Disincentivize Politicians!

Dr. Roy Spencer

I routinely see posts on Facebook from people who want to see congressional term limits, or reduced salaries and benefits for those in congress. I believe that will only cause even more back-room legislative deals that will then allow them to be rewarded after they leave congress. Instead, why not do what private industry does? The more money you save for those paying the bills, the more money you make. In other words, pay congress in proportion to how much they CUT the budget.

...if some of them save taxpayers $50 Billion, give them a $5 Million raise. Win-win.

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Stern Measures

Warner Todd Huston

To show where we stand in the new Cold War with China... the communist menace showed the world that they now have new missiles that can rain nuclear death on anywhere in the world from outer space.... and the Biden administration announced it appointed a man pretending to be a woman as the nation's first "trans" Navy Admiral. We're really showing China how dangerous we are, huh?

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DeSantis Invites Shipping

Timothy Birdnow

This is how it's done!

DeSantis Invites Shipping to Florida Ports as Vessels Idle in California Backlog

Amid a global supply chain shortage and backlogs in states like California, Florida ports are taking on extra vessels and offering incentives to companies to send their goods through ports in the Sunshine State,Gov. Ron DeSantis announced at a press conference in Jacksonville, Fla. on Tuesday.

"We in Florida have the ability to help alleviate these logjams,” DeSantis said. "We’re here, we have capacity. And not only that, I’m proud to announce … that JAXPORT and some of the other ports are also stepping up even above and beyond by offering incentive packages to businesses who want to move their cargo through these ports.”

Leaders from ports around the state joined DeSantis to urge companies that "we want your business.”

This is what should have happened long ago. California is not business friendly, so why do we rely on it to supply our nation's needs?

Florida can become the center for shipping if the Golden State wants draconian laws about truck ages and no independent drivers. Let them tarnish while the Sunshine State shines.

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The Rich Get Richer

Steven Chase

STOCKS: +32% in 2019, +19% in 2020, 21% this year...(S&P)
I cannot think of a single thing our Gov't is doing to help the working, middle class. Every dollar spent goes to ASSET INFLATION, benefiting the already wealthy. And taxpayers are stuck with the bill. (currently $30Trillion).

The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks
cnbc.com

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And I'll Show You a Crook

From Willis Eschenbach

These are the folks who want to monitor YOUR bank account for transactions over $600.

Call me crazy, but I believe what President Harry S. Truman said:

"Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.”

Here are the top crooks ...

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Did a New Chinese Weapon Take U.S. Intel by Surprise?

Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/10/did-a-scary-new-nuclear-capable-chinese-hypersonic-weapon-take-us-intel-by-surprise.html

"We have no idea how they did this.” It’s not comforting that the preceding was uttered by a U.S. source in reference to an alleged new Chinese weapon: a hypersonic missile. But Beijing now claims it didn’t develop anything unusual, stating that what we detected circling the Earth this summer was a spacecraft.

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Top Grossing Movie About Chinese Defeat of U.S.

Frank Lasee

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The Dark Money Funding Global Warming

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an expose' on the dark money funding the "Climate Change" alarmist industry.

Exposing the funding lies of climate activists.

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Walmart Dreaming of a Non-White Christmas

Warner Todd Huston

Woke Walmart Trains Workers that White Customers are Racists, America a 'White Supremacy System'

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Freedom Doesn't Come with Responsibilities

David Sussman forwards this:

Morgan K. Freeberg:

"The liberal says "freedom comes with responsibilities" and the conservative says "rights come with responsibilities."

The liberal isn't really talking about freedom. He isn't talking about rights, either, or about responsibilities. To the liberal, "freedom" is a stand-in word for "permission." Genuine freedom would mean you don't need the permission.

Imagine a dog in a yard constrained to a peg by a six foot chain. To a liberal, "freedom" means adding more links to the chain so it's ten feet. It comes with responsibilities! Don't bite anyone now, Fido, or we'll take you back down to six feet. This is what liberals are saying to ordinary people when they say "freedom comes with responsibilities." They're pretending to understand how society can function, but they really haven't got a clue. They'll never admit to it, but the dog has to consent to being chained. Illegal immigrants, convicted felons, fugitives and homeless people are not subject to any of the constraints, they don't live on the chain. Why don't they? They simply prefer not to be chained.

To a conservative, you don't get to use the F-word until such time that the chain is entirely removed. You have a RIGHT not to be chained. The right comes with the responsibility of not biting anyone...except, of course, for burglars and other people who need biting.

The liberal seeks to build a perfect new society without trusting anyone who lives in it.

The conservative seeks to make our present society work better...not make it perfect, but incrementally improve it, the way you do with all successful projects in which you take pride. It' an incremental improvement; the conservatives are the true progressives. And they trust the people in it, not because they're particularly inclined to, but because they know that's the only way it can work.

