Makes you wonder who's really running things. Biden and McConnell together couldn't pour pee out of a boot with instructions written on the bottom. https://t.co/f9oB4rfDk0
Praying for the five brave young activists sitting in jail today – facing up to a decade in prison, separated from family, all because they peacefully dared to stand up to Cesare Santangelo’s butcher shop which murdered full term infants.
NEW: Following yesterday's conviction, @tedcruz accuses the DOJ of "aggressively targeting" pro-life activists. This targeting, he suggests, may be due to the fact that Lauren Handy "blew the whistle" on DC abortionist Santangelo's late term abortions.https://t.co/H05Q8pzmUB
Under the Biden regime, you can kill fully formed babies as much as you want but you can't form a blockade at an abortion clinic to stop it or you'll be thrown in federal prison.
They can’t bear someone asking real questions because it exposes them as the lap dogs they are.
Doocy: "It seems like the hurricane response so far is robust. Did you guys realize that the initial Hawaiian wildfire was not that good or is it just easier for people to get help from the WH when [Biden] is not on vacation."
The National Archives is stonewalling the release of over 5,000 emails tied to Joe Biden’s alias email accounts, in yet another cover-up. Secret email accounts that Joe Biden was using to exchange covert messages with Hunter Biden, other family members, friends and staffers.… pic.twitter.com/6yM33SW9ko
Biden’s invasion and human smuggling operation continue to allow record numbers of illegal invaders in.
NEW: 2,274 migrants crossed into the Tucson Sector yesterday according to DHS sources. The majority of them came through the open floodgates in Lukeville. I was down there watching it all unfold—Nonstop for hours.
“NEW: 2,274 migrants crossed into the Tucson Sector yesterday according to DHS sources. The majority of them came through the open floodgates in Lukeville. I was down there watching it all unfold—Nonstop for hours.
Agents tell me the normal “high” for encounters before this current surge was around 1,500.
Most of the individuals I met were from Senegal and Mauritania—All of them were going to New York aside from one who was going to Minnesota—He was also the only one who said he had family here.
Across the border—9,100 migrants were encountered yesterday.
Buses cannot go up to where the wall is because of the terrain so they are transporting people via truck and van to either Nogales or Tucson which is a roughly 3-4 hour round trip. There were no agents out patrolling, they’re all transporting or processing.”
This is what happens when you reward incompetence.
The Maui police chief who made disastrous decisions is also the guy who was incident commander at the horrific Las Vegas shooting to which we never got answers https://t.co/3V79w3LHZd
“This is a very small study, but its findings would be very worrisome if they were replicated in a larger group of children. Assuming that anybody bothers to replicate the study on a large scale, given how hostile the establishment is to any data that doesn’t back their full-throated support for COVID-19 vaccines.
The news comes through Alex Berenson, a vaccine skeptic and somebody I read to get a sense of what skeptics are saying. He is a very polarizing figure, so I always take care to check his assertions carefully not because I distrust him, but rather to ensure that I agree with his reading of the evidence.”
“Berenson’s report is based on a peer-reviewed study of the effects of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines on the immune systems of children. The study focused on the Pfizer vaccine in particular.
The results were troubling. Quite troubling, actually. What the research found in their small cohort of participants is that children who were administered the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine saw their immune response to bacteria and viruses drop dramatically, and while the response to bacteria rebounded after 6 months, the response to viruses had not yet rebounded by the end of the study at 6 months.
Kids who got Pfizer’s mRNA Covid jabs had a weakened immune response to other viruses and bacteria, Australian researchers reported in a study published last week.
The diminished response appeared within weeks after the second Pfizer dose, the authors found. Blood taken from the children produced fewer crucial signaling molecules when stimulated with several common potential bacteria and viruses.
Over time, the immune response to bacteria returned to normal. But the diminished response to viruses lasted at least six months, for as long as the researchers collected data. “Our study showed that, in children, SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination decreases inflammatory cytokine responses,” the authors wrote.
I went to the study itself to get my own read of the data and argument, and while the authors were very cautious not to dramatize the results, they certainly were right to argue that this result requires further study soon. Berenson summarizes thusly:
The study was small, including only 29 children aged 6-11 at the first post-vaccination checkpoint and eight children at the six-month sample period. Further, the study’s short size and tiny number of participants meant the researchers could not correlate real-world clinical outcomes – such as increased severity of infections – with the diminished immune responses.
The peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Immunology published the paper. In keeping with other papers that have reported disturbing findings about the mRNAs, the study’s authors were careful to tiptoe around the potential impact of their data.
In their discussion, they wrote only that the findings show “the need for further research and consideration… given their broad public health implications.”
The authors point out something that is particularly worrisome: children have naive immune systems and are exposed to a lot of bacteria and viruses for the first time when they are young. Altering the immune response, particularly suppressing the immune response, at a very young age may be particularly problematic.”
“Of all the callous things the state could do to its citizens during a cost-of-living crisis, making them pay to drive their own cars is surely one of the worst. As if it wasn’t bad enough that the cost of foodstuffs has risen by 15 per cent, now you’ll have to pay through the nose just to get to the shop that sells those foodstuffs. As if it wasn’t tough enough forking out for your kids’ school uniforms and stationery, now you’ll have to pay for the privilege of dropping the kids at the schoolgates. As if it wasn’t hard enough getting time off work to visit your poorly mother in a care home, now you’ll have to stump up £12.50 to get to that care home.
This is the news that the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has expanded ULEZ to include all of London’s boroughs. As of this week, every inch of the capital is an Ultra Low Emission Zone where those who drive the wrong kind of vehicle – petrol or diesel vehicles that do not meet minimum emissions standards – will have to pay £12.50 on every single day they get in the driver’s seat and go somewhere. Let’s be clear about what the rollout of ULEZ represents: it’s an entirely regressive tax that will punish the poor most severely. It is an eco-toll that will have little impact on the wealthy of Greater London who drive ‘polluting’ vehicles, for whom £12.50 is small fry, or who can afford a brand new EV and are exempt from the charge. But it will devastate the freedom of movement of the less well-off who drive old cars. This is a cruel levy enforced by an out-of-touch mayor on a citizenry already struggling to make ends meet.
The expansion of ULEZ is justified in the most apocalyptic terms. Where the rulers of England in the 1370s enforced a punitive poll tax on the peasantry on the basis that ‘the security of the realm was under threat’ – primarily from war with France – today the rulers of London impose a regressive eco-tax on certain motorists on the basis that the security of the entire planet is at risk. ULEZ is necessary because ‘the planet is burning’, commentators madly claim. As if bleeding pensioners with creaking cars of £12.50 a day is going to make any dent in global pollution. ‘People are dying, this will save lives’, says Green peer Jenny Jones. It reeks of emotional blackmail. Bristle at ULEZ and you’re in cahoots with death itself; you’re an enabler of respiratory disease and the much prophesied, but little evidenced, heat death of the planet.
The facts, as is so often the case these days, tell a different story. Far from being a smog-ridden hellhole, London’s air is cleaner than it’s been for decades. Levels of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other pollutants have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. There’s been a staggering 98 per cent drop in sulphur. The idea that there’s an ‘air-pollution crisis’ and that it’s the fault of ‘dirty’ drivers – in the Guardian’s telling words – is nonsense. One might even call it misinformation, the thing that ULEZ’s critics are usually, and unfairly, accused of promoting.
Dirty drivers – that phrase exposes the rank moralism and snobbery behind the ULEZ expansion. This is not a scientifically sound initiative, necessary for the protection of life. It’s yet another outburst of the upper middle classes’ motorphobia, their bourgeois contempt for the freedom that cars afford to the masses. Nothing horrifies this bicycle-riding, Uber-using, Whole Foods-patronising layer of society more than the vision of a family of five driving their 4×4 to a giant Morrison’s for processed bread and cheap meat. That’s ‘dirty’ in their minds, which is a PC way of saying ‘morally inferior’. The elite hostility to cars is at root a hostility to modern society and the masses who inhabit it.
The ULEZ expansion shines a harsh light on the hypocrisy of Sadiq Khan and the Labour left. Khan made great play of providing London’s primary-school kids with free school meals this year, yet he then nabs £12.50 every day from any parent who drives a ‘bad’ car. The Corbynista left wrings its hands over the cost-of-living crisis, yet they’ve been out in force this week defending this regressive tax that will price the poorest off the roads. How thoughtful of them to take time out from reading books about the Peasants’ Revolt to support precisely the kind of heartless tax those peasants were revolting against.
