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OLDIE BUT GOODIE: 30 BLOCKS OF BACK TO SCHOOL

Most of my 30 Blocks of Squalor articles were accidentally deleted in 2019. Avalon stumbled upon this classic from 2017. She read it to me out loud and I laughed at a number of pithy observations. West Philly did bring out my creative side. If anything, Philly is worse seven years later. Enjoy this throwback to the good old days of TBP

“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.” ― Thomas Sowell

Over the last few weeks there have been a couple mornings where the Schuylkill Expressway was jammed and I had to take my alternative route through the 30 Blocks of Squalor. I hadn’t had this inspiring dystopian experience all summer. There is nothing like West Philly when the punks, punkettes, and future prison convicts finish a summer of not working, not reading, and not picking up the trash in their neighborhoods, go back to West Philly High and not learn again. The observations will be rehashed in a stream of consciousness format, as West Philly is a smorgasbord of squalor, sordidness, filth, apathy, crime and epic government incompetence.

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The Catalyst for a Banking Renaissance

Guest Post by Nick Giambruno

Every day, there are over 2,000,000,000 consumer transactions around the world.

Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and other large companies process many of these payments.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, does not have anywhere near the capacity to handle this kind of volume.

There is a hard limit on the maximum number of transactions the Bitcoin network can process—about 576,000 transactions a day, or about 0.029% of all the world’s consumer transactions.

That’s why recording every Starbucks or McDonald’s transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain was never possible.

It was also never desirable.

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Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever

Via ZeroHedge

A bear market in the used car market was confirmed in November and has since worsened through April. At the same time, negative equity values are hitting new record highs while auto insurance rates have soared the most since the mid-1970s. While gas prices at the pump are elevated, the environment to operate a vehicle is probably one of the worst ever. Just listen to Gen-Z and millennial users on X bitch and moan about $1,000 monthly car payments and other absurd costs associated with driving.

The Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index fell to 198.4 in April, a 14% drop from one year ago. This is the index’s lowest print since the first quarter of 2021. As for the bear market, the index is down 23% from the high and quickly falling – there could be air pockets given the rapid upward moves three years ago – and that demand has been suppressed given a high-interest rate environment.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – General Lee’s army beats Grant’s Union troops to Spotsylvania – 1864

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On May 8, 1864, Yankee troops arrive at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, to find the Rebels already there. After the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5-6), Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac marched south in the drive to take Richmond. Grant hoped to control the strategic crossroads at Spotsylvania Court House, so he could draw Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia into open ground. Continue reading “THIS DAY IN HISTORY – General Lee’s army beats Grant’s Union troops to Spotsylvania – 1864”

The Digifuture in Its Parts

Guest Post by Fred Reed

How time flies, said Fred with scintillating originality. When I was a young lad in rural Virginia in the mid-Sixties, the only thing digital was the local drive-in movie, known colloquially as the Finger bowl. Now the world runneth over with bits and bytes and screens and all. Regarding which:

Much of the unpleasantness of life springs from the need to identify ourselves. To this end we have driver’s licenses, passports, ID , and credit cards.

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SIGNS, SIGNS, EVERYWHERE SIGNS

They are running up their credit cards and depleting their savings because everything is so fucking fantastic. Just buy stocks and bitcoin, while ignoring the signs. What’s the worst that can happen?

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Russia issues military ultimatum to UK

Via RT

Moscow has threatened retaliation for any attacks with British weapons

Moscow will retaliate against British targets in Ukraine or elsewhere if Kiev uses UK-provided missiles to strike Russian territory, the Foreign Ministry told London’s ambassador on Monday.

Ambassador Nigel Casey was summoned to the ministry following remarks by British Foreign Secretary David Cameron to Reuters that Ukraine has the right to use long-range missiles sent by the UK to strike deep inside Russia.

”Casey was warned that the response to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons on Russian territory could be any British military facilities and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and beyond,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement following the meeting.

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Trump Forced To Wear Hannibal Lecter Muzzle For Gag Order Violations

Via The Babylon Bee

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Monday during his hush money trial for a record tenth time, compelling the judge to force the defendant to wear a restraining mask made popular by Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

“Try violating this gag order, punk!” impartial and incorruptible Judge Juan Merchan said as he signaled the bailiff to muzzle the former president.

“You’ll never silence me, me boys!” Trump reportedly said as his freedom of speech was cut off by an unsightly mask.

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Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) – What do they have to say about Tulsi Gabbard?

