Blog Smith

Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Weekly Report of Jihad in America


  1. Former U.S. soldier charged with conspiring to use destructive device while fighting with Al Qa'ida affiliated group in Syria
  2. Ahmed Warsame pleads guilty in NY for providing material support to al-Shabaab and AQAP
  3. Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif sentenced for plot to attack Seattle military processing center
  4. Abdel Hameed Shehadeh convicted of false statements in terror case
  5. Al Shabaab's Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed sentenced in SDNY to 111 months for conspiring to support and receive military-type training from a FTO
  6. RCMP probing if Canadians killed in Algeria gas plant siege had help from home; Minister: Gov't must prevent Canadians from travelling overseas to commit terrorism
  7. GOP leaders voice 'grave misgivings' to Obama over key terror trial in civilian court
  8. Federal grand jury probing double-murder in Pakistan - may have been ordered by NYC cabbie
  9. NYPD sets rules for officers' use of social media

Obama Booed at NCAA Elite 8 Game

Nearly half of the crowd at Saturday's Elite 8 game between Syracuse and Marquette at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. booed Obama when he was shown on the big screen with just over ten minutes to play in the first half.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Ian Hunter, 30 March 2013, Bloomsbury Theater, London, United Kingdom

Bloomsbury Theater

Ian with Mari Wilson

Second Amendment Rally

Steve Piotrowski, Citizens for Liberty

COMMON CORE-ALIGNED LESSONS USE SCIENTOLOGY VIDEOS TO TEACH STUDENTS THEY HAVE RIGHT TO IDEALS SOCIALISM

NY’S COMMON CORE-ALIGNED LESSONS USE SCIENTOLOGY VIDEOS TO TEACH STUDENTS THEY HAVE RIGHT TO FOOD, HOUSING, CLOTHING, MEDICINE, EVEN A JOB

Ian Hunter, 10 October 2010, Union Chapel, London, Islington

10 October 2010, Union Chapel, London, Islington

Seadiver

Soul of America

Man Overboard

Michael Picasso

Roll Away The Stone

Irene Wilde

Ships

River of Tears

I Wish I Was Your Mother

Waterlow

Sweet Jane

All The Young Dudes

New York Muslim States Gays Should Be Beheaded According to Sharia Law



A caller into New York NY1's The Call argued for the beheading of gays.
The man, who identified himself as Chris from Willowbrook (Staten Island), said that Sharia law was needed in the United States “because that's the only way thisSan francisco examiner copy2 deviant lifestyle will be corrected,” according to audio captured by GoodAsYou.org.
“I'm Muslim and I believe 110 percent in Sharia law.”
“You know what happens in Islamic countries? You know what happens to the gay people, correct? They're beheaded,” the caller said. “I'm going to fight as hard as I can with all my Muslim brothers and sisters to make Sharia law in the United States.”
“So people should be beheaded for being gay? Come on, this is America,” host Maria Milito complained.
“You're anti-Muslim?”
“I'm not anti-Muslim,” Milito asserted.
“You're anti-Muslim if you are saying that about my religion.”
“So you have no friends who are gay?” she asked.
“I don't chose to associate with those people. That lifestyle is deviant and it's against Islam,” Chris answered.

Friday, March 29, 2013

Ian Hunter, 29 March 2013, The Stables, Stony Stratford, United Kingdom, Wavendon, UK 29 March 2013

FBI Stingray Listening to Cell Phones

Feds admit FBI warrantless cellphone tracking ‘very common’

ROBOTIC JELLYFISH DRONE SURVEILLANCE

Surveillance Jellyfish Drone

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/29/see-the-robotic-jellyfish-drone-equipped-with-surveillance-powers-seriously/

Reasonably Informative But Downplaying the Ravages of Mao's Dictatorship

http://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/RetrieveArchive.asp?f=%2F10%2F2%2F616%2Epdf

http://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/RetrieveArchive.asp?f=%2F10%2F2%2F615%2Epdf

Planned Parenthood Official Argues for Right to Post-Birth Abortion

Alisa Laport Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified that her organization believes the decision to kill an infant who survives a failed abortion should be left up to the woman seeking an abortion and her abortion doctor.