Freedom doesn't come with responsibilities, because it's the natural state. We are born free. Before that, we don't have the chance to agree to anything.

Rights come with responsibilities.

Mortals do not chain up other mortals to stakes in the yard. Because, in order to do that, you have to find a mortal worthy of constraining other mortals in such a way; a mortal who can appropriately deny other mortals of freedom without due process. We're all descended from Adam who ate of the fruit, so there isn't anybody suitable.”

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Trans-Physical

Fay Voshell

I am only part way through Paul VanderKlay's video "Wokism is about Transcending the Constraints of the Physical World," in which he critiques in a very friendly and empathetic manner Keith Woods' Wokism and our Transhuman Future; but I recommend it. He deals with the idea that gender/self has no relation to the material world, among other things. (VanderKlay is a Reformed theologian.)

And ta dah! "The evolution of language is deeply part of the evolution of the imaginary in which we inhabit as individuals and that we create amongst each other as a society." Wokism seeks to utterly change that critical metaphysical language denoting the transcendent, to an imaginary construct divorced from material reality, including the reality of the body.

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Moldering Electric Vehicles

Timothy Birdnow

This from the Global Warming Policy Foundation:

As we approach #COP26, it’s ironic that a fleet of electric cars have sat unused in Glasgow for the last two years. A complete waste of taxpayers’ money.

Read More: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/electric-car-fleet-unused-for-two-years-in-cop26-city-js9vpx65s

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Climate Change is Natural

Timothy Birdnow

Contributor Dr. Roy Spencer tears into climate change at his website.

From the article:

"Global warming” refers to the global-average temperature increase that has been observed over the last one hundred years or more. But to many politicians and the public, the term carries the implication that mankind is responsible for that warming. This website describes evidence from my group’s government-funded research that suggests global warming is mostly natural, and that the climate system is quite insensitive to humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions and aerosol pollution.

Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming…it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. This assumption is rather easy for scientists since we do not have enough accurate global data for a long enough period of time to see whether there are natural warming mechanisms at work.

The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims that the only way they can get their computerized climate models to produce the observed warming is with anthropogenic (human-caused) pollution. But they’re not going to find something if they don’t search for it. More than one scientist has asked me, "What else COULD it be?” Well, the answer to that takes a little digging… and as I show, one doesn’t have to dig very far.

The case for natural climate change I also present an analysis of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation which shows that most climate change might well be the result of….the climate system itself! Because small, chaotic fluctuations in atmospheric and oceanic circulation systems can cause small changes in global average cloudiness, this is all that is necessary to cause climate change. You don’t need the sun, or any other ‘external’ influence (although these are also possible…but for now I’ll let others work on that). It is simply what the climate system does. This is actually quite easy for meteorologists to believe, since we understand how complex weather processes are. Your local TV meteorologist is probably a closet ‘skeptic’ regarding mankind’s influence on climate.

Climate change — it happens, with or without our help.

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Normalizing Comorbidity

James Doogue

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Greta Admits No Scientific Basis For Panic Or Fear - Says She Speaks in Metaphor And Doesn't Want People To Panic

James Doogue

Greta Thunberg testified to the US Congress hearing on fossil fuels and climate change in April this year. She was asked what particular study or scientific report she can point to to justify panic or feelings of fear due to climate change. https://youtu.be/t_hfwOGciH4

Greta has been quoted telling crowds, "I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day."

Greta responded that "....those are metaphors. In speeches I often use metaphors" I think she means 'hyperbole' not 'metaphor'. Either way, she's admitting she only says stuff like that to get attention.

Greta goes on, "Of course I don't mean literally that I want people to panic." Perhaps she should make that clear to the students crying in the streets emulating their hero Greta?

Greta Admits to the US Congressional hearing.
"So there was no scientific study that would come to that conclusion."

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The Unfought Victory

Sherie Mathieson

As I ponder crisis after crisis that are self-inflicted--The China conundrum is one of the most serious.As you all know we have allowed China (as a "Third world country") to thrive. Through the years they in turn provided us with cheap labor (and not well made, cheap goods). The latter also ensures built-in obsolescence which ALSO benefits China.

In fact --American consumers have allowed China to indeed--thrive. The USA? Not so much except to enjoy cheap goods.

This brings me to Taiwan--and issue now that portends conflict. And I have no illusions that the Biden administration can handle it well. They won't.(And GD knows most probably Biden can be blackmailed easily by both the Chinese and the Russians).

But in truth China still needs us as a trading partner even more than we need them (or at least that was the case during Trump's presidency)--ESPECIALLY as Trump was well on the way to incentivizing "Made in America".

Most importantly computer chips and our pharmaceuticals and drugs.

