Category — News

http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/396278/So-the-Left-lied-and-lied-again-about-immigration

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2318088/May-Day-mayhem-Seattle-Police-battle-protesters-pepper-spray-flashbangs.html

By: Jennifer Harper THE WASHINGTON TIMES

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2013/apr/11/ammo-hoarding-could-bullets-become-currency/

As gun reform legislation rages through the halls of Congress and the White House, hunters and gun enthusiasts confront bare shelves and buying restrictions on supplies, even as retailers and manufacturers race to keep up with demand.

Wal-Mart limits buyers to three boxes when ammunition is available, and Cabela’s is limiting online orders to one box per day of the popular .22 long shells increasingly used as cheap ammo for target rifles and pistols, reports Forbes, which is tracking the trend.

A newly enacted Connecticut law now includes a $35 permit to buy ammo that requires a background check and is good for five years – unless the legislature shortens the term and increases the fee as a new source of tax revenue.

“But why the national shortage? Here’s my theory: Bullets are easy to store, non-perishable, and they hold their value or even increase in times of crisis.

So they’re a lot like gold or any other commodity that has served as hard money through the ages – or even the canned mackerel fillets that serve as currency in U.S. prisons,” says Forbes analyst Daniel Fisher.

“With states like Connecticut and Colorado passing strict new restrictions on gun owners and the President flying around the country to drum up support for national gun control, ammo buyers are like consumers queuing for gas or loading up on gold in the inflationary 1970s. They’re creating their own shortage,” he notes.

Mr. Fisher ponders a “bullet bubble” as well.

“Will today’s ammo hoarders be rewarded like gold buyers in 1972, or will they wind up like the folks who bought Bitcoins at $30 and watched them fall to two bucks a couple years ago?” he asks.

James Pethokoukis | July 11, 2012, 1:40 pm

The original purpose of Medicaid was to provide improved healthcare access for poor people, while not turning the safety net into a trap. Under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, Medicaid will be greatly expanded beyond what Congress originally intended.

In fact, as these charts show, it has already expanded beyond what Congress surely originally envisioned and, in the process, has created a terrible fiscal problem for the United States. (These charts and graphics come from a briefing today here at AEI, conducted by Gary Alexander, secretary of public welfare for Pennsylvania.)

A few scary factoids:

– In the 1960s, there were 18 workers per Medicaid recipient. Today that number is 2.5.

– The number of Americans on disability has risen 19% faster than jobs created during this recovery.

– There are just 1.2 private sector workers per 1 person on welfare or working for government.

– There are now just 1.65 employed persons in private sector per 1 person on welfare assistance.

Check out the charts and graphics for yourself:

1. Fewer workers and their tax payments have to support more and more Medicaid recipients.

2. The number of takers is now approaching the number of makers.

3. Medicaid and other welfare enrollment has exploded.

4. Medicaid enrollment is growing faster than economy.

5. Medicaid spending? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

6. Disability enrollees have exploded and are rising faster than job creation.

Published July 12, 2012

FoxNews.com

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

Those were Abe Lincoln’s words in his first inaugural in 1861, as America was running headlong into civil war.  Now we’re a house divided again and another civil war is coming, with the 2012 election as its Gettysburg.

Call it America’s coming civil war between the Makers and the Takers.

On one side are those who create wealth, America’s private sector–the very ones targeted by President Obama’s tax hikes announced Monday.

On the other are the public employee unions; left-leaning intelligentsia who see the growth of government as index of progress; and the millions of Americans now dependent on government through a growing network of government transfer payments,  from Medicaid and Social Security to college loans and corporate bailouts and handouts (think GM and Solyndra).

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/07/12/america-coming-civil-war/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/10/pruden-new-terrorists-theyre-all-us/

Barack Obama, the Chicago messiah who promised to unite a fragmented nation, is succeeding beyond his dreams, and maybe even the dreams of his father, which he wrote about so eloquently in his campaign autobiography.   We’re all terrorists now.

The Department of Homeland Security, ever on the scout for opportunities to blow taxpayer money, commissioned one of those “studies” so popular among college professors, to find clues that would identify prospective terrorists before they blow up airplanes, bring down skyscrapers and otherwise wreak havoc.   The “new studies” show that just about everybody must be dreaming of terrorism, plotting mayhem and chaos and teaching others how to do it.

http://news.investors.com/article/617568/201207091910/arms-treaty-a-global-gun-grab-grab-treaty.htm

Second Amendment: The United Nations is putting the finishing touches on an Arms Trade Treaty that transcends borders and may even trample our Constitutional right to bear arms. Every indication is that the president will sign it.

