From time to time I check out Mark Felton Productions on You Tube – he does history with a heavy emphasis on WWII. Very interesting stuff, some of which I was unaware of which does surprise me given my overall knowledge of the time period. But, hey, there is always more to learn. One of his recent bits was a close look into the Soviet investigation into Hitler’s death and I have to say that after watching all Felton came up with, it looks pretty clear to me that the bodies presented by the Soviets as those of Hitler and Eva were nothing of the sort…plants designed to blind the unwary as to what really became of the corpses (it is very clear that Hitler and Eva did die in the bunker on April 30th, 1945). Best guess is that Hitler’s super-loyal valet Heinz Linge buried the bodies elsewhere, perhaps on his own, and simply carried the secret to his grave…and it is therefore possible that the remains are currently under a Berlin parking lot. Not a very important thing in the grand scheme of things, but still very useful in seeing how people can fool themselves or let themselves be fooled for political purposes.
I bring that up because another Felton production is this video about the Katyn Massacre.
Give it a watch as it is once again good history presentation. But beyond that think about this: for decades after the war the US and British governments essentially went along with the Soviet lie about Katyn – blaming it on the Germans even though at the time we had direct, first-hand evidence proving it was a Soviet crime. Officially we went along with the lie because we needed to keep the USSR on side during WWII. But even that shred of reason disappeared after the end of the war…but it was the 1980’s before it became common knowledge in the West that the Soviet Union had murdered 12,000 Polish POWs as well as many other Poles whom the Soviets merely thought might at some future point become troublesome.
Why keep up the lie? Why, after the war and when we were officially competing with the USSR for global position, pretend we didn’t know? I think it was because we felt we had to maintain a fiction that the USSR wasn’t as bad as Nazi Germany. That our alliance with them in WWII was still somehow basically honorable and that the USSR was a legitimate player in the post-WWII world. Having the Soviets guilty of a Babi Yar-type massacre – and knowing it was only one of at least scores – rather blew that conception out of the water. Katyn wasn’t the only thing proving the USSR evil, but it was the best documented (mostly because the Nazis – for their own cynical reasons – made sure it was documented, including the participation of American and British POW military doctors). It was proof that there was no redeeming quality in the USSR – that it was simply evil. There was not the least justification for killing those Polish POWs…to say nothing of the teachers, doctors, priests and such killed along with them. They were just killing people who were educated and might not knuckle under to Soviet domination…which, of course, was just what the Nazis were doing in their part of occupied Poland.
You see where I’m going with this? By keeping up the lie we didn’t just let the Soviets off the hook…we poisoned ourselves. We became liars. At the official level. We told our own officers who had participated in the on-site investigation to keep their mouths shut about it. We went through a whole rigamarole about working with the USSR – co-existing with them – rather than seeking their destruction because we had become liars. Truth tellers would have gone to war with the USSR…liars would negotiate arms control treaties with them.
Guess what happens when you become a liar? Well, you keep lying about lots of things. I’ve tried to identify just when the USA went off the rails and wound up in our current condition and I have long figured that our WWII alliance was a big part of it…but now I think I’ll pinpoint it: when we participated in this lie, that is when we began to die.
We can still fix this but our first step is to not lie. And not let anyone lie. Harsh punishment for lying. To survive and restore our nation the most important thing we can do is not allow liars to have a say ever again. Lies are poison.
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What she said…
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/09/26/based-mom-goes-off-on-school-board-and-asks-why-they-waste-so-much-time-on-touchy-feely-topics-watch-n2387772
Wow, “You can’t feel your way through life” – lol, love that line. I had to repost this on X
As someone who was an accomplished liar when I was young, I realized as a young adult that the only reason I lied was to avoid the consequences for things that I shouldn’t have been doing in the first place. Part of that epiphany, almost all of it actually, was accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and inviting him into my life as my conscience and guide. A lot of our social and political leaders could stand to go through that same self-analysis.
