[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Guess we can cut the deaths in half by banning cars.
Surgeons at Westchester Medical Centre in New York state released research suggesting that more than 1.4million years of potential life are lost every year to gun crime
Car crashes were the greatest cause of death until deaths from guns skyrocketed between 2009 and 2018
The report, published in medical journal Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, found gun deaths rose on average by 0.72 per cent every year
Conversely, road accidents fell by 0.07 per cent each year that decade
Suicides using guns rose from 18,735 in 2009 to 24,432 in 2018 and gun murders rose from 11,493 to 13,958
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Surgeons at Westchester Medical Centre in New York state released research suggesting that more than 1.4million years of potential life are lost every year to gun crime
Did they release the number of years of potential life lost due the hospital malfeasance?
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I wasn't involved. Saw our friend Thursday night, then the family left in the wee hours Friday morning heading north to visit other family. Hit an ice patch, slipped, flipped, landed upside down in a wetland. Nobody got out. Eastern Kansas, an hour or so south of KC.
[PJ] To truly lead, one must serve. This concept is an accepted foundation of all good leaders, be they political, business, or religious. They are entrusted to lead through wisdom and never fear; humility and never arrogance. History shows that to reject that principle ultimately leads to authoritarianism, dictatorship, and a manifestation of evil in the world.
But too many of our leaders have now let go of that basic practice, and it’s time that we hold all of our leaders to account.
The recent actions and latest comment of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is just one of the glaring examples of the hubris that has infected so many leaders. Trudeau, who himself dressed in blackface as a younger man, has the audacity to attack the courageous truckers protesting his draconian lockdowns as racists. He has condemned members of the Conservative Party of the Canadian Parliament for standing with people who wave swastikas and Confederate flags, including Conservative Party member Melissa Lantsman, herself a descendant of Holocaust survivors (who has demanded a public apology from Trudeau, who at the time of this article has not responded). The irony of a man who wore blackface accusing a Jewish colleague of siding with racist Nazis for disagreeing with his authoritarian measures is clearly lost on Trudeau. As he has invoked emergency powers, and forcibly arrested and attacked the truckers for their peaceful opposition to his authoritarianism, we can easily see that it is his actions that are actually similar to those of the Nazis of the last century.
We have been observing this type of behavior from supposed leaders for two years. The examples of elected leaders who demand masks for others but go maskless themselves are too many to mention. Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Newsom, Cuomo, and more betrayed the trust of leadership placed upon them with their authoritarian demands in direct contradiction. The images of Nancy Pelosi going to a hair salon or Gavin Newsom setting up a private dinner at an expensive restaurant while all other restaurants are forced to close should be forever etched into our minds as a reminder of leaders who chose hypocrisy over integrity; hubris over service.
The examples of non-elected leaders have sadly followed suit. Sports stars and celebrities have publicly screamed about the need for masks while they attend their elite gatherings without masks or their all-important "social distancing." Sporting events seem to be a common excuse for their behavior, and the examples are countless. A California rabbi who demanded masks and vaccinations for all congregants over 5 years old recently tweeted out a picture of himself at the Super Bowl, and no masks were on him or the people around him. And we must always remember the image of Dr. Fauci enjoying the Opening Day of MLB at Nationals Park without any mask at the height of the outbreak in July of 2020.
[WND] A vast majority of Americans not only know about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s emergency declaration, where he essentially assumed the powers of a monarch and began issuing orders that cut into rights of free speech, free expression, free association and more, they oppose it.
Could never happen in the United States, right?
Well, two members of Congress, one on the Senate and one in the House, are pointing out that when extremists are in power, they do, well, the extreme.
First, a report at Star News Network pointed out that just days ago, Joe Biden extended a declaration of a national COVID emergency.
Even though COVID vaccination numbers are high, case reports are plunging and even Democrat governors are dropping their mask demands — in light of the overwhelming public opposition and a recognition that the 2022 midterms are only months away.
The report explained Biden sent a letter to congressional leaders claiming, "There remains a need to continue this national emergency."
He claimed, "The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause significant risk to the public health and safety of the nation. More than 900,000 people in this nation have perished from the disease, and it is essential to continue to combat and respond to COVID-19 with the full capacity and capability of the federal government."
