November 06, 2025
Here is the rundown on the fake intelligence assessment that was used to justify going after Donald Trump. This is yeoman work, as to be expected from Conservative Treehouse.
I won't excerpt it; just read the darned thing!
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One of the Twin Cities has rejected the Mondani of Minneapolis in one of the rare bright spots in an otherwise disappointing off-year election.
Mayor Jacob Frey was elected to a third term as the boss hog of the city, soundly beating Omar Fateh (who is no doubt a Somali Muslim), a man who wanted a city income tax, rent control, and to defund the police. Comparisons between Fateh and Momdani are apt.
A coaliton of communists/radicals seized control of the city council and Frey has been at odds with them since, vetoing multiple crazy proposals from them, such as a carbon emissions fee, and a high minimum waqe for Uber and Lyft drivers.
They all backed Fateh but failed to oust the more sensible mayor.
DeWayne Davis and azz Hampton also ran in the race, but they formed an entente' with Fateh to push him over the finish line in the ranked choice election.
Dana Mathewson, have you any thoughts on this?
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I call B.S.
Food Banks All Over The U.S. Are Being Overwhelmed By A Tsunami Of Hungry People
This is just like the sudden appearance of homeless standing at intersections with "Will work for food" signs, homeless who suddenly appeared out of thin air after four years of Biden despite the fact the economy is doing better than at any time during the Biden era.
One wonders if the Left isn't cleaning out these food banks themselves to make it appear we have a hunger crisis.
Look, unemployment is not rising in any real way; while the numbers have gone up slightly that was explained by the Federal Reserve of St. Louis to be an artifact of how the unemployed are counted. People who weren't looking for work during the Biden Depression are now in search of jobs and that makes the numbers rise.
Also, there has been no slump in the sale of such items as I-phones or even luxury items like boats. This economy is doing quite well.
Yes, it is possible that those laid off by the government shutdown are going to food banks temporarily to get over the hump. But there is no economic reason to see people all lining up for the dole.
I ask you, how is it we've kicked out millions of illegal aliens and yet the employment outlook is poor? It doesn't work that way.
Now it may be the illegals who came in during Biden are now out of work and going to food banks. But that's a good thing; it means they will eventually self-deport.
The article states:
Eric Cooper, president and CEO of San Antonio Food Bank, which serves 29 counties in southwest Texas, said the number of families seeking help has increased since it was first announced that there would be a disruption in SNAP benefits should the government shutdown continue.
Cooper said San Antonio Food Bank, which is part of the nonprofit organization Feeding America, typically feeds 105,000 to 120,000 people per week but is now seeing close to 170,000 people per week.
Who are these 120,000 people? They are likely illegal aliens. And one must also wonder about how it is we have so many folks here utilizing these services when businesses all complain they can't find good help. There are plenty of jobs available.
Many of these, of course, are the folks who live their lives on government assistance. They can see no other way than to be succoured by Auntie Samantha and her massive mammaries.
The article continues:
About 100 cars lined up along H Street near Weld Food Bank in Greeley on Monday morning before the organization opened its doors, their drivers and passengers waiting to pick up food on the third day of a lapse in funding for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
So they are driving up in their shiny 2024 SUV's to get free food, are they? If they were really poor they'd walk, or take the bus.
Yes, demand no doubt has been going up and that was a function of Biden's horrible economic policies (and Obama's before him) but it's also a coefficient of the change in American thinking since the pandemic. Why, with the pandemic over for years now, have so many people been unemployed and not even looking for work? It's because we built a hammock instead of a safety net in recent years. People are now desperately trying to find a way to continue to enjoy the good life. Taking food intended for the poor is one way to do that.
Notice too the places the author mentions: Portland, San Antonio, Dayton, Detroit, etc. All are Democrat strongholds. Why aren't we seeing this in Dallas, or in the few Red cities around the country? Hmm?
That is where most illegal aliens settled. And it's where most of America's Schnorers go for freebies. (Schnorer is a Yiddish name for freeloader.)
You can't import millions of penniless people into the country and not expect food banks to be overwhelmed.
I agree; food prices have shot up too high and we need to get them down. That will happen as the economy grows and government takes it's boot off the farmers and we stop playing with Green energy policies and the other stupidity that drives the cost of producing food up too high. Oh, and if we get rid of the methanol mandates so food can actually be sold as food again.
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November 05, 2025
You’d be crazy to buy a car based on its shiny
exterior, dazzling instruments and gorgeous leather interior – but
without examining the engine or taking a test drive.
And yet
that’s how America has handled the metals and minerals that are vital
to our defense, medical, communication, automotive, aerospace, lasers,
computer/AI/data centers and every other sector of our economy. They’re
worth multi-trillions of dollars and are the foundation for jobs,
living standards, national security, "green” energy and more.
Today, we need almost every element in the Periodic Table, plus countless non-metallic minerals
In the Stone Age, humans relied on flint and obsidian. The Bronze
Age utilized copper, tin and lead, plus gold and silver. The Iron Age
prioritized iron and carbon. Today, we need almost every element in the
Periodic Table, plus countless non-metallic minerals.
However,
without any attempt to determine what deposits might lie beneath,
decisionmakers have made hundreds of millions of acres of America’s
"public lands” off limits to exploration and mining, primarily in
Alaska and the eleven states west of the Dakotas. They’re managed by
federal agencies for nearly every activity and value except potential
subsurface treasures.
