June 15, 2020
Everyone is saying Sweden is suffering a high Covid infection because they eschewed a lockdown. Bullsh, er, balogna.
Inside the Swedish city that may prove the country's strategy was right all along
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But the Swedish coastal city of Malmö has shown a remarkably different result to Stockholm, with few fatalities and a remarkably low death rate.
Now some experts are questioning if the Malmo model proves that Sweden's controversial move to avoid a lockdown was right all along.
Sweden has faced mounting criticismover its death rate. But Skane, the region around Malmo, had by last week registered just 17 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants due to coronavirus, slightly fewer than the 19 per 100,000 seen in the Capital Region of Denmark across the Oresund straits, even though Denmark went into heavy lockdown for two months from mid-March.
Nearly half of Sweden's nearly 5,000 deaths have so taken place in Stockholm, giving the Swedish capital a harrowing death rate of 95 per 100,000.
"It can hardly be explained by differences in strategy, because we have had the same strategy as in the rest of Sweden," argues Per Hagstam, Specialist in Infectious Diseases in Skane, the health authority for the region surrounding Malmo. "That our death rates aren’t higher is a result of the fact that transmission has not been so extensive down here."
Part of the reason for that comes down to the different dates for the two cities' spring 'sports holiday' in late February and early March, when around one million people, a tenth of Sweden's population, travelled abroad.
So, a bunch of Stockholmers went traveling to infected areas and brought the disease home with them.
And Sweden has a sizable immigrant population, with a lot of "refugees" from the Middle East.
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I would have to say this must mean Democrats are ridiculously easy to anesthatize...
Anasthesia May Work by Targeting Fat in Our Brains
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After the 1968 riots already distressed urban cities became hell holes. The struggling black middle class was erased. Urban Dystopia is perpetuated at all cost by Democrats in their eternal quest to maintain a permanent underclass of votes dependent on the beneficence of their completely innocent compassionate altruistic quest for power. The Main Scream Media is performing contortions to paint this blatant evil as liberating and patriotic.
Most 2020 riots appear to have brave predominantly black and brown police officers and leaders confronting the raucous insanity of predominantly white angry kids. Responsible black citizens are increasingly lining up in the streets to defend their lives and property.
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This follows the leftist media template. Take any event that benefits the Left/Democrats. Demogogue it, citing "experts" who tell us the sky is falling. Implement catastrophic policies. Then half-heartedly admit they were wrong and try to move on to the next big thing. This drives societal change in the direction of statism and internationalism.
NPR: "Mounting Evidence†Suggests COVID Not As Deadly as Thought. Did the Experts Fail Again?
From the article:
The Iraq War WMD debacle is arguably the greatest expert "fail†in generations. The holy triumvirate—lawmakers, bureaucrats, and media—all failed to sniff out the truth. If any of them had, a war that cost trillions of dollars and claimed the lives of 100,000-200,000 people likely could have been avoided.
It would be difficult to surpass the Iraq blunder, but emerging evidence on COVID-19 suggests the experts—again: lawmakers, bureaucrats, and media—may have subjected us to a blunder of equally disastrous proportions.
A new NPR report suggests the global response to COVID-19 may have been reached on a flawed premise.
Mounting evidence suggests the coronavirus is more common and less deadly than it first appeared.
The evidence comes from tests that detect antibodies to the coronavirus in a person's blood rather than the virus itself.
The tests are finding large numbers of people in the US who were infected but never became seriously ill. And when these mild infections are included in coronavirus statistics, the virus appears less dangerous.
"The current best estimates for the infection fatality risk are between 0.5% and 1%," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
That's in contrast with death rates of 5% or morebased on calculations that included only people who got sick enough to be diagnosed with tests that detect the presence of virus in a person's body.
Many people will recall the fatality risk debate that took place prior to and in the early stages of the lockdowns. There was much discussion over how deadly the virus was and what the collective response to the virus should be.
