Timothy Birdnow

Like a Weeble, this guy wobbles but he doesn't fall down. That is true of the mediocre and the stupid; they tend to never surrender when the field is taken from them.

It's why the Democrats are so effective; they have inexhaustible morons as foot soldiers.

At any rate, my argument with John Wait continues:

John says:

The last six years have been the 6 hottest years in recorded history. The ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica are the lowest in recorded history. Last year was the most active for hurricanes in known history and the trend has been growing for both more frequent and more severe storms. Forrest fires are more common and or severe then ever. The u.s. has seen more and more as well as more severe natural disasters then ever before. These are verifiable facts. As is over 97% of climate scientists believe we are experiencing climate change. But you believe in whatever fantasies you want. I trust science and facts.

I reply:

John Wait you say: " the last six years have been the 6 hottest years in recorded history. "

Hottest if you disregard the other previously hotter years. NOAA and NASA have both been caught "smoothing" the data to make previous temperature records fall. https://climatechangedispatch.com/how-noaa-nasa-doctored-the-temperature-data-sets/

It's a dirty trick and one that they wouldn't need to do if science were really on their side. And it's not really true; the '30's we are least as warm. They are using a fraction of a degree and fudging it. You either are too dim to grasp that or dishonest. The fact is all of this is merely an argument going back to 1979, I might add, when satellite data started being kept. We have no way of knowing the planet's temperature except in the roughest way. We do not measure the surface temperature at every point on Earth. Surface data is taken from specific sites, sites which have often been swallowed by cities and warmed by urban heat sinks or eliminated and estimated. Any honest scientist would admit that.

The '30's were the warmest. See https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/1930s-was-by-far-the-hottest-decade-in-the-us/ and https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/08/dear-noaa-and-seth-which-1930s-were-you-referring-to-when-you-say-july-is-the-record-warmest/

You say; "Last year was the most active for hurricanes in known history" Prove that, I dare you!

Just because you say it is so does not make it so. You are quick on opinion but rarely provide evidence to back it up. I quote from this Manhattan Institute article on the subject: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/hurricane-season-historical-context "Looking at the historical data, one does not find a startling increase in hurricane activity in recent decades, and only modest evidence to suggest that hurricanes in the Atlantic basin are increasing either in number or severity." The article provides the data from the National Hurricane Center showing that what you said is total bullshit.

Hurricane activity was quite low in the late 20th century and is only returning to normal now. No doubt whatever propaganda you read started with 1980 as it's baseline to fool gullible people.

Here https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/deadly/Table4.htm is a table of major hurricanes throughout the last century. As you can see there is no discernible pattern to strength or frquency.

Here https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/deadly/Table2.htm is another table showing deadliness. Here is the source. https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/deadly/index.html As for wildfires, perhaps you missed it, but climate change presupposes a WETTER world since more water is evaporated into the atmosphere, not a dryer.

By the very basics of the theory there should logically be fewer fires, not more. I have already explained to you that most of the fires are a result of mismanagement due to modern environmentalist thinking; they refuse to cull the forests or clean them out on the theory that "natural" is better. Well, it is "natural" to have forests culled by wildfires. I guess you are incapable of grasping that simple fact. You just ignored everything I said in my previous post. Even the terribly alarmist NPR admits there are multiple reasons for the spate of wildfires of late that have nothing to do with climate change. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/16/913465601/climate-change-is-not-the-only-reason-for-record-wildfires There are not greater wildfires. In fact they were worse. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/wildfires-were-much-worse-in-the-past/

It must also be pointed out that numerous people in Australia and Brazil and even California were arrested in the last few years SETTING fires. They were radical environmentalists and wanted to fool gullible people into blaming it on "climate change" when in fact it was political terrorism. None of that seems to percolate through your noggin.

I have already pointed out to you that the icecap in Antarctica is growing, not shrinking. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses/?fbclid=IwAR1SfUAHc5RhQlxBO8qJMC6nfAnifkDbNzMGJ40jkSgbLmy3gBPY-_tgspc#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20new%20analysis%20of%20satellite%20data%2C,of%20ice%20per%20year%20between%202003%20and%202008You dismiss this with a wave of the hand "begone!"

