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In The Mailbox: 01.28.22

Posted on | January 29, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We had some stragglers from Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day, and I’ve included them with the rest of the links. 
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Unsolicited Dick pic.

OVER THE TRANSOM
A View From The Beach: In a Fit Of Mass Formation Psychosis
357 Magnum: Happy Belated Birthday EVH, also, The Heckler’s Veto & Higher Education
McGee’s Tally Book: It No Longer Swings To & Fro
EBL: Evangeline Lilly – Resisting Mass Formation Psychosis
Twitchy: “And Then The Intern Took Another Bong Hit”
Louder With Crowder: WV Gov. Justice Invites Bette Midler To Kiss His Dog’s Butt, also, Elon Musk Comes Out In Support Of Canadian Truckers
Vox Popoli: Sowing The Seeds Of Evil, also, You ARE A Third World Country
According To Hoyt: Round The Bend, also, When Tolerance Kills
Monster Hunter Nation: Let’s Play Privilege Bingo! also, “Dead Acre” Review (Free Novella On Audible)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Saving Small Farms
American Greatness: The Needle & The Damage Done, also, Meet The Capitol Police’s New Spy Chief
American Power: “I’m a Public School Teacher. The Kids Aren’t All Right”, also, The Left’s Culture War As Class War
American Thinker: The Democrat Party’s Application Of Mass Formation Psychosis, also, Tribal Morality – The Difference Between Election Fraud & Voter Suppression
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five University Sheep News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer Leads Protest In Prison – Family Fears For His Life, Everything Looks Calm To Cuba’s Sock Puppet “President”, and Forget Neil Young – Next To His Former Partners, He’s A Brilliant Freedom Lover
Baldilocks: The Plan & The Push
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 28
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, A Red Chinese Space Plane? and Will SpaceX Recover Superheavy On Land Or At Sea?
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Hall Of Fame Talk – Who Belongs In, Just About Half Of Democrats Embrace Abject COVID Tyranny, and Ready for The Blizzard Of 2022? Thank A Bunch of Dead White Men
Don Surber: NYT Finally Opposes Harvard’s Racism, also, Frampton Comes A-Cropper
First Street Journal: What Good Are Gun Control Laws When Larry Krasner Won’t Enforce Them?
Gates Of Vienna: The Mean Streets Of Little Mogadishu In Borlänge, “You Will Not Escape Your Just Punishment”, and Cui Bono?
The Geller Report: Court Rules Pa. Mail In Voting Law Unconstitutional, Canadians Furious After PM Zoolander Calls Trucker Convoy “Fringe Minority”, and YouTube Permab& Dan Bongino 
Hogewash: Comet Leonard, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, and Democracy Dies In Derpness
Hollywood In Toto: Cowardly Stern Is Destroying His Legacy In Real Time
The Lid: Massive Truck Convoy Opposing Jab Mandates Heads To Ottawa, And PM Zoolander Goes Into Hiding
Legal Insurrection: LA DA Gascon Allows Child Molester To Be Housed In Juvenile Detention, George Soros Gives Democrat PAC $125 Million For Midterms, and State Legislators Making A Stand Against “Critical Theory’s Long March”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Seventeen NBA Players Make Millions Off Shoes Made With Red Chinese Slave Labor, Buck No! Troy Aikman May Be Leaving Longtime Partner Joe Buck, and Sexist Stephen A. Smith Calls Jeff Garcia Sexist For Questioning Mina Kimes
Power Line: Felony Murder In A Good Cause – FOX News Edition, Voters Don’t Like SCOTUS Set-Aside, and Is Joe Biden In The CCP’s Pocket?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Will Help Farmers If Freezing Temperatures Kill Crops 
Shot In The Dark: Not Approved By Avery Librelle, Help Me Decide, and Accountability
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – NATO & European Security
This Ain’t Hell: Former Ship’s Captain Goes To Prison, Valor Friday, and Slain Officer’s Wife – The System Has Failed Us
Transterrestrial Musings: How The GOP Can Block Breyer’s Replacement, The Inevitable, and A Dying Nation
Victory Girls: Cat Announcement Shows White House Desperation
Volokh Conspiracy: Dragging Out Protesters Disrupting City Council Meeting Isn’t Excessive Force
Weasel Zippers: Imbecile Who Raised Prices On Insulin Whines That People Can’t Afford It, CNN – 55% Disapprove Of Biden, Only 30% Think He’s Concerned With Their Economic Well-Being, and “This Is What ‘America’s Back’ Means?”
The Federalist: Ga. School District Published Plans To Teach CRT – Then Hid Them, Girls – It’s OK To Be Beautiful, and Facebook & Reddit Ban Pro-Police Comic That Broke No Platform Rules
Mark Steyn: Truckin’ Through Trudeaupia, also, Rock Me Gently, Investigate Me Slowly

