The Sessions Steamroller sent up an S.O.S. today---in this case, though, referring to a new initiative, The Synthetic Opioid Surge. The success of an experimental program in Florida led to the US Department of Justice deploying the new tactics and procedures in ten areas hard-hit by the Opioid Epidemic. The only targeted area on the West Coast is in Eastern California, and that area definitely needs it. The other regions are in Appalachia, Ohio, Maine, and New Hampshire.
The pilot program was executed in Manatee County, Florida. The FBI and DEA organized a coordinated system with local authorities. Essentially, while the latter rounded up street-level drug-dealers, the Federal authorities investigated the supply-chains and logistics of the case. Sessions reported today that six months ago, Manatee County EMT's responded to an average of 11 overdoses per day. Today, they average less than 1 per day; reflecting a 77% drop in overdoses overall. Fatalities from Narcosis dropped by 75% during the same period.
As a side note, the few US media outlets covering that story six months ago universally predicted that it would fail. Just as predictably, the MSM is silent as to its success.
Sessions spoke today at a ceremony today announcing the appointment of long-time special investigator Uttam Dhillon to DEA chief. The two believe that the new program will result in the downfall of major distribution networks. In criminology, their theory is sound. The weakness in drug trafficking---as with all criminal organizations---is security. The larger the organization grows, the more difficult it is to maintain secrecy. All ten of the districts in which S.O.S. will operate are among the worst in the country---and it's not improbable that a very few distributors are sitting at the top of the pyramid. Dhillon mentioned capturing a single suspect in the Florida program who "had enough heroin to kill tens of thousands of people."
We hear numbers like this from federal officials, and watch Left-Wing whackos roll their eyes cynically. But this is no exaggeration. A little over half a pound of pure heroin is quite sufficient to take out 10,000 people. Fentanyl, an even more potent Opioid, can do the same damage on a little over half an ounce.
In the wrong hands, these things are tantamount to biochemical weapons. Of course, drug pushers need customers, so they don't deploy these agents like a terrorist would. But Opioids are incredibly addictive and in minute amounts like these, accidents are bound to happen. 64,000 fatally, in fact, during Obama's last year in office. Narcotic overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under 50. The Trump Administration has made it a priority not only to fight the drug epidemic, but to win it. This includes not only enforcement but new approaches to treatment as well.
During the next few months it will be interesting to see what happens. But for the first time in a long time, something is actually getting done.
While perusing the so-called Manosphere today, we noticed a lot of arm-flapping over some article published on a Red Pill blog called Neon Revolt. This blog had an article supposedly explaining the online enigmas of our old friend, Q Anon.
Q Anon is person (or persons) unknown who began posting on 4Chan and Twitter around last Halloween. His posts read about like textbook cases of patients free-associating during a Psychotherapy session. And it's not improbable that's actually what Q Anon's posts really are. But to Neon Revolt and other Red Pills, these incoherent ramblings contain super-secret information. According to them, Q Anon is an 'insider' exposing a powerful cabal ruling the world---an organization so powerful that it can do anything except censoring information about itself from being revealed on social networking sites.
What has the Red Pills all excited is the supposed 'paradigm shift' that's supposed to happen when 'the storm' manifests. As Neon Revolt assures us, the Alpha Supermen who've taken the Red Pill are being groomed by Q Anon to be "the vanguard of the Great Awakening."
Alphas Rise Up to take Control
Vox Day, who praises Neon Revolt's article, is eagerly rubbing his hands and hoping for the downfall of the Church: "Rest assured that it is Christians who are going to have the most difficult time accepting the degree to which their understanding not only of the world, but of their own faith, is incorrect."
Maybe that's because Christians have been taught that "False Christs and false prophets shall arise showing miracles and signs so marvelous that, if it were possible, they would deceive the very Elect." (St. Mark xiii:22) and "Beware of deceivers, for many shall come saying, 'I am Christ and the time draws near.' Do not follow them." (St. Luke xxi:8)
Simple, isn't it? Francis is the public pope, and is named; but the real power behind the throne is 'P'. The Rothschilds, George Soros, and the Saudi Royal Family form a Triumverate and they too are named. So we have the name of the antipope, the three organizations who are ruled by the unnamed Jesuit Black Pope. We have all of this information except the first initial of the name of the man at the top.