In fact, well over two-thirdsof those lands have been effectively placed under lock and key: an area
larger than Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming
combined!
Of course, some places are so unique, magnificent or
ecologically priceless that they should be off limits to resource
extraction – from Arches to Zion National Park. But America cannot
afford wide buffer zones around them, much less buffer zones around the
buffer zones.
Moreover, countless other areas have also been
closed off – some by acts of Congress, others by presidential or
bureaucratic decree, or unending wilderness and wildlife studies. All
with virtually no consideration of subsurface values. Sometimes federal
officials even refuse to follow the law, because they "don’t think Congress should have enacted laws allowing exploration.”
Many
are in regions that in past eons were the most geologically active in
North America. Processes unleashed by plate tectonic, volcanic and
other forces all but ensure that these lands contain highly mineralized
zones, many with world-class deposits of gold, silver, platinum,
molybdenum, chromium, antimony, titanium, copper, cobalt, lithium, graphite and other critically needed metals and minerals.
The Comstock Lode and other magnificent discoveries in past centuries further attest to their potential.
Current policies leave the United States vulnerable to political, economic and military pressure
Today, the United States is dangerously dependent on foreign nationsfor 50 to 99% of 34 vital metals and minerals … and 100% of 15 others.
China is our primary supplier for 24 of them; Russia for 6. In fact,
China controls some 80% of global mining and more than 90% of refining
and processing for all 17 rare earth metals. Virtually all graphite, natural and synthetic, is processed in China for export to EV, Powerwall and other lithium-ion battery makers worldwide.
Current
policies leave the United States vulnerable to political, economic and
military pressure. Revising them and properly evaluating our public
lands resource base will take decades, but the process must begin now –
for rare earth elements (REEs) and other critical and strategic materials.
Exploratory
work has virtually no noticeable impacts on lands or wildlife. Remote
sensing technologies on satellites, airplanes and drones will collect
data on gravitational, magnetic, electromagnetic and other anomalies
and trends across large regions, enabling geologists to zero in on
mineralized areas.
Aerial and ground-based mapping of outcrops,
rock samples and soil tests, combined with reviews of historical mining
and exploration, then pinpoint locations where small drilling rigs
collect rock cores and downhole instrumental data, to evaluate mineral
content in multiple locations throughout a prospect. All of this helps
geologists create 3-D computerized profiles of possible subsurface ore
bodies.
Eventually, they learn enough to determine whether a
prospect warrants entering the years-long planning, permitting and
financing process.
The Trump Administration is advancing multiple strategies to address this national security craziness
Any open pit or underground mining may change land contours, perhaps dramatically, from what we see today, but this is for major metal ore bodies that are vitally important to America; occur very rarely; and average 3-5 square milesWashington, DC is 61 sq mi) for open pit mines, including the mine, processing plants, waste dumps (overburden and tailings), settling ponds, access roads and inactive areas.
All US operations are conducted under strict environmental protection, pollution prevention, waste rock disposal, workplace safety and land reclamation regulations.
However, anti-mining activists want no mining and use
hypothetical land disturbance, pollution and endangered species claims
to justify delaying, blocking and bankrupting all these activities,
even initial exploration, even for materials required for wind, solar
and battery technologies. They absurdly claim even a single mine will
forever destroy the purity and sanctity of a designated wilderness or other wild area literally the size of Rhode Island, Delaware or Vermont.
Hypocritically,
they express few concerns about wind, solar and transmission line
projects that blanket, disrupt and destroy tens or hundreds of square
miles of scenic and habitat lands, and kill countless birds, bats and
terrestrial wildlife – or grid-scale battery installations that
threaten human lives.
The Trump Administration is advancing multiple strategies to address this national security craziness.
To ensure near-term replacements for REEsand other materials that China has strategically monopolized, President
Trump last week announced US investment deals with Australia, which
already has 89 active rare earth exploration projects and will also
work with the US to build less-polluting processing plants and improve supply chains Down Under. He is pursuing similar details with other friendly nations.
America can no longer let environmental values and ideologies trump or override vital national defense, economic and security needs
Other plans include strategic mineral "price floors” that will let governments support domestic mining operations facing sudden threats of collapsing prices and bankruptcy, due to major producers flooding global markets with materials extracted and processed cheaply because their countries have no or minimal environmental and workplace safety rules.
This week, Mr. Trump and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping agreed to a one-year easing of controls China had placed on rare earth mineral exports. Beijing had planned to impose stringent export controls on "every element of production’ associated with REEs. If "even a single gram” of any rare earth mined, processed or refined in China was in a US medical, military or other product, Beijing could veto its sale worldwide.The Trump Administration is also reexamining US land use and withdrawal policies, streamlining the construction and operating permit process, issuing permits that have sat in bureaucratic limbo for years, seeking ways to limit or resolve environmentalist lawsuits against world-class deposits, reducing or removing excessive and unnecessary permitting obstacles, and spurring research into systems for processing and refining REEs and other metals and minerals that result in fewer toxic effluents.
America can no longer let environmental values and ideologies trump or override vital national defense, economic and security needs. The United States has long sacrificed access to vital mining prospects in favor of ecological values.
