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Watch “Light in the Darkness Episode 2: Ethos and Pathos” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on May 25, 2020

Good discussion in this time of fear mongering. Picking the fly s**t out of the pepper as former co-worker Rocky liked to say.

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State Superintendent meets with CDC to discuss guidelines on going back to school in the fall | KFOR.com

Posted by M. C. on May 25, 2020

CDC begins home schooling advocacy program.

Insanity

https://kfor.com/health/coronavirus/state-superintendent-meets-with-cdc-to-discuss-guidelines-on-going-back-to-school-in-the-fall/

by:

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) –Oklahoma State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister met with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday afternoon to discuss the guidelines they released for going back to school in the fall.

“We are working to have a state level plan for the reopening of schools,” Hofmeister said.

The main point Hofmeister said she learned from the CDC was context.

“The most important thing is to think about safeguard snaps as layers or important ingredients that work together,” she said.

Hofmeister added that what some districts adopt may be different than others, citing things like resources and school population as reasons for schools implementing what guidelines work best for them.

The CDC’s guidelines read as follows:

◦ Wear masks over the age of 2

◦ No sharing of any items or supplies, all belongings in individual cubbies or labeled containers; no sharing electronic devices, toys, games, learning aids

◦ Desks 6 feet apart, all facing the same way

◦ Distance on school buses- one child per seat, skip rows

◦ Install sneeze guards and partitions wherever you cannot space 6ft apart

◦ One way routes in hallways; tape on sidewalks and walls to assure kids stay 6ft apart

◦ No communal shared spaces – cafeterias, playgrounds

◦ Physical barriers or screens between sinks in bathrooms

◦ Only pre-packages boxes or bags of food instead of cafeteria food; kids eat in classrooms

◦ No field trips, assemblies, or external organizations in the schools. Limit volunteers and visitors.

◦ Same children stay with same staff all day, no switching groups or teachers.

◦ Stagger arrival and departure times for students to limit exposure to crowds of kids.

◦ If possible, daily health and temperature checks.

◦ And several rules about cleaning and disinfecting throughout the day and hand washing frequently.

“All of this has to work in context, and it’s important that stakeholders give their feedback and share what their comfort level is,” Hofmeister said.

Those stakeholders, or parents, have already started chiming in.

“I think they are extremely strict,” said Cara O’Daniel, a woman whose children go to Edmond Public Schools. “Especially for somewhere here in Oklahoma, a lot of ways they are not feasible.”

“I think they’re a little extreme,” said Beth Gentry, a woman whose children go to Oklahoma City Public Schools. “When my 11-year-old and I were talking this morning, I was reading them with her, and she was like, ‘We’re going to be like mice in cages.’”

While both O’Daniel and Gentry agreed that the guidelines are strict, they had differing opinions on whether the children should be going back to school in August. Gentry said she was ready for her kids to go back. O’Daniel was a little more hesitant. She said she wanted to wait for Edmond Public Schools to make a decision on the guidelines being implemented, then she would make a decision if she want to enroll her kids there again.

Oklahoma City Public Schools also released a statement that reads as follows:

“Although we are not sure what it will look like just yet, OKCPS does plan to begin school on August 10th. District teams are closely monitoring the guidelines being shared by local, state and federal officials as we work with other districts across the country to prepare for a number of back-to-school scenarios, including in-person, virtual and blended learning solutions. As circumstances shift in the coming weeks, OKCPS will continue to be nimble while always keeping safety at the forefront. Although it’s especially hard to do in these times of uncertainty, we encourage our students, staff and families to please remain patient. District leaders are hard at work and will share more information as soon as it is available.”

Oklahoma City Public Schools

Hofmeister said she hopes schools will find ways to implement these guidelines over the summer break.

“This is about a culture of thinking of others and thinking how to protect others and yourself,” she said.

Continued Coronavirus Coverage

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Will ‘Consent’ Prevent the Normalisation of Pedophilia? – Aussie Nationalist Blog

Posted by M. C. on May 25, 2020

Which is worse-the concept of drag queen story time or parents that allow their children to be exposed?

https://aussienationalistblog.com/2020/05/26/will-consent-doom-the-normalisation-of-pedophilia/

Drag Queen Storytime may be a key step towards the normalisation of pedophilia

I received an interesting critical comment on my last post, ‘WHO Advances the Pedophile Agenda’:

There’s never going to be normalisation of non-consenting relationships.

