G. E. D. Report #50 - Why I Pay for News and Information

Today I'm talking to you about paying for media, paying for content.

I think the next online behavioral wave will be people paying for news media. I've been listening to unauthorized.TV and realvision.com and they’ve changed many things and quite a bit of my thought processes.

I write this while I’m listening to Dolores Cahill, a doctor in the UK and James Delingpole. One of the amazing connections I've made while listening to them is realizing that doctor Cahill is talking about going outside and getting sunlight vitamin D, taking vitamin C, taking zinc and having those things be the answer to not getting sicknesses like the Novel Coronavirus.

What that would mean is the amazing monetary windfall that would come with a global vaccine would not be possible if people were to be healthy on their own. Think about it. If people are incredibly healthy, immune or near immune to all sorts of viruses, then what we call ‘big pharma’ can't make any money. What we call ‘big government’ can't control your actions.

If you're a healthy person and you're taking vitamins, or eating vitamin and mineral rich food and you know you're not going to get sick, then the people who want to control you and your family and your loved ones have no power. And not only that, they won't make any money off you.

So, in listening to Cahill and Delingpole today on a site for which I pay, I made a connection between big pharma, big medical, and big government and their desire to control and make millions upon millions of dollars at our expense by using our fear. Thusly, the point of my YouTube video is that slowly the remnant, or the top 20%, will realize that it's time to pull away from the Corporate Media Establishment voices and companies and go with much smaller, leaner, more effective subscription models.

That's the trend that I see coming and it has helped me as I describe in the video. I have very little fear and feel much more empowered and much more able to live a life of abundance and fulfillment than one of cowering in my apartment, wearing a mask, hoping I don't get the bug.

Student Sent Home Because Corona: Becomes an Independent Thinker

This is another reaction to the John Taylor Gatto assignment earlier: "Classrooms of the Heart".  It is one of the many unintended consequences of students getting sent home and doing work on their own, at their own pace.  The untapped and unshackled potential of the human mind was unleashed.  Whatever the reason for the one size fits all, totally out of proportion response to The Novel Coronavirus was, they certainly didn't anticipate reactions like this.  Here is a young Black woman who has clearer vision now that she's been left alone and allowed to blossom and think.

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"The minute he started talking it reminded me of the way you teach. He’s not teaching his kids by the book but with life lessons. You rarely find teachers who stray away from the institutionalized school system meant to fail us - and I mean all students. These students will be successful because they are learning about the life experiences. They are not learning about the 1950s but about their future.

His classroom, much like yours, forces the students to be analytical. They tap in to their intelligence and think for themselves. Being home has helped me think about things in a different way. I don’t have teachers telling me how I should think and how I should act in the world. I now hold the power to think for myself and take interest to the things I care about.

I like this video because it’s insightful and I’m learning more things from it. The way he’s teaching these kids is exceptional. He’s letting them shape their future he is not telling them how they should do it. They are able to be independent and not depend on a teacher to feel like they are learning. This type of teaching teaches the kids how to be independent thinkers. You learn by experience and that is what Gatto is doing. He is letting his students learn by their experience. School should be like this, but if it was, the agenda they are pushing would conflict with this type of teaching."

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I responded: This is well done. You pinpointed the main points: people learn by experience, independent thinking is key, and they are pushing an agenda. You really caught the deeper meaning here. Nice work.

The Last Dance - Interview With Harlem Hec

Coming from the PJ's of the Polo Grounds, Harlem Hec and I discuss the documentary on the Jordan era Bulls: "The Last Dance". We cover the differences in eras, which team was best, the influence of social media on the NBA universe, and other great topics you won't get from the other interviews.

If you've got an interest in what regular people are saying about "The Last Dance", this interview and the ones with Isaiah 'Elite Buckets' Rhodes are the ones to listen to.

How to escape education's death valley | Sir Ken Robinson

Here is a 'distance learning' assignment I've given to the 12th graders.  The public speaking classes have produced the responses you've seen previously - they're quite an intelligent group.  I expect big things from many of them.

