Saturday, March 21, 2026

VIDEO: Results of IQ Tests in Nigeria

The host of this video had heard from Westerners about the low IQ's of Sub-Saharan Africans, so he assembled a team, obtained funding, and went out onto the streets of Nigeria to select random people and have them take IQ tests to refute what he'd heard. The results, as the host puts it, were "very disappointing." The average score was 73 while the median was 69. I don't know if this was the high score or not, but he said only 3% scored 102 which is the average for whites; while 52% scored below 70. The host even took the test himself just to check that there wasn't something wrong with the test.  

Failing to show that Sub-Saharan Africans have comparable IQs to other peoples, the host then goes on to argue that I.Q. does not fully represent an individual's overall intelligence or potential and, so, it is "essential to highlight that this should not be a reason to mock or insult Africans." 

Whatever IQ measures, it is related to the ability to function and positively contribute in an advanced economy. And low IQ has a strong correlation to low time preference, impulsivity, and criminality.   

So when you hear or read that IQ is dropping in Western countries, realize that this is not because Westerners are getting less intelligent, but reflects immigration from the Third World.  

 VIDEO: "We Conducted an IQ Test in Nigeria, Africa"
BantuCityDiaries (6 min.)

VIDEO: Individual Skills For Reacting To Contact

This video goes over the individual skills and actions for reacting to contact as well as an introduction to what a team leader would do. By individual skills, the video is discussing things such as how you should move, taking cover or at least getting low to the ground, different types of fire, etc. 

 VIDEO: "How to Survive a Gunfight"
Echo Mike (12 min.)

VIDEO: Everyone Going To 6.8mm?

This video from Cappy Army discusses how the Russians and the Chinese are developing 6.8mm rounds for combat rifles, with both apparently aimed at developing rounds capable of penetrating body armor. He notes that the Russians already have issues with this because most Ukrainians soldiers have body armor. The Russian cartridge will feature a tungsten-steel penetrator intended to not only defeat body armor, but also light vehicle armor. It is also supposed to offer substantial improvements in range over current or past military rounds. 

The Chinese round appears to be a near copy of the U.S. 6.8x51mm, except that the case is 1mm shorter. Not much on it, but what little there is suggests that their focus is on defeating U.S. body armor.   

 VIDEO: "Why Everyone is Switching to a '6.8mm NGSW' for WW3"
Cappy Army (15 min.)

Friday, March 20, 2026

Illegals Who Vote, Birthright Citizenship, And More

From the New York Post: "Illegal immigrants from Africa, India and China are voting in US elections — here’s how they’re doing it." An excerpt:

    As the issue of election security ramps up in Congress with the SAVE Act, Sacko’s arrest was one of nearly a dozen uncovered by The Post of non-citizens allegedly voting in US elections, sometimes for decades, with many remaining listed as active voters on state rolls, even after their convictions.

    “The reality is aliens are voting in American elections,” J. Christian Adams, president of Public Interest Legal Foundation, who has spent decades working on election integrity, told The Post, noting no one is quite sure how widespread the problem is.

[snip]

    Adams said the main problem is aliens being invited to register to vote, usually through the mail, at the DMV or via third-party groups.

The article also covers several specific examples of illegals that have been caught voting in the U.S., and some are still registered to vote.

    In the long term, though, birth right citizenship and its abuse is the greater problem: "US territory turned tropical maternity ward has produced thousands of ‘American’ babies for parents living in China."  

    Pregnant Chinese women have turned a tropical paradise into a maternity ward — pumping out babies who automatically become US citizens daily.

    The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a US territory northeast of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, has been flooded with so-called “birth tourists” since 2009 when then-president Barack Obama introduced a visa-waiver program for Chinese nationals.

    China-watchers estimate about 1,000 companies offer birth tourism to the Northern Mariana Islands, other US overseas territories and even the US mainland. They claim a gob-smacking 1.5 million American babies are being raised in China by Chinese parents who’ve participated in birth tourism.

All of those mothers and babies are subject to the jurisdiction of China, not the U.S., and so none should be considered U.S. citizens. 

    And more chicanery from the enemies of this country: "Left-Wing Activist Group Teaches Liberals How To Get Through Jury Selection and Vote 'Not Guilty' on Trump DOJ Prosecutions, Recordings Show." 

    A left-wing activist group is teaching liberals in Washington, D.C., and "across the United States" how to increase their chances of serving as jurors on cases brought by the Trump Department of Justice so they can undermine its chances of securing convictions, training materials reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

    Freedom Trainers, whose fiscal sponsor is the George Soros-funded group Community Change, is working to make "jury nullification"—the practice of voting against a conviction even if the defendant broke the law—a go-to legal weapon for the Left. Its sessions and training materials, reviewed by the Free Beacon, show how the group teaches "committed people" to gum up federal prosecutions.

     Leftists like to tell themselves that they are making a better society, but they are really just creating a hell on Earth: "*No Shame: The descent of modern society into Depravity." The article begins:

 When did it start? What was the first inkling that what was previously forbidden behavior, was now going to become not only accepted, but celebrated. What happened that now, if you don’t celebrate vulgar, depraved behavior, you are mocked and ridiculed? My guess is this started back in the 1950s and 1960s, with the discovery and heavy marketing of the birth-control pill. That one invention started a cascade of unpleasant changes in society, when sex became detached from procreation. Feminism was the motivator; that every woman was expected to go to college, be launched into the working world, and treat sex not as an act of love leading to marriage and children, but as just good fun, for only one night if she wanted.

The author then draws the line from female promiscuity possible because of the birth control pill and abortion on demand, to homosexual rights, to "gay" marriage, to the transgender movement, and the author's prediction of where it will go from there. 

    Government is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together: "Censored, Dismissed, Confirmed: History of Blood Clots & COVID Vaccine Debate"--Legal Insurrection. Also: "Leaked Report to Federal Advisers Calls for Urgent Recognition of Covid Vaccine Injuries"--Brownstone Institute. An excerpt:

    The report focuses on what it calls Post-Acute Covid-19 Vaccination Syndrome, or PACVS.

    The term refers to symptoms that persist for at least 12 weeks after vaccination and cannot be explained by another medical condition.

    Patients with PACVS often present with complex, multi-system illness. Symptoms may involve the nervous system, the cardiovascular system, the immune system, the endocrine system, and the autonomic nervous system.

    The clinical picture varies widely. Some people develop severe fatigue, cognitive impairment, neuropathy, or dysautonomia.

    Others experience chest pain, immune disturbances, or endocrine problems. Symptoms often fluctuate and evolve over time, making early diagnosis difficult.

    Clinical features frequently overlap with long Covid — including fatigue, cognitive impairment, dysautonomia, neuropathy, chest pain, and immune disturbances.

    Yet many patients fall into a diagnostic no-man’s-land, particularly in the early stages of illness.

    Some eventually meet criteria for recognised conditions such as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), small fibre neuropathy, or ME/CFS.

    But even then, the path to recognition can take years.

    The workgroup argues that these difficulties do not necessarily reflect the absence of disease. Instead, they reflect the limits of the systems used to detect and classify illness. 

VIDEO: ATF Continues To Insist That Pistol Braces Are Illegal

According to the video below, the ATF indicated in a recent court filing that, despite the pistol brace rule being struck down, the reasoning behind the rule was still valid and it still considers pistols with braces to be short barreled rifles.  

