Heisenberg’s Revenge

In honor of the widening fronts in the war against “climate change,” the-Pipeline.org takes pride to announce that the remainder of this month will be devoted to further analysis and refutation of this malicious hoax, which feeds off irrational fear in order to impose severe lifestyle restrictions on the people of the West — who, after all, created the technology that has made our current prosperity possible. Such prosperity, however, is intolerable to the philosophical and lineal descendants of the Frankfurt School, who have made it their mission since the end of World War II to dismantle the Greco-Roman/Judeo-Christian first world and force the rest of the planet to return to to ignorance, superstition, and savagery.

Having failed to destroy us with the Covid Hoax (even the loathsome Facebook nazis have given up on it), the Left has now moved “climate change” front and center as the international left’s preferred soul-sapping means of destruction.

Based on the small (in the cosmic scheme of things), 140-year-old sample of randomly gathered temperature data, jealous and vengeful cultural Marxists have decided to extrapolate from cherry-picked, manipulated, and massaged data to convince a gullible and trusting public that the world is coming to an end any day now, unless we act now. Like sleazy used-care salesman, they employ scare and pressure tactics in order to get you to work against your own best, self-preservative instincts and willingly destroy infrastructure, cripple food production, kill sea life, and incinerate forests.

The key to their successful sowing of confusion can be found in the Heisenberg Principle, which states: “we cannot know both the position and speed of a particle, such as a photon or electron, with perfect accuracy; the more we nail down the particle’s position, the less we know about its speed and vice versa.” In popular understanding, this terms of physics is expressed thus: the act of observing a thing changes its behavior and the closer it is observe, the more its nature becomes unclear. Or, if you stare at the word “cat” long enough, you can convince yourself that “cat” is misspelled.

The same is true of the “science” of “climate change.” No one from the ancient Greeks to the mid-Victorians would have seriously entertained the notion of “man-made climate change” were it not for the relatively recent invention of rudimentary means of measuring temperature and forecasting the weather. Armed with this little bit of knowledge, we have now created — in our own minds — the dangerous thing called “climate change.” Take that, Aristotle!

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Gun grab groups maintain perfect silence after Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal

Yesterday, we learned what a joke the U.S. justice system can be at times, as the crackhead son of the current President skated on felony lying on his ATF 4473 background check form for being a drug addict while applying to purchase a gun. Mind you that Hunter Biden was doing way more than marijuana, which the Biden DoJ still insists makes one a prohibited person; he was an aficionado of hard drugs.

The hypocrisy and double standards are hard to beat. As Cam noted yesterday:

Just last year a Virginia man received four years in federal prison for being an unlawful user of drugs in possession of several firearms, while other U.S. Attorneys around the country have pursued lengthy prison stays for individuals who admitted to smoking marijuana and owning guns. In fact, the federal sentencing guidelines for being an unlawful user of drugs in possession of a firearm is 10-16 months in prison, but based on the reported plea deal Biden won’t even have to acknowledge his guilt or face any consequences whatsoever for what should have been a slam-dunk case for prosecutors given the physical evidence and Biden’s own admission that he was regularly using drugs at the time he purchased a pistol.…

If you’re a 24-year old caught with guns, pot, and a couple of pills you’re going to prison. If you’re the 53-year-old son of the sitting president, however, you can admit that you were smoking crack at the same time you purchased a handgun and you’ll never even face charges for that violation of federal law.

Cam also pointed out how the DoJ still asked for prison time for someone with nearly the same offense as Hunter Biden, and a federal judge overrode sentencing guidelines and gave the man prohibition instead.

The only probationary sentence that I’ve been able to find (admittedly, I’ve not been able to do a deep dive into past cases) involved a Connecticut man named James Holmes, who admitted to ATF agents that he smoked marijuana while owning several firearms. While Holmes received three years probation in that case, it wasn’t because DOJ asked for no prison time.