 I have already denunked your idiotic 97% claim yet you simply ignore all the evidence. If it were true why are we having this discussion at all? The so-called "deniers" would have no scientists to quote, not data to push back with, no evidence. Yet here we are. And I provided you with a long list of scientists who have openly disputed the "consensus." Yet you come back with the same tired talking points over and over. You never debate the points we make. You are, sir, a dishonest cretin. A liar. There is little more that can be said of you at this point. You do not debate when challenged with facts, you stick to your talking points and repeat like a parrot. The key to successful propaganda is to repeat simple statements as fact over and over until people accept it as conventional wisdom. That is what you are doing here.

This crowd is more savvy than that; stop wasting our time.

If you trust science and facts then why do you not actually debate them? You simply hang on talking points John Wait. No; you are superstitious, a believer in Scientism and politicized cargo cult science, not actual science as we know it. Like the New Guinnea natives who built landing strips so planes could deliver cargo from the gods you build what looks like a scientific case out of moonbeams and spun sugar. But it does not stand up to real scientific scrutiny more...

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Chester McAteer

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Well, it looks like Gavin Noose 'em stole California fair and square.

George Soros donated half a billion bucks to keep the Noose in power.

Odd. Mr. Soros justifies he endless political meddling as his promotion of an "open society". He claims he is about supporting opposition groups so as to create balance and competition. Yet here he spends half a billion dollars to put the establishment guy in power.

Shows what a liar he is.

I wonder how many votes were manufactured for this little kabuki theater?

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Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/09/the-end-before-the-beginning-is-america-in-a-fourth-turning.html

Is America’s old civic order about to be swept away and replaced with a new, and as yet unknown, one in a "Fourth Turning”?

It’s not news to any engaged person that we live in unprecedented times for the American Republic, with burgeoning technology combined with collapsing morality, a cross-border invasion, balkanization, unrest, a cold civil war, insurmountable debt, disease (though exaggerated), increasing tyranny, a faltering family, and waning faith.

It’s also not news that civilizations don’t last forever....

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Being a glutton for punishment the dimbulb John Wait continues to soldier on in his climate hysteria.

See part I here.

Ignoring all my arguments he redirects with the same lies:

John Wait of the babies says:

Robert Cainthe last six years have been the 6 hottest years in recorded history. The ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica are the lowest in recorded history. Last year was the most active for hurricanes in known history and the trend has been growing for both more frequent and more severe storms. Forrest fires are more common and or severe then ever. The u.s. has seen more and more as well as more severe natural disasters then ever before. These are verifiable facts. As is over 97% of climate scientists believe we are experiencing climate change. But you believe in whatever fantasies you want. I trust science and facts.

I retort:

John Wait you say:

" the last six years have been the 6 hottest years in recorded history. "

Hottest if you disregard the other previously hotter years. NOAA and NASA have both been caught "smoothing" the data to make previous temperature records fall.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/how-noaa-nasa-doctored-the-temperature-data-sets/

 It's a dirty trick and one that they wouldn't need to do if science were really on their side.

And it's not really true; the '30's we are least as warm. They are using a fraction of a degree and fudging it. You either are too dim to grasp that or dishonest. The fact is all of this is merely an argument going back to 1979, I might add, when satellite data started being kept.

We have no way of knowing the planet's temperature except in the roughest way. We do not measure the surface temperature at every point on Earth. Surface data is taken from specific sites, sites which have often been swallowed by cities and warmed by urban heat sinks or eliminated and estimated. Any honest scientist would admit that.

The '30's were the warmest. See https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/1930s-was-by-far-the-hottest-decade-in-the-us/ and https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/08/dear-noaa-and-seth-which-1930s-were-you-referring-to-when-you-say-july-is-the-record-warmest/

You say;

"Last year was the most active for hurricanes in known history"

Prove that, I dare you! Just because you say it is so does not make it so.

You are quick on opinion but rarely provide evidence to back it up.

I quote from this Manhattan Institute article on the subject:
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/hurricane-season-historical-context

"Looking at the historical data, one does not find a startling increase in hurricane activity in recent decades, and only modest evidence to suggest that hurricanes in the Atlantic basin are increasing either in number or severity."

The article provides the data from the National Hurricane Center showing that what you said is total bullshit.

Hurricane activity was quite low in the late 20th century and is only returning to normal now. No doubt whatever propaganda you read started with 1980 as it's baseline to fool gullible people.

