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‘Princeton Princess’ whines that she’s ‘starving,’ blames university after choosing to go on anti-Israel hunger strike
By Isabel Keane Published May 9, 2024 Updated May 9, 2024, 11:00 a.m. ET
(Send them to Gaza. FWIW, the moronic tub o'lard looks like she could live off her fat reserves for at least two weeks... or more.)
A student-led hunger strike began on Princeton’s campus on Friday.
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An anti-Israel protester at Princeton University sounded off about how she was “starving” during her self-imposed hunger strike and accused the prestigious university of purposefully “physically weakening” students.
Video shows the woman and other female protesters railing into a megaphone about the New Jersey Ivy League school’s refusal to divest from Israel following Hamas’ unprovoked attack on the Jewish state on Oct. 7.
“This is absolutely unfair. My peers and I, we are starving. We are physically exhausted. I am quite literally shaking right now as you can see,” the protester says into the megaphone in a widely shared video on X.
A student-led hunger strike began Friday, with protesters demanding the school meet with them to discuss divestment and drop the criminal and disciplinary charges against two students who were arrested for erecting tents and 13 other peers who were arrested for trespassing an academic hall last month, Princeton’s student newspaper, the Daily Princetonian, reported Monday.
After meeting with administrators on Monday, students indicated that they have no intention of halting their protest, which has left them “immunocompromised,” according to the female protester whose rally cry has gone viral online.
“We are both hot and cold at the same time. We are all immunocompromised and based on the university’s meeting yesterday with some of our bargaining team, they would love to continue physically weakening us because they can’t stand to say no to unjust murder,” she said to cheers and banging of drums.
Despite the complaints, the woman in the video concedes that going on a hunger strike was her choice.
“I will say I truly do not feel like I am doing anything special. This is my choice, and I would not spend my birthday doing anything other than being here,” she said.
“No matter how physically weak we may be, united we have never been stronger,” she added as the crowd began to chant, “The people united will never be defeated!”
According to the student newspaper, at least 15 students were taking part in the hunger strike Sunday night.
It was not immediately clear how that number may have changed throughout the week.
School president Christopher Eisgruber, graduate school dean Rodney Priestley and Amaney Jamal, dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, told students in an email Tuesday that administrators were working with the protesters.
“My colleagues and I are now in direct conversation with the protestors,” he wrote. “I have told them that we can consider their concerns through appropriate processes that respect the interests of multiple parties and viewpoints, but we cannot allow any group to circumvent those processes or exert special leverage.”
https://nypost.com/2024/05/09/us-news/princeton-students-complain-of-starving-amid-anti-israel-hunger-strike/
Dems’ kangaroo court against Donald Trump is only backfiring
By Miranda Devine Published May 8, 2024, 10:25 p.m. ET
1998 flick. Some of the crazy rap stuff is all that I can remember!
It also had "you've got to fight the power that be!" Ha! That sure is the case NOW!
Aha ! I've been boycotting Hollywood for years.
Missed Bullworth.
Great lyric. I may use it myself.
I hate rap but the lyric stuck with me ever since I saw that movie, Bullworth, many moons ago!
Howdy, possh. I'm impressed.
Pretty modern of you to know what the rappers say.
They do have a unique way with words.
Good to see you up and moving.
Nice out. Enjoy the day.
Hmmm... #396666.
Not exactly a grub but all multiples of three.
I like it.
Good one, Mr. G. I saw one (nonpolitical) yesterday on Rte. 80.
Source: An electronic sign from the NJDOT.
Message: Camp in the woods.
Not in the fast lane.
Good posts, Sir.
Thanks.
As the rappers used to say, "Insane in the membrane." Suck a waste of resources.
The ‘world’s largest’ vacuum to suck climate pollution out of the air just opened. Here’s how it works
By Laura Paddison, CNN
Published May 8, 2024 11:45 AM EDT | Updated May 8, 2024 3:03 PM EDT
https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/the-worlds-largest-vacuum-to-suck-climate-pollution-out-of-the-air-just-opened-heres-how-it-works/1648721
This is actually a billboard in Newark, Ohio!
This is actually a billboard in Newark, Ohio!
— Nick Donnelly (@ProtecttheFaith) May 8, 2024
H/T Valerie Mimi pic.twitter.com/HZAGYka31g
Where does one signup for contributions to make that happen??!
I'll be betting with ya!
