Saturday, April 27, 2024

The Left Loves Controlling People

So here in Liberal-Left Minneapolis, the gay, queer, transgender City Council has decided that smoking is bad for you.  They know best so to stop smoking they have increased cigarettes to a minimum of $15 per pack.  They can’t figure out, putting all their heads together, that smokers will just drive across the street to St Louis Park to save $4-6 per pack.   Next up they are going to realize being obese in Minneapolis is even a bigger health problem than smoking.  So they will probably put a surtax on pizza, donuts, cookies and all snack food. “Starting today, when you check out at the grocery line, you will be asked to step on a scale.  If we determine you are obese we are going to tax you for your unhealthy behavior.  After all, we lose 30,000 Minnesotans every year to obesity related health issues and it costs us billions!”

The Left always knows what’s best for you and ultimately they will round you up, put you in prison or camps because you refuse to follow their rules.  Think Covid and vaccines.  If they had the power they would have happily-gleefully put all the unvaccinated into a camp.

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MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis City Council says their newly amended city ordinance that raises the minimum price of a pack of cigarettes to $15 is a big win for public health, but many smokers and shop owners disagree.

Smoke shop manager Josh Kerr says many smokers will simply pay the higher price, but some will drive to the next city where prices are cheaper.


“We will lose business and customers because of this,” Kerr said. He’s also worried about theft.

Minneapolis police have responded to several break-ins at smoke shops in recent months and Kerr is worried the city could see even more break-ins over these higher prices.

“I suspect we will see a lot more ‘black market’ products out there with people stealing cartons and packs and selling them on the street,” Kerr added.

Some smokers also argue money isn’t a primary concern when you’re dealing with an addiction.

“If you smoke, you smoke,” Terry Kirk says.

“I told myself I wasn’t going to pay when it was over $10. I’m still buying cigarettes. When you have that habit it stays there.”

Ivan Mann also suspects many smokers will find a way to avoid paying the higher prices.

“Yeah, I don’t think people are going to stop buying cigarettes. You may see people pooling together to buy a carton or something in a different city to save some money, but I don’t think many smokers are going to stop because of this,” Mann says.

Emily Anderson disagrees.

She's the public policy director for the Association for Nonsmokers-Minnesota.

"For every 10% you increase the price, you drop adult smoking by three to five percent, and youth smoking by six to seven percent, and those and those are big numbers when it comes to tobacco control,” said Anderson.

Anderson says the latest numbers show Minnesotans are paying around $4 billion a year in tobacco-related health care costs.

"Those are costs we all pay," Anderson says.

"On top of that we lose 6,500 Minnesota lives every year."

But quitting isn't easy.

Shop owners worry the higher prices will hurt many low-income residents who are already struggling, and $15 is just the beginning.

"If you have the $15 minimum, that's going to be for the generic cigarettes. Well, then what's it going to be for the brand name cigarettes going to increase to? 20? 21 dollars a pack? That's what I worry about,” Kerr says.

A city spokesperson tells KARE 11 that Mayor Jacob Frey is expected to sign this newly amended ordinance within the next three to five days, and the ordinance should go into effect shortly after it is signed.

So, with that timeline, the higher prices could go into effect as early as next week.

City leaders say to their knowledge this $15 minimum will become the highest out of any city in the country.


 https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/minneapolis-shop-owners-smokers-worry-15-for-cigarettes-will-encourage-break-ins-and-spike-in-crime/89-0a4d25fc-685c-48be-bc30-767c8c30e7d2

Friday, April 26, 2024

Statement By PM Netanyahu

 As thousands of Leftists at leading American universities scream about Israel and Jews and the supposed occupation of Gaza, Netanyahu made a statement.  If Jesus tarries much longer the Left is going to be on the wrong side of history again.  If Jesus comes quickly, the Left is going to be on the wrong side of eternity.

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"What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel. They attack Jewish students. They attack Jewish faculty. This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s. It’s unconscionable. It has to be stopped. It has to be condemned and condemned unequivocally. But that’s not what happened. The response of several university presidents was shameful.

