December 17, 2024
Dems Pushing Popular Vote (Again)
Timothy Birdnow
Here they go again!
Senate Democrats introduce bill to end the Electoral College
Apparently they do not understand this is a Constitutional issue and can only be undone with a Constitutional amendment; Congress cannot legislate it.
No doubt this is just grandstanding,but it shows how undemocratic the "Democratic Party" really is.
The Founding Fathers set it up this way to maintain Federalism; the small colonies would never have joined the union had they been subject to a system that made them of no relevance in the election of the presidents. So the EC system was put in place. It was a good balance between empowering the small states but not giving them special powers.
Now,of course, Democrats own all the big cities and thus own whole states (like Illinois, which would be a purple state were it not for the behemoth of Chicago) and through them can simply manufacture votes as needed. If we had such a system Democrats would never, ever lose elections. They know that which is why they keep pushing for it.
Direct popular vote would give us one party rule. It is exactly what was meant by Ben Franklin when he said "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch"; Neither he nor any of the Founders wanted pure Democracy. They chose a republican form of government because it restricted the passions and appetites of the voters, tempering them with the "saucer" of representational government. There were many other examples of that; the indirect election of the Senate as well as the President, for instance (Senators were appointed by their state governments until the 17th Amendment) as well as the appointment of the Supreme Court by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. (Do notice it did not fall to the whole Congress as the House was seen as too volatile, being directly elected.) Also, voting was originally restricted to white male landholders only - no minorities, no women, no wage-earners. You had to have a stake in society, they believed, and the intelligence and education to make informed choices.
America has become increasingly intrusive into the affairs of its citizenry in an asymptotic relationship with the rise of participatory democracy here. That should come as no surprise. As is attributed to Alexander Fraser Tyler, Lord Woodhouselee:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury."
This echoed Aristotle, who warned that democracy inevitably degenerated into a "tyranny of special interests" or Plato who warned democracy was the final stage before a dictatorship.
Why? Because justice dies, property rights die, all restraints on government power and on corruption die as it becomes possible to reach into the pockets of your neighbors. Then it's every man for himself.
Promoting "democracy" in America is un-American and always has been. It was the Progressives who pushed for it because they saw a handy tool to creating the strongly interventionist government they wanted and saw that democracy would allow them to buy votes to build the new world order system they dreamed of creating.
And so the Democrats are again pushing this, and sadly many, if not most, people will accept the flawed arguments they make about "fairness" when it is grossly unfair and is a fundamental shift in the way our nation is supposed to work, a nation based on federalism, where the states are the primary political authority.
If we have a popular vote, by the way, we should have those votes counted by a federal bureaucracy, right? A UNIONIZED bureaucracy at that!
Complaints about cheating in the count in some places will lead to the establishment of a federal agency to count the vote, mark my words. And once the wolves have complete control of the sheep fold they will dine at their leisure.
Fortunately this isn't going to pass, and if it does it will be struck down by SCOTUS. Or so we would hope (you can never tell with those jokers).
Here they go again!
Senate Democrats introduce bill to end the Electoral College
Apparently they do not understand this is a Constitutional issue and can only be undone with a Constitutional amendment; Congress cannot legislate it.
No doubt this is just grandstanding,but it shows how undemocratic the "Democratic Party" really is.
The Founding Fathers set it up this way to maintain Federalism; the small colonies would never have joined the union had they been subject to a system that made them of no relevance in the election of the presidents. So the EC system was put in place. It was a good balance between empowering the small states but not giving them special powers.
Now,of course, Democrats own all the big cities and thus own whole states (like Illinois, which would be a purple state were it not for the behemoth of Chicago) and through them can simply manufacture votes as needed. If we had such a system Democrats would never, ever lose elections. They know that which is why they keep pushing for it.
Direct popular vote would give us one party rule. It is exactly what was meant by Ben Franklin when he said "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch"; Neither he nor any of the Founders wanted pure Democracy. They chose a republican form of government because it restricted the passions and appetites of the voters, tempering them with the "saucer" of representational government. There were many other examples of that; the indirect election of the Senate as well as the President, for instance (Senators were appointed by their state governments until the 17th Amendment) as well as the appointment of the Supreme Court by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. (Do notice it did not fall to the whole Congress as the House was seen as too volatile, being directly elected.) Also, voting was originally restricted to white male landholders only - no minorities, no women, no wage-earners. You had to have a stake in society, they believed, and the intelligence and education to make informed choices.
America has become increasingly intrusive into the affairs of its citizenry in an asymptotic relationship with the rise of participatory democracy here. That should come as no surprise. As is attributed to Alexander Fraser Tyler, Lord Woodhouselee:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury."
This echoed Aristotle, who warned that democracy inevitably degenerated into a "tyranny of special interests" or Plato who warned democracy was the final stage before a dictatorship.
Why? Because justice dies, property rights die, all restraints on government power and on corruption die as it becomes possible to reach into the pockets of your neighbors. Then it's every man for himself.
Promoting "democracy" in America is un-American and always has been. It was the Progressives who pushed for it because they saw a handy tool to creating the strongly interventionist government they wanted and saw that democracy would allow them to buy votes to build the new world order system they dreamed of creating.
And so the Democrats are again pushing this, and sadly many, if not most, people will accept the flawed arguments they make about "fairness" when it is grossly unfair and is a fundamental shift in the way our nation is supposed to work, a nation based on federalism, where the states are the primary political authority.
If we have a popular vote, by the way, we should have those votes counted by a federal bureaucracy, right? A UNIONIZED bureaucracy at that!
Complaints about cheating in the count in some places will lead to the establishment of a federal agency to count the vote, mark my words. And once the wolves have complete control of the sheep fold they will dine at their leisure.
Fortunately this isn't going to pass, and if it does it will be struck down by SCOTUS. Or so we would hope (you can never tell with those jokers).
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The Winter Comes
Timothy Birdnow
The Winter Comes
And while the clown just cries and lies
the enemy flies the friendly skies
a crown and robe is his disguise
the ship of state will soon capsize
the bore he moans, eats ice cream cones
the drones above just pick the bones
a chore well done, the Chinese phone
the old man's heart is hard as stone
but the winter has come the leaves have dropped
he now sits dumb, his scheme has popped
stopped by the drum who couldn't be topped
the reconning come, his time at a stop
now in the end has it been worth the cost?
can he defend all the virtues he lost?
his soul did he rend, carelessly tossed
now contend with the Devil, in his book be embossed
Wandering aimless, alone, sad, and lost.