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A Death in New Jersey

Posted on | January 28, 2022 | 1 Comment

“Daniel J. Ackley, age 33 of Millville, passed away suddenly on January 4, 2022,” according to his obituary, a masterpiece of understatement. The muzzle velocity of a standard 9-mm pistol is about 1,250 feet per second, which is pretty doggone sudden. The late Daniel Ackley was armed with a large knife — so large that responding police officers thought it was a machete — at a trailer home in Millville when a female relative called 911:

In the first call, a woman describing the situation says Ackley has a history of getting angry and uncontrollable and he doesn’t really know why — to which the dispatcher asks if he needs the police or an ambulance to take him to a facility. The woman agrees. . . .
A second call is then made, saying that Ackley has now gone outside and is holding a knife.

The headline calls Ackley a “Troubled Iraq Veteran,” as if threatening people with knives were more common among Iraq veterans than among, for example, Philadelphia residents. We don’t know if Ackley’s military service had anything to do with his final outburst of knife-wielding craziness, although 30 seconds before he got shot, he helpfully informed the officers, “I’ve been to Iraq, bitch!” When one of the officers said, “I don’t want to shoot you,” Ackley showed a high level of political awareness by responding, “I’m not black enough to be shot?”

Turns out there are limits to “white privilege” in New Jersey.

Nobody looted Best Buy. No statues were toppled. White guys get shot by cops all the time, and CNN never seems to notice.




 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 01.27.22

Posted on | January 28, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.27.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“If you talk about mass formation psychosis, you must be crazy!” THEY say.

EVERYBODY BLOG ABOUT MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS DAY
McG’s Tally Book: Today Is Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day
Daily Dose Of Vitamin Fred: MFP And We!
Nebraska Energy Observer: We Must Make Today Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day
EBL: COVID-19 Indoctrination Song
Da Tech Guy: A $10 Word For Something That’s Not New
Hogewash: Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day

OVER THE TRANSOM
Twitchy: Dean Obeidallah Is Simping For Joy Reid, also, USA TODAY Says It’s Downright Dangerous That Americans Don’t Trust Their Public Health Officials
Louder With Crowder: Ron DeSantis Releases Ad Sure To Cause Another Fauci Meltdown, also, Marvel Actress Comes Out Against The Jab, Shares Common Sense Message From Washington DC Protest
Vox Popoli: Of Pearls & Swine

