That’s ok — the states were starting to open up before those thousand health professionals, epidemiologists, and activists signed off on the health benefits of protesting in close proximity. So no need for the overstretched city of Minneapolis to shelter the homeless any longer.
[STARTRIBUNE] A report of a drug overdose led to the eviction Tuesday of more than 200 homeless people from a hotel in south Minneapolis that had become a refuge during protests that erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in police custody.
Residents of the former Sheraton Minneapolis Midtown Hotel, tucked just north of Lake Street on reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Avenue, awoke to reports that the hotel’s fire alarm was pulled after 6 a.m. following an overdose. The hotel owner, Jay Patel, has ordered the eviction of all the guests, according to volunteers at the site.
The sudden eviction marks the second time in two weeks thon the lam numbers of homeless people have been forced to vacate a temporary site, and could hamper efforts by a team of volunteers to find them more permanent housing.
The coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic has brought a heightened level of urgency around these efforts. Homeless outreach workers fear that people who are cleared repeatedly from shelters and other sites will scatter and become more difficult to reach with aid.
"It’s not that people don’t want to help, it’s just that right now there are no physical beds," said Sheila Delaney, who acted as a liaison between volunteers, the building owner and other partners. "There is no ’Plan B,’ except for back out."
Since May 29, the hastily arranged shelter had been a source of stability, even hope, amid the chaos and destruction that followed Floyd’s death on May 25.
Unlike traditional homeless shelters, people who stayed at the hotel were allowed to bring drugs and alcohol on-site. Volunteer medics were focused on preventing overdoses and helping people access health services, rather than enforcing rules that would result in people being forced back onto the streets.
But some residents at the hotel said conditions had begun to spin out of control in recent days, with people injecting heroin and methamphetamine in the hallways, and fights breaking out at night. Volunteers became overwhelmed.
"It started out well, then descended into chaos," said Jennie Taylor, who had a room on the second floor. "People got the message that this was a place where you could use drugs freely and that attracted the wrong crowd."
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It started out well, then descended into chaos,"
Sounds like the Democrat way all right. See NYC, Washington, Seattle......
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But some residents at the hotel said conditions had begun to spin out of control in recent days, with people injecting heroin and methamphetamine in the hallways, and fights breaking out at night. Volunteers became overwhelmed.
[Breitbart] Perhaps not since the era of Oliver Cromwell, when Puritans smashed and burned any work of art or architecture they deemed impure, has Britain engaged in such a frenzy of iconoclasm.
Across the country, mobs of petty tyrants, puffed up with self-righteousness and moral fervour, are plotting which little piece of British history they can vandalise or destroy next. Ironic, perhaps, given Oliver Cromwell himself is now on the list of condemned statues.
In Bristol they have already succeeded with the statue of 17th-century merchant, slaver and city benefactor Edward Colston (whose statue — with the apparent acquiescence of Bristol police), they pulled from its plinth and dragged into the sea.
In London, they spray-painted (’Racist’) a statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square. The statue remains upright, so far. But today they had better luck in East London with a statue of Robert Milligan, another slave trader, which was torn down from its plinth on the orders of the Canal and River Trust — supposedly in response to public demand. (There was a petition with a fairly modest 3,000 signatures)
In Oxford, they’ve revived the long-simmering campaign (copied from mob tactics used in Cape Town, South Africa) to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College. Hundreds of undergraduates chanted ’take it down’, blocked the High Street with a sit-down protest during which all but one of them took a knee for eight minutes, 46 seconds in solidarity with George Floyd...
The exception was local resident Peter Hitchens...
[TownHall] - Everyone who wants to prevent nuclear war and expand economic opportunity should demand China's dictatorship answer this question: Why is nuclear-armed mainland China militarily and diplomatically escalating its Himalayan border dispute with nuclear-armed India?
On June 8, the South China Morning Post -- once an independent voice but increasingly a Beijing agitprop outlet-- published an article touting the People's Liberation Army's Himalayan reinforcement operation.
I enjoyed the photo of PLA infantrymen seated on a jet transport while wearing surgical masks. Obviously, the troops regard the COVID-19/Wuhan virus as a threat.
...As for war between the Asian giants China and India? We have a five-decade cycle of tit-for-tat Chinese and Indian Himalayan border chest-pounding episodes followed by tentative reconciliation.