The Khan regime has erected hundreds of fixed cameras to monitor the movements of the ‘dirty’ citizens of Greater London. What a perfect metaphor for his time in power. The city turned against the citizenry. Infrastructure deployed to spy on us and punish us for our eco-sins. Sadiq has turned a great city into his personal fiefdom, where all must bend the knee to his ideological obsessions or find themselves branded dirty, deniers, bigots, conspiracy theorists – there is a ‘far-right’ vibe to the public protests against ULEZ, as Khan says.
It isn’t only the eco-ideology that Khan is foisting on the capital. He’s introduced the rule of identitarianism, too. Witness the recent scandal of the mayor’s official website advising that a photo of a white family ‘doesn’t represent real Londoners’ and it might be better to use more ‘diverse’ images instead. Or Khan’s frequent utterances of the neo-religious mantra ‘Transwomen are women’, with no regard for the vast numbers of women in London who disagree; who think a person with a penis is a man and should not be allowed in, say, the Ladies’ Pond at Hampstead Heath. Or, more sinisterly, his use of a recent stabbing outside a gay club in Clapham to reprimand those who criticise aspects of the LGBTQ ideology. ‘Your culture war has real-life consequences’, he cynically said, as if opposing men in dresses going into ladies’ loos leads directly to knife attacks in South London. Khan treats London less as a bustling city that it is his privilege to represent, than as a soapbox from which he can bark his bien pensant views.
Then there’s his Remainerism, where he’s forever juxtaposing London’s ‘progressive’ love for the EU with what he presumably views as the un-progressive Europhobia of the low-information throng Up North. He even lit up the London Eye in the EU colours on New Year’s Eve in 2019: a Maoist spectacle that revealed his disdain for the democratic wishes of the British people. Turning London against the country is an unforgivable act of metropolitan hubris. And how about his penchant for social engineering, for saving dumber Londoners from their own worst instincts? Consider his stringent ban on any depiction of ‘junk food’ on buses and trains. Even an ad for a West End play fell foul of his deranged censorship because it contained an image of a wedding cake. This is the staggeringly low opinion he has of his citizens – he even feels the need to avert our eyes from cake lest our destructive, gluttonous instincts be triggered.
We can now see what woke does to a city – it destroys it.”
“California has recently been the home of many novel crime styles: Smash-and-grab, flash-Mob, and follow-home robberies being an increasingly common problem.
However, a more traditional form of theft is returning to this state. Historically, it is recognized that the era of piracy involving the Unites States’ water ended in the 1830s after the navies of Western Europe and North America began combating Caribbean pirates.
It’s back…this time in the waters of California’s San Francisco Bay Area.
Residents of California’s Bay Area are experiencing a new wave of crime that involves ‘pirates’ sneaking up on dinghies and stealing items from boats in the harbor.
Photos and videos posted online show dinghies speeding through the water at night and the alleged culprits on a watercraft following an apparent theft.
According to posts, as police are inundated with crime, some have been left to fend for themselves when it comes to sea, said Marianne Armand, a local boat owner.
Police have assigned one full-time officer to maritime patrol, and the cop admits that thieves get away because of response times.
‘We have several calls into the police but they can’t do anything unless we catch them,’ Armand wrote in a Facebook post sharing video of the robbers.
It appears the homeless camps are the center of the new piracy craze.
On Monday, Jaime Camacho was salvaging teak wood from some old ship hulls. He said he’s noticed a lot more small boats tied up around the homeless camps at Union Point Park.
“And you wonder, where did they get these boats? Small boats are expensive. So, I wonder where they’re getting them. I don’t know,” said Camacho. “Maybe they’re taking what little money they have to buy them, but it’s, you know, I know a lot of friends who have had their small boats disappear and their outboard motors.”
Damon Taylor, who maintains a sailboat near the Jack London Aquatic Center, said outboard motors seem to be the real prize.
“Yeah, the motors are the thing,” he said. “You’ve got to figure a brand new, small 10-horsepower engine is $10,-15,000. So, even in the black market they can probably get a couple thousand.”
There is now even talk among those impacted by the Bay Area pirates of forming a seaborne militia to protect their property.