The Winter Comes
And while the clown just cries and lies
the enemy flies the friendly skies
a crown and robe is his disguise
the ship of state will soon capsize
the bore he moans, eats ice cream cones
the drones above just pick the bones
a chore well done, the Chinese phone
the old man's heart is hard as stone
but the winter has come the leaves have dropped
he now sits dumb, his scheme has popped
stopped by the drum who couldn't be topped
the reconning come, his time at a stop
now in the end has it been worth the cost?
can he defend all the virtues he lost?
his soul did he rend, carelessly tossed
now contend with the Devil, in his book be embossed
Wandering aimless, alone, sad, and lost.
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December 16, 2024
Election Fraud
Timothy Birdnow
This from Powerline:
HOW MUCH VOTER FRAUD IN 2020?
There is no doubt that improprieties impacted the 2020 presidential election. Suppression of free speech by social media platforms, Zuckbucks, and above all the concealment of definitive evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption by the Dirty 51 and the press, very likely swung the election to Biden.
But how about outright voter fraud? We will never know how extensive the fraud was, since the essence of a successful fraud is that it is not detected, or at least not proved. But a look at the gross numbers can provide a meaningful context for the question.
Shortly after the election, someone created a graphic that got wide circulation on the internet and on social media. It showed the number of votes cast for the Democratic presidential nominee in recent cycles, and indicated a remarkable upsurge in votes in 2020, followed by a steep decline in 2024. Unfortunately, that chart was created while vote counting was still going on, so it was not accurate as to 2024. I decided to carry out a similar exercise, using the final numbers for 2024.
This chart shows the result of that analysis. It shows the total popular vote in each presidential election from 2004 through 2024. Votes for the Democratic candidate are in blue, for the Republican candidate are in red. I used FEC numbers for all the cycles before 2024; the FEC has not yet published data for this year’s race.
Read the rest.
This from Powerline:
HOW MUCH VOTER FRAUD IN 2020?
There is no doubt that improprieties impacted the 2020 presidential election. Suppression of free speech by social media platforms, Zuckbucks, and above all the concealment of definitive evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption by the Dirty 51 and the press, very likely swung the election to Biden.
But how about outright voter fraud? We will never know how extensive the fraud was, since the essence of a successful fraud is that it is not detected, or at least not proved. But a look at the gross numbers can provide a meaningful context for the question.
Shortly after the election, someone created a graphic that got wide circulation on the internet and on social media. It showed the number of votes cast for the Democratic presidential nominee in recent cycles, and indicated a remarkable upsurge in votes in 2020, followed by a steep decline in 2024. Unfortunately, that chart was created while vote counting was still going on, so it was not accurate as to 2024. I decided to carry out a similar exercise, using the final numbers for 2024.
This chart shows the result of that analysis. It shows the total popular vote in each presidential election from 2004 through 2024. Votes for the Democratic candidate are in blue, for the Republican candidate are in red. I used FEC numbers for all the cycles before 2024; the FEC has not yet published data for this year’s race.
Read the rest.
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Drone Patriot Act?
Timothy Birdnow
Is the drone activity an effort to impose a Patriot Act for drones on America?
Pastorius at Infidel Blogger's Alliance thinks so.
FTA:
Is the drone activity an effort to impose a Patriot Act for drones on America?
Pastorius at Infidel Blogger's Alliance thinks so.
FTA:
ABC 7 News New Yorkreportedon Thursday that an airport in the Stewart International Airport in Orange County, New York was shut down Friday night. This airport is located roughly 60 miles north of New York City.
Officials at the airport revealed that the runways were closed entirely for an hour after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alerted them that a drone was spotted in the area around 9:30 p.m.According toABC 7 News, air traffic control recordings from the airport during that time also included a pilot reporting drone sightings in the area.
The agencyclaimedno aircraft were impacted, and flight operations also continued. But disgraced New York Governor Kathy Hochul was less than pleased that her state was being invaded, saying in a statement, "This has gone too far.”
Hochul demanded Congress pass the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act. Thelegislationis designed to strengthen the FAA’s oversight of drones, reform legal authorities to counter UAS activities and extend authority to state and local law enforcement agencies to investigate the activity.
IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S THE PATRIOT ACT OF DRONE TECHNOLOGY.
THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT ONLY THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO SURVEILLANCE FROM THE SKIES.
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Little Lost Nuclear Material
Timothy Birdnow
Recently I mentioned a theory I had heard about the drones in New Jersey looking for nuclear material. Well, guess what?
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Releases Report Confirming Radioactive Material Lost in Transit — Shipping Container Arrives Damaged and Empty in New Jersey
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That would explain a lot.
Ge-68 pin source is a radioactive material used in medical scaning equipment. It could be used for a radiological bomb, methinks. OR the whole thing could be a red herring to hide a far more dangerous thing being actively covered up by our government.
Recently I mentioned a theory I had heard about the drones in New Jersey looking for nuclear material. Well, guess what?
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Releases Report Confirming Radioactive Material Lost in Transit — Shipping Container Arrives Damaged and Empty in New Jersey
FTA:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has confirmed that radioactive material was lost in transit earlier this month, heightening fears about public safety and sparking theories about mysterious drone activity in New Jersey.
Officer Lew, a prominent political commentator, highlighted the NRC’s event report during a review of regulatory alerts.
"While looking at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Alerts. I can confirm that there is radioactive material that has gone missing on Dec 2nd, 2024 out of New Jersey. This might be the reason for the drones… just speculation at this point,” he wrote.
The missing material, identified as a Ge-68 pin source manufactured by Eckert & Ziegler, was reported lost by its licensee on December 3, 2024. Shipped for disposal, the container arrived at its destination severely damaged and empty.
Officer Lew, a prominent political commentator, highlighted the NRC’s event report during a review of regulatory alerts.
"While looking at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Alerts. I can confirm that there is radioactive material that has gone missing on Dec 2nd, 2024 out of New Jersey. This might be the reason for the drones… just speculation at this point,” he wrote.
The missing material, identified as a Ge-68 pin source manufactured by Eckert & Ziegler, was reported lost by its licensee on December 3, 2024. Shipped for disposal, the container arrived at its destination severely damaged and empty.
That would explain a lot.
Ge-68 pin source is a radioactive material used in medical scaning equipment. It could be used for a radiological bomb, methinks. OR the whole thing could be a red herring to hide a far more dangerous thing being actively covered up by our government.
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Israel Pulls Embassy from Ireland
Timothy Birdnow
Israel is closing its embassy in Ireland in displeasure at the Emerald Isle's enthusiastic support for Palestinian terrorists.
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The Irish Republic seems to see Israel as the equivalent of England - oppressors. But in reality they are more like the Irish than the Irish seem to grasp; both victims of an oppressive neighbor. Ireland was subjugated by England/Great Britain and Israel is subjugated by the Arab nations who tried to "drive Israel into the sea".
Oh, and the two had their own diaspora - the Jews were scattered all over the world after the Romans took them as slaves, the Irish after the potato famine. And both groups were disliked by locals where they settled at first.
