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FIREWORKS. BIG
FIREWORKS. GET
YER FIREWORKS
HERE. FRESH
FROM THE 1776
GUNPOWDER LAB!
The Grand Old American
Pastime Of Blowing Things Up
In
judicious hands, the ability to blow
things up represents Americans'
fearless legacy of harnessing the
powers of nature in the pursuit of
innovation.
When I was a
kid, we always celebrated Independence
Day by going down to my grandparents’
house. They lived on a lake, and you
could walk five houses down in either
direction and know just about every
single neighbor, half of whom were
relatives.
After an
afternoon of eating boiled peanuts and
hot dogs and jumping off the dock, all
the kids knew the best part came when it
got dark. We’d all go out to the end of
the dock, dads and uncles lugging boxes
of fireworks, and wait expectantly for
the navy sky to explode.
Each child
got a sparkler, and if we were lucky we
got to help light the big rockets. If we
were really lucky, a black powder cannon
made from the driveshaft of an old truck
would make an appearance, and fire smoky
blanks into the open air over the water.
There’s
something connecting the American spirit
with the love of blowing things up. We
shoved dynamite into mountains to lay
train tracks across the continent. We
created rockets powerful enough to shoot
men into space.
In evil
hands, explosives are a formidable means
of taking human life, making it all the
more important for the arsenals of
democracy to hold such evildoers to
account. But in judicious hands, the
ability to blow things up represents
Americans’ fearless legacy of harnessing
the powers of nature in the pursuit of
innovation.
We are a
people who grew up testing the limits of
nature, inventing ways to overcome those
limits, and shaping the world as a
result. Our national personality has
always enjoyed the smells of gasoline
and black powder. They represent our
people’s movement — our restless
enterprise and determination to build.
In America’s
infancy, notes
the Institute of Makers of Explosives,
“black powder was used to mine for
minerals, break rock, clear fields and
make roads.” The invention of dynamite
enabled better mines and the extraction
of more coal and iron as well as cement
and concrete.
“Harbors
were deepened and widened, railways and
roads pushed into the wilds and dams
were built,” the Institute continues.
“America found in dynamite, a new set of
muscles to be applied to all forms of
industry, including oil and gas
exploration, power production, mineral
mining and pipeline, tunnel and highway
construction.”
The
combustion engine — one of the most
foundational elements of industrial
progress — gets its power from
controlled and constant explosions.
External combustion engines fueled the
trains and steamboats that canvassed the
expanding American landscape, bringing
pioneers and supplies to build the
frontier. Innovators eagerly strapped
internal combustion engines inside
automobiles and airplanes, launching the
new machines across highways and into
the sky.
By the
middle of the 20th century, the
descendants of those engines were
propelling the descendants of those
innovators across the sound barrier,
into space, and onto the moon. In the
meantime, Americans had found a way to
split atoms to create explosions with
unforeseen consequences, and gravely
used them to end the century’s biggest
conflict.
Not only has
blowing stuff up resulted in monumental
victories for the protection of freedom
abroad and for American industry at
large, it’s also a familiar tool in the
American home.
When my
grandfather was growing up in Homestead,
Florida (before Miami’s postwar
transformation from an army airfield
into a metropolis), he would help his
father carefully clear out stumps in
their orange groves. When
they needed more dynamite, the kids
were sent to the hardware store and
trusted to carefully bring it all back.
After covering the stump with a raft of
wooden railroad ties, my grandfather and
the other kids would stand on top during
the explosion to feel the thrill of the
blast.
The
controlled explosion that takes place
within a firearm has enabled
generations of Americans to defend
themselves and their homes, hunt food
for their families, and enjoy sporting
activities from shooting skeet to
practicing at the target range. We
benefit from engines every time we
drive to the store, catch a flight, or
partake in the great network of
interstate commerce.
And of
course, we enjoy hurling loud, brilliant
explosions into the sky on any holiday
we can — especially Independence Day. So
this Sunday, head out to a wide-open
space with a box of fireworks and a box
of matches, and proudly partake in the
grand old American pastime of blowing
things up. (read
more)
2021-07-06
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VOTERS. DEAD VOTERS. GET YER VOTERS HERE.
FRESH FROM THE DEMOCRAT BALLOT LAB!
Why The [Illegitimate] Biden
Administration’s Lawsuit Against
Georgia’s Voting Rules Is Legal Hot
Garbage
The
Supreme Court’s response to the
arguments made in attacking Arizona’s
voting-integrity provisions expose the
folly of the Biden administration’s
lawsuit against Georgia.
“The
Department of Justice is going to lose,”
Georgia Secretary of State Brad
Raffensperger told me during a Friday
interview, referring to the Voting
Rights Act lawsuit the Biden
administration filed against Georgia a
little more than a week ago. Georgia has
been vindicated by the Supreme Court,
Raffensperger added, stressing in last
week’s interview that the high court’s
decision in Brnovich v. DNC
rendered the DOJ’s claims frivolous.
A thorough
analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision
in Brnovich
confirms Raffensperger’s assessment. In
that case, the court held that Arizona’s
in-precinct voting requirement and ban
on ballot harvesting did not violate
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,
which prohibits any “standard, practice,
or procedure” that “results in a denial
or abridgment of the right of any
citizen of the United States to vote on
account of race or color.”
While the
Supreme Court upheld Arizona’s
in-precinct voting requirements, the DOJ
continues to argue that Georgia’s
similar provision violates Section 2,
Raffensperger noted. In response to
Raffensperger’s “call on the U.S.
Department of Justice to heed this
decision and dismiss their wrong,
politically motivated lawsuit against
Georgia,” the DOJ “doubled down,” the
secretary said. “But they will lose
sooner or later,” he noted.
Precedent
Shows How Frivolous Biden’s Lawsuit
Is
Beyond the
bottom line in Brnovich—that
Arizona’s similar in-precinct voting
mandate is valid—the Supreme Court’s
reasoning confirms the frivolousness of
the Biden administration’s entire
lawsuit against Georgia. In Brnovich,
the high court addressed for the first
time the meaning of Section 2’s “results
in a denial or abridgment” of the right
to vote based on race or color in the
context of “generally applicable time,
place, or manner voting rules.” The
court laid out several guideposts for
assessing whether voting is “equally
open,” as required by Section 2.
The
guideposts the Brnovich court
delineated include:
“the size of the burden; the degree to
which the voting rule departed from the
standard in 1982 when Congress amended
Section 2; the size of the disparity of
the rule on minorities; the
opportunities provided by the state’s
entire voting system; and the strength
of the state’s interests in the law.”
Applying
these guideposts to the provisions of
Georgia’s Election Integrity Act of 2021
that the Biden administration is
challenging establishes the DOJ’s
lawsuit is completely lacking in merit.
None of the challenged provisions create
a high burden to voters, but, in the
language of the Brnovich
court, represent the “normal burdens of
voting.”
For
instance, the DOJ complained that
Georgia prohibits distributing
unsolicited absentee ballot applications
and bars private organizations from
distributing duplicate absentee ballot
applications, but the burden of
requesting an absentee ballot online or
in person is minimal. Likewise,
Georgia’s requirement that in requesting
an absentee ballot voters provide their
driver’s license number or a photocopy
of another form of identification, such
as a utility bill, represents a minor
burden, easily satisfied.
Raffensperger
stressed this in his Friday interview,
noting that the state’s move to
requiring a driver’s license number,
birth date, or other forms of identity
are very easy to provide. “Minnesota is
pleased with this system,” he told The Federalist,
stressing that that midwestern state,
which has a Democrat governor, Democrat
secretary of state, and a Democrat
House, uses a similar method of
verifying absentee voters.
It’s Not
Burdensome to Do What Everyone Else
Does
Similarly,
the other provisions of Georgia’s
Election Integrity Act of 2021, although
challenged by the DOJ, impose no burden
beyond the typical burden bearing on all
voters. For example, while the DOJ
complains that Georgia limits the time
period for requesting absentee ballots,
limits on the number and location of
absentee ballot drop boxes, and bans the
distribution of food or drinks by
private organizations to persons waiting
in line, requesting ballots on a timely
basis and returning those to the
appropriate locale represent the minimal
burden placed on voters. Likewise,
bringing food or drink should you
believe you’ll need refreshments during
a wait does not burden voters.
Not only do
these provisions not establish a burden
beyond the general burden of voting,
Georgia provides ample alternative
opportunities to vote, from absentee
voting to early voting to same-day
voting. To the extent any of these
provisions were not common in 1982, that
is because drop boxes and no-cause
absentee voting were not prevalent at
that time. Georgia also has a strong
interest in preventing fraud and undue
influence—and these new provisions
address these valid concerns, especially
in light of the increase in absentee
voting.
Moreover,
while in its complaint against Georgia
the DOJ portrayed the challenged
provisions as affecting minority voters
at a higher rate, voting remains
“equally open,” meaning “without
restrictions as to who may participate.”
Further, in Brnovich the Supreme
Court expressly rejected “the
disparate-impact model employed in Title
VII and Fair Housing Act cases,” meaning
a disproportionate impact on minority
voters is not dispositive.
Yes,
Anti-Fraud Provisions Are Reasonable
In addition
to the guideposts adopted in Brnovich,
the Supreme Court’s analysis and its
response to the arguments made in
attacking Arizona’s voting-integrity
provisions further expose the folly of
the DOJ’s lawsuit against Georgia. For
instance, in Brnovich, the Supreme Court
noted that while the lower court found
the legislative goal of preventing fraud
“tenuous in large part because there was
no evidence of fraud in connection with
early ballots had occurred in Arizona, .
. . it should go without saying that a
State may take action to prevent
election fraud without waiting for it to
occur and be detected within its own
borders.”
The DOJ’s
complaint against Georgia presents this
precise argument, alleging that “the
lack of evidence of voter fraud in the
2020 election cycle, . . . tend to
undermine justifications proffered by
proponents of SB 202, providing evidence
that the proffered rationales for the
bill’s provisions are tenuous.” While
the Biden administration filed its
lawsuit against Georgia before the Brnovich
decision, the Supreme Court’s holding
makes clear now that this argument lacks
merit: Georgia need not have evidence of
voter fraud to pass a law to prevent
voter fraud.
Further, in
Brnovich,
the Supreme Court rejected the argument
that an Arizona legislator’s “unfounded
and often far-fetched allegations of
ballot collection fraud” tainted the
law. “Under our form of government,”
Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the
majority, explained, “legislators have a
duty to exercise their judgment and to
represent their constituents. It is
insulting to suggest that they are mere
dupes or tools.”
Thus, the
Biden administration’s attempt to
challenge the Georgia law by stressing
that one senator supporting the
legislation attended a hearing where
unfounded claims of voter fraud were
presented will fail because, as Brnovich
explained, individual legislators’
motive cannot be ascribed to the
legislative body.
Republicans
Are Allowed to Vote, Too
The Brnovich
opinion also made clear that partisan
motives are not the same as racial
motives, establishing that the DOJ’s
focus in its complaint on the fact that
Georgia’s law passed along party lines
is irrelevant.
Also
irrelevant were the allegations the DOJ
made in its lawsuit against Georgia
concerning a racist GIF targeting an
election worker, a racist message
threatening then-candidate Raphael
Warnock, and a racist robocall about
2018 Georgia gubernatorial candidate
Stacey Abrams. In Brnovich,
Justice Alito, writing for the majority,
criticized attempts to establish a
racial motive underlying Arizona’s law
based on a “racially-tinged” video
created by a third party, noting there
was “no evidence that the legislature as
a whole was imbued with racial motives.”
While the
DOJ’s lawsuit against Georgia was
frivolous before Brnovich,
the Supreme Court’s recent decision
ratchets up the Biden administration’s
continued pursuit of this litigation to
the potentially sanctionable territory.
More significant than the question of
whether Georgia seeks, or obtains
sanctions, however, are the
ramifications of Brnovich
on Georgia’s attempt to shore up voting
integrity in the state. Specifically, Brnovich
makes clear that Georgia’s Integrity Act
of 2021 will remain law, and that is the
first start to reassuring Georgians and
their fellow Americans that the state
takes voting integrity seriously.
2020’s
Voting Chaos Must Never Happen Again
More must be
done, though, as questions over the 2020
election remain unanswered. The
secretary of state’s office appears to
recognize the importance of transparency
regarding concerns about the 2020
election, for instance by announcing two
weeks ago an investigation into Fulton
County following the revelation that it
is unable to produce all ballot dropbox
transfer documents.
Raffensberger
confirmed to me on Friday that those
documents have since been provided, but
it is nonetheless reassuring that
Raffensberger continues to launch
investigations when necessary to ensure
compliance with the governing laws.
However,
when questioned on the status of the
investigation into evidence indicating
more than 10,000 voters illegally cast
ballots in a county in which they had
not lived for more than 30 days—a move
later confirmed when the voters updated
their voter registration
records—Raffensberger could not provide
definite information. The secretary’s
staff has promised further details
following discussions with the
investigators, and has committed to
arranging an interview for The Federalist
with the lead investigator.
Such
transparency will prove indispensable
for Georgia and Raffensberger to move
forward from the 2020 election, as voting integrity involves
more than establishing new rules: It
requires an acknowledgment of past
failings, and solutions to ensure they
are never repeated. (read
more)
2021-07-06
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VARIANTS.
VARIANTS. GET
YER VARIANTS
HERE. FRESH
FROM THE MEDIA
LAB!
(Propaganda
messaging from
the CDC that
cried,
"Wolf,"
is contrived
to scare those
on the left
side of the
intelligence
bell curve.)
Lambda
variant has been known since December last year. It
was found in Peru.
It remains a variant of
interest (VOI) and NOT variant of concern (VOC) as
it doesn’t
meet the WHO criteria to be of global public health
significance yet. https://t.co/GKJVrxksLK
— Dr. Dhlamini
(@Melusi_MD) July
5, 2021
*
Unfortunately-
Only those that scare easily are Going to FALL for
this BS Again!
pic.twitter.com/FwtYnwskj1
— Lady De’Plorable (@LadyRedWave) July
5, 2021
2021-07-06
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TOILET-MOUTH ALZHEIMER IN CHIEF SHOULD SEND
VACCINATION GOONS TO ILLEGAL ALIENS AND ASYLUM
SEEKERS
BIDEN: “We
need to go community-by-community,
neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and oft times
door-to-door, literally knocking on doors” to get
people vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/oJ2lG9bqaw
2021-07-06
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TOILET-BRAIN
REPORTER
DECLINES
TENURE OFFER
IN DEEPEST,
DARKEST NORTH
CAROLINA
("Brain"
behind
sham-history
'1619 Project'
of the N Y
Times
is not even
qualified to
teach remedial
reading to
convicts.)
