GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE WEEK”

Alaska: Volcanos and earthquakes (Report)

Energy: Some unwanted realities of coal (Article)

N ATO: Another view (Article)

Delaware: Speed law punishes poverty (Report)

Healthcare: New limits on short term plans will hurt the insured (Report)

The Pandemic: About 30% of U.S. COVID deaths weren’t from COVID (Report)

U.S. Inflation: Lower inflation is transitoey (Article)

The U.S. Economy: Following a Japanese path (Article)

More U.S. Economy: The vanishing retirement hopes of Generation X (Article)

Russia: Curbing thought crimes on the internet isn’t easy (Article)

Racism: Candidate receives $2M for failing New York teacher’s exam (Report)

Chat GPT: Capabilities vary over time (Report)

U.S. Home Sales: Significant decline (Article)

Seized Iranian Oil: Unsalable as U.S. Companies refuse to handle (Report)

Electronic Warfare: Update (Article)

U.S. Artillary: Update (Article)

China: Chi’s inexorable march toward war (Article)

Porttable Generators: Now U.S. Federal target (Report)

Syria: Update (Article)

U.S. Auto Theft: Up 33% led by Kia and Hyundai (Report)

Food: Soybeans genetically altered to produce pig protein (Report)

Science: Theory of dark matter facing questions? (Report)

The Climate: Are we having record heat? (Article)

It’s morning in America – (Again) (Article)

surveillance: The next phase? (Article)

U.S. Money: Fed Now is live, opening the road to digital money (Article)

The Pandemic: Study showing COVID vaccines kill people removed (Report)

Energy: Bien Administration proposes higher oil and gas lease prices (Report)

Chicago: 4 dead, 37 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

EDITORIAL: Money, Gold and Government

When silver and gold coinage was common, governments diluted precious metal content of their coinage with base metals to inflate their currencies and thus extend spending. Later, gold backed paper money made it easier; they just declared that an ounce of gold was worth more paper money. Almost the first act of President Roosevelt at the start of the Great Depression was to increase the cost of gold from some $20 to $35 an ounce. If that seems impressive, note that at this writing, an ounce costs $1,955. Compared to later U.S. Governments, President Roosevelt was a piker. And accumulating dollars for any length of time is a demonstrated fool’s game. The President was not a fool; owning gold bullion became illegal until the fiat dollar was fully disentangled from gold.

Now, Russia and the other BRICE countries are reportedly challenging the declining fiat U.S. Dollar with a new currency, apparently to be backed by gold and/or commodities to compete with the fiat dollar while the latter is succumbing to unsustainable debt plus inflation. However, another BRICE official and Russian financial sources have denied this. Regardless, international dollar hegemony seems terminal, debauched by the U.S. Government.

Against this background, most of the significant planetary governments are investigating electronic fiat currencies (CBDC) in the hope of eliminating physical cash and initiating money that will be observed and controlled by the government, thereby providing simultaneously observation and control of its users, the citizens. This seems guaranteed to put the presently somewhat authoritarian trend affecting allegedly democratic governments on steroids. Watch for an intensifying buildup in propaganda against the very idea of hard currencies, particularly anti-gold. And don’t look for any currency exchangeable for gold; that would render stealing your wealth via currency manipulation too difficult for governments.

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

FROM THE WEEK:

California: Unemployment fund under water (Report)

China: Another view (Article)

The Pandemic: Texas doctor rejects punishment, demands public hearing over treatments (Report)

France: Analysis of the riots, with predictions (Article)

Judicial authority of U.S. Bureaucrats to be considered by Supreme Court (Report)

U.S. Banks: Facing a seismic landscape (Aricle)

The War on Currencies: Russia et al to introduce a new gold standard? (Article)

Sudan: Civil war proceeds (Report)

Biden Admin: Prosecutes whistleblower who fingered Hunter Biden (Report)

U.S. Television: An industry in freefall? (Article)

Israel: Struggle over court authority continues (Article)

U.S. EconomyT: Purchases of necessities declining? (Report)

The United Nations: Reaches for more authority over members (Report) (More)

India, Pakistan, Afghanistan: Update (Article)

Censorship: A review of the White House COVID reporting interference (Report)