Reps. Jim Boyd, Daniel Davis, Jose Oliva asked questions.

North Korean Missiles

North Korea tensions: Russia's Lavrov fears 'spiral'

Obama uses executive power to move gun control agenda forward

Obama issued a memorandum requiring all nine federal law enforcement agencies to submit guns they confiscate to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for tracing.

In January, Obama directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to begin studying the causes of gun violence for the first time since Congress, at the behest of the NRA, began blocking funding for such research in 1996.

In another administrative move, Obama directed the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to examine the efficacy of existing gun trigger locks and firearm safe standards to determine if they need to be improved.

Separately, the administration has given $1 million to the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) to create, produce and distribute a nationwide multimedia ad campaign on safe gun ownership and storage.

And regional offices with the General Services Administration have begun to reach out to local schools, advising them about the agency’s “Cooperative Purchasing” program, which gives discounted rates to schools on security equipment including: surveillance cameras, emergency communication systems, security design and support, and employee background check systems.

Black Conservative Leaders Discuss How the NRA Was Created to Protect Freed Slaves

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Freedom in the 50 States

We ground our conception of freedom on an individual rights framework. In our view, individuals should be allowed to dispose of their lives, liberties, and property as they see fit, so long as they do not infringe on the rights of others. This understanding of freedom follows from the natural-rights liberal thought of John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Robert Nozick, but it is also consistent with the rights-generating rule-utilitarianism of Herbert Spencer and others.

Jim Carrey rebuttal by Reason TV

9 Spectacular Social APIs

Social APIs

EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Computer Fraud And Abuse Act 2013: Aims To Expand, Not Reform, The ‘Worst Law In Technology’

In the wake of social justice activist Aaron Swartz's tragic death, the EFF is urging Internet users to take a hard look at the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the federal anti-hacking law.

Computer Fraud And Abuse Act 2013: New CFAA Draft Aims To Expand, Not Reform, The ‘Worst Law In Technology’

The law is regarded by many lawyers and academics as overly “expansive” and “sweeping,” as it lets the government incarcerate “any Internet user they want,” according to former federal prosecutor Orin Kerr.

You can read the proposed Computer Fraud and Abuse Act draft in its entirety.

RABBI’S BIBLE STUDY WITH GUITAR-JAMMIN’ AND ROCKIN’ VOCALS

Problems Shmoblems - Parshas Beshalach

Don't lose your connection! - Parshas Vayigash

What's on your grill? - Parshas Vayikra

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

DATA MINING IN COMMON CORE

MERICA’S SCHOOLS IN TROUBLE

Iraqi Oil to China

Once seen as U.S. boon

The Fatal Flaw of the Common Core

Common Core

Ian Hunter, 27 March 2013, City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds, United Kingdom

Court appears skeptical on federal marriage law

Court appears skeptical on federal marriage law

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Ian Hunter, 26 March 2013, ARC, Teeshan, United Kingdom

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Ta Shunka Witco (Crazy Horse)

When I'm President

Saint

Ships

Michael Picasso

Irene Wilde

Words (Big Mouth)

Now Is the Time

Sweet Jane

Roll Away The Stone/Life/All The Young Dudes

Goodnight Irene

Fitna

Live Leak has Fitna available for viewing.

Obama's Progress in Afghanistan

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Ian Hunter, 24 March 2013, Liquid Room, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Ships

Irene Wilde

Chicago Dead Last in Enforcing Federal Gun Laws

WAYNE LAPIERRE BATTERS DAVID GREGORY

Diary of a Roadie: Mott The Hoople 1974 European Tour

Philip John relates his perspective.

US unblocks $500M for Palestinians

State Department spokeswoman Nuland says aid money frozen by Congress for months freed up as PA faces worst economic crisis in years.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Ian Hunter, 23 March 2013, Backstage at the Green Hotel, Kinross, United Kingdom

Just The Way You Look Tonight

Roll Away The Stone/Life/All The Young Dudes/Goodnight Irene

Jason Ringenberg - backup vocals, Ian Hunter closed for him.

