One
of the oft-forgotten caveats of the so-called “War on Drugs” is that
drug paraphernalia laws can be used to convict someone who wasn’t found
selling or even in possession of drugs. Owning or selling bongs, for
instance, can be sufficient to bring charges against someone, although
paraphernalia charges typically accompany other, more serious ones.
While simple possession of drug paraphernalia is not a federal crime,
unlike selling it, some states have chosen to forbid such items.
As Alan Mendenhall notes, it simply doesn't exist, because it has never existed:
What is this national conservatism all about?
The succinct answer is the marriage of nationalism to conservatism. The
conference organizers defined nationalism as “a commitment to a world of
independent nations.” They presented national conservatism as “an
intellectually serious alternative to the excesses of purist
libertarianism, and in stark opposition to theories grounded in race.”
Their stated aim was “to solidify and energize national conservatives,
offering them a much-needed institutional base, substantial ideas in the
areas of public policy, political theory, and economics, and an
extensive support network across the country.”
Sounds interesting. However, neither national conservatism nor
nationalism — whatever the distinctions between them — can take hold in
the United States.
The Difference Between a Country and a Nation
Why? Because the United States is not, and has never been, a nation. The
founding generation referred to the United States as a plural noun
(i.e., “these United States”) because several sovereigns fell under that
designation. St. George Tucker called the United States a “federal
compact” consisting of “several sovereign and independent states.” If
his view seems unrecognizable today, it is because nationalism within
the United States is dying or dead—and the United States killed it.
The United States of America in the singular is a country, not a nation.
It contains nations within it, but does not itself constitute a nation.
Nations involve solidarity among people who share a common culture,
language, customs, mores, ethnicity, and history. A country, by
contrast, involves political arrangements and governmental territories
and boundaries.
From its inception, the United States has been characterized by faction
and sectionalism, cultural clashes, and competing narratives — between
Indian tribes in what is now Florida and California, Wyoming and Maine,
Georgia and Michigan; between the British and French and Spanish and
Dutch; between Protestants and Catholics and English Dissenters and
nonconformists and splintering denominations; between the Calvinism of
Cotton Mather and the Enlightenment rationalism that influenced Franklin
and Jefferson. The United States has experienced, as well, numerous
separatist movements, including, most notably, the secession of the
states that made up the Confederate States of America.
The United States is not a nation.
The United States is not a nation, it is an empire. But the formerly
dominant American nation that it contains is, despite its
self-disbelief, nevertheless still a nation. And its national
self-interest is naturally opposed to the self-styled "nationalist
conservatives" who are neither nationalists nor conservatives, but
rather, neoclown imperialists in nationalist clothing.
Mendenhall observes: "The national conservatism they envision for the United States can lead only to the suppression of actual nationalism." And that, of course, is precisely the point.
Good morning everyone I hope you enjoyed the week with nice weather. I know I am posting this really early but Drew has been working 50 to 60 hours a week lately. Here are your questions!
1) What kind of music do you like to listen to?
2) Who is your favorite band or singer?
3) Is there a band or singer you like to listen to more than others?
4) What was the last concert you remember going to?
A
giant 'city-killer' asteroid that just whizzed past earth seemingly
appeared "out of nowhere" has stunned astronomers after only being
discovered last week, days before it flew within around 45,000 miles from earth - or less than 20% of the distance to the moon, according to the Washington Post.
"I was stunned," said Alan Duffy - lead scientist at the Royal Institution of Australia. "This was a true shock."
This asteroid wasn’t one that scientists had been
tracking, and it had seemingly appeared from “out of nowhere,” Michael
Brown, a Melbourne-based observational astronomer, told The Washington
Post. According to data from NASA, the
craggy rock was large, an estimated 57 to 130 meters wide (187 to 427
feet), and moving fast along a path that brought it within about 73,000
kilometers (45,000 miles) of Earth. That’s less than one-fifth of the distance to the moon and what Duffy considers “uncomfortably close.” -Washington Post
"It snuck up on us pretty quickly," said Michael
Brown, an associate professor at Australia's Monash University School of
Physics and Astronomy, adding later "People are only sort of realizing
what happened pretty much after it’s already flung past us."
