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Authored By: Don Bates  Libertarian Party Member, Former Libertarian Candidate for Senate in Texas, USAF, EOD, Desert Storm Veteran  Published By: ~X~ of  TFD    Ponder This: The American Flag From A Patriot   The flag I fought for sits on the tops of capital buildings, in the hands of guards of honor, military units and in the field of battle. Some cheap nylon flag from Walmart is neither venerated nor anointed with blood. Individual freedoms for destruction of personal property are well documented. If I am charged with guarding the flag, while in a military capacity, I would run the pike through you if you attempted to take it. As such, individual owners have a right to defend personal property depending on their state laws including, but not limited to bodily injury up to deadly force. If I were some moron out there wanting to destroy something I paid for, and you stopped me or tried to take away my personal property to attempt to "save it" I

November 23, 2016   |   Carey Wedler Republished By: ~X~ of TFD ( ANTIMEDIA ) Amid America’s post-2016 election haze, one Vietnam veteran just protested his country’s increasing societal discord in the only way he felt he could: He threw his military medals into the Detroit River. “ You’re going to have veterans angry at me ,” he told local outlet WDIV-Detroit . “ This is not an easy decision for me at all. It’s very hard and pain-wrenching, but I know America turned its back on America, and that’s not who we are .” You can find the link Here to the video The veteran asked to be named only as “Louis” out of fear of anger and retaliation from other veterans. In the United States, it is widely believed that soldiers fight for their country and for freedom — and that these two values are effectively one and the same. Based on Louis’ act of protest, however, it’s clear he believes both have been compromised. When he was just eighteen years old, Louis won two bro

Written By: Lady ~E~ of ANT A word from fellow medics: With recent events across the world and more and more protests becoming ever increasingly violent by police we recommend reading this for all protesters and protectors as well as street medics.  Critical incident stress can be caused by events at protests and mass mobilizations such as: use of terror tactics (sometimes indiscriminately) by police, including physical, mental and sexual assault the experience of prolonged and intense fear being separated from injured colleagues sexual harassment by other protestors Critical incidents such as these can shatter an illusion of invulnerability, and expose on a very personal level the injustice and violence of loving, compassionate people being treated as terrorists.  Even among particularly experienced front-line activists, these incidents can build up through time causing escalating uneasiness and burnout.This doesn't mean that we should frighten people

Photo provided exclusively By: The Factual Dragnet Written By: ~X~ of TFD #NoDAPL From the Front Lines "We are NOT victims, We are Powerful" 3rd Edition Today the re was a p ress conference by the Indigenous Environmental Network with Chairman Dave Archambault and panel in response to Army Core Engineers Eviction notice.  The conference started with a greeting in their native tongue followed by Thomas Lopez , a J r. member o f  the International Indigenous Youth Council . The very first thing that he started to discuss was the promises that now leaving President Barak Obama made to the Youth Council on his visit back in 2014.  If your are not familiar with th at promise let us remind you : On December 3 rd, 2014 President Obama made remarks  at the Tribal Nations Conference at the Capitol Hilton in Washi ng ton D.C.

Members of the Anishinabek Nation sing as they enter the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s protest encampment. Photograph by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times / Redux Written By: Dallas Goldtooth & Steven Jeffrey Chrisjohn: #NoDAPL From The Front Lines 2nd Edition " They cant move 500,000 will be a real war. Love how Obama and Hillary and even Bernie Sanders. All just lotta of talk. Bernie the biggest sellout in history. Talking but wont come visit. Barking like a little kiss ass to Hillary. This is what you get Bernie for not having faith in yourself. Fucking shame. I don't care what you did for any of your life. When it comes to our people. You just talk. But now we are done talking. We will unite and show the world the strength of the people."

Photo Credit: Indigenous Environmental Network Written By: ~X~ of TFD #NoDAPL: From The Front Lines 1st Edition   U nless you have been living under a rock, I am almost sure our readers have heard of what is going on with the Dakota Access Pipeline . I personally do not want to go through the hoops of the propaganda and circus. We are solely here to report the raw facts of what is going on from my contacts on the ground thanks to Honey Bee of The Real World Order Movement.   W e purposely have not put anything out yet on this really because we want to sift through the BS and get to the facts. Bottom line... THIS IS WRONG!   T he treatment and blatant LIES the mainstream media and the local Law Enforcement has spewed out in the last few months.  FB Message From The Morton County Sheriffs Dept T here has been stories and reports from the police according to the Washington Post states the water cannons was used to put out " fires " set by

Illustration by Chameleon Horse Art & Design Author: Steven Jeffrey Chrisjohn Message of Thanksgiving from Standing Rock #NoDAPL  Sometimes the pressure is crushing when it is most difficult. When your mind tells you your alone in a group of ten thousand people. These are the days when you must release a tear. Admit how weak you are. And talk strength from experience. The mind is weak. The heart is open free. As the tears run i think of today. My daughters birthday and thanksgiving. Thanksgiving for me is only important because i like the fact families usually congregate on this day. In todays society you get these times when you can. The close family ties we once had are becoming less and less.  Government gives us a couple days a year set aside for family. For me, my favorite thanksgiving is when my lil sister came up. We shared a laugh that would make the world laugh with us. But now its gone. Its lonely without laughter. It is taking sometime t

Meme Provided By: WeAreChange.com Written By: ~X~ of TFD (Updated: 11/ 23/16) Everything #Pizzagate The #DNCLeaks from WikiLeaks was the highlight in the political realm of the 3rd quarter. Still to this day, there is more and more that has come from Anthony Weiner sexting investigation and Huma Abadin's shared computer in their home.  Its in all been a year of scandals and down right crimes and misconduct all throughout the Democratic Party. We Are Change breaks down briefly what #PizzaGate is if you are not aware: Pizza gate was spawned after Reddit users and 4chan’s /pol/ users began digging through connections that James Alefantis, David Brock, Tony and John Podesta and various others had. Finding a number of disturbing images, research uncovered Tony Podesta’s secret stash of disturbing artwork allegedly.  These are the people who swore to represent us, the People, and behind closed doors look at the disgusting and sick things the