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Good morning everyone.

We've been talking about school, learning, education, and intelligence. Robinson gives a good talk on these issues. There are some parallels to the previous videos we've watched. I'd like you to listen for them please.

1. Robinson talks about curiosity, particularly among young people. I think it is the most important thing in the learning process. Do you agree?
2. Ken Robinson gave a few of these talks 10-15 years ago. Nothing much has changed. Will this era of 'distance learning' be one of the things that speeds up people breaking away from traditional public school?

Student Reaction: The School in the Cloud

I gave this assignment last week:

The School in the Cloud
Sugata Mitra was around 10 years ahead of his time. If you're going to go into a TED talk and say "schools are obsolete", you'd better have something interesting to say. He does.

Write if what you see changed your mind about learning, education, and school. If it did, explain how and why. If it didn't, explain that as well please. I hope each and every one of you is doing well.

One of the young women in my Public Speaking class reacted to it like this. She allows you to see through her lens when shown something like Mitra's experiment in unleashing human potential:

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"Sugata Mitra speaks about present day learning being outdated in light of the fact that it is equivalent to what it was 300 years prior and to this I concur. The reason that students aren't as advanced isn't because schools are broken, because they aren't, it's essentially on the grounds that the method of teaching hasn't changed. We sit in rows, individually spaced and learn the exact same thing in the same way as those before us.

We don't learn present day history, what is happening in our world now, but we sure know everything that happened in the past. In our present reality, most jobs are computer based, Mitra believes that employees don't need to know how to do math or how to write legibly. You see, we don't actually know what the jobs of the future are going to be, so how is present day schooling going to prepare individuals for what's ahead of them.

Individuals are continually wondering why the rich and their offspring remain rich and those of the lower class remain in the lower class. It is not that the rich produce gifted children but that they have access, access to better schooling and technologies.

Mitra did an experiment where he gave a computer to unfortunate children, left them with if for a couple months and he came back to realized that they taught themselves another language, how to use the computer and learned biology at age 12. The reason the children aren't more advanced than they are today is the lack of motivation to switch things up when it comes to educating. This can be justified by past videos presented to us:

• Rick Ross: Not achieving legitimate training because educators were focused on just earning money
• Robert Kiyosaki: The education system is designed to teach how to become an employee
• Taylor Gatto: Schools are a way to control the thoughts and behavior, real life experiences are what teaches and test individuals."

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Here was my response:

You have a fantastic mind. I hadn't made the connection to the Rick Ross video - I put that out there for different reason. All of those videos relate and you saw how they dovetailed beautifully. You've got what it takes Aaliyah.

The Last Dance Recap - Jerry Krause Perspective

I was a guest on "Ask Isaiah" and we discussed "The Last Dance". We looked at the Krause legacy, compared NBA eras, and tried to come up with comparisons to some of today's teams.  Isaiah was a student of mine, and he has followed the NBA closely his entire life.  As a Knicks fan since the Bernard King days, our differing perspectives create a different tone than the usual sports conversations.

#thelastdance

G.E.D. Report # 49 - The Corporate Media and its Games

I sat down with my laptop to prepare for an interview on "The Last Dance", and when I opened up youtube I saw this.

Youtube is a vehicle for The Narrative, and the people who push it relentlessly.   When you see the Corporate Media saying the same thing in concert, you know that not only the fix is in, but that you should know the opposite is true.  They've gotten that bad.  They've been corrupt for a century, but now with the Progressive SJW convergence, they've completely lost it.

Another Unintended Consequence of CV19 - School is Wasted Time

Here is another student response from the John Taylor Gatto "Classrooms of the Heart" assignment from last week.  I have to think The Narrative and Thought Controllers will be unhappy that the Religion of School has been exposed by forcing everything to close. They exercised their power to the fullest, but I doubt they anticipated this:

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"I agree with Taylor Gatto and his viewpoint on school, he believes that an education isn't bad, schooling is. Direct experience is the main way a student can really learn, you see real life experiences are what both teach and test individuals with the end goal for them to find themselves. We get the opportunity to witness instances of what it resembles to apply these ideas in practice by children communicating about their experiences. One thing I have come to realize is that students are learning faster during this coronavirus pandemic, well me in particular. We now have the freedom to complete assignments without the feeling of it being constrained unto us.