If all the assholes who can't or won't do their jobs would get out of the way, maybe we could get something done. In my 68 years experience, things have never been worse than now.
FBI Rocked By Public Suicide of TOP FBI Agent Who Investigated Clinton Foundation
FBI agents are mourning the death of one of the Bureau’s top financial
crimes supervisors who reportedly shot and killed himself on a crowded
nite-club dance floor, according to top FBI insiders.
Salvatore “Sal” Cincinelli, a former Wall Street broker who joined the
FBI in 2010, died last week during a night out after an FBI training
session, sources said.
Cincinelli was one a supervisory special agent who spearheaded many of
the FBI’s high-profile and complex Wall Street investigations, including
probing the finances of the Clinton Foundation. After leaving his Wall
Street career, Cincinelli was first assigned to the New York field
office (SDNY) and later promoted to HQ in Washington, DC. He was a
native New Yorker as well.
“Very very bright guy,” one FBI insider said. “Such a young guy, it
really gets you in the gut. He put in the hours too, was always working
hard.”
Cincinelli was 41.
Cincinelli was reportedly out partying with FBI colleagues at the
Container Bar, a trendy watering hole in Austin, TX. The group had been
drinking and dancing, according to sources. Later in the evening
Cincinelli reportedly turned the gun on himself on a crowded dance
floor.
If this had happened while Obama was president, we'd assume that he'd
been threatened. But given Trump, Q, and Russia Russia Russia, it might
be that his corruption by the Clintons is about to come out.
Then again, the music might just have been really bad.
“Marijuana use among youth may actually decline after
legalization for recreational purposes,” the most recent study on the
subject concludes. Laws that legalize recreational marijuana are
typically followed by an 8% drop in reported recent marijuana use and a
9% decrease in the odds of frequent marijuana use among high schoolers.
The same correlation couldn’t be observed in states where only medical
marijuana is available.
The study, published in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, July 8, was authored by economists from the state universities of Montana, Oregon, Colorado and California.
“Policy makers are particularly concerned that legalization for
either medicinal or recreational purposes will encourage marijuana use
among youth,” the study says. This is a widespread fear; a majority of
opponents of cannabis legalization fear that legal weed will lead to increased consumption by the young and impressionable. It would appear that the exact opposite is true.
Previous research on the subject showed that the link between
cannabis legalization and rates of use is complex. Two distinct studies,
in February 2017 then December 2018,
reached opposite conclusions using different sources of data; both
studies looked into cannabis use among eighth and tenth graders in
Washington state, but one claims that usage rose slightly while the
other estimates it fell. To avoid such biases, the most recent study
used data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Because our study is based on more policy variation than prior work,
we view our estimates as the most credible to date in the literature,”
Mark Anderson, associate professor at Montana State University, told CNN.
Unlike many other past studies, which were limited to one state, his
work includes the entire country with data on about 1.4 million high
school students.
Other research, for instance in the American Law and Economics Review or led by the Colorado state government, seems in line with Anderson’s results.
After the media collaborated with Richard Spencer to
poison the term "Alternative Right", we simply began to describe
ourselves, accurately, as nationalists. Specifically, as "Nationalist
Right" to distinguish ourselves from the left-wing imperialists of the
Fake Right. Since the media's many subsequent attempts to poison that
term have absolutely failed despite their best efforts, both the Left
and Right factions of the globocracy are now attempting to capture it.
Nationalism, by its nature, excludes people. Raising one’s nation above
others begins with defining what that nation is — and who belongs in it.
