Saturday, October 30, 2021
The Fed's Inflation Is behind the Supply Chain Mess
After all, as of September 2021, M2 has increased from $15.2 trillion to $20.9 trillion since February 2020. That’s an increase of 35 percent. Yes, some of that has been kept within the banking system through the Fed’s payment of interest on reserves, but a lot of it clearly has entered the “real economy” through stimulus payments, unemployment insurance, and federal deficit spending in general.
https://mises.org/wire/feds-inflation-behind-supply-chain-mess
The West Memphis Three Trials: An Account
https://famous-trials.com/westmemphis/2287-home
https://famous-trials.com/westmemphis/2247-whokilled
Steve Edward Branch
Steve Branch was the son of Steven and Pamela Branch, who divorced when he was an infant. His mother was awarded custody and later married Terry Hobbs. Branch was eight years old, 4 ft. 2 tall, weighed 65 lbs, and had blond hair. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a white T-shirt, and riding a black and red bicycle. He was an honor student. He lived with his mother, Pamela Hobbs, his stepfather, Terry Hobbs, and a four-year-old half-sister, Amanda.[16] Steve Edward Branch is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Steele, Missouri.
Christopher Mark Byers
Christopher Byers was born to Melissa DeFir and Ricky Murray. His parents divorced when he was four years old; shortly afterward, his mother married John Mark Byers, who adopted the boy. Byers was eight years old, 4 ft. tall, weighed 52 lbs, and had light brown hair. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, dark shoes, and a white long-sleeved shirt. He lived with his mother, Sharon Melissa Byers, his adoptive father, John Mark Byers, and his stepbrother, Shawn Ryan Clark, aged 13. According to his mother, Christopher was a typical eight-year-old. "He still believed in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus".[16] Christopher Mark Byers is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery East in Memphis, Tennessee.
James Michael Moore
Michael Moore was the son of Todd and Dana Moore. He was eight years old, 4 ft. 2 tall, weighed 55 lbs, and had brown hair. He was last seen wearing blue pants, a blue Boy Scouts of America shirt, and an orange and blue Boy Scout hat, and riding a light green bicycle. Moore enjoyed wearing his scout uniform even when he was not at meetings. He was considered the leader of the three. He lived with his parents and his nine-year-old sister, Dawn.[16] James Michael Moore is buried in Crittenden Memorial Park Cemetery in Marion, Arkansas.
Friday, October 29, 2021
Agriculture
Agricultural practices on the small farm, which typically ranged in size from 120 to 160 acres, varied from purely pastoral to a combination of pastoral, crop, and garden farming. Hunting and gathering provided an important supplement to family food provisions. In Washington County a farmer with 120 acres might be expected to use 100 acres for unfenced cattle and hog raising, firewood gathering, and hunting. Of the remaining twenty acres, ten to twelve would ordinarily be devoted to corn, a staple for both human beings and farm animals. An acre or less might be used variously for sweet sorghum or sugarcane, a fruit orchard, home garden and herb plot, and tobacco. Cash income, always minimal, came from the cultivation and harvest of two or three acres of cotton....
As the economy became more of a money-based system, small farmers increasingly slipped into tenancy or left farming. Generally, in tenant farming the landlord or planter contracted with the tenant for the cultivation of a small plot of land (usually in the range of 16–20 acres) on which the tenant was expected to raise as much cotton as possible. The planter ordinarily received one-third of the income from the crop for supplying the land, and one-third for provisioning the farmer with tools and housing, while the tenant received one-third for the labor. Credit was extremely expensive and scarce for the planter and disabling for the tenant, who commonly ended a year more deeply in debt than before....
In conjunction with such capital investments, Texas farmers who recognized that profitability depended upon achieving higher crop yields at reduced labor costs readily incorporated the application of chemicals as part of their agricultural programs. The use of fertilizers, particularly ammonia-based and nitrogen products, generally enhanced commodity returns. Furthermore, the introduction of herbicides at the preplanting, preemergence, or postemergence of the crops usually reduced weed growth and cut labor expenses. In addition, insecticides applied by tractor-mounted equipment or by aircraft helped lessen damages inflicted by insects and diseases.
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
TEMPLARS.
"They live," said Saint-Bernard (1) [3] , without having anything of their own, not even their will, they are, as a rule, simply dressed and covered with dust; their faces burnt from the heat of the sun, their gaze fixed and severe. With the approach of the combat, they arm themselves with faith within and iron without; their arms are their only adornment, they use them courageously in the greatest perils, without fear either the number or the strength of the barbarians. All their confidence is in the god of hosts ”and by fighting for his cause, they seek a certain victory or a holy and honorable death.
O the happy kind of life, in which one can expect death without fear, desire it with joy, and receive it with confidence. "
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It is not in the works written since their misfortunes that the impartial man must seek what were the customs, the conduct and the opinions of the Templars. Rarely do the outlaws find courageous apologists. It is to the contemporary historians of these knights, it is to the witnesses of their virtues and their exploits that it is necessary to address, and one must especially count for much the honorable testimonies of the popes, the kings and the princes who, soon after became their oppressors.