I’m not sure if you saw Deion Sanders recent quote but he too found Faith. He said that in his early years he tried everything to make him happy; women, drugs, material items, etc., but it wasn’t until he accepted Jesus and asked Him to come into his life that he found true happiness and contentment.
We need a complete reset in this country and it starts by asking Jesus to please come back and help us heal and restore.
WHAAA??? You mean you did things when you were younger that you don’t do now? Are you claiming that at some time in your life you looked at yourself and thought “I don’t want to be that guy any more” and then….CHANGED? And now you want to be seen and accepted for who and what you are now, and not for who and what you were back then?
But that’s not the way things work, not in this Brave New World, one without salvation, one without redemption, one without forgiveness. No, in today’s political climate anyway one must be judged on every bad decision and act of his life, no matter how far back in time it happened, no matter what changes have happened since then.
Just ask Donald Trump
Our entire current culture is based on lies – Covid, climate change, abortion, systemic racism, gender dysphoria, threats to democracy, white supremacy, voter suppression, etc. Just try to name a current cultural issue that’s not based on a lie. And this is why there is such chaos in this country but what we need to acknowledge is that lies serve a purpose for the elite ruling class. Through lies, they can control the narrative, the perspective, and the outcome. Lies can be manipulated. The truth can not.
I encourage Trump to now pull all of his businesses out of NY and along with it, all the jobs and tax revenues. Please let the citizens of NY continue to suffer greatly from the crime and dystopia that is woke politics. Let NY BURN TO THE GROUND.
So Trump was convicted on a civil “bank fraud” case yesterday which immediately makes rational adults wonder … what else happened. And then we find this
Comer’s team has uncovered documentation showing a $250,000 payment in 2019 from some of Hunter Biden’s BHR Partners Chinese “clients.” And the beneficiary residence of the recipient was none other than Joe Biden’s Delaware mansion.
This $250,000 payment was made just weeks after Biden announced his run for POTUS. So now we have unaccounted for cash streaming into Biden’s bank accounts while he was VP and while he was a Presidential candidate, and this is why Trump was convicted yesterday.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/09/27/is-this-the-smoking-gun-of-bidens-chinese-cash-for-influence-deals-n580717
I don’t understand why Trump was not praised for having the business acumen to find banks so gullible and naïve they would simply accept whatever figures he gave them, without doing any due diligence on their own. I’ve never worked with such a bank. When I refinanced my house, my bank for damned sure didn’t just ask me what I thought it was worth—they had an appraiser out here within a week. And if I wanted to insure it for five million dollars, someone would be saying “Uh, NO! and insure it for its real value.
They must have come from the same gene pool as the jurors, who swooned and clutched their pearls at learning that when people are asked what their stuff is worth they come up with a bigger figure than someone else would.
Well of course, good catch. The only presumed victim in this story are big banks, who failed to do their due diligence. But considering how many times big banks have been bailed out, that seems to be standard operating procedure for them.
Jeff Childers, whose legal practice includes extensive work with real estate developers and banks, spends half of todays post on the Trump over-evaluation topic.
So I just saw what Amazona posted the other day re: Trump’s harsh words towards NBC/MSNBC saying that he would investigate them, to which I say … go for it. I think ALL media outlets need to be looked into and if their propaganda/news ratio is skewed towards the former, which is easy to prove, than they should have their “news” label removed. This includes FOX. They can continue to broadcast but under the proper banner, and “news” is not the proper banner. And IMO, restoring the media is necessary to restore this country.
Aside from falling back on the misuse of the word “treason” and the implications of violating the freedom of the press, I guess my objection (as someone who would like to see Trump get through a few days without shooting himself in the foot) the raving rhetoric is getting tiresome.
We simply do not have the legal/Constitutional right to impose standards of political speech on any medium. And to have someone trying to be president who advocates, much less promises to implement, this kind of Soviet-style censorship is alarming.
I agree to a point. The media was simply the conduit for the insiders who intended from the very beginning to do as much harm to Trump as was humanly possible. To me it kind of depends on whether or not it can be proven that the media lied purposefully, maliciously, and in concert with those insiders. You can’t legally go after any media entity simply for being biased. He can certainly go after the people who used the media for nefarious purposes.