It’s theoretically possible to have a liberal nationalism, even a
socialist nationalism, that welcomes foreigners interested in joining
the nation’s ranks. The last president’s rhetoric about what Americans
have in common, and how immigration strengthens the country, strikes me
as a species of liberal nationalism.
But conservative nationalism by its nature not like that. It holds that
community arises from longstanding and deep connections between
citizens, connections that come from their shared identity, history, and
cultural values. This is what is “conservative” about it, and also what
makes it inclined to view the entry of foreigners into the American
polity skeptically.
So now instead of liberalism/socialism vs conservatism they're
attempting to set up a false dichotomy of liberal/socialist nationalism
vs conservative nationalism. Their problem is that despite their best
efforts to redefine "nationalism", the word still actually means
something substantial to most people.
And not, as the NatCucks, aka Neoclowns 2.0, would have it, in "a repudiation of racism, libertarianism, and identity politics."
Nationalism, in the American context, means America First. Not "we must
defend our Greatest Ally" or "we must bomb X for the children" or "we
must invade Y because weapons of mass destruction" or "the problem is
ILLEGAL immigration" or "the Z is rotting in the fields!" or "they have
the Magic Paper so they are just as American as you". Nationalism means
rejecting the Proposition Nation, the Huddled Masses, the Melting Pot,
and the 1965 Invasion Act. It means rejecting Judeo-Christianity, the
Athens+Jerusalem equation, equality, desegregation, diversity, and every
other historical falsehood that is being utilized to adulterate,
devalue, degrade, and demoralize America.
And no amount of placing adjectives in front of the word nationalism in
order to gatekeep the genuine nationalists is going to work. But the
mere fact that they feel the need to do so now confirms that the
long-term macrosocietal trends are finally flowing in our favor.
I have been greatly abused, have been obliged to do more than my part
in the war, been loaded with class rates, town rates, province rates,
Continental rates and all rates ... been pulled and hauled by
sheriffs, constables and collectors, and had my cattle sold for less
than they were worth ... The great men are going to get all we have
and I think it is time for us to rise and put a stop to it, and have
no more courts, nor sheriffs, nor collectors nor lawyers.
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts in opposition to the state government’s increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades;[2] the fight took place mostly in and around Springfield during 1786 and 1787. American Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays
led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in a protest against
economic and civil rights injustices. Shays was a farmhand from
Massachusetts at the beginning of the Revolutionary War; he joined the
Continental Army, saw action at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill, and Battles of Saratoga, and was eventually wounded in action.
In 1787, Shays' rebels marched on the United States' Springfield Armory
in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the
government. The federal government found itself unable to finance troops
to put down the rebellion, and it was consequently put down by the
Massachusetts State militia and a privately funded local militia. The
widely held view was that the Articles of Confederation needed to be reformed as the country's governing document, and the events of the rebellion served as a catalyst for the Constitutional Convention and the creation of the new government.[3]
The shock of Shays' Rebellion drew retired General George Washington back into public life, leading to his two terms as the first president of the United States.[3] There is still debate among scholars concerning the rebellion's influence on the Constitution and its ratification.
Cornell professor, and long-time Zero Hedge friend, David Collum recently appeared on an episode of the Quoth the Raven podcast
to talk all things conspiracy. Collum is an economic commentator,
chemist, Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at
Cornell University and is known for writing his "Year in Review", which
appears here on Zerohedge at the end of every year.
On the episode, host Chris Irons notes that Collum's appearance was
prompted by a recent Tweet he put out, in defense of being a conspiracy
theorist which sparked a massive social media response and outpouring of
reactions, both pro and con.
I am a "conspiracy theorist". I believe men and women of wealth and power conspire. If you don't think so, then you are what is called "an idiot". If you believe stuff but fear the label, you are what is called "a coward".
