Starvin Larry

My note: I originally wrote this article for Spark31’s Signal-3, appearing in the SEP-OCT 2015 edition. I don’t know if it’s still in operation(?), but the ‘newsletter’ had some decent info while it ran it’s course. In any case, the authoring of this article led to the creation of this blog. The ‘video’ referenced in the opening paragraph is in reference to an Army presser vid from Afghanistan, where a couple of trigger pullers are running an AOR AR-8200 with a doppler antenna. While not as sophisticated, my own experience in Afghanistan using my personal and rather rudimentary equipment are contained here. Certain parts have been redacted by myself for PERSEC/OPSEC reasons, and additional notes have been added for emphasis.

A video was posted along along with a question to the [REDACTED] group in regards to an antenna array a soldier was using in Afghanistan. In short, it’s a [LLVI]…

Nobody likes depressions, forest fires, or hangovers, but they have their uses. From Jay Kawatsky at nationalinterest.org:

Describing what he called the “crack-up boom”, Ludwig von Mises, the great Austrian economist, said:

The boom cannot continue indefinitely. There are two alternatives. Either the banks continue the credit expansion without restriction and thus cause constantly mounting price increases and an ever-growing orgy of speculation – which, as in all other cases of unlimited inflation, ends in a “crack-up boom” and in a collapse of the money and credit system.

Or the banks stop before this point is reached, voluntarily renounce further credit expansion, and thus bring about the crisis. The depression follows in both instances. (emphasis added)

Although it would be the wiser policy, there is no evidence that the world’s central bankers have the wisdom, either individually or collectively, to select the second alternative. More specifically, they lack “the courage…

Despite more reports in recent weeks about Muslim “refugees” raping and attacking people in the U.S. and Europe, President Obama has ramped up his Syrian refugee program – delivering 625 to U.S. cities in one week and crossing the 6,000 mark for total Syrians who have entered the country since October.

With a little over two months before the Sept. 30 deadline to fulfill his promise to the United Nations to resettle 10,000 Syrians, Obama has delivered 6,227 Syrian migrants to 38 states and dozens of cities.

That means more than 1,000 have arrived just since July 1.

Of the 6,227 total who arrived since Oct. 1, 2015, only 23 have been Christian and 10 Yazidi. All the of the remaining 6,194 Syrians, more than 98 percent, have been Sunni Muslim. That’s the same sect that makes up the ranks of ISIS, al-Nusra Front and other groups that are viciously persecuting…

“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison

America is a ticking time bomb.

All that remains to be seen is who—or what—will set fire to the fuse.

We are poised at what seems to be the pinnacle of a manufactured breakdown, with police shooting unarmed citizens, snipers shooting police, global and domestic violence rising, and a political showdown between two presidential candidates equally matched in unpopularity.

The preparations for the Republican and Democratic national conventions taking place in Cleveland and Philadelphia—augmented by a $50 million federal security grant for each city—provide a foretaste of how the government plans to deal with any individual or group that steps out of line: they will be censored, silenced, spied on, caged, intimidated, interrogated, investigated, recorded, tracked, labeled, held at gunpoint, detained, restrained, arrested, tried and found guilty.

For instance, anticipating civil unrest…