Instead, they requested Holmes be sent away for up to two years after he pled guilty to possession of a firearm by an illegal user of a controlled substance. It was the judge in that case who departed from federal sentencing guidelines, calling it “tragic” to put Holmes behind bars because she believed marijuana would “soon” be legal both federally and in the state of Connecticut.

These double standards are egregious. Hunter Biden’s conduct violated the allegedly “common sense gun laws” that the gun grabbers at Everytown, Giffords, Moms Demand, Brady, and Violence Policy Center keep crowing about. So what have these groups done in the wake of yesterday’s news?

Everytown tweeted about the possibility of Congress repealing the ATF pistol brace rule, lying and calling it a “law” instead:

Moms Demand Action was busy retweeting propaganda that refused to mention gangs.

Giffords was busy bragging about BSCA with no mention of how the President’s son got away with it:

Brady was tweeting about their “fearless leader” Kris Brown who is too fearful to tweet about Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal:

Meanwhile, VPC was taking a victory lap over the latest infringements by Connecticut on our right to keep and bear arms:

The hypocrisy doesn’t end there. Hunter’s then-girlfriend, who also happened to be his sister-in-law, took his gun and tossed it into a trash can which was within a school’s gun-free zone. This violates all the “safe storage” and theft/loss reporting laws that these gun grab groups demand. Again, a cat got their tongues and these groups didn’t say a word.

Is it usual for people to get away with breaking the law like this? What about the rich and famous? It doesn’t appear to be the case. Rapper Kodak Black was sentenced to more than three years in prison for essentially the same charge. Lil Wayne was sentenced to a year in prison. Being rich in and of itself doesn’t seem to help; it’s political connections as in the case of Hunter Biden.

Gun controllers are playing the long game. They know which side their bread is buttered, so they won’t say anything against the double standards on full display here. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. The next time they call for more “common sense” gun laws, point out this travesty of justice and their hypocrisy to them. Resist any of their demands and appeals for “compromise” because we all know what their end goal is.

The Big-City Murder Rate Is Falling and the Reasons Won’t Surprise You.

Violent crime — specifically, the murder rate — spiked in 2020 and has been coming down gradually ever since. Now, in 2023, the number of murders in the United States has dropped precipitously. Jeff Asher published a piece in The Atlantic  revealing that “[m]urder is down about 12 percent year-to-date in more than 90 cities that have released data for 2023, compared with data as of the same date in 2022.”

Is defunding the police actually working? Is the prevailing policy of prosecutors giving out light sentences to hardened thugs leading to a “come to Jesus” moment for criminals and causing them to reform?

Not hardly. In the wake of the sky-high violent crime rates from 2020, big-city mayors hired more cops, and many departments reinstituted “aggressive policing methods” to deal with the out-of-control shootings and murders.

“It is possible that police departments have returned to some of the proactive work that they curtailed during the COVID pandemic and after George Floyd, activities that may be inhibiting some gun violence,” Jerry Ratcliffe, a criminal-justice professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, told Asher.

Many cities have used federal COVID-relief money to hire more police officers, and there is some evidence—albeit preliminary—that adding police officers helps to reduce homicide, while also leading to more arrests for low-level offenses. We do not yet know how successful agencies have been at growing their ranks or whether more police officers are resulting in fewer shootings. Murder is down in Chicago, New Orleans, and New York, for example, but Chicago’s number of police officers is virtually unchanged from last summer, while New Orleans’s is down more than 8 percent and New York has roughly 2 percent fewer officers.

More police and more aggressive tactics resulting in fewer murders? Whoda thunk it? Duh.

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Rationing for the ‘unwashed masses’ has always been the goal.
Climate Change is just the excuse.

Climate Change Activists’ Embrace of Rationing

Seth Barrett Tillman, Associate Professor
Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology
(academic title & affiliation for identification purposes only)
June 20, 2023

Irish Examiner
Letters Editor
letters@examiner.ie
RE: John Gibbons, ‘Why we should ration the distance each person can fly every year,’ Irish Examiner (June 20, 2023, 11:55 AM),

John Gibbons suggests a 1,500 km annual allotment per Irish national/resident for air travel. So you could do Dublin–Paris round trip. Europe is within reach.

