Sacramento Deploys Domestic Surveillance To Spy On Your Trash

The New York Post reports that "Sacramento deploys trash spies to snoop on homeowners so they comply with Newsom vision." From the lede:

    Sacramento residents are bracing for tight supervision of what they throw in their trash as Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandates require the city to lay invasive eyes on them.

    Bin inspections are set to be deployed this month due to SB 1383, a law that requires local governments to take steps to reduce methane emissions caused by short-lived climate pollutants.

    One of the key goals of the initiative is to see if homeowners are sorting their organic waste properly. City officials say they caught many sorting their trash into the wrong bin.

I have no doubt but that they will be looking for evidence of other items to justify further surveillance or an arrest of particular households.  

9 Buildings To Scavenge After SHTF

I don't know that these 9 buildings will be forgotten by everyone--certainly they won't be forgotten by the people that work there--but they may be ignored or overlooked in the initial looting. Beyond the types of buildings that you might not immediately think of to scavenge food, water and other supplies from, the video also discusses time-lines: specifically, it suggests not doing much for the first few days while the looters are out in force; but then quickly work for the short period between when the looters have left and those that have hunkered down start to venture out.

I don't know how realistic this will be, but if there was something that happened to force people to leave the city, it sort of makes sense. Think of New Orleans immediately after Katrina where the majority of people had fled the city. I suspect that in the event of an EMP during the summer, cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas would quickly empty as they would quickly become unlivable for most people because of the lack of air conditioning and water.  

VIDEO: "The 9 Buildings Everyone Ignores When Scavenging (Still Full After the Stores Are Stripped)" - Apocalypse Coyote (11 min.)

Chinese Floods And Snakes

Some recent news from China, including flooding that led to a dam breach; and poisonous snakes escaping from a breeding facility. 

 VIDEO: "The Floods Were Devastating. Then The Dams Broke."
China Uncensored (12 min.)

Apartment Prepper: Prepping On A Budget

In "Prepping on a Ramen Budget: How to Stockpile Food for Under $20 a Month" from Apartment Prepper, the author notes:

With just $20 a month, your focus should be on affordable, long-lasting, and high-calorie foods. Prioritize staples like:

•     Rice
•     Beans
•     Pasta
•     Canned goods
•     Oats
•     Powdered milk
•     Peanut butter
•     Cooking oil
•     Salt and sugar
•     Shelf-stable proteins (tuna, Spam, lentils, dried beans)

These items provide the most calories and nutrients per dollar and have long shelf lives. 

The author goes on to set out some strategies for stretching your dollars and a schedule of what and how much to buy each month over a four month cycle that will provide you with a stockpile of a month's worth of food in that four months (I presume for a single person). The author then offers additional worthy advice, so be sure to read the whole thing.

Gat Daily: Interarms Was A CIA Front

"Interarms Was A CIA Front" reports Gat Daily, originally set up by the CIA to facilitate shipment of firearms to various clients. The author begins:

    It’s always been one of those open secrets that Interarms, a famed Virginia-based arms importer, worked for the CIA or with the CIA. The owner, or who appeared to be the owner, Samuel Cummings, had a long history of working with the government, including the CIA. The old joke that no one ever really leaves the CIA seems quite true regarding Mr. Cummings.

    There has been a massive release of documents from the CIA concerning the JFK assassination, and part of those documents confirmed that the CIA didn’t just work with Interarms; they owned the organization. Samuel Cummings acted as their representative and eventually purchased the company, but it seemed to be in the CIA space until it was taken over by High Standard. 

Brace or Stock?

Shooting News Weekly has an article about a Florida man pulled over in a traffic stop who was ultimately charged with possession of an unregistered SBR. The excuse for pulling the man over was dubious, but the point was that the officers believed they had probable cause to search his vehicle. The man had been returning from a shooting excursion and among his collection of weapons in the vehicle was an AR pistol with a brace. Or was it a brace? The officers ultimately determined that it was not a pistol brace and now the man is facing felony charges for an unlicensed SBR. The article relates:

Smith had owned the AR pistol for nearly seven years. He found it on a website and had it shipped to his local gun dealer. He had mounted a red-dot sight and what he thought was an aftermarket brace. “I was under the impression it was totally compliant,” Smith said. “The brace was actually smaller than the one it came with. I thought it was a brace, not a buttstock.” 