College anti-Israel agitators would be sent to Gaza under new House GOP bill
By Elizabeth Elkind, Fox News Published May 8, 2024, 4:59 p.m. ET
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY: Fox News
(I freakin' love it. Send the Somali Slut and Fugli Tlaib over there with them. I know... in my dreams.)
Bet this does not appear in the LSM.
LAPD uses January 6 techniques to identify Jewish students who fought back at a UCLA pro-Hamas protest
By Monica Showalter
They're studying Facebook posts. They're using frame-by-frame video screenshots of faces to match with gargantuan databases of named faces. They're seeking and taking tips from "friends" and relatives and ex-boyfriends.
For the UCLA Jewish students who got into a scrap with pro-Hamas illegal campout protestors, no doubt after hearing a slew of antisemitic statements and being blocked from attending class, they're doing exactly what they did to identify and hunt down January 6 protestors.
According to the Los Angeles Times, which reports this like it was a good thing:
It is shaping up to be perhaps the biggest case in the history of the UCLA Police Department: how to identify dozens of people who attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at the center of campus last week.
The mob violence was captured on live television, but it took three hours for police to bring it to an end. Those involved left, and no arrests were made.
But the trail is not cold.
UCLA detectives are now scanning hundreds of images in an attempt to identify the attackers. They intend to use technology that captures facial images and compares them to other photos on the internet and social media to put names to faces, according to law enforcement sources.
The same technology has allowed police to identify suspects in smash-and-grab retail burglaries. It also was the heart of the Jan. 6 investigation, in which videos of those storming the U.S. Capitol helped the FBI identify many of the assailants and led federal prosecutors to charge more than 1,300 people. In those cases, investigators often were able to find social media images of the assailant wearing the same clothing as during the attack.
So now they're spending big bucks to target UCLA Jewish students again, with the same use of intensive investigative techniques as they used on January 6 protestors.
They're taking years to do it, calling it their biggest operation, even as Los Angeles is awash with real crime, but this is more important to them, getting their man, or woman, as the case may be, championing a protest the establishment didn't like, same as they did with the January 6 protestors. Jews tussling with pro-Hamas protestors whose cause probably killed some of their relatives back on October 7 are their top priority, and this is their January 6.
How they will hunt. In the case of the January 6 protestors, they managed to bag people like these, a protestor known as "pink beret," Jennifer Inzunza Vargas Geller. The politicized law enforcers worked like beavers to swoop down on her several years after the fracas, though it's pretty obvious she wasn't doing anything more than just being there, spending millions in order to get her thrown into prison.
Now they'll do it to the Jewish students who fought back against the haters. Never mind catching the dirtbags who left the campus a steaming mess, graffiting its walls, junking its furniture, leaving a lot of smell and mess as well as landfill-sized amounts of litter. Those guys get off scot-free. As do the graffitiers of menacing messages on synagogues these days around the West Side of Los Angeles, the antisemitic assailants against visably Jewish people walking on the streets of Beverly Hills, and the freaks throwing smoke bombs and screaming against Jewish people in their homes in Brentwood. All of those things happened. But we hear not a word about catching the monsters who committed those crimes, or for that matter, the pro-Hamas lowlife who blocked Jewish students from their own classrooms at UCLA and injured some Jewish students, too.
Double standards anyone? The antisemitic bad guys walk. The Jewish students get the book thrown at them for fighting back after provocations.
It sure looks like a double-standard of justice to me.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/lapd_uses_january_6_techniques_to_identify_jewish_students_who_fought_back_at_a_ucla_pro_hamas_protest.html
Bombshell: A Wisconsin election official has been fired for allegedly copying over 64,000
https://rumble.com/v4tw7b8-bombshell-a-wisconsin-election-official-has-been-fired-for-allegedly-copyin.html
RFK Jr. said doctors found a dead worm in his head after it ate part of his brain
By Isabel Keane Published May 8, 2024, 10:26 a.m. ET
(Oh, dear God. To think I actually considered voting for this guy. omg All I can say is... Trump 2024. Waaaa.)
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in a deposition taken more than a decade ago that a worm ate part of his brain before dying inside his head.
RFK Jr., now 70, made the bizarre admission during his 2012 divorce proceeding, detailing “cognitive problems” he initially feared were a brain tumor — only for a second doctor to tell him the dark spot on his scans were a dead parasite, according to the New York Times.
Before getting a second opinion, Kennedy had been set to undergo surgery at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina by the same doctor who operated on his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who died of brain cancer in 2009.