I think the approach should be similar to that I would like to see applied to churches. That is, once a church becomes the arm of a political party it loses its tax status and is taxed like any other business. Let a candidate preach, or have the minister instruct the congregation how to vote, and the whole tax-free thing goes away.
It’s harder when talking about propaganda, because if you truly believe what you are saying (or can convince someone you do) then it’s not a lie and maybe not even propaganda.
I’m the one who came up with the name “Complicit Agenda Media”. I’ve been howling about the corruption in the media for years now. I am hardly defending them. I think they are the biggest danger to a Constitutional government we face and ever have faced.
So, back to the reference to how to rein in churches hiding behind their identity while acting as political representatives, what can we do like that to the media? Removing the restrictions on suing for libel and slander would be a start. Look what Dominion’s lawsuit did to Fox. Change the criteria for “damages” for slander and libel, no longer demanding that some physical or financial harm has to be done before it counts. It’s true or it’s not. I don’t know if it would be possible to legislate a law that when a media personality is sued for slander he or she cannot be indemnified for legal expenses by the media outlet—that is, make Joy Reid pay for her own lawyer for every vicious lie she tells—but it would sure make the talking heads reconsider what they say.
But the best thing we can do is get some of our right-wing billionaires to step up, buy a network station and start providing an alternative to the Propaganda Press.
Here’s a huge beef I have with the agenda media … John Brennan, James Clapper, et al, have all provably lied about Russia collusion for years yet they are still invited back on to the networks to opine about current events. This needs to be stopped. At the very least, these shows need to be labeled as simply commentary/oped/opinion shows. Simply put, CNN and MSNBC should not be allowed to market themselves as CNN News, or MSNBC News. They are NOT news. Fox is much the same but on a smaller scale. For the most part, Fox doesn’t allow their guests to go unchallenged, but they are still heavy on opinionated shows.
The thing about this interweb gizmo is that lies blow up faster, and more dramatically, when they can circulate through the country in minutes. And the repercussions of those lies are equally rapid.
For example, I just wrote off Kari Lake. Buh-by, Kari
Kari Lake Steps On A Landmine With Absurd Claim About Ron DeSantis
I’m with ya on Kari. She just seems to attack everyone without much foresight.
It almost sounds like she’s getting bad advice. She doesn’t sound like the same person who came on the scene about 2 years ago.
She’s basically prostituting herself in hopes of a VP slot. I’ve been fully behind her in her battles about the election fraud in Arizona. She got screwed over, and it was blatant.
But then she turns around and pulls something like this and I find I don’t really care very much any more
But Democrats never do that. Right?
It’s not a hunt in which I have a dog, but I liked her. Maybe she did this all on her own, but, given her lack of experience in politics, I’m betting she’s getting some really bad advice, much as Trump did. Hopefully it’s a learning experience – for both.
Hopefully it’s a learning experience —but one that will leave a mark. Hopefully a mark that will remove her from a list of possible VP candidates. Her only qualifications have been being photogenic and someone willing to fight for election integrity, and that might be canceled by repeatedly lying about something so easy to check out.
Trump’s biggest negative is that he comes across as a spiteful name-calling bully, and linking up with another one won’t do either of them any good.
I’ve had my email address for a long time, so I get upwards of 100 spam emails a day, with a lot of phishing efforts. You know the scam–saying a payment was denied, or confirming that a payment was made, etc. hoping for a response that will open a door into my account. When I have the time I go through and report these, and I often laugh at the mistakes made that show the origins are from other countries.
But this one, allegedly from the Geek Squad confirming a payment I supposedly made, is the best one yet. I can imagine the writer wondering how I figured out this was not from an American company.
As night descends, a smooth renewal awaits your transaction details, gracefully deducting the corresponding amount from your account.
Heh – that is pretty good. My spam filter catches about 90% of those kinds of emails, but you’re right; they’re relentless. I get two or three a day, sometimes more.
