Here is another nefarious gift from our very own progressive Democrat socialists "friends." They, of course, blame others and even inanimate objects for any and all of the way too many nefarious gifts they so freely give to us and our country.
Quote: "Homicides Are Skyrocketing After Cutting Police Force. The left-leaning city of Burlington, Vermont, is seeing a rapid rise in homicides thanks to the Biden administration’s politicization of law enforcement.
This comes after Burlington’s police department was defunded and then refunded following five recorded homicides this year, the highest number of killings in at least 62 years in a state that was once considered one of America’s safest places.
“We are not used to this level of violence in Vermont,” Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger said at a press conference earlier this year.
The number of homicides this year could be the most the city of roughly 44,000 people has ever recorded, according to New England Cable News.
“Our reliable computer data goes back to 2012, and our general data goes back to 1960. In all that time, 62 years, five murders is the most we’ve ever recorded in a single calendar year,” Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad told Fox News on Monday, adding that he couldn’t confirm there had never been an equal or higher total of murders before 1960.
Burlington is a liberal-leaning city that organized to defund the police following the killing of George Floyd in 2020. The council ultimately passed a resolution ordering the department to reduce its officer staff from 105 to 74 through attrition.
In response to anti-police sentiment and budget cuts, police personnel left the force in large numbers, as has been reported by police agencies around the nation since 2020.
The following year, however, the city backpedaled on defunding, with one city councilor who proposed the resolution to defund the police admitting that she was unhappy with the consequences of the decision.
“We’re in a situation that I think nobody wanted us to get to,” city council member Zoraya Hightower told NBC News last year.
The city council then voted to allocate additional funds to the police department last year, allowing the department to hire up to 87 officers compared to the maximum of 74 officers allowed under the 2020 resolution. Murad said that it will take years to restore the department.
“In June 2020, our staffing was authorized at 105. But after the murder of George Floyd, and in the midst of a national movement around policing, our city council voted to reduce headcount through attrition to 74 — an arbitrary 30% reduction. Although there were no layoffs, officers felt unsupported and staffing quickly plummeted. Last autumn, as headcount continued to fall and crime increased, the council raised the cap to 87. But that did not stop the departures. Our current staffing is 62, 54 of whom are ‘effective,'” he said." Homicides Are Skyrocketing After Cutting Police Force | firstlightnews.net Similar stories come from cities all across the country... so very sad...
It is interesting how a really cold winter messes up the left wing's mantra that global warming is destroying our planet and we must do something about or else disaster looms. No mention that the earth has gone through both ice ages and warming cycles all without the help of human beings. How hard is that to comprehend??? Which do you think most humans prefer and which do you think is the healthier of the two, given that warm temperatures promotes abundant food growth and healthy outdoor activities. Ice ages not so much. But then most of us know that idiots do idiotic things because their brains have been damaged by too much of the corruptive and destructive Marxist nonsense they consume.
Quote: "Cold winter exposes climate frauds: Germany returns to coal. This is weird…. After “leading the way” for the climate communists, Germany now faces a freezing winter and ballooning energy crises — they’re at the precipice of an economic meltdown, so they’re bringing back their coal.
See what Bloomberg had to say:
Germany is set to boost its reliance on coal as it battles an unprecedented energy crisis — even at the expense of its ambitious climate goals.
…coal is making a comeback as countries seek to prevent soaring energy costs from triggering an economic meltdown. In Europe, the crisis is acute, after Russia curbed natural gas supplies in the fallout of its war in Ukraine.
(Oh how I’m relishing in President Trump’s ‘told ya so’ moment right now.)
Additionally, the article includes a quote from Carlos Fernandez Alvarez, who is the “acting head of gas, coal and power at the International Energy Agency.” A precursory scan of the website yields a consistent lexicon. You’ll see the words “sustainable” and “clean energy”, and some of their technologies include “carbon capture” and “methane abatement” — cull the cows and bring on the cricket food! (Obviously, the political agenda is one of climate communism.)
Per Alvarez:
Everyone is keeping their climate targets, but it’s true that when you face the dilemma to keep the lights on or decrease carbon emissions, the choice is to keep the lights on[.]
Two interesting points that arise from the above assertion:
First, Alvarez acknowledges that a transition away from gas and coal as a source of energy is at this moment, not achievable without forcing people to return to the Dark Ages. Ramrodding through policy to conform to “climate goals” results in “an unprecedented energy crisis” — it’s just not feasible.
