Wednesday, July 27, 2022
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/why-us-roads-became-so-dangerous-and-what-to-do-about-it/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Brian CooleyYour guide to a better future
Cars
Why US Roads Became So Dangerous and What to Do About It
The answers may lie mostly in France, of all places.
Brian Cooley
July 23, 2022 5:00 a.m. PT
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Thanks in large part to in-car safety tech like airbags, antilock brakes, stability control and, more recently, automatic emergency braking, US traffic fatalities have generally been on a long decline since 1970. The 52,000 such deaths recorded 52 years ago shrank to 36,000 in 2019 even as the US population and vehicle miles driven both increased dramatically. But 2020 and 2021 saw the biggest spike in over 50 years to a total of almost 43,000 per year, turning the roadway fatality clock back to 2002. In short, something’s not working as well as it did.
“We need regulations related to vehicle design and street design,” says Yonah Freemark, senior research associate at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit think tank focused on urban mobility and equity. “Those two play a really important role in how likely people are to get killed in streets, especially pedestrians (and cyclists) that are struck by cars.”
Speed is a major factor in nearly a third of all roadway deaths. A solution that would likely raise the hackles of most US drivers is the increased use of still-rare automatic speed cameras that issue tickets autonomously and create an enforcement presence that no number of human officers can hope to replicate. But US drivers have been sufficiently vocal in their opposition to such enforcement tech that there are studies looking at the numerous cities that have removed their similar red-light cameras.
UK speed cameras above four lanes of traffic
Speed cameras are common in several countries outside the US, often using technology that calculates average speed of a given vehicle based on the time stamps when it passes two or more placeson the roadway.
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Here’s an idea — speed bumps (i.e., sleeping policemen). Of course, that is unacceptable because the Gooferment doesn’t make any money out of them.
Why not?
Argh!
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022
https://www.allsides.com/story/scrutiny-secret-service-builds-over-lost-jan-6-texts?utm_source=AllSides+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=39b675b1fa-Balanced+News+Today&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b086ce741-39b675b1fa-128466237
Scrutiny of Secret Service Builds Over Lost Jan. 6 Texts
The Secret Service is being pressed about missing text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021. The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general gave the Secret Service a deadline of Tuesday to review the text messages of 24 specific employees for material relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — a request that turned up only one new text conversation. The Secret Service says that the majority of the texts in question were deleted as part of a pre-planned “device-replacement program” at the agency. The deletion reportedly came after the IG had requested electronic communications records…
See coverage from The Hill, National Review, and Salo.
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Convent how the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats don’t have to follow their own laws and regulations.
Now tell me that their carrier (AT&T, Verizon, somebody) doesn’t have copies of those texts?
I thing their Head IT honcho should be immediately fired.
Argh!
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Monday, July 25, 2022
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/07/19/who-knew-that-the-public-readiness-and-emergency-preparedness-protects-a-right-to-abortion/
Who Knew That The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Protects A Right To Abortion?
The Biden Administration is about to walk into another eviction moratorium debacle.
Josh Blackman | 7.19.2022 11:15 PM
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Politico reports that the Biden Administration has potentially settled on an executive-action response to Dobbs:
White House officials plotting the administration’s post-Roe response are weighing a narrow public health directive aimed at safeguarding nationwide access to abortion pills, three people familiar with the discussions told POLITICO.
The Biden team has zeroed in on that authority in recent days. They consider it the most feasible of the White House’s limited options for protecting abortion rights, and have concluded that it could have the most immediate on-the-ground impact while also quelling Democrats’ demands for stronger action. . . .
The proposal would rely on powers under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act reserved for public health emergencies to shield doctors, pharmacies and others from liability for providing abortion pills to people across the country — even those who live in states that have outlawed or severely restricted the procedure. .
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Seems like this is a transparent attempt to circumvent overturn of Roe by executive diktat.
I would assume that SCOTUS would quickly take cases to set things straight.
And Red-State governors would “nullify” the Federal diktats.
Sigh!
Not like we have an real problems to work on like inflation and the backfiring of Russian sanctions.
Argh!
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Sunday, July 24, 2022
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/australia-car-flood-escape-safety/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Australia Wants to Make Your Car Easier to Escape in a Flood
Steven Ewing
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What’s happening
The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) will implement new safety regulations making cars easier to escape in a flood.
