266 U.S. hospitals have furloughed millions of employees since mid-March.

There is no overestimating the colossal, tragic irony this situation.

What cities across the United States are experiencing is the inevitable consequence of shuttering a vast economy for over two months. The naive policy of locking down society lit an invisible fuse, and now the consequences are becoming visible. Now we know that the lock-down policy that threw 40 million Americans out of work, destroyed hundreds of thousands of small businesses, and decimated the U.S. healthcare system was imposed in vain. COVID-19 is now widely seen as an infection dangerous only to the very old, and those with pre-existing conditions. It poses no real risk to anyone under 60, and, significantly, no risk to children. Despite this knowledge, we will be treated to pandemic theater in the fall, when kids return to school, and find the many virus protocols needlessly disrupting their childhood.

The consequences of the most suicidal policy in history, suicidal on a civilizational scale, are emerging. The riots are merely the beginning. The question now is: are we able to pull ourselves out, or have we fallen below the event horizon, from which there is no escape?

Agents of chaos.

NOTE: This isn’t about White vs. Black, it’s about well-connected and well-funded outsiders arming and inciting a minority group into committing acts of violence. The thugs on the Left are complicit, as are the celebrities condoning the wanton destruction. The Left seem desperate to instigate a completely avoidable race war.

I remember reading years ago that the goal of the Manson Family murders was to ignite an apocalyptic race war. How are the instigators of today any different?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF-v-7sBvPY

It is amazing to me that at the exact moment that America began to awaken to the fact that COVID hysteria has been one colossal farce, a new national crisis emerged to fill the gap, again triggering our emotions, short-circuiting our ability to think. We are told to take sides, either for the protests or against them. We were also told to take sides during COVID madness: you’re either on the side of Science and lockdowns, or you’re just a backward, deplorable, Trump-voting moron!  As Jimmy Dore has said, chaos benefits the powerful. Division benefits the Political Class, who are now rushing in to take full advantage of that chaos.

Will we soon see the U.S. military deployed on U.S. streets, battling rampaging mobs of U.S. citizens? That seems to be a certainty at the moment, unless the rioters decide to pack it up and go home. Will a new PATRIOT Act-style piece of totalitarian legislation be drawn up and passed in order to quell the nihilistic insurrection?

Liberty is unstable, because it offends our inner savage. When powerful social forces align to coax out that inner barbarian, liberty dissolves before our eyes.

Not only is it possible to simultaneously view both the murdering cops as well as the rioting mob as thugs of a similar stripe, it is essential to do if one wishes to be consistent. In a just world, cops would not murder a prone, unresisting suspect. Also in a just world, those same cops wouldn’t refuse to protect businesses and innocent civilians under attack from rioting mobs.

“The world isn’t fair!” goes the Boomer wisdom. Well, at the moment society may be far removed from the ideal of justice, but that doesn’t mean there should be no attempt to push it in the direction of a more just society. And that means a world where our rights are protected not only from the armed agents of the State, but also from rampaging thugs in an advanced state of re-barbarization.

Protect the innocent is a wonderful motto. It’s one that cops should live up to, but also one that we should live up to as well. Protect the innocent, from our fellow citizen as well as from the armed agents of the State. Strip the police of qualified immunity, and forbid the unionization of public employees.

Set up a civilian board that provides oversight of the cops that patrol our streets. Increase focus on empathy training rather than weapons training. Or rather, rework the type of weapons training the cops receive. Take cues from police forces in other nations, like Germany or Norway, forces that kill far fewer civilians than the United States.

Why do some cops appear so eager to draw their weapons as a first resort? Why the epidemic of dog shooting deaths by cops? Every other profession finds a way to deal with territorial dogs without gunning them down.

Why isn’t there an unarmed police force working along side the armed? The cops in my town are strapped with every weapon and tech gadget that they can fit onto their body. Is that really necessary? They aren’t in a warzone, they are working in their own community, among their neighbors, family, and friends.

Make it easier to fire a bad cop, as well as forever ban them from ever again working as a cop in the future. A cop that polices a community should have roots in that community.

These are just a few ideas on how to correct a problem that has been kicked down the road and into the future for decades. Others have different ideas on how to solve it, but the solution must always begin with the divesting of unaccountable power wherever it resides.

Via Strategic Culture Foundation

Large piles of bricks have been conveniently placed in the path of the rioting mobs, but who did it? Who’s paying for it?

The Jewish Voice is reporting that the group, Antifa, is handing out money to rioters. Where are they getting their funds?

‘Universal Masking in Hospitals in the COVID-19 Era’, New England Journal of Medicine:

“We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”

Thanks to mobs of rioting thugs, the “social distancing” narrative has collapsed entirely. In fact, the entire pandemic narrative is gone. But we must admit the painful obviousness of the truth: the corporate media holds absolute control over public opinion. The narrative changed almost immediately, switching from the COVID “New Normal”, to the riots spreading across U.S. cities. The public mind followed in lock-step.

The rioters aren’t being castigated by the corporate press for their violations of the pandemic strictures, and yet just a few weeks ago the mayor of New York City was busy busting up Jewish funerals and religious gatherings. Mayors and governors across the nation were previously harassing churchgoers and small business owners. But for some reason, the rioting mob is except from the COVID narrative. The corporate press gives them a pass, therefore the public mind does as well.

The virus hysteria that we’ve suffered under for the past three months was inflamed and weaponized by corporate media. The riots are receiving the same treatment. The ability of these enormous corporate news entities to marionette society, and twist public policy in any way they desire has been shown to be a clear and present danger to the stability of modern society. But what could possibly be done to prevent this malign influence from controlling the public without violating the liberty of every other news outlet?

Fascinating, brilliant, illuminating interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNjNZDsHqUU