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Mark Zuckerberg's crazy expensive plain grey t-shirt
for $46
Mark Zuckerberg, heartland tourist and Facebook's CEO, is famous for wearing the same thing every day. If you've seen a photo Zuckerberg from the past few years, you've most likely seen him wearing a grey shirt, blue hoodie, jeans, and Nikes. He has a closet full of grey t-shirts: Zuckerberg doesn't just wear any old plain grey Hanes t-shirt, though. His are special ordered from Brunello Cucinelli, and reportedly cost between $300 and $400. A few years ago, H&M rolled out a joke "Zuckerberg collection," but that's not on sale anymore. Klaus Buchroithner, CEO of Vresh Clothing, decided to study Zuckerberg's shirt closely, and make a replica of it, or as "as close to the original as possible" without being the same exact item — kind of like how Instagram rolls out new features. Buchroithner looked at the fabric, the color, and even the length of the t-shirt while crafting the replica. Now the "Zuckerberg Shirt" is on sale for 40 euros, or about $46. They're made in Italy and all profits go to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic company funded by the Facebook fortune that sometimes invests in startups. Here are the "specs" for the "Zuckerberg Shirt:" Fabric 100% mercerized
combed cotton, Made in Italy (extra soft)
(read
more)Weight 180g per m² (20% more than industry standard) Color zucker-grey tones, melange (sale e pepe) Stitching double-stitched with PEGASUS EX3215-03 Serger 2021-07-23 g FILM CRITIC LANGUAGE Parody Pilgrimage: Five Notes
on Ernie Gehr’s Serene
Velocity Hallway
 Ernie Gehr’s Serene Velocity Hallway
1. After 15 months in pandemic NYC, with no trip out of town longer than six hours during that time, it was imperative to leave and go elsewhere—anywhere—as soon as possible. The easiest way to do this was to pay a visit to James Hansen, a friend who teaches experimental film at Alfred University, logically located in the previously-unknown-to-me town of Alfred, NY. Getting to Alfred, however, is not super simple, so I needed a ride to get from the halfway point of Binghamton to my final destination. Because I try to maximize the value of every visit I take, it then seemed only logical to use this visit to see the hallway Ernie Gehr transformed into stroboscopic magic in 1970’s Serene Velocity, shot while he taught at SUNY Binghamton. 2. If I were to show someone who’d never seen an experimental film just one as an intro, it might well be Serene Velocity which, despite its conceptual rigor, isn’t really an intellectual experience, more something that’ll blast your eyelids out. By filming in a hallway with multiple lenses. Gehr creates the illusion of almost simultaneously traveling forwards and backwards in space even as the camera itself doesn’t move. The feeling is of constant movement without actually going anywhere (meaning it’s a perfect pandemic movie) from the most unpromising of starting points; as Scott Macdonald wrote in 1990, “Gehr is able to energize one of the dullest contemporary spaces (what is duller than an institutional hallway?).” I have a deep aversion to, and horror of, academia, but also effectively grew up on the UT-Austin campus, where my mom taught until quite recently, so these types of spaces have a fascination for me. So yes: I wanted to see this hallway. James made the appropriate inquiries, and in due time instructions arrived from SUNY Binghamton’s Brian Murphy: The red
line Starts at Rt434 or otherwise known as the
Vestal Parkway and the main entrance to campus.
[…] The Door you want to go in is in the corner of
the Classroom wing Building, this is next to a
small parking lot with a loading dock. Go in the
door and directly to your left will be a door to a
stairwell down. Go down the stairs and through the
door and turn to your left.
Then behold the Serene Velocity Hallway. 3. In an email, video artist Peer Bode writes: I believe
B-32 is the room video art began in Binghamton,
via Ralph Hocking, the Experimental Television
Center was given birth there, seminal, visionary.
Also B-32 and the Hallway were home base, two years of filming and editing for the “We Can’t Go Home [Again]”, the Nicholas Ray and student film. […] Once while filming WCGHA, in the Hallway , we needed more electricity. We somehow were able to open the door to the room across from B-32 and access their precious AC outlets. The room was the property of the Anthropology Department, not the Cinema Department. On opening the door this is what I saw. On several tables, laid out, I discovered, it was 1:00am, were three or four dried out human bodies, wrapped in very old rope twine. There were more bodies in drawers surrounding the room. The bodies had been exhumed during a construction pause on the building of Route 17 at the time. They were native Indian people who had lived and were buried in what is now Nichols, NY, just past Owego. Sometime later I acquired a small publication of the excavation documentation. What a surprise. Everyone came to take a look and feel the overwhelming uncanny moment reality. Wow. Then we went on to a number of additional hours of multiple set ups and filming, filming, filming. Also, of course, there were fights in that HALLway also. Fun fights. Filmmakers are a passionate people tribe. 4. As experimental filmmaker Chris Kennedy tweeted, “The funny thing about that hallway is it looks bland by eye until you take a photograph of it and then it truly becomes THAT hallway.” This is exactly right, although I’m not sure what I expected (a hallway is a hallway). When we arrived, Murphy showed us around and noted that at the end of the hallway there used to be a parking lot, hence the sunlight that starts appearing towards the end of Gehr’s film. Now another wing of the building has been built there, so no light emerges from outside—if you wanted to replicate Serene Velocity as an exercise, there’d no longer be any sunlight coming in. It was both something and nothing to behold, but I was glad to finally see it. 5. Once we had beheld the hallway, Murphy asked if we wanted to see the Ken Jacobs Archive. This isn’t as fancy as it sounds: as he quickly explained, it’s basically Jacobs’s old office, with all the stuff he left there and couldn’t be bothered to come back for. It is, nonetheless, fascinating: there are objects both expected (3D anaglyph glasses) and less so (one corner is occupied by a tower of player piano rolls). The prize possessions are framed newspaper clippings and letters; in the latter category is an article headlined “LOCAL GROUP SEEKS FIRING OF CINEMA PROF” (Jacobs himself, for a showing a short that a local group considered “pornographic”). Framed correspondence includes letters from Hollis Frampton and a despairing epistle from Bruce Conner, sent from San Francisco in 1973, which begins “It is as bad as I thought here.” I thought back to summer 2020, when I logged on to watch Jacobs himself premiere a new film online, noted the full circle nature of the visit and moved onward. (read more) 2021-07-23 f INCENDIARY LANGUAGE "Would have been a better joke if you had said they were lawyers for The Adversary. Advocatus diaboli." Molotov Cocktail Lawyers
Headed to Trial After Plea Negotiations Break Down
“will stand trial in March 2022 for allegedly firebombing a police cruiser and distributing Molotov cocktails during the George Floyd riots last summer” In June of 2020, during the George Floyd [nationally-coordinated pretext] riots in New York, two Ivy League-educated lawyers allegedly firebombed a police car with a Molotov Cocktail. Unlike the January 6th rioters, [lenient, leftist] authorities released them on bail and home confinement. Their lawyers have been trying to work out a plea deal with prosecutors. The talks have broken down, and now they are headed for trial. Kevin Daley reports at the Washington Free Beacon: Ivy League Lawyers
Head to Trial for Firebombing Cop Car
Two New York City Ivy League lawyers will stand trial in March 2022 for allegedly firebombing a police cruiser and distributing Molotov cocktails during the George Floyd riots last summer. Defense lawyers for Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman have been in plea negotiations with federal prosecutors since February but have not come to terms, prompting U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan to set a trial schedule for both defendants. Pretrial motions are due on Sept. 17 and jury selection will begin on March 14, 2022. The accused enjoy widespread support and sympathy from New York’s legal and media elites. Rahman is represented by one of the city’s best defense attorneys, and a former Obama administration official guaranteed her bail in the amount of $250,000. Both have been the subject of favorable profiles in New York magazine and NPR, among other venues. Cogan has delayed proceedings three times while the parties discussed a prospective plea. Those talks can continue as the case heads to trial. Mattis and Rahman are under house arrest with electronic monitoring, though they’ve each sought relaxed release conditions. Cogan allowed Rahman to attend a bridal shower and a wedding in May, though he denied a bail modification that would have authorized her to move freely about four city boroughs during daylight hours. Mattis obtained permission to celebrate Christmas at a relative’s home. Jazz Shaw of Hot Air suggests the possibility that these two will never see the inside of a courtroom: It’s
still not a sure thing that these two will ever
stand before a jury. I don’t know how they’ve
managed to stonewall the process for this long,
but there’s still plenty of time to cut a deal.
Setting a trial date may have been a way for the
judge to spur the defense along, in case they
wanted to avoid a worst-case outcome. The pair
were offered a plea deal in February, but have
apparently turned it down.
If this case does go to trial, it will almost certainly turn into a media circus. You’ll recall that some of the most high-profile newspapers and cable news outlets described these two as “young and idealistic lawyers.” That really says a lot more about the state of our news media than the two firebombers themselves. The [illegitimate] Biden administration keeps talking about the dangers of domestic terrorism. Is there a better recent example than these two lawyers? (read more) 2021-07-23 e REASONABLE LANGUAGE Time to Hit America’s
Time-Tested Immigration Pause Button
It’s time for America to hit the pause button, and put an immigration moratorium in place to promote a strong republic with America First policies. As Americans continue to repair the economy after the [over-reaction to the] pandemic [of lies], there are steps that must be taken to make sure that rebuilding is strong, ensures national security, promotes safe health standards for our citizens, and ensures opportunities for all Americans. The United States of America is a nation of settlers and immigrants [sharing Western Civilization in common as well as Judeo-Christian values]. It is supposed to be a melting pot. Whether you are a first, second, or 10th generation American, our families traveled from various parts of the [Western] world, on mostly arduous trips, to create a better life. America is still the land of opportunity [for those sharing the culture and values of the founding stock]. How do we ensure that our youth coming out of college and trade schools have the opportunities they deserve? How do we implement an America First agenda that is true to our American core values? The answer is by hitting the immigration pause button. Our workers and fellow citizens, whether they are blue collar or white collar, need an immigration moratorium. Since the earliest days of our republic, our Constitution has empowered the United States Congress to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization” (Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 4). A year after the original 13 states ratified the Constitution, and before the Bill of Rights was ratified, Congress enacted the Naturalization Act of 1790. Over the centuries, Congress has enacted various immigration moratoria. As recently as 1994, Representative Bob Stump (R-Ariz.) introduced the “Immigration Moratorium Act of 1994.” That bill never left committee, unfortunately. It’s time to try again. We need to ensure that governments at all levels and the globalist corporate sector understand our post-pandemic [of lies] labor and job markets. It does not take a rocket scientist to realize the facts of our current [self-inflicted] economic situation, and to provide sound analysis of what sectors are in need and what areas of our job market are overly saturated. This is something that should be done continuously in a joint effort between and among federal, state, and local governments, and the private sector. America must first ensure there are enough jobs for American citizens in our country before continuing to flood the country with immigrants who take opportunities that could put food on the tables of our own countrymen [or who will be a financial burden on the taxpayers]. This perspective is not anti-immigrant. It is pro-American. Through cooperation between and among the private sector and governments at all levels we can better understand our societal challenges, including unemployment, homelessness, and some private businesses currently without adequate staffing. With this better understanding, we can intelligently set [merit-based] immigration [qualification criteria] designed to fill job vacancies that currently cannot be filled by Americans [once welfare "entitlements" have been eliminated]. We can start promoting industries or sectors for young high school kids to choose, with immediate job placement upon graduation. If the United States needs more engineers and this promotes a healthier economy, then the government, presumably at the state and local levels, could look at a subsidy and guaranteed job placement programs or vocational training for high school students wanting to enter these fields. We need to be a nation of builders, not baristas[, banksters, or barristers]. [...] Secondly, we must ensure that abuses of work visas and other immigrant visas by businesses are better controlled through increased, and more harsh, punishments. We need more than simple fines for these businesses. It’s time to consider higher degree misdemeanor and felony charges for businesses that abuse the system by hiring lower wage foreign employees over qualified Americans. Allowing global corporations to drive down American wages, by shipping in professionals from abroad, does nothing but benefit their bottom lines at the expense of our countrymen. The predatory behavior of these globalist entities needs to be managed; it is not a free and fair market if they get to manipulate immigration policy. Visas must be more strictly enforced to protect American jobs. There are many countries that utilize merit-based systems to bring in immigrants who meet and fill specialized shortages in their countries. These meritocracies, if implemented by the U.S. Congress, could ensure that those who come to America are not draining resources but being productive members of society. Bringing in more [third world] immigrants who do not possess the job skills or the ability to get into the workforce only means further strain on American taxpayers and increases to our national debt. Additionally, undercutting the economic prospects of America’s working class by continuing the mass importation of their competition is unjust in good economic times and downright cruel as the nation reels from a pandemic [of lies] and astronomical inflation. We must be more fiscally conservative and promote America First policies that help all Americans and gain more independence for our energy, raw material, and agricultural sectors. It’s time for America to hit the pause button, and put an immigration moratorium in place to promote a strong republic with America First policies. Let us secure our borders, reform immigration, to make it less cumbersome for those [select few] who are deserving of and willing to adopt our American culture—and ensure America returns to greatness. (read more) 2021-07-23 d INFURIATING LANGUAGE The University of California
Is Lying to Us
[...] The [Academic Council’s Standardized Testing Task Force] determined that the obvious challenges faced by low-income Black and Latino students were poverty and poor K–12 education. And they found that the UC’s use of standardized tests did not amplify racial disparities. They agreed that the university should continue using test scores in admissions, but recommended that the UC begin developing its own test, which would be designed to meet the needs of both students and the institution. Why did the regents completely ignore this report? I have a guess. People in power today would much rather do something that seems to promote “equity” than make an evidence-based choice that could lead to accusations of racism. This is the kind of infuriating policy decision that looks like it is going to help poor, minority students but will actually harm them. (read more) 2021-07-23 c REFERENTIAL LANGUAGE (addressing the DC regime heads) ¡No problema! “Hologram”
and “Whore” are more than adequate, alliterative
descriptors. But if you want to be a bit
linguistically diverse, then “Puppet” and “Puta”
work just as well.