But if you are a new Irish national, from Caracas, Venezuela, and you’d like to visit family and friends: Dublin-to-Caracas is a 7,000 km distance, just one way. And if you are a new Irish national, from Cape Town, South Africa, and you’d like to visit family and friends: Dublin-to-Cape Town is a 10,000 km distance, just one way. And if you are a new Irish national, from New Delhi, India, and you’d like to visit family and friends: Dublin-to-New Delhi is an 8,000 km distance, just one way. Even Rabat, Morocco is over 2,000 km from Dublin.

Under Gibbons’ scheme, as near as I can make out, if you want to visit a historically Caucasian-majority country in Europe, then you can continue to do so tax free. But just go try and visit some third-world country where the majority population’s skin tone has a different complexion, and then you will be taxed for the privilege.

If one of Ireland’s minuscule right-wing nationalist parties proposed such a policy, they’d be labelled bigots. But if the very same policy is put forward in the name of environmentalism and climate change, precisely what conclusion should we draw?

Is mise, le meas,

Seth Barrett Tillman

June 21

1768 – In a speech to the Massachusetts General Court, James Otis Jr. is noted for offending the King and Parliament, when he refers to the British House of Commons as a gathering of “button-makers, horse jockey gamesters, pensioners, pimps, and whore-masters.” being denounced by the colony’s royal governor as the most “insolent, treasonable declamation that perhaps was ever delivered.”

1788 – New Hampshire becomes the 9th and last necessary state to ratify The Constitution of the United States.

1898 – The U.S. captures Guam from Spain during the Spanish-American War.

1900 – By edict of the Empress Dowager Cixi, China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, during the Boxer Rebellion.

1905 – The New York Central Railroad’s flagship passenger train, the 20th Century Limited, is derailed in an apparent act of sabotage in Mentor, Ohio, killing 21 people.

1915 – In the case of Guinn v. United States, the Supreme Court rules that the Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation, which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks was unconstitutional.

1942 – During World War II, the Japanese submarine I-25, commanded by Lt Cmdr Meiji Tagami, surfaces off the coast of Oregon, and fires at Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia river, missing all shots fired and being quickly attacked in return and forced to submerge by a U.S. Army bomber

1945 – During World War II, the Battle of Okinawa ends when organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the island.

1973 – In the case of Miller v. California, the Supreme Court rules that all of the 3 parts of the ‘Miller Test’:
Whether “the average person, applying contemporary community standards”, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.
Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law.
Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
must be met for speech or expression is obscene and not protected under the 1st amendment to the U.S. constitution.

1970 – The Penn Central Railroad declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what is the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.

1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. 40 years later, he is released from any form of restriction and set totally free.

1989 – In the case of Texas v. Johnson, the Supreme Court rules that American flag burning is a form of political protest protected by the 1st Amendment

2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a 1 Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia

2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.

2006 – Pluto’s moons, newly discovered by the Hubble space telescope, are officially named Nix and Hydra.

 

The oceans care not one whit who you are. I learned how to SCUBA dive when I was stationed at Ft. Lewis. We had it pounded into our heads that one step into the Pungent Sound put us 1, in the food chain (and not at the top by the way) and 2, at the mercy of our gear and an unforgiving environment.

OceanGate took eight hours to report missing sub to Coast Guard after it lost contact — as Navy commander says crew has a ‘one percent chance of survival.’

A WHISTLEBLOWER RAISED SAFETY CONCERNS ABOUT OCEANGATE’S SUBMERSIBLE IN 2018. THEN HE WAS FIRED

The director of marine operations at OceanGate, the company whose submersible went missing Sunday on an expedition to the Titanic in the North Atlantic, was fired after raising concerns about its first-of-a-kind carbon fiber hull and other systems before its maiden voyage, according to a filing in a 2018 lawsuit first reported by Insider and New Republic.

