U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase Kit Daniels Infowars.com February 5, 2014
Post Office joins other federal agencies stockpiling over two billion rounds of ammo The U.S. Postal Service is currently seeking companies that can provide “assorted small arms ammunition” in the near future. On Jan. 31, the USPS Supplies and Services Purchasing Office posted a notice on the Federal Business Opportunities website asking contractors to register with USPS as potential ammunition suppliers for a variety of cartridges. “The United States Postal Service intends to solicit proposals for assorted small arms ammunition,” the notice reads, which also mentioned a deadline of Feb. 10. The Post Office published the notice just two days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced his proposal to remove a federal gun ban that prevents lawful concealed carry holders from carrying handguns inside post offices across the country. Ironically the Postal Service isn’t the first non-law enforcement agency seeking firearms and ammunition. Since 2001, the U.S. Dept. of Education has been building a massive arsenal through purchases orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The Education Dept. has spent over $80,000 so far on Glock pistols and over $17,000 on Remington shotguns. Back in July, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also purchased 72,000 rounds of . 40 Smith & Wesson, following a 2012 purchase for 46,000 rounds of .40 S&W jacketed hollow point by the National Weather Service. NOAA spokesperson Scott Smullen responded to concerns over the weather service purchase by stating
that it was meant for the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement for its bi-annual “target qualifications and training.” That seems excessive considering that JHP ammunition is typically several times more expensive than practice rounds, which can usually be found in equivalent power loadings and thus offer similar recoil characteristics as duty rounds. Including mass purchases by the Dept. of Homeland Security, non-military federal agencies combined have purchased an estimated amount of over two billion rounds of ammunition in the past two years. Additionally, the U.S. Army bought almost 600,000 Soviet AK-47 magazines last fall, enough to hold nearly 18,000,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo which is not standard-issue for either the U.S. military or even NATO. It would take a Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy, one of the largest cargo aircraft in the world, two trips to haul that many magazines. A month prior, the army purchased nearly 3,000,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo, a huge amount but still only 1/6th of what the magazines purchased can hold in total. The Feds have also spent millions on riot control measures in addition to the ammo acquisitions. Earlier this month, Homeland Security spent over $58 million on hiring security details for just two Social Security offices in Maryland. DHS also spent $80 million on armed guards to protect government buildings in New York and sought even more guards for federal facilities in Wisconsin and Minnesota. While the government gears up for civil unrest and stockpiles ammo without limit, private gun owners on the other hand are finding ammunition shelves empty at gun stores across America, including shortages of once-common cartridges such as .22 Long Rifle.
Is Obama The New “New Nixon”? Jack Kenny thenewamerican.com February 5, 2014
President Barack Obama politely declined the title of "most liberal president in U.S. history" when asked by Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly if that is what he is. Obama magnanimously passed that honor off to another president, who was unable to refuse it, being dead now for the past 20 years. "You know, the truth of the matter is, is that when you look at some of my policies, in a lot of ways, Richard Nixon was more — more liberal than I was," Obama said during the interview, shown live in its first 10 minutes before the Super Bowl Sunday and recorded for broadcast in its entirety Monday night on The O'Reilly Factor. Obama credited Nixon (shown on left) with creating the Environmental Protection Agency and "a whole lot of the regulatory state that has helped make our air and water clean." O'Reilly expressed surprise at the choice of the Republican Nixon for a comparison. "I thought you were gonna say FDR," he said. "Well, FDR — Johnson," Obama replied. "But I tend not to think about these things in terms of liberal and Democrat — or liberal and conservative, because at any given time the question is what does the country need right now? And what — right now what the country needs is, roads, bridges, infrastructure. We got two trillion dollars worth of unmet needs. We could put — be putting construction workers back to work right now, folks that you like to champion," he told O'Reilly. "Why aren't we doing it? That's not a liberal or conservative agenda." The "liberal" and "conservative" labels do get a bit murky when Barack Obama, who came to the White House as the darling of those recycled, re-branded liberals known as "progressives," admits to being surpassed in liberalism by Richard Milhous Nixon, the object of liberal wrath throughout his long political career. Conservatives, for the most part, supported the Nixon presidency, despite strong objections from the Right over his imposition of the nation's only peacetime wage-and-price controls, the devaluing of the dollar, his fawning tributes to the communist tyrant Mao Tse-tung during his visit to China, his proposal for a guaranteed annual income (called the Family Assistance Plan), and other programs and policies of the Nixon presidency (1969-74) that most conservatives considered anathema. As Fox News commentator Douglas Schoen wrote last year on the 100th anniversary of Nixon's birth, the 37th president was "a pro-big government, pro-public spending, and pro-social safety net president." Excessive government regulation was something Nixon and the "conservatives" in his administration opposed in principle and embraced in practice. "Probably more new regulation was imposed on the economy during the Nixon administration than in any other presidency since the New Deal," said Herbert Stein, who was chief economic advisor during the Nixon administration. Obama, who is openly fond of bypassing Congress to achieve legislative ends through executive orders, might admire the way Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency by executive order in July 1970 — though it was ratified by Congress later that year. Nixon also gave the nation Affirmative Action hiring quotas (called "goals") and threw off the old conservative inhibitions about deficit spending. He embraced instead the pump-priming theories of British economist and liberal icon John Maynard Keynes, who urged governments to spend their way out of recessions and into prosperity. "I am now a Keynesian in economics," Nixon announced in a 1971 TV interview. The