Why it matters
The rules would require a car’s power windows to remain operational for 10 minutes after going under water, making it easier for occupants to escape or rescue workers to get in.
What’s next
ANCAP’s new rules go into effect in 2023.
There’s a pretty simple rule of thumb to follow when it comes to driving in floods: If the water looks too deep, it is too deep.
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The Australian Gooferment want to make cars escapable. Doesn’t everyone have one of those windshield breakers on their car key reing? I give them to all new drivers and have them on my ring!
Depending upon the Gooferment for anything is foolish.
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Five bucks!
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Saturday, July 23, 2022
https://lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com/2022/07/goose-patrol-lavallette-considering-options-to-accommodate-mans-best-friend/
Goose Patrol: Lavallette Considering Options to Accommodate Man’s Best Friend
by Daniel Nee
July 19, 2022
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For years, Lavallette was able to solve two community demands with one unique program. At long last, after years of dealing with bird droppings covering the borough’s ball fields, officials implemented a new system that would naturally shoo away the invaders while also providing an opportunity for local dogs (with responsible owners) to stretch their legs with a place to run.
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First world problem.
Now let’s hire more bureaucrats to “regulate” the use?
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Friday, July 22, 2022
https://www.ft.com/content/db0a2535-7292-4c84-9015-0d9c4af67713?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9
Opinion The FT View
US recession is a smaller danger than long-term inflation
The Fed needs to hold its nerve on tightening further
The editorial board
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Investors have spent much of this week puzzling over what this all means — edging up predictions for the future path of interest rates and for the chances of recession. But there is good news in some of it — it is hard to read the markets’ responses as indicating that investors think this ultra-high inflation is now a permanent feature of American life. The Fed has credibility. But it still needs to tighten further to justify that faith.
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I respectfully disagree.
The current 30T$+ national debt and the guesstimated 226T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with is inescapable.
The Russian “sanctions” over Ukraine have put the USA on a collision course to crush the U$D. (The fact that it’s the cleanest dirty shirt in the laundry is little comfort.)
For decades, responsible people have been pointing out that empires fall when their currency is debased. Why should the USA be any different?
We have kicked the can down the road and we can see the end of the road.
End the FED and return to sound money.
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Thursday, July 21, 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11019271/New-film-relative-Mafia-boss-sheds-fresh-light-Presidents-assassination-60-years-on.html
The most convincing account yet of how – and why – the Mob killed JFK: New film by relative of Mafia boss sheds fresh light on the President’s assassination nearly 60 years on
- Mafia boss Sam Giancana controlled a criminal empire stretching across the US
- His great nephew Nicholas Celozzi reveals all in his new film, titled 2 Days/1963
- The JFK operation included two assassins Johnny Roselli and Charles Nicoletti
By Tom Leonard In New York For The Daily Mail
Published: 19:31 EDT, 15 July 2022 | Updated: 19:36 EDT, 15 July 2022
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Nah, I think the CIA and LBJ did it.
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But while it’s hard to actually imagine any part of the U.S. establishment — even the spooks — executing a President, the Mafia sounds entirely feasible.
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This is just naïve. The DEEP STATE has long had it’s own agenda and the power to do it.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-07-17-colorado-man-covid-jab-emergency-surgery-multiple-blood-clots.html
Young Colorado man reluctantly took covid jab to travel and had to undergo emergency surgery, after multiple blood clots formed in his leg
Sunday, July 17, 2022 by: Lance D Johnson
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Morticians sound the alarm on fully-vaccinated corpses presenting “suspicious clots” during embalming
A brave Alabama mortician named Richard Hirschman went public in a February 2022 interview about the large blood clots that were coming out of the fully-vaccinated deceased after they are embalmed. He reports that a new type of “white fibrous material” is coming out of the arteries of the dead bodies. This material does not present as a normal blood clot.
In January of 2022, Hirschman found these “suspicious clots” in 37 of the 57 embalming jobs he conducted. He said he knew of fifteen other morticians who were finding the same strange clots, but were afraid to report on it. His reports are corroborated by other morticians, including Mr. Cary Watkins of Alabama, Ms. Anna Foster of Missouri, and other anonymous morticians who have since come to the independent media to speak out.