President Biden: Activates “selected reserve” (Report) (More)

The Pandemic: E-mail ties Fauci to Wuhan lab (Report)

Turey: Update (Article)

The Post Soviet disunion (Article)

Electric Vehicles: Are a scam (Article)

Illinois: New law forces property rental, sales to illegal aliens (Repor)

U.S. Home Invasion: Robberies increasing (Report)

Israel: Military reservists threaten resignations if plan to weaken judiciary proceeds (Article)

U.S. Air Conditioning: Refrigerants targetd by Feds (Report)

Chicago: 5 dead, 24 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A naked man was arrested after dancing on a Las Vegas poker table (Report)

EDITORIAL: A Timely Conspiracy Theory

Combining irrefutable facts can open disquieting but equally irrefutable visions of coming realities. One of those facts is the relentlessly advancing government debt relentlessly devaluing the economies of too many of the plantet’s advanced countries. Another is the equally relentlessly advancing central bank digital currency (CBDC) projects around the world. Inescapably connecting the two is the inflation rate, since governments inevitably resort to cheapening the currency in the face of excessive debt.

It seems obvious that the U.S. And other governments expectt to capitalize upon the expected recession to revalue and replace their currencies with the new central bank digital currencies. Once the government has control of your banking, your future cooperation is a safe prediction. What human government would pass up that sort of temptation?

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

From the week:

U.S. President is open to interfering with sunlight to mitigate climate change (Report)

The Pandemic: Moderna CEO admits production of vaccine before pandemic started? (Report)

U.S. Military: Recruiting becoming problematic (Article)

The U.S. Border: Some telling current events (Report)

U.S. Airlines: Delta among those not fully ready for current 5G telephone rollout (Report)

France: Spreading violent destruction by unhappy African immigrants (Report) (Update/analysis)(More) (Still More)

Philippines: U.S. Expanding military presence displeases China (Article)

Canada: Why the forest fires contimue (Article)

Israel: Responds to recent attacks (Report)

The Pandemic: The CDC altered death certificates that related to baccines (Report)

Nigeria: Update (Artcle)

Los Angeles: Homeless exceed 46 thousand (Report)

Censorship: Case against Big Tech/Government collusion proceeds (Report)

Wind Energy: Power generating windmills aren’t holding up? (Report)

Somalia: Update (Article)

U.S. Navy: Blocks Iranian attack on commercial tanker in Gulf of Oman (Report)

The Global Economy: Gragmenting into competing blocks (Article)

The Pandemic: Persistent post vaccination symptoms under investigation (Report)

Transgender U.S. Military: Exempt from fitness and weight standards? (Article)

Mali: Weaponizing gold (Article)

Russia: Military morale problems (Article)

The Climate: Squeezing gasoline vehicles off the road (Report)

U.S. Capitol Riot: Protesting crowd was “filled with feds” (Report)

European Union: Imposes formal internet censorship in August (Report)

China: Update and status (Article)

Chicago: 11 dead, 62 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A Naked Person was arrested wearing birthday suit (Report)

EDITORIAL: Censorship

Western liberal governments simply do not indulge in censorship; the European Union has instituted internet censorship; how can we reconcile such a contradiction? Add that the U.S. Government has been imposing informal censorsip and it appears, if disturbing, simple enough.

A previously free and highly competitive press has been infiltrated by an ever expanding government and they now operate in mutual dependency. The fear generated in the recent pandemic served to repress the usual indignation generated by government impositions; the E.U. Is taking advantage of that. Expect discussions of U.S. Government “regulation” of the internet, to “protect” the citizens. Truly democratic governments have always remained transient in our history; they seem not to accord with our usual behavior. The West appears to be returning to the historical human norm.

