Former CBS News president Richard Salant (1961 - 64 and 1966 - 79) explained the major media's role: "Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." ...and to this very day most Americans haven't noticed they're being brained washed! ~ N. Hooben
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Friday, May 31, 2024
1 killed, 7 injured after explosion at Chase bank in Youngstown, Ohio
1 killed, 7 injured after explosion at Chase bank in Youngstown, Ohio
ByMeredith Deliso and Jon Haworth 
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 10:18AM
One person has died and seven people were injured, including one critically, after an explosion rocked downtown Youngstown, Ohio, Tuesday, officials said.
The explosion occurred near Central Square Tuesday afternoon, police said.
It is unclear what caused the explosion, which impacted a building that contains a Chase bank and apartments, authorities said.
Youngstown Fire Chief Barry Finley had initially characterized the incident as a natural gas explosion, but later said crews were working to determine if there was a gas leak.
"All I know for sure is that there was an explosion," Finley told reporters during a press briefing Tuesday evening.
A Chase spokesperson told ABC News the company is in "close contact with local officials to check on the safety of everyone in the building and area."
"After that, we'll work to determine what happened and to assess the damage," the spokesperson said.
There is no evidence of any suspicious activity at this time, officials said.
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Is biological warfare a crime under the color of law?
TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
"...if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death."
I do not remember how many times that I used the above quote during the height of the pandemic, and with most posts, I would make the accusation that Governor Andrew Coumo was guilty of murder under the color of law. He deliberately, using his power as governor, placed many elderly people in nursing homes where they, to use the expression, dropping like flies from the manufactured virus and/or the vaccine (some later reports blamed the ventilators). I don't think one has to be a lawyer to understand the text of the law as written; it clearly says that if death results then the offender may be sentenced to death. Yet Coumo is alive and well enjoying his retirement paid for by New Yorkers.
Well so much for my two cents. For more about who did what about the vaccine and its harmful effects watch the following video. Seems to me a lot more people should be incarcerated that somehow escaped from under the color of law. - Storm'n Norm'n
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Rich man, poor man... They're coming for your stuff.
Migrant gangs create burglary ‘industry’ in U.S.
BY STEPHEN DINAN THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Federal authorities have identified a new crime “industry” involving robbery crews from South America who exploit America’s immigration system, break into a string of homes and make off with loot before fleeing back to their home countries.
Some arrive in the U.S. legally on short-term visas specifically to steal, while others are part of the ongoing border surge and are recruited into sophisticated theft operations.
Last week, six Chileans were arrested in New Jersey and charged in federal court with robberies stretching from the tonier neighborhoods of Baltimore to Westchester, New York. Residents reported losing diamond earrings, pearl necklaces and rare coins.
When federal agents caught up with the six migrants, they found a cache of burglary tools, including a handheld radial saw, cutting tools, punches for breaking glass windows, and balaclavas and work gloves.
The FBI said they are part of a trend of migrants who travel from South America, hop from community to community to burglarize multiple homes and then head back home.
“This isn’t your traditional crime spree; it is an actual industry of organized criminals who invade and shatter people’s private sanctuaries and steal valuable possessions,” said James E. Dennehy, the FBI’s special agent in charge at its office in Newark, New Jersey.
Chilean migrants have been implicated in strings of burglaries
in California, Florida and Michigan, and they are known for the planning they put into their jobs. They case neighborhoods, track routines and target homes of wealthy Americans.
They are even known to use jammers to block wireless security camera signals.
Sheriff Mike Bouchard in Oakland County, Michigan, said Chilean thieves stole $800,000 worth of cash and jewelry from a single home in his jurisdiction.
“They’re super well-trained when they get here, highly organized, they look like ninjas, they’re all masked up, gloves, they each have a backpack with their particular set of tools for their job in the burglary,” the sheriff said at a press conference last month.
Authorities say the Chileans often arrive legally as tourists, go on crime sprees and then return home. Chile is part of the U.S. visa waiver program, which means most visitors can skip the usual in-person interview overseas.
Other South American theft ring operators are illegal immigrants who appear to have been recruited into burglary gangs.
The six men charged in the latest New York and Maryland burglaries are Flavio Bladimir Astete Castillo, Dareyen Mauricio Cortes-Canete, Luis Esteban Castillo Vivar, Max Vidal Navarrete, Jordan Estefano Contreras Vilches and Juan Jose Ramirez Nilo.
Authorities say they were arrested as part of an investigation into burglaries in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. They traced a Kia Forte to one of the New York crime scenes and later located the vehicle outside an apartment building in Jersey City.
Security footage from the building showed figures lugging a safe the same day police in Baltimore received a report of a safe stolen from a home.
When authorities approached the men at a shopping mall in New Jersey that day, they found one of them wearing a chain necklace stolen from one of the New York burglaries. The Kia had bags containing other looted items.
