Some Narrative fails… they just… write themselves.
Rat birth control used to manage rodent population in American cities
That headline was apparently changed after the fact to:
Some of America’s most rat-infested cities are trying rodent birth control. Will it work?
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And to bypass the paywall,
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With California and other states restricting the use of highly toxic rat poisons, cities around the country have turned to a new method to try to control their rat populations: birth control.
Rather than a pill, the contraceptive, otherwise known as ContraPest, is deployed in bait boxes as a liquid that is high in fat and water content and targets their reproductive capabilities, preventing them from contributing to the already-existing population.
“The problem is that rats reproduce at an incredible rate,” ContraPest CEO Ken Siegel said. “You just can’t kill them fast enough to offset that reproduction rate. And so ContraPest is really the only solution that’s out there that deals with the second half of the equation, which is birth rate.”
If you can’t just kill them… then birth-control them.
San Francisco and Los Angeles – which are both among the top five “rattiest” cities in 2021, according to Orkin’s annual report – were among the cities to start using ContraPest as a method of pest management after California banned the use of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides. Those include some familiar brand-names such as d-Con, Hot Shot and Talon.
For decades, Marxists have used their control of California to force the nation’s manufacturers to choose between complying with insane Commiefornian environmentalist regulations, or losing access to 25% of the American economy. But the Marxists have used that sledgehammer so often that it broke. You haven’t seen it in the headlines yet, but the silver lining of supply lines crashes and the spiking inflation rate is that manufacturers are choosing to abandon California instead of expensively and constantly retooling their products. They don’t have enough stock to satisfy existing demand in the other 75% of America so there’s no longer any loss to be suffered.
It sucks for me personally, but “not for sale in California” is rapidly and finally becoming a thing.
ContraPest has been found to help decrease rat populations by over 90% based on studies done at various locations, including in Washington and a poultry facility in California, according to Brandy Pyzna, the vice president of research and regulatory affairs at the company.
“I think in the pest control industry, at least in the US, the idea of fertility control, they’ve heard about it, but it’s not widely understood why it’s beneficial,” Pyzna said. “It does take a lot of education to explain to people why you wouldn’t just kill.”
It’s simple. You wouldn’t just kill those mammals because some of them still have guns.
I keep getting distracted from the series that I do. It doesn’t help that the one-offs tend to be more popular. But my material doesn’t usually time out on me.
I was going to describe how, based on Guidepost Solutions’ recommendations, clergy are now reaping their whirlwind. They’re about to suffer the way they made the laymen suffer, by women taking their complaints to a higher level of church government in confidence that she’ll be believed no matter how baldfaced the lie. I was going to laugh at cuck-clergy for getting a double dose of pure, weapons-grade karma.
But there’s no longer any point to the SBC Abuse Report.
Guidepost Solutions’ LGBT pride tweet sparks uproar in SBC
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By Leonardo Blair, 10 June 2022
Guidepost Solutions, the investigative firm that recently produced a report on how the Southern Baptist Convention’s leadership mishandled sexual abuse allegations, is coming under fire from high-profile leaders in the denomination over a tweet supporting LGBT pride.
“Guidepost is committed to strengthening diversity, equity and inclusion and strives to be an organization where our team can bring their authentic selves to work,” the firm declared in a tweet Monday. “We celebrate our collective progress toward equality for all and are proud to be an ally to our LGBTQ+ community.”
Oookay, then. We’re done with that lying lie of a lie Abuse Report. Ain’t nobody gonna believe it no more. It was written by pedophilia advocates on behalf of SJW infiltrators in SBC leadership, and their hatred is boiling over to the point that they’re even sabotaging themselves in order to make their hatred of us known.
Those poor grillers aren’t even allowed to believe the lies anymore.
The Regime is losing control. The signs are everywhere. Abortion has driven them to doxx Supreme Court justices and make assassination attempts at them. The vaxx injuries are piling up so fast that they invented SADS, and just that acronym is a massive fuck-you to the people who submitted to the Fauci jabby. The Jan.6 hearings have finally started but are drawing less interest than CNN+. Russia won the Ukraine conflict and is the stronger for all the sanctions inflicted. Monkeypox lockdown trial balloons are not floating well. There’s even a Boston anarchist group that’s stepped up its game from divesting from Israel into doxxing Israeli control of Fedgov.