See also: Nikole Hannah-Jones Spits in UNC’s
Face, Turns Down Tenure for Howard U. Position
2021-07-06
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TOILET PYTHON IN DEEPEST, DARKEST AUSTRIA
An Austrian had the
kind of morning that nightmares are made of on
Monday
when a python slid through his drains and bit
his genital area while he was
sitting on the toilet. https://t.co/FiViojGFmy
— IOL News (@IOL) July
5, 2021
2021-07-06
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HOMICIDAL BOYS IN DEEPEST, DARKEST SOUTH CAROLINA
.#BREAKING:
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is filing a
petition in Family Court
in reference to charging an 8 year old and a 9
year old with Involuntary Manslaughter
in connection to the shooting death last week of
62 year old Danny Andrew Smith.
— Cody Alcorn
(@CodyAlcorn) July
2, 2021
2021-07-06
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HOMICIDAL NATIVES IN DEEPEST, DARKEST PENTAGON
I’ve been
contacted by members of our voluntary military who
say they will quit
if the COVID vaccine is mandated.
I introduced HR 3860 to
prohibit any mandatory requirement that a member of
the
Armed Forces receive a vaccination against COVID-19.
It now has 24 sponsors.
https://t.co/lbqYESmBYy
— Thomas Massie
(@RepThomasMassie) July 3, 2021
*
The
science-illiterate, military hating, angry blue ✔️’s
targeted this post yesterday and in doing so helped
me get over 7 million impressions!
ps. There are no health
outcomes based studies that show any benefit from
the vaccine for those who have already had COVID. pic.twitter.com/yokruxQrZg
— Thomas Massie
(@RepThomasMassie) July 5, 2021
2021-07-06
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RESTLESS NATIVES IN DEEPEST, DARKEST SAN FRANCISCO
(melanin minority gang of nine robbed Neiman Marcus
store in Union Square, San Francisco}
Exclusive:
Video of Neiman Marcus getting robbed by 10 ppl this
evening in San
Francisco! San Francisco is lawlessness personified!
Thank you Chesa Boudin
and mayor and our supervisors who all love and
support these dumb and
dangerous policies implemented by the DA! pic.twitter.com/mMznzYqDua
— Asian Crime Report
(@activeasian) July 6, 2021
*
Exclusive
pics of the robbery! Thx to my follower who was
inside the store shopping
at the time! pic.twitter.com/UEJ6SshVxN
— Asian Crime Report
(@activeasian) July 6, 2021
See also: Video Shows Groups Of Shoplifters
Looting Store, Getting Into Getaway Cars
See also: Senior Official At San Francisco DA’s
Office Tries To Dismiss Crime Surge In The City
2021-07-06
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EXCESSES OF 4TH OF JULY
(melanin minorities rampage in Chicago - 82.6 % black,
13.0 % hispanic, 4.3 % white/other)
See also: https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/7/3/22561910/chicago-weekend-shootings-july-2-5-homicide
See also: 'We Are Really Lucky No One Was Murdered':
61 People Arrested After Descending Onto Downtown
Chicago, Wreaking Havoc
2021-07-06
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ESSENCE OF 4TH OF JULY
July 4th, Cape Cod, 1983 Joel Meyerowitz
*
Happy's Refreshment Stand with woman,
Florida, ca 1954 Berenice Abbott
*
Coney Island (older woman in bathing suit
sitting in chair on boardwalk), ca 1970 Leon
Levinstein
*
Untitled (condiments), Cape Cod, 1966
Garry Winogrand
2021-07-05
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ILLUSION OF
INDEPENDENCE V
(So glad I
stopped
subscribing to
leftist rag,
National
Geographic,
three years
ago.)
Scientists found that
vulnerable people and communities of color are
disproportionately
exposed to air pollution from firework
celebrations
— National
Geographic @NatGeo July
4, 2021
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ILLUSION OF
INDEPENDENCE
IV
(Melanin
minority
militia claims
independence.
Bedwetting
sissies of the
Mass. State
Police wet
themselves and
interfered
with the
militia's
peaceful
transit
through the
Bay State.)
What we know about Rise of the
Moors, group engaged with Massachusetts State Police
in Interstate 95 shutdown
An hours-long standoff
between a group of heavily armed individuals and
Massachusetts State Police on an interstate ended with
11 taken into custody.
The situation was
resolved “through negotiation and tactical maneuvers,”
Massachusetts State Police Colonel Christopher Mason
told reporters on Saturday said, adding that the group
members “surrendered without incident.”
The standoff began
nine hours prior when police said the group claimed to
“not recognize our laws.”
Video shot along the
interstate shows men in military-style gear holding
the Moroccan flag. Police communicated with the group
through a hostage negotiation team.
Here’s what we know
about the situation.
Police
stop
A Massachusetts State
Police trooper was traveling northbound on Interstate
95 in Wakefield when he came upon two vehicles stopped
in the breakdown lane around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday.
The men were
attempting to refuel their vehicles.
The occupants of the
vehicle were dressed in military-style tactical gear.
Some had long rifles, some pistols and “some had a
combination of both,” Massachusetts State Police
Colonel Christopher Mason told reporters on Saturday.
The trooper asked
members of the group to produce licenses for the
firearms and members of the group indicated they
weren’t licensed or didn’t have copies of licenses on
them.
“You can imagine 11
armed individuals standing with long guns slung on an
interstate highway at two in the morning certainly
raises concerns and is not consistent with the
firearms laws we have in Massachusetts,” Mason said.
A man who identified
himself to police as the leader of the group said on a
video recorded after the encounter that he “instructed
my men to get out peacefully. I greeted your man with
a handshake,” he said, of speaking with the trooper.
He claims in a series
of videos the group was following federal law and
should be allowed to travel across state lines with
their weapons.
The trooper requested
backup and additional state police as well as local
police responded.
The head of state
police applauded the actions of the responding trooper
who he said was “very patient, very understanding with
them,” which kept the situation from escalating.
Hostage negotiators
were brought in to speak with the men and at about
10:15 a.m., police announced 11 individuals were taken
into custody. A pair of individuals were arrested
earlier in the day and nine more were arrested late
morning.
Who are they?
The individuals are
members of Rise of the Moors, a group who identify as
Moorish Americans.
“The
Moorish sovereign citizen movement is a collection
of independent organizations and lone individuals
that emerged in the early 1990s as an offshoot of
the anti-government sovereign citizens movement,
which believes that individual citizens hold
sovereignty over, and are independent of, the
authority of federal and state governments,” the
[radical, far-left] Southern Poverty Law Center says
of the movement. “Moorish sovereigns espouse an
interpretation of sovereign doctrine that African
Americans constitute an elite class within
American society with special rights and
privileges that convey on them a sovereign
immunity placing them beyond federal and state
authority.”
Jamhal Talib Abdullah
Bey is identified on the group’s website as
the Moorish American Consular Post Head for the Rise
of the Moors. His biography on the group’s website
lists him as having served in the United States Marine
Corps previously.
In a statement on the
Rise of the Moors website, he wrote of his military
service.
“I truly
believe that most of the skills that have been
instilled in me through military training can be
used to uplift our nation and all Moorish
Americans. Honor, Courage and Commitment are the
Marine Corp Values. Those same values that every
Marine is held to, fit perfectly with the High
Principles of Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and
Justice that our Prophet, El Hajj Sheriff Abdul
Ali instructed us to live by. I joined the
military thinking I would be helping our people,
who at that time I was trained to think we were
‘Black’. I now know of the ‘King Alfred Plan’ and
its objective to use our men as the tip of the
spear for European World Domination and
Imperialism. I will continue as the Prophet did,
to work day by day, in public and in private to
continue his great Missionary work to uplift
fallen humanity and reinforce the foundation of
the Moorish Movement - The minds of the People.”
State and local police
declined to confirm the name of the group to
reporters. Mason said he was unaware of the group
prior to this interaction.
Wakefield Police
Department said the men claim “to be from a group that
does not recognize our laws.”
The department added,
in a statement. “No threats were made, but these men
should be considered armed and dangerous. We are
asking residents in these areas to lock their doors
and remain inside their homes. A heavy police presence
will be in this area as well.”
The group disputed
that they are “anti-government” both in recorded
statements and conversations with police.
“We’re not
anti-government, we’re not anti-police, we’re not
sovereign citizens, we’re not Black-identity
extremists,” Bey said during a livestreamed video
posted to YouTube Saturday morning.
He believes the group
is traveling legally by abiding by federal laws,
though not acknowledging Massachusetts laws, which he
does not believe apply to the group as they did not
intend to stop in Massachusetts.
“Police seen us on the
side of the road with our guns secured,” he said in
the video. “We were afraid so we got out with our
arms.”
While showing inside
of one of the vehicles, he shows multiple fuel
canisters which the group intended to use to refuel
rather than stopping at a gas station off the
interstate.
“We’re not U.S.
citizens,” another member of the group is heard saying
during one of their livestreamed videos. “We’re
Americans, American nationals.”
On Saturday night,
Mass. State Police released the names seven others who
were arrested in the stand-off. They were:
Robert Rodriguez, 21, of the Bronx, New York
Wilfredo Hernandez, also known as Will Musa, 23, of
the Bronx, New York
Alban El Curraugh, 27, of the Bronx, New York
Aaron Lamont Johnson, also known as Tarrif Sharif
Bey, 29, of Detroit, Michigan.
Quinn Cumberlander, 40, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Lamar Dow, 34, of the Bronx, New York
Conrad Pierre, 29, of Baldwin, New York.
In addition to them,
there were two men who refused to identify themselves
and a junvenile.
Traveling
through Massachusetts
The group was
traveling from Rhode Island to Maine to train on
“private land,” the group told police. In one of the
videos recorded during the standoff with police, Bey
said the vehicles contain camping equipment.
The Rise of the Moors
website listed the organization as being based from a
multi-family home in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (read
more)
See also: 11 ‘heavily armed’ members of an
extremist militia group arrested; media buries
mention that they are Black
2021-07-05
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ILLUSION OF INDEPENDENCE
III
(Wanna bet Mike Byrd goes into the witness protection
program? He'll have no more independence and get the Lon
Horiuchi treatment.)
Sergeant
At Arms, Timothy Blodgett goofed in a hearing and
confirms
Lieutenant Mike Byrd killed Ashli Babbitt.
He also claims his
Sergeant at Arms employee rendered aid, he is lying.
His employee touched her once, watched her bleed
out, then contaminated
e crime scene. https://t.co/M8uCWRKkfQ pic.twitter.com/lHxIfN0tz6
— Tayler Hansen
(@TaylerUSA) July
3, 2021
2021-07-05
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ILLUSION OF
INDEPENDENCE II
The Myth of Freedom: Does it
Really Exist?
“We don’t
make the decisions, just does what we’re told
where and when we’re told. We lives by rules made
somewhere else by sons a bitches don’t know
nothin’ about this place.”
Ah, freedom; the thing
most seemingly sought, but very rarely (never)
attained.
Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe once wrote that “None are more hopelessly
enslaved than those who falsely believe they are
free.” This statement epitomizes the American
collective at large, as they have not only falsely
believed themselves to be free, but the freest of all
time in the history of man. Most still believe this
nonsense today, even in the midst of this most evil
plotted totalitarian takeover of all time. The people
in this country are celebrating what is mistakenly
called “Independence Day” at this very moment; after 2
1/2 centuries of losing every possible freedom that
ever existed.
The human animal has
for many thousands of years not only bowed to
‘leaders’ or masters, and sought recognition of local
or national prominence, but has actively pursued his
own enslavement either by allowing despotic rule, or
voluntarily choosing others to rule over him. In this
country, the people were ruled by a far away king, but
decided to revolt to throw off that rule in favor of
another. Instead of freedom or another monarchy, they
chose mob rule headed up by a master class that sat
above them, made all laws, enforced all laws, and had
control of all legislation and courts. This was
actually a much worse system, and one riper for
corruption than the one they replaced. The difference
was only that most agreed to this new system
voluntarily, and as time passed, they continued to
support the tyranny by ‘voting’ to keep it in place,
all the time falsely believing they were in control.
To this very day,
Americans continue to boisterously celebrate their
non-existent freedom, and revel in braggadocios
fashion by claiming to be exceptional and the freest
on earth. If von Goethe was correct, and I think he
was, then in reality, Americans must be the exact
opposite of what they mistakenly believe, and are the
most enslaved on earth. The irony of course, is that
the majority would never believe they are enslaved,
and this will only help to secure their place in
permanent serfdom.
Virtually every aspect
of life in America is controlled, regulated, taxed,
restricted, or mandated; from kids selling lemonade at
a neighborhood stand, to repairing, improving, or
building one’s own home. All movement and any ability
to do so is fully controlled, and most every venture
from the very simplest to the most complex is
dependent on licensing by corrupt and unqualified
government officials. This is nothing more than a
permission slip that has to be paid for through
extortion, and is used for the theft of private assets
and control of every single function of life, and is
enforced by the armed goons of the state.
The selected
government claims its power due to a portion of this
pathetic population voting for which evil and criminal
politician is to have the final say in everyday
functions, whether from the local dog catcher to the
national president, and all the slime between. Freedom
rests entirely with the individual, and if any supreme
authority over the individual whatsoever is present,
then freedom is not. This has never been understood by
the American public.
Just consider this
past year alone; one year in the entire history of the
“United States.” A fraudulent ‘virus pandemic’ was
claimed without any proof whatsoever. Lockdowns and
quarantines were ordered. Self-imprisonment was the
result, and most all small businesses were ordered to
close, leaving all their employees and themselves
without any way to sustain life. Travel was heavily
restricted or eliminated, food supplies were
decimated, and economic destruction was purposely
advanced. Hospitals were closed, patients were
murdered by the state, medical procedures were
cancelled, and families were not allowed to see loved
ones. Government staged looting, riots, and the armed
assault of innocents was allowed and left
unprosecuted, building and businesses were burned, and
forced bankruptcies were rampant. The largest wealth
transfer to the richest among us took place, as
hundreds of millions were harmed in favor of their
masters. Police brutality against innocent citizens
became common, and all were told it was mandatory to
wear deadly masks. Trillions upon trillions of dollars
were printed for so-called relief, but the people got
a miniscule pittance while the government and its
criminal partners and Wall Street took the rest,
increasing their wealth by trillions. The mass murder
of the population by deadly ‘vaccination,’ all at the
hands of government, has begun in earnest, and the
state is planning on injecting every child with this
poison by next year. Threats of utility blackouts,
water restrictions, food shortages, health and medical
disruption, and more lockdowns are evident.
