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Tuesday, August 25. 2020

WHEN YOU’RE OUTNUMBERED: LESSONS FROM TWO BRITISH MASTERS OF IRREGULAR WARFARE

Remembering the Holodomor

Mass. Educators Don't Understand Why They're Being Told to Teach Remotely From Classroom

HCQ All Over Again: WaPo Trashes Blood Plasma COVID-19 Treatment After Trump Announces Breakthrough

The Breathtaking Ignorance and Gullibility of America’s Elites

Progressive Racism In Practice: The Case Of School Discipline

Title lX and targeting the two-track approach

LA jails refuse to turn 25,000 criminal illegal immigrants over to ICE. The figure represents requests lodged by ICE for the 2020 fiscal year

VDH: California Apocalypto

The Republican Convention is off to a fast start.

First night of RNC 2020 was very effective, to media’s dismay

Biden Again Quotes Chinese Dictator Chairman Mao In Campaign Appearance

Biden aides apologise privately over attack on Linda Sarsour

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HCQ All Over Again: WaPo Trashes Blood Plasma COVID-19 Treatment After Trump Announces Breakthrough

Putting down a marker that if Trump's in office when a vaccine is first available in US it will be declared by the Democrats and the MSM (BIRM) unsafe because the development was rushed and it wasn't sufficiently tested, and we have to stay locked down for another year .. or two .. or four.

#1 Christopher B on 2020-08-25 09:55 (Reply)

Convalescent Plasma Therapy has been used for over a century to treat such diseases as diphtheria, the Spanish flu and measles. In fact, Emil Behring received a Nobel Prize in 1901 for his work on the diphtheria antitoxin. The Mayo study on COVID-19 didn't have to reinvent the wheel, only to prove that it was an effective treatment for this disease, too.

#1.1 jma on 2020-08-25 14:34 (Reply)

Re: WaPo Trashes Blood Plasma COVID-19 Treatment

It's really clear to me that the Wuhan virus is the only disease with a political constituency and potential treatments that have enemies.

#2 mudbug on 2020-08-25 09:56 (Reply)

I was going to reserve Thursday for viewing the convention. I tuned in last night and did not leave until the lights dimmed and the music stopped. I did not tune into any talking heads for translation. Last night was my America on tv, roared to the ceiling, left me misty eyed and so very happy. I'm watching the whole convention. Trump/USA 2020!

#3 Judith on 2020-08-25 10:25 (Reply)

I generally dislike any speechifying, tuning all all of the TRUMP rallies and speechs despite my full support of TRUMP! (as for DEMs I keep the media off!)

Last night, returning from a meeting I tuned into the local "rebel" radio station for some conc servative news/talk, only to find they were broadcasting the Republican convention speeches.

Too indifferent to change the station, I listened. Half-heartedly, at first , I soon found the speeches compelling, interesting and even moving (that Cuban guy was the best to me).

My judgment that this was a great start, was confirmed this AM, when the "rebel" station interviews the local Proggy expert, who is usually smirky, smarmy and has a "Teacher says I'm smarter than you" tone in his femmy voice, but this morning he was much different in describing the Repub convention!

You could detect an earnestness and false bravado tone that I've never heard from him before. He was truly shaken about the impact of what he had seen! I knew then, my feelings about what I'd heard were on-point!

#3.1 Old Codger on 2020-08-25 11:13 (Reply)

I'm like you. Normally I would rather drop a big rock on my foot than listen to a speech at a political convention, but I got hooked on these. They were all excellent.

#3.1.1 snopercod on 2020-08-25 13:45 (Reply)

I never watch political conventions - I can't stand to listen to the democrats bombastic lies and obsequious pandering to citizens for whom they have no respect, and even worse I'm usually worried I'll be embarrassed by the Republicans, always yammering on about reducing taxes and praising big business, and making promises they are too cowardly to keep. I didn't watch last night for just the reasons cited. However, I did watch it today and Judith, Old Codger and Snopercod, I felt exactly the same way - I was sniffling and tearing up time after time as I listened to each speaker - Mr. Alvarez, especially whose powerful and poignant speech touched me deeply. I thought all the speakers were class acts, sincere, with stories that reflect true American spirit and values. One thing's for sure, I definitely was NOT embarrassed.

#3.1.1.1 humdeedee on 2020-08-25 20:06 (Reply)

I watched several of the speakers at the Convention. They were all excellent.

#4 snopercod on 2020-08-25 10:28 (Reply)

mudbug, that's the WaPoo yer talkin' about. It's always WaPoopin'.

LA jails refuse to turn 25,000 criminal illegal immigrants over to ICE: Sooooo, keep them in jails, or set them free? Keeping them in jail would cost money, so it's let 'em out to steal from the populace.

California Apocalypto: Burn down the state. Drive off all who won't stand for this, losing taxes from them. SMART!

#5 Sam L. on 2020-08-25 10:43 (Reply)

Ex-CNN ‘Reporters’ Now Work for The Chinese Communist Party’s Propaganda Outfit: CGTN

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/cnn-reporters-chinese-communist-party-cgtn/

#6 feeblemind on 2020-08-25 10:45 (Reply)

I am very disappointed in the police response to the riots/insurrections. It might actually be best for everyone if they just stayed home. Total lack of any tactical thinking and effort. Here are some suggestions:

We know that the riots tend to take place in the evening and in specific parts of the city. Put out some plain clothes cops, maybe dressed like homeless people, in the periphery to provide information. Note license plates of cars used by the rioters and those used by the organizers and leaders. Cameras would be helpful to memorialize this.

