Archive for February, 2015

Chinese herdsman stumbles onto a 17-pound gold nugget

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Imagine it! You’re walking along and nearly trip over a 17-pound (7.85 kilograms) gold nugget. File that under a most improbable gold bonanza.

But that’s exactly how it played out for one lucky sun-of-a-gun farmer in China.

Berek Sawut, a Kazak herdsman from Qinghe County in Altay Prefecture told Chinese news agency Xinhua that he found the giant nugget “practically lying on bare ground.” The area is in China’s far western Xinjiang Uygur region.

That gold nugget, assuming it’s at least 80% pure, would be worth 1.6 million yuan ($255,313 U.S. dollars), says Xinhua, which also points out that a 1.84 kilogram nugget was discovered in the region in 2010. Gold GCJ5, -0.04%  for April delivery was trading at $1,261 an ounce on Thursday.

The odds of such a thing happening, of course, are not as rare as, say, finding 1,400 rare U.S. gold coins practically in your backyard. And yes, that actually happened to one lucky California couple a year ago.

It can’t be confirmed if this is indeed it, but this supposed image of that China nugget was floating around earlier on Twitter.

Oddly enough, on Feb. 5, 1869, the world’s biggest alluvial gold nugget (i.e., gold deposited by water) was found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. Dubbed the ‘Welcome Stranger,’ the nugget had a gross weight of 109.59 kilograms, and had to be broken into three pieces because there were no scales large enough to weigh it, according to Wikipedia.

Last month thieves smashed an SUV into a Wells Fargo museum in downtown San Francisco early Tuesday and made off with gold nuggets and ore worth more than $12,000.

But that’s not a strategy we’d recommend in trying to get your own chunk of gold.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chinese-herdsman-stumbles-onto-a-17-pound-gold-nugget-2015-02-05?siteid=yhoof2

TSA Earns Gestapo Nickname

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Man held 20 hours after asking to file TSA complaint

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A traveler detained for more than 20 hours after a search of energy bars and a sports watch in his carry-on bag at an airport has sued the Transportation Security Administration and accused a TSA supervisor of lying.

Architect and runner Roger Vanderklok said he was arrested after asking TSA workers how to file a complaint. He said he spent nearly a day in a holding cell without being questioned by police or given the chance to call his wife, who was frantic.

“It’s difficult to lose control of your existence. That’s what it amounts to,” Vanderklok said Wednesday. “I was absolutely terrified.”

According to Vanderklok, the TSA supervisor lied to police and again in court when he said the 58-year-old runner had made a verbal threat during the January 2013 security check at Philadelphia International Airport. Vanderklok was on his way to Miami for a half-marathon.

The TSA said it was concerned about the gear in his bag: what turned out to be the watch and the power bars, wrapped in a small PVC pipe for protection. Electronics and “organic mass” can be used to make bombs, TSA Supervisor Charles Kieser testified at an April 2013 criminal trial.

But Vanderklok’s lawyer, Thomas Malone, argued in court: “I don’t think PowerBars are consistent with bombings, nor are watches.”

A judge quickly dismissed threat charges against Vanderklok, who filed his lawsuit Jan. 23, seeking unspecified damages for what he considers a retaliatory arrest. The Philadelphia Daily News first reported on the lawsuit Wednesday.

Malone doesn’t challenge the TSA’s effort to investigate the items in the carry-on but says airport security footage contradicts Kieser’s testimony.

Kieser testified an agitated Vanderklok raised his hands and repeatedly pointed a finger at his face.

“The passenger made a bomb threat to me,” Kieser testified, according to a transcript. “(He said) I’ll bring a bomb through here any day that I want … and you’ll never find it.”

Vanderklok insists he said nothing about a bomb. The security video shows him standing calmly with his arms in front of him holding a laptop, his lawsuit says.

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The TSA does not comment on pending lawsuits, a spokesman said. Kieser does not appear to have a listed phone number.