So now, after the damage has been done, NPR and the other mainstream media outlets are offering a mea culpa, or rather, admitting the "experts" were wrong (of course there were experts who disagreed all along but were not cited.) This is cya; the media has to salvage their own credibility after leading the big parade.
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Anthony Watts posted on Facebook:
This has about zero chance of succeeding. Quite frankly, it is probably the stupidest social movement I've ever seen.
And really, who in their right mind would act on demands from a collection of people that hide their faces like we see in the photo?
'Defund Chico PD' Organizes as City Tries to Address Public ConcernBonnie Worthington left a worthy comment:
A word from Tim:
This is how feudalism was born; when Rome stopped sending legions to maintain order rich guys hired private police/
From the article:
Oligarchy then degenerates into democracy where freedom is the supreme good but freedom is also
Democracy
Democracy then degenerates into tyranny where no one has
"The Democratic Man"
Plato uses the "democratic man" to represent
"The Tyrannical Man"
The tyrannical man is the son of the democratic man. He is the worst form of
Pure Democracy gives us things like this. It ends with some strong man or oligarchy seizing power to ensure order. All this talk about "systemic racism" and social injustice will die a quiet and horrible death along with the very people who are doing this when the strong man takes power. Get rid of the police and you necessarily wind up with something far, far worse.
Oh, and the Ku Klux Klan used to wear masks too (well, whole head coverings). Just saying...
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I worked for a property management company for years. Most landlords couldn't survive this. It will lead to foreclosures, and likely another housing collapse (if done on a large scale). Rental property has a thin margin of profit.
Rent Relief? This U.S. City is Looking to Cancel Rent for Tenants Hit Hard by Covid 19 Pandemic
Ithaca New York may be the first, but it won't be the last. I see this spreading like a plague.
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At ease, disease; there's a fungus among us! (My dad used to say that.) It was pretty true back then, apparently...
When Giant Fungi Ruled
Seems mushrooms ruled the Earth before trees came along.
From the article:
From around 420 to 350 million years ago, when land plants were still the relatively new kids on the evolutionary blockand "the tallest trees stood just a few feet high,†giant spires of life poked from the Earth. "The ancient organism boasted trunks up to 24 feet (8 meters) high and as wide as three feet (one meter),†said National Geographic in 2007. With the help of a fossil dug up in Saudi Arabia scientists finally figured out what the giant creature was: a fungus. (We think.)
The towering fungus spires would have stood out against a landscape scarce of such giants, said New Scientist in 2007.
"A 6-metre fungus would be odd enough in the modern world, but at least we are used to trees quite a bit bigger,†says Boyce. "Plants at that time were a few feet tall, invertebrate animals were small, and there were no terrestrial vertebrates. This fossil would have been all the more striking in such a diminutive landscape.â€
Fossils of the organisms, known as Prototaxites, had peppered the paleontological findings of the past century and a half, ever since they were first discovered by a Canadian in 1859. But despite the fossil records, no one could figure out what the heck these giant spires were. The University of Chicago:
For the next 130 years, debate raged. Some scientists called Prototaxites a lichen, others a fungus, and still others clung to the notion that it was some kind of tree. "The problem is that when you look up close at the anatomy, it’s evocative of a lot of different things, but it’s diagnostic of nothing,†says Boyce, an associate professor in geophysical sciences and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. "And it’s so damn big that when whenever someone says it’ssomething, everyone else’s hackles get up: ‘How could you have a lichen 20 feet tall?’â€
That all changed in 2007 when a study came out that concluded the spires were a fungus, like a gigantic early mushroom.
Cheech and Chong could only dream of such things...
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It takes energy to purify water. And it takes economic growth. "Sustainability
This is a very sad thing, and stands as a testament to the destructive nature of the Progressives New World Order. The U.N. - parent to UNICEF - has backed the drive to reduce energy usage worldwide to the hilt, even though there has been no significant planetary warming since the late '90's. But it's about empowering the United Nations and knitting the world together in a suicide pact of poverty.
