(ZH) — Two Republican state Senators were found shot dead in their homes this week. First, former Arkansas state Senator Linda Collins-Smith, 57, was found shot dead in her home several days after neighbors reported hearing gunshots. According to CBS News, her death is being reported as a homicide.
CBS Little Rock affiliate KTHV reported the remains were found outside Collins-Smith’s home in Pocahontas. Authorities were unable to identify the remains until they were studied by the state crime lab.
The state police said in a statement the agency received confirmation the remains were Collins-Smith’s Thursday morning. “Special Agents of the state police Criminal Investigation Division along with deputies of the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department are continuing their work related to the case,” the state police said. –CBS News
Today, we learned of the untimely death of former Senator Linda Collins Smith. She was a passionate voice for her people and a close member of our Republican family. We are praying for her loved ones during this difficult time.
The second GOP lawmaker found dead this week was Oklahoma state Senator Jonathan Nichols, who was found dead in his Norman, OK home on Wednesday, and a gun was found across the room on a table, according to The Oklahoman.
Law enforcement sources reported that police responded to a report of an individual with a gunshot wound around 8:44 p.m. Wednesday. Inside, they found the 53-year-old Nichols deceased.
Nichols represented Norman in the Oklahoma Senate from 2000 to 2012, and had been a senior policy adviser to House Speaker Charles McCall at the time of his death.
As the homeless population in Los Angeles grows, so does the unfortunate revival of many third world diseases…
Despite hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through Los Angeles to stem the rising tide of homelessness, a resurgence of medieval diseases has the city – and neighboring states – on edge. Typhoid fever and typhus, borne by fleas, body lice, and feces, are turning the once glitzy and glamorous city into a third-world worthy environment.
Yes, Typhoid Mary is back, in a sense, living on the streets and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting people in the Golden State.
These diseases, along with an uptick in tuberculosis, hepatitis A, and staph, are easily and rapidly spread and have wide-reaching consequences. They’re highly contagious and can infect anyone through casual contact.
Typhoid fever
An LAPD officer was recently diagnosed with typhoid, and several other city employees are exhibiting the classic symptoms of high fever, muscle pain, and weakness. Left untreated, the disease can be fatal – and let’s face it: The malady wiped out entire populations during the Dark Ages and took a heavy toll on American Civil War soldiers and early American settlers. Some historians blame the malaise for obliterating the Jamestown settlement.
Where The Heck Did They Come From?
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority recently released a report showing 59,000 people living on the streets in Los Angeles County – a 12% increase since 2018 – with 36,300 of them within the city limits of Los Angeles. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), reports that “California accounted for 30% of all people experiencing homelessness as individuals” throughout the United States.
The progress of these once eradicated and near eradicated diseases is so alarming that the politicians who once spent copious amounts of time covering up the warts and putrid pustules in their liberally run cities and state are now showing disbelief and disgust.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) broke his silence during his state of the state speech in February: “Our homeless crisis is increasingly becoming a public-health crisis. Typhus, a medieval disease. In California. In 2019.”
Los Angeles Mayor Gil Garcetti (D), who many believed would be a 2020 presidential contender, calls the crisis, “the biggest heartbreak for me and my city.” Garcetti campaigned extensively for the initiative known as Proposition HHH, which designated $1.2 billion over the next ten years to build homeless housing. But now residents are howling about the pricey plan’s abject failure. One local L.A. news outlet polled residents and found that “Forty-five percent said it’s failing, with 18 percent saying it’s a complete failure.”
Voters passed Propositions 47 (2014) and 57 (2016), downgrading theft and drug offenses to misdemeanors and redefining many felonies from violent to nonviolent to release a horde of inmates – some addicted to drugs and suffering from now untreated mental illness.
And they wonder why there are so many people on the streets living, sleeping, and breathing surrounded by urine-soaked sidewalks and piles of human feces? And, of course, they don’t have to show symptoms to carry and transfer these diseases – simple casual contact from a carrier will do just fine.