Now, fortunately, state, local, federal officials, many of them have responded differently but there has to be more. More has to be done. It has to be done not only because they attack Israel, that’s bad enough, not only because they want to kill Jews wherever they are, that’s bad enough, it’s also when you listen to them, it’s also because they say not only, 'Death to Israel. Death to the Jews,' but 'death to America.' And this tells us that there is an antisemitic surge here that has terrible consequences.

We see this exponential rise of antisemitism throughout America and throughout Western societies as Israel tries to defend itself against genocidal terrorists, genocidal terrorists who hide behind civilians. Yet it is Israel that is falsely accused of genocide, Israel that is falsely accused of starvation and all sundry war crimes. It’s all one big libel. But that’s not new. We’ve seen in history that antisemitic attacks were always preceded by vilification and slander, lies that were cast against the Jewish people that are unbelievable yet people believed them.

Now, what is important now is for all of us, all of us who are interested and cherish our values and our civilization, to stand up together and to say enough is enough. We have to stop antisemitism because antisemitism is the canary in the coal mine. It always precedes larger conflagrations that engulf the entire world.

 

So I ask all of you, Jews and non-Jews alike, who are concerned with our common future and our common values to do one thing: Stand up, speak up, be counted. Stop antisemitism now."

Media in Collusion With Democrats

 Remember when Trump was elected in 2016 and Clinton and others started accusing him of being a Russian mole?  The papers went with it!  It must be true!!  Of course it was all a fabricated lie.  Has anyone ever apologized for that?  Nope.  It's almost like it never happened.

And then the TRUE Hunter Biden laptop story hit the news days before the election but was quickly dismissed as Russian disinformation and the press went along with the story to make sure their man, Biden, wasn't affected by a negative story.

Below is an Opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal.  The Democrats are terrified that Trump will destroy democracy but the Republicans believe the same is already happening under Biden and company.

Can you see how Americans might decide NOT to coexist too much longer?

Two of the most interesting things ever to happen in American politics happened in the past few years. A Democratic presidential campaign, representing the incumbent party, fabricated evidence that its Republican opponent and the eventual president-elect was a Russian agent, and the in-power party’s FBI legitimated the evidence in the eyes of the media so it would be widely reported and believed by the public.

To make sure it was believed, top intelligence officials of the outgoing administration went on cable television to call the new president a Russian mole and Vladimir Putin his case officer.

When the formerly incumbent party’s candidate was seeking to reclaim the White House four years later, the same former officials concocted a new lie to cover up embarrassing information about the candidate’s family. These highly connected former officials had five days to check things out before claiming Hunter Biden’s laptop had “classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The New York Post included a receipt showing the FBI had already been in possession of the data for 10 months. Its story documented how the Post acquired the same data. Specific, dated and verifiable events and messages weren’t denied by the Bidens, etc.

Obama intelligence officials James Clapper and John Brennan, and their 49 colleagues, lie today when they say they weren’t lying then.

These realties have been acknowledged on these pages, in a few other papers around the country, on Fox News and at some partisan websites. They might as well never have happened as far as most of the press is concerned.

New York Times resident chin-stroker Thomas Edsall, in the Trump era, has devoted 380 articles, many of them 3,000 words or longer, to raking over voter surveys and long quotes from political scientists psychoanalyzing the U.S. electorate. Not one examined the effect of these glaring events on voters or even acknowledged that they happened.

Democratic and anti-Trump Republican political spinmeisters, from David Axelrod to Mike Murphy to Bill Kristol, spend a hours a week on TV and in podcasts holding forth on politics, talking endlessly about Donald Trump, yet leave the collusion episodes unanalyzed as if they never occurred.

After years, the press finally acknowledges that pollsters find Trump voters every bit as concerned about democracy as Biden voters. “The two men are essentially tied on the issue of protecting democracy, with 43% of voters preferring Biden and 41% picking Trump,” says NBC. Unasked is why.

You might assume a utilitarian motive—Mr. Trump would benefit politically if the truth were acknowledged. Unless correlation has no relation to causation, unless participants in a thousand focus groups are lying, the opposite is true. The dishonesty of his opponents remains Mr. Trump’s great legitimizer, helping him past Jan. 6 and on the road to the White House again.

The real motive for the press silence is fear and shame over acts that are close to treasonous.

