28 Sunday Apr 2019
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This week’s TPC column space will feature a large chunk of fresh fiction by yours truly. It’s education-related and something you won’t find anywhere else. A melding of important topics, with a little wit and drama for the measure. I envision it as a beta test part of something larger. Something that might look like a novel.
More to come – will be posted here on publication date.
I may do a second “normal” national affairs column too.
28 Sunday Apr 2019
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≈ Comments Off on Listen Carefully – Senator Lindsey Graham Outlines Deep State Exit… — The Last Refuge
Happy to see that Gramnesty has overcome that temporary fit of statesman-like manliness that attacked him during the Judge K show trial. He’s back to normal:
Those who participated in the 2015/2016 surveillance and spy operations, which evolved into the 2017 (through today) soft-coup effort, are relying on a defense that Russia ‘hacked’ the 2016 election. This false narrative is how the corrupt administrative state will defend themselves. Pay close attention to this interview and note how Senator Graham supports that […]
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28 Sunday Apr 2019
Posted in News and Notes
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A week after the Easter massacre, terrorists detonate more explosives as the police net tightens around them.
Fifteen people including six children were killed in Sri Lanka on Friday when suspected Islamist militants blew themselves up in a raid, police said.
The raid occurred in Sainthamaruthu, near the hometown of the suspected ringleader of the Easter Sunday attacks that killed at least 250 people.
Gunmen opened fire as troops attempted to raid a house, police said.
Three men set off explosives, they added, killing the children and three women. Three others died in gunfire.
One civilian was caught in the crossfire and died, according to police, while a wounded woman and child were taken to hospital.
Footage shown on state television showed charred bodies inside the house, one cradling a rifle. Explosives, a generator, a drone, and batteries were also visible.
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Security forces have carried out raids across the country since the attacks, but officials say there are dozens of IS sympathisers still at large in the country.
Given the oft-touted (or maligned) 10% and/or 1% figures floating around, it’s likely many more than “dozens.” Probably the same in your country.
28 Sunday Apr 2019
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≈ Comments Off on And the Cat Videos Lived Forever
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Thanks to the insidious evil of Farcebook the inanity of your life may continue long after your expiration date.
The number of Facebook profiles of people who have died may exceed the number of living profiles in just 50 years, according to a new study. As such, the social network could become the keeper of a significant part of humanity’s memory.
The dead will one day take over Facebook. In 50 years, if not sooner, there will likely be more profiles of deceased people than of living users on the social network, according to a study published online by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) on April 27.
I never really understood the business model behind social media. Exactly what products and services do they market for dead people? Or, are the dead the products?
Most people are stupid; they won’t delete their accounts before time deletes the account holders. Barring a dark age, the cessation of electricity, and a reset, future archeologists and anthropologists will use FB as a research tool: “Boy, howdy. These folks were dumb.”
27 Saturday Apr 2019
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≈ Comments Off on Bergoglio Sends Money to Help Settle ‘Migrants’ in Mexico
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Yeah. We all know the gooooooooooal is to get them into the USE as fast as possible. Hopefully, these funds will help them adjust to MEX.
Pope Francis [SIC] has donated 500,000 dollars to assist migrants in Mexico. The funds, from the Peter’s Pence collections, will be distributed among 27 projects promoted by sixteen Mexican dioceses and religious congregations, which requested assistance in continuing to provide food, lodging, and basic necessities to the migrants.
US border closed
According to a statement from Peter’s Pence, “In recent months, thousands of migrants have arrived in Mexico, having travelled more than 4,000 kilometres on foot and with makeshift vehicles from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Men and women, often with young children, flee poverty and violence, hoping for a better future in the United States. However, the US border remains closed to them.”
Diminished aid and media coverage
In particular, the aid is intended to assist the more than 75,000 people who arrived in Mexico in 2018, in six migrant caravans. “All these people were stranded, unable to enter the United States, without a home or livelihood”, the statement reads. “The Catholic Church hosts thousands of them in hotels within the dioceses or religious congregations, providing basic necessities, from housing to clothing”.
Although a great deal of attention was focused on the caravans at the time, the Peter’s Pence statement notes that “media coverage of this emergency has been decreasing, and as a result, aid to migrants by the government and private individuals has also decreased”.
Senor Fred Reed says MEX is the place to be stranded so there’s hope these folks will find happiness there. I must say $6.66 apiece (rounded down), while a number many might associate with Bergoglio, seems a little low for clothing and housing. Or, it might help them go back. Dunno.
I wonder what Pope Benedict XVI is doing today. Hope he’s well.
UPDATE: InfoWars gets it:
27 Saturday Apr 2019
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≈ Comments Off on Taki on the Ruination of the Digital Age
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In retrospect, the “smart” era is starting to look like an error – of catastrophic proportion. Ditching TeeVee, mooooovies, and the socials may not be enough. Some days now, I ponder if electricity was a mistake. The spy phones and screens certainly were.