Yet the 1962 Sino-Indian War isn't ancient history. Optimists note the 1962 Sino-Indian ceasefire has produced a kind of stability, but it is not a ratified peace treaty. Indeed, since 1962, frozen war has persisted at a literal level, with soldiers in snowfields. Frozen conflicts have the veneer of stability, but in fact, they are slow wars waged by diplomatic, economic and cultural means, and military buildups.
...Armed conflict becomes more likely when Chinese and Indian leaders see their Himalayan disputes as either a convenient squabble serving domestic political ends or, much worse for planet Earth, a window of opportunity to gain a significant advantage over a major strategic adversary. Prospect No. 1 produces war by miscalculation. Prospect No. 2 produces war when one side decides to deny the aggressor a bloodless strategic advantage.
China's dramatic economic contraction matters. I doubt China knows the exact percentage points, but thanks to its COVID-19/Wuhan virus cover-up, Beijing's tendency to put lipstick on ugly numbers has become a global reputation for bald-faced lying.
Add this reasonable assumption: China's economy will not see its 1990-to-2017 growth rates. The U.S. decision to decouple supply chains, Western Europe's slow but similar response, and an understandable though little analyzed anti-Beijing reaction in Africa and southwest Asia support this assumption. Some economists argue that in 2019, the U.S. surpassed China as India's largest trading partner.
The Chinese Communist Party feels threatened by economic decline, Hong Kong's resistance and pandemic pushback.
Feeling threatened is reasonable in this situation...
In the 20th century, the CCP attracted domestic political support by demanding the return of treaty ports like Hong Kong. Beijing's current South China Sea expansion and pursuit of "traditionalist" claims on Himalayan territory repeat this motif. Hence the most likely scenario: Beijing is chest pounding to gain domestic support.
However, if someone on a glacier starts shooting, a brief Sino-Indian War 2020 (the War for Southern Tibet) where China launches a limited invasion with the goal of pushing the border 20 miles south in either the eastern or western sectors cannot be totally dismissed. After the territorial "bite," China would call for a ceasefire to avoid escalation to nuclear war and offer to negotiate a permanent border. This fact argues against a significant Chinese advance. In 1962, Beijing acclimated its infantry to high altitudes. New Delhi did not. In 2020, both sides' front-line forces are acclimated. The boys from Hubei? Not yet.
France was, in addition, paralyzed from any kind of growth by a proliferation of regulations and an omnipresent bureaucracy.
During France's lockdown, a law was passed to fine heavily (250.000 euros, $275,000) any social network that published what a judge might consider "hateful"; people are also now asked to report to the justice department any suspicious statement they read or hear about. Since schools and high schools have reopened, teachers were invited by the government to listen to the conversations of their students and immediately to report any comment criticizing the government.
"At the source of French misfortune, there are French traitors who bear French first names. They have been abusing the voters' trust for more than 40 years. They lied about the real state of society and ransacked the country". — Ivan Rioufol, columnist, Le Figaro, February 19, 2020.
The coronavirus pandemic in the northern hemisphere seems starting to subside -- perhaps just temporarily.
Many journalists wonder if Italy, one of the eight countries most affected in Western Europe, will leave the EU. Another country of concern is France -- not in great shape.
Although France spends a significant amount on its healthcare (8.6% of France's GDP), the pandemic there has been frighteningly mismanaged. There was a tragic shortage of intensive-care beds: 5,000 for the whole country, compared to Germany's 28,000. There was also, until the end of April, a near-total lack of masks and protective equipment for hospital doctors and caregivers. Further, there was the great lack of an ability to test for the coronavirus. The situation led the government to decide on one of the strictest general lockdowns in Europe. For eight weeks, the French economy, like others, effectively stopped. The results were devastating.
France, before the pandemic, was already in an alarming economic state. For several years, the country's economic growth rate had been barely above zero; the country's central bank had lowered its growth forecast for 2020 to 1.1%. France's unemployment rate was high (8.1%); it had not fallen below 8% for two decades. France was, in addition, paralyzed from any kind of growth by a proliferation of regulations and an omnipresent bureaucracy. The Index of Economic Freedom, published each year by the Heritage Foundation, ranks France number 64 , behind the United Kingdom (7), the Netherlands (14), Germany (27), and far behind formerly communist countries such as Poland (46), Romania (42), Bulgaria (37) or the Czech Republic (23)....