Over the same time period, a British mortician named John O’Looney reported a “500-600% increase” in death for people below age thirty, and he said that nearly all the deaths are caused by these strange new blood clots. These blood clots are predominantly occurring in fully-vaccinated individuals who were told that their lives could go back to normal if they just complied.
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If the Gooferment FDA and CDC weren’t captured by Big Pharma maybe someone could investigate these claims.
#endthecdc #endthefda #breakupBigPharma
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Our Pharmaceutical-medical monopoly must keep the origin of disease muddled. They have withheld effective prevention and safe healing practices for at least 100 years to maintain their stratospheric wealth and key position in a dark global agenda.
Source: Fauci’s Fiasco Betrays Phake Pharma and Phrauds to Come
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Wonder why the AMA, FDA and CDC warned against ivermectin and HCQ treatments for covid 19, or their dismissal of Vitamin D, Vitamin C infusions, hyperbaric oxygen, and even NAC, H2O2, and mineral supplements? It’s their pattern of deception going back generations! It is because they know these inexpensive substances actually work to treat and prevent. Doctors are not completely to blame, being steeped in “The Science” at pharmaceutically phunded colleges. Patients are not completely to blame either, since accurate prevention information was and is hidden by the system.
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Follow the money. Think about Nuremberg-like trials of all these thieves and murderers.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/central-bank-digital-currencies-are-coming-what-will-consequences-be
Central Bank Digital Currencies Are Coming – What Will The Consequences Be?
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Jul 15, 2022 – 04:20 PM
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Currencies are the lifeblood of trade and the economy; if a currency fails, the entire economy fails. Yet, most people rarely think about the health or buying power of the money in their pocket. People don’t research how often currencies actually falter and how common it is for inflation or stagflation to strike nations. They just assume that the money they have will be as useful tomorrow as it is today. They also assume that money will never change in a dramatic way.
This lack of interest in how money works is likely due to the fact that people are not taught how their money is created. It’s not discussed in schools, the truth is avoided in colleges and the mainstream news rarely mentions it. People think our government and treasury handles all of that, but the reality is that our government does NOT create our money; at least, it’s not in charge of the process. Central bankers are, and they operate from a “quasi-independent” position.
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The public would never readily accept CBDCs as money unless their existing money lost most of its buying power and the current system was in the gutter. This is how new levels of empire are born; a major crisis allows for the elites to consolidate control while the people are distracted by their own private disasters. The big picture is changed while each person is terrified by their own small picture calamity.
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The Gooferment’s digital currency can be switched off from HeadQuarters and then all the little people are screwed!
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022
ZeroHedge – On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
— Read on www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/america-just-bailed-out-bunch-pensions-taxpayers-expense
Pensions are a Ponzi scheme.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022
[Josh Blackman] The Good Samaritan With A Gun In Indiana Serves To Refute Four Common Gun Control Myths https://reason.com/volokh/2022/07/19/the-good-samaritan-with-a-gun-in-indiana-serves-to-refute-four-common-gun-control-myths/
A great argument FOR Constitutional Carry!
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11015383/Secret-Service-DELETED-texts-Jan-5-Jan-6-Homeland-Securitys-Inspector-General-reveals.html
Secret Service DELETED texts from Jan 5 and Jan 6, Homeland Security’s Inspector General reveals amid its internal probe
- The DHS watchdog sent a letter to the Homeland Security committees in the House and the Senate on Wednesday
- ‘Many’ text messages between the US Secret Service were deleted after the watchdog made a request for electronic communications, the letter states
- The Homeland Security Inspector General requested them as part of his office’s investigation into the January 6 attack on the US Capitol
- DHS employees refused to hand over documents until they were reviewed by the department’s lawyers, the inspector general’s office said
- House Homeland Security Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson confirmed to DailyMail.com that his committee would be briefed on the matter
- DailyMail.com has reached out to the Secret Service for comment
By Elizabeth Elkind, Politics Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 16:52 EDT, 14 July 2022 | Updated: 20:09 EDT, 14 July 2022
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‘Many’ US Secret Service text messages written between January 5 and January 6 last year have been deleted, the Homeland Security Inspector General said in a stunning letter on Thursday. The messages were allegedly erased after the inspector general’s office asked the law enforcement office for electronic communications as part of its probe into the US Capitol attack. The letter, first obtained by CNN, is addressed to the top members of the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees. It states that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told its watchdog the messages were deleted ‘as part of a device-replacement program.’ The inspector general also accuses DHS employees of stonewalling requests for information until they were reviewed by the department’s lawyers. ‘This review led to weeks-long delays in [the inspector general’s office] obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced,’ the letter states.