Muslim Brotherhood Representative: Obama

Friday, March 22, 2013

Why Do Parents Think They Can Raise Kids? (Shouldn't kids be turned over to the State).

Gentry and Renee Nickells with the sign they made their 13-year-old daughter stand outside and hold. (Image source: Northwest Florida Daily News)

On the Blaze.com "MELVIN SPITTLE" commented:

Since when has it become the parent’s job to raise children? I am sure they had good intentions but they need to leave it up to our public education system and social services counselors. They are trained in this matter. The problem is when untrained parents with good intentions end up confusing the child over who is accountable for their development: The untrained parent or the well trained and educated teachers and social services counselors! It’s no wonder she is rebelling! If parents got out of the way, test scores would improve! The problem is that parents don’t know what they don’t know.

Parents are seriously impeding the development of our nation’s youth through instilling beliefs and myths that organized religion passes off as truth. Does it not make sense that the message be consistent and unified through a single source rather than the confusion of multiple belief systems? This is what the future will hold if we continue down the road of greedy capitalism and religious myth.

Parents acting as selfish and arrogant individuals are undermining the power of collective education which is consistent and instills the superior value of the unselfish collective people! In other words, it is not about you! Its about the people! We must work as one mind, hand in hand, arm in arm as a unified people and purge society of greedy individualists that have resulted in today’s corrupt & broken society!

Quote on the federal Department of Education site: Mao Tze Tung

Texas Fifth Grade: America to Blame for 9/11

Kara Sands, of Corpus Christi, Texas, took to her Facebook and posted photos of the test administered by Flour Bluff Intermediate School. The test reportedly covered content in a video fifth-grade students watched in class.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Islamists Vie for Power in Syria

Islamists holy war in Syria

'Most Palestinians hate Obama'

'Most Palestinians hate Obama'

Batman Shooter A Muslim

Dark Knight killer James Holmes 'is now a Muslim who prays five times a day'

Big Sis Refuses To Answer Congress On Bullet Purchases

Speaking at CPAC, Congressman Timothy Huelscamp, R-Kansas, revealed this week that the Department of Homeland Security has refused to answer questions from “multiple” members of Congress regarding its recent purchase of huge amounts of weapons and ammunition.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

"Amazing Race," Vietnam

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/20/bob-beckel-explodes-with-fury-at-cbs-for-airing-idiotic-communist-propaganda-take-that-show-and-shove-it/

Islamists Vandalize Obama Poster with Swastikas, Throw Shoes Upon Visit

AN ISRAELI SOLDIER'S SONG TO THE WORLD FOR PASSOVER

Hillary Clinton's 'hacked' Benghazi emails

A hacker using the alias “Guccifer” was credited last week with compromising the AOL email account of Sidney Blumenthal, a 64-year-old journalist who formerly worked as an assistant to then-President Bill Clinton. Now days after the security breach was first reported, Guccifer has supplied RT and a number of other media outlets and political figures with incredibly sensitive memos that were emailed to Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary, in the wake of last year’s terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.

FULL RELEASE

Ian Hunter, 20 March 2013, Memorial Hall, Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Obama Flips Off Reporter, Wishes for Polite Questions

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Little Old Ladies in a Fender Bender

In late February, several stations broadcast interviews with a man named Michael Childs, who said that he was the one who left the voicemail message, that the clip was genuine, and that the accident described took place about six years ago in Athens, Texas, while he was working as a construction manager for Jack in the Box.

Rare aerial footage taken by a French pilot in WWI

The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare

The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare

SHERIFF DEBUNKS AR-15 FALLACIES IN NEW ‘WEAPONS OF WAR’ VIDEO FACT-CHECK

Sheriff Ken Campbell of Boone County, Ind., debunks gun fallacies.