prosperity that was supposed to follow Nixon's "full employment" budgets got lost somewhere among the rising deficits, inflation, and economic stagnation that prevailed through the latter half of the 1970s. Obama might have brought up another point of comparison between himself and Nixon that today's Republicans might rather forget. Had Congress enacted a certain presidential proposal of 1974, America might now be in the 41st year of NixonCare — or the Milhous Medicine Plan. "I shall propose a sweeping new program that will assure comprehensive health insurance protection to millions of Americans who cannot now obtain it or afford it, with vastly improved protection against catastrophic illnesses," Nixon said in what would be his final State of the Union address. "Nixon's proposed reform would have required employers to buy health insurance for their employees and subsidize those who couldn't afford it," wrote Schoen. "Nixon's version of national health care was a far more liberal concept than Bill Clinton's or Barack Obama's — and it failed because of Democratic opposition, not lack of support from Nixon's own party." Nixon followed John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson into the White House, having campaigned on promises to halt the growth of the federal government, balance the budget, and appoint judges who would be "strict constructionists" of the Constitution. Instead, the actions carried out and policies pursued by Nixon and his fellow Republicans inspired liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith to publish a book near the end of Nixon's first term entitled Who Needs the Democrats. As it happened, Congress in 1974 had more pressing matters than Nixon's health care plan to deal with — such as impeaching Nixon, for example. Nixon avoided that fate only by resigning just before the articles of impeachment would have come to a vote. Along with obstruction of justice during the investigation of the Watergate break-in, Nixon's impeachable offenses included warrantless surveillance of his political adversaries, waging an unauthorized war in Cambodia, and attempting to use the IRS to harass and bedevil his enemies. Obama has backed the NSA's collection of everyone's telephone records and e-mail messages, and he waged an unauthorized war in Libya. Under Obama, the IRS launched investigations into the tax status of Tea Party and other conservative groups. He has outdone Nixon's "enemies list" with a "kill list" of suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens, who may be dispatched by drone attack, far from any battlefield and without any semblance of a trial. When Nixon ran for president in 1968, he tried to overcome the old "Tricky Dick" persona with a more statesmanlike image of "the new Nixon." The old "new Nixon" died in 1994, but there appears to be another model in the White House now. Perhaps Obama was being too modest in his interview with O'Reilly. He might be even more "Nixonian" than Nixon.
Alex Jones Discusses Downfall Of Dinosaur Media On Jesse Ventura’s New Show Infowars.com February 5, 2014
Alex joins former Minn. Governor and author Jesse Ventura on his new show Off The Grid to discuss the rise of truth through the alternative media and the dwindling influence of mainstream, state-run media outlets. Alex Jones Discusses Downfall of Dinosaur Media on Jesse Ventura’s New Show VIDEO BELOW http://www.ora.tv/offthegrid/alex-jones-goes-offthegrid-0_45t1xkj2x3n2 The interview can be seen on Ora.tv.
MSM Collapsing: NY Times Now “Irrelevant,” According To Its Own Writers Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com February 5, 2014
Opinion pieces have no impact on public discourse as statist media sinks In another example of how the mainstream media is in a state of collapse, the New York Times’s own writers told a newspaper that NY Times opinion pieces are now seen as “irrelevant” and have no impact on public discourse whatsoever. This is a stunning turnaround from as little as five years ago, when a New York Times opinion piece was viewed with respect and held a certain level of gravitas. The New York Observer interviewed more than two dozen current and former NY Times writers, virtually all of whom were unanimous in acknowledging that the Old Gray Lady is becoming increasingly insignificant. “I think the editorials are viewed by most reporters as largely irrelevant, and there’s not a lot of respect for the editorial page,” one source told the newspaper. “The editorials are dull, and that’s a cardinal sin.” “They’re completely reflexively liberal, utterly predictable, usually poorly written and totally ineffectual,” said another. “I mean, just try and remember the last time that anybody was talking about one of those editorials. You know, I can think of one time recently, which is with the [Edward] Snowden stuff, but mostly nobody pays attention, and millions of dollars is being spent on that stuff.” This is yet another consequence of the fact that more and more people are turning away from mainstream media as a result of its habitual efforts to twist the truth and deceive the public in order to serve the interests of the state. The corporate press is in a blind panic because it is quickly losing its ability to dictate reality and shape narratives, which is why people like Hillary Clinton have bemoaned the fact that the establishment is “losing the Infowar” to newly emerging media sources. In 2012, the New York Times reported a net loss of 85% on earnings as a result of lost advertising revenue due to dwindling readership figures, but they are actually not doing too badly in comparison to other mainstream news outlets. From November 2012 to November 2013, MSNBC lost almost half its viewers over the course of just 12 months, shedding 45 per cent of its audience. CNN also lost 48 per cent of its viewers over the same time period. The corporate press’ refusal to challenge authority and cover real issues has also led to record high levels of distrust in media. Last year, a Gallup poll found that just 23 per cent of Americans trust the institution of television news.
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