This individual is not alone: as of 26 May 2020, most leftists probably object to pedophilia on the ground of consent. More or less, their reasoning (if pressed) would go along the following lines:

Two consenting adults can do as they please in the privacy of their own bedroom. But children under the age of 16 or 18 are too young and cannot provide consent. Therefore, sex with underage children should remain illegal and unacceptable.

We on the right, however, should not place any real trust in those who only postulate a ‘consent’ objection to pedophilia. This is because left-wing opposition to pedophilia is more a matter of them being insufficiently warmed up to the prospect; rather than ‘consent’ serving as the immovable foundation of progressive morality and permanently preventing its acceptance.

Children are being sexualised irrespective of consent

Plenty has been said about Drag Queen Storytime; and the recent guidelines of WHO, which recommended that children aged between 0 and 4 be instructed on masturbation.

These developments, beyond a shadow of doubt, aim to sexualise children as soon as they are able to venture from the cradle. Obviously, such children are incapable of consenting to their sexualisation in any meaningful way.

But has this problem of consent posed any bar to Drag Queen Storytime? No, as prior to coronavirus, these events were hosted with ease worldwide.

And have progressives criticised the clear lack of consent involved in these trends? No, not even one.

Promises made by leftists are worthless

Let us revisit that critical comment, “There’s never going to be normalisation of non-consenting relationships.” It is not that acceptance of pedophilia is unlikely or unforeseeable; “never” is the claim being made. Which is, frankly, an assertion that cannot reasonably be accepted.

How many times have we heard assurances that left-wing political ambitions only go this far, only to later find out they go much further? Some issues which reveal the hollow nature of their promises include:

1. Demographic change:

Progressives have had the gall, for years, to insist the ‘Great Replacement’ is a conspiracy theory. Moreover, the marchers at the 2017 Charlottesville rally were universally decried for chanting “You will not replace us!”

But year after year, millions of immigrants from the Global South pour into Western countries; all while the West has a below-replacement birth rate. What is a conclusion of simple arithmetic, the left has vociferously and consistently denied.

And yet there are moments, when they feel emboldened enough, in which progressives openly admit that yes, they absolutely intend on outnumbering and displacing white people.

In reference to the rising tide of non-white voters that threatened to install a Democratic Governor in deep-red Georgia, Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times declared:

In a week, American voters can do to white nationalists what they fear most. Show them they’re being replaced.

2. Gay marriage:

When Australians were being persuaded prior to the 2017 Plebiscite on gay marriage, any concerns over a ‘slippery slope’ were hastily denounced, the ABC describing it as one of “the five worst arguments for voting No.”

Yet the slippery slope, for reasons previously expounded on, is a very real phenomenon. Drag Queen Storytime has proceeded from the legalisation of gay marriage, despite this ghastly trend being scarcely imaginable in 2017.

3. Abortion:

A line used to placate opponents of abortion in the 1990s, was the procedure should be “safe, legal and rare.”

Well, abortion being legal has certainly not made the procedure rare: American women have aborted 50 million fetuses since Roe v Wade; it is estimated that between one quarter and one third of Australian women will have an abortion in their lifetimes.

Whereas abortion was once justified as being a “difficult decision” for women to make, undertaking one is now boasted of and trumpeted as the height of contemporary virtue:

As demonstrated through the above examples, left-wing assurances are nothing more than strategic pretences on the road to advancing their revolutionary agenda. Because of this, their assurances do not warrant any serious consideration.

Nothing limits the logical development of progressivism

It is obviously futile to trust the promises of leftists. But matters seem to go deeper than this, with nothing principally limiting the logical development and application of progressive thought.

Underriding the idea of progress itself, is there being no set limits to what individuals or society can achieve. There is thus no set endpoint to the furtherance of progressive ideas; all we can expect in the future is ceaseless agitation on grounds of equality, acceptance, individual autonomy and social justice. What all of this turbulence will ultimately lead to, no one can fully know.