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Isn’t that convenient?
Who is getting charged or fire over the failure to retain Gooferment records?
I’d fire everyone in charge.
But then that’s how it’s done on Wall Street!
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Monday, July 18, 2022
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vz8t4y/its_official_boys_im_a_real_programmer_now/
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r/ProgrammerHumor
•Posted by
u/nosam56
3 hours ago
Bravo!Press FHelpful3WholesomeSilver3Narwhal Salute
It’s official boys, I’m a real programmer now
Just accidentally deleted every single entry in our production database. At 4:50pm. And i fucked up the backup, so we have to wait till tomorrow for someone to do a system restore.
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I just thought this was hilarious!
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Sunday, July 17, 2022
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/07/11/bidens-dubious-tale-of-10-year-old-rape-victim-gets-dismantled/
Biden’s Dubious Tale Of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Gets Dismantled
Via ZeroHedge
- Last week President Biden regurgitated a single-sourced claim that a 10-year-old girl was raped and forced to cross state lines to get an abortion.
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Kessler notes what journalist Megan Fox pointed out days ago – that “Under Ohio law, a physician, as a mandated reporter under Ohio Revised Code 2151.421, would be required to report any case of known or suspected physical, sexual or emotional abuse or neglect of a child.”
“As a spot check, we contacted child services agencies in some of Ohio’s most populous cities, including Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo. None of the officials we reached were aware of such a case in their areas.”
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There is no honesty left in the USA political scene.
At the very least, there’s something for Congress, Illinois bureaucrats, and Oho bureaucrats to investigate!
If true, it’s horrible. If not, it’s a criminal fraud upon “We, The Sheeple”
Shame on all involved.
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Now it comes out that it happened but no one reported it.
Doctors should lose their licenses. Someone should go to jail for doing the act.
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Saturday, July 16, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/07/13/dad-abandons-son-5-at-school-after-discovering-hes-not-his-father/
Living
Dad abandons son, 5, at school after discovering he’s not his father
By Emily Lefroy
July 13, 2022 1:23pm Updated
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A man in China reportedly refused to care for his son after discovering he’s not actually his biological offspring — and left him at preschool.
The 5-year-old, who is being identified under the pseudonym “Xiao Rui,” was abandoned last week by his father, who dropped him off for school per usual but failed to return to collect him in the evening, according to local reports.
Xiao had a backpack with him containing only a change of clothes and a mobile phone, reported the Jiangxi Morning Daily via the South China Morning Post.
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I always thought that Chinese society was more … … humane than this example.
I hope that the folks around Mom and Dad “instruct” them in the errors of their ways (i.e., ostracism; throw excrement on them).
If no one wants him, I’d take him.
Makes me sad.
Maybe the South China Morning Post should publish the parent’s pictures!
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Friday, July 15, 2022
President Joe Biden greeted Mohammed bin Salman with an awkward fist bump as he arrived at the Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
— Read on www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/15/joe-biden-greets-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-awkward-fist-bump/
Hmmm kash ho gee who?
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Friday, July 15, 2022
https://www.unz.com/runz/a-thousand-times-greater-than-the-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster/
A Thousand Times Greater Than the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Ron Unz • July 11, 2022
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University ranks as a pillar of the mainstream establishment and served as chairman of the influential Covid commission established by the Lancet, a leading medical journal. In May, he broke his silence and co-authored an article in the prestigious Proceedings of the American Academy of Sciences making the case that the virus was clearly artificial and calling for an independent investigation into its possible American origin.
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The absolutely unmentionable subtext of the current discussion is the obvious possibility that the Covid virus was created in an American lab and then deliberately deployed against China and Iran just as the Iranian government had claimed at the time, eventually leaking back and devastating America and the rest of the West.
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One can never discount the perfidy of the Gooferment. Any Gooferment!
One might guess that China released it in China and Iran to “attack” the USA. That is a “false flag”.
You can NEVER assume that anything is the truth.
So perhaps this will never move from the state of “possible”.
Sigh!
Trust no one; verify everything.