— Anon689 2021-07-23 b LOWER CLASS LANGUAGE (what the prison class and menial class speak) The
inability to speak Standard English keeps blacks
out of most white collar jobs.
Linguistics
101 African American English
Explores differences between Standard American English and AAVE (African American Vernacular English) AFRICAN-AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH (AAVE) • Historical Review • Words and Phrases • Sentence Patterns • Sound Patterns • Bibliography The grammar of urban African American Vernacular English "Although the roots of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE) were no doubt established in the rural South, its twentieth century development as a sociocultural variety is strongly associated with its use in non-Southern urban areas." African American Vernacular English Abstract African American Vernacular English (AAVE) causes reading problems for majority of the African American students who speak it. There is a strong concern of whether African Americans will perform adequately on the job front, due to low reading levels (Rickford, 1999). Although AAVE is a dialect shared by many African Americans, they need to be able to have proficient Standard English in order to move forward and become successful in America (Rickford, 1999). African Americans have been, and still are performing poorly in reading and have very low academic achievement throughout the nation (Rickford, 1999). Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) Ecological Systems theory was use to determine possible factors contributing to the reading problems that AAVE speaking children face when trying to learn Standard English. For the purposes of this inquiry, of the four systems in the theory only the microsystems and mesosystems were analyzed. In order to gain a healthy understanding of African American Vernacular English and majority of its topics, an extensive amount of literature review and scholarly articles read and analyzed. The results discovered from the literature were that there are three main reasons why AAVE speaking students have reading problems. "EBONICS" AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENGLISH Ebonics, a portmanteau word combining ebony and phonics African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes An apologist for "Ebonics" and ghetto dialect. Examples: misuse of the copula, negation can be multiple-marked (double negative), negative inversion, dropped consonants, etc. 2021-07-23 a QUEER CORRUPTING LANGUAGE “You think that we’ll
corrupt your kids, if our agenda goes unchecked.
Funny, just this once, you’re correct. We’ll convert
your children. Happens bit by bit. Quietly and
subtly, and you will barely notice it…..(We’ll make
them tolerant and fair) Just like you worried,
they’ll change their group of friends. You won’t
approve of where they go at night (to protests).
We’ll convert your children, yes we will. Reaching
one and all. There’s no really no escaping it cause
even grandma likes RuPaul.”
— San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus 2021-07-22 i THE COLOR OF CRIME  🚨WANTED
for ATTEMPTED ROBBERY: On 7/17 at 9:40 AM,
inside the Canal St
“N” subway station in Manhattan, the suspect tried to forcibly remove a bag, causing two victims to fall down the stairs, leaving one victim in critical condition. Any info? DM @NYPDTips or call 800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/hRiM0brDZa — NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) July 18, 2021 *  Police are looking for a
suspect who shot a man on a Citi bike at the corner
of Clarkson Avenue
and East 53rd Street, Brooklyn, Wednesday afternoon. The suspect shot a 21-year-old man several times in the torso before taking off. 2021-07-22 h FEDERAL BUREAU OF REPLACING THE FOUNDING STOCK (African-Americans are about 13% of the population yet commit over 58% of violent crimes. Why is Biden IMPORTING more young males with African genetics? Who is paying their air fare to Mexico and transportation to the U.S. border? That person or organization is an enemy of the American people.) NEW: More groups of
migrants being walked through the border gate to a
waiting
Border Patrol van here in Del Rio this morning. This is one of several groups we’ve seen come through today. Our drone team in RGV says 300+ have already crossed in La Joya, TX as of 9am. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/QilYPqRCmO — Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) July 22, 2021 * NEW: Another group of
migrants has just been walked through the border
gate into
the U.S. here in Del Rio, TX. Most of the group is from Haiti. Some of the single adult men you see waiting in the back tell me they’re from Senegal, a country in West Africa. It’s non-stop. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/3yL5gGECPo — Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) July 22, 2021 2021-07-22 g FEDERAL BUREAU OF INSURRECTION INSTIGATION (Don't believe the narrative. The mayhem at the Capitol was staged by the feds to implicate & discredit Trump and his supporters.) The Coming ‘January 6’ Train
Wreck
With the DOJ's first sentencing, the legal realities are disappointing the left's lust for blood. The January 6 Capitol clash may be the gift that keeps on giving to cynics everywhere. In the coming months, Americans will likely see jaw-dropping bureaucratic debacles, stunning abuses by federal prosecutors, and appalling bloodlust by angry Biden supporters. Perhaps the least likely outcome is that the coming train wreck will restore faith in American democracy. The Justice Department declared last week, “The investigation and prosecution of the Capitol Breach will be the largest in American history, both in terms of the number of defendants prosecuted and the nature and volume of the evidence.” The feds are sorting through “237,000 digital tips, 1 million Parler videos and images comprising 40 terabytes of data scraped from the Internet — roughly equivalent to 10 million photos, 20,000 hours of video, or 50,000 filing cabinets of paper documents,” the Washington Post reported. Investigators are also sorting through “cell tower data for thousands of electronic devices that connected to the Capitol’s interior distributed antenna system,” information provided by phone companies, Google, and other data aggregation companies. The problem will be compounded because many government employees are slow readers. More than 500 protestors have already been charged in federal court, but their trials will likely be delayed at least until next year. Federal judge John Bates recently warned that evidence snafus could result in judges “going on the warpath.” If judges conclude that the Justice Department is unreasonably keeping January 6 defendants locked up (often in solitary confinement) too long, judicial edicts could unravel prosecutors’ long-term plans. Federal cases against January 6 protestors are being built on what one savvy electronic evidence consultant called a “Tower of Babel nightmare.” While federal agents gloated at the 300,000 plus tips that poured into the FBI with regards to January 6 protestors, prosecutors are obliged to sift the hairballs and provide each defendant and their lawyers with potentially exculpatory evidence. The biggest data dump on record will likely spur a deluge of inadvertent or intentional withholding of evidence. The Justice Department recently notified defense lawyers that they would have to “build a system to receive the data” the feds delivered. The prosecution is also whining because a federal judge prevented them from relying on a private contractor to organize secret grand jury evidence. The Justice Department may be delaying release of the bulk of the more than 14,000 hours of video surveillance from inside the Capitol on January 6 in an attempt to preserve Biden’s “domestic terrorism” storyline of that day’s events. Even before Trump supporters poured into the Capitol that day, Democrats were accusing them of sedition for filing legal challenges to the 2020 election results, including popular Twitter hashtags such as #GOPSeditiousTraitors and #TreasonAgainstAmerica. After the mob delayed congressional proceedings for six hours, congressional leaders compared the interruption to the 9/11 attacks, Pearl Harbor, and the War of 1812. The Justice Department may also be foot-dragging on releasing evidence because it is reluctant to disclose what role, if any, federal informants or undercover agents had in instigating or propagating violence that day. For January 6 defendants, federal prosecutors are using a simple formula: Trespassing plus thought crimes equals terrorism. On Monday, Paul Hodgkins was sentenced to 8 months in prison, though the feds admitted he was guilty simply of taking selfies, wearing a Trump T-shirt, and carrying a Trump flag into the Senate chamber and “did not personally engage in or espouse violence or property destruction.” Though Hodgkins pled guilty only to one count of obstructing an official proceeding, Biden’s Justice Department demanded a lengthy prison sentence for Hodgkins to “deter…domestic terrorism.” This is akin to prosecutors seeking harsh punishment for a confessed jaywalker because his negligent behavior could have caused a school bus to crash. At the same time the Justice Department is bumbling towards paralysis, many Americans are howling for the heads of January 6 defendants. In his Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn described the vast public outrage that went along with a prominent Soviet show trial of accused wreckers: “There were universal meetings and demonstrations (including even school-children). It was the newspaper march of millions, and the roar rose outside the windows of the courtroom: ‘Death! Death! Death!’” The same spectacle has been stark on Twitter and in the comment section of the Washington Post, among other places. One Washington Post commenter declared that “the only effective way for the government to respond to an act of war by domestic terrorists is to be prepared to meet them with machine guns and flamethrowers and mow them down. Not one of those terrorists who broke through police lines [on January 6] should have escaped alive.” Hodgkins’s sentence terrified and enraged Post readers. One wrote, “The pitiful 8 month sentence scares me badly… I’m afraid the government is losing its ability to protect us from madmen (consider the mentally ill and tweakers roaming our streets untreated) and right wing Q inspired terrorists.” Another commented, “He should have been given the death penalty for sedition.” As always, one commenter even reached back to the Nazis for an analogy, writing, “It is comparable to the 9 months that Adolf Hitler served after his participation in an attempted 1923 putsch against the German government. Remember how that turned out?” Federal judge Randolph Moss, when he sentenced Hodgkins, declared that his action will make it “harder for all of us to tell our children and grandchildren that democracy stands as the immutable foundation of our nation.” Unfortunately, judges seem nonchalant when American democracy is subverted instead by federal agencies. After FBI Assistant General Counsel Kevin Clinesmith admitted falsifying key evidence to get a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump presidential campaign, federal judge James Boasberg gushed with sympathy at the sentencing hearing: “Mr. Clinesmith has lost his job in government service—what has given his life much of its meaning.” Scorning the recommendation of the federal prosecutor (who said the “resulting harm is immeasurable recommendation” from Clinesmith’s action), Boasberg gave Clinesmith a wrist slap—400 hours of community service and 12 months of probation. The Justice Department Inspector General documented many other abuses of power and deceit by FBI officials in the Hillary Clinton or Trump investigations, but not a single FBI official has spent a day behind bars. Will Justice Department prosecutors be caught in a Catch-22, pressured by the White House to harvest as many scalps as possible but crippled by the lack of proof that most of the accused were guilty of anything besides trespassing or “willfully and knowingly parading” in the Capitol? Political pressure for high-profile convictions resulted in disastrous courtroom defeats for federal attorneys prosecuting Ruby Ridge, the Branch Davidian standoff at Waco, and other cases. If juries rebuff prosecutors on more than a few January 6 cases, then the entire political storyline could quickly collapse. Federal prosecutor Mona Sedky is calling for harsh punishment for January 6 defendants because of “the need to preserve respect for the law.” But at this point, “respect for the law” is a loss leader in this process. That won’t be remedied when people realize that taking selfies can result in a federal sentencing enhancement. (read more) 2021-07-22 f FEDERAL BUREAU OF WIFE SWAPPERS AND WIFE BEATERS (This is not quite as interesting as J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director for 48 years, being a flagrant cross dresser and sharing a house with Clyde Tolson. Don't believe the narrative that G-men are clean-cut manly men. Their long-time director was a sissy boy.) FBI agent at center of Whitmer
kidnap probe assaulted wife after swingers' party,
authorities say
An FBI agent at the center of the investigation into the plot to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is accused of smashing his wife's head against a nightstand and choking her after a dispute stemming from their attendance at a swingers' party, according to court records. Special Agent Richard Trask, 39, of Kalamazoo, was charged Monday with assault with intent to do great bodily harm, less than murder following the alleged incident Sunday. An affidavit filed by the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office in Kalamazoo County District Court said Trask's wife had bloody lacerations to the right side of her head and "blood all over chest, clothing arms and hand," as well as "severe" bruising to her neck and throat. She told police she and her husband had several drinks at a swingers' party held at a hotel in the 2700 block of S. 11 Street in Oshtemo Township, just west of Kalamazoo, according to the affidavit. She added that she did not like the party and they argued about it on the way home. Once they arrived home, Trask got on top of her in their bed and "then grabbed the side of her head and smashed it several times on the nightstand," according to the affidavit. She attempted to grab his beard to free herself, and he began to choke her around the neck and throat with both hands, according to the affidavit. She ultimately grabbed Trask's testicles, which ended the altercation, the document notes, and Trask left the Oshtemo Township home in her vehicle. Trask, who was tracked down in the parking lot of a supermarket on Main Street in Oshtemo Township, refused to give a statement about the incident after he was read his Miranda rights, according to the affidavit. Trask, 39, has worked for the FBI since 2011 and served as the FBI's public face in the Whitmer case, testifying in federal court about the investigation. He has worked on cases involving espionage, terrorism and domestic extremism investigations. The FBI on Wednesday declined to comment. FBI spokeswoman Mara Schneider on Monday said the bureau is cooperating with the prosecutor's office. Trask's job status was unclear. "In accordance with FBI policy, the incident is subject to internal review, and I cannot comment further at this time," she said in a statement. Trask was released on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond following an arraignment in 8th District Court in Kalamazoo and faces a charge punishable by up to 10 years in prison. As part of his bond conditions, he is prohibited from possessing a firearm. Aside from his FBI duties, Trask opened a gym at his rural property in Oshtemo Township near Kalamazoo and offers CrossFit training, according to social media posts and state business filings. He filed state paperwork for BCB Health & Wellness last year and maintains an active Instagram account showing him exercising, flexing and posing shirtless. (read more) See also: 2021-07-20 g 2021-07-22 e THE COVID-CON IV (The narrative doesn't tell you that the House of Windsor, the British royal family, are primary instigators of the Great Reset. That's why England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have turned into medical dictatorships.) This week, Melburnians
will have spent a cumulative total of six months
in lockdown.