As Ted Kaczynski wrote in his 1995 manifesto,

Suppose you asked leftists to make a list of ALL the things that were wrong with society, and then suppose you instituted EVERY social change that they demanded. It is safe to say that within a couple of years the majority of leftists would find something new to complain about.

So, suppose it is 2030, and the leftist ‘list’ of things that were wrong with society in 2015 has been completely fulfilled. It would certainly not be far-fetched to imagine their 2030 ‘list’ of matters that required correction, to entail the normalisation of pedophilia.

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10 Best Quotes from “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau | The Daily Bell

Posted by M. C. on May 25, 2020

https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/10-best-quotes-from-henry-david-thoreaus-essay-civil-disobedience/

By Joe Jarvis

Although the essay was written 168 years ago, the subject of Civil Disobedience is more relevant than ever.

As people debate the scope of government power in regards to Covid-19 lockdowns, some are openly defying the law.

Henry David Thoreau believed that it was not only proper but necessary to disobey bad laws.

Civil Disobedience, or Resisting Civil Government as it was originally titled, was published in 1849. Thoreau was 32 years old, living in Massachusetts. At this point, Thoreau had already spent his time at Walden Pond.

Thoreau had also spent a night in jail years earlier after refusing to pay a poll tax, which he discusses in Civil Disobedience. He was actually annoyed when an anonymous person paid his bail because Thoreau saw his time in jail as a worthy sacrifice to protest the injustice of extortion AKA taxes.

Here are the ten best quotes from his 25-page essay.

1.

“I heartily accept the motto, ‘That government is best which governs least:’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,-‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”

This is how Thoreau begins the essay. The point is that government is only required when things need to be forced, and someday, we will live in a world where everything worth being done at all is done voluntarily.

2.

“The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted, before the people can act through it.”

Sometimes people need to get together to make things happen. A government is one way to do that, if you need to build a road, or keep people safe. But sometimes governments also murder millions of people, keep entire segments of the population in slavery, and bring the earth to the brink of nuclear holocaust.

But they do build the roads… Read the rest of this entry »

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Memorial Day Letter to America – Repost — Libertas and Latte

Posted by M. C. on May 25, 2020

Dear USA, Monday is Memorial Day. It is the day we honor our war dead, those warriors who gave what Lincoln called, “the last full measure of devotion.” Enjoy your barbecues, your mattress sales, and your community pool openings, but remember you do so because those honored dead made it possible. Please do not offer […]

via Memorial Day Letter to America – Repost — Libertas and Latte

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“Under the guise of a pandemic, we will create a prison state” the Rockefeller Foundation’s DOCUMENTED plan for martial law… OPERATION LOCKSTEP — Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch

Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2020

David Rockefeller proved there are things worse than COVID.

“A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback” “Under the guise of a pandemic, we will create a prison state” Right from the horse’s mouth. And is it not right now looking just like a police state? Until recently you were not allowed to visit […]

via “Under the guise of a pandemic, we will create a prison state” the Rockefeller Foundation’s DOCUMENTED plan for martial law… OPERATION LOCKSTEP — Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch

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MSM EXPOSED: Independent People Uncover COVID-19 Lies

Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2020

“The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/msm-exposed-independent-people-uncover-covid-19-lies_05232020

Mac Slavo
May 23rd, 2020
SHTFplan.com

You cannot trust the mainstream media, but this isn’t news.  Every day, regular people are using their own cameras and cell phones to document the lies we are being told about COVID-19 designed to manufacture your consent to enslavement. Here are just a few of the lies that have been uncovered.

Jeff Berwick of the Dollar Vigilant YouTube channel questioned the authenticity of a Sky News report claiming the crematoriums in Mexico City “never stop burning.”  Berwick took his camera around to the few open crematoriums and discover that was not just a lie, it was a completely fabricated hoax designed to make the scamdemic appear far more severe than it ever will be.

Additionally, 600 doctors have written a letter to President Donald Trump stating that he’s been given bad advice, and the lockdowns are going to kill many other people in numbers that will far surpass those of this coronavirus.

After David Icke was banned from YouTube for speaking out against the tyranny and power grabs of the elitists and politicians using the scamdemic as an excuse, he did a long interview with London Real on the “Freedom Platform” designed to never be censored.