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Thursday, July 14, 2022
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/the-paperclip-was-used-as-a-symbol-of-resistance-during-world-war-ii/
The Paperclip Was Used As a Symbol of Resistance During World War II
September 9, 2013 Emily Upton
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- The Norwegians found other ways to resist the Nazis, too. 12,000 of the teachers who were told to teach Nazism went on strike. 1000 of them were deported and sent to prison camps immediately, but after six months the remaining educators hadn’t relented, and the Nazis gave it up as a lost cause—having teachers out of the classroom was more detrimental to the war effort than having them in classrooms, but not teaching Nazi party ideals.
- Similarly, the churches that were told to teach “obedience to the leader and the state” found themselves in desperate need of people to lead church services. Every bishop in Norway resigned, along with 90% of the clergy. The humiliated German soldiers were forced to rescind the doctrine—another win for Norway.
- Meanwhile, the general public of Norway were waging a silent war of their own. In addition to donning paperclips, they made life difficult for the German soldiers in various subtle ways. Many of them refused to speak German, even though it was a widely known language at the time, and would point the soldiers in the wrong direction when telling them how to get from point A to point B. They refused to sit beside German soldiers when they rode on public transportation—an act of defiance that enraged the Germans so much that they made it illegal to stand on the bus if there were seats open.
- An illegal press was established in order to keep everyone informed after the Nazis attempted to cut Norway off from the BBC. When the German military began to conscript young men into the army, thousands fled to neighbouring Sweden to escape service. The Germans promptly withheld ration cards from those who didn’t sign up—at which point the resistance stole some 150,000 ration cards, and the military was forced to stop their efforts on that front.
- As for the Norwegian Jews, although 700 were shipped to Auschwitz, the remainder—1000 or more—were smuggled into Sweden by the resistance, which was no small accomplishment.
- Germany occupied Norway until the end of the war. Around 40,000 Norwegians were imprisoned during the interim, and over 10,000 lost their lives. Another 40,000 or so had escaped to Sweden and slowly began returning home when the Germans began to leave.
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I would hope that “We, The Sheeple” would be as brave and corageous in resisting the tyranny of the Federal Gooferment
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022
I think that if we are to have a draft law standing by, then the draft age should be the age for everything.
As a little L libertarian, I wonder if people will realize the contradiction of the draft and slavery?
Argh!
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022
When people fear that the police are about to break the law, they pull out their phones and hit “record.” Doing so promotes police accountability and public discussion of important issues. So, it is great news that yet another federal appellate court has ruled that people have a First Amendment right to record on-duty police.
Source: Victory! Another Court Protects the Right to Record Police
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Police need to be held accountable when needed!
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022
https://www.facebook.com/phil.magness/posts/pfbid02GgNJtrUQ41cN6jNfcCWvkbD7LnkETsfAyqYWeaKauJ2mpGuN4e6ReuhCZvrYpDAAl
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Phil Magness writes sensibly on his Facebook page:
I was never a fan of Abenomics for reasons that are probably not hard to deduce. That said, it’s useful to contrast NPR’s depiction of Shinzo Abe’s legacy in their assassination coverage (“divisive,” “ultranationalist”) with NPR’s generally reverential obituary for Fidel Castro, which buried any hint that he was a mass-murdering Marxist autocrat to the bottom of the article and even cast it as a “debated” part of his legacy.
It’s long past time to cut off any and all tax dollars from this dumpster fire of a news outlet.
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And while we are at it, PBS and all government media operations and support!
Argh!
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Monday, July 11, 2022
https://lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com/2022/07/toms-river-police-recount-violence-shocking-disrespect-from-teens-during-holiday-incidents/
Ortley Beach & North Beaches
Toms River Police Recount Violence, Shocking Disrespect From Teens During Holiday Incidents
by Daniel Nee July 8, 2022
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Toms River police released details of two incidents over the recent Independence Day holiday period that recounted a violent mob scene playing out in Ortley Beach, with hundreds of teenagers – many intoxicated – openly taunting police officers and, at times, resorting to violence.
Over the past year, state policies on police interactions with juveniles have come under the microscope, with concerns raised over directives which bar officers from speaking with, arresting or notifying parents about illegal activities in certain circumstances. Under social justice legislation adopted over the past two years, officers could be charged with civil rights offenses if they violate the policies. The recent incidents in Ortley Beach strongly indicate that teens have caught on, challenging officers and ultimately throwing rocks at them.