However, a doctor at New York-Presbyterian Hospital called Kennedy while he was packing for the trip and said he believed the abnormality “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” the candidate recalled in the transcribed interview.
Kennedy said he did not know when he may have contracted the parasite, but suggested it might have been during an earlier trip to South Asia. Doctors interviewed by the Times suggested it was likely a pork tapeworm larva, which have been known to cause seizures, headaches, and dizziness when they start to die.
A micrograph of the head of a pork tapeworm The Royal Photographic Society
(Chomp, chomp, chomp...)
RFK Jr. also said during the 2012 deposition that he suffered from mercury poisoning after eating too many tuna fish sandwiches, which one doctor told the Times was probably the actual cause of Kennedy’s neurological issues.
“I have cognitive problems, clearly,” the son of the late attorney general and senator from New York said at the time. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.”
Kennedy said he suffered from “severe brain fog” and had trouble retrieving words around the same time that his mercury levels were 10 times what the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe.
The vaccine-skeptic politician said he was certain his diet was causing the issue.
“I loved tuna fish sandwiches. I ate them all the time,” he said.
At the time he disclosed his health issues, Kennedy was in the process of divorcing his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, and was arguing that his earning power had been reduced by his medical issues.
The longtime environmental lawyer added that he made several changes following the two health scares, including getting more sleep, traveling less and consuming less fish.
The septuagenarian has used his relative youth to make the case for his insurgent candidacy against former President Donald Trump, 77, and President Biden, 81.
When asked if his health issues would impact his ability to serve as president, a spokesperson for the Kennedy campaign told the Times, “That is a hilarious suggestion, given the competition.”
The longshot candidate has suffered from a variety of health issues over the years, including atrial fibrillation, a common heartbeat abnormality that increases the risk of stroke or heart failure.
Kennedy also said in the deposition that he had been treated for hepatitis C caused by heroin use in his youth.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/08/us-news/rfk-jr-says-doctors-found-a-dead-worm-in-his-head-after-it-ate-part-of-his-brain/
Great musical selection! Also being cranked here!
This would be considered excellent testimony per the so-called judges railroading him!
AstraZeneca Begins Worldwide Withdrawal of COVID-19 Vaccine
By Caden Pearson
May 8, 2024
AstraZeneca has commenced a global withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, citing a “surplus” of updated jabs for new variants, months after acknowledging its rare risk of serious side effects.
The pharmaceutical giant’s jab, Vaxzevria, is no longer authorized in the European Union as of May 7, after AstraZeneca requested the withdrawal of its “marketing authorization” on March 5.
The removal of its authorization comes just weeks after the company admitted in a UK court document that its shot “can, in very rare cases, cause” blood clots and low platelets, a rare but serious condition known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TSS). The company had originally denied a causal link.
However, AstraZeneca did not cite the admission as contributing to its decision. Instead, it stated that there was now an “oversupply of updated vaccines” that target new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19.
UK Class Action
Vaxzevria, a viral vector-based vaccine, was initially authorized for use in the European Union in January 2021.
The European withdrawal follows a similar removal of AstraZeneca’s vaccine from the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods weeks ago, on April 23.
The removal in Australia was attributed to a “business decision of the company, due to no current or anticipated future demand of the vaccine, and follows similar business decisions made overseas.”
Australia changed its official COVID-19 immunization recommendation for certain age groups from AstraZeneca’s vaccine to an alternative jab in 2021 based on evidence of linked cases of TSS.
AstraZeneca’s admission, which was revealed in a UK high court document from February that was made public in late April, came to light through a lengthy class action legal battle in the United Kingdom.
That case involved claims of dozens of injuries and deaths in the United Kingdom allegedly caused by AstraZeneca’s vaccine. More than 50 people have sued the company, along with the vaccine manufacturer, the Serum Institute of India, for compensation over claims of vaccine injuries.
AstraZeneca has denied the claims but conceded the risk of TTS.
Should the pharmaceutical giant be found liable, UK taxpayers would need to foot the bill for any settlement in the case due to an agreement with the UK government.
The AstraZeneca vaccine had previously been temporarily suspended in European countries following reports of a death attributed to the vaccine in the Netherlands and adverse effects elsewhere.
Cases have been confirmed in Australia as well, including one involving an actress who sued AstraZeneca after being diagnosed with vaccine-induced TTS, which led to a life-threatening stroke, leaving her unable to work within weeks of receiving the company’s vaccine.