Spook, your Jeff Childers link was great—I had just read his article and his points are brilliant.
I had only commented on the silly claim that Trump “defrauded” these banks and insurers by “overstating” the value of his properties. As I said, I can’t imagine any large and sophisticated institution failing to do due diligence on any value claim especially any as large as Trump’s. That was clear even to me, an average consumer. Childers, as an attorney specializing in this kind of law, brought a lot of other information to the table.
First, to hear the howling from the Left, you might think there had been a jury trial with evidence presented on both sides to reach the conclusion of fraud. But no, it was just one judge, and he ruled after discarding expert testimony and making an arbitrary decision to accept the tax appraised value. While anyone who has ever bought or sold a house knows that the tax appraised value is essentially meaningless when it comes to market value, most of us probably don’t know that “tax appraisers also can only change the assessment when certain things happen, like when a property is sold” or that in Florida even that is limited to a small increase.
Another thing well known to anyone who has ever bought or sold a house is that appraisals are based on “comps”—on comparing the property in question to similar properties that have recently sold. Mar-a-Lago is spectacular, historic, all-stone, luxury oceanfront property that looks like a castle and is the size of a small hotel. For comparison, a 5-bedroom home recently sold in the same neighborhood for $75 million. Mar-A-Lago is on 18 acres—the comps in the area are for single family dwellings on less than a quarter of an acre, and from satellite photos it is clear that not all of them are waterfront homes, while Mar-A-Lago has extensive beach frontage on the east and on the west.
And then there is the fact that the judge ignored the expert testimony of local brokers. Brokers on the island estimated the value to be as high as $725 million. I also did not realize that the “fraud” not only included providing best-guess value based on the local real estate market, the loans involved were paid off, on time, with interest. So the finding of the court didn’t even have an alleged victim of the alleged fraud.
This, a legal farce in a long and growing line of legal farces, will be overturned, but in the meantime the mouthbreathing droolers of the Loony Left will still be screeching “Trump was FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD”. That is, of course, “found guilty” by a single man who blatantly flouted every single metric of real estate evaluation and the definitions of fraud.
The Bureau of Land Management is big-footing five Wyoming counties with its new plans for “conservation” which basically gut oil and gas production, coal mining and grazing. That is, the core economies of the area.
The BLM had a token meeting in Rock Springs, which had people packed into the designated room, but there were no chairs and no opportunities to ask questions or provide input. Basically, typical of the Biden administration, they just told people what they were going to do.
After being told of the economic concerns of the people in the area, in an exhibition of utter cluelessness , Foster said the biggest misconception the public seems to have about the draft RMP is that it restricts public access.
“When they see closure to mineral extraction they think it means it’s closed to public use. There is no closure to hunting or walking your dog or things like that,” she said.
Yeah—-these people, these ranchers and farmers and oil patch workers and miners, were just really worried about walking their dogs! Not, naturally, about losing their livelihoods.
Regarding public comments, Foster said it’s not a voting process. ………………………..
“Whether we get one comment or 5,000 about the same thing doesn’t matter,” she said.
Clearly the people don’t matter. “One example in the document states there will be 74% less production of oil and gas
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Jim Magagna, longtime executive vice president of the Wyoming StockGrowers Association, provided a long list of proposed changes contained in the draft RMP that includes the removal of 7,606 animal unit months (AUM) of grazing, retains nearly 230 million acres of wilderness study areas, increases the rest period of burned areas from the current minimum of two years to five years, limits control of noxious weeds to biological and mechanical only, and limits animal damage control to emphasize nonlethal methods.
Stripped of government doublespeak, this means that the number of cattle allowed to graze on that government land will be reduced by 7,606 animals. Skipping to the part about controlling noxious weeds, careful grazing practices reduce noxious weeds through grazing. Anyone who has ever looked at any of the studies of range management knows that when cattle have been taken off the land weeds flourish and the quality of the other grasses is diminished. The action on the soil of hooved animals, coupled with their deposits of natural fertilizer, lead to enhanced growth. “Biological and mechanical” weed control involve the use of machinery and very possibly herbicides which the government just conveniently describes as “biological”. But when you look up “biological weed control” you find methods that are labor intensive, often expensive, only marginally effective, and…grazing.
