90 Miles From Tyranny

Friday, March 11, 2022

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1654

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland says the Justice Department’s investigation into the Capitol riot is the “most urgent” in DOJ history, more than a year after the U.S. Capitol Building was stormed on Jan. 6, 2021.

The claim by President Joe Biden's chief law enforcement officer comes as Republicans have said the Biden DOJ has not put the same effort into prosecutions tied to the violent riots of 2020 as the storming of the Capitol and have criticized the department for its decision to shutter the China Initiative despite a growing threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

"This is the most urgent investigation in the history of the Justice Department. It is the most resource-intensive. We have thrown 70 prosecutors from the District of Columbia and another 70 around the country,” Garland said of the Capitol riot in an NPR interview on Thursday. “Every FBI office, almost every U.S. attorney's office in the country is working on this matter. We've issued thousands of subpoenas, seized and examined thousands of electronic devices, examined terabytes of data, thousands of hours of videos. People are working every day, 24/7, and are fully aware of how important this is.”

Garland added: “This had to do with the interference with the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another. And it doesn't get more important than that."

The attorney general's claim that the Capitol riot inquiry is the most urgent in DOJ history is notable. The Justice Department was established in 1870 to enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments after the Civil War. It famously sought to stop Nazi saboteurs during World War Two, established a Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List, enforces civil rights laws, and is tasked with stopping cartels and other criminal organizations.

The DOJ and FBI were deeply involved in investigating the 9/11 attacks and are responsible for preventing and prosecuting terrorist attacks. The department deals with foreign espionage cases, prosecutes assassination efforts, and goes after violent crime. John Durham’s special counsel criminal investigation is scrutinizing the origins and conduct of the Trump-Russia investigation.

FBI Director Christopher Wray claimed in January that the FBI is working just as hard to punish participants in the 2020 riots as those involved in the Capitol riot.

Garland said in January “there is no higher priority” at DOJ than prosecuting the Capitol riot cases. He compared the deadly Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 to the Capitol riot in June. The attorney general indicated in May the DOJ was prioritizing prosecutions related to the...

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The world is heading into a global food crisis thanks to the war in Ukraine, according to the head of one major Agri organisation.

Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is going to have a ‘catastrophic’ effect on the world’s supply of food, the head of one of the world’s leading fertiliser companies.

Both Russia and Ukraine account for a significant portion of the global grain supply, with both nations also having significant roles within the supply of fertiliser, as well as its raw materials.

However, with trade grinding to a halt as a result of the latest stage in the ongoing conflict, the head of one major fertiliser company is sounding off alarm bells.

“Half the world’s population gets food as a result of fertilisers… and if that’s removed from the field for some crops, [the yield] will drop by 50%,” Svein Tore Holsether, who heads up agri company Yara International, told the BBC.

“For me, it’s not whether we are moving into a global food crisis – it’s how large the crisis will be,” he went on to say.

Holsether emphasised that there was already significant supply difficulties before the start of the current conflict, with the BBC noting that the increased cost of gas prices was already resulting in a steep rise in the cost of fertiliser.

The Yara International boss also is reported to have pointed out that around a quarter of key nutrients used in food production come from Russia, with sanctions now looking likely to further constrain in supply.

“At the same time we’re doing whatever we can do at the moment to also find additional sources,” he emphasised. “But with such short timelines it’s limited.”

Unintended consequences: European farmers, who depend to a great extent on Ukrainian and Russian grain to feed their animals, will "suffer" as a result of war, sanctions cutting supply https://t.co/U9wyutmO7A

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) March 3, 2022

Svein Tore Holsether is not the only person putting forward a bleak picture of future food security, however.

Michael Scannell — a senior figure in the EU’s Agriculture Department — has said that the knock-on effects of the war in Ukraine will be “painful” for Europe’s Agri-Food sector, with a lot of the bloc’s fertiliser and animal feed being sourced from either Russia or Ukraine.

However, the EU bureaucrat was convinced that the European bloc would be able to get through the crisis.

“The consequences of this Russian aggression will have a major impact on our agri-food sector, and it will be painful, but, we have to suffer that pain,” Scannell said, noting that “Ukrainians are paying with their lives, not in Euros”, and so the cost did not seem so steep for the EU within that context.

