenged in court? Mil­lions of Amer­i­cans liv­ing and work­ing in flood­plains and oth­er low-lying areas are at acute risk of being inun­dat­ed – not by ris­ing water, but by a tidal wave of fed­er­al reg­u­la­tions – cour­tesy of the Oba­ma Administration. With pub­lic atten­tion riv­et­ed on the chaot­ic devel­op­ments in […]

WARNING!!! ESEA Reauthorization Passes Senate Committee!

BIPARTISAN NCLB FIX PASSES SENATE COMMITTEE: Mur­ray Calls for Con­tin­ued Bipar­ti­san Work to Move Bill Through Sen­ate, Get Signed into Law “(Wash­ing­ton, D.C.) – Today, the Sen­ate Health, Edu­ca­tion, Labor, and Pen­sions (HELP) Com­mit­tee passed the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015, the bipar­ti­san com­pro­mise reached by Rank­ing Mem­ber Pat­ty Mur­ray (D‑WA) and Chair­man Lamar Alexan­der […]

Deal Reached on Fast-Track Authority for Obama on Trade Accord

Before a Sen­ate Finance Com­mit­tee hear­ing on the trade pact Thurs­day: Sen­a­tor Robert Menen­dez, seat­ed at table, and stand­ing from left, Sen­a­tors Ben­jamin L. Cardin of Mary­land and Ron Wyden of Ore­gon; Trea­sury Sec­re­tary Jacob J. Lew; and Michael Fro­man, the Unit­ed States trade rep­re­sen­ta­tive. Cred­it Stephen Crowley/The New York Times           […]

The American People Aren’t Stupid Enough To Buy The Man-Made Climate Crisis Narrative

Late last year, the name Jonathan Gru­ber (pho­to left) became part of the pub­lic con­scious­ness for his new­ly pub­lic dec­la­ra­tions that Oba­macare passed due to the “stu­pid­i­ty of the Amer­i­can vot­er.” While there are many cas­es one can cite affirm­ing that most Amer­i­cans don’t close­ly fol­low pol­i­tics and/or the polit­i­cal process and, there­fore, may be called […]

Feds Push For Total Control of Property Rights: “Government is Named as the Owner of ALL the Water”

Editor’s Note: The fol­low­ing research and com­men­tary shows just how far the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment is will­ing to go. With the help of the EPA and State leg­is­la­tors they are aggres­sive­ly chip­ping away at pri­vate prop­er­ty rights in Amer­i­ca and as you’ll see from Jere­mi­ah Johnson’s report below, they are start­ing with our most pre­cious resource […]

What is Monsanto Hiding in Secret Documents?

What is Mon­san­to hid­ing in secret documents? A sci­en­tist offers shock­ing comments. “Let’s have a fed­er­al court where the judge pre­tends the lawyers for the defense are ful­ly informed about the facts of the case. The plain­tiff, a giant cor­po­ra­tion, pre­tends it’s con­cerned about the safe­ty of the pub­lic. The press pre­tends it’s cov­er­ing the […]

Colorado Legislature Isn’t Waiting For Supreme Court Decision On EPA’s Mercury Rule

Shut­ter­stock Image TIME’S A WASTIN’: Ahead of the Supreme Court deci­sion on the EPA’s Mer­cury Rule, the Col­orado Leg­is­la­ture is tak­ing mat­ters into it’s own hands. Col­orado is not bend­ing eas­i­ly to the new fed­er­al restric­tions from Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency’s Mer­cury and Air Tox­i­cs Stan­dards (MATS), also known as the “Mer­cury Rule,” which is cur­rent­ly being dis­put­ed […]