Great Barrington Declaration - As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.
Lockdown is NOT a COVID countermeasure as it doesn't do anything, just look at figures for flu. They're unchanged.
The Zero risk section of the population (those vast majority far more at risk from lockdown than covid) should be free from the group punishment as then the economy can recover.
Locking everyone up rocking back and forward waiting for the vaccine to cure all that won't turn up.
Lock down is already set to kill more than COVID, how many more are you going to slaughter with the ludicrous denial of herd immunity (which is the basis for vaccination too BTW)?
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St. Fauci is now whining about how Orange Man is being mean to him. I don't see how this existential threat to the entire human race over-hyped virus will be solved by an invertebrate creature, let alone the communist bought and paid for puppet at the WHO...
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About 35,000 people die in car accidents in the US each year - should we all ride around in bumper cars instead? Asking for a friend.
#8
...it appears the overall death count in New Mexico hasn't changed in a year. It's just that with the lock down, the fewer deaths on the roads and highways with cars and trucks was covered by the Covid stats. So extrapolating the data, I'm waiting for the governor to keep the lock down in place to save people from traffic fatalities.
[NotTheBee] Well this is awfully strange. A new wellness trend out of the Netherlands has people cuddling cows as a way to cope with the stress brought on by Covid-19.
[CharlesHughSmith] Social and economic decay is so glacial that only those few who remember an earlier set-point are equipped to even notice the decline. That's the position we find ourselves in today.
There has always been corruption here, but exactly how much waxes and wanes depending on all sorts of things including what part of the country you’re in at the moment. New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, and Las Vegas, for instance, carry their reputation for corruption with pride, thinking it gives them an aura of edginess and sophistication that sets them apart from more straightforward communities.
Many Americans will discount the systemic corruption that characterizes the American way of life because they've known nothing but systemic corruption. They've habituated to it because they have no memory of a time when looting wasn't legalized and maximizing self-enrichment by any means available wasn't the unwritten law of the land.
If you don't yet see America as little more than an intertwined collection of skims, scams, frauds, embezzlements, lies, gaming-the-system, obfuscation of risk and exploitation of the masses by insiders, please read How Corruption is Becoming America's Operating System. (nakedcapitalism.com, via Cheryl A.)
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It's why socialism can't work in most of the world. The founders understood man was a corrupt fallen creature and that power had to be disbursed, even with its inefficiencies, rather than consolidated, and centralization for the bare minimum necessary functions that government has a reason to exist.
The husks chant about Scandinavian socialism never closely look at the environment it exists within. While they don't practice it as they once did, Lutheranism is still prevalent in the culture, particularly when it comes to corruption. There is no forgiveness of sins. There is no one standing between you and judgement. Notice as they move further away from this tenet, the more the problems start popping up and biting them in the rear these days.
I did a tour in Korea. The place was leveled by 1953 with the war. It's small, about the size of Kansas. It has no real major natural resources and very limited land for agriculture. Yet Mexico which hadn't suffered the devastation that Korea had, with an abundance of natural resources, vast agricultural lands and four times the population can't seem to get its act together. On GDP listings, South Korea ranks 10 and Mexico 16. That's the price the people pay for corruption. It's cultural. They both have corruption, but one far less so overall than the other.
If there is one major overhaul that a society can do to improve itself and truly progress, it has to become far more intolerant of corruption than most anything else. Corruption, the more you tolerate, the more you get.
Wiki - Russian oligarchs are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth during the era of Russian privatization in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
American oligarchs are oligarchs who accumulated wealth following WWII, the Cold War and........
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That's the price the people pay for corruption.
Yes, it's a tax.
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Rent-seeking is the name given to income that offers less in return to the purchaser, but has to be spent because it's legally coerced., or say a government product is under-charged for or setup in a way to discourage less established players from even attempting to compete.
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The current egregious level of corruption is a carryover from embedded Obama administration personnel, who spent his eight years in it up to their necks, many rehired from the Clinton administration or connected to them. Not that Republicans are all angels in white, but clearing out the holdovers will go far to reducing cause for complaint.
[AlAhram] Rolled back in Libya and Syria, and facing censure in the East Mediterranean, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has turned to the Caucasus to stage a regional show of power.
Turkey has intervened so far in Syria, Iraq and Libya, while in the past it also meddled in the interior of other countries supporting terrorist groups, such as the Moslem Brüderbund and its affiliates. Turkey occupies the northern part of Cyprus and has exerted military pressure against Greece, a fellow NATO
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[AmericanThinker] It may be difficult to admit that a full-scale revolution is brewing in the United States of America. While there are no guerilla bands pouring out of the mountains to attack towns or cities or government installations, recent violence by armed revolutionaries against US courthouses may be a harbinger of things to come. While there are no formal press briefings or published manifestos in which the revolutionaries explain why the current system is rotten and why their proposed new system will herald peace and justice,
the utterances and proposals of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and, indeed, of virtually all of the radical left Democratic presidential candidates — as well as those of almost all Democratic Congresspersons and senators, and many radical Democratic city mayors — would seem to qualify.
#3
It's a strange revolution, the opposite of traditional uprisings of the masses - a "revolution from above."
It refers to sweeping institutional changes, in the political and social structure, pushed through by a relatively small group of determined elites ranging from dictators like Stalin, to modernizing aristocrats like Bismarck in Germany or the Meiji in Japan, to visionary champions of liberty like the Franers of the American Cobstitution.