Former Oakland Marina harbormaster Brock DeLappe calls it piracy.
“Over the last couple of months it’s become extremely severe, boats are being stolen almost on a nightly basis,” he said. “Residents in marinas are scared, they’re talking about forming groups, they’re arming themselves. Someone’s going to get hurt if this is not taken seriously by authorities.”
Craig Jacobsen, president of Outboard Motor Shop says thieves also targeted his business.
Given where they live, I wish them a ton of good luck with that idea.
A US Navy vessel was one of the boats pilfered, as the patrols on these waters are understaffed and overworked.”
I imagine the federal gov’t has Florida hurricane response done to a routine it happens so often. As opposed to a Hawaii fire which is a once in a century event. I highly doubt the president on vacation or not will make a difference.
You have to be impressed with Florida man — I couldn’t tolerate a leaf blower without headphones. As hurricanes increase in strength and number, people will become impatient with tax dollars flowing to people who insist on living in a storm path. Of course, DeSantis’ attitude towards climate change isn’t helping.
The essay on the expansion of the ULEZ in London makes the classic American error of trying to apply a foreign event or policy to US domestic politics. The most obvious error is to see this as a regressive tax; painting a picture of poor people driving an old beater through London. The problem with this image is it doesn’t exist – very few London poor and middle class own a car – public transit is extremely good and cars aren’t necessary. The only cars you see in London are from the wealthy, taxis, delivery trucks and city vehicles. The car as a symbol of freedom is very American (and Canadian) – for Europeans it’s a six weeks vacation and very accessible public transit throughout the continent.
My university flatmate let his driver’s license expire when he lived in Japan. He never bothered to obtain one in London and now in Bangkok. Taxis and public transit made owning a car unnecessary. And he’s wealthy enough to afford a high end car – he just can’t be bothered. And that’s a typical non-North America view.
Opps, either I missed it or it just got added. I did notice the US, Poland and Romania were given a green light – “normal precaution” whereas the UK and Germany were given a yellow light – “exercise a high degree of caution”.
The author of the Newsweek article makes a good point until he advocates for DeSantis. I don’t see the governor as a generational change for the Republicans. Coming from two different parts of the Republican party, Vivek and Haley would be a generational change of new ideas (not that I like them, its just new thinking). DeSantis just isn’t that smart.
AJ – you often post stuff about shoplifting and minor theft out of control in Democratic cities. Here’s an article to show its not a unique American problem. It’s a western problem especially in areas where people are no longer part of the greater economy. This article points out relying on police is the wrong approach.
You often post videos from Libs of Tiktok. I viewed it as just another site trafficking in grievance and outrage. However, there appears to be a connection between the videos and threats and occurrences. People need to think of the consequences when they engage in outrage and grievance to increase viewers.
People who live in rural America have no access to public transportation. Another example of one size does not fit all. I live in the area where the first Greyhound bus
Hmmm-Where the first Greyhound bus was developed. The reason was that people needed it to get to work. Most housing was on the edge of the mines. However, with buses people could live out a bit. There is no reason people should have to pile on top of one another in cities. Leave my car and truck alone.
Of course you would view Libs of TikTok that way. She uses the left’s own words and videos, posted by them, to expose their disgusting behaviors and policy positions. Can’t have that, now can we?
You have no answer to her exposing the left, so you dismiss her and pretend she’s the one with the problem.
Wandering Views 
Time for these relics to retire and go home.
Mitch seems shocked to hear that he’s running for re-election.
https://twitter.com/Jebvv5/status/1697016822015381612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1697016822015381612%7Ctwgr%5Ebb9e90e0fb4cedec7673f7f1e66b4dfec0ed5b6a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fjustmindy%2F2023%2F08%2F30%2Ftwitter-is-tired-of-old-politicians-n2386739
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https://www.newsweek.com/end-american-gerontocracy-opinion-1803970
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Of course.
Biden has been taking millions in bribes from foreigners, yet this is who the DoJ is after.
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1696982431637680146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1696982431637680146%7Ctwgr%5Ecfdcf7961bf2e33765966d723c4c5e3c367b556b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fbrettt%2F2023%2F08%2F30%2Ffive-pro-life-activists-thrown-in-jail-by-the-justice-department-n2386735
Can I get a “no one supports abortion up until birth” comment Democrats?