This is only a partial
list of what has happened in just the last 16 months,
all perpetrated by government and a
weak and apathetic public that still believes it is
free. Only a fool could believe such insanity.
Maybe if the people
actually understood that they are nothing more than
slaves, and that freedom is non-existent in this
country, they would finally rebel and take their
freedom instead of waiting for it to be given to them
by their masters. Those that ask or petition for
freedom will never know it; only the individual is
free. All freedom has to be taken, and it has to be
protected by any means necessary. If government
exists, freedom does not.
Independence
does not exist in America, so instead of
celebrating as the dictatorial government is
promoting, rise up and take your independence instead
of hoping and pretending you are free when you are
not. Throw off the chains that bind you, refuse to
comply with any order, disobey every government
mandate, and disallow all government authority. The
only way to be free is to act free, and that requires
individual strength, courage, responsibility, and a
willingness to stand against the state at all cost.
“The only
way to deal with an unfree world is to become so
absolutely free that your very existence is an act
of rebellion.”
— Albert
Camus
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ILLUSION OF INDEPENDENCE I
The Worst Is Yet To Come as
Death and False Flag Threats Are Planned by the
State
Blood in the streets - American People
Series #20 Die, 1967 Faith Ringgold
How is one to gain and keep his freedom in a country
made up of apathetic and obedient fools steeped in
ignorance? This is a question for the ages, but in
this twenty first century, it is a life and death
struggle on the edge of darkness, where light exists
only in the distance, and only in the minds of the
very few. The reality of this dilemma is a story about
survival, so should those that understand the dire
situation we face, those that have the courage to
fight for their own liberty; abandon the rest of
society in favor of pursuing truth and freedom without
being surrounded by the chains of weakness and
submission that consume most of the masses? We are
currently living in an irresponsible insanity, so
should the societal cord be cut? Is that the only way
to escape the collective mob mentality?
The polarization of
America that has been growing in strength for years,
continues to escalate at an even faster pace, and of
course, this has all been accomplished by design
through indoctrination, fear mongering, and
brainwashing. Many believed that during the last
criminal political administration, it could not get
any worse, but alas, each time one evil and corrupt
group replaces another in this absurd political
process, division and hatred continues to grow, and
things always worsen.
Since we are in the
midst of what is referred to as a “Great Reset” of
society, and the push for global governance,
transhumanism, and a new technocratic ‘elite’
controlling system are being sought, it is brutally
obvious that more lies, deceit, false flag events,
threats, and liberty destruction will be forthcoming.
But this time, the final push toward a totalitarian
state is upon us, and an all-out assault on society
seems imminent. With most of the population still
going along with these scams, still obeying every
order, and still unable to muster any courage to
protect their own lives and families, what then are
those of us that are informed and willing to defy
‘authority’ to do?
What is actually
coming in my opinion will be a combination of extreme
propaganda, fear-mongering, false flag attacks, fake
‘virus’ attacks, a deadly flu season due to
‘vaccination,’ more ‘vaccine’ mandates, and power and
water grid shutdowns, creating an environment to allow
for full or partial martial law. This will set the
stage to reinstate lockdowns, quarantines, and
isolation, to advance bogus ‘climate change’ agendas,
and to create a regulatory climate so restrictive as
to mirror that of a total dictatorial state.
First and foremost,
the ‘variant’ threat will be easily advanced because
many more will likely die this fall and winter than
last due to widespread immune system failures because
of the stress of the lockdowns and isolation, and the
millions of poisonous injections that have already
been administered. Excess deaths, actually most all
deaths, will still be blamed on a ‘virus’ or ‘variant’
that does not exist, and this tactic will allow the
purposeful spreading of extreme fear.
This government and
all its propaganda arms will then go after the
children by planned injection of the toxic ‘Covid
vaccine throughout the government run indoctrination
centers called ‘public’ schools. This will begin with
children 12 and older, and throughout this year and
next will be targeting every child down to babies and
infants with this deadly concoction.
With more death and
sickness, new and more severe lockdowns will be
attempted, and very restrictive measures will be
forthcoming. This plot will be enhanced due to planned
cyber attacks that are ‘expected’ to shut down power
and water grids across the nation. These so-called
attacks will certainly be false flag terror against
the masses, and could easily cause civil unrest,
violence, and extreme aggression by the state in
response to any dissent. These cyber attacks have been
acted out for years, but simulations have been greatly
intensified this year, and will culminate with the
World Economic Forum’s Cyber Polygon simulation on
July 9th, just one week from today.
As the year
progresses, more division will occur in an us versus
them situation, pitting those ‘vaccinated’ against
those unvaccinated. This will probably become a very
contentious situation, and could easily lead to even
more hostile confrontation among this population,
causing an extremely tense atmosphere. At some point,
the governing criminals will come after all those not
willing to be injected, and will make living very
difficult for all of us attempting to protect our own
body, minds, and freedom. This could become a very
dangerous country in a short amount of time for people
demanding freedom.
Don’t forget about the
fictitious manmade ‘climate change’ agenda, as it
looks like the drive toward radical policy decisions
based on climate are already in the works. This is
very troubling, as it adds another dangerous level of
tyranny to a society already consumed by dictatorial
madness. It could easily be used to force more
quarantines, travel bans, and allocation of utility
services, that are all virtually controlled by this
government and its partners. What comes with this
agenda is mass restriction of life-giving water and
power, the decimation of food production and
distribution, supply line shutdowns, and unstoppable
runaway inflation, especially concerning the most
vital needs of this citizenry. When food becomes so
scarce that many are starving, total chaos will ensue.
Economically speaking,
any or all of these things happening will disrupt all
economic activity for the masses, but will be used by
the claimed ‘elite’ ruling class to continue to steal
the wealth from all of you, just as has happened over
the past year and a half. This has been the biggest
wealth transfer in history, and it is not over yet.
The powerful that are destroying the lives of
billions, are continuing to live like kings while
claiming ownership of all money and property. The goal
of course, is for you to own nothing and be happy
about it.
All these things
spoken about here are just the tip of the iceberg.
There will be much more pressure to mandate immunity
passports, and surveillance of everyone will
dramatically increase. Much of the general population
will become enforcers for the state, and will monitor
and report their neighbors in order to gain favor. It
seems logical as well, that social scoring will become
a distinct possibility, in order to add another layer
of control to this society. Markets will eventually
collapse, and what little savings are left will be
depleted. As all this happens, the dollar will likely
be replaced over time with digital currency so that
each and every transaction can be monitored and
scrutinized. This is the “Great Reset,” after all, and
all the warning signs have been evident for many
years, but blind indifference and voluntary obedience
have led to the possible end of humanity as it has
ever been perceived.
All the common people
are enemies of this state, but those of us refusing to
go along are going to face extreme hatred by our
fellow men. We will be targeted, abused, and accused
of causing any manner of public ills, and also of
allowing the perpetuation of this state terror. We
will be said to have caused mass death because we
refuse to take the poison being administered by the
real criminals. We will be hated by the government and
the people at large as well, and may in the future
even be hunted, jailed, or worse. None can force
sanity on others, or make them protect themselves, so
I am speaking to those that stand up and question
authority, not to those that continue to acquiesce to
their masters.
In my
estimation, there will soon be violence in the
streets; which could lead to medical and martial law.
The more that refuse to accept this totalitarian
domination, the better, as time has run out, but if a
very large number of excess deaths occur this fall and
winter as I expect, the wheels of tyranny will turn
faster and faster in an attempt to finish this
long-planned coup to capture and control the bodies
and minds of humanity. At that point, we will have
already lost, especially those living in the highest
population areas such as cities.
I realize all this
sounds far-fetched to most, but then most have no idea
of what is coming. We are not in Kansas anymore.
Source links:
They
are going after the children
Fauci
optimistic about vaccinating all kids
Children
are the test animals of the elite
Cyber
Polygon 2021
From
“Event 201” to “Cyber Polygon”
People
have no idea what is coming
Covid
lockdowns will become climate lockdowns
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“Liberty is not for
these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it
against their conscience. On the contrary, I am
strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel
all they please before whatever fraud or combination
of frauds they choose to venerate…Our whole
practical government is grounded in mob psychology
and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command
that promises to make him safer.”
— H.
L. Mencken
2021-07-04
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THE
STATE OF THE DISUNION
VIII
BREAKING: The
nation’s largest teachers union has approved a
plan
to promote critical race theory in all 50
states and 14,000 local school districts.
The
argument that “critical race theory isn’t in
K-12 schools” is officially dead.
pic.twitter.com/BMRDoAK0sA
—
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 3, 2021
2021-07-04
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THE STATE OF THE DISUNION VII
D. J. Trump last night in Sarasota:
“I wonder
what I will be proved right about next? Perhaps it
will be the election.” 💯💯💯
— Liz Harrington
(@realLizUSA) July 4, 2021
*
2021-07-04
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THE
STATE OF THE DISUNION VI
(Parents, this is what happens
when you outsource your
children's education to
leftists, progressives and
socialists.)
Are
you paying attention yet?
'I'm embarrassed
to be American'
Campus video from
Georgetown sees students struggle to articulate
pride in the US on July 4
— Jack
Posobiec @JackPosobiec July 4, 2021
2021-07-04
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THE STATE OF THE DISUNION V
(Antifa, the American Taliban, are the shock troops of a
deranged elite.)
So
antifa attacked lesbian women, older women,
Hispanics, videographers, & an
Asian man at their “anti-racism” event in Los
Angeles. This is why you don’t cede
the self-identification to antifa. Their actions
should define them.
—
Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 3, 2021
*
Antifa mob attacked a woman protesting
peacefully outside Wi Spa in Los Angeles.
The spa was at the center of a recent viral
video where a woman complained to staff
that a person with a penis exposed their
genitals to women & girls.
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 3, 2021
*
You’re
gonna get your ass knocked out”
Antifa threaten, follow &
hit a Latino couple accused of “transphobia” at the
violent
protest outside Wi Spa in Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/gEgt1FLq3M
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 3, 2021
2021-07-04
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THE STATE OF THE DISUNION IV
2021-07-04
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THE STATE OF THE DISUNION III
(Happy 91st birthday, Dr.
Sowell.)
"Some
of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are
among intellectuals who have
trouble remembering that they are not God."
— Thomas
Sowell @ThomasSowell June
12, 2021
2021-07-04
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THE STATE OF THE DISUNION II
The
Preamble of the U.S. Constitution
We the People of the
United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defence, promote the general
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to
ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish
this Constitution for the United States of America.
Thus starts our
descent toward totalitarianism. I would rather the 13
original colonies had kept the Articles of
Confederation. The Articles would have limited so much
of the ensuing mischief. The voluntary nature of the
union and the limitations on a central government
would have preserved individual (and state) liberty.
It really was a "Coup in Philadelphia" that gave us a
strong central government along with de facto rule by
federal judges unaccountable to
We the People..
2021-07-04
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THE STATE OF THE DISUNION I
Declaration
of Independence
Thursday, July 4, 1776
When in the course of
human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal station to which the
laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires
that they should declare the causes which impel them
to the separation.
We hold these truths
to be self-evident:
That all men are
created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights; that among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to
secure these rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed; that whenever any form of government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of
the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new government, laying its foundation on such
principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as
to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety
and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments long established should not be changed for
light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object,
evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such government, and to provide new guards
for their future security. Such has been the patient
sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to alter their former
systems of government. The history of the present King
of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute tyranny over these
states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a
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MANIPULATION X (California schoolteacher,
Alex Gutentag, says, cut the Covid
crap.)
The War on Reality
As the mainstream narrative about the
origin of COVID-19 falls apart, it’s time to put
other widely accepted facts about the virus—and
the devastating measures they were used to
justify—under the same scrutiny
On March 13, 2020, the
public school district where I teach announced that
all classrooms and buildings would be closed for two
weeks. Then two weeks turned into two months, and two
months turned into over a full year without in-person
instruction. My school serves a diverse population of
low-income students in the San Francisco Bay Area. It
is impossible to overstate the severity of this
disruption caused by school closures for these
students, many of whom did not have a computer or
internet at home when virtual learning began. Online,
my students got only a fraction of the regular
curriculum. Kids who had once loved the social aspects
of school were left with only the parts of school they
hated, and students with disabilities who depended on
school for daily living needs were cut off from a
vital service.
“Public health”
and “the safety of our children” came to mean
students Zooming from homeless encampments,
experiencing severe abuse, regressing
academically, falling into depression, going
hungry, struggling through catastrophic learning
loss, and, in the saddest cases, not making it
through the year alive. Despite consistent
evidence that schools were not sites of high
transmission for COVID-19, many teachers failed to
put aside baseless fears about classroom
superspreading and rampant infection. As a result,
many of the most vulnerable children in our
society suffered outrageous hardships, while their
affluent peers attended private schools in person.
We’ve all been told that school closures and
lockdowns were mandated by science, but what if
these mandates were immoral? What if they were
based on a series of lies? In fact, what if the
entire rationale for most restrictions was
actually rotten to the core?
We’re watching
the mainstream pandemic narrative starting to
unravel. While the Senate and House intelligence
committees investigate the origins of SARS-CoV-2,
many reporters are openly wondering why they
initially dismissed the lab leak hypothesis as
“misinformation.” Few in media consider the
possibility that their approach to the theory was
not an anomaly, but rather a long-established
pattern of journalistic dereliction of duty. For
the public, these renewed questions about the
virus (and their hard-to-face answers) speak to a
deep sense that something is amiss in the story
we’ve been told by major media outlets. But
gain-of-function research is just the tip of the
iceberg.
A trove of media
darling Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails was recently released
to the public. The emails reveal early assertions
that asymptomatic transmission is rare, that
post-infection immunity is highly likely, and that
masks are “not really effective.” However, you
wouldn’t know that from the public messaging since
the start of the pandemic, in which bureaucrats
and journalists upheld lasting misconceptions that
asymptomatic cases are dangerous, natural immunity
is not a factor in protecting the population, and
individuals are responsible for viral spread.