At one point during school I came to the realization that I wasn’t really learning, I was simply passing.

My outlook was exclusively centered around acquiring an 'A'. I say with complete honesty that I don't recall the vast majority of the information I was ‘educated’ on. I would just retain the various materials I was being tested on in order to pass my tests, because let’s be honest, that’s what mostly determines whether or not you pass or fail the class. After I took said tests, that information was gone in light of the fact that I didn't really learn them. Now that I’m at home I have more time to do school work, I know how to get better grades, I’m actually learning since educators are currently reacting and offering guidance, which unfortunately doesn't typically happen when we are in school.

I’m fond of Gatto’s approach because he encourages students to open their brains, think imaginatively and become autonomous people."

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How Do We Feed America During COVID-19?

One of the things that has come up recently in my circle is the desire to teach those people who don't see what is directly in front of them. I've been listening to the Joel Salatin and Thomas Massie interview below, and the issue is your food supply. Massey and Salatin are explaining directly that large government corporate farms are the incorrect way to structure both society and our food system.

Here’s the thing: I want people to know what they're talking about. I want to teach Americans that the same government that has completely botched the coronavirus response has also broken the food supply system. The roadblock that we, concerned intelligent Americans, always encounter is explaining to people that the corporate government alliance that rules over us is not the answer. You aren't going to be able to explain to the garden variety American that the government response to COVID-19 is wrong. As frustrating as this is to me, once you realize that you simply cannot teach people what they don't want to learn, things become easier.

This tweet distills what I'm trying to say:

Salatin and Massey come up with amazing points in this video. They teach you about the food system and the food delivery system, and they also show you how things in that space really work. Just as the food industrial complex has broken our food system and food delivery system, it has done the same thing with the coronavirus response, the school system, the entertainment industry, the automobile industry and many more.

I learned a lot from this video And I want to share it with everybody. I'm not going to do that because it will be pointless. The way to change a broken fake America into a land with basic freedoms and Liberty is to talk with people whom you trust as well as those who are generally younger and have an open mind. It's going to be slow, and it's going to be frustrating, but one thing about this novel coronavirus time is it has made things even more clear to those people who can think for themselves and are able to question authority, in particular, government.

Seven Years Ahead of COVID-19 - The School in the Cloud

Sugata Mitra was around 10 years ahead of his time. If you're going to go into a TED talk and say "schools are obsolete", you'd better have something interesting to say. He does.

Mitra talks about learning in the most difficult places - the slums of India and the heights of the Himalayas. His message is beyond the comprehension of those who believe in only the static world of 'schools': people can and will learn with the power of curiosity and encouragement. John Taylor Gatto (last week's presentation) has written and spoken of such things for two decades. The home school movement and the hard-core libertarians and anarchists have been receptive to his message, but his effect on the mainstream has been exactly zero.

What Mitra doesn't mention - he only alludes to - is that this is the free market at work. The army of teachers, principals, counselors, bureaucrats and managers present in his talk: zero.

Because this is a little longer, this will be the only presentation this week. Write if what you see changed your mind about learning, education, and school. If it did, explain how and why. If it didn't, explain that as well please. I hope each and every one of you is doing well.

On Figuring it Out - Another Student Reaction to John Taylor Gatto

Here is a second student response to my lesson on John Taylor Gatto's "Classrooms of the Heart" this past Monday.

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There aren’t many teachers like John Gatto. He is the teacher who allows for you to explore and learn new things that you will actually need for your future. Many teachers teach to tests and that’s not fair because when that test is over what is left. These kids aren’t learning to learn and gaining real knowledge. Many kids’ mindsets and even mine over the years have thought with statements like, “I’m just trying to pass this test”, “As soon as this test is over I’m finish with this class”, and lastly “I haven’t learned one thing this year if you ask me but as long as I pass my test”. Yes, I did pass my tests, yes, I finished off with great grades but what did I really learn over the 4 years at this school.

