More than usual goodies from Ol' Remus this week

Ol' Remus 

Why does China need four times as much rice year-over-year? Why purchase more iron when you already have a huge surplus? Why buy gold when, as Federal Reserve Chairmen Ben Bernanke suggests, it is not real money? Why build massive cities capable of housing a million or more people, and then keep them empty? It doesn’t add up. None of it makes any sense. Unless the Chinese know something we haven’t been made privy to, says Mac Slavo in this article at SHTFPlan.

Related story - China's mystery complex, at Wired.

  False flag gone wrong - Although the Obama Administration intentionally gutted security at the consulate prior to the staged kidnapping, former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty disobeyed direct orders to stand down, saved American lives, single-handedly killed scores of attackers ... and the attackers, believing that the Obama had betrayed them, tortured Ambassador Chris Stevens and dragged his body through the streets, say Floyd and Mary Brown in this article at GOPUSA. 

 As a citizen you are expected to pursue your grievances through the courts, including attempts to tread on your liberties. A government gun grab would violate the Second and Fourth Amendments, but it wouldn't justify the use of deadly force, which is reserved for situations where you or other innocents face immediate death or serious bodily harm, not for protecting property or liberty.  For the same reason, you're not allowed to shoot someone who tries to infringe your 1st Amendment rights.  The constitution does protect you from the government treading on your liberty, but it does not grant you the use of deadly force in doing so.

I'm sure TJ wholeheartedly disagrees as do I and many others.

 The New York Times is the "house organ" of the American Left. It's provided many a service to the Obama Administration. That its writers should be inclined to lie in service to the Left's agenda should come as no surprise...except that far too many Americans still believe, despite everything that's transpired, that "the paper of record" would never dare to print a factual assertion that's untrue. It is to laugh.
Francis Porretto at bastionofliberty.blogspot.com 

 What it's about, what most of our politics is about, is the seething hatred between our two white tribes, with such issues as gun control, gay rights, and posture towards blacks as tribal markers. Posture is all it is; as the late Joe Sobran observed, liberals in their mating and migratory habits are indistinguishable from members of the Klan.
John Derbyshire at takimag.com 

 Most folks know that the people running up the death toll in murder capitals like Chicago are not using AR15s. And many Americans yet accept that in the last analysis it is a man's duty to be the defender and protector of his wife and children. Human nature will ultimately triumph over ideology.
Pat Buchanan at buchanan.org 

Source: Chicago Murder Analysis .pdf, page 54

Los Angeles cops wait for the bad guys to escape - Robbers stabbed a clothing store employee and sexually assaulted another during an hours-long hostage drama that ended early Friday with a police SWAT team surging into the shop and rescuing 14 workers. No robbers were found. [No description of the perps, indicating it's the usual suspects]
Raquel Dillon at hosted.ap.org

What they really want - We cannot have big guns out here as far as the big guns that are out here, the semi-automatics and all of them. We can’t have those running around out here. Those are not hunting weapons. We should ban those in Iowa. We need to get them off the streets—illegally—and even if you have them, I think we need to start taking them. We can’t have those out there. Because if they’re out there they’re just going to get circulated around to the wrong people. Those guns should not be in the public’s hands. There are just too many guns. We have to change, and we have to get stricter and tougher with what we do
Iowa State Rep. Dan Muhlbauer at Daily Times Herald via dailycaller.com

He belongs in Bellevue, as my mother would say, except that it's unfortunately closed........ 

What Bill Ayer's Weather Underground would do with 25 million Americans who refused to be "re-educated" into communism - the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated... And when I say eliminate, I mean kill. 25 million people.
Larry Grathwohl, former member of the Weather Underground, at zombietime.com

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
Bill Ayers via city-data.com

[Recall political strategists met with Barack Obama and started his career in former Weatherman Bill Ayers's living room.]

 "2,800 people in California were killed last year by gunfire." ... counting those who commit suicide, of course... gang-bangers, which are fully 75% of those homicides.
Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org 

Federal regulation of private gun sales - There is NO FEDERAL JURISDICTION for private party intra state sales of any used merchandise. The Interstate Commerce Clause does not apply. No Federal nexus means no Federal jurisdiction!
James Rawles at survivalblog.com

 As documents relating to the Sandy Hook shooting continue to be assessed and interpreted by independent researchers, there is a growing awareness that the media coverage of the massacre of 26 children and adults was intended primarily for public consumption to further larger political ends. While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place — at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation's news media have described.
James Tracy, Florida Atlantic University via sun-sentinel.com 

 I highly suspect that the mohammed video was itself made at the behest of the Obama regime, thus making the whole Stevens assassination a giant false flag operation. The fact that Hillary was trotting the video out before the SEALs were even dead reinforces that hunch profoundly.
Ann Barnhardt at barnhardt.biz