These misconceptions fueled countless months of
lockdowns, business closures, and job losses,
pushing millions of people into poverty and
despair through the destructive lie that stringent
“sick until proven healthy” interventions save
lives.
In reality, the
rushed doomsday forecasts and commitment to
politically correct pseudoscience prompted leaders
to abandon decades of pandemic planning. This not
only had disastrous economic consequences, but it
also exacerbated the effects of COVID-19 itself.
And rather than swiftly correct their errors,
public health officials and politicians doubled
down, manipulated data, and blamed ordinary people
for the failure of nonsensical policies. The
uncomfortable truth is that “The Science” did not
protect vulnerable populations. Instead, “expert”
advice served only to make the pandemic more
deadly and replace the scientific process with
destructive anti-science.
Saving
Lives by Killing People
In December 2020,
35% of Americans believed that half of the
people with COVID-19 required hospitalization. The
correct figure was 1%-5%. Americans also estimated
that the share of COVID-19 deaths for people
between 18 and 24 was 8%. It was actually 0.1%.
These incorrect assumptions were influenced by
anecdotes, shocking media coverage, and early
projections like the influential Imperial College
model, which threatened that without lockdowns
there would be 40
million COVID-19 deaths worldwide. The model
assumed an infection fatality rate (IFR) of 0.9%, but the actual IFR
of COVID-19 is 0.15% and the median IFR
for people under 70 is 0.05%.
As a result of
mistaken prognostications like this, the media
compared COVID-19 to the 1918 influenza pandemic,
for which the average age of death was 28. For COVID-19 the
average age of death is 73, and about half of
all deaths are in people 80
or older. While the CDC projected a one-year
decrease in life expectancy for the U.S.
population, the overall decrease in life
expectancy was only five
days,
and the U.S.’s excess mortality in
2017
was greater than its excess mortality in 2020.
There is no
better example of the harm created by flawed
simulations, and the subsequent misguided
interventions, than New York’s disastrous nursing
home policy. While Gov. Andrew Cuomo landed a $5
million book deal and won an Emmy for his
televised briefings, conditions on the ground for
COVID-19 patients in his state were catastrophic.
Over 9,000 elderly COVID-19
patients were sent from hospitals back to nursing
homes. Additionally, Cuomo required group homes
for people with intellectual
disabilities to take COVID-19 patients and attempted
to issue a blanket
DNR
guideline for all cardiac patients in New York
City. He also denied nursing homes’
requests for testing kits, ignored the concerns of
families, and gave immunity to nursing home
executives. This resulted in the deaths of nearly
15,000 long-term-care
patients.
These deaths did
not occur because Cuomo ignored scientists and
researchers. They occurred precisely because Cuomo
was adhering to predictions from his team of
experts who projected the need for 140,000
hospital beds and 40,000 ICUs. Ultimately, New
York’s actual bed and ICU use peaked in mid-April
at 18,825 and 5,225, respectively. The deadly
decisions the governor’s office made were
motivated by a perceived need to save resources
and space—a manufactured imperative based on
fictitious IFR figures and a baseless belief in
universal risk.
Moreover,
although some New York hospitals were overwhelmed,
many were not. While Elmhurst hospital in Queens
was at full capacity in April, the hospital had 26
new ambulances to take patients to 3,500
empty beds in New York City, many within a 20-minute
drive. Because of panic induced by horrific
forecasts, New York City doctors cited the need
for “wartime
ethics” when advising patients and families
about DNRs. At some hospitals, doctors were
informally allowed to override patients’ desires for
medical intervention. These ethical violations
were urged on by crazed media coverage and an
environment of psychological terror, but they were
not justified by the true level of danger involved
in treating patients.
Despite concerns
about hospital beds and ICUs, field
hospitals across the country remained largely
empty, costing taxpayers $660 million despite the
fact that most of them did not serve any patients.
Cuomo’s nursing home order was replicated by four
other Democratic governors, and one-third of all
American deaths from the virus are now linked to
nursing homes. As a consequence of these
practices, New York State has the second-highest
COVID-19 mortality rate in the country.
Following
the Science
Three of the top
four
states in overall COVID-19 mortality have
Democratic governors who “followed the science”
long after the initial promises that it would only
take “two weeks to flatten the curve.” Although
these states have high population density, density
is often associated with lower
COVID-19 death rates. After Texas Gov.
Greg Abbott lifted all his state’s restrictions in
April, Texas saw no resulting surge in cases,
hospitalizations, or deaths. In fact, many states
that continued restrictions saw higher cases and
deaths than states that lifted restrictions early.
These trends
are consistent with dozens of peer-reviewed
studies and retrospective analyses indicating
that stay-at-home orders did
not have an impact on rates of fatal
infection and that comparisons between many
countries do not show superior outcomes from
lockdowns. Besides hospitals, nursing homes, and
other health care settings, households show some of the highest
rates of transmission, while the share of
transmission that has happened outdoors is less
than 0.1%. Furthermore, vitamin
D
and exercise have both been
linked to better outcomes for COVID-19 patients.
In the U.S. 78% of people
hospitalized for COVID-19 were overweight or
obese. Lockdowns caused Americans to gain an
average of two
pounds per month and reduce their
daily steps by 27%, thereby increasing
the likelihood of adverse COVID-19 outcomes.
Not only were
government orders confining people to their
homes highly detrimental, but the early
recommended treatment procedures for the virus
were often fatal. Although experts and the media
claimed that ventilators were lifesaving, death
rates in most states actually dropped
dramatically once the use of ventilators was
abandoned in favor of other treatments. In order
to meet what was supposed to be an astronomical
medical demand, the U.S. spent $3 billion
manufacturing ventilators, but by August 2020,
the Department of Health and Human Services had
distributed only 15,057 ventilators, leaving
95,713 of them untouched in a federal
stockpile.
Usually, 40%-50% of patients in
severe respiratory distress die on ventilators,
but in New York City the death rate for COVID-19
patients on ventilators was 88%. Hospital staff
often intubated patients prematurely or left
them on ventilators for 10-15
days. Patients were given unusually heavy
sedatives so that staff would be able to check on
them less frequently. U.S. hospitals received $13,000 for each Medicare
COVID-19 patient and $39,000 for each Medicare
patient they intubated. These patients were
separated from their families and had no one to
advocate for them. Many people died after
terrified doctors, misinformed about the scale
of the risks, used intubation as a way to avoid
virus exposure.
When lockdowns
began, commentators referred to herd immunity as
a “genocidal” concept that meant exposing
vulnerable people to disease. That is actually
what happens when natural immunity is prevented.
Lockdowns limit and delay the acquired immunity
of the younger population, making older people
more vulnerable to exposure,
especially in the absence of focused protection
measures. Long-lasting
immunity from COVID-19 is acquired after mild or
asymptomatic cases, and sensational stories
about “long
COVID” and “COVID
heart” have been debunked. In-person learning
was not correlated with higher rates
of student illness and school closures may have
actually worsened death rates.
Clearly,
quarantining the healthy did exactly the
opposite of what was sold to the public: It
increased non-COVID-19 excess deaths while
leaving elderly and immunocompromised people
completely unprotected. While some may excuse
the destructiveness of lockdowns as a simple
error, the sheer volume of reversals public
health officials have made during the pandemic
paints a picture of bureaucrats intentionally
misleading the public in order to cover up their
failures or pursue agendas unrelated to public
health.
Moving
the Goal Posts
Experts have
consistently taken an imprecise approach to
statistics, changed their minds, and withheld
information while claiming the mantle of
“scientific consensus.” Over the summer of 2020,
the WHO quietly changed its definition of herd
immunity from protection acquired through both
natural immunity and vaccination to one acquired
only through vaccination. Similarly, in December
2020, Fauci declared that he was changing his
estimate for vaccination rates needed to achieve
herd immunity from 60% to 90%. When asked for a
scientific rationale, Fauci said he changed the
percentage based purely on polling that
indicated more Americans were willing to take
the COVID-19 vaccine.
When lockdowns
failed to yield meaningful mitigation results,
public health agencies that had previously
recommended against masking changed their
position. Although simulations suggested that 80%
mask compliance would do more to stop the spread
of COVID-19 than lockdowns, regional analysis in
the United States does
not show that mandates had any effect on case
rates, despite 93% compliance.
Moreover, according to CDC data, 85%
of
people who contracted COVID-19 reported wearing
a mask.
Research has
shown that once unquestioned rules like 6
feet for social distancing are arbitrary and
not actually associated with lower transmission.
Reporting of death and hospitalization rates was
also inexact, and mass asymptomatic testing
distorted public understanding of the virus. Ninety-five
percent of COVID-19 deaths had an average of
four related underlying conditions and the CDC’s
death count includes “deaths involving
unintentional and intentional injury.” As a
result of testing children hospitalized for
unrelated conditions, the number of pediatric
COVID-19 hospitalizations was exaggerated by at
least 40%.
The PCR testing
protocol for COVID-19 was based on a paper by
Christian Drosten, which was peer-reviewed and
published within just two days in a journal on
whose editorial board Drosten sits. The method
was created “without
having virus material available,” using instead a
genetic sequence published online. The PCR test
amplifies genetic material of the virus in
cycles but does not determine whether a case is
infectious. A higher number of cycles indicates
a lower viral load. The cycle threshold for PCR
tests used in the U.S. was usually limited at 37
or 40, highly sensitive levels. In July 2020,
Fauci remarked that at these levels, a positive
result is “just
dead nucleotides, period.”
For vaccinated
Americans, the CDC has lowered the cycle
threshold for “breakthrough infections” to only
28
cycles and announced that post-vaccine cases
will only be counted if they result in hospitalization
or death. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky stated
that vaccinated Americans who died and tested
positive for COVID-19 merely died “with” COVID-19, not
“from” COVID-19. This method of tallying would
eliminate many pre-vaccine cases. It is also
likely that 85%-90% of tests that are
positive at a cycle threshold of 40 would be
negative at a cycle threshold of 30.
Despite this
lack of accurate data, authorities have
consistently scapegoated members of the public
as “anti-maskers” or “anti-vaxxers” responsible
for prolonging the pandemic. They have used
divisive messaging and disorienting scare
tactics in order to justify months of COVID-19
restrictions that were based on dogma, not on
science.
Scientific
Inversion
Our current
state of scientific inversion has sown intense
division in the U.S. and threatens to rip apart
the social fabric. For the past 16 months, the
public has been told that it is our duty to
serve the needs of medical institutions and
personnel, not the other way around. Effective
low-cost therapeutics like ivermectin were
dismissed in favor of a vaccine program that
transferred billions of dollars from taxpayers
to pharmaceutical executives and shareholders.
Critics of measures like school closures were
accused of far-right white supremacy, even
though these measures were most damaging to
working-class people and minorities. Deadly
policies were portrayed as lifesaving, and
public health protocols caused immense clinical
damage.
A few people
have benefited from this war on reality while
many have paid a heavy price. In 2020, workers
lost $3.7
trillion, while billionaires gained $3.9
trillion and 493 new individuals
became billionaires. During this same period,
decades of progress against diseases like malaria and
tuberculosis were reversed. Disruptions to
health and nutrition services killed 228,000
children in South Asia. Globally, the impact of
lockdowns on health programs, food production,
and supply chains plunged millions of people into
severe hunger and malnutrition.
In the U.S., we
are facing a crisis of cardiovascular disease and
undiagnosed cancer. Unemployment shock
will cause 890,000
additional deaths over the next 15
years. Overdoses from synthetic opioids
increased by 38.4%, and 11%
of U.S. adults considered suicide
last June. Three
million children disappeared from public school
systems, and ERs saw a 31% increase in
adolescent mental health visits.
Now, the stories that were used to
justify these hardships are continuing to
unravel. Many of the
people responsible will insist that the
second-order consequences are the horrible
symptoms of a magic virus and that the
mistakes made in handling such a crisis were
inevitable. But preventing young children from
reaching crucial developmental milestones in
the face of mounting evidence is not just a
“mistake.” Forcing hospital patients to die
alone without saying goodbye to their families
is not just a “mistake.” Pushing millions of
people into poverty and starvation is not just
a “mistake.” These are
crimes.
Basic
civil, human, and economic rights were
violated under demonstrably fraudulent
pretenses. The sacrifices we thought we were
making for the common good were sacrifices
made in vain. Unlawful lockdowns demoralized
the population and ruined lives. The tragic
reality is that this was all for nothing. The
only way to prevent these events from
recurring is to exhaustively investigate not
just the origin of the virus, but every
corrupt and misguided decision made by
politicians, NGOs, public health
organizations, and scientific institutions
made since its fateful emergence. (read
more)
2021-07-03
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MANIPULATION IX (Yet
another Affirmative Action hire is NOT working
out.)
Vice
President Kamala Harris's aides are in a panic,
stating she is "f*cking up"
and perhaps "shouldn't be the heir apparent" for
2024. https://t.co/ALui8OIhjV
— Breitbart News
(@BreitbartNews) July
2, 2021
*
Top White
House officials are mobilizing to defend Vice
President Kamala Harris
amid a gusher of leaks about dysfunction and
infighting in her office.
https://t.co/p0lRYP0f2w
— Jack
Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) July
2, 2021
*
But, Revolver News
reported that Harris’s staffers refer to Biden’s
staffers as, “passengers on the Titanic.”.
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MANIPULATION VIII (Is regime propaganda less
effective?)
"How
likely is it that cheating affected the outcome of
the 2020 presidential election?"
Very or Somewhat Likely-
White – 51%
Black – 49%
Oth Non-White
– 56%
Dem – 30%
Unaffil – 51%
GOP – 74%
All Voters –
51%
— Rasmussen Reports
(@Rasmussen_Poll) July
2, 2021
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MANIPULATION VII (it's blatant and obvious)
There's no
conspiracy to uncover here. You need only visit a
regime bookstore
today, look over the last half-century of sociology
and other humanities "research",
or examine the content of popular media.
— Valoric Fire
(@GorhamHarland) July
1, 2021
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MANIPULATION VI (Allegedly,
both Bill and Hill were manipulated using nubile, YOUNG
girls.)
