LAPD Arrests Man, Finds Rocket Launcher, TNT, Dozens Of Firearms

If gun laws worked, California would not only be the safest place in the country, but the police would almost never make a firearm arrest.

However, that’s far from an accurate portrayal of what California is today.

For example, we have this post from the LAPD about a recent arrest they made.

Just…wow.

Now, a number of those firearms look like the kind of things you’d find in any number of average, law-abiding gun owners’ safes. There are pump actions, bolt actions, revolvers, and a number of other weapons that may be semi-automatics. From here, it’s hard to tell.

But it looks like there’s at least one belt-fed weapon and that the man was charged, which indicates not everything was legal.

Worse, though, he all but bragged to police to check him out.

https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2019/01/02/lapd-arrests-man-finds-rocket-launcher-tnt-dozens-firearms/

Was It Terror? Or A Gas Leak? Bus Explodes Near Russian Disaster Site

After at least 19 people are confirmed dead due to an gas leak explosion at an apartment complex which destroyed an entire building, another killed three as a minivan blew up near the first disaster site in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk.

Three people there have also died after a minibus caught on fire not far from the apartment block, Interfax cited the Chelyabinsk region governor’s office as saying. Regional police told the news agency that “faulty gas equipment” inside the vehicle caused the deadly explosion.

Following anonymously sourced reports suggesting both explosions may have been acts of terrorism, Russia’s Investigative Committee said no traces of explosives have been found in the rubble. Footage shared by local media showed a ball of fire followed by sounds of explosives or firearms being discharged, reported The Moscow Times.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the site this week and demanded a panel be established to manage the relief efforts.

https://tsarizm.com/news/2019/01/02/was-it-terror-or-a-gas-leak-bus-explodes-near-russian-disaster-site/

Progressives Resist Ending the Wars

Liberal interventionists in the media want America’s wars to continue forever. Last Thursday I actually turned on “PBS Newshour” with Judy Woodruff, which I never watch, but the other offerings on television were dismal, and I was flipping channels. She had on as guests her regular commentator Mark Shields and Michael Gerson of The Washington Post. Shields is a hardcore liberal and Gerson is a neoconservative longtime critic of Donald Trump, presumably filling in for regular PBS “conservative” David Brooks. The discussion was about Syria and the resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

Woodruff had had the pathologically ambitious Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on earlier, which was a bullet I quite happily dodged. He reportedly said that Trump was “about to make a major blunder on Syria,” aligning him with fellow Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham (S.C.), who said pretty much the same thing.

https://americanfreepress.net/progressives-resist-ending-the-wars/

The Trump effect. maybe they found jobs so something better to do

Chicago ‘Gun Violence’ Down Double-Digits For Second Straight Year

One sin we often commit in the gun community is believing that Chicago is a gun desert like New York City. It used to be, of course, but following the Supreme Court’s McDonald decision, the city opened up to the world of armed citizens.

Don’t get me wrong. The city didn’t become gun friendly overnight. Illinois state law still provides a number of limits on gun purchasing, including requiring a special ID to purchase a firearm.

But there are firearms in the city, and there have been for a little while now. Not only that, but the state isn’t a “duty to retreat” state, which is pretty close to Stand Your Ground in my book.

What are the results of all that? Despite the rampant violence in the city, it’s actually getting better.

https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2019/01/02/chicago-gun-violence-double-digits-second-straight-year/

Jose Nino – Venezuelan Socialist Hyperinflationary Collapse

Please enjoy my recent conversation with Jose Nino. Herein we discussed how he came to libertarianism, Venezuela travelling there and family experiences, millennials enamored by Socialism, the horrors of Venezuela, South Africa is the next Venezuela, Scandinavian Socialism, crisis is the health of the State, Mike Maloney, Hidden Secrets of Money, Central Banking, Hyperinflationary Collapse, minimum wage rebutted, Ancient Rome hyperinflation, Socialism is the ultimate crash diet, solutions to Socialism, black markets save lives, economics of price gouging and more!

“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” Mark Twain

“Taxation is when the state steals your money. Inflation is when the State steals the purchasing power of your money.” Peter Schiff

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” – Tacitus

“Every socialist is a disguised dictator.” Ludwig von Mises

http://theconsciousresistance.com/2019/01/jose-nino-venezuelan-socialist-hyperinflationary-collapse/

How the War Party Lost the Middle East

"Assad must go, Obama says."

So read the headline in The Washington Post, Aug. 18, 2011.

The story quoted President Barack Obama directly:

"The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way. … the time has come for President Assad to step aside."

France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain’s David Cameron signed on to the Obama ultimatum: Assad must go!

