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On this anniversary date of King Charles I’s beheading, the two-years-dead corpse of the late Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell was hung in chains at Tyburn and then beheaded, along with the bodies of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton. The great-great-grandnephew of ruthless Tudor pol Thomas Cromwell rose higher than any English commoner, high enough to be offered the very crown he had struck off at Whitehall. Oliver Cromwell declined it in sweeping Puritan rhetoric just as if he hadn’t spent weeks agonizing over whether to take it. “I would not seek to set up that which Providence hath destroyed and...

"Aggressive statements calling for an even more violent military confrontation lead to serious conseuqences..." Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov issuing a statement following Joe Biden's... An Iranian-affiliated group in Syria claiming a new attack on a US base... The Yemeni (Houthi) forces warning the US against any military... The commander of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio relieved... The US sending an emergency shipment of 155 millimeter shells to Israel... Republican US Congressman Thomas Massie with a warning to those states removing President Trump... South Africa filing a complaint against Israel at the International Court of Criminal...

It was 2 Oct 1629, Dutchman Jeronimus Cornelisz was noosed along with 15 other men by the Dutch East Indies Company for a reign of terror that included mutiny and murder off the coast of Australia.* Six others would eventually hang in the infamous affair, two marooned on the Australian mainland, and many more punished for the gruesome atrocities committed on the Southern Ocean. Cornelisz was not such an assuming character when he boarded the vessel Batavia in 1628. Rather, he was a marginally failed merchant, someone who could buy his way on board as an under-merchant** and sail to...

On this date in 1949, Syrian President Husni al-Za’im and his Prime Minister Mohsen Berazi were seized in a military coup, conducted to a court martial, and immediately put to death. An ethnic Kurd, al-Za’im had cut his teeth in the armed forces of two different empires — the Ottoman and the French — before Syria attained independence following World War II. The ambitious al-Za’im had got out from under a Vichy-era prison sentence for corruption and established himself as army chief of staff in time for the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Syrian forces’ underwhelming performance in this campaign set the...

On December 1921 at 22 Hans Place in Knightsbridge, a treaty was signed between a provisional Irish Government and the British to create what was called the Irish Free State. However only six months later, a few hundred yards away in Eaton Place, an assassination occurred, the reverberations of which could be said to have helped start the Irish Civil War in 1922. At around midday of 22 June 1922, Field-Marshall Sir Henry Wilson unveiled a war memorial at Liverpool Street Station. He made a speech, quoted some relevant Kipling poetry and soon after returned by taxi to his home...

On this date in 1944, Nazi Germany’s juridical vengeance against Hitler’s near-assassins commenced. Barely two weeks after Col. Stauffenberg‘s bomb had barely missed slaying the Fuhrer, eight of his principal co-conspirators stood show trials at the Volksgerichtshof (People’s Court) before hectoring prig Roland Freisler. The outcome, of course, was foreordained. Apparently orders had come down from on high to make the deaths as degrading as possible; this batch, convicted August 7-8, was hanged naked this day at Berlin’s Plotzensee Prison on thin cord (piano wire, say some sources, although it’s not clear to me whether this is literally true) suspended...

God Bless the memory of Glen Campbell he lives a full life including the wild side with drugs the "illegal drugs" of course nowadays there's money to be made in drugs so we have legalized marijuana sales and the Pharma Industry cashing in and God Forbid anyone criticize Big Pharma which does a lot of advertising with Big Media... Folks like Peter Hitchens see connections between the extreme violence out there and the perps taking those "antidepressants" but in his column last weekend he too on the rage over Shamima Begum the teenager who joined ISIS (Islamic State) in Syria......

On this date in 1522, the leader of the Revolt of the Brotherhood came to his grief in Valencia. Spain circa 1519-1520 was a powder keg. The rival kingdoms Aragon and Castille had of late been joined by a personal union of Ferdinand and Isabella, but now that couple was several years dead, and the scepter held by an irritating Flemish youth who had just popped in to hike everyone’s taxes so he could fund the bribe campaign necessary to become the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. These tensions triggered the Revolt of the Comuneros in Castile, whose consequent executions...

Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2022/05/manufacture-of-firearms-up-300-since-2000/#ixzz7TkGsSi2m Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Follow us: @Ammoland on Twitter | Ammoland on Facebook According to a report released Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the number of guns manufactured has steadily increased over the past 20 years. The report released Tuesday by the Bureau tracked the manufacture and importation of firearms since 1986. The manufacture of guns remained steady from 1986 to 2000. Each of these years showed that around three million firearms were produced. In the same period, the importation of firearms rose from 701,000 to 1,096,782. After 2001, the gun industry saw...

“A default could potentially — but not necessarily — delay the payment of Social Security benefits, which reach about 65 million Americans in some form,” the Times said. “It could also delay payments to government contractors, including hospitals that accept patients who use Medicare and Medicaid benefits.” A default would also have effects that trickle down further, including to state-run programs, as well as the expanded child tax credit. The next scheduled payment from that is October 15, which is before the possible default date, although another payment is due November 15.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is using the power of the FBI to go after parents who are speaking out at school board meetings against critical race theory being taught to their kids in public schools. So the FBI hasn’t done anything about the post-Floyd riots explosion in crime which lead to an additional 4,901 homicides last year but parents organizing against anti-white CRT brainwashing need to be aggressively shut down. Yes, parents are a bigger threat to the Democrats than actual murderers. “In recent months, there has been a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school...

To that end, the AK-47 has been ideal for those who don’t adhere to “spit and polish” type drilling. Instead, the weapon was developed based on experiences gained when Russian soldiers – many of whom were conscripted to defend the motherland – fought for their very survival. It wasn’t uncommon for those conscripts to be deployed to the front line almost immediately, with little training and almost no instruction on weapons maintenance.

My Review of the New Book “American Marxism” by Mark Levin – CDR Kerchner (Ret)'s Blog https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2021/07/18/my-review-of-the-new-book-american-marxism-by-mark-levin/ CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret) Lehigh Valley PA USA http://www.ProtectOurLiberty.org

Wednesday a Daytona Beach police officer was shot in the head while making a routine inquiry of an individual he had spotted sitting in a parked car in front of a residence at night. The officer is still in critical condition. The shooter is a man named Othal Wallace aka O-Zone Wallace. Wallace was apprehended Saturday hiding in a treehouse in Georgia. The media – in the usual fashion – shows no particular interest in delving into the details of the shooting or its import. It should. This was not just a criminal act. It was an attack on a...

Revolutions need air and fuel in the same way fires do. They need to feed. They need to gather strength. The Marxist revolution sweeping this nation has plenty of air and fuel. It is fed constantly by super-heated rhetoric about white supremacy, systemic racism, and the inherent evil at the heart of the American dream. At the same time, the revolution is protected and nurtured. Federal and state law enforcement agencies do not hunt down and dismantle the networks spreading the real violence in America’s cities and streets. Instead, they spend their time chasing the bogeymen of “white supremacist groups”...

It didn’t take long for The Washington Post to act as the propaganda arm for President Joe Biden’s pork-laced $1.9 trillion stimulus package. The Post slobbered all over the irresponsible spending bill in a March 6 story headlined, “Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty and favoring individuals over businesses.” In the story, The Post treated Biden like a benevolent Santa Claus, and said his plan “represents one of the most generous expansions of aid to the poor in recent history, while also showering thousands or, in some cases, tens of thousands of dollars on Americans families navigating...

She seems nice. (Screencap via Twitter.) Answer: Yes it is, you [redacted] murderous [redacted].Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.The Atlantic goes to war against… Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer? McGill students define inclusivity to include hardly anyone. A Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic wants his readers to go around assaulting Trump supporters. And so much more.Shall we begin?

In December 2018 South African lawmakers passed a proposal to change the country’s constitution to make land grabs legal. The government voted in agreement to take land from white farmers without compensation.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has called on the FBI to investigate allegations that violent Black Lives Matter mobs are being "paid" to incite riots in America's city streets.The senator says he believes "crazed mobs" are being "hired" to travel from out of town and across state lines to instigate unrest and rioting.

Recently, I embarked on a journey to become more involved in my community. I enrolled in the Houston Police Department’s Citizen’s Police Academy as a means to interact with community and business leaders and network with my neighbors. Selfishly, I hoped that the program would assist in my own professional development, allowing me to build a portfolio of perspective clients for a growing legal practice. Instead, I gained much more than I could have imagined. I learned valuable insight into the daily operations of the Houston Police Department and the courageous and selfless men and women behind the badge. During...