Irish deputy Prime Minister Michael Martin said:
"Ireland's position on the conflict in the Middle East has always been guided by the principles of international law and the obligation on all states to adhere to international humanitarian law."
And yet Ireland fought a most nasty war of independence against Britain when the British occupied the country. Now that they are secure they want to deny that right to Israel to fight for it's own independence. What do the Irish think "from the river to the sea, all of Palestine will be free" means? It means "death to Israel". This war is qualitatively no different than the war waged by Ireland to attain independence.
He continues:
How many innocent lives were lost during Irelands rebellion against Britain? Quite a few even if not as many as in Palestine during this war (and we know the numbers of Palestinian dead are provided by the Palestinian Ministry of Health are unquestionably grossly inflated). And if you include military deaths that number grows quite a bit.
This doesn't include the death toll in the north during the "time of troubles".
It seems the Irish and Palestinians share one key thing in common; both are and did support terrorism.
So Ireland now hates Israel as a "colonial power". They need to take a closer look.
Israel is closing its embassy in Ireland in displeasure at the Emerald Isle's enthusiastic support for Palestinian terrorists.
FTA:
Israel will close its embassy in Dublin over "the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government", its foreign minister has said.
Gideon Saar said the Republic of Ireland had crossed "every red line".
In a statement, he said Israel's ambassador to Dublin had been recalled in the past following what it called Ireland's "unilateral decision to recognise a Palestinian state".
He added that the decision followed Ireland's announcement of its support for South Africa's legal action against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing the country of "genocide".
Mr Saar said: "The actions and anti-Semitic rhetoric used by Ireland against Israel are rooted in the de-legitimisation and demonisation of the Jewish state, along with double standards.
"Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide according to priorities that also take into account the attitudes and actions of these states toward Israel.
Gideon Saar said the Republic of Ireland had crossed "every red line".
In a statement, he said Israel's ambassador to Dublin had been recalled in the past following what it called Ireland's "unilateral decision to recognise a Palestinian state".
He added that the decision followed Ireland's announcement of its support for South Africa's legal action against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing the country of "genocide".
Mr Saar said: "The actions and anti-Semitic rhetoric used by Ireland against Israel are rooted in the de-legitimisation and demonisation of the Jewish state, along with double standards.
"Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide according to priorities that also take into account the attitudes and actions of these states toward Israel.
The Irish Republic seems to see Israel as the equivalent of England - oppressors. But in reality they are more like the Irish than the Irish seem to grasp; both victims of an oppressive neighbor. Ireland was subjugated by England/Great Britain and Israel is subjugated by the Arab nations who tried to "drive Israel into the sea".
Oh, and the two had their own diaspora - the Jews were scattered all over the world after the Romans took them as slaves, the Irish after the potato famine. And both groups were disliked by locals where they settled at first.
Irish deputy Prime Minister Michael Martin said:
"Ireland's position on the conflict in the Middle East has always been guided by the principles of international law and the obligation on all states to adhere to international humanitarian law."
And yet Ireland fought a most nasty war of independence against Britain when the British occupied the country. Now that they are secure they want to deny that right to Israel to fight for it's own independence. What do the Irish think "from the river to the sea, all of Palestine will be free" means? It means "death to Israel". This war is qualitatively no different than the war waged by Ireland to attain independence.
He continues:
"loss of innocent lives is simply unacceptable and contravenes international law.
It represents the collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza. We need an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza."
It represents the collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza. We need an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza."
How many innocent lives were lost during Irelands rebellion against Britain? Quite a few even if not as many as in Palestine during this war (and we know the numbers of Palestinian dead are provided by the Palestinian Ministry of Health are unquestionably grossly inflated). And if you include military deaths that number grows quite a bit.
This doesn't include the death toll in the north during the "time of troubles".
It seems the Irish and Palestinians share one key thing in common; both are and did support terrorism.
So Ireland now hates Israel as a "colonial power". They need to take a closer look.
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Newsom Hires Harris Staffer
Timothy Birdnow
Smooth move Ex-lax!
Newsom lost a top aide. Former Harris adviser will take her place
That's the way to do it! Hire the person who presided over the huge campaign failure this year!
Rush Limbaugh alays said failure was a resume' enhancement for Democrats and he was right.
It's well known Newsom hopes to upsize his office to one closer to the Atlantic, and this is not the way you do it. If he needs people he should find winners, not the recycled losers coming from the failure that was Kamala Harris.
I don't think any Democrats learned a thing from the last election.
Smooth move Ex-lax!
Newsom lost a top aide. Former Harris adviser will take her place
That's the way to do it! Hire the person who presided over the huge campaign failure this year!
Rush Limbaugh alays said failure was a resume' enhancement for Democrats and he was right.
It's well known Newsom hopes to upsize his office to one closer to the Atlantic, and this is not the way you do it. If he needs people he should find winners, not the recycled losers coming from the failure that was Kamala Harris.
I don't think any Democrats learned a thing from the last election.
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Turkey Moving into Syria
Timothy Birdnow
Just as I predicted.
Turkey Prepared to Provide Military Training to Syria
There is a power vacuum and it gets filled by either the Turks or the Iranians. Since it is primarily Islamists who aren't going to ally with the likes of us.
Before this is over we may wish Assad was still in power.
Just as I predicted.
Turkey Prepared to Provide Military Training to Syria
There is a power vacuum and it gets filled by either the Turks or the Iranians. Since it is primarily Islamists who aren't going to ally with the likes of us.
Before this is over we may wish Assad was still in power.
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More Droning
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an interesting analysis of the drone situation:
Here is an interesting analysis of the drone situation:
(Alt-Market)—The term "False Flag” gets thrown around rather haphazardly these days and it’s important to recognize that a real false flag requires a particular end result – The public blaming the wrong culprit for an event that someone else (usually our own government) perpetrated. When it comes to the increasing fervor over major drone activity across the US, I have very little doubt that what we are witnessing is a false flag scenario.
First, let’s outline what has happened so far: Drone sightings have exploded across the country involving a wide variety of devices – but the incidents that concern me the most are those involving the SUV-sized UAVs in places like New Jersey. The sightings have been happening for months. US government agenciesincluding the FBI, DHS and national security officials claim they have no idea who is behind this activity, even though drones have been seen operating over highly protected areas like US military bases.
more...
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The Drones of Hell
Timothy Birdnow
I recently suggested the drones flying America's skies might be biological weapons delivery systems sowing the next pandemic to allow the Globalist Left to seize more power. Well....
Mike Adams argues that there is another pandemic coming and it will be entirely a hoax, caused by chemicals.
If so, then they will need a way to distribute it over a wide area. A drone would do that nicely.