Here https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/deadly/Table4.htm is a table of major hurricanes throughout the last century. As you can see there is no discernible pattern to strength or frquency. Here https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/deadly/Table2.htm is another table showing deadliness. Here is the source. https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/deadly/index.html

As for wildfires, perhaps you missed it, but climate change presupposes a WETTER world since more water is evaporated into the atmosphere, not a dryer. By the very basics of the theory there should logically be fewer fires, not more. I have already explained to you that most of the fires are a result of mismanagement due to modern environmentalist thinking; they refuse to cull the forests or clean them out on the theory that "natural" is better. Well, it is "natural" to have forests culled by wildfires. I guess you are incapable of grasping that simple fact. You just ignored everything I said in my previous post.

Even the terribly alarmist NPR admits there are multiple reasons for the spate of wildfires of late that have nothing to do with climate change. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/16/913465601/climate-change-is-not-the-only-reason-for-record-wildfires

There are not greater wildfires. In fact they were worse. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/wildfires-were-much-worse-in-the-past/

It must also be pointed out that numerous people in Australia and Brazil and even California were arrested in the last few years SETTING fires. They were radical environmentalists and wanted to fool gullible people into blaming it on "climate change" when in fact it was political terrorism.

None of that seems to percolate through your noggin.

I have already pointed out to you that the icecap in Antarctica is growing, not shrinking. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses/?fbclid=IwAR1SfUAHc5RhQlxBO8qJMC6nfAnifkDbNzMGJ40jkSgbLmy3gBPY-_tgspc#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20new%20analysis%20of%20satellite%20data%2C,of%20ice%20per%20year%20between%202003%20and%202008You dismiss this with a wave of the hand "begone!"

I have already denunked your idiotic 97% claim yet you simply ignore all the evidence. If it were true why are we having this discussion at all? The so-called "deniers" would have no scientists to quote, not data to push back with, no evidence. Yet here we are. And I provided you with a long list of scientists who have openly disputed the "consensus." Yet you come back with the same tired talking points over and over. You never debate the points we make. You are, sir, a dishonest cretin. A liar. There is little more that can be said of you at this point. You do not debate when challenged with facts, you stick to your talking points and repeat like a parrot.

The  key to successful propaganda is to repeat simple statements as fact over and over until people accept it as conventional wisdom. That is what you are doing here. This crowd is more savvy than that; stop wasting our time.

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When Gen. Milley aka Milley Vanilli (is he a General like Crunch is a Captain?) contacted his fellow military people with orders to disobey an order from President Trump, and when Mr. Vanilli er, Milley contacted the Chicoms he committed several crimes, crimes that must be punished. Court martial and a DD at a minimum.

Milley is guilty of at least one violation of 18 U.S. Code §

"Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.".

While the Logan Act is never enforced, we now have a clear-cut case where it should be.

Also, it violates the UCMJ code 90 which requires obedience to a superior officer. Mr. Milley was not just planning to disobey his Commander but was suborning the disobedience of others.

He is also guilty of violating articles 80 and 88, which constrain an inferior officer in terms of respecting a superior.

So, what consequences will Mr. Christian face? Probably promotion to higher office as a Democrat.

Even if one agrees with him the fact is he violated his oath of office and the rule of law is in peril. There MUST be punishment for his actions.

But in modern America politics always trumps the law. Always.

Mr. Milley is guilty of Treason, of sedition, and a host of other things.

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General Mark Milley (Vanilli) took steps to keep nuclear weapons out of lame duck President Donald Trump's hands, according to a new book by Bob Woodward.

From The Daily Mail

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley took a series of extraordinary actions after the Jan. 6th Capitol riot out of concerns an 'unstable' President Trump might undertake military action in a desperate bid to stay in office, according to Bob Woodward's bombshell new book.

The efforts included Milley as the top ranking military officer meeting with top military officials in the Pentagon two days after the MAGA riot and telling them to keep him in the process for all military actions, including the use of nuclear weapons. It also included back-channel outreach to Milley's counterpart in the Chinese military to provide reassurances the US would not strike its rival, according to the book.

'If you get calls, no matter who they’re from, there’s a process here, there’s a procedure. No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I'm part of that procedure,' he told top US military officials inside the Pentagon's war room two days after the riot,' according to Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. Advance excerpts of the book were published by CNN, the New York Timesand the Washington Post.

Milley apparently tried to get people to swear oaths to disobey orders from their Commander-in-Chief.

US intelligence concluded the Chinese believed Trump might launch a military strike in order create a basis to stay in power, after an election Trump claimed was fraudulent, despite a series of court and procedural defeats that had him running out of options.

