UN gun control treaty will reveal gun laws Obama really supports

Sometime later this week, the UN will finally unveil its Arms Trade Treaty. The exact date the treaty will be released is a secret.

Russia, China, France — with its new Socialist government — Britain and the Obama administration are writing the treaty behind closed doors. Yet even if the final treaty is being kept under wraps, we still have a pretty good idea of some of the requirements that will be in it.

The group writing the treaty is not promising. Russia and Britain ban handguns and many other types of weapons. The possession of guns for self-defense is completely prohibited in China. The Obama administration is undoubtedly the most hostile administration to gun ownership in US history, with Obama having personally supported bans of handguns and semi-automatic weapons before becoming president. And remember the recent scandal where the Obama administration was caught allowing guns go to Mexican drug gangs, hoping it would help push for gun control laws.

The treaty seems unlikely to ever receive the two-thirds majority necessary to be ratified by the US Senate, but that doesn’t mean it still won’t have consequences for Americans. In other countries with parliamentary systems, even if the relatively conservative parties oppose approval, ratification is just a matter of time until a left-wing government takes power. Reduced private gun ownership around the world will surely lead to more pressure for gun control in our own country.

The treaty officially aims to prevent rebels and terrorist groups from getting hold of guns. The treaty claims that at least 250,000 people die each year from armed conflicts and that the vast majority of deaths arise from so-called “small arms” — machine guns, rifles, and handguns.

Regulations of private ownership will supposedly prevent rebels and terrorist groups from getting ahold of guns. But governments, not private individuals, are the sources for these weapons. For example, the FARC fighting in Colombia get their guns from the Venezuelan government.

The most likely regulations to be pushed by the UN treaty are those that have been the favorites of American gun control advocates for years — registration and licensing, micro-stamping ammunition, and restrictions on the private transfers of guns. Unfortunately, these measures have a long history of failure and primarily just inconvenience and disarm law-abiding gun owners.

Gun registration and licensing are pushed as a way to trace those who supply these illicit weapons. Yet, to see the problem with these regulations, one only needs to look at how ineffective they have been in solving crime. Canada just recently ended its long gun registry as it was a colossal waste of money.

Beginning in 1998, Canadians spent a whopping $2.7 billion on creating and running a registry for long guns — in the US, the same amount per gun owner would come to $67 billion. For all that money, the registry was never credited with solving a single murder. Instead, it became an enormous waste of police officers’ time, diverting their efforts from traditional policing activities. …

via UN gun control treaty will reveal gun laws Obama really supports | Fox News.

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Telephone Scam Artist Call Back

When you know something is a scam and you pretend to go along with it to waste the scammer’s time, that’s called scam baiting. Here’s a great example:

You want my address? Sure, read me the one you have for me. Yes, that’s my address. Can’t wait to get my $35,000 cash money.

Think someone could figure out the phone number dialed from the tones in the video?

Here’s another great one. Hard to hear in places, but it really cracked me up a few times.

Exercise-induced analgesia: fact or artifact?

This study critically examines the reported exercise-induced analgesia effect in view of the potential stress-induced analgesia of pain testing itself. Two designs were used to test whether previous findings of analgesia were induced by the exercise procedures or by the stress of the pain testing procedures themselves used in such experiments. In the first design, post-test cold pressor pain ratings were obtained from college students following exercise (bicycle ergometry) and two control tasks (minimal exercise and non-exercise). No significant differences between these groups were found. In the second design, exercise and non-exercise groups pre-exposed to cold pressor pain testing were compared to groups that were not pre-exposed to pain testing. There were no significant effects for exercise; however, significant analgesia effects for pain test pre-exposure were demonstrated. Therefore previous research claiming exercise-induced analgesia may have confounded the effects of exercise with the effects of pre-exposure to pain testing itself. … http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/1589230/

I do feel less pain with regular exercise, so the above study may be overlooking something.

Oregon farmer buys hundreds of water beds for his cows

At least four dairies in Oregon’s Willamette Valley have bought into the “new thing” in dairy farming: buying water beds for their cows.

“There’s four or five dairies in the Willamette Valley that have them. It’s really beginning to catch on around here,” Kevin Krous with NW Dairy Service told KGW.

The cow water bed trend reportedly began in Minnesota but is now starting to catch on, on the West Coast. For example, the Van Loon Dairy has purchased more than 300 such beds for their cows, at a cost of more than $100,000.

“As the cow gets ready to lie down, water moves to the front bag where her knees will come first therefore cushion it more. Less sores, less cows being stuck. Happier cows, happier milk,” said Ben Van Loon.

DCC Waterbeds is one of the companies producing the beds “with cows specifically in mind.” You can watch more videos of the cow water beds in action on DCC’s site. The company says its business model has been going international and includes a recent visit from Mexican farmers interested in improving their dairy stock’s output and health.

Van Loon and other farmers say the water beds are sound investments, cutting down on the traditional and expensive grass seed normally used for cow bedding. And Van Loon says they’re safer for his cows too. …

via Oregon farmer buys hundreds of water beds for his cows | The Sideshow – Yahoo! News.

Mystery of Lost Roman City Solved: Ancients Greened the Desert?

Today it’s a mirage-like expanse of monumental ruins. But under the Roman Empire, Palmyra was a trading metropolis, according to historical and archaeological evidence.

Despite nearly a century of research, though, a key question remains unanswered: How did this city of 200,000 thrive in the middle of an infertile Syrian desert?

Once a required stop on caravan routes that brought Asian goods west to eager Romans, Palmyra (map) has “always been conceived as an oasis in the middle of the desert, but it’s never been quite clear what it was living from,” said Michal Gawlikowski, the retired head of the University of Warsaw’s Polish Mission at Palmyra.

And what an oasis: Among the ruins are grand avenues lined with columns, triumphal arches, and the remains of an ancient market where traders once haggled over silk, silver, spices, and dyes from India and China. (Download Palmyra wallpaper.)

To find out what made it all possible, archaeologist Jørgen Christian Meyer began a four-year survey of the 40 square miles (104 square kilometers) just north of Palmyra in 2008. The area was targeted for its mountainous terrain, which channels precious rainwater to otherwise dry streambeds—making the region marginally less hostile to agriculture.

Through ground inspections and satellite images, the archaeologists eventually found outlines of more than 20 farming villages within a few days’ walk of the city—adding to about 15 smaller settlements previously uncovered by other researchers to the west of Palmyra.

Crucially, the researchers also found traces of extensive networks of man-made reservoirs and channels to capture and store the rainfall from sudden, seasonal storms, said Meyer, of the University of Bergen in Norway. …

via Mystery of Lost Roman City Solved: Ancients Greened the Desert?.

Case Brandon CIA Agent Interview About Roswell on Coast to Coast

… Chase Brandon interview in full right here (begins at 38:20)…

 

Giant Owl or Photoshop?

Allegedly taken in Carrizo Springs, Texas, it has variously been described as a giant owl and the legendary “Lechuza” – a shape-shifting witch, no less.

I’m sure, like me, you have thoughts, ideas, theories and – of course – suspicions!! Maybe England’s Owlman took a wrong turn?

via Cryptomundo » Giant Owl or Photoshop?.

Cool. It would make a somewhat believable mothman if real. Anyone have the scoop on this? No hits with tineye. I guess it doesn’t crawl Facebook. BeforeItsNews has a news video, but the Cryptomundo photo (top) is the clearest I’ve seen.

Looking closer, it does not look to me like the one feather the guy on the right is holding could support the body of the bird.

Still, it may not be a Photoshop fake. It could be a model. Okay, the last two images come from Kevin M and they show the possible location and size of the original so you can look for artifacts in the potential fake.