The WHO, whose failures metastasized the Covid outbreak, is promoting a pandemic accord which is a sneaky way to backdoor world government.
And Bill Gates warns of another pandemic as well. We know Gates predicted Covid the very year it happened by some "strange" coincidence.
Then there is Peter Hotez who said multiple viruses will emerge during Trump's Presidency. What makes him think that? Well, they've been creating them after all in a lab.
So if another pandemic should emerge one is sorely tempted to beleive it is intended to wreck the Trump Presidency as was the last.
Anyway, Adams doesn't believe they will even bother with a virus but rather just use chemicals and claim it is a virus - a full blownn lie. A psy-op. Contact poisons which they will claim is a virus and shut the whole world down again.
Perhaps. But I do wonder at these drones and suspect they are a delivery system for - something. What remains to be seen.
I recently suggested the drones flying America's skies might be biological weapons delivery systems sowing the next pandemic to allow the Globalist Left to seize more power. Well....
Mike Adams argues that there is another pandemic coming and it will be entirely a hoax, caused by chemicals.
If so, then they will need a way to distribute it over a wide area. A drone would do that nicely.
The WHO, whose failures metastasized the Covid outbreak, is promoting a pandemic accord which is a sneaky way to backdoor world government.
And Bill Gates warns of another pandemic as well. We know Gates predicted Covid the very year it happened by some "strange" coincidence.
Then there is Peter Hotez who said multiple viruses will emerge during Trump's Presidency. What makes him think that? Well, they've been creating them after all in a lab.
So if another pandemic should emerge one is sorely tempted to beleive it is intended to wreck the Trump Presidency as was the last.
Anyway, Adams doesn't believe they will even bother with a virus but rather just use chemicals and claim it is a virus - a full blownn lie. A psy-op. Contact poisons which they will claim is a virus and shut the whole world down again.
Perhaps. But I do wonder at these drones and suspect they are a delivery system for - something. What remains to be seen.
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December 15, 2024
Are Drones Looking for Nukes?
Timothy Birdnow
I just came across a rather disturbing theory about the drones; they may be looking for nuclear material.
High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors can spot nuclear material much better than the older types of nuclear detectors. They can be mounted on drones too.
That would explain why the government is so closed-lipped about this, and why they prefer frightened speculation to leveling with the American People.
Do we have a nuclear device in New Jersey? Or does someone have a radiological bomb?
For the record a radiological bomb is no real threat; the radiation is dispersed quickly and only contaminates a small area if it all. The threat is more psychological than anything else; getb people to panic.
The Iranians have an atomic bomb, of that I am sure. We keep saying "they almost have it" but they have enriched up to 20% which is most of the way there for making nukes. The first 3-5% is the hardest part.
According to Arms Control Center:
" The simple answer is that enriching uranium to 20% represents about 90% of the effort needed to produce weapons grade fissile material."
And that is correct. Once there it's a matter of days to enrich over 95%, which is the threshold for weapons grade uranium. They can have enough fissile material for a bomb in under one week.
Did the Iranians finish running their centrifuges?
While they've been working on implosion devices (much harder to build than gun-style triggers) so they can mount them on ICBM's they could ship a device by stealth and once they are in position Kaboom!
It's just a theory but something sinister is going on with those drones, no question.
And if it'snot the U.S. government looking for fissile material, is it perhaps Iran scouting the area for the best way to smuggle in a weapon?
BTW In nature drones are sexless; maybe it's a way to draw attention to the LGBTQ movement? Nonconforming gender rolls for aircraft!
I just came across a rather disturbing theory about the drones; they may be looking for nuclear material.
High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors can spot nuclear material much better than the older types of nuclear detectors. They can be mounted on drones too.
That would explain why the government is so closed-lipped about this, and why they prefer frightened speculation to leveling with the American People.
Do we have a nuclear device in New Jersey? Or does someone have a radiological bomb?
For the record a radiological bomb is no real threat; the radiation is dispersed quickly and only contaminates a small area if it all. The threat is more psychological than anything else; getb people to panic.
The Iranians have an atomic bomb, of that I am sure. We keep saying "they almost have it" but they have enriched up to 20% which is most of the way there for making nukes. The first 3-5% is the hardest part.
According to Arms Control Center:
" The simple answer is that enriching uranium to 20% represents about 90% of the effort needed to produce weapons grade fissile material."
And that is correct. Once there it's a matter of days to enrich over 95%, which is the threshold for weapons grade uranium. They can have enough fissile material for a bomb in under one week.
Did the Iranians finish running their centrifuges?
While they've been working on implosion devices (much harder to build than gun-style triggers) so they can mount them on ICBM's they could ship a device by stealth and once they are in position Kaboom!
It's just a theory but something sinister is going on with those drones, no question.
And if it'snot the U.S. government looking for fissile material, is it perhaps Iran scouting the area for the best way to smuggle in a weapon?
BTW In nature drones are sexless; maybe it's a way to draw attention to the LGBTQ movement? Nonconforming gender rolls for aircraft!
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The OIly Bird Catches the Worm
Timothy Birdnow
How can they tell? The thing is it's the BLACK sea!
Major oil spill in Black Sea.
Was this a spill or did it get a little help?
How can they tell? The thing is it's the BLACK sea!
Major oil spill in Black Sea.
Was this a spill or did it get a little help?
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The Eye of Sauron
Timothy Birdnow
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Jersey...
Feds to Deploy New Drone Surveillance System
Mighty speedy work there. So we just happened to have this high-tech system waiting to be deployed?
Why is it that I can't help but think this may have been the point all along?
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Jersey...
Feds to Deploy New Drone Surveillance System
Mighty speedy work there. So we just happened to have this high-tech system waiting to be deployed?
Why is it that I can't help but think this may have been the point all along?
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Kennedy Coming for Your Food
Timothy Birdnow
Here is whatI don't like about Robert Kennedy Jr.; he thinks it's his business what Americans eat and wants to reform our diets.
Last I checked dietary regulations were not an enumerated power of the United States.
It's the tampering with our diet that has led to the obesity epidemic in the U.S. in the first place. They want to war on meat and pushed grain and thus everybody grew enormously fat. People weren't fat when they were eating meat. I would add that Man evolved eating meat and that was the paleo-diet; primitive men ate some nuts and berries but mostly meat. Now we are told meat is terrible and must go, yet our bodies are evolved to sustain on it. Something that has always been with us is not a bad thing.
But grain, especially processed grain, is much newer in our diets. And the production of processed grains i a relatively new thing. Ditto sugar, which wasn't farmed on any scale commercially until 1455 on Madeira. Before sugar cane the only sugars anyone ever enjoyed were sweet wines and honey.
At any rate it's just not government's business how we eat, but sadly Kennedy is going to make it his business. It's why we should never put a Democrat in a position of authority, no matter how reasonable they appear.