Six months. We can’t keep living like this. — James Newbury MP (@newbury3186) July 21, 2021 * SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.
DON’T ACT LIKE A HUMAN. DON’T TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS, EVEN WHEN MASKED. DON’T BE FRIENDLY. THIS IS NOT THE TIME. pic.twitter.com/iiPgz2D8Bb — NoRisk_NoReward (@noreward_norisk) July 20, 2021 2021-07-22 d THE COVID-CON III (Many are ignoring the narrative.) CNN Repression Expert Says
Life “Needs to Be Hard” for the Unvaccinated
Says the quiet part out loud For those who have not yet chosen to line up like cattle and take their experimental gene therapy shot, “life should be hard.” That’s according to CNN’s medical “expert” who wants everyone injected. We know that the gloves are off now when it comes to the pressure to get this vaccine. CNN medical contributor Dr. Leana Wen suggested Saturday that life needs to be “hard” for Americans who have not received a COVID-19 “vaccine” and individuals who refuse to get shots should perhaps face weekly testings. Weekly testings with the 100% inaccurate PCR tests for refusing to take the experimental gene therapy? We saw this coming. In October of 2020, a medical journal said that those who refuse to take this shot should be “punished harshly.” It will ramp up until they can convince the remaining half of Americans to take the shot. “It needs to be hard for people to remain unvaccinated,” Wen, the former Planned Parenthood president, said. “Right now, it’s kind of the opposite.” Unvaccinated people, she fretted, can at the moment go about their lives as normal without any consequence. Oh, the horror! Human beings going about their own lives making their own choices with their God-given free will? Looks like there’s too much freedom on this slavery planet, folks. Wen also said Joe Biden should force “vaccine credentialing” in a Nazi-like “show me your papers” scheme designed to further coerce the masses. Wen’s comments piggyback
off an op-ed she wrote in the Washington Post
urging President Biden to mandate vaccinations
nationally and scolding him for not more
aggressively using his platform. She argued the
White House Independence Day event would have been a
perfect opportunity to share that message.
“The celebration could
have been a chance to show that vaccination isn’t
just an individual decision, but one that affects
the health of others — including those already
vaccinated,” Wen wrote. – FOX
News
Say what? If this vaccine is truly a vaccine and provided the person who took the shot with the immunity from a virus, why would those who refused it be of any concern to those who have taken it? It’s still a question that hasn’t been answered. Wen is nothing less than a tyrant like Dr. Anthony Fauci. They want free will to be eliminated completely from the human consciousness, it appears. They need willing, obedient, sheep in the New World Order. Freethinkers threaten to bring down the system. Not those who line up and comply and obey. Continue to use critical thinking. That will eventually lead us to free our own minds. That’s what terrifies the rulers the most, is knowing we deserve our birthright: freedom. (read more) 2021-07-22 c THE COVID-CON II (The narrative claims the unvaccinated are dropping like flies.) Hey Dr. Fauci, How Come the
Vaccines Are Working So Much Better in the US Than
in Israel?
Is it plausible that the vaccinated make up 0.8% of COVID deaths in the US but 75% in Israel? Fauci says that an incredible 99.2% of those who die of COVID in the US are now unvaccinated: Fauci,
the country’s top public health official, has said
that in June, 99.2% of Covid deaths in the US
could be attributed to those who are unvaccinated.
92% would be a high enough number to raise eyebrows but 99.2% is just incredible. But hey, the better these things work the happier. Who doesn’t love a nice life-saving medical intervention? The problem is this. In Israel the 60% who are vaccinated instead contributed 75% of the deaths so far in July. Vaccinated Israelis are also contributing the clear majority of COVID hospitalizations, and of severe cases. Some days all new severe hospitalizations are vaccinated Israelis. Sure enough, the sample size in Israel is small. They’ve had just 12 deaths whole July (of which 9 were vaccinated) so far. Thus one shouldn’t rush to too many conclusions from here. Also, one always has to keep in mind that the vaccinated are considerably older on average, so it is not surprising that they remain overrepresented among hospitalizations. Much of the unvaccinated in Israel is made up of children who are not going to end up hospitalized with COVID either way: Nonetheless, the discrepancy between the vaccine outcome reported by Fauci and reported in Israel is just too big to be accepted without an explanation. How is it that the 60% vaccinated Israelis contributed 75% of Israeli COVID deaths in July, but the 52% Americans vaccinated by June contributed just 0.8% of deaths that month? How come the difference in COVID outcomes between the two groups is so much greater in America than in Israel? How come the vaccines work so much better in Americans than in Israelis? Is the vaccine anti-semitic? (read more) 2021-07-22 b THE COVID-CON I (Trump will regret having promoted the spike protein gene therapy jabs. The narrative refers to them as, "vaccines") Trump’s “Warp Speed” Guy Was a
Bill Gates Ally Who Gave Children Brain Damage With
a 2009 Vaccine That Was Later Pulled
And who pled guilty in a $3bn health fraud settlement — the largest in US history On May 15, 2020, President Trump appointed Moncef Slaoui, a board member of Moderna who until May 19, 2020 held more than $10.3 million in Moderna stock, as chief scientist of the nation’s effort to find a Covid-19 vaccine. Slaoui, who calls himself a “venture capitalist,” is also on the board of directors at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a “public-private partnership” organization that has received more than $359 million from the Gates Foundation. Slaoui also held leadership positions at GSK. While heading the company’s Research and Development, GSK pleaded guilty and paid $3 billion in what the U.S. Justice Department referred to as the “largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history.” The fraud included the coverup of the link between the drug Paxil and suicidal and depressive side effects (predominantly in children), the coverup of the link between the drug Avandia and heart attacks, which the FDA estimated lead to 83,000 excess heart attacks, as well several bribery and illegal kickback schemes. While he was GSK’s chairman of vaccines, Slaoui oversaw the development of the swine flu vaccine named Pandemrix, which was rushed to market without proper testing during the swine flu outbreak. The result was an unsafe shot that left at least 800 people with brain damage, 80 percent of them children. Since GSK only agreed to give governments the vaccine on the condition that it be indemnified from liability, U.K. taxpayer money was used to pay millions of pounds in compensation to the victims. Slaoui was hired to be the Trump administration’s “vaccine czar” as a private contractor, not a government employee. This means, as Public Citizen explained, that Slaoui can “maintain an extensive web of conflicting financial interests without the need to divest of, recuse from, or disclose those conflicting interests.” The corporate media liked to paint the Covid-19 response as a tug of war between anti-science blowhards like Donald Trump and “champions of science” like Bill Gates. However, Slaoui’s appointment to co-direct “Operation Warp Speed” indicated that, here, the Trump administration and the Gates Foundation were on the same team. (read more) 2021-07-22 a "The trouble is:
narrative is not the truth. Generally, it’s the
opposite of the truth. It’s manufactured
counter-truth. The more narrative you spin, the
faster you must spin off new supporting narrative to
conceal the untruth of your previous narrative —
until the national hive mind is lit up in unreality
where nothing makes sense and the very language that
separates humanity from the rough beasts becomes a
social poison. And is “Joe Biden” not the perfect
gibbering epitome of this mess, a ghost in the
narrative machine, beckoning us into chaos?"
— James Howard Kunstler 2021-07-21 e FEDERAL BUREAU OF FEAR-MONGERING The Panic Pandemic
Fear-mongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus. The United States suffered through two lethal waves of contagion in the past year and a half. The first was a viral pandemic that killed about one in 500 Americans [If the inflated numbers are valid.] —typically, a person over 75 suffering from other serious conditions. The second, and far more catastrophic, was a moral panic that swept the nation’s guiding institutions. Instead of keeping calm and carrying on, the American elite flouted the norms of governance, journalism, academic freedom—and, worst of all, science. They misled the public about the origins of the virus and the true risk that it posed. Ignoring their own carefully prepared plans for a pandemic, they claimed unprecedented powers to impose untested strategies, with terrible collateral damage. As evidence of their mistakes mounted, they stifled debate by vilifying dissenters, censoring criticism, and suppressing scientific research. If, as seems increasingly plausible, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan {or not], it is the costliest blunder ever committed by scientists. Whatever the pandemic’s origin, the response to it is the worst mistake in the history of the public-health profession. We still have no convincing evidence that the lockdowns saved lives, but lots of evidence that they have already cost lives and will prove deadlier in the long run than the virus itself. One in three people worldwide lost a job or a business during the lockdowns, and half saw their earnings drop, according to a Gallup poll. Children, never at risk from the virus, in many places essentially lost a year of school. The economic and health consequences were felt most acutely among the less affluent in America and in the rest of the world, where the World Bank estimates that more than 100 million have been pushed into extreme poverty. The leaders responsible for these disasters continue to pretend that their policies worked and assume that they can keep fooling the public. They’ve promised to deploy these strategies again in the future, and they might even succeed in doing so—unless we begin to understand what went wrong. The panic was started, as usual, by journalists. As the virus spread early last year, they highlighted the most alarming statistics and the scariest images: the estimates of a fatality rate ten to 50 times higher than the flu, the chaotic scenes at hospitals in Italy and New York City, the predictions that national health-care systems were about to collapse. The full-scale panic was set off by the release in March 2020 of a [deeply flawed] computer model at the [Bill and Melinda Gates funded] Imperial College in London, which projected [without facts or evidence] that—unless drastic measures were taken—intensive-care units would have 30 Covid patients for every available bed and that America would see 2.2 million deaths by the end of the summer. The [agenda-driven] British researchers announced that the “only viable strategy” was to impose draconian restrictions on businesses, schools, and social gatherings until a vaccine arrived. This extraordinary project was swiftly declared the “consensus” among public-health officials, politicians, journalists, and academics. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, endorsed it and became the unassailable authority for those purporting to “follow the science.” What had originally been a limited lockdown—“15 days to slow the spread”—became long-term policy across much of the United States and the world. A few scientists and public-health experts objected, noting that an extended lockdown was a novel strategy of unknown effectiveness that had been rejected in previous plans for a pandemic. It was a dangerous experiment being conducted without knowing the answer to the most basic question: Just how lethal is this virus? The most prominent early critic was John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at Stanford, who published an essay for STAT headlined, A Fiasco in the Making? As the Coronavirus Pandemic Takes Hold, We Are Making Decisions Without Reliable Data. While a short-term lockdown made sense, he argued, an extended lockdown could prove worse than the disease, and scientists needed to do more intensive testing to determine the risk. The article offered common-sense advice from one of the world’s most frequently cited authorities on the credibility of medical research, but it provoked a furious backlash on Twitter from scientists and journalists. The fury intensified in April 2020, when Ioannidis followed his own advice by joining with Jay Bhattacharya and other colleagues from Stanford to gauge the spread of Covid in the surrounding area, Santa Clara County. After testing for Covid antibodies in the blood of several thousand volunteers, they estimated that the fatality rate among the infected in the county was about 0.2 percent, twice as high as for the flu but considerably lower than the assumptions of public-health officials and computer modelers. The researchers acknowledged that the fatality rate could be substantially higher in other places where the virus spread extensively in nursing homes (which hadn’t yet occurred in the Santa Clara area). But merely by reporting data that didn’t fit the official panic narrative, they became targets. Other scientists lambasted the researchers and claimed that methodological weaknesses in the study made the results meaningless. A statistician at Columbia wrote that the researchers “owe us all an apology.” A biologist at the University of North Carolina said that the study was “horrible science.” A Rutgers chemist called Ioannidis a “mediocrity” who “cannot even formulate a simulacrum of a coherent, rational argument.” A year later, Ioannidis still marvels at the attacks on the study (which was eventually published in a leading epidemiology journal). “Scientists whom I respect started acting like warriors who had to subvert the enemy,” he says. “Every paper I’ve written has errors—I’m a scientist, not the pope—but the main conclusions of this one were correct and have withstood the criticism.” Mainstream journalists piled on with hit pieces quoting critics and accusing the researchers of endangering lives by questioning lockdowns. The Nation called the research a “black mark” for Stanford. The cheapest shots came from BuzzFeed, which devoted thousands of words to a series of trivial objections and baseless accusations. The article that got the most attention was BuzzFeed’s breathless revelation that an airline executive opposed to lockdowns had contributed $5,000—yes, five thousand dollars!—to an anonymized fund at Stanford that had helped finance the Santa Clara fieldwork. The notion that a team of prominent academics, who were not paid for their work in the study, would risk their reputations by skewing results for the sake of a $5,000 donation was absurd on its face—and even more ludicrous, given that Ioannidis, Bhattacharya, and the lead investigator, Eran Bendavid, said that they weren’t even aware of the donation while conducting the study. But Stanford University was so cowed by the online uproar that it subjected the researchers to a two-month fact-finding inquiry by an outside legal firm. The inquiry found no evidence of conflict of interest, but the smear campaign succeeded in sending a clear message to scientists everywhere: Don’t question the lockdown narrative. In a brief interlude of journalistic competence, two veteran science writers, Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee, published an article in Scientific American decrying the politicization of Covid research. They defended the integrity and methodology of the Stanford researchers, noting that some subsequent studies had found similar rates of fatality among the infected. (In his latest review of the literature, Ioannidis now estimates that the average fatality rate in Europe and the Americas is 0.3 to 0.4 percent and about 0.2 percent among people not living in institutions.) Lenzer and Brownlee lamented that the unjust criticism and ad hominem vitriol had suppressed a legitimate debate by intimidating the scientific community. Their editors then proceeded to prove their point. Responding to more online fury, Scientific American repented by publishing an editor’s note that essentially repudiated its own article. The editors printed BuzzFeed’s accusations as the final word on the matter, refusing to publish a rebuttal from the article’s authors or a supporting letter from Jeffrey Flier, former dean of Harvard Medical School. Scientific American, long the most venerable publication in its field, now bowed to the scientific authority of BuzzFeed. Editors of research journals fell into line, too. When Thomas Benfield, one of the researchers in Denmark conducting the first large randomized controlled trial of mask efficacy against Covid, was asked why they were taking so long to publish the much-anticipated findings, he promised them as “as soon as a journal is brave enough to accept the paper.” After being rejected by The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA, the study finally appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the reason for the editors’ reluctance became clear: the study showed that a mask did not protect the wearer, which contradicted claims by the Centers for Disease Control and other health authorities. Stefan Baral, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins with 350 publications to his name, submitted a critique of lockdowns to more than ten journals and finally gave up—the “first time in my career that I could not get a piece placed anywhere,” he said. Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard, had a similar experience with his article, early in the pandemic, arguing that resources should be focused on protecting the elderly. “Just as in war,” Kulldorff wrote, “we must exploit the characteristics of the enemy in order to defeat it with the minimum number of casualties. Since Covid-19 operates in a highly age specific manner, mandated counter measures must also be age specific. If not, lives will be unnecessarily lost.” It was a tragically accurate prophecy from one of the leading experts on infectious disease, but Kulldorff couldn’t find a scientific journal or media outlet to accept the article, so he ended up posting it on his own LinkedIn page. “There’s always a certain amount of herd thinking in science,” Kulldorff says, “but I’ve never seen it reach this level. Most of the epidemiologists and other scientists I’ve spoken to in private are against lockdowns, but they’re afraid to speak up.” To break the silence, Kulldorff joined with Stanford’s Bhattacharya and Sunetra Gupta of Oxford to issue a plea for “focused protection,” called the Great Barrington Declaration. They urged officials to divert more resources to shield the elderly, such as doing more tests of the staff at nursing homes and hospitals, while reopening business and schools for younger people, which would ultimately protect the vulnerable as herd immunity grew among the low-risk population. They managed to attract attention but not the kind they hoped for. Though tens of thousands of other scientists and doctors went on to sign the declaration, the press caricatured it as a deadly “let it rip” strategy and an “ethical nightmare” from “Covid deniers” and “agents of misinformation.” Google initially shadow-banned it so that the first page of search results for “Great Barrington Declaration” showed only criticism of it (like an article calling it “the work of a climate denial network”) but not the declaration itself. Facebook shut down the scientists’ page for a week for violating unspecified “community standards.” The most reviled heretic was Scott Atlas, a medical doctor and health-policy analyst at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He, too, urged focused protection on nursing homes and calculated that the medical, social, and economic disruptions of the lockdowns would cost more years of life than the coronavirus. When he joined the White House coronavirus task force, Bill Gates derided him as “this Stanford guy with no background” promoting “crackpot theories.” Nearly 100 members of Stanford’s faculty signed a letter denouncing his “falsehoods and misrepresentations of science,” and an editorial in the Stanford Daily urged the university to sever its ties to Hoover. The Stanford faculty senate overwhelmingly voted to condemn Atlas’s actions as “anathema to our community, our values and our belief that we should use knowledge for good.” Several professors from Stanford’s medical school demanded further punishment in a JAMA article, When Physicians Engage in Practices That Threaten the Nation’s Health. The article, which misrepresented Atlas’s views as well as the evidence on the efficacy of lockdowns, urged professional medical societies and medical-licensing boards to take action against Atlas on the grounds that it was “ethically inappropriate for physicians to publicly recommend behaviors or interventions that are not scientifically well grounded.” But if it was unethical to recommend “interventions that are not scientifically well grounded,” how could anyone condone the lockdowns? “It was utterly immoral to conduct this society-wide intervention without the evidence to justify it,” Bhattacharya says. “The immediate results have been disastrous, especially for the poor, and the long-term effect will be to fundamentally undermine trust in public health and science.” The traditional strategy for dealing with pandemics was to isolate the infected and protect the most vulnerable, just as Atlas and the Great Barrington scientists recommended. The CDC’s pre-pandemic planning scenarios didn’t recommend extended school closures or any shutdown of businesses even during a plague as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu. Yet Fauci dismissed the focused-protection strategy as “total nonsense” to “anybody who has any experience in epidemiology and infectious diseases,” and his verdict became “the science” to leaders in America and elsewhere. Fortunately, a few leaders followed the science in a different way. Instead of blindly trusting Fauci, they listened to his critics and adopted the focused-protection strategy—most notably, in Florida. Its governor, Ron DeSantis, began to doubt the public-health establishment early in the pandemic, when computer models projected that Covid patients would greatly outnumber hospital beds in many states. Governors in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan were so alarmed and so determined to free up hospital beds that they directed nursing homes and other facilities to admit or readmit Covid patients—with deadly results. But DeSantis was skeptical of the hospital projections—for good reason, as no state actually ran out of beds—and more worried about the risk of Covid spreading in nursing homes. He forbade long-term-care centers to admit anyone infected with Covid and ordered frequent testing of the staff at senior-care centers. After locking down last spring, he reopened businesses, schools, and restaurants early, rejected mask mandates, and ignored protests from the press and the state’s Democratic leaders. Fauci warned that Florida was “asking for trouble,” but DeSantis went on seeking and heeding advice from Atlas and the Great Barrington scientists, who were astonished to speak with a politician already familiar with just about every study they mentioned to him. “DeSantis was an incredible outlier,” Atlas says. “He dug up the data and read the scientific papers and analyzed it all himself. In our discussions, he’d bounce ideas off me, but he was already on top of the details of everything. He always had the perspective to see the larger harms of lockdowns and the need to concentrate testing and other resources on the elderly. And he has been proven correct.” If Florida had simply done no worse than the rest of the country during the pandemic, that would have been enough to discredit the lockdown strategy. The state effectively served as the control group in a natural experiment, and no medical treatment with dangerous side effects would be approved if the control group fared no differently from the treatment group. But the outcome of this experiment was even more damning. Florida’s mortality rate from Covid is lower than the national average among those over 65 and also among younger people, so that the state’s age-adjusted Covid mortality rate is lower than that of all but ten other states. And by the most important measure, the overall rate of “excess mortality” (the number of deaths above normal), Florida has also done better than the national average. Its rate of excess mortality is significantly lower than that of the most restrictive state, California, particularly among younger adults, many of whom died not from Covid but from causes related to the lockdowns: cancer screenings and treatments were delayed, and there were sharp increases in deaths from drug overdoses and from heart attacks not treated promptly. If the treatment group in a clinical trial were dying off faster than the control group, an ethical researcher would halt the experiment. But the lockdown proponents were undeterred by the numbers in Florida, or by similar results elsewhere, including a comparable natural experiment involving European countries with the least restrictive policies. Sweden, Finland, and Norway rejected mask mandates and extended lockdowns, and they have each suffered significantly less excess mortality than most other European countries during the pandemic. A nationwide analysis in Sweden showed that keeping schools open throughout the pandemic, without masks or social distancing, had little effect on the spread of Covid, but school closures and mask mandates for students continued elsewhere. Another Swedish researcher, Jonas Ludvigsson, reported that not a single schoolchild in the country died from Covid in Sweden and that their teachers’ risk of serious illness was lower than for the rest of the workforce—but these findings provoked so many online attacks and threats that Ludvigsson decided to stop researching or discussing Covid. Social-media platforms continued censoring scientists and journalists who questioned lockdowns and mask mandates. YouTube removed a video discussion between DeSantis and the Great Barrington scientists, on the grounds that it “contradicts the consensus” on the efficacy of masks, and also took down the Hoover Institution’s interview with Atlas. Twitter locked out Atlas and Kulldorff for scientifically accurate challenges to mask orthodoxy. A peer-reviewed German study reporting harms to children from mask-wearing was suppressed on Facebook (which labeled my City Journal article “Partly False” because it cited the study) and also at ResearchGate, one of the most widely used websites for scientists to post their papers. ResearchGate refused to explain the censorship to the German scientists, telling them only that the paper was removed from the website in response to “reports from the community about the subject-matter.” The social-media censors and scientific establishment, aided by the Chinese government, succeeded for a year in suppressing the lab-leak theory, depriving vaccine developers of potentially valuable insights into the virus’s evolution. It’s understandable, if deplorable, that the researchers and officials involved in supporting the Wuhan lab research would cover up the possibility that they’d unleashed a Frankenstein's monster on the world. What’s harder to explain is why journalists and the rest of the scientific community so eagerly bought that story, along with the rest of the Covid narrative. Why the elite panic? Why did so many go so wrong for so long? When journalists and scientists finally faced up to their mistake in ruling out the lab-leak theory, they blamed their favorite villain: Donald Trump. He had espoused the theory, so they assumed it must be wrong. And since he disagreed at times with Fauci about the danger of the virus and the need for lockdowns, then Fauci must be right, and this was such a deadly plague that the norms of journalism and science must be suspended. Millions would die unless Fauci was obeyed and dissenters were silenced. But neither the plague nor Trump explains the panic. Yes, the virus was deadly, and Trump’s erratic pronouncements contributed to the confusion and partisanship, but the panic was due to two preexisting pathologies that afflicted other countries, too. The first is what I have called the Crisis Crisis, the incessant state of alarm fomented by journalists and politicians. It’s a longstanding problem—humanity was supposedly doomed in the last century by the “population crisis” and the “energy crisis”—that has dramatically worsened with the cable and digital competition for ratings, clicks, and retweets. To keep audiences frightened around the clock, journalists seek out Cassandras with their own incentives for fearmongering: politicians, bureaucrats, activists, academics, and assorted experts who gain publicity, prestige, funding, and power during a crisis. Unlike many proclaimed crises, an epidemic is a genuine threat, but the crisis industry can’t resist exaggerating the danger, and doomsaying is rarely penalized. Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, the New York Times reported the terrifying possibility that the virus could spread to children through “routine close contact”—quoting from a study by Anthony Fauci. Life magazine wildly exaggerated the number of infections in a cover story, headlined “Now No One Is Safe from AIDS.” It cited a study by Robert Redfield, the future leader of the CDC during the Covid pandemic, predicting that AIDS would soon spread as rapidly among heterosexuals as among homosexuals. Both scientists were absolutely wrong, of course, but the false alarms didn’t harm their careers or their credibility. Journalists and politicians extend professional courtesy to fellow crisis-mongers by ignoring their mistakes, such as the previous predictions by Neil Ferguson. His team at Imperial College projected up to 65,000 deaths in the United Kingdom from swine flu and 200 million deaths worldwide from bird flu. The death toll each time was in the hundreds, but never mind: when Ferguson’s team projected millions of American deaths from Covid, that was considered reason enough to follow its recommendation for extended lockdowns. And when the modelers’ assumption about the fatality rate proved too high, that mistake was ignored, too. Journalists kept highlighting the most alarming warnings, presented without context. They needed to keep their audience scared, and they succeeded. For Americans under 70, the probability of surviving a Covid infection was about 99.9 percent, but fear of the virus was higher among the young than among the elderly, and polls showed that people of all ages vastly overestimated the risk of being hospitalized or dying. The second pathology underlying the elite’s Covid panic is the politicization of research—what I have termed the Left’s war on science, another long-standing problem that has gotten much worse. Just as the progressives a century ago yearned for a nation directed by “expert social engineers”—scientific high priests unconstrained by voters and public opinion—today’s progressives want sweeping new powers for politicians and bureaucrats who “believe in science,” meaning that they use the Left’s version of science to justify their edicts. Now that so many elite institutions are political monocultures, progressives have more power than ever to enforce groupthink and suppress debate. Well before the pandemic, they had mastered the tactics for demonizing and silencing scientists whose findings challenged progressive orthodoxy on issues such as IQ, sex differences, race, family structure, transgenderism, and climate change. And then along came Covid—“God’s gift to the Left,” in Jane Fonda’s words. Exaggerating the danger and deflecting blame from China to Trump offered not only short-term political benefits, damaging his reelection prospects, but also an extraordinary opportunity to empower social engineers in Washington and state capitals. Early in the pandemic, Fauci expressed doubt that it was politically possible to lock down American cities, but he underestimated the effectiveness of the crisis industry’s scaremongering. Americans were so frightened that they surrendered their freedoms to work, study, worship, dine, play, socialize, or even leave their homes. Progressives celebrated this “paradigm shift,” calling it a “blueprint” for dealing with climate change. This experience should be a lesson in what not to do, and whom not to trust. Do not assume that the media’s version of a crisis resembles reality. Do not count on mainstream journalists and their favorite doomsayers to put risks in perspective. Do not expect those who follow “the science” to know what they’re talking about. Science is a process of discovery and debate, not a faith to profess or a dogma to live by. It provides a description of the world, not a prescription for public policy, and specialists in one discipline do not have the knowledge or perspective to guide society. They’re biased by their own narrow focus and self-interest. Fauci and Deborah Birx, the physician who allied with him against Atlas on the White House task force, had to answer for the daily Covid death toll—that ever-present chyron at the bottom of the television screen—so they focused on one disease instead of the collateral damage of their panic-driven policies. “The Fauci-Birx lockdowns were a sinful, unconscionable, heinous mistake, and they will never admit they were wrong,” Atlas says. Neither will the journalists and politicians who panicked along with them. They’re still portraying lockdowns as not just a success but also a precedent—proof that Americans can sacrifice for the common good when directed by wise scientists and benevolent autocrats. But the sacrifice did far more harm than good, and the burden was not shared equally. The brunt was borne by the most vulnerable in America and the poorest countries of the world. Students from disadvantaged families suffered the most from school closures, and children everywhere spent a year wearing masks solely to assuage the neurotic fears of adults. The less educated lost jobs so that professionals at minimal risk could feel safer as they kept working at home on their laptops. Silicon Valley (and its censors) prospered from lockdowns that bankrupted local businesses. Luminaries united on Zoom and YouTube to assure the public that “we’re all in this together.” But we weren’t. When the panic infected the nation’s elite—the modern gentry who profess such concern for the downtrodden—it turned out that they weren’t so different from aristocrats of the past. They were in it for themselves. (read more) 2021-07-21 d FEDERAL BUREAU OF INEPTITUDE (security theater compliance, luggage pilfering and humiliation division) Our Nation's Fat, Archaic,
Dilapidated Airports Represent the Overall Decline
of America
[...] All of the above failures of the TSA are already well-known to the American public. But there’s a more basic, fundamental way the TSA embodies American decline, which is rarely discussed: The TSA gathers the least-valuable, least trustworthy, lowest-functioning Americans on this side of the prison system and places them into positions of authority. If you want a vision of the future, imagine an obese[, barely literate, melanin minority] TSA agent saying you have to throw away your toothpaste for being half an oz too big — forever. (read more) 2021-07-21 c FEDERAL BUREAU OF INSTIGATION II What Is a Boogaloo?
