Divemedic

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Ten people were arrested in Tampa on Tuesday when cops shut down the riots at the USF campus that I posted about. Atah Othman (bottom, second from right) was carrying a firearm tucked in his waistband, even though it is illegal to do so.

Though the Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society was suspended by USF last week for causing a disruption on campus, the group was allowed to hold a protest Tuesday near the Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza on campus, Fox 13 reported. They were given a 5 p.m. deadline to end their rally and leave the property.

100 protesters showed up to campus, many of them not associated with USF, bringing with them various items including wood shields, umbrellas and tents.

Just before 5 p.m., law enforcement warned protesters they had 15 minutes to leave before tear gas and rubber bullets would be used to disperse them. Tear gas was used on them around 5:15 p.m. and the area was cleared by about 6 p.m. Supporters call the use of tear gas on protesters “a violation of human rights.”

“We at Florida Palestine Network strongly condemn USF police department’s violent use of chemical munition and brutality to disperse student encampment protesters in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The use of force against peaceful protestors is a violation of human rights and undermines the principles of free speech and assembly, Since the inception of the encampment, USF administration had initiated aggression and violence against students. They have escalated and compounded this aggression through reinforcement of local police forces to silence students and violently refuse divestment demands. We want to be clear that commitment to the Palestine liberation movement will only grow as the state continues its violent crackdown.”

the Florida Palestine Network on Instagram

I have some interesting intelligence to share. That will be coming in another post soon. I am filing this post under the category ‘Antifa’ because, well, let’s face it, they are all related, aren’t they?

By Divemedic, ago

Printing Your Way Out of Debt

The US Treasury just announced that they will be “buying back” outstanding treasury notes during the next quarter for the first time in more than 20 years.

The Treasury Department has undertaken only two previous series of buybacks in the past century. The first took place during the 1920s. More recently, Treasury bought back $67.5 billion of outstanding debt via 45 operations held between March 2000 and April 2002

What followed the first buyback was the Great Depression.

They are claiming that the intent is to make the bond market more liquid. No, what the effect is, is to print our way out of debt. They are going to conjure up $2.5 billion out of thin air, and buy back treasuries with it, in the hopes that people will say “Oh, they aren’t in as much debt now, so I guess I will lend them some more money.”

The first operation is intended for May 29. Through July, the Treasury plans weekly buybacks of up to US$2 billion of nominal coupon securities, and up to US$500 million for Treasury inflation-protected securities (Tips).

This will place more money in circulation and will result in more inflation. There are currently $27.4 trillion in outstanding treasury notes, plus an additional $7 trillion owed to the SS trust fund. A couple of billion isn’t going to do shit, especially when they continue to borrow about $100 billion per day.

This nation and its economy are screwed.

By Divemedic, ago

Violence

You can bitch, complain, and argue all you want, but once they begin using force, and that is exactly what is happening here, all time for talk is over.

Pepper spray is appropriate here. A lot of it. Then a pepper grenade. If they want to escalate from there, let’s get it on. This is terrorism as defined by 18 USC 2331(5):

(5)the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A)involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B)appear to be intended—
(i)to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii)to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii)to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C)occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States;

By Divemedic, ago

Ban the Girls

Now they are banning girls from playing in girls’ sports, but allowing boys to play in girls’ sports. It’s all falling apart. Things will continue to deteriorate until the final collapse.

By Divemedic, ago

I Thought You Wanted Wakanda

The wealthier residents of Baton Rouge, LA have been trying for a decade to break away from the rest of the city and form their own city government because they are tired of the high crime and shitty schools. Well, the case finally made it to the Louisiana Supreme Court, and the court has ruled that they can move ahead.

“This is the culmination of citizens exercising their constitutional rights. We voted and we won,” Andrew Murrell, one of the leaders of the St. George campaign, said in a statement following the victory.

That’s right- this is what democracy looks like, to borrow a favorite phrase from the left, who cares very much about supporting and defending democracy.

Blacks have been saying for years that they want to form their own country, one that they can run without interference from whites. Here is their chance. Baton Rouge is now yours to run as you see fit.

Except the blacks are now complaining that it is racist to expect them to run the city without the white man’s money.

the mayor-president leading the combined Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish governments, had sued the St. George organizers arguing that the split would siphon more than $48 million in annual tax revenue from the local government.

So you want your own country, but you want to build it with white money. Blacks should be happy that they can now run their city without the white people using their privilege to keep them poor and uneducated.

The real truth is one that everyone- blacks included, knows that the problem is that there is a threshold of a critical mass of blacks, and once that critical mass is reached, crime, poverty, and slum status is inevitable. Still, even with blacks in charge (name a city run by a black mayor and city council that is well run with low crime rates and great schools) they have to somehow blame white people.

By Divemedic, ago

What is Rural?

Reader Jonathan asks if I live in a suburb because he lives 200 miles from the nearest town. I guess that depends on your definition of a suburb. Miriam Webster defines a suburb as a smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city.

So what is a reasonable commuting distance? In wide open country, 50 miles is an hour’s drive. In more densely populated areas, it isn’t unusual for it to take an hour to drive 10 miles. Using the IRS definition of commuting distance of 50 miles, there is no place that you can live in the entire state of Florida that is more than 50 miles from a city. Why is that? Because the entire state is only 140 miles wide from beach to beach, with cities on both coasts and in the center of the state, so it’s rather difficult to be more than 50 miles from anything. That would make the entire state either city or suburb, but that is demonstrably not the case.

A great example of this could be southern Osceola county and the town of Yeehaw Junction. This is an area of chicken farms and cattle ranches. The entire town has a population of 240 people. Technically a part of the Orlando-Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area, it is located less than 50 miles from the nearest city.

The Turnpike exit at Yeehaw Junction is notable for being the only exit on a nearly 90-mile stretch of the Turnpike, being located at the southern end of the longest stretch of limited-access highway without an exit in the United States (the next interchange to the north being 48.9 miles away at Kissimmee/St. Cloud) and the northern end of the second-longest such stretch, the next exit to the south being 40.5 miles away at Fort Pierce. It is about as remote as you can get in Florida. Get in any sort of trouble in this area, and you are screwed. Police, fire, and EMS help is 30 minutes or more away, and the nearest hospital is an hour’s journey from there. Yeehaw Junction is considered remote enough that in 1968 the government purposely released biological warfare agents over the town without the knowledge of town residents, although the entire experiment was kept a secret until 2002. The project was called Project 112

Project 112 was supposed to be conducted outside of the US, but it has since come to light during a Congressional investigation in 2002 that there were experiments conducted all over Florida, including:

  • Avon Park
  • Boca Raton
  • Eglin Air Force Base
  • Fort Pierce
  • Panama City
  • Yeehaw Junction

It’s hard to imagine that Fort Pierce and Boca Raton are considered rural, but the CIA and the military were perfectly fine with using Bio weapons on US citizens just so they could see what would happen.

Even then, the CIA won’t release many details about the operation, not even to Congressional oversight committees. The entire project was approved by agencies that eventually would become the FDC and the CDC, so don’t think that the government is above conducting experiments on the US public.

The US government, in concert with the UK, Canada, and other nations actually committed what would be a war crime, yet they want us to believe that COVID was an accident, because they would NEVER release biological warfare agents as a test.

Our government is evil, and it is long past time that it collapse.

By Divemedic, ago