Yes, in the alleged interest of “conservation” the pointy heads in the Beltway have decided that instead of letting ranchers pay the government to both control weeds and fertilize the soil, they will gut an entire industry and then pay to achieve a poorer outcome by breeding large volumes of insects to turn loose in hopes they will kill some of the weeds. Maybe.
Retaining “wilderness study areas” just means not letting people use them, and “nonlethal methods” of “animal damage control” just means the remaining ranchers can’t shoot the wolves that kill their livestock.
A BLM newsletter on noxious weeds says, in part:
In sagebrush communities across the West, cheatgrass is an example of an invasive plant with specific
characteristics that make an area susceptible to wildfire. Cheatgrass is an invasive annual plant that
quickly depletes soil moisture and reproduces faster than many native plants. It then establishes itself
quickly on disturbed sites. Cheatgrass provides large amounts of connected fuel (“fuel continuity”)
between and underneath the sagebrush shrubs, which causes the fires to burn at higher temperatures.
These fires can be so hot that the sagebrush is injured or dies. Cheatgrass also promotes larger and
more frequent wildland fires. Because there is less time between fires, native perennial vegetation is
unable to recover completely before the next fire. All the while, cheatgrass continues to spread,
promoting larger, hotter, and more frequent fires.
I can speak from experience that cheatgrass is THE biggest problem in the West, regarding noxious weeds, and it is nearly impossible to eliminate. Research has finally developed a couple of herbicides that can control it to some extent, but they are expensive and must be applied only after the first hard frost or early in the spring when the soil temperatures have reached the high 40s. And it’s applied topically.
However, managed intensive grazing, where cattle are kept on a confined grazing lot, will control cheatgrass if the cattle are limited in their grazing choices early in the growing season, when the cheatgrass is young and tender. Cheat reproduces by reseeding: it is an annual grass, not a perennial. So if it is eaten early before it has gone to seed, it doesn’t reproduce. Ranchers are getting more familiar with managed grazing and it seems to me that a policy of limiting grazing leases to managed/intensive grazing practices would add something to the labor costs of the ranchers but still allow them to maintain their businesses and homes and way of life and contribution to the economy and the culture. One might think that an agency with the words “land management” in its title might have at least a little knowledge of actual land management.
But that would conflict with the Leftist goal of eliminating meat as a major food source. The rest of the plan is about eliminating fossil fuels. They either think we are so stupid we don’t see the agendas behind all this—or they don’t care because with enough power they can do whatever they want.
I’m interested in the “mechanical” means of controlling cheatgrass. In my small semi-urban hay fields, of just 20 acres or so each, I have been able to identify patches of cheat and then take my zero turn lawn mower out to cut it down before it matures enough to go to seed. (My ag mower doesn’t cut it short enough so I probably entertain passersby who think I’m harvesting my hay with a Toro.)
This makes me wonder what the 50-pound-heads in the Beltway have in mind. I’m picturing hundreds of people trying to navigate steep hills and forests carrying big string trimmers, because you can’t mow in terrain like that even if you can get equipment into it.
No, I’m not actually imagining that, because it’s impossible. The blather about their ideas of how to control the weeds is just that—blather. They don’t have a way to do it, or they would have been doing it the past twenty years or so, when cheatgrass started to become such a problem.
Yes, folks. They are lying. They are lying to try to cover up the fact that their agenda is complete control to achieve a political agenda, just as they lied to us about fifteen days to control the spread and about how ivermectin would kill us.
They lie. Because they are the Left, and they lie.
The Bureau of Land Management is big-footing five Wyoming counties with its new plans for “conservation” which basically gut oil and gas production, coal mining and grazing. That is, the core economies of the area.