Local politicians within the EU appear to have also grown increasingly concerned regarding the possibility of future shortages.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said his country must stay out of the conflict in Ukraine, noting the country’s reliance on Russian imports, while his government’s agriculture minister has emphasised that the country’s food supply must be protected.

“We condemn the war, especially that it is here in our neighborhood; we say no to violence, we stand together with our allies, and all this is important, but the most important thing is that Hungary should stay out of this war conflict,” Orbán is reported as saying.

Ireland also appears to be on a war footing in regards to the crisis, with the country’s minister of agriculture confirming that he will be asking farmers to increase grain production in the hopes of combatting supply shortages, mirroring government policy implemented within the country during the Second World War.

However, the Irish Farmers’ Association has warned officials against taking top-down measures without consulting farmers first.

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As much as they accuse the right of suffering from a groundless list of phobias, leftist institutions are the ones promoting mental illness.

In response to Iowa’s recent legislation banning males from participating on female sports teams, a March 3 article at CNN accused Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds of using “transphobic language to justify the need for the ban.” After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s order rightly labeling the genital mutilation of minors as “child abuse” and urging such abuse to be reported, a Feb. 26 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times described the move as a “toxic cocktail of ‘what about the children?’ hand-wringing, unregenerate transphobia and MAGA-friendly demonizing of medical expertise.”

MSNBC talking head Joy Reid brought far-left Democrats on her show on Feb. 22 to call homophobic and transphobic Florida’s bill banning public schools from teaching “sexual orientation” or “gender identity” to kindergarteners through 3rd-graders.

It’s a common tactic from those on the left: accuse their political and ideological opponents of suffering from various phobias or disorders, whether it be homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, or “Asian phobia.” It’s a clever rhetorical move: if your opponent’s opinions are not motivated by reason and argument, but irrational fear, then you don’t need to acknowledge or refute those opinions.

Conflict Avoidance

In this game, the problem isn’t the argument, but the person, who is caricatured as bigoted, racist, or sexist. And if your interlocutor is that irredeemably evil, the solution isn’t to debate such a person, but to ridicule and silence him.

Of course, this is not arguing in good faith. It is instead one of the oldest logical fallacies in the book: the ad hominem, in which one party seeks to delegitimize the other (and his position) by attacking him. But there’s also a deep irony that this tactic is so frequently employed by leftists, for it is many left-wing policies that promote and engender various psychological maladies.

Consider for example the way our academic institutions have groomed younger generations to view themselves as so weak and vulnerable that even encountering an alternative opinion is viewed as a threat to their emotional well-being. The slogan that “words are violence” has migrated far beyond college campuses into corporate media and the way many on the left understand debate. Students at institutions of higher education from...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), without much fanfare, announced last month that samples obtained through PCR nasal swab tests have been sent to labs for genomic sequencing.

With an unassuming Tweet, the CDC stated:

“Remember that #COVID19 nose swab test you took? What happened to the swab? If it was processed with a PCR test, there’s a 10% chance that it ended up in a lab for genomic sequencing analysis.”

What does that mean? Some individuals responded to that admission.

“Well, this is a concerning development. Was the intent provided upfront in a disclosure? I would not have agreed to releasing my DNA!” one Twitter user wrote.

Another Tweet states, “Sounds illegal to me!” while another Tweeted: “Translation… We now own your DNA Do you trust us?”

The Gateway Pundit, reporting on this admission, did note the CDC’s response was to say the genomic sequencing analysis is used to detect new strains of COVID-19 so they can perpetuate fear of the common cold. Well, maybe they didn’t admit to the fear portion, but let’s be honest.

Mac Slavo wrote: “We all knew this scamdemic was multifaceted from the beginning. The nefarious actions of the ruling class are still playing out, and it’s doubtful that this will be the worst revelation in the coming months. It also begs the question: what about the Chinese anal swabs?”

Of course, let’s not shed too many tears for those Americans subjected to the anal swabs. After all, most of them were U.S. diplomats who are part of the ruling class.

This is just one of the many, many reasons to never ever take one of these fraudulent PCR tests that have driven the casedemic. As previously reported, these tests are useless and contain poisons, and they have the potential to be used as a way to secretly “vaccinate” people.

That admission that the tests could be used to “vaccinate” came from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) which developed a micro-device called “theragrippers.”