Now we must begin temporarily impacting some pristine areas to locate, evaluate and extract strategic materials – and end our dangerous and needless dependence on unfriendly and unreliable sources, before returning the lands to near-pristine conditions once mining is completed.
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The story of George Franklin Grant, a dentist, academic and recreational golfer, is interesting. This isn’t just because he, a Harvard professor, invented a wood-composite golf tee in 1899. It’s that under many Americans’ conception of history, he shouldn’t even have existed. You see, Grant was a successful black man in the U.S. almost 100 years before the civil-rights era or affirmative action’s birth.
Grant wasn’t alone, either (except in his golf-invention exploits). By 1920, there were 3,560 black physicians in America, a figure including 65 black women. While this didn’t represent "proportionality” — blacks were 10 percent of the U.S. at the time — it did constitute 2.5 percent of the total number of American physicians. Not bad in a country supposedly so "white supremacist” that blacks were surely relegated at the time to cotton-fields toil. (Black youths may want to ponder this, too, when believing they "just can’t make it” in 2025 because the "man” is keeping them down.)
Many wouldn’t guess black Americans enjoyed such success a century or more ago, indoctrinated as they are with Howard Zinn-esque revisionist history. In fact, while I was hardly a politically correct youth (we didn’t use the word "woke” back then), I myself was surprised when getting a glimpse into actual American history.
My experience occurred when I was about 19 and, curious about dear ol’ dad, started perusing his old NYC podiatry school yearbook. What most struck me was not how young my father looked at the time, the late ’40s to early- to mid-’50s, but all the black faces gracing the pages. In fact, inspired to do a count, I determined that the black graduates were approximately 12 percent of the class. This was greater than black Americans’ share of that time’s national population (10 percent) or their proportion of NY state’s population (7.5); it also was about exactly the same as blacks’ share of the Big Apple’s population: 12.5 percent.
None of this would surprise Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND). Now 76, Peterson grew up black on a plantation in Jim Crow-era Alabama. He not only bemoans our "woke” revisionist history, but also has no kind words for the civil-rights era.
In fact, while he’s most colorful and can be a master troll, he’s not kidding when claiming that this period destroyed the black community. Referencing his own life and experiences, he asserts that blacks were doing better prior to it. They lived more moral lives, he says; they took care of their families and community. Many opened businesses, Peterson further states, and if they wished to attend college, they could do so. Leftists, though, don’t appreciate hearing his "lived experience” (a truly dumb term).
But Peterson isn’t alone. Consider Professor Thomas Sowell, a black economist, commentator and true intellectual giant of our time. Now 95, Sowell says that when he grew up in Harlem, N.Y. (in the 1930s and ’40s), he never heard a gunshot. He has also stated that on hot summer nights he and others would sleep out on their fire escapes to stay cool (not uncommon in the days before air conditioning). When he relates these realities to young blacks, however, Sowell says they look at him as if he’s from another planet.
Of course, none of this is to say there wasn’t prejudice and discrimination a century ago. Everytime and place has its characteristic bigotry and discrimination; today, for example, whites, Christians and men are often the victims. (Hence did a survey some years ago find that more than a thirdof white students claimed to be non-white on college applications.) It’s also true that Peterson’s and Sowell’s experiences are anecdotal.
Moreover, black Americans’ civil-rights-era decline is a correlation involving multiple factors. For one thing, it also corresponds with the advent of the television age, which itself correlates with increased crime in every population exposed to TV. (Read my piece "Why the NRA is Right About Hollywood” for more insight.) Thus have white Americans also experienced moral and social decline.
This said, blacks’ post-Jim Crow degradation has been inordinately
steep. Furthermore, statistics tell the same story the aforementioned
anecdotes do: In many respects, blacks were doing better during those
"racist” times closer to slavery days.
For example, approximately 78-85 percent of black children were raised in two-parent households in the early 1900s; today the figure is ~40 percent, with about 73 percent of black kids born outside of wedlock.
In the early 1900s, the black unemployment rate was generally lower than that for whites; today it’s about 67 percent greater (5.5 vs. 3.3). As to the black poverty rate, it declined from 87 percent to 47 percent during just the 20 years between 1940 and 1960. This was the sharpest two-decade black poverty drop in history, almost halving the rate and lifting ~3-4 million people from destitution.
Note that this all occurred prior to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s "Great Society” anti-poverty programs and the welfare state’s birth. In fact, the subsequent black-community economic gains paled in comparison, at least partially because the welfare state contributed to the elimination of incentive, erosion of virtue and decline of the family. It all underlines, too, why President Ronald Reagan once said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”
As for crime, approximately 200-350 black Americans were murdered every year in the early 1900s; today about 12,000 are. This amounts to about 44 times as many despite the U.S.’ black population being, approximately, only eight times as great. Ninety-three percent of these victims are killed by other blacks, too. In fact, homicide is the number one cause of death among black children ages 1–14 (never mind the older "kids”).
"But what of the Ku Klux Klan!” the Howard Zinn-history types will ask. "Weren’t they raping and pillaging mercilessly in the 1920s?” The group was at its peak back then, after all. Well, it’s not that simple.
Now, I’ll preface what follows by emphasizing that I’m not at all saying the KKK isn’t a bad group. I am saying, however, that too many Americans have a comic-book conception of history. It’s often a Manichean historical sense—odd, too, given that most today are moral relativists—that places past groups strictly into good or evil categories. But the reality is the opposite: The Truth is black and white. People are shades of gray.
