as I suspected, they will hang. there is no way the jurors holding out are going to suddenly see the light and realize Wheels needs to be rolled into a cold, empty cell and never let out. hopefully the state is preparing for another trial.
If you like the TSA model of security, then you’re going to love Flock.
Why focus on obvious, actual, repeat criminals when you can just accuse everyone of being a pre-criminal and use that as justification for 24/7 spying?
The Flock state is just a scalable Stasi: a government agent able to follow you and track all your movements wherever you go.
If you would oppose an army of cops tailing you and recording you every second you’re outside of your house, you have to oppose Flock.
In April of 2023, Randy Fine, along with Governor DeSantis, and recently disgraced pedophile Mike Caruso, flew to Israel (for some reason) to sign a bill (weird) that makes it *illegal* for me here in Florida to suggest Randy Fine serves two masters (In violation of 1A and 14A).
As a police critic, I have zero issue with this shooting.
She was a violent person who’d already killed one person and would have continued to kill others.
Police shouldn’t be expected to put themselves in extreme danger in this circumstance and not taking her down posed a pressing threat to thousands of people around her.
The First World War did not erupt. Governments built it, financed it, and kept it running long past the point where any rational army would have quit the field.
Franz Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, gave chancelleries and foreign ministries the pretext they needed. The war itself required something more durable than a pretext. It required central banks.
Every major belligerent suspended the gold standard within weeks of the opening shots. Britain suspended convertibility in August 1914. Germany, France, and Austria-Hungary followed. This mattered enormously. Under a true gold standard, you cannot fund a four-year industrial slaughter. Governments run out of money and populations refuse further sacrifice. The war ends. Instead, central banks printed currency to buy government bonds, transferring the cost of the war to ordinary wage earners through inflation, a tax nobody voted for and most never identified as a tax.
Ludwig von Mises watched this from Vienna and identified the mechanism precisely: inflation allows states to conscript private purchasing power without explicit confiscation. Every loaf of bread that cost more in 1917 than in 1913 represented a transfer from the buyer to the war machine.
The death toll reached approximately 20 million people. The fiscal cost exceeded $200 billion in 1914 dollars. Neither number was achievable under honest money. Politicians and generals sustained the catastrophe because central banking made it financially possible to keep going. Remove the printing press and the trenches empty themselves inside three months.
Sound money is a hard constraint on state violence. States hate hard constraints.
Good commentary on my race by @takenaps. Neither of the lobbying organizations bragging about taking me out are saying I was bad for Kentucky or America. They’re saying they did it because I wouldn’t send your money to Israel. Take them at their word.
@AdamCrafton_@MUFC_RA Again the club shouldn’t have to deal with this problem. It’s is only problem because of the lack of support by ownership group and board.
@AdamCrafton_@himanshu0370 Others Clubs who outspent Man Utd also have tons of debt and outstanding transfers fee. The club ownership lack the ambition to win major trophies. If debt was the issue why hasn’t the owners put more money in the club to clear the debt?
i think it’s really sad that no one is talking about the young 32 yr old woman stabbed to death by a psycho while minding her own business. could’ve been any one of your friends or loved ones
Midfield merry-go-round has another strand: Manchester City looking at Enzo Fernandez.
Possible implications for Manchester United’s pursuit of Elliot Anderson.
with @MarioCortegana@SamLee ⬇️
https://t.co/bgYHI6clSN
We should’ve / SHOULD do it. Wouldn’t have cost crazy money, he’s 25 and technically excellent. Feels like United just didn’t want to put their hand in their pocket.
Lawmakers have abandoned the core of the appropriations process: establishing priorities within a limited budget. Congress lurches from one short-term funding measure to the next, under the threat of a shutdown, before passing legislation that preserves the status quo.
The future of Flock cameras: left the house during a pandemic lockdown? Expect a summons in the mail. Exceeding your "carbon footprint" by driving too much? Expect a ticket in the mail. | @ryanmcmaken
https://t.co/Ajs9rXf9tA
Trump can will this into existence by pulling our troops out now, throwing them a massive victory parade & never mentioning Iran publicly again other than saying “it’s over, we won.”
Then use quiet diplomacy & economic means to get the oil flowing through the SOH.
I've noticed that all the Pro-Flock Camera Right-Wing "influencers" are also all pro-Israel and Pro-Data Center...
🤔🤔
Really makes you wonder who's paying these paid propagandists.
Almost everyone is against Flock cameras and the AI surveillance state, right now.
But if we don't abolish them soon, in a few years most people won't care about them anymore.
A generation later, they'll think we'd have total chaos without them.
The time to end them is now.
Opposing the surveillance state is not a DSA talking point. Do not let Con Inc. turn this into a partisan battle. Left, right, center should all come together to defend our privacy rights.
Ignore this tribal bullsht.
Kyle Rittenhouse voluntarily went out to protect & serve during media-manufactured race riots, and effectively defended himself when attacked by violent convicts. He did himself, his family, his community, and his country proud.
All arms control is infringement.