REP. TREY GOWDY GOES AFTER DHS, ICE FOR RELEASING ‘AGGRAVATED FELONS’ DUE TO SEQUESTRATION

Carneys Point, NJ Police Attempt Search for Guns Without Warrant

PICTURE OF SON HOLDING A GUN TRIGGERED VISIT FROM NJ POLICE, FAMILY SERVICES

Ian Hunter, 19 March 2013, Sale Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, United Kingdom

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Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Shrunken Heads

When I'm President

Roll Away The Stone

Roll Away The Stone

Words (Big Mouth)

Michael Picasso

Ta Shunka Witco (Crazy Horse)

Sweet Jane

Life

Life/All The Young Dudes

Opening act

Jason Ringenburg - Link Wray

Jason Ringenburg - Shop It Around

Jason Ringenburg - Absolutely Sweet Marie

Jason Ringenburg - Broken Whiskey Glass

Jason Ringenburg - Rainbow Stew

Monday, March 18, 2013

EDUCATORS CONTINUE TO REVEAL AND BLAST ‘COMMON CORE STANDARDS’

NSA WHISTLEBLOWER WARNS NATIONAL PRESS CLUB: U.S. GOVERNMENT ENGAGED IN A ‘DIRECT ASSAULT’ ON FREE SPEECH

Thomas Drake had been with the NSA for 32 years and was the senior technical director when he decided he could no longer support the agency’s actions.

White House Dispossesses Israel of Territory Ahead of Visit

The map of the Middle East displayed in an Obama administration video released days before Obama’s visit to Israel shows the Jewish state dispossessed of substantial parts of its current territory, including its capital.

The map of Israel, displayed repeatedly during the video, shows the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, northern Israel, and areas surrounding what is currently the West Bank as non-Israeli territory. The Golan Heights is shown as part of Syria; Jerusalem is shown as part of the West Bank; and northern Israel is shown as part of Lebanon.

The itinerary on the White House website also implies that Jerusalem is neither Israel’s capital nor even part of Israel.

The president’s schedule lists two stops in “Tel Aviv, Israel” and one in “Amman, Jordan” but his activities in Israel’s capital city are identified as taking place only in “Jerusalem” — with no country name attached. This keeps with a reluctantly-acknowledged administration policy of denying that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital or even a part of Israel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5pUVHW-Lhw&feature=youtu.be

Leonard Lance, NJ Congressman: DHS must explain ammunition and armored vehicle purchases

Sunday, March 17, 2013

HAMZA THE HANDLESS JIHADI CLERIC AWAITING TERROR TRIAL IN NYC GETS NEW HAND AND COMPUTER

HAMZA THE HANDLESS JIHADI CLERIC

TSA VIPR team Conditioning Americans for Searches

Christopher Hitchins

One of our afternoon panelists commented that sometimes people tend to posit a simplistic victim-oppressor analysis. We examine the past and determine who has been victimized and who is oppressed. Some educators perform this exercise in the case of Egypt, and the Middle East generally: i.e., Mubarak, bad, what he is replaced with, good. This analysis suggests that if the Muslim Brotherhood replaces Mubarak this could be a good thing. But as I consider covering the Caliphate in my World History classes I am reminded of what is stated in, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens.

Hitchens states that the Koran is a rehash of Jewish and Christian myths. Islam, with no Reformation, and no internal self-critical tradition, is the least adjusted world religion to the obvious contradictions of living in the modern world with a pre-modern mindset. Any historical example to critically examine the claims of Islam has resulted in repression (p. 125). The accounts of Muhammad (d. 632) "are hopelessly corrupted into incoherence by self-interest, rumor, and illiteracy" (p. 127). "The first full account of his life was set down a full hundred and twenty years later by Ibn Ishaq, whose original was lost and can only be consulted through its reworked form, authored by Ibn Hisham, who died in 834" (p. 129). In addition, there is no way of determining how the competing accounts and traditions were collated and edited to form the text of the Koran. We are left with conjecture and hearsay as to the actual message of Muhammad.

The chaotic manner in which the Koran was assembled gave rise to the more pressing issue of succession, a controversy characterizing Islam and one in which Muslims have never solved. Continuously Islam has strenuously opposed critical examination of the Koranic text. The apparent unity of Islam masks a great insecurity and anxiety about the text not shared by other religious traditions (p. 126). "But Islam when examined is not much more a rather obvious and ill-arranged set of of plagiarisms, helping itself from earlier books and traditions as occasion appeared to require" (p. 129). With its lack of originality Islam nonetheless demands obeisance from non-believers yet "there is nothing--absolutely nothing--in its teachings that can begin to justify such arrogance and presumption" (p. 129).