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Mr. President, Stay Out Of Ukraine
American Greatness: Polls Show Popular Support For Canadian Trucker Convoy Despite PM Zoolander’s Assertion That It Represents “Fringe Minority”, also, Awakening From The Biden Slumber
American Power: Putin Seeks To Revise Post-Cold War Settlement In Europe
American Thinker: The Pandemic Endgame – Is There One? also, The Rise Of Blockchain Republics
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Brain Implant News
Babalu Blog: 11J – A Turning Point In The Repression Of Cuban Evangelicals, also, The Democrats Get Silly About Threats To Democracy
Baldilocks: A Spinster’s Tale, Part 1
BattleSwarm: Joe Rogan, Neil Young, & Rock’s Eternal Now
Behind The Black: Pushback – Blacklisted Doctors Opposing Biden/CDC/FDA Policies Testify To Congress, Red China Tests Space Junk Removal Robot In Geosynch Orbit, and ABL Test Explosion To Delay First Launch By Three Months
Cafe Hayek: More On The Late, Great Walter Williams
CDR Salamander: What Did You Do In Your First Five Years After Commissioning?
Don Surber: Is Breyer Retiring? also, Even NYT Admits Biden Can’t Walk & Chew Gum
First Street Journal: The Lexington Herald-Journal & Journalistic Ethics
Gates Of Vienna: Afghans, Afghans Everywhere!, That WAYCIST Cross, and Mrs. Green Goes To Moscow
The Geller Report: Soros DA Found Guilty On 141 Counts, also, “If It Gets Out…The Government Is Betraying The American People”
Hollywood In Toto: Unorthodox Casting Pays Off In Cyrano, also, Here’s What You’re Missing About The Spotify/Neil Young Battle
The Lid: The Rabbi Who Was Silent About The Holocaust
Legal Insurrection: Remember When Law Profs Said VP Can’t Cast Tiebreaking Vote On SCOTUS Nominations? The Murder Turtle Does, ASU Cancels Fundraising Event Featuring Two GOP Congressmen, and UIC Law Prof Sues After School Tried To Force Him Into Humiliating Racial Reeducation Program
Outkick: Tennessee Playing With New Attitude On The Court, MLB Minor Leaguers Not Required To Be Jabbed For 2022, and NBA Subjects Fans Attending Clippers/Wizards Game To Video Message From Chinese Ambassador
Power Line: Betraying The American People, A Day In The Life, and Why Do Democrats Hate Children?
Shark Tank: Eskamani Considering Run For Congress?
Shot In The Dark: “Welcome To Potemkin’s!”, Dismantle, and Casualty Of Not-Quite-War Yet
STUMP: 2021 January-June Cause Of Death Ranking Table
The Political Hat: Modern Education – Secret Indoctrination, BLM Guiding Principles, & Brainwashing In 21 Days
This Ain’t Hell: Thursday FGS, Fat Leonard Takes Down Another Navy Officer, and Washington State Citizens Upset That SEALS Use Their State Parks For “Wargames”
Transterrestrial Musings: A Doctor’s Perspective, also, Apollo 1
Victory Girls: NYT Blames GOP Infighting For Ukraine Response Confusion, also, DHS Makes Excuses While “Betraying The American People”
Volokh Conspiracy: Settlement In Firing Of Professor Over Tweets  – $70K & Attorneys’ Fees
Weasel Zippers: Soros-Funded DAs Now Facing Recalls, Cop Murdered By Illegal Immigrant On Felony Probation, and This Is A Utah Elementary School Teacher
The Federalist: Blame Aaron Sorkin For How Leftists Argue, Catholics For Choice – Just Another Left-Wing Front To Encourage Killing Babies, and Dallas Private School Lies To Parents About Teaching Racism
Mark Steyn: Kernels Of Freedom, also, Chinese Virus, Chinese Masks, Chinese Freedoms

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Category: Linkagery

Mass Formation Psychosis: What Is It and Why Is Everybody Talking About It Now?

Posted on | January 27, 2022 | 2 Comments

Have you ever heard of “The Streisand Effect”? It’s what happens on the Internet when someone tries to suppress the truth:

Barbra Streisand . . . in 2003 had sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia[dot]com for violation of privacy. The US$50 million lawsuit endeavored to remove an aerial photograph of Streisand’s mansion from the publicly available collection of 12,000 California coastline photographs. Adelman photographed the beachfront property to document coastal erosion as part of the California Coastal Records Project, which was intended to influence government policymakers. Before Streisand filed her lawsuit, “Image 3850” had been downloaded from Adelman’s website only six times; two of those downloads were by Streisand’s attorneys. As a result of the case, public knowledge of the picture increased greatly; more than 420,000 people visited the site over the following month. The lawsuit was dismissed and Streisand was ordered to pay Adelman’s legal fees, which amounted to $155,567.