David Lochridge was terminated in January 2018 after presenting a scathing quality control report on the vessel to OceanGate’s senior management, including founder and CEO Stockton Rush, who is on board the missing vessel.

According to a court filing by Lochridge, the preamble to his report read: “Now is the time to properly address items that may pose a safety risk to personnel. Verbal communication of the key items I have addressed in my attached document have been dismissed on several occasions, so I feel now I must make this report so there is an official record in place.”

The report detailed “numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns,” according to the filing. These included Lochridge’s worry that “visible flaws” in the carbon fiber supplied to OceanGate raised the risk of small flaws expanding into larger tears during “pressure cycling.” These are the huge pressure changes that the submersible would experience as it made its way and from the deep ocean floor. He noted that a previously tested scale model of the hull had “prevalent flaws.”

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Is the international Counterterrorism Law Enforcement Forum a work-around of Americans’ rights?

The Second Annual Counterterrorism Law Enforcement Forum occurred on Tuesday June 6th, 2023, which the United States co-hosted. Last year was the inaugural event in Berlin, Germany and the 2023 forum took place in Oslo, Norway. The idea of multiple law enforcement agencies getting together to think tank their way around some of the world’s problems with terrorism, or any crime for that matter, is not that radical. Where things get concerning are when we read between the lines. The DOJ release masqueraded the forum as a meeting of the minds on combating acts of terror, however remarks from the U.S. Assistant Attorney General show a clear focus on “domestic” terrorism.

The Justice Department’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism (State CT) co-hosted the second annual meeting of the Counterterrorism Law Enforcement Forum (CTLEF) with the Government of Norway in Oslo from June 6 to 7.

The CTLEF, which focuses on countering the global threat of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism (REMVE), brought together law enforcement, prosecutors, and other criminal justice practitioners from Europe and North and South America, as well as specialists from INTERPOL, Europol, the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law and other multilateral organizations to discuss how to effectively address and counter REMVE threats.

Drilling down on what REMVEs there are, our Assistant Attorney General, Matthew G. Olsen, did not hold back on discussing his ideas when he delivered the opening remarks for the forum.

Last May, we gathered in Berlin, for our inaugural meeting. I departed the forum daunted by the scale of the problem, but heartened to see the partnership of so many likeminded countries.

I returned to D.C. from Berlin on a Thursday. Two days later, on Saturday afternoon, I received the first alerts from the FBI that there was an active shooter in Buffalo, New York. What we would come to learn over the next hours and days was that an individual espousing white supremacist ideology took a semiautomatic weapon into a grocery store and murdered 10 people.

This tragedy in Buffalo – just over one year ago – is part of an alarming trend.

What’s the alarming trend that Olsen is really talking about? What were some of the threats that Olsen identified in his speech? “In particular, we face an increasing threat from racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist groups, including white supremacists and anti-government groups,” Olsen said. Who are classified as “anti-government groups”? Would people that are critical of the United States Government, in particular overreaching agencies, be considered anti-government?

Doubling down Olsen identified obstacles to being able to effectively police these groups of individuals.

The simple truth is that the ability of violent extremists to acquire military-grade weapons in our country contributes to their ability to kill and inflict harm on a massive scale. A recent article in The Washington Post noted that about a shocking number of Americans – one in 20 adults, or roughly 16 million people – own at least one AR-15 assault rifle.
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It is important to be clear, the Department of Justice investigates violent extremists for their criminal acts and not for their beliefs or based on their associations, and regardless of ideology. In the United States, upholding our core values means respecting First Amendment rights and safeguarding the exercise of protected speech, peaceful protests, and political activity. We hold those rights sacred.

Olsen had no problem pairing the roughly 16 million law-abiding citizens with violent extremists, lumping them into the same category of hateful and murderous actors. The numbers should be staggering to Olsen that we do have 16+ million alleged owners of AR variant – not “assault” – rifles, and have such an incredibly small amount of issues with those arms.

