Fewer Guns, Less Crime? Not in Europe | Mises Institute

As an addendum to last week’s article on the prominence of civilian-owned guns versus homicide rates, it may be interesting to look at the diversity in gun prominence across European countries. Contrary to the broad generalizations and over-simplifications spread by US gun-control advocates about European gun control, there is actually quite a diverse range in gun prominence
— Read on mises.org/power-market/fewer-guns-less-crime-not-europe

10 Amazing Facts About the Solar System

We should all strive to learn something new every day of our lives.

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As it’s the Space Week so here’s my first post with some real cool facts about our solar system.

I’m sure you didn’t know these (or maybe you did).

Let’s dive in:

  1. Our Solar system is 4.6 billion years old.
  2. The Solar system consists of the sun, planets, moons, dwarf planets, asteroids and the comets, out of which many are undiscovered.
  3. Over 99% of the Solar System’s mass is of the sun itself, rest is of the planets and all things around.
  4. We live inside the sun’s. atmosphere. It is far away but it’s atmosphere extends to cover all the planets in the system.
  5. Along with planets there are dwarf planets too. Only few are discovered so far namely Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake & Eris.
  6. The diameter of the dwarf planet Pluto is smaller than USA.
  7. All the planets are on the same plane and revolve…

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G 20 Update

G-20 News. Trump Demands Free Speech, Merkel and Macron Request Speech Control

G-20 News. Trump Demands Free Speech, Merkel and Macron Request Speech Control

Trump forces his haters, both Macron and Merkel, to admit to speech control at G20 when they start declaring “taboo words” be omitted from the  communique.

As we well know, there are always a series of wonderful words lined up to make the G20 meeting look like a happy family who are working together to promote the agenda – in a warm and friendly way – of the to 20 economies around the world. Well, we knew something would change in the Argentina meeting of the Group of 20 leaders this weekend, the two day meeting started on Friday. Of course, the news that Russia was kidnapping Ukrainian sailors and President Trump and President Xi would be having tough meetings to discuss a possible trade solution before US tariffs are increased next month. It seems the usual agenda would be put on the back burner – note that French leader Macron wanted to talk about the Saudi journalist who was apparently murdered in Turkey.

But it looks like the United States and Japan hijacked the G20, in a clever and James Bond-esque manner. Going into the meeting, the Japanese Prime Minister Abe asserted that the WTO, World Trade Organization was engaging in unfair practices and that this entire system should be revamped. Of course, the United States has made this claim for years and President Trump has gone as far as saying that the United States, a true supporter of the WTO since its inception, was considering pulling out. It is important to note that the US and Japan have close trade ties and pulling out of multi-lateral systems would in the end benefit them both – there are articles and audiovisual packages we will be doing in this subject in the future.

The Speech Control Police from Europe requested “taboo words” be rejected in the final communique. Merkel wants to put her Frankfurt School imprint on the G20 as this will be her last one before she retires.

But in a clever twist the US and Japan drove the WTO discussion into the G20 while at the same time kicking both Germany and France to the curb. Japan wants, like the US, fair trade. They ignored Macron and Merkel and in a Trump-stunt, US President Trump was seated right in front of German Chancellor Merkel, just there staring her down. Note that breaking down and rebuilding the WTO would give the United States and her allies, the UK, Canada, Australia and Japan an advantage while marginalizing both Germany and China.

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Open Borders and Illegal Immigrants

According to polling, most Americans from both parties and all racial identities , do not approve of illegal immigration/open borders. The majority of Americans are in favor of legal immigration. We are a nation of borders and laws.

Most Americans believe in the rule of law. Many of our politicians like to cherry pick which laws to enforce, and who to enforce them on. Legal immigrants do not support people who jump the line for entry into our country. Legal immigrants have gone through the process of becoming Americans.

The globalists and or leftists like to shut down the honest debate of this issue by declaring opponents of illegal immigration as racists,or xenophobes. There is room for compromise and intelligent debate on this issue, but that would require or politicians from both parties to do their jobs instead of constantly running for re election on our dime.

Neither political party corrected our “broken immigration policy ” when they controlled the entire federal government. This tells us they would rather divide us and keep this mess alive rather than do their jobs and fix it.

We should tell them all to quit posturing in front of cameras and do their highly paid jobs of finding compromise and fixing it.

We are 22 trillion dollars in debt and the middle class is shrinking rapidly. We are digressing into the haves and the have nots. These cheats beating politicians are solidly in the haves column.

Did Obama Throw Out Fox News? | Armstrong Economics

QUESTION: Did Obama throw Fox News out of the press conferences? HJ ANSWER: No. That is not true. Obama hated Fox News just as Trump hates CNN. Obama called Fox “destructive” for the country. They are just lucky I am not President for I would immediately restore the Fairness Doctrine and force them all to present an UNBIASED balanced report. We like in the world of FAKE NEWS because everything is twisted to the political views of the journalist – that is NOT what free press was all about.
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/press/did-obama-throw-out-fox-news/

Corrected for the record