Breitbart via Instapundit Even though we know the coronavirus ravages black people at a much higher rate than other groups, Democrats are still actively encouraging black people to go outside and gather in large groups. And the main reason coronavirus ravages black people at a much higher rate than other groups, is (IMO) not vitamin D and the rest of these "just so stories" but because quarantine wasn't enforced in inner cities.
Each compounds all the others, I suspect.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
At the local and federal level, Democrats are actively seeking to either weaken or abolish police departments that protect predominantly black neighborhoods and cities.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
Look at how Democrats protested George Floyd’s tragic death on Monday. Here’s a photo. Look at how they practiced safe social distancing... And yet these same Democrats are actively encouraging black people to go out and gather in large groups.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
Democrats lobby relentlessly for illegal and unskilled immigrants to enter our country, which disproportionately steals jobs and lowers the wages of black Americans.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
Democrats openly and aggressively campaign to destroy the education reforms that predominantly black urban areas most desperately need — school choice and charter schools.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
The number of black people murdered every week in cities like Chicago and Baltimore, cities that have been run exclusively by Democrats for decades, should be a national scandal, but nothing is ever done. While countless black people fall, it’s all swept under the rug to protect the Democrat Political Machine.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
To Democrats, black people are cannon fodder, expendable soldiers in their social justice war for power. As Democrats safely social distance, they urge their cannon fodder to take it to the streets; as Democrats send their own children to private schools, they push their cannon fodder into failing schools; as Democrats enjoy private security, they call for defunding the police that protects black Americans.
It is in Democrat-run cities where black people are gunned down daily.
It is in Democrat-run cities where the water turns to poison. On the other hand, you do have a small black upper class - mostly in politics where they (mostly) rob their constituents blind.
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No mention of how well Planned Parenthood has treated the black community.
As for me I think NO lives matter: Europe’s Jews in the 1930s, Armenians living in Turkey, Irish in 1851, non-communists in Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Laos.....
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Soviet historian Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko attributes the following version to Stalin: "When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics."
If we just say that five googol more times, the GOP can get its share of the black vote up to six percent!
Success!
The average black knows they're despised by Dems, but they've made the rational calculation that they can accept this as long as the Free Sheeit keeps coming.
They aren't innocent naifs being led astray by more cunning whites; they're rational actors who have found a means of resource extraction that's been working for them for a long time.
You or I might point out that in the grand scheme of things, they're more harmed than helped by this attitude; but how many people make their day to day decisions on the basis of the big picture?
Time to stop pretending that everything that's happening is because they're being led astray by crafty badwhites.
That's actually racist, you know.
Instead, hold them accountable like you would any autonomous adult.
And if we truly decide that they can't be held accountable, then it's time to start taking away some of their rights.
We don't allow children to vote or hold office, after all.
None of the above should be taken to mean that we won't have to deal with white left as well, of course.
[American Thinker] -
There are more than two sexes, biology notwithstanding.
Indeed, there are "57 Varieties" of gender. Also, in
contradiction, gender is a "social construct."
Islam is a "religion of peace."
The university campus is aswarm with female victims of rape
and sexual assault.
The planet is entering a carboniferous period as
temperatures rise to unsustainable levels.
There is an organized and historical campaign in the Judeo-
Christian West of men against women known as the
"Patriarchy."
There is a vast movement of White Supremacists ruthlessly
oppressing those of other races and creeds.
America is bedeviled by institutional racism.
There is no such thing as truth.
Looting, vandalism and physical violence are legitimate forms of civil protest.
The value of people derives from their membership in a group rather than from their status as unique individuals.
We have entered the looking-glass world. None of these beliefs correspond to reality, as every sensible person knows. They are to a significant extent forms of what Angelo Codevilla calls "subrational submission," or conformity to the political diktats of a leftist ruling class, but they transcend politics insofar as they are signs of a spreading cultural malady -- the inability to think. Years of bad education, political indoctrination, and welfare dependency have much to do with a demonstrable decline in intelligence and basic knowledge -- a veritable contagion of cultural illiteracy, to quote E.D. Hirsch. IMO, it all started with believing that environment trumps heredity.
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.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[Gatestone Inst.] 
Even though we know the coronavirus ravages black people at a much higher rate than other groups, Democrats are still actively encouraging black people to go outside and gather in large groups.