Now, as to the lightest of grays, the late Judge Lee Dryer, host of the Conservative Law and Politics Showin Tennessee and once an assistant prosecutor, was a friend of mine. I was often on his program, until his untimely death from pancreatic cancer, at age 55, in 2019. He was one of best men I’ve ever known, too. I mention this partially because I should have eulogized him long ago, but also because I want to make clear that he was beyond reproach. And he once told me a striking story.
While in a discussion with a black fellow, in Tennessee presumably, the subject of the KKK arose. The black man said he didn’t mindthe KKK. Lee’s eyebrows were raised, and the man elaborated. "As long as you didn’t do anything stupid,” he explained, "they didn’t bother you.”
Then I once heard a story related by an older woman. In her youth, a man in her neighborhood was cheating on his wife. Well, the KKK burned a cross on his lawn as a warning. They apparently considered it part of their mandate regarding protection of womanhood.
Again, this isn’t to sanitize the KKK, but simply to emphasize the folly of the comic-book-history narrative. Not every white American was a flaming racist prior to ____ (people sometimes enter a date around the time they were born; call it chronological chauvinism). Nor was every black American back then forced to hide in the shadows in terror. People were people, good, bad and ugly and complex, trying to negotiate this fallen world as people always do.
Of course, there was far more poverty generally a century ago, and lifestyles and life expectancy have increased markedly for all races. But the reality is that if you were a black person at the time, you were safer from crime; more likely to be raised in a loving, intact family; more likely to be taught responsibility; and had to fear other black people far less than you would today—all in the "racist,” pre-WWII United States.
It all explains, too, why boxing manager Dick Sadler made a certain famous statement (incorrectly attributed to Muhammad Ali) after witnessing the conditions in Zaire, Africa. Now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zaire was where he found himself in 1974 with his charge, George Foreman, for the "Rumble in the Jungle” heavyweight title fight. Alluding to the ultimate silver lining in a cloud, he said of the slave days:
"Thank God our grandpappies caught that boat!”
Yes, they caught the boat and, ultimately, their ship came in. It’s just a shame so many of their descendants have caught something else: the hate-America-first virus.
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So now it's starting to all come out. The authorities are the ones who caused violence on J6.
Capitol Police repeatedly used lethal force on protesters early on Jan. 6, video shows
Who authorized this?
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During that brief span, at least 16 people were shot with kinetic-impact projectiles, including nine who took shots to the top of the head, face, and base of the neck, according to Capitol Police surveillance video obtained by Blaze News.
‘We need munitions! Unload! Unload it all! Take ’em out!’
The rounds are designed to be shot at or below the waist or skipped off pavement to strike the legs and cause trauma and "pain compliance.” None of the rounds observable on the surveillance footage struck below the belt, putting all of the observable rounds in dangerous and potentially lethal territory.
The targeting of the crowd and one graphic, bloody injury to a protester’s face enraged the crowd and appeared to lead to a large escalation of violence toward police, including the throwing of water bottles and flagpoles and the use of pepper spray and bear repellent, the video showed.
Again, who gave the order? We know at least one guy:
Waldow also said he gave "repeated warnings” to the crowd to disperse or face chemical munitions, but video shows he did not have a bullhorn, and no warnings could be heard on ground-level video or the USCP surveillance video.
He ordered Capitol Police grenadiers to open fire on the crowd at 1:06 p.m.
"I got a crowd fighting with officers, pushing, throwing projectiles," he broadcast. "I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need the less-than-lethal team positioned above me to identify the agitators and start deploying. Launch, launch, launch!"
Stan Kephart, an expert witness on police use of force who reviewed the Jan. 6 surveillance video, said firing crowd-control weapons from an elevated platform into a dense crowd and striking targets above the shoulders is both "criminally negligent” and "potentially a lethal act.”
"There is a wealth of clear and convincing evidence here that police were not trained or equipped to move, disperse, and arrest stragglers,” Kephart told Blaze News. "Instead they adopted a punishment tactic, inflaming the crowd and resulting in injury that they are responsible for.”
‘If you really want to start a riot, shoot them in the head.
So with no warning despite his claims to the contrary (video proves he gave no warning) this Where's Waldow guy had his men fire at the heads of protesters, risking their deaths. Then everyone was surprised that the crowd was so angry.
Gee ya think!
At any rate one wonders who gave this fellow the order to use force in this manner. The whole J5 thing stinks to high heaven.
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So the good folks at COP 30, the Gang Green pushing teh lies of human-caused climate change melting the world, are returning to an oldie but goodie - claiming oil companies are using tobacco tactics to make up lies about the science.
I thought we slew this dragon some time ago. It was proven that the science that contradicts AGW alarmist theory was NOT funded by Big OIl, but it WAS proven climate change science was funded by Russia and China ato trick the West into killing it's own energy production so the Russia could clean up and China would have the oil and gas for itself. We also exposed the fact governments (espeically via USAID and the like) were funding the Climate Change Alarmist movement through a series of grants to NGO's. We also had the Climategate e-mails to prove collusion among the so0-called "scientsists" who ran things like the Hadley Center in the U.K.
For a long time this was on the back burner because we had exposed them, but once again they are trotting out the old, time worn accusations of "misinformation" when in fact it's always been they who are misinforming. They are liars.