In a free society, such censorship efforts always fail, if citizens understand what is at stake. Today was Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day, an effort to bring attention to a dangerous censorship effort. Last month, William Jacobson blogged about Mass Formation Psychosis and linked to this short primer on the subject:

A brief overview of Mass Formation, which was developed by Dr. Mattias Desmet. He is a psychologist and a statistician. He is at the University of Ghent in Belgium. I think Dr. Mattias is onto something about what is happening and he calls this phenomena:
MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS
So, when he says “mass” formation, you can think of this as equivalent to “crowd” formation. One can think of this as:
CROWD PSYCHOSIS
The conditions to set up mass formation psychosis include lack of social connectedness and sensemaking as well as large amounts of latent anxiety and passive aggression. When people are inundated with a narrative that presents a plausible “object of anxiety” and strategy for coping with it, then many individuals group together to battle the object with a collective singlemindedness. This allows people to stop focusing on their own problems, avoiding personal mental anguish. Instead, they focus all their thought and energy on this new object.
As mass formation progresses, the group becomes increasingly bonded and connected. Their field of attention is narrowed and they become unable to consider alternative points of view. Leaders of the movement are revered, unable to do no wrong.
Left unabated, a society under the spell of mass formation will support a totalitarian governance structure capable of otherwise unthinkable atrocities in order to maintain compliance. A note: mass formation is different from group think. There are easy ways to fix group think by just bringing in dissenting voices and making sure you give them platforms. It isn’t so easy with mass formation. Even when the narrative falls apart, cracks in the strategy clearly aren’t solving the issue, the hypnotized crowd can’t break free of the narrative. This is what appears to be happening now with COVID-19. The solution for those in control of the narrative is to produce bigger and bigger lies to prop up the solution. Those being controlled by mass formation no longer are able to use reason to break free of the group narrative.

Do you grasp the significance of this concept in our current situation? Guess what happens if you tell the truth in a world where major institutions are devoted to promoting official lies?

Twitter on [Dec. 29] suspended the account operated by Dr. Robert Malone, a U.S.-based virologist, and immunologist credited for significantly contributing to the invention of the mRNA technology, the foundation of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines against Covid-19.
The ban came just hours after the AP posted a controversial “fact check” report claiming Malone “misled” people by claiming the vaccines are failing against the Omicron variant.

It is self-evident that vaccines haven’t stopped the Omicron variant, which produced a surge of “breakthrough” COVID-19 infections in vaccinated patients, even those who had gotten “booster” shots. Yet not only did Twitter ban Dr. Malone for “misinformation,” but because popular podcaster Joe Rogan hosted Dr. Malone on his program, everybody is now trying to ban Rogan:

Biden-appointed U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Silicon Valley tech companies have an “important role to play” in preventing the spread of alleged coronavirus “misinformation.” His comments came during an MSNBC interview that specifically mentioned Joe Rogan.
Murthy made the comments during an appearance on MSNBC, in which host Mika Brzezinski asked Murthy what should be done about alleged misinformation from Joe Rogan and social media posts.
“What do you think are the best ways to push back on misinformation about COVID that continues to be aggressively pushed, whether it be Joe Rogan’s podcast or all over Facebook?” asked Brzezinski.
“We can have the best science available, we can have the best public health expertise available. It won’t help people if they don’t have access to accurate information,” responded Murthy. “People have the right to make their own decisions, but they also have the right to have accurate information to make that decision with.”
The Biden-appointed health official went on to urge private companies to use their power to limit the spread of alleged misinformation.
“This is about companies and individuals recognizing that the only way we get past misinformation is if we are careful about what we say and use the power that we have to limit the spread of misinformation,” said Murthy.
With an average of 11 million listeners per episode, Joe Rogan is arguably the most popular pundit in the western world.

Do you see the point? If indeed our “leaders” are trying to hypnotize the masses, the one thing they can’t allow is for anyone to tell the masses, “Hey, they’re hypnotizing you.” So the silencing of dissent is essential to the propaganda campaign that fuels Mass Formation Psychosis.