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

From the week”

Corruption: FedEx named in massive odometer fraud scheme (Report)

Digital I.D. An unstated universal leash law (Article)

Telegram: A current review (Article)

U.S. Military: Politicization attacks quality (Article)

Heating, cooling, water: States benefits cover utilities costs (Report)

U.S. Economy: Private recession while government borrows and spends (Article)

New York City: Toll charges to drive into Manhattaan (Report)

Wall Street Bank: Announces ground breaking digital currency (Report)

Tank Warfare: Update (Article)

Handwriting: Generation Z cannot read or write cursive (Report)

U.S. Government Censorship: Update (Report)

Money: A current status survey with opinion (Article)

Korea: Update (Article)

Twitter: Are conservatives still shadow banned? (Report)

u.s. INCOME Tax on unrealized value? (Report)

Science: Astronomers find evidence of universe’s background gravity waves (Report)

France: Nationwide violence after police shooting of teen (Report)

Estonia: Preparing for the war after Ukraine (Article)

Technological War: Update (Article)

U.S. Airlines: The real reasons for massive delays and cancellations (Article)

Censorship: You Tube cancels another conservative (Report)

U.S. Education: Prisoners becoming eligible for free college education (Report)

Portland: Be careful what you ask for (Report)

U.S. Military Academies: Can still consider race for admissions? (Report)

Starvation: A list of affected countries (Article)

Why so many Americans have become fat, sick and stupid (Article)

U.S. Student Loan Bailout: Struck down by Supreme Court (Report)

More Supreme Court: State can’t force baker to supply homosexual wedding cakes (Article)

Vaccine Research Report: 13 m deaths worldwide (Article)

France: Riots continue; who is behind it, and why? (Article)

The Internet: London conference opens discussing near future (Article)

U.S. Congress: Extends Biden corruption probe to Dept of Justice (Report)

United Kingdom: Millions facing hunger? (Article)

Israel: Violence between uneasy neighbors (Article)

The European Union: On the brink of bankruptcy? (Report)

SpaceX: Cheap, reliable and so far, without competition (Article)

Chicago: 7 dead, 26 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

Naked Sex paraders were NOT arested (Report)

EDITORIAL: The Narrative vs The Reality

Politicians tell us what we wish to hear and blame the resulting failures upon each other. Given our aversion to unpleasant reality, that is all that they can do. And we know this but continue to reward it anyway. We are obviously made so. Ut somehow, we have come a long wy from our early days on earth; we are to date, a successful species. Of course, so are ants and housefflies and dogs and sparrows.

The most successful earthly societies have been Christian; the combination of individualism with responsibility outside off government has been productive. But the churches that organized and delivered these ideas so successfully have, by claiming custody of unalterable truth, frozen their model for human behavior at a time too early to recognize and incorporate any changes resulting from the advance of human knowledge. And those churches are dissolving into the past in the West.

Clearly, human government cannot replace them; the condition of those churches appurtenant to governments makes that clear. The principles of Christian human behavior are equally clear and productive but presently seem to lack an authoritative organizing source capable of aligning them with our developing knowledge of reality. The current Pope seems to understand this and gives the appearance of trying to ride two diverging horses as a result. Perhaps our progressing socio-economic collapse will lead to what is needed

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

From the week:

The Pandemic: Vaccination increases heart disease risk (Report)

The United(?) States: Tearing apart the political consensus (Article)_

The U.S. Dollar: Another significant step towards the exit (Report))

The FBI: Groomed 16 year old, developmentally challenged boy to become a terrorist, then arrested him (Article)

Navigation: A more reliable replacement for GPS (Report)

California: Under assaul by new Federal air quality scheme (Report)

New York State: Default school policy on gender transition students: Lie to parents (Report)

Healthcare: The robot will see you now (Article)

Virginia: Landowner sues state for warrantless snooping (Report)

Hunter Biden: Takes plea deal with Feds and escapes jail time (Report)

Human Bejavior: Some people like to torure monkeys (Article)

China: Update (Article)

U.S. Education: Student test scores plunge (Report)

Israel: West Bank violence rising again (Report)

Biden Bribery: Now supported by IRS whistleblowers (Report)

Corruption:Corru Update on Hunter Biden case (Report)

New Zealand: Incorporating racial preferences in healthcare (Article)

COVID: Vaccination ups heart disease (Report)

Science: Classical and quantum coming together to advance fusion research (Report)

Russia: Putin’s private army trying coup? (Report) Update (Report) More (Report) SCARY UPDATE

U.S. Finance: The national debt is a ticking time bomb (Article)

Philippines: Some help resisting Chinese South China Sea bullying (Article)