Milley feared Trump might seek to use such an attack to achieve a Reichstag fire type incident, where he would cite the dangerous new situation to cling to power. Milley afterward concluded Li was 'unusually rattled.'

The book quotes Milley expressing concerns Trump might launch a strike that could lead to war. Trump campaigned repeatedly ending Middle East wars he called a waste, and negotiated a departure date with the Taliban in Afghanistan before leaving office.

'I continually reminded him, depending on where and what you strike, you could find yourself at war,' the book quotes Milley as saying of Trump.

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James Doogue

The US FDA warns that Ivermectin was found to be lethal when given to mice and rats at the rate of 25mg/kg to 50mg/kg per dose.

If I was to take the lower lethal dosage that would be 25mg X 90kg = 2,250mg per dose. I reckon the rodents were choked to death!

The readily available Ivermectin pills come in 3mg capsules. So for me to take the low level lethal dosage rate for mice, I would need to swallow 750 capsules in one sitting.

I'd have to be very committed to suicide by Ivermectin to carry that off.

In fact the recommended Covid-19 prevention dose for Ivermectin as part of the FLCCC Alliance protocol is just 0.2 mcg/kg.

For me at 90kg that would come to just six 3mg capsules with food, twice a week for as long as the pandemic is of concern. If I test positive, then immediate treatment at that level for 5 days or while symptoms last is part of the protocol. The Ivermectin treatment (as part of the protocol) increases in dosage for those hospitalised.

But there's no way I'm swallowing 750 capsules either deliberately or accidentally. Nobody is.

The health organisations and politicians are deliberately and unnecessarily scaring people away from Ivermectin because they want the bulk of the population vaccinated.

That said, Ivermectin should be taken only as part of the recommended prevention and treatment protocols and will generally require a Doctor's prescription for at least the antibiotics used in the treatment protocol. Though Ivermectin is readily available over the internet. Just check it's not a scam site.

Treatment Protocol including Ivermectin:
Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance Protocols
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/

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Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/09/when-afghan-nation-building-did-we-remember-the-mandatory-pig-roasts.html

For the record, I’ve not only opposed our Mideast military adventures but also, in 2007, wrote an article warning about the folly of "nation-building.” Yet I also know that if you are going to overthrow a tyrannical regime and remake the government, a prerequisite is winning the hearts and minds of the people. You must also note that you "never change things by fighting the existing reality,” as famed architect Buckminster Fuller observed. "To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Yet from the Afghans’ perspective, did we come as liberators or cultural conquerors?

Tim responds:

I supported both Afghanistan and Iraq and have never altered that support, although I am utterly disgusted at the way we implemented both.

Afghanistan was necessary. The forces that attacked us were given sanctuary in Afghanistan, and the Taliban refused to hand over Bin-Laden. I don't see what choice we had. But we should have been willing to smash the Taliban and kill Bin Laden and put a strong man in power. Afghanistan was not and is not a nation, but rather a feudal society with endless jockeying for position. We might have wound up with a thug there but he'd be OUR thug.

Trying to create a "working democracy" was foolish. Democracy doesn't even work in the U.S.

(BTW I supported Iraq too because I thought it sound military strategy. Split Iran off from Syria and Palestine, while at the same time putting the Iranians in a pincher. Create a base of operations for the U.S. BUT we took no account of the Russians, who were guaranteed to sweat it if we showed up at another place on their southern border and we played a defensive game in Iraq, so instead of our exporting revolution to Iran the Iranians exported it to Iraq. We got caught in our own trap thanks to weak-willed idiots running the war and the mistaken notion you can "win hearts and minds" without first annihilating the enemy.)

At any rate, we spent too much time in Afghanistan playing hide and seek. We allowed Pakistan to give sanctuary to the Taliban - a quick way to lose a war. We allowed the Russians and Chinese to meddle and give support. We build roads and hospitals and schools and sought to buy the Afghan People with our money rather than kill Taliban. That is a fatal mistake. The people knew we would eventually leave and knew we wouldn't protect them. They knew the Taliban would be there in the end. OF COURSE the Afghan army ran for it! They knew how this was going to play out. And the people helped the Taliban hide from us because they were more afraid of them than of us. You can't win a war like this that way. The public must feel defeated by us. They have to understand it is worse to oppose us than them. We always try to be Mr. Nice Guy and wind up surprised when it all falls apart.

Germany and Japan were very different and for a good reason. Germans obey authority and figure they lost fair and square (we destroyed their country.) Japan obeyed their Emperor. Afghanistan and other Muslim nations are not like that. They fight as dirtily as is possible. They only understand force. We simply are unwilling to do that.

We also used technology instead of old fashioned man-on-man warfare, which gave them the sense that it was o.k. to fight a partisan war. Where were the public executions? The battles featuring hand-to-hand combat? We needed to do these sorts of things and make it obvious they were beaten, not outgunned.

Afghanistan was a clear example of how modern political and military thinking cannot win wars against a determined, deceptive enemy. We should have been able to adjust our tactics. We did not.

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From Jim Church

Hat tip to Rod Foran: The scientific paper at https://3hiom42n963515yyhx20nk0l-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads//berrycarboncycle-2021-08-16-accepted.pdf by Dr Ed Berry concludes, inter alia, that since 1750 when there was about 280 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere "human carbon adds only 33 ppm to the atmosphere as of 2020, which means natural CO2 has added 100 ppm”. The paper has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication (refer https://edberry.com/blog/climate/climate-physics/the-worlds-most-costly-scientific-error/).

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Chester McAteer

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This from Jeff:

Notorious: Ghislaine Maxwell

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Timothy Birdnow

In a discussion about Peak Oil on Facebook I left the following comment:

"Necessity is the mother of invention". Who cares if there is peak oil or not? If we are running out there will be necessity to invent new sources of energy. This is what happened in the past; the deforestation of England led to the development of coal as a source. Whale oil gave way to kerosene, which gave way to electricity. We adapt, we overcome. What is happening now though is the obvious alternative sources are being disregarded in favor of "renewables" by people who want to fundamentally transform our economic system. Instead of burning methane or using nuclear power we are trying to switch to solar and wind - power sources rejected long ago because they did not work very well. It's the fact governments are planning our energy future as opposed to allowing the free market to determine when we stop using oil and what fuel we will use that is the problem. "Peak Oil" is of no importance whatsoever. It is little more than a tool to frighten us into adopting a poorer, less free lifestyle dictated by Big Brother.

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More arguing with climate hysterics on Facebook.

David Nabhan posted:

The Sun is 98½ % hydrogen and helium, leaving 1% oxygen and ½% carbon. We carbon-based lifeforms, breathing oxygen and living in a hydrocarbon, carbohydrate universe, are the billions years in the making epitome of a Nature more impressive and compelling than even those chaining themselves to doors demanding everyone else "disinvest" in the energy that forged their chains. It delivered them too.

In reply to David, John Wait (not the lead singer of The Babies) says:

So you're saying pollution is natural,? That climate change is not a major concern? Tell that to Louisiana, California, Oregon, New Jersey. New York, Europe, etc

Robert Cain replies:

Yes, I'm saying most of that. The STATES mentioned are all Democratic Party strongholds and Europe has always been fascist controlled. The people in these places have been doing what they're told as long as they've been alive. There is not much thought involved in that.

I helpfully add:

The wildfires and hurricanes and other natural disasters of which Mr. Wait is so terrified have always been there. What is different is that we have far more people living in areas where they should not and we have bad policies pushed by imbiciles. Not thinning forests leads to what Nature does to thin forests. Drought is natural in California. Building in flood plains on the Gulf Coast is guaranteed to get you flooded out. The reality is we have not had a very heavy hurricane season for a long time and only now are re-entering a stronger hurricane phase. But every weather event is used to "prove" we are somehow doomed, when all it proves is there are many gullible people and shit happens. No, "climate change" (the newest phrase for the old global warming) has not proven to be of anything but academic concern. None of the predictions made involving it have come to pass. In fact, we had the "pause" which climate models suggested were impossible. Over twenty years of non-warming is a strange form of global warming, if you ask me. But chicken little would not listen to reason and neither will hysterical people like John Wait.

Oh, and John, what is pollution? You fail to offer a definition. Is it Man-caused emissions into the atmosphere? Which emissions? Our breath? Is it stuff in the water? What stuff? We take natural stuff and make it into other stuff (just like bees or any other natural creature) and the biproducts are stuff that was already there and will return from whence it came. Trees cause pollution too. I would add all photosynthesis-

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Chester McAteer

In reading the vast works of Lenin and in particular the "science" of propaganda that evolved under Lenin's direction, it is amazing the similarities we are witnessing today around the world. It is perhaps one of the greatest studies in the propensity of human gullibility in the history of the world but more than that, upon delving into those propaganda tactics you can see a mirror today of the exact same tactics being employed.