Like the New Start and Law of the Sea treaties before it, as well as the Kyoto Protocol and Agenda 21, the Arms Trade Treaty being finalized at the U.N. this month is one of those feel-good, can’t-we-all-get-along pieces of parchment whose net effect is to accomplish little except to eat away at American sovereignty and freedom.

Just as the world’s worst human rights violators sat on and often chaired the U.N. Human Rights Council, Iran, arms supplier extraordinaire to America’s enemies, was elected on Saturday to a top position on the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty being held in New York. It began July 2 and extends through July 27

http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/spain-on-the-brink-as-borrowing-costs-soar-to-unaffordable-levels-1-2401312

Published on Tuesday 10 July 2012 03:21

SPAIN’S borrowing cost rose to dangerously high levels yesterday as finance ministers of the 17 countries that use the euro began to gather in Brussels to discuss terms of a rescue package for the country’s stricken banks.

The interest rate, or yield, on the country’s ten-year bonds rose 16 basis points to 7.03 per cent, a level that market-watchers consider is unaffordable for a country to raise money on the bond markets in the long term and the level at which Greece, Ireland and Portugal all sought an international bailout. Stocks on Madrid’s benchmark index fell 1.5 per cent.

The yield indicates what rate a government would have to pay to raise money from financial markets when it holds bond auctions. While Spain can afford the high rates for a few weeks at least, it would find them too expensive in the longer term.

http://bit.ly/PqbE4S

The Democrats in the California State Assembly really believe their constituents are fools, willing to ignore the institutionalized union graft that funds their re-election. How else to explain their party line vote to fund $8 billion for building high-speed rail, starting in the agriculturally rich Central Valley. Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a Republican from San Bernardino called the vote, “a high speed train robbery.”  The issue now goes to the State Senate for a close vote on Friday.

News Section:

I am including a small section of the most significant news articles that I encounter in my daily intelligence gathering routine.    I check scour the internet for news 2 to 3 times a day, everyday.   The news that I find is usually not printed, covered in depth, or presented in the major media which should tell you all you need to know regarding the total failure of the media.   Understanding current events give you a “heads up” as to when and how severe a potential Economic / Social melt down will occur.

The following are the major topics that I focus on to provide me with that “heads up” so that I can refine and complete my preparation efforts:

Gun Control:   The most important thing to watch is efforts at stealth gun control like the UN Arms Trade Treaty or increasing prices of shooting material through excessive tax and fees.

Breakdown of Law and Order:  This is very important as it shows in observable terms how broken and incapable of dealing with any major crisis the system is.   Some of the bellwether stories are: Fast and Furious, Urban Crime Waves (Chicago), Illegal government activities going unchallenged or easily swept away, The Left Wing Protest Movements (OWS), New Laws, Unconstitutional Actions by the Government, Executive Orders, and the General Condition of our Overall Legal System.

New Laws and / or Restrictions:   There are many rules by various governmental agencies that are impacting the economy and the social order that the media totally ignores.   New EPA, DOJ, & DHS regulations are particularly frightening.    The State Department is furiously working on the US signing on to a number of treaties (LOST & UN Arms Trade Treaty).

Food, Utilities, and Communications:   Efforts by the government to excessively control each of these sectors does not bode well for the free market, the weak economy, or a future crisis.    Food restrictions, limits on consumption or purchase of specific goods and services, and energy distribution regulations in particular are quite ominous.   Also frequent and widespread infrastructure (and utility) failures are like the canary in the cage when it comes to the health of our economic system.

Media:   The media we have today is in total failure and has completely sided with one viewpoint (leftist).   Control of information is key to any wanna-be Stalins and lack of critical information will leave you caught unprepared when an Economic / Social Meltdown Event occurs.   Attacks on opposing viewpoint media need to be noted since the severity and success of such attacks is a harbinger of our degenerating society and culture.

The stories I post here are presented with the headline, the first paragraph (or more), and the link to the original article.   It is up to you, the reader to double check the accuracy and cross reference for the actual facts of the story with other sources.   I usually do this before I post the article, but sometimes the information speaks for itself.

De Oppresso Liber