Tuesday, April 20, 2021
History for April 20
History for April 20 - On-This-Day.com
Adolf Hitler 1889 - German leader during World War II
- 1534 - Jacques Cartier, a French explorer, set sail from St. Malo to explore the North American coastline.
- 1769 - Ottawa Chief Pontiac was murdered by an Illinois Indian in Cahokia.
- 1775 - American troops began the siege of British-held Boston.
- 1792 - France declared war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia. It was the start of the French Revolutionary wars.
- 1832 - Hot Springs National Park was intially created by an act of the U.S. Congress. It was the first time a piece of land was set aside by the U.S. government to preserve the area for recreation. The area was made a national park on March 4, 1921.
- 1865 - Safety matches were first advertised.
- 1902 - Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium.
- 1942 - Pierre Laval, the premier of Vichy France, in a radio broadcast, establishes a policy of "true reconciliation with Germany."
- 1961 - FM stereo broadcasting was approved by the FCC.
- 1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
Monday, April 19, 2021
The $8T (and growing) Biden wants to spend on changing America forever
The $8T (and growing) Biden wants to spend on changing America forever:
Eight trillion dollars. That’s how much President Joe Biden has proposed in new spending — in just the 2½ months since taking office. It’s an absurd figure, equal to more than a third of America’s entire yearly economic output.
And it’s overwhelmingly meant to transform the nation — to empower and enrich Democratic special interests, lock in permanent Democratic control and impose radical left-wing ideas.
Gavin Newsom Boasts: California Homeless Policy Has Become National Model Under Joe Biden Administration
Gavin Newsom Boasts: California Homeless Policy Has Become National Model Under Joe Biden Administration:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) boasted Saturday that President Joe Biden is adopting his state’s policies on homelessness as the nationwide model by moving homeless people into hotel rooms and buying the hotels.
A democrat?-----Upper West Side is too white and Jewish: City Council candidate manager
Upper West Side is too white and Jewish: City Council candidate manager
"The campaign manager for an Upper West Side candidate for the City Council is in hot water for saying the neighborhood is too white — and Jewish.
Quinn Mootz, who is running Sara Lind’s council bid, is catching flak for her April 13 comments on Twitter, which have since been deleted — but not before critics took screen grabs.
...Mootz also also lambasted “sh–ty people” who refer to “homeless people as zombies and think anyone to the left of you is too woke. You f–king moron.”...Read all.
You know, millions MUST be offended!-----Purdue Researchers Created the Whitest White Paint Ever
Purdue Researchers Created the Whitest White Paint Ever
"If you’ve ever redone a room in your house and gone to the hardware store to pick out some fresh paint, you know that there’s a lot of different shades of white on the market.
Turns out, there’s a new shade of white in town—and this one may have some pretty cool (literally) climate implications.
In a study published Thursday in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, researchers at Purdue University say they’ve now made the whitest paint on the planet.
In creating the whitest paint ever, which researchers say reflects up to 98.1% of light...Read all.
LA County sheriff blames 'defund the police,' progressive policies for murder, violent crime wave - TheBlaze
LA County sheriff blames 'defund the police,' progressive policies for murder, violent crime wave - TheBlaze:
Los Angeles County's top cop, Sheriff Alex Villanueva, says the far-left "defund the police" narrative and progressive officials are responsible for a worrying spike in violent crime. What is the background?
Major cities across the U.S. have experienced a spike in violent crime this year.
In Los Angeles, for example, murders are up nearly 200%, Fox News reported. Through the first two months of 2021, there were 60 murders in Los Angeles County compared to just 21 during the same time period last year.
Facebook Has a Private Army: Its Founders Want to Free Criminals | Frontpagemag
Facebook Has a Private Army: Its Founders Want to Free Criminals | Frontpagemag
The Zuckerberg estate in Dolores Park is protected by a 15-man security team who helped turn the area into what neighbors described as "nothing short of a fortress."