But the latter is very important to note. Because China discovered with Covid --that "germ warfare" is way easier than "nuclear"-won't cause their demise in retribution and they can claim innocence while The WHO believes them and Biden refuses to point the finger at them.

So as we fear a "war" with China--I think China knows that they have a more insidious treacherous option. It helped them get rid of their foe-DJT--and usher in the "Idiot in Chief"-Biden.

COVID proved very successful.

Tim adds:

"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.” Sun Tzu.

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Latest Pawn In Propoganda Campaign Designed To Justify Covid-19 Policies

James Doogue

This 15 year old girl's death is officially being recorded and reported as a Covid-19 death. The hospital administrators, politicians and some media know they are deliberately deceiving the public.

They are careful not to say she died 'of' or 'from' Covid-19, but are happy for that assumption to be made, otherwise why include this girl in the Covid-19 'death' toll?

It's still a lie, if you play word games to hide your lie. In this one small article here are some of the ways they said she died of Covid-19 without actually saying that. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10098075/Covid-Victopria-Girl-15-youngest-person-Victoria-die-contracting-Covid.html

- die after contracting Covid-19

- among seven deaths reported over the last 24 hours (twice)

- takes the toll from the current COVID-19 outbreak to 138 (twice)

- has become the youngest Victorian to die during the current outbreak (twice)

- 15-year-old girl had died while infected with the virus.

- 'That is a sad and tragic case, we won't be making more comments on her. But we will send our best wishes to her family and the family of all those who have lost their lives with COVID, particularly in the last 24 hours,'

Anyone looking at the headline, or even reading the entire article could be forgiven for thinking this girl died from Covid-19. That is the clear intention of the government, health authorities, police and the media involved in this chain of reporting.

They want us all to get the message Covid-19 is deadly for all demographics and therefore justified the policies being implemented.

However, like most of the recorded Covid-19 'deaths', this girl had significant and serious pre-existing conditions including an aggressive brain tumour, which were the primary cause of death. Or in the absence of those pre-existing conditions, would not have seen these people die when infected with covid-19.

If a person gets shot by a mugger and the wound gets infected causing liver and kidney shutdown and then a heart attack. Can the murderer claim the cause of death was the infection? Or heart attack? Obviously not. The cause of death is recorded as a gun shot would and the patient added to the register of homocides.

So why is Covid-19 considered the cause of death when people have deadly pre-existing conditions?

We know why. It's political opportunism. Politicians have used Covid-19 'keeping us safe' policies and policy positions to improve their electoral appeal. Incumbent politicians have used the scare to gain re-election. Others, like Joe Biden and the Democrats used the scare campaign to beat the incumbent who wasn't using Covid-19 for opportunistic policy purposes.

Covid-19 scare campaigns have also been used to increase political, and police powers under the guise of a health emergency.

The political opportunists have made business and individuals more reliant on State welfare. They've used Covid-19 grants and funding to direct money to their political allies, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Mainstream and Digital media, unions and activist groups.

Federal, State and Local governments have massively expanded spending on pet projects under the guise of Covid-19 stimulus spending. They've significantly increased the number of staffers and public employees.

Without the Covid-19 scare, our supposedly Western democratic governments would not have been able to move dramatically towards a more socialist, authoritarian regime without the normal checks and balances of media scrutiny, public policy debate and parliamentary approval.

Without the Covid-19 scare and political imprimatur, our police would not have been allowed to use brutal, and legally questionable techniques to suppress opposition to Covid-19 regulations. Methods the Chinese Communist Party would have been impressed by.

The MSM are in full support, and their low integrity journalists and presenters are on board too.

Note: At the time of writing I had confirmed Sally Rajab's comment was posted as shown.

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Relativism

Sherrie Mathieson forwards this:

By Michael Smith:
A while back I wrote that, in my opinion, one of the issues that drives a significant amount of chaos in our contemporary culture is that mankind has largely stopped searching for meaning, adopting a nihilistic,” I better grab all I can get now because there is no future” view of the world.
It certainly seems people have stopped trying to define and understand the natural world (i.e. God) and deal with it on its own everlasting terms. They wish to ignore reality by redefining it to fit their desire to eviscerate any semblance of rules or order. Each sex seeking to "identify” as the other, people of one race "identifying” as one they are not, lies passed off as truth, opinions as fact – these are all examples of undisciplined minds succumbing to absurdity and giving up the search for reality, reason, and truth. Cutting through the absurdity of our times is a frustratingly tedious endeavor – but as Camus stated, there is purpose and happiness to be found in the endless work against it.
We are witness to an absurdist rebellion against nature, an uprising of the simple minded where ridiculous platitudinous theory spouted by pseudo-intellectual automatons are substituted for true scholarship and wisdom. It is a revolt of intellectually immature children, speaking a language constructed of pure nonsense and non sequitur, all the while receiving accolades from the ignorant madding crowd. This crowd consisting of people who are slaves to emotion and feeling rather than masters of logic and reason.