BREAKING:
Judge rules to unseal dozens of documents about
Ghislaine Maxwell's
personal affairs, including Jeffrey Epstein's
relationship with the Clintons including
'funding received from the Clinton Global Initiative
and the Clinton Foundation'
https://t.co/rSzySxQfGJ
— Jack Posobiec
(@JackPosobiec) July
1, 2021
2021-07-03
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MANIPULATION
V (the only way an ugly black
comedian could get dozens (or
hundreds) of white girls to sleep
with him)
2021-07-03
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MANIPULATION IV (Barrett & Kavanaugh joined liberals
in refusing to hear case)
WHAT SORT OF
"CONSERVATIVES" DID TRUMP NOMINATE?
Barronelle
Stutzman kindly served a gay customer for YEARS
before declining to make art
for a ceremony that's sacred in her religion. She
was sued & persecuted for acting on deeply
held beliefs.
SCOTUS'
decision not to hear this case is disappointing ––
but our fight isn't over. pic.twitter.com/w4gDao518r
— Alliance Defending Freedom (@AllianceDefends) July
2, 2021
2021-07-03
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MANIPULATION III (New York
Times bestseller list has all
the latent qualities of a $3.00 bill.)
Michael Knowles skyrockets to
#1 on Amazon after NYT's snub
A spokeswoman for The
New York Times
vowed that the outlet’s "confidential" standards for
determination on the bestsellers list are applied
"consistently."
Speechless by
Michael Knowles of the eponymous Daily Wire show
has skyrocketed to the top spot on Amazon across all
categories.
Knowles, author of
the wordless classic Reasons
to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive
Guide, has written another book that's topping
the charts.
Knowles sold
almost 18,000 copies of Speechless in the week ending
June 26, thousands ahead of runner ups by former
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly and New Yorker writer Malcolm
Gladwell, according to Publisher's
Weekly.
What's peculiar
is that Knowles wrote the top-selling nonfiction
book in the nation, yet the work is absent from
The
New York Times bestselling
list of the top 15 books showcased by the
left-wing publication for the same week.
Instead, the
outlet lists books like On Juneteenth, which according to
BookScan sold less than 5,000 copies that week,
just over one quarter as many sales as Knowles
has garnered. Holding the #13 spot is Somebody's
Daughter, a memoir about "growing up a poor
Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented
by incarceration," which does not appear
anywhere on the Publisher's Weekly chart.
The New
York Times says its list is
based on sales figures, but it gets its data on
a "confidential basis" from select booksellers,
then estimates total sales based on
extrapolation, the Daily Wire reports. "The panel of
reporting retailers is comprehensive and
reflects sales in tens of thousands of stores of
all sizes and demographics across the United
States," the Times methodology says.
The site claims
its rankings reflect unit sales reported by
vendors "offering a wide range of general
interest titles published in the United States."
That means the
Times numbers aren't
expected to track the same as BookScan's
figures, which form the basis for lists
published by The Wall Street Journal and other review
publications, the Daily Wire reports.
Regnery
president Tom Spence, who leads the publishing
house responsible for Knowles's book, said
something was clearly off, if the work is
reported to have vastly outsold every other
nonfiction work, according to BookScan, but
didn’t even rank in the top 15 by the Times standard.
"One result of
the BookScan service, which now reports almost
all retail book sales, is that there are two
kinds of bestseller lists: those that reflect
how many books have been sold, and the New York
Times list, which reflects — who knows what? The
omission (once again) of the week’s bestselling
book from the Times' so-called bestseller list
confirms that fact-free journalism has found a
comfortable home at the former newspaper of
record," commented Spence.
The
response from the Times solidifies the
double standard, in which the outlet's
rankings of books is editorialized. The publication
told Daily
Wire that the book didn't meet its
"standards for inclusion this week."
"The New York
Times's best-seller lists are based on a
detailed analysis of book sales from a wide
range of retailers who provide us with specific
and confidential context of their sales each
week. These standards are applied consistently,
across the board in order to provide Times readers our best
assessment of what books are the most broadly
popular at that time," the Times spokeswoman said in
an email.
But to combat
the notion of political bias, the Times spokeswoman added
that other books published by Regenry includes
works by Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz
(R-TX) were included in its past listings. (read
more)
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MANIPULATION II (DARPA's creation, Google/YouTube, bares
its fascist fangs)
Trump rally videos removed by
YouTube, broadcaster RSBN suspended
On Friday afternoon,
Right Side Broadcasting Network revealed on Twitter
that several videos of former President Donald Trump
at recent events were deleted from the account's
YouTube channel despite amassing millions of views.
Videos of Trump at the
Save America rally in Wellington, Ohio last week, as
well as footage of Trump's speech at the North
Carolina GOP Convention were removed. The Ohio address
broke 3 million views alone earlier this week, RSBN
states.
According to a photo
RSBN posted, YouTube struck down the three videos
because the footage violated Community
Guidelines, the site alleges.
The policy
that YouTube claims RSBN broke regards "spam,
deceptive practices and scams." According to the
video-sharing platform's Help Center, the site doesn't
allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that
"take advantage of the YouTube community" and content
is prohibited where "the main purpose is to trick
others into leaving YouTube for another site." (read
more)
2021-07-03
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MANIPULATION I (the controlled opposition as a honeypot
trap)
"Is it possible that the Oath Keepers, the most
prominent antigovernment group in the United States, has
been run, in effect, by the United States government
itself — and nobody has mentioned it until now?"
Federal Protection of “Oath
Keepers” Kingpin Stewart Rhodes Breaks The Entire
Capitol “Insurrection” Lie Wide Open
[...]
The Justice Department argues
that Stewart Rhodes both substantially organized
and activated an imputed plan to use violence, on
1/6, in real-time, through a series of encrypted
Signal messages beginning at 1:38 p.m., as Trump
concluded his rally speech on the National Mall,
and 62 minutes before Oath Keepers lieutenants
allegedly formed a “military stack” to rush the
Capitol doors.
These facts alone, as
alleged, are more than legally sufficient to
secure an indictment of Stewart Rhodes. We will
walk you through the mountains of direct and
circumstantial evidence built on top of these
allegations, but readers must understand this: the
only reason Stewart Rhodes is not in jail *right
now* is because of a deliberate decision by the
Justice Department to protect him.
Indeed, it is
unclear whether the FBI has even sought to search
Stewart Rhodes’s residence, personal belongings, or
electronic devices, other
than a single iPhone allegedly seized on the
streets from agents in unmarked FBI vehicles in
late April (since returned). For reasons discussed
below, there is good reason to suspect the FBI will
pursue a tightly controlled and very limited scope
of investigation into Stewart Rhodes,. Beyond that
narrow scope, they may not want the information they
are likely to find.
Why doesn’t
anyone at the FBI or DOJ want him?
If 1/6 was
an “insurrection,” why protect the one man who,
more than any other individual referenced in the
charging documents of the 530+
open criminal cases, comes closest to the media’s
ravenous description of a “lead insurrectionist?”
Is it possible that
the Oath Keepers, the most prominent antigovernment
group in the United States, has been run, in effect,
by the United States government itself — and nobody
has mentioned it until now?
Revolver News generated tremendous
discussion and controversy with our
previous piece exploring the possibility that some of the
unindicted individuals referred to in the 1/6
charging documents may be undercover agents or
informants.
With this piece, we
intend to focus this discussion on a single
individual, Person One; i.e., Stewart Rhodes — the
leader of the Oath Keepers.
If it turns out
that Stewart Rhodes has had a relationship with the
federal government, the implications would be
nothing short of staggering.
For Stewart Rhodes is not just a senior
member of the Oath Keepers, he is the
Oath Keepers. Given the fact that the
Oath Keepers are the major paramilitary organization
imputed (by government and media alike) to be
responsible for the most serious and egregious
elements of the so-called 1/6 insurrection, it
follows that it would not only be fair, but
necessary to conclude that in an essential respect
the 1/6 event was planned and orchestrated by
elements of the government itself.
In other words, 1/6
was not the result of an intelligence failure as FBI
Director Christopher Wray, the US Senate, and the
media tells us. Rather, 1/6 was the result of an
intelligence set-up.
The following
questions should be shouted from every megaphone,
every street corner, and every Congressional lectern
until the American people get full and complete
answers:
- Does the FBI
now, or has it ever, maintained a formal or
informal relationship or point of contact with
Stewart Rhodes, whether directly or indirectly,
including through intermediaries?
- Do any other
Federal counterintelligence equities, whether in
military, intelligence or law enforcement,
including but not limited to Army
Counterintelligence, the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) the Joint Terrorism Task Force
(JTTF), or otherwise, maintain or have they ever
maintained a formal or informal relationship with
Stewart Rhodes, whether directly or indirectly,
including through intermediaries?
- If such a
confidential relationship did exist between
Stewart Rhodes and one or more U.S.
counterintelligence equities, how do the FBI and
other responsible agencies reconcile the enormous
gravity of this omission from their previous
deflections, non-answers, and boilerplate that
they had “no actionable intelligence” before 1/6?
- If such a
confidential relationship did exist between
Stewart Rhodes and one or more U.S.
counterintelligence equities, does this explain
the FBI and Justice Department’s failure to pursue
criminal actions against Stewart Rhodes in
similarly high-profile “right-wing conspiracy
plots” in which Rhodes appears to have played a
similarly driving role?
- More
specifically, did the FBI or any other U.S.
counterintelligence equities maintain a discrete
or confidential relationship with Stewart Rhodes
during the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff? Was this
fact dispositive in the Justice Department’s
decision to charge 19 defendants — including
certain of Stewart Rhodes’s alleged Oath Keepers
underlings — for conspiracy to obstruct a legal
proceeding, and to spare Rhodes of similar
charges?
- Has the FBI even
procured a search warrant for Stewart Rhodes’s
personal residence and home electronics? If so, on
what dates and what specific categories of
evidence were sought?
- If Stewart
Rhodes is subsequently arrested after the date of
this report (given the pressure these revelations
are likely to generate), how does the Justice
Department explain its failure to indict Stewart
Rhodes on conspiracy charges for nearly six
months, when its declared purpose for seeking bail
denial for simple trespassers was the DOJ’s stated
need to prevent “the immediate danger to the
community” defendants allegedly posed? Given that
multiple Oath Keepers were charged before the
January 20th inauguration citing the need to stop
their “immediate danger,” why did the DOJ not file
immediate charges against Rhodes, and then make a
superseding indictment later in time, as is their
routine practice in 1/6 cases?
Stewart
Rhodes and the “Shock and Awe” Standard
Before we turn to
Stewart Rhodes’ statements and behavior leading up to
and during 1/6, it is important to keep in mind the
so-called “shock and awe” standard of prosecution
applied to those actually indicted for 1/6 related
crimes.
Lead 1/6 prosecutor Michael Sherwin explains this
“Shock and Awe” standard in his own words:
Here is a partial transcript of Shwerin’s interview
above:
Sherwin:
I wanted to ensure, and our office wanted to
ensure, that there was shock and awe. That we
could charge as many people as possible before
[January] 20th. And it worked because we saw
through media posts that people were afraid to
come back to D.C., because they were like, ‘If we
go there, we’re going to get charged.’
…
We wanted to take out
those individuals who were thumbing their noses at
the public for what they did…
Narrator: Sherwin told
us that the most serious cases so far focus on
about two dozen members of far right militias.
In this article we focus our scrutiny
and our suspicion on one individual, Person One,
otherwise known as Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the
paramilitary Oath Keepers group. In keeping
with the structure of our previous report, we will
examine the as-of-yet unindicted Mr. Rhodes’ actions
and statements in light of the Shock and Awe standard
of prosecution described above.
[...]
As we conclude this section, it is important to take
stock of the material presented so far. Given the
above selection of Stewart Rhodes’s actions and words
leading up to and on 1/6, and given
that Rhodes is the leader of the major militia group
associated with 1/6 — why no indictment for Rhodes?
This pressing and decisive question cannot be
considered in isolation. Instead, as we have argued
throughout this series, it must be
considered in light of the maximally severe standard
of “Shock and Awe” prosecution applied to those
indicted for 1/6 crimes. After having looked
at Rhodes’s statements and actions leading up to 1/6,
and noting that a sandwich shop owner George Tanios
faces 60 years for the utterance “no, no, not yet,” is it not bizarre that Mr. Rhodes hasn’t
yet been indicted?
At the time of writing, countless
Americans are being held in prison under abusive and
unjust conditions for minor if not non-existent
offenses related to 1/6. The reason for such
severity is the notion that 1/6 was an attempt at an
insurrection, an organized and planned attempt to
“siege” the Capitol and obstruct the healthy
functioning of our democracy. And yet, when we examine
the evidence, it appears that the overwhelming share
of “insurrectionist” words and actions associated with
1/6 come from the Oath Keepers organization. How then
do we explain hundreds of Ordinary Joes rotting in
prison and George Tanios facing 60 years in light of
the leader and founder of the Oath Keepers, Stewart
Rhodes, being charged with nothing?
Now is the time to emphasize another caveat. While we
strenuously disagree with Rhodes’s rhetoric about
“bloody civil war” and insurrections, the purpose of
this is not to take issue with or criticize all of the
Oath Keepers’ beliefs. Some of the Oath Keepers’
stated beliefs seem very reasonable — their stated
resistance to totalitarian overreach, skepticism about
the 2020 Presidential election, support for the 2nd
Amendment and so forth.
Precisely because many patriots will find much of the
Oath Keepers’ beliefs reasonable and attractive, we
have no doubt that many members of the Oath Keepers
organization are good, well-meaning patriots (and many
veterans) who simply found the wrong outlet and
organization to fight against the corrupt ruling class
of our country.
We sympathize with these patriots and the position
they’re in. But the reality is that it
is very unlikely that any organization or militia
with the stated purpose of the Oath Keepers to
recruit law enforcement officers and veterans can
help but become, in effect, a
honeypot trap. And this is what we
believe the Oath Keepers is at the highest
organizational level, and we believe the overwhelming
share of evidence indicates that Stewart
Rhodes’s primary purpose is to fulfill this
deceptive function on behalf of elements within the
government.
Finally, we re-emphasize our earlier caveat. The
purpose of this expose is not to target Mr. Rhodes
personally nor are we interested in him being
indicted. Our interest is in the
federal infiltration, involvement and foreknowledge
of 1/6.