The other obstacle naturally is the First Amendment. It’s grand that Olsen says that the DOJ et.al. respects and holds “those rights sacred,” but he really means that for only some people. It’s clear that if there’s an individual or group that does not align with the ideologies of the current swamp, they become an enemy of the state. When there’s “mostly peaceful” acts of extremism, that’s alright as long as it’s the correct flavor of extremism.

Whatever may stand in the way between the government and combating domestic terrorism, Olsen has the solution.

We have to be united in confronting domestic extremism within our countries. Collaboration and information sharing is essential to understanding and countering the threats that terrorist and violent extremist groups pose.

International partnerships are especially important where we observe transnational linkages in domestic violent extremism. We have seen some U.S.-based supporters of domestic terrorism attempt to establish links with likeminded foreign individuals and organizations. In some cases, U.S.-based domestic terrorists have traveled overseas to link up with counterparts who espouse the same beliefs.

These trends are one reason why international forums like this are so valuable. This is an opportunity to hear from foreign partners about the violent extremist groups and networks that are most concerning; where transnational linkages exist; how these actors are raising and moving funds; how groups are recruiting and training new members; how they are communicating and spreading their messages and propaganda; and the sources and drivers of radicalization to violence.

The Assistant Attorney General of the United States stated that in order to combat domestic extremism it’s important to “establish links with,” collaborate with, and find out how groups are “raising and moving funds; how groups are recruiting and training new members; how they are communicating and spreading their messages and propaganda,” from foreign governments. In short, Olsen wants foreign countries to do what our CIA can’t do; spy on Americans. There are no Fourth Amendment protections for American citizens when it’s a foreign entity doing the infringing.

Who all could this reference though? Bad guys, right? Those “anti-government” types. Olsen brought up the events that transpired on January 6th. Regardless of one’s view on what happened during January 6th, what occurred was not as bad as it’s been purported by mainstream media, nor were the actions completely benign.

Olsen spoke extensively about all the arrests and charges that sprung up in the wake of that day, “The January 6 investigation is the largest in the history of the Justice Department. We have arrested and charged more than 1,000 individuals who took part in the Capitol assault. Nearly 500 people have pled guilty or been convicted at trial.”

Olsen further observed concerning January 6th:

We have brought serious charges, including seditious conspiracy against numerous defendants – members of extremist groups who plotted to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power in our country.
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We believe our success in this case serves as a stark warning to those who would seek to violently attack our government and our democracy. It makes clear our determination that the rule of law will prevail.

Not that we needed any confirmation that the DOJ would aggressively go after those that don’t help serve the bigger picture of what’s desired of the Biden-Harris administration, but this is the Assistant Attorney General saying as much in black and white. The “members of extremist groups who plotted to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power in our country” includes a whole lot of people that got arrested, charged and in some cases convicted, for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The issues involving anything January 6th are so multi-faceted, to even bring the date up is flirting with disaster. Do what we say or you’ll end up like them.

On a small scale, Olsen found it problematic that 16+ million people have access to semi-automatic rifles. He clearly pegged that as an obstacle to being able to do the proper police work needed to fight “extremism” or those who are “anti-government.” Olsen further opined that our civil liberties are an issue, as there’s nothing they can do about people expressing their opinions, which the government “respects.” But alas, they found their solution in the form of partnerships with other countries, id.est., having other nations do the spying on the American people.

These events and little get-togethers that American officials attend sure seem like they’re “for the better good.” Really, no one wants extremism or terrorism, domestic or otherwise. However, if we read between the lines, eh, I’m going to say that maybe these trips on the taxpayers’ dime are not in the best interest of the people. Could this be a misread? Sure. But they kind of make it clear that they’ve adopted a Conan approach; “crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.” But, clearly it’s the AR’s that are the problems…

Wilson’s Mills father shoots, kills intruder who threatened his juvenile daughter

WILSON’S MILLS, N.C. (WTVD) — A father shot and killed an intruder Sunday who had reportedly threatened his young daughter. Wilson’s Mill Police said.