On the podcast, Collum and host Chris Irons tap into every major
conspiracy theory over the last couple of decades, as well as several
current events and the world of finance. Some highlights: Collum Thinks Jeffrey Epstein Could Have Been Working For "Powerful People" And "Setting People Up"
The discussion starts with analysis of the current Jeffrey Epstein
fiasco and Collum ponders what "can of worms" could open for Bill
Clinton and Donald Trump as a result of Epstein going to trial and
documents relating to his indictment coming to light.
"It's going to be bi-partisan," Collum says about the Epstein
allegations. "Epstein was working for powerful people, to get dirt on
powerful people. Epstein wasn't just a dirtball, he was setting people
up," he continues.
Collum comments:
"Nowadays getting photographed on a boat with a blonde sitting on
your lap doesn't even cause you to lose a vote. Now they gotta get you
with something much dirtier. I think that's where the underage kids come
in. I think Epstein has been building a portfolio of dirt, like J.
Edgar Hoover."
"What if that crazy ass pizzagate conspiracy turns out to be true?" he asks.
* * * Collum Doesn't Buy The 9/11 Narrative - "Physics Tells Me There's Problems"
Collum then discusses why he doesn’t believe the mainstream narrative
behind the 9/11 attacks. He cites physics, Building 7 and the lack of
video footage of the plane crashing into the Pentagon as two of the big
reasons that he questions the official story.
"I think there's problems with 9/11, but no one wants to say that
because they're embarrassed to say that. But the laws of physics tell me
there's problems. I don't give a shit about the squibs or Larry
Silverstein saying they decided to pull the building. When I watch two
towers come down perfectly and I go 'chaos theory alone says they should
have gone asymmetric and stopped tumbling'..."
Collum continues:
""I can't believe Building 7 should have fallen. There's really not a
shred of footage of the plane hitting the pentagon. Not one frame. The
official frame isn't a frame. If someone's got the footage, let me see
it."
* * * Collum Doesn't Believe the Las Vegas Shooter Story - "There Were People Saying 'You're All Going To Die'"
Dave also weighs in at length on the Las Vegas shooting, questioning
with the host why a motive was never found, how somebody could get rich
playing video poker as the shooter was alleged to have, whether or not
there were character actors on the news after the event and what
happened to the security guard who was involved and only gave one quick
interview on the Ellen show before "relocating" to Mexico.
"There's about 150 things that just don't add up," Collum says about the Steven Paddock Las Vegas narrative.
He speaks about the security guard from the day of the shooting:
"You got Jesus the security guard. He gets shot in the f*cking leg
then all of a sudden goes off the radar. Then he disappears and the word
is that he's gone to Mexico. The explanation is that he had a vacation planned. Then he comes back with a cane and comes back - and does one interview with Ellen Degeneres."
Collum also talks about other mysterious occurrences from the day of the shooting:
"There were people saying there was a couple walking around the
infield saying 'You're all going to die in 45 minutes' - and then they
got escorted out. And then, 'boom boom boom', a lot of them died!"
Collum and the host also take a little bit of time talking about JFK,
the moon landings, negative interest rates and the effect of Central
Bank policy on the global economy.
You can subscribe to future episodes of the QTR podcast on YouTube here and on iTunes here.
In a "Not, The Onion"-esque story, CBS local affiliate in Boston
reports that the Braintree Police Department showed that not all cops
are African-American-hating, humorless-monsters, as they jokingly (we
assume) told residents that they should “hold off” on any crimes they are planning this weekend.
In a Facebook post, they wrote:
“Folks. Due to the extreme heat, we are asking anyone thinking of doing criminal activity to hold off until Monday.”
They said doing so would be dangerous because of the hot temperatures.
Instead, police provided alternatives:
“Stay home, blast the AC, binge Stranger Things season 3, play with the face app, practice karate in your basement. We will all meet again on Monday when it’s cooler.”
The post was signed:
“Sincerely, The PoPo.
PS: please no spoiler alerts. We’re just finishing season 2.”
Maybe Chicago PD should consider the same message?
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