In the following section, we will draw upon the
information above among other important details and
observations to make a more focused legal case for
conspiracy that could be the basis of the indictment
of Mr. Rhodes. The notion that it would be difficult
to put together such an indictment is simply not
sustainable. Again, the purpose here is not to
encourage Rhodes’ indictment per se but to draw careful attention
to the by now unavoidable conclusion that he’s being
protected. The following section is especially
important for the army of regime media “fact
checkers” who inevitably will descend like hyenas upon
this groundbreaking, dangerous, and yet vitally
important investigative piece. (read
more)
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"Well aware that the
opinions and belief of men depend not on their own
will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed
to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the
mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free
it shall remain by making it altogether
insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to
influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens,
or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget
habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a
departure from the plan of the holy author of our
religion. No man shall be compelled to frequent or
support any religious worship or ministry or shall
otherwise suffer on account of his religious
opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to
profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions
in matters of religion. I know but one code of
morality for men whether acting singly or
collectively."
— Thomas
Jefferson, A Bill for
Establishing Religious Freedom
2021-07-02
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UNCOMMONLY HOIST WITH ONE'S OWN PETARD
California Begs For More
Electricity As Shift To Renewable Power Leaves State
In The Dark
Maybe it's time to
admit that the whole "green" energy push is one big
farce
Six months after a
historic failure in the Texas power grid which
collapsed when various "renewable" sources of
electricity failed concurrently and dragged down the
entire network, California - that liberal utopia
powered by renewable power and/or unicorn flatulence -
realizes it is about to get Enroned, and has made an
urgent request for additional power supplies to avoid
blackouts this summer, an extraordinary step after
suffering from rolling outages less than a year ago.
State energy officials
asked the California Independent System Operator,
which runs most of the grid, to contract for
additional power capacity for July and August on
concern it won’t be able to meet demand during the
evening when solar production fades,
according to a joint
statement Thursday from grid, utility and energy
agencies. They didn’t say how much more power is
needed but one can guess it will be a lot.
Of course, there was a
convenient scapegoat on which to blame the collective
lack of competence: global warming.
“California is using
all available tools to increase electricity
reliability this summer,” the heads of the California
Energy Commission, California Public Utilities
Commission, and grid operator said citing
“unprecedented climate change-driven heat events,
which are occurring throughout the West in combination
with drought conditions that reduce hydroelectric
capacity.”
Right, it's always
someone else's fault that you could not properly
budget even a few months in advance after keeping
millions of people in the dark last year when
California again blamed... global warming. But if you
know there is global warming, and you suffer one
nightmare summer in the dark because of it, can't you
extrapolate at least a year into the future?
In California, the
answer is no.
Their statement
underscores California’s challenges in the coming
months as it begins summer already parched by drought
that’s leaving hydroelectric reservoirs at historic
lows. The state narrowly avoided rolling power outages
recently as extreme heat came early this year, and
with few new generation sources on the immediate
horizon supplies tighten when hot weather hits.
California has taken a
number of steps including adding battery storage
(which some may recall was a complete disaster last
summer) to prevent blackouts such as those in August,
when demand overwhelmed the grid. However, the state
has grown concerned that that the increases aren’t
enough, according to the letter.
Procuring additional
capacity “is taken out of an abundance of caution to
ensure electric reliability and preserve the public
health and safety of all Californians,” the officials
said. Their letter also cited delayed availability for
some thermal power plants and said some resources
expected to be running during the hottest months have
now been delayed.
Supply challenges are
mounting less than a year after a heat wave forced the
state’s first rolling outages in two decades, and
meeting demand is likely to be even harder this year
because long-range forecasts call for above-average
temperatures through September.
What is remarkable is
that even Bloomberg, which has been on a crusade to
crush non-green sources of power, admits that
California's problem is the state’s aggressive push to cut carbon
emissions by shifting to renewable energy.
Many gas-burning
plants have closed, which means electricity supplies
tighten at sunset as the production from solar
generation fades around sundown (good thing there are
no vampires or zombies in Cali, yet). What’s more, big
batteries being built to store solar power during the
day and resupply the grid in the evening won’t be
available by August and September, the state’s hottest
months.
In short, it's time
to admit that California's "green" push has been a
complete disaster, and is about to leave millions
of people in the dark during hot, sweaty days,
leading to countless deaths.
Of course, since we
are talking about the socialist paradise, this will
never happen, and instead locals have even more
brilliant ideas like for example paying people not to
use electricity.
“The short-term
strategy needs to be centered around incentivizing
demand reductions instead of increasing supply,” said
Abe Stanway, co-founder of Amperon Holdings Inc.,
which provides analysis to utilities and power
traders. "The best
way to reduce uncertainty around demand resources is
to simply pay consumers more to use less during peak
events."
Because while
electricity may not grow on trees in California but at
least money still does. (read
more)
2021-07-02
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UNCOMMON DETERMINATION
How A 10-Year-Old Girl’s Mom
Saved Her From Going Transgender
With permission, I share
a mother’s terrifying experience. Her story
illustrates how quickly and easily a ten-year-old
girl can be groomed into a cross-sex identity.
When I appeared on a
Heritage Foundation panel
discussion in 2019, I said
people are manufacturing trans gender kids. They are
hurting the most vulnerable members of our society
by encouraging children and adolescents to live as the
opposite sex, inject hormone blockers and cross-gender
hormones, and undergo surgeries that irrevocably alter
healthy body parts.
These
protocols are dangerous and unstudied, and shouldn’t
be pushed on children. Yet this madness rages on
like an unchecked forest fire.
I was
a transgender child who “transitioned” to female
as an adult. I lived as female for eight years, until
I woke up and admitted it wasn’t working. Counseling
led to emotional healing and my feelings of gender
dysphoria dissipated. Hormones and surgery were
unnecessary and physically harmed me. Now I use my
experience to mentor others who want to reclaim their
biological reality.
So, when a mother who
watched the panel discussion wrote me, saying, “The
video gave me the courage and helped me to take
control of my 10-year-old daughter’s wellbeing,” I
knew I needed to speak out again to
expose the manipulation that causes vulnerable
children to think they have a transgender identity.
With
this mother’s permission, I share her terrifying
experience of almost losing her young daughter in a
few short months. I’ve shortened her emails
for space and clarity. Her story illustrates how
easily a ten-year-old girl can be groomed into a
cross-sex identity, but for the intervention of her
mindful parents.
Ten-year-old Mindy (a
pseudonym) changed schools and left behind her friends
just before the school lockdowns, then attended school
virtually for the rest of fourth grade and all of
fifth grade. When she exhibited overwhelming stress,
her concerned parents took her to a counselor at the
pediatrician’s office. That started their nightmare.
Their story followed a
common five-step process I have seen numerous times.
Step 1. Exclude the
Parents
Separating parents
from their child is an excellent strategy to
manufacture trans kids. Away from the parents’
watchful eyes and protection, advocates are free to
indoctrinate the child into transgenderism.
Mindy was isolated for
six days in the hospital from her parents, who were
refused updates. Reflecting on this time, the mother
says, “She was hospitalized in February for out of the
blue with anxiety and depression…I’m still amazed this
happened in the first place and my husband and I
weren’t given any choice. They told us she was
suicidal and she needed to be taken to be evaluated in
house [hospitalized].”
“Three days turned
into 6 and they were trying to keep her
longer…refusing us updates or anything, so we told
them we were coming to get her with or without their
blessing… I was so overwhelmed leaving my daughter
there in the first place…not allowed to see her any
and only talking to her for about 3 minutes a day.
This is a 10-year-old that had only spent the night 3
times in her whole life away from home. This stay was
the direct result of a therapist talking to her
without our presence.”
After Mindy’s time in
the hospital, counselor appointments continued, but
again without the parents.
“My daughter was
talked to separately and myself and her father weren’t
allowed [to] participate or [get] any information
about the appointments,” the mother told me. “Where
are the parents’ rights in this? She is 10 years old.”
She’s right: parental
rights
are eroding under the pretense of transgender rights.
But these parents fought back.
Step 2. Leap to a
Diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria
For Mindy, what
started as “out of the blue” anxiety and depression
quickly escalated to a diagnosis of gender dysphoria,
the next crucial step in the manufacturing of trans
kids.
“She began counseling
at the pediatrics office and [they] quickly diagnosed
her with gender dysphoria (without telling us) and
possible Asperger’s in addition to the previous GAD
[Generalized Anxiety Disorder]. I felt like they did
not listen to me…I told the pediatrics office and
counselor that this started when my daughter changed
school… leaving her friends and the only school she
had ever been to. [Then] school became virtual [and]
nothing was normal.”
Notice how the
counselor didn’t listen to the parents and their
knowledge of their child. Obvious triggers—changing
schools, leaving friends behind, lockdowns, and the
resulting anxiety and depression—were ignored. To me,
this is reckless medical malpractice and it happens
far too frequently.
Notice, too, how the
counselor lept over Mindy’s co-existing issues in a
rush to affirm her in a transgender identity.
Depression, anxiety, Asperger’s, and GAD all have root
causes and corresponding treatments that have nothing
to do with gender identity.
I routinely hear from
people who regret identifying as the opposite sex who
say the counselor ignored all co-existing conditions.
This also happened to me. In doing this, the
therapists ruin the lives they claim to improve.
Step 3. Affirm the
Cross-Sex Identity
Studies show
that affirming a child in a cross-sex identity alters
the child’s psyche and puts a child on the path to
living as transgender. Without being pushed into
transgenderism, most
gender-confused children will re-identify with their
natural sex during puberty. In other words, their
feelings change, and they grow out of it.
Sometimes the parents
affirm the child’s dysphoria and cross-dress him or
her. More often, schools, counselors, and teachers
affirm and encourage children in a cross-sex identity
(new name, new pronouns, new wardrobe), and even keep
it a secret from the parents.
For ten-year-old
Mindy, her therapist was forthright enough,
thankfully, to inform Mindy’s parents that she
intended, without their permission or input, to start
calling Mindy by a male name. But Mindy’s mama bear
mother didn’t roll over. She took appropriate action.
“Well needless to say
I began researching this day and night. This is when I
found your video. I quickly requested her medical
records…of course the info was blacked out but the
gender dysphoria was on there.”
“We informed the same
therapist that she would not be coming back. We would
resume care elsewhere.”
Step 4. Glorify Trans
Identities
Manufacturing trans
kids wouldn’t be nearly so successful were it not for
entertainment glorifying trans identities, through
YouTube videos, children’s shows, video games, and
education. Children are attracted (and groomed)
through the influence of their peers, social media,
and teachers.
It’s easy to see why a
child who hits a rough period emotionally, or feels
socially awkward or isolated, would be drawn to
identifying as transgender as a means to acceptance
and attention.
Across the nation,
public schools include LGBT books and activities in
the curriculum,
as early as kindergarten, that romanticize those who
identify as transgender. (Parents, see this article
for concrete advice on fighting this in public
schools.) Online, communities and popular
apps are incubators, chock-full of
transgender-pushing accounts ready to indoctrinate a
vulnerable child. “Social
contagion” is now a major factor in teens
flocking to trans identities.
Mindy’s mom discovered
the negative influence of those communities when Mindy
made friends with two older kids online: “[Mindy]
began to have anxiety more frequently after talking to
them / panic attacks while online with these kids,”
the mother wrote. “My gut knew this played a part.”
Mindy’s observant
mother rightly sensed that Mindy’s online activity
contributed to her anxiety and confusion. Most of the
parents who contact me report their child has spent
too much time online in chat rooms or video games.
Many times, we discover the child was not gender
dysphoric at all.
Step 5. Vilify and Ban
All Differing Ideas
Anyone who has
questions the transgender narrative faces the charge
of “trans-phobic” and is ostracized. I’ve been called
trans-phobic because I tell my story of transition and
detransition. A distinguished child psychologist and
department chair was effectively fired
because he expressed the scientific fact that drugs
that block puberty or cross-sex hormones can endanger
a child’s long-term psychological health.
Major medical
associations have changed position statements to advocate
for political ideology over sound medical practice. In
20
states, counselors can lose their licenses if
they question a client’s transgender identification
instead of reinforcing it.
At the national
level, activists disguise the true intentions of
innocuous-sounding bills like the proposed Equality
Act and the Fairness for All Act. Both bills ban
therapy and punish all who question transitioning for
children.
Loss of freedom is the
result. Individual health professionals must comply or
lose their livelihood. Concerned parents can’t find a
counselor who will challenge the diagnosis of gender
dysphoria. Parents face being labeled “trans-phobic”
and more severe legal repercussions, such as a visit
from child protective services and possible seizure of
their children. The child suffers the consequences for
a lifetime.
Parents Can Derail
This Runaway Train
Mindy’s mother demonstrated how parents can release a
child from the grip of a “gender dysphoria”
diagnosis. She didn’t follow
blindly the opinions that ran contrary to her
observations and common sense. Instead, she
researched and found resources to educate herself,
starting with the Heritage Foundation panel
discussion.
She
withdrew her daughter from the harmful influence of
trans-affirming health professionals, then sat
quietly with her daughter and listened with love. It
worked. She writes,
She finally opened up
stating the very same things I said all along… the
school change began her anxiety…different school,
no friends, feeling different, starting to develop
(didn’t like that) and she had been bothered on
the bus by an older kid but most of all the she
had been encouraged and exposed to the Transgender
World by the same 2 kids and researched it on the
internet…needless to say [she received] bad
info…she was just on overload with everything. She
says [she’s] not a transgender and was doing it
because the 2 were her friends encouraged her…she
felt like they would not be her friends if she
didn’t play along. You saved my daughter’s future
and my family.
By Mindy’s own
admission, she’s not trans. Her
former therapist was attempting to manufacture a
transgender child out of an overwhelmed ten-year-old
who needed friends after changing schools.
Happily, the parents put a stop to that madness.
Unfortunately, for
thousands more, their stories don’t end so well. (read
more)
2021-07-02
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UNCOMMON RACIST
(evil, self-hating white woman
Robin DiAngelo Cashes In On
Her Audience’s White Guilt, Calls Them All Racist
Again In New Book
Infamous author Robin
DiAngelo is yet again seeking to profit off of white
guilt, this time even calling her own audience of
white progressives racist in hopes they will buy her
'cure.'
White
guilt is big business. That’s what professional race hustler Robin DiAngelo
learned after she published “White Fragility,” an infamous New York Times
Bestseller that catapulted her, and her libelous claim
that white people are inherently racist, to national
prominence.