US, Israeli officials call out Boston group over ‘mapping project’ linking Jewish groups to media, government
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By Ronn Blitzer, 9 June 2022
A Boston-area group that opposes Israel is facing accusations of antisemitic “scapegoating” and conspiracy theorizing after it promoted a project that alleged ties between Jewish groups, the media, and government institutions, while posting their addresses online.
BDS Boston, which supports the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, posted an endorsement of the Mapping Project, claiming that various organizations and institutions are “structurally tied” to police, American imperialism, evictions, and the oppression of Palestinians.
The project features a map with markers for 482 agencies, organizations, media outlets, and politicians, including local police departments, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, Massachusetts Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren, the Boston Globe, and groups such as the Jewish Teen Foundation of Greater Boston, Jewish Arts Collaborative, and the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts.
“Our goal in pursuing this collective mapping was to reveal the local entities and networks that enact devastation, so we can dismantle them,” the project’s website says. “Every entity has an address, every network can be disrupted.”
Israeli and American governments teaming up to suppress that is only going to prove them right.
And inflation is crippling the ability of the public to be distracted from it all. And worst of all for them, Christians are finding their courage. My last post was not unique.
Texas Pastor Calls for Gay People to Be Shot in the Head
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By Donald Padgett, 10 June 2022
A pastor at a church in Texas labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center delivered a sermon calling for the government execution of LGBTQ+ folks, and it’s not the first time he’s made such disturbing calls for violence.
In his sermon entitled, Why We Won’t Shut Up, Dillon Awes of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Hurst said gay men were predatory pedophiles who have either committed sex crimes against a child or just haven’t had the opportunity to do so yet, leading him to the conclusion that “We need to put these people to death through the proper channels of the government.”
He’s right in the boldfaced. Even school policy says he’s right. “Kids must be sodomized regardless of their parents’ consent or even knowledge.”
Awes and the Stedfast Baptist Church are in the midst of an anti-Pride month where he visits various local churches and organizations celebrating Pride, and films himself calling these churches blasphemous and tools of satan.
I bet he was a griller just a few months ago. Possibly he’s controlled opposition instead… but this has been a LONG time in coming.
Last month, another preacher at the church, Jonathan Shelley, made the news for his call to commit violence against LGBTQ+ people. At an Arlington City Council meeting in May, Shelley railed against Pride, saying the Bible teaches “we should hate pride, not celebrate it.”
“God’s already ruled that murder, adultery, witchcraft, rape, bestiality, and homosexuality are crimes worthy of capital punishment,” he said.
Stedfast Baptist Church’s website says the government should impose the death penalty for homosexuality, but “Christians should not take the law into their own hands.”
The Regime is losing control at the speed of Internet. Thus, I predict that this year will see a hot flag: the government publicly and intentionally massacring a dissident population in order to terrorize the country. Think Waco Incident.
They can no longer contain their hatred of us, and they’re becoming desperate also. Our fate is not going to be the slow burn.
I don’t know if their target will be Christian or anarchist and I admit that my track record as a prophet is suck. Although I did predict the 2020 riots.
Not the ending I expected, for fisking a pack of lies.
Ahh, it’s finally happening. Sodomizing public schoolchildren in full view of everybody but the kids’ parents did the trick. The tide is turning against feminism! Just in time for Pride Month!
‘NOT ACCEPTABLE TO THE MAYOR’? LAKE WALES WOMAN STOPPED FROM GIVING INVOCATION
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By Gary White, 9 June 2022
A Lake Wales woman is accusing Mayor Jack Hilligoss of religious discrimination in blocking her from giving an invocation before Tuesday’s City Commission meeting.
Juanita Zwaryczuk recently asked the city to add her name to a list of substitutes available to offer invocations when the official chaplain, the Rev. James Moyer, is unavailable. Zwaryczuk said she is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, a non-denominational religious organization, and regularly hosts small meditation gatherings at her home.
Ah, the ULC, the paperwork bypass for “thou must be government-credentialed to be clergy”. But Christians don’t do meditation gatherings. *checks* It’s a reiki class.
It’s a WIIITCH!!!
City Clerk Jennifer Nanek said she put Zwaryczuk’s name on the backup list and contacted her about giving the invocation for Tuesday’s meeting when she learned Moyer would not be there.
Standard entryist procedure, opening the door and lowering the defenses. “It’s HER turn!”
But Hilligoss overruled that arrangement. In an email, he told Nanek that Zwaryczuk didn’t meet the city’s guidelines.
Lake Wales formalized its invocation process in 2020 after Sarah Ray, then leader of the Atheist Community of Polk County, presented the message before a City Commission meeting. Two commissioners reportedly walked out while Ray was speaking.