These are the kinds of straws that these anti-Christian fanatics will grasp at. What they really desire is the downfall of organized religion so that their own movements can supplant them. It doesn't look likely to succeed, any more than past attempts have.
One of the minor Red Pill Cult blogs, Saving Eve, concocted another blacklist for their disciples titled The Seven Signs of a Religious Charlatan. These kinds of indexes are useful for the cultists. They are designed to keep their followers from listening to others who might question too closely things that the Cult teaches. By examining such rules, however, we can understand better the tactics cults employ. Let's look at these seven points:
1. Uses imprecise Biblical terms.
2. Does not quote the Scripture accurately.
3. Uses theological jargon to answer simple questions.
4. Uses systematic theology and catechisms to justify his positions.
5. Quotes Bible-teachers and theologians instead of Scriptures.
6. Ignores the context.
7. Talks about the value of 'theological training' over knowing the Scriptures.
Notice that there is an admixture here purposely designed to be misleading. For example, #7 would be an obvious red-flag; even though I don't think that any reputable religious teacher outside of some of the Rainbow-Church Cults ever do this. Numbers 1, 2, 6 are usually less signs of dishonesty than they are of lack of education. Of course, the Cultists do these things all the time themselves: but by accusing others of doing it, they divert attention away from their own falsehoods.
#3 is unclear; it could apply to many situations. There are often theological concepts which require theological 'jargon' to define them. Think of explaining a concept like 'Divine Providence' in non-theological terms for example.
Numbers 4 and 5 are where we see the Cultist exposed. These define the teachers of nearly any organized Christian denomination.
What these Cultists are doing here is engaging in a propaganda tactic called by some cognitive distortion; a type of what Logicians refer to as 'Association Fallacies.' The idea in such a list is to get consensus on a self-evident point, add some points that are subjective but plausible; and connect them with such associations to the targeted group. Thus a superficial reader will assume that if one or more points on this list define a religious charlatan; then all points listed must define them. Cultists and other propagandists depend on their readers and hearers jumping to such conclusions.
The author gives an example with his 4th point, which gives the game away. He says: "Religious charlatans utilize the Coherence Theory of truth (do the ideas logically fit together?) rather than the Correspondence Theory of truth (does the idea accurately describe what I can observe?) Systematic theologies and catechisms are the most effective way to make blatant errors acceptable."
What the Red Pill way of determining spiritual truth is saying: There is no such thing as faith; belief is predicated upon our subjective observations. Subjective Perception, therefore, is the criterion of truth and not the Holy Spirit. This why the Red Pill Cultists believe that pseudosciences like Evolutionary Psychology and Game are great revelations of Absolute Truth suppressed by International Jewry, Cuckservatives, Churchians, Social Justice Warriors, etc. This is also why their theology is typically Unitarian and is based upon Gnostic systems of personal insights and secret revelations.
The fact that Systematic Theology has existed throughout most of mankind's entire history and forms the basis of all major world religions means nothing to the Red Pills. They know better; because they've taken the Red Pill and escaped the falsehoods of things like the Christian Church. So were the Sethians, the Marcionites, Basilideans and numerous other cults who've sunk into well-deserved oblivion. The Red Pill is nothing new.
In Christianity, Systematic Theology relies upon confirming Christian truths to the extent that Human Reason can. Beyond the point of reason lie Incomprehensible Truths which must be understood only by Faith. In praising the Saving Eve article, Vox Day pontificated that "the teaching of Divine Omniscience completely and necessarily rules out the Divinity of Jesus Christ." And as evidence of this, he cherry-picks Scripture wherein Christ said: "But of that day and hour nobody knows, not even the angels in Heaven, but the Father alone." (St. Matt. xxiv:36). Which he thinks means that Christ was saying that He did not know. What Christ obviously meant though was that the 'day and hour' was known only in Heaven and not to be revealed on Earth; and the fact that the angels did not know was because they. in their Faith believed that God's Will would be fulfilled and that was sufficient. Christ is saying that our Faith in God's Providence should be like the angels; i.e. continue doing what is pleasing to God without regard to what may happen tomorrow.
Vox bragged that such an argument would tie theologians in knots, but the Sunday-School teachers at whom he sneers could explain it in a paragraph, as we just did. Most of these characters would do a lot better if they spent more time in Sunday Schools and reading Catechisms themselves.