Police officers and Johnston County sheriff’s deputies responded to the 100 block of Parker Street just after 9 p.m. for a report of a breaking and entering in progress with a shooting.

Police Chief A.Z. Williams told the JoCo Report that it appeared the suspect entered the home’s backyard where children were playing outside. He apparently tried to accost an 11-year-old girl, one of three children playing outside.

The two other children ran inside and alerted the parents, Williams told ABC11.

Police said the 23-year-old suspect tried to follow the children inside and violently shook the door handle.

The homeowner then shot the intruder. The suspect’s name has not yet been released.

Williams said the family did not know the attacker. The sheriff’s office said the homeowner fully cooperated with detectives and was not arrested.

Williams told ABC11 that this was one of the first violent incidents he could remember in his five years with the department.

At the request of Wilson’s Mills Police, the sheriff’s office has assumed the investigation.

No morals. No ethics. No self respect. No respect for others…
Standard Leftist LIEberal

Fact Check: White House Press Secretary Falsely Claims ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Lowered Gun Violence

CLAIM: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the 1994-2004 federal “assault weapons” ban lowered gun violence while speaking from Air Force One on Monday.

VERDICT: False. The Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) issued a report, noting that any impact the ban had on crime was negligible.

Jean-Pierre said, “You’ve heard the President say this, and I’ll just repeat what he said. When he was able to get this done, in the 90s, to ban “assault weapons,” you saw it have an effect on lowering…violence in that first ten years.”

On February 19, 2018, Breitbart News referenced the NIJ study, which was written just as the federal “assault weapons” ban was ending.

In 2004, the Washington Times quoted University of Pennsylvania professor Christopher Koper, an author of the NIJ report, saying, “We cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence. And, indeed, there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence.”

The authors of the NIJ report observed that “The ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.”

They further explained that the “assault weapons” ban was not impactful because “assault weapons” are not the firearms of choice for day-to-day criminals.

On October 10, 2022, Breitbart News reported FBI figures showing that over two times as many people were stabbed to death with knives and cutting instruments than were shot and killed with rifles of any kind. And on January 18, 2013, Breitbart News reported that “assault weapons” were “tied to less than .012 percent of [U.S] deaths in 2011.”

Jean-Pierre’s claim that the “assault weapons” ban lowered gun violence is false.

Chicago shootings:75 shot, 13 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city

CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago shootings over the holiday weekend have left more than 75 shot, 13 fatally, police said.

The latest shootings attacked groups of teenagers.

Gunfire erupted in the West Garfield Park as three teens were standing on a front porch in the 3800-block of West Gladys Avenue when someone in a dark-colored car opened fire, police said.

A 17-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the right eye. A 17-year-old girl was shot in the leg and buttocks and a 19-year-old man was shot in the arm and both were transported to hospitals in good condition.

Just a few hours earlier and less than two-miles away, police said a 14-year-old boy walking down the block in the 100-block of North Francisco Avenue when an unknown gunman opened fire on him. He was struck in the right arm and right leg and transported to a hospital in fair condition.

On the South Side, 32-year old father of four Brian Ross, was gunned down along with another men during a large Father’s Day gathering at Smith Park in the Roseland community.

Relatives said he was not the intended target.

“They literally stopped where they were at, open fired on them, didn’t care about the kids being around or nothing. And, by the grace of God, no kids get hit,” Kandace Ross, the victim’s husband, said. “They didn’t care about nothing or nobody because there were kids out there. There were women out there, there were grandmas, anybody. They just came and just shot it up just so they can, I don’t know, brag about it.”

Police are looking into if social media played a role in the attack.

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Saving Our School Children from Tennessee Politicians

Tennessee politicians left our students defenseless, and we have to save them. A celebrity-seeking mass murderer killed students in a Nashville private school. That should be a wakeup call that the Republican controlled legislature and Governor have failed us again. We need angry parents to change the status quo and save our kids. As grim as this sounds, there is plenty of good news. We also know how to reduce and to prevent mass murder in our schools. Tennessee parents have been ignored for too long.