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They can’t bear someone asking real questions because it exposes them as the lap dogs they are.
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If only there was evidence of Biden’s crimes…..
This is what a weaponized govt. looks like….
AGAIN.
Every. Part.
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Biden’s invasion and human smuggling operation continue to allow record numbers of illegal invaders in.
“NEW: 2,274 migrants crossed into the Tucson Sector yesterday according to DHS sources. The majority of them came through the open floodgates in Lukeville. I was down there watching it all unfold—Nonstop for hours.
Agents tell me the normal “high” for encounters before this current surge was around 1,500.
Most of the individuals I met were from Senegal and Mauritania—All of them were going to New York aside from one who was going to Minnesota—He was also the only one who said he had family here.
Across the border—9,100 migrants were encountered yesterday.
Buses cannot go up to where the wall is because of the terrain so they are transporting people via truck and van to either Nogales or Tucson which is a roughly 3-4 hour round trip. There were no agents out patrolling, they’re all transporting or processing.”
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This is what happens when you reward incompetence.
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I have all the tools necessary to pull this off. 🙂
https://twitter.com/FloridaMan__/status/1317155104370339841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1317155104370339841%7Ctwgr%5Ebafaa553f6c8b97229e593da70d7c68e2f1a2c59%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fsister-toldjah%2F2023%2F08%2F30%2Fwatch-florida-man-arrives-just-in-time-to-liven-up-cnn-live-broadcast-of-hurricane-idalia-n2163259
I love how they don’t have time to talk, just passing thru….
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And yet the evil idiots in charge of our govt. want every kid to get one, or six…..
“mRNA vaccines weaken immune response in children”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/08/31/mrna-vaccines-weaken-immune-response-in-children-n574898
“This is a very small study, but its findings would be very worrisome if they were replicated in a larger group of children. Assuming that anybody bothers to replicate the study on a large scale, given how hostile the establishment is to any data that doesn’t back their full-throated support for COVID-19 vaccines.
The news comes through Alex Berenson, a vaccine skeptic and somebody I read to get a sense of what skeptics are saying. He is a very polarizing figure, so I always take care to check his assertions carefully not because I distrust him, but rather to ensure that I agree with his reading of the evidence.”
“Berenson’s report is based on a peer-reviewed study of the effects of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines on the immune systems of children. The study focused on the Pfizer vaccine in particular.
The results were troubling. Quite troubling, actually. What the research found in their small cohort of participants is that children who were administered the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine saw their immune response to bacteria and viruses drop dramatically, and while the response to bacteria rebounded after 6 months, the response to viruses had not yet rebounded by the end of the study at 6 months.
Kids who got Pfizer’s mRNA Covid jabs had a weakened immune response to other viruses and bacteria, Australian researchers reported in a study published last week.
The diminished response appeared within weeks after the second Pfizer dose, the authors found. Blood taken from the children produced fewer crucial signaling molecules when stimulated with several common potential bacteria and viruses.
Over time, the immune response to bacteria returned to normal. But the diminished response to viruses lasted at least six months, for as long as the researchers collected data. “Our study showed that, in children, SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination decreases inflammatory cytokine responses,” the authors wrote.
I went to the study itself to get my own read of the data and argument, and while the authors were very cautious not to dramatize the results, they certainly were right to argue that this result requires further study soon. Berenson summarizes thusly:
The study was small, including only 29 children aged 6-11 at the first post-vaccination checkpoint and eight children at the six-month sample period. Further, the study’s short size and tiny number of participants meant the researchers could not correlate real-world clinical outcomes – such as increased severity of infections – with the diminished immune responses.
The peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Immunology published the paper. In keeping with other papers that have reported disturbing findings about the mRNAs, the study’s authors were careful to tiptoe around the potential impact of their data.
In their discussion, they wrote only that the findings show “the need for further research and consideration… given their broad public health implications.”
The authors point out something that is particularly worrisome: children have naive immune systems and are exposed to a lot of bacteria and viruses for the first time when they are young. Altering the immune response, particularly suppressing the immune response, at a very young age may be particularly problematic.”
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The study is here….
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1242380/full?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Coming soon to the US if Dems get their way.