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something to do with a run on banks? Banks are no longer safe for the storing of your money
Governments have a very easy way of dealing with bank runs -- just order each and every one to close down. AFAICT, every deposit agreement between a bank's customer and the bank acknowledges that the bank can limit deposits for a variety of sound reasons and the customer can't do anything about it. In Canada, actions taken by the PM is (or can be) one of the "sound reasons". If a potential bank customer won't trust these banks, he is free to store his cash elsewhere. Metal detectorists in the UK are still finding "cash" ancient Romans buried there centuries ago.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Oleg Airapetov
[REGNUM] On September 14, 1918, the Allies launched an offensive on the Thessaloniki front. At the forefront of the offensive were the Serbian army (whose soldiers were eager to get even with the Bulgarians for a blow to the rear in 1915) and a French division. The Serbs broke three lines of Bulgarian resistance and overturned the German reinforcements that had approached the breakthrough site.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Biden announced the list of sanctions against the Russian Federation:
1. The US will impose sanctions against the sovereign debt of the Russian Federation.
2. The US will impose sanctions against Vnesheconombank and Promsvyazbank.
3. The US will continue negotiations with Germany to block Nord Stream 2.
4. The US will impose sanctions against certain representatives of the Russian elites.
5. The US will continue to build up its troops in Eastern Europe if Russia does not withdraw troops from Belarus.
6. The US will protect every inch of NATO territory. But not Ukraine. It will only continue to receive military assistance.
7. The US will impose even more powerful sanctions if Russia continues to seize Ukraine.
8. The US admits that sanctions against Russia will hit the US economy, but the Biden administration will support it.
After reading a list of sluggish sanctions, Biden disappeared behind the scenes to the bewildered cries of journalists demanding answers.
Against this background, the ruble immediately went up.
Somewhat earlier, the EU announced sanctions:
1. Russian elites will not be allowed to shop in Milan, hold parties in Saint-Tropez and buy diamonds in Antwerp. The funniest sentence of the year. Thanks to Josep Borell. You give more such sanctions.
2. The EU will impose personal sanctions against State Duma deputies who voted for the recognition of the DPR and LPR.
3. The EU will introduce personal sanctions against persons associated with the activities of the LPR and DPR.
4. The EU will prepare a package of sanctions against a number of Russian banks and individuals.
5. It is also worth noting that Britain has imposed sanctions against 5 Russian banks, as well as against Timchenko and Rottenberg.
Moscow says that Western sanctions were expected and predictable.
In general, this whole sanctions story continues to hammer nails into the coffin of Russian Westernism in the most excellent way.
The trip to the golden billion and Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok is over. The problem is that many people who carried out a 30-year experiment on the country with a trip to the West "along the high road of civilization" have not gone away.
And if the majority of the country's population only laughs at jokes about Milan and Saint-Tropez, then for certain representatives of the Russian elites this is really a definite fat point in an ideological catastrophe.
CBS News reported last night that Putin launched into a tirade about Ukraine on Russian TV. But, of course, neither CBS nor any of other mainstream outlet would report anything that Putin actually had to say, let alone report on some of the history to which Putin refers. I found these highlights at Al Jazeera. I think it's a shame, and scary too, that I had to visit a foreign owned website just to read what the man had to say. I won't defend Putin here but I think everybody should have a chance to read what he had to say instead of only hearing from Jen Psaki, Kamala Harris or Joe Biden. Every individual should have a right to decide for him or herself who is more credible.
[AlJazeera] On recognition of pro-Russian separatists
I deem it necessary to make a decision that should have been made a long time ago — to immediately recognise the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic.
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Good thing you like port wine because I have a feeling Stolichnaya will soon be in short supply. You might have a hard time finding Beluga caviar as well.
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Going to guess that most WEF members are mainly into infusions of children's blood. Maybe Cream of Sum Yung Gai when they are actually hungry...
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[ElizabethNicksonSubstack] “So we’re dealing with cornered feral humans who are terrified. Arguably the entire thing from the lockdowns till now is their knowing what’s coming (They see polls you don’t see. 39% approval my sore ass. More likely 9%) And they know how much they cheated, and it wasn’t enough so they had to cheat at the last minute. Oh, and all of them are criminals, steeped deep in horrible crap. And they can’t afford for it to come out. In their little pin heads, they have to keep control.” -Sarah A Hoyt
The black clad army of mercenaries and police brutalizing a peaceful protest in Ottawa this weekend has been planned for years. It is overkill for a reason. It is theatre. It is an othering, a willful flagrant statement on the future of the working class everywhere. It instructs them: you will die. If not now, then sometime in the next ten years. Your towns will be gutted, your jobs will evaporate, you will scramble for pennies until you fall over dead and your children will have nothing to look forward to. You are Tutsi, you are Jew, you are Kulak, you are compromador, you are Othered. You are headed for the slagheap of history. Fight back and you will be deemed domestic terrorists and encamped indefinitely. Read the rest at the link
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.