VIDEO: "ATF: Pistol Braces Are Felonies AGAIN!"
Tom Grieve (10 min.)

Mars Pyramid?

From the New York Post: "Mysterious ‘three-sided’ pyramid on Mars fuels speculation about advanced alien civilizations." Some good photographs of the feature in the article. It has three sharp ridges leading to the peak, which are fairly straight but not as straight as you would expect from an artificial structure. Unusual, but I doubt it is artificial. 

Weekend Reading #48

Some longer and more involved reading for weekend:

     Combat, the self-defense incident, the criminal violence that you can't talk your way out of, is not like sparring in the Dojo.  It's not like anything we could safely simulate in training.  Striking to do injury is entirely different from working with a training partner at full speed full force, as Ralph Mroz puts it.  Sorry, but that's just reality.  

     So we do the best we can in training with the understanding that combat is different.  It is unlikely that you have ever shit or piss on yourself or vomited or shaken uncontrollably or laughed hysterically during an USPSA match.  So don't delude yourself into thinking that you have placed yourself under stress.  Under the debilitating stress of combat your muscles will tense.  If you survive, you'll be sore for days afterwards, even if there was no injury.  That's how tense your muscles will be under the stress of combat.  (No, it's not like the soreness after running a marathon.  You may get cramps and have to stretch in ways you had never stretch before to get those muscles that you didn't know existed.)  

     Your self-defense instructor should be teaching you how to avoid the lethal force encounter.  That is self-defense.  

     So we do the best we can in training.  Hopefully the training and practice will allow us to avoid panic, avoid freezing.  It might not.  But we do the best we can.  

     If you don't get your perceived optimal outcome, don't beat yourself up.  Don't feel ashamed.  We often cannot control what happens to us.  We often cannot control how we react.  Sometimes different parts of our brain takes over and we are just along for the ride.  [I have heard people say, you can't control what happens to you, but you can always control how you react to it.  Unfortunately, under life threatening stress, that is not always true.  Ya, training can mitigate, but as Sara Ahrens tells us, in the several lethal force incidents that she was involved in while a police officer, she had different and unpredictable reactions to the stress.  Maybe you think you're tougher than she was.  Maybe, but probably not.  That is reality.]  

     I have seen persons running their mouths at full speed, even though they were trained to keep their mouths shut.  Sometimes you lose control of yourself.  Take deep breaths.  Believe that God is with you.  

     I have seen a person beat another into a bloody pulp and continue long after the other was dead.  He just couldn't stop himself.  Stop!  Look around.  Assess the situation, the environment.  There may be other threats.  You don't want to get hit from behind while beating a corpse.   

He has a lot of good linkage and tips/advice, plus a list of upcoming training classes, so read the whole thing. Especially check out the section on "tactics" and "techniques". And, on a note particular to one of my posts from a couple weeks back--"VIDEO: 9mm Ammo Quest Roundup"--I'd noted that the testing in the video (which was 6 years ago) did not include some newer offerings, including the Federal Punch. Jon comments: "I have used and tested the Federal Punch.  I have found it to be reliable.  Much less expensive than the winners of this competition." He's not kidding. I pay $18/box (20 rounds) for the 9mm Punch locally while the prices on the ammo that scored well in the competition is typically hovering around $35/box from what I've seen. I watched a lot of ballistic gelatin tests on the 9mm Punch before starting to invest in it, and it generally performed very well. What you give up with the Punch is performance through hard barriers such as glass or a car door. But that is what makes it less expensive then, say, Federal HST. 

  • Next up is the latest Weekend Knowledge Dump from Active Response Training. Lots of good links, as always (including a few you might have seen here) but the main one I want to direct you to is on eyewitness misidentification and Greg's account of such a mistake that almost sent a man to prison for murder. Some other links that caught my attention in particular:
    • "Things Manufacturers Need to Stop Doing with Shotguns" (mostly looking at the tactical and defensive market) which includes things like too long of length of pull, too small of bolt releases on semi-auto shotguns, poor sights, etc. 
    • "Situational Awareness for Everyday Life." This article is good in that it moves beyond the basic "stay alert" or "pay attention" but, like most situational awareness articles, still fails in that it doesn't describe for what you should be watching or paying attention to. Like pre-attack indicators, common behavior of criminals (including thefts), and so on.
    • And related to situational awareness: "If You Go to Guns You Failed." A reminder that a firearm is a last resort and that if you had to go to your gun, you probably failed in situational awareness or avoidance. 
    • "The Post-Shot Logistics." Some advice on what to do after a shooting.
    • "Canadian Man Fights Moose To Save His Mom." Yelling didn't work. The moose shrugged off a punch to the jaw. It wasn't too impressed with the shovel or the headlock. But the .22 LR finally worked ... after 15 or 16 rounds.  
    • "What’s Wrong With My Grip?" Some tips on why your grip on your weapon may be causing your problems. Not listed, unfortunately, is that your gun just might not fit the shape of your hand. 
These are just articles that were new to me and that I found interesting. There is a lot more, so check it out.

    This type of mess always sorts itself out.  The cure for high prices is default and deflation.  If the market is too far cooked, well, look out below.  The United States doesn’t have magic dirt to turn Somalis into Americans, and houses aren’t magic wealth machines.  When enough locked-in owners and over-leveraged banks finally crack, inventory floods, prices reset, and affordability returns.

    It won’t be pretty.  Foreclosures will spike.  Portfolios will bleed.  Credit markets may lock up.  The Google® searches for “can’t sell my house” will turn into actual sales at prices that make sense again.

    A housing crisis wouldn’t be big for the country, would it?

    Nah. Just trillions in pretend wealth gone, generational transfers halted, and the kind of reset that makes 2008 look like practice.

  • "March, 16-19: diplomatic impunity"--The Burning Platform. A long-time reader of this blog recently shared a couple articles with me, including this one. It covers a lot of ground--mostly the economic consequences of the attacks on oil and gas infrastructure, but it starts off by noting that Israel has over the past two years systematically sabotaged any attempts by the U.S. to negotiate the end of the Iranian nuclear weapons program while also killing anyone with authority to negotiate an end to this current war. And that brings me to the second article that was shared with me--"Things Go Haywire as Israeli Escalation Throws Iran Conflict into Dangerous New Phase" from Simplicius. It notes that Iran's response to the Israeli strike on the South Pars gas field was an attack Qatar’s Ras Laffan gas hub--the largest LNG terminal in the world, apparently. The Israeli attack did not set well with Trump and there are some rumors of a falling out between Trump and Netanyahu. This second article then goes on to discuss the economic fallout. 

    What interests me, though, is this observation:

    Israel is obviously escalating the conflict deliberately in order to ensure no off-ramp exists, and that US—and preferably its Gulf allies—commit to a total and decisive destruction of Iran.

    Israel is doing this via two simultaneous strategies: first by eliminating all the “moderates” and rational people within Iran’s leadership to ensure that only hardliners remain who will push for maximum punishment against the region. And second, by crossing Iran’s “red lines” in hitting its most sensitive economic and energy sites in order to spur Iran’s retaliation against equally critical sites throughout the region to ignite as big a firestorm as possible which can engulf everyone and coerce the entire world into “finishing off” Iran once and for all. 

This agrees with the timeline in the first article of the systematic elimination, by Israel, of anyone with authority to negotiate on behalf of Iran. 