The primary issue of a critical and scholarly account of Islam based on the Koran requires a similar willingness, as Jews and Christians have allowed and benefited from, to examine the Scriptural claims to objective, scholarly examination. The consensus of religious obscurantism though has precluded "free inquiry and the emancipating consequences that it might bring" (p. 137).

Meanwhile, rogues, terrorists, mullahs, and misguided Islamists predominate and prey unmolested upon unwary victims.

CATHOLIC GRANDMOTHER ASSAULTED WHILE PRAYING OUTSIDE PLANNED PARENTHOOD

A 63-year-old Catholic grandmother says she was attacked and knocked to the ground while filming outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wilmington, Del. last week.

Rae Stabosz regularly prays outside the clinic. On Wednesday afternoon, when she and another woman were getting ready to leave for the day, an ambulance pulled up to the front of the building. Stabosz took out her iPhone and began to film, at which point she said a woman came out of the Planned Parenthood and demanded she stop taping.

“She came out of Planned Parenthood and she was very angry,” Stabosz said. “[She said] ‘I’m going to mess you up so f–king bad.”

Stabosz said it was about 10 minutes later when the woman returned and assaulted her on the sidewalk as the paramedics prepared to roll out with a patient on a stretcher.

In the video, the woman walks out of the Planned Parenthood just ahead of the paramedics and heads directly toward Staboszs while on the phone. The audio is difficult to hear, but the woman appears to say, “I’ll call you in an hour when I’m in jail.”

“I believe this person may be trying to — ” Staboszs says before she’s abruptly cut off as the woman slaps the running iPhone out of her hand. The phone clatters to the ground and the woman appears to stomp on it. There are sounds of a scuffle and Staboszs yells. The woman is heard saying, “Get the f–k away.”

“She barreled into me, grabbed my phone and threw it down on the ground and started to stomp on it. I thought if she gets one clear shot at this she’s going to crush my phone and destroy it,” Staboszs said. “She picked the phone up, put it in her pocket and [went inside and] gave it to the Planned Parenthood person.”

Stabosz said she got up and went into the clinic — something anti-abortion protesters are usually prohibited from doing — and demanded her phone back from the receptionist. The receptionist handed it over, at which point Staboszs went back outside and called 911 to report the assault.

FREE SPEECH PROTEST AT UNIVERSITY OF PENN'S DECISION TO CANCEL CHIEF MINISTER MODI

There was a cancellation of the speech by Gujarat's Chief Minister, Sri Narendra Bhai Modi, at Wharton.

Boycott University of Pennsylvania for trampling on First Amendment Rights

Americans for Free Speech (AFS) is conducting a demonstration at the University of Pennsylvania campus on Saturday March 23 from 12 PM to 2:30 PM EST on the occasion of Wharton India Economic Forum meeting. The venue is in front of Penn Museum (on South Street between 33rd and 32nd streets). The demonstration is against the Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) summary dis-invitation of Mr. Narendra Modi after having extended him a formal invitation to be the keynote speaker. Narendra Modi may be the future Prime Minister of India in the near future.

Video of the speech by human rights activist Narain Kataria:

Jews Attacked, Anti-Israel Rally in Oakland

CPAC BREITBART EVENT

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/03/video-pamela-geller-speaks-at-cpac-breitbart-event.html

QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION, "UNINVITED" PANEL AT CPAC

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/03/video-question-and-answer-session-uninvited-panel-at-cpac.html

America, sequel to 2016

Ian Hunter, 17 March 2013, Corn Exchange, Stamford, Stamford, United Kingdom

All The Young Dudes

Saturday, March 16, 2013

FAA Grounds Aerial Photo Business

FAA Grounds

Ian Hunter, 16 March 2013, The Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford, United Kingdom

When I'm President

When I'm President

Irene Wilde

Girl From the Office

Roll Away the Stone

Life/All The Young Dudes/Goodnight Irene

Jason Ringenberg, backup vocals: Ian Hunter closed for him.