The real teachers are the ones who allow for you to think outside the box. They allow for you to be creative and figure out things for yourself while still presenting current issues and current styles and even old styles to use, that will help in life. The TESTS are making us robots and that is why over the years the IQ of the youth goes down. When you allow kids to think for themselves you open up a whole other part of thinking and how to apply what you learn in a useful way. I know there are many jobs that are not going to use any of the things I learn in AP CALC. I remember a teacher stated himself that what we are learning in his class we won’t use in the future. How is that useful to us and our future? Shouldn’t we be learning things that would go towards our career of our choice or maybe experience different tasks that will help in other skills such as critical thinking, leadership, and dealing with money.

Being home during Covid-19 really is better than being at school because my days at school were pretty useless unless my classes were fun and creative. If they were hard and I needed to be with a teacher to actually understand a topic. I know most of the things I’m learning I’m not going to use in the future. I’m just trying to stay on top of my stuff and keep my grades up just to get to the next step, COLLEGE. College is a different ball game and high school has not prepared me for that life at all. This is something I’m going to have to learn and advance in by myself. If you are going to teach, teach me things that will help my mind grow, help me grow and advance as a person in life, help me become successful, don’t teach me to a test.

Being home I realize now it is my job to look for other things in these troubling times that will help better me and find things that I like to do. Get creative and maybe help someone or inspire the next person. In some way, we all are our own person but this world would be way better if we help one another and teach and share creative ideas amongst each other. You won’t find many teachers like Gatto but if you do then most likely many people are still in contact with them to this day. Teachers like him help students become Independent besides the schools feeding their brains with false one sided, white textbooks, and teaching to AP or NY State Regents exams.

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I responded with this:

This is fantastic. You get it. The testing scam is a huge part of the problem, layered over the time wasting of the system itself. I was sure when I saw your assignment submission that I was in for some Real Talk. Pass this down to your friends, and relatives, and eventually your own children. Remember, I told you that I didn't think that you or your peers would send your children to a 'school', let alone one like MVHS. There are many good people at your HS, but the time spend comes at too high of a price. Lastly, I think you will be disappointed with college. It will be a mixed bag just like high school. Choose your major wisely, and avoid debt.

On Making a Difference

You hear people in the school business often talk about 'making a difference'.  I showed John Taylor Gatto's 'Classrooms of the Heart' a few days ago as an assignment, and the message from it not only resonated with this 12th grader, it has changed her life.  She sees the school system for what it is, and will pass that knowledge down.

Here's the response I got:

"This video assignment came at a perfect time for me. Currently, I am in the process of analyzing myself; who I am, who I want to be, and where I want to go. I realized that this was necessary during this corona virus era where I actually have time to think! I have learned more about myself during this quarantine period than ever before. One factor that has contributed to the prevention of listening to my own thoughts was school. Closing public schools and doing school work from home has allowed for me to think my own thoughts; instead of listening to the thoughts of others, and being told how to do things.

Although it is tragic what is going on with the pandemic, I am grateful to have the time to finally analyze/understand myself; something that I had never been able to do in seventeen years. Before this, I was living solely to do what others told me to do: homework assignments, deadlines, tests etc. This was how life was for me ever since I started school. Never once did I have time to think for myself. This is simply because the school system does not allow for you to have your own thoughts or opinions. Instead your own thoughts get clouded and are replaced with rules, regulations, and school procedures. However, after being blessed with this time to think for myself I had a realization; I don’t want to go back to the way I was thinking before, and changes will be made.

One of the quotes that really left a mark on me from viewing this documentary was: “Self-knowledge requires long periods of privacy, long periods of testing who you are, what your limits are, this can’t take place while someone is filling your time with orders or tests”. I felt emotional when I heard him say this because he put into words what I felt had been missing from my educational experience. It all became clear to me. I admire how Mr. Gatto listens to his students, and who they are. This is one of the factors missing in public school teachers. Many teachers believe that students are in a classroom solely to sit and listen to them go on and on, and students believe the same thing because that is how they have been wired.