The BLM had a token meeting in Rock Springs, which had people packed into the designated room, but there were no chairs and no opportunities to ask questions or provide input. Basically, typical of the Biden administration, they just told people what they were going to do.
After being told of the economic concerns of the people in the area, in an exhibition of utter cluelessness , Foster said the biggest misconception the public seems to have about the draft RMP is that it restricts public access.
“When they see closure to mineral extraction they think it means it’s closed to public use. There is no closure to hunting or walking your dog or things like that,” she said.
Yeah—-these people, these ranchers and farmers and oil patch workers and miners, were just really worried about walking their dogs! Not, naturally, about losing their livelihoods.
Regarding public comments, Foster said it’s not a voting process. ………………………..
“Whether we get one comment or 5,000 about the same thing doesn’t matter,” she said.
Clearly the people don’t matter. “One example in the document states there will be 74% less production of oil and gas
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Jim Magagna, longtime executive vice president of the Wyoming StockGrowers Association, provided a long list of proposed changes contained in the draft RMP that includes the removal of 7,606 animal unit months (AUM) of grazing, retains nearly 230 million acres of wilderness study areas, increases the rest period of burned areas from the current minimum of two years to five years, limits control of noxious weeds to biological and mechanical only, and limits animal damage control to emphasize nonlethal methods.
Stripped of government doublespeak, this means that the number of cattle allowed to graze on that government land will be reduced by 7,606 animals. Skipping to the part about controlling noxious weeds, careful grazing practices reduce noxious weeds through grazing. Anyone who has ever looked at any of the studies of range management knows that when cattle have been taken off the land weeds flourish and the quality of the other grasses is diminished. The action on the soil of hooved animals, coupled with their deposits of natural fertilizer, lead to enhanced growth. “Biological and mechanical” weed control involve the use of machinery and very possibly herbicides which the government just conveniently describes as “biological”. But when you look up “biological weed control” you find methods that are labor intensive, often expensive, only marginally effective, and…grazing.
Yes, in the alleged interest of “conservation” the pointy heads in the Beltway have decided that instead of letting ranchers pay the government to both control weeds and fertilize the soil, they will gut an entire industry and then pay to achieve a poorer outcome by breeding large volumes of insects to turn loose in hopes they will kill some of the weeds. Maybe.
Retaining “wilderness study areas” just means not letting people use them, and “nonlethal methods” of “animal damage control” just means the remaining ranchers can’t shoot the wolves that kill their livestock.
The 30×30 project is a pledge to set aside 30% of American wildlands for conservation by 2030 and 50% by 2050 to fight climate change. What is defined as “conservation” is unclear under the plan.
State Rep. Bill Allemand, R-Midwest, didn’t mince words about President Joe Biden’s 30×30 plan during a Wyoming Freedom Caucus town hall on Tuesday night.
“If this 30×30 plan is implemented, we will be under more tyranny and oppression than the colonists were under King George,” Allemand said. “We must mobilize and stop this now.”
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During Tuesday’s virtual town hall, Freedom Caucus members also equated the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed plans for millions of acres of public land in the Rock Springs area to the 30×30 effort.
Some like Rep. John Winter, R-Thermopolis, have asserted that the BLM plan is based on President Joe Biden’s 30×30 project, a conservation plan endorsed by the administration and other global leaders.
Winter said he hopes Wyoming residents will approach 30×30-type proposals with great skepticism.
“It is an effort to camouflage the true purpose, which is total government control,” he said of the 30×30 plan.
Why does any “global leader” have anything at all to say about any American policy? Is Wyoming the only state that is fighting back?
The Institute for Energy Research (IER), a free-market energy research nonprofit, began last year building a list of actions the Biden administration and Democrats have taken against oil, gas and coal.
By November 2022, the list had 125 actions. By April, it had grown to 150. This month, the IER updated the list to 175 actions taken since President Joe Biden took office that have harmed oil, gas and coal industries.
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(Rick Whitbeck, Alaska state director for Power The Future, an energy advocacy group) said that while the U.S. attacks its energy industry, China is building out its coal fleet, which will weaken America’s competitiveness on the world stage.