Friday, March 15, 2013

1972 Mott The Hoople / Gary Glitter JAPAN lp promo photo ad /mini poster ad

27 to 31 January 1973 British Tour, Mott The Hoople

The Path to Prosperity: Ryan Budget

THE MOST ALARMING CHARTS FROM PAUL RYAN’S BUDGET

The Path To Prosperity: A Responsible Balanced Budget

Ian Hunter, 15 March 2013, Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

Ships

Dead Man Walking

This is a slower version than the CD version and features Ian on keyboards.

Girl From the Office

Roll Away The Stone/Life/All The Young Dudes/Goodnight Irene

Encore with Jason Ringenberg of Jason and the Scorchers.

Ian Hunter continues to mine a rich seam of songwriting talent which can still take the breath away.

Krugman Schooled on Economics: Latvia PM

Krugman Can't Admit He Was Wrong on Austerity: Latvia PM

China poised to top U.S. as top oil buyer; increased car sales spur jump

Obama regime to Benghazi injured survivors: 'Keep your mouths shut'

http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2013/03/obama_regime_to.phpObama regime to Benghazi injured survivors: 'Keep your mouths shut'

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Common Core Curriculum: Rotten to the Core: Obama’s War on Academic Standards

Obama’s War on Academic Standards

http://michellemalkin.com/2013/01/23/rotten-to-the-core-obamas-war-on-academic-standards-part-1/

COMMON CORE TO DUMB DOWN EDUCATION

Feinstein vs. Cruz

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Hamas Kindergarten

Cops and Liberty

Ian Hunter, 13 March 2013, The Ropetackle Art Centre, Shoreman-By-Sea, United Kingdom

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Is Homeschooling a Universal Human Right?

Ian Hunter, 12 March 2013, Tavistock Wharf, Tavistock, United Kingdom

Words (Big Mouth)

Fatally Flawed

When I'm President

Saint

First time this has been played live.

Federal Government Decreases Oil Production by 7%


The  Congressional Research Service,  recently released a report, "U.S. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production in Federal and Non-Federal Areas." (Report will be embedded below the post)

In that report is a little nugget which shows  the increase in oil and natural gas production has occurred on non-federal land and production on federal land has, in fact, decreased.

Via IBD:
"All of the increase (in oil and natural gas production) from FY2007 to FY2012 took place on non-federal lands, and the federal share of total U.S. crude oil production fell by about seven percentage points," writes Marc Humphries, the government specialist in energy policy who authored the report.

During this period, oil production on federal land fell from nearly 1.7 million barrels a day to 1.6 million. At the same time, the share of overall production on federal lands shriveled from 33% to 26%.

The difference is found in offshore production. Onshore production actually increased modestly from 2007 to 2012, but offshore dropped from 1.4 million barrels a day to 1.3 million.

The story is similar with gas. Production on federal land decreased from 5.5 trillion cubic feet to 3.7 trillion cubic feet. The federal share collapsed from 27.8% to 15.5% of the total. In the case of gas, both onshore and offshore output on federal land have fallen, with offshore tumbling 50%.

Meanwhile, private output booms. Oil production on non-federal land grew from 3.4 million barrels a day to 4.6 million and gas rose from 14.4 trillion cubic feet to 20.2 trillion.
Another point made in the 13 page report:

• When comparing fiscal year 2010 with 2007, growthin the federal share of production was about 82% of the total. On federal lands, there was an increase in production from FY2008-FY2009 and another increase in FY2010, but then declinesin FY2011 and FY2012, which brought production below FY2007 production levels.

The conclusion from the report:

There are substantial oil and natural gas reserves and resource potential in federal areas, many of which are already accessible. Production from these areas will likely continue to make a significant contribution to the U.S. energy supply picture, but any rise in production, as projected by the EIA, will be outpaced by faster rising production in non-federal areas. A more efficient permitting process may be an added incentive for the industry to invest in developing federal resources, which may allow for some oil and gas to come on stream sooner, but in general, the regulatory framework for developing resources on federal lands will likely remain more involved and time-consuming than that on private land
The report suggests an area that Congress should address:

Another major issue that the 113 th Congress may seek to address is streamlining the processing of applications for permits to drill (APDs). Some members contend that this would be one way to help boost energy production on federal lands.