Here;  Opinion | A Disinformation October Surprise Is Coming (msn.com)

Thursday, April 25, 2024

We Are the West's Final Generation Before a New Dark Ages Begins

 This is a pretty interesting article to find floating around on the home page of MSN.COM.  The author is telling us that the youth in the West is being taught to hate their nation's wealth and freedom and to tear down every institution and tradition.

Of course Satan is behind this.  And of course Satan works best through folks who deny Christ.  And of course in America, between the two political parties we have, Democrats are the party that deny the deity of Christ.  And so go to the K-12 Public schools in America and find out what percentage of teachers are Bible readers/believers and would claim Christ as their savior?  When you find out how low that number is, take the same question to all the college professors and administrations in the thousands of colleges and universities across America and find out what percentage of them are Bible-reading, born-again Christians and I think you know how low that number is.  And yet THESE ARE THE PEOPLE that we have allowed our children to spend more time with than they ever spent with their parents.

There is a fatal contradiction at the heart of Western societies, a nihilistic impulse, a pathological self-loathing that threatens to destroy our way of life. We live in the freest, wealthiest, healthiest, fairest and most technologically advanced polities in history, and yet millions of young people are being taught to hate the West, to despise the liberties that make their lifestyles possible, to tear down every institution and tradition.

Marx was wrong: it is not the working classes that are alienated by modernity but the bourgeoisie, and especially their morally adrift children, many of whom genuinely believe that the West is an evil hellhole. The revolutionary urge emanates from the universities, and their guilt-ridden graduates. Too many have turned themselves into woke indoctrination camps, with hard-Left administrators encouraging post-modern academics to brainwash a generation.

There is now a striking correlation between levels of education and holding stupid, destructive ideas, between being highly credentialled and falling for every fashionable conspiracy theory, every tribalistic affliction, every online fad. 

This madness has culminated in the explosion of anti-Semitic hatred on campuses across America, in scenes that should not be acceptable in any civilised country. They include the harassment of Jewish students, blockades, threats of violence and pro-Hamas and pro-Iran sloganeering by activists camped out in tents. 

These protests are even more toxic than those of 1968: today’s woke ideology is totalitarian, racist, anti-Semitic, anti-family, anti-capitalist and collectivist. It rejects as illegitimate not just conservatism but also Left-liberalism and democracy. It promotes anti-white hatred and Israelophobia. Its supporters loathe the West and automatically back our enemies. They demonise successful minorities as “white adjacent”. 

Shai Davidai, a Jewish academic at Columbia, the worst affected institution, compares the protests to 1938 Germany; a rabbi advised Jewish students to go home and the university has cancelled all in-person lectures. The calls for Minouche Shafik, Columbia’s president, to quit are growing, in my opinion she has been far too soft on the protesters and has failed to do enough to protect Jewish students, many of whom are starting to believe they no longer have a future in the West. 

Shafik almost became governor of the Bank of England in 2019. She was inexplicably backed by some Tories; her consolation prize was to be elevated to the Lords. Lady Shafik was one of four economists summoned by Boris Johnson in 2022 when he was seeking to relaunch his premiership post-Covid; luckily, Johnson ignored her advice. 

In her eminently forgettable What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract, endorsed by Ursula von der Leyen, she calls for more redistribution, praises the French Marxist Thomas Piketty, and argues that “a promising strand of research” suggests that “a wealth tax of 2-3 per cent a year would allow governments to increase efficiency, promote economic growth and reduce inequality all at once”. In theory, Shafik cares about “social justice”; in practice, as the (extremely well-paid) president of Columbia, it appears she has allowed the mob to run riot. She needs to resign or be fired.

The past six months have exposed the West’s Left-wing elites as fakes: they virtue-signal about inclusion and diversity but don’t mean it. It is a gigantic lie. A movement obsessed with seeing “microaggressions” everywhere downplays real acts of violence, such as that meted out to a Jewish woman stabbed in the eye at Yale. A movement committed to paranoid safetyism is unconcerned about the actual safety of the “wrong” kind of people. 

A movement that claims to be feminist refuses to condemn mass rape by terrorists. A movement that says it cares about the rights of Muslims has no interest in defending the Uyghurs in China, the Rohingya in Myanmar or any other genuinely persecuted community. A movement that believes in cancelling anybody with conservative, libertarian or Christian viewpoints is happy to embrace Islamist chants, or calls to wipe Israel off the map. A movement that pretends to be anti-racist is willing to chase away Jewish students, condones anti-white and anti-Asian racism and rejects Martin Luther King’s colour-blind vision. 