The city’s chief deputy solicitor, Craig Straw, said his office had not seen the lawsuit.

http://news.yahoo.com/suit-man-held-20-hours-asking-file-tsa-210427933.html

Hobbit ring = Terrorist

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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“It also highlights the way the “education system” is also an indoctrination system, imparting beliefs and conditioned reactions to produce disapproval and fear of armed citizens.”

“A Kermit [Texas] parent said his fourth-grade student was suspended Friday for allegedly making a terroristic threat,” the Odessa American reported Friday. After seeing “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” nine-year-old Aiden Steward allegedly brought a ring to school and told a classmate it was magic and could make him disappear.

The boy’s father, Jason Steward, said Kermit Elementary School Principal Roxanne Greer informed him “threats to another child’s safety would not be tolerated — whether magical or not.” For her part, Greer declined to comment, citing confidentiality requirements.

The incident does illustrate the seeming paradox of schools that have programs against bullies essentially assuming that role. It also highlights the way the “education system” is also an indoctrination system, imparting beliefs and conditioned reactions to produce disapproval and fear of armed citizens. As this column has shown before, things were not always that way, and many of us remember a much different time.

The ultimate problem is that schools, via illusory “gun free zones,” provide those intent on making a name for themselves through acts of unspeakable evil a practical guarantee they will get what they most desire: success. Until that paradigm changes, expect ever more ridiculous examples of “zero tolerance” insanity to continue to make the news.

http://www.examiner.com/article/hobbit-ring-school-suspension-merits-closer-look?CID=examiner_alerts_article

New Mexico: Anti-Gun House Bill 44 to Receive Public Hearing on Saturday, February 7

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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On Saturday at 2:00 p.m., in Room 307 of the State Capitol, the House Regulatory & Public Affairs Committee will hold a public hearing on NRA-opposed House Bill 44, sponsored by anti-gun state Representative Miguel Garcia (D-ABQ).  HB 44 criminalizes non-dealer firearm transfers at gun shows, which would lead to the end of these events as we know them.  Misguided gun control advocates will be in Santa Fe to support this deeply flawed measure, so please attend this hearing to show your opposition.

HB 44 is just the first step toward criminalizing ALL private transfers of firearms; in fact, the first version of this bill from the 2013 session did just that.  No background check legislation will ever be “universal” since criminals simply ignore the law.

Why You Should Oppose HB 44

It’s an ineffective crime control proposal.  In April of 2013, PoliceOne conducted a national survey of 15,000 active and retired law enforcement officers of all ranks and department sizes on the topics of gun & crime control.  Nearly 80 percent said that a prohibition on private non-dealer transfers of firearms between individuals would not reduce violent crime.

Current laws are not being enforced.  According to a 2012 report to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 72,000 people were turned down on a gun purchase in 2010 because they didn’t clear a background check.  Only 44 of those cases – or just .06 percent – were prosecuted.  A 2013 study by Syracuse University showed that gun prosecutions had hit a decade low, down 40 percent from 2004.  Existing laws are not even being enforced and proponents are calling for expanding background checks to cover private firearms transactions.

Gun shows aren’t a source of crime guns.  A U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of state prison inmates who had used or possessed firearms in the course of committing their crimes found that 79 percent acquired their firearms from “street/illegal sources” or “friends and family.”  This includes theft of firearms, black market purchases of stolen firearms and straw purchases.  Only 1.7 percent obtained a firearm at a gun show.

It may lead to gun registration. Most importantly, because a January 2013 internal U.S. Department of Justice memorandum summarizing so-called “gun violence” prevention strategies stated that the effectiveness of “universal background checks” depends on “requiring gun registration.”  Even though HB 44 currently contains prohibitions on the development of a state or local registry of gun buyers, supporters of the bill are likely to eventually claim the need to repeal these important protections in order to enforce its provisions.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20150204/new-mexico-anti-gun-house-bill-44-to-receive-public-hearing-on-saturday-february-7

NRA-ILA: Gabby Giffords’ Gun Control Group ‘Just Making Stuff Up’

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Arkansas: Campus Carry Bill to be Considered by House Committee Tomorrow

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), ought to rename themselves “Anti-Gunners for Irresponsible Statistics” in light of their “bogus claim … about the number of firearm and car accident deaths among young people each year.”