Monday, March 11, 2013

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Ian Hunter, 10 March 2013, Spirit of 66, Place du Martyr, 16 4800 Verviers, Belgium

Words (Big Mouth)

Roll Away the Stone

Life (clip)

Michael Picasso

When I'm President

All The Young Dudes

All The Young Dudes/Goodnight Irene

clip

Frédéric Bastiat Quote, Pamela Geller on Panel

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frédéric Bastiat

TSA: All For Show

Former Newark Airport TSA screener says the job does little to keep fliers safe

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/confessions_of_tsa_agent_we_re_bunch_OhxHeGd0RR9UVGzfypjnLO

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Friday, March 8, 2013

Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning

By Rand Paul, Friday, March 8

Awkward: Coot Meets Filibusterer in Elevator After Speech, Paul vs. McCain

Amber Lyon: Why Journalists Fear NDAA. Harvard Law School 2013

This is an excerpt from Journalist Amber Lyon`s speech at Harvard Law School on Feb. 27, 2013. Investigative journalists who cover those the U.S. Government deems ¨terrorists¨ fear they could be indefinitely detained under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in retaliation for giving a voice to the other side.

The NDAA allows for the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without trial until the end of hostilities and is perhaps the most egregious violation of the U.S. Constitution in history.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Senators Who Support the U.S. Constitution

In addition to Rand Paul, those who support the Constitution are: Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Pat Toomey (R-Penn.), John Thune (R-S.D.), John Barrasso (R-Wy.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) supported Paul’s filibuster by bringing the senator a thermos and an apple, a likely reference to “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” Kirk recently suffered a stroke and did not speak during the filibuster. Just one Democrat joined in the filibuster, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

Ian Hunter, 7 March 2013 Cineteatro Parrocchiale Cologne, Italy

Teatro Cinema Parrocchiale, Cologne, Italy 7 march 2013 with Andy York and Dave Roe

Man Overboard

Sweet Jane

Life/All The Young Dudes/Goodnight Irene

Ian Hunter, Ricky Byrd, Stockholm, 13th August 1993

Stockholm Water Festival, 13th August 1993

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

All The Young Dudes

Scenes from the Stockholm Water Festival in 1993 to the song, "Those Were The Days" by Leningrad Cowboys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAVBaIzAQJo

What Americans Will Experience: Drones

Drone warfare: Jere Van Dyk describes what it is like to find yourself underneath a UAV

Jere Van Dyk describes.

Holder Now States: 'No,' Obama Can't Use Drone to Kill Citizen on U.S. Soil

Holder's Letter to Rand Paul: 'No,' the U.S. Can't Use Drone to Kill Citizen Not Engaged in Combat on U.S. Soil

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

BENGHAZI DOCUMENTS REVEAL WHITE HOUSE ‘SPECIFICALLY WARNED OF IMMINENT ATTACK’

CBS NEWS

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/06/cbs-reporter-says-benghazi-documents-reveal-white-house-specifically-warned-of-imminent-attack-so-why-isnt-cbs-reporting-it/

American Citizen, No Threat, Holder Does Not Defend Constitution

“General Holder, I have to tell you that I find it remarkable that in that hypothetical, which is deliberately very simple, that you are able to give a simple one-word, one-syllable answer: no,” Cruz stated. “I think it is unequivocal that if the U.S. government were to use a drone to take the life of a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil and that individual didn’t pose an imminent threat, that that would be a deprivation of life without due process.”

Cruz reminded: “You keep saying appropriate. My question isn’t about propriety. My question is about whether something is constitutional or not. As attorney general, you are the chief legal officer of the United States. Do you have a legal judgement on whether it would be constitutional to kill a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil in those circumstances?”

John Kerry Jane Fonda

Ian Hunter, 6 March 2013, Club Retro, Vicenza, Italy

Irene Wilde

Roll Away The Stone

Sweet Jane

Working Girl

All Of The Good Ones Are Taken

Man Overboard

clip

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Holder on Obama : “could be necessary . . . for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the . . . United States.”

Holder stated that Obama can kill Americans on American soil.
“It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.”