 

Category: Media Bias, Science

In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 26, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m giving serious thought to having a special post (or maybe just additional section for this post) in honor of “Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day”. If you have a post on the topic, send me the link and I’ll hook you up.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Neil Young gets an answer from Spotify.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1609
357 Magnum: New Music Sucks – That Seems To Be The Consensus
EBL: Civilisation – Romance & Reality
Twitchy: Virginia Rep Nick Freitas Torches Democrats Whose Kneejerk Reaction To Disagreement Is To Cry “Racist” Or “Sexist”
Louder With Crowder: Kid Rock Unleashes New Anti-Fauci Anti-Biden Banger “We The People” With “Let’s Go Brandon” Chorus
Vox Popoli: Diversifying Ukraine, also, And Here…We…Go

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Gamma Strike, also, We’re Not For Sale
American Conservative: Our Sinking Ship In Europe, also, Joe Biden’s Low-Energy Blunder
American Greatness: Donald Trump & The Future Of MAGA, also, Gov. Youngkin (R-Va.) Opens Tip Line For Parents To Report Teachers Teaching Critical Race Theory
American Power: Media Got Its NPC Update – Biden Wasn’t Snapping At Doocy
American Thinker: I Regret Getting The COVID Vaccine
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Peso In Free Fall Against US$ While Inflation In Cuba Hits 300-500%, also, The History Of Spanish-Language Radio In Miami & The Democrats’ Attempt To Shut It Down
Baldilocks: Fewer Bugs, More Features
BattleSwarm: Is The Bloom Off The Bush?
Behind The Black: Pushback – Class Action Suit Against NY’s Racially Discriminatory COVID Policy, Today’s Blacklisted American, and Planetary Scientists Fight Back – “Pluto Is A Planet!”
Cafe Hayek: What Of The Photo Of The Space-Helmeted Woman? also, Bill Walton Talks With George Will & Some Other Guests
CDR Salamander: What Can Get A Vice-Admiral Fired? also, 28-Year Crisis In The Making
Da Tech Guy: P-5 Days And Counting – Conditional Blogging Note, also, No Heart For You!
Don Surber: Government Of The Government, For The Government, By The Government, also, A Mass Shooting Every Day This Year So Far
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch Is Horrified That Some Democrats Actually Want To Fight Crime
Gates Of Vienna: The Grounds For Nuremberg II, “We Are All Hostages To The State”, and Serious Threat To National Security
The Geller Report: Canadian Truckers Revolt Against Jab Mandate, Biden’s Mass Release Of Single Adult Male Illegals Across The U.S., and Administration Withdraws OSHA Jab Requirement After SCOTUS Defeat
Hogewash: BREAKING – Biden Administration To Obey The Law, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, and Eta Carinae
Hollywood In Toto: Meet The Artists Against Free Speech, also, Jimmy Kimmel Fangirls Over “Narcissist” Fauci (Again)
The Lid: Fight America’s Century-Long Slide Toward Socialism
Legal Insurrection: “There Are Only Nine Meals Between Mankind & Anarchy”, Intersectionality On College Campuses Is Making America’s Political Divide Worse, and AG Jason Miyares (R-Va.) Continues Cleaning House, Fires University Lawyer Serving As J6 Investigator
Nebraska Energy Observer: Lupus Tenebrosus – Chapter 18, also, Run For The Hills – Heee’s Back!
Outkick: MMA Fighter Quits Her Stripper Job Weeks Before Winning Biggest Fight Of Her Career At UFC 270, David Ortiz Elected To Cooperstown – Bonds & Clemens Strike Out, and ESPN’s Mark Jones Likes Tweets Connecting Aaron Rodgers To QAnon & Trump After Packers’ Loss
Power Line: Hall of Fame Excludes Curt Schilling Because Of His Politics, Vaccine Risk? What Vaccine Risk? and Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut
Shark Tank: Annette Taddeo Fights DeSantis’ Redistricting
Shot In The Dark: I Wanna See Some History, Science Evolves, and “Common Sense”
The Political Hat: California Agrees Not To Teach Students To Worship Aztec Gods After Lawsuit
This Ain’t Hell: Blast From The Past – Jarrett Gimbl, DOJ Says Guardsmen On State Orders Can Unionize, and It’s Deja Vu All Over Again
Transterrestrial Musings: Chrome, Masks In School, and Biden’s SCOTUS Pick
Victory Girls: Nancy Pelosi Will Run Again To Save Us From Stuff & Things, also, Superman Going From Super Woke To Super Broke
Volokh Conspiracy: NBC News Reports Justice Breyer Will Retire
Weasel Zippers: Florida Man Does Something Not Meth-Related For Once, Biden Polling Hits New Record Low, and White House Unleashes Hashtags Against Putin
The Federalist: Mitt Romney To Fundraise For Liz Cheney At Vax-Mandated Event, Capitol Police Are Spying On Congressmen & The Constituents They Meet, and Nearly Half Of Democrats Support Putting Unvaxxed Americans In Camps
Mark Steyn: Public Enemy Number Ten, Making A Wasteland In The Name Of Compassion, and Vlad, Dick, & Trans

