tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:05:24 +0000ConservatismForeign PolicyBankstersMichael ScheuerChris HedgesWayne MadsenFred ReedAndrew NapolitanoTed PikeJulian AssangeNew World OrderAgenda 21Global WarmingDepostismPolice StateStefan MolyneuxPoliticsGeorge BushRand PaulConstitution and LawDavid DukeVdareSuper CommitteeGary FranchiAmerican Free PressCulture and SocietyAnarchismJames CorbettCensorshipMax KeiserObamaLyndon LaRoucheGMOMitt RomneyReligionMike RiveroDebtPaul Craig RobertsDylan RatiganOccupyRon PaulEnergyUNKevin MacDonaldGoldman SachsCorporationsJeff RenseGovernment CorruptionWarTrade and BusinessFraudsSteve SailerIntelligenceFederal ReserveRick SantorumElectionsWebster TarpleyTony CartalucciJustin RaimondoRepublicansImmigrationTaxAlex JonesMichael HoffmanBrother NathanaelGary NorthGerald CelenteChuck BaldwinEUJesse VenturaPat BuchananHillary ClintonZionismProgressiveLibertarianAlan WattInfoWarsEducationDick EastmanNewt Gingrich911Jack BloodDavid IckeMediaBATR News from an American First viewpointhttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)Blogger5367125noreply@blogger.comnoBATR News - Financial, Freedom, Federal Government and Foreign News Updates42.628515-77.394572http://batr.net/http://batr.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/batrnewsA.jpgblogspot/ddUtfhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-7788724712438977489Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:04:00 +00002013-06-17T05:05:24.168-04:00IntelligenceAs happens with so much news these days, the Edward Snowden revelations about National Security Agency (NSA) spying and just how far we’ve come in the building of a surveillance state have swept over us 24/7 – waves of leaks, videos, charges, claims, counterclaims, skullduggery, and government threats When a flood sweeps you away, it’s always hard to find a little dry land to surveyhttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-making-of-global-security-state.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=mQBah8rni7w:VMu-WmlXXDw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-7050048771666028091Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:37:00 +00002013-06-14T05:37:12.454-04:00Brother Nathanaelhttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/edward-snowdenwhen-truth-becomes-treason.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=hhZeKmlNpzc:by4OwgjgvTc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-8762162640227521680Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:28:00 +00002013-06-13T05:28:15.685-04:00Andrew NapolitanoWhen British soldiers were roaming the American countryside in the 1760s with lawful search warrants with which they had authorized themselves to enter the private homes of colonists in order to search for government-issued stamps, Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” The soul-searching became a revolution in thinking about the relationship of government to individuals.http://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/liberty-in-shambles.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=4rpiWLxxssU:VQO2ZmSV1yw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-3382000292519298388Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:19:00 +00002013-06-12T05:19:36.464-04:00Stefan Molyneuxhttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/spying-and-media.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=JfMRMNY1qBg:J8TOYReziMc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-590446131790205027Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:03:00 +00002013-06-11T05:03:44.687-04:00Chris HedgesThe military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team. The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered. The documents that detail the crimes, torture and killing Manning revealed, because theyhttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-judicial-lynching-of-bradley-manning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=nPQIL7DFCxw:NKTuvRMUKiE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-2873913737763825941Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:30:00 +00002013-06-10T04:31:01.056-04:00Brother Nathanaelhttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/obamas-nsa-spy-op-revealed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=aUYAAFniMxk:yAOtxYqG3Js:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-2421294585317848734Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:58:00 +00002013-06-07T01:59:07.654-04:00Police StateThe bombshell dropped by Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian has exploded any pretenses to being the linchpin of American liberalism Barack Obama may have retained until this point. In a story that broke yesterday [Wednesday, June 5], Greenwald revealed that the US government has been spying not just on targeted alleged “terrorists,” but on each and every one of us: “The National Security Agency http://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/police-state-progressivism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=ipHyuzbObng:PjLeG4i78lA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-5364671941161154398Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:15:00 +00002013-06-06T06:16:10.372-04:00Police Statehttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-terrifying-future-of-united-states.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=ITJFtwHN17Y:uJ7EQf2SR5E:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-1282235168367685149Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:41:00 +00002013-06-05T05:41:55.784-04:00Pat BuchananAs America grew in the 1800s from a republic of a few millions, whose frontier stopped at the Mississippi, into a world power, there were constant collisions with the world's greatest empire. In 1812, we declared war on Britain, tried to invade Canada and got our Capitol burned. In 1818, Andrew Jackson, on an expedition into Spanish Florida to put down renegade Indians harassing Georgia, hanged http://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/time-to-stop-feeding-chinese-tiger.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=s2IndwUAz0k:bkyKF5xTzgg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-31663043512769380Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:12:00 +00002013-06-04T05:17:15.799-04:00David Icke http://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/david-icke-bilderbergers-are-engineers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=UPA9ZjepblM:rPbOopx3ft0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-7765061713463434368Mon, 03 Jun 2013 09:32:00 +00002013-06-03T05:32:39.728-04:00Culture and Society1. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Regardless of what you know, don’t discuss it — especially if you are a public figure, news anchor, etc. If it’s not reported, it didn’t happen, and you never have to deal with the issues. 