HERE ARE SOME excerpts from two of the small number of stories (here and here) that explore the past of 27-year-old Walter Wallace, the latest victim of systemic racism in Philadelphia whose reported death has sparked mass violence:

“Wallace has had several run-ins with police over the years, according to a criminal record obtained by NBC Philadelphia. Most recently, in March, he was arrested after allegedly calling the mother of his child and threatening: ‘I’ll shoot you and that house up.’

“NBC Philadelphia also found records of arrests in 2019, 2016, and 2013, for issues ranging from allegedly holding a gun to a woman’s head during a robbery, and violating a protection order his mother had on him by allegedly punching her and threatening to shoot her. (more…)

ABOUT 50 of roughly half a million ATM bank machines in America are hit with explosives by robbers every year. This has not been a common type of crime here. But things are changing. In a five-day period during George Floyd riots this spring, 50 of the bank machines were attacked in Philadelphia alone. One looter died while attempting to blow up a machine. (His death did not provoke the grief-stricken to break out the dynamite. He just didn't matter.) And this week, police report 17 machines have been damaged or destroyed by explosives, with looters -- apparently "suffering the emotional weight of learning about another Black life in America lost," as Biden and Harris would put it -- trying to get the money in the machines. These ATM hits are not high-tech operations, but they require dynamite, planning and some skill. I guess some people keep explosives on hand. Nothing staunches grief like smoking cash. According to WHYY, David Lott, a payments risk expert at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said this spring, “Not just anybody can go out and acquire these explosives, and you have to have some level of knowledge to best utilize those.” WHYY continues: Lott was also surprised by the highly public nature of the explosions, with attackers brazenly setting off charges right on the street in densely populated neighborhoods. In other countries, criminals have been more discreet when they blow up ATMs, targeting rural or…

ZENO writes:

As you may know, many new ‘lockdowns’ or ‘semi-lockdowns’ have been announced from today in many European countries (France, Italy, Spain, Germany), and not only European — for instance also in Canada or at least in Quebec the “state of emergency” (which in practice is a lockdown as it also closes most places and limits movement) has been extended for another month. All based on an “increasing numbers of cases”, which nobody even explains what it means, and of which no one can see any visual evidence: they may be just invented numbers typed into a computer for all we know.

Cinemas, theaters, bars, all closed. The beautiful Christmas Markets cancelled in all of Germany. Churches remain open for mass (for now), but all people have to wear masks, even when singing. How can you even sing with a mask?

Sometimes it seems as if they purposely want to remove all possible pleasure, meaning and joy from life. Why would cinemas and theaters transmit the “virus” more than, say, public transportation, that remains fully in operation? (more…)

AS OF today, Philadelphia murders are up 42 percent over last year. Most of this year’s murder victims, like the employee of a Lowe’s store who was shot nine times as he was walking through the parking lot, did not become national stories. They did not precipitate an outbreak of peaceful looting and shooting. They were not killed by systemic racism. They were in most cases black victims killed by other blacks.

Their families won’t make big money or appear on TV crying. They don’t fit the script. (more…)

I believe Donald Trump will be “re-elected.” The consolidation of global governance we are witnessing needs civil unrest to continue unrolling.

Trump voters are not going to supply that chaos if Biden is elected.

It’s hard to imagine any other outcome. (more…)

  THE World Economic Forum, which is largely responsible for the manufactured crisis of the coronavirus, or what it calls "The Great Reset," makes some predictions for 2030. It sees this future as good. ... And we'll even get an occasional cheeseburger.  

FROM the excellent collection of essays The Sword in the Mouth by Caryl Johnston:

Because the body was, to feminism, the inescapable fact, feminists directed considerable animus against the constraints of biology. Either by chance or design, feminists went to bed with the Archons of Big Medicine, who were only too willing to bankroll themselves by altering the terms upon which men and women had heretofore propagated themselves. The feminists failed to see how they had merely substituted one patriarchy for another. Mary Shelley, the daughter of one of these great feminists, the 19th-century Mary Wollstonecraft, had already seen which way the wind of anti-biological feminism was blowing, and created the famous Dr. Frankenstein of legend. As the wife of libertine poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley had experienced the dross left behind by freethinkers and once declared that she was sick of them. But anti-biological feminism was gold in the hands of the medical men, the source of endless revenue puffed as “liberation” — from having children, from being a mother, maybe even from being a woman! The current Ivy League fad of transgenderism is only the latest round in this saga, perhaps the last stop before one may opt out of the task of being human altogether….. (more…)

EVEN though almost no one is dying from Covid and the reported total death toll for the year remains at 1852 people, Ireland’s government, using the by now well-established fraud of rising “cases” of people who are not even sick, has imposed a new lockdown starting today and has said that “periodic lockdowns” may be necessary. The Guardian reports:

Ireland is to close much of its economy and society in a second Covid-19 lockdown that imposes some of the severest restrictions in Europe.

Non-essential shops will close and people are asked to stay at home, with a 5km (3 mile) travel limit for exercise, to curb surging infection rates, the government announced on Monday evening. (more…)

 

JOE BIDEN’S career would have ended in 1987 in any political system that valued integrity.

In September of that year, he lied — boldly and repeatedly — about his academic credentials.

In his statement today, Mr. Biden, who attended the Syracuse College of Law and graduated 76th in a class of 85, acknowledged: ”I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection of this was inaccurate.”

As for receiving three degrees, Mr. Biden said: ”I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. My reference to degrees at the Claremont event was intended to refer to these majors – I said ‘three’ and should have said ‘two.’ ” Mr. Biden received a single B.A. in history and political science. (more…)

TRUMP in Phoenix, Arizona yesterday: "Dr. Fauci's a very nice man ... He loves being on television and we let him do it. Sometimes he says things that are a little bit off and they get built up unfortunately. But he's a nice guy. I like him. But he's called a lot of bad calls ... I don't hold that against him if I did I wouldn't have him. I think he's a nice guy." [bold added] When asked if he would fire Fauci, "I don't want to. I don't wanna hurt him." Trump, the Swamp Maintenance Man.  

ALAN writes:

My old friend Serendipity came to visit me one day recently. I was looking for old newspaper articles when I came across something entirely different from what I was looking for, but of equal interest.  It was an article about a six-year-old girl whose guardian brought her to the office of a nerve specialist in St. Louis “to find out what was the matter with her.” This was in 1908.

Turned out nothing was the matter with her.

What the matter was this: Too much, too soon.  

“She is simply suffering from nervous exhaustion,” the doctor said to a reporter.

“Life to that child is nothing but a continuous stereopticon view. Fancy living in front of a moving-picture machine all the year round! I wager that your nerves would go to pieces, and that’s just what is happening to this baby. She has been around the world once and she is never in one place more than two months at a time and frequently not more than two weeks.  Can you imagine how harassing that would be to you?

“Well, a child’s nerves are a thousand times more sensitive than a grown person’s. (more…)