That's how the Left operates, and it goes back to Hegel and the dialectic. They launch some campaign and create a series of arguments that can be rebutted by their opposition. So they pull back and wait and trot the same arguments out again to a younger crowd, one that doesn't remember the argument and it's outcome. This crowd has been "prepared" through government schooling which repeated lies and softened the kids up. Now these arguments come across as new and fresh and rebutting them becomes harder because the media won't cover the detractors and it will take years to re-rebut them. Lather, rinse, repeat.
And notice how they do this; they spoke in the article about wind turbines but said TRUMP attacked them, not scientists who actually did show they caused the problems mentioned, And they ignore the more obvious ones - like the fact these turbines chop up birds, or that they cause damage to people's eardrums, and headaches, and other proven things. Oh, and the worst is they simply refuse to admit they don't generate enough power, or reliably enough. They just SAY claims they are unaffordable are not true without providing solid data.
There is a reason why Germany, which had gone heavy into wind and solar, is now moving back to oil and gas and even coal; the "renewables" are unreliables.
I love this quote:
????? First, "Azerbaijan is a major oil and gas poducer and and a major route for oil and gas pipelines and OF COURSE a lot of pro-fossil fuel people will show up. So what? How does that impact the event itself? It doesn't. Second, who are these so-called "lobbyists" lobbying at these summits? Can anyone claim they have made any impact on the reports put out by the U.N.? The fact is the IPCC has always had scores of green activists writing large swaths of their reports all along. Why do they deserve a seat at the table and not the detractors?
And are these people actually working for oil companies or are they just in disagreement with the radical interpretation of climate change?
The article doubles down:
Oohhh....they bought ADVERTISING to get out facts they want the public to know! How DARE they! Funny; I seem to remember when the U.S. government was forcing pro-climate alarmist views on Facebook and Istagram, along with a host of other things (like Covid Vax promotion or suppression of disagreement with the lockdowns) and suppressed anything about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and other such things. In fact I was on Facebook and was banned all the time, and shadow banned when not officially banned, for discussing climate sience in an objective way.
How much advertising have proponenents of catastrophic climate change bought over the years? How much has been funded by the Tides Foundation, the Open Society, and a host of other leftist networks owned by billionaires?
How much in taxpayer dollars have gone to it? If you want to follow the money, bring it on! The Gang Green has benefitte far mroe from money and advertising than have the climate realists.
They lost the argument and now want to silence their opponents. I said it; they will never give this thing up; it means too much money and power to them. They dreamed of creating a world government and a socialist economy based on this lie, and when science didn't bear them out they just suppressed science - and the scientists who were disagreing with them. I have dialogued with a great many of them over the years and saw how they were purged, fired from jobs, attacked as shills for Big Oil, had their papers rejected and whatnot. One time Dr. Roy Spencer wrote a paper that passed peer review and was being published when the Gang Green attacked and forced the editor of the journal to resign, then pulled the paper. It wasn't because it was no good, it was because it was TOO good and damaged the movement. Yeah; that's science!
Who is guilty of misinformation? These are the same people who report more hurricanes when in fact we've been in one of the quietest hurricane periods in the holocene. They report Antarctica is melting when in fact most of Antactica is gaining ice mass - just the floating West Antarctic ice sheet is declining. They lie and say wildfires are caused by heating yet it's mostly caused by changes in land management practices. I could go on and on but the point is made. They have lied to use from the get-go.
And they dare to "ask media and big tech to screen harmfull and false content" when it is they pushing said content. Why don't they simply rebut the arguments?That would be easy enough for them to do if they had the TRUTH on their side; they have the media in their pockets, after all. And the universities.
So we are back to this and will have to fight again to make sure both sides of the argument are heard. And these leftists will accuse us of doing what they themselves are doing - suppressing free speach, ignring real science, pushing a political agenda,etc. (You will notice how many times they trotted out the name of Donald Trump, as if he's the only guy who disagrees with the theory; that's because they need to "pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, then polarize it" and Trump is all they have to do that. They have to go after him so as to offer a face, a face of "evil".)
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$1 trillion of pandemic relief was lost to fraud, and nearly every American's personal data is for sale online: '60 Minutes'
Much of the fraud came from state actors like Russia and China. The way it works is the theives steal someone's identity then use that to apply for emergency aid and whatnot.
The article also states:
"Is it true that the Social Security number of just about every single American is available for sale on the dark web?" asked Cecilia Vega of CBS News.
"That is a true statement. All of our personally identifiable information — name, date of birth, former addresses, social security number — is available on the dark net and can likely be purchased," said Vorndran.
So any of us could fall victim to identity theft any time. It's impossible to stop.
If state actors are doing this that would constitute an act of war, in my view. It's a cyber-attack on America.
At any rate is it any wonder inflation is so high and our lifestyles declining?
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As America ponders sending Tomahawk missiles to the Ukraine the Russians are threatening to retaliate by sending nuclear-capable missiles to Venezuela.
It Has Been 63 Years Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Now a New Missile Crisis Threatens to Plunge the Globe Into a State of Turmoil
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On Tuesday, news that Russia may send "its most advanced hypersonic missiles to Venezuela” caught a lot of people by surprise…
Russia could send its most advanced hypersonic missiles to Venezuela as tensions with the United States escalate.