How the government and its media allies overhyped a threat they helped create On Jan. 17, the FBI warned that right-wing militias were planning to hold nationwide demonstrations that could lead to further violence like the riots on Capitol Hill. The reports came as law enforcement faced criticism for failing to react to chatter online indicating a plot to storm the Capitol in the weeks leading up to the [government orchestrated] melee. Then two FBI documents leaked a few days later—including one drafted before the events on Capitol Hill—warning of nationwide armed rallies, demonstrations at state capitols, and possible further violence ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration. The Boogaloo Bois, a “militant anti-government movement,” according to the FBI, was the only group named by the agency. In a Dec. 29 information report produced by the FBI’s Minnesota field office a source observes Boogaloo members scouting out security around the state capital buildings to identify potential defensive positions in the event of armed clashes with law enforcement. Trying to unwind all the strands of message-board lore woven into the origins of the Boogaloo movement is a waste of time. The gist of it all is that “Boogaloo” is a reference to the 1984 film Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo—the message being that sequels suck. The event whose sequel the group is allegedly preparing for is the American Civil War. A game of word associations led from Boogaloo to “big igloo” and “big luau,” the latter of which inspired the group’s distinctive Hawaiian-shirt attire. Anti-government, anti-police, and focused with the intensity of subcultural obsessives on an imminent civil war, the Boogaloo movement, in its short history, has shown an advanced capacity for deploying internet memes, inflicting random politically impotent violence, and attracting headlines—but no previous ability to coordinate large disruptive operations on a national scale. The loosely connected network of young men who make up the Boogaloo movement have been fixtures at the protests and riots of the past year in their uniform of bespoke tactical gear and semi-automatic rifles slung across colorful island shirts. Unappointed sentries patrolling together in small groups the size of an infantry fire team, Boogaloo members have marched in support of Black Lives Matter in some cities and elsewhere rallied against the movement. In contrast to their clearly branded uniforms, the Boogaloo ideology is an airy admixture. It contains a frontier-style, gun-rights absolutism, militant opposition to police as agents of a tyrannical government, conspiratorial concerns with supposed elite-sanctioned pedophilia, and an undercurrent of accelerationist energy, which is the latest update on the millennarian impulse to see the world redeemed by its destruction. Incoherent and amorphous by nature, the Boogaloo movement is whatever the adherents who don the uniform in a particular time and place make it. It’s not a local activist organization or national political party, but a Facebook group come to life and bearing arms. At a pro-gun rally in Richmond, a group of Boogbois led a chant of “White Supremacy Sucks.” Other members of the group can be found fantasizing about race war and flashing neo-Nazi insignia. Neither “right” nor “left” Boogaloo tendencies can be said to have the more exclusive claim to representing the movement. What we have seen from the Boogaloos in action so far is a mixed bag of visibility tactics aimed at large events and social media with occasional outbursts of stark violence and bumbling attempts at terrorist plots. Over the summer, an active-duty member of the Air Force murdered two law enforcement officers. Before his arrest, the alleged killer, who was found to possess Boogaloo insignia, had used his own blood to scrawl a slogan associated with the group on the hood of a car: “I have become unreasonable.” In October, the FBI infiltrated a militant cell in Michigan and stopped a reported [government-instigated] plot to kidnap the state’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer, allegedly in retaliation for her COVID-19 lockdown policy. Some of the suspects arrested for the plot had links to the Boogaloos. As a sign of the group’s ideological openness, two men affiliated with the Boogaloos joined the protests in Minnesota after George Floyd’s killing. They were there, they said, to protect marchers from police and looters, when they were recruited by an FBI informant into a plot that eventually found them trying to sell weapons to agents who they believed were members of Hamas. A small group was visible at the Trump[ed up] Capitol Hill riots wearing insignia identified with the movement. Incoherent, fantasy-driven political movements can be destructive, as we have seen. But the Boogaloo track record to date, and the fact that the group appears to be thoroughly penetrated by the FBI, caution against exaggerating the danger it poses. Rather than being a threat to national security or American democracy, the Boogaloo movement is more consequential for what it represents: the outgrowth of a uniquely digital political culture that is just beginning to reshape our world. What is significant isn’t the in-jokes, which have no definite meaning outside their contingent subcultural context, but the social ecology that produced the Boogaloos in the first place. Like so many other modern objects of horror and fascination, the Boogaloo movement grew out of the imageboards of 4chan, a digital environment structured around anonymous, unmoderated conversations where older comments continuously disappear and newness, speed, and signal strength rule. Most of the major digital movements of the past decade have emerged from this same fertile seed bed: the early hacker collective Anonymous, the Kek-worshipping alt-right, incel uprising devotees, and now the Boogaloos. Despite their apparent ideological differences, these groups have something fundamental in common: They operate through rituals of communal belief more closely resembling ancient mystery cults than modern political organizations. Individuals drawn into these identity-dissolving digital cults are immersed in the experience of a collective fantasy. The refinement of fantasies through cybernetic feedback processes is the basis of the new memetic ideologies that challenge and disorient traditional modes of politics. In practice, it is therefore impossible to understand the Boogaloo movement and other memetic ideologies using the same frame of reference that applied to 19th- and 20th-century politics. In industrial society, political formations evolved in relation to instruments of economic capital and state power. In liberalism, for instance, ideals about human liberty and the nature of truth were inseparable from principles of private property and the proper limits of government. But there is no stable center online, no fixed map of society and political economy, toward which today’s emerging digital tribes are oriented. The 20th-century ideologies have survived the end of history as unstable isotopes in a state of advanced decay. Fallout from the radioactivity shed into the ecosystem online, has led to the flourishing of mutant belief systems as cartoonish and deformed as the three-eyed fish from the Simpsons. Given the levels of weirdness that are out there amid the Nazi furries, pro-North Korean Juche loyalist Instagram influencers, sex-negative Nazbol Posadists, eco-accelerationist integralists, and the like, the Boogaloo boys with their whiff of old-fashioned American paranoia and apocalypticism seem almost normal. (read more) 2021-07-21 b FEDERAL BUREAU OF INSTIGATION I "Many informants agree to help the government because they have gotten themselves sideways with the law and are hoping to get their charges dismissed, have their sentences reduced, or win other favors from prosecutors. Others are in it for the money; one longtime federal informant has allegedly hauled in some $4.9 million in government payments over the past two decades. " Watching The Watchmen
2021-07-21
aThe Michigan kidnapping case is a major test for the Biden administration’s commitment to fighting domestic terrorism — and a crucible for the fierce ideological divisions pulling the country apart. In the inky darkness of a late summer night last September, three cars filled with armed men began circling Birch Lake in northern Michigan, looking for ways to approach Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s three-bedroom vacation cottage, subdue her — using a stun gun if necessary — and drag her away. One vehicle stopped to check out a boat launch while a second searched in vain for the right house in the thick woods ringing the lake. The third car ran countersurveillance, using night vision goggles to look out for cops and handheld radios to communicate with the others. Earlier, they had scoped out a bridge over the Elk River, just a few miles away, scrambling down under the span to figure out where plastic explosives would need to be placed to blow it sky-high. That would slow police response, giving the men time to escape with the governor — who had infuriated them by imposing COVID lockdowns, among other outrages — and either take her to Lake Michigan, where they could abandon her on a boat, or whisk her to Wisconsin, where she would be tried as a “tyrant.” “Everybody down with what’s going on?” an Iraq War veteran in the group demanded to know when they ended their recon mission, well past midnight, at a campsite where they were all staying. “If you’re not down with the thought of kidnapping,” someone else replied, “don’t sit here.” The men planned for all kinds of obstacles, but there was one they didn’t anticipate: The FBI had been listening in all along. For six months, the Iraq War vet had been wearing a wire, gathering hundreds of hours of recordings. He wasn’t the only one. A biker who had traveled from Wisconsin to join the group was another informant. The man who’d advised them on where to put the explosives — and offered to get them as much as the task would require — was an undercover FBI agent. So was a man in one of the other cars who said little and went by the name Mark. Just over three weeks later, federal and state agents swooped in and arrested more than a dozen men accused of participating in what a federal prosecutor called a “deeply disturbing” criminal conspiracy hatched over months in secret meetings, on encrypted chats, and in paramilitary-style training exercises. Seven of the men who had driven to Birch Lake that night would end up in jail. The case made international headlines, with the Justice Department touting it as an example of law enforcement agencies “working together to make sure violent extremists never succeed with their plans.” Prosecutors alleged that kidnapping the governor was just the first step in what some on the right call “the Big Boog,” a long-awaited civil war that would overthrow the government and return the United States to some supposed Revolutionary War–era ideal. The defendants, for their part, see it very differently. They say they were set up. The audacious plot to kidnap a sitting governor — seen by many as a precursor to the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol by hundreds of Trump-supporting protesters — has become one of the most important domestic terrorism investigations in a generation. The prosecution has already emerged as a critical test for how the Biden administration approaches the growing threat of homegrown anti-government groups. More than that, though, the case epitomizes the ideological divisions that have riven the country over the past several years. To some, the FBI’s infiltration of the innermost circle of armed anti-government groups is a model for how to successfully forestall dangerous acts of domestic terrorism. But for others, it’s an example of precisely the kind of outrageous government overreach that radicalizes people in the first place, and, increasingly, a flashpoint for deep state conspiracy theories. The government has documented at least 12 confidential informants who assisted the sprawling investigation. The trove of evidence they helped gather provides an unprecedented view into American extremism, laying out in often stunning detail the ways that anti-government groups network with each other and, in some cases, discuss violent actions. An examination of the case by BuzzFeed News also reveals that some of those informants, acting under the direction of the FBI, played a far larger role than has previously been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them. A longtime government informant from Wisconsin, for example, helped organize a series of meetings around the country where many of the alleged plotters first met one another and the earliest notions of a plan took root, some of those people say. The Wisconsin informant even paid for some hotel rooms and food as an incentive to get people to come. The Iraq War vet, for his part, became so deeply enmeshed in a Michigan militant group that he rose to become its second-in-command, encouraging members to collaborate with other potential suspects and paying for their transportation to meetings. He prodded the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping plot to advance his plan, then baited the trap that led to the arrest. This account is based on an analysis of court filings, transcripts, exhibits, audio recordings, and other documents, as well as interviews with more than two dozen people with direct knowledge of the case, including several who were present at meetings and training sessions where prosecutors say the plot was hatched. All but one of the 14 original defendants have pleaded not guilty, and they vigorously deny that they were involved in a conspiracy to kidnap anyone. The prosecution gathered thousands of social media posts, some 400,000 text messages, and more than 1,300 hours of recordings — including audio or video from all three vehicles it alleges traveled to Birch Lake on the night of Sept. 12. It maintains that this evidence shows many of those who were charged not only expressed anti-government sentiments, but also took concrete steps toward the goal of kidnapping or killing law enforcement officers and elected officials. But the