http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=0b2_1346167737 Items in channel 'Pugnator' Fri, 24 May 2013 12:32:24 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=0b2_1346167737 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:29:20 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fb4_1369326362 Pugnator On Monday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) used the devastating Oklahoma tornado as an excuse to bash Republicans for denying global warming and implied Republicans were responsible for actually allowing the destructive natural disaster to occur. "So, you may have a question for me," Whitehouse said on the Senate floor. "Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I'll tell you why. We're stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together." After blaming natural disasters in Oklahoma, Alabama, and Texas on global warming and Republicans, Whitehouse continued his rant by criticizing the Republicans he blamed for then asking the government for federal aid dollars. "When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover," he said, according to the Daily Caller. "And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying forests. So, like it or not, we're in this together." He continued, "You drag America with you to your fate." Whitehouse then said he wanted a Republican Party that "returned to its senses" and was a strong and "worthy adversary in a strong America that has done right by its people and the world." "I don't want a Republican Party disgraced, that let its extremists run off the cliff, and an America suffering from grave economic and environmental and diplomatic damage because we failed, because we didn't wake up and do our duty to our people, and because we didn't lead the world," Whitehouse said. "I do not want that future. But that's where we're headed." As families across Oklahoma were suffering, politics was what was first and foremost on Whitehouse's mind. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fb4_1369326362 Pugnator DEM. SENATOR BLAMES TORNADO ON REPUBLICANS Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, global warming Thu, 23 May 2013 11:56:21 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c96_1369324467 Pugnator LRASM represents a mature tactical missile, leveraging the JASSM-ER platform, for next generation offensive anti-surface warfare weapons capability that can be either air or surface launched. LRASM offers new strike weapon capability that enables deep strike in previously-denied battle environments and effectiveness against robust target defense systems. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c96_1369324467 Pugnator LRASM Overview LRASM, JASSM-ER Thu, 23 May 2013 11:50:08 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f52_1369324112 Pugnator Watch the F-35B, the Marines' fighter of choice, execute a very cool maneuver in this video, taking off straight up into the sky. While very cool, this is not something the Joint Strike Fighter is actually expected to do very often. For one thing, it requires enormous amounts of fuel. Instead, the B model is principally designed to do very short take offs, for example from the truncated deck of an amphibious warfare ship. (The inevitable military acronym for this kind of aircraft is is STOVL, "short take-off/vertical landing"). There isn't often a good tactical reason for the plane to head straight up, using much of its almost 42,000 pounds of thrust from the Rolls Royce lift fan and Pratt & Whitney's main F-135 engine. "While not a combat capability, VTOs are required for repositioning of the STOVL in environments where a jet could not perform a short takeoff. In these cases, the jet, with a limited amount of fuel, would execute a VTO to travel a short distance," lead contractor Lockheed Martin noted in its statement about the flight. You can be sure, however, that the Marines will note this as yet another good argument for the F-35B as they look across the Pacific at small states like Singapore and the scattered islands of Japan and neighbors such as the Philippines. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f52_1369324112 Pugnator MARINE F-35B EXECUTES FIRST VERTICAL TAKEOFF MARINE F-35B Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:17:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4fa_1366229660 Pugnator On the floor of the U.S. Senate today, Sen. Diane Feinstein admitted that universal background checks would not have prevented Newtown. So if I have more than 1600 rounds of ammunition and a gun safe, I have a weapons depot? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4fa_1366229660 Pugnator Feinstein: Background Checks Wouldn't Have Stopped Newtown Diane Feinstein, Newtown Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:38:25 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a4_1366227352 Pugnator 16-year-old Marlana VanHoose, who sang the National Anthem before the UK vs Ole Miss women's game on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. The Johnson Central student, who is blind and was born with Cytomegalovirus, got a visit at midcourt from UK Women's Head Coach Matthew Mitchell before the game. "It was really moving," he said. "I told her before tipoff, it really brought tears to my eyes. It was the best performance we've ever had here at Memorial Coliseum. What an unbelievable voice on a little bitty girl like that." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a4_1366227352 Pugnator Blind, Disabled 16-Year-Old Girl Rips Out An Awesome Rendition Of 'The Star Spangled Banner' Marlana VanHoose, The Star Spangled Banner, the National Anthem Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:15:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6a2_1365434008 Pugnator Should citizens defend themselves - or remain passive - during active shooter situations? This is a controversial query that has been asked and revisited in light of recent mass shootings. And the question also spawned nation-wide discussion, once again, after a video being touted by law enforcement agencies across the country emerged earlier this year. video showed victims actively engaging and fighting against a fictional perpetrator.' data-key="tcefp" data-num="4">The clip, entitled, "Run. Hide. Fight," features a reenactment of an emergency situation and tips for decisive action. Originally produced by the Houston Police Department, the video showed victims actively engaging and fighting against a fictional perpetrator. published a report about this very issue, highlighting that some researchers and police, in the wake of recent mass shootings, are encouraging more active involvement from citizens.' data-key="aftfc" data-num="5">And following the clip's media coverage, it seems some research has emerged that does corroborate the notion that victims can help save lives by thwarting assailants. On Saturday, The New York Times published a report about this very issue, highlighting that some researchers and police, in the wake of recent mass shootings, are encouraging more active involvement from citizens. Chuck Wexler, executive director of Police Executive Research Forum, told the outlet that there has been a paradigm shift. He said that the "don't get involved, call 911'' advice is no longer pertinent, with "active shooter" situations requiring Americans to defend themselves - and the lives of others. using more hard-hitting tactics. In an effort to save additional lives, rather than waiting for backup, first responders now go in and attempt to diffuse dangerous situations. Considering the death tolls seen in recent mass shootings, there simply isn't time to wait for SWAT teams and other backup forces to arrive at crime scenes.' data-key="tthcs" data-num="7">The transformation hasn't only impacted citizen involvement. Police, too, are using more hard-hitting tactics . In an effort to save additional lives, rather than waiting for backup, first responders now go in and attempt to diffuse dangerous situations. Considering the death tolls seen in recent mass shootings, there simply isn't time to wait for SWAT teams and other backup forces to arrive at crime scenes. frames recent research that backs both citizen involvement and swifter police action:' data-key="hhtpa" data-num="9">Here's how the Times frames recent research that backs both citizen involvement and swifter police action: Research on mass shootings over the last decade has bolstered the idea that people at the scene of an attack have a better chance of survival if they take an active stance rather than waiting to be rescued by the police, who in many cases cannot get there fast enough to prevent the loss of life. In an analysis of 84 such shooting cases in the United States from 2000 to 2010, for example, researchers at Texas State University found that the average time it took for the police to respond was three minutes. Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center and an author of the research, which is set to be published in a book this year.' data-key="bysty" data-num="12">"But you see that about half the attacks are over before the police get there, even when they arrive quickly," said J. Pete Blair, director for research of the university's Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center and an author of the research, which is set to be published in a book this year. In the absence of a police presence, how victims responded often made the difference between life and death, Dr. Blair said. Researchers studied 16 attacks and came to some intriguing findings. Of the 16, in 13 instances, civilians were key in either subduing the attacker or shooting the assailant (in three of the cases, the assailant was shot). In other incidents, the Times reports that the gunman was delayed until authorities arrived. using more hard-hitting tactics. In an effort to save additional lives, rather than waiting for backup, first responders now go in and attempt to diffuse dangerous situations. Considering the death tolls seen in recent mass shootings, there simply isn't time to wait for SWAT teams and other backup forces to arrive at crime scenes.' data-key="tthcs" data-num="7"> http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6a2_1365434008 Pugnator Can Average Citizens Really Save Lives in Active-Shooter Situations? Here's What Experts Found Run. Hide. Fight , Police Executive Research Forum Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:47:22 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c6f_1365097419 Pugnator The Housing Crisis . . . Again http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c6f_1365097419 Pugnator Obama Pushing Same Policies Which Got Us Into The Housing Crisis Obama, Housing Crisis Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:42:10 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fb1_1365097182 Pugnator Sequestration Hypocrisy Fear mongering Hypocrisy of the