Good on them, especially if they were meeting in-person during the Plandemic. Doubly good that they rewrote the bylaws to keep out the witches.
The commission appointed Moyer, a Christian pastor and a retired professor, as chaplain. The city also adopted an ordinance requiring those who give invocations to be leaders of a religious organization in the city.
Reiki meetings in the home don’t count!
In an email sent Monday afternoon, Hilligoss questioned whether Zwaryczuk and another volunteer, Charlene Bennett, were clergy or leaders of an established religious congregation. He said that the Rev. Scott Markley of First Baptist Church of Lake Wales would be attending the meeting to join in a proclamation of Responsible Fatherhood Month and suggested asking him to give the invocation.
The commission shut the door against feminist anti-Christs, then two years later the feminist city clerk added two feminist pastorettes to the ‘approved’ list? I wonder if Nanek is a new hire… she certainly needs to be the Next Fired, or she’ll continue sabotaging the Christians.
There’s no way a cuck wouldn’t have bent the rules to allow a wimminz in. These guys be real deal!
Nanek replied that Zwaryczuk is an ordained minister and leads a spiritual group at her home, while Bennett “represents or is part of a secular organization.”
In response, Hilligoss wrote that neither Zwaryczuk nor Bennett represented one of established religious organizations on a list compiled to find potential leaders of invocations.
Thinking ahead! “Your organization isn’t on our approved list.” That’s how you win in current year!
“If the Commission feels the procedure needs to be amended in some way in the future that is fine,” Hilligoss wrote. “But for now I think we should follow the resolution that they took the time to carefully work through together. To that end, at least until we are able to clarify that we are indeed following the resolution as written, I think it would be best to see if one of the persons who clearly meets the criteria we have listed is asked to offer the invocation.”
Markley indeed offered the invocation at Tuesday’s meeting.
And so were fathers honored at the meeting instead of drag queens. Almighty God approves!
Zwaryczuk briefly addressed the matter during public comments before criticizing the commission for not issuing a proclamation for LGBTQ Pride Month.
“I’ll start by making it known that for the past three weeks I’ve been scheduled to give the invocation at this meeting,” Zwaryczuk. “I was informed late (Monday) that Mayor Hilligoss had my name removed from the list of ministers who could perform that duty and scheduled another in my place. Apparently, the spiritual community that I represent, as an ordained minister, is not acceptable to the mayor.”
Damn skippy! You child-molesting LGBT freakjob witch anarcho-tyrants are NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!
This started off as a hilariously Red Pill reading of El Salvador’s recent crackdown on violent street gangs… pregnant girlfriends most affected… but it quickly diverged into a failed color revolution and a nation’s remarkably competent leadership breaking free of the banksters.
‘It’s a war on the people’: El Salvador’s mass arrests send thousands into despair
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By Tom Phillips in Salcoatitán, 8 June 2022
Let’s try that headline again.
‘It’s a war on the whores’: El Salvador’s mass arrests of violent young men send thousands of their lovers into despair
Only a few weeks ago, Sandra García was looking forward to the brighter future Nayib Bukele promised El Salvador’s opportunity-starved youth when he swept to power three years ago.
“I gave him my vote believing we’d have a better life,” said the 23-year-old, one of hundreds of thousands of young Salvadorans who chose the authoritarian-minded millennial as their president.
Bukele is only age 41.
Segue
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El Salvador’s murder rate decreased to historic lows during Bukele’s tenure, falling by over 50 percent during his first year in office. Although Bukele attributed the decrease in murders to his deployment of thousands of police and soldiers to gang strongholds and an increase in prison security, his government has been accused by the United States of secretly negotiating with Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) to reduce the number of murders. Between March and June 2022, Bukele’s government arrested over 37,000 people with gang affiliations after a significant spike in murders, leading to accusations of human rights violations being committed by El Salvador’s security forces.
He’s getting good results AND the GAE accuses him of playing footsie with organized crime like it always does? I am already impressed with Bukele.
Bukele… has been accused of governing in an authoritarian manner. On 9 February 2020, Bukele was criticized for sending soldiers into the Legislative Assembly to encourage the passage of a bill that would fund additional purchases of equipment for the police and armed forces. On 1 May 2021, he led a move to fire the attorney general and five supreme court judges of El Salvador, which the United States Department of State and Organization of American States (OAS) denounced as democratic backsliding.
Authoritarian, maybe; anti-GAE, absolutely!