According to the European Medicines Agency, Vaxzevria does not contain the COVID-19 virus itself but is made up of another virus of the adenovirus family modified to contain the gene for making a protein from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Though generally deemed safe and effective, TTS was reported to affect about two to three people per 100,000 people vaccinated with the Vaxzevria vaccine.
Some research has linked COVID-19 viral vector-based vaccines, such as Vaxzevria, to an increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome by three to four times compared to mRNA-based vaccines.
AstraZeneca did not immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted via phone and email by The Epoch Times.
https://www.ntd.com/astrazeneca-begins-worldwide-withdrawal-of-covid-19-vaccine_991358.html?src_src=ntddailynoe&src_cmp=ntd-2024-05-08
Wednesday's Energy Absurdity: About that Giant Wind Blade Graveyard in Sweetwater...
David Blackmon
May 08, 2024
Old windfarm blades causing problems in Nolan County
Many readers here will remember the stories that broke last September about the enormous wind blade graveyard occupying acres of land on the periphery of Sweetwater, Texas. Russell Gold wrote an excellent expose’ in Texas Monthly about the junkyard, one of many that have popped up across West Texas and the Texas Panhandle in recent years as the wind developers avoid investing any real money in properly disposing of their massive amount of waste.
The story was picked up by other outlets across the country. Robert Bryce travelled to Sweetwater and recorded some social media videos featuring the junkyard. Gold himself quoted the head of the Global Fiberglass Solutions, which has the contract from the wind developer to collect and “recycle” the blades, as promising, “If you come back nine months from now, you will not see the material.”
So, Gold waited nine months, and recently travelled back to Sweetwater to view what he had been promised would be an empty wind blade graveyard.
Guess what? The graveyard isn’t empty, not at all. All the same blades that were in place there nine months ago remain, with still more piled atop them. In his follow-up story at Texas Monthly, Gold reports no activity taking place at the junkyard, which has all the appearances of having been abandoned.
Indeed, Gold writes in the excerpt below that GFS may well be out of money now, having apparently squandered the $16.9 million in funds paid to it by developer General Electric:
GFS may be out of the funds it would need to begin grinding up the blades. Last September, General Electric filed a lawsuit claiming it had paid GFS $16.9 million to recycle about five thousand blades, which the company instead stockpiled in Sweetwater and Iowa. GFS took the money and the blades and then “all but shut down,” according to the complaint. GFS has asked for an extension because it can’t hire a lawyer. “GFS has not been able to raise sufficient funds to convince counsel that they will get paid for their work,” company cofounder Ron Albrecht said in a court filing in January. General Electric expects to file for a default judgment later in May.
…
There can’t be any new products fashioned from the material in Sweetwater until someone takes ownership of the problem that GFS has apparently abandoned. The State of Texas could take charge, but its wheels of justice are turning much more slowly than Iowa’s. In late 2022, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality fined GFS $10,255 and gave it a year to obtain a permit to store industrial solid waste. That year lapsed in November, and the company never finished paying the fine.
[End]
There’s a lot more to this story, and I highly recommend you reading it in full.
The bottom line here, of course, is this: These big industrial wind developments are a menace, and Texas has not bothered to implement strong laws and regulations needed to mandate the proper retirement and disposal of the massive amount of industrial junk they create.
Is this growing problem a product of irresponsible, grifting developers? Of course, it is. But it is also a problem of irresponsible policymakers who are happy to take money from wind developers to fund their campaigns and look the other way as they fail, session after session, to enact proper laws and regulations to force the cleaning up of these scars on the landscape.
Until the Texas government forces the issue, Mr. Gold will be able to keep writing follow-ups to this story. That’s reality.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/wednesdays-energy-absurdity-about?publication_id=712558&post_id=144431139&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
12 Women Come Forward Alleging They Were Sexually Assaulted By Whoever Trump’s VP Pick Is
May 7, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
U.S. — A new wave of controversy erupted as 12 women came forward alleging they had been sexually assaulted by whoever Trump's vice presidential pick would end up being.
The damning allegations began to come in despite the fact that Trump has yet to officially name a running mate or even disclose whether the pick is a man or a woman. Sources confirmed at least a dozen highly credible accusers emerged to demand justice against whoever the VP candidate might be.
"Whoever the VP pick is, I am here to tell my story of how I was inappropriately touched by them," claimed one accuser. "As soon as Trump sees fit to announce who his running mate is, I'm going to positively identify him… or her. Whatever. No matter who he picks, they aren't going to get away with what they did. They must be held accountable!"