Not only did DiAngelo
land segments with big corporate media outlets like CNN
and MSNBC,
she also netted large sums of money from speaking
engagements, including a two-hour virtual event with
Purdue University that cost the school $7,000,
and an address at the publicly funded University of
Wisconsin Madison that made DiAngelo a hefty $12,750,
among other events.
Now DiAngelo is
seeking to renew her notoriety — and bank account —
with a new book titled “Nice Racism,”
this time targeting a specific subsect of white
people: her own audience.
“Nice Racism: How
Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm”
is all about how anti-racist white
people are (like all other white people) still
racist. A puff piece from CNN
glowingly reports that in the book,
“DiAngelo delivers a systematic takedown of what she
calls “well-meaning Whiteness.”
Whiteness
is perhaps the premier target of critical race
theorists, with psychoanalyst Donald Moss calling it
a “parasitic
condition” and a “pathology” without a
“permanent cure,” while deceased historian,
Harvard lecturer, and member of the Communist
Party Noel Ignatiev wrote “Treason
to whiteness is loyalty to humanity” in a
journal he founded titled “Race Traitor.”
While “whiteness” has
frequently been targeted by critical race theorists, DiAngelo pushes the line even farther into
dangerous absurdity. By deeming “well-meaning”
whiteness as problematic, DiAngelo leads the
honest reader to only two possible conclusions.
Either
whiteness, and therefore white people, are
irredeemably evil regardless of their individual
intentions or behavior, a claim that appears to
offer a post-modern, moralistic twist to the
incredibly dangerous claims of innate racial
inferiority that historically ungirds oppression, or
well-intentioned white people simply need to
unquestioningly cough up their money and guzzle the
venomous snake oil that DiAngelo sells in order to
finally break free from the sin that taints the
circumstance of their very existence.
Neither
outcome is suitable for any self-respecting person
of any race, but unfortunately DiAngelo has
correctly identified her audience. She’s
well-prepared to cash in on the guilt of white
progressives who will almost certainly line
up, wallet in hand, as the high priestess of
anti-racism teaches her servile laypeople how to root
out their “nice racism.”
The
real tragedy isn’t merely that DiAngelo is resorting
to such a perverse way to make money. What’s truly
startling is just how effective it is.
Apparently, the guilt complex of woke white
progressives is so intense that many of them will
pay to read DiAngelo, a far-left white
person, malign the whiteness of far-left white white
people in a 224-page audit of the internalized white
supremacy that allegedly resides in the collective
psyches of woke white progressives.
After all, $17.46 and
hours spent reading in a trendy Portland coffee shop
is a small price to pay to absolve
themselves, even just temporarily, of their
crippling white guilt. As if more were
needed, this is further proof the
“anti-racist” movement is a lucrative,
quasi-religious cult that demands repentance without
ever offering forgiveness. If it did,
anti-white race hustlers like DiAngelo would be out of
a job as her audience grew tired of their sycophancy
and her relentless claims of their innate moral
inferiority due to being born into the “wrong” skin
color.
Such a future is
unlikely, however, with data confirming the
observation that white liberals are
actively self
hating, as the only cross-section of
racial and political identity that has a negative
rather than positive in-group bias.
DiAngelo disputes the
contention that she pushes and profits from white
guilt, remarking in her interview with CNN
that “I think people who say that I am seeking to
invoke guilt are willfully misreading my work. I am
very clear that I am not interested in guilt, very
clear that I have absorbed racist ideology.”
But DiAngelo’s
entire career, not to mention her status as a public
figure, is dependent on maintaining and fostering
this debilitating sense of white guilt and
ethno-masochism among her audience.
The psychological
disposition of white progressives also makes it all
too easy for grifters like DiAngelo to profit off
pushing the most radically anti-white aspects of
critical race theory, such as the claim that racism is
the unique defining quality of white people, always
confident that such sentiments will find a home among
the white progressives who are desperate to assert
just how anti-racist they are.
This
ethno-masochism also shields DiAngelo from a great
deal of criticism, allowing her to rely on this
guilt to preemptively neutralize any form of
resistance while pathologizing any that does arise
as a result of “white fragility.”
It is
difficult to overstate the absolute cruelty of
DiAngelo’s business model, which depends on
inculcating a profound sense of ethno masochism among
her audience while then swooping in to offer temporary
relief for a hefty price. But the biggest cost isn’t
monetary; it can’t be measured in the price tags of
books or in the speaking fees of public engagements.
To go
along with DiAngelo’s vicious attempt to indict an
entire race as uniquely evil is to forfeit one’s
dignity for self-hatred, a cost that remains too
high for a great many. (read
more)
2021-07-02
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UNCOMMON LOGIC
[...]
Have you seen the latest TV ad for the NFL? It says,
“The NFL is gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender.”
Insanity does not
even begin to describe how clueless this is. I’m
Exhibit A. I’m the prototype for your typical NFL
fan. I’ve loved the NFL since I was five years old.
I live for Sundays to watch NFL football. I live and
die with my Dallas Cowboys. I love America, faith,
family, freedom, my fiancé, and my NFL. That’s not a
brand. That’s a religion. The NFL is part of my
life. It’s the DNA of America.
Why would the NFL
ruin their brand by getting involved with politics?
And not just any politics, but the most
controversial and radical politics possible.
First you damaged
your NFL brand with kneeling for the national
anthem. Then you supported BLM rioting, looting and
burning. Ratings dramatically declined. Now this.
Are you trying to alienate 60% or more of your most
loyal fans? Why?
The NFL is about
sports, gambling and violence. It’s a perfect mix
that attracts mostly macho, straight males. A
majority of whom are conservative, Christian, and
unabashed patriots. I’d bet my life’s fortune that a
large majority of the fans sitting in the stands at
NFL games voted for President Trump.
Like it, or not,
that’s your audience. Like it, or not, a majority of
the NFL’s paying customers have conservative views
and values. They go to church, they believe in God,
they own guns, they vote Republican, and they
idolize Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone and
Donald Trump.
Why offend your
customers? Why get involved in politics at all? But
if you do, why pick a stand that alienates a
majority of your most loyal fans? I have nothing
against lesbians, or bi-sexuals, or transsexuals,
but how many pay for NFL season tickets? Maybe a
dozen in a stadium that seats 75,000? Maybe.
Is the NFL trying to
attract .0000000001% new fans, while driving away
60% of their current fans, forever? Is that a smart
business decision? Actually, this is business
suicide.
The NFL shouldn’t
hate gays, lesbians or transgenders. I don’t. But
what does anyone’s sexual choice have to do with
football? Will there be a straight male pride month?
Will future NFL television ads say “We are macho,
straight, Republican and proud”? I doubt it. But why
not? That’s your audience. That’s who buys the
tickets.
The lesson for
corporations is, stay out of politics. Don’t take
sides. Unless you have a business death wish. Unless
you want to kill your brand. This Independence Day,
tell corporate America to shut up and stop
committing suicide.
— Wayne Allyn
Root
2021-07-02
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UNCOMMON GOOD SENSE
(Democrats turned it into a shithole. The smart ones
want to leave.)
Nancy Pelosi's home
town of San Francisco residents (40%) say they are
leaving
the City because of crime, human waste on the side
walks & policies of Marxism:
https://t.co/kNQSWXlc7L.
— HomeBrew
(@HomeBre08609636) June 30, 2021
2021-07-02
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UNCOMMONLY CRAVEN
(divisive, race-hustling "journalist" and author
of debunked pseudo-history granted tenure by
idiots)
UNC-Chapel Hill Caves to
Pressure, Grants Tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones
“The board voted 9-4 to
accept the tenure application at a special meeting
that included a closed-door session that had sparked
a protest by supporters of Hannah-Jones.”
The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill has relented after an
intense pressure campaign and will grant tenure to
1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones.
This drama has been going
on for weeks.
When the school first
hired Hannah-Jones to join the faculty, she and her
supporters were angry that it did not offer her
tenure. Some faculty members threatened
to leave the school. Last week, Hannah-Jones
even refused
to start her job if she did not get it.
Now she has gotten
what she wanted. Tom Foreman Jr. writes for the Associated
Press:
UNC trustees OK
tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones
Trustees at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
approved tenure Wednesday for Pulitizer
Prize-winning investigative journalist Nikole
Hannah-Jones, capping weeks of tension that began
when a board member halted the process over
questions about her teaching credentials.
The board voted 9-4 to
accept the tenure application at a special meeting
that included a closed-door session that had sparked a
protest by supporters of Hannah-Jones. At one point, a
student said, she was manhandled by a campus police
officer trying to get her out of the ballroom where
the meeting was held.
“Today we took another
important step in creating an even better university,”
trustee Gene Davis said after the vote was announced.
“We welcome Nikole Hannah-Jones back to Chapel Hill.”
Davis said that in
granting tenure to Hannah-Jones the board was
reaffirming its commitment to the university’s highest
values of “academic freedom, open scholarly inquiry,
commitment to diversity of all types, including
viewpoint diversity, and promotion of constructive
disagreement and civil public discourse.”
This was a story that
seemed ready-made for student activists:
Several demonstrators
are forcibly removed by police from a closed
session
meeting of the UNC-Chapel Hill trustees
Wednesdayas the board prepared to
discuss and vote on tenure for distinguished
journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
#UNC
pic.twitter.com/en4gU2Rtru
— Travis Long
(@vizjourno) June
30, 2021
The school paper, The
Daily Tar Heel,
offers some background on the process:
On June
23, Student Body President Lamar Richards
submitted a formal meeting request to the Board
petitioning for a special called meeting by or on
Wednesday to discuss and take formal action on
Hannah-Jones’s case. This came after Hannah-Jones’
legal team announced she would not join UNC
faculty without tenure.
Hannah-Jones was set
to join the UNC faculty Thursday as the Knight
Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism. The
previous two Knight Chairs at UNC received tenure
upon hiring, but Hannah-Jones was initially
offered a fixed, five-year contract, with the
option to be reviewed for tenure at the end.
The Board’s decision
comes after many University affiliates released
statements and held protests in support of
Hannah-Jones.
Many of these
statements came after Chairperson of the Faculty
Mimi Chapman wrote a letter urging UNC community
members to speak out on the situation.
“You do not have to
agree with Ms. Hannah-Jones’ conclusions in The
1619 Project to do this,” she wrote. “You only
have to agree that faculty voices must govern the
tenure process for academic integrity to have
meaning.”
I’ve been following
this story from the beginning, and I can’t recall when
the campus left seemed angrier about a faculty-related
decision.
The left views
Hannah-Jones as a hero. They would never allow anyone
to treat her as anything but a star. (read
more)
Reader Comment:
SHE DOESN’T HAVE A PhD
Did you know she
does not have a PhD.
She claims the other
2 who held that Chair were granted tenure upon
appointment. But they each had a PhD and volumes of
published scholarship. Her only published work is
pseudo-history that had to be corrected by the NY Times after
dozens of REAL history professors (with PhDs)
complained. Question – given the massive errors –
admitted to by the NY Times – why hasn’t she had to
return the Pulitzer Prize? ? If a White reporter had
made such serious errors – he would surely have had
to return the Pulitzer and/or resign in disgrace.
Uh, it seems like
somebody surely has privilege here and it is not any
white person. The privilege of not have to abide by
the standards that apply to everyone else.
— Ben
Kent
See also: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Denial Of UNC Tenure
Is A Result Of Scholarly Malpractice, Not Viewpoint
Discrimination
See also: Academics
Explain Why Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Tenure At UNC Is
Bogus
2021-07-02
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UNCOMMON LAW
For we know that the
common law is that system of law which was
introduced by the Saxons, on their settlement in
England, and altered, from time to time, by proper
legislative authority, from that, to the date of the
Magna Charta, which terminates the period of the
common law, or lex
non scripta, and commences that of the
statute law, or lex
scripta. This settlement took place about
the middle of the fifth century; but Christianity
was not introduced till the seventh century; the
conversion of the first Christian King of the
Heptarchy, having taken place about the year 598,
and that of the last about 686. Here, then, was a
space of two hundred years, during which the common
law was in existence, and Christianity no part of
it. If it ever, therefore, was adopted into the
common law, it must have been between the
introduction of Christianity and the date of the
Magna Charta. But of the laws of this period, we
have a tolerable collection, by Lambard and Wilkins;
probably not perfect, but neither very defective;
and if any one chooses to build a doctrine on any
law of that period, supposed to have been lost, it
is incumbent on him to prove it to have existed, and
what were its contents. These were so far
alterations of the common law, and became themselves
a part of it; but none of these adopt Christianity
as a part of the common law. If, therefore, from the
settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of
Christianity among them, that system of religion
could not be a part of the common law, because they
were not yet Christians; and if, having their laws
from that period to the close of the common law, we
are able to find among them no such act of adoption;
we may safely affirm (though contradicted by all the
judges and writers on earth) that Christianity
neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.
— Thomas Jefferson, Reports of Cases Determined in the
General Court of Virginia
2021-07-01
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KNOWN KNOWNS II
Supreme Court Upholds Arizona
Ballot Harvesting Restrictions
SCOTUS rules 6-3 in
Opinion by Alito.
The U.S. Supreme Court
just issued its opinion
in Brnovich v.
Democratic National Committee, upholding
Arizona restrictions on ballot harvesting and
out-of-district provisional voting.
The District Court,
after a trial, upheld the law. A 9th Circuit panel
upheld that ruling, but then 9th
Circuit en banc reversed. In the Petition for
Writ
of Certiorari, the Arizona Attorney General
presented the case as follows:
QUESTIONS PRESENTED
Arizona, like every
other State, has adopted rules to promote the order
and integrity of its elections. At issue here are two
such provisions: an “out-of-precinct policy,” which
does not count provisional ballots cast in person on
Election Day outside of the voter’s designated
precinct, and a “ballot-collection law,” known as H.B.
2023, which permits only certain persons (i.e., family
and household members, caregivers, mail carriers, and
elections officials) to handle another person’s
completed early ballot. A majority of States require
in-precinct voting, and about twenty States limit
ballot collection. After a ten-day trial, the district
court upheld these provisions against claims under
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Fifteenth
Amendment. A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed. At the en
banc stage, however, the Ninth Circuit
reversed—against the urging of the United States and
over two vigorous dissents joined by four judges.