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_templiers_(trag%C3%A9die_de_Raynouard)/Des_templiers
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Thomas Jefferson and the Classics
To all this I add, that to read the Latin and Greek authors in their original, is a sublime luxury as in architecture, painting, gardening, or other arts. I enjoy Homer in his own language infinitely beyond Pope's translation of him, and both beyond the dull narrative of the same events by Dares Phrygius; and it is an innocent enjoyment. I thank on my knees, HIM who directed my early education, for having put into my possession this rich source of delight; and I would not exchange it for anything which I could then have acquired, or have not since acquired.
https://college.holycross.edu/faculty/wziobro/ClassicalAmerica/JeffersonandClassics.html
SARS 10 years later: How are survivors faring now?
“They’re still, after 10 years, experiencing problems. Issues such as fatigue, muscle and joint pain, shortness of breath and some newly developing problems such as neuropathy, numbness in the feet and hands,” she said.
https://globalnews.ca/news/404562/sars-10-years-later-how-are-survivors-faring-now/
Windswept House: A Vatican Novel
It tells the story of an international organized attempt by these Vatican insiders and secular internationalists to force a pope of the Catholic Church to abdicate, so that a successor may be chosen that will fundamentally change orthodox faith and establish a New World Order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windswept_House:_A_Vatican_Novel
Beatification of 127 Spanish Civil War martyrs in Córdoba shows 'profound spiritual wealth'
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Nationalist forces, led by Francisco Franco, and the Republican faction. During the war, Republicans martyred thousands of clerics, religious, and laity; of these, 11 have been canonized, and more than 2,000 beatified....
On July 20, 1936, Republican forces arrived at Francisco's house to arrest his father. An hour later, they returned to arrest his uncle. It was then that they noticed that a scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was protruding from Francisco’s pocket.
Monday, October 25, 2021
Sunday, October 24, 2021
Friday, October 22, 2021
Rand Paul Takes Well-Deserved Victory Lap After Documents Prove Fauci Lied His A** off to Him
As noted by Daily Caller, The NIH claims the “published genomic data demonstrate that the bat coronaviruses studied under the NIH grant to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. and sub-award to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) are not and could not have become SARS-CoV-2.”
Necessary (etymology)
late 14c., necessarie, "needed, required; essential, indispensable; such as must be, that cannot be otherwise; not voluntary or governed by chance or free will," from Old French necessaire "necessary, urgent, compelling" (13c.), and directly from Latin necessarius "unavoidable, indispensable, necessary," from necesse "unavoidable, indispensable," originally "no backing away," from ne- "not" (from PIE root *ne-) + cedere "to withdraw, go away, yield" (from PIE root *ked- "to go, yield").
Oblige (etymology)
c. 1300, obligen, "to bind by oath, put under moral or legal obligation, devote," from Old French obligier "engage one's faith, commit (oneself), pledge" (13c.), from Latin obligare "to bind, bind up, bandage," figuratively "put under obligation," from ob "to" (see ob-) + ligare "to bind," from PIE root *leig- "to tie, bind." Main modern meaning "to make (someone) indebted by conferring a benefit or kindness" is from 1560s.
Must (etymology)
must (v.)
auxiliary of prediction, "be obliged, be necessarily impelled," from Old English moste, past tense of motan "have to, be able to," from Proto-Germanic *motanan (source also of Old Saxon motan "to be obliged to, have to," Old Frisian mota, Middle Low German moten, Dutch moeten, German müssen "to be obliged to," Gothic gamotan "to have room to, to be able to"), perhaps from PIE root *med- "take appropriate measures," but this old suggestion lately has been doubted. Used as present tense from c. 1300, eventually displacing motan, from the custom of using past subjunctive as a moderate or polite form of the present.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Homosexuality and the Constitution: A Legal Analysis of the Supreme Court Ruling in Lawrence v. Texas
At the time of the Lawrence decision, twelve other states, in addition to Texas, had anti-sodomy laws on their books. However, of the thirteen states with anti-sodomy laws, only four states, including Texas, had laws that criminalized sodomy between same-sex couples but not between heterosexual partners.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Did the Obama Administration mishandle H1N1?
The final estimates about the H1N1 pandemic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a federal public health agency — say that 60.8 million people in the U.S. were infected, 274,300 were hospitalized and 12,400 died from the virus. Kirk is using accurate statistics.
https://www.poynter.org/tfcn/2020/did-the-obama-administration-mishandle-h1n1/
Monday, October 18, 2021
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Gov. Greg Abbott and local officials are fighting several legal battles over mask mandates. Here’s what you need to know.
Which side is winning in court?
That depends on the lawsuit and the court.
Often, local officials find favor with lower court judges who block Abbott’s order and allow locals to enact mask mandates — though some of those judges have sided against mask mandates. In some cases, courts will let mandates stand, only to have higher courts temporarily block them.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/21/texas-school-mask-mandates/
How Close Is Total Social and Economic Collapse?
