Marcus Goyne

What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.


Tim adds:

A multi-generations long War of the Worlds scare. We all remember the panic caused by Orson Wells when he claimed Martians were invading the Earth. People believed it because, well, if it's on the radio it must be true! This is a monumental War of the Worlds scare, one that has the full backing of the governments around the world.

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Timothy Birdnow

It was Michelle Obama, among others, who got Trump banned from Twitter.

Twitter Files reveal Trump ban came after Michelle Obama, others

On Saturday, CEO Elon Muskand journalist Michael Shellenberger released the fourth batch of Twitter documents that show internal communications by the company’s executives between Jan. 6-8, 2021, including and shortly after the riot at the Capitol Building.

Among the files, Shellenberger reported "internal and external pressure," including from the former first lady, fell onto the company calling for Trump to be banned from using Twitter.

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Timothy Birdow

Left-wing eco-terrorism?  I thought it was only right wingers who committed acts of terrorism in America....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11523449/Kansas-oil-spill-biggest-breach-Keystone-pipeline-history.html

Crews race to contain biggest oil spill in Keystone pipeline history: Mystery breach sends 14,000 barrels of crude gushing over Kansas countryside

• Biggest rupture in Keystone pipeline history sent 14,000 barrels of oil gushing in Kansas
• Line has been shut down since late Wednesday and timeline for a restart is unclear
• Keystone carries 622,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada to US storage and refining hubs
• Operator TC Energy and investigators remain mum on what may have caused the breach
  

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Scott Snell

Record cold in Australia, which is just a few days away from the official start of Summer.

Australia's lowest summer temp on record
weatherzone.com.au

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Stephen Heins

Climate Hypocrite Kerry Says Americans Should Pay Carbon Reparations
stephenheins.substack.com

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Jim Church

Everything Trudeau touches ends up with more waste and higher expenses!

The government’s own impact analysis says that while banning single use plastics will remove 1.5 million tonnes of plastics from the waste stream from 2023 to 2032, it will add almost double that amount of waste — 2.9 million tonnes — from the use of substitutes for plastic such as paper, wood, moulded fibre, aluminum and alternative plastics.

Because the production costs of these alternatives are typically more expensive than plastic, the government estimates the increased costs to consumers at $2 billion from 2023 to 2032, or $50 per capita. Even with estimated savings of $616 million from eliminating single use plastics, the net cost is estimated at $1.4 billion.

GOLDSTEIN: The last straw -- Canada's single use plastics ban means more garbage
torontosun.com

Tim adds:

It's about getting the public used to the bit in the mouth, not about actually accomplishing anything. Trudeau wants to do this so the public understands he can make them do it and they can't stop him.

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Maurizio Morabito

How is #TwitterFiles relevant?

A. There is no reason to believe that the same might not be happening right now in Facebook, Google, Apple, etc

B. Whatever you may think about censorship, Trump, MAGA, etc, it is unforgivable for a social media company to implement secret rules, concoct ad-hoc solutions, contradict its own T&C’s, and in general go berserk about simple rights of free speech

In other words if you are ok with a social media company to "chuck its own rulebook”…it makes no sense for you to publish anything on social media.

And here #TwitterFiles recap

1. "senior Twitter executives violated their own policies to prevent the spread of accurate information about Hunter Biden’s laptop”

2. "senior Twitter execs created secret blacklists to ‘de-amplify’ disfavored Twitter users, not just specific tweets”

3. ”senior Twitter execs censored tweets by Trump in the run-up to the Nov 2020 election while regularly engaging with representatives of U.S. government law enforcement agencies”

4. "On Jan 7, senior Twitter execs:

- create justifications to ban Trump

- seek a change of policy for Trump alone, distinct from other political leaders

- express no concern for the free speech or democracy implications of a ban”

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Tom Waeghe

Freedom isn't free.

Ronald Reagan quotes

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free. – 1961

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. – 1961

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. – 1964

Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. – 1964

There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed to control crime and violence with the means given it by the Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the Constitution. But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection from what has always been the chief source of despotism—gover nment. – 1975

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Maurizio Morabito

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Steven Chase

Puzzling Arizona election results:

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Timothy Birdnow

I was listening to a conservative talk radio show yesterday and learned something that surprised me. The guest was discussing our dilapidated nuclear arsenal.