Have an actual command and control center that directs law enforcement so that they know where to be and what to expect.

Arm the police with rubber bullets and bean bag loads. When the rioting breaks out go full assault on the rioters and have half of the force set up to catch, subdue and handcuff everyone they can.

Command and control will set up a phalanx of police at each of the escape routes so that when the rioters run off they will encounter the same defense; i.e. a fusillade of rubber bullets and beanbags with half of the police prepared to handcuff and arrest the rioters.

Continue this plan until all are caught or have managed to escape. At booking each perp is searched and weapons recorded for evidence at the trial.

After 2 AM that same night raids on each of the homes of those previously identified and leaders, aiding and abetting the rioters.

After the event is over everyone arrested gets an opportunity to plead out by providing investigators with useful evidence. No evidence – no plea agreement. Use this to find other leaders not yet known and methods and practices.

Repeat until the rioters are all arrested and or they move somewhere else.

#7 OneGuy on 2020-08-25 11:38 (Reply)

There are any number of crowd control strategies that could have been brought to bear on the rioters. The Israeli stink juice is one, with a smell that is a cross between skunk and rotting flesh, with added permanent UV dye for future identification, liberally applied with a water cannon.

Then there's the Army's microwave emitter, which causes unbearable stinging discomfort to the skin, and will turn away any crowd.

But none of these examples, and none of your examples have been chosen. That's because the police chiefs report to the mayors and the city councils, and the state police report to the governors. And in certain cities and states, each of these elected officials have violated their oath of office and instead of upholding law and order, have chosen to confer the power of their office to the rioters, granting them legitimacy which is then reinforced by the media.

It's all about conferred legitimacy. It's as simple as that. Otherwise, the riots would stop overnight.

I would not be surprised to discover that guerilla tactics are already being applied against Antifa and its logistical support function.

#7.1 Aggie on 2020-08-25 12:16 (Reply)

I am a supporter of the police and law and order. But I think that in Portland and the other riot torn cities that the police motto of "protect and serve" should be banned and replaced with "watch and do nothing". I don't really blame the police but it is what it is.

#7.1.1 OneGuy on 2020-08-25 14:33 (Reply)

No, their new motto should be;

"Protecting MY Paycheck, MY Pension !
You're on your own, Sluggard!

#7.1.1.1 Old Codger on 2020-08-26 11:47 (Reply)

Left Threatens Violence Over Election Loss

https://www.judicialwatch.org/investigative-bulletin/left-threatens-violence-over-election-loss/

#8 feeblemind on 2020-08-25 13:22 (Reply)

To be fair, the Left are threatening violence if they win the election. They may move slower if they win since they'll expect to have command and control of the forces of government violence, instead of just inhibition of police by fellow travelers in mayor/governor and prosecutor offices.

QUOTE:

Only when the Marxist Social Democrats had gained the upper hand and taken power in the belief that the age of liberalism and capitalism had passed forever did the last concessions disappear that it had still been thought necessary to make to the liberal ideology. The parties of the Third International consider any means as permissible if it seems to give promise of helping them in their struggle to achieve their ends. Whoever does not unconditionally acknowledge all their teachings as the only correct ones and stand by them through thick and thin has, in their opinion, incurred the penalty of death; and they do not hesitate to exterminate him and his whole family, infants included, whenever and wherever it is physically possible.

--Mises, Ludwig von. Liberalism (1927)

#8.1 JK Brown on 2020-08-25 17:42 (Reply)

“Federal law prohibits public school districts from discriminating in the administration of student discipline based on certain personal characteristics.”

Is it possible to design a more vague and meaningless statement? Every law on the books is supposed to be crystal clear. As an example of how the government makes laws deliberately vague, so that they may interpret them for their own benefit, look at this:

What is "Copyright"?

"Copyright ownership gives the owner the exclusive right to use the work, with some exceptions. When a person creates an original work, fixed in a tangible medium, he or she automatically owns copyright to the work."

https://support.google.com/legal/answer/3463239?hl=en

The above statement doesn't attempt to address the issue of how ownership is confirmed. For example, Scholastic Press claims that "Fan Fiction" stories about Harry Potter are a copyright violation. Facebook now has a "fingerprint" program which automatically takes-down videos which are even similar to those which have been taken-down due to an unverified copyright claim. No proof of a violation is required.

Therefore, in the future copyright claims won't even be necessary, because the government isn't trying to confirm ownership. The government is using mystical interpretation of copyright law to remove content which doesn't comply with communist ideology. And nobody will be able to argue, because the censorship will be performed by "bots" who are not obligated to respond to humans. The term "similar" like the term "certain"[ has no meaning. It can used to justify any outcome. Such as banning all opposition.

#9 Ron Liebermann on 2020-08-25 18:04 (Reply)

C-SPAN reports that viewership of the RNC is 6 times greater than viewership of the DNC. This is food news of course but wait. This also means that the Democrats will have to have more riots, more innocent people injured or killed and more small businesses burned, Gird your loins conservatives it is going to get worse.

#10 OneGuy on 2020-08-25 23:42 (Reply)

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