This from Unicef's Facebook page:
In Haiti, handwashing equipment isn’t easy to find - Raymone, mother of three, searched everywhere for a tap bucket to protect the family from COVID-19. UNICEF and partners are working to improve access to hygiene equipment, so that every community can stay safe.
In Haiti Mother Seeks to Protect Daughter from New Coronavirus
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Whether or not you are coddled or murdered as an extended encamped protester in the Northwest depends upon how liberal or conservative you are along with how favorable the media coverage is.
Black Privilege: Why are Seattle Anarchists Coddled When Malheur Protesters Were Murdered?
I add:
Some are more equal than others in modern America.
It's interesting that the last two Democratic Presidents used force against American citizens. Clinton murdered the Branch Davidians and the wife and son of Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge. Obama killed a number of people during the Cliven Bundy protests. He also droned American citizens. But we are supposed to forget about all that. If the "protesters" are black then they have "legitimate grievances" and "the right to protest" and whatnot.
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Who in his right mind would want to be a cop ? There is no black. There is no white. Just shades of gray. See linked article.
What occurred in Minneapolis is so deeply reminiscent of Ferguson MO and the death of Michael Brown. Based strictly upon the evidence, the grand jury exonerated police officer Darrell Wilson, Ferguson burst into flames, and Black Lives Matter was spawned. BLM gained prominence and status from several high profile visits to the White House.
Today BLM struts with impunity in downtown Seattle, brandishing their weapons. They have chased off any media coverage. Local apartment residents and store owners dare not leave their properties lest they be broken into, looted and burned.
Wake up ! Somebody is spurring and funding this anarchy ! It is not happenstance !
Tim responds:
I've been saying all along that Chauvin may well walk and if he doesn't it will be a travesty of justice not based on facts but on prejudiced jurors. They overcharged him to appease the mob, or, perhaps to guarantee he got off and generate nation-wide rioting before the elections. (I favor that latter point; Minnesota's AG Keith Ellison was the guy who insisted on upgrading the charges and he would not be above pulling something like that.) So now we have a full-blown insurrection in Seattle and the idiot Mayor not only coddles these people but refused to cut power and keeps hauling away their trash! It may be they are trying to goad Trump into sending in the military. It would be politically difficult, but from a civilizational standpoint he should. You cannot allow people to seize territory like that. The Constitution guarantees everyone a "republican form of government" a right that is now denied the people in Seattle. And we do not negotiate with terrorists, which is what these people clearly are.
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June 14, 2020
Since almost all farmers are whites, the good people who brought you the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone are trying their hand at it.
Jassy May points out:
Lil Nirvana getting deep in the mulch already. KA Houchen calls them "Lefticles" which may come out of the wash as "Laughticles". KA Houchen:
The
Capital Hill Autonomous Zone isn’t even a month old and the Lefticles
have already have managed to have armed authoritarians,
Segregation...Y
Separate spaces for black people! Sounds eerily familiar. History? Is that you repeating itself? Naw...
BTW—-Dumping topsoil on top of cardboard might put a delay on Summer harvest Farmer Neckbeard.
From the article:
The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle has made significant strides in planting and growing their own vegetables amid efforts to really put the "autonomous" in "autonomous zone."
The fundamental issue that Seattle's insurgents appear to have with the US is its staunch support and perpetuation of capitalism, which many of them perceive to be synonymous with racism.
Fresh food given out for free at "mutual aid stations†inside the Seattle #CapitolHillAutonomousZone. Packaged snacks provided include Kirkland Signature products and more from Costco. pic.twitter.com/la5KLZEF9b
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 12, 2020
Therefore, grocery stores in the US are apparently racist since they operate under the economic system of capitalism. But members of CHAZ still need to eat, and have quickly developed a work-around to the capitalist system they so utterly condemn and wish to squash (no pun intended).