Other women quickly joined the ranks of accusers, suggesting Trump's eventual VP selection — no matter who it may end up being — has a long history of serious misconduct. "The person Trump picks as his running mate will not get away with the things we all know they did. Once he announces who it is, we'll know who to blame for what happened to all of us."
At publishing time, the DOJ had announced they would be charging Trump's VP pick with serious federal crimes, once they find out who it is.
https://babylonbee.com/news/12-women-come-forward-alleging-they-were-sexually-assaulted-by-whoever-trumps-vp-pick-is?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
Presently BLASTING this tune in the coffee shop! :)
LOL, Outstanding reply, ks!!
True and Accurate!
This is interesting:
Certain Teas May Inactivate COVID-19 Virus, Lab Study Finds
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/certain-teas-may-inactivate-covid-19-virus-lab-study-finds-5627845?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&src_src=morningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=mb-2024-05-08&src_cmp=mb-2024-05-08&utm_medium=email&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZeMgIkRb6dvH5LxAvWpUFB4ARlJpfEWq9FYrFR9g5Q%3D%3D
A cup of tea could be a powerful weapon in the fight against COVID-19, according to a new study that found that several common varieties can effectively inactivate the SARS-CoV-2 virus in saliva.
The research offers a glimmer of hope that something as simple as your morning brew could help curb the spread of the pandemic virus.
Popular Teas Found to Drastically Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Levels in Just Seconds
Researchers studied 24 commercially available teas and identified five that significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 levels in saliva. These were raspberry zinger, eucalyptus mint, mint medley, green tea, and black tea.
The team prepared a drinkable tea infusion using one tea bag steeped in a cup of water for 10 minutes, without any additions such as milk or sugar. They then tested each tea either as a beverage or as a gargle.
The findings, published in Food and Environmental Virology, showed that all five tea varieties reduced the amount of the virus by at least 96 percent within just 10 seconds when used in the mouth and throat. When gargled, the teas were even more effective, eliminating 99.9 percent of the virus in the same timeframe.
Black tea proved the most potent. This matters because COVID-19 primarily infects and replicates in the oral cavity before spreading to the lungs, according to the study authors.
“Inactivating SARS-CoV-2 in the mouth and throat potentially reduces the introduction of the virus to the lower respiratory system,” Malak Esseili, a virologist with the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, said in a statement.
Tea is not a replacement for medical care, and clinical trials are still needed to fully assess its effect on COVID-19 patients, Ms. Esseili said. The study was conducted using cell cultures, not human participants.
Study Adds to Growing Body of Research on COVID-Killing Potential of Oral Rinses
In a 2021 study, published in Pathogens, researchers found that two types of mouthwash could disrupt the COVID-19 virus under laboratory conditions, preventing it from replicating in human cells.
Specifically, the researchers determined that Listerine and a prescription mouthwash containing chlorhexidine could disrupt the virus within seconds when diluted to concentrations mimicking actual usage.
Two other types of mouthwashes—Betadine, which contains povidone-iodine, and Colgate Peroxyl, which contains hydrogen peroxide—were also found to potentially be effective at preventing viral transmission.
However, only Listerine and chlorhexidine were able to effectively disrupt SARS-CoV-2 while having minimal effects on the delicate skin cells inside the mouth that form a protective barrier against infection.
“Both Povidone-iodine and Peroxal caused significant skin cell death in our studies, while both Listerine and Chlorhexidine had minimal skin-cell killing at concentrations that simulated what would be found in daily use,” Daniel H. Fine, chair of the school’s Department of Oral Biology and the study’s senior author, said in a press release at the time.
Building on these findings, a recent double-blind, controlled trial, published in 2023 in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, found that COVID-positive patients who gargled and performed nasal rinsing with a simple warm saltwater solution four times daily for 14 days experienced significantly lower hospitalization rates than a control group.
Lab Results Don’t Always Translate Into Real-World Benefits: Expert
Laboratory findings don’t always translate to real-world benefits.
“There are lots of times that we will test something in the petri dish and it looks fantastic,” Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, told The Epoch Times
The fact that something kills a microbe in the lab doesn’t mean it will be effective in a patient, she said. While test results may show a substance killing bacteria, viruses, or fungi, sometimes an equivalent dose in a human is toxic, it doesn’t stay in the right space long enough, or other problems arise, she said.