The hypocrisy is unconscionable. The woke ideology is incompatible with the preservation of the West – and yet it is this philosophy that we are allowing universities to indoctrinate our children with. 

Wokery has made massive progress in Britain, and there have been some horrible demonstrations of it on UK campuses. With the exception of the excellent University of Buckingham, where pluralism reigns, every other university in the UK employs almost exclusively Left-wing academics, a bias that wasn’t anything like as pronounced even 25 years ago.

We have some safeguards: opposition to critical race theory and gender ideology are protected philosophical beliefs under the Equality Act. The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act is one of the few genuinely good Tory reforms of the past 14 years. Arif Ahmed, the inaugural director for freedom of speech and academic freedom, has said that calls for genocide, or speech that incites violence, will not be protected “under any circumstances”, but that he will defend genuine plurality of opinion when the new regime begins in August. 

Yet this isn’t enough. In 1581, Oxford University decided that no student would be allowed to matriculate unless they swore oaths to the Queen and the Church of England. It took until the 1871 Universities Tests Act to liberate Catholics, Jews and others to study, graduate and work at Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. 

In 2024, Left-wing ideology is the new secular religion. Do we need another Universities Test Act? How do we drastically increase the percentage of non-Left-wing academics? Is the answer to launch new non-woke institutions, like the University of Austin? Or to terminate all subsidies on non-scientific subjects that are more prone to politicisation? In the US, the Ivy League will be hit by multi-billion dollar lawsuits for discrimination. Some are targeting their huge endowments, arguing that this is the time for a new Dissolution of the Monasteries. 

Whichever way we go, we cannot grant the Left a permanent monopoly on universities. The West has no future if our youth are taught to hate our civilisation.

Here;  We are the West’s last generation before the new Dark Age begins (msn.com)

Clearly this article was written in the UK but the problems they are facing are the same we are facing here in America.  But the UK is probably a decade ahead of us as far as destruction goes...because they have allowed a few million Muslims to come into their midst and those folks, as a group, really hate the West and desire to tear it all down for the sake of Allah.


A New Sexual Identity--Fraysexual

All these sexual identities just testify to our human nature...FILLED WITH SIN!

Today we read about a new sexual identity.  It's called fraysexual.  You better learn all about it because they even have their own flag!  And if you fail to identify them as a valid identity then you could be guilty of being frayphobic!

Fraysexuals are people who only like to have sex with strangers.  They aren't sexually attracted to people that they know.  So for eons these poor men (and a few perverted women) were trapped in marriage where they were forced to have sex with their wife...someone they knew OH too well!

When these men would be on business trips and would meet a strange women, (or man for those who identify as gay-fraysexual) that they were incredibly attracted to and had an intense desire to copulate with, they had to deny their identity of being fraysexual and simply go back to their rooms and call their wives!!  If they ever dared to act and fulfill their identities, they they risked that their wives would find out, they wouldn't understand, they would be mad, they could ask for a divorce and the poor fraysexual man would have to lose his house, 1/2 his assets and alienate his children!

Thankfully men can now proudly wave the flag of fraysexual!  Any of you women who deny your husband's fraysexuality and expect him to "remain faithful" to you...how can you possibly be so hateful, intolerant and unloving to the man you promised to love and support??

Fraysexuality, also known as ignotasexuality, is a sexual identity in which people experience a strong attraction to strangers, and less attraction to people they know well.

A fraysexual person generally prefers having sex with people they don't know over those they do. It's the opposite of demisexuality, where a person needs to know someone well and feel connected to them before experiencing sexual attraction.

This identity is on the asexual spectrum, and it has its own flag: The colors are four stripes of blue, cyan, white, and gray. The blue represents strangers, the cyan acquaintances, white for lack of attraction, and gray for sexual attraction confusion.

Ahead, we'll discuss more about fraysexuality, signs a person may exhibit as a fraysexual, and how this identity might impact your love life.

Asexuality is considered an umbrella term for people who have sexual identities that involve an aversion to sex, and it includes other identities such as graysexual, autosexual, and demisexual. 