According to the NRA-ILA, ARS “claimed that there are more than 30,000 firearm-related deaths, plus more than 30,000 car accident deaths among young people each year.” However, the NRA-ILA points to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) numbers, which show the number of accidental deaths among young people aged 0 to 19 years was 3,753 in 2013, while accidental firearm-related deaths for that same year were 124.

They use 2013 because that is the most recent year for which data is reported.

Even if all deaths are included–rather than accidental deaths only–the CDC shows all car deaths among young people 0 to 19 in 2013 was 3,776, while the number for all firearm-related deaths for young people age 0 to 19 was 2,465.

In other words, no matter how you look at it, ARS’s claims do not add up.

It should be noted that the claim that caught the NRA-ILA’s attention was ARS’s projection that “2015 will be the first year young Americans are more likely to die to from gun violence than car accidents.” Note that the ARS had to include all gun deaths–intentional and accidental–rather than only accidental car deaths to get the numbers close enough to keep the projection from being immediately discarded.

In fact, the NRA-ILA described it best as a “bogus claim.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/03/nra-ila-gabby-giffords-gun-control-group-just-making-stuff-up/

Since when is anything spouted by any anti-gun group not based on lies,half-truths and obfuscation?

How Reality TV Is Teaching Us to Accept the American Police State, by John W. Whitehead

Posted: February 4, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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From John W. Whitehead, a guest post at theburningplatform.com:

“Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books.”—Etienne de La Boétie, “The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude: How Do Tyrants Secure Cooperation?” (1548)

Americans love their reality TV shows—the drama, the insults, the bullying, the callousness, the damaged relationships delivered through the lens of a surveillance camera—and there’s no shortage of such dehumanizing spectacles to be found on or off screen, whether it’s Cops, Real Housewives or the heavy-handed…

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SHTF Home Defense

Posted: February 4, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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From Forward Observer Magazine…

SHTF Home Defense: Part 1 – Defending the Perimeter

https://readfomag.com/2015/02/shtf-home-defense-part-1-defending-the-perimeter/

SHTF Home Defense: Part 2 – Defending the Home

https://readfomag.com/2015/02/shtf-home-defense-part-2-defending-the-home/

Read.

Learn.

Train.

Do More PT !

A Reader Sends: For All You Mechanics

Posted: February 4, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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New York policeman charged with assault

Posted: February 4, 2015 by gamegetterII in Police state USSA
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New York (AFP) – A New York police officer was charged with assault in Brooklyn on Tuesday after allegedly stomping on the head of a suspect lying on the ground, officials said.

The indictment against a serving officer follows protests across the United States demanding legal reforms after a series of police killings of unarmed black men passed without censure.

Joel Edouard, 37, was charged with one count of third-degree assault, one count of third-degree attempted assault and one count of official misconduct in connection with the July 23 incident.

He is the third policeman indicted in three months by prosecutors in Brooklyn who are investigating at least six other cases of police brutality, officials confirmed.

Cell phone video shows the black officer briefly pointing his gun at suspect Jahmiel Cuffee, 32, who is also black, then stomping on his head while he was being handcuffed by other officers.

Cuffee resisted arrest and tussled with officers. He was stopped for allegedly drinking on the sidewalk — illegal in New York.

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson said the assault was “unacceptable for a police officer” but praised the “vast majority of police officers who perform their duties honorably.”

Edouard faces up to one year in jail if convicted.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/york-policeman-charged-assault-224325120.html;_ylt=AwrBEiEEetFU1SoADhLQtDMD

To the Citizens of Washington State and Their American Countrymen

Posted: February 3, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Unless you want to see this Bloomberg and his wealthy minions’ bought and paid for anti-gun bullshit enacted in your state-either go to stand with these guys-or kick ’em a few $$$ for bail money.

Washington state was only the first of many states these douchenozzles plan to get this or similar horsepucky enacted in-the next state could be the one YOU live in-support these guys any way you can.

Resist-any way you can-every way you can.

This mouse ain’t just giving up-neither should you…

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