Most teens in the area for the holiday weekend were “frequenting local businesses and engaging in lawful activities,” said police spokeswoman Jillian Messina, but two incidents – recounted below by police in a statement issued Friday – generated a significant police response.
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This is the complete breakdown of society.
All caused by that “trophy for everyone” mentality and “juveniles aren’t responsible for their actions”!
Time to lower the boom on the miscreants.
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Sunday, July 10, 2022
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/internet-archive-seeks-summary-judgment-federal-lawsuit-filed-publishing-companies
Internet Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending Program Is Lawful Fair Use That Preserves Traditional Library Lending in the Digital World
Press Release
July 8, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO—The Internet Archive has asked a federal judge to rule in its favor and end a radical lawsuit, filed by four major publishing companies, that aims to criminalize library lending.
The Internet Archive, headquartered in San Francisco, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit library which preserves and provides access to cultural artifacts of all kinds in electronic form. The motion for summary judgment, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Durie Tangri LLP, explains that the Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program is a lawful fair use that preserves traditional library lending in the digital world.
The brief explains how the Internet Archive is advancing the purposes of copyright law by furthering public access to knowledge and facilitating the creation of new creative and scholarly works. The Internet Archive’s digital lending hasn’t cost the publishers one penny in revenues; in fact, concrete evidence shows that the Archive’s digital lending does not and will not harm the market for books.
“Should we stop libraries from owning and lending books? No,” said Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive’s founder and digital librarian. “We need libraries to be independent and strong, now more than ever, in a time of misinformation and challenges to democracy. That’s why we are defending the rights of libraries to serve our patrons where they are, online.”
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When do we put a stop to BIG X (Pharma, Auto, Government, Medicine, etc.), in this case Big Publishing, from trying to monopolize everything?
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Saturday, July 9, 2022
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/07/report-joe-biden-sold-nearly-one-million-barrels-from-u-s-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-ccp-owned-oil-company-linked-to-hunter-biden-firm/
Report: Joe Biden Sold Nearly One Million Barrels from U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to CCP-Owned Oil Company Linked to Hunter Biden Firm
Jordan Dixon-Hamilton 7 Jul 2022 3:25
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President Joe Biden’s administration sold 950,000 barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese state-owned gas company that has financial ties to a private equity firm cofounded by Hunter Biden, according to a Washington Free Beacon report.
In April, Biden’s Department of Energy announced the nearly one million barrel sale to Unipec, which is the trading arm of Sinopec. Sinopec is wholly owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party.
Unipec reportedly purchases oil across the globe and then apparently sells it through its Sinopec Marketing subsidiary.
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If true, I guess we’ll never hear about this?
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Friday, July 8, 2022
https://www.cnet.com/science/biology/features/chasing-ghosts-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-human-hibernation/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Chasing Ghosts: Unlocking the Mysteries of Human Hibernation
A multiyear search attempts to explain one of the most extreme, and baffling, cases of human survival.
Jackson Ryan
July 5 2022 at 5:00 a.m. PT
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Mount Rokkō towers over the Japanese city of Kobe, a landscape of rolling hills complete with hiking trails and an unparalleled view of Osaka Bay. Every year, the 3,000-foot-high peak becomes awash with the red, yellow and orange leaves of fall, making it a popular destination for barbecues and youthful revelry.
In October 2006, Rokkō provided the perfect place for Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, a 35-year-old civil servant, to go picnicking with a group of friends. After a day spent sharing food and stories near the peak, Uchikoshi’s friends decided to take the cable car back to Rokkō’s base and head home. Uchikoshi chose to hike down one of the mountain paths alone.
Then he disappeared.
On his way down, Uchikoshi lost his footing, causing him to slip, knock his head and break his pelvis. Unable to move or call for help, he lay wounded on the side of the mountain. At night the autumn cold, dropping as low as 50 degrees Fahrenheit, crept into his bones. He passed out.
After 24 days, he was found by a passing climber and transferred to Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital. He was extremely hypothermic and cold to the touch. Many of his organs were failing. According to news reports at the time, Uchikoshi’s doctors reasoned he had fallen into a state “similar to hibernation,” just like a groundhog might.
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Uchikoshi’s hibernation had become a holy grail, but it seemed like he’d become a ghost. Chasing that ghost first led me to zombies.
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Fascinating article about what might be possible.
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