RIP: Chuck Norris Dead At 86

It seems like it should be a sign of the End Times: it has been announced that "Chuck Norris, 'Walker, Texas Ranger' star and martial artist, dies at 86."

Thursday, March 19, 2026

VIDEO: Overview Of New M8 Rifle

Well that was quick. It appears that the M7 is already being shuffled off the stage for an upgraded version: the M8. 

    What upgrades?

    According to the video, the weapon is about 1 lb. lighter than the M7. This was made possible by shortening the barrel from 13 inches to 11 inches; making the handguard lighter by shortening it and removing some material; removing the folding stock feature (so the M8 will just have a collapsible stock); and using a shorter silencer. (There is a thermal cover for the silencer also to reduce thermal signature and prevent contact burns). 

    The weapon is supposed to be slightly more accurate as a result of the shorter (hence, stiffer) barrel, now capable of sub-2 MOA using commercial ammunition. And it will be issued with 25-round magazines instead of the 20-round magazines that are standard now. 

    The downside is that there is some loss of velocity. The SIG representative downplayed this, saying the M8 was an 800 yard rifle. But the M7 had been represented as a 1,000 yard rifle. That seems a significant difference when the primary purpose of the M7 program was to overmatch the Soviet machine guns used by the Taliban.

    It may be that, in the end, this turns out to be a fine weapon. But it feels like we are still in the Beta testing stage.  

 VIDEO: "Did the Army Replace the Sig M7… Already? Meet the New Sig M8"
TFB TV (12 min.)

Richard Mann Tests Four "Apocalypse-Ready" Rifles

Richard Mann is probably the most vocal apologist of Jeff Cooper's Scout Rifle concept in the firearms media. As I've noted before, the Scout Rifle concept seemed to have grown out of Cooper's own thoughts on the ideal post-SHTF survivalist rifle. So it always catches my attention when Mann delves into the topic of survivalist or prepping rifles--a fun topic even if (we hope) it is theoretical. 

    In any event, I recently came across a 2018 article that Mann wrote for Shooting Illustrated entitled "4 Apocalypse-Ready Rifles: Which One is Best?" The four rifles considered are: (i) Century Arms RAS47 (i.e., a pretty stock AKM style rifle) shooting, of course, 7.62x39mm; (ii) a Marlin 336 lever action in .30-30 Win.; (iii) a Savage 110 Scout, a bolt-action rifle shooting .308 Win. from a 10-round detachable box magazine; and (iv) a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 shooting 5.56 NATO, representing a fairly stock AR with a 16-inch barrel. Each of the rifles mounted some form of optic: the AK had a red-dot while the other three rifles all had a magnified rifle scope. 

    Mann devised a course of fire to test the weapons which he describes:

    By running the rifles through this course, I compared their friendliness and effectiveness. There were five stages, and at each I conducted a snap shot on a torso target and a precision shot on a 6-inch target. Engagement distance varied from 60 to 160 yards, and time stopped when both targets had been hit.

    On stage one, I engaged the targets across-cab, while seated in a UTV. For stage two I exited the UTV, kneeled and used its hood for support. Stage three started standing, before engaging the targets from the prone position. For stage four, I moved from standing to sitting, and at the last stage, both shots were fired standing, using a tree for support. Ten hits were required to clean the course and scoring was simple. Both targets had to be hit to stop the clock at each stage. I added total shots fired to the total time, and the lower the number, the better the rifle and I performed. Additionally, three, three-shot groups were fired with each rifle from a sandbag rest at 100 yards. In total, 100 rounds were fired with each carbine.

Unsurprising, the AR scored the best at 49.23. Interestingly, though, because of its limited magazine capacity requiring it to be topped off, the lever action had an almost identical score to the AR at 49.45. There was a 9 second jump to the score for the bolt action rifle--58.68. And the AK finished last at 65.93 although, Mann pointed out, "the lack of magnification made precision shots challenging". He also made some general comments that expanded on this:

Most notable [of points that don't show up in the raw scores] was the inferiority of the red-dot sight. For snap-shooting it was fast, but hindered the ability to deliver precision shots with speed. This was partly due to the lack of magnification, but also due to the optic’s inability to deal with varied light conditions. On a pristine range these sights can work like magic; in the field—woods—they can be problematic. Had the AK been fitted with a magnified optic, it would likely have performed on par with the others. The red dot is also battery powered, which may not be wise for a rifle kept in storage until the world happens to fall apart. 

On the other hand, in a course geared more at CQB (and even the shortest distance in this course was beyond what is generally considered CQB) the red dot probably would have been at its best. He used a very inexpensive red dot, as well, and I have to wonder if a different red dot with different features might have worked better.  

    Mann has some more points that he raises concerning each rifle and other topics such as ammunition, appropriateness for different locations or environments, whether the speed differences are really that determinative, and when you might want a more powerful rifle than the 5.56 (or 7.62x39, for that matter), so be sure to read the whole thing.  

IDF Attacks Iran's Largest Natural Gas Infrastructure

Yesterday, it was reported that Israel had struck the South Pars gas field--the largest natural gas field in the world--notwithstanding that Trump has previously told Israel to not attack the oil and gas infrastructure in Iran. From the Institute for the Study of War (footnotes omitted):

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck Iran’s most important energy infrastructure, including facilities linked to the South Pars natural gas field and the Asaluyeh processing hub in Bushehr Province on March 18. These facilities are central to Iran’s domestic natural gas supply and broader energy system, which supports a significant portion of Iran’s economic activity and regime revenue. Iran consumes roughly 94 percent of its natural gas production internally, according to data by the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, meaning disruptions will primarily strain domestic supply. Damage to these facilities will likely disrupt Iran’s electricity generation capacity, given their role in supplying fuel to the power sector. Over 90 percent of Iran’s electricity is generated by gas-powered thermal plants. Israeli media reported on March 18 that the strikes reportedly damaged up to one-fifth of Iran’s gas processing capacity. Israel previously struck Iranian energy infrastructure, including gas processing facilities linked to the South Pars field and the Fajr-e Jam Gas Refinery in Bushehr Province, during the June 2025 Israel-Iran War.     

Iran, in turn, "retaliated with attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure, including a missile strike on Qatar's Ras Laffan, one of the world's largest liquefied natural gas export terminals." 

    Trump apparently posted on his Truth Social account that Israel had attacked the gas field "out of anger," that the United States and Qatar had no knowledge of the attack, and Israel had promised to make no more attacks on the gas field; but, he also warned, if there were any more attacks on Qatar, the U.S. will "massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field...." The AP reports, however, that the Administration did have foreknowledge of the attack:

The United States was informed about Israel’s plans to strike Iran’s massive South Pars natural gas field, but did not take part in it, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, would not say if the Trump administration agreed with the Israeli decision to attack the gas field — part of the world’s largest such resource and a pillar of Iran’s energy supplies. 

All this must be taken with a grain of salt, though, as the AP is not the most reliable of sources when it comes to reporting on Trump and unnamed sources could just be some buddy of the reporter who has a friend, who knows a guy, who ... well, you get the idea. 