Unfortunately, as one of the comments to the article pointed out, it was not a brace at all but a Strike Industries MOD1 stock. The irony is that when the man purchased the AR pistol, it actually shipped with a perfectly serviceable pistol brace.  

    The lesson here is don't be like Florida man. Don't replace your pistol brace with a stock unless you have first obtained the ATF's permission to convert the pistol to an SBR.  

Wilder: 250,000 Reasons "Online Safety" Is A Scam

John Wilder's latest is: "The Grooming Gang Cover Up: 250,000 Reasons 'Online Safety' Is a Scam." Many governments are suddenly enacting various measures to censor the Internet under the guise of protecting the children, including the UK. But, as Wilder notes, there are 250,000 reasons to doubt that the UK government gives a damn about children and their safety. The 250,000 is, of course, a reference to the estimated number of white girls that have been raped by "Asians" (mostly Pakistanis) with the cooperation of the British police. Why did the police not help the girls? Because the girls were white and, for the most part, from poor families. Or, as Wilder explains:

    ... Illegal immigrants who contribute nothing are at the top [of the leftist hierarchy], because the goal of the GloboLeftist is to destroy whatever nation they’re in. 

    Sure, GloboLeftists say they’re against rape and against oppressing women, but only when white men are doing the raping and oppressing. If the[ ] rapists and abusers come from a foreign culture, well, rape and abuse as much as you want. ... 

But the police did help the rapists:

Based on anecdotal evidence, the police in Europe have zero interest in arresting anyone who isn’t a lawful white citizen. In several cases, the police brought the young girls that were being sexually abused back to the abusers. The thankful abusers gave the police a turn on the girls.  

When faced with this type of evil--the rape of innocents--we have to ask what would Jesus do? Fortunately, scripture provides an answer:

Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.    

Gen. 19:24-25 (NIV). But if you think that is overkill, Jesus has some other suggestions:

It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble. 

Luke 17:2 (NIV). 

Does The Odyssey Hold Clues To A Trans-Atlantic Voyage?

No one has been able to convincingly match up the locations Odysseus journeyed to during his 10-year voyage to actual locations in the Mediterranean. Some have looked beyond the Mediterranean to see if there are matches to locations in or around Atlantic Ocean, including the host of this video. He begins with a simple hypothesis: that the journey in The Odyssey is based, at least in part, from earlier stories and legends; and that some of the stories or legends might reflect actual locations or sailing journeys. He further notes that Homer used the Greek word for "ocean" to describe where Odysseus' journey took place. 

To be clear, he does not believe that all of the events and locations described in The Odyssey were based on a single voyage of exploration, but were likely from several accounts. But he picks out several that seem to describe a voyage into the Atlantic and north to Iceland, wintering in Iceland, and then heading over to a couple locations in Newfoundland that seem a plausible match with Homer's description of the whirlpool Charybdis and the creature, Scylla.  

VIDEO: "Did Odysseus Discover America?"
Lantern Jack (51 min.)

Lindsey Graham: I Know You Shouldn't Speak Ill Of The Dead, But...

I know that right now everyone is singing the praises of Lindsey Graham right after his sudden death, but I came across this interview with Benjamin Netanyahu praising Graham with a disturbing anecdote about Graham's commitment to Israel. In it, Netanyahu was apparently meeting with Graham about U.S. funding of Israel, and Graham insisted on giving Israel more aid than Netanyahu said Israel needed. But, ever careful to waste U.S. tax dollars, Graham told Netanyahu he was going to go over Netanyahu's head, and go to the Senate and ask for more aid for Israel. That is, seeking more aid for Israel than it needed or, supposedly, wanted. What a great American! (sarc.)

    It should also be remembered that Graham was one of the four Congressmen in the so-called "Gang of Eight" who sought, among other things, an amnesty program for illegals in 2013 and greatly increasing foreign work visas including H1B visas. 

    "I think 2013 is the year of immigration reform," said GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who, with the other senators, stood in front of representatives of a diverse coalition — from the AFL-CIO to the Chamber of Commerce — that has gotten behind overhaul efforts.

    "America is an idea; nobody owns it," Graham said. "We've got to create order out of chaos." 

RIP: Sam Neill Passed Away At 78

 The New York Post reports: "‘Jurassic Park’ star Sam Neill dead at 78 after cancer recovery."