Asymptomatic Mary Mallon was presumed to have infected over 50 people between 1907 and 1915, yet never experienced a day of sickness. She died under quarantine – from complications of a stroke, not typhoid. Her body was cremated and her ashes interred, but her legacy as Typhoid Mary lives on.
What’s The Plan?
Garcetti is doubling down on his homeless housing project, but his highest hurdle is his choice for building sites. It seems no Angeleno wants drugs, typhus, and hepatitis bubbling and festering on their own block. A short story made long, aside from Proposition HHH, there is no solid plan to curb the worsening rotting of Los Angeles.
There is a long-held belief that two American presidents succumbed to Typhoid. The ninth Commander in Chief, William Henry Harrison, is remembered to have died of pneumonia after only 31 days in office, but recent studies suggest he likely died from typhoid. Number 12, President Zachary Taylor, was most likely felled from the disease as well – due to the unsanitary conditions in the Swamp in the mid-19th century.
Ironically, the only thing that seems to have changed in Washington D.C. is that the deadly infections are in the heart and soul and not the body of the toadies on the Hill.
Here we are in the throes of the 21st century with running water, inoculations for just about every known malady of the last millennia, and welfare programs to heal the poorest of our citizens. Yet Los Angeles remains a hot, malodorous, infectious mess – and it could be spreading toward a city near you.
We live in a world where reality has been subjugated and inverted. The laws of nature have been trampled upon by a clique of parasitic hoarders who have hoodwinked the vast majority of people into accepting a life of hardship and bondage as a result on an inter-generational reign of terror meted out by these well-dressed entitlement-demanding bloodsuckers.
Surrounded by a cast of uniformed magicians in fuzzy hats who march around reinforcing the terror trance, these “royal” family welfare cases depend on humanity remaining under the illusion that people who live in castles should be respected rather than reviled. This illusion is etched ever deeper into the human psyche via assassinations, terror attacks, coups and the occasional world war.
The court magician Freemasons are instructed by the Privy Council to obfuscate, confuse, divide and indoctrinate society. Their job is to create an artificial reality which perpetuates the medieval storyline that these royal thieves and pirates are justified in their history of barbarism to the point that they should be the most respected and deferred to members of society. If you rob a liquor store they call you a thief. But if you rob a nation they call you a king.
So long as the black magicians can keep this fake reality going, the royals and their coterie can continue along their bloody path, concentrating all the wealth of the planet in their undetectable offshore coffers. This while the peasants fight one another, always pointing the finger at some black magician-concocted villain.
A good example of this was seen recently when the lower-case villain Trump visited the UK. To the Privy Council’s delight, the confused peasants busied themselves readying their placards to denounce the assigned villain, whilst completely ignoring his royal parasite hosts who, via Cambridge Analytica, put him in charge of their United States Corporation colony to play the necessary villain role.
Here the parasites use Trump as a shield who can like a magnet attract all the negative energy and attention away from the perps. The black magicians use their media (medium) to gin up this negativity. Finally, the parasites harvest this negativity and feast on it, having put another one over on the sheeple.
This methodology is used over and over in society by the Luciferians. Create chaos, anger, resentment, envy and outright war between and among the masses; then harvest the negativity and bloodshed to reinforce the mass-terror simulation grid which keeps the sub-consciously cued peasants cowed towards the royal perpetrators of the terror.
All the while kings and queens remain in the eyes of most water-treading suckers, something to strive to become. Just look at any deck of cards. Or at the popularity of Game of Thrones. Or at bed sizes. Or at who runs a beehive. This black magic inversion of language is everywhere and in our faces. They even call it “the Queen’s English” for Christ’s sake.
If we are to reclaim this world and revert back to the paradise that it once was, we must reject the spells of the Privy Council’s black magicians and begin to think and talk like real human beings again. Black must be black and a tree a tree.
Human nature is good, just like nature itself. This is the biggest of all magician lies. It is this royal parasite-created artificial reality which shields evil behind mesmerizing pomp and circumstance which must be shouted down, mocked and completely rejected if we are to revive paradise under natural law.