    In other news, it is being reported that Israel has closed holy sites within Old Jerusalem, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre which, tradition states, marks the tomb where Christ was interned after His crucifixion and where His resurrection occurred. Although there are reports stating that this is unprecedented and has never happened before, this is incorrect: a similar closure occurred in June 2025 when Israel and Iran were fighting. The church/shrine has been destroyed several times over its history as well. The Church is very important for several Christian denominations, including the Greek Orthodox, for Easter celebrations and worship, so there is an effort to convince Israel to at least allow some limited access to the church for Easter. 

    The problem is that once a government shuts down a church or shuts down worship for an emergency, it becomes easier to justify doing the same subsequently--the whole camel's nose in the tent. 

Minnesota Politicians Killed Government Program To Forestall Investigations?

 Stephen Green at PJ Media reports on something extraordinary. In 2017, Minnesota had figured out another way to siphon money from American taxpayers and passed a law authorizing a Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program, which program went into effect in 2020 once approval had been obtained from the Federal government. As Green relates, "HSS was one of those innocuous-sounding and ostensibly well-meaning programs purportedly meant to, as the Minnesota Prairie County Alliance put it, 'help people with disabilities, including mental illness and substance use disorder, and seniors find and keep housing.'" This, as we've learned through sad experience, is just Lefty speak for fraud and embezzlement. And sure enough, the program which in 2020 was estimated would only cost $2.5 million had ballooned to over $100 million by 2024.

    But a local news affiliate--KARE 11--began investigating the program "ultimately uncovering widespread fraud that included questionable billing, bribes, falsifying of records, and even billing for dead clients." 

The state that threw untold millions of education dollars at Somali-run "Learing Centers" also saw a greater than 40-fold increase in Medicare money at a housing program that "led to several criminal indictments of accused fraudsters, including two Philadelphia men who pleaded guilty to starting businesses in the state and enrolling in the program because it seemed like a 'good opportunity to make money.'"   

But here is the weird part:

"Minnesota House unanimously passes bill to remove Housing Stabilization Services from state statute." Similar legislation is moving forward in the state senate, and Walz is expected to sign it. 

As Green comments, "[i]t's probably safe to assume that the real motivation is to forestall any investigation into who got what out of all those defrauded millions." 

If The Intelligence Community Can't Be Trusted It Is A Liability

From Just The News: "US intel hid Chinese 2020 election meddling from Trump because they opposed his policies, memo says." From the article:

    Analysts inside the U.S. intelligence community sought to conceal evidence of Chinese influence efforts from President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, with analysts saying they didn’t want their intel used by “that vulgarian in the Oval Office” to pursue policies toward China they personally disagreed with.

    The revelation is found within a January 2021 report written by — and never before reported upon comments by — analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf, who conducted a review of the spy community’s handling of Russian versus Chinese meddling efforts during the 2020 election. Among his conclusions was that intelligence analysts downplayed China’s actions because they had disdain for the “vulgarian” Trump and did not want to support the policies and priorities of the Trump administration toward China with which they “personally disagree.”

In other words, no matter their excuses, they were acting (or failing to act) in order to preserve Chinese influence over U.S. elections, placing them into the category of domestic enemies. The article continues:

    This is not the only piece of evidence pointing to Chinese government election influence efforts in the 2020 election. Although much about China’s activities in 2020 remains classified, Just the News conducted a thorough review of publicly-available intelligence assessments, federal indictments, foreign government warnings, and cybersecurity firm analyses.

    There is credible evidence that Chinese government-linked cyber hackers and Chinese social media troll farms took aim at the U.S. presidential election in 2020 and sought to undercut Trump during his run against now-former President Biden. There are also indicators that Chinese intelligence and law enforcement agencies — China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) and its Ministry of Public Security (MPS) — also played a role in 2020. 

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

More Abuse Of The H1B Visa Program

Instapundit has linked to a couple posts from X noting that Amazon received 10,044 H1B visa approvals in 2025 while at the same time laying off 14,000 American employees.  One of the X posts also indicates that 71% of those H1B visas went to Indian nationals. However, that is old news as Amazon was letting go another 15,000 corporate jobs in January 2026 with the stated goal of not growing its American workforce. On top of that, as the video explains below, Amazon is investing tens of billions in India. 

 VIDEO: "Amazon Just Replaced 30,000 Americans with $75B in Indian Labor (And No One Noticed)"
Dr. Josh C. Simmons (12 min.)

HR Funk: Should You Have A Carry Rotation?

Having regularly carried a concealed handgun for almost 30 years, I have to agree with Funk's assessment. 

There are those that maintain that you should carry the same gun in the same manner all the time. This makes sense on a theoretical level because all your training and practice are aimed at that same setup; and so you will exhibit a greater proficiency and won't suffer any momentary confusion about where is your gun or differences in operation should you have to use it. But this often breaks down in a real world because different seasons, different clothes, different environments, different threats, etc., change what, where and how you can carry a gun upon your person. The most basic is seasonal changes between cold weather (which makes it easier to carry larger handguns) and warmer weather with more abbreviated clothing. It can also change between work and more casual settings (e.g., business attire or a uniform at work versus casual clothes in the evening or weekend) or activities (e.g., gym or exercise, regular everyday activities, the late night run to the convenience store, hiking or hunting in bear country, etc.). And I'll admit that there are times when civil unrest was widespread when I opted for something more powerful or with greater magazine capacity. 

The closest I came to having the same gun and same carry method all the time was for the years that I carried a 5-shot snub nose revolver almost all the time, whether under a suit coat or sports jacket during the work week or a loose button up shirt at other times. This set up also worked well for several years when carrying my Beretta 84 in a shoulder holster. I would sometimes carry different weapons, but I probably carried the J-frame or, later, the Beretta, about 90% of the time. Now I tend to have one handgun that I typically carry at work and another handgun that I use when dressed casually. Again, however, these two handguns and the methods I use to carry them suffice for 90% or more of the time.

Funks assessment, and I've this echoed by other gun writers and trainers, is that a carry rotation dictated by circumstances such as I've outlined above are acceptable, but it is unwise and counterproductive to change up guns based simply on mood or for the sake of carrying different weapons.  

VIDEO: "Should You Have a Carry Rotation?"
hrfunk (8 min.)

Second Amendment Foundation Victory Against Post Office Carry Ban

From the Second Amendment Foundation: "SAF WIN: POST OFFICE CARRY BAN INJUNCTION COVERS CURRENT AND FUTURE MEMBERS" (h/t Anonymous Conservative). The Feds had tried to limit the injunction to only those members of the SAF at the time the suit was filed, but the judge held that it applies to future members of the SAF as well. 

Judge Boasberg Continues To Protect Deep State

NPR reports that Judge James Boasberg has quashed grand jury subpoenas issued as part of an investigation into cost overruns in the construction of a new headquarters for the Federal Reserve because "Orange Man Bad"

Harvard To Focus More On Recruiting Jews

From the Washington Free Beacon: "Harvard to Recruit at Jewish Day Schools After Study Finds Steep Decline in Jewish Enrollment." Maybe Harvard should instead focus on recruiting from the pool of National Merit Finalists representing the top high school students. But they won't because that would mean letting in more white Christians. 

Auto Thefts in Minneapolis Up 34% During First 2 Months of 2026

Tim Walz and his fellow Minnesota Democrats continue their efforts to destroy the United States. The key part of the article is this (bold added):

"If you want fewer stolen cars, you need more officers, proactive policing, prosecutors willing to act, and a juvenile system with the capacity to intervene before these kids become career criminals," [retired Minnesota State Patrol Lt. John] Nagel said, referencing the understaffed Minneapolis Police Department that has been severely understaffed since losing 40% of its ranks after the death of George Floyd in 2020  

Walz, however, blames ICE operations for the increase in thefts.  

