be careful if the cops say they smell weed on you, as the person below discovered;

Austin, TX — In case after infuriating case, the Free Thought Project has reported on instances of horrifying rights violations all stemming from a police officer claiming to smell a plant. We have seen both women and men sodomized and raped — often times in public — as cops search for this smell. We have seen entire families held hostage, women and children beaten up, rampant sexual assault, and all of it stemming from a plant smell. The following incident is one of those cases and the taxpayers just paid for it.

The taxpayers of the city of Hutto just paid out $225,000 to pay for belligerent cops hellbent on beating people up over a plant. The thing is, this man didn’t have a plant.

In May of 2018, two Hutto police officers Jamie Alcocer and Gregory Parris responded to a neighborhood snitch who called 911 to report the smell of marijuana. The officers both admitted on their body cameras that they had no idea where or which house the smell was coming from. But, acting on their desire to kidnap and cage someone for daring to partake in a plant, they walked the neighborhood to find it.

“One of the neighbors is calling, snitching,” Hutto Police Officer Gregory Parris is captured saying on his body camera video. Parris admitted in the recording he “had no idea” which house was the suspected source because the complaining neighbor didn’t “know the exact address,” Parris said in the video, according to KXAN.

After walking for a while and not finding the culprit, the two cops came upon an innocent man who was watching a ball game at a friend’s house. Jeremy Rogers was on private property and had committed no crime when the two officers approached him. As the body camera shows, Rogers is cordial and greets the officers. But less than 30 seconds later, he would be shoved against the back of a truck and facing down an insanely violent police officer.

As the video shows, Rogers told the officer that he would call his friend from inside to verify that they were not smoking weed and were simply hanging out. But Parris just knew he had nabbed himself a criminal pothead and wanted nothing of it.........read more........

the 'live exercise' that pompeo spoke of seems to be going on for some years according to the world bank;


The World Bank’s COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Program documents, marked “For Official Use Only,” identify the Bank’s COVID-19 program as ending in March 2025, more than four years away from our current date (read page 1 of 60). The program’s start date was April 2020........read more.......

this could be the companion piece that travels alongside the fred essay posted previous to this one;

Scapegoating dissenters only hastens the disunity and disarray that accelerates the final collapse.

Authoritarianism is imposed on us, but its sibling intolerance is our own doing. Intolerance and authoritarianism are two sides of the same coin: as intolerance becomes the norm, the intolerant start demanding that the state enforce their intolerance by suppressing their enemies via increasingly heavy-handed authoritarian measures.

Intolerance and authoritarianism increase as instability takes hold and living standards decline. In good times, dissent and differences of opinion are not only tolerated but celebrated, as this freedom to hold a variety of beliefs serves to unify society.

In bad times, dissent and differences are viewed as mortal threats to the social order. Perhaps there is a human instinct when times become troubled to insist "we must all row together," i.e. to seek a unity enforced by a rising intolerance that demands more authoritarian action by the state.

For example, in wartime, pacifist views that were previously tolerated become criminal offenses.

The irony here is this forced conformity doesn't generate unity--it fractures society into bitterly warring camps as the middle ground vanishes into either/or extremism that sees authoritarianism (in support of our side, of course) as not just justified but essential.

Intolerance and authoritarianism undermine and ultimately destroy the unity that was generated by tolerance and a wide variety of beliefs and dissenting views. As our own insecurities increase, we fall all too willingly to the temptation to see others' recalcitrant refusal to join our camp without reservations as the source of our insecurity.

In this mindset of insecurity, the "solution" is to force compliance by any means available so everyone is in our camp. And since some might be hiding the insincerity of their devotion to our righteous cause, the need for an Inquisition becomes pressing, so the insincere or closet traitors can be unmasked and punished.

But the Inquisitors themselves inevitably come under suspicion, and an Inquisition of the Inquisitors soon lays waste to those who hubristically held themselves as the arbiters of conformity. There is no way to escape this drive to dissipate insecurity by forcing conformity except the complete collapse of the social, political and economic orders.

This is the path to madness and complete social breakdown. But such is the power of insecurity and uncertainty that history records our self-destructive urgency to abandon the middle ground and a diversity of viewpoints and beliefs for the totalitarian uniformity of forced conformity.

But once rooted, intolerance knows no bounds and the snake of intolerant authoritarianism ends up eating its own tail. In an era of intolerance, ideological purity is a constantly shifting landscape of quicksand. Those at the top passing judgment on others' ideological purity soon find their own purity is under attack.

Increasingly intolerant, repressive authoritarianism marked the final days of the Roman decline and fall. Rather than face the profound and novel crises directly and unify around the sacrifices needed to resolve the crises favorably, it is so much easier to blame everyone who doesn't agree with our position as the source of the crises.