2. Become incredulous and indignant. Avoid discussing key issues and instead focus on side issues which can be used show the topic as being critical of http://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-25-rules-of-disinformation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=XgpOPfdDxZE:dLHHZIvCyIc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-3376399523572662406Fri, 31 May 2013 08:59:00 +00002013-05-31T05:00:00.533-04:00Police Statehttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/fbi-execution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=KJRCr75hvfs:fVFtpXI0yOc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-5400341563021760626Thu, 30 May 2013 10:45:00 +00002013-05-30T06:45:27.268-04:00New World Order Every year politicians, royalty and CEO’s meet in secret to discuss the fate of the world. This year, you are all invited! 2013 welcomes the first ever Bilderberg Fringe Festival. Taking place between 7th – 9th June in Watford, the festival is a unique, FREE, event which will nurture dialogue and discourse about Bilderberg in a peaceful, fun environment – alongside a jam-packed weekend of http://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-bilderberg-fringe-festival.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=GEvBA66njq8:JJo-MTSpF8g:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-228597515923241285Wed, 29 May 2013 08:24:00 +00002013-05-29T04:24:41.864-04:00Corporationshttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/monsantos-media-blackout.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=nBBy4L0qBy4:Zf3sO4JpteE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-8759626830037079155Tue, 28 May 2013 08:21:00 +00002013-05-28T04:22:00.288-04:00Ron PaulThis past Thursday and Friday, President Obama delivered two speeches designed to outline his new thinking on national security and counter-terrorism. While much was made in the media of the president’s statements at the National Defense University and the US Naval Academy suggesting that the most active phase of US military action overseas was coming to an end, this “new”http://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-real-meaning-of-president-obamas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=uu05U_OLzdw:_pQB36OW9x8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-6752539991073620593Mon, 27 May 2013 09:30:00 +00002013-05-27T05:31:00.258-04:00Bankstershttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/imf-chief-escapes-indictment-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=pn5XqujShik:8q4-ar_Do4E:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-6522360950850412955Fri, 24 May 2013 09:33:00 +00002013-05-24T05:34:07.635-04:00Wayne MadsenPresident Obama’s Nixonian assault on the press is rooted in the mistaken belief that leaks of “national security” information can do great harm to the country’s security. Therefore, Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, a former District of Columbia judge who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and vetted by the ultra-conservative Federalist Society, have brought the government’s http://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/obama-uses-national-security-excuse-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=r5sDmRW5HEw:f5K7RrJ2_oM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-3132711958119034639Thu, 23 May 2013 08:36:00 +00002013-05-23T04:37:04.931-04:00Warhttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/ndaa-2014-congress-to-fund-pentagons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=NrH_l2nFo7A:HzQfh3WCQyM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-1595027027953534933Wed, 22 May 2013 08:41:00 +00002013-05-22T04:41:40.047-04:00Justin RaimondoIn order to give our readers some essential background on the lawsuit against the FBI we launched today [5/21/13], we are reprinting this column by Justin Raimondo originally published on August 11, 2011. The phone rang. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and it was my day off. Sitting in my rather neglected garden, as the late afternoon light sparkled golden on the tops of the plum treeshttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/antiwarcom-vs-fbi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=Nj39svC8bJw:uFn1eheL6HY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-5060962577551023574Tue, 21 May 2013 08:28:00 +00002013-05-21T04:28:48.476-04:00Alex Joneshttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/adam-kokesh-denied-phone-call.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=Yoz0AFz7HGw:qLuK7tdUNmo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-5145098221664749477Mon, 20 May 2013 08:46:00 +00002013-05-20T04:47:27.771-04:00WarThe families of the 17 Navy SEAL Team 6 members killed when their Chinook helicopter was downed in Afghanistan in August 2011 blame the US command and the Obama administration for the tragedy and want an official investigation into what they are calling a whitewash. The family members, speaking at the National Press Club last Thursday, tried to reopen the book on the crash, in which a total of http://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/families-of-navy-seals-killed-in-2011.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=jyUIWvtTeWM:ds4VNbnOK3o:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-1579037249033756812Fri, 17 May 2013 08:54:00 +00002013-05-17T04:55:08.644-04:00Culture and Societyhttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-psychology-of-authority.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=2uUL69SlIM0:vv2B6XAojBk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-1927016621678345893Thu, 16 May 2013 08:25:00 +00002013-05-16T04:25:16.242-04:00MediaDue to the controversies over the IRS and (especially) the DOJ's attack on AP's news gathering process, media outlets have suddenly decided that President Obama has a very poor record on civil liberties, transparency, press freedoms, and a whole variety of other issues on which he based his first campaign. The first two paragraphs of this Washington Post article from yesterday, expressed in toneshttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-major-sea-change-in-media.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=Pa-_2LmJRjA:g18W2UKsxTc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-1882487107649856956Wed, 15 May 2013 09:06:00 +00002013-05-15T05:06:52.761-04:00Alex Joneshttp://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/keys-to-defeating-monsanto.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=WvwFzE5pmxU:-CS9iutJzbg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563578.post-7054053484283096359Tue, 14 May 2013 06:56:00 +00002013-05-14T02:56:15.832-04:00Ron PaulCongressional hearings, White House damage control, endless op-eds, accusations, and defensive denials. Controversy over the events in Benghazi last September took center stage in Washington and elsewhere last week. However, the whole discussion is again more of a sideshow. Each side seeks to score political points instead of asking the real questions about the attack on the US facility, which http://batrnews.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-no-one-wants-to-hear-about-benghazi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?a=Ae4egtj1ivI:Thj-XSX1j7M:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/ddUtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>en-usnonadult