China’s industrial might and its ability to feed supply chains will grow ever stronger, Whitbeck said, while America’s energy prices climb and its grid becomes less stable.
“Every time Biden and his administration take action against the industry, he weakens America’s standing among world powers, while enabling the Chinese and Russians to assume greater control of future resource development opportunities across the globe,” Whitbeck said.
It isn’t just about attacks on the fossil fuel industry. There is a corresponding push for “renewable energy,” ie., wind and solar (but not nuclear). Northeast Indiana is not a particularly good location for either wind or solar, but that hasn’t stopped the companies (mostly foreign consortiums) from trying. Some of the biggest problems with wind and solar are that they’re expensive to manufacture and install, they take up large parcels of prime farm land, they’re inefficient as both are reliant on weather, they’re relatively short-lived (20-25 years), and much of their components (blades, panels) are not recyclable. When local ordinances are structured in such a way as to force developers to agree to remove them when they’ve reached the end of their useful life, the developers usually give up and move on. The latest scam, which I’m going to learn more about next week at a public meeting, is tax subsidized, high pressure carbon capture pipelines.
If we were to make a list of actions needed to destroy this country, we would see that the Biden/Obama administration ahs checked off every one.
From the various ways to destroy the economy, ranging from shutting down essential industries to sucking it dry with demands for supporting Leftist causes and illegal immigration, to undermining our culture and fragmenting our society in disparate and often conflicting segments, when you take thousand-meter look at what has happened it is clear it has always been part of a carefully constructed and executed plan.
A hundred million Americans who object to this could be a speed bump, if we could get ourselves organized into a cohesive unit of resistance. Donald Trump would be a big speed bump, if he could get his ego under control and stop shooting himself in the foot. The biggest danger to the Left would be a President DeSantis. Ideally we would have eight years of DeSantis. If not, four of Trump followed by eight of DeSantis would let the country pull out of its flat spin and recover. I do think a President Trump is a far more focused person than Candidate Trump, who is bedeviled by his insecurities and easily led into self-destructive ranting and chasing phantom enemies down rabbit holes.
As awful as things look right now, much of it has been brought about by Executive Orders and agency regulations, all of which can be eliminated within weeks of getting a new administration. It has been enabled by a powerful bureaucratic class which can be whittled down very quickly. Lately the BLM has sided with the EPA in a campaign to destroy the economy. Get the BLM slashed in size, get it returned to its original charter and get its offices moved back to Colorado. Take every agency back to its original charter, cut its size by at least half, and get it out of the Beltway and into the Heartland. Eliminate some, like Education. Get auditors into every agency, find out whey bought millions of rounds of ammunition, find out what is going on behind the curtain in every one of them.
The Biden administration on Friday offered three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico between 2024 and 2029, the fewest in the nation’s history as it conforms with language contained in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
The Interior Department said in a news release that by complying with the act, the three proposed lease sales are the minimum number that will enable it to continue to expand its offshore wind leasing program (AKA whale-killing program—but who needs whales, or eagles?) through 2030, a pet project of President Joe Biden to get the U.S. to net-zero emissions by 2050.
“The Biden-Harris administration is committed to building a clean energy future that ensures America’s energy independence,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said. “The Proposed Final Program, which represents the smallest number of oil and gas lease sales in history, sets a course for the Department to support the growing offshore wind industry and protect against the potential for environmental damage and adverse impacts to coastal communities.”
Slashing petroleum production will ensure America’s energy independence. Who knew?
In recent months, developers including Orsted, Equinor, BP and Shell have sought to cancel or renegotiate power contracts for the first commercial-scale U.S. wind farms due to start operating between 2025 and 2028.
And a fleet of U.S. projects central to President Joe Biden’s aim for 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030 may not advance unless his administration eases requirements for subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act, project developers have said.
“The situation in U.S. offshore wind is severe,” Orsted CEO Mads Nipper said last month.
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Miller and Keith repeated the calculation for solar power and found that its climate impacts were about 10 times smaller than wind’s.