A second quote that impacted me was when Mr. Gatto said “One of the worst things about these schools is that they don’t ever give students time to think". I agree. Students don't know any better than to sit and listen to a teacher because that is "correct" in a school environment. After viewing this video, I proposed to myself that I will change that about myself, because now I understand that my thoughts and feelings are valid, and that I should never be told that they are not. Now I understand that when someone discourages you from voicing your thoughts or clouds them with other information, they are trying to keep you down so that you become like the rest of society; wired. After viewing this video, I wish I would have been in Mr. Gatto's class or would have received this information in eighth grade, but it’s better late than never. I am definitely saving this video for my children in the future, thank you Mr. Marolla for sharing this gem."

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I responded with this:
"You are very welcome. I'm glad we spoke and I'm happy that you were able to distill the main idea that you need a time for quiet thought. Comfort and confidence in ourselves is the key to inner peace and a fulfilling life. School gets in the way. There's a reason they had to force it on a people, in an America that was fiercely independent. Few realize what you've realized. You are unique in seeing what you see."

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John Taylor Gatto's legacy continues.

Prof. Galloway Weighs in on Post COVID-19 University "Education"

Scott Galloway is at the top of the Pyramid.  He's rich and successful enough that even as a Marketing Prof. at NYU he's allowed to say stuff like this:

"At universities, we’re having constant meetings, and we’ve all adopted this narrative of “This is unprecedented, and we’re in this together,” which is Latin for “We’re not lowering our prices, bitches.” Universities are still in a period of consensual hallucination with each saying, “We’re going to maintain these prices for what has become, overnight, a dramatically less compelling product offering.”

In fact, the coronavirus is forcing people to take a hard look at that $51,000 tuition they’re spending. Even wealthy people just can’t swallow the jagged pill of tuition if it doesn’t involve getting to send their kids away for four years. It’s like, “Wait, my kid’s going to be home most of the year? Staring at a computer screen?” There’s this horrific awakening being delivered via Zoom of just how substandard and overpriced education is at every level."

The boldface type is mine, as it is so accurate it's shocking to see it in print from a professor at the Stern school of Business in NY Magazine.

His take on the unintended side effects of The Novel Coronavirus Era on school is a good one.  The Educational Industrial Complex is reeling from their world being disrupted.  For now, the CV19 era isn't even showing its worst to the School Controllers of our society, because everybody is getting paid.  If what Galloway posits comes true, and the dollars stop flowing to 80% of the the vice provosts of Diversity and Inclusion, then you'll really hear the wailing.  You can only imagine the racket that will come when they excess the Race and Gender studies professors, especially the ones who do nothing but say 'Orange Man Bad' every class.  

I hope that day comes soon.  The school employees / officials who are parroting 'the new normal' and 'flatten the curve' and 'mandatory vaccine, and 'we're in this together' and 'screening everywhere' are also glancing around wondering how this online Zoom learning will affect their bank accounts.  They're torn between playing the standard role of cattle herd member and bleating out what the Corporate Media tells them, while vaguely understanding that this could spell the end of the financial road.  The autistic savant Mary Temple Grandin invented the high walled, single file chute for cattle to walk toward the slaughterhouse while remaining calm.  It is only because the garden variety liberal arts professor is marginally above cattle that they have even a shred of sense about their oncoming demise.  They're in the 'digital chute' and they know something's wrong. 

The school industry will be affected in great and interesting ways over the next year.  

The Last Dance - The Jordan Bulls Documentary: Discussion 1

Isaiah Rhodes, sports Journalist and Mt. Vernon HS class of 2008, returns to discuss the documentary "The Last Dance". We cover many of the topics presented in the documentary series, particularly the matchup with Clyde Drexler, the 1993 retirement, and the connection to the NBA ethos today.