Following the approval of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador on 7 September 2021, protests against Bukele’s government took place.
Anti-GAE is CONFIRMED WITH AUTHORITY! He’s running the banksters out of town!
In February 2018, The Times of Israel published an image of Bukele “in deep reflection at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City.”
He married Gabriela Rodríguez, a psychologist and educator, on 6 December 2014. In 2018, Bukele told the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, that Rodríguez has “Jewish-Sephardic blood”.
Sounds like he had a smooth entry into the GAE… foreign-loyal, ruled over by his Jewess wife… whence the falling out?
In February 2020, Bukele wanted to secure a 109 million dollar loan from the United States to go to increase funding for the [anti-gang] Territorial Control Plan.
So far, he sounds like a typical GAE plant.
…On 1 May 2021, Nuevas Ideas made a coalition with three other political parties, gaining control of two thirds of the legislature. On the same day, the Legislative Assembly voted to remove the five justices of the Supreme Court’s constitutional court and Raúl Melara, El Salvador’s attorney general. The event has been condemned as a self-coup by opposition politicians, accusing Bukele and Nuevas Ideas of committing a power grab. The incident was condemned by the United States and has been cited as an instance of democratic backsliding.
It WAS a coup, obviously, but a nationalist one. Opening theory, Bukele is a skilled politician who saw a chance to help his nation AND secure himself in power at the same time… and to judge from the timing, that loan was merely a robbery of Wall Street to pay for the “regime change”! Methinks it ain’t gonna be paid back.
On 17 May 2021, the United States named five of Bukele’s ministers and aides as being corrupt… Following the report, the United States diverted funding to El Salvador away from government institutions, instead giving funding to civil society groups.
Color revolution INCOMING!
On 4 June 2021, Bukele placed Ernesto Muyshondt, who succeeded Bukele as Mayor of San Salvador from 2018 to 2021, under house arrest on suspicions of electoral fraud and illegal negotiations with gangs to gain votes for ARENA in the 2014 presidential election. Muyshondt had just been named by Luis Almagro, the General Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), as one of his anti-corruption advisors, and as a result, El Salvador withdrew from the Organization of American States’ anti-corruption accord.
Bukele nipped it in the bud. You rock, world’s coolest dictator. (His words, not mine)
End segue
Those dreams imploded when the man she planned to marry, Juan José Ibáñez García, was seized during of one of the most ferocious security crackdowns in recent Latin American history.
Two days later Ibáñez – who friends and family say worked in a local pizzeria and had no links to crime – was moved to a maximum-security penitentiary housing many of the 38,000-plus people the government claims to have imprisoned since the offensive began in late March. A fortnight later the 21-year-old was dead – one of at least 35 prisoners who have reportedly died in mysterious circumstances since Bukele declared a draconian state of exception supposedly designed to annihilate his country’s gangs.
He was a goot boy g’wan ta college.., who was inexplicably accused of being a violent ganger, then unnecessarily transferred to high security, where he still ended up dead in a violent confrontation that his dreamy-eyed girlfriend insists wasn’t his fault. Hmm.
Many of El Salvador’s 6 million citizens are delighted at the assault on US-born gangs, which have wreaked havoc since taking root here after the 12-year civil war ended in 1992. “He’s been rounding up all these scoundrels … we feel so much safer,” said Sandra López, 61, a supporter who attended a recent pro-Bukele demo in downtown San Salvador. Polls show Bukele has become even more popular since the state of exception started, with approval ratings of more than 90%.
That percentage seems legit, which is unreal and per the mathematical concept of regression, not going to last. I know my country exports many evils but street gangs surprise me. *checks* sigh, Drumpf Derangement Syndrome.
Segue
How the US helped create El Salvador’s bloody gang war
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In 2015, homicides in El Salvador rivalled the most violent peak of the civil war, and it ranks consistently among the world’s most violent nations…
The story of El Salvador’s gang problem is a study in shortsighted thinking – from governments in Washington and San Salvador, on both sides of the political spectrum – that has backfired disastrously. In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump railed against “the savage gang MS-13”, and called on Congress “to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminals, to break into our country.”
The gang is the president’s favourite public menace to invoke in his bid to convince US voters that illegal immigration constitutes an urgent crisis and a threat to national security…
Obviously biased article is biased. What would life be like, if I lived among only people who thought like I did? Even here in the Manosphere and Dissident Right, we have many strong disagreements with each other. Yet we still hang out together and given half a chance, cooperate. Frankly, we’re the better off (and know it) because we challenge each other’s ideas.