Here is whatI don't like about Robert Kennedy Jr.; he thinks it's his business what Americans eat and wants to reform our diets.
Last I checked dietary regulations were not an enumerated power of the United States.
It's the tampering with our diet that has led to the obesity epidemic in the U.S. in the first place. They want to war on meat and pushed grain and thus everybody grew enormously fat. People weren't fat when they were eating meat. I would add that Man evolved eating meat and that was the paleo-diet; primitive men ate some nuts and berries but mostly meat. Now we are told meat is terrible and must go, yet our bodies are evolved to sustain on it. Something that has always been with us is not a bad thing.
But grain, especially processed grain, is much newer in our diets. And the production of processed grains i a relatively new thing. Ditto sugar, which wasn't farmed on any scale commercially until 1455 on Madeira. Before sugar cane the only sugars anyone ever enjoyed were sweet wines and honey.
At any rate it's just not government's business how we eat, but sadly Kennedy is going to make it his business. It's why we should never put a Democrat in a position of authority, no matter how reasonable they appear.
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The Weapon of Oil
Timothy Birdnow
Proof that I missed my calling.
This article from the eggheads at the National Interest argues for more engagement by the U.S. in central Asia and makes the following point:
Who says? The fact is oil is bought and sold on futures and just setting the wheels in motion leads to an immediate drop in prices. We've seen this repeatedly over the years; whenever a person friendly to drilling is elected almost immediately prices drop. That is because investers are now confident in a return and will buy oil futures, thus funding the oil companies. We saw this scenario play out both times with Trump, and also when Geoerge W. Bush was elected. You don't have to wait until you actually draw the oil from the ground and refine it; the prices begin dropping almost immediately in anticipation.
I've been arguing all along that getting oil and gas prices down would end the Ukraine war as surely as it ended the Russian invasion of Georgia.
Russia's oil and gas industry accounts for roughtly 18% of her entire GDP per quarter (it was down to 16.7% last April to June, down a bit, no doubt because of the war). That's nearly a fifth of their total GDP. Since oil is a commodity it has fluctuations, and Russia is subject to the same kinds of boom-and-bust cycles we've seen in many commodity-based economies. Texas used to suffer from that cycle of boom-and-bust as oil prices fluctuated too. But with Russia it's the main backbone of their economy.
According to Oilprice.com Russia lost 21% of her revenue when prices dropped this year. And that was just a fairly minor price drop compared to what the Trump folks are pushing to achieve.
From the article by Charles Kennedy:
Imagine how Russia will fare if we really squeeze them!
Now Russia is able to sell it's oil and gas despite the embargo by simply selling to other countries who then sell to everyone following the boycott. Easy peasy.
Russia is a third world country with first world military hardware. It was that alone that strangled the old Soviet Union; they couldn't provide for the needs of the people, and Reagan understood that and squeezed them out of existence using economic warfare (and our military spending was the tool he used to force them into bankruptcy). Oil saved Russia. But oil, like God, giveth and oil taketh away. A commodities-based economy is a developing nation economy and is subject to the vagaries of market forces beyond that nation's control.
Putin was flush with cash thanks to Biden's war on energy, and he had the security of knowing Joe Biden would not take any sort of decisive action (he'd seen that with the humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan). Now a new sheriff is in town, and Putin either settles this thing or winds up losing as he runs out of money.
BTW it was the American efforts to build pipelines from central Asia to the West that bypassed Russian/Iranian territory that precipitated both of these invasions. The first thing Russia did in the Georgian war was attack the BKC pipeline. Georgia was going to be the prime corridor for oil and gas outside of Russian control. The same largely held true of Ukraine which controlled Russian access to the rest of Europe. In both cases American economic pressures forced Putin's hand. Oh, he didn't require much pressure; he wants to rebuild the old Tsarist impirium, but he had a ready-made excuse both times, fighting "American imperialism". All you have to do to win over the average Russian is play to their rather justifiable paranoia. The U.S. has been systematically encircling Russia for two decades now and deploying ABM systems in an iron ring around them. It was very easy to convince any Russia of the foul intentions of the United States, and of our proxies in Ukraine and Georgia.
Anyway, the author of this piece argues for greater investment and involvement in these corrupt central Asian countries, a dubious idea. Russia and China are much closer and dominate this region economically and one wonders about U.S. investment in the area. How much will be money down a rathole? In the end these countries saw what happened to Georgia and Ukraine and have no reason to move towards America, which is at best a fair-weather friend.
Anyway, I say I missed my calling because the author of this piece, while obviously knowledgeable about the region, seems to miss the point on occasion here. I still wonder how it is I wound up working in low-level jobs like bread truck driver or real estate property manager. Success is, to me, a huge mystery.
That's why I bloviate here at The Aviary I guess.
Proof that I missed my calling.
This article from the eggheads at the National Interest argues for more engagement by the U.S. in central Asia and makes the following point:
"Just before he was named as President-elect Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL) called for enforcing the sanctions on Russia to end Moscow’s war against Ukraine. He believes flooding the global market with American oil and gas will bring global energy prices down and weaken Moscow’s war machine.
While such a strategy will take a year or two to bring about the desired result, the Trump administration can take immediate measures to undercut Moscow’s ability to circumvent existing trade sanctions, especially in strategic regions such as Central Asia."
While such a strategy will take a year or two to bring about the desired result, the Trump administration can take immediate measures to undercut Moscow’s ability to circumvent existing trade sanctions, especially in strategic regions such as Central Asia."
Who says? The fact is oil is bought and sold on futures and just setting the wheels in motion leads to an immediate drop in prices. We've seen this repeatedly over the years; whenever a person friendly to drilling is elected almost immediately prices drop. That is because investers are now confident in a return and will buy oil futures, thus funding the oil companies. We saw this scenario play out both times with Trump, and also when Geoerge W. Bush was elected. You don't have to wait until you actually draw the oil from the ground and refine it; the prices begin dropping almost immediately in anticipation.
I've been arguing all along that getting oil and gas prices down would end the Ukraine war as surely as it ended the Russian invasion of Georgia.
Russia's oil and gas industry accounts for roughtly 18% of her entire GDP per quarter (it was down to 16.7% last April to June, down a bit, no doubt because of the war). That's nearly a fifth of their total GDP. Since oil is a commodity it has fluctuations, and Russia is subject to the same kinds of boom-and-bust cycles we've seen in many commodity-based economies. Texas used to suffer from that cycle of boom-and-bust as oil prices fluctuated too. But with Russia it's the main backbone of their economy.
According to Oilprice.com Russia lost 21% of her revenue when prices dropped this year. And that was just a fairly minor price drop compared to what the Trump folks are pushing to achieve.