Neither the U.S. attorney’s office nor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement provided immigration histories on the men, but five of them were arrested on April 19 by deportation officers, indicating they had less-than-solid legal status.
Mr. Nilo was released that day but was arrested later in Los Angeles, where he was being held late last week.
Authorities have also linked the South American crime wave to Colombians, Peruvians, Ecuadorians and Venezuelans — particularly Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan-born gang that has become a focus amid the Biden border surge.
The brother of the man accused of killing Georgia college student Laken Riley has been tied to the gang through tattoos and social media posts. Diego Ibarra sneaked into the U.S. last year, attempted to bite a Border Patrol agent, was released by ICE with an ankle monitor, cut off the monitor and began a string of alleged criminal entanglements, including shoplifting and driving under the influence. Police were called to his home for reported domestic violence.
Tren de Aragua also has been linked to the migrant mob that beat two New York City police officers this year, brazen motorcycle drive-by robberies of pedestrians’ cellphones and strings of burglaries targeting wealthy neighborhoods.
Patrick Lechleitner, acting director at ICE, said authorities are working to prevent Tren de Aragua from becoming a major threat.
“We don’t want it to become the next MS-13,” Mr. Lechleitner told The Washington Times in an interview. “We’re very cognizant of what occurred with MS-13 and what it took to get that under control, and we don’t want it to happen again. So we’re taking a very tough look at it to make sure we’re ahead of that curve if possible. But it is a concern, and it’s a problematic gang.”
Tren de Aragua has seeped into the U.S. immigration debate so quickly that Customs and Border Protection’s list of gang members apprehended didn’t include a category for them until last month.
CBP reports having spotted 41 members of the gang in 2023 and six members so far in fiscal 2024. Given the criminal activity blamed on Tren de Aragua, those numbers likely understate the gang’s presence in the U.S.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Misdemeanor: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say a sitting president cannot be arrested, nor does it say the Department of Justice can make laws preventing his arrest. But he can be removed from office for crimes less severe than a felony. What Mr. Bobulinski is describing is punishable by jail time
Legal Definition
misdemeanor. noun. mis·de·mean·or ËŒmis-di-ˈmÄ“-nÉ™r. : a crime that carries a less severe punishment than a felony.
Tony Bobulinski : "Joe Biden was an active aware enabler. Joe Biden is a serial liar, James Biden can’t keep his lies straight under oath and Hunter Biden…a Drug Addict facing 12 Counts…” - Tony Bobulinski
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Monday, May 27, 2024
These are not the highest virtues, but they are among those required to make a great nation, and they obviously exceed the values preached by our present ruling class.
The Virtues of Settler Colonialism
Editor’s Note: The group quota regime’s efforts to overturn the American order begin with the attempt to convince us that our own nation is evil—that it is a racist empire built on stolen land. Pavlos Papadopoulos argues not only that this slander is false, but that the virtues that enabled our forebears to conquer and tame this continent are the very same ones that victory in the present conflict will require. This essay was originally published in The American Mind.
A few years ago, law professor Gail Heriot pointed out a problem that some on the Right have been noticing for quite some time: “Title VII Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal.” She argued that at its core, disparate impact liability is an “incoherent” legal doctrine, because “all job qualifications have a disparate impact” on at least one protected class. Established in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971), disparate impact liability grants “astonishing discretion” to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to enforce laws against workplace discrimination.
Disparate impact liability is a feature, not a bug, of our present regime. The supposed ubiquity of guilt allows the state total license to pick and choose its criminals. If everyone is guilty, then anyone may be singled out for punishment at any time.
What disparate impact liability is to the field of employment law, left-academia’s indictment of settler colonialism is to the study of history. Just as the EEOC indiscriminately targets employers whose hiring happens to disfavor non-whites, the academy is likewise free to accuse nations of injustice that have displaced—you guessed it—non-whites.
Though settler colonialism has emerged as an important term in the ongoing effort to deconstruct our nation, its history, and segments of its population—and thus has helped to form, or rather deform, the moral imaginations of many Americans—it has no legal status. Its pejorative sense may be overthrown by a change in mindset, and by the successful propagation of this mindset. The term can, and should, be reclaimed, lest it continue to serve as rhetorical ammunition for the Left’s end-game of anti-whiteness.
According to Jennifer Schuessler of the New York Times, settler colonialism originated as a technical term used by left-wing academics to denote “a form of colonialism in which the existing inhabitants of a territory are displaced by settlers who claim land and establish a permanent society where their privileged status is enshrined in law.” While usage varies from scholar to scholar, the “settler” part helps distinguish it from other forms of commercial, extractive, exploitative, or strategic colonialism, imperialism, or hegemony. Not all empires throughout history have practiced settler colonialism, nor even all the great European powers of the Age of Imperialism. But those that did left new nations scattered around the world, notably Anglo societies in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. These nations happen to be among the world’s wealthiest; and owing to the Left’s expropriative purposes, their demoralized populations are readily attacked for being “on stolen land.”
