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Post by kemp on Dec 8, 2020 7:33:26 GMT -5
'California sheriff refuses to enforce stay-at-home orders: It 'doesn't pass 'constitutional test' A California sheriff said Monday he is not enforcing coronavirus related stay-at-home orders because they do not pass the "constitutional test." “It’s been a long year for everybody. We know that," Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes told “Fox & Friends" on Monday. "It’s been very impactful upon all of the businesses and residents of Orange County and California. But I just don’t think that it’s something that falls in line with law enforcement priority." “We have many other responsibilities that we are dealing with ... homelessness, substance use disorder. It's not only unfair to law enforcement but I don’t think it’s fair and stands the constitutional test,” Barnes said. Barnes said Saturday his department would not be enforcing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new restrictive coronavirus lockdown order, which is set to take effect Sunday in the southern part of the state as well as the San Joaquin Valley, south of Sacramento.' www.foxnews.com/politics/california-sheriff-refuses-home-orders-constitutional-testI think it's heartening to see that in this hysteria driven climate that there are those in law enforcement who still believe that upholding the Constitution and protecting citizens and local businesses takes precedence over treating law abiding citizens like criminals on the behest of a governor playing dictator and using fear to restrict and remove peoples freedoms, not to mention threaten livelihoods. |
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Post by kemp on Dec 9, 2020 4:20:53 GMT -5
I just hope that the recent Covid lockdowns do not inspire some radically minded world leaders to consider similar actions in the name of climate emergencies, a 'Climate lockdown' so to speak. This article by Marianna Mazzucato, an economist with some extreme views. 'Avoiding a 'climate lockdown' LONDON – As COVID-19 spread earlier this year, governments introduced lockdowns in order to prevent a public-health emergency from spinning out of control. In the near future, the world may need to resort to lockdowns again — this time to tackle a climate emergency. Shifting Arctic ice, raging wildfires in western U.S. states and elsewhere, and methane leaks in the North Sea are all warning signs that we are approaching a tipping point on climate change, when protecting the future of civilization will require dramatic interventions. Under a so-called “climate lockdown,” governments would limit private vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling. To avoid such a scenario, the world must overhaul its economic structures and do capitalism differently. Many think of the climate crisis as distinct from the health and economic crises caused by the pandemic. But the three crises — and their solutions — are interconnected.' www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/09/23/commentary/world-commentary/climate-change-lockdown/ |
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Post by kemp on Dec 9, 2020 4:44:25 GMT -5
I am reminded of a book that was recommended by Zarono, earlier on this very thread. A interesting book about the collapse of human civilization due to ecological fanaticism, Keith Mano's "The Bridge" (1973), although I haven't been able to get a copy of this one just yet.  Very brief Synopsis 'In the future, science reaches a point of understanding and empathizing for microscopic life, and humanity decides to euthanize itself for the sake of the planet. Citizens, who communicate silently via a finger-on-wrist technique that blends hand shakes with a Morse-like code, breathe through filters to lower CO2 contamination, and live exclusively off a sludgy, microbial friendly “e-diet” don’t put up a fight when the government hands out the suicide pills. Only one man, Dominick Priest, isn’t really into offing himself. Released from prison (in a forested Yankee Stadium) to die with his wife, Mary, Priest races home to upstate New York along overgrown highways and state-sponsored wilderness.' chamberfour.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/bad-idea-books-the-bridge-by-d-keith-mano/ |
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Post by Majere on Dec 9, 2020 17:38:07 GMT -5
I am reminded of a book that was recommended by Zarono, earlier on this very thread. A interesting book about the collapse of human civilization due to ecological fanaticism, Keith Mano's "The Bridge" (1973), although I haven't been able to get a copy of this one just yet. Very brief Synopsis 'In the future, science reaches a point of understanding and empathizing for microscopic life, and humanity decides to euthanize itself for the sake of the planet. Citizens, who communicate silently via a finger-on-wrist technique that blends hand shakes with a Morse-like code, breathe through filters to lower CO2 contamination, and live exclusively off a sludgy, microbial friendly “e-diet” don’t put up a fight when the government hands out the suicide pills. Only one man, Dominick Priest, isn’t really into offing himself. Released from prison (in a forested Yankee Stadium) to die with his wife, Mary, Priest races home to upstate New York along overgrown highways and state-sponsored wilderness.' chamberfour.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/bad-idea-books-the-bridge-by-d-keith-mano/That sounds awesome. I wish it weren’t so hard to find. |