Classrooms of the Heart: Intellectual Freedom During COVID-19

Good morning everyone.

Because this video is a bit longer than the others it will be the only assignment for this week. John Taylor Gatto, the subject of this video, changed my teaching life permanently. He analyzed the origins of school and found some disturbing information. The most concise way to put it is that the Power Elite instituted school in America for the same reason they instituted it in other countries: as a way to control the thoughts, behavior, and spending habits of the masses.

Gatto's book on the subject is this one. I re-read it periodically.

In this mini documentary, made in the early 1990's, you will learn not only why Gatto was a multiple time 'Teacher of the Year' in NY State and NYC, but also why they tried to fire him multiple times.

If you're an independent thinker, you'll be hooked within the first 2 minutes. If you're a curious person, it will take 5 minutes. The connection between this short documentary and today is that some of you have realized that you are learning faster during this time of CV19, and you're delving into fields that interest you. I suspect that many of you are doing more intellectually intense work and thinking more now that we are out of the school building. Perhaps a few of you have asked yourselves why you'd go back into the building in the first place. Now that the intellectual shackles have been removed, you're free to explore whatever topic you want at the speed you wish.

Gatto tried to recreate this concept with 8th graders in the Bad Neighborhood. He was successful.

Please watch this 27 minute documentary. It is the only assignment this week. Respond / react in a way you feel is adequate, as well as trying to make a connection to the 'homeschooling' era of This Novel Coronavirus.

Skateboarding is Too Cool for COVID-19 in Toronto - Investigation Begins

This is a real story, and it makes me want to rejoin Twitter,  I was kicked TWTR off a while ago.

I saw this on Michael Malice's Locals site.  Ricky posted what is one of the best stories of This Novel Coronavirus Era.

Apparently the petty micromanaging Karen tyrants who rule over us don't like this kind of thing.  It seems that these skateboarders are being looked into for being too cool.  

Naturally, the comments are where it's at:

Karen made a few appearances in the comments as well.  The winner of the Novel Coronavirus Era is Karen, who seems to be loving every minute of it.

COVID-19: Corporate Media Fakery Exposed by Project Veritas - #exposeCBS

#ExposeCBS

Michigan Health Center Workers Stage “Fake Patients” In COVID19 Testing Line For CBS News

Many in the Corporate Media hate Project Veritas and its founder, James O'Keefe, and they are regularly sued. To date, they haven't lost. Project Veritas is hard core.

Here they expose CBS for creating a fake crowd for COVID-19 testing and passing it off as legitimate.

Please share some of your thoughts and ideas answering the following:

1. Does James O'Keefe set up the presentation well with the headline and initial imagery?
2. Is the story presented in a way that will produce the most intense reaction from the audience?
3. Does O'Keefe's message to you, stated at the end, work? Does his point about Corporate Media get through?
   
   

4 Questions About the Poor and Minorities and Access to Education

A student had an assignment from her Public Policy class about the Poor and Minorities and Educational Access.  She picked me because she knew she wasn't going to get Public School Teacher Boilerplate.

She was right.

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1. In your opinion, do you think that low income students have the same access to a higher education as students with a higher socioeconomic status?

They do now. In the old days, the top schools had access to better libraries, documents and primary sources. Those days are over. You, today, can read the entire Harvard 5-foot shelf (check it out) for free. Back in the Real America, the president of Harvard told the world that if you spent 15 minutes a day reading those works and you'd get a Harvard education. And this was the Harvard way back 125 years ago - not the obscene buffoonery that passes for "Harvard" today. That is only the easiest example to produce. Now, a student can access materials in all types of media - the only cost is time.

2. Did you come from a low-income family? If so, did you ever find it hard to access better opportunities for a higher education?

Not really - I came from a lower middle class family. My father died when I was very young so we struggled. We didn't find it hard to access better opportunities because back then the NYC public education system was much better. They carried out practices and policies and curricula that worked. Now they have replaced them with things that sound good. Also, good habits breed opportunities. We were taught to focus and delay gratification. When you do that you are ready when opportunity arrives. A higher education was therefore accessible because of the years of preparation.