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | January 26, 2022 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to 24-year-old Zachary Lucas Olivar of Snellville, Georgia, who (a) has a “history of mental illness,” and (b) shot a sheriff’s deputy in Jones County. Before we go any further with this story, permit to ask this question: Why is it that we never hear about the mental health of such people until after they shoot a cop? Or get shot by the cops, as the case may be. In Philadelphia, for example, they had a full-scale race riot in October 2020 after Walter Wallace Jr., who had “mental health problems,” and was brandishing a large butcher knife when he charged a police officer and got shot. Wallace’s “mental health problems” weren’t front-page news until after he got shot (and everybody started looting because “social justice”). You might think there’d be some kind of early-warning system in place, so that all the locals would know who the crazy people were, and then when they got shot by cops, everybody would be like, “Oh, it was that one. Had to happen sooner or later.”

Olivar’s family had been dealing with his craziness for weeks in Snellville, which is a suburb of Atlanta in Gwinnett County. What is not explained in any of the news articles I’ve read is why Olivar was in rural Jones County, about 70 miles south of Snellville, down near Macon. Perhaps he was a rhythm-and-blues fan, hoping to visit the Otis Redding “Big O” Ranch just south of Round Oak. Olivar was in that vicinity, on State Route 11 between Round Oak and Wayside, when he was spotted driving erratically by Deputy John Kile:

Olivar puts his hands out of the driver’s side window, as if surrendering. However, he refuses repeated requests to exit the car.
“This is my home, sir. This is my home,” Olivar says repeatedly.
It’s around the 4-minute mark that something appears in Olivar’s hand, prompting the deputy to ask: “What you got?”
Seconds later, a gun wrapped in a towel is thrust out the window and a flash point is seen.
Kile grunts from the impact of a bullet, but doesn’t fall. Instead, the camera shows his feet running to his patrol car, as he screams “Shots fired, shots fired” into his radio.
Video recorded from the perspective of the patrol car shows Kile was standing just a few feet from the gun, and he is seen grabbing his chest as he runs back to his vehicle.
The video concludes with Olivar captured six minutes later, after his vehicle is forced off the road. Kile was among the pursuing officers, despite his injuries, officials said.
Olivar, who lives in Snellville, is being held without bond at the Jones County Sheriff’s Office “facing aggravated assault charges,” officials said.
Jones County Sheriff R.N. “Butch” Reece says investigators have learned Olivar has a “history of mental illness,” which is why he decided to release the video.
“We have received reports that he has been having issues for the past week, with several attempts made by his family to get him help,” Reece wrote on Facebook.
“Families are struggling to get help for loved ones with mental health issues; however, it seems all too often that these individuals fall through the cracks. Unfortunately it sometimes takes an incident like this one to show how important accessibility to mental health care really is. Our jails are not designed to be mental health treatment facilities.”
Reece concluded his post by saying he hopes the incident helps bring “a much needed change in the mental health system” with the help of state legislative action.