Rather than a problem to be deported away, however, the reality of the gang is considerably more complex. Born out of the ecology of Los Angeles’s fierce gang warfare, MS-13 was founded in the 1980s by Salvadoran refugees who had been hardened in a brutal civil war still raging at home. In time, the gang expanded to include other nationalities, and it spread to other American cities. Today, in the US, it numbers no more than 10,000 members and functions mostly – its penchant for sensational violence aside – like an average American street gang, fighting to control neighborhood turf and local drug sales.
That is a lie. Living in Los Angeles and working for a utility company, I was assigned to gang territory specifically because I was white. All the white gangs had been persecuted into oblivion, thus… paradoxically… the barrios were safer for native whites than for the imported diversity.
The smug hippie liberal bubble boy writing this article has no idea how much violence overlooks him simply because he’s not perceived as a competitor.
In the late 90s, the Latino gangs of LA found an export mechanism: in response to MS-13’s growing clout and amid Bill Clinton’s immigration crackdown, the US began deporting foreign-born residents convicted of wide-ranging crimes. Thousands of convicts were sent back to the Northern Triangle each year – the neighboring Central American countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Among them were members of MS-13 and their LA rivals, the Eighteenth Street gang, or Barrio 18. In a region reeling from endemic poverty, wars and political violence, the struggle for survival and dominance of these Americanised gangsters produced a sociological phenomenon.
Export mechanism? Americanized? Screw you, bubble boy. I’m a Los Angeleno who lived what you described. Those murderers were imported specifically to murder. Ninety percent of the murders in Los Angeles, 90s-00s, were by illegal immigrant gang enforcers because they faced no punishment worse than deportation. Hell, the authorities would PAY for their return faster than the police could trace the bullets!
Thus did LA’s politics encourage the immigration of the most violent members of Central/South American gangs. Don’t blame Trump for pushing against that; it’s one of the things he did right despite you.
El Salvador had small, disorganised neighbourhood gangs before. But, according to a popular view in El Salvador, these mass deportations changed everything in the country. Many have come to believe that the US got rid of its problem at El Salvador’s expense. The state’s institutions had been gutted by conflict, poverty and corruption. The deportees came back from the streets of LA with tattoos and baggy clothes and brought along with them gang culture, urban warfare tactics and criminal networks from prison. The Salvadoran youths, a generation of jobless foot soldiers who made easy recruits, flocked to their banner. The maras have since drawn three generations into an escalating cycle of conflict that offers no easy escape. Today, the countries of the Northern Triangle, where the maras predominate, rank among the world’s highest murder rates and account for 75% of the migrants arriving at the southern US border. The maras, in this analysis, are the primary and most urgent problem facing countries such as El Salvador.
Which is it, you piece-of-shit Dumbocrats? Are illegal immigrants only coming here hoping for a better life, or is El Salvador the murder capitol of the world because Trump sent them back?
El Salvador’s government and its law enforcement have been quick to support this view. According to Salvadoran government numbers, there are 60,000 gang members and some 10% of the population are dependent on or otherwise tied to the gangs – in a country of just over 6 million.
Bukele imprisoning 30,000 suspected gangers is reasonable given that context. And no, it’s not America’s fault if we return the criminals. At least, not the ordinary Americans.
There remains the GAE, that vast, institutional evil that has organized this massive migration. You don’t really think all those poor people are traveling to USA on foot with no supplies, do you? No, the effort is well- and internationally-coordinated, and the media is careful never to discuss HOW they’re getting here.
So far as the headlines tell you, migrants just appear at the border, shoeless and hungry.
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But the crackdown has been a nightmare for the hundreds of women who have been sleeping rough outside La Esperanza [prison], desperately seeking information about loved ones arrested on vague charges.
Uh-huh. Bucky Beta doesn’t have any woman (mothers excepted) holding a candlelight vigil for his release just outside the prison gates. For weeks.
“This isn’t a war on gangs, it’s a war on the people,” seethed one woman from the city of Santa Ana who was looking for her brother and asked not to be named.
Further up the street sat a woman in even greater distress. Mari Hernández said her partner, Saul Gómez, had worked at a sugar-grinding plant until police arrested him at their home in late April.
“They said it was an order from the president that people should be brought in whether or not they were criminals … and that if they didn’t detain him they’d be arrested themselves for not following the law,” claimed the pregnant 24-year-old.
Pregnant and not married? I thought El Salvador was Catholic. I bet 90% of it is… the 90% glad to see the government ending those up-to-fifty murders per day.