“It’s not a conspiracy theory – there really is a war on the car
Sadiq Khan’s expansion of ULEZ speaks to the elite’s contempt for the freedom to drive.”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/08/30/its-not-a-conspiracy-theory-there-really-is-a-war-on-the-car/
“Of all the callous things the state could do to its citizens during a cost-of-living crisis, making them pay to drive their own cars is surely one of the worst. As if it wasn’t bad enough that the cost of foodstuffs has risen by 15 per cent, now you’ll have to pay through the nose just to get to the shop that sells those foodstuffs. As if it wasn’t tough enough forking out for your kids’ school uniforms and stationery, now you’ll have to pay for the privilege of dropping the kids at the schoolgates. As if it wasn’t hard enough getting time off work to visit your poorly mother in a care home, now you’ll have to stump up £12.50 to get to that care home.
This is the news that the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has expanded ULEZ to include all of London’s boroughs. As of this week, every inch of the capital is an Ultra Low Emission Zone where those who drive the wrong kind of vehicle – petrol or diesel vehicles that do not meet minimum emissions standards – will have to pay £12.50 on every single day they get in the driver’s seat and go somewhere. Let’s be clear about what the rollout of ULEZ represents: it’s an entirely regressive tax that will punish the poor most severely. It is an eco-toll that will have little impact on the wealthy of Greater London who drive ‘polluting’ vehicles, for whom £12.50 is small fry, or who can afford a brand new EV and are exempt from the charge. But it will devastate the freedom of movement of the less well-off who drive old cars. This is a cruel levy enforced by an out-of-touch mayor on a citizenry already struggling to make ends meet.
The expansion of ULEZ is justified in the most apocalyptic terms. Where the rulers of England in the 1370s enforced a punitive poll tax on the peasantry on the basis that ‘the security of the realm was under threat’ – primarily from war with France – today the rulers of London impose a regressive eco-tax on certain motorists on the basis that the security of the entire planet is at risk. ULEZ is necessary because ‘the planet is burning’, commentators madly claim. As if bleeding pensioners with creaking cars of £12.50 a day is going to make any dent in global pollution. ‘People are dying, this will save lives’, says Green peer Jenny Jones. It reeks of emotional blackmail. Bristle at ULEZ and you’re in cahoots with death itself; you’re an enabler of respiratory disease and the much prophesied, but little evidenced, heat death of the planet.
The facts, as is so often the case these days, tell a different story. Far from being a smog-ridden hellhole, London’s air is cleaner than it’s been for decades. Levels of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other pollutants have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. There’s been a staggering 98 per cent drop in sulphur. The idea that there’s an ‘air-pollution crisis’ and that it’s the fault of ‘dirty’ drivers – in the Guardian’s telling words – is nonsense. One might even call it misinformation, the thing that ULEZ’s critics are usually, and unfairly, accused of promoting.
Dirty drivers – that phrase exposes the rank moralism and snobbery behind the ULEZ expansion. This is not a scientifically sound initiative, necessary for the protection of life. It’s yet another outburst of the upper middle classes’ motorphobia, their bourgeois contempt for the freedom that cars afford to the masses. Nothing horrifies this bicycle-riding, Uber-using, Whole Foods-patronising layer of society more than the vision of a family of five driving their 4×4 to a giant Morrison’s for processed bread and cheap meat. That’s ‘dirty’ in their minds, which is a PC way of saying ‘morally inferior’. The elite hostility to cars is at root a hostility to modern society and the masses who inhabit it.
The ULEZ expansion shines a harsh light on the hypocrisy of Sadiq Khan and the Labour left. Khan made great play of providing London’s primary-school kids with free school meals this year, yet he then nabs £12.50 every day from any parent who drives a ‘bad’ car. The Corbynista left wrings its hands over the cost-of-living crisis, yet they’ve been out in force this week defending this regressive tax that will price the poorest off the roads. How thoughtful of them to take time out from reading books about the Peasants’ Revolt to support precisely the kind of heartless tax those peasants were revolting against.
The Khan regime has erected hundreds of fixed cameras to monitor the movements of the ‘dirty’ citizens of Greater London. What a perfect metaphor for his time in power. The city turned against the citizenry. Infrastructure deployed to spy on us and punish us for our eco-sins. Sadiq has turned a great city into his personal fiefdom, where all must bend the knee to his ideological obsessions or find themselves branded dirty, deniers, bigots, conspiracy theorists – there is a ‘far-right’ vibe to the public protests against ULEZ, as Khan says.
