When masks aren't outlawed, only outlaws will have masks
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run away!
NYC: Masked home invader caught on tape
New York City police have released a chilling video showing a suspect breaking into a Manhattan residence and having a look around.
The break-in happened June 24 just before 1:15 a.m. in the vicinity of Central Park West and West 89th Street, the NYPD says.
Our criminal class began immediately to take advantage of the anonymity covid mask mandates afforded (May 21, 2020: Crimes with masked suspects on the rise amid COVID-19 pandemic), but they were able to blend in with the complacent, law-abiding community. These days, now that sanity has (mostly) returned, if I see a masked individual approach, I reach for my gun.
Relax, this won't hurt — probably
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what are the odds?
13-year-old boy dies three days after receiving Pfizer vaccine. CDC “investigating”
Jacob Clynick — who was preparing to enter high school in the fall — received his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine at a Walgreens in Zilwaukee, Mich. on June 13, his aunt told the Detroit Free Press.
Jacob was healthy and had no underlying health conditions. The only side effects he had experienced from the vaccine were the ones most others had to deal with: fatigue and fever.
On June 15, two nights after receiving the second dose, Jacob complained of a stomach ache before going to sleep and never woke up.
“The investigation as to whether there is a correlation between his death and vaccination is now at the federal level with CDC,” the Saginaw County Health Department Medical Director told the Free Press in a statement.
“Meanwhile, the health department continues to encourage families to speak with their physicians to weigh their own risks and benefits of vaccination.”
How is a family GP, no expert in experimental vaccines and their effect on adolescents and pre-teens, supposed to make an intelligent recommendation on this topic? Should he call the local county medical director?
And how is a school board, or a government bureaucrat, or the head of a Teachers Union, in a better position to evaluate the safety of these vaccines and mandate their use in schools and on college campuses?
Asking for a friend.
Related: And don’t bother asking the man who claims to know about these things, Dr.Fauci, who on Saturday changed his tune again on the efficacy of vaccines for anyone, adult or child.
Well, the NYT
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Even free to dress up like a girl, if that’s your thing
It is seen as divisive by the NYT’s readers and staff; that’s hardly news, and the Time’s timing in running the story on the July 4th weekend is typical. It’s ironic, though, that the reporter here, one Sarah Maslin Nir, is herself the daughter of a refugee, Ukrainian Holocaust survivor Yehuda Nir, who escaped the Nazis and eventually made his way to America, where he practiced psychiatry, wrote a book about his childhood terror, and raised a family of ungrateful, spoiled children.
Here’s how Sarah Nir’s father spent his childhood years:
Yehuda Nir was nine years old when his father was shot dead by German soldiers in a mass execution of Jewish men in their Polish town. Yehuda, along with his mother and teenage sister, escaped with the aid of false documents. It was 1941--the Holocaust was gaining a grim momentum. The family plunged into what would be four long, harrowing years disguised as Catholics. Never knowing if each day of hiding in the open would be his last, Yehuda was often forced to separate from his mother and sister, live on dogs and mice, hide in sewers, and live in utter chaos.
From what I can glean from Sarah’s bio, she grew up a pampered child of Manhattan, she and her siblings went to fine (expensive, anyway) private schools, and have done very well in their father’s adopted land. No mention of them eating rats or hiding in NYC sewers.
It’ll never happen, but it’d be nice if every once in a while, now and then, our nation-haters would reflect on what America has provided to people from across the world, including their own families, and just shut up, briefly.
The Fourth of July might be an apt time to do that.
Hot Air Out the Rear
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September, 2020: Jennifer Lopez embarks on “bold campaign plan” to raise public awareness of global warming
“Max and Emme are my world,” Lopez posted on Instagram. “When I think about what their lives will be like if we ignore the significant impact climate change is having on our planet, it breaks my heart. We need to do something about it and take action NOW. That’s why I’m pinky promising to #VoteLikeAMadre for candidates who believe in science and will work to protect the environment. All the madres out there, will you join me?”
July 3, 2021
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck can't keep their hands off each other as they take a peaceful stroll in the Hamptons after jetting in from LA for the Fourth of July weekend
They were seen the day before enjoying a fun-filled ay at Universal Studios Hollywood with their children.
But Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez got some quality time without the kids on Saturday as they enjoyed a relaxing strolling in the Hamptons on Long Island.
I referenced this story yesterday, but couldn't find the link. It showed up today on InstaPundit
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oh, canada!
Canadian official admits ban on in-person gatherings is to prevent the spread of ‘false information”
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – An injunction outlawing in-person gatherings has a purpose other than just to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to Nova Scotia’s chief medical doctor. If people are allowed to be together, they might “deliberately” spread “false information that creates risk.”
Recently in Nova Scotia, in-person gatherings and even the right to publicly protest were rendered illegal by an injunction issued on May 14. This primarily aimed at preventing gathering to protest continued lockdowns and masking regulations. The injunction also criminalized promoting protests on social media.
One telephone caller questioned the necessity for an injunction banning all in-person gatherings, saying, “I'm wondering about the injunction banning public gatherings and whether there really is a need for such a far-reaching one.”
Strang responded, “So I mean, I think it’s still there. We still have uh, the, uh, bringing large numbers of people together, uh, it can present some risk. We will continue to look at that.”
Stammering, he continued, “But I think the other purpose of the injunction is to, uh, is to, uh, prevent uh, you know, groups that are spreading, uh – deliberately spreading, uh, false information that... can actually create risk. The information itself if listened to creates risk to the public as well so, and…that certainly is a need to manage that misinformation campaign as well.”
