Month: April 2020

by William Skink

George Ochenski is not a scientist, nor is he a doctor–he is someone who strings words together for a “news” corporation called Lee Enterprises.

I used to value Ochenski’s perspective. His latest column, which is reproduced at another site I used to have respect for–Counterpunch–is titled The Fatal Folly of a Premature “Grand Opening”, and it opens with this:

Politicians across the nation are pushing the premature removal of social restrictions that have produced solid results in flattening the upward curve of coronavirus infections and deaths across the nation. Goaded by the greedy moguls of Wall Street, these so-called “leaders” are moving to “re-open the economy” while leading medical professionals warn it is folly to do so. But the politicians and their lackeys are ignoring science in favor of commerce — and will have to live with the responsibility for the additional fatalities that will undoubtedly result from their foolish moves.

Who are the “leading medical professionals” Ochenski is referring to? I don’t know, he doesn’t specify. And what science is saying it’s too early to reduce restrictions? Is it the science that produced such “accurate” modeling justifying a lockdown that has triggered an economic depression?

It is incredibly misleading to depict all advocates of reducing social distancing restrictions as greedy toadies of Wall Street. Does Ochenski not understand people have lost their jobs? They have lost their businesses? And now they must pray Uncle Sam throws a few crumbs to them while Wall Street exploits this pandemic with the help of Republicans AND Democrats?

Ochenski wants to focus on the crazy guy in the Oval Office telling people to drink bleach, but by doing so he is playing into the hands of the monsters preparing to make lots of money off this pandemic.

No criticism of Bill Gates and the damage he’s done in other countries with his vaccine obsession? No criticism of the economic house of cards Wall Street has been building for a decade thanks to Democrat and Republican complicity? No context that the economy was already starting to blow up in September, but now Covid-19 will become the convenient scapegoat?

George Ochenski and many other supposed leftists have let their inner authoritarians out of the closet. They no longer care about civil liberties or how the police state will take full advantage of this situation to grab more power for themselves.

Just stay in your home and wait for the experts to tell you everything is ok.

by William Skink

How is the criminal justice system adapting to a global pandemic? Last month the Montana Supreme Court directed cities and counties to release inmates “if possible”. Here is a portion from the Missoulian article (emphasis added):

The courts have largely continued without flinching at the coronavirus pandemic, although every part of the criminal justice system is taking precautions as Montana’s COVID-19 case count climbs, particularly in large urban judicial districts. County clerks are taking measures to protect their staff by limiting face time with the public. Law enforcement is scaling back who gets taken to jail and who can be turned loose after a citation. The Missoula public defender’s office last week filed about 55 motions to release clients in custody due to COVID-19, according to regional deputy Jennifer Streano. Twenty-two were granted, Streano said, while a few others are yet to see a ruling.

I’ve been thinking more about how law enforcement is responding to situations (or not) because of two very different approaches to community concerns.

For those without homes, the approach is hands-off. The encampments under and around the Reserve Street bridge have grown significantly over the last few months, since the Poverello Center was forced to limit how many people can access the shelter at night.

Theft, drug abuse and trash are not important enough for law enforcement to deal with, so the camps are growing and with that growth comes problems that first responders do have to deal with, like fires.

Last November there was a fire that necessitated a response. There was another fire in February. And a fire yesterday:

Investigators are looking into what started a fire at a campsite near the Reserve Street bridge Tuesday evening.

Dispatch got the call about the blaze just before 6:30 p.m. Missoula Fire Department crews responded and put out the fire in about 5 minutes, Missoula Fire Department Capt. Kory Garman said.

Garman said the fire burned about a 20-foot circle, including a campsite and someone’s personal belongings.

What is the Reserve Street area going to look like this summer? With more people losing jobs and homes, growth is guaranteed. And I expect that hands-off approach to continue.

For people who do have homes, there is much more that law enforcement is willing to do.

For example, last Sunday there was an argument between neighbors on Burlington Street. Someone called the police and somehow the police got it in their heads that a gun was present.

The response was an hours long standoff with SWAT that lasted into the early hours of Monday morning when apparently police detectives got involved and determined no crime was committed and no gun was present:

Missoula’s Police Chief shed some light on an incident that blocked off an entire block in Missoula on Sunday night.

Chief Jaeson White says that police were dispatched to the area when a disturbance was reported in the area with the possibility of firearm being present.