Dr. Edward Ratush, Board Certified Psychiatrist, sex therapist, and co-founder of SOHOMD, explains that fraysexuality "falls under the umbrella of the asexual spectrum because of the specific aversion a fraysexual individual will have toward sexual contact with their most intimate partner. Simply stated, the more a fraysexual person is emotionally connected with their intimate partner the less they are inclined to have overt sexual desire for this partner."

Fraysexual individuals do not necessarily identify as asexual. Rather, the term asexual is used as an umbrella one that fraysexual falls under.

One does not need a specific sexuality to be fraysexual. A person can identify as fraysexual whether they are gay, straight, or pansexual, and they can be of any gender. It's an identity that a person may use to describe themself, or someone else may refer to someone as fraysexual if they notice that that person is more sexually attracted to strangers than to people they know.

Even if someone calls you fraysexual, though, that doesn't mean you have to identify with the term. Sexuality is highly personal, and we all have the right to identify as whatever feels best for us.

When a person has a sexual preference or a limit, the need to set it will increase the likelihood of there being a barrier to connection with partners," Ratush says, so those in relationships with fraysexuals may need to find other ways of connecting with their partner in addition to sex. But, because healthy romantic relationships require many different types of connection, fraysexuality doesn't have to be a deal breaker.

Knowing oneself and understanding how to create a relationship given your nature is important for all relationships. Establishing what you are seeking in a relationship is helpful for both you and your partner when filling any type of sexual or emotional need, especially for fraysexual people.

"Understanding and embracing one's fraysexual orientation can lead to more fulfilling relationships and personal growth as individuals embrace and communicate their sexual needs with their partners," says Moore.

Here;  What It Means to Be Fraysexual—Everything You Need to Know (msn.com)

Yes!  Don't deny yourself anything!!  Embrace your fraysexual orientation!  Have sex with strangers!  If your wife doesn't understand, send her to a therapist who can help her enter the 21st century and get on board with YOUR NEEDS and YOUR DESIRES.

 

Many Large Cities Are in Deep Financial Trouble

So the big cities are hopelessly bankrupt and empty office buildings is not going to help their situation.  Oh well, they’ll just get money from their state to pay their bills.  What if their state has no money?  Oh well, they’ll just get it from the US government!  And what if the US government has $35 trillion in debt and the bond markets won’t allow her to borrow anymore?  Oh well, the the Federal reserve will just buy the debt.  Ummm….the Federal Reserve has no money to “buy” anything.

Even a casual observer should understand that the financial boat of USA is sinking.

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 Municipal governments across the United States are looking to rein in spending as pandemic-era stimulus dries up and inflation lingers for longer than expected.


“Clearly there are significant capital needs across the U.S.,” said Michael Rinaldi, senior director at Fitch Ratings’ public finance group. The group issued a AA investment grade general obligation bond rating for New York City in March 2024.

The financial challenges within cities appear to be mounting despite high municipal credit ratings and robust demand for urban commodities like housing. For example, New York City had a total public debt of $177.6 billion at the end of fiscal year 2022, according to researchers at Truth in Accounting, a nonprofit that partners with the University of Denver to promote transparency in public accounting. That translates into a per capita taxpayer burden of $61,200, according to the group’s analysis.

That estimate comes in higher than the one quoted by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who says the Big Apple has a public debt burden of roughly $96 billion in 2024 — about $30 billion shy of the city’s debt limit.

The discrepancy, according to Truth in Accounting, comes from pension debt obligations that are underreported and will eventually be pushed on to future taxpayers. “If I don’t pay that invoice, I don’t have to include it in my balanced budget,” said Sheila Weinberg, the group’s founder and CEO.

Truth in Accounting estimates that 53 of the largest cities in the U.S. were not generating enough revenue to pay their bills at the end of fiscal year 2022. The list also highlights fiscal challenges facing cities like Chicago, Houston and Portland, Oregon. 

“I think we can all agree that we’re broke,” said Houston Mayor John Whitmire in a March 2024 City Council budget hearing.

Truth in Accounting believes that underfunded pension obligations and retiree health benefits are straining municipal governments nationwide. Detroit’s 2013 municipal bankruptcywas a potent example of the potential effect when the city temporarily suspended pension payments to pump more cash into reserves.