As those in power continue to lie and attempt to keep us in a constant state of fear, people all over the planet are waking up to what’s actually going on.  This has never been about health.  It’s been a gigantic propagated lie from the beginning and designed that way.

As more and more regular people come out showing proof that the mainstream media is only doling out fear at the commands of the government, more and more people will begin to realize that this is an ongoing attempt to enslave the mind of the public, so a few can rule the many.

The Science of Fear: How The Elitists Use it to Control Us & How to Break Free

Tyrants throughout history have used the same tactics to manufacture consent from the public for their enslavement to the ruling class elitists. This time, it’s not working though. All over the planet, humans are realizing that they don’t have to ruled and enslaved “for their own good.”  All over the planet, humans are figuring out that it’s wrong to have some people control everyone else. It will reach a tipping point, and the elitists pull out all the stops, people are still pushing back.

After Brainwashing People For Decades, MSM and Governments Are Losing Control of People

It’s only a matter of time before people realize a life lived in fear is a waste. It’s only a matter of time before people realize that going to another country and killing for tyrants in suits on command so those tyrants can be wealthy is morally reprehensible. It’s only a matter of time before people realize who politicians, the mainstream media, and the elitists who pull the strings are.  It’s only a matter of time before people realize that they were born free, and no one else has the right to steal the fruits of their labor (even if it’s called “taxation”) and no one else has the right to rule and enslave them (even if it’s called “government”).

“The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

 

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Bankruptcy Tsunami Begins: Thousands Of Default Notices Are “Flying Out The Door” | Zero Hedge

Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2020

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/retailers-reel-commercial-landlords-issue-thousands-default-notices

Two weeks ago, when showing the uncanny correlation between defaults and the unemployment rates, we predicted that the number of Chapter 11 filings that is about to flood the US will be nothing short of biblical.

All that was missing was a catalyst… and according to Bloomberg that catalyst arrived in the past week or so, as retail landlords have been sending out thousands of default notices to tenants, who in turn have experienced a collapse in foot traffic, sales and cash flow due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and are simply unable to pay their debt obligations.

According to Bloomberg, restaurants, department stores, apparel merchants and specialty chains have been receiving notices from landlords – some of whom have gone as long as three months without receiving rent.

“The default letters from landlords are flying out the door,” said Andy Graiser, co-president of commercial real estate company, A&G Real Estate Partners. “It’s creating a real fear in the marketplace.”

Pressure from default notices and follow-up actions like locking up stores or terminating leases was cited in the bankruptcies of Modell’s Sporting Goods and Stage Stores Inc. Many chains stopped paying rent after the pandemic shuttered most U.S. stores, gambling that they could hold on to some cash before landlords demanded payment.

The stakes are enormous, and landlords are suffering, too. An estimated $7.4 billion in rent for April hasn’t been paid, or about 45% of what’s owed, according to a recent analysis by CoStar Group, which also found that just a quarter of of expected rent payments have been received by landlords.

“If the landlords don’t put a pause on their actions, you’re going to see more bankruptcies.”

The question then becomes who will bail out the landlords, and whether their creditors will be just as generous in accepting forbearance.

That said, receipt of a default notice don’t necessarily mean a retailers will get booted anytime soon, especially since there is nobody waiting in line for the real estate: some landlords are merely sending letters to preserve their legal rights while discussing the situation with tenants, and to assure their spot as a prepetition creditor once the default tsunami begins in earnest.

One such company, Simon Property Group Inc., says it’s in active negotiations with merchants at its malls, and has been taking their tenants’ financial status into account. “The bottom line is, we do have a contract and we do expect to get paid,” said CEO David Simon during the company’s May 11 earnings call.

“The landlords do have the legal contract,” said Green Street Advisors senior analyst, Vince Tibone. “However, from a practicality standpoint, a lot of these retailers are on the brink of bankruptcy and simply cannot pay right now.”

However, as noted above, landlords are of course still stuck with their own bills – including bank debts which they’re expected to pay. On Thursday we reported that US malls are in a crisis which started in January as vacancies hit a record high.