Science: Novel computer memory offers large improvement (Report)

Corruption: Harvard scholar who studies honety accused of fabricuted findings (Report)

Science: Light on erly human migrations (Report)

Chicago: 14 dead, 61 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A naked man was arrested trying to steal a jet ski (Report)

EDITORIAL: A Proxy War in a Nuclear Age

Putin evidently intends to reconstruct as much of the Soviet empire as possible, while the U.S. And its European allies will fight to the last Ukrainian to prevent that. A historic norm in international relations, except that now, there are nukes available. The Ukrainians have stopped but not evicted the Russian invasion and Putin’s private army, the Wagner Group, has suddenly reversed itslef and appears to be out of control. The Ukrainians are about to grab the opportunity by atarting to rain missiles upon Russia the way the Russians have been doing to

Ukraine. The Russian war boss immediately announced that, if Russia is attacked with missiles supplied by the U.S. And Britain, Russia will consider them at war with Russia and take appropriate measures. A major power invoking nuclear blackmail …

It was always going to ome to this and now we are here. Should the West prevent reconstruction of the Soviet agressor under the nuclear threat? Or should it lie down and let Russia expand, delaying the threat but no more than that. Til now, the U.S. Seems to have restrained the Ukrainians, confining them to killing Russians in Ukraine. They have killed a lot of Russians without deterring Putin. But Putin can’t afford seeing his own people treated as he has been treating Ukrainians. And he has those nukes. What’s your bet?

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

From the week:

U.S. Capitol Riot: Video record of undercover police fomenting protest (Report)

Corruption: New York City: New Mayor flaunting nepotism (Report)

More Corruption: The House should open a bribery investigation of Present Biden (Article)

Washington D.C. Suffring as too many still work from home, leaving offices vacant (Article)

Electric Vehicles: Ten longest range Evs for 2023 and their prices (Report)

The U.S. Tip War: Resisting the increasing demand for tips (Article)

The Climate: A current description of reality (Article) (Recommended)

The Pandemic: The recorded history of the origin of COVI/D 19 (Article)

Taiwan: U.S. Preparing plan for evacuation of Americans (Report)

The Economy: Update from a knowledgeable pessimist (Article)

U.S. Federal Guj registration retroactively required for AR 15 model (Report)

Colorado: Some new protections for pet owning tenants (Report)

U.S. Shoplifting: Has become organized crime (Article)

U.S. Congress: Will it renew authorization of unconstitutional snooping on citizens? (Article)

More Climate: Now, they’re going after tequila (Report)

Ukraine: Airborne munitions (Article)

Killer Whales: Attzcking boats (Report)

President Biden: Why only silence from HIS investigation? (Article)

U.S. Government: Proposed new BLM rule “reeks of a big ‘ol fed land grab” (Article)

Bald Eagles: Adopt red tailed hawks? (Report)

New Yor: Ex Mayor de Blasio fined for misuseing city resources (Report)

Congo: Update (Article)

Chinese counterfeit electronics (Article)

Corruption: Maltese bank account links Bidens to bribery (Report) (More)

E.U. Banking System: Russian hackers threaten imminent attack (Report)

Illinois: Legislature votes to authorize non citizen police officers (Report)

COVID Vaccination: Kills as many as does the disease? (Report)

The pandemic: Currently vaccinated more likely to develop infection (Report)

Chicago: 3 dead, 29 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A naked woman was arrested in someone else’s car (Report)

EDITORIAL: Government Words Versus Deeds

The U.S. Federal Government and its Democrat-run state and local subsidiaries claim to be protecting abused citizens and saving the planet for human habitation with their adjustable gender and anti-carbon policies; that seems very noble. Until the specifics of those policies are examined.

Homosexuals and others with gender dysphoria are invited to view their unwanted biologic gender as the fabled emperor was invited to view his new clothes and as with the emperor, onlookers are expected to approve, if they know what is good for them. In this case, that includes publishers of dictionaries and officials governing women’s sports. Other enforcers include educators and employers. Gender has been decreed an enforceable choice. This dovetails with supporting abortion.