Now, I knew it was dilapidated; many of the weapons go back to the Reagan buildup in the eighties, and some even go back to the sixties (and use vaccuum tubes, for crying out loud!)  Donald Trump sought to modernize our arsenal but never was able to get it rolling, as he was universally opposed by the Democrats and the Republican Establishment and the media. So America's weapons are Edzels in a world of Teslas.

But it gets worse.

Bill Clinton authorized money to be spent to help the old Soviet republics destroy their Soviet nuclear arsenal. That arsenal was about the same age as ours. George W. Bush, ever clueless, allowed the program to continue under his watch. Putin took the money and destroyed the weapons - and he built new, updated ones, far better than our own.

Bill Clinton had also funded the continuation of the "nuclear cities" - places where enriched uranium and plutonium were manufactured. So it was easy; with plenty of nuclear material the Russians were able to build a big, fancy new nucular (in honor of Bush) defense system.

And it is bigger than the one possessed by the U.S.; The Russian arsenal now stands at 5,977 warheads, while the U.S. stands at  5,428. Not many more, but these are much newer and on more modern delivery systems.

We HOPE we can counterbalance that with nuclear missile defense systems. But the Russians have been innovating, and now have supersonic delivery systems as well as MIRV technology and other things. In a nuclear exchange they would get the better of us.

But here is the kicker; the U.S. has no ability to manufacture plutonium or other nuclear material!

None.

 The Obama Administration quietly killed them all off, closing the last plant.

So for those who think we are safe with our nuclear arsenal are kidding themselves. The Russians are WAY ahead of us and the Chiense are catching up quickly with new weapons. Ours may not even go bang.

And we can't build any more. We are in great, great peril.

We certainly won't win a war on the ground in the future. Afghanistan and Iraq proved that. It's our firepower that allows us to win wars these days. Especially with the new "woke" military putting Corporal Klinger in his pantyhose and high heels on the battlefield.

In the end it's our air power and nukes that make us strong - and we no longer have the nukes.

If we get into a major war we are going to lose.

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Michael Smith

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Timothy Birdnow

Hmmmm:

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Timothy Birdnow

Maybe we should try to get Putin to trade for the J6 political prisoners?

Sherrie Mathieson

So now the "Merchant of death" is freed by Biden in exchange for a woman who hates America. Reminiscent of Obama's exchange for Bowe Bergdahl for Taliban terrorists who went back to create more terror.
That--with a border left open to literally-anyon e--can you blame Americans who are wondering if it's all "intentional"?

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Gregory Wrightstone

CO2 Coalition member Indur Goklany is spot in this analysis.

All-the-Above” Energy Policy Is a Compromise That Reverses Human and Environmental Progress

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Timothy Birdnow

I have little doubt. The Chicoms are in trouble. Their economy was getting very shaky and they needed to end Trump's tariffs and restrictions and stop the flow of manufacturing back into the U.S. Clearly they needed him gone and to hamstring the Western economies. This was perfect; it wouldn't kill TOO many people and at the same time the U.S. was complicit in creating it so there would be no investigation.

Wuhan Whistleblower: China Knew From The Start That COVID-19 Was Intentionally Engineered
technocracy.news

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Michael Smith

When you look at woke companies it is not uncommon to see people like James Baker, the recently "exited” top lawyer at Twitter (who had to "exit” the FBI after being identified as the show runner for the Russia collusion hoax). Within every woke organization where there is a high profile Parag Agrawal, Yoel Roth or a Vijaya Gadde, there is a James Baker lurking under the surface.

In government, you have people like Peter Stzrok and Andy McCabe at the FBI, people whom we would never have known about if it had not been for President Trump’s willingness to fight back against the onslaught of fakery he faced – but government is filled with petty little tyrants spread across the bureaucracy. Faceless bureaucrats who never draw attention unless circumstances become extreme fill the ranks – another prime example is Anthony Fauci, someone who would never have garnered so much of the limelight without the panic generated about the coronavirus pandemic.

After action analysis of the pandemic response revealed Saint Anthony of Fauci was very highly paid and revered member of the Deep State. Tony had his stubby little fingers in a lot of important and dangerous pies that we didn’t know about.

A characteristic shared by all these people is that they are generally unexceptional. Comfortable to toil underneath the radar, often in roles that never get attention, they often lived out entire careers with absolutely no notice.

Even in Congress, we see some of the dimmest bulbs sitting in positions of power that is far out of balance with their capability and intellect and when the spotlight shines on them and strips away their anonymity, we come to understand that many of these people wield power far in excess of their job title.