The Twitter account @farmingforrevo1 tweeted a photo of the strong progress CHAZ gardeners have made so far with their literal "grassroots" attempt to provide nourishment to all those within the zone.
We are concerned. We should be able to help. This isn't on it's face a bad idea. Would have cut out the grass, plant the plants, and place the cardboard around to stop weeds and cover with mulch or soil. #chazseattle #CHAZ pic.twitter.com/yiMPy9c14i
— FarmingForRevolution (@farmingforrevo1) June 12, 2020
What these ambitious gardeners did not consider before falling to their knees and digging in is that putting cardboard under the soil of the plants does not augur well for the longevity and production of what it is they are planting.
But one cannot fault them for the effort.
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I recall an old saying that if you owe a lot of money to the bank, the bank owns you. If you owe a REAL LOT of money to the bank, you own the bank.
That’s kinda how Trump has run his businesses — highly leveraged and even recklessly so. The difference is that Trump keeps each business as a separate entity. If one fails, it doesn’t take down his entire organization or himself personally.
Right now, we’re so deep in hock to the Chinese that we are literally too big to fail — for them.
Since the economy was (deliberately) cratered by the over-reaction to the China bug, the multi-trillion dollar stimulus give-away exceeds the capacity of the Federal Reserve to act as the "lender of last resortâ€. Only the Treasury Dept. can lay off a bet that big ( hat tip to Paul Newman’s line in "The Stingâ€). Ergo, the Fed has been absorbed into the Treasury and we are back to the original intent of the Constitution wherein the Treasury has the power of lending, borrowing, and currency. Of course, the Treasury is part of the Executive Branch.
Trump now controls the largest central bank in the world. He’s the Banchiere di tutti
banchieri — even matching the Rothschilds.
What’s next ?
Remonitization,
Executive Order 11,110 was the final nail in Jack Kennedy’s coffin.
Or we could just do like every banana republic has always done. Crank up the money supply and hyper-inflate our way out of this morass.
http://john-f-kennedy.net/executiveorder11110.htm?fbclid=IwAR0sbLrUjE_syMy0RTDrnBvnQkY_uhRFlKYM_l2lk9JcLwVIw-UKi05r8uw
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I've been in a fight with a BLM/Antifa jackass on Facebook. He wrote:
COPIED FROM A FRIEND;
So what has protesting accomplished?
👉ðŸ¾Within ten days of sustained protests: Minneapolis bans use of chokeholds.
👉ðŸ¾Charges are upgraded against Officer Chauvin, and his accomplices are arrested and charged.
👉ðŸ¾Dallas adopts a "duty to intervene" rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in inappropriate use of force.
👉ðŸ¾New Jersey’s attorney general said the state will update its use-of-force guidelines for the first time in two decades.
👉ðŸ¾In Maryland, a bipartisan work group of state lawmakers announced a police reform work group.
👉ðŸ¾Los Angeles City Council introduces motion to reduce LAPD’s $1.8 billion operating budget.
👉ðŸ¾MBTA in Boston agrees to stop using public buses to transport police officers to protests.
👉ðŸ¾Police brutality captured on cameras leads to near-immediate suspensions and firings of officers in several cities (i.e., Buffalo, Ft. Lauderdale).
👉ðŸ¾Monuments celebrating confederates are removed in cities in Virginia, Alabama, and other states.
👉ðŸ¾Street in front of the White House is renamed "Black Lives Matter Plaza.â€
Military forces begin to withdraw from D.C.
Then, there's all the other stuff that's hard to measure:
💓The really difficult public and private conversations that are happening about race and privilege.
💓The realizations some white people are coming to about racism and the role of policing in this country.
💓The self-reflection
💓The internal battles exploding within organizations over issues that have been simmering or ignored for a long time. Some organizations will end as a result, others will be forever changed or replaced with something stronger and fairer.
Globally:
🌎 Protests against racial inequality sparked by the police killing of George Floyd are taking place all over the world.
🌎 Rallies and memorials have been held in cities across Europe, as well as in Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand.