Muslim Turkish Kids in Holland Praise Hitler

Foreign Student Obtained Financial Aid: Barack Soetoro aka Barack Obama Discovered At Columbia University

Acxiom Database Pull Shows Obama Also Using Name Barack Soetoro by

Acxiom Database Pull for Barack Obama - New York by

Obama attended Columbia University and the name used for financial aid was reserved for foreign students.

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2013/03/obama-used-name-barack-soetoro-at-columbia.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BirtherReportObamaReleaseYourRecords+%28Birther+Report%3A+Obama+Release+Your+Records%29

Ian Hunter, 5 March 2013, Teatro Miela, Trieste, Italy

Cry, Cry, Cry

(Johnny Cash cover)

When I'm President

All of the Good Ones Are Taken

Recorded by Slavko Franca

Shrunken Heads

Life

The Original

Johnny

Cry, Cry, Cry

http://youtu.be/OJKV7Xg8xhw

Ian Hunter Acoustic Trio Dates: 5 March 2013

The Ian Hunter Acoustic Trio will be touring Italy and the UK starting in March 2013. More than a dozen dates have been announced. For the tour, Ian will be joined by guitarist Andy York (Ian’s producer and guitarist for John Mellencamp) and bass player David Roe (Johnny Cash).

A different song has debuted on the tour, "Cry, Cry, Cry" which has not been released.

The original Sun Records song is by Johnny Cash.

Cry, Cry, Cry was Johnny's first record for the legendary Memphis studio backed by Hey Porter!

http://youtu.be/OJKV7Xg8xhw

Johnny and Dave Roe

I Walk the Line

Badlands - A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen

Monday, March 4, 2013

NEW AD EQUATING GUN CONTROL TO JIM CROW

4. PENAL LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI Sec. 1. Be it enacted,…That no freedman, free negro or mulatto, not in the military service of the United States government, and not licensed so to do by the board of police of his or her county, shall keep or carry fire-arms of any kind, or any ammunition, dirk or bowie knife, and on conviction thereof in the county court shall be punished by fine, not exceeding ten dollars, and pay the costs of such proceedings, and all such arms or ammunition shall be forfeited to the informer; and it shall be the duty of every civil and military officer to arrest any freedman, free negro, or mulatto found with any such arms or ammunition, and cause him or her to be committed to trial in default of bail.

Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile

Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles (MRAP) were deployed in the war zones of Iraq.

Keep Calm and Join the Revolution

Biblical Plague of Locusts Hit Egypt/Israel

Egyptian Agricultural Minister Salah Abad Almoman said the swarm is comprised of an estimated 30 million insects and was causing great damage. This happens every year as part of the locusts' natural migration pattern, though this year's swarm is especially large.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

TOP 20% TO PAY NEARLY 72%

REPORT: TOP 20% TO PAY NEARLY 72% OF 2013 FEDERAL TAX BURDEN



Bottom 20 percent
Average income: $10,552.
Average tax bill: -$284.
Average tax rate: -2.7 percent.
Share of federal tax burden: -0.4 percent.
Middle 20 percent
Average income: $46,562.
Average tax bill: $6,436.
Average tax rate: 13.8 percent.
Share of federal tax burden: 8.6 percent.
Top 20 percent
Average income: $204,490.
Average tax bill: $55,533.
Average tax rate: 27.2 percent.
Share of federal tax burden: 71.8 percent.
Top 1 percent
Average income: $1.4 million.
Average tax bill: $514,144.
Average tax rate: 35.5 percent.
Share of federal tax burden: 30.2 percent.

Obama and Brennan Obscure Al Qaida's Resurgence

Just 17 documents out of the “hundreds of thousands of documents and files” have been released, totally obscuring the central, operational role that Bin Laden and Al Qaeda play in Islamist activities worldwide.

Learning About Islam

Friday, March 1, 2013

Secretary visits Ankara as Turkey pivots from West

Kerry Talks Turkey

Obama Reassures the Americans: "I Am Not A Dictator."

"I am not a dictator; I'm the president. So, ultimately if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?"

Somehow I feel less assured.

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  • Peters, Ralph, New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy;
  • Phillips, Kevin, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush;
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