Commentary: Remembering Ruby Ridge

Posted on August 8, 2022 by On the North River

 30 years later.

This month marks 30 years since Ruby Ridge, one of those events that, as Dan Gelernter explains, the FBI prefers Americans to ignore. That attitude invites a look at those events, as described by the victims of FBI violence.

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This brought in the FBI, which deployed some 400 heavily armed agents, helicopters, and armored personnel carriers against a single family. The rules of engagement allowed deadly force against any family member seen with a firearm, but in effect it was an order of shoot on sight.

“On August 21, 1992,” Randy Weaver later testified,

federal marshals shot my son Samuel in the back and killed him. He was running home to me. His last words were, ‘I’m coming, Dad.’ They shot his little arm almost off and they killed him by shooting him in the back with a 9-millimeter submachine gun. The gun had a silencer on it. He was not wanted for any crime. He did not commit any crime. The marshals killed his dog right at his feet. He only tried to defend himself and his dog.

Sammy was just 14 years old. He did not yet weigh 80 pounds. He was not yet 5 feet tall. The marshals who killed Sammy were grown men. They were in combat gear. They had their faces painted with camouflage. They were wearing full camouflage suits with black ninja-type hoods. They were carrying machine guns and large caliber semi automatic pistols. They were trained to kill. Two of them were hiding behind trees and rocks in the woods where they could not be seen. The third was around a bend in the trail in thick forest. They were under direct orders from Washington to do nothing to injure the children. They were to have no contact or confrontation with me or my family. They killed him anyway in violation of their orders.

One day later, Vicki Weaver was holding infant daughter Elisheba in the cabin doorway when FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot the unarmed mother in the face, killing her instantly. Snipers are trained carefully “to acquire” the target, so there is little chance the shooting was accidental.

This event “radicalized” many people on the Right.  It’s when we recognized the face of the enemy for the first time.

Read the whole thing, if you have a strong stomach.

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Olivia Newton John passes away…

Posted on August 8, 2022 by On the North River

Oliva’s husband John Easterling says she died peacefully at her ranch in Southern California Monday morning, surrounded by family and friends. Oliva has battled breast cancer for more than 30 years.

She was 73, almost my age and like the girl next door.

RIP,  be forever young.

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eye-Robot.

Posted on August 7, 2022 by On the North River
  • Amazon is acquiring Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7 billion. (Ars Technica)Given Amazon’s habit of handing out Ring doorbell video footage without the tedious drudgery of asking or telling the owners, my inclination to buy a Roomba has abruptly evaporated. At least a doorbell is – by design – on the front of the house facing outwards, not roaming around inside.

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Polio virus resurging in New York State.

Posted on August 6, 2022 by On the North River

Polio was never eradicated world-wide.   So why is it returning here now?

Because presenting health records including a complete vaccination record at the border to gain entry in the United States….
Is Racist!™️

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Lies, damned lies and statistics.

Posted on August 6, 2022 by On the North River

The country is entering a recession but the ‘Jobs Report’ that was released shows a big jump in jobs for July?

Something Snaps In The Job Market: Multiple Jobholders Hit All Time High As Unexplained 1.8 Million Jobs Gap Emerges

So what’s going on here? The simple answer: Fewer people working, but more people working more than one job, a rotation which picked up in earnest some time in March and which has only been captured by the Household survey.

And since the Establishment survey is far slower to pick up on the nuances in employment composition, while the Household Survey has gone nowhere since March, the BLS data engineers have been busy goalseeking the Establishment Survey (perhaps with the occasional nudge from the White House especially now that the economy is in a technical recession) to make it appear as if the economy is growing strongly, when in reality all they are doing is applying the same erroneous seasonal adjustment factor that gave such a wrong perspective of the labor market in the aftermath of the covid pandemic (until it was all adjusted away a year ago). In other words, while the labor market is already cracking, it will take the BLS several months of veering away from reality before the government bureaucrats accept and admit what is truly taking place.

We expect that “realization” to take place just after the midterms, because the last thing the Biden administration can afford is admit the labor market is crashing in addition to the continued surge in inflation.

In short, the Administration is double counting job holders, more people are getting a second job to make ends meet in Biden’s economy and that bogus jobs report is counting those poor souls twice as workers newly entering the job market.

Older graphic, lumber is lower now and gas is higher.

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The Smart Ones.

Posted on August 1, 2022 by On the North River

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Hot.

Posted on July 29, 2022 by On the North River

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The Two Monsters of the French Revolution

Posted on July 28, 2022 by On the North River

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and Maximilien Robespierre were not seen as monstrous people prior to the French Revolution. So what changed?

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.”

The man who spoke those words was one of history’s premiere authorities on the subject. He was a monster himself, made so by the toxin we call “power.” On this date in 1794—July 28—he and a famous cohort departed this earth for whatever reward awaited them.

A close examination of these two men reveals an astonishing, corrosive effect of political power. Nothing else can explain the remarkable change in their personalities. Before the Revolution, Robespierre was a mild-mannered opponent of the death penalty. With supreme power in his hands, he became one of the monsters of whom Saint-Just wrote.

Saint-Just’s transformation is even more disturbing, as noted by several historians. Described as “freewheeling and passionate” a few years before, he almost overnight became “focused, tyrannical and pitilessly thorough,” “the ice-cold ideologist of republican purity” and “as inaccessible as stone to all the warm passions.” He deserted the woman he loved, trashed his friends, abandoned his affection for literature and metamorphosed into a killer with a single cause—to control, torture or murder to “remake” society.

Power.

Remind you of our own times?  The power of Revolutionary France was nothing to the power of the (formerly) greatest most powerful nation in the history of Earth.

I’ll always remember us at our heyday.

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That’s me.

Posted on July 28, 2022 by On the North River

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This is why I keep an eye on the New York Post.

Posted on July 28, 2022 by On the North River

Hysteria and greed make for expensive energy policies that won’t save the planet

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Last week, President Joe Biden claimed that climate change “is literally, not figuratively, a clear and present danger.” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stated we have just eight years to save the planet or the world will commit “collective suicide.”

The world is suffering from a “climate emergency” and “climate catastrophe.” Every heat wave, storm, flood, drought and blizzard no longer is weather but instead irrefutable evidence of our looming demise.

Those overcome by hysteria cannot think or act rationally. Yet politicians and policymakers, including Biden, are intent on igniting more flames, like serial arsonists.

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So why pursue policies that will immiserate millions and have virtually no impact on the climate? Because, loaded as they are with subsidies for green energy, they offer virtually unlimited opportunities for self-enrichment to those who peddle them.

Though it’s one of the costliest generating resources known, Biden issued an executive order to promote offshore-wind development in the Gulf of Mexico and along the southeast coast. But offshore-wind developers are almost entirely European companies, which will collect not only production tax credits but also Team Biden’s new 30% investment tax credit. (Billions more in subsidies for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure are also on offer, on top of existing subsidies.)

Officials have even enacted legislation to stifle local opposition to huge wind and solar projects in rural counties, benefiting developers at their citizens’ expense. New York’s 2020 Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act, for example, effectively guts the state’s home-rule provisions. Wind and solar developers have filed lawsuits against small rural communities, many of which lack the resources to fight back.

In the future when someone asks what happened to Western Civilization,  just answer them that “It died of corruption, massive, massive unchecked corruption”.

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