An issue with the tea study is that it didn’t replicate how quickly tea passes through the mouth, Dr. Nachman noted. “It’s in your mouth for nanoseconds,” she said. “In the lab, they put the tea in with the virus and it sat there and it could continue to act for more than microseconds, which is quite different than your mouth.”
COVID-19 infects the nose and lungs, not just the mouth. “Even a single cough is going to throw out much more virus than would be killed in the mouth by gargling for 20 minutes,” Dr. Nachman said.
So although a hot drink such as tea may provide some benefits, “whether it will actually get you healthier faster or cut down on how much virus you’re transmitting, that’s a little bit on the iffy side,” she said.
I confess... I stole the line from that song. < g >
Morning, PW.
Good to see you up and moving.
I'm doing a quick drive by.
Got to be on the road soon.
Catch you later.
No hugging'. No kissin'. 'Til you make her your wife.
Your words reminded me of this song.
I had forgotten how funny this video was to watch. It's also a reminder of the life's joys we've lost these last few years.
Relax, MG. As a devout Catholic, you have nothing to worry about.
No hugging'. No kissin'. 'Til you make her your wife.
By the time you pop the question, you'll have your answer.
Red Skelton - this comes from the heart. So perfect and should be shown to all grades K-12 every year.
— Sue (@SueJ2024) May 8, 2024
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
👏👏👏👏👏
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/ZMz10qMJPD
Here' a a 2024 dating dilemma.
You meet a lovely woman at church, manifestly wholesome and chaste.
So, you've got the STDs danger pretty much negated.
Well, there another concern.
What if she got the slab jab?
If she did, she's going to be a shedder!
Gives new meaning to the expression, "I just love her to death (yours)"
Great song, Mr. G. I just became 14 again.
Saw them in concert with a church group.
Bare bones venue. I think it was a gym.
Long, long time ago.
Thanks for the sweet memory.
Chicago ... one of my favorites. The Luvin' Spoonful are another!!
Climate lockdowns next?
By Brian Sussman
the first individuals to contend the environment was in peril due to human behavior were direct disciples of Karl Marx. Their contempt for capitalism and private property motivated them to conjure up a fallacious argument: the earth’s ecosystem was being mutilated by the industrial revolution.
Since the COVID scare worked so well for the left, could a climate lockdown be next?
We all vividly recall the absurd COVID lockdowns. While they had no effect on the spread of illness, the imposed restrictions certainly proved that a large segment of the population was easily compelled to come to heel and submit to the government’s outrageous demands.
Given the facts I provide in my new book, Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating Their War on Life, Liberty, and Property, such a scheme should come as no surprise, especially given that the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats are priming the pump with talk of executive action to declare a “climate emergency.”
As I reveal in the book, the first individuals to contend the environment was in peril due to human behavior were direct disciples of Karl Marx. Their contempt for capitalism and private property motivated them to conjure up a fallacious argument: the earth’s ecosystem was being mutilated by the industrial revolution. In fact, Edwin Ray Lankester, a zoologist at University College, London and close friend of Marx, referred to humanity as “the insurgent sons of nature.” Even Vladimir Lenin—a radical environmental preservationist—wrote lengthy regulations placing Russia’s natural resources off limits to his subjects. Millions died of starvation and hypothermia as a result.
In more recent decades, the climate agenda has been crafted by the United Nations with the United States and many European nations rushing to comply. It was a 1987 UN document entitled, Our Common Future, that officially introduced CO2 as not only the cause of global warming but a threat to world peace and an agent of economic inequality. Since then, the elites at the World Economic Forum have provided muscle for the United Nation’s plans. In fact, a man the WEF describes as an agenda contributor, Yuval Noah Harari, pompously declared, “You can stop all flights, you can lockdown entire countries,” to combat climate change.
Climate lockdowns have been discussed by Democrats for several years. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced the Climate Emergency Act of 2021, co-sponsored by 62 congressional Democrats. The bill would “require the President to declare a national climate emergency under the National Emergencies Act, and for other purposes.” Allowing President Biden to declare a climate emergency would provide the him with statutory powers that could be renewed should he gain a second term. The proposed Act reads like a communist takeover, demanding a “radically and socially just” plan to increase union membership, guarantee wages and benefits, promote social and environmental justice, expand the rainbow flag, and transition America to a carbon-free economy.
Last July, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters, “He [the president] is going to do everything he can to take action. This climate emergency [decision] is not going to happen tomorrow but we still have it on the table.”
Eco-zealot Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), told Politico that he urged Biden to use emergency authority to enact radical climate change measures. “In the absence of congressional action it is critically important he use all of his powers.”