- Facebook’s private force is half the size of the San Francisco Police Department.
"...Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, has plowed a ton of cash into various pro-crime bids through the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative with $350 million going to the Justice Accelerator Fund.
Accelerating justice and freeing criminals is a process that starts far from the Zuckerberg manor.
- ...The Facebook CEO's security operation isn't a private matter. The guards are part of the company's massive security force with 6,000 personnel, some of whose thugs come from Pinkerton, while its intelligence unit spies on its employees, its users, and everyone else.
- Facebook’s Chief Security Officer is a former CIA agent. Its Global Security Operations Center has three operational hubs, and monitors Zuckerberg’s home and top employees, while Its BOLO watchlist appears to track even those who speak badly about the CEO.
- ...Big Tech security teams are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets. ...Facebook has 1,000 security officers in the Bay Area alone. The San Francisco Police Department has less than 2,000 police officers. Facebook’s force is half the size of the SFPD.
...Facebook’s “public-private partnership” had paid for its own police force with arrest powers.
This is public safety reimagined for the elites.
Everyone else gets George Gascon and police defunding.
- We get riots in the streets, smashed windows, and looted stores while Facebook and its top executives get a private police force half the size of the real one.
- We get junkies, crazies, and thugs roaming the streets, beating, raping, and killing, while anyone who even annoys a Zuckerberg guard will be hit with restraining orders and then arrested in a flash.
...Big Tech execs want us to reimagine public safety. Armed guards for them, crime for us...Read all!!
Twitter Permanently Blacklists James O'Keefe After CNN Expose
Twitter Permanently Blacklists James O'Keefe After CNN Expose:
James O’Keefe, the founder of the investigative journalism organization Project Veritas, has been permanently blacklisted by Twitter, just as his organization releases bombshell undercover footage showing senior CNN employees admitting to using “propaganda.” @Project_Veritas, the organization’s official account, has also been suspended.
In a comment to Breitbart News, a Twitter spokeswoman said the suspension was permanent. This comes directly after O’Keefe and Project Veritas publicly embarrassed the far-left news network CNN.
Must read!!-----How corporations conspire with Democrats to hoard power at the public's expense
How corporations conspire with Democrats to hoard power at the public's expense
"Georgians adopted voter-integrity measures supported by a large majority of Americans, that are in the mainstream of state regulation and in fact are less stringent than the rules in Delaware, President Joe Biden’s home state, and New York.
By more than a 2-1 margin, Americans think such rules are not unfair or discriminatory.
Nonetheless, these measures have produced an unprecedented effort by large corporations to interfere in the workings of a democratic government.
- Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game out of (majority-black) Atlanta to (majority-white) Denver in protest.
- Coca-Cola’s president weighed in against the changes.
- And in a statement organized by Kenneth Chenault, former chief executive of American Express, and Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of Merck, hundreds of CEOs voiced opposition.
Why?
...As always, this is defended in the name of racial equality. But as usual, that’s just a smokescreen for power.
Don’t ask me, listen to what lefty independent journalist Glenn Greenwald has to say: Big corporations, he writes, are “now deploying woke ideology the way intelligence agencies do: as a disguise.”
- They run sweatshops and depend on slave labor abroad — many playing footsie with the Chinese government, which is committing genocide against its Uighur population even as many are subjected to forced labor — but they talk “social justice” at home because it helps distract people.
- And their interference with politics is dangerous, Greenwald notes: “When giant corporations use their unparalleled economic power to override that process — by forcing state and local governments to rescind or reject laws they would otherwise support due to fear of corporate punishment — then the system, by definition, far more resembles an oligarchy than a democracy.”
Well, oligarchy’s their goal, pretty much.
And the tech media are their handmaidens, censoring (truthful) stories from this paper on Hunter Biden’s laptop, the possible lab origins of the Wuhan coronavirus and, most recently, the multiple mansion purchases by Black Lives Matter co-founder (and avowed Marxist) Patrisse Khan-Cullors, which Facebook blocked on spurious “privacy” grounds.