The gun-control politicians say we should disarm honest citizens to protect our children. Other politicians say they will put armed deputies in the schools to save our kids. Both have been lying to us for years. Gun-control fails and the legislature never funds enough school resource officers to protect our kids. I understand the problem because mass-murders are rare and even a small school needs several defenders. The solution is simple, but it is not politically easy.

I want our children protected at school the same way our kids are protected by their parents at home. I want our children protected the way our politicians are protected at the capital, and I want it now. Unlike some proposals that sound good in theory, we know this solution stops mass-murderers. Don’t listen to what politicians and celebrities say they want. Instead, look at what they do.

Politicians are protected by men with guns. Celebrities are protected by men with guns. The spouses and children of politicians and the spouses and children of celebrities are protected by men with guns. When a celebrity-seeking mass-murderer comes to school, even the advocates of gun-control shout that we should call men with guns. The only debate is about when the armed defenders should arrive. I want our kids defended now.

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3 years ago, this would have gotten one smeared as a racist science denier.

It’s becoming undeniable: COVID came from a Chinese lab.

Evidence that COVID came from a Chinese lab mounted toward a conclusive level last week: “Multiple government sources” say the very first people infected by the bug were Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers, a new report reveals.

More, they were allegedly modifying a close relative of the virus with a key feature unique to it.

The report — by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag, posted on the outlet Public — names Ben Hu, Yu Ping and Yan Zhu as WIV scientists who developed COVID symptoms as early as November 2019, a month before the world even heard of the outbreak, and who now appear to be “patients zero.”

A source said officials were “100%” certain these three were the ones who developed the symptoms.

It’s “a game changer if it can be proven that Hu got sick with COVID-19 before anyone else,” marvels World Health Organization expert Jamie Metzl. “That would be the ‘smoking gun.’ Hu was the lead hands-on researcher” in the WIV lab.

Add in all the other evidence — especially the scientists’ gain-of-function work using a close relative of the COVID bug — and it’s now impossible to ignore the extreme likelihood that a leak from the lab sparked the global pandemic behind nearly 7 million deaths and untold economic harm.

It also points a damning finger at China for having waged the greatest coverup in history of the world — abetted by Westerners from Dr. Anthony Fauci to Big Tech to countless liberals and left-leaning media voices who misled the public by pooh-poohing the lab-leak theory early on, and actively suppressing those who pointed to evidence backing the theory.

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June  20

451 – The forces of Roman General Flavius Aetius and Visigoth King Theodoric engage the Hun army of Attila on the Catalaunian plain in what is now northeastern France. Although the battle is inconclusive, Attila retreats back to Hungary to regroup his forces.

1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.

1787 – Oliver Ellsworth makes a motion at the Federal Convention to call the government the ‘United States’.

1819 – The SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool,  completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by a steam powered vessel

1837 – Princess  Alexandrina Victoria of Kent and Strathearn becomes Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on the death of her uncle, King William IV

1840 – Samuel Morse receives a patent for the telegraph.

1863 – The state of West Virginia,  a split off of counties that do not adhere to the Confederacy, is admitted as the 35th state.

1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario. And away we went until we’ve ended up here today with ‘smart’ cell phones.

1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.

1900 –The Imperial Chinese Army, in direct support of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists movement, called the ‘Boxers’,  begins a 55 day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.

1942 – During World War II, Kazimierz Piechowski and 3 other prisoners, dressed as German officers, steal a staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp to carry a report that Polish military intelligence officer Witold Pilecki, who deliberately allowed himself to be imprisoned in Auschwitz, had prepared about the camp for the Allies.

1943 – During World War II, the Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Avro Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while enroute to an air base in Algeria.

1944 – The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The naval air battle is known as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”.
The experimental German V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 110 miles, becoming the first man made object to reach outer space.

1945 – The U.S. Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S.

1956 – Linea Aeropostal Venezolana Flight 253 , a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey as it tries to return to Idlewild Airport for an engine problem, killing all 74 passengers and crew aboard.

1963 – Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called “red telephone” link between Washington D.C. and Moscow.

1972 –  An 18½-minute gap  is noticed in the tape recording of the conversations between President Richard Nixon and his advisers.

1975 – The film Jaws is released in the United States

1982 – The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide opens in Tel Aviv, despite attempts by the Turkish government to cancel it, as it included presentations on the Armenian genocide.

1990 – At the Palomar Observatory in California, astronomers David H. Levy and Henry Holt discover an asteroid sharing the same orbit as Mars, they name 5261 Eureka.

1991 – After German Unity, the German Bundestag votes to move the seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn back to the original capital of Berlin.

2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.

2019 – Iran’s Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz .

American U. students at odds with D.C. group that favors unarmed police

Some American University students are skeptical at claims made by the District of Columbia’s so-called “Peace Team” that unarmed police are “highly effective” at preventing gun violence — in one of the deadliest cities in the country.

According to its website, the DC Peace Team’s mission is to “cultivate the habits and skills of nonviolence in communities, so [it] can better resist injustice, and thus, build a more sustainable just peace.”

The team is a huge proponent of, and utilizes, restorative justice (which has been growing in the nation’s school systems, much to many teachers’ chargrin) and weaponless “civilian protection units.”

According to Peace Team Board Member Sal Corbin (pictured), such methods “emphasize inclusion rather than exclusion […] and punishment.”A former psychology professor, Corbin told The Eagle he grew up in a violent atmosphere where punishment was “swift and severe.”

As such, he wanted to study an alternative. Corbin believes an unarmed police force is “extremely effective” and involves “deploying teams to events where violence or escalation is a possibility.”

Robert Schentrup of the youth gun reform group Team ENOUGH added that “when victims of [gun] violence don’t get help, their natural response is to traumatize other individuals in that same way.”

The Peace Team notes it will even intervene in certain situations “with their bodies.”

But The Eagle notes some American U. students are wary. One student said even with stricter gun control, criminals will still find a way to possess firearms, so yes, cops should be armed. Another said disarming police when the threat of a mass shooting is ever-present seems like a bad idea.

American, like other colleges in and around the nation’s capital (Georgetown, Howard) have unarmed campus cops. George Washington University, however, recently decided to arm a small percentage of its officers.

Washington DC’s violent crime is up 10 percent so far this year, and is 147 percent higher than the national average. Other crimes in the city occur at a rate 87 percent higher than the national average.

Even Corbin conceded that “clearly there are circumstances where weaponry is needed.”

“Our goal isn’t to replace law enforcement entirely, but rather give an alternative approach to it that doesn’t necessitate, increase or escalate violence,” he said.

Oh, So That’s Where Weapons Biden Left in Afghanistan Are Going

When President Joe Biden made the decision to abruptly leave Afghanistan in August 2021, he did so without the U.S. military properly exporting or destroying warehouses full of weapons. Billions of dollars worth of equipment was left behind and now, it’s showing up in the hands of terrorists attacking Israeli citizens.

“The Taliban secured a substantial arsenal of U.S. weapons and equipment, including Black Hawk helicopters, after U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021. The Israeli commander with whom Newsweek spoke said some of the U.S. small arms seized in Afghanistan have already been observed in the hands of Palestinian groups operating in the Gaza Strip,” Newsweek reports.

The Israeli Defense Force has been dealing with a number of terrorist flare ups over the past year as Palestinian groups continue to attack Israeli civilians. Most recently, Islamic Jihad engaged in multi-day rocket fire against Israeli cities, eventually ending in a ceasefire after the IDF attacked in the Gaza Strip and killed a number of top terror leaders.

On Monday IDF carried out an operation in Jenin, a city in the West Bank that has become a terror hotspot similar to Gaza and Lebanon.