From the article by Charles Kennedy:
"In November, for a second month in a row, Russia’s oil revenues slumped from the comparable month in 2023, according to Bloomberg’s estimates based on official government data released on Wednesday.
Russia has based its tax levies and calculations for November on an average price of the Urals grade of $64.72 per barrel, which was significantly down from the $81.69 per barrel used to calculate taxes a year ago.
As a result, the Kremlin pocketed last month $5.8 billion (605.2 billion Russian rubles) from oil-related taxes, down by 21% compared to November 2023.
Russia’s total oil and gas revenues also fell last month, by almost 17% on the year to $7.7 billion (801.7 billion rubles), according to Bloomberg’s calculations based on data from the Russian finance ministry.
October also saw a slump in Russian revenues. Lower oil prices and subsidies for domestic refiners resulted in a 29% annual plunge in Russia’s oil revenues in October.
The revenues from oil for the state were also impacted by the government subsidy paid to local refiners. Crude processing companies received in October the so-called damper payments, a form of subsidy to producers to encourage them to sell their refined petroleum products in Russia instead of exporting these for a higher price. Last year in October, Russia didn’t pay such incentives to its refiners.
Russia has based its tax levies and calculations for November on an average price of the Urals grade of $64.72 per barrel, which was significantly down from the $81.69 per barrel used to calculate taxes a year ago.
As a result, the Kremlin pocketed last month $5.8 billion (605.2 billion Russian rubles) from oil-related taxes, down by 21% compared to November 2023.
Russia’s total oil and gas revenues also fell last month, by almost 17% on the year to $7.7 billion (801.7 billion rubles), according to Bloomberg’s calculations based on data from the Russian finance ministry.
October also saw a slump in Russian revenues. Lower oil prices and subsidies for domestic refiners resulted in a 29% annual plunge in Russia’s oil revenues in October.
The revenues from oil for the state were also impacted by the government subsidy paid to local refiners. Crude processing companies received in October the so-called damper payments, a form of subsidy to producers to encourage them to sell their refined petroleum products in Russia instead of exporting these for a higher price. Last year in October, Russia didn’t pay such incentives to its refiners.
Imagine how Russia will fare if we really squeeze them!
Now Russia is able to sell it's oil and gas despite the embargo by simply selling to other countries who then sell to everyone following the boycott. Easy peasy.
Russia is a third world country with first world military hardware. It was that alone that strangled the old Soviet Union; they couldn't provide for the needs of the people, and Reagan understood that and squeezed them out of existence using economic warfare (and our military spending was the tool he used to force them into bankruptcy). Oil saved Russia. But oil, like God, giveth and oil taketh away. A commodities-based economy is a developing nation economy and is subject to the vagaries of market forces beyond that nation's control.
Putin was flush with cash thanks to Biden's war on energy, and he had the security of knowing Joe Biden would not take any sort of decisive action (he'd seen that with the humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan). Now a new sheriff is in town, and Putin either settles this thing or winds up losing as he runs out of money.
BTW it was the American efforts to build pipelines from central Asia to the West that bypassed Russian/Iranian territory that precipitated both of these invasions. The first thing Russia did in the Georgian war was attack the BKC pipeline. Georgia was going to be the prime corridor for oil and gas outside of Russian control. The same largely held true of Ukraine which controlled Russian access to the rest of Europe. In both cases American economic pressures forced Putin's hand. Oh, he didn't require much pressure; he wants to rebuild the old Tsarist impirium, but he had a ready-made excuse both times, fighting "American imperialism". All you have to do to win over the average Russian is play to their rather justifiable paranoia. The U.S. has been systematically encircling Russia for two decades now and deploying ABM systems in an iron ring around them. It was very easy to convince any Russia of the foul intentions of the United States, and of our proxies in Ukraine and Georgia.
Anyway, the author of this piece argues for greater investment and involvement in these corrupt central Asian countries, a dubious idea. Russia and China are much closer and dominate this region economically and one wonders about U.S. investment in the area. How much will be money down a rathole? In the end these countries saw what happened to Georgia and Ukraine and have no reason to move towards America, which is at best a fair-weather friend.
Anyway, I say I missed my calling because the author of this piece, while obviously knowledgeable about the region, seems to miss the point on occasion here. I still wonder how it is I wound up working in low-level jobs like bread truck driver or real estate property manager. Success is, to me, a huge mystery.
That's why I bloviate here at The Aviary I guess.
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Post Pardum Depression at USPS
Timothy Birdnow
Trump and the DOGE are looking into kicking the U.S. Postal Service to the curb, fully privatizing it and letting the notoriously incompetent organization sink or swim.
The USPS is a "quasi private" organization. Originally a cabinet-level government post, the Postmaster General was actually in line to become President (down the list at #8,behind the Attorney General) and it was run like an actual government agency. In 1971 it was "privatized" mainly because it made enough money on it's own to fund itself (although it can still draw from general revenue in the event of a shortfall) and to take the PM out of the chain of succession. But it wasn't a privatization at all; you still have to pass a civil service exam to get a job there, and employees enjoy the much better government pension over social security, and their own healthcare system, etc. Also, mail trucks remain one of the vehicles that can cut a funeral procession legally, and they can have you arrested if you use their mailboxes for personal correspondence without a stamp. It's run by a a board of directors who appoint the Postmaster General but the board is appointed by the President of the United States, not by any shareholders as only the U.S. government owns any shares. It is wholly owned by the Feds.
True privatization would mean a complete severing of the organization from government, and would require the sale of shares to investors and that means offering a return. It would be for profit.
It's a move that long ago should have happened. We now have multiple delivery organizations like Fedex or UPS that could do the job more cheaply and more efficiently.
Of course postal workers have long been a solid Democratic block because their jobs depend on government. That will change if the massive, unwieldy organization is privatized. And incompetent or crooked employees will not be protected by government rules any longer.
And that will have a profound impact on America's electoral prospects. In 2023 there were 525,469 career employees and another 115,000 in seasonal workers. If just a quarter of them stop voting Democrat that's a sizable pickup for the GOOP.
But that's not the primary reason to do it; the main reason is because it is an antiquated institution that no longer serves the public interest and can be cut lose. In 2023 the USPS had a net loss of $6.5 billion dollars. That was trumped this year with a loss of $9.5 billion. Guess where the money to cover that deficit came from? It wasn't from budget cuts.
The times have passed the Post Office by, and it's time to acknowledge this change.
Trump and the DOGE are looking into kicking the U.S. Postal Service to the curb, fully privatizing it and letting the notoriously incompetent organization sink or swim.