There was a punitive censorship that quickly evolved where anything that was not approved either culturally, politically or Scientifically was effectively censored to the point that reality couldn't be questioned without consequence. It was a piecemeal control over both information and ideas to the point that it was an eradication of every semblance of independent thought and for the most part, the people were completely unaware that their vision of reality had been transformed.

They simply consumed what they were told was true and dutifully repeated the official line as though it was in fact real, without the necessity for questioning the narrative they were consuming.

"From the socialist point of view it is utterly senseless for an individual member of society to treat his body as inalienable personal property, because the individual is only one link in the evolution of the species from the past to the present.”

--Evgenii Preobrazhenskii

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From Andy Garcia:

Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt.
A program known as XCheck has given millions of celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users special treatment, a privilege many abuse

By Sept. 13, 2021 10:21 am ET
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said Facebook Inc. allows its more than three billion users to speak on equal footing with the elites of politics, culture and journalism, and that its standards of behavior apply to everyone, no matter their status or fame.

In private, the company has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

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Roy W. Spencer

On the subject of the danger of high-dose x-rays, there is a fascinating debate over the linear no-threshold (LNT) model of exposure to things that are known to be dangerous in high doses.

The LNT model was adopted decades ago and is the basis for regulating virtually everything based on the assumption that if a lot of something can kill you, then even tiny amounts are dangerous.

For example, the EPA continually regulates substances to lower and lower levels. This regulatory philosophy comes at great expense to society, because you can not make anything 100% "clean" without lots of $$. It also flies in the face of a lot of evidence that small doses of things (even radiation) can be beneficial because they help stress the human body just enough to cause resilience and resistance. My friend Ed Calabrese has been fighting against the LNT model his whole career:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30763547/?fbclid=IwAR06m0bWailaIDUUxpvJ4GScKRVhTRS3Plrjb-0sI6emi8uthwpLkNAP13w

Tim adds:

When I first came down with Congestive Heart Failure I was given potassium to compensate for the potassium I was losing from lasix. I wound up in the hospital, thinking I had a heart attack. See, some potassium is good but too much can kill you. They use it to execute condemned prisoners! My doctors nigh unto killed me with the stuff.

The point is just because too much bad does not mean none is better. There is a range one must fall within.

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From Jim Church:

The climate emergency has caused Ontario to have problems with storage this summer. Oh the horror of it all. Better put another co2 tax in effect so this food will become more expensive. (Sarcasm).
Seriously folks, despite the constant gloom and doom of climate alarmists the world continues to see an abundance of food production—much of it because of carbon dioxide fertilization.

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Dana Mathewson

David Horowitz puts the wood to our woke military leadership, and explains where the real threat to our country comes from. Spoiler alert: it’s not white supremacists.

Our Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin – our leader who presided over the worst, most incompetent, most humiliating military defeat in the history of our nation – is black. Of course, he’s black. He was appointed by Biden to display the wonderful diversity of the most progressive president in history. He wasn’t chosen because he was a brilliant military leader (obviously). He was chosen because he was a political hack ready and willing to embrace even the most suicidal left-wing policies. Left-wing policies are by their very nature suicidal because the defining characteristic of the left is that it hates America and wants to "dismantle” it and replace it with the left-wing fantasy of a socially just future.

In February – with the deadline for withdrawal in Afghanistan a bare three months away – General Austin was not ordering a military alert to prepare for what was going to be a major humanitarian and military reckoning. Instead he was ordering a military "stand down” to indoctrinate all America’s troops in Black Lives Matter hate white people and hate America propaganda.

In passing may I note that 85% of the troops who gave their lives in Afghanistan to protect the American homeland and to give the Afghan people and especially women the right to breathe free – were white. So much for actual diversity.

Diversity Training in practice is a racist scam whose promoters have the hateful mentality and low I.Q. level of the Jim Crow bubbas of the past. Their goal is to demonize white Americans and (white) America, and to promote an anti-American agenda that strikes at the heart of a soldier’s military oath to defend the Constitution. Here is a dose of the beliefs that our soldiers were being indoctrinated in during the two-month stand down during the run-up to the Afghanistan catastrophe:

"that the country was founded by racists, that the country has always been racist,

"that the Constitution’s ratification codified white supremacy as the law of the land,

"that whites are inherently racists (whether they realize it or not), and that the country must transform and become something altogether different than what it was and is.”

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