Family news

it's been hot and every evening we have thunderstorms, which mean the 4 dogs are hiding under my bed and the roof is leaking in the bathroom.

I have stopped watching the news because it seems to be all lies.

PJMedia article: 10 big fat lies you've been told about the riots.

Who would oppose BLM?

that depends. If you dare to hint you might not support "BLM", you are called a racist and ostracized.

But the dirty little secret is that no one is pointing out there is a difference between the idea that Black lives do matter and that society needs to do this, and the organization BLM  that is masking their radical Marxist roots.

The well meaning peaceful protesters are being used/being manipulated to shield deliberate rioters who often are trained to destroy things to start a revolution: And the worst ones are the Marxist anarchist types of  Antifa in their looting and destruction of the inner cities, including many small businesses run or owned by minorities?

and to make things even more worse: The press is pretending these riots don't exist, so that any push back on violent rioters is being twisted for political reasons because it is an election year.

quick: Please explain why is it when I google for information about the destruction of businesses in the inner cities from these riots, all the reporting seems to be on right wing sites and often is more than 30 days old?

however, a recent editorial in the WaExaminer notes:

The intentions of these protests are wide-ranging, and some are perfectly justified. But the Black Lives Matter organization is inextricably linked to communism. In the words of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors: “We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.”
Cullors initially became a trained organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center, whose goal is to “focus on Black and Latino communities with deep historical ties to the long history of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-communist resistance to the U.S. empire.” Her embrace of communism is evident in BLM’s official policy platform, which stereotypically employs the word “comrade” and denounces the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” in favor of “extended families and ‘villages.’” Not surprisingly, BLM also supports “a radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth” in the form of tax hikes.

of course, the western "nuclear family" ignores that most "nuclear families" have close links with extended family, although maybe some not as closely as in immigrant communities because people had to move where the jobs were available.

But the destruction of the family was done in the 1960s with their emphasis on personal freedom, easy divorce, and promiscuity pretty well destroyed the idea of caring for family members: I mean, if you can desert your pregnant girlfriend and she justifies her abortion in the name of sexual freedom so she can work long hours like a man, what happens when your relatives get sick? The family that in the past was there to care for you is no longer there.

or is this a correct picture?

Maybe, or maybe not: because another rarely noticed story, is the 53 million caregivers who sacrifice time and often careers to care for their elderly, sick or handicapped family members (and this doesn't count women who work part time or in less strenuous jobs so they can care for their children).

the article goes on to point out that many small businesses are owned by minorities, and that 40 percent of small businesses owned by blacks have been closed thanks to the wuhan virus.

sigh. running a business is hard work, cleaning up after riots, and caring for sick loved one is also hard work. So what are the elites teaching kids? Be a SJW! Join the protests!

Because it makes you feel superior and hey, it is fun!



because the alternative is to grow up and actually do the hard work of helping your family and the community.

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in other news: the Chinese floods are huge and not getting much attention.
Dirty little secret: flooding the cities could lead to the destruction of factories that make medicine
and agricultural flooding could lead to a food shortage.

and the rains are flooding Eastern India and Bangladesh, southern Japan, etc. also.

Estimated rainfall amounts since early June can be seen across South Asia. (NASA)

the rains are being blamed on low pressure areas making the monsoon rains stronger than normal.

again, this is going to result in famines later in the year, and the Covid shutdown of the supply chains for supplies is making things worse.

and on top of this: Many Asian countries including the Philippines are seeing less money being sent home from their overseas workers: indeed, tens of thousands of overseas workers are returning home and are supposed to be put into quarantine to stop the spread to their families.

as StrategyPage wrote about the Philippines: choose your poison

But now there are calls to keep the lockdown in cities. The problem is that this shuts down the economy and the government has not got the resources to feed and care for so many urban Filipinos who are confined to their homes. Many of the confined are going hungry and not willing to quietly starve to death. People are defying the lockdown to survive all manner of privation.

so there is going to be a lot of hunger in poorer countries: And the flooding of food growing areas from the excess monsoon rains are making things worse.

so expect a major famine later this year in many countries.

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the Johns Hopkins site notes the Covid mortality statistics, including putting it into context of population: and here the USA is not as bad as some European countries, something that the news usually doesn't notice:

COUNTRY	CONFIRMED	DEATHS	CASE-FATALITY	DEATHS/100K POP.
San Marino	699	42	6.0%	124.32
Belgium	65,199	9,817	15.1%	85.95
United Kingdom	299,500	45,762	15.3%	68.83
Andorra	897	52	5.8%	67.53
Spain	272,421	28,432	10.4%	60.85
Italy	245,590	35,097	14.3%	58.08
Sweden	78,997	5,697	7.2%	55.95
Peru	375,961	17,843	4.7%	55.78
Chile	341,304	8,914	2.6%	47.59
France	217,797	30,195	13.9%	45.08
US	4,112,531	145,546	3.5%	44.49
Brazil	2,287,475	85,238	3.7%	40.69
Ireland	25,845	1,763	6.8%	36.32

two of our nephew's kids who work in hospitals in the UK have had the virus: One got very sick the other a mild case. because so many Filipinos are health care workers, a lot working overseas have caught the virus and several hundred have died. Sigh.
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