The USPS is a "quasi private" organization. Originally a cabinet-level government post, the Postmaster General was actually in line to become President (down the list at #8,behind the Attorney General) and it was run like an actual government agency. In 1971 it was "privatized" mainly because it made enough money on it's own to fund itself (although it can still draw from general revenue in the event of a shortfall) and to take the PM out of the chain of succession. But it wasn't a privatization at all; you still have to pass a civil service exam to get a job there, and employees enjoy the much better government pension over social security, and their own healthcare system, etc. Also, mail trucks remain one of the vehicles that can cut a funeral procession legally, and they can have you arrested if you use their mailboxes for personal correspondence without a stamp. It's run by a a board of directors who appoint the Postmaster General but the board is appointed by the President of the United States, not by any shareholders as only the U.S. government owns any shares. It is wholly owned by the Feds.
True privatization would mean a complete severing of the organization from government, and would require the sale of shares to investors and that means offering a return. It would be for profit.
It's a move that long ago should have happened. We now have multiple delivery organizations like Fedex or UPS that could do the job more cheaply and more efficiently.
Of course postal workers have long been a solid Democratic block because their jobs depend on government. That will change if the massive, unwieldy organization is privatized. And incompetent or crooked employees will not be protected by government rules any longer.
And that will have a profound impact on America's electoral prospects. In 2023 there were 525,469 career employees and another 115,000 in seasonal workers. If just a quarter of them stop voting Democrat that's a sizable pickup for the GOOP.
But that's not the primary reason to do it; the main reason is because it is an antiquated institution that no longer serves the public interest and can be cut lose. In 2023 the USPS had a net loss of $6.5 billion dollars. That was trumped this year with a loss of $9.5 billion. Guess where the money to cover that deficit came from? It wasn't from budget cuts.
The times have passed the Post Office by, and it's time to acknowledge this change.
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ABC Admits Libel, Pays Trump
Timothy Birdnow
Suck on this ABC!
abc news settles defamation lawsuit by Trump for $15 million
Maybe now they will rethink letting Bill Clinton's hatchet man run their news division? George Stephanopoulis has turned ABC News into nothing more than a Democrat propaganda arm.
While the money is inadequate (Trump should have held out for way more) at least Trump can now prove he was slandered by them and other media outlets.
The shareholders at ABC need to demand a change in network leadership as a result of this.
Suck on this ABC!
abc news settles defamation lawsuit by Trump for $15 million
Maybe now they will rethink letting Bill Clinton's hatchet man run their news division? George Stephanopoulis has turned ABC News into nothing more than a Democrat propaganda arm.
While the money is inadequate (Trump should have held out for way more) at least Trump can now prove he was slandered by them and other media outlets.
The shareholders at ABC need to demand a change in network leadership as a result of this.
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The Mystery of J6 Deepens
Timothy Birdnow
Revolver has been at the forefront on all things J6 related, and they ask many disturbing questions about the Horowitz report and why all of the 26 agent provocateurs informants escaped prosecution even though three are known for a fact to have entered the Capitol building in violation of the law (and as informants they are as bound by that law as any civilian).
Read the whole article.
Revolver has been at the forefront on all things J6 related, and they ask many disturbing questions about the Horowitz report and why all of the 26 agent provocateurs informants escaped prosecution even though three are known for a fact to have entered the Capitol building in violation of the law (and as informants they are as bound by that law as any civilian).
Read the whole article.
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Moans and Drones
Timothy Birdnow
I caught Fox News Sunday this morning and they interviewed Democratic Rep. Jim Hines about the drone situation. His rather pathetic effort to dismiss the whole matter made it clear to me something rotten is putrifying in the state of Demmark. (Yes, I meant to spell it that way.)
I swear; if that guy had been Pinnocchio his nose would have poked through the Fox cameras.
Over and over he kept comparing the drones people have been seeing with "Walmart drones flown by kids" which is total B.S.; eyewitnesses say these drones are big, sometimes as large as a school bus. Granted, it's hard to tell size without something to judge it against - and in the sky that is a real problem - but most of the eyewitnesses insist they could judge the size and say they were large.
Which means they are not hobby drones but military - ours or someone else's.
He also said there was no reason to fly these drones over secure areas because they could do the same thing with satellites. Hogwash! The chinese sent those spy balloons over the U.S. and they had plenty of satellites to use too.
The presupposition of that argument is that they are solely there for photography, something not at all certain. Big drones can carry missiles, or worse bioweapons. It may be they are seeding biological weapons over the regions visited by these things.
He kept asserting there was no danger from them. How does he know? He claims all is quiet in Iran and China and Russia. Ri-ight! These morons were caught by surprise when Russia invaded Ukraine too. They were shocked when the Chinese sent those balloons over the U.S. (and took no action until they were about to leave U.S. airspace and then only because there was so much public outcry.) Frankly I think a Democratic Congresscritter would be the last to know.
He and the Fox host (not sure who it was; didn;'t look that much like Shannon Bream but the Fox chicks are all stepford wives and pretty much look alike to me) showed a photo of one of them and said "see - this is clearly an airplane" because it had wings rather than copter gyros. Here is a whole page of airplane-style drones. Many of them, especially long-range military drones, have aircraft wings rather than gyros. Granted, Occham's Razor would suggest these are actually airplanes, but as we know they are blowing smoke up our collective posteiors (and have a history of so doing) I am loathe to apply said principle here, especially since so many are seeing these things as drones with their own lying eyes. Yes, some may be airplanes coming in to land, but many of those sightings are by people who live in the area and see airplanes landing all the time.
If our government doesn't know what they are and they are entering secure airspace why not shoot one down and find out what it is? A stinger missile would take it out easily. Or scramble a fighter jet.
It's rather like Nancy Pelosi said of Obamacare "you have to shoot it down to know what's in it".
And the Biden FAA claims to not know what they are, yet says they pose no threat. How do they know that? That iceberg posed no threat too until it sunk the Titanic. Like anything posing a threat it's not always immediately evident. We didn't know the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor either until they did.
If nothing else these things may just be a test run to see if a foreign power can get these over targets and if we'll respond. Thus far we have not.
And if it is NOT a foreign power? This many and with the size of these things that would mean the U.S. government is flying them. Why? Is it to test out a way to spy on every American? Or worse? Maybe Joe's parting gift to us will be some new pandemic created in Wuhan with funding from Dr. Fauci...
I don't think we'll like any of the answers.
Oh, by the by, this is leading to calls for the FAA to increase regulation and control of drones across America, as if private dronership is somehow the problem and not the failure of the Administration to deal with this decisively.
At any rate this Congressman insulted our collective intelligence, and the host did little to hold his feet to the fire. It seemed like a setup. If they are going to calm our fears they first have to give us some actual facts. Assurances from the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight (or at all) is cold comfort.