And, of course, working in tandem with the Democrats on Capitol Hill, the UN has its own Climate Emergency webpage which states, “The science is clear. The world is in a state of climate emergency, and we need to shift into emergency gear.”
Yes, the science is clear. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a requirement for life on Earth, and more is better. As for global warming, the geological record indicates past periods have been significantly warmer than today.
Given that CO2 represents .04 percent of all atmospheric gases and of that amount only four percent are derived from fossil fuels, we should all be reminded that the tail doesn’t wag the dog.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/climate_lockdowns_next.html
Rumble censorship demands:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rumble-reveals-censorship-demands-surprising-181233719.html
Good morning. "Chicago" no longer evokes good vibes, that's for sure!
Jackie Lacey, 1st Black L.A. D.A., Backs Nathan Hochman over George Gascón
JOEL B. POLLAK 7 May 2024 3:58
(God bless, Jackie Lacey.)
Jackie Lacey, the first black and first female Los Angeles County District Attorney (DA), who was defeated by George Soros-backed George Gascón in 2020, has endorsed challenger Nathan Hochman in the 2024 race for D.A.
The Hochman campaign released a statement Monday:
Jackie Lacey, a lifelong Democrat and the first woman and first African-American to serve as District Attorney of Los Angeles County, announced today that she is endorsing Nathan Hochman for District Attorney.
She said D.A. George Gascon has emboldened criminals and caused an increase in crime by failing to properly enforce the law.
“We must have leadership at the District Attorney’s Office that understands its mission is to seek justice by, among other things, sending a message that criminal behavior is unacceptable in our county. We don’t have that with the current District Attorney,” Lacey said. “Criminals are more brazen because they know they have allies embedded in that office. They know the office policies better than we do. It is time to elect someone who will be proactive at making us safer.”
Lacey, who served as Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2012 to 2020, said she supports Hochman because of his decades of criminal justice experience, as both a prosecutor and defense attorney, and the fact that he will strive every day to improve public safety.
“I am endorsing Nathan Hochman for District Attorney because I feel a lot less safe than I did four years ago,” Lacey said. “It’s time to thank and excuse the current district attorney and elect someone with a conscience. Please join me and vote for Nathan Hochman for District Attorney.”
Hochman, who has served as a federal prosecutor, U.S. Assistant Attorney General overseeing the DOJ’s Tax Division, President of the L.A. City Ethics Commission and as a defense attorney, said he is extremely grateful for Lacey’s support. He previously was endorsed by Steve Cooley, who served three terms as District Attorney, and the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, the union that represents L.A. County prosecutors.
“Jackie’s endorsement is extremely meaningful to me and I am so thankful that she supports my campaign for District Attorney,” Hochman said. “She was an exceptional District Attorney who served 34 years with the office, striving every day to pursue justice on behalf of the people of Los Angeles County, where she was born and raised.”
Lacey was targeted by the Black Lives Matter movement. Her husband was charged with a misdemeanor firearms violation when he brought a gun to the door of the family home as he urged Black Lives Matter protesters to leave.
The charges were later dismissed. However, Gascón won the 2020 election, thanks to millions of dollars in spending by Soros and a rush of endorsements by California Democrats — including a reversal by then-L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, who had originally endorsed Lacey but then reversed himself once the Black Lives Matter riots, and the Soros millions, appeared to change his mind.
Gascón has faced two recall attempts, the last of which fell just short after county workers claimed to have found invalid signatures on the recall petition. He is blamed for a crime wave, as he has prioritized criminal justice “reform.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/07/jackie-lacey-1st-black-l-a-d-a-backs-nathan-hochman-over-george-gascon/
Yep. They got the music right.
Morning, possh.
Wonder how many "kids" know that's Chicago.
Morning, Mr. G. That ad makes my skin crawl.
Total roll reversal. The end annoys me the most.
Sleek, professional wifey comes home, gives her beleaguered lap dog the come-on look, and
he trots off to service her.