defendants, as well as others caught up in the sweeping investigation — which stretched from Baltimore to Kansas City — claim their talk never rose beyond the level of fantasy and they never intended to harm anyone. Although they have not denied participating in training events, attending meetings, and communicating with other defendants, they claim that no actual conspiracy to kidnap the governor ever existed. Instead, they say, they were targeted because of their political views. Some describe the case as a premeditated campaign by the government to undermine the Patriot movement, an ideology based on fealty to the Second Amendment and the conviction that the government has violated the Constitution and is therefore illegitimate. They argue that the recordings and text messages that the government calls proof of a criminal conspiracy are in fact constitutionally protected speech — expressions of frustration at what they see as the government’s betrayal of its citizens. Attorneys for all but one of the defendants declined invitations to comment on the record for this story. To date, one defendant has formally accused the government of entrapment, arguing that the FBI assembled the key plotters, encouraged the group's anti-government feelings, and even gave its members military-style training. Additional defendants have said they plan to make similar claims when the cases, divided between federal and state court, go to trial starting as soon as October. Last week, the lawyer for one defendant filed a motion that included texts from an FBI agent to a key informant, the Iraq War veteran, directing him to draw specific people into the conspiracy — potential evidence of entrapment that he said the government “inadvertently disclosed.” He is requesting all texts sent and received by that informant, and other attorneys are now considering motions that accuse the government of intentionally withholding evidence of entrapment. Meanwhile, Gregory Townsend, one of the lead prosecutors handling the cases against eight of the defendants in Michigan state court, was reassigned in May pending an attorney general audit into whether he had withheld evidence about deals cut with informants during a murder and arson trial in Oakland County in 2000. And on Sunday, in a matter apparently unrelated to the alleged kidnapping conspiracy, one of the lead FBI agents in the case, Richard J. Trask, was charged in state court in Kalamazoo with assault with intent to do great bodily harm. A spokesperson for the Michigan attorney general’s office said that the defendants’ claims “are not indisputable facts,” adding that the office “will counter and correct these issues in court.” The Department of Justice declined requests for an interview or to provide comment for this article, citing its policy not to discuss pending criminal cases. An FBI spokesperson said the bureau is aware of the charges against Trask but declined further comment for this article. Claiming government entrapment is a common strategy in domestic terrorism cases — in part because it is among the only available defenses if prosecutors have evidence from extensive surveillance. Such defenses usually fail, and most domestic terrorism defendants are convicted [by American Federal kangaroo courts with a greater than 98% conviction rate]. But not always. Less than a decade ago, for example, an apocalyptic Christian group in Michigan was prosecuted for allegedly plotting to murder police officers. Among other things, the defendants claimed that the entire conspiracy was instigated by deeply embedded FBI informants, and the defendants were ultimately acquitted by the judge. Since its founding 113 years ago [to enforce the Mann Act], the FBI has relied upon, and often paid, confidential informants to aid in criminal investigations. Starting in the late 1950s, it has employed them specifically to infiltrate dissident groups and spy on targeted individuals, including the Black Panthers, the Ku Klux Klan, and Martin Luther King Jr. The tactic has a decidedly mixed record. Informants have helped make cases that averted terrible violence. But informants have also coerced innocent people, falsified evidence, and even committed murder while working for the FBI. The bureau’s reliance on informants, much criticized in the 1970s, received renewed scrutiny in the wake of 9/11, when they were used to probe Muslim groups for alleged involvement in Islamic terrorism. The Michigan case is unfolding at another fraught moment in American history. In court, the government has drawn a direct line between the alleged kidnapping plot and the Jan. 6 [non-]insurrection, holding up the storming of the US Capitol [by government agents] as evidence that the Michigan defendants posed a profound threat. Last month, Attorney General Merrick Garland stressed in a speech about the government’s approach to domestic terrorism that it is focused “on violence, not ideology,” adding that “in America, espousing a hateful ideology is not unlawful.” But if the defense is able to undermine the methods used to build the Michigan case, it could add weight to the theory that the administration is conducting a witch hunt against militant groups — and, by extension, that the Jan. 6 [non-]insurrection was a black op engineered by the FBI. [...] Between 2012 and 2018, the FBI spent an average of $42 million a year on payments to confidential informants, which it officially calls confidential human sources, according to a recent audit of the program by the Justice Department’s inspector general. The audit was redacted to hide the total number of informants working for the FBI, but it emphasized that it was “important to have CHSs embedded in terrorist cells, violent gangs, and espionage operations, among others, in order to collect valuable evidence and investigative information.” According to Greg Rogers, a retired FBI agent who spent two decades working undercover on cases involving domestic terrorism (and has a torso covered with gang tattoos to show for it), the standard playbook for domestic terrorism investigations is to start with an informant who can infiltrate a group and gain trust, and then bring in undercover agents. That’s an even bigger necessity in this era of social media, he said, when informants are often vetted based on their online identities, which are hard to fake. “I used to attend militia conferences and gun shows, but I never got into a group without being introduced by an informant first,” Rogers said. Many informants agree to help the government because they have gotten themselves sideways with the law and are hoping to get their charges dismissed, have their sentences reduced, or win other favors from prosecutors. Others are in it for the money; one longtime federal informant has allegedly hauled in some $4.9 million in government payments over the past two decades. It’s far less common for the FBI to recruit an informant — as it did with Dan — simply by appealing to his better nature. On March 17, Dan officially went on the FBI’s books under the code name Thor. Impola laid out the ground rules. Dan could deceive the Wolverine Watchmen or other suspects, but he had to be truthful with the FBI. He could participate in the group’s activities, but had to stop short of anything illegal. As a matter of law, convincing people with no prior intention to commit crimes is known as entrapment and is to be strenuously avoided by law enforcement. Federal agents and informants are instead supposed to passively develop evidence against people who are already “predisposed” to do illegal things, serving only as the eyes and ears of the prosecution. In practical terms, however, confidential informants enjoy tremendous leeway to get the goods. Informants in cases over recent decades have badgered suspects into committing crimes, paid them large sums of money to do so, and even threatened to hurt them if they backed out, according to an analysis by Jesse Norris, a professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York at Fredonia. In not one of those instances was the prosecution forced to drop the case. (read more) “In politics, nothing
happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it
was planned that way.”
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt 2021-07-20 h UGLY TRUTH ABOUT FBI MISCONDUCT AND CORRUPTION (Federal Bureau of Prevarication) Inspector General
Outlines More Gross FBI Misconduct With Senior
Officials and Media Collusion
In 2018 the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) highlighted numerous FBI officials who accepted bribes from multiple media outlets including: “tickets to sporting events”, “golf outings”, “drinks and meals” as well as exclusive invitations and admission to “nonpublic social events” {Go Deep}. Today the OIG expanded on the investigation that stemmed from that original outline, and published new findings. Within the latest two page summary [pdf here], the “senior FBI official” is unnamed; however, prior research indicates it was former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe: It is very frustrating to see that nothing is done to hold these corrupt FBI officials to account for such gross abuses of power and position. The dual system of justice in the United States is creating a very serious collapse in credibility for multiple institutions of government. In my opinion, the larger accountability issue is intentionally being handled this way as part of the “fundamental change” objective of the radical group behind the installation of Obama. This is one continuum, and the lack of accountability is by design in the effort to perpetrate one ever-increasing, intentionally created crisis. The erosion of institutional credibility is a feature, not a flaw. We are in a very precarious time, and must be careful as we are inundated by the openness of the corruption in the system. The radicals want a reaction; they want a strong -perhaps violent- reaction; as that plays into their larger objective. Misplaced anger toward the visibility of the corruption can be weaponized against us. (read more) 2021-07-20 g UGLY TRUTH ABOUT FBI SPECIAL AGENT (Federal Bureau of Domestic Violence) FBI Special Agent In Charge of
Whitmer Kidnap Plot is Arrested For Domestic
Violence, Assault With Intent to Do Great Bodily
Harm
The curiously sketchy case against six accused people in the FBI organized plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer took another hit to the case credibility on Monday, as the lead FBI Special Agent was arrested on domestic violence charges. This latest issue comes less than a week after court filings showed twelve embedded FBI operatives were involved in the suspicious plot that culminated in the arrest of six individuals {Go Deep}. (Detroit News) – […] FBI Special Agent Richard Trask, 39, of Kalamazoo [pictured left on Instagram], was charged Monday with assault with intent to do great bodily harm, less than murder following a domestic incident with his wife Sunday. He was released on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond following an arraignment in 8th District Court in Kalamazoo and faces a charge punishable by up to 10 years in prison. […] Trask, 39, has worked for the FBI since 2011 and served as the FBI’s public face in the Whitmer case, testifying in federal court about the investigation. He has worked on cases involving espionage, terrorism and domestic extremism investigations. […] The arrest is the second potential problem in the case to emerge in recent months. In March, prosecutors indicted an informant who sources say helped the FBI infiltrate the alleged conspiracy, a rare legal development. The indictment of Wisconsin resident Stephen Robeson after a prolonged period of cooperation suggests the relationship between Robeson and the FBI is destroyed and that prosecutors do not plan on using him at trial, legal experts said. But defense lawyers can try to call him as a witness and attack Robeson’s credibility. (read more) 2021-07-20 f UGLY TRUTH ABOUT TEXAS DEMOCRATS WHO FLED TO DC TO BREAK QUORUM (6 have tested positive for synthetic bio-warfare agent) Peter Doocy asks @PressSec
if the Texas Democratic trip is now a
“super-spreader event”: “Well, I would say that’s not a characterization we’re making from here… Our message continues to be ‘thanks for standing up for voting rights.'” pic.twitter.com/0Q00Ma0s4O — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 20, 2021 2021-07-20 e UGLY TRUTH ABOUT BLACKS PROTECTING BLACK CRIMINALS these officers respond
to a shooting in Atlanta, only to be shouted down
and forced — The Daily Sneed™ ➐ (@Tr00peRR) July 20, 2021 2021-07-20 d UGLY TRUTH ABOUT OBESITY AND THE BIO-WARFARE AGENT (twits suspended congresswoman 12 hours for truth-telling) This is why no entity
should force NON-FDA approved vaccines or masks.
Instead help people protect their health by defeating obesity, which will protect them from covid complications & death, and many other health problems. We should invest in health, not human experimentation. https://t.co/I4zHqwabhi — Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 19, 2021 2021-07-20 c UGLY FAKE FEMALE MULATTO ON COVER OF SWIMSUIT ISSUE (Sports Illustrated becomes Spoofs Illustrated)  2021-07-20 b UGLY GREAT REPLACEMENT OF TRADITIONAL AMERICANS BIDEN IMPORTING CENTRAL
AMERICAN GANG MEMBERS
NEW: Getting a bit
hectic here in Del Rio. Massive group of 300+
migrants wants to be
let into the US. Some migrant families being let through, but adult men try to force their way through the gate. BP and troopers have to yell at them to get back. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/7E4KIHmNVs — Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) July 19, 2021 * A large majority of
the migrants, including single adult men, have
been let into the United
States and taken into custody. At least 200+ have been taken away in buses. More still coming, more still waiting. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/CIfSXAejCc — Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) July 19, 2021 2021-07-20 a “If liberty means
anything at all, it means the right to tell people
what they do not want to hear.”
— George Orwell 2021-07-19 i VIRTUE-SIGNALING MADNESS Ben & Jerry’s will
end sales of our ice cream in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory.