SWAT units with special training in negotiating tactics were then called in to attempt to make contact with the woman who were able to talk to the subject over the phone.

Police then conducted an investigation into what caused the call and determined no crimes had been caused and determined it best to move on from the neighborhood.

This response provides an interesting juxtaposition to the hands-off approach police are taking with the theft, drug abuse and trash at the homeless camps. What will it take to change this dynamic?

by William Skink

Everything was great in my toy brick world.

The Mayor’s restaurant was doing great business.

New development was popping up everywhere.

And music acts came regularly thanks to an entrepreneur who cornered the culture market.

But, somewhere in the far east a monster was being created.

When the monster was ready the bad people in the far east unleashed it on the innocent western world that only ever wanted to live in peace and harmony with it’s neighbors.

Thankfully the creative class of enlightened scholars and wizards used their linguistic skills to so confuse the monster, he flew back to the far east and destroyed them all.

The End

by William Skink

Two sources of information I’ve ingested over the past 24 hours has convinced me the true threat humans are coming face to face with is a virulent strain of its own species: sociopaths.

Before dismissing this claim I implore you to do two things.

First, listen to this conversation between Whitney Webb and Maria Farmer, a victim and whistleblower of the Epstein pedophile compromise operation that US authorities knew about and protected for many years.

Second, watch Michael Moore’s latest project, directed by Jeff Gibbs, titled Planet of the Humans. I guess now that the corporate takeover of the “green movement” has been completed it’s ok for someone like Michael Moore to bring attention to its fetid carcass.

And to pivot to what the real problem is: us.

Since we are pivoting to humans being the problem, I think it’s very important we give some thought to which humans in particular are the ones causing the most harm.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at a list of character traits exhibited by sociopaths:

Glibness and Superficial Charm

Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.

Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as “their right.”

Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.

Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.

Shallow Emotions
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.

Incapacity for Love

Need for Stimulation
Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.

Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others’ feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.

Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.

Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet “gets by” by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.

Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others’ lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.

Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.

Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.

Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.

Imagine if people who shared these characteristics had lots of money and formed transactional bonds with each other solely to further their own positions of power and dominance over others. Would they recognize the destructive consequences of their remorseless acquisition and wielding of power if it threatened the same earth they share with us, the same air we all breathe, or would they maybe consider gas-lighting entire nations to commit various forms of collective suicide so they can hoard more resources for themselves?

What would a sociopath do seems like a pertinent question to keep asking as we slowly emerge from a lockdown with a looming vaccine “solution” that will make some well positioned sociopaths lots and lots of money, with the added bonus of a full-fledged surveillance state to keep us in line.

Sociopaths aren’t coy about what they do, nor are they hiding anymore what they plan to do to those they consider beneath them. It’s out there if you have the eyes to see.

If you agree that sociopaths exist, and that their very nature poses a threat to non-sociopaths (which is a majority of the world population), then the question becomes what can we do about it?

I did some quick searching online to see if there was any way a sociopath could be identified and found this abstract worth considering. Here’s a portion of it:

Background and Aim: Psychopathy is associated with cognitive and affective deficits causing disruptive, harmful and selfish behaviour. These have considerable societal costs due to recurrent crime and property damage. A better understanding of the neurobiological bases of psychopathy could improve therapeutic interventions, reducing the related social costs. To analyse the major functional neural correlates of psychopathy, we reviewed functional neuroimaging studies conducted on persons with this condition.

Methods: We searched the PubMed database for papers dealing with functional neuroimaging and psychopathy, with a specific focus on how neural functional changes may correlate with task performances and human behaviour.

Results: Psychopathy-related behavioural disorders consistently correlated with dysfunctions in brain areas of the orbitofrontal-limbic (emotional processing and somatic reaction to emotions; behavioural planning and responsibility taking), anterior cingulate-orbitofrontal (correct assignment of emotional valence to social stimuli; violent/aggressive behaviour and challenging attitude) and prefrontal-temporal-limbic (emotional stimuli processing/response) networks. Dysfunctional areas more consistently included the inferior frontal, orbitofrontal, dorsolateral prefrontal, ventromedial prefrontal, temporal (mainly the superior temporal sulcus) and cingulated cortices, the insula, amygdala, ventral striatum and other basal ganglia.

If I had the power to develop and implement a sociopath threat mitigation program I would use the systems and technology being developed for our long-term oppression against them.

