Many are suggesting that President Trump is NOT the chief law enforcement officer of the USA. Here is an example:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/post-impeachment-trump-declares-himself-the-chief-law-enforcement-officer-of-america/2020/02/18/b8ff49c0-5290-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html
CONSTITUTIONALLY, HE IS !!!
US Constitution, Article II, Section 3
... he [the President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed ...
That's good enough for me.
By the way, the word "faithfully" appears only twice in the US Constitution, and in both instances it refers to the President.
It would be nice if the swine in the US Congress and judiciary would start to take their oaths of office seriously.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Modern Serfdom
Here are some observations by Michael Krieger:
So you see, debt’s not just a means to subjugate a desperate bottom half of the population, it’s concurrently an effective tool to expand wealth and power at the top.
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
You can read the rest @
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2020/02/18/financial-feudalism/
I doubt there are many people who think the current US economic system is fair or equitable. It should be easy to see why those at the top prefer a Mike Bloomberg to a Bernie Sanders or to someone with Trump's early desire to "drain the swamp". They have no intention of sharing the wealth they havestolen from us earned fair and square.
So you see, debt’s not just a means to subjugate a desperate bottom half of the population, it’s concurrently an effective tool to expand wealth and power at the top.
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
You can read the rest @
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2020/02/18/financial-feudalism/
I doubt there are many people who think the current US economic system is fair or equitable. It should be easy to see why those at the top prefer a Mike Bloomberg to a Bernie Sanders or to someone with Trump's early desire to "drain the swamp". They have no intention of sharing the wealth they have
COVID-19 Is Very Transmissible
According to a new study, COVID-19's human-to-human transmissibility is 20 times greater than SARS:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3051124/coronavirus-20-times-more-likely-sars-bind-human-cells-study
And we're supposed to believe this WASN'T created in a lab?
By the way, how did UT Austin get the data for this study? The MSM keeps telling us the Chinese aren't sharing. Perhaps it came from one of the people evacuated to the US and housed in an experimental quarantine facility.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3051124/coronavirus-20-times-more-likely-sars-bind-human-cells-study
And we're supposed to believe this WASN'T created in a lab?
By the way, how did UT Austin get the data for this study? The MSM keeps telling us the Chinese aren't sharing. Perhaps it came from one of the people evacuated to the US and housed in a
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Our Failing Military
Here is a military opinion piece by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos:
What do you call a civilian law professor who, after successfully filing for federal whistleblower status to keep his job teaching at West Point Military Academy, proceeds to write a bombshell book about the systematic corruption, violence, fraud, and anti-intellectualism he says has been rampant at the historic institution for over a hundred years?
Well, if you are part of the military leadership or an alumnus of the storied military academy, you may call him a traitor.
But if you are anyone searching for reasons why the most powerful military in the world has not won a war in 75 years, you might call him a truth-teller. And a pretty brave one at that.
Tim Bakken’s The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris and Failure in the U.S. Military is set for release tomorrow, and it should land like a grenade. Unlike the myriad critiques of the military that wash over the institution from outside the Blob, this one is written by a professor with 20 years on the inside. He knows the instructors, the culture, the admissions process, the scandals, the cover-ups, and how its legendary “warrior-scholars” have performed after graduation and on the battlefield.
Bakken’s prognosis: the military as an institution has become so separate, so insulated, so authoritarian, that it can no longer perform effectively. In fact, it’s worse: the very nature of this beast is that it has been able to grow exponentially in size and mission so that it now conducts destructive expeditionary wars overseas with little or no real cohesive strategy or oversight. Its huge budgets are a source of corporate grift, self-justification, and corruption. The military has become too big, yes, but as Bakkan puts it, it’s failing in every way possible.
In addition to losing wars, “the military’s loyalty to itself and determined separation from society have produced an authoritarian institution that is contributing to the erosion of American democracy,” writes Bakkan, who is still, we emphasize, teaching at the school. “The hubris, arrogance, and self-righteousness of officers have isolated the military from modern thinking and mores. As a result, the military operates in an intellectual fog, relying on philosophy and practices that literally originated at West Point two hundred years ago.”
You can read the rest @
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52998.htm
If all this is true, it's even more reason why we need to cut off funds from the US military. They provide little of value while sucking the life blood out of our economy.
What do you call a civilian law professor who, after successfully filing for federal whistleblower status to keep his job teaching at West Point Military Academy, proceeds to write a bombshell book about the systematic corruption, violence, fraud, and anti-intellectualism he says has been rampant at the historic institution for over a hundred years?
Well, if you are part of the military leadership or an alumnus of the storied military academy, you may call him a traitor.
But if you are anyone searching for reasons why the most powerful military in the world has not won a war in 75 years, you might call him a truth-teller. And a pretty brave one at that.
Tim Bakken’s The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris and Failure in the U.S. Military is set for release tomorrow, and it should land like a grenade. Unlike the myriad critiques of the military that wash over the institution from outside the Blob, this one is written by a professor with 20 years on the inside. He knows the instructors, the culture, the admissions process, the scandals, the cover-ups, and how its legendary “warrior-scholars” have performed after graduation and on the battlefield.