With the news media having become a leftist monoculture and with tech companies censoring “hate speech” — i.e., speech that cuts against their preferred narrative — the voting booth is one of the few outlets the public has to advance its interests and beliefs...Read all.
San Francisco Ordinance Requires Property Owners to Make Lifetime Rental Offer to Tenants — for Real
San Francisco Ordinance Requires Property Owners to Make Lifetime Rental Offer to Tenants — for Real
"So...you come across an investment opportunity in a cosmopolitan city in another state — a six-unit apartment building where you can purchase a co-ownership interest with a plan to move into that building when you retire.
The purchase agreement includes a provision that the co-owners will convert the six-unit building into separately owned condominium units by a specified date, and you and your spouse will obtain the right to own and occupy one of those condominium units.
...After purchasing your interest, but before the date comes for the condominium conversion, the City Council in this cosmopolitan city amends its condo conversion ordinance, and now requires that a property owner converting a rental apartment to a condominium must offer a lifetime lease to the current resident of the unit being converted.
- Just like that, the renter of your soon-to-be-condo has a legal right to live in your retirement home for the duration of his life which might be longer than your lifetime.
...But, one lesson you might take from this is that if you are living in Dayton, Ohio, look for someplace other than San Francisco to invest in a retirement condo — that is if you want to actually live in your retirement condo...Read all.
'Get the f*** out!': Black protesters in Brooklyn Center eviscerate white protester, tell him 'you're white, you already don't belong!' - TheBlaze
'Get the f*** out!': Black protesters in Brooklyn Center eviscerate white protester, tell him 'you're white, you already don't belong!' - TheBlaze:
A white protester in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, must have been scratching his head extra hard Thursday night after he was caught on video getting verbally taken apart by a group of irate black protesters who ordered him to leave the area.
They trusted government to protect them with the "Jake Laird Law"-----Records suggest FedEx shooter never had competency hearing
Records suggest FedEx shooter never had competency hearing
But Brandon Hole — the 19-year-old behind Thursday’s bloodbath at the FedEx facility he used to work at in Indianapolis — was apparently never the subject of such a hearing, even though he had been involved in a weapons case amid mental issues that involved the FBI last year, according to
records...Read all.
"...Under Indiana’s so-called “red flag law,” authorities are supposed to seek court intervention when they confiscate guns and believe that returning them to a person would constitute a threat, in a bid to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
The measure is also known as the “Jake Laird Law,” in memory of an Indianapolis cop who was killed by a mentally ill man after his guns were returned to him.
records...Read all.
"...why the hell was a 13 year-old kid running around, at night, with a handgun, in the first place?..."
"The lawyer for the family of the 13 year-old kid who was killed by police in Chicago just said "...the second he was shot, he didn't have a gun in his hand."
Technically, that is true.
But in reality, it is a lie.
I understand her job is to advocate for the family, but according to the full speed video from the cop's body cam, literally one second before he was shot he DID have a gun in his hand.
Of course, the media only shows the frame where he is facing the police with his hands up to create an image of cops murdering an unarmed kid.
What it doesn't show is that image was part of a one second to a second and a half sequence where the kid tossed the gun behind a fence and spun toward the officers.
In the context of the real world, a second to a second and a half is roughly one heartbeat.
In the context of the real world, a second to a second and a half is roughly one heartbeat.
That's how fast it is.
This is one case where the entire video should be viewed in full context to appreciate how quickly the events transpired.
This is one case where the entire video should be viewed in full context to appreciate how quickly the events transpired.
...The real question I have about this tragedy is why the hell was a 13 year-old kid running around, at night, with a handgun, in the first place?
I'm sure the grieving parents (most likely it will be parent, singular) will be trotted out to support what will undoubtedly be a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the police and the city, but (and this may seem callous) aren't they at least partially responsible for their minor child being in that situation?"...Read all.
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