“I believe this is a big problem throughout the country,” said Weinberg. “The voters think, oh, they must be living within their means. And they’re not.”

Weinberg told CNBC that cities and state governments are, in effect, spending tomorrow’s money today in unsustainable fashion.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/25/many-large-us-cities-are-in-deep-financial-trouble-heres-why.html

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

So Many Warnings Coming for 2030

Some are saying a Depression will be upon us by 2030. Others saying the Great Reset by 2030.  Today we read this.

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Top Russian general Apti Alaudinov, commander of Chechen forces fighting in Ukraine and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, has vowed that his country will destroy the NATO military alliance by 2030.

Alaudinov, who was appointed as deputy at the Main Directorate for Military and Political Work at the defense ministry by Putin, made the remarks during a state TV broadcast, where he spoke to Olga Skabeyeva, co-host of 60 Minutes, on channel Russia-1.

An excerpt of his appearance was shared on X, formerly Twitter, by Anton Gerashchenko, a former adviser to Ukraine's minister of internal affairs.

Russian officials have regularly floated the possibility that Russia could strike NATO members in response to the aid and weapons they've provided Ukraine in the ongoing war.

"Apti Alaudinov, [Chechen leader Ramzan] Kadyrov's closest ally, recently appointed to a position in the Russian defense ministry, tells Russian propagandist Skabeyeva that Russia will wage a war for the rest of the decade and intends to destroy NATO," Gerashchenko wrote.

 https://www.newsweek.com/apti-alaudinov-putin-ally-russia-destroy-nato-1893753

Poland Willing to Host US Nukes

 I'm guessing if you lived in Europe and saw what was happening in Ukraine, you might not trust Putin when he says he has no plans on taking other parts of Europe.  And then when Putin seems willing to threaten the West with the use of nukes, maybe you would reconsider hosting USA's nukes in your European back yard?

In a significant blow to Vladimir Putin's efforts, Poland has announced its readiness to host nuclear weapons on its territory. This move comes in response to Russia's recent decision to station its nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, escalating tensions in the region.

In an interview published Monday in the Fakt tabloid, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated that Poland is prepared to host nuclear weapons from other NATO members. This is seen as a direct counter to Russia's relocation of nuclear weapons to Belarus.

"Russia recently relocated its nuclear weapons to Belarus," Duda said, referencing the December announcement by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. He added: "If there were a decision by our allies to deploy nuclear weapons within the nuclear sharing also on our territory in order to strengthen the security of NATO's eastern flank, we are ready."

Duda stressed that Poland is aware of its obligations within the 32-member NATO alliance, which includes the United States, the United Kingdom, and France as nuclear powers.

Poland's willingness to host nuclear weapons aligns with its strong support for Ukraine as it battles against Russia's full-scale invasion, now in its third year, reports the Express.

Here;  Poland willing to host US nukes in response to Vladimir Putin's moves with country 'ready' (msn.com)

If you look on a map of Europe you will see that Belarus sits right in between Russia, Ukraine and Poland.  And Belarus is very pro-Russian.  So yes, if I was Poland I would want to be doing everything I could to make me undesirable to someone like Putin who may, or may not, have designs on conquering other territories.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

141 Quakes Rattle Eastern US

Remember what we have been blogging about for 15 years…the New Madrid fault.  When it broke 200 years ago it produced the largest quakes in US history.  Do all these strange quakes happening out East have anything to do with USA pressuring Israel?  Stay tuned.  “There will be earthquakes in various places.”

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 While the western United States is better known for its active seismicity, the eastern United States has been quite rattled in recent weeks; according to USGS, there have been 141 earthquakes in the eastern United States in the last 30 days.

Most of the earthquakes in the last 30 days have struck in New Jersey where a sequence began there on the morning of April 5 when a magnitude 4.8 event struck. Beyond the magnitude 4.8 earthquake, there were moderate aftershocks too. According to USGS,  3.7 magnitude event struck near Bedminster just before 6 pm on April 5, with 10 other earthquakes measuring as a 2.0 or greater magnitude event.  According to the Northeast States Emergency Consortium, on average there are about 2-3 earthquakes in New Jersey in a year, but according to USGS, New Jersey has now experienced 50x that threshold in just the last 3 weeks.