I caught Fox News Sunday this morning and they interviewed Democratic Rep. Jim Hines about the drone situation. His rather pathetic effort to dismiss the whole matter made it clear to me something rotten is putrifying in the state of Demmark. (Yes, I meant to spell it that way.)
I swear; if that guy had been Pinnocchio his nose would have poked through the Fox cameras.
Over and over he kept comparing the drones people have been seeing with "Walmart drones flown by kids" which is total B.S.; eyewitnesses say these drones are big, sometimes as large as a school bus. Granted, it's hard to tell size without something to judge it against - and in the sky that is a real problem - but most of the eyewitnesses insist they could judge the size and say they were large.
Which means they are not hobby drones but military - ours or someone else's.
He also said there was no reason to fly these drones over secure areas because they could do the same thing with satellites. Hogwash! The chinese sent those spy balloons over the U.S. and they had plenty of satellites to use too.
The presupposition of that argument is that they are solely there for photography, something not at all certain. Big drones can carry missiles, or worse bioweapons. It may be they are seeding biological weapons over the regions visited by these things.
He kept asserting there was no danger from them. How does he know? He claims all is quiet in Iran and China and Russia. Ri-ight! These morons were caught by surprise when Russia invaded Ukraine too. They were shocked when the Chinese sent those balloons over the U.S. (and took no action until they were about to leave U.S. airspace and then only because there was so much public outcry.) Frankly I think a Democratic Congresscritter would be the last to know.
He and the Fox host (not sure who it was; didn;'t look that much like Shannon Bream but the Fox chicks are all stepford wives and pretty much look alike to me) showed a photo of one of them and said "see - this is clearly an airplane" because it had wings rather than copter gyros. Here is a whole page of airplane-style drones. Many of them, especially long-range military drones, have aircraft wings rather than gyros. Granted, Occham's Razor would suggest these are actually airplanes, but as we know they are blowing smoke up our collective posteiors (and have a history of so doing) I am loathe to apply said principle here, especially since so many are seeing these things as drones with their own lying eyes. Yes, some may be airplanes coming in to land, but many of those sightings are by people who live in the area and see airplanes landing all the time.
If our government doesn't know what they are and they are entering secure airspace why not shoot one down and find out what it is? A stinger missile would take it out easily. Or scramble a fighter jet.
It's rather like Nancy Pelosi said of Obamacare "you have to shoot it down to know what's in it".
And the Biden FAA claims to not know what they are, yet says they pose no threat. How do they know that? That iceberg posed no threat too until it sunk the Titanic. Like anything posing a threat it's not always immediately evident. We didn't know the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor either until they did.
If nothing else these things may just be a test run to see if a foreign power can get these over targets and if we'll respond. Thus far we have not.
And if it is NOT a foreign power? This many and with the size of these things that would mean the U.S. government is flying them. Why? Is it to test out a way to spy on every American? Or worse? Maybe Joe's parting gift to us will be some new pandemic created in Wuhan with funding from Dr. Fauci...
I don't think we'll like any of the answers.
Oh, by the by, this is leading to calls for the FAA to increase regulation and control of drones across America, as if private dronership is somehow the problem and not the failure of the Administration to deal with this decisively.
At any rate this Congressman insulted our collective intelligence, and the host did little to hold his feet to the fire. It seemed like a setup. If they are going to calm our fears they first have to give us some actual facts. Assurances from the Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight (or at all) is cold comfort.
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Mangione Not United Customer
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like Luigi Mangione wasn't even a United Healthcare client.
So he either just wanted to murder any healthcare executive or his real motivation is yet to reveal itself.
I continue to believe there is more to this than meets the eye.
Mangione said:
America has such a low life expectancy because of the massive number of third world immigrants here (60 million, or if one includes children of foreign born 87.7 million., as well as the serious problems of drug abuse and obesity and violence in black and Hispanic communities. How is that any fault of insurance?
He also fails to understand that we have the BEST healthcare system in the world and that people come as tourists solely to take advantage of care that is superior to any they can get in their more "affordable" countries. Canada or Britain is fine for simple things like an infected toenail, but if you come down with a rare and life-threatening illness you will either go to the U.S. or die.
The U.S. medical tourism market size was worth $4.58 billion in 2022 and is projected to grow at a rate of 21.0%.
Yes, we also send Americans out to get treatment in other countries, but that is mostly to get treatments not yet approved by the FDA.
And like a good Democrat he lays the blame for every problem at the feet of capitalism and "greed" when in fact much of our problem is the inverse; not enough capitalism or greed. Greed would actually make these companies more responsive to attract more members. Now there are just a handful of health insurance companies thanks to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and decades of government regulations.
Shooting a health insurance executive is like shooting the shift manager at McDonald's because the price of a filet-o-fish went up.
At any rate I still suspect he was a fall guy. Yes, he did it, but I wonder if he wasn't set up to do it. He was claiming this was a travesty of justice, yet we haven't heard any statements from him (or at least I haven't) but rather are just reading online stuff from before. Is it even his writing? Is the manifesto his? Who knows; all I know is we live in an era of massive gaslighting and lies and I see no reason to believe very much of what the authorities tell me anymore.
Looks like Luigi Mangione wasn't even a United Healthcare client.
So he either just wanted to murder any healthcare executive or his real motivation is yet to reveal itself.
I continue to believe there is more to this than meets the eye.
Mangione said:
"A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy?”
America has such a low life expectancy because of the massive number of third world immigrants here (60 million, or if one includes children of foreign born 87.7 million., as well as the serious problems of drug abuse and obesity and violence in black and Hispanic communities. How is that any fault of insurance?
He also fails to understand that we have the BEST healthcare system in the world and that people come as tourists solely to take advantage of care that is superior to any they can get in their more "affordable" countries. Canada or Britain is fine for simple things like an infected toenail, but if you come down with a rare and life-threatening illness you will either go to the U.S. or die.
The U.S. medical tourism market size was worth $4.58 billion in 2022 and is projected to grow at a rate of 21.0%.
Yes, we also send Americans out to get treatment in other countries, but that is mostly to get treatments not yet approved by the FDA.
And like a good Democrat he lays the blame for every problem at the feet of capitalism and "greed" when in fact much of our problem is the inverse; not enough capitalism or greed. Greed would actually make these companies more responsive to attract more members. Now there are just a handful of health insurance companies thanks to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and decades of government regulations.
Shooting a health insurance executive is like shooting the shift manager at McDonald's because the price of a filet-o-fish went up.
At any rate I still suspect he was a fall guy. Yes, he did it, but I wonder if he wasn't set up to do it. He was claiming this was a travesty of justice, yet we haven't heard any statements from him (or at least I haven't) but rather are just reading online stuff from before. Is it even his writing? Is the manifesto his? Who knows; all I know is we live in an era of massive gaslighting and lies and I see no reason to believe very much of what the authorities tell me anymore.
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