Here’s how it would work.

Everyone gets a complete neurological work-up to identify the threat. Once those who pose a danger to human communities are identified they would immediately be excluded from any job that held power over others.

Sociopaths would then have to be educated at special institutions where the expectations of their conduct within the social contract is clearly articulated, as well as the first strike and you’re out rule.

What is the first strike and you’re out rule?

Let me use the sterile language of the sociopath to explain this one.

If any violation of the social contract occurs, then their contract is nullified and they will be permanently removed.

This is just a thought experiment. It is not a call to action. The call to action we’ve endured has been a call for humans to stop acting like humans because of a threat that keeps changing on us. Now we are all afraid of each other.

Afraid enough to accept the solutions of sociopaths?

I hope not.

by William Skink

It just amazes me that the blind hatred for Trump will steer millions of people to vote for Joe Biden.

During the 2016 presidential campaign audio leaked of Trump bragging that he was so famous he could grab women by the pussy. People were naturally outraged.

Well, Joe Biden apparently DID GRAB A WOMAN BY THE PUSSY, yet the media and Biden apologists don’t seem to care.

Me too? Believe all women? How hypocritical can you worthless Democrat cheerleaders get?

There was one woman who believed Tara Reade after Biden pinned her against the wall and shoved his hand up her skirt, resulting in her leaving Washington DC, and that is Tara Reade’s mother.

In the last 24 hours The Intercept has unearthed evidence that Reade’s mother called Larry King in 1993 to ask him what her daughter should do about a “prominent Senator” she was having trouble with. From the link:

A NEW PIECE of evidence has emerged buttressing the credibility of Tara Reade’s claim that she told her mother about allegations of sexual harassment and assault related to her former boss, then-Sen. Joe Biden. Biden, through a spokesperson, has denied the allegations. Reade has claimed to various media outlets, including The Intercept, that she told her mother, a close friend, and her brother about both the harassment and, to varying degrees of detail, the assault at the time. Her brother, Collin Moulton, and her friend, who has asked to remain anonymous, both confirmed that they heard about the allegations from Reade at the time. Reade’s mother died in 2016, but both her brother and friend also confirmed Reade had told her mother, and that her mother, a longtime feminist and activist, urged her to go to the police.

In interviews with The Intercept, Reade also mentioned that her mother had made a phone call to “Larry King Live” on CNN, during which she made reference to her daughter’s experience on Capitol Hill. Reade told The Intercept that her mother called in asking for advice after Reade, then in her 20s, left Biden’s office. “I remember it being an anonymous call and her saying my daughter was sexually harassed and retaliated against and fired, where can she go for help? I was mortified,” Reade told me.

Reade couldn’t remember the date or the year of the phone call, and King didn’t include the names of callers on his show. I was unable to find the call, but mentioned it in an interview with Katie Halper, the podcast host who first aired Reade’s allegation. After the podcast aired, a listener managed to find the call and sent it to The Intercept.

It’s bad enough that Biden is in obvious cognitive decline.

It’s bad enough that when he did have his mental faculties intact, the policies he supported over the decades usually benefited corporations and warmongers, and hurt average people and people of color.

But shoving his finger in a woman’s vagina, then firing her after it was clear she wasn’t going to go along with his sexual aggression?

I really don’t understand how woman who support Democratic candidates are rationalizing their support for Joe Biden.

Remember all the outrage over what Brett Kavanaugh was accused of doing as a teenager, drummed up decades later to try and stop him from becoming a Supreme Court judge? Anyone who claimed outrage during that fiasco, but is silent now, is worse than a hypocrite. You don’t care about believing women, or supporting them after they have been abused by powerful men, you only care about how other people’s pain can be exploited to further an agenda.

When you vote for Biden what you are saying is your hatred for Trump is so central to your political consciousness that the man opposing Trump can literally do the thing Trump bragged about, and you will still support him.

How messed up is that?

If someone can explain to me how outrage suppression works in these situations, I would love to better understand how this latest piece of evidence supporting Reade’s claims will be ignored by Biden supporters. It can’t just be Trump Derangement Syndrome. There has to be something else at play.

To conclude this post, let me leave you with a picture. It features Joe Biden’s economic adviser, Larry Summers, the man making your mandatory vaccine, Bill Gates, and the most prolific pedophile in American history, Jeffrey Epstein.

Enjoy your election, America.