In any case this is NOT the result of a popular movement and does not in any way represent a shift in majority opinion. Most American colonists were either opposed or indifferent to the American Revolution.
That's true in today's America. Despite the constant talk of "polarization" and even a "second civil war," most Americans are not divided along political lines. Majorities of Americans oppose political correctness and the trashing of our heritage and also are dead-set against riots and "defunding the police." Americans of all races oppose illegal immigration and also want us to distance ourselves from China. Most Americans want to bring troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan and to retrench internationally.
In other words, regardless of what people think of his manner, Trump is essentially a mainstream political leader whose views are squarely within the national consensus.
There is no "revolution" led by Trump. There is only a revolution FROM ABOVE - our version of the Meiji Restoration, led by
.. the Uniparty political class,
.. legacy media execs,
.. the high-tech and finance oligarchs,
.. and the administrative state including the political ranks of the military i.e. the four-stars and other Pentagon brass.
These elites are determined to preserve their power, perquisites and of course their enormous wealth gained from the astonishing advance of China- and finance-centered globalism, of monopoly concentration of the American economy, and the extraordinary growth in the size and influence over American life of the American administrative state.
Covering all of this power grab is a "narrative" that is overwhelmingly focused on bogus cultural issues regarding race and gender.
This constant diversion - away from the core issues of power regarding China, the administrative state, our military adventures and endless overseas wars, the monopoly power of the oligarchs and the vast fortunes piled up by our corrupt political class - the constant stirring up of race & gender culture wars is the primary vector by which these elites aim to pull off their revolution from above.
Trump's actual policies cannot be allowed to succeed BECAUSE OF their wide popularity . Hence the 24/7 race-gender narrative of Trump the Evil Racist.
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I think a strong case could be made that this is where we would be two years ago had Clinton won except not as restrained; that a bulk of the operation was put together tested and put in motion during the Obama administration.
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Unfortunately, history shows that an organized, determined minority almost always triumphs over a diffuse, wavering majority. (How many Americans wanted men in dresses using the ladies' room?)
Unless that majority is itself organized and energized by an opposing cadre effectively pushing in a different direction.
The Right, as presently constituted, doesn't have those cadres.
And if we did, the "That is not who we are!" types on the "troo conservative right" can be counted on to stab them in the back.
Before we can be truly effective against the left, we'll have to go some way to purging our own ranks.
That's not hyperbole.
Just look at history and you'll see that before every major confrontation/crisis, the organization/regime that was facing it prepared for it by ridding themselves of as many waverers, traitors and incompetents as possible.
Sometimes it was done in a sinister way like the Nacht der langen Messer or Stalin's chistka.
Sometimes in a relatively benign way, like the cashiering of a slew of superannuated officers in the US military before WWII.
But it has to be done, or we're just going in circles.
Trump failed to conduct a purge when he came in and look what's happening to him. .
[Townhall] During slavery, many black women, often in a forcible union with a white man, bore mixed-race children. Based on their percentage of white blood, they were deemed "mulattos," "quadroons," "octoroons" or even "hexadecaroons." Depending on skin color, they could pass as white and avoid the gross racial discrimination suffered by their darker skinned brothers and sisters. This was portrayed in a 1949 motion picture titled "Pinky" that highlighted "passing" for white.
Now the tables have been turned with some white women claiming they are black.
...By the way, if as it has now become acceptable to call oneself a woman, when one has the anatomical equipment of a male, then why isn't it okay to claim that one is black, Latino or Asian when one is really Caucasian? According to the U.S. Bureau of Census, people self-identify their race or ethnicity.
Personally, I do not hold Dolezal, Krug, Cole, Warren or other undiscovered university professors at fault for racial fakery. I am guilty of the same during my troubled time in the Army. In 1960, landing in Incheon harbor in Korea, I tried to fake my race. Arriving soldiers were required to fill out a form containing information such as blood type, religion and next of kin. I checked off "Caucasian" where it asked for race. A chief warrant officer, in charge of inspecting the forms noticed the entry and told me I should have checked off Negro. I told him that if I put down "Negro," I would get the worst job over there. The warrant officer probably changed the designation.
Some years ago, I declared myself a springbok trapped in a human body. A springbok is a highly agile, cute, deer-like animal that resides in southern and southwestern African. Some people suggested that I suffered from a condition known as species dysphoria, in which one thinks he is a wild animal trapped in a human body. Species dysphoria is similar to gender dysphoria, a condition in which a person believes he is a woman trapped in a male body or a man trapped in a female body.
Psychological counseling was recommended, which, in my opinion, is nothing less than animal phobia. One might ask, "Williams, why in the world would you want to call yourself a springbok?" The reason is quite simple. There is nothing in the Internal Revenue Code that says springboks have a federal tax obligation. If IRS officials were to demand that a springbok pay taxes, they could be referred to the U.S. Department of Justice for prosecution and reported to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
#3
The Left's racism is increasingly overt. That's why they are now calling everyone and everything racist. If everyone is racist, then their racism is not such a big deal.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Townhall] During slavery, many black women, often in a forcible union with a white man, bore mixed-race children. Based on their percentage of white blood, they were deemed "mulattos," "quadroons," "octoroons" or even "hexadecaroons." Depending on skin color, they could pass as white and avoid the gross racial discrimination suffered by their darker skinned brothers and sisters. This was portrayed in a 1949 motion picture titled "Pinky" that highlighted "passing" for white.
