California demorat calls for expansion of red flag laws: Employers, co-workers & teachers can petition to take away your guns

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by DCG California Assemblymember Phil Ting tweeted about his excitement to remove due process for law-abiding citizens, all in the name of “gun safety.” From his tweet: “My bill, #AB61, which improves gun safety by expanding CA’s #RedFlagLaw, heads to the Gov! If signed, more people can access a court process that temporarily takes away someone’s firearms if they pose … Read more

TROUBLES: WASH POST shuts commuter newspaper… Fake News Fears: 95% Worried by State of Media… 33,000 newsroom jobs slashed

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TROUBLES: WASH POST shuts commuter newspaper… Express, the free newspaper published weekdays by The Washington Post for Metro riders and other commuters, will shut down on Thursday, ending 16 years of publication, the company said Wednesday. Managers of the paper cited its deteriorating financial condition for the decision to cease publishing. Although they declined to … Read more

SHTF: How to Make and Store Electricity Before a Catastrophic Grid Collapse ( Survive Weeks Without Power )

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by Amy S.  Millions lost power and suffered after Hurricane Dorian but you can have electricity after the power grid fails: How to store and re-generate electricity as an extended power supply before a grid collapse. Best of all — No one needs to know you have it. America runs on electricity — and it’s not … Read more

Can someone remind me what happened with the equity market the last time the trend in (fictional?) operating EPS diverged massively from earnings from a true national income perspective?

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🇺🇸 Can someone remind me what happened with the equity market the last time the trend in (fictional?) operating EPS diverged massively from earnings from a true national income perspective? pic.twitter.com/rbY6TDkeGi — Mikael Sarwe (@MikaelSarwe) September 11, 2019

DoubleLine’s CIO Says Not Treasuries, Gold Could Be Smart Recession Play

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via CNBC: DoubleLine Capital’s Jeffrey Sherman tells CNBC that August’s exodus into long-term Treasurys could be “overdone” and cautioned investors from the momentum trade. Sherman, who serves as DoubleLine’s deputy chief investment officer, says gold makes a more compelling recession play. Do you want to incur that “interest rate risk for buying what has been … Read more

CHANGE: Most Americans Now Have an Unfavorable View of the Democratic Party, A Flip From 2018.

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via mediaite: The blue wave in 2018 was undeniable (by everyone, seemingly, except President Donald Trump. Democrats gained 41 seats in the House and lost just two in the Senate — despite facing an overwhelmingly unfavorable map. But with the presidential candidates in the spotlight, the Democratic party’s approval numbers appear to be taking a bit of … Read more

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: “Your best friend may not know when you last had sex, but it’s possible that Facebook does.”

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via The Washington Post: Your best friend may not know when you last had sex, but it’s possible that Facebook does. At least two menstruation-tracking apps, Maya and MIA Fem, were sharing intimate details of users’ sexual health with Facebook and other entities, according to a new report from Britain-based privacy watchdog Privacy International. In some cases, … Read more

Incredible progress being made at the Southern Border!

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Incredible progress being made at the Southern Border! pic.twitter.com/xcqxKEkfGD — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2019 I think this chart is showing the effectiveness of two things. The deal with Mexico. He basically forced them to stop illegal aliens coming up from Central America through Mexico. Mexico had previously been letting Central Americans freely … Read more

KEEP PUNCHING: CIA Rebuke Wasn’t Enough…GOP Rep Wants Investigation Into Shoddy CNN Spy Story.

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via townhall: The CIA rarely rebukes a media report, but the agency made an exception for CNN this week. The network recently claimed that two years ago the U.S. pulled an American spy out of Russia. The sources they chose to rely on were “multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN” and “a person.” … Read more

A Few Ways To Prepare For An EMP

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Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, Preparing for an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) has not been on the radar for many of us lately.  As we focus on our financial prepping for the next inevitable economic downturn, it is often easy to forget that a few other threats still loom. Because of that, I’ve put together this … Read more

Did you know that a single US consular employee stationed in Saudi Arabia issued visas to enter the US to 12 of the 19 hijackers? She has since been promoted by the State Department.

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by kummybears One employee at a US consulate allowed 12 of the 19 9/11 hijackers to enter the United States. She made one of the biggest mistakes in American security history, yet she has since been promoted. Was she told to grant visas to potential terrorists? July 1, 2000: Consular Official Who Issues 9/11 Hijackers … Read more

August BLS Report Omits Key Data Revealing Future Worker Challenges, including Immigration and Robotics

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by Joe Guzzardi Shortly after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August report which showed that the economy had created a middling 130,000 new jobs, the White House issued an effusive statement. Pointing to record low unemployment rates for black Americans, 5.5 percent, and for Hispanics, 4.2 percent, the White House report written by the Council of Economic Advisors … Read more

Academic Stupidity And Brainwashing

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via Walter E. Williams Just when we thought colleges could not spout loonier ideas, we have a new one from American University. They hired a professor to teach other professors to grade students based on their “labor” rather than their writing ability. The professor that American University hired to teach that nonsense is Asao B. Inoue, … Read more