3. What steps could be taken to make sure low income and minority students have all the resources they need?

Part of the problem here is the question itself. Why aren't 'low income and minority students' able to get the resources they need on their own? They don't need others to do it for them. They're people, not hamsters. I know 'low income and minority students' can access resources and succeed because I've been seeing it happen since September 1996.

4. In your opinion, what would be a “lack of academic preparation”?
The most insidious, dangerous and disastrous "lack of academic preparation" is the victim mentality. Much of the public-school systems, in areas that can least afford it, and university Liberal Arts departments, are fixated on the Victim Mentality. Most of them obsess with it in terms of race. I am unable to think of a bigger waste of time. It not only vaporizes years of study within young and eager minds, it sets up the idea that you must agitate against people in power that you should be given something because of past racial wrongs. It has created a mob of angry young people who know nothing, yet feel aggrieved and that they're owed something. I can't think of any group of people less prepared for the world than recent university graduates in the Liberal Arts. They not only "lack academic preparation", they lack the academic bedrock that prepares a person for the future. They are angry, ignorant, entitled empty vessels who lack all the academic and intellectual skill for dealing with things as simple as 'bad news'. You can thank the Progressives, the political Left, and the Cultural Marxists for this. They have left a small army of human wreckage and disaster in their wake.

Tucker Carlson Sounds Like Democrats Used to Sound

Why is Tucker Carlson not only sounding like a Volvo driving, ACLU member, Jimmy Carter voting  Democrat from 1978, but he's also the only MSM person asking the right questions?  And he's on Fox - unbelievable.

He's asking all the questions that need to be asked.  Your 'liberal' Corporate Media has exposed itself to be nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Connected and Organized Corporate and Government Power Complex.

COVID-19 Violence: The Bill of Rights and a Citizen Get a Beat Down

See this?  It's the Bill of Rights.  It's valid and sacrosanct - unless government officials think you'll get sick.  I'll bet you didn't remember that last part from your days in schule.

Here is the assignment I gave my seniors:

This isn't Karen tattling on you because you have too many people on your front lawn. Or Poolside Patty spilling the beans and letting them know you've got unapproved friends on the pool deck.

This got violent.

In the video, you'll see NYPD Officer throw a beat down on a citizen. You'll also see them closer than 6 feet apart. You'll also see a police officer's mask below his face (he quickly puts it back up).

After watching it please give me a paragraph or so write up of not only Zerohedge's presentation of the video (read the article text), but your reactions as well. The comment section is a cesspool so dive in at your own risk.

When you get to the Zerohedge page here, fullscreen the video to make it viewable. Otherwise you just see people's feet.

Link:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-video-nypd-officer-brutalizing-bystander-during-social-distancing-arrest-sparks

COVID-19 Censorship: Ron Unz Guilty of Crimethink

Ron Unz, like the 2 doctors I wrote about yesterday, is guilty of Crimethink.  How dare he write, speak, or think anything but the approved opinion about COVID-19.

Didn't he know that the WHO is the only organization that has the correct opinion?

Interestingly, this was Ron Unz in February:

"Consider a particularly ironic outcome of this situation, not particularly likely but certainly possible…

Everyone knows that America’s ruling elites are criminal, crazy, and also extremely incompetent.

So perhaps the coronavirus outbreak was indeed a deliberate biowarfare attack against China, hitting that nation just before Lunar New Year, the worst possible time to produce a permanent nationwide pandemic. However, the PRC responded with remarkable speed and efficiency, implementing by far the largest quarantine in human history, and the deadly disease now seems to be in decline there.

Meanwhile, the disease naturally leaks back into the US, and despite all the advance warning, our totally incompetent government mismanages the situation, producing a huge national health disaster, and the collapse of our economy and decrepit political system.

As I said, not particularly likely, but certainly a very fitting end to the American Empire…"

Now we know why he got banned.  And now you know why I call this country the "Fake America".