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Post by kemp on Dec 10, 2020 7:44:22 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Dec 10, 2020 11:18:28 GMT -5
Imagine finding it in a used bookstore for cover cost. |
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Post by garbanzo on Dec 10, 2020 15:21:04 GMT -5
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Post by kemp on Dec 10, 2020 15:48:05 GMT -5
Imagine finding it in a used bookstore for cover cost. I'm thinking a few used book stores in the inner city, and regional, next time I'm out that way. Would prefer that to reading from the screen, but thanking garbanzo for the link. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 16:32:28 GMT -5
Imagine finding it in a used bookstore for cover cost. I'm thinking a few used book stores in the inner city, and regional, next time I'm out that way. Would prefer that to reading from the screen, but thanking garbanzo for the link. Have you tried an e-reader? Without a backlight they don't strain the eyes like tablets and phones do. I switched to digital earlier this year and after a few days I forgot all about physical books. |
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Post by kemp on Dec 10, 2020 19:31:29 GMT -5
I'm thinking a few used book stores in the inner city, and regional, next time I'm out that way. Would prefer that to reading from the screen, but thanking garbanzo for the link. Have you tried an e-reader? Without a backlight they don't strain the eyes like tablets and phones do. I switched to digital earlier this year and after a few days I forgot all about physical books. I have read a few online comics, extracts from books, chapters, but I still find myself preferring the physical books whenever possible. |
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Post by kemp on Dec 10, 2020 19:33:04 GMT -5
Prince Charles, heir apparent to the British throne noted 'To curb the spread of the virus, there have been lockdowns across the world, with less industrial activity, far fewer car journeys and vast numbers of flights cancelled, and Charles said this presented a roadmap for the future. “We need only look to the improved air quality in some of the world’s major cities and the return of wildlife to our communities and waterways,” he said. When the current crisis is over, Charles said he hoped the world would reflect on how it might help shape a more environmentally friendly future.' br.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-charles-idCAKCN2242DO |
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Post by kemp on Dec 10, 2020 19:40:03 GMT -5
So much has been made about 'The Great Reset' initiative by the World Economic Forum which seeks to get global elites together to manage the fall out from Covid -19 and build a more environmentally sustainable future, or at least that is the advertising. I will not go too much into the initiative because it goes down a tiresome rabbit hole of agendas, but here are some of their official promotional videos. Admittedly, there is some cultish element to it, especially when you have the Secretary General of the UN, managing director for the IMF, The Prince of Wales, Klaus Schwab executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, amongst others talking about opportunities and at times using that word again 'reset'. It might be ludicrous to suggest that certain world governments and organizations would use the excuse of 'protecting the climate' to enforce further lockdowns, travel restrictions, loss of personal freedom and putting small businesses out of work, but after the events of this year it may be possible that at least in some jurisdictions they may try to do just that in the near future. We have already seen how quickly and brutally certain authorities could remove our personal freedoms, especially when a pandemic could threaten not just the plebs, but those in greater positions of influence, and the same could be said with the climate issue. Of course, as with any past historical attempts to control populations these things always ultimately fail, but they could do enormous damage along the way playing the propaganda and fear campaign.  |
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Post by zarono on Dec 11, 2020 8:43:13 GMT -5
The Amazon price is crazy. It was a fairly common book to find in used bookstores a decade or so ago, if I had paid more attention to scrying crystal in those days I would have bought a few extra copies. |
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Post by kemp on Dec 11, 2020 23:44:54 GMT -5
Worse comes to worse I might just read it online.
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Post by kemp on Dec 11, 2020 23:56:44 GMT -5
Robert E Howard 'I have but a single conviction or ideal, or whateverthehell it might be called: individual liberty. It's the only thing that matters a damn. I'd rather be a naked savage, shivering, starving, freezing, hunted by wild beasts and enemies, but free to go and come, with the range of the earth to roam, than the fattest, richest, most bedecked slave in a golden palace with the crustal fountains, silken divans, and ivory-bosomed dancing girls of Haroun al Raschid.' Robert E. Howard, Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, circa December 1932 I agree, personally I would rather the collapse of civilization and a freedom of sorts in a wasteland than a prisoner in some state controlled 'environmentally friendly' prison.  |
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