It isn’t only the eco-ideology that Khan is foisting on the capital. He’s introduced the rule of identitarianism, too. Witness the recent scandal of the mayor’s official website advising that a photo of a white family ‘doesn’t represent real Londoners’ and it might be better to use more ‘diverse’ images instead. Or Khan’s frequent utterances of the neo-religious mantra ‘Transwomen are women’, with no regard for the vast numbers of women in London who disagree; who think a person with a penis is a man and should not be allowed in, say, the Ladies’ Pond at Hampstead Heath. Or, more sinisterly, his use of a recent stabbing outside a gay club in Clapham to reprimand those who criticise aspects of the LGBTQ ideology. ‘Your culture war has real-life consequences’, he cynically said, as if opposing men in dresses going into ladies’ loos leads directly to knife attacks in South London. Khan treats London less as a bustling city that it is his privilege to represent, than as a soapbox from which he can bark his bien pensant views.
Then there’s his Remainerism, where he’s forever juxtaposing London’s ‘progressive’ love for the EU with what he presumably views as the un-progressive Europhobia of the low-information throng Up North. He even lit up the London Eye in the EU colours on New Year’s Eve in 2019: a Maoist spectacle that revealed his disdain for the democratic wishes of the British people. Turning London against the country is an unforgivable act of metropolitan hubris. And how about his penchant for social engineering, for saving dumber Londoners from their own worst instincts? Consider his stringent ban on any depiction of ‘junk food’ on buses and trains. Even an ad for a West End play fell foul of his deranged censorship because it contained an image of a wedding cake. This is the staggeringly low opinion he has of his citizens – he even feels the need to avert our eyes from cake lest our destructive, gluttonous instincts be triggered.
We can now see what woke does to a city – it destroys it.”
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This is for HRW, who seemed to have trouble finding it.
From the govt. of Canada….
https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/united-states#laws
“2SLGBTQI+ travellers
Some states have enacted laws and policies that may affect 2SLGBTQI+ persons. Check relevant state and local laws.
Travel and your sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics”
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More.
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Livin’ the dream in the Dem Utopia known as Cali….
“Oakland, CA, Now Plagued by Pirates of the Bay Area
Oakland Marina Harbormaster: “Residents in marinas are scared, they’re talking about forming groups, they’re arming themselves.”
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I’m sure Newsome and company will arrest those who dare defend themselves….
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/oakland-ca-now-plagued-by-pirates-of-the-bay-area/
“California has recently been the home of many novel crime styles: Smash-and-grab, flash-Mob, and follow-home robberies being an increasingly common problem.
However, a more traditional form of theft is returning to this state. Historically, it is recognized that the era of piracy involving the Unites States’ water ended in the 1830s after the navies of Western Europe and North America began combating Caribbean pirates.
It’s back…this time in the waters of California’s San Francisco Bay Area.
Residents of California’s Bay Area are experiencing a new wave of crime that involves ‘pirates’ sneaking up on dinghies and stealing items from boats in the harbor.
Photos and videos posted online show dinghies speeding through the water at night and the alleged culprits on a watercraft following an apparent theft.
According to posts, as police are inundated with crime, some have been left to fend for themselves when it comes to sea, said Marianne Armand, a local boat owner.
Police have assigned one full-time officer to maritime patrol, and the cop admits that thieves get away because of response times.
‘We have several calls into the police but they can’t do anything unless we catch them,’ Armand wrote in a Facebook post sharing video of the robbers.
It appears the homeless camps are the center of the new piracy craze.
On Monday, Jaime Camacho was salvaging teak wood from some old ship hulls. He said he’s noticed a lot more small boats tied up around the homeless camps at Union Point Park.
“And you wonder, where did they get these boats? Small boats are expensive. So, I wonder where they’re getting them. I don’t know,” said Camacho. “Maybe they’re taking what little money they have to buy them, but it’s, you know, I know a lot of friends who have had their small boats disappear and their outboard motors.”
Damon Taylor, who maintains a sailboat near the Jack London Aquatic Center, said outboard motors seem to be the real prize.