Patrick Smith, writing for JHU, stated these “theragrippers” can be put into the human body through Q-tips.

“Inspired by a parasitic worm that digs its sharp teeth into its host’s intestines, Johns Hopkins researchers have designed tiny, star-shaped microdevices that can latch onto intestinal mucosa and release drugs into the body,” Smith wrote. “A theragripper is about the size of a speck of dust. This swab contains dozens of the tiny devices.”

The tests have been used to subjugate people and strip them of their humanity. It’s one of the many tools used over the last two years.

Evita Duffy, writing for the student-run University of Chicago publication The Chicago Thinker, detailed the subjugation occurring on college campuses.

“Since COVID-19 emerged, American colleges have subjected students to the most strict, unscientific, and unethical mandates in the country,” Duffy wrote. “Piling on top of tyrannical federal, state, and local mandates, campus rules have not only been foolish, but destructive.”

She added: “Without even controlling for comorbidities, the survival rate for Americans under 65 who have contracted COVID since February 2020 is 99.87 percent. Yet my school and virtually all other American universities have used COVID to wield frightening control over their students.”

Duffy provided the top 7 absurdities of the past two years including the removal of bodily autonomy, denial of education paid for, subjugation through masks, the inability to exercise without subjugation, the forceful mental submission, the increased surveillance state and the requirement to submit to...

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Oil drillers say they are working to fill the recent void in the oil market but are hampered by Democrat policies.

While gas prices rose about one dollar before the run-up to the Ukrainian war and 70 cents since the invasion of Ukraine, President Biden has blamed the oil industry for not producing enough oil to shore up the oil crisis from the war. He claims American drillers are not utilizing 9,000 leases on private land.

But American shale drillers have pushed back by suggesting Biden’s supply chain woes and woke private, and public investment strategies have dramatically slowed swift production.

“Getting lenders to choke off money to fossil fuel companies is the next needed move for the industry to address the material risks that the coal, oil and gas industry faces,” Leslie Samuelrich, president at investment advisory firm Green Century Capital Management, said back April about industry’s future lending decisions.

Samuelrich’s analysis has come true, which is greatly reducing the feasibility of new oil projects on the reported 9,000 private land leases.

“Ten years ago, the ‘cost of capital’ for developing oil and gas as compared to renewable projects was pretty much the same, falling consistently between 8% and 10%. But not anymore,” Bloomberg reported in November. Now the cost of capital is reportedly 20 percent for long-cycle developments.

Biden’s attack on private financing is only one angle of assault. In August, a Biden changed global bank financing rules that make it more difficult for drillers to find investors. The policy is intended to accelerate renewable energy investment rather than fossil fuel investment, thereby greatly defunding oil production.

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that oil drillers believe the “flight of capital from the fossil-fuel industry in recent years has left U.S. oil patches without enough fracking equipment to bring a ton of new wells online, and that a resurgence of go-go drilling would deplete companies’ most valuable drilling locations”:

Lenders—who have become more wary of funding oil-related ventures as environmental, social and governance ideas catch on in financial circles—are still unwilling to give money to most of the nation’s crop of oil-field service companies, or to smaller oil producers that want to expand their operations, executives and analysts said. That has left small but instrumental players short of the financing they need to repair fracking equipment sidelined during the start of the pandemic, or invest in building drill bits, drilling rigs and blowout preventers.

Data suggests the drillers are correct. American oil production is down drastically from 2019 before the pandemic. In 2022, oil production is 12 million barrels or 8 percent less than in 2019.

“They’ve already got all of their available equipment out there already,” Richard Spears, vice president at energy consulting firm Spears & Associates Inc., told the Journal. “The constraint on growth is going to be, where do you get another [fracking] truck?”

Biden also has a third approach to damaging the American oil industry. Biden has nominated Sarah Bloom Raskin to the Fed. It is well known Raskin expressed interest in driving up financing costs for fossil fuels. In a New York Times op-ed from 2020, Raskin dubbed the oil industry as “dying” and suggested the Fed should not support the oil drilling.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) told Breitbart News that Raskin is “trying to kill an essential industry to the world economy by nominating people for the Federal Reserve that will use fiduciary rules to unemploy 12.5 percent of the state, and give Russia more leverage over the...