Seven years and 500,000 dead Syrians later, it is Obama, Sarkozy and Cameron who are gone. Assad still rules in Damascus, and the 2,000 Americans in Syria are coming home. Soon, says President Donald Trump.

https://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2018/12/31/how-the-war-party-lost-the-middle-east/

How Keynesian economics came to dominate told by Keynesians

Posted on January 3, 2019

The papers from the HES Session at the US Conference of Economists during the session on Keynesianism: Its Rise, Fall, and Transformation in Europe and North America. So long as Y=C+I+G is central to how macro is taught at all levels of study, the notion that there has been any kind of a fall is ludicrous. No economists taught Keynesian macro ever finds their way to understanding how an economy actually works. These were the papers presented.

Keynesianism in France

Keynesianism in Germany

Keynesianism in Canada

Keynesianism in the United States

All PDF files can be downloaded here

https://lawofmarkets.com/2019/01/03/how-keynesian-economics-came-to-dominate-told-by-keynesians/

FCC Clears Google To Pursue “Minority Report”-Like Gesture System

Now Google can continue to develop touch-free sensors.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just gave Google permission to continue developing Project Soli, the company’s radar-based sensors that let people control gadgets without touching them.

Project Soli began in 2015, when the tech giant made claims about the tech that sounded like interfaces from “Minority Report,” which would turn up music volume when someone rotated their wrist, or zoom in on a picture when they separated two fingers from each other.

Now the project has cleared a major regulatory hurdle, according to The Verge, paving the way, potentially, for next-gen gesture interfaces.

https://futurism.com/fcc-google-radar-gesture/

Nowhere to run to,, Nowhere to hide

Facial recognition: It’s time for action

In July, we shared our views about the need for government regulation and responsible industry measures to address advancing facial recognition technology. As we discussed, this technology brings important and even exciting societal benefits but also the potential for abuse. We noted the need for broader study and discussion of these issues. In the ensuing months, we’ve been pursuing these issues further, talking with technologists, companies, civil society groups, academics and public officials around the world. We’ve learned more and tested new ideas. Based on this work, we believe it’s important to move beyond study and discussion. The time for action has arrived.

We believe it’s important for governments in 2019 to start adopting laws to regulate this technology. The facial recognition genie, so to speak, is just emerging from the bottle. Unless we act, we risk waking up five years from now to find that facial recognition services have spread in ways that exacerbate societal issues. By that time, these challenges will be much more difficult to bottle back up.

In particular, we don’t believe that the world will be best served by a commercial race to the bottom, with tech companies forced to choose between social responsibility and market success. We believe that the only way to protect against this race to the bottom is to build a floor of responsibility that supports healthy market competition. And a solid floor requires that we ensure that this technology, and the organizations that develop and use it, are governed by the rule of law.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/12/06/facial-recognition-its-time-for-action/

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The Climate Change Watermelon Juggernaut & The Prescience Of Michael Crichton

The late Michael Crichton figured out 15 years ago that the climate change juggernaut is a Leftist faith, intended to rework the economy, not true science.

With virtually unlimited money and power at stake, the watermelons (green outside, red inside) are pushing harder than ever to put the U.S. on a path to green Nirvana, where ostensible mitigation of anthropogenic climate change justifies every conceivable regulation, law, and tax, as well as the reordering of our economy and Constitution.

Before starting up this post, some facts many of you might not know. The US has been reducing carbon emissions for years, more so than any other country. In 2017, we produced less carbon than we did in 2005. Indeed, we produced 40,000,000 metric tonnes of CO2 less than we did even in 2016. We accomplished that without regulation — for all those Obama regs were rolled back by 2017 — and without implementing authoritarian government. Yet you will hear no progressive acknowledge those facts in any of the numerous links below. Those are inconvenient facts, and the climate change push is faith based.

The average American is not very concerned with the climate change issue. According to NBC, climate change did not even register as a concern among voters in 2018. But understand that the climate change movement is a juggernaut. It is the single most important issue for progressive left politicians, both foreign and domestic, and their cronies in the private sector, public sector, and academia, all of whom stand to benefit beyond the imagining from the most lucrative scam in history.

https://www.watcherofweasels.org/climate-change-watermelon-prescience-michael-crichton/

Gospel Singer Vicki Yohe Accuses Pastor David E. Taylor of Being a Cult Leader; Admits That She Had a 16-Month Sexual Relationship With Him

Gospel singer Vicki Yohe claims she engaged in premarital sex during a 16-month relationship with controversial Missouri Pastor David E. Taylor of Joshua Media Ministries International, whom she accuses of being a cult leader.

Taylor responded by saying that Yohe’s claims are untrue, and that he has a “face to face” relationship with God and is under attack by demons.

In a Facebook live video, Yohe said she began her relationship with the emerging minister after he took her under his wing following the backlash she received for posting an Instagram meme of Jesus heading back to the White House after President Donald Trump was sworn in.

Because of her predominantly black church following, Yohe was attacked and branded a “racist” by some. Many churches subsequently canceled ministry events with her, which led to her dependence on medication (a low dose of Adderall) to cope, she revealed in the video.

https://blackchristiannews.com/2019/01/gospel-singer-vicki-yohe-accuses-pastor-david-e-taylor-of-being-cult-leader-admits-that-she-had-a-16-month-sexual-relationship-with-him/