[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] And then there’s the homeless problem, double that of two years ago with makeshift shelters lined up blocking the sidewalks...
Seattle had the worst air quality of all cities in the world on Wednesday and Thursday this week, beating out the usual contenders for the smoggy crown like Beijing and Delhi
The air quality index score in Seattle clocked in at a whopping 240 on Wednesday, which the air quality monitoring website IQAir qualifies as 'very unhealthy'
Scenes from Seattle showed the skyline shrouded in grey smoke which blotted out the sun and even nearby Mount Rainier
The acrid air was caused by forest fires raging in the nearby Cascade Mountains, coupled with successive weeks of abnormally hot and dry weather in the region
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The wildfires have been a huge problem in both Seattle and Portland since midsummer; hopefully the rain we are taking for our visit tomorrow will help.
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Rain has come and air quality numbers for Seattlestan are down to 50 from 190+ yesterday. But King Jay still has his bag ban inplace.
Expect burn banto be lifted so i can so some s’mores
[Breggin Report] Toledo, OH - Determined to restore the Constitutional rights that have been stripped away by the State of Ohio’s unjustified actions regarding COVID-19, Ohio Stands Up! has filed suit in the Northern District of Ohio Federal Court to remove Gov. Mike DeWine’s emergency order. The group is represented by attorneys Thomas Renz and Robert Gargasz.
"We believe that the response to COVID-19 has been the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the American public," Renz said. "The objective of this legal action is to force the state to honor the Constitution and to stop the lies, manipulation and fear-mongering intentionally being promoted by public health officials and elected officials."
Ohio Stands Up! is a grassroots organization composed of Ohio citizens who are focused on restoring the rights of Ohio’s 11.69 million residents and educating the public about the realities of COVID-19 data. Several national experts will testify on behalf of Ohio Stands Up! Renz and Gargasz will release the extensive evidence that chronicles the case to the public to offer transparency and insight.
[American Thinker] In his "Allegory of the Cave," Plato’s character, Socrates, paints a striking picture of people kept in chains from birth deep in a cave chained by the neck and the legs so that they can only see the back wall of the cave. As a consequence, they only "know" the shadows cast by a fire behind them on the back wall of the cave. There are other people, the "puppet masters", who are not chained and manipulate these prisoners. Some puppet-masters carry objects, such as a sword, between the fire and the prisoners and say the word "sword" when its shadow flickers on the back wall of the cave. Since the prisoners never see a real sword they come to associate the word "sword" with the flickering shadow on the back wall of the cave. The same is true for all objects. Thus, they do not even know what their own words mean. The word "sword" actually means a metallic weapon but they think it means a certain flickering shadow on the back wall of the cave. Having been in this condition since birth, they do not even know they are in a cave or even have a concept of a cave. They do not, therefore, even know that they are prisoners. Their "reality" is an insubstantial parade of flickering shadows dancing before their eyes. The "puppet masters" have kept them in a state of complete illusion about both themselves and the world.
When Glaucon says these are strange prisoners Socrates says, "They’re like us." We are the prisoners in the cave. The fact that Glaucon finds the image strange shows that he does not know himself. He may even think himself free, but he is a prisoner in a cave being manipulated by puppet masters. He does not even have a concept of the kind of prisoner that he is. Plato’s allegory is not a strange fancy. It is meant to describe the human condition. We have no idea what reality is. We don’t even know the meanings of our own words.
Plato’s point in the Allegory is that tyranny is not an aberration. Rather, tyranny is the normal state of human life. After all, Plato does not reside in Sparta’s military dictatorship but in ancient Athens, the first democracy in the world, peopled by glorious figures like Pericles, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aristotle and so on. If even Athens in "the Golden Age of Greece" is a disguised tyranny, then tyranny is everywhere. It is not as if there is tyranny over there in China but we are free here in America. The nature of the control may be different here but the methods of control are so diabolical that Americans who fancy themselves the lucky citizens of a free Republic are so deluded they don’t even see the chains on their necks.
In 2016, the United States was thrown into turmoil when they were told that the elected president was "Putin’s puppet." Massive expensive investigations were needed to "save our democracy" from the orange Russian asset. What passes for our "news" media daily chanted in lockstep: "The walls are closing in. Trump will be led out of the White House in handcuffs."
In fact, that was all theatre crafted by our puppet masters. It was Trump’s opponent in the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, who bought a dossier of fake accusations, ultimately from Russians no less. The following four years were filled with orchestrated eye-bulging hyperventilating hysteria by the puppet masters and their minions, none of which really accomplished anything except to frustrate the agenda of the democratically elected president and make the United States look like a "banana republic" around the world, all engineered by the Party that says it wants to "save our democracy".
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Well surprise surprise. Hey Sunshine, what the fuck do you think Google does when you’re signed in?
Do you really think Obama & Biden’s favorite slush fund doesn’t track deplorables like us and feed our location data, places visited, sites visited, terms searched, Waze & gmail & Google Calendar data to the boys and girls in Greenbelt MD?
[Breitbart] A former Keystone XL Pipeline welder recently blasted Democrat President Joe Biden’s intent to cut gas and energy prices before the midterm elections.
"I don’t know how he gets away with keep saying that he doesn’t have anything to do with [high gas prices] when they’ve got everything to do with it," Neal Crabtree said during an interview this week with Fox Business.
Crabtree previously worked on the Keystone XL project and was among hundreds of others laid off after the president took office.
Biden canceled the federal permit for the pipeline that would have brought vast amounts of oil on a daily basis from Canada down to the state of Texas. The move was meant to prioritize clean energy over fossil fuels.
Workers in his industry saw their hours cut significantly while some lost health insurance and are not receiving retirement benefits. Others had to look for another career altogether, according to Crabtree.
"When you’re 40, or 45 years old, starting over ain’t the easiest thing to do. You spent all your time building your skill set and then all of a sudden you’re making a minimum wage. It can change your life," he noted.
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The people continue to believe the Dems have nothing to do with the energy price increases because all they hear through the media is that they had nothing to do with the price increases (it’s the greedy oil companies.)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] A former Keystone XL Pipeline welder recently blasted Democrat President Joe Biden’s intent to cut gas and energy prices before the midterm elections.