French philosopher Albert Camus noted, "Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle.”
Camus was correct, of course – but I also recall a quote by Vaclav Havel, the Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, who served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.
Havel said:
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
Aye, there’s the rub.
If we don’t care about the meaning of our own lives – what freedom, independence and economic liberty mean as a part of our existence, how is it ever possible we will ever value such things? And if we do not understand the value, how will we ever devise ways to protect them?
I know that sometimes (OK, often) my philosophical rants are too long and involved, so let me cut that down by quoting two different documents, authored by two different men about a century apart and you will see my meaning.
First from the Declaration of Independence, authored by Thomas Jefferson (1776):
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Now from the Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke (1680):
"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society, to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society: for since it can never be supposed to be the will of the society, that the legislative should have a power to destroy that which everyone designs to secure, by entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making; whenever the legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence. Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society; and either by ambition, fear, folly or corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people; by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who. have a right to resume their original liberty, and, by the establishment of a new legislative, (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own safety and security, which is the end for which they are in society.”
Both Jefferson and Locke foresaw the nature of the nexus of men and power. They recognized that when power over others is at stake, representatives often seek to become rulers and rather than deposing them, the systems and methods of their tyranny must be destroyed, by revolution if necessary.
"Creative destruction” is an economic term that applies to how free-market capitalism weeds out the inefficient and replaces it with something new and productive – but the term inexorably ties capitalism to our representative republic. What Locke proposed in his Second Treatise and mirrored by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence is perhaps the most creative of all destructions – the destruction of a corrupt form of government that no longer protects our most valuable principles and the creation of one that does.
The Havel quote I posted at the beginning gets at the root of our destruction – knowing little about who we are but caring even less. The philosopher Immanuel Kant (yes, I know he was a real pissant!) called it "nonage” – the self-imposed immaturity of willful ignorance.
I often wonder if we would all benefit if one year out of every 4 years it takes to get an undergraduate degree should be spent on nothing but the study of philosophy and the transcendent wisdom of the ages.
I know it is beating a dead horse, but the answers to our problems are staring us in the face. They were given to us by the likes of Locke and Jefferson. We only need the courage to use them.

Tim adds:

I agree. Relativism has been in the works for some time and is no reigning supreme.

There is a natural tendency on the part of those who do not believe in G-D to make themselves the primary point of reference aka to deify themselves, and the rise of atheism in the late 18th and 19th centuries saw the concept of absolute truth eroded. This was followed by a couple of scientific revolutions, primarily Einstein's Theory of Relativity (in which the observer is of critical importance to the flow of time) and Quantum Physics Copenhagen Interpretation, which says the observer impacts the nature of reality by collapsing the wavefront of a subatomic particle when observing it. It was translated into 20th century philosophy by such men as Gilbert Harman, Jesse J. Prinz, J. David Velleman and David B. Wong and a host of others.

In fact, Nietzche predicted this would happen. He warned that Science would undermine its core belief, that the Universe is essentially knowable and rational. It has done precisely that, to a degree, but worse, it has made its way into the popular belief system.

That decline of our belief in objective truth is asymptotical to the decline in our moral standards, and our political decline, and all go back ultimately to a willful denial of G-D and objective reality. And, as Phillip K. Dick observed, reality is that thing which, when you stop believing in it, won't go away.

And what won't go away often smacks you in the face when you deny it's there.

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Coming Collapse

This from Jeffrey A. Tucker

I hated writing this piece but the evidence of awful is piling up too quickly.

How Close Is Total Social and Economic Collapse? ⋆ Brownstone Institute
brownstone.org

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Francis the Apostate

Fay Voshell says:

Well, I'm not officially a Catholic, but I think Pope Francis is an apostate! I have noticed his predecessor Pius X would think the current pope is an apostate. https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html

Tim adds:

I AM officially a Catholic and think him apostate Fay. And I'm in good company. A few years back a bunch of Catholic Bishops sent a letter to Francis warning him he was engaging in apostacy. He naturally just ignored the letter and purged these leaders. Cardinal Burke, who was our Archbishop here in St. Louis years ago, was one of the guys he purged. Burke is now in a cermonial position whereas he was the head of the Church's Supreme Tribunal, which is rather like the Supreme Court. Francis busted him down to heading the Knights of Malta, a cermonial role. Burke tried to reform it and has since been suspended, essentially given no job at all. I would add Burke has warned that the Pope wants to ordain women as priests and is using deacons as the tool to do so. He also warns th is Pope is pushing for world government. https://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2020/01/06/cardinal-burke-warns-of-vatican-push-for-one-world-government/

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