Whitehouse http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fb1_1365097182 Pugnator Michelle Malkin On Sequestration Hypocrisy Obama, Sequestration Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:05:23 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1df_1364838237 Pugnator In Case you hadn't realised, it has somehow become uncool to sound like you know, what you're talking about. It's like, you know, the kids like these days all sort of, you know, like talk like this? Know whatImean? Text by Taylor Mali Animation by Ronnie Bruce --------------- Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies, the syntax which structures them, and their set of speech sound units, differ creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Human speakers (polyglots) are often able to communicate in two or more of them. (Wiki) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1df_1364838237 Pugnator Killing the Speech - "Modern" Kids losing Language and Confidence? - Observed/Poem by Taylor Mali . Killing the Speech, Taylor Mali, Ronnie Bruce Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:47:06 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c5b_1364834075 Pugnator Last year, when the state of Illinois attempted to follow New Jersey by making it difficult and more expensive to acquire ammunition, we warned that new government initiatives would be used to try and circumvent the Second Amendment. Rather than targeting firearms directly, lawmakers and government security officials began looking to ammunition as a sure-fire way to disarm Americans. While it may have been hard to believe then, given the current shortages of ammunition throughout the United States, one can't ignore the fact that the Department of Homeland Security has been actively pursuing such a strategy. "The Department of Homeland Security's huge ammo purchases were an attempt to dry up supplies as part of an end run around the second amendment," writes Paul Joseph Watson of the 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition purchased by the Department of Homeland Security. A US-based weapons manufacturer and defense contractor recently confirmed that this is, in fact, part of a broader gun control plan when he shared his insider knowledge with well known talk radio show host Michael Savage: What Homeland Security is doing here is they're issuing a contract to buy up to that amount of ammo if they want it... It's a way to control the amount of market that's available on the commercial market at any time. If they go to the ammo manufacturers and say give me 50 million rounds, give me another 30 million rounds... if they periodically do this in increments, they're going to control how much ammo is available on the commercial market. As part of their contract it stipulates in there that when the government calls and says give us another quantity, that everything they make has to go to the government priority one before any of it goes to the commercial market. So, if they get nervous, all they have to do is use that contract that they have in place... and they just say 'give us some more.'... In the contracting world it's called an IDIQ contract... Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity... By issuing these contracts the government gets priority. All they have to do is call up... High demand for firearms (and thus ammunition) resulting from threats of a nationwide Congressional gun grab, coupled with tens of millions of rounds ordered every month by non-military domestic security agencies has driven prices for some types of ammunition up over 100% in just the last six months. But it doesn't stop there, as the government is also reportedly trying to restrict access in other ways: In fact, the ATF and the State Department, they're kind of jerking around with the importation of it too, so they're making it difficult for it to come in from overseas. Right now, all the domestic manufacturers are running at full speed. They're running three shifts, they're cranking it out as fast as they can. Supply cannot keep up with demand. For the time being, demand is making it difficult to acquire ammunition at a reasonable price, but it is still available if you're willing to pay for it. Should DHS and other Federal Agencies continue to pursue this strategy, however, they could very well monopolize all domestically produced ammunition. With budgets in the hundreds of billions of dollars, the government can easily utilize taxpayer funds to continue purchasing ammunition in an effort to keep it out of the hands of the American people. And if that doesn't work, any domestic emergency, temporary or long-term, would give government agencies confiscatory powers over this industry altogether, as authorized by the Doomsday Executive Order recently signed by President Obama. Perhaps it's time ammunition manufacturers follow the lead of firearms producers and simply refuse to sell to government agencies. http://guerillatics.com/?p=40108 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c5b_1364834075 Pugnator DHS Attempting to "Control How Much Ammo is Available On the Commercial Market" Department of Homeland Security , DHS , ammo Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:48:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f61_1364831177 Pugnator Last year, when the state of Illinois attempted to follow New Jersey by making it difficult and more expensive to acquire ammunition, we warned that new government