Kunstler:
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOGMay 6, 2024
Prisoners of Themselves
“Ok, let’s be clear. If the intelligence community led by the CIA is not the “deep state,” what is?” — Jeffrey Tucker
You realize, don’t you, that the gross misconduct of government officials from RussiaGate on down to the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan has amounted to one continuous operation against the American people? If it were ever honestly adjudicated, many hundreds of them might go to prison, or worse. Each successive seditious and treasonous action they attempt against their arch-nemesis, Mr. Trump, only compounds their criminal liability — the Steele Dossier, CIA agent Eric Ciaramella’s 2019 impeachment prank, the Covid-19 caper, the George Floyd-BLM hustle, the 2020 election hijinks, the J-6 op and the House J-6 Committee conjured up to spin it, the present battery of farcical court cases — and yet the Golden Golem of Greatness not only remains defiantly at large, but seems to amass ever more electoral mojo.
The epic failure of these mighty efforts, and the humiliation entailed, has lately driven this vast bureaucratic cabal — collectively styled as “the blob” — to a stage of abject desperation that looks a lot like insanity. They fear for their lives, their fortunes, their chattels, and their families, and they seem ready to wreck the republic to save themselves. They have so far pretty much wrecked American justice with their lawfare tactics — a degenerate campaign to use the vested authority of prosecutors and judges to twist and cheat the law at the cost of the law’s legitimacy. Merrick Garland, Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord, Lisa Monaco, Marc Elias, Christopher Wray, Letitia James, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg have made law the enemy of the people.
All this becomes more obvious each day, for instance events of the past week in Judge Aileen Cannon’s federal courtroom in Florida where the Mar-a-Lago documents case proceeds. Turns out that Special Counsel Jack Smith has deliberately messed with the evidence, which is patently felonious. Also, turns out that sometime between the “Joe Biden” inauguration and the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in August, 2022, boxes of presidential documents stored by the US General Services Administration were “delivered” to Mr. Trump’s mansion without any proper accounting for what might have been in them. A set-up you suppose? Why not? After everything else the FBI and the DOJ have attempted since 2015?
Christopher Wray in particular might have wanted some surefire probable cause to get his agents into Mar-a-Lago where, rumor has it, Mr. Trump kept his own dossier of evidence against the FBI and DOJ officials who concocted the “Crossfire Hurricane” chapter of RussiaGate. Even if you assume that Mr. Trump had multiple copies of the thing, FBI Director Wray — in position since 2017 throughout most of RussiaGate — surely wanted to see what Mr. Trump was holding if it would become necessary for current and former FBI / DOJ officials to defend themselves in court against very serious charges.
You see the desperation, don’t you? And how stupendously amateurish these machinations have been? Planting evidence and then fiddling around with it? I’m waiting for the moment when Judge Cannon summons Jack Smith and announces to his face that she is tossing the case for prosecutorial misconduct. Will she add a criminal referral to that? How will that affect the other case (attempting to overturn the 2020 election) brought against Mr. Trump in Judge Tanya Chutkan’s DC federal district court? Who will prosecute it if Jack Smith can no longer function as Special Counsel? And since the case was contrived in his name — even if Eisen, McCord, Weissmann, and others are really the authors — does that case blow up, too?
Letitia James’s real estate case under Judge Arthur Engoron was so idiotic it can’t possibly survive an ultimate appeal, and the Alvin Bragg confection under Judge Merchan is playing out like something that usually only happens in places like Honduras or Liberia. Yet the American Left, the “progressive” Democratic Party, is staking everything on it. It’s all they have left Lawfare-wise, at least for now. Which brings us to the question: Why do the non-governmental elites of this land, the managerial and thinking classes, the college presidents, the cable news producers, the corporate execs, the movie directors, the whole arts establishment. . . why do they feel compelled, for nearly a decade now, to hitch their identity and their self-respect to this fantastic train of Kafka-esque corruption, tyranny, and abuse? How did they get owned by the blob?
We may never find out, and they may never know either, even after they snap out of the mass formation they’ve been in thrall to. But they have made themselves ridiculous — figures like Sam Harris, Stephen Colbert, and Rob Reiner — yelling about “saving our democracy” while the blob they worship systematically disassembles the US Constitution, and makes American law a global laughingstock.
Most of my old ex-friends are riding the same ideological bus. You have to wonder: how did the likes of “Joe Biden,” Merrick Garland, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Christopher Wray, Fani Willis, Anthony Fauci, Klaus Schwab, and Bill Gates become their heroes? Did the Covid vaccines destroy their minds? Are they really avid for central bank digital money and surveillance of their every move? Do they want to be told how to live by the WHO? Things are going south fast now in our country. If these people ever cherished the idea of being free to think their own thoughts and live their own lives, it’s getting late in the game. They will end up prisoners of themselves.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/prisoners-of-themselves/
Most secure election in GA's history:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1784985829594546302.html
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