Read our full statement: https://benjerrys.co/3wZZLst — Ben & Jerry's @benandjerrys July 19, 2021 2021-07-19 h NEGLIGIBLE MADNESS "I Alone Can Fix It"
reports Mark Milley urged Trump to kill Soleimani,
warning Trump
that he's be "held criminally negligible" if he didn't go through with the assassination. pic.twitter.com/kVD9yZHs90 — Eli Clifton (@EliClifton) July 16, 2021 2021-07-19 g WASH DAY MADNESS (If y'all are confused by "unwashing" one's clothes, that's what trailer trash Democrats call doing laundry in a bathroom. Shucks, don't be rolling your eyes; po' folks in the Legislature have to be resourceful in big third-world cities lacking commercial laundry establishments. See, y'all learned something new today. Now y'all know how lady lawmakers on the run "unwash" their bloomers.}  You bet
we’re recognizing & honoring our country’s
heritage. As most Texans, tho, — Donna Howard (@DonnaHowardTX) July 16, 2021 2021-07-19 f MONETARY MADNESS V Too Much Money Chasing Too Few
Goods and Services
Inflation can be considered a tax, an especially regressive one, falling harder on those with lower income and/or assets. [...] Earlier this week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (within the U.S. Department of Labor) reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose in June at one of its fastest growing rates in more than a decade. Some people have been pointing to the fact that year-over-year changes in the CPI may be high recently in part because the comparisons to last year’s levels were amidst the onset of the pandemic. But in the second quarter of 2021, compared to the first quarter of 2021 and on a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI rose at an annualized rate of more than 8 percent, which is the highest quarterly growth rate since the third quarter of 1981. It’s always worthwhile to keep an eye on alternative inflation measures, given the [under-]estimation issues associated with government statistics, and considering the [untrustworthy] source of those statistics. Along those lines, a recent survey of small businesses by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) returned a result for prices that hasn’t been reached since 1981. And the prices component of the monthly Institute for Supply Management survey of business purchasing managers rose in June 2021 to its highest reading since July 1979. Inflation can be considered as a tax, and an especially regressive one, falling harder on those with lower income and/or assets. Inflation can be considered one cost of government. But it’s interesting to consider (and we will, in coming months) how well the government a) measures inflation overall, and b) covers the cost of government as an element of the overall cost of living. Government sales taxes end up getting covered by the CPI, for example, as that statistic (uncertain and/or flawed in other respects) measures prices including sales taxes at the retail level. But significant issues arise for other taxes (like property taxes) that matter for the cost of government, as well as taxes that are not explicitly covered by the CPI (or related measures like the PCE deflator). Back in the Great Depression, economists and government developed our modern framework for Gross Domestic Product (GDP, the total value of goods and services produced in a given period). There were four main components (C+I+G+NX) – Consumer Spending, Investment Spending, Government Spending, and Net Exports. Some have questioned whether the G (Government Spending) belongs there at all, from an opportunity cost perspective, as government spending relies on taxes or borrowing money that could have been spent [productively] by somebody else. But let’s put that interesting debate aside and consider whether what is good for the goose is good for the gander. If GDP should include government spending, our government should do a better job of including the cost burden of government in its measures of the cost of living. (read more) 2021-07-19 e MONETARY MADNESS IV Americans Pay More to Get
Less: Retail Sales Outrun by Inflation
Welcome to Fed’s New World of Inflation. Retail sales rose by 0.6% in June from May, according to the Commerce Department on Friday. But over the same period, prices for food bought at the store rose by 0.8%; prices at restaurants, delis, cafeterias, etc. rose by 0.7%; for gasoline by 2.5%, and for durable goods such as appliances, electronics, furniture, cars, etc., by 3.5% in just one month! These are the categories that make up retail sales. And these whopping price increases in June outran the increase in retail sales in June, and they outran retail sales for the entire second quarter, indicating that consumers paid more to get less. Welcome to the Fed’s New World of inflation. Retail sales in June rose to $621 billion (seasonally [mal-]adjusted), but after the 1.7% drop in May, remain below March and April: (read much more and see graphs) See also: Plunge of Retail Inventories, Collapse of New & Used Vehicle Inventories: The Shortages Depicted in Charts 2021-07-19 d MONETARY MADNESS III This “Temporary” Inflation Is
Turning into an Inflation Spiral
Get Used to Higher Inflation. My Thoughts on the Biggest Mess I’ve Seen in Decades. This year, inflation blasted off with a vengeance, and the last four months have seen the hottest pace of inflation since the 1980s. The consumer price index – the CPI – rose 5% year-over-year for May. The June reading will come out in a couple of days [update: June CPI came in at 5.4%]. 5% of annual inflation is bad enough. But the pace of inflation over the past four months has been much higher, clocking in at over 8% annualized. Surely, some inflation measures will tick down in the near future, giving everyone false hopes, before rising again. The first bout of inflation always looks temporary. But during those first bouts of inflation, that’s when the triggers of “persistent” inflation – namely the inflationary mindset and inflation expectations – are being unleashed. So now the Fed keeps repeating time after time that this is temporary and that it will go away on its own because it was caused by temporary factors, namely a demand shock that occurred because the government spread $5 trillion in borrowed stimulus money since March last year; and because the Fed printed $4 trillion over the same period and repressed interest rates to 0%. This moolah stimulated consumption, in a huge way, and it caused a historic spike in demand for goods, and there are now cascading shortages from ammo to semiconductors, made worse by container shortages and transportation bottlenecks. But the fiscal and monetary stimuli are still ongoing. The government and the Fed still have the foot fully on the accelerator. There are all kinds of temporary problems that are causing price spikes here and there. The supply-chain bottlenecks, the difficulties companies have in hiring people, the shortages, the various spikes in commodities, and the price increases in services that have nothing to do with any of the shortages. Contractors and professional services providers are raising their fees, and they can do it suddenly and get away with it and not lose business. And these price increases are now balling up. Companies are raising prices, companies and consumers are paying those higher prices, and companies are paying higher wages, while the government is stimulating demand with deficit spending, and the Fed is stimulating demand with money printing and 0% interest rates, and no one is resisting the price increases anymore. And so much cash has been created and handed out that price doesn’t even matter anymore [in certain quarters]. People are paying whatever – even for discretionary purchases that they don’t have to buy, such as cars. Most people could easily wait a couple of years instead of buying a car now, but now the whole mindset has changed, and they want to buy now, no matter what the price. And this change in mindset caused used vehicle prices to surge by over 30%. I’ve never seen anything even close to this, and I’ve been around when inflation ravaged the economy in the late 1970s and early 1980s, until the Volcker Fed finally cracked down on it, triggering a very rough double-dip recession that eventually knocked the wind out of inflation. So now we have these price spikes cascading from product to product, and from service to service. This surge of inflation is becoming ingrained in the inflation expectations of company decision makers and consumers alike, and they’re adjusting to it, and in this manner inflation becomes persistent. Even economists are now getting the message. According to a Wall Street Journal poll of those economists, their average forecast for the end of next year in terms of core inflation – which excludes food and energy – has risen to 3.2%. But wait… They’re using the lowest lowball inflation measure available in the US, namely the “core PCE” inflation measure that the Fed uses as its target and that normally runs far lower than the standard CPI that is cited in the news media. This core PCE inflation measure, the lowest lowball measure of the land, well, March, April, and May combined produced an annualized core PCE inflation rate of 6.4%, meaning that if price-increases continue for 12 months at the pace of those three months, the annual inflation rate would be 6.4%. That’s over three times the Fed’s target of 2%. This was the red-hottest three-month annualized inflation rate since August 1983. So these economists polled by the Wall Street Journal also assume that inflation will back off from the current pace and drop to 3.2% by the end of 2021, This would still be the highest inflation rate since the early 1990s, and that’s far below where inflation is today, and it assumes the best case scenario, that inflation backs off from the current pace. “We’re in a transitional phase right now,” one of those economists told the Wall Street Journal. “We’re transitioning to a higher period of inflation and interest rates than we have had over the last 20 years.” No kidding. Even economists are coming to grips with it. Just not the Fed, at least not publicly. So it’s dawning on economists that the overall inflationary environment isn’t transitory, but persistent, though some factors that have triggered the unleashing of the inflationary cascade are transitory. And this higher inflation is a generational change. People who became adults in the 1990s or later have never experienced this kind of inflation. They don’t know what it’s like when prices jump, one item here, then the next day another item or service there. For some people, pay increases make up for inflation, and that includes pay increases based on performance and productivity that were supposed to make you be able to buy more goods and services, but you need every penny cent of that performance raise just to maintain your standard of living. And for other people, pay doesn’t rise enough to compensate for inflation, and they have to cut back their standard of living. Companies are facing rampant cost increases. There is now a lot of clamoring among economists and Wall Streeters that the Fed will wait too long, fall too far behind the curve, keep stimulating for too long despite rampant inflation, and thereby trigger an inflation spiral that would be hard to bring under control, and that these belated efforts to bring inflation under control when it’s totally out of control would wreck the economy and asset prices. They’re not worried about hyperinflation. They’re worried about 5%, 7%, 10% inflation for years. That kind of inflation would blow all kinds of assumptions out of the water. No one is ready for this. This type of inflation makes long-term planning difficult for companies, and it’s a drag on the economy, and it’s a drag on real consumer spending. Long-term interest rates will either surge to meet and transcend those inflation levels, if markets are allowed to react to inflation; or the Fed represses long-term interest rates by buying assets, and that will further heat up inflation, and investors like pension funds and insurers that invest in bonds, will see the purchasing power of their investments get wiped out, when they earn 2% for years in an 8% inflation environment. More likely is that markets will eventually be allowed to react to inflation to some extent, which will cause a rise in interest rates, which is the way to tamp down on inflation, but which will make it much harder for junk-rated companies to borrow, triggering waves of defaults. Defaults and higher borrowing costs would hit stock prices. And consumers, my gosh, even those whose incomes keep up with inflation. When inflation is persistent at 5% or 8%, and markets are allowed to react, then mortgage rates rise to meet or exceed those inflation levels. With the sky-high home prices right now, those higher rates would move house payments totally out of range for potential buyers, and demand dries up. For the market to unfreeze, home prices would have to come down to bring those mortgage payments back into reach. There is a whole generation of home buyers and home sellers and real estate professionals and loan officers and mortgage brokers out there that have never experienced anything like this. This move to higher inflation can be very disruptive to the economy, to planning by households and businesses, and to spending patterns. This persistent inflation is what is being triggered right now by the fiscal and monetary stimulus and by the temporary inflation spikes. And the Fed, by putting that issue officially on “ignore,” is making it far worse. (read more) 2021-07-19 c MONETARY MADNESS II THIS IS UNSUSTAINABLE
 Real Yield on 10-Year
US Treasuries, 1985–2021
2021-07-19 b MONETARY MADNESS I Liquidity Crisis: Wells Fargo
& Repo Markets Sound Alarms
[...] Just like we saw QE 1 fatally morph from QE2-4 into “Unlimited QE,” we shall soon see fiscal policy 1 morph into unlimited “fiscal policy” at a nation-state near you; beginning, of course, with Biden et al. But as we’ve said many times elsewhere, addiction—be it to monetary stimulus or fiscal stimulus—always ends the same way: One either quits or dies. Again, even the bankers and a small handful of brain-celled politicos know this, which is why we are starting to see signs of a genuine hangover (i.e., liquidity crisis) in our artificial yet liquidity-addicted financial system. As for these flashing warning signs, let’s just consider two recent tremors percolating below our feet: 1) Wells Fargo and 2) the reverse repo market. 1. Wells Fargo Welches in Panic We’ve given many prior warnings regarding the objective evidence of banking risk in the global financial system, and despite Basel III’s virtue signaling, we also warned that those risks were anything but “transitory.” In fact, even the big boys in the big banks are getting nervous—as well as ahead of—the financial crisis they see coming after years of benefiting almost exclusively from a credit binge which they themselves engineered. In short, the liquidity they once relied upon is drying up. Thinking always of themselves first and clients second, Wells Fargo just announced that they are permanently suspending/closing all personal lines of credit (from $3k to $300K) in the coming weeks. Yes. That’s kind of a big deal… Wells Fargo is effectively confessing that they are worried (seriously worried) about inevitable credit/loan defaults on their consumer credit lines for which they charge interest at anywhere from 9% to 21% (and who thought usury was dead?). Why the sudden change of heart at that oh-so generous bank? Because Wells Fargo is worried about a crisis ahead—namely a liquidity crisis. Nor is Wells Fargo alone. Many insider businesses (i.e., publicly-traded fat cats) who benefit from the best loan terms and unfair capital access are taking on less debt. Why? Because their massive debt exposures have just gotten too big to ignore, and they have no choice but to borrow less rather than more. Of course, less borrowing means less lending, and less lending means tightened credit, and tightened credit means a credit crunch (i.e., liquidity crisis), and a credit crunch in a world/market addicted to credit (i.e., debt) means ”uh-oh” for risk assets like stocks, bonds and real estate. Meanwhile, as Wells Fargo hunkers down for the pain ahead, JP Morgan, one of the smartest insiders in the entire (rigged) banking system, is beginning to carefully hoard and stockpile cash ($500B) and moving more to the safety of short-term bonds. Why? Well, they’d like to have some dry-powder when risk assets tank and rates rise, for the best time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets; and the best time to lend is when inflation and rates are rising, not falling. But more to the point, JP Morgan (like Wells Fargo) sees a liquidity crisis on the horizon… But what suddenly tipped them off? Let’s talk about the Reverse Repo market… 2. The Reverse Repo Market—Banks Losing Trust in Each Other Signals from that esoteric (and hence media-misunderstood) corner of the banking system known as the repo market have been making neon-flashing warning signs. Traditionally, the reverse repo market is where banks went to borrow from banks, typically offering collateral (US Treasuries) for some short-term liquidity—i.e., money at low rates. But in September of 2019, those rates spiked dramatically for the simple reason that banks began distrusting each other’s credit risk and collateral. That’s a bad sign. What is happening now is that the Fed, rather than the commercial banks, are taking a much greater role in back-stopping this increasingly fractured intra-bank repo (credit) market. And unlike retail clients paying double-digit rates for credit lines, the Fed has lifted the interest (IER) they pay to banks (no shocker there) as banks are parking more money at the Fed where they are exchanging cash for Treasuries in a now unignorable flight to safety. As a result, the repo market has skyrocketed as banks are parking nearly $1T per day at the Fed, which is 3X the normal operational amount. This is a screaming sign of counter-party risk among the banks themselves, whose last hope is the Fed, not each other. And why are the too-big-to-fail banks looking for low-rate handouts and T-bills from these grotesquely bloated (and Fed-supported) repo markets? Because they see a crash coming and are bracing for the transition from credit addiction to financial crisis—i.e., less “liquidity” to grease the broken wheels of an overheated credit system. Risk Assets Facing Real Risk What does this mean for the great inflation-deflation debate? Well, a liquidity crisis is never good for risk assets like stocks, which will see a price decline and hence “deflation;” but don’t confuse that with the real-world notion of inflation—namely rising prices for the things most mortals need to live. As more banks are swapping T-bills as collateral from the Fed rather than each other for cash, this means massive amounts of money (“liquidity”) is coming out of the system. The money markets are moving alarming amounts of dollars to the Fed, which means bank reserve accounts are moving from the banks to the Fed itself; this, in turn, means less bank reserves and hence less bank lending—i.e., a credit tightening rather than credit binging. Such reduced “liquidity,” as mentioned above, is a very bad omen for risk asset markets. (read more) 2021-07-19 a "It is well enough that
people of the nation do not understand our banking
and monetary system, for if they did, I believe
there would be a revolution before tomorrow
morning."