Paramount to this is breaking out of their mass terror simulation, which with the advent of artificial intelligence will become more pervasive and sophisticated. There is nothing to fear and no reason to fight one another, divide into camps, or jump on the latest outrage/negativity bandwagon.
Parasites are most easily killed by cutting off their food supply.
“Being penalized for working the equivalent of two jobs to keep my bills paid seems just a wee bit counterintuitive.
What really gets my goat is that some of the wealthiest in this great nation aren’t paying their fair share. Some use tax loopholes to avoid paying anything, while simultaneously receiving tax rebates.
Call me a few sammies short of a picnic, but just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s right.”
Middle-class Canadians are shouldering a disproportionate tax burden and that needs to change, says Jo Davies
“What bugs me the most about this baloney is that the money being squirrelled away by all these corporations isn’t going where it should: to benefit the citizens of the country where these galoots are fortunate enough to operate.
Their profits are going through the roof while average Canadians work multiple jobs and struggle to provide their kids with the necessities of life.”
“As a single mother of three who’s given up eating meat, getting haircuts and drives a second-hand 2006 Chevy to make ends meet, I’m damned if I’m going to get stuck with a tax bill when there are billions of dollars hidden away in corporate Canada’s coffers, earning interest.”
Jo Davies says she’s fine with paying her share of taxes to keep schools open, roads paved and parks beautiful. But, she says, some of the wealthiest in Canada aren’t paying their fair share — and she’s crying foul.(James Kost/Shutterstock)
Tax time is over, and I’m stuck paying. Again.
Thanks to our government eliminating deductions faster than Drake drops hits, it’s getting harder each year to avoid owing. Funny — I thought the government taxed things they didn’t want you to do: smoke, drink, have fun of any kind.
Being penalized for working the equivalent of two jobs to keep my bills paid seems just a wee bit counterintuitive.
What really gets my goat is that some of the wealthiest in this great nation aren’t paying their fair share. Some use tax loopholes to avoid paying anything, while simultaneously receiving tax rebates.
Call me a few sammies short of a picnic, but just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s right.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m grateful to live in a country where I can fall on a fork and be able to receive medical treatment, all without opening my wallet. I get that everything comes at a price. I’m fine with paying my share to keep schools open, roads paved and parks beautiful.
In spite of increasing profits, not only did Amazon not pay the statutory 21 per cent income tax rate on its U.S. income in 2018 — it reported a federal income tax rebate of $129 million, according to the American Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. (David Zalubowski/Associated Press)
What twigged me to this ridiculousness was what I read online last week. Apparently, U.S. mega-corporation Amazon doesn’t pay a dime in taxes. In fact, it’s now in the enviable position of having a tax rate of negative one per cent.
This according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which reported in February 2019 that despite doubling its profits to $11.2 billion in 2018, not only did Amazon not pay the statutory 21 per cent income tax rate on its U.S. income last year, it actually reported a federal income tax rebate of $129 million. This sweet deal is due in part to a variety of tax credits, in addition to a tax break for executive stock options.
At first, I just shook my head and pitied my American friends. I didn’t think that kind of blatant inequity could happen here. A gander at the world wide web enlightened me otherwise.
Not just an American problem
Back in 2017, a Toronto Star investigative team tried to discover just how Canadian corporate taxation (or lack thereof) has evolved since 1952. In case you didn’t know, that was the last year corporate and personal income tax were equal in our great land. Since then, the Star report says that gap has widened, with personal income tax adding up to $145 billion in 2015, when corporate taxes were a relatively modest $41 billion.
What else did the Star’s team find after examining the tax filings of Canada’s 102 largest corporations? Disgustingly, these companies used complex techniques and tax loopholes to avoid a whopping $62.9 billion worth of taxes between 2011 and 2016.
What bugs me the most about this baloney is that the money being squirrelled away by all these corporations isn’t going where it should: to benefit the citizens of the country where these galoots are fortunate enough to operate.
Their profits are going through the roof while average Canadians work multiple jobs and struggle to provide their kids with the necessities of life.
We watch hospital wait times increase, roads fall apart, and child poverty soar, while Canada’s corporate CEOs are earning bonuses larger than the yearly incomes of multiple families.