Before I post the video, perhaps I should warn you that Deputy Kile is apparently a fan of country music classics, and was actually listening to “Wildwood Flower” on his radio when he blue-lighted Olivar:

 

Deputy Kile was wearing a bulletproof vest, which saved his life, and Sheriff Reece praised the restraint shown by his deputies in arresting Olivar because, let’s face, he was this close to being a “suicide by cop.”

As far as I’m concerned, you shoot a cop, you should die in a hail of gunfire, and I don’t want to hear about your “mental health problems.” There’s a big difference between regular crazy and shoot-a-cop crazy.




 

Category: Crime, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 26, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Neil Young says what?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Trust The Science? There’s Too Much Fraud
EBL: Civilization: The Great Thaw
Twitchy: Target Toothbrush Guy David Leavitt Wants To Know Why It’s Easier To Buy A Gun Than Vote
Louder With Crowder: Jordan Peterson Tells Neil Young Where To Stick His Open Letter About Joe Rogan
Vox Popoli: Two Cities At War, also, Ivermectin Vs. The Jab

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Science Vs. God, also, Do Doctors Pray?
American Conservative: Drone Swarms In Ethiopia
American Greatness: Journalists Need To Learn How To Lay Bricks, also, Virginia Shuts Down Plans For Race-Based Math Curriculum
American Power: For Putin, It’s Not Just About Ukraine, also, Bodies Stacking Up As Progressive Pols Blame Everything But Themselves
American Thinker: Never Forgive Or Forget The Enablers Of The Destructive COVID Panic
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily They Call It Science News
Babalu Blog: Russia & Cuba Begin Talks On “Strategic Partnership”, also, After Over 200 Protesters Disappeared, UN Wants An Accounting From Cuba
Baldilocks: The Miseducation Of The American Christian Negro
BattleSwarm: The Time Of The Turning? also, Texas AG Paxton Sues Google (Again)
Behind The Black: NM Legislators Propose Tax On Virgin Galactic Tourist Flights, Strong Opposition To Proposed New Regulation By Federal Safety Board, and Axiom Awards Contract For Building Houston Space Station Factory
Cafe Hayek: Errant Assessments Of “Income Inequality”, also, Can’t Be Too Safe From The COVID Monster
CDR Salamander: The Indispensable Nation – A Return Of Forces To Europe
Da Tech Guy: Five Quick Russia Thoughts Under The Fedora, also, Cops Are Taking A Hike
Don Surber: Nice Is Just A Town In France, also, Democrats Dump BLM
First Street Journal: The Incomparable Genius Of Larry Krasner! also, “I Can’t See How Anyone Would Feel Good About This”
Gates Of Vienna: Spain Ends COVID Restrictions Because Almost Everyone’s Vaxxed,  The Muslim Brotherhood In Sweden, Part 10, and No Green Pass!
The Geller Report: NY State Supremes Strike Down Governor’s Mask Mandate, also, “Americans Are Safer In Kyiv Than In LA”
Hogewash: Not Found On Spotify, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, and A Galaxy On Edge
Hollywood In Toto: Russell Brand Calls Out Australia’s Insane COVID Police State, also, The Time I Almost Worked With Meat Loaf
The Lid: General Eisenhower Guaranteed The World Would Never Forget
Legal Insurrection: UT Austin Students Fret Over Defunded Police Not Monitoring Sex Offenders, CUNY Profs Sue – Claim Union Is “Anti-Semitic & Anti-Israel”, and Washington U In St. Louis Holding Event On “Professionalism As A Racist Construct”
Michelle Malkin: #FreeMartyG – Exposing America’s Secret Prisons
Nebraska Energy Observer: In The Whirlpool Of Chaos
Outkick: James Harden Reportedly Wants Out Of Brooklyn, Rice Swim Coach Speaks Out Against Trans Lia Thomas Situation, and Ronda Rousey Expected Back In WWE
Power Line: Woke Ballet At Princeton, Part 1, Planes Trains & Automobiles For Thee, and The Media Narrative On Crime & Policing Is Changing
Shark Tank: “We Are The Rock Of Freedom In The United States”
Shot In The Dark: The Entropic Life, also, Imitation
The Political Hat: The Metastasizing Cancer That Is Critical Social Justice
This Ain’t Hell: Tuesdays With The Libs Of TikTok, Tuesday FGS, and New Mexico’s Governor Militarizes Schools
Transterrestrial Musings: School Choice, A Large-Scale Invasion Of Ukraine, and Our Democracy Oligarchy
Victory Girls: Biden Limits Use Of Monoclonal Antibodies, also, Woman In CDC Monkey Crash Falls Ill – We’ve Seen This Movie
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Disability Law May Require Schools To Mandate Masks
Weasel Zippers: State Dept Spox – “We Do Not Have A Count” Of Americans In Ukraine, also, Bad Orange Woman Admits Defunding Police Is Partially Responsible For Soaring Crime Rate
The Federalist: CNN Outdoes Itself With Cringe Propaganda Segment On “Suburban Women” Who Don’t Mind School Closures, Finnish Government Puts Christianity On Trial, and G4 Host Complains Gamers Don’t Like Her Because She’s Not As “Bangable” As Olivia Munn
Mark Steyn: “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?”, Steyn Live Every Weeknight, and A Battle For The Soul