The ultra-PC city of San Francisco is proving once again that Liberalism turns great cities and states into 3rd-world level garbage dumps. In one week alone, the City's 311 Complaint Line received over 16,000 public complaints about human excrement in the streets. That's almost 2,300 per day. I don't doubt that one bit. The city smells like a public restroom mixed with marijuana smoke.
It wasn't always this way. San Francisco used to be one of the best American cities. It went from this:
To this:
In one generation. According to Mohammed Nuru, San Francisco Public Works Director, the city already spends $30 million annually to clean the streets and city parks.
The biggest problem in San Francisco today---and cities of the Pacific Northwest in general---is that the city leadership is in complete denial about the problem. Oh, certainly they'll admit that there are bums, drugs, and filth all over: but they deny that it's worse than any other city and/or that the problems are caused in any way whatsoever by their own policies. Just last month, San Francisco's City Council passed a ban on tobaccos containing flavorants. Swisher Sweets and Borkum Riff are great health-hazards, they reckoned---even though they probably stepped over a few dozen hopheads and piles of human dung to get to the Council Meeting.
At a certain point, though, reality is going to have to set in. We've warned for a long time that these urban bum-jungles on the West Coast are a disaster waiting to happen. Think of this way: an illegal immigrant carrying some exotic disease---or a terrorist with a contagious biological weapon---can release a pandemic among the street population that could spread like wildfire through an entire city. Infected bums will probably run to other cities and set off a chain-reaction.
A scenario like that is a real possibility. Typhus, Bubonic Plague, Ebola, Diptheria and other epidemics were spread in the past by lack of sanitary conditions in urban areas.
But try and explain any of this to an average West Coast Liberal and you'll likely get met with a furious onslaught of outrage. They'd rather pretend that wading through piles of human waste and discarded is somehow all the Republicans' fault and turn their anger on us instead.
Today, Americans are celebrating the second Independence Day since the downfall of the Deep State. It feels good to see the Fourth of July actually mean something again. However, we do think it prudent for Americans to be extra vigilant this holiday. This isn't the standard 'be safe with fireworks' or 'don't drink and drive' message. If you're out in public this year, watch out for potential violence.
If you've been following much of the news lately, it's noticeable that elements of the Far Left are becoming more and more unpredictable; and more prone to violence both in word and deed. Just today, authorities caught someone trying to scale the Statue of Liberty. Last weekend, a Tea-Party Rally in Oregon by Antifa; another nutcase ambushed the head of the EPA in a restaurant, etc. Just being out and around in town, I've overheard Liberals praising kooks like Robert DiNiro and Peter Fonda---and adding their own bloodthirsty fantasies into the mix.
The sight of patriotic Americans celebrating today might (to use one of the Left's own expressions) 'trigger' one of the many Leftists who've been mentally teetering on the precipice of turning their neurotic dreams into concrete action.
So, if you're out tonight, just be aware of your surroundings. Note where the police and security people are positioned, in case you notice something suspicious. Taking people by surprise is something that mass-shooters and terrorists count on. The police today are better trained for such events; but keeping a sharp eye on your surroundings will increase your chances if an attack of some kind occurs. You can note places to hide, to escape to, or fight back from, should the need arise.
In other words, adopt the philosophy of the modern police. Accept the fact that Leftists, Jihadists, and other violent psychos are out there and we have to prepare for them. The police will respond if an emergency happens, but you can make their jobs much easier by having an awareness of your own.
Let's hope that there's no need to employ this advice today; but it's better to have knowledge and not need it than to need knowledge and not have it.
So, Pope Francis has been accused of something sexual by some unknown somebody who claims that the whole incident happened somewhere sometime in the past; so says the Corporate Media after somebody whispered something in some reporter's ear. Or so some people say. But I'm with Mrs. Trump:
Why don't we care, and neither should you? Here are a few reasons:
1. The American Media Lies. The Media lies continually about Pope Francis. Just a few days ago, they claimed that Pope abolished the Doctrine of Hell. They told lies about Pope Benedict and about Pope John Paul continually too.