🌎As the US contends with its second week of protests, issues of racism, police brutality, and oppression have been brought to light across the globe.
🌎People all over the world understand that their own fights for human rights, for equality and fairness, will become so much more difficult to win if we are going to lose America as the place where 'I have a dream' is a real and universal political program," Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to the US, told the New Yorker.
🌎In France, protesters marched holding signs that said "I can't breathe" to signify both the words of Floyd, and the last words of Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old black man who was subdued by police officers and gasped the sentence before he died outside Paris in 2016.
🌎 Cities across Europe have come together after the death of George Floyd:
✊ðŸ½In Amsterdam, an estimated 10,000 people filled the Dam square on Monday, holding signs and shouting popular chants like "Black lives matter," and "No justice, no peace."
✊ðŸ½In Germany, people gathered in multiple locations throughout Berlin to demand justice for Floyd and fight against police brutality.
✊ðŸ¾A mural dedicated to Floyd was also spray-painted on a stretch of wall in Berlin that once divided the German capital during the Cold War.
✊ðŸ¿In Ireland, protesters held a peaceful demonstration outside of Belfast City Hall, and others gathered outside of the US embassy in Dublin.
✊ðŸ¿In Italy, protesters gathered and marched with signs that said "Stop killing black people," "Say his name," and "We will not be silent."
✊🾠In Spain, people gathered to march and hold up signs throughout Barcelona and Madrid.
✊🾠In Athens, Greece, protesters took to the streets to collectively hold up a sign that read "I can't breathe."
✊🾠In Brussels, protesters were seen sitting in a peaceful demonstration in front of an opera house in the center of the city.
✊ðŸ¾In Denmark, protesters were heard chanting "No justice, no peace!" throughout the streets of Copenhagen, while others gathered outside the US embassy.
✊🾠In Canada, protesters were also grieving for Regis Korchinski-Paqu
✊🾠And in New Zealand, roughly 2,000 people marched to the US embassy in Auckland, chanting and carrying signs demanding justice.
ðŸ’Memorials have been built for Floyd around the world, too. In Mexico City, portraits of him were hung outside the US embassy with roses, candles, and signs.
💠In Poland, candles and flowers were laid out next to photos of Floyd outside the US consulate.
ðŸ’And in Syria, two artists created a mural depicting Floyd in the northwestern town of Binnish, "on a wall destroyed by military planes."
Before the assassination of George Floyd some of you were able to say whatever the hell you wanted and the world didn't say anything to you...
Don't wake up tomorrow on the wrong side of this issue. Its not to late to SAY,
"Maybe I need to look at this from a different perspective.
Maybe I don't know what its like to be black in America...
Maybe, just maybe, I have been taught wrong."
There is still so much work to be done. It's been a really dark, raw week. This could still end badly. But all we can do is keep doing the work.
Keep protesting.
WE ARE NOT TRYING TO START A RACE WAR; WE ARE PROTESTING TO END IT, PEACEFULLY.
How beautiful is that?
ALL LIVES CANNOT MATTER UNTIL YOU INCLUDE BLACK LIVES.
YOU CANNOT SAY 'ALL LIVES MATTER' WHEN YOU DO NOTHING TO STOP SYSTEMIC RACISM & POLICE BRUTALITY.
YOU CANNOT SAY 'ALL LIVES MATTER' WHEN BLACK PEOPLE ARE DYING AND ALL YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT IS THE LOOTING.
YOU CANNOT SAY 'ALL LIVES MATTER' WHEN YOU ALLOW CHILDREN TO BE CAGED, VETERANS TO GO HOMELESS, AND POOR FAMILIES TO GO HUNGRY & LOSE THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE.
DO ALL LIVES MATTER? YES. BUT RIGHT NOW, ONLY BLACK LIVES ARE BEING TARGETED, JAILED, AND KILLED EN MASSE- SO THAT'S WHO WE'RE FOCUSING ON.