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‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ and the Censorship of COVID-19 Criticism

Posted on | January 25, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ and the Censorship of COVID-19 Criticism

In December, Dr. Robert W. Malone was banned from Twitter: “The account referenced (@RWMaloneMD) was permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy.” Using the vague concept of “misinformation” to justify silencing critics of COVID-19 policy is part of a totalitarian project that Malone described on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast. And guess what happened next?

A group of 270 scientists and doctors are pressuring Spotify to crack down on content from Joe Rogan, the most popular podcaster in the U.S. One of the group’s complaints? His interview with doctor and scientist, Dr. Robert Malone.
Rogan isn’t merely the most popular podcaster in the country — he is, by some metrics, the most popular figure across the entire media.
It was recently reported that Rogan gets an average of 11 million views per podcast episode. The podcast’s closest competitor is Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News, which gets an average of 3.21 million views.
Like Rogan, Tucker Carlson is also frequently the target of censorship efforts, but these have not dented his dominating position in cable news.
The group of experts who wrote to Spotify asking them to censor their most valuable personality objected to Rogan’s interview with Dr. Robert Malone, a doctor and scientist who conducted some of the earliest research on mRNA technology, which is used in Pfizer and Moderna’s coronavirus vaccines.
Dr. Malone, who objects to the use of mRNA in COVID-19 vaccines, was permanently blacklisted from Twitter.
Malone’s interview with Rogan, which was released just a few days after his ban from Twitter, was one of the podcaster’s more viral episodes.
The doctor’s contention that western societies are suffering from “mass formation psychosis,” a kind of collective hysteria brought about by shared feelings of fear and manipulation from outside authorities, proved particularly viral, with clips of Malone’s discussion of the concept viewed millions of times on social media.

It should be obvious, at this stage, that vaccines have failed to “shut down the virus,” as Joe Biden promised during the 2020 presidential campaign. If the vaccines are not effective against variants of the COVID-19 virus, what is the motive for the administration’s continued efforts to make vaccination mandatory? Good luck getting straight answers to that question. My cynical suspicion is that the attempt to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory is just a payoff for the gigantic pharmaceutical companies that are manufacturing the vaccine.

What the censors obviously fear about Dr. Malone is not “misinformation” (because anyone can look at the number of so-called “breakthrough” infections in vaccinated patients and see the problem with these vaccines), but rather that his discussion of “mass formation psychosis” is giving people a clue about how powerful institutions have been manipulating public opinion. Those engaged in that manipulation — including the executives at Twitter — don’t want the public to become aware of the propaganda techniques being used by the elites to promote their preferred narratives. And this is why this Thursday is “Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day.”

Simply put: They can’t de-platform everybody.




 

Category: Media Bias, Science
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