The byword is “transparency,” and I totally reject it, although if I weren’t writing for the gentile folks of Takimag I’d use different phrasing. Here you had that greedy slob Zuckerberg selling the digital privacy of hundreds of millions who naively trusted the bum, and also selling children’s data and tracking people’s movements, and the guy is walking around free and unharmed. Remember when the Russians lived ten in a room with a simple sheet hanging between families in the same room for privacy? We’re heading back to those days, thanks to the tech giants run by those good-looking people out west. Think about it and weep, but before that, get rid of the smartphone and feel free again.
And, honestly, if you look closely at them, most of those social westies don’t even look that good.
27 Saturday Apr 2019
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≈ Comments Off on Remember This Headline
Not mine. But this op-ed from the WSJ.
How do you cancel something that hasn… Nevermind. While it’s just as likely the 3.2 and other numbers have been manipulated, it’s possible that the recession we were in (that I called months ago) is over. If so, then it was the first, minor phase of a double dip. The second phase will be harder to cover up or ignore.
Let the paper times roll.
26 Friday Apr 2019
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≈ Comments Off on President Trump Shoots Down Gun Control
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In a move that shocked the world, Donald Trump announced to the NRA that he was repealing the NFA and the GCA, effective immediately. Well, no… That’s not quite what was said.
President Trump announced Friday that he would un-sign the global arms pact known as the Arms Trade Treaty in the latest illustration of his aversion to international pacts and world governance.
“I’m officially announcing today that the United States will be revoking the effect of America’s signature from this badly misguided treaty,” Trump said during a speech before the National Rifle Association in Indianapolis. “We will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment freedom.”
That’s right. We have our own chosen Republican bureaucrats to do that, one bump stock at a time. I suspect that un-signing the “Treaty,” which wasn’t (because unratified), has more to do with that conclave of Euro Arms sellers coming to DC next month and their domestic agents – they don’t want the slightest barrier in the way of police and military profit potential. My suspicion, at least. This had little to do with the Second Amendment, as currently gutted with ample assistance from the Loser Party, with partial assistance of the “g_d Emperor.”
Hey, at least we now have a Big, Beautiful, 2000-Mile-Long WALL on the MEX border now. And, Hillary is serving time along with all the other deep staters. Rest easy, Amerika.
26 Friday Apr 2019
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≈ Comments Off on Chuch Baldwin on Parallel Trends
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As the one goes up, the other goes down. It’s almost like they’re related or something.
I realize that the vast majority of Christian conservatives will choose to totally ignore this column (just as they do most of my columns), but the stark reality is that under so-called Christian conservative presidents G.W. Bush and Donald J. Trump, America’s wars are way up, while church attendance is way down. And, yes, I absolutely believe there is a direct link between these two trends.
That wars increased exponentially under Bush is not debatable. The ramifications of Bush’s illegal and immoral military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan are still strongly reverberating around the world to this very day. Much of the ongoing “war on terror” in the Middle East is a direct result of the Bush/Cheney military adventurism (putting it mildly) almost two decades ago. And Trump has escalated America’s missile wars to unprecedented levels.
Judeo Christ or Jesus Christ?
Make sure to watch his short video.
25 Thursday Apr 2019
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≈ Comments Off on Aiding, Abetting, and Broken Ribs
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aiding and abetting, DOJ, immigration, invasion, law, Massachusetts, War
I may switch over to all fiction soon as I tire of writing the same true stories over and over again. On the one hand, I’m glad the DOJ had the sense to charge a Massachusetts judge for helping a criminal invader escape justice.
A federal grand jury in Boston on Thursday indicted a Newton District Court judge and a now-retired state court officer on obstruction of justice charges for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade ICE custody in the Newton courthouse last year.
The indictment names Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, 51, and Court Officer Wesley MacGregor, 56, as the defendants. MacGregor retired from his job last month. The state Supreme Judicial Court suspended Joseph on Thursday.
It’s the manner of the indictment – stock obstruction and a crazy “conspiracy” theory – that bothers me.
I see nothing about the very specific 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (aiding, abetting, and harboring illegal aliens). Given that the immigration is tantamount to an invasion, to war, this charge would be the closest we have to sedition or treason by way of helping the enemy. In other words, it might pass (my) Constitutional muster (as if that matters…). I wonder if the Trump DOJ even has a copy of the U.S.C. or U.S.C.A. I wonder more and more about this administration.
At least they’re pursuing these two criminals, even as they persecute an honest American who tried to do Trump’s job for him. Aid and abet – sloppy indictment and Mass. liberals howling about “state’s rights.” Physically deter invaders – get arrested on fake weapons charges … then, in jail, have your ribs broken as a “thank you” from an ungrateful nation.
The leader of an armed militia that spent two months rounding up migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border before he was arrested on federal weapons charges was hospitalized after a jailhouse attack, his lawyer and authorities said on Wednesday.
Larry Hopkins, 69, whose group of self-styled citizen border cops drew condemnation from civil liberties advocates, suffered broken ribs in the beating by fellow inmates on Tuesday at the Dona Ana County Detention Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico, according to his attorney, Kelly O’Connell.
Dunno, it’s almost starting to feel like this isn’t nation anymore. It all might make for an interesting novella, eh?
PERRIN LOVETT 
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