Use of the term “settler colonialism” has exploded over the last two decades, outpacing even “structural racism.” Like so many concepts formulated by the radicals in the twentieth century academy, it has successfully colonized the culture and public discourse of the twenty-first century. One might go so far as to say that settler colonialism aspires to establish itself permanently; as recent usage has revealed, its privileged status is already partially-enshrined in the laws of discourse.
Left-academic usage of settler colonialism is strictly, and polemically, anti-Western. They use our own history as a cudgel with which to beat us, highlighting the crimes of the settling and colonizing peoples and emphasizing the victimhood status of peoples who were displaced or conquered. Conservatives meanwhile seem merely intent to ignore the accusation of settler colonialism or downplay its accuracy, to no avail. The results of this conceptual colonization have been the demoralization of many once-proud Americans, and the emboldening of those with grievances, real or imagined, against the United States and its citizens.
It is time to overthrow the pejorative sense of settler colonialism and reclaim it for our own purposes. I have no illusions about being able to persuade anyone currently convinced that the history of the United States renders it uniquely guilty of the crimes that attend conquest and colonization. We have been shouted deaf with the crimes and injustices involved in this project. The proper response is to de-stigmatize settler colonialism, and the history it describes, to reach and encourage ordinary Americans who don’t reflexively seek out every injustice in history as a pretext to hate their country. It is time to center a settler-colonialist-positive vision of America.
Key to this project of reframing means acknowledging that settler colonialism is central to American history. It has long dominated our self-understanding and our national mythology, encompassing Pilgrims and pioneers and is memorialized in our songs and stories and films, above all, our great Westerns. Before, during, and after the political founding of which Americans are rightfully proud, Americans were engaged in a generations-long project of conquering, settling, and civilizing this great continent. This project was carried out by intrepid pathfinders and pioneer families, by solitary adventurers and agents of the state, by trappers and traders and rivermen and cattlemen and cowboys and farmers and railroad men who, together over the course of centuries, “a thoroughfare for freedom beat / across the wilderness.”
Since settler colonialism entails both the conquest of an existing population and the establishment of a new society for the colonizers, the Western tradition has long affirmed the specific combination of virtues that enables a people to practice it. Settler colonialism necessitates both the arts of war—that is, courage, cleverness, tenacity, strength, honor, loyalty—and the arts of peace—industriousness and diligence, orderliness and leisure, scientific inquiry, and the fine arts.
John Adams understood this well. He rejected the excessive desire for conquest as characteristic of “Asiatic Emperors” such as “Mahomet, Gengizcan (I believe the author means 'Genghis Khan' - N.E.H.) and Tamerlane” rather than the Western classics. But he affirmed the need “to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage,” for “their bodies must be hardened, as well as their souls exalted. Without strength and activity and vigor of body, the brightest mental excellencies will be eclipsed and obscured.” This ideal combination within the individual is echoed in his famous statement on the generational division of labor that lay before the new nation:
The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts.—I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.
For Adams, personal and political self-governance are a prerequisite for devotion to the intellectual and productive activities that constitute and adorn a high civilization. And from our first settlements, Americans have embodied this dual capacity for conquest and culture.
In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville noted the connection between the capacity for local self-government and the capacity for settler colonialism. Contrasting the failure to create “a great French nation in the American wilderness” with the Anglo-American success, Tocqueville commented:
Free peoples habituated to a municipal regime succeed much more easily than others in creating flourishing colonies. The habit of thinking by oneself and governing oneself is indispensable in a new country, where success necessarily depends to a large extent on the individual efforts of the colonists.
Such civic habits, along with many more daring and warlike attributes, are among the virtues that enabled the most rapid geographic spread of Western civilization in history. Such virtues helped Americans convert a conquered continent into a well-ordered republic. We used to praise these virtues as distinctly American, beginning with the Pilgrims. Now, we recast the Pilgrims as refugees fleeing religious persecution and don’t know what, if anything, to say about our pioneers.
Tocqueville was already impressed at what he saw, though in the 1830s Americans had barely begun to settle beyond the Mississippi. By the end of the century, that move beyond the Mississippi would furnish material for some of the most beloved children’s books in American history. The adventurousness, orderliness, tenacity, flexibility, civility, and hard-working grit of the Ingalls family, and others like them, exemplify the virtues of American settler colonialism. The classical tradition would say these are not the highest virtues, simply speaking. But they are among those required to make a great nation, and they obviously exceed the values preached by our present ruling class.
reconstruct such liberty, we may be able to recover it by cultivating again the virtues required for settler colonialism. At the very least, we could get in the habit of brushing aside the selective accusations leveled against us by accusers who hate us and condemn the preconditions for our present, prosperous way of life.
Pavlos Papadopoulos is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Wyoming Catholic College.
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