This is delusional, of course: crises have real-world sources, and scapegoating dissenters only hastens the disunity and disarray that accelerate the final collapse...........https://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept20/intolerance9-20.html

fred makes some racial points herein that you may not like but seem to be supported by statistics;

We say we have a “race problem.” No. We have a black problem. Calling it a “race problem” attributes culpability to the alleged racism of whites. This absolves blacks of responsibility for their behavior. It also allows the media to avert their gaze from the endless horrific crimes by blacks against other races.

The alleged racism of whites does not exist. The country is home to millions of Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Indians, Lebanese, Jews, Thais, and Vietnamese. Few whites care. Many welcome it. Members of other races rise to high position in America. Nobody cares. The CEO of IBM is Arvind Krishna; of Google, Sundar Pichai; of Microsoft, Satya Nadella; of AMD, Lisa Su; of nVidia, Jenson Huang; the founder of Facebook and cofounder of Google, Jews. Asians dominate the rigorous technical universities, MIT, CalTech, and so on. The Latin American population is problematic because of its size and newness, but there is no Brown Lives Matter, no Latino Knockout Game, few if any racial murders of whites. Latinos assimilate, start businesses, date whites, intermarry, and there is no problem. This is racism?

Note that brutal and unprovoked murders of whites by blacks are not rare. The foregoing accounts are not cherrypicked. There are many, many of them, well-documented, sometimes collected in books, often with video in Kindle editions. The larger public knows little of them because they appear briefly in local publications but are then carefully ignored by the national media. They appear in British papers, the Guardian, the Telegraph, in the New York Post, along with videos of black flash mobs sacking stores, but not on CBS, or in the NYT, or Washington Post. If you doubt the numbers, the books mentioned below are still available at Amazon.

White Girl Bleed a Lot by Colin Flaherty, likewise The Knockout Game a Lie? .......read more........

in case you are interested this is a few minutes of who joe biden is though there's lots of these around;


https://youtu.be/YGJGI1d96Ns

one more time kunstler describes our current realities in a clear and direct manner which few beyond the true believers would contest. i keep waiting for him to do the same to the 'loyal opposition', but so far no luck;

The abiding mystery of the 2020 election is how come the Democratic Party, wishing so zealously to win back power, took pains to nominate a candidate weaker than the ghost of Millard Fillmore. Resorting to Occam’s Razor, one might have to conclude that Joe Biden was simply the best they had — a surefire case for the party’s necessary extinction.

The Labor Day starting-gun kicks off the high campaign season and Ol’ White Joe wobbles forth from his lair under a rock somewhere to dazzle audiences of six or eight sympathetic journos posed in “social distancing” formation while the party’s Antifa and BLM shock troops soften up voters elsewhere across the land with vote-winning riots, arson, and looting. There’s a recipe for political success!

You have to wonder how the claque of DC deep state players behind this fiasco could come up with a game-plan so stupidly inept… but there it is! Apparently, they’re laying further plans now to bum-rush Ol’ Joe into the White House by main force with a “color revolution” — that is, an orchestrated fake popular revolt as in the Ukraine Maidan regime change operation of 2014. In fact, as Revolver News reports, the same wrecking crew of US State Department officials, intel spooks, contract insurrectionists, and George Soros-sponsored NGO intriguers is behind the US 2020 “Transition Integrity Project” aimed at launching a US post-election coup against Mr. Trump, no matter how the election actually goes.

The plan was all over the web wires this holiday weekend. Everybody knows exactly what to expect now: a November 3 Trump election victory followed by a king-tide of post-election write-in votes for Ol’ Joe… a long, drawn-out, and surely inconclusive battle trying to validate scores of millions of postmarks and signatures… and a skein of Lawfare-managed shenanigans conducted in battleground state legislatures to change-out electoral college slates. And any objections by Mr. Trump and his party will be labeled as Putin-backed fascist treason..........read more.........

caitlin highlights some of the massive attacks on the citizens of which your tv shows you virtually nothing and its obfuscated at that;

My home state of Victoria has become the center of attention in the anti-lockdown movement for its authoritarian crackdown against not just people who are in violation of lockdown protocol, but people who merely post about staging future anti-lockdown protests on social media.

Police have been breaking into people’s homes and arresting them in front of their children under charges of “incitement” for posting about anti-lockdown protests on Facebook, drawing international headlines. This is obviously a major threat to human rights that sets a dangerous precedent and will have many undesirable knock-on effects, and it should be condemned unequivocally.

“This is awful. ‘Incitement’ is going to be used to crack down on all sorts of protests – including on issues we agree with and think are worth protesting,” explained Australian author and analyst Ketan Joshi of one such arrest. “Every time I post about this, I am stunned by the number of people who seem furiously unwilling to draw any connection between what’s happening above and the history of climate and anti-racist protest in Australia.”

“Those who claim Covid-19 is being exploited by governments to dismantle our diminishing freedoms have just been handed a chilling new piece of evidence to support their case,” tweeted journalist Jonathan Cook..........read more......