🖤🖤🖤BLACK LIVES MATTER🖤
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June 13, 2020
And the hits keep coming! We've had earthquakes, floods, fires, plague, locusts, wars and lots of strife. And now...
Poisonous Toads Invade South Florida in Latest Sign of the Apocalypse
Man, the paradise the Progressives promised us sure is a gyp.
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The Left has sought to eliminate meat from the American diet for a long time. I wrote about this long ago.
Well, in one of those happy coincidences, the price of beef is skyrocketing due to the Coronavirus plandemic.
And what is the substitute? You guessed it.
Tofu goes Mainstream in America Thanks to Big Meat's Covid Crisis
Strange how that worked out.
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Why am I not surprised? BLM and Antifa are the Democrats' brownshirts. Just like the Klan used to be.
Black Lives Matter Fraud: Donations go Straight to the Democrat Party
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So, the mayor of Seattle says President Trump has no legal authority to end the rebellion inside of his city. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-seattle/seattle-mayor-says-illegal-for-trump-to-send-military-to-clear-protesters-idUSKBN23I3EG?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&fbclid=IwAR3W9iiSTkIX6WdoxrPmWpe8dCACz4relhlEssb5RLS5aY1R8mC31kPVaH0
Really? I think not.
According to 18 U.S. Code 115 2383
" Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
and 2384
"If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both."
And then there is 2385
"Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or
Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
Clearly what is happening in Seattle with the so-called "free zone" constitutes sedition. A group of "protesters" have seized control of five city blocks, banned all authorities, instituted their own laws.It could even be argued that this is Treason, which can bear the death penalty. Treason constitutes making war against the United States as well as working with a foreign power. https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/sedition.html
"Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."
The President of the United States is the chief law enforcement officer and it is his duty to maintain the integrity of the country, to guarantee law and order. As such he has an absolute right and in fact duty to step in if Seattle is unwilling or unable to take control back from these terrorists.
It clearly meets the qualifications for domestic terrorism. According to section 2331:
So, take your pick; sedition, treason, or terrorism. Any way you slice it what is happening in the "free zone" amounts to a very, very serious offense.
Bill Clinton's Administration stormed the Branch Davidian compound in Waco Texas for less, killing 76 people in the process. And that was essentially for peacefully minding their own business and allegedly stockpiling weapons. The government threw firebombs into the compound and burned those people to death. Why? Mainly for refusing to leave. Oh, and they owned the place.
And there was Ruby Ridge where the government sent in a massive team with snipers to arrest a hillbilly racist named Randy Weaver at his remote cabin for purchasing two illegal sawed-off shotguns. Weaver was given the wrong court date and when he failed to appear Federal marshalls were sent to arrest him. They killed his son Sammy which led to the standoff that ended with Weaver's wife being killed. In the end nobody was convicted of any crime except Weaver for the original gun charge. But his wife and child were killed. Why? Refusing to surrender.
And we had the Cliven Bundy affair where the Obama Bureau of Land Management beseiged a peaceful Nevada rancher was harassed by bureacrats over his lawful grazing of cattle on Federal land (he was supposed to be grandfathered in) and his firebreak burning. They "thinnned" his herd by shooting his cattle during the standoff. Eventually the armed thugs left but arrested Bundy.
Now all of these were isolated cases (and there are plenty more) which shows the Federal government can in fact send in armed agents to impose their will, and in all these cases the "suspects" were just trying to be left alone. Now we have five city blocks seized by terrorists and making themselves independent of the law and this idiot mayor says the President has no legal authority?
Tell that to David Koresh. Tell that to Randy Weaver. Tell that to Cliven Bundy, or to the poor Cuban boy Elion Gonzalez, the kid Clinton had forcibly removed from his family in Florida by jackbooted thugs and repatriated to Cuba to do slave labor on a sugar plantation.
If these incidents were worth employing the full force of the United States, how much more is this?
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Well, well, well..
Record June Gains for Greenland Ice Sheet
This while the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue to climb.