Alexei Zhuravlyov, deputy chairman of Russia’s parliamentary defense committee, told Russian news outlet Gazeta.Ru there were "no obstacles” to providing the Oreshnik or Kalibr missiles to the "friendly” nation.
"Russia is actually one of Venezuela’s key military-technical partners. We supply the country with nearly the entire range of weapons, from small arms to aviation. The details and volumes of deliveries are classified, so the Americans might be in for a surprise. I see no obstacles to providing our friendly nation with new systems such as the Oreshnik or the well-proven Kalibr missiles. No international commitments restrict Russia in this regard,” Zhuravlyov said.
The Russians must not do this.
Why wouldn't they? We're directly threatening them with Tomahawks, which are nuclear-capable. You can't really blame Russia for matching us.
Yes, you can blame Russia for starting the war in the first place by invading the Ukraine, but we weren't involved but have now gone all in with this. These are offensive weapons, not defensive, and of course the Russians will aid an ally being threatened by the U.S.
Not that there's anything wrong with that (in my best Seinfeld voice); something should have been done long ago about Venezuela. We had a golden opportunity when Biden was in office too but he took no action. That action should have been a Contra-like insurgency funded and trained by the American military and led by expatriats. But we didn't do that.
Now Trump is looking at direct military action and Russia feels it's time to shank the American prison guard. Putin is playing the game well, knowing Trump will have to back down over giving the Tomahawks to Ukraine to avoid a Mexican standoff (even if it involves Venezuela and not Mexico).
Meanwhile Hezbollah is rebuilding and ready to strike. Israel won't allow that. FTA:
But that hasn’t been enough to deter Hezbollah, and Fox News is reporting that the IDF is now "weighing broader operations”…
As Hezbollah rebuilds its forces and Lebanon is accused of failing to enforce the ceasefire terms brokered last year, Israel’s defense minister has fired off a warning to Beirut.
On Sunday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said, "Hezbollah is playing with fire, and the president of Lebanon is dragging his feet,” he said. "The Lebanese government’s commitment to dismantle Hezbollah’s weapons and remove it from southern Lebanon must be realized. Enforcement will continue and deepen — we will not allow a threat to the residents of the north.”
His warning comes as Fox News Digital has learned that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is weighing broader operations against the Iran-backed terrorist group after repeated violations of the truce.
If Hezbollah would just abide by the terms of the ceasefire, conflict could be avoided.
But that was never going to happen, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning that his nation is ready to do whatever is necessary…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Hezbollah was looking to rearm and that Israel would do whatever is necessary to prevent that from happening.
"Hezbollah is constantly taking hits, but it’s also trying to rearm and recuperate,” said Netanyahu at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting,
"We expect the Lebanese government to uphold its commitments, namely, to disarm Hezbollah. But it’s clear that we’ll exercise our right to self-defense as stipulated in the ceasefire terms,” he said.
I think that it is just a matter of time before Israel and Hezbollah start going at it again.
So good news from all over. And we still have to worry about China and it's nibbling away at TAiwan.
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Microsoft has hired an Arctic Frost Nazi and put her in a cushy job where she can work to suppress Conservative voices.
FTA:
"The risk that Monaco could again use access to information contained in Department contracts to turn against her political opponents, or even those Microsoft users within the government with whom she disagrees, is great given her past outrageous behavior,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick stated to DHS. "Considering the various national security implications of Microsoft’s government contracts being overseen by Monaco, we ask you to immediately initiate a review of Microsoft’s contracts with the Department for potential termination.”
Appointed earlier this year as Microsoft’s president of global affairs, Monaco previously served as deputy attorney general under President Joe Biden. As a top prosecutor within the Biden administration, Monaco played an integral role in "Arctic Frost,” a wide-ranging investigation that Republicans contend used an election interference case as a pretense to essentially target the entire Republican Party.
This shows Microsoft is still at the forefront of censorship and abuse and is still in bed with the junta that gave us Joe Biden and unrestricted lawfare against political opposition.
Hopefully the DOJ has something they can indict her on.
But the Trump Administration can pull contracts from Microsoft as she poses a security threat to the nation.
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Bomb threats closed a number of New Jersey polling places as the tight election for Governor boils over.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/11/04/bomb-threats-force-multiple-new-jersey-voting-locations-to-close-on-election-day/
Bet these were Republican precincts.
of course bomb threats are nothing new in Jersey; it's the way business has been done there forever.
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Well isn't that special!
Invisible Skyscrape Sized Waves Found to be Eating Away at Greenland's Glaciers
These waves are supposedly caused by calving glaciers/ice shelves. So why are these glaciers calving? is it the 1* of ATMOSPHERIC warming? That seems highly doubtful.
Other factors contribue; increased volcanism and earthquakes can cause this, for instance.
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Underwater waves amplify glacier melt and erosion
Following the initial impact, surface waves, known as calving-induced tsunamis, surge through the fjord, initially mixing the upper layers of water. As seawater in Greenland’s fjords is warmer and denser than glacial meltwater, it sinks to the bottom.
But the researchers also observed other waves propagating between density layers long after the splash, when the surface had stilled. These underwater waves, which can be as tall as skyscrapers, are not visible from the surface but prolong water mixing, bringing a steady supply of warmer water to the surface. This process increases melting and erosion at the glacier’s edge and drives ice calving.