Police don’t arrest people “just because” during a major operation against specific targets. I’m not saluting them or anything, just pointing out the obvious fact that they don’t have the spare time to fool around for no good reason in that situation.
The officers told Hernández her 25-year-old partner would soon be free – but five weeks later he remained behind bars while she was two weeks away from giving birth.
It is not difficult to understand why the authorities are eager to depict El Salvador’s violence as the original sin. Doing so has allowed the Salvadoran regime to blame the cause not only on a gang culture imported from the US…
Per Wikipedia, Bukele went on record on Twitter not wanting his people to leave for USA. He’s not upset that some of them are coming back.
…but on often simplified notions of crime that have little to do with difficult and costly political solutions.
Hehheh. “‘Lock ’em up’ doesn’t work because it’s too simple a response! We need a political solution! Specifically, a regime change to somebody that Creepy Joe Biden says is okay!”
And in case you weren’t already thinking CIA:
Bukele declared his “war on gangs” on Sunday 27 March after an explosion of bloodshed shocking even for a country that until recently was considered the most violent on Earth. El Salvador’s murder rate has plummeted since the populist took power in 2019 – allegedly thanks to a secret pact with leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha gang. But on the eve of the crackdown – in a wave of attacks seemingly calculated to puncture one of Bukele’s key claims to success – 62 people were murdered in a single day.
“That Saturday was just horrifying … I told my kids not to go out because things were really messy,” said Jorge Beltrán, a crime reporter who has covered the gangs for more than two decades. “Once, on the most terrible day, there were something like 50 [murders]. But 60-something? This had never happened before.”
One body was dumped at the entrance to Bukele’s pet project: a resort town nicknamed Surf City with which the former advertising executive hopes to boost the economy and rebrand El Salvador as a tropical paradise for sunseekers and cryptocurrency fans.
“It was a huge blow to the president’s public image – and image is so important to him, that he needed to come up with something that had never been done before,” said Tiziano Breda, a Central America analyst from Crisis Group.
Immediately before implementing something that had obviously been planned in advance, “street gangs” attempted to cripple El Salvador’s tourism industry in a way that would make Bukele look weak. Then a globalist NGO claimed that the subsequent, planned crackdown is only because Bukele is protecting his ego.
Three things to know about Crisis Group:
It’s headquartered in Brussels
To “prevent war”, which is a euphemism for preserving the international status quo and
Its CEO is a Kenyan named Comfort Ero.
Closer to ego than eros, I would guess.
Bukele’s “something” was a state of exception that was immediately approved by the parliament his party overwhelmingly controls.
So much for Crisis Group’s theory that Bukele was protecting himself.
The results have been jaw-dropping, with more people arrested during the last two months than in the whole of last year – most of them young and underprivileged men and women whose names and photographs are splashed across state media each day. “It is really, really stunning,” said Breda. “This is an all-out, nationwide operation to capture anyone who may have or has had any relationship to gangs.”
Wow, a high-level politician is taking risks to defend his nation’s national security and people. Jaw-dropping indeed!
The tourism minister, Morena Valdez, celebrated the crackdown during a visit to Surf City, where an international surfing competition was taking place. “For the tourist sector it has been a boom,” Valdez said.
Tourism is up! Murder is down! This is a problem because it made the people love their leader!
Yet critics see the state of exception as the latest phase in El Salvador’s march towards tyranny under a messianic leader who has already amassed huge power and sarcastically calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator”.
I’m sure Bukele is no saint, but he might just be… indeed… the world’s coolest dictator.
Because in addition to securing a nationalist government, at GAE’s expense no less, then heading off a retaliatory color revolution, then cracking down on street gangs that GAE has begun funding instead of his government… guessing that latter from GAE’s projection, constantly accusing Bukele of allying with organized crime… and then giving the ultimate F-U to GAE banksters by taking his entire economy Bitcoin, Bukele is proving to be way more interesting than all the single suits of North America combined.
He’s actually doing stuff. And the popped cherry on top, is all the unmarried skanks crying that her lover is now rotting in a prison cell.
We should do something about that.
Methinks that the next great advancement in criminal justice, will be when we start going after the bad guys by going through young women outside male authority.
Maybe civil-rights protections should only be for men? Women will either enjoy those protections by proxy, by belonging to a man, or police can check up on her at will to determine who she’s texting all the time.