And earlier Friday we reported that US retailers have accounted for the bulk of defaults over the past two months, as they were forced to temporarily close stores in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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EconomicPolicyJournal.com: China’s Crypto Is All About Tracing — and Power

Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2020

It is known that the Federal Reserve is quietly working in the
background on an eFed digital coin. This coin must be aggressively
fought and not allowed to be introduced.

The introduction of a government-controlled digital currency would be a
very immediate danger to liberty and only grow over time.

https://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2020/05/chinas-crypto-is-all-about-tracing-and.html

This is very disturbing.

Bloomberg reports:

The coronavirus has disrupted the world in very large ways. While that battle has been waged, however, another event has almost been missed: the birth of a new kind of fiat currency, which could forever reshape the relationship between money, economic power and geopolitical clout.

An official Chinese digital yuan, more than five years in the making, is now in pilot runs to slowly start replacing the physical legal tender. If the experiment succeeds, this new cash, valued the same as the familiar banknotes bearing Mao Zedong’s image, will become the world’s first sovereign token to reside exclusively in the ether…

According to media reports, half the May transport subsidy for Suzhou municipal employees will be in the form of digital currency electronic payment, or DCEP, as it’s being called in the absence of a catchier moniker. The pilot plan in Xiong’an, a satellite city of Beijing, includes coffee shops, fast food, retailers, theaters and bookstores, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has noted. The other trials are reserved for Chengdu and Shenzhen… the anonymity of cash will no longer exist. Authorities can look under the hood of pseudonymous transactions for unwanted activity, an outcome far removed from the vision that drove libertarians (and money launderers) to cryptocurrencies in the first place.

I early on warned of the dangers of digital currencies and how highly traceable they were, so although some libertarians have cheered on digital currencies not all have and it is an error to not make that distinction clear. There is nothing inherently libertarian about digital currencies.

But more significant, I don’t believe most understand the biggest danger of such currencies. While tracing transactions that are made is horrific, if a country adopts an all-digital currency format it will mean the government can censor any book, any magazine or any other good it wants since it will have near real-time information on who might be violating such a ban.

It is known that the Federal Reserve is quietly working in the background on an eFed digital coin. This coin must be aggressively fought and not allowed to be introduced.

The introduction of a government-controlled digital currency would be a very immediate danger to liberty and only grow over time.

–RW

(ht Chris Barcelo)

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EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Nutjob Fauci Now Says Staying Closed for Too Long Could Cause ‘Irreparable Damage’; Calls for Opening Up the Economy

Posted by M. C. on May 24, 2020

https://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2020/05/nutjob-fauci-now-says-staying-closed.html

I really have no idea why so many people take Tony Fauci seriously.

From the start he has been contradictory in his remarks and distorting facts.

I spotted him as a conman before anyone else.

Here are a couple of my posts from March:

Trump’s COVID-19 Fear Monger May Be Worse Than Trump’s Neocon War Mongers

and

Why is Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Lying to Congress and the American People?

I really think he is mentally ill. He is out of touch with reality but with a smooth personality. You have to look past his personality and at the coprolite he throws.

Now, he is softening on his long-term lockdown advice—but also hedging.

“I don’t want people to think that any of us feel that staying locked down for a prolonged period of time is the way to go,” Fauci said during an interview with CNBC’s Meg Tirrell.

He said the U.S. had to institute severe measures because Covid-19 cases were exploding then. “But now is the time, depending upon where you are and what your situation is, to begin to seriously look at reopening the economy, reopening the country to try to get back to some degree of normal.”

However, Fauci also cautioned states against reducing social distancing measures too quickly, adding they must take “very significant precautions.”

“In general, I think most of the country is doing it in a prudent way,” he said. “There are obviously some situations where people might be jumping over that. I just say please proceed with caution if you’re going to do that.”

The man is a psychopath who wants to give orders and desires attention. His advice is useless to dangerous though he must be easing up on the lockdown demands because he sees he is losing control.

He should be ignored.

The scientists and medical professionals at Stanford University and the University of Pittsburgh are providing sound consistent advice, the lockdown is counterproductive and no one needs to take  “very significant precautions” other than the elderly with serious other illnesses.

Fauci should be delegated to changing bedpans in a VA nursing home—while practicing social distancing.

–RW

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