“Yeah, the motors are the thing,” he said. “You’ve got to figure a brand new, small 10-horsepower engine is $10,-15,000. So, even in the black market they can probably get a couple thousand.”
There is now even talk among those impacted by the Bay Area pirates of forming a seaborne militia to protect their property.
Former Oakland Marina harbormaster Brock DeLappe calls it piracy.
“Over the last couple of months it’s become extremely severe, boats are being stolen almost on a nightly basis,” he said. “Residents in marinas are scared, they’re talking about forming groups, they’re arming themselves. Someone’s going to get hurt if this is not taken seriously by authorities.”
Craig Jacobsen, president of Outboard Motor Shop says thieves also targeted his business.
Given where they live, I wish them a ton of good luck with that idea.
A US Navy vessel was one of the boats pilfered, as the patrols on these waters are understaffed and overworked.”
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I imagine the federal gov’t has Florida hurricane response done to a routine it happens so often. As opposed to a Hawaii fire which is a once in a century event. I highly doubt the president on vacation or not will make a difference.
You have to be impressed with Florida man — I couldn’t tolerate a leaf blower without headphones. As hurricanes increase in strength and number, people will become impatient with tax dollars flowing to people who insist on living in a storm path. Of course, DeSantis’ attitude towards climate change isn’t helping.
The essay on the expansion of the ULEZ in London makes the classic American error of trying to apply a foreign event or policy to US domestic politics. The most obvious error is to see this as a regressive tax; painting a picture of poor people driving an old beater through London. The problem with this image is it doesn’t exist – very few London poor and middle class own a car – public transit is extremely good and cars aren’t necessary. The only cars you see in London are from the wealthy, taxis, delivery trucks and city vehicles. The car as a symbol of freedom is very American (and Canadian) – for Europeans it’s a six weeks vacation and very accessible public transit throughout the continent.
My university flatmate let his driver’s license expire when he lived in Japan. He never bothered to obtain one in London and now in Bangkok. Taxis and public transit made owning a car unnecessary. And he’s wealthy enough to afford a high end car – he just can’t be bothered. And that’s a typical non-North America view.
Opps, either I missed it or it just got added. I did notice the US, Poland and Romania were given a green light – “normal precaution” whereas the UK and Germany were given a yellow light – “exercise a high degree of caution”.
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The author of the Newsweek article makes a good point until he advocates for DeSantis. I don’t see the governor as a generational change for the Republicans. Coming from two different parts of the Republican party, Vivek and Haley would be a generational change of new ideas (not that I like them, its just new thinking). DeSantis just isn’t that smart.
AJ – you often post stuff about shoplifting and minor theft out of control in Democratic cities. Here’s an article to show its not a unique American problem. It’s a western problem especially in areas where people are no longer part of the greater economy. This article points out relying on police is the wrong approach.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/27/shoplifting-out-of-control-forget-police-stores-need-to-up-their-game
You often post videos from Libs of Tiktok. I viewed it as just another site trafficking in grievance and outrage. However, there appears to be a connection between the videos and threats and occurrences. People need to think of the consequences when they engage in outrage and grievance to increase viewers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/30/california-elementary-school-bomb-threat-libs-tiktok-extremist
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People who live in rural America have no access to public transportation. Another example of one size does not fit all. I live in the area where the first Greyhound bus
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Hmmm-Where the first Greyhound bus was developed. The reason was that people needed it to get to work. Most housing was on the edge of the mines. However, with buses people could live out a bit. There is no reason people should have to pile on top of one another in cities. Leave my car and truck alone.
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Exactly my point – you can’t apply London regulations to the domestic situation in the US.
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Of course you would view Libs of TikTok that way. She uses the left’s own words and videos, posted by them, to expose their disgusting behaviors and policy positions. Can’t have that, now can we?
You have no answer to her exposing the left, so you dismiss her and pretend she’s the one with the problem.
Typical.
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And if you’re “allegedly” getting threats for your disgusting videos, perhaps don’t post them publicly.
Sorry, but you’re not the good guys here.
I read your link. They’re assuming the threats are because they’ve been exposed, and not for their reprehensible behavior.
You need a boogie man to distract, so you assume it’s because they were exposed and not because they’re gross little reverse racists.
Hint for ya’.
The outrage came from the people whose children were effected, not because someone pointed it out on Twitter.
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