Government being involved, the presence of allegedly undesirable atmospheric carbon is similarly resolved: Almost everything that produces significant amounts of it is to be extirpated, at least in advanced countries. To accomplish that, energy production, land use, the most effective fertilizers, farming, ranching, travel and the size of housing per person are to be reduced. The fallout includes less available heating, cooling, lighting and reduced use of such energy hungry devices as televisions and computers. It should be noted that this new impoverishment is heaped onto a U.S. middle class now without its erstwhile housewives, who had to find jobs in the 1970s. It appears no surprise that the U.S. Life expectancy has shortened in recent years, irrespective of the pandemic.

Finally, the government that has overburdened its taxpayers with unrepayable debt seems ready to replace the U.S. Dollar with a central bank digital currency, handing itself working control of everybody’s money. Of what is left of it, anyway. Topping all that is the encouragement of blanket immigration of foreigners accustomed to lower incomes and living standards.

Added up: behind the noble rhetoric, the government’s current policies appear to be aimed at the production of an obedient, smaller U.S. population with a lower standard of living.

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

From the week:

Los Angeles: Has an unsolved RV problem (Article)

Energy: Traansformer shortage limiting new construction in U.S. (Report)

The U.S. Debt Ceiling “solution”: Another view (Article)

Apple: Announced new Vision Pro visual, a headset providing eye control in the virtual reality (Report)

U.S. Real Estate: Office space demand shrinking, prices to follow? (Aricle)

More U.S. Real Estate: The money problem (Article)

Minnesota: Joined California in making illegal immigrants eligible for college student aid (Report)

France: Objects to NATO opening office in Japan (Report)

Pakistan: Update (Article)

Crocodile: Made herself pregnant (Article)

Energy: Coming Federal rule to require expensive replacement of many home furnaces (Report)

The war on parents: Yesterday’s soccer mom is today’s extremist (Article)

U.S. Credit Card Debt: Surges in spite of rising interest rates (Article)

The Climate: 14 days to midnight = the doomsday clock ticks on (Article)

U.S. Racism: State fires new, black Equity boss for racism (Report)

U.S. Corruption: Whistleblowers reveal FBI covering for Bidens (Report)

Science: Breakthrough X- Ray identifies single atom (Report)

More Science: New light on dental cavity formation (Report)

Still More Science: Homo sapiens did not rise from a single African population (Report)

U.S. Wages: West Coast dock workers earning $200k demand higher pay (Article)

U.S. Federal Reserve: Reported money flows for money market and banks hard to read (Article)

The Internet: Perversely altered photo/video site content used to blackmail (Report)

California: New bill would remove parental authority over child’s sex change (Report)

U.S. Education: Colleges rejecting highly qualified students for Asian lineage (Report)

California Legislature: Advances bill to help shoplifters steal (Report)

Ukraine: Sending Russians to fight Russians inside Russia (Article)

Chicago: 10 dead, 42 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A naked woman was arrested for murder while climbing a tree (Report)

EDITORIAL: Public Education: A Light That Has Failed

The advantage of an educated society seems unquestionable; the challenge lies in finding a means for providing it. The schools that grew from merican communities naturally expanded into locally controlled public education; that provided competition between communities as the quality disparaty between communities was noticed. The progressive education movement, the arrival of teachers’ unions and the expansion of the Federal government have joined with the institutionalizing of local schools to form a politicized mass ever more devoted to political goals at the wxpense of classical education. And in America, ever more expensive, with ever more education replaced by indoctrination.

Financially unsustainable and undermined by the educative channels developed during the COVID shutdown, the public schools face reevaluation and remodeling, offering an opportunity to return to a more productive, less expensive program. However, the growing authoritarianism of government will probably make a significant return to real education difficult. That may have to await a smaller, less intrusive and future government.