I bet we could end the drug war by declaring a War On Skanks instead. The benefit of the drug war has always been 1. the ease of prosecution for possession, plus 2. the people who deal drugs tend to be criminal lowlifes in general.
Nailing them for fornication instead has… possibilities.
Even if the circumstances of the Uvalde shooting itself had been insufficient, the aftermath confirms it as a Deep State operation. While calls for moar ghun lawz are typical, some Swamp Creatures have been entirely too bold with the Narrative for it to have been unplanned.
Swamp Creatures such as Axon Corp. CEO Rick Smith, nursing a serious case of MIC envy.
Firm proposes Taser-armed drones to stop school shootings
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By Matt O’Brien and Michael Balsamo, 3 June 2022
Taser developer Axon said this week it is working to build drones armed with the electric stunning weapons that could fly in schools and “help prevent the next Uvalde, Sandy Hook, or Columbine.” But its own technology advisers quickly panned the idea as a dangerous fantasy.
From zero to Dilbert in one paragraph!
The publicly traded company, which sells Tasers and police body cameras, floated the idea of a new police drone product last year to its artificial intelligence ethics board, a group of well-respected experts in technology, policing and privacy.
Some of them expressed reservations about weaponizing drones in over-policed communities of color. But they were not expecting Axon’s Thursday announcement that it wants to send those Taser-equipped drones into classrooms to prevent mass shootings by immobilizing an intruding gunman.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Axon founder and CEO Rick Smith said he felt compelled to make the idea public after the mass shooting at an Uvalde, Texas elementary school, saying he was “catastrophically disappointed” in the response by police who didn’t move in to kill the suspect for more than an hour.
I feel like I’ve seen this movie before. Hmm… “Dick, I’m VERY disappointed” or something?
Axon’s stock price rose with the news. But the announcement angered members of the ethics board, some of whom are now likely to quit in protest.
I HAVE seen this movie before!
It was only a matter of time until the MIC started asking what it could do about the problem of school shooters. Other than, y’know, ending child genital mutilation and related psychosexual experiments in the absence of fathers.
“This particular idea is crackpot,” said Barry Friedman, a New York University law professor who sits on the Axon AI Ethics Board. “Drones can’t fly through closed doors. The physical properties of the universe still hold. So unless you have a drone in every single classroom in America, which seems insane, the idea just isn’t going to work.”
Dude, don’t say things like that to weapon manufacturers.
Friedman said it was a “dangerous and fantastical idea” that went far beyond the proposal for a Taser-equipped police drone that board members — some of them former or current police officials — had been debating in recent months.
“We begged the company not to do it,” Friedman said of the company’s announcement. “It was unnecessary and shameful.”
The product idea had been kicked around at Axon since at least 2019 and the company has been working to try to figure out whether a drone with a Taser was even a feasible idea. Over the last year, the company created computer-generated art renderings to mock up a product design and conducted an internal test to see if Taser darts — which transmit an immobilizing electric jolt — could be fired from a flying drone, Smith said. He added that he had discussed the possibility of developing such a product with the ethics board.
“And they said no but I went public anyway because…”
…he stressed Friday that no product had been launched and any potential launch would be down the road. The idea, he felt, needed to be shared now because of the public conversation about effective ways for police to safely confront attackers and how schools can increase safety.
Because sales. He’s manufacturing demand with which to override his own ethics board.
“This is an idea that should get into the public’s consciousness while our minds are open to it…” he said.
THAT
CROSSED
A
LINE.
Axon just went Skynet AND Clockwork Orange simultaneously.
Board members who spoke with The Associated Press said they were taken aback by the school drone proposal — which they got notice of only earlier this week — and cobbled together a unanimous statement of concern that described Axon’s decision as “deeply regrettable.” The company tweeted out the board’s dissent shortly after its own statement Thursday announcement.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if there were resignations,” said another ethics board member, Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington. “I think everyone on the board has to make a choice about whether they want to stay involved.”
Friedman and Calo both described this week’s process as a sharp turnaround from the respectful relationship that Axon executives have had with the board in recent years on controversial topics such as face recognition — which Axon decided against using in its body cameras — and automated license plate readers.
“Sometimes the company takes our advice and sometimes it doesn’t,” Friedman said. “What’s important is that happens after thoughtful discussion and coordination. That was thrown out the window here.”
Smith said the company is still in the very early phases of product development and would continue to consult the ethics board, along with law enforcement officials, community leaders and school officials. He acknowledged that the company might later determine that the idea isn’t feasible and abandon it.
The ethics board has been telling him No for over a year and he’s still pushing it. The Enforcement Droid program won’t be abandoned.