Update: A reader writes that he asked a Canadian friend about this story and was told that it was “misinformation”. Well, let’s go to the videotape:
So it could be worse, we could live in Canada. Or Australia, where in Queensland, the 22-hour-per day in-house lockdown has been extended, again, for 6.6 million residents because nine people tested positive for Chinese Flu. And in Brisbane which was shut down again yesterday after one person tested positive, the Premier has dictated that all residents shall wear masks, indoors and outside until every person has been vaccinated”, estimated to occur in late 2022, if ever.
The starvation years
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To Stop Climate Change Americans Must Cut Energy Use by 90 Percent, Live in 640 Square Feet, and Fly Only Once Every 3 Years, Says Study (Thanks for the link, DJ)
In order to save the planet from catastrophic climate change, Americans will have to cut their energy use by more than 90 percent and families of four should live in housing no larger than 640 square feet. That's at least according to a team of European researchers led by University of Leeds sustainability researcher Jefim Vogel. In their new study, "Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use," in Global Environmental Change, they calculate that public transportation should account for most travel. Travel should, in any case, be limited to between 3,000 to 10,000 miles per person annually.
In addition, food consumption per capita would vary depending on age and other conditions, but the average would be 2,100 calories per day. While just over 10 percent of the world's people are unfortunately still undernourished, the Food and Agriculture Organization reports that the daily global average food supply now stands at just under 3,000 calories per person. Each individual is allocated a new clothing allowance of nine pounds per year, and clothes may be washed 20 times annually. The good news is that everyone over age 10 is permitted a mobile phone and each household can have a laptop.
Vogel and his colleagues set themselves the goal of figuring out how to "provide sufficient need satisfaction at much lower, ecologically sustainable levels of energy use." Referencing earlier sustainability studies they argue that human needs are sufficiently satisfied when each person has access to the energy equivalent of 7,500 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity per capita. That is about how much energy the average Bolivian uses. Currently, Americans use about 80,000 kWh annually per capita. With respect to transportation and physical mobility, the average person would be limited to using the energy equivalent of 16–40 gallons of gasoline per year. People are assumed to take one short- to medium-haul airplane trip every three years or so.
Vogel and his colleagues are undaunted by the fact that there are absolutely no examples of low-energy societies providing decent living standards—as defined by the researchers themselves—for their citizens. So they proceed to jigger the various provisioning factors until they find that what is really needed is a "more fundamental transformation of the political-economic regime." That fundamental transformation includes free government-provided high-quality public services in areas such as health, education, and public transport.
Two things that humanity for sure doesn't need according to the study are economic growth or the continued extraction of natural resources such as oil, coal, gas, or minerals. Vogel concluded: "In short, we need to abandon economic growth in affluent countries, scale back resource extraction, and prioritize public services, basic infrastructures and fair income distributions everywhere." He added, "In my view, the most promising and integral vision for the required transformation is the idea of degrowth—it is an idea whose time has come."
And as usual,
"We also found that a fairer income distribution is crucial for achieving decent living standards at low energy use," said co-author Daniel O'Neill, from Leeds' School of Earth and Environment. "To reduce existing income disparities, governments could raise minimum wages, provide a Universal Basic Income, and introduce a maximum income level. We also need much higher taxes on high incomes, and lower taxes on low incomes."
And no, these fruitcakes/ harbingers are not alone:
From Deep Green Resistance, which at least understands the futility of what their fellow greens are seeking to impose:
Will green technology save the planet?
No. Wind turbines, solar PV panels, and the grid itself are all manufactured using cheap energy from fossil fuels. When fossil fuel costs begin to rise such highly manufactured items will simply cease to be feasible.
Solar panels and wind turbines aren't made out of nothing. They are made out of metals, plastics, and chemicals. These products have been mined out of the ground, transported, processed, manufactured. Each stage leaves behind a trail of devastation: habitat destruction, water contamination, colonization, toxic waste, slave labor, greenhouse gas emissions, wars, and corporate profits.
The basic ingredients for renewables are the same materials that are ubiquitous in industrial products, like cement and aluminum. No one is going to make cement in any quantity without using the energy of fossil fuels. And aluminum? The mining itself is a destructive and toxic nightmare from which riparian communities will not awaken in anything but geologic time.
From beginning to end, so called "renewable energy" and other "green technologies" lead to the destruction of the planet. These technologies are rooted in the same industrial extraction and production processes that have rampaged across the world for the last 150 years.
We are not concerned with slightly reducing the harm caused by industrial civilization; we are interested in stopping that harm completely. Doing so will require dismantling the global industrial economy, which will render impossible the creation of these technologies.
Deep Green’s answer is to return to neolithic days — they may get their wish.
Psaking back: Lost Cannon offers a better picture of the World Economics Fourum’s Mr. Schwab. Schwab was just one of many Leftist/Oligarchs who seized on the Pandemic to condition the serfs and advance their agenda of state domination
The Green New Eel will kill cars? That's the whole point
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the new road to serfdom
Not The Bee reports on the war on cars.
It’s a lengthy article, well worth reading in its entirety, but the money quote is this one, from a 1990 interview with the-then Chairman of Volvo, Pehr Gyllenhammar three months after the Berlin Wall had been torn down “and smoky little Trabants were swarming all over western Germany, as easterners discovered for themselves the freedom decades of Communist rule had prevented them from enjoying.”
The car is unique; it gives human beings a mandate to go wherever they want, whenever they want ….If the car was invented today, I doubt whether our governments would allow ordinary people to have such freedom.