Year: 2015

The Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith

David Codrea:

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives posted a proposed rule changeFriday removing a previous exemption and banning the manufacture, import and sale of “5.56 mm (.223) SS109 and M855 ‘green tip’ ammunition containing a steel core,” saying it now considers it to be “non-sporting” handgun ammunition capable of penetrating protective vests worn by law enforcement officers. This latest development, ceding to law enforcement lobby interests, is prompted by the development of handguns capable of firing the cited ammunition. Continue reading “ATF Proposes New Rules On ‘Green Tip’ Ammunition Ban”

Investor’s Business Daily

The alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is all about man’s stewardship of the environment. But we know that’s not true. A United Nations official has now confirmed this.

At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.   Continue reading “U.N. Official Reveals Real Reason Behind Warming Scare”

WV Metro News

MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. — Multiple tanker rail cars carrying crude oil derailed Monday afternoon in Fayette County, triggering explosions and a huge fire as several cars rolled through a residential subdivision and into the Kanawha River.

At least one house was destroyed, but police have found no evidence of fatalities.

The CSX train jumped the tracks at about 1:20 p.m. Eyewitness Randy Fitzwater of Boomer said he thought a plane had crashed.

“I heard this loud noise. It sounded like a jet airplane flew over my house and then I heard an explosion,” Fitzwater told Metronews.  “I looked across the river and I could see this big ball of flame.”   Continue reading “Evacuations Ordered – Train derailment sends oil cars into Kanawha River; explosions erupt”

Guns America – by PAUL HELINSKI

Digital Crosshairs
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Yukon 1.5 x 42 NVRS Riflescope
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This article is something of a shootout between my favorite (and cheap at $400) night vision scope and an interesting new digital night vision product that was made from a converted IR CCTV camera. Continue reading “Prepping 101: Cheap Night Vision Riflescopes”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

You know things are bad in the ship-building business when… amid considerably larger than expected losses, China’s COSCO announced that it has dis-assembled 8 vessels in January alone (including 3 bulk carriers) and will be decommissioning and disposing of them as it awaits a “more conducive” environment. It appears that is not coming anytime soon, as The Baltic Dry Index just hit 522 – a new all-time low (down a stunning 53 of the last 55 days).   Continue reading “China’s COSCO Dis-Assembles 8 Ships Amid Glut As Baltic Dry Hits Another Record Low”

Zero Hedge

Submitted by the Drug Trafficking & Narco-Terrorism Department of GreatGameIndia

HSBC Bank : Secret Origins To 26/11 Mumbai Attacks

#SwissLeaks what the media has termed it is a trove of secret documents from HSBC’s Swiss private banking arm that reveals names of account holders and their balances for the year 2006-07. They come from over 200 countries, the total balance over $100 billion. But nowhere has the HSBC Swiss list touched off a more raging political debate than in India.   Continue reading “HSBC Bank: Secret Origins To Laundering The World’s Drug Money”

The Rio Norte Line – by Joe Bakanovic

I have been writing about the growing threat I see coming from Washington, D.C.  I see this nation traveling down the same road Germany traveled in the 1930’s, and for many of the same reasons.  But there are people – ignorant people – who tell me this could never happen here.

Well, if you are among those who think this sort of thing could never happen here, I say learn your history – because it already has:   Continue reading “So You Say It Can’t Happen Here? WRONG! It Already Has”

44 Days

The Great Western Firewall vs. the Great Firewall of China: different methodologies, identical results. (www.guardian.co.uk)

A truth untold is a lie. A fact hidden is censorship. – The Author

When I recently signed off of Reflections in Sinoland, saying I was not going to do any more columns for the time being, so as to write my third book,Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, I really meant it. But an interesting and thought provoking series of events happened over the last couple of weeks, which has inspired me to write a non-fiction piece again.   Continue reading “Behind the Great Western Firewall Is the Ugly Truth”

RT

A US scientist spoke to RT saying he is worried intelligence bodies could try to use the weather as a weapon. He called on the CIA to open up and be more transparent, and wants research to be conducted globally to limit the possibility of hostile use.

Professor Alan Robock is wary that US government agencies are interested in funding climate change research to see if new technologies could help to turn the weather into potential weapons.   Continue reading “Climate regime change? CIA may fund weather research for new weapon, scientist fears”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Government surveyors have determined a new height for the Washington Monument that’s nearly 10 inches shorter than what has been thought for more than 130 years, officials will announce Monday.

The new measurement puts the monument at 554 feet, 7 and eleven-thirty-seconds of an inch, as measured from the floor of the main entrance to the top. Ever since the stone obelisk was completed in 1884, however, the historic height has been recorded at 555 feet, 5 and 1/8 inches. It’s a number circulated for decades on tours of the capital and in civics classes about the monument honoring the nation’s first president.   Continue reading “Surveyors determine new height for Washington Monument in DC”

Mail.com

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A defense lawyer for one of two men suspected of assisting the gunman behind two shooting attacks in Copenhagen says both have been jailed for 10 days.

Anders Rohde says that prosecutors had asked a judge to place them in four weeks of solitary confinement and that the relatively short period of detention suggests the case against the men is “thin.” Rohde was speaking to reporters after a four-hour custody hearing held behind closed doors. His colleague earlier said the men denied accusations that they helped the gunman evade authorities and get rid of a weapon.   Continue reading “2 suspected accomplices of Denmark gunman jailed for 10 days”

Mail.com

CORBIN, Ky. (AP) — Friends and relatives of a 16-year-old boy killed in a shootout with police in Maryland struggled to understand how the faithful churchgoer and high school ROTC student could end up as the suspect in the slaying of his parents and younger sister in Kentucky.

Jason Hendrix was suspected of killing his family execution-style last week before fleeing his small Southern town to the East Coast, authorities said Sunday. Saturday’s shootout led police to search the teen’s home more than 500 miles away in Corbin, Kentucky. There, authorities found the bodies of Kevin and Sarah Hendrix and their daughter, Grace, about age 12, Corbin Police Chief David Campbell said.   Continue reading “Struggle to understand family slaying in small Kentucky town”

Mail.com

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — If his Facebook page is any indication, Craig Hicks doesn’t hate Muslims. An avowed atheist, his online posts instead depict a man who despises religion itself, but nevertheless seems to support an individual’s right to his own beliefs.

“I hate Islam just as much as christianity, but they have the right to worship in this country just as much as any others do,” the man now accused of killing three Muslim college students stated in one 2012 post over the proposed construction of a mosque near the World Trade Center site in New York.   Continue reading “Shooting suspect slams religion while defending liberty”

Martin Armstrong

No matter what side of the political fence you’re on, THIS is funny and very telling! It just all depends on how you look at the same things. It is probably made up, but it is not far from the way politicians really do spin the facts.Judy Rudd an amateur genealogy researcher in south east Queensland , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that ex-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s great-great uncle,

Remus Rudd, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Melbourne in 1889. Both Judy and Kevin Rudd share this common ancestor.   Continue reading “Political Spin – The way it’s done correctly – this time in Australia …”