The questions
presented are:
1. Does Arizona’s
out-of-precinct policy violate Section 2 of the Voting
Rights Act?
2. Does Arizona’s
ballot-collection law violate Section 2 of the Voting
Rights Act or the Fifteenth Amendment?
After oral argument in
early March, the consensus
based on the questioning was that the law would
be upheld.
In the 6-3 Majority
Opinion, authored by Justice Alito, the Supreme Court
upheld the Arizona law.
In these cases, we are
called upon for the first time to apply §2 of the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 to regulations that govern
how ballots are collected and counted. Arizona law
generally makes it very easy to vote. All voters may
vote by mail or in person for nearly a month before
election day, but Arizona imposes two restrictions
that are claimed to be unlawful. First, in some
counties, voters who choose to cast a ballot in person
on election day must vote in their own precincts or
else their ballots will not be counted. Second, mailin
ballots cannot be collected by anyone other than an
election official, a mail carrier, or a voter’s family
member, household member, or caregiver. After a trial,
a District Court upheld these rules, as did a panel of
the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit. But an en banc court, by a divided vote,
found them to be unlawful. It relied on the rules’
small disparate impacts on members of minority groups,
as well as past discrimination dating back to the
State’s territorial days. And it overturned the
District Court’s finding that the Arizona Legislature
did not adopt the ballot-collection restriction for a
discriminatory purpose. We now hold that the en banc
court misunderstood and misapplied §2 and that it
exceeded its authority in rejecting the District
Court’s factual finding on the issue of legislative
intent.
Gorsuch, joined by
Thomas, issued a concurring opinion:
I join the Court’s
opinion in full, but flag one thing it does not
decide. Our cases have assumed—without deciding— that
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 furnishes an implied
cause of action under §2. See Mobile v. Bolden, 446 U.
S. 55, 60, and n. 8 (1980) (plurality opinion). Lower
courts have treated this as an open question. E.g.,
Washington v. Finlay, 664 F. 2d 913, 926 (CA4 1981).
Because no party argues that the plaintiffs lack a
cause of action here, and because the existence (or
not) of a cause of action does not go to a court’s
subject-matter jurisdiction, see Reyes Mata v. Lynch,
576 U. S. 143, 150 (2015), this Court need not and
does not address that issue today. (read
more)
2021-07-01
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KNOWN UNKNOWNS II
Who killed Ashli Babbitt?
A new theory emerges
Who shot Ashli
Babbitt, the pro-Trump Air Force veteran who was
killed by [a black male suit-wearing] police during
the January 6 riot at the US Capitol building? The
American people were told that it was a Capitol Police
officer who fired the fatal shot. But Cockburn has
stumbled across some information that points to a
different explanation.
 Sources
close to and within the intelligence community tell
Cockburn that Babbitt was actually shot by a member of
then-vice president Mike Pence’s protective detail.
The VP’s detail, of course, is provided by US Secret
Service, not the Capitol Police. One person asserted
to Cockburn over drinks in DC that this is ‘basically
an open secret’ in the intelligence community.
Law enforcement
sources suggested to Cockburn that the Capitol Police
Department and Department of Justice have publicly
identified the shooter as a Capitol Police
officer in order to protect the reputation of the
Secret Service. Cockburn also wonders if this isn’t an
attempt to protect Pence from further anger or threats
from Capitol rioters who wanted him to refuse to
certify the results of the election on January 6.
A cover-up of this
nature would also explain why the government hasn’t
been forthcoming with other information about the
alleged Capitol Police officer who they say shot
Babbitt. Police officers who are involved in shootings
are almost always identified publicly. The unnamed
officer’s lawyer says that his client is being kept
anonymous due to threats against his life. Babbitt’s
family, however, argues that they have a right to know
who shot and killed their beloved relative. Her
husband, Aaron Babbitt, is suing
Washington DC for access to records that would
supposedly reveal the name of the officer.
Michael Brendan
Dougherty floated the idea that Babbitt was shot by
Secret Service on his Twitter account in early June,
writing in response to Aaron Babbitt’s lawsuit, ‘I
mean, at this point you have to suspect that it’s not
a Capitol cop.’ He replied ‘SS’ when asked who he
thought could have been responsible instead.
The video of Babbitt
being shot as she attempts to climb through a broken
window that leads to the Speaker’s Gallery shows a man
in a suit jacket holding the gun. The Capitol Police
do have plainclothes officers, but it is much more
common for the Secret Service’s protective details to
be spotted in suits while tailing the president or
vice president.
There have been many
other theories as to who may have shot Babbitt. Some
on social media posited it could be Special Agent
David Bailey, the Capitol Police officer who took down
the Bernie Sanders supporter that opened fire on a
Republican baseball practice. However, the Capitol
Police issued a statement in February denying that
theory:
‘As the
investigation continues into the events of January
6, 2021, it’s important to correct misinformation
some in the media have reported, and that’s been
shared on social media. Reports identifying
Special Agent David Bailey as the officer involved
in the shooting in the Speaker’s Lobby are
inaccurate. The Department will share
additional information once the investigation is
complete.’
Cockburn reached out
to Pence’s team for comment and was redirected to the
US Secret Service. The Secret Service had a full 24
hours to give comment. They did not respond. (read
more)
2021-07-01
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KNOWN KNOWNS I
(Delta variant is
deadlier for the vaccinated.)
Don’t
let the fearmongers win. New public England study
of delta variant shows
44 deaths out of 53,822 (.08%) in unvaccinated
group. Hmmm.
—
Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) June
29, 2021
See also: Death rate from [Delta] variant COVID
virus six times higher for vaccinated than
unvaccinated, UK health data show
2021-07-01
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KNOWN UNKNOWNS I
The ((Jewish)) problem
is now out in the open for the entire world to see
and to hammer away at both openly (anti-Zionism) and
cryptically, and to use to decode what’s really
going on in Empire, as this article does.
The “secret weapon”
(international Jewry) has become a major liability,
more so because they have absolutely no idea how to
operate in an atmosphere where there are fewer and
fewer secrets, back room deals, and privileged
rackets that don’t get unearthed by the Internet.
Big conspiracies have simply become impossible to
pull off, and the world of crypsis that served the
Jews so well is a thing of the past. The entire
“chosen” and entitled Jew mentality is a thing of
the past, just like royalty. Yet the kosher
establishment continues to play act, and simply
can’t accept that their illusion is disintegrating,
and so keeps going through the motions as if waiting
for the world to return to its state of ignorant
superstition and dumfounded naivety.
There is no going
back. There really never was. “Zion” was always a
fantasy and an illusion feeding off of two WASP
Empires [U.K. and U.S.A.] that thought their
hegemony would last forever, but will be lucky to
make it through the decade without a civil war,
thanks to the ((Jews)) who are not even Jewish
[Pharasiacal Talmudists], but pathological grifters
and parasites working for their own accounts.
— Chris
Moore
2021-07-01
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UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS I
Falsehood Rules
Who knew that reality
could become such a squishy thing in the USA? But such
are the agonies of a collapsing society that it
becomes ever harder to know what’s real, especially
with factions in power intent on gaslighting,
manipulating, obfuscating, and coercing the raw
material of public opinion, which is: what has
actually happened in the past and what is happening
now.
When I wrote The Long Emergency,
I expected we would be living through a period of
confusion and disorder, but I didn’t know what it
would feel like to go through it: a nauseating
existential disorientation, like being seasick on dry
land… like living in a German expressionist horror
movie of the 1920s (and we know what that led to)…
like being held prisoner inside Franz Kafka’s castle:
an immersion in totalizing falsehood.
The collapse of
authority is especially striking and disturbing now
because ground zero for it is the US Department of
Justice (DOJ), the very place that is charged with
determining what is true and what is false, what is
real and what is unreal, and especially what is okay,
and what is not okay.
The collapse of
authority at DOJ got sickening traction after the
election of 2016, when FBI Director James Comey and
his underlings, along with many high officials at its
parent agency, DOJ, undertook a campaign to disable
and expel the winner of that election, starting before
his inauguration. The Russia Collusion operation was
the epitome of falsehood concocted in bad faith, and
the actions taken in it were never adjudicated —
though an ectoplasm named John Durham is floating
somewhere out in the national ether still delegated to
make cases. Leaving all that hanging this long has
been a grievous injury to the country’s identity as a
place on this earth where fair play was supposed to be
normal.
The Mueller
Investigation was another insult to the public
interest, devised to distract and cover up the all the
previous seditious bad faith of Comey & Company,
and the C-suite at DOJ — and, of course, the Special
Counsel came up with absolutely nothing actionable,
which was stunning considering the resources behind
it, and the time spent. At a Senate hearing about it
in 2018, Robert Mueller himself claimed to be
unacquainted with key characters in his own
investigation and key pieces of evidence. His
performance was worse than not reassuring — he
appeared to be lying or incompetent, or pretending to
be incompetent, and since that moment he has
gone-to-ground… untouchable.
Impeachment No. 1 was
supposedly about a phone call that the President made
to his counterpart in Ukraine, Mr. Zelensky, regarding
suspicious activity of one Hunter Biden receiving
large sums of money from a gas company there while his
father was Vice-president. At the time, the FBI (and
the DOJ) did not disclose their possession of a laptop
computer owned by Hunter Biden containing hundreds of
memoranda and emails detailing the Biden family’s
lucrative business dealings in Ukraine and several
other foreign countries, involving sums of money far
greater than the Burisma Company of Ukraine was paying
Joe Biden’s son, and how the income was split between
the family members. In other words, evidence that
then-Vice-president Joe Biden himself was on the take
from foreign countries, including companies linked
directly with the communist party of China. Not
important, you think? Not germane to the impeachment?
Why was that
information not turned over to the president’s lawyers
during the initial hearings and then the impeachment
trial itself? That has never been adequately
addressed, not even a little, and largely because the
mainstream media does not want to know, and didn’t
ask, while the alt.media does not have access to ask
the officials who might know — and Congress, under
Mrs. Pelosi and Chuck Schumer certainly didn’t want to
ask or know. Do you appreciate how damaging this act
of institutional dishonesty was?
Then there was the
election of 2020, held under the Covid-19 emergency,
with new rules about mail-in voting that lent
themselves to fraud — or so declared former President
Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James
Baker, who ran a commission on election reform in 2005
— and that appears to be exactly what happened. The
specious and dishonest claim is made by the putative
winners that the matter was completely settled in the
courts post-election. That is simply not true. The
actual evidence was not entertained, most particularly
not by the Supreme Court, which declined on the basis
of “standing,” a mere point of procedure.
Now there is one
official forensic audit of the 2020 election underway
in Maricopa County, Arizona, (the Phoenix metro area),
ordered by the State Senate, and some conclusions from
phase one, involving the paper ballots, are due to be
released this week, with additional phases to come
concerning the Dominion voting machines. Many other
state legislatures sent delegations to Arizona to
learn the ins-and-outs of conducting a forensic audit,
and they are making noises about actually doing it.
So, in stepped
Attorney General Merrick Garland. At the start of the
Arizona audit, he sent a letter to the Arizona State
Senate threatening to use the Civil Rights Division of
the DOJ to halt the audit on the basis of depriving
voters of their civil rights. Arizona responded by
promising to jail any federal officials who laid their
hands on any ballots. That was the end of that gambit
for now — they may try it again in phase two.
In the meantime, a
county judge in Georgia (one Brian Amero) has ruled
that 147,000-odd ballots alleged to have
chain-of-custody problems must be made available for
inspection, and also that five members of the Fulton
County (Atlanta Metro Area) Board of Elections are now
individually parties to the lawsuit brought by nine
Georgia voters, and may be subject to deposition
(being questioned under oath). That is believed to be
the beginning of an effort to conduct a full audit in
Georgia.
So, again, in steps
Attorney General Merrick Garland with his Civil Rights
Division, led by political activist Kristen Clarke,
bringing a lawsuit against the Georgia election reform
act passed earlier this year — a shot over Georgia’s
bow, shall we say. Ms. Clarke happens to be a
colleague of Georgia activist Stacey Abrams, a former
Democratic candidate for governor. Ms. Abrams is also
a part-owner of a company, NOWAccount, that does
payroll for a private company called Happy Faces,
which furnished dozens of poll workers to tally the
2020 election in Georgia, as well as the 2021 US
Senate runoff election that put two Democrats, Jon
Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, in office.
Elections are supposed
to be conducted by public officials, not by private
entities. Supposedly, the Georgia election officials
turned to Happy Faces because it was a way to avoid
hiring workers for less than 30 hours-a-week, which
would have otherwise required providing them with
health care under ObamaCare, the ACA Act. Was that
legal? It has not been adjudicated.
Nor has the much
bigger scandal of a private Chicago-based non-profit
called the Center for Tech and Civic Life, which
received $350-million from Facebook’s CEO Mark
Zuckerberg to arrange grants targeted at swing
districts in Democratic strongholds such as Milwaukee,
Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, for the purpose of
hiring ballot harvesters, among other activities. Mr.
Zuckerberg met with Kristen Clarke, Stacey Abrams, Al
Sharpton, and other Democratic activists at a dinner
in 2019, at which he promised to help. Did his help
cross any legal boundaries? It has not been
investigated, nor has the use of the company he runs,
Facebook, in its campaign to influence public opinion
by blocking news and deleting accounts of
non-Democrats exclusively.
Assistant AG Kristen
Clarke’s DOJ lawsuit against Georgia’s election reform
act alleges that it “imposes substantial fines on
third-party organizations, churches, and advocacy
groups that send follow up absentee ballot
applications, and requires new and unnecessarily
stringent identification requirements to obtain an
absentee ballot.” In other words, the Georgia
law seeks to restrict the activities of private,
non-official entities — such as the Center for Tech
and Civic Life — sprinkling gargantuan sums of money
over key election districts to influence the outcome.
Or for companies such as Happy Faces to supply
activists for counting votes. That is how disingenuous
Merrick Garland’s DOJ is, now a strictly political
operation.
We
haven’t nearly seen the end to any of this, nor the
reaction that it is liable to provoke among citizens
who have had enough of being played by their own
government. Think about all that while you
make plans to celebrate the Fourth of July, a
holiday that commemorates an earlier time when the
people of this land had enough of being played by
their rulers. (read more)
2021-07-01
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Hell is no longer an
unknown for Donald Rumsfeld.
Is it hot enough for
you Don?
Say hello to Robert
McNamara. I'm certain he's there.
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