"The fiber-optic cable allowed us to measure this incredible calving multiplier effect, which wasn’t possible before,” says Gräff. The data collected will help document iceberg calving processes and improve our understanding of the accelerating loss of ice sheets
Calving of icebergs from glaciers can actually be a sign of MORE ice, not less; the greater weight leads more ice to the water's edge and when the waves hit they split off, much like a woman's fingernail after a certain point.
And as I say, volcanism under these glaciers changes over time and if Greenland is entering a more volcanic era it may be causing this ice loss.
Certainly Greenland was far less icy in times past. When Eric the Red settled the island there was a lot more farmable land. The Vikings left Greenland when the climate cooled and the ice piled up. We are now finding artifacts that were buried under ice since the time of the Vikings, so we may just be entering an interglacial for the big island.
if anything, this does not buttress the case for anthropogenic climate change so much as for natural variability.
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Sooo....Gavin Nuisance, er, Newsom wants to redistrict California to eliminate five Republican seats and steal them for Democrats. Ron Desantis isn't going to take that lying down:
Gavin Newsom’s California map is up to Democrat+5 seats. FLORIDA alone can cancel out Gavin, THEN we have Ohio, Texas,… pic.twitter.com/WiffiRGVYj
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 3, 2025
Newsom had mumbled about "you poked the bear and now the bear is poking back" and so too is the alligator.
Wee'll win the redistricting wars; the Democrats have already done about all the redistricting they can do and Republicans never did it so there is fertile ground for it. We're going to pick up a lot of seats that should have been ours to begin with, and the Democrats are going to find they are powerless to stop us.
Eventually when you cheat at poker you will run up against someone who cheats you back. For years the Dems have done this on the theory the Republicans would fear retaliation to avoid just such a contingency. But Trump is a different breed of cat and he's willing to take the slings and arrows of the media, and he's made it obvious that in the end the media's power is waning, if it ever really did exist. Saul Alinsky once said that it's not the power you have but the power the enemy thinks you have that matters. For decades we believed they had all this power. Now, thanks to Trump, we know better.
Power is self-feeding too, if you wield it. If we win a solid majority in Congress thanks to this we will be able to realign things to secure that power, and to grow it. The Democrats have always understood the manipulation of power and it's exercise; look at any Democrat machine, be it in Chicago, which eventually took the whole state of Illinois, or in any other machine city or state. Once you start winning you can run the table if you don't grow timid.
We stand in an unique historical position. Right now we have the opportunity to completely destroy the Democrats, or turn them into a solid minority at any rate. They are in a trap of their own making, with the lunatic fringe now controlling the party in many ways. That fringe lacks any appeal to the majority of Americans and can only win in specific areas. We appeal to the center of the country. But they can't dislodge the radicals because too many of them hold too much power and if they anger the base of the party, which is now more Bolshevik than anything else, they will lose. Bill Clinton and the other triangulators have no place in the Democratic Party anymore. Shoot; Nancy Pelosi is considered a moderate when she in fact was a radical upon her elevation and promised to be "boldly Progressive". She fought the good fight every day and never cowared. Yet now she's too soft for them. The Party is now Trotskiite and will soon be Stalinite. While that appeals to some idiot youths it isn't what most Americans want. And now so many Americans are waking up to that fact.
I think the death of Charlie Kirk is going to have a much larger impact than historians will ever give it credit for; the Democrats could have embraced him as a decent man if misguided (in their view) and called for peace and that would have gone a long way towards bringing back the public. But most of them didn't do that, prefering to call for the murder of his widow and children, and showing the truly demonic nature of the Party. It's going to be a lot harder to win back many of these folks. Evil is such an ugly thing, which is why it usually hides in the shadows.
So we have Charlie Kirk, who was just the latest in a string of murders, of lawfare and abuse going all the way to the attempts on the President's life. Such violence has often served communists well in the past but it only works when the public has no alternative and just wants peace at any price. In this case we have galvanized the core of the American People and have a viable alternative that is neither cowardly nor fascistic, but which will do what is needed within the confines of the law.
In the end decency and a willingness to fight for what is right will prevail - as long as we remember this nation was consecrated to God and protected by Him. I think this redistricting is just one example of how we always had it in our power to win; we just had to have the courage and wisdom to try. And to have those we needed the Holy Spirit, who gives us those things.
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How the BBC doctored Trump's J6 speech to promote the lie he was calling for an insurrection.
Fromthe Telegraph:
The "mangled” footage was highlighted in a 19-page dossier on BBC bias, which was compiled by a recent member of the corporation’s standards committee and is now circulating in government departments. The dossier said the programme made the US president "‘say’ things [he] never actually said” by splicing together footage from the start of his speech with something he said nearly an hour later. It claimed senior executives and the BBC’s chairman had ignored and dismissed a string of serious complaints raised by the corporation’s own standards watchdog.
The Telegraph will soon publish other excerpts of the memo, which accuse the BBC’s Arabic service of bias over its coverage of the war in Gaza, and accuse the corporation of "effective censorship” of its coverage of the transgender debate.
The document raises serious questions about the culture at the BBC, how it affects impartiality and how managers including Tim Davie, the director-general, are accused of turning a blind eye to evidence of bias
So the BBC spliced two completely separate statements by the President together to give the impression he was calling for open rebellion. This from the news source that has hectored us about "misinformation" and "fake news".