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

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From the week:

Backlash: The end of ESG? (Article)

Ireland: Pursuing thought control? (Report)

Kosovo: NATO troops to help with rioting Serbs (Report)

Lloyd’s: Becomes the sixth insurance firm to exit the U.N. Climate change group (Report)

U.S. Retailers: Closing stores in response to shoplifting and organized crime (Repoort)

Germany: The threat to sausages is real (Article)

Bribery evidence: Against Pres. Biden exists per FBI Director (Report)

U.S. Shoplifting: Becoming critical risk for retailers, forcing store closings (Report)

Hunter Biden Laptop Archive: Published on new website (Report)

The Bankruptcy of the U.S. Government (Article)

Censorship: E.U. Threatens Google, Twitter and Facebook (Report)

Air Combat: The look and shoot revolution (Article)_

Fox News: Going woke? (Report)

The Pandemic: Study shows infection risk rises with each additional vaccination (Report)

New York City: Regulating AirBnB out of business (Report)

U.S. Federal Reserve: Covering for a developing banking health decline? (Article)

Fentanyl: Often present in unaware U.S. Drug users (Report)

California: State Senate passed bill setting $25 hr minimum wage for health care workers (Report)

A naked man was arrested lying by Sembawa Road (Report)

Ukraine: Cross border raids into Russia intensifying (Report)

Repeated COVID 19 vaccination weakens the immune system(Article)

Russia: Returns to SMERSH (Article)

Chicago: 11 dead, 46 wounded in Memorial Day weekend shootings (Report)

A naked man was arrested dancing in the median (Report)

EDITORIAL: Sexual Confusion

If my cells have an x and a y chromosome, I am male. If they have two x chromosomes, I am female. Never mind how I feel about it; feeling seven feet tall won’t get me an offer from a basketball team no matter how I feel about it if I stand five feet two. But we are inherently corrupt, being simultaneously competitive and cooperative since those contradict each other. We just have to struggle with it. Politicians being what they are, currently find woke nonsense useful but as Lincoln put it, “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” But you can fool some of the people and innocents pay.

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

From the week:

California: Court stopped attempt to force doctors to provide assissted suicide (Report)

Food: Now, the war on food by the climate crusaders (Article)

The European Union: Throttling American business with bureaucracy (Article)

Killer Whales: Are increasingly attacking boats off the coast of Europe (Report)

Science: 3000 year old, advanced Maya cities in central America (Article)

Facebook: Deletes Christian doctrine as “hate speech” (Report)

U.S. Supreme Court: IRS can obtain bank records of 3rd parties not part of investigation (Report)

The war on food: Shutting down agriculture to reduce “greenhouse” gases (Article)

The U.S. Dollar: More countries ditching (Report)

2008 Financial Crisis: Now it is alleged that the central banks cheated (Report)

Censorship: U.S. Senate Democrats’ new bill to regulate internet platforms (Report)

Illinois: Legislature passes bill attacking anti-abortion pregnancy centers (Report)

Fox News: Behind the scenes, is as woke as Bud Light? (Report)

U.S. Immigration: A “staggering” increase in Chinese (Report)

Nigeria: Update (Article)

Ford Motor: Dropped plan to cut AM radio from new cars (Report)

Global ESG Regulation: A Coffin for the Free Enterprise System (Article)

Somalia: Update (Article)

The FBI: Has crossed the Rubicon (Article)

Scotland: To remove jury from sexual offense trials? (Report)

Air Weapons: Storm Shadow missiles updated (Article)

U.S. Whistleblower: Everybody covers for the Bidens (Article)

Mali: Update (Article)

Space: Scary, successful Space-X

COVID Vaccinations: Insurance analyst discloses deaths from shots (Report)

U.S. Government: Bans farmers from caring for their own animals without a veterinarian’s permission (Report)

Bank of America: Volunteered customer data to FBI (Report)

Flouridation: Status of attack on fluoridated public water supply (Article)

Germans: Arre furious over their oil and gas boiler ban (Report)

Medicaid: Bribed doctors to vaccinate patients (Report)

Chicago: 1 dead, 22 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A naked woman led to her kidnapper’s arrest (Report)

Serbia: Sending troops to border over clashes in Kosovo (Report)

EDITORIAL: The January 6 “Insurrectionist” Show Trials

It was the day that a mob of unhappy citizens emulated what Black Lives Matter protestors had been doing all summer but these unhappy souls chose to do it in the nation’s Capitol building. Unlike BLM, they didn’t burn or demolish anything significant, though apparently they did break a window and I have to guess, were hard on furniture. They were not armed per reports. As riots go, it was evidently more respectful than most. The mob’s reception by police was curious: While one officer was shooting dead a woman climbing through a window, others are said to have invited other rioters into the building. A hallmark of the event was a selfie of one rioter with his feet on Speaker Pelosi’s desk. The now customary burning, looting and violence seem to have been mostly absent; it seens to have been a pretty tame riot.