Secondly, Alvarez eviscerates the seriousness of the “climate crisis.” It’s obvious the powers that be don’t mind sacrificing the prosperity and comfort of the average citizen, so if it were actually a crisis, they’d make us use candles. But it’s not a crisis, rather it’s communism in disguise, and therefore they can’t do too much too soon, it’s a boil the frog type strategy." Cold winter exposes climate frauds: Germany returns to coal - American Thinker
We end his piece with a well knows problem that plagues far too many of our nation's academics. Smart people can also be stupid people if they live most of their lives in the ivory towers of academia's leftist leaning universities focused more on propagandizing left wing doctrine than educating students to be prepared for real jobs needed to advance the needs of real issues that have positive outcomes required by an ever-advancing modern world. They need to be producing functional and responsible citizens rather than teaching them to badger everything good, just, spiritual and proper. In other words tearing down rather than building up.This item deals with the obvious damage they do to the vulnerable minds of their students when they feed them the corrupt and unsavory morally, spiritually and socially destructive Marxist gobbledygook, which is nothing but communist oriented propaganda. Too many of them destroy minds instead by teaching them how to be left-wing agitators rather than building strong well-functioning and logical thinking minds ready to contribute to the positive advancement of humankind and our nation's society.
Quote: "Stanford University’s Woke ‘Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative’ Exposed. Normally, if you design a guide for your entity, and it’s based on your supposed values, and it’s meant to improve people’s lives, you would make sure the world knows about it and be proud to share it with everyone. Stanford University had another idea. When everyone found out that their little Orwellian “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative” had developed a ‘guide’ of forbidden words Stanford panicked and locked the censorious project behind a firewall and began to gaslight everyone about what its intentions were.
Fortunately, the Stanford Review, the university’s independent newspaper, is filling us all in with the latest shenanigans of what used to be a premiere university having slouched toward woke in the most predictable of ways. In a story titled, “Big Brother is Watching You: Stanford’s New ‘Harmful Language’ Guide,” we are given a peek at the insanity driving the woke.
With an agenda of supposedly eliminating “racist, violent, and biased” words from its IT system and websites, instead they provide the rank absurdity driving today’s woke mob. A sampling of the words and phrases considered too toxic and damaging to be used include “Walk in” as it’s insensitive to the disabled, so “drop in” is to used instead. “White paper” is racist and will be replaced with “position paper.” “Karen” will be swapped with “Demanding or entitled White person.” “Brave” is out as it perpetuates the “noble savage” stereotype. There is to be no replacement.
The Daily Mail tells us, “It also says it will swap the term ‘blind review’ for ‘anonymous review’, while ‘tone deaf’ should be swapped for ‘unenlightened’ and ‘handicap parking’ changed to ‘accessible parking’. It also states in its gender-based section that ‘pronouns’ should be used instead of ‘preferred pronouns’, as the latter implies that ‘gender identity is a choice’. The section on institutionalized racism states that ‘black mark’ and ‘black sheep’ are not used because of ‘negative connotations to the color black’.” And now even the woke term “trigger warning” is now too… triggering and will be replaced with “content warning.”
Making the most news is the elimination of the word “American” to be replaced with “US citizen.” Why? American “often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the U.S. is the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries).”
You just can’t make up this sort of madness. Degrading language is cultic and meant to control and impede the freedom of thought of those targeted. Universities are supposed to be environments where the minds of students are to be expanded, not contracted. There is no excuse for this at Stanford or any other institution in this country under any guise.
The mocking and outrage was so swift and merciless Stanford’s Chief Information Officer issued a classic back-peddling statement saying they “missed the mark” and that the guide does not represent university policy. And yet how does something this outrageous get past any sort of review prior to even an internal implementation unless it reflects the desired and brutalized academic culture?
This of course is not new. Stanford is not alone. Censorship and banned word projects are pushed by marginal extremists in school systems, in media, and certainly in politics and in entertainment. This latest iteration of the vandalism of language started decades ago with the idiocy of political correctness. It is now part of the bureaucratic agenda throughout our establishment.
One of the first things totalitarian societies have relied on is censorship and the changing of language. George Orwell used his fiction masterpieces in an effort to warn Western civilization about the cancer of socialism and fascism. From Animal Farm to 1984 Orwell made clear how language and the meaning of words is at the foundation of civilization.
Understanding each other is at the foundation of our ability to govern ourselves and at the heart of our comprehending the world itself. The Tiny Tyrants among us also know that if it is too dangerous and forbidden to use certain words and phrases we will eventually stop thinking about things which require those words to convey your own assessment of society and culture and politics. We will retreat as only silence is ‘safe.’ And that is exactly the point.
If the next generation is going to have any hope of living decent and free lives and being able to function in society, this circus of the absurd must be condemned and stopped. Stanford can issue mea culpas all they want, but nothing will change. Americans everywhere mocking and denouncing the fools who implemented this is an important step, but Stanford alumni must get involved, speak up and say enough is enough."
George Burns
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