Remember too the BBC is government funded and not a private news source. It has a responsibility to fairness and accuracy. One must suspect the BBC was actually doing the will of it's masters in the British government, meaning they were tampering with the security and political atmosphere of the United States of America. Trump needs to punish them. Maybe we should tamper with THEIR politics.
(I've long suspected MI5 or MI6 - never sure which is which - has had a hand in the attacks on Trump all along.)
The J6 self-guided Capitol tour was in no way what it has been portrayed by the media and the lie is collapsing. Now it's time to hold the liars accountable.
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How Fedex has destroyed a small town after an Indian man took over as head of the company and is imorting Indian workers as fast as it can.
Federal Express: Collierville - the Great Overnight Replacement
Anyone who doubts replacement theory should read this.
The Roman Empire fell for the exact same reason; they imported huge numbers of aliens, legal and illegal, and set them to work doing the work Romans JUST WON'T DO. The immigrants did not see themselves as Romans at all but as Goths or Vandals or whatnot. And when push came to shove they were unwilling to defend the Romans or the Roman way of life; they were a new nation inside the husk of an older one. That is the very definition of multiculturalism.
The Romans were replaced and did it to themselves. We are doing that now.
At any rate this Raj fellow who now runs the show is degrading quality and importing aliens as cost-saving measures but it's just wrecking the company and ruining lives. Fedex never used to lay people off and now it's cutting workers ruthlessly. It is tranforming communities cenetered around the company. And in the end it's still cratering because the alleged cost savings end up costing more in the end.
This is what happens when you put profit ahead of people. And when you stop seeing an American company as actually American but start thinking of it as a citizen of the world.
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Scientists FINALLY figured out Nancy Pelosi lives there.
Climate change and habitat loss threaten the newly named trapdoor spider.
it should be called the "shut your trap spider" in her honor.
Isn't it odd that the Gang-greenous scientists keep making these dire warnings that species are dying out yet we are forever finding ones we've never encountered. They were there all the time; we just didn't notice them. If that is so, how can we say species are extinct?
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Looks like you could brew beer on Mars!
This Common Organism Could Survive on Mars
If Baker's Yeast can survive there no doubt so too could Brewers.
So what beer do you brew there? A red ale is the obvious choice. A Marsen would be good too.
Don't expect any warm-fermented ales or steam beers. You would have to warm the fermentation tanks up to get to lager temperatures!
One of the things the team of Indian researchers did was see if yeast could survive the tremors caused by large meteor impacts (Mars gets pummeled by meteors; it's at the edge of the asteroid belt and also has almost no air to stop any space rocks) so an IPA would fare well. India Pale Ale was a higher alcohol beer exported by the British for their troops in India. It would sit in the holds of ships, being rocked and buffetted by storms, through the hot tropics. Of course this IPA will be not hot but cold, very, very cold. But at least we now know the yeast will continue to make our beer even if meteors shake the ground.
There used to be a cheap wine called Dago Red; I guess on Mars our beer would be "little green red".
At any rate the survival of the yeast on the surface is less important than actually growing the barley needed to make the malt. Oh, and hops are going to be hard to come by too.
So if you ever crash land on Mars and have a sack of barley and have to store your yeast out of doors, you should still be able to quench your thirst. Of course you'll need to find water somewhere too. And be careful about exposing the mash to the atmosphere because then it will suck the water and the alcohol right out of the bin - or freeze it solid.
It's tough to be a Martian.
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support for "gay marriage" has fallen in America to 54%, meaning just a bare majority of Americans support the novel concept. Those who think it should be legal are a mere plurality now. 33% of respondents believe it should be against the law, and the rest are undecided.
When the big push was on for homosexual marriage the Right argued that it was a stepping stone to more and crazier stuff and the supporters of gay marriage strongly disputed that, claiming it was a one and done issue and that once they were granted "marriage equity" they would be satisfied. It was a lie and they immediately began pushing transgenderism and other such things.
I predicted that then and was right. Was Hitler satisfied with Czechoslovakia?
But most people bought it because the media argued it. Most people were wrong.
I asked a supporter of gay marriage at the time why, if we change the definitoin of marriage to two men or two women, should we not then accept any and every claim of marriage? Why can't a boy marry his dog? A father his son or daugher, a mother her son or daughter? Why can't we have marriages between dudes and blow-up dolls? A guy and his car? Certainly there is ample precedent for multiple marriages as that has a long historical pedigree, as well as marriages between cousins.
My interlocutor sneered, saying that's crazy talk. But it doesn't seem so crazy now, does it?
When San Francisco began issuing gay marriage licenses before the SCOTUS ruling a huge line of gay couples formed. I argued at the time we should have sent a bunch of acivists through the line with blenders and toaster ovens and "Chihuahuas and Cappuchin monkeys and the like and demanded to be given marriage licenses. The Left would have done that, made it into a circus, a laughingstock. We don't do things that way. We should.
At any rate this was inevitable and the fruits thereof are, well, more fruits coming out of the woodwork. People thought this would be the end of it; it was only the beginning.
It amazes me that half of the public now supports gay marriage. Back in the early 2000nds the public was solidly against it and we used to taunt the gay marriage crowd with demands they go state-by-state and hold votes. They wouldn't do it because they knew they would lose. But now they might win a lot of states. Still, it's good the tude seens to be turning.
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