Bakken’s prognosis: the military as an institution has become so separate, so insulated, so authoritarian, that it can no longer perform effectively. In fact, it’s worse: the very nature of this beast is that it has been able to grow exponentially in size and mission so that it now conducts destructive expeditionary wars overseas with little or no real cohesive strategy or oversight. Its huge budgets are a source of corporate grift, self-justification, and corruption. The military has become too big, yes, but as Bakkan puts it, it’s failing in every way possible.
In addition to losing wars, “the military’s loyalty to itself and determined separation from society have produced an authoritarian institution that is contributing to the erosion of American democracy,” writes Bakkan, who is still, we emphasize, teaching at the school. “The hubris, arrogance, and self-righteousness of officers have isolated the military from modern thinking and mores. As a result, the military operates in an intellectual fog, relying on philosophy and practices that literally originated at West Point two hundred years ago.”
You can read the rest @
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52998.htm
If all this is true, it's even more reason why we need to cut off funds from the US military. They provide little of value while sucking the life blood out of our economy.
The Complacent Are Clueless
Here is an excellent analysis by Charles Hugh Smith:
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2020/02/covid-19-pandemic-complacent-are.html
This complacency is being fed by the MSM. Who benefits? The rich? Certainly not those of us who eventually may be exposed to this virus.
As I quoted in an earlier post, "early, strong control measures are needed to stop transmission of the virus." We're not doing that here in the US, and we're going to pay a stiff price for our complacency.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2020/02/covid-19-pandemic-complacent-are.html
This complacency is being fed by the MSM. Who benefits? The rich? Certainly not those of us who eventually may be exposed to this virus.
As I quoted in an earlier post, "early, strong control measures are needed to stop transmission of the virus." We're not doing that here in the US, and we're going to pay a stiff price for our complacency.
Zuck The Dumb F-ck
Mark Zuckerberg actually made this statement:
"There should be more guidance and regulation from the states on basically - take political advertising as an example - what discourse should be allowed?"
Source - https://jonathanturley.org/2020/02/17/the-death-of-free-speech-zuckerberg-asks-governments-for-instructions-on-what-discourse-should-be-allowed/
Really, Zuck ??? Here's your answer:
US Constitution, First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I have come to the conclusion that the problem is NOT "fake news" or any other kind of discourse. The problem is the Internet itself, which has become a giant echo chamber with unlimited positive feedback for certain messages ... and absolute negative feedback (i.e., elimination) for certain others.
The solution? Ban the Internet, starting with Facebook.
Two of our supposedly greatest inventions, atomic energy and the Internet, have had disastrous consequences. The former led to formation of the national security state and the poisoning of our planet with radioactive contamination, and the latter is tearing apart what remains of our constitutional republic and the very fabric of our society.
"There should be more guidance and regulation from the states on basically - take political advertising as an example - what discourse should be allowed?"
Source - https://jonathanturley.org/2020/02/17/the-death-of-free-speech-zuckerberg-asks-governments-for-instructions-on-what-discourse-should-be-allowed/
Really, Zuck ??? Here's your answer:
US Constitution, First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I have come to the conclusion that the problem is NOT "fake news" or any other kind of discourse. The problem is the Internet itself, which has become a giant echo chamber with unlimited positive feedback for certain messages ... and absolute negative feedback (i.e., elimination) for certain others.
The solution? Ban the Internet, starting with Facebook.
Two of our supposedly greatest inventions, atomic energy and the Internet, have had disastrous consequences. The former led to formation of the national security state and the poisoning of our planet with radioactive contamination, and the latter is tearing apart what remains of our constitutional republic and the very fabric of our society.
New R0 For COVID-19
Here is the abstract from a new research paper:
"The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a recently emerged human pathogen that has spread widely since January 2020. Initially, the basic reproductive number, R0, was estimated to be 2.2 to 2.7. Here we provide a new estimate of this quantity. We collected extensive individual case reports and estimated key epidemiology parameters, including the incubation period. Integrating these estimates and high-resolution real-time human travel and infection data with mathematical models, we estimated that the number of infected individuals during early epidemic double every 2.4 days, and the R0 value is likely to be between 4.7 and 6.6. We further show that quarantine and contact tracing of symptomatic individuals alone may not be effective and early, strong control measures are needed to stop transmission of the virus."
Source - https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/research-paperthe-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-is-highly-contagious-and-more-infectious-than-initially-estimated-r0-4-7-6-6/
R0: 4.7-6.6
That puts it in the neighborhood of common childhood infectious diseases, which without vaccination spread rapidly. NOT GOOD !!!
"The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a recently emerged human pathogen that has spread widely since January 2020. Initially, the basic reproductive number, R0, was estimated to be 2.2 to 2.7. Here we provide a new estimate of this quantity. We collected extensive individual case reports and estimated key epidemiology parameters, including the incubation period. Integrating these estimates and high-resolution real-time human travel and infection data with mathematical models, we estimated that the number of infected individuals during early epidemic double every 2.4 days, and the R0 value is likely to be between 4.7 and 6.6. We further show that quarantine and contact tracing of symptomatic individuals alone may not be effective and early, strong control measures are needed to stop transmission of the virus."
Source - https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/research-paperthe-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-is-highly-contagious-and-more-infectious-than-initially-estimated-r0-4-7-6-6/
R0: 4.7-6.6
That puts it in the neighborhood of common childhood infectious diseases, which without vaccination spread rapidly. NOT GOOD !!!
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