— Henry Ford 2021-07-18 l THE STATE OF THE DISUNION XII Burn this into your
mind: If the censorship regime now
being put in place existed in
2016,
the Russia collusion scam would’ve worked, Trump would’ve been impeached, and remembered forever as a traitor who stole the election. The Regime once had this power, and they want it back. — MartyrMade @martyrmade July 17, 2021 2021-07-18 k THE STATE OF THE DISUNION XI "It’s intriguing that
Psaki is not worried about
sounding too much like the
official
mouthpiece of a dictatorship. She’s clearly more anxious about the reverse: she doesn’t want to come across as insufficiently censorial," writes @Freddygray31 — The Spectator World @TheSpectator July 16, 2021 2021-07-18 j THE STATE OF THE DISUNION X It was Kipling who quipped
about journalists having ‘power without
responsibility’. He then added the phrase ‘the
prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages’,
which was repeated by Stanley Baldwin, not Stanley
Johnson. Comparing hacks to harlots is, of course,
unfair to the girls. Some of them have risen to the
highest offices in the past due to their discretion,
whereas the only journalist I know who made it to
the top is our very own Boris. Hookers are more to
be trusted than hacks, insisted my late father, who
also claimed that whores enjoyed a seismographic
alertness to future winners which far exceeds that
of the hacks.
The definition of the word ‘prostitute’ is a man or a woman who indulges in sexual intercourse for money. But more to the point, it is someone who debases his or her talent in the pursuit of money, and this extends to writers, painters and of course journalists. Needless to say, newspapers and TV networks also fall into this category, from the BBC and NBC to the biggest one of all, CNN. — Taki 2021-07-18 i THE STATE OF THE DISUNION IX A
White House official says Vice President Kamala
Harris will be at Walter Reed
today for a “routine doctor’s appointment.” — Kristin Brown (@kristincbrown) July 18, 2021 * Texas lawmakers are
fighting for the rights of all Texans—and all
Americans—
to raise their voice through their vote. Today, we met for the second time to discuss the path forward. pic.twitter.com/cFbXHZU7cx — Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 14, 2021 * Texas
Democrats boarded a plane while they were positive
with COVID-19
and aimed it right at the United Stated Capitol. Just like 9/11 — Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze July 17, 2021 2021-07-18 h THE STATE OF THE DISUNION VIII BIOLOGICAL MALE CHILD
MOLESTER
A woman has been
charged in connection with the sexual assault of a
child in a
park in Toronto, Canada. Ruby Eby, who is transgender, is suspected of victimizing others as well. — Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo July 18, 2021 * As a proud
feminist, it is so depressing to see that
more and more women are
becoming violent sexual predators. Quite frankly, these women are no better than men. — Titania McGrath @TitaniaMcGrath July 13, 2021 2021-07-18 g THE STATE OF THE DISUNION VII Just a
reminder of the dishonesty of @npr
No public money should go to this propaganda outfit. — Miranda Devine @mirandadevine July 16, 2021 2021-07-18 f THE STATE OF THE DISUNION VI Los
Angeles: Police beat back antifa after they hurled
projectiles at the officers.
Antifa gathered today to again oppose a group of conservatives protesting the WiSpa where a person allegedly exposed their penis to women & girls. — Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo July 17, 2021 * Los Angeles WiSpa
protest: Antifa confront videographer @TomasMorales_iv
& call him racist. They ask him how the “white boy summer” is going. — Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo July 17, 2021 * Protesters
have arrived outside the Wi Spa in Los Angeles,
calling for women-only
spaces after an incident where a woman claims she was exposed to male genitalia on the female side of the spa #WiSpa #LA pic.twitter.com/5ewZmMoaSF — Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) July 17, 2021 See also: It’s rude to stare at a woman’s penis by Jarvis Dupont 2021-07-18 e THE STATE OF THE DISUNION V children's
education dollars shouldn't go to a monopolistic
institution
regardless of its performance or families' preferences families should be able to take their children's education dollars elsewhere fund students, not systems. pic.twitter.com/wpet35AKJj — Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) July 14, 2021 2021-07-18 d THE STATE OF THE DISUNION IV In his new book, Fault Lines,
Voddie Baucham provides clear definitions of
Critical Theory, Critical Social Justice, and
Critical Race Theory. In order to do this properly,
he uses quotations from books and speeches by the
proponents of these beliefs. This information can be
helpful when someone tries to gaslight you.
CRT is what is currently being taught in “schools of education”, and is what many teachers of America’s children will be teaching them. It will not be called “Critical Race Theory”, but it will consist of the components thereof. Laws will not prevent thoroughly indoctrinated teachers from slipping their beliefs into their classrooms. The best protection for children is for their parents to put them in a school they can trust, or to homeschool them. — gibbie 2021-07-18 c THE STATE OF THE DISUNION III Yet, the flop-sweat is running like a
babbling brook from end-to-end down Pennsylvania
avenue as, in actual fact, the “Joe Biden” show
lurches into its final act — which will be the
collapse of the “Joe Biden” show in an odoriferous
heap of bad faith and criminality. The specter of
election audits is getting to the animatronic
teleprompter-reader heading the federal regime.
His chamberlains foolishly sent him out to
Philadelphia this week to squelch any rising
sentiment among PA state legislators to audit
alleged ballot irregularities of 11/3/20. “Joe
B’s” legitimacy is shredding and he looks more and
more like a mere ghoul in the Oval Office, Jacob
Marley in Uncle Sam drag, wailing and whispering
of his political sins.
In Philly, the poor boob said, “For those who challenge the results and question the integrity of the election: No other election has ever been held under such scrutiny and such high standards!” That mouthful was followed by an even bigger gulp: “The Big Lie is just that: a big lie.” Did he know what he said there? (Cue: Joseph Goebbels spinning in grave with admiration.) The utterance was the perfect companion to his Big Brag on the campaign trail last October, saying, “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Indeed, you did, Joe — or, at least, your worker bees in the DNC did, with, perhaps, some help from the Deep State’s Intel Community. That’s why folks all over the land have got a hankering to look inside those black boxes of ballots and Dominion voting machines. — James Howard Kunstler 2021-07-18 b THE STATE OF THE DISUNION II According to: https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality, the current cumulative
2021 COVID "vaccine" death count is: 11,140
It was 9,125 last week and 6,985 the previous week. Remember, VAERS is known to be an under count. Some say the actual number is at least 10 times larger. The spike protein mRNA gene therapy shots are working as intended. The carnage will increase exponentially. 2021-07-18 a THE STATE OF THE DISUNION I This recent
interview between Dr. David E. Martin and Reiner
Fuellmich is so astounding as to be enough on its own
to bring down the entirety of the major players
perpetrating this ‘virus’ scam meant to destroy
humanity. This is why the long-term dumbing down and
indoctrination of the public has been so vital to the
evil agendas of the controllers of the state and their
political whores that enforce these horrendous and
fake ‘pandemic’ policies. With this kind of solid
evidence, all involved should be fully exposed, and
prosecution of these criminals should be an easy task.
I suspect however, that it will likely go nowhere due
to the absolute indifference displayed by the sleeping
masses, and the orchestrated censorship at every level
of the mainstream ‘news’ sites and by the tech giants.
This is of course a travesty, but so long as the
people exist in a collective bubble of ignorance, the
plot to depopulate the earth and reshape the world
into a technocratic master/slave society, will
continue to go forward.
From an ‘educational’ (schooling) point of view, the history of modern America has been one of total incompetence and purposely structured obsolescence. In addition, instead of stimulating the minds of the young, opening them up to the vast amounts of information available, and awakening the inner spirit at such a critical time of life, the opposite has occurred. With this plotted outcome also came extreme indoctrination and brainwashing, which was accomplished as a replacement for knowledge and free and individual thinking. At this juncture, critical thinking by the majority is nothing more than a pipedream, and something that existed only in the distant past. All of this now makes perfect sense, as without this destruction of the minds of men, there could be no successful coup to take over all of humanity. And this is a planned takeover of humanity that has consumed every part of the world. This is a global agenda, and is the dream of the “elite’ globalist community.” With decades of stifling the thinking capabilities of generation after generation, the result has led to the creation of an apathetic, dependent, irresponsible, immoral, and ignorant society. In order for this to have been achieved, accurate and honest history had to be erased from memory, and voluntary cooperation by the public at large was necessary. This had to be an incremental process up to and until recent times, but today that is no longer necessary, as the high level of obedience and compliance is now almost universal; just as long planned. So now we are in the midst of a life or death crisis, with seemingly no way out. The only solution as I see it is for mass dissent, and a strong and hopefully peaceful revolution of sorts, based upon total non-compliance. This can only be possible if the public gains awareness and comes to understand and accept what is really happening today. This has to be a willing effort, so instead of voluntarily going along with the ‘pandemic’ hype, an understanding of the criminal nature of the state’s plot is required, and real education via a concerted effort by the free-thinking minority must take place. The attitude required for a large and peaceful uprising is not present at this time, and only the continued relaying of truth can bring about a change in the hearts and minds of any weakened majority. That is why so many of us continue to write, put out factual information, and take great personal risk; all in order to give others the ability to make up their own minds to protect themselves and their family’s freedom. It has been a losing battle to date, but continued exposure of the evil nature of the beast that is the state must be forthcoming in order to change one mind at a time so as to form a strong plurality of like thinking individuals striving for freedom. With all this said, I consider it imperative for as many as possible to watch, listen, and study the information given by Dr. David Martin in the interview linked above and below. This is groundbreaking, and exposes that this plot to harm and kill huge numbers of people in the exact manner happening today has been planned for at least 22 years. This is true conspiracy, collusion, criminal racketeering, and the premeditated murder of innocents, and all the evidence to prove these statements is readily available. This is just a short excerpt of some of the stated facts from Dr. Martin’s talk that expose the plot against us: ~ The NIAID (United States Government agency) built an infectious replication coronavirus — in other words, they made SARS. And then they patented it in 2002 before there was any outbreak in Asia. US Patent 7279327. ~ There is nothing “novel” about this biological weapon. ~ Over 120 patented pieces of evidence were dug up to suggest the declaration of a novel coronavirus is entirely fictitious. ~ On the 28th of April in 2003, three days later after CDC filed a patent on SARS Coronavirus, Sequoia Pharmaceuticals filed a patent on antiviral agents to treat SARS Coronavirus. So, the CDC files a patent for SARS Coronavirus and 3 days later Big Pharma files a patent on treatments for it. How does one have a patent for a treatment on a thing that was invented 3 days earlier? The patent on the treatment was issued before the CDC patent was allowed. It is not physically possible to patent a thing that treats a thing that has not been published because the CDC kept the filing private. ~ SARS-CoV-2. Same thing was played out the same way for Covid-19. Moderna got the spike protein sequence from the Vaccine Research Center before SARS-CoV-2 was even a thing. ~ Any assertion that this pathogen is unique or novel falls apart on the actual gene sequences that are found in the patent records. ~ We are injecting a synthetic spike protein mRNA sequence that is a computer simulation of a sequence that has been known and patented for years. ~ Goal: inject spike protein. The mRNA “vaccine” does not meet patentable, legal, or clinical standard for vaccine. ~ According to the FDA’s own standards, this is not a vaccine. It is a biological weapon. It is an opportunistic marketing campaign to address a stated objective. The medical-pharmaceutical-industrial complex needed to get the public to accept a pan-coronavirus medical counter measure, and they needed the media machine to create the necessary hype, and accordingly, investors would follow where there is profit. ~ By definition, this is criminal racketeering and collusion. And then there is the mass murder and harm upon humanity. There is no novel ‘virus, there is no ‘pandemic,’ there are no variants; the entire state narrative is a lie. The real bioweapon is the poisonous injection falsely called a ‘vaccine.’ Either wake up or wait for mass death! — Gary D. Barnett See also: There Is No Pandemic, There Are No Variants: The Entire State Narrative Is a Lie ______________________ Permission is hereby granted to any and all to copy and paste any entry on this page and convey it electronically along with its URL, http://www.usaapay.com/comm.html ______________________ 2021 ARCHIVE
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