It's not
about being liberal or conservative anymore y'all. That is a hype offered by the fascist whores who want to confuse the people with lies while they turn this country into an aristocratic police state. Some people will say anything to attain power and money. There is no such thing as the Liberal Media, but the Corporate media is very real.
This covid tracker measures the number of new confirmed cases per day beginning when the rate was 30 cases per day, starting as early as 22 February 2020 all the way up to the current date (which is 9 June 2020 right now). Additionally, the tracker measures the number of tests per case, and colors the tracking lines based upon the tests per case rate. After 60 days the differences in ability to control the outbreak is largely split above and below the 100 confirmed cases per day rate, with the high tests per case below 100, and the low tests per case above 100. Hmmmmm.
In other words, the most successful way to control the virus is to test everyone, quarantine, and trace.
What is shocking, beginning at the 20th day since 7 March 2020 (not every nation's dataset starts at 22 February), the United States is the only nation to have more than 10,000 confirmed cases per day every single day since that 20th day up until now (60 days or more later) -- while only testings just 20 to 40 per case -- which is the middle range on the color scale siena to red to orange to blue to black.
Saturday, 6 June 2020 at 23h 38m 6s
The Second Street Cut
The history of any city is filled with little known matters that are no longer visible hundreds of years later. I have been reading a lot of old San Francisco history today from an awesome website foundsf.org. It's a collection of a plethora of old photos and historical essays about the history of San Francisco.
Right now I'm reading about how a lot of the sand hills between Market and Harrison East of 9th Street were leveled to both flatten the area and fill in the coastal marshes on the East side. The habit actually started a huge discussion about the matter.
The grading was messy work, adding yet more mud to the as yet unpaved streets of the young City and, as the Alta of January 8, 1863 warned, threatening to compromise the natural beauty of San Francisco:
"For twelve years we've had the levelling of hills...The city was laid out by those who believe there is no beauty in anything topographical but dead level, and streets running at right angles...a wiser community would have tried to make their streets suit the topography of the site."
Rincon Hill as a result is now barely 40% of what it used to be. The above source is a story about why the city decided to cut into the Western side of Rincon hill in 1869, something called the "2nd Street Cut."
The Second Street Cut through Rincon Hill was made in 1869. Behind the plans for a cut was the wealthy land owner, John Middleton. He felt that a flat passage to the Pacific Mail Wharves at the southern end of Second Street would increase that street's commercial appeal and the value of his own lot at Second and Bryant (now 501 Second, an office building). Through a series of political and business connections and also due to his affiliation with many of the City's social clubs, Middleton got himself elected to the State Assembly and quickly introduced AB 444, authorizing San Francisco's Board of Supervisors to modify and change the grades of streets as they saw fit.
Here is the city in 1868, looking South down Second street. That little hump in the distance was cut through in 1869.
Friday, 5 June 2020 at 19h 29m 3s
What the fuck?
A 75 year old man is pushed to the curb, and lays bleeding while the police thugs walk by and do nothing.
Was this 75 year old man a member of the "anti-fa" ?
Thursday, 4 June 2020 at 23h 24m 6s
Fuck you Tucker
Here's what this fucker said about Minneapolis:
But what are the national numbers on this? Well, actually, we know the answer. A study from last year found that white police officers were less likely to shoot and kill nonwhite suspects than nonwhite police officers were.
Researchers are raising red flags about a recent study on race and deadly encounters with police in the United States, highlighting the difficulties in measuring racial bias. The study claimed that white police were no more likely than their nonwhite colleagues to shoot minorities. But now, other researchers say the study was flawed and that it adds little to the debate over whether minorities have a greater chance of getting shot by police than white civilians.
“It’s just a completely indefensible conclusion to draw from the data that’s available,” says Dean Knox, a political scientist at Princeton University who published a critique of the study this month. To begin to justify such a claim, he says, researchers would need to know how often black and white civilians encounter police officers—something the authors of the original study did not consider in the paper.
Another criticism: The study did not investigate the possibility that all police—white and nonwhite—could be biased in shooting black men, says psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff at the Center for Policing Equity and John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. “It’s not a serious framing of bias to think that white people have bias and other people don’t,” he says.
...In the original study, published on 22 July in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at Michigan State University and the University of Maryland compiled a list of more than 900 fatal U.S. police shootings in 2015 using crowdsourced databases from The Washington Post and The Guardian. Then, they asked police departments for information about the race of the officers responsible for the shootings. They found black police were more likely to kill black civilians than white civilians. However, the same held true for white and Hispanic officers: Each group of police was likelier to shoot civilians of their own race. That’s likely true, the researchers say, because police tend to be drawn from the communities they work in and are thus more likely to have deadly encounters with civilians of the same race.
Really Tucker?
Systemic racism is not a myth. Here's all the data you need to see.
You have to compare the rates, not the raw numbers. Lets say 3 cuban baseball outfielders hit 40+ home runs, and 6 non-cuban outfielders hit 40+ home runs. If there are only 10 cuban outfielders (30%) in the league versus 50 non-cuban outfielders (12%), there must be something significant about cuban players.
At the same rate depicted in the graphic above, the population of Black people would have to be 80.3 million people in order to equal the same number of white deaths by police -- which is still only 40% of the total white population of 197 million.
12 times 2.5 equals 30. 12 times 2 is almost 23. Black people are almost 3 times more likely to be killed by cops. Hispanic people are twice as likely. HOWEVER; according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics for 2018 (page 12) 50.2% of violent incidents were due to white offenders, 21.7% Black, and 14.4% Hispanic.
Furthermore, according to the same BJS report for 2018, the percentage of offenders out of the total population for each of these 3 ethic groups is 3% Black, 1.6% Hispanic, and 1.5% Caucasian. Relative to each ethnic group, Blacks are only twice more likely to be a violent offender, and Hispanics are roughly equal.
1.5 times 2.5 is not 3%. 1.5 times 2 is not 1.6%.
Now 3 percent is small, but why are Blacks twice more likely that both Whites & Hispanics, you might ask. Well looking at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Black people are nearly twice more likely to be unemployed.
The linkage between poverty and crime is solid, unlike what Herr Carlson chooses to push to the racists who watch his show in order to keep them ignorant and non-self-reflective.
Fuck you Tucker Carlson.
Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 2h 3m 51s
Excellent discussion of American Aparteid
Walter Isaacson of Tulane University interviews Bryan Stevenson, a leading civil rights lawyer from Montgomery, Alambama.
Sunday, 31 May 2020 at 21h 44m 48s
Malcolm X Speech 20 May 1962
On 27 April 1962 two members of the Nation of Islam are questioned by Los Angeles police while unloading suitcases from a car in front of their mosque. A scuffle occurs and after gun fire 7 mosque members were wounded with one man shot dead by the police.
He has currently written two books
. I read the first one "Chain of Title". It was about how the mortgage crisis in post 2009 was largely a creation of the Banking Financial systems gutting the old property title networks and screwing the mortgage owners every chance they could get, with help from politicians who looked the other way or played dumb.
Tuesday, 19 May 2020 at 21h 13m 26s
The chutzpah
After 4 deaths against US Government buildings in Libya in 2012, the Republicans screamed and set up a House Investigation lead by South Carolina Representative Trey Gaudy that wasted tax dollars and closed shop right after the November 2016 election.
After more than 90,000 American deaths and counting from the Covid mismanagement and the precipitous economic meltdown, what do these same Republicans do?
They bemoan how the Democrats are playing politics.
4 deaths at a foreign location half-way around the world versus more than 90,000 deaths in 3 months right here in the USA.
Really?
A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees.
Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.