Nick Shirley Turns His Eyes On California

Nick Shirley, who uncovered the Minnesota/Somali daycare fraud has released a video on X describing what he has uncovered in California. He states in his X post: "We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences." It looks like he has uncovered more "learing" centers. 

Intersectionality Strikes Two Women On NYC Sidewalk

According to the New York Post, a woman named Mahamuda Akter rammed her taxi into two women standing on a sidewalk in front of a bodega

    Chilling footage captured the runaway cab barreling into pedestrians — sending both of them to the hospital — and then smashing through a Lower East Side bodega at around 2:45 p.m., authorities said.

    “I was putting lipstick on the sidewalk and suddenly a taxi rammed into us out of nowhere,” graphic designer Millicent Faber, 24, who was hurled onto the sidewalk, told The Post on Sunday.
 

The article indicates that both of Faber's legs were broken in the crash. Her friend suffered a broken back and concussion. Watching the video, it is amazing that they weren't killed. The Mohammad coefficient is 100% so one has to wonder if there isn't more to this story. 

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Rifle Setup And Use

Modern Tactical Shooting's video on "Best AR15 setup and Tactical Loadout for the prepared civilian" recently popped up on my YouTube recommendations. The video is from the perspective of civilian self-defense against two-legged predators or, if you live in a rural setting, protecting livestock. In other words, a defensive rifle, not a hunting rifle or "survival" rifle. Which makes sense since the author's background is special operations during the global war on terror (GWOT). 

    The host's focus is on the AR15 in 5.56 NATO/.223 since that is the most popular rifle for defensive use. He opens by discussing the best barrel length. His pick is a 14.5" (with a pin and welded muzzle device to bring it up to the legal 16") which he believes gives you the best balance between maneuverability and muzzle velocity. He does not believe you need more than 16" (i.e., a 20-inch) because it is becomes too unwieldy; and he believes that the shorter 10.5 or 11.5 inch barrels are more problematic both from legal reasons (it either must be an SBR or in a pistol configuration) and due to blast (he recommends not using these shorter lengths unless you have a suppressor). Nevertheless, he admits that most of the rifles he shoots have 16-inch barrels. 

    He also discusses bullet weights with his conclusion being that you should shoot what you can afford even if it is 55-grain (although he gives a nod to the 62-grain green tip because of its better ability to penetrate automobiles).  

     He also provides some thoughts on optics including a discussion of a realistic distances for self-defense and the distances at which you are practicing, with his final conclusion being that most people are going to be fine using a red-dot. He also gives some tips on using a red dot out to 500 yards. 

    He then goes into a discussion of plate carriers and chest rigs and why some of the setups he used in GWOT didn't work so well for his work as a civilian contractor and probably would not be the best choice for the home defender. He has some recommendations for something low-key.  

    The host was inspired to make his video after watching "How to use your Rifle In Combat" from the Echo Mike YouTube channel, which I've also embedded below.   

VIDEO: "Best AR15 setup and Tactical Loadout for the prepared civilian."
Modern Tactical Shooting (26 min.)

 

VIDEO: "How to use your Rifle In Combat"
Echo Mike (34 min.)

TFB: An AR-15 Maintenance Schedule

The Firearms Blog has posted an article entitled "AR-15 Maintenance Schedule: Complete Guide" that provides some guidelines based around time and/or round-count for cleaning, inspections, and replacing parts. The author goes over things to do: (i) wipe down the gun and check for lubrication after every range session; (ii) a good cleaning and inspection every 500 - 1000 rounds; (iii) a more detailed inspection and maintenance every 2000 - 5000 rounds; and (iv) annual or seasonal maintenance you should perform no matter how much or how little you have used your rifle. On the latter point, the author explains:

Oil migrates and evaporates. A rifle stored for months might be bone dry even if you oiled it before putting it away. Check for rust in the bore, chamber, BCG, which are most vulnerable, especially in humid areas.      

This is why I've noted before that if you are storing a firearm long term you should use wax (or at least grease) instead of an oil. In any event, continuing with the annual or seasonal maintenance, the author suggests this is a good time to also check that your castle nut is properly staked and hasn't loosened, that the optic and handguard are tight and haven't loosened, and verify timing and torque of muzzle devices. 

    The article also goes over some warning signs that something may be wrong and a couple myths related to maintenance. I was a little disappointed that he repeated a long held myth that the gaps in the gas rings must be offset from one another. (See, e.g., this video: "Smyth Busters: Debunking an AR-15 Myth - Gas Ring Alignment" from Brownells). Finally, he notes that the AR works best when "wet"--well lubed--while a clean but "dry" gun will almost certainly have problems cycling. 

Some Diversity News

    Federal authorities say 11 Indian nationals were charged in a scheme to stage armed robberies at convenience stores and restaurants so participants could falsely claim to be crime victims when applying for immigration benefits.

    The defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.

    Prosecutors allege the scheme centered on fake robberies designed to help clerks or store owners seek U visas, a form of immigration relief available to certain victims of serious crimes who assist law enforcement.

In other words, the illegals from India--part of the Patel clan--would fake or stage robberies at the store where they worked then offer to assist law enforcement as "witnesses" in order to qualify for the special visas issues to such witnesses. If you go to the bottom of the article, you will see that all defendants have the "Patel" surname. On this point, Breitbart points out: "Several of the migrants are part of the extended network of Patel families living in the United States, many illegally, who have been linked to a series of crimes." The Breitbart article adds:

    The U Visa program has been rife with fraud and abuse.

    The program, launched by Congress in 2000, was meant as an aid to law enforcement and was thought of as a unique way to solve crimes in the migrant community that would otherwise go unsolved, mostly due to a lack of cooperation among witnesses and victims in that community.

    The program allowed illegals — both victims and witnesses — to work with police to solve crimes by coming forward with tips and information on serious crimes. After working with police, the program allowed illegals to gain legal standing based on their assistance to law enforcement. But instead of helping police solve crimes, the program has become a burden replete with massive fraud, frivolous applications, and misuse. 

    With its study, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found that upwards of 416,000 petitions have been filed by migrants and most are simply granted the generous benefits in the program outright whether they actually helped police or not, despite that the program is supposed to only allow 10,000 applications annually.

    Police agencies across the country have been flooded with hundreds of thousands of often fake applications filled with false information about non-existent crimes. In some cases, these mountains of false applications have forced police to spend a plethora of man hours to investigate the claims in the applications to separate the proper applications from the fraudulent ones. 
   

What most Americans do not understand is that lying and cheating is acceptable in almost all non-Western countries--there is no stigma attached to it. That ingrained behavior and culture does not go away simply because the person steps onto the "magic dirt" in the West. 

“There’s a group of about 12 individuals that have reported this assault,” one mother told 7News. “It was all perpetrated by a single individual who is a stranger to the girls. He just sneakily walked up behind them and put his hand in between their legs. It was not just a butt smack or a butt grab. It was a groping of a private area. It had been occurring for several months.” 

    Despite being almost 19 years old, Ortiz was studying in the 11th grade. 

    He entered the country illegally in 2024 from El Salvador, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  

    However, following his arrest, Ortiz was not deported and was instead released by the Biden administration.  