Not only is it morally reprehensible for this to go on, it just doesn’t make fiscal sense at a time when federal and provincial governments are struggling to balance their budgets while still providing services to Canadians.
A heavy burden on average families
It’s not like we aren’t paying our fair share. When you add up sales, property and income taxes, as well as all the other taxes we pay, the Fraser Institute says the average Canadian family paid a breathtaking 43.1 per cent of its total income in tax in 2017.
The think tank went on to say that “since 1961, the average Canadian family’s total tax bill increased by 2,112 per cent, dwarfing increases in annual housing costs (1,480 per cent), clothing (732 per cent), and food (625 per cent). Even after accounting for inflation, the tax bill has still increased 166.4 per cent over this period.”
Canadian corporations are using tax loopholes and offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes, while tax deductions for average Canadians are disappearing faster than ice cubes in August. I used to be able to deduct my year’s worth of monthly bus passes, but that went the way of the dodo two years ago.
Most Manitoba families will receive more in rebates than they spend under the federal government’s new carbon tax. But those rebates don’t make up for other tax breaks that have been cut, says Davies.
We now have the carbon tax rebate, which rewarded individuals with a whopping $170 this year. Pardon me if I’m not all dewy-eyed over that drop in the bucket when the previous transit deduction was worth hundreds more and translated into me taking the bus every day. I’m pretty sure that reduced my carbon footprint, but hey, I might be wrong.
To be clear: it’s not about “making the rich pay.” It’s about ensuring that our country’s tax burden is apportioned equitably, rather than balanced on the backs of middle-class Canadians who are already struggling on the daily.
As a single mother of three who’s given up eating meat, getting haircuts and drives a second-hand 2006 Chevy to make ends meet, I’m damned if I’m going to get stuck with a tax bill when there are billions of dollars hidden away in corporate Canada’s coffers, earning interest.
I’ll pay my fair share. As long as everyone else does, too.
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Some American politicians should be relabelled comedians or clowns, no? Hey Ted, what about hollow Earth marauders?
This speech probably sounded a lot more convincing in Ted Cruz’s head.
Maybe Cruz has been watching too much SciFi lately, but while arguing in favor of funding President Trump’s “space force”, the Texas senator suggested that without a space force to protect American commerce, commercial and military space ships might be targeted by ‘space pirates’.
“Since the ancient Greeks first put to sea, nations have recognized the necessity of naval forces and maintaining a superior capability to protect waterborne travel and commerce from bad actors,” Cruz said. “Pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space. In this same way, I believe we too must now recognize the necessity of a Space Force to defend the nation and to protect space commerce and civil space exploration.”
The clip went viral on Twitter, where users alternated between ridiculing Cruz and delicately hinting that he might have a point (even when those suggestions were couched in humor).
Ted Cruz argues that Space Force is necessary because… wait for it… space pirates. Leave it to Cruz to take a dumb Trump idea and make it sound even dumber. pic.twitter.com/xjjItA3EV3
Cruz made the remark during a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation and Space, which he chairs, on Tuesday.
Later, he hit back at some of his critics, insisting that attacks by China and Russia aren’t all that far fetched, though it’s unclear where the ‘pirates’ connection fits in.
Sure, a frigate w/ skull & crossbones in space is unlikely anytime soon, but what MSNBC conveniently omits is the threat of piracy, espionage & violence from rogue & rival NATIONS is very real. Indeed, China has already developed & tested weapons to destroy satellites in space. https://t.co/fVUZUeWVLj
“Our citizens should know the urgent facts…but they don’t because our media serves imperial, not popular interests. They lie, deceive, connive and suppress what everyone needs to know, substituting managed news misinformation and rubbish for hard truths…”—Oliver Stone
We live in a world where reality has been subjugated and inverted. The laws of nature have been trampled upon by a clique of parasitic hoarders who have hoodwinked the vast majority of people into accepting a life of hardship and bondage as a result on an inter-generational reign of terror meted out by these well-dressed entitlement-demanding bloodsuckers.