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Havest House
Publishers has recently published an excellent new book entitled,
"Unearthing the Bible" wherein some 100 archaeological artifacts are
presented which undergirds the historicity of the biblical text that so
many have naively presumed is not the case. In a time of deconstruction,
While it is true occasional miracles do show up in the Bible from time to time, yet much of the entire Old Testament reads like a history book, very unlike ancient Greek mythological accounts. The Old Testament methodically goes through several thousand years of general and Jewish history from the beginning. It constantly pinpoints actual dates, eras, specific geographical locations and historical figures, along with a multitude of ancient names that would have been lost had it not been for the Old Testament. Too many moderns and postmoderns have purposefully tried to associate Greek myths with Hebrew religion in order to dismiss the historical tradition of the latter. However, as the archaeological evidence of Old Testament Israel continues to mount with an ever increasing plethora of artifacts to draw from, it is now time for modern historians of all persuasions to face the fact the Hebrew religion cannot be compared with Greek religion.
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Religion or myth can be only be bridged with history in ancient Greek religion through allegory, but the distance between religion and history in the Old Testament is anything but unbridgeable, and the faith required to build that bridge is not nearly as allegorical, superstitious or irrational as the former very often was. Indeed, in the Old Testament, the history of Israel begins with Abraham in a tent, but ends with their return to the promised-land from the Babylonian exile. In between those times, they were enslaved in Egypt, became a nation during the Exodus, conquered the promised-land, devolved into the debauchery at the time of the Judges, rebounded with the united monarchy under Saul, David and Solomon, split into the competing kingdoms of Israel in the north and Judah in the south, and then finally both were exiled into foreign nations because of their pagan nature worship.
The Old Testament thus did not
curve time like the Greeks and Romans often did. The Old Testament was
fully aware of human development precisely because it specifically
taught that man was made in God’s image, and that the distinction
between nature and history was born in the opening chapter of Genesis
(Genesis 1-4). The whole point of Greco-Roman mythology, however, was
not that history itself was going someplace or that it would reach a
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To the Hebrew writers
of the Bible, however, history had great meaning – so much so, that
even the ups and downs of everyday life did not interfere with their
unshakable faith in the outcome predestined by an Almighty God who
created the universe out of nothing by His spoken word (Genesis
1:1-31). The Hebrews therefore took history far more seriously than the
Greeks or Romans. This is readily seen by reading virtually any Old
Testament book that constantly reminds its readers of one historical
fact after another, "Only the Jews are really a historical people,
constituted as such by religion, by the act of the Sinaitic revelation.
Hence the Jewish people could and can indeed understand their national
history and destiny religiously, as a religious-polit
That the ancient Hebrew authors would take history so lightly to mischaracterize
A word from Tim:
Scholars didn't believe in a physical Nineveh until it was unearthed - exactly where the Bible said. We see that over and over, how the Bible is amazingly accurate about such things. BTW the Jews clung to their history and it preserved them as a People. Where are the Edomites? The Moabites? Hittites? All lost, scattered and disappeared. But Israel remains, because Israel believed in the importance of history. Sadly, in America and all over the West we are busy tearing down our history, erasing it so as to be more "inclusive". How long will the West continue? Rome fell in no small part because it ignored history.
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Barack Obama Joe Biden is whittling down the list of potential VP's.
Among them are:
The list includes two of Biden’s former opponents in the Democratic primary:Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kamala Harris of California. Susan Rice, President Obama’s national security adviser, is also on the list.
Florida Rep. Val Demings and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, both of whom are black, are being looked at for the position, along with New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
Good luck with any of them; collectively their I.Q. adds up to about the score of an average football game. But they are minorities, which is designed to split some votes from Trump. Watch for a surprise with Obama Biden choosing an Hispanic. We've already done the black thing. Of course, they have been setting up a black person with the whole Black Lies Muttered business, but that may be why they would want an Hispanic; they may think they've already sealed the deal with the African American community.
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