    Now, despite the allegations against him, the Fairfax County Sheriff's Department, headed by Sheriff Stacey Kinkaid, has rejected requests by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for a detainer to place him in ICE custody.  

Another article indicates that the school district is planning on readmitting Ortiz as a student once he is released from jail. The only bright point out of all this is that the judge refused to release Ortiz on bail even after prosecutors agreed because the bail request did not adequately protect the public.  

    An illegal alien truck driver has been accused of causing a crash that left a U.S. citizen in critical condition in Indianapolis, Indiana.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 25-year-old Sukhdev Singh and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the illegal alien had a commercial driver’s license (CDL) that was issued by the state of New York. 

And then there is this bit: "Federal investigators found that New York’s DMV systems defaulted to issuing eight‑year CDLs even when immigration documents expired in months, ...."

Trump's Strategy

An interesting piece at The Hill, authored by Scott Taylor, explains Trump's overall strategy. In a nutshell:

    The post-1945 liberal international order is gone. When the Napoleonic order, the Victorian order and the colonial order were replaced, it was never effected by a smooth baton-transfer. Rather, conflict, chaos, and dominance of world powers created the new rules. The American-led post World War Two order produced the longest peace in modern history without great power conflict. The rules on trade, finance, military alliances and nuclear deterrence held because the referee, America, held the biggest stick and the credibility to use it.

    But that order, already fraying for decades, has now fully dissolved. Trump didn’t destroy it — rather, he came to power because it was already over.

    The question before us now is not whether a new order will arise — one always must. The question is who will write its rules. Trump arrived at the world order’s dissolution as a willing and decisive actor, taking the steps of a nation that intends to write the next world order the same way it wrote the last one. If his actions seem confusing, just consider that every single one of his moves over the last year has been about making sure America is the one holding the pen. 
   

He's probably correct that the post-WWII liberal international order is over. But that itself was a transitional stage between the European-based world order before WWII and ... whatever is coming. When the U.S. stepped in during WWII and after, it still represented Western Civilization  as a member of the Anglosphere even if it not exactly European. But now what is the U.S.? We are late-stage Rome overrun by peoples from beyond our borders and ruled over by a cosmopolitan elite that have no interest in preserving either the culture or the native peoples. To the Ruling Class, we are interchangeable economic units. Can a unified culture come out of that? Perhaps, but I think not. 

Monday, March 16, 2026

Israel May Mobilize 450,000 Reservists

From the Middle Easter Monitor: "Israel to mobilise 450,000 reservists as ground operation in Lebanon considered." From the article:

    Israel’s government may soon approve a large mobilisation of military reservists, with plans to call up about 450,000 troops, the country’s public broadcaster reported on Sunday.

    The broadcaster said it had learned that the move is part of military preparations for the war and the possible launch of a ground operation in Lebanon. It did not cite a source for the information.

    According to the report, the Israeli military and security agencies has already submitted the request for mobilisation. The proposal is expected to be presented soon to government ministers and members of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee for approval. 

Wilder: The Oil Shock of 2026

John Wilder has some thoughts about the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz on oil prices and the economy in general in his latest piece at Wilder Wealthy & Wise. He warns:

When the price jumps it acts like a stealth tax on every single human activity that involves moving atoms around.  We’ve already seen Brent crude north of $120 a barrel, with whispers of $150 if this drags on.  Groceries will cost more because trucks burn fuel.  Manufacturing grinds slower because inputs skyrocket.  Even that Amazon® package shows up later and at a higher price.    

Read the whole thing.  

Ted Cruz Says "Christ Is King" Shouldn't Be Used Because It Is Antisemitic

From the Daily Mail: "Ted Cruz sparks outrage as he claims the phrase 'Christ is King' is antisemitic." He instead would like people to use praises to "teddy bear Jesus":

    Cruz said he never heard the phrase at church while growing up, proposing other alternatives.

    'We would say things like "Jesus loves you, Jesus saves",' Cruz said.

    The GOP lawmaker added that 'Christ is King' appeared to have originated from the internet.

    'Christ is King is a phrase that seems to have originated online,' Cruz said. 'It summoned kind of the groyper folks. It almost sort of invokes images of the crusade that in the name of Jesus, we will conquer everyone else in a way that I don't think is right or biblical. ' 
    

The phrase is not a creation of the Internet. Christ's kingship shows up in the New Testament, including in Luke 1:31-33 where Mary is told she will bear a son who will take the throne of David. Revelation 17:14 specifically declares Christ to be King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. As Wikipedia notes, "The concept of Christ as king was the subject of an address given by Eusebius about AD 314. Depictions of the imperial Christ arise in the later part of the 4th century. Christ Pantokrator ('Ruler of All') is one of the most common religious icons of Orthodox Christianity." Moving to more modern times, Wikipedia also notes that "[t]he liturgical feast 'Christ the King' was formally instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 through the encyclical Quas primas" in "response to rising secularism, atheism, and nationalism in the aftermath of World War I, with the first celebration occurring on October 31, 1926." 

    So it is not like "Christ is King" or similar is not supported by scripture or previously extolled by Christians. Rather, Cruz's objection to people proclaiming that Christ is King is that it might offend Jews. It is in that sense that he finds it "antisemitic". Yet Christ has warned us: "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." Matt. 10:33. 

Paul Ehrlich - Good Riddance

Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, died last Friday, March 13, 2026. His ideas of a world population growing too large for the carrying capacity of the Earth had been disproved before he was born. The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus had made similar predictions in his 1798 publication, An Essay on the Principle of Population. But even at the time Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, demographers already knew its basic premise was false: fertility rates had already significantly declined in Western countries, and, as Steven Hayward notes:

As it happened, Ehrlich’s book appeared right at the peak year for world fertility, which has been falling precipitously ever since. Now the most pressing population problem is that fertility rates have fallen so fast that in a century or less from now, falling global population may be one of humanity’s most pressing problems. (For example, if South Korea’s fertility rate, already far below replacement level, keeps falling, the last South Korean will be born about 30 years from now.)

But Ehrlich's ideas--memes in the truest sense of the word--were swallowed hook, line, and sinker by policy wonks and elites. As Noah Rothman discusses at the National Review, Ehrlich convinced many in the West to forego having children, and informed government programs to sterilize women:

“The large number of sterilizations began in earnest in 1966, when Medicaid came into existence and funded the operation for low-income people,” the author Angela Franks wrote. Indeed, by 1977, “up to one-quarter” of Native American women had undergone sterilization, she wrote. A program of “voluntary” sterilization of Puerto Rican women in the 1960s unfolded similarly. By 1965, about one-third of Puerto Rican women surveyed admitted to undergoing a sterilization procedure amid the efforts of the U.S. government and the International Planned Parenthood Federation to promote the practice. 

The sterilization programs are still used to beat white Americans about the head as if it were our fault instead of representing the policies of the liberals in government. For instance, the Navajo detective series Dark Winds, produced by George R.R. Martin and, until his death, Robert Redford, repeatedly bring up the practice to guilt the audience.  

6 Years Anniversary of "15 Days to Slow the Spread"

Instapundit reminds readers that it was 6 years ago that Trump announced "15 days to slow the spread", masterminded by Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, neither of which have yet to be arrested or charged with their crimes against humanity. I've previously pointed out that WWI was the moment the great European powers figuratively committed suicide. The COVID shutdowns were the same for the United States--a form of national suicide. 