initiatives would be used to try and circumvent the Second Amendment. Rather than targeting firearms directly, lawmakers and government security officials began looking to ammunition as a sure-fire way to disarm Americans. While it may have been hard to believe then, given the current shortages of ammunition throughout the United States, one can't ignore the fact that the Department of Homeland Security has been actively pursuing such a strategy. "The Department of Homeland Security's huge ammo purchases were an attempt to dry up supplies as part of an end run around the second amendment," writes Paul Joseph Watson of the 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition purchased by the Department of Homeland Security. A US-based weapons manufacturer and defense contractor recently confirmed that this is, in fact, part of a broader gun control plan when he shared his insider knowledge with well known talk radio show host Michael Savage: What Homeland Security is doing here is they're issuing a contract to buy up to that amount of ammo if they want it... It's a way to control the amount of market that's available on the commercial market at any time. If they go to the ammo manufacturers and say give me 50 million rounds, give me another 30 million rounds... if they periodically do this in increments, they're going to control how much ammo is available on the commercial market. As part of their contract it stipulates in there that when the government calls and says give us another quantity, that everything they make has to go to the government priority one before any of it goes to the commercial market. So, if they get nervous, all they have to do is use that contract that they have in place... and they just say 'give us some more.' ... In the contracting world it's called an IDIQ contract... Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity... By issuing these contracts the government gets priority. All they have to do is call up... High demand for firearms (and thus ammunition) resulting from threats of a nationwide Congressional gun grab, coupled with tens of millions of rounds ordered every month by non-military domestic security agencies has driven prices for some types of ammunition up over 100% in just the last six months. But it doesn't stop there, as the government is also reportedly trying to restrict access in other ways: In fact, the ATF and the State Department, they're kind of jerking around with the importation of it too, so they're making it difficult for it to come in from overseas. Right now, all the domestic manufacturers are running at full speed. They're running three shifts, they're cranking it out as fast as they can. Supply cannot keep up with demand. For the time being, demand is making it difficult to acquire ammunition at a reasonable price, but it is still available if you're willing to pay for it. Should DHS and other Federal Agencies continue to pursue this strategy, however, they could very well monopolize all domestically produced ammunition. With budgets in the hundreds of billions of dollars, the government can easily utilize taxpayer funds to continue purchasing ammunition in an effort to keep it out of the hands of the American people. And if that doesn't work, any domestic emergency, temporary or long-term, would give government agencies confiscatory powers over this industry altogether, as authorized by the Doomsday Executive Order recently signed by President Obama. Perhaps it's time ammunition manufacturers follow the lead of firearms producers and simply refuse to sell to government agencies. http://guerillatics.com/?p=40108 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f61_1364831177 Pugnator DHS Attempting to "Control How Much Ammo is Available On the Commercial Market" DHS , Federal Agencies , ammo , The Department of Homeland Security Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:44:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=468_1364830856 Pugnator I received a report today that some interesting things are happening with the ammo shipments at Walmart. The ammunition is disappearing before it even gets to the store. It seems that when the clerks at Walmart check their handheld device, the ammunition is on the truck and they can "see" that it is making its way to the store, but quite often, when they check later in the day to see where the truck is; the ammo is no longer listed as being on the truck. Normally I would say that this is a case of something "falling off" a truck Goodfellas style, but if that were the case, the ammo would be listed on the manifest on the computer as though it was still on the truck when it got to its destination store. Why would ammo be listed as being on the truck when it leaves the distribution center only to disappear in transit? Are the ammo shipments being diverted somewhere else? Is big sis Janet Napolitano and the DHS intercepting these shipments for their own stash or is this just another way for them to minimize access to ammunition? Something is definitely up. Walmart is too big and too efficient a company for this to be a one off. I asked if this has been happening with any of the other Walmart products and I was told no, just ammo. By Wolfgang Riggins, on March 28th, 2013 http://guerillatics.com/?p=40115 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=468_1364830856 Pugnator Ammunition Disappearing From Walmart Trucks in Transit Walmart, ammo, hollow points, Janet Napolitano