Not so the prosecutions of some of the rioters. First, they have been prosecuted not for rioting but for insurrection. In my dictionary, that means a revolt against the government. January 6 was a protest, not an attempted revolution. Apparently the inflated charges were needed to support the four to eight year prison sentences slapped onto some of the mob’s leaders while others have met only probation or house arrest. One participant has been sentenced to 18 years, apparently for founding the “Oath Keepers” group as he reportedly never entered the Capitol although a number of undercover police posing as rioters are said to have done so. The degree to which they may have fomented the scene appears to remain undisclosed.

Comparing this to the benign treatment accorded the BLM summer rioters is instructive. It underlines the degree of politicization that has occurred, bringing with it the visibly rising authoritarianism and now, unequal justice under law.

GLEANINGS FROM THE PASSING WEEK … (Politically Uncorrected)

From the week:

New York City buses illegals upstate where homeless veterans are booted from hotels to make room (Article)

Carmakers plan to drop AM radio from products (Report)

U.S. Wheat production to nosedive (Report)

Gaza Strip: Heavy damage after rocket attack on Israel; ceasefire in effect (Report)

Africa: U.S. Vs Russia with hybrid war? (Article)

Artificial Intelligence: Resting upon sweatshop labor? (Article)

Biden bribery accusation: FBI withholding evidence; key witnesses mysteriously vanishing (Article) More

Work: The disappearing white collar job (Article)

Energy: New battery breakthrough promising for renewable energy sources (Report)

The U.S. Economy: Great Depression 2.0 is incoming (Article)-

U.S. Navy Status: Struggling (Article)

The Climate: Satellite data shows no global warming for over 8 years (Report)

The prevalence of lies in current U.S. Politics (Article)

New York City: Sinkeing under the weight of its buildings (Article)

U.S. Banks: Aiming to transfer their losses to taxpayers (Report)

New York: Hidden voter roll algorithms revealed in peer reviewed study (Report)

Wendy’s: To recreate the drive in restaurant – but without the carhops (Report)

Finance: China’s loans pushing poor countries toward collapse (Article)

The Internet: Has begun to delete older posts and information plus inactive accounts (Article)

U.S. Supreme Court: Refuses to stop Illinois gun control law (Report)

New York: Shutting old power plants faster than new ones available (Article)

Spy Satellites: Russia spies on spy satellites (Article)

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: Can secretly grab bank records of outside parties (Report)

U.S. Federal lands: To expel ranchers, resorts and other commercial users? (Report)

Quantum Biology: Opening a new door into understanding life (Article)

U.S. Air Force: To spend billions for a new fighter (Report)

Expanded IRS Audits: Will affect small, mid sized businesses most, expert says (Report)

Science: New battery electrolite won’t freeze or burn (Report)

Chicago: 8 dead, 18 wounded in weekend shootings (Report)

A naked woman was arrested running around a McDonald’s parking lot (Report)

EDITORIIAL: A Currency Conspiracy Theory

So many folk are enjoying proposing conspiracy theories or working at censoring them that, out of sheer envy, we are offering one of our own. In order to fit in with the current mode, ours is current, frightening and not unreasonable on its face. It is about money and therefore, government, which ought to make it scary enough.

We know that the U.S. And far too many other governments have burdened their citizens with unsustainable debt and in many cases, inflation. We also know that the U.S. And others are testing or have adopted a digital currency. And we are seeing increasing predictions from knowledgeable people that all of this is headed for a crash, yet the politicians continue spending and inflating. Could all of this amount to a dastardly plan for governments to crash the economy as a means for confiscating wealth qhile imposing a digital currency? Imagine the appeal: The government would save us from the collapse by replacing the old currency with what amounts to internet bookeeping. Our governors would decide how much of the new currency will be exchanged for the old money. And every amount we receive or spend would henceforth be government data and subject to government approval. Can’t you see politicians salivating at the control that will provide? But of course, it’s just a conspiracy theory …