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Gun & Prepping News #72

 Just some gun and prepping related links that I thought interesting or useful:

    While crude explosives date to ancient China, the English Friar Roger Bacon is credited with the first description of gunpowder in 1249. Rudimentary firearms soon followed. From the 14th century to the late 19th century, black powder furnished the high-pressure gas that hurled all manner of projectiles, from rocks to jacketed bullets, at animals and adversaries. Its varied blends of fuel and oxidants all contained saltpeter (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulfur. In 1846, an Italian, Ascanio Subrero, discovered nitroglycerine. A clear, oxygen-rich solution of nitric and sulfuric acids plus glycerin, “nitro” could quickly rearrange itself into stable gases. No need for spark; a bump would set it off. In 1863, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel and his father, Emmanuel Nobel, learned how to put this volatile, explosive compound in cans. Still, it punished inattention. In 1875, after it leveled Nobel’s German factory, Alfred developed the relatively docile Dynamite.

    By then, the Swiss chemist Christian Schoenbein had discovered that cotton treated with sulfuric and nitric acids burned so fast, it turned to ash without igniting its bed of black powder! Efforts to throttle it and carelessness proved costly. John Hall’s guncotton plant in Faversham, England blew up. Stateside, German immigrant Carl Dittmar lost his New Sporting Powder factory to an explosion that erased much of Binghampton, New York. Some accidents tallied more victims than survivors.

    In the 1890s black powder gave way to nitrocellulose-based smokeless. Single-base propellants contained no nitroglycerin. England’s cordite, named for its spaghetti-like strands, was initially a double-base powder, with guncotton, nitroglycerin, petroleum jelly and acetone. Addition of nitroguanidine in the 1930s made it a “triple-base.” 

 The rest of the article is about modern powder developments. 

  • "Building a Backwoods Carry Kit"--The Armory Life. Because it is a gun blog, the first half of the article is, of course, about what handgun the author carries--a Springfield XD-M Elite OSP 10mm--and the belt and holsters (he also includes a chest holster) he uses to carry it. But the latter half of the article goes over other gear he carries: a basic med kit for traumatic injuries; a tactical flashlight and a headlamp; a knife and multitool; an Exotac FireROD V2 Ferro Rod, supplemented with waterproof tinder and lighters; a Grayl GeoPress Purifier (he carries both the titanium and the regular model); compass, cell phone, and a portable power bank to recharge the phone; and, finally, a Grayl Mission EXP Daypack into which he can pack everything.
  • On a related note, a 2022 article from Cheaper Than Dirt on "Best Guns and Gear for Hiking." The author writes:

    I have been hiking, camping, and hunting practically all of my life. I suppose the term “spelunking” might also apply to some of the caverns I’ve traversed. I have usually had a firearm with me, unless I was overseas, and generally not felt in any danger from assaults. The weather, injury, and cold are more likely to be a danger.

    Just the same, there have been times when I was glad to have a firearm. Beginning the research on this report, I found only a dozen or so murders along the Appalachian Trail during the past 45 years. That isn’t many, but is pretty important if you are the one at risk, and there are many more trails and open areas around the country, including the Adirondacks and the Rockies.

Firearms While Hiking?

    There is cause for concern. As an example, one of the sick monsters I read about during my research shot two men on the trail and is now out of prison after 15 years. If that isn’t motivation for you to carry a firearm, I don’t know what is.

    Folks traveling in pairs have been killed. In a particularly tragic case not far from my home, a young woman was murdered by a dangerous ex-con. The woman was skilled in martial arts. Her dog was later found wandering the trail. While a canine is an excellent warning system or alarm, very few are useful for protection, and if they are formidable against humans they are often too dangerous to have around the family. A hardened human can kick a 60-pound dog to death, and you as well. That leaves us with the firearm. We’ll also look at other means of protection.
 

And there is always the possibility of stumbling across other criminal enterprises in the woods or remote areas. And its not just people you have to worry about: there is the possibility of bear attacks, increasing numbers of attacks by mountain lions, and I just saw a video recently made by a man walking his dog along a trail who encountered a pack (!) of coyotes, where about four of the coyotes pushed forward along the trail causing the man to retreat and then they suddenly encountered 3 or more that had circled around behind them. 

More:

VIDEO: Tips For Ruckers

Some recent information/recommendations as to boots and socks, shirts and underwear, issues with belts and a suggested alternative belt, and backpacks. Then the video moves onto advice or techniques for actual movement/rucking, and training. This is aimed at those getting ready for a selection course, but the author notes that a lot of the equipment is starting to come from the ultralight hunting gear companies. 

VIDEO: "How to Move with a Pack / Ruck / Backpack | and Why You Should Toss Your Belt"
Eighteen Arrows (12 min.)

VIDEO: "Use Of Fire" (1943)

This is a British WWII training film that is on the use of fire for a squad or platoon. Although it does tend to focus on using the Bren Gun (the unit's automatic rifle) it covers topics of use to infantry style combat generally such as shooting from cover, dead zones and how to overcome them by shooting from a height, the beaten zone from firing and how it changes due to the terrain, and the basics of fire and maneuver. It also discusses using fire to signal, to determine the location of the enemy, and suppressing an enemy attempting to move under concealment of smoke. And the important issue of initiative of fire and how to gain (or regain) initiative. 

 VIDEO: "Use of Fire (1943) | British Army Infantry Weapons & Bren Gun Training Film"
Militaria Collectors Network (24 min.)

For My LDS Readers: Updated Signs Of The Times Based On "God's Chiasmus"

This is a video from the Gospel Lessons YouTube channel, which I've linked to before because of his studies on end-time prophecy. But this one represents a new theory to figure out the sequence of the signs of times based on what the host calls "God's Chiasmus"--his hypothesis that the signs of the end times reflect key events in the Old Testament in a chiasmus type structure.  

The host speaks slowly, so I would recommend speeding this up to 1.25x playback in your YouTube settings.

 VIDEO: "Last Days Signs of the Times in Exact Order According to God's Chiasmus"
Gospel Lessons (52 min.)

Saturday, March 14, 2026

VIDEO: What Is Between Concealed Carry And Full Battle Rattle?

Yes, I know that this guy is a modern day Brown Shirt who probably dreams of sending conservative Christians to gulags or concentration camps. But there are a couple reasons to watch this video: (i) to get an idea of how the OPFOR is thinking; and (ii) he has some ideas worth considering on weapons and kit to carry that lie between standard everyday concealed carry and a full combat/security load out. And it is not just a single jump, but various increments about what to carry. I would probably make some different choices--e.g., I wouldn't trust a tricked out P365 in a PDW chassis--but at least watch and think about what you agree with or what you would do differently.  

As a side note, take a close look at the rifle he has for the full combat load.  It makes use of the KE Arms KP-15, a monolithic polymer receiver, that was part of the "what would Stoner do" rifle that Karl Kasarda ("In Range") and Ian McCollum ("Forgotten Weapons") worked on.  Kasarda runs tactical training classes for Leftists.  

 VIDEO: "What's Between Concealed Carry & Full Tactical Kit?"
Black Flag Civilian (25 min.)

CIA Going After Tucker Carlson Again

Tucker Carlson has learned that the CIA has been spying on him in order to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department. Is this an indication that Tucker has too much influence to not be under government and/or Israeli control? 