"It was the greatest failure of politics in a century or perhaps in all of human history, when you consider just how many governments were involved in committing the same idiocy all at once."
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"What’s remarkable is the near-silence on the cause of this whole crackup. It all traces to a fateful attempt to control a virus using compulsion. That has been followed by an unwillingness to admit error and a doubling down on that error with more mistakes such as vaccine mandates. We are faced with a stunningly cruel policy that is forcing more firings during a widespread labor shortage."
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"How bad must it get before human rationality and reason take over from political egos and careerist duplicity?"
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Friday, October 15, 2021
Et tu, Walmart? By Andrea Widburg
Walmart argues that "white supremacy culture" can be summarized in a list of qualities including "individualism," "objectivity," "paternalism," "defensiveness," "power hoarding," "right to comfort," and "worship of the written word"—which are "damaging to [people of color]."
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/et_tu_walmart.html
COVID-19 -- Who benefits?
Vaccine-making is an astonishingly profitable field to be in these days. The COVID vaccines created nine new billionaires, including Moderna's Stéphan Bancel, who is worth $4.3 billion. Even China got three COVID billionaires....
On January 31, 2020, Kristian Andersen, who was researching this issue for a story in Nature Medicine, sent an email to Anthony Fauci, head of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a key player in the coronavirus story, stating that "[o]ne has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered."
Andersen made a startling turnaround four days later, denouncing the genetic engineering theory as "crackpot." What happened in the meantime? He had a conference call with Fauci and received a research grant worth millions.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/covid19__who_benefits.html
Italian Doctor Accused of Killing Elderly Covid Patients ‘to Free up Beds’
According to reports, both medications are commonly used while intubating or sedating patients but can cause death if not needed.
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Compact of 1802
The Compact of 1802, formally Articles of Agreement and Cession, was a compact between the United States of America and the state of Georgia entered into on April 24, 1802. In it, the United States paid Georgia 1.25 million U.S. dollars for its central and western lands (the Yazoo lands, now Alabama and Mississippi, respectively), and promised that the U.S. government would extinguish American Indian land titles in Georgia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_of_1802
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Polygamy Is a Problem for Economic Development
Research reveals that in sub-Saharan Africa children in polygamous families are 24.4 times more likely to die when compared with children in monogamous families. Similarly, a study comparing the outcomes of children in polygamous families in Mali to their peers in monogamous families found that children in polygamous families are less likely to be enrolled in school. Furthermore, in Tanzania polygamy is a risk factor for poor nutritional status among children even when controlling for household wealth.
https://mises.org/wire/polygamy-problem-economic-development
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Monday, October 11, 2021
Dallas city officials say domestic violence cases continue to rise
Garcia said victims of domestic violence are mostly women, between the ages of 16 and 24-years-old, living in poverty, and more likely to be Black and indigenous. He said victimization is 35% more common among Black women compared to white women.
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Menasseh Ben Israel
Oliver Cromwell was sympathetic to the Jewish cause, partly because of his tolerant leanings but chiefly because he foresaw the importance for English commerce of the participation of the Jewish merchant princes, some of whom had already made their way to London. At this juncture, the English gave Jews full rights in the colony of Surinam, which they had controlled since 1650. There is some debate among historians concerning whether Menasseh's motives for pursuing the readmission of the Jews by England were primarily political or religious. Ismar Schorsch, for example, has argued that the idea of England being a final place for Jews to inhabit in order to bring about the coming of the Messiah was hardly present in The Hope of Israel (1652), but rather was developed by Menasseh later (1656-57 when he was in London) in order to appeal to English Christians with Millenarian beliefs.[10] Henry Méchoulan, on the other hand, in his later in-depth detailed analysis of the book has striven to show that the Jewish messianic theme in it is also rather fundamental to its initial conception.[11] Steven Nadler, in his 2018 book, which is actually the last word on Menasseh's biography to be published to date, has seemingly also closed the debate on this issue of Menasseh's own messianic beliefs:
- "They [the sundry European Gentile Millenarians that were in contact with him] especially valued [Menasseh] as the Jewish expositor of a common [Jewish-Christian] Messianic vision, wherein the worldly empires will be swept away by a "Fifth Kingdom" [or Fifth Monarchy] ruled by a savior sent by God."[12]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menasseh_Ben_Israel
Saturday, October 9, 2021
Ashkenazi Jews rank smartest in world
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4098351,00.html
07.23.11 , 09:01
Reprinted with permission from Shalom Life
Friday, October 8, 2021
The Legacy of Slavery is Not Simply Black and White
Black Caribbean children did the worst in U.K. schools but all other ethnic groups including “non-Caribbean African blacks” performed better than the white average score. Family structure was the main factor affecting performance with 63 percent of Caribbean black children coming from single-parent homes, compared to only 14 percent for the population as a whole and 6 percent for India origin families.
Are COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects Contagious?
https://www.verywellhealth.com/covid-vaccine-side-effects-not-contagious-5182483
Most systemic post-vaccination symptoms are mild to moderate in severity, occur within the first three days of vaccination resolve within 1–2 days of onset.
