FYI: Ramadan this year is June 5th thru July 5th, so keep your head on a swivel and Stay Frosty. -SF BEIRUT, Lebanon – The Islamic State group appeared to try to keep morale high among its supporters in a new audio message released on Saturday, which also called for attacks on the US during…
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Primed to Fight The Government: The Patriot Movement
A fast-growing U.S. movement armed with guns and the Constitution sees a dire threat to liberty REDMOND, Ore. — B.J. Soper took aim with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and fired a dozen shots at a human silhouette target. Soper’s wife and their 16-year-old daughter practiced drawing pistols. Then Soper helped his 4-year-old daughter, in pink…
Surveillance State: Smart Policing
Power Loves the Dark Police Nationwide Are Secretly Exploiting Intrusive Technologies With the Feds’ Complicity By Matthew Harwood and Jay Stanley Can’t you see the writing on the touchscreen? A techno-utopia is upon us. We’ve gone from smartphones at the turn of the twenty-first century to smart fridges and smart cars. The revolutionary changes to…
Cartel Corner #81: Organized Crime and Narco-Terrorism in Peru Now on U.S. Radar
From May 8 through May 13, I had the opportunity to participate in the international Special Operations Forces exercise “Fuerzas Comando” in Lima, Peru. The event occurred at a pivotal moment, just after the first round of Peru’s presidential elections in early April. The exercise also occurred little more than a month after the terrorist…
Profiles in Courage: Man Stops Knife Wielding Maniac in Target Store and Get’s Sued For It
Just one more sad example that the Target Corporation is nothing but a bunch of assholes that are NOT interested in the SAFETY of your family or mine. First they open up their bathrooms so grown men can assault/rape little girls and boys and now they decide to SUE a brave good samaritan who stopped…
Cyber-Security Threat Update: Don’t Get Juice-Jacked
You are racing through the airport. The low power light is blinking red. You are desperate to plug into any outlet you can find. Watch out. You could get juice jacked. Guess what? In every smart phone—no matter what the model—power and data flow through the same USB port and power cable. That creates a potential attack…
Learning From Terrorist Tactics: Preparing For Subterranean Warfare
I posted an article last year on Subterranean Warfare in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank and it now looks like this nasty type of fighting is definitely going to be part of the landscape in the battle zones in Syria and Iraq as well. -SF Last year, members of Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate,…
Venezuela: A Prepper’s Nightmare Come to Life
Not much is being said in the state run media about the current events in Venezuela, but it would behoove the Armed Citizen/Prepper to pay attention to what is going on there; lots to learn. -SF Two years ago, Venezuela was a normal functioning nation, relatively speaking of course. It was by no means a…
Texas News: Up Yours Fed!! Texas Plans to Build Gold Depository
Last year, we covered a story coming out of Texas in which the state government was planning to institute a state-controlled “gold depository” that would allow individuals to store their gold in a presumably safe place outside the United States banking system. This proposition was met with emotionally-charged denunciations from Americans in far away northeastern American…
Military Defense News: Chinese Jets Intercept U.S. Military Plane over South China Sea
As if it was not enough that Russian Jets are buzzing American Planes and Ships, the Chinese have decided to join in on the fun too. Notice certain ‘news’ agencies will use the word “spy plane” versus “Reconnaissance Plane” to insinuate malicious intent. The Propaganda never stops. -SF Two Chinese fighter jets carried out an…