The next most popular area for earthquakes over the last month have been in the southern Appalachians, in the hills north of Atlanta, Georgia to the mountainous terrain of central and eastern Tennessee between Chattanooga and Asheville.

https://weatherboy.com/141-earthquakes-rattle-eastern-united-states-over-last-30-days/

Which US City Will Collapse First?

Chicago, New York or Los Angeles?  The Democrats have run these cities into the ground.  Defunding police and decriminalizing theft has led to rampant lawlessness.  Throw in illegal aliens and thousands of addicts along with commercial real estate collapse and you have a recipe for a zombie apocalypse.

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In 2024, virtually all major U.S. cities have certain things in common.  First of all, if you visit the downtown area of one of our major cities you are likely to see garbage, human excrement and graffiti all over the place.  As you will see below, some of our core urban areas literally look like they belong in a third world country.  Most of our politicians don’t seem too concerned about doing anything to clean up all the filth, and so it shouldn’t be a surprise that rat populations are absolutely exploding all over the country.  In some of our largest cities, the total rat population is numbered in the millions.  Meanwhile, rampant theft, out of control violence, endless migration, predatory gangs and the worst drug crisis in the entire history of our nation have combined to create a “perfect storm” of social decay that is unlike anything that any of us have ever seen before.  Millions of law-abiding citizens and countless businesses have been fleeing America’s largest cities, and property values in our core urban areas have been absolutely crashing.  We really are in the early stages of a full-blown societal “collapse”, and things just keep getting worse with each passing day.

https://endoftheamericandream.com/which-major-city-will-completely-collapse-first-los-angeles-chicago-or-new-york-city/

Monday, April 22, 2024

“The End of US-Led World Order”

 This article is talking about the most difficult global outlook since the Depression.  But the last paragraphs had the prophetic part…USA’s dominance in globalization is a thing of the past.  Also pre-WWI was highlighted by war, pandemic and protectionism and now history seems to be repeating itself in build up to pre-WWIII.

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In truth, not a lot happened in Washington last week. There was the usual flurry of reports but not much else. Beneath the surface, however, something much more important is going on, and that is the breakup of the US-dominated form of globalisation.

The model involved western companies outsourcing manufacturing to China and other low-cost destinations, and for a while it delivered cheap goods, which kept inflation low and made life easy for central banks.

Those days are now over. The US and Europe want to protect jobs by limiting imports of Chinese goods and subsidising their own manufacturing sectors. Only last week, Joe Biden called for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel in a move designed to appeal to blue-collar workers in swing states.

This is not the first time this has happened. The pre-first world war era of globalisation fell apart as a result of war, a pandemic, inflation and protectionism. Little by little, history is repeating itself.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/21/most-difficult-global-outlook-for-a-century-heralds-end-of-us-led-world-order-imf

Why is Trump Being Charged in Criminal Case?

 I think most folks know that rich and powerful men have lots of opportunities with the ladies.  I’m sure Trump was no different.  When it comes to Trump bedding a porn star I’m sure that’s not a rare thing either.  Stormy does have a job that involves sex for money so pretty sure Trump didn’t entice a neophyte and take advantage of a school girl.  Also didn’t Bill Clinton have sex with an intern and pay her settlement money?  Yes he did, but there is a difference in paying legal settlement money versus what Trump did and how he did it.  Is it a witch hunt as Trump claims or is he a rich and famous man who believes he is above the law?   Below is a simple explanation of what Trump did and why the prosecution believes it was illegal.

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In New York state, falsifying business records is a misdemeanor carrying a penalty of up to a year in jail. However, if it can be demonstrated that the reason for the falsification was to commit some other crime, as prosecutors say is the case here, it becomes a felony punishable by up to four years in jail.

That means that prosecutors have two orders of business in their bid to secure a conviction against the former president. First, they must establish the fraudulent nature of the business records which underlie the alleged scheme. Secondly, they must demonstrate that Trump’s intention in falsifying the records was related to the 2016 presidential election.

That, in the simplest terms, is the prosecution’s case against the former president.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/21/opinions/trump-criminal-trial-opening-arguments-jackson/index.html