Citation: https://www.cfr.org/election2020/candidate-tracker/tulsi-gabbard

Note*: Tulsi Gabbard was a participant in World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders program,[7][8][9]  (2015) and former 5-year Term member of the Council on Foreign Relations ending July 2019.

Note**: This article on the CFR website was written when Tulsi Gabbard was a candidate for the 2020 POTUS election.

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Tulsi Gabbard is a four-term member of the House of Representatives from Hawaii and a veteran. First elected in 2012, she serves on the Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committees. She positions herself as an environmentalist and a critic of “regime change wars.”

A major in the Hawaii National Guard, she deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005. Born in American Samoa and raised in Hawaii, she is a graduate of Hawaii Pacific University.

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THE MADNESS CONTINUES: CHINESE SCIENTISTS CREATE MUTANT EBOLA VIRUS

Via Zero Hedge

 

Apparently, the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic haven’t been learned. Dangerous biolab experiments continue – humanity be damned.

According to the Daily Mail,

Chinese scientists have engineered a virus with parts of Ebola in a lab that killed a group of hamsters.

A team of researchers at Hebei Medical University used a contagious disease of livestock and added a protein found in Ebola, which allows the virus to infect cells and spread throughout the human body.

The group of hamsters that received the lethal injection ‘developed severe systemic diseases similar to those observed in human Ebola patients,’ including multi-organ failure,’ the study shared.

The results of this study were predictably horrific,

One particularly horrific symptom saw the infected hamsters develop secretions in their eyes, which impaired their vision and scabbed over the surface of the eyeballs.

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Western leaders are ‘infantile morons’ – Medvedev

Via RT

The US and its allies need a reminder of the nuclear risk posed by the Ukraine conflict, Dmitry Medvedev believes

The US, the UK, France and other Western nations should take a Russian nuclear drill as a reminder of where escalation of the Ukraine conflict could take them, former President Dmitry Medvedev has said.

On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced an imminent exercise to test the capability to deploy non-strategic nuclear weapons. It said the training was ordered by President Vladimir Putin after “provocative statements and threats” by Western officials.

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‘We Get Paid to Vaccinate Your Children’: Pediatrician Reveals Details of Big Pharma Payola Scheme

Guest Post by   John-Michael Dumais

In an interview on Children’s Health Defense’s “Vax-Unvax” bus, Dr. Paul Thomas exposed the financial incentives pediatricians receive for administering vaccines, including kickbacks of up to $240 per visit.

Can pediatricians afford to run their medical practices without the generous kickbacks they receive for vaccinating every child?

Dr. Paul Thomas, a Dartmouth-trained pediatrician, discussed this dilemma during an April 16 interview with Polly Tommey on Children’s Health Defense’s “Vax-Unvax: The People’s Study” bus tour.

“You cannot stay in business if you’re not giving pretty close to the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] [childhood vaccine] schedule,” said Thomas, who ran a general pediatrics practice with 15,000 patients and 33 staff members.

Thomas also addressed the risks and harms of vaccines — including COVID-19 mRNA vaccines — and the importance of boosting our immune systems naturally.

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41% Of Americans Think Civil War Likely By 2029, Some Say Sooner Amid Chaos

Via ZeroHedge

Americans have been stunned by the Democratic megadonors funneling money into Marxist groups, sparking mass chaos across colleges and universities nationwide as risks are mounting that ‘BLM-style’ riots could spill over into city streets this summer.

Law-abiding Americans have taken notice of radical left-wing policies pushing this nation further into chaos, from failed progressive cities ignoring law and order to open borders igniting the greatest illegal alien invasion this nation has ever seen. There is a growing sense among the population that possibly a controlled demolition of the country is underway by the radical left.

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The Pictures Which Should Not Be

Originally posted at Dispatches from Reality, by Scipio Eruditus. dfreality.substack.com

31 miles, 28 miles, 27 miles: no measurable curve……

“What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models.

A lot of cosmology tries to HIDE that.”

— George F. R. Ellis, Physicist

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The concept of a spherical Earth was first postulated by the self-proclaimed (and some say mythical) prophet Pythagoras, later emerging from the chambers of the Platonic and Mystery schools. It was not any experimentation or empirical evidence which drove this novel belief, but rather it was a direct manifestation of a religious obsession with the alleged perfection of the sphere. These schools were steeped in esoteric Babylonian rituals and mystical Egyptian beliefs, elevating the sphere to a divine pedestal, weaving it into their cosmological fabric as a symbol of celestial order and heavenly symmetry.

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