But he took issue with the idea that he had ignored the concerns from the ethics board, which is meant to provide guidance and share feedback. Ultimately, the decision still falls to Smith as the company’s chief executive.
“I have not ignored what they have said. People can have debates and disagree,” Smith said. “I think there is one thing the world can see: our [ethics] board is not a whitewash.”
“I hope they don’t resign,” he added.
The derp is over 9000!!!!
On Friday in an “Ask Me Anything” chat on the online forum Reddit. Smith acknowledged that “drones in schools can sound nuts” but went on to answer detailed questions about them. They could travel through school vents, he said, and perch on doors and walls near ceilings. It could be a “good thing” if a gunman tried to shoot one down because it would distract from trying to kill people.
“We’re doing this because we care,” Smith said. “We’re a business so ultimately we have to find a financial model that works, but at the end of the day we’ve been successful because… we solve problems we care about,” he added.
The only ways that could sound worse is…
Smith told a Reddit user that Axon was “absolutely not” trying to capitalize on recent tragedies to attract investors.
…baldfaced lying to 4chan, which TOTALLY won’t come back on him…
He noted the advisory board’s disagreements but said the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas — and what he described as misguided proposals to arm teachers with guns — compelled him to go public with the drone idea to field a “far broader array of voices.”
…and wanting to arm drones because the alternative is arming humans.
Hello, Skynet. Imagine your children playing in a school playground, patrolled overhead by taser-equipped drones ready to “incapacitate” any of them who behaving in a threatening manner.
In fact, don’t imagine. Smith wrote a graphic novel about it.
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“I am done waiting for politicians to solve the problem. So we’re going to solve it,” Smith said. “We’re going to do this.”
Smith has promoted the idea for years, even including it in a graphic novel, “The End of Killing,” that shows a drone zapping a gunman rampaging through a day-care center. And in a question-and-answer session on Reddit the day after the announcement, Smith said that he knows the idea might “sound nuts” but that it offers some benefits over “today’s solution” for responding to shootings: “a local person with a gun.”
The shock drones, he said, would be installed in ceiling-mounted “launch stations,” like smoke detectors, and be shielded to prevent “kids throwing stuff at” them. Schools, he said, could install “simple, low-cost vents” above doors to allow the drones to fly into locked rooms, though he also acknowledged that idea could raise “some fire code issues” related to smoke ventilation.
The drones could fire a payload of up to four shock probes more than 40 feet, he said, and deliver a sustained current of electricity to incapacitate an attacker long enough for people nearby to kill them or take their gun. The drones would be small and hard to shoot at, he wrote, and “after running out of darts, we could ram the drone into someone to physically distract” them.
Here’s a link to that “End of Killing” graphic novel. I post two pictures of it here: one is that just-described system taking out a child at a school, and the next, just a couple pages later, is the same system taking out a jihadist in Syria. Smith intended from the beginning for this drone to be dual-use, just like ED-209.
How could this system NOT be designed to pacify a target population?
Schools or police agencies, he said, would pay an estimated fee of about $1,000 a year per drone, and the company would sell them only in markets where “they would not be used abusively.”
Fuck drones, this guy figured out how to predict the future! Oops, no, he’s just straight-up lying to us and not caring if we notice. What’s the truth, then?
“Once we get the bugs worked out on a captive civilian population, we can resell the system to the military where the real money is to be made.” Signed, Dick Jones of Omni Consumer Products.
The Federal Aviation Administration in 2018 banned anyone from flying a drone with a dangerous weapon attached. But Smith said such “legal limitations” could be resolved over time; Taser weapons and body cameras, he noted, had also been illegal in some states before Axon had started marketing them.
Laws are only for little people!
In the Reddit session, Smith was asked how he would handle pushback from parents not wanting flying shock machines near their children. “Many parents would likely find this situation more comfortable than an armed guard stationed at the school,” he said.
Not including the parents he was talking to, apparently, but haters gonna hate.
…The response on Reddit was scalding. Some commenters worried that the drones would be misused to punish students, break up fights or police protests, or that they would lead to unintended consequences, such as more people getting shot after the gunman was shocked.
My thoughts exactly. School authorities aren’t going to buy this system and then not use it until they’re forced to. Not when total control of their psychosexual-experiment subjects is so tantalizingly close.
And not when the drone maker needs test data to gain the Pentagon’s approval.
Wrote [one participant], “We sure do love addressing symptoms instead of root causes don’t we.”