It’s not unusual that middle level bureaucrats, middle management in companies, obscure members of societies, and even certain companies within an economy wield power far more influential than their apparent importance.

It’s because these people and organizations are gatekeepers.

Gatekeepers control the flow of things – whether it is information, finances, resources, or simply attention – these are people who decide who gets what and when. Often, they are NOT the top executives, managers, or holders of high office, most clandestinely labor out of sight and out of mind – until some even brings them to the fore.

If you have ever watched any of the Thor movies, think of these people as the Heimdall’s of civilization, controlling access between the realms.

Elite universities turn out thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of these people each year, belching them out into the world of work.

These are people with truckloads of ambition but lack the connections or academic record to make the cut with the prestigious firms and organizations, so they are absorbed into the middle levels of the private and public sector. What they lack in intellect, they more than make up in ambition, and with an axe to grind for not going in the first round of the draft, they glide like a viper through these organizational streets (with all due apologies to Steely Dan), seeking positions of influence and control that ARE withing their grasp.

And they usually settle into gatekeeper roles, sitting at the controls of information, money, or some other critical resource necessary to the organization. Often the CEO has less real power than the staff accountant who signs the checks or the HR manager who controls the hiring process.

In any organization, there are two kinds of power – there is ceremonial power and there is real power.

Ceremonial power often comes with a fancy title – I have known many with people with a "C” level title who had little but ceremonial power because someone else – a board member, a major investor, a banker, or a subordinate within the organization - held the real power. Real power is when things can’t happen without your agreement or influence or you sit in a position, an intersection (a valve, so to speak) where your actions or inactions are critical to the execution of the organization’s plans.

The lower levels in an organization, often where the real power lives, come with far less visibility and risk. One can spend an entire career under the radar. It has also been interesting to me that those with real power shun the spotlight and as they do, they have far more freedom to move around and do things. There are far fewer eyes on a VP of Manufacturing than there are the COO or CEO.

My point is this – when applied to everyday politics and government, the left as captured most, if not all, of the real power positions by burrowing into the bureaucracy and settling into powerful positions, positions that nobody really thinks about. These include appointed or non-elected positions as county or city managers, appointed department heads at local and state levels or even seats on school boards. Until the past few years, I’m pretty sure that not a lot of attention was paid to who was elected to local and state school boards, held District Attorney positions, sat on planning commissions or even who was the County Clerk.

The old saying that knowledge is power is true, but the CONTROL of knowledge is even more powerful.

That’s where woke companies and organizations come in.

Often these are unspectacular, sometimes borderline useless entities that simply have found a way to sit astride pipelines of "stuff” wanted, needed, or desired by a society. They always seem to find ways to install valves in that pipeline that only they control - and it is through the control of those valves that they derive their power.

These "woke” entities have successfully found ways to control the entire narrative and direction of our society. From public schools to Wall Street investment firms, they control the flow of society, the economy, and politics.

These entities are often so camouflaged and hidden they aren’t’ immediately apparent absent some crisis. It isn’t that unusual for very smart people like Elon Musk not to see these ticks burrowed in their own organizations. That a slimy character like James Baker, especially with his history and pedigree, was a gatekeeper at Twitter might seem obvious to us, but it wasn’t obvious to Elon.

I have turned around underperforming companies for around two decades, so I learned how to look for who was exercising the real power, and unsurprisingly, it was rarely the people at the top. The point being that taking out the people at the top may not have the impact one would expect because those positions may only hold ceremonial power, to effect real change, you must find the gatekeepers.

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So Twitter hired a bunch of FBI agents to help destroy evidence. See here and here

One must wonder if it is illegal - especially since there was no active investigation ongoing.

It still may be illegal.

"A person commits the federal crime of tampering with evidence when he or she knowingly alters, conceals, falsifies, or destroys any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to interfere with an investigation, possible investigation, or other proceedings by the federal government. (18 U.S.C. § 1519.)"

This was clearly done to hamper a possible investigation. Of course proving that may be a bit more difficult.

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So it's "white supremacists" doing this? What a load of crap. Notice it is happening in two very blue states and one purple. And News Nation tries to tie it with attacks on gay bars (ignoring the fact that the attacker in at least one such incident was a gay person) with no supporting evidence to link the incidents. And why attack substations? What does driving the price of electricity up accomplish? The government and news media think we are fools and will swallow this line.

Feds Link Attack on North Carolina Substations to Attacks on Oregon, Washington Power Stations
pjmedia.com

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