 VIDEO: "We Discovered the CIA Is Reading Our Texts to Frame Us for a Crime"
Tucker Carlson (5 min.)

U.S. Planning On Seizing Kharg Island?

The Cappy Army YouTube channel has a good video (below) providing background on Kharg Island and why it is key to Iran's oil industry and, therefore, Iranian government finances. Essentially, though, Iran does not have deep water harbors needed for handling the large oil tankers. But Kharg Island has deep water around it that make it ideal for loading large oil tankers, and it is close to some large oil fields. So it has become the most significant hub for exporting oil--some 90% of Iran's oil exports pass through Kharg Island.

    Iran recognizes that the island would be a tempting target. Thus, the island is well protected with air defense missile batteries and troops--or it was. Because the U.S. has destroyed more than 90 military targets on the island.  "The strike ​destroyed naval mine storage facilities, ‌missile ⁠storage bunkers, and multiple other military sites, the U.S. military said in ​a post ​on ⁠X."

    My guess is that this is preparatory to sending in Marines to take the island. Cappy thinks that Delta Force will be used and discusses how they could use helicopters to land units there. That is a possibility, but Navy Seals could also be delivered to the proximity of the island by submarine. In any event, though, their purpose would not be to take the island, but remove impediments to a Marine landing or bringing in other troops. This would match with reports that 2,500 Marines and a landing ship have been deployed to the area from the Pacific. However, reports indicate that the ship is still a week out from arriving in the region. 

    The advantage to seizing the island would be to avoid an oil shock that would result from the facilities being destroyed, but remove the island for Iranian control. Of course, Israel might see things differently--they would probably like to cripple Iran's oil industry to keep the nation from rebuilding its military capabilities and would not care if it caused an oil shock to the rest of the world.  

VIDEO: "Delta Force Prepares to Capture Kharg Island"
Cappy Army (20 min.)

Hope You Didn't Get The COVID Shot

From Focal Points: "BREAKING STUDY: COVID-19 'Vaccination' Linked to 6,800% Higher Odds of Debilitating Autoimmune Muscle Disease." An excerpt:

     A new study titled Association Between COVID-19 Vaccination and Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Review and Case Series Report reports a powerful safety signal linking COVID-19 vaccination to polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR)—a debilitating autoimmune inflammatory disorder characterized by severe muscle pain and systemic inflammation.

[snip] 

     Polymyalgia rheumatica primarily affects adults over age 50 and can leave patients with crippling shoulder, neck, and hip pain, profound morning stiffness, fatigue, and elevated inflammatory markers. Many patients require long-term corticosteroid therapy to control symptoms.

Scientists Make A Form Of Aluminum That Can Act As A Catalyst

Popular Mechanics reports on a new form of aluminum that could replace platinum and palladium as a catalyst:

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, a team of scientists from King’s College London and Trinity College Dublin describe a new kind of aluminum called “cyclotrialumane,” which features a three-aluminum-atom compound arranged in a trimeric (a.k.a. triangular) structure. With its strong reactivity and ability to hold up when dissolved in different solutions, this new aluminum could be a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to typical catalysts, which usually hail from the platinum group metals (PGMs, a special subset of transition metals) of the periodic table. 

Friday, March 13, 2026

Marine Expeditionary Unit Being Deployed To Middle-East

The Daily Mail is reporting that "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth approved a request by US Central Command for the deployment of a Marine expeditionary unit, typically including several warships and 5,000 troops, three officials told the Wall Street Journal." "The Japan-based USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault ship, and its attached Marines are now headed for the Middle East," the article adds.

Weekend Reading #47

 Some longer and more involved reading for weekend:

  •  Up first, as is generally the case, is Greg Ellifritz's Weekend Knowledge Dump. Lots of good stuff, but here are some articles/topics that in particular caught my attention:
    • "30 Facts About Childhood Today that Will Terrify You." A brief overview of troubling statistics and trends among our children, most of which derive from too little outdoor activity and too much screen time.
    • "TERMINATING TERRORISTS | The Head-Shot Triad." Where you need to shoot to immediately shut down a bad guy. 
    • "Controlling Your Fear." Tips on inoculating yourself to the fear that you will have in a violent confrontation. 
    • "How to Survive a Mass Shooting While Unarmed." 
    • "Tourniquets Can’t Fix Everything. Why You MUST Learn Wound Packing." 
    • "Small Unit Tactics for Patrol." This is written for police officers, but discusses some military tactics that are adaptable to use by police. I think this has relevance to preppers in that it teaches different types of movement under fire or in areas of potential ambush.  

    Men are constantly on the lookout for arenas in which they can prove their worth, and thereby attract a mate or, more accurately, as many mates as possible. Across the myriad competitive arenas that men have invented, there is one common element shared by all of them, which both men and women are exquisitely sensitive to:

    An arena cannot be dominated by women.

    The reason for this is obvious. The purpose of the arena, from the male point of view, is to demonstrate his worth relative to other men. To enter an arena filled with women is to engage in a lose/lose proposition: if one does poorly, one has been beaten (up) by girls; if one does well, one has beaten (up) girls. Neither outcome is going to impress the girls. Or, for that matter, the guys.

    For this reason, men who enter a social environment in which women predominate will tend to make a hasty exit. There is nothing for them there.

  •  "The Deep Rabbit Hole of Israel Spying on America"--Aletho News. This 2015 article is not particularly long, but it has a fair number of links to other sources including a lengthy Newsweek article. It is not just spying on the U.S. that is discussed, but also the disproportionate amount of foreign aid that has gone to Israel, and the suspicion that Israel stole 100 kg. of weapons grade uranium to jump start their nuclear weapons program. Unmentioned is their extensive industrial espionage. And, obviously coming after 9/11, there is no discussion of the extensive Israeli intelligence ring that was discovered in the aftermath which abruptly pulled up stakes and fled the U.S. after the attack. (See my 2023 post, "Dancin' In The Streets: The 5 Israelis Arrested Following 9/11"). Whether or not there was any connection between the Israeli agents and the events of 9/11, one still has to wonder why so many Mossad agents (some 60 were arrested or detained in the aftermath of 9/11) were operating in the U.S. 

Terrorist Who Attacked Michigan Synagogue Identified

The terrorist that drove an explosive laden truck through the front of a synagogue/school in Michigan has been identified as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41 year old Lebanese-born restaurant worker. The Daily Mail reports:

    It has since emerged that Ghazali was a naturalized US citizen from Lebanon who worked at a restaurant in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights, where FBI agents were seen searching his home.

    The suburb's mayor, Mo Baydoun, said Ghazali 'lost several members of his own family, including his niece and nephew, in an Israeli attack on their home in Lebanon'.

    An unnamed source told CBS News the attack by Israel was ten days ago, and that two of Ghazali's brothers were also killed. 

 [snip]

    Ghazali was born in Lebanon in 1985 and entered the United States through Detroit Metropolitan airport on May 10, 2011, after alien relative and fiancé petitions filed in December 2009 were approved in April 2010, according to the New York Post.

    He then applied for naturalization on October 20, 2015, and became a citizen on February 5, 2016, under the Obama administration, the outlet said.  
    

This is a little discussed problem with having large populations of foreigners is that they bring their animosities toward other nations with them. 

    Also, how come there is no discussion of how and where this guy got his explosives and mortar shells?  

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