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And—correct me if I’m wrong here—-isn’t the big fuss over “climate whatever-it-is-this-week” about the planet getting warmer? Did you realize that wind turbines make the planet warmer? Neither did I—after all, who bothers to read all the data about stuff that we just “know” is, like, you know, like super neat? BUT….
Researchers did a computer model where they covered one-third of the continental U.S. with enough wind turbines to meet present-day U.S. electricity demand. (This was for 2018, much lower demand.) The researchers found this scenario would warm the surface temperature of the continental U.S. by 0.24 degrees Celsius, with the largest changes occurring at night when surface temperatures increased by up to 1.5 degrees. This warming is the result of wind turbines actively mixing the atmosphere near the ground and aloft while simultaneously extracting from the atmosphere’s motion.
This research supports more than 10 other studies that observed warming near operational U.S. wind farms. Miller and Keith compared their simulations to satellite-based observational studies in North Texas and found roughly consistent temperature increases.
Miller and Keith are quick to point out the unlikeliness of the U.S. generating as much wind power as they simulate in their scenario, but localized warming occurs in even smaller projections. The follow-on question is then to understand when the growing benefits of reducing emissions are roughly equal to the near-instantaneous impacts of wind power.
The Harvard researchers found that the warming effect of wind turbines in the continental U.S. was actually larger than the effect of reduced emissions for the first century of its operation. This is because the warming effect is predominantly local to the wind farm, while greenhouse gas concentrations must be reduced globally before the benefits are realized.
Miller and Keith repeated the calculation for solar power and found that its climate impacts were about 10 times smaller than wind’s.
“The direct climate impacts of wind power are instant, while the benefits of reduced emissions accumulate slowly,” said Keith. “If your perspective is the next 10 years, wind power actually has — in some respects — more climate impact than coal or gas. If your perspective is the next thousand years, then wind power has enormously less climatic impact than coal or gas.
Well, there’s a pretty wide gap in there, between ten years and a thousand years. I guess if we ASSUME that for the next thousand years our use of coal or gas remains constant, and our technology to control emissions does not improve, then the cumulative effect would be greater than that of wind turbines. Imagine a study in 1023 explaining the impact of expected increase of horses for transportation over the next thousand years, citing the growing need for leather for harnesses and saddles, metal for shoes, hay and grain for feed, and the need for vastly expanded shelters for all those animals.
A thousand years is a very long time! My grandmother came to Colorado in a covered wagon and homesteaded, and lived to see a man walk on the moon. I know people in their thirties who can’t relate to the concept of having a telephone mounted on a wall, and getting a busy signal if they called someone who was already on a call, who was unaware that someone else was trying to call him. My telephone doesn’t just give me direction to an address, it says “go past the next light and then at the light after than turn right”. And we are supposed to think that our use of petroleum products, and our ability to deal with emissions, will be the same in a thousand years?
And I just have to comment—-I think the name Mads Nipper is the coolest name I have ever heard, as well as being appropriate for my cat.
Looks like God took care of Diane Feinstein’s retirement.
Weren’t we told just a few short weeks ago that she was perfectly capable of being a Senator? There’s a lot of parallels between the inflation riddled, aging and corrupt politicians, and citizen decadence of the Roman empire and the American empire. I hope we don’t end up the same
According to the University of Chicago, the average national Constitution since 1789 has lasted 17 years. Ours is still going, albeit on life support, for 234 years. If the Convention of States project is successful, ours could get a much needed transfusion that would put some accountability into our system. Absent that, I wouldn’t be taking bets on America surviving in our present state.
My concern about the Convention of States is that it could be hijacked to destroy the Constitution, not just make some important changes to reinforce it. If the Convention can’t be set up with unbreakable boundaries, it could end up being the end of the Constitution, not the salvaging of it.
Now the Sanctification of Dianne Feinstein has begun. Now she was a “moderate”, a “centrist”, and she never had a close friendship with her driver for many years, a man who just happened to be Chinese spy.