2. Sleazy Sex Scandals Sell. Ever since Clarence Thomas' Senate confirmation hearing, the Media found that abandoning Journalism and peddling 'Infotainment' instead sells. Mixing the tactics of shock-jocks, reality-TV, tabloid muckraking, and soft-core pornographers with a few facts made the Media Cartels rich. In a sexually repressive culture like ours, voyeurism and paedohysteria are irresistible sociological forces.
3. The American Media is Reflexively Anti-Catholic. Most of the Media is anti-Christian generally, but anti-Catholic in particular. This is also true of Alt-RINO news outlets like World News Daily who ran the 'exclusive' about the Pope today. WND features regular articles by Catholic-haters like Vox Day and Michael Savage.
Of course, America is a country where Free Speech and a Free Press is a Right. I would have no issues if people want to read and write sensationalist stories; or produce films and TV shows for the illiterates among the connoisseurs of such garbage. What's troubling is that this trash is being palmed off on the public as 'news' and real people, in real life, suffer the consequences. Even in some cases where the accused were found guilty---like Jerry Sandusky or Jodi Arrias---it's hard to believe that they actually got a fair and unbiased trial. Others have had their lives, reputations, and fortunes destroyed on the mere say-so of public rumor and innuendo.
In most of these kinds of cases, the evidence of 'sexual misconduct' (whatever that means) was committed in private and a remote time and/or place. The Courts cannot possibly determine the truth or falsehood of such matters. They have only the word of the accusers. The accusers have nothing to lose by lying. They stand to gain notoriety, profit, or even revenge with little or no consequences if they fail. The accused stands to lose everything.
Which brings us back to Point #2. Back when we were still taught actual History in schools, we read with horror of witch-hunts and Negro lynchings. These sex scandals whip up hysteria not unlike those events. A mob always acts first and thinks later. Our Constitution sets up strict rules of evidence and strictly condemns such practices as we were subject to before July 4th, 1776. Things like the Star Chamber, extorted confessions, ex post facto laws, Bills of Attainder, and other organized forms of public violence to Justice. The Media wouldn't care if all of these things came back---just so long as they are the ones to be the judge and jury and get to broadcast the execution on Pay-per-View.
Just say 'no' to Media-driven fake scandals and say 'yes' to Justice.
Yes, the 'Red Line' was again crossed---but this time not in the Middle East. And not on orders of the Assad 'Regime' either. The chemical weapons attack took place, we learned today, last December in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana.
The guilty party was a soldier from nearby Fort Polk named Ryan Taylor, who was convicted today and who faces a possible life sentence. MP's at the Fort testified that they heard an explosion and saw an unusual cloud from the nearby forest. They went to investigate and caught Taylor filming the event on an I-Phone.
One of the MP's was badly burned and had to be discharged from the Army on medical grounds after approaching too close to the fallout. Taylor then fled, leaving the MP wounded, but he was later captured. Specialists testified at his trial that Taylor had detonated a Chlorine-Gas bomb. When his apartment was searched, authorities found a pipe bomb rigged with stolen military fuses and detonators. The whole block had to be evacuated until the FBI's Bomb Squad removed the weapon.
Unfortunately, this is the kind of military that Trump inherited from the Clintons and Bushes. Our own military personnel lately have done more damage to our country through their incompetence, outright stupidity, and criminality than ISIS has. The same week as Taylor's conviction also saw Air Force 'veteran' Reality Winner sentenced to over five years in prison for leaking classified material to the press to attack Trump. It also saw a few of our 'out and proud' postmodern Marines indicted on numerous criminal charges. And we saw an avowed Communist and West Point graduate discharged for promoting overthrowing the US Government.
Sitting at the top of this rats'-nest is Obama's former CENTCOM commander, James Mattis; now US Secretary of Defense. Mattis hasn't lifted a finger to undo any of the disasters created by three decades of Deep-State Political Correctness.
What our Pentagon needs is a wholesale top-to-bottom cleaning out. Take women out of combat and out of the military in general. Ban homosexuals and other sex perverts again. Raise the physical fitness and intelligence standards in recruiting. Re-initiate mandatory drug testing. Eject all those PC-officers and promote new ones from the ranks. Let Drill Instructors instill discipline again. Kick out the corrupt contractors and put the military back in charge of its own essential services.
Our Military is no place for the kind of dirty politics which has characterized its entire command